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Children Fishing. [&] Children Gathering Black-Berries.
Paintd by G. Moreland. Engraved by P. Dawe.
London, Published Dec.r 20;th 1788, by W:Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
Pair of mezzotints. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14") & 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Small margins..
Fine examples of two scenes depicting five young children in a rustic setting. Ex: collections of Oettingen-Wallerstein & The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69641] £460.00
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Children Fishing. [&] Children Gathering Black-Berries.
Paintd by G. Moreland. Engraved by P. Dawe.
London, Published Dec.r 20;th 1788, by W:Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
Pair of mezzotints, printed in colours and hand finished. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14") & 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). 'Black-Berries' trimmed to plate at bottom; both with splits in platemarks repaired. Small margins.
Two scenes depicting five young children in a rustic setting. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69642] £680.00
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Feu d'Artifice à L'Arc de Triomphe de L'Étoile.
[De]ssiné et Gravé par P.L. Debucourt.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 270 x 365mm (10¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, losing publication lines, three long tears repaired, margin replaced on three sides.
The fireworks celebrating the marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Marie Louise of Austria, June 1810. The display was created by Claude Ruggieri (who claimed the use of green fire for the first time during the show), and was watched by 4,000 people.
[Ref: 69515] £450.00
Abriss des Kaysserlichen Fewerwercks Schlosses: und Barraquen, worinen das Friend und: freudenmahl gehalten worden, vor Nurnberg auss ct. Joh: Schussplats A.º 1650.
[after Michael Herr.]
[Nuremberg: heirs of Matthaus Merian, c.1650.]
Etching. 265 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"), Narrow margins. Time stained, crease as normal in centre.
A fireworks display celebrating the end of the Thirty Years War, June 4th 1650, launched from a specially-constructed wooden fortress. From Merian's 'Theatrum Europaeum'.
[Ref: 69514] £360.00
[Madame Tussauds] Winter Fashions for 1842 & 43, by B. Read & C.º 12, Hart St. Bloomsbury Square, London, and Broad Way New York, America.
[London: Benjamin Read, 1842.]
Scarce coloured aquatint. Sheet 480 x 645mm (19 x 25½"). Tears taped.
A view of an exhibition of the actual velvet and ermine coronation robes of George IV in Madam Tussauds, with the onlookers shown in the latest fashions. Benjamin Read was a tailor who published prints advertising his new fashions twice each year.
[Ref: 69662] £650.00
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