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Her Most Gracious Majesty Adelaide, Queen of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c.
[Published for the Proprietor by T. Bird 40 Wigmore Street, July 1st. 1830. R. Ackermann Strand & C. Tilt, Fleet Street.]
Fine coloured mezzotint. Sheet 175 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Three quarter portrait of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792-1849), wife of William IV, dressed in silk gown with ermine clock and tiara.
[Ref: 63542] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
[Georgiana Agar-Ellis, Lady Dover]
J. Jackson pinx. R.A. S.W. Reynolds sculp.
Published by Colnagho P. Feb 13 1824.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 380 x 255mm (15 x 10mm), with large margins. Repairs in edges of margins. Uncut.
Georgiana Agar Ellis (1804-1860), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle; in 1822 she married George Agar-Ellis, who became Baron Dover in 1831. Whitman 8.
[Ref: 63538] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Giorgio Baglivi] Georgius Baglivus Aetat. 34.
Carolus Maratta inv:, delin:, et Autori amico D.D.D. Romæ 1713. C. Duflos Sc. Parisüs.
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Giorgio Armeno (1668-1707, Latinised as Baglivi), a Croatian-Italian physician, Professor of Anatomy at the College of Sapienza, then Professor of Theoretical Medicine. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in England in July 1698, Wellcome 141-1.
[Ref: 63457] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Marquis of Tichfield, Son of his Grace the Duke of Portland.
S.r Joshua Reynolds Pinxit. I. Jehner Fecit.
Pub.d 1.st May, 1777, by I. Jehner, Bear Street, Leicester Fields, & J. Lockington, Shug lane, Piccadilly, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins. Some creasing.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck (1738-1809), as a youth, dressed in Van Dyke costume in a landscape. He was later the 3rd Duke of Portland and Prime Minister twice. CS 13, ii.
[Ref: 63537] £520.00
[Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius] Anic. Manl. Toquat. Sever. Boetius in Coelo magnus, et omni perspectus mundo.
[William Faithorne?]
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. 245 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper. Burn hole on left of clock, near knee.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (ca.480-525), a Christian philosopher whose translations of Greek classics into Latin saved the works of Aristotle. NPG D22990, 'probably by William Faithorne'.
[Ref: 63360] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Mrs. Bonfoy.]
J. Reynolds pint. J. McArdell fecit.
Published'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755].
Mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, bottom left inscription area rebuilt, marks over inscription line, small crease.
The published state ot this portrait of Lady Ann Bonfoy (1729-1810), unusually still untitled. The daughter of Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Cornwall, Anne married to a captain in the Royal Navy, Hugh Bonfoy (c1720-1762) in November 1751. They had one daughter together before he died in 1762, also Ann, who married the First Earl of Ely. The elder Ann was Lady of the Bedchamber to the daughters of George III. Reynolds had painted a group portrait of the Eliot family in 1746, before his departure for Italy. This was one of the first of his portrait to be engraved in mezzotint. CS 23, Goodwin 44, Hamilton p.84. The oil is in the Box Gallery, Plymouth.
[Ref: 63536] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Honourable Sr. Laurence Carter K.t one of the Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequer.
J. Richardson pinx. G. Vertue Sculp. 1733.
Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street Drury Lane.
Engraving. 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate, some spotting.
Sir Laurence Carter (1672-1745) was a judge at Lincoln's Inn, and recorder of Leicester from 1697 to 1729. He was Member of Parliament in 1698, 1701 and 1722; for Beeralston in 1710, 1714 and 1716. He was knighted in 1724 and was Puisne Baron of the Exchequer from 1726 until his death. Alexander: 673.
[Ref: 63532] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Charles Churchill.
[after Hamett Jefferyes.]
[n.d., c.1765.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾").
Oval portrait of satirist Charles Churchill (1732-1764), thinking with a quill in his hand. Under the oval are books including 'The North Briton' and 'Prophecy of Famine', and a pole holding a cap of liberty. Churchill was an ally of John Wilkes and an adversary of William Hogarth. In response to Churchill's 'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (described by Garrick as shocking and barbarous), Hogarth published 'The Bruiser', which caricatured Churchill as a bear with a tankard of porter and a club of lies, with Hogarth's pug urinating on the 'Epistle'.
