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Rob.t Lemon Sen. F.S.A
Rob.t Lemon Sen. F.S.A Deputy keeper of State Papers and Secretary to the Comissioners for printing and publishing the State Papers:_ died on the 29.th of July 1835, at his Apartments in the State Paper Office, in the 57.th year of his age, having completed 40 years in the Public Service, in that Office.
M. Gauci.
c. 1835
Rare lithograph on india paper. 465 x 315mm (18¼ x 12½"). Creasing and tears around the edges of the sheet. Top left and bottom right corners are folded. Some foxing along top edge. Small stain to bottom left of the image.
A seated portrait of Robert Lemon Jr. (1779-1835), forward-gazing. Lemon was unanimously respected by his peers. A highlight of his career was his discovery of an untranslated theological work written in Latin by poet John Milton, which was translated into English at the command of George IV, who made a special copy to be presented to Lemon.
[Ref: 53883]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Henricus Liberti.
Henricus Liberti. Groeningensis Cathed Ecclesiae Antverp Organista.
Anton. van Dyck pinxit Petrus de Jode Sculpsit [c.1650]
Engraving, 17th century watermark; platemark 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to plate. Small damage to upper left corner,
Henricus Liberti (c.1610-69), Dutch composer and organist at Antwerp Cathedral, holding sheet music. Engraving after a portrait by Anthony van Dyck, c.1630, which exists in at least eight copies.
[Ref: 53822]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The Rev.d John Lingard, D.D.
The Rev.d John Lingard, D.D.
Painted by Jam.s Ramsay Engraved by Cha.s Fox London. Published June 5 1823 for the Proprietor by Colnaghi & C.o Cockspur Street and Molteno Pall Mall. Printed by Tomkins.
Colnaghi & Co, London. 1823.
Engraving. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"), with wide margins.
A half portrait of John Lingard (1771-1851). Lingard was an English Roman Catholic priest and a historian.
[Ref: 53885]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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View of the London and Croydon Railway.
View of the London and Croydon Railway. From the deep cutting made through the hill at New Cross Hill, looking towards the Greenwich Railway.
On stone by E. Duncan. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published at 105 Leadenhall Street, 1st June 1838.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area: 490 x 285mm. (19¼ x 11¼"), with large margins.
The London and Croydon Railway was opened in 1839. Extensive earthworks were needed at New Cross, otherwise the gradient of 1 in 100 would have been too steep. This view shows the impact of the newly built railways on the surronding environment; the railway track and deep verges divide the landscape and a steam train can be seen travelling towards London.
[Ref: 53675]   £360.00  
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This Plate Presented to Beeston Long Esq.re
This Plate Presented to Beeston Long Esq.re By the Directors of the London Dock Company, As a testimony of their Regard and Esteem, and for his indefatigable zeal and attention to the affairs of the Company as their Chairman.
Painted by Will.m Owen Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London: Pub. by the Engraver June 10, 1817.
Mezzotint. 660 x 390mm (25¾ x 15½"), with wide lateral margins. Small tear just entering inscription area. Margins dusty.
Seated portrait of Beeston Long (1757-1820), books and a plan of Wapping Docks on one side, a globe on the other, with a window opening onto a busy dockside. Long was a senior partner of Long, Drake & Co. before succeeding his father-in-law as Chairman, and governor of the Bank of England from 1806-8. He led the London Docks Company, a private venture to construct the docks at Wapping, receiving a lucrative 21-year monopoly to unload all vessels entering the Port of London (other than at the East and West India Docks) with tobacco, rice, wine and brandy
[Ref: 53916]   £390.00  
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[Final Interview of Louis XVI] To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales
[Final Interview of Louis XVI] To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales This Plate representing the final interview of Louis the Sixteenth with his Family, in the Temple at Paris, January 20, 1793, is with permission himbly dedicated, by his Royal Highnesses most Devoted and very Humble Servants P.W. Tomkins, Edw. Jee & John Eglington.
Painted by M. Brown, Historical Painter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke of York. Engraved by P.W. Tomkins, Historical Engraver to his Majesty, & J. Eginton.
