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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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John Broster Esqr. F.A.S. Edinburgh.
John Syme, pinxit. T. Hodgetts, fecit. Published (at the request of his pupils) from an original picture by Syme.
Sold by Archibald Constable & Co. and William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside & Pall Mall, London, Feby. 2nd. 1825. _ Price 10/6.
Mezzotint on india paper, first state before spectacles are erased from hand and engraved on nose. Image 180 x 145mm, 7 x 5¾". Lacking margins; surface rubbed, cut inside platemark.
Portrait of John Broster, inventor of system for removal of speech impediments; seated in an armchair, holding spectacles in his right hand, his left elbow resting on a book lettered with 'Art of Speaking', with papers below and other books lined up behind. Curtain in background, coat of arms at centre of inscription. After John Syme (1795 - 1861).
See BM Portraits p.252, 1. Wellcome 433. For other state item Ref: 27105.
[Ref: 27104] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Syme, pinxit. T. Hodgetts, fecit. Published (at the request of his pupils) from an original picture by Syme.
Sold by Archibald Constable & Co. and William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside & Pall Mall, London, Feby. 2nd. 1825. _ Price 10/6.
Mezzotint on india paper, first state before spectacles are erased from hand and engraved on nose. Image 180 x 145mm, 7 x 5¾". Lacking margins; surface rubbed, cut inside platemark.
Portrait of John Broster, inventor of system for removal of speech impediments; seated in an armchair, holding spectacles in his right hand, his left elbow resting on a book lettered with 'Art of Speaking', with papers below and other books lined up behind. Curtain in background, coat of arms at centre of inscription. After John Syme (1795 - 1861).
See BM Portraits p.252, 1. Wellcome 433. For other state item Ref: 27105.
[Ref: 27104] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Broster Esqr. F.A.S. Edinburgh.
John Syme, pinxit. T. Hodgetts, fect. Published (at the request of his pupils) from an original picture by Syme.
Sold by Archibald Constable & Co. and William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside & Pall Mall, London, Feby. 2nd. 1825 [or after]. _ Price 10/6.
Mezzotint on india paper, reworked state after spectacles erased from hand, and engraved on nose. The plate slightly reduced also. Image 175 x 130mm, 7 x 5¼". Lacking margins.
Portrait of John Broster, inventor of system for removal of speech impediments; seated in an armchair, looking to front, wearing spectacles, his left elbow resting on a book lettered with 'Art of Speaking', with papers below and other books lined up behind. Curtain in background, coat of arms at centre of inscription. After John Syme (1795 - 1861).
See BM Portraits p.252, 1. Wellcome 433. See item Ref: 27104.
[Ref: 27105] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Syme, pinxit. T. Hodgetts, fect. Published (at the request of his pupils) from an original picture by Syme.
Sold by Archibald Constable & Co. and William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside & Pall Mall, London, Feby. 2nd. 1825 [or after]. _ Price 10/6.
Mezzotint on india paper, reworked state after spectacles erased from hand, and engraved on nose. The plate slightly reduced also. Image 175 x 130mm, 7 x 5¼". Lacking margins.
Portrait of John Broster, inventor of system for removal of speech impediments; seated in an armchair, looking to front, wearing spectacles, his left elbow resting on a book lettered with 'Art of Speaking', with papers below and other books lined up behind. Curtain in background, coat of arms at centre of inscription. After John Syme (1795 - 1861).
See BM Portraits p.252, 1. Wellcome 433. See item Ref: 27104.
[Ref: 27105] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Robert Stevenson. Born in the City of Glasgow. From a Bust by Joseph placed in the library of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Drawn by J. Syme. Engraved by S. Bellin.
London. John Weale. MDCCCXXXIX [1839].
Rare mezzotint on steel. Sheet 150 x 130mm (6 x 5"). Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
An illustration of Samuel Joseph's bust of civil engineeer Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), commissioned in 1824 by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66390] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by J. Syme. Engraved by S. Bellin.
London. John Weale. MDCCCXXXIX [1839].
Rare mezzotint on steel. Sheet 150 x 130mm (6 x 5"). Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
An illustration of Samuel Joseph's bust of civil engineeer Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), commissioned in 1824 by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66390] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)