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John Musgrave Lamb.
John Musgrave Lamb. Proof.
F. Cruikshank del.t 1831. E. Scriven sculp.t 1834.
Stipple, rare proof on chine collé. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
Three-quarter length portrait of John Musgrave Lamb (1781-1835), hat manufacturer in Warwick, seated in armchair.
[Ref: 56727]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The Effigies Of John Langton Writing Master
The Effigies Of John Langton Writing Master In Stamford, in the County of Lincoln. Who in the Year 1700 Revived the Noble Art of Glass-Painting Staining & Tinging in the way of the Antients [...]
Printed and Sold by H. Overton and J. Hoole, at the White Horse without Newgate, London. [1713]
Engraving, sheet 170 x 220mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at top.
John Langton, writing master and glass painter of Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Not in O'D. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38870]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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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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John Lewis of Richmond.
John Lewis of Richmond.
[Painted by T. Stewart. Engraved by R. Field.]
[n.d., c.1793.]
Rare mezzotint. Image 310 x 260mm (12¼ x 10¼" Trimmed to image, title pasted underneath.
Portrait of John Lewis (1713-1792), Richmond resident who owned a brewery near the Thames close to where Terrace Gardens now are. Seated facing the viewer, he holds a stick in his right hand, wearing a dark coat open over a pale double-breasted waistcoat, white cravat and broad-brimmed hat over a chin-length wig. In 1758 Lewis became a celebrity when he re-established the freedom for public to walk through Richmond Park, through a legal case against Princess Amelia. . The Park reopened on 12th May 1758 when ladder style gates were fixed to Ham & Sheen gates in front of a vast gathering of local people. The painting by Stewart, a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, currently hangs in the Reference Library at the Old Town Hall, Richmond. This was Field's only mezzotint.
Chaloner Smith 1, I of II; in the second state the chair disappears and the name is replaced by a text starting 'Be It Remembered'.
[Ref: 42444]   £360.00  
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Miss Linwood.
Miss Linwood.
Engraved by P.W. Tomkins, Historical Engraver to her Majesty.
London, Published as the Act directs, April 29, 1806, for the Proprietor, by P.W. Tomkins, 49, New Bond St.
Colour-printed stipple. 494 x 393mm. 19½ x 15½". Two small creases just inside the platemark.
Mary Linwood (1755-1845) was a needle woman who exhibited her worsted embroidery or crewel embroidery in Leicester and London, and was the school mistress of a private school later known as Mary Linwood Comprehensive School. She received a medal in 1790 from the Society of Arts. For nearly seventy-five years Mary worked in worsted embroidery, producing a collection of over 100 pictures that specialised in full size copies of old masters. She opened an exhibition in the Hanover Square Rooms in 1798, which afterward travelled to Leicester Square, Edinburgh and Dublin. Mary Linwood's copies of old master paintings in crewel wool (named from the crewel or worsted wool used), in which the irregular and sloping stitches resembled brushwork, achieved great fame from the time of her first London exhibition in 1787. She met most of the crowned heads of Europe. Her exhibition in Leicester Square, London, was the first art show to be illuminated by gaslight. So successful was Mary Linwood that she was able to commission John Hoppner to paint her portrait; and John Constable's first commissioned work was to paint the background details in one of her works. The needle work pictures continued to be exhibited in Leicester square in London continuously for forty year. See Stock No: 28138 Worsted Embroidery, A Tigress, after Stubbs.
[Ref: 12719]   £360.00  
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Thomas Lonten Esq.
Thomas Lonten Esq.
Painted by Earl. Engraved by Jn. Young, Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Published April 13th 1807 by Boydell & Comby. No. 90. Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 260 x 355mm. Light foxing.
Founder of Lontenian Society & Solicitor [1747 - 1814].
CS: 48.
[Ref: 6766]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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David Love, Aged 74. 1824.
