2. [A vase with a scene of pagan devotion.]
Polydorus de Caravagio I. Romae CAB [monogram of Cherubino Alberti].
[Rome, c.1592.]
Engraving. 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"). Small margins. Mounted in album paper at edges.
One of ten numbered plates after Polidoro da Caravaggio, derived from a series that had been painted by Polidoro above the first floor windows of the Palazzo Milesi in the via della Maschera d'Oro in Rome. BM: 1874,0808.562. B.162
[Ref: 62307] £240.00
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[A Roman soldier fighting one of Hannibal's elephants in an arena] Annibal in bello captos confligere cogit [...]
Joan. Stradanus invent. Car. de Mallory Sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [Antwerp, 1577-c.1596].
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10"). Trimmed to image on three sides, mounted on album paper at corners.
A soldier slices off the trunk of an elephant with his sword. The arena floor is filled with dead soldiers. From'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596. This example has no plate number but has had the original 1577 date removed.
[Ref: 62441] £260.00
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[A leopard caught and tamed by King Arsaces] Magnus Parthorum maculis Rex versicolorem / Venatu nactus Pantheram, ornare monuli...
Joan. Stradanus invent. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [Antwerp, 1577-c.1596.]
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"),. Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper at corners
A Parthian king petting the head of a leopard wearing collar and chain. A plate from 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596. This example has no plate number but has the date 1577 removed.
[Ref: 62439] £260.00
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[Emperor Commodus killing a leopard] Pensilis è cavea Tigris rabiosa theatri...
Joan. Stradanus invent.
Phl's Galle excud. [Antwerp, 1577-c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper at corners, stains.
A leopard leaves its cage to leap at an unarmed man. Commodus fires an arrow from the stand, hitting the animal. Commodus (161-192AD, joint emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177-180, then sole emperor until his death) often entered the arena: Dio records that he once killed a hundred lions in a single day. A plate from 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596. This example has no plate number but has the original 1577 date removed.
[Ref: 62438] £260.00
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[Attilius Regulus fighting a giant African serpent] Attilius consul Romanus, Regulus, arcu [...]
Joan. Stradanus invent. Car. de Mallory Sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [Antwerp, 1577-c.1596].
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper at corners.
Roman troops surround a dragon, peppering it with arrows. From'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596. This example has no plate number but has had the original 1577 date removed.
[Ref: 62440] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Un amour de bronze qui tire une flèche d'eau à Versailles.
de Lespine ex. Cum Privilegio Ordin: Hollandiae et West-Frisiae [n.d., 1717].
Engraving. 385 x 495mm (15¼ x 19½"). Folds, tears taped.
An illustration of the fountain featuring Cupid drawing his bow, the jet of water replacing his arrow. It was created by Louis Lerambert (1620-70) for the pool of the Parterre des Fleurs in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
[Ref: 62143] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Royal Anglers on Virginia Water.
Lith.d & Pub.d by Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street [n.d., c.1845].
Hand coloured lithograph. 225 x 285mm (8 x 11¼").
The young Royal family angling from a boat on Virginia Water in Surrey.
[Ref: 62397] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Prince Albert Returned from Shooting.
London, Dean & Co. [n.d., c.1850].
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 225 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"). Long tear through image taped.
Albert sits on a settee, cradling his shotgun, a pile of dead game at his feet, with Windsor Castle visible through the window. To the left is Queen Victoria; to the right are their seven children, the youngest in the arms of a nanny.
[Ref: 62398] £130.00
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[Silhouette of a violinist] Cap.t Newbery by one of his brother officers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and grey wash silhouette. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A violinist playing from a Beethoven score.
[Ref: 62093] £320.00
General Washington.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londonensis, 1828.
Stipple, watermark 1828, 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
Oval head and shoulders portrait of George Washington (1732-1799) in uniform, after Charles Gilbert Stuart.
[Ref: 62181] £130.00
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[Watch & Clock Makers] T. Wilson, Watch & Clock Maker, Barnard Castle. [&] T. Softly, Watch & Clock Maker, Jweller, Silversmith & Ironmonger, Barnard Castle.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Two rare engraved watch-papers. Each c. 55mm (2½") diameter, mounted together on album paper. Trimmed, some damage.
