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William Adam Esq.
William Adam Esq. 2.nd Fifty.
Painted by John Opie R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, 1804.
Mezzotint. 655 x 455mm (25¾ x 18"), with large margins. Small printer's crease on face, others in background.
William Adam (1751-1839), Scottish barrister, politician and judge. He was the son of architect John Adam and nephew of Robert and James Adam. Through his friendship with the Prince of Wales William received the posts of Solicitor General for Scotland (1802-5), Attorney General to the Prince (1805-6), Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall (1806-15), Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer (1814-9), Privy Councillor (1815) and Lord Chief Commissioner of the Scottish jury court from 1815 until his death. Adam once shot Charles James Fox in a duel, although they became friends afterwards.
Whitman 4, state ii of ii.
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Thomas Adkin Esq.r
Thomas Adkin Esq.r Dedicated to Elizabeth Whitbread, By her most obliged and obedient humble Servant, Elizabeth Reynolds.
Painted by John Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by Elizabeth Reynolds.
Published Sept.r 1.1814, by E. Reynolds, 47, Poland Street, London.
A very rare mezzotint. 356 x 249mm (14 x 9¾"). Bit rubbed; small margins, false margins added.
Thomas Adkin (1760-1809fl.), of Downham Market, Norfolk. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he acquired a reputation as a roisterer, and was afterwards a close friend of Lord Grey and Samuel Whitbread.
NPG: D7174.
[Ref: 24368]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Pam, Flush and Loo.
Pam, Flush and Loo.
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by H. Meyer, 3 Red Lion Square.
Engraved from the original Picture in the possession of W. Owen R.A. 1825.
Stipple, very rare. Sheet size: 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Trimmed at top and bottom inside platemarks.
A scene depicting two young women and a boy playing cards at a table, with a curtain behind to the right, and a landscape in the left background. Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking card game, considered a modification of the game of 'All Fours', another English game possibly of Dutch origin.
[Ref: 34612]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Discovery or the angry Father.
The Discovery or the angry Father.
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Ward, Painter & Engraver to H.R.H. the Princ[e of Wales.]
London Published Sept.r 25th 1809, by R. Lambe, 39, Fleet Street.
Large mezzotint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 745 x 545mm (29¼ x 21½") very large margins. Trimmed within plate, bottom right corner of inscription rebuilt.
A father discovers his daughter's love letters.
CS 38. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
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[The Freeing of Amoret]
[The Freeing of Amoret]
[Francesco Bartolozzi after John Opie, 1792]
Stipple, sheet 505 x 410mm (19¾ x 16¼") Proof before letters; trimmed to platemark; uncleaned edges. Slight crease top right margin.
A dramatic & fine image of Britomart freeing Amoret from the enchanter Busirane. Illustration to Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queen' published in 'Macklin's British Poets', an initiative of the publisher Thomas Macklin to encourage ambitious painting and engraving of literary subjects and rival the 'Shakespeare Gallery' of his contemporary John Boydell. Proof stipple by Francesco Bartolozzi ((1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Bartolozzi waas invited to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique employed here whereby images were produced using dots rather than lines.
Calabi & de Vesme 1437 ii/iv
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Portrait of the late extraordinary Artist, Thomas Girtin,  Natus Feb.y 18. 1775 Obiit Nov. 9. 1802.
Portrait of the late extraordinary Artist, Thomas Girtin, Natus Feb.y 18. 1775 Obiit Nov. 9. 1802. To Sir George Beaumont Bar.t, One of his earliest Patrons This Print is with Permission respectfully dedicated by his very obliged & grateful Serv.t John Girtin. J.Girtin in the recent fire in Broad Str.t having lost all his property, excepting some prints & c. which with this portrait of his late Brother, he respectfully offers to a liberal Public.
Painted by John Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Pub.d May 16, 1817, by J. Girtin, Engraver, Printer &c. No 25 Old Compton Street, 3 doors from Princes Street, Soho.
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"0. Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), holding a porte-crayon and sketch-book. Watercolourist, friend and rival of J.M.W. Turner. , with whom he closely worked. He died aged just twenty-seven, shortly after completing his most ambitious and spectacular work, the Eidometropolis, a 360-degree panorama of London measuring over 100ft. The portrait was published by his brother John Girtin, who had just lost his stock in a fire of November 1816.
Whitman 114, i of ii, before further shading of letters of names in the inscription.
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T Girtin [facsimile.]
T Girtin [facsimile.]
John Opie R:A: pinx.t E. Scriven sc.
Library of the Fine Arts, 1832.
Stipple. Plate 184 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½". Trimmed to the plate along right edge;
Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) was one of the greatest and most original of all English watercolourists. He was a friend, rival and later an inspiration to Turner, with whom he closely worked. He died aged just twenty-seven, shortly after completing his most ambitious and spectacular work, the Eidometropolis, a 360-degree panorama of London measuring over 100ft.
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Thomas Glass, M.D. And Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris.
Thomas Glass, M.D. And Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris. From the original Painting at the Devon and Exeter Hospital, presented by the Medical Faculty of Exeter [...]