Pub.d as the act Directs Jan. 1. 1795, by Jee & Eginton, Birmingham, & Sold at Tomkins, New Bond Street, London.
Fine stipple. 545 x 655mm (21½ x 25½"), with very wide margins. Uncut.
Louis XVI embracing his family in the Temple Prison, before his execuction, Marie Antoinette stands on the right tearing her hair; the dauphin has his arms around his father's neck and two other girls leaning in tears against him. His gaoler, Antoine Joseph Santerre, looks on from the left.
[Ref: 54041]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Final Interview of Louis XVI] To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales
[Final Interview of Louis XVI] To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales This Plate representing the final interview of Louis the Sixteenth with his Family, in the Temple at Paris, January 20, 1793, is with permission himbly dedicated, by his Royal Highnesses most Devoted and very Humble Servants P.W. Tomkins, Edw. Jee & John Eglington.
Painted by M. Brown, Historical Painter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke of York. Engraved by P.W. Tomkins, Historical Engraver to his Majesty, & J. Eginton.
Pub.d as the act Directs Jan. 1. 1795, by Jee & Eginton, Birmingham, & Sold at Tomkins, New Bond Street, London.
Fine stipple, open letter proof. In ink at bottom right margin "Mr. Selly March 14 1794 Edinburgh"; 545 x 655mm (21½ x 25½"). Edges of wide margins chipped, damp stain on bottom left. Uncut. Very slight wormhole in stomach of daughter lying on floor.
Louis XVI embracing his family in the Temple Prison, before his execuction, Marie Antoinette stands on the right tearing her hair; the dauphin has his arms around his father's neck and two other girls leaning in tears against him. His gaoler, Antoine Joseph Santerre, looks on from the left.
[Ref: 54040]   £320.00  
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[Marcus Curius Dentatus rejecting the Bribes of the Samnites.
[Marcus Curius Dentatus rejecting the Bribes of the Samnites. From the Original Picture of the same Size, painted by Pietro da Cortona, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to whom this plate is most humbly inscribed, By his Grace's most obliged, and most devoted Servant, J. Boydell.]
[J. Mortimer delin.t. Anth.y Walker sculpsit.]
[Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1st. of March 1763, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.]
Engraving, proof before letters, 18th century watermark. 430 x 540mm (17 x 21¼"). Tears in margins taped.
An interior scene, with Samnite ambassadors entering to find Manius Curius Dentatus, (d. 270 BC), sitting by the hearth roasting turnips. When offered their armfuls of treasure Denatus, a Plebian famous for being incorruptible, refused, stating that he preferred to rule the possessors of gold rather than possessing it himself. As consul in 290BC Danatus ended the Samnite War, celebrating with a triumph. This is one of three plates from drawings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-79) after 17th century paintings in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, the others being Cignani's 'Charity' and Poussin's 'The Shepherds in Arcadia'. They were published in John Boydell's ''The Most Capital Paintings in England'', a five-volume series published between 1769 and 1786. The series was a critical and financial success, establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
[Ref: 54060]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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Screw Steamer ''Mary Lohden,'' 1,363 Tons Register.
Screw Steamer ''Mary Lohden,'' 1,363 Tons Register. To Messrs. J. Lohden & Co., and Owners, and Messrs. Robert Irvine & Co., Builders, This Print is respectfully Dedicated by Their Obedient Servants, J.G. Campbell & Co.
Drawn by W.T. Baldwin. Printed by J.G. Cambell & Co., Sunderland.
No. 186. Published Aug.t 1883.
Tinted lithograph with touches of hand colour. Sheet 455 x 595mm (18 x 23½"), large margins. A few stains and surface abrasions.
'Mary Lohden', a twin-mastered iron screw steamer launched in March 1883, was named after the wife of owner Jacob Lohden, of West Hartlepool. In 1894 she was sold to a Swedish company, and in 1910 was renamed 'Mary'. In 1915 Mary sailed from Seaham Harbour for Sweden with coal and was never seen again. Mary Lohden's younger son was Frederick Charles Lohden OBE (1871-1954), England rugby player against Wales in 1893 and Chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association in 1933.
