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Ioseph Banks Bar.t.
Ioseph Banks Bar.t. Praesident der Königl. Societaet der Wissenschaften zu London.
Conrad Westermayr fecit.
[German, n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple. Sheet 180 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into plate on left.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences holding a map of Africa. As the leading founder of the African Association, Banks was a patron of Mungo Park's expeditions to find the path of the Niger River. From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden".
Kivell & Spence: pg.17.
[Ref: 55918]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Silversmith] Herr Philipp Adam Benz. Silber=Jubelier...
[Silversmith] Herr Philipp Adam Benz. Silber=Jubelier...
Joh. Holzer pinxit. Joh. Jac. Haid sculps Aug. Uind.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, fine impression 410 x 265mm (16 x 10½") with large margins. Framed. Mould spots in image, foxing. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Philp Adam Benz (1709-49), silver merchant of Augsburg, published posthumously.
[Ref: 56014]   £580.00  
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Mr Blanchard in the Character of Ralph.
Mr Blanchard in the Character of Ralph. The Passage. Theres no harm in putting a civil question be there Why you look as cross and ill natured.
Engraved by Leney from the original Picture which was painted from life by De Wilde, from the Maid of the Mill by Bickerstaff in the Celebrated Edition of Bell's British Theatre, which is now Publishing. Periodically.
Printed for J. Bell British Library London May 29.th 1792.
Coloured stipple, printed in colour, plate 295 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"), very large margins. Slight creasing and time staining.
Full length portrait of the comic actor and tenor singer Thomas Blanchard (c.1760-1797), the second, as the character from Bickerstaff's 'The Maid of the Mill'. He stands head turned slightly and thoughtfully looking to left; wearing coat, long waistcoat, breeches and a cravat. His left hand dips into his waistcoat pocket and he holds his hat in the other. There is a watermill in the background and some trees.
[Ref: 56077]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Napoléon.
Napoléon.
Cl. Leclerc. J. Lith. de Villain.
A Paris, chez Lemiere, M.d d'Estampes, rue du Remart, S.t H.re No 4 [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. Printed area 380 x 240mm (15 x 9½"), with large margins. Repaired tear. Nicks to edges of paper.
A half-length portrait of Napoleon in uniform, with a vignette of an eagle and snake on his tomb on St Helena.
[Ref: 56148]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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John Bowring, L.L.D.&c.&c.
John Bowring, L.L.D.&c.&c.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill Esqr. R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraver to His Majesty.
London Published June 4th 1832 by W.m Ward 12 Mornington Place Hampstead Road.
Mezzotint. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Good impression. Slight crease at top.
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), linguist and traveller, diplomatist and author; seated, looking to front, his left elbow on a table and wearing a dark coat, holding spectacles in his left hand. Bowring promoted reforms to the keeping of public accounts and obtained the issue of the florin as the first step towards a decimal system of currency. A friend of John Stuart Mill and editor of the radical 'Westminster Review'; after a varied career as journalist, poet, financial and economic expert, MP, traveller and diplomat, he became consul at Canton in 1847. He was later appointed plenipotentiary to China and governor, commander-in-chief and vice -admiral of Hong Kong. Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875).
NPG D32026.
[Ref: 55991]   £450.00  
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[Sir Guy Carleton] No. XXII. M.rs. W_n. No. XXIII. The careful Commander.
[Sir Guy Carleton] No. XXII. M.rs. W_n. No. XXIII. The careful Commander. [With pages 401-404 of the Histories of the Tête à Tête]
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street Sep.r. 1. 1783.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Glued to backing card at top.
Two portrait busts in ovals: on the left is depicted Mrs W. who followed her husband to New York who, after his death, accepted a proposal from Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724-1808), Governor of Quebec, depicted on the right. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6302.
[Ref: 56228]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Apres l'homme le Cheval le plus noble animal...
[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Apres l'homme le Cheval le plus noble animal...
Abr. à Diepenbeke delineavit. Petr. van Lisbetten sculpsit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 390 x 520mm (15¼ x 20½"), with red ruling. Some staining.
