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[Alexander the Great] He's truly brave that overcomes himself.
C. le Brun pinx. P. v. Gunst sculps et excudit.
R et G Wetstein. D. Mortier excudunt. [n.d. c.1730].
Engraving printed from two plates, on two separate sheets joined together. Plate 685 x 925mm (27 x 36½), with large margins. Staining and creasing. laid on archival paper.
Alexander the Great, accompanied by Hephaestion, meets Stateira, Sisygambis and the rest of Darius's family, gathered under a tent.
[Ref: 69891] £480.00
Bonarum Artium Cultoribus. Auroram, in Xysto Viridary Rospigliosy supra Qurinalis olim Guido Rheni miris colorum luminibus expressam; nunc mea opera, ac labore, velineatam, et incisam: aque decet, ac expedit, ut praeclarissimo Coetui Vestro comendem. Honestum quippe e'st, celcberrimi Pictoris gloriam Vobispotissimum imitand am propoere. Vtile arbitror, adversus obtrectatorum uestrum mihi proesidum quoerare. Nihil interim uereor, ne humanissime excipictus hanc Tabulam, ommuobis obsequo animioblatam. E'st enim gratissima Musis Aurora, e'tquicsuid superest Noctis mei ad huc proesefertobscuritatemingery: qua facile indies exuiposseconfido, simutuatiestri amoris et...
[after Guido Reni] [Jacob Frey]
[n.d. c.1722]
Engraving, sheet 440 x 905mm (17½ x 35½"). Trimmed within plate losing text, staining, folds, holes in text,
Aurora as the personification of dawn, leading Apollo in his horse-drawn chariot across the sky. Apollo is accompanied by the Horae, goddesses of the seasons and hours. After a fresco known as "Aurora," as painted by Guido Reni in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.
[Ref: 69892] £250.00
(£300.00 incl.VAT)
A Caledonian Beauty.
C.W. sculp.t.
London pub by SW Fores 41 Piccadilly March. 20. 1828.
Etching with hand colouring, sheet 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Left corner missing. Trimmed. Some abrasions. Nicks to edges.
A Scottish beauty walks along a sandy track through a mountainous landscape of fir trees and a distant strath, in a manner similar to the French girl. She wears a low-cut dress with long gloves, a feathered Scots cap, and a tartan kilt over a short-waisted corsage trimmed with tartan ribbons. A fringed fur sporran hangs from the waist, while she lifts the kilt gracefully to reveal her bare legs, tartan socks, and flat shoes. She carries a sunshade on a hinged stick. A thistle appears in the foreground. BM Satires 14632.
[Ref: 69814] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Gravel Carters.
Painted by Wolstenholme. Engraved by Reeve.
Published by Reeve, 151 Grafton S.t Fitzroy Sq.r Aug.t 10, 1801.
Rare aquatint, printed in colour and hand-finished. 365 x 450mm (14¼ x 17¾"). Repaired tears, bottom margin rebuilt, laid on restorer's paper.
Men stop for lunch beside their horses.
[Ref: 69691] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Timber Carters.
Painted by Wolstenholme. Engraved by Reeve.
Published by Reeve, 151 Grafton S.t Fitzroy Sq.r Aug.t 10, 1801.
Rare aquatint, printed in colour and hand-finished. 365 x 450mm (14¼ x 17¾"). Repaired tears, creasing, laid on restorer's paper.
Two men use horses to carry away logs.
[Ref: 69690] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Circe and the Companions of Ulysses.]
[Briton Riviere.] F. Stacpoole ARA [signed in pencil]
In progress for the Proprietor F Stacpoole 14 Vale Place Hammersmith. [n.d. c.1885]
Mixed method engraving pre publication touched proof on india. Plate 525 x 850mm (20½ x 33½"), with large margins. Tears to large margins. Foxing.
A portrayal of the Homer's Odyssey where the witch Circe turns Odysseus'/Ulysses' crew into pigs. A young woman, her hair tied back, sits with her knees clasped, smiling down at a group of swine crowding around her. Her staff rests on the ground beside her. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69649] £480.00
The Discovery. La Decouverte.
F. Wheatley pinx. T. Simpson excudit. R. Stanier sculp.
London. Pub.d Feb. 21 1788 by T. Simpson, S.t Pauls Church Yard, & R, Stanier N.º 15 Villers Street, Strand. [But later]
Stipple, J. Whatman 1820 watermarked paper. Sheet 540 x 410mm (21¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped, bit dusty.
