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Ce vainqueur que tu vois se fit craindre en tous lieux et Compta pour un rien de Combatre les Dieux mais il succombe Enfin aux charmes de Venus que triomphe en secret et le rendre Confus.
Ce vainqueur que tu vois se fit craindre en tous lieux et Compta pour un rien de Combatre les Dieux mais il succombe Enfin aux charmes de Venus que triomphe en secret et le rendre Confus. Coy que dans les perils ton Courage Signale apprend a Eviter les attraits de sa flame Si personne ne fut un mars pour la valeur que fut plus que Venus Fatal a la pudeur.
N. Vleughels pinx. Petit Sculp.
a Paris chez F. Chereau Graveur rue S. Jacques aux deux piliers d'Or. [n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate 305 x 375mm. 12 x 14¾".
Mars succumbing to the charms and beauty of Venus, which she takes advantage of to make him confused; a courageous warrior, he is supposed to avoid the charms of her beauty.
[Ref: 18813]   £170.00   (£204.00 incl.VAT)
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Mars et Vénus.
Mars et Vénus.
A.Devéria del. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & Ce.
Paris, chez Bulla éditeur, rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph with superb original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. Publisher's blind stamp. Printed area 310 x 360mm. Small tear in the edge of the wide margins.
Underneath the title is a French text explanation of the scene.
[Ref: 1751]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
M. Val Marziale. Fedelmente Tradutto in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Tomo.I.
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pubd. as the Act dizects 14 th December 1783. by G. Graglia London.
Etching with engraving. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼").
A satyr seated playing Pan's flute before a bust of Martial (poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, c.40-c.104AD). The engraved title of 'Tutti gli Epigrammi di M. Val Marziale, fedelmente trasportati in italiano da Giuspanio Graglia Torinese'.
De Vesme: 1744; iii/iv.
[Ref: 20484]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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to Night and Death
to Night and Death / Made he flaming with rage, folling his eyes / So fast that whirlwinds rose about him.
J. Martin K.I. A. Martin.
[London: Francis Baisler, 1844.]
Mezzotint, fine image. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Trimmed inside plate.
Two angelic figures by an underground sea representing Hell. Engraved by Alfred Martin (1841-1872) after John Martin (1789-1854) as the frontispiece to 'The Wars of Jehovah, in Heaven, Earth and Hell: in nine Books' by Thomas Harkins.
[Ref: 40347]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Nuptiae Meleagri et Atalantae. 14.
Nuptiae Meleagri et Atalantae. 14.
Polidoro pinxit. Camillo Tinti sculpsit Romae 1772.
Romae in Hortis Marchionis del Bufalo.
Engraving. 241 x 317mm (9½ x 12½"), with wide margins. Water stain upper left of margin.
The marriage of Meleagar and Atalanta. After the painting on the facade of the demolished Ninfeo in the Palazzo Bufalo Cancellieri, taken down in 1885 and now in the Museo di Roma. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 31002]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Nuptiae Meleagri et Atalantae. 14.
Nuptiae Meleagri et Atalantae. 14.
Polidoro pinxit. Camillo Tinti sculpsit Romae 1772.
Romae in Hortis Marchionis del Bufalo.
Engraving with small margins, plate 241 x 317mm (9½ x 12½"). Glued to backing sheet.
The marriage of Meleagar and Atalanta, after the painting by Polidoro da Caravaggio on the facade of the demolished Ninfeo in the Palazzo Bufalo Cancellieri, taken down in 1885 and now in the Museo di Roma. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 35210]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Meleager et Atalanta. 12.
Meleager et Atalanta. 12.
Giulio Romano delin. Franc. Lonsing. sculpsit. 1772.
Romae in Aedibus Burghesianis existens.
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 280 x 490mm (11 x 19¼"). Water staining and tear to left edge.
The hunt for the Calydonian Boar; at the centre of a pastoral landscape, Meleager drives a spear into the mouth of the dangerous wild boar, laid upon by hounds after he brought it down. To the left stands Atalanta poisted to shoot another arrow; to the right, their fellow heroic hunters raise their lances, also poised to strike the boar. After the drawing in the Musee du Louvre. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 31007]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Meleager et Atalanta.
Meleager et Atalanta.