Equestrian portrait of William Cavendish (1593-1676), 1st Duke of Newcastle, in armour, baton in hand, horse rearing on a plinth, surrounded by cherubs and military trophies. After the Royalist defeat in the Civil War, Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where his treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', was published by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example is from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'.
[Ref: 55974]   £360.00  
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Carolus II. D. G. Mag: Brit: Fran: & Hiber: Rex &c.
Carolus II. D. G. Mag: Brit: Fran: & Hiber: Rex &c.
R. White Sculpsit.
Sold by Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Churchyard. [n.d. c.1680]
Engraving. Sheets: 475 x 280mm (18¾ x 11"). Slight distortion to paper.
A full-length portrait of Charles II (1630-1685).
Griffiths Print in Stuart Britain No 100. For Pair see Ref: 42416.
[Ref: 56184]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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Charles le Second Roy de la Grande Bretagne.
Charles le Second Roy de la Grande Bretagne.
Abr: van Diepenbeeck inv: C. Caukercken fecit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾"), with original red ruling. Tears taped.
An equestrian portrait of Charles II before a pre-Fire prospect of London, surrounded by allegorical figures including Mercury and Cupid. Originally published in 1658 it represents the exiled Charles's ambition of regaining his throne. After the Royalist defeat in the Civil War, Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where his treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', was published by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example is from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'.
[Ref: 55969]   £360.00  
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Arucano, Native of Chili.
Arucano, Native of Chili. D.r Prichard's Natural History of Man. Plate XLI.
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"0.
A Mapuche of the Araucanía region of Chile.
[Ref: 56215]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Madam D'Avenant.
Madam D'Avenant.
G. Kneller pinxit. I. Smith fecit et excudit.
[n.d. 1689.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Time stained.
Full length portrait of Frances D'Avenant, seated in an idyllic garden holding a loose bunch of flowers in her lap.
CS 76 I of II
[Ref: 56237]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Silversmith] Johann Wilhelm Dammann Silber arbeiter in Augsburg  gebohren in Schweinfurth den 29.ten Juny. Anno 1717.
[Silversmith] Johann Wilhelm Dammann Silber arbeiter in Augsburg gebohren in Schweinfurth den 29.ten Juny. Anno 1717.
Ant. Graff pinx. 1765.
[Augsburg, c.1765.]
Rare & scarce mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). L:aid down on sheet. Trimmed into plate, six large printer's creases.
A half length portrait of silver merchant Johann Wilhelm Dammann (1717-84), silver merchant of Augsburg, holding his design for a rococo tureen. It is unusual for a print with so many printer's creases (caused by the damp paper not being flat when put in the press) to survive quality control!
[Ref: 56020]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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The Countess of Ossory.
The Countess of Ossory.
W: Wissing pinxit. I. Beckit fecit.
E. Cooper excudit. [n.d. c. 1680-7.]
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Small margins. Slightly time stained.
An almost full length portrait of Emilie de Nassau (c.1635-88), Countess of Ossory, seated by a tree petting a little dog with a castle in the distance. She moved to England after her marriage to Lord Thurles, who became the earl of Ossory in 1662. Emilie served as a lady in waiting to Catherine of Braganza soon after she arrived in England until the death of the queen's husband Charles II. She was renowned for her beauty and sat for her portrait by Wissing, who painted numerous portraits of British Royals.
CS 83 only state.
[Ref: 56238]   £490.00  
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E. Edwards, Associate and Teacher of Perspective in the Royal Academy.
E. Edwards, Associate and Teacher of Perspective in the Royal Academy.
Ipse pinxit. Cardon sculpsit.
Published for the Proprietor as the Act directs, 20, April 1808.
Stipple. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), large margins.
Edward Edwards A.RA. (1738-1806), painter was elected an Associate Academician in 1773 and appointed Teacher of Perspective at the Royal Academy in 1788. This self portrait is the frontispiece to his volume entitled 'Anecdotes of Painters', intended as a supplement to Walpole's work.
