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![[Powderham Castle] To S.r William Courtenay Bar.t, Knight of the Shire of Devon](jpegs/52626.jpg)
[Powderham Castle] To S.r William Courtenay Bar.t, Knight of the Shire of Devon This South East View of Powderham Castle near Exeter is most humbly Inscrib'd by His very Obedient Serv.ts Sam:l & Nath:l Bucks.
Sam.l & Nath.l Buck delin. et sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 15th 1745. No I Middle Temple London.
Rare engraving. 380 x 590mm (15 x 23¼"). Trimmed within plate left and top left for binding in a scrapbook, folded at centre.
A view of Powderham Castle from the Ex, prior to the alterations by James Wyatt in the 1790s.
[Ref: 52626] £420.00
Sam.l & Nath.l Buck delin. et sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 15th 1745. No I Middle Temple London.
Rare engraving. 380 x 590mm (15 x 23¼"). Trimmed within plate left and top left for binding in a scrapbook, folded at centre.
A view of Powderham Castle from the Ex, prior to the alterations by James Wyatt in the 1790s.
[Ref: 52626] £420.00
Mr. Foster Powell. Drawn from the Life.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. John's Gate, Jan.y 1, 1774.
Engraving. 171 x 102mm (6¾ x 4").
Foster Powell (d.1793), pedestrian. Careless of money, his great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), for only 10 shillings. This was apparently his largest win!
[Ref: 20964] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. John's Gate, Jan.y 1, 1774.
Engraving. 171 x 102mm (6¾ x 4").
Foster Powell (d.1793), pedestrian. Careless of money, his great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), for only 10 shillings. This was apparently his largest win!
[Ref: 20964] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Foster Powell. Was born at Horseforth, near Leeds in Yorkshire. 1734.
S. Harding fecit.
London Pub.d June 30. 1788. for the sole benefit of Foster Powell & Sold by Mr Marshall. St Clements Church Yard.
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"). Staining and foxing. Small margins.
Foster Powell (c.1734-1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits
[Ref: 43624] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
S. Harding fecit.
London Pub.d June 30. 1788. for the sole benefit of Foster Powell & Sold by Mr Marshall. St Clements Church Yard.
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"). Staining and foxing. Small margins.
Foster Powell (c.1734-1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits
[Ref: 43624] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![Powell the Pedestrian / Proof [ms]](jpegs/34510.jpg)
Powell the Pedestrian / Proof [ms]
S. Harding fecit. [1788]
Etching, very scarce; proof before title; platemark 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½"). Fine impression. Very large margins.
Foster Powell (bap.1734-d.1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits.
[Ref: 34510] £520.00
S. Harding fecit. [1788]
Etching, very scarce; proof before title; platemark 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½"). Fine impression. Very large margins.
Foster Powell (bap.1734-d.1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks to the extent of the popular interest his athleticism aroused. Original etching by Silvester Harding (1745x51-1809), artist and publisher who mainly drew theatrical celebrities and copied earlier portraits.
[Ref: 34510] £520.00
M.r Foster Powell. Drawn from the Life. N.º XXXVI.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. John's Gate, Jan.y 1, 1774.
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed into plate, mounted in album paper edges.
Foster Powell (c.1734-1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks despite popular interest his athleticism aroused. From the 'Critical Review'.
[Ref: 63599] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. John's Gate, Jan.y 1, 1774.
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed into plate, mounted in album paper edges.
Foster Powell (c.1734-1793), pedestrian whose great walks were undertaken for trifling wagers: in 1792 he walked again from Shoreditch to York Minster and back in 5 days 15¼ hours (135¼ hours), earning £10, said to be the largest fee he ever received. Powell died in poverty, having failed to benefit financially from his walks despite popular interest his athleticism aroused. From the 'Critical Review'.
[Ref: 63599] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Harriet Powell.
Engraved from a Painting of Mr. Peters in the Collection of John Taylor Esqr. by J.R. Smith.
Publishd october 23 1776 by J Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof, sheet 261 x 196mm. Horizontal crease through publication line.
Harriet Mackenzie, Countess of Seaforth (fl. 1769 - 1779), actress and singer; second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth. First state, with scratched letters and second 'l' of 'Powell' almost erased. The artist is Matthew William Peters (1742-1814), most famous for his provocative painting of a courtesan (known as 'Lydia' in the mezzotint copy). He came to regret his choice of subject, as he was ordained in 1781, becoming the Royal Academy's chaplain (1784-8), then chaplain to the Prince of Wales.
Chaloner Smith 137, I of II. Frankau 281, I of III. D'Oench 81. NPG: D4186. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes; Lady Victoria Manners, 'Matthew William Peters, R.A.' p.63, i/iii
[Ref: 7877] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved from a Painting of Mr. Peters in the Collection of John Taylor Esqr. by J.R. Smith.
Publishd october 23 1776 by J Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof, sheet 261 x 196mm. Horizontal crease through publication line.
Harriet Mackenzie, Countess of Seaforth (fl. 1769 - 1779), actress and singer; second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth. First state, with scratched letters and second 'l' of 'Powell' almost erased. The artist is Matthew William Peters (1742-1814), most famous for his provocative painting of a courtesan (known as 'Lydia' in the mezzotint copy). He came to regret his choice of subject, as he was ordained in 1781, becoming the Royal Academy's chaplain (1784-8), then chaplain to the Prince of Wales.
