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![[Winter.]](jpegs/47255.jpg)
[Winter.] Delightful is the ripen'd year. [/] Que la maturité est agréable.
[Francis Wheatley. Francesco Bartolozzi.]
[Thomas Simpson.][1789.]
Rare stipple, proof before all letters. Plate: 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Small margins.
An allegorical portrait of the figure of Winter shown dressed in a large fur muff.
De Vesme 720.
[Ref: 47255] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Francis Wheatley. Francesco Bartolozzi.]
[Thomas Simpson.][1789.]
Rare stipple, proof before all letters. Plate: 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Small margins.
An allegorical portrait of the figure of Winter shown dressed in a large fur muff.
De Vesme 720.
[Ref: 47255] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
L'Hiver.
Mauchard pinx.t.
Se vend à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils.
Rare mezzotint. 390 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½") very large margins. Printer's creases on right edge of plate, backed with archival tissue.
A half-length portrait of a woman wearing a fur-lined coat, with a hood and muff. Winter, one of a set of four portraits representing the Four Seasons.
[Ref: 60945] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Mauchard pinx.t.
Se vend à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils.
Rare mezzotint. 390 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½") very large margins. Printer's creases on right edge of plate, backed with archival tissue.
A half-length portrait of a woman wearing a fur-lined coat, with a hood and muff. Winter, one of a set of four portraits representing the Four Seasons.
[Ref: 60945] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Winter.
Angelica Kauffman delin.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs July 1 1782 by A. Torre No 44 Market Lane, London. A Paris Chez L Torre Porte St Antoine. A.P.D.R.
Stipple. 370 x 320mm (14½ x 12½"), with large margins. Repaired tear in margins top left.
Women and children gather around a hearth. Underneath are four lines of verse James Thomson's 'The Seasons'. From a set of Four Seasons. The other plates are: 'Flora' (Spring), 'Pomona' (Summer), 'Ceres' (Autumn) and 'Winter'.
See 57537 for Spring & 57536 for Summer. De Vesme: 716
[Ref: 57538] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Angelica Kauffman delin.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs July 1 1782 by A. Torre No 44 Market Lane, London. A Paris Chez L Torre Porte St Antoine. A.P.D.R.
Stipple. 370 x 320mm (14½ x 12½"), with large margins. Repaired tear in margins top left.
Women and children gather around a hearth. Underneath are four lines of verse James Thomson's 'The Seasons'. From a set of Four Seasons. The other plates are: 'Flora' (Spring), 'Pomona' (Summer), 'Ceres' (Autumn) and 'Winter'.
See 57537 for Spring & 57536 for Summer. De Vesme: 716
[Ref: 57538] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Winter. Pleasure is fled - save where the Ball or play, / Or Opera, invite the Young and Gay; / Now Blustering Winds & rude inclement Skies / The Tippett, Muff, and Cardinal defies.
R. Pyle Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Slight creasing.
A three-quarter length portrait of a fashionably-dressed young woman in a winter landscape, arms folded in an ermine-trimmed cloak (tippet). From a set of Seasons by Robert Pyle, which was also engraved by Richard Houston, Charles Corbett (pseudonym used by both Richard Purcell and Houston) & Georg & Johann Rugendas.
[Ref: 53387] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
R. Pyle Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Slight creasing.
A three-quarter length portrait of a fashionably-dressed young woman in a winter landscape, arms folded in an ermine-trimmed cloak (tippet). From a set of Seasons by Robert Pyle, which was also engraved by Richard Houston, Charles Corbett (pseudonym used by both Richard Purcell and Houston) & Georg & Johann Rugendas.
[Ref: 53387] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]](jpegs/53931.jpg)
[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
![[Unidentified sitting woman] [16]](jpegs/32587.jpg)
[Unidentified sitting woman] [16]
T.W. 1753
Etching with small margins, platemark 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½").
Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) who specialised in etchings either copied from, or in the style of Rembrandt. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. His widow issued his plates in 1766 and 1767 afater his death with added numbers in the top right corner to correspond with the numbers in the catalogue of his prints which she produced.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32587] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
T.W. 1753
Etching with small margins, platemark 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½").
Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) who specialised in etchings either copied from, or in the style of Rembrandt. Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. His widow issued his plates in 1766 and 1767 afater his death with added numbers in the top right corner to correspond with the numbers in the catalogue of his prints which she produced.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32587] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Veue du Chateau de Seaux prise du haut de l'Allee de la Diane. A View of the Palace of Seaux from the Top of Diana's Walk.
J. Tinney sculp.
London, Printed & Sold by Rob.t Sayer, Print & Map-seller, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 215 x 455mm. 8½ x 18". Fine early colour; good margins.
A prospect of the formal gardens and chateau at the Parc De Sceaux, Paris; figures with dogs to foreground. The château depicted here, demolished during the Revolution, was built by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of finance to Louis XIV, and purchased by Louis' illegitimate son, the duke of Maine in 1699. His duchesse held court in a glittering salon at Sceaux in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The present château, rebuilt 1856-62 in a Louis XIII style, is now a museum. From a series of copies of prints of French royal palaces by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 17602] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J. Tinney sculp.
London, Printed & Sold by Rob.t Sayer, Print & Map-seller, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 215 x 455mm. 8½ x 18". Fine early colour; good margins.
A prospect of the formal gardens and chateau at the Parc De Sceaux, Paris; figures with dogs to foreground. The château depicted here, demolished during the Revolution, was built by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of finance to Louis XIV, and purchased by Louis' illegitimate son, the duke of Maine in 1699. His duchesse held court in a glittering salon at Sceaux in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The present château, rebuilt 1856-62 in a Louis XIII style, is now a museum. From a series of copies of prints of French royal palaces by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 17602] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
S. Sebastianus Martyr. Virtus futile nomenm Ni decus adfuerit patiendo.
Pet: Schenck fec. cum Privil. Amstelod.
[n.d., c.1700.][Bit later]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with large margins. Bit grey.
Two women attend the body of Saint Sebastian, one removing an arrow from his thigh. A suit of armour lies on the ground.
[Ref: 60166] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Pet: Schenck fec. cum Privil. Amstelod.
[n.d., c.1700.][Bit later]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with large margins. Bit grey.
Two women attend the body of Saint Sebastian, one removing an arrow from his thigh. A suit of armour lies on the ground.
[Ref: 60166] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Sebastianus de Eerste, Konig van Portugael en Algarbe, etc.
[Benjamin Picart?]
[n.d., c.1728.]
Engraving. 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Bottom left corner damaged, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait in oval of Sebastian I (1554-78), king of Portugal. He died in battle, aged 24, leading a crusade against Morocco and his body never found.
[Ref: 66737] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Benjamin Picart?]
[n.d., c.1728.]
Engraving. 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Bottom left corner damaged, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait in oval of Sebastian I (1554-78), king of Portugal. He died in battle, aged 24, leading a crusade against Morocco and his body never found.
[Ref: 66737] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Sailors' Encampment Before Sebastopol. The Agamemnon Babbies. No.4. ''The way these fellows (the Agamemnon Babbies, Trafalgar Lambs &c) have got up the ships guns...
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Staining and very slight tears.
A scene showing sailors from the HMS Agamemnon dragging the guns in front of a tent during the Crimean War.
[Ref: 51039] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Staining and very slight tears.
A scene showing sailors from the HMS Agamemnon dragging the guns in front of a tent during the Crimean War.
[Ref: 51039] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
A Christmas Dinner on the Heights Before Sebastopol. Plate XXX.
W. Simpson, del.t _ J.A.Vinter, lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen. Paris_Goupil & Cle. Déposé. Leipzig_Otto Weigel. Colnagni's Authentic Series.
Published May 22nd. 1855, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East. _Publishers to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. Sheet 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15"). Tear in title taped.
William Simpson's record of a dinner for officers of the Grenadier Guards at the Crimea, published in his ''Seat of War in the East''. From the left: Captain Sir Charles Russell, Baronet (winner of a VC); Captain Charles Turner; Captain Alexander Viscount Balgonie (died in the fighting); Captain Frederick Bathurst; Captain Edwyn Sherard Burnaby; Lieut-Colonel Charles Lindsay); Colonel Frederick William Hamilton; Lieut-Colonel Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar; Captain George Higginson (later Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards & centenarian); Lieut. Robert William Hamilton; Captain Henry William Verschoyle; and Captain Sir James Fergusson (later Governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay),
Simpson's original watercolour is in the British Museum (1935,0306.4)
[Ref: 57338] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
W. Simpson, del.t _ J.A.Vinter, lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen. Paris_Goupil & Cle. Déposé. Leipzig_Otto Weigel. Colnagni's Authentic Series.
