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Beauty looking in the Mirror of Prudence, with a Genius representing Innocence. From the Original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, To whom this plate is dedicated by his Grace's Obedient Servant, Ja.s Birchall.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpx.
London, Pub'd August 15 1786 by Jas. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 385 x 345mm (15¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, creases and tears in inscription area.
[Ref: 53084] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpx.
London, Pub'd August 15 1786 by Jas. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 385 x 345mm (15¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, creases and tears in inscription area.
[Ref: 53084] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Diana and Actaeon.]](jpegs/53060.jpg)
[Diana and Actaeon.]
P. Berchet in. et. pinx.
I. Smith fec. et ex. [n.d., c.1705.]
Rare mezzotint. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins.
Diana and her companions bathing in a pool, discovered by Actaeon. As the goddess gestures at him, Acteaon feels the antlers sprouting from his head and his hunting dogs start barking at him. Pierre Berchet (1659-c1719), French painter of decorative history subjects, worked in Britain, painting the ceiling of the Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, c.1694.
Wessely 365. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53060] £360.00
P. Berchet in. et. pinx.
I. Smith fec. et ex. [n.d., c.1705.]
Rare mezzotint. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins.
Diana and her companions bathing in a pool, discovered by Actaeon. As the goddess gestures at him, Acteaon feels the antlers sprouting from his head and his hunting dogs start barking at him. Pierre Berchet (1659-c1719), French painter of decorative history subjects, worked in Britain, painting the ceiling of the Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, c.1694.
Wessely 365. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53060] £360.00
S.te Genevieve...
AParis Chez Chiquet rue St Jacques au Grand S.Henry [n.d., c.1700].
Scarce engraving with exceptional hand colour with glitter. 310 x 205mm (12¼ x 8"). Slight damp staining in text, small worm holes. Small margins.
Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, seated under a tree, receiving a vision from God. The glitter is applied on her dress and halo, and in the rays of the vision.
[Ref: 53185] £550.00
AParis Chez Chiquet rue St Jacques au Grand S.Henry [n.d., c.1700].
Scarce engraving with exceptional hand colour with glitter. 310 x 205mm (12¼ x 8"). Slight damp staining in text, small worm holes. Small margins.
Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, seated under a tree, receiving a vision from God. The glitter is applied on her dress and halo, and in the rays of the vision.
[Ref: 53185] £550.00
The Chinese Bridge on Fire, on the night of the celebration of the glorious Peace of 1814.
Published & Sold Aug.t 12th 1814, by Edw.d Orme, Bond St. London.
Coloured mezzotint, prepared as a transparency. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"), Narrow margins, some staining.
On 1st August 1814 a series of events celebrating both the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the centenary of Hanoverian rule in England. In St James's Park a Chinese bridge with a pagoda was built over the lake; in Green Park a revolving Temple of Concord was constructed by Sir William Congreve (of rocket fame); and in Hyde Park naval battles with miniature frigates were fought (the 'Nile' and 'Trafalgar' against the French and a third against the Americans, a reminder that Britain was still fighting the War of 1812). The battles were successful events: however the pagoda in St James's Park was set alight by fireworks, killing one and injuring another; and the balloon ascent, by James Sadler (1753-1828, the first English balloonist) did not go as planned and he had to make an emergency landing. This print has been treated with oil and colour on the reverse to create more vivid colours when held up to a light.
[Ref: 53152] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Published & Sold Aug.t 12th 1814, by Edw.d Orme, Bond St. London.
Coloured mezzotint, prepared as a transparency. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"), Narrow margins, some staining.
On 1st August 1814 a series of events celebrating both the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the centenary of Hanoverian rule in England. In St James's Park a Chinese bridge with a pagoda was built over the lake; in Green Park a revolving Temple of Concord was constructed by Sir William Congreve (of rocket fame); and in Hyde Park naval battles with miniature frigates were fought (the 'Nile' and 'Trafalgar' against the French and a third against the Americans, a reminder that Britain was still fighting the War of 1812). The battles were successful events: however the pagoda in St James's Park was set alight by fireworks, killing one and injuring another; and the balloon ascent, by James Sadler (1753-1828, the first English balloonist) did not go as planned and he had to make an emergency landing. This print has been treated with oil and colour on the reverse to create more vivid colours when held up to a light.
