A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Lord George Anson Admiraal Van Groot Brittanje.
J. Wandelaar effig ad viv. J. Houbraken Sculp.
te Amsterdam bu P. Fouquet Junior. [n.d c.1751]
Rare engraving, 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Thread margins. Some very light foxing.
Half length portrait of Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762), wearing admiral's jacket, short wig and set within an oval. A naval reformer, distinguished Royal Navy officer and politician. He sailed around the world (1740-44) ) during the War of Jenkins' Ear attacking the Spanish in the Pacific, burning Payta in Peru, and capturing a treasure galleon full of silver. Worth half a million pounds, 32 wagons were needed to take the silver to the Tower of London. After Dutch draughtsman and etcher Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) and engraved by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780) a Dutch engraver who specialised in portraits, he also collected and dealt in Rembrandt etchings.
[Ref: 65939] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J. Wandelaar effig ad viv. J. Houbraken Sculp.
te Amsterdam bu P. Fouquet Junior. [n.d c.1751]
Rare engraving, 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Thread margins. Some very light foxing.
Half length portrait of Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762), wearing admiral's jacket, short wig and set within an oval. A naval reformer, distinguished Royal Navy officer and politician. He sailed around the world (1740-44) ) during the War of Jenkins' Ear attacking the Spanish in the Pacific, burning Payta in Peru, and capturing a treasure galleon full of silver. Worth half a million pounds, 32 wagons were needed to take the silver to the Tower of London. After Dutch draughtsman and etcher Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) and engraved by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780) a Dutch engraver who specialised in portraits, he also collected and dealt in Rembrandt etchings.
[Ref: 65939] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
S. Thomas Cantvariensis. Sol, 279.
[n.d. c.1800's]
Engraving, Trimmed and laid onto album paper.
Full lenth portrait of Thomas Becket (1118-70) as Saint Thomas of Canterbury set against a barren landscape. He wears his robes of office. He holds his right hand in a sign of blessing and holds a cross shaped staff in the other.
[Ref: 65755] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1800's]
Engraving, Trimmed and laid onto album paper.
Full lenth portrait of Thomas Becket (1118-70) as Saint Thomas of Canterbury set against a barren landscape. He wears his robes of office. He holds his right hand in a sign of blessing and holds a cross shaped staff in the other.
[Ref: 65755] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
![[Charles II & Catherine of Braganza.]](jpegs/65979.jpg)
[Charles II & Catherine of Braganza.] CAROLVS II DEI GRATIA ANGLIÆ SCOTIÆ FRANCIÆ ET HIBERNIÆ REGINA etc./ CATHARINA DEI GRATIA ANGLIÆ SCOTIÆ FRANCIÆ ET HIBERNIÆ REGINA etc.
[London, England: Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain.][n.d. c.1685]
Very rare engraving. 155 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Double portrait of King Charles II (1630-85) and Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) who married on the 21st May 1662. Plate XIV from William Salmon's (1644–1713), 'Polygraphice, or, the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming.' With engravings by Frederick Hendrick Van Hove (c.1628-98), Thomas Cross (fl.1644-82) and William Sherwin (c.1645-1709).
[Ref: 65979] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[London, England: Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain.][n.d. c.1685]
Very rare engraving. 155 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Double portrait of King Charles II (1630-85) and Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) who married on the 21st May 1662. Plate XIV from William Salmon's (1644–1713), 'Polygraphice, or, the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming.' With engravings by Frederick Hendrick Van Hove (c.1628-98), Thomas Cross (fl.1644-82) and William Sherwin (c.1645-1709).
[Ref: 65979] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Charles II]](jpegs/65998.jpg)
[Charles II]
Engraving on vellum, sheet 235 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait half-length facing front slightly turned to right, wearing long curly wig, lace cravat and scarf tied over left shoulder with George; within oval. King Charles II (1630-1685) led as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 until his death.
[Ref: 65998] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Engraving on vellum, sheet 235 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait half-length facing front slightly turned to right, wearing long curly wig, lace cravat and scarf tied over left shoulder with George; within oval. King Charles II (1630-1685) led as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 until his death.
[Ref: 65998] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Honourable M.r James Graham of Airth. Jude of the High Court of the Admirality and Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
Geo Chambers delin et sculp: Edinb: 1739.
Engraving. Sheet 275 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Repaired, backed with restorer's tissue. Small tear left side.
A half-length oval portrait of James Graham (1676-1746), within an elaborate frame featuring a coat of arms and a naval vignette. He was appointed a judge of the Scottish court of Admiralty (1702) and served as dean of the Faculty of Advocates (1737-46).