David Love, Aged 74. 1824. / Here's David's likeness for his Book, / All those who buy may at it look; / As he is in his present state, / Now Printed from a Copper plate. [&] Eliz.th Love Aged 49. 1825. / Here's the likeness of David's Wife, / Whom he loves dearly as his life; Industrious, steady, kind, and free, And lovingly they do agree.
W.S. [in David Lowe plate].
[n.d., c. 1825.]
Pair of coloured etchings, each c. 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed irregularly and laid on old card.
A pair of portraits of David and Elizabeth Love. David, a travelling ballad singer and song-and-bookseller, is shown in Nottingham's market square with the Nottingham Exchange to the right, probably holding a sheath of songs sheets in his hands. Elizabeth is shown pointing at the portrait of her husband.
Rijksmuseum: RP-P-2015-26-1390.
[Ref: 51878]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Honourable Edmond Malone.
The Honourable Edmond Malone.
Engraved in 1808, by William Evans, from a Miniature in enamel, painted by Zinke, in 1736.
Oval stipple portrait with engraved surround and lettering below (frontispiece?), rare, sheet 175 x 120mm. 7 x 4¾".
Edmund Malone (1704 - 1774), Irish judge; brother of Right Hon Anthony Malone.
[Ref: 13572]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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W. Manson [facsimile signature].
W. Manson [facsimile signature].
[Painted by H.W. Phillips. Engraved by W.J. Edwards.]
[n.d. c.1840].
Stipple engraving. Trimmed in oval, sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾").
William Manson, London auctioneer who worked with George Henry Christie from 1831 until his death in 1852.
[Ref: 60406]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr Joseph Martyn of London, Merchant.
Mr Joseph Martyn of London, Merchant. Obijt 9 Nov: 1718 Ætatis suæ. 75.
M. Dahll pinx. 1705. J. Smith fec. 1719.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait in oval of Joseph Martyn (1643-1718), merchant of London. He was a member of the Muscovy Company formed in 1555.
CS 167, ii.
[Ref: 59645]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Accusateur, rapporteur et Juge.
Accusateur, rapporteur et Juge. G [monogram.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 291 x 222mm (11½ x 8¾").
Head and shoulders, left pose, with vignette and words, "Accusateur rapporteur et juge." Named as 'Matthieu', probably a journalist
National Library of Medicine USA :BO
[Ref: 24183]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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William Mavor, L.L.D.
William Mavor, L.L.D.
Saxon pinxt. C. Turner, A.R.A. Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London Published March 1, 1829. for the Proprietor by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 105 x 130mm. 'Proof' inscribed lower left. Light foxing.
Compiler of educational texts such as the 'English Spelling Book' [1758 - 1837].
W: 363.
[Ref: 5371]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Reverend Mr. Thomas Maxfield,
The Reverend Mr. Thomas Maxfield, Assistant Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon.
T. Beach pinxit. Houston fecit.
Carington Bowles excudit. Printed for Carington Bowles, Maps & Printfeller, No.69 in St.Pauls Church Yard LONDON. Published as the Act directs 24th.June 1772.
Very rare mezzotint, state after '76' added lower left. 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". A little rubbed. Generally a good impression.
Portrait of Thomas Maxfield (d.1784), Methodist preacher, born in Bristol; one hand solemnly raised, the other resting on an open book. After Thomas Beach (1738 - 1806).
Chaloner Smith 78, II of II.
[Ref: 26152]   £340.00  
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What wouldst thou view but in one face all hospitalitie, the race of those that for the Gusto stand, whose tables a whole Ark command of Natures plentie, wouldst thou see this sight, peruse Mai'js booke, 'tis hee. Aetatis Suae. 71 1660.
What wouldst thou view but in one face all hospitalitie, the race of those that for the Gusto stand, whose tables a whole Ark command of Natures plentie, wouldst thou see this sight, peruse Mai'js booke, 'tis hee. Aetatis Suae. 71 1660.
Ia Parry.
For Nathaniell Brooke, att the Angell in Cornehill.
Rare engraving. 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½) Cut to the plate. Laid on paper.