[Ref: 63365] £320.00
The Most High, Puissant, and Noble Prince John Churchill, Duke and Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford Baron Churchill of Sandridge, and Baron of Aymouth in Scotland, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Captain General of the Forces, Master of the Ordnance, Colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, one of the Privy Council, and Knight of the Garter.
G. Kneller pinx. R. Sheppard Sculp.
[n.d., c.1735.]
Engraving. 375 x 230mm (14¾ x 9"), very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on right, remargined.
Portrait in oval of John Churchill (1650-1722) in wig and armour with George, after a portrait by Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723).
[Ref: 63529] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Prophetiae Danielis, cap.1.w.1.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), very large margins.
A full-length portrait of Daniel, reading a book, a lion walking by his side. A plate from 'Humanae salutis monumenta' by Benedicus Arias Montus, first published c.1571, but this example from a later state with the Bible reference added.
[Ref: 63502] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Gianello della Torre] Juanelo Torriano
[n.d., c.1820.]
Chine collé mezzotint. 175 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"),
An illustration of the carrara marble bust of Italo-Spanish clockmaker, engineer and mathematician Gianello della Torre (c.1500-85), attributed to Pompeo Leoni. now in the Museo de Santa Cruz.
[Ref: 63366] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
William Lord Auckland.
Engraved by C. Picart, from an original Drawing by H. Edridge.
Published Jan. 24, 1810 by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 375 x 285mm (14¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
A head and shoulders portrait of British statesman and diplomat William Eden (1745-1814), 1st Baron Auckland.
[Ref: 63350] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Henrietta Fordyce] M,,rs Fordyce.
[G. [ Willison Pinx.t. W. Shropshire excudit. Tho.s Watson fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 1st. 1771, for W. Shropshire in New Bond Street, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 495 x 335mm (19½ x 13¼"). Trimmed into image on three sides, affecting inscriptions, into plate at bottom.
Three-quarter length portrait of Henrietta Fordyce (1734-1823), celebrating her 1771 marriage to clergyman James Fordyce. She holds a bouquet to her breast and carries a fringed fan.
[Ref: 63533] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Victor Emmanuel II, Camillo Benso & Giuseppe Garibaldi]
[n.d., c.1861.]
Albumen print of an artwork. Sheet 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Laid on card.
A sketch of three most important figures in the unification of Italy: the first king, the first prime minister and the famous general.
[Ref: 63545] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[George IV.] Presented Gratis with the Atlas Newspaper.
[by James Whiting.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Very fine engraving on embossed card. Sheet 135 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½").
A cameo portrait of George IV within an embossed design including the Royal Arms. The Atlas Newspaper ran from 1826 - 1869. According to the Victorian and Albert Museum, this is believed to be the first free gift with a newspaper. V&A E.452-1998.
[Ref: 63448] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles Mason Hovey] C.M. Hovey [facimile signature].
W. Sharp.
[Boston & New York: Hovey & Co., c.1847.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). A couple of spots, paper toned.
The frontispiece portrait from 'The Fruits of America' by Charles Mason Hovey, which contained 96 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp and Sons. Hovey (1810-87) was a nurseryman, seed merchant and journalist of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[Ref: 63546] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles Mason Hovey] C.M. Hovey [facimile signature].
W. Sharp - 1851.
[New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1853.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). A couple of spots, paper toned.
The frontispiece portrait from 'The Fruits of America' by Charles Mason Hovey, which contained 48 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp and Sons. Hovey (1810-87) was a nurseryman, seed merchant and journalist of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[Ref: 63547] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Inigo Jones.
Painted by Vandyke. Engraved by R. Earlom.
Published Sept.r 2.d 1811, by Boydell & Co. 90, Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"), with large margins.
Portrait of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) the British architect and designer. He left his mark on London by single buildings, such as the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and in area design for Covent Garden, which became a model for future developments in the West End. CS: 23, only state.
[Ref: 63495] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Part of the Natural History of Asia.
W.M. Craig del.t. T. Wallis sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾") Trimmed within plate.
A composite image, illustrating parrots, a toucan, elk, camel and tiger but, most significantly, the kangaroo, based on the George Stubbs painting. This plate was published in at least two of the Rev. Ezekiel Bloomfield's works: 'A General View of the World' (1807), & 'Complete and Universal Dictionary' (1812). Lennox- Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, 424.
