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![[Brothel] The Mob attempting to pull down Peter Woods Bawdy House in the Strand.](jpegs/62057.jpg)
[Brothel] The Mob attempting to pull down Peter Woods Bawdy House in the Strand.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1749.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), with letterpress clipping. Narrow margins, some spotting, laid on album paper.
A group of sailors with clubs storm The Star Tavern, near Temple Bar in the Strand, in vengence for being robbed, 1st July 1749. According to the letterpress, they slashed the mattress and through the feathers out of the windows and forced all the women out into the street, naked. The rioters returned the next two nights, attacking other houses. Nine men were eventually arrested: one, Bosavern Penlez (1726-49), a wig-maker, was hanged at Tyburn on 18 October 1749 for stealing linen from the Star.
Wellcome Collection 27976i.
[Ref: 62057] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1749.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), with letterpress clipping. Narrow margins, some spotting, laid on album paper.
A group of sailors with clubs storm The Star Tavern, near Temple Bar in the Strand, in vengence for being robbed, 1st July 1749. According to the letterpress, they slashed the mattress and through the feathers out of the windows and forced all the women out into the street, naked. The rioters returned the next two nights, attacking other houses. Nine men were eventually arrested: one, Bosavern Penlez (1726-49), a wig-maker, was hanged at Tyburn on 18 October 1749 for stealing linen from the Star.
Wellcome Collection 27976i.
[Ref: 62057] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Cock Lane Ghost.
[n.d., c.1762.]
Etching. Sheet 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"). With three wood engravings and seven 18th century newspaper clippings on the same subject. Trimmed to printed border, laid down and mounted over, laid on album paper.
Rare item. A man enters a room to be confronted by a ghostly woman. 'The Cock Lane Ghost' seemed to haunt William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk who, after his wife Elizabeth had died in childbirth, had taken up with his sister-in-law, Fanny. They moved to London as man and wife, and took lodgings in Cock Lane, in the house of Richard Parsons, a parish clerk. Kent loaned Parsons 12 guineas, to be repaid at a rate of a guinea per month. Then strange noises started to be heard in the house, after which a visitor reported seeing a ghostly white figure ascend the stairs. After a lull Fanny died of smallpox and the knockings resumed. With John Moore, rector of St Bartholomew-the-Great in West Smithfield, Parsons devised a method of communication with the spirit: one knock for yes, two knocks for no. The spirit suggested that the ghost that had scared the vistor was Elizabeth and the latest was Fanny, both of whom had been poisoned by William Kent. Thus Kent fell under public suspicion as a murderer but, protesting his innocence, allowed séances to be held, one attended by Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, 30th January 1762. Eventually a committee (including Samuel Johnson) declared the haunting a hoax, stating the knockings were caused by Parsons' daughter Elizabeth. They were sentenced in 1763.
[Ref: 61758] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
[n.d., c.1762.]
Etching. Sheet 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"). With three wood engravings and seven 18th century newspaper clippings on the same subject. Trimmed to printed border, laid down and mounted over, laid on album paper.
Rare item. A man enters a room to be confronted by a ghostly woman. 'The Cock Lane Ghost' seemed to haunt William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk who, after his wife Elizabeth had died in childbirth, had taken up with his sister-in-law, Fanny. They moved to London as man and wife, and took lodgings in Cock Lane, in the house of Richard Parsons, a parish clerk. Kent loaned Parsons 12 guineas, to be repaid at a rate of a guinea per month. Then strange noises started to be heard in the house, after which a visitor reported seeing a ghostly white figure ascend the stairs. After a lull Fanny died of smallpox and the knockings resumed. With John Moore, rector of St Bartholomew-the-Great in West Smithfield, Parsons devised a method of communication with the spirit: one knock for yes, two knocks for no. The spirit suggested that the ghost that had scared the vistor was Elizabeth and the latest was Fanny, both of whom had been poisoned by William Kent. Thus Kent fell under public suspicion as a murderer but, protesting his innocence, allowed séances to be held, one attended by Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, 30th January 1762. Eventually a committee (including Samuel Johnson) declared the haunting a hoax, stating the knockings were caused by Parsons' daughter Elizabeth. They were sentenced in 1763.
[Ref: 61758] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
The Contest for Doggett's Coat & Badge. A Prize rowed for every 1.st of Aug.st.
Pub. by Hodgson & Co. Newgate Str. [n.d., c.1824].
Etching with engraving. Sheet 130 x 235mm (5 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, original folds, mounted in album paper.
The Thames Waterman row for the Doggett's Coat and Badge, passing under Blackfriars Bridge, with St Paul's Cathedral behind. Held every year since it was started in 1715 by Thomas Doggett, an Irish actor and manager of Drury Lane, it is the oldest continuous rowing race in the world,
[Ref: 61954] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Pub. by Hodgson & Co. Newgate Str. [n.d., c.1824].
Etching with engraving. Sheet 130 x 235mm (5 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, original folds, mounted in album paper.
