[Alsatian] Berger allemagne [pencil].
Paul Wood [pencil.]
© Paris Etching Society NY U.S.A. [n.d., c.1935.]
Aquatint and etching, printed in colours, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 9"). Ink stamp 'Made in France' on verso.
A alert Alsatian (or German Shepherd), by Paul Wood (1897-1964). Wood, who studied art at both the Springfield School of Fine Arts in Massachussetts and at the Art Students League in New York, specialised in watercolours and etchings of dogs.
[Ref: 46169] £65.00
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[Alsatian] Bergers [pencil].
Paul Wood [pencil.]
© Paris Etching Society NY U.S.A. [n.d., c.1935.]
Aquatint and etching, printed in colours, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 9"). Ink stamp 'Made in France' on verso.
The heads of a pair of Alsatian dogs (or German Shepherds), by Paul Wood (1897-1964). Wood, who studied art at both the Springfield School of Fine Arts in Massachussetts and at the Art Students League in New York, specialised in watercolours and etchings of dogs.
[Ref: 46167] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Batoe-Médjah. Omstreken van Ambon. Batoe-Médjah. Environs d’Ambon. Molukschen Archipel. Iles Moluques. PL.XXIX.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 215 x 304mm (8½ x 12").
Batu Meja in the district of Sirimau, Amboine, Maluku, Indonesia. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28458] £160.00
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De Vallei Batoe-Gadjah. Onsticken van Ambon. Vallée de Batoe-Gandjah. Environs d’Ambon. Molukschen Archipel. Iles Moluques. PL.XXVII.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 215 x 299mm (8½ x 11¾"). Some toning and spotting.
Batu Gajah in the district of Sirimau, Amboine, Maluku, Indonesia. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28459] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Het Fort Duurstede te Saparoea. Le Fort Duurstede à Saparoea. Molukschen Archipel. Iles Moluques. PL.XXXII.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 215 x 300mm (8½ x 11¾"). Paper toning.
A view of Duurstede Fort, which was built in 1691 on the coast of the island of Saparoea. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28460] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Ternate. zoo als het was voor de aardbering in Februarij 1840. Vue de Ternate. avant le tremblement de terre en Fevrier 1840. Molukschen Archipel. Iles Moluques. PL.XXXIV.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Mount burn and foxing.
A view of Ternate, the volcanic island of Indonesia, in the Moluccas. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28461] £330.00
Ruine Eener Christen Kerk Te Saparoea. Ruine d’une Église Chrétienne a Saparoea. Molukschen Archipel. Iles Moluques. PL.XXXIII.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 215 x 304mm (8½ x 12").
The ruins of a church with locals carrying sedan chairs. Saparoea, Amboine in the former Dutch East Indies. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28457] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
La liste de presence [in pencil.]
P. Renouard [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1892.]
Etching, very large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 291 x 221
A young girl in ballet dress leans over a table to read her instructions for her class. No. 1. from a series published as 'A l'Opera 30 Eaux-Fortes par P. Renouard preface de Ludovic Halivy'.
[Ref: 34643] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Reconstruction of a Baalbek temple.] Tab XLI.
Borra Arch Del. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[London; Robert Wood, 1757.]
Engraving. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
An elevation of one of the great classical temples of Baalbek, probably either the Temple of Jupiter or Bacchus, published in Robert Wood's 'The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis, in Coelosyria'. Italian architect Giovanni Battista Borra accompanied Wood on a trip through Syria 1750-1; the resulting drawings of the classical ruins were very influential on architects including Robert Adam.
[Ref: 52736] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Classe du premier quadrille [in pencil.]
P. Rd [pencil signature; Paul Renouard.]
[n.d. c.1892.]
Etching with very large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 229 x 280mm (9 x 11").
Inside a dance studio, the maestro plays a violin, the teacher directs four dancers on the floor; the rest sit behind the musician on a window ledge. No. 25 from a series published as 'A l'Opera 30 Eaux-Fortes par P. Renouard preface de Ludovic Halivy'.
