Henry Tilson, Painter. Grandson to the Bishop of Elphin, Pupil of Sr. Peter Lely. And a Friend of Dahl. He studied in Italy successfully the best Painters: He died in Lincolns Inn Fields, aged 36, and was buried 25.th Nov.r 1695 at St. Dunstans in the West. Vide. Walpoles Anecdotes.
Henry Tilson pinx.t H. Meyer sculp.t
[n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple. 375 x 299mm (14¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed inside plate. Bit messy.
Henry Tilson (1659-1695), the portrait painter. He studied under Sir Peter Lely and then worked for him. After Lely's death in 1680, Tilson went to Italy with Michael Dahl. On his return to England, Tilson obtained some repute as a painter of portraits in oil and crayons. He was very well connected, and was on his way to a successful career, when he shot himself in 1695, through disppointment in love. NPG: D39620.
[Ref: 31063] £80.00
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The Tilted Wagon. The following pleasant Couplets were written in a Tilted Waggon, between Hambledon and Bishops Waltham, Hampshire; by Signor Jiggorini, Knight of the Three Periwigs and Poet-Laureat to the Hambledon Waggon. 385.
Publish'd March 12. 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple, set in letterpress. Sheet 325 x 235mm (12¾ x 8¾"), watermarked 'Pine & Thomas 1814'. Trimmed within plate at sides, small hole in image. Crease at bottom.
A song sheet describing a romance in a covered wagon. BM Satires 10499.
[Ref: 54369] £140.00
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[Timber merchant.]
[by William Pickett.]
[Pub.d June 4th by T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill.]
Aquatint with hand colouring. Sheet approx 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to image; glued to album sheet.
Workers moving timber. From Pickett's 1812 book of 'Ninety-Six Speciments of Cottages-Bridges-Castles-Churches [...] Intended to facilitate the Improvement of the Student, and to aid the Practitioner, in Landscape Composition'. Aside from its function as an educational volume, the scenes in the book also provide many unusual views of London in the early 19th century. Abbey (Life in England) 168.
[Ref: 32305] £80.00
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Timber Carters.
Painted by Wolstenholme. Engraved by Reeve
Pub.d May 1 1812 by W.D. Jones, Repository of Arts, Cambridge.
Very scarce aquatint, with hand-colouring 370 x 450mm (14½ x 17¾"), with wide margins, paper watermarked 'Fellows 1808'. Slight creasing.
Rural woodcutting scene after animal painter Dean Wolstenholme, the elder (1757-1837). Wolstenholme didn't move to London until 1800, but exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1803, and while best-known for fox-hunting scenes, he also painted various other rural and sporting subjects.
[Ref: 37552] £450.00
Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Oblong folio, original printed wrappers; etched pictorial title and six plates, complete, interleaved with tissue; with 4pp. list of publications by Robins. Wrappers chipped and worn, some spotting of plates,
Each plate has multiple satires relating to time. BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 51767] £320.00
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Spectator.
Smirke del. Heath sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. July 22 1786
Engraving, platemark 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"), large margins.
Time, holding a scythe, painting a mural. Engraving for 'The Spectator' of a design by Robert Smirke (1753-1845), painter and illustrator, who specialised in literary themes. Smirke depicted a great number of Shakespearean subjects and provided illustrations for literary and historical texts such as Hume's 'History of England', Dr Johnson's 'Rasselas', the 'Arabian Nights', and 'Don Quixote'. Not in Heath/
[Ref: 42078] £65.00
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[Allegory of Time's effects on Egypt's monuments.]
[Loutherbourg delin.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into image at sides, mounted on album paper.
A winged figure of Chronos flies through the monuments of Egypt, his scythe cutting a statue down from its plinth. A sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza can be seen behind.
[Ref: 42167] £160.00
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Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Etched title page. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
The decorative titlepage with a central vignette of a winged figure of 'Time' dining on artifacts of the world, including an elephant!. The titlepage of a set of six plates with multiple images of time (see Stock 51767). BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 60359] £240.00
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[All Ages have had their particular Vices.]
[Engraved by Pierre Daret.]
[London: E. Bell et al, 1721.]