J. Opie R.A. pinx.t [...] E.A. Ezekiel del & sculp.
Exeter: Published March 20, 1788, by E.A. Ezekiel, Engraver & Jeweller, Fore Street
Stipple, scarce, sheet 450 x 305mm (17¾ x 12"). Trimmed inside platemark; nicks to edges; wormholes lower left.
Thomas Glass (1709-86), physician and medical writer. This unusual portrait was engraved and published by Ezekiel Adam Ezekiel, a jeweller and publisher based in Exeter, the same town in which Glass lived and worked. Glass became a physician of the Devon and Exeter Hospital on its foundation (the hospital has moved, but the original building on Southernhay Street still exists and has been converted into residential housing with the name of Dean Clarke House). In 1783 the hospital was presented with the portrait by John Opie from which this engraving derives. Opie's portrait is still owned by the hospital.
Wellcome 1137.1.
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Hudson Gurney Esq.
Hudson Gurney Esq.
J. Opie Esq R.A. pinx.t 1797
Etching, platemark 220 x 190mm (8½ x 7½") very large margins. Uncut.
Hudson Gurney (1775-1867), antiquary and banker, portrayed here by Mary Turner (after John Opie) around the time he became a partner in the Yarmouth branch of the Gurney family's bank. While he went on to become a major partner in the family business, banking was not to Gurney's taste- he was more interested in literature and archaeology, while after his retirement from business in 1832 he devoted much of his time to building the new Keswick Hall near Norwich.
For Keswick Hall see refs. 37963-4.
[Ref: 45867]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Shakspeare. Second Part of King Henry VI.
Shakspeare. Second Part of King Henry VI. Act I. Scene IV. Mother Jordain, Hume, Southwell, Bolingbroke & Eleanor.
Painted by John Opie R.A. Engraved by C.G. Playter. And Rob.t Thew.
Published Dec.r 1 1796 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, open letter proof, without lines of verse. 505 x 635mm (20 x 25") very large margins. Small tear in bottom margin. Uncut.
The Conjuration, in which Margery Jourdemayne summons a demon to bring about the death of Henry VI. The other figures are: Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester; Roger Bolingbroke, cleric and astrologer; John Hume (or Home), Canon of Hereford and St Asaph and chaplain and secretary to the Gloucesters; & Thomas Southwell, physician and Canon of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. Shakespeare drew on a real trial for this episode: in 1440 Bolingbroke and Southwell drew up a horoscope for the Duchess that predicted the death of Henry, which meant her husband would succeed to the throne. The group was accused of conspiring to kill the King with necromancy; Eleanor was sentenced to life imprisonment; Bolingbroke was hung, drawn and quartered, his head displayed on London Bridge; and Margery Jourdemayne was burnt at the stake. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Angelica Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious, and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt
[Ref: 54002]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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The Hon.ble Henry Hobart. M.P.
The Hon.ble Henry Hobart. M.P.
Painted by J. Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by E. Bell.
Norwich: Published July 30.th 1804, by J. Freeman. No.2 London Lane.
Mezzotint, with very large margins. Platemark: 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Foxing in margins. Rubbing to and creasing to sheet. Uncut.
A portrait of British politician Henry Hobart (1738 - 1799). Head and shoulders within a square frame, looking towards the left, with powdered hair and cravat. The family home of Blickling Hall, is one of England's finest houses. Hobart in Tasmania is named after this sitter's brother, George, 3rd Earl of Buckingham. Hobart, who was an MP for Norwich between 1786 and 1799, was a reliable supporter of William Pitt’s administration as Prime Minister. Hobart's main passion however, shared with his elder brothers, was the promotion of the Italian opera in England. The new 'Hamarket Opera House' of 1790 was surmounted with the Hobart family motto.
Chaloner Smith: 9.
[Ref: 35400]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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John Hollis Esqr.
John Hollis Esqr.
Engraved by Charles Warren, from a picture by the late J. Opie R.A.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Line engraving. Plate 426 x 324mm. 16¾ x 12¾".
John Hollis (1757-1824). Sceptic and freethinker.
In the NPG.
[Ref: 12726]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Sam.l Johnson, LL.D.
Sam.l Johnson, LL.D.
Engraved by Heath from an Original Painting by Opie, in the Possession of Mr. Harrison. The Sarcophagus, and other Ornamental Parts, designed by Mr. R. Smirke.
London: Published as the Act directs, March 14 1786, by Harrison & Co. No 18, Paternoster Row.
Engraving. 370 x 230mm (14½ x 9"). Small margins.
Portrait of Dr Johnson, with sarcophagus and image of man clubbing a serpent. Frontispiece to 1786 edition of Johnson's famous dictionary.
[Ref: 29436]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Dr. Johnson.
Dr. Johnson.
Opie p.t. Audinet sc.
Publish'd by Harrison & Co March 1. 1794.
Engraving. 75 x 60mm (3 x 2¼"), set in page of letterpress with large margins.
Oval portrait of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). The title comes from the letterpress biography.
[Ref: 45297]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lord of the Vineyard.
The Lord of the Vineyard. - Matthew Ch. XX.v 8.12.