[Ref: 34645] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Frère Jacques Beaulieu. Célèbre Lithotomiste.
Lith. Paul Petit et c.ie.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Scarce lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5") very large margins.
A portrait of Jacques Beaulieu (or Baulot, 1651-1719), an itinerant lithotomist, a surgeon specialising in the removal of calculi like kidney and gall stones. After a short career as a cavalry private, he had a six-year apprenticeship with another travelling surgeon. He travelled around with four assistants, who prepared his patients with cupping and blood-letting, before operating on all of them on the same day, usually leaving as soon as possible to avoid repercussions. From 1690 he donned the robes of a Dominican monk and started calling himself frère, without ordination. In 1697, in a session at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris, he performed a lithotomy in less than a minute and 10 more in less than an hour, with a 53.5% mortality rate while the average at the time was 14%, resulting in a five-year ban from practicing in Paris. He performed around 5,000 lithotomies before retiring in 1711. Based on a life-time portrait.
[Ref: 59172] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Liège] L’Abbaye du Val Benoit [pencil].
P. Daxhelete [pencil].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. 270 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"), very large margins..
Destroyed in the Second World War and a replica built. By Paul Alfred Marie Daxhelet (1905-93).
[Ref: 49790] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Benton Castle, Looking down the Reach to Milford Haven.
[Paul Sandby.]
Published Sept.r 1775 by J Boydell in Cheapside.
Fine aquatint. 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12¼"). Some creasing in sky.
A view of the remains of the castle from the river, by Paul Sandby (1725-1809), from his 'XII Views in Aquatinta from Drawings taken on the spot in South Wales', the first British book of aquatint views. Abbey Scenery 511.
[Ref: 56747] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
L'Heureux pressentiment...
Paul Legrand Sc.
a Paris chez Dopter, rue St Jacques, No 21 [n.d., c.1830].
Mezzotint. 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12½"), with large margins.
Napoleon, surprised by a violent storm in Berlin, sheltered in a house occupied by an Egyptian woman who was the widow of an officer. Napoleon gave her a pension of 1200 f, and supported the education of her son. Napoleon later told his officers that it was the first time he had to seek shelter from a storm, but he had felt that a good deed awaited him there.
[Ref: 55815] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Het Eiland Mars of Poelo-Penjingat, Reede van Riouw. L’Ile Mars ou Poelo-Penjingat, Rade de Riouw. Bintang-Eilanden. Iles Bintang. PL.XLVI.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour and large margins. Image area 210 x 299 (8¼ x 11¾").
A view of the roadstead of Riau on the island of Mars or Poelo-Penjingat, Bintan Islands, Indonesia. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28465] £320.00
De Christen Kerk te Riouw. Église Chrétienne a Riouw. Bintang-Eilanden. Iles Bintang. PL.XLVII.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P. Lauters.
Uitgegeven by, Frans Buffa en Zonen te Amsterdam. [n.d. c.1846.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Image area 209 x 300 (8¼ x 11¾"). Foxing in the margin area.
A view of Riouw in the Riau achipelago of Indonesia; a church with goats in the foreground, and their shepherd sat in the shade. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist. From "Gezigten uit Neèrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven".
[Ref: 28464] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Johann Elert Bode. gebohren zu Hamburg d: 19 Iañ: 1747.
Malvieux sc. 1791.
Stipple with engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), German astronomer and director of the Berlin Observatory, who named Uranus after it was determined to be a planet in 1783. His star atlas of 1801, which he named the 'Uranographia' was the largest up to that time, containing the positions of more than 17,000 stars, and was one of the last scientific astronomic atlases to depict the tranditional figures for constellations. Wellcome 338.
[Ref: 29658] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Borneo. Togt op de Rivier te Sambas. Promenade sur la Rivière a Sambas.
