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The Island of Ascension, from the Roads.
Drawn by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Drawn on Stone by G. Barnard. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate S.t Linc. Inn F.ds.
London, Published by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Feb.y 1835.
Rare lithograph with hand colour. 125 x 690mm (5 x 27¼"). Creases, stains, laid on thick paper.
Panorama. One of ten plates in Allen's 'Picturesque Views in the Island of Ascension'. He spent eight weeks with the garrison put on Ascension after Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, describing the island as a 'cinder'.
[Ref: 52868] £360.00
Drawn by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Drawn on Stone by G. Barnard. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate S.t Linc. Inn F.ds.
London, Published by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Feb.y 1835.
Rare lithograph with hand colour. 125 x 690mm (5 x 27¼"). Creases, stains, laid on thick paper.
Panorama. One of ten plates in Allen's 'Picturesque Views in the Island of Ascension'. He spent eight weeks with the garrison put on Ascension after Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, describing the island as a 'cinder'.
[Ref: 52868] £360.00
![W. Redmore Bigg. R.A. [facsimile signature].](jpegs/61631.jpg)
W. Redmore Bigg. R.A. [facsimile signature]. Proof.
W.m Fisk Pinxit. W.m Narnard Sculp.t.
Published by W.m Fisk, 19, Charles Street, Berniers Street, & W.m Barnard, 53, Pall Mall, June, 20th 1831.
Proof mezzotint. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of genre painter William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828). During his lifetime he was hugely popular, with the best engravers were employed to reproduce his works in mezzotint.
CS 1, recorded as the only state. Russell 1, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 61631] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
W.m Fisk Pinxit. W.m Narnard Sculp.t.
Published by W.m Fisk, 19, Charles Street, Berniers Street, & W.m Barnard, 53, Pall Mall, June, 20th 1831.
Proof mezzotint. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of genre painter William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828). During his lifetime he was hugely popular, with the best engravers were employed to reproduce his works in mezzotint.
CS 1, recorded as the only state. Russell 1, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 61631] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Contentment.
Engraved by W. Barnard from a Study by A. Brower.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1812, by T. Palser, Surry Side West.r Bridge.
Mezzotint. 223 x 178mm (8¾ x 7"). Cut to image.
A boor, a Dutch peasant, shown head and shoulders in profile to left, smoking a pipe, his head bowed and eyes almost closed, with a beard and a flat cap and his collar pulled up.
[Ref: 31180] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by W. Barnard from a Study by A. Brower.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1812, by T. Palser, Surry Side West.r Bridge.
Mezzotint. 223 x 178mm (8¾ x 7"). Cut to image.
A boor, a Dutch peasant, shown head and shoulders in profile to left, smoking a pipe, his head bowed and eyes almost closed, with a beard and a flat cap and his collar pulled up.
[Ref: 31180] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
England.
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12 1800 by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint with hand colour. 455 x 400mm (18 x 15¾"), with large margins. Tear touching plate mark, laid on card.
A young milk-maid walking along a country path holding a milk pail against her hip and carrying her stool. One of a set of four allegories of the four nations that became the United Kingdom later in the month of publication.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 49978] £320.00
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12 1800 by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint with hand colour. 455 x 400mm (18 x 15¾"), with large margins. Tear touching plate mark, laid on card.
A young milk-maid walking along a country path holding a milk pail against her hip and carrying her stool. One of a set of four allegories of the four nations that became the United Kingdom later in the month of publication.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 49978] £320.00
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[Five dogs illustrated; single plate.]
Drawn & on soft Ground by H.B. Chalon.
London Pubd. as Act directs May 1, 1804 by Chalon & Nattes.
Rare soft-ground etching, 280 x 355mm. 11 x 14". Marginal creasing; a fine impression overall.
Lively sketches of individual dogs, arranged in two strips, by Henry Bernard Chalon (1771 - 1849), animal painter, son of Jan Chalon. The key below identifies the breeds as Russian wolfhound, a staghound of the royal pack, a pug dog, smooth-haired fox terrier, and a German boarhound. The owner's names are also recorded. From Chalon's 'Studies from Nature' (20 plates).
Siltzer p.92.
[Ref: 20410] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & on soft Ground by H.B. Chalon.
London Pubd. as Act directs May 1, 1804 by Chalon & Nattes.
Rare soft-ground etching, 280 x 355mm. 11 x 14". Marginal creasing; a fine impression overall.
