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Al Illustrissmo. Signre. Anson Amiraglio. & Primo Comissario del Amiragliato Di Inghilterra (questa Veduta della Flotta Francese é dedicata); la di Cui Vigilanza ha ridottola a questo Stato Calamitoso: L'anno 1759,
per il suo humilmo. servo WBaillie 3o. Rego. Cavallrio. Legiera. [n.d., c.1790.]
Etching with drypoint on chine, 150 x 200mm. 6 x 8".
Ships of the fleet commanded by Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697 – 1762) struggling in stormy seas.
By Capt William Baillie (1723 - 1810) who retired from the army and became a picture dealer. He was also an amateur then semi-professional printmaker, later selling his plates to Boydell.
[Ref: 12155] £50.00 (£58.75 incl.VAT)
per il suo humilmo. servo WBaillie 3o. Rego. Cavallrio. Legiera. [n.d., c.1790.]
Etching with drypoint on chine, 150 x 200mm. 6 x 8".
Ships of the fleet commanded by Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697 – 1762) struggling in stormy seas.
By Capt William Baillie (1723 - 1810) who retired from the army and became a picture dealer. He was also an amateur then semi-professional printmaker, later selling his plates to Boydell.
[Ref: 12155] £50.00 (£58.75 incl.VAT)
H.M.S. Assistance and Pioneer fast to the Floe, off Cape Majendie, Wellington Channel, 1853.
Commr. W.W. May delt._ T.G. Dutton lith.
Day & Son lith.rs to the Queen. [London, 1855.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 270 x 360mm. 10½ x 14¼". Tatty and chipped extremities, with several tears.
Numbered 'Pl. V', from Walter William May's 'Series of Fourteeen Sketches Made During the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin'. Under Sir Edward Belcher five ships entered the Arctic to search for Franklin and the crews of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror', missing from an earlier expedition. Four out of the five vessels were abandoned in pack ice, for which Belcher was court-martialled, but acquitted.
Abbey Travel: 646, 5.
[Ref: 11400] £110.00 (£129.25 incl.VAT)
Commr. W.W. May delt._ T.G. Dutton lith.
Day & Son lith.rs to the Queen. [London, 1855.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 270 x 360mm. 10½ x 14¼". Tatty and chipped extremities, with several tears.
Numbered 'Pl. V', from Walter William May's 'Series of Fourteeen Sketches Made During the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin'. Under Sir Edward Belcher five ships entered the Arctic to search for Franklin and the crews of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror', missing from an earlier expedition. Four out of the five vessels were abandoned in pack ice, for which Belcher was court-martialled, but acquitted.
Abbey Travel: 646, 5.
[Ref: 11400] £110.00 (£129.25 incl.VAT)
Adml. Blake at Malaga. I will have you and all the world know; that none but an Englishman shall chastise an Englishman. Engrav'd for Herveys Naval History.
Samuel del. Heath sculpt.
Published June 19 1779, by I. Bew Paternoster Row.
Engraving, 175 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
A priest aboard a Spanish galleon begs Admiral Robert Blake (1599 - 1657) for his life. In February 1656 commercial rivalry with Spain was soon turned to war. In the Anglo-Spanish War Blake blockaded Cádiz, during which one of his captains, Richard Stayner destroyed most of the Spanish Plate Fleet.
From Frederic Hervey's 'The Naval History of Great Britain ... to ... 1779', numbered 'Vol.II pa.175' upper right.
[Ref: 13697] £95.00 (£111.63 incl.VAT)
Samuel del. Heath sculpt.
Published June 19 1779, by I. Bew Paternoster Row.
Engraving, 175 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
A priest aboard a Spanish galleon begs Admiral Robert Blake (1599 - 1657) for his life. In February 1656 commercial rivalry with Spain was soon turned to war. In the Anglo-Spanish War Blake blockaded Cádiz, during which one of his captains, Richard Stayner destroyed most of the Spanish Plate Fleet.
From Frederic Hervey's 'The Naval History of Great Britain ... to ... 1779', numbered 'Vol.II pa.175' upper right.
