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[George Charles Bingham, 3th Earl of Lucan.]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by John Watkins, Parliament Street.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Steel engraving on india, proof before title. 400 x 285mm (15¾ x 11¼"). Spot in background.
George Charles Bingham (1800-88), 3rd Earl of Lucan, one of the three men blamed for the Charge of the Light Brigade.
[Ref: 44434] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Gustavus Vaughan Brooke.
Engraved by D. Pound, from a Daguerreotype by Fitzgibbon of St. Louis.
The London Printing and Publishing Company. [n.d., c.1860]
Engraving. Sheet: 255 x 160mm (10 x 6¼''). Trimmed. Central crease.
A portrait of Irish stage actor Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) who enjoyed success in Ireland, England and Australia, where he performed at Sydney and Melbourne 1855-1860. He died returning to Australia, when the overloaded SS London floundered in the Bay of Biscay, with a single lifeboat with 19 people surving out of 239. Kivell p. 44.
[Ref: 48403] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
The Baron Brunnow, Russian Minister and Envoy Plenipotentiary at the Court of St James.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Stipple. Sheet 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Trimmed.
Philipp Graf von Brunnow (1797-1875), Russian ambassador in London (1840-54, including the start of the Crimean War), Frankfurt (1855), Berlin (1856), and again London (1858-74). This portrait, from a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, was taken for a carte-de-visite; this print was published for the 'Illustrated News of the World'.
[Ref: 33298] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Sir High Mac-Calmomont Cairns. D.C.P.M. &c.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., 1859.]
Stipple. Sheet 295 x 215mm (11½ x 8½").
Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (1819-85) was a British statesman, Lord Chancellor under Benjamin Disraeli. This portrait, from a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, was taken for a carte-de-visite; this print was published for the 'Illustrated News of the World'.
[Ref: 33297] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Charles Dickens, Esq.
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
"Supplement to the Illustrated News of the World". The London Joint Stoct Newspaper Company _ Limited. Office, 199, Strand, London. [n.d. c.1858.]
Mixed-method engraving. 400 x 272mm. 15¾ x 10¾".
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great English novelist of the Victorian period. In an 1859 publication called "Town Talk" an engraved portrait of Charles Dickens is described as being taken "from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall". The picture of Dickens above was described as "a portrait engraved on steel by D. J. Pound, from a photograph by Mayall, London" when it was published as a Supplement to the Illustrated News of the World on 9th October, 1858. During the engraving process, a beard has been added to Mayall's original image of Dickens. In Mayall's original daguerreotype portrait of Dickens taken around 1853, the author had a moustache but no chin beard.
[Ref: 22257] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving. Sheet 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8½"). Trimmed; creases.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) Conservative Prime Mininster in 1868 and from 1874-80. He is still the only Prime Minister of Jewish descent, although his family became Anglicans when he was aged 12. This portrait, from a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, predates his premiership and was probably taken for a carte-de-visit; this print was published for the 'Illustrated News of the World'.
[Ref: 33247] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq. M.P. for Finsbury.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving. Sheet: 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of politician Thomas Slingsby Duncombe (1796-1861) shown while serving as M.P. to Finsbury. Duncombe was a a successful politician in the Commons and was considered one of the most stylish politicians of the time.
[Ref: 46318] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Michael Faraday, Esq. F.R.S. D.C.L. Professor of Chemistry.
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
'Supplement to The Illustrated News of the World.' The London Joint Stock Newspaper Company Limited. [n.d., c.1858.]
Engraving, sheet 390 x 270mm. 15¼ x 10½". Trimmed to plate and slightly soiled; tatty and chipped extremities.
Michael Faraday, FRS (1791 – 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His work on electricity provided the foundation of modern electrical applications; a brilliant lecturer and one of the greatest of all experimental scientists. Wellcome: 948-17.
[Ref: 13390] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
W. Harrison. S. S. ''Great Eastern''. [facsimilie signature.]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Sheet: 410 x 295mm (16 x 11½''). Creasing.
A portrait of Captain William Harrison (1812-1860) who was a merchant navy officer who served as captain of the Great Eastern. Harrison dies when the ship's boat he was sailing in from Southampton to Hythe was capsized.
[Ref: 50566] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[W. Harrison. S. S. ''Great Eastern''.]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé, proof before title. Sheet: 410 x 295mm (16 x 11½''). Trimmed.
A portrait of Captain William Harrison (1812-1860) who was a merchant navy officer who served as captain of the Great Eastern. Harrison dies when the ship's boat he was sailing in from Southampton to Hythe was capsized.
[Ref: 50567] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, The Great Naturalist.
Engraved by D. J. Pound. from a painting by C. Begas.
Engraving. Sheet: 235 x 325mm (9¼ x 12½").
A three-quarter length portrait of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) a Prussian geographer and naturalist who travelled throughout Europe and America and was one of the first scientists to propose that South America and Africa had once been linked.
[Ref: 39304] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
David Livingstone, Esq.re LL.d. H.M. Consul at Quillimane, East Africa. 'Supplement to The Illustrated News of the World.'
