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[Battle of Gadebusch] Den 20 December 1712, is by Gadebusch in het Meckelenburgse [...] [parallel text in Latin]
[Battle of Gadebusch] Den 20 December 1712, is by Gadebusch in het Meckelenburgse [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: C.Pr. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 170 x 195mm (6¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the Battle of Gadebusch fought on 20 December 1712 between Sweden and Denmark during the Great Northern War (1700-1721). It was the last major battle the Swedes won in the war.
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[Pair] Gadshill Place (North View). [&] Gadshill Place (South View).
[Pair] Gadshill Place (North View). [&] Gadshill Place (South View).
Nicholson's Litho-typo Steam Printing Works, 11, Wormwood Street, City, E.C.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Pair of tinted lithographs, printed area 210 x 255mm, 8¼ x 10"
Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, the country home of Charles Dickens from 1857 until he died there from a stroke in 1870. His father had shown him the house when he was nine years old telling him that if he worked hard enough, one day he would own such a house. The house, a Grade 1 listed building, has been a school since 1924.
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Gads Hill Place, Rochester [in pencil].
Gads Hill Place, Rochester [in pencil].
Clough Bromley [in image and in pencil]
London Published March 1. 1886 by S. Drewett. 1. Northumberland Avenue S.W.
Etching signed by the artist, 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"), with large margins.
A view of Gadshill Place in Winter covered in snow. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens however is most famously known as being the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. Clough Bromley (c.1850-1904).
[Ref: 62615]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Siege of Gaeta] den 30 Sept: 1707 wert Gaeta, waer in de Hertog Escalona, gewese Viceroy van Naples [...] [parallel text in Latin]
[Siege of Gaeta] den 30 Sept: 1707 wert Gaeta, waer in de Hertog Escalona, gewese Viceroy van Naples [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc. Amst. C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the three-month Siege of Gaeta in 1707 by the Austrian army commanded by Count Wirich Philipp von Daun. Part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the siege ended on 30 September 1707 with the destruction of the city's historic fortifications.
[Ref: 59216]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Rocher de Gayette lequel se sentit en deux lors ede la passion de Nostre Seigneur
Rocher de Gayette lequel se sentit en deux lors ede la passion de Nostre Seigneur Chapelle de la Trinité
Gravé par Israel Silvestre.
P. Mariette ex Avec privil. du Roy [c.1670]
Etching, platemark 120 x 205mm (4¾ x 8¼"). Creased in middle.
The city of Gaeta in the province of Latina, Italy, emphasising the 'Montagna Spaccata', the vertical cliffs jutting onto the coast. From a series of 'Diverses vues de ports de mer d'Italie et autres lieux' by French printmaker Israel Silvestre.
[Ref: 36395]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Album Cosmopolite. (par Le Prince G. Gagarin, de St. Petersbourg.)
Album Cosmopolite. (par Le Prince G. Gagarin, de St. Petersbourg.)
[After Prince Grigory Gagarin.] E. Lassalle lith. Lith. Adrien, r. richer, 7.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph on india, 'Album Cosmopolite' stamp. Sheet 534 x 349mm. 21 x 13¾".
[Ref: 28053]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir Tho.s Gage Seventh Bar.t of Hengrave.
Sir Tho.s Gage Seventh Bar.t of Hengrave.
[n.d. c.1810.]
A rare engraving. Plate 178 x 132mm. 7 x 5¼".
Sir Thomas Gage, 7th Baronet (1781-1820) was an English botanist, from a junior branch of the Gage family of Firle, Sussex. The woodland flower Gagea is named in his honour.
[Ref: 18994]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[Usher? Gahagan].
[Usher? Gahagan].
[n.d. c.1790].
Stipple engraving. Proof before letters. Sheet 335 x 420mm. Light foxing. Paper browned.
Sitter is possibly Usher Gahagan, an Irish classical scholar who fell into bad company in London and was hanged at Tyburn in 1749 for 'diminishing the current coin of the realm'.
[Ref: 208]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Gaiety.
Gaiety.
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple and etching, oval, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼". Hole to right margin.
Allegorical female figure in flowing robes, smiling and holding a bouquet of flowers above her head. From an unidentified publication.
[Ref: 22850]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Jardin du Chateau Gaillon.
Le Jardin du Chateau Gaillon.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph on india, first subscriber's issue, laid on card as issued, original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. India size 400 x 280mm, 15¾ x 11". Some toning of card.