Published May 22nd. 1855, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East. _Publishers to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. Sheet 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15"). Tear in title taped.
William Simpson's record of a dinner for officers of the Grenadier Guards at the Crimea, published in his ''Seat of War in the East''. From the left: Captain Sir Charles Russell, Baronet (winner of a VC); Captain Charles Turner; Captain Alexander Viscount Balgonie (died in the fighting); Captain Frederick Bathurst; Captain Edwyn Sherard Burnaby; Lieut-Colonel Charles Lindsay); Colonel Frederick William Hamilton; Lieut-Colonel Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar; Captain George Higginson (later Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards & centenarian); Lieut. Robert William Hamilton; Captain Henry William Verschoyle; and Captain Sir James Fergusson (later Governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay),
Simpson's original watercolour is in the British Museum (1935,0306.4)
[Ref: 57338] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Sir John Sebright Bar.t M.P.
Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor. Printed by Graf and Soret.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"). Toning and creasing at top. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of politician and agricultural innovator Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767-1846), 7th Baronet. In his 1809 pamphlet 'The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals', he wrote 'the weak and the unhealthy do not live to propagate their infirmities'. This made an impression on Charles Darwin, who cited Sebright in both 'On the Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man'.
[Ref: 65840] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor. Printed by Graf and Soret.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"). Toning and creasing at top. Bit messy.
A half-length portrait of politician and agricultural innovator Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767-1846), 7th Baronet. In his 1809 pamphlet 'The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals', he wrote 'the weak and the unhealthy do not live to propagate their infirmities'. This made an impression on Charles Darwin, who cited Sebright in both 'On the Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man'.
[Ref: 65840] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Hunters Annual_No. 3 Plate 1.st. This Print of W. Sebright Huntsman, to the Milton Hounds, is dedicated to The Right Hon.ble the Earl of Fitzwilliam by his Lordship's most obedient humble Serv.t. R. B. Davis.
Painted by R. B. Davis. Drawn on Stone by J. W. Giles Bedford S.t Euston Square. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
London, Aug.st 1.st 1839 by R. B. Davis, No. 10, Wilton St. Grosvenor Place and Mess.rs A. H. Bailey & Co. No.83 Cornhill.
Proof lithograph on chine collé. Sheet: 425 x 475mm (16¾ x 18¾"). Pencil annotation crossing out 'W' and adding 'J' in title.
A mounted portrait of W. Sebright shown with his hounds.
[Ref: 47868] £360.00
Painted by R. B. Davis. Drawn on Stone by J. W. Giles Bedford S.t Euston Square. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
London, Aug.st 1.st 1839 by R. B. Davis, No. 10, Wilton St. Grosvenor Place and Mess.rs A. H. Bailey & Co. No.83 Cornhill.
Proof lithograph on chine collé. Sheet: 425 x 475mm (16¾ x 18¾"). Pencil annotation crossing out 'W' and adding 'J' in title.
A mounted portrait of W. Sebright shown with his hounds.
[Ref: 47868] £360.00
The "Mealy's" off duty. Brighton, 1874. Military Caricatures 2.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 2 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 2.
[Ref: 39057] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 2 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 2.
[Ref: 39057] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Hopelessly clubbed. Military Caricatures 3.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 3 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A perplexed figure stands in the centre, with a crowd of infantry behind to the left, and an outraged Officer to the right. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 3.
[Ref: 39058] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 3 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A perplexed figure stands in the centre, with a crowd of infantry behind to the left, and an outraged Officer to the right. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 3.
[Ref: 39058] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The festive Infantry Major. Military Caricatures 1.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 1 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A rotund Infantry Major smiles as he takes the floor to dance at a festive ball. Other well dressed figures are seen in the background. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 1.
[Ref: 39061] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 1 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A rotund Infantry Major smiles as he takes the floor to dance at a festive ball. Other well dressed figures are seen in the background. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 1.
