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John Broster Esqr. F.A.S. Edinburgh.
John Syme, pinxit. T. Hodgetts, fecit. Published (at the request of his pupils) from an original picture by Syme.
Sold by Archibald Constable & Co. and William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside & Pall Mall, London, Feby. 2nd. 1825. _ Price 10/6.
Mezzotint on india paper, first state before spectacles are erased from hand and engraved on nose. Image 180 x 145mm, 7 x 5¾". Lacking margins; surface rubbed, cut inside platemark.
Portrait of John Broster, inventor of system for removal of speech impediments; seated in an armchair, holding spectacles in his right hand, his left elbow resting on a book lettered with 'Art of Speaking', with papers below and other books lined up behind. Curtain in background, coat of arms at centre of inscription. After John Syme (1795 - 1861). See BM Portraits p.252, 1. Wellcome 433. For other state item Ref: 27105.
[Ref: 27104] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
John Broster Esqr. F.A.S. Edinburgh.
John Syme, pinxit. T. Hodgetts, fect. Published (at the request of his pupils) from an original picture by Syme.
Sold by Archibald Constable & Co. and William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside & Pall Mall, London, Feby. 2nd. 1825 [or after]. _ Price 10/6.
Mezzotint on india paper, reworked state after spectacles erased from hand, and engraved on nose. The plate slightly reduced also. Image 175 x 130mm, 7 x 5¼". Lacking margins.
Portrait of John Broster, inventor of system for removal of speech impediments; seated in an armchair, looking to front, wearing spectacles, his left elbow resting on a book lettered with 'Art of Speaking', with papers below and other books lined up behind. Curtain in background, coat of arms at centre of inscription. After John Syme (1795 - 1861). See BM Portraits p.252, 1. Wellcome 433. See item Ref: 27104.
[Ref: 27105] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[William Huskisson].
Painted by R. Rothwell. M.R.H.A. Engraved by Thomas Hodgetts.
London, August 1832, Published by M. Colnaghi, 23, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Mezzotint engraving, proof before title. 365 x 280mm. Occasional foxing around plate mark. Some surface grubbiness and rubbing to te mezzotint surface.
William Huskisson [1770 - 1830], statesman. He was an advocate of free trade, reduced import duties, and attempted to introduce a sliding scale to relax the effect of the corn laws. He served (1827-28) as colonial secretary and leader of the House of Commons under Viscount Goderich and the duke of Wellington, resigning after a dispute with Wellington over parliamentary reform. He was killed by a locomotive at the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway. Fine proof impression on india paper.
[Ref: 5188] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
This Print of Mary Queen of Scots is dedicated to Sir Walter Scott Bar.t by his Obliged & Obed.t Humb. Ser.t W.m Fletcher.
Painted by Farino. Engraved by Tho.s Hodgetts & Son.
Published by W.m Fletcher, Edinburgh Oct.r 1828.
Mezzotint. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"), with wide margins Repair in margin. Crease on face.
With poem praising Mary by Henry Scott Riddell (1798-1870). See NPG D25084 for later state.
[Ref: 34355] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
St. Nicholas' Church. Newcastle upon Tyne.
Painted by T.M. Richardson. Engraved by T. Hodgetts.
Published, Dec 15, 1828 by M.A. Richardson, Newcastle and by Moon, Boys & Greaves, Printsellers to His Majesty Pall Mall London. Proof [lower right].
Mezzotint with etching on india laid paper, 500 x 370mm. 19¾ x 14½". Two horizontal creases through image.
A very rare view in Newcastle. After Thomas Miles Richardson (1784 - 1848), locally published.
[Ref: 9176] £350.00
St Nicholas Church. Newcastle upon Tyne.
Painted by T.M. Richardson. Engraved by T. Hodgetts.
Published Dec.15.1828 by M.A. Richardson, Newcastle, and by Moon, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to His Majesty. Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint and etching with very large margins, rare. Plate 495 x 374mm. 19½ x 14¾". Laid on card.
View of the church, looking diagonally from the left foreground towards the church tower, which is surmounted by an open crown turret and four pinnacles; townsfolk in the street, including a man talking to another sitting in a horse-drawn cart, and a woman who leans out of an upper window holding a large basket-cage.
[Ref: 27568] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
George Steevens Esq.r F.R.S. &c. &c.
Painted by Zoffany. Engraved by T. Hodgetts.
London, Published for John Murray, Albemarle Street, March, 1816. To face p.271.
Mezzotint and engraving, with large margins. Plate 380 x 272mm. 15 x 10¾".
Portrait, almost half length in an oval, directed to left with left hand tucked into his jacket, looking towards the viewer with a slight smile, wearing a dark suit and pale wig tied at the nape of his neck. Plate to Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities, vol. 3, facing p 271. The 'Typographic Antiquities' was begun by Ames and continued by Dibdin, with augmentations by Herbert: four volumes were published 1810-19, printed by William Savage for Millar. The edition was never completed. George Steevens (1736-1800) was an English Shakespearean commentator. He collected a valuable library, rich in Elizabethan literature and a large collection of Hogarth prints; his notes on said subject were incorporated in John Nichol's Genuine Works of Hogarth. In 1767 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 25572] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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