[William Dodd, forger] Der Ehrwürdige Doctor Dodd.
Berndt sculpsit
[n.d., c.1780.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed within plate, affecting engraver's signature.
The Rev. William Dodd (1729 - 1777), parson and author who was hanged for forgery. Known as the "Macaroni Parson". In February 1777 he offered a bond for £4,200 in the name of Lord Chesterfield to a stockbroker named Robertson. Robertson procured the money, for which, according to Dodd, Chesterfield would pay an annuity of £700. Dodd then brought the bond apparently signed by the earl. The bond was transferred to the lender's solicitor, who noticed some blots on the document, had it rewritten and presented to Chesterfield for signing. The fraud was discovered and warrants for the arrest of Dodd and Robertson were issued. Despite attempts to obtain a pardon, especially by Dr. Johnson, who composed several papers for him, Dodd was sentenced on 26 May and hanged in June.
[Ref: 62098] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Hon.ble Sylvester Douglas.
T. Lawrence R.A. pinx.t. E. Harding sculp.
Pub.d June 4, 1794 by E & S Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple with etching, title in open letters. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Sylvester Douglas (1743-1823), Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, leaning against the arm of his chair and with his right hand raised to his cravat; the table beside at left with inkstand and papers, pillar and curtain behind. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830). NPG D11004.
[Ref: 62187] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Dutch Peasants] Ni pateat fundus, nova massica non tibi fundo, / In funde cordis namque profunda latent.
A. Ostaden pinxit. J. Suyderhoef sculpsit.
F. de Wit excudit [n.d., c.1670].
Engraving. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Trimmed close to plate, small tear repaired.
A peasant couple seated at a table, the man holding a jug and about to fill the woman's wine-glass, nuts and smoking accessories on the table. Originally published by Clement de Jonghe.
[Ref: 62225] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Interior of a tavern]
Prestel sc 1779.
Scarce aquatint and mixed method. 335 x 275mm (13¼ x 10¾"). Collector's mark on reverse. Narrow left margin.
An interior with barrels, with a man reading a letter to his three companions. A very jovial bar scene.
[Ref: 62252] £360.00
Vivitur Parvo Bene.
AV Ostade pinxit. Corn. Visscher fecit.
Clemendt de Jonghe excudit [n.d., c.1655].
Engraving with etching. 260 x 220mm (10¼ x 8¾"). Mounted in album paper at sides.
The topers: two boors and an elderly woman drink together, one man clutching a large clay jug and the woman raising her glass.
[Ref: 62253] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
['Ectypa' of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel] Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo, Jonæ Witsenio Icto, civium Amstelædamensium Patri Consuliq. Vigilantissimo...
Inventor Cornelius Ploos van Amstel. D. 1 Febr. 1765.
Etching, printed in brown, with beige plate-tone; touched with white paint. Sheet 245 x 230mm (9½ x 9"), with Ploos van Amstel's coat of arms printed on the verso as proof of authenticity. Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
A crayon-manner etching of a monument, the frontispiece to a series of forty-six facsimiles off drawings of Dutch and Flemish artists, published 1765-87.
[Ref: 62274] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Georgius Edwards R.S.S. Ætat Suae 60 AD 1754 Nat. Mar. 23. April 3.
Dandridg Pinx. J.S. Miller Sculp.
[London: George Edwards, 1758.]
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
George Edwards (1694-1773), ornithologist and artist, best known for his four volume 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds'. The frontispiece to 'Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c...'. W890-1.
[Ref: 62079] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Elba. Napoleon Musing.
on Stone by A. Picken. W. Day lith to the King.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8").
An invented view of Napoleon standing on a rock looking down onto a harbour of Elba.
[Ref: 62331] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Elements of Bacchus] May the Eye of Science pierce through the mists of Obscurity.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A man stands before a table, making a toast, glass of wine in his hand. The text (not present here) describes him as an amateur astronomer. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62152] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Elements of Bacchus] Drops of Comfort and Draughts of Delight.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, old ink mss. on bottle.
A country woman makes a toast as she fills her wine glass from a bottle. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62153] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Elements of Bacchus] The Constitution _ Gentlemen.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A rotund man seated in an armchair raises a glass of wine to make a toast. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62156] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Elements of Bacchus] All true Hearts and Sound Bottoms.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining.
