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Achilles's Life Painted by Sr. Peter Paul Rubens and Engrav'd by B. Baron - London. 1724. [inside image on plinth.]
Achilles's Life Painted by Sr. Peter Paul Rubens and Engrav'd by B. Baron - London. 1724. [inside image on plinth.] Vivo celeberrimo Richardo Mead; Medicina Doctori; meritissimo Societatis Regiae Collegug Londinensium medicorum Socio; in sua Arte maximum inter primarios nomen adepto, reliquarum omnium diligentissimo cultore fartorig munificentissimo; has octo Tabulas Achillis vitam exhibentes, ad ipsa Petri Pauli Rubens exemplaria, quae cum multis alus raris cimelus sibi magnis sumptibus, nec minore judicio ac delectu, Vir ille Antiquuatis eruditae studiossissimus conquisivit, incosas; eo quo par est, officio humillime. D.D.D. Bernardus Baron.
[n.d. c. 1780.] Sold by Tho. Bowles Printseller, in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Engraving. Plate 448 x 336mm. 17¾ x 13¼". Creases into the image. Small tears.
During his stay in London from 1712-1729, Bernard Baron etched The Life of Achilles. Baron may have used preparatory paintings executed by his collaborator Du Bosc as models for this suite of etchings, rather than the original oil sketches by Rubens.
[Ref: 14411]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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C. Julius Caesar. De Anaglypho antiquo ex marmore, Clypei forma, in Museo Richardi Mead M.D. Nummi.
C. Julius Caesar. De Anaglypho antiquo ex marmore, Clypei forma, in Museo Richardi Mead M.D. Nummi. [Three coins marked below:] Ex Argento. Ex Aere Magno. Ex Auro.
Wood del. B. Baron sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Etching. 362 x 254mm. 14½ x 10". Trimmed .
The great Gaius Julius Caesar (100BC - 44BC), Roman general and statesman. He played a fundamental role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Emperor. He was responsible for extending Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine, and was the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain.
[Ref: 22261]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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At Last Divine Cecilia Came, Inventress of the Vocal Frame &c. Dryden.
At Last Divine Cecilia Came, Inventress of the Vocal Frame &c. Dryden. To Her Royal Highness the Lady Augusta. This plate is with all humility dedicated by her Royal Highness's most obed.t & most humble serv.t B. Baron.
Carlo Dolcé Pinx.t. B. Baron Sculp. 1759.
Engraved from the original painting of Carlo Dolce in the Collection of Charles Chauncey M.D.
Engraving. Printed area: 500 x 370mm (19¾ x 14½"). Laid on board.
A three quarter length portrait of St. Cecilia, the Christian patron saint of music, playing the organ, seated facing right, with a halo.
[Ref: 35764]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Evening.
Evening.
Engraved by B. Baron.
Invented Painted & Publish'd by W.m Hogarth March 25th 1738. according to Act of Parliament.
Engraving. Sheet: 500 x 410mm (20 x 16½''), Trimmed to platemark.
A plate from Hogarth's famous satire of London life 'Times of Day', first published in 1738. Showing Sadlers Wells, with henpecked males, the older of which had cuckold's horns. Hogarth updated his paintings to match the engravings: a proof of plate three exists without the scolding girl.
See Paulson 146-149.
[Ref: 48535]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, &c. &c. &c.. 1755]
[His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, &c. &c. &c.. 1755]
Adolphe Pinxit. B. Baron Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1755]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 565 x 460mm (22¼ x 18"). Trimmed, losing title.
A portrait of George III, when the Prince of Wales, astride a rearing horse (1738-1820). George became heir to the throne when his father died from a lung infection. A damaged impression of this large and impressive image.
[Ref: 54069]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Jacobus Gibbs Architectus.
Jacobus Gibbs Architectus. 1747.
Will.m Hogarth delin. B. Baron Sculp.
[London: Gibbs, 1747.]
Etching, fine impression; 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed into plate on left.
