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The Love Lesson. Illustri, ac nobile Viro, Comiti de Cailus, &c, &c, &c,...
Vatteau [Antoine Watteau] pinxit. P.M. [Philippe Mercier] del et sculp.
Sold by B. Baron in Panton Square, Pickadi[lly.] [n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 460 x 595mm (18 x 23½"). Trimmed within plate, a few small repairs, losing end of publication line.
A party in an ornamental garden, picking flowers, reading from a music book and listening to a man with a guitar. A naked woman with wet hair sits on a plinth above them. A fine 18th century image.
[Ref: 59341] £350.00
Vatteau [Antoine Watteau] pinxit. P.M. [Philippe Mercier] del et sculp.
Sold by B. Baron in Panton Square, Pickadi[lly.] [n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 460 x 595mm (18 x 23½"). Trimmed within plate, a few small repairs, losing end of publication line.
A party in an ornamental garden, picking flowers, reading from a music book and listening to a man with a guitar. A naked woman with wet hair sits on a plinth above them. A fine 18th century image.
[Ref: 59341] £350.00
Alto-relievo by Niccola Pisano, over the door of the Cathedral Church at Lucca.
Wy.O. [monogram of William Young Ottley] del.t. Ja.s Godby Sc.t.
Pub.d March 16th 1809 by W.Y Ottley. London.
Stipple, half circle. Image area (at most) 150 x 265mm (6 x 10½), set in letterpress.
A relief of Christ being taken down from the Cross, a chapter heading for William Young Ottley's 'The Italian School of Design: Being a Series of Fac-Similes of Original Drawings by the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors of Italy'.
[Ref: 59177] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Wy.O. [monogram of William Young Ottley] del.t. Ja.s Godby Sc.t.
Pub.d March 16th 1809 by W.Y Ottley. London.
Stipple, half circle. Image area (at most) 150 x 265mm (6 x 10½), set in letterpress.
A relief of Christ being taken down from the Cross, a chapter heading for William Young Ottley's 'The Italian School of Design: Being a Series of Fac-Similes of Original Drawings by the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors of Italy'.
[Ref: 59177] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cupid] Qu’il est malin! Qu’il a d’appas! Ah! Que n’inspire t-‘il des flames éternelles! Les Roses naissent-sous ses pas; Quel dommage qu’il ait des aîles. Pesselier.](jpegs/59162.jpg)
[Cupid] Qu’il est malin! Qu’il a d’appas! Ah! Que n’inspire t-‘il des flames éternelles! Les Roses naissent-sous ses pas; Quel dommage qu’il ait des aîles. Pesselier. Dedié à Mr. Descamps Professeur de l’Academie de Dessein, et Associé à celle des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen; Par son très humble Serviteur Robert Strange.
Carolus Vanloo Eques pinx.t Robertus Strange sculp.
Gravé d’après le Tableau de Carle Vanloo Ecuier, tire du Cabinet de Mr. Le Noir [n.d. c.1750].
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
Cupid standing and leaning back against a rocky seat, his left hand on his bow, his quiver at his feet, smiling towards with viewer, with a cloak over his arm. A rose-bush on the right; rock face behind and a view of a trees and a valley in the background to left. This is believed to be Robert Strange's first engraving.
[Ref: 59162] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Carolus Vanloo Eques pinx.t Robertus Strange sculp.
Gravé d’après le Tableau de Carle Vanloo Ecuier, tire du Cabinet de Mr. Le Noir [n.d. c.1750].
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
Cupid standing and leaning back against a rocky seat, his left hand on his bow, his quiver at his feet, smiling towards with viewer, with a cloak over his arm. A rose-bush on the right; rock face behind and a view of a trees and a valley in the background to left. This is believed to be Robert Strange's first engraving.
[Ref: 59162] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![Cupid Turned Volunteer: In A Series of Prints, Designed By ***** [Princess Elizabeth];](jpegs/59283.jpg)
Cupid Turned Volunteer: In A Series of Prints, Designed By ***** [Princess Elizabeth]; And Engraved By W.N. Gardiner, With Poetical Illustrations By Thomas Park, F.S.A.
London: Printed By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, For E. Harding, Pall-Mall Court; And Sold By W.N. Gardiner, No. 48, Pall Mall. 1804.
4to, contemporary boards; half-title, title, dedication and preface; frontispiece and 11 fine colour-printed stipple engravings, each with a page of verse, and 1pp. 'Notes'. Boards distressed, inner hinges stained.
A series of charming stipples showing putti with a variety of military motifs after the designs of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840), third daughter of George III and a talented artist. Thomas Park (1759-1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer.
[Ref: 59283] £790.00 view all images for this item
London: Printed By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, For E. Harding, Pall-Mall Court; And Sold By W.N. Gardiner, No. 48, Pall Mall. 1804.
4to, contemporary boards; half-title, title, dedication and preface; frontispiece and 11 fine colour-printed stipple engravings, each with a page of verse, and 1pp. 'Notes'. Boards distressed, inner hinges stained.