Robert May, from the frontispiece to his masterpiece on Restoration cookery 'The Accomplisht Cook' first published in 1660 [b.1589]. May was trained in Paris as a professional cook and worked for a succession of noble families, mostly like him Catholics.
[Ref: 53660]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Silversmith] Johann Elias Mayer
[Silversmith] Johann Elias Mayer
Gemahlt von Anton Graff. 1763. Gescaben von Joh. Elias Haid in Augsburg. 1773.
Mezzotint. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"). Framed. Thread margins, slight spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Johann Elias Mayer (1722-72), silver merchant of Augsburg, published posthumously.
[Ref: 56015]   £480.00  
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John Loudon McAdam, Esqr.
John Loudon McAdam, Esqr.
Engraved by Charles Turner
London, Published Sep.r 20 1825 by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East
Mezzotint, proof, platemark 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾") very large margins.
John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), builder and administrator of roads. Based in Bristol, McAdam developed a new method of road construction involving the preparation of a well-drained subsoil and foundations of small, angular stones applied to a depth of 10 inches and compressed by workmen. After successfully working as general supervisor to the Bristol Turnpike trust, McAdam and his family were engaged as consultants to many other trusts (by the time of his grandson's death in 1861 the McAdam family were consultants to almost 150 trusts). Such was McAdam's significance that his name has become part of standard English usage, with the term 'macadam' or 'macadamized' coming to mean a good road surface, achieved by the judicious use of stone over which horse-drawn vehicles could travel quickly and smoothly.
Whitman 331 ii/iii
[Ref: 44119]   £320.00  
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[Dr Metcalfe.]
[Dr Metcalfe.]
[Anon., c.1750]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, platemark 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), with large margins. Ms. verso 'Dr. Metcalf Married Mrs. Hone'
Anonymous mezzotint of an unidentified eighteenth-century sitter.
O'D 1
[Ref: 46740]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Thomas Miller, Bookseller, Bungay, Suffolk.
Thomas Miller, Bookseller, Bungay, Suffolk. Died June 24th 1804_ Aged 73.
[Engraved by E. Scriven from a Miniature by H. Edridge Esq.r.]
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Stipple. Sheet 155 z 100mm, 6¼ x 4". Trimmed.
Thomas Miller (1731-1804) was a leading English bookseller and antiquary. His collection included many valuable and rare books, and extensive collection of engraved portraits, and a nearly complete series of Romand and English silver and brass coins. He published catalogues of his collections in 1782 and 1790.
NPG: D13660
[Ref: 19002]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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William Miller.
William Miller.
Drawn from Life on Stone by J.D. Engleheart, 1826. Printed by C.Hullmandel.
Published by Colnagi, Son & Co. A. Moltino & W. Smith.
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 235 x 180mm, 9¼ x 7".
William Miller (1769–1844), one of the most popular publishers in London of the period, succeeded by John Murray. He published the poems of Walter Scott, Howlett's ‘Views of Lincolnshire’ and Forster's edition of the ‘Arabian Nights Entertainments'. However, after paying £4,500 for the copyright of Charles James Fox's ‘History of the Reign of James II’, the largest sum ever given for literary property, he only just covered his expenses.
[Ref: 19001]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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James Mingay Esqr.
James Mingay Esqr.
G. Romney pinxt. C.H. Hodges sculpt.
London, Published Octr. 10th. 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
A fine mezzotint, title in closed capitals, 505 x 350mm. 19¾ x 13¾". Closed chip to left margin.
James Mingay (1752 - 1812), barrister, sitting in wig and robes, right elbow resting on the arm of the chair, left hand on a table to the right; inkwell and papers to right. As the result of a childhood accident he lost his right hand, and wore a hook in its place. His obituary in the Gentelman's Magaaine states that as an advocate he possess'd a 'persuasvie oratory, infinite wit, and most excellent fancy'. After George Romney (1734 - 1802).
Chaloner Smith 24 . NPG: D38842. Horne 82.
[Ref: 19495]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Mrs. Hannah More.
Mrs. Hannah More.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill, A.R.A. Engraved by W. H. Worthington.
