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[Albanian Soldier.]
[Albanian Soldier.] Soldat Albanois.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47026]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Effiges of the Right Noble George, late Duke of Albemarle, Earle of Torrington [...]
The Effiges of the Right Noble George, late Duke of Albemarle, Earle of Torrington [...]
Edw. Le Davis Sculp.
[1679]
Engraving, very fine impression; sheet 270 x175mm (10¼ x 7"). Trimmed; false margins added.
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608 - 1670), soldier and statesman, holding truncheon. Plate to Guillim's 'Heraldry'. Monck was one of the architects of the Restoration of the monarchy, along with Pepys' patron Edward Montagu. He was an accomplished military commander and served as Joint-Commander-in-Chief with Prince Rupert, in the campaign of 1666 against the Dutch.
O'D 23
[Ref: 31142]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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George Albemarle, General Anglois.  d'Apres Barlow.
George Albemarle, General Anglois. d'Apres Barlow.
Touze d.
A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with hand colour. 278 x 168mm.
Strong contemporary colour in gold leaf line surround. ['A.D.P.R.' (Avec Privilege Du Roi) inscribed lower right].
[Ref: 1928]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Albert President of Societies for Sciences [engraved in reverse].
Albert President of Societies for Sciences [engraved in reverse].
[Engraved by Charles Henry Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1859.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with large margins.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (1819-1861) was elected President of the British Science Association in 1859.
[Ref: 51053]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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[Prince Albert as Edward III.]
[Prince Albert as Edward III.]
[n.d., c.1842.]
Fine & rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 510 x 340mm (20 x 13¼''), with large margins.
A portrait of Prince Albert dressed as Edward III, the costume he wore at a costume ball held at Buckingham Palace on 12th May 1842.
[Ref: 50132]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Albert Chancellor of an University [engraved in reverse].
Albert Chancellor of an University [engraved in reverse].
[Engraved by Charles Henry Jeens.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with very large margins.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (1819-1861), elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1847, holding the position until his death. He used this position to campaign successfully for a reformed and more modern university curricula, expanding the subjects taught beyond the traditional mathematics and classics, to include modern history and the natural sciences.
[Ref: 50846]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, Gotha.
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, Gotha.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph on chine collé, rare. 299 x 241mm (11¾ x 9½"). Foxing to upper part of image
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Victoria, having married her in 1840. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Provenance: Elizabeth Anne Hippisley of Ston Easton.
[Ref: 29442]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[His Royal Highness Prince Albert Patron of the Ipswich Museum
[His Royal Highness Prince Albert Patron of the Ipswich Museum Taken Expressly for a Series of Portraits of Scientific Members of that Institution.]
T.H. Maguire 1851. [Drawn on stone from life by T.H. Maguire. M & N Hanhart, Lith printers.]
[Published Sep.br 1851 by George Ransom, Honorary Secretary.]
Lithograph. Rare proof before letters, with 'Ipswich Museum' blind stamp. Image 330 x 270mm (13 x 10¾"), with large margins. Small tear in bottom margin.
A seated portrait of Prince Albert (1819–1861) at Osborne House, with a view across parkland and the Solent behind. One of over 60 portraits of renowned scientific figures were published in this series between 1848-1852, commissioned in connection with the founding of Ipswich Museum.
[Ref: 59512]   £330.00  
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[Archduke Albert VII & Isabella.]
[Archduke Albert VII & Isabella.]
[P.P. Rubens pinxit. F. Eisen delineavit. F. Harrewÿn Sculpsit.]
[Se vend a Brusselles Chez le Dit Harrewÿn a la Monoie.] [n.d., c.1730.]
Etching, proof before letters. 535 x 390mm (21 x 15¼"). Loss in three corners of margin.
Portraits of Albert VIII and his wife Isabella (a daughter of the Spanish King Philip II) as sovereign regents of the Spanish Netherlands, as depicted in the Triptych of St. Ildefonso, with St Albert of Louvain standing above Albert and St Clare (the duchess's patron) above Isabella. Although printed on one sheet of paper, the portraits were designed to be separated and placed either side of the triptuch's central image, that of St. Ildefonso of Toledo receiving a chasuble from the Virgin Mary.