The Thames Waterman row for the Doggett's Coat and Badge, passing under Blackfriars Bridge, with St Paul's Cathedral behind. Held every year since it was started in 1715 by Thomas Doggett, an Irish actor and manager of Drury Lane, it is the oldest continuous rowing race in the world,
[Ref: 61954] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Plenipotentiaries of Great-Britain, Prussia, Holland & Russia, signing the Preliminaries of Peace, at Petersburg between the Empress & the Porte' the 4 of Aug,,st 1791. Engraved for Ashburton's History of England.
Dayes delin. Warren sculp.
Published as the Act directs Nov.r 1791, by W & J. Stratford, N.º 122 Holborn Hill.
Etching. 215 x 320mm (8½ x 12½"). Slight spotting.
An oval scene of four men in an elegant drawing room. The National Portrait Gallery has a watercolour of this scene (NPG 6263). According to the gallery's description: ''there is no record of Dayes visiting St Petersburg and the drawing is probably made up, perhaps from notes brought back by one of the British envoys. Among the allied plenipotentiaries at the signing of the preliminaries were Colonel Charles Whitworth and his colleague William Fawkener, Count Goltze (Prussia) and Count Osterman (Russia), but the figures are elegant puppets and can in no way be considered as portraits.''
[Ref: 61968] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Dayes delin. Warren sculp.
Published as the Act directs Nov.r 1791, by W & J. Stratford, N.º 122 Holborn Hill.
Etching. 215 x 320mm (8½ x 12½"). Slight spotting.
An oval scene of four men in an elegant drawing room. The National Portrait Gallery has a watercolour of this scene (NPG 6263). According to the gallery's description: ''there is no record of Dayes visiting St Petersburg and the drawing is probably made up, perhaps from notes brought back by one of the British envoys. Among the allied plenipotentiaries at the signing of the preliminaries were Colonel Charles Whitworth and his colleague William Fawkener, Count Goltze (Prussia) and Count Osterman (Russia), but the figures are elegant puppets and can in no way be considered as portraits.''
[Ref: 61968] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Life on the Water _ The Grand Rowing Match, for Mr. Kean's Prize Wherry. Red House, Battersea. [&] Pierce Egan's Anecdotes Of The Turf, The Chase, The Ring, And The Stage
[Knight & Lacey. London, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint with two pages of double sided text. Sheet 125 x 220mm (5 x 8¾"). Time stained.
View of an annual waterman's race, funded by Edmund Kean, the actor. One heat was from Westminster Bridge to the 'Red House', a tavern famous for pigeon shoots.
[Ref: 62022] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Knight & Lacey. London, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint with two pages of double sided text. Sheet 125 x 220mm (5 x 8¾"). Time stained.
View of an annual waterman's race, funded by Edmund Kean, the actor. One heat was from Westminster Bridge to the 'Red House', a tavern famous for pigeon shoots.
[Ref: 62022] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Penitentiary, Millbank. As it Appeared from the River during the Fire on Wednesday Night, the 7th Oct 1835.
Drawn on Stone by J. Freeman.
Printed and Published by W. Annan, 12 Gracechurch S.t.
Fine & scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"). Faint surface scuffing, laid on album paper.
A view from the Thames, with the walls of Millbank Prison sihouetted by the flames in the interior. The fire started in the laundry and destroyed the female wing and the infirmary, without loss of life.
[Ref: 61983] £320.00
Drawn on Stone by J. Freeman.
Printed and Published by W. Annan, 12 Gracechurch S.t.
Fine & scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"). Faint surface scuffing, laid on album paper.
A view from the Thames, with the walls of Millbank Prison sihouetted by the flames in the interior. The fire started in the laundry and destroyed the female wing and the infirmary, without loss of life.
[Ref: 61983] £320.00
The Naval Review. His Majesty George III Viewing His Fleet at Spithead. [with] Frontispiece. The Queen at her Needle Work Manufactury attended by M.rs Wright and the Young Ladies under her Instruction.
Ja.s Taylor sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Two engravings from the same plate, as the frontispiece and folding plate of a book. Verso faded ink dedication "....1775". Total sheet 120 x 245mm (4¾ x 9¾"). Split where stitched for binding, edges chipped, stains.
Two scenes: a view of the ships of the Royal Navy; and Queen Charlotte in a drawing room with Phoebe Wright (c.1710-78), an embroiderer who founded the "Royal School of embroidering females" in 1772, with the queen's patronage. Wright had a shop in Great Newport Street, which had supplied embroidered furnishings for the various royal residences. The school was to train indigent young daughters of professional men who had some association with the Court, but who had either died or had become impoverished. Queen Charlotte not only subscribed £500 a year but also regularly visited the school, giving commissions, including the fabrics and bed hangings for the queen’s new state bed at Windsor Castle (now at Hampton Court).
[Ref: 61976] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Ja.s Taylor sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Two engravings from the same plate, as the frontispiece and folding plate of a book. Verso faded ink dedication "....1775". Total sheet 120 x 245mm (4¾ x 9¾"). Split where stitched for binding, edges chipped, stains.
