Wickliffe. Penn. Luther. Calvin Winchester. Baxter. Whitfield. Wesley.
Engraved by P. Roberts.
Published March 25 1801 for Crosby & Letterman Stationers Court.
Stipple. 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed to plate at top. Small margins.
Medallion portraits of eight religious figures with their dates, probably to accompany biographies: John Wycliffe (c.1328-84), Martin Luther (1483-1546), William Penn (1644-1718), John Calvin (1509-64), Richard Baxter (1615-91), Elhanan Winchester (1751-97), George Whitefield (1714-70) and John Wesley (1703-91).
[Ref: 60109] £130.00
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William Wilberforce Esq. Member of Parliament for the County of York.
Engraved by J. Vendramini, from an original Drawing by H. Edridge.
Published Oct. 27. 1809, By T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Creasing, small margins.
Portrait of abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), half-length, seated in armchair, directed and looking to the right, reading a book that he is holding close to his face with both hands, wearing double breasted coat with eyeglass on a ribbon hanging around his neck.
[Ref: 59648] £180.00
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[Frame-maker's Label.] Jacob Wilde, Picture-Frame-Maker, and Gilder, From London, As the Star in Deansgate Manchester.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Letterpress label: 75 x 120mm (3 x 4¾''). Mezzotint creased and trimmed.
A frame-maker's label. Jacob Wilde is mentioned in a letter to Mr Hitchen, Steward at Royle in 'Works of Tim Bobbin Esq. in Prose & Verse' edited by John Corry in 1819. The label is glued onto the verso of 'I Saw a Smith stand with his Hammer...' engraved by Richard Houston after Edward Penny and published by Robert Sayer in 1771. Ex: Lennox-Boyd Collection
[Ref: 49430] £130.00
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[John Wilkes.] Hieroglyphics.
[Oxford Magazine, 3rd February 1769.]
Etching. 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7").
A satire on attempts to keep John Wilkes from taking his seat in 1769, showing him accosted by two attack dogs with the heads of Sir Norton Fletcher and the Duke of Grafton. On the left are two of his supporters, wearing clerical dress: John Horne Tooke says ''They know not what they do.''; and the lawyer, John Glynn, says ''There is no Precedent for this, either in Law or Equity! I declare it to be illegal''. On the right are other canines: Henry Fox, the Duke of Bedford and Lord Mansfield. Originally published in the Oxford Magazine, 1769. BM Satires 4268.
[Ref: 59972] £70.00
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Willow at Bury St Edmunds.
J.G. Strutt 1823.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 315 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"), large margins
''The Abbot's Willow'. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 59995] £160.00
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Mr Wilson.
Drawn Etch.d & pub.d by Rich.d Dighton as the Act directs May 1824.
London. Pub.d by Tho.s M.cLean 26 Haymarket, 1824.
Hand coloured etching, plate 250 x 140mm (10 x 5½") Very small margins. Some staining.
Caricature of merchant and Tory MP for the City (1818-26), Thomas Wilson (1767-1852), nicknamed Buckskin Wilson. BM Satires 14679.A.
[Ref: 60038] £140.00
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Ancient Kitchen. Windsor Castle.
J. Stephanoff del.t. W.J. Bennett sculp.t.
Pub. Feb.y 1. 1818 by W.H. Pyne, 9 Nasau Street Soho.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 315mm (10 x 12¼").
The interior of the kitchen at Windsor Castle, with the cooks and other servants hard at work. Excellent kitchen image. After James Stephanoff, illustration to William Henry Pyne's 'The History of the Royal Residences', published in three volumes. See Ref: 60095
[Ref: 60096] £280.00
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A Big-Wig.
Drawn. Etch.d & Pub.d by Rich.d Dighton. 1820 July 26.
Etching with wonderful hand colour, plate 270 x 180mm (10¾ x 7), with large margins. Tiny bit of staining.
Caricature of Sir George Wombell 3rd Baronet (1792-1855).
[Ref: 60040] £160.00
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A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London; Royal Palaces; Hospitals; and Publick Edifices; Built by S.r Christopher Wren K.t Surveyor General of the Royal Works, during Fifty Years: Viz.t from 1668, to 1718. A List Of the exect Sums of Money laid out for Rebuilding each Church, with References to their Names & Numbers in the Rounds.
H. Hulsbergh Sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"). Trimmed into image, loss as central fold. Repairs, messy.
A pyramid with roundels listing Wren's works, cross-referenced to tromp-l'oeil scrolls listing the cost (if known). It was the first plate (of 15) in a book with the same title. See RA Collection 03/2812 for the complete book.
[Ref: 59823] £130.00
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[Lion Tomb, Xanthus.]
[Etched by Charles Oliver Murray after William James Müller.]
['The Portfolio', 1882.]
Etching, proof. 260 x 355mm (10¼ x 14"). Creasing on right.
A view of the ruins of the Lion Tomb in Xanthos, Turkey, with trees and goats. William James Müller (1812-45) visited Greece and Egypt 1838-9, then Turkey 1843-4 as part of the archaeological expedition of Sir Charles Fellows, during which the Xanthus Marbles were taken for the British Museum. The watercolour this print is based on is also in the BM (1878,1228.97).
[Ref: 59905] £95.00
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The Xmas Rose. The Adventures of Tom Thumb.
By E.A. Mason 1886.
James Clarke & Co., 13 & 14 Fleet St EC.
Photo lithograph. Sheet 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18½"). Small tear to edges.
Eight vignette illustrations, including Tom Thumb leaning on a mushroom, anthropomorphic mice and three of a Welsh woman.
[Ref: 59774] £65.00
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The Yew Tree at Ankerwyke.
J.G. Strutt.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 315mm x 380mm (12½" x 15"), large margins. Slight crease bottom right margin.
The Ankerwyke Yew, Wraysbury, which is at least 1,400 years old and possibly as old as 2,500. Overlooking Runnymede, it is said to have witnessed the signing of the Magna Charta in 1215 and where Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn in the 1530s. In 2002 The Tree Council named it one of fifty Great British Trees. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60030] £160.00
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The Great Yew at Forlingal [Fortingall].
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1825.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 320mm x 375mm (12¾" x 14¾"), large margins.
An ancient yew still in the churchyard of Fortingall in Perthshire, considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, with estimates ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 years old. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60032] £160.00
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On the Wings of Love. 218.
Publish'd 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margin. Glued on an album sheet.
A woman with a plumed hat sitting on a striped sofa, holding a letter in her left hand and pointing at it with the other, while smiling towards the viewer. Reworked state republished 1794.
[Ref: 60087] £260.00
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