A finely-coloured view of the gardens of the Château de Gaillon in northern France. It had been one of the finest renaissance castles in the country, but after being gutted by fire in 1764, reconstructed as a Carthusian monastery, vandalised during the Revolution and used as a prison under Napoleon, this scene shows only a ruined arcade. From the Subscription Edition of the work (which we haven't traced), issued in parts before the book was completed, with the print presented like a watercolour.
[Ref: 15351]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Benjamin Gaillon, (Botaniste et Zoologiste.)
Benjamin Gaillon, (Botaniste et Zoologiste.) Né à Rouen, (Dép.t de la Seine Inf.re) le 2 Juin 1782.
Dessiné d'apres Nature en 1827, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple with small margins. Plate 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½").
Benjamin Gaillon (1782-1839), the French botanist who specialised in marine plants.
W: 1067.
[Ref: 29619]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[Wooded landscape with country cart and figures] 9.
[Wooded landscape with country cart and figures] 9.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with a figure standing in a stationary horse-drawn cart in the centre next to a rocky bank with trees behind, two figures sitting on the left, sheep and a small pool in the foreground. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60661]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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[Wooded landscape with herdsman and cows] 10.
[Wooded landscape with herdsman and cows] 10.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Aug.t 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Soft-ground etching, 275 x 345mm (11 x 13½"), with huge margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1893'. Mount burn.
Landscape with four cows amongst trees, figure seen beyond at right. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From Collection of Iain Bain.
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[Cottage landscape]
[Cottage landscape]
Gainsborough. [by Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with large margins. Lightly time stained. Small stain/abrasion in tree to left.
A wooded landscape with figures at the door of a cottage at right, a rowing boat on a river seen through the trees at left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 667. John Hayes 'Gainsborough as Printmaker,' p85.
[Ref: 59213]   £350.00  
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[Shore scene with cattle.]
[Shore scene with cattle.]
Gainsborough. [Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), with large margins. Time stained. Small crease in image near bottom right. Central vertical backboard stain.
A landscape with cattle in the foreground, boats in shallow water behind at right. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) in the BM collection. From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 728; Gg,3.391.
[Ref: 59211]   £350.00  
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Study From Nature.
Study From Nature. From an Original Drawing by Tho.s Gainsborough R.A. in the Possesstion of Mrs. Trimmer.
Drawn by Tho.s Gainsborough. Engraved by John Bowles.
London, Published as the Act directs by J & J Boydell No.90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspear Gallery, Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Platemark: 405 x 295mm (16 x 11¾"). Very large margins, very slight creasing.
A rural scene after a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), with a stream in the centre, woodland to the left, and a cottage on the right.
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Gainsborough and His Place in English Art with Forty-Eight Plates [Popular Edition].
by Sir Walter Armstrong
London: William Heinemann. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. MDCCCCIV [1904].
Book: 4to (239 x 153mm). Cloth binding with gilt patterning and floral designs on the front cover. Gilt title stamped into spine. 298 textual pages plus illustrations.
An illustrated narrative demonstrating Gainsborough's importance and contribution to English art.
[Ref: 10448]   £40.00  
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Gair-loch head. Ross-shire.
Gair-loch head. Ross-shire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Feb.y, 1, 1820.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A landscape scene at the head of Loch Gairloch, with a sailing boat and rowing boats in the foreground to the right, and two figures in kilts conversing on the left bank, lined with trees. A humpback stone bridge crosses the river in the centre, with small buildings on the right bank and rocky mountains in the background. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36081]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Gairloch on the Clyde.]
[Gairloch on the Clyde.] To Mr Edward Harris with kind regards, Colin Hunter.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Etching, presentation proof, signed by the artist. 330 x 605mm, 13 x 24".
Colin Hunter ARA (1841-1904). Salmon fishing from a boat.
[Ref: 11884]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Caius Marius sitting on the Ruins of Carthage.
Caius Marius sitting on the Ruins of Carthage. To His Grace John Duke of Atholl, Marquis & Earl of Atholl, Tullibardine, &c. &c. &c. / This plate is humbly inscribed by His Grace's much obliged and most devoted servant, Robert Blyth.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth. From an Original Drawing of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r. London Publish'd as the Act directs. Jan.y 20.th 1782. by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1782.