Chaloner Smith 137, I of II. Frankau 281, I of III. D'Oench 81. NPG: D4186. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes; Lady Victoria Manners, 'Matthew William Peters, R.A.' p.63, i/iii
[Ref: 7877] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Harriot Powell. 157.
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") , with widemargins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") , with widemargins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00
Miss Harriot Powell.
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, old ink mss. in inscription area. Small margins.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64919] £460.00
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, old ink mss. in inscription area. Small margins.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64919] £460.00
![[Miss Harriot Powell.]](jpegs/64921.jpg)
[Miss Harriot Powell.]
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. [London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Narrow margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64921] £520.00
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. [London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Narrow margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64921] £520.00
![[Harriot Powell as 'Leonora'] Say, little foolish fluttering thing [...]](jpegs/68043.jpg)
[Harriot Powell as 'Leonora'] Say, little foolish fluttering thing [...]
S.r Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit. Rob.t Sayer Excudit.
London Printed as the Act directs, for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller, N.º 53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1771].
Mezzotint, 500 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Slight creasing. Short tears in margins.
A half-length portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), in the character of Leonora, in Dibden's opera 'The Padlock', with a goldfinch perched on her hand. The daughter of an apothecary, Powell was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret.
Hamilton p.126, ii of ii. CS 99, undated state after(?) ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68043] £360.00
S.r Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit. Rob.t Sayer Excudit.
London Printed as the Act directs, for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller, N.º 53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1771].
Mezzotint, 500 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Slight creasing. Short tears in margins.
A half-length portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), in the character of Leonora, in Dibden's opera 'The Padlock', with a goldfinch perched on her hand. The daughter of an apothecary, Powell was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret.
Hamilton p.126, ii of ii. CS 99, undated state after(?) ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68043] £360.00
Mr. Jacob Powell of Stebbin in essex. Who died Oct.r 6.th 1754 Aged 37 years. He weighed near 40 Stone.
J.J. Haid et filius excud. A. V.
[Augsburg, n.d. 1760.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed to image.
A caricature portrait of a large man, removing his wig to mop the sweat from his brow. Little is known of Powell other than the details on this print, which suggest his enormous size was his claim to a brief moment of fame. The Haid family in Germany often copied earlier prints without acknowledgement, in this case a British print of c.1754.
O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England' p.106
[Ref: 33428] £330.00
J.J. Haid et filius excud. A. V.
[Augsburg, n.d. 1760.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed to image.
A caricature portrait of a large man, removing his wig to mop the sweat from his brow. Little is known of Powell other than the details on this print, which suggest his enormous size was his claim to a brief moment of fame. The Haid family in Germany often copied earlier prints without acknowledgement, in this case a British print of c.1754.
O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England' p.106
[Ref: 33428] £330.00
Mr. Jacob Powell of Stebbing in Essex. Who died Oct.r 6th 1754 Aged 37 Years. He Weigd'h near 40 Stone.
J.J.Haid et filius excud. A.V.
[Augsburg, n.d. 1760.]
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Stains.
A caricature portrait of a large man, removing his wig to mop the sweat from his brow. Little is known of Powell other than the details on this print, which suggest his enormous size was his claim to a brief moment of fame. The Haid family in Germany often copied earlier prints without acknowledgement, in this case a British print of c.1754.
See O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England' p.106.
[Ref: 2888] £650.00
J.J.Haid et filius excud. A.V.
[Augsburg, n.d. 1760.]
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Stains.
A caricature portrait of a large man, removing his wig to mop the sweat from his brow. Little is known of Powell other than the details on this print, which suggest his enormous size was his claim to a brief moment of fame. The Haid family in Germany often copied earlier prints without acknowledgement, in this case a British print of c.1754.
See O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England' p.106.
[Ref: 2888] £650.00
![[Sir John Kynaston Powell, Bt.]](jpegs/34379.jpg)
[Sir John Kynaston Powell, Bt.]
[Engraved by James Stow, after George Perfect Harding, after Robert Muller]
[Published 1 May 1824.]
Line engraving, rare private plate, proof before letters. 450 x 320mm (17¾ x 12½") Tears in edges, scuff on left of image.
Sir John Kynaston Powell, 1st Baronet (1753-1822), Member of Parliament for Shropshire 1784-1822. Born John Kynaston, he changed his name in 1797 on inheriting an estate at Worthen from a maternal relative.
[Ref: 34379] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by James Stow, after George Perfect Harding, after Robert Muller]
[Published 1 May 1824.]
Line engraving, rare private plate, proof before letters. 450 x 320mm (17¾ x 12½") Tears in edges, scuff on left of image.
Sir John Kynaston Powell, 1st Baronet (1753-1822), Member of Parliament for Shropshire 1784-1822. Born John Kynaston, he changed his name in 1797 on inheriting an estate at Worthen from a maternal relative.
[Ref: 34379] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The true Effigies of Mr. Thomas Powell. Aet Suae 20 Annoque Dommini 1676.
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Scarce.
Thomas Powell (b.1656), cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 30349] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Scarce.
Thomas Powell (b.1656), cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 30349] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
The true Effigies of Mr. Thomas Powell. Aet Suae 20 Annoque Dommini 1676.
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Frontispiece engraving. Scarce. 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Laid on album paper at edges. Trimmed to platemark.
Thomas Powell, cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 63200] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Frontispiece engraving. Scarce. 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Laid on album paper at edges. Trimmed to platemark.