The triptych is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
[Ref: 57399]   £480.00  
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The Queen & Prince Albert taking an airing in Hyde Park.
The Queen & Prince Albert taking an airing in Hyde Park.
Painted by J. Pollard.
Lithd. & Pubd. by Dean & Co. Threadneedle St. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 220 x 280mm. 8¾ x 11". Sheet trimmed. On linen backing.
The Royal Carriage passing the Wellington Monument (Achilles) on Hyde Park Corner. Very fine colour published for the fashionable pastime of compiling scrap albums. After James Pollard (1792 - 1867).
See: Ref 56957, 58569, 12939 & 14256
[Ref: 11712]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Albert VII, archduke of Austria, and Isabella Clara Eugenia]
[Albert VII, archduke of Austria, and Isabella Clara Eugenia] Serenissimo et Potentissimo Alberto Austriae Archiduci, Burgundiae, Duci, Principi [...]
Joannes Muller Sculptor devotionis ergo. D.D. Ex Archetypo Petri Pauli Rubenii Serenitatis Suae Pictoris.
[1615]
Two fine engravings, each sheet approx. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"). Trimmed; false lower margins.
Portraits of Albert VII (1559-1621), briefly archduke of Austria in 1619 before abdicating in favour of Ferdinand II, and his wife Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1598-1621. Fine engravings after portraits by Rubens, who was appointed court painter to Albert and Isabella although he was permitted to remain in his hometown of Antwerp and accept commissions from whoever he chose.
[Ref: 43005]   £2,000.00  
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Albertus II.
Albertus II.
C. de pas exc.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 145 x 105mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
Albert the Magnanimous (1397-1439) of the House of Hapsburg,, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (although never crowned Holy Roman Emperor), as well as Duke of Austria and king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He is best known for the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna in 1420: on March 12th 1421, 92 men and 120 women who were still in Vienna were burned at the stake south of the city walls. From a series of equestrian portraits of the Holy Roman Emperors by Crispijn de Pass the Elder.
[Ref: 56348]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Albert Duc de Saxe Gouxr. Lieutt. Genal. des Pays-bas.
Albert Duc de Saxe Gouxr. Lieutt. Genal. des Pays-bas.
de la Gallerie du Cardl.de Richelieu.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 278 x 166mm.
[Ref: 1929]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sketch Map.] Dominion of Canada.
[Sketch Map.] Dominion of Canada. Albert Railway of New Brunswick.
Lithographic map. Sheet: 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼''). Creasing and folds as issued.
A map of the Albert Railway in the area around the Bay of Fundy. Towns marked include Salisbury, Alma, Harvey and Greenville.
[Ref: 48595]   £130.00  
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[Albert VII, archduke of Austria] Albertus Card. Archidux Austr. Belgicar. Provinciar. Gubernator.
[Albert VII, archduke of Austria] Albertus Card. Archidux Austr. Belgicar. Provinciar. Gubernator. 1597.
O.Vaenius inven. G. Velden f.
[c.1619.]
Engraving. 485 x 365mm (19 x 14¼"), large margins. Folds, wear in margins.
Portrait of Albert VII (1559-1621), joint-sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands with his wife Isabella from 1598-1621, a cardinal and briefly archduke of Austria in 1619 before abdicating in favour of Ferdinand II. Although he is dressed as a cardinal the use of his ducal title suggests the print was published for his brief reign.
[Ref: 50008]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The White Negro, female.
The White Negro, female.
J. Ihle del.t. J.Pass sculp.
Published as the Act directs, June 1 1794.
Engraving, platemark 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed. Messy.
An albino negress, wearing a fur cape, holding an axe and an exotic bird. Drawn by Johann Ihle for Ebenezer Sibly's five-volume ''Universal System of Natural History'', 1794-6.
[Ref: 45466]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Signor Felice Albinolo, di Torino.
Signor Felice Albinolo, di Torino.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce Blind embossed visiting card on porcelain. Sheet 45 x 75mm (1¾ x 3"). Slight soiling, laid on album paper, with ink mss 'I am happy altho' solo'.
[Ref: 57610]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Albion Hotel & Parade, Eastbourne.
