Catalogue: Views UK
Entrance Hall Abbotsford.
Drawn & Etched by J. Bower 1831.
Etched outline, 180 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾".
An interior view in Abbotsford, home of novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) in the Scottish Borders.
By John Bower (1818 - 1833; fl. c.), engraver, topographical draughtsman and publisher based in nearby Melrose. He produced a series of views of Scottish antiquities, including several of Abbotsford. This could be some sort of unfinished proof, before much detail was engraved.
[Ref: 9733] £95.00
(£111.63 incl.VAT)
The University of Aberdeen Marischal College [in pencil lower left].
Wilfred C. Appleby [etched in plate lower left, signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.c., c.1930.]
Etching, 315 x 290mm. 12½ x 11½". Foxing.
Marischal College was formerly an independent university in its own right before it was merged with King's College, Aberdeen in 1860. It is the seconed largest granite building in the world.
By Wilfred Crawford Appleby b.1889.
[Ref: 9836] £160.00
(£188.00 incl.VAT)
Kings College Aberdeen University [in pencil lower left].
Wilfred C. Appleby [signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.c., c.1930.]
Etching, 315 x 290mm. 12½ x 11½". Light staining.
King's College in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, is a formerly independent university founded in 1495 and an integral part of the University of Aberdeen . Its historic buildings are the centrepiece of the University of Aberdeen's Old Aberdeen campus, often known as the King's or King's College campus. The University and King's College of Aberdeen (Collegium Regium Abredonense) was the first university in Aberdeen, the third in Scotland, and the fifth in the United Kingdom.
By Wilfred Crawford Appleby b.1889.
With College Coat of Arms etched in image.
[Ref: 9837] £160.00
(£188.00 incl.VAT)
Almondbury Church.
Drawn by J. Dewhirst Master of the Free Grammar School Kirkheaton. Aquatinted &c. by R & Jas. Pollard.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Rare aquatint. 259 x 331mm. 10¼ x 13".
All Hallow's Church, Almondbury.
[Ref: 15123] £130.00
(£152.75 incl.VAT)
From Amwell - Bury Woods.
Drawn by R.M. Batty. Engrav'd by F. Jukes.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1 793 by F. Jukes, No. 16 Howland Street.
Aquatint printed in colours and hand finished. 200 x 265mm, 8 x 10½". Tear touching imprint at bottom.
R.M. Batty and Francis Jukes produced a series of aquatint views of Hertfordshire. Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 12571] £140.00
(£164.50 incl.VAT)
Theatre of Anatomy.
A. Pugin delt. J.C. Stadler sculpt.
London, Pub. Novr. 1.1815, at 101. Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
A fine coloured aquatint. Plate 298 x 248mm. 11¾ x 9¾".
Two visitors are inspecting the anatomy theatre at the University of Cambridge. A human skeleton stands above the dissecting table where two specimens are placed. In one of the jars are conjoined twins. Human anatomical specimens also line the shelves. As few bodies were available for dissection, demonstrations in theatres enabled a number of medical students to learn human anatomy from watching the same procedure. A History of the University of Cambridge: William Combe. Science Museum Collection.
[Ref: 14447] £230.00
Annesley Park Nottinghamshire [ink mss.]
[Indistinctly signed lower right.]
[n.d., c.1860?]
Black crayon heightened in white chalk, pencil to figures; on browned paper, sheet 350 x 540mm. 13¾ x 21¼". Sheet trimmed (artist's name partially missing); glued at corners to album sheet.
Large and impressive prospect of Annesley Hall, Nottinghamshire from the gardens, the Terrace to left; three figures and a dog to foreground, tower of the Church of All Saints beyond. The three storey, six bay hall has 13th century aisled hall origins but its current appearance is largely the result of large scale late 17th century extension and remodelling in 1838.
Mary Ann Chaworth (1785 - 1832) lived at the Hall and was romantically involved with the poet Lord Byron. They were first introduced in 1798 when Byron was 10 and Mary 12; the Byron family's solicitor, a Mr Hanson, suggested to the young poet that as Miss Chaworth was only a year or two older then he had better marry her. "What, Mr. Hanson", replied the well-read boy, "the Capulets and Montagues intermarry?" Mary Chaworth was the grand-niece of Lord William Chaworth, who had been killed in a duel with 'Wicked Jack' Byron, the poet's great-uncle, at the Star & Garter Club, London, in 1765. In 1803 Byron met Mary Chaworth again and became infatuated with her, spending much of the summer in her company. But it wasn't to be. She thought him a 'lame, bashful, boy lord', though Byron later wrote "Had I married Miss Chaworth perhaps the whole tenor of my life would have been different." Instead, Mary Chaworth was married in All Saints church to John Musters in 1805.
The unidentified, probably amateur, artist seems to be a highly competent architectural draughtsman.
[Ref: 16094] £320.00
The Black Rock near the Hot Wells Bristol.
S.Anstie del. Clark & Duborg sculp.
[n.d., printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1807.]
Sepia aquatint. 300 x 410mm. Neat old ink mss. in lower margin.
[Ref: 435] £230.00
Sneyd Park near Bristol.
S.Anstie del. Clark & Duborg sculp.
[n.d., printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1807.]
Sepia aquatint. 300 x 410mm. Neat old ink mss. in lower margin.
[Ref: 438] £230.00
Sherif D'Argyle. Lac Dow. Pres Inferary. Loch Dow. Near Inferary.
Dupressoir. Lith: de Kaeppelin, r. du Croissant, 20.
Paris, Publie par Kaeppelin, rue du Croissant, 20. London, published, by Chs. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. H.Hooper, 13, Pall Mall East [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, sheet 360 x 550mm. 14¼ x 21¾".
View of a Loch near Inveraray in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. A figure in Highland dress rests against a rock in the foreground while cattle graze near the water's edge.
From a series of Scottish views by French painter and lithographer François Joseph Dupressoir (1800 - 1859), published in London and Paris.
Numbered 'PL.12' upper right.
[Ref: 10634] £120.00
(£141.00 incl.VAT)