Thomas Powell, cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 63200] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
William Powell.
Lawranson delin. J. Dixon fecit.
London, Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Aug.t 1. 1769. & Sold by J. Goldar N.º 187. te Corner of Cliffords Inn Passage Fleet Street.
Rare mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"). Trimmed to image on three sides, some creasing, wear to inscription area, mounted on lined album paper. Damaged.
Half-length portrait in oval of actor William Powell (1735-69), who premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1763, purchased a share in Covent Garden Theatre in 1767 and played at both the Jacob's Well and King Street Theatres in Bristol. He died young, having caught a cold playing cricket.
CS 229, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 63178] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Lawranson delin. J. Dixon fecit.
London, Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Aug.t 1. 1769. & Sold by J. Goldar N.º 187. te Corner of Cliffords Inn Passage Fleet Street.
Rare mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"). Trimmed to image on three sides, some creasing, wear to inscription area, mounted on lined album paper. Damaged.
Half-length portrait in oval of actor William Powell (1735-69), who premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1763, purchased a share in Covent Garden Theatre in 1767 and played at both the Jacob's Well and King Street Theatres in Bristol. He died young, having caught a cold playing cricket.
CS 229, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 63178] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Edward Powell.] [Col.l Powell, M.P.]](jpegs/66164.jpg)
[William Edward Powell.] [Col.l Powell, M.P.]
[Painted by H. Pickersgill, Esq: R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraved to the Late King.]
[Published Feb.y 1 1838, by W.m Ward, 12 Mornington Place, Hampstead Road.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before title. 670 x 430mm (26¼ x 17"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom
Full length portrait of William Edward Powell (1788-1854), MP for Cardiganshire 1816-54 and Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire 1817-1854). He is dressed in the military dress of Lord Lieutenant, with a plumed hat at his feet. His family home, Nanteos near Aberystwith, is now a Grade 1 listed hotel. Engraved by William James Ward (1800-40), son of William Ward.
See National Library of Wales Portrait collection 99233549802419 for lettered example. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66164] £320.00
[Painted by H. Pickersgill, Esq: R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraved to the Late King.]
[Published Feb.y 1 1838, by W.m Ward, 12 Mornington Place, Hampstead Road.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before title. 670 x 430mm (26¼ x 17"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom
Full length portrait of William Edward Powell (1788-1854), MP for Cardiganshire 1816-54 and Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire 1817-1854). He is dressed in the military dress of Lord Lieutenant, with a plumed hat at his feet. His family home, Nanteos near Aberystwith, is now a Grade 1 listed hotel. Engraved by William James Ward (1800-40), son of William Ward.
See National Library of Wales Portrait collection 99233549802419 for lettered example. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66164] £320.00
![[Cupidon Habile en Hercule.]](jpegs/55513.jpg)
[Cupidon Habile en Hercule.]
Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd May 25; 1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof before title. 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼") very large margins.
Cupid dressed as Hercules. A naked Cupid, lion skin over his shoulder, holding a club and bow. One of three portraits of Cupid and Psyche after gem-cutter Protarchos, engraved for a fan titled 'The Power of Love', first published by Poggi in 1780.
De Vesme 2219, state iv of iv. See Royal Collection Trust RCIN 25378 for the fan.
[Ref: 55513] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd May 25; 1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof before title. 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼") very large margins.
Cupid dressed as Hercules. A naked Cupid, lion skin over his shoulder, holding a club and bow. One of three portraits of Cupid and Psyche after gem-cutter Protarchos, engraved for a fan titled 'The Power of Love', first published by Poggi in 1780.
De Vesme 2219, state iv of iv. See Royal Collection Trust RCIN 25378 for the fan.
[Ref: 55513] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Cupidon a Cheval d'un Lion & Jouant de la Lyre.]](jpegs/55514.jpg)
[Cupidon a Cheval d'un Lion & Jouant de la Lyre.]
Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd May 25; 1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof before title. 150 x 130mm (6 x 5") very large margins. Some spotting.
One of three portraits, Cupid riding a lion, playing a lyre. Cupid and Psyche after gem-cutter Protarchos, engraved for a fan titled 'The Power of Love', first published by Poggi in 1780.
De Vesme 2219, state iv of iv.
[Ref: 55514] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd May 25; 1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof before title. 150 x 130mm (6 x 5") very large margins. Some spotting.
One of three portraits, Cupid riding a lion, playing a lyre. Cupid and Psyche after gem-cutter Protarchos, engraved for a fan titled 'The Power of Love', first published by Poggi in 1780.
De Vesme 2219, state iv of iv.
[Ref: 55514] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Psyche Enfant.]](jpegs/55515.jpg)
[Psyche Enfant.]
Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd May 25; 1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof before title. 150 x 130mm (6 x 5") very large margins. Some spotting.
A naked Psyche holding stick and ball, one of three portraits of Cupid and Psyche after gem-cutter Protarchos, engraved for a fan titled 'The Power of Love', first published by Poggi in 1780.
De Vesme 2219, state iv of iv.
[Ref: 55515] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd May 25; 1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No 158 Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof before title. 150 x 130mm (6 x 5") very large margins. Some spotting.
A naked Psyche holding stick and ball, one of three portraits of Cupid and Psyche after gem-cutter Protarchos, engraved for a fan titled 'The Power of Love', first published by Poggi in 1780.
De Vesme 2219, state iv of iv.
