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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Eton] [Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace.](jpegs/56252.jpg)
[Eton] [Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace. Gray's Ode.]
[JC pinxit. Silvester sculpsit.]
[London, Published June 1 1803, by R Silvester, No. 27, Strand]
Rare & large stipple, proof before letters. 505 x 660mm (20 x 26"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A distant view of Eton, with cherubic boys playing in the foreground, with cricket, boating, punting, swimming, and playing at being horses and carriage driver. To the right older pupils read.
[Ref: 56252] £950.00
[JC pinxit. Silvester sculpsit.]
[London, Published June 1 1803, by R Silvester, No. 27, Strand]
Rare & large stipple, proof before letters. 505 x 660mm (20 x 26"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A distant view of Eton, with cherubic boys playing in the foreground, with cricket, boating, punting, swimming, and playing at being horses and carriage driver. To the right older pupils read.
[Ref: 56252] £950.00
Farewell Dinner to J.P. Kemble Esq.r on his retirement from the Stage. Admit [blank] Secretaries. Not Transferable.
Silvester sc. 27 Strand.
[n.d., 1817.]
Etching with engraving; stamped in ink top right John W. Anson;. 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at top, splits to folds, tears to edges, creasing and foxing.
A blank invitation to a dinner held for actor John Philip Kemble, held at the Freemason's Tavern. 27th June, 1819, four days after his last performance, as Coriolanus at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. He spent most of his last years abroad, dying at Lausanne in 1823.
[Ref: 57770] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Silvester sc. 27 Strand.
[n.d., 1817.]
Etching with engraving; stamped in ink top right John W. Anson;. 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at top, splits to folds, tears to edges, creasing and foxing.
A blank invitation to a dinner held for actor John Philip Kemble, held at the Freemason's Tavern. 27th June, 1819, four days after his last performance, as Coriolanus at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. He spent most of his last years abroad, dying at Lausanne in 1823.
[Ref: 57770] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![Powell the Pedestrian / Proof [ms]](jpegs/34510.jpg)
Powell the Pedestrian / Proof [ms]
S. Harding fecit. [1788]
Etching, very scarce; proof before title; platemark 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½"). Fine impression. Very large margins.
Foster Powell (bap.1734-d.1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits.
[Ref: 34510] £520.00
S. Harding fecit. [1788]
Etching, very scarce; proof before title; platemark 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½"). Fine impression. Very large margins.
Foster Powell (bap.1734-d.1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits.
[Ref: 34510] £520.00