[Ref: 53152] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Agamemnon deluded by the Vision appearing under the form of Nestor. Monarch Awake! 'tis Jove's command I bear. Iliad Book II.
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Heath A.
[London, c.1805.]
Engraving. Sheet 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
A plate from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's 'Iliad', after Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).
W: 228 VII of VII.
[Ref: 53213] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Heath A.
[London, c.1805.]
Engraving. Sheet 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
A plate from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's 'Iliad', after Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).
W: 228 VII of VII.
[Ref: 53213] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Land grant, Cheshire] Carta Donationis Terrarum in Congilton [Com: Cestriae] a Dno Henrico de Lacy Comite Lincoln Benedicto Filio Walteri de Stanley.](jpegs/53132.jpg)
[Land grant, Cheshire] Carta Donationis Terrarum in Congilton [Com: Cestriae] a Dno Henrico de Lacy Comite Lincoln Benedicto Filio Walteri de Stanley. circa Annum 1300.28.Ed.1.concessa.
(maxima preservacoe) penes Ric: Rawlinson, LLD et RSS. [British, c.1754].
Engraved facsimile of a c.1300 Latin grant of land to Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln; seal below text. Sheet 210 x 230mm, (8¼ x 9"). Tears and holes, trimmed. Damaged.
The land around Congleton in Cheshire is granted by the de Stanley family to the powerful nobleman de Lacy, who became Chief Councillor to Edward I. While the king was engaged on military conflicts with the Scots, Henry de Lacy was appointed Protector of the Realm. The original document is from the collection of Richard Rawlinson (1690 - 1755), a clergyman and antiquarian who bequeathed a huge collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In 1716 he was ordained, but as he was a nonjuror and Jacobite, the ceremony was performed by a nonjuring bishop, Jeremy Collier. In 1728 he became a bishop, but seems to have preferred to pass his time in collecting books and manuscripts, pictures and curiosities, rather than in discharging his episcopal functions. At his death Rawlinson left to the Library 5,205 manuscripts bound in volumes that include many rare broadsides and other printed ephemera, his curiosities, and some other property that endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. The Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon was first appointed in 1795. He was also a benefactor to St John's College, Oxford.
[Ref: 53132] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
(maxima preservacoe) penes Ric: Rawlinson, LLD et RSS. [British, c.1754].
Engraved facsimile of a c.1300 Latin grant of land to Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln; seal below text. Sheet 210 x 230mm, (8¼ x 9"). Tears and holes, trimmed. Damaged.
The land around Congleton in Cheshire is granted by the de Stanley family to the powerful nobleman de Lacy, who became Chief Councillor to Edward I. While the king was engaged on military conflicts with the Scots, Henry de Lacy was appointed Protector of the Realm. The original document is from the collection of Richard Rawlinson (1690 - 1755), a clergyman and antiquarian who bequeathed a huge collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In 1716 he was ordained, but as he was a nonjuror and Jacobite, the ceremony was performed by a nonjuring bishop, Jeremy Collier. In 1728 he became a bishop, but seems to have preferred to pass his time in collecting books and manuscripts, pictures and curiosities, rather than in discharging his episcopal functions. At his death Rawlinson left to the Library 5,205 manuscripts bound in volumes that include many rare broadsides and other printed ephemera, his curiosities, and some other property that endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. The Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon was first appointed in 1795. He was also a benefactor to St John's College, Oxford.
[Ref: 53132] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Marianne.
W.m Wynne Ryland Del.t et Scul.t.
Published as the Act directs January 3, 1780 by W.W. Ryland London.
Fine stipple, printed in sanguine sepia in colour, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
Fine printing of a Portrait of a young girl, possibly the artist's daughter, wearing a square-necked gown with elbow-length sleeves and a frilly cap, smiling shyly towards the viewer.
The BM (1873,0809.373) notes that Nicholas Stogden has pointed out that the model was a boy.
[Ref: 53092] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
W.m Wynne Ryland Del.t et Scul.t.
Published as the Act directs January 3, 1780 by W.W. Ryland London.
