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[St. Barbara.]
[St. Barbara.]
HHolbein inv. Whollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, 1647.
Etching. Scarce; Sheet: 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Time stained.
A portrait of a woman, wearing long robes, holding a chalice and wafer and standing by a lake. Pennington identifies her as Saint Barbara on account of her resemblance to a portrait of the saint in the stained glass at Bale. The Strawberry Hill Catalogue 1842 lists this as Ann Boleyn.
Pennington 176.
[Ref: 43708]   £380.00  
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Tho.s Beckwith of York, Painter & F.A.S. London.
Tho.s Beckwith of York, Painter & F.A.S. London.
M.F. Quadal pinx.t. W.Humphrey fec.t.
[n.d., 1777.]
Rare mezzotint. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Thread margins, mounted in album paper.
Thomas Beckwith (1731-86), painter, genealogist and antiquary, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
[Ref: 43551]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr. Berry in the Character, of Dominic, in the Spanish Friar.
Mr. Berry in the Character, of Dominic, in the Spanish Friar.
T. Worlidge pinx.t R.d. Houston fec.t
[London, Printed for John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse, in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 254mm (14 x 10"), large margins. Publication line scratched out. Slight rubbing.
Edward Berry (1697-1750), actor, shown in character for Dryden's 'Spanish Friar' (1681), wearing a Dominican habit and holding a large rosary in left hand at waist level.
CS: 10. Russell: 9.
[Ref: 43552]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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James Bick ye Famous Mimick, Trumpetter of Oxford 1712.
James Bick ye Famous Mimick, Trumpetter of Oxford 1712. [&] James Bick ye Famous Mimick, Trumpetter of Oxford 1712.
[Sold by Tim: Iordan & Tho: Bakewell at ye Golden Lion in Fleet Street.]
Mezzotint. Each sheet: 120 x 100mm (4¾ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on card.
A pair of portraits of Oxford mimic James Bick, set in an circle. A rare combination of 1st & 2nd states of the very rare print.
[Ref: 43734]   £520.00   view all images for this item
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Lady Bingham.
Lady Bingham.
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. James Watson fecit.
Printed and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1st April 1776, by James Bretherton, No 134 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 500 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"). Small repaired tear top left & very few repaired wormholes, small margins.
Full-length portrait of painter of miniatures Margaret Bingham (née Smith, c.1740-1814), seated, leafing through a print portfolio on a table. The daughter of Sir James Smith, she married Charles Bingham (1735-1799), 1st Earl of Lucan in 1760. This portrait was first published by James Watson in 1775.
CS: 10. Goodwin: 101. Alexander: 22. See 27752 for a proof.
[Ref: 43487]   £480.00  

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Anna Bullen Regina Angliæ Henrici VIII. Uxor 2da Elizabethe Regine Mater, fuit decollata Londini, 19 May Ao 1536.
Anna Bullen Regina Angliæ Henrici VIII. Uxor 2da Elizabethe Regine Mater, fuit decollata Londini, 19 May Ao 1536.
H Holbein delineavit. W. Hollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, Ao 1649 but later.
Etching. Sheet: 135 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Anne Boleyn facing left shown headress with brocade band and a necklace with a large pendant.
Pennington 1342.
[Ref: 43716]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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[Dr Butts?]
[Dr Butts?]
H Holbein inv. Whollar fecit 1649. Adam Alexus Bierling ex: but later.
Etching. Sheet: 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed, some damage to edges and paper loss. Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Henry VIII's doctor Dr Butts, shown in a feathered cap and fur-lined robe. The portrait has also been identified as Charles Brandon.
Pennington 1554.
[Ref: 43710]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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[Christ as the Man of Sorrows]
[Christ as the Man of Sorrows]
H. Memmlink pinx: Nep: Strixner del. 1818
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 630 x 450mm (23¾ x 17¾"). Slight foxing.
Large lithograph by Johann Neopomuk Strixner after Quinten Metsys (although formerly attributed to Hans Memling) from the series 'Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck'.
[Ref: 43534]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Jesus Christ surrounded by angels]
[Jesus Christ surrounded by angels]
J. Smith ex: [c.1720]
Mezzotint, rare, platemark 130 x 90mm (5 x 3½") large margins.
