An Opal Morning [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine coloured etching, titled and signed by the artist. Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamps. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with large margins. Slight mount burn.
Two women in a rowing boat. One is fully nude about to dive into the water while the other is half covered by a towel and braces herself against the side about to get up. 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: 62513] £480.00
Catherine Opalinska. Epouse de Stanislas Leszinski et mere de Marie de Leszinski Reine de France Neé le 5. Novembre 1680.
A Paris chez E. Desrochers,
Engraving. Plate: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4''), with very large margins.
A portrait of Catherine Opalinska, wife ofStanislaw I Leszczynski (1677-1761), King of Poland and mother of Marie Leszczynski, wife of Louis XV. From a series of small portraits by Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers (1668-1741).
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Key to the Splendid Mezzotinto Engraving, by G.H. Phillips, Esq from Danby's Sublime Painting of the Opening of the Sixth Seal.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare etching with letterpress, printed in blue. Sheet 285 x 225mm 11¼ x 9"). Laid on canvas, paper age toned.
The key and prospectus for an engraving of Francis Danby's 'An Attempt to illustrate the Opening of the Sixth Seal'. According to the text 'Each Subscriber of One Guinea shall receive one Share, securing One of the Splendid Mezzotinto Engravings of the Picture; and the chance of obtaining either the Grand Original Painting, valued at 1000 Guineas, or the Engraved Steel Plate, which cost 650 Guineas; and shall also receive a Free Admission Ticket admitting one person during the Exhibition'. Danby accused John Martin of stealing the idea of his 'The Deluge' from this painting, which Martin saw during a visit to Danby's studio. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36968] £350.00
The Opera.
Printed by W. Day, 17 Gate Street.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, 1829.
Chine collé lithograph. 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Slight tear taped on right.
A woman dressed to go to the opera.
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[The Sleepwalker.] La Sonnambula. Revised by Cha.s. W.Glover.
J.Brandard. M&N.Hanhar Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1831.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Stained.
Songsheet for La Sonnambula, or 'The Sleepwalker', an 1831 opera by Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). She walks on a thin plank over the street. Revised by Charles W.Glover (1806-1863), English violinist and composer.
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The Opera.
W. & J.O. Clerk lithog 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Pewtress 67 Newington Causeway, & Ackermann & Co 96 Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Finely hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic, sheet 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Some staining.
A young lady in her box at an operatic performance; leaning on the parapet, she holds an opera glass in her gloved right hand.
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Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense. Je donnerais trois operas pour avoir fait votre romance. [What we say and what we think. I would give three operas to have written your romance.]
Lith de Gihaut Frères.
chez Gihaut Frères éditeurs [n.d., c.1830].
Fine coloured lithograph. Printed area 180 x 150mm (7 x 6") with large margins.
Two man stand talking in a music room with instruments.
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[His Majesty's Theatre] Opera House.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. J. Bluck, aquat.
London Pub. 1st. March 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint. 235 x 266mm (9¼ x 10½") very large margins.
His (or Her) Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, established by architect and playwright John Vanbrugh in 1705 as the Queen's Theatre, but by 1709 had become an opera house. This is the interior of the second theatre, designed by Michael Novosielski after the first succumbed to arson in 1789, opened in 1791 and operating until 1867. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', one of the key visual sources for London in the late Georgian period. Abbey, Scenery: 212.
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New Musical Fund
L. Legoux sculp. late pupil of F. Bartolozzi R.A. No.1 Poland Street Soho.
Stipple, sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet, possibly losing text.
Apollo with his lyre standing on clouds, to his right a female figure with dove perched on her head and holding horn of plenty and pair of compasses; another female figure sits to left. In the background a pelican feeds its chicks. A violin and musical instruments below are draped with a banner inscribed 'New Musical Fund'. By French engraver Louis Legoux (1789 - 1804, fl.). For another state with additional text see ref. 13503.
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New Musical Fund. Opera House, Thursday, March 10th. 1803.
L. Legoux sculp. late pupil of F. Bartolozzi R.A. No.1 Poland Street Soho.
Stipple and etching, ticket/advertisement for a fund-raising musical entertainment. Plate 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Lower right corner chipped with small repair with conservation tissue.
Apollo with his lyre standing on clouds, to his right a female figure with dove perched on her head and holding horn of plenty and pair of compasses; another female figure sits to left. In the background a pelican feeds its chicks. A violin and musical instruments below are draped with a banner inscribed 'New Musical Fund'. By French engraver Louis Legoux (1789 - 1804; active).