A series of charming stipples showing putti with a variety of military motifs after the designs of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840), third daughter of George III and a talented artist. Thomas Park (1759-1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer.
[Ref: 59283] £790.00 view all images for this item
La Curiosité. Q.10.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing curiosity, with two frogs.
[Ref: 59317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing curiosity, with two frogs.
[Ref: 59317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
L'Isle de Cithere. Pelerins allant à Cithere / Sont escortez par mill Amours. / Ont ils goûtez de l'Amoureux mistere / Ils marchent seuls à leur retours.
Vatteau [Antoine Watteau] pinxit. P.M. [Philippe Mercier] del et sculp.
[n.d., engraved c.1720, bit later, watermarked 'Edmeads & Pine 1791'.]
Fine and scarce etching. Sheet 465 x 545mm (18¼ x 21½"). Trimmed within plate, a few small repairs, central crease.
Pilgrims in seach of love, land on the island of Cythera, watched by Cupid and other cherubs. The original oil is in Frankfurt's Stadelsches Kunstinstitut.
[Ref: 59334] £480.00
Vatteau [Antoine Watteau] pinxit. P.M. [Philippe Mercier] del et sculp.
[n.d., engraved c.1720, bit later, watermarked 'Edmeads & Pine 1791'.]
Fine and scarce etching. Sheet 465 x 545mm (18¼ x 21½"). Trimmed within plate, a few small repairs, central crease.
Pilgrims in seach of love, land on the island of Cythera, watched by Cupid and other cherubs. The original oil is in Frankfurt's Stadelsches Kunstinstitut.
[Ref: 59334] £480.00
![[Angle in the vault of the Sistine Chapel] Pio Septimo Pont. Opt. Max.](jpegs/22902.jpg)
[Angle in the vault of the Sistine Chapel] Pio Septimo Pont. Opt. Max. Eleazar Mathan Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello [in design] .
Ang. di Angelis del. Aloys. Cunego sculp. Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, laid on original album sheet, 405 x 585mm. 16 x 23", large margins. Some creasing.
Two figures from the Hebrew Bible: Eleazar (Elazar) was the second Kohen Gadol (High Priest), succeeding his father Aaron. He was a nephew of Moses. Nathan (fl. c.1000 BC) was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba. Dedication to Pope Pius VII to lower margin. From a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome.
[Ref: 22902] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Ang. di Angelis del. Aloys. Cunego sculp. Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, laid on original album sheet, 405 x 585mm. 16 x 23", large margins. Some creasing.
Two figures from the Hebrew Bible: Eleazar (Elazar) was the second Kohen Gadol (High Priest), succeeding his father Aaron. He was a nephew of Moses. Nathan (fl. c.1000 BC) was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba. Dedication to Pope Pius VII to lower margin. From a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome.
[Ref: 22902] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
L'Angleterre. A.8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design representing England, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59306] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design representing England, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59306] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Het St. Nicolaas Feest. La Fete de St. Nicolas.
C. Troost inv. J. Houbrakken sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 440 x 385mm (17¼ x 15"). Scoring, small tears and foxing in margins.
A domestic scene showing a family celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, three children happily play with their toys while one little boy cries because he only has a bunch of sticks in his shoe. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42657] £420.00
C. Troost inv. J. Houbrakken sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 440 x 385mm (17¼ x 15"). Scoring, small tears and foxing in margins.
A domestic scene showing a family celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, three children happily play with their toys while one little boy cries because he only has a bunch of sticks in his shoe. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42657] £420.00
La Fécondité. G.7.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins. Stain and wormhole on top right corner.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing fertility, with a globe, cornucopia, animals and flowers.
[Ref: 59344] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins. Stain and wormhole on top right corner.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing fertility, with a globe, cornucopia, animals and flowers.
[Ref: 59344] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Filial Piety. Cimon, condemned to famish in Prison is privately suckled by his Daughter Pero. The Judges, in order to transmit to Posterity their approbation of so rare an example of filial piety, pardon'd the Father for the Daughters Virtue.
Put:r Jordaens Pinx.t. Geo.e Keating Sculp.t.
London, Published 26th March, 1790, by Geo:Keating, No 18 Warwick Street, Golden Square,
Mezzotint. 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼") very large margins
A story told by Roman historian Valerius Maximus (c.AD 50): Cimon, sentenced to stave to death in prison, is suckled by his daughter Pero.
[Ref: 11599] £480.00
Put:r Jordaens Pinx.t. Geo.e Keating Sculp.t.
London, Published 26th March, 1790, by Geo:Keating, No 18 Warwick Street, Golden Square,
Mezzotint. 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼") very large margins
A story told by Roman historian Valerius Maximus (c.AD 50): Cimon, sentenced to stave to death in prison, is suckled by his daughter Pero.
[Ref: 11599] £480.00
La France. A.6.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed in margin.
A rococo design representing France, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59304] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed in margin.
