[Dresden] Prospectus exterius Portæ Wilsche, cum Bibliotheci Regia, Dresdæ. Vüe exterieur de la Porte Wilsche, avec la Bibliotheque Royale a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's fortifications at the Wilsche Gate, with a bridge over the moat. Behind is the Royal Library. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38385] £280.00
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[Dresden] Ecclesia Regia Catholicorum, cum Ontem super Fluviam Albis, Dresdæ. L'Eglise Royale Catholique, avec le Pont sur la Riviere de l'Elbe, a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Hofkirche, with the Augusts bridge over the Elbe, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the 'Staatliche Kunstsammlungen', shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38386] £280.00
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[Dresden] Prospectus pontis fluvio Albi Dresdae impositi Ecclesia versus B. V. Mariae dicata. Vüe du Pont de Dresde sur l'Elbe verse l'Egise de Notre Dame.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Augustus Bridge over the Elbe, with the Hofkirche, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38310] £280.00
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[Western view of Dresden] Vue de Dresde à l'ouest
chez Meser à Dresde Schlossgasse No.315 [c.1820]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Paper tone. Small margins
[Ref: 46111] £70.00
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[Dresden] Vue de Dresde du côté occidental, prise près le village de Lieschen.
Dessiné d'après nature et gravé par C.G. Hammer à Dresde.
bei Heinrich Rittner in Dresden [n.d., c.1816].
Rare coloured etching with aquatint. 510 x 660mm (20 x 26"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'. Trimmed into plate at bottom, two tears entering sky, one repaired, one taped.
A view of Brühl's Terrace, Dresden, with the Hofkirche but before the building of the Semperoper (1841), engraved (and probably drawn by) Christian Gottlob Hammer.
[Ref: 54769] £580.00
The City of Dresden. Le Ville de Dresden.
Patton Sculp.
London Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, S.t Paul's Church Yard, Robert Wilkinson, 58, Cornhill and Laurie and Whittle, 53, Fleet Street.
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 295 x 435mm (11½ x 17¼"), with large margins. Laid on album paper. Thread margin at top. Marks in the sky.
A view of the river Elbe in Dresden.
[Ref: 55169] £280.00
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Dresden von der Morgenseite.
[Etched by Christian Friedrich Sprinck.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 110 x 155mm (4 x 6½").
A view of Dresden during a Frost Fair on the frozen Elbe, with figures skating and sleighing on the ice, with drinks being served from a boat.
[Ref: 57299] £160.00
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Das v. Vitzthum Blochmann'iche Gymnasial. Erziehungshaus.
Nach de Natur gez. v. E. Oehme. In Stahl gestochen v. J. Fleischmann.
[n.d. c.1829.]
Etching. Plate 190 x 533mm. 7½ x 21". Folds.
Vitzthum Gymnasium, Dresden. In 1639, Rudolph Vitzthum left a large quantity of money in his will for the creation of a secondary school. It was not established until 1829, called the Blochmannschen Erziehungsanstalt, run by Karl Justus Blochmann. In 1861 he school was designated the name Vitzhumsches Gymnasium.
[Ref: 20863] £140.00
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Prospect der vom König Augusto erneuerten und herrlich gezierten Elb - Brücke zu Dresden.
Zu finden in Dresden bey Moriz Bodenehr R.M.S. 1733.
Alle Monath was neues von Dresden, der anfang 1733. Januarius das Erste Stück.
Etching. Two sheets conjoined, 265 x 610mm (10½ x 24"). Trimmed to plate on right, small tears.
A panorama of the 'beautifully-restored' bridge over the Elbe, rebuilt by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and (as Augustus II the Strong) King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania.
[Ref: 52045] £260.00
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Dresde, een Keurvorstelyke Stad in Saxen, gelegen aen de Elve, voorzien met een Schoon wapenhuis en Kunstkamer: Dresda, Electoralis Saxoniae urbs, ad fluvium Albim sita, armamentario egregio et mirabili Gazophylacio instructa.