C.W.M. van de Velde. P.Lauters.
Uitgegeven by Frans Buffa & Zonen. te Amsterdam [n.d., 1846.]
Lithograph on india with hand colour. Image size 290 x 330mm (11½ x 13").
A community of boats and linked together. The Sambas region is famous for their traditional 'rumah lanting', floating-platform houses. By the Dutchman Carel William Meredith van de Velde (1818-98), a sailor, doctor and watercolourist.
[Ref: 28438] £320.00
South View of Bothwell Castle. Vue Meridionale du Chateau de Bothwell en Ecosse. 109.
P. Sandby Delin.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15") Mount burn, small margins.
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) went to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, becoming draughtsman to the survey until 1751. While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolour landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751. He left his post with the survey in 1751,
[Ref: 60615] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
North East View of Bothwell Castle in Clydsdal. Vue Septentrionale du Chateau de Bothwell dans la province de Clydsdal en Ecosse. 108.
P. Sandby Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Mount burn, small margins.
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) went to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, becoming draughtsman to the survey until 1751. While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolour landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751. He left his post with the survey in 1751,
[Ref: 60614] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
North East View of Bothwell Castle in Clydsdal.
P. Sandby Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour, 18th century watermark. 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"), very large margins.
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) went to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, becoming draughtsman to the survey until 1751. While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolour landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751. He left his post with the survey in 1751,
[Ref: 45283] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Studies of Staffordshire Bull Terriers.]
[Etched by Paul Renouard.]
[n.d., 1907.]
Etching. 280 x 225mm, 11 x 8¾".
Charles Paul Renouard (1845-1924). While at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1875 he and his instructor were hired to decorate the ceiling of the Paris opera house, which was the inspiration for his most well-known series of etchings, Le Nouvel Opéra. He came to London in the 1890s and started work for the 'Graphic' newspaper, sketching theater-goers and performers at the Theater Royal in Drury Lane, and policemen and defendants at one of London's many police courts.
[Ref: 9079] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[The Seven Years' War.] The Evacuations or An Emetic for Old England Glorys... From the Rial* oak December 1762. *The Rial is a peice of Spanish money Grafted at present.
[by Paul Sandby?]
Publishd According to Act of Parliament by Mary Darley in little Riders Court Leicester feilds [originally 1762 but printed c.1820].
Etching. 305 x 200mm (12 x 8"), with large margins. On wove paper. Faint mount burn, spotting in margins, stitch holes in top margin.
A satire on the terms of the peace preliminaries at the end of the Seven Years War, suggesting Lord Bute was taking money from the Spanish for favourable terms. He is shown with an ass's head, blowing a bubble of 'peace', as Britannia vomits the British conquests into a bowl with a French fleur-de-lis, held by a monkey. Possibly by Paul Sandby (1731-1809), an artist best known for his development of aquatint, who published a number of anonymous satirical etchings, some targeting William Hogarth. BM Satires 3917, with extensive description, suggesting the artist is Paul Sandby.
[Ref: 68927] £260.00
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[View of the Eagle Tower at Caernarvon.] [Twelve] Views in [North & South] Wales [No D].
[P. Sandby.]
[London Publishd by P Sandby St Georges Row Oxford Turnpike.] [n.d., c.1786.]
Fine coloured aquatint with etched line. Image size 205 x 290mm. Trimmed to image losing title, laid on card. Book title on rock partly rubbed off.
The title plate for the fourth part of Paul Sandby's series of views in Wales, published a decade after the first three parts. The figures in the foreground include a man playing a harp. The first set of twelve aquatints, published 1775, was the first British topographical book in aquatint. This Part not in Abbey, but see Scenery 511 for the first three parts.
[Ref: 57517] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Canada
[Engraved by the Omnigraph F.P. Becker & co Patentees.]
[n.d., c. 1843.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. Sheet 210 x 270mm, 8¼ x 10½". Top edge with stitching damage.
