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Cries of London Plate 6th. Knives, Scissars, and Razors to Grind. Couteaux, Ciseaux, Rasoirs a repasser.
Painted by F. Wheatley R.A. Engraved by G. Vendramini.
London Pub.d as the Act Directs, Jan.1. 1795, by Colnaghi & Co. No.132 Pall Mall.
Very fine stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet: 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate.
A knife grinder, speaking to two women, who hand him a pair of scissors. From the famous 'Cries of London' series after paintings by Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
[Ref: 39975] £450.00 view all images for this item
Painted by F. Wheatley R.A. Engraved by G. Vendramini.
London Pub.d as the Act Directs, Jan.1. 1795, by Colnaghi & Co. No.132 Pall Mall.
Very fine stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet: 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate.
A knife grinder, speaking to two women, who hand him a pair of scissors. From the famous 'Cries of London' series after paintings by Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
[Ref: 39975] £450.00 view all images for this item
Strawberrys Scarlet Strawberrys. Fraises, fraises, mes belles fraises. Cries of London. Plate 9th.
Painted by F. Wheatley R.A. Engraved by Vendramini. Directed by L. Schiavonetti.
London Pub.d as the Act directs June 25th 1795 by Colnaghi & Co. No.132 Pall Mall.
Stipple printed in colours with colour added by hand. 418 x 322mm. 16½ x 12¾". Trimmed.
A strawberry seller, standing with a basket balanced on her head, in Covent Garden; behind her two horses and a cart, and two chairmen resting beside their sedan chair to right. This is one of thirteen plates in Wheatley’s ‘Cries of London’, the most famous version of a popular theme in English printmaking. The shouts and songs of the street traders advertising their wares were a part of city life and inspired a number of artists of different styles, from these idealised scenes to the more raucous caricatures drawn by Rowlandson. Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) exhibited fourteen painted ‘Cries’ at the Royal Academy between 1792-5, with enough success for Colnaghi to commission some of the best engravers in England, including brothers Luigi and Niccolo Schiavonetti, Giovanni Vendramini & Thomas Gaugain to reproduce thirteen of the series in stipple. These were available as separate prints or as a set and were a great success (even abroad, as denoted by the French version of the titles), and have remained popular to this day.
[Ref: 19431] £450.00
Painted by F. Wheatley R.A. Engraved by Vendramini. Directed by L. Schiavonetti.
London Pub.d as the Act directs June 25th 1795 by Colnaghi & Co. No.132 Pall Mall.
Stipple printed in colours with colour added by hand. 418 x 322mm. 16½ x 12¾". Trimmed.
A strawberry seller, standing with a basket balanced on her head, in Covent Garden; behind her two horses and a cart, and two chairmen resting beside their sedan chair to right. This is one of thirteen plates in Wheatley’s ‘Cries of London’, the most famous version of a popular theme in English printmaking. The shouts and songs of the street traders advertising their wares were a part of city life and inspired a number of artists of different styles, from these idealised scenes to the more raucous caricatures drawn by Rowlandson. Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) exhibited fourteen painted ‘Cries’ at the Royal Academy between 1792-5, with enough success for Colnaghi to commission some of the best engravers in England, including brothers Luigi and Niccolo Schiavonetti, Giovanni Vendramini & Thomas Gaugain to reproduce thirteen of the series in stipple. These were available as separate prints or as a set and were a great success (even abroad, as denoted by the French version of the titles), and have remained popular to this day.
[Ref: 19431] £450.00
Cupid Refusing Love to Desire.
Drawn by F. Bartolozzi R.A. [...] F. Vieira Junior inv.t [...] Engraved by John Vendramini.
London Published May 1 1800 by F. Bartolozzi & J. Vendramini.
Stipple, platemark 365 x 475mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large large margins.
Mythological subject after Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case, getting around the rules by electing Bartolozzi as a painter). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton enticed Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. One of few prints engraved after a drawing by Bartolozzi rather than by Bartolozzi from another artist's designs.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46764] £380.00
Drawn by F. Bartolozzi R.A. [...] F. Vieira Junior inv.t [...] Engraved by John Vendramini.
London Published May 1 1800 by F. Bartolozzi & J. Vendramini.
Stipple, platemark 365 x 475mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large large margins.
Mythological subject after Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case, getting around the rules by electing Bartolozzi as a painter). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton enticed Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. One of few prints engraved after a drawing by Bartolozzi rather than by Bartolozzi from another artist's designs.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46764] £380.00
![[Europa riding on the back of Zeus disguised as a bull.]](jpegs/55473.jpg)
[Europa riding on the back of Zeus disguised as a bull.] Methinks the pictur'd bull we see / Is amourous Jove - it must be he! [...] Ode LIV.
Robert Ker Porter del. John Vendramini sculp.
London, Published June 4th. 1805 by John P Thompson, Gt. Newport Street, Printseller to His Majesty, & the Duke and Duchess of York.
Crayon manner. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), 1818 watermark. Trimmed within plate, toning of edges.
An illustration from ''Odes of Anacreon''.
[Ref: 55473] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Robert Ker Porter del. John Vendramini sculp.
London, Published June 4th. 1805 by John P Thompson, Gt. Newport Street, Printseller to His Majesty, & the Duke and Duchess of York.
Crayon manner. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), 1818 watermark. Trimmed within plate, toning of edges.
An illustration from ''Odes of Anacreon''.
[Ref: 55473] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Decamp in the character if Urania.
P. Jean del. J. Vendramini sculp.t
London, Published Oct.r 6th 1802, by John P. Thompson Great Newport Street and No. 51, Dean Street, Soho, Printseller to his Majesty and the Duke and Duchess of York.
