[Admiral Howe.]
[J.F. Bolt.] [n.d., c.1795.] Stipple, printed in sanguine. Rare. Collectors stamps on verso of the Museum Alexis Forel, Switzerland, and the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings), Berlin. Platemark: 155 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Very large margins. Head and shoulders portrait, set in a roundel of General Richard Howe (1726 -1799) a British army officer notable for his role during the American Revolutionary War, when he acted as a naval commander and a peace commissioner with the American rebels. He later commanded the victorious British fleet during the Glorious First of June in June 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars. A figure bearing it's naked backside, is etched within the plate above the portrait. By Johann Friedrich Bolt (1769 - 1836), a German draftsman, engraver and etcher.
[Ref: 38441] £160.00
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[Timor] Naba Leba, Konig von Solor.
fr. Bolt f. 1818. Engraving. 65 x 95mm. Foxing. Naba-leba, King of the island of Solor, Timor, 1801-1803. Copy of French engraving from Petit's illustration in the ‘Voyage de decouvertes aux terres Australes, execute par ordre de S M l'empereur et roi’, compiled by naturalist Francois Peron and published in Paris in 1815. The book is an account of the French cartographic survey expedition to Australia, 1800-1804, led by Thomas Nicolas Baudin.
[Ref: 700] £60.00
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