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Cattle.
Cattle.
Drawn by R.Hills. Etched by Letitia Byrne.
Published Jan.y 2, 1809 by Tho.s Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
Etching. 240 x 290mm, 9½ x 11½".
Cattle and sheep in a highland landscape. Letitia Byrne (1779-1849), daughter of William Byrne the landscape engraver and publisher. She is best known for etching the 40 plates of Paul Amsinck's 'Description of Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood' in 1810.
[Ref: 26270]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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[Cows in a field.]
[Cows in a field.]
Hills pinxt.
London, _ Drawn, Printed & Published at Friedel's Litho Estab.t, 252, Tottenham C.t R.d & at the Polytechnic Institution, 309, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 255 x 325mm (10 x 12¾"). Repaired tears.
A bull and two cows in a field, barn behind. The Royal Polytechnic Institution was the UK's first polytechnic. Now the University of Westminster, its headquarters are still at 309 Regent Street.
[Ref: 43473]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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No. 2. [Driving Cattle to Market.]
No. 2. [Driving Cattle to Market.]
R. Hills delint.
Pubd. by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1825.
Scarce hand coloured aquatint, sheet 390 x 500mm, 15¼ x 19¾". A fine and clean impression, with fresh and bright original colour. Mint.
Cattle and sheep beside a stream; one man with a stick crossing a bridge, another ahead driving a cart with calves on board. From the rare folio of 12 plates 'A Selection of Fac-Similes of Water-Colour Drawings, from the Works of the Most Distinguished British Artists', 1825; a first issue, before the title below the image. After Robert Hills (1769 - 1844); other striking compositions in the book are contributed by Samuel Prout, Francis Nicholson, John Smith and William Collins.
Abbey, Life: 197, 2. BL: 003332105.
[Ref: 18626]   £280.00  
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A Glostershire team of Oxen.
A Glostershire team of Oxen. From an original drawing by R. Hills, in the possession of the proprietors of this work.
London. Pub. July 1. 1818 by T. McLean.
Aquatint. Sheet 325 x 445mm (12¾ x 17½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mills 1817' Trimmed within plate.
A team of oxen yoked to a haycart, with workers forking hay up. This plate comes from McLean's edition of John Hassell's 'Aqua Pictura', a work illustrating the progressive stages of each painting.
See Abbey Life 140 for the 1813 first edition.
[Ref: 43467]   £140.00  
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A Gloucestershire team of Oxen.
A Gloucestershire team of Oxen.
From an original drawing by R Hills in the possession of the proproeters of this work.
London, Pub. March 1. 1813, by Hassell & C.o 11. Clements inn.
Aquatint, plate 330 x 425mm (13 x 16½"). On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Thread margins on top and bottom. Taped tear in right side that goes into the plate mark but not the image. Some creasing.
A farming scene in Gloucestershire. Men pile hay onto a cart pulled by a team of four oxen. Robert Hills (1769–1844) was an English painter and etcher who primarily focused on rural scenes, particularly farm animals.
See Abbey Life 140
[Ref: 56030]   £165.00   (£198.00 incl.VAT)
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