Perseus having rescued Andromeda from imminent danger, is enamoured with her beauty.
Drawn by I.B. Cipriani. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Historical Engraver to His Majesty.
London, Published May 1.st 1789, bu E.M. Diemar, No.114 Strand.
Stipple and etching. 300 x 229mm. 11¾ x 9". Some paper loss to left just inside image area, trimmed.
Near the sea, Perseus releasing Andromeda from her chains. De Vesme: 477; iii/iii.
[Ref: 20441] £240.00
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Persée les mains teintes encore du sang du Monstre dont il vient de délivrer Andromède; se lave à la Fontaine Hypocrène, et l'Amour prêt à les unir.
Bourdon pinx. F. Basan exc.
A Paris, chés Basan, Graveur, Place Maubert, proche le rue de la Bucherie.
Etching. 365 x 445mm (14½ x 17½") large margins. Slight staining bottom right in margins.
Perseus washing in hands in a stream after having slain the sea monster. Behind him Cupid stands looking at Andromeda who, free of her chains, is seen wrapping herself in a drapery. Pegasus flaps his wings. On the right nereids put coral on Perseus' shield. The body of the sea monster can be seen on the right. BM: 1873,0712.297.
[Ref: 48826] £350.00
Perseus et Andromede. 13.
Polidoro pinxit. Johannes Volpato sculpsit Romae 1772.
Romae in Hortis Marchionis del Bufalo.
Engraving. Plate 247 x 317mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Water stain upper left of margin.
Perseus flying to slay the dragon that threatens to kill Andromeda. After the painting on the facade of the demolished Ninfeo in the Palazzo Bufalo Cancellieri, taken down in 1885 and now in the Museo di Roma. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
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Perseus cautiously relating to Andromeda_the transforming power of Medusa's head.
Drawn by I.B. Cipriani. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Historical Engraver to His Majesty.
[London, Published May 1.st 1789, by E.M. Diemar, No.114 Strand.]
Stipple and etching. 272 x 198mm. 10¾ x 7¾". Publication line cut. Surface scratching in the body of Perseus. Trimmed.
Perseus, naked kneeling on a river shore, holding the head of Medusa in his right hand, the reflection in the water; Andromeda, looking at the head from behind him. De Vesme: 478; iv/iv.
[Ref: 20444] £130.00
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[Iran.] Iran und Turan. Königsplatz in Ispahn.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Persia arranged around a central view of Isfahan, other views include 'Persisches Frühstück', 'Schiras', 'Kabul in Afghanistan'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46035] £130.00
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Perse. Femme du Harem du Roi.
L. Massard, del. Choubard sc.
Voy. en Asie, Fraser, Pag. 87. [French, n.d., c.1820.]
Fine hand coloured stipple and engraving, sheet 165 x 245mm. 6½ x 9¾". Slightly tatty extremities.
A Persian woman leaning back on cushions smoking a hookah.Scottish diplomatist, traveller, and author, was in the county of Inverness When Reza Koolee Murza and Nejeff Koole6 Murza, the exiled Persian princes, visited England, he was appointed to be their mehmindar, and on their return he accompanied them as far as Constantinople. He was afterwards sent to 'Persia on a diplomatic mission. The works by which he attained his literary reputation were accounts of his travels and fictitious tales illustrative of Eastern life. He travels and wrote extensively about Persia and its provinces.
[Ref: 22346] £75.00
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Persia. The route taken by M.r E.G. Browne is indicated in Red.
W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh & London.
[Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1893.]
Lithographic map, printed in colours. Printed area 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Repaired tear from original binding folds.
The general map from Edward Granville Browne's 'A Year Among the Persians', showing his route from Kurdinstan to Terhran, Shiraz and Kerman, and across the sea to Baku. Browne (1862-1926) was a British Iranologist who spent a year there in 1887-8. This account was very favourable towards the Persians, who reciprocated their feelings: a Tehran street named after him and a statue survived the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
[Ref: 57631] £130.00
Grand Pretre Persan. Tire de la Pl. IXe, de la 1re. Edition du Tr. De Th. Hyde. Historia Rel. Vet. Persarum.