[Ref: 39061] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Peacocking. Military Caricatures 5.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 5 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A Military Artillery Officer in full uniform, wearing a jacket, belt, a pouch around his shoulder, dress spurs and boots, a dress hat with chin scales and a peaked feather at the front, clutching his sword and hanky. A group of women in Ball gowns in watch the officer from behind. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 5.
[Ref: 39062] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 5 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. A Military Artillery Officer in full uniform, wearing a jacket, belt, a pouch around his shoulder, dress spurs and boots, a dress hat with chin scales and a peaked feather at the front, clutching his sword and hanky. A group of women in Ball gowns in watch the officer from behind. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 5.
[Ref: 39062] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Howev-a-r am I to get ov-a-r? Military Caricatures 6.
T.S. Seacombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 6 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. An extremely tall Infantry Officer looks down at a puddle through his monicle, contemplating how to cross it. A well dressed woman watches him from the background, smiling. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 6.
[Ref: 39063] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
T.S. Seacombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very rare.
Plate 6 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. An extremely tall Infantry Officer looks down at a puddle through his monicle, contemplating how to cross it. A well dressed woman watches him from the background, smiling. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 6.
[Ref: 39063] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The "Mealy's" off duty. Brighton, 1874. Military Caricatures 2.
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Very rare coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 500 x 375mm (19¾ x 14¾"). Some creasing.
Plate 2 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 2.
[Ref: 55393] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
T.S. Seccombe Capt.n RA.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Very rare coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 500 x 375mm (19¾ x 14¾"). Some creasing.
Plate 2 from 'Seccombe's Military Caricatures'. c.1875. Major Thomas Strong Seccombe (1840 - 1913) became a member of the Ipswich Art Club in 1875, the same year that he was promoted Major.
Ogilby. 816: 2.
[Ref: 55393] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Fredericus Henrius S.R.J. Comes de Seckendorf. etc. etc. S.C.M. Supremus Campi Mareschallus.
Joh. El. Ridinger inv. fec. et exc. AV. [n.d., c.1750.]
Rare engraving. Plate: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾''). Small margins.
An equestrian portrait of Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff (1673-1763), a German military commander for the Austrian army during the Wars of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War.
[Ref: 50852] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Joh. El. Ridinger inv. fec. et exc. AV. [n.d., c.1750.]
Rare engraving. Plate: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾''). Small margins.
An equestrian portrait of Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff (1673-1763), a German military commander for the Austrian army during the Wars of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War.
[Ref: 50852] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Ch.les De Secondat Bon. De Montesquieu. Presidt. a Mortier au Parlemt. de Bourdeaux.
d'Apres sa Statue Sculptee par M. Clodion, pour le Roi.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St.Victor. A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with fine hand colour. 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Small margins.
The baron de Montesquieu, social commentator and political thinker. From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 40157] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
d'Apres sa Statue Sculptee par M. Clodion, pour le Roi.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St.Victor. A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with fine hand colour. 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Small margins.
The baron de Montesquieu, social commentator and political thinker. From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 40157] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Le Secret. R.1.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing secrecy, with a sphinx and a pair of keys.
[Ref: 59342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing secrecy, with a sphinx and a pair of keys.
[Ref: 59342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Secret.
Drawn & Engraved by H. Beckwith.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford, 246 Strand, 1854.
Engraving. Sheet: 155 x 240mm (6 x 9½").
A view of the yacht "The Secret" at sea with a ship and steam ship behind. An illustration from the 'Sporting Magazine'.
[Ref: 45916] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Engraved by H. Beckwith.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford, 246 Strand, 1854.
Engraving. Sheet: 155 x 240mm (6 x 9½").
A view of the yacht "The Secret" at sea with a ship and steam ship behind. An illustration from the 'Sporting Magazine'.
[Ref: 45916] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![[A Secret Letter.]](jpegs/41530.jpg)
[A Secret Letter.]
Etching by T. Orde, Esq. afterwards 1st Lord Bolton. [In manuscript below plate.]
[n.d., c1770.]
Rare etching. Plate: 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Paper tone, small margins.
An exterior scene in which a woman, walking arm in arm with an older man, is handed a letter by a young man walking behind her. Another man peeps out from behind a bush. An etching by Thomas Orde Powlett (1746-1807) who was an amateur caricaturist whilst at Cambridge.
