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Departure of the Royal Squadron, September 4.th 1846.
Drawn by Le Capelain _ T. Picken lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen
[Jersey: Philip Falle, 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 415 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The 'Victoria and Albert' on the right, as the fleet leaves Jersey at 7.45am. John Le Capelain (1812-48) commemorated the 1846 visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with 'The Queen's Visit to Jersey', which was presented to her as an official souvenir by the States of Jersey. This led the Queen to commission Le Capelain to paint the Isle of Wight, but on the island he developed tuberculosis, dying on Jersey in 1848.
[Ref: 68321] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Le Capelain _ T. Picken lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen
[Jersey: Philip Falle, 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 415 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The 'Victoria and Albert' on the right, as the fleet leaves Jersey at 7.45am. John Le Capelain (1812-48) commemorated the 1846 visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with 'The Queen's Visit to Jersey', which was presented to her as an official souvenir by the States of Jersey. This led the Queen to commission Le Capelain to paint the Isle of Wight, but on the island he developed tuberculosis, dying on Jersey in 1848.
[Ref: 68321] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Arrival of the Royal Squadron, Jersey, Sep.r 3.rd 1846.
Drawn by Le Capelain _ L. Haghe lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen
[Jersey: Philip Falle, 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21¾"). Repaired tear in top margin.
A view of the bay of St Aubin and St Helier at sunset, with Elizabeth Castle. John Le Capelain (1812-48) commemorated the 1846 visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with 'The Queen's Visit to Jersey', which was presented to her as an official souvenir by the States of Jersey. This led the Queen to commission Le Capelain to paint the Isle of Wight, but on the island he developed tuberculosis, dying on Jersey in 1848.
[Ref: 68319] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Le Capelain _ L. Haghe lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen
[Jersey: Philip Falle, 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21¾"). Repaired tear in top margin.
A view of the bay of St Aubin and St Helier at sunset, with Elizabeth Castle. John Le Capelain (1812-48) commemorated the 1846 visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with 'The Queen's Visit to Jersey', which was presented to her as an official souvenir by the States of Jersey. This led the Queen to commission Le Capelain to paint the Isle of Wight, but on the island he developed tuberculosis, dying on Jersey in 1848.
[Ref: 68319] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Representation of a Scene of the County Naval Free School on Waste Land.
S.H. Grimm Pinxit. Fran.s Chesham Sculp.t.
[London: Marine Society, 1783.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, rich & rare impression. 380 x 470mm (15 x 18½"), with large margins. Margins chipped and age-toned. Abrasion and hole in right, within the tree. Left corner repaired crease.
A scene of a proposed free school for poor boys, preparing them for naval life. It shows the boys using apparatus for training for loading canon and winching an anchor, drilling and using navigation instruments, as well as ploughing and other agricultural activity. This plate was published in 'Proposal for County Naval Free Schools, to be Built on Waste Lands', by Jonas Hanway, written for humanitarian as well as patriotic reasons, the year that the American Revolutionary War ended in failure. After spending more than the year's income on the society on preparing the book (for which Hanway was censured), it was issued to privy councillors, lord lieutenants, influential MPs and admiralty and naval boards. However the plan was downsized by the society, and a single training ship was commissioned, anchored at Greenwich. As well as founding the Marine Society in 1756 (to procure seamen for the Seven Years' War), Hanway (1712-86) was a vice president of the Foundling Hospital, instrumental in the establishment of the Magdalen Hospital and a commissioner for victualling the navy (experimenting with ways to alleviate scurvy amongst seamen). He is said to be the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella, facing down heckling hackney coachmen.
[Ref: 68274] £480.00
S.H. Grimm Pinxit. Fran.s Chesham Sculp.t.
[London: Marine Society, 1783.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, rich & rare impression. 380 x 470mm (15 x 18½"), with large margins. Margins chipped and age-toned. Abrasion and hole in right, within the tree. Left corner repaired crease.
A scene of a proposed free school for poor boys, preparing them for naval life. It shows the boys using apparatus for training for loading canon and winching an anchor, drilling and using navigation instruments, as well as ploughing and other agricultural activity. This plate was published in 'Proposal for County Naval Free Schools, to be Built on Waste Lands', by Jonas Hanway, written for humanitarian as well as patriotic reasons, the year that the American Revolutionary War ended in failure. After spending more than the year's income on the society on preparing the book (for which Hanway was censured), it was issued to privy councillors, lord lieutenants, influential MPs and admiralty and naval boards. However the plan was downsized by the society, and a single training ship was commissioned, anchored at Greenwich. As well as founding the Marine Society in 1756 (to procure seamen for the Seven Years' War), Hanway (1712-86) was a vice president of the Foundling Hospital, instrumental in the establishment of the Magdalen Hospital and a commissioner for victualling the navy (experimenting with ways to alleviate scurvy amongst seamen). He is said to be the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella, facing down heckling hackney coachmen.
[Ref: 68274] £480.00
![[John Ross] Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!](jpegs/68507.jpg)
[John Ross] Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!