Giulio Romano delin. Franc. Lonsing. sculpsit. 1772.
Romae in Aedibus Burghesianis existens.
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 280 x 490mm (11 x 19¼"). Uncut.
The hunt for the Calydonian Boar; at the centre of a pastoral landscape, Meleager drives a spear into the mouth of the dangerous wild boar, laid upon by hounds after he brought it down. To the left stands Atalanta poisted to shoot another arrow; to the right, their fellow heroic hunters raise their lances, also poised to strike the boar. After Giulio Romano (?1499-1546), painter and architect trained by Raphael. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 35215]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Meleager and Atalanta]
[Meleager and Atalanta] From an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr. Sayer / See Ovids Metamor.s Book VIII Pa. 54
R. Wilson pinx.t. R. Earlom sculp.
Rob.t Sayer Excudit / London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller No 53 in Fleet Street / Published as the Act directs Sep.r 20 1771
Mezzotint, 465 x 560mm (18¼ x 22"). Very large margins (tatty). Repaired tear at top.
Atalanta (drawing her bow lower left) and her lover Meleager (on horseback with spear) slay the huge boar which Diana sent to devastate the countryside of Calydon. Dramatic rocky landscape with waterfall behind, showing the influence of Salavator Rosa's sublime scenery on British landscape. Subject from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', a rich source of subject matter for artists. Engraved by leading mezzotint engraver Richard Earlom after the painting, c.1770, by Richard Wilson (now in the Tate collection). The publisher of this print, Robert Sayer, was the first recorded owner of the painting.
Wessely 80
[Ref: 38607]   £330.00  
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[Meleager and Atalanta]
[Meleager and Atalanta] Engraved from an Original Picture, Painted by R. Wilson and J. Mortimer.
Painted by R. Wilson. Engraved by W. Woollett & B. Pouncy
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 1st. December, 1779]
Engraving, sheet 410 x 545mm (16 x 21½"). Trimmed inside platemark, possibly losing text; 1st Published state.
Atalanta (drawing her bow lower left) and her lover Meleager (on horseback with spear) slay the huge boar which Diana sent to devastate the countryside of Calydon. Dramatic rocky landscape with waterfall behind, showing the influence of Salavator Rosa's sublime scenery on British landscape. Subject from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', a rich source of subject matter for artists. Engraved by leading mezzotint engraver Richard Earlom after the painting, c.1770, by Richard Wilson (now in the Tate collection). The publisher of this print, Robert Sayer, was the first recorded owner of the painting. The legend to the final state of this print attributes the painting to Wilson and another artist, John Hamilton Mortimer, although Mortimer's involvement is doubted by Spencer-Longhurst et al in their recent catalogue raisonné of Wilson's work.
Fagan 103 V of VIII (state unknown); for a mezzotint of the same painting see ref 38607.
[Ref: 38961]   £320.00  
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Meleager and Atalanta.
Meleager and Atalanta. In the Gallery ay Houghton. Size of the Picture F. 10. I. 7. by F. 20. I. 9½ long.
Rubens Pinxit. G. Farington delin. John Boydell excudit 1781. Richard Earlom, Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y. 1st. 1781 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint with stipple. Plate: 880 x 520mm (34¾ x 20½"), with large margins. Central crease as issued. Repaired cracking along platemark.
A mythological scene showing the hunt of the Calydonian Boar led by the Greek hero Meleager. The fierce huntress Atalanta, with whom Meleager was in love is shown having fired an arrow into the side of the beast. As Atalanta drew the first blood she was awarded the hide. Enraged that the hide had been awarded to a woman, the fellow huntsmen, among who were Meleager's uncle and brother, fought and were killed by Meleager who was in turn killed by his mother for murdering her son and brother.
[Ref: 40630]   £330.00  
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[Melpomene distributing gifts]
[Melpomene distributing gifts] Melpomene distribuant ses dons
[after Charles Eisen]
a Paris chez Basan [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾") large margins.
Mythological scene after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, La Fontaine and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46491]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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[Melpomene]
[Melpomene]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub'd. as the Act directs Mar.h 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 255 x 230mm (10 x 9"), with very large margins.
