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Amazones Historiques. Camille, Reine des Amazones.
Dessiné et lith. par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66 [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph, Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾"), with publisher's blindstamp. Small margins.
A half-naked woman on horseback, with helmet, sword and tiger-skin blanket. Plate 1 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55554] £320.00
Dessiné et lith. par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66 [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph, Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾"), with publisher's blindstamp. Small margins.
A half-naked woman on horseback, with helmet, sword and tiger-skin blanket. Plate 1 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55554] £320.00
Amazones Historiques. Chasse au Tigre.
Dessiné et lith. par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66 [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph. Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾"), with publisher's blindstamp. Some faint spotting. Small margins.
A half-naked woman on horseback, swinging an axe down on a tiger biting her horse's haunch. Her saddle cloth is a black panther's skin. Plate 4 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55556] £320.00
Dessiné et lith. par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66 [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph. Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾"), with publisher's blindstamp. Some faint spotting. Small margins.
A half-naked woman on horseback, swinging an axe down on a tiger biting her horse's haunch. Her saddle cloth is a black panther's skin. Plate 4 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55556] £320.00
Amazones Historiques. Victoire de l'Amazone.
Dessiné et lith. par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66 [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph. Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾"), with publisher's blindstamp. Some faint spotting. Small margins.
A half-naked woman on horseback, swinging an axe down on a centaur. Her saddle cloth is a tiger's skin. Plate 5 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55557] £320.00
Dessiné et lith. par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66 [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured tinted lithograph. Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾"), with publisher's blindstamp. Some faint spotting. Small margins.
A half-naked woman on horseback, swinging an axe down on a centaur. Her saddle cloth is a tiger's skin. Plate 5 of a series of scenes of the mythical female warriors drawn and lithographed by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55557] £320.00
![[Bacchus and Ariadne.]](jpegs/20572.jpg)
[Bacchus and Ariadne.]
B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Fecit.
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1786 by W. Dickinson Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching. 157 x 190mm. 6¼ x 7½". Publication line cut, slight foxing.
Bacchus and Ariadne naked seated under a tent embracing and holding cups. A satyr pouring water on the left, with a putti asleep on the right, young child lying on the back of a tiger in the foreground.
De Vesme: 375; iii/vi. See 20573 for earlier state.
[Ref: 20572] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Fecit.
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1786 by W. Dickinson Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching. 157 x 190mm. 6¼ x 7½". Publication line cut, slight foxing.
Bacchus and Ariadne naked seated under a tent embracing and holding cups. A satyr pouring water on the left, with a putti asleep on the right, young child lying on the back of a tiger in the foreground.
De Vesme: 375; iii/vi. See 20573 for earlier state.
[Ref: 20572] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Bacchus and Ariadne.]](jpegs/20573.jpg)
[Bacchus and Ariadne.]
[B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Fecit.]
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1786 by W. Dickinson Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching, very scarce. 203 x 209mm. 8 x 8¼". Slight foxing.
Bacchus and Ariadne naked seated under a tent embracing and holding cups. A satyr pouring water on the left, with a putti asleep on the right, young child lying on the back of a tiger in the foreground.
De Vesme: 375; ii/vi. See 20572 for late state.
[Ref: 20573] £340.00
[B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Fecit.]
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1786 by W. Dickinson Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching, very scarce. 203 x 209mm. 8 x 8¼". Slight foxing.
Bacchus and Ariadne naked seated under a tent embracing and holding cups. A satyr pouring water on the left, with a putti asleep on the right, young child lying on the back of a tiger in the foreground.
De Vesme: 375; ii/vi. See 20572 for late state.
[Ref: 20573] £340.00
Countryman in London.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1816.]
Etching. 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9¼").
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis: a barker offers him a bill, 'Milse's Wild Beasts', pointing to a sign inscribed 'Royal Tiger'. The Yale Center for British Art suggests this is an exhbition of George Stubbs' painting. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
YCBA PN6173 .C68.
[Ref: 55381] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1816.]
Etching. 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9¼").
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis: a barker offers him a bill, 'Milse's Wild Beasts', pointing to a sign inscribed 'Royal Tiger'. The Yale Center for British Art suggests this is an exhbition of George Stubbs' painting. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
YCBA PN6173 .C68.
[Ref: 55381] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[Bear Hunt]](jpegs/38465.jpg)
[Bear Hunt] Chasse à L'Ours
Peint par Carlo Vanloo. Gravé par J.J. Flipart
A Paris chez Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais No. 32 [c.1773 bit later]
Engraving, platemark 505 x 370mm (19¾ x 14½"). Large margins.
Two bears attacked by numerous dogs and men (mainly on horseback), while another bear is pursued in the background. Engraving after a painting by Carle Van Loo, originally issued as a pair with a 'Tiger Hunt' after Boucher. The paintings were part of a set of nine then at the Surintendance in Versailles, and it appears that the engraver Flipart having obtained permission to reproduce them, originally intended to publish a larger series (see notes to British Museum cataloguing for the latter).
[Ref: 38465] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par Carlo Vanloo. Gravé par J.J. Flipart
A Paris chez Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais No. 32 [c.1773 bit later]
Engraving, platemark 505 x 370mm (19¾ x 14½"). Large margins.
Two bears attacked by numerous dogs and men (mainly on horseback), while another bear is pursued in the background. Engraving after a painting by Carle Van Loo, originally issued as a pair with a 'Tiger Hunt' after Boucher. The paintings were part of a set of nine then at the Surintendance in Versailles, and it appears that the engraver Flipart having obtained permission to reproduce them, originally intended to publish a larger series (see notes to British Museum cataloguing for the latter).
[Ref: 38465] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
G.L. Le Clerc Count De Buffon. Author of Natural History.
