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A Cornish Hug. A Beau t'other Day made a Monkey like spring...[etc.]
J Nixon Del.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Etching, sheet 340 x 250mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate. Some stain spots.
A feisty female fish seller at Billingsgate market in the City of London exacts a unique revenge upon a man who has upset her stall - a "rib-squeezing hug". Social satire by John Nixon (c.1750 - 1818), amateur watercolourist and designer and maker of satirical prints. Also city trade merchant.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10827] £360.00
J Nixon Del.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Etching, sheet 340 x 250mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate. Some stain spots.
A feisty female fish seller at Billingsgate market in the City of London exacts a unique revenge upon a man who has upset her stall - a "rib-squeezing hug". Social satire by John Nixon (c.1750 - 1818), amateur watercolourist and designer and maker of satirical prints. Also city trade merchant.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10827] £360.00
Mrs: Hartley In the Character of Elfrida.
Painted by J. Nixon Member of the Royal Academy. Engraved by W: Dickinson.
London. Publish'd Jany.20th.1780.by Dickinson & Watson No.158.New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 283 x 225mm.
Elizabeth Hartley (née White) (1751-1824), actress, the original Elfrida in The Rev. William Mason's tragedy of that name. Her extreme beauty, and the truth and nature of her acting, attracted universal admiration, and caused her to rank the highest (as a female) in her profession, previous to the apppearance of Mrs Siddons. She was the very favourite subject of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and appears as the beautiful female in a number of his most celebrated pictures Two in particular are professed portraits of her called 'Mrs Hartley as Jane Shore' and 'Mrs Harley as a Raehante.
CS: 37-II.
[Ref: 4411] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by J. Nixon Member of the Royal Academy. Engraved by W: Dickinson.
London. Publish'd Jany.20th.1780.by Dickinson & Watson No.158.New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 283 x 225mm.
Elizabeth Hartley (née White) (1751-1824), actress, the original Elfrida in The Rev. William Mason's tragedy of that name. Her extreme beauty, and the truth and nature of her acting, attracted universal admiration, and caused her to rank the highest (as a female) in her profession, previous to the apppearance of Mrs Siddons. She was the very favourite subject of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and appears as the beautiful female in a number of his most celebrated pictures Two in particular are professed portraits of her called 'Mrs Hartley as Jane Shore' and 'Mrs Harley as a Raehante.
CS: 37-II.
[Ref: 4411] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee de Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris.
J.N. [John Nixon]
[c.1814]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, pt 1812 watermark; sheet 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Trimmed from larger sheet.
Scene of Parisian high life depicting Madame Romain, who presided over the Café des Mille Colonnes, renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors. Etching after John Nixon (who visited Paris in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), whose work has become an integral part of the popular vision of Regency Britain. This print was originally published on the same sheet as an etching of 'Madame Very Restaurateur. Palais Royal Paris'.
BM Satire 12410; for the two etchings together on uncut sheet see ref. 41132.
[Ref: 43842] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J.N. [John Nixon]
[c.1814]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, pt 1812 watermark; sheet 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Trimmed from larger sheet.
Scene of Parisian high life depicting Madame Romain, who presided over the Café des Mille Colonnes, renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors. Etching after John Nixon (who visited Paris in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), whose work has become an integral part of the popular vision of Regency Britain. This print was originally published on the same sheet as an etching of 'Madame Very Restaurateur. Palais Royal Paris'.
BM Satire 12410; for the two etchings together on uncut sheet see ref. 41132.
[Ref: 43842] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Bosky Magistrate. Custos. Nemo. Comes. Testis. Sus. Bosque. Canisque. rules for the Gender of Nouns. [...].
Drawn by J. Nixon E.s.q.r. Engraved by Zeigler.
London Pub. by Will.m Holland. No. 50. Oxford Str.t Nov.r 25. 1796.
Framed hand coloured etching. Printed area: 460 x 320mm. (18¼ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame. Some foxing to printed area.
The interior of a well-furnished room with an open door. By the fire (left) in an arm-chair is a magistrate. In his left hand is a glass spilling its contents, in his right a smoking tobacco-pipe. Beside him (right) is a table with books and writing-materials behind which sits his clerk, pen in mouth, spectacles on forehead, scrutinizing a group of three. On the wall over the clerk's head is a picture of an ass kicking over a statue of Justice.
BM Satires: 8910
[Ref: 31506] £520.00
Drawn by J. Nixon E.s.q.r. Engraved by Zeigler.
London Pub. by Will.m Holland. No. 50. Oxford Str.t Nov.r 25. 1796.
Framed hand coloured etching. Printed area: 460 x 320mm. (18¼ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame. Some foxing to printed area.
The interior of a well-furnished room with an open door. By the fire (left) in an arm-chair is a magistrate. In his left hand is a glass spilling its contents, in his right a smoking tobacco-pipe. Beside him (right) is a table with books and writing-materials behind which sits his clerk, pen in mouth, spectacles on forehead, scrutinizing a group of three. On the wall over the clerk's head is a picture of an ass kicking over a statue of Justice.
BM Satires: 8910
[Ref: 31506] £520.00
Maiden Speeches in the New Parliament of 1796.
