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Effigies R. P. Lanceloti Andrewes Episcopi Wintoniensis. See heer a Shadow from that setting Sunne,/ Whose glorious course through this Horizon runn/ Left the dimm face of our dull Hemisphere,/ All one great Eye all drown'd in one great Teare./ Whose rare industrious Soule led his free thought/ Through Learning's Universe, and (vainly) soughy/ Room for her spacious Self; untill at length/ She found y.e way home: with an holy strength/ Snatch't herself hence to Heav'n; fill'd a bright place/ 'Midst those immortal Fires, and on the face/ Of her Great Maker, fixt a flaming eye,/ Where still she reads true, pure Divinitie./ And now y.t grave Aspect hath deign'd to shrink/ Into this lesse appearance. If you think/ 'Tis but a dead face, Art doth heer bequeath/ Look at the following leaves & see him breath.
John Payne fecit.
Are to be sold by R. Badger dwelling at Stationers Hall 1635
Fine engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Trimmed to image. Sheet in fragile condition with two tears to the top and right edges.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was an English bishop and scholar. He was well respected in his community and often had royal audiences. A highlight of his career was his involvment in the translation of the king James Bible.
[Ref: 53750] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Payne fecit.
Are to be sold by R. Badger dwelling at Stationers Hall 1635
Fine engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Trimmed to image. Sheet in fragile condition with two tears to the top and right edges.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was an English bishop and scholar. He was well respected in his community and often had royal audiences. A highlight of his career was his involvment in the translation of the king James Bible.
[Ref: 53750] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Soveraigne of the Seas builte in the Yeare 1637.]](jpegs/55462.jpg)
[The Soveraigne of the Seas builte in the Yeare 1637.]
Thomas Jenner [scratched in plate] [after John Payne].
Thomas Jenner feicet 1653
Rare etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, losing title at top.
Extremely scare & wonderful image, a survivor of the 17th century. A portrait of 'The Sovereign of the Seas', one of the biggest warships of the Stuart navy, ordered by Charles I as part of the arms race with the Dutch and paid for with the notorious 'Ship Money' tax that made Charles so unpopular. This is a reduced copy of a two-sheet engraving by John Payne, published as a propaganda piece c.1638, with added key letters (key not present). Built by Peter Pett and launched in 1637, the 'Sovereign of the Seas' had 102 guns as specified by Royal command, but soon after she entered service the number was cut to make her faster and safer. The diarist John Evelyn described her as 'a monstrous vessel ... being for burthen, defense and ornament the richest that ever spread cloth before the wind'. During the Commonwealth she was renamed, first 'Commonwealth' then 'Sovereign', before being made the 'Royal Sovereign' on the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. She survived the three Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Nine Years' War with the French only to burn while laid up at Chatham in 1697.
BM 1881,0611.274, also trimmed and damaged; see 1854,0614.252 for Payne's original. Not in Hind.
[Ref: 55462] £1,350.00
Thomas Jenner [scratched in plate] [after John Payne].
Thomas Jenner feicet 1653
Rare etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, losing title at top.
Extremely scare & wonderful image, a survivor of the 17th century. A portrait of 'The Sovereign of the Seas', one of the biggest warships of the Stuart navy, ordered by Charles I as part of the arms race with the Dutch and paid for with the notorious 'Ship Money' tax that made Charles so unpopular. This is a reduced copy of a two-sheet engraving by John Payne, published as a propaganda piece c.1638, with added key letters (key not present). Built by Peter Pett and launched in 1637, the 'Sovereign of the Seas' had 102 guns as specified by Royal command, but soon after she entered service the number was cut to make her faster and safer. The diarist John Evelyn described her as 'a monstrous vessel ... being for burthen, defense and ornament the richest that ever spread cloth before the wind'. During the Commonwealth she was renamed, first 'Commonwealth' then 'Sovereign', before being made the 'Royal Sovereign' on the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. She survived the three Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Nine Years' War with the French only to burn while laid up at Chatham in 1697.
BM 1881,0611.274, also trimmed and damaged; see 1854,0614.252 for Payne's original. Not in Hind.
[Ref: 55462] £1,350.00
![[Elizabeth Stanley] Vera Fffigies Dominæ Elizabethæ nuper Comitissæ Huntingdon.](jpegs/52590.jpg)
[Elizabeth Stanley] Vera Fffigies Dominæ Elizabethæ nuper Comitissæ Huntingdon.
[after John Payne.]
Published Jan.y 1802 by W.m Richardson, York House, No 31 Strand.
Engraving. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Portrait of Elizabeth Stanley (1588-1633), Countess of Huntingdon. As the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Henry VII's sister, she was considered third in line to Elizabeth I's throne (behind her two older sisters). However they were passed over in favour of James I & VI, against the terms of Henry VIII's will, which specifically barred the Scottish descendents of Henry's older sister Margaret. This plate is a copy of the frontispiece portrait to her funeral sermon, 'A sermon preached at Ashby-de-la-zouch' by ''F.J.'' (1635).
[Ref: 52590] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[after John Payne.]
Published Jan.y 1802 by W.m Richardson, York House, No 31 Strand.
Engraving. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Portrait of Elizabeth Stanley (1588-1633), Countess of Huntingdon. As the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Henry VII's sister, she was considered third in line to Elizabeth I's throne (behind her two older sisters). However they were passed over in favour of James I & VI, against the terms of Henry VIII's will, which specifically barred the Scottish descendents of Henry's older sister Margaret. This plate is a copy of the frontispiece portrait to her funeral sermon, 'A sermon preached at Ashby-de-la-zouch' by ''F.J.'' (1635).
[Ref: 52590] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)