London, Published by Thos. Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1828.
Stipple and engraving, 220 x 175mm. 8¾ x 7".
Portrait bust of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 – 1788), French naturalist, in an oval surrounded by a wreath; a vignette landscape featuring an elephant, tiger or leopard and camel, with volcano to background, below. Buffon was also a mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopaedic author. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-five quarto volumes of his Histoire naturelle during his lifetime; one additional volume based on his notes was published in 1789 after his death.
Wellcome: 475-14.
[Ref: 14023] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published by Thos. Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1828.
Stipple and engraving, 220 x 175mm. 8¾ x 7".
Portrait bust of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 – 1788), French naturalist, in an oval surrounded by a wreath; a vignette landscape featuring an elephant, tiger or leopard and camel, with volcano to background, below. Buffon was also a mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopaedic author. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-five quarto volumes of his Histoire naturelle during his lifetime; one additional volume based on his notes was published in 1789 after his death.
Wellcome: 475-14.
[Ref: 14023] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Subscribers. Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York, K.G. &c &c &c.
Drawn by Tho.s Stothard R.A. Engraved by J.Bromley.
[Published by Thos. Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, London.] [n.d., c.1826.]
Mezzotint with engraving. Sheet: 360 x 515mm (14 x 20¼").
The Subscriber's List from Series 1 of 'Views taken at or near Rangoon, and Combined operations in the Birman Empire', by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, published in two series 1825-26, illustrating the engagements of the First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824 - 24 February 1826). The subscribers, including the Duke of Wellington and the East India Company, are listed below a large vignette in which a British soldier, a sepoy and a tiger hold up a banner.
Abbey Travel: 404.
[Ref: 39816] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Tho.s Stothard R.A. Engraved by J.Bromley.
[Published by Thos. Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, London.] [n.d., c.1826.]
Mezzotint with engraving. Sheet: 360 x 515mm (14 x 20¼").
The Subscriber's List from Series 1 of 'Views taken at or near Rangoon, and Combined operations in the Birman Empire', by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, published in two series 1825-26, illustrating the engagements of the First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824 - 24 February 1826). The subscribers, including the Duke of Wellington and the East India Company, are listed below a large vignette in which a British soldier, a sepoy and a tiger hold up a banner.
Abbey Travel: 404.
[Ref: 39816] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Plate 21. Smoking out the Tiger _ Klip Plauts. 22. A Kafir Sports man. The Quagga hard Run.
H.B. [Henry Butler] pinxit 1838.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"). Top left corner rebuilt, outside image.
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a coloured and more detailed centre scene of three Europeans trapping a leopard [?] in a rocky outcrop; below is a native rider about to throw a spear at a quagga (a now extinct zebra subspecies). Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58122] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
H.B. [Henry Butler] pinxit 1838.
[London: Ackermann & Co., 1841.]
Two lithographs on one sheet, one hand coloured. Sheet 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"). Top left corner rebuilt, outside image.
Two scenes from Captain Henry Butler's "South African Sketches". Above is a coloured and more detailed centre scene of three Europeans trapping a leopard [?] in a rocky outcrop; below is a native rider about to throw a spear at a quagga (a now extinct zebra subspecies). Butler, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, was posted to South Africa with the 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. In 1837 and 1838 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats (between the Klipplaats and Windvogel Rivers in Eastern Cape Province, about eighty miles north of King William's Town). He returned to England in 1839 and in 1841, the year of publication, he transferred to the 59th Regiment, promoted to Captain. His book appears to have been a vanity publication, accounting for its rarity, containing only the lithographed title, 15 plates and 15 pages of text. His only other publication was an article in the New Monthly Magazine.
Abbey 336.
[Ref: 58122] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Circus Rehearsal.
Lewis H Fairbank.
1933.
Etching with large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 197 x 252mm (7¾ x 10").
Inside a circus arena, various people sitting around and preparing for the show; monkeys dressed up in little costumes holding parasols.
[Ref: 28989] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Lewis H Fairbank.
1933.
Etching with large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 197 x 252mm (7¾ x 10").
Inside a circus arena, various people sitting around and preparing for the show; monkeys dressed up in little costumes holding parasols.
[Ref: 28989] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Sports of a Country Fair. Part the Third. Teggs Caricatures No 41.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Tear reaching image lower left, creasing.
Chaos in the interior of a large theatrical tent as a tiger bursts through the flimsy canvas wall. From a set of four plates of similar disasters.
BM Satires 11631
[Ref: 51688] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Tear reaching image lower left, creasing.
Chaos in the interior of a large theatrical tent as a tiger bursts through the flimsy canvas wall. From a set of four plates of similar disasters.
BM Satires 11631
[Ref: 51688] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Countryman in London.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼")
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis. A countryman with a walking stick standing in alarm before a showman, who points upwards to a sign that reads "Royal Tiger", and dishes a bill inscribed "Milse's wild beasts".
City of London Collage: p5384962. BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 29946] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼")
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis. A countryman with a walking stick standing in alarm before a showman, who points upwards to a sign that reads "Royal Tiger", and dishes a bill inscribed "Milse's wild beasts".
City of London Collage: p5384962. BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 29946] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Cross Readings. (Price Sixpence).
Printed and sold by W. Jeffrey 7 Geo:e Y.d Lombard St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½''). Staining at edges.
A satirical print showing broadsides pasted on a fence, though the broadsides are not connected they seems to run into each other in a comical fashion, for example 'N.B. Shortly will be exhibited for Public inspection the arms, legs &c''of Mrs. Honey who has kindly consented to''Rise Rapidly''No charge for inspection'. Other references are made to ballooning, performances at Covent Garden, steam ships, Jim Crow, punishment, tigers and kangaroos.
For another version see 32271.
