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![[Woman kneeling beside an urn inscribed 'Werter', reading from a book.]](jpegs/16251.jpg)
[Woman kneeling beside an urn inscribed 'Werter', reading from a book.]
Publish'd April ye 1st. 1803 by T. Hancock, No.14 Congreve St_ Birmingham.
Stipple with engraved decorative octagonal border, probably a ceramic design. 135 x 130mm. 5¼ x 5". A fine impression, rare in good condition.
The image seems to reference 'Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of the Young Werter)' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
Thomas Hancock (1774 - 1809; last date) was one of the sons of the engraver Robert Hancock. He was known for his designs for pottery.
[Ref: 16251] £320.00
Publish'd April ye 1st. 1803 by T. Hancock, No.14 Congreve St_ Birmingham.
Stipple with engraved decorative octagonal border, probably a ceramic design. 135 x 130mm. 5¼ x 5". A fine impression, rare in good condition.
The image seems to reference 'Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of the Young Werter)' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
Thomas Hancock (1774 - 1809; last date) was one of the sons of the engraver Robert Hancock. He was known for his designs for pottery.
[Ref: 16251] £320.00
Plate X .
[Designed by Thomas Wright.]
[n.d. c. 1750.]
Mezzotint with etching. 207 x 128mm. Margins trimmed, glued to album page at corners. Plate number crossed out with three ink lines.
According to the inventor of this design, Thomas Wright of Durham [1711 - 1786] this plate 'represents the Sun and Moon in the just Proportion of their mean Diameters, with two of the Comets A and B, and the five erratick (sic) Planets, as they are observed at the Earth, in a middle State of their Distances from it.' Faint etched symbols are visible below the five planets in a horizontal line across the centre of the composition. Wright was an astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. This is one of 32 plates from his best known and now extremely scarce publication: 'An Original Theory Or New Hypothesis Of The Universe, Founded upon the Laws of Nature, And Solving By Mathematical Principles The General Phenomena of the Visible Creation; And Particularly The Via Lactea.' (4to, 1750). It explained the Milky Way as an optical effect of the earth's immersion in a layer of stars. He introduced to the scientific community the possibility that the stars themselves revolved around a central point, 'as do the planets around the Sun', and made Wright the first man to present a theory of galaxies in scientific terms. A devoutly religious man, Wright attempted to reconcile the idea of heaven with the physical universe. He calculated that there must exist 'within the whole celestial Area 60,000,000 planetary worlds like ours' and believed that heaven was equally accessible to souls from the worlds of all suns. His theories had a great influence on Immanuel Kant and his 'Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven'. The title page describes the volume as 'Illustrated with upwards of Thirty Graven and Mezzotinto Plates, By the Best Masters', though he names none of them. Wright published the book himself, and the List of Subscribers included Lords Anson and Cornwallis. This impression compares favourably with the copy in the Wellcome Library.
Wellcome Library: Record 2147930.
[Ref: 6717] £550.00
[Designed by Thomas Wright.]
[n.d. c. 1750.]
Mezzotint with etching. 207 x 128mm. Margins trimmed, glued to album page at corners. Plate number crossed out with three ink lines.
According to the inventor of this design, Thomas Wright of Durham [1711 - 1786] this plate 'represents the Sun and Moon in the just Proportion of their mean Diameters, with two of the Comets A and B, and the five erratick (sic) Planets, as they are observed at the Earth, in a middle State of their Distances from it.' Faint etched symbols are visible below the five planets in a horizontal line across the centre of the composition. Wright was an astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. This is one of 32 plates from his best known and now extremely scarce publication: 'An Original Theory Or New Hypothesis Of The Universe, Founded upon the Laws of Nature, And Solving By Mathematical Principles The General Phenomena of the Visible Creation; And Particularly The Via Lactea.' (4to, 1750). It explained the Milky Way as an optical effect of the earth's immersion in a layer of stars. He introduced to the scientific community the possibility that the stars themselves revolved around a central point, 'as do the planets around the Sun', and made Wright the first man to present a theory of galaxies in scientific terms. A devoutly religious man, Wright attempted to reconcile the idea of heaven with the physical universe. He calculated that there must exist 'within the whole celestial Area 60,000,000 planetary worlds like ours' and believed that heaven was equally accessible to souls from the worlds of all suns. His theories had a great influence on Immanuel Kant and his 'Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven'. The title page describes the volume as 'Illustrated with upwards of Thirty Graven and Mezzotinto Plates, By the Best Masters', though he names none of them. Wright published the book himself, and the List of Subscribers included Lords Anson and Cornwallis. This impression compares favourably with the copy in the Wellcome Library.