Etching. 470 x 390mm (18½ x 15½"), with wide margins on 3 sides. Small tear, folds and creasing down left margin, stain on right.
A portrait of Roman general Gaius Marius (157-86 BCE) depicted isolated and exhausted. Though his political career was relatively successful, Marius fled Rome in 88 BCE after being defeated by Sulla and his unprecedented march on Rome. According to Plutarch Marius fled to Africa and landed in Carthage but was confronted by a Roman official who claimed the Praetor of the African province forbid Marius to rest here. When prompted Marius replied that the official should report to his governor simply that he had seen 'the exiled Marius sitting on the ruins of Carthage' (Plutarch Life of Marius). The artist Mortimer exhibited the his original drawing as well as an oil painting of the same subject at the 1774 Society of Artists exhibition after a commission be Edward Sachaverell Pole (1718-1780). The drawing was acquired by Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) a fine art connoiseur best known for his theories on picturesque beauty.
[Ref: 53962]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Jardinier Galant.  Dedie a Monsieur Boullogne, Conseiller d'Etat ordinaire et au Conseil Royal des Finances  Par ses tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteurs Helman et Choffard.
Le Jardinier Galant. Dedie a Monsieur Boullogne, Conseiller d'Etat ordinaire et au Conseil Royal des Finances Par ses tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteurs Helman et Choffard.
Peint a Gouasse en 1768, par N. Lavreince Baudoin. Grave en 1778 par Helman.
a Paris ches l'Auteur Graveur de Msr. le Duc de Chartres, rue des Mathurins au petit Hotel de Cluny et ches Choffard Cour des Quinze Vingt.
Engraving, 430 x 310mm. Even light age-toning to paper, occasional light spotting.
A gardener is discovered attempting to seduce a maid. Engraved by Isidore Stanislas Helman (1743 - 1806) a pupil of the renowned engraver Jacques Phillipe Le Bas.
[Ref: 7354]   £420.00  
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[HMS "Galatea" amongst icebergs in the Southern Ocean, 23 April 1868.]
[HMS "Galatea" amongst icebergs in the Southern Ocean, 23 April 1868.]
O.W. Brierly [in image].
[n.d., c.1869.]
Zincograph, printed in colours. Sheet 380 x 670mm (15 x 26½"). Trimmed to image and laid on board, as issued. Board replaced.
A view of HMS Galatea, an Ariadne class 26-gun, sixth-rate, wooden screw frigate, launched in 1859 and broken up 1883, in rough seas. In 1867 Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817-94) was invited to join what was intended to be a world voyage by Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900) as captain of the 'Galatea', with the specific intention of visiting the Australian colonies. The voyage was cut short when Alfred was shot in the back during an assassination attempt. The same scene was lithographed in a smaller format by Dutton for Rev. John Milner's official account of the voyage, 'The Cruise of HMS Galatea, Captain HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, in 1867-1868'. published 1869.
[Ref: 51160]   £450.00  
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Iean Francois Galup, de la Perouse. Gebohr. zu Alby 1741.
Iean Francois Galup, de la Perouse. Gebohr. zu Alby 1741.
1800 Conrad Westermayr sculps.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with small margins. Plate 135 x 83mm (5¼ x 3¼").
Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741-c.1788) the French Navy officer and great explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania, somewhere off the western and southern coasts of Australia. Many places were named in his honour all over the world, included La Pérouse crater on the Moon. Commanded the "Bousade & Astrolobe" which arrived in Australia just after Capt. Phillip. From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden".
Kivell & Spence: pg.170 not in.
[Ref: 29530]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Galba.] Ser. Galba. Imp. Caesar. Aug. Tr. P.
[Galba.] Ser. Galba. Imp. Caesar. Aug. Tr. P. Spem frustrae senex privatus sceptra mereri...
[Wolfgang Kilian.][After Raffaello Schiaminossi.]
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Sheet: 205 x 130mm (8 x 5''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Loss bottom right.
A portrait of Galba from a series of thirteen busts of Roman Emperors engraved by Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662) after Raffaello Schiaminossi.
[Ref: 49697]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Galba. VII.
Galba. VII. Il faut choisir les soldats et non pas les achepter.
F.L.D. Ciartres excudit Cum privegio Regis Christianiss.
Copper engraving. 280 x 200mm, 11 x 8".
Galba, the seventh Roman emperor and the first from outside Julius Cæsar's extended family. By François Langlois (1589-1647), called Ciartres.
