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[Billiards.]
[Mr.Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.]
[Published 27th Jan. 1781.]
Engraving. Sheet 275 x 405mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, losing title and inscriptions, laid on album paper with other scraps.
A caricatured game of billiards, with a player with a long pigtail queue, taking exaggerated care with his show. BM: 5913.
[Ref: 59292] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Record of the University Boat Race 1829-1880 and of the Commemoration Dinner 1881. Compile by the Hon. Secs. Geo. G.T. Threherne, O.U.B.C. and J.H.D. Goldie, C.U.B.C. Printed by Wm. Spottiswoode, O.U.B.C., P.R.S. at the Request of the Committee. With Illustrations.
London: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square. Oxford: James Thornton. Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes 1883.
No 227 of 250 in a large paper edition. Folio (340 x 265mm, 13¼" x 10"), original cloth with printed title label; pp. (xii)+ 207; 2 etched plates on chine collé, facsimile dinner invitation, plan, menu, and two wood engraved vignettes, as called for. Spine distressed, front endpaper browned, margins of frontispiece etching spotted.
A book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, recording the speeches made at the dinner and containing statistics of the races.
[Ref: 59349] £280.00
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'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane."
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature].
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Three of four chromolithographs. Sheets 510 x 630mm (20 x 24¾.
Three of a set of four plates illustrating a game of bridge, with a young couple, clergyman and retired army officer around the table. This issue was a printed black border around the image with vignettes of the cards in each player's hand and the titles in white. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea. See Ref: 7836 for a complete signed set.
[Ref: 59231] £650.00
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[All Fours.]
[Design'd by W.H. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[Publish'd Mar.h 14th 1783 by J.R. Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, London.]
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into image area, losing title and inscriptions, but keeping the important part of the image.
A satirical scene of a pair of card players, one with a long pig-tail queue, the other in a bob-wig. D'Oench 214; BM Satire 6341.
[Ref: 59289] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Mademoiselle Duvernay, Dancing the Cachoucha. Presented with No. 1 of the Wonder, June 24th 1837.
A rare lithograph. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Bottom right corner rebuilt, outside image.
A portrait of popular ballerina Pauline Duvernay (1812-1894), shown in the role of Florinda, the heroine of Jean Caralli's 'Le Diable Boîteux'. The Cachoucha, a Spanish dance with origins in Cuba, is the highlight of the ballet. Duvernay was one of Queen Victoria's favourite dancers.
[Ref: 59161] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Serment du Jeu de Paume a Versailles le 19 Juin 1789.
Dessine par C. Monnet. Grave par Helman.
A Paris chez Decrouan Editeur, Rue de Rempart, 4, vis-a-vis le Theatre Francais [n.d., c.1850].
Engraving. Plate: 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14"). Staining, foxing and tears in margins.
A real tennis scene showing the meeting of the third estate who following their being barred from a meeting by the King pledge an oath not to leave the meeting until a new constitution was established. Having not been allowed into the meeting the assembly met in the royal tennis court at Versailles. A nineteenth century impression of the plate first published by Nicolas Ponce in 1792.
[Ref: 42760] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Un Quatuor d'Amateurs. An Amateur Quartett. Ein Siebhaber Concert.
Peint par Hillemacker. Lith. par Theille. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by M. Knoedler, in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the southern District of New York. [Berlin, New York and Paris by Goupil; in London by Gambart.]
Lithograph and tintstone, printed area 460 x 530mm (18 x 21"). Publisher's blindstamp at bottom.
A string-quartet practice, while two women and a child in background to right. A bust of Franz Joseph Haydn, the 'father of the string quartet', occupies a prominent position in the centre of the scene. From the 'études de moeurs' series' showing high society engaged in leisure activities. The series consists of at least four plates. For other plates in the series see refs. 3192 and 31949
[Ref: 31948] £750.00
Hints to bad Horsemen. No.1. Symptoms of Restiveness. [&] No.2. Symptoms of Starting. [&] No.3 Symptoms of Kicking. [&] No.4. Symptoms of Tumbling.
H. Bunbury Esq.r delin. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
London, Publish'd May 10:th 1781 by Watson & Dickinson No.158 New Bond Street.
A scarce set of four stipples. Each 196 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). With two more Bunbury caricatures pasted on reverse. Laid on album paper, plate 1 toned.
1. A rider in a country road, looking to left, has stopped before a sign-post; his horse has its head turned to right with a church and tress seen on the right; 2. Rider to the left, his horse starting at a man crouching down in some bushes, with a windmill behind; 3. A man on horseback in a landscape looking to right, nearly falling off from the animal kicking up behind; 4. An man to left falling off his horse, which has stumbled to the consternation of a goose and three ducks, barn in background, fence and trees on left with bushes to the right. Goodwin: 66 to 69 [inclusive].
[Ref: 59222] £420.00
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Equestrian Match against Time for 600 Guineas, to Ride from Canterbury to London Bridge, in Three Hours.
J. Pardon del.t Canterbury from the life. Eng.d by H. Meyer.
London Published by J. Hudson, 85 Cheapside 4 June 1819.
Scarce coloured aquatint. Sheet 295 x 370mm (11½ x 17½"), paper watermarked 'Turkey Mills'. Trimmed within plate on three sides, several repairs.
