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A West View of Chelsea Bridge. Un Vue du Pont de Chelsea du Cote du Vest.
Z. Boreman Pinx.t. J. Lodge sculp.t.
London Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street [n.d., c.1761].
Scarce coloured engraving. 270 x 415mm (10½ x 16¼"), with margins. Slight mount burn.
A view of the wooden Ebury Bridge, not over the Thames but over the tidal creek used by the Chelsea Waterworks Company, which later became the Grosvenor Canal. On one side is the tavern of Jenny's Whim, a tea garden, and on the other 'The Flask', on Belgrave Road. Images of Chelsea
[Ref: 67887] £380.00
The Devonport Mail, Assisted by Six Fresh Post-Horses, Crossing the Downs Near Amesbury, Leaving Their Own Jaded Cattle Behind. Scenes During the Snow Storm December 1836. Plate 2.
Drawn by J. Pollard. on Stone by G.B. Campion. Printed by J. Graf.
London, Published February 1st 1837, by Ackermann & C.º 96 Strand.
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 305 x 440mm (12 x 17¼"). Nicks in edges.
A fully laden Royal Mail coach struggling through a snow drift with new horses, leaving the previous six to be recovered from deep snow. One of a scarce set of four winter coaching scenes, the others being: "The Liverpool Mail in a Snow-Drift"; "The Birmingham Mail Fast in the Snow"; and ''Louth Mail Stop by the Snow''. The winter of 1836 was particularly long and harsh, lasting from October to April 1837. A snowstorm across southern England began on Christmas Eve, mixed with high winds. A built-up of snow on the South Downs caused an avalanche to crash onto Lewes in Sussex on the 27th December, killing eight people.
[Ref: 67932] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
King's Bench Walk. [in pencil]
Martin F Hamlyn [signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1920]
Woodcut, sheet 195 x 165mm (7¾ x 6½"), with large margins Glued into mount on top edge.
King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, London. Martin Frederic Hamlyn (1886–1966) was a commercial artist known for his striking travel posters, finely detailed book and brochure illustrations, and atmospheric paintings in oils and watercolours. A member of several leading sketch clubs, including the Wapping Group of Artists, he frequently depicted Thames-side scenes that capture a vanished London of wharves and river traffic, alongside intimate café interiors, domestic scenes, pastoral subjects, and a lesser-known series of woodcuts produced mainly in the 1920s.
[Ref: 68166] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
The North London Working Classes, Industrial Exhibition, (West View.) Agricultural Hall Islington.
W.J. Shephard, del. et Lith. Castle S.t Holborn.
[n.d., c.1864.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Sheet 220 x 250mm (8¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, around title at bottom.
The interior of the Agricultural Hall, once one of the largest exhibition halls in the world. Crufts Dog Show was first held in 1891 at the Royal Agricultural Hall in Islington. It is now the Business Design Centre.
[Ref: 67855] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Portchester Castle.]
[From an Original Transparent Drawing by W. Orme.]
[Orme, Conduit Street, Excu.t. Sold & Published May, 1, 1799, by Ed.wd Orme, corner of George Street and Conduit Street, London, the first Inventor of Transparent Prints. Where may be had a great Variety, and every requisite for Drawing them.]
Oval mezzotint. Sheet trimmed as oval, at most 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9") Trimmed around image, losing all incriptions, album paper on verso obscuring transparent effect.
A night scene of a small castle with a square tower lit by a full moon, with a guard standing at a guardpost at the top of stairs. An old man and a child walk past, carrying a lantern.
[Ref: 67935] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
An East View of the Square at Stockton, with the Improvements, taken from the Church Gates.
Drawn by W. Green. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Publish'd July 25 1803, by Christopher & Jennett, Stockton.
Scarce aquatint and etching, printed in brown. Sheet 245 x 400mm (9½ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, pin holes in corners and top edge.
A square in Stockton-on-Tees, surrounded by a white fence.
[Ref: 67901] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Waymouth.]
[J. Love Delin. F. Bernie A. F.t.]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval prospect of the seafront at Weymouth, with bathing huts on wheels lining the beach. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates). See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67937] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Weymouth.]
[after John Love]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval view of the bridge over the Wey between the town and Brewer's Quay. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates). See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67938] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
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