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Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations, from: Dunn's "A New Atlas of the Mundane System ..."
Cosmography Epitomised, In Six Copper Plate Delineations, from: Dunn's "A New Atlas of the Mundane System ..."
By S. Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences. London 1774.
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 10 January 1774.
Engraving with areas of mezzotint, 18th century watermark 370 x 545mm (17½ x 21½") very large margins top & bottom. Small margins left & right. A few chips to edges, small split in lower centre fold.
A collection of astronomical diagrams, with the central spheres filled in with mezzotint, an unusual use of the medium. Samuel Dunn (died 1794), mathematician, amateur astronomer and cartographer.
[Ref: 52942]   £580.00  
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The Knitting Girl.
The Knitting Girl. Th'industrious Maid since such are found so scarce, / Deserves her Picture, and to live in Verse.
Gerard Douw Pinx.t. R. Purcell fecit.
Pritned for Henry Parker & Eliz.th Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill.
Mezzotint, very fine impression, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with good margins. Some slight foxing, slightly creased.
A young woman knitting, seen three-quarter length through a trompe-l'oeil marble arched frame, seated wearing a gown with large sleeves, lace-trimmed fichu and widow-peak cap. From a set of four domestic scenes after Dou and Metzu.
[Ref: 52967]   £420.00  
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Morning Employments.
Morning Employments.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r. Del.t. P.W. Tomkins Sculp.t.
London Published June 14 1784 by T. Macklinm No 59 Fleet Street & C. White Stafford Row Pimlico.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished, 18th century watermark; Sheet 430 x 395mm (17 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear top right.
Very decorative scene showing three women passing the time. One plays a spinet (a small harpsichord); the second works on an embroidery, watched by a small boy; and the third winds thread onto a bobbin. Although the spinet has the name 'Thomas Kirkman', the predominant makers of the period were Jacob Kirckman (anglicised to Kirkman), with his nephew Abraham and son Joseph .
[Ref: 52874]   £480.00  
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Raby Pack.
Raby Pack. The Earl of Darlington's Fox-Hounds in their Kennel, Representing correct Portraits of the most celebrated Hounds, Also His Lordship's Huntsman, and Dog-Feeder, Sayer & Leonard.
Painted by H.B. Chalon, animal Painter to their R.H.ss the Prince Regent & Duke & Duchess of York and to H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.Hs. the Prince Regent & Duke of York.
London, Published & Sold April 20 1814 by Edwd. Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, Publisher to His Majesty, & H.R.H. the Prince Regent.
Mezzotint. 535 x 645mm (21 x 25½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, with a few repairs to edges.
The hounds belonging to William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland and Earl of Darlington (1766 - 1842) coming to eat at troughs in their kennels. The dog-feeder Leonard in centre wears top hat and waistcoat, the huntsman Sayer stands in the doorway at right. Hounds named below image, with arms bearing the motto 'Nec Temere Nec Timide'. A great British sporting print, first published 1809, after Henry Bernard Chalon (1771-1849).
Frankau: 235, II. Siltzer: pg.92.
[Ref: 52876]   £690.00  
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[Riding School]
[Riding School]
à Joh: El: Ridinger inv: et del: Aug: Vindel: 1744. & Mart: El: Ridinger Filio suo æri incisi 1774.
[Augsburg, c.1774.]
Scarce large etching. 375 x 630mm (14¾ x 24¾"), with very large margins.
An untitled scene of the courtyard of a riding school, each filled with horses, dogs and horse trainers, with prospective buyers looking over a wall, with a key noting the horse-training techniques being depicted. Painted by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) and engraved by his son Martin Elias (1730-81).
[Ref: 52902]   £680.00  
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[Riding School.]
[Riding School.]
à Joh: El: Ridinger inv: et del: Aug: Vindel: 1744. & Mart: El: Ridinger Filio suo æri incisi 1774.
[Augsburg, c.1774.]
Scarce large etching. 375 x 630mm (14¾ x 24¾"), with 18th century watermark and very large margins. Slight worming in margins on left. Two stains top left. Otherwise mint.
An untitled scene of the courtyard of a riding school, each filled with horses, dogs and horse trainers, with prospective buyers on a balcony, with a key noting the horse-training techniques being depicted. Painted by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) and engraved by his son Martin Elias (1730-81).
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[Riding School.]
[Riding School.]
à Joh: El: Ridinger inv: et del: Aug: Vindel: 1744. & Mart: El: Ridinger Filio suo æri incisi 1774.
[Augsburg, c.1774.]
Scarce large etching. 375 x 630mm (14¾ x 24¾") with 18th century watermark and large margins. Mint.
An untitled scene, filled with horses, dogs and horse trainers, with prospective buyers on a terrace, with a key noting the horse-training techniques being depicted. Painted by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) and engraved by his son Martin Elias (1730-81).
[Ref: 52898]   £750.00  
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[Riding School]
[Riding School]
à Joh: El: Ridinger inv: et del: Aug: Vindel: 1744. & Mart: El: Ridinger Filio suo æri incisi 1774.
[Augsburg, c.1774.]
Scarce large etching, 18th century watermark. 375 x 630mm (14¾ x 24¾") with wide margins. Slight stain in sky and small wormholes in left edge, otherwise mint.
An untitled scene, filled with horses, dogs and horse trainers, with prospective buyers on a terrace, with a key noting the horse-training techniques being depicted. Painted by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) and engraved by his son Martin Elias (1730-81).
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[Riding School]
[Riding School]
à Joh: El: Ridinger inv: et del: Aug: Vindel: 1744. & Mart: El: Ridinger Filio suo æri incisi 1774.
[Augsburg, c.1774.]
Scarce large etching. 375 x 630mm (14¾ x 24¾"), with wide margins. Very slight stain left top. Otherwise mint.
An untitled scene of the interior of a riding school, each filled with horses, dogs and horse trainers, with prospective buyers on a balcony, with a key noting the horse-training techniques being depicted. Painted by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) and engraved by his son Martin Elias (1730-81).
[Ref: 52900]   £750.00  
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[Riding School.]
[Riding School.]
à Joh: El: Ridinger inv: et del: Aug: Vindel: 1744. & Mart: El: Ridinger Filio suo æri incisi 1774.
[Augsburg, c.1774.]
Scarce large etching. 375 x 630mm (14¾ x 24¾"), with large margins.
An untitled scene, filled with horses, dogs, horse trainers and prospective buyers, with a key noting the horse-training techniques being depicted. Painted by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) and engraved by his son Martin Elias (1730-81).
[Ref: 52869]   £750.00  
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[A yacht race off the Isle of Wight.]
[A yacht race off the Isle of Wight.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed border 430 x 470mm (17 x 18½"). Edges chipped
A fine yachting image with the cliffs of the Isle of Wight bottom right.
[Ref: 52896]   £1,200.00  
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