Engraving. 180 x 150mm (7 x 6"), set in text. Sheet slightly trimmed at top.
An allegorical scene, with four men of different ages representing both the seasons of the year and the different ages of a lifetime, with a flying putto with a sundial representing time. Bottom left is Ouroboros, the snake devouring its own tail, representing the cyclicality of life, an Alchemic symbol. A plate from Marin Le Roy Gomberville's 'The Doctrine of Morality; or, A View of Human Life, According to the Stoick Philosophy', as translated into English by T.M. Gibbs.
[Ref: 28614] £45.00
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Time. 'Tis I who measure vital space _
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Oval portrait of an old man with wings. The line of verse comes from John Gay's 'Fable XIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time'.
[Ref: 54201] £70.00
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Time assisted by the love of Vertue, dispells the truth of painting out of the Clouds of ignorance.
L. Testelin Pinxit.
J. Smith ex [c.1720]
Mezzotint on wove paper, platemark 255 x 230mm (10 x 9") very large margins. Later impression.
Allegory of time pushing away clouds to reveal a female figure with brushes and palette, personifying painting. Mezzotint after Louis Testelin (1615-65), decorative painter none of whose work survives, but who contributed works to decorative schemes at the Palais du Luxembourg, and the château of Fontainebleau. This print is supposed to be based on an etching after Testelin's design by Girard Audran, which illustrated the 'Sentiments des plus habiles peintres' published in 1680 by Testelin's brother Henri.
[Ref: 40218] £130.00
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Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui Dieu confond les projets des superbes. Cantiq. de la Vierge Luc.1. Le Temps découvre la Verité, laquelle soutenüe par l'Amour de la Vertu, Confond et reverse la Calomnie, l'Envie, et la Sourberie.
F. Roëttiers invenit. N. Tardieu sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, in ink verso Dr. H Mesurier Eastwood Hay. Plate: 375 x 225mm (14¾ x 9''), with large margins. Tears in margins and manuscript in lower margins.
A allegorical scene showing the allegorical figures of Time, Truth and Love defeating the figures of Calumny, Envy and Deceit.
[Ref: 50380] £160.00
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A Timely Caution. Arm yourself sweet Maid; with jealous caution...through the Fence of Decency, & triumph in the Plunder of Innocence.
Published 12th. May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple. Plate 272 x 228mm (10¾ x 9"), with large margins.
A decorative young woman contemplating the amorous advances of suitors, five lines of advice in verse below portrait; she holds a love poem. See Ref 11486 for Pair [different publication].
[Ref: 52412] £260.00
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[The Four Times of Day.] M. 9. Le Matin. [&] M 10. Le Midi. [&] M 11. Le Soir. [&] M 12. La Nuit.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of four rare etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), large margins. Mint.
Four rococo designs, each representing times of day, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58933] £600.00
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The Times Taken from an Original Character which appeared at the Masquerade at Lincoln Dec.r the 21.st 1769.
Publish'd as the Act directs by J. Marks or the pav'd Stones St. Martins Lane. [n.d., c.1769.]
Very rare engraving. Plate: 360 x 270mm (14 x 10½'') large margins. Messy.
A satirical print showing a figure wearing a clever two-in-one costume, the left side represents the policies of John Wilkes while the right the policies of the Earl of Bute. A key explains the colours of the various parts of the costume. The Wilkes half of the costume may be based on Hogarth's 1763 portrait of him. The face is made to resemble both men with Wilke's characteristic squint. BM Satire 4315.
[Ref: 48159] £600.00
Day. Such Favor ne'er to man was given, So dear to friendship dear to blisses; young love himself looks down from heaven, To smile on such a Day as this is!
Harper Pinxt. Arnold Sculpt.
London Published by W.J. White Brownslow Street, Holborn, January 1, 1828.
Mezzotint. 215 x 275mm.
[Ref: 3031] £160.00
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La Nuit.
Peint par Faléro. Photogravure Goupil & C.ie.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Edit.rs succ.rs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er 8.bre 1884, _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on chine collé. 510 x 285mm (20 x 11¼").
Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7225] £580.00
Le Jour.
Peint par Faléro. Photogravure Goupil & C.ie.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Edit.rs succ.rs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er 8.bre 1884, _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on india. 510 x 285mm.
Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7226] £320.00
The Evening. Phoebus now setting, Collin then retires...
Vangoen pinx.t. Austin sculp.t.
Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster [Thomas Major, c.1740, but later].
Etching with sepia wash. 275 x 365mm (10¾ x 14¼"), on wove paper. Very small tear in top right margin.
Houses at the side of a river, after Jan van Goyen. One of four plates of the times of day engraved by William Austin after Dutch masters, with 'Morning' after Anthonie Waterloo, 'Noon' by Jacob van Ruisdael, and 'Night' after Aert van der Neer.
[Ref: 55619] £230.00
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Morning.
H. Raeburn Macbeth [signed in pencil lower right of plate].
[n.d. c. 1910.]
Etching. 148 x 99mm. 5¾" x 4". Uncut sheet.
Sir Henry MacBeth Raeburn RA, RE [1860 - 1947]. Uncleaned plate edges, possibly some kind of proof.
[Ref: 8954] £85.00
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Morning. This early Visit to the Beauteous Fair, Shews the Good-Man's intent, and Pious care;_ Whose looks confirm it - that he'd rather kiss - The Lady's balmy Lips, than the Tea dish.
Lancret pinx. T. Burford fecit 1741.
[Sold by I. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill London.]
Mezzotint. Plate 254 x 355mm. 10 x 14". Repaired wormholes.
A cleric taking tea with a young woman in morning dress, who sits on a sofa pouring the tea for him, while a maid stands on the left holding a piece of lace ready to help dress her mistress. From a set of the four Times of Day, 1741. CS: undescribed. BM: 2010,7081.2718.
[Ref: 23058] £320.00
[Les Quatre Heures du Jour.] Le Matin. [&] Le Midi. [&] Le Soir. [&] La Nuit.
Prud'hom del. Lith par Jul. Boilly.
Marchant, Edit: r: de Rivoli, 140. Imp. Bertauts, Paris. [n.d. c.1849.]
Four india-laid lithographs, printed onto same sheet; india overlaps seen at sides of images. Sheet 311 x 450mm. 12¼ x 17¾".
Morning, personified by a draped woman seated on a couch and reading mischievous Cherubs wait patiently. Noon, personified by a nude woman bathing, while the Cherubs entertain her. Evening, personified by a nude woman draped in a shawl at her "toilette", looking in a mirror lit by candles held by admiring Cherubs. Night, personified by a nude woman sleeping with Cherubs and doves watching over her. Set of four printed form one stone. Julien Boilly (1796-1874) BM: 1882,0211.571. [&] BM: 1882,0211.572. [&] BM: 1882,0211.573. [&] BM: 1882,0211.574.
[Ref: 21705] £220.00
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[Times of Day.] Le Matin; Le Midi; Le Soir; Le Minuit.
Se vend à Augsbourg chez J.Jacques Haid, et à Paris chez Mr. Gilles Rosselin.
Set of four mezzotints. Ea. c. 420 x 285mm. Each plate with horizontal fold & some damp staining.
In the morning a maid draws water from a well; at noon a couple say grace over their meal; in the evening a merchant weighs his coins; and at midnight a witch mixes a potion.
[Ref: 2895] £1,200.00
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[Times of Day] Le Matin [&] Le Midy. [&] La pres disner. [&] Le Soir.
R. Bonnart del. [two plates.]
Chez HBonnart au Coq avec privil. [Paris, c.1710.]
Set of four engravings, each c.270 x 190mm. 10½ x 7½". Large margins, with tatty extremities; some spotting to plates, mostly marginal. Closed tear just into right side of 'Midy' plate. Rare complete.
The activities of a French 'femme de qualite' through the course of a day; at her toilet, eating a meal, sewing, and, in the final plate, sleeping. Four line descriptions under each image. After Robert Bonnart (1652 - 1729 or after), painter and engraver who studied under Van der Meulen.
[Ref: 13097] £700.00
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Morning. [&] Midday. Cottage near Birmingham. [&] Twilight. Snowden seen from across Traeth-Mawr, N. Wales.
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reeve Sculp.t.
[London, c.1822 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.]
