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![[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M.](jpegs/67777.jpg)
[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M. Coll. Divi Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius. Neptunus calculo monstratus, A.D. 1845.
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"), with very large margins. Backboard stains.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
Whitman 5, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67777] £420.00
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"), with very large margins. Backboard stains.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
Whitman 5, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67777] £420.00
J. de Castro Sarmento, M.D. Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium Collega, Regiæ Societatis Socius.
Pine Pinx:t. Houston Fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Jacob de Castro Sarmento (1690-1762), a Portuguse doctor (and privately a practicing Jew), who came to London in 1720. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1730, in recognition of his having introduced a new medicine for curing fevers, based on the bark of the cinchona tree, from which quinine is obtained. Jewish interest.
CS 108. Wellcome 557. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67584] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Pine Pinx:t. Houston Fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Jacob de Castro Sarmento (1690-1762), a Portuguse doctor (and privately a practicing Jew), who came to London in 1720. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1730, in recognition of his having introduced a new medicine for curing fevers, based on the bark of the cinchona tree, from which quinine is obtained. Jewish interest.
CS 108. Wellcome 557. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67584] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Vera Effigies Jacobi Cooke Medici, ac Chirurgi peritissimi, qui, quae indefesso studio et multorum annorum Experientia comperit usui fore, ad presentem sanitatem tuendam amissamque recuperandam, non invidet humano generi. Aetatis suae 71.
R.W. [Robert White]
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
James Cooke (1614 - 1688), physician and surgeon at Warwick. Frontis to 'Mellificium chirurgiae:' or, 'The marrow of chirurgery' 1676.
See NPG: D30086. W: 665-2.
[Ref: 67719] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
R.W. [Robert White]
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
James Cooke (1614 - 1688), physician and surgeon at Warwick. Frontis to 'Mellificium chirurgiae:' or, 'The marrow of chirurgery' 1676.
See NPG: D30086. W: 665-2.
[Ref: 67719] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S.]](jpegs/67781.jpg)
[Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S.] [Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.]
[Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.]
[London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67781] £460.00
[Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.]
[London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67781] £460.00
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins. Some age-toning.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and whtie shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67784] £380.00
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins. Some age-toning.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and whtie shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67784] £380.00
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12") very large margins. Foxing
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67785] £380.00
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12") very large margins. Foxing
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67785] £380.00
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Proof. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Proof mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67786] £380.00
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Proof mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67786] £380.00
[Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian professor and conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.]
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), Tear just entering plate.
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67800] £360.00
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), Tear just entering plate.
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67800] £360.00
[Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian professor and conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.]
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"),
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67801] £360.00
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"),
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67801] £360.00
![Geo Peacock [facsimile signature].](jpegs/67797.jpg)
Geo Peacock [facsimile signature].
Douglas Y. Blakiston, pinx. G. Zobel, Sculp.
Published Decr. 30th 1859, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, London. Printed by T. Brooker.
Mezzotint on chine collé, 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12½").
George Peacock (1791-1858), dean of Ely and mathematician, specialising in algebra.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 67797] £360.00
Douglas Y. Blakiston, pinx. G. Zobel, Sculp.
Published Decr. 30th 1859, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East, London. Printed by T. Brooker.
Mezzotint on chine collé, 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12½").
George Peacock (1791-1858), dean of Ely and mathematician, specialising in algebra.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 67797] £360.00
Thomas Pellet, M.D. Præses Coll. Reg. Medicorum Londinens. Anno 1739.
MDahl pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins on three sides. Trimmed to platemark on top. Paper toned, edges chipped.
A three-quarter portrait of physician Thomas Pellet (c.1671-1744), wearing wig and embroidered gown, seated in an upholstered chair, a bust of Artistole behind. This portrait, by Michael Dahl, hangs on the staircase of the College of Physicians. Pellet's portrait was also painted by William Hogarth.
CS 280. Wellcome: 2262-1. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67522] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
MDahl pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins on three sides. Trimmed to platemark on top. Paper toned, edges chipped.
A three-quarter portrait of physician Thomas Pellet (c.1671-1744), wearing wig and embroidered gown, seated in an upholstered chair, a bust of Artistole behind. This portrait, by Michael Dahl, hangs on the staircase of the College of Physicians. Pellet's portrait was also painted by William Hogarth.