[Ref: 55515] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Power of Music. From the Original Picture in the Possession of Capt,,n E. Hall, R.N.
Painted by T.S. Goode. Engraved by W. Morrison.
Published by R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, 46, Pall Mall, Aug.t 1830.
Fine & rare mixed method mezzotint. 490 x 395mm (19¼ x 15½"), with publisher's blindstamp. Small margins.
An old man in 18th century dress leaps about, waving his cane, dancing to music supplied by a woman playing a cello and a boy playing an alto recorder. A tamborine and a hat rest against a chair.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64908] £490.00
Painted by T.S. Goode. Engraved by W. Morrison.
Published by R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, 46, Pall Mall, Aug.t 1830.
Fine & rare mixed method mezzotint. 490 x 395mm (19¼ x 15½"), with publisher's blindstamp. Small margins.
An old man in 18th century dress leaps about, waving his cane, dancing to music supplied by a woman playing a cello and a boy playing an alto recorder. A tamborine and a hat rest against a chair.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64908] £490.00
![[Ellen Power] The Lady and Spaniels.](jpegs/65701.jpg)
[Ellen Power] The Lady and Spaniels. From the Original Picture by Sir Edwin Landseer R.A.
Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Engraved by W. T. Davy.
London. Published June 20th 1851 by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket.
Mixed-method engraving. Sheet 365 x 405mm (14½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, crease through inscription.
Portrait of Miss Ellen Power, niece of Lady Blessington, lying on a pillow reading a letter, surrounded by three King Charles spaniels
[Ref: 65701] £380.00
Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Engraved by W. T. Davy.
London. Published June 20th 1851 by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket.
Mixed-method engraving. Sheet 365 x 405mm (14½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, crease through inscription.
Portrait of Miss Ellen Power, niece of Lady Blessington, lying on a pillow reading a letter, surrounded by three King Charles spaniels
[Ref: 65701] £380.00
![Tyrone Power [facsimile signature.]](jpegs/21886.jpg)
Tyrone Power [facsimile signature.]
A D'Orsay fecit 19. Oct 1839 [signed in plate.]
London, Published by John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond Street. J. Graf, Printer to the Queen.
Lithograph on india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Scatched on face.
Portrait of (William Grattan) Tyrone Power (1795 - 1841), Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time
O'Donoghue p.508, 2.
[Ref: 21886] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
A D'Orsay fecit 19. Oct 1839 [signed in plate.]
London, Published by John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond Street. J. Graf, Printer to the Queen.
Lithograph on india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Scatched on face.
Portrait of (William Grattan) Tyrone Power (1795 - 1841), Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time
O'Donoghue p.508, 2.
[Ref: 21886] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Mr Power. The Popular Comedian. Tyrone Power [facsimile signature.] Designed for & presented Gratis with No 124 of The Fly.
W. Clerk lith, 102 High Holborn.
London published by Glover & Co, Water Lanem Fleet St.
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Small tear in edge.
Portrait of (William Grattan) Tyrone Power (1795 - 1841), Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager.
[Ref: 51368] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
W. Clerk lith, 102 High Holborn.
London published by Glover & Co, Water Lanem Fleet St.
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Small tear in edge.
Portrait of (William Grattan) Tyrone Power (1795 - 1841), Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager.
[Ref: 51368] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
The Iron Screw Steam Ship 'MO?????'. (Powerful) 1000 tons. The Property of the Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Company. Buily by Messrs and w. Leslie & Co, Iron Ship Builders, Hebburn Quay, Gateshead on Tyne.
T.G. Dutton del & Lith. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published by W.Foster, 114 Fenchurch Street.
Coloured lithograph, printed area 360 x 470mm. Tear through title area into image reinforced.
Built less than two years after the end of the Crimean War.
[Ref: 2216] £950.00
T.G. Dutton del & Lith. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published by W.Foster, 114 Fenchurch Street.
Coloured lithograph, printed area 360 x 470mm. Tear through title area into image reinforced.
Built less than two years after the end of the Crimean War.
[Ref: 2216] £950.00
Powerscourt Athletic Club, 1873.
[1873]
Letterpress programme, with Penny Red & postal details verso; scarce. Sheet: 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"). Creasing in corners, manuscript on back.
A programme for an athletic event which took place at Powerscourt in Enniskerry, County Wicklow between Powerscourt, Bray and Shankill Cricket and Football Clubs on the 14th August 1873. Events included throwing the cricket ball, dropping the football, Siamese race, sack race as well as various distance races.
[Ref: 44864] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[1873]
Letterpress programme, with Penny Red & postal details verso; scarce. Sheet: 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"). Creasing in corners, manuscript on back.
A programme for an athletic event which took place at Powerscourt in Enniskerry, County Wicklow between Powerscourt, Bray and Shankill Cricket and Football Clubs on the 14th August 1873. Events included throwing the cricket ball, dropping the football, Siamese race, sack race as well as various distance races.
[Ref: 44864] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Powis Castle]](jpegs/65929.jpg)
[Powis Castle]
[n.d. c.1880]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
A view of Powis Castle across the gardens. Powis Castle is is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
[Ref: 65929] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1880]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
A view of Powis Castle across the gardens. Powis Castle is is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
[Ref: 65929] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Powis House.
H. Terasson Fecit.
Sold by Thomas Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard; London 1714. [but published by John Smith, 1724.]
Engraving. 530 x 570mm (20¾ x 22½"). Folded as issued, trimmed to plate mark top and bottom, false margins added.