Fine stipple, printed in sanguine sepia in colour, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
Fine printing of a Portrait of a young girl, possibly the artist's daughter, wearing a square-necked gown with elbow-length sleeves and a frilly cap, smiling shyly towards the viewer.
The BM (1873,0809.373) notes that Nicholas Stogden has pointed out that the model was a boy.
[Ref: 53092] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Past and Present Generations.
L. Alma Tadema [pencil signature.]
Copyright 1895 by Messrs Arthur Tooth 7 Sons Publishers, 5 & 6 Haymarket London and 295 Fifth Avenue New York and Messrs Steifbold & Co Berlin. Printed in Berlin.
Photogravure on chine collé. 550 x 410mm (21¾ x 16"), Printsellers' Association blind stamp. Some cockling of india paper, edges of backing board chipped.
Two figures stand on a marble terrace lined with funerary busts on herm pillars, a winged griffin looking in. In 2019 the original oil on panel, which was commissioned by the publishers of this print, sold at Sotheby's for nearly £250,000.
[Ref: 53028] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
L. Alma Tadema [pencil signature.]
Copyright 1895 by Messrs Arthur Tooth 7 Sons Publishers, 5 & 6 Haymarket London and 295 Fifth Avenue New York and Messrs Steifbold & Co Berlin. Printed in Berlin.
Photogravure on chine collé. 550 x 410mm (21¾ x 16"), Printsellers' Association blind stamp. Some cockling of india paper, edges of backing board chipped.
Two figures stand on a marble terrace lined with funerary busts on herm pillars, a winged griffin looking in. In 2019 the original oil on panel, which was commissioned by the publishers of this print, sold at Sotheby's for nearly £250,000.
[Ref: 53028] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ducks on a pond.]](jpegs/53083.jpg)
[Ducks on a pond.]
D. Teniers Pinx.t. H. Houston fecit.
Printed for Jn.o Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1765.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") with narrow margins.
A rustic scene, with ducks and ducklings, a kingfisher, with rabbits on the bank. It was engraved by Richard Houston after David Teniers the Younger. Houston absconded for debt in 1762; perhaps the 'H' in the inscription is to disguise the attribution.
[Ref: 53083] £380.00
D. Teniers Pinx.t. H. Houston fecit.
Printed for Jn.o Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1765.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") with narrow margins.
A rustic scene, with ducks and ducklings, a kingfisher, with rabbits on the bank. It was engraved by Richard Houston after David Teniers the Younger. Houston absconded for debt in 1762; perhaps the 'H' in the inscription is to disguise the attribution.
[Ref: 53083] £380.00
![[Landscape.]](jpegs/53214.jpg)
[Landscape.]
Newnham after P Sandby.
[n.d. c.1764.]
Etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10¾"). Thread margins on three sides.
Landscape with lake, two classical figures standing at right beside tree in foreground, building with tower in the centre middle distance, a small triangular building and two more towers on distant shore at left, mountains in background. By George Simon, Viscount Newnham and 2nd Earl Harcourt, after Paul Sandby.
Ex Collection: the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53214] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Newnham after P Sandby.
[n.d. c.1764.]
Etching. 200 x 270mm (8 x 10¾"). Thread margins on three sides.
Landscape with lake, two classical figures standing at right beside tree in foreground, building with tower in the centre middle distance, a small triangular building and two more towers on distant shore at left, mountains in background. By George Simon, Viscount Newnham and 2nd Earl Harcourt, after Paul Sandby.
Ex Collection: the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53214] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Scripture Prints, Edited by James R. Hope, D.C.L., Scholar of Merton. Old Testament Series from the Frescoes of Raphael, in the Vatican. Part III... the Prints have been prepared under the superintendence of Mr Lewis Gruner, from Drawings made from the original Frescos, by M.N. Consoni, one of the most distinguished Draughtsmen in Rome.
Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row; and W. [***] 183 Regent Street, London: and J. Parker, Oxford.
Rare Oblong folio, printed wrappers. 6 tinted lithographs, each c.470 x 600mm (18½ x 23½" Wrappers worn, printseller's label stuck over publisher's inscription; plates with blindstamp.