Three fine aquatints, printed in colours and hand finished. Morning has J. Whatman 1822 watermark, Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
The times of day.
[Ref: 57505] £240.00
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[The four times of day] Le Matin; Le Midy; L'Après Midy; Le Soir
Inventé et dessiné par M. Charles Eisen, et Gravé par M. de Longueil.
A Paris chés Daumont rue S. Martin, près S. Julien. Avec Privilége du Roi [c.1770]
Set of four fine engravings, each platemark 165 x 210mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemarks; glued to backing sheets at corners.
The four times of day represented by the courtship of a young couple. Set of scarce engravings after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45075] £1,100.00
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[Times of Day.] Le Matin; Le Midi; Le Soir; Le Minuit.
Se vend à Augsbourg chez J.Jacques Haid, et à Paris chez Mr. Gilles Rosselin.
Set of four mezzotints. Ea. c. 420 x 285mm (16½ x 11¼"), with very large margins.
The times of day, each with an explanatory verse in French and German. In the morning a maid draws water from a well, appaently preparing to cook vegetables; at noon a couple say grace over their meal; in the evening a merchant weighs his coins; and at midnight a witch mixes a potion.
[Ref: 38985] £1,200.00
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[The Four Times of Day.] Aurora. [&] Meridies. [&] Vespera. [&] Nox.
HG Inven [after Hendrik Goltzius]
Si stampano Gio. Jacomo Rossi in Roma alla Pace [c.1600]
Set of four engravings, each sheet approx 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Trimmed; some staining; tear to 'Aurora'.
The four times of day: morning, midday, evening and night. Set of engravings copied in reverse after the 1595 set by Jan Saenredam, who himself was engraving designs by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). In the 1580s Goltzius was in Italy but by 1591 he was back in his native Netherlands, where Saenredam was amongst the engravers working in his studio to disseminate his designs. These copies were published in Rome by Rossi.
[Ref: 40860] £490.00
[Times of Day] L'Aurore / Den Daeghe Raet, Esprise du desir, de revoir ton cephale......; Le Midy / De Middach Ce degre dans le ciel, est sur tout admirable.....; Le Vespre / Den Avondt, Ceux qui viuent contans, & dedans les delices.....; La Nuict / Den Nacht, Tu charmes nos trauaux, & nos Jnque-tudes,....;
Mart. vanden Enden execudit Antwerpiae.
Set of four engravings. 203 x 292mm.
The composition depicts female figures in contemporary dress engaged in 17th century occupations and pastimes. Three of the scenes are more natural: 'Les Vespre' shows falconery, an aristocratic pursuit. Martin van den Enden. A publisher and printmaker from Antuwerp, flourishing 1630 - 1645. Most associated with works after Van Dyck.
[Ref: 7046] £950.00
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Morning. Let me wander, not unseen, By hedge-row Elms, on hillocs green, Milton's Allegro. [&] Evening. Young and old come out to play, 'Till the live-long day light fail;_Milton's Allegro.
C. Taylor Excudit.
Pair of stipples. Plate 178 x 122mm. 7 x 4¾". [&] Plate 178 x 127mm. 7 x 5".
Morning: a man standing holding a staff underneath a tree, in the middle-ground a man behind his cow-driven plough, and a woman with a pale for milking the cow. Evening: a young man playing a pipe sat in the tree with youngster dancing below for senior onlookers, more people playing games in the background. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22603] £90.00
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Vue de l’Intérieur du Temple Chinois, à Coupang, sur l’Île Timor. 26.
Dess par Marchais d’après Js. Arago.
Gravé par Lerouge et Forget. [n.d. c.1825.]
Stipple, printed in colour and hand-coloured. Plate 222 x 317mm. 8¾ x 12½".
View showing inside the Chinese temple, Kupang, Timor. From Louis-Claude de Freycinet's Voyage Autour du Monde. Following the defeat of the first French Empire and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1815, the newly restored Bourbon King Louis XVIII ordered a number of voyages of exploration and discovery in an attempt to regain French prestige. One of these was to be led by Louis de Freycinet aboard the Uranie, named in honour of the muse of astronomy and geography. Freycinet proposed to undertake numerous measurements in various fields of science and to explore the islands in the Pacific. The voyage was a great success having resulted in the discovery of hundreds of new species of mammals, birds, marine life, plants as well as having recorded many aspects of the Pacific islands. In the National Library of Australia.