Wellcome Library: Record 2147930.
[Ref: 6717] £550.00
Nihil Invita Minerva. The Academy of the Muses.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Image 191 x 152mm. 283 x 224mm.
A sagittarius in full speed shooting with a bow and arrow standing on top of an argent. The argent has an open music book that sits between two swords in saltire of the first. Either side stand dexter a sinister satyr, and a merman with two tails. Nihil Invita Minerva: Nothing in spite of genius.
[Ref: 12531] £80.00 (£94.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Image 191 x 152mm. 283 x 224mm.
A sagittarius in full speed shooting with a bow and arrow standing on top of an argent. The argent has an open music book that sits between two swords in saltire of the first. Either side stand dexter a sinister satyr, and a merman with two tails. Nihil Invita Minerva: Nothing in spite of genius.
[Ref: 12531] £80.00 (£94.00 incl.VAT)
Arithmetic. Plate 1st. Addition.
Drawn and Etched by H. Heath.
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 190 x 245mm. 7½ x 9¾". Trimmed to border and glued to scrap sheet.
Three labourers struggling under a mass of bundles, chairs and other objects they are taking towards a cart lettered 'Goods carefully removed in town or country / To be sold'. To left a fourth man emerges from a doorway with two more great cases, saying, 'Here's another little parcel'.
For Henry Heath's (1822 - 1851; fl.) series 'Arithmetic'.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 9505] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn and Etched by H. Heath.
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 190 x 245mm. 7½ x 9¾". Trimmed to border and glued to scrap sheet.
Three labourers struggling under a mass of bundles, chairs and other objects they are taking towards a cart lettered 'Goods carefully removed in town or country / To be sold'. To left a fourth man emerges from a doorway with two more great cases, saying, 'Here's another little parcel'.
For Henry Heath's (1822 - 1851; fl.) series 'Arithmetic'.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 9505] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Westminster Hospital This is to Certify that Mr, Francis Cole hath very diligently attended the Practice of this Hospital for Twelve Months from Nov. 1810
Wm Lynn Anth Carlisle F.R.S. Surgeons.
Etched diploma on watermarked laid paper, with vignette of the hospital, signed and dated and completed in ink, sheet 240 x 190mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
Westminster Hospital was founded in 1719, following a meeting in a coffee house, where four men met to discuss a 'charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy and other distressed persons”. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. Westminster Hospital moved from Marsham Street to become Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site in 1994.
One of the signatories is Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768 - 1840). After attending the lectures of John Hunter, Baillie, and Cruikshank, and being the resident pupil of Mr. Henry Watson, surgeon to Westminster Hospital, he succeeded to the surgeoncy in 1793, and held the office till his death in 1840. Carlisle became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1800, and in 1804 delivered the Croonian lecture on ‘Muscular Motion,’ following it by another on the ‘Muscles of Fishes’ in 1805. He contributed other papers on biological subjects to the Philosophical and Linnean ‘Transactions,’ the ‘Philosophical Magazine,’ &c. Carlisle was long a member of the council of the College of Surgeons (from 1815) and an examiner (from April 1825), holding these appointments till death. He took great interest in Westminster Hospital, and was largely instrumental in raising funds for the new building. Carlisle was neither a brilliant anatomist nor physiologist, but was a fairly good surgeon. His introduction of the thin-bladed, straight-edged amputating knife, in place of the old clumsy crooked one, and his use of the simple carpenter's saw make his name chiefly worthy of note.
[Ref: 7951] £180.00
Wm Lynn Anth Carlisle F.R.S. Surgeons.
Etched diploma on watermarked laid paper, with vignette of the hospital, signed and dated and completed in ink, sheet 240 x 190mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
Westminster Hospital was founded in 1719, following a meeting in a coffee house, where four men met to discuss a 'charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy and other distressed persons”. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. Westminster Hospital moved from Marsham Street to become Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site in 1994.
One of the signatories is Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768 - 1840). After attending the lectures of John Hunter, Baillie, and Cruikshank, and being the resident pupil of Mr. Henry Watson, surgeon to Westminster Hospital, he succeeded to the surgeoncy in 1793, and held the office till his death in 1840. Carlisle became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1800, and in 1804 delivered the Croonian lecture on ‘Muscular Motion,’ following it by another on the ‘Muscles of Fishes’ in 1805. He contributed other papers on biological subjects to the Philosophical and Linnean ‘Transactions,’ the ‘Philosophical Magazine,’ &c. Carlisle was long a member of the council of the College of Surgeons (from 1815) and an examiner (from April 1825), holding these appointments till death. He took great interest in Westminster Hospital, and was largely instrumental in raising funds for the new building. Carlisle was neither a brilliant anatomist nor physiologist, but was a fairly good surgeon. His introduction of the thin-bladed, straight-edged amputating knife, in place of the old clumsy crooked one, and his use of the simple carpenter's saw make his name chiefly worthy of note.
