[Mock bank note] I Promise to Pay on Demand the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, more or less for any fine Drawings, or Execute Orders for Prints, Drawings, Ornaments &c & deliver them with Expedition to any part of the World, for Value received. By the Public's most Obed.t Serv.t R. Ackermann.
Girtin sculp.t 1 Lit. Newport St.t.
London, the 1. of Jan. 1803.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 220mm (5 x 8¾"). Some toning.
A trade card in the form of a mock banknote, for one of London's biggest publisher's, apparently published during the Peace of Amiens, when Europe reopened to the British Print Trade.
[Ref: 64111] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[The Late Benjamin Aislabie, Esq.r. Dedicated to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club by their obedient Servant W.H. Mason.]
[Painted and engraved by H.E. Dawe.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint, very scarce proof before letters. Sheet 360 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, small tear entering image taped.
A half-length portrait of Benjamin Aislabie (1774-1842), placing a book, ''M.C.C. Subscribers to Matches'', on a table, engraved by Dawe from his own painting of 1838 (still in the collection of the M.C.C.). A wine merchant and cricket administrator, Aislabie joined the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1802, becoming President in 1823 & acting as secretary from 1822 until his death. A large man, he averaged 3.15 runs in over 100 innings, taking only eight wickets, 1808-41. Towards the end of his careet he needed a substitute not only to run for him when batting but also to field. Despite his lack of skill he was very popular. In 1841, he took the MCC team to Rugby for the match celebrated in 'Tom Brown's School Days' by Thomas Hughes. O'D 19. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64346] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Althrop in the County of Northampton...]
[after Leonard Knyff.]
[n.d., c.1710.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 350 x 500mm (13¾ x 19¾"). Some wear, borders coloured.
A decorative view of Althrop House, after a view by Leonard Knuff which had been engraved by Johannes Kip for the 'Britannia Illustrata or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces as also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain'.
[Ref: 64119] £250.00
(£300.00 incl.VAT)
The British Museum.
Aug.s Butler, Delt & Lith. Stannard & Dixon Imp.
[London, printed & Pub.d April 25th 1853 by Stannard & Dixon, 7, Poland Street.]
Rare tinted lithograph with touches of hand colour. Sheet 320 x 480mm (12½ x 19"). Trimmed close to printed border on three sides, losing piblication line at bottom, tears through title repaired.
A view of Sir Robert Smirke's Greek Revival façade of the British Museum from Great Russell Street, published before the museum was fully open to the public.
[Ref: 63933] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Ape.]
[Edward Julius Detmold.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching with aquatint. In pencil bottom left "3rd" proof, 330 x 390mm (13 x 15¼"). Narrow margins top and bottom.
Two apes feeding. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64304] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
Petrus Apianus Binvitzius Astrologus.
[by Theodore de Bry.]
[n.d, c.1660.]
Engraving, printed on 17th century watermarked paper. 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Very small margins.
Portrait of Petrus Apianus (latinized from Peter Bienewitz) (1495 - 1552), German cartographer, astronomer & mathematician, in decorative border with insects and plants. His most famous works were his cordiform world map 'Tipus Orbis Universalis juxta Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes' of 1520, the 'Cosmographicus liber' of 1524 and the 'Astronomicum Caesareum' of 1540. From a later printing of Jean Jacques Boissard's 'Icones virorum illustrium' originally published 1597-8. Wellcome: 84 - not in.
[Ref: 64265] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[An Arab and his camel in the desert.]
[Edward Julius Detmold.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching. 205 x 430mm (8 x 17"). Platemark cracked, reinforced on reverse.
An Arab stands before this camel, rifle over his shoulder, looking down at something coming out of the ground. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking. An edition of 'The Arabian Nights' illustrated by Detmold was published in 1924. See V&A SP.215 for a reversed colour etching of the same subject.
[Ref: 64345] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Arabian Nights.]
E.J.D. imp; E.J. Detmold [pencil signatures].
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 200 x 240mm (8 x 9½"), with large margins.
A turbaned man is seated before his ox-cart, an arabesque citadel behind, waterlilies bottom right. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking. An edition of 'The Arabian Nights' illustrated by Detmold was published in 1924.
[Ref: 64341] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Aristoteles.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 145mm (7 x 5¾"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Aristotle, bust of a marble sculpture belonging to Fulvio Orsini. Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.
[Ref: 64281] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Athanasius I of Alexandria] Hanc Sancti Athanasii Magni Archiepiscopi Alexandriæ imaginem depingi curavit Andræas Thuetis, Cosmograph. Reg...