Stipple, 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8½"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of actress Maria Theresa Kemble (1774-1838), when Miss De Camp, in character as Urania. She stands in the clouds, reaching upwards with her right hand and pointing her finger. She wears a veil and white dress decorated with stars.
[Ref: 61680] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
P. Jean del. J. Vendramini sculp.t
London, Published Oct.r 6th 1802, by John P. Thompson Great Newport Street and No. 51, Dean Street, Soho, Printseller to his Majesty and the Duke and Duchess of York.
Stipple, 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8½"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of actress Maria Theresa Kemble (1774-1838), when Miss De Camp, in character as Urania. She stands in the clouds, reaching upwards with her right hand and pointing her finger. She wears a veil and white dress decorated with stars.
[Ref: 61680] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Conflagration Of Moscow, Seen From The Kremlin, On the entrance of the French Army the 14.th September, 1812; the view taken on the spot by John Vendramini.
London. Published November 5.th 1812, by the Proprietor.
Scarce aquatint with hand colour, 390 x 530mm (15½ x 21"). Tears going into image repaired with tape. Puncture in image. Wormhole in image. Small margins.
View of the 1812 Fire of Moscow; three officers on horseback occupy the central foreground, with the Ivan the Great Bell Tower to the left, and in the distance fire and smoke billow from behind churches and other buildings. On 14 September, during the French invasion of Russia, Napoleon led an army of about 100,000 into Moscow, only to find the city abandoned and deliberately set aflame by its military governor, Fyodor Rostopchin.
[Ref: 67027] £320.00
London. Published November 5.th 1812, by the Proprietor.
Scarce aquatint with hand colour, 390 x 530mm (15½ x 21"). Tears going into image repaired with tape. Puncture in image. Wormhole in image. Small margins.
View of the 1812 Fire of Moscow; three officers on horseback occupy the central foreground, with the Ivan the Great Bell Tower to the left, and in the distance fire and smoke billow from behind churches and other buildings. On 14 September, during the French invasion of Russia, Napoleon led an army of about 100,000 into Moscow, only to find the city abandoned and deliberately set aflame by its military governor, Fyodor Rostopchin.
[Ref: 67027] £320.00
![[Battle of Roliça] The Attack on the French Corps Commanded by Gen.l Laboarde, on the 17th of Aug.t 1808.](jpegs/55767.jpg)
[Battle of Roliça] The Attack on the French Corps Commanded by Gen.l Laboarde, on the 17th of Aug.t 1808. Respecfully Dedicated to Lieutenant General Sir Brent Spencer KB: Second in command of the Army; by his most obed.t hum.ble Serv.t H.L'Eveque.
Drawn by H.L. Eveque. Engraved by J. Vendramini.
London: Pub.d Jam.y 1, 1813, for the Proprietors by Messr.s Colnaghi & Co, 23 Cockspur St.t.
Etching and stipple. 375 x 500mm (14¾ x 19¾") very large margins. Tear in right margin.
A view of the Battle of Roliça, the first battle fought by the British Army in the Peninsular War, with Arthur Wellesley defeating a Fench division under Henri François Delaborde, From a series 'Campaigns of the British Army in Portugal' after Henri L'Evêque (1769-1832).
[Ref: 55767] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by H.L. Eveque. Engraved by J. Vendramini.
London: Pub.d Jam.y 1, 1813, for the Proprietors by Messr.s Colnaghi & Co, 23 Cockspur St.t.
Etching and stipple. 375 x 500mm (14¾ x 19¾") very large margins. Tear in right margin.
A view of the Battle of Roliça, the first battle fought by the British Army in the Peninsular War, with Arthur Wellesley defeating a Fench division under Henri François Delaborde, From a series 'Campaigns of the British Army in Portugal' after Henri L'Evêque (1769-1832).
[Ref: 55767] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Wellington] To His Most Excellent Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, This Portrait of Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington,](jpegs/55687.jpg)
[Wellington] To His Most Excellent Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, This Portrait of Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Is most humbly Dedicated (with Permission) by His Imperial Majesty's very humble Servant, John Vendramini. Proof.
Painted by H.L. Evêque, Member of the Academy of Genova. Engraved by J. Vendramini.
Published 1814, by H.L. Evêque, No 14 Brompton Row.
Scarce proof engraving. 520 x 420mm (20½ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate at top, some creasing, some wear to inscription area and bottom border. Damaged.
The Duke of Wellington in a camp during the Peninsula War. Henri L'Evêque (1769-1832), a Swiss painter, travelled with the British Army, illustrating British Peninsula War campaign.
[Ref: 55687] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by H.L. Evêque, Member of the Academy of Genova. Engraved by J. Vendramini.
Published 1814, by H.L. Evêque, No 14 Brompton Row.
Scarce proof engraving. 520 x 420mm (20½ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate at top, some creasing, some wear to inscription area and bottom border. Damaged.
The Duke of Wellington in a camp during the Peninsula War. Henri L'Evêque (1769-1832), a Swiss painter, travelled with the British Army, illustrating British Peninsula War campaign.
[Ref: 55687] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
William Wilberforce Esq. Member of Parliament for the County of York.
Engraved by J. Vendramini, from an original Drawing by H. Edridge.
Published Oct. 27. 1809, By T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Creasing, small margins.
Portrait of abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), half-length, seated in armchair, directed and looking to the right, reading a book that he is holding close to his face with both hands, wearing double breasted coat with eyeglass on a ribbon hanging around his neck.
[Ref: 59648] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by J. Vendramini, from an original Drawing by H. Edridge.
Published Oct. 27. 1809, By T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Creasing, small margins.
Portrait of abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), half-length, seated in armchair, directed and looking to the right, reading a book that he is holding close to his face with both hands, wearing double breasted coat with eyeglass on a ribbon hanging around his neck.
[Ref: 59648] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)