[Ref: 43595]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Jesus Christ]
[Jesus Christ] Ecce Salvator Noster
Tiziano Pinx. Vitalba S. appo Wagner Ven.a C.P.E.S. 1781
Engraving, platemark 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾") very large margins.
Jesus Christ, taken from a detail of a painting by the great Venetian painter Titian (?1485-90-1576).
[Ref: 43593]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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George Comb,
George Comb, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Oxford Street.
G. Phillips pinxt. C.Phillips Sculp.t [c.1820]
Aquatint on india, very rare, sheet 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9").
[Ref: 43435]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Richardus Cooper Pictor.
Richardus Cooper Pictor.
[G.] Schroider Pinx.
[n.d., c.1750.
Mezzotint, scarce. Sheet 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Trimmed, losing c.3cm at top and the 'G' of the artist's name.
Richard Cooper the elder (c.1705-64), leading engraver of Edinburgh, left to study painting in Rome but returned in 1735. It is possible he engraved this portrait himself.
CS: Not ascertained 23.
[Ref: 43550]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cotrot.]
[Cotrot.]
DB 1770.
Etching. Plate: 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"), large margins. Foxing.
A portrait of Cotrot a dyer from Lyon by French artist Jean Jacques de Boisseau (1736-1810).
[Ref: 43655]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Charles Dickens, his wife, & her sister.
Charles Dickens, his wife, & her sister. Drawn by Maclise in 1842.
Maclise R.A. C.H. Jeens [c.1872-4]
Soft-ground etching, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Triple portraits of the author Charles Dickens, his wife Catherine and her sister Georgina, after a drawing by his friend, the artist Daniel Maclise (bap. 1806- d.1870). Illustration to 'The Life of Charles Dickens' by John Forster (1872-4).
[Ref: 43517]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Dishabille.
The Dishabille.
Metzu pinxit. Ja.s Watson Sculp.
[n.d., c.1776.]
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Small margins.
A woman in plain 17th century dress, including white cloth bonnet, fichu and apron, sitting before a mirror on her dressing table. The original painting by Gabriel Metsu, c.1665, is in the Harold Samuel collection of the Guildhall.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. BM 1861,1109.149, dated 'June 21 1776' in pencil. Goodwin: 179 iii of iii.
[Ref: 43548]   £300.00  
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Michael Faraday Esq.r F.R.S.
Michael Faraday Esq.r F.R.S.
E.U. Eddis del.t 1831. Pr. by Graf & Soret 14, Newman St.
Lithograph. Printed area 130 x 110mm (5¼ x 4¼").
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His work on electricity provided the foundation of modern electrical applications; a brilliant lecturer and one of the greatest of all experimental scientists.
[Ref: 43164]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The R.t. Hon.ble Lord St Helens.
The R.t. Hon.ble Lord St Helens.
Painted by J.W. Chandler. Engraved by W. Ward.
London Published Nov.r 16 1793 by W. Ward. Winchester Row Paddington.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Small margins.
Alleyne FitzHerbert (1753-1839, created 1st Baron St Helens for his diplomatic services. His successes included embassies to Catherine the Great (1787) and Alexander I (1801) of Russia; avoiding war with Spain over trade at Nootka Sound (1791), causing George Vancouver to name Mount St Helens in his honour; and a treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Spain (1793).
CS 71, ii of ii. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43493]   £380.00  
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Signor Di Giovanni Stage Manager of the Italian Opera [ms]
Signor Di Giovanni Stage Manager of the Italian Opera [ms]
[Anon, c.1833]
Lithograph, very rare; sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8½").
Caricature (as a dog wearing a top hat) of the stage manager of the Italian Opera in London.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 43353]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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Haydn,
Haydn, The Celebrated Musician
[Anon., c.1790]
Engraving, sheet 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5").
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian composer. Famous by the mid-1760s, Haydn had become the most celebrated composer of his time by the 1780s, and in the last two decades of his life he was revered as a culture hero throughout Europe and, along with Mozart and Beethoven, one of the three 'Viennese Classics' He is often referred to as the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". He was instrumental in the development of the piano trio and the evolution of sonata form. Contemporary engraving possibly produced to coincide with Haydn's stay in London from 1791-5.
