A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Night. Boy Blowing Charcoal.
Godfy Schalken Pinx.t. Wilson Fecit.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
A chiaroscuro of a boy lit by the charcoal he is blowing on, a candle in his other hand. Godfried Schalcken's original oil remained at Althorp until 1988, when it was purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland (NG 2495), now titled 'A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand to Light a Candle'.
CS see pg. 460. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68816] £360.00
Godfy Schalken Pinx.t. Wilson Fecit.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
A chiaroscuro of a boy lit by the charcoal he is blowing on, a candle in his other hand. Godfried Schalcken's original oil remained at Althorp until 1988, when it was purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland (NG 2495), now titled 'A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand to Light a Candle'.
CS see pg. 460. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68816] £360.00
Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist..
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, sheet 165 x 95mm (6½ x 3¾"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Chiefly remembered as author of 'Gulliver's Travels' (first published 1726 and now perhaps the most-read of all eighteenth-century literary works) and as a satirist has few rivals in the English language. Epigram from Pliny's 'Epistles' below. Original etching by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 42099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, sheet 165 x 95mm (6½ x 3¾"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Chiefly remembered as author of 'Gulliver's Travels' (first published 1726 and now perhaps the most-read of all eighteenth-century literary works) and as a satirist has few rivals in the English language. Epigram from Pliny's 'Epistles' below. Original etching by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 42099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem, Plin. Espist.
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, fine impression. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), frontispiece to Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life & Writings of Swift' 1752.
[Ref: 50014] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, fine impression. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), frontispiece to Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life & Writings of Swift' 1752.
[Ref: 50014] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
William Tempest. F.R.S. Aet. 70.
Painted & etched by B.Wilson.
[n.d. c.1752].
Etching. 190 x 100mm.
[1682 - 1761]. Very fine copy of the frontispiece to 'Chronology' 1752. Etched by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 6655] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & etched by B.Wilson.
[n.d. c.1752].
Etching. 190 x 100mm.
[1682 - 1761]. Very fine copy of the frontispiece to 'Chronology' 1752. Etched by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 6655] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Revd: Mr: William Whiston Born 9 Decemr. 1667. Died Augt. 22d. 1752.
B. Wilson Fecit 1753.
Etching, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼". Occasional spotting; a fine impression with full margins.
William Whiston (1667 - 1752), mathematician and divine. By Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788), portrait painter and scientist, also etcher, occasional mezzotinter and collector of Rembrandt. He was appointed Hogarth's successor as Serjeant-Painter to the King.
Not in BM. NPG: D8302. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
[Ref: 9638] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
B. Wilson Fecit 1753.
Etching, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼". Occasional spotting; a fine impression with full margins.
William Whiston (1667 - 1752), mathematician and divine. By Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788), portrait painter and scientist, also etcher, occasional mezzotinter and collector of Rembrandt. He was appointed Hogarth's successor as Serjeant-Painter to the King.
Not in BM. NPG: D8302. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
[Ref: 9638] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)