J.C. Böcklin Sculp [after André Thevet].
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, laid on the back of an 1809 portrait of William Wilberforce. Slightly time stained.
A full-length portrait of Athanasius I of Alexandria (c. 29-373), 20th patriarch of Alexandria. The text ascribes the portrait to André Thevet (1516-90): it is probably a copy of an illustration in Thevet's 'Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres', 1584.
[Ref: 64306] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
A Bagnigge Wells Scene, or No Resisting Temptation.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.º 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yars, London. Publish'd as the Act directs, 24 June 1780. But later.
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), large margins. Laid on card.
Two elaborately dressed woman walk in the grounds of Bagnigge Wells, one picking flowers. Behind as a swan-shaped fountain. Bagnigge Wells, situated on the King's Cross Road, London, was one of the most popular 18th-century pleasure gardens and a renowned hangout for prostitutes. BM Satires 4545.
[Ref: 64198] £380.00
[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Experience. No.55. to pay on demand for the Governor of the World the Sum of Five Pounds to any person who can find a better paper than the Paul Pry, or a greater fool than the bearer of this note.
For the Governor & Compy. Leukin Jones.
1839, Feb.y. 10.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½''). Trimmed.
A "Skit note" to advertise the weekly satirical paper "Paul Pry", the note "signed" by Leukin Jones, printer and publisher of the paper.
[Ref: 64241] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Fashion 1823. I promise to cut any Lady or Gentleman's hair Superior to any man in Europe, or forfeit on Demand the Sum of one hundred pounds, 1823 Oct.r 24, London, 24, Oct.r 1823.
For Self and Comp.a 46, Threadneedle St. and 13, Fleet St. J. Money.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½''). Trimmed.
A comic bank note issued by a hairdresser to persuade them to patronise his shop in Threadneedle Street.
[Ref: 64239] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Fashion 1823. I promise to cut any Lady or Gentleman's hair Superior to any man in Europe, or forfeit on Demand the Sum of one hundred pounds, 1823 Oct.r 24, London, 24, Oct.r 1823.
For Self and Comp.a 46, Threadneedle St. and 13, Fleet St. J. Money.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½''). Trimmed, time-stained. Creasing top left.
A comic bank note issued by a hairdresser to persuade them to patronise his shop in Threadneedle Street.
[Ref: 64238] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Economy. £50. Promise to pay on Demand the sum of fifty pounds if any Article purchased at Hulls Cheap & Fashionable Hat & Cap Warehouse. 38 South Street, Manchester Square, can be equaled at any Shop in London for the Price.
1827, August 18, London. For the Self and Comp.a. J.Hull.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed, some small tears and creasing.
A comic fifty pound bank note issued by Hulls Cheap & Fashionable Hat & Cap Warehouse.
[Ref: 64237] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
[Bank Note.] No. 2m 36, London 1800. In Pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the 40th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty entituled. "An Act to enable Sir George Pigot Baronet, Margeret Fisher, and Frances" Pigot to dispose of a certain Diamond therein mentioned by a Lottery." This Ticket entitles the bearer to a Chance of the Diamond specified in the said Act and now deposited in the Bank of England. Valued at 30,000. The Lottery being only for 24,000.
[London, 1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
[Ref: 64240] £250.00
(£300.00 incl.VAT)
His Majesty's Royal Banqueting House of Whitehal. London. 1713.
H.Terasson delin et sculp 1713.
[London: D.Mortier., 1713.]
Engraving. 420 x 570mm, large margins. A few small worm holes. Old ink numeral.
A view of the exterior of the Banquetting House, with the entrance to the Palace of Whitehall on the left. Cannons are set in the wall on the right. From 'Britannia Illustrata'.
[Ref: 63932] £360.00
Madame Banti.
Painted by J.Hopkins. Engraved by J.Singleton.
Published Feb.y. 15th, 1797, by J.Hopkins, No.27 King Street, Holborn, near Bloomsbury Square.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Cut to plate.
Portrait of Brigida Giorgi Banti (1759-1806) best known by her husband's surname and her stage-name, as Brigida Banti, was an Italian soprano.
[Ref: 64249] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[The Effigies of M. Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 355 x 210mm (14 x 8¼"). Trimmed into plate at top.
A half-length portrait of Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-73), within an architectural caprice. This is a copy of the frontispiece engraved by William Sherwin for the 1669 edition of 'The Regular Architect: or the General rule of the five orders of Architecture'.