Touze d. P. Duflos. Sc.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1780] Avec Privilege du Roi.
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 271 x 163mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2111] £50.00
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[A mounted column of Western and Central Asian soldiers.]
[London: Dickinson & Son, n.d., c.1850.]
Rare large tinted lithograph. Sheet 385 x 715mm (15¼ x 28¼"), publisher's blind stamp. Some wear to lateral margins.
Russian officers, possibly diplomats, escorted by Persian(?) horsemen, one of whom has a falcon on his gauntlet. We have been unable to trace the publication: the large size suggests it was not issued in book form.
[Ref: 53078] £650.00
Persia with a Part of Cabul and the adjacent countries.
London Published Jan.y 2, 1828 by A. Arrowsmith Hydrographer to His Majesty No. 10 Soho Square.
Engraved map with original outline colour. 270 x 290mm, 10½ x 11½". Slight time staining.
A map of Iran with parts of Iraq, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan & Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf, published by Aaron Arrowsmith Jnr.
[Ref: 25988] £120.00
Astrabad. Costume de Ville des Persannes.
Wachsmut del. Choubard, sc.
Voy. en Asie, Fraser, Pag. 346. [French, n.d., c.1820.]
Fine hand coloured stipple and engraving, sheet 245 x 160mm. 9¾ x 6¼". Slightly tatty extremities.
A woman of Gorgan (formerly Astarabad), now the capital of Golestan Province, Iran. She wears a burka and veil. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) Scottish diplomatist, traveller, and author, was in the county of Inverness When Reza Koolee Murza and Nejeff Koole6 Murza, the exiled Persian princes, visited England, he was appointed to be their mehmindar, and on their return he accompanied them as far as Constantinople. He was afterwards sent to 'Persia on a diplomatic mission. The works by which he attained his literary reputation were accounts of his travels and fictitious tales illustrative of Eastern life. He travels and wrote extensively about Persia and its provinces.
[Ref: 22349] £75.00
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[Persian.] Persan.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
A handsome man with town in distance. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47028] £330.00
[Persian Woman.] Femme Persanne.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
An attractive lady with a girl in background smoking. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47029] £320.00
Homme Persan. Dame Persanne.
[after Cornelis de Bruyn.]
[Paris, c.1718.]
Engraving. 295 x 365mm (11¾ x 13¼"). Damage at centre fold, several tears taped.
Full length portraits of a Persian man and woman, from 'Voyages de Corneille le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Occidentales', a French edition of Cornelis de Bruyn's account of his travels to Russia and Persia (1701-5), first published in Dutch in 1711.
[Ref: 66228] £140.00
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A Persian.
Zoffany pinxt. J.Godby Sculpt.
Published March 1. 1806 by Edwd Orme, Bond Street, the Corner of Brook Street, London.
Stipple engraving 350 x 255mm.
Zoffany probably made the orignal in India during his visit to Lucknow.
[Ref: 6780] £180.00
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A Persian Archer.
Orlowski ex nat. del. On Stone by D. Dighton.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 205 x 330mm (8 x 13"). Trimmed to image, some creases, stains and tears to edges.
A Persian warrior on horseback with his bow and arrow drawn.
[Ref: 59808] £160.00
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[Persian Armenian] [Armenien de Perse]
JB. P.Rochefort sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving, mint, platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Ferriol. After Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, remembered for his his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
[Ref: 46922] £270.00
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[Persian? caravan.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Fine lithograph on coloured paper, white highlights. Sheet 205 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), on original backing sheet. Some spotting.
Men standing by horses and a camel.
[Ref: 58515] £180.00
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[Persian cavalryman?] Deuxième suite de Cheveaux d'après Carle & Horace Vernet. N:o 21.
Levachez sculp.t.
