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![[Sir John Bell.]](jpegs/12329.jpg)
[Sir John Bell.]
Painted by John Lucas, Esq.r Engraved by Henry Cousins Esq.r
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Nov.r 1st 1856, Printsellers to the Queen_ 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 560 x 420mm. 22 x 16½". Limited to 100 signed proofs. Light foxing outside image. Printsellers Association blindstamp and signature facsimile bottom right.
A very rare portrait of Sir John Bell (1782-1876). Bell was engaged in most of the celebrated actions of the Peninsular War and was awarded the gold cross. He also served in the Anglo-American war in Louisiana from 1814-5. From 1848-54 he was lieutenant-governor of Guernsey.
[Ref: 12329] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by John Lucas, Esq.r Engraved by Henry Cousins Esq.r
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Nov.r 1st 1856, Printsellers to the Queen_ 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 560 x 420mm. 22 x 16½". Limited to 100 signed proofs. Light foxing outside image. Printsellers Association blindstamp and signature facsimile bottom right.
A very rare portrait of Sir John Bell (1782-1876). Bell was engaged in most of the celebrated actions of the Peninsular War and was awarded the gold cross. He also served in the Anglo-American war in Louisiana from 1814-5. From 1848-54 he was lieutenant-governor of Guernsey.
[Ref: 12329] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
George P. Bidder, Esqre.
Painted & Engraved by John Lucas. Proof.
London: Published January 1st. 1848, By Henry Graves & Compy. Printsellers To The Queen & H.R.R. Prince Albert, 6.Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 518 x 360mm.
George Parker Bidder (1806-1878).was the son of a stonemason and born at Mortonhampstead in Devon. While still a young child his father took him to local fairs and then around the country showing off his mathematical skills where he earned a good living. In 1819 he came to the attention of Sir Henry Jardine and was tutored privately, by 1820 he was attending Edinburgh University. He settled in Lambeth and became a very successful engineer.
[Ref: 3964] £320.00
Painted & Engraved by John Lucas. Proof.
London: Published January 1st. 1848, By Henry Graves & Compy. Printsellers To The Queen & H.R.R. Prince Albert, 6.Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 518 x 360mm.
George Parker Bidder (1806-1878).was the son of a stonemason and born at Mortonhampstead in Devon. While still a young child his father took him to local fairs and then around the country showing off his mathematical skills where he earned a good living. In 1819 he came to the attention of Sir Henry Jardine and was tutored privately, by 1820 he was attending Edinburgh University. He settled in Lambeth and became a very successful engineer.
[Ref: 3964] £320.00
![[Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery]](jpegs/43535.jpg)
[Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery]
L: Cranach pinx: Nep: Strixner del. 1819
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 475 x 645mm (18¾ x 25½"). Foxing.
Large lithograph by Johann Neopomuk Strixner after Lucas Cranach the Elder, from the series 'Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck'.
[Ref: 43535] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
L: Cranach pinx: Nep: Strixner del. 1819
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 475 x 645mm (18¾ x 25½"). Foxing.
Large lithograph by Johann Neopomuk Strixner after Lucas Cranach the Elder, from the series 'Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck'.
[Ref: 43535] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[John Ellis.]](jpegs/39247.jpg)
[John Ellis.]
[Engraved by Samuel Bellin after John Lucas.]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. Platemark: 815 x 510mm (32 x 20"). Small tears to lower edge of sheet in margin.
John Ellis (1789-1862), Quaker, businessman and liberal reformer. He was Chairman of the Midland Railway 1849-58 and MP for Leicester between 1848-52. He attended the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London and was included in Benjamin Robert Haydon's painting of the event, now in the NPG.
Ex collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The original painting is in the National Railway Museum
[Ref: 39247] £480.00
[Engraved by Samuel Bellin after John Lucas.]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. Platemark: 815 x 510mm (32 x 20"). Small tears to lower edge of sheet in margin.
John Ellis (1789-1862), Quaker, businessman and liberal reformer. He was Chairman of the Midland Railway 1849-58 and MP for Leicester between 1848-52. He attended the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London and was included in Benjamin Robert Haydon's painting of the event, now in the NPG.
Ex collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The original painting is in the National Railway Museum
[Ref: 39247] £480.00
![[Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel.]](jpegs/37780.jpg)
[Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel.]