Thomas Softly was active from 1868-76.
[Ref: 62283] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Wellington. 1817.
[Paris, Didot Senior for Galignani, 1817.]
Etching. Sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate, spotting.
Battlefield equestrian portrait of the Duke of Wellington, the frontispiece to 'Campaigns of Field-Marshal His Grace, The Most Noble Arthur, Duke of Wellington'.
[Ref: 62396] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Wellington and Peel] Killing Time.
London. Published by J. M.c Cormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾)"
The Duke of Wellington walks on a street with a pretty young woman, looking over his shoulder at Robert Peel, who is giving the woman a knowing look. V&A E.709-1947.
[Ref: 62321] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[London. Westminster Abbey, West View. No.1]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature]
[F. & M. Ltd, Bedford. n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 200 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). With title (as above) and description on separate letterpress label.
View of Westminster Abbey with the Westminster Scholars War Memorial, also known as the Crimea and Indian Mutiny Memorial, outside.
[Ref: 62211] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Westminster Abbey. Six Etching With Selections.
[John Sloan.]
[A. Edward Newton, 1891.]
Oblong 8vo, disbound; etched frontispiece and twelve plates (six views and six verses with vignettes, titles for the plates), as called for, printed in sepia, each sheet 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"), tissue guards. Lacking cardboard covers, first two plates separated from binding block, holes for original ribbon in left margin, frontis. spotted, occasional spotting elsewhere.
A rare complete set of 13 etchings of Westminster Abbey by the American etcher John Sloan (1871-1951). Sloan was commissioned by A. Edward Newton (1864-1940), later a well-known book collector. As Sloan never left America, he based his illustrations on photogravures by English artist Alfred Dawson (1843-1931). The set was issued in cardboard covers with a gilt illustration of the exterior of the abbey and hand-painted flowers, lacking here. Philadelphia Museum of Art: 1953-105-1--13. Morse 11-23. Member of the Ashcan School.
[Ref: 62179] £650.00
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A Man Publickly Whipped, in the Sessions House Yard in the Old Bailey.
Dodd delin. White sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
An illustration from the 'Malefactors Register, or, a Tyburn and Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 62102] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
The Widow & The Black Ram.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 100 x 115mm (4 x 4½"). Trimmed. Remains of map verso.
A widow rides a black ram into a court full of laughing lawyers. An illustration of a ancient manorial custom in parts of England, relating to 'free bench', the widow's right to retain tenure of her late husband's land. This was usually allowed as long as she preserved her chastity. If she strayed she would lose the proprty but could avoid this by the penance of riding the ram into court, reciting a verse beginning 'Here I am, / Riding upon a black ram, / Like a whore as I am'. During the trial of Queen Caroline in 1820, Theodore Lane depicted her entering the House of Lords on a black ram with the face of her supposed lover, Bartolommeo Bergami (BM Satires 14013).
[Ref: 62238] £95.00
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[John Wilson, Esq.r Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.]
J. Watson Gordon Pinx.t Edinburgh 1829. Engraved by H. Dawe 7 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town.
Published March 1.st 1833 by M.r A.W. Maclean Edinburgh.
Mezzotint, proof before title. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Mounted in album paper at sides, some spotting.