[Ref: 7951] £180.00
Aeronautical Prints & Drawings with text by Lt.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh O.B.E., M.A., LL.B., A.F.R.Ae.S., Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Foreword by Major-General Sir Frederick H. Sykes G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., F.R. Ae.S., M.P., Late Chief of the Air Staff and Controller-General of Civil Aviation
London Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924
4to, limited edition no 252 of 1000; original blue cloth gilt, rubbed edges; pp. xx + 36; colour frontis. tipped in + 87 plates, of which 80 half-tones, 7 colour tipped in. Bookplate on front endpaper.
The Reference Book on Balloons, Collection of Lord Kings Norton. A compendium of important aeronautical prints and drawings with background information.
[Ref: 8269] £420.00
London Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924
4to, limited edition no 252 of 1000; original blue cloth gilt, rubbed edges; pp. xx + 36; colour frontis. tipped in + 87 plates, of which 80 half-tones, 7 colour tipped in. Bookplate on front endpaper.
The Reference Book on Balloons, Collection of Lord Kings Norton. A compendium of important aeronautical prints and drawings with background information.
[Ref: 8269] £420.00
![[Sea Plane in flight.]](jpegs/8646.jpg)
[Sea Plane in flight.]
Geoffrey Watson
Etching, platemark 260 x 340mm.10¼ x 13¼". Creases in margins. Signed in pencil by the artist.
Geoffrey Watson (d.1937).
[Ref: 8646] £390.00
Geoffrey Watson
Etching, platemark 260 x 340mm.10¼ x 13¼". Creases in margins. Signed in pencil by the artist.
Geoffrey Watson (d.1937).
[Ref: 8646] £390.00
The Alchymist. He's in Belief of Chymistry, so bold,/ if his Dream last, he'll turn the Age to Gold.
Teniers pinx.t W. Baillie sculp.t
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, 190 x 230mm. 7½ x 9". Margins foxed.
An alchemist in his workshop, after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Etched by Captain William Baillie. Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell, ‘Baillie, William (1723–1810)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For another engraving after this painting see 9847.
[Ref: 12255] £220.00
Teniers pinx.t W. Baillie sculp.t
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, 190 x 230mm. 7½ x 9". Margins foxed.
An alchemist in his workshop, after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Etched by Captain William Baillie. Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell, ‘Baillie, William (1723–1810)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For another engraving after this painting see 9847.
[Ref: 12255] £220.00
The Chymist. To Richard Mead M.D. Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty F.R.S. This Print Ingrav'd from an Original Painting of the same Size by David Teniers, is humbly Dedicated by his most Obedient Servant, Thos. Major.
D. Teniers pinxt. T. Major sculpt.
Publish'd May 7th 1750. accord. to Act of Parliamt. London sold by the Author at the Golden Head in West Street the upper end of St. Martin's Lane.
Fine copper engraving, 405 x 285mm. 16 x 11¼". Some marginal foxing.
An alchemist in his laboratory surrounded by scientific vessels and equipment. After David Teniers the Younger (1610 - 1690).
Numbered 'No.17' lower right.
[Ref: 12281] £220.00
D. Teniers pinxt. T. Major sculpt.
Publish'd May 7th 1750. accord. to Act of Parliamt. London sold by the Author at the Golden Head in West Street the upper end of St. Martin's Lane.
Fine copper engraving, 405 x 285mm. 16 x 11¼". Some marginal foxing.
An alchemist in his laboratory surrounded by scientific vessels and equipment. After David Teniers the Younger (1610 - 1690).
Numbered 'No.17' lower right.
[Ref: 12281] £220.00
An Alchymist.
Jos.h: Wright Pinx.t W: Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775. by W.Pether Broad Street near Carnaby Street.
Mezzotint. 455 x 580mm. Margins, some minor creasing and slightly rubbed
Needs Cleaning
[Ref: 6726] £1,450.00
Jos.h: Wright Pinx.t W: Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775. by W.Pether Broad Street near Carnaby Street.
Mezzotint. 455 x 580mm. Margins, some minor creasing and slightly rubbed
Needs Cleaning
[Ref: 6726] £1,450.00