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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.](jpegs/54044.jpg)
[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), with large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), with large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00
![[The bookseller Christopher Brown]](jpegs/69873.jpg)
[The bookseller Christopher Brown] [To the free and easy Counsellors under the Cauliflower, this portrait of Mr. Brown their worthy Secretary, is respectfully dedicated by their very humble Servant, Johannes Eckstein.]
Painted and Engraved by Johannes Eckstein.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate at sides, losing dedication at bottom.
Half-length portrait of the bookseller Christopher Brown (d.1807), wearing a dark coat with high collar, white cravat and a short brown wig. Brown worked for Longmans. The 'Counsellors under the Cauliflower' were a society that met in a room at the 'Three Pigeons' in Butcher Hall Lane, which had a cauliflower painted on the ceiling.
CS 1, the only print listed.
[Ref: 69873] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Painted and Engraved by Johannes Eckstein.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate at sides, losing dedication at bottom.
Half-length portrait of the bookseller Christopher Brown (d.1807), wearing a dark coat with high collar, white cravat and a short brown wig. Brown worked for Longmans. The 'Counsellors under the Cauliflower' were a society that met in a room at the 'Three Pigeons' in Butcher Hall Lane, which had a cauliflower painted on the ceiling.
CS 1, the only print listed.
[Ref: 69873] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Archibald Dalzel Esq.r Governor of Cape Coast Castle & its dependencies on the Coast of Africa.
Eckstein pinx.t. Heath sculp.
Published 12.th Aug.st 1799 by Laurie & Whittle N.º 53 Fleet Street London. [But later]
Stipple, 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"), with margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Archibald Dalzel (c.1740-c.1818), slave trader and governor of Whydah (Ouidah, Benin). In 1793 he wrote a history of Dahomy in which he claimed that raiding Dahomean villages for slaves was saving them from the greater evil of being human sacrifices. His daughter, Elizabeth Dickson (c.1793-1862), drew England's attention to the plight of White slaves in North Africa, leading to Lord Exmouth's bombarding of Algier and the release of 3,000 Christian slaves in 1826.
[Ref: 66308] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Eckstein pinx.t. Heath sculp.
Published 12.th Aug.st 1799 by Laurie & Whittle N.º 53 Fleet Street London. [But later]
Stipple, 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"), with margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Archibald Dalzel (c.1740-c.1818), slave trader and governor of Whydah (Ouidah, Benin). In 1793 he wrote a history of Dahomy in which he claimed that raiding Dahomean villages for slaves was saving them from the greater evil of being human sacrifices. His daughter, Elizabeth Dickson (c.1793-1862), drew England's attention to the plight of White slaves in North Africa, leading to Lord Exmouth's bombarding of Algier and the release of 3,000 Christian slaves in 1826.
[Ref: 66308] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
![[John Freeth and the Birmingham Book Club]. Birmingham Men of the Last Century.](jpegs/56870.jpg)
[John Freeth and the Birmingham Book Club]. Birmingham Men of the Last Century. From a fine Picture in the possession of Dugdale Houghton Esquire.
Painted by John Eckstein. W. Underwood Lith.
Published by T. Underwood, Castle St., Birmingham,
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"), with large margins.
A meeting of the Birmingham Book Club, at the Leicester Arms, a coffee house run by John Freeth (1731-1808), who was also a poet and songwriter under the pseudonym John Free. A book club and debating society, its members included Radicals, supporters of John Wilkes and Unitarians, causing its opponents to call it the Jacobin Club. It existed until at least 1964.
[Ref: 56870] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by John Eckstein. W. Underwood Lith.
Published by T. Underwood, Castle St., Birmingham,
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"), with large margins.
A meeting of the Birmingham Book Club, at the Leicester Arms, a coffee house run by John Freeth (1731-1808), who was also a poet and songwriter under the pseudonym John Free. A book club and debating society, its members included Radicals, supporters of John Wilkes and Unitarians, causing its opponents to call it the Jacobin Club. It existed until at least 1964.
[Ref: 56870] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Ralph Walker.
Eckstien del. Ridley, sculp.t.
Pub by Ja.s Asperne 32, Cornhill Dec.r 1, 1803.
Stipple. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") large margins. Edges spotted.
Ralph Walker (1749-1824), Scottish civil engineer. He was appointed resident engineer of the West India Docks in August 1799; engineer to the East India Docks Company (working with John Rennie) in 1803; engineer for the Surrey Commercial Docks Company in 1807; and engineer to the East London Waterworks Company, 1807-24.
[Ref: 43395] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Eckstien del. Ridley, sculp.t.
Pub by Ja.s Asperne 32, Cornhill Dec.r 1, 1803.
Stipple. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") large margins. Edges spotted.
Ralph Walker (1749-1824), Scottish civil engineer. He was appointed resident engineer of the West India Docks in August 1799; engineer to the East India Docks Company (working with John Rennie) in 1803; engineer for the Surrey Commercial Docks Company in 1807; and engineer to the East London Waterworks Company, 1807-24.
[Ref: 43395] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)