A bible-reading mother angrily confronts her daughter after finding her love-letters.
[Ref: 69681] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[The Early Ploughman or, The morning spread upon the mountains] Finished state [in pencil]
Samuel Palmer [in pencil]
A.H.P. Private Press [in pencil in margin][n.d. c.1860]
Etching, 180 x 250mm (7 x 10"), with large margins. Paper slightly toned.
A ploughman drives a team of four oxen towards the fields at sunrise. Birds take flight above a bridge, while a figure carrying a pot on their head stands beside a line of trees. Annotated in graphite by Samuel's son 'finished state' and signed 'Samuel Palmer.' A.H.P. Private Press refers to the personal printing press operated by A. H. Palmer (Alfred Herbert Palmer), the son of the celebrated 19th-century British landscape painter and etcher Samuel Palmer. Lister 9 VI of VIII. Alexander 9 VI of VIII.
[Ref: 69916] £1,250.00
[The Highland Drovers.]
[after Edwin Landseer]
[n.d. c.1850]
Proof before letters mixed method engraving with hand colouring on chine collé. Plate 650 x 910mm (25 x 35¾"), with very large margins. Foxing, stains, tears in margins.
A family gathers outside a small cottage, including an old man smoking a pipe and a man in Highland dress holding a baby. At the centre, a drover sits talking with a young woman, while cows, sheep, and a horse rest nearby. In the distance, animals are driven along a road towards the mountains.
[Ref: 69890] £360.00
Joh. Caspar Hirzel, M.D. Geb. 3 Sept 1751 Starb 10 Juli 1817.
J.M. Usteri del. Jakob Lips sculp. 1817.
Engraving. 150 x 130mm (6 x 5"). Foxing.
A monument with a portrait of Johannes (or Hans) Caspar Hirzel (1751-1817), a Zurich doctor and an official of the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803), who worked to alleviate the suffering of the Swiss under French occupation. Wellcome 1405
[Ref: 69799] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
Roman Tessellated Floor discovered in 1793 at the Lea near Shrewsbury.
Publish'd as the Act directs Marth 30th 1794 by J. Haynes, Castle Street Shrewsbury.
Scarce coloured etching. Sheet 425 x 350mm (16¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on card.
A floor with a square geometric pattern at the 3rd century Lea Cross Roman villa, first discovered in 1793, rediscovered in 1956 and partially excavated in 1969.
[Ref: 69521] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
L'Europe au tombeau de Moreau, pleure un des zeles defenseurs de sa liberte. Europe at the tomb of Moreau lamenting the fate of one of her most zealous defenders.
Drawn by F. Oberlin from a portrait taken just after his decease. Etch'd by I. Girtin. Aquatinted by I C Stadler.
Pub.d Oct.r 25.th 1813 for the Proprietor by I. Girtin. Engraver &c. 330 Oxford Street, near Argyll Street.
Very scarce and fine etching with aquatint colour, watermark Edmeades and Pine; sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate on all sides except bottom.
A grieving personification of Europe mourns French General Jean-Victor Moreau (1763-1813). Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became his principal military and political rival, eventually being exiled to the United States.
[Ref: 69914] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Moyse Sauvé des Eaux.
Tho.s Stothard inv. Bonnefoy sculp.
A Paris chex Tessari & Comp.e [n.d., c.1800].
Stipple. 450 x 545mm (17¾ x 21½"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, crack in top platemark, creasing.
Pharoah's daughter finds Moses in a basket, caught in the bulrushes.
[Ref: 70012] £320.00
[Phalaris being tortured in a brazen bull]
MBurg Calc. Uni. Ox. sculp.
[Oxford, 1695 or 1718].
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper at edges.
The Sicilian tyrant Phalaris (ruled c. 570 to c. 554) being roasted alive in a hollow bronze bull. Designed by Phalaris himself, the screams of the victim were amplified to sound like the bellows of a bull. The frontispiece to 'Phalaridos akragantinon tyrannou epistolai' (first edition 1695, second 1718), said to be the letters of Phalaris, but written in the 2nd century AD.
[Ref: 69768] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
The Work House.
[after Humphry Repton.]
London: Published Feb.y 1.st 1816 by J. Taylor.
Coloured aquatint. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾").
