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J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates,
J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates, As a Cabinet for the Gentleman and curious Fancy Worker; or Pattern-book for the Coach Painter, Engraver, Jeweller, Sadler, Plater, Embroiderer, Modeller, &c. Being a Companion to his Book of Cyphers, Published by Mr. Bowles.
London, Published June 30, 1791, by John Lockington, Engraver, Saville Passage, near Hanover Square.
Oblong 4to, stitched with marbled paper covers, tatty and torn; engr. title and eleven plates, as called for. Some defects to plates.
Each plate c. 200 x 255mm.
[Ref: 3934]   £950.00  
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J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates,
J..Lockington's Book of Ornamented Crests, Engraved on Twelve Copper Plates, As a Cabinet for the Gentleman and curious Fancy Worker; or Pattern-book for the Coach Painter, Engraver, Jeweller, Sadler, Plater, Embroiderer, Modeller, &c. Being a Companion to his Book of Cyphers, Published by Mr. Bowles.
Published 1st. Jany. 1812. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet St. London.
Oblong 4to, limp boards; engr. title and eleven plates, as called for.
Each plate c. 200 x 255mm.
[Ref: 3935]   £1,250.00   view all images for this item
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George Bidder. The Calculating phenomenon of England.
George Bidder. The Calculating phenomenon of England. Who at eight years of age & having received no instruction ina rthmatic possessed the power of resolvin difficult arithmetical questions without hesitatin or shewing any appearance if mental operation Which power continues and improves. He was born at Morton Hampstead in Devonshire June 14.th. 1806.
Engraved July 1815 by Freeman from a picture by John King.
Stipple. Sheet: 155 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of George Bidder (1806-1878) who was exhibited by his father around the country on account of his fascinating mental skills. Thanks to an education provided by figures such as Sir J. Herschel and Sir H. Jardine, Bidder went on to be a successful engineer who worked alongside the Stephensons advising on the creation of the railways.
For a portrait of Bidder as an adult see ref: 3964. For another portrait of Bidder as a boy see ref: 31184.
[Ref: 35729]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The King George disabled, and other Privateers in chase, with the Appearance of His Majesty's Ship the Russell at the time the Dartmouth was blown up, engaging the Gloriosa Octr 9th 1748.
The King George disabled, and other Privateers in chase, with the Appearance of His Majesty's Ship the Russell at the time the Dartmouth was blown up, engaging the Gloriosa Octr 9th 1748.
Brooking Pinxt. Boydell Sculpt.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1753, & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver, at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside.
Engraving 465 x 330mm.
The Spanish 74-gun ship, 'Glorioso', was on her way to Cadiz from Ferrol, where she had landed treasure, when she was attacked by a number of English ships including the 'Royal family' squadron of privateers commanded by Commodore Walker. She was engaged by several ships of inferior force including Walker's privateer the 'King George', 32 guns, which kept up a close but unequal struggle for several hours, and the 'Dartmouth', 50 guns, which blew up. After a five-hour battle, the 'Glorioso' was finally captured by the 'Russell', 80 guns, which was returning half-manned from the Mediterranean. Charles Brooking (1723–59) Unde the patronage of Taylor White and commission from him for the Foundling Hosptial, Brooking became a most celebrated marine painter whose pupils may well have included Serres and Swaine.
Parker:51a.
[Ref: 978]   £350.00  
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A Calm.
A Calm.
Brooking Pinx.t. Jn.o Boydell Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t & sold by J. Boydell Engraver, at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside London 1754.
Engraving, 270 x 420mm (10¾ x 16½"). Trimmed to image at top, watercolour silhouette on reverse.
A seascape after Charles Brooking (1723-59) a martime artist known for his attention to detail. The National Maritime Museum Greenwich, holds 23 of his oils.
[Ref: 45282]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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A Calm.
A Calm.
Brooking Pinx. Jn.o Boydell Sculp. Publish'd according to the Act of Parliam.t & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside London 1754.
London, 1754.
Very fine hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 290 x 420mm (11½ x 16½"), large margins. Excellent condition.
A seascape of ships near a harbour.
[Ref: 55567]   £360.00  
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Evening.
Evening.
Brooking pinx. J. Boydell Sculp. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street in Cheapside London 1755. 55.
London, 1755.
Very fine hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 295 x 420mm (11½ x 16"), large margins on 3 sides. Tear in title area repaired with tape on reverse.
Seascape of naval ships near a coast. From a set of four, 'Morning', 'Noon', 'Evening' and 'Night' by John Boydell after Charles Brooking.
[Ref: 55566]   £360.00  
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[Old Folkestone.]
[Old Folkestone.] 75 Impressions only. Plate destroyed. [Separately printed title card.]
Verrall King [in pencil.]
Etching. Limited edition 48/75. 357 x 233mm. Plate destroyed.
[Ref: 14374]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Green Mountain Boys Gathering Materials for Paine's Celebrated Green Mountain Balm of Gilead and Cedar Plaster.
