Die Music. La Musique.
Jacob Wangner Sculp.
[Augsburg c.1740.]
Engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, tear with loss reinstated with mss. at top.
Musicians on a baroque balcony.
[Ref: 51292] £240.00
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Ars-Musica.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Aquatint. Plate: 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾") large margins. Paper tone.
A comic scene showing three figures playing music, in the centre a woman plays the harpsichord, to her left a man plays the violin and to the right another plays the cello. Based on a print by James Gillray of the same subject.
[Ref: 42625] £160.00
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Music.
J. Chapman, sc.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Sitpple. 268 x 202mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Allegorical print: Music stood on a cloud in centre of the image holding a lyre in his left hand, the sun shining behind his head. To the right is a winged putto holding a flute and panpipes; to the left, five putti sat in front of an organ playing on a harp, violin, cello, flute and oboe. To the lower right is Pegasus, and to the lower left are a group of revellers. Around the sun are the planets; constellations seen into the top two corners.
[Ref: 34621] £95.00
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[Music.]
Lairesse pinxit A.Blooteling ex.Cum Privilegio
Mezzotint, 255 x 350mm.
Very rare proof before title.
[Ref: 3651] £360.00
LXXXVII. 295.
I.R. Schellenberg delin. I.R. Holzhall Sculps.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 165 x 130mm. 6½ x 5". Slight paper discoloration. Three spots to margin.
A putto sits on a wall, his arm around an urn, above a boy sitting next to a collection of instruments and reading a sheet of music. A book illustration or frontispiece. By Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (1740 - 1806), Swiss painter, etcher and author.
[Ref: 10541] £120.00
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Moet and Chandon. Written by H.Hurille, composed, and sung with the greatest success by George Leybourne.
Alfred Concanen. Conganen, Lith. Stannard & Son, 7, Poland St.
[Hopwood & Crew, 42, New Bond Street, W. ][n.d., c.1881.]
Music sheet printed covers with a coloured lithograph, 5pp. music, advert on back. Edges worn, cover trimmed at bottom.
"Moet and Chandon for Me", sequel to the famous "Champagne Charlie", also written by Leybourne . This was an early celebrity endorsement: he was paid by Moet to compose the songs and would appear on stage waving a bottle of vintage Moet & Chandon. A rival, Alfred Vance, had the same arrangement with Cliquot. Alfred Concanen (1835-1886) was one of the leading lithographers of the Victorian period, best remembered for his illustrated sheet music covers.
[Ref: 17920] £65.00
Music.
G.B.Cipriani invt. F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
London Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 15th 1783 by A.Torre, No. 44 Mark Lane.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Slight surface abrasion near title. Light foxing.
The allegorical figure of Music, in Grecian dress, plays a harp and looks to the heavans.
[Ref: 1289] £220.00
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[Six solos for a Violin & Bass Humbly Dedicated to Crisp. Molineux Esq.r Composed by By Lewis Borghi.]
Pub.d Janry 20th 1783 by M.r Borghi No 5 John Street Oxford Street.
Rare etching, scratched letter proof before title. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9") Small margins.
The title page for a book of music by Luigi Borghi (c.1745-c.1806), an Italian violinist and composer who lived in London from the 1770s. He played in the orchestra of the King's Theatre from 1783 to 1785, and was leader of the second violins in the Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey in 1784. De Vesme: 1868; ii/iv.
[Ref: 51271] £280.00
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Six Overtes In Four Parts, With Hautboys And French Horns Ad Libitum, Calculated For Small Or Great Concerts; Most Humbly Dedicated To His Grace The Duke Of Dorset, Ambassador From His Britannic Majesty To The Court Of Versailles, By Lewis Borghi.
London. Printed for the Author, and sold at his House, No.5, John Street, Great Portland Street, (where may be had all his former Works.) at T. Skillern's No.17, St. Martin's Lane, & all the Music Shops.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by Lewis Borghi, April 16. 1787.
Etched titlepage in sepia. In ink on verso: -1- nov 1790. Light soiling.
Title-page of music book of six overtures; four winged figures, seated on clouds, playing music: on the left, one playing the cello; in the centre, another playing the violin; on the right, one playing the organ and the other singing; illustration to 'Six overtures in four parts' by Lewis (Louis) Borghi (London: 1787). Borghi (1772 - 1794; fl.) was a composer and violinist; Bartolozzi made prints for his music books. Numbered and priced lower left and right: 'Opa. VI.' and 'Price 15s.' British Library: 004229937. De Vesme: 1869; iv/iv.