Albion Hotel & Parade, Eastbourne.
Published by T.S. Gowland Library, Eastbourne. [n.d. c.1880.]
Engraving. 88 x 114mm. 3½ x 4½". Bit messy.
A view of the Albion Hotel, which was removed in 1882 to make way for the new Electric Light Company.
[Ref: 19104]   £30.00   (£36.00 incl.VAT)
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Antonius Albicius Nobilis Florentinus.
Antonius Albicius Nobilis Florentinus. Hæc est Albitii, Regum qui Stemmata scripsit...
[n.d., c.1625.]
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5'').
A portrait of Italian jurist and genealogist Antonio Albizzi (1547-1626).
[Ref: 49120]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Antonio Albizzi] Antonius Albicius Nobilis Florentinus.
[Antonio Albizzi] Antonius Albicius Nobilis Florentinus.
[Augsburg: Kraus, c.1612.]
Engraving, 190 x 130mm (7¼ x 9"), set in letterpress text.
Antonio Albizzi (1547-1626), Florentine jurist and genealogist, whose most famous work is 'Principum Christianorum Stemmata', a collection of engraved family trees with backdrops of City views and panoramas closely copied from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg (1572-1618).
[Ref: 29771]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Marietta Albony [facsimile.]
Marietta Albony [facsimile.]
Auguste Hüssener sc.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving and stipple on album page. 279 x 214mm. 11 x 8½". Some spotting, time stained.
Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
Harvard: 4.
[Ref: 23672]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Marietta Alboni, Contralto.
Marietta Alboni, Contralto.
[n.d. c.1855.]
Lithograph on album page. 342 x 260mm. 13½ x 10½". Foxed, some spotting.
Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
[Ref: 23669]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Brindisi Valse Brillante pour Le Piano.
Le Brindisi Valse Brillante pour Le Piano. Dédiée a M.elle Alboni par Fréd. Burgmüller.
[Mayence anvers et Bruxelles, Chez les fils de B. Schott; c.1850.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf ribbed border, on album page. 260 x 197mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Some spotting.
Marietta Alboni raising a glass in a toast. Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
See Harvard: 20.
[Ref: 23673]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[18 Australian Gum leaf paintings with autograph album of Edwardian musicians.]
[18 Australian Gum leaf paintings with autograph album of Edwardian musicians.]
Album, autographs dated 1906-7.
An autograph album compiled by Miss Willis, daughter? of the proprietor of The Willis Music Company Ltd. Alongside the signatures of composers and musicians she came into contact with are a collection of paintings on gum leaves of Australian trees, including scenes of Sydney Harbour, kookaburras and flowers. There is also a regimental menu and a few watercolours of different subjects. 18 items. Edwardian musicians including H. Trotere, G. Clifton Bingham and Edward Nicholls.
See: Ref: 52938
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[12 landscape prints most engraved by Benjamin Green after Paul Sandby, Thomas Daniell, S.H. Grimn, etc.]
[12 landscape prints most engraved by Benjamin Green after Paul Sandby, Thomas Daniell, S.H. Grimn, etc.]
[all but one] Pub.d Aug.st 1st 1787 by C. Phillips.
Album of 12 stipples and etchings, various sizes, largest 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Three plates with heavy oxidisation of paper.
A collection of plates reissued by Charles Phillips. Scarce collection stitched as purchased in the 18th century.
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['Album' poem.]
['Album' poem.]
W.H.H.
[Anon, n.d., c.1830.]
Curious letterpress poem in two numbered verses, arranged either side of woodcut letters forming the word 'Album' in a central column; printed on green paper, verse 1 orientated to read 'upside down'. Sheet 110 x 180mm, 4¼ x 7".
Perhaps (privately?) printed as an introductory leaf to a scrap album or drawing book, the unidentified author extols the virtues of the contents within.
[Ref: 16860]   £35.00   (£42.00 incl.VAT)
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Preuve frappante du danger de faibles Tiran.
Preuve frappante du danger de faibles Tiran. Album Pour Rire.
A Paris chez Ostervald ainé quai des Augustins No. 37. Litho de George Frey, Rue Coq-héron, No.11. et chez Hautecoeur-Martinet, Rue du Coq St. Honore.
