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Boadicea. Queen of the Iceni, leading the Britons against the Roman army under Suetonius, Seeing her troops defeated with the slaughter of 80,000 men, She terminated her life by poison, in order to avoid falling into the power of the Roman General.
Painted by Henry Singleton. Engraved by William Bond.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Queen Boadicea in a chariot being drawn to left, spear in her right hand, with her daughters slumped in despair at her knees.
[Ref: 44094] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
[Two scraps from the title page of 'Mirth versus Misery: The Pleasures of Human Life... The Miseries of Human Life' by Hilaris Benevolus.]
Drawn by W. Satchwell. Engraved by W. Bond.
[London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Paternoster Row, February 1807]
Two scraps, stipples with hand colour. Largest 75 x 75mm (3 x 3"). Laid on album paper with a third image.
Two faces, originally vignettes on the title page of a book by John Britton. The first is a laughing man with uneven teeth, the second a sour face attached to bat wings. The third is unrelated scrap showing Cupid firing an arrow at doves. See BM 1977,U.957 for the complete sheet.
[Ref: 50082] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
Ulysses in the Island of Circe. From an Original Picture in the possession of Geo. Bowles Esq.r to whom this plate is respectfully inscribed, by his obliged & obedient Servant, James Daniell.
Angelica Kauffman R.A. Pinx.t. W. Bond Sculp.t.
London Published June 29, 1809 by James Daniell, Engraver, 480, Strand.
A large stipple. 550 x 655mm (21¾ x 25½"), with very large margins on 3 sides. Spotting in margins, bottom margin worn.
The Greek hero Odysseus enjoying the pleasures of life on Aeaea. It was published as a pair with ''Ulysses discovers Achilles disguised as a Virgin among the Daughters of King Lycomedes''.
[Ref: 47704] £550.00
[Mrs Stephens] Attached. [Armorial shield]
W. P. J. Lodder Pinx. W.m Bond Sculp.
E Orme Excudit. [n.d. c.1850]
Stipple, sheet 155 x 110mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed. Some light surface dirt and foxing.
A half-length oval portrait of Mrs. Stephens, facing and looking to the right, with one hand resting on her cheek. The British Museum has suggested this could be the wife of Philip Stephens, or FG Stephens, however it is most likely she is Jane Tryphoena 'Grannie' Stephens (1812-96) a British actress who became famous as she became older.
[Ref: 65168] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Lieut.t Col.l Sir Henry Sullivan, Bar.t M.P. Coldstream Guards; Killed in the sortie from Bayonne, 14 April 1814, in the 29th Year of his Age.
Drawn by H. Edridge. Engraved by W. Bond."
[n.d., c.1814.]
Fine aquatint and stipple. Sheet 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, into image at top.
Full length portrait of Sir Henry Sullivan (1785-1814), 2nd Baronet, in uniform, his shako resting on a cannon. Despite being a soldier serving in the Napoleonic Wars, he was elected MP for both Rye and Lincoln in 1812. He stood down for Rye, but remained MP for Lincoln until his death, unsuprisingly playing little part in Parliamentary business. He was killed in 1814, during a sortie by the French garrison of Bayonne Thouvenot against the besieging British Army, despite the unofficial news of Napoleon's abdication reaching both sides. His memorial plaque is in the Church of St Nicholas, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
[Ref: 66976] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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