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Thomas Astle Esq.r F.R.S. &c.
H. Howard A. Pinxit. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1803, by J. White Fleet Street.
Engraving, image 165 x 125mm. 6½ x 5".
Portrait of Thomas Astle (1735-1803), antiquary and palaeographer; seated in a chair, holding a scroll. He indexed the catalogue of the Harleian manuscripts, published in 1759. His main work was 'The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts, and charters, ancient and modern', 1784.
[Ref: 27564] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
H. Howard A. Pinxit. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1803, by J. White Fleet Street.
Engraving, image 165 x 125mm. 6½ x 5".
Portrait of Thomas Astle (1735-1803), antiquary and palaeographer; seated in a chair, holding a scroll. He indexed the catalogue of the Harleian manuscripts, published in 1759. His main work was 'The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts, and charters, ancient and modern', 1784.
[Ref: 27564] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Avro Training Biplane.
Signed in pencil Howard Leigh.
Etching 250 x 190mm, 7½ x 9¾". Light spotting.
Howard Leigh, American 1896-1981.
[Ref: 10908] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Signed in pencil Howard Leigh.
Etching 250 x 190mm, 7½ x 9¾". Light spotting.
Howard Leigh, American 1896-1981.
[Ref: 10908] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Biplane dogfight] S.E.5a.](jpegs/10907.jpg)
[Biplane dogfight] S.E.5a.
Howard Leigh [pencil signature].
Etching 250 x 190mm (7½ x 9¾"). Light spotting.
A First World War dogfight between a German and a British Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5, the fastest aircraft in the war. Howard Leigh (1896-1981), an American etcher.
[Ref: 10907] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Howard Leigh [pencil signature].
Etching 250 x 190mm (7½ x 9¾"). Light spotting.
A First World War dogfight between a German and a British Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5, the fastest aircraft in the war. Howard Leigh (1896-1981), an American etcher.
[Ref: 10907] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Brune, General & Chef des Armées Francoise et Batave dans la Republique Batave dans la République Batave.
Peint d'après nature par C.H.Hodges et Gravé par le meme.
Amsterdam, chez C.H. Hodges, sur le Keisersgragt & E. Maaskamp, dans le Kalverstraat. a Paris, chez A. Hulk, Rue Jacques, entre les rues du Platre et des Noyers, No. 22.
Very rare mezzotint. 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"), large margins. Faint spotting.
Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (1764-1815), 1st Count Brune. A political journalist, he joined the National Guard on the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. In 1793 he was appointed brigadier general, serving under Napoleon in the Italian campaign of 1796. In 1798 he commanded the army that occupied Switzerland and established the Helvetis Republic. The following year, he successfully defended Amsterdam during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, when this portrait was painted. After Waterloo he was shot and killed by an angry Royalist mob in Avignon and his body thrown into the Rhone, although it was later recovered by his family and given a proper burial. The artist, Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) was a pupil of John Raphael Smith. He moved to The Hague in 1794 and to Amsterdam in 1797, where this plate was published and where he spent the rest of his life.
[Ref: 59422] £360.00
Peint d'après nature par C.H.Hodges et Gravé par le meme.
Amsterdam, chez C.H. Hodges, sur le Keisersgragt & E. Maaskamp, dans le Kalverstraat. a Paris, chez A. Hulk, Rue Jacques, entre les rues du Platre et des Noyers, No. 22.
Very rare mezzotint. 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"), large margins. Faint spotting.
Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (1764-1815), 1st Count Brune. A political journalist, he joined the National Guard on the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. In 1793 he was appointed brigadier general, serving under Napoleon in the Italian campaign of 1796. In 1798 he commanded the army that occupied Switzerland and established the Helvetis Republic. The following year, he successfully defended Amsterdam during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, when this portrait was painted. After Waterloo he was shot and killed by an angry Royalist mob in Avignon and his body thrown into the Rhone, although it was later recovered by his family and given a proper burial. The artist, Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) was a pupil of John Raphael Smith. He moved to The Hague in 1794 and to Amsterdam in 1797, where this plate was published and where he spent the rest of his life.
[Ref: 59422] £360.00
![Construction. [In pencil.]](jpegs/47062.jpg)
Construction. [In pencil.]
W.A. Howard. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6"), with very large margins. Cockling.
A view of a skyscraper being built.
[Ref: 47062] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
W.A. Howard. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6"), with very large margins. Cockling.