Pet Schenk. Amsteld C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 215 x 268mm. 8½ x 10½".
Czech and Geraman settlers in boats and on the shore by the River Elbe, with the city of Dresden, Germany behind. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 24910] £250.00
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Dresden.
Publish'd by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1814.
Very fine coloured aquatint, with small margins. 305 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"). Watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Very slight offset.
A view of Dresden, with the Frauenkirche in the centre, shortly after Napoleon's troops had been driven from Germany. It was published in Robert Bowyer's 'Triumphs in Europe, in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814 commemorated by a Series of Twelve Views...', which celebrated (prematurely) the end of the Napoleonic Wars. This work was republished the following year as 'An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe', and again with an sister publication 'The Campaign of Waterloo' from 1816. The 1811 watermark suggests this example is from the 'Triumphs'.
[Ref: 35514] £230.00
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Bataille de Dresde.
Bellangé del.t Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 445 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins.
The Battle of Dresden (1813), which resulted in a French victory under Napoleon against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussian under Field Marschal Schwartzenberg. Unfortunately the French troops did not completely deter all the Coalition Forces, and a few days later at the Battle of Kulm, Napoleon's forces were surrounded and forced to surrender. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30790] £220.00
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Erinnerung an Dresden.
Nature Zeuchnung v. O. Wagner. Stahl Stich v. E. Schmidt.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. Publisher's stamp on left. Plate: 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½''). Bit dusty.
A collection of souvenir views of Dresden arranged around a central view which shows the Palace Gardens. Other views include the Caffe Reale, the Kings Theatre, a Synagoge, the Orangerie, the Marketplace, Hotel de Saxe and the Kreuz Kirche.
[Ref: 48295] £120.00
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Dresden.
A.N. del. J. Clark sc.
[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. n.d., c.1818].
Coloured aquatint. Printed area: 160 x 100mm. (6¼ x 4"). Paper glued to corners on verso where previously mounted.
Prospect of Dresden on the River Elbe, eastern Germany, near the Czech border. To the left is the Catholic Church of Dresden. This is the largest church in Saxony; built between 1739 and 1754 by the Italian architect, Gaetano Chiaveri in late baroque Rome. In the background stands the Semperoper. After Adam Neal, from the publication 'Travels through some Parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey', 1818.
[Ref: 31596] £110.00
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Figure de l'habit de Chevallier a la Pluvinelle. Figure 2. B. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Spotting and creasing at top.
An engraving of the doublet, hat and boots of a dressage rider, within a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57448] £220.00
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[Louis XIII watching a horse being trained.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Creasing at top.
A scene in the riding yard of the Tuileries, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained to leap a barrier, watched by a dozen named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57451] £320.00
[Dressage.] Crupaden Lincks.
[1700.]
Engraving. Plate: 215 x 345mm (8½ x 13½''). Foxing and marking.
A plate from 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' 1700 by William Cavendish (1592-1676). Cavendish was an influential and staunch Royalist who fought for Charles I during the Civil War, after Charles's execution he moved to Paris and then Antwerp where he set up a riding school. In 1657 he published the first edition of 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', the illustrations were engraved after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and engraved by Cornelis van Caukercken, Peter Clouet, Pieter de Jode II, Theodoor van Kessel, Peeter van Lisebetten, Adriaen Lommelin and Lucas Vorsterman the Younger.
[Ref: 49179] £240.00
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[Dressage.] Courbetten in einem Circel Lincks. Courbettes sur Les voltes à Gauche. P: 210. Num: 4.
[1700.]
Engraving, early 18th century watermark. Plate: 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13'') very large margins Marking, central fold as normal.
A plate from 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' 1700 by William Cavendish (1592-1676). Cavendish was an influential and staunch Royalist who fought for Charles I during the Civil War, after Charles's execution he moved to Paris and then Antwerp where he set up a riding school. In 1657 he published the first edition of 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', the illustrations were engraved after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and engraved by Cornelis van Caukercken, Peter Clouet, Pieter de Jode II, Theodoor van Kessel, Peeter van Lisebetten, Adriaen Lommelin and Lucas Vorsterman the Younger.