Ex Norman Blackburn Trade Collection.
[Ref: 55935]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hon.ble Mary Feilding sole daughter & heir of Barnham Ld Visc Carlingford.
The Right Hon.ble Mary Feilding sole daughter & heir of Barnham Ld Visc Carlingford.
P. Lely pinx. I. Beckett fec.
[n.d. c.1683-7.]
Fine mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 10") with large margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of Mary Feilding (nee Swift, died 1682), seated with her left arm resting on a pedestal, on which sits a small sarcophagus.
CS34 I of III.
[Ref: 56239]   £490.00  
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Ferdinand VII,
Ferdinand VII, Roi d'Espagne.
A. Maurin 1833 [in image]. Lith. de Lemercier rue du Four S.G. No.35
Paris chez Chaillou Editeur rue St Honoré No. 140
Lithograph, image 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½") very large margins. Messy. Uncut sheet; repaired tears in margins; publisher's blindstamp.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833), twice king of Spain (1808; 1813-33). Overthrown by Napoleon in 1808, the French Emperor acknowledged him as king again in 1813. Towards the end of his life he married Maria Christina, with whom he had a daughter, Isabella, who subsequently became queen. From a series of portraits by lithographer Antoine Maurin dit l'aîné (1793 - 1860).
For Isabella II as a child, see ref. 19410; for Maria Christina, see ref. 34517.
[Ref: 55964]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.&c  [&]  Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales.&c
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.&c [&] Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales.&c
G. Kneller Eq: Baronet pinx. 1717 [&] 1716. Geo: Vertue Londini Sculp: 1724.
London Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street. Drury Lane.
Pair of engravings, sheets c.460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Trimmed within plates, laid on album pages.
A fine pair of portraits of George II (1683-1760) as Prince of Wales and his consort Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737), in oval frames, after Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723). The pair married in 1705, nearly a decade before the Hanoverian succession.
[Ref: 56081]   £750.00   view all images for this item
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The Right Hon.ble Godart Baron de Ginkel, etc.
The Right Hon.ble Godart Baron de Ginkel, etc. Commander in Chief of all their Ma.ties Forces in Ireland. & Earle of Athelone.
R. White ad Vivum delinL et Sculpsit 1691.
Printed and Sold by John King at the Globe against the Church in the Poultry [n.d., c.1700.]
Fine & rare engraving, watermark 18th century. 380 x 270mm (15 x 10¾"). Mounted in album paper at sides. Tears to edges.
A half-length portrait of Godart de Ginkell (1630-1703), 1st Earl of Athlone, a Dutch soldier who came to England in 1688 with William III. He commanded a body of Dutch cavalry at the Battle of the Boyne and took over as commander in Ireland when William returned to England. As First Field Marshal of the Dutch States Army, Ginkell was second in command of the Allied army under Marlborough in 1702. Originally this plate was a portrait by White of the Earl of Rochester, published 1681, here re-engraved by White. When he died in 1703, White's son sold his plates to Jhn King (d.1738).
[Ref: 55976]   £360.00  
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[Maria Gunning] Maria Countess of Coventry.
[Maria Gunning] Maria Countess of Coventry.
[after Jean-Etienne Liotard.]
Printed for John Bowles at No 13 _ in Cornhill, London [c.1760].
Mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Tipped into album sheet. Small margins.
Maria Coventry [née Gunning], countess of Coventry (bap.1732-d.1760), in a floral dress, head resting on her hand. A noted beauty, she died at 27, said to be caused by lead and mercury poisoning, absorbed from her makeup. A detail from a pastel drawing by Jean-Etienne Liotard (1750-55), in the Rijksmuseum.
See Ref: 42089 for reverse image.
[Ref: 55923]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mary Amelia Warner] [Miss Huddart in the character of Joan of Arc.]
[Mary Amelia Warner] [Miss Huddart in the character of Joan of Arc.]