Melpomene, the Tragic Muse, watching on as a boy weeps over a dead friend. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 442.ii
[Ref: 43426]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Il Mercurio Italico. Vide p.18.
Il Mercurio Italico. Vide p.18. Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant. Omnia nos itidem___ Lucretius.
Burney del.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London Published Jan.y 31.st 1789 for F. Sastres.
Etching and engraving. Plate: 222 x 171mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate in lower edge, otherwise small margins.
Minerva stretching her right arm towards Italy, seated on the ground in the form of a woman. In the centre, Mercury flying in the air; St Peter's Basilica and Colosseum in the background. Frontispiece to "Il Mercurio Italico" by Francesco Sastres (London: 1789).
De Vesme: 1784; iii/iii.
[Ref: 39793]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Mercury and Battus
Mercury and Battus From the Original Picture Painted by Claude le Lorrain, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire; To whom this Plate is Dedicated by his Grace's most Obliged and most Obedient Servant, John Boydell
Claude Boydell pinxt T. Grosse delin.t. James Peak sculpsit 1767
Published Jan.y 1st 1767 by J. Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Engraving, platemark 480 x 610mm (19 x 24"). Small margins in 3 sides. Trimmed to platemark at top.
Pastoral landscape with subject from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Mercury, who has stolen Apollo's herd of cattle, with Battus, an old man who has witnessed the theft but is later turned to stone by Mercury for betraying his secret. Engraved after Claude Lorrain's painting 'Landscape with Mercury and Battus', 1663. As the dedication to the Duke of Devonshire indicates, the painting was already in the Devonshire collection at Chatsworth House, where it remains to this day. From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in published in five volumes between the late 1760s and 1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell, who promoted the interests of artists, engravers and patrons, establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38481]   £360.00  
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Mercury instructing Jupiter.  No 265
Mercury instructing Jupiter. No 265
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published 5 August 1777.
Hand coloured mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼").
An infant Mercury sitting on the left, gesturing as he instructs an infant Jupiter who reclines beside him, with a swan. A cockerel can be seen on the hillside behind them. For un-coloured version, see item ref: 32820.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32818]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Mercury instructing Jupiter.
Mercury instructing Jupiter.
[Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published 5 August 1777].
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
An infant Mercury sitting on the left, gesturing as he instructs an infant Jupiter who reclines beside him, with a swan. A cockerel can be seen on the hillside behind them. For coloured version see item ref: 32818.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32820]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mercury and Venus]
[Mercury and Venus]
F.X. Haberman inv. et del.
Joh. Georg Hertel, exc A.V.
Etching, sheet 215 x 305mm (8½ x 12"). Trimmed on platemark. Small spot on left.
Venus and Mercury, with elaborate rococo design. By Franz Xaver Haberman (1721-1796), Augsburg engraver of a range of subjects.
[Ref: 33164]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Cupidon Achette Trop Cher.
Cupidon Achette Trop Cher. Engraved from a fine high finished Painting in Water Colours after the Antique by F. Bartolozzi.
Jos. Tturts pinx. F. Bartolozzi Sculps.
London, Pub. Dec.r 1. 1786 by J. Thane. Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple printed in colour with large margins. Platemark: 200 x 225mm (8 x 8¾"). Slight staining.
Mercury and Venus leading a young girl towards Jupiter and Juno, seated on a throne on the left. On the far right, Cupid is seen crying. Within an oval. After British printmaker, author and poet, Joseph Strutt (1749 - 1802). Engraved by one of the founding members of the RA, and the founding President of the short-lived Society of Engravers, Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815).
De Vesme 389. V of V.
[Ref: 36457]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Minerva and Mercury with a young man]
[Minerva and Mercury with a young man]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub'd. as the Act directs Mar.h 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 260 x 270mm (10¼ x 10½") very large margins.
Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 406.ii
[Ref: 43428]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Plate 2: A God on his throne above water.]
[Plate 2: A God on his throne above water.]
Mondon le fils inv. A. Aveline Sculp.
Avec privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1736.]
Copper engraving. Plate 234 x 184mm. 9¼ x 7¼". Uncut, large margins.
A double-headed god seated on a thone, on top of a stone ornamental bridge with a Chinese woman and a large feathered bird in the near foreground to right. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the fourth set "Quatrième livre de formes ornées de rocailles".