[Ref: 43521]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Henricus VIII Angliæ Rex etc.
Henricus VIII Angliæ Rex etc.
H Holbein pinxit. Whollar fecit ex Collectione Arundeliana Ao 1647 [but later].
Etching. Sheet: 135 x 105mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A half-length portrait of Henry VIII wearing a fur robe, feathered cap and large chains, stating that it was from a painting in the Arundel Collection, although notes that a corresponding portrait is not listed in the Arundel Collection inventory. It was Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (1586-1646), who brought Hollar to England.
Pennington 1414, only state.
[Ref: 43711]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Unkown Woman]
[Unkown Woman]
H Holbein pinxit. W. Hollar fecit, ex. Collectione Arundeliana, Ao 1647 but later.
Etching. Sheet: 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of a woman, facing forward in a circle. Identified as Anne of Cleves below, also been identified as Katherine of Aragon and Lady Lister.
Pennington 1549
[Ref: 43714]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Ann Holme Aet suae 77.
Ann Holme Aet suae 77.
J. Smith pinx 1782 P. M Morland delin 1799 Caroline Watson engraver to her Majesty sculp
Stipple, platemark 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait engraved by Caroline Watson (1760/1-1814), printmaker specializing in the stipple technique, and daughter of the Irish mezzotinter James Watson. Watson was made engraver to the queen in 1785, and was also patronized by the Bute family. While she did not exhibit in public exhibitions, Watson was one of few women who maintained an independent printmaking practice, signing her name rather than working unacknowledged, and seemingly operating a successful business judging from her wealth at the time of her death.
[Ref: 43523]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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William Holme Esq.r.
William Holme Esq.r. Proof.
Painted by T. Stewardson Esq.r _ Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Margins spotted.
A half-length portrait of a man wearing a dark coat and cravat.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Frankau 159 & CS 48 (cursory mentions with no inscription quoted); BM 1913,1015.113; NPG D3036 ''exhibited 1820''. None give a biography.
[Ref: 43538]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Hook and Eye.
Hook and Eye.
[Count D'Orsay.]
Published by M. Humphrey, St. James St.
Lithograph. Sheet: 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½").
A satirical double portrait of Tory supporter Theodore Hook (1788-1841) and Tory politician Sir Charles Manners Sutton (1780-1845).
[Ref: 43627]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[Catherine Howard?]
[Catherine Howard?]
W Hollar fecit 1648, but later.
Etching. Sheet: 75 x 60mm (3 x 2¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Some losses to edges.
A portrait of a young woman shown in profile, her hair tied back on the top and styled in loose curls on the sides. Identified as Catherine Howard, daughter of 22nd Earl of Arundel due to resemblance to other named portraits.
[Ref: 43718]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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[John the Baptist in pelt, holding a book and raising his right hand in blessing]
[John the Baptist in pelt, holding a book and raising his right hand in blessing]
J. van Eyk pinx: Nep: Strixner del 1820
ged: von Selb
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 640 x 385mm (25¼ x 15").
Lithograph of a panel of the Ghent altarpiece by Jan van Eyck. Large lithograph by Johann Neopomuk Strixner from the series 'Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck'.
[Ref: 43533]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Samuel Johnson.
Samuel Johnson. Sentimental and Masonic Magazine
Sir Jos.a Reynolds Pinx.t 1756 H. Brocas Sculp.
[c.1795]
Stipple, sheet 210 x 115mm (8¼ x4½").
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and political conservative, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write essays for The Gentleman's Magazine. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of William Shakespeare's plays, and the widely read novel Rasselas. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. Engraving after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, published in the Dublin journal, the 'Sentimental and Masonic Magazine', published by John Jones of Grafton Street between 1792 and 1795.
Not in O'D; for another engraving from the same Reynolds portrait see ref. 26473.
[Ref: 43326]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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D. Georg Christian Knapp.
D. Georg Christian Knapp.
gemalt von Caroline Bardua gestochen von F.W. Bollinger Berlin 1817
Stipple, sheet 385 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
George Christian Knapp (1753-1825), German Protestant theologian. He was a professor of theology and author of a book on the Psalms and biographical sketches of Piestist theologians. Engraved after a portrait by Caroline Bardua, Berlin-based painter who exhibited at the academy there (1822-40) and also painted a portrait of Goethe.