[Ref: 13503] £160.00
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New Musical Fund. Opera House, Thursday, March 15th. 1804.
L. Legoux sculp. late pupil of F. Bartolozzi R.A. No.1 Poland Street Soho.
Stipple and etching, printed in sepia. Sheet 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, stained.
Apollo with his lyre standing on clouds, to his right a female figure with dove perched on her head and holding horn of plenty and pair of compasses; another female figure sits to left. In the background a pelican feeds its chicks. A violin and musical instruments below are draped with a banner inscribed 'New Musical Fund'. By French engraver Louis Legoux (1789 - 1804; active). The print came from a collection compiled by Marianne Arnold Ayrton whose father, Samuel Arnold, was thought to be the son of Princess Amelia (1711-1786) through her affair with commoner Thomas Arnold. See Fitzwilliam. From a collection of ephemera gathered by Marianne Arnold Ayrton (daughter of Samuel Arnold) and her husband William Ayrton.
[Ref: 52955] £160.00
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Opera Medica,
Norimbergae Impensis Ioh. And. & Wolffg: Iun: Endteror: Haered: M.D.C.L.X. [Nuremberg, 1660.]
Engraved titlepage, 290 x 165mm. 11½ x 6½". Chip to lower right corner, affecting image.
Vignettes include a surgical demonstration to student sin a theatre, a skeleton, a courtroom scene and various allegorical figures representing scientific knowledge; also a room full scientific vessels and tools for practical experiments.
A very interesting and decorative titlepage to the book by Gregorius Horst the Elder (1578 - 1636), called the German Aesculapius, professor of medicine at various German universities. British Library: 001738717.
[Ref: 13141] £120.00
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The Opera Season. Quadrille by F. Godfrey. On Airs from Favourite Operas.
M. Watson lith.
London: Edwin Ashdown, Hanover Square W. [n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Damage at top.
The cover of a music sheet, with five roundel scenes. Frederick Godfrey was bandmaster of the Coldtream Guards 1863-1880.
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The Noble Peasant. A Comic-Opera. Set to Music by William Shield. Price 10.6d.
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Printed for Willm. Napier Music-seller to their Majesties No.474 Strand. [1784.]
Engraved titlepage illustrated by Bartolozzi, sheet 155 x 215mm. 6 x 8½". One diagonal crease.
The decorative border including flowers and fronds held by winged putti, and a lyre, pipes and sheet music in the lower part, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815). William Shield (1748 - 1829), composer at Covent Garden, wrote music for upwards of thirty dramatic pieces. This comic opera was written by Thomas Holcroft (1745 - 1809). British Library: 004655802. De V:
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The Operation. The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden.
[1773]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Britannia sinks to the ground, with blood gushing from wounds in her chest and collected into a bowl. A minister stands over her with a dagger poised to strike again. Satire on British politics published in the 'Oxford Magazine', altering a plate first issued in 1768 to reflect more recent events. On the right in the background, a generic lawyer (originally Lord Mansfield) hands a bowl to the earl of Bute (originally Pitt the Elder). In the foreground, sitting on the steps and drinking greedily, is Lord Talbot. BM Satires 5127
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The Operation. The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden.
[1773]
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5''). Small margins on 3 sides.
Britannia sinks to the ground, with blood gushing from wounds in her chest and collected into a bowl. A minister stands over her with a dagger poised to strike again. Satire on British politics published in the 'Oxford Magazine', altering a plate first issued in 1768 to reflect more recent events. On the right in the background, a generic lawyer (originally Lord Mansfield) hands a bowl to the earl of Bute (originally Pitt the Elder). In the foreground, sitting on the steps and drinking greedily, is Lord Talbot. BM Satires 5127
[Ref: 50376] £130.00
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[A street musician playing an ophicleide.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Watercolour. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Laid on card.
A man with a long white beard stands in the street playing an ophicleide, watched by six small children. The ophicleide was invented in 1817 by Jean Hilaire Asté; it was superceded by the tuba at the end of the century.
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John Opie R.A. To John Boydell Esq.r Aldermann of the City of London This Plate is by Permission, Respectfully Inscribed by his much obliged & humble Serv.t S.W. Reynolds.
Ipse pinx. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published June 1. 1802 by John Jeffryes, Clapham Road.
Mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper at edges.
A self-portrait of John Opie, first published by Reynolds in 1798. Boydell published many of Opie paintings, including five subjects for his Shakespeare Gallery, most notibly Juliet's death from Romeo and Juliet. Whitman 221, state ii of ii.
