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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
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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
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[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)
Josephus Haydn. From an Original Picture by J.S. Mansfeld at Vienna.
J. S. Mansfeld pinxit. J. Newton sculpsit.
London Published Sep.r.1. 1784 by J. Sewell, Cornhill.
Stipple with large margins. Plate: 95 x 115mm, (3¾ x 4½"). Slight diagonal crease through sheet.
A half portrait in an oval of the Austrian composer and musician Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn's international fame during his lifetime led him to travel throughout Europe performing and conducting his music.
[Ref: 35672] £65.00
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