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Athens, from the Academy.
C.R. Cockerell R.A. del. L. Haghe Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King [1837]
Rare lithograph, sheet 135 x 225mm (5¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Staining from glue.
View of Athens after a design by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), who first trained with the distinguished watercolourists Thomas and William Daniell. Cockerell was on the continent from 1810-17, spending much of his time studying ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Frontispiece to 'Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There' by Christopher Wordsworth, bishop of Lincoln (1837).
[Ref: 42106] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
C.R. Cockerell R.A. del. L. Haghe Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King [1837]
Rare lithograph, sheet 135 x 225mm (5¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Staining from glue.
View of Athens after a design by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), who first trained with the distinguished watercolourists Thomas and William Daniell. Cockerell was on the continent from 1810-17, spending much of his time studying ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Frontispiece to 'Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There' by Christopher Wordsworth, bishop of Lincoln (1837).
[Ref: 42106] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Robert Burns In his Cottage composing 'The Cotters Saturday Night'...
Painted by William Allan, R.A. From the Original Picture in the possession of Robt. Nasmyth, Esq. Engraved by John Burnet, F.R.S.
London Published Nov. 1. 1836, by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall [& in Edinburgh]. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 560 x 410mm, 22 x 16". Laid on conservation tissue
Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), poet. Burns shot to fame in 1786 with 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' and the 'Scots Musical Museum' (1787) which contains some of his best-known songs. Burns was celebrated for using his personal experience of rustic subjects and local Scots dialects; Wordsworth wrote of 'Him who walked in glory and in joy/ Behind his plough, upon the mountainside.' After Sir William Allan (1782 - 1850), President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
See NPG D32438.
[Ref: 23424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by William Allan, R.A. From the Original Picture in the possession of Robt. Nasmyth, Esq. Engraved by John Burnet, F.R.S.
London Published Nov. 1. 1836, by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall [& in Edinburgh]. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 560 x 410mm, 22 x 16". Laid on conservation tissue
Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), poet. Burns shot to fame in 1786 with 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' and the 'Scots Musical Museum' (1787) which contains some of his best-known songs. Burns was celebrated for using his personal experience of rustic subjects and local Scots dialects; Wordsworth wrote of 'Him who walked in glory and in joy/ Behind his plough, upon the mountainside.' After Sir William Allan (1782 - 1850), President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
See NPG D32438.
[Ref: 23424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aged 42. From the Picture in the possession of George T. Barnard Esq.re.
Painted by Washington Allston. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London: Published July 10.th 1854, by E. Moxon, 44, Dover Street.
Mezzotint. 545 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), with large margins. Slight spotting.
A half-length seated portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), painted in 1814. Along with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was one of the founding members of the Romantic Movement. The original oil is in the National Gallery (NPG 184).
Whitman: 41, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67812] £360.00
Painted by Washington Allston. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London: Published July 10.th 1854, by E. Moxon, 44, Dover Street.
Mezzotint. 545 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), with large margins. Slight spotting.
A half-length seated portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), painted in 1814. Along with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was one of the founding members of the Romantic Movement. The original oil is in the National Gallery (NPG 184).
Whitman: 41, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67812] £360.00
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aged 42. From the Picture in the possession of George T. Barnard Esq.re.] Subscriber's Proof.
Painted by Washington Allston. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
[London: Published July 10.th 1854, by E. Moxon, 44, Dover Street.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line, printed on chine collé. 545 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), painted in 1814. Along with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was one of the founding members of the Romantic Movement. The original oil is in the National Gallery (NPG 184).
Whitman: 41, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67813] £390.00
Painted by Washington Allston. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
[London: Published July 10.th 1854, by E. Moxon, 44, Dover Street.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line, printed on chine collé. 545 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), painted in 1814. Along with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was one of the founding members of the Romantic Movement. The original oil is in the National Gallery (NPG 184).
Whitman: 41, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67813] £390.00
![[Embossing] London at Morning.](jpegs/62342.jpg)
[Embossing] London at Morning.
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Letterpress poem between two blind-embossed decorations, Sheet (at most) 90 x 230mm (3½ x 9"). Trimmed irregularly as scrap.
William Wordsworth's 1802 poem, now known as 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', between two urns with fruit and leaves. Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62342] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Henry Dobbs. n.d., c.1850.]
Letterpress poem between two blind-embossed decorations, Sheet (at most) 90 x 230mm (3½ x 9"). Trimmed irregularly as scrap.
William Wordsworth's 1802 poem, now known as 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', between two urns with fruit and leaves. Henry Dobbs led several incarnations of a firm of embossers, print publishers and 'ornamental stationers to the King'.
[Ref: 62342] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Faustus's Coalition Nostrum, or Antipostorem Julep. R. Take ten Pounds of the genuine Flowers of Jacobinism, dissolve them well in three Quarts of rich Aristocratic Cream, the sourer the better...