Lively sketches of individual dogs, arranged in two strips, by Henry Bernard Chalon (1771 - 1849), animal painter, son of Jan Chalon. The key below identifies the breeds as Russian wolfhound, a staghound of the royal pack, a pug dog, smooth-haired fox terrier, and a German boarhound. The owner's names are also recorded. From Chalon's 'Studies from Nature' (20 plates).
Siltzer p.92.
[Ref: 20410] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
View of the Viaduct of the Proposed Great Western Railway.
Drawn on stone by George Barnard. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph on india. 205 x 340mm (8 x 13½"). Backing paper worn.
A rare view of an intended design of the Great Western Railway, showing a low-level viaduct through parkland. It is possible that this is an early design for the Chippenham Viaduct, on a section of the line that opened in 1841.
[Ref: 35365] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn on stone by George Barnard. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph on india. 205 x 340mm (8 x 13½"). Backing paper worn.
A rare view of an intended design of the Great Western Railway, showing a low-level viaduct through parkland. It is possible that this is an early design for the Chippenham Viaduct, on a section of the line that opened in 1841.
[Ref: 35365] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Roraima. A remarkable range of Sandstone Mountains in Guiana.
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by George Barnard. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 300 x 410mm (11¾ x 16¼")large margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
The Pakaraima Mountains, include Mount Roraima, first described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595, shared between Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48696] £380.00
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by George Barnard. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 300 x 410mm (11¾ x 16¼")large margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
The Pakaraima Mountains, include Mount Roraima, first described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595, shared between Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48696] £380.00
Pirara and Lake Amucu. The Site of El Dorado.
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by George Barnard.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16¼") large margins. Laid on card.
A native village on a plain below steep mountains, from 'Twelve views in the interior of Guiana: from drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches during the expedition carried on in the years 1835 to 1839'. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48694] £320.00
Drawn from the original Sketch by Charles Bentley. On Stone by George Barnard.
London: Published by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, 3rd. Aug.t 1840.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, Printed area 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16¼") large margins. Laid on card.
A native village on a plain below steep mountains, from 'Twelve views in the interior of Guiana: from drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches during the expedition carried on in the years 1835 to 1839'. The original sketch was by James Morrison, draughtsman on a British Government expedition to survey Guiana and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The expedition was headed by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who gave his name to the 'Schomburgk Line', the border between British Guiana and Venezuela.
Abbey Travel 720; Borba de Moraes: ''This album is quite rare''.
[Ref: 48694] £320.00
Ireland
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins.
A figure representing Ireland as a barefoot young boy, sitting on a boulder outside a cottage with thick walls and thatched roof, hugging a sheepdog. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62150] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins.
A figure representing Ireland as a barefoot young boy, sitting on a boulder outside a cottage with thick walls and thatched roof, hugging a sheepdog. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62150] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Hon.ble Earl of St. Vincent, K.B. First Lord of the Admiralty and one of His Majesty's most Hon.ble Privy Council &c.&c.
J.Keenan Pinx.t. W.Barnard Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd August 10th, 1801, by W. Barnard, No 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, plate 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Horizontal crease hardly visible from front.
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB PC RN (1735-1823), whose improvements to the Royal Navy allowed him to boast to the House of Lords in 1801: 'I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea'.
CS: 14, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 59030] £380.00
J.Keenan Pinx.t. W.Barnard Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd August 10th, 1801, by W. Barnard, No 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, plate 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Horizontal crease hardly visible from front.
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB PC RN (1735-1823), whose improvements to the Royal Navy allowed him to boast to the House of Lords in 1801: 'I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea'.
CS: 14, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 59030] £380.00
To His Excellency the Marquis of Circello, His Sicilian Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to his Britanic Majesty. This Portrait of Admiral Lord Nelson, Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, & K.B. is by Permission Dedicated.
Gahagon Model.r. Barnard Sculp.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs 21t. Octr. 1805 being the day for commemorating his Lordship's ever memorable & Glorious Victory over the French, &c. &c. &c.
A rare mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed to within the platemark. Some light scuffing.
The bust of Horatio Nelson by Lawrence Gahagan (fl.1756-1820), engraved by William Barnard.
Parker: 687. From the Collection of Viscount Hood.
[Ref: 12414] £380.00
Gahagon Model.r. Barnard Sculp.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs 21t. Octr. 1805 being the day for commemorating his Lordship's ever memorable & Glorious Victory over the French, &c. &c. &c.
A rare mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed to within the platemark. Some light scuffing.
The bust of Horatio Nelson by Lawrence Gahagan (fl.1756-1820), engraved by William Barnard.
Parker: 687. From the Collection of Viscount Hood.
