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A Bermudian Sloop, with a View Upon the Spanish Main.
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 290 x 435mm (11½ x 17"). Trimmed inside plate.
Plate 30 of 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 55162] £450.00
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 290 x 435mm (11½ x 17"). Trimmed inside plate.
Plate 30 of 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 55162] £450.00
Jenny Cameron.
Hogarth Pinxt.
Published as the Act directs by J. Clarke, No.291, Strand Febuary 8th. 1788.
A rare stipple. Plate 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), good margins.
Jenny Cameron (c.1700-1772) was a Jacobite of Glendessary, Loch Arkaig. In 1745 she raised a troop of men in support of the Jacobite Rebellion. She was represented in Hanoverian propaganda as, alternatively, a woman soldier or the mistress of the Young Pretender.
Not in Sharpe.
[Ref: 20099] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Hogarth Pinxt.
Published as the Act directs by J. Clarke, No.291, Strand Febuary 8th. 1788.
A rare stipple. Plate 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), good margins.
Jenny Cameron (c.1700-1772) was a Jacobite of Glendessary, Loch Arkaig. In 1745 she raised a troop of men in support of the Jacobite Rebellion. She was represented in Hanoverian propaganda as, alternatively, a woman soldier or the mistress of the Young Pretender.
Not in Sharpe.
[Ref: 20099] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Rich.d Cosway Esq.r
J. Clarke Sculp.t
Published as the Act directs by John Clarke, No 291 Strand, June 1st 1788.
Stipple printed in brown, platemark 190 x 115mm (7½ x 4½") very large margins.
Richard Cosway (bap.1742-d.1821), artist and collector, engraved after a self-portrait in Van Dyck dress. The most important and fashionable portrait miniaturist and draughtsman of the late eighteenth century, Cosway's delicate style and flattering portrayals epitomized Regency society. He was the principle recorder of the prince of Waless' image from 1780 to 1808, and exerted great influence on the prince's taste and collecting during that period. Cosway was also a significant connoisseur and collector in his own right, in which capacity he was admired and respected by contemporaries such as William Beckford, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and William Hazlitt.
O'D 4
[Ref: 41277] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
J. Clarke Sculp.t
Published as the Act directs by John Clarke, No 291 Strand, June 1st 1788.
Stipple printed in brown, platemark 190 x 115mm (7½ x 4½") very large margins.
Richard Cosway (bap.1742-d.1821), artist and collector, engraved after a self-portrait in Van Dyck dress. The most important and fashionable portrait miniaturist and draughtsman of the late eighteenth century, Cosway's delicate style and flattering portrayals epitomized Regency society. He was the principle recorder of the prince of Waless' image from 1780 to 1808, and exerted great influence on the prince's taste and collecting during that period. Cosway was also a significant connoisseur and collector in his own right, in which capacity he was admired and respected by contemporaries such as William Beckford, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and William Hazlitt.
O'D 4
[Ref: 41277] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Adventures of Robert Drury. ] Shipwreck of the Degrave East Indiaman.](jpegs/45671.jpg)
[The Adventures of Robert Drury. ] Shipwreck of the Degrave East Indiaman. Vide Page 12. [and] Mr R. Drury and Rer Ambarroch's Wife and Daughter.
T. Clark sc. Edin.
[Edinburgh? c.1805.]
Two scarce engravings. each c.140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed.
Two scenes from an edition of the diary of Robert Drury (1687- between 1743-50), an English sailor who was shipwrecked aged seventeen on Madagascar in 1701, spending the next fifteen years as a slave of a native king. Rer Ambarroch was a local prince whose family Drury captures for his master. Drury escaped and arrived back in London in 1717, after which he became a slave trader, pirate and, finally, a porter at East India House. His account was first published in 1729, probably ghost-written by Daniel Defoe. Although some detail is cribbed from Etienne de Flacourt' History of Madagascar (1658) there is enough to convince modern scholars that much is first hand.
[Ref: 45671] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
T. Clark sc. Edin.
[Edinburgh? c.1805.]
Two scarce engravings. each c.140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed.
Two scenes from an edition of the diary of Robert Drury (1687- between 1743-50), an English sailor who was shipwrecked aged seventeen on Madagascar in 1701, spending the next fifteen years as a slave of a native king. Rer Ambarroch was a local prince whose family Drury captures for his master. Drury escaped and arrived back in London in 1717, after which he became a slave trader, pirate and, finally, a porter at East India House. His account was first published in 1729, probably ghost-written by Daniel Defoe. Although some detail is cribbed from Etienne de Flacourt' History of Madagascar (1658) there is enough to convince modern scholars that much is first hand.
[Ref: 45671] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![Flood [pencil.]](jpegs/11958.jpg)
Flood [pencil.]
Grace L.Clarke. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1940.]
Woodcut. Printed area 130 x 205mm, 5 x 8".
[Ref: 11958] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Grace L.Clarke. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1940.]
Woodcut. Printed area 130 x 205mm, 5 x 8".
[Ref: 11958] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Water Spout Seen Near The Lipari Islands.
Engraved by Clarke, from a Drawing by Kangursseer for the Gallery of Nature and Art.