[Ref: 64311] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The true Effigies of Bricius Bauderon D.r. of Physick Aetatis suae 78. [You see his Shadow and his outwards Looks...]
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Small mark on lower right.
Portrait of French physician Brice Bauderon, half-length, turned to right, looking towards the viewer, holding a flower in his left hand. Bauderon was born in Paray-le-Monial in Charolais in 1540 and died in Mâcon in 1623. He was the father of Gratien Bauderon (1583–1615).
[Ref: 64136] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Hector Berlioz.]
A. Legros [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching, signed in pencil by the artist. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-69), French Romantic composer and conductor.
[Ref: 64040] £320.00
[Richard Bernard.] Vera Effigies Rich.d. Bernard, vigilantif, simi Pastoris de Batcombe Somset: A: 1641.
W.Hollar: Bohem, as viuum del: Londini.
[n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. Sheet 160 x 110,mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at corners.
Portrait of Richard Bernard (1568 - 1641), English Puritan clergyman and writer. Pennington 1363 only state.
[Ref: 64283] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[The Berners Street hoax.]
by J.A. Atkinson [ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Fine ink and watercolour wash. 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed into image.
A satirical sketch of the Berniers Street hoax of 1810, when Theodore Hook made a bet to make the address the most talked about in London. He sent out out thousands of letters in the name of resident Mrs Tottenham, ordering services and goods, including sweeps and over a dozen pianos, bringing the area to a standstill. He won one guinea.
[Ref: 64319] £450.00
[The first 'Big Ben'] The Largest Bell in England, Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, By Order of her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, for the Clock Tower of the New Palace at Westminster, 1856.
[1856.]
Wood-engraved admission ticket on card, unused. Sheet 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Old ink mss on top edge, a few spots, mounted on album paper with newspaper clippings, one showing the same image. One print has come away from the album paper.
A ticket to see the first 'Big Ben' bell, shown on the ground with two men added for perspective. The bell cracked during testing so never reached the Clock Tower.
[Ref: 64289] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
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A Bloomer - one that will ''go ahead''.
[n.d., c.1851].
Writing sheets, 4pp. with a coloured lithographic front cover. Cover 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Some creasing, small tear.
A woman woman wearing bloomers races her cart down a street, with her male passenger losing his top hat. A rare satire of the introduction of 'bloomers', loose Turkish-style trousers for women. More comfortable than the stiff pettycoats and long skirts of the period, they came to be seen as symbols of feminist reform. Driving past shop front "The transatlantic express". An early feminist image.
[Ref: 64181] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
A View of the Foundling Hospital. Vue d'Hopital des Enfants Trouves.
L.P. Boitard Delin. Parr sculpt.
Published 12.th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleeet Street, London.
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"), with large margins. Slight oxidation of colour at edges.
The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 in London, north of Great Ormond Street and west of Gray's Inn Lane, by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the 'education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children.' The plate engraved by Nathaniel Parr (fl.1723 - 1760) after Louis Philippe Boitard (1733 - 1767; fl.) in 1753.
[Ref: 64327] £320.00
Napoléon 1er Empereur des Français, Roi d'Italie.
Dessine a Berlin. Grave par F.P.Simon a Paris. [After Jean François Garneray.]
1807.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 245 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Napoléon I as Emperor.
[Ref: 64275] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
First Consul Bonaparte. From an Original Drawing, taken at the Military Levee, in the Palace of the Tuilleries, Paris, Thursday Sept, 2. 1802. [A facsimile of Bonaparte's signature.]
By Edw.d. Dan.l. Clarke. Esq.r MA. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; and Engraved by P.W.Tomkins.
London: Published as the Act directs April: 1803, by P.W.Tomkins, 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾").
Silhouette portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte as First Consul.
[Ref: 64274] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Temple of the Muses. An interior view of the extensive Library of Lackington, Allen & Co. Finsbury Square, London where above Half a Million Volumes are constantly on Sale.
[German, c.1810.]
Etching. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Crease on right, small margins and backed onto card at margins.
An advertisement for the first ‘cash bookseller', probably from the periodical 'London und Paris'. James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793. See James Lackington's portrait, ref 10495.
[Ref: 64247] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Pierre Borel] PetriBorelli. Historiarun et Observationum, Medicophysicarun, CenturiæN.
[n.d., c.1653.]
Engraving. 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Nick into image on left.
Portrait of Pierre Borel (1620-71), doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier and physician to Louis XIV. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 64159] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
Leonardi Botalli. Opera OMNIA.
