VAT included (see terms) | Exclude VAT

The Kettle Pool, Straun [in pencil].
The Kettle Pool, Straun [in pencil].
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil].
[n.d. c. 1920s].
Etching with artist's signature in pencil, Limited edition 100; 145 x 200mm (5¾ x 8"), very large margins
An etching of a salmon fish leaping from the water. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56123]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A Likely Cast.]
[A Likely Cast.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 200 x 265mm (8 x 10¼")
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56107]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A Likely Cast.]
[A Likely Cast.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 201 x 264mm. Glued to mount card at extremities.
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 7663]   £420.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Les Jeunes Pêcheurs.]
[Les Jeunes Pêcheurs.]
P.Lucas. Alfred Bramtot 1892.
Photogravure. 400 x 500mm.
Children fishing from a punt. With a remarque of ducks in the lower margin. The title is anotated in pencil underneath.
[Ref: 3965]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

With the May Fly.
With the May Fly.
From an Original Drawing by R.M.Alexander.
Published March 1st 1886 by Messrs Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London.
Chromolithograph. Printed area 340 x 400mm.
Plate 3 from 'Fores's Fishing Scenes'.
[Ref: 48]   £850.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Lieut-Colonel Bryce McMurdo.]
[Lieut-Colonel Bryce McMurdo.]
[Painted by H. Raeburn.] Alfred J. Scrimshire. [Pencil signature.]
Published 1931 by Arthur Greatorex Ltd, 14 Grafton Street, Bond Street, London W1.
Colour mezzotint. 530 x 330mm.
Liet.-Colonel Bryce McMurdo (died 1838) at Mavis Grove near Dumfries, married Jane Otway of Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1802. Shown by a Highland stream, pursuing the joys of fishing. Raeburn's original painting is now in the Tate Museum, b-equeathed by Gen. Sir Montagu McMurdo 1895.
[Ref: 4755]   £420.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

R. Seymour's Fishing Subjects No.1. Morning.
R. Seymour's Fishing Subjects No.1. Morning.
The last design and drawing on Stone by R. Seymmour. J. Graf Printer to Her Majesty.
London Published June 10th 1839 for the Proprietor by Ackerman & Co.96 Strand.
Rare & fine etching, sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
A scene of men setting off fishing in the early morning. A busy fishing scene.
[Ref: 56115]   £350.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Dr. Alexr. Nowel, From an Original Picture in the Hall of Brazen Nose College, Oxford.
Dr. Alexr. Nowel, From an Original Picture in the Hall of Brazen Nose College, Oxford.
S. Harding del. Clamp sc.
Pubd. Nov. 1. 1796 by E & S Harding Pall Mall.
Stipple engraving. 150 x 200mm. Light foxing.
d.1601.This portrait at Brazen Nose is mentioned in Isaak Walton's 'The Compleat Angler' of 1653: 'In which picture he is drawn leaning on a desk, with his Bible before him; and on one hand of him, his lines, hooks, and other tackling, lying in a round; and, on his other hand, are his Angle-rods of several sorts'. A fishing rod is mounted on the wall behind his head.
[Ref: 2979]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

La Partie de Pêche.
La Partie de Pêche.
A Paris chez Augustin le Grand rue St. Julien le Pauvre No.3. [n.d. c.1790.]
Coloured stipple, rare. 387 x 487mm. 15¼ x 19¼".
The Fishing Party; three young men and two women fishing in a punt with rods and nets, accompanied by a black page boy.
[Ref: 25725]   £330.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Pêcheurs à la ligne. [in pencil.]
Pêcheurs à la ligne. [in pencil.]
Jhouart. [in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Chromolithograph. 305 x 406mm. 12 x 16".
A scene of men along a river bank fishing, possibly the Seine.
[Ref: 16336]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Pike Fishing.
Pike Fishing.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Aquatint with fine hand-colour. Plate: 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"), with large margins.
A fishing scene showing one man lying on his stomach fishing from the side of the river while a man with a long rod fishes from behind him. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46284]   £320.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Pike Fishing.
Pike Fishing.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 254 x 349mm. 10 x 13¾". Frame 445 x 532mm. 17½ x 21".
Two gentlemen fishing on the river bank next to a tree, one standing holding a rod, with the other lying on his front holding a net poised to catch a pike. Plate 35 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25717]   £450.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Le Plaisir de la Peche.
Le Plaisir de la Peche.
Carl Moor Peinx. Menils Sculp.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. 360 x 420mm.
[Ref: 4274]   £460.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[River Garry- The Haunt of the Brown Trout.]
[River Garry- The Haunt of the Brown Trout.]
N.W
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, proof, 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾") very large margins.
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56108]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