[Ref: 43527]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Charles Konig Esq.
Charles Konig Esq.
E.H. Eddis del 1831. Printed by J.M. Johnson, Norwich.
Lithograph. Printed area 130 x 110 (5¼ x 4¼").
Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig (1774-1851), a German naturalist who came to England in 1800 to organize the collections of Queen Charlotte. He then became assistant to Dryander, librarian to Joseph Banks, before beoming assistant keeper of natural history in the British Museum in 1807 and keeper in 1813. In 1837 the Department of Natural History was divided into three branches; Konig took charge of Geology and Mineralogy, a post he held until his death. His 'Icones fossilium sectiles' (1820-5) is a classic text in that field. 'E.H. Eddis' is likely Eden Upton Eddis.
[Ref: 43165]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[Lady wearing hat and ruff]
[Lady wearing hat and ruff]
AC 1577 pinx: N: Strixner del: [c.1823]
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 600 x 470mm (23½ x 18½"). Slight foxing.
Lithograph of a 1577 painting by the Dutch artist Adriaen Crabeth, by Johann Neopomuk Strixner from the series 'Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck'.
[Ref: 43532]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr John Love, Bookseller, of Weymouth,
Mr John Love, Bookseller, of Weymouth, The Fatest & Heaviest Man ever known in England.
[Anon, c.1805]
Engraving, platemark 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾").
Portrait of bookseller John Love (1793, fl.). Weighing around twenty-six stone, Love was in fact only a fraction of the size of his contemporary Daniel Lambert of Leicester (1770-1809), who weighed 52¾ stone! From the 'Wonderful Magazine', which included numerous portraits of eccentric and remarkable individuals.
O'D 1; For a portrait of Lambert see ref. 17776. Private Collection.
[Ref: 43358]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Virgin holding a book]
[The Virgin holding a book]
J. van Eyk pinx: Nep: Strixner del 1820
ged: von Selb
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 640 x 385mm (25¼ x 15").
Lithograph of a panel of the Ghent altarpiece by Jan van Eyck. Large lithograph by Johann Neopomuk Strixner from the series 'Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck'.
[Ref: 43531]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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Princeps Maria Henrici VIII Regis Angliæ Filia.
Princeps Maria Henrici VIII Regis Angliæ Filia.
HHolbein pinxit. W: Hollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana 1647 [but later].
Etching. Sheet: 130 x 105mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on an album sheet.
A portrait of Princess Mary, later Mary I, shown wearing a peaked bonnet, from a painting in the Arundel Collection. It was Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (1586-1646), who brought Hollar to England.
Pennington 1465, state ii of iv.
[Ref: 43713]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Hubert Maurer.
Hubert Maurer. Lehrer der Historischen Zeichnungsgrunde an der K:K: Academie der bildenden Kunste.
nach dem Leben gezeichnet von J. Merz gezzt von J.J.L. Billwiller [c.1790]
Etching, platemark 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"), very large margins.
Hubert Maurer (1738-1818), German-born history painter who spent four years in Rome and subsequently settled in Vienna, where he became a member of the academy in 1783.
[Ref: 43526]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Monk holding crucifix]
[Monk holding crucifix]
H. MD[?]
[c.1800]
Soft-ground etching, rare, platemark 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6").
[Ref: 43186]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Edward Earl of Sandwich.
Edward Earl of Sandwich. Engraved for the Universal Magazine..
Printed for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in Paternoster Row.
Engraving, platemark 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼") large margins. Cut to plate at right.
Edward Montagu, first earl of Sandwich (1625-72) army and naval officer and diplomat. Despite being a Parliamentarian officer in the Civil War and one of Oliver Cromwell's Council of State, Sandwich was instrumental in the Restoration of Charles II, commanding the fleet that brought him back from exile in May 1660. Two months later, on 12 July 1660, he was created Baron Montagu of St Neots, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Earl of Sandwich. Sandwich's career as an admiral was his most enduring achievement. He died in the Third Anglo-Dutch War when, in the Battle of Solebay his ship was attacked by a group of fire ships and was destroyed with the loss of many lives, including Sandwich himself.