[Ref: 63343] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Angelica Kauffman, Ex Academia Regali Artium Londini.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx. John Boydell excudit 1780. F. Bartolozzi sculpsit.
Published Sept.r 3. 1780 by John Boydell London.
Stipple, part printed in colours. Sheet 315 x 265mm (12¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A half-length portrait of Swiss painter and Royal Academician Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), shown holding a drawing. Originally published by Bartolozzi with the same date. De Vesme 1086 IV of IV.
[Ref: 63351] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Laos] L'Empereur De Calaminhan, lUn des plus Puissans, et Renommez Monarques, de l'Asie….cest celle que le Calaminhan adore...
[Engraved by Nicolas De Larmessin].
A Paris Chez P. Bertrand, Rue St. Iacques, à la Pomme d'Or, proche St Seuerin, Avec Privil, du Roy [n.d. c.1670].
Engraving. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾").. Small margins.
Probably Xixivarom Meleutay, a figure described by Fernand Mendez Pinto in the account of his explorations in Asia, 1537-58. 'Calaminhan' is believed to be Luang Prabang in Laos, to which Pinto was taken as a prisoner by the Burmese.
[Ref: 63329] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
A Malay.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed, printer's crease through inscription.
From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
[Ref: 63458] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
[Ernst von Mansfeld] The Most Noble Soldier Count Mansfeld General for the King of Bohemia. Anno 1621.
Ioan Orlandi formis.
Copper engraving. 210 x 146mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld (c. 1580-1626), a German mercenary who fought for Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, the titular king of Bohemia.
[Ref: 63364] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.] De groot FRANSE BANa-Rekel met de BANgheid, in geen gevaar=lanf bankende.
[Amsterdam: Carel Allard, c.1706.]
Etching. 270 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Nicks in edges, stains. Loss in top margin left.
A satirical portrait of Maximilian II Emanuel (1662-1723), Elector of Bavaria and governor of the Spanish Netherlands, as a crippled rider attempting to mount his horse. After the Battle of Ramillies, on 23 May 1706, Max Emanuel was forced to flee the Spanish Netherlands From 't Lust-Hof van Momus, Beplant met de voornaamste Gewassen van Mars in Europa', a collection of satires on the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14).
[Ref: 63506] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Phiippus Melanchthon.
AD [monogram of Albrecht Dürer] inventor. H. [Hendrick Hondius] fe.
[The Hague, 1602.]
Engraving. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½") very large margins. Small abrasion in print surface top left, spotting.
Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt, 1497-1560), a German reformer who collaborated with Martin Luther. From Jacob Verheiden's ''Praestantium aliquot theologorum ... effigies''.
[Ref: 63330] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Signature of General Anastasio Bustamente] Anast. Bustam.te Londres a 8 de Junio 1842. Hotel St George Albermarle Street.
Ink mss. Sheet 95 x 135mm (3¾ x 5¼"). Laid on album sheet with a lithographic portrait.
Anastasio Bustamante (1780-1853) was Mexican president three times, 1830-2, 1837-9, and 1839-41, losing his job because of revolts each time. This signature dates from his exile, before he returned to Mexico after the fall of Santa Anna in 1844. The portrait is of Venezuelan soldier José Trinidad Morán (1796-1854) who fought in the liberation wars of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
[Ref: 62296] £480.00
[Samuel Moore] Non est Mortale quod opto. Aetatis suae 30. 1647. Welcome to publick veiw: More Gospel - light Discover'd is in thee, than e're out sight Could fix it self on yet. Friend! wouldst thou see How much Christs bowells yearne, still towards thee: What Glorious secrets; Sacred Mysteries; Transacted are 'twixt Christ and Thee? Thine eyes May, in this Authors Tracts, fill theire desires; If, with his S't, thou breath'st reflected first. N.S.
WM [William Marshall] Sculp:
[n.d., 1648.]
Engraving. 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed, laid on album paper. Old ink mss. in title.
Portrait of the poet Samuel Moore [b. 1617], frontispiece to his ''Theosplanchnistheis, or, The yernings of Christs bowels towards his languishing friends wherein the sincereity, ardency, constancy, and super-eminent excellency of the love of Jesus Christ as it workes from him towards his friends is delineated, discussed, and fitly applyed''.
[Ref: 63361] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Omphale Queen of Lydia.
