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To the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Stamford, President, The Right Hon.ble Lord Beauchamp, M.P.
To the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Stamford, President, The Right Hon.ble Lord Beauchamp, M.P. The Right Hon.ble Lord Willoughby de Broke, &c. Vice Presidents, The Stewards & Directors of the Humane Society, This Print of the Body of a Young Man taken out of the Water apparently dead in the sight of his distressed Parents, Is most respectfully Dedicated, by their obliged Humble Servant Robert Pollard.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke. Engraved by Rob.t Pollard.
London, Published March 26th 1787, by R. Pollard Engraver, No 15. Braynes Row, Spa Fields.
Etching and engraving. 495 x 630mm (19¾ x 24¾"). Thread margins, a few small tears, heavy crease through title.
A boy being dragged to the side of a river by men in the water and in a punt, as his mother faints on the river bank. Alongside its pair, 'The Young Man restored to Life', this print was published to raise awareness of the Royal Humane Society, a charity founded in 1774 as 'the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned' to provide life-saving and resusitation services and training. Although the society is still active it has forsaken the 'tobacco smoke enemas' practiced by its founder, William Hawes M.D. (1736-1808)
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Callicum and Maquilla. Chiefs of Nootka Sound.
Callicum and Maquilla. Chiefs of Nootka Sound.
T.Stothard del. R.Pollard, sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare aquatint. Sheet 270 x 205mm. Trimmed within plate.
From John Meares's 'Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the Northwest Coast of America'. Meares, a fur trader, caused an international incident by upsetting the Spanish who had already established a base at Nootka Sound, leading to George Vancouver's important expedition to the area.
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[Glorious First of June] To the Memory of the Brave Cap.t John Harvey, the Officers and Crew who fell in the Action,
[Glorious First of June] To the Memory of the Brave Cap.t John Harvey, the Officers and Crew who fell in the Action, and to the Surviving Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship the Brunswick, This Print Representing the Brunswick after breaking the Enemy's Line, as second astern to Admiral Earl Howe on the first of June 1794 Grappled to, and engaging Le Vengeur with her starboard guns, and totally dismasting L'Achille in an attempt to board on the larboard Quarter is Respectfully inscribed by Nicholas Pocock.
Painted by Nicholas Pocock. Engraved by R.Pollard.
London. Published Feb.y 16th 1796 by Nich.s Pocock, Great George Street, Westminster.
Coloured aquatint. 480 x 650mm (19 x 25½"), on Whatman paper with very large margins. Tear touching bottom plate mark taped.
A large and fine Battle scene with excellent colour. The 'Battle of the Glorious First of June', fought between the Royal Navy under Admiral Earl Howe and a French fleet of 26 ships of the line under Rear-Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, protecting a convoy of grain ships from America bound for a desperate France. Although the British won the exchange, the grain convoy escaped intact.
Parker: 102 T
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The Departure.
The Departure.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke. Aquatinta by F. Jukes. Engraved by Rob.t Pollard.
London, Pub.d March 8 1784 by R. Pollard No 15 Braynes Row, Spa Fields, & R. Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill.
Scarce aquatint with etching. Sheet 440 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears, surface cracking, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A scene on a snowy shoreline, with a longboat about to leave to find help, leaving other survivors of a shipwreck behind. It illustrates the aftermath of a shipwreck on Cape Breton in 1780, as recorded by Samuel Weller Prenties, an ensign of the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants). He had been sent on a voyage between Quebec and New York, taking dispatches from Sir Frederick Haldimand, Governor of Quebec, and Sir Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief in North America during the American Revolution. Castaway on a remote coast of Cape Breton, the decision was made for Prenties and five sailors to go for help. After exhausting their supplies and being on the point of death, they were saved by tribesmen who they sent to look for their colleagues. Three of the nine left behind had survived, having resorted to cannibalism. Eventually the survivors reached Halifax and headed for home.
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The Siege of Copenhagen.
The Siege of Copenhagen. Respectfully dedicated by Boydell & Co. to Lord Cathcart, Admiral Gambier, the Officers, Soldiers and Seamen employed in this undertaking, This View represents the Castles of Cronborg and Elsimborg, the entrance into the Sound, with the British Fleet & Transports.