[Ref: 9729] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Music Voluntary.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Rare etching. Plate 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Laid on board, title weakly inked.
A man playing the church organ. Probably Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-78).
[Ref: 14421] £120.00
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[Musical emblem; billhead/trade card]
Pub by W Darling N.3 Gt Newport Stt [London, c.1775].
Etched vignette, a cluster of musical instruments behind an open book of music, surmounted by the head of Apollo(?), with laurel crown. Perhaps for a tradesman's advertising stationary. Watermarked laid paper, sheet 110 x 95mm, 4¼ x 3¾". Crease through upper part; trimmed within plate (a fragment of a larger design?).
William Darling was an engraver working alone from 1771-1790 and then in partnership with John Peter Thompson after 1790. He published for which may be the origins of this musical vignette.
[Ref: 21367] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Le concert de famille.]
[Painted by Godfried Schalcken. Engraved by Jean Wille.]
[Paris, c.1768.]
Engraving, proof before all letters, 490 x 375mm. 19¼ x 14¾".
A family of five sitting around a table in an interior, singing from song books to the accompaniment of a violin. Coat of arms to lower margin. Engraved by Johann Georg Wille (1714-1808) after Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706).
[Ref: 14707] £260.00
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English Minstrels.
Miss L. Adams delt. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. lithog. On Stone by W.P. Sherlock
London: Published for H. Woods, by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. 14, Newman St Aug 1829.
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Some surface dust.
A musical family, with mouth organ, drum, tambourines and guitar. See reference 45762 for uncoloured pair.
[Ref: 61995] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
A Musical Party.
Mercer Del. Sears Sculp.
Published by T. Smyth & sold by A. Parey Burlington Arcade.
Fine & rare coloured aquatint, plate 215 x 225mm (8½ x 9), with large margins.
An interior scene. A man sat on a barrel tunes his lute. While a man and a woman sitting at a table look at presumably their sheet music.
[Ref: 58924] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Mascarades en action. No.7. Marquis Souvenirs de Coblentz.
Pruche. Lith. de Benard.
Chez Martinet editeur rue du Coq St Honore No. 13 et 15. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured soft ground etching, 260 x 200mm. 10¼ x 8". Lightly soiled/stained. Small marginal tears.
A drummer, flute player, and violinist playing at the window of an inn in Coblenz. Published in Paris by Aaron Martinet (1762 - 1841).
[Ref: 10533] £130.00
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Pense-t-il a la Musique. Du Cabinet de M.gr Le Duc de Prastin.
Tenier pinx. Terminé par J. P. Le Bas en 1771.
A Paris ches Le Bas Graveur Pensionnaire de Roi et Conseiller en son Academie de Peinture Sculpture et Gravure rue de la Harpe.
Engraving. Sheet: 245 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A scene in which a bagpiper a man and a woman playing a flute sit in a landscape.
[Ref: 47580] £140.00
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[Girl with guitar.]
W.S. Coleman [in image]
[n.d., c.1880]
Etching in original frame, scarce with large margins; platemark 460 x 350mm (18 x 13¾"). Outside of frame 820 x 665mm (32¼ x 26"). Unexamined out of frame; paper tone. Remarqué of branches below image.
Victorian genre scene by William Stephen Coleman (c.1829-1904).
[Ref: 28092] £420.00
[La Partie de Musique.]
Lavreince pinxit. V. Langlois jeu. Sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Very rare and scarce engraving, proof before title, 380 x 465mm (15 x 18¼"), with good margins. Repaired nicks and tears on margins.
A group of musicians with instruments, preparing to play on a garden terrace, while a little boy tries to ride a dog in the foreground.
[Ref: 59603] £380.00
[In repetition]
E.M. [monogram in image lower right, c.1820] Edward Moyse
Etching, platemark 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"), very large margins. 'Aqua Fortistes' watermark. Uncut.
Group of musicians rehearsing.
[Ref: 44201] £190.00
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Le Musicien Espagnole.
JE Eelsen pinxit 1631. Aveline Sculpsit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sept.r 30th. 1755.
Copper engraving. Plate 318 x 235mm. 12½ x 9¼". Creasing, repaired tear to centre right edge.
A lady seated next to a man learning how to play the guitar; Spanish related.
[Ref: 20060] £160.00
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La Musique.
Bouvier del. Régnier et Bettannier lith.
Imp. par Lemercier a Paris. [n.d. c.1845.]
Very fine & rare coloured lithograph. 330 x 266mm. 13 x 10½". Cut.