[Ref: 54063]   £480.00  
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S. Maria Magdalena
S. Maria Magdalena
C le Brun pinxit:. Sold by I Beckett at y.e golden head in y.e Old Bailey.
[n.d.] 1798.
Mezzotint, trimmed. 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼"). Very small margins. Laid on backing paper at corners. Loss to bottom left corner affecting the title area. Minor tears to middle of left and right edge.
A portrait of Mary Magdalene, one of Jesus' earliest and closest followers. Mentioned in each of the four gosples, she is mentioned by name more than any other non-family women. As a figure in Christianity the mythos of Mary Magdalene has a complex history riddled with long-standing inaccuracies, the most successful being that she was a prostitute.
[Ref: 53863]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mary Magdalen] Miserere mei Deus, secundum magnam Misericordiam tuam.
[Mary Magdalen] Miserere mei Deus, secundum magnam Misericordiam tuam. To Her Roal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, this Plate is humbly inscribed, By Her Roal Highness's much obliged and most obedient humble Servant Rob.t Strange. From the Original Painting of Guido Rheni in the Collection of Roger Harenc Esq.r.
Guidus Reni Pinxit Romæ. Robertus Strange delineavit et Sculpsit Londini.
Sold by the Author next door to Parliament Street Coffee-house, Westminster London. according to Act of Parliament 1753 [-1790].
Engraving. 500 x 345mm (19¾ x 13½"), with large margins.
Mary Magdalene, repentant, looking up tearfully as she pulls the pearls from her hair, a vase of ointment and an open book on the table in front of her. From a collected edition of the engravings by Sir Robert Strange (1721-92) after famous paintings, in this case one by Guido Reni (1575 - 1642).
[Ref: 53923]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Menelik II]
[Menelik II] "Abyssinia"
Vanity Fair. July 29th 1897. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair, 1897.
Lithograph. 395 x 265mm (15½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A portrait of emperor Menelik II (1844-1913). Menelik was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until his death. Menelik was a well respected ruler on many fronts, most notably for his coordination of the successful military campaign against the Kingdom of Italy in the first Italo-Ethiopian war, as well as his commitment to modernising the Ethiopian empire and his caring attitude towards the poor.
[Ref: 53861]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
J. Granville. Lith le Langlume.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼").
A choir of a duck, two bulls, a cockerel and another male bird are accompanied by a bull on piano and monkey on a violin, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53376]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Battle of Meeanee.]
[The Battle of Meeanee.]
[E. Amritage pinx.t. J.B. Allen sculp.t.]
[London, James S. Virtue.] [n.d., 1870.]
Chine collé steel engraving, proof before letters. 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"), with very wide margins. Printsellers' Association blind stamp.
The Battle of Miani, 17th February 1843, between the Bombay Army of the East India Company and the Baluch Army, Sind (now Pakistan). In the foreground men of a flank company of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment are shown charging the mass of Baluchi warriors in the dried-up bed of the River Fullaillee. The commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, directs the battle from his horse in the background. Napier's victory over a force ten time the size of his own led to the fall of Hyderabad two days later. Exhibited in Westminster Hall in 1847, Armitage's painting won a premium of £500 and was seen and purchased by Queen Victoria for £400. Napier, however, was critical: ''in Armitage's I am in rear of the troops – whereas I was in front the whole time… Armitage has placed me where I was, as regards the ground; but he has placed the troops wrongly as they did not fight down in the Bed of the river''. The finished plate was published in 'Gems of European Art'.
[Ref: 54049]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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D. W. Mitchell.
D. W. Mitchell.
T. H. Maguire. M & N. Hanhart IMP.I
Ipswich, 1850.
Lithograph. 360 x 265mm (14 x 10½"). Faint foxing around the margins.
Seated portrait of David William Mitchell (1813-1859), inclined to the right and right gazing. Signed and dated 1850 by the artist on the stone and below the portrait is a facsimile of the sitter's signature. Mitchell was a zoologist and illustrator. He was elected the secretary of the Zoological Society of London in 1847.
[Ref: 53887]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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South West View of Montserat in Portugal. Inscribed by permission to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland.
