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A View of the House of Commons in the Session 1741/2. To the Rt. Honble. Arthur Onslow Esqr. Speaker of the House of Commons, This Plate is most humbly Dedicated by his Honour's most oblig'd and most obedient hunble Servant John Pine Bluemantle.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver 69 St. Pauls Church Yard and Robert Wilkinson 58 Cornhill [n.d., c.1800].
Etching and engraving, sheet 470 x 640mm. 18½ x 25¼" Trimmed to plate. Vertical centre crease and fold. Some scuffs and marks to the title area and centre image.
At the centre a view of the chamber of the old House of Commons, with members seated along the benches on both sides, and the Speaker presiding. Either side two columns of lettering listing the names of the Speakers, from 1259 to 1747. The whole set into a decorative rococo frame, with crest of Arthur Onslow, the then Speaker, below.
A reissue on wove paper of an earlier plate.
[Ref: 14266] £480.00
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver 69 St. Pauls Church Yard and Robert Wilkinson 58 Cornhill [n.d., c.1800].
Etching and engraving, sheet 470 x 640mm. 18½ x 25¼" Trimmed to plate. Vertical centre crease and fold. Some scuffs and marks to the title area and centre image.
At the centre a view of the chamber of the old House of Commons, with members seated along the benches on both sides, and the Speaker presiding. Either side two columns of lettering listing the names of the Speakers, from 1259 to 1747. The whole set into a decorative rococo frame, with crest of Arthur Onslow, the then Speaker, below.
A reissue on wove paper of an earlier plate.
[Ref: 14266] £480.00
The Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain.
C. Maucourt pinxit et fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament Novr. 18th 1767 And Sold by J. Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint, 500 x 655mm. 19¾ x 25¾". Creases; upper right margin chipped and partially missing. Tear through title. Extremly scarce.
Group of six priests and four soldiers, standing together beside an archway; the hat of one priest on the floor in centre. Two priests in a guarded cart seen beyond at right, through archway. The faces are slightly caricatured.
The scene inspired by the contemporary Suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and the Spanish Empire by Pope Clement XIV.
By the Paris-born engraver Charles Maucourt (1728 - 1768) who came to London in 1761.
Chaloner Smith: 1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10578] £650.00
C. Maucourt pinxit et fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament Novr. 18th 1767 And Sold by J. Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint, 500 x 655mm. 19¾ x 25¾". Creases; upper right margin chipped and partially missing. Tear through title. Extremly scarce.
Group of six priests and four soldiers, standing together beside an archway; the hat of one priest on the floor in centre. Two priests in a guarded cart seen beyond at right, through archway. The faces are slightly caricatured.
The scene inspired by the contemporary Suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and the Spanish Empire by Pope Clement XIV.
By the Paris-born engraver Charles Maucourt (1728 - 1768) who came to London in 1761.
Chaloner Smith: 1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10578] £650.00
Misluckte Papen Krygh en De Fransche Verhuys-Tydt. Misluckte Papen-Krygh, Uytgespeelt op de Roomsche Heylige Dagen, van Kers-nacht tot Mey-dagh, De Fransche Verhuyts-Tydt.
[Romain de Hooghe.]
[n.d. c.1674.]
Etching with letterpress. 616 x 458mm. 24¼ x 18". Fold horizontally through centre, damaged.
A broadside satirising the French forces and Catholicism, likening the various stages in the development of the Dutch-French war and the French retreat to various Catholic holy days; with an etching by de Hooghe showing four scenes, on the top left, Christmas with a crib, the devil held by two kneeling men, the French war minster Marquess de Louvois and Cardinal Wilhelm von Fürstenberg, and on the right three men arriving, Louis XIV, King of France, accompanied by the Bishops of Münster and Cologne; the top right image referring to Carnival, showing an overloaded French boat trying to cross a river, the bottom left showing Ash-Wednesday, with William of Orange outside a church making ash marks on the foreheads of kneeling persons, behind him lilys being burnt at an altar with the coats-of-arms of the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and the Netherlands, the left foreground a reference to Palm-Sunday and the Peace of Westminster, showing representatives of England and Spain talking to a Dutch man, all holding palm-leaves, in the right background a reference to Maundy Thursday ("White Thursday"), showing the murder of Jan and Cornelis de Witt; the bottom right image refers to Mayday-Eve, showing the retreat of the French forces.
Muller 2521.
[Ref: 15685] £360.00
[Romain de Hooghe.]
[n.d. c.1674.]
Etching with letterpress. 616 x 458mm. 24¼ x 18". Fold horizontally through centre, damaged.