A Portfolio of Permanent Reproductions of Ten Fish Pictures.
A Portfolio of Permanent Reproductions of Ten Fish Pictures.
After Paintings by the late celebrated Fish Painter H. L. Rolfe.
London: Published At The Office Of ''The Fishing Gazette,'' St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, E.C. [n.d. c.1895.]
Rare portfolio, original printed boards, with 10 half-tone plates plus a keyplate, all trimmed to image and laid on printed boards as issued. 365 x 275mm (4½ x 10¾") A bit of wear to the covers and plates slightly time stained.
Plates: I The Game Fish of Great Britain, II Key To Ditto, III In A Fix, IV Not Caught Yet, V Threatened War, VI Homeward Bound, VII Foul Play, VIII The Anglers Rest, IX The First Lesson, X A Leap For Liberty, XI The Poacher. R.B Marston, editor of The Fishing Gazette, republished this from a series that had no publisher name and was undated called 'Piscatorial Studies by H.L Rolfe.' Having found the series through E Spencer Gough who had a letter printed in the March 17th 1888 edition of the Gazette in the hopes of finding out more information to procure one for a friend. The photographer was identified as W.T. Beach. Seeing an opportunity Marston accquired or borrowed from a correspondant and made 'A Portfolio Of Permanent Reproductions Of Ten Fish Pictures' and advertised it in the January 12th 1895 edition of the Gazette. Henry Rolfe (d. 1881) was a painter of fishing subjects and exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Dublin.
From the collection of David Beazley, cover illustrated in his 'Images of Angling, p.140.
[Ref: 56241]   £650.00   view all images for this item
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