London, Published by R.N. Rose, 45 Holborn Hill, May 1, 1820.
Engraving, plate 135 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼"), with small margins. Tears to margins.
A view of a water spout near the Italian islands of Lipari. A ship sails away from the phenomenon and appears to be blasting its cannons at it, other ships sail on the horizon. From "The Gallery of Nature and Art: or, A Tour Through Creation and Science" by the Rev. Edward Polehampton & John M. Good.
[Ref: 57035] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Clarke, from a Drawing by Kangursseer for the Gallery of Nature and Art.
London, Published by R.N. Rose, 45 Holborn Hill, May 1, 1820.
Engraving, plate 135 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼"), with small margins. Tears to margins.
A view of a water spout near the Italian islands of Lipari. A ship sails away from the phenomenon and appears to be blasting its cannons at it, other ships sail on the horizon. From "The Gallery of Nature and Art: or, A Tour Through Creation and Science" by the Rev. Edward Polehampton & John M. Good.
[Ref: 57035] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
A Chasse-Maree, with a View of the Citadel of Palais at Belleisle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, large margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Extensive tear repaired.
A fast lugger, designed to get fish ashore as fast as possible, off Le Palais, a fortified port on the island of Belle Île, Britanny. Plate 32 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31904] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, large margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Extensive tear repaired.
A fast lugger, designed to get fish ashore as fast as possible, off Le Palais, a fortified port on the island of Belle Île, Britanny. Plate 32 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31904] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
A Collier, with a View of the South Foreland.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, small margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼").
A collier, a coal-carrier, at anchor of South Foreland, the closest part of the British mainland to Europe, just north of Dover. Plate 20 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31895] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, small margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼").
A collier, a coal-carrier, at anchor of South Foreland, the closest part of the British mainland to Europe, just north of Dover. Plate 20 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31895] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
A Cutter, with a View of South Sea Castle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom right. Some creasing. Holes near bottom edge where previously bound.
Small boats off Southsea Castle, the fort built by Henry VIII to protect Portsmouth. Plate 19 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (and so perhaps explaining the coastal defences shown here). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 53540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom right. Some creasing. Holes near bottom edge where previously bound.
Small boats off Southsea Castle, the fort built by Henry VIII to protect Portsmouth. Plate 19 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (and so perhaps explaining the coastal defences shown here). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 53540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
A Dutch Fishing Boat with a View of Helvoit Sluys.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, small margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tears.
Fishermen of Hellevoetsluis in South Holland. Plate 34 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31901] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, small margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tears.
Fishermen of Hellevoetsluis in South Holland. Plate 34 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31901] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
A Sloop, with a View of Calshot Castle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom on right.
A sloop passing Calshot Castle, near Fawley, Hampshire. A device fort, Calshot was built by Henry VIII to help defend Southampton, using stone from Beaulieu Abbey. Plate 18 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (perhaps explaining the presence of Calshot Castle in this scene). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31900] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom on right.
A sloop passing Calshot Castle, near Fawley, Hampshire. A device fort, Calshot was built by Henry VIII to help defend Southampton, using stone from Beaulieu Abbey. Plate 18 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (perhaps explaining the presence of Calshot Castle in this scene). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31900] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Polacca with a View of Stromboli.
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 265 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, losing publication line. Very small repaired hole top left.
A Polacca, a two-masted ship with a lateen hoisted on the foremast), before the smoking volcano Stomboli. Polacca is Italian for 'Polish woman'. From 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 54215] £320.00
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 265 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, losing publication line. Very small repaired hole top left.
A Polacca, a two-masted ship with a lateen hoisted on the foremast), before the smoking volcano Stomboli. Polacca is Italian for 'Polish woman'. From 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 54215] £320.00
Summer Palace of the Emperor, opposite the City of Tien-Sing.
Hon.ble Charles Abbot del.t. J. Clarke sculp.t.
[London, John Murray, 1817.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 250mm (6¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed boarder and laid on album paper.
From 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China', an account of the Amherst Embassy by Henry Ellis.
[Ref: 55497] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Hon.ble Charles Abbot del.t. J. Clarke sculp.t.
[London, John Murray, 1817.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 250mm (6¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed boarder and laid on album paper.
From 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China', an account of the Amherst Embassy by Henry Ellis.
[Ref: 55497] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![[Venus sitting in a shell.]](jpegs/58072.jpg)
[Venus sitting in a shell.]
[engraved by John Clarke after Francesco Bartolozzi.]
Circular stipple, with etched frame-like border. 380 x 330mm (15 x 13") very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed within plate at bottom. Slight creasing.
Venus sitting in a shell, pushed by nymphs and a sea monster. The image was originally published by John Clarke in 1790; the border is a later addition.
[Ref: 58072] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[engraved by John Clarke after Francesco Bartolozzi.]
Circular stipple, with etched frame-like border. 380 x 330mm (15 x 13") very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed within plate at bottom. Slight creasing.
Venus sitting in a shell, pushed by nymphs and a sea monster. The image was originally published by John Clarke in 1790; the border is a later addition.
[Ref: 58072] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)