[Ref: 49178] £240.00
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[Dressage.] Courbetten Durüct in einem Circtel Rechts. Courbettes en arriere sur les votles à Droite. Pag: 210. Num: 7.
[1700.]
Engraving, early 18th century watermark. Plate: 245 x 315mm (9¾ x 12½'') very large margins. Marking, central fold as normal.
A plate from 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' 1700 by William Cavendish (1592-1676). Cavendish was an influential and staunch Royalist who fought for Charles I during the Civil War, after Charles's execution he moved to Paris and then Antwerp where he set up a riding school. In 1657 he published the first edition of 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', the illustrations were engraved after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and engraved by Cornelis van Caukercken, Peter Clouet, Pieter de Jode II, Theodoor van Kessel, Peeter van Lisebetten, Adriaen Lommelin and Lucas Vorsterman the Younger.
[Ref: 49176] £240.00
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[Dressage.] Courbetten auf einer Stelle Lincks. Courbettes de ferme à ferme à Gauche. Pag: 210. Num: 2.
[1700.]
Engraving, early 18th century watermark. Plate: 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13'') very large margins. Marking, central fold as normal.
A plate from 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' 1700 by William Cavendish (1592-1676). Cavendish was an influential and staunch Royalist who fought for Charles I during the Civil War, after Charles's execution he moved to Paris and then Antwerp where he set up a riding school. In 1657 he published the first edition of 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', the illustrations were engraved after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and engraved by Cornelis van Caukercken, Peter Clouet, Pieter de Jode II, Theodoor van Kessel, Peeter van Lisebetten, Adriaen Lommelin and Lucas Vorsterman the Younger.
[Ref: 49177] £240.00
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[Dressage.] Courbetten in einenn Circel Rechts. Courbettes sur les voltes, à Droite. Pl.210. Num. 3.
[1700.]
Rare engraving, early 18th century watermark. Plate: 245 x 315mm (9¾ x 12½'') very large margins. Marking, central fold as normal.
A plate from 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux' 1700 by William Cavendish (1592-1676). Cavendish was an influential and staunch Royalist who fought for Charles I during the Civil War, after Charles's execution he moved to Paris and then Antwerp where he set up a riding school. In 1657 he published the first edition of 'La Mode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', the illustrations were engraved after designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and engraved by Cornelis van Caukercken, Peter Clouet, Pieter de Jode II, Theodoor van Kessel, Peeter van Lisebetten, Adriaen Lommelin and Lucas Vorsterman the Younger.
[Ref: 49175] £240.00
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[Dressage.]
Cornelis Nicolai Schurtz Sculp. Norinburg.
[Nuremberg: Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1678.]
Engraving with hand colour. 205 x 295mm (8 x 11½"). Top edge worn, affecting platemark. Trimmed.
Three equestrian women in elaborate costume riding side saddle, accompanied by a male rider and two equerries. From Georg Simon Winter von Adlers Flügel's 'Bellerophon, sive Eques peritus'. Winter (1629-1701), a veterinarian and the director of several German stud farms, published a number of important early treatises on raising horses, equestrian art and veterinary medicine.
[Ref: 48191] £190.00
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[Horse training.] Figure 5. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), with very large margins. Tears taped. Creasing on top.
A scene in the courtyard of the Louvre, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained at a pillar, with two named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57461] £320.00
Dressing for a Masquerade.
Rowlandson 1790.
Pub. April 1 1790 by S.W. Fores N.3 Piccadilly.
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 360 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Courtesans were known to be frequent visitors to fashionable masquerades, and here they dress for one. Four courtesans are shown in various stages of preparation, from putting on stockings to masked final appearance (far right). Large satirical etching by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), whose name is now 'synonymous with the popular vision of late Georgian Britain' (DNB). BM Satires 9680.