[Ref: 48938] £360.00
Printed and sold by W. Jeffrey 7 Geo:e Y.d Lombard St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½''). Staining at edges.
A satirical print showing broadsides pasted on a fence, though the broadsides are not connected they seems to run into each other in a comical fashion, for example 'N.B. Shortly will be exhibited for Public inspection the arms, legs &c''of Mrs. Honey who has kindly consented to''Rise Rapidly''No charge for inspection'. Other references are made to ballooning, performances at Covent Garden, steam ships, Jim Crow, punishment, tigers and kangaroos.
For another version see 32271.
[Ref: 48938] £360.00
Caspar Rutz vonn Mecheln, zu dem Leser. Nachdem heytiger Tag, vil, und mancherley Bücher beschrieben, auch zu Kupffer gestechen werden, welche der Landtschafften, unnd Städt gelegenheit unnd underscheid... So aber jemands von begirde, dergleichen Kleydungen von andern Völckren mehr zusehen, damit willen wir inne, zur unsern ersten Büchern gewiesen haben, inn denen sich nun ein jeder seines gefallens, unnd willens zuerholen hab. Mit privilegie von seyne Maiestät, Unnd den Cancellier Von Brabandt für sechs Jaren.
Mit privilegie von seyne Maiestät, Unnd den Cancellier Von Brabandt für sechs Jaren. [1581.]
Letterpress, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining, crease lower left-hand corner.
The dedication in German of the publisher Caspar Rutz of Mecheln to the reader. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21051] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Mit privilegie von seyne Maiestät, Unnd den Cancellier Von Brabandt für sechs Jaren. [1581.]
Letterpress, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining, crease lower left-hand corner.
The dedication in German of the publisher Caspar Rutz of Mecheln to the reader. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21051] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Coffee's the thing! Go it ye Tigers!
Drawn, Etch.d. & Pub by Richard Dighton Nov. 1823.
London Pub.d. by Tho.s. M.c.Lean 26 Haymarket 1824.
Hand coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 145 x 225mm (5¾ x 9").
A full length portrait of a man, identified by the British Museum as a Mr Cohen, stands facing the right, holding his shirt collar between his fingers.
BM 14533.A.
[Ref: 34412] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn, Etch.d. & Pub by Richard Dighton Nov. 1823.
London Pub.d. by Tho.s. M.c.Lean 26 Haymarket 1824.
Hand coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 145 x 225mm (5¾ x 9").
A full length portrait of a man, identified by the British Museum as a Mr Cohen, stands facing the right, holding his shirt collar between his fingers.
BM 14533.A.
[Ref: 34412] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
If Only I Could Get the Door Down? I Should See Them All for Nothing.
Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9¾"). Horizontal folding creases in the middle.
A man climbs onto the tailgate of a cart with marked 'The Museum of Natural Curiosities', peaking through a hole. When the tailgate flap falls opens it releases two lions and a tiger to menace the man. A Regency amusement.
See ref: 58855, 59033, 58831
[Ref: 58833] £680.00 (£816.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9¾"). Horizontal folding creases in the middle.
A man climbs onto the tailgate of a cart with marked 'The Museum of Natural Curiosities', peaking through a hole. When the tailgate flap falls opens it releases two lions and a tiger to menace the man. A Regency amusement.
See ref: 58855, 59033, 58831
[Ref: 58833] £680.00 (£816.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
![[At Jamrach's, The Dealer in Wild Animals, East London.]](jpegs/61991.jpg)
[At Jamrach's, The Dealer in Wild Animals, East London.]
W.H.W.
[n.d., 1887.]
Pen and ink, sheet 230 x 315mm (9 x 12½"), with a wood-engraved version of the scene. Tear entering image at top, mounted on album paper.
A view of the animal cages at Mr Jamrach's repository on St George's Street (the Ratcliffe Highway), with a keeper and a customer. In the cages are kangaroos, emus and an owl. The wood-engraving comes from the Illustrated London News of February 19th, 1887, with additional details, including a boy, camels, an elephant (on top of a cage, so probably stuffed) and some skulls. Charles Jamrach (Johann Christian Carl Jamrach, 1815-91) took over the London branch of his father's animal business c.1840. In 1857 a Bengal tiger escaped from its box at the Emporium, snatching a small boy in the street; Jamrach used his bare hands and a crowbar borrowed from a bystander to rescue the boy (who sued Jamrach for £300).
[Ref: 61991] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
W.H.W.
[n.d., 1887.]
Pen and ink, sheet 230 x 315mm (9 x 12½"), with a wood-engraved version of the scene. Tear entering image at top, mounted on album paper.
A view of the animal cages at Mr Jamrach's repository on St George's Street (the Ratcliffe Highway), with a keeper and a customer. In the cages are kangaroos, emus and an owl. The wood-engraving comes from the Illustrated London News of February 19th, 1887, with additional details, including a boy, camels, an elephant (on top of a cage, so probably stuffed) and some skulls. Charles Jamrach (Johann Christian Carl Jamrach, 1815-91) took over the London branch of his father's animal business c.1840. In 1857 a Bengal tiger escaped from its box at the Emporium, snatching a small boy in the street; Jamrach used his bare hands and a crowbar borrowed from a bystander to rescue the boy (who sued Jamrach for £300).
[Ref: 61991] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Part of the Natural History of Asia.
W.M. Craig del.t. T. Wallis sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾") Trimmed within plate, some staining.
A composite image, illustrating parrots, a toucan, elk, camel and tiger but, most significantly, the kangaroo, based on the George Stubbs painting. This plate was published in at least two of the Rev. Ezekiel Bloomfield's works: 'A General View of the World' (1807), & 'Complete and Universal Dictionary' (1812).
Lennox- Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, 424.