[Ref: 19847]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Galba Caesar.
Galba Caesar.
Titian del.t J. Pass sc.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis, 1826.
Colour printed stipple with engraving. Plate 177 x 127mm. 7 x 5".
Galba (3BC - 69AD) was Roman Emperor for seven months from 68 to 69. He was the first emperoro of the Year of the Four Emperors, and the seventh of the Caesars.
[Ref: 21607]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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John Gale alias Dumb Jack.
John Gale alias Dumb Jack.
[John Faber senior]
[n.d. c.1710.]
Scarce mezzotint, sheet 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate. Paper toned. Damaged.
Half-length portrait of John Gale, in an oval frame, turned and facing right, smoking a long pipe with a hat tilted to one side. John Gale, a deaf and mute character living in London during the 1690s who accompanied criminals to Tyburn.
Wellcome: 2099. CS 36. Ex Collection of Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67763]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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John Gale alias Dumb Jack.
John Gale alias Dumb Jack.
[John Faber senior]
[n.d. c.1710.]
Scarce mezzotint, sheet 170 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"). Trimmed to oval.
Half-length portrait of John Gale, in an oval frame, turned and facing right, smoking a long pipe with a hat tilted to one side. John Gale, a deaf and mute character living in London during the 1690s who accompanied criminals to Tyburn.
Wellcome: 2099. CS 36. Ex Collection of Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67764]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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John Gale alias Dumb Jack.
John Gale alias Dumb Jack.
[H. Cook.]
[n.d. c.1819.]
Etching. Plate 215 x 160mm. 8½ x 6¼".
John Gale, a deaf and dumb character living in London during the 1690s.
[Ref: 15307]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Galen. A most excellent Physitian [...]
Galen. A most excellent Physitian [...] Ex marmore antiquo.
P.P. Rubens Del.t. J. Faber sen.r Fecit.
Printed & Sold by Tho: Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church yard, and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1735].
Rare & fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins. Tear in bottom margin taped, slight surface soiling, crease in bottom left corner of plate.
A portrait of Greco-Roman physician, surgeon, and philosopher Galen of Pergamon (129-c.216AD), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64648]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Galen contemplating the skeleton of a robber.]
[Galen contemplating the skeleton of a robber.]
[Etched by Gerard van der Gucht.]
[n.d., 1733.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 385 x 245mm (15½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A man in toga and sandals looks down on a skeleton on the ground under a cliff. The frontispiece from 'Osteographia, Or The Anatomy Of The Bones. By William Cheselden Surgeon To Her Majesty; F.R.S. Surgeon To St. Thomas's Hospital, And Member Of The Royal Academy Of Surgery At Paris'.
[Ref: 65361]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sarcophagus of Galen the Physcian of Pergamus, where the celebrated Barbarini, or Portland Vase, was discovered [...]
The Sarcophagus of Galen the Physcian of Pergamus, where the celebrated Barbarini, or Portland Vase, was discovered [...]
T. Windus F.S.A. Direxit. Dean & Co. Lith.
[London: W. Pickering for the Author, 1845.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"). Crease in top left corner.
A sketch of a sarcophagus in the Capitoline Museum, with the Portland Vase drawn to scale on either side. An illustration from 'A New Elucidation of the Subjects on the Celebrated Portland Vase, Formerly Called the Barberini, and the Sarcophagus in which it was Discovered' by Thomas Windus. If Windus's theory is to believed the vase would have been at least 150 years old at the time of Galen's death.
[Ref: 59160]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Tabula IV. Statuæ [...]
Tabula IV. Statuæ [...]
Annibal Carraccius pinx. in Ædibus farnesianis. Petrus Aquila delin et sculp.
Io. Jacobi de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cu Priv. S. Pont. [1674-1693.
Etching, printed in sanguine. 370 x 560mm (14½ x 21¾") Wear to margins.
A plate from 'Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis', illustrating Annibale Carracci's mural in the Villa Farnesina. These are six contorted, muscular 'Captives', telamones inside niches from the painted ceiling of the Farnese gallery, divided by door-frames.
[Ref: 33921]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Mrs. Dorus-Gras.
Mrs. Dorus-Gras. Galerie de la Presse, de la littérature & des Beaux-Arts.
Ch. Fogt. Imp d'Aubert & Co.
Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8¼").