Map of Canada, published in 'Becker's Omnigraph Atlas of Modern Geography'. The 'omnigraph' of Francis Paul Becker & Co. was a machine which produced an intaglio steel plate engraved with text and illustration.
[Ref: 13239] £65.00
Cardiff Castle from the West. II.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P Sandby St Georges Row Oxford Turnpike Sep.r 1777.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 315 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
In 1771 the topographical artist Paul Sandby set off with his wealthy patron, Sir Joseph Banks, for a tour of Wales, sketching the magnificent scenery. His ''Twelve Views of South Wales'' were some of the first aquatints published in England, catching the fashion for landscape as part of the Romantic movement. Two further sets of twelve were published: this view is from the third.
[Ref: 8379] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Published Sepr. 1st 1775. by J. Boydell Cheapside
Aquatint 315 x 240mm. number 'I' above the image. Closed letters on aquatint ground.
Views in Wales: First set: In 1771 the topographical artist Paul Sandby set off with a wealthy patron [Sir Joseph Banks] for a tour of Wales, sketching the magnificent scenery, coming into fashion with the beginning of the Romantic movement. His "Twelve Views of south Wales" were some of the first aquatints published in England.
[Ref: 8375] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Inside of Chepstow Castle.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Published by T. Palser Surry fide Westminster Bridge 1812.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 210 x 285mm (8¼ x 11¼). Trimmed within plate.
A views of the ruins of Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire Wales. It is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain with its construction beginning in 1067 under the instruction of the Norman Lord William FitzOsbern (1020 – 1071). Sandby toured North Wales with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn around 1771.
[Ref: 56168] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Chess Match.]
C.W. Ross 1848. [Paul Gauci.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet: 305 x 400mm (12 x 15¾''). Trimmed and creasing. Diagonal crease across top right corner.
A double portrait of George Spencer, 6th Duke of Marlborough (1793-1857) and Sir John Scott Burdon Sanderson (1828-1905) shown playing chess.
[Ref: 48235] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
No 3. Chirk Castle &c. from Wynnstay Park.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row, Sep.r 1st 1776.
Aquatint with etching, printed in brown. Sheet 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate.
A distant view of Chirk Castle, now a National Trust property, published in Part II of Sandby's 'Views in Wales', the first series of aquatints published in Britain. Wynnstay was the estate of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1749-89), patron of the arts and friend of Handel and Garrick, who commissioned Robert Adam to design his house at 20 St James's Square in London. Abbey Scenery: 511.
[Ref: 31548] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pater! transeatame hoc poculum non voluntas mea fiat sed tua.
P V Somer fe. [after Charles le Brun.]
J. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Narrow margins, creasing in corners.
Christ's agony in the garden of Gethsemane, supported by angels. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3..
[Ref: 68879] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Clarissa.]
[Painted by J.E. Millais, 1887. Etched by Rajon.]
[n.d., c.1887.]
Etching. 445 x 300mm. Edges knocked.
[Ref: 4238] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[The Coke children?]
Huysman pinx. [engraved by William Vincent]
Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street [n.d., c.1685].
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 305 x 235mm (12 x 9¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A group of young children in an ornamental garden, with a girl dressed as a classical sheperdess, with two smaller children feeding a lamb. Two other children have wings, suggesting siblings who had died young. Challoner Smith identifies these as the Coke family, based on the similarity with another plate after Huysman (Van Somer 2). CS 4, state ii of ii. Ink collector's stamp not in Lugt.
[Ref: 65342] £480.00
No. 11. Conway in the County of Caernarvon.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row, Sep.r 1st 1776.
Aquatint with etching, printed in brown, finished by hand, 18th century watermark; Sheet 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½") very large margins. Some spotting, mount burn outside plate.
View of Conwy Castle at sunset, published in Part II of Sandby's 'Views in Wales', the first series of aquatints published in Britain. Abbey Scenery: 511.