[Ref: 13697] £95.00 (£111.63 incl.VAT)
The Channel Fleet, Bearing up and making Sail down Channel, May 13th 1846.
H.J.Vernon, lith. Day & Hague, lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 350 x 485mm. Faint mount burn around image.
[Ref: 6317] £420.00
H.J.Vernon, lith. Day & Hague, lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 350 x 485mm. Faint mount burn around image.
[Ref: 6317] £420.00
Packet and Emigrant Ships Ashore on the Cheshire Coast. During the Terrible Hurricane off Liverpool. January 6th & 7th 1839.
Published by Henry Lacey, 100 Bold Street, Liverpool. Frby. 1, 1841.
Coloured lithograph. 480 x 320 mm [image]. Glued on board under mount, foxing in margins, abrasions in sky.
A report from the Liverpool Mercury on Friday the 11th of January stated that the Sunday past had seen strong gusts of wind, but many vessels went to sea as there was nothing to indicate that a huge storm was about to follow the winds. It was around midnight that the storm became a hurricane, and people never remembered a night of such ‘alarming terror’. See reference 6421 'The Loss of the Pennsylvania New York Packet Ship…'
[Ref: 13640] £360.00
Published by Henry Lacey, 100 Bold Street, Liverpool. Frby. 1, 1841.
Coloured lithograph. 480 x 320 mm [image]. Glued on board under mount, foxing in margins, abrasions in sky.
A report from the Liverpool Mercury on Friday the 11th of January stated that the Sunday past had seen strong gusts of wind, but many vessels went to sea as there was nothing to indicate that a huge storm was about to follow the winds. It was around midnight that the storm became a hurricane, and people never remembered a night of such ‘alarming terror’. See reference 6421 'The Loss of the Pennsylvania New York Packet Ship…'
[Ref: 13640] £360.00
A Chinese Junk of 1000 Tons. Visited by Boats of the Modeste Frigate, off the South Coast of Borneo, August 1811.
From a Sketch by T.W.T.
Printed by P.H. De la Motte, Oxford. [n.d., c.1830.]
Sepia lithograph, sheet c.330 x 400mm. 13 x 15¾". Stain lower left, horizontal crease above lower sheet edge.
HMS Modeste was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in the French Navy in 1786, she served during the first actions of the French Revolutionary Wars until being captured by the British while in harbour at Genoa. She served with distinction in the East Indies, capturing several privateers and enemy vessels, including the French corvette Iéna. She also saw service in a variety of roles, as a troopship, a receiving ship, and a floating battery, until finally being broken up in 1814, as the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close.
Artist unidentified.
NMM: PAG8171.
[Ref: 15020] £260.00
From a Sketch by T.W.T.
Printed by P.H. De la Motte, Oxford. [n.d., c.1830.]
Sepia lithograph, sheet c.330 x 400mm. 13 x 15¾". Stain lower left, horizontal crease above lower sheet edge.
HMS Modeste was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in the French Navy in 1786, she served during the first actions of the French Revolutionary Wars until being captured by the British while in harbour at Genoa. She served with distinction in the East Indies, capturing several privateers and enemy vessels, including the French corvette Iéna. She also saw service in a variety of roles, as a troopship, a receiving ship, and a floating battery, until finally being broken up in 1814, as the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close.
Artist unidentified.
NMM: PAG8171.
[Ref: 15020] £260.00
![To the British Navy This Plate, The Death of Horatio Viscount & Baron Nelson of the Nile,...[etc.]](jpegs/12808.jpg)
To the British Navy This Plate, The Death of Horatio Viscount & Baron Nelson of the Nile,...[etc.]
Painted by A. W. Devis. Engraved by Wm. Bromley.
Pubd. March 2, 1812, by Boydell & Co. No.90, Cheapside, London.
Engraving, 495 x 620mm. 19½ x 24½". Tatty margins, with tears into plate from above. Crease through upper left corner.
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (1758 – 1805) on his deathbed below deck of the HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, surrounded by his closest colleagues. The scene is illuminated by a lamp above him and another on the ground to left, which a kneeling figure closes.
Anchor vignette below image, after Arthur William Devis (1762 - 1822).