Austin, Printer, Hertford. [n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress. Sheet 175 x 140mm, 7 x 5½". Mounted on album paper with ink mss. verse dated 1762.
A 'recipe' for a political coalition, needing "Malt Dust, to disguise the nauseous Flavour". The English who supported the French Revolution during its early stages (or even throughout) were early known as Jacobins. These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror. Others, such as William Hazlitt and Thomas Paine, remained idealistic about the Revolution. The conventionalized scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank. It was commonly contrasted with the stolid stocky conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire.
[Ref: 16838] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Austin, Printer, Hertford. [n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress. Sheet 175 x 140mm, 7 x 5½". Mounted on album paper with ink mss. verse dated 1762.
A 'recipe' for a political coalition, needing "Malt Dust, to disguise the nauseous Flavour". The English who supported the French Revolution during its early stages (or even throughout) were early known as Jacobins. These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror. Others, such as William Hazlitt and Thomas Paine, remained idealistic about the Revolution. The conventionalized scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank. It was commonly contrasted with the stolid stocky conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire.
[Ref: 16838] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Edwin.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds / Engraved by C.H. Hodges
Pub.d as the act directs Feb.y 18th by J. Rising No. 21 Princes St. Cav.sh Sq.re.
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Paper tone; good impression; collector's stamp of Bernard Houthakker verso. Slightly foxed.
Character study after a painting from the 1770s by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). When the painting was auctioned in 1796 it was identified as Edwin, the hero from 'The Minstrel', a poem published in 1771 by Reynolds' friend James Beattie. The poem describes the childhood of Edwin, a shepherd boy brought up in solitary, mountainous country, and his response to nature. William Wordsworth was among the many who admired the work. This impression formerly in the collection of Bernard Houthakker, 1884-1963), Amsterdam-based dealer and publisher. A particular focus of Houthakker's buying was the work of Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837), a British portrait painter and engraver who moved to the Netherlands in 1792. Reynolds' painting was recently sold by Christie's (3 December 2013).
Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Hamilton p.147 (only state); L.1272. Ex Collection Lady Eva Dugdale, Sotheby's 27/10/1920.
[Ref: 36504] £320.00
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds / Engraved by C.H. Hodges
Pub.d as the act directs Feb.y 18th by J. Rising No. 21 Princes St. Cav.sh Sq.re.
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Paper tone; good impression; collector's stamp of Bernard Houthakker verso. Slightly foxed.
Character study after a painting from the 1770s by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). When the painting was auctioned in 1796 it was identified as Edwin, the hero from 'The Minstrel', a poem published in 1771 by Reynolds' friend James Beattie. The poem describes the childhood of Edwin, a shepherd boy brought up in solitary, mountainous country, and his response to nature. William Wordsworth was among the many who admired the work. This impression formerly in the collection of Bernard Houthakker, 1884-1963), Amsterdam-based dealer and publisher. A particular focus of Houthakker's buying was the work of Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837), a British portrait painter and engraver who moved to the Netherlands in 1792. Reynolds' painting was recently sold by Christie's (3 December 2013).
Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Hamilton p.147 (only state); L.1272. Ex Collection Lady Eva Dugdale, Sotheby's 27/10/1920.
[Ref: 36504] £320.00
Mrs. Charlotte Smith.
Ridley sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple laid on album sheet 146 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾").
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), the English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the coventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. Her worked was praised by contemporaries such as Romantic poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as novelist Walter Scott.
[Ref: 34616] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Ridley sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple laid on album sheet 146 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾").
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), the English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the coventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. Her worked was praised by contemporaries such as Romantic poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as novelist Walter Scott.
[Ref: 34616] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Mrs. Charlotte Smith.
Engraved by Freeman, from an Original Painting.
[n.d. c.1808.]
Stipple. 135 x 109mm (5¼ x 4¼").
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), the English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the coventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. Her work was praised by contemporaries such as Romantic poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as novelist Walter Scott.
See NPG: D17828.
[Ref: 34617] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Freeman, from an Original Painting.
[n.d. c.1808.]
Stipple. 135 x 109mm (5¼ x 4¼").
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), the English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the coventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. Her work was praised by contemporaries such as Romantic poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as novelist Walter Scott.
See NPG: D17828.
[Ref: 34617] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cambridge. St. John's College. Chapel.] 61.](jpegs/62264.jpg)
[Cambridge. St. John's College. Chapel.] 61. [St. John's College was founded in 1511 through the beneficence of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII., on the suppression of the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist (founded about 1200). The College was brought into existence by the exertions of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who supervised the building and drew up the first statutes. The original Master's Lodgings and Chapel, which formerly stood on the north side, were pulled down in 1869. The new Chapel was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and stands on the site of what was previously a maze of rooms known as "The Labyrinth" which once housed many of the poorer scholars. It contains effigies and monuments to eminent benefactors, removed from the old Chapel, together with the fine old stalls and the piscina of early 13th century workmanship. Of the famous men associated with the College, the best known are William Cecil, Lord Burghley (who was Chancellor 1559-98) Sir John Cheke, and his pupil Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Richard Green, Samuel ("Erewhon") Butler, Bishop Wilberforce and William Wordsworth.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 259 x 284mm (10¼ x 11¼"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62264] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 259 x 284mm (10¼ x 11¼"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62264] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![W.m Wordsworth [facsimile signature].](jpegs/39303.jpg)
W.m Wordsworth [facsimile signature].