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
The London Joint Stock Newspaper Company Limited. Office, 199, Strand, London [n.d., 1857.]
Engraving. Sheet 415 x 285mm (16¼ x 11¼"). Slight damage left corner.
Half length portrait of David Livingstone (1813-1873), legendary missionary and explorer who was the first European to travel across southern Africa from coast to coast. This image was published the year he issued his book 'Missionary travels and researches in South Africa'.
[Ref: 35851] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
Captain Sir Leopold M'Clintock, R.N. LL.D. Discoverer of the Remains of Sir John Franklin's Expedition.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Cheyne, R.N.
Engraving. Sheet: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13").
A three-quater length portrait of Sir Leopold McClintlock (1819-1907), an Irish captain in the British navy who is well known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
[Ref: 39296] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
Paul Morphy, Esq.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Thompson of Paris.
Engraving. Sheet: 230 x 320mm, (9 x 12½").
A seated portrait of Paul Morphy (1837-1884) the famous American chess player who was the unofficial world champion. He was called "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" due to the brevity of his career.
[Ref: 39302] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Nicholas 1. Emperor of Russia. O.B. 1855.
[Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph?]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Nicholas I (1796-1855), Emperor of Russia from 1825 until his death towards the end of the Crimean War.
[Ref: 37993] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Madame Clara Novello
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall [1859]
Engraving, sheet 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"). Crease lower left. Slight marking at top.
Clara Novello (1818-1908), singer and daughter of the music publisher Vincent Novello. Born at 240 Oxford Street, London, Novello made her public debut at the Theatre Royal, Windsor in 1832 after studying in Paris. Following her marriage to Count Giovanni Baptista Gigliucci in 1843 Novello put her career on hold to raise a family and assist her husband in the fight for Italian independence. However, when Count Gigliucci lost his property in the 1848 uprisings, Novello returned to the stage, performing both in the UK and on the continent. Novello retired, while still popular, in 1860, to live with Count Gigliucci in Rome and Fermo. Published in 1859, shortly before Novello's retirement, in the 'Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages' of engravings made from photographs by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901). Harvard 7
[Ref: 43312] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
George Peabody, Esq.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by H.N. King, Bath [n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving. Sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed; creases.
George Peabody (1795-1869), American-born banker acknowledged as the father of modern philanthropy, having founded the Peabody Trust in Britain and the Peabody Institute and George Peabody Library in Baltimore. A blue plaque is displayed on the house where he died in London, No. 80 Eaton Square. Peabody used the photographic portrait for a carte-de-visite; this print was published for the 'Illustrated News of the World'.
[Ref: 33246] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Jon Pereira.]
Engraved by D. Pound from a Daguerreotype by Myall.
[n.d., c.1853.]
Engraving, 260 x 155mm. 10¼ x 6". Slight foxing outside of printed area.
Inscribed 'faithfully yours Jon Pereira.'
[Ref: 8716] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Colonel Tal. P. Shaffner, LL.D. &c. Projector of the North Atlantic Telegraph.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1860]
Engraved. Sheet: 270 x 170mm (11 x 7"). Trimmed.
A three-quater length portrait of Col. Taliaferro Preston Shaffner (1811-1881) an American inventor and entrepreneur who supported telegraphy when it was in its infancy.
[Ref: 45809] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Col. Tal. P. Shaffner, LL.D. &c. Projector of the North Atlantic Telegraph.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Steel engraving, printed area 280 x 170mm..
Tagliaferro Preston Shaffner, (1818-1881), his hand resting on a globe showing the Atlantic Ocean, which he attempted to run a telegraph cable across, from America to Europe, in 1857. The project was unsuccessful due largely to poor financing. He was editor of the American Telegraphic Magazine, and also wrote ‘The Telegraph Manual’ (1859).
[Ref: 4162] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Albert Smith, Esqr.
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
"Supplement to The Illustrated News of the World." The London Joint Stock Newspaper Company_Limited. Office, 199, Strand, London. [n.d. c.1858.]
Stipple and engraving. 400 x 280mm. 15¾ x 11".
Albert Richard Smith (1816-1860) started his career as a surgeon but from the 1840s he became a popular journalist and humourist. He was one of the first contributors to "Punch." He was an English author, entertainer and mountaineer. NPG: D6776.
[Ref: 15642] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
C.E. Trevelyan [facsimile signature]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by John Watkins Parliament Street [n.d., c.1860]
Engraving, sheet size 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11").
Portrait of Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-1886), administrator in India. Trevelyan became governor of Madras in 1859 (hence the referred to here by the volume inscribed 'Madras' he holds in his left hand). He was subsequently finance minister in India, and after returning to Britain, author of 'The British Army in 1868' and several pamphlets on charity, pauperism, and other social causes. DNB
[Ref: 32561] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Simonton & Millard, Dublin.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Steel engraving on india, proof before title. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"). Surface dirt.
Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster. The titled state appeared in the Illustrated London News publication 'Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages', 1859.
[Ref: 44429] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
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