Julie Dorus-Gras (1805 - 1896) was a Belgian operatic soprano. To begin her career she made a concert tour which took her to Brussels. Her concert was so successful, that Count de Liederkerke offered her a contract to sing operatic roles. Dorus acquired the name Gras on 19th April 1833, when she married one of the leading violinists in the orchestra of the Paris Opera. From a series of portraits published in 1838-43 by Aubert & co.
[Ref: 36997]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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M.elle. Falcon.
M.elle. Falcon. Galerie de la Presse, de la littérature & des Beaux-Arts.
Imp d'Aubert & Co.
Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8¼").
Cornélie Falcon (1814 - 1897) was a French soprano who sang at the Opéra in Paris. Her greatest success was creating the role of Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. She and the tenor Adolphe Nourrit are credited with being primarily responsible for raising artistic standards at the Opéra, and the roles in which she excelled came to be known as 'falcon soprano' parts. From a series of portraits published in 1838-43 by Aubert & co.
[Ref: 37000]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Rubini.
Rubini. Galerie de la Presse, de la littérature & des Beaux-Arts.
Imp d'Aubert & Co.
Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8¼").
Giovanni Battista Rubini (179 - 1854) was an Italian tenor, remembered as an extraordinary bel canto singer, one of the most famous in Europe in the 1820s to 1840s. From a series of portraits published in 1838-43 by Aubert & co.
[Ref: 36996]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Tamburini.
Tamburini. Galerie de la Presse, de la littérature & des Beaux-Arts.
Imp d'Aubert & Co.
Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8¼").
Antonio Tamburini (1800 - 1876) was an Italian operatic baritone. Tamburini is famous for his association with the operas of Bellini such as 'I Puritani', and was one of the so called 'Puritani Quartet' of leading international singers, along with Grisi, Rubini [ref: 36996] and the bass Luigi Lablache [ref: 36998]. From a series of portraits published in 1838-43 by Aubert & co.
[Ref: 36999]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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F.J. Gall. M.D.
F.J. Gall. M.D.
Deposé à la Bibliotéque Imperiale. [n.d., c.1810.]

Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), whose belief that mental functions are localized in discrete parts of the brain started the pseudoscience of phrenology. Below the portrait are three skulls mapping those areas.
Welcome: 1071.
[Ref: 209]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Africa.] Amóchi Galla. Né à Enarea et agé d'environ neuf ans.
[Africa.] Amóchi Galla. Né à Enarea et agé d'environ neuf ans. Dr. Pritchard's Natural History of Man.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.
Hand coloured aqautint. Sheet size: 235 x 145mm (9¼ x 5¾").
A portrait of a Galla boy born at Enarea, Ethiopia and aged about 9 years old. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
In the Museum of New Zealand.
[Ref: 40018]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Gallant Winner of the Waterloo Cup 1897.
Gallant Winner of the Waterloo Cup 1897. The Property of Thomas Holmes Esq.re Jarrow on Type.
From a Painting by Albany E. Howarth. Lithographed by Howarth Bros. & Co. Newcastle on Tyne. Copyright.
[n.d., c.1897.]
Scarce chromolithograph. Printed area 450 x 405mm (17¾ x 16"). Very large margins.
A portrait of the champion courser 'Gallant', with portraits of the owner and trainer, Thomas Graham, above. By Albany E. Howarth ARE (1872 - 1936).
[Ref: 38917]   £420.00  
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Gallant Rescue off the Bachelor Rocks.
Gallant Rescue off the Bachelor Rocks. Punch's Pocket book for 1871.
C.K. [monogram of charles Keene]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1871.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
An illustration in which women are depicted in boats, waving flags. With their nets and lassos they rescue struggling men from the rocks and the water, pulling them into their boats. One of a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1843–81, published by Bradbury Evans & Co.
[Ref: 63847]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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The City of Gale.
The City of Gale.
[John & Awnsham Churchill.]
[Henry Lintot & John Osborne, 1744.]
Engraving. Plate: 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14½") with large margins. Vertical folds as normal. Tear in lower margin.
A view of the city of Galle on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka. From 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels' by John and Awnsham Churchill having been used previously in Philip Baldaeus's 'Description of Malabar and Coromandel and also the Island of Ceylon' in 1672.
[Ref: 46292]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Coup D'une Galare Avec Ses Proportions.
Coup D'une Galare Avec Ses Proportions.
Barthelelmy Chasse delineavit et Sculpsit.