[Ref: 54184] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
W.M. Craig del.t. T. Wallis sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾") Trimmed within plate, some staining.
A composite image, illustrating parrots, a toucan, elk, camel and tiger but, most significantly, the kangaroo, based on the George Stubbs painting. This plate was published in at least two of the Rev. Ezekiel Bloomfield's works: 'A General View of the World' (1807), & 'Complete and Universal Dictionary' (1812).
Lennox- Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, 424.
[Ref: 54184] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Kangaroo, tiger, camel, toucan, parrot, Bird of Paradise & moose].](jpegs/42441.jpg)
[Kangaroo, tiger, camel, toucan, parrot, Bird of Paradise & moose].
[London Dead & Munday, n.d., 1813.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 5¾"). Trimmed into image.
The frontispiece of Macloc's 'New, Complete, and Universal, Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, in the Known World'. The kangaroo is based on the George Stubbs image, with the animal looking over its shoulder.
Lennox Boyd et al: George Stubbs, 424.
[Ref: 42441] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[London Dead & Munday, n.d., 1813.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 5¾"). Trimmed into image.
The frontispiece of Macloc's 'New, Complete, and Universal, Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, in the Known World'. The kangaroo is based on the George Stubbs image, with the animal looking over its shoulder.
Lennox Boyd et al: George Stubbs, 424.
[Ref: 42441] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[The Great Horned Owl. Plate XX. (Bubo ignavus).
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The Great Horned Owl, native to the Americas. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30186] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The Great Horned Owl, native to the Americas. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30186] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Tigris Orbiculis Minutis Variegata. Pardus Maculis ceu Scutulis Varius. Tigris Maculis Virgatis.
[Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1691.]
Engraving. 290 x 370mm. (11½ x 14½"). Time stained; printer's crease.
Illustrations of a leopard and two other big cats with marked fur, from Hiob Ludolf's 'Historiam Aethiopicam Antehac Editam Commentarius'. Ludolf (1624-1704), a German orientalist, learned the Ethiopian language from Gregorius, a monk from the Ethiopian province of Amhara. He used this knowledge to research the country, even visiting England to promote a trade scheme, unsuccessfully. The modern scholar Edward Ullendorff called Ludolf 'the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship'.
For a portrait of Ludolf see ref. 26060.
[Ref: 30158] £320.00
[Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1691.]
Engraving. 290 x 370mm. (11½ x 14½"). Time stained; printer's crease.
Illustrations of a leopard and two other big cats with marked fur, from Hiob Ludolf's 'Historiam Aethiopicam Antehac Editam Commentarius'. Ludolf (1624-1704), a German orientalist, learned the Ethiopian language from Gregorius, a monk from the Ethiopian province of Amhara. He used this knowledge to research the country, even visiting England to promote a trade scheme, unsuccessfully. The modern scholar Edward Ullendorff called Ludolf 'the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship'.
For a portrait of Ludolf see ref. 26060.
[Ref: 30158] £320.00
September. Ariadne and Faun carrying Libra.
E.F. Burney delt. Thos Williamson sc.
London Pub. Feb. 1. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand [but c.1815].
Hand-coloured stipple and etching, reissue on Whatman paper, partly printed in colour. 195 x 260mm, 7¾ x 10¼". Some staining and soiling; two creases in plate. Uncut.
Libra reclining in a carriage, playing a tambourine, while a putto with scales containing bunches of grapes over his shoulders balances on one foot beside her. The chariot is pulled by two tiger-like animals. Upper right: "Price 2s/. plain 4/s. Cold.". After Edward Francis Burney (1760 - 1848), from a series of allegories of the months.
[Ref: 22587] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
E.F. Burney delt. Thos Williamson sc.
London Pub. Feb. 1. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand [but c.1815].
Hand-coloured stipple and etching, reissue on Whatman paper, partly printed in colour. 195 x 260mm, 7¾ x 10¼". Some staining and soiling; two creases in plate. Uncut.
Libra reclining in a carriage, playing a tambourine, while a putto with scales containing bunches of grapes over his shoulders balances on one foot beside her. The chariot is pulled by two tiger-like animals. Upper right: "Price 2s/. plain 4/s. Cold.". After Edward Francis Burney (1760 - 1848), from a series of allegories of the months.
[Ref: 22587] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
A Lion and Tiger Fighting.
Painted & Engraved by James Ward, Painter & Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
[London, Published June 1st. 1799 by James Ward & Co. No. 6 Newman Street.]
Mezzotint. 605 x 475mm. Laid on board with overmount obscuring publication line and edges, rubbing and repairs.
A Study of 'Lion and Tiger' was exhibited in the Academy in 1798, and it was after this that James Ward became anxious for public approval for his painting. A prolific artist, James Ward. R.A (1769-1859) was one of the finest animal, portrait, and landscape painters of Regency England. Brittle, pious, and argumentative, Ward worked well into the mid-19th century, creating dynamic compositions that epitomized Romanticism. He was devoted to the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, and emulated them more than any of his contemporaries.
Frankau 51. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6446] £450.00
Painted & Engraved by James Ward, Painter & Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
[London, Published June 1st. 1799 by James Ward & Co. No. 6 Newman Street.]
Mezzotint. 605 x 475mm. Laid on board with overmount obscuring publication line and edges, rubbing and repairs.
A Study of 'Lion and Tiger' was exhibited in the Academy in 1798, and it was after this that James Ward became anxious for public approval for his painting. A prolific artist, James Ward. R.A (1769-1859) was one of the finest animal, portrait, and landscape painters of Regency England. Brittle, pious, and argumentative, Ward worked well into the mid-19th century, creating dynamic compositions that epitomized Romanticism. He was devoted to the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, and emulated them more than any of his contemporaries.
Frankau 51. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6446] £450.00
A Lion and Tiger Fighting.