A Pegged-Down Fishing Match.
A Pegged-Down Fishing Match.
Painted by W. Dendy Sadler, Photogravure, Goupil & Co.i
London. April 1885. Published by I.P. Mendoza, St. James's Gallery, King Street, St. James's. New York, Fishel, Adler & Schwartz. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1885 by Fishel, Adler & Schwartz in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
A rare photogravure, platemark 650 x 870mm (25½ x 34¼"). Outside of frame 960 x 1180mm (37¾ x 46½"). Some spotting towards top; unexamined out of original frame.
Fishing scene, inspired by the idea of a London Angling Society outing to the River Lea, the Sussex Ouse or the Thames, and the fishing of a friendly competition amongst the members. Sadler's painting of 1884 (now in the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) has been described as his greatest angling scene, which 'shows contemporary fishing in a thoroughly naturalistic and unsentimental way'.
David Beazley, 'Images of Angling', p.180 PSA: Vol.I. A.P. 125.
[Ref: 23151]   £520.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Salmon Fishing.
Salmon Fishing.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Aquatint with fine hand-colour, J. Whatman 1820 watermark. Plate: 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"), with large margins. Very slight stain in title area, & slight offsetting.
A fishing scene showing three men fishing salmon with the long rods, one man has a salmon in his basket. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46282]   £350.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Below the Falls.]
[Below the Falls.]
Norman Wilkinson [etched in plate and signed in pencil].
[n.d. c. 1920s.]
Etching with drypoint with artist's signature. 225 x 300mm (9 x 12") very large margins.
Etching of a salmon fish leaping out of the pool. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56131]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Salmon on the Line] A Thirty-Pounder [in pencil].
[Salmon on the Line] A Thirty-Pounder [in pencil].
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil].
[n.d. c. 1920s.]
Etching with drypoint with artist's signature in pencil; limited edition 100; 225 x 300mm (9 x 12"), with very large margins. Faint foxing.
Etching of a Salmon fish pulled from the water by a fishing line. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56126]   £320.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[The Salmon Leap.]
[The Salmon Leap.]
[After] Douglas Adams 1892 [etched in images]. Douglas Adams [signed in pencil]. With Printseller's Association blindstamp.
[n.d. 1893.]
Rare photogravure printed on chine colle, with artist's signature, artist's proof 225. 590 x 430mm (23¼ x 17"). Large margins.
A man watches a salmon fish leaping upstream from a rock on the bank, his fishing rod discarded behind him.
[Ref: 56193]   £490.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Spring on the Spey.]
[Spring on the Spey.]
Norman Wilkinson [Pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching. 230 x 305mm.
Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 6613]   £480.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Salmon Fishing.
Salmon Fishing.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 265 x 349mm. 10½ x 13¾". Frame 445 x 533mm. 17½ x 21".
Three gentlemen standing on the river bank fishing for salmon, the nearest man with a salmon tail sticking out a basket behind his back. A large house with two towers can be seen behind up on the cliff. Plate 37 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25708]   £550.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A Salmon River.]
[A Salmon River.] N.o 35 [in pencil].
D. T. Robertson [signed in pencil].
[n.d. c.1920s.]
Etching with drypoint and artist's signature. 190 x 325mm (7½ x 12½").
A salmon fish leaping upstream.
[Ref: 56137]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Salmon Trout.
Salmon Trout.
J. Scott Jun.r sc.t.
Published by Sherwood & Co, April 1 1827.
Engraving. 140 x 205mm (5½ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at top, stitch holes within plate at bottom.
Probably published in the 'Sporting Magazine'.
[Ref: 55329]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Master James Sayer.
Master James Sayer.
[J. Zoffany] engraved by Lawrence Josset.
Copyright 1955 by Frost & Reed [of Bristol] in the United States of America.
Mezzotint, printed in colours, platemark 530 x 400mm (21 x 15¾").
Modern edition of the very famous Zoffany painting of 1770 , originally engraved by Richard Houston in 1773 and published by the subject's father Robert Sayer, the London publisher.
[Ref: 6779]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Master James Sayer.]
[Master James Sayer.]
J. Zoffany pinx.t. 1770. Rich.d Houston fecit 1772.
Published as the Act directs 25 March 1772 R. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, scratched proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired cracks in platemark.
A mezzotint portrait of James Sayer (c.1760-96) at the age of thirteen standing on the bank of a stream holding a fishing rod with a freshly caught fish, published by the subject's father, Robert Sayer.
CS:109 i of ii.
[Ref: 57373]   £720.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Noon.
Noon. R. Seymour's Fishing Subjects. No. 2
The last design & drawing on Stone by R. Seymour. J. Graf Printer to Her Majesty.
London. Published June 10th 1839 for the Proprietor by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand.
Lithograph, printed area 215 x 230mm. 8½ x 9".
Humorous fishing scene by Robert Seymour (1798-1836) and published posthumously by Ackermann.
DNB
[Ref: 16273]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

