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Anvil.
Anvil.
George Stubbs pinx.t. Geo: Townley Stubbs sculp.t Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London. Published Dec.r 1 1794 by Mess.rs Stubbs, Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.
Stipple and etching, open-letter finished proof, printed in colours and hand finished. 405 x 500mm (16 x 19¾"). Framed. Some spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
Anvil, foaled in 1777 and described by 'A Review of the Turf' as 'ranked amongst the best stallions of the present day'. In 1793 Anvil was in Mr O'Kelly's stud at Edgware, at 10 guineas per mare.
Lennox-Boyd: 114, state I of III, ''100 proofs were issued''.
[Ref: 54816]   £1,850.00  
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Anvil.
Anvil.
George Stubbs pinx.t. Geo. Townley Stubbs sculp.t Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London. Published Dec.r 1 1794 by Mess.rs Stubbs, Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.
Fine stipple with etching, printed in colours and hand finished. 205 x 255mm (8 x 10"), with large margins. Scarce in colours.
Anvil, foaled in 1777 and described by 'A Review of the Turf' as 'ranked amongst the best stallions of the present day'. In 1793 Anvil was in Mr O'Kelly's stud at Edgware, at 10 guineas per mare.
Lennox-Boyd: 115, state II of III. See also 59582.
[Ref: 59369]   £1,250.00  
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Baronet.
Baronet.
G. Stubbs Pinx.t. G.T. Stubbs Sculp. Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Republished June 4.th 1817. by Edw.d Orme Bond Street.
Stipple, pt printed in colour and hand finished. Plate 200 x 250mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Unexamined out of frame, platemark cracked on right.
The Prince of Wales's horse Baronet, being ridden by Samuel Chifney. In 1791 the pair won the Oatland Stakes, winning the Prince over £17,000 from wagers. However controversy over Chifney's riding technique led the Prince to withdraw from the Turf. A fine coloured impression. After George Stubbs (1724 - 1806).
Lennox-Boyd: 101, state III of III. Ex Ackermanns.
[Ref: 60721]   £1,200.00  
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[Girl with Scroll]
[Girl with Scroll]
London Pub by GT Stubbs No 97 High Street Maryle-bone April 9th 1798
Stipple with hand-colouring with small margins, platemark 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾").
From a set of neoclassical stipples, 'Figures done after the Grecian Manner', published by George Townly Stubbs after designs by Anthony van Assen.
Ex: Kedleston collection; 'A Preliminary Checklist of Plates Engraved by George Townly Stubbs', no.102, in Christopher Lennox-Boyd et al, 'George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works'
[Ref: 28498]   £320.00  
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Meditiation.
Meditiation.
H. Singleton Delin.t. Geo. Townly Stubbs sculp.t. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of [Wales.]
London Published July 9.th 1800 by G.T. Stubbs No.97 High Street, Marylebone.
Stipple, printed in colours. Sheet: 310 x 215mm (12 x 8½''). Trimmed and foxing.
An allegorical scene showing a female figure in meditation.
CL-B George Stubbs: Appendix II 122. Ex Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 49887]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Figures done after the Grecian Manner: Girl with Lyre.]
[Figures done after the Grecian Manner: Girl with Lyre.]
[Engraved by George Townly Stubbs.]
London, Pub.d 1. Aug.t 1796, by G.T. Stubbs, at the Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.
Stipple, scarce. 450 x 325mm (17½ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Slight creasing not visible from front.
A classical figure, a woman standing with a lyre held on her hip.
Lennox-Boyd, Stubbs GTS 75.
[Ref: 45226]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Savoir Vivre__Sans Six Sous. [&] Savoir Vivre___Sans Souci.
Savoir Vivre__Sans Six Sous. [&] Savoir Vivre___Sans Souci.
Pub.d as the Act directs 22.d Dec.r 1783 and Engrav'd by Geo. Townly Stubbs London.
Pair of stipples with etching, printed in brown, with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½") each. Slight staining right of Sans Souci.
A pun in French: A woman standing with a bonnet and a striped skirt, looks at her purse as she holds it upside down (roughly, without sixpence); [&] A fashionably dressed young woman in half-profile to the left looks with a smile at a wine glass she is holding in her raised right hand. In the left hand she has a bottle of wine. (without a care). By George Townley Stubbs (1748 - 1815?), son of painter George Stubbs (1724 - 1806).
CLB List G T Stubbs 26 & 27.
