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[Untitled: cavalry charge with horse stumbling on left.
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 1st 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". Creased, with margins.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803. The British Museum has the original brush drawing, in brown-grey wash, heightened with white (oxidised), over graphite. BM: 1868,1212.457 and 1867,1012.148 for the drawing.
[Ref: 22775] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Untitled: a cavalry charge into woods.]
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 1st 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". Creased, with margins.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803.
[Ref: 22776] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Untitled: two pairs of cavalrymen, one rider firing a pistol, a destroyed cannon on right.]
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 1st 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". Creased, with margins.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803.
[Ref: 22777] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Untitled: moonlit scene of five cavalrymen watering their horses before a fortified town.]
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 10th 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". Creased, tears at top.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803.
[Ref: 22778] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Untitled: cavalrymen attacked by infantry.]
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 10th 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". Creased, with margins, uncut.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803.
[Ref: 22779] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Untitled: cavalry approaching a city, swords drawn.]
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 10th 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint, printed on J. Whatman watermark 1794. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". With margins.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803.
[Ref: 22780] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Untitled: two cavalrymen fighting with sabres.]
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 10th 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Sepia aquatint, printed on J. Whatman watermark paper. 310 x 440mm, 12 x 17¼". Small creases, with margins.
From 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars, published 1799-1802. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1764-1826), was in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA 1797-1803.
[Ref: 22781] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Series of Military Evolutions or Warlike Sketches by Mr Gessner Publish'd by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand.
C. Gessler Delin. C.Ziegler Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd as by Act of Parliament April 1st 1797, by R.Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Four aquatints with original wrapper missing back wrapper, W. Bloar 1796 watermark; sheets 390 x 570mm (15¼ x 22½"), with very large margins. Creased/cockled. Light stains.
Four plates from 'Military Evolutions', a scarce set of 30 aquatints of the Allied cavalry during the French Revolutionary Wars. Engraved after designs by Conrad Gessner (1764-1826), Swiss artis in London from 1796 to 1804, exhibiting at the RA while mostly living on the estate of his Scottish patron (many paintings from this period remain in English and Scottish private collections). For individual plates from the set see refs. 22775-81
[Ref: 41063] £650.00
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The Bosky Magistrate. Custos. Nemo. Comes. Testis. Sus. Bosque. Canisque. rules for the Gender of Nouns. [...].
Drawn by J. Nixon E.s.q.r. Engraved by Zeigler.
London Pub. by Will.m Holland. No. 50. Oxford Str.t Nov.r 25. 1796.
Framed hand coloured etching. Printed area: 460 x 320mm. (18¼ x 12½"). Some foxing to printed area.
The interior of a well-furnished room with an open door. By the fire (left) in an arm-chair is a magistrate. In his left hand is a glass spilling its contents, in his right a smoking tobacco-pipe. Beside him (right) is a table with books and writing-materials behind which sits his clerk, pen in mouth, spectacles on forehead, scrutinizing a group of three. On the wall over the clerk's head is a picture of an ass kicking over a statue of Justice. BM Satires: 8910
[Ref: 31506] £520.00
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A Medley of Characters. Plate 1. A Stick and Whip Seller in Belfast. Ascot Heath Races June 1791. Enfield Races Aug. 1791. [&] Plate 2. [&] Plate 3. An Irishwoman coming from Market. [&] Plate 4. At a Sale of Pictures. At a Concert.
Drawn by J. Nixon Esq.r. Engraved by Ziegler.
London, Pub. by Will.m Holland Cockspur Street [n.d., c.1805].
Rare set of four aquatints, printed in sepia. Each 280 x 605mm (11 x 23¾"), on Whatman paper, plate 2 dated 1805. All trimmed to plate at sides, plate 2 very small worm holes, nicks in edges, plate 3 with one caricature excised and taped back in place. All margins are tatty.
Four plates of caricature portraits, including several at horse races and a man playing a bassoon.
[Ref: 58411] £950.00
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