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Behold how in the colledge hall, the surgeons and the doctors all, Are met in consultation wise, a carcase to anatomize: the master there displays his art, sagely discants on every part, and that with ears & eyes and nose, we hear, and see, and smell, he shows.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d., engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a dissection, with the characters with animal heads. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19723] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d., engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a dissection, with the characters with animal heads. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19723] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A barbers shop a medley shews, of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news, while one is shav’d another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Journal reads. The master full of Whig and Tory, talks politics and tells a story, and swears he is not such a sot, but that he knows full well, what’s what.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a barber's shop, with the characters with animal heads. One cat is being shaved, another, a female, is being bled. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19725] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a barber's shop, with the characters with animal heads. One cat is being shaved, another, a female, is being bled. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19725] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
The Bubblers Mirrour: or Englands Folly.
Printed for Bowles & Carver 69, St. Pauls Church Yd. London. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved broadside with central mezzotint and etched vignettes. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"); large margins. Some repaired tears in margins.
A weeping man holds up an empty money bag. A satire on financial bubbles, primarily the South Sea Bubble (the text under the portrait describes the man as a South Sea investor), but also listing other schemes and giving some of the inflated prices they reached from the subscription price. For example: stockings, rising to £30 from £2 10s; 'Manuring of Land' ('They'll never make corn cheap, or horse dung dear') ; 'Bleaching of Hair'; Royal Assurance & London Assurance; 'Insurances against ye Venereal Desease'; and the Pennsylvania Company, rising from £5 5s to £40! This plate was first issued by Thomas Bowles in 1720; this impression from a re-worked and re-issued state - on wove not laid paper - by his successor Henry Carington Bowles (1724 - 1793) and Samuel Carver, with whom Bowles traded between 1793 and 1832.
BM Satires: 1621. State iii of iii.
[Ref: 40699] £420.00
Printed for Bowles & Carver 69, St. Pauls Church Yd. London. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved broadside with central mezzotint and etched vignettes. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"); large margins. Some repaired tears in margins.
A weeping man holds up an empty money bag. A satire on financial bubbles, primarily the South Sea Bubble (the text under the portrait describes the man as a South Sea investor), but also listing other schemes and giving some of the inflated prices they reached from the subscription price. For example: stockings, rising to £30 from £2 10s; 'Manuring of Land' ('They'll never make corn cheap, or horse dung dear') ; 'Bleaching of Hair'; Royal Assurance & London Assurance; 'Insurances against ye Venereal Desease'; and the Pennsylvania Company, rising from £5 5s to £40! This plate was first issued by Thomas Bowles in 1720; this impression from a re-worked and re-issued state - on wove not laid paper - by his successor Henry Carington Bowles (1724 - 1793) and Samuel Carver, with whom Bowles traded between 1793 and 1832.
BM Satires: 1621. State iii of iii.
[Ref: 40699] £420.00
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[Three men playing cards.]
E. Van Hemskirke pinx. / J. Smith Fec. et ex. [1704]
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Fine.
Three men gambling. Cards, dice and coins on the table, score marked in chalk. Broadside on wall behind. Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34832] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
E. Van Hemskirke pinx. / J. Smith Fec. et ex. [1704]
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Fine.
Three men gambling. Cards, dice and coins on the table, score marked in chalk. Broadside on wall behind. Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34832] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cobbler]
Done from an Original Picture of Old Heemskerck by Jonathan Spilsbury.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at N.o33 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate.
Cobbler sitting on a stool holding a shoe in his lap while pulling on a strap of leather slung around his knee and under his foot, wearing a soft cap set at a slant and a leather apron; with a slipper on a stool to left, a pitcher standing beneath it and wooden dresser and shelf with bowls, dishes, phials and cups to the left, shoes and tools lying on the ground in the foreground.
Holstein: undescribed. CS: undescribed. Russel: undescribed. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57082] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Done from an Original Picture of Old Heemskerck by Jonathan Spilsbury.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at N.o33 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate.