A rococo design representing France, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59304] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
L'Amitié. P.5.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing friendship, with two chained hearts.
[Ref: 59314] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing friendship, with two chained hearts.
[Ref: 59314] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cottage landscape]](jpegs/59213.jpg)
[Cottage landscape]
Gainsborough. [by Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with large margins. Lightly time stained. Small stain/abrasion in tree to left.
A wooded landscape with figures at the door of a cottage at right, a rowing boat on a river seen through the trees at left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 667. John Hayes 'Gainsborough as Printmaker,' p85.
[Ref: 59213] £350.00
Gainsborough. [by Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with large margins. Lightly time stained. Small stain/abrasion in tree to left.
A wooded landscape with figures at the door of a cottage at right, a rowing boat on a river seen through the trees at left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 667. John Hayes 'Gainsborough as Printmaker,' p85.
[Ref: 59213] £350.00
![[Shore scene with cattle.]](jpegs/59211.jpg)
[Shore scene with cattle.]
Gainsborough. [Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), with large margins. Time stained. Small crease in image near bottom right. Central vertical backboard stain.
A landscape with cattle in the foreground, boats in shallow water behind at right. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) in the BM collection. From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 728; Gg,3.391.
[Ref: 59211] £350.00
Gainsborough. [Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), with large margins. Time stained. Small crease in image near bottom right. Central vertical backboard stain.
A landscape with cattle in the foreground, boats in shallow water behind at right. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) in the BM collection. From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 728; Gg,3.391.
[Ref: 59211] £350.00
![The Sarcophagus of Galen the Physcian of Pergamus, where the celebrated Barbarini, or Portland Vase, was discovered [...]](jpegs/59160.jpg)
The Sarcophagus of Galen the Physcian of Pergamus, where the celebrated Barbarini, or Portland Vase, was discovered [...]
T. Windus F.S.A. Direxit. Dean & Co. Lith.
[London: W. Pickering for the Author, 1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"). Crease in top left corner.
A sketch of a sarcophagus in the Capitoline Museum, with the Portland Vase drawn to scale on either side. An illustration from 'A New Elucidation of the Subjects on the Celebrated Portland Vase, Formerly Called the Barberini, and the Sarcophagus in which it was Discovered' by Thomas Windus. If Windus's theory is to believed the vase would have been at least 150 years old at the time of Galen's death.
[Ref: 59160] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
T. Windus F.S.A. Direxit. Dean & Co. Lith.
[London: W. Pickering for the Author, 1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"). Crease in top left corner.
A sketch of a sarcophagus in the Capitoline Museum, with the Portland Vase drawn to scale on either side. An illustration from 'A New Elucidation of the Subjects on the Celebrated Portland Vase, Formerly Called the Barberini, and the Sarcophagus in which it was Discovered' by Thomas Windus. If Windus's theory is to believed the vase would have been at least 150 years old at the time of Galen's death.
[Ref: 59160] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
L'Allemagne. A.5.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design representing Germany, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59303] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design representing Germany, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59303] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
L'Enfer. Q.9.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing hell, with potential tortue methods, two snakes and a three-headed dog (Cerberus).
[Ref: 59318] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing hell, with potential tortue methods, two snakes and a three-headed dog (Cerberus).
[Ref: 59318] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
L'Italie. A.9.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed, nick on bottom left corner.
A rococo design representing Italy, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59307] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed, nick on bottom left corner.
A rococo design representing Italy, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59307] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Lucine. P.4.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Lucina, the goddess of childbirth, with a new-born in a cradle.
[Ref: 59345] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Lucina, the goddess of childbirth, with a new-born in a cradle.
[Ref: 59345] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Mary Magdalen Washing Christ's Feet. In the Salon at Houghton.
Rubens Pinxit. G Farington delin.t. Rich.d Earlom sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1777. Published Aug.st 1st 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 470 x 580mm (18½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere chipped. Crease top right.
Peter Paul Ruben's 'Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee', painted in Flanders circa 1618-20, representing the conflict between the material values and religious dogmatism of the Pharisees world and the Christian doctrine of sympathy, charity and goodness. Here the repentant sinner washing Christ's feet with her tears is named as Mary Magdalene; however the Gospel of Luke leaves her nameless. At the time of this engraving the painting was part of the art collection of Sir Horace Walpole (1676-1745) at Houghton, Norfolk. Following his death part of the collection was sold to pay off debts, and by the 1770s it was inevitable the rest would suffer the same fate. Before it could be dispersed John Boydell commissioned a vast series of mezzotints of the collection, which was fortuitous: despite John Wilkes attempt to persuade Parliament to buy the collection for the nation 206 paintings were sold to Catherine the Great for £40,550 in 1779. 127 works from Houghton, including this one, are now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
[Ref: 35458] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Rubens Pinxit. G Farington delin.t. Rich.d Earlom sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1777. Published Aug.st 1st 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 470 x 580mm (18½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere chipped. Crease top right.
