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[London Bridge.]
J.W. Jackson [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1910.]
Etching. Plate 147 x 175mm. 5¾" x 6?".
View of London Bridge from the South-side of the River looking towards Monument.
[Ref: 9231] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Macready, In the Character of King Henry 4th. "Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself." Shakespeare's King Henry IV. Part IId.
Drawn on Stone by Richard Lane from a Picture by John Jackson R.A.
London Pubd. by R. Ackermann. Strand May, 1824. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph. Image 263 x 213mm. 10½ x 8¼".
William Charles Macready (1793-1873), actor and theatre manager. He made his first appearance in Birmingham as Romeo in 1810 and acted with his father's company in the provinces. He first appeared at Covent Garden in 1816, becoming undisputed head of the theatre after his Richard III in 1819, until his retirement in 1851: a great Shakespearean and romantic actor.
[Ref: 12961] £110.00
(£132.00 incl.VAT)
[India] Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D.D.F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Calcutta.
Engraved by H.Meyer: from an original Drawing by J.Jackson.
Published Sep. 7, 1815, by T.Cadell & W.Davies, Strand, London.
Engraving. 375 x 330mm (14¾ x 13"). Some creasing on left side and time staining.
Portrait of Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (1769-1822), an Anglian Bishop, who became the first Bishop of Calcutta in 1814, this included not only India but also the entire territory of the British East India Company. Upon his arrival in India, he discovered that he was prohibited from ordaining "Natives of India," as all ordinations were conducted by the East India Company in London. In response, he established Bishop's College in Calcutta, which admitted British, Indian, and Anglo-Indian students, some of whom were eligible to pursue ordination. However, despite being designed to accommodate seventy students, the college had only enrolled eight students even fourteen years after its founding. He died in Calcutta of sunstroke on 8 July 1822.
[Ref: 66788] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[John Nichols, Esq. F.S.A. of Lon. Edin. & Perth. Born at Islington Feb.y 2 1744-5. Author of te History & Antiquities of the Count y of Leicester, in 7 Vols fol. 1795...]
J. Jackson Pinxit 1811 H. Meyer Sculpt. Proof.
Rare mezzotint, proof before publication; platemark 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½").
John Nichols (1745-1826), printer and writer. Beginning as an apprentice at Stationers' Hall, Nichols become proprietor of one of the largest printing houses in London when in 1777 his master William Bowyer died. Nichols' own reputation as an editor, biographer and antiquary grew with the expansion of his printing business: he published numerous historical and antiquarian volumes and was an eminent chronicler of the book trade. His reputation as an antiquarian and county historian rests largely on his 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester', while he was admired by contemporaries such as Boswell, Gibbon and Walpole for his intelligence and wit.
[Ref: 41418] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Rev.d Barnabas Shaw. Missionary to South Africa.
Painted by J. Jackson, R.A. Engraved by W.T. Fry.
By appointment of the Wesleyan Book Committee 14, City Road. [n.d. c.1860.]
Stipple. 215 x 120mm (8½ x 4¾"). Soiling.
Barnabas Shaw (1821-1902) was sent by the Missionary Committee to join his father in South Africa. His first appointment in Africa was to the Cape Town Circuit, from whence he removed to Raithby, where failure of voice began to trouble him.
[Ref: 28555] £40.00
(£48.00 incl.VAT)
John Thomas Smith, Late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, Author of Nollekens and his Times, Antient Topography, &c.&c.
Engraved by W. Skelton, from an Original Drawing by J. Jackson, Esqr. R.A.
Published as the Act directs, Decr.1883. by Molteno & Graves, 20, Pall Mall, and by M. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street.
Engraving on india laid paper, india 225 x 150mm. 9 x 6". Trimmed to india, small crease lower left-hand corner.
Bust portrait of John Thomas Smith (1766 - 1833), draughtsman and antiquary. His published work focuses almost entirely on London and its environs, and he was unusual for his time in that he recorded all strata of society. A pupil of Joseph Nollekens and the mezzotint engraver John Keyse Sherwin, Smith began his career as engraver and topographical draughtsman. His first publication, Antiquities of London and its Environs (1800), was followed by his major work Antiquities of Westminster (1807). In 1816, Smith became the keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, a position he held for the rest of his life. After John Jackson (1778 - 1831).
[Ref: 19041] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Rt. Honble. John Lord Sommers.
J. Richardson pinx. 1713. I. Smith fec.
Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. Image 342 x 252mm. 13½ x 10". Cut and laid on sheet. Some light spotting.
John Somers, Baron Somers (1651-1716). Somers was called to the Bar in 1676, and he combined his work as a barrister with involvement with Whig politics. He was at the centre of the Whig party in the twenty-five years following the revolution of 1688. Entering Parliament as an MP in 1689, Somers was made first Solicitor General and then Attorney General; he became William III's most confidential adviser. He served in a number of other senior government offices including Lord Keeper, Lord Chancellor and Lord President to the Council. Somers' legal abilities, constitutional achievements and his belief in religious toleration were extravagantly praised by Whig historians throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12870] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
David Wilkie, ESQ. R.A.
Engraved by H. Meyer, from an original Drawing by J. Jackson.
Published July 1. 1815, By T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple engraving 380 x 330mm (15 x 13"), J. Whatman 1813 watermarked paper; with large margins top and bottom, left and right decent margins.
Bust portrait of Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841). A Scottish painter. He was a pioneering genre painter and an original portraitist, and his scenes of Scottish peasant life won him much attention when he moved from Edinburgh to London in 1805. He was the friend of B.R. Haydon with whom he visited France in 1814. He was patronised by the Prince Regent and was made painter to King William IV, who later knighted him in 1836. His death on his return from India in 1841 was commemorated by Turner's painting, Burial at Sea.
[Ref: 59031] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Wilson.
Engraved by Cha.s Picart, from an Original Picture by J. Jackson, Esq.r R.A. in the Possession of Mr. Tho.s Welsh.
Published as the Act directs April 14.th 1821, by Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street.
Stipple and etching, with very large margins. Plate 330 x 253mm. 13 x 10".
Mary Anne Wilson (1802-1867) was a dramatic singer. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. See NPG: D37042. Harvard Vol.IV: p.279.7.
[Ref: 24073] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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