The Prevailing Candidate, or the Election carried by Bribery and the Devil. Here's a Minion sent down to a Corporate Town ...
[n.d. c.1722] [But later]
Scarce engraving, 165 x 180mm (6½ x 7"), with large margins. Worm holes. Surface dirt.
Satire on the 1722 general election. A grand room with two long windows and a pier glass in the middle; a screen with seven folds is located to the left of this. Three men are visible on the right, one of whom is holding an office staff. They are reflected in the glass behind the screen. A candidate for office approaches a voter from the left side of the screen, taking him by the right hand while placing a purse in the man's pocket with his left. The voter, whose leg is chained, is described in the verses as a corporation member in a borough where only members of that kind could cast ballots. A clergyman standing in a doorway assures his wife that "bribery no sin." The voter is touched on the shoulder by the devil, who is hovering over the candidate and carrying a blank scroll. One of the two boys in the front, who is holding a wooden shoe—a representation of the repressive French regime—points to the transaction. The screen itself has small stars all over it. At the top are the names of several acts that the previous government passed, along with the years 1715–1722, written on seven folds: "Quarantine Act.../South Sea Act/Act to indemnify S.S. V[illai]ns/Part of ye Succession Act repeal'd/Septennial Act." BM Satires 1717.
[Ref: 67306] £180.00
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Wants a Situation. A Respectable Middle Aged Man wants a Place in some Law Office the Exchequer would be Prefer'd_ He can speak French & has no objection to make himself generally Useful...
H.B.
Published by G.S. Tregear, 96 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼''). Trimmed to printed border.
Henry Brougham (1778-1868), stands outside a Registry Office looking at a notice board of menial jobs. In the background a streetseller holds a placard, 'Hall of Information, Strand.' In November 1834 Brougham enraged the King by taking the Great Seal across the Scottish border and indulged in uncharacteristic extravagances. Dismissed and desperate to return to power, he offered to become a judge without any pay beyond his ex-Lord Chancellor's pension. See also [Ref: 50467]
[Ref: 67296] £160.00
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The Duke of Queensbury & Dover presenting the Act of Union to Queen Ann.
Hamilton delin. A.W.Warren sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs September 3; 1803 by J. Stratford N.o.112 Holborn Hill.
Engraving. 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), with large margins. Some spotting.
An interior scene in which Queen Anne (1665-1714), who sits on the throne, is presented with the Acts of Union, signed 1st May 1707, which united Scotland and England and formed Great Britain. From Lyttleton's 'History of England'.
[Ref: 67071] £65.00
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[India] [J.P. Addenbrook] To General Sir W.m Augustus Pitt, K.B. This Portrait of J.P. Addenbrook, Esq.r is, with Permission, dedicated by his most obedient Servant W.W. Barney.
Katherine Bell pinxit. W. Barney sculp.t.
Published, Jan.y 1 1805, by W. Barney, No. 3, Little George St. Westm.r.
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate, creased.
A half length portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat. The BM describes him as 'Major of the 54th Foot; MP for Berwick; Director of the East India Company', with dates 1764/5-1820. However his name does not appear in any list of Berwick-on-Tweed MPs or E.I.C. directors. A 'John Paul Addenbrooke' was a major in the 54th: his dates are 1753-1821) and his career included being Gentleman Usher to Queen Charlotte & Equerry to Princess Charlotte. Not in CS. BM 2010,7081.2241. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67153] £240.00
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[The Grammar School, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.]
[Henry Dary.]
[n.d, c.1880.]
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 280 x 445mm (11 x 17½"). Repaired tear in sky, mounted over image. Unexamined out of frame.
A cricket game in progress in the grounds of a country house by a river.
[Ref: 67055] £490.00
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Dupre Earl of Caledon, K.P.
Painted by R.Rothwell, Esq.r. Engraved by C.Turner, A.R.A.
London Published March 24th 1840, for the Proprietor by Mr.Turner, Nº50, Warren St, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. Sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed and backed onto thick paper. Some foxing.
Portrait of Colonel Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777 - 1839), Irish politician, militia officer and colonial administrator who was the second child and only son of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon. In July 1806 he was appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in what is now South Africa. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Whitman: 89
[Ref: 67240] £160.00
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[Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst] L-d Am-t on duty If I had Power, I’d kill 20 in an Hour.