J. Nixon Esq.r delin.
London, Pub by Will.m Holland, No 50, Oxford Str.t Feb 18 1797.
Etching with aquatint, printed in black and sepia. Sheet 420 x 315mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Caricatures of four new members of Parliament and their first speeches to the House of Commons, including a puritanical Scot.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 50685] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nixon Esq.r delin.
London, Pub by Will.m Holland, No 50, Oxford Str.t Feb 18 1797.
Etching with aquatint, printed in black and sepia. Sheet 420 x 315mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Caricatures of four new members of Parliament and their first speeches to the House of Commons, including a puritanical Scot.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 50685] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Maiden Speeches in the New Parliament of 1796.
J. Nixon Esq.r delin.
London, Pub by Will.m Holland, No 50, Oxford Str.t Feb 18 1797.
Etching with aquatint, printed in black and sepia. Sheet 420 x 315mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Caricatures of four new members of Parliament and their first speeches to the House of Commons, including one warning of probable invasion by Revolutionary France.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 50686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nixon Esq.r delin.
London, Pub by Will.m Holland, No 50, Oxford Str.t Feb 18 1797.
Etching with aquatint, printed in black and sepia. Sheet 420 x 315mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Caricatures of four new members of Parliament and their first speeches to the House of Commons, including one warning of probable invasion by Revolutionary France.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 50686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
A Medley of Characters. Plate 1. A Stick and Whip Seller in Belfast. Ascot Heath Races June 1791. Enfield Races Aug. 1791. [&] Plate 2. [&] Plate 3. An Irishwoman coming from Market. [&] Plate 4. At a Sale of Pictures. At a Concert.
Drawn by J. Nixon Esq.r. Engraved by Ziegler.
London, Pub. by Will.m Holland Cockspur Street [n.d., c.1805].
Rare set of four aquatints, printed in sepia. Each 280 x 605mm (11 x 23¾"), on Whatman paper, plate 2 dated 1805. All trimmed to plate at sides, plate 2 very small worm holes, nicks in edges, plate 3 with one caricature excised and taped back in place. All margins are tatty.
Four plates of caricature portraits, including several at horse races and a man playing a bassoon.
[Ref: 58411] £950.00 view all images for this item
Drawn by J. Nixon Esq.r. Engraved by Ziegler.
London, Pub. by Will.m Holland Cockspur Street [n.d., c.1805].
Rare set of four aquatints, printed in sepia. Each 280 x 605mm (11 x 23¾"), on Whatman paper, plate 2 dated 1805. All trimmed to plate at sides, plate 2 very small worm holes, nicks in edges, plate 3 with one caricature excised and taped back in place. All margins are tatty.
Four plates of caricature portraits, including several at horse races and a man playing a bassoon.
[Ref: 58411] £950.00 view all images for this item
![Bullerfield [Butterfield?] Swearing a Witness at the Old Bailey.](jpegs/62535.jpg)
Bullerfield [Butterfield?] Swearing a Witness at the Old Bailey.
[John Nixon.]
Pub Jany 1st 1796 by E & S Harding Pall Mall.
Stipple with etching. Sheet 150 x 220mm (6 x 8¾"). Trimmed close to image, corners snipped.
A satirical scene at the Central Criminal Court, with a clerk in wig and gown holding a bible for a witness.
Guildhall: q9820443. Not in BM.
[Ref: 62535] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[John Nixon.]
Pub Jany 1st 1796 by E & S Harding Pall Mall.
Stipple with etching. Sheet 150 x 220mm (6 x 8¾"). Trimmed close to image, corners snipped.
A satirical scene at the Central Criminal Court, with a clerk in wig and gown holding a bible for a witness.
Guildhall: q9820443. Not in BM.
[Ref: 62535] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Ryland a Dissenting Minister & School Master at Enfield Middlesex.
JN del.
Pub. by S. & E. Harding Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Plate: 230 x 150mm (9 x 6''), with large margins.
A portrait of Baptist minister and teacher John Ryland (1723-1792) shown reading at a table.
[Ref: 49133] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
JN del.
Pub. by S. & E. Harding Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Plate: 230 x 150mm (9 x 6''), with large margins.
A portrait of Baptist minister and teacher John Ryland (1723-1792) shown reading at a table.
[Ref: 49133] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Madame Very Restaurateur. Palais Royal Paris. La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee de Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris.
Rowlandson Scul. J.N. [John Nixon]
[London, Thomas Tegg, 1814 but later.]
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Two scenes of Parisian high life on one plate: above is Madame Very, the foremost restaurateur of the period; below is Madame Romain, who presided over the Café des Mille Colonnes, renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors. Usually the two scenes are found separately. John Nixon visited Paris in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon.
BM Satires 12409 & 12410.
[Ref: 41132] £320.00
Rowlandson Scul. J.N. [John Nixon]
[London, Thomas Tegg, 1814 but later.]
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Two scenes of Parisian high life on one plate: above is Madame Very, the foremost restaurateur of the period; below is Madame Romain, who presided over the Café des Mille Colonnes, renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors. Usually the two scenes are found separately. John Nixon visited Paris in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon.
BM Satires 12409 & 12410.
[Ref: 41132] £320.00