South West View of Montserat in Portugal. Inscribed by permission to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. Vista ao Sudoeste de Monserrate, em Portugal. Dedicada com permissao ao Ex.mo Duque de Northumberland.
W.Baker Del. J.Wells Sculp.
Published Oct.r 14.th 1793
Rare aquatint. Sheet 420 x 510mm (16½ x 20"). Creases. Trimmed inside platemark.
A view of the hills and mountains in Sintra, Portugal featuring Monserrate Palace at the centre.
[Ref: 53719]   £360.00  
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Very like a Whale.
Very like a Whale.
London. Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket. 1824. Drawn, Etch.d & Pub.d by Rich.d Dighton. 1818 Feb.
Reissue by Thomas Mclean, London, 1824. First published by Dighton 1818.
Hand-coloured etching. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Small margins.
A right profile portrait of Mr Hilbers, an oil merchant active during the first half of the 19th century.
[Ref: 53860]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Nero depositing the Ashes of Britannicus.
Nero depositing the Ashes of Britannicus.
Le Sauer Pinx.t J. Boydell excud.t 1765 J. S. Muller Sculpsit.
London, 1765.
Copper engraving, proof before title, 18th century watermark. 510 x 385mm (20 x 15¼"), with widee margins.
The intrigues of Agrippa to displace Nero and to elevate Britannicus, the son of Claudius, led to Nero’s first domestic tragedy—the poisoning of Britannicus. The painting hangs at Windsor Castle with the title Caligula depositing the ashes of his mother and brother in the tomb of his ancestors. "The Most Capital Paintings in England" series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to 1773) originally published under the title .Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
[Ref: 53955]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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View of New Bridge Street, Black Friars, with the Albion Fire Office &c.
View of New Bridge Street, Black Friars, with the Albion Fire Office &c.
Published, 22nd Feb.y 1810, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare coloured engraving. Sheet 295 x 445mm (11½ x 17½"). Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
A busy street scene, looking from the junction of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill down New Bridge Street to Robert Mylne's Blackfriars Bridge. On the corner of Ludgate Hill are the offices of the ''Albion Fire and Life Insurance Company", which was founded in 1805.
[Ref: 53894]   £350.00  
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[Thomas Hopper's design for New Palace Yard.]
[Thomas Hopper's design for New Palace Yard.]
Printed at Friedel's Estab.t 252 Tottenham Court Road [n.d., c.1838.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 360 x 675mm (14¼ x 26½"). Small tears on left.
Thomas Hopper's design for the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament after the devastating fire of 1834. His sprawling, neo-Gothic building incorporated a restored St Stephen's Chapel with a duplicate for the House of Lords, as well as a second Westminster Hall. When he lost the competition to Charles Barry, Hopper tried to get Parliament to overturn the result on the grounds that Barry had cheated. Across the river can be seen the Stangate Glass Works, owned by John Fell Christy, manufacturer of high-quality glassware, on the site now occupied by St Thomas' Hospital.
[Ref: 53899]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The New Sash.
The New Sash. Bite if You Dare.
Painted by John Russell, R.A. Crayon Painter to His Majesty & to their R.l H.ses the Priner of Wales & Duke of York. Engraved by Joseph Strutt.
London Publish'd 20th Aug.st 1794 by John Jeffryes Ludgate Hill.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand-finished. 260 x 215mm (10¼ x 8½").
A child with a blue sash around its waist being pulled by a large, friendly dog.
[Ref: 53433]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)
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Nouvelle-Zélande.  1. Femme de l'Anse de l'Astrolabe.  2.3. Jeune fille et petit garçon  id.  4. Cehi-noui.  5. Koki-horé.
Nouvelle-Zélande. 1. Femme de l'Anse de l'Astrolabe. 2.3. Jeune fille et petit garçon id. 4. Cehi-noui. 5. Koki-horé.
de Sainson pinx. A. Maurin lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, 1830-5.]
Lithograph. Printed area 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), with publisher's blindstamp, very large margins.
The heads of two Maori men with tattoos, two women and a boy. From 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829.
Ellis: Early Prints of New Zealand, 89.
[Ref: 53430]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Sr. Isaac Newton. In the Possesion of John Conduit Esqr.