A view of a skyscraper being built.
[Ref: 47062] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Arcange Corelli Né à Fusignari dans le Boulonnois, Mort à Rome le 19 Jan. 1713. Agé près de 60 ans.
H. Howard pinx. Mathey Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Odieuvre M.d d'Est, rue d'Anjou la dern. P. Cochere à gauche entrant par la rue Dauphine. CPR [n.d., c.1720].
Engraving. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins.
A portrait of Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Italian violinist and composer who was a major influence on the work of Bach, based on the famous portrait by Hugh Howard (now in the Music Faculty collection of Oxford University).
[Ref: 56654] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
H. Howard pinx. Mathey Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Odieuvre M.d d'Est, rue d'Anjou la dern. P. Cochere à gauche entrant par la rue Dauphine. CPR [n.d., c.1720].
Engraving. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins.
A portrait of Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Italian violinist and composer who was a major influence on the work of Bach, based on the famous portrait by Hugh Howard (now in the Music Faculty collection of Oxford University).
[Ref: 56654] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Hark! "And sits with lively wonder on the shore, To hear, within her shell the ocean's roar." From the Original Picture in the Collection of F. Freeling Esq.r to whom this Print is respectfully Dedicated by his Oblig'd & Obed.t Serv.t Rob.t Cribb.
Painted by H. Howard Esq.r R.A. Engraved by I.C. Easling.
Published Feb.y 2. 1812, by Rob.t Cribb & Son, 288 High Holborn.
Mezzotint, very rare. 433 x 292mm. 17 x 11½". Trimmed under platemark.
A little girl with short hair kneeling on the sea-shore, directed to right, holding up her apron full of shells with her left hand, holding a shell to her left ear with the other and looking towards the viewer.
[Ref: 28161] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H. Howard Esq.r R.A. Engraved by I.C. Easling.
Published Feb.y 2. 1812, by Rob.t Cribb & Son, 288 High Holborn.
Mezzotint, very rare. 433 x 292mm. 17 x 11½". Trimmed under platemark.
A little girl with short hair kneeling on the sea-shore, directed to right, holding up her apron full of shells with her left hand, holding a shell to her left ear with the other and looking towards the viewer.
[Ref: 28161] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[W.m Kirby].](jpegs/57855.jpg)
[W.m Kirby].
T. H. Maguire. 1850. [etched in plate]
M & N Hanhart. Imp.t.
Lithograph on octagonal chine collé. Sheet: 615 x 445mm (24¼ x 17½"). Large margins. Foxing
A seated half length portrait of reverend William Kirby (1759-1850) after the oil painting by Henry Howard. Kirby was an esteemed entomologist and county rector in Suffolk. After campaigning for the founding of such an institution since 1791 Kirby was the first president of the Ipswich Museum, serving 1847-50.
Wellcome: 1597-4
[Ref: 57855] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
T. H. Maguire. 1850. [etched in plate]
M & N Hanhart. Imp.t.
Lithograph on octagonal chine collé. Sheet: 615 x 445mm (24¼ x 17½"). Large margins. Foxing
A seated half length portrait of reverend William Kirby (1759-1850) after the oil painting by Henry Howard. Kirby was an esteemed entomologist and county rector in Suffolk. After campaigning for the founding of such an institution since 1791 Kirby was the first president of the Ipswich Museum, serving 1847-50.
Wellcome: 1597-4
[Ref: 57855] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[France.] Général Pichegru.](jpegs/33011.jpg)
[France.] Général Pichegru.
C.H. Hodges, ad vivum Pinxit et Fecit.
J. Allart Excudit 1795.
Very rare mezzotint. 420 x 305mm (16½ x 12"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left edge, crease in top left corner.
Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804), a French soldier who briefly served in the American Revolutionary War, and rose through the ranks to become commander-in-chief of Revolutionary France's army of the Rhine-and-Moselle. Under his leadership Belgium and the Netherlands were overrun. However, despite coming from peasant stock, he was suspected of conspiring against the Directory in 1795 and fell from grace. In 1797 he planned the Coup of 18 Fructidor, but was arrested and deported to Cayenne. In 1803 he tried to start a Royalist uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte, but was betrayed, arrested and strangled in his prison cell.
[Ref: 33011] £380.00
C.H. Hodges, ad vivum Pinxit et Fecit.