Pub accg to act June 12. 1780 by M Darly 39 Strand.
Finely hand-coloured rare etching, 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"), with large margins. Few small brown stains.
Satire on the Gordon Riots in 1780. Lord Amherst (1717-97) in profile on horseback, wearing a general’s uniform and brandishing a bloodied sword with two geese as his victims, one lying dead, the other wounded. Behind him, red-coated soldiers on horseback emerge through smoke, while to the left a large house blazes with flames pouring from its windows. BM Satires 5682.
[Ref: 67301] £360.00
[The Shepherds Pool, River Orchy].
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil] .
[n.d., 1930.]
Drypoint etching. 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 8¾"), large margins.
An angler waist-deep in the River Orchy, a tribuary of Loch Awe in the Western Highlands of Scotland. Wilkinson (1878-1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 67164] £320.00
A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affiliated friends.
[After Thomas Rowlandson]
Publish'd February 1st 1799 by [Wright's name erased] for the Anti Jacobin Review. by J Whittle Peterborough Court Fleet Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 305 x 460mm (12¼ x 18"). Trimmed within plate. Vertical crease as normal in centre where previously folded.
Satirical illustration from the ‘Anti-Jacobin Review’ (vol. ii, frontispiece) depicts a chaotic, hellish scene titled the Cave of Despair, where radical political figures are shown as demonic conspirators. A divine light from above drives away evil, symbolizing divine intervention against revolution and sedition. Three robed figures (wizards) prepare a grotesque potion in a cauldron inscribed with names and symbols of rebellion, such as Kosciuszko’s blade (1746-1817) and Fox’s (1749-1806) fur, while the Devil and a monster watch approvingly. Pamphlets promoting radical ideas like atheism, sedition, and insurrection fuel the flames beneath the cauldron, added by figures like Horne Tooke (1736-1812). A grim procession of opposition politicians, including Fox, Erskine (1750-1823), Tierney (1761-1830), and Thelwall (1764-1834), file into the cave, each uttering phrases of regret or defiance. Above them, the King (1738-1820) and ministers like Pitt (1759-1806) and Grenville (1759-1834) appear in divine light, symbolizing order and justice. Meanwhile, defeated demons including Robespierre (1758-94) and Voltaire (1694-1778) flee, and an ape dressed as a newsboy (symbolizing the radical press) sounds his horn, spreading seditious ideas. The scene is a visual condemnation of revolutionary ideology, radical journalism, and political opposition, portraying them as part of a satanic conspiracy against Britain. BM Satires 9345.
[Ref: 67299] £320.00
Attilius Ariosti Bononiensis.
E. Seeman Jun.r pinx. ISimon fecit 1719.
Scarce mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate. Creasing.
A three-quarter portrait of composer Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729), seated with his elbow resting on a harpsichord and his left hand on a viola d'amore. Ariosti was born in Bologna, but worked all over Europe, including Berlin, Venice, Paris & London, where he shared the directorship of the Royal Academy of Music with Handel and Bononcini. This portrait stresses that his favorite instrument was the viola d'amore. CS 18. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67446] £380.00
D.r Arne.
Painted by R. Dunkarton. Engraved by W. Humphrey.
[London, Pub'd 19 Jan.y 1778, by W. Humphrey, No.70 S.t Martins Lane.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 365 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, losing publication line at bottom.
A half-length portrait of composer Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), holding sheet music. Famed for the patriotic song, 'Rule, Britannia!', he is buried at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden. CS: 1, iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67132] £320.00
Arts & Sciences. Plate III.
[Robert Seymour]
London. Published by Thomas M.cLean. 26. Haymarket. July 1.st 1829.