Painted & Engraved by James Ward, Painter & Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
London, Published June 1st. 1799 by James Ward & Co. No. 6 Newman Street.
Mezzotint. 605 x 475mm. Uncleanly trimmed 5mm into the plate at top.
A Study of 'Lion and Tiger' was exhibited in the Academy in 1798, and it was after this that James Ward became anxious for public approval for his painting. A prolific artist, James Ward. R.A (1769-1859) was one of the finest animal, portrait, and landscape painters of Regency England. Brittle, pious, and argumentative, Ward worked well into the mid-19th century, creating dynamic compositions that epitomized Romanticism. He was devoted to the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, and emulated them more than any of his contemporaries.
Frankau 51.
[Ref: 6445] £950.00
Painted & Engraved by James Ward, Painter & Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
London, Published June 1st. 1799 by James Ward & Co. No. 6 Newman Street.
Mezzotint. 605 x 475mm. Uncleanly trimmed 5mm into the plate at top.
A Study of 'Lion and Tiger' was exhibited in the Academy in 1798, and it was after this that James Ward became anxious for public approval for his painting. A prolific artist, James Ward. R.A (1769-1859) was one of the finest animal, portrait, and landscape painters of Regency England. Brittle, pious, and argumentative, Ward worked well into the mid-19th century, creating dynamic compositions that epitomized Romanticism. He was devoted to the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, and emulated them more than any of his contemporaries.
Frankau 51.
[Ref: 6445] £950.00
![[A lion and tiger fighting over a native.]](jpegs/1148.jpg)
[A lion and tiger fighting over a native.]
C.Callon jnr invt et fecit.
London published april 10th 1785 by J.R.Smith No 83 Oxford Street.
Etching. 285 x 350mm. Narrow margins, a few short tears.
[Ref: 1148] £580.00
C.Callon jnr invt et fecit.
London published april 10th 1785 by J.R.Smith No 83 Oxford Street.
Etching. 285 x 350mm. Narrow margins, a few short tears.
[Ref: 1148] £580.00
![[The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals.] Pl. 4.](jpegs/59152.jpg)
[The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals.] Pl. 4. 1. Papaver hossidum. 2. Papaver setigerum. 3. Papaver nudicaule. 4.Papaver somniferum. 5. Papaver Rhoeas. 6. Papaver Persicum.
[by Mrs. Loudon.] Day & Haghe lith.rs to the Queen.
[London: William Smith, 113 Fleet Street. MDCCCXLII [1842]]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Some foxing.
Features different poppies. From 'The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals,' by Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807-58). Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. She was married to the well-known horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon (1783 - 1843), and they wrote some books together, as well as her own very successful series.
[Ref: 59152] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[by Mrs. Loudon.] Day & Haghe lith.rs to the Queen.
[London: William Smith, 113 Fleet Street. MDCCCXLII [1842]]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Some foxing.
Features different poppies. From 'The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals,' by Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807-58). Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. She was married to the well-known horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon (1783 - 1843), and they wrote some books together, as well as her own very successful series.
[Ref: 59152] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![September [ms]](jpegs/34855.jpg)
September [ms]
[Burney delt. T. Williamson sculpt.]
[Pub. Feb. 1 1808 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts 101 Strand London]
Stipple printed in brown, sheet 145 x 250mm (5¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing text; slight staining.
Libra in carriage, child balanced on carriage carrying balanced baskets of flowers, the chariot pulled by Ariadne and Faun (as tiger-like animals). After Edward Francis Burney, from a series of months of the year.
[Ref: 34855] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Burney delt. T. Williamson sculpt.]
[Pub. Feb. 1 1808 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts 101 Strand London]
Stipple printed in brown, sheet 145 x 250mm (5¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing text; slight staining.
Libra in carriage, child balanced on carriage carrying balanced baskets of flowers, the chariot pulled by Ariadne and Faun (as tiger-like animals). After Edward Francis Burney, from a series of months of the year.
[Ref: 34855] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Wild Beasts and Birds of Prey. Studied from the Life and done in Pastel by J.T. Nettleship are to be seen at Dunthorne's Gallery, 5 Vigo Street W. Saturday 20th February. 1892.
Wood engraving. 120 x 170mm. 4¾ x 6¾".
An invitation to John Trevitt Nettleship's exhibition. Nettleship (1841-1902) was known as a painter of animals and in particular of lions. For twenty-seven years (1874-1901) he exhibited spacious oil pictures of lions, tigers and other wild beasts at the Royal Academy and for some times at the Grosvenor Gallery. This particular exhibition contained some 76 pastel works of wild beasts and birds of prey.
[Ref: 16837] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Wood engraving. 120 x 170mm. 4¾ x 6¾".
An invitation to John Trevitt Nettleship's exhibition. Nettleship (1841-1902) was known as a painter of animals and in particular of lions. For twenty-seven years (1874-1901) he exhibited spacious oil pictures of lions, tigers and other wild beasts at the Royal Academy and for some times at the Grosvenor Gallery. This particular exhibition contained some 76 pastel works of wild beasts and birds of prey.
[Ref: 16837] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Night Doctor.]](jpegs/58539.jpg)
[The Night Doctor.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image, stained, laid on card.
A messenger boy wakes Dr Simple at 6am. Stuck on the reverse is a scene of tiger hunting from the backs of elephants.
[Ref: 58539] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image, stained, laid on card.
A messenger boy wakes Dr Simple at 6am. Stuck on the reverse is a scene of tiger hunting from the backs of elephants.
[Ref: 58539] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Omnium-Gatherum. Second Series, No 3.
[By Henry Heath.]
Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1831.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼").
