A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The African Hog.
Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 15, 1805.
A very rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 380 x 505mm (15 x 20"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate,
A bushpig at a watering hole, a tribesman with hunting dogs behind, published in Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals', one of the scarcest plate books on South Africa. Despite the inscription it had been suggesed that the plates were in fact engraved by William Daniell. Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
Abbey: 321.
[Ref: 52840] £550.00
Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 15, 1805.
A very rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 380 x 505mm (15 x 20"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate,
A bushpig at a watering hole, a tribesman with hunting dogs behind, published in Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals', one of the scarcest plate books on South Africa. Despite the inscription it had been suggesed that the plates were in fact engraved by William Daniell. Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
Abbey: 321.
[Ref: 52840] £550.00
A Bosjesman. A Bojeswoman. A Booshuana Woman. A Booshuana Man.
Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Nov.r 15, 1805.
A very rare coloured aquatint. 380 x 505mm, 15 x 20", on thick paper.
Hand and shoulders portraits of four Africans, two bushmen and two Bechuana natives (now Botswana), published in Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals', one of the scarcest plate books on South Africa. Despite the inscription it had been suggesed that the plates were in fact engraved by William Daniell. Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
Abbey: 321.
[Ref: 23655] £360.00
Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Nov.r 15, 1805.
A very rare coloured aquatint. 380 x 505mm, 15 x 20", on thick paper.
Hand and shoulders portraits of four Africans, two bushmen and two Bechuana natives (now Botswana), published in Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals', one of the scarcest plate books on South Africa. Despite the inscription it had been suggesed that the plates were in fact engraved by William Daniell. Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
Abbey: 321.
[Ref: 23655] £360.00
Cascade on Sneuwberg. No.25.
[Drawn & Engraved by Samuel Daniell.]
London, Published 1831 by R. Havell, 77 Oxford Street.
Fine aquatint with hand colour, J. Whatman watermark. 380 x 505mm (15 x 20"), with very large margins.
A large waterfall, with cranes standing in the water, and a lion and lioness approaching to drink. From Robert Havell's reissue of 'African Scenery and Animals' (1804-5) by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). A topographical draughtsman and painter of animals, Samuel was the nephew of Thomas Daniell and younger brother of William Daniell. He joined General Dundas's expedition in South Africa in 1801, executing drawings there of landscape, people and animals.
See Abbey Travel 321 for the first edition.
[Ref: 49615] £520.00
[Drawn & Engraved by Samuel Daniell.]
London, Published 1831 by R. Havell, 77 Oxford Street.
Fine aquatint with hand colour, J. Whatman watermark. 380 x 505mm (15 x 20"), with very large margins.
A large waterfall, with cranes standing in the water, and a lion and lioness approaching to drink. From Robert Havell's reissue of 'African Scenery and Animals' (1804-5) by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). A topographical draughtsman and painter of animals, Samuel was the nephew of Thomas Daniell and younger brother of William Daniell. He joined General Dundas's expedition in South Africa in 1801, executing drawings there of landscape, people and animals.
See Abbey Travel 321 for the first edition.
[Ref: 49615] £520.00
Wild Boar. No.V.
Drawn by Samuel Daniell.
[London, R. Havell?, c.1831.]
Fine aquatint. 385 x 500mm (15¼ x 19¾"), with wide margins.
A wild boar at a watering hole, from Robert Havell's reissue of 'African Scenery and Animals' (1804-5) by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
See Abbey Travel 321 for the first edition.
[Ref: 52841] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Samuel Daniell.
[London, R. Havell?, c.1831.]
Fine aquatint. 385 x 500mm (15¼ x 19¾"), with wide margins.
A wild boar at a watering hole, from Robert Havell's reissue of 'African Scenery and Animals' (1804-5) by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
See Abbey Travel 321 for the first edition.
[Ref: 52841] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)