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Belvoir Castle, one of the Seats of the Most Noble John Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Granby, Earl of Rutland [...]
Belvoir Castle, one of the Seats of the Most Noble John Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Granby, Earl of Rutland [...]
T. Badeslade Delin. Ger: vanderGucht sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 430 x 600mm (17 x 23½"). Trimmed within plate, original folds. Slightly stained on left.
A view of Belvoir Castle and gardens, with a hunt bottom right.
[Ref: 62529]   £320.00  
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Major John Bernardi Anno ætaris 73 primoqi die Martij A.o Dni. 1728.
Major John Bernardi Anno ætaris 73 primoqi die Martij A.o Dni. 1728.
W. Cooper pinx. Ger:VanderGucht sculp.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Portrait of Major John Bernardi (1657-1736), English soldier and Jacobite who spent 40 years in Newgate Prison, without proper trial, for his involvement in an assassination plot against William III, dying there aged nearly eighty. This portrait comes from his autobiography, 'A Short History of the Life of Major Bernardi by Himself', in which he describes marrying in Newgate in 1712 (aged 68) and fathering ten children while imprisoned.
Sharpe 315 I of II.
[Ref: 59862]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Eight Curious prints of Fowl and Fish.
Eight Curious prints of Fowl and Fish.
P. And. Rÿsbrack Pinx. G: Vander Gucht Sculpt.
Published by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Extremely scarce complete set of eight engravings, including one proof impression. Plates: 570 x 420mm (22½ x 16½").
Eight plates after Pieter Andreas Rysbrack's (1685-1748) series of four paintings showing fish and four paintings showing fowl. The fish are depicted lying haphazardly on tables next to baskets as if ready for preparation or on the market stall while the birds are all shown in landscape settings as if freshly shot, ready to be collected. Each bird is numbered and named in a key below the image. John Boydell reissued the plates in 1760s which had previously been published in 1735 by Richard Hylton.
[Ref: 41786]   £6,500.00   view all images for this item
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Caesar Borgia
Caesar Borgia Cui tranquilla quies odio cui proelia cordi / et rixa, et coedes, Seditioque fuit [...]
Ber. Domenici delin. ex origin Titiani penes D.m Valettum Neapoli. G. Vandergucht Sculp.
[c.1770]
Engraving, sheet 275 x 145mm (10¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed; laid at edges on album sheet.
Cesare Borgia, duke of Valentinois (c.1475-1507), condottiere frequently cited in Machiavelli's 'The Prince'. The son of Rodrigo Borgia (the future Pope Alexander VI), Cesare was created Cardinal in 1493, and resigned in 1498, the same year he was made duke of Valentinois. The following year he married a Frenchwoman, Charlotte d'Albret, and accompanied Louis XII in his Italian campaign and entered Milan (1499). Over the following years Cesare led French troops, but following the death of his father he was arrested and his estate dismantled while he was exiled to Spain in 1504. He escaped, but was killed during the siege of Viana in 1507.
[Ref: 44138]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Gulielmus Burkitt.  A.M.
Gulielmus Burkitt. A.M.
G. Vander Gucht Sculp.
[London: D. Midwinter, 1739(?)]
Engraving, frontispiece to 'Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament ... by William Burkitt'. 335 x 205mm, 13¼ x 8". Laid paper. Margins a little chipped and tatty. Printer's crease into upper part of image.
Portrait of William Burkitt (1650-1703), Church of England clergyman and devotional writer. Oval frame on pedestal. Gerard Van der Gucht (1695 or 1696 - 1776).
See BL L.17.c.9.
[Ref: 27562]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Archibald Cockburn.
Archibald Cockburn.
G. Vdr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Fine & rare engraving. 165 x 107mm (6½ x 4¼"). Narrow margins.
Archibald Cockburn (fl. 1722) was a Church of England clergyman and writer. He was rector of the parishes of St Mary Cayon and Christ's, Nicholas Town, on the island of St. Christopher's, and wrote "A Philosophical Essay concerning the intermediate State of the blessed Souls".
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25278]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Measuring instruments and scale]
[Measuring instruments and scale] Meta del Piedi Vicentino. Diviso in sei oncie, ed ogni oncia in quattro Minuti.
M. Vd. Gucht Sculp [c.1720]
Engraving, rare; platemark 310 x 215mm (12¼ x 8½").
[Ref: 42482]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Right Hon.ble. James Earl of Derby.
The Right Hon.ble. James Earl of Derby.
[Hamlet Winstanley. Gerard Van der Gucht.]
[n.d., c.1734.]
Etching, very rare. Sheet: 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Small pin hole by pillar. Repaired damage by face. A few fox marks.
Three-quarter length portrait of James Stanley, 10th Duke of Derby (1664-1736), who stands holding a crown in one hand while the other rests on his side. Stanley served in Parliament for Preston and Lancashire before becoming a peer.
[Ref: 36417]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Christopher Wren, D.D. Dean of Windsor.
Christopher Wren, D.D. Dean of Windsor.
G. Vander Gucht Sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼").
Christopher Wren (1589 - 1658), Dean of Windsor; oval portrait, arms below. He wears a skull-cap and robes of the Garter; Latin motto 'Virtuti Fortuna Comes' to pedestal. By Gerard Van der Gucht (1695 or 1696 - 1776), for 'Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens; viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, etc., but chiefly of Sir C. Wren..' by Christopher Wren, son of architect Sir Christopher Wren.
[Ref: 15261]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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