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![[Richard Brent] Poor Old Tom Thumb, now living in Bristol, at the Age of 105.](jpegs/48806.jpg)
[Richard Brent] Poor Old Tom Thumb, now living in Bristol, at the Age of 105. From an Original Picture in the Collection of Mr. Spackman, in the Picture Gallery at Bath.
T. Barker Pinx.t. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London Pub, July 19. 1790, by Mr Spakeman. Bath.
Rare stipple. 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Framed. Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of Richard Brent (1682-1790), a centenarian known as Old Tom Thumb, engraved by William Nelson Gardiner after an oil by Thomas Barker of Bath now in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. A pedlar who worked the Bristol and Bath area, Brent married four times and had 32 children: Barker painted him three times, raising his profile so much that Bath society they raised money to give the pedlar a weekly income in his old age.
Wellcome Library: V0007336.
[Ref: 48806] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
T. Barker Pinx.t. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London Pub, July 19. 1790, by Mr Spakeman. Bath.
Rare stipple. 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Framed. Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of Richard Brent (1682-1790), a centenarian known as Old Tom Thumb, engraved by William Nelson Gardiner after an oil by Thomas Barker of Bath now in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. A pedlar who worked the Bristol and Bath area, Brent married four times and had 32 children: Barker painted him three times, raising his profile so much that Bath society they raised money to give the pedlar a weekly income in his old age.
Wellcome Library: V0007336.
[Ref: 48806] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![Cupid Turned Volunteer: In A Series of Prints, Designed By ***** [Princess Elizabeth];](jpegs/59283.jpg)
Cupid Turned Volunteer: In A Series of Prints, Designed By ***** [Princess Elizabeth]; And Engraved By W.N. Gardiner, With Poetical Illustrations By Thomas Park, F.S.A.
London: Printed By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, For E. Harding, Pall-Mall Court; And Sold By W.N. Gardiner, No. 48, Pall Mall. 1804.
4to, contemporary boards; half-title, title, dedication and preface; frontispiece and 11 fine colour-printed stipple engravings, each with a page of verse, and 1pp. 'Notes'. Boards distressed, inner hinges stained.
A series of charming stipples showing putti with a variety of military motifs after the designs of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840), third daughter of George III and a talented artist. Thomas Park (1759-1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer.
[Ref: 59283] £790.00 view all images for this item
London: Printed By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, For E. Harding, Pall-Mall Court; And Sold By W.N. Gardiner, No. 48, Pall Mall. 1804.
4to, contemporary boards; half-title, title, dedication and preface; frontispiece and 11 fine colour-printed stipple engravings, each with a page of verse, and 1pp. 'Notes'. Boards distressed, inner hinges stained.
A series of charming stipples showing putti with a variety of military motifs after the designs of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840), third daughter of George III and a talented artist. Thomas Park (1759-1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer.
[Ref: 59283] £790.00 view all images for this item
Busick Harwood, M.D. F.R.S. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge.
S. Harding Del. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London. Pub. May 27, 1790, by E. Harding No.132 Fleet Street.
Stipple, open-lettered state. 508 x 381mm (20 x 15"), with very large margins.
Sir Busick Harwood (c.1745-1814) the English physician and anatomist who became Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge. He was educated as an apothecary, but passed as a surgeon and travelled to India, where he cured a nabob who was wounded in the eye. He returned to England where he was knighted and appointed professor of anatomy. His right hand is holding an anatomical model.
NPG: D35557. Wellcome: 1314-1.
[Ref: 30136] £380.00
S. Harding Del. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London. Pub. May 27, 1790, by E. Harding No.132 Fleet Street.
Stipple, open-lettered state. 508 x 381mm (20 x 15"), with very large margins.
Sir Busick Harwood (c.1745-1814) the English physician and anatomist who became Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge. He was educated as an apothecary, but passed as a surgeon and travelled to India, where he cured a nabob who was wounded in the eye. He returned to England where he was knighted and appointed professor of anatomy. His right hand is holding an anatomical model.
NPG: D35557. Wellcome: 1314-1.
[Ref: 30136] £380.00
Falstaff at Justice Shallows Mustering his Recruits. Vide, Second part of Henry IV, Act 3, Sc.3.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. N. Gardiner Sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1792 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof with scratched letter title and no dedication. 415 x 480mm (16¼ x 19"). Repaired tears in margin, one entering title. Creasing bottom left. Very large margins on 3 sides.
Falstaff seated at a table, preparing to interview a timid young man, as another potential recruit is sent away with bowed head. This state lacks the dedication to Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York, owner of the original drawing.
[Ref: 55394] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. N. Gardiner Sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1792 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof with scratched letter title and no dedication. 415 x 480mm (16¼ x 19"). Repaired tears in margin, one entering title. Creasing bottom left. Very large margins on 3 sides.
Falstaff seated at a table, preparing to interview a timid young man, as another potential recruit is sent away with bowed head. This state lacks the dedication to Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York, owner of the original drawing.
[Ref: 55394] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Falstaff at Justice Shallow's Mustering his Recruits. Vide, Second part of Henry IV, Act 3, Sc.3. From an Original Drawing in the Collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this Plate is by Her Royal Highnesses most Gracious Permission humbly Dedicated by Her Royal Highnesses most obed.t Serv.t Tho.s Macklin.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. N. Gardiner Sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1792 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple. Sheet 415 x 480mm (16¼ x 19"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear in unprinted area on left.
Falstaff seated at a table, preparing to interview a timid young man, as another potential recruit is sent away with bowed head.
[Ref: 55395] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. N. Gardiner Sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1792 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple. Sheet 415 x 480mm (16¼ x 19"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear in unprinted area on left.
Falstaff seated at a table, preparing to interview a timid young man, as another potential recruit is sent away with bowed head.
[Ref: 55395] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)