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G.B. Cipriani Inv. I.M. Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.
Stipple. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 55310] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
G.B. Cipriani Inv. I.M. Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.
Stipple. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 55310] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Alchymist. He's in Belief of Chymistry, so bold,/ if his Dream last, he'll turn the Age to Gold.
Teniers pinx.t. W. Baillie sculp.t.
Early impression
Etching. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
An alchemist in his workshop, using bellows to make his fire burn hotter, etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 55334] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Teniers pinx.t. W. Baillie sculp.t.
Early impression
Etching. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
An alchemist in his workshop, using bellows to make his fire burn hotter, etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 55334] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Sir Joseph Banks Bar.t President of the Royal Society.
Painted by J. Russell R.A. Crayon Painter to His Majesty, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales_ Engraved by J. Collyer A._
Published as the Act directs May 16th 1789. Sold by W. Dickenson, Bond Stre. J. Cary, Strand, W. DArling, Newport Str. T. Simpson St Pauls Church Yard, and J. Collyer White Lion Row, Islington. Price 3s.
Stipple, sheet 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate mark.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences holding a 'Carte de la Lune par J. Russell' (map of the moon by J. Russell). Banks was leading founder of the African Association, a British organisation dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy. He joined James Cook on his first voyage around the Pacific, and they came across New Zealand and Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River. Banks took a great interest in the British colonisation of the continent and was to be the greatest proponent of settlement of New South Wales. He was in fact the general advisor to the government on all Australian interests.
[Ref: 55263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by J. Russell R.A. Crayon Painter to His Majesty, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales_ Engraved by J. Collyer A._
Published as the Act directs May 16th 1789. Sold by W. Dickenson, Bond Stre. J. Cary, Strand, W. DArling, Newport Str. T. Simpson St Pauls Church Yard, and J. Collyer White Lion Row, Islington. Price 3s.
Stipple, sheet 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate mark.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences holding a 'Carte de la Lune par J. Russell' (map of the moon by J. Russell). Banks was leading founder of the African Association, a British organisation dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy. He joined James Cook on his first voyage around the Pacific, and they came across New Zealand and Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River. Banks took a great interest in the British colonisation of the continent and was to be the greatest proponent of settlement of New South Wales. He was in fact the general advisor to the government on all Australian interests.
[Ref: 55263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
George Bidder, of Devonshire, AET.13. Whose extraordinary power of Calculation developed itself without instruction & reached an unprecedented height before he attained his seventh year. From a Miniature in the possession of the Rev.d Tho.s Jephson, of St. John's College Cambridge.
Painted by Miss Hayter. Engraved by J.H. Robinson.
London, Published June 25, 1819, by Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street.
Proof. Engraving. 245 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Cut inside platemark. Some foxing. Laid on album sheet at edges.
George Parker Bidder (1806-1878), the English engineer, architect and calculating prodigy. In 1834 Robert Stephenson, whose acquaintance he had made in Edinburgh, offered him an appointment on the London & Birmingham Railway, and in the succeeding year or two he began to assist George Stephenson in his parliamentary work, which at that time included schemes for railways between London and Brighton and between Manchester and Rugby via the Potteries. In 1837 he was engaged with Stephenson in building the Blackwall Railway, and it was he who designed the peculiar method of disconnecting a carriage at each station while the rest of the train went on without stopping, which was employed in the early days of that line when it was worked by means of a cable. He also advised on the construction of the Belgian railways; with Robert Stephenson he made the first railway in Norway, from Christiania to Eidsvold; he was engineer-in-chief of the Danish railways, and he was largely concerned with railways in India, where he strongly and successfully opposed break of gauge on through routes. In 1860 he was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was also one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company, which enabled the public generally to enjoy the benefits of telegraphic communication. In hydraulic engineering, he was the designer of the Victoria Docks (London). Bidder also investigated the practicality of steam trawlers in conjunction with Samuel Lake.
[Ref: 55257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Miss Hayter. Engraved by J.H. Robinson.
London, Published June 25, 1819, by Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street.
Proof. Engraving. 245 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Cut inside platemark. Some foxing. Laid on album sheet at edges.
