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Mr. Blakes as Monsr. la Medicine [faint pencil mss. below image in blue wash frame.] Mr Blakes [ink mss.]
De Wilde [in image lower right.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Pen and ink and watercolour, image 239 x 165mm.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7807] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Alexander Chalmers M.A. and F.S.A. Died Dec.r. 10.th. 1834, Aged 75.
Drawn on Stone by G.P.Harding from a drawing by W.Behnes in the possession of E.N.Thornton Esq.re.
Pub.d. June 15.th 1837, by G.P.Harding, Hercules Buildins, Lambeth. Day & Haghe Lith.rs. to the King.
Some slight foxing and surface dirt. Large margins.
Half portrait of Scottish writer and journalist Alexander Chalmers (1759-1934). Chalmers originally trained as a doctor but gave up medicine to pursue writing. As well as publishing various editions of works by writers such as Pope, Shakespeare and Johnson, Chalmers published a 'General Biographical Dictionary' (1812-17) and a 'Glossary to Shakespeare' (1807).
[Ref: 35348] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Charles Green, Aeronaut. Born Jany. 31st 1785. First ascended on the 10th July 1821, at the Coronation of King George the 4th since which he has made up to this date Jul 9th 1839, Two Hundred and Sixty-nine ascents. [Facsimile signature:] Chas Green.
G.P.Harding, F.S.A. advisam delt. et fecit. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
Pubd. July 9th 1839, by G.P.Harding, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth.
Lithograph on india paper. India 203 x 140. Publisher's blind stamp in bottom right-hand corner. India laid.
Head and shoulders portrait, with a balloon in the background.
[Ref: 19435] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
William Hogarth. From the Original by himself in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford. / Inscription on the back of the Picture. / This Portrait of M.r Hogarth was made me a present of by him in friendly return for a Tobacco Box I gave him. S.m Graves, Chiswick, 29th Dec.r 1761.
G.P. Harding del.t et fecit. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Publ.d June 1828 by G.. Harding, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth.
Slight spotting in margins.
After the portrait still at Woburn Abbey.
[Ref: 47447] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. John Inville. Elected Vestry Clerk of the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, in the County of Surrey, on the 2nd day of February in the Year 1780.
Drawn on Stone by G.P. Harding. From a Painting by C. Coventry 1835.
Published by G.P. Harding, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
Tears into right-hand margin. Paper toning.
John Inville (1750-1837) holding a 'Vestry Book'; elected by the vestry to keep a record of the Church's proceedings and to keep the parish accounts and books. See NPG: D36450.
[Ref: 20253] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
John Joseph Merlin, The Celebrated Mechanic.
G.P.H. delt. et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Trimmed into lower edge of plate.
John-Joseph Merlin was born in 1735 in the city of Huy, Belgium, and died in 1803 in London. He was an inventor, noted for the invention of roller skates. He also improved musical instruments and manufactured automats, such as Cox's timepiece. He created Merlin's Mechanical Museum to display his machines. Probably by George Perfect Harding (1781 - 1853), portrait painter, copyist and antiquary.
[Ref: 7523] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
John Joseph Merlin, The Celebrated Mechanic.
C.P.H. del.t et Sculp. [after Thomas Gainsborough]
[Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, or, Magazine of Remarkable characters 1803].
Trimmed within plate. Title removed and glued to the print.
[Ref: 57060] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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