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![[Sir Edward Baines Junior.]](jpegs/67841.jpg)
[Sir Edward Baines Junior.]
[Drawn by C. A. Du Val.. Engraved by J. Stevenson. Printed by Brooker & Harrison.]
[Published by Thomas Agnew, Repository of Arts Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. London, April 21st. 1846.]
Mezzotint with stipple and engraving, proof before letters. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), with large margins.
Seated portrait of nonconformist newspaper publisher Edward Baines (1800-90). As a young journalist on the Leeds Mercury (owned by his father) he witnessed the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He became editor (1834) and proprietor (1848), and served as MP for Leeds from 1859 to 1874.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67841] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn by C. A. Du Val.. Engraved by J. Stevenson. Printed by Brooker & Harrison.]
[Published by Thomas Agnew, Repository of Arts Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. London, April 21st. 1846.]
Mezzotint with stipple and engraving, proof before letters. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), with large margins.
Seated portrait of nonconformist newspaper publisher Edward Baines (1800-90). As a young journalist on the Leeds Mercury (owned by his father) he witnessed the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He became editor (1834) and proprietor (1848), and served as MP for Leeds from 1859 to 1874.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67841] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
S.A. Bardsley, M.D. Late Senior Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and formerly Vice President of the Manchester Library and Philosophical Society.
C.A. Duval pinx.t J. Thomson sculp.t
Published by Thos. Agnew Repository of Arts, Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. Strand, London 1848.
Rare mezzotint and etching; Thomas Agnew publisher stamp on edge of lower plate.. Plate 451 x 355mm (17¾ x 14") with very large margins.
Portrait of Samuel Argent Bardsley; nearly whole length, seated in chair, to the right, holding closed book in lap, with legs crossed; books and ink pots on table to his left; in octagon. Dr Samuel Argent Bardsley (1764-1851), the English physician. He was elected physician to the Manchester Infirmary, a position he retained until August 1823, gaining during the thirty-three years great esteem as ‘the very model of an hospital physician.’ Dr. Bardsley published in 1800 ‘Critical Remarks on the Tragedy of Pizarro, with Observations on the subject of the Drama;’ and in 1807 a volume of ‘Medical Reports of Cases and Experiments, with Observations chiefly derived from Hospital practice; also an Enquiry into the Origin of Canine Madness, which detailed research and study on rabies.’ To the ‘Memoirs’ of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, of which he was a vice-president, he contributed in 1798 a paper on ‘Party Prejudice,’ and in 1803 one on ‘The Use and Abuse of Popular Sports and Exercises.’ An expert on rabies.
Wellcome 170
[Ref: 52501] £360.00
C.A. Duval pinx.t J. Thomson sculp.t
Published by Thos. Agnew Repository of Arts, Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. Strand, London 1848.
Rare mezzotint and etching; Thomas Agnew publisher stamp on edge of lower plate.. Plate 451 x 355mm (17¾ x 14") with very large margins.
Portrait of Samuel Argent Bardsley; nearly whole length, seated in chair, to the right, holding closed book in lap, with legs crossed; books and ink pots on table to his left; in octagon. Dr Samuel Argent Bardsley (1764-1851), the English physician. He was elected physician to the Manchester Infirmary, a position he retained until August 1823, gaining during the thirty-three years great esteem as ‘the very model of an hospital physician.’ Dr. Bardsley published in 1800 ‘Critical Remarks on the Tragedy of Pizarro, with Observations on the subject of the Drama;’ and in 1807 a volume of ‘Medical Reports of Cases and Experiments, with Observations chiefly derived from Hospital practice; also an Enquiry into the Origin of Canine Madness, which detailed research and study on rabies.’ To the ‘Memoirs’ of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, of which he was a vice-president, he contributed in 1798 a paper on ‘Party Prejudice,’ and in 1803 one on ‘The Use and Abuse of Popular Sports and Exercises.’ An expert on rabies.
Wellcome 170
[Ref: 52501] £360.00
John Bowring, L.L.D. Proof.
Drawn by C.A. Du Val. Engraved by J. Stephenson.
Published by Mess.rs Ackermann & Co. London and Tho.s Agnew, Repository of Arts, Manchester, Oct.r 21st 1844.
Mixed-method engraving. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), blind stamp of Agnew's Manchester, with large margins. Uncut. Foxing in margins
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), linguist and traveller, diplomatist and author; seated, looking to front, his left elbow on a table and wearing a dark coat, holding spectacles in his left hand. Bowring promoted reforms to the keeping of public accounts and obtained the issue of the florin as the first step towards a decimal system of currency. A friend of John Stuart Mill and editor of the radical 'Westminster Review'; after a varied career as journalist, poet, financial and economic expert, MP, traveller and diplomat, he became consul at Canton in 1847. He was later appointed plenipotentiary to China and governor, commander-in-chief and vice -admiral of Hong Kong.
[Ref: 46347] £360.00
Drawn by C.A. Du Val. Engraved by J. Stephenson.
Published by Mess.rs Ackermann & Co. London and Tho.s Agnew, Repository of Arts, Manchester, Oct.r 21st 1844.
Mixed-method engraving. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), blind stamp of Agnew's Manchester, with large margins. Uncut. Foxing in margins
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), linguist and traveller, diplomatist and author; seated, looking to front, his left elbow on a table and wearing a dark coat, holding spectacles in his left hand. Bowring promoted reforms to the keeping of public accounts and obtained the issue of the florin as the first step towards a decimal system of currency. A friend of John Stuart Mill and editor of the radical 'Westminster Review'; after a varied career as journalist, poet, financial and economic expert, MP, traveller and diplomat, he became consul at Canton in 1847. He was later appointed plenipotentiary to China and governor, commander-in-chief and vice -admiral of Hong Kong.
[Ref: 46347] £360.00
Richard Cobden Esq.re M.P. To All Free Traders, This Plate is respecyfully dedicatee by their Obliged and Obedient Servants, Stephenson & Agar.
Painted by C.A. Duval. Engraved by Ja.s Stephenson.
London, Published Sep.r 29th 1847 by Mess.rs Stephenson & Agar, at the Gallery of Arts, 104, King S.t Manchester, Paris, E. Gambart Hunin & Co.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 740 x 460mm (29 x 18"), with large margins.
Richard Cobden (1804-65), manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Ex Norman Blackburn collection. See 52552, 52551
[Ref: 52856] £320.00
Painted by C.A. Duval. Engraved by Ja.s Stephenson.
London, Published Sep.r 29th 1847 by Mess.rs Stephenson & Agar, at the Gallery of Arts, 104, King S.t Manchester, Paris, E. Gambart Hunin & Co.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 740 x 460mm (29 x 18"), with large margins.
Richard Cobden (1804-65), manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Ex Norman Blackburn collection. See 52552, 52551
[Ref: 52856] £320.00