Sr. Isaac Newton. In the Possesion of John Conduit Esqr.
J. Houbraken sculpsit. G. Kneller pinx.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving. 370 x 235mm (14½ x 9¼"), with very large margins. Very slight toning.
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (1643-1727), English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (1687) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. Engraved for Thomas Birch's 'Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain'.
W: 2140 - 5; in the NPG. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. Wellcome: 2140-5.
[Ref: 53824]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Oslo] Kristiania. Skøien.
[Oslo] Kristiania. Skøien.
1901[?].
Photograph. 240 x 595mm (9½ x 23½"), mounted on card.
A photograph looking down on the harbour of Oslo.
[Ref: 53922]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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An Odd Sight Sometime Hence.
An Odd Sight Sometime Hence. Price 6
[Anon., November 1756]
Etching, 18th century watermark. 195 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾). Trimmed with very small margins.
A crowd of spectators regard a gibbet marked 'The Tripple Alliance' from which are suspended three corpses. The British Museum catalogue of satires suggests that 'A' represents Lord Anson, 'B' Admiral Byng, and 'C' the Duke of Newcastle. At the foot of the gibbet is a fox whose speech bubble reads 'I have got my ends', representing Henry Fox, who is said to have caused the downfall of the three persons gibbeted. The British Museum's impression of the print has manuscript annotations identifying 'A' as Henry Fox, but their catalogue of satires considers this as incorrect. 'Generally, the "Triple Alliance" must refer to the defeat of Newcastle's attempts to form a composite Ministry.'
BM Satires 3345.
[Ref: 53827]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Vue de la Ville d'Orleans.
Vue de la Ville d'Orleans. Dediée a S.A.S. Monsigneur Le Duc d'Orleans Premier Prince du Sang. Par les Maire & Echevins de la Ville d'Orleans et Présentée par M. de Cypierre Intendant dela Province en 1766.
Desinnée par AT Desfriches Negociant a Orléans en 1761. Gravé par PP Choffard en 1766.
Se vend a Paris chéd la V.ve Cochin aux Galleries du Louvre.
Scarce large etching, 18th century watermark. 505 x 735mm (20 x 29") Several small repairs. Thread margins.
A view of Orleans from across the Loire, with promenaders and harvesters on the bank and watermen at work in the river, after Aignan Thomas Desfriches (1715-1800).. The plate was begun c.1761 by Charles-Nicolas Cochin Jnr (1715-1790), but left it to be finished by Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1730-1809). The British Museum has a progress proof (BM 1871,0429.994). The publisher is Cochin's mother, Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1886-1767). Although similar in scale to Cochin's 'Ports de France' it was not one of that series.
[Ref: 54043]   £650.00  
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Shakspeare. Othello
Shakspeare. Othello Act V. Scene II.
Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by W. Leney.
Pub. Sept.r 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall. & No 90 Cheapside London.
Stipple, open letter proof, without lines of verse. 565 x 415mm (22¼ x 16¼"), with very large margins. Damp stains in margin edge on right.
Othello standing over the bed of Desdemona as she sleeps, a candle and dagger in his hands. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious, and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 54001]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Pandean Minstrels in performance at Vaux-Hall.
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)
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[Papua] Îles des Papous: Maison sur Pilotis.
[Papua] Îles des Papous: Maison sur Pilotis.
J.s Arago delin.t. Bouvinet sculp.t.
[Paris, 1822-4.]
Stipple. 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"), with large margins.
Houses on stilts, Papua New Guinea, with Papuans spear-fishing from canoes. Drawn by Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (1790-1855) and published in the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 53635]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Papua] G.d Archipel d'Asie: Entrevue avec les Naturels de L'Île Ombai.
[Papua] G.d Archipel d'Asie: Entrevue avec les Naturels de L'Île Ombai.
J.s Arago delin.t. Bouvinet sculp.t.
[Paris, 1822-4.]
Stipple. 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"), with wide margins.
A warrior of Ombai Island demonstrates his archery skill to Freycinet's crew. The artist, Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (1790-1855), sits under the target tree, sketching. A plate from the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 53634]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Guerriers de l'ile d'Ombai.
Guerriers de l'ile d'Ombai.