A man makes a naval toast with a glass of wine. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62154] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Elements of Bacchus] To the Memory of our Departed Friends.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A seated man in wig and breeches, holding cane and glass of wine, making a toast. Described in the text as 'Doctor Bolus', he has been identified as a 'Doctor Butler'. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62155] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Q. Elizabeth. The ages mirrour, and all Europes wonder, / Arm'd gainst ye Bulls of Rome, and Spains lowd thunder, / The Netherlanders sheild, greate Frances ayde, / O neuer shall thy fame dye, Princely Maide.' 9
[engraved by George Glover]
[n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Thread margins, ruled with black ink within plate, laid on album paper.
Three-quarter length portrait of Elizabeth I, holding a baton. Originally published in Glover's 'The Nine Woemen Worthys. Three Jewes. Three Heathens. Three Christians'; this example has the added plate number 9 lower left, published 1640 in Thomas Heywood's 'The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the Most Worthy Women of the World'.
[Ref: 62077] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Elizabethan Houses, Holborn. No. 11]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 140 x 195mm. (5½ x 7¾"), with large margins.
View of Elizabethan Houses in High Holborn, London. Once home to Dr. Johnson from 1759-60, and it is recorded that here he wrote "Rasselas". The archway beneath the houses gave access to the Staple Inn.
[Ref: 62217] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 255mm (6¾ x 10"). Trimmed from larger sheet, a few stains, laid on album paper..
A section of a music sheet cover. The Ethiopian Serenaders were an American troupe of blackface minstrels who performed for President John Tyler at the White House in 1844. When they toured England 1846-7 they were mistaken for real black men and had to publish portraits of themselves without make-up. The tour line up was: Gilbert Pelham (playing the bones); George Alfred Harrington & George Warren White (banjos, a new instrument), Moody G. Stanwood (accordion) and Francis Carr Germon (tambourine).
[Ref: 62125] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[The Female American] Serenaders.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 215 x 330mm (8½ x 13"). Trimmed as scrap, part of title pasted on.
A group portrait of the Female American Serenaders, a troupe of blackface minstrels that toured England in 1847, named as Cora, Jumba, Woski, Miami, Yarico, Womba and Rosa. They play banjos, tambourines, bells and a keyboard.
[Ref: 62126] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Eton] The New Boy.
Aussie.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Ink and watercolour sketches. Sheet 360 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Some scuffing and staining.
A sheet with five satirical sketches of the life of a boy starting at Eton, being bullied and playing cricket.
[Ref: 62353] £350.00
Fair Phyllis.
Prud.hon, pinx.t. J. Neele sculp.t.
Published by C.M. Lean 1.st May 1828.
Stipple, printed in colours. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), with large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of a young woman, wearing only a diaphanous wrap around her head, bearing a breast, probably by Pierre Paul Prud'hon. The English madrigal 'Fair Phyllis' by John Farmer (1599) tells the ribald story of a shepherdess and her lover.
[Ref: 62358] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Fellow Sufferers. Very unhappy, but it can't be help't - "We were rather too old Brother, before we married. - Vide the Progress of an old Bachelor. 233.
Published 12th July, 1799, by, Laurie & Whittle N° 53, Fleet Street, London. But later.
Stipple with etching. 200 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Margins toned.
Two elderly 'cits' stand submissively as their young wives fit cuckold's horns to their foreheads. BM Satires 9499.
[Ref: 62442] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[George Field.]
R. Rothwell, Esq. R.H.A. Pinx. D. Lucas Sculp.t.
Published by Geo. Field, Islesworth, Sept. 1843.
Mezzotint. 185 x 155mm (7¼ x 6"). Mounted in album paper.
George Field (c.1777-1854), chemist specialising in pigments and dyes, author of 'Chromatography; or, a Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting', 1835.
[Ref: 62289] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Giuseppe Marco Fieschi and his 'infernal machine'] Fieschi.
Madeley lith, from an original Drawing.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Tear just entering image on right. Creasing.
A scene of Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (1790-1836) about to fire his 'infernal machine' at King Louis Philippe, 28th July 1835. Fieschi was a disaffected Corsican Republican who fought with Joachim Murat in his attempt to regain the Napoleonic kingdom of of Naples. Back in Corsica in 1816, he was condemned to ten years imprisonment for theft and forgery, but he eluded the police and escaped to Paris. After continuing a life of crime, he became involved in a plot to kill the king, building a 25-barrel volley gun and installing it at a house in Boulevard du Temple. As the king's entourage passed, the machine was fired, grazing the King's forehead and killing Marshal Mortier and seventeen other people. Fieschi was arrested, condemned to death and guillotined on February 19, 1836.
