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Catalogue: Social
Shrewsbury School. Respectfully dedicated with permission to the Venerable Archdeacon Butler D.D.F.R.S.
Taken from an original drawing by P.Browne. On Stone by F.Mackenzie. Printed by Engelmannm Graf & Coindel, lithographers to his Majesty.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured Lithograph
Dedicated to Samuel Butler (1774-1839), English classical scholar and headmaster at Shrewsbury School. He left the school in 1836 to become bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
[Ref: 991] £350.00
The School, from the Upper Green.
C.W. Radcliffe del et lith. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[James Moore, 1844.]
Tinted lithograph, printed area 230 x 330mm.
Charterhouse School, with a game of cricket on the Upper Green.
[Ref: 4747] £130.00
(£152.75 incl.VAT)
Rugby School as it appear'd in the Year 1809, Is by Permission respectfully dedicated to the Honorable the Trustees By their much obliged and Obedient Servant E.Pretty.
Drawn & Etch'd by E.Pretty. Aquatinted by R.Reeve.
Rugby, Published by E.Pretty, Drawing Master, June 1811.
Etching with aquatint. 490 x 280mm. Occasional foxing to sky area upper right.
The school with cricketers in the foreground.
[Ref: 4720] £480.00
To the Noblement & Gentlemen Educated at Rugby, this View of the School is respectfully dedicated By their humble Servant, E.Pretty.
Drawn by E. Pretty. Engraved by J. Hill
Published by E. Pretty Drawing Master Rugby, April 1st 1816.
Etching with aquatint, printed in green and brown. 490 x 280mm. Crease in lower right of margin.
!817 Watermark.
[Ref: 4721] £260.00
Rugby [pencil, lower right.]
Wallace Hester [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930?]
Etching, 175 x 250mm, 7 x 9¾".
Rugby School, in Rugby, Warwickshire, one of the oldest public schools in Britain. The School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I.
Remarque of school crest below image and 'Artist's Proof' blindstamp lower left.
By Wallace Hester, etcher and illustrator responsible for 12 cartoons for Vanity Fair, 1910, 1911, 1913.
[Ref: 15850] £95.00
(£111.63 incl.VAT)
Rugby [pencil, lower right.]
Wallace Hester [pencil signature.] W.H [19?]30 [scratched in plate.]
Etching, 260 x 195mm, 10¼ x 7¾".
Rugby School, in Rugby, Warwickshire, one of the oldest public schools in Britain. The School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I.
Remarque of school crest below image and 'Artist's Proof' blindstamp lower left.
By Wallace Hester, etcher and illustrator responsible for 12 cartoons for Vanity Fair, 1910, 1911, 1913.
[Ref: 15852] £95.00
(£111.63 incl.VAT)
Rugby [pencil, lower right.]
Wallace Hester [pencil signature.] [19?]30 W.H [scratched in plate.]
Etching, 195 x 265mm, 7¾ x 10½".
Rugby School, in Rugby, Warwickshire, one of the oldest public schools in Britain. The School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I.
Remarque of school crest below image and 'Artist's Proof' blindstamp lower left.
By Wallace Hester, etcher and illustrator responsible for 12 cartoons for Vanity Fair, 1910, 1911, 1913.
[Ref: 15851] £95.00
(£111.63 incl.VAT)
A View of The Charter House taken from The Green. To the Noblemen & Gentlemen Educated at The Charterhouse School, this Plate is most respectfully Dedicated by Their Most Obedient Servant, Robt Saml Cribb.
Painted by T. Ward. Engraved by R. Havell.
[Published by R. Cribb. n.d. c.1813].
Coloured aquatint engraving. Sheet 510 x 360mm. Trimmed inside plate mark at top and bottom. Publication line missing. Light age-toning of paper and stain through dedication.
Extremely rare. In 1611 a hospital for pensioners and a school for boys were established in buildings near Smithfield in London which had once housed a Carthusian monastery. Pupils have always been referred to as Carthusians. The School moved to the Deanery Farm Estate, just outside Godalming, in 1872, having sold the original site to Merchant Taylors.
[Ref: 6431] £520.00
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