Green Mountain Boys Gathering Materials for Paine's Celebrated Green Mountain Balm of Gilead and Cedar Plaster. Universally acknowledged to be the best Plaster ever known. Compounded from the choicest Gum Resins of the Green Mountain State. Consisting of Balm of Gilead, Cedar, Hemlock, Spruce, Fir & etc., so combined as to produce a healthy counter irritant by disspating soreness and extracting the coagulated poisonous impurities of the system. It is unequalled in removing pain, internal inflammation, curing lameness, cramp, pains in the side, rheumatism, weak and lame backs, old sores, boils, corns, freezes, fresh wounds, burns, scalds, cracked hands and occasional sores of most kinds. It's medical properties and remedial action are immeasurably greater than those of any other plaster in use-no family should be without it. The price has been placed within reach of all
Forbes & Co. Lith. W.A. King Del.
Entered according to the act of congress in the year 1868 by M.K. Paine in the clerks office of the district court of the district of Vermont.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 500 x 415mm (19½ x 16¼"). Small tears to left edge of sheet. Marks to left edge. Impression marks to right edge. Bottom corners cut.
A broadside poster depicting a scene of men working in a Vermont forest making the cedar plaster that is "universally acknowledged to be the best plaster ever known." This broadside would have been a point of purchase advertising poster placed in apothecaries, drug stores and general stores selling wares and medicines.
[Ref: 32196]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Greenland Whale Fishery, Peche de la Baleine ala Cote du Groenland.
Greenland Whale Fishery, Peche de la Baleine ala Cote du Groenland.
Brooking Pinx.t. Wilson Sculp.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Platemark: 190 x 275mm (7½ x 10¾"). Large margins. Small holes in left margin.
Sailors in longboats hunting a whale, with three larger sailing vessels in the distance and some polar bears on the ice in the foreground to the left.
See Ref: 60511
[Ref: 35656]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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John Harrison.
John Harrison. From an Engraving by Tassaert; published in 1768, after a Painting by King. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Stipple engraving on steel. 266 x 179mm (10½ x 7"). Hole in the sky area.
John Harrison (c.1693-1776), clockmaker celebrated for his work in marine timekeeping. He was the maker of five innovative and ground-breaking timekeepers and perfected the chronometer, winning the prize for determining Longitude at sea in 1773. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 24815]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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John Harrison.
John Harrison. From an Engraving by Tassaert; published in 1768, after a Painting by King. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Stipple engraving on steel, printed on chine collé. 265 x 180mm (10½ x 7"), with wide margins.
John Harrison (c.1693-1776), clockmaker celebrated for his work in marine timekeeping, shown with a chronometer on a table behind. Harrison was the maker of five innovative and ground-breaking timekeepers and perfected the chronometer, winning the prize for determining Longitude at sea in 1773. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 52692]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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John Keeling Esq.r.
John Keeling Esq.r. One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
T. King pinx.t J.s M.cArdell fecit.
1756.
Rare mezzotint, plate 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small margins. Laid on archival paper, some loss in margins.
Half-length portrait of John Keeling (1682-1759), Brewer of Clerkenwell and judicial officer, wearing a coat unbuttoned over a waistcoat with an embroidered trim and a short white wig and holds a tricorn under his left arm.
CS 111.
[Ref: 59538]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lecture on Heads Embellished by Jn.o Lockington.
The Lecture on Heads Embellished by Jn.o Lockington. 'N° 1. This is one of those extraordinary personages termed Conquerors; and may be thought great like Alexander, he having been where ambition has destroyed numbers; as tho' mankind was only made to be cut to Pieces. Such we call a Hero, a Warrior, a General, or Mankiller. N° 2. This is the head of an Eastern Chief. The Chiefs of which place is under great Subjection of Lacks of Rupees and Berguders or else Deposed of their Crowns; Torn from their families or Starved by our Modern Conquerors: which has been the case lately, he is called Tulgagee Mahah Rajah. To be Continued.
London Published as the Act directs Mar.h 9 1786 by J.Lockington Engraver Saville Passage, Conduit Street, Hanover Square.
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 190mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
'No 1' is either the Duke of Richmond or Lord Amherst, the commander-in-chief in Canada. 'No.2' is Warren Hastings, who had been denounced by Edmund Burke the month before.
BM: 6922.
[Ref: 6877]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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[Anthony Maddox.]
[Anthony Maddox.] To long, unjust to our own country's cause, / On foreigners we wasted our applause, / On home-bred merit seldom known to smile, / Nor praise the product of our Native Isle. / But now each artist from abroad must yield, / And Mahomet to Maddox quits the field, / Who's form'd alike t'astonish & to please, / And adds to matchless skill a gracefull ease, / The sweetly smiling fair in crowds appear, / And love that art, they used to view with fear.