A half-length portrait of James Gibbs (1682-1754) after William Hogarth, within a decorative oval frame resting on a pedestal. The frontispiece to 'Bibliotheca Radcliviana, or a Short description of the Radcliffe Library at Oxford' by written and published by Gibbs.
[Ref: 61375]   £360.00  
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Le Bouc de Juida.
Le Bouc de Juida. Tom. III. Pl. XIII. pag. 96.
De Seve del. Baron Sc.
[n.d. c.1766.]
Coloured engraving; paper watermarked. Plate 215 x 171mm (8½ x 6¾). Small margins.
A long-horned goat with long white coat stands in the moonlight; building with minaret stands to the left in background. A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. It is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. From Buffon's "L’Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi" and particularly from his "douze volumes sur les quadrupèdes (de 1753 à 1767)".
[Ref: 52383]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr Benjamin Hoadly,
The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester... Aet. 67. A.D.1743.
W Hogarth Pinx. B. Baron Sculp.
[London, 1743.]
Engraving. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 11½"). A fine impression with full margins.
Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly (1676 - 1761), Bishop of Winchester and controversialist. His left hand is raised as if in blessing, he wears a shoulder length curly white wig and grand ecclesiastical robes; a draped curtain and stained glass in the background. Hoadly, poet, dramatist and clergyman, and son of the Bishop of Winchester, wrote texts for oratorios and musical plays. It has been argued that the plate for this portrait preceded the painting by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764), and that Baron initially copied the Huntington portrait - see Paulson, p.189.
Paulson 1989: 226. NPG: D35866.
[Ref: 18337]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Homerus.
Homerus. De Aereo Capite olim penes illustriss. Comitem Arundellium, nunc in Museo Richardi Mead. M.D.
Wood del. B. Baron sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, 360 x 250mm. 14¼ x 9¾". A fine impression with full margins.
Head of Homer ( 9th century BC - 8th century BC; fl.c.), epic poet; presumed author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. In profile in an oval frame, wearing a circlet; from an antique bas-relief in copper in the collection of Richard Mead and previously in the collection of the Earl of Arundel. Lettered below title with five lines of Latin quotation from Cedrenus's history describing how the head as from an ancient and celebrated statue of Homer said to have been destroyed by fire in Constantinople in the time of Emperor Justinian. After Thomas Wood.
[Ref: 22356]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Jew.]
[A Jew.] Juif.
J.B. B.Baron sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving, early 18th century watermark. Mint. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47103]   £650.00  
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The Honourable Charles Leigh of Leighton Bedfordshire.
The Honourable Charles Leigh of Leighton Bedfordshire.
B. Baron Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1770.]
Fine copper engraving with large margins. Plate 362 x 260mm. 14¼ x 10¼".
Charles Leigh (d.1704), second son of Thomas, 1st Lord Leigh.
NPG: D37283.
[Ref: 27335]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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A Monument Dedicated to Posterity in commemoration of ye incredible Folly transacted in the Year 1720.
A Monument Dedicated to Posterity in commemoration of ye incredible Folly transacted in the Year 1720. [...] Just grav'd 4 prints upon the humours of Stock Jobbing, with a list of the bubbles & what each sold at when highest.
B. Picart inv.t. B. Baron sculp.t.
Printed for Carington Bowles, in St Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1765].
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. 275 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
A reversed English version of a satire on the Mississippi Bubble by Bernard Picart, showing investors eager to buy 'Mississippi Company' shares from the cart of Fortune, led by Folly and drawn by allegorical figures of the various companies (South Sea, Mississippi, West India, East India) and the Bank of England. The spokes of the wheel visible are inscribed with the names of several popular schemes, referring to the York Buildings Company (designed to supply water in London), Mining, Silk Manufacture and others. The Devil is sat on a cloud, blowing bubbles. Next to him rays emanate from a cloud, naming the consequences of economic speculation: 'Extream Joy', 'Madness', 'Prison', 'Beggery' etc. In the background buildings are named: 'Jonathan's', the coffee house famous as a scene of early share trading (replacing John Law's home, Quinquenpoix, in Picart's original); Bethlehem, the mental hospital famed as Bedlam; and the 'Hos. of Beggers'. This English version was originally published in 1720; this example was published by his nephew Carington Bowles, who took over his business in 1762.