London Published March 1, 1824 by J. Hudson, Cheapside.
Engraving, 445 x 327mm. 17½ x 13". Trimmed to plate laid on separate sheet.
Hannah More [1745 - 1833] evangelical moralist and propagandist. Publisher of the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts between 1795-8, which were printed for her by John Marshall and S. Hazard. The painting of 1822 is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[Ref: 11936]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Samuel Murray.]
[John Samuel Murray.]
[Engraved by Edward Finden after Henry William Pickersgill.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before letters. 275 x 220mm (11 x 8¾") very large margins,
Oval portrait of John Murray II (1778-1843), the publisher of Byron, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, reading a letter He gained infamy for burning Byron's memoirs rather than publishing them as the poet wanted.
[Ref: 40260]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir Hugh Myddelton Knight & Baronet.
Sir Hugh Myddelton Knight & Baronet. The famous Aqueduct call'd the New River was performed at his Charge...
C.J. fe. 1632. Ad Tabula, Cornelii Janssonii, jam penes Illustriss. Comitem Oxoniensem, Georgius Vertue sculpsit, A.D. 1722.
[London, c.1722 or later.]
Engraving. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Small margins.
Sir Hugh Myddelton (1560-1631), goldsmith and entrepreneur, after Cornelius Jonson or Janssen. Early in the seventeenth century Myddelton became involved in the successful project to bring a supply of water to London, which was still the most important source of piped water into the metropolis two hundred years later. In 1605 an act of parliament was obtained to bring water from springs near Hertford to north London (a distance of nearly forty miles), as surveyed by the mathmatician Edward Wright (1561-1615, famed for his correction of Mercator's Projection). Myddelton's involvement is not recorded until 1609, when he took the lead in the project which was completed in 1613. The establishment of the New River was Myddelton's main claim to fame, and he was involved with the running of the company for the rest of his life, although he was also involved in mining and land draining projects.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Alexander: 962.
[Ref: 53618]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Hanns Negelein Federschmücker in Nürnburg...
Hanns Negelein Federschmücker in Nürnburg...
M. Herr pinx. J.F. Leonard Ao 1669.
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 105mm (8 x 4¼") Trimmed to image.
A 'feathermaker' in Nürnberg, 1572-1641.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum A 14931.
[Ref: 40702]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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James Neild, Esq.
James Neild, Esq. The Visitor of Prisons. Born May 24, 1744; Died Feb. 26 1814.
Gent: Mag. April 1817. Pl.II. p.305.
Engraving, rare. Plate: 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼'').

A portrait of jeweller and prison reformer James Neild (1744-1814).
[Ref: 48402]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Right Reverend Thomas Newton D.D. Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St Pauls.]
[The Right Reverend Thomas Newton D.D. Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St Pauls.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thos: Watson.
Publish'd May 1st 1775 for Thos: Watson No 142 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 455 x 330mm. 18 x 13". Small margins.
Portrait of Thomas Newton (1704 - 1782), Bishop of Bristol from 1761; standing holding mortar board cap in left hand, wearing bishop's robes and short wig; curtain behind partially drawn to reveal St Paul's Cathedral at left. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Chaloner Smith 27, ii. Hamilton p.53, ii. Whitman: 23, ii/iii.
[Ref: 22370]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Abraham Nicholas.
Abraham Nicholas.
[by George Bickham, 1722]
Engraving. Platemark 190 x 285mm (7½ x 11¼"), with large margins.
Abraham Nicholas (1692-c.1744), writing-master. The third generation of a family of writing-masters, Nicholas kept a school in Southwark, London, before moving south to set up a boarding-school in Clapham. He eventually transferred this school to his brother James and emigrated to Virginia. Frontispiece to Nicholas' second and final copybook, 'The Compleat Writing-Master' (1722).
O'D 1 (only likeness).
[Ref: 58609]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Old Scaleits...eterbro', from an Antient Picture in the Cathedral...2.nd: 1594. Rsaetatis 98.