A caricature miscellany with fifteen vignettes: a Chinese scene; above, two squinting men, one asking 'Who are you Squinting at Mister Swivel Eye?', an (?) Italian woman at a window, cooks fighting; below, 'The whispering Gallery!', a rowdy group of spectators watching a performance, including a sweep and a woman with a black eye. At upper left, 'taking pot luck', a man with a flower pot on his head, a shelf above having broken; below, 'Slave trade', a black servant woman scrubbing a step; a black minstrel; a man in a cart pulled by a dog; 'Betting the long odds', a short man approaching a tall man with a whip at a racecourse. At upper right, 'the last token!!', a sailor on shore, having lopped of his pigtail, offers it to a weeping woman; devils boxing; a black man running from a gigantic tiger; an old woman with patterns and broomstick; a quayside encounter between three (?)Chinese and two black people.
BM: 2013,7069.11.
[Ref: 44364] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[By Henry Heath.]
Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1831.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼").
A caricature miscellany with fifteen vignettes: a Chinese scene; above, two squinting men, one asking 'Who are you Squinting at Mister Swivel Eye?', an (?) Italian woman at a window, cooks fighting; below, 'The whispering Gallery!', a rowdy group of spectators watching a performance, including a sweep and a woman with a black eye. At upper left, 'taking pot luck', a man with a flower pot on his head, a shelf above having broken; below, 'Slave trade', a black servant woman scrubbing a step; a black minstrel; a man in a cart pulled by a dog; 'Betting the long odds', a short man approaching a tall man with a whip at a racecourse. At upper right, 'the last token!!', a sailor on shore, having lopped of his pigtail, offers it to a weeping woman; devils boxing; a black man running from a gigantic tiger; an old woman with patterns and broomstick; a quayside encounter between three (?)Chinese and two black people.
BM: 2013,7069.11.
[Ref: 44364] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
St. Patrick of Ireland
[published by A. Park, 47 Leonard St.]
Wood-engraving with hand-colouring, verso "The Tiger & Antelope" 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed around image; glued to album sheet.
St. Patrick on horseback, Patron Saint of Ireland. In the middle-distance are three figures waving clubs. Such sheets of mythological and allegorical characters would have been sold plain for colouring and tinselling at home.
[Ref: 32287] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[published by A. Park, 47 Leonard St.]
Wood-engraving with hand-colouring, verso "The Tiger & Antelope" 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed around image; glued to album sheet.
St. Patrick on horseback, Patron Saint of Ireland. In the middle-distance are three figures waving clubs. Such sheets of mythological and allegorical characters would have been sold plain for colouring and tinselling at home.
[Ref: 32287] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[A Tiger.]](jpegs/5026.jpg)
[A Tiger.]
Franklin H. Roberts(?) [signed in pencil lower right].
[n.d. c.1940.]
Etching. 175 x 252mm.
An attractive and charmingly idiosyncratic rendering of a recumbent tiger, in a bold, angular line. Probably by a Glasgow, or Scottish, artist. In original frame with 'T. & R. Annan & Sons' of Glasgow label on verso.
[Ref: 5026] £480.00
Franklin H. Roberts(?) [signed in pencil lower right].
[n.d. c.1940.]
Etching. 175 x 252mm.
An attractive and charmingly idiosyncratic rendering of a recumbent tiger, in a bold, angular line. Probably by a Glasgow, or Scottish, artist. In original frame with 'T. & R. Annan & Sons' of Glasgow label on verso.
[Ref: 5026] £480.00
![[Jungle Stories]](jpegs/6474.jpg)
[Jungle Stories]
Arthur Wardle. Stanley C. Pratt [pencil signatures]
[I.P. Mendoza, 1907]
Mezzotint. 460 x 630mm (18 x 24¾"). With Printseller's Association blindstamp.
Boy reading on a tiger skin watched by two Scotties.
[Ref: 6474] £550.00
Arthur Wardle. Stanley C. Pratt [pencil signatures]
[I.P. Mendoza, 1907]
Mezzotint. 460 x 630mm (18 x 24¾"). With Printseller's Association blindstamp.
Boy reading on a tiger skin watched by two Scotties.
[Ref: 6474] £550.00
Sketches by Travellers. Plate 1st Tiger-Hunting is a delightful sport whilst you hunt him - but not half so pleasant when he takes it into his head to hunt you!
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq. Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily Published.
Etching. Sheet 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed close to printed border.
Hunters on an elephant panic as a tiger charges them. Etched by William Heath and part of a series which also included scenes in the Scottish Highlands, Germany, Netherlands, China and Arctic.
[Ref: 56593] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq. Del.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are daily Published.
Etching. Sheet 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed close to printed border.
Hunters on an elephant panic as a tiger charges them. Etched by William Heath and part of a series which also included scenes in the Scottish Highlands, Germany, Netherlands, China and Arctic.
[Ref: 56593] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Surrey Zoological Gardens, Walworth, Patroness Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving, letterhead(?), sheet 55 x 100mm. 2¼ x 4". Trimmed and glued to scrap sheet.
Vignette view of Royal Surrey Gardens, pleasure gardens in Kennington, London, slightly east of The Oval. The gardens were the grounds of the manor house of Walworth, and, as can be seen in this image, included a lake of about 3 acres. The site was acquired in 1831 by impresario Edward Cross to be the location of his new Surrey Zoological Gardens, using animals from his menagerie at Exeter Exchange, in competition with the new London Zoo in Regent's Park. A large circular domed glass conservatory was built in the gardens (in background), 300 feet (90 m) in circumference with more than 6,000 square feet (560 m2) of glass, to contain separate cages for lions, tigers, a rhinoceros, and giraffes. The gardens were heavily planted with native and exotic trees and plants, and dotted with picturesque pavilions.
[Ref: 10743] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving, letterhead(?), sheet 55 x 100mm. 2¼ x 4". Trimmed and glued to scrap sheet.