[Ref: 12808] £380.00
Painted by A. W. Devis. Engraved by Wm. Bromley.
Pubd. March 2, 1812, by Boydell & Co. No.90, Cheapside, London.
Engraving, 495 x 620mm. 19½ x 24½". Tatty margins, with tears into plate from above. Crease through upper left corner.
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (1758 – 1805) on his deathbed below deck of the HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, surrounded by his closest colleagues. The scene is illuminated by a lamp above him and another on the ground to left, which a kneeling figure closes.
Anchor vignette below image, after Arthur William Devis (1762 - 1822).
[Ref: 12808] £380.00
'Der Tag.' H.M. Battleship "Queen Elizabeth" leading the escort. Surrender of the German Fleet in the Firth of Forth 21st November, 1918.
Frank H. Mason [signed in pencil lower right.]
Published by the Industrial Publicity Service Ltd, 4 to 7, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. from the original picture, specially painted for Messrs J. Stone & Co., Ltd, Deptford, S.E.14, by Mr. Frank H. Mason, R.B.A.
Photogravure on india laid paper, image 540 x 440mm. 21¼ x 17¼".
After the German surrender to end the First World War, the Royal Navy escorted the German High Seas Fleet into the Firth of Forth, Scotland, on 21 November 1918.
Frank H. Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 8831] £340.00
Frank H. Mason [signed in pencil lower right.]
Published by the Industrial Publicity Service Ltd, 4 to 7, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. from the original picture, specially painted for Messrs J. Stone & Co., Ltd, Deptford, S.E.14, by Mr. Frank H. Mason, R.B.A.
Photogravure on india laid paper, image 540 x 440mm. 21¼ x 17¼".
After the German surrender to end the First World War, the Royal Navy escorted the German High Seas Fleet into the Firth of Forth, Scotland, on 21 November 1918.
Frank H. Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 8831] £340.00
His Majesty's Frigate the Diamond, commanded by Captain Sir Sidney Smith, K.S. being on a cruise off Cape La Heve... to cut out a French lugger named Le Vengeur.. 18 April 1796... was boarded... but the cable cut by one of the prisoners... swept... into the River Seine... surrender..till they effected their escape. To J. Spencer Smith, Esqr. M.P. F.R.S. F.S.A. &c. this Print, from the original Drawing in his collection, is respectfully inscribed by E. Orme.
Drawn by J.T. Serres, from a sketch by J. Boxer, R.N. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published for the Proprietor, as the Act directs, Septr. 1803, by Edwd. Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, 59, New Bond Street, London.
Coloured aquatint, image 370 x 565mm. 14½ x 22¼". Very good impression.
The frigate 'Diamond' was overpowered in the port of Havre on April 17th 1796. Her commander Captain Sir William Sydney Smith was imprisoned but escaped in May 1798.
The respective ships captioned above the image.
Parker: 114a.
[Ref: 13725] £700.00
Drawn by J.T. Serres, from a sketch by J. Boxer, R.N. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published for the Proprietor, as the Act directs, Septr. 1803, by Edwd. Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, 59, New Bond Street, London.
Coloured aquatint, image 370 x 565mm. 14½ x 22¼". Very good impression.
The frigate 'Diamond' was overpowered in the port of Havre on April 17th 1796. Her commander Captain Sir William Sydney Smith was imprisoned but escaped in May 1798.
The respective ships captioned above the image.
Parker: 114a.
[Ref: 13725] £700.00
H.M.S. Howe. Cap..tn R. Smart, K.H. bearing the Flag of Rear Admiral Sir F. Mason K.C.B entering Malta Harbour 1843.
[Engraved by the Schranz Brothers.]
[n.d., c.1843.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 345 x 450mm, 13½ x 17¾". Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on board.
HMS Howe, a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1815 at Chatham and broken up in 1854.
[Ref: 15370] £580.00
[Engraved by the Schranz Brothers.]
[n.d., c.1843.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 345 x 450mm, 13½ x 17¾". Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on board.
HMS Howe, a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1815 at Chatham and broken up in 1854.
[Ref: 15370] £580.00