[n.d., c. 1832.]
Hand coloured lithograph with large margins. Sheet size: 265 x 345mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Light spotting in margins.
A gentleman's boot straps snap, resulting in the figure on the left, who kneels before him, receiving a kick in the mouth, his top hat falling from his head from the impact. Three paintings on the wall behind are titled, 'Tombeau de Napoleon', 'Tarquin le Superbe' and 'Denis Tyran de Syracuse'. A plate from 'Album pour Rire' or, 'Album for Laughs', published by French printers Hautcoeur-Martinet, 1832. The plates for 'Album pour Rire' were issued separately and never collected into and sold as a single volume.
[Ref: 36653]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Album.
Album. Oh! tell us not of life's lone way...
W.H. Rock, London. [n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured steel engraving. 220 x 145mm, 8¾ x 6". Trimmed to plate at top.
Title page to an album of pre-printed pages of flowers and birds, popular with scrapbook collectors. The three female allegorical figures depict Religion, Music & Poetry. Rock published a number of these leather-bound albums.
[Ref: 17507]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[Alchemist in his study- illustration to Erasmus, 'In Praise of Folly'?]
[Alchemist in his study- illustration to Erasmus, 'In Praise of Folly'?] Le docteur et ses attributs
C. Eisen inv.
a Paris chez Basan [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 140 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). 'Eloge de la Folie' in ms lower left.
Book illustration after Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, La Fontaine and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46499]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Alchymist.
The Alchymist. He's in Belief of Chymistry, so bold,/ if his Dream last, he'll turn the Age to Gold.
Teniers pinx.t. W. Baillie sculp.t.
Early impression
Etching. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
An alchemist in his workshop, using bellows to make his fire burn hotter, etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 55334]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[An alchemist at work.]
[An alchemist at work.]
[Engraved by Pierre Chenu after Thomas Wyck.]
[Paris, Chenu? n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, fine proof before letters, very scarce. 430 x 520mm (17 x 20½" Tear entering image on left.
An alchemist at work at a furnace, his books on a stool. His wife and children sit to one side, and one assistant rummages in a cupboard, another watching. Thomas Wyck (or 'Wijck', 1616-77) was a Flemish painter whose interiors are said to have influenced Thomas Wright of Derby. Alchemy was a subject he returned to frequently. A pre-Fire prospect of London by Wyck is in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.
[Ref: 34375]   £450.00  
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[Charles W. Alcock.] The Man of the World. ''Association Football.''
[Charles W. Alcock.] The Man of the World. ''Association Football.''
Saturday, February 8, 1890.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 375 x 230mm (14¾ x 9"). Trimmed, creased, small splits in folds.
Charles William Alcock (1842-1907) captained England in a football international against Scotland in 1875. He also proposed the F.A. Cup in 1872 and refereed the 1875 and 1879 FA Cup Finals.
[Ref: 58846]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Marchande d'Eau de vie.
Marchande d'Eau de vie. Qui veut boire la goulte? No 83.
Carle Vernet. S. lith de Delpech.
[Paris, n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 300 x 140mm (11¾ x 5½").
A woman selling brandy, calling 'Who will drink a drop?'. One of a series, 'Cris de Paris', depicting Parisian street vendors, lithographed by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825) after Antoine Charles Horace (Carle) Vernet (1758-1836).
[Ref: 33222]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Henricus Aldegrever Vestphalus Pictor et Sculptor. Henry Aldegraef. Aldegraef estoir originaire de Westphalie. On ignore de que il a appris l'Art de peindre, & de graver: … Il mourit a Soest, & y fut entrerre sans beacoups d'appareil: main un Peintre de
Henricus Aldegrever Vestphalus Pictor et Sculptor. Henry Aldegraef. Aldegraef estoir originaire de Westphalie. On ignore de que il a appris l'Art de peindre, & de graver: … Il mourit a Soest, & y fut entrerre sans beacoups d'appareil: main un Peintre de ses amis passant par cette Ville honora son Sepulchre d'un marbre.
N. de. Larmessin, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Coppe engraving. 265 x 152mm. 10 x 6".
Henry Aldegraef (1502-1558), famous German artist and engraver.