Peter Paul Ruben's 'Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee', painted in Flanders circa 1618-20, representing the conflict between the material values and religious dogmatism of the Pharisees world and the Christian doctrine of sympathy, charity and goodness. Here the repentant sinner washing Christ's feet with her tears is named as Mary Magdalene; however the Gospel of Luke leaves her nameless. At the time of this engraving the painting was part of the art collection of Sir Horace Walpole (1676-1745) at Houghton, Norfolk. Following his death part of the collection was sold to pay off debts, and by the 1770s it was inevitable the rest would suffer the same fate. Before it could be dispersed John Boydell commissioned a vast series of mezzotints of the collection, which was fortuitous: despite John Wilkes attempt to persuade Parliament to buy the collection for the nation 206 paintings were sold to Catherine the Great for £40,550 in 1779. 127 works from Houghton, including this one, are now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
[Ref: 35458] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[Grotesque Masks] Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.](jpegs/59203.jpg)
[Grotesque Masks] Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.
[by Aloisio Giovannoli.]
In Roma MDCCLXXXI [1781] Presso Venanzio Monaldini al Corso.
Folio, rebound in half treed calf with marbled boards, morocco title label, marbled endpapers; 33 of 38 etched plates. Scarce, but incomplete.
A fine collection of etchings of classical Roman theatrical masks etched by Aloisio Giovannoli (ca.1550–1618), and originally published c.1600 with book and plate numbers under the image, here cut from the plate. Giovannoli has copied prints designed by Cornelis Floris, engraved by Frans Huys and published by Hans Liefrinck I between 1539-1560.
See BM 1932,0217.37 for the original issue and description.
[Ref: 59203] £4,000.00 view all images for this item
[by Aloisio Giovannoli.]
In Roma MDCCLXXXI [1781] Presso Venanzio Monaldini al Corso.
Folio, rebound in half treed calf with marbled boards, morocco title label, marbled endpapers; 33 of 38 etched plates. Scarce, but incomplete.
A fine collection of etchings of classical Roman theatrical masks etched by Aloisio Giovannoli (ca.1550–1618), and originally published c.1600 with book and plate numbers under the image, here cut from the plate. Giovannoli has copied prints designed by Cornelis Floris, engraved by Frans Huys and published by Hans Liefrinck I between 1539-1560.
See BM 1932,0217.37 for the original issue and description.
[Ref: 59203] £4,000.00 view all images for this item
![Le Matin. [The Morning.]](jpegs/10290.jpg)
Le Matin. [The Morning.] Dedie a Messire Pierre Charles de Villette Chevalier Seigneur du Plessis Villette...[etc.] Tire de son Cabinet et grave de la meme grandeur de l'Original. Par son tres-humble Serviteur Aliamet.
J. Vernet Pinxit. Aliamet Sculp.
a Paris chez l'Auteur rue des Mathurins vis a vis celle des Masons [n.d., c.1775].
Etching and engraving, 355 x 455mm (14 x 18, with wide margins.
A scene on a river with fishermen in the foreground, water mill at right, and a bridge and buildings in the distance. After Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789), the famous marine painter. Vernet studied and worked in Rome (1734-53) until recalled to Paris where he was commissioned to paint a set representing French harbours (the 'Ports de France'). He was the father of Carle Vernet, and grandfather of Horace.
[Ref: 10290] £360.00
J. Vernet Pinxit. Aliamet Sculp.
a Paris chez l'Auteur rue des Mathurins vis a vis celle des Masons [n.d., c.1775].
Etching and engraving, 355 x 455mm (14 x 18, with wide margins.
A scene on a river with fishermen in the foreground, water mill at right, and a bridge and buildings in the distance. After Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789), the famous marine painter. Vernet studied and worked in Rome (1734-53) until recalled to Paris where he was commissioned to paint a set representing French harbours (the 'Ports de France'). He was the father of Carle Vernet, and grandfather of Horace.
[Ref: 10290] £360.00
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Scene V.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke R.A. Engraved by Is.c Taylor Jun.
Published Jany. 1. 1795 by John & Josiah Boydell, at his Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall _ & at No. 90 Cheapside, London
Engraving with etching, fine impression, open letter proof before quote from play, J. Whatman 1794 watermark. 495 x 625mm (19½ x 24½"), with large margins. Crease top margin.
Falstaff as Herne the Hunter, with stag's horns on head, lies prostrate in front of 'Herne's Oak', taunted by local children pretending to be fairies. Mistresses Page and Ford enjoy the spectacle on the left. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59325] £420.00
Painted by Rob.t Smirke R.A. Engraved by Is.c Taylor Jun.
Published Jany. 1. 1795 by John & Josiah Boydell, at his Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall _ & at No. 90 Cheapside, London
Engraving with etching, fine impression, open letter proof before quote from play, J. Whatman 1794 watermark. 495 x 625mm (19½ x 24½"), with large margins. Crease top margin.