CS 280. Wellcome: 2262-1. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67522] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Mutual Accusation - When once you've told & cant recall a Lye / Boldly, percist in't or your Fame will die. /Learn this ye Wives, with unrelenting Claws /Or right or wrong, Afsert your husbands cause.
Mr. Bunbury del. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Bretherton 3d. January 1774.
Etching, 18th century watermark; platemark 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Thread margin on bottom and small margin at top.
Two rival quack doctors (whose premises, both advertising Antiscorbutic Pills to prevent scurvy, face each other) argue while their wives fight each other. Even their cats and dogs are involved in the rivalry! Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton). The dubious claims of both are emphasised by the crest top centre, featuring two ducks and the motto 'quack quack quack'.
BM Satire 5279; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 67305] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Bunbury del. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Bretherton 3d. January 1774.
Etching, 18th century watermark; platemark 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Thread margin on bottom and small margin at top.
Two rival quack doctors (whose premises, both advertising Antiscorbutic Pills to prevent scurvy, face each other) argue while their wives fight each other. Even their cats and dogs are involved in the rivalry! Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton). The dubious claims of both are emphasised by the crest top centre, featuring two ducks and the motto 'quack quack quack'.
BM Satire 5279; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 67305] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Guil: Sermon Medicinae Doctoris Et Regis...Aetatis Suae 42. Let Loilists Carpe at what is past and don, Brave Sermons Acts shall live in face of th'Sun: Great Monk Restorer of his Country's Peace, Declares from his his Dropsie Soon did Cease. I.A. M.D.
W. Sherwin ad vivum deli. et sculpeabat.
1671.
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
William Sermon (1629 - 1679), physician and inventor of medicines. In 1669 he was summoned to Newhall in Essex to attend George Monck, Duke of Albermarle, for dropsy. On 12 July Monck gave him a certificate of his cure, and Charles II then sent letter to the University of Cambridge requesting them to grant Sermon a medical degree; he graduated M.D. a year later. Plate to his 'The Ladies Companion, or, the English Midwife'. 1671.
W:2703-2.
[Ref: 67717] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
W. Sherwin ad vivum deli. et sculpeabat.
1671.
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
William Sermon (1629 - 1679), physician and inventor of medicines. In 1669 he was summoned to Newhall in Essex to attend George Monck, Duke of Albermarle, for dropsy. On 12 July Monck gave him a certificate of his cure, and Charles II then sent letter to the University of Cambridge requesting them to grant Sermon a medical degree; he graduated M.D. a year later. Plate to his 'The Ladies Companion, or, the English Midwife'. 1671.
W:2703-2.
[Ref: 67717] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Brook Taylor, L.L.D. & R.S.S. 1714.
R. Earlom [after Hans Hysing?].
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint with etching. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Laid in album paper at edges.
An oval portrait of mathematician and barrister Brook Taylor (1685-1731). The original, in the collection of the Royal Scociety, is attributed to studio of Hans Hysing (1678–1753).
CS 39A (a&c) i of i. Wellcome: 2888; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67596] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
R. Earlom [after Hans Hysing?].
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint with etching. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Laid in album paper at edges.
An oval portrait of mathematician and barrister Brook Taylor (1685-1731). The original, in the collection of the Royal Scociety, is attributed to studio of Hans Hysing (1678–1753).
CS 39A (a&c) i of i. Wellcome: 2888; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67596] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Charles White Esqr.
Painted by J. Allen. Engraved by Will.m Ward Engraver Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.
Published Nov.r 1st. 1809, by J. Allen, 37 Newman Street.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 430 x 330mm (17 x 13"). Trimmed to printed border, some surface wear. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of physician Charles White (1728-1813), co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the St Mary's Hospital for Lying in Women in 1790.
Frankau 321, ii. Russell 89. Wellcome 3175. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67616] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by J. Allen. Engraved by Will.m Ward Engraver Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.
Published Nov.r 1st. 1809, by J. Allen, 37 Newman Street.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 430 x 330mm (17 x 13"). Trimmed to printed border, some surface wear. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of physician Charles White (1728-1813), co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the St Mary's Hospital for Lying in Women in 1790.
Frankau 321, ii. Russell 89. Wellcome 3175. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67616] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)