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![[Alexander giving up his favourite mistress Campaspe to Apelles.]](jpegs/11897.jpg)
[Alexander giving up his favourite mistress Campaspe to Apelles.]
[W. Miller Pinxit. J. B. Michel Sculpsit.]
[Publish'd Mrch 1st 1786 by John Boydell, Cheapside, London.]
Stipple engraving, proof before letters. 390 x 330mm 15½ x 13".
Alexander the Great arranged for his favourite painter Apelles to sketch a nude of his first Greek mistress Campaspe. Famed painter Apelles was asked by Alexander the Great to make a portrait of his mistress Campaspe . He was so pleased with the painting that he said to the painter: You may take her, I prefer the painting. Apelles had fallen in love with the girl whom he was painting.
[Ref: 11897] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
[W. Miller Pinxit. J. B. Michel Sculpsit.]
[Publish'd Mrch 1st 1786 by John Boydell, Cheapside, London.]
Stipple engraving, proof before letters. 390 x 330mm 15½ x 13".
Alexander the Great arranged for his favourite painter Apelles to sketch a nude of his first Greek mistress Campaspe. Famed painter Apelles was asked by Alexander the Great to make a portrait of his mistress Campaspe . He was so pleased with the painting that he said to the painter: You may take her, I prefer the painting. Apelles had fallen in love with the girl whom he was painting.
[Ref: 11897] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
Alexander giving up his favorite mistress Campaspe to Apelles. To great Apelles when young Ammon brought The darling idol of his captive heart...Quitted his title to Campaspe's charms And gave the fair one to the friend's embrace.
Miller Pinxit. J.B. Michel Sculpsit.
John & Josiah Boydell ext. 1786. Publish'd March 1st. 1786, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London.
Stipple. Plate 325 x 395mm. 12¾ x 15½". Trimmed to the platemark along the bottom edge.
Alexander stands on the right and addresses Appeles, who is seated in front of his easel. Campaspe, seated on the chair to the left, is conversing with two women.
See BM: 1953,0214.35.
[Ref: 17036] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Miller Pinxit. J.B. Michel Sculpsit.
John & Josiah Boydell ext. 1786. Publish'd March 1st. 1786, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London.
Stipple. Plate 325 x 395mm. 12¾ x 15½". Trimmed to the platemark along the bottom edge.
Alexander stands on the right and addresses Appeles, who is seated in front of his easel. Campaspe, seated on the chair to the left, is conversing with two women.
See BM: 1953,0214.35.
[Ref: 17036] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
A View of the East Front of the Queens Palace, St James's Park.
James Miller del. T. Miller sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 15 1783 by T. Miller No.72 Long Acre.
Copper engraving, rare early issue. Image 355 x 535mm, 14 x 21". Extremities frayed and chipped; lacking upper margin. Damaged but very rare.
Scarce view of the east front of Buckingham House, Westminster, with figures strolling in the Park, dressed in the fashions of the day. This building formed the core of today's Buckingham Palace, a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and acquired by George III in 1761as a private residence. It was known as "The Queen's House". It was enlarged over the next 75 years, principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, forming three wings around a central courtyard. Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. James Miller (fl.1773 - 1814). The plate was reissued by Thomas Simpson in 1796.
Guildhall Library Record 20562. Crace XIII, 17.
[Ref: 23523] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
James Miller del. T. Miller sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 15 1783 by T. Miller No.72 Long Acre.
Copper engraving, rare early issue. Image 355 x 535mm, 14 x 21". Extremities frayed and chipped; lacking upper margin. Damaged but very rare.
Scarce view of the east front of Buckingham House, Westminster, with figures strolling in the Park, dressed in the fashions of the day. This building formed the core of today's Buckingham Palace, a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and acquired by George III in 1761as a private residence. It was known as "The Queen's House". It was enlarged over the next 75 years, principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, forming three wings around a central courtyard. Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. James Miller (fl.1773 - 1814). The plate was reissued by Thomas Simpson in 1796.
Guildhall Library Record 20562. Crace XIII, 17.
[Ref: 23523] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Inscribed by Permission to John Earl of Sandwich, &c. Who, with a condescension unparallel'd hath not only patronised the Author but to improve, & correct this Edition, hath procured from every part of the Kingdom, the most authentic Materials.
Ja.s Miller Del.t. Rob.t Hancoc[k].
[n.d., c.1799.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, with some loss of inscription.
An allegorical dedication page, with the dedication on the base of pillar with the arms of the Earl of Sandwich on a shield.
[Ref: 38848] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Ja.s Miller Del.t. Rob.t Hancoc[k].
[n.d., c.1799.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, with some loss of inscription.
An allegorical dedication page, with the dedication on the base of pillar with the arms of the Earl of Sandwich on a shield.
[Ref: 38848] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Generall Elliot. European Magazine.
Miller del.t W: Angus Sculp. From a Painting in the Possession of Mrs. Fuller his Daughter.