Fine hand-coloured etching, 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A series of comic scenes shows Pickle’s brief and disastrous experiments with various fashionable pursuits. First, he becomes an antiquary, seated in a mock-Gothic room cluttered with worthless trinkets. Wearing a dressing gown, he admires a broken medallion portrait offered by a slick salesman who insists he’s giving Pickle a bargain for ''one little dirty pound.'' Next, Pickle takes up music. Relaxing by the fire in his dressing gown, he enthusiastically blows a French horn, unaware of the furious neighbour in a nightshirt standing at the door. The man complains that his entire household has been kept awake for hours by the dreadful noise. Trying something new, Pickle experiments with ballooning, only to fall from the sky into the Thames. A boatman catches hold of the rope dangling from the balloon, while a rustic on the riverbank waits with a pitchfork to assist the unlucky aeronaut. He then turns to painting, depicting a woman who soon recognizes herself in an unflattering caricature. Enraged, she overturns his easel, scatters his paints, and jabs her umbrella into the portrait, shouting that she’ll teach him not to make a joke of her. Next, Pickle tries his hand at poetry. In nightcap and dressing gown, he sits at his desk muttering helplessly over a rhyme for ''azure,'' finally giving up in exasperation. Finally, his attempt at chemistry ends in chaos. An experiment bursts into flames, setting the room and the cat’s tail on fire. As smoke and sparks fill the air, Pickle runs about shouting for help. Bm Satires 15988.
[Ref: 67477] £240.00
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[As You Like It] The Seven Ages of Man.
Published by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street. [n.d. c.1827]
Very fine hand-coloured etching, 220 x 380mm (8¾ x 15"), with large margins Tears in edges of paper. Surface dirt and light staining in margins.
Satirical scenes illustratrating Shakespeare's famous monologue from 'As You Like It.' The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
[Ref: 67498] £320.00
[Francis Atterbury] The Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp & Mag. Brit. Bart.ts pinx. 1718.
J. Simon fec et ex. [n.d. c.1720].
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Surface rubbing. Bit messy. Small margins. Repaired tear left margin.
Francis Atterbury (1662 - 1732), Bishop of Rochester, was deprived of his offices in 1723 for corresponding with James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender). The letterpress relates to the Lords' passing of the bill of pains and penalties against Atterbury. CS: 19. Sharpe 279. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67213] £220.00
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[Francis Atterbury] The Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp & Mag. Brit. Bart.ts pinx. 1718.
J. Simon fec et ex. [n.d. c.1720].
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins.
Francis Atterbury (1662 - 1732), Bishop of Rochester, was deprived of his offices in 1723 for corresponding with James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender). The letterpress relates to the Lords' passing of the bill of pains and penalties against Atterbury. CS: 19. Sharpe 279. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67212] £220.00
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The Children of their Royal Highnesses Frederick & Augusta, Prince & Princess of Wales. Princess Elizabeth Born 30 Dec.r 1740. Princess Augusta Born 1 Aug. 1737 and Prince Henry Born 27 Oct.r 1745.
T. Ryley fecit [after Barthelemy Dupan].
[London: Thomas Jefferys & William Herbert, n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 340mm (9¾ x 13¼"). Trimmed into image on three sides, central fold, repairs.
A group portait in a garden, with Elizabeth in a small carriage drawn by a dog on the left and Augusta holding the baby Henry. Dupan's original painting also included Princes George, Edward and William Henry, but they were separated for another print (see ref 67127). CS 8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67128] £260.00
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Australia with the Latest Discoveries, Exhibiting The New Settlement, with the Adjacent Countries.
[London: William Darton?, c.1832.]
Scarce engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"). Bottom left corner restored, creases.
A map of Australia with the detail limited to around the coastline. See National Library of Australia Bib ID: 3536248 for an example with Darton's imprint.
[Ref: 67178] £280.00
[The Back-gammon Players.]
Geraats pinx.t. W.Baillie Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Small margins.
A scene depicting three men and a woman in medieval dress gathered around a table playing a game of backgammon. Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67491] £180.00
Air-um Scare-um Travelling.
George Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾").
A satirical scene depicting balloon travel. Balloons and their passengers fill the sky, a tower on the right advertises excursions to Paris, Mont Blanc, Pekin & Canton.
[Ref: 67100] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Timpoochee Barnard. An Uchee Warrior.
[after Hery Inman] Drawn, Printed & Coloured at I.T.Bowens Lithographic Establishment Nº94 Walnut St.
[1836.] Published by F.W.Greenough, Philad.
Very fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Loss in bottom right corner.
Portrait of Timpoochee Barnard (c.1783- c.1841), chief of the Yuchi Indians, a constituent tribe of the Creek Nation, and served as a member of the Creek National Council. His father was Timothy Barnard, a well-known and highly respected trader to the Creek Nation who also served as interpreter for U. S. agent Benjamin Hawkins.
[Ref: 67224] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Baron House Academy, Mitcham.