J. Allart Excudit 1795.
Very rare mezzotint. 420 x 305mm (16½ x 12"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left edge, crease in top left corner.
Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804), a French soldier who briefly served in the American Revolutionary War, and rose through the ranks to become commander-in-chief of Revolutionary France's army of the Rhine-and-Moselle. Under his leadership Belgium and the Netherlands were overrun. However, despite coming from peasant stock, he was suspected of conspiring against the Directory in 1795 and fell from grace. In 1797 he planned the Coup of 18 Fructidor, but was arrested and deported to Cayenne. In 1803 he tried to start a Royalist uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte, but was betrayed, arrested and strangled in his prison cell.
[Ref: 33011] £380.00
![[Sculpture head.]](jpegs/62404.jpg)
[Sculpture head.]
H. Howard, A. delin. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1809.]
Engraving with etching, printed in dark brown ink. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"), with very large margins.
From 'Specimens of Antique Sculptures, Ægyptyan, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: selected from different collections in Great Britain'
[Ref: 62404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
H. Howard, A. delin. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1809.]
Engraving with etching, printed in dark brown ink. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"), with very large margins.
From 'Specimens of Antique Sculptures, Ægyptyan, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: selected from different collections in Great Britain'
[Ref: 62404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![Night. Royal York Hotel. Toronto. [In pencil.]](jpegs/47063.jpg)
Night. Royal York Hotel. Toronto. [In pencil.]
W.A. Howard. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Aquatint. Plate: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6") very large margins. Cockling.
A view of the large Royal York Hotel, now the Fairmont York Hotel, in Toronto which opened in 1929.
[Ref: 47063] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
W.A. Howard. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Aquatint. Plate: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6") very large margins. Cockling.
A view of the large Royal York Hotel, now the Fairmont York Hotel, in Toronto which opened in 1929.
[Ref: 47063] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Mrs. Sarah Trimmer. From an original Picture by H. Howard, Esq. R.A. in the Possession of Joshua Kirby Trimmer, Esq.
Drawn by J. Jackson, Engraved by E. Scriven.
Published Dec. 26, 1812 by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple, platemark 380 x 315mm (15 x 12½") very large margins.
Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), author and educationist. The only child of artist Joshua Kirby and his wife Sarah Bull, Trimmer was raised in London where her father's acquaintances included Hogarth, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Initially concerned with the education of her own children, Trimmer went on to establish a Sunday School in Old Brentford where she lived, and a weekday school of industry for girls. She published widely, including children's books and volumes on educational methods, many of which continued to be reprinted after her death as she exerted a strong influence in the early nineteenth century. Engraving after the portrait by Henry Howard now in the National Portrait Gallery. Trimmer, a devout evangelical Anglican, rests her left arm on the Bible.
[Ref: 44144] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by J. Jackson, Engraved by E. Scriven.
Published Dec. 26, 1812 by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple, platemark 380 x 315mm (15 x 12½") very large margins.
Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), author and educationist. The only child of artist Joshua Kirby and his wife Sarah Bull, Trimmer was raised in London where her father's acquaintances included Hogarth, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Initially concerned with the education of her own children, Trimmer went on to establish a Sunday School in Old Brentford where she lived, and a weekday school of industry for girls. She published widely, including children's books and volumes on educational methods, many of which continued to be reprinted after her death as she exerted a strong influence in the early nineteenth century. Engraving after the portrait by Henry Howard now in the National Portrait Gallery. Trimmer, a devout evangelical Anglican, rests her left arm on the Bible.
[Ref: 44144] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
His Serene Highness, William V, Prince of Orange and Nassau, etc. [&] Her Royal Highness Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange and Nassau, etc.
Painted & Engraved by H.G Does.
London, Published June 12. 1799 by A. Milne Tottenham court road.
A pair of mezzotints, 18th century watermark, 465 x 340mm (18¼ x 13½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear going into the image slightly in Frederica at top.
Half length portraits in ovals of William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), and Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). They married on 4th October 1767.
[Ref: 60428] £520.00 view all images for this item
Painted & Engraved by H.G Does.
London, Published June 12. 1799 by A. Milne Tottenham court road.
A pair of mezzotints, 18th century watermark, 465 x 340mm (18¼ x 13½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear going into the image slightly in Frederica at top.
Half length portraits in ovals of William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), and Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). They married on 4th October 1767.
[Ref: 60428] £520.00 view all images for this item