Published Oct.r 1. 1782, by J. Fielding, Paternoster Row, I. Sewell, Cornhill, & I. Debrett, Piccadilly.
Engraving. Plate 177 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, KB (1717-1790) was a British Army officer most notable for his command of the Gibraltar garrison during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. Eliott was educated at University of Leiden and studied artillery and other military subjects at the école militaire of La Fère in France. He served with the Prussian Army 1735-1736, and, in 1741, joined the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, of which his mother's brother, William Elliot of Wells, was then Lieutenant-Colonel, and of which Eliott was afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel. He served throughout the War of Austrian Succession 1742-1748, being wounded at the Battle of Dettingen and present at the Battle of Fontenoy. Eliott was made ADC from 1756-1759 to King George II. On 10 March 1759, he raised, and was appointed colonel of, the 1st Light Horse, and he distinguished himself in the German campaign, particularly the Battle of Minden. He was promoted to Major-General in 1759 and took part in the British expedition against Cuba in 1762, being 2nd-in-charge at the capture of Havana. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1765. From 1774 to 1775 he was Commander-in-Chief to Ireland, Governor of Londonderry and Culmore. On March 6, 1775, he became a Privy Counsellor, and on May 25, 1777 he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar, succeeding Robert Boyd, the acting Governor. He was promoted to General in 1778. The Great Siege of Gibraltar lasted from 1779 to 1783, and on January 8, 1783, the British Parliament sent official thanks to George Eliott and he was awarded the Knight of the Bath. By February 6, 1783, the siege was over. In 1787, he was created Lord Heathfield, Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, and in May of 1788 George was formally installed as Knight of the Bath.
[Ref: 20111] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Miller del.t W: Angus Sculp. From a Painting in the Possession of Mrs. Fuller his Daughter.
Published Oct.r 1. 1782, by J. Fielding, Paternoster Row, I. Sewell, Cornhill, & I. Debrett, Piccadilly.
Engraving. Plate 177 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, KB (1717-1790) was a British Army officer most notable for his command of the Gibraltar garrison during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. Eliott was educated at University of Leiden and studied artillery and other military subjects at the école militaire of La Fère in France. He served with the Prussian Army 1735-1736, and, in 1741, joined the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, of which his mother's brother, William Elliot of Wells, was then Lieutenant-Colonel, and of which Eliott was afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel. He served throughout the War of Austrian Succession 1742-1748, being wounded at the Battle of Dettingen and present at the Battle of Fontenoy. Eliott was made ADC from 1756-1759 to King George II. On 10 March 1759, he raised, and was appointed colonel of, the 1st Light Horse, and he distinguished himself in the German campaign, particularly the Battle of Minden. He was promoted to Major-General in 1759 and took part in the British expedition against Cuba in 1762, being 2nd-in-charge at the capture of Havana. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1765. From 1774 to 1775 he was Commander-in-Chief to Ireland, Governor of Londonderry and Culmore. On March 6, 1775, he became a Privy Counsellor, and on May 25, 1777 he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar, succeeding Robert Boyd, the acting Governor. He was promoted to General in 1778. The Great Siege of Gibraltar lasted from 1779 to 1783, and on January 8, 1783, the British Parliament sent official thanks to George Eliott and he was awarded the Knight of the Bath. By February 6, 1783, the siege was over. In 1787, he was created Lord Heathfield, Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, and in May of 1788 George was formally installed as Knight of the Bath.
[Ref: 20111] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
John Freeth,
Miller delin. Martin Sculp.
Publish'd Apl: 22d. 1788 as the Act directs, by Pearson & Rollason Birmingham.
Stipple, sheet 140 x 105mm. 5½ x 4¼". Trimmed to plate and glued to album page.
A rare portrait of John Freeth (1731 - 1808), political ballad writer and innkeeper. By 1768 Freeth had become landlord of the Leicester Arms, Birmingham, where he remained until his death in 1808. Freeth’s Coffee House, as the Leicester Arms was known, became one of the most celebrated taverns in England. It was Freeth’s custom to write songs setting his words to popular tunes about remarkable events in local and national news, and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House. The habit was profitable: it crowded the place with patrons, attracted eminent visitors, and, since Freeth wrote as a determined radical and Nonconformist, it created a political meeting-place. The interest aroused by his songs encouraged Freeth to publish them, and the words of nearly 400 songs appeared in more than a dozen collections between 1766 and 1805.
[Ref: 10489] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Miller delin. Martin Sculp.
Publish'd Apl: 22d. 1788 as the Act directs, by Pearson & Rollason Birmingham.
Stipple, sheet 140 x 105mm. 5½ x 4¼". Trimmed to plate and glued to album page.