BM: 1629. For Picart image see 35858.
[Ref: 58016]   £480.00  
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John Palmer.
John Palmer. Visibilia Temporaria.
W. Hogarth Pinx. B. Baron Sculp.
1749.
Rare etching, sheet 100 x 65mm (4 x 2¾") Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of John Palmer (1749- (fl.)), Barrister of the Inner Temple, bust to the left, wearing cravat and cap, in circle; arms below and motto 'Visibilia Temporaria'.
R. Paulson page 14. BM C.C.1.148.
[Ref: 59105]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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To The Rt. Hon.ble Edward Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, This Plate is humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Ser.t Ja: Gibbs.
To The Rt. Hon.ble Edward Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, This Plate is humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Ser.t Ja: Gibbs.
[Antoine Coysevox.] B. Baron Sculp.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate 400 x 260mm. 15¾ x 10¼". Mint.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) the poet, politician and diplomat is buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, where sits this monument by James Gibbs, and the bust by Antoine Coysevox.
See NPG: D40754.
[Ref: 20070]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Stowe Gardens] View from the Head of the Lake.
[Stowe Gardens] View from the Head of the Lake. Veüe prise sur le Bord, ou à la Têste du Lac.
Rigaud & Baron del. & sculp.
Publish'd by S. Bridgeman May 12. 1739.
Etching, 360 x 510mm (14¼ x 20"). Tatty extremities, with closed tears, one into upper left of plate. One rust spot to centre of image.
A pleasure cruise or ferryboat on the lake at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, with three smaller rowing boats surrounding. A fountain in the background, the park with the house in the distance on the left shore. Stowe was begun by Sir Richard Temple in 1676, his family having risen from sheep farmers under Elizabeth I. Over the next century, Viscount Cobham and then Earl Temple (Cobham’s Grenville nephew) rebuilt it into the great classical show house and landscape which still amazes visitors today. Numerous famous architects worked at Stowe House and Gardens. Among them were Sir John Vanbrugh, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Thomas Pitt and Sir John Soane, making Stowe one of the most important houses and estates in the country. The house is now part of Stowe School, founded in 1923. Plate 12 to the series 'Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire' published by Sarah Bridgeman, wife of Charles Bridgeman who in 1733-34 commissioned Jacques Rigaud and Bernard Baron to engrave some views of Stowe. Numbered '12' lower right. The laid paper is watermarked.
[Ref: 11731]   £320.00  
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His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland. &c. &c.
His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland. &c. &c. With a view of the routed Rebel Army near Culloden.
J. Wootton Pinxit. B. Baron Sculp.
Publish'd according to the Act of Parliament August the 10.th, 1747. Printed for and Sold by Bern.d Baron in Panton Square Piccadilly, Tho.s Bowlesin S.t Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles at y.e Black Horse [...].
Extremely rare engraving, trimmed. 565 x 400 (22¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate. Creasing in each corner. Repaired tear upper right edge and a second tear towards the middle of the right edge. Damaged. Diagonal crease from top right.
A portrait of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1756), on horseback with a view of the Battle of Culloden in the background. William was nicknamed 'The Butcher' after the battle, a brutal suppression of the Jacobite Rising which saw hundreds killed, hanged or imprisoned.
[Ref: 54068]   £340.00   (£408.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hon.ble Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke,
The Right Hon.ble Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. 1749.
A. Ramsay Pinx. B. Baron Sculp.
[c.1749.]
Fine engraving. 530 x 340mm (20¾ x 13½"). Small hole in background top right, narrow margins.
Full length portrait of Philip Yorke (1690-1764), first Earl of Hardwicke, in the robes of his office of Lord Chancellor, one hand supporting the purse of office.
[Ref: 55970]   £360.00  
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