[Ref: 25614] £220.00
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[Timor] Naba Leba, Konig von Solor.
fr. Bolt f. 1818.
Engraving. 65 x 95mm. Foxing.
Naba-leba, King of the island of Solor, Timor, 1801-1803. Copy of French engraving from Petit's illustration in the ‘Voyage de decouvertes aux terres Australes, execute par ordre de S M l'empereur et roi’, compiled by naturalist Francois Peron and published in Paris in 1815. The book is an account of the French cartographic survey expedition to Australia, 1800-1804, led by Thomas Nicolas Baudin.
[Ref: 700] £60.00
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Coupang: Île Timor. Divers Costumes. 19.
Dessiné par Chasselat d’après A. Pellion.
Gravé par Prot. [n.d. c.1825.]
Stipple, printed in colour and hand-coloured. Plate 241 x 323mm. 9½ x 12¾".
A woman seated in a chair receiving a cup of tea from her servant girl, whilst watching another servant girl playing music on a harp to the left. From Louis-Claude de Freycinet's Voyage Autour du Monde. Following the defeat of the first French Empire and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1815, the newly restored Bourbon King Louis XVIII ordered a number of voyages of exploration and discovery in an attempt to regain French prestige. One of these was to be led by Louis de Freycinet aboard the Uranie, named in honour of the muse of astronomy and geography. Freycinet proposed to undertake numerous measurements in various fields of science and to explore the islands in the Pacific. The voyage was a great success having resulted in the discovery of hundreds of new species of mammals, birds, marine life, plants as well as having recorded many aspects of the Pacific islands.
[Ref: 25615] £220.00
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Île Timor. J.h. Antonio, Jeune homme du Royaume de Failacor.
S. Leroy pinx.t. Lerouge et Choubard sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1820].
Hand coloured stipple with some engraving. Sheet: 240 x 320mm, (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed.
Portrait of a young man from the island of Timor in maritime south east Asia. The man wears a highly ornate coat decorated with flowers. From 'Voyage autour du monde...' by Louis Freycinet
[Ref: 35088] £130.00
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Tymorian Souldiers. 34
[after Johann Nieuhof.]
[London, c.1732.]
Engraving. 300 x 180mm (12 x 7¼"). Large margins.
A pair of tribesmen from Timor the Dutch East Indies. From Niuehof's account of his travels in Asia as published in Awnsham and John Churchill's 'Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 38558] £160.00
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Le Cabriole Anglois. The Buggy. Timothy Tallow, and his Wife, going to Graves Hall, on a Sunday.
R. S.t G. M. [Richard St George Mansergh St George] Pinx.t.
Publish'd according to Act, Aug.st 10th. 1772 by MDarly, No.39 in the Strand.
Etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed to plate. Bottom left and right corners missing. Pinholes near corners. A few brown spots. Some restoration.
A man with his grotesque and fat wife driving a coach pulled by a tired horse towards a country mansion on the outskirts of London. The print seems to be mocking nouveau-riche Londoners; the skyline of the capital (including The Monument and St. Paul's Cathedral) is visible on the horizon. After Richard St George Mansergh St George (1750 - 1798). BM Satires: 4640.
[Ref: 65660] £260.00
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Timour the Tartar. The Equestrian Procession. Act 1 Scene 1.
[n.d., but watermarked 1812.]
Coloured engraving. 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Some creasing.
"Timour the Tartar" was a grand romantic melodrama in two acts by the prolific Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), with music by Matthew Peter King. First mounted at Covent Garden in 1811, it was a satire of Napoleon: Timour, of low origin, usurps the throne and raises up his needy relations to princely dignity. The play featured horses brought onto stage.
[Ref: 12758] £240.00
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[Tin potter] Potier d'etain. Zinngiesser.
[after Jean-Frédéric Wentzel] Lith. C. Fasoli et Ohlman à Stras.sbg.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour heightened with gum arabic, rare with large margins. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
The interior of a workshop: on the right one craftsman pours molten tin; behind two workers use a lathe to straighten a pot.