Drawn by M.r Dilke. Engraved by J. Hassell.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Scarce aquatint. Framed, sight size 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Unexamined out of framed.
The grounds of a school with boys playing cricket and flying a kite.
[Ref: 67034] £320.00
Bartholomew Fair, 1721.
Published as the Act directs by J. F. Setchel, 23, King-Street, Covent-Garden [1824].
Fan leaf: etching and aquatint. 290 x 560mm (11½ x 22"). with letterpress descriptive label. Trimmed to plate on left, repairs to folds.
Scarce & fine Fan leaf showing London's famous Bartholomew Fair and its diverse entertainments, with numerous street sellers, performers and booths. Of interest are the early big wheel and a peep show of the Siege of Gibraltar. Published by bookseller and stationer John Frederick Setchel (1774 - 1846).
[Ref: 67448] £680.00
Bath. From Beacon Hill.
Drawn by J. Syer, _ G. Hawkins lith. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
Published by W.m Everitt, City Repository of Arts 1 Pulteney Bridge Bath. [n.d., c.1850.]
Sepia tinted lithograph. 275 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Repaired tear, surface soiling.
A view looking down on the city from the north. An artist, probably a self-portrait of John Syer (1815-85), sits in the foreground, sketching.
[Ref: 67134] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Bear] Polnish: Bär aus van Akens Menagerie.
Klein fec: München 1844.
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾"), with large margins. Tears in margins repaired, faint damp stain.
A brown bear wearing collar and chain, playing with a ball. Johann Adam Klein (1792-1875) of Nuremberg.
[Ref: 67419] £140.00
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Lieut. General Lord Beresford, K.B. Marshall & Commander of the Portuguese Army.
Painted by Sir W.m Beechey, Painter to Her Majesty. Engraved by C.Turner Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
London, Published Sept.r 21st 1814, for the proprietor, Nº50 Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
Portrait of William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, (1768 - 1854), British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67225] £360.00
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Schools of the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, Avenue Road, _ Regent's Park. H.E. Kendall, Jun.r Arch.t F.S.A. 33 Brunswick Square.
E.T. Dolby, lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1847.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 350 x 440mm (13¾ x 17¼"). Small tear in edge taped, slight soiling.
A view of the exterior of a purpose-built building, designed by Henry Edward Kendall (1776-1875), opened 1847. Avenue Road, between Swiss Cottage and Regent's Park, is now known as 'Billionaire's Row', with an average house price of £21 million.
[Ref: 67109] £380.00
The Mask. Pl. 3
[Louis-Léopold Boilly]
Drawn on Stone & Published by D. Alexander. 10. Belgrade Place East ane Walworth Road Oct.r 1824.
Very finely hand coloured lithograph, sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾").
Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn.
[Ref: 67480] £160.00
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Lucien Bonaparte. Was born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, in 1775... The above portrait was taken when this celebrated person visited Taunton, in Somersetshire, 24.th December 1810.
London: William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 3mo. 24, 1824.
Stipple. 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼"), with wide margins.
A head and shoulders portrait in profile of Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), younger brother of Napoleon. After falling out with the emperor in 1810, Lucien was captured by the British while attempting to reach America. He was allowed relative freedom in England but, back in France after Napoleon's exile to Elba, he supported his brother during the Hundred Days.
[Ref: 67074] £130.00
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[Medallion portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte.]
Drawn upon Stone by Helen C. Lawson. Printed by F. Schenck.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph on chine collé. 145 x 140mm (5¾ x 5½"). Margins dusty.
An illustration of a medal with a profile portrait of Napoleon, wearing a high collared jacket.
[Ref: 67075] £140.00
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Plan of the Gardens, Plantations &c: of Boughton in Northampton Shire, The Seat of his Grace the Duke of Montague &c: Containing in all 100 Acres & 130 Sqr. perches.
Ca: Campbell Delin: H: Hulsbergh Sculp:
[n.d. c.1725.]
Engraving. 360 x 483mm (14¼ x 19").
A plan of the gardens created by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, which extended over nearly 100 acres. From ''Vitruvius Brittanicus''.
[Ref: 67072] £140.00
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A Plan of the Gardens at Boughton in Northamptonshire containing 110 acres. One of the Seats of the of the most noble John Duke of Montague...