Vignette view of Royal Surrey Gardens, pleasure gardens in Kennington, London, slightly east of The Oval. The gardens were the grounds of the manor house of Walworth, and, as can be seen in this image, included a lake of about 3 acres. The site was acquired in 1831 by impresario Edward Cross to be the location of his new Surrey Zoological Gardens, using animals from his menagerie at Exeter Exchange, in competition with the new London Zoo in Regent's Park. A large circular domed glass conservatory was built in the gardens (in background), 300 feet (90 m) in circumference with more than 6,000 square feet (560 m2) of glass, to contain separate cages for lions, tigers, a rhinoceros, and giraffes. The gardens were heavily planted with native and exotic trees and plants, and dotted with picturesque pavilions.
[Ref: 10743] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Term Below - or - The Road to Retribution.
[by Charles Williams.]
London pub 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"), paper watermarked 'Whatman 1822'. With small margins. Notches in top margin, some staining in title area, publication line weak (as per BM example).
'The Lawyer's last Circuit'. Judges and barristers, on mounts including a tiger, gallop towards Hell, where flames rise from a pit. The figures include Ellenborough & elden, and perhaps the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, Samuel Shepherd and Robert Gifford.
BM Satires 13011.
[Ref: 54469] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[by Charles Williams.]
London pub 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"), paper watermarked 'Whatman 1822'. With small margins. Notches in top margin, some staining in title area, publication line weak (as per BM example).
'The Lawyer's last Circuit'. Judges and barristers, on mounts including a tiger, gallop towards Hell, where flames rise from a pit. The figures include Ellenborough & elden, and perhaps the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, Samuel Shepherd and Robert Gifford.
BM Satires 13011.
[Ref: 54469] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Superb Lily.
Reinagle pinx.t. Earlom sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1799 by D.r Thornton.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 475 x 355mm (18¾ x 14"), with large margins, watermarked 'J. Whatman 1794'. Colour faded.
An illustration of Lilium superbum, called the Turk's-cap lily or American Tiger Lily, native to the eastern and central regions of North America. One of the most desirable and plates from Dr Robert John Thornton's (1768-1837) 'Temple of Flora' (1799-1807), the greatest English colour-plate flower book, the first series of flower prints to show the plant within a habitat. Thornton had two plates engraved (the other by William Ward), an extravagence that helped Thornton into bankruptcy.
Dunthorne p.249: plate 'B', state I of IV.
[Ref: 54698] £850.00
Reinagle pinx.t. Earlom sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1799 by D.r Thornton.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 475 x 355mm (18¾ x 14"), with large margins, watermarked 'J. Whatman 1794'. Colour faded.
An illustration of Lilium superbum, called the Turk's-cap lily or American Tiger Lily, native to the eastern and central regions of North America. One of the most desirable and plates from Dr Robert John Thornton's (1768-1837) 'Temple of Flora' (1799-1807), the greatest English colour-plate flower book, the first series of flower prints to show the plant within a habitat. Thornton had two plates engraved (the other by William Ward), an extravagence that helped Thornton into bankruptcy.
Dunthorne p.249: plate 'B', state I of IV.
[Ref: 54698] £850.00
A Tyger.
Painted by Ja.s Northcote; Engraved by Jn.o Murphy.
Publish'd May 1, 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, closed letters. 485 x 605mm (19 x 23¾"), with very large margins.
A fine impression of this scene of a prowling tiger in a cave, staring at the viewer. To the right is the head of a dead wolf. A fantastic image of 18th century mezzotint art.
[Ref: 61190] £6,800.00
Painted by Ja.s Northcote; Engraved by Jn.o Murphy.
Publish'd May 1, 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, closed letters. 485 x 605mm (19 x 23¾"), with very large margins.
A fine impression of this scene of a prowling tiger in a cave, staring at the viewer. To the right is the head of a dead wolf. A fantastic image of 18th century mezzotint art.
[Ref: 61190] £6,800.00
A Tigress.
J.J. 1836. [J. Jebb]
Lithograph. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾") Trimmed, laid on album paper, stained.
Head of a tigress
The BM example, 1930,1125.2, has the pencil mss. 'From a sketch taken at the Zoological Gardens. J. Jebb."
[Ref: 46403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J.J. 1836. [J. Jebb]
Lithograph. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾") Trimmed, laid on album paper, stained.
Head of a tigress
The BM example, 1930,1125.2, has the pencil mss. 'From a sketch taken at the Zoological Gardens. J. Jebb."
[Ref: 46403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Tiger
J. Collett del et inv.t. Smith sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 185mm (5¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A recumbent tiger with a bone.
[Ref: 51342] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
J. Collett del et inv.t. Smith sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 185mm (5¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A recumbent tiger with a bone.
[Ref: 51342] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Tiger]](jpegs/43376.jpg)
[Tiger]
Z.G.
Lithograph, printed area approx. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Ms. in pencil, largely erased and illegible.
[Ref: 43376] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Z.G.
Lithograph, printed area approx. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Ms. in pencil, largely erased and illegible.
[Ref: 43376] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Manchurian Tiger. Plate II. (Felis tigris mongolica).]](jpegs/30176.jpg)
[The Manchurian Tiger. Plate II. (Felis tigris mongolica).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 171 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½").
Two Siberian tigers, from Manchuria, found primarily in the Sikhote Alin mountain region. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30176] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 171 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½").
Two Siberian tigers, from Manchuria, found primarily in the Sikhote Alin mountain region. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30176] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
![[Tiger sleeping.]](jpegs/54997.jpg)
[Tiger sleeping.]
H.D. 1920 [Herbert Dicksee pencil signature.]
