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Love at First Sight.
Love at First Sight.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t G. Shepheard sculp.t
London Published: Jany. 10th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured stipple and etching. 300 x 242mm. 11¾ x 9½". Trimmed to the plate. Tear into lower left.
A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman; a dog to lower right. From a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury.
BM Satires: 11456 (cf).
[Ref: 20101]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Cares'd.
Love Cares'd. Come to my arms, thou best, & dearest Boy The God of Love, triumphant, is my joy. The Original in the Possession of George Stainforth Esq.r Jun.r
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act directs, March 5.th 1783 by M.mo Bori No.207 Piccadilly.
Stipple. Collector's stamp M Bovi on verso and another. Plate 255 x 190mm. 10 x 7½". Slight creasing through title area and upper right.
Venus, bare-breasted, looks longingly into the eyes of winged cupid; a the plains and mountain behind.
From Broadlands the Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27513]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Vryagie van Reinter Adriaasz by Saartje Jansz. Declaration d'Amour de René à Sarotte.
Vryagie van Reinter Adriaasz by Saartje Jansz. Declaration d'Amour de René à Sarotte.
C. Troost inv. Punt et Tanjé fecurunt.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), with very large margins. Light foxing.
A scene showing the puritan René declaring his love for Sarotte. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42659]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Disappointed.
Love Disappointed.
W.Beachy pinx.t. R. Read sc.
London, Published Jan.y 1.st 1784 by J. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet: 240 x 255mm (9½ x 10"). Slight staining.
An allegorical scene in which a woman holds one of cupid's arrows aloft.
[Ref: 46904]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Feast.
Love Feast.
Thaumaso Scrutiny Esq.e Fecit.
Published for the Satirist. Oct.r 1.st 1808, by S. Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street.
Etching with aquatint, plate 185 x 335mm (7¼ x 13½"), with margins. On paper watermarked '1807'. Folds as issued. Small tear in one of the folds just touchng the plate.
Pl. from the 'Satirist', iii. 225. A satire on the marriage of Calvinist preacher, William Huntington (1745-1813) on 15th August 1808, to the rich widow of Sir James Sanderson (1741–1798), so that gold replaces his former earnings as a coal-heaver. He had formerly (after seducing and deserting another young woman) had 'a connection' (i.e. married) Mary Short by whom he had thirteen children; she died from gin and chagrin at the intimacy from c. 1803 between Huntington and Lady Sanderson. A "love-feast" is underway in a sparsely furnished room, illuminated by a torch that the Devil is holding above Huntington's bride's head. Huntington is holding the hand of a small woman who is staring at a picture (or mirror) that a "fat mid-wife" has held out to her. The picture features little imps or ragamuffins. The Devil offers a miserable literary hack a pair of breeches, while his ragged shirt and coat hang over his nude legs. With great pleasure, the latter accepts the breeches; from his pocket projects a paper: 'Huntington rescued from the Attack of the Satirist'. Hideous men and women can be seen on the left; one man is shown pouring a bottle's contents into the mouth of a woman who appears to be debauched. A woman holding an ugly baby is given a "Warrant f Bastardy" by a man. Demons are seen in the background emptying one sack of coal and stuffing another full of gold. "Bank of Faith this Lucrative Concern to be Disposed of the Present Proprietor retiring from Trade" is written on a placard that is attached to the wall.
BM Satires 11083.
[Ref: 62310]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Love & Glory._Sung by M.r. Braham.
Love & Glory._Sung by M.r. Braham.
Publish'd' Sep.t. 12. 1805, by Laurie & Whittle., 53 Fleet Street, London.
Very fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 9"). Trimmed within plate. Mounted within album sheet. Some stains.
Illustration to 'Love & Glory' a song which describes the love story between Henry and Jane. When Henry leaves to fight in battle Jane follows after and dies fighting alongside him disguised as a man. The character of Henry is depicted brandishing a sword in his right hand and holding a wounded Jane in his left. A wonderful over the top romantic image!
[Ref: 37447]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Plate from 'Amore prigioniero in Delo' by Giacinto Lodi.]
Plate from 'Amore prigioniero in Delo' by Giacinto Lodi.]
Gio: Batta: Coriolano [engraved in reverse].
[n.d., c.1630.]