[Ref: 43520]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Sebastianus Munsterus, Prof. Ebr. L. in Acad. Basil. nat 1489. den.d.23 Maji 1552.
Sebastianus Munsterus, Prof. Ebr. L. in Acad. Basil. nat 1489. den.d.23 Maji 1552.
Ioh. Iac. Haid exc. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1747.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Slight marking and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of German academic and cartographer Sebastian Munster (1488-1552). An illustration from Brucker's "Ehren-tempel der Deutschen Gelehrsamkeit".
[Ref: 43656]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Madame Clara Novello
Madame Clara Novello
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall [1859]
Engraving, sheet 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"). Crease lower left. Slight marking at top.
Clara Novello (1818-1908), singer and daughter of the music publisher Vincent Novello. Born at 240 Oxford Street, London, Novello made her public debut at the Theatre Royal, Windsor in 1832 after studying in Paris. Following her marriage to Count Giovanni Baptista Gigliucci in 1843 Novello put her career on hold to raise a family and assist her husband in the fight for Italian independence. However, when Count Gigliucci lost his property in the 1848 uprisings, Novello returned to the stage, performing both in the UK and on the continent. Novello retired, while still popular, in 1860, to live with Count Gigliucci in Rome and Fermo. Published in 1859, shortly before Novello's retirement, in the 'Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages' of engravings made from photographs by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901).
Harvard 7
[Ref: 43312]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Ophelia.
Ophelia. There's rue for you, and here's some for me
James Nixon pinx.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
[London, Publish'd April 8th 1784 by W. Dickinson]
Stipple printed in red, sheet 190 x 145mm (7½ x 5¾"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line;
The tragic Ophelia's last appearance in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' before her death from drowning. Stipple engraving after the miniature painter James Nixon (bap.1741-1812). This may be engraved from Nixon's miniature of Mary Bowles (née Elton) as Ophelia, in the collection of the Elton family seat, Clevedon Court, Somerset. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver who migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. This state is not listed in the catalogue.
Calabi & de Vesme 1860 iv/iv
[Ref: 43141]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr. Tho.s Paine
Mr. Tho.s Paine
Peel pinx.t Angus sculp.t
Published as the Act directs 1 Sep.r 1791 by C. Forster No.41 Poultry
Engraving, sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author and revolutionary. A leading figure in the age of revolutions and an effective pamphleteer, Paine's works included 'Common Sense' (1776), which inspired people in the 'Thirteen Colonies' to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain; the hugely successful 'Rights of Man' (1791-2), which did much to restore credit to the French in Britain and America; and 'The Age of Reason' (1793), a trenchant attack on Christianity and all formal religions which stirred up hostility for many years afterwards (in 1888 Teddy Roosevelt described him as 'a filthy little atheist'). Engraved after a portrait by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), American painter and museum founder who served in the Pennsylvania militia and participated in radical politics during the Revolution.
For another engraving of Paine from the same portrait by Peale see ref. 34441.
[Ref: 43584]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Tom Paine.
Tom Paine.
Eng. by K. Mackenzie from a Miniature by H. Richards
Published March 31 1800 by G. Cawthorne British Library Strand London.
Stipple, sheet 145 x 105mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author and revolutionary. A leading figure in the age of revolutions and an effective pamphleteer, Paine's works included 'Common Sense' (1776), which inspired people in the 'Thirteen Colonies' to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain; the hugely successful 'Rights of Man' (1791-2), which did much to restore credit to the French in Britain and America; and 'The Age of Reason' (1793), a trenchant attack on Christianity and all formal religions which stirred up hostility for many years afterwards (in 1888 Teddy Roosevelt described him as 'a filthy little atheist').
[Ref: 43582]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir William Parsons Knt.
Sir William Parsons Knt. European Magazine.
Engraved by Ridley & Blood from an Original Drawing by Francis Wilkins Jun.r.
Published by J. Asperne at the Bible, Crown & Constitution, Cornhill, 1st September 1808.
Stipple. 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4") large margins.
Sir William Parsons (c.1745-1817), Master of the King's Musick under George III, 1786-1817, and the first musician to be honoured with a knighthood, although more for his connections with the Royal Family than his compositions.