A rare portrait of John Freeth (1731 - 1808), political ballad writer and innkeeper. By 1768 Freeth had become landlord of the Leicester Arms, Birmingham, where he remained until his death in 1808. Freeth’s Coffee House, as the Leicester Arms was known, became one of the most celebrated taverns in England. It was Freeth’s custom to write songs setting his words to popular tunes about remarkable events in local and national news, and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House. The habit was profitable: it crowded the place with patrons, attracted eminent visitors, and, since Freeth wrote as a determined radical and Nonconformist, it created a political meeting-place. The interest aroused by his songs encouraged Freeth to publish them, and the words of nearly 400 songs appeared in more than a dozen collections between 1766 and 1805.
[Ref: 10489] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Irish Great Elk.]](jpegs/33924.jpg)
[Irish Great Elk.] Skeleton of the great Elk, Cervus Gigantius Godfuss found in Marl under Peat, in Ireland and now in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society 10 feet 4 Inches high to the tip of the Horns.
[W. L. Miller?]
[n.d., c.1830]
Lithograph, very rare. Sheet: 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"). Some surface dirt.
An depiction of a skeleton of an Irish Elk, a species of megaloceros or 'giant deer' which became extinct during the last ice-age. Though the megaloceros is in fact a 'giant deer' the name 'Irish Elk' seems to have stuck due to the enormous quantity of specimens discovered in the peat bogs of Ireland. The Natural History Museum in Dublin currently houses three skeletons aquired in 1824, 1867 and 1877. In 1999 the species appeared on stamps issued for An Post along with serveral other extinct Irish animals.
[Ref: 33924] £360.00
[W. L. Miller?]
[n.d., c.1830]
Lithograph, very rare. Sheet: 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"). Some surface dirt.
An depiction of a skeleton of an Irish Elk, a species of megaloceros or 'giant deer' which became extinct during the last ice-age. Though the megaloceros is in fact a 'giant deer' the name 'Irish Elk' seems to have stuck due to the enormous quantity of specimens discovered in the peat bogs of Ireland. The Natural History Museum in Dublin currently houses three skeletons aquired in 1824, 1867 and 1877. In 1999 the species appeared on stamps issued for An Post along with serveral other extinct Irish animals.
[Ref: 33924] £360.00
Reference to the Swearing In of Alderman Newnham Lord Mayor on Nov.r 8th 1782.
[After William Miller.]
Published June 4th, 1801, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the S, Gallery, Pall Mall.
Etched key plate. 275 x 330mm. 10¾ x 13". Large margins.
Key plate to Benjamin Smith's stipple engraving of Miller's scene of the Lord Mayor of London swearing the Oath of Allegiance at the Guildhall, with a key of 120 people, including John Boydell, and other points of interest. Nathaniel Newnham (1742 - 1809), was sheriff of London 1775-6, Lord Mayor 1782-3, MP for London 1780-90, as well as being a joint-founder of the banking firm Everett & Co.
[Ref: 23650] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[After William Miller.]
Published June 4th, 1801, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the S, Gallery, Pall Mall.
Etched key plate. 275 x 330mm. 10¾ x 13". Large margins.
Key plate to Benjamin Smith's stipple engraving of Miller's scene of the Lord Mayor of London swearing the Oath of Allegiance at the Guildhall, with a key of 120 people, including John Boydell, and other points of interest. Nathaniel Newnham (1742 - 1809), was sheriff of London 1775-6, Lord Mayor 1782-3, MP for London 1780-90, as well as being a joint-founder of the banking firm Everett & Co.
[Ref: 23650] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Duomo de Milano.
Filippo Naymiller dis ed incise. Filippo Campi Acquer.
Milano presso Antonio Bossi Negoziante de Stampe Piazza del Duomo N. 4079. [n.d., c.1840.]
Fine aquatint. Sheet 400 x 510mm (15¾ x 20"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, some wear to bottom edge.
A fine impression of Milan Cathedral, begun by Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo in 1386 and officially completed in 1965!
[Ref: 52109] £380.00
Filippo Naymiller dis ed incise. Filippo Campi Acquer.
Milano presso Antonio Bossi Negoziante de Stampe Piazza del Duomo N. 4079. [n.d., c.1840.]
Fine aquatint. Sheet 400 x 510mm (15¾ x 20"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, some wear to bottom edge.
A fine impression of Milan Cathedral, begun by Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo in 1386 and officially completed in 1965!
[Ref: 52109] £380.00
John Wilkes Esqr. - Member of Parliament for Aylesbury Bucks. Great without Title, beyond fortune blef'd, Rich ev'n when plundered, honour'd, while opprefs'd, Lov'd without Youth, & follow'd without Power, At Home, tho exil'd; free, tho' m the Tower. Pope.
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, bottom right corner repaired.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
[Ref: 53550] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, bottom right corner repaired.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
[Ref: 53550] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
John Wilkes Esqr. - Member of Parliament for Aylesbury Bucks. Great without Title, beyond fortune blef'd, Rich ev'n when plundered, honour'd, while opprefs'd, Lov'd without Youth, & follow'd without Power, At Home, tho exil'd; free, tho' m the Tower. Pope.
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, creases.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
From McDonnell Collection
[Ref: 53489] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, creases.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
From McDonnell Collection
[Ref: 53489] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)