Etching. Sheet 235 x 295mm (9¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into image on left, losing c.50mm. Very small wormhole centre bottom.
A festival float representing Venus with Nereids in a pool, accompanied by knights and soldiers. The last of 15 plates in Lodi's 'Love Held Prisoner on Delos', an account of a 1628 tornament in Bologna in honour of Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. This example is a reversed copy.
The BM also has one plate, Y,8.125, also reversed.
[Ref: 55421]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[L'Amour au Convent.]
[L'Amour au Convent.]
[Dugoure.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
A scarce hand-coloured aquatint. Proof before letters. Sheet: 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed.
A scene in a convent in which several nuns gather around a font baptising winged cupids alongside the figure of Mercury and Eros.
[Ref: 47242]   £390.00  
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Oh' How I Love the Ladies.
Oh' How I Love the Ladies. I did it afore his very sight, lard', how the chap did stare![/] For it's my delight on a shiny night, to kiss the charming fair.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 190 x 235mm (7½ x 9¼"). Trimmed and folded.
A comic scene showing a young man kissing a young woman while behind them a gardener looks at them in horror.
[Ref: 43791]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[Love Letters.] Sketches for Life. No.10.
[Love Letters.] Sketches for Life. No.10. Vy, you barbarous Willin is this here the way you treat you tender, loveing, [/] Affectionare Wife for to Write love letters to your Wicked Hussey's?
H. Heath del.
London, Published by C. Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Marking around edges.
A large, imposing woman grabs her husband by the collar holding a letter in her other hand.
[Ref: 43792]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Masked
Love Masked
Published as the Act directs Oct 10 1799 by P.W.Tomkins, No.49 New Bond Street London.
Fine stipple, printed in colours. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with large margins. Tears in margins, some soiling of edges. Uncut. Publishing line slightly faded.
An infant Cupid hides behind a huge Tragic mask. A pair to 'Cupid Unmasked'.
[Ref: 54209]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Me, Love My Dog.
Love Me, Love My Dog. Sketches of Head by W.D., No.69.
London; Published July 20, 1833, by T. McLean, Haymarket. Printed by Maguire & Co.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14¼"). Staining and laid on album sheet.
A scene showing a woman holding her dog.
[Ref: 44727]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Love Poem.]
[Love Poem.] [Two embossed prints of a piper with dancing dogs & Lord Brougham.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Hand-written ink & two embossed prints. Sheet 331 x 247mm. 13 x 9¾".
A love poem accompanied by two embossed images; above: a young pied piper dancing in the street, with two dressed-up dancing dogs, one wearing a clown hat and holding a small flag; below: a portraits in profile of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom. He studied law and was called to the English bar in 1808. He took up the fight against the slave trade and opposed restrictions on trade with continental Europe.
[Ref: 19157]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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Remember me.
Remember me. [&] The power of Love.
[n.d. c.1830]
Two letterpress' sheet 395 x 250mm (15½ x 9¾") Glued to album paper.
Two letterpress poems with flower designs framed around them.
[Ref: 62272]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Sheltered.
Love Sheltered. It's a cold, rainy night, and I'm wet to the skin / And I have lost my way, Ma'am: so pray let me in [...]
H. Thomson Pinx.t W.m Say Sculp.t
London, Published Nov.r 10.th 1806 by H. Macklin, 39, Fleet Street
Mezzotint, Open-letter proof, rare, platemark 655 x 415mm (25¾ x 16¼"), with very large margins.
Allegorical scene after one of the major works of Henry Thomson (1777-1843), engraved the same year as the Thomson painted the picture. Thomson was elected as a Royal Academician two years earlier, in 1804, and in 1825 would succeed Henry Fuseli as keeper of the Royal Academy. The publisher, Hannah Macklin, was the widow of Thomas Macklin, continuing his business after his death in 1801.
[Ref: 45436]   £420.00  
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The Love Sick Frog.
The Love Sick Frog. ''-She pin'd in thought...
Drawn by H. Walter. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
Published 1828, by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Haymarket, London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 305mm (9 x 12''). Creasing and foxing.
A scene showing a group of frogs surrounding a reclined frog pining for her love.
[Ref: 51081]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Sleeps.
Love Sleeps.
Angelica Kauffman del. T. Kirk sculp.