Old Scaleits...eterbro', from an Antient Picture in the Cathedral...2.nd: 1594. Rsaetatis 98. You see Old Scaleits picture stand on hie but at your feete there doth his body lye his grave stone both his age and death time show his office by theis tokens you may know. Second to none for strength and sturdye limm a scarbabe mighty voice with visage grim he had interd two queens within this place and this towns householders in his lives space twice over: but at length his one turne came what hee for others did for him the same was done no doubt his soule doth live for aye in heaven: though here his body clad in clay. Iuly 2 1594. R S Aetatis 98.
[Original etching by W. Williams after a painting in the Cathedral by an unknown artist.]
[Original publication - London: E. Jeffrey, 1807.]
Etching. 318 x 133mm. 12½ x 5¼". Cut, paper loss to upper left-hand corner.
Representation of "Old Scaleits" with teh text of the memorial. Robert Scarlett died in 1594 at the age of 98, having spent much of his life as the sexton at Peterborough Cathedral. He was laid to rest just inside the cathedral and is commemorated by a wall painting and a portrait which both hang up high inside the West front. It is suggested by some writers about Peterborough that he was the inspiration possible prototype for Hamlet's "Alas, poor Yorick".
[Ref: 23306]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Iohannes Operinus, Graecae Linguae Professor et Tipographus Basilien.
Iohannes Operinus, Graecae Linguae Professor et Tipographus Basilien. Tu famam libris vitam scriptoribus addis, Pars tibi mercedis sic ab utroq venit. Aaa4.
[Theodore de Bry.]
[n.d. c.1710.]
Etching. 172 x 139mm. 6¾ x 5½". Trimmed.
Johannes Oporinus (1507-1568) was a humanist printer in Basel.
[Ref: 18662]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. Orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium.  Papius.
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. Orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium. Papius.
[n.d. c.1600].
Etching. Sheet 330 x 220mm. Damage to corners. Some foxing/staining.
Abraham Ortelius [1527 - 1598] was a cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. This etching served as a kind of frontispiece to the volume, first issued in 1570, with three Latin editions (besides a Flemish, a French and a German edition) appearing by 1572. Several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand till about 1612.
[Ref: 305]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Yours Truly Jonathan Otley.
Yours Truly Jonathan Otley.
From a Photograph by Ths. Brown. C. Schacher fect.
Schenck & Mc. Farlane, Lithrs., Edinburgh [n.d. c.1870].
Lithograph. Image 250 x 300mm. Light foxing and surface dirt outside image.
[1766 - 1856]. Author of 'A Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes'.
[Ref: 989]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Out of Work.
Out of Work.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby Printed by T. H. Skelton, Southampton.
Southampton, [n.d. after 1820]
Rare lithograph on india paper; 250 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). Slightly messy.
A three quarter length portrait of a gaunt looking man, right inclined.
[Ref: 54118]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Ioannes Owenus D.D. (John Owen D.D.)]
[Ioannes Owenus D.D. (John Owen D.D.)]
R: White sculpsit. Nath: Ponder excu:
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving, proof before title, sheet 260 x 195mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Trimmed within plate and into image at top; laid on to album page. A strong impression.
John Owen (1616 - 1683), Puritan divine, in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing skull-cap, bands and gown; curtain and bookshelves in the background. Owen was dean of Christ Church, Oxford and vice-chancellor of Oxford under Cromwell. Coat of arms below. By Robert White (1645 - 1703).
BM: unrecorded state.
[Ref: 13860]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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Robert Owen, Esq.
Robert Owen, Esq.
Published by J. Robins & Co. London Aug. 9. 1823.
Rare engraving. Sheet: 215 x 130mm (8½ x 5''). Repairs top right.
A portrait of Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement Robert Owen (1771-1858).
[Ref: 50026]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Geroge Packwood, the Celebrated Razor Strop Maker and Author of the Goldfinch's Nest.
Geroge Packwood, the Celebrated Razor Strop Maker and Author of the Goldfinch's Nest.