The facade of the new Powis House in Great Ormond Street. It was built after the former building, the French Embassy, had burned down due, according to Jonathan Swift, to ''the carelessness of the rascally French servants'' in 1713. Engraved in 1714, this example comes from the 'Britannia Illustrata', 1724. A large plate, so often trimmed by the binders.
BM: 1880,1113.4393, trimmed losing title banderole.
[Ref: 44519] £360.00
H. Terasson Fecit.
Sold by Thomas Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard; London 1714. [but published by John Smith, 1724.]
Engraving. 530 x 570mm (20¾ x 22½"). Folded as issued, trimmed to plate mark top and bottom, false margins added.
The facade of the new Powis House in Great Ormond Street. It was built after the former building, the French Embassy, had burned down due, according to Jonathan Swift, to ''the carelessness of the rascally French servants'' in 1713. Engraved in 1714, this example comes from the 'Britannia Illustrata', 1724. A large plate, so often trimmed by the binders.
BM: 1880,1113.4393, trimmed losing title banderole.
[Ref: 44519] £360.00
![Mr. J.D. Powles. [in pencil]](jpegs/65885.jpg)
Mr. J.D. Powles. [in pencil]
[Painted by I. Jackson Esqr. R.A. Engraved by W. Ward, A.R.A. Engraver to his Majesty, & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.]
[n.d. c.1800. 'Private print' inscribed lower left.]
Mezzotint, unfinshed touched proof before letters 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") Hair touched up in pencil. Creasing and foxing within plate but not image. Small margins.
A portrait of John Diston Powles (c.1787 - 1867), administrative reformer and company promoter. Powles, Brothers & Co. was a London-based firm established by John Diston Powles in partnership with two brothers, engaged in business activities involving Latin America. In the mid-1820s Powles was heavily involved in the promotion of South American mining companies, and enlisted a young Benjamin Disraeli (1804 -81) to write pamphlets promoting these mines.
F. 225. CS69A. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65885] £320.00
[Painted by I. Jackson Esqr. R.A. Engraved by W. Ward, A.R.A. Engraver to his Majesty, & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.]
[n.d. c.1800. 'Private print' inscribed lower left.]
Mezzotint, unfinshed touched proof before letters 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") Hair touched up in pencil. Creasing and foxing within plate but not image. Small margins.
A portrait of John Diston Powles (c.1787 - 1867), administrative reformer and company promoter. Powles, Brothers & Co. was a London-based firm established by John Diston Powles in partnership with two brothers, engaged in business activities involving Latin America. In the mid-1820s Powles was heavily involved in the promotion of South American mining companies, and enlisted a young Benjamin Disraeli (1804 -81) to write pamphlets promoting these mines.
F. 225. CS69A. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65885] £320.00
Lady Catherine Powlet _ daughter of his Grace the Duke of Bolton.
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Publishd Feb.y 28 1778 by J.R. Smith Nº 10 Batemans Buildings Soho Square & W.m Humphrey Nº 70 S.t Martin's Lane London.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm 19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A portrait of Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), seated on the ground, one hand on a dog's head. The daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton, she married William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland, in 1787
DCS 139, i of iii; Russell 139, ii of iv; Frankau 282, ii of iv; Hamilton 127, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68072] £420.00
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Publishd Feb.y 28 1778 by J.R. Smith Nº 10 Batemans Buildings Soho Square & W.m Humphrey Nº 70 S.t Martin's Lane London.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm 19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A portrait of Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), seated on the ground, one hand on a dog's head. The daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton, she married William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland, in 1787
DCS 139, i of iii; Russell 139, ii of iv; Frankau 282, ii of iv; Hamilton 127, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68072] £420.00
Lady Catherine Powlet. Daughter of his Grace the Duke of Bolton.
R. Cosway R.A. Delin.t C.W. White Sculp.t
Publish'd November the 22nd 1782 by C.W. White Stafford Row Pimlico.
Rare stipple in red. 173 x 121mm. 6¾ x 4¾". Trimmed; slight paper tone.
Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton; married 1787 to William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland.
Daniell [Cosway]: 117. See Ref: 24408 for altered publication line.
[Ref: 24407] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
R. Cosway R.A. Delin.t C.W. White Sculp.t
Publish'd November the 22nd 1782 by C.W. White Stafford Row Pimlico.
Rare stipple in red. 173 x 121mm. 6¾ x 4¾". Trimmed; slight paper tone.
Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton; married 1787 to William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland.
Daniell [Cosway]: 117. See Ref: 24408 for altered publication line.
[Ref: 24407] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Lady Catherine Powlet. Daughter of his Grace the Duke of Bolton.
R. Cosway R.A. Delin.t C.W. White Sculp.t
Publish'd November the 22nd 1782 by C.W. White Kemps Row Chelsea.
Very fine stipple in red, laid on album page. 178 x 128mm. 7 x 5". Trimmed; false margins added
Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton; married 1787 to William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland.
Daniell [Cosway]: 117. See Ref: 24407 for altered publication line.
[Ref: 24408] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
R. Cosway R.A. Delin.t C.W. White Sculp.t
Publish'd November the 22nd 1782 by C.W. White Kemps Row Chelsea.
Very fine stipple in red, laid on album page. 178 x 128mm. 7 x 5". Trimmed; false margins added
Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton; married 1787 to William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland.
Daniell [Cosway]: 117. See Ref: 24407 for altered publication line.
