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Silenus.
Drawn by J.H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
Publish'd as the Act directs. July 19th. 1779 by R. Blyth.
A fine etching. 265 x 232mm. 10½ x 9¼"
Silenus was a companion and tutor to the Greek god of wine, Dionysus.
[Ref: 14291] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by J.H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
Publish'd as the Act directs. July 19th. 1779 by R. Blyth.
A fine etching. 265 x 232mm. 10½ x 9¼"
Silenus was a companion and tutor to the Greek god of wine, Dionysus.
[Ref: 14291] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Three soldiers resting by a Tree.]](jpegs/40924.jpg)
[Three soldiers resting by a Tree.]
Mortimer del. S. Ireland Sc.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Etching printed in sepia. 215 x 210mm (8½ x 8¼"), with very wide margins.
A scene showing three soldiers in armour, one resting his head on his arm and one pointing towards the sky, resting on what appear to be the remnants of a column.
[Ref: 40924] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mortimer del. S. Ireland Sc.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Etching printed in sepia. 215 x 210mm (8½ x 8¼"), with very wide margins.
A scene showing three soldiers in armour, one resting his head on his arm and one pointing towards the sky, resting on what appear to be the remnants of a column.
[Ref: 40924] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Packhorse with Soldiers.]](jpegs/28421.jpg)
[Packhorse with Soldiers.] To Colonel William Butler, this plate is humbly inscribed by his much obliged, and most obedient servant Robert Blyth. From an original drawing of Mortimer, in the collection of Richard Payne knight Esq.r.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
London publish'd as the act directs June 23, 1784 by J. R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Engraving printed in brown ink with large margins, Platemark: 340 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾"). Very small fox mark on right side inside platemark.
Banditti scene after John Hamilton Mortimer. The drawing is in the British Museum collection (1975,U.1591.3) along with many other objects from the collection of connoisseur Richard Payne Knight.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28421] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
London publish'd as the act directs June 23, 1784 by J. R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Engraving printed in brown ink with large margins, Platemark: 340 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾"). Very small fox mark on right side inside platemark.
Banditti scene after John Hamilton Mortimer. The drawing is in the British Museum collection (1975,U.1591.3) along with many other objects from the collection of connoisseur Richard Payne Knight.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28421] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Courtship. To the Right Hon.ble Hugh Earl Percy, &c. &c. &c. Lieu.t General of His Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the Fifth Reg.t on Foot; the following Plates, representing the Life and Death of a Soldier, are most humbly Inscribed, by his Lordship's much obliged and most obedient Servant Robert Blyth. / From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Family. From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Sophonisba accepting the Nuptial Present sent by her Husband Masinissa. From the Original Picture by Luca Giordano, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to Whom this Plate is most humnbly inscribed, By His Graces most Obliged and most devoted Servant. J.Boydell.
Luca Giordano Pinx.t. J. Mortimer delineavit. S.F. Ravenet Sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 1st. 1764, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Engraving. 535 x 425mm (21 x 16¾").
Sophonisba, daughter of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal Gisco (often confused with the brother of Hannibal), was captured after the Battle of the Great Plains at Bagradas Masinissa , king of Numidia and an ally of Rome, fell in love with her and married her. When Scipio Africanus refused to accept the situation Masinissa sent Sophonisba poison to prevent her being taken to Rome to be displayed in a triumphal parade. With great composure, she drank it. The original painting by Italian baroque artist Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was sketched by John Hamilton Mortimer to prepare this engraving, which was published in ' The Most Capital Paintings in England', a five-volume set that was a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell.
[Ref: 14369] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Luca Giordano Pinx.t. J. Mortimer delineavit. S.F. Ravenet Sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 1st. 1764, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Engraving. 535 x 425mm (21 x 16¾").
Sophonisba, daughter of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal Gisco (often confused with the brother of Hannibal), was captured after the Battle of the Great Plains at Bagradas Masinissa , king of Numidia and an ally of Rome, fell in love with her and married her. When Scipio Africanus refused to accept the situation Masinissa sent Sophonisba poison to prevent her being taken to Rome to be displayed in a triumphal parade. With great composure, she drank it. The original painting by Italian baroque artist Luca Giordano (1634-1705) was sketched by John Hamilton Mortimer to prepare this engraving, which was published in ' The Most Capital Paintings in England', a five-volume set that was a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell.
[Ref: 14369] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![Comedy. [&] Tragedy.](jpegs/22480.jpg)
Comedy. [&] Tragedy.
Publish'd Decr. 8, 1778, by I. Mortimer [but reissues on 19th century paper].
Pair of etchings, each c.295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). Decent impressions, with margins.
