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[Metal Ornament.]
S. Gribelin inv: et sculp:
[n.d, c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate: 135 x 200mm (5¼ x 8").
A collection of designs for engravings on two plates on one sheet by Simon Gribelin (1661-1733). Gribelin, a ornamental and metal engraver and designer fled France for England during the persecution of Huguenots. He was from a family of clockmakers and joined the Clockmakers Company in 1686.
[Ref: 47004] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Seven Famous Cartons of Raphael Urbin, Drawn at the Command of Pope Leo the 10th as Patterns for Tapesty: They were bought by K. Charles the first (at the Persuasion of Sr. P. P. Rubens) and brought from Flanders into England: afterwards K. William fix'd them in his Palace of Hampton-Court in the Gallery here Represented. In 1707 they were drawn and Engraven by Sim: Gribelin and by him most humbly Dedicated to Her Late Majesty.
S.G. Inv.t et Sculp.t & excudit 1720.
Frontispiece and seven plates. Each c. 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Frontispiece with paper tone, frontis laid on album paper, nicks and tears to all plates.
The seven plates were first published in 1707; the frontispiece accompanied their re-issue in 1720.
[Ref: 69389] £550.00
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M. Guill. Trumbull. Agent pour Les Roys Jac. I. et Char. I. A La Cour de Bruxelles.
S. Gribelin sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Rare engraving. 165 x 102mm. 6½ x 4".
Portrait of William Trumbull, half length in an ornamental oval frame on a pedestal, wearing large ruff. William Trumbull (d.1635) was an English diplomat, administrator and politician. He was the English minister at Brussels.
[Ref: 24555] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Medallion commemorating William III's victory at Namur in 1695] To save the World, see William strike like Jove! / And watchfull Heav'n the Might Work approve [...]
J. Fowler Inventit S. Gribelin Sculp [1695]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 195mm (6¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Medallion commemorating William III recapturing Namur (now part of Belgium) from the French on 5 September 1695, after the French captured the town in June 1692. The victory was a welcome respite from a string of defeats in the early 1690s.
[Ref: 42603] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
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