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Chairman, The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Vice-Chairman, Mr. Arthur Blackett.
C.W. Rhead sc. April 14th 1894. H. Thomson.
Etching and letter press; small booklet, 4to; 4 pages. 152 x 108mm (6 x 4¼").
A small booklet with programme and menu on verso for the Booksellers' Trade Dinner 1894. Portraits of Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), 18th century English bookseller and publisher, and Edward Cave (1691-1754), printer and founder of Gentleman's Magazine.
[Ref: 52463] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
C.W. Rhead sc. April 14th 1894. H. Thomson.
Etching and letter press; small booklet, 4to; 4 pages. 152 x 108mm (6 x 4¼").
A small booklet with programme and menu on verso for the Booksellers' Trade Dinner 1894. Portraits of Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), 18th century English bookseller and publisher, and Edward Cave (1691-1754), printer and founder of Gentleman's Magazine.
[Ref: 52463] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Albion. Presentation Dinner of Sheriffs Booth and Copeland, Esqrs.
Whiting Beaufort House [printer], [1829]
Letterpress on pink paper with embossed border and watercolour wash to border, sheet 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9¾"). Glued to album sheet.
'The new Sheriffs [of London], Messrs. Booth and Copeland, gave their inaugural dinner on Saturday last, in the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. It had been delayed to this time by the indisposition of Mr. Copeland.' (The Spectator, 17 January 1829). An elaborate menu listing an extravagant array of dining options.
[Ref: 32291] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Whiting Beaufort House [printer], [1829]
Letterpress on pink paper with embossed border and watercolour wash to border, sheet 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9¾"). Glued to album sheet.
'The new Sheriffs [of London], Messrs. Booth and Copeland, gave their inaugural dinner on Saturday last, in the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. It had been delayed to this time by the indisposition of Mr. Copeland.' (The Spectator, 17 January 1829). An elaborate menu listing an extravagant array of dining options.
[Ref: 32291] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Daniel Musical Society presents Yehudi Menuhin in a Single Concert at the Carib Theatre Saturday Feb 13 1943 Part proceeds for War Funds. [programme verso]
Letterpress programme with photogravure, 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Crease through centre.
Programme for a wartime concert by the great American violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99). In early 1943 he flew to England, and gave a famous performance of Brahms's violin concerto with Sir Adrian Boult in the same visit.
[Ref: 37949] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Letterpress programme with photogravure, 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Crease through centre.
Programme for a wartime concert by the great American violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99). In early 1943 he flew to England, and gave a famous performance of Brahms's violin concerto with Sir Adrian Boult in the same visit.
[Ref: 37949] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
S. Tit: Her Joh: Daniel de Mentzel, Sr. Konigl. Maj: zu Ungarn und Bohmen JJ. General Feld Wachtmeister.
C P S C Maj.
Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A.V.
Etching with large margins, platemark 300 x 195mm (11¾ x 7¾").
Baron Johann Daniel von Menzel (1698-1744), Austrian general.
[Ref: 33172] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
C P S C Maj.
Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A.V.
Etching with large margins, platemark 300 x 195mm (11¾ x 7¾").
Baron Johann Daniel von Menzel (1698-1744), Austrian general.
[Ref: 33172] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
La Mer de glace depuis le Montanvert.
Briquet et fils Genéve. A. Guvillier lith. Imp Lemercier.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 115 x 140mm (4½ x 5½").
A view of a glacier with many ice-peaks, a valley in the centre, and small buildings and figures in the foreground. The Mer de Glace is a glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps.
[Ref: 37828] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Briquet et fils Genéve. A. Guvillier lith. Imp Lemercier.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 115 x 140mm (4½ x 5½").
A view of a glacier with many ice-peaks, a valley in the centre, and small buildings and figures in the foreground. The Mer de Glace is a glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Alps.
[Ref: 37828] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Merab.
Painted by Edwin Long, R.A. Engraved by Herbert Bourne.
London October 6th. 1890. Published by Fairless & Beeforth. 128, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Mixed-method engraving. 630 x 400mm (24¾ x 15¾"). Uncut. Mint.
Edwin Long (1829-1891) was born in Bath, had an early and precocious talent for drawing, studied at the RA Schools from 1849, and also was a student under John Phillip, who encouraged him to travel. in 1874 he visited Egypt and Syria, and this was the start of his career as an Orientalist painter. He developed a rich, exotic style, strong in detail and often on canvases of large size, allowing him to show long processions, enormous palaces or sweeps of mountains on an epic scale. His best years were in the 1870s-80s, when he was a popular, successful artist specialising in biblical stories and life in ancient Egypt. He became ARA in 1876 and RA in 1881. Merab was Saul’s eldest daughter. According to the Bible, she was meant to marry David, but she was given in matrimony to Adriel the Meholathite, while David married Merab’s younger sister Michal. The Painting was sold in London by Sotheby's January 1995.