[Engraved by R. Grave after Lucas Vorsterman.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. 120 x 95mm (4¾ 3¾"). Old ink mss. title over lower plate.
Saint Philip Howard (1557-95), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, famed for his supposed last words: 'Tell Her Majesty if my religion be the cause for which I suffer, sorry I am that I have but one life to lose'.
[Ref: 37780] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by R. Grave after Lucas Vorsterman.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. 120 x 95mm (4¾ 3¾"). Old ink mss. title over lower plate.
Saint Philip Howard (1557-95), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, famed for his supposed last words: 'Tell Her Majesty if my religion be the cause for which I suffer, sorry I am that I have but one life to lose'.
[Ref: 37780] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Ionnes. Hus. Anno Ætatis 40. Credo Unam Esse Ecclesiam Sanctum Catholica.
[René Boyvin.]
[n.d., c.1580.]
Engraving. Sheet: 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet, small nick in left side and a tear in the bottom right corner.
A profile portrait of Czech priest, philosopher and dean of Charles University of Prague, Jan Hus (1369-1415) who was a seminal figure of the Bohemian Reformation and a key predecessor of Prostestantism. The print is engraved by influential French engraver René Boyvin (1525-1598 or 1625/6) who was born in Angers and was an important figure in the diffusion of the style of the Fontainebleau school.
[Ref: 45662] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[René Boyvin.]
[n.d., c.1580.]
Engraving. Sheet: 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet, small nick in left side and a tear in the bottom right corner.
A profile portrait of Czech priest, philosopher and dean of Charles University of Prague, Jan Hus (1369-1415) who was a seminal figure of the Bohemian Reformation and a key predecessor of Prostestantism. The print is engraved by influential French engraver René Boyvin (1525-1598 or 1625/6) who was born in Angers and was an important figure in the diffusion of the style of the Fontainebleau school.
[Ref: 45662] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
The Sea Coastes of the landes of Poyctou and Bordeaux eue as they shew and appeare, when you sayle there alongst betweene Picquelier and the River of Bordeaux called the Garonne.
Theodor de Bry sculp: [after Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer.]
[London: J. Charlewood, 1588.]
Engraved map with old hand colour, English text on reverse. 330 x 510mm (13 x 20"). Some old ink and pencil annotations, pinhole in centre of compass rose.
An early sea chart of the coast of France from Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez south to the mouth of the Garonne, with the Ile de Ré and Oleron. An English letterpress text on verso gives sailing directions. One of the first maps to be engraved in England (albeit by a German engraver), it has all the features of the golden age of decorative cartography: a compass rose, strapwork cartouches for the title and scale, galleons and a seamonster. The manuscript includes corrections to rhumb lines and due north. This is a plate from the extremely scarce single English editon of Waghenaer's sea atlas, the 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt', the first printed atlas of sea charts. Commissioned by Sir Christopher Hatton, Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, the charts were copied by engravers including by De Bry, Jodocus Hondius, Augustine Ryther, and Johannes Rutlinger, and were published in London as 'The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, sounding, flouds and ebs ... of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe', the year of the Spanish Armada. It has been suggested that the circulation was limited to the most trusted English sea captains. A second edition of the plate was published in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, who engraved Dutch titles onto it.
[Ref: 45598] £2,000.00 view all images for this item
Theodor de Bry sculp: [after Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer.]
[London: J. Charlewood, 1588.]
Engraved map with old hand colour, English text on reverse. 330 x 510mm (13 x 20"). Some old ink and pencil annotations, pinhole in centre of compass rose.
An early sea chart of the coast of France from Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez south to the mouth of the Garonne, with the Ile de Ré and Oleron. An English letterpress text on verso gives sailing directions. One of the first maps to be engraved in England (albeit by a German engraver), it has all the features of the golden age of decorative cartography: a compass rose, strapwork cartouches for the title and scale, galleons and a seamonster. The manuscript includes corrections to rhumb lines and due north. This is a plate from the extremely scarce single English editon of Waghenaer's sea atlas, the 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt', the first printed atlas of sea charts. Commissioned by Sir Christopher Hatton, Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, the charts were copied by engravers including by De Bry, Jodocus Hondius, Augustine Ryther, and Johannes Rutlinger, and were published in London as 'The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, sounding, flouds and ebs ... of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe', the year of the Spanish Armada. It has been suggested that the circulation was limited to the most trusted English sea captains. A second edition of the plate was published in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, who engraved Dutch titles onto it.