T. Badeslade delin
[London: T. Badeslade & J. Rocque, 1739.]
Engraving. 360 x 483mm (14¼ x 19"), large margins Damage at centre fold in middle.
A plan of the gardens created by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, which extended over nearly 100 acres. From volume 4 of ''Vitruvius Brittanicus''.
[Ref: 67073] £260.00
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[Boy blowing charcoal] Done from the Original Painting at Althrop, in the Collection of John Spencer Esq.r To Whom this Plate is humbly Dedicated, by His Obliged & most humb,,ble Serv,,t. John Faber.
God,,y Schalcken Pinx,,t, W,,m Shipley Delin.t. J. Faber fect 1751.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9").
Thread margins. Attached to backing sheet on left. Cockling and staining where glued.
A chiaroscuro of a boy bit by the charcoal he is blowing on, a candle in his other hand. Godfried Schalcken's original oil remained at Althorp until 1988, when it was purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland (NG 2495), now titled 'A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand to Light a Candle'. CS, mentioned on p.460. Ex: collections of Oettingen-Wallerstein & Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67246] £360.00
[A youth with a cricket bat.]
[After T. Gaugain.]
[n.d., c.1816.]
Pencil drawing, J. Whatman 1816. 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Cut and backed onto album paper. Cockling and time-staining.
A half-length portrait of a boy wearing a white shirt and waistcoat, a cricket bat resting on his shoulder. Appears to be after an etching by T.Gaugain, published Han.y 18, 1809, by E.d Orme, London. See [Ref: 67068] for print.
[Ref: 67293] £420.00
[A youth with a cricket bat.]
Drawn & Engraved by T. Gaugain.
Published Han.y 18, 1809, by E.d Orme, London.
Etching. Framed, sight size 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Some spotting and staining, unexamined out of frame.
A half-length portrait of a boy wearing a white shirt and waistcoat, a cricket bat resting on his shoulder. A very decorative image. See [Ref: 67293] for a drawing.
[Ref: 67068] £650.00
Brandt Découvrant le Phosphore.
Ulm sculp. Imp. Delâtre Rue S.t Jacques, 303, Paris.
Paris, Publié par Cadart & Luquet, Editeurs, 79, Rue Richlieu [n.d., 1864].
Etching. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), paper watermarked 'Aqua Fortistes', large margins.
A portrait of German alchemist Hennig Brand (c.1630-c.1700) standing by a glowing retort in which, by heating urine, distilled phosphorus. Etched by Emile Ulm (1829-92) for Alfred Cadart's 'Societe des Aqua-Fortistes - Eaux-Fortes Modernes', on paper made for the society.
[Ref: 67122] £140.00
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[Brazil] Harbour of Rio Janeiro, with the Benedictine Monastery, part of the City and the Ship Duff.
M.A. Rooker del.t from a sketch by W. Wilson. J. Landseer direxit.
Published bt T. Chapman, Fleet Street, Feb.y 1, 1799.
Rare etching. Sheet 235 x 295mm (9¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat (known as the Mosteiro de São Bento), founded 1590, from the sea. From William Wilson's 'A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean'.
[Ref: 67133] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Joannes Browne Regius Chirurgus Ordinarius. Aetatis suae 42 Ano Dom 1684.
R. White sculp.
[n.d. c.1684]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Trimmed into plate.
Half-length portrait of John Browne (1642-c.1700), surgeon to both Charles II and William III, wearing long wig, gown, and lace cravat; in oval frame on pedestal. The plate was used as the frontispiece to his 'A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours' (1678), but was updated to use in 'Adeno-Choiradelogia, or an Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise', with the date altered to 1684. On this example a mustache has been added. Wellcome 446-3.
[Ref: 67426] £160.00
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[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond.] The Most Noble Prince James Duke of Ormond &c.
[Engraved by John Simon after Michael Dahl.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665 - 1745), Irish statesman and soldier. He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715. CS 115 ii of ii. Sharp 55. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67462] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[The First Interview of Telemachus with Calypso.]
Printed by B. West 1772. Etch'd by W. Woollett, 1783.
Etching & engraving, unfinished working proof with scratched letters. Sheet 490 x 610mm (19¼ x 24"). Trimmed within plate, some surface wear. Ink mss in inscription area.