The plates are: Adam & Eve; The Building of the Ark; The Sacrifice of Noah; Melchizedek and Abraham; Moses Smiting the Rock; The Triumph of David. James Robert Hope (1812-1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian (being a friend of John Henry Newman). In 1853, when his wife, a grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, inherited Abbotsford, he changed his surname to Hope-Scott.
[Ref: 53102] £180.00 view all images for this item
Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row; and W. [***] 183 Regent Street, London: and J. Parker, Oxford.
Rare Oblong folio, printed wrappers. 6 tinted lithographs, each c.470 x 600mm (18½ x 23½" Wrappers worn, printseller's label stuck over publisher's inscription; plates with blindstamp.
The plates are: Adam & Eve; The Building of the Ark; The Sacrifice of Noah; Melchizedek and Abraham; Moses Smiting the Rock; The Triumph of David. James Robert Hope (1812-1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian (being a friend of John Henry Newman). In 1853, when his wife, a grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, inherited Abbotsford, he changed his surname to Hope-Scott.
[Ref: 53102] £180.00 view all images for this item
![The Sprite 19/75 [in pencil].](jpegs/53193.jpg)
The Sprite 19/75 [in pencil].
Nat. Long.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, limited edition 75, titled and signed by the artist. 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A nude woman running along a sandy beach, arms outstretched to embrace the elements. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
[Ref: 53193] £420.00
Nat. Long.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, limited edition 75, titled and signed by the artist. 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A nude woman running along a sandy beach, arms outstretched to embrace the elements. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
[Ref: 53193] £420.00
![[The Myrrhbearers.]](jpegs/53171.jpg)
[The Myrrhbearers.]
Bart. Sprangers Inuentor. Eiodius Sadeler Sac. M.tis Sculptor obtulit [****]liter anni 1600 initio.
Cu. Priuil. Sui. Pontif. et Sac. Cæ. M.tis.
Engraving. Sheet 515 x 370mm (20½ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate, some wear, with loss to title, old mss. in inscription area.
The three Marys (the Virgin, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, according to John) return from Jesus's cave, having found it empty. All carry jars of myrrh, with which they were planning to annoint the body of Christ. In the background are the three empty crosses. Engraved by Aegidius Sadeler II (c.1570-1629) after Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611). In 1570 Spranger was painter in the service of Pius V; in 1575 in Vienna at the court of Maximilian II; and in 1581 painter at the court of Rudolph II in Prague.
[Ref: 53171] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Bart. Sprangers Inuentor. Eiodius Sadeler Sac. M.tis Sculptor obtulit [****]liter anni 1600 initio.
Cu. Priuil. Sui. Pontif. et Sac. Cæ. M.tis.
Engraving. Sheet 515 x 370mm (20½ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate, some wear, with loss to title, old mss. in inscription area.
The three Marys (the Virgin, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, according to John) return from Jesus's cave, having found it empty. All carry jars of myrrh, with which they were planning to annoint the body of Christ. In the background are the three empty crosses. Engraved by Aegidius Sadeler II (c.1570-1629) after Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611). In 1570 Spranger was painter in the service of Pius V; in 1575 in Vienna at the court of Maximilian II; and in 1581 painter at the court of Rudolph II in Prague.
[Ref: 53171] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Waiting for the Times, (after an Adjourned debate.) From an Original Picture in the Possession of the Most Noble the Marquess of Stafford, To Whom this Plate is respectfully dedicated, By his greatful Servant, _ B.R. Haydon.
B.R. Haydon. Pinx.t. Tho.s Lupton sculp.t.
Published by R. Ackermann, Strand, London, 1832.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 320 x 370mm (12½ x 14½"). Tears in chine collé repaired. Trimmed to platemark. Loss on left made up.
A top-hatted man glares at another man engrossed in a newspaper.
[Ref: 52782] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
B.R. Haydon. Pinx.t. Tho.s Lupton sculp.t.
Published by R. Ackermann, Strand, London, 1832.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 320 x 370mm (12½ x 14½"). Tears in chine collé repaired. Trimmed to platemark. Loss on left made up.
A top-hatted man glares at another man engrossed in a newspaper.
[Ref: 52782] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)