[Sketched from Life by R J Lane, A.R.A. Lithographer to Her Majesty. J. Graf Printer to the Queen London. ]
[Published Dec.r 5th 1837, by Thos. McLean.]
Tintd lithograph. Sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions, laid on album paper.
Mary Amelia Warner (1804-54, née Huddart) actress and theatre manager, in Serle's 'Joan of Arc', dressed in armour under a bodice with the fleur-de-lis, holding a banner.
[Ref: 55763]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Mongolian Race. A Kalapuya Lad; Native of Oregon.
Mongolian Race. A Kalapuya Lad; Native of Oregon.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Head and shoulders portrait, copied from an engraving in Charles Wilkes' U. S. Exploring Expedition: Vol 9 the Races of Man', 1848.
[Ref: 56208]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Honourable S.r Peter King Knight, Lord Cheif Justice of his Maj.ties Court of Comon Pleas, and one of his Maj.ties most Honourable Privy Council A.o D.ni 1724.
The Right Honourable S.r Peter King Knight, Lord Cheif Justice of his Maj.ties Court of Comon Pleas, and one of his Maj.ties most Honourable Privy Council A.o D.ni 1724.
Geo: Vertue Sculpsit.
Sold by Iohn Carson in Mitre Court Fleet Street.
Copper engraving. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate.
Peter King (1669-1734), 1st Baron King PC, FRS, lawyer and politician. From 1714 to 1725 he was chief justice of the common pleas and was appointed speaker of the House of Lords, after being raised to peerage. In the same year he was made Lord Chancellor, until he was forced to resign in 1733 following a paralytic stroke.
Alexander 412, state i of ii. See 17131 for 2nd state.
[Ref: 56142]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Hudson Lowe. Lt. General [Facsimile signature].
Hudson Lowe. Lt. General [Facsimile signature].
London, John Murray, Albermarle Street, June 1853.
Rare engraving on india. Plate: 150 x 220mm (6 x 8½") large margins. Some staining on outer margins.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hudson Lowe (1769-1844), a British soldier who served as Governor of St. Helena during Napoleon's imprisonment on the island. Frontispiece to Forsyth's 'Captivity of Napoleon' (3 Vols, 1853)
[Ref: 56087]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Dona Maria,
Dona Maria, Reine de Portugal
A. Maurin 1832 [in image]. Lith. de Lemercier rue du Four S.G. No.35
Paris chez Chaillou Editeur rue St Honoré No. 140.
Lithograph, image 175 x 130mm (7 x 5") with very large margins. Uncut sheet; publisher's blindstamp.
Dona Maria II (1819-53), queen regent of Portugal and the Algarves from 1826-28, and from 1834-53, here portrayed at the age of around thirteen. Maria had been nominated by the elderly King Joao VI to serve as regent (as his favoured son Pedro was emperor of Brazil), but in 1828 the Joao's exiled son Miguel deposed Maria, proclaiming himself king. Thereafter Maria travelled to various European courts in search of support. Pedro later joined forces with Maria, warring with Miguel and forcing him to abdicate, restoring Maria to the throne. From a series of portraits by lithographer Antoine Maurin dit l'aîné (1793 - 1860).
For satirical representations of Maria visiting the British court, see refs. 30507, 30545 and 30249.
[Ref: 55963]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mary II] Maria Princeps Auriaca.
[Mary II] Maria Princeps Auriaca.
P. Lely Pinxit. A. Blooteling fecit et Ex.
Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hallandiae et West-Frisiae. [n.d. c.1677-89.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), very large margins. Slight crease.
A bust portrait of Mary II (1662-94) as Princess of Orange, her hair styled in ringlets cascading over her left shoulder wearing a low dress with mantel decorated with pearls. Mary (1662-94), daughter of James II, married Prince William of Orange in 1677. After the 'Glorious Revolution' she returned to England to rule jointly with her husband as Mary II and William III.
[Ref: 56235]   £850.00  
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[Silversmith] Johann Elias Mayer
[Silversmith] Johann Elias Mayer
Gemahlt von Anton Graff. 1763. Gescaben von Joh. Elias Haid in Augsburg. 1773.
