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The description of the poisoning of king John by a moonke of Swinstead abbeie in Lincolnshire.
The description of the poisoning of king John by a moonke of Swinstead abbeie in Lincolnshire.
[n.d., c.1590.]
Woodcut set in letterpress. Sheet 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Woodcut trimmed on right, laid on album paper.
A woodcut with six panels illustrating scenes of the poisoning of King John by a monk of Swineshead Abbey (not Swinstead, an error also in Shakespeare's 'King John'). The story tells that John was a threat to the abbey. A Brother Simon went to Abbot William and was granted absolution before giving the king a cup poison obtained from a toad. Because John's taster was not available, Simon drank from the cup first but returned to his cell before dying. The king fell ill and died at Newark Castle. From John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, told as an illustration of the treachery of the Catholic church.
BM 1953,0411.74, a cutting of two panels of this print, ''a 16th-century edition''.
[Ref: 62318]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Jupiter, Junon et Mercure.
Jupiter, Junon et Mercure. Dessin de Dosso Dossi dse Ferrare. E. Museo Prauniano. N.º 35.
Mar. Cath. Prestel Sc. 1777.
[Nuremberg, c.1780.]
Aquatint with etching, Collectors Mark verso, printed in black and brown. 355 x 430mm (14 x 17"). Old ink mss. in margin lower left. Large margins left & right.
From 'Dessins des meilleurs peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pays-Bas, du Cabinet de M. Paul de Praun à Nuremberg'.
[Ref: 62199]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Philip Kemble] Tragedy.
[John Philip Kemble] Tragedy.
R.K. Porter del. J. Godby sculp.
Published by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, April 4th 1806.
Stipple with etching. 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Crease at edge of plate top right, hole in top margin. Small margins.
John Philip Kemble in classical dress, clasping a goblet to his chest.
[Ref: 62409]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cambridge. Trinity College, King Edward's Gate.] 54.
[Cambridge. Trinity College, King Edward's Gate.] 54. [Trinity College was founded in 1546 by Henry VIII., whose statue is above the gateway. It was formed by the amalgamation of a number of older foundations dating from 1324-1336. The Library of Trinity College was built by Wren, who took as his example the Sansovino Library of St. Mark, Venice. The north side of the court is occupied partly be the Chapel with a gateway-tower in the middle (at west end of the Chapel) known bu the name of King Edward's Gate. It was built about 1426-30, and is of quite a different character from that of the later and heavier gate (or Queen's Gate). Thiw was the first gateway-tower with four turrets to be erected in Cambridge; a form of tower which became characteristic of Cambridge colleges. Thomas Neville built westwards of the Gate a new range containing the Library, thus completing the north side of the quadrangle. Among the famous men of the college are John Donne, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Sir Issac Newton, George Crabbe, Lord Morley, Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Etching. 280 x 255mm (11 x 10"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62268]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Margherita Luti] Fornarina.
[Margherita Luti] Fornarina. N.º 79.
T.A. Ingres. Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculp.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait of a woman in Renaissance costume, one hand touching a plant growing in an urn. This is an adapted detail of the painting 'Raphael and La Fornarina' by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1813), which originally depicted the artist with his mistress (Margherita Luti, 'The Baker') on his knee.
[Ref: 62201]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[La Perouse.] On Jette à la Mer un Indien qui avait Frappé un Matelot à Coups de Maillet.
[La Perouse.] On Jette à la Mer un Indien qui avait Frappé un Matelot à Coups de Maillet.
[Paris: Librairie de l'Encyclopédie du XIXe siècle, 1849.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 200mm (5¼ x 8").
A South Sea Islander being thrown into the sea from a longboat, having hit a French sailor with a mallet. From 'Voyages autour du monde', collected by William Smith.
[Ref: 62175]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Lake of Como.
Lake of Como.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache, titled in ink at top. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Tear taped, some scuffing, stain along right edge.
A well-executed and colourful scene.
[Ref: 62405]   £380.00  
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[Lake Como and Villa d'Este.]
[Lake Como and Villa d'Este.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache. Sheet 155 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Trimmed to image.
A close copy of the view of Lake Como by G. Castellini for Francesco Bernucca's 'Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como', c.1818. It is painted on the back of a part lithographic portrait.
[Ref: 62406]   £450.00  
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Lake of Como.