[Ref: 50347] £880.00
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Dressing Room a l'Anglaise.
Chas. Ansell del.t P.W. Tomkins sculpt. late Pupil of Bartolozzi.
Published April the 7th. 1789 by Ino. Matthews No.441. Strand.
Stipple with etching, rare, later issue, printed on Whatman paper watermark 1825, Plate 323 x 247mm.12¾ x 9¾".
Inside a room; a woman helping another dress in front of a dresser, who looks back at a third woman seated on a chair reading to a boy. See ref:18069 for companion "Dressing Room a la Francaise"
[Ref: 18068] £180.00
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Dressing Room a la Francaise.
Chas. Ansell del.t P.W. Tomkins sculp.t late Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Published April the 7th. 1789 by Ino. Matthews No.441. Strand.
Stipple with etching, rare, later issue, printed on Whatman paper watermark 1825. Plate 324 x 248mm. 12¾ x 9¾".
Inside a room; a noble couple sitting in chairs and looking back as a man who talks to them. The woman sitting with a large hat, changes her shoes in front of a dresser. See Ref:18068 for companion print "Dressing Room a l'Anglaise".
[Ref: 18069] £180.00
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Dressing Room a l'Anglaise [&] Dressing Room a la Francaise
Cha.s Ansell del.t P W Tomkins sculp.t late pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Published April the 7.th. 1789. by In.o. Matthews No. 441 Strand.
Pair of stipples part printed in colour, each sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate;
Dressing room scenes contrasing the exclusively female (and child-friendly) 'English' dressing room and the 'French' dressing room occupied by two men and one woman, who coquettishly removes a shoe. For the prints sold individually (uncoloured) see refs. 18068-9.
[Ref: 41225] £320.00
D.r Thomas Drever. Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh. Physician in Ordinary to H.R.H. the Duke of York; Physician Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales and H.R.H the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg; and Physician to the Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of England.
1833.
Lithograph, rare, printed on chine collé. Sheet: 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼''). Repaired tears and marking.
A portrait of Dr Thomas Drever (1773-1849) who was born in the Orkneys and educated in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In 1813 he was admitted to the Licentiate of College of Physicians. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 48291] £140.00
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Drewell, Artist in Fire-Works, and Engineer to his Majesty's Grand Fetes in the Park, Nos 27 and 33, Westminster Bridge Road, - S. Near the Obelisk. Licensed Pursuant to Act of Parliament.
Passmore, Printer and Stationer, 60, Borough Road.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9½").
An advert for fireworks with a price list, doubling as an invoice, headed with the Royal Warrant. '25% off' is written in old ink manuscript. "Black & Ball cartridge port fires etc for exportation".
[Ref: 57186] £260.00
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Drill. Why you infernal rascal_how dare you stand there making such horrible ugly faces! _ Make the fly leave my nose Serjeant.
Drawn & Etched by W. Heath.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Hand coloured etching. Framed, sight size 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"). Framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
An angry Serjeant berates a soldier, who is standing to attention, as he pulls faces to dislodge a wasp on his nose.
[Ref: 61188] £180.00
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Why you infernal rascal _ how dare you stand there making such horrible Ugly Faces! - Make the Fly leave my nose alone Serjeant. Drill.
Drawn & Etched by W Heath.
Pub April 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 190 x 247mm (7½ z 9¾").
A sergeant addresses a line of soldiers on parade, one of whom is being stung on the nose by a bee.
[Ref: 52331] £140.00
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The Newspaper Nº 16. Wanted. ''Lor, Mrs Lush, here's summit'll suit you, ''Wanted a sober, steady, young woman as Wet Nurse''. May this here be my pison if I Don't go arter that ere you know.
London W. Spooner 259 Regent St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Small tears in edges taped.
One servant reads a 'situation vacant' advert to her drunken friend.
[Ref: 63644] £120.00
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''Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes''.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper, title excised and pated underneath.