[Ref: 45598] £2,000.00 view all images for this item
Johnson and Boswell. To Sir W. Temple 1871 Broadlands. R.C. Lucas. 'Mrs Boswell who was one of the large class with small minds said that she had seen a man lead a bear but she never a bear lead a man until she saw Dr Johnson and her husband'. This class is still a vast majority. A lady refused to inspect my Johnson designs, saying the doctor nor his works were prett subjects for which I have given her the nightmare making the doctor and his books her incubus.
R.C. Lucas sculptor 1865
Etching printed in blue ink, with very large margins; rare; 180 x 270mm (7 x 10½").
Humorous scene apparently etched by the sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas (1800-83). Lucas' works included a statue of Dr Johnson in Lichfield, adjacent to the cathedral, and here he combines two jokes. The first is a depiction of Johnson leading Boswell by the nose; second is a parody of Fuseli's 'Nightmare' in which a woman of Lucas' acquaintance is haunted by his sculpture of Johnson (who she considered unfit as a subject for art). The print is seemingly dedicated to William Francis Cowper-Temple (1811-80), politician. Cowper inherited many of Lord Palmerstone's estates, including Broadlands, at Romsey. Lucas himself was a regular guest at Broadlands.
CS 16.i; Ex: collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 36367] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
R.C. Lucas sculptor 1865
Etching printed in blue ink, with very large margins; rare; 180 x 270mm (7 x 10½").
Humorous scene apparently etched by the sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas (1800-83). Lucas' works included a statue of Dr Johnson in Lichfield, adjacent to the cathedral, and here he combines two jokes. The first is a depiction of Johnson leading Boswell by the nose; second is a parody of Fuseli's 'Nightmare' in which a woman of Lucas' acquaintance is haunted by his sculpture of Johnson (who she considered unfit as a subject for art). The print is seemingly dedicated to William Francis Cowper-Temple (1811-80), politician. Cowper inherited many of Lord Palmerstone's estates, including Broadlands, at Romsey. Lucas himself was a regular guest at Broadlands.
CS 16.i; Ex: collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 36367] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Illustrissimus ... Comes, Dn. Walter Leslie, S. Romani Imperii Comes ... Camerarius Equitum Et Peditum Dux, Excubitorum Centurio.
Lucas Kilian, Aug. ad vivum delineavit et sculpsit, 1637.
Engraving, 235 x 160mm. 9¼ x 6¼". Glued to album page at left.
Walter Leslie, Count Leslie (1606 - 1667), army officer, mercenary and diplomat. In oval frame with military equipment below. By Lucas Kilian (1579 - 1637), painter, draughtsman and engraver at Augsburg.
[Ref: 9010] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Lucas Kilian, Aug. ad vivum delineavit et sculpsit, 1637.
Engraving, 235 x 160mm. 9¼ x 6¼". Glued to album page at left.
Walter Leslie, Count Leslie (1606 - 1667), army officer, mercenary and diplomat. In oval frame with military equipment below. By Lucas Kilian (1579 - 1637), painter, draughtsman and engraver at Augsburg.
[Ref: 9010] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Birth-Place of the Locomotive. Killingworth Colliery.
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by F Holl and C Mottram.
London, Published August 30th 1862 by Henry Graves and Co, The Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen _ 6 Pall Mall.
Stipple & engraving. 780 x 650mm, 30¾ x 25½". Contemporary frame. Some burn from backboard. Unexamined out of frame.
A group of villagers outside 'Sundial Cottage', George Stephenson's home at Killingworth Colliery, where he built his first steam locomotive, the 'Blücher', in 1814. A basic locomotive can be seen outside the cottage, and a more advanced model crosses the stone bridge in the far background, representing the North-Eastern Line to Scotland. The group is discussing Stephenson: one woman reads the 'London Journal', containing Stephenson's portrait and a man holds a 'Geordie' lamp, Stephenson's safety-lamp for miners. Derived from a diminutive form of the inventor's name, it is said that the name lead to Tyneside miners also being called Geordies.
[Ref: 24864] £480.00
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by F Holl and C Mottram.
London, Published August 30th 1862 by Henry Graves and Co, The Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen _ 6 Pall Mall.