[P. Philippe sculp]
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3 ¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Leonardo Botallo or Leonardi Botalli Astensis in Latin (1530-87), Italian anatomist who is remembered in the eponymous foramen Botalli which allows blood in the fetal heart of humans to move from the left to the right atrium and the ductus Botalli connecting the pulmonary artery to the proximal descending aorta although both are now thought to be incorrectly attributed to him as these were added in posthumous editions of his work. He published several treatises including De curandis vulneribus sclopettorum (1560) which examined gunshot wounds and questioned the contemporary theory that gunshot wounds were to be treated as if they were poisoned.
[Ref: 64160] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Brighton Brighthelmston Chain Pier Company.] Brighthelmston Suspension Pier Company, Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1822.
1st July 1848.
Engraved billhead, watermark, . Sheet 265 x 140mm (10¼ x 5½"). Some creases, time-staining and very small tears on edge.
The Royal Suspension Chain Pier was the first major pier built in Brighton. Receipt of payment for the sum of Three Pounds to Edward Comford Esq. in ink verso.
[Ref: 64254] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[British Empire Exhibition] Wembley 1925.
[1925.]
Scarce wood-engraving on linen, printed in cerise with touches of blue and yellow. 655 x 710mm (25¾ x 28"). Some faint staining, mounted on board, '1925' faded?
A souvenir from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-5, celebrating the Commonwealth. A central image of a Mughal palace is surrounded by roundels containing portraits of the Royal Family (George V & Queen Mary; Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII; and the Duke & Duchess of York, later George VIII & Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) and views representing Australia, Canada, West Africa, India, South Africa & Hong King.
[Ref: 63924] £480.00
Design for the Northern Approach to the British Museum.
Chas FitzRoy Doll RBA Arch.t.
[n.d., c.1911.]
Pen & ink, pencil & watercolour. Sheet 440 x 680mm (17¼ x 26¾"). Laid on card, chips to edges.
A very impressive architect's visualisation of his plan for the development of Bloomsbury between Torrington Square and the British Museum, with terraces designed in ''Flemish Franco-Gothic'' style in 1907. Chas FitzRoy Doll (1850-1929) was appointed Surveyor to the Bedford Estates in Bloomsbury and Covent Garden in 1885. He built the Russell Hotel and the Imperial Hotel, both Russell Square in 1898 & 1905.
[Ref: 63935] £750.00
Mrs Elizabeth Brownrigg.
Published according to the Act of Parliament Septr. 17, 1767.
Very rare etching. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Small stain top left.
Portrait of Elizabeth Brownrigg (c. 1720 - 1767), 18th-century English murderer. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds. As a result of witness testimony and medical evidence at her trial, Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn on 14 September 1767.
[Ref: 64235] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Portraits de Brunswick. Il n'est pass aussi terrible qu'il veut le paraître. Ah! c'est bien lui ... je le reconnois.
à paris chéz Martinet [n.d., 1806].
Coloured etching. 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Slight surface soiling.
A pair of contrasting caricature portraits of Charles William Ferdinand (1735-1806), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a general in the Prussian army. In the first he is depicted as a lion, in uniform with an unsheathed sword, holding the Brunswick Manifesto of 1792, in which he threatened dire consequences if the French royal family were harmed. In the second he is a donkey begging the French cockeral for mercy, referring to the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt on 14 October 1806. Mortally wounded at the battle, the Duke died a month later. BM 1868,0808.7497.
[Ref: 64123] £320.00
Nicholas Byfield. [Minister sometimes of the City of Chester...]
Pub.d. July 30 1790 by W.Richardson, Strand.
Stipple and line engraving. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Nicholas Byfield (1579 - 1622), English clergyman who was a leading preacher of the reign of James I. He died on Sunday, 8 September 1622. The following day a surgeon removed from his body a stone which weighed 35 ounces; William Gouge was present at the autopsy.
[Ref: 64155] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Admiral Byron.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed into plated and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Vice-Admiral John Byron (1723 - 1786), British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the press because of his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. He fought in battles in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. He rose to Vice Admiral of the White before his death in 1786. His grandsons include the poet Lord Byron and George Anson Byron, admiral and explorer, who were the 6th and 7th Baron Byron, respectively.
[Ref: 64145] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
[Camberwell Grammar School] To M.r Tho.s Jephson at Camberwell, This Print is dedicated by his Scholars as a grateful Tribute of their Rememberance.