A idealised work house, designed by landscape gardener Humphry Repton to replace a "wretched building'' in a Kentish parish (the name is redacted in the text). The building is raised to prevent the damp conditions of the existing building, with a sun-lit terrace for the residents. Children either work a vegetable patch or are drilled by an army veteran .Produce is sold to passers-by. Published in Repton's 'Fragments on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening'. Repton (1752-1818) was the last great English garden designer of the C18th, but the first to use the phrase 'landscape gardener'. Regarded as the successor to Capability Brown, he worked at Blaise Castle, Woburn Abbey, Stoneleigh Abbey & the central gardens in Russell Square, but lost out on the Prince Regent's Brighton Pavilion to John Nash (although he published his designs). Abbey: Scenery 391.
[Ref: 69793] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Tom Jones: The Philosopher Square, discover'd in Molly Seagrim's Garrett. Vide Book V. Chap. V.
Painted by J. Downman. Engraved by A.K. Clement.
Mublish'd Mar 25th 1789 by John & Josiah Boydell N.º 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 320 x 365mm (12½ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate.
While Tom Jones is visiting the room of Molly Seagrim, a rug acting as a partition falls down. Behind it, Square is discovered hiding in a highly ridiculous and compromising posture, revealing that he is secretly having an affair with Molly while publicly condemning Tom's romantic adventures. A scene from Henry Fielding's novel, 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'.
[Ref: 69633] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Ulysses and Argus.]
Briton Riviere 1873. F. Stacpoole ARA [signed in pencil]
In progress for the Proprietors Tho.s Agnew & Sons, London, Liverpool &, Manchester. [n.d. c.1885]
Mixed method engraving pre publication proof on india. Plate 665 x 730mm (26¼ x 29"), with large margins.
A portrayal of the myth of Odysseus/Ulysses returning home to Ithaca, after twenty years at war and wandering, in disguise as poor beggar, his faithful companion being the only one to recognise him. A short-bearded man in a tattered tunic, with a ragged bag slung over his shoulder, stands on an overgrown parapet overlooking the sea. He gazes thoughtfully down at an old, thin dog stretched out in the sun, which lifts its head slightly in quiet recognition. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69648] £420.00
Engraved by Will.m Wilson from a high finished Drawing of Mons.r Pillement.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16"). Small margins.
A landscape by Jean Pillement with a wooden bridge, cows, goats and laden donkeys.
[Ref: 69776] £320.00
Engraved by Will.m Wilson from an Original Picture of Zuccarelli, in the Collection of W.m Herring Esq.r.
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16"). Narrow margins.
A landscape by Francesco Zuccarelli, with a woman asleep at a riverside by a bridge with two children about to tickle her face.
[Ref: 69777] £320.00
The Morning, from a Capital Picture of Claud Lorraine, in which he introduces himself as Drawing this View of an Antique Temple, on the Banks of the Tiber.
Engraved by W.m Wilson.
[n.d., c.1780]
Engraving. 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16"), large margins.
A landscape by Claude Lorrain in which he has included a self-portrait, sketching a ruined temple, with a boy using a parasol to keep the sun off the artist.
[Ref: 69775] £450.00
Engraved by W.m Wilson after that Celebrated Picture of Claud Lorrain, painted in 1645, in the Collection of Tho.s Walker Esq.r.
[n.d., c.1780]
Engraving. 310 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Narrow margins.
A landscape with a ruined castle and bridge, with herders with cows and goats, a woman playing a pipe. After Claude Lorrain (1604/5-82).
[Ref: 69774] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by W.m Wilson after that admired Picture of Claud Lorrain, painted in 1669, in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Kingston.
[n.d., c.1780]
Engraving. 310 x 395mm (12¼ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate at sides. Few small wormholes in title.
A landscape with a ruined castle and bridge, with cowherds dancing. After Claude Lorrain (1604/5-82).
[Ref: 69773] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
[Narcissus] Engraved by W.m Wilson from an Original Picture of Claud Lorrain painted in 1644, in the Collection of Peter Delme Esq.r in which is introduced the Story of Narcissus.
[n.d., c.1780]
Engraving. 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Narrow margins. 3 very small wormholes in title.
An Italianate landscape with a ruined castle, with Narcissus admiring his own reflection in a pool. After Claude Lorrain (1604/5-82).
[Ref: 69772] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
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