à Paris, rue St Lazare No. 42. [n.d., c.1807].
Fine & rare mezzotint. 285 x 340mm (11¼ x 13½") with large margins. Slight ink spots in sky.
A mounted cavalryman with curved sword and shield.
[Ref: 59442] £420.00
Habit of a Persian Gentleman in 1700. Persien. 31.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 245 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾ "). Large margins.
Portrait of a man, whole-length standing, turned to the left,. He is wearing a blue turban and a golden embroidered coat, with a sword hanging from his belt. Plate 31 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.
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Habit of a Persian Lady in 1700. Persienne. 32.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Plate 245 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a woman, whole-length standing, looking to the right. She is holding her hair with her left hand, her right hand resting on her belt, and wears a purple embroidered coat. Plate 32 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.
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Princesse de Perse A son air grave et dalaigneux Vous ne diriers pas qu'elle pense Aqulque larcin amoureux Mais c'est encor pis qu'en france.
Chez H Bonnart rue S. Iacques vis avis les Mathurins au Coq avec privi.
[n.d. c. 1675-1700]
Etching with engraving. 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¼"). Small left margin.
A Persian princess dressed in finery. Engraving by Henri Bonnart II (1642-1711), known for his work on fashion and costume, along with his four brothers. From an album of 215 prints depicting different French costumes of the period, the majority are published by members of the Bonnart family.
[Ref: 54720] £260.00
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Persian Lady Shooting the Wild Sheep.
J.R. Scott Sc.
Published by Pittman Warwick Square, London. [n.d., January 1841.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 130 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼"). Slight spotting.
A woman in fine dress kneeling to fire an arquebus, aided by a maid. The print was published as the frontispiece of the Sporting Magazine of January 1841. According to the text the image is reproduced from a Persian drawing belonging to Major Napier. The woman is described as a 'Lady of the Zenanah of the Schah'.
[Ref: 52054] £130.00
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[Mounted Persian? warriors.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph on coloured paper, white highlights. Sheet 205 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), on original backing sheet. Some spotting. Slight damage at top and bottom right corners.
Two mounted warriors, one firing a pistol, the other about to throw a spear.
[Ref: 58516] £140.00
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[Mounted Persian? warriors.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph on coloured paper, white highlights. Sheet 205 x 270mm (8 x 10½"), on original backing sheet. Some spotting.
Two warriors loading their muskets and firing from their horses.
[Ref: 58514] £140.00
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Persiani. Rosina
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street Dec. 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani (1812-67), a soprano, in Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville'. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 49515] £75.00
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Madame Persiani in the character of Lucia in Donizettis Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.
[A.E. Chalon, R.A. del.t. Edward Morton Lith.]
[London, Published July 9th 1839, by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. _ a Paris, chez Rittner & Goupil Boulevard Montmartre.]
Coloured lithograph. Framed, window mounted around title, sight size 440 x 285mm (14½ x 11½"). Unexamined out of frame, mounted over inscriptions? Paper toned.
A full-length portrait of Italian soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani (1812–67), as Lucia di Lammermoor, a role written for her by Donizetti.
[Ref: 68235] £260.00
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"The Person" in Parliament __ Chairing the New Member.
[n.d. c.1900.]
Coloured engraving. 120 x 234mm (4¾ x 9¼").
Punch astride one horse, as two horses pull a carriage through a crowd of women campaigning for Justice for Women, Connubial Rating, Stop with the Malt Tax and Cheap Tea, The Free and Independent Burgessesses of Cackleborough.
[Ref: 52352] £60.00
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The Young Painter's Maulstick; being a Practical Treatise on Perspective... Containing Rules And Principles For Delineation On Planes, Treated so as to render the Art of Drawing correctly, easy of Attainment even to common Capacities; and entertaining at the same Time, from its Truth and Facility. Founded on the clear mechanical Process of Vignola And Sirigatti; United With The Theoretical Principles Of The Celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor. Addressed To Students In Drawing. By James Malton, Architect and Draughtsman.