Lake of Como.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache, titled in ink at top. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Stains at top and right edges.
A well-executed and colourful scene.
[Ref: 62407]   £480.00  
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Lake Maggiore.
Lake Maggiore.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Gouache, titled in ink at top, Stamp of C. Rastrelli Geneva verso. Sheet 165 x 250mm (6½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image.
A well-executed and colourful scene of the island palaces, with a steamer on the lake.
[Ref: 62408]   £480.00  
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[John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham]
[John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 320 x 160mm (12½ x 6¼").
A caricature of the Earl of Durham (1855–1928) as a jockey, dressed in his own colours.
[Ref: 62400]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Langley Park, Norfolk. The Seat of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor Bar.t.
Langley Park, Norfolk. The Seat of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor Bar.t.
E.F.P. [Payne?] del et lithog. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 340 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Trimmed within printed border at sides, inscription area with repaired cracks and tear, top right corner cracked.
The facade of the 18th century Palladian hall built by Matthew Brettingham, set in a landscape park attributed to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. It is now home to Langley School. The print predates Sir William changing his surname to Proctor-Beauchamp in 1852.
[Ref: 62171]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Laxy, Isle of Man.
Laxy, Isle of Man.
On Stone by K. Haghe. Sketched from Nature by G. Pickering. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate S.t, London.
Pub.d by G. Pickering. Chester. 1832.
Lithograph. Sheet 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Slight spotting.
A view of Laxey, with a cattle and horse market being held on the shore of the Laxey River.
Not on Abbey.
[Ref: 62297]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes.
Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes. Inventez et gravez de Nouveau par J. Le Pautre Architecte et Dessinateur des Bâtimerns du Roy. Avec Privilege du Roy 1751. N.º 117.
A Paris rue Dauphine, chez Jombert, Librare du Roy.
Extract, 4to, 340 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾"), very large margins; numbered engraved title and nine plates on five sheets, the complete set of plates from this section. 18th century watermark. A few nicks to edges of margin, occasional spotting.
The complete set of ten engravings of Jean Le Pautre's 'Divers Sujects d'Histoires, Saintes et Profanes', published as a section of Volume 3 of ''Oeuvres d'Architecture de Jean Le Pautre''.
[Ref: 62224]   £480.00   view all images for this item
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Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale.
Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale.
J.T. Wood, Holywell St. Stand, London [n.d., c.1847].
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 125 x 115mm (5 x 4½"). Rubbing in unprinted area, corners knocked.
A half-length portrait of Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind-Goldschmidt, 1820-87). She made her London debut in 1847 to great acclaim. In 1882 she was appointed a professor of singing at the new Royal College of Music.
[Ref: 62236]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Blanche Lindsay [facsimile signature].
Blanche Lindsay [facsimile signature].
[after Kate Perugini] Swan Electro Engraving C.º.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Photogravure on chine collé. 145 x 90mm )5¾ x 3½"). Some spotting.
Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy (1844-1912), wife of Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Baronet, with whom she founded the Grosvenor Gallery, at alternative to the conservative Royal Academy), in 1877. The artist was Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (1839-1929), daughter of Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 62401]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Liston] M.r Liston as Paul Pry.
[John Liston] M.r Liston as Paul Pry.
Published by Orl. Hodgson [n.d., c.1825].
Coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776 - 1846) in character as the busybody Paul Pry, full length, holding an umbrella under his arm. John Poole's play 'Paul Pry' premiered in London on 13 September 1825 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran for 114 performances.
[Ref: 62312]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[Vilnius] Wilna I. [pencil]
[Vilnius] Wilna I. [pencil]
Fred. A. Farrell.
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching, limited edition 21/50, signed in pencil, and publisher's blindstamps. 295 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"), large margins. Faint mount burn.
A courtyard in winter, with leafless trees. Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, is known for its baroque architecture. Frederick Arthur Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62311]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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D.r Church's London and Birmingham Steam Coach,
D.r Church's London and Birmingham Steam Coach, Built at Birmingham, 1833.
John Cooke, Delin. Eng.d by Josiah Allen birm.m.
Published by Josiah Allen, Birmingham, & by Mess.rs Ackermann, Tilt & Fullers, London.
Fine & scarce steel engraving. Sheet 210 x 295mm (8¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line.