[Ref: 65721] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Geo Chambers delin et sculp: Edinb: 1739.
Engraving. Sheet 275 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Repaired, backed with restorer's tissue. Small tear left side.
A half-length oval portrait of James Graham (1676-1746), within an elaborate frame featuring a coat of arms and a naval vignette. He was appointed a judge of the Scottish court of Admiralty (1702) and served as dean of the Faculty of Advocates (1737-46).
[Ref: 65721] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Fred. Horniman.
Tom Merry. del et lith.
Supplement to the St. Stephen's Review, February 21st, 1891.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 265 x 245mm (10½ x 8¾"). Some toning of paper.
A full-length slightly caricatured portrait of Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906), Quaker tea trader, M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth from 1895 until 1906, and founder of the Horniman Museum.
[Ref: 65763] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Tom Merry. del et lith.
Supplement to the St. Stephen's Review, February 21st, 1891.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 265 x 245mm (10½ x 8¾"). Some toning of paper.
A full-length slightly caricatured portrait of Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906), Quaker tea trader, M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth from 1895 until 1906, and founder of the Horniman Museum.
[Ref: 65763] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Peter Perkins] The Effegies of Mr Perkins.](jpegs/65727.jpg)
[Peter Perkins] The Effegies of Mr Perkins.
J. Drapentier Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1682]
Engraving, sheet 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed to plate top and right. Tipped into album sheet.
Frontis. to Perkins' 'The Seaman's Guide.' A bust portrait of the mathematician Peter Perkins (fl. 1600's) , turned to the left, gazing at the viewer with a furrowed brow. He has shoulder-length curly hair and is wearing a cravat, all enclosed in an oval frame atop a pedestal. Perkins was Mathematical master at Christ's Hospital.
[Ref: 65727] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J. Drapentier Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1682]
Engraving, sheet 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed to plate top and right. Tipped into album sheet.
Frontis. to Perkins' 'The Seaman's Guide.' A bust portrait of the mathematician Peter Perkins (fl. 1600's) , turned to the left, gazing at the viewer with a furrowed brow. He has shoulder-length curly hair and is wearing a cravat, all enclosed in an oval frame atop a pedestal. Perkins was Mathematical master at Christ's Hospital.
[Ref: 65727] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ellen Power] The Lady and Spaniels.](jpegs/65701.jpg)
[Ellen Power] The Lady and Spaniels. From the Original Picture by Sir Edwin Landseer R.A.
Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Engraved by W. T. Davy.
London. Published June 20th 1851 by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket.
Mixed-method engraving. Sheet 365 x 405mm (14½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, crease through inscription.
Portrait of Miss Ellen Power, niece of Lady Blessington, lying on a pillow reading a letter, surrounded by three King Charles spaniels
[Ref: 65701] £380.00
Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Engraved by W. T. Davy.
London. Published June 20th 1851 by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket.
Mixed-method engraving. Sheet 365 x 405mm (14½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, crease through inscription.
Portrait of Miss Ellen Power, niece of Lady Blessington, lying on a pillow reading a letter, surrounded by three King Charles spaniels
[Ref: 65701] £380.00
Sir John Sebright Bar.t M.P.
Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor. Printed by Graf and Soret.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"). Toning and creasing at top. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of politician and agricultural innovator Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767-1846), 7th Baronet. In his 1809 pamphlet 'The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals', he wrote 'the weak and the unhealthy do not live to propagate their infirmities'. This made an impression on Charles Darwin, who cited Sebright in both 'On the Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man'.
[Ref: 65840] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor. Printed by Graf and Soret.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"). Toning and creasing at top. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of politician and agricultural innovator Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767-1846), 7th Baronet. In his 1809 pamphlet 'The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals', he wrote 'the weak and the unhealthy do not live to propagate their infirmities'. This made an impression on Charles Darwin, who cited Sebright in both 'On the Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man'.
[Ref: 65840] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Iohn Seddon. When you behold this Face you look upon, The Great...
Guliel: Faithorne delin: Iohn Sturt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1695]
Fine & rare engraving, 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Small margins.
Frontispiece to Seddon's 'Pen-man's Paradise.' Half length portrait of John Seddon (1644-1700) in an oval on a pedestal. On ribbon at top "Vive La Plume" and beneath on pedestal two lines by John Hubbard. Seddon has shoulder length hair, wearing jacket and cravat pinned at chest. Seddon was an engraver, leading calligrapher of his day, and master of Sir John Johnson's Free Writing School in Priest's Court, Foster Lane.