Two ladies in a garden by a fountain; one reclining with her left elbow on the fountain wall, the other with her back to viewer whilst playing a guitar. See ref:23964 for a companion print.
[Ref: 23965] £190.00
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National Eisteddfod 1882 1800 People. [in pencil below photograph]
Photograph glued to backing sheet as issued. Sheet 381 x 470mm (15 x 18½"). Very scarce & fine; creases.
The National Eisteddfod is a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance. Here in 1882 it was held in Denbighshire, an important place in the history of Eisteddfod. In the Casgliad y Werin Cymru, The People's Collection Wales.
[Ref: 28785] £230.00
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Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense. Je donnerais trois operas pour avoir fait votre romance. [What we say and what we think. I would give three operas to have written your romance.]
Lith de Gihaut Frères.
chez Gihaut Frères éditeurs [n.d., c.1830].
Fine coloured lithograph. Printed area 180 x 150mm (7 x 6") with wide margins.
Two man stand talking in a music room with instruments.
[Ref: 53397] £160.00
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[Orchestra.]
Reindel imp.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching; in pencil at bottom Painter & Graver Show. Plate: 130 x 250mm (5 x 9¾''), with large margins.
A view of an orchestra by William George Reindel (1871-1941).
[Ref: 47971] £230.00
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The Overture of the Right Honourable the Earl of Kelly. Adapted for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte. By Sig.r Corri.
J. Johnson Sculp.t.
Edinburgh Printed for & Sold by Corri & Sutherland. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼").
A frontispiece to 'The Overture of the Right Honourable the Earl of Kelly'. The scene depicts two putti playing a violin and horn within a woodland landscape, with an open musical score on the ground below to the right. The title 'Earl of Kelly' is one of the peerage titles of in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1619 for Sir Thomas Erskine, who was Captain of the Guard and Groom of the Stool for James VI.. It is named after Barony of Kellie in Fife, Scotland.
[Ref: 39309] £160.00
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Palestrina.
Peint par Ferd. Heilbuth d'aprés le tableau original appartenant à Mr. J Wesselhoeft de Hambourg. Lith. par J. Aubert. [Inside the image along the bottom:] Ferd Heilbuth 1851. Jean Aubert.
Berlin_Verlag von Goupil & C.ie Publié par Goupil & C.ie le 1.er 8.bre 1858 Paris_London. New-York_Published by M, Knoedler. [Publisher's blindstamp below title:] Goupil & Co. Editeurs a Paris.
Lithograph on india. Sheet 489 x 634mm. 19¼ x 25". Some light scuffing and soiling in the margins. Small tears in the upper margins.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music He had a lasting influence on the development of church music and his work is often seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. He sits holding his viol and one hand on a large score of compositions. He is discussing his art with pupils or friends.
[Ref: 16613] £350.00
Pandean Minstrels in performance at Vaux-Hall.
E. Burney del. Jn.o Lee sculp.
Published as the Act directs, Dec.r 1st 1806, by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Paternoster Row.
Etching. Sheet 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
Five men on stage at Vauxhall Gardens, each with pandean pipes fixed around their necks, allowing them to also play a percussion instrument.
[Ref: 53390] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Pianists.]
Nd. Lalaure
[n.d., c. 1920.]
Etching, 165 x 120mm. 6½ x 4¾".
Two girls playing a piano.
[Ref: 9107] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
The Serenade.
Pinelli del. Drawn on Stone by C. Hullmandel.
London. Published by Rodwell & Martin New Bond St. Oct.r 1. 1820 Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph with hand-colouring, sheet 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½").
Five musicians serenade a woman at her window. English lithographed copy of an etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), Roman artist whose depictions of the people and landscape of Rome were extremely popular. Pinelli adapted the language of Neo-classicism to depict street brawls, puppet shows and other street performers, bestowing upon them an idealised dignity.
[Ref: 41696] £95.00
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The Celebrated Polka Dances.
Endicott's Lith.y N.Y.
New York, Published by Firth & Hall 4 Franklin Sq and Firth, Hall & Pond 239, Broadway. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844, by S.C. Jollee in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N. York.
Lithograph and 3pp. sheet music, each sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼").
Music for 'The Celebrated Redowa Polka' composed by Camille Schubert, with note explaining that of the various versions danced, that of Fanny Cerrito and Arthur St Leon was generally considered the best. The image of two dancers on the front cover probably depicts Cerrito and St Leon performing the dance.
[Ref: 43322] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Punch and Judy. Quadrille by H.S. Roberts
13pp sheet music with chromolithograph cover, sheets 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Trimmed at bottom & top.