A three-wheeled steam coach carrying passengers down a country road. There is no sign of a flue. Dr. William Church (c.1778-1863), an American inventor, patented two steam carriages, the first in 1832, which wasn't built, and a second in 1835, after which he founded the London and Birmingham Steam Carriage Company. Whether the London to Birmingham run was ever completed is uncertain, but soon Church turned his attention to designing locomotives.
[Ref: 62118]   £450.00  
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[Louis XI]
[Louis XI]
Matheus fecit.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A full length portrait of Louis XI (1423-83), standing before a table on which is a small clock. Through the window are two figures with armies meeting, probably a reference to the Treaty of Picquigny, in which Louis paid Edward IV a large sum of money to withdraw his army away from France and renounce English claims to Normandy and other French lands, thus ending the Hundred Years' War.
[Ref: 62151]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Prospetto del Anfiteatro costruito nella Città di Lucca in Maggio 1785 per una corsa in giro di Cavalli con Fantino.
Prospetto del Anfiteatro costruito nella Città di Lucca in Maggio 1785 per una corsa in giro di Cavalli con Fantino.
Gio: Ant: Santi inv. Bart. Nerici Luc. sc.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Scarce etching, 18th century watermark. 445 x 575mm (17½ x 22½"). Trimmed close to plate, tears taped.
A circular race course around an ormanental garden.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62141]   £450.00  
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[Martin Luther.]
[Martin Luther.]
[Engraved by Moses Houghton after Hans Brosmer.]
[London: Cadell & Davies, c.1805.]
Stipple, proof before letters. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Trimmed close to plate on left; small tear and crease in top right corner, neither affecting image.
A portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546) after the woodcut by Hans Brosmer. Used as a frontispiece to William Roscoe's 'The Life and Pontificate of Leo The Tenth'.
[Ref: 62287]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Martin Luther] M Lutherus Islebius Theologus vixit An LXIII. Obiit Islebii Anno 1546 Febr 18.
[Martin Luther] M Lutherus Islebius Theologus vixit An LXIII. Obiit Islebii Anno 1546 Febr 18.
W: H Threvethen Sculp.
[London: William Dugard, 1652.]
Engraving. Sheet 290 x 185mm (11¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into text at bottom, laid on album paper.
A full length portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546), a swan standing at his side, a reversed copy of an engraving by François Stuerhelt. The frontispiece to his 'Discourses at His Table'
[Ref: 62428]   £390.00  
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The Lyon Entranced.
The Lyon Entranced. Quis talia fando Temperet a Lachrymis?_ Virgil.
[n.d. c.1762]
Scarce etching, plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with large margins. Slightly creased.
Satire suggesting that John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) has ruined Britain by taking over its government. had West Country Will [Pitt] been still his Keeper, I had not lost him."; B. "Will English, a True patriot" (the Duke of Cumberland) comforts her saying that Pitt will save the country, and that he will deal with Bute himself; C. "Ned Worthy, his Nephew" (Edward, Duke of York) contests with "Malcolm Fitz-Stewart, Undertaker" (John Stuart, Earl of Bute) about the alleged death of the lion; E. "Harry Crafty, his Man" (Henry Fox) and F. "Jack Rustle, Gravedigger" (John Russell, Duke of Bedford) insist that the lion is dead; G. "West Country Will" and H. "Dick the Templar" stand silent as Mutes, failing to speak out for Britain; I. "Mother Torbuck" (William, Earl Torbert) and K. "Goody Oldcastle" (the Duke of Newcastle), dressed as old women searchers, determine to find the cause of the lion's death, Newcastle suggesting that Bute has choked him on "those plaguy French Olives".
BM Satires 3922. See also reference 17553.
[Ref: 62335]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[A man in a fur hat and gown.]
[A man in a fur hat and gown.] 5. III. 215.
Watteau del. B [François Boucher] sc.
Huquier ex. C.P.R. [n.d., c.1725.]
Fine etching. 325 x 240mm (12¾ x 9½"), with 18th century watermark. Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at sides.
From 'Figures de différents caractères, de Paysages, et d'Etudes dessinées d'après nature par Antoine Watteau', second state, with Huquier's name.
[Ref: 62254]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Aldo Manuzio]
[Aldo Manuzio]
[Engraved by Moses Haughton after an original Picture by Giovan. Bellino in the possession of Mr Edwards Pall Mall.]