Cobbler sitting on a stool holding a shoe in his lap while pulling on a strap of leather slung around his knee and under his foot, wearing a soft cap set at a slant and a leather apron; with a slipper on a stool to left, a pitcher standing beneath it and wooden dresser and shelf with bowls, dishes, phials and cups to the left, shoes and tools lying on the ground in the foreground.
Holstein: undescribed. CS: undescribed. Russel: undescribed. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57082] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Remissio Peccatorum.
Egbertus van Heemskirk p. J. Smith fe:
P Tempest ex: [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins. Worming in bottom left corner of margin. Creasing.
'The remission of sins.' A friar hears the confession of a chained prisoner. Engraved c.1685, the paper of this example suggests a later printing.
BM 1874,0808.1282, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 60179] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Egbertus van Heemskirk p. J. Smith fe:
P Tempest ex: [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins. Worming in bottom left corner of margin. Creasing.
'The remission of sins.' A friar hears the confession of a chained prisoner. Engraved c.1685, the paper of this example suggests a later printing.
BM 1874,0808.1282, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 60179] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Elderly couple, woman pouring a drink]
[E. Van Heemskirke pinx J. Smith fec et ex]
[c.1706-7]
Mezzotint, sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, losing text. Later reissue.
Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers. Late impression probably dating from around the time of Boydell's 'Collection of Portraits' (1805) in which the print was listed. Wine drinking interest.
Ganz iii/iii
[Ref: 39423] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[E. Van Heemskirke pinx J. Smith fec et ex]
[c.1706-7]
Mezzotint, sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, losing text. Later reissue.
Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers. Late impression probably dating from around the time of Boydell's 'Collection of Portraits' (1805) in which the print was listed. Wine drinking interest.
Ganz iii/iii
[Ref: 39423] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Gin-Retailers (if there's any) Who can by a Licence get a penny...
[after Egbert van Heemskerck the younger.]
[London, John Bowles, c.1760 but later impression on wove paper.]
Coloured engraving with etching. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 10"), with large margins.
A satire on gin drinking: all the male figures have been given the heads of monkeys and the women those of cats. A reversed copy of a plate by William Henry Toms, one in a set of eight anthropomorphic scenes.
[Ref: 54434] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[after Egbert van Heemskerck the younger.]
[London, John Bowles, c.1760 but later impression on wove paper.]
Coloured engraving with etching. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 10"), with large margins.
A satire on gin drinking: all the male figures have been given the heads of monkeys and the women those of cats. A reversed copy of a plate by William Henry Toms, one in a set of eight anthropomorphic scenes.
[Ref: 54434] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
See valiant Captain Snout appears, the drum beats up for volunteers, you that are weary of your wives, and willing to live merry lives, who from the Tally man woud run, and clutches of the bailiff shun, lift under him without delay, and enter into present pay.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.]
Engraving. 290 x 250mm, 11½ x 9¾". Paper brittle, some chipping, creased.
A satire about army recuiters, with the characters with animal heads, with Captain Snout an elephant and his troop cats. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19728] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.]
Engraving. 290 x 250mm, 11½ x 9¾". Paper brittle, some chipping, creased.
A satire about army recuiters, with the characters with animal heads, with Captain Snout an elephant and his troop cats. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19728] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Jovial Peasants. 226.
Hemskirk pinx.t. B. Clowes fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, 20th Jan:y 1772: by Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No 53 Fleet Street.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins.
Five boors in a vaulted tavern, singing, one on the right with his back to the viewer, holding up his glass and jug, another with his arms around a jug, a third smoking, a fourth sitting in a chair made of a barrel, asleep, and the fifth in the background to left, urinating. Engraved by Butler Clowes after Egbert van Heemskerck the younger.
[Ref: 53365] £350.00
Hemskirk pinx.t. B. Clowes fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, 20th Jan:y 1772: by Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No 53 Fleet Street.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins.
Five boors in a vaulted tavern, singing, one on the right with his back to the viewer, holding up his glass and jug, another with his arms around a jug, a third smoking, a fourth sitting in a chair made of a barrel, asleep, and the fifth in the background to left, urinating. Engraved by Butler Clowes after Egbert van Heemskerck the younger.
[Ref: 53365] £350.00
Betwixt a subtile Priest & cursed Wife I'm plagu'd for my transgression. The two great Folleys of my Life Is Marriage & Confession.