[Ref: 41530] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Etching by T. Orde, Esq. afterwards 1st Lord Bolton. [In manuscript below plate.]
[n.d., c1770.]
Rare etching. Plate: 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Paper tone, small margins.
An exterior scene in which a woman, walking arm in arm with an older man, is handed a letter by a young man walking behind her. Another man peeps out from behind a bush. An etching by Thomas Orde Powlett (1746-1807) who was an amateur caricaturist whilst at Cambridge.
[Ref: 41530] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Secret.
Drawn & Engraved by H. Beckwith.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford, 246, Strand, 1854.
Steel engraving, sheet 150 x 220mm. 6 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate. Slightly soiled.
A yacht at sea, coastline and other shipping in background. By Henry Beckwith (1830 fl. - 1900 after).
[Ref: 13510] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Engraved by H. Beckwith.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford, 246, Strand, 1854.
Steel engraving, sheet 150 x 220mm. 6 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate. Slightly soiled.
A yacht at sea, coastline and other shipping in background. By Henry Beckwith (1830 fl. - 1900 after).
[Ref: 13510] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Details of the various sections of the brain.]](jpegs/15542.jpg)
[Details of the various sections of the brain.]
Hopkins lithog.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Two very rare lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 403 x 260mm. 16 x 10¼". Stained.
Top section: a mans head from the side, the front and the back; divded into sections, marked numerically from I to XXXIII. Bottom: specific feeling, thouht allocated to that specific section. I. Organ of Amativeness - Physical Love. II. Organ of Philoprogenitiveness. Love of Offspring. III. Organ of Inhabitiveness_attachment to particular places…XXXI. Organ of Causality power of tracing the relation of cause and effect. XXXII. Organ of Wit. XXXIII. Organ of Imitation, mimickry.
[Ref: 15542] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Hopkins lithog.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Two very rare lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 403 x 260mm. 16 x 10¼". Stained.
Top section: a mans head from the side, the front and the back; divded into sections, marked numerically from I to XXXIII. Bottom: specific feeling, thouht allocated to that specific section. I. Organ of Amativeness - Physical Love. II. Organ of Philoprogenitiveness. Love of Offspring. III. Organ of Inhabitiveness_attachment to particular places…XXXI. Organ of Causality power of tracing the relation of cause and effect. XXXII. Organ of Wit. XXXIII. Organ of Imitation, mimickry.
[Ref: 15542] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sedan chair and horse fall into water]](jpegs/44224.jpg)
[Sedan chair and horse fall into water]
[Anon., c.1800]
Etching, unique & rare; sheet 340 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Trimmed; tears to edges; glued to backing sheet; another impression of same plate verso of same plate.
[Ref: 44224] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Anon., c.1800]
Etching, unique & rare; sheet 340 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Trimmed; tears to edges; glued to backing sheet; another impression of same plate verso of same plate.
[Ref: 44224] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Chairmen's Terror. Here, Chair, cries Baron Paunch with Venison cram'd / Ay call away cries Paddy, and be damnd."
Rowlandson 1792.
Published July 18th 1792 by T. Rowlandson, No 52, Strand.
Rare coloured etching. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, small tears. Ink spot centre.
Sedan chair porters recoil when hailed by an obese naval officer outside St James's Palace.
Not in BM
[Ref: 58348] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Rowlandson 1792.
Published July 18th 1792 by T. Rowlandson, No 52, Strand.
Rare coloured etching. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, small tears. Ink spot centre.
Sedan chair porters recoil when hailed by an obese naval officer outside St James's Palace.
Not in BM
[Ref: 58348] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Iohn Seddon. When you behold this Face you look upon, The Great...
Guliel: Faithorne delin: Iohn Sturt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1695]
Fine & rare engraving, 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Small margins.
Frontispiece to Seddon's 'Pen-man's Paradise.' Half length portrait of John Seddon (1644-1700) in an oval on a pedestal. On ribbon at top "Vive La Plume" and beneath on pedestal two lines by John Hubbard. Seddon has shoulder length hair, wearing jacket and cravat pinned at chest. Seddon was an engraver, leading calligrapher of his day, and master of Sir John Johnson's Free Writing School in Priest's Court, Foster Lane.