Mezzotint. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"). Framed. Thread margins, slight spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Johann Elias Mayer (1722-72), silver merchant of Augsburg, published posthumously.
[Ref: 56015]   £480.00  
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[Otacity Ostenaco] Austenaco, Great Warriour, Commander in Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
[Otacity Ostenaco] Austenaco, Great Warriour, Commander in Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Engraved for the British Magazine. [loosely based on a painting by Joshua Reynolds.]
[n.d. c.1762].
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4")
Otacity Ostenaco (c.1710-80), Cherokee chief who fought for the British in the French and Indian Wars (raiding the French stronghold at Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh) and the American War of Independence. In 1762 he visited London, where he was painted by Joshua Reynolds.
[Ref: 56209]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Joseph Rullier.
Joseph Rullier. Se portant très bien âgé de Cent-Sept-Dix et Cinq Mois, Né le 6 avril 1673, 3, au bourg Ste Maurice en Savoye
Permis d'imprimer et Debiter à Paris ce 25 Mars 1780 Le Noir.
Etching. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"), with large margins.
Contemporary scene of French centenarian Joseph Rullier being presented to the French court, aged 110, apparently published to raise money for him. Earlier states of the plate give his age as 107 and 109.
[Ref: 55758]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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J. Scott Russell
J. Scott Russell M.A._F.R.S._M.I.C.E. Engineer and Ship Builder.
Engraved by W. H. Mote, from a Photograph by Mayall
[n.d., c.1850]
Rare engraving and stipple, plate 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Some creasing and time staining with tears to edges.
A half-length seated portrait of John Scott Russell with an engineering plan on his knee. John Scott Russell (1808-1882) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859). He made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction.
[Ref: 55996]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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[Shortshanks - Robert Seymour] R. Seymour [facsimile signature].
[Shortshanks - Robert Seymour] R. Seymour [facsimile signature].
London Pub. by Jane Seymour, 178, Tottenham Court Road, May 6th, 1841.
Lithograph on chine collé. Printed area 125 x 90mm (5 x 3½").
Robert Seymour (1798-1836), painter, etcher and lithographer who, as 'Shortshanks', succeeded William Heath as lead caricaturist of the day, taking over from him as illustrator of 'The Looking Glass' or McLean's 'Monthly Sheet of Caricatures', moving from etching to lithography. He was also the first illustrator of Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers' producing seven plates before his death in 1836. This portrait was published by his widow.
[Ref: 55917]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hono.ble Charles Earle of Derby
The Right Hono.ble Charles Earle of Derby Lord Stanley and Strange of Knockin Baron of wee ton Viscount Kintun Lord Mohun Burnell Bassett and Lacy Lord Leuietenant of the Countyes Pall atyne of Lancaster and Chester and the City and the County of Chester Chamberlaine of Chester vice Admirall of the aforesaid Countyes Lord of Man and the Isles. &c.
A. Blooteling fecit.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Thread margins. Laid down on conservation paper. Slight rubbing in top left corner.
A bust portrait of Charles Stanley (1628-1672), the 8th Earl of Derby. He largely kept his distance from the English Civil War and was unsuccessful in petitioning for his father, James Stanley's, life upon his capture in 1651. Despite his father's disrepute and execution, Charles managed to retain his family's land and served as the mayor of Liverpool (1666-67).
Wesseley no. 13; CS K I of II.
[Ref: 56236]   £690.00  
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Sir George Leonard Staunton, Bart. LLD. FRS. Aet. 55.
Sir George Leonard Staunton, Bart. LLD. FRS. Aet. 55.
Engleheart pinx.t 1792. Engraved by C. Picart.
Private Plate.
Rare stipple. Plate 254 x 197mm (10 x 7¾"), with large margins. Some surface dirt and creases.
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801) was an employee of the East India Company, diplomat, and a botanist. He accompanied George, Lord McCartney to Madras to negotiate peace with Tipu Sultan. In 1787 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1793 he was named Secretary to the British mission to the Chinese Imperial Court.