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Opinions on Reform. No. III. Lord J. Russell. The question is, Why not disfranchise the unconvicted Boroughs? To this I answer, that I do not by any means maintain that the Resolutions I now propose comprise all the Amendments that can be made in the frame of this House...No! the principles of the construction of this House Are Pure and Worthy. Small as the remaining treasure of the Constitution is, I cannot consent to throw it into the wheel for the chance of obtaining a prize in the Lottery of Constitutions."
[n.d. c.1832.]
Letterpress. 241 x 222mm. 9½ x 8¾".
An address by Lord J. Russell, an English Whig and Liberal politician, who was one of the principal leaders of the fight for the Reform Act in 1832.
[Ref: 18346] £160.00
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C.W. Opitz.
A. Graff pinx. F.C. Geyler sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple printed in brown ink. Platemark: 140 x 90mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Small margins.
A portrait of German actor Christian Wilhelm Opitz (1756 - 1819). Opitz played at the Court Theatre of Mannheim and then in Dresden, after which he was employed as a court actor in St. Petersburg from 1785 - 1789.
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Opium Smokers and Gamblers. In one of their nightly haunts.
Drawn on the Spot by Sir Harry Darell, Bar.t. On Stone by J.H. Lynch.
London Pub.d May 18 1842 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Puckle, Printsellers to Her Majesty, to the Queen Dowager, to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, &c, 23, Cockspur S.t.
Scarce tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 430mm (14 x 17"), large margins on three sides. Bit dusty
The interior of a Chinese opium den. Sir Harry Darell (1814-53), Baronet of Richmond Hill, entered the army as an ensign in the 18th Foot in 1832, becoming lieutenant in 1835. During the First Opium War he was aide-de-camp of Brigadier-General Burrell of the 18th Irish Regiment: he was present at a conference between J.J.Gordon Bremer and Admiral Chang on board HMS Wellesley (4th July 1840, subject of a lithograph by Darell also published 1842, which includes a self-portrait), just prior to the Taking of Chusan, at which he fought. He was promoted to Captain in 1841. He then served in South Africa with the 7th Dragoon Guards, being promoted to Major in 1847, then Lieut-Colonel by brevet the following year. He died in Sardinia. Although he published 'China, India, Cape of Good Hope and Vicinity. A Series of Thirteen Treble-Tinted Views from Sketches by Lieut.-Col. Sir Harry Darell, Bar.t', this plate predates the book by a decade. This plate seems to be a pair to his view of the Chusan Conference.
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Guerre De Chine. Debarquement Dans La Riviere De Peh-Tang. Le 1er. Aout 1860. Entree et prise de possession du fort et du village le 2 Aout.
Lith. de Haguenthal, Pont-a-Mousson. Comp. et Lith. par G.C. de Fortavion.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 310 x 470mm. 12¼ x 18½". Chipped and tatty left edge.
In the summer of 1860, an Anglo-French force with 173 ships sailed from Hong Kong and captured the Chinese port cities of Yantai and Dalian to seal the Bohai Gulf. Then they carried out a landing near at Bei Tang (also spelled Pei Tang), some 3 kilometres from the Dagu Fort on 3 August, which they captured after three weeks on 21 August. From a series of scenes illustrating The Second Opium War, a war of the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China from 1856-1860. The French commander was Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao (1796 - 1878).
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[Nine sketches of the campaign in China, 1857-8.]
HH Crealock del [four plates signed.]
[British, c.1857 (one plate dated).]
Nine scarce woodcut illustrations, eight of Chinese civilians, one showing an Indian soldier. Printed on a variety of wove and laid papers, four with printed captions. Various sizes, most approx. 25 x 20cm (10 x 8"). Some creasing and light soiling, nicks and small tears to extremities in places.
Lively semi-caricatured depictions - they might now be considered rather crude racial stereotypes - of Asian males and females, featuring a dog and a pig in two of the plates. Two of the sketches show barbers with cut-throat razors; one man is rowing a small boat. They all are evidently sketched from life and may have been printed on campaign from a local (portable?) press, using whatever paper was available. Henry Hope Crealock (1831-1891), soldier, artist and writer, saw active service in a number of fronts including the siege of Sevastopol, the operations at Canton in 1857-8 and the Indian campaigns of 1858 and 1859. He was an accomplished draughtsman, and his sketches of scenes in the Indian mutiny, the China campaign and the Anglo-Zulu War are valuable records of those events. In March 1857 he was appointed deputy adjutant quartermaster-general to the China expeditionary force in the Second Opium War. He was present during the operations at Canton in December 1857 and January 1858. On 20 July 1858 he reached the regimental rank of lieutenant-colonel. Later in his career, as major general, he commanded the 1st Division of the Army in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. After retiring, he republished a series of anti-Russian articles as The Eastern Question in 1885.