Drawn by Captain Cockburn of the Royal Artillary. Engraved by R.Pollard & J.C.Stadler.
Pub.d Nov.r 1807, by Boydell & Co., No.90 Cheapside, London.
Coloured aquatint. 440 x 550mm, 17¼ x 21½". Very scarce.
From a series of views about the 'Second Battle of Copenhagen', (16 August - 5 September 1807), a pre-emptive attack on Copenhagen by the British to seize the Danish fleet and stop the Danish from barring British access to the Baltic under pressure from Napoleon.
Crookshank: Section 36, no.22, "A fine and very rare set of aquatints; the only others known to the author are in the British Museum".
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[Dogger Bank] This Representation of the Action between the British Fleet under the Command of Vice Admiral Parker
[Dogger Bank] This Representation of the Action between the British Fleet under the Command of Vice Admiral Parker and the Dutch Fleet under the Command of Vice Admiral Zouten on the Dogger Bank the 5th of Aug.st 1781...
Painted by D. Serres Esq.r R.A. Marine Painter to his Majesty, and Engraved by R. Pollard.
London, Published the 1st May, 1782 by R. Wilkinson, No 58. Cornhill, and R. Pollard, Braynes Row, Spa Fields.
Rare engraving. 485 x 615mm (19 x 24¼"). Thread margins.
The Battle of Dogger Bank was fought during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, started because the Dutch were supplying the Americans during the Revolution. It was fought between two fleets escorting convoys and, despite both sides claiming victory, it forced the Dutch fleet back into harbour where it remained for the rest of the war.
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A Portrait of the East Indiaman built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched Aug.st 1817.
A Portrait of the East Indiaman built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched Aug.st 1817.
J. Smart Jun. del.t. R. Pollard fec.t.
Pub.d Aug.t 21 1817 by R.N. Rose, Bookseller Ipswich.
Scarce coloured aquatint with etching. Framed, sight size 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Framed over platemark, pencil note on title, unexamined out of frame.
The 'Orwell' East Indiaman being built, sitting on a scaffold with a row of poles. It was built by Jabez Bayley's (1771 -1834) Ship-Yard in Halifax for Matthew Isacke of Greenwich (possibly Captain (Mathew) Robert Isacke (c.1803-96), of Croomes Hill, Greenwich, Kent, who was in the naval service of the East India Company or his father Mathew Isacke (born in St Helena 1761-1831). Made of Suffolk oak it took over 15 months to build and was named after Ipswich's river, the Orwell was launched on the 29th August, watched by about 20,000 spectators.
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Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Winter Clothing.
Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Winter Clothing. Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Summer Clothing.
E.D. Clarke delt. R. Pollard Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1. 1819 by T. Cadell & W. Davies Strand. London.
Engraving, 200 x 275mm. 8 x 10¾". Slightly soiled.
Finnish costume plate, two images from a single plate. From 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia & Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769 – 1822), English mineralogist and traveller. In 1799 Clarke set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke was of considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts, etc., which had been collected by the French savants.
[Ref: 13512]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Friendship.
Friendship.
R. Cosway Pint. R. Pollard Perft.
Publish'd March 1.1794 by R. Pollard, Printseller Spafields London.
Circular stipple 280 x 285mm. Mint.
Depicting a nude child, looking to front, sitting on a dog, which is licking its face. Surrounded by decorative landscape.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's London 1997: lot 707.
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The attempt to Assassinate the King.
The attempt to Assassinate the King. On the second of August 1786, Margaret Nicholson, under the pretence of presenting a Petition, attempted to stab his Majesty as he was alighting from his Chariot at the garden entrance to St James's Palace...
Painted by Rob.t Smirke. Aquatinta by F. Jukes. Engraved by Rob.t Pollard.
London, Publish'd Oct.r 9, 1786 by R. Pollard, Engraver. No 7, Brayne's Row, Spa Fields.
Rare aquatint. 450 x 560mm (17¾ x 22"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears.
Margaret Nicholson (c. 1750-1828) attempted to stab George III with an ivory-handled dessert knife. Clearly delusional (she claimed to be rightful heir to the throne and to be the mother of both Lords Mansfield and Loughborough, who were much older than her), she spent the rest of her life in Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam). This plate was published just two months after the event.
