Plas Newydd. Near Llangollen. The Seat of the late Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.
Drawn on Stone by W. Walton from a picture by Edwin W. Jacques.
Published by T. Catherall, Bookseller, Chester [n.d., c.1840].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15") very large margins. Some abrasion in title and publication line.
The 'Ladies of Llangollen' were Sarah Ponsonby (1755? - 1831), daughter of Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby, cousin of the Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1745? - 1829). For fifty years they lived together in complete isolation from society in a cottage at Plasnewydd in the vale of Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales. Neither left the cottage for a single night until their deaths. Their devotion to each other and their eccentric manners gave them wide notoriety, becoming a tourist attraction. They lie buried in Plasnewydd churchyard under a triangular pyramid inscribed with their names.
[Ref: 63556] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
General Plan for explaining the Different Trusts of the Turnpike Gates in the Vicinity of the Metropolis.
Published by J. Cary July 1.st 1790.
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, some staining.
An unusual map, showing the areas where the roads around London under the control of 16 Turnpike Trusts, from Kensington Gravel Pits (now Notting Hill) clockwise to Holloway, Stratford, Deptford and the Fulham Road.
[Ref: 64036] £130.00
A Man of The Duke of York's Island. A Man of Lord Howe's Island.
Published by Alex.r Hogg. March 1. 1794.
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"). Cut from a sheet with another illustration.
A man of Duke of York's Island, Papua New Guinea; a man of Lord Howe's Island, Australia, Tasman Sea. From George Augustus Baldwyn's 'A New, Royal, Authentic, Complete, and Universal System of Georgraphy...' See also Ref: 20876.
[Ref: 64002] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Lucky Mistake Or the Buck and Blood Flourishing Macaroni _ playing a Solo on the Jelly Glasses. 10.
[Drawn by William Austin.]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 7th 1773.
Etching, J. Whatman watermark. 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾"), with large margins.
A military officer, his hair is in a large macaroni club, unconcernedly rides a heavy cavalry horse past a man whom he has knocked down, breaking his wooden leg and several glasses. Upper right is an illustration of the club with an exaggerated description. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson. BM:5121.
[Ref: 63634] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
[George Lyttelton] The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary. 11
Pub.d as the Act Directs May 1st 1773 [by William Austin].
Etching, J. Whatman watermark. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"), with large margins.
George Lyttelton as a hooked-nosed Death, using a tomb as a writing desk, one hand holding a scythe. A grave-digger with a built-up shoe, holds out a skull which declaims ''Life is a jest & all things shew it. I thought so once but now I know it'', John Gay's own epitaph on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The first Baron Lyttelton (1709-73), a few months after this caricature) wrote 'Dialogues of the Dead' (1760). From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson. See Ref: 54443
[Ref: 63635] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Hon.ble Geo. Lord Macartney, Knight of the Order of the White Eagle and of the Bath.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraved bookplate. Sheet 90 x 70mm (3½ x 2¾"). Trimmed, creased, soiled.
The bookplate of George Macartney (1737-1806) as a baron (created 1776, advanced to earl 1792). He was governor of Madras (1781-5) and the Cape of Good Hope (1796-8), but is best remembered for his embassy to Peking (1792-4).
[Ref: 64078] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
A Malay.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed.
From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
[Ref: 63904] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Maria Antoinietta, Queen of France.
London Mag.e Nov.r 1777.
Engraving. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at top.
A full-length portrait of Marie Antoinette at her dressing table, ostrich feathers in her hair.
[Ref: 64000] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Marie de Lorraine Duchesse de Guise Princesse de Joinvil.le.
Petrus Mignard Pinxit. Roma. Ant.us Masson Delineavit et Sculpsit Parisijs 1684.
Engraving. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"), 17th century watermark. Mounted in album paper at edges. Time stained.
Portrait in oval of Marie de Lorraine (1615-88). She was the last member of the House of Guise: under this portrait is a vignette of a solitary tree in a forest of stumps, to indicate her position as last survivor. The Latin motto 'Succisas dat conjectare superstes' translates as 'The survivor bears witness to the fallen'.
[Ref: 64044] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Welsh Market Woman.