Published Jan. 1. 1794, by A.C.de Poggi, No. 91 New Bond Street, London.
Very rare stipple. 175 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½"), with large margins. Top corner of margin torn, well outside plate mark.
Eros sleeps leaning on his mother Aphrodite as a putto takes his bow. The image is within a decorative border suggesting a Græcian pottery plate.
[Ref: 41948]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[A Love Story.]
[A Love Story.]
Frank Dicksee pinxt. A. Lalaure aqu. [Both signed in pencil:] Frank Dicksee. A Lalauze.
Published July 1st.1884 by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, Liverpool & Manchester, & by M. Schaus, New-York.
Engraving and etching. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 386 x 508mm. 15¼ x 20". Laid on board.
Lovers seated on a stone bench under a bush at close quarters. Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853-1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator. He was best known for his dramatic historical and legendary scenes.
PSA: AP, limited to 300.
[Ref: 20266]   £520.00  
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Love triumphant over Reason.
Love triumphant over Reason.
Painted by Warniment. Engraved by Philippeaux.
Se venf à Paris chez Arthur et Comp.ie à la Manufacture Royal de aperper peint, Rue Louis le Grand au coin du Boulevard [n.d., c.1790].
Stipple. Sheet 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, extensive restoration. Damaged
A bare-brested woman lies on a bed, a suitor standing at her feet. Cupid stands at her head, his quiver on the floor. With four lines from 'Love Triumphant Over Reason', a poem by the Rev. Mr John Pomfret (1667-1702). Although obscure now, Samuel Johnson included Pomfret in his 'Lives of the Poets'..
[Ref: 55423]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Love Your Own Land.
Love Your Own Land.
[Dublin, P. Brereton? c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
Irish famine interest. ''Can you equal famed Killarney / Whose name resounds from Shore to Shore''.
See ref: 52233.
[Ref: 52235]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr. Christophorus Love, jn zyn leiten getrouw bedienaar des H. Evangliumsin laurense jury, binnen Londen, onthalst op Toitwehil den 22, Augusti Ao. 1651.
Mr. Christophorus Love, jn zyn leiten getrouw bedienaar des H. Evangliumsin laurense jury, binnen Londen, onthalst op Toitwehil den 22, Augusti Ao. 1651. Siet hier de schrand're Lov...Vermelden Eeuwighlyk de lof van Godes Naarm.
A. Conradus fecit. P.e de Lange.
[n.d. c.1650.]
Rare engraving. Plate 305 x 222mm. 12 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Christopher Love, half length, standing in a pulpit, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, one hand to his breast, the other holding a book on a cushion. Christopher Love (1618-1651) was a Welsh Protestant preacher and advocate and Presbyterianism at the time of the English Civil War. In 1651 he was executed by the government, after it was discovered that he had been in correspondence with the exiled Stuart court.
[Ref: 24643]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Christ.r Love.
Christ.r Love. AEtat: 35:
1652.
Engraving. Plate 108 x 82mm. 4¼ x 3¼". Small crease lower left-hand corner.
Christopher Love (1618-1651) wearing a skull-cap and gown, and holding a book; curtain and pillar in the background. Frontispiece to his "Soul's Cordiall" of 1653. He was a Welsh Protestant preacher and advocate of Presbyterianism at the time of the English Civil War. In 1651 he was executed by the government, after it was discovered that he had been in correspondence with the exiled Stuart court. He went his his death as a hero and martyr of the Presbyterian faction which had petitioned in vain for his pardon.
[Ref: 19193]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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David Love, Aged 74. 1824.
David Love, Aged 74. 1824. / Here's David's likeness for his Book, / All those who buy may at it look; / As he is in his present state, / Now Printed from a Copper plate. [&] Eliz.th Love Aged 49. 1825. / Here's the likeness of David's Wife, / Whom he loves dearly as his life; Industrious, steady, kind, and free, And lovingly they do agree.
W.S. [in David Lowe plate].
[n.d., c. 1825.]
Pair of coloured etchings, each c. 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed irregularly and laid on old card.
A pair of portraits of David and Elizabeth Love. David, a travelling ballad singer and song-and-bookseller, is shown in Nottingham's market square with the Nottingham Exchange to the right, probably holding a sheath of songs sheets in his hands. Elizabeth is shown pointing at the portrait of her husband.