Falstaff as Herne the Hunter, with stag's horns on head, lies prostrate in front of 'Herne's Oak', taunted by local children pretending to be fairies. Mistresses Page and Ford enjoy the spectacle on the left. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59325] £420.00
La Musique. F.7.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing music, with musical instruments including a violin, trumpet, pipe organ and drums.
[Ref: 59309] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing music, with musical instruments including a violin, trumpet, pipe organ and drums.
[Ref: 59309] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
L'Harmonie. G.4.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 200 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing harmony, with several musical instruments; bagpipes,drums, harps, a horn, a triangle, a violin and a clarinet.
[Ref: 59311] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 200 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing harmony, with several musical instruments; bagpipes,drums, harps, a horn, a triangle, a violin and a clarinet.
[Ref: 59311] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
La Pastorale. G.8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing pastoral music, with rural clothes, animals and musical instruments.
[Ref: 59310] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing pastoral music, with rural clothes, animals and musical instruments.
[Ref: 59310] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Narcisse. P.3.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed, crease on bottom margin.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing narcissism, with a man reflecting himself in a pool of water.
[Ref: 59315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed, crease on bottom margin.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing narcissism, with a man reflecting himself in a pool of water.
[Ref: 59315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
La Nature. P.9.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed and scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing nature as a woman with multiple breasts (probably Diana of Ephesus).
[Ref: 59316] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed and scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing nature as a woman with multiple breasts (probably Diana of Ephesus).
[Ref: 59316] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
La Hollande.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design representing the Netherlands, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59308] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design representing the Netherlands, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59308] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sculpture] The Osprey, or Fishing Eagle, taken in Lord Melbourne's Park, at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire in 1786.](jpegs/59171.jpg)
[Sculpture] The Osprey, or Fishing Eagle, taken in Lord Melbourne's Park, at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire in 1786. One of the Wings was almost cut off in seizing it: M.rs Damer was present, and caught the Idea in that moment of its rage.
James Roberts del. Portrait Painter to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. John Jones sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs, June 26, 1790 by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No 75 Great Portland Street, London.
Stipple. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
An engraving of a sculpture by Mrs Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), published in the rare work 'A Series of Engravings from the Works of The Hon. Anne Damer'. She gave this sculpture to Horace Walpole who displayed it at Strawberry Hill. Damer was an honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy 1784-1818. Walpole described her as a 'female genius'.
[Ref: 59171] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
James Roberts del. Portrait Painter to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. John Jones sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs, June 26, 1790 by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No 75 Great Portland Street, London.
Stipple. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
An engraving of a sculpture by Mrs Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), published in the rare work 'A Series of Engravings from the Works of The Hon. Anne Damer'. She gave this sculpture to Horace Walpole who displayed it at Strawberry Hill. Damer was an honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy 1784-1818. Walpole described her as a 'female genius'.
[Ref: 59171] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Shakspeare. Othello. Act V. Scene II.]](jpegs/59333.jpg)
[Shakspeare. Othello. Act V. Scene II.]
[Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by W. Leney.]
[Pub. Sept.r 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.]
Stipple, extremely rare proof before letters. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate, some creasing.
Othello standing over the bed of Desdemona as she sleeps, a candle and dagger in his hands. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59332 for Open lettered impression.
[Ref: 59333] £450.00
[Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by W. Leney.]
[Pub. Sept.r 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.]
Stipple, extremely rare proof before letters. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate, some creasing.
Othello standing over the bed of Desdemona as she sleeps, a candle and dagger in his hands. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59332 for Open lettered impression.
[Ref: 59333] £450.00
![[Shakspeare. Othello Act II. Scene I. A Platform. _ Desdemona, Othello, Jago, Cassio, Roderigo, Emilia, &c.]](jpegs/59336.jpg)
[Shakspeare. Othello Act II. Scene I. A Platform. _ Desdemona, Othello, Jago, Cassio, Roderigo, Emilia, &c.]
[Painted by Tho.s Stothard R.A. Engraved by Tho.s Ryder.
Pub.d Sept.r 1799, by J.&J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90 Cheapside, London.
Stipple, extremely rare proof before letters. 485 x 620mm (19 x 24½"). Trimmed just within plate, repaired tears, some creasing.
Desdemona meets Othello on his return from sea, with Emilia curtseying and Iago glowering from one side.
[Ref: 59336] £450.00
[Painted by Tho.s Stothard R.A. Engraved by Tho.s Ryder.
Pub.d Sept.r 1799, by J.&J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90 Cheapside, London.
Stipple, extremely rare proof before letters. 485 x 620mm (19 x 24½"). Trimmed just within plate, repaired tears, some creasing.
Desdemona meets Othello on his return from sea, with Emilia curtseying and Iago glowering from one side.
[Ref: 59336] £450.00
Shakspeare. Othello Act V. Scene II.
Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by W. Leney.
Pub. Sept.r 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, fine impression, open letter proof, without quote from play. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"), with large margins. Repairs to margins and edge of plate. Slight repair in between feet.