[Ref: 65753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Guliel: Faithorne delin: Iohn Sturt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1695]
Fine & rare engraving, 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). Small margins.
Frontispiece to Seddon's 'Pen-man's Paradise.' Half length portrait of John Seddon (1644-1700) in an oval on a pedestal. On ribbon at top "Vive La Plume" and beneath on pedestal two lines by John Hubbard. Seddon has shoulder length hair, wearing jacket and cravat pinned at chest. Seddon was an engraver, leading calligrapher of his day, and master of Sir John Johnson's Free Writing School in Priest's Court, Foster Lane.
[Ref: 65753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[The duke of Monmouth defeated by the earl of Feversham at the Battle of Sedgemoor, 1685.]](jpegs/42546.jpg)
[The duke of Monmouth defeated by the earl of Feversham at the Battle of Sedgemoor, 1685.] Le Duc de Montmouth est battu par le Comte de Faversham [parallel text in Dutch]
Adr. Schoonebeek exc [c.1690]
Etching, rare, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
James Scott, first duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch (1649 -1685), illegitimate son of Charles II, executed after the Monmouth Rebellion. Here shown in the Battle of Sedgemoor, which took place near Bridgwater in Somerset on 5 July 1685. This was the final battle of the Monmouth Rebellion, and a decisive victory for royalist supporters loyal to James II. Monmouth escaped the battlefield but was captured and executed soon after.
[Ref: 42546] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Adr. Schoonebeek exc [c.1690]
Etching, rare, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
James Scott, first duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch (1649 -1685), illegitimate son of Charles II, executed after the Monmouth Rebellion. Here shown in the Battle of Sedgemoor, which took place near Bridgwater in Somerset on 5 July 1685. This was the final battle of the Monmouth Rebellion, and a decisive victory for royalist supporters loyal to James II. Monmouth escaped the battlefield but was captured and executed soon after.
[Ref: 42546] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Sedgley Vicarage Garden_June 30.th 1837.
Sketched & Drawn on Zinc by Miss G.G.
Printed from Zinc by J. Grieve 33 Nicholas Lane London.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
A view of the vicarage garden in Sedgeley parish near Alderley in Cheshire. The vicar Charles Girdleston is seen to be blessing a school tea party: the children are lined up before him, as others watch and prepare food.
[Ref: 45972] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Sketched & Drawn on Zinc by Miss G.G.
Printed from Zinc by J. Grieve 33 Nicholas Lane London.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
A view of the vicarage garden in Sedgeley parish near Alderley in Cheshire. The vicar Charles Girdleston is seen to be blessing a school tea party: the children are lined up before him, as others watch and prepare food.
[Ref: 45972] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with very large margins. Margins dusty.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65896] £380.00
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with very large margins. Margins dusty.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65896] £380.00
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65898] £380.00
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65898] £380.00
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65899] £380.00
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65899] £380.00
Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermark, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Small margins. Crease left corner.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65107] £320.00
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermark, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Small margins. Crease left corner.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65107] £320.00
Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Trimmed to plate. Wormhole near bottom of image. Loss in left bottom corner. Repaired abrasions. Time stained.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65108] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Trimmed to plate. Wormhole near bottom of image. Loss in left bottom corner. Repaired abrasions. Time stained.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65108] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper; 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Trimmed to plate.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65109] £320.00
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper; 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾") Trimmed to plate.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65109] £320.00
Madame Katherine Sidley.
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), large margins. Tipped into album sheet.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord & Turner T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65110] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
P. Lilly Pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d. c.1690.]
Mezzotint, watermarked paper, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), large margins. Tipped into album sheet.
A nearly full-length portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), future Countess of Dorchester, seated with her hair in curls, wearing a loose dress. A rock forms the background, with a landscape featuring trees and a mountain visible in the distance to the right. She was mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne.
CS43. Blackett-Ord & Turner T30. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65110] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Catherine Sedley] The Countess of Dorchester.](jpegs/65388.jpg)
[Catherine Sedley] The Countess of Dorchester.