Painted by Miss Margaret Gillies. Engraved by Edward M.c Innes.
London Published Aug.t 6 1841 by F.G. Moon, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Rare mezzotint on india, private plate. 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"); very large margins.
A seated portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), before an arched window. The painter, Margaret Gillies (1803-87), a Scottish painter known for her portraits of Wordsworth & Charles Dickens. For many years she lived with Thomas Southwood Smith, the physician who dissected Jeremy Bentham in 1832: Bentham's 'auto-con' (the box holding his preserved body) lived with them until 1850 when it was acquired by University College London.
[Ref: 39303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Miss Margaret Gillies. Engraved by Edward M.c Innes.
London Published Aug.t 6 1841 by F.G. Moon, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Rare mezzotint on india, private plate. 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"); very large margins.
A seated portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), before an arched window. The painter, Margaret Gillies (1803-87), a Scottish painter known for her portraits of Wordsworth & Charles Dickens. For many years she lived with Thomas Southwood Smith, the physician who dissected Jeremy Bentham in 1832: Bentham's 'auto-con' (the box holding his preserved body) lived with them until 1850 when it was acquired by University College London.
[Ref: 39303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
William Wordsworth.
Painted by W. Boxall. Engraved by J. Bromley.
London, Published June 10, 1832 by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, James Ryman, Oxford, and Robert Roe. Cambridge.
Mezzotint. 425 x 355mm (16¾ x 14"), with very large margins.
A half-length portrait of romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), with arms crossed. This was the first portrait by William Boxall, started in 1831 and was not highly regarded. Wordsworth told John Gardner that 'it has mortified me much that I cannot get any of my Friends and Acquaintances to be pleased with [it] or the Print - both of which they say are much too dark and gloomy'. The finished portrait was engraved in mezzotint by Bromley: 'except for my sister I cannot get anyone to look at it with pleasure'. The original oil is still in the possession of the Wordsworth family.
See NPG 4211 for a preliminary version of the oil with description.
[Ref: 63957] £320.00
Painted by W. Boxall. Engraved by J. Bromley.
London, Published June 10, 1832 by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, James Ryman, Oxford, and Robert Roe. Cambridge.
Mezzotint. 425 x 355mm (16¾ x 14"), with very large margins.
A half-length portrait of romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), with arms crossed. This was the first portrait by William Boxall, started in 1831 and was not highly regarded. Wordsworth told John Gardner that 'it has mortified me much that I cannot get any of my Friends and Acquaintances to be pleased with [it] or the Print - both of which they say are much too dark and gloomy'. The finished portrait was engraved in mezzotint by Bromley: 'except for my sister I cannot get anyone to look at it with pleasure'. The original oil is still in the possession of the Wordsworth family.
See NPG 4211 for a preliminary version of the oil with description.
[Ref: 63957] £320.00
View of Wyke Church, Village & West part of the Island of Portland.
F. Bernie Aqua tint. Etch'd by Fittler.
Pub.d as the Act directs Feb.y 11.1790 by I. Fittler, London, I.Love, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint and etching with watercolour wash, plate 260 x 299mm (10¼ x 11¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
A view of the fifteenth century church of All Saints at Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, looking across the channel to Portland. A woman and child with a hoop in foreground. The churchyard was the burial site for victims of the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny (including William Wordsworth's brother, John) and the East Indiaman 'Alexander'. King George III frequented the church during his summer visits to the area from 1790-1805. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love, whose publication may have been inspired by interest arising from George III's visits to the area.
Abbey Scenery 339.3 for the complete set see ref. 35799.
[Ref: 37977] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
F. Bernie Aqua tint. Etch'd by Fittler.
Pub.d as the Act directs Feb.y 11.1790 by I. Fittler, London, I.Love, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint and etching with watercolour wash, plate 260 x 299mm (10¼ x 11¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
A view of the fifteenth century church of All Saints at Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, looking across the channel to Portland. A woman and child with a hoop in foreground. The churchyard was the burial site for victims of the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny (including William Wordsworth's brother, John) and the East Indiaman 'Alexander'. King George III frequented the church during his summer visits to the area from 1790-1805. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love, whose publication may have been inspired by interest arising from George III's visits to the area.
Abbey Scenery 339.3 for the complete set see ref. 35799.
[Ref: 37977] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)