[Ref: 62109] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Ordinanza nella quale si fermarono il Ser.mo Princ.pe le squadre de caval.ri, ed i carri delle Deità Interno almonte d'Atlante nella Festra a Cavallo Rappre.ta. Per le Reali Noze dell A.S.S. Nel Teatro Cong.to al Pala.zo del S.G.D.
S.D. Bella 1661.
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 280 x 435mm (11 x 17"). Trimmed close to image.
An elaborate tournament held in the amphitheatre of the Giardino di Boboli, behind the Medici's Pitti Palace. Top left is the Forte di Belvedere. Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62142] £490.00
[Joseph Furttenbach] Vera Effigies Viri Nobilissimi et Prudentissimi Dn. Josephi Furtenbachi, Reipubl. Ulm. Senatoris et Architecti Ingeniosissimi, debiti honoris, et gratitudinis ergo, picta et oblata, ab Andrea Schuch, Pictor. A.º M.D.C.L.I. Ætat 60.
Melchir Küsell fec. [after Andreas Schuch]
[n.d., c.1661.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed to printed border at sides, mounted in album paper.
A three-quarter portait of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (1591-1667), a German architect, mathematician, engineer and diarist, who had a particular interest in theatre and stage design. His building designs included a hospital, waterworks system, schoolhouse and theatre. Collector's stamp of Comte C. W. de Renesse-Breidbach (1776-1833), Belgian soldier and politician on back (Lugt 1209).
[Ref: 62203] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Bowzebeus and Cicly, vide Gay's Sixth Pastoral of the Flights. [&] Hobnelia and Lubberkin. Vide Gays Fourth Pastoral of the Spell.
Painted by J. Northcote.
London Publish'd September 30:th 1786 by J.R. Smith N.º 83 Oxford Street.
Pair of stipples, 'Bouzebeus' printed in brown. Sheets 400 x 345mm (15¾ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, nicks in edges.
Two pastoral scenes, with young couples embracing.
[Ref: 62129] £450.00
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Georgius II.us D.G. Mag. Brit. Fra. & Hib. Rex &c.
Jos. Highmore pinxit. J. Tinney fecit.
Printed & Sold by J. Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street London [n.d. c.1740].
Fine mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, tipped onto album paper on left side.
A profile portrait of George II, wearing wig and armour with lion-head epaulette, medal on a ribbon around his neck. CS 3.
[Ref: 62086] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[George IV as Prince Regent] Georgius Princeps Waliae Patriam Pro Patre Regens. Dedicated by Permission to His Majesty Frederick William King of Prussia, by His Majesty's most Grateful & most Devoted Humble Serv.t H.D. Thielcke.
Published August 12th 1814, by H.D. Thielcke, Queens House.
Stipple with etching. 250 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). Some cockling of paper.
Decorative medallion portrait of the Prince Regent, wearing a laurel crown, within a border of laurel and oak, topped by a crown.
[Ref: 62074] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[George IV] Explanation of the Coronation Procession, Exhibiting in Henry Aston Barker's Panorama, Leicester Square.
[after Henry Aston Barker]
[n.d., 1822.]
Lithograph. Sheet 310 x 455mm (12¼ x 18"). Edges frayed. & tatty.
The keyplate to Barker's panorama of the Coronation of George IV in 1821, with a 70-point index. This was Barker's last panorama: the success of the 'Panorama' exhibition rooms off Leicester Square, allowed him to retire two years later, aged only 48.
[Ref: 62128] £110.00
(£132.00 incl.VAT)
Cav. Pietro Leone Ghezzi.
Cav. P.L. Ghezzi del.t. W.W. Ryland sc.t 1762.
ap.d CR. Edit.m [London: Charles Rogers, 1778].
Etching, printed in sepia. 355 x 275mm (14 x 10¾"). Trimmed just within plate on right.
A self-portrait of Pier Leone Ghezzi (1675-1755), standing before an easel wearing a loose hooded coat and hat, pointing out a window at a procession of caricatured monks. From the folio 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings' London, 1778.
[Ref: 62196] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Goa] Indorum casæ villæ, et vici circa Goam.
AvLinschoten. Joan à Doet: fe:.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), large margins. Wax stain in image.
