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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San Francisco Highlands.
J.S. Foster.
Etching, signed in pencil, 12 x 8 ".
California School of Design in foreground.
[Ref: 2552] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
J.S. Foster.
Etching, signed in pencil, 12 x 8 ".
California School of Design in foreground.
[Ref: 2552] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
John Clark Writing Master and Accomptant, London
T. Foster delin. G. Bickham Sculp [1712]
Engraving, in ink verso 5 Shil; sheet 285 x 180mm (11¼ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
John Clark (1683-1736), writing-master. Clark published his first copybook 'The Penman's Diversion' in 1708, and when George Shelley was appointed writing-master to Christ's Hospital in 1710 Clark took over his boarding-school. Clark went on to achieve great commercial success with his several subsequent copybooks, but gained notoriety for his contentious nature. He conducted a long-running dispute with Shelley and another penman, Charles Snell which centred on the place of ornament in penmanship, in which Clark saw such devices as superfluous and misleading. Frontispiece to Clark's 'Writing Improved, or, Penmanship Made Easy', 1712, which is valuable for its lengthy preface explaining the process of producing engraved copybooks and how engravers reproduced the penman's original designs.
O'D 1; for Shelley see ref 38872; for Snell see ref. 38871. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38875] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
T. Foster delin. G. Bickham Sculp [1712]
Engraving, in ink verso 5 Shil; sheet 285 x 180mm (11¼ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
John Clark (1683-1736), writing-master. Clark published his first copybook 'The Penman's Diversion' in 1708, and when George Shelley was appointed writing-master to Christ's Hospital in 1710 Clark took over his boarding-school. Clark went on to achieve great commercial success with his several subsequent copybooks, but gained notoriety for his contentious nature. He conducted a long-running dispute with Shelley and another penman, Charles Snell which centred on the place of ornament in penmanship, in which Clark saw such devices as superfluous and misleading. Frontispiece to Clark's 'Writing Improved, or, Penmanship Made Easy', 1712, which is valuable for its lengthy preface explaining the process of producing engraved copybooks and how engravers reproduced the penman's original designs.
O'D 1; for Shelley see ref 38872; for Snell see ref. 38871. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38875] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Thomas Forster] T. Foster, 1689, from a Pencil Drawing by himself in the Possession of G. Walker Esq.r.](jpegs/6380.jpg)
[Thomas Forster] T. Foster, 1689, from a Pencil Drawing by himself in the Possession of G. Walker Esq.r.
GW. 1797 [George Walker?].
Pub.d by A. Beugo. June 2nd. 1803.
Etching. 100 x 95mm (4 x 3¾").
Thomas Forster (1677-c.1713), portrait painter probably patronised by the second Duke of Ormond, on the grounds that many of his sitters were the duke's associates.
[Ref: 6380] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
GW. 1797 [George Walker?].
Pub.d by A. Beugo. June 2nd. 1803.
Etching. 100 x 95mm (4 x 3¾").
Thomas Forster (1677-c.1713), portrait painter probably patronised by the second Duke of Ormond, on the grounds that many of his sitters were the duke's associates.
[Ref: 6380] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
E. Knight Box. Proof.
W. Foster pinx. H.R. Cook S.t
[n.d. c.1825.]
Engraving. Image 115 x 76mm. 4½ x 3".
Edward Knight (1774-1826), actor. Autographed proof of the print used as admission to the Box at the benefit for him.
[Ref: 20949] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
W. Foster pinx. H.R. Cook S.t
[n.d. c.1825.]
Engraving. Image 115 x 76mm. 4½ x 3".
Edward Knight (1774-1826), actor. Autographed proof of the print used as admission to the Box at the benefit for him.
[Ref: 20949] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sclater's monal] Lophophorus Sclateri.](jpegs/55233.jpg)
[Sclater's monal] Lophophorus Sclateri.
W. Foster.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Some spotting.
A male pheasant of the Eastern Himalayas, named for British zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater. The artist, William Foster (1853-1924), was the son of Myles Birket Foster, and the only child to become an artist. As well as his serious ornithological work William illustrated children's books (including an 1889 edition of Lear's Nonsene Drolleries) and contributed many illustrations to periodicals.
[Ref: 55233] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
W. Foster.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Some spotting.
A male pheasant of the Eastern Himalayas, named for British zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater. The artist, William Foster (1853-1924), was the son of Myles Birket Foster, and the only child to become an artist. As well as his serious ornithological work William illustrated children's books (including an 1889 edition of Lear's Nonsene Drolleries) and contributed many illustrations to periodicals.
[Ref: 55233] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)