VAT included (see terms) | Exclude VAT
Les Anges. The Angels.
Les Anges. The Angels.
CH. Philipon. Lith. de M.lle Formentin.
Chez Aubert, Galerie Vero-Dodat. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet et C.ie 14 Newmann street Oxford, St.
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Right edge stained.
The heads of three pretty young women with elaborate hair styles, each given wings.
[Ref: 56363]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[As You Like It] Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man Illustrated.
[As You Like It] Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man Illustrated.
Drawn by Tho.s Stothard Esq. R.A. Engraved by Will.m Bromley.
Publish'd Jan.y 24 1799 by W. Bromley, Jessamine House, Hammersmith.
Folio (455 x 305mm, 18 x 12"), original boards; stipple engraved title, engraved text sheet & 7 stipple plates, all printed in sepia; complete with very large margins. Binding distressed, plates with spotting and damp stain.
The complete set of plates illustrating Jaques's monologue in William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', reproduced on the engraved text sheet. The title features two cherubs, one young, the other with a crutch, and an ouroboros (a snake eating its own tail). The plates are: 'Infant', 'School Boy', 'Lover', 'Soldier', 'Justice', 'Pantaloon' and 'Childishness'.
[Ref: 56479]   £680.00   view all images for this item
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[The Benevolent Cardinal.]
[The Benevolent Cardinal.]
[Painted by R. Westall. Engraved by W. Ward.]
[London Published Ap.r 14 1792 by J.R. Smith No 31. King Street, Covent Garden.]
An unrecorded touched proof mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24½") Trimmed to image at bottom, to plate at sides.
A woman pleading her case before a cardinal. An early proof, probably touched by Westall, the artist, around the two women's hair. In the published state, the kneeling woman is changed to a nun, her hair hidden by a wimple; the standing woman's is less bushy; the cardinal's robe is darker; and one of the figures in the doorway has a turban.
Frankau 23, an unrecorded state before i of iii.
[Ref: 56257]   £520.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Cottage Beauty.
Cottage Beauty.
London Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Print Seller, No 53, Fleet Street as the Act directs 17th April 1788.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 8¾") very large margins. Some surface wear, tears in edges.
Exterior scene in which a young woman scatters corn for chickens and ducks. A donkey eats hay and a pig drinks water from a trough in the background.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 56391]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Crucifixion.]
[Crucifixion.]
Joannes Bapta Piazzetta pinxit and Marcus Pitteri Venetus scul C.P.E.S.
[Venice, c.1740.]
Fine & rare engraving. 590 x 445mm (23¼ x 17½"). Horizontal fold.
Christ on the cross, a skull at the base, against a dark background. Marco Pitteri (1702-86) collaborated with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754) on a number of engravings, mostly of biblical subjects, including a set of heads of Apostles.
[Ref: 56494]   £480.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

David and Bathsheba M 132 Original lithograph in black. M 135 [verso]
David and Bathsheba M 132 Original lithograph in black. M 135 [verso]
Marc Chagall.
Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris [n.d. 1956].
Coloured lithograph. 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Some creasing in bottom left corner.
A vibrant and abstract portrait of David and Bathsheba, blended into one face, by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Chagall was a prominent artist of the early modernist movement and thought of highly by contemporaries such as Picasso. Throughout his career Chagall centred a duality of Jewish and Christian themes, what he insisted was a 'universal message' and his work included motifs of prophets, angels and the story of Moses, in his first bible cycle.
[Ref: 56497]   £600.00   view all images for this item
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Mary Dickinson] [The Country Girl.]
[Mary Dickinson] [The Country Girl.]
Painted by W. Peters R.A. Engraved by W. Dickinson.
London, Publish'd Mar. 1st, 1778.
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof before title. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"), with wide margins.
A portrait identified by Chaloner Smith as Mary Dickinson, sister of the engraver, with a high hat with ribbons and low-cut dress, within an oval frame. The original painting belonged to the Marquis of Granby.
CS 17, state i of ii.
[Ref: 56319]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Dutch Boors]
[Dutch Boors]
Brewer Pinx.t [Adriaen Brouwer?] C. Corbut fecit [Richard Purcell].
Printed for Robert Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins. Uncut. Grease stains in top margin. Central crease.
Two Dutch doors smoking pipes in a dark interior The engraver was Richard Purcell, who used the pseudonym Corbutt when pirating the works of others, in this case one by David Martin.
CS 67.
[Ref: 56272]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Elements of Morality.] Welcome dear Henry, & Good Catherine.
[Elements of Morality.] Welcome dear Henry, & Good Catherine.
[after Daniel Chodowiecki.]
Published by J. Johnson, March 15. 1791.
Engraving. 150 x 80mm (6 x 3¼"). Samll margins. Time stained on right.
Two young children rush up to greet their returning parents. From Vol III of 'Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children' by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, translated by Mary Wollstonecraft. 16 of the book's 50 engravings have been attributed to William Blake, although only the frontispiece is signed by him
[Ref: 56345]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Elements of Morality.] In every religion there are good people.
[Elements of Morality.] In every religion there are good people.
[after Daniel Chodowiecki.]
Published by J. Johnson, March 15. 1791.
Engraving. 150 x 80mm (6 x 3¼"), large margins.
Henry meets a bearded Jew. From Vol III of 'Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children' by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, translated by Mary Wollstonecraft. 16 of the book's 50 engravings have been attributed to William Blake, although only the frontispiece is signed by him
[Ref: 56344]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Elements of Morality.] While I live I never will disobey you.
[Elements of Morality.] While I live I never will disobey you.
[after Daniel Chodowiecki.]
Published by J. Johnson, Jan.y 1. 1792.
Engraving. 150 x 80mm (6 x 3¼"). Small margins, thread at top.
Henry responds to an offer of employment by a well-dressed man with a coach. From Vol II of 'Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children' by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, translated by Mary Wollstonecraft. 16 of the book's 50 engravings have been attributed to William Blake, although only the frontispiece is signed by him
[Ref: 56342]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Enfant du Soleil.
Enfant du Soleil.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare stipple, printed in colours. Sheet 130 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed around image and title, laid on album paper.
A child with a headdress with five ostrich feathers printed in three colours, pearl earrings and a fur cape.
[Ref: 56354]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