J. Brandard. M. & N. Hanhart Imp.t.
Published by T. Catherall, Chester & Bangor. Entered at Stationers Hall. [n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"), with large margins.
A woman wearing the felt Welsh hat, with the drum-shaped crown of popular in north-west Wales, carrying an umbrella and wicker basket.
[Ref: 63555] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
Baltimore. 6. City Spring.
Drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner. Lith by Deroy _ Printed by Cattier.
New-York & Paris; published by Goupil, Vilbert & Co. Entered according to act of congress, in the year 1848, by Aug. Köllner, in the clerk's office of the district court for the southern district of New-York.
Rare tinted lithograph. Printed area 250 x 295mm (9¾ x 11½"), with publisher's blindstamp, very large margins. Foxing in margins at top.
Lithographed by Isidore-Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) after August Köllner (1813-1906). Köllner, born in Württemberg and emigrated to America in 1839, made over a hundred drawings of American and Canadian cities, sending them to Paris to be lithographed. 54 were published, between 1848 and 1851.
[Ref: 64019] £420.00
Millbank looking Westward.
F. Jukes Aqua.t.
London, Pub.d June 27 1796 by F.Jukes Howland Street.
Rare aquatint with original hand colour. 250 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate, slight mount burn.
An oval scene of the Thames riverside, with anglers and a windmill on the opposite bank.
[Ref: 64093] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[William Philip Molyneux] Lord Dashalong bent on driving.
Dighton. Ad. Viv.m Del.t.
Pub.d Nov.r 1801. by Dighton Char.g Cross.
Hand-coloured fine etching. 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"), with large margins. Mounted in album paper.
Caricature portrait of William Philip Molyneux (1772-1838), 2nd Earl of Sefton, seated on a high box-seat, driving; he leans slightly forward, his head in profile to the left, a bunch of reins in the left hand, a long whip in the right. Sefton acquired the nickname 'Lord Dashalong' because of his fondness for racing through the streets of London in a carriage with four horses. BM 9743.
[Ref: 64088] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Morning in the Highlands.
Rosa Bonheur Pinx.t. C.G. Lewis sculp.t..
London Published March 12th 1872 by Pilgeram & Lefevre Successors to E. Gambart & Co. 1a King Street St. James's S.W.
Mixed method engraving. 305 x 490mm (12 x 19¼"). Printseller's Association blindstamp.
Highland cattle on a moor above a lake, after Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899).
[Ref: 63953] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[The Tsar Bell] La Grande Cloche de Moscou dite Tzar Kolokol. Pesant 10,000 pouds, et fondue en 1733 par l'ordre de la Majesté L'Imperatrice Anna Ivannovna. [Cyrillic title.]
Dessiné d'apres Nature par F.J. Bell 1837.
Scarce lithograph. Printed area 275 x 285mm (10¾ x 11¼"). Tears in inscription area repaired.
A view of the largest bell in the world, with a diameter of 6.6 metres (22 ft), although it has never been rung. The bell was cast in the Kremlin in 1735, with ornaments added after it has been raised from the 10-metre casting pit. However a fire broke out in the Kremlin, and the supports of the bell caught alight. Guards threw cold water over the bell causing eleven cracks, and a huge slab broke off, before the supports collapsed and the bell fell back into its pit, where it reamined until 1837. That year a French engineer, Auguste de Montferrand, raised it again, placing it on a stone pedestal, as depicted here.
[Ref: 63982] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Musical Shepherdess. From the Original Picture, In the Collection of Welbore Ellis Agar Esq.r.
Claude le Lorraine Pinxit. Wilson Lowrie Sculpsit.
Published August 24.th 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 495 x 610mm (19½ x 24"), laid paper watermarked 'J Whatman 179-'. Narrow margins, repairs to edges.
A large image showing a woman playing a pipe while tending her sheep by a river with an Italianate town and bridge behind.
[Ref: 64066] £460.00
The Death of Nelson.
J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dia.s. [n.d., c.1805.]
Woodcut and letterpress. Sheet 215 x 80mm (8½ x 3¼"). Some creasing, laid on album sheet.