Se vendent a Marsailles Chez Laurent Bremons sur le poer, au coin de reboul.
Engraving. 530 x 555mmm (17 x 21¾"). Some loss at centre fold.
A cross-section of a merchant galley, illustrating the cargo sections, after Captain Henry Sbonski de Passebon, who was stationed at Marseilles as a Lieutenant in the Corps des Galeres. It was one of three such diagrams in Michelot & Bremond's 'Carte Generalle de la Mer Mediterranee' (in effect a 12-chart sea atlas).
[Ref: 32565]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Mme. Galli Marie dans Carmen
Mme. Galli Marie dans Carmen Theatre de L'Opera Comique.
Chatiniere [signed in plate]. Imp. Becquet à Paris, pv.
[Paris: Martinet, c.1860.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 345 x 240mm. 13½ x 9½". Tear from lower extremity off image. Bit messy outside image.
Célestine Galli-Marié (1840-1905) French mezzo-soprano opera singer in the title role of Carmen, an opéra by Georges Bizet in its first production by the Opera Comique in Paris in March 1875. Numbered '89' below image; for a series of theatrical portraits ('Galerie dramatique'?).
Not in Harvard. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18536]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Ritratto di Cafri. (Portraits of Kaffirs)]
[Ritratto di Cafri. (Portraits of Kaffirs)]
G. Gallina f.
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins; publisher's stamp to lower right. Plate 247 x 184mm (9¾ x 7¼").
Portraits of women with four different native hairstyles. Published in Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario'.
[Ref: 30726]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Major General Sir Archibald Galloway, K.C.B.
Major General Sir Archibald Galloway, K.C.B.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. Engraved by F. Joubert.
Published by W.R. and L. Dickinson, 114 New Bond Street [n.d., c.1848].
Scarce mezzotint. 405 x 315mm (16 x 12½"). Damaged. Tear entering image taped; top left corner missing, paper toned.
A half-length portrait of Archibald Galloway (1779-1850), a Scottish soldier and Director of the Honorable East India Company, in uniform. He was created a K.C.B. when knighted by Queen Victoria on 25th August 1848; when this portrait would have been painted. Certainly there is no mention of his chairmanship of the E.I.C. in 1849 or his death the following year.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66144]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Rev.d. John Cole Galloway M.A.
Rev.d. John Cole Galloway M.A. Vicar of Hinckley.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 125mm (8¼ x 5"), on 19th century watermarked paper.
Portrait of Rev.d. John Cole Galloway M.A (c.1720 - 1804), Vicar of Hinckley. Author of sermons and an Exposition on the Church Catechism.
See [Ref: 68341].
[Ref: 68342]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Rev.d. John Cole Galloway M.A.
Rev.d. John Cole Galloway M.A. Vicar of Hinckley.
[n.d., c.1782.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Cut into plate and title pasted onto top of sheet. Time staining.
Portrait of Rev.d. John Cole Galloway M.A (c.1720 - 1804), Vicar of Hinckley. Author of sermons and an Exposition on the Church Catechism.
Part of Print - See BM. O'Donoghue 1908-25 (1). See [Ref: 68342]
[Ref: 68341]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Gallus so Near.
Gallus so Near.
[1756.]
Engraving, rare. Plate: 195 x 100mm (7¾ x 4") large margins. Foxing.
A set of three engravings on one sheet. The top image shows the Duke of Newcastle and Mr H. Fox facing each other, a version of BM Satire 3371. Below is an image titled 'The Old Woman and her Ass, A Fable', a variation on BM Satire 3497, showing a figure on the back of an ass with a human face. The bottom image is a variation of BM Satire 3399 'The Fox in the Pitt' in which Mr Fox is depicted as a fox burying gold in a pit while a figure on a lion cries 'justice for the nation'.
[Ref: 45497]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Henry Gally Knight Esq.e.
Henry Gally Knight Esq.e.
Painted by Henry Edridge. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
[London, n.d., 1825.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 495 x 370mm (19½ x 14½"), with large margins.
A romantic & fine image showing Henry Gally-Knight (1786-1846), in oriental costume and turban, holding the hilt of a sword and a long pipe. He was an MP and author of several Oriental tales and books on architecture. Lord Byron, in his ''Ballad to the Tune of Salley in our Alley'', accused Gally-Knight of being a dandy.
[Ref: 49961]   £550.00  
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