A Goan village with women bathing. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62372] £450.00
The true Effigies of Sr. Edmond Bury Godf[reye] Knight and Iustice of the Peace who was Murthered by Papists the 12th day of October An. Dom. 1678.
F.H. Van Ho[ve] Sculp:
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed to image, some loss in title and border, laid on album paper.
Rare portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate. In 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a 'Popish Plot', and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch. Three men were hanged for Godfrey's murder on perjured evidence.
[Ref: 62115] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Margarite, de Gojen. Femme de J. Steén.
J. Steén Pinx. J. Heudelot, Sculp.
à Amsterdam chez P. Fouquet Junior: à Paris chez Basan rue St Jacques [n.d. c.1770].
Engraving. 280 x 203mm (11 x 8"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at sides.
Portrait of Margarite, the wife of the artist Jan Steen (c.1625-79), holding a wine glass in one hand and a bottle in the other.
[Ref: 62195] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Goldfish.
R. Herdman-Smith.
[London: Arthur Greatorex, n.d., c.1935.]
Etching, printed in colours, limited edition 13/75, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), in publisher's mount with printed title label.
A pair of Japanese women with parasol, fan and goldfish bowl. Robert Herdman-Smith (1879-1945) produced 18 prints in the Asian Art-Deco style during the 1930s. Although he travelled to India, Australia and the United States, he never visited Japan.
[Ref: 62319] £320.00
[Golfer and caddy.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Photo. Sheet 240 x 290mm (9½ x 11½"), on card backboard. Backboard cracked and torn.
A golfer completing a drive while smoking a pipe.
[Ref: 62308] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[The Roehampton Monster] Daniel Good. No. 23.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Nicks in left edge, creases at edges, slightly paper toned.
A half-length portrait of Daniel Good, a 42-year old coachman. On April 6th, 1842, a police constable visited a stable to question Good about the theft of a pair of trousers from a pawnbroker. Good admitted the crime and was arrested but was not helpful about returning the trousers. The constable started to search the stable, upon which Good fled, locking the constable inside. Under some bales was a woman's torso, headless and limbless, later identified as Good's common law wife, Jane Jones. The body parts were removed by the coroner but were returned so people could view the spectacle. For ten days the Times newspaper berated the police for their failure to capture Good, despite a reward of £150 being offered, but then Good was discovered in Tonbridge, Kent, arrested and taken to Maidstone Gaol. He was executed the following month outside Newgate,
[Ref: 62112] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
D.r William Gouge.
John Dunstall fe.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
William Gouge (1575-1653), Puritan clergyman and author, minister at St Ann Blackfriars for 45 years, from 1608, and a member of the Westminster Assembly from 1643.
[Ref: 62072] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
View of the Great Meteor, which appeared November 6, 1803. As Seen at Greenwich. Copied from the Philisophical Magazine by permission. As Seen Near Soho Square. Copied from Mr Nicholson's Journal by Permission.
Published Feb.y 1 1804 by Richard Phillips, N.º 71, S.t Paul's Church Yard.
Mezzotint. Sheet 165 x 195mm (6½ x 7¾"). Binding folds.
Four depictions of the meteor.
[Ref: 62207] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Jeune Grec.
Printed by Kohler & Co., 22, Denmark S.t Soho.
London J. M.cCormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph with fine fresh hand colour. Sheet 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½").
Young Greek man turned to left, carrying a drapery over his right shoulder, wearing turban and embroidered waistcoat over stripped shirt. Detail from a painting by Baron François Gérard (1770 - 1837).
[Ref: 62340] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
A: Gretry. Membre de l'Istitute.
Dess. au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs no.15 à Paris 1808.
[Se vend chez Quenedey rue neuve-des-Petits-Champs No.15 à Paris'. Dep. à la Bib. Imp.]
Aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Profile portrait of André Grétry (1741-1813), Belgian composer of opéras comiques. Frenchman Gilles-Louis Chrétien invented the 'physionotrace' in the 1780s to draw the outlines of silhouettes, which were then completed by the artist and transferred to aquatint printing plates using another pantograph. The published of this print, Edme Quenedey, was Chrétien's first business partner: a drawing he made of the device in 1788 is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France..
[Ref: 62402] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Grown Citizens learning to Dance.
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine. [n.d. c.1769]
Engraving, plate 110 x 170mm (4½ x 6¾"), with margins.
A rare satirical print showing the Duke of Grafton as a dancing master and a violinist standing on ''Petitions of the Mile end Rioters''. In the centre is Thomas Harley who, as Lord Mayor of London, was a partisan of the Grafton administration. BM Satires 4276.