Othello standing over the bed of Desdemona as she sleeps, a candle and dagger in his hands. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59333 for Proof before Letters.
[Ref: 59332] £320.00
Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by W. Leney.
Pub. Sept.r 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, fine impression, open letter proof, without quote from play. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"), with large margins. Repairs to margins and edge of plate. Slight repair in between feet.
Othello standing over the bed of Desdemona as she sleeps, a candle and dagger in his hands. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59333 for Proof before Letters.
[Ref: 59332] £320.00
Book 1, Line 314. [Satan arousing the fallen Angels.]
J. Martin 1824. Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r. Printed by Chatfield & Coleman.
London Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street. 1825.
Mezzotint. 270 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾") with very large margins. Margins chipped and stained.
Satan stands on a cliff overhanging the burning lake in a cavern of hell, holding up his spear to rouse the fallen angels below. One of a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 52.
[Ref: 59352] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J. Martin 1824. Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r. Printed by Chatfield & Coleman.
London Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street. 1825.
Mezzotint. 270 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾") with very large margins. Margins chipped and stained.
Satan stands on a cliff overhanging the burning lake in a cavern of hell, holding up his spear to rouse the fallen angels below. One of a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 52.
[Ref: 59352] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Book 2 Line 1. [Satan presiding at the Infernal Council]
J. Martin 1824. Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r. J. Martin. 1824 [inscribed in plate].
London Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street. 1825.
Mezzotint with etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Margins chipped and soiled. Staining top right margin.
Satan presiding at the Infernal Council; Satan, with his right arm raised, sitting on a throne set on a sphere, raised in the centre of a building crowded with rebel angels on tiered seats, lit by rings of light. One of Martin's finest mezzotints. One of a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 54.
[Ref: 59355] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J. Martin 1824. Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r. J. Martin. 1824 [inscribed in plate].
London Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street. 1825.
Mezzotint with etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Margins chipped and soiled. Staining top right margin.
Satan presiding at the Infernal Council; Satan, with his right arm raised, sitting on a throne set on a sphere, raised in the centre of a building crowded with rebel angels on tiered seats, lit by rings of light. One of Martin's finest mezzotints. One of a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 54.
[Ref: 59355] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Book 2. Line 727. [The Conflict between Satan and Death.]
Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r.
London, Published by Septimus Prowett. 23, Old Bond Street, 1825.
Mezzotint with etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Crease in image on right, soiling in margins.
Satan at the gates of Hell, raising his spear to strike Death, a dark monstrous figure of whom only the crown, eyes, claw and spear are visible, while Sin, a woman whose snaky tail is hidden in her garment and the darkness, rushes between them with her arms outstretched, to stop Satan attacking his son. One of a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 55.
[Ref: 59354] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r.
London, Published by Septimus Prowett. 23, Old Bond Street, 1825.
Mezzotint with etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Crease in image on right, soiling in margins.
Satan at the gates of Hell, raising his spear to strike Death, a dark monstrous figure of whom only the crown, eyes, claw and spear are visible, while Sin, a woman whose snaky tail is hidden in her garment and the darkness, rushes between them with her arms outstretched, to stop Satan attacking his son. One of a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 55.
[Ref: 59354] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Book 4 line 813. [Eve's Dream - Satan Aroused.]
Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r Printed by Chatfield & Co.
London, Published by Septimus Prowett. 23, Old Bond Street, 1825.
Mezzotint with etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Crease on left through image, margins worn and stained.
Satan springing up with his shield raised behind his head, grasping his spear, starting back to right, driven from his disguise as a toad at the touch of a spear by Ithuriel who stands on the left with Zephon, whilst Adam and Eve sleep in the background. From a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 60.
[Ref: 59356] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esq.r Printed by Chatfield & Co.
London, Published by Septimus Prowett. 23, Old Bond Street, 1825.
Mezzotint with etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Crease on left through image, margins worn and stained.
Satan springing up with his shield raised behind his head, grasping his spear, starting back to right, driven from his disguise as a toad at the touch of a spear by Ithuriel who stands on the left with Zephon, whilst Adam and Eve sleep in the background. From a series of plates commissioned by American publisher Septimus Prowett to illustrate at edition of 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton (1608-74).
Balston 4 D. CW 60.
[Ref: 59356] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Le Naufrage de Virginie. Paul alloit s’élancer à la mer, lorsque je le saisais par le bras: mon fils, lui dis-je, voulez vous périr? Que j aille à son secours s’écria-l’il, ou que je meurt!__Paul et Virginie.
Peint par Lambert. Gravé para Felix Mizelle.
