A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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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![[Two children with sheep]](jpegs/44009.jpg)
[Two children with sheep]
PLombart Academiae sculpsit et ex. cum Privil. Regis [c.1650]
Engraving, platemark 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Repaired tears to top margin.
Fine decorative engraving by Pierre Lombart (1613-82), French engraver who spent much of his career in London, admired particularly for his set of twelve countesses after Van Dyck.
[Ref: 44009] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
PLombart Academiae sculpsit et ex. cum Privil. Regis [c.1650]
Engraving, platemark 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Repaired tears to top margin.
Fine decorative engraving by Pierre Lombart (1613-82), French engraver who spent much of his career in London, admired particularly for his set of twelve countesses after Van Dyck.
[Ref: 44009] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Jeremy Taylor.]](jpegs/67026.jpg)
[Jeremy Taylor.]
[possibly after Pierre Lombart.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 175 x 150mm (7 x 6"). Repaired tear. Folds and creasing through image as normal.
Portrait of Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667), a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. The print depicts Taylor in clerical dress standing on a pedestal on which is written "Mercurius Christianus" and holding a book in his right hand. behind is a landscape with the figure of Christ in the clouds, a ray of light reaching Taylor lettered, "Ad te quacunque vocas dulcissime Jesu" (To you, wheresover, speaks the most sweet Jesus"). In the lower right, a devil emerges from the mouth of hell holding a candle and offering a bag of money to Taylor. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.
[Ref: 67026] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[possibly after Pierre Lombart.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 175 x 150mm (7 x 6"). Repaired tear. Folds and creasing through image as normal.
Portrait of Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667), a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. The print depicts Taylor in clerical dress standing on a pedestal on which is written "Mercurius Christianus" and holding a book in his right hand. behind is a landscape with the figure of Christ in the clouds, a ray of light reaching Taylor lettered, "Ad te quacunque vocas dulcissime Jesu" (To you, wheresover, speaks the most sweet Jesus"). In the lower right, a devil emerges from the mouth of hell holding a candle and offering a bag of money to Taylor. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.
[Ref: 67026] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sir Henry Wotton.]](jpegs/67022.jpg)
[Sir Henry Wotton.]
[After Pierre Lombart.] W.Dolle f.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 135 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Small margins.
Portrait of Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639), English author, diplomat, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg in 1604, he famously said "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country".
[Ref: 67022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[After Pierre Lombart.] W.Dolle f.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 135 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Small margins.
Portrait of Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639), English author, diplomat, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg in 1604, he famously said "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country".
[Ref: 67022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)