Printed by V. Griffthsm No 1. Paternoster Row; and published for the Author, by Carpenter and Co. Old Bond Street.
Quarto, modern cloth; letterpress title & dedication, pp. (ii)+xiv+71; 23 numbered plates, as called for, mostly aquatint, plate 6 & 14 with flaps. Ownership inscription on title, some damp staining, tear in margin of p.3.
A guide to the use of perspective in painting by James Malton (1761-1803), an artist best known for his 'Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin', 1792-9. Abbey Life 152; Prideaux, 'Aquatint Engraving', ''Probably the earliest text-book of instruction to which the new process was applied''.
[Ref: 53845] £290.00
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Perspective requesting assistance of Geometry.
London, Publish'd July 1: 1786 by C. Taylor N.o.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Sheet: 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
Scene set in a roundel in which the figure of Geometry holds up her compass to the figure of Perspective who sits holding a lens.
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[Frontispiece to 'A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in theory and practice, on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor'.]
[by Thomas Malton.]
Publishd by Tho.s Malton April 1st 1774. (but c. 1805)
Engraving, paper watermarked 1805. 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Small margins on 3 sides; trimmed to image on left.
An architectural caprice with a mausoleum dedicated 'To the Memory of Dr Brook Taylor; in gratitude for his sublime Principles, on Perspective'. Brook Taylor (1685-1731) was an English mathematician whose 1715 essay 'Linear Perspective' set forth the principles of perspective in a more understandable form
[Ref: 57903] £160.00
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A New Perspective Instrument, By, Joseph Priestley of Bradford in Yorkshire.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1782, by J. Fielding Pater-noster Row.
Engraving. Plate 113 x 172mm (4½ x 6¾").
An illustration of a tool aiding architectural artists present perspective precisely. It was published in Priestley's 'A Familiar Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Perspective'; a discussion of the principles of linear perspective. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), a theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher and a chemist often credited with the discovery of oxygen. Because he found difficulty finding artists capable of illustrating his scientific books, he decided it would be easier to learn how to do it himself; he then published this artist's manual.
[Ref: 28621] £60.00
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Forum Modernis Aedificiis. LL.
P. de vriese inv.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. Plate 185 x 285mm. 7¼ x 11¼".
From "Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale." This book was an important Dutch contribution to the theory of perspective.
[Ref: 16105] £160.00
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Cubiculum Introspicientibus Modernum. MM.
[Paul Vrededman de Vries.]
[n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. Plate 185 x 285mm. 7¼ x 11¼".
From "Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale." This book was an important Dutch contribution to the theory of perspective.
[Ref: 16106] £160.00
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Templum Introspicientibus Modernum. OO.
Henr. Hondius Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. Plate 191 x 287mm. 7½ x 11¼".
From "Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale." This book was an important Dutch contribution to the theory of perspective.
[Ref: 16107] £160.00
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Templum intro-spicientibus modernum. NN.
I. de vriese inv.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. Plate 192 x 281mm. 7½ x 11".
From "Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale." This book was an important Dutch contribution to the theory of perspective.
[Ref: 16108] £160.00
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[Titlepage and woodcut illustration from Hieronymus Rodler, 'Eyn schön nützlich büchlin und underweisung der kunst des Messens [...]']
[Simmern: Hieronymus Rodler, 1531]
Two woodcuts, one with letterpress in black and red ink; very scarce; sheets 290 x 185mm (11½ x 7¼") and 175 x 170mm (7 x 6¾"). Both glued to backing sheet.
Two woodcut illustrations of artists at work, one showing five men at work in a studio, the other showing an artist depicting the view from his window. From Hieronymus Rodler's 'Eyn schön nützlich büchlin und underweisung der kunst des Messens mit dem Zirckel Richtscheidt oder Linial. Zu nutz allen kunstliebhabern furnemlich den Malern, Bildhawern, Goldschmiden, Seidenstickern, Steynmetzen, Schreinern, auch allen andern, so sich der kunst des Messens (Perspectiva zu latin gnant) zugebrauchen lust haben...' (1531). Rodler adapted ideas from Albrecht Dürer's 1525 'Unterweysung der Messung', simplifying them to make them accessible to a wider range of craftsmen.