A Strong Stream and a Lively Fish.
A Strong Stream and a Lively Fish.
From an Original Drawing by R.M.Alexander.
Published March 1st 1886 by Messrs Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London.
Chromolithograph. Printed area 340 x 400mm.
Plate 3 from 'Fores's Fishing Scenes'.
[Ref: 49]   £850.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Table for Baits.
Table for Baits.
J. Scott del, et sculp.
Published May 1, 1801, by Bunney & Gold, 103 Shoe Lane, London.
Etching with engraving. 415 x 250mm (16¼ x 9¾"). Folds, stains, a tear just entering plate taped.
A guide for anglers, with instructions on how to catch 17 British river fish, types of worm and flies, and how to make pastes.
[Ref: 61450]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Salmo trutta. Sea Trout.
Salmo trutta. Sea Trout. Solway Firth in July. Male. Size of Life. Weight 4lb 3oz. No. 9.
Drawn by Will.m Jardine, Bar.t. [Engraved by W.H. Lizars.]
[Edinburgh: W.H.Lizars, 1841].
Engraving. Sheet 500 x 630mm (19¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate at sides, margins frayed, ink speckles across sea area.
A large plate of a sea trout, usually published in Sir William Jardine's 'British Salmonidæ', but this example apparently a plate spoiled in production. Jardine (1800-74), best-known for his populist 'Naturalist's Library' series, was a keen angler and authority on salmon and trout in the British Isles, recognised in 1860 by his appointment to the Royal Commission on the Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales. The fish shown here was caught near Jardine Hall, his estate in Annandale.
From ex Jardine Estate Sale. Thomson Roddick; Little Dyke, Dalton.
[Ref: 36883]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Sauve qui Peut.]
[Sauve qui Peut.]
Geo~Marples. [Pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Ltd edition etching. 240 x 340mm.
A trout.
Guichard, p.50: "Fish, except by the Detmolds, have not been better portrayed in the British School than by Marples".
[Ref: 4086]   £420.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Untitled leaping trout.]
[Untitled leaping trout.]
Norman Wilkinson [Pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930]
Drypoint etching. Plate size: 200 x 150mm. 8" x 6". Unexamined out of frame.
Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 27832]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Trout & Mayfly.]
[Trout & Mayfly.]
Geo~Marples. [Pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Ltd edition etching with aquatint. Plate: 300 x 205mm (12 x 8"), with very large margins. Slight mount burn.
A landscape scene in which a trout can be seen beneath the water, swimming toward three mayflies flying about the surface of the river.
Guichard, p.50: "Fish, except by the Detmolds, have not been better portrayed in the British School than by Marples".
[Ref: 40160]   £420.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Trout Fishing.
Trout Fishing.
Painted by Douglas Adams. [Etched in plate:] Douglas Adams 1892.
Hand-coloured photogravure. Plate 482 x 710mm. 19 x 28".
[Ref: 19186]   £320.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Trout Fishing.
Trout Fishing.
Etched by F. Slocombe. Fred. Slocombe.
London Published March 1st. 1889, by The Fine Art Society (Limited.) 148, New Bond Street, W.
Etching. Image area 362 x 571mm. 14¼ x 22½".
Angler fising on stream. Frederick Albert Slocombe (b.1847) became established as a highly successful painter of landscape and rustic genre, exhibiting widely at Royal Academy and elsewhere for over fifty years. As an etcher, he restricted his original work to naturalistic landscape subjects; however, he was also an accomplished reproductive printmaker, producing highly finished etchings after the work of Joseph Farquharson, Alfred Parsons, B.W. Leader and others.
Beazley [Images of Angling]: 285.
[Ref: 25975]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Trout Fishing  River Garry.]
[Trout Fishing River Garry.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in reverse in plate, with 'NW' scratched also.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 225 x 304mm. Glued to mount card at extremities.
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques. Trout fishing in the River Garry, Perthshire, Scotland.
[Ref: 7664]   £420.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[A Heavy Fish]
[A Heavy Fish]
Norman Wilkinson. [Pencil signature.]
[n.d. 1930].
Drypoint etching 225 x 305mm.
Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 6614]   £420.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

[Isaac Walton & Charles Cotton]
[Isaac Walton & Charles Cotton]
G. H. Boughton [signed in pencil]. G. Wolliscroft Rhead [signed in pencil].
Copyright 1898. Published by J. S. Virtue & C. limited London.
Etching. 390 x 560mm (15¼ x 22"). Large margins.
Two men in traditional pilgrim dress pause their fishing to watch two women carrying pales on the heads.
[Ref: 56197]   £260.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Patience at Paddington or Angling in the Junction Canal.
Patience at Paddington or Angling in the Junction Canal. 302
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
[n.d., c.1818.]
Hand coloured etching. 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). Thread margins, repaired tear at bottom.
A satire of 'Cit' anglers optimistically fishing in the man-man canal.
BM Satires 10890.
[Ref: 60193]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Juvenile Companions. No. 8. The Young Anglers.
Juvenile Companions. No. 8. The Young Anglers.
W. Clerk. Lith 202, High Holborn.
Published at Hodgeson's Wholesale Print Warehouse. 111, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 205 x 160mm, 8 x 6¼".
A boy with a stick rod standing by a stream, his younger sibling seated behind, holding a fish.
[Ref: 24673]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

Young Anglers.
Young Anglers.
Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner. Engraved by R. Dunkarton.
Published June 1811 by J.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West.
Etching with mezzotint. Plate: 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"), with large margins.
Three boys on the bank of a stream, with fishing tackle and a watering-can; on the opposite bank another angler beside a pollard-tree and a house in the distance. It is suggested the scene is Marylebone Fields, now part of Regent's Park.
1st published state
[Ref: 47750]   £320.00  
enquire about this item add to your wishlist

The Young Anglers.
The Young Anglers.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby. Printed by T.H. Skelton, Southampton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph on india with very large margins. Printed area 310 x 255mm (12 x 10"). Foxing.
The Reverend Thomas Kilby (1794-1868) is best known for his 'Scenery in the Vicinity of Wakefield', 1843.
[Ref: 35812]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
enquire about this item add to your wishlist