[Ref: 14082] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Edwin Long, R.A. Engraved by Herbert Bourne.
London October 6th. 1890. Published by Fairless & Beeforth. 128, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Mixed-method engraving. 630 x 400mm (24¾ x 15¾"). Uncut. Mint.
Edwin Long (1829-1891) was born in Bath, had an early and precocious talent for drawing, studied at the RA Schools from 1849, and also was a student under John Phillip, who encouraged him to travel. in 1874 he visited Egypt and Syria, and this was the start of his career as an Orientalist painter. He developed a rich, exotic style, strong in detail and often on canvases of large size, allowing him to show long processions, enormous palaces or sweeps of mountains on an epic scale. His best years were in the 1870s-80s, when he was a popular, successful artist specialising in biblical stories and life in ancient Egypt. He became ARA in 1876 and RA in 1881. Merab was Saul’s eldest daughter. According to the Bible, she was meant to marry David, but she was given in matrimony to Adriel the Meholathite, while David married Merab’s younger sister Michal. The Painting was sold in London by Sotheby's January 1995.
[Ref: 14082] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Gerardus Mercator Natus Rupelmundæ III Non. Martii Anno MDXII: Vixit Ann. LXXXII.M.VIII.D.XXVI: Denatus IV Non.Decembris Ano MDXCIV.
[Amsterdam, c.1620.]
Engraving, trimmed into image, paper size 215 x 145mm. Laid on paper.
The Flemish cartographer, creator of the flat world projection named after him.
[Ref: 3263] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Amsterdam, c.1620.]
Engraving, trimmed into image, paper size 215 x 145mm. Laid on paper.
The Flemish cartographer, creator of the flat world projection named after him.
[Ref: 3263] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Gerardus Mercator Mathematicus.
[German, n.d., c.1570.]
Woodcut, printed area 60 x 45mm, 2¼ x 1¾", set in letterpress text.
Portrait of the famous mapmaker Gerard Mercator (1512-94), whose calculation of 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. The short Latin-text biography printed next to the portrait is dated 1560, and mentions Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, who made Mercator Court Cosmographer in 1564.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 13904] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
[German, n.d., c.1570.]
Woodcut, printed area 60 x 45mm, 2¼ x 1¾", set in letterpress text.
Portrait of the famous mapmaker Gerard Mercator (1512-94), whose calculation of 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. The short Latin-text biography printed next to the portrait is dated 1560, and mentions Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, who made Mercator Court Cosmographer in 1564.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 13904] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Gerard Mercator
N. L'armessin. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5", with letterpress Above and below, and on verso.
Gerard Mercator (1512-94), Flemish cartographer after whom the Mercator projection map is named.
[Ref: 11137] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
N. L'armessin. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5", with letterpress Above and below, and on verso.
Gerard Mercator (1512-94), Flemish cartographer after whom the Mercator projection map is named.
[Ref: 11137] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Gerard Mercator
N. L'armessin. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Copper engraving, 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5".
Portrait of the famous mapmaker Gerard Mercator (1512-94), whose calculation of 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. The letterpress is a French-language biography. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts' 1682.
Wellcome: 1981-3;
[Ref: 25766] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
N. L'armessin. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Copper engraving, 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5".
Portrait of the famous mapmaker Gerard Mercator (1512-94), whose calculation of 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. The letterpress is a French-language biography. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts' 1682.
Wellcome: 1981-3;
[Ref: 25766] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Gerardus Mercator, Cosmographus Nasc, Rupelmundæ An. 1572 5 May obijt Duijsburgi An 1593 2 Decemb.
[c.1600.]
Engraving, very fine. 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4½"). Trimmed close to printed border.
Gerardus Mercator (1512-94), holding the Globe, philosopher, mathematician and cartographer famed for the flat projection of the spherical world which bears his name.
W: 1981.
[Ref: 29721] £320.00
[c.1600.]
Engraving, very fine. 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4½"). Trimmed close to printed border.
Gerardus Mercator (1512-94), holding the Globe, philosopher, mathematician and cartographer famed for the flat projection of the spherical world which bears his name.
W: 1981.
[Ref: 29721] £320.00
Gerhard Merkator.
Bollinger sc.