A broadside satirising the French forces and Catholicism, likening the various stages in the development of the Dutch-French war and the French retreat to various Catholic holy days; with an etching by de Hooghe showing four scenes, on the top left, Christmas with a crib, the devil held by two kneeling men, the French war minster Marquess de Louvois and Cardinal Wilhelm von Fürstenberg, and on the right three men arriving, Louis XIV, King of France, accompanied by the Bishops of Münster and Cologne; the top right image referring to Carnival, showing an overloaded French boat trying to cross a river, the bottom left showing Ash-Wednesday, with William of Orange outside a church making ash marks on the foreheads of kneeling persons, behind him lilys being burnt at an altar with the coats-of-arms of the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and the Netherlands, the left foreground a reference to Palm-Sunday and the Peace of Westminster, showing representatives of England and Spain talking to a Dutch man, all holding palm-leaves, in the right background a reference to Maundy Thursday ("White Thursday"), showing the murder of Jan and Cornelis de Witt; the bottom right image refers to Mayday-Eve, showing the retreat of the French forces.
Muller 2521.
[Ref: 15685] £360.00
This model silver cradle is presented by a number of the Burgesses of Liverpool, to Mary Horsfall...Ye. Spirit of Ye. Legend. "Gif Leverpoole's Good Maior Sh.d Everre Bee made Fatherre Inne Hys Yeare offe Maioralltee, Thenne Sal Bee Gyften, Bye ye. Tovvnmenne Free Tane Sylverre Cradle to Hys Faire Ladye." Christened by John Lord Bishop of Chester at Christ Church Everton, October 30th. 1848. John Holmes, Chairman. R.C. Gardner Treasurer. John Smith, Secretary. Coll. George Cawler, K.H. Godfather, Mrs. C.H. Horsfall, Miss S.S. Horsfall. Godmothers.
J. Mayer, Lord St. Del. et Fect. Maclure, MacDonald & MacGregor. Lithrs. 19 Fenwick Street. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 380 x 285mm.
Mary Horsfall was the wife to the Conservative Party politician, Thomas Berry Horsfall (1805-1878.) He was a MP for many years and Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1847 to 1848.
[Ref: 16318] £120.00 (£141.00 incl.VAT)
J. Mayer, Lord St. Del. et Fect. Maclure, MacDonald & MacGregor. Lithrs. 19 Fenwick Street. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 380 x 285mm.
Mary Horsfall was the wife to the Conservative Party politician, Thomas Berry Horsfall (1805-1878.) He was a MP for many years and Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1847 to 1848.
[Ref: 16318] £120.00 (£141.00 incl.VAT)
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[An assembly of various animals.]
J.B. Huet l'an 1 [etched in plate lower left.]
[1792.]
Etching, 485 x 350mm. 19 x 13¾". Marginal tears, two just into lower edge of plate. Margin missing upper left corner.
It seems fair to assume that this apparently innocuous collection of animals by French painter, designer and etcher Jean Baptiste Huet (1745 - 1811) has a much deeper historical and political significance. The print was created in the first year of the French Republican Calendar, a calendar proposed during the French Revolution and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805. The French First Republic was founded on 22 September 1792, subsequently designated Year I of the French Republic, by the newly established National Convention. Perhaps this image of a wide variety of animal species, including the horse, lion, goat, dog and humble rabbit, converging apparently for some sort of conference, commemorates the first session of the National Convention on 20 September 1792. The delegates to the Convention came from all classes of society. Perhaps it is significant that instead of most days having an associated saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, under the Republican Calendar each day has an animal (days ending in 5).
[Ref: 10539] £380.00
J.B. Huet l'an 1 [etched in plate lower left.]
[1792.]
Etching, 485 x 350mm. 19 x 13¾". Marginal tears, two just into lower edge of plate. Margin missing upper left corner.
It seems fair to assume that this apparently innocuous collection of animals by French painter, designer and etcher Jean Baptiste Huet (1745 - 1811) has a much deeper historical and political significance. The print was created in the first year of the French Republican Calendar, a calendar proposed during the French Revolution and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805. The French First Republic was founded on 22 September 1792, subsequently designated Year I of the French Republic, by the newly established National Convention. Perhaps this image of a wide variety of animal species, including the horse, lion, goat, dog and humble rabbit, converging apparently for some sort of conference, commemorates the first session of the National Convention on 20 September 1792. The delegates to the Convention came from all classes of society. Perhaps it is significant that instead of most days having an associated saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, under the Republican Calendar each day has an animal (days ending in 5).
[Ref: 10539] £380.00
West-Riding Races Extraordinary. To be Run over the Wakefield Course in May, 1835. - The St. Stephen's Stake for Animals of all Sorts and Ages: Twice over the Course. Two Horses only have been entered for this Stake. The First on the list is that high-bred Colt, "Principle, out of Wharncliffe." He is a high-spirited animal, shewing a great deal of breeding, with great substance and strength, and first-rate action. He is well furnushed at all points, and is a surprising colt for his years. He is free from blemish, sound wind and limb, with excellent bottom. He has no vice, is steady and frim, and swerves at nothing. He is backed by most of the "knowing ones" of the district, and no doubt is entertained but that he will win the Stake, as he has been well trained.__Blue.
The last, and most unworthy, the the "Ministerial Hack, out of Castle Howard." He shows bad breeding; is very spindly, shambling, and loose in his action, tender before, low in the shoulder, and fit for no useful purpose. He might have done for a lady's hack, but is skittish, having been wretchedly brought up. His chief supporters are very shy of sporting their cash on the "Carlisle Dilly," as he termed by them. Several wagers have been laid that he will not come to the Starting Post, or that if he does, that he will be many a mile from the Winning Post, It is generally thought that he will bolt before the Races begin.__Yellow.