Drawn & Engraved by A. Watkinshaw.
Pubd. As the Act directs 23 July, 1796.
Stipple engraving 95 x 175mm, 3¾ x 6¾inches. Trimmed inside plate with false margins added.
George Packwood was a middle-class businessman with a product and a desire to get rich. In 1794 he published his an advertisement for his razor strop and paste in the London Times. Like all good advertisers, he knew that repetition was essential if he wanted to attract public attention. His first target was London coffeehouses and the middle- to upper-class men who frequented them. As his business and his name grew, Packwood expanded his advertising efforts to country newspapers. He eventually captured markets in all the cites and large fashionable towns of Great Britain. Packwood made a show of his outrageous, original, and ever-changing attempts to capture public attention. He believed that his advertisements had entertainment as well as commercial value, and to illustrate this he published a compilation of his advertisements "Packwood's Whim: The Goldfinch's Nest; or the Way to Get Money and Be Happy", this booklet was a shameless attempt to glorify Packwood, both for his razor strops and his advertising prowess. This frontice shows his tactic of suprising his customers with packaged, spherical, yellow balls of paste in circular boxes that resembled, upon Packwood's suggestion, the nest of a goldfinch.
[Ref: 12888]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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Paisley. The celebrated Priest of Hymen at Gretna Green. _'cui placet Impares Formas atque animos sub Juga aenea Saevo mittere cum Joco.' Hor. Car. 33 Lib. 1.
Paisley. The celebrated Priest of Hymen at Gretna Green. _'cui placet Impares Formas atque animos sub Juga aenea Saevo mittere cum Joco.' Hor. Car. 33 Lib. 1.
C. Turner F.S.A. Delt. 1800. J. Walker Sculpt.
Publis'd by C. Turnor Dec. 20 1800.
Etching with aquatint. Sheet 165 x 230mm. Foxing. Faint trace of crease through part of image. Trimmed to plate.
Gretna's most famous priest Joseph Paisley, described as 'a big, rough, hard-drinking borderer,' who moonlighted as a smuggler, a tobacconist, and a fisherman. Gretna became known as the 'Caledonian Temple of Hymen' in the late eigteenth century and lampooned as the centre of the 'marriage trade'. One of the main characters in Charles Stuart's comic operetta Gretna Green (1783), a hit afterpiece at the Haymarket theatre during the 1780s and 90s, was loosely based on Priestley.
[Ref: 6222]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Joseph Paisley.
Joseph Paisley. the celebrated Gretna-Green Parson. Dec.d January 9, 1811, aged 79.
[Anon., c.1811.]
Scarce woodcut from an unidentified publication, sheet 135 x 90mm. 5¼ x 3½". Trimmed.
Commemorative portrait of Gretna's most famous priest Joseph Paisley, described as 'a big, rough, hard-drinking borderer,' who moonlighted as a smuggler, a tobacconist, and a fisherman. Gretna became known as the 'Caledonian Temple of Hymen' in the late eighteenth century and lampooned as the centre of the 'marriage trade'. One of the main characters in Charles Stuart's comic operetta Gretna Green (1783), a hit afterpiece at the Haymarket theatre during the 1780s and 90s, was loosely based on Priestley.
[Ref: 18267]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Paisley. The celebrated Priest of Hymen at Gretna Green. _'cui placet Impares Formas atque animos sub Juga aenea Saevo mittere cum Joco.' Hor. Car. 33 Lib. 1.
Paisley. The celebrated Priest of Hymen at Gretna Green. _'cui placet Impares Formas atque animos sub Juga aenea Saevo mittere cum Joco.' Hor. Car. 33 Lib. 1.
C. Turner F.S.A. Delt. 1800. J. Walker Sculpt.
Publis'd by C. Turnor Dec. 20 1800.