[Ref: 65753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Guliel: Faithorne delin: Iohn Sturt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1695]
Fine & rare engraving, 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Small margins.
Frontispiece to Seddon's 'Pen-man's Paradise.' Half length portrait of John Seddon (1644-1700) in an oval on a pedestal. On ribbon at top "Vive La Plume" and beneath on pedestal two lines by John Hubbard. Seddon has shoulder length hair, wearing jacket and cravat pinned at chest. Seddon was an engraver, leading calligrapher of his day, and master of Sir John Johnson's Free Writing School in Priest's Court, Foster Lane.
[Ref: 65753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Sr Francis Veer Colonel et Gouverneur Oostende.
[The Hague: Aert Meuris, n.d., 1621.]
Etching with engraving. 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Tipped onto album paper on right margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Elizabethan Sir Francis Vere (c.1560-1609), fighting in the Netherlands during both the Anglo-Spanish War This print, celebrating his successful defence of Ostend in 1601, comes from Phillipe Fleming's 'Oostende Vermaerde, gheweldighe, lanckduyrighe, ende Bloedighe Belegheringhe...'
[Ref: 65797] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[The Hague: Aert Meuris, n.d., 1621.]
Etching with engraving. 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Tipped onto album paper on right margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Elizabethan Sir Francis Vere (c.1560-1609), fighting in the Netherlands during both the Anglo-Spanish War This print, celebrating his successful defence of Ostend in 1601, comes from Phillipe Fleming's 'Oostende Vermaerde, gheweldighe, lanckduyrighe, ende Bloedighe Belegheringhe...'
[Ref: 65797] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Nil Admirali. Major John Wildman.
[after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Pub.d by W.Richardson Castle Street, Leicester Fields.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate at sides, oxidation of colour.
A head and shoulders portrait of soldier and Republican agitator John Wildman (c.1621-1693), in an oval frame of palms, wearing collar and gown, landscape with church behind. A civilian adviser to the New Model Army, he agitated against Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and was sent to prison with John Lilburne and was released. He survived the Restoration because of his opposition to Cromwell but was sent to prison in 1661 for complicity in republican plots against the government. In 1683 he was committed to the Tower of London for complicity in the Rye House Plot; in 1685 he fled to the Netherlands when he was accused of involvement in the Monmouth Rebellion. Returning with William III he was made Postmaster General but was sacked after reports that he was intriguing with the Jacobites.
See Pennington 1697 for Hollar's original.
[Ref: 65793] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Pub.d by W.Richardson Castle Street, Leicester Fields.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate at sides, oxidation of colour.
A head and shoulders portrait of soldier and Republican agitator John Wildman (c.1621-1693), in an oval frame of palms, wearing collar and gown, landscape with church behind. A civilian adviser to the New Model Army, he agitated against Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and was sent to prison with John Lilburne and was released. He survived the Restoration because of his opposition to Cromwell but was sent to prison in 1661 for complicity in republican plots against the government. In 1683 he was committed to the Tower of London for complicity in the Rye House Plot; in 1685 he fled to the Netherlands when he was accused of involvement in the Monmouth Rebellion. Returning with William III he was made Postmaster General but was sacked after reports that he was intriguing with the Jacobites.
See Pennington 1697 for Hollar's original.
[Ref: 65793] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[William III]](jpegs/66004.jpg)
[William III]
Engraving on vellum, sheet 235 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait of King Willaim III (1650-1702) half-length facing front slightly turned to left, wearing long curly wig, lace cravat and sash; within oval.
[Ref: 66004] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Engraving on vellum, sheet 235 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait of King Willaim III (1650-1702) half-length facing front slightly turned to left, wearing long curly wig, lace cravat and sash; within oval.
[Ref: 66004] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Lady Mary Wortley Montague. From an enamel Miniature by zink in the possession of Charles Colville Esqr.
A.Deveria del. Lith de Villain.
[n.d., c.1800.] London published by Bull & Churton, 26, Holles St Cavendish Square.
Lithograph, in pencil verso "Exhibited at Popes Twickenham Lot 264 Aug 1888". Sheet 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Crease in lower left corner. Bit messy.
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
[Ref: 65874] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A.Deveria del. Lith de Villain.
[n.d., c.1800.] London published by Bull & Churton, 26, Holles St Cavendish Square.
Lithograph, in pencil verso "Exhibited at Popes Twickenham Lot 264 Aug 1888". Sheet 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Crease in lower left corner. Bit messy.
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
[Ref: 65874] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)