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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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![[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.](jpegs/54044.jpg)
[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00
![[A 17th century cavalry skirmish.]](jpegs/54048.jpg)
[A 17th century cavalry skirmish.]
W.B. [William Baillie] 1762.
[London: John Boydell, c.1792.]
Etching with drypoint. 215 x 365mm (8½ x 14½"), on wove paper with wide margins. Tear in left margins.
A mounted skirmish in the foothills under a walled town. Etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Having retired from the army in 1761 he devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, specialising in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Baillie sold all his plates to Boydell, who reprinted them in collected editions in 1792 and 1803), but he continued to etch.
[Ref: 54048] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
W.B. [William Baillie] 1762.
[London: John Boydell, c.1792.]
Etching with drypoint. 215 x 365mm (8½ x 14½"), on wove paper with wide margins. Tear in left margins.
A mounted skirmish in the foothills under a walled town. Etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Having retired from the army in 1761 he devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, specialising in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Baillie sold all his plates to Boydell, who reprinted them in collected editions in 1792 and 1803), but he continued to etch.
[Ref: 54048] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Major General W. J. Dilkes. Engraved for the Military Panoramas.
by H. R. Cook from a picture by S. Woodforde R. A. London published July 1.1813 by Martin & C.o N.o 33 Orchard Street Portman Square.
London, 1813.
Stipple engraving. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed to plate. Three small tears along right edge. Some light stains.
Half portrait of General William Thomas Dilkes (1767-1841), inclined to the right and front-gazing.
[Ref: 53888] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
by H. R. Cook from a picture by S. Woodforde R. A. London published July 1.1813 by Martin & C.o N.o 33 Orchard Street Portman Square.
London, 1813.
Stipple engraving. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed to plate. Three small tears along right edge. Some light stains.
Half portrait of General William Thomas Dilkes (1767-1841), inclined to the right and front-gazing.
[Ref: 53888] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]](jpegs/53931.jpg)
[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Courtship. To the Right Hon.ble Hugh Earl Percy, &c. &c. &c. Lieu.t General of His Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the Fifth Reg.t on Foot; the following Plates, representing the Life and Death of a Soldier, are most humbly Inscribed, by his Lordship's much obliged and most obedient Servant Robert Blyth. / From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Family. From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Mortar Battery at Woolwich.
T. Jones, del.t. C. Hunt, sculp.t.
London, Published September 13th. 1847, by Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.
Rare aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 580mm (16½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, wormholes.
The Royal Artillery demonstrating live fire of their mortars, watched by a large audience.
Hickman p.209.
[Ref: 53898] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
T. Jones, del.t. C. Hunt, sculp.t.
London, Published September 13th. 1847, by Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.
Rare aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 580mm (16½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, wormholes.
The Royal Artillery demonstrating live fire of their mortars, watched by a large audience.
Hickman p.209.
[Ref: 53898] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)