A broadside song sheet, with a ballad by Samuel James Arnold (1774-1852). The woodcut shows Britannia standing before a fleet. ''O'er Nelson's tomb, with silent grief oppress'd...''.
[Ref: 63998] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Grand Conversation on Brave Nelson.
Ryle Co., Printers 2 and 3, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury (n.d., c.1845].
Woodcut and letterpress. Sheet 230 x 85mm (9 x 3¼"). Short tear, laid on album paper. Text misprinted lower left.
A broadside song sheet, with a ballad celebrating the erection of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. The woodcut shows a warship before a fort. Anne Ryle (1823-70), sister of printer James Catnach, took over his business in 1841, operating at Ryle & Co from 1845 to the end of the decade, when she sold the business to W.S. Fortey.
[Ref: 63999] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
A Family of New South Wales. Engraved for Baldwyn's New System of Universal Geography.
Published by Alex.r Hogg. March 1. 1794.
Engraving. 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, cut from a larger sheet.
A family of New South Wales, from George Augustus Baldwyn's 'A New, Royal, Authentic, Complete, and Universal System of Georgraphy' See also Ref: 20876.
[Ref: 64003] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Tsar Nicolas I] Nicolas Proclaiming Amnesty. Might Makes Right.
On stone by L. Kosanecki.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Extremely rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 320 x 270mm (12½ x 10½"). Repaired tears, creases, paper toned.
A caricature of Russian tsar Nicolas I (1796-1855), trumpeting successes but trampling on the Congress of Vienna and oppressing his own people. Louis Kozanecki (c.1804-64), a Polish painter and lithographer who worked in London from at least 1833. He was buried on the Isle of Man.
[Ref: 64076] £360.00
Key to M.r Orme's Print and Picture of Lord Nelson's Victory off the Nile on the Glorious first of August 1798. - now Exhibiting at his Gallery N.º 118 Bond Street.
Published & Sold by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, New Bond Street, corner of Brook Str.t London [n.d., 1805].
Rare etching. Sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"), with label with publication line pasted on. Trimmed, losing letterpress description, hole in corner of folds, creasing, laid on album paper.
The key to Daniel Orme's painting and print, with eleven named heads, published as a guide to the painting when it was on display in 1805. According to the letterpress (here lacking) the entrance fee to the gallery was a shilling, subscribers to the print admitted gratis. BM 1917,1208.4629, also with pasted label.
[Ref: 63997] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Caroline Norton] The late Lam[b]entable progress of the new Discoveries just as they were leaving Norton-Falgate
Published June 10th [1836] St Michael's Alley.
Lithograph. Printed area 290 x 340mm (11½ x 13½").
A caricature of Mrs Caroline Norton as a giraffe with four men mounted on her back and her husband, wearing cuckhold's horns, pulling on a lead around her neck. Caroline has left her abusive husband, George Chapple Norton, who accused her of having an affair with Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. Melbourne is seen here on her back clutching her tail.
[Ref: 63971] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Gen.l. Oglethorpe, aged 102.
Etched by T.P..tt. Sketched at Dr. Johnson's Sale Hune 30. 1785.
[n.d.c.1814.] Published by C.G.Dyer. Soho.
Very rare etching, J. Whatman 1814 watermark. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼").
Full-length portrait of General James Oglethorpe (1696-1786) turned to his left, reading. General Oglethorpe was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's "worthy poor" in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons. This is in reverse to the image in the BM.
[Ref: 64068] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Three etchings after Rembrandt's 'Old Woman Sleeping'.]
Three etchings, largest 125 x 100mm (5 x 4). Laid on card, one with glue stains.
Three versions of Rembrandt's portrait of an old woman asleep, head resting on one hand, spectacles in the other.
[Ref: 63989] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Adieux des Lanciers polonias aux dames de Châtellerault en 1810. (Historique).
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 175 x 195mm (7 x 7¾"), with large margins.
Polish lancers engage in an orgy with local women in the fields.
[Ref: 63445] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Oswestry School
Drawn and Lithographed by T.N. Henshaw.
Published by M.r Henshaw, Oswestry, Nov.r 1840.