[Ref: 12414] £380.00
![The Plundering Vagrants, or, Gipsies Detected. [&] The Peasant's Integrity, or, Lost Lamb Restored.](jpegs/29031.jpg)
The Plundering Vagrants, or, Gipsies Detected. [&] The Peasant's Integrity, or, Lost Lamb Restored.
Painted by W.R. Bigg A. Engrav'd by W. Barnard.
London: Published March 28.th 1802. by W. Barnard, No.1 Fitzroy Str. Fitzroy Square.
Pair of fine mezzotints, printed in colour and hand finished. 481 x 604mm (19 x 23¾"), with large margins.
Two fine mezzotints after William Redmore Bigg: three peasant children returning a lamb to a shepherdess; and three children, in ragged clothes, plead with an older man, who holds a dead bird, shaking a cane at them.
[Ref: 29031] £680.00 view all images for this item
Painted by W.R. Bigg A. Engrav'd by W. Barnard.
London: Published March 28.th 1802. by W. Barnard, No.1 Fitzroy Str. Fitzroy Square.
Pair of fine mezzotints, printed in colour and hand finished. 481 x 604mm (19 x 23¾"), with large margins.
Two fine mezzotints after William Redmore Bigg: three peasant children returning a lamb to a shepherdess; and three children, in ragged clothes, plead with an older man, who holds a dead bird, shaking a cane at them.
[Ref: 29031] £680.00 view all images for this item
The Plundering Vagrants, or Gypsies Detected.
Painted by W. R. Bigg A. Engraved by W. Barnard.
London: Published March 28.th. by W. Barnard N.o.1. Fitzroy S.t., Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint partly printed in fine colour with very large margins. Plate: 600 x 480mm, (23 x 19"). Some slight staining and repaired / damaged missing right margin.
An exterior scene in which a man scolds three gypsy children after discovering them while out hunting with his dog. In the distance figures can be seen riding off into the woods.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35745] £360.00
Painted by W. R. Bigg A. Engraved by W. Barnard.
London: Published March 28.th. by W. Barnard N.o.1. Fitzroy S.t., Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint partly printed in fine colour with very large margins. Plate: 600 x 480mm, (23 x 19"). Some slight staining and repaired / damaged missing right margin.
An exterior scene in which a man scolds three gypsy children after discovering them while out hunting with his dog. In the distance figures can be seen riding off into the woods.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35745] £360.00
The Rivals, or a Military Position. There the Maiden sat and her beside [/] That rival soldier with a soldiers pride [/] With self approval in his manly face [/] He seem'd the leading spirit of the place.
Painted by W.m Watts. Engraved by W.m Barnard.
London, Published Jan.y 14th. 1826 by W.m Barnard.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet: 405 x 300mm (16 x 12"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight foxing at top.
A scene in a cottage in which a young woman sits next to a soldier looking suspicously at a second man, standing in the doorway.
[Ref: 42049] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by W.m Watts. Engraved by W.m Barnard.
London, Published Jan.y 14th. 1826 by W.m Barnard.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet: 405 x 300mm (16 x 12"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight foxing at top.
A scene in a cottage in which a young woman sits next to a soldier looking suspicously at a second man, standing in the doorway.
[Ref: 42049] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Scotland.
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark 1800. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark.
A figure representing Scotland as a young boy in a kilt, walking up a hill in the wind, holding down his tamoshanter. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62149] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark 1800. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark.
A figure representing Scotland as a young boy in a kilt, walking up a hill in the wind, holding down his tamoshanter. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62149] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Tonbridge Wells. Plate 3. Part 2. from the Common.
[G. Barnard.]
[London: Ackermann & Co., n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, fragment from a sheet of three landscape vignettes. Sheet 185 x 340mm, 7¼ x 13½". Glued to album page, glue stains to extremities.
Figures, some in carriages or on horseback, with a prospect of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, beyond. From the third plate of George Barnard's (d.1890) oblong folio 'Landscape reminiscences... Tonbridge Wells and its Vicinity'.
See Abbey Scenery 329, 3. See Wellcome Library no. 22944i.
[Ref: 24264] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[G. Barnard.]
[London: Ackermann & Co., n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, fragment from a sheet of three landscape vignettes. Sheet 185 x 340mm, 7¼ x 13½". Glued to album page, glue stains to extremities.
Figures, some in carriages or on horseback, with a prospect of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, beyond. From the third plate of George Barnard's (d.1890) oblong folio 'Landscape reminiscences... Tonbridge Wells and its Vicinity'.
See Abbey Scenery 329, 3. See Wellcome Library no. 22944i.
[Ref: 24264] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)