[Ref: 62322] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Gideon Harvey] Gedeon Harvæus utriusque med. et Phil. Doctor apud Londonensis practicus, et colleg. med Hagiens, quondam Socius.
Pierre Philippe Sculp.
Hague Comitis Anno 1663.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, old folds, mounted in album paper at edges.
Gideon Harvey (c.1640-c.1700), physician to Charles II, holding a skull. A senior member of the Royal College of Physicians, he classified the physicians of the College into six groups: the chalybeates, medical ass-drivers, Jesuitical doctors, medical water-bailiffs, butcher doctors and muck doctors. Each type, Harvey maintained, cured disease by different means. Published 1663 as the frontispiece to his 'New Principles of Philosophy'. W: 1311-2.
[Ref: 62081] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Hercules at the Crossroads.]
AH [monogram of Albrecht Dürer].
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 320 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾"), on 18th century paper, watermarked 'A M'. Trimmed into image at top, within plate elsewhere, mounted in album paper.
A close copy of Dürer's 'Hercules at the Crossroads' (1498), depicting the female personification of Virtue trying to cudgel Pleasure, who is lying with a satyr, with a stick. Hercules, naked but for a winged helmet, raises his own club to stop the blow.
[Ref: 62298] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
This Book Belongs to Lilian M. Hext. If thou art borrowed by a friend [...]
[n.d., c.1920.]
15 copies of a bookplate, letterpress with wood-engraved border, c. 100 x 80mm (4 x 3"), stitched in paper wrappers. 1st bookplate torn.
[Ref: 62422] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Hudibras and the Lawyer.
W. Hogart [Hogarth] delin et sculp.
[London: Bernard Quaritch, c.1880.]
Engraving. 270 x 350mm (10¾ x 13¾"), on wove paper. Central fold, as issued.
A scene from Hudibras, a satirical poem by Samuel Butler (1613-80). Hudibras consults a lawyer, hoping for advice on how to defraud a rich widow. Paulson 93, state 4, with plate number '7' added, ''Quaritch ed. of Heath''.
[Ref: 62429] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Jeffrey Hudson. Charles the First's Dwarf.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A fanciful portrait of Jeffrey Hudson standing next to Charles I. Hudson (1619-82) was a dwarf who belonged to the court of Queen Henrietta Maria of England in the years before King Charles I was deposed. He was considered one of the wonders of the age. He fought for the royalists in the civil wars and fled with the queen to France in 1644. Some years later, he was captured by some Barbary pirates and spent twenty-five years as a slave in North Africa before being ransomed back to England to live the rest of his life in poverty.
[Ref: 62239] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
A Homeward Bound Indiaman taking a Pilot on Board in the Downs.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"). Trimmed close to image, laid on album paper.
[Ref: 62356] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Industry, attended by Patience and assisted by Perseverance, is crowned by Honour and rewarded with Plenty.
Angelica Kauufmann pinxit. G.S. et J.G. Facius sculpsurunt. John Boydell excudit 1779.
Published March 25.th 1779 by 1779 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple, J. Whatman watermark. 430 x 310mm (17 x 12¼"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed within plate at bottom.
An oval scene of four allegorical figures: the male Honour holds a cornucopia in one hand and reach out the other to crown the female Industry with a wreath. Two more women, Patience and Perseverance, attend.
[Ref: 62363] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
Ireland
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins.
A figure representing Ireland as a barefoot young boy, sitting on a boulder outside a cottage with thick walls and thatched roof, hugging a sheepdog. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62150] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Jacobus D.G. Magnae Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae Rex.
Wolf. Kilian Augus. exc. [Augsburg c.1640]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Thread margins, area of thin paper, mounted in album sheet at edges at edges.
Oval bust portrait of James I, in plumed hat, high collar, jewelled coat and George.
[Ref: 62070] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Elizabeth Jeffryes, Executed on Epping Forest, on Saturday ye 28. of March 1752, for being concern'd with John Swann, in ye Murder of her Uncle, M.r Jos.h Jeffryes. [&] John Swan.
[n.d., c.1752.]
Two engravings. Sheets 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾") & 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, back-to-back.
Having failed to get another man to do the deed, Elizabeth Jeffries and John Swan were executed for killing her uncle before he could cut her out of his will.
[Ref: 62090] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)