Zwickau, bei Gebr. Schumann [c.1800]
Stipple engraving, platemark 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"), large margins.
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594), Flemish cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. His 1569 world map, 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. He was the first to use the word 'Atlas' for a collection of maps. Engraving, c.1800, of the image of Mercator common to several earlier printed likenesses of the cartographer.
[Ref: 41461] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Bollinger sc.
Zwickau, bei Gebr. Schumann [c.1800]
Stipple engraving, platemark 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"), large margins.
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594), Flemish cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. His 1569 world map, 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. He was the first to use the word 'Atlas' for a collection of maps. Engraving, c.1800, of the image of Mercator common to several earlier printed likenesses of the cartographer.
[Ref: 41461] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Gerhard Merkator gebohr. zu Rüremont d: 5. Merz. 1512. gestorb. Zu Cölln d: 2. Dec. 1594.
C. Westermayr S.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 89mm (5½ x 3½").
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) the Flemish cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. His world map of 1569, 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. He was the first to the word 'Atlas' for a collection of maps. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29533] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
C. Westermayr S.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 89mm (5½ x 3½").
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) the Flemish cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. His world map of 1569, 'Mercator's Projection', the flattened map of the spherical Earth, earned him cartographic fame. He was the first to the word 'Atlas' for a collection of maps. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29533] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Lady Delavell] London [Ap.2 26 1771]. Bought of Richard Preston Mercer.](jpegs/52253.jpg)
[Lady Delavell] London [Ap.2 26 1771]. Bought of Richard Preston Mercer. At the Golden Ball, the Backside of St Clements, Strand. Successor to Mr. Shaw.
[1773.]
Engraved bill head, filled in with ink mss. Sheet 70 x 195mm (2¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed, part of top edge ripped off.
Charles le Bas was from a Huguenot family; his son Charles Webb le Bas (1779–1861), became principal of the East India College, Haileybury. Lady Delaval was the wife of Sir John Hussey Delaval (1728-1808), later 1st Baron Delaval in the Irish peerage.
British Museum: Heal,84.213.
[Ref: 52253] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
[1773.]
Engraved bill head, filled in with ink mss. Sheet 70 x 195mm (2¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed, part of top edge ripped off.
Charles le Bas was from a Huguenot family; his son Charles Webb le Bas (1779–1861), became principal of the East India College, Haileybury. Lady Delaval was the wife of Sir John Hussey Delaval (1728-1808), later 1st Baron Delaval in the Irish peerage.
British Museum: Heal,84.213.
[Ref: 52253] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Samuel Mercer Esq.r
Painted by Mr. Illidge / Engraved by W. Say, Engraver to the Duke of Gloucester.
Published by Agnew and Zanetti, Repository of Arts, No 10 Exchange Street, Manchester, June, 1831.
Mezzotint, proof impression, scarce with large margins; platemark 550 x 395mm (21½ x 15½"). Publishers' blindstamp.
Portrait of Samuel Mercer with his dogs, and estate in background. After T.H. Illidge (1799-1851), who worked as a portraitist in the large manufacturing towns of Lancashire, painting the local civic and financial celebrities.
Ex: Collection of Thomas Agnew.
[Ref: 31872] £380.00
Painted by Mr. Illidge / Engraved by W. Say, Engraver to the Duke of Gloucester.
Published by Agnew and Zanetti, Repository of Arts, No 10 Exchange Street, Manchester, June, 1831.
Mezzotint, proof impression, scarce with large margins; platemark 550 x 395mm (21½ x 15½"). Publishers' blindstamp.
Portrait of Samuel Mercer with his dogs, and estate in background. After T.H. Illidge (1799-1851), who worked as a portraitist in the large manufacturing towns of Lancashire, painting the local civic and financial celebrities.
Ex: Collection of Thomas Agnew.
[Ref: 31872] £380.00
![[Christmas Banquet menu.] Mercers Hall. Dec. 22nd. 1852.](jpegs/32417.jpg)
[Christmas Banquet menu.] Mercers Hall. Dec. 22nd. 1852.
Ring & Brymer, 15, Cornhill, and 62, Cannon Street, Successors to Birch, Birch, & Co.
A gilt-embossed menu. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Laid on album paper.
A menu for a five-course christmas banquet, begun with 'Turtle and iced punch', followed by a huge selection including fish, turkey, beef, venison, woodcock, partridge, wild duck, pheasant, preserved ginger, and raspberry ice.
[Ref: 32417] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Ring & Brymer, 15, Cornhill, and 62, Cannon Street, Successors to Birch, Birch, & Co.