Stipple & engraving. 780 x 650mm, 30¾ x 25½". Contemporary frame. Some burn from backboard. Unexamined out of frame.
A group of villagers outside 'Sundial Cottage', George Stephenson's home at Killingworth Colliery, where he built his first steam locomotive, the 'Blücher', in 1814. A basic locomotive can be seen outside the cottage, and a more advanced model crosses the stone bridge in the far background, representing the North-Eastern Line to Scotland. The group is discussing Stephenson: one woman reads the 'London Journal', containing Stephenson's portrait and a man holds a 'Geordie' lamp, Stephenson's safety-lamp for miners. Derived from a diminutive form of the inventor's name, it is said that the name lead to Tyneside miners also being called Geordies.
[Ref: 24864] £480.00
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![[Les Jeunes Pêcheurs.]](jpegs/3965.jpg)
[Les Jeunes Pêcheurs.]
P.Lucas. Alfred Bramtot 1892.
Photogravure. 400 x 500mm.
Children fishing from a punt. With a remarque of ducks in the lower margin. The title is anotated in pencil underneath.
[Ref: 3965] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
P.Lucas. Alfred Bramtot 1892.
Photogravure. 400 x 500mm.
Children fishing from a punt. With a remarque of ducks in the lower margin. The title is anotated in pencil underneath.
[Ref: 3965] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Dr. Martin Luther "Hier siehe ich, ich kann nicht anders, Gott helfe mir! Amen" [...]
Lucas Cranach Pinxt Fr. Muller Sculp.t
Inst. Bibl. Excud.t
Line engraving, platemark approx. 520 x 400mm (20½ x 15¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
Martin Luther (1483-1546), theologian whose writings inspired the Protestant Reformation. In 1517 he famously published his '95 theses' attacking papal abuses and the sale of indulgences. Excommunicated by the Catholic church and declared a heretic, Luther's ideas were the foundation of a new conception of Christianity. He also translated the Bible into German to make it accessible to a larger number of people, contributing to the growth of the German language in the process. Engraving supposedly after Cranach, although far more in the idiom of the nineteenth century than Cranach's portraits of Luther.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47077] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Lucas Cranach Pinxt Fr. Muller Sculp.t
Inst. Bibl. Excud.t
Line engraving, platemark approx. 520 x 400mm (20½ x 15¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
Martin Luther (1483-1546), theologian whose writings inspired the Protestant Reformation. In 1517 he famously published his '95 theses' attacking papal abuses and the sale of indulgences. Excommunicated by the Catholic church and declared a heretic, Luther's ideas were the foundation of a new conception of Christianity. He also translated the Bible into German to make it accessible to a larger number of people, contributing to the growth of the German language in the process. Engraving supposedly after Cranach, although far more in the idiom of the nineteenth century than Cranach's portraits of Luther.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47077] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Maximilian I] Maximilianus Austriacus, Ducta Maria, Uniti Belgii Hærede Unica,](jpegs/50060.jpg)
[Maximilian I] Maximilianus Austriacus, Ducta Maria, Uniti Belgii Hærede Unica, Comes XXXIIIus...
Lucas van Laÿden pinx. Corn. Visscher Sculp.
[Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, c.1650.]
Etching. Sheet 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Trimmed into printed border, laid on album paper.
Maximilian I (1459-1519), King of the Romans and King of the Germans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death. From 'Principes Hollandiæ, Zelandiæ, et Frisiæ' (Counts and Countesses of Holland, Zeeland and West-Frisia).
[Ref: 50060] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Lucas van Laÿden pinx. Corn. Visscher Sculp.
[Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, c.1650.]
Etching. Sheet 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Trimmed into printed border, laid on album paper.
Maximilian I (1459-1519), King of the Romans and King of the Germans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death. From 'Principes Hollandiæ, Zelandiæ, et Frisiæ' (Counts and Countesses of Holland, Zeeland and West-Frisia).
[Ref: 50060] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
![[Germany] Melanchthon.](jpegs/31795.jpg)
[Germany] Melanchthon.
1532. [Monogram of Lucas Cranach the Elder.]
[Munich: J. Stuntz, c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½").
Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt, 1497-1560), a German reformer who collaborated with Martin Luther. The painter, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, a supporter of the Protestant Reformation and Friend of Luther. This print was published in 'Les Oeuvres Lithographiques', a huge series of reproductive plates of paintings, by Johann Nepomuk Strixner (1782 - 1855) and Ferdinand Piloty (1786-1844). Their work did much to popularise lithography, as they showed the technique could achieve all the same effects as other engraving techniques.
[Ref: 31795] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
1532. [Monogram of Lucas Cranach the Elder.]
[Munich: J. Stuntz, c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½").
Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt, 1497-1560), a German reformer who collaborated with Martin Luther. The painter, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, a supporter of the Protestant Reformation and Friend of Luther. This print was published in 'Les Oeuvres Lithographiques', a huge series of reproductive plates of paintings, by Johann Nepomuk Strixner (1782 - 1855) and Ferdinand Piloty (1786-1844). Their work did much to popularise lithography, as they showed the technique could achieve all the same effects as other engraving techniques.
[Ref: 31795] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Piano and cello players.]](jpegs/52189.jpg)
[Piano and cello players.]
Seymour Lucas. Willie Heydemann [pencil signatures].
Copyright 1901. Published by Virtue & Company Limited, London.
Etching, signed by artist and engraver. 400 x 460mm (15¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Mint.
A period scene, the participants in 17th century Dutch dress.
[Ref: 52189] £360.00
Seymour Lucas. Willie Heydemann [pencil signatures].
Copyright 1901. Published by Virtue & Company Limited, London.
Etching, signed by artist and engraver. 400 x 460mm (15¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Mint.
A period scene, the participants in 17th century Dutch dress.
[Ref: 52189] £360.00
An Exact Map of the River Nile done by Mr. Lucas. The Draught of ye Pyramids taken exactly from Mr Greaves...The first Pyramid near Cairo...The Inside of the first Pyramid...The 2.d Pyramid...The 3d Pyramid...a Strange fly...Toaste a Monstrous fish Enemy of ye Crocodile...a Crocodile 25 foot long.
[Fielding Lucas.]
[n.d. c.1823.]
Coloured engraving. Plate 393 x 254mm. 15½ x 10". Trimmed to plate along upper and left-hand edge. Time stained.
Lucas' maps are noted for their carefully compiled information and neat presentation. Map Shows villages, towns and pyramids along the river Nile down to Cairo. Large inset at the bottom depicts pyramid and animal detail. An interesting map. From "Atlas geographus, or, A complete system of geography, ancient and modern…: illustrated with about 100 new maps, done by the latest observations".
[Ref: 24279] £130.00
[Fielding Lucas.]
[n.d. c.1823.]
Coloured engraving. Plate 393 x 254mm. 15½ x 10". Trimmed to plate along upper and left-hand edge. Time stained.
Lucas' maps are noted for their carefully compiled information and neat presentation. Map Shows villages, towns and pyramids along the river Nile down to Cairo. Large inset at the bottom depicts pyramid and animal detail. An interesting map. From "Atlas geographus, or, A complete system of geography, ancient and modern…: illustrated with about 100 new maps, done by the latest observations".
[Ref: 24279] £130.00
![[Johann Friedrich I, Elector and Duke of Saxony?] Quadro di Luca Kranach.](jpegs/56507.jpg)
[Johann Friedrich I, Elector and Duke of Saxony?] Quadro di Luca Kranach.
Loren. Lorenzi del, P. Ant. Pazzi sc.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 390 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"). Narrow margins, taped bottom left corner.
A man in a fur jacket with hat and a chain around his neck, which he grasps with one hand. The inscriptions state that this print was engraved by Pietro Antonio Pazzi from a drawing by Lorenzo Lorenzi, taken from a painting by Lucas Cranach. The BM identifies the sitter as Johann Friedrich I, Elector and Duke of Saxony, but there is little resemblence to existing paintings of the Duke by both Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472-1553) and the Younger (1515-86). These show him with narrower eyes and a prominent scar from his left temple to the base of his nose.
[Ref: 56507] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Loren. Lorenzi del, P. Ant. Pazzi sc.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 390 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"). Narrow margins, taped bottom left corner.
A man in a fur jacket with hat and a chain around his neck, which he grasps with one hand. The inscriptions state that this print was engraved by Pietro Antonio Pazzi from a drawing by Lorenzo Lorenzi, taken from a painting by Lucas Cranach. The BM identifies the sitter as Johann Friedrich I, Elector and Duke of Saxony, but there is little resemblence to existing paintings of the Duke by both Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472-1553) and the Younger (1515-86). These show him with narrower eyes and a prominent scar from his left temple to the base of his nose.
