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"War-worn". (The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain M.P,.)
WHO. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
Vanity Fair Supplement. [29th January 1908]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins. Slight mark in coat.
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63675] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Laurentius Delvaux Sculptor.
Isaacus Whood Pinx. An 1734 pro Johanne Sanderson Alex. Vanhaecken Fecit, 1735.
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed into plate and taped onto album paper at the top corner. Damaged.
Portrait of Laurent Delvaux (1696 - 1778), Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the court. Delvaux was a transitional figure between the Baroque and Neo-classicism. CS 7. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65191] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Pinchbeck.
Isaac Whood pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small repaired tear into margin on left. Printer's crease bottom right in margin.
Christopher Pinchbeck (1670?-1732), maker of clocks and automata, here shown holding an open pocket watch. He also invented 'pinchbeck', an alloy of copper and zinc that resembled gold, which created a new market for costume jewelry. Among his clients was Louis XIV, for whom he made a music clock. In 1717 he advertised a clock at one thousand guineas (appoximately £140,000 today). From 1721 until his death his address was 'at the sign of ‘The Astronomico-Musical Clock' in Fleet Street. CS 289 i/ii.
[Ref: 57864] £950.00
John Rudge Esq.r.
J. Whood pinx.t. 1730. J. Faber Fecit 1740.
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. Plate: 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾'') very large margins. Creasing.
A portrait of politician John Rudge (1669-1740) who served as MP for Evesham. CS 310
[Ref: 48034] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Major Ralph Snow.
[I. W]hood de Bloomsb: sqr. pinxt. pro Zacha. Chambers de Scaccar. Reg. Genero. Cui hanc Tabulam D D: Alex: Vanhaecken [fe.]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Trimmed within the image, losing part of inscription at sides, laid on board.
Ralph Snow (1670-1744), writing master, holding a sheet with 'La plume' written in florid lettering. He was one of the four dedicatees of George Bickham's 'A poem on writing', c.1727. Although Chaloner Smith only lists this state the BM has a proof before title, without the armillary sphere in the background. Chaloner Smith 15.
[Ref: 52600] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
William Stukeley. Isaac Whood drew this, may 10. 1727, at Grantham, when the Duke of Bedford breakfasted with me.
P.G. 1853.
Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich.
Rare zincograph. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Some slight spotting.
A bust portrait of antiquarian & cleric William Stukeley (1687-1765), with a wreath in his hair. He is most remembered for his pioneering scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire, identifying both the Stonehenge Avenue and Stonehenge Cursus.
[Ref: 59365] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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