A gilt-embossed menu. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Laid on album paper.
A menu for a five-course christmas banquet, begun with 'Turtle and iced punch', followed by a huge selection including fish, turkey, beef, venison, woodcock, partridge, wild duck, pheasant, preserved ginger, and raspberry ice.
[Ref: 32417] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Le Mercier. Au public je suis necessaire / Iay tout ce dont Il a besoin / Voyes ce qui fait vostre affair / Et prenes un peigne du moins.
J. Bonnart f. Chez N. Bonnart, rue S.t Iacques a l'aigle avec privil.
Paris [n.d. c.1674-1726].
Etching with engraving. 280 x 190mm (11 x 7½"). Small margin on left side. Some faint smudging. Top right corner creased.
A merchant carrying his wares in a box about his neck. Etched by Jean Baptiste Bonnart and published by his brother Nicolas Bonnart I
[Ref: 54728] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
J. Bonnart f. Chez N. Bonnart, rue S.t Iacques a l'aigle avec privil.
Paris [n.d. c.1674-1726].
Etching with engraving. 280 x 190mm (11 x 7½"). Small margin on left side. Some faint smudging. Top right corner creased.
A merchant carrying his wares in a box about his neck. Etched by Jean Baptiste Bonnart and published by his brother Nicolas Bonnart I
[Ref: 54728] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Habit of a Merchants Wife in Russia in 1765. Femme d'un Marchand Russe. 70
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark. Plate 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a Russian merchant's wife standing to right, and holding the hand of a child who is playing with a toy. Plate 70 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62888] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark. Plate 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a Russian merchant's wife standing to right, and holding the hand of a child who is playing with a toy. Plate 70 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62888] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Who would not here the Pilgrim's State approve…
Ph: Mercier Pictor. Principis Pinxit. J.Faber fecit 1736.
Sold by Faber at ye Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm. Repairs to margins.
A shepherdess and a pilgrim.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4196] £330.00
Ph: Mercier Pictor. Principis Pinxit. J.Faber fecit 1736.
Sold by Faber at ye Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm. Repairs to margins.
A shepherdess and a pilgrim.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4196] £330.00
The Sleepy Maid
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Faint crease lower left. Small stain in lower right margin.
Girl sits sleeping, a needle in her left hand and cloth held in her right. Plates and funnel on shelf behind. Engraved after Philip Mercier (1691-1761), who spent much of his career in London. 'While he found plentiful employment as a portrait painter, he [Mercier] also produced an increasing number of fancy pieces, reminiscent of Chardin. These addressed a popular market and included literary illustrations, domestic scenes, groups of children, and sets of, for example, the Seasons, the Times of Day, and the Senses' (DNB).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in BM.
[Ref: 33812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Faint crease lower left. Small stain in lower right margin.
Girl sits sleeping, a needle in her left hand and cloth held in her right. Plates and funnel on shelf behind. Engraved after Philip Mercier (1691-1761), who spent much of his career in London. 'While he found plentiful employment as a portrait painter, he [Mercier] also produced an increasing number of fancy pieces, reminiscent of Chardin. These addressed a popular market and included literary illustrations, domestic scenes, groups of children, and sets of, for example, the Seasons, the Times of Day, and the Senses' (DNB).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in BM.
[Ref: 33812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Erostrate moderne, Ecrivant sur les Arts.](jpegs/58454.jpg)
[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Erostrate moderne, Ecrivant sur les Arts.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), blindfolded, with horns, seated in a chair marked 'Trésor des Iconoclastes', writing with a quill. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
[Ref: 58454] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Coloured etching. 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), blindfolded, with horns, seated in a chair marked 'Trésor des Iconoclastes', writing with a quill. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
[Ref: 58454] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
![[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Envain contre les Arts, ce vieux Roquet s'escrime, / C'est le Serpent qui mord la lime.](jpegs/58448.jpg)
[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Envain contre les Arts, ce vieux Roquet s'escrime, / C'est le Serpent qui mord la lime.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Slight foxing of edges, old ink mss. in list of names, large margins. Creasing.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) as a pug standing upright in the dress of a clerk, quill in hand and book under his arm. He stands before a monument inscribed with a list of artists' names. At the base is a snake with a file (tool) in its mouth. The title roughly translates as 'In vain this old pug fights against the arts; it's the snake that bites the file'. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
[Ref: 58448] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"). Slight foxing of edges, old ink mss. in list of names, large margins. Creasing.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) as a pug standing upright in the dress of a clerk, quill in hand and book under his arm. He stands before a monument inscribed with a list of artists' names. At the base is a snake with a file (tool) in its mouth. The title roughly translates as 'In vain this old pug fights against the arts; it's the snake that bites the file'. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
[Ref: 58448] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Mr L'ane comme il n'y en a point.](jpegs/58459.jpg)
[Louis-Sébastien Mercier] Mr L'ane comme il n'y en a point. Peu m'importent les chefs d'oeuvres de tous les arts, pourvu que j'écrase, que je m'élève, et que le chardon ne me manque pas. O gens de goût, reconnaissez la bête.