Rijksmuseum: RP-P-2015-26-1390.
[Ref: 51878]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Love, Jealousy, Revenge & Despair.
Love, Jealousy, Revenge & Despair.
by F.P.Stephanoff [facsimile]. (in the Possession of the Engraver) Proof. Plate 5, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketched by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane.
Printed by C Hullmandel. London 1827. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé, rare with large margins. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Some foxing.
Four images [from top left, clockwise]: Love, two women picking flowers at the edge of a forest, watched by a man behind the trees to the right; Jealousy, a man inviting a woman to dance, in a clearing of the forest, from another man by the bench on left, other dancers in the background; Despair, a man standing on the edge of a cliff about to jump; Revenge, a couple sitting on a veranda, watched by another man behind a pillar to the left. After Francis Philip Stephanoff (1788-1860), painter and architectural designer. Best known for Nayler's Coronation of… George IV series of costume portraits which record details of elaborate ceremonial costume and are richly coloured, elegant, and highly finished. George IV attempted to rival the coronation of Napoleon when he was crowned emperor. He gave visual expression to intense contemporary interest in antiquarian and historical subjects brought about by the arrival in Britain of the Elgin marbles, by the novels of Sir Walter Scott and his arrangements for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in 1822. Their richly coloured work illustrates a romantic view of history that found its fullest expression during the Regency period.
[Ref: 24892]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Mr John Love, Bookseller, of Weymouth,
Mr John Love, Bookseller, of Weymouth, The Fatest & Heaviest Man ever known in England.
[Anon, c.1805]
Engraving, platemark 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾").
Portrait of bookseller John Love (1793, fl.). Weighing around twenty-six stone, Love was in fact only a fraction of the size of his contemporary Daniel Lambert of Leicester (1770-1809), who weighed 52¾ stone! From the 'Wonderful Magazine', which included numerous portraits of eccentric and remarkable individuals.
O'D 1; For a portrait of Lambert see ref. 17776. Private Collection.
[Ref: 43358]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Robert Loveday.]
[Robert Loveday.] Wouldst know whose Face this Figure represents [...]
[n.d., c.1659.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to platemark on 3 sides. Hinged to backing sheet at right edge. Repaired tear in lower edge.
A portrait of translator Robert Loveday (1620 - 1656) within an ocatogon. An illustation in each corner shows the sun, two doves, a bird in a cave and a vessel at sea. Loveday translated into English the first three parts of La Calprenède's romance of ‘Cleopatra,’ under the title of ‘Hymen's Præludia, or Love's Master-Piece,’ which appeared respectively in 1652, 1654, and 1655. An illustration to 'Loveday's Letters Domesick and Forrein, To Several Persons, occasionally distributed in Subjects Philosophicall, Historicall & Morall. By R. Loveday', published in London, 1659.
Fagan: p.46/47. II/II.
[Ref: 37719]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Miss Lovejoy.
Miss Lovejoy.
Pub accor to Act Feby. 9th 1772 by MDarly Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A prostitute with hair dressed high with tight curls at the side, wearing a fur-bordered cloak with a hood over a frilled and flounced petticoat with a looped-up train. Her hands are in a muff trimmed with frills of ribbon. A double row of pearls or beads is round her neck. A well known house of ill-repute in the Piazza, Covent Garden, was known as Lovejoy's. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '12' upper right.
BM Satires: 4995.
[Ref: 14173]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[India]  [Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell] Major General Lovell, K.H.
[India] [Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell] Major General Lovell, K.H.
Painted by T.W. MacKay. Engraved by G.T. Payne.
Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, surface scratches
Half-length portrait of General Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell (1786-1861), in huzzar uniform, an Indian camp scene behind. He holds the scabbard of his mameluke sword in one hand and his shapka in the other. Born Badcock, he assumed the surname of Lovell under royal sign manual in 1840. After fighting under General Auchmuty at Montevideo in 1807 and in the Peninsula War with the 14th Light Dragoons (being awarded the Peninsular Medal with eleven clasps, the most earned by a cavalry officer), he transfered to command the 15th Light Dragoons (later hussars). The regiment was stationed in India between spring 1840 and 1854, but in 1850 Lovell exchanged from the 15th Hussars to half pay with the 11th Hussars. He became major-general on 20 June 1854, and in 1856 was made KCB and appointed colonel of the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal lancers.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66237]   £320.00  
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The lovely babe was born with every grace;
The lovely babe was born with every grace; / Such was his form, as painters, when they show / Their utmost art, on naked loves bestow. _ Dryden.