[Ref: 43404]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.]
[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.]
Tom Trueblue fec.t
Engrav'd for the British Antidote: Printed for E. Sumpter in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1755.]
Mezzotint, scarce. Plate: 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
A portrait, set in a circle of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) after a portrait by the artist William Hoare. The text below comes from the epitaph written for Sir William Trumbull by Alexander Pope.
[Ref: 43623]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hon.ble William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1789.
The Right Hon.ble William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1789.
[Engraved by J. Jones.]
Pub.d as the Act directs [May ye 20th 1789 by J. Jones N. 75 Great Portland] Street.
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Thread margins, title area (only) rubbed, most of engraver's and publisher's inscription illegible.
A portrait of William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) dressed in his Chancellor's robes, after George Romney. Pitt served as Chancellor three times (1782-83, 1783-1801 & 1804-06), the last two terms while he was also Prime Minister.
CS 63, i of ii.
[Ref: 43445]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Samuel Plimsoll [facsimile signature]
Samuel Plimsoll [facsimile signature]
[Anon., c.1875]
Chromolithograph, rare; printed area approx. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½").
Samuel Plimsoll (1824-98), politician and shipping reformer. An M.P. for Derby, Plimsoll's six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy. Plimsoll's name was also bestowed on the rubber-soled canvas shoes manufactured by the Liverpool Rubber Company in 1876: the company's salesman, Philip Lace, said that the shoes were water-tight as long as they were not immersed above the level of the band, and that this reminded him of the Plimsoll line.
[Ref: 43684]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Samuel Plimsoll, Esq., M.P. ('The Sailors' Friend.')
Samuel Plimsoll, Esq., M.P. ('The Sailors' Friend.')
Entered at Stationers Hall, by Alfred Taylor, New Court, Farringtdon Street, London E.C. [n.d., c.1875.]
Lithograph. Printed area 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Bit dusty.
M.P. for Derby, whose six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy.
[Ref: 43351]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Samuel Plimsoll, M.P.
Samuel Plimsoll, M.P. "The Sailor's Friend."
Entered at Stationers Hall, by Alfred Taylor, New Court, Farringdon St, London E.C. [c.1875]
Lithograph, printed area approx. 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼").
Samuel Plimsoll (1824-98), politician and shipping reformer. An M.P. for Derby, Plimsoll's six-year campaign against overloaded 'coffin-ships' (over-insured and then deliberately overloaded in the hope of collecting insurance money) resulted in the 1876 Merchant Shipping Act. This introduced the 'Plimsoll Line', a load line reflecting a vessel's buoyancy. Plimsoll's name was also bestowed on the rubber-soled canvas shoes manufactured by the Liverpool Rubber Company in 1876: the company's salesman, Philip Lace, said that the shoes were water-tight as long as they were not immersed above the level of the band, and that this reminded him of the Plimsoll line.
[Ref: 43685]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Foster Powell.
Foster Powell. Was born at Horseforth, near Leeds in Yorkshire. 1734.
S. Harding fecit.
London Pub.d June 30. 1788. for the sole benefit of Foster Powell & Sold by Mr Marshall. St Clements Church Yard.
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"). Staining and foxing. Small margins.
Foster Powell (c.1734-1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits
[Ref: 43624]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Titus Salt [facsimile signature]
Titus Salt [facsimile signature]
[Anon, c.1870]
Chromolithograph, sheet 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8").
Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), textile manufacturer and politician. Based in Bradford, Salt set up a wool business with his father, and by 1850 owned five mills. He set up the model village Saltaire for his workforce which was considered a remarkable experiment in industrial and social relations.
[Ref: 43386]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir Titus Salt, Bart.
Sir Titus Salt, Bart.
Engraved by W. Holl, from a Photograph by Appleton & Co., Bradford.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Steel engraving. Printed area 200 x 115mm (8 x 4½").
Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), textile manufacturer, politician & philanthropist. Based in Bradford, Salt set up a wool business with his father and by 1850 owned five mills. He set up the model village Saltaire for his workforce which was considered a remarkable experiment in industrial and social relations. It is estimated that over 100,000 people lined the streets for his funeral.
[Ref: 43390]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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