Etching with aquatint, sheet 200 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Gretna's most famous priest Joseph Paisley, described as 'a big, rough, hard-drinking borderer,' who moonlighted as a smuggler, a tobacconist, and a fisherman. Gretna became known as the 'Caledonian Temple of Hymen' in the late eighteenth century and lampooned as the centre of the 'marriage trade'. One of the main characters in Charles Stuart's comic operetta Gretna Green (1783), a hit afterpiece at the Haymarket theatre during the 1780s and 90s, was loosely based on Paisley.
[Ref: 31073]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Thomas Park, Esqr. F.A.S.
Thomas Park, Esqr. F.A.S.
Engraved by J.T.Wedgewood, from the original Picture Painted by Miss Carmichael in the Possession of Edward Hogg Esqr. Hendon.
Publish'd March 20, 1820 by C.Dyer, 8 Compton Street Soho.
Stipple. 240 x 155mm.
Antiquary and bibliographer [1759 - 1834].
[Ref: 1171]   £35.00   (£42.00 incl.VAT)
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Dame Rachel Pasley. Inspectress of the Farm at Wentworth House.
Dame Rachel Pasley. Inspectress of the Farm at Wentworth House.
A. Wentworth Pinx.t Fred.k Atkinson fecit.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching, laid on album sheet. 152 x 102mm. 6 x 4". Very rare.
Rare etching by Frederick Atkinson, amateur etcher based in York and and silk-mercer and draper by profession.
[Ref: 26969]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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T.Pingo Engraver.
T.Pingo Engraver.
I. Carwitham fec. 1741.
Mezzotint. 205 x 155mm. Some restoration
Italian medallist (d. 1776) who came to England, appointed engraver to the Royal Mint at the beginning of George II's reign.
CS: 3. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1180]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Louis Pique [signature facsimile].
Louis Pique [signature facsimile]. Sketched At Dover Oct: 1849.
Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich [n.d., c.1850].
Anastatic print, sheet 285 x 227mm. Tipped into album page. Light soiling/spotting to extremities.
Apparently an 'interpreter & hotel commissioner'. The anastatic printing process, which was discovered in the early 1840s or just before, created a good deal of interest in that decade, being promoted and extolled by Michael Faraday, Edgar Allen Poe and (Sir) Walter Siemens. It was a cheap method of producing facsimiles of text or drawings, the only requirement of which was that the material to be copied should have been produced by a medium, usually ink, with an oily content. S.H. Cowell of Ipswich was the principal commercial exponent of anastatic printing, for which he held a licence.
[Ref: 7938]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Christophe Plantin.]
[Christophe Plantin.]
Engraved by Engleheart from a Print by Goltius.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving. Printed area 150 x 120mm, 6 x 4¾".
Portrait of Christophe Plantin (1520-89), based on a woodcut by Hendrick Goltzius. Plantin, a French publisher based in Antwerp, is best known today as the publisher of Ortelius's landmark atlas, the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The building that housed his business still exists, with the records of the firm intact, now the Plantin-Moretus Museum.
[Ref: 18615]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Mrs Sarah Porter Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells.
Mrs Sarah Porter Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells.
Vander Smissen Pinxit. [engraved by William Pether.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 255mm. Trimmed to plate, corners nicked.
An oval portrait of an old woman, ledger with 'Ladies' Subscriptions', quill and ink. When Richard ‘Beau’ Nash became Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms in 1735, he employed Sarah Porter to assist in touting or enlisting subscribers. She would greet visitors at the door of the ballroom is if she knew them, enquiring after a relative, before asking them to pay a subscription: if they refused, she would shadow them around the room, ledger and quill in hand, until they gave in and paid up. However rude people became Sarah never responded in kind. She continued in the roll until 1762.
CS 27.
[Ref: 58073]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Portrait of a middle-aged man in a hooded cloak (priest?).]
[Portrait of a middle-aged man in a hooded cloak (priest?).]
[after Guercino?] Guis. Zocchi sc.
[Italian/British, n.d., c.1800.]
Etching printed in brown ink on wove paper, proof?, 260 x 180mm. 10¼ x 7". Some light foxing; wide margins.