Painte by W. Owen, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, Engraver to the King.
London Published June 1st 1833 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Printsellers to the Royal Family. Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint. Mount sight size 330 x 370mm, 13 x 14½". Framed with Christies's auction description pasted on verso. Faint spotting, unexamined out of frame.
Cupid on a cloud, quiver over his shoulder, arrow in hand.
Provenence: Heathcote Heirlloms, Bighton Wood, Alresford, Hants. Whitman: 423, iii of iii.
[Ref: 27836]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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A New Song on Lovely Katey of Liskehan.
A New Song on Lovely Katey of Liskehan.
P. Brereton Printer, Lr, Exchange St, Dublin [c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
''You gentle muses I pray excuse me, / Your kind infusion to me grant once more, / Til I praise a maiden sweet engageing, She is lovely Venis that I do adore...''
[Ref: 52238]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lovely Sacarissa dressing for the Pantheon.
The Lovely Sacarissa dressing for the Pantheon. She Blooms in the Winter of her Days, like the Glastonbury Thorn.
Published Feby. 24, 1772.
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm. Repaired tears to left margin. Some scratching/scuffing to mezzotint.
A stout, ugly, and elderly woman holds in her left hand a barber's block, with a carved head in profile, on which is an elaborate pyramidal wig with ringlets. This she is covering with powder or flour from a dredger. Her back is turned to the casement window through which look two grinning old women, wearing frilled muslin caps. Behind on the wall, in deep shadow, is a picture of a dome inscribed 'The Pantheon'. Attributed to Philip Dawe (c. 1750 - 1791?).
BM Satires: 5533. Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Image appears to be based on BM Satires: 4647, Lady Drudger going to Ranelagh, 1772.
[Ref: 7888]   £650.00  
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The Lover.
The Lover.
Drawn by Pug.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 190 x 158mm. 7½ x 6¼". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A monkey in full dress of 17th century England. He is sat in a chair holding a pen as he writes out verses of poetry. Leaning against the window is a book entitled 'Art of Love'. In front of him to the left stands a small ballerina monkey with wings and a bow and arrow aimed directly at him; an ape representation of cupid.
[Ref: 16298]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lover. [&] The Husband.
The Lover. [&] The Husband.
[n.d., c.1830.]
A pair of hand-coloured aquatints. Each sheet: 200 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A pair of scenes, the first shows an attentive lover helping a young woman over a stile, the second shows a husband leaving his wife to manage by herself.
[Ref: 43803]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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The Rose Bud.
The Rose Bud. [Four verses below.]
Drawn by R. Westall. Engraved by Nutter.
Published by Diemar No. 114 Strand, Janry. 2d. 1796.
Stipple engraving with etching, sheet 435 x 440mm. Trimmed to plate, some soiling and light marginal staining.
An illustration of Matthew Prior's poem 'A Lover's Anger'. A beau complains about being kept waiting but, when Cloe shows the mark caused by a rosebud falling on her bosom, he forgets his anger.
[Ref: 8037]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Un Wecchio che d'Amor caldo non Sente...
Un Wecchio che d'Amor caldo non Sente...
M. Tuscher del: & sc: Londini 1743.
Rare etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 235 x 235mm (9¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed.
A scene in a garden in which two men stand in conversation while a woman with a fan stands behind them.
[Ref: 48891]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Amante Inconstante.]
[Amante Inconstante.]
[L.B. Coclers Pinx.][A.L. Claessens sculps.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching and stipple, scarce proof before letters, sheet 355 x 280mm (14 x 11"). Trimmed to plate, small repaired tear and creases at edges.
A young woman - most likely Aletta, the artist's daughter - standing in a doorway, holding a candle and looking at a young man, probably the painter Pieter Janson.
[Ref: 60411]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Amateur lithograph of lovers.]
[Amateur lithograph of lovers.]