Inspiré par Crémier.
[n.d., 1797.]
Etching with engraving. 240 x 265mm (9½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) as a donkey with his face, kicking over a bust of Apollo and the Transfiguration of Raphael with his hind legs, trampling the books of Descartes and Racine with his forelegs. It satirises Mercier’s opposition to the creation of a chalcographie nationale to make engravings after the paintings in the Louvre, arguing that anyone should be able to do it. ‘Cremier’ is a fake name. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
BM 1991,0615.132.
[Ref: 58459] £360.00
Inspiré par Crémier.
[n.d., 1797.]
Etching with engraving. 240 x 265mm (9½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A caricature of Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) as a donkey with his face, kicking over a bust of Apollo and the Transfiguration of Raphael with his hind legs, trampling the books of Descartes and Racine with his forelegs. It satirises Mercier’s opposition to the creation of a chalcographie nationale to make engravings after the paintings in the Louvre, arguing that anyone should be able to do it. ‘Cremier’ is a fake name. A French dramatist and writer, Mercier was highly critical of earlier art, especially writers including Rancine and Boileau. He was a member of the National Convention who was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, only surviving because of the fall of Robiespierre.
BM 1991,0615.132.
[Ref: 58459] £360.00
Philippus Mercier. Armiger. Primarius Pictor et Bibliothecarius Serenssimi Walliae Principus.
Ipse pinxit. I. Faber fecit 1735.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Very fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Half-length portrait of artist Philippe Mercier (c. 1689-1760) facing left, shown painting at an easel with eyes looking toward the viewer; bookshelves in the background. Based on a self-portrait.
CS 239.
[Ref: 65914] £320.00
Ipse pinxit. I. Faber fecit 1735.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Very fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Half-length portrait of artist Philippe Mercier (c. 1689-1760) facing left, shown painting at an easel with eyes looking toward the viewer; bookshelves in the background. Based on a self-portrait.
CS 239.
[Ref: 65914] £320.00
Mercifull Nell. A Butcher with a Heart as hard as Stone...
London Publish'd Nov.r 10; 1786 by Rob.t Sayer Maps & Printsellers No 53. Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with very large margins.
A comic scene in which a woman laments the killing of a lamb by a butcher, while skinning eels with no qualms.
[Ref: 44694] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
London Publish'd Nov.r 10; 1786 by Rob.t Sayer Maps & Printsellers No 53. Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with very large margins.
A comic scene in which a woman laments the killing of a lamb by a butcher, while skinning eels with no qualms.
[Ref: 44694] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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)
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)
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". Uncut, very large 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: 20427] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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". Uncut, very large 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: 20427] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mercurius. Inter Veneram et Lunam apparet...
Ra. Urbinas inu. N. Dorigny del et Sculp.
[Rome, 1696.]
Engraving with very large margins. 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½").
A depiction of Mercury as a god, caduceus in hand, an angel overhead, with the zodiac symbols for Virgo and Gemini, from a mosaic designed by Raphael in the Chigi Chapel, in La Madonna del Popolo, Rome. The plate was engraved by Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746) for his 'The Seven Planets, and the Creation of the Sun and Moon'.
[Ref: 35444] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Ra. Urbinas inu. N. Dorigny del et Sculp.
[Rome, 1696.]
Engraving with very large margins. 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½").
A depiction of Mercury as a god, caduceus in hand, an angel overhead, with the zodiac symbols for Virgo and Gemini, from a mosaic designed by Raphael in the Chigi Chapel, in La Madonna del Popolo, Rome. The plate was engraved by Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746) for his 'The Seven Planets, and the Creation of the Sun and Moon'.
[Ref: 35444] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[Mercury.]](jpegs/49685.jpg)
[Mercury.]
H.C. [Jan Collaert I.]
[n.d., c.1577.]
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾''). Trimmed in an oval losing a decorative border, laid on album sheet.
A mythological scene showing Mercury, holding his winged staff. From a series of six engravings showing the character from the myth of the Judgement of Paris by Jan Collaert I (1525-1580).
