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The Right Honble. Iohn Barber Esqr. Lord Mayor of London in ye: year 1733.
[London: T. Cooper, 1741?]
Copper engraving, scarce frontispiece to 'The Life & Character of John Barber, Esq; late Lord-Mayor of London, deceased'. Sheet 210 x 150mm, 8¼ x 6". Trimmed to image.
The Prime Minister Robert Walpole was concerned to reduce the burden of the land tax and shift government revenues to other sources. "The excise scheme of 1733 promised revenues which would permit a permanent reduction of the land tax. The measure involved converting the customs duties on tobacco and wine into inland duties. It followed on other fiscal measures that moved in this direction, tea, chocolate, and coffee and then the year before salt. The opposition was intense and effective against the measure. Opponents revived longstanding criticisms of such measures: "Excise duties involved giving extensive powers of search to revenue officers, and a wide jurisdiction to magistrates and excise commissioners. Moreover, merchants and traders--both those engaged in circumventing the existing customs duties and those who paid them--disliked the prospect of dealing with "officious excisemen". When the City of London [John Barber] formally presented its petition against the excise on 10 April, 1733, Walpole's majority fell to seventeen. A Revolt in the Lords looked likely and on the following day Walpole announced the withdrawal of the excise scheme. John Barber (1676 - 1741), Lord Mayor of London, wearing a shoulder-length curly wig, white cravat, chain of office and a coat trimmed with fur. With his April 9th 1733 speech to the Common Council of Alderman inscribed below portrait. Reduced copy in reverse of the portrait engraved by Gerard Vandergucht (see 16630). After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754).
[Ref: 16652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[London: T. Cooper, 1741?]
Copper engraving, scarce frontispiece to 'The Life & Character of John Barber, Esq; late Lord-Mayor of London, deceased'. Sheet 210 x 150mm, 8¼ x 6". Trimmed to image.
The Prime Minister Robert Walpole was concerned to reduce the burden of the land tax and shift government revenues to other sources. "The excise scheme of 1733 promised revenues which would permit a permanent reduction of the land tax. The measure involved converting the customs duties on tobacco and wine into inland duties. It followed on other fiscal measures that moved in this direction, tea, chocolate, and coffee and then the year before salt. The opposition was intense and effective against the measure. Opponents revived longstanding criticisms of such measures: "Excise duties involved giving extensive powers of search to revenue officers, and a wide jurisdiction to magistrates and excise commissioners. Moreover, merchants and traders--both those engaged in circumventing the existing customs duties and those who paid them--disliked the prospect of dealing with "officious excisemen". When the City of London [John Barber] formally presented its petition against the excise on 10 April, 1733, Walpole's majority fell to seventeen. A Revolt in the Lords looked likely and on the following day Walpole announced the withdrawal of the excise scheme. John Barber (1676 - 1741), Lord Mayor of London, wearing a shoulder-length curly wig, white cravat, chain of office and a coat trimmed with fur. With his April 9th 1733 speech to the Common Council of Alderman inscribed below portrait. Reduced copy in reverse of the portrait engraved by Gerard Vandergucht (see 16630). After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754).
[Ref: 16652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm, 14 x 9¾". Tight margins on three sides.
Originally a printer, Barber made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state)
[Ref: 10484] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm, 14 x 9¾". Tight margins on three sides.
Originally a printer, Barber made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state)
[Ref: 10484] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Georgius Edwards R.S.S. AEtat Suae 60 AD 1754 Nat. Mar. 23. April 3.
Dandridg Pinx J.S. Miller Sculp
Engraving, good impression; stamps of Southampton public library verso; sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾)
George Edwards (1694-1773), ornithologist and artist. Born in east London, Edwards resolved at an early age to dedicate himself to studying natural history, travelling in Norway and France (1718-20) and making coloured drawings of exotic birds on his return. To Edwards' surprise these found a market: Edwards' chief patron was none other than Hans Sloane, who gave him a job at the Royal College of Physicians (of which Sloane was president). Encouraged by the physicians Edwards set up a studio there, learnt to etch, and prepared his four volumes of 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds'. These gained Edwards international fame and he began to work with the Bartrams of Philadelphia and Linnaeus in Sweden and became a fellow of the Royal Society, while continuing to publish until 1764.