Suite of piano music with cover showing a Punch and Judy show. Samuel Pepys witnessed the first Punch and Judy show in London on 9th May 1662.
[Ref: 44124] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Les Quatre Mendians. No. 1.
L.F. C.N.
A Paris, chez Bance Ainé, Rue S.t Denis, No 175.
Coloured engraving. 175 x 220mm.
Four beggars, with a violin & cello.
[Ref: 6929] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Remembrance.
F. Corbaux. W.H. Mote.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple. 260 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8".
A woman seated loosely holding a guitar, looks contemplating towards to the ground. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide.
[Ref: 22646] £45.00
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Royal Circus.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculp.t. Bluck aqua.t.
London Pub. 1.st. May 1809, at R. Akermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 270 x 230mm (10¼ x 9"). Some slight foxing.
View of the stage of the Royal Circus which opened in 1782 and staged pantomimes and other local entertainments. On the stage several figures in elaborate costumes perform infront of a giant teapot and tea cup before a large audience. From Rudolf Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London'. Abbey Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34614] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
La Danse Russe.
Le Prince 1760.
Hand coloured etching and aquatint, image 300 x 235mm. 11¾ x 9¼".
A Russian man and woman dancing in front of an audience to the accompaniment of musicians with guitar-like instruments. A large tent behind. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), painter and etcher; inventor of aquatint: 1757-62 in Russia.
[Ref: 13303] £390.00
The Song. [&] The Dance] To Her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire, This Print after an Original Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq.r is with the greatest respect Dedicated, by Her Graces most obedient humble Servant W. Dickinson.
Henry Bunbury Esq. Delin.t. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
London. Publish'd July 10th 1782, by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No. 158, New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples with etching. Each 415 x 365mm (16¼ x 14½"). Some light foxing. Very small margins.
The Song: a standing woman plays the lute from music on a lectern, with two seated women singing, both holding scores, a boy reading over the shoulder of one. The Dance: three young women dancing holding hands while a young boy seated on a carved stone plays the flute.
[Ref: 38306] £490.00
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Sons of the Brave. The orphan Boys of Soldiers, Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. Royal Academy of Arts.
P.R Morris A.R.A. pinx. Charles O. Murray sc.
[F. Liénard Imp. Paris.] L'Art. [n.d. c.1880.]
Etching, plate 323 x 229mm. 12¾ x 9".
A brass band by orphan boys, playing the music in a large classical portico, audience surrounding and listening, a boy in the right foreground ushering a girl with hoop. Published in 'L'Art'.
[Ref: 25813] £95.00
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St. Cecilia. Angels lean from heav'n to hear. Ode on St. Cecilia's day.
Painted by T. Stothard, R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Parker.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Engraving. 260 x 172mm. 10¼ x 6¾".
St Cecilia playing an organ with three winged angels floating on a cloud above her.
[Ref: 22619] £60.00
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St. Martin's Hall, The Great Room. To the Members of Mr. Hullah's Singing Schools, This Plate is respectfully inscribed by the Publisher.
Ashbee & Dangerfield, litho. 22 Bedford Street, Strand.
London, Fred Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row. [c.1855.]
Sepia tinted lithograph, 'Proof' inscribed lower left, sheet 330 x 395mm. 13 x 15½".
A fascinating and very rare view of the packed interior of one of London’s lost theatres, during a concert. At the far end of the hall, a conductor stands in front of a huge choir and musicians, an organ towering above. St. Martin's Hall stood on Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, and opened in 1850 with a capacity of 4000. Part of the building was given over to John Hullah’s singing school and named St. Martin's Music Hall. The whole building was converted in 1867 by C.J. Phipps and renamed the Queen's Theatre. The Theatre was never really a success and was closed and demolished in 1879.
[Ref: 14855] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Un Stradivarius.
Norbert Goeneutte pinx [also signed in plate]. F. Milius sc.
Imp. A. Salmon [Paris, n.d., c.1882].
Etching, 270 x 210mm. 10¾ x 8¼". A generally good impression on a full sheet.
A bearded man standing in his 'curio' shop examining a violin that another man has bought in to sell. A pug dog watches as the man rummages through a large sack looking for other offerings. After Norbert Goeneutte (French, 1854 - 1894); published in the periodical 'L'Art'.
[Ref: 23517] £130.00
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The Old 'Strad'.
Lionel J. Cowen pinx. Swan Electric Engraving Co.
Published by G.L Jefferys & Co 78 Newman Street, Oxford Street, 1894.
Photogravure, very large margins. 570 x 420mm (22½ x 16½").
