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[A Midsummer Night's Dream] Oberon.
[A Midsummer Night's Dream] Oberon. _da Blick und Son, ihm schnell ihr Herz gewann, so wagen bald Kinder sich hin uns spielen mit Seinen Locken. Den tapfern Mann ergötzt ihr traulich frohes Gewühl, er wird mit ihnen Kind, und theilt ihr süsses Spiel.
H. Rambery delt. F. John sculpt. Viennae 1769.
Stipple engraving with large margins. Plate 255 x 185mm. 10 x 7¼". Fine.
Oberon is a legendary king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. He is best known as Consort to Titiana, Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
[Ref: 15464]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Abulfauaris.
Abulfauaris.
H. Ramberg, delin. E.G. Kruger, Sculp. 1795.
Etching, 235 x 170mm. 9¼ x 6¾". Some foxing.
A priest clothing naked Africans. A book illustration published in Germany, probably to a work by Christoph Martin Wieland (1733 - 1813), German poet and novelist. One of his essays published in 1795 was titled 'The Confessions of Abulfauaris unprecedented priest of Isis in her temple on Memphis in Lower Egypt.' After Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - 1840).
[Ref: 10705]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Charity.
Charity.
I.H. Ramberg delin. F. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
London Published 1st. Janry. 1787. by Robert Wilkinson No.58 Cornhill London.
Stipple with etching on india paper, printed in brown ink. 200 x 225mm. 8 x 9". Small upper and lower margin, one rust spot to plate; else a fine impression.
Allegorical representation of Charity, as a woman comforting a little girl and two naked putti; basket of fruit far left. In an oval. After Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - 1840).
De Vesme 581, III of III. Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 21194]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth.
Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth. Dedicated by Permission to the Queen By her Majesty's most devoted & most dutifu Subject and Servant, H. Ramberg.
H. Ramberg ad viv. del. W: Ward sculspit.
Publish'd Nov. 27, 1788 by T. Harmer Engraver No 164 Piccadilly London.
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
The 18-year-old Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), third daughter of King George III. Around her wrist is a garland with a ribbon inscribed 'Alfred', in memory of her young brother who had died aged two in 1782.
[Ref: 64385]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Hanover from the West, with the River Leine.
Hanover from the West, with the River Leine.
Ramberg del.t. D. Havell sculp.t.
[Published & Sold March 1, 1816, by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London.]
Aquatint, rare. Sheet 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"). Trimmed within plate, right edge worn.
A view of Hanover with cows being watered in the river in the foreground.
[Ref: 34259]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Hope.
Hope.
I.H. Ramberg delin. F. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
London Published 1st. July 1787. by Robert Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill.
Stipple, 205 x 230mm. 8 x 9". Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Hope, one of the three theological virtues in Christian tradition, represented as a classical female figure. Hope is seen as "an anchor of the soul", as referenced in the Epistle to the Hebrews of the New Testament. Hence she holds an anchor over her left shoulder. After Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - 1840).
[Ref: 11588]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Alphonso and Aciloe.]
[Alphonso and Aciloe.]
H. Ramberg inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Pub. May 1. 1788 by M. Ryland No. 102 New Bond Street.
Stipple. Plate: 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins. Uncut
An illustration of the tale of Alphonso and Aciloe from Helen Maria William's epic poem 'Peru and Peruvian Tales'.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47391]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Leben in Rom.
Leben in Rom.
Hein.ch inv.t: del.t et inct. Hannover 1797.
Etching with hand colour, fine & rare. 435 x 535mm (17 x 21"). Trimmed within the plate at the bottom.
'Life in Rome', satirising the attractions of the city to Grand Tourists. Four girls with open bodices sit on a swing suspended in a doorway, playing tamborines, with a group of monks and a man playing the lute lying beneath all enjoying the view. Across the road tourists sit outside a coffee shop and a man sells wine from barrels on his donkey.
[Ref: 48521]   £750.00  
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Temptation. ~Had I a heart for Falshood fram'd I ne'er could injure you;  For tho' your Tongue no promise claim'd, Your charms would make me true.
Temptation. ~Had I a heart for Falshood fram'd I ne'er could injure you; For tho' your Tongue no promise claim'd, Your charms would make me true.
H. Ramberg invt delt. W.Ward Sculpsit.
Published 25th July 1794 by R.Laurie & J.Whittle, No 53, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple with roulette. 255 x 280mm.
The verse comes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna' (1777), considered one of the most successful operas ever staged in England and described by Byron as 'the best opera ever written'.
[Ref: 4767]   £380.00  
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Esq.r Thornhill perswades Olivia to Elope with him. Monsieur Thornhill persaude a Olive d'eschapper avec lui.
Esq.r Thornhill perswades Olivia to Elope with him. Monsieur Thornhill persaude a Olive d'eschapper avec lui. Vide Dr Goldsmithd Vicar of Wakefield. Voll.1.Chap 17.
H. Ramberg Inv.t et Del.t F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t
London Pub.d August 1. 1787, by Ia.s Birchall, No.473 Strand.
Stipple with small margins, printed in brown ink. Plate 381 x 355mm. 15 x 14".
Squire Thornhill persuading Olivia Primrose to elope with him, a small boy pulling on her dress in the opposite direction; a carriage and horses behind on the road, a church in the background. 'The Vicar of Wakefield', the novel by Oliver Goldsmith, written in 1761 and 1762.
In the National Trust Collections: 1312045.1.
[Ref: 27865]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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