E. Hemskyrke pinx: Ibecket fec.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Mezzotint, laid on paper watermarked: J Whatman 1801. 253 x 184mm (10 x 7¼").
A monk sitting on the right, hands tucked into his sleeves, laughing as he listens to the confession of a man who kneels against his chair, holding his hat and watched by an old woman wearing a headscarf who stands in the background to the left in an open doorway, holding a finger to her lips; a stoop on the wall in the background.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The British Museum state that this is a later state with added creases in the clothing.
[Ref: 19308] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
E. Hemskyrke pinx: Ibecket fec.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Mezzotint, laid on paper watermarked: J Whatman 1801. 253 x 184mm (10 x 7¼").
A monk sitting on the right, hands tucked into his sleeves, laughing as he listens to the confession of a man who kneels against his chair, holding his hat and watched by an old woman wearing a headscarf who stands in the background to the left in an open doorway, holding a finger to her lips; a stoop on the wall in the background.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The British Museum state that this is a later state with added creases in the clothing.
[Ref: 19308] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Midnight Magistrate, or the Humours of a Watch House.
Heemskirke delin.t. & pinx.t. W. Tringham sculpt.
[n.d., c.1754]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 350 x 260mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed around title. Publication trimmed. Repaired tear in lower edge of image.
Interior scene. A cat in a woman's outfit is brought before a seated monkey acting as a magistrate in a watch house. In the left of the image a second, male cat, described in the text as the female's 'Paramour', is brought forward under guard. Several monkeys surround the seated monkey watching he proceedings while others smoke and drink.
[Ref: 33123] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Heemskirke delin.t. & pinx.t. W. Tringham sculpt.
[n.d., c.1754]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 350 x 260mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed around title. Publication trimmed. Repaired tear in lower edge of image.
Interior scene. A cat in a woman's outfit is brought before a seated monkey acting as a magistrate in a watch house. In the left of the image a second, male cat, described in the text as the female's 'Paramour', is brought forward under guard. Several monkeys surround the seated monkey watching he proceedings while others smoke and drink.
[Ref: 33123] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Behold how in the Colledge hall, The Surgeons and the Doctors all, Are met in Consultation wise, A Carcase to Anatomize: The Master there displays his art, Sagely discants on every part, And that with Ears & eyes and nose, We hear, and See, and Smell, he shows.
[E. Heemskerck Pinxt.]
[Published by John Bowles.] [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving and etching. Plate 286 x 247mm. 11¼ x 9¾".
A satire on quackery.
BM Satires: 1861 (after).
[Ref: 15506] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[E. Heemskerck Pinxt.]
[Published by John Bowles.] [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving and etching. Plate 286 x 247mm. 11¼ x 9¾".
A satire on quackery.
BM Satires: 1861 (after).
[Ref: 15506] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
The Quakers Meeting.
Hemskirk pinxt. J. Green fecit.
London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No.53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, image 325 x 250mm,fine, 12¾ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate and glued to album page at corners.
Interior; a woman with a tall hat standing on a half barrel, her hands clasped, surrounded by other Quakers, male and female. After Egbert van Heemskerck I (1645 - 1704), who specialised in genre subjects in the Dutch taste, especially scenes set in taverns, courts and schools. To these he added a genre that he invented, the Quaker painting. In the second half of the seventeenth century Quakers has a dubious reputation as one of the extreme non-conformist sects. They were marked out by their clothes and their strange services, and were subject to civil penalties for refusing to take the oath of allegiance or pay tithes. Their modern respectability came much later. Of the many paintings that Heemskerk made of these outcasts, four were turned into prints, all with the same title, The Quaker's Meeting. A copy in reverse of a c.1685 print by Isaac Beckett.
[Ref: 13347] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Hemskirk pinxt. J. Green fecit.
London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No.53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, image 325 x 250mm,fine, 12¾ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate and glued to album page at corners.