A foppish man pays court to a woman with a large wig. One of several satires based on the first line of Ben Jonson's 'To Cecilia', first published 1616.
[Ref: 61001] £140.00
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Rien au monde n'égale, ô divine eau-de-vie / Ton goût si délicieux et tes reflets brillants / Un peu de ce cognac à membres tremblants / Redonne la jeunesse, y ramène la vie. [&] Bière aux reflets dorés, à la mousse écumante, / Tu calmes de mon coeur la trop fougueuse ardeur, / Tu bannis de ma vie la passion émouvante / Et d'une douce paix, m'apportes le bonheur. [also in German.] No 36 & 37.
Comp. et lith. par A. Ginter. Lith. Ch. Helbig à Schlestadt.
Déposé. [Sélestat, n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of lithographs. Printed areas 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼")
A pair of prints contrasting the alcoholic effects of spirits and beer. The first depicts a man in a peasant's smock drinking a glass of cognac (or schnaps in the German translation): 'Nothing in the world could equal, Oh divine water-of-life, Thy taste so delicious and thy glossy accents, A little of this cognac for trembling hands, restores youth and takes back life'. In the second a portly, affluently-dressed man holds up a frothing beer glass: 'Beer with golden glints, frothing with foam, thou calms the maverick ardour of my heart, thou banishes stirring passion from my life, and at a gentle pace brings me happiness'.
[Ref: 32830] £480.00
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A Free born Englishman Quod petis hic est. [Ink mss.]
[William Anderson.]
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Pen & ink sketch, sheet 225 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Soiled and stained. Glued to album page.
A rustic character, a shepherd with his crook, enjoying a glass. Apparently a satire on the English love of alcohol, with a quotation from Daniel Defoe (c.1659-1661 - 1731) below: 'Slaves to their liquor, drudges to their pots,/ The mob are statesman and the statesmen sots.' From an album titled 'Scraps and Sketches of the Late William Anderson Esqr/ collected by his Schoolfellow & Friend William Naylor.'
[Ref: 12300] £95.00
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[Elderly couple, woman pouring a drink]
[E. Van Heemskirke pinx J. Smith fec et ex]
[c.1706-7]
Mezzotint, sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, losing text. Later reissue.
Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers. Late impression probably dating from around the time of Boydell's 'Collection of Portraits' (1805) in which the print was listed. Wine drinking interest. Ganz iii/iii
[Ref: 39423] £140.00
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The Vice. ''Gentlemen _ Feeling as I do on the present occasion''. [&] The Chair. ''Gentlemen _ This is the very happiest moment of my life''.
Painted by Alfred Crowquill. Engraved by W.H. Simmons.
London, Published by S. Knights, Change Alley, 25, March 1841.
Pair of mezzotints. Each 325 x 260mm (12¾ x 10¼"), with very large margins.
A pair of scenes at a dinner table littered with decanters. Ex: Collection late Hon. Christopher Lennoz-Boyd.
[Ref: 54212] £380.00
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[Fête champêtre]
Bause sculps Halas [c.1761]
Etching, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark; ms in pencil; glued to backing sheet with print of a tea party on same sheet.
A couple dance, while two men read and sing. Etched by Johann Friedrich Bause (1738-1814), self-taught printmaker born in Halle and working in a variety of styles and media.
[Ref: 38348] £75.00
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[Smoking and Drinking.]
I.I.Haid et filius excud. A.V.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Mezzotint. Plate 211 x 158mm. 8¼ x 6¼".
A man wearing a feathered cap balances a goblet on two fingers in the air whilst holding a jug, presumably of wine in the other. Behind him another man stands smoking a pipe. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18514] £130.00
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This drinking Horn was presented to Daffydd ap Ifan, by King Henry the 7th, at Llwyn Dafydd, in the Parish of Llandypilio Gogo; where he slept, one night, in his march through Cardiganshire, after he landed in Milford Haven.
Printed C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. Image 98 x 261mm. 11¾ x 10¼".