Miss G. Lyster del.t. Miss G. Lyster Lith. [ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph on india,with ink inscriptions on backing paper. Very scarce with large margins. India 345 x 295mm (13½ x 11½"). Crease not showing from front.
A pair of reposing lovers in Levantine dress, the man with a brace of pistols in his sash, the woman with a lute. Apparently an amateur lithograph by a female artist.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34063]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lover's Quarrel.
The Lover's Quarrel. From the Original Picture in the Possession of James Brown Esq.r of Hare Hills Grove near Leeds, to whom this Plate is (by Permission) respectfully Dedicated by his obedient servant; Charles Heath.
Painted by G.S. Newton. Engraved by Charles Heath. Printed by McQueen.
Published May 15, 1827, by Charles Heath; 6 Seymour Place, Euston Square, & Robert Jennings, Poultry.
Etching and engraving, proof with large margins, uncut. Plate 362 x 279mm. 14¼ x 11". Some staining and tears in the margins.
In a room, a woman is seated on a chair, holding a fan in her left hand, and a portrait miniature of her lover, suspended in a ribbon, in her right hand, handing it back to him, whilst he is standing at left with his back turned, his left hand on his hip, holding her portrait miniature in his right hand, preparing to hand it over to her; another woman standing behind the chair at a folding screen, looking on.
Heath: 1827.13. [p.230].
[Ref: 23646]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Apollo & Daphne.
Apollo & Daphne.
Ex Tabula Titiani.
J. Smith fecit Londini. 1709.
Mezzotint in sepia ink. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"). Trimmed to plate. Crease through lower right corner. Some spotting.
Daphne, wearing a loose dress with one breast bared, her hands beginning to sprout leaves and branches, pursued by Apollo, nude and carrying a bow and quiver. In the foreground, nude and sitting on the ground, Daphne's father, ther river-god Peneus, beside whom is an upturned urn pouring out water that forms a river. From the series 'Tabulæ novem coelo elaboratæ ad totidem Titiani archetypos Nine Prints from the Celebrated Paintings of Titian, in the Duke of Marlboroughs Gallery, at Blenheim' by the famous early mezzotinter and re-publisher of older plates John Smith (1652-1743). The series of Smith mezzotints commonly known as 'The Loves of the Gods' are after a series of leather wall-hangings formerly in the Titian Room at Blenheim destroyed by fire in 1861. The attribution to Titian is uncertain, however, and was doubted as early as 1766 (see G. Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné, Blenheim Palace, London, 1862, pp. 83-92). The designs are based on prints by Caraglio after Pelino del Vaga and Rosso Fiorentino.
Wessely: 340.
[Ref: 10496]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Apollo & Daphne.
Apollo & Daphne.
Ex Tabula Titiani.
J. Smith fecit Londini. 1709.
Mezzotint. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"), with very large margins.
Daphne, her hands beginning to sprout leaves and branches, pursued by Apollo. In the foreground, Daphne's father, the river-god Peneus. From the series 'Tabulæ novem coelo elaboratæ ad totidem Titiani archetypos / Nine Prints from the Celebrated Paintings of Titian, in the Duke of Marlboroughs Gallery, at Blenheim' by the famous early mezzotinter John Smith (1652-1743). The series, commonly known as 'The Loves of the Gods', derives from a series of leather wall-hangings formerly in the Titian Room at Blenheim destroyed by fire in 1861. The attribution to Titian is uncertain, however, and was doubted as early as 1766 (see G. Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné, Blenheim Palace, London, 1862, pp. 83-92). The designs relate to prints by Caraglio after Perino del Vaga and Rosso Fiorentino.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.; for impression printed in sepia see ref. 10496; Wessely: 340.
[Ref: 36201]   £350.00  
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Bacchus & Ariadne
Bacchus & Ariadne
Ex Tabula Titiani.
