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The Greek Wife.
Drawn by E. T. Parris. Engraved by L. Stocks.
London, 1836. Charles Tilt, Fleet Street.
Line engraving with large margins. 220mm x 150mm (8¾" x 6").
A greek woman sits in an ornate balcony, looking outwards over the countryside, with a small child asleep in her lap. Illustration to 'The Keepsake' in a subsequent state.
[Ref: 31932] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by E. T. Parris. Engraved by L. Stocks.
London, 1836. Charles Tilt, Fleet Street.
Line engraving with large margins. 220mm x 150mm (8¾" x 6").
A greek woman sits in an ornate balcony, looking outwards over the countryside, with a small child asleep in her lap. Illustration to 'The Keepsake' in a subsequent state.
[Ref: 31932] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Dream of St. Helena] [two states]](jpegs/36388.jpg)
[The Dream of St. Helena] [two states]
Paulo Veronese Pinx.t. Lumb Stocks R.A. Sculp.t 1881
Two engravings on india, each platemark 255 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Both hinged to backing sheet.
Two states (one unfinished, one finished) of an etching of Veronese's 'Dream of St. Helena' (London, National Gallery), rewarding close comparison of the two. By Lumb Stocks (1812-92), one of the foremost exponents of steel engraving, elected RA in 1872.
[Ref: 36388] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Paulo Veronese Pinx.t. Lumb Stocks R.A. Sculp.t 1881
Two engravings on india, each platemark 255 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Both hinged to backing sheet.
Two states (one unfinished, one finished) of an etching of Veronese's 'Dream of St. Helena' (London, National Gallery), rewarding close comparison of the two. By Lumb Stocks (1812-92), one of the foremost exponents of steel engraving, elected RA in 1872.
[Ref: 36388] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Dr Johnson awaiting an audience of Lord Chesterfield.
E.M. Ward R.A. Del. Lumb Stocks R.A. Sc.
Art Union of London 1880.
Mixed-method engraving. 580 x 710mm (22¾ x 28"), with very large margins.
Dr. Johnson in the ante-room of Lord Chesterfield in Chesterfield House, Westminster. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a patron of Samuel Johnson's, but Johnson felt that what little Chesterfield had done was too late to be of any use. This scene shows Johnson sitting with irritation among a multitude of others waiting for his Lordship. It has hogarthian levels of detail, with portraits on the walls and figures including a black pageboy with a lute. It was published the year after the painter, Edward Matthew Ward, committed suicide during a mental episode. Ward's son, Leslie Ward, found fame working as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair as 'Spy'.
[Ref: 46264] £350.00
E.M. Ward R.A. Del. Lumb Stocks R.A. Sc.
Art Union of London 1880.
Mixed-method engraving. 580 x 710mm (22¾ x 28"), with very large margins.
Dr. Johnson in the ante-room of Lord Chesterfield in Chesterfield House, Westminster. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a patron of Samuel Johnson's, but Johnson felt that what little Chesterfield had done was too late to be of any use. This scene shows Johnson sitting with irritation among a multitude of others waiting for his Lordship. It has hogarthian levels of detail, with portraits on the walls and figures including a black pageboy with a lute. It was published the year after the painter, Edward Matthew Ward, committed suicide during a mental episode. Ward's son, Leslie Ward, found fame working as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair as 'Spy'.
[Ref: 46264] £350.00
The Revd. Richard Sheepshanks, M.A. F.R.S. F.R.A.S. &c. Yours very truly R. Sheepshanks [facsimile signature.]
L. Stocks A.R.A. Sct.
[n.d. c.1855.]
Line engraving. 250 x 174mm. Some spotting.
Richard Sheepshanks (1794-1855), astronomer. Educated at Richmond school and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1825, took orders in the church of England in 1828, but practised neither profession, inheriting enough money to follow instead his scientific vocation. He joined the Astronomical Society 1825 and became secretary in 1829. In 1831 he was appointed a commissioner for revising borough boundaries under the Reform Act.
DNB: A.M.C. 1897. Institute of Astronomy Library: PE/50. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 12543] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
L. Stocks A.R.A. Sct.
[n.d. c.1855.]
Line engraving. 250 x 174mm. Some spotting.
Richard Sheepshanks (1794-1855), astronomer. Educated at Richmond school and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1825, took orders in the church of England in 1828, but practised neither profession, inheriting enough money to follow instead his scientific vocation. He joined the Astronomical Society 1825 and became secretary in 1829. In 1831 he was appointed a commissioner for revising borough boundaries under the Reform Act.
DNB: A.M.C. 1897. Institute of Astronomy Library: PE/50. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 12543] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)