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John D'Oyly Esq.
Painted by L.F. Abbott. Engraved by V. Green Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & the Elector Palatine.
[n.d., 1770.]
Mezzotint, 520 x 380mm (20½ x 15"). Tiny foxing hole, slight wear bottom right margin.
Sir John D'Oyly (1702-73), the 4th and last D'Oyly baronet of Chislehampton, half-length, holding a map with a vignette of a lighthouse.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Whitman 158. CS 39.
[Ref: 55631] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by L.F. Abbott. Engraved by V. Green Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & the Elector Palatine.
[n.d., 1770.]
Mezzotint, 520 x 380mm (20½ x 15"). Tiny foxing hole, slight wear bottom right margin.
Sir John D'Oyly (1702-73), the 4th and last D'Oyly baronet of Chislehampton, half-length, holding a map with a vignette of a lighthouse.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Whitman 158. CS 39.
[Ref: 55631] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Mr Garrick and Mrs Pritchard in the Tragedy of Macbeth. Act II Scene III. From the Original Picture painted by J. Zoffany, in the possession of George Keate Esq.r. To Whom this Plate is Inscribed, by his Most Humble Servant, John Boydell.
J. Zoffany Pinxit. V. Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Published March 30th 1776 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 460 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"), with large margins. Central vertical crease.
Double portrait of two actors in character, in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': Hannah Pritchard (1711-68) as Lady Macbeth holding dagger and indicating towards an open door, and David Garrick (1717-79) as Macbeth, hesitating. The original painting, at the time owned by poet and artist George Keate (1729-97), is now in the Garrick Club. Painted in 1768 it is said to show Hannah Prichard's last performance: she retired the same year and died shortly afterwards.
[Ref: 55678] £360.00
J. Zoffany Pinxit. V. Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Published March 30th 1776 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 460 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"), with large margins. Central vertical crease.
Double portrait of two actors in character, in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': Hannah Pritchard (1711-68) as Lady Macbeth holding dagger and indicating towards an open door, and David Garrick (1717-79) as Macbeth, hesitating. The original painting, at the time owned by poet and artist George Keate (1729-97), is now in the Garrick Club. Painted in 1768 it is said to show Hannah Prichard's last performance: she retired the same year and died shortly afterwards.
[Ref: 55678] £360.00
Portrait of the late extraordinary Artist, Thomas Girtin, Natus Feb.y 18. 1775 Obiit Nov. 9. 1802. To Sir George Beaumont Bar.t, One of his earliest Patrons This Print is with Permission respectfully dedicated by his very obliged & grateful Serv.t John Girtin. J.Girtin in the recent fire in Broad Str.t having lost all his property, excepting some prints & c. which with this portrait of his late Brother, he respectfully offers to a liberal Public.
Painted by John Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Pub.d May 16, 1817, by J. Girtin, Engraver, Printer &c. No 25 Old Compton Street, 3 doors from Princes Street, Soho.
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"0. Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), holding a porte-crayon and sketch-book. Watercolourist, friend and rival of J.M.W. Turner. , with whom he closely worked. He died aged just twenty-seven, shortly after completing his most ambitious and spectacular work, the Eidometropolis, a 360-degree panorama of London measuring over 100ft. The portrait was published by his brother John Girtin, who had just lost his stock in a fire of November 1816.
Whitman 114, i of ii, before further shading of letters of names in the inscription.
[Ref: 55670] £360.00
Painted by John Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Pub.d May 16, 1817, by J. Girtin, Engraver, Printer &c. No 25 Old Compton Street, 3 doors from Princes Street, Soho.
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"0. Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), holding a porte-crayon and sketch-book. Watercolourist, friend and rival of J.M.W. Turner. , with whom he closely worked. He died aged just twenty-seven, shortly after completing his most ambitious and spectacular work, the Eidometropolis, a 360-degree panorama of London measuring over 100ft. The portrait was published by his brother John Girtin, who had just lost his stock in a fire of November 1816.
Whitman 114, i of ii, before further shading of letters of names in the inscription.
[Ref: 55670] £360.00
![[Mary of Modena] Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York.](jpegs/55730.jpg)
[Mary of Modena] Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York.
P Lippy pinxit.
R. Tompson excudit [n.d., c.1680].
Mezzotint, fine impression. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image on three sides, shaving inscription at bottom, mounted in album paper, folded on left.
Seated portrait of Mary of Modena, nearly full-length, wearing a pearl necklace and a loose dress also with pearls, stroking the head of a dog
[Ref: 55730] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
P Lippy pinxit.
R. Tompson excudit [n.d., c.1680].
Mezzotint, fine impression. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image on three sides, shaving inscription at bottom, mounted in album paper, folded on left.
Seated portrait of Mary of Modena, nearly full-length, wearing a pearl necklace and a loose dress also with pearls, stroking the head of a dog
[Ref: 55730] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Martin Rychart]](jpegs/55689.jpg)
[Martin Rychart] Engraved from a [most capital] Painting of Vandyck in the collection of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Warwick by J.R. Smith & publish'd by him Novem.r 20 1779 at No 10 in Batemans Buildings Soho Square London.
Mezzotint, First state with scratched letter title, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), with very large margins. Pair of worm holes in margins, some lettering abraded.
Maerten Rÿckaert (1587-1631), landscape painter and friend of Anthony van Dyck. He had only one arm, explaining the unusual framing of this portrait. Engraved by the leading mezzotint engraver John Raphael Smith after a portrait by van Dyck now in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
CS: 144, i of iii; Frankau: 302; O'Dench: 139.
[Ref: 55689] £390.00
Mezzotint, First state with scratched letter title, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), with very large margins. Pair of worm holes in margins, some lettering abraded.
Maerten Rÿckaert (1587-1631), landscape painter and friend of Anthony van Dyck. He had only one arm, explaining the unusual framing of this portrait. Engraved by the leading mezzotint engraver John Raphael Smith after a portrait by van Dyck now in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
CS: 144, i of iii; Frankau: 302; O'Dench: 139.
[Ref: 55689] £390.00
Mr John Sturges.
J. Vanderbank pinx. F. Kyte delin et fecit 1733.
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of John Sturges, a carpenter of St George's, Bloomsbury. Despite this occupation he is dressed in Turkish costume, with a feathered turban, fur-lined embroidered coat. He seems to have commissioned the portrait: in his will, held in the National Archives, he bequeaths ''my own portrait picture in a Turkish habit painted by xx Vanderbank'' to his friend Samuel Hawley.
[Ref: 55629] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
J. Vanderbank pinx. F. Kyte delin et fecit 1733.
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of John Sturges, a carpenter of St George's, Bloomsbury. Despite this occupation he is dressed in Turkish costume, with a feathered turban, fur-lined embroidered coat. He seems to have commissioned the portrait: in his will, held in the National Archives, he bequeaths ''my own portrait picture in a Turkish habit painted by xx Vanderbank'' to his friend Samuel Hawley.
[Ref: 55629] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Honorable Lord John Townshend. To the Gentlemen of the Whig Club, and the Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster This Plate is Dedicated by their most obedient faithful and humble Sert.t Will.m Austin.
Painted by Sr. Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Published as the Act directs Mar. 25 1789 by Wm. Austin private Teacher of Drawing and Etching in York Street near St James's Church and the Surry Side of Westminster Bridge.
Fine mezzotint. 505 x 360mm (19¾ x 14¼"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left margin
Lord John Townshend (1757-1833), Whig M.P. for Cambridge University in 1780-4, Westminster from 1788-90 and Knaresborough 1793-1818. He became a Privy Councillor in 1806 and served as Paymaster of the Forces 1806-7.
[Ref: 55690] £360.00
Painted by Sr. Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Published as the Act directs Mar. 25 1789 by Wm. Austin private Teacher of Drawing and Etching in York Street near St James's Church and the Surry Side of Westminster Bridge.
Fine mezzotint. 505 x 360mm (19¾ x 14¼"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left margin
Lord John Townshend (1757-1833), Whig M.P. for Cambridge University in 1780-4, Westminster from 1788-90 and Knaresborough 1793-1818. He became a Privy Councillor in 1806 and served as Paymaster of the Forces 1806-7.
[Ref: 55690] £360.00
The Rev.d Mr Thomas Warton.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxit. C. Hodges fecit.
London Publish'd Dec.r 1: 1786, by W. Dickinson No. 158 Bond Street.
Fine mezzotint. 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Repairs to margins.
Thomas Warton the Younger (1728-90), historian of English poetry and Poet Laureate. The portrait, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784. It is now in the Common Room of Trinity College, Oxford.
Chaloner Smith 33: iii/iii. Hamilton p.71, iii/iii.
[Ref: 55688] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxit. C. Hodges fecit.
London Publish'd Dec.r 1: 1786, by W. Dickinson No. 158 Bond Street.
Fine mezzotint. 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Repairs to margins.
Thomas Warton the Younger (1728-90), historian of English poetry and Poet Laureate. The portrait, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784. It is now in the Common Room of Trinity College, Oxford.
Chaloner Smith 33: iii/iii. Hamilton p.71, iii/iii.
[Ref: 55688] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)