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Childish Amusement.
Painted by G. Moreland. W. Dickinson Execudit.
London, Published June 10:th 1789 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (16 x 13¾"), with large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A rustic man in rustic dress asleep on a bench outside an inn with a tankard beside him. As he sleeps, three children amuse themselves by placing their hat on his head, tying his ankles together and tickling his nose with a piece of straw. A sign reads 'Burton Ale'.
[Ref: 60969] £320.00
Painted by G. Moreland. W. Dickinson Execudit.
London, Published June 10:th 1789 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (16 x 13¾"), with large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A rustic man in rustic dress asleep on a bench outside an inn with a tankard beside him. As he sleeps, three children amuse themselves by placing their hat on his head, tying his ankles together and tickling his nose with a piece of straw. A sign reads 'Burton Ale'.
[Ref: 60969] £320.00
![[James Duff, 5th Earl Fife.]](jpegs/60961.jpg)
[James Duff, 5th Earl Fife.]
[Engraved by George Raphael Ward, from a Sketch by Francis Grant, A.R.A.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 590 x 400mm (23¼ x 15¾") very large margins. Some creasing, a few small nicks in margins.
Full length portrait of James Duff, 5th Earl of Fife (1814-79) in Highland dress, with kilt, sporran, sword, gun and dog.
BM 2010,7081.5180, identifying him as James Duff, 4th Earl (1776-1857).
[Ref: 60961] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by George Raphael Ward, from a Sketch by Francis Grant, A.R.A.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 590 x 400mm (23¼ x 15¾") very large margins. Some creasing, a few small nicks in margins.
Full length portrait of James Duff, 5th Earl of Fife (1814-79) in Highland dress, with kilt, sporran, sword, gun and dog.
BM 2010,7081.5180, identifying him as James Duff, 4th Earl (1776-1857).
[Ref: 60961] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Fridericvs. D.G. Marchio. Brandenbvrgicbs. Dvx Borvssiae et Silesiae; Bvrggr. Norimb Pater Patriae. Pivs. Felix. Avgvstvs.
G. Eichler Universit Calcographus. ad. Hirdeone Erlangenj. vivum del. et fc. Enlangoe.
[n.d. c.1744]
Very rare framed mezzotint on silk. Silk 455 x 355mm (18 x 14"). Frame 530 x 430mm (20¾ x 17"). Slightly warped but very good condition considering it is on silk! Unexamined outside of frame. Any silk engravings of this period in very good condition are extremely scarce.
Three quarter portrait of Frederick (Friedrich) Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1711 -1763), wearing armour, cloak, sash and holding a baton. He was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and eldest son of Georg Frederick Karl, nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (1688-1735), by his wife Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685-1761). His name has been added to the official name of the University of Erlangen, which he founded in 1743: the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (English: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Gottfried Eichler the Younger (1715-1770) was an engraver active in Augsburg and son of German painter and draughtsman Gottfried the Elder (1677-1759).
[Ref: 61010] £1,500.00
G. Eichler Universit Calcographus. ad. Hirdeone Erlangenj. vivum del. et fc. Enlangoe.
[n.d. c.1744]
Very rare framed mezzotint on silk. Silk 455 x 355mm (18 x 14"). Frame 530 x 430mm (20¾ x 17"). Slightly warped but very good condition considering it is on silk! Unexamined outside of frame. Any silk engravings of this period in very good condition are extremely scarce.
Three quarter portrait of Frederick (Friedrich) Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1711 -1763), wearing armour, cloak, sash and holding a baton. He was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and eldest son of Georg Frederick Karl, nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (1688-1735), by his wife Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685-1761). His name has been added to the official name of the University of Erlangen, which he founded in 1743: the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (English: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Gottfried Eichler the Younger (1715-1770) was an engraver active in Augsburg and son of German painter and draughtsman Gottfried the Elder (1677-1759).
[Ref: 61010] £1,500.00
![[Masonic allegory of the Seven Sciences.] Septemplex Sororum Vitae.](jpegs/60966.jpg)
[Masonic allegory of the Seven Sciences.] Septemplex Sororum Vitae.
E. Spry M.D. inv. & del. I. Jehner fecit. F.A. c:A: & S:P.Di.
Artium & Scientiaru, Plimuthi-dock Academiam Institit & fundavit Cal: An: MDCCLXXXV [1785].