The ornate drinking horn presented to Daffydd ap Ifan by King Henry VII (1457-1509) who was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. This drinking horn on a pedestal flanked either side by the greyhound and dragon of the Royal Coat of Arms. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18508] £90.00
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[Drinking Scene.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 191 x 240mm. 7½ x 240". Trimmed to the image.
A scene inside a rustic tavern. To the right, and man leans sleeping against a column next to the fire with a pitcher of beer next to him; another man with a tankard in his hand talks to him. In the foreground, a man leans over a man who is seated eating a table. A man leaning on the table looks out holding up a measuring cylinder. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18515] £80.00
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La Tabagie Hollandoise. [&] La Chaumiere Flamande. Gravé de même grandeur que le Dessin Original et coloré qui est dans la Collection de Mr Basan.
A Ostade pinx. Janinet sculp.
Se vend à Paris chez Basan et Poignant M.ds d'Estampes rue et Hôtel Serpente.
Pair of etchings with fine hand colour. 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9").
Two drinking scenes after Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85), with the inside of a Dutch Smoke Shop and the outside of a Flemish country inn.
[Ref: 45132] £320.00
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[Drinking Scene]
WB [William Baillie] 1765. A Ostade pinx.
Mezzotint. 305 x 250mm (12 x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
One of several prints after Dutch painter Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85), engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34677] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Drinking Scene] Son und Feiertags Narz [...]
[Anon, c.1650]
Etching, platemark 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed on platemark top edge.
A drinking scene, with a figure holding a goblet in each hand and treading upon a book reading 'Du solt den Sabbath' ('On the Sabbath you should...). In the background three more figures, one vomiting copiously!
[Ref: 33166] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
Drinking Song. Othello _ Act 2, Scene 3. And Let me the Canakin Clink, link [...]
John P. Knight A.R.A.
[London: The Etching Club, 1843.]
Steel etching on chine collé. 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼").
With two vignettes: a still life of armoured gauntlets and flagons, and five soldiers toasting. One of nine plates in ''Songs of Shakespeare, Illustrated by the Etching Club... Presented to the Subscribers of the Royal Polytechnic Union''.
[Ref: 57551] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
La drolesse contante.
C.D. In. I.Gole fec et Exc. cum Privilegio Amstelod. [n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 165mm.
Engraved by Jacobus Gole after Cornelis Dusart.
[Ref: 2182] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Too Young to Fly.
[after Hendrik Bloemaert]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Young boy holding a nest in the crook of his arm, containing three chicks. Copy of a much earlier (c.1625) etching by Cornelis Bloemaert after his brother Hendrik. Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32368] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
A Droschki.
No.56, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c.Pubd. Augt, 1.1820.
Hand-coloured engraving. 146 x 240mm. 5¾ x 9½".
A coach cab, or a horse-drawn carriage, as created and sold in Northern Europe. Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it did cover all of these fields. At the time, it was considered to be of great influence to the English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.
[Ref: 15008] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Attelages Russes. No. 3. Droschky Ordinaire.
dess. par H.Mitreuter. Imp. Lithogr. Pohl.
Publié par Dazario à Moscou et St Petersbourg [n.d., 1845].
Rare lithograph. Printed area 220 x 220mm (8¾ x 8¾") very large margins.
A Russian street-cab with a long bench. From a series of plates published in Russia by Daziaro, a French publisher who moved his business to Russia temporarily. See also Ref: 37990.
[Ref: 63980] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Drowsy Dame. What Raptures steal thro' ev'ry Nerve and Vein, / Whenthe Mouth Yawns, and when the Muscles Strain. / Smile ye Alert, and all ye Critics Green, / Ye ne'er can prove that Stretching is a Sin.
Published as the Act directs, A.D. 1769. Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at N.º 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Scarce mezzotint,Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to image on three sides, to plate at bottom, tear in inscription area.
A woman stretches and yawns in a dark interior, her sewing on a table by her side.
[Ref: 66207] £420.00