John Boydell exc.t 1782. Publish'd Oct.r 25th by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple. Sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed to plate, small repaired tear bottom left.
Oval portrait of Omphale, queen of Lydia, best known as the mistress of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude. She is depicted holding his olive-wood club and wearing the head of the Nemean lion as a headress.
[Ref: 63549] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Papua New Guinea] Naturel du havre Carteret.
AC. Dous.
[Brussels: Librairie historique-artistique, 1843-4.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½").
A native of New Ireland (or Latangai) with a painted face, wearing anklets, armband and necklace, otherwise naked but wrapper in a shawl. From ''Moeurs, usages et costumes de tout les peuples du monde'' by Auguste Wahlen (pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer).
[Ref: 63460] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
[Philip V of Spain.] De Wanschape Monarchy of 't Vierde Deel van de Zieltogrende Anjouse Monarch[y] Nº [4].
[Amsterdam: Abraham Allard, c.1711.]
Etching. Sheet 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed, into image on left, affecting title, laid on album paper. Cut into image on right.
Philip V of Spain helps a donkey to vomit while a 'Doctor Financier' examines a urine sample. Through the window a demon approaches a sleeping woman. A satire of the state of Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14. From 't Lust-Hof van Momus, Beplant met de voornaamste Gewassen van Mars in Europa'. Wellcome 17533i.
[Ref: 63507] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Jvan Philippo Charioteer to the King of Prussia (during the Peninsular War). Sketched from Life at the Pfauen-Insel, near Berlin.
Rev.d T. Kilby, del.t. Printed by T. Skelton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 255 x 205mm (10 x 8").
The artist, The Reverend Thomas Kilby (1794-1868), is best known for his 'Scenery in the Vicinity of Wakefield', 1843.
[Ref: 63363] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Qalaherriaq] Kallihirua.
[London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed, losing publisher's inscription.
Qalaherriaq (c. 183-56, baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), an Inughuit hunter from Cape York, Greenland, who worked as an interpreter by the crew of HMS Assistance during the search for Franklin's lost expedition in 1850. Afterwards he was trained as a missionary in England but he died of tuberculosis a year after his return to Canada. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
[Ref: 63459] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Ragostski Sigismond Prince de Transilvanie.]
[Engraved by Johann Elias Haid after a sketch by Bernard Picart after Rembrandt.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before title. 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Damage, loss in corners bottom right & top left. Messy.
Sigismund Rákóczi (1544-1608), a Hungarian soldier who rose to prominence in the wars against the Ottomans, becoming Prince of Transylvania towards the end of his life.
[Ref: 63541] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Daniel Seghers] Daniel Segers Frere Iesuite. Un de premier painctres de nostre temps, en fleurs natureles: il a faict son aprentisage chez Iean Breugel. l'on trouve de ses chefs d'oeuvres, dans les courts de grandes Seigneurs. L'Empereur d'Alemaigne, et l'Archiducq Leopolde Guillelme ont beaucoup de ses pieces S.A.e le Prince d'Oraigne Henri Fredericq luj a faict deux presents pour deux pieces de sa main, une chaine et une crois d'or masif, toutes deux de grander valeur, il teint maintenant sa residence en Anvers dans la maison de proffesse de Pere Iesuites.
I. Livens pinxit [after Paulus Pontius].
I. Meyssens excudit [n.d. c.1622].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"), large margins.
Daniel Seghers (1590-1661), Flemish Jesuit brother and Baroque painter who specialised in flower still lifes, and is particularly well known for his contributions to the genre of 'flower garland' painting. Drawn by Jan Livens afte a portrait by Paulus Pontius for Cornelis de Bie's "Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const".
[Ref: 63367] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Jan Six] The Burgo-Master, by Rembrandt.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at N.º 69 in St Pauls Church yard, London.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins. Small worm trail just entering inscription area lower right.
A copy of Rembrandt's 1647 etching of Jan Six (1618-1700), art collector, magistrate and mayor of Amsterdam in 1691. A friend of the artist, Six was also painted by Rembrandt in 1654, an oil still in the Six Collection in Amsterdam. Not in Chaloner Smith.
[Ref: 63527] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Frans Snyders] Portrait de François Sneyders, Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Comte de Baudouin Brigadier des armées du Roy, Capitaine aux Gardes françoises.