The First Scrape.
The First Scrape.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"), on waxy paper. Slight creasing, mounted on album paper.
A young boy plays the violin, music book propped on a chair, watched by his smaller sister.
[Ref: 56339]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[The Gardener and His Lord] Le Jardinier et son Seigneur
[The Gardener and His Lord] Le Jardinier et son Seigneur Fable 4 Livre 4.
Gouget direx.
[Paris, n.d., 1834.]
Engraving. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
An illustration to a fable by Jean de La Fontaine. A gardener asks his lord for help ridding his garden of an hare: the lord gathers his huntsmen and makes more of a mess than the hare. The moral: ''Princelings, end your own disputes and be glad. / To call on kings for help you would truly be mad. / In your wars you must never let them take a hand, Nor ever invite them onto your land.''
[Ref: 56280]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Parole de Socrate.
Parole de Socrate. Fable 17 Livre 4.
Gouget direx.
[Paris, n.d., 1834.]
Engraving. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
'The Word of Socrates'. Socrates builds a house nobody likes for different reasons, but all agreeing the rooms were too small. Socrates retorts that he would be lucky in he had enough true friends to fill his small house. From Jean de La Fontaine's Fables.
[Ref: 56279]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Madame Louise-Elizabeth de France Duchess de Parme. La Terre.
Madame Louise-Elizabeth de France Duchess de Parme. La Terre.
J M Nattier pinxit. J S Negges sc et exc.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint. 275 x 350mm (10¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere, repaired tears.
A portrait of Marie Louise Élisabeth of France (1727-5) as 'Earth', one of a set of the daughters of Louis XV as the Four Elements.
[Ref: 56388]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Le Lutrin. Chant Premier [ - Sixiéme].
Le Lutrin. Chant Premier [ - Sixiéme].
B. Picart scul. dir. 1717.
[Amsterdam: David Mortier, 1718.]
Complete set of six etchings. Sheets 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Trimmed, losing decorative printed borders, mounted in album paper.
The frontispieces of each of the six cantos of 'Le Lurin' by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), one of the first mock-heroic poems, satirizing the state of the French Law and Church.
[Ref: 56346]   £450.00   view all images for this item
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

An humble Memorial of King George III at Longford Castle, Wilts.
An humble Memorial of King George III at Longford Castle, Wilts. In memory of King George the Third Sovereign of the British Isles [...].
Published as the act directs. Dec.r 24th 1821 by F. Steele. 71 Oxford Street. London.
Rare engraving. 515 x 305mm (20¼ x 12"). very large margins. Tears in the margins and foxing. Glued on album paper.
A proposed memorial for George III with two coats of arms on either side.
[Ref: 56310]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Morning.
[Morning. From a picture in the possession of Frederick Perkins Esq. Gems of Art _ Plate 22]
[Painted by Richard Wilson, R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, Engraver to the King.]
[London. Published Dec 1. 1823: by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square.]
Mezzotints on steel, printed on chine collé. 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾), with very large margins.
A Romanesque landscapes from 'Gems of Art: Forming a Choice Collection Engraved from Pictures of Acknowledged Excellence, Beauty, & Variety, Painted by Esteemed Masters of All Ages and Countries'.
Whitman 463.
[Ref: 56421]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A country lane]
[A country lane]
P.S. Munn. 1810.
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 365mm (9¼ x 14¼")watermarked 'J Whatman 1808'. Ink smear.
Early lithograph, depicting a lane winding through fields and trees. Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845), named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions.
[Ref: 56472]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A water mill]
[A water mill]
P.S. Munn.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 365mm (9¼ x 14¼"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1808'. Creases
Early pen lithograph, depicting a delapidated cottage with a mill wheel. Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845), named after his godfather, Paul Sandby, who gave him his first instructions in watercolour painting. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798 and was a frequent contributor of topographical drawings to that and other exhibtions.
[Ref: 56471]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