A scene on a shoreline, with Calypso and her nymphs (some dancing) greet Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, and his tutor Mentor, who have left a floundering ship. This is an impression of a plate left unfinished by Woollett at his death in 1785. An ink inscription also credits John Elmes (1762-1808), Woollett's apprentice. Alexander (Dictionary of British & Irish Engravers) writes that the plate was finally completed forty years later, by Middiman and J.H. Robinson. BM S,1.13, for same state. Fagan: XCII probably 1st state of vi.
[Ref: 67115] £380.00
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden. Etched by Eliz.th. Bryne.
Published Jan.y 1. 1809, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London.
Etching. Sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate.
The entrance gate to Trinity College.
[Ref: 67142] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Library & New Buildings Trinity College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. E.F. M.cCabe sculp.
[R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London, c.1809.]
Etching. Sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, losing publication line.
A view from the Cam, with scholars rowing and walking.
[Ref: 67145] £120.00
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Entrance to Kings Court from the Walks Trinity College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. E.F. M.cCabe sculp.
[R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London, c.1809.]
Etching. Sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, losing publication line.
[Ref: 67146] £120.00
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The great Court Trinity College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. Etched by Eliz.th. Bryne.
Published July 1809, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London.
Etching. Sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate.
[Ref: 67143] £120.00
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Neville's Court from the Walks Trinity College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. Etched by Eliz.th. Bryne.
Published July 1809, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London.
Etching. Sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides.
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A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper at borders. Cockling.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''. CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel,
[Ref: 67267] £320.00
A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"), with large margins. Few miniscule wormholes.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''. CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Ref: 67263.
[Ref: 67266] £360.00
Richard Carlile. Died February 10.th 1843.-Aged 52 Years.
T.C. Wilson del.
[c.1843.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 190 x 155mm (7½ x 6"). Trimmed and laid on album paper at corners.
Half-length portrait of radical publisher and writer Richard Carlile (1790-1843). An important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press, he was due to speak at the reform meeting St. Peter's Fields in Manchester in 1819 that turned into the Peterloo Massacre.
[Ref: 67439] £140.00
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The Rev.d John Carr, M.A.
Painted by J.Hastings Esq. Engraved by C.Turner A.R.A.
London, Published Sep.tr 1st 1836 for the Proprietor by Mr. C.Turner, Nº50, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint proof. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Reverend John Carr (1722–1807), late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of the Grammar School Durham, and Professor of Mathematics in the University of Durham. W98. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67223] £260.00
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[Collection of cricket ephemera.] [Carshalton Cricket Club, Beddington.]
[1855, 1858 & 1859.]
Lithographs. Brochure (folded) 225 x 180mm (9 x 7"). Cards 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3¼"). Letters 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Crease along centre and on right side of invitation.
Four cricket ephemera items for Carshalton Cricket Club, Beddington. Probably a unique collection of cricket ephemera. An invitation published August 28th, 1856, detailing the events of a Harvest Festival to be celebrated on September 2nd, 1858. Starting with a service at the Parish church, 'at half-past two o'clock a dinner will be provided for the labourers and their wives in the National School Room; after which a cricket match will be played in the rectory field'. On the inside right-hand page of the invitation is the Hymn for Harvest. Two 'Carshalton Cricket Club' cards, one showing the matches for the year 1855, and the other for the year 1859. Lastly, two letters, one letter dated August 2nd 1855, from the Hon. Secretary of Carshalton Cricket Club, requesting a cricketer to play at a match commencing at 10:30 o'Clock, on August 8th 1855. The letter attached, is dated May 7th 1855, and informs a player that the club will meet for practice on Wednesday, May 16th, and every Wednesday of the season commencing.
[Ref: 67345] £350.00
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[Cricket Match, Centre Vale]
A. W. Bayes. [in image and signed in pencil].
[n.d. c.1890]
Scarce etching, 300 x 470mm (11¾ x 18½"), with very large margins.
A cricket match at Centre Vale School (now Fielden Hall), in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Alfred Walter Bayes (1832–1909), a former Schoolmaster who became an artist, even though it seems he received no formal training. He was a frequent exhibitor at the RA from 1858 to 1909. He also exhibited at the New Water-Colour Society, Royal Society of British Artists, Dudley Gallery, New Gallery, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; and at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.
[Ref: 67411] £420.00