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Comp.e sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Aquatint and etching, 414 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The shipwreck. Paul watches on in horror from the shore as a ship is hurled by a huge wave towards rocks on the tropical island of Mauritius; he is restrainted by one white and two black companions. Virginia and a black slave stand on the deck of the doomed ship. The most famous ship name in the history of Mauritius is the slaveship St. Géran which, whilst bringing colonists, was shipwrecked in 1744 on fringing reef of island's northeast coast. Only nine survived the wreck and it inspired the novel Paul et Virginie by Bernadin de St. Pierre. In the novel Virginie, out of modesty, refuses to remove her clothes so that the sailor can carry her to shore and is consequently drowned. On shore grief stricken Paul dies soon afterwards. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
See Ref: 18009 for a rare coloured version of the scene.
[Ref: 28894] £450.00
Peint par Lambert. Gravé para Felix Mizelle.
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Comp.e sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Aquatint and etching, 414 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The shipwreck. Paul watches on in horror from the shore as a ship is hurled by a huge wave towards rocks on the tropical island of Mauritius; he is restrainted by one white and two black companions. Virginia and a black slave stand on the deck of the doomed ship. The most famous ship name in the history of Mauritius is the slaveship St. Géran which, whilst bringing colonists, was shipwrecked in 1744 on fringing reef of island's northeast coast. Only nine survived the wreck and it inspired the novel Paul et Virginie by Bernadin de St. Pierre. In the novel Virginie, out of modesty, refuses to remove her clothes so that the sailor can carry her to shore and is consequently drowned. On shore grief stricken Paul dies soon afterwards. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
See Ref: 18009 for a rare coloured version of the scene.
[Ref: 28894] £450.00
![[Paul et Virginie] L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie. [&] L'Adolescence de Paul et Virginie.](jpegs/38688.jpg)
[Paul et Virginie] L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie. [&] L'Adolescence de Paul et Virginie. [&] Le Triomphe de la Vertu. [&] Virginie au Tombeau.
Peint par Schall. Gravé par Augustin le Grand.
A Paris chez Augustin le Grand Rue St. Julien-le-Pauvre No 3 [illegible] [n.d. c.1800.]
Four stipples printed in colours, sheet 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed to platemark on two sides; pinhole in centre. Small tear in margin that just touches plate.
Four scenes from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Set on Mauritius, it is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 38688] £1,600.00 view all images for this item
Peint par Schall. Gravé par Augustin le Grand.
A Paris chez Augustin le Grand Rue St. Julien-le-Pauvre No 3 [illegible] [n.d. c.1800.]
Four stipples printed in colours, sheet 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed to platemark on two sides; pinhole in centre. Small tear in margin that just touches plate.
Four scenes from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Set on Mauritius, it is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 38688] £1,600.00 view all images for this item
Vreugde over de Vrede geslooten tusschen de Bataafsche Republiek en Engeland, te Amiens den 27 Maart A.o 1802. Proefdruck.
C. Meijer, inv. et del. J.E. Marcus sculp. 1802.
[Amsterdam c.1802.]
Proof impression of a very scarce engraving with etching. Sheet 630 x 490mm (24¾ x 19¼"). Trimmed to image. Creasing, bit messy.
A Dutch allegory of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. The people dance around a plinth on which Britannia and a female allegory of the Batavian Republic stand together. To the left a female 'War' is knocked from the sky by a lightning bolt. After Holland had become a sister-republic of France after the fall of the Dutch Republic in 1795, she and her colonies became targets of the British. The Dutch had suffered considerable losses and thus the return of Cape Colony and their colonies in the West Indies (but not Ceylon) was something to be celebrated. However the ensuing peace only lasted a year and Cape colony was lost permanently in 1806. A preparatory sketch of the bottom right corner is in the Rijksmuseum.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1888-A-1430. See 36855 for good impression.
[Ref: 40385] £350.00
C. Meijer, inv. et del. J.E. Marcus sculp. 1802.
[Amsterdam c.1802.]
Proof impression of a very scarce engraving with etching. Sheet 630 x 490mm (24¾ x 19¼"). Trimmed to image. Creasing, bit messy.
A Dutch allegory of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. The people dance around a plinth on which Britannia and a female allegory of the Batavian Republic stand together. To the left a female 'War' is knocked from the sky by a lightning bolt. After Holland had become a sister-republic of France after the fall of the Dutch Republic in 1795, she and her colonies became targets of the British. The Dutch had suffered considerable losses and thus the return of Cape Colony and their colonies in the West Indies (but not Ceylon) was something to be celebrated. However the ensuing peace only lasted a year and Cape colony was lost permanently in 1806. A preparatory sketch of the bottom right corner is in the Rijksmuseum.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1888-A-1430. See 36855 for good impression.
[Ref: 40385] £350.00
La Poesie. G.3.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing poetry, with a harp, mask, birds and books.
[Ref: 59312] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing poetry, with a harp, mask, birds and books.
[Ref: 59312] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Muses Crowning the Bust of Pope.
Ang. Kauffman inv.t. P W Tomkins sculp.t Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Publish'd as the Act directs 1st of March 1783 by S.Watts Featherstone Buildings Holborn.
Stipple, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly foxed.
Three female figures in a park, one of whom holds a crown of laurels to be placed on a bust of the Augustan poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The other two read from a volume at right with a lyre resting at the foot of the pedestal.