William Hutchinson, a horse dealer from Canterbury in Kent, took a wager of 600 guineas that he could ride from his home city to London Bridge, a distance of 55½ miles, in three hours or less. Setting off on the 6th May 1819 at 3.30am, he changed horses ten times and he ran the distance in just 2 hours, 25 minutes and 51 seconds. He was awarded the Freedom of the City of Canterbury for his acheivement. This print was published less than a month after the ride. The original oil is in Canterbury Museums and Galleries, unattributed. Siltzer: not in.
[Ref: 59174] £380.00
Lady, the Birmingham Trotting Mare.
Painted by R. Jones. Engraved by Cha.s Hunt, 24 Brydges St Cov.t Gar.den London.
Published by R.Taylor, Birmingham & by J.Moore, at his Wholesale Glass & Picyure Frame Manufactory, corner of West St.t Upper St. Martin's Lane London, Dec.r 6.th 1838.
Coloured engraving, 560 x 640mm (22 x 25¼"). Framed. Slightly foxed. Unexamined out of frame.
A fine and impressive portrait of the trotting-champion mare, Lady, which belonged to Mr Richard Taylor of Birmingham. The mare was bred in 1828 from the noted horse Matchless out of Cheshire Cheese Lass.
[Ref: 59401] £820.00
Damn Mambrino!
M.r Bunbury dek, J.s Bretherton f.
[n.d., c.1779.]
Etching. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate at sides, laid on album paper, foxing.
A seated fat man looks off to the right in disgust, having lost a wager, watched by his hunched dog. This satire was originally published in 1774 with the title ''Damn Bucephalus!'', probably inspired by the horse's close defeat by the famous Eclipse at Newmarket on 17 April 1770. Tim Clayton is quoted on the British Museum website: ''Lord Grosvenor's Mambrino had a highly successful career on the turf from 1773 to 1776 before being put out to stud; he attempted a comeback in 1779 which was unsuccessful. It appears likely, therefore, that Bretherton changed the title of the print from Damn Bucephalus! to Damn Mambrino! about 1779''. BM 4731 & J,6.91.
[Ref: 59220] £260.00
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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
A view of Leyden, with scating on the River. Vüe de Leyden. [Twelve Views neatly Engraved of Holland, Flanders, Naples, Rome, Florence, River Tyber & Ruins of Palmira.]
P. Torque [Paul Constantyn la Fargue] Pinxt.
printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c1765.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 185mm (5¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, losing surtitle (as above.]
Skaters on the frozen Oude Rijn, Leiden, including two men playing 'Colf', a fore-runner of golf, on the ice.
[Ref: 59373] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Newmarket:: A Shot at a Pigeon.
Mr.Bunbury f. J.Bretherton.
Publish'd 1st March, 1777.
Etching. 250 x 270mm ( 9½ x 10½"). Trimmed plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
A group of locals point at an open-mouthed young gentleman holding a riding whip, who they see as a gullible gambler. He is accompanied by an Italian greyhound; a mongrel drags its bottom along the ground in front of him. 'Mambrino' is written on the wall. One of a pair with 'Newmarket: A Shot at a Hawk' (BM Satire 4717). BM Satire 4719a.
[Ref: 59221] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Pedestrian Hobbyhorse. Exhibiting at 40, Brewer Street, Golden Square. M.r Johnson, Patentee, 75, Long Acre.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Feb.y 1819.
Aquatint with very fine colour. Sheet 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper.
A 'dandy horse', a primative bicycle on which the rider proceeded by pushing forward on the ground. Originally patented in 1818 in Germany by Baron Karl von Drais, this is the ‘pedestrian curricle' of Denis Johnson (c.1760-1833), a coachbuilder of Long Acre who made at least 320 during the short craze for velocipedes in 1819. Like many crazes it was killed by a health warning. A variation of the print published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts See Ref: 56180
[Ref: 59404] £260.00
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British Fishing, and Husbandry.
C.H.S.[Charles Hamilton Smith] del.t. Aquatinted by R.Havell.
Published June 1st, 1815 by R.Havell, 3 Chapel Street, London.
Fine coloured aquatint. 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom.
Ancient Britons fishing from coracles and ploughing using ox. In the title area is a vignette of a plough, based on an archaeological artifact. Published in the 'Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands', the first attempt to to use archaeological evidence to help create visual images of an imagined prehistoric past. Abbey Life 427.
[Ref: 59201] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Paul Ourry Treby, Esq.re. ''A Fox-Hunter, Rough and Ready.'' Vide 'Old Sporting Magazine'. Proof.
Drawn by R.R. Scanlan. Engraved by T. Landseer.
London, Published June 30th, 1838, by M.r R.R. Scanlan, 14, Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square, and Ackermann & Co. 93 Strand.
Proof mezzotint. 470 x 580mm (18½ x 22¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A hunter astride a galloping grey, doffing his hat, published posthumously. Paul Treby Ourry (1758-1832), elected MP for Plympton Erle in 1764 but resigned six months later. He assumed the surname of Treby when he inherited Plympton House. He was such a fan of fox hunting that he planned to install artificial fox earths so that he would have a plentiful supply of quarry.
[Ref: 59337] £320.00
Sporting Club de Vichy. Pavillion du Golf.
[A. Rolland] 1927.
Rare etching, limited edition 1/250, Rolland signature in pencil. 245 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with large margins. Margins dusty.
A golf club house with a distinctive obervation tower. Golfers on left bottom. Le Golf de Vichy was founded in May 1908. Although the clubhouse still exists the tower has been removed.
[Ref: 59223] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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