La Nimphe Amoureuse.
La Nimphe Amoureuse.
L. Hopner pinx.t. Dickinson sculp.t. [William Dickinson after John Hoppner.]
à Paris chez Bance, Rue St Denis, No. 175, près celle aux Ours [n.d., c.1800].
Rare mezzotint. 265 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A naked woman reclining in a bower, a winged cherub at her shoulder. An English print copied in Paris.
[Ref: 56422]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

O Dear What Can the Matter Be,
O Dear What Can the Matter Be, / Dear Dear What Shall I Do. / Nobody Coming to Marry Me. / Nobody Coming to Woo. / The Old Song.
W.m Nicolas fecit.
London Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 190 x 160mm (7½ x 6¼"), large margins With album paper pasted to edges.
A pretty young woman resting her head in one hand on a window sill.
[Ref: 56334]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A Plan of a plain Kitchen Garden.]
[A Plan of a plain Kitchen Garden.]
W.m Robertson Inv. & del.H. Schutz Sculp.
Pub.d Jan1. 1798 by R. Ackermann.
Aquatint with hand colour. 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"). Creasing and stains.
A design for a garden with lawns and trees, but also marking a 'Ground for American plants or Flowering Shrubs', a 'Mellon Yard', and buildings for 'Pine stoves', 'Peach houses' and 'Orangerie'. From William Robertson's 'A Collection of Various Forms of Stoves, used for forcing Pine Plants, Fruit Trees, and Preserving Tender Exotics'. The title, as above, comes from the text description (supplied in facsimile). William Robertson (1770-1850), an Irish architect, also served Kilkenny as justice of peace, magistrate, alderman and was mayor of Kilkenny in 1831.
[Ref: 56367]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Untitled landscape a ruined abbey.] D.B. No 1. Pl II.
[Untitled landscape a ruined abbey.] D.B. No 1. Pl II.
Drawn by P: Sandby R.A. Engraved by V.Green & F. Jukes.
Publish'd Oct.r 16th 1779, by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine, No 29, Newman Street Oxford Street.
Scarce aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11") Small margins.
From Sandby's 'A New Drawing Book'. The engraver, Francis Jukes, learned the art of aquatinting from Sandby.
Ex Collection of Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 55980]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Untitled landscape] No. 5.
[Untitled landscape] No. 5.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Jan.y 1st 1777.
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia, pencil drawing verso 18th century watermark; 225 x 305mm (8¾ x 12!"). Trimmed to plate.
A fortified town by a small waterfall, a peak behind.
Ex Collection of Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 55979]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Untitled landscape with a fortified bridge.] D.B. No 1. Pl III.
[Untitled landscape with a fortified bridge.] D.B. No 1. Pl III.
Drawn by P: Sandby R.A. Engraved by V.Green & F. Jukes.
Publish'd Oct.r 16th 1779, by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine, No 29, Newman Street Oxford Street.
Scarce aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11") Small margins.
A fortified gatehouse on a bridge, a cart with horses on a quayside. From Sandby's 'A New Drawing Book'. The engraver, Francis Jukes, learned the art of aquatinting from Sandby.
Ex Collection of Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 55978]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Untitled landscape with a gatehouse.]
[Untitled landscape with a gatehouse.]
P: Sandby R.A. delin.t. Engraved by V.Green & F. Jukes.
Publish'd 16th Oct.r 1778, by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, &c. No 29, Newman Street Oxford Street, & at No 52 Strand. Se vend à Londres, chez les Freres Torre, Marchand d'Estampes.
Fine & scarce aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 265 x 300mm (10½ x 11¾"), very large margins.
A harvestman and his dog walking towards a building with an arched gateway. Probably from Sandby's 'A New Drawing Book'. The engraver, Francis Jukes, learned the art of aquatinting from Sandby.
Ex Collection of Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 55977]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

See-saw.
See-saw.
London, Published by Tobart & Co. July 13 1804.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed. Laid on album paper.
Young girls on a seesaw, probably from a series of children's pastimes.
[Ref: 56341]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Venus, Cupid, and Satyr.
Venus, Cupid, and Satyr. Who this can view yet feel no kindling fire; [...]
[after Luca Giordano]
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street [n.d., c.1780.]
Rare mezzotint. 255 x 355m (10 x 14"), very large margins. Slight central crease.
Venus, reclining on a couch, embraces the infant Cupid, with a maid to left and a satyr leaning in over the pillows to right. An engraved version of this painting, by (1634-1705), appeared in John Boydell's 'The Most Capital Paintings in England'.
[Ref: 56392]   £360.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist