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[Studious Boy.]
[Studious Boy.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by G.Keating.
London Publish'd Sep.r 30 1784, by G.Keating, N°4 Air Street Piccadilly & W.Dickenson N°158 New Bond Street.
Very rare and fine mezzotint, 18th century watrmark, ink Collector's Mark. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to plate.
Portrait of a young boy studying, in his hands a quill and paper.
Hamilton Page 143 i of ii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 67469]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Student.
The Student.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1: 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Coloured mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Tears in top margin taped, staining in left edge.
A seated young man looks at his drawing of the classical sculpture on the table behind. A landscape is seen through the window beyond.
D'Oench: 107. Hamilton: 158, iii of iii. Chaloner Smith: 189, iii of iv. Frankau: 337, iv of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iv of iv.
[Ref: 67954]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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The Student.
The Student.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd June 14 1814 by A. Wivell, 57 Great Portland Street.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere
A seated young man looks at his drawing of the classical sculpture on the table behind. A landscape is seen through the window beyond.
D'Oench: 107. Hamilton: 158. Chaloner Smith: 189, between iii of iv. Frankau: 337, between iv of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state v of vi.
[Ref: 67953]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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The Student.
The Student.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1: 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Thread margins. Repaired small hole by back neck.
A seated young man looks at his drawing of the classical sculpture on the table behind. A landscape is seen through the window beyond.
D'Oench: 107. Hamilton: 158, iii of iii. Chaloner Smith: 189, iii of iv. Frankau: 337, iv of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iv of iv.
[Ref: 67955]   £320.00  
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Lithography No. 1. of a Series of Studies for Nature Drawn on Stone, by T.C. Holfand.
Lithography No. 1. of a Series of Studies for Nature Drawn on Stone, by T.C. Holfand. Dedicated by Permission, to the Right Honourable Countess Harcourt. To be Published Quaterly, Price 10s. 6d. Each Part Containing Six Studies.
Published, and Subscriptions Received, by Mr. Ackerman, 101 Strand:...
Set of 6 lithographs in wrappers. Rare. Limited to 300. 330 x 425mm (13 x 16¾"). Creasing, light staining and tears in edges.
A set of six lithographs titled 'The Breakind up of an Old Vessel, near Cumberland Gardens Lambeth', ' Fortescue House, Enfield, (recently pulled down) in which Queen Elizabeth was Confined by her Sister', 'A Cottage, near Kenfield, Kent', 'The Entrance into the Great Cavern, near Castleton, in the Peak of Derbyshire', 'Weathercove Cave, Yorkshire' and 'A Cottage near Epping, Essex'.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 42640]   £360.00   view all images for this item
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[Scraps from my sketchbook]
[Scraps from my sketchbook]
C.D. Barraud. Del. G. M.c Cullock Lith.
C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London. E. C. [1877]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 550 x 425mm (22 x 16¾"), very large margins.
From plate 6 of Barraud's 'New Zealand graphic and descriptive', London, 1877. Showing 14 scenes from Maori life. Reading from top left: Te Raku [Maori man poling a laden canoe along a river]; Whata [Maori provision house on low poles]; Te Rangatira [Maori man o horseback]; Bird catcher; Maori whare [wharenui with carved entrance porch]; Fishmonger; Rubbing noses "Tena-koe" [a man and a woman, both carrying produce, hongi-ing]; Maori hack-race in full costume [horse race by a man wearing nothing but a long shirt and a woman in elaborate hat and European dress]; Maori woman going to a tangi; Going to market [a woman and a man with a child on his back leading a pig]; Travelling [a man in bowler hat and feather cloak leading a horse, accompanied by a dog]; One of the old Wellington Police force [head and shoulders portrait of a man with full moko and Police uniform]; Gathering pipis [women and children on a beach with flat kete digging up seafood]; Te Kiore [a seated man with kiwi feather cloak, moko, a pipe in his mouth, a blanket under the cloak].
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The Studious Fair.
The Studious Fair.
T. Goddard pinx. W. Nutter Sculp.
Published as the Act directs, 23 July 1787.
Stipple, printed in colours. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½").
An oval portrait of a woman in a coiffured wig, resting her elbow on a book on a table.
[Ref: 53934]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Studious Fair.
The Studious Fair.
T. Goddard pinx. W. Nutter Sculp.
Publish'd Feb. 1788 by R. Cribb N.288 Holborn.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"). Small margins.
An oval portrait of a woman in a coiffured wig, resting her elbow on a book on a table.
[Ref: 63523]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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The Studious Fair.
The Studious Fair.
T. Goddard pinx. W. Nutter Sculp.
Publish'd Feb. 1788 by R. Cribb N.288 Holborn.
Stipple. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"), with large margins.
An oval portrait of a woman in a coiffured wig, resting her elbow on a book on a table. A pencil note in the margin suggests the sitter is 'Miss Bliss'.
[Ref: 63524]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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The Studious Society.
The Studious Society.
G. Scalken Pinxit. W. Pether Fecit.
[London: William Pether, n.d., 1787.]
Mezzotint. 295 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"). Surface rubbed.
Three children studying around a table by candlelight, long after their classmates have gone, as their teacher sharpens a quill. A woman approaches with a lantern to take them home. On the wall behind is a map of Europe. The whole scene is framed by an archway. After Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706), published as a pair to 'The Comic Society' after Dou. It was also published with a separate plate with descriptive text, with Pether's publication line dated October 1.st 1787).
Rare: not in BM.
[Ref: 11088]   £360.00  
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Views of Studley.
Views of Studley.
Published by Rock & Co. London. [c.1870.]
Attractive souvenir booklet of eight (of 12?) steel engraved views on four leaves, 8vo, original printed card wrappers; embossed upper cover. Binding scuffed and rubbed; pencil doodles to inside covers.
Studley Park, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. No text save captions; all views numbered and dated.
[Ref: 18576]   £110.00   view all images for this item
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Study.
Study.
R. Cosway Esq.r R.A. Del.t.
London publish'd Aug.t 12th 1785 by J.R. Smith, No. 83 - Oxford Street.
Rare stipple and soft ground etching, printed in black and red, sheet 235 x 130mm (9¼ x 5"), within separately printed border, as issued, sheet 350 x 250 (13¾ x 9¾). Pin holes in edges, some slight staining.
A woman reading (probably Maria Cosway, the artist's wife), a spaniel by her side. Her skin tones are printed in red.
[Ref: 57552]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Study.]
[Study.]
G.B. Cipriani Ra.l Ac.n Del.t. Rob.t Sa.l Marcuard scul.t.
[n.d., c.1784.]
Stipple. Proof. Plate: 265 x 225mm (10½ x 9"), with large margins.
An allegorical scene showing the figure of study holding a trumpet and harp, she is flanked on either side by two cupids.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47383]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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A Study.
A Study.
Joseph Middeleer.
Drawing, 165 x 140mm. 6½ x 5½".
Study of a face. Joseph Middeleer (1865-1934), Belgian artist.
[Ref: 9287]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Group of Figures Representing Study]
[A Group of Figures Representing Study]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub.d as the Act directs F. Bartolozzi, 1788
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
A drawing lesson. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 692.iii.
[Ref: 43415]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Study in Grey and Pink.]
[Study in Grey and Pink.]
[Thomas Robert Way after James McNeill Whistler.]
[n.d., c.1903.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾").
A portrait of a woman wearing a white and pink dress. A lithograph after Whistler's pastel 'Study in Grey and Pink', now in the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington DC. This lithograph was an illustration to 'The Art of James McNeill Whistler' published in 1903 by Thomas Robert Way. Way was an English artist and lithographer who encouraged Whistler to take up lithography, he later catalogued 130 of Whistler's lithographs.
[Ref: 43878]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Frontispiece]
[Frontispiece] Itinerarium Curiosum: Centuria Prima. / Or, An Account of the Antiquities and remarkable Curiosities in Nature or Art, observed in Travels through Great Britain. Illustrated with One hundred Folio Prints in Copper. By William Stukeley, MD. CML. & SRS [...]
MDCCXXV [1725]
Engraved title-page, sheet 325 x 185mm (12¾ x 7¼").
Title-page to William Stukeley's 'Itinerarium Curiosum', his second major work. Stukeley regularly attended meetings of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries, where he presented papers and 'curious' objects resulting from his trips around Britain. It was such discoveries that were discussed in this book.
[Ref: 31954]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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William Stukeley.
William Stukeley. Isaac Whood drew this, may 10. 1727, at Grantham, when the Duke of Bedford breakfasted with me.
P.G. 1853.
Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich.
Rare zincograph. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Some slight spotting.
A bust portrait of antiquarian & cleric William Stukeley (1687-1765), with a wreath in his hair. He is most remembered for his pioneering scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire, identifying both the Stonehenge Avenue and Stonehenge Cursus.
[Ref: 59365]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Valentine.]
[Valentine.] Do run and play you stupid girl [/] Don't let me see those features, [/] You certainly by far excel, [/] All vain and shapeless creatures.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured wood engraving with embossed border. Sheet: 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
A cruel Victorian valentine criticising a young woman for her vanity.
[Ref: 43810]   £40.00   (£48.00 incl.VAT)
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Joseph Sturge.
Joseph Sturge. This Print is dedicated to the Most Noble the Marquis of Sligo. as a tribute of respect for the Justice and humanity he displayed in liberating his Slaves.
Drawn on Stone by H. Millichamp, from a Picture in the Possession of W. Boultbee, Esq.r. M. & N. Hanhart, Lith. Printers, 64, Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl.
London, Published by H. Millicamp, 14, Church St Lisson Grove [n.d. c.1840].
Rare lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½") very large margins. Slight crease above head to left.
Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), Quaker and founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, now Anti-Slavery International. He spent his life engaged in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves. In Jamaica, Joseph Sturge helped to found Free Villages with the Baptists, one of which was named Sturge Town in his memory. The dedication is to Howe Browne (1788-1845), 2nd Marquess of Sligo. Although he campaigned for abolition he inherited two slave-holding plantations from his grandmother. When he was appointed Governor and Vice-Admiral of Jamaica in 1834, only a year after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, his attempts to transition to a free society put him at odds with the Jamaican Assembly, who forced him to resign the governorship.
See Ref: 9348.
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Joseph Sturge.
Joseph Sturge. This Print is dedicated to the Most Noble the Marquis of Sligo. as a tribute of respect for the Justice and humanity he displayed in liberating his Slaves.
Drawn on Stone by H. Millichamp, from a Picture in the Possession of W. Boultbee, Esq.r. M. & N. Hanhart, Lith. Printers, 64, Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl.
London, Published by H. Millicamp, 14, Church St Lisson Grove [n.d. c.1840].
Rare lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"), Trimmed inside on left.
Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), Quaker and founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, now Anti-Slavery International. He spent his life engaged in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves. In Jamaica, Joseph Sturge helped to found Free Villages with the Baptists, one of which was named Sturge Town in his memory. The dedication is to Howe Browne (1788-1845), 2nd Marquess of Sligo. Although he campaigned for abolition he inherited two slave-holding plantations from his grandmother. When he was appointed Governor and Vice-Admiral of Jamaica in 1834, only a year after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, his attempts to transition to a free society put him at odds with the Jamaican Assembly, who forced him to resign the governorship.
[Ref: 55437]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Joseph Sturge Esq.r President of the Complete Suffrage Association.
Joseph Sturge Esq.r President of the Complete Suffrage Association. Specimen of the Sentinel Portrait Gallery. No. 1.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Very scarce mezzotint. Sheet 437 x 310mm (17¼" x 12¼"). Varnished.
Seated portrait of Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), he holds 'Human brotherhood through the Bible' in his left hand and his right is around the shoulders of a little black girl. Sturge was a Quaker and founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, now Anti-Slavery International, who spent his life engaged in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves. In Jamaica, Joseph Sturge helped to found Free Villages with the Baptists, one of which was named Sturge Town in his memory.
[Ref: 63665]   £420.00  
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[Office Scene].
[Office Scene].
Dwight C. Sturges. 1931.
Etching, signed in pencil, 9¾ x 12¼ "
Two men discussing legal matters, Lincoln's portrait on the wall in the background.
[Ref: 5848]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr John Sturges.
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)
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Sturm's Reflections. December 22.
Sturm's Reflections. December 22.
Craig del. Romney sculp.
Published by R. Edwards London. [n.d. c.1830.]
Engraving. 215 x 132mm (8½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
One woman sitting at the organ turns to another who stands holding a lyre. Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786), the German preacher and author, best known for his 'Reflections on the Works of God in Nature'
[Ref: 34637]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Sturm's Reflections. January 25.
Sturm's Reflections. January 25.
Craig del. Romney sculp.
Published by R. Edwards. [n.d.c.1830.]
Engraving, rare. Plate 182 x 128mm (7¼ x 5"). Cut to platemark, left & right.
A man stands pointing out a comet to his son and wife. Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786), the German preacher and author, best known for his 'Reflections on the Works of God in Nature'.
[Ref: 34696]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The true effigies of Captaine Samuel Sturmy.
The true effigies of Captaine Samuel Sturmy.
AH. [Abraham Hertochs.]
[n.d., c.1699.]
Engraving, very scarce. On verso in ink Robert Deek 1706; Sheet size: 275 x 175mm (10¾ x 7"). Trimmed to image. False border. Glued to album sheet.
A portrait of English writer Samuel Sturmy (1633 - 1669), three-quarter length, standing to the right, with his right hand on a globe, wearing a gown with large puffed and slit sleeves, and a lace cravat. In a decorative oval frame of leaves on a pedestal. This portrait was the frontispiece to his publication 'The Mariner's Magazine' (1669). Lettered above with the title on a ribbon at the top of oval, continuing "Aetatis Suae 36 Anno Domini 1669", and with four lines on pedestal below; "What here you see is but a graven face, [/] Only the picture of that brittle case, [/] whose soules the magazine of all these arts [/] which here most freely he to all imparts". At bottom right the initials "AH".
[Ref: 33845]   £320.00  
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M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), 18th century watermark. Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iii of iii.
[Ref: 62772]   £380.00  
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M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Fine mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Unidentified collector's stamp on reverse.
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M [,,rs] Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
M [,,rs] Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Title partially scratched out and corrected in old ink mss, ink mss lower right. Narrow margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
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[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]
[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
published according to Act of Parliament by R. Sayer June 12, 1771.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Ink collector's stamp on reverse. Time stained. Tear from left edge to plate mark and around plate mark repaired.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer published the plate on the 20th June with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137,i of ii; Goodwin 79, i of iii. Lugt L.2178, Fritz Reiss of London, whose collection of mezzotints is described by Lugt as 'l'une des plus belles de ce genre'; It was dispersed in 1914.
[Ref: 62701]   £420.00  
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Styles of Driving Plate 1. Come Out of the Vay _ or I'll cut Vheel off!!!
Styles of Driving Plate 1. Come Out of the Vay _ or I'll cut Vheel off!!!
William Heath - ed of the Looking Glass.
Pub Dec 20 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket Publisher of the Looking Glass and other Etchings by W. Heath.
Finely coloured etching, sheet 245 x 355mm (9½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
A farmer in a cart pulled by a donkey shouts at a haulier with a large wagon.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 66924]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Sublime and Beautifull.
Sublime and Beautifull. O'thou wert born to please me, my Rural Queen of Love, Through all the woods I'll praise thee my Sheperd of the Grove, Thus happy never Jealous Can any harm assail us My rural Queen of Love.
[Charles Williams.]
Pubd. April 1810 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Small margins. Toned, creasing and tears.
A Thames waterman, with a badged sleeve, number 27, and a long boat-hook, takes the hand of a fat woman with ragged clothes holding a basket of lavender. Both are ugly and amorous. There is a rustic, though probably suburban, background. Text below from Burke's essay, 1756.
BM Satires 11648.
[Ref: 50960]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Sublime and Beautifull.
Sublime and Beautifull. O'thou wert born to please me, my Rural Queen of Love, Through all the woods I'll praise thee my Sheperd of the Grove, Thus happy never Jealous Can any harm assail us My rural Queen of Love.
[Charles Williams.]
Pubd. April 1810 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. 324 x 222mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Stained, very damaged; paper chip to lower right.
A Thames waterman, with a badged sleeve, number 27, and a long boat-hook, takes the hand of a fat woman with ragged clothes holding a basket of lavender. Both are ugly and amorous. There is a rustic, though probably suburban, background. Text below from Burke's essay, 1756.
BM Satires: 11648.
[Ref: 30575]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The Submissive Admirer. Set by Mr Handel.
The Submissive Admirer. Set by Mr Handel. To the R.t Hon.ble the Earl Cowper, These Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
[Etched by George Bickham.]
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Etched music sheet. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins top and bottom, original binding folds,
A music sheet with a headpiece of a courting couple. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58701]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Final List of Subscribers to the Fund for the Relief of the Family of the late Sergeant-Major Barber.
Final List of Subscribers to the Fund for the Relief of the Family of the late Sergeant-Major Barber. The Fund collected by the within Subscription List being now closed, it is right that the result should be communicated to the Subscribers.
St. Neots, 24th June, 1869.
Rare letterpress broadsheet, list of names with individual contributions to the fund, folded, sheet 385 x 240mm. 15¼ x 9½". Fold creases etc.
This copy of the list belonged to Alfred Towgood, who is named as one of the three Trustees. It seems the soldier who died served under him, and Towgood was one of the architects of a relief fund for the soldier's family.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16620]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Subscribers to a Literary Institution.
Subscribers to a Literary Institution. ''The door at length yielded- and they rushed in, and diskiverd nuffin...
Pub. by A. Park, 47, Leonard St. London. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 210 x 245mm (8¼ x 9½''). Trimmed.
A comic scene showing three children huddled around a candle reading a book.
[Ref: 51096]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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History and Antiquities of Tottenham.
History and Antiquities of Tottenham. Subscribers who have already honoured the above Work with their Names, and the Public in general, are most respectfully informed, that the Authors (at the Request of several distinguished literary Characters) are under the Necessity of postponing the Publication of the same, for a few Weeks longer than the last specified Time of Delivery. Copies will after that Time be delivered in the Order subscribed for...
[n.d. c.1790.]
Rare letterpress. 132 x 158mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Folds. Laid on album sheet at corners.
A notes for the subscribers about the postponing of publication of, "The history and antiquities of the parish of Tottenham High-Cross, in the county of Middlesex. : Collected from authentic records".
[Ref: 52422]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Subscribers Ticket
Subscribers Ticket To The Second Series Of The Select Work of Engravings. Under The Direction of William Buchanan Esq.r. No: 108 [in pencil]
Domenichino pinx.t. Will.m Sharp inc.t.
London 1. Feb.y 1814. Pub.d by Ar. Stone, 87 Pall Mall.
Rare engraving, 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½), with enormous margins. Light foxing in margins.
St. Cecilia, dressed in an elaborate gown and cloak, her sleeve fastened with a jewel and adorned with a crown of roses, stands holding the palm of martyrdom in one hand and a sheet of music in the other. She rests the sheet on an organ to her left, glancing over her shoulder to the right, where a cherub holds a harp.
Provenance James Watt Sothebys Sale 20/3/2003 Lot pt. 449.
[Ref: 65201]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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This Day was published, by Subscription, [Price 10s.6d. in Colours, or 5s.6d. Plain] An Engraving,
This Day was published, by Subscription, [Price 10s.6d. in Colours, or 5s.6d. Plain] An Engraving, From an Original Drawing, taked and coloured on the Spot, by W.Fowler, From the curious Roman Pavement in Prior Crawden's beautiful Chapel, in the College at Ely.
M.Watson, Printer, Angel-Inn-Yard, Market Hill, Cambridge.
Winterton, Lincolnshire, May 20, 1801.
Letterpress advert. Sheet 255 x 200mm (10 x 8").
Fowler published the 'Mosaic Pavements of Great Britain', 1804.
[Ref: 9219]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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To be Published by Subscription, under the Patronage of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, An Engraving Accurately Copied and Reduced from the Sepulchral Brass by William Fowler...
To be Published by Subscription, under the Patronage of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, An Engraving Accurately Copied and Reduced from the Sepulchral Brass by William Fowler... Description of the Monumental Brass of Alan Flemyng, in Newark Church...
Sept. 1823. Printed by M.Hage, Newark.
Letterpress broadsheet. Sheet 550 x 330mm. Left edge chipped, some creasing.
The engraving was to be 13½ by 20 inches, proofs costing 10s.6d. Fleming died in 1361.
[Ref: 7154]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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4 Logger heads or B--e Triumphant.
4 Logger heads or B--e Triumphant. Received of ['E.W. Martin Esqr' ink mss.] Ten Shillings & Six pence for the first Part of Sketches of Characters. Mr. J. White [signed in ink.] The remaining parts to be delivered at the same price.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etched subscription ticket with engraved lettering on india laid paper, completed in ink. 125 x 95mm. 5 x 3¼". A good impression with full margins.
A receipt for a subscription to a series of prints, the design after William Hogarth (1697 - 1764).
[Ref: 12200]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Subscription Ticket.
Subscription Ticket.
T. Bonnor invt. et fecit.
Publish'd by T. Bonnor April the 1st 1784.
Scarce and unused subscription ticket for a series of lectures, etching with aquatint printed in red ink, on coarse wove paper. 125 x 80mm, 5 x 3¼". A fine impression with wide margins.
'Mr. Browne's Lectures' inscribed to the pediment of an initialled bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC - 43BC). Mr. Browne is unidentified; possibly he was a noted public speaker in Norwich, Norfolk. The bust of the Roman statesman Cicero is being decorated with garlands of flowers by three winged putti within the oval design. Possibly by engraver Thomas Bonner (c.1740 - c.1812).
[Ref: 18146]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Arithmetic Plate 2.nd.
Arithmetic Plate 2.nd. Subtraction
Drawn and Etched by H. Heath
Pub.d July. 1827. by William Cole 10 Newgate S.t.
Very fine & scarce hand-coloured etching, 200 x 255mm, (8 x 10"), with very large margins.
Three sailor's heads are severed, a fourth black sailor cut in half at the waist, by a canonball on the deck of a warship. For Henry Heath's (1822 - 1851; fl.) satirical series 'Arithmetic'.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 67497]   £480.00  

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Nos succés sont certains. (Success is Certain)
Nos succés sont certains. (Success is Certain)
Peint par Teichel. Lith par Bettannier Frères.
Imp Lemericer r. de Seine 57, Paris. Paris, chez Bulla Frères et Jouy Editeurs. Berlin, Emile Seitz, 196 Friedrichstrasse. London, E. Gambart & C.o. 25 Berners S.t. Oxf. S.t. New- York, Emiles Seitz.
Hand-coloured lithograph with large margins. Sheet: 350 x 450mm (12¾ x 17¾"). Some very slight foxing. Some small tears in edges.
Interior scene in which two women get ready to leave the house; one woman checks her reflection in a dressing mirror while the other ties her boot, her foot resting on a stool.
[Ref: 35125]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Voyage au Soudan Oriental.
Voyage au Soudan Oriental. Femmes de Lony (Haut Sennar). retenues captives sur les barques de l'Expédition Egyptienne.
Tremaux del. Laurens et E. David lith.
Imp Lemercier r. de Seine 57 Paris. [n.d., c.1860.]
Hand-coloured lithograph, rare. Sheet: 310 x 425mm (12 x 16¾'') very large margins. Foxing & mount staining.
A wonderful atmospheric scene showing Pierre Tremaux on a riverboat on the Nile observing a group of four African women. From 'Voyages au Soudan oriental et dans l'Afrique septentrionale'.
[Ref: 48048]   £340.00  
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Il Papagallo. Primo Giornale Colorato, Umoristico, Italiano.
Il Papagallo. Primo Giornale Colorato, Umoristico, Italiano. [Centre-fold satire:] - Inglesi che Sudano. Yes, lo pregherei inj via di gentilezza, per ordine dei magnati di Londra, lo sgombero assoluto di lor signori insorti, facendo notare che per salvare l'onore delle arme inglesi, del Sudan non puossi fare un Alessandria, seconda edizione. Anglais que Suent. - Yes, je prierai votre politesse, pour ordre des maitres de Londres, de evacuer totalement, messieurs les inserges en faisant observer que pour sauver l'honneur des armes Anglaises, du Sudan nous ne pouvons point faire une Alexandrie: deuxieme edition.
Anno XII. Bologna - (Italia) Giovedi 24 Gennaio 1884. No. 4.
Chromolithograph centre fold with letterpress text on verso, very scarce, folded satrical broadside. 419 x 310mm. 16½ x 12¼".
A satire on the British campaign in the Sudan from 'Il Papagallo' (1873-1915). Il Papagallo was founded in 1873 by Augusto Grossi, the lithographer and caricaturist, and ex-chief designer for "La Rana", another satrical newspaper from Bologna.
[Ref: 22839]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Sudbrook Park, Petersham, Surrey.
Sudbrook Park, Petersham, Surrey. Messrs Brooks & Co have instruction to sell the Freehold and Copyhold Estate comprising a noble Mansion called Sudbrook House [...]
Drawn from Nature by G. Eyre Brooks Surveyor, 28 Old Bond Str.t. on Stone by L. Haghe. W. Day lithog. 17 Gate Str.t London.
[n.d., c.1844.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"). Repaired tear.
Sudbrook House, built by James Gibbs for John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, completed 1728. His heirs sold the estate in 1819 to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet, who died there in 1842. This print was drawn for the 1844 sale, when Dr James Ellis bough the estate to establish a hydropathy clinic. In 1853 Crown Estate repurchased the freehold, leasing the estate to The Richmond Golf Club from 1891, but in 2016 club bought the freehold.
[Ref: 58067]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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We're All in the Suds.
We're All in the Suds.
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver / No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. / Publish'd as the Act directs 4 June 1800. 381
Mezzotint with hand-colouring and large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Two horizontal creases to top of image; holes from silverfish at top.
Man holding his shaving dish in his left hand and the 'Gazette Extraordinary' in his right. One of many 'droll' mezzotints in roundels made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814), who after the death of John Collet in 1780 became the foremost designer of such images.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB ii/ii.
[Ref: 32363]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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We're All in the Suds.
We're All in the Suds.
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver / No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. / [Publish'd as the Act directs 4 June 1800]
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed inside platemark at bottom, losing publication line; border coloured yellow.
Man holding his shaving dish in his left hand and the 'Gazette Extraordinary' in his right. One of many 'droll' mezzotints in roundels made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814) who, after the death of John Collet in 1780, became the foremost designer of such images.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB ii/ii.
[Ref: 32364]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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