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[Chatham]
E. Duncan pinx. J. Godfrey sculp.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving. Plate size: 255 x 450mm. 10 x 17½".
A view of the Dockyard at Chatham from the opposite bank of the River Medway. Naval cadets are pictured rowing longboats across the river in the foreground as hulks lay at anchor in the mid-ground next to a finished Man-of-War, with the Dockyard and town beyond.
[Ref: 27938] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[The Tomb of Grace Darling.]
C.W. Nicholls 66. [engraved by John Godfrey.]
[London, Virtue & C.º] [n.d., c.1866]
Steel engraving, proof before letters. Printed area 180 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Spotting in borders.
A sentimental scene of children laying wild flowers on the Monument to Grace Darling (1815-1842), in the churchyard of St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, designed by Anthony Salvin. Darling was 22 years old when she risked her life in an open boat to help the survivors of the wrecked SS Forfarshire on 7 September 1838. With her father, she rowed from the Farne Islands for over a mile through raging seas to reach them. She died of tuberculosis three years later, aged only 26.
[Ref: 69065] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Dartmouth]
G. H. Andrews pinx. J. Godfrey sculp.
[n.d. c.1870.]
Engraving. Plate size: 260 x 450mm. 10¼ x 17¾".
A view of Dartmouth Harbour. Various shipping vessels can be seen in the water.
[Ref: 27942] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Dr. Simon Forman, Astrologer. Engraved from the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble Lord Mountstuart.
Bulfinch del. Godfrey Sc.
[Publish'd July 7. 1776 by F. Blyth, No.87 Cornhill.]
Engraving. 146 x 82mm. Horizontal crease. Rust markings.
Simon Forman (1552-1611) was arguably the most popular Elizabethan astrologist. Forman dates the first public performance of Macbeth at the outdoor Globe Theatre in April 1611. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18455] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Battle of Navarino.
J. Rarnage. J. Godfrey.
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Engraving. 171 x 222mm (6¾ x 8¾). Cut.
Battle of Navarino, 20th October 1827, part of the Greek War of Independence (1821-32). The combined Ottoman and Egyptain armada were destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force.
[Ref: 15110] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
To the Commanders in the Honourable the East India's Company's Service This view of the Neptune East Indiaman; Capt. Gab.l Steward, in a Storm in Lat. 19.º.30' So. Long. 88.º18E. of London, is humbly inscribed by their most obliged Servant Henry Parker. [and] To Capt. Gab.l Steward, this view of the Neptune East Indiaman, with the Machine she was steered by, after the loss of her Rudder, in Lat. 19.º 30'So.. Long. 88º 18'E.t. of London, Is Humbly inscribed by his most obedient Servant, Henry Parker.
R.B. Godfrey sculp.
Publish'd Oct. 21st. 1768, by Henry Parker, at No 82. Cornhill, London.
Pair of engravings. Ea. 430 x 535mm, 17 x 21". A few small tears.
A fine example of naval ingenuity: having lost their rudder the crew devised a make-shift steering device.
[Ref: 2747] £900.00
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Ships in Distress.
Brooking pinx.t B.B. Godfrey sculp.t
Published 12.th April by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Coloured engraving. Plate 293 x 420mm. 11½ x 16½". Tatty margins.
Three ships in distress, trying to cope on a choppy, breezy sea with cliffs to the right.
[Ref: 24710] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[A stormy sea with two ships and a buoy at centre.] Engraved after an Original Picture of Monamy in the possession of Mr Bradford.
Monamy pinxit. R. B. Godfrey Sculpsit.
T. Bradford Fleet Street, excudit [n.d., c.1770].
Rare engraving. 350 x 500mm (13¾ x 19¾"). Narrow margins, slight creasing.
A seascape with high waves under an angry sky: one vessel struggling near rocks in right foreground, with figures on deck rushing to furl the sails; the other beyond at left. After Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
[Ref: 26457] £350.00
[A stormy sea with two ships and a buoy at centre.] Engraved after an Original Picture of Monamy in the possession of Mr Bradford.
Monamy pinxit. R. B. Godfrey Sculpsit.
T. Bradford Fleet Street, excudit [n.d., c.1770].
Rare engraving. 350 x 500mm (13¾ x 19¾"). Small hole in sky repaired. Small margins.
A seascape with high waves under an angry sky: one vessel struggling near rocks in right foreground, with figures on deck rushing to furl the sails; the other beyond at left. After Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
[Ref: 57647] £350.00
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