An old man in his workshop closely examining a Stradivarius violin. The 'Morning Advertiser' announced: ''The Old 'Strad.' An important print from the celebrated picture of a connoisseur inspecting a genuine Stradivarius, by Lionel J. Cowen, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886. The picture has been reproduced in a most admirable manner, in photogravure, by the Swan Electric Engraving Company, of London, and cannot fail to have a ready sale amongst violinists, musical instrument makers, and all who take an interest in thoroughly genuine works of art'.
[Ref: 31229] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Strolling Musicians With odd Grimace and Comic Strain, / The Antic Band in hopes of Gain,/ To please the Rustick Hearers join,/ Who think their Musick vastly fine. [200 on left]
[After C.W.E. Dietrich]
Printed for Bowles & Carver, Map & Printsellers, No 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 355 x 255mm (15 x 10"). Creasing; tears in margins; retouching to plate.
Itinerant musicians. An 1830 lithograph of the same image is inscribed 'Deitricy pinxt', attributing the original painting to German artist C.W.E. Dietrich (1712-74), who used the name 'Dietricy' to sign his paintings, and mastered the styles of various models including the Dutch Little Masters (as in this scene reminiscent of Dutch genre painting). For a coloured version of the image see ref. 10537; ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34009] £220.00
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The Strolling Musicians. Les Musiciens Ambulants.
Deitricy, Pinxt. Bouvier, Litho.
London, Published Jany. 1830, by A. Friedel, 34 Surry Street, Strand, & sold by all the principal Book & Printsellers in Town & Country.
Lithograph with original hand colour, sheet 485 x 345mm. 19 x 13½". Tears from extremities, including into image at right.
A crowd assembles to hear some wandering Flemish musicians, a fiddler and a bagpiper. After Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich,
[Ref: 10537] £70.00
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Les Chanteurs Ambulans. [The Strolling Musicians.]
Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.
Chez Bauger R. du Croissant. 16. [Paris, c.1841.]
Lithograph, sheet 360 x 250mm. 14¼ x 9¾".
A man with fiddle or violin and woman with guitar serenade a spruce Parisian dinner table. Numbered 'No.2' upper right, from the 'Physionomie de Paris' series of social caricatures.
[Ref: 17983] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Sturm's Reflections. December 22.
Craig del. Romney sculp.
Published by R. Edwards London. [n.d. c.1830.]
Engraving. 215 x 132mm (8½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
One woman sitting at the organ turns to another who stands holding a lyre. Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786), the German preacher and author, best known for his 'Reflections on the Works of God in Nature'
[Ref: 34637] £60.00
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Synthesis Harmonica.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 390mm, 12¼ x 15¼".
An orchestra of women, one with angel's wings, viewed through an arch decorated with figures representing the seasons, guarded by river gods.
[Ref: 9558] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
Le Tambour de Basque.
C. Huet del. J. Guelard Sculpt. et ex. C.P.R.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Engraving. 170 x 228mm. 6¾ x 9". Fine.
A monkey playing a tambourine, also called a Basque drum.
[Ref: 15089] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Sheet music cover] The Star Vol I New Series 1841.
[London, 1841.]
Lithograph, illustrated titlepage to sheet music; fragment trimmed to frame. Sheet 235 x 190mm. 9¼ x 7½". Very slight horizontal centre crease.
The design features a young woman at the centre of a star in the middle, and six further female figures holding staffs and an elongated trumpet or horn. The miniature figures of the Queen and Price Albert appear to be set into either side of the surrounding decorative frame (in the manner of theatre boxes). See BL: 004237348. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18540] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
La Music touchante. La fortune est quelque fois capricieuse!...
I. Iac. Haid excud. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Plate: 405 x 260mm (16 x 10¼''). Staining and repaired tear on left. Creasing.
A scene showing two young girls playing musical instruments in the street. The seated figure on the left plays the hurdy-gurdy and the figure on the right plays a triangle.
[Ref: 48848] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[The Troubadour.]
S. van Abbé. [signed in pencil and in plate.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Drypoint etching on laid paper, signed artist's proof from a limited edition. 260 x 260mm, 10¼ x 10¼". Numbered '2/60' in pencil lower left. Very fine.
A street musician singing and playing his guitar. Salomon van Abbe (1883 - 1955), painter and book illustrator of Dutch origin; came to England when 5 years old and studied with Tripp, C.Rae, W.Baynes and W.Seymour; he exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts between 1933-55. Guichard: pg.23. The Print Society 'Fine Prints', p.169.
[Ref: 19375] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)