Joannes Baptista Rousseau, Natus Anno 1670. Certior in nostro carmine vultus erit. Mart. L.7. Ep.84.
J. Aved pinxit. G.F. Schmidt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Very scarce engraving. 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Mounted in album paper at sides. Unidentified collector's stamp on reverse.
Three-quarter length portrait of Jean Baptiste Rousseau (1670-1741), sitting in an armchair, looking to the right with a quill in his left hand and sheets in his right hand. Rousseau was a French playwright and poet particularly noted for his cynical epigrams. Watermark listed as Lugt, L.3205, unidentified.
[Ref: 62188] £480.00
Pietro Paolo Rubens.
Gio. Dom. Campiglia del. G.M. Priesler sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving. 275 x 175mm (10¾ x 7"), with large margins.
A half-length self portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), hatless, wearing a voluminous dark velvet coat From a drawing by Domenico Campiglia after the self-portrait in the Uffizi, Florence, engraved for the 'Museum Florentinum'.
[Ref: 62191] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Tho.s Simmons. Murderer of Mrs Warner and Mrs Hummerstone, at Hoddeston in Hertfordshire.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Aquatint with etching. Sheet 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, bit dusty.
Portrait of prisoner Thomas Simmons who was executed at Hertford jail on 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder of a Quaker family home at Hoddesdon.
[Ref: 62105] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[A young blonde girl with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with very fine hand colour. Circular, diameter 240mm (9½"). Trimmed to printed border.
See Ref: 62324
[Ref: 62325] £420.00
David Teniers Antuerpianus Sereniss.is Leopoldo Archiduci, & Ioanni Austriaco Belgy Gubernatoribus Pictor familiaris, & Vtriq a Cubiculis, A.o M.D.C.LIX Ætat: 49. Herous faciles aditus in limina Regum...
Petrus Thÿs pinx. Lucas Vosterm: Iun: Sculpsit.
Abraham Teniers excudit [n.d., 1659].
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼''). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at sides.
A portrait of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), published as the frontispiece to 'Theatrum Pictorium'. An example of the second state of four, the first published state.
[Ref: 62190] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Silhouette of a violinist] Cap.t Newbery by one of his brother officers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and grey wash silhouette. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A violinist playing from a Beethoven score.
[Ref: 62093] £320.00
Wellington. 1817.
[Paris, Didot Senior for Galignani, 1817.]
Etching. Sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate, spotting.
Battlefield equestrian portrait of the Duke of Wellington, the frontispiece to 'Campaigns of Field-Marshal His Grace, The Most Noble Arthur, Duke of Wellington'.
[Ref: 62396] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
A Man Publickly Whipped, in the Sessions House Yard in the Old Bailey.
Dodd delin. White sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
An illustration from the 'Malefactors Register, or, a Tyburn and Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 62102] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Woman with an oil lamp.] From a Painting of Ger.d Dou, belonging to Cap.t Baillie.
W. Baillie sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Oct.1st. 1771.
Mezzotint. 155 x 230mm (6 x 9"), with narrow margins. Mounted in album paper at sides.
A night scene showing a woman leaning through a window, shielding the flame of a lamp with her hand. Engraved after a painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-75) by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 62182] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
The True Effigies of S.r Henry Wotton K.t Embassadour in Ordinary to the Most Serene Republique of Venice, And Late Provost of Eaton Colledge. Anno Aetatus Suae 72.
[n.d., 1657.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed, paper toned, mounted in album paper at edges.
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) was a diplomat and author, ambassador to Venice for nearly twenty years. From 1624 he was Provost of Eton and followed a literary career, writing the lives of his friends John Donne and Izaak Walton. The frontispiece to his 'The State of Christendom'.
[Ref: 62076] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Young English Squire.
Bouvier del.t. W. Kohler lithog. 22, Denmark St., Soho.
London. Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand.
Coloured lithograph with very fine colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Some spotting.
A portrait of a hunter, with shotgun, powder flask and dog.
[Ref: 62329] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)