[Ref: 14309]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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Aldenham School [in pencil to right.]
Aldenham School [in pencil to right.]
Etched by Wallace Hester [in pencil to left.]
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with watermark in top left-hand corner of paper. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½". Soiling along left-hand edge.
Aldenham School, an independent school in Hertfordshire, with crest and motto below image. The School was founded in 1597 by Richard Platt, a proprietor of a London brewery and Master of the Brewer's Company in 1576 and 1581. In 1596 Queen Elizabeth I granted him letters patent to build "the Free Grammar School and Almshouses" at Aldenham; the foundation stone was laid in 1597.
[Ref: 22568]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Alder Alnus.
Alder Alnus. No.2.
J. Vint Barber 1811.
Rare etching. 292 x 395mm (11½ x 15½"). Torn into the right-hand edge of the image. Horizontal crease through the centre.
View with three cows wading in a meandering river, the left bank lined with alder trees, and two sheep lying on grass; two cows standing behind wooden fence on the right bank.
[Ref: 19390]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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"I believe I'm right". M.r. Alder.
Drawn Etch.d. Pub.d. as the act directs by Rich.d. Dighton.
London Pub.d. by Tho.s. M.c.Lean 26 Haymarket, 1824.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"), watermarked 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1826', with very large margins. Surface dirt and some staining on lower edge.
A full-length portrait in profile facing left of Daniel Alder, an indigo broker. The text 'Y.C.Tallow 60/-" issues from his closed mouth. In the shadow cast by the figure 'Hughes/ 14 Lombard St/Fleet St.' is printed in reverse. Hughes was a manufacturer and supplier of copper plates, Dighton would sometimes use the reverse of the plate causing the manufacturer's impress to appear in the image.
BM 14537.A.
[Ref: 34408]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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23. [Alderman.]
23. [Alderman.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 10").
An alderman in red robe and wig, standing on a building side south of the Thames, with St Paul's Cathedral clearly visible. The print was published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 28721]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The Etymology of Alderman.
The Etymology of Alderman.
Pub.d Auhust 1809 by W. Holland, No 11 Cockspur Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), watermarked 1808 E & P, very large margins.
Two boys, holding chisel and hatchet, show their father their carving of a man made out of alder wood. Their carpenter father, who holds a plank and a saw, replies ''Aye Boys! I see you have made an alder man of it. a synonymous term for a Block-Head''.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58301]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Finishing of an Aldermans Picture.
The Finishing of an Aldermans Picture.
Pubd. Jany. 1. 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7".
A fashionable lady and gentleman arranged on a chaise longue in an interior. This seems to be a City of London alderman's wife being amused by her young lover, who adds cuckold's horns to her husband's (identifiable) portrait on the wall behind. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '8' upper right.
BM Satires: undescribed. Guildhall Library: 18371.
[Ref: 14515]   £320.00  
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[Aldermaston Court] East Front of Aldermaston. The Residence of Higford Burr, Esq.re.
[Aldermaston Court] East Front of Aldermaston. The Residence of Higford Burr, Esq.re. A.D. 1849. Philip Charles Harwick, Arch.t.
Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 400 x 510mm (15¾ x 20").
Aldermaston Court, built in neo-Elizabethan style after the earlier Stuart building had burned down in 1843. In January 2014 commercial property investors Praxis bought the estate for £4.7 million for development; despite the building being Grade II listed they have allowed it to fall derelict.
[Ref: 56756]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Aldermaston Court] West Front of Aldermaston. The Residence of Higford Burr, Esq.re.
[Aldermaston Court] West Front of Aldermaston. The Residence of Higford Burr, Esq.re. A.D. 1849. Philip Charles Harwick, Arch.t.
Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 440 x 600mm (17¼ x 23½") very large margins. Creasing in top margin.
Aldermaston Court, built in neo-Elizabethan style after the earlier Stuart building had burned down in 1843. In January 2014 commercial property investors Praxis bought the estate for £4.7 million for development; despite the building being Grade II listed they have allowed it to fall derelict.
[Ref: 56757]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Aldermen Turtle and Gruel.
The Aldermen Turtle and Gruel.
Pub Accord.g to Act Aug.t 11 th 1773 by MDarly 39. Strand.