[Ref: 49685] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
H.C. [Jan Collaert I.]
[n.d., c.1577.]
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾''). Trimmed in an oval losing a decorative border, laid on album sheet.
A mythological scene showing Mercury, holding his winged staff. From a series of six engravings showing the character from the myth of the Judgement of Paris by Jan Collaert I (1525-1580).
[Ref: 49685] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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)
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)
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)
[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)
![[Mercury and Venus]](jpegs/33164.jpg)
[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)
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)
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)
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)
Mercury Bay New Zealand.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Torn.
Two vignette illustrations, probably commemorating Cook's visit in 1769. The upper scene shows a European ship surrounded by canoes, the lower a large waka.
[Ref: 44656] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Torn.
Two vignette illustrations, probably commemorating Cook's visit in 1769. The upper scene shows a European ship surrounded by canoes, the lower a large waka.
[Ref: 44656] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Mercury playing his flute to Argus.]](jpegs/34625.jpg)
[Mercury playing his flute to Argus.]
Gio. Jacomo Rossi formis Romae alla Pace.
[n.d. c.1640.]
Etching with very large margins. Plate 260 x 305mm (10¼ x 12"). Laid and crease down centre. Slight paper loss at top.
Mercury playing his flute to Argus who lies on the ground before him; dog to the left and cow behind, with sheep to background left.
[Ref: 34625] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Gio. Jacomo Rossi formis Romae alla Pace.
[n.d. c.1640.]
Etching with very large margins. Plate 260 x 305mm (10¼ x 12"). Laid and crease down centre. Slight paper loss at top.
Mercury playing his flute to Argus who lies on the ground before him; dog to the left and cow behind, with sheep to background left.
[Ref: 34625] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Giving Drink to the Thirsty. I was Thirsty & ye Gave me Drink. St Matth. C.25 V.35.
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Etching, 18th century watermark; 265 x 260mm (10½ x 10¼"). Small margins.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44281] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Etching, 18th century watermark; 265 x 260mm (10½ x 10¼"). Small margins.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44281] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Feeding the Hungry. I was an Hungred, & Ye gave me Meat. St Matth. C.25 V.35.
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 280 x 260mm (11 x 10¼"). Large margins on 3 sides; cut to platemark on right.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44283] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 280 x 260mm (11 x 10¼"). Large margins on 3 sides; cut to platemark on right.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44283] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Relieving the Prisoners. I was in Prison, & Ye came unto me. St Matth. C.25 V.36.
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to platemark top and left, partially top right and bottom. Bit tatty.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44284] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to platemark top and left, partially top right and bottom. Bit tatty.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44284] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
The Triumph of Mercy When he, whom even our joys provoke,/ The fiend of Nature, join'd his yoke, And rush'd in wrath to make our isle his prey [...]
W. Artaud pinx.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
London, Publish'd Feb 16 1794 by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gall.y Fleet Street.
Stipple printed in brown, sheet 420 x 495mm (16½ x 19½"). Trimmed inside platemark; nick to lower edge; crease to top left. Bit tatty.
'The Triumph of Mercy', engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi from one of the eight history paintings that William Artaud (1763-1823) painted for Thomas Macklin's 'The British Poets' (this one has lines from William Collins' 'Ode to Mercy' below the image). Only half of the 1788 painting survives (New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art) but that is no less that 8½ x 6 feet and shows the influential of Gavin Hamilton's monumental compositions.
De Vesme 1439
[Ref: 39657] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
W. Artaud pinx.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
London, Publish'd Feb 16 1794 by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gall.y Fleet Street.
Stipple printed in brown, sheet 420 x 495mm (16½ x 19½"). Trimmed inside platemark; nick to lower edge; crease to top left. Bit tatty.
'The Triumph of Mercy', engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi from one of the eight history paintings that William Artaud (1763-1823) painted for Thomas Macklin's 'The British Poets' (this one has lines from William Collins' 'Ode to Mercy' below the image). Only half of the 1788 painting survives (New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art) but that is no less that 8½ x 6 feet and shows the influential of Gavin Hamilton's monumental compositions.
De Vesme 1439
[Ref: 39657] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Cloathing the Naked. I was Naked, & Ye Cloathed me. St Matth. C.25 V.36.
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 280 x 260mm (11 x 10¼"). Small margins.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44282] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 280 x 260mm (11 x 10¼"). Small margins.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44282] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
![[Edward Meredith.] Meredith the Singer [old ink mss.].](jpegs/57712.jpg)
[Edward Meredith.] Meredith the Singer [old ink mss.].
