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Austrian Hussars Charging the Enemy though a Town.
C. Gessner Delin. J. Bluck sculp.
London Pub 15 Oct by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts 101 Strand.
Rare & fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet 455 x 585mm (18 x 23"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, loss in bottom left of inscription area, not affecting text, chips in edges.
Cavalry riding through a gateway towards French soldiers obscured in gun smoke. A plate from Gessner's 'Military Evolutions', which contained 20 pates by John Bluck and Conrad Ziegler
[Ref: 54047] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
C. Gessner Delin. J. Bluck sculp.
London Pub 15 Oct by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts 101 Strand.
Rare & fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet 455 x 585mm (18 x 23"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, loss in bottom left of inscription area, not affecting text, chips in edges.
Cavalry riding through a gateway towards French soldiers obscured in gun smoke. A plate from Gessner's 'Military Evolutions', which contained 20 pates by John Bluck and Conrad Ziegler
[Ref: 54047] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.](jpegs/54044.jpg)
[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00
![[A 17th century cavalry skirmish.]](jpegs/54048.jpg)
[A 17th century cavalry skirmish.]
W.B. [William Baillie] 1762.
[London: John Boydell, c.1792.]
Etching with drypoint. 215 x 365mm (8½ x 14½"), on wove paper with wide margins. Tear in left margins.
A mounted skirmish in the foothills under a walled town. Etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Having retired from the army in 1761 he devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, specialising in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Baillie sold all his plates to Boydell, who reprinted them in collected editions in 1792 and 1803), but he continued to etch.
[Ref: 54048] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
W.B. [William Baillie] 1762.
[London: John Boydell, c.1792.]
Etching with drypoint. 215 x 365mm (8½ x 14½"), on wove paper with wide margins. Tear in left margins.
A mounted skirmish in the foothills under a walled town. Etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Having retired from the army in 1761 he devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, specialising in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Baillie sold all his plates to Boydell, who reprinted them in collected editions in 1792 and 1803), but he continued to etch.
[Ref: 54048] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Lat Bataille Gaignee.](jpegs/53905.jpg)
[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Lat Bataille Gaignee.
Abr. à Diepenbeke delineavit. Pet. Clouwe sculpsit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"), 18th century watermark. Small margins. Repairs to centre fold and two repaired tears in bottom margin.
Equestrian portrait of William Cavendish (1593-1676), 1st Duke of Newcastle, in armour, baton in hand, a black groom with the duke's helmet behind.. In the background a battle rages. Newcastle's treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' was first published in Antwerp by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'. After the defeat of the Royalist cause in the Civil War William Cavendish (1592-1676) settled in Antwerp, where this work was engraved.
[Ref: 53905] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Abr. à Diepenbeke delineavit. Pet. Clouwe sculpsit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"), 18th century watermark. Small margins. Repairs to centre fold and two repaired tears in bottom margin.
Equestrian portrait of William Cavendish (1593-1676), 1st Duke of Newcastle, in armour, baton in hand, a black groom with the duke's helmet behind.. In the background a battle rages. Newcastle's treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' was first published in Antwerp by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'. After the defeat of the Royalist cause in the Civil War William Cavendish (1592-1676) settled in Antwerp, where this work was engraved.
[Ref: 53905] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Major General W. J. Dilkes. Engraved for the Military Panoramas.
by H. R. Cook from a picture by S. Woodforde R. A. London published July 1.1813 by Martin & C.o N.o 33 Orchard Street Portman Square.
London, 1813.
Stipple engraving. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed to plate. Three small tears along right edge. Some light stains.
Half portrait of General William Thomas Dilkes (1767-1841), inclined to the right and front-gazing.
[Ref: 53888] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
by H. R. Cook from a picture by S. Woodforde R. A. London published July 1.1813 by Martin & C.o N.o 33 Orchard Street Portman Square.
London, 1813.
Stipple engraving. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed to plate. Three small tears along right edge. Some light stains.
Half portrait of General William Thomas Dilkes (1767-1841), inclined to the right and front-gazing.
[Ref: 53888] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![[Battle of Emmendingen] The Battle between the Archduke Charles and General Moreau on the 19th of Oct.r 1796 near Kintzingen.](jpegs/53907.jpg)
[Battle of Emmendingen] The Battle between the Archduke Charles and General Moreau on the 19th of Oct.r 1796 near Kintzingen.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by N. Schiavonetti Jun.r.
London Published June 1st 1800 by Mess.rs Schiavonetti, 12 Michael Place Brompton.
Stipple. 595 x 715mm (23½ x 28¼"). Small margins. Tear taped on left and right middle margin, wear at edges, some spotting.
A scene of The Battle of Emmendingen, with Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, on horseback leading the advance of his First Coalition Army of the Upper Rhine against the French Army of Rhin-et-Moselle under Jean Victor Marie Moreau.
[Ref: 53907] £280.00
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by N. Schiavonetti Jun.r.
London Published June 1st 1800 by Mess.rs Schiavonetti, 12 Michael Place Brompton.
Stipple. 595 x 715mm (23½ x 28¼"). Small margins. Tear taped on left and right middle margin, wear at edges, some spotting.