[Ref: 56507] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Samson Carrying Off the Gates of Gaza.
Designed and Engraved by Jas. G. S. Lucas
[probably published by J. Mc. Cormick, 62, Gracechurch Street, c.1830]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 235 x 285mm (9¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed around image and title, losing text; glued to backing sheet.
Samson carries the gates to the city of Gaza up to 'the hill that is in front of Hebron', after escaping from a planned ambush (see Judges 16:1-3). Engraving by James G. S. Lucas (1831-4, fl.), mezzotinter who usually engraved after John Martin, and artist whose influence is evident in this print by Lucas. No other artist is mentioned, but as Richard A. Burnett noted, 'Lucas rarely acknowledged the artsts whose work he had so shamelessly plagiarised, as is the case with his copies of Martin's 'Illustrations to the Bible'.
Campbell, 'John Martin: Visionary Printmaker', p.196.
[Ref: 39583] £320.00
Designed and Engraved by Jas. G. S. Lucas
[probably published by J. Mc. Cormick, 62, Gracechurch Street, c.1830]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 235 x 285mm (9¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed around image and title, losing text; glued to backing sheet.
Samson carries the gates to the city of Gaza up to 'the hill that is in front of Hebron', after escaping from a planned ambush (see Judges 16:1-3). Engraving by James G. S. Lucas (1831-4, fl.), mezzotinter who usually engraved after John Martin, and artist whose influence is evident in this print by Lucas. No other artist is mentioned, but as Richard A. Burnett noted, 'Lucas rarely acknowledged the artsts whose work he had so shamelessly plagiarised, as is the case with his copies of Martin's 'Illustrations to the Bible'.
Campbell, 'John Martin: Visionary Printmaker', p.196.
[Ref: 39583] £320.00
![Geo Stephenson [facsimile signature].](jpegs/3966.jpg)
Geo Stephenson [facsimile signature].
[Painted by J. Lucas. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.]
[Published by H. Graves & Co. 1849.]
Mixed method engraving, proof before letters. 810 x 520mm. Light age toning to paper.
Printed on india paper, from a picture belonging to the Institution of Civil Engineers. George Stephenson [1781 - 1848] commenced his working life as a cowherd, later working in coalpits. His mechanical mind was noticed by his employers and by 1812 he was an engine-wright earning 100 pounds a year. In 1813 he was commissioned to design a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway. He was to become instrumental in the construction of many of the English railways, hence his nickname 'the father of railways'.
[Ref: 3966] £520.00
[Painted by J. Lucas. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.]
[Published by H. Graves & Co. 1849.]
Mixed method engraving, proof before letters. 810 x 520mm. Light age toning to paper.
Printed on india paper, from a picture belonging to the Institution of Civil Engineers. George Stephenson [1781 - 1848] commenced his working life as a cowherd, later working in coalpits. His mechanical mind was noticed by his employers and by 1812 he was an engine-wright earning 100 pounds a year. In 1813 he was commissioned to design a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway. He was to become instrumental in the construction of many of the English railways, hence his nickname 'the father of railways'.
[Ref: 3966] £520.00
George Stephenson, Esq.r Standing on Chat-Moss.
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.
London Published May 23rd 1849, by Henry Graves & Comp.y Printsellers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 810 x 515mm (32 x 20"). Staining in margins.
Full-length portrait of George Stephenson (1781-1848), standing on the bog that threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. After attempts to dump spoil failed when it dissapated, Stephenson took advice from East Anglian marshland specialist Robert Stannard, and created a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone that could ''float'' over the moss. This revolutionaty solution can be seen behind Stephenson in this portrait.
[Ref: 48185] £480.00
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.
London Published May 23rd 1849, by Henry Graves & Comp.y Printsellers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 810 x 515mm (32 x 20"). Staining in margins.
Full-length portrait of George Stephenson (1781-1848), standing on the bog that threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. After attempts to dump spoil failed when it dissapated, Stephenson took advice from East Anglian marshland specialist Robert Stannard, and created a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone that could ''float'' over the moss. This revolutionaty solution can be seen behind Stephenson in this portrait.