[London: Cadell & Davies, c.1805.]
Stipple, proof before letters. 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾").
Profile portrait of Aldus Pius Manutius (Aldo Pio Manuzio, c.1450-1515), the Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Used as the frontispiece to Volume II of William Roscoe's 'The Life and Pontificate of Leo The Tenth'.
[Ref: 62286]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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March. or It's an Ill Wind that Blows Nobody Good.
March. or It's an Ill Wind that Blows Nobody Good. By George this is a Shaver!!
Ego [M. Egerton] Fecit.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Rare aquatint. 220 x 320mm (8¾ x 12½"). Tear entering image taped, edges cracked.
A comical print showing a man losing his top hat to the wind, with a dirty urchin catching it.
Not in Hickman.
[Ref: 62316]   £190.00   (£228.00 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"). Small margins.
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; ii/iii.
[Ref: 62162]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Departure of Matthias I from the Netherlands.]
[The Departure of Matthias I from the Netherlands.] Dess Durchleuchttichsten Ertzhertzogen Mattheis Q. von den Niderlanden außzug.
[engraved by Frans Hogenberg]
[Cologne, n.d., c.1581.]
Engraving, 16th century watermark; 215 x 280mm (8½ x 7"). Top edge with tears entering plate taped.
Matthias (1557-1619) was invited to become Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands in 1578 by the rebelling Dutch, against the will of his uncle, Spanish king Phillip II. He left the county when the Seventeen Provinces declared themselves a republic in 1581; he ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from 1612 to 1619, during this time the imperial capital moved from Prague to Vienna. From the 'Geschichtsblätter' (history sheets) published by Franz and Abraham Hogenberg between 1570 and 1610.
[Ref: 62292]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mazeppa Pursued by Wolves.]
[Mazeppa Pursued by Wolves.]
J.S. [Sir James Stuart].
London, Published by Colnaghi, June 1821.
Lithograph on chine collé. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), on large original backing sheet. Slight cockling of chine collé.
An illustration to Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa', published in 1819. The poem tells the story of Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1640-1709) who, having been found having an affair with his count's wife, is strapped naked to the back of a horse which rides through the wilds of Eastern Europe.
[Ref: 62174]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Merlin's Mechanical Museum.] Merlin Princes Street Hanover Square.
[Merlin's Mechanical Museum.] Merlin Princes Street Hanover Square.
Milton F. Tower.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 55 x 50mm (2¼ x 2"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
The bookplate of Merlin's Mechanical Museum, opened by John Joseph Merlin (1735-1803), a Belgian inventor and maker of automatons, most famously the Silver Swan now in the Bowes Museum. On Merlin's death his collection was purchased by Thomas Weeks; when Weeks died in 1834 it was auctioned off, and Charles Babbage, 'father of the computer', bought an automaton of a dancer and bird that he had seen at the Mechanical Museum as a child.
[Ref: 62424]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Michel-Ange.
Michel-Ange. Dédié à Son Excellence M: le Baron d'Alquier, Envoyé Ext.re et Ministre Pléni.re de S; M: à la Cour de Danemarck Par som très humble Serviteur J.L. Potrelle.
Michel-Ange Pinx.t. J.L. Potrelle Del.t et sculp.t.
à Paris, chez Potrelle Jeune, Rue St. Honoré, No. 142 [n.d., c.1814].
Engraving. Sheet 375 x 290mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Half-length portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564).
BM: 1910,0610.169, 'Probably wrongly attributed'.
[Ref: 62192]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Il Latte.] Unsway'd by Fashion's dull unseemly jest [... ]
[Il Latte.] Unsway'd by Fashion's dull unseemly jest [... ] Vide Jerningham's Poem, Il Latte.
R. Westall R.A. inv. T. Cheesman, sculp. late Pupil to F. Bartolozzi R.A.
Published March 20, 1794, by J.F. Tomkins, New Bond Street, London.
Rare stipple. 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"), with very large margins. Spotting and staining.
A very decorative oval scene of a mother breastfeeding.
[Ref: 62303]   £320.00  
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[John Milton.]
[John Milton.] Three Poets, in three distante Ages born / Greece Italy and England did adorn. / This first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, / The next in Majesty in both the last. / The force of Nature cou'd no farther go: / To make a third she joind the former two. Dryden.