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Perth, seen from Barnhill.
Drawn on Stone by D.O. Hill. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Pub. by T. Hill. George Stt. Perth. [n.d., c.1821.]
Lithograph. Sheet 305 x 480mm (12 x 19"). Tatty extremities.
A prospect of Perth and the River Tay, Scotland; Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge and, locally, the Old Bridge) features to right. From 'Sketches in Perthshire' by David Octavius Hill, 30 lithographs published in Perth in six parts. David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) was a Scottish painter and arts activist. He collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. He studied and learnt lithography at the School of Design and went on to produce his album of views "Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire". He was dissatisfied with the 'Institution' and established a separate Scottish Academy in 1829, along with Henry Cockburn. Over time, Hill took a turn towards photography and his collaboration with Adamson grew whereby Adamson's studio, "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh became the centre of their photographic experiments. They photographed local scenes and persons and were prominent in developing "action" photographs. Both Adamson and Hill died due to ill health at early ages. Abbey Scenery: 509, 24.
[Ref: 16357] £130.00
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Perth.
D.O. Hill Lithogr. Printed by J. Robertson Edinbr.
[Perth: T. Hill, c.1821.]
Lithograph, sheet 300 x 485mm. 11¾ x 19". Tatty extremities.
A view of Perth and the River Tay, Scotland; figures on shore and ships on the river in foreground, also Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge and, locally, the Old Bridge) in distance far right. From 'Sketches in Perthshire' by David Octavius Hill, 30 lithographs published in Perth in six parts. David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) was a Scottish painter and arts activist. He collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. He studied and learnt lithography at the School of Design and went on to produce his album of views "Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire". He was dissatisfied with the 'Institution' and established a separate Scottish Academy in 1829, along with Henry Cockburn. Over time, Hill took a turn towards photography and his collaboration with Adamson grew whereby Adamson's studio, "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh became the centre of their photographic experiments. They photographed local scenes and persons and were prominent in developing "action" photographs. Both Adamson and Hill died due to ill health at early ages. Abbey Scenery: 509, 5.
[Ref: 16358] £130.00
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Sherif De Perth. Palais De Scone. Prise Du Dessus De L'Eau Sur Le Tay. Scone Palace. From The Water Side Tay River.
Dupressoir. Lith: de Kaeppelin, rue du Croissant, No.20.
a Paris, publie par Kaeppelin, rue du Croissant, 20. London, published by Chs. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. H.Hooper, 13, Pall mall Lart [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, sheet 360 x 555mm. 14¼ x 21¾". Small tears to left paper edge.
Scone Palace, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. It was constructed in 1808 for the Earls of Mansfield by William Atkinson. Robert the Bruce was inaugurated king of Scotland on 25 March 1306 at Scone. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is a classic example of the late Georgian Gothic style. In the Middle Ages the land was the site of a major Augustinian abbey, Scone Abbey (nothing now remains above ground level), the crowning-place of the Kings of the Scots (on the Stone of Destiny) down to Alexander III. Boats on the lake in foreground and cattle. From a series of Scottish views by French painter and lithographer François Joseph Dupressoir (1800 - 1859), published in London and Paris. Numbered 'PL.15' upper right.
[Ref: 10636] £140.00
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A Lady of Lima in her Wedding Dress. [Plate II.]
[London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1819.]
Fine hand-coloured aquatint with etching and large margins. Plate 243 x 190mm. 9½ x 7½".
A young lady in formal wedding attire; Lima, Peru. From 'Letters from Buenos Ayres and Chili, with and Original History of the Latter Country. Illustrated with Engravings'.