Scarce lithograph on chine-collé. 255 x 310mm (10 x 12¼").
A view of Oswestry School with pupils outside, including two with cricket bats. On the reverse is a pencil sketch map of the school interior.
[Ref: 63985] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Bodleian Library] Frontispicium Scholarum Publicarum Universitatis Oxoniensis.
D. Loggan Delin & sculp. cum privil. S.R.M.
[Oxford, David Loggan, 1675.]
Etching. Sheet 295x 405mm (11¾ x 16"). Trimmed to image, central fold as usual. Repaired tear top right.
An elevation of the front of the Bodleian Library, dedicated to James Butler, Duke of Ormond. This plate was the frontispice of David Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata'.
[Ref: 63912] £380.00
[Oxford Movement] Ecclesiastical Smugglers. Political Fly Leaves. _ N.º 5.
Touchstone.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Jan. 6 1851. Printed at 70. S.t Martin's Lane.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 290 x 410mm (11½ x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, bookseller's red stamp, laid on archival paper.
Clerics and laymen bring ashore Catholic accoutrements, including a statue of the Virgin Mary, a reliquary and a censer, taking them into an Anglican church. A satire on the Oxford Movement, a group of high church members of the Church of England centred on Oriel College. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 63962] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Oxford Movement] The Anglican Hen and Her Pusey Duckings. Political Fly Leaves. _ N.º 6.
Touchstone.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Jan. 6. 1851. Printed at 70. S.t Martin's Lane.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 290 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"). Trimmed to printed border, bookseller's red stamp, laid on archival paper.
A hen with an anglican minister's hat watches as her congregation swims off to Edward Bouverie Pusey, a duck with s wide-brimmed hat on a lake in front of the Vatican. Pusey (1800-82) was a leader of the Oxford Movement, a group of high church members of the Church of England centred on Oriel College. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 63964] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Oxford Movement] M.r Worldly Wseman Directing Pilgrims to the Town of Infallibility! See the Puseyite's Progress, (backwards.) Political Fly Leaves. _ N.º 8.
Touchstone.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Jan. 21. 1851. Printed at 70. S.t Martin's Lane.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 280 x 355mm (11 x 14"). Trimmed to printed border, bookseller's red stamp, laid on archival paper.
A satire of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-65), the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850. He guides a member of the Oxford Movement (centred on Oriel College), burdened with the 'Thirty-Nine Articles' of the Church of England, towards Rome. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 63963] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[A Panther.]
Eug Delacroix. Aglaiis Bauvenne [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching, signed by the etcher. 225 x 310mm (8¾ x 12¼"), with large margins, 'MBM' watermark. Paper soiled.
A panther in a landscape, after Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863).
[Ref: 64062] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Catherine Parre.
Adr.n vander Werff pinx. Vermeulen sculps.
[Rotterdam, c.1710]
Engraving. 315 x 180mm (12½ x 7¼"), paper with large margins and 18th century watermark.
Bust length oval portrait of Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine (Kateryn) Parr (1512-48). Her hair dressed in curls, wearing feathered cap, ruff, gown and pearls. In a medallion suspended against wall with curtain behind. Plate from Isaac de Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre' (1697-1713) from design with allegorical elements and verses in French, by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722), acclaimed as the most important Dutch Master during his lifetime, although his reputation declined from the late 18th century onwards.
[Ref: 64026] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
A view of Streights Le Maire between Terra del Fuego and Staten Land.
[after Peircy Brett.]
[n.d., c.1790].
Stipple and etching. Sheet 155 x 290mm (6 x 11½"). Trimmed, offset, creases as normal.
Admiral George Anson's fleet approaching Cape Horn. A copy of the plate in 'A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by George Anson, Esq.'.
[Ref: 64007] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis.]
Pet. Paul. Rubenius invenit. Franciscus vanden Wyngaerde fecit et excud.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 415mm (12¼ x 16¼"), on 19th century wove paper. Trimmed within plate, tears, paper toning.
The marriage feast of Thetis, one of the 50 Nereids, and the mortal Peleus. Their son was Achilles, the hero of the Trojan War.