R.P. Rubens pinxit. E. Ivanowe scul.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Fine engraving. 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Small margins.
Frans Snyders (1579-1657), animal painter based in Antwerp, and friend of Van Dyck.
[Ref: 63550] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska.] De Beyrin in haar Hol of de Klaagende Keurvorstin van B... te Venetien. Complaintes de l'Electrice de B... Refugiée a Venise.
A Venise chez Maximilien Douleur a la Cour solitire [but Amsterdam: Carel Allard, c.1706.]
Etching. 270 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Nicks in edges, stains at top.
A satirical portrait of Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676-1730), daughter of Polish king John III Sobieski and wife of Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria and governor of the Spanish Netherlands. After the Battle of Blenheim, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Theresa was made regent to the Electorate (to stop Bavaria being dragged into the war), but was dispossessed by the Austrian Leopold I and forced into exile in Venice. From 't Lust-Hof van Momus, Beplant met de voornaamste Gewassen van Mars in Europa', a collection of satires on the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14).
[Ref: 63505] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Studious Fair.
T. Goddard pinx. W. Nutter Sculp.
Publish'd Feb. 1788 by R. Cribb N.288 Holborn.
Stipple. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"), with large margins.
An oval portrait of a woman in a coiffured wig, resting her elbow on a book on a table. A pencil note in the margin suggests the sitter is 'Miss Bliss'.
[Ref: 63524] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
The Studious Fair.
T. Goddard pinx. W. Nutter Sculp.
Publish'd Feb. 1788 by R. Cribb N.288 Holborn.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"). Small margins.
An oval portrait of a woman in a coiffured wig, resting her elbow on a book on a table.
[Ref: 63523] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Thomson Esq.r M.P.F.S.A. Chairman of the Dock Company at Kingston upon Hull.
Painted by Russell, 17, Newman Street. Engraved by Collyer, 8, Constitution Row.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple. Sheet 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, spotting.
A portrait of Thomas Thompson, whose Dock Company employed John Rennie and William Chapman to build Humber Dock, 1803-9. Closed in 1968, it is now the Hull Marina.
[Ref: 63548] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
[Paolo Toschi.]
[after Carlo Raimondi]
[n.d., c.1851.]
Steel engraving on chine collé, proof before letters and remarque. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½").
A portrait of painter and engraver Paolo Toschi (1788-1854), working on a printing plate on an easel, by his former pupil Carlo Raomondi (1809-83). Toschi was appointed Professor of Engraving and Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma in 1837. A scarce image of an engraver with his equipment.
[Ref: 63535] £360.00
[Queen Victoria at Brighton.] Victoria 1.st [old ink mss.]
Nov.r 15th 1837 [old ink mss.]
Coloured lithograph with watercolour. Circular, printed border 135mm (5¼") diameter. Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
A fine portrait of the young Victoria, with the domes of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, behind. She visited her uncle George IV's pleasure palace shortly after she became queen in 1837.
[Ref: 63369] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Charles Wesley] C Wesley [facsimile signature].
From an Original Painting [by John Russell] in the possession of the Family. Engraved by T.A. Dean.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait of Charles Wesley (1707-88), a principal leader of the Methodist movement and author of the carol ''Hark! The Herald Angels Sing''.
[Ref: 63362] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Woman in ruff and jewelled hat]
[Engraved by Luca Ciamberlano after Agostino Carracci.]
[Rome: Pietro Stefanoni, c.1620.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed witihn plate, repairs to old folds, small loss top left.
National Gallery of Art 1977.66.1.16.
[Ref: 63543] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Watkin Williams Wynn] Master Wynn in the character of St John. From an Original Picture on the Collection of Sir Watking Williams Wynn Bar.t to whom this Plate is humbly Dedicated by his most Obedient & Humble Servant, John Walker.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxit. Iohn Dean Fecit.
London Publish'd March 1st [1776] by John Walker No.13 Parliament Street.
Scarce mezzotint, 325 x 400 (12½ x 15¾"), with separate title plate, 45 x 400 (11¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, title plate trimmed to plate at bottom, year rubbed out of publication line. Slight creasing.
Portrait of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1772 - 1840) as a child, despicted as John the Baptist, holding a cup to a waterfall with a lamb beside him. Chaloner Smith: 23, ii of ii.
[Ref: 63534] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
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