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Crab.
Alken del.t. I.Clark sculp.t.
[London: Thomas McLean, c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. 195 x 250mm (11½ x 13¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1822', with wide margins.
Portrait of a bull terrier.
[Ref: 61523] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Album sheet with three watercolours of Death's Head Moths by Albin Roberts Burt.]
[1826-7.]
Abum sheet with three watercolours and two coloured etchings. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼").
Illustrations of the chrysalis, caterpillar and adult Death's Head Moth, with an ink mss. description signed by Albin Roberts Burt, dated 1826. On the same sheet is a table of sign-language etched by Burt and an illustration of a mosaic of the Roman villa at Bignor. Albin Roberts Burt (1783-1842), portrait-painter and engraver.
[Ref: 61402] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Cocker Spaniel.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching, limited edition (35/150), signed by the artist in pencil. Framed. 225 x 330mm (8¾ x 13"). Spotting, unexamined out of frame.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 61422] £170.00
(£204.00 incl.VAT)
Queen Elizabeth's Elm. Richmond.
M. Callcott 1834.
Rare lithograph on chine collé. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Some spotting, mainly to backing sheet.
An ancient Scots Elm in the grounds of Kew Palace, partially blown down in 1844. Privately printed by Maria, Lady Callcott (1785-1842), traveller, author and amateur lithographer. Gascoigne 704.
[Ref: 61700] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Le Tandem]
Heywood Hardy [in pencil]
Printed in Paris - Copyright 1896 by Boussod, Valadon & C.o Successors to Goupil & C.o Publishers Paris, London & New York
Very rare and fine photogravure on india. India 640 x 465mm (25¼ x 18¼"), with very large margins. Limited edition of 125 signed proofs before letters. Printsellers Association blindstamp.
Two women in a horse and cart on a dirt road watch fox hunting in the distant hills.
[Ref: 61526] £550.00
Rabbit Shooting
Painted By Heywood Hardy. Goupil Gravure.
Printed in Paris & Published April 1.st 1895 by Boussod, Valadon & C.o Successors to Goupil & C.o Paris _ London _ The Hague. Berlin. Verlag von Boussod, Valdon & C.o. New York Published by Boussod, Valdon & C.o.
Photogravure on india. India 580 x 730mm (22¾ x 28¾"), with very large margins.
Shooting rabbits, with weasel and retreiver.
[Ref: 61525] £450.00
[Giant Octopus] Le Poulpe Colossal.
Denys-Montfort del. E. Voysard S.
[n.d., 1801.]
Engraving. Printed area 135 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Stamp of Brooklyn Public Library.
Very unusual image showing a giant octopus, Kraken, grappling with a ship. From Buffon's ' Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques, animaux sans vertèbres et a sang blanc'.
[Ref: 61382] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
A Trial of Patience.
Painted by Heywood Hardy. Engraved by W.H.Simmons.
London Published 6th August 1881 by L.H. Lefevre 1a King Street, St. James's.
Photogravure 625 x 710mm (24¾ x 28"), with very large margins. Some light foxing.
A girl in victorian dress sits in a wicker chair covered in fur blankets and pillows reading. She keeps an eye on her fox terrier who waits for a cat to finish drinking milk out of a saucer.
[Ref: 61528] £450.00
[The Warning.]
Heywood Hardy pinx.t [ink signature]. E.G.Hester [pencil signature.]
[Published 1891 by I.P.Mendoza, St.James Gallery, London.]
Photogravure proof on india signed by the artist and engraver, with etched remarque, ltd to 225 impressions. India 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18½), with very large margins. Margins time stained.
The Warning also known as Half Afraid / Don't Fear. Three girls in late Victorian dress are on a lawn, one on the right coaxing a smaller child to feed a dog a biscuit while the third stands to the left of the dog with her arms around its neck. There are roses at their feet, a rose bush behind them, and dense foliage in the background.
[Ref: 61527] £320.00
The Zebu Bull. The property of M.r Cross, Exeter Change.
London: William Darton; 58 Holborn Hill. [n.d. c.1815]
Engraving, sheet 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate. A bit of staining in right corner.
A humped cow stands against an outdoor backdrop near a fence, another lies on the ground near a river. The zebu are a domestic cattle originating in South Asia. Edward Cross (1774 –1854) was an English zoo proprietor and dealer in animals. He owned the menagerie at the Exeter Exchange from 1814 to its demolition in 1829.
[Ref: 61530] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
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