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[To the Right Honorable Earl Grosvenor K.t This View of Grosvenor Square...]
[To the Right Honorable Earl Grosvenor K.t This View of Grosvenor Square...] Grosvenor Square [in ink.]
E Dayes. R. Dodd [in ink.]
[Robert Pollard, c.1789.]
Aquatint, rare proof before all letters. 412 x 545mm (16¼ x 21½"). Laid on board.
View of Grosvenor Square, Westminster, showing a group of musicians playing while being watched by a woman in a carriage and a boy with a dog. To the right a man is walking with two dogs on a lead and a basket in his hand, reading a note.
Collage: p5415177.
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To Captain Peere Williams his Officers and Seamen, This Plate representing their Engageing & Taking the French Frigate La Nymphe on the 10th of August 1780,
To Captain Peere Williams his Officers and Seamen, This Plate representing their Engageing & Taking the French Frigate La Nymphe on the 10th of August 1780, is most respectfully Inscribed by their humble Servant Rob.t Dodd.
Painted by Rob.t Dodd. Engraved by Rob.t Pollard.
London, Published as the Act directs, July 2: 1781 by John Harris, No 3. Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. [But c1820.]
Copper engraving with large margins. 350 x 470mm, 13¾ x 18½". Watermarked H Smith 1820. Repaired tear into title area.
The capture of a French 36-gun frigate off Ushant. Brought into the Royal Navy as HMS Nymphe, she was wrecked in 1810 off the Firth of Forth, after her pilot mistook the flame from a lime kiln for the navigation light on May Island.
Parker: 83a.
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Lord Nelson engaging the Toulon Fleet off the Mouth of the Nile. [&] French Line of Battle References... Bay of Aboukir [battle plan layout.]
Lord Nelson engaging the Toulon Fleet off the Mouth of the Nile. [&] French Line of Battle References... Bay of Aboukir [battle plan layout.]
N. Pocock del. R. Pollard Sculp.t
Publish'd by Bunney & Co. [n.d. c.1800.] [Plan:] Publish'd by Bunney & Gold, 1. June, 1799.
Aquatint with explanatory and map of the battle plan layout. 140 x 229mm. 5½ x 9". Plan: 330 x 350mm. 13 x 13¾". Plan folded, as normal.
Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1-3 August 1798. The large French convoy from Toulon and led by General Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the British forces led by Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson. This engraving was published in the 'Naval Chronicle'. Gold was the founder and publisher.
See NMM: PAD4019. Parker 134: u.
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Magna Charta. Frontispiece to Barnard's New & Complete History of England.
Magna Charta. Frontispiece to Barnard's New & Complete History of England. Explanation of this Elegant Plate. History (emblematically representing the Author of this Work) attended by Wisdom & Justice, presenting to Britannia the Manuscript of This New History of England...for which this kingdom has been so long conspicuous, are also alluded to in the various Emblematic Figures.
Hamilton delin. Pollard sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 311 x 213mm (12¼ x 8½") Some staining to lower edge.
Frontispiece allegory with History, Wisdom and Justice presenting the History to Britannia.
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Lieutenant Moody.
Lieutenant Moody. This Officer during the American War distinguished himself as one of the most gallant Partizans in the British Service...
Drawn & Engraved by Rob.t Pollard. Aquatinted by F. Jukes.
London, Pub.d Feb.y 19 1785 by R. Pollard No. 15 Brayners Row Spa Fields.
Rare aquatint and engaving. Sheet: 560 x 460mm (22 x 18"). Trimmed to plate. Crease.
A scene showing the daring rescue of a soldier from General Burgoyne's army who had been condemned to death for a crime he did not commit during the American Revolutionary War. The rescue was led by famed loyalist James Moody (c.1744-1809) who took a party of six men into the jail under the cover of darkness to rescue the soldier before his execution.
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Politics.
Politics.
1791. [After Catherine Maria Fanshawe] R. Pollard, Sculpt. direct. & Perfecit. Aqua.t by J. Wells.
London: Publish'd April 6th 1791, by M. Ryland, No.107, New Bond Street.
