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[Ball Game]
[Ball Game]
91-100 [illegible signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, printed in colours, signed by the artist. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½").
Two men playing a game against a wall in a Spanish village.
[Ref: 60925]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Bowls.]
[Bowls.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men bowling on rough ground beside a church. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60897]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Cockney Sportsmen, or First of September.
The Cockney Sportsmen, or First of September. Three citizens, well arm'd they say [...]
Harrild, Printer, 20 Great East[cheap]. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching with letterpress. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Tear through text taped, surface abrasions affecting end of text. Very damaged.
A satirical verse about incompetent hunters.
[Ref: 61002]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Cribb's Parlour. Tom introducing Jerry and Logic to the Champion of England.
Cribb's Parlour. Tom introducing Jerry and Logic to the Champion of England.
Drawn & Eng.d by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub'd by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, Jan. 1, 1822.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9"). Trimmed within plate, binding notches affecting publication line.
The interior of the Union Arms, Panton Street, which Tom Cribb ran after retiring from boxing, the walls filled with boxing pictures. A man holds up a prize cup. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis".
[Ref: 60991]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Easter Monday. or the Cockney Hunt.
Easter Monday. or the Cockney Hunt.
Rowlandson 1807.
designed etched & Pub July 13 1817 by Rowlandson, N I James Street Adelphi London..
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed to printed border, partly laid on album paper.
Having leapt a fence and landing on a slope, an elderly man sits on the horse's neck, holding its ears to stop being unseated completely. A reckless young woman leaps the fence immediately behind.
BM Satires 10813, first published 1811.
[Ref: 60997]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Studies of Fresh Water Fish.
Studies of Fresh Water Fish. Drawn on stone from Nature, and respectfully dedicated (with permission) to S. Gurney, Jun.r, Esq.r, (Carshalton) by his obedient Serv.t. H.y Leonidas Rolfe. 1851.
Published by the Artist at his Studio, Shorter's Court, Throgmorton S.t City.
Oblong folio, contemporary half morocco gilt, with marbled boards, red morocco gilt title label on front board; lithographed illustrated title pasted on original wrapper; 7 tinted lithographs on thick paper, mounted on stubs, each sheet approx. 355 x 540mm (14 x 21¼"). Binding worn, plates with some surface soiling and spotting, two plates with bottom right corner knocked.
The plates are: Pope, Minnow, Perch, Gudgeon; Barbel, Bream, Chub; Eel, Roach, Dace, Bleak; Tench, Carp; Trout; Graylng; Pike. The set of plates by Henry Leonidas Rolfe (1823-81). As the plates were issued loose in wrappers, complete sets are unusual and very scarce.
[Ref: 60910]   £2,500.00   view all images for this item
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The Racquet Ground, Fleet Prison [pencil].
The Racquet Ground, Fleet Prison [pencil].
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾"). Mounted in album paper.
A view of the exercise yard of London's notorious Fleet Prison.
[Ref: 60921]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Golf.]
[Golf.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men playing golf with clubs more like hockey sticks. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60895]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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[Hertford Castle] East Front of the Hon.ble East India Company's College, Hertford.
[Hertford Castle] East Front of the Hon.ble East India Company's College, Hertford.
Drawn & Engraved by Thomas Medland.
Publish'd 9 Feb.y 1808, by Tho.s Medland, Hertford.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 380 x 465mm (15 x 18¼"). Trimmed within plate, several tears taped.
The exterior of Hertford Castle, with scholars playing bowls. The East India Company College was founded in 1806 to train ''writers'' (administrators) for the Company. Thomas Medland (c.1765-1833) was the first drawing master. The year after this print was published the college moved to a purpose-built property, designed by William Wilkins and landscaped by Humphrey Repton, now Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
[Ref: 60903]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen; - or, -The Old Brentford Shuttlecock, between Old-Sarum, & the Temple of St. Steevens.
Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen; - or, -The Old Brentford Shuttlecock, between Old-Sarum, & the Temple of St. Steevens. No. III.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1805.]
Coloured etching. 180 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"), large margins. Original binding folds.
Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head of John Horne Tooke. A reduced copy of James Gillray's satire on Horne Tooke's return to parliament after a by-election for the pocket borough of Old Sarum, at which Temple tried to exclude him on the grounds that he had taken orders in the Church of England.
See BM Satires 9716 for Gillray's original.
[Ref: 61006]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Lacrosse.]
[Lacrosse.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men in street dress playing lacrosse. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60896]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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The Start.
The Start.
G. Howse del. Vincent Brooks Lith.
Published June 1st 1859 by James Ryman, 24 & 25 High Street, Oxford
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 345 x 525mm (13½ x 20¾"). Some cracking and surface abrasions.
A rowing race, probably between Oxford University students. A rare locally-produced print.
[Ref: 60944]   £850.00  
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Snap Dragon.
Snap Dragon. 165.
Publish'd Dec.r 12th. 1795. by Laurie & Whittle, N° 53, Fleet Street London.
Etching and stipple with hand colour, 18th century watermark. 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") very large margins.
Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table playing the parlour game. A man holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin.
BM Satires 8778. See 51746 for black and white version.
[Ref: 60996]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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A Touch of the Yawns.
A Touch of the Yawns. Here's a precious day for Hunting!!
Etched by H. Cook Jnr.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed to image and around title, laid on album paper.
A man wearing a dressing gown over his riding dress stretches and yawns. Heavy rain can be seen through the window.
[Ref: 61014]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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