[Ref: 63991] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Penn. [William Penn, the celebrated founder of Pennsylvania, son of admiral sir William Penn, was born on Tower-hill, October 14, 1644. About the age of fifteen, he became a student of Christ-church, Oxford; but having early inbibed strong religious impressions, through the preaching of Thomas Loe, on of the people callled quakers...]
Holl. sculp.
[n.d.,c.1819.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 220 x 130mm (8½ x 5").
Portrait of William Penn (1644 - 1718), English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate of democracy and religious freedom, was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements in the state.
[Ref: 64110] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Jean Pesne Peintre et Graveur.
Se ipse pinxit 1672. Trouvain Sculpsit 1698.
Se vend a Paris chez Mortain sur le pont de l'Hôtel Dieu ou l'on paye le passage. [later impression.]
Engraving. 340 x 265mm (13½ x 10½").
A self-portrait in oval of French painter and engraver Jean Pesne (1623-1700).
[Ref: 64043] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Drawing the Retorts at the Great Gas Light Establishment, Brick Lane. Monthly Mag. 350.
W. Read Sculp.t.
London Pub.d by Sir Rich.d Phillips & Co. Feb.y 1. 1821.
Aquatint. Sheet 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Folds as usual, trimmed close.
The dramatic moment when coke was raked out of the ovens. Published in the Monthly Magazine.
[Ref: 63961] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Drawing the Retorts at the Great Gas Light Establishment, Brick Lane. Monthly Mag. 350.
W. Read Sculp.t.
London Pub.d by Sir Rich.d Phillips & Co. Feb.y 1. 1821.
Aquatint. Sheet 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾") Folds as usual, staining top right.
The dramatic moment when coke was raked out of the ovens. This was the frontispiece to the February 1821 edition of The Monthly Magazine.
[Ref: 63960] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[French invasion threat] Opening of the Budget; _ or _ John Bull giving his Breeches to save his Bacon.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] inv. et fec.t.
Pub.d Nov.r 17th 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Etching. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
William Pitt the Younger holds open a bag called 'Requisition Budget', warning John Bull that the 'the Cannibal French - They're a coming!'. As John Bull puts his breeches, pockets bulging with gold, into the sack, Dundas, Grenville, and Burke grope into a split seam to pull out guineas. To the left Fox, appalled by the money grab, calls on the French to hurry. BM Satires 8836.
[Ref: 63627] £320.00
View in Port Jackson, New Suoth Wales.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Engraving. Plate: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾'').
A view of Aboriginies fishing, with a canoe with a fire on board, within a neo-classical border. This plate is an enlarged version of a vignette on the titlepage of John White's ''Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'', attributed to the author. White (c. 1756-1832) was principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787.
[Ref: 64018] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Johannes Radcliffe M.D. Ob: Nov 1: .1714. Ætat: 64.
MBurghers Sculptor Univers [after Kneller].
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 80mm (5¾ x 3¼"), Trimmed to printed border. Creasing.
A portrait of physician John Radcliffe (1652-171), Royal Physician to William and Mary, Founder of the Radcliffe Library and Hospital Oxford. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 64090] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Un Pensionnat de demoiselles, pris d'assaut par des Cosaques in 1814. (Historique).
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 175 x 195mm (7 x 7¾"), with large margins.
Young girls at a boarding school being raped by Cossacks.
[Ref: 63444] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Richmond Terrace, Surrey.]
[J.T. Willmore after J.M.W. Turner]
[1838.]
Steel engraving on india. 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12¼"), with very large margins. Some foxing..
View from Richmond overlooking the river Thames, with figures engaged in various pastimes in the foreground. Engraving after J.M.W. Turner (whose watercolour of c.1836 is in the Tate collection), engraved for part XXIV of Turner's 'Picturesque Views in England and Wales'. L.1498; Rawlinson 303 first published state.
[Ref: 64096] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Sir Thomas Robinson] Long Thomas & Mad.le G_d Going to the Pantheon in Their Natural Masks. 5
[Drawn by William Austin.]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 7th 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 295 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾"), with large margins left & right. Trimmed to plate mark at bottom, binding holes in top of plate.