[after William Faithorne.]
[n.d. c.1688.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom affecting text.
Head and shoulders portrait of John Milton, long hair, wearing bands and gown, probably published as a frontispiece to one of his works. John Milton (1608-74), a poet best known for 'Paradise Lost', was also a civil servant for the English Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell.
[Ref: 62078]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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A Modern Greek.
A Modern Greek.
London J. M.cCormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph, with very fine fresh colour. Sheet 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½"). Slight soiling.
A portrait of a Greek man in a richly embroidered dress.
[Ref: 62339]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[First King.]
[First King.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom, small scrape in top edge.
A singerie print, with monkeys playing draughts. One is dressed in a soldier's uniform.
[Ref: 62163]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Roser.]
[Roser.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom.
A singerie print, with monkeys in human clothes playing cribbage.
[Ref: 62164]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Mousseline d. Amoy.
Mousseline d. Amoy.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare etching, printed in gold on porcelain card. Sheet 1209 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Slight staining on bottom edge, laid on album paper.
An advert for Mouselline, depicting a camel, elephant and bales.
[Ref: 62243]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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A Naiad.
A Naiad. Ye green haired Nymphs...
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1779.
Published according to Act of Parliament Oct 4. 1779 by F. Bartolozzi N.1 Bentinck St. Bewick St. Soho.
Stipple, printed in colours, faint 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''), with large margins. Some creasing.
A naiad sits on the wall of a pool, one foot on an upturned urn, out of which water flows.
De Vesme 451.
[Ref: 62362]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
A. Picken.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½").
A version of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon on a rearing Marengo.
[Ref: 62338]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Royal Beggars.
The Royal Beggars.
G. Cruikshank fect
Satirist February 1.st 1814.
Etching with hand colour, sheet 200 x 365mm (8 x 14½"). Frame size 370 x 515mm (14½ x 20¼"). Trimmed to coloured border and glued to a backing sheet. Unexamined outside of frame.
Plate from the 'Satirist', xiv. 89. A plump 'cit,' John Bull, sits astride the throne (left), holding an imperious and enraged sceptre. "Take the Vagrant impostors to Gaol," he says, gesturing to a row of five supplicants that includes Napoleon (1769-1821) and his brothers (on the right); "they are not Objects for Charity!!!" The British Lion stands next to the throne's double dais, holding a cannon and cannonballs. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), a dapper man, follows, his left hand resting on his sword. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (1763-1844) is on the far left, with Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825) standing between and behind them. An intensely focused British sailor is on John Bull's left hand, holding a rope's end in his right hand and resting his left hand on an anchor; flags are behind him. A rudder and several commercial symbols, including casks, a large corded bale, a spade, and boxes of guineas, are at his feet. The Emperor of Austria (1768-1835) might be the person behind the sailor. The crown at the top of the throne is illuminated by light emanating from a female face that represents either Justice or Peace; the light is surrounded by thick canopy folds. Napoleon, malnourished and tattered, is seen on the far right and in the foreground, a pendant to Wellington, bowing low to John Bull doffing a rouge bonnet and displaying an agonized plea. There's a (patched) sack with his son on his back. The child is plumper than his father and wears a crown. "Take me from this Naughty Man who stole me & is not my Papa," he screams as his head, hands, and sceptre emerge from the sack. " "Pray pity a poor distressed Emperor, with two Wives & one helpless foundling Baby!" says Napoleon. He is sporting remnants of a uniform, with a swollen foot resting on the sole of a once-jack-boot. He leans on Joseph's (1768-1844) arm for support; both of them are equally dishevelled, wearing the remnants of a cut Spanish tunic with a ruff. "Look with an eye of Compassion on the poorest King of the Indies that ever lived," he says, holding a hat and a stick. Grabbing Joseph's other arm, the third brother says, "Charity for a wretch with also two wives & a small family," placing his right hand on Joseph's breast. His limbs protrude from his Dutch-style breeches. (The dress, however, represents Louis (1779-1844), the former king of Holland; the words refer to Jérôme of Westphalia (1784-1860), whose marriage to Elizabeth Patterson was dissolved by Napoleon so that he might marry Princess Catherine of Würtemburg.) The two others, Jérôme and Lucien (1775-1840), who is still in England, are less noticeable; they both bow down. One says: "A bone & a morsel of of [sic] Bread is all I can hope from your bounty benevolent Gentlemen." The last and smallest says: "Let me retire from Business with a little pension & I ask no more."
