Thomas Willis M.D.
R.W. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1685.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Thomas Willis FRS (1621 - 1675), English physician who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry, and was a founding member of the Royal Society, engraved by R. White. W3196.
[Ref: 68018] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
[William Wollaston] M.r W. Wollaston.
Vertue sculpsit.
[London: James & John Knapton, c.1731.]
Engraving. 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Very small repaired wormhole.
A half-length portrait in oval of philosophical writer William Wollaston (1659-1724), used as the frontispiece to his 'The Religion of Nature Delineated'.
[Ref: 67862] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Henry Woodward] M.r Woodward in the Character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Ha ha! a dream! / O then I see queen Mab hath been with you...
Published by W. Herbert at the Globe on London Bridge 1753 March 1. according to Act of Parliament. Price 6d.
Scarce etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired tears with loss of text, creases, edges chipped.
A full-length portrait of actor Henry Woodward (1714-77), in character in Shakespeare's play; standing in a forest, delivering the Queen Mab soliloquy.
[Ref: 68070] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Da cibo il prato al gregge, e l'amo a noi. C.5.
Zucarelli Pinx in Domo I. Schmid.
Appo Wagner in Merzeria Venezia C.P.E.S.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 360 x 460mm (14¼ x 18¼"), large margins. Creases.
An Italianate pastoral scene, with a shepherd at the side of a river, with women and a child The title translates as ''The meadow gives food to the flock and love to us''.
[Ref: 67910] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)