[Ref: 22987]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Muses Melpomène, Polymnie, et Erato.
Les Muses Melpomène, Polymnie, et Erato.
Le Sueur, Delinavit. Guyot, Excudit.
a Paris chez Guyot Graveur, rue Jacques, No. 9..[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching with printed and hand colour, sheet 165 x 194mm. Trimmed to plate and glued to album page at corners.
Attractive image of three Muses seated in a landscape beside a clump of trees, with good colour. From left to right, Melpomene, kneeling and singing whilst looking at a music score, Polymnia with her arm resting on a book, and Erato, playing the cello. Engraved and published by Laurent Guyot (1756 - 1808).
[Ref: 7905]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Woman holding a child]
[Woman holding a child]
London, Publish'd as the Act directs Feb. 1 1791 by S. Watts No. 9 Kennington Cross, Lambeth
Stipple, scarce, platemark 380 x 405mm (15 x 16"), with large margins. Proof before artists' names and title.
Unsigned stipple probably by Francesco Bartolozzi or a pupil. Published by Simon Watts (1767-1802, fl.), publisher of stipples based mostly in Lambeth and Kennington.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47337]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Scene from classical mythology.]
[Scene from classical mythology.]
perin del. mariage sculp.
[Paris: n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple and etching, scratched letter proof, 390 x 320mm. 15¼ x 12½". Light staining/spotting. One rust spot to image upper centre.
Very faint trace of some scratched letters of title visible; illegible. Print made by Louis François Mariage (1785 - 1828; fl.), stipple and line engraver.
[Ref: 10317]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Dorme Clori: coll' arpa Amor la desta: Sorge sul fianco, e ad ascoltar s'arresta.
Dorme Clori: coll' arpa Amor la desta: Sorge sul fianco, e ad ascoltar s'arresta.
Ant. Canova inv. e marmo di grandezza naturale. G. Toignoli dis. Dom. Marchetti incise.
[n.d. c.1817].
Engraving and etching. 400 x 545mm (15¾ x 21½"), with large margins. Creasing and marking in top margin. Repaired tear in top margin.
Sculpture of a naiad, reclining on a lion skin while a young winged cupid plays the lyre at her feet, seen from behind. Embedded in the naiad's rocky couch is an over turned jar, from which flows a spring of water; while Canova (1757-1822) was content to call his subject a nymph, his friend and biographer Leopoldo Cicognara more accurately calls her a naiad, a type of nymph that presides in fresh water, prompted by the carved detail of flowing water. Antonio Canova's original sculpture, commissioned by Lord Cawdor in 1814, is a variant of Guido Reni's painting 'Venus reclining with Cupid' (c.1639); the sculpture is currently part of the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 55020]   £350.00  
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Narcisse.
Narcisse. Metam. d'Ov. Liv. III Fab. V. et VI [...]
Fr. le Moyne pinx. Pelletier Sculp.
A Amsterdam chez Pierre Fouquet junior / A Paris chez Basan [c.1750]
Engraving, sheet 560 x 410mm (22 x 16"). Trimmed inside platemark; tears to edges. Old ms in ink verso.
The story of Narcissus, a young man of extraordinary beauty who fell in love with his own reflection, as described in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. The theme has been a popular one in the visual arts, with perhaps the most famous rendering of the subject executed by Caravaggio.
[Ref: 38384]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nausicaa and her Maids Playing at Ball.]
[Nausicaa and her Maids Playing at Ball.]
EJP [monogram] Edward J Poynter. Charles O Murray [pencil signatures]
Copyright 1898. Published by J.J. Virtue & Co. Limited, London.
Etching, signed by the artist. 285 x 630mm (11¼ x 24¾") large margins. Uncut.
Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia, about to find Odysseus shipwrecked on the beach. The 2nd century BC writer Agallis attributed the invention of ball games to Nausicaä, most likely because she was the first person in literature to be described playing with a ball. This plate was etched by James Dobie; Charles Oliver Murray etched a scene of Nausicaa after George Dunlop Leslie, so it is a mystery why his signature is here.
[Ref: 52193]   £330.00  
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Neptune et Amymone.
Neptune et Amymone.