[Ref: 24408] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Mr Thomas Powys.]](jpegs/60068.jpg)
[Mr Thomas Powys.] 32.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), standing in profile to the left with both hands extended. Powys was MP for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6642.
[Ref: 60068] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), standing in profile to the left with both hands extended. Powys was MP for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6642.
[Ref: 60068] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
![[Thomas Powys] The Atlas of the Landed Interest.](jpegs/58318.jpg)
[Thomas Powys] The Atlas of the Landed Interest. To Pitt by Friendship I am tied / Yet always with his Foes divide / Wou'd make this Son of England's Glory / A creature neither Whig nor Tory Wou'd have him quit his high Condition, / To grovel in a Coalition, Perswade him that a Tavern Vote / Shou'd make a Premier change his Note (A vote from coalescing Embers / of Faction, more than County Members) / Thus make this persevering Elf / As inconsistent as myself.
J.S. [James Sayers]
Published 10th Feb.y 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, old ink mss. over publisher's inscription.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), M.P. for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. Elongated, he walks with a corded bale marked 'Landed Interest For M[r Fo]x at Brookes's By the Carrier from St Alban's'. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6413.
[Ref: 58318] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
J.S. [James Sayers]
Published 10th Feb.y 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching. 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, old ink mss. over publisher's inscription.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), M.P. for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. Elongated, he walks with a corded bale marked 'Landed Interest For M[r Fo]x at Brookes's By the Carrier from St Alban's'. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6413.
[Ref: 58318] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
"P.R.A"
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair. March 4.th 1897
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼") large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), English painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy. He sits on a traveling combination artist's chair and easel, holding a palette and bush, with a mahl stick and other brushes resting on his legs.
[Ref: 63678] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair. March 4.th 1897
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼") large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), English painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy. He sits on a traveling combination artist's chair and easel, holding a palette and bush, with a mahl stick and other brushes resting on his legs.
[Ref: 63678] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Some Etchings of Poynters Hall Totteridge, Herts., and the vicinity done in the year 1926 by S.M. Litten for Cecil Harmsworth. Damson Hiull, Totteridge. The Windmill at Barnet Gate. Totteridge Church, Herts. The Orange Tree Inn, Totteridge. The Pond on the Common, Totteridge. The Lily Pond, Totteridge. Poynters Halol from the South. The Clock Tower, Poynters Hall. Poynters Hall, Totteridge, Herts. Poynters Hall from the Common {set of 10 including the Frontis}.
Etched illustrated title page including list of plates, 300 x 175mm (11¾ x 7"), and ten drypoint etchings complete as list, eight each c.195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9¾"), two each c.170 x 295mm (6¾ x 11½"); captioned in pencil, unsigned. Wonderfully fresh impressions.
Attractive set of etched views at Poynters Hall, home of Geraldine Harmsworth, nee Maffett, wife of Alfred Harmsworth, 1839-1925. Dedicated to Cecil Harmsworth (1898 - 1978), newspaper proprietor, by the artist Sidney Mackenzie Litten (1887 - 1934), pupil of Sir Frank Short at the Royal College of Art before going on to become Senior Master at St Martin's School of Art.
Guichard: pg.47, not mentioned.
[Ref: 16682] £490.00 view all images for this item
Etched illustrated title page including list of plates, 300 x 175mm (11¾ x 7"), and ten drypoint etchings complete as list, eight each c.195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9¾"), two each c.170 x 295mm (6¾ x 11½"); captioned in pencil, unsigned. Wonderfully fresh impressions.
Attractive set of etched views at Poynters Hall, home of Geraldine Harmsworth, nee Maffett, wife of Alfred Harmsworth, 1839-1925. Dedicated to Cecil Harmsworth (1898 - 1978), newspaper proprietor, by the artist Sidney Mackenzie Litten (1887 - 1934), pupil of Sir Frank Short at the Royal College of Art before going on to become Senior Master at St Martin's School of Art.
Guichard: pg.47, not mentioned.
[Ref: 16682] £490.00 view all images for this item
The Right Honourable Stephen Poynz Esq.r one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, 1744.
Vanloo pinxit, 1732. J.Faber fecit.
Price 2.d. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 244mm.
Stephen Poynz (1685-1750), governor of the young Duke of Cumberland, diplomat and Privy Councillor.
[Ref: 7293] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Vanloo pinxit, 1732. J.Faber fecit.
Price 2.d. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 244mm.
Stephen Poynz (1685-1750), governor of the young Duke of Cumberland, diplomat and Privy Councillor.
[Ref: 7293] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![Yours Truly, I.B. Poznanski [facsimile autograph.]](jpegs/17311.jpg)
Yours Truly, I.B. Poznanski [facsimile autograph.]
Printed by C.G. Roder, Leipzig.
London, The London Music Publishing Co. (Limited.) [n.d., c.1890.]
Albumen print from a photograph, image 300 x 245mm. 11¾ x 9¾".
Isaac B Poznanski (d.1896), violinist and composer, from Charleston, USA, performed with his brother a pianist all over Europe and was particularly popular in New York and Charleston.
[Ref: 17311] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Printed by C.G. Roder, Leipzig.
London, The London Music Publishing Co. (Limited.) [n.d., c.1890.]
Albumen print from a photograph, image 300 x 245mm. 11¾ x 9¾".