Ja. Arago delin.t. Choubard sculpt.
[Paris, 1822-4.]
Stipple. 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"), with large margins.
Two warriors of Ombai Island, sparring. A plate from the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 53600]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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A Party of Pleasure. Pl.t. 3.
A Party of Pleasure. Pl.t. 3.
Drawn & Etch'd by H. Heath.
Published by S.W.Fores, 41 Picadilly, London Jan.y. 1.st 1825.
Hand-etching. 135 x 170mm (5¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed to printed border. Small hole in upper right corner.
A scene in which a family go for a walk, a mother walks in front carrying a baby while a crying child pulls at her skirts, behind her a man pulls along a cart containing three squabbling children, a fourth child stands on the back.
[Ref: 53828]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The Young Painter's Maulstick; being a Practical Treatise on Perspective...
The Young Painter's Maulstick; being a Practical Treatise on Perspective... Containing Rules And Principles For Delineation On Planes, Treated so as to render the Art of Drawing correctly, easy of Attainment even to common Capacities; and entertaining at the same Time, from its Truth and Facility. Founded on the clear mechanical Process of Vignola And Sirigatti; United With The Theoretical Principles Of The Celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor. Addressed To Students In Drawing. By James Malton, Architect and Draughtsman.
Printed by V. Griffthsm No 1. Paternoster Row; and published for the Author, by Carpenter and Co. Old Bond Street.
Quarto, modern cloth; letterpress title & dedication, pp. (ii)+xiv+71; 23 numbered plates, as called for, mostly aquatint, plate 6 & 14 with flaps. Ownership inscription on title, some damp staining, tear in margin of p.3.
A guide to the use of perspective in painting by James Malton (1761-1803), an artist best known for his 'Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin', 1792-9.
Abbey Life 152; Prideaux, 'Aquatint Engraving', ''Probably the earliest text-book of instruction to which the new process was applied''.
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Graphic Illustrations Of Animals. Shewing Their Utility To Man In Their Employment During Life And Uses After Death.
Graphic Illustrations Of Animals. Shewing Their Utility To Man In Their Employment During Life And Uses After Death. Crustacea & Reptiles.
Designed & Drawn on Stone by R. K. Thomas.
Published by Thomas Varty. Adelaide St. Strand. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph. 365 x 485mm (14¼ x 19"). Vertical centrefold as issued, reinforced with tape on the reverse.
A central illustration featuring a crab, lobster and marine turtle is surrounded by ten vignette scenes depicting these animals commercial uses and relationship to man, in life and death (each captioned). Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals'. Numbered 'Pl. 21' upper right.
[Ref: 53947]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sergius, Prince and Princess Gagarin, with their child.]
[Sergius, Prince and Princess Gagarin, with their child.]
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxt. Caroline Watson sculpsit, Engraver to her Majesty.
Published according to the Act of Parliament, Aug.t 2, 1785; by Caroline Watson, Fitzroy Street.
Stipple. Plate 240 x 175mm (13½ x 7"). Crease running horizontally through the centre of the plate.
Prince and Princess Gagarin or the Rurik Dynasty in Russia. The engraver, Caroline Watson (1760-1814), was the daughter of James Watson born in London: she was one of the few female printmakers in late Georgian England. 2014 marked the 200th anniversary of her death.
Hamilton: p.63. i of ii.
[Ref: 53567]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir George Savile Bar.t
Sir George Savile Bar.t
Painted by Benj.n Wilson. Engraved & Etched by B.W. and Mr. Basire.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Dec.r the 4.th 1770.
Etching and engraving. 495 x 335mm (19½ x 13¼"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight creasing in title area.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet (1726-1784) was an English politician; seated here with plans marked 'The Calder Navigation', Halifax. This is a reference to his 'Letter of Sir George Savile, Bart. on an attempt made to interfere with the Aire and Calder Navigation in the year 1772'. He entered the House of Commons for Yorkshire in 1759 and was a liberal. He backed moves to relieve the restriction on Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters. He also defended the action of the American colonists and a member of American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743 in Philadelphia. He is listed on Wilberforce's list of Abolitionists. After Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. A related painting of Savile by Wilson from 1751 is in Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
Included in the Science & Society Picture Library, Science Museum. Leeds portrait repr.in Andrew Graciano (ed.) 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society, 2012)
[Ref: 53677]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Andrea Schiavone Pittore.