T. King Pinx.t. R. Houston Fecit.
Printed for & Sold by John Smith Map & Printseller at Hogarth's Head, in Cheapside, & Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of the entertainer Anthony Maddox, wearing a rich suit with an emboidered waistcoat, holding a straw. Maddox was a successful slack-wire acrobat: his signature trick was standing on the wire and passing the straw from his foot to his mouth, accounting for its inclusion here. He drowned in 1758 when 'The Dublin Trader' was wrecked off the Scottish coast en route to Dublin, along with his travelling companion, actor Theophilus Cibber, and Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda..
CS 75.
[Ref: 49848]   £490.00  
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The taking the Nuestra Senora de los Remedias,
The taking the Nuestra Senora de los Remedias, (alias La Ninfa) a Spanish Ship of 900 Tons, 32 Guns, & 300 Men, very Richly Laden, by the Royal Family Privateers, 5 February, 1746, off Cape St Marys.
Brooking Pinx.t. Boydell sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1753, & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside.
Engraving. 340 x 470mm (13½ x 18½"). Paper toned, laid down.
A Spanish ship about to be attacked by three British privateers, 'Prince Frederick'. 'Duke' and 'Prince George'. The ship was being taken back to England when it was wrecked in a storm off Beachy Head. In 1753 Boydell published a series of prints about the 'Royal Family', a fleet of privateers with ships named after the family of George II.
[Ref: 53220]   £580.00  
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Ships in Distress.
Ships in Distress.
Brooking pinx.t B.B. Godfrey sculp.t
Published 12.th April by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Coloured engraving. Plate 293 x 420mm. 11½ x 16½". Tatty margins.
Three ships in distress, trying to cope on a choppy, breezy sea with cliffs to the right.
[Ref: 24710]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Skeggs, In the Character of Seignor Bumbasto.
Skeggs, In the Character of Seignor Bumbasto.
Tho.s King pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
Sold by the proprietors M. Jackson the corner of Bride Court, in fleetstreet, & M. Skeggs at the Hoop and bunch of Grapes in St Albans Street. [London, c.1752.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Narrow margins, vertical crease on left. Laid down on card.
Portrait of Matthew Skeggs (d.1773), proprietor of the Hoop and Bunch of Grapes (a public house in St Albans Street). He also performed in a burlesque called 'Mother Midnight's Oratorio' at the Haymarket, in which he 'played' a concerto on a broomstick, making the sound of the instrument with his mouth. Horace Walpole saw the 'Oratorio' in 1752, calling it the 'lowest buffoonery in the world'.
Chaloner Smith: 111, iii of iii.
[Ref: 61543]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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A Small Breeze.
A Small Breeze.
Brooking Pinx.t Tho.s Boydell Sculp. Harvarden 1755. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament & Sold by Jn.o Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside London.
London, 1755.
Very fine hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 290 x 420mm (11½ x 16½"), large margins. Top margin trimmed to platemark.
A seascape of ships and sail boats under a clearing sky.
[Ref: 55568]   £360.00  
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Lodge in Twickenham meadows. 19.
Lodge in Twickenham meadows. 19.
C. King del.t
[n.d. c.1800]
Lithograph. Sheet. 254 x 337mm. 10" x 13¼".
A rustic scene on Twickenham Meadow. A woman hangs the washing on the line outside the back of the quaint cottage, whilst workers collect the hay.
[Ref: 9001]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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A Watch-Paper for Antiquaries.
A Watch-Paper for Antiquaries. This whimsical device is the representation of curious Key Stone in Chichester Cathedral...
April 24, 1809. Drawn and Engraved by King Drawing Master Chichester, of whom may be had Two Prints done by him from the historical paintings in the Cathedral.
Rare etching. 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½").
A circular key stone with six faces, each sharing their eyes with the face to the left and right. By Thomas Aylward King (1775-1845), an artist and engraver of Chichester.
See Ref: 58677 & 58675
[Ref: 58221]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Westminster Abbey] Westmonasteriensis Ecclesiæ conv: facies australis.
[Westminster Abbey] Westmonasteriensis Ecclesiæ conv: facies australis.
D. King delin et sculp.
[n.d., 1655.]
Etching on 17th century watermarked paper. 175 x 310mm (7 x 12¼"), with large margins. Slight central crease as normal.
An elevation of the south side of Westminster Abbey, drawn and engraved by Daniel King. According to Pennington, the title, dedication cartouche and King's signature are all by Wenceslas Hollar. An illustration from William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum'.
Pennington 1042b, first state of iv.
[Ref: 61220]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Greenland Fishery.
Greenland Fishery. 68.
Brooking Pinx. Boydell Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J Boydell, Engraver at the Unicorn ye corner of Queen Street Cheapside, London 1754.
Engraving. Plate: 295 x 420mm (11½ x 16½") large margins.
A scene in the seas off Greenland showing several British whaling boats, the water is full of rowing boats and in the foreground figures harpoon a whale. Polar bears watch from the ice in the forground. By the mid eighteenth century whaling off the coast of Greenland was a fully established enterprise with the South Sea Company funding many excursions to the Arctic.
[Ref: 46249]   £320.00  
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