J. Drummond Erskine Esq.r del.t. W. Bromley sculp.t.
[London, Published Nov.r 20th 1795, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet St.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 395 x 460mm (15½ x 18"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, lacking top right corner, repaired tears, laid on album paper.
A view of the pupils of the Camberwell Grammar School at play, with hoops, spinning tops and marbles.
[Ref: 63936] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Camel train at an oasis.]
[Edward Julius Detmold.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching on india paper. 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"), with large margins. Edges taped.
Laden camels standing at an oasis, two in water. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking. An edition of 'The Arabian Nights' illustrated by Detmold was published in 1924.
[Ref: 64344] £380.00
[The Captive.]
E.J.D. imp. E.J. Detmold. [all pencil.]
[1923.]
Etching on india paper, printed by the artist, unfinished proof. 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A superb impression of this fantastic image of an eagle perched on a rock with a middle eastern city in the background with the temple to the left. To the right can be seen two camels seated with the city walls and mountains in the background. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64301] £600.00
[The Captive.]
[Edward Julius Detmold.]
[1923.]
Etching on india paper, unfinished proof. 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A fantastic image of an eagle perched on a rock with a middle eastern city in the background with the temple to the left. To the right can be seen two camels seated with the city walls and mountains in the background. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64302] £600.00
[The Captive.]
E.J. Detmold. [pencil signature.]
[1923.]
Etching, signed by the artist, published edition of 100 proofs. 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A fantastic image of an eagle perched on a rock with a middle eastern city in the background with the temple to the left. To the right can be seen two camels seated with the city walls and mountains in the background. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64303] £850.00
Carisbrooke Castle. I. of W.
Drawn with Alum Bay Sand. By E.d. Dore, Newport, I of W, 1845.
Rare sand painting on card, ink title. Card 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½'').
A view of Carisbrooke Castle from the gateway, made out of coloured Isle of Wight sand.
[Ref: 64245] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Four watercolours of the environs of Carlingford Lough.] Narrow-water House, Warrenpoint, The Seat of Roger Hall Esq. [&] View from Narrow-water House, Warrenpoint. [&] View from Cloon-Eavin Bathing Place, near Rosstrevor. [&] View from Cloon-Eavin, near Rosstrevor.
R. Emerson.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Four extremely rare & fine watercolours, each 170 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"), titled on mount.
Four views of properties on the north side of Carlingford Lough; Narrow Water House and castle, and Cloon-Eavin. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 64320] £950.00
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S. Cæcilia.
S. à Bolfwert fecit Martinus vanden Enden excud.
[n.d., c.1600.]
Engraving. 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Backed onto album paper, some time-staining.
Portrait of Saint Cecilia, Roman Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia "sang in her heart to the Lord". Musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast, on 22 November, is the occasion of concerts and musical festivals. She is also known as Cecilia of Rome.
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[Dedication Leaf.] GEORGUS III D.G.MAGN. BRIT.FR.ET.HIB.REX.
G.B. Cipriani del: F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
[From A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, London 1772, by Sir William Chambers.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed to plate.
Dedication leaf from A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, London 1772, by Sir William Chambers, (1723 - 1796), Swedish-Scottish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy. DeV 2415
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[Modes of worship in China.]
[after Johann Nieuhoff.]
[London: John Obilby, 1670.]
Engraving. 290 x 355mm (11½ x 14") very large margins. Repaired splits in central fold.
Two scenes of the Chinese at worship, from Johann Nieuhoff's account of the Dutch embassy to China, as published in Ogilby's English edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
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[Billhead.] Charles Frodsham. [Chronometer Maker. Clock Maker to the Queen, successor to Arnold, A.D. 1843, and to B.L.Vulliamy, Pall Mall, 1854, 84, Strand, Corner of Cecil Street, London...]
[September 30, 1859.]
Letterpress with ink Mss. Sheet 205 x 170mm (8 x 6¾"). Some creases, trimmed into plate.
Receipt for payment of £52.11, on the 30th September 1854 to Edward Herries Esquise.
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Anacharsis Cloots. Né le 24 juin 1755, Orateur du genre Humain, à l'Assemblée Nationale, l'An 1er de la Liberte Française.
Dess, et Grave avec le Phisionotrace par Quenedey.
[n.d., c.1792.] A Paris au Bureau du cercle Social, rue du Theatre Francais No.4.
Aquatint. Sheet 115 x 170mm (4½ x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots (1755 - 1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution. Perhaps the first to advocate a world parliament, long before Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, he was a world federalist and an internationalist anarchist.
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