[Ref: 57404] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
No. 11. Conway in the County of Caernarvon.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row, Sep.r 1st 1776.
Aquatint with etching, printed in brown. Sheet 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½"). Small margins.
View of Conwy Castle at sunset, published in Part II of Sandby's 'Views in Wales', the first series of aquatints published in Britain. Abbey Scenery: 511.
[Ref: 57403] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Dalmatian Dogs and kennels.]
[Etched by Paul Renouard.]
[n.d., 1907.]
Etching. 280 x 225mm, 11 x 8¾".
Charles Paul Renouard (1845-1924). While at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1875 he and his instructor were hired to decorate the ceiling of the Paris opera house, which was the inspiration for his most well-known series of etchings, Le Nouvel Opéra. He came to London in the 1890s and started work for the 'Graphic' newspaper, sketching theater-goers and performers at the Theater Royal in Drury Lane, and policemen and defendants at one of London's many police courts.
[Ref: 9058] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
IX. View of the River Dee 3 Miles short of Bala with Cader-Idris Mountain near Dolgelli 30 Miles distant.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publishd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Sep.r 1777.
Aquatint with etching, printed in brown. Sheet 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate.
View of the river among wooded hills, featuring Sandby sketching in the foreground, published in Part III of Sandby's 'Views in Wales', the first series of aquatints published in Britain. Abbey Scenery: 511.
[Ref: 31544] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Dinsdale Baths, from the Woods.
J.M. Sparks delt. Paul Gauci lith.
Printed by Engelmann & Co. [n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph. 159 x 201mm. 6¼ x 8".
Dinsdale Spa, Darlington, Durham. Although never as fashionable as Buxton or Bath, Dinsdale was thought by the Darlington Railway Company to have potential and they built Dinsdale Station to accomodate the anticipated passenger traffic. Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 16407] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
M.r John Dryden. 26. Title Page.
P. Fourdrinier Scul.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"), with large margins. Trimmed into plate on left.
Half-length portrait in oval of poet John Dryden (1631-1700).
[Ref: 66763] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
West View of the City of Edinburgh. Vüe Occidentale de la Ville d'Edinbourg Capitale d'Ecosse.
Paul Sandby Delin [also engraved].
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter-Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving with fine hand colour, 18th century watermark. 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"), large margins. Paper toned.
Distant view of Edinburgh, looking past the castle to Arthur's seat, drawn and engraved by Paul Sandby, and first published by him in 1751. Sayer first published the plate in 1753, although this state has had the date erased from the plate. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) was chief draughtsman of the "compleat and accurate survey of Scotland" after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
[Ref: 60875] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
East View of Edinburgh Castle. Vüe Orientale du Chateau d'Edinbourg en Ecosse.
Paul Sandby Delin et Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter-Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving with fine hand colour, 18th century watermark. 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾"), large margins. Paper toned.
A view of the walls of Edinburgh Castle, drawn and engraved by Paul Sandby, and first published by him in 1751. Sayer first published the plate in 1753, although this state has had the date erased from the plate. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) was chief draughtsman of the "compleat and accurate survey of Scotland" after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
[Ref: 60874] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Vue d'Edimbourg.
Dessiné par Ed. de Montulé. Gravé par Paul Legrand.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint. 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11½"). Very large margins.
A distant view of Edinburgh Castle. In the foreground is a man in a kilt.
[Ref: 39337] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria Leaving Devonport in the "Emerald" Yacht, Towed by the "Messenger" Steamer, 6th August 1833.
P. Gauci lith.
Printed by Graf & Soret.
Lithograph with hand-colouring, sheet 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet with original title pasted on verso of sheet. In mount with embossed title.
