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The Globe on the Banke Side, where Shakspere acted. From the long Antwerp view of London in the Pepsyian Library...[&] William Kempe the original Performer of Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing. From a Wooden cut Prefixed to Kempes Nine Daies Wonder 4.to. 1600.
[n.d., c.1813.]
Two engravings on one sheet, with large margins. J. Whatman watermark 1813. Sheet: 275 x 450mm (10¾ x 17¾").
Two nineteenth century engraved copies of early seventeenth century woodcuts, one showing the famous Globe Theatre, the second showing Elizabethan actor William Kempe (d.1603) in the role of Dogberry.
[Ref: 42038] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Life is short and art is long, Man finds his chiefest joy in song. L'Uomo e discorde, e l'armonia gli piace; E cercando il piacer non ha mai pace.
Domienico Maiotto Pin. Ex Calcographia I. Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S
Fine engraving. Plate: 340 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"), with very large margins. Later impression. Some creasing and light foxing.
A concert scene in which a woman sings from a sheet of music while a man to her right plays the violin and a woman behind plays a lute.
[Ref: 41814] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Serenade.
Pinelli del. Drawn on Stone by C. Hullmandel.
London. Published by Rodwell & Martin New Bond St. Oct.r 1. 1820 Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph with hand-colouring, sheet 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½").
Five musicians serenade a woman at her window. English lithographed copy of an etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), Roman artist whose depictions of the people and landscape of Rome were extremely popular. Pinelli adapted the language of Neo-classicism to depict street brawls, puppet shows and other street performers, bestowing upon them an idealised dignity.
[Ref: 41696] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Sadler's Wells Theatre 1720
[Anon., c.1780]
Rare etching, laid on album sheet; platemark 105 x 160mm (4 x 6¼"), large margins.
The original Sadler's Wells Theatre in Islington, north London. It was built by Richard Sadler in 1683 as a music house close to a newly-discovered mineral spring with the intention of rivalling similar establishments at Epsom and Tunbridge Wells. The various entertainments in the theatre's early days included jugglers, dancing dogs, and even a singing duck!
[Ref: 42086] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[The Stage Medley representing the polite tast of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet Gay Polly Peachum & Capt. Macheath] To the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor [...]
[Anon., 1728]
Three fragments from a larger medley print, trimmed and pasted on both sides of card sheet 220 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Damaged.
Three individual elements from a larger medley print which functioned as a satire on John Gay's phenomenally successful play 'The Beggar's Opera', in the form of a trompe l'oeil assemblage of nine smaller 'prints'. BM Satires 1806
[Ref: 42105] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
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