Publish'd Dec.r 16 by T. Macklin 1798.
Mezzotint. 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, old ink mss. in title area, slight soiling in edges.
The British Museum describes the sitter as Edward Meredith (c.1741-1824), bass singer of Liverpool. According to Fleming: ''One of the most acclaimed singers to be in the choir was Edward Meredith (d.1809), who had been discovered by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in a cooper's workshop. Wynn subsequently paid for Meredith's education and launched him into a solo career. Meredith arrived in Durham in December 1778 and received a salary [as a lay-clerk] of £50 with an initial £10 given gratis. He quickly became crucial to the choir's concerts and filled the role of Polytheme in Acis and Galatea the following February. He also sang in Newcastle that same month''.
Chaloner Smith: 109 (Engraver not ascertained: Class III). Fleming ;A Century of Music Production in Durham City'. Provenance Davidson Album. 1711-1811
[Ref: 57712] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd Dec.r 16 by T. Macklin 1798.
Mezzotint. 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, old ink mss. in title area, slight soiling in edges.
The British Museum describes the sitter as Edward Meredith (c.1741-1824), bass singer of Liverpool. According to Fleming: ''One of the most acclaimed singers to be in the choir was Edward Meredith (d.1809), who had been discovered by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in a cooper's workshop. Wynn subsequently paid for Meredith's education and launched him into a solo career. Meredith arrived in Durham in December 1778 and received a salary [as a lay-clerk] of £50 with an initial £10 given gratis. He quickly became crucial to the choir's concerts and filled the role of Polytheme in Acis and Galatea the following February. He also sang in Newcastle that same month''.
Chaloner Smith: 109 (Engraver not ascertained: Class III). Fleming ;A Century of Music Production in Durham City'. Provenance Davidson Album. 1711-1811
[Ref: 57712] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Angela Merici.] D.N. Pio VI Pont Max. Effigiem Angelae Mericiae](jpegs/54967.jpg)
[Angela Merici.] D.N. Pio VI Pont Max. Effigiem Angelae Mericiae Matris dedicat Sodalitas Ursulinarum quod oraculo eius honores caelitum Sactorum tantae Magistrae decreti sunt.
Petrus Angetti inv et del. Carolus Antoni sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving., on verso ink Maria Teresa Gasvarni; 505 x 325mm (20 x 12¾"), with large margins. Slight foxing. Uncut.
An allegory of the canonisation of Angela Merici (1474-1540), founder of the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 for the education of poor girls.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54967] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Petrus Angetti inv et del. Carolus Antoni sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving., on verso ink Maria Teresa Gasvarni; 505 x 325mm (20 x 12¾"), with large margins. Slight foxing. Uncut.
An allegory of the canonisation of Angela Merici (1474-1540), founder of the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 for the education of poor girls.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54967] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Merionethshire Macaroni.
Pubd. accordg. to Act Octr. 1st. 1772 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, platemark 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Small margins.
A Welsh country squire(?), his face a grotesque profile. He has a long, thin, tightly-bound queue. Under his right arm is a knotted stick. His sword has a large old-fashioned hilt. He wears a hat trimmed with a leek, his coat is long; round his neck is knotted a striped neck-cloth. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.4' upper left and '20' upper right.
BM Satires: 5035.
[Ref: 37926] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Pubd. accordg. to Act Octr. 1st. 1772 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, platemark 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Small margins.
A Welsh country squire(?), his face a grotesque profile. He has a long, thin, tightly-bound queue. Under his right arm is a knotted stick. His sword has a large old-fashioned hilt. He wears a hat trimmed with a leek, his coat is long; round his neck is knotted a striped neck-cloth. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.4' upper left and '20' upper right.
BM Satires: 5035.
[Ref: 37926] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Merit.
F. Bartolozzi Esq.r R.A. Inv.t Del.t & Sculp.t
London Pub: March 15. 1795 by A: Molteno, Printseller to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No.76, St. James's Street.
Stipple and etching. 210 x 152mm. 8¼ x 6".
A winged child seated on a cloud holding up a laurel reef.
De Vesme: 659; iv/iv.
[Ref: 20460] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
F. Bartolozzi Esq.r R.A. Inv.t Del.t & Sculp.t
London Pub: March 15. 1795 by A: Molteno, Printseller to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No.76, St. James's Street.
Stipple and etching. 210 x 152mm. 8¼ x 6".
A winged child seated on a cloud holding up a laurel reef.
De Vesme: 659; iv/iv.
