A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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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Franciscus Atterbury S.T.P. Episc: Rossensis & Decs West Mons.
J. Faber ad vivum Del.t & Fecit.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper. Damaged.
Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster 1713-21. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was imprisoned in the Tower in 1722 for communicating with the Old Pretender and banished for life the following year.
CS 4.
[Ref: 59424] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J. Faber ad vivum Del.t & Fecit.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper. Damaged.
Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster 1713-21. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was imprisoned in the Tower in 1722 for communicating with the Old Pretender and banished for life the following year.
CS 4.
[Ref: 59424] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Dervorguilla de Balliol]](jpegs/44077.jpg)
[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44077] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44077] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
![[Dervorguilla de Balliol]](jpegs/44076.jpg)
[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
J: Faber Ao 1732
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below. Loss lower left.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse'.
CS 34
[Ref: 44076] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
J: Faber Ao 1732
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below. Loss lower left.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse'.
CS 34
[Ref: 44076] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
S.r John Barnard.
T. Ryley Fecit.
Sold by T. Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross and W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A three-quater length of politician Sir John Barnard (1685-1764) who served as MP for the City of London, as an alderman and Lord Mayor.
CS 2 only state.
[Ref: 47340] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
T. Ryley Fecit.
Sold by T. Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross and W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A three-quater length of politician Sir John Barnard (1685-1764) who served as MP for the City of London, as an alderman and Lord Mayor.
CS 2 only state.
[Ref: 47340] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[Robert Eglesfield]](jpegs/44075.jpg)
[Robert Eglesfield] Robertus Eglesfield Reginae Philippa Edovardi III Regis Angliae Coniugi a Sacris Confessionis [...]
J. Faber Fecit & Excud.t [c.1720]
Mezzotint, sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Robert Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), founder of Queen's College, Oxford. The hall was founded in 1341, on a site purchased by Eglesfield from his own funds. Queen Philippa (whose chaplain Eglesfield was) was closely associated with the foundation.
[Ref: 44075] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
J. Faber Fecit & Excud.t [c.1720]
Mezzotint, sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Robert Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), founder of Queen's College, Oxford. The hall was founded in 1341, on a site purchased by Eglesfield from his own funds. Queen Philippa (whose chaplain Eglesfield was) was closely associated with the foundation.
[Ref: 44075] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
John Locke Esq.r. Done after the Marble Bust, in Her Majesty's Hermitage in the Royal Garden at Richmond.
[Drawn & engraved by John Faber.]
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse, Cornhil. [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint with large margins. 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾").
Portrait of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) taken from a bust at the Royal Palace at Kew, now the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1730 Queen Caroline commissioned a 'hermitage', decorated with a series of five marble busts by the English sculptor Michael Rysbrack to celebrate British philosphers: Locke, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Clarke and William Wollaston. Unfortunately the Hermitage no longer exists.
CS 125. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32333] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn & engraved by John Faber.]
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse, Cornhil. [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint with large margins. 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾").
Portrait of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) taken from a bust at the Royal Palace at Kew, now the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1730 Queen Caroline commissioned a 'hermitage', decorated with a series of five marble busts by the English sculptor Michael Rysbrack to celebrate British philosphers: Locke, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Clarke and William Wollaston. Unfortunately the Hermitage no longer exists.
CS 125. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32333] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Sir George Rooke, From an Original Drawing the Property of Vice Admiral Kingsmill.]
J. Faber del. 1703. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1794.
[London, Pub.d Nov.r 1. 1794. by R. Faulder Bond Street.]
Stipple with engraving, proof before title and publisher's inscription. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed just inside plate, slight creasing.
Portrait of Admiral Sir George Rooke [1650 - 1709], with a long periwig, in plate armour with a sash over his shoulder gathered with a brooch, a steinkirk tied at his throat. Published in John Charnock's 'Biographia Navalis'.
De V: 898 I of II.
[Ref: 44162] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
J. Faber del. 1703. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1794.
[London, Pub.d Nov.r 1. 1794. by R. Faulder Bond Street.]
Stipple with engraving, proof before title and publisher's inscription. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed just inside plate, slight creasing.
Portrait of Admiral Sir George Rooke [1650 - 1709], with a long periwig, in plate armour with a sash over his shoulder gathered with a brooch, a steinkirk tied at his throat. Published in John Charnock's 'Biographia Navalis'.
De V: 898 I of II.
[Ref: 44162] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Sutton Armr: cujus unius Sumptibus. Hospitium Regium) vulgo dictm: Charter House fundatum est Ao. 1612. Hanc effigiem ex Archetypo apud idem Hospitm: reservato descriptam Revdo: admodum in Christo Patri Joanni Episcopo Eliensi, Humillime dicat.
Joannes Faber. Ao 1714
Mezzotint, 260 x 200mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Thomas Sutton (1532 - 1611), founder of the Charterhouse. One of a series of forty-five plates of portraits of the Founders of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, the Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse. By John Faber the Elder (c.1660 - 1721), portrait miniaturist and mezzotinter, born in Holland.
Chaloner Smith: 34, I.
[Ref: 9833] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Joannes Faber. Ao 1714
Mezzotint, 260 x 200mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Thomas Sutton (1532 - 1611), founder of the Charterhouse. One of a series of forty-five plates of portraits of the Founders of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, the Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse. By John Faber the Elder (c.1660 - 1721), portrait miniaturist and mezzotinter, born in Holland.
Chaloner Smith: 34, I.
[Ref: 9833] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
His Royal Highness William Augustus Duke of Cumberland, &c, &c, &c.
I. Faber ad Vivum Delint. et Fecit.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10". A fine impression with full margins.
Handsome portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721 - 1765) as a boy; facing and looking towards front, left hand on hip, right hand tucked inside his coat, smiling at the viewer. He wears a wig with a bow at the nape, a sash hanging diagonally from the left shoulder and a star on his breast; cocked hat on a table in front of him, and a statue of a classical warrior in a landscape in the left background. Third son of George II and a life-long soldier, the Duke was described by Horace Walpole as 'proud and unforgiving, fond of war for its own sake'. His victory at Culloden in 1746 ended the Jacobite threat, but his severe treatment of the rebels earned him the nickname 'Butcher Cumberland'. By John Faber the Younger (c.1695 - 1756).
Chaloner Smith: 99.
[Ref: 18323] £320.00
I. Faber ad Vivum Delint. et Fecit.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10". A fine impression with full margins.
Handsome portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721 - 1765) as a boy; facing and looking towards front, left hand on hip, right hand tucked inside his coat, smiling at the viewer. He wears a wig with a bow at the nape, a sash hanging diagonally from the left shoulder and a star on his breast; cocked hat on a table in front of him, and a statue of a classical warrior in a landscape in the left background. Third son of George II and a life-long soldier, the Duke was described by Horace Walpole as 'proud and unforgiving, fond of war for its own sake'. His victory at Culloden in 1746 ended the Jacobite threat, but his severe treatment of the rebels earned him the nickname 'Butcher Cumberland'. By John Faber the Younger (c.1695 - 1756).
Chaloner Smith: 99.
[Ref: 18323] £320.00