BM Satires 12183
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Bony's Visions or a great little man's night comforts.
Bony's Visions or a great little man's night comforts.
The Caricaturist General fecit.
Published for the Satirist Sept.r 1.st 1811.
Etching, J. Whatman 1808 watermark, sheet 200 x 345mm (8 x 13½"). Trimmed within plate. Folds as issued.
Plate from the 'Satirist', ix. 165. Napoleon (1769-1821) jumps out of a canopied bed (left) while wearing a nightshirt, scared of the goblins, demons, and ghosts that loom around him. "Duroc, Savory, Roustan, aux armes aux armes," he cries in terror as he holds a dagger and has two pistols hidden beneath his pillow. Beside him, sleeping, is Marie Louise (1791-1847). Above his head, a massive imperial eagle with a crown and a sword declares, "Wretch I leave thee for ever." A demon (left) is nursing Napoleon's (1811-1832) son while perched on a stool, saying, "Dear Image of my darling Nap, / Suck milk of Hell instead of pap." The child's head resembles Napoleon's, and he is wearing the iron crown of Italy. His visions face Napoleon. Clouds sprout the heads and shoulders of ghosts, uttering phrases such as "I am D'Enghien, the blood of your King," "Remember Captain Wright," "I am Pichegru," and "I am George" in that order from left to right. Above them a Turk rides on the horizontal and elongated body of a French Grenadier, whose head is a skull, and who says: "I am one of your own Soldiers poisoned in the Hospitals of Egypt." "We are the Turkish Prisoners murdered at Jaffa the head of another Turk says, emerging from the mouth of the first one. "I am Toussaint," a monstrous bird with an African head declares driven toward Napoleon by a demoniac quasi-human being with two heads and one set of wings. Above, a head with the words "I am Palm" is framed by an open book, and two hands—palms—protrude from behind the book. A demon is sitting on the skinny man's back on the floor in front of the bed, slicing a heart with a knife, and he is holding up a placard that reads, "Morning Post—Courier [two ministerial papers]—Peltier—Ambigu Satirist—Gilray's Caricatures&c &c &c." with delight. In the centre a huge monster with a quasi-human profile above a massive, fanged mouth that is spewing demonic creatures and a leg that resembles a bird. A coffin with the letter’s "N" and a crown next to the bed has two birds—an owl and a stork—and a rat on it. Nestled on the bed curtain, an antlered imp is poised to use its wand to remove the crown atop Napoleon's nightcap. This skeleton is above. There are bones and skulls in the foreground. Napoleon is shown a vision from a flying cherub on the right, which says, "Napoleon, lo! Britannia still enjoys the blessings of the Constitution—Surrounded by Liberty, Commerce, and Plenty, supported by her heroes—and attended by public felicity, She defies thy machinations!" This allegorical group is on a dais to which lead steps inscribed 'Wellington', 'Graham', [and] 'Beresford'. This allegorical group is situated on a dais with the words "Wellington," "Graham," and "Beresford" inscribed on lead steps. Beneath an architectural canopy with the inscription 'G III Rex,' Britannia sits with her lion at her side. Wearing a Roman helmet, Liberty raises the cap of Liberty; Commerce and Plenty are symbolized by a figure holding a caduceus and cornucopia, with Public Felicity placing a protective arm around each.
BM Satires 11736.
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Bonaparte's Monkey.
Bonaparte's Monkey. The above is a faithful portrait of a monkey belonging to Bonaparte during his residence at Longwood House, St. Helena. After Bonaparte’s death it was purchased by Captain Thompson, of the Abundance, and given by him, on his return to Spithead, to Mr. Stephen Taylor, the artist, then residing at Winchester. The monkey was very mischievous, and upon one occasion, made his way into a dressing closet, broke a glass, opened the dressing case, and was viewing himself in the looking glass, when discovered by Mr. Taylor, who made a sketch at the time, from which he afterwards painted a fine picture, and from which this print is taken. The monkey died after being in Mr. Taylor’s possession two years, and was buried in his garden at Winchester.
[Painted by M.r S. Taylor. Lith. by M.rs Hamilton.]