Andrea Schiavone Pittore. 151.
Ridolfi PI. H. del. G. Betti Sc.
[Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1769-76.]
Engraving. 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Narrow left margin.
A portrait of the painter Andrea Meldolla (c.1510-63), known as Schiavone, who also created etchings and perhaps woodcuts. This plate was engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti from a portrait by Giacomo Piccini, through an intermediate drawing by Ignazio Enrico Hugford, for the 'Serie degli Uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura e architettura'.
[Ref: 53928]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Schola Italica Picturae
Schola Italica Picturae Sive / selectae quaedam summorum e schola Italica pictorum tabulae aere incisae cura et impensis gavini hamilton pictoris / Romae CDDCCLXXIII.
Michelang. Bonaroti pinxit / Joseph Perini sculp. Romae 1771.
Rome, 1773.
Engraving., 18th century watermark; 560 x 355mm (22 x 14"), with wide margins. Repaired tear in the upper left margin. Creasing in top right corner and along top margin, few nicks in margins.
The title page of Gavin Hamilton's 'Schola Italica Picturae', featuring a pair of ignudi above the prophet Jeremiah from Micheal Angelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes. Hamilton (1723-1798) was a Scottish painter and dealer in antiquities and old masters. He was educated in Glasgow and then Rome under the guidance of Agostino Masucci. Including this title plate 'Schola Italica Picturae' contained 41 plates which depict pictures by famous Italian artists, including Caravaggio and Titian.
[Ref: 54009]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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L'Hyver.
L'Hyver.
Pierre Aveline del. Sculp. Cum privilegio Regis.
a Paris chez Charpentier rue St Jacques au Coq.
Engraving., 18th century watermark 340 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
An allegorical scene of winter, with three naked cherubs, one winged, warming themselves at a campfire.
[Ref: 54055]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Winter.
Winter. Pleasure is fled - save where the Ball or play, / Or Opera, invite the Young and Gay; / Now Blustering Winds & rude inclement Skies / The Tippett, Muff, and Cardinal defies.
R. Pyle Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed just within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Slight creasing.
A three-quarter length portrait of a fashionably-dressed young woman in a winter landscape, arms folded in an ermine-trimmed cloak (tippet). From a set of Seasons by Robert Pyle, which was also engraved by Richard Houston, Charles Corbett (pseudonym used by both Richard Purcell and Houston) & Georg & Johann Rugendas.
[Ref: 53387]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]
[An officer seated on a bench by a folly.]
J. Collet inv.t et del. R. Pranker sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with wide margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53931]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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John Selden.
John Selden. From the original of Mytens in The Bodleian Gallery, Oxford.
Drawn by H. Crease, & Engraved (with Permission) by W. Holl.
London, Published March 1 1815 by Lackington, Allen & Co and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
Stipple, platemark 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on right. Toning and light foxing around lower and left margins. Creasing to upper left corner.
John Selden (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum', which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map. Engraving after a portrait by Daniel Mytens (c.1590-1647), Dutch portraitist in London by 1618, who was the leading court portraitist in the city until the arrival of van Dyck in 1632.
[Ref: 53819]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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The Bombardment of Sebastopol.
The Bombardment of Sebastopol.
From a drawing by Mr E.W. Brooker HMS Spitfire. _ E. Walker lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published March 1st 1855 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co, 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, _ Publishers to Her Majesty.
Fine coloured tinted lithograph, chine collé, with highlights added by hand. Sheet 370 x 625mm (14½ x 24½"). Laid on backing sheet. Slight crease in sky.
A view of the naval bombardment of Sevastopol, 17th October, 1854, with the ships and their commanders listed under the scene. Edward Wolfe Brooker (1828-1870) was Master on HMS Spitfire under Captain Thomas Spratt, surveying in the Mediterranean when the Crimean War broke out. He earned a commission by placing buoys to mark channels at the entrance to the Dnieper River while under enemy fire. At the end of the war he returned to surveying, both in the Mediterrean and around Tasmania. He was given the command of HMS Sylvia and joined Keppel during the opening of the trade ports of Osaka and Kobe in 1869. Taking ill in Japan he died there in 1870.