Isaac B Poznanski (d.1896), violinist and composer, from Charleston, USA, performed with his brother a pianist all over Europe and was particularly popular in New York and Charleston.
[Ref: 17311] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Avanzi del Tempio di Giove Seraphide a Pozzuoli.
Ph: Hackert pinx, 1789. Vinc. Aloja sculp. Giorgio Hackert direx.
Si vende a Napoli da Giorgio Hackert Incisore di S. M. Con Privilegio.
Etching. Fine. Plate: 560 x 410mm (22 x 16"). Some marking in margins.
A view of the Roman macellum, or market place, of Pozzuoli. Excavations of the site we ordered in 1750 by King Charles of Naples and the site was wrongly thought to be a temple to Serapis after excavators discovered a statue of the diety at the site. The image shows the three recognisable marble columns and figures inspecting the achitectural fragments.
[Ref: 40275] £360.00
Ph: Hackert pinx, 1789. Vinc. Aloja sculp. Giorgio Hackert direx.
Si vende a Napoli da Giorgio Hackert Incisore di S. M. Con Privilegio.
Etching. Fine. Plate: 560 x 410mm (22 x 16"). Some marking in margins.
A view of the Roman macellum, or market place, of Pozzuoli. Excavations of the site we ordered in 1750 by King Charles of Naples and the site was wrongly thought to be a temple to Serapis after excavators discovered a statue of the diety at the site. The image shows the three recognisable marble columns and figures inspecting the achitectural fragments.
[Ref: 40275] £360.00
![[Pozzuoli.]](jpegs/18829.jpg)
[Pozzuoli.]
J.C. Parker [in signature lower left.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Watercolour. 177 x 247mm. 7 x 9¾".
A view of Pozzuoli, in the Italian region of Campania.
[Ref: 18829] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)
J.C. Parker [in signature lower left.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Watercolour. 177 x 247mm. 7 x 9¾".
A view of Pozzuoli, in the Italian region of Campania.
[Ref: 18829] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)
![[Pozzuoli.] Pozzuolo.](jpegs/33783.jpg)
[Pozzuoli.] Pozzuolo.
[Rome: Giovanni Generoso Salomoni, c.1761.]
Engraving. 125 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Narrow margins.
A view of the bay of Pozzuoli in Campania, known to the Romans as Puteoli (where Caligula built a two-mile floating bridge to defy an astrologer's prediction that he had 'no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae'). Published in Francesco Scotto's 'Itinerario d'Italia'.
[Ref: 33783] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[Rome: Giovanni Generoso Salomoni, c.1761.]
Engraving. 125 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Narrow margins.
A view of the bay of Pozzuoli in Campania, known to the Romans as Puteoli (where Caligula built a two-mile floating bridge to defy an astrologer's prediction that he had 'no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae'). Published in Francesco Scotto's 'Itinerario d'Italia'.
[Ref: 33783] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Cumes. La porte heureuse. Cuma. L'Arco felice.
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith. par J.Jacottet Fig. par Bayot.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, Succ. 10 rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 320 x 460mm (12½ x 18"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of the Arco Felice, near the Italian town of Pozzuoli and was the original gate to the ancient site of Cumae or Cuma.
[Ref: 41866] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith. par J.Jacottet Fig. par Bayot.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, Succ. 10 rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 320 x 460mm (12½ x 18"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of the Arco Felice, near the Italian town of Pozzuoli and was the original gate to the ancient site of Cumae or Cuma.
[Ref: 41866] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Plan of the Incampment of the Allies at Prats del Rey under the command of Count Staremberg; and of ye Enemy under the Duke of Wendosme; where ye two Armies lay from ye 17th of Septem.r to ye 25th of Decem.r 1711N.S. when ye Enemy decamped, and ye Allies the 27th.
J. Basire sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19").
Plan of the encampments of the Franco-Spanish armies and the armies of the British and the Holy Roman Empire during their stand off in Spain at the end of 1711. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 42391] £190.00
J. Basire sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19").
Plan of the encampments of the Franco-Spanish armies and the armies of the British and the Holy Roman Empire during their stand off in Spain at the end of 1711. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 42391] £190.00
William Praed Esq.r
Painted by W. Owen Esq. R.A. Portrait Painter to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. Engraved by C. Turner Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
London. Published March 28 1816, by C. Turner, 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, platemark 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"), with very large margins. Fine.
William Mackworth Praed (1747-1833), banker and politician. Praed was elected MP for St Ives in 1774 (although he was unseated following allegations of bribery) and again in 1780, remaining so until 1806. In 1779 became a junior partner of his father's bank, the Cornish Bank at Truro, and became senior partner after his father's death in 1802. In 1801 he was senior partner in a separate venture, opening a bank on Fleet Street, London, in a building designed by Sir John Soane. Engraving after a portrait by William Owen (1769-1825), painter whose work included portraits of distinguished sitters including Soane and William Pitt.
O'D 1; Whitman 480.
[Ref: 47081] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by W. Owen Esq. R.A. Portrait Painter to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. Engraved by C. Turner Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
London. Published March 28 1816, by C. Turner, 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, platemark 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"), with very large margins. Fine.
William Mackworth Praed (1747-1833), banker and politician. Praed was elected MP for St Ives in 1774 (although he was unseated following allegations of bribery) and again in 1780, remaining so until 1806. In 1779 became a junior partner of his father's bank, the Cornish Bank at Truro, and became senior partner after his father's death in 1802. In 1801 he was senior partner in a separate venture, opening a bank on Fleet Street, London, in a building designed by Sir John Soane. Engraving after a portrait by William Owen (1769-1825), painter whose work included portraits of distinguished sitters including Soane and William Pitt.