This race excites considerable interest in the sporting circles, in consequence of the boasted superiority of the Ministerial Hack. His trainers bein to be afraid of his bottom, from his frequent sobbing after his gallops. A party of whippers-in are engaged during the races from Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Bramley, Holbeck, and innumerable other places, which, together with the flattered assistance of the Hunslet Glass-Man, and his little flock, will, it is thought, enable the Ministerial Hack to make a good start. Should he not win the Stake, his backers will start him, for the last time, for rotten Morpeth.
For the amusement of the people during the Races, the supporters of the Ministerial Hack have engaged the celebrated N___Y B____S, the Premier Model of all Borough Members. Tp gull the natives with his unrivalled performances during the short time he has been a Member of the Order of St. Stephen. He will likewise engage so to twist and turn himself that the most expert shall not get a direct answer for him; also to raise from the earth the incredible weight of a ship load of PUTRID ORANGES, to the sstonishment of every beholder. He will, in conclusion , give a lecture on "The last days of Whiggery, & c." No dogs admitted on the Course while the horses are running, by order of the Stewards. W.H.R_____LL, Clerk of the Course.
J. Storey, Printer, Leeds.
Printed election broadside 380 x 165mm, sheet size. Folds and creases, wear on edges of sheet and stains from being an earlier frame.
The Reform Act 1832 divided Yorkshire into three county constituencies, which each returned two members. The divisions were based on the three ridings, which were traditional sub-divisions of Yorkshire. The polling place for the West Riding, at which the hustings were held and the result was declared, was at Wakefield. A By-Election was fought 1835 by John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe (1801-1855), ultimately Solicitor-General and George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802-1864), a British politician and statesman became Viceroy of Ireland. As Viscount Morpeth he participated in various positions in the Whig governments of the era. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.
[Ref: 5752] £280.00
J. Storey, Printer, Leeds.
Printed election broadside 380 x 165mm, sheet size. Folds and creases, wear on edges of sheet and stains from being an earlier frame.
The Reform Act 1832 divided Yorkshire into three county constituencies, which each returned two members. The divisions were based on the three ridings, which were traditional sub-divisions of Yorkshire. The polling place for the West Riding, at which the hustings were held and the result was declared, was at Wakefield. A By-Election was fought 1835 by John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe (1801-1855), ultimately Solicitor-General and George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802-1864), a British politician and statesman became Viceroy of Ireland. As Viscount Morpeth he participated in various positions in the Whig governments of the era. In 1835 he was appointed to the Privy Councils of the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.
[Ref: 5752] £280.00
The arrival of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria at the House of Lords to open the first Parliament of Her Reign. Dedicated by Command to the Royal Family.
[painted by G. Baxter] G. Baxter signature in the plate,[ the only scene to be signed by Baxter in this way].
[Henry Graves & Co., 1845]
Baxter process with Mezzotint 546 x 427 mm. 22 x 16¾inches. Image. Marginal tears and discoloured edges.
Queen Victoria heads a procession down the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, surrounded by female attendants and officers of state. She is flanked on either side by Life Guards and men and women watching, the man to her left carries the crown. The Queen opened her first Parliament in 1837, this mezzotint engraving after Baxters picture is from 1841. The scene is full in individual portraits and accurate representations of dresses and jewels as Baxter had been allowed special facilities to produce his print. The Lord Chamberlain Lord Cottenham is leading the procession.
George Baxter, who was trained as a lithographer and engraver, developed a process to produce colour prints from blocks and plates using oil-based inks. Courtney Lewis describes an aquatint plate by Baxter [item 131] printed in sepia, coloured impressions being uncommon. It does not describe this engraving which may be engraved by C.W. Wagstaff and published after 1842 by Henry Graves & Co. as described in the National Library of Australia.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 15809] £320.00
[painted by G. Baxter] G. Baxter signature in the plate,[ the only scene to be signed by Baxter in this way].
[Henry Graves & Co., 1845]
Baxter process with Mezzotint 546 x 427 mm. 22 x 16¾inches. Image. Marginal tears and discoloured edges.
Queen Victoria heads a procession down the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, surrounded by female attendants and officers of state. She is flanked on either side by Life Guards and men and women watching, the man to her left carries the crown. The Queen opened her first Parliament in 1837, this mezzotint engraving after Baxters picture is from 1841. The scene is full in individual portraits and accurate representations of dresses and jewels as Baxter had been allowed special facilities to produce his print. The Lord Chamberlain Lord Cottenham is leading the procession.
George Baxter, who was trained as a lithographer and engraver, developed a process to produce colour prints from blocks and plates using oil-based inks. Courtney Lewis describes an aquatint plate by Baxter [item 131] printed in sepia, coloured impressions being uncommon. It does not describe this engraving which may be engraved by C.W. Wagstaff and published after 1842 by Henry Graves & Co. as described in the National Library of Australia.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 15809] £320.00