[Ref: 54064]   £390.00  
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The Infant Shakespeare. attended by Nature and the Passions.
The Infant Shakespeare. attended by Nature and the Passions.
Painted by George Romney. Engraved by Benj.n Smith.
Pub.d. Sept.r 29 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London.
Stipple. 500 x 635mm (19¾ x 25"), with wide margins. Faint crease. Borders dusty.
Shakespeare as an infant holding a flute, sitting on a blanket supported by a bare-breasted Nature, surrounded by tragic and grotesque figures
[Ref: 53912]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Two Shipwrecked Mariners]
[Two Shipwrecked Mariners]
J. Mortimer delin.t London Published April 18. 1801. by John P. Thompson. G.t Newport Street and N.o 51 Dean Street Soho.
London, 1801.
Etching. 305 x 445mm (12 x 17½"), with very wide margins.
Two shipwrecked mariners in a desperate state sheeking shelter on a shore. A rowing boat from a ship on the horizon looks to be approaching. In 2012 Nicholas Knowles identified the engraver of this print as Thomas Rowlandson after noting that several details, such as the dot hatching and handwriting, were typical Rowlandson features.
[Ref: 53970]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 17. The Silk Worm.
Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 17. The Silk Worm.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph. 375 x 485mm (14¾ x 19"). Some spotting near top left corner and along lower title area and margin. Loss to bottom left corner. Three repaired tears along lower edge.
A central illustration of the stages of life of the silk worm and moth, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of sericulture and silk manufacture. From 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 53946]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Sincerity.
Sincerity. [No Art She Knows...]
Ang. Kauffman inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd Oct 1st 1781, by W. Palmer No. 159 Strand.
Fine stipple, open-letter proof, printed in sanguine. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
An oval portrait of a woman, hand on heart.
De Vesme 729, state iv of iv.
[Ref: 53322]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[The funeral of Maria Clementina Sobieski] Parentalia Mariae Clementinae Magn. Britan. Franc., et Hibern. Regin.
[The funeral of Maria Clementina Sobieski] Parentalia Mariae Clementinae Magn. Britan. Franc., et Hibern. Regin. Iussu Clementis XII. Pont. Max.
In Roma appresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni Stampator Vaticano M.DCC.XXXVI [1736].
Scarce folio, original boards, but disbound; engr. title, pp. xxxi (text in Latin & Italian), two folding engr. plates. Complete. Tear to one plate, damp staining throughout, damage to text pages. Country house condition.
A commemoration of the lavish state funeral in Rome for Maria Clementina Sobieski (1702-35), wife of the ''Old Pretender'', here regarded by Pope Clement XII as the legitimate queen of England. The folding plates depict the interior of the Church of the Twelve Apostles with Maria Clementina lying in state, and the funeral procession from there to St. Peter's. Maria Clementina, the granddaughter of John III Sobiestki of Poland, married James Francis Edward Stuart in 1719. The couple set up their Jacobite court in Rome, having two children (including Bonnie Prince Charlie) before her death aged 32.
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Sodom door't Vuur Vergaan.
Sodom door't Vuur Vergaan. Gen. XIX.
P. Mortier edit. Cum Privileg. Pag. 18.
[n.d. 1708] by Pierre Mortier and
Engraving. 345 x 425mm (13½ x 16¾"). Trimmed to plate. Vertical crease down centre as normal.
'Sodom perished by fire', referring to the city of Sodom mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible. In Genesis the men of Sodom are described as 'wicked and sinners' and are destroyed by divine order with 'brimstone and fire'.
[Ref: 53976]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Soldiers Courtship.
Soldiers Courtship. To the Right Hon.ble Hugh Earl Percy, &c. &c. &c. Lieu.t General of His Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the Fifth Reg.t on Foot; the following Plates, representing the Life and Death of a Soldier, are most humbly Inscribed, by his Lordship's much obliged and most obedient Servant Robert Blyth. / From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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