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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed to plate at top.
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 55382] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed to plate at top.
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 55382] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Visit to a Sister. 249.
Published 1st. June, 1789, by R. Sayer, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare mezzotint with original hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, margins rebuilt.
An interior scene with two sisters sitting close together on a sofa, one wearing a hat with 'King' inscribed on the hat-band. The other holds a tea cup and points at a letter.
[Ref: 55307] £420.00
Published 1st. June, 1789, by R. Sayer, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare mezzotint with original hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, margins rebuilt.
An interior scene with two sisters sitting close together on a sofa, one wearing a hat with 'King' inscribed on the hat-band. The other holds a tea cup and points at a letter.
[Ref: 55307] £420.00