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[Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd.]
[Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd.]
J. Smart pinxit. John Boydell, excudit, 1785. Caroline Watson sculpsit.
Publish'd May 1st. 1785, by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Stipple., proof before title 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, slight surface soiling.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Boyd (c.1710-1794), army officer during the Seven Years' War, including the Siege of Minorca of 1756. He served as governor of Gibraltar three times (1776-7, 1790 and 1790-4) and was buried there.
[Ref: 53056]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir Henry Clinton, K.B.
Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. Commandant en Chef les Troupes de Sa Majesté Britannique dans l'Amérique.
Smart pinx. Dupin Sculp.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Engraving. Sheet: 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of British army officer Sir Henry Clinton (1730-1795) who commanded British forces during the American Revolutionary Wars.
[Ref: 48679]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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A Portrait of the East Indiaman built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched Aug.st 1817.
A Portrait of the East Indiaman built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched Aug.st 1817.
J. Smart Jun. del.t. R. Pollard fec.t.
Pub.d Aug.t 21 1817 by R.N. Rose, Bookseller Ipswich.
Scarce coloured aquatint with etching. Framed, sight size 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Framed over platemark, pencil note on title, unexamined out of frame.
The 'Orwell' East Indiaman being built, sitting on a scaffold with a row of poles. It was built by Jabez Bayley's (1771 -1834) Ship-Yard in Halifax for Matthew Isacke of Greenwich (possibly Captain (Mathew) Robert Isacke (c.1803-96), of Croomes Hill, Greenwich, Kent, who was in the naval service of the East India Company or his father Mathew Isacke (born in St Helena 1761-1831). Made of Suffolk oak it took over 15 months to build and was named after Ipswich's river, the Orwell was launched on the 29th August, watched by about 20,000 spectators.
[Ref: 61191]   £550.00  

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A Round of the Links.
A Round of the Links. Views of the Golf Greens of Scotland Etched by George Aikman, A.R.S.A. From Water Colour Drawings of John Smart, R.S.A. To Lovers of The Royal and Ancient Game this Series of Views of Twenty of the Older Greens is dedicated by a Brother Golfer.
[Edinburgh, privately published] 1893.
Limited edition, signed by the artist, no 70 (of 100?). Oblong folio, publisher's cloth, lettered and illustration of a golfer placing his ball in gilt on front board; title, dedication and 20 etched plates with remarques, each with a title leaf. Front hinge split.
A book of views of Scottish golf courses drawn by John Smart (1838-1899) and etched by George Aikman (1830-1905), one of the most sought-after golfing books of the period. The courses are: Dunbar, North Berwick, Gullane, Luffness, Musselburgh, Leith, Leven, Elie, St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Montrose, Aberdeen, Perth, Stirling, Bruntsfield, Lanark, Glasgow, Machrihanish, Prestwick and Troon.
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Master M. M. I. R. Lacy, The Celebrated Young Spaniard.
Master M. M. I. R. Lacy, The Celebrated Young Spaniard. Born in Bilboa, July 19.1795.
Painted by J. Smart Esq.r. Engraved by Anth.y. Cardon.
London: Pub, May 1.1807.
Stipple. Sheet: 140 x 200mm (5½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate.
A half-potrait in an oval of Michael Rophino Lacy (1795-1867), an irish musician, composer and child prodigy. At the age of 6 he started to perform under the name 'The Young Spaniard', he continued to perform and compose throughout his life.
[Ref: 35730]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Taylor.]
[John Taylor.]
J. Smart pinx.t. J. Dixon Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 280mm (10¼ x 11"). Framed. Trimmed to plate. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Sir John Taylor (1745-86), a fellow of the Royal Society who was created a baronet of Lysson Hall in Jamaica. Taylor became a baronet on 1st September 1778. In the same year he married an heiress, Elizabeth Godden Houghton. His eldest brother became a Jamaican attorney who represented the large number of absentee plantation owners and he was reputedly the richest person in Jamaica. Taylor lived in London but died in Jamaica in 1786.
Chaloner Smith: 33.
[Ref: 50430]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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