J. Opie R. A. Pinx.t J. Hall Sculp.t.
London Publish'd March 25, 1793, by Tho.s Macklin, Fleet Street.
Engraving. 300 x 240mm (12 x 9½"), with wide margins. Trimmed to platemark. Foxing and toning along top, right and bottom edges.
The Lord of the Vineyard sits grief stricken as the workman carrying the scythe hold's out the ring belonging to the Lord's son who has been murdered by the labourers in the vineyard. Print from the series Macklin's Bible.
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Isaacus Milner. S.T.P., S.R. Soc. Decanus Ecclesiae Cathedralis Carleolensis, dim Chemiae & Philosophie naturalis, nunc Matheseos Professor apud Cantalrigienses, Et Collegii Reginalis Proeses.
Isaacus Milner. S.T.P., S.R. Soc. Decanus Ecclesiae Cathedralis Carleolensis, dim Chemiae & Philosophie naturalis, nunc Matheseos Professor apud Cantalrigienses, Et Collegii Reginalis Proeses.
J. Opie pinx. Facius sculp, 1798.
Stipple laid on album sheet, fine impression, 495 x 373mm. 19½ x 14¾". Trimmed to plate and mounted within album page.
Isaac Milner (1750-1820), Natural philosopher and Dean of Carlisle. He was a mathematician, inventor, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce, and a great supporter of the Abolitionists' campaign against the slave trade.
NPG: D38419.
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John Opie R.A.
John Opie R.A. To John Boydell Esq.r Aldermann of the City of London This Plate is by Permission, Respectfully Inscribed by his much obliged & humble Serv.t S.W. Reynolds.
Ipse pinx. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published June 1. 1802 by John Jeffryes, Clapham Road.
Mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper at edges.
A self-portrait of John Opie, first published by Reynolds in 1798. Boydell published many of Opie paintings, including five subjects for his Shakespeare Gallery, most notibly Juliet's death from Romeo and Juliet.
Whitman 221, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 61634]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Richard III.d
Richard III.d Act 5, Scene 3.
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by W. Sharp.
[Publish'd Aug.t 1. 1794 by Mr. Woodmason, Leadenhall Street, London.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 300 x 245mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line at bottom, mounted in album paper.
Richard sleeps restlessly in his tent holding his sword in left hand, dreaming of the ghosts of those he has killed, who appear as menacing figures on the left, one brandishing a dagger. From the series 'Woodmason's Shakespeare Gallery'.
[Ref: 57851]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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The Death of Sapphira.  [''Then fell she down straightway at his feet & yielded up the Ghost.'']
The Death of Sapphira. [''Then fell she down straightway at his feet & yielded up the Ghost.'']
J. Opie R.A. pinx. H. Gillbank sculp.
London, Published Sept.r 29. 1802 by James Daniell, No.480, Strand.
Mezzotint, proof before, rare; 655 x 503mm (25¾ x 19¾"), with large margins. Foxing.
A biblical scene: according to the Acts of the Aspostles Chapter 5, Ananias and Sapphira, members of the Early Christian church, were struck down by the Holy Spirit for lying. St Paul, face stoney with disapproval, points at her body.
[Ref: 47699]   £360.00  
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[The Seasons] Damon and Musidora.
[The Seasons] Damon and Musidora. Thrice happy swain! [...] But love forbade. Vide Thomson's Summer.
J. Opie R.A. pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.t.
London Publish'd March 12.th 1796 by Tho.s Macklin, Poet's Gallery, Fleet Street.
Stipple. Platemark: 530 x 410mm (21 x 16¼"), with wide margins. Light foxing along bottom edge of sheet. Puncture holes for binding into wrappers along top margin.
Musidora, undressing, watched by Damon, who peers around the trunk of a tree on the left. An illustration to 'The Seasons', a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson (1700 - 1748). From Macklin's 'One hundred pictures/Prints illustrative of the most celebrated British Poets [...] with letter-press explanatory of the subject, extracted from the writings of the respective poets.'
De Vesme: 1441. IV.
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The Sleeping Nymph.
The Sleeping Nymph. Whilst Sylvia Slumbers in the Grove, Behold! the Urchin Pow'r of Love Whose Darts such anguish gave; Steals to the Nymph those lips to kiss Which he jad fill'd with every Bliss, And feels himself a Slave.
Painted by John Opie. Engraved by Peter Simon
Published July 2.d, 1787, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London
Fine stipple engraving with etching, rich impression, plate 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½) very large margins. Repaired creases in centre. Mark on Cupid's nose.
A nymph sleeping against a tree trunk with a cupid flying above and another woman behind holding her finger in the air.
[Ref: 56644]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Samuel Whitbread Esqr. M.P.
Samuel Whitbread Esqr. M.P.
Painted by J. Opie, R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London, 1804. Second Fifty.
Mezzotint. 660 x 460mm, 26 x 18". Paper crack entering plate on right.
Portrait of Samuel Whitbread (1756 - 1815), politician and brewer, seated at a table with inkstand and papers, a landscape through a window at left.
See Whitman: 297, this early state not mentioned; NPG D37563.
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