Two scenes: a view of the ships of the Royal Navy; and Queen Charlotte in a drawing room with Phoebe Wright (c.1710-78), an embroiderer who founded the "Royal School of embroidering females" in 1772, with the queen's patronage. Wright had a shop in Great Newport Street, which had supplied embroidered furnishings for the various royal residences. The school was to train indigent young daughters of professional men who had some association with the Court, but who had either died or had become impoverished. Queen Charlotte not only subscribed £500 a year but also regularly visited the school, giving commissions, including the fabrics and bed hangings for the queen’s new state bed at Windsor Castle (now at Hampton Court).
[Ref: 61976] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Inside of S.t Paul's Cathedral as Fitted up for the Funeral of Lord Nelson.
London, Publish'd by W.m Suttaby, Oct.1.1806.
Etching, 1806 watermark. Printed area 110 x 115mm (4¼ x 4½"), with another etching on the same sheet. Notch in right edge.
The additional image is 'Fashional Dress', showing a woman in a flowing, full-length dress.
[Ref: 61967] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
London, Publish'd by W.m Suttaby, Oct.1.1806.
Etching, 1806 watermark. Printed area 110 x 115mm (4¼ x 4½"), with another etching on the same sheet. Notch in right edge.
The additional image is 'Fashional Dress', showing a woman in a flowing, full-length dress.
[Ref: 61967] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Palace of Westminster fire, 1834.] The Houses of Lords & Commons as they Appeared On Fire Thursday October 16th 1834.](jpegs/62021.jpg)
[Palace of Westminster fire, 1834.] The Houses of Lords & Commons as they Appeared On Fire Thursday October 16th 1834. [&] The Houses of Lords & Commons as they Appeared On Fire Thursday October 16th 1834. [&] The Destruction of both Houses of Parliament, as seen from Abingdon S.t on the Night of the 16th Oct.r 1834. [&] The Destruction of both Houses of Parliament, as seen from the Surry-side on the Night of the 16th Oct.r 1834.
[Two anonymous and two] T. Picken Lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
[n.d., c.1834]
Two anonymous mezzotints with etching and two lithographs after Picken, all with extremely fine hand colour. Mezzotints: sheets 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½). Lithographs: sheets 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to images, laid on album paper.
Four night-time scenes showing the Houses of Parliament on fire, lit by the flames.
[Ref: 62021] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Two anonymous and two] T. Picken Lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
[n.d., c.1834]
Two anonymous mezzotints with etching and two lithographs after Picken, all with extremely fine hand colour. Mezzotints: sheets 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½). Lithographs: sheets 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to images, laid on album paper.
Four night-time scenes showing the Houses of Parliament on fire, lit by the flames.
[Ref: 62021] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Patent Shot Manufactory, with a distant View of Blackfriars Bridge & St Pauls.
Drawn by D. Turner. Eng.d by C. Ansell.
[Published Jan.y 1 1796.]
Aquatint, printed in sepia. Sheet 195 x 270mm (7¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper at edges with a coloured lithograph.
A view of the shot tower built by William Watt in 1789, taken from the Thames. The lithograph is ''The Fire (from Waterloo Bridge) Jan.y 5th 1826. Drawn, Printed & Pub.d on the Night of the Fire, at W. Days Lithog.c Office, 59, G.t. Queen S.t''. It shows the tower on fire, the interior and roof being destroyed.
[Ref: 61982] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by D. Turner. Eng.d by C. Ansell.
[Published Jan.y 1 1796.]
Aquatint, printed in sepia. Sheet 195 x 270mm (7¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper at edges with a coloured lithograph.
A view of the shot tower built by William Watt in 1789, taken from the Thames. The lithograph is ''The Fire (from Waterloo Bridge) Jan.y 5th 1826. Drawn, Printed & Pub.d on the Night of the Fire, at W. Days Lithog.c Office, 59, G.t. Queen S.t''. It shows the tower on fire, the interior and roof being destroyed.
[Ref: 61982] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Interior of Westminster Hall As it Appear'd when the Parliament Houses, were Destroyed by Fire, Oct:16, 1834.
Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman S.t.
Published by G.S. Tregear, 96, Cheapside, London Oct: 30, 1834.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 390 x 295mm (15¼ x 11½"). Small tear in edge.
A scene in the interior of Westminster Hall, with firemen working pumps in a successful effort to save the building from the fire that destroyed the two Houses of Parliament. The flames can be seen through the window and door. To the right is scaffolding, which had already been erected for repairs. This print was published just two weeks after the fire.
[Ref: 61964] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman S.t.
Published by G.S. Tregear, 96, Cheapside, London Oct: 30, 1834.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 390 x 295mm (15¼ x 11½"). Small tear in edge.
A scene in the interior of Westminster Hall, with firemen working pumps in a successful effort to save the building from the fire that destroyed the two Houses of Parliament. The flames can be seen through the window and door. To the right is scaffolding, which had already been erected for repairs. This print was published just two weeks after the fire.
[Ref: 61964] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)