George Parker Bidder (1806-1878), the English engineer, architect and calculating prodigy. In 1834 Robert Stephenson, whose acquaintance he had made in Edinburgh, offered him an appointment on the London & Birmingham Railway, and in the succeeding year or two he began to assist George Stephenson in his parliamentary work, which at that time included schemes for railways between London and Brighton and between Manchester and Rugby via the Potteries. In 1837 he was engaged with Stephenson in building the Blackwall Railway, and it was he who designed the peculiar method of disconnecting a carriage at each station while the rest of the train went on without stopping, which was employed in the early days of that line when it was worked by means of a cable. He also advised on the construction of the Belgian railways; with Robert Stephenson he made the first railway in Norway, from Christiania to Eidsvold; he was engineer-in-chief of the Danish railways, and he was largely concerned with railways in India, where he strongly and successfully opposed break of gauge on through routes. In 1860 he was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was also one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company, which enabled the public generally to enjoy the benefits of telegraphic communication. In hydraulic engineering, he was the designer of the Victoria Docks (London). Bidder also investigated the practicality of steam trawlers in conjunction with Samuel Lake.
[Ref: 55257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
James Ferguson F:R:S:
John Townsend pinx.t.
Publish'd Dec.r 7th 1776. Printed for Robert Stewart Engraver & modeller of portraits in wax No 15 Millman Streets, Bedford Row, Holborn.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins.
James Ferguson (1710-76), Scottish astronomer, instrument maker and popular lecturer on scientific subjects. Apart from three months at a grammar school he was self-taught. His 'Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles' was first published in 1756 and was still being published in 1811.
CD: 5, See 6167 for PBL. W. 965-3
[Ref: 55230] £520.00
John Townsend pinx.t.
Publish'd Dec.r 7th 1776. Printed for Robert Stewart Engraver & modeller of portraits in wax No 15 Millman Streets, Bedford Row, Holborn.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins.
James Ferguson (1710-76), Scottish astronomer, instrument maker and popular lecturer on scientific subjects. Apart from three months at a grammar school he was self-taught. His 'Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles' was first published in 1756 and was still being published in 1811.
CD: 5, See 6167 for PBL. W. 965-3
[Ref: 55230] £520.00
![[Humphry Repton.]](jpegs/55312.jpg)
[Humphry Repton.]
[S. Shelley del. W. Holl fecit.]
[London Publish'd June 4th 1802, by J. Taylor, High Holborn.]
Scarce & rare stipple, unlettered proof. 340 x 280mm (13¼ x 11"). Thread margins, laid on album sheet. Foxing.
A half-length portrait of Humphry Repton (1752-1818), the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, eventually published as the frontispiece to his 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening' (Abbey Scenery 390). A very fine impression.
[Ref: 55312] £660.00
[S. Shelley del. W. Holl fecit.]
[London Publish'd June 4th 1802, by J. Taylor, High Holborn.]
Scarce & rare stipple, unlettered proof. 340 x 280mm (13¼ x 11"). Thread margins, laid on album sheet. Foxing.
A half-length portrait of Humphry Repton (1752-1818), the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, eventually published as the frontispiece to his 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening' (Abbey Scenery 390). A very fine impression.
[Ref: 55312] £660.00
![[M.r Thomas Weston.]](jpegs/55302.jpg)
[M.r Thomas Weston.]
[M. Dahl pinx. John Faber fecit 1723.]
[1726.]
Rare & scarce mezzotint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed into image on 4 sides, losing inscription area.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Weston (d.1728), astronomer, the frontispiece to 'A copy-book written for the use of the young-gentlemen at the Academy in Greenwich'. As an indentured assistant to Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, he helped Flamsteed draught his celestial atlas, the 'Atlas Coelestis'. He is depicted with Flamsteed in the mural on the ceiling of the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He founded Weston's Academy in Greenwich in 1712, to give maritime training to pupils including orphans from the Royal Hospital. After several changes of name and location, Weston's Academy became the Burney's [Royal] Academy at Coldharbour, Gosport.
W. 3165; C.S. 379.
[Ref: 55302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[M. Dahl pinx. John Faber fecit 1723.]
[1726.]
Rare & scarce mezzotint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed into image on 4 sides, losing inscription area.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Weston (d.1728), astronomer, the frontispiece to 'A copy-book written for the use of the young-gentlemen at the Academy in Greenwich'. As an indentured assistant to Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, he helped Flamsteed draught his celestial atlas, the 'Atlas Coelestis'. He is depicted with Flamsteed in the mural on the ceiling of the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He founded Weston's Academy in Greenwich in 1712, to give maritime training to pupils including orphans from the Royal Hospital. After several changes of name and location, Weston's Academy became the Burney's [Royal] Academy at Coldharbour, Gosport.
W. 3165; C.S. 379.
[Ref: 55302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)