Drypoint etching, signed in pencil by the artist. 180 x 350mm (7 x 13¾"), with very large margins, five blindstamps including the Fine Art Trade Guild. Mint.
Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 54997] £980.00
H.D. 1920 [Herbert Dicksee pencil signature.]
Drypoint etching, signed in pencil by the artist. 180 x 350mm (7 x 13¾"), with very large margins, five blindstamps including the Fine Art Trade Guild. Mint.
Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 54997] £980.00
A Tiger disturbed while devouring his Prey.
Painted & Engraved by James Ward, Painter and Engraver in Mezzotinto to his Royal Highness the Price of Wales.
London. Publish'd June 1st, 1799. by James Ward & Co. No.6 Newman Street.
Mezzotint. 480 x 610mm.
Lion reminiscent of George Stubbs strealthily approaches a dramatically styled tiger determined to protect its prey. A prolific artist, James Ward. R.A (1769-1859) was one of the finest animal, portrait and landscape painters of Regency England. Brittle, pious, and argumentative, Ward worked well into the mid-19th century, creating dynamic compositions that epitomized Romanticism. He was devoted to the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, and emulated them more than any of his contemporaries.
Frankau 79.
[Ref: 6465] £620.00
Painted & Engraved by James Ward, Painter and Engraver in Mezzotinto to his Royal Highness the Price of Wales.
London. Publish'd June 1st, 1799. by James Ward & Co. No.6 Newman Street.
Mezzotint. 480 x 610mm.
Lion reminiscent of George Stubbs strealthily approaches a dramatically styled tiger determined to protect its prey. A prolific artist, James Ward. R.A (1769-1859) was one of the finest animal, portrait and landscape painters of Regency England. Brittle, pious, and argumentative, Ward worked well into the mid-19th century, creating dynamic compositions that epitomized Romanticism. He was devoted to the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, and emulated them more than any of his contemporaries.
Frankau 79.
[Ref: 6465] £620.00
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The Spring Bow.
On Stone by Major Parlby. Sketched on the Spot by [printed Arabic signature.]
[1850.]
Coloured lithograph highlighted in gold leaf, sheet 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11". Slightly soiled.
A tiger inadvertently walking into a trap beside a watering hole in India. To the left, a bow is primed to fire an arrow when the trip-wire is touched by the animal. Plate to Fanny Parks's (Mrs. Parlby) 'Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East', 2vols., London: Pelham Richardson, 1850.
Abbey Travel: 476, 31.
[Ref: 10281] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
On Stone by Major Parlby. Sketched on the Spot by [printed Arabic signature.]
[1850.]
Coloured lithograph highlighted in gold leaf, sheet 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11". Slightly soiled.
A tiger inadvertently walking into a trap beside a watering hole in India. To the left, a bow is primed to fire an arrow when the trip-wire is touched by the animal. Plate to Fanny Parks's (Mrs. Parlby) 'Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East', 2vols., London: Pelham Richardson, 1850.
Abbey Travel: 476, 31.
[Ref: 10281] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Bengal Tigers.]](jpegs/50330.jpg)
[Bengal Tigers.]
Evert van Muyden '87. [in plate]. E. van Muyden [signed in pencil].
[1887.]
Etching on vellum, signed by the artist. 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12½"). Mount burn, taped stain in top margin, crease in margin.
Bengal Tigers at a riverside, with a remarque of a tiger's head bottom left. Evert Louis van Muyden (1853-1922), born in Italy to Swiss parents. In 1894 the Art Institute of Chicago held an exhibition of over 200 of his 'Water Colors, Sketches, Pen Drawings and Etchings' including four states of this print. It was also illustrated in Frederick Keppel's 'The Golden Age of Engraving', 1910.
[Ref: 50330] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Evert van Muyden '87. [in plate]. E. van Muyden [signed in pencil].
[1887.]
Etching on vellum, signed by the artist. 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12½"). Mount burn, taped stain in top margin, crease in margin.
Bengal Tigers at a riverside, with a remarque of a tiger's head bottom left. Evert Louis van Muyden (1853-1922), born in Italy to Swiss parents. In 1894 the Art Institute of Chicago held an exhibition of over 200 of his 'Water Colors, Sketches, Pen Drawings and Etchings' including four states of this print. It was also illustrated in Frederick Keppel's 'The Golden Age of Engraving', 1910.
[Ref: 50330] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[A Bengal Tiger.]](jpegs/52085.jpg)
[A Bengal Tiger.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Frost & Reed Ltd, Bristol & London, 1915.
Etching, signed artist's proof. 190 x 350mm (7½ x 13¾"), with large margins, Frost & Reed blind stamp. Mint.
A pacing tiger, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 52085] £1,250.00
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Frost & Reed Ltd, Bristol & London, 1915.
Etching, signed artist's proof. 190 x 350mm (7½ x 13¾"), with large margins, Frost & Reed blind stamp. Mint.
A pacing tiger, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 52085] £1,250.00
![[A Tiger.]](jpegs/9334.jpg)
[A Tiger.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [signed in pencil].
[London: Frost & Reed, c.1920.]
Etching., signed by the artist. 198 x 445mm (7¼ x 17½").
A reclining tiger.
[Ref: 9334] £1,150.00
HD. Herbert Dicksee [signed in pencil].
[London: Frost & Reed, c.1920.]
Etching., signed by the artist. 198 x 445mm (7¼ x 17½").
A reclining tiger.
[Ref: 9334] £1,150.00
![[Siesta.]](jpegs/31763.jpg)
[Siesta.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1918.]
Etching, signed artist's proof. 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very wide margins.
A tiger lying in the sun, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918.
[Ref: 31763] £850.00
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1918.]
Etching, signed artist's proof. 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very wide margins.
A tiger lying in the sun, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918.
[Ref: 31763] £850.00