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![[Thomas Ashton.] Insto Proepositis oblitus proeteritorum.](jpegs/44422.jpg)
[Thomas Ashton.] Insto Proepositis oblitus proeteritorum.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Thomas Ashton (1716-1775) rector of St Botolph's Bishopsgate. Frontis to his "Sermons on several occasions" 1770.
CS 2.
[Ref: 44422] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Thomas Ashton (1716-1775) rector of St Botolph's Bishopsgate. Frontis to his "Sermons on several occasions" 1770.
CS 2.
[Ref: 44422] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Jedidiah Buxton.
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Published pursuant to an Act of Parliament May the 1.st 1773, by B. Killingbeck at Mrs. Totton's Mount Street Berkley Square, London,
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Title area smudged. Small margins; horizontal central crease.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. A 1781 state of this print gave this biography: ''Jedediah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards''.
CS 7, state i of ii.
[Ref: 61368] £260.00
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Published pursuant to an Act of Parliament May the 1.st 1773, by B. Killingbeck at Mrs. Totton's Mount Street Berkley Square, London,
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Title area smudged. Small margins; horizontal central crease.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. A 1781 state of this print gave this biography: ''Jedediah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards''.
CS 7, state i of ii.
[Ref: 61368] £260.00
![[Children in an interior.]](jpegs/58249.jpg)
[Children in an interior.]
Drawn & Engraved by Maria Spilsbury, Court Painter to George III [old ink mss.].
[n.d., c.1810.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 280 x 370mm (11 x 14½"). Very small tear in top edge repaired. Crease bottom right.
A group of children listening to a standing girl. A rare print by painter Maria Spilsbury (1776-1820)
[Ref: 58249] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Engraved by Maria Spilsbury, Court Painter to George III [old ink mss.].
[n.d., c.1810.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 280 x 370mm (11 x 14½"). Very small tear in top edge repaired. Crease bottom right.
A group of children listening to a standing girl. A rare print by painter Maria Spilsbury (1776-1820)
[Ref: 58249] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cobbler]](jpegs/57082.jpg)
[Cobbler]
Done from an Original Picture of Old Heemskerck by Jonathan Spilsbury.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at N.o33 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate.
Cobbler sitting on a stool holding a shoe in his lap while pulling on a strap of leather slung around his knee and under his foot, wearing a soft cap set at a slant and a leather apron; with a slipper on a stool to left, a pitcher standing beneath it and wooden dresser and shelf with bowls, dishes, phials and cups to the left, shoes and tools lying on the ground in the foreground.
Holstein: undescribed. CS: undescribed. Russel: undescribed. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57082] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Done from an Original Picture of Old Heemskerck by Jonathan Spilsbury.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at N.o33 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate.
Cobbler sitting on a stool holding a shoe in his lap while pulling on a strap of leather slung around his knee and under his foot, wearing a soft cap set at a slant and a leather apron; with a slipper on a stool to left, a pitcher standing beneath it and wooden dresser and shelf with bowls, dishes, phials and cups to the left, shoes and tools lying on the ground in the foreground.
Holstein: undescribed. CS: undescribed. Russel: undescribed. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57082] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
A Perspective View of Dilston Hall, once the Seat of the Unfortunate James, Earl of Derwent-Water.
T. Oliver delin. Spilsbury sculp Russell-Court London.
Drawn on the Spot by Tho.s Oliver of Hexham in Northumberland & Published according to Act of Parliament July 17, 1766.
Engraving. 430 x 470mm (17 x 18½"). A few repaired tears, creasing, laid on album paper. Bit messy.
A view of Dilston Hall, at Dilston, near Corbridge, Northumberland, at one time the seat of James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, with three columns of text lamenting his death. Radclyffe, grandson of Charles II and Moll Davis, began the construction of a grand mansion to replace the old Hall, but the works was never completed as he was beheaded for his part in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. Dilston Hall came into the hand of the Fofeit Estates Commission. After a corrupt sale was annulled in 1731, the Greenwich Hospital Act 1735 directed that the estate's income should be used to complete the construction of Greenwich Hospital. The Greenwich Commissioners ordered its demolition in 1765 (the year before the publication of this plate), leaving standing only the castle tower and the chapel: the castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.
[Ref: 52232] £320.00
T. Oliver delin. Spilsbury sculp Russell-Court London.
Drawn on the Spot by Tho.s Oliver of Hexham in Northumberland & Published according to Act of Parliament July 17, 1766.
Engraving. 430 x 470mm (17 x 18½"). A few repaired tears, creasing, laid on album paper. Bit messy.
A view of Dilston Hall, at Dilston, near Corbridge, Northumberland, at one time the seat of James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, with three columns of text lamenting his death. Radclyffe, grandson of Charles II and Moll Davis, began the construction of a grand mansion to replace the old Hall, but the works was never completed as he was beheaded for his part in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. Dilston Hall came into the hand of the Fofeit Estates Commission. After a corrupt sale was annulled in 1731, the Greenwich Hospital Act 1735 directed that the estate's income should be used to complete the construction of Greenwich Hospital. The Greenwich Commissioners ordered its demolition in 1765 (the year before the publication of this plate), leaving standing only the castle tower and the chapel: the castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.