[Published Feb.y 18. by W. Soffe, 388 Strand, Corner of Southampton Street.] [c.1830.]
Scarce coloured lithograph. Image 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"), with original title and text pasted underneath. Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions and publication line, pasted on album paper with other scraps. Two Pin holes bottom of image.
A monkey seated on a dressing table, looking at itself in a mirror, a smashed glass to one side. Stephen Taylor, a British painter, was active 1817-1849, he specialized in dogs, portraits, and dead game. The shop, W. Soffe sold animal prints and other popular images.
Princeton Graphic Arts Collection GA 2005.00490. Last in our stock 2007.
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[Supposed arsonist] Johann Christoph Neumann.
[Supposed arsonist] Johann Christoph Neumann. Der Vater war ein Dieb, Doch stahl er nur allein die Mutter trat zuletzt in böser Brenner - Orden durch sie bin ich auch drin aufgenommen worden Ach, daß ich muß von ihr ein Sohn und Zeuge seyn Was Eltern Beyspiel kan bey ihren Kindern stiften Wenn sie durch böse-Seyn der Kinder Thun vergiften.
[Frankfurt an der Oder: Jeremias Shren, 1725.]
Engraving. Sheet 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed, laid down on album sheet.
A portrait of 14-years old arsonist Johann Christoph Neumann, sitting in a cell, chained around the waist. He was one of six people charged with planning an arson spree in a small community on the outskirts of Frankfurt an der Oder in May 1723, in which 84 buildings were destroyed. The other five, including his mother and sister, were killed and burnt; Johann was sentenced to ten years in Spandau Prison. From Johann Christian Wellman's 'Das Von der göttlichen Regierung An Denen Mord-Brennern, welche in der Nacht zwischen den 19. und 20. May 1723...'.
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[Nevada] Goshoot Passage. Showing 65 Miles of the Proposed Line of Railroad from the Desert West of Great Salt Lake to Humboldt Mountains. May 20th at 2 P.M. from a Peak Near Antelope Butte.
[Nevada] Goshoot Passage. Showing 65 Miles of the Proposed Line of Railroad from the Desert West of Great Salt Lake to Humboldt Mountains. May 20th at 2 P.M. from a Peak Near Antelope Butte. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 260 x 785mm (10¼ x 31"). Trimmed into plate at sides, original binding folds, one with splits taped.
An early view of Utah and Nevada, published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
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[Nevada] Valley of the Humboldt River at Lassen's Meadows. June 9.th at 3 P.M. from a Peak on the Western Humboldt River Range Showing 50 Mikes of the Projected Line of Railroad. 1854.
[Nevada] Valley of the Humboldt River at Lassen's Meadows. June 9.th at 3 P.M. from a Peak on the Western Humboldt River Range Showing 50 Mikes of the Projected Line of Railroad. 1854. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41.st Parallel. Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith. Vol II.
C. Schumann from F.W. Egloffstein. Selmar Siebert's Engraving & Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1861.]
Engraving with hand colour. 250 x 790mm (9¾ x 31¼"). Trimmed into plate at sides, damage at original binding folds.
An early view of Nevada, published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
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No Doubt My Wife Has Got Something Nice and Warm for Me This Cold Night.
No Doubt My Wife Has Got Something Nice and Warm for Me This Cold Night. / I'll teach you to stop out till this time of night.
G.A.H. Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street [n.d., c.1840].
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 315 x 250mm (12½ x 9¾"). Tear taped. verso.
A man uses the knocker on his door on a snowy night. When the door flap is opened it reveals his wife brandishing a red-hot poker. .
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The Coalition.
The Coalition. Believe me friend quoth North to Fox, While we together scratch and Box, And in the House, incessant splutter, Ourselves bedaubing with state gutter...
[n.d. c.1783]
Scarce engraving, plate 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"), with large margins. Creased.