Interior; a woman with a tall hat standing on a half barrel, her hands clasped, surrounded by other Quakers, male and female. After Egbert van Heemskerck I (1645 - 1704), who specialised in genre subjects in the Dutch taste, especially scenes set in taverns, courts and schools. To these he added a genre that he invented, the Quaker painting. In the second half of the seventeenth century Quakers has a dubious reputation as one of the extreme non-conformist sects. They were marked out by their clothes and their strange services, and were subject to civil penalties for refusing to take the oath of allegiance or pay tithes. Their modern respectability came much later. Of the many paintings that Heemskerk made of these outcasts, four were turned into prints, all with the same title, The Quaker's Meeting. A copy in reverse of a c.1685 print by Isaac Beckett.
[Ref: 13347] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Singers. From the Original Picture Painted by Hemskirk Jun.r In the Collection of Mr Marrisall.
Hemskirk jun.r pinx.t. R.Earlom fecit.
Published Oct.r 24th 1768, by J.Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint with very large margins, rare. 305 x 360mm (12 x 14¼").
Three peasants sitting around a barrel in a tavern, one holding up a glass, another holding a long printed song, singing. A fourth man stands over them smoking while a fifth man urinates in the corner. Engraved by Richard Earlom after Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettinger-Wallenstein Collection Sotheby's Lot 736, 18/11/97.
[Ref: 36463] £460.00
Hemskirk jun.r pinx.t. R.Earlom fecit.
Published Oct.r 24th 1768, by J.Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint with very large margins, rare. 305 x 360mm (12 x 14¼").
Three peasants sitting around a barrel in a tavern, one holding up a glass, another holding a long printed song, singing. A fourth man stands over them smoking while a fifth man urinates in the corner. Engraved by Richard Earlom after Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettinger-Wallenstein Collection Sotheby's Lot 736, 18/11/97.
[Ref: 36463] £460.00
The Sinner & Confessor.
[after Egbert van Heemskerck]
Printed for Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1780]
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Reduced and cropped copy of a 17th century print, 'Remissio Peccatorum' in which the context is explicitly that of a friar hearing the confesssion of a prisoner in his cell.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For 'Remissio Peccatorum' see BM 1874,0808.1283
[Ref: 32350] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[after Egbert van Heemskerck]
Printed for Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1780]
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Reduced and cropped copy of a 17th century print, 'Remissio Peccatorum' in which the context is explicitly that of a friar hearing the confesssion of a prisoner in his cell.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For 'Remissio Peccatorum' see BM 1874,0808.1283
[Ref: 32350] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Temptation of St Anthony. From a Picture by E. Hemskirk in the possession of Mr Ibbett, Maidenhead Court, Aldersgate Street.
EHK. Drawn by S.A. Hart. Printed by S. Voles.
Published by S. Voles, No. 3 S.t Michael's Alley, Cornhill.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 280 x 300mm (11 x 12¾"). Top right corner reinstated with mss. fill, tears in inscription area repaired, creases, narrow margins.
An adaptation of one of several paintings of the Temptation of St Anthony by Egbert van Heemskerck (1634-1704). He sits at a table in a cave reading, harrassed by a multitude of grotesque demons. Dinosaurs and other reptile creatures depicted. Anthony the Great (251-356), a Christian monk from Egypt, tried to hide in a cave to escape the demons that plagued him; however they gathered there and beat him to death. After being pulled from the cave by his servant he came back to life; he demands to go back in to face them, and a bright light sent by God drives them away.
[Ref: 58837] £480.00
EHK. Drawn by S.A. Hart. Printed by S. Voles.
Published by S. Voles, No. 3 S.t Michael's Alley, Cornhill.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 280 x 300mm (11 x 12¾"). Top right corner reinstated with mss. fill, tears in inscription area repaired, creases, narrow margins.
An adaptation of one of several paintings of the Temptation of St Anthony by Egbert van Heemskerck (1634-1704). He sits at a table in a cave reading, harrassed by a multitude of grotesque demons. Dinosaurs and other reptile creatures depicted. Anthony the Great (251-356), a Christian monk from Egypt, tried to hide in a cave to escape the demons that plagued him; however they gathered there and beat him to death. After being pulled from the cave by his servant he came back to life; he demands to go back in to face them, and a bright light sent by God drives them away.
[Ref: 58837] £480.00