[Ref: 52232] £320.00
![[A Dutch Lady.]](jpegs/38014.jpg)
[A Dutch Lady.]
[Rembrandt van Rijn. J. Spilsbury.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Proof before letters. Uncleaned title area from the Galston collection. Sheet size: 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾") Trimmed to platemark. Bit wrinkled.
A portrait of a young woman; bust, in an oval frame, directed to the left, tilting her chin and smiling slightly towards the viewer. She is wearing a gown with a rose at the breast, pearl earrings, a cloak and a veil.
Chaloner Smith: 40.
[Ref: 38014] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
[Rembrandt van Rijn. J. Spilsbury.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Proof before letters. Uncleaned title area from the Galston collection. Sheet size: 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾") Trimmed to platemark. Bit wrinkled.
A portrait of a young woman; bust, in an oval frame, directed to the left, tilting her chin and smiling slightly towards the viewer. She is wearing a gown with a rose at the breast, pearl earrings, a cloak and a veil.
Chaloner Smith: 40.
[Ref: 38014] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
![Heads After Rembrandt [front cover.]](jpegs/13573.jpg)
Heads After Rembrandt [front cover.]
[Jonathan Spilsbury.]
[Some plates dated 1776. Compiled c.1800.]
Book, 8vo (225 x 160mm, 9 x 6¼"), 24 etched plates of busts by Spilsbury after the manner of Rembrandt; on thick laid paper, in original full green gilt-stamped morocco. Spine and extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed; some spotting and discoloration to plates.
It seems this vibrant and engaging collection of studies of heads is compiled from smaller sets, of up to six etchings (some plates are numbered, no plate higher than 6). Most plates initialled, or signed in plate, by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812).
See BM: 1861,0413.528 for a set of six included here.
[Ref: 13573] £950.00 view all images for this item
[Jonathan Spilsbury.]
[Some plates dated 1776. Compiled c.1800.]
Book, 8vo (225 x 160mm, 9 x 6¼"), 24 etched plates of busts by Spilsbury after the manner of Rembrandt; on thick laid paper, in original full green gilt-stamped morocco. Spine and extremities of binding scuffed and rubbed; some spotting and discoloration to plates.
It seems this vibrant and engaging collection of studies of heads is compiled from smaller sets, of up to six etchings (some plates are numbered, no plate higher than 6). Most plates initialled, or signed in plate, by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812).
See BM: 1861,0413.528 for a set of six included here.
[Ref: 13573] £950.00 view all images for this item
![[Two Friars of the Order of St Anthony.]](jpegs/10492.jpg)
[Two Friars of the Order of St Anthony.]
[Jonathan Spilsbury., c.1766.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, 355 x 255mm. 14 x 10". Slightly soiled/stained. Laid on card.
Two bearded friars wearing hooded habits, reading from a book of music held by the nearer; very scarce. Engraved and published by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Information kindly provided by the Lennox-Boyd collection. See BM: 1870,0625.640 for a lettered impression.
[Ref: 10492] £420.00
[Jonathan Spilsbury., c.1766.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, 355 x 255mm. 14 x 10". Slightly soiled/stained. Laid on card.
Two bearded friars wearing hooded habits, reading from a book of music held by the nearer; very scarce. Engraved and published by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Information kindly provided by the Lennox-Boyd collection. See BM: 1870,0625.640 for a lettered impression.
[Ref: 10492] £420.00
Two Friars of the Order of St Anthony.
Sr. P. Paul Reubens pinx.t J. Spilsbury fecit
Printed for J. Spilsbury Engraver & Map & Printseller in Russell Court, Covent Garden, London May 26th 1766.
Rare mezzotint, in ink bottom right "pr.3s"; sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate;
Two bearded friars wearing hooded habits, reading a book of music. Engraved and published by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
CS: undescribed; for proof impression see ref. 10492. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40457] £420.00
Sr. P. Paul Reubens pinx.t J. Spilsbury fecit
Printed for J. Spilsbury Engraver & Map & Printseller in Russell Court, Covent Garden, London May 26th 1766.
Rare mezzotint, in ink bottom right "pr.3s"; sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate;
Two bearded friars wearing hooded habits, reading a book of music. Engraved and published by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
CS: undescribed; for proof impression see ref. 10492. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40457] £420.00
The Shepherd.
T. Worlidge Del.t. J. Spilsbury fec.
Publish'd Dec. 29 1774 by W. Ryland London.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼'') very large margins.
A portrait of a shepherd after Thomas Worlidge.
[Ref: 48179] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
T. Worlidge Del.t. J. Spilsbury fec.
Publish'd Dec. 29 1774 by W. Ryland London.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼'') very large margins.
A portrait of a shepherd after Thomas Worlidge.
[Ref: 48179] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)