G. Kneller pinxit. [engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), mounted on a 2pp letterpress biography from a book. Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three quarter portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), a long-time mistress of James II, who made her Countess of Dorchester in 1686. A noted wit, she questioned the reason James picked her: ''It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any''. In 1696 she married David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 32, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65388] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller pinxit. [engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), mounted on a 2pp letterpress biography from a book. Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three quarter portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), a long-time mistress of James II, who made her Countess of Dorchester in 1686. A noted wit, she questioned the reason James picked her: ''It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any''. In 1696 she married David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 32, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65388] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Catherine Sedley] The Countess of Dorchester.](jpegs/65389.jpg)
[Catherine Sedley] The Countess of Dorchester.
G. Kneller pinxit. [engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), mounted on a 2pp letterpress biography from a book. Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Collector's stamp on reverse.
A three quarter portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), a long-time mistress of James II, who made her Countess of Dorchester in 1686. A noted wit, she questioned the reason James picked her: ''It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any''. In 1696 she married David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 32, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Lugt 1560, John Young (died. c.1875), member of the Society of Antiquaries.
[Ref: 65389] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller pinxit. [engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1686.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), mounted on a 2pp letterpress biography from a book. Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Collector's stamp on reverse.
A three quarter portrait of Catherine Sedley (1657-1717), a long-time mistress of James II, who made her Countess of Dorchester in 1686. A noted wit, she questioned the reason James picked her: ''It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any''. In 1696 she married David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 32, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Lugt 1560, John Young (died. c.1875), member of the Society of Antiquaries.
[Ref: 65389] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Catherine Sedley] Madam Sidley.](jpegs/30917.jpg)
[Catherine Sedley] Madam Sidley.
W Wissing pinx: cum Privilegio Regis. R Williams fe:
Sold by E Cooper at the 3 pidgions in Bedford str.t [n.d. c.1800.]
Mezzotint. 240 x 177mm (9½ x 7"), with wide margins. Staining in margin.
Catharine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657-1717) was the mistress of James II and in 1686 was created Baroness Darlington and Countess of Dorchester. In 1696 she married Sir David Colyear, later Earl of Portmore. First published c.1680.
CS: 52: iii/iii.
[Ref: 30917] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
W Wissing pinx: cum Privilegio Regis. R Williams fe:
Sold by E Cooper at the 3 pidgions in Bedford str.t [n.d. c.1800.]
Mezzotint. 240 x 177mm (9½ x 7"), with wide margins. Staining in margin.
Catharine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657-1717) was the mistress of James II and in 1686 was created Baroness Darlington and Countess of Dorchester. In 1696 she married Sir David Colyear, later Earl of Portmore. First published c.1680.
CS: 52: iii/iii.
[Ref: 30917] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cupid and Lovers.]](jpegs/11149.jpg)
[Cupid and Lovers.] Claudine envain fait la difficile,/ l'Amour qui sest emparé de son coeur,/ En rendra la conqueste tres facille,/ Et Pierrot sera tout le vainqueur.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
A scene from 'L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé' (The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped), a story adapted by Jean-Joseph Vadé from Boccaccio's 'Decameron' The verse below tells how Claudine, the female, tries in vain to fend off Pierrot, the male, as Love 'will make the conquest very easy.'
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 11149] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
A scene from 'L'arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé' (The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped), a story adapted by Jean-Joseph Vadé from Boccaccio's 'Decameron' The verse below tells how Claudine, the female, tries in vain to fend off Pierrot, the male, as Love 'will make the conquest very easy.'
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 11149] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Seduction.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London. Pub. Nov.r 5. 1788 by Ja.s Birchall No. 473, Strand.
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Light foxing. A few scratches to printed area.
A young woman wearing a mob cap, shawl and apron, sitting at the door of a thatched cottage, her left arm hooked over the back of her chair, reading a letter. There is a basket upside down beside her, and a bird drinking from a plate on the ground next to it. A young man is seen bribing a second woman behind a tree next to the cottage to the right. A companion print to item ref: 36981, 'Credulous Innocence'.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36990] £360.00
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London. Pub. Nov.r 5. 1788 by Ja.s Birchall No. 473, Strand.
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Light foxing. A few scratches to printed area.