W890-1; for a plate from Edwards' work see ref 33511
[Ref: 44059] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Dandridg Pinx J.S. Miller Sculp
Engraving, good impression; stamps of Southampton public library verso; sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾)
George Edwards (1694-1773), ornithologist and artist. Born in east London, Edwards resolved at an early age to dedicate himself to studying natural history, travelling in Norway and France (1718-20) and making coloured drawings of exotic birds on his return. To Edwards' surprise these found a market: Edwards' chief patron was none other than Hans Sloane, who gave him a job at the Royal College of Physicians (of which Sloane was president). Encouraged by the physicians Edwards set up a studio there, learnt to etch, and prepared his four volumes of 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds'. These gained Edwards international fame and he began to work with the Bartrams of Philadelphia and Linnaeus in Sweden and became a fellow of the Royal Society, while continuing to publish until 1764.
W890-1; for a plate from Edwards' work see ref 33511
[Ref: 44059] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
S.r Philip Honywood, Knight of the most Honourable Order of Bath, General of Horse, Colonel of his Majesty's first Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Governor of Portsmouth &c.
B. Dandridge Pinxt 1751. Ia.s M.cArdell Fecit.
Sold by Ja.s M.cArdell, at the Golden Head in Covent Garden._ Price 5 shillings.
Rare mezzotint 1st state. 355 x 505mm (14 x 20"), with large margins, with Kupferstichkabinet Dreseden stamp in bottom right corner and on verso. Repaired tear in top left corner and crack in plate.
An equestrian potrait of Sir Philip Honywood (1677-1752) a British army officer, serving under John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough in Brabent at the start of his career and serving as the governor of Portsmouth at the end.
CS: 106, I of IV
[Ref: 42847] £380.00
B. Dandridge Pinxt 1751. Ia.s M.cArdell Fecit.
Sold by Ja.s M.cArdell, at the Golden Head in Covent Garden._ Price 5 shillings.
Rare mezzotint 1st state. 355 x 505mm (14 x 20"), with large margins, with Kupferstichkabinet Dreseden stamp in bottom right corner and on verso. Repaired tear in top left corner and crack in plate.
An equestrian potrait of Sir Philip Honywood (1677-1752) a British army officer, serving under John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough in Brabent at the start of his career and serving as the governor of Portsmouth at the end.
CS: 106, I of IV
[Ref: 42847] £380.00
Matthew Tindall L.L.D. Aetat. 78 Heu Prisca Fides
B. Dandridge Pinxt. 1733. I. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden head ye South side of Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, state after publication line, 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". Diagonal cease through image; very little margin.
Portrait of Matthew Tindal (1653?-1733), deist; standing to left wearing black coat and with curled grey hair, eyes to front, his right hand gesturing towards viewer. Tindal's works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c. 1754).
Chaloner Smith: 347.
[Ref: 25797] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
B. Dandridge Pinxt. 1733. I. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden head ye South side of Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, state after publication line, 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". Diagonal cease through image; very little margin.
Portrait of Matthew Tindal (1653?-1733), deist; standing to left wearing black coat and with curled grey hair, eyes to front, his right hand gesturing towards viewer. Tindal's works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c. 1754).
Chaloner Smith: 347.
[Ref: 25797] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Woolston B.D. Sometime Fellow of Sidney College Cambridge.
B. Dandridge Pinxit. Jno. Vander Gucht Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Engraving, 365 x 255mm. 14¼ x 10". A fine impression on laid paper, with full margins.
Thomas Woolston (1670 - 1733), enthusiast and free-thinker. After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754).
NPG: D19356.
[Ref: 13587] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
B. Dandridge Pinxit. Jno. Vander Gucht Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Engraving, 365 x 255mm. 14¼ x 10". A fine impression on laid paper, with full margins.
Thomas Woolston (1670 - 1733), enthusiast and free-thinker. After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754).
NPG: D19356.
[Ref: 13587] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)