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Iohannes Operinus, Graecae Linguae Professor et Tipographus Basilien. Tu famam libris vitam scriptoribus addis, Pars tibi mercedis sic ab utroq venit. Aaa4.
[Theodore de Bry.]
[n.d. c.1710.]
Etching. 172 x 139mm. 6¾ x 5½". Trimmed.
Johannes Oporinus (1507-1568) was a humanist printer in Basel.
[Ref: 18662] £70.00
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Oporto (Portugal).
Paris, Gosselin, Impr. Editr., r. St. Jacques 71.
à Lyon chez Gadola. [n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. 292 x 369mm. 11½ x 14½".
A view of a paddle-steamer in the centre of the river Duoro, with Porto, Portugal stretched either side of the estuary.
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A View of the City of Oporto. Vue Perspective de la Ville de Oporto. 52.
Published 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, N.o 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured engraving, plate 255 x 425mm (10 x 16¾"), with good margins. Laid on archival paper. Some restoration.
This important trading city on the Douro, Portugal - the so-called 'The Unvanquished City' - was never conquered, although Romans, Moors, and Napoleon tried.
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Feira da Cordoaria Porto. Cordoaria Market_Oporto.
J.J. Forrester Del.t. R.J. Lane A.R.A Direxit. G. Childs Lith.
Published in Oporto by the Author & for him in London by J. Dickinson New Bond Street.
Lithograph, printed on india paper; publisher's stamp. Sheet: 240 x 200mm (9½ x 7¾"). Horizontal crease at top margin.
A view of the market in Oporto showing customers and sellers at the various stalls.
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Oporto From the Quay of Villa Nova. Proof.
Painted by Lieu.t Col.l Batty. Eng.d by R. Brandard. Triggs Printer.
London Published Dec.r 1 1829 by Moon, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6 Pall Mall.
Etching, proof on chine collé. 235 x 305mm (9¼ x 12") very large margins. Ink stamp of the "Robinson Collection" on back. Slight foxing on right.
The busy harbour of Porto. From 'Select Views of some of the Principal Cities of Europe from Original Paintings by Lieut. Col. Robert Batty', 1832. Batty (1789-1848) was wounded when serving with the 1st Foot Guards (now the Grenadier Guards) at Waterloo, but was still serving when this book was published.
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An Opossum of Van Diemen's Land.
J. Webber del. P. Mazell sculp.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). Trimmed to the plate.
John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives. Most of the illustrations in the Official Account, 'A Voyage to the Pacific', were his.
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Petaurine Opossum.
[Anon., c.1806-7]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 130 x 205mm (5 x 8"). Trimmed.
From Australia probably copied from an illustration in the natural historian George Shaw's 'Zoological Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1806 and 1807'.
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Chasse a l'Opossum N.lle Hollande.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Trimmed into plate on two sides.
Australian Aborigines hunting opossum, one climbing a tree using an axe for grip.
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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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Optics. Plate I. Reflection and Inflection of Light.
J. Pass sc.
Engraved for the Encyclopoedia Londonensis, 1819.
Coloured engraving. 270 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Narrow margins.
Various illustrations.
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Illustrations of Natural Pholosophy Optics. Popular Diagrams N.o 32.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie.
London, Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Part of the series "Popular Diagrams" with plates no. 25-35 which were accompanied by 24 pages of descriptive text. Diagrams of lenses, refraction, reflection, eclipses, the human eye and camera obscuras.
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L'Optique.
N. Corneille pinxit. Simonneau, Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Jacq. Chereau rue St. Jacques au grand St. Remi. [n.d., c.1740.]
Etching on laid paper, sheet 165 x 260mm. 6½ x 10¼". Trimmed within plate.
An allegory of astronomy in an oval design (possibly a fragment or from a book?). A female figure in robes, left breast exposed, leaning back on to a pile of books looking through a telescope, surrounded by four putti, one of whom pulls back a curtain to reveal the French royal observatory at Versailles in the background. Another putti points to 'Picart Petit' inscribed on a scroll in the woman's left hand. From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
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[Minerology] Opykta.
[engraved by Antonius Eisenhoit.]
[Rome: J.M. Salvioni, 1717.]
Scarce engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 320 x 420mm (12½ x 16½"). Trimmed within plate, some foxing.
A representation of the mineralogy museum of the Vatican, with samples of metals in racks on the left and stones on the right. A plate from 'Michaelis Mercati Samminiatensis Metallotheca'.