[Ref: 23592] £160.00
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L'Yncas consacre son Vaze au Soleil. L'Yncas vient recevoir les Orfrandes que ses Sujets font au Soleil.
B. Picart del. Tom. VII. No. 29.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 342 x 220mm. Sheet 390 x 242mm.
Two scenes. 1. The Incas consecrate their Vase to the Sun. he Inca empire was a theocracy in which the Inca king, Sapa Inca, was the descendant of Inti, the sun god. Therefore the Sun God was the most important and most powerful. 2. the Incas come to receive the offerings that the subjects made to the Sun. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12513] £65.00
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Maniere d’alumer le Feu Sacré chez les Peruviens, la veïlle de la grande Fête du Soleil nommée le grand Ramy. Le premier jour de la grande Fête de Soleïl L’Yncas lui presente un vase plain de liquer, et l’invite a boire.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII. No. 30.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 342 x 222mm. Sheet 390 x 243mm.
Two scenes. 1. The Peruvian way to light the Sacred Fire, the old lady of the Great Fete of the Sun named the Great Ramy. 2. The first day of the Great Fete of the Sun, where the Incas present a plain vase of liquor to him and invite him to drink it. An offering made to the Gods. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12514] £65.00
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Sacrifice d'un Agneau noir, le jour de la grand Fête de Soleïl. Festin à L'Honneur du Soleïl le jour du grand Ramy.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII. No. 31.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 220mm. Sheet 390 x 244mm. No. 31 scuffed in the bottom right-hand corner of the platemark.
Two scenes. 1. The sacrifice of a black lamb, the day of the Fete of the Sun. 2. Feast to honour the Sun the day of the Great Ramy. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12515] £65.00
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Maniere dont L'Yncas marie Ceux de son Sang. On Coupe les Cheveux, et on donne un Nom aux Fils de L'Yncas.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII. No. 33.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 221mm. Sheet 390 x 245mm. Some creasing in the bottom right-hand corner.
Two scenes. 1. The way in which the Incas marry off their own blood. The father hands the bride over to the groom. 2. One cuts the hair, and the other gives a name to the son of the Incas. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12517] £65.00
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H.M.S. Shah, & Chillian Ship 'Huascar'.
Published Dec. 1st 1880, by Griffin & Co. Portsmouth.
Chromolithograph. Sheet 170 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½")
The 'Incident of Pacocha' took place on 6 May 1877 when Nicolas de Pierola was leading a revolution to overthrow then Peruvian President Mariano Ignacio Prado. Piérola used the Peruvian monitor Huáscar as a raiding ship. It practiced sabotage against primarily the government forces of Peru. However, after intercepting British merchant ships, the British became outraged and sent their best Pacific admiral, Rear Admiral de Horsey, to capture the vessel. The Peruvian vessel managed to sneak out of the battle scene under the cover of darkness, but was forced to surrender to the Peruvian government just 2 days later. This minor incident is inflated into a 'great victory' by deluded Peruvian nationalists.
[Ref: 2845] £95.00
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Aqueduc Conduisant L'Eau aux Bains de la Périchole a Lima. Pérou.
Dessiné par. Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.ie. Lith. par Challamel, fig. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"), with very large margins.
A view of an aquaduct in Lima. Plate 32 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47173] £180.00
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Vue du Port de Payta. Pérou.
Dessiné par. Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.ie. Lith. par Bichebois_Fig par V. Adam.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"), with very large margins.
A view of Paita in Peru. Plate 33 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47174] £190.00
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Une Rue de Payta. Pérou.
Dessiné par. Fiaquet. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.ie. Lith. par Bichebois_Fig par V. Adam.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 325 x 235mm (12¾ x 9¼"), very very large margins.
A view in a street in Paita in Peru. Plate 34 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47175] £160.00
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Église de la Méried, a Payta. Pérou.
Dessiné par. Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.ie. Lith. par Mayer, Fig. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of a church in Paita in Peru. Plate 35 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47176] £140.00
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