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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Mrs Sarah Porter Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells.
Vander Smissen Pinxit. [engraved by William Pether.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 255mm. Trimmed to plate, corners nicked.
An oval portrait of an old woman, ledger with 'Ladies' Subscriptions', quill and ink. When Richard ‘Beau’ Nash became Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms in 1735, he employed Sarah Porter to assist in touting or enlisting subscribers. She would greet visitors at the door of the ballroom is if she knew them, enquiring after a relative, before asking them to pay a subscription: if they refused, she would shadow them around the room, ledger and quill in hand, until they gave in and paid up. However rude people became Sarah never responded in kind. She continued in the roll until 1762.
CS 27.
[Ref: 58073] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Vander Smissen Pinxit. [engraved by William Pether.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 255mm. Trimmed to plate, corners nicked.
An oval portrait of an old woman, ledger with 'Ladies' Subscriptions', quill and ink. When Richard ‘Beau’ Nash became Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms in 1735, he employed Sarah Porter to assist in touting or enlisting subscribers. She would greet visitors at the door of the ballroom is if she knew them, enquiring after a relative, before asking them to pay a subscription: if they refused, she would shadow them around the room, ledger and quill in hand, until they gave in and paid up. However rude people became Sarah never responded in kind. She continued in the roll until 1762.
CS 27.
[Ref: 58073] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Christoph Jacob Trew]](jpegs/44061.jpg)
[Christoph Jacob Trew] D. Christoph. Jac. Trew. S. Caes. Maiestat. et Sereniss. Marchionis Onold. Brandenburg [...]
D/ van der Smissen pinxit J.J. Haid sculps et excud A.V. [c.1720]
Mezzotint, platemark 310 x 195mm (12¼ x 7¾"). Small margins.
Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769), solicitor and physician whose passion for botany led him to sponsor the publication of some of the most important botanical works of the eighteenth century, most notably the posthumously-published 'Plantae Selectae' (1773). Portrait of Trew at his desk with plant specimens, after Domenicus van der Smissen (1704-60).
W2975
[Ref: 44061] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
D/ van der Smissen pinxit J.J. Haid sculps et excud A.V. [c.1720]
Mezzotint, platemark 310 x 195mm (12¼ x 7¾"). Small margins.
Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769), solicitor and physician whose passion for botany led him to sponsor the publication of some of the most important botanical works of the eighteenth century, most notably the posthumously-published 'Plantae Selectae' (1773). Portrait of Trew at his desk with plant specimens, after Domenicus van der Smissen (1704-60).
W2975
[Ref: 44061] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
D. Christophorus Iacobus Trevv, S.R.I Nobilis, consiliarius archiater et comes palatinus caesareus sereniss.marggravii onoldino-culmbaco-brandenburgici consiliarius intimus archiater actualis et collegii medici onoldini senior, perill.reip.norimbergensis physicus ordinarius senior, collegiique medici seniorum primarius; academiae caesareae Leopoldi-no-Carolinae naturae curiosorum director, regiarum societatum londinensis et, Berolinen sis itemque botanicae Florentinae sodalis.
D. van der Smiffen pinxit. J.J. Haid Sculps. et excud. A.V.
[n.d., 1748]
Scarce copper engraving. 320 x 195mm (12½ x 7¼") large margins. Light foxing.
Christoph Jacob Trew, physician and botanist and publisher. [1695 - 1769].
Wellcome: 2975-1.
[Ref: 53627] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
D. van der Smiffen pinxit. J.J. Haid Sculps. et excud. A.V.
[n.d., 1748]
Scarce copper engraving. 320 x 195mm (12½ x 7¼") large margins. Light foxing.
Christoph Jacob Trew, physician and botanist and publisher. [1695 - 1769].
Wellcome: 2975-1.
[Ref: 53627] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)