Sir Thomas Robinson (1702-77), 1st Baronet of Rokeby, politician, architect and garden designer, caricatured as long and thin, with a fat, elderly woman on his arm and followed by a foot-boy. Robinson, a shareholder of Ranelagh Gardens, ruined himself throwing lavish balls and masquerades. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson. BM:5116.
[Ref: 63632] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
The Quirinal, or Palace of the Pope on Mount cavallo at Rome. Le Quirinal, ou Palais du Pape sur le Montagne Cavallo a Rome. 10.
G. Falda Delin. Parr Sculp.
[Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London.] [n.d. c. 1800.]
Engraving with hand colouring. Sheet 260 x 425mm (10¼ x 16¾"). Trimmed within plate, into image at top, losing publication line at bottom, surface scuffing, laid on card. Rubbed.
A view of the Quirinal, now the residence of Italy's president, with a procession passing the statues of the Dioscuri.
[Ref: 64034] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Ælian Bridge and Castle of S.t Angelo, with part of the City of Rome.
Bowles Sculp[.t.]
Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 __ in Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d. c.1800].
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet 285 x 405mm (11¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, into image at sides, surface scuffing, laid on card. Rubbed.
A view of the Castel Sant'Angelo (the former mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian) and the Aelian Bridge, with the Vatican behind.
[Ref: 64033] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
This Plate representing the Meeting of the Royal British Bowmen in the Grounds of Erthig, Denbighshire, the Seat of Simon Yorke Esqr., on Sept.r 13th, 1822, is respectfully dedicated to that Society by One of its Members.
J. Townshend del.t. [Coloured from the original drawing by W. H. Timms.] Engraved by Bennett.
[Published as the Act directs 1823.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom losing text.
A party of men and women in green practising archery beside a white tent on the banks of a river. On the hill on the opposite bank is a country house, Erthig in Denbighshire, Wales, belonging to Simon Yorke. Yorke (1771 - 1834) was sheriff of Denbighshire from 1807 and MP for Grantham 1793 - 1802.
[Ref: 63911] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Benjamin Rush M.D.
Painted by Sully. Engraved by Edwin.
Published by Joseph Delaplaine S.W.Corner of Chesnut & Seventh S.ts. Philad.a. 1813.
Stipple engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Benjamin Rush Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746 -1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress. He later described his efforts in support of the American Revolution, saying: "He aimed right." He served as surgeon general of the Continental Army and became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Rush was a leader of the American Enlightenment and an enthusiastic supporter of the American Revolution. He was a leader in Pennsylvania's ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788. He was prominent in many reforms, especially in the areas of medicine and education. He opposed slavery, advocated free public schools, and sought improved, but patriarchal, education for women, and a more enlightened penal system. As a leading physician, Rush had a major impact on the emerging medical profession. W2565.
[Ref: 64112] £50.00
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Summer. View Thomson's Seasons.
C.R. Ryley & G. Robertson pinx.t. James Fittler, Direx.t.
Published as the Act directs April, 12, 1800 by J. Fittler N.º 62 Upper Charlotte St.r London, and may be had of R. Cribb, N.º 288, Holborn.
Etching with engraving. 360 x 450mm (14¼ x 17¾"), very large margins. Surface scraping outside platemark.
A fine impression of this rustic scene, with figures gathered beneath a huge tree, with men shearing sheep to the left. See BM 1872,0608.125 for a later state, published by Molteno in 1803.
[Ref: 64065] £480.00
Ieanne Seymour. Ie montai fur le trone...
Adr.n vander Werff pinx. Vermeulen sculps.
[Rotterdam, c.1710]
Engraving. 315 x 180mm (12½ x 7¼"), paper with large margins and 18th century watermark.
Bust length oval portrait of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour (c.1508-37). She wears a gable headdress, pearls and gown with square neckline. In a medallion suspended under arch with ballustrade and part of a carpet below. Plate from Isaac de Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre' (1697-1713) from design with allegorical elements and verses in French, by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722), acclaimed as the most important Dutch Master during his lifetime, although his reputation declined from the late 18th century onwards.
[Ref: 64025] £130.00
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