Aquatint. 465 x 770mm (18¼ x 30¼"). Repaired tear, not entering image, central crease, wear to edges.
A group of men discuss politics around a salon fireplace, while the women gossip, yawn or sleep. Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765-1834) was best known for her poetry, including the 'Riddle on the Letter H', which was originally mistakenly ascribed to Lord Byron.
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To the Right Hon.blr the Earl of Stamford, President, The Right Hon.ble Lord Beauchamp, M.P. The Right Hon.ble Lord Willoughby de Broke, &c. Vice Presidents, the Stewards & Director of the Humane Society. This Print of the Body of a Young Man taken out of
To the Right Hon.blr the Earl of Stamford, President, The Right Hon.ble Lord Beauchamp, M.P. The Right Hon.ble Lord Willoughby de Broke, &c. Vice Presidents, the Stewards & Director of the Humane Society. This Print of the Body of a Young Man taken out of the Water apparently dead in the fight of his distressed Parents, Is most respectfully Dedicated, by their obliged Humble Servant. Robert Pollard. Corps d’un Jeune-Homme Retiré de l’Eau, Mort en Apparence, a la vue de ses inconsolables Parens. Dedié au très Honorable le Comte de Stamford, Président de la Société de l’Humanité : ainsi qu’au très Honorable Lord Beauchamp, au très Honorable Lord Willoughby de Broke &c. Vice-Présidents, & aux Administrateurs & Directeurs de la dite Société. Par leur très humble & très obligé Serviteur. Robert Pollard. [&] To the King’s most excellent Majesty, Patron _ The President, Vice Presidents, _ The Stewards & Directors of the Humane Society; This Print of The Young Man restored to Life Is most humbly Dedicated, by his Majesty’s Dutiful Subject & Servant, Robert Pollard. NB. This Society was instituted in the Year 1774, and in the space of 13 Years, has restored 897 Person to their Friends & the Public. Le Meme Jeune-Homme Rendu a la Vie. Trés humblement Dédié au Roi Protecteur de la Societe de l’Humanité ainsi qu’aux Président, Vice Présidents, Administrateurs & Directeurs de la dite Société, Par de sa très excellente Majesté. Le très humble, très obeissant & très-soumis Serviteur & Sujet, Rob.t Pollard. NB. Cette Société a été instituée en l’Année 1774 : et dans l’espace de 13 Ans, a rendu 897 Personnes à leurs Parents & au Public. [Under image:] Dr. Lettsom, the Person introducing the Mother. Dr. Harris, sitting on the Bed supporting the Young man.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke. Engravd by Rob.t Pollard.
London: Published 26th. March 1787, by R. Pollard, Engraver No.15 Brayne's Row, Spa Fields. A Londres, Publié le 27 Mars, 1787, par R. Pollard, Graveur, No.15 Brayne's Row, Spa Fields.
A rare pair of engravings. Plate 489 x 627mm. 19¼ x 14¾". Some chipping and paper loss margins. Platemark of "body" broken on right.
Scene on a river, three men in a canoe and one swimmer recovering the body of a young drowned man from the water, to the distress of his father, fallen to his knees on the bank at right, his mother fainted into the arms of a man behind at right, two children embracing her. [&] A young man sitting up on a bed in a simple cottage, restored to health, supported by Dr Harris, an elderly gentleman in a powdered wig and two servants, greeted by his family who enter on the left, amazed that he is not dead, the father falling on his knees in thanksgiving, the mother led forward by another gentleman, Dr Lettsom, who stands gesturing towards the patient. Dr. John Coakley Lettsom was a founder of the Medical Society and supporter of the Royal Humane Society and a pioneer of the proceedures for the resussitation of drowning victims.
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[Terriers at a fox hole.]
[Terriers at a fox hole.]
Pubd Oct 22 1808 by R. Pollard, Spa Fields London.
Etching, rare, 160 x 210mm. 6¼ x 8¼".
Three terriers approach the entrance to the hiding place of an animal, probably a fox that has gone to ground. Two huntsmen, one holding a whip, indicate the burrow. Published by Robert Pollard (c.1755 - 1838), probably from a series of fox hunting plates after his own designs.
Siltzer: unrecorded.
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