J. Smith fecit Londini. 1709.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 415 x 280mm. 16¼ x 11".
Ariadne, discovered on the island of Naxos by the god Bacchus, having been left there by her lover Theseus (whose ship sails away in the distance). A putto brings grapes to echo those worn by Bacchus, the god of wine. The cheetah is one of two which drew Bacchus' chariot. From the series 'Tabulæ novem coelo elaboratæ ad totidem Titiani archetypos / Nine Prints from the Celebrated Paintings of Titian, in the Duke of Marlboroughs Gallery, at Blenheim' by the famous early mezzotinter John Smith (1652 - 1743). The series, commonly known as 'The Loves of the Gods', derives from a series of leather wall-hangings formerly in the Titian Room at Blenheim destroyed by fire in 1861. The attribution to Titian is uncertain, however, and was doubted as early as 1766 (see G. Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné, Blenheim Palace, London, 1862, pp. 83-92). The designs relate to prints by Caraglio after Perino del Vaga and Rosso Fiorentino.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Ref: Wessely: 341.
[Ref: 36202]   £500.00  
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R. Lovett, of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, Author of Philosophical Essays in Three Parts.
R. Lovett, of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, Author of Philosophical Essays in Three Parts.
I.Wright Pinx.t. R.Hancock fecit.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm. Some cracking of surface.
Richard Lovett, 1692-1780, author of 'The Electrical Philosopher, containing a new System of Physics, founded on the principle of an Universal Plenum of Elementary Fire', published in Worcester 1774. Extremely rare portrait in poor condition.
CS 6, State II of III. From the Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 6744]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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R. Lovett, of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, Author of Philosophical Essays in Three Parts.
R. Lovett, of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, Author of Philosophical Essays in Three Parts.
I.Wright Pinx.t. R.Hancock fecit.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm.
Richard Lovett, 1692-1780, author of 'The Electrical Philosopher, containing a new System of Physics, founded on the principle of an Universal Plenum of Elementary Fire', published in Worcester 1774.
CS 6, State III of III. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6745]   £480.00  
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[Edinburgh] College Church, Low Calton.
[Edinburgh] College Church, Low Calton.
[W.Leitch.]
[n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Image 273 x 381mm. 10¾ x 15".
Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, from the South West. The church that used to stand in Low Calton, between Canongate and Calton Hill, before being taken down to make way for the railway in 1848. It was partially reconstructed many years later, off Jeffrey Street.
[Ref: 21134]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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One of the advantage of a Low Carriage.
One of the advantage of a Low Carriage.
B. [Compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. P.F.L.B. fec.t [James Gillray].
London. Publish'd June 1st 1801 by H. Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼") very large margins. Tear entering plate at bottom repaired; very small wormhole in sky. Slightly faded.
An earl's coach makes an emergency stop to avoid a fat country woman who has fallen into the road, having been chased by a dog. The footman flies over the roof of the coach as the passenger calls his name, to which he replies 'Coming Ma'm'.
BM Satires 9767.
[Ref: 56154]   £320.00  
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Low Tide [in pencil].
Low Tide [in pencil].
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Mint. Uncut.
A nude woman watches three other nude women running along the beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62500]   £360.00  
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M.r. Lowe.
M.r. Lowe.
Rich.d. Dighton, Nov.r. 1823.
London Pub.d. by Tho.s. M.c.Lean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼"). Some surface dirt. Damage to lower left corner.
Full-length portrait of a Mr Lowe who stands with one hand resting on his hip, the other hanging by his side.
BM 14534.A
[Ref: 34477]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Hudson Lowe. Lt. General [Facsimile signature].
Hudson Lowe. Lt. General [Facsimile signature].
London, John Murray, Albermarle Street, June 1853.
Engraving on india. Rare. Plate: 150 x 220mm (6 x 8½"). Very large margins. Some staining on outer margins.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hudson Lowe (1769-1844), a British soldier who served as Governor of St. Helena during Napoleon's imprisonment on the island.
[Ref: 35351]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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Hudson Lowe. Lt. General [Facsimile signature].
Hudson Lowe. Lt. General [Facsimile signature].
London, John Murray, Albermarle Street, June 1853.
Rare engraving on india. Plate: 150 x 220mm (6 x 8½") large margins. Some staining on outer margins.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hudson Lowe (1769-1844), a British soldier who served as Governor of St. Helena during Napoleon's imprisonment on the island. Frontispiece to Forsyth's 'Captivity of Napoleon' (3 Vols, 1853)
[Ref: 56087]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[James Russell Lowell]
[James Russell Lowell]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 208 x 134mm.
Poet., Diplomat, U.S. Minister to Great Britain. [1819-1891]
[Ref: 3455]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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