A.Devéria del. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & Ce.
Paris, chez Bulla éditeur, rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph with superb original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. Printed area 310 x 360mm. Small tear in the edge of the wide margins, tiny skinned area in image.
Underneath the title is a French text explanation of the scene.
[Ref: 1752]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nessus abducting Deianeira.]
[Nessus abducting Deianeira.]
G.B. Cipriani inv.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Etching with aquatint tones, printed in brown. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Some surface dirt.
Nessus the centaur abducting Deianeira, the wife of Hercules. In the background is Hercules about to sheet Nessus with an arrow dipped in the Hydra. In turn Nessus's poisoned blood leads to the death of Hercules.
Calabi & De Vesme 455.iii.
[Ref: 44335]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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A Nest of Cupids.
A Nest of Cupids.
Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A.
London, Published 10th May 1804 by Anth.y Molteno, No. 29 Pall Mall, Printseller to her R.H. the Duchess of York.
Etching printed in brown, platemark 280 x 355mm (11 x 14"), with large margins. Late impression printed by David Strang ('David Strang Imp' in pencil lower left).
Twentieth century impression of an etching by Francesco Bartolozzi, printed by David Strang (1887-1967), son of the distinguished etcher and painter William Strang, whose plates he printed. David Strang also printed for Laura Knight and (posthumously) Walter Sickert. A rare curiosity.
[Ref: 47656]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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A Nymph and Shepherd.
A Nymph and Shepherd. In the Gallery at Houghton.
Carlo Cignani Pinxit. G. Farington delin.t. Michel Sculpsit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 315 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"), with large margins on three sides. Creasing.
A young woman gazes adoringly at a young man holding a musical pipe, who holds her stare. In front of them two children wrestle on a sheep. A scene based on a painting by Carlo Cignani (Bolognam 1628-1719), engraved by Jean Baptiste Michel (1748-1804) from an intermediate sketch by painter George Farington (1752-88)
[Ref: 51729]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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La Nimphe Amoureuse.
La Nimphe Amoureuse.
L. Hopner pinx.t. Dickinson sculp.t. [William Dickinson after John Hoppner.]
à Paris chez Bance, Rue St Denis, No. 175, près celle aux Ours [n.d., c.1800].
Rare mezzotint. 265 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A naked woman reclining in a bower, a winged cherub at her shoulder. An English print copied in Paris.
[Ref: 56422]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nymphs Bathing]
[Nymphs Bathing]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pubd. as the Act directs March. 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
Very decorative nude image. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 436.iii
[Ref: 43414]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[Nymphs Sporting]
[Nymphs Sporting]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pubd. as the Act directs March. 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 260 x 200mm (10 x 8"), with very large margins.
Decorative nude scene. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 462.ii
[Ref: 43417]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Nymphs Bathing.
Nymphs Bathing.
Drawn by J.B. Cipriani. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
London Published June 1st 1796 by Dietmar 114, Strand.
Stipple, printed in brown, fine.
Beautiful nymphs bathe at the stream.
De Vesme: 461.
[Ref: 45366]   £320.00  
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Nymphs Sacrificing to Love.
Nymphs Sacrificing to Love.
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. Giuseppi dall'Acqua figlio di Cristoforo Scul. 1780.
Rare stipple. 265 x 320mm (10½ x 12½"). Very large margins.
An oval scene of three nymphs presenting flowers to Cupid, who sits on a pedestal, his bow and quiver at the base.
[Ref: 37044]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Minerva assisting Ulysses in the destruction of the Suitors.
Minerva assisting Ulysses in the destruction of the Suitors. The dreadful agis blazes in their eye; Amaz'd they see, they tremble, and they fly. Odyssey, Book XXII.
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti.
[London: F. I. Du Roveray, 1806.]
Engraving. 260 x 171mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Minerva appears to help Odysseus kill off the suitors who are trying to marry Penelope and take over his beloved Ithaca. An illustration from Pope's translation of Homer's 'Odyssey', telling the story of the epic 10-year journey home of Odysseus (or Ulysses in Roman myths) after the fall of Troy.
Weinglass: 242.
[Ref: 31294]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Ulysses in the Island of Circe.
