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Robert Burns In his Cottage composing 'The Cotters Saturday Night'...
Painted by William Allan, R.A. From the Original Picture in the possession of Robt. Nasmyth, Esq. Engraved by John Burnet, F.R.S.
London Published Nov. 1. 1836, by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall [& in Edinburgh]. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 560 x 410mm, 22 x 16". Laid on conservation tissue
Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), poet. Burns shot to fame in 1786 with 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' and the 'Scots Musical Museum' (1787) which contains some of his best-known songs. Burns was celebrated for using his personal experience of rustic subjects and local Scots dialects; Wordsworth wrote of 'Him who walked in glory and in joy/ Behind his plough, upon the mountainside.' After Sir William Allan (1782 - 1850), President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
See NPG D32438.
[Ref: 23424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by William Allan, R.A. From the Original Picture in the possession of Robt. Nasmyth, Esq. Engraved by John Burnet, F.R.S.
London Published Nov. 1. 1836, by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall [& in Edinburgh]. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 560 x 410mm, 22 x 16". Laid on conservation tissue
Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), poet. Burns shot to fame in 1786 with 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' and the 'Scots Musical Museum' (1787) which contains some of his best-known songs. Burns was celebrated for using his personal experience of rustic subjects and local Scots dialects; Wordsworth wrote of 'Him who walked in glory and in joy/ Behind his plough, upon the mountainside.' After Sir William Allan (1782 - 1850), President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
See NPG D32438.
[Ref: 23424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Christmas Eve.
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet, 1815.
Line engraving, 360 x 260mm. Discoloration.
Scene depicting a card game, by John Burnet (1784-1868). Born in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire, Burnet moved to London in 1806 where he befriended David Wilkie, engraving several plates after the works of that artist. He also produced engravings after Rembrandt, Raphael and other earlier artists besides those of his contemporaries. Burnet was also a respected writer on art.
W. C. Monkhouse, ‘Burnet, John (1784–1868)’, rev. Jennifer Melville, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Provenance Drax Family, Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset.
[Ref: 13644] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet, 1815.
Line engraving, 360 x 260mm. Discoloration.
Scene depicting a card game, by John Burnet (1784-1868). Born in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire, Burnet moved to London in 1806 where he befriended David Wilkie, engraving several plates after the works of that artist. He also produced engravings after Rembrandt, Raphael and other earlier artists besides those of his contemporaries. Burnet was also a respected writer on art.
W. C. Monkhouse, ‘Burnet, John (1784–1868)’, rev. Jennifer Melville, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Provenance Drax Family, Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset.
[Ref: 13644] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Christmas Eve.
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet, 1815.
Etching and engraving. 368 x 285mm (14½ x 11¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; repaired wormholes in the title area.
Inside a cottage, a young woman on the left and an old woman on the right, sitting at a table in the centre, playing cards, a man leaning over the young woman from behind, picking up one of her cards, a child kneeling behind the table, watching the couple, a cat under the table.
[Ref: 28753] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet, 1815.
Etching and engraving. 368 x 285mm (14½ x 11¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; repaired wormholes in the title area.
Inside a cottage, a young woman on the left and an old woman on the right, sitting at a table in the centre, playing cards, a man leaning over the young woman from behind, picking up one of her cards, a child kneeling behind the table, watching the couple, a cat under the table.
[Ref: 28753] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Playing at Draughts
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet, 1815.
Line engraving, 360 x 260mm. Discoloration.
Scene depicting a game of draughts, by John Burnet (1784-1868). Born in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire, Burnet moved to London in 1806 where he befriended David Wilkie, engraving several plates after the works of that artist. He also produced engravings after Rembrandt, Raphael and other earlier artists besides those of his contemporaries. Burnet was also a respected writer on art.
W. C. Monkhouse, ‘Burnet, John (1784–1868)’, rev. Jennifer Melville, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Provenance Drax Family, Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset.
[Ref: 13645] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet, 1815.
Line engraving, 360 x 260mm. Discoloration.
Scene depicting a game of draughts, by John Burnet (1784-1868). Born in Musselburgh, Edinburghshire, Burnet moved to London in 1806 where he befriended David Wilkie, engraving several plates after the works of that artist. He also produced engravings after Rembrandt, Raphael and other earlier artists besides those of his contemporaries. Burnet was also a respected writer on art.
W. C. Monkhouse, ‘Burnet, John (1784–1868)’, rev. Jennifer Melville, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Provenance Drax Family, Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset.
[Ref: 13645] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Keyplate] The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers, July 22 1620. The Government Prize Picture of the Westminster Hall Exhibition. (The Scene is taken from the point of Embarkation, Delft Haven.)
Painted by Charles Lucy, Esq. Engraved by John Burnett, Esq.
Published by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Her Majesty's Printsellers & Publishers, Exchange Street, Manchester. August 1, 1855.
Lithograph with letterpress, scarce item; sheet 275 x 450mm (10¾ x 17¾").
Keyplate identifying the figures in Charles Lucy's painting 'The departure of the ‘primitive puritans’, or ‘Pilgrim Fathers’, to the coast of America, AD 1620' (1847), painted for a Palace of Westminster fresco competition. The painting is now in the Pilgrim Hall Museum (Plymouth, Mass.).
Ex: Collection of Thomas Agnew.
[Ref: 32261] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Charles Lucy, Esq. Engraved by John Burnett, Esq.
Published by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Her Majesty's Printsellers & Publishers, Exchange Street, Manchester. August 1, 1855.
Lithograph with letterpress, scarce item; sheet 275 x 450mm (10¾ x 17¾").