[Ref: 20460] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![Merite defended by Wisdom [against] Malice Fanatism, Murder, Robbery & Oppression.](jpegs/54492.jpg)
Merite defended by Wisdom [against] Malice Fanatism, Murder, Robbery & Oppression.
[n.d., c.1771.]
Rare & scarce etching. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, damage and staining at edges. Damaged.
George III sits on a globe, surrounded by his ministers. A figure of Wisdom (Athena/Minerva), saying 'Not Guilty', spears a woman holding a torch which has a winged demon in its smoke. Prone on the ground is a Fury. Another demon pulls a chain, dragging three men (Fox? and a man with a coronet slipped over his eyes) to hell. Probably a satire of the supposed inappropriate relationship between Augusta, the Princess Dowager, and Lord Bute. We have been unable to trace another example.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 54492] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1771.]
Rare & scarce etching. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, damage and staining at edges. Damaged.
George III sits on a globe, surrounded by his ministers. A figure of Wisdom (Athena/Minerva), saying 'Not Guilty', spears a woman holding a torch which has a winged demon in its smoke. Prone on the ground is a Fury. Another demon pulls a chain, dragging three men (Fox? and a man with a coronet slipped over his eyes) to hell. Probably a satire of the supposed inappropriate relationship between Augusta, the Princess Dowager, and Lord Bute. We have been unable to trace another example.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 54492] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Such was the glassy globe that Merlin made... Gent. Mag. 1735. p.761 671 715.
[1735]
Engraving. Sheet: 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾''). Trimmed.
An illustration from Spencer's 'Faerie Queene' showing Merlin and his globe from the Gentleman's Magazine.
[Ref: 51137] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[1735]
Engraving. Sheet: 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾''). Trimmed.
An illustration from Spencer's 'Faerie Queene' showing Merlin and his globe from the Gentleman's Magazine.
[Ref: 51137] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Merlin. Male. Immature Plumage.
E. Neale.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17").
A young merlin with its prey, in a coastal landscape. Edward Neale (1833-1904) provided illustrations for a number of bird books: this plate is probably from E.T. Booth's ''Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 25 years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Isles''.
[Ref: 50328] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
E. Neale.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17").
A young merlin with its prey, in a coastal landscape. Edward Neale (1833-1904) provided illustrations for a number of bird books: this plate is probably from E.T. Booth's ''Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 25 years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Isles''.
[Ref: 50328] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![[Merlin's Mechanical Museum.] Merlin Princes Street Hanover Square.](jpegs/62424.jpg)
[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)
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)
John Joseph Merlin, The Celebrated Mechanic.
G.P.H. delt. et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple with etching. 140 x 215mm (5½ x 8½"). Trimmed into lower edge of plate.
John-Joseph Merlin was born in 1735 in the city of Huy, Belgium, and died in 1803 in London. He was an inventor, noted for the invention of roller skates. He also improved musical instruments and manufactured automats, such as Cox's timepiece. He created Merlin's Mechanical Museum to display his machines. Probably by George Perfect Harding (1781 - 1853), portrait painter, copyist and antiquary.
[Ref: 7523] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
G.P.H. delt. et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple with etching. 140 x 215mm (5½ x 8½"). Trimmed into lower edge of plate.
John-Joseph Merlin was born in 1735 in the city of Huy, Belgium, and died in 1803 in London. He was an inventor, noted for the invention of roller skates. He also improved musical instruments and manufactured automats, such as Cox's timepiece. He created Merlin's Mechanical Museum to display his machines. Probably by George Perfect Harding (1781 - 1853), portrait painter, copyist and antiquary.
[Ref: 7523] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
John Joseph Merlin, The Celebrated Mechanic.
C.P.H. del.t et Sculp. [after Thomas Gainsborough]
[Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, or, Magazine of Remarkable characters 1803].
Rare engraving with stipple, sheet 105 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate. Title removed and glued to the print.
Oval portrait of John Joseph Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 1735 –1803) after the one by Gainsborough with a mechanical chariot designed by him. Merlin was a Belgian Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker and inventor. Notable items he manufactured include; the Silver Swan, Cox's timepiece and inline skates.
[Ref: 57060] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
C.P.H. del.t et Sculp. [after Thomas Gainsborough]
[Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, or, Magazine of Remarkable characters 1803].
Rare engraving with stipple, sheet 105 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate. Title removed and glued to the print.
Oval portrait of John Joseph Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 1735 –1803) after the one by Gainsborough with a mechanical chariot designed by him. Merlin was a Belgian Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker and inventor. Notable items he manufactured include; the Silver Swan, Cox's timepiece and inline skates.
[Ref: 57060] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)