NPG: D11106.
[Ref: 55998]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sir James Turner] Vera Effigies Jacobi Turner Equitis Aurati.
[Sir James Turner] Vera Effigies Jacobi Turner Equitis Aurati.
R. White Sculp.
Printed for R. Chiswell at the Rose and Crowne in St Pauls Church Yard [n.d., 1683].
Engraving, J. Whatman 17? watermark; Sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper with letterpress biography underneath.
Sir James Turner (1615-c.1686), Scottish professional soldier who fought for the Swedes in the invasion of Bavaria in 1632 and the Thirty Years' War, and both the Scottish Covenanting army and the Royalists during the Civil War. After the Restoration, promoted to general, he helped supress the Lowland Covenanters, provoking the Pentland Uprising in 1666, during which he was captured at Dumfries. Often threatened with execution, he survived, perhaps because his captors knew he had been criticised for leniency by his superiors. This portrait was published as the frontispiece portrait to his 'Pallas Armata', essays on classical and modern warfare.
[Ref: 55975]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Major General James Wolfe.
Major General James Wolfe. Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in the Expedition against Quebec.
H. Smith Esq.r pinx.t C. Spooner fecit.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black House in Cornhill London [n.d, c.1765).
Very rare mezzotint, plate 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), large margins. Some toning to the paper.
A portrait of General James Wolfe (1727 - 1759), half-length, in profile to the left against a background of clouds. He rests his left hand on his hip and his other arm extended slightly. Wearing a powdered tie-wig, a military frockcoat over a cuirass with a black stock, a ribbon tied about his left arm and his cuffs edged with gold lace. Wolfe was a British Army officer, remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec in Canada in 1759. The son of a distinguished general, Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, he had received his first commission at a young age and saw extensive service in Europe where he fought during the War of the Austrian Succession. His service in Flanders and in Scotland, where he took part in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion, brought him to the attention of his superiors. Wolfe's part in the taking of Quebec in 1759 earned him posthumous fame and he became an icon of Britain's victory in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion.
CS 37. O'D 7.
[Ref: 56229]   £360.00  
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[William Samuel Woodin] W.S. Woodin's Characters in the New Song ''Off by the Train.''
[William Samuel Woodin] W.S. Woodin's Characters in the New Song ''Off by the Train.''
[n.d., c.1856.]
Woodcut. Sheet 170 x 265mm (6¾ x 10½"). Laid on album paper.
A selction of characters assumed by quick-change artist William Samuel Woodin (c.1825-88), during his song 'Off by the Train', part of his show, 'Olio of Oddities', at his own theatre, the Polygraphic Hall on King William Street (now part of the police station in William IV Street, near Charing Cross) According to 'The Times' of 31st December 1856: ''One of the most recent additions is a speaking-song, called the "Railway Train," in which the rapid succession of characters is perfectly marvellous. Passengers of both sexes and every shade of temper, peremptory officials, boys for luggage, "touters" in the service of hotels, are all hurried in, discussing or squabbling with each other, and every individual has his appropriate head-dress, the lower man being concealed by the table. As a mere exhibition of physical dexterity the rapid exchange of hats for caps, and caps for hats, might fairly excite admiring wonder; but still more singular are the variations of Mr. Woodin's countenance, which is twisted into as many forms of expression as would illustrate a respectable edition of Lavater.''. His 'Olio' was one of the most popular shows in London, running until late 1860, before being replaced by ' Blanchard & Woodin's Cabinet of Curiosities'
[Ref: 56054]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hon.ble Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke,
The Right Hon.ble Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. 1749.
A. Ramsay Pinx. B. Baron Sculp.
[c.1749.]
Fine engraving. 530 x 340mm (20¾ x 13½"). Small hole in background top right, narrow margins.
Full length portrait of Philip Yorke (1690-1764), first Earl of Hardwicke, in the robes of his office of Lord Chancellor, one hand supporting the purse of office.
[Ref: 55970]   £360.00  
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