A young woman wearing a mob cap, shawl and apron, sitting at the door of a thatched cottage, her left arm hooked over the back of her chair, reading a letter. There is a basket upside down beside her, and a bird drinking from a plate on the ground next to it. A young man is seen bribing a second woman behind a tree next to the cottage to the right. A companion print to item ref: 36981, 'Credulous Innocence'.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36990] £360.00
![[Lake See Hoo and Temple of the Thundering Winds, from the Vale of Tombs.]](jpegs/26728.jpg)
[Lake See Hoo and Temple of the Thundering Winds, from the Vale of Tombs.]
[Drawn by Thomas Allom. Engraved by J.C.Bentley.]
[Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. n.d., c.1843.]
Engraving, proof on chine collé. 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with uncut backing sheet. Some foxing.
From Thomas Allon's 'China Illustrated'.
[Ref: 26728] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn by Thomas Allom. Engraved by J.C.Bentley.]
[Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. n.d., c.1843.]
Engraving, proof on chine collé. 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with uncut backing sheet. Some foxing.
From Thomas Allon's 'China Illustrated'.
[Ref: 26728] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
See-Saw. When young together we resort...
F. Wheatley inv.t. Delatree sculp.t.
Pub.d by R. Pollard Spa Fields London. [n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Plate: 175 x 185mm (7 x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate on right and left sides.
A scene showing three children playing on a see-saw.
[Ref: 42499] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
F. Wheatley inv.t. Delatree sculp.t.
Pub.d by R. Pollard Spa Fields London. [n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Plate: 175 x 185mm (7 x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate on right and left sides.
A scene showing three children playing on a see-saw.
[Ref: 42499] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Sutton's Tuberous-Rooted Begonias.
Ben George, London.
Sutton & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Reading. [n.d., c.1885.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue, with illustrations of six varieties, all red.
[Ref: 41840] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Ben George, London.
Sutton & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Reading. [n.d., c.1885.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue, with illustrations of six varieties, all red.
[Ref: 41840] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Sutton's Strains of Florist's Flowers. Double Portulaca. Cineria. Dianthus. Calceolaria. Giant Cyclamen.
Ben George, London.
Sutton & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Reading. [n.d., c.1890.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41841] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Ben George, London.
Sutton & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Reading. [n.d., c.1890.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41841] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Webbs' Superb Strains of Florists' Flowers. Webbs' Excelsior Gloxinia. Webbs' Perfection Cyclamen. Webbs' Exquisite Primula. Celosia Huttoni. Webbs' New Petunia. Webbs' Superb Calceolaria. Webbs' Superb Cineraria.
G. Severeyns, Chromolith. Brussels.
Webb & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Wordsley, Stourbridge [n.d., c.1885].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glue stains on right edge, laid on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41842] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
G. Severeyns, Chromolith. Brussels.
Webb & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Wordsley, Stourbridge [n.d., c.1885].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glue stains on right edge, laid on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41842] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Seeds of these splendid varieties are included in Webbs' Popular Boxes of Floral Gems at 5/, 7/6 & 10/6 each. Post Free.
G. Severeyns, Chromolith. Brussels.
Webb & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Wordsley, Stourbridge [n.d., c.1885].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glue stains on left, laid on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41843] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
G. Severeyns, Chromolith. Brussels.
Webb & Sons, The Queen's Seedsmen, Wordsley, Stourbridge [n.d., c.1885].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glue stains on left, laid on album paper.
A sheet from a seed catalogue.
[Ref: 41843] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Seedsman's Invoice.] Bought of Harris Seedsman, No5. Lower Thames Street. Garden Mats & Grass Seeds Wholesale_Split Pease, Flour of Mustard &c for Exportation.](jpegs/44714.jpg)
[Seedsman's Invoice.] Bought of Harris Seedsman, No5. Lower Thames Street. Garden Mats & Grass Seeds Wholesale_Split Pease, Flour of Mustard &c for Exportation.
[Dated in mss. January 20th 1787].
Letterpress invoice. Sheet: 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"). Some staining and folds.
An invoice issued to a customer in Arbroath from Harris & Co.
[Ref: 44714] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Dated in mss. January 20th 1787].
Letterpress invoice. Sheet: 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"). Some staining and folds.
An invoice issued to a customer in Arbroath from Harris & Co.
[Ref: 44714] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)