Etching, 250 x 175mm, 9¾ x 7".
Two aldermen, one short and grotesquely fat, the oner tall, hook-nosed and thin. Possibly intended to personify liberality and frugality in the Mayoral Chair. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14570]   £330.00  
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Fire Proof Sugar Refinery
Fire Proof Sugar Refinery Erected for Mess.rs Charles & John Frederick Bowman by C. Dyson Esq.re Architect. Anno 1851
Vincent Brooks, lithographer, 421 Oxford Street, London
Colour lithograph, very scarce & fine, 630 x 845mm (24¾ x 33¼"). Outside of frame 690 x 910mm (27 x 35¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
The sugar refinery of Charles and John Frederick Bowman, 27 Alie Street (then Great Alie Street), Aldgate, London.
[Ref: 15162]   £650.00  
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[Old English Sports & Games- Golf.]
[Old English Sports & Games- Golf.]
Cecil Aldin. [signed in pencil.]
Entered at Stationer's Hall- Copyright.- Entered According to Act of Congress, in the ear 1901, by Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd., In the Office of Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyright 1901- Published by Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd., 16 Henrietta Stret, Covent Garden, London, W.C.
Lithograph. Sheet: 345 x 270mm, (13½ x 10½").
An angry golfer in a red coat hits his ball towards the scrub, behind him a young caddy wearing a tam o'shanter covers his mouth trying not to laugh and a fugure peeps over the hill. From Cecil Aldin's (1870-1935) 'Old English Sports & Games' series.
[Ref: 37827]   £350.00  
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12 Old English Sports & Pastimes.
12 Old English Sports & Pastimes.
By Cecil Aldin.
London. Lawrence & Bullen, Limited [n.d., 1901.]
Portfolio, printed cover, flaps; twelve near mint colour plates, each 385 x 475mm (15¼ x 18¾") Portfolio worn, one plate with a tear in margin taped.
A very rare complete set of twelve satirical sporting scenes: Golf, Shooting, Racing, Hawking, Cricket, Coaching, Bowling, Fishing, Coursing, Skating, Curling & Hunting.
See Ref: 37827 for 'Golf'.
[Ref: 62518]   £2,500.00   view all images for this item
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Old Aldridge of Eddington.
Old Aldridge of Eddington. Twice tried before F. Burton Esq. at Oxford for assaulting a Young Lady of that City.
Publish'd May 7, 1787. by I.F. Bryant, No. 35, Long Acre.
Etching with aquatint, image 132 x 94mm. Trimmed to plate and tipped into album page.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7557]   £170.00   (£204.00 incl.VAT)
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William Aldridge. Aged 112.
William Aldridge. Aged 112.
Published April 1.st 1794, by T Cadell, Strand.
Etching and stipple, with large margins. Plate 184 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½". Creasing through centre.
Portrait; half length, seated, to the front, turned very slightly to the right; his left hand raised to his chest. William Aldridge (1584-1698) was Wheelwright at Acton and a centenarian.
[Ref: 24241]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Ulysee Aldrovandi (Polygraphe),
Ulysee Aldrovandi (Polygraphe), Professeur de Botanique à l'Université de Bologne. Né à Bologne le 11 Septembre 1522. Mort le 10 Mars 1605 dans sa Patrie.
Dessiné d’après le Dessin original de Gandolfi, tire du cabinet de M. le B.on Cuvier, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 216 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Cut to plate at bottom.
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) the Italian naturalist who was the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden. Linnaeus considered him to be the father of natural history studies.
W: 46-12.
[Ref: 29581]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Richard Aldworth
Richard Aldworth From the Original in the Council Chamber.
[Anon., n.d., c.1816.]
Etching with aquatint, image 230 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼". Lacking margin at top and bottom.
Full length portrait of Richard Aldworth (d.1656), benefactor to the town of Reading, Berkshire; standing beside a table in ruff and gown, right hand on book, statuette of the Virgin to left, skull to right. Numbered 'Pl 22' upper right; from John Man's 'The History and Antiquities ... of the Borough of Reading' (Reading, 1816).
O'Donoghue p.32. See BL 190.d.12. G.4081.
[Ref: 21596]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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