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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The Honble. Miss Henrietta Duncan. Dedicated by permission to the Honble. Miss Mary Duncan by Her most obedt. Servant W. Douglas.
William Douglas Pinxt. & Scult.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple partly printed in colours, 330 x 435mm. 13 x 17¼". Tear into plate upper left. Some soiling.
An infant girl on a reclining couch, by William Douglas (1780 - 1832). A miniature painter, Douglas was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver at Edinburgh, John Burnet the engraver being one of his fellow-apprentices. He had numerous patrons, especially the Duke of Buccleuch and his family, and on 9 July 1817 he was appointed miniature-painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. His miniatures were much esteemed for their tasteful and delicate execution. Some of these were exhibited by him at the Royal Academy in London in 1818, 1819, 1826, including a portrait of Lieutenant-general Sir John Hope.
[Ref: 9569] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
William Douglas Pinxt. & Scult.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple partly printed in colours, 330 x 435mm. 13 x 17¼". Tear into plate upper left. Some soiling.
An infant girl on a reclining couch, by William Douglas (1780 - 1832). A miniature painter, Douglas was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver at Edinburgh, John Burnet the engraver being one of his fellow-apprentices. He had numerous patrons, especially the Duke of Buccleuch and his family, and on 9 July 1817 he was appointed miniature-painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. His miniatures were much esteemed for their tasteful and delicate execution. Some of these were exhibited by him at the Royal Academy in London in 1818, 1819, 1826, including a portrait of Lieutenant-general Sir John Hope.
[Ref: 9569] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Splenitive Englishman travelling in Germany.
LDouglas invt et delt.
Hand coloured etching sheet 215 x 335mm (8½ x 13¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some creasing.
A satire on grand tourists. Two Englishmen travel through the German countryside in a post-chaise. The splenitive (ill-tempered) gentleman threatens the postilion with a pistol and cane urging him to drive faster while the other smiles. The postilion is seated smoking a pipe on a farm horse, one of three drawing the carriage and a paper "Drink Gelt to pay by order of ye Queen" protrudes from his pocket, while another reading, "Maut und Drink Gelt" lies on the ground; before engraver's name scratched out. "L Douglas" has not been identified; formerly attributed to Bunbury, now re-attributed to C.L.Smith.
[Ref: 55993] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
LDouglas invt et delt.
Hand coloured etching sheet 215 x 335mm (8½ x 13¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some creasing.
A satire on grand tourists. Two Englishmen travel through the German countryside in a post-chaise. The splenitive (ill-tempered) gentleman threatens the postilion with a pistol and cane urging him to drive faster while the other smiles. The postilion is seated smoking a pipe on a farm horse, one of three drawing the carriage and a paper "Drink Gelt to pay by order of ye Queen" protrudes from his pocket, while another reading, "Maut und Drink Gelt" lies on the ground; before engraver's name scratched out. "L Douglas" has not been identified; formerly attributed to Bunbury, now re-attributed to C.L.Smith.
[Ref: 55993] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![St Augustine's, Hackney [pencil.]](jpegs/11648.jpg)
St Augustine's, Hackney [pencil.]
M. Douglas. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching. 225 x 150mm, 9 x 6".
St Augustine's Tower, all that remains of an early C16th parish church. The Grade 1 listed building is in the grounds of St Johns' Church in Hackney.
[Ref: 11648] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
M. Douglas. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching. 225 x 150mm, 9 x 6".
St Augustine's Tower, all that remains of an early C16th parish church. The Grade 1 listed building is in the grounds of St Johns' Church in Hackney.
[Ref: 11648] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[From Covert to Covert.]](jpegs/24026.jpg)
[From Covert to Covert.]
E.A.S. Douglas [signed in pencil.]
E.A.S. Douglas 1908. Published May 2.nd 1909 by Mess.rs Fores, 41, Piccadilly, London, W.
Lithograph, india proof, signed in pencil by artist. Plate 699 x 381mm. 27½ x 15".
Huntsmen on horseback following through the leaders and pack of hounds running through a gap in the hedge. Edward Algernon Stuart Douglas (1850-c.1920) was a sporting painter of the 19th and 20th century.
[Ref: 24026] £260.00
E.A.S. Douglas [signed in pencil.]
E.A.S. Douglas 1908. Published May 2.nd 1909 by Mess.rs Fores, 41, Piccadilly, London, W.
Lithograph, india proof, signed in pencil by artist. Plate 699 x 381mm. 27½ x 15".
Huntsmen on horseback following through the leaders and pack of hounds running through a gap in the hedge. Edward Algernon Stuart Douglas (1850-c.1920) was a sporting painter of the 19th and 20th century.
[Ref: 24026] £260.00
![Lavenham [pencil.]](jpegs/11649.jpg)
Lavenham [pencil.]
M. Douglas. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching. 225 x 150mm, 9 x 6".
The C15th church of Lavenham in Suffolk, paid for by wool-wealth, with the highest church tower in England at 141 ft (43 m).
[Ref: 11649] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
M. Douglas. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching. 225 x 150mm, 9 x 6".
The C15th church of Lavenham in Suffolk, paid for by wool-wealth, with the highest church tower in England at 141 ft (43 m).
[Ref: 11649] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Here They Come; There They Go; The Half Distance.
Painted by E.A.S. Douglas. Engraved by G.R.Stock.
London: Published Feb.y 19th 1881 by Arthur Ackermann, 191, Regent Street.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 580mm.
Three images on one plate.
[Ref: 1874] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by E.A.S. Douglas. Engraved by G.R.Stock.
London: Published Feb.y 19th 1881 by Arthur Ackermann, 191, Regent Street.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 580mm.
Three images on one plate.
[Ref: 1874] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)