[Ref: 36548]   £450.00   view all images for this item
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Savoir Vivre__Sans Six Sous. [&] Savoir Vivre___Sans Souci.
Savoir Vivre__Sans Six Sous. [&] Savoir Vivre___Sans Souci.
Pub.d as the Act directs 22.d Dec.r 1783 and Engrav'd by Geo Townly Stubbs London.
Pair of stipples with etching, with very small margins; printed in brown. Plate 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Few repaired tears.
A pun in French: A woman standing with a bonnet and a striped skirt, looks at her purse as she holds it upside down (roughly, without sixpence); [&] a woman stands holding a small glass up in the air in one hand and, in the other, a jug (without a care).
CLB List G T Stubbs 26 & 27.
[Ref: 30456]   £320.00   view all images for this item
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Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire.
Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire. Engraved from an Original Picture in the possession of The Right Honorable the Countess Spencer, to whom this Plate is by permission inscribed, by her Ladyships much obliged most obed.t & devoted hum.ble serv.t Geo. Townly Stubbs.
London, Pub.d as the Act directs. July 1.st 1782.
Stipple, very scarce. Sheet size: 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A bust portrait of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757 - 1806), facing the viewer, in an oval. She was a celebrated beauty and socialite who gathered around her a large salon of literary and political figures. She was connected to key figures of the age such as the Prince of Wales and Marie Antoinette. Cavendish was a frequent sitter in portraits and although known for her style, beauty, and her political campaigning, she was also famed for her love of gambling. Even though her own family, the Spencers, and her husband's family, the Cavendishes, were immensely wealthy, she was reported to have died deeply in debt due to her excesses.
Not in CL-B's Stubbs volume.
[Ref: 34387]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Amaryllis.
Amaryllis. Vide Spectator No. 144.
Engraved by Geo. Townley Stubbs.
Publish'd Feb.y 20.th 1784 as the Act Directs, London.
Stipple printed in brown ink with large margins, very scarce. Platemark: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½").
A fashionably dressed young woman stands to the front, facing the right. She wears a fur robe, a hat with ribbons and a muff. Amaryllis was a character in the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil, The Eclogues. By George Townley Stubbs (1748 - 1815?), son of painter George Stubbs (1724 - 1806).
Not in Lennox-Boyd List.
[Ref: 36550]   £320.00  
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The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, [/] She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen; [/] While a kind glance at her pursuer flies, [/] How much at variance are her feet and eyes.
The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, [/] She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen; [/] While a kind glance at her pursuer flies, [/] How much at variance are her feet and eyes.
Engrav'd by Geo. Townley Stubbs.
Pub.d. March 10, 1784 as the Act directs, London.
Stipple printed in brown ink with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½").
A fashionably dressed young woman stands with her back to the viewer, turned facing the left. She wears a plumed hat and holds a fur muff. Below the image is a verse taken from 'The First Pastoral, or Damon', by Alexander Pope (1688-1744). By George Townley Stubbs (1748 - 1815?), son of painter George Stubbs (1724 - 1806).
Lennox-Boyd: 28
[Ref: 36549]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Unrecorded plate of Stubbs' Sweetbrier] Sweetbryer.
[Unrecorded plate of Stubbs' Sweetbrier] Sweetbryer.
G.Stubbs pinx.t. Geo.e Townley Stubbs sculp. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London publish'd [***] by Mess.rs Stubbs, Turf Gallery Conduit Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours and hand finished, title in open letters. Publication line excludes date. 400 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"), with large margins. Framed. Repairs in sky, publication date unprinted. Unexamined out of frame.
Sweetbriar, a black colt foaled in 1769, raced for Lord Grosvenor 1773-5, retiring to stud unbeaten. In the background is Grosvenor's stud farm at Oxcroft, Cambridgeshire. This image of this plate is identical to 'Sweetbrier' (Lennox-Boyd 112), other than detail in the clouds; however the plate is 1cm smaller, height and width, with an alternative spelling of the horse's name, as used in the smaller-format version.
[Ref: 54815]   £2,000.00  
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Sweetwilliam.
Sweetwilliam.
G. Stubbs pinx.t. Geo. Townley Stubbs Sculp. Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, Republished June 4., 1817, by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, Corner of Brook Street.