[Ref: 48185] £480.00
![[Robert Stephenson, Esq.re M.P.]](jpegs/3968.jpg)
[Robert Stephenson, Esq.re M.P.]
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Sam.l Bellin.
[Henry Graves & Co., 1853.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before facsimile signature and title. 785 x 500mm. Printsellers' blindstamp. Some staining of edges.
Robert Stephenson FRS, 1803-1859, designer of the 'Rocket' steam engine (1829), Chief Engineer for the London and Birmingham Railway (1833-1838), Chief Engineer of the Britannia Bridge (1845).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3968] £650.00
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Sam.l Bellin.
[Henry Graves & Co., 1853.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before facsimile signature and title. 785 x 500mm. Printsellers' blindstamp. Some staining of edges.
Robert Stephenson FRS, 1803-1859, designer of the 'Rocket' steam engine (1829), Chief Engineer for the London and Birmingham Railway (1833-1838), Chief Engineer of the Britannia Bridge (1845).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3968] £650.00
![J.T. Tyrell [facsimile signature.]](jpegs/3969.jpg)
J.T. Tyrell [facsimile signature.]
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Charles Tompkins.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Dec.r 17th 1855; Printsellers to the Queen 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint on india, Printsellers' Association blindstamp. 680 x 420mm. Slight toning of margins.
Sir John Tyssen Tyrell (1795-1877), 2nd Bt, MP for Essex North 1832-57.
[Ref: 3969] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Charles Tompkins.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Dec.r 17th 1855; Printsellers to the Queen 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint on india, Printsellers' Association blindstamp. 680 x 420mm. Slight toning of margins.
Sir John Tyssen Tyrell (1795-1877), 2nd Bt, MP for Essex North 1832-57.
[Ref: 3969] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![Wm. V Fitz - Gerald [facsimile signature]](jpegs/8309.jpg)
Wm. V Fitz - Gerald [facsimile signature] The Right Honble. W. R. Vesey Fitz-Gerald. Engraved from the original picture presented to him by the inhabitants of Horsham and others, on his departure from England to assume the Governorship of Bombay.
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Saml. Bellin.
London Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 7 Haymarket, and Thomas Jull, Horsham, Decb. 12th. 1867.
Mixed-method engraving. 492 x 386mm. 19" 1/3 x 15¼".
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE PC (1818 – 28 June 1885) was a British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham. FitzGerald was an illegitimate child of William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He studied at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837. FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. During this time he served as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1866, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay and was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. On his return to Britain, he again served Horsham as MP from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner.
AP: 42. LP: 25. PSA.
[Ref: 8309] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Saml. Bellin.
London Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 7 Haymarket, and Thomas Jull, Horsham, Decb. 12th. 1867.
Mixed-method engraving. 492 x 386mm. 19" 1/3 x 15¼".
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE PC (1818 – 28 June 1885) was a British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham. FitzGerald was an illegitimate child of William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He studied at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837. FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. During this time he served as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1866, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay and was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. On his return to Britain, he again served Horsham as MP from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner.
AP: 42. LP: 25. PSA.
[Ref: 8309] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Vesey Fitzgerald]](jpegs/8313.jpg)
[William Vesey Fitzgerald]
[Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Saml. Bellin.]
[London Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 7 Haymarket, and Thomas Jull, Horsham, Decb. 12th. 1867.]
Mixed-method engraving on india. Proof before all letters. 521 x 407mm. 20½" x 16".
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE PC (1818 – 28 June 1885) was a British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham. FitzGerald was an illegitimate child of William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He studied at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837. FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. During this time he served as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1866, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay and was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. On his return to Britain, he again served Horsham as MP from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner
AP: 42. LP: 25. PSA.
[Ref: 8313] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Saml. Bellin.]
[London Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 7 Haymarket, and Thomas Jull, Horsham, Decb. 12th. 1867.]
Mixed-method engraving on india. Proof before all letters. 521 x 407mm. 20½" x 16".
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE PC (1818 – 28 June 1885) was a British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham. FitzGerald was an illegitimate child of William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He studied at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837. FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. During this time he served as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1866, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay and was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. On his return to Britain, he again served Horsham as MP from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner
AP: 42. LP: 25. PSA.
[Ref: 8313] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)