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[Charles Edward Stuart.] Routed, oer Hills the young Adventurer flies, / And in a cottage sinks to this Disguise. /
[Charles Edward Stuart.] Routed, oer Hills the young Adventurer flies, / And in a cottage sinks to this Disguise. / Fled his gay Hopes, defeated his fond Scheme, / His throne is vanish'd like a golden Dream. / By manly Thoughts He'd charm His Woes to rest: / In vain! Culloden still distracts His Breast.
J. Williams Fecit.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾"), with large margins. A few faint creases. Bit rubbed.
Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-1788), disguised as a woman, three-quarter length in an oval directed to right, looking towards the viewer with head turned to left, holding the frilled edge of a cap in front of him, wearing a lace-trimmed fichu and cap. J. Williams is named on the print as engraver and it is the only known work so inscribed.
Sharp: 218. CS: 1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64487]   £680.00  
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[Charles Edward Stuart.] Routed, oer Hills the young Adventurer flies, / And in a cottage sinks to this Disguise. /
[Charles Edward Stuart.] Routed, oer Hills the young Adventurer flies, / And in a cottage sinks to this Disguise. / Fled his gay Hopes, defeated his fond Scheme, / His throne is vanish'd like a golden Dream. / By manly Thoughts He'd charm His Woes to rest: / In vain! Culloden still distracts His Breast.
J. Williams Fecit.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾").. Thread margins
Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-1788), disguised as a woman, three-quarter length in an oval directed to right, looking towards the viewer with head turned to left, holding the frilled edge of a cap in front of him, wearing a lace-trimmed fichu and cap. J. Williams is named on the print as engraver and it is the only known work so inscribed. In June 1746 following defeat at Culloden, Bonnie Prince Charlie fled to Skye disguised as Irish Maid Betty Burke.
Sharp: 218. CS: 1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64488]   £680.00  
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Te po a Chief of Rarotonga.
Te po a Chief of Rarotonga.
Printed in Oil Colours by G. Baxter, (Patentee) 3, Charter-house Square. From a Painting by J. Williams Jun.r.
[Published by John Snow, 26, Paternoster Row, London.] [n.d. c.1837.]
Baxter print. Sheet 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4½"). Publication line lost by abrasion.
Possibly Te Po Kurikuri. He has full body tattoo, a spear in his left hand, a fan in his right. He is wearing an elaborate head-dress and is draped with a cloth over his shoulders and his hips. In the background are a Rarotongan canoe and a European sailing ship. Rarotonga, in the Hervey Islands, was the home of the Rev. John Williams in the South Seas for some years.
[Ref: 55698]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tristram Shandy] The Siege of Bergem Op Zoom.
[Tristram Shandy] The Siege of Bergem Op Zoom.
Sterne Inv.t. J.W.ms Del et Sc.
Pub accor.g to Act April 1st. 1772 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾").
Uncle Toby in his study re-enacting the siege in his living room, with a map hanging on the wall behind and a dog barking under the table. A scene from Laurence Sterne's nine-volume novel 'Tristram Shandy', 1759-67. In 1747, during the Austrian War of Succession, aa French army under the command of Löwenthal, captured the strategic Dutch border fortress of Bergen op Zoom.
[Ref: 14128]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tristram Shandy] The Siege of Bergem Op Zoom.
[Tristram Shandy] The Siege of Bergem Op Zoom.
Sterne Inv.t. J.W.ms Del et Sc.
Pub accor.g to Act April 1st. 1772 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with large margins. Tear entering plate on left (taped).
Uncle Toby in his study re-enacting the siege in his living room, with a map hanging on the wall behind and a dog barking under the table. A scene from Laurence Sterne's nine-volume novel 'Tristram Shandy', 1759-67. In 1747, during the Austrian War of Succession, aa French army under the command of Löwenthal, captured the strategic Dutch border fortress of Bergen op Zoom.
[Ref: 54407]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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