Two allegories: 'Tragedy' is the Muse Melpomene in classical dress standing over the body of a man laid at left, a chalice in her hand and leaning upon an altar at right, urn below; smoke rising behind and another grieving figure cloaked at left. 'Comedy' the the Muse Thalia, standing pointing to figure sketch labelled 'nature' within a book resting on plinth beside; a child sitting on step below looking into a hand-mirror, watched by a satyr beside with jester's staff. For a series of 15 etchings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, originally published shortly after Mortimer's election as ARA in November 1778 - which suggests that he began work upon them before the elections. These prints appeared in 'Mortimer's Works...' published by Thomas Palser, London, 1816.
See Sunderland pgs.92-96 for a detailed discussion of the set. See V&A E.450-1961.
[Ref: 22480] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Publish'd Decr. 8, 1778, by I. Mortimer [but reissues on 19th century paper].
Pair of etchings, each c.295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). Decent impressions, with margins.
Two allegories: 'Tragedy' is the Muse Melpomene in classical dress standing over the body of a man laid at left, a chalice in her hand and leaning upon an altar at right, urn below; smoke rising behind and another grieving figure cloaked at left. 'Comedy' the the Muse Thalia, standing pointing to figure sketch labelled 'nature' within a book resting on plinth beside; a child sitting on step below looking into a hand-mirror, watched by a satyr beside with jester's staff. For a series of 15 etchings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, originally published shortly after Mortimer's election as ARA in November 1778 - which suggests that he began work upon them before the elections. These prints appeared in 'Mortimer's Works...' published by Thomas Palser, London, 1816.
See Sunderland pgs.92-96 for a detailed discussion of the set. See V&A E.450-1961.
[Ref: 22480] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Tragedy.
Publishd Decr. 8, 1778 by I. Mortimer.
Etching. 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). A good impression.
The Muse Melpomene in classical dress standing over the body of a man laid at left, a chalice in her hand and leaning upon an altar at right, urn below; smoke rising behind and another grieving figure cloaked at left. From a series of 15 etchings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, published shortly after Mortimer's election as ARA in November 1778 - which suggests that he began work upon them before the elections.
See Sunderland pgs.92-96 for a detailed discussion of the set.
[Ref: 15731] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Publishd Decr. 8, 1778 by I. Mortimer.
Etching. 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). A good impression.
The Muse Melpomene in classical dress standing over the body of a man laid at left, a chalice in her hand and leaning upon an altar at right, urn below; smoke rising behind and another grieving figure cloaked at left. From a series of 15 etchings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, published shortly after Mortimer's election as ARA in November 1778 - which suggests that he began work upon them before the elections.
See Sunderland pgs.92-96 for a detailed discussion of the set.
[Ref: 15731] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
To Joseph Banks Esq.r, President to the Royal Society. this Print is humbly Inscribed, by His much obliged and most obedient servant, R. Blyth.
Drawn by J. H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs, May 1st 1780 by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Fine etching. 350 x 330mm (13¾ x 13"), with wide, uncut margins.
A round design of three heads, one woman extravagantly dressed in jewellery and a headdress and two men, one with his long hair loose and the other carrying a spear. Joseph Banks was a notable patron of natural sciences and was a leading member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to found the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for forty one years.
[Ref: 53964] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by J. H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs, May 1st 1780 by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Fine etching. 350 x 330mm (13¾ x 13"), with wide, uncut margins.
A round design of three heads, one woman extravagantly dressed in jewellery and a headdress and two men, one with his long hair loose and the other carrying a spear. Joseph Banks was a notable patron of natural sciences and was a leading member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to found the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for forty one years.
[Ref: 53964] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
![[Three Levantine Heads] To Joseph Banks Esq.r President of the Royal Society.](jpegs/53965.jpg)
[Three Levantine Heads] To Joseph Banks Esq.r President of the Royal Society. this Print is humbly Inscribed, by His much obliged and most obedient servant, R. Blyth.
Drawn by J. H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs, March 6th 1780 by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Etching. 355 x 330mm (14 x 13"), with wide margins. Repaired tear and crease in left margin.
Three heads in a roundel; the first man wears a turban and elaborately tassled garb, the woman also looks richly dressed in a headband and jewellery. The man in the middle looks to be wearing a helmet. Joseph Banks was a notable patron of natural sciences and was a leading member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to found the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for forty one years.
[Ref: 53965] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by J. H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs, March 6th 1780 by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Etching. 355 x 330mm (14 x 13"), with wide margins. Repaired tear and crease in left margin.
Three heads in a roundel; the first man wears a turban and elaborately tassled garb, the woman also looks richly dressed in a headband and jewellery. The man in the middle looks to be wearing a helmet. Joseph Banks was a notable patron of natural sciences and was a leading member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to found the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for forty one years.
[Ref: 53965] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)