Seated portrait of John Watson (1785-1854), a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, who used the pseudonym Christopher North to write for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
[Ref: 62288] £190.00
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[The Strand Gate, Winchelsea.] No. 44. [Winchelsea was once a Cinque Port of first magnitude, but owing to the action of the sea it is now some distance inland and "where fisherman once dropped their nets shepherds now watch their sheep." For many years the town was frequented by smugglers, and William Thackeray in "Dene Duvel" dramatically recalls those thrilling bygone days. It was here that John Wesley preached his last open air sermon under what is now known as Wesley's Tree at the west side of the churchyard. The Strand Gate was one of three gates ereceted under royal patronage when the "New" Winchelsea was replanned in 1287. The monasteries and other religious houses were quickly reproduced and a prosperous town was soon established. It was at Old Winchelsea some three miles away that William the Conqueror landed. The stone bearing the Arms of the Cinque Ports, which was taken from the Gate at the time of its destruction, may be seen fixed to one of the remaining walls.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng. [n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 259 x 281mm (10¼ x 11¼"), very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62269] £60.00
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Frau Clara Maria Herrn D. Johann Conrad Wittner Norimb. Physici Orgin. Frau Eheliebste Eine Gebohrne Negelin. Nata. d.2.Octobr. 1723. Nupta. d.1. Juny. 1745. Denata. d.20 July. 1746.
G Lichtensteger Norib sc. 1747.
[Nuremburg, c.1747.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, old folds.
The daughter of pastor Joachim Negelein, she married doctor Johann Conrad Wittwer (1720-75) in 1745 but died the following year. Her husband wrote a number of medical books, including 'Dissertatio inauguralis medica de vomitu, vomitus remedio', 1742.
[Ref: 62193] £180.00
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[Woman with an oil lamp.] From a Painting of Ger.d Dou, belonging to Cap.t Baillie.
W. Baillie sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Oct.1st. 1771.
Mezzotint. 155 x 230mm (6 x 9"), with narrow margins. Mounted in album paper at sides.
A night scene showing a woman leaning through a window, shielding the flame of a lamp with her hand. Engraved after a painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-75) by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 62182] £180.00
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The True Effigies of S.r Henry Wotton K.t Embassadour in Ordinary to the Most Serene Republique of Venice, And Late Provost of Eaton Colledge. Anno Aetatus Suae 72.
[n.d., 1657.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed, paper toned, mounted in album paper at edges.
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) was a diplomat and author, ambassador to Venice for nearly twenty years. From 1624 he was Provost of Eton and followed a literary career, writing the lives of his friends John Donne and Izaak Walton. The frontispiece to his 'The State of Christendom'.
[Ref: 62076] £160.00
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[Scrap sheets with the engraved title and 63 plates from 'Views in York, Wood Engravings Printed by John Hill, Marygate, 1838.]
[York, 1838.]
26 scrap book pages, each 410 x 260mm (16 x 10½"), with many other scraps, both prints and letterpress.
A collection of 64 wood engravings from the extremely scarce series 'Eighty Three Views in York'.
[Ref: 62249] £400.00
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The Young English Squire.
Bouvier del.t. W. Kohler lithog. 22, Denmark St., Soho.
London. Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand.
Coloured lithograph with very fine colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Some spotting.
A portrait of a hunter, with shotgun, powder flask and dog.
[Ref: 62329] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Czar Peter House] Intérieur de la Cabane de Pieere le Grand, à Zaandam.
[Chez Frères Buffa et C,,º Kalverstraat, N.º 50, à Amsterdam.]
Lithograph. Sheet 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A view of the interior of the wooden house built in 1632, in which the Russian Tzar Peter the Great stayed when he was studying shipbuilding in Zaandam in 1697. It is now preserved inside a stone building built over it in 1897.
[Ref: 62067] £140.00
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[Twelve Months of the Year] Genaro [&] Febraro [&] Marzo [&] Aprile [&] Maggio [&] Giuno [&] Luglio [&] Agosto [&] Settembre [&] Ottobre [&] Novembre [&] Decembre.
G. Zocchi inven. F. Bartolozzi incid.
appo Wagner Ven.a C.P.E.S. [n.d. c.1761]
Set of 12 etchings with engraving on laid paper. Plate 365 x 360mm (14¼ x 18"), with margins. Mounted on album support, some surface dirt, occasional spotting and browning and old handling creases.
Twelve rustic scenes representing the months, including scenes such as ice skating, masquerade, fishing, sheep shearing, gardening, dancing, swimming, harvesting, fruit picking, trapping, truffle hunting and butchering. Ex collection of the property of the Stirlings of Keir, including books from the library of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 62413] £2,600.00
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