Ulysses in the Island of Circe. From an Original Picture in the possession of Geo. Bowles Esq.r to whom this plate is respectfully inscribed, by his obliged & obedient Servant, James Daniell.
Angelica Kauffman R.A. Pinx.t. W. Bond Sculp.t.
London Published June 29, 1809 by James Daniell, Engraver, 480, Strand.
A large stipple. 550 x 655mm (21¾ x 25½"), with very large margins on 3 sides. Spotting in margins, bottom margin worn.
The Greek hero Odysseus enjoying the pleasures of life on Aeaea. It was published as a pair with ''Ulysses discovers Achilles disguised as a Virgin among the Daughters of King Lycomedes''.
[Ref: 47704]   £550.00  
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Penelope weeping over the bow of Ulysses.
Penelope weeping over the bow of Ulysses. Across her knees she laid the well-known bow, And pensive say, and tears began to flow. Odyssey, Book XXI.
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by R.H. Cromek.
[London. c.1820.]
Engraving. 260 x 171mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Cut, slight foxing.
Penelope receives Odysseus's bow and begins to weep, fearing that he is now dead. Homer's Odyssey, the Greek epic poem, as a sequel to the Illiad. The poem mainly centres on the Greek hero Odysseus, known as Ulysses in Roman myths, and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes him ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.
Weinglass: 241
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The Shade of Ajax indignantly refusing to commincate with Ulysses.
The Shade of Ajax indignantly refusing to commincate with Ulysses. While yet I speak, the shade disdains to stay, In silence turns, and sullen stalks away. Odyssey, Book XI.
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by Isaac Taylor.
[London. c.1820.]
Engraving. 260 x 171mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Cut.
Odysseus tells the Phaeacians about going to the Underworld to hear the prophesy of Tiresias. When in the Underworld he tried to talk with the shade of Ajax, but it refuses. Homer's Odyssey, the Greek epic poem, as a sequel to the Illiad. The poem mainly centres on the Greek hero Odysseus, known as Ulysses in Roman myths, and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes him ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.
Weinglass: 239
[Ref: 31295]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cardinal Scipione Borghese as Orpheus Taming the Beasts.]
[Cardinal Scipione Borghese as Orpheus Taming the Beasts.] Si'l canto d'Orfeo...
[Gio. Battista Pasqalini.]
In Roma a 4. di Febraio 1622 [but later].
Engraving. Sheet: 530 x 370mm (21 x 14½"), mid-18th century watermark. Damaged and trimmed within plate.
A portrait of the mythological figure Orpheus who was said to be able to tame the animals with his music. The engraving is taken from a 1618 mosiac in the Villa Borghese by the artist Marcello Provenzale (1595-1631) and might have been a portrait of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633) himself. Whilst Orpheus is traditionally plays a lyre Borghese is depicted playing the popular violin which had been developed in Italy during the 16th century. Borghese is surrounded by domestic and exotic animals, including a dragon, and birds which he has bewitched with his music.
[Ref: 41495]   £480.00  
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Orphée.
Orphée.
Hondius pinxit. Le Bas direxit.
à Paris chéz Le Bas P.r Graveur du Cabinet du Roi, rue de la Harpe. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 470 x 310mm (17½ x 12¼"), on wove paper, large margins. Smattering of tiny worm holes.
Orpheus playing a lyre surrounded by animals and birds including camels, horses, elephants, swans and parrots. Originally published c.1760.
[Ref: 45382]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Ut Ameris Amabilis Esto. Ovid.
Ut Ameris Amabilis Esto. Ovid.
[Anon, c.1750.]
Line engraving, sheet 115 x 80 (4½ x 3"). Trimmed.
'To be loved, be loveable'. From Ovid's 'Art of Love'
[Ref: 33074]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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A Sacrifice to Pan.
A Sacrifice to Pan. From the Original Picture Painted by Andrea Sacchi, In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln; To whom this plate is Dedicated by his Lordship's most Obliged and most Obedient Servant John Boydell. No. 49.
Andrea Sacchi Pinx.t. F. Aliamet Sculpsit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, Jan: 1.st 1769.
Engraving. Platemark: 480 x 600mm (19 x 23½"). Small margins. Light spotting in margins.