[Ref: 65156] £380.00
Oran e Marsagujur.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. Fold.
A view of the Dardanelle forts with rough seas. A copy of a plate from 'Divarse Viste delli Luoghie Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibraltar', a series of eleven views the Strait of Gibraltar. etched by Lucas Vorsterman II, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64429] £240.00
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The Orang-Outang.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. 250 x 298mm. 9¾ x 11¾". Laid on album page.
An ape with a human-esque face looks towards the viewer, leaning on a staff.
[Ref: 19381] £60.00
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[Orange Girl.]
J.H. Benwell del. Walker Excud.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London Publish'd Dec.r 2.nd 1786, by J. Walker, No.148, Strand.
Etching with stipple. Plate 274 x 221mm (10¾ x 8¾"). Slight mark.
Half-length young woman, body facing three-quarter to right, head turned in profile to right, wearing a hat with ribbons, holding a basket of oranges in right hand, a paper inscribed "Theatre Royal, Drury-lane Isabella". Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage, was a play by Thomas Southerne, which was adapated by Garrick with Sarah Siddons playing the title role. De Vesme 1288: ii/iv.
[Ref: 28904] £260.00
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Rev.d J. Campbell crossing the great river.
London. Printed for Thos. Kelly & Rich.d Evans. 17, Paternoster Row, July 3.rd 1824.
Engraving. 127 x 183mm (5 x 7¼").
In 1813, the Rev.d John Campbell visited a settlement, after accomplishing the task of crossing the Orange River, South Africa, as seen here. From "The History and Origin of the Missionary Societies".
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Oratory School Reading [in pencil lower right.]
Etched by C. Stanley Pollitt [in pencil lower left.]
[n.d. c.1912.]
Etching. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½". Later impression.
A front view of the Oratory School, Reading, with the arms and motto in the centre below the image. The school is independent and Roman Catholic, and is the last Catholic all-boys boarding school in Great Britain. The school was founded under the supervision of John Henry, later Cardinal Newman, in 1859. C. Stanley Pollitt (British, d.1926).
[Ref: 22578] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Andrea Orgagna Figliolo di Maestro Cione Pittore, Scultore Poeta non Dispregievole ed Architetto Fioren.no Singolaris.mo nato nel MCCCL. in circa, morto nel MCCCLXXXIX. Presso dalle Pitture a Fresco delle Volte della Real Galleria di Firenze.
Guiliano Traballesi del. Gaet. Vascellini sc.
Engraving. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Old ink numeral and crease in margin.
Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (1308-68), better known as Orcagna, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.
[Ref: 40514] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Orchestra.]
Reindel imp.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching; in pencil at bottom Painter & Graver Show. Plate: 130 x 250mm (5 x 9¾''), with large margins.
A view of an orchestra by William George Reindel (1871-1941).
[Ref: 47971] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Jacob Butler of Barnwell.]
[?Etched by Michael Tyson]
Etching, platemark 195 x 170mm (7¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
Etching probably by Michael Tyson (1740-1780) of Jacob Butler (1681-1765) a Cambridgeshire counsellor whose epitaph, which he wrote himself, can be found in the church of St. Andrew the Less, or Barnwell. RCIN 651727
[Ref: 42097] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Knight of the Garter.] Eques Balnei in Anglia.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½'') very large margins. Foxing.
A costume plate showing the dress of a Knight of the Garter. From 'Torques Aurelius Magni Magisti Ordinis Anglici Constantiniani' 1710 a series of engravings showing the chivalric orders of Europe.
[Ref: 49199] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[East Ham & Barking.] London. Sheets XLIII, XLIV & LIV (parts of) Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen. A litle wear.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of East Ham & Barking, with the River Roding. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 11013] £160.00
[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet XI. 18. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number. Laid on linen, some surface soiling.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Rotherhithe with the Grand Surrey Canal and the South Metropolitan Gas Works. It marks the functions of the factories alongside the canal and shows terraced houses on the site of Millwall F.C.'s current ground, 'The Den'. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10849] £100.00
[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet XI. 9. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, a few tears.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Rotherhithe with the Grand Surrey Canal. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10848] £100.00
[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet CIII. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, tears, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Peckham with the branch of the Grand Surrey Canal to Peckham Reach This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10983] £80.00
[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet XI. 37. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number. Laid on linen, some surface soiling.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Peckham with a spur of the Grand Surrey Canal leading to Peckham Wharf. Also showing Peckham Road and Peckham High Street. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10851] £60.00