Stipple with etching. 410 x 505mm (16¼ x 19¾"), with wide margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of the racer Sweetwilliam, standing in a paddock facing left, with Sweet William flowering at his feet. Foaled about 1770, Sweetwilliam raced for Lord Bolingbroke until 1778, when he went to stud at Lord Grosvenor's Oxcroft estate.
Lennox-Boyd: 118, state III of III.
[Ref: 41670]   £2,400.00  
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Sweetwilliam.
Sweetwilliam.
G. Stubbs pinx.t. Geo. Townley Stubbs Sculp. Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, Republished June 4., 1817, by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, Corner of Brook Street.
Stipple, printed in colour and hand finished. 405 x 505mm (16 x 20"). Small area of damage under horse's body. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of the racer Sweetwilliam, standing in a paddock facing left, with Sweet William flowering at his feet. Foaled about 1770, Sweetwilliam raced for Lord Bolingbroke until 1778, when he went to stud at Lord Grosvenor's Oxcroft estate.
Lennox-Boyd: 118, state III of III.
[Ref: 54814]   £1,850.00  
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The Terrible Horse Trentham late the property of Charles Ogilvy Esq.r...
The Terrible Horse Trentham late the property of Charles Ogilvy Esq.r...
G.Stubbs pinx.t. G.D.Stubbs sculp.t. 260
Published according to Act of parliament Jan.y 1. 1772 and sold by Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street. [c.1800]
Mezzotint. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Some toning of paper, a damp stain.
Lennox-Boyd: 29, state iii of iii, probably issued by Laurie & Whittle c.1800. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5839]   £450.00  
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The Terrible Horse Trentham late the property of Charles Ogilvy Esq.r...
The Terrible Horse Trentham late the property of Charles Ogilvy Esq.r...
G.Stubbs pinx.t. G.D.Stubbs sculp.t. 506.
Published according to Act of parliament Jan.y 1. 1772 and sold by Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Laid on board. Stained.
Lennox-Boyd: 29, state ii of iii.. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5838]   £450.00  
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[Figures done after the Grecian Manner: Victory.]
[Figures done after the Grecian Manner: Victory.]
[Engraved by George Townly Stubbs.]
London, Pub.d 1. Aug.t 1796, by G.T. Stubbs, at the Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.
Stipple, scarce. 450 x 325mm (17½ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
The winged figure of Victory, laurel wreath in hand.
Lennox-Boyd, Stubbs GTS 89.
[Ref: 45225]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Josiah Wedgwood Esq.r.
Josiah Wedgwood Esq.r. Done from an original Picture Painted in Enamel as large as Life.
George stubbs pinx.t. Geo: Townly Stubbs sculp.t. Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
[n.d., c.1795].
Stipple. Sheet: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired vertical crease through print on right side.
A half portrait in roundel of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) after George Stubbs' miniature portrait. Wedgwood was a highly successful potter who is often credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of ceramics. Possibly from the enamel in the Wedgwood Museum.
CLB: 97 I of II.
[Ref: 35353]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Josiah Wedgwood Esq.r.
Josiah Wedgwood Esq.r. Done from an original Picture Painted in Enamel as large as Life.
George Stubbs pinx.t. Geo: Townly Stubbs sculp.t Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London, Published Feb.y 10. 1795, by Geo:Townly Stubbs, No.86 High Street, Marybone.
Stipple . Sheet 225 x 175mm (9 x 7"). Trimmed to plate.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs. Wedgwood first commissioned Stubbs to paint himself and his wife in 1780 and the artist painted in oil a family picture with nine figures, four being on horseback, also a large portrait in enamel on earthenware; both these works are now in the possession of Mr. Godfrey Wedgwood. This print was published by George Townly Stubbs within three months of Wedgwood's death in 1795 as a memorial, probably taken from the enamel in his father's studio.
Lennox-Boyd: 97, II of II.
[Ref: 53124]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Woman in a rustic setting]
[Woman in a rustic setting]
Painted by John Grassi. Engraved by Geo Townley Stubbs.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 15th. 1786, by H. Humphrey, No 51, New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching in brown ink, proof before title, 250 x 185mm. 9¾ x 7¼". A fine impression with good margins.
A woman in a landscape looking directly at the viewer; a man watching and cocking an ear to eavesdrop in the background. Engraved by George Townly Stubbs (1756? - 1815), engraver and printseller, son of George Stubbs.
See Lennox-Boyd: Appendix II, 35, plate published by G.T. Stubbs in March 1786.
[Ref: 12187]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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