A mythological scene in which several figures are shown sacrificing goats to Pan, the classical god of flocks and shepherds. Being a rustic god Pan was not worshipped in temples but in natural settings such as the landscape depicted. Pan, shown with legs of a goat and holding his characteristic pipes watches the proceedings from the left while a druid prepares a sacred fire to the right of the image. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38301]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Set of three prints in various states.] Penelope taking down the Bow of Ulysses.
[Set of three prints in various states.] Penelope taking down the Bow of Ulysses. From the original Picture in the Collection of Lord Boringdon.
A. Kauffman, R. A. pin.t. T. Ryder Sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1st. 1791,by B. B. Evans, Poultry London.
Set of three stipple engravings. Platemark: 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11") each. Hand lettered proof impression trimmed inside plate. Untitled proof impression has light surface marks and chips to right and top edges, cut to platemark. Titled impression has light spotting in very large margins. Foxing.
A set of three prints in various states; two proof impressions printed in brown ink. Lettered impression with full titles and publication lines. Penelope, standing in profile to left, reaches up to free the bow from the sash tying it to a column, while another woman crouches in the foreground, preparing a quiver. Published as a pair to item ref: 36444, 'Venus shewing Aeneas the Road to Carthage', by Benjamin Beale Evans, 1791. After Angelica Kauffman, RA (1741 - 1807), a Swiss-born Austrian Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
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Penelope awaken'd by Euryclea,
Penelope awaken'd by Euryclea, with the News of Ulysses' return, and the Death of the Suitors.
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. W.W. Ryland & Michel sculpserunt
Publish'd May 12 1785 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London
Fine stipple with etching, printed in reddish-brown. 305 x 395mm (12 x 15½"), with very large margins. Crease.
A scene from near the end of Homer's 'Odyssey', as the hero returns to Ithaca to reclaim his throne.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60311]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Perseus ceto occiso a se liberatam Andromedem Uxorem Ducit.
Perseus ceto occiso a se liberatam Andromedem Uxorem Ducit. In Hortis Ex.mi Principis Camilli Pamphilii.
Petrus Sanctus Bartolus delin et sculp.
Io. Iacobus de Rebeis formis Romæ ad Templum Pacis eu Priu S.Pont.
Engraving. 290 x 190mm, 11½ x 7½". Bit messy, margins creased and torn.
An engraving of a classical frieze in the Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome, showing Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the rock, the dead seamonster (Cetus) at their feet. Perseus is wearing the winged sandals of Mercury. Drawn and engraved by Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635 - 1700) and published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627-91).
[Ref: 26547]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Perseus having rescued Andromeda from imminent danger, is enamoured with her beauty.
Perseus having rescued Andromeda from imminent danger, is enamoured with her beauty.
Drawn by I.B. Cipriani. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Historical Engraver to His Majesty.
London, Published May 1.st 1789, bu E.M. Diemar, No.114 Strand.
Stipple and etching. 300 x 229mm. 11¾ x 9". Some paper loss to left just inside image area, trimmed.
Near the sea, Perseus releasing Andromeda from her chains.
De Vesme: 477; iii/iii.
[Ref: 20441]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Perseus cautiously relating to Andromeda_the transforming power of Medusa's head.
Perseus cautiously relating to Andromeda_the transforming power of Medusa's head.
Drawn by I.B. Cipriani. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Historical Engraver to His Majesty.
London, Published May 1.st 1789, by E.M.Diemar No.114 Strand.
Stipple with small margins. Plate 304 x 241mm (12 x 9½").
Perseus, naked kneeling on a river shore, holding the head of Medusa in his right hand, the reflection in the water; Andromeda, looking at the head from behind him
See Ref: 20444 for trimmed version. De Vesme: 478.
[Ref: 30380]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Perseus et Andromede. 13.
Perseus et Andromede. 13.
Polidoro pinxit. Johannes Volpato sculpsit Romae 1772.
Romae in Hortis Marchionis del Bufalo.
Engraving. Plate 247 x 317mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Water stain upper left of margin.
Perseus flying to slay the dragon that threatens to kill Andromeda. After the painting on the facade of the demolished Ninfeo in the Palazzo Bufalo Cancellieri, taken down in 1885 and now in the Museo di Roma. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 31001]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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