Alexander 150. See Ref: 39844 for copy.
[Ref: 59384] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Ang. Kauffman inv.t. P W Tomkins sculp.t Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Publish'd as the Act directs 1st of March 1783 by S.Watts Featherstone Buildings Holborn.
Stipple, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly foxed.
Three female figures in a park, one of whom holds a crown of laurels to be placed on a bust of the Augustan poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The other two read from a volume at right with a lyre resting at the foot of the pedestal.
Alexander 150. See Ref: 39844 for copy.
[Ref: 59384] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Le Repos.
Le Prince 1771.
Se vend à Paris chéz l'auteur, Cour du Vieux Louvre.
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 450 x 350mm (17¾ x 13¾"), with small margins. Damp stains in left margin.
A young girl sleeps in a makeshift bed in a barn, leaving a basket of eggs to fall over and break. Her aged peasant parents look on in disgust.
[Ref: 52972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Le Prince 1771.
Se vend à Paris chéz l'auteur, Cour du Vieux Louvre.
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 450 x 350mm (17¾ x 13¾"), with small margins. Damp stains in left margin.
A young girl sleeps in a makeshift bed in a barn, leaving a basket of eggs to fall over and break. Her aged peasant parents look on in disgust.
[Ref: 52972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Robinson Crusoe's Island.]](jpegs/59235.jpg)
[Robinson Crusoe's Island.]
Clark & Pine Sc. 1719.
[n.d., c.1908.]
Photo-etching. 230 x 350mm (9 x 13½"), watermarked 'Michallet'.
A pictorial map of Crusoe's island, also known as the 'Island of Despair', showing various incidents from Daniel Defoe's novel. A copy of the plate originally published in the third edition of Defoe's series titled, 'Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', London printed by W. Taylor.
[Ref: 59235] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Clark & Pine Sc. 1719.
[n.d., c.1908.]
Photo-etching. 230 x 350mm (9 x 13½"), watermarked 'Michallet'.
A pictorial map of Crusoe's island, also known as the 'Island of Despair', showing various incidents from Daniel Defoe's novel. A copy of the plate originally published in the third edition of Defoe's series titled, 'Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', London printed by W. Taylor.
[Ref: 59235] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Le Secret. R.1.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing secrecy, with a sphinx and a pair of keys.
[Ref: 59342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing secrecy, with a sphinx and a pair of keys.
[Ref: 59342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Death of Solinzeb.]](jpegs/28380.jpg)
[The Death of Solinzeb.]
J. Northcote delin. T. Gaugain fecit.
Publish'd March 1786, by T. Gaugain No.4 Little Compton Street, Soho, London.
Fine stipple in brown ink with very large margins. Plate 394 x 346mm (15½ x 13½"). Proof before title; laid on album sheet.
In a roundel, a man in oriental dress lays on a leopard skin and expires in the arms of his daughter, after being wounded in the chest. On the right, a European officer attends the wounded man, while a battle rages in the background. In the final state lines from the French author Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) are added below the image to represent the last words of the wounded man: he does not fear death, welcomed as a gentle sleep, but he fears for his daughter's future.
From the Northcote Albums, Christie's South Kensington.
[Ref: 28380] £350.00
J. Northcote delin. T. Gaugain fecit.
Publish'd March 1786, by T. Gaugain No.4 Little Compton Street, Soho, London.
Fine stipple in brown ink with very large margins. Plate 394 x 346mm (15½ x 13½"). Proof before title; laid on album sheet.
In a roundel, a man in oriental dress lays on a leopard skin and expires in the arms of his daughter, after being wounded in the chest. On the right, a European officer attends the wounded man, while a battle rages in the background. In the final state lines from the French author Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) are added below the image to represent the last words of the wounded man: he does not fear death, welcomed as a gentle sleep, but he fears for his daughter's future.
From the Northcote Albums, Christie's South Kensington.
[Ref: 28380] £350.00
L'Espion. Q.8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing spying, with a dog sniffing around and several eyes and ears on a sheet hanging on a tree.
[Ref: 59343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing spying, with a dog sniffing around and several eyes and ears on a sheet hanging on a tree.
[Ref: 59343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Shakspeare. Tempest. Act IV. Scene I. Prospero's cell . _ Propsero, Miranda, &c. &c.
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, very fine impression, 1794 watermark. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"). Repairs to margins and edges of plate. Small margins.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59327 for Open letter Proof.
[Ref: 59329] £320.00
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, very fine impression, 1794 watermark. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"). Repairs to margins and edges of plate. Small margins.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59327 for Open letter Proof.
[Ref: 59329] £320.00
Shakspeare. Tempest. Act IV. Scene I. Prospero's cell . _ Propsero, Miranda, &c. &c.
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, J. Whatman 1794 watermark. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"), very large margins. Some restoration.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59330] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, J. Whatman 1794 watermark. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"), very large margins. Some restoration.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59330] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)