Keyplate identifying the figures in Charles Lucy's painting 'The departure of the ‘primitive puritans’, or ‘Pilgrim Fathers’, to the coast of America, AD 1620' (1847), painted for a Palace of Westminster fresco competition. The painting is now in the Pilgrim Hall Museum (Plymouth, Mass.).
Ex: Collection of Thomas Agnew.
[Ref: 32261] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
John Anderson My Jo. 'But now your brow is beld, John./ Your locks are like straw;/ But blessings on your frosty pow./ John Anderson my Jo.'
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet.
London Published Octr. 1827, by Moon Boys & Graves, Successors to Messrs. Hurst, Robinson & Co. 6 Pall Mall. et a Paris par Pieri Bernard, Boulevard des Italiens.
Engraving. Publlisher's stamp at bottom in publication line. 455 x 365mm (18 x 14¼"). Sheet is trimmed to plate. Slight crease lower right bottom.
An old Scottish man sitting by the hearth in a cottage interior, with grandchild and wife, who reminisces about his once youthful looks as they now share old age. Robert Burn's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a cleaned-up adaptation of a bawdy ballad, which Burns wrote for for James Johnson's 'Scots Musical Museum' in 1790. By John Burnet (1784 - 1868), etcher, mezzotint, line engraver and painter of landscapes and humorous genre, also writer; worked in Edinburgh, London, engraved after E.G. Wilkie, Turner and Landseer.
[Ref: 53611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet.
London Published Octr. 1827, by Moon Boys & Graves, Successors to Messrs. Hurst, Robinson & Co. 6 Pall Mall. et a Paris par Pieri Bernard, Boulevard des Italiens.
Engraving. Publlisher's stamp at bottom in publication line. 455 x 365mm (18 x 14¼"). Sheet is trimmed to plate. Slight crease lower right bottom.
An old Scottish man sitting by the hearth in a cottage interior, with grandchild and wife, who reminisces about his once youthful looks as they now share old age. Robert Burn's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a cleaned-up adaptation of a bawdy ballad, which Burns wrote for for James Johnson's 'Scots Musical Museum' in 1790. By John Burnet (1784 - 1868), etcher, mezzotint, line engraver and painter of landscapes and humorous genre, also writer; worked in Edinburgh, London, engraved after E.G. Wilkie, Turner and Landseer.
[Ref: 53611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sir Walter Scott, Bar.t in his Study at Abbotsford.]
Painted by William Allen, R.A. Engraved by John Burnet.
London: Published March 25th, 1836 by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6, Pall Mall, & Sold also by F.G. Moon, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Engraving on india, proof before title. 555 x 395mm, 21¾ x 15½". Margins spotted.
Sir Walter Scott seated in his study at his home at Abbotsford in Scotland, reading a proclamation made by Mary Queen of Scots. One of his many dogs, thought to be either Maida or Bran, sits by the fire. The artist made a record of the many remarkable objects in the room: 'the vase was the gift of Lord Byron; the keys hanging by the window are those of 'Heart of Mid Lothian' or Old Tolbooth of Edinburg(h). The Sword suspended from the Bookcase belonged to Montrose, and the Rifle surmounting the various articles hanging over the Mantlepiece to Speckbacher the Tyrolese Partriot; near the Bookcase are hung an ancient Border Bugle, James VI's travelling Flask, and the Sporan or Purse of Rob Roy Mcgregor. Behind the Bust of Shakespeare is Rob Roy's long gun, above which is Claverhous's Pistol and below a brace formerly the Property of Napoleon'.
See NPG 321 for the original oil (1831).
[Ref: 13844] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by William Allen, R.A. Engraved by John Burnet.
London: Published March 25th, 1836 by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6, Pall Mall, & Sold also by F.G. Moon, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Engraving on india, proof before title. 555 x 395mm, 21¾ x 15½". Margins spotted.
Sir Walter Scott seated in his study at his home at Abbotsford in Scotland, reading a proclamation made by Mary Queen of Scots. One of his many dogs, thought to be either Maida or Bran, sits by the fire. The artist made a record of the many remarkable objects in the room: 'the vase was the gift of Lord Byron; the keys hanging by the window are those of 'Heart of Mid Lothian' or Old Tolbooth of Edinburg(h). The Sword suspended from the Bookcase belonged to Montrose, and the Rifle surmounting the various articles hanging over the Mantlepiece to Speckbacher the Tyrolese Partriot; near the Bookcase are hung an ancient Border Bugle, James VI's travelling Flask, and the Sporan or Purse of Rob Roy Mcgregor. Behind the Bust of Shakespeare is Rob Roy's long gun, above which is Claverhous's Pistol and below a brace formerly the Property of Napoleon'.
See NPG 321 for the original oil (1831).
[Ref: 13844] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Battle of Waterloo.
Painted by J.A. Atkinson. The Portraits by A.W. Dervis. Drawn & Engraved by John Burnet.
London, J. Hagger, 67 Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1850.]
Etching and engraving. Sheet 510 x 690mm (20 x 37¼"). Trimmed to plate.
The Duke of Wellington, mounted, hat in hand, the battle being fought across the fields behind. To the right Highlander foot soldiers fight French cavalry. A re-engraved plate, first published 1819.
[Ref: 36761] £360.00
Painted by J.A. Atkinson. The Portraits by A.W. Dervis. Drawn & Engraved by John Burnet.
London, J. Hagger, 67 Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1850.]
Etching and engraving. Sheet 510 x 690mm (20 x 37¼"). Trimmed to plate.
The Duke of Wellington, mounted, hat in hand, the battle being fought across the fields behind. To the right Highlander foot soldiers fight French cavalry. A re-engraved plate, first published 1819.
[Ref: 36761] £360.00