An intimate study of an man in profile a religious habit - possibly a monk, priest or penitent - after an old master drawing. Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), draughtsman and etcher in Florence. Perhaps this is one of the series of plates registered in the BM under the title 'Luti collection', after drawings by Julio Romano, Michelangelo, Pietro Cortone, Titiano, Pietro Testa, Guercino, Rembrandt, Paolo Panini, Elsheimer, Benedetto Lutti. As well as by Zocchi, the plates were made by Bartolozzi and Zuccarelli. This seems to be a later impression, perhaps published in Britain.
See BM 1866,1114.694 to 734.
[Ref: 27220]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr. Thomas Price.
Mr. Thomas Price. This Print is Dedicated to the Gentlemen Subsribers by their much obliged & humble Servant, J.Jones.
Painted by W.m Lawranson. Engraved by John Jones.
Pub.d according to Act April 29 1783 by J. Jones No 63 Great Portland Street Marylebone.
Mezzotint, sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed to image. Scarce.
Thomas Price, Master of the Farthing Pie House in Marylebone Lane. He was clearly an enthusiastic singer, judging from the book of music on the table in front of him, (open to show a song giving Anacreon's petition about twining myrtle of Venus with the vine of Bacchus).
CS 65 i/ii; Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 38370]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr. Thomas Price.
Mr. Thomas Price. This Print is Dedicated to the Gentlemen Subsribers by their much obliged & humble Servant, J.Jones.
Painted by W.m Lawranson. Engraved by John Jones.
London, Printed for Robert Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street. [n.d. c.1785.]
Mezzotint with large margins. Plate 380 x 280mm ( 15 x 11"). Scarce.
Portrait, bust in an oval, leaning in forward to right, resting head on left hand with the elbow on an open book of music on the table in front of him, a song giving Anacreon's petition about twining myrtle of Venus with the vine of Bacchus, right arm thrown back, smiling towards the viewer, with thin hair and plain, dark suit. Thomas Price (18th. century), Master of the Farthing Pie House in Marylebone Lane.
CS: 65, ii.
[Ref: 28687]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Paul Julius Baron von Reuter.]
[Paul Julius Baron von Reuter.]
Painted by Rudolf Lehmann. Engraved by T. Oldham Barlow.
Private Plate. [n.d. c.1870.]
Mixed method engraving, on india paper. Plate: 385 x 510mm (15¼ x 20").
(Paul) Julius de Reuter, Baron de Reuter (née Israel Beer Josaphat) (1816-1899), founder of Reuter's News Agency. Reuter moved to London on October 29, 1845, he set up an office at the London Stock Exchange, and established a telegraph link between Britain and the European continent through the English Channel. This link was extended to the south-western shore of Ireland, at Cork in 1863 where ships coming from America threw canisters containing news into the sea. The news was telegraphed to London, arriving before the ships. He was created Baron in 1871.
[Ref: 41023]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Richard Reynolds.
Richard Reynolds.
Engraved by H.Meyer, from the Original Picture by N.Branwhite, in the Possesion of the Family.
Published as the Act directs, March 1st. 1817, by N. Branwhite, Queen Square, Bristol.
Stipple engraving on india paper. 250 x 300mm. Foxing, mostly outside image.
Quaker and 'Ironmaster' at Bristol [1735 - 1816].
[Ref: 905]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Richard Reynolds of the Society of Friends, Late of Bristol; Whose Life and Fortune were devoted to the Glory of God by relieving the humble in Distress~This Plate is dedicated by Permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by his most devoted &
Richard Reynolds of the Society of Friends, Late of Bristol; Whose Life and Fortune were devoted to the Glory of God by relieving the humble in Distress~This Plate is dedicated by Permission to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by his most devoted & very humble Serv. Willm. Hobday.
W. Hobday pinxt. W. Sharp sculpt.
Published Decr. 1st. 1817 by Willm. Hobday London.
Engraving. 396 x 303mm. 15½ x 12". Trimmed to the plate. Some scuffing and creasing.
Quaker and 'Ironmaster' at Bristol [1735 - 1816].
[Ref: 14386]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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