The young princess Victoria leaving Devonport in the 'Emerald' yacht, as seen from Barnpool. The excursion was nearly a tragic one: when the yacht failed to stop in the Hamoaze stretch of the River Tamar (which flows past Devonport Dockyard) it was carried under a hulk, damaging the mainmast which fell onto the deck, only narrowly missing the princess. Lithograph by Paul Gauci, whose originally watercolour is in the Royal Collection as part of a scrapbook compiled by Victoria.
[Ref: 41464] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
Gymnasivm at Ephesvs.
P. Sandby fecit., W. Pars Pinxt.
[Published by P. Sandby, January 1st 1780]
Tinted aquatint printed in bistre, 510 x 330mm.
A large separately issued print, after a drawing by Paul Sandby
[Ref: 5336] £650.00
Eton College, from Crown Corner.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.y 1st. 1776, by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Oxford Turnpike.
A fine and rare etching with aquatint, printed in sepia. Platemark: 340 x 490mm. (13¼ x 19¼"), with large margins Repaired tear to top edge in margin.
The River Thames near Eton with stone masons, barges, and other depictions of 18th century life on the river bank. Paul Sandby and his fellow artist and elder brother, Thomas, began their careers apprenticed to the Nottingham surveyor. From early in his career Sandby was also busy as a drawing master, counting several of his patrons, such as Lord Harcourt and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, among his pupils. In 1768 he was appointed chief drawing master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
[Ref: 30015] £650.00
[Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria.] Coeli progenies, Vindictae Iberae...
P. Paul Rubens pinxit. Paulus Pontius sculpsit et excudit. C. Geuartius lud.
[n.d., c.1640.]
Scarce engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 475 x 320mm (18¾ x 12½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, edged with old paper.
An equestrian portrait of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (1609-41), son of Philip III of Spain, at the Battle of Nördlingen. He served as a general in the Thirty Years' War, the Eighty Years' War and the Franco-Spanish War, remaining undefeated. An early example, published by Pontius. The example in the British Museum (1871,1209.3425) has 'et excudit' removed. The painting is in the Museo del Prado (P01687).
[Ref: 63990] £490.00
Grotte de Fingall. Vue de l'intérieur à l'éxtérieur.
Dessiné par Ed. de Montulé. Gravé par Paul Legrand.
Aquatint. Plate: 215 x 295m, (8½ x 11¾"). Very large margins.
A view inside Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa in Scotland. From 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Russie, pendent les années 1821, 1822 et 1823' by Edouard Montulé published in 1825 in which he described his travels to Great Britain and Eastern Europe.
[Ref: 39448] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
Geneva.
P. Gauci lith. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
London, Published by Dobbs & Co. 134, Fleet St. & 13, Soho Square. [n.d., c.1838.]
Uncommon lithograph, sheet 255 x 355mm. 10 x 14". Small repaired tear top and bottom.
An attractive oval prospect of Geneva, on the shores of Lake Geneva. From an unidentified publication, numbered 'No.3' upper right. By Paul Gauci (1834 - 1866; fl.), son of Maxim Gauci and brother of William. Abbey Scenery: undescribed. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18590] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
A View taken from the North of the Cathedral Church of Glasgow, and Engraved in the Academy in Glasgow by R. Paul Eleve.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Fine & rare engraving, 18th century watermark. 260 x 405mm (10¼ x 16"). Trimmed close to platemark unevenly.
Robert Paul (1739-70) was a pupil at the Glasgow Academy.
[Ref: 54655] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pure-Piapa. A remarkable Basaltic Column in Guiana.
Drawn from the Original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by P. Gauci. Printed by P. Gauci.
[London: Ackermann and Co., 1840.]
Coloured lithograph with very fine colour. Sheet 345 x 450mm (13½ x 17¾"), with large margins. Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line, some foxing outside image.
A pair of bowmen stalking savanna deer under Puré-Piapa, a fifty-foot natural basalt pillar, from 'Twelve views in the interior of Guiana: from drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches during the expedition carried on in the years 1835 to 1839'. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela. Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48693] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)