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Jean Pierre Blanchard. The first Aerial Mariner, Citizen of Calais...
R. Livesay pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
March 24 Pub. for the Proprietor by S. Hooper No 212, High-Holborn, London.
Stipple with etching and engraving. Sheet 230 x 205mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed within plate. Slight vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, published shortly after he and American doctor John Jefferies made the first balloon flight across the English Channel when they travelled from Dover to Calais, January 7th 1785.
[Ref: 56777] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
R. B. Harraden delin & Excud.t J. Newton sculp.t.
Published by R. Harraden Feb.y 1st. 1800 Great St. Mary's, Cambridge.
Aquatint, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Small margins on 3 sides.
Exterior view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62973] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land.
J. Webber del. Newton sculp.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 265 x 405mm (10 x 16"). Trimmed close to plate right and bottom
HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery at anchor in Christmas Harbour in the Kerguelen Islands (also known as Desolation Islands) in the Southern Indian Ocean. In the foreground an unafraid penguin watches a crewman approaching to club it. A sea lion is hidden among the rocks. Engraved by James Newton after John Webber for 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (1784), the official account of Captain Cook's Third and final voyage.
[Ref: 51210] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Edward VII?] Fidelity.
[Drawn from nature &] engraved by Newton.
[Published Edinburg, by Swinton, Princes Street. Paris, chez A. Fonrouge, Place du Louvre, 10.] [n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint. 390 x 295mm (15¼ x 11½"). Some spotting, publication inscriptions indistinct.
A boy dressed in tartan with his dog. At his side hangs a sgian dubh, the traditional Scottish pairing of a hunting and skinning knife in a sheath. As Holyrood Palace can be seen in the background it is likely that this is Bertie, Prince of Wales, later Edward VII.
[Ref: 13971] £260.00
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Fidelity.
Drawn from nature & engraved by Newton.
Published Edinburg, by Swinton, Princes Street. Paris, chez A. Fonrouge, Place du Louvre, 10 [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint. Plate: 380 x 290mm (15 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate in lower edge.
A boy dressed in tartan with his dog. At his side hangs a sgian dubh, the traditional Scottish pairing of a hunting and skinning knife in a sheath. As Holyrood Palace can be seen in the background it is likely that this is Bertie, Prince of Wales, later Edward VII.
[Ref: 47715] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Oliver Goldsmith] [Goldsmith.] From the Original Picture in the Possession of Her Grace the Duchess of Dorset.]
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Robert Newton sculpsit.
[London. Pub.d June 4th 1817 by W. Cribb, Tavistock Street.]
Engraving, proof before title, printed on chine collé. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), with large margins.
The famous portrait of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), half-length, wearing a fur-lined cloak, his right hand holding a book to his chest with forefinger in between the pages. The plate was begun by John Summerfield (c.1773-1817), a former apprentice of Francesco Bartolozzi, and completed by Newton after his death.
[Ref: 63592] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Googan Barra, - Co. of Cork.]
[G. Petrie R.H.A. del.t. N. Fielding sculp.t.]
[Dublin, Published by W.F. Wakemanm 9 D'Olier Street, 1835.]
Fine coloured aquatint, proof before letters. 225 x 275mm (9 x 10¾").
A view of Gougane Barra, depicting its lake with its oratory. A plate from volume three of 'Picturesque sketches of some of the finest landscape and coast scenery of Ireland', 1835. Abbey: 465.
[Ref: 63916] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Comeen-Duff or Black Valley, Killarney.
George Petrie, R.H.A. del.t. N. Fielding saculp.t.
Dublin, Published by W.F. Wakeman, 9 D'Olier Street, 1835.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. Platemark: 225 x 270mm (8¾ x 10½"). Horizontal stain along upper edge, outside of printed area.
A picturesque view of the Black Valley in County Kerry, a remote location in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks situated south of the Gap of Dunloe and north of Moll's Gap. A plate from 'Picturesque sketches of some of the finest landscape and coast scenery of Ireland', 1835. Abbey: 465.
[Ref: 38056] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
An Undertakers Visit.
R Newton.
T. Tegg 111 Cheapside [n.d. c.1807.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼") Trimmed within plate loosing title.
A satirical scene in which an undertaker, bearing coffin, presenting himself before rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in chair. Alexander: 309.
[Ref: 65659] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
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