O'D 1; Whitman 480.
[Ref: 47081] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![Very faithfully yours Winthrop M. Praed [facsimile mss./signature.]](jpegs/24084.jpg)
Very faithfully yours Winthrop M. Praed [facsimile mss./signature.]
W.D. Lith.
London, Pub. June 1st. 1837, by Thos. McLean, Haymarket. Printed by J. Graf.
Lithograph on india paper, rare with large margins, india 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5¼".
Portrait of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802 - 1839), poet. Poet, politician, and essayist; became a barrister in 1829, and an MP, 1830, secretary to the board of control under Peel, 1834; contributed numerous pieces of verse and prose to the periodical press which were published as collections after his death.
[Ref: 24084] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
W.D. Lith.
London, Pub. June 1st. 1837, by Thos. McLean, Haymarket. Printed by J. Graf.
Lithograph on india paper, rare with large margins, india 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5¼".
Portrait of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802 - 1839), poet. Poet, politician, and essayist; became a barrister in 1829, and an MP, 1830, secretary to the board of control under Peel, 1834; contributed numerous pieces of verse and prose to the periodical press which were published as collections after his death.
[Ref: 24084] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Vue de la Porte du Pont de la Vieille Ville à Prague. Voyages en Scandinavie en Laponie etc. Atlas Pittoresque.
Dessiné par Lauvergne_Lith par Fichot. Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris. Arthus-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d. c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. 495 x 330mm. 19½ x 13".
A view of the Powder Gate, Prague, which dates back to the 11th century as one of the thirteen original entrances to Prague's Old Town. Originally known as the New Tower, its names was changed to the Powder Gate in the 17th century when it was used to store gunpowder. From "Voyages en Scandinavie en Laponie etc. Atlas Pittoresque".
[Ref: 25699] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné par Lauvergne_Lith par Fichot. Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris. Arthus-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d. c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. 495 x 330mm. 19½ x 13".
A view of the Powder Gate, Prague, which dates back to the 11th century as one of the thirteen original entrances to Prague's Old Town. Originally known as the New Tower, its names was changed to the Powder Gate in the 17th century when it was used to store gunpowder. From "Voyages en Scandinavie en Laponie etc. Atlas Pittoresque".
[Ref: 25699] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Prague-Praha.
Jilovsky [in image and in pencil lower right.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Two tone etching with pencil signature, rare with very large margins. Plate 159 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½"). Crease.
A quiet street scene in Prague. George Jilovsky (1884-1958) the Prague painter and graphic artist.
[Ref: 30404] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Jilovsky [in image and in pencil lower right.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Two tone etching with pencil signature, rare with very large margins. Plate 159 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½"). Crease.
A quiet street scene in Prague. George Jilovsky (1884-1958) the Prague painter and graphic artist.
[Ref: 30404] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
La Città di Prago.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Plate: 185 x 280mm (7¼ x 11"), with very large margins. Creasing as normal
A view of the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, showing the city walls and bridges.
[Ref: 46123] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Plate: 185 x 280mm (7¼ x 11"), with very large margins. Creasing as normal
A view of the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, showing the city walls and bridges.
[Ref: 46123] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Karlsbrücke] Prague 1884.](jpegs/67658.jpg)
[Karlsbrücke] Prague 1884.
[Ernst Herz?] [pencil signature].
[c.1884]
Fine etching, printed in brown, signed by the artist. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 11½"), large margins.
A view of the Karlsbrücke (Charles Bridge), with the statue of Saint Lutgardis (1182-1246), a Dutch nun who, having experienced ecstasies, levitated, and dripped blood from her forehead and hair, is considered one of the leading mystics of the 13th century. The statue was sculpted by Matthias Braun in 1710 as a commission from Ev˛en Tyttl, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Plasy.
[Ref: 67658] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Ernst Herz?] [pencil signature].
[c.1884]
Fine etching, printed in brown, signed by the artist. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 11½"), large margins.
A view of the Karlsbrücke (Charles Bridge), with the statue of Saint Lutgardis (1182-1246), a Dutch nun who, having experienced ecstasies, levitated, and dripped blood from her forehead and hair, is considered one of the leading mystics of the 13th century. The statue was sculpted by Matthias Braun in 1710 as a commission from Ev˛en Tyttl, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Plasy.
[Ref: 67658] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Nord – Ansicht von Prag aus dem Volksgarten. Malerische Darste3llung von Prag 8.tes Blatt.]
Nach der Natur gezeichnet von V. Morstadt. gestochen von C.A. Richter.
[Verlegt von Borosch & André.] [Prague: n.d., c.1841.] Bit later.
Rare aquatint, proof before title. 410 x 560mm (16 x 22").
A prospect of Prague from Letná, after Vincenc Morstadt (1802-75), a lawyer turned artist.
[Ref: 52101] £390.00
Nach der Natur gezeichnet von V. Morstadt. gestochen von C.A. Richter.
[Verlegt von Borosch & André.] [Prague: n.d., c.1841.] Bit later.
Rare aquatint, proof before title. 410 x 560mm (16 x 22").
A prospect of Prague from Letná, after Vincenc Morstadt (1802-75), a lawyer turned artist.
[Ref: 52101] £390.00