A scene of The Battle of Emmendingen, with Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, on horseback leading the advance of his First Coalition Army of the Upper Rhine against the French Army of Rhin-et-Moselle under Jean Victor Marie Moreau.
[Ref: 53907] £280.00
[General Lord Lynedoch, G.C.B. From the original Picture belonging to the United Services Club.]
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London, Published Jan.y 1st. 1831 by M. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street, Printseller to His Majesty & Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
Large mezzotint, touched proof, proof before title. Sheet 710 x 455mm (28 x 17¾"). Trimmed just within plate, laid on card, some white highlights added to background smoke and clouds.
Full length portrait of General Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch (1748-1843), in landscape, holding a sheathed sword and wearing a fur-edged coat over military dress, his plumed hat to right, Lynedoch served as Sir John Moore's aide-de-camp in the retreat to Corunna, 1808, and with Wellington in the Peninsular campaign, defeating the French at Barossa, 1811, and commanding the left wing at the Battle of Vittoria, 1813. He led an unsuccessful expedition to Holland in 1814. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830).
Whitman 186, I.
[Ref: 53911] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London, Published Jan.y 1st. 1831 by M. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street, Printseller to His Majesty & Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
Large mezzotint, touched proof, proof before title. Sheet 710 x 455mm (28 x 17¾"). Trimmed just within plate, laid on card, some white highlights added to background smoke and clouds.
Full length portrait of General Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch (1748-1843), in landscape, holding a sheathed sword and wearing a fur-edged coat over military dress, his plumed hat to right, Lynedoch served as Sir John Moore's aide-de-camp in the retreat to Corunna, 1808, and with Wellington in the Peninsular campaign, defeating the French at Barossa, 1811, and commanding the left wing at the Battle of Vittoria, 1813. He led an unsuccessful expedition to Holland in 1814. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830).
Whitman 186, I.
[Ref: 53911] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Battle of Meeanee.]](jpegs/54049.jpg)
[The Battle of Meeanee.]
[E. Amritage pinx.t. J.B. Allen sculp.t.]
[London, James S. Virtue.] [n.d., 1870.]
Chine collé steel engraving, proof before letters. 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"), with very wide margins. Printsellers' Association blind stamp.
The Battle of Miani, 17th February 1843, between the Bombay Army of the East India Company and the Baluch Army, Sind (now Pakistan). In the foreground men of a flank company of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment are shown charging the mass of Baluchi warriors in the dried-up bed of the River Fullaillee. The commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, directs the battle from his horse in the background. Napier's victory over a force ten time the size of his own led to the fall of Hyderabad two days later. Exhibited in Westminster Hall in 1847, Armitage's painting won a premium of £500 and was seen and purchased by Queen Victoria for £400. Napier, however, was critical: ''in Armitage's I am in rear of the troops – whereas I was in front the whole time… Armitage has placed me where I was, as regards the ground; but he has placed the troops wrongly as they did not fight down in the Bed of the river''. The finished plate was published in 'Gems of European Art'.
[Ref: 54049] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[E. Amritage pinx.t. J.B. Allen sculp.t.]
[London, James S. Virtue.] [n.d., 1870.]
Chine collé steel engraving, proof before letters. 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"), with very wide margins. Printsellers' Association blind stamp.
The Battle of Miani, 17th February 1843, between the Bombay Army of the East India Company and the Baluch Army, Sind (now Pakistan). In the foreground men of a flank company of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment are shown charging the mass of Baluchi warriors in the dried-up bed of the River Fullaillee. The commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, directs the battle from his horse in the background. Napier's victory over a force ten time the size of his own led to the fall of Hyderabad two days later. Exhibited in Westminster Hall in 1847, Armitage's painting won a premium of £500 and was seen and purchased by Queen Victoria for £400. Napier, however, was critical: ''in Armitage's I am in rear of the troops – whereas I was in front the whole time… Armitage has placed me where I was, as regards the ground; but he has placed the troops wrongly as they did not fight down in the Bed of the river''. The finished plate was published in 'Gems of European Art'.
[Ref: 54049] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]](jpegs/53931.jpg)
[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with wide margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with wide margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Courtship. To the Right Hon.ble Hugh Earl Percy, &c. &c. &c. Lieu.t General of His Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the Fifth Reg.t on Foot; the following Plates, representing the Life and Death of a Soldier, are most humbly Inscribed, by his Lordship's much obliged and most obedient Servant Robert Blyth. / From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Family. From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Mortar Battery at Woolwich.
T. Jones, del.t. C. Hunt, sculp.t.
London, Published September 13th. 1847, by Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.
Rare aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 580mm (16½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, wormholes.
The Royal Artillery demonstrating live fire of their mortars, watched by a large audience.
Hickman p.209.
[Ref: 53898] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
T. Jones, del.t. C. Hunt, sculp.t.
London, Published September 13th. 1847, by Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.
Rare aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 580mm (16½ x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, wormholes.
The Royal Artillery demonstrating live fire of their mortars, watched by a large audience.
Hickman p.209.
[Ref: 53898] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)