G. Cruikshank fec.t [after Frederick Marryat].
Pub.d Jan.y 18 1819 by G Humphrey 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 460mm (5 x 18"). Trimmed c. 10mm into image on left and c.50mm on right, split to fold taped, holes in corners of folds.
A satire on the return of Sir John Ross's expedition in search of North-West Passage, arriving at Whitehall Stairs in November 1818. Ross, wearing uniform and a large false nose, goose-steps at the head of a line of sailors who have all lost noses to frostbite. They carry artifacts from the expedition: a polar bear skin, a barrel of 'Red Snow', a bird on the end of a bayonet ('Larus Sabini', a newly discovered species), and other specimens 'for the British Museum'. Behind is the Greenlandic Inuit intrerpreter and artist Hans Zakæus, with spiky hair and a fur band around his waist. Among the onlookers are Joseph Banks (on a wall in the distance) and Billy Waters, the famous one-legged black busker.
BM Satires 13194, with extensive description.
[Ref: 68507] £690.00
G. Cruikshank fec.t [after Frederick Marryat].
Pub.d Jan.y 18 1819 by G Humphrey 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 460mm (5 x 18"). Trimmed c. 10mm into image on left and c.50mm on right, split to fold taped, holes in corners of folds.
A satire on the return of Sir John Ross's expedition in search of North-West Passage, arriving at Whitehall Stairs in November 1818. Ross, wearing uniform and a large false nose, goose-steps at the head of a line of sailors who have all lost noses to frostbite. They carry artifacts from the expedition: a polar bear skin, a barrel of 'Red Snow', a bird on the end of a bayonet ('Larus Sabini', a newly discovered species), and other specimens 'for the British Museum'. Behind is the Greenlandic Inuit intrerpreter and artist Hans Zakæus, with spiky hair and a fur band around his waist. Among the onlookers are Joseph Banks (on a wall in the distance) and Billy Waters, the famous one-legged black busker.
BM Satires 13194, with extensive description.
[Ref: 68507] £690.00
A Sailor sitting for his Miniature.
Woodward delin. Etch'd by Roberts.
London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle Row, Holborn. Pub Jan.y xxxx T Tegg 111 Cheapside. [engraved c.1807 but later]
Coloured etching. 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13¼"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1824'. Coloured faded, time-staining, small top margin.
The artist (a self-portrait of Woodward, wearing a floral dressing gown/artists smock, sits at a writing desk painting a miniature of the sailor that sits on a stool opposite arms akimbo. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge."
BM Satires 10894. See [Ref: 61900] for one with different colouring.
[Ref: 68511] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward delin. Etch'd by Roberts.
London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle Row, Holborn. Pub Jan.y xxxx T Tegg 111 Cheapside. [engraved c.1807 but later]
Coloured etching. 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13¼"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1824'. Coloured faded, time-staining, small top margin.
The artist (a self-portrait of Woodward, wearing a floral dressing gown/artists smock, sits at a writing desk painting a miniature of the sailor that sits on a stool opposite arms akimbo. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge."
BM Satires 10894. See [Ref: 61900] for one with different colouring.
[Ref: 68511] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sir Sidney Smith.]](jpegs/68216.jpg)
[Sir Sidney Smith.]
[Robert Ker Porter pinxt. W. Say sculpt.]
[London Published as the Act directs, June 19, 1802, John P. Thompson, Printseller to his Majesty and their Royal Highness's the Duke & Duchess of York. Gt.Newport Street, and No.51 Dean Street, Soho.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 630 x 440mm (24¾ x 17¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, repaired tears in margins. Top margin messy.
A full-length portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), in uniform, with a turk, flag and broken sword behind. A naval officer, Smith fought in the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action in 1778 against the American frigate Raleigh. He also distinguished himself in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1780), Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) and the Battle of the Saintes (1782). His subsequent career included important service during the Napoleonic Wars, notably in the defence and relief of Acre. Napoleon said of him "That man made me miss my destiny", concerning his defence of Acre.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68216] £850.00
[Robert Ker Porter pinxt. W. Say sculpt.]
[London Published as the Act directs, June 19, 1802, John P. Thompson, Printseller to his Majesty and their Royal Highness's the Duke & Duchess of York. Gt.Newport Street, and No.51 Dean Street, Soho.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 630 x 440mm (24¾ x 17¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, repaired tears in margins. Top margin messy.
A full-length portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), in uniform, with a turk, flag and broken sword behind. A naval officer, Smith fought in the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action in 1778 against the American frigate Raleigh. He also distinguished himself in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1780), Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) and the Battle of the Saintes (1782). His subsequent career included important service during the Napoleonic Wars, notably in the defence and relief of Acre. Napoleon said of him "That man made me miss my destiny", concerning his defence of Acre.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68216] £850.00
![[A sailing ship in a storm.]](jpegs/68326.jpg)
[A sailing ship in a storm.]
A Ballin D.t S.t.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching on chine collé. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed to image on right, into plate top and left.
By French painter and etcher Auguste Ballin (1842-85 or 1909).
[Ref: 68326] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
A Ballin D.t S.t.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching on chine collé. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed to image on right, into plate top and left.
By French painter and etcher Auguste Ballin (1842-85 or 1909).
[Ref: 68326] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)