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Descriptive Key To The Engraving From The Grand Historical Picture Painted By William Bonnar Esq, R.S.A., Of John Knox Administereing The First Protestant Sacrament In Scotland, A.D. 1546.
[after William Bonnar] [printed by Henry Thomas Ryall]
Subscribers' Names Received By Messrs. Hodgson And Graves, Printsellers And Publishers By Special Appointment To Her Majesty, 8, Pall, Mall London.
Etching and letterpress, sheet 285 x 445mm (11¼ x 17½"). Collector's stamp of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd in black ink, 'CL-B.' Trimmed on three sides, small top margin and creasing where previously folded in quarters. Foxing.
Outline key. John Knox (1505-72) stands at the left on a dais before a table, with stairs to the pulpit behind him, gesturing toward the crowded congregation in St Andrews Cathedral. Two women kneel in the foreground, Lady Lilias Drummond (c.1525–79) about to drink from the chalice. To the right, men gather around a table: Norman Leslie beside Sir James Melville (1535–1617), and Lord David Drummond (c.1515–71) at the far end, overcome and resting his head on his arms as Sir James Sandilands (c.1511– c.79) comforts him. In the background, bread is distributed to other communicants.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68167] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[after William Bonnar] [printed by Henry Thomas Ryall]
Subscribers' Names Received By Messrs. Hodgson And Graves, Printsellers And Publishers By Special Appointment To Her Majesty, 8, Pall, Mall London.
Etching and letterpress, sheet 285 x 445mm (11¼ x 17½"). Collector's stamp of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd in black ink, 'CL-B.' Trimmed on three sides, small top margin and creasing where previously folded in quarters. Foxing.
Outline key. John Knox (1505-72) stands at the left on a dais before a table, with stairs to the pulpit behind him, gesturing toward the crowded congregation in St Andrews Cathedral. Two women kneel in the foreground, Lady Lilias Drummond (c.1525–79) about to drink from the chalice. To the right, men gather around a table: Norman Leslie beside Sir James Melville (1535–1617), and Lord David Drummond (c.1515–71) at the far end, overcome and resting his head on his arms as Sir James Sandilands (c.1511– c.79) comforts him. In the background, bread is distributed to other communicants.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68167] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Spooner's Transformations, Nº 3. The Transformed Sleepers.
London, Will[iam Spoo]ner, 377, Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Scarce coloured lithograph mounted in card, as issued, with lithographic title label pasted on, backed on tissue. Card 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"). Some spotting.
A transformation print: when held to the light the image of a sleeping woman and white cat changes to a wide-eyed black woman and a tabby cat, also awake.
[Ref: 67886] £780.00 view all images for this item
London, Will[iam Spoo]ner, 377, Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Scarce coloured lithograph mounted in card, as issued, with lithographic title label pasted on, backed on tissue. Card 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"). Some spotting.
A transformation print: when held to the light the image of a sleeping woman and white cat changes to a wide-eyed black woman and a tabby cat, also awake.
[Ref: 67886] £780.00 view all images for this item
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[Portchester Castle.]
[From an Original Transparent Drawing by W. Orme.]
[Orme, Conduit Street, Excu.t. Sold & Published May, 1, 1799, by Ed.wd Orme, corner of George Street and Conduit Street, London, the first Inventor of Transparent Prints. Where may be had a great Variety, and every requisite for Drawing them.]
Oval mezzotint. Sheet trimmed as oval, at most 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9") Trimmed around image, losing all incriptions, album paper on verso obscuring transparent effect.
A night scene of a small castle with a square tower lit by a full moon, with a guard standing at a guardpost at the top of stairs. An old man and a child walk past, carrying a lantern.
[Ref: 67935] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[From an Original Transparent Drawing by W. Orme.]
[Orme, Conduit Street, Excu.t. Sold & Published May, 1, 1799, by Ed.wd Orme, corner of George Street and Conduit Street, London, the first Inventor of Transparent Prints. Where may be had a great Variety, and every requisite for Drawing them.]
Oval mezzotint. Sheet trimmed as oval, at most 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9") Trimmed around image, losing all incriptions, album paper on verso obscuring transparent effect.
A night scene of a small castle with a square tower lit by a full moon, with a guard standing at a guardpost at the top of stairs. An old man and a child walk past, carrying a lantern.
[Ref: 67935] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)