Standing together with a ribbon around their shoulders that reads "Tie of Interest," are Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792) and Charles James Fox (1749-1806). With his left arm resting on Fox's left shoulder, North addresses him, saying, "Though you are a Fox by name & nature I hope to me you will prove no traitor." "While you can give me Place & Pension Your neck need never fear Extension," Fox responds. A piece of paper bearing the name "Vicar of Bray" is resting on Fox's shoulder beneath North's hand. Fox is leaning against a table on his right, and his left hand is resting on it. He is holding a piece of paper that says, "Debts of honor to my Lord Cog—150.1700." A paper with the words "Plan for disarming the I------h. V------rs" [Irish Volunteers] and some cards and dice are on the table. Two oval bust portraits of North and Fox are located on the background wall. The left portrait shows North in clerical bands and gown, with the inscription "Vicar of Bray," while the right portrait shows Fox wearing a rope around his neck with the inscription "Sergius Cataline." These depictions suggest that North is the dishonest timeserver, and Fox is the treacherous conspirator. There are three prints above the portraits. An execution scene is depicted on the left; two figures are hanging from a gibbet after the cart has just rolled away. A ship in full sail is being blown by a blast with the word "Boreas" in the centre. The "Stream of Corruption" is the body of water it travels on. "State Vessel" is inscribed on the frame. A print depicting a fox stealing a goose can be found on the right. There's a big sack on the ground (left) with the word "Budget" on it.
BM Satires 6179.
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Titus Oates.
Titus Oates.
[Engraved c.1680, this impression later.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼") Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper.
A portrait Titus Oates (1649-1705), wearing square cap, coat and holding gloves. Oates fabricated the 'Popish Plot', a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
See BM for proof impression. 1902,1011.6905.
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The Mountebanks, Or Opposition Show Box.
The Mountebanks, Or Opposition Show Box.
Nathaniel NoParty Esq.r inv.t G Cruickshank Sculp.t.
Published Febury 1.st 1812 by M Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Etching, with hand-colour, watermark 1809. Sheet 205 x 485mm (8¼ x 19"). Trimmed within plate. Folds as issued. Some light surface dirt. Holes in right where previously bound.
Plate to the 'Scourge', iii, before p. 87. The show-box is a little platform with four legs that resembles a tall table and has draperies partially covering its front. Opposition members are performing on this. 'Avarice—Treason' (left) and 'Impudence Apostacy' (right) are inscribed on the front legs. A lively thoroughbred horse with the Regent's head, with enormous facial heair, was attached to the platform by means of lead strings or bands that were fastened to the legs on the right and bare the words "Restrictions." Father Time, however, has just sheared these, and the horse gallops off to the right. Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) clad in an oriental ensemble and a jewelled turban, rides the horse. He holds the reins triumphantly above his head and waves the long, knotted lash of his whip in the direction of the stage he is leaving behind. He thrusts his left leg forward to allow George Canning (1770-1827) (right) to lick his toe obediently. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845) is seated on the edge of the platform, leaning forward to cover the eyes of a startled John Bull, who is standing below with his back to Grey, with a bandage bearing the words "Catholic Emancipation." John is a countryman wearing knee-high gaiters and a short smock. There's a dagger against his breast, maybe dropped from Grey's hand. Standing behind Grey is Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815), a quack physician dressed in period attire, holding a sign that reads, "Infallible Panacea—Reform." He has medicine bottles in his coat pockets, one of which is marked, "Whitbreads intire." Behind him, a small Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863) dances a Highland fling. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) dressed like a clown, kneels on the left side of the platform. He holds a tumbler and uses a pipe to blow froth out of it, which rises as smoke with the words "Drury Lane Promises, Old Drury Promises" written on it instead of bubbles. With their 'Token of English Credulity' pouches in hand, two vulgar would-be fashionables come forward to the platform to empty their coins into Sheridan's tumbler. A box labelled "State Box" sits to the right of the platform. Papers with the words "Corruption," "Reform," "Abuses," and "Catholic Bill" are projected from beneath the lid. William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), is seated atop a pile of coins and money bags bearing the inscription "16000 Sinecure." His massive rear is marked "Modesty," and he waves a large, heavily frayed piece of swirling drapery in the direction of the departing Regent. A dog with Sir Francis Burdett’s (1770-1844) head jumps towards the horse and starts barking, "Bow woo woo woo," upending an overturned box that is lying on the ground between the platform and the horse's heels. The heads of a dog, a fox, and an ass protrude from the box on short posts. The Right Hon Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), wearing his gown bends beneath the platform to light a barrel bearing the words "Stephens's Inflammable." "Here goes! for a Complete blow up.” he declares. George Ponsonby (1755-1817) is reclining on the ground between John Bull and Perceval, clutching an upside-down bottle marked "Compassion for the Irish."
BM Satires 11846.
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