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Narrow margins, some creasing and surface wear, laid on album paper.
An extremely rare masonic plate, with a central image of Minerva and a cockerel, a portrait of Dr Edward Spry (the artist), a list of the masonic Seven Sciences (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy & Music) under the Eye of Providence, the rising sun, Adam and Eve, and a classical temple. On the title page of his 1785 book 'A masonic ode, prayer and grace, consecrated to the firmly and friendly united brotherhood of free-masons (thro'out the world)', Spry described himself as 'Knight Templar, and of the Eastern Star, &c'. The engraver, Isaac Jehner (or Jenner) of Exeter engraved portraits of Spry, his son (also Edward) and nephew John. The BM biography notes 'Probably a Freemason'.
Alexander: English and Irish Engravers, biography of Jenner, p.502-5. BM1864.0813.212
[Ref: 60966] £490.00
E. Spry M.D. inv. & del. I. Jehner fecit. F.A. c:A: & S:P.Di.
Artium & Scientiaru, Plimuthi-dock Academiam Institit & fundavit Cal: An: MDCCLXXXV [1785].
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Narrow margins, some creasing and surface wear, laid on album paper.
An extremely rare masonic plate, with a central image of Minerva and a cockerel, a portrait of Dr Edward Spry (the artist), a list of the masonic Seven Sciences (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy & Music) under the Eye of Providence, the rising sun, Adam and Eve, and a classical temple. On the title page of his 1785 book 'A masonic ode, prayer and grace, consecrated to the firmly and friendly united brotherhood of free-masons (thro'out the world)', Spry described himself as 'Knight Templar, and of the Eastern Star, &c'. The engraver, Isaac Jehner (or Jenner) of Exeter engraved portraits of Spry, his son (also Edward) and nephew John. The BM biography notes 'Probably a Freemason'.
Alexander: English and Irish Engravers, biography of Jenner, p.502-5. BM1864.0813.212
[Ref: 60966] £490.00
L'Hiver.
Mauchard pinx.t.
Se vend à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils.
Rare mezzotint. 390 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½") very large margins. Printer's creases on right edge of plate, backed with archival tissue.
A half-length portrait of a woman wearing a fur-lined coat, with a hood and muff. Winter, one of a set of four portraits representing the Four Seasons.
[Ref: 60945] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Mauchard pinx.t.
Se vend à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils.
Rare mezzotint. 390 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½") very large margins. Printer's creases on right edge of plate, backed with archival tissue.
A half-length portrait of a woman wearing a fur-lined coat, with a hood and muff. Winter, one of a set of four portraits representing the Four Seasons.
[Ref: 60945] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Shepherdess]](jpegs/60984.jpg)
[Shepherdess] [As harmless as a Turtle of the Woods, As opining Flowers untainted yet n.th Winds, Fair as the Summer Beauty of the Field, The Pride of Nature, and the Joy of Sense]
Hen.y Pickering pinx.t. John Faber fecit.
Price 2 Shill.s Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [n.d., c.1740].
Framed mezzotint, plate 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with margins. Frame 485 x 365mm (19 x 14¼"). Small tear on right near bottom.
Three-quarter length, seated portrait of a young lady (possibly Mrs Flora MacDonald). She holds the end of a garland of flowers up in her right hand, the other end resting under left hand in her lap, a crook across her lap and a lamb at her feet to left. One of a pair of prints of shepherdesses engraved by John Faber the younger after portrait painter Henry Pickering (1700-1720, fl.), the other known as 'Chloe in the Country'.
Chaloner Smith 417 I of II. Sharpe: Not in.
[Ref: 60984] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Hen.y Pickering pinx.t. John Faber fecit.
Price 2 Shill.s Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [n.d., c.1740].
Framed mezzotint, plate 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with margins. Frame 485 x 365mm (19 x 14¼"). Small tear on right near bottom.
Three-quarter length, seated portrait of a young lady (possibly Mrs Flora MacDonald). She holds the end of a garland of flowers up in her right hand, the other end resting under left hand in her lap, a crook across her lap and a lamb at her feet to left. One of a pair of prints of shepherdesses engraved by John Faber the younger after portrait painter Henry Pickering (1700-1720, fl.), the other known as 'Chloe in the Country'.
Chaloner Smith 417 I of II. Sharpe: Not in.
[Ref: 60984] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)