[Ref: 36598] £120.00
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[Tin Smith] Ferblantier. Weisblechner.
[after Jean-Frédéric Wentzel] Lith. C. Fasoli et Ohlman à Stras.sbg.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour heightened with gum arabic, rare with large margins. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
The interior of a tin smithy, one man making a water pipe.
[Ref: 36608] £120.00
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Tin-Plate Worker.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 102 x 63mm. 4 x 2½". Cut and laid on album scrap.
Tin-Plate, or tin sheets, as they are usually called, is a composition of iron and tin, not melted together, but the iron in plates is dipped into a vessel of melted tin, or the iron in bars is covered over with tin, or the iron in bars is covered over with tin, and then flatted or drawn out by means of mills. From "The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts".
[Ref: 25533] £60.00
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Matthew Tindall L.L.D. Aetat. 78 Heu Prisca Fides
B. Dandridge Pinxt. 1733. I. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden head ye South side of Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, state after publication line, 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". Diagonal cease through image; very little margin.
Portrait of Matthew Tindal (1653?-1733), deist; standing to left wearing black coat and with curled grey hair, eyes to front, his right hand gesturing towards viewer. Tindal's works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c. 1754). Chaloner Smith: 347.
[Ref: 25797] £220.00
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[Tinos] Vue de Bourg San-Nicolo.
Lemonnier del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Tinos, the main town of the island of the same name, called San Niccolo by the Venetians. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35155] £220.00
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[Tinos] Vue de Bourg de San-Nicolo, Prise du côté du Levant.
Lemonnier del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Tinos, the main town of the island of the same name, called San Niccolo by the Venetians. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35159] £220.00
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[Tinos] Vue de Bourg de San-Nicolo dans L'Ile de Tine. Prise du côté du Couchant.
F. Eenens del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Tinos, the main town of the island of the same name, called San Niccolo by the Venetians. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35160] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Tintern Abbey.
[after P.J. De Loutherbourg.]
[London: R. Bowyer, c.1825.]
Etching and hand-coloured aquatint; late issue, the plate unsigned and lacking publisher's imprint. 310 x 385mm, 12¼ x 15¼". Offered with corresponding text leaf. Lacking upper margin. A little stained, but generally good.
A view of the 'celebrated ruin' of Tintern Abbey, Wales, a highlight of the Wye valley which became a popular tourist destination in the late eighteenth century. From 'The romantic and picturesque scenery of England and Wales' after Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812), first published 1805. See Abbey Scenery 9, 12. National Art Library (V&A Museum); General Collection 51.E.44.
[Ref: 25810] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
To the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Leicester - President of the Antiquarian Society &c, &c. This View of the West End of Tintern Abbey is most respectfully and humbly inscribed by his Lordships obedient & obliged Servants E.Days & F.Jukes.
Drawn by E.Dayes. Engraved by F.Jukes.
London Published at M. Deeley's Pleasant Place Pentonville. 1836.
Aquatint with original hand colouring, on Whatman paper dated 1839. 360 x 460mm (14¼ x 18"). Some expert restoration, almost unnoticable from the front.
[Ref: 3507] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Jacopo Robusti. detto il TINTERETTO Pittore di Figure, nacque in Verezia l'anno 1512. mori l'anno 1594.
Gio. Dom. Camiglia del./ P. Ant. Pazzi f.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Engraving. 175 x 260mm. (7 x 10¼"), with wide margins.
A half-length portrait of the Venetian painter Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti, 1518 - 1594), dressed in a black shawl with his right hand resting on books. This portrait was part of A. F. Gori's monumental 'Museum Florentium', which set out to engrave all the portraits of painters, architects, sculptors and patrons of the arts in the major galleries of Florence. This vast undertaking was issued in parts, taking over thirty years (1731-1766) to complete.
[Ref: 29103] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Tiny.
Earl Pinxt. A. Sirouy lith. Imp Lemercier. Paris.
London Publ'd March 5th 1860 by E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners Sts. Oxf St. Paris 8 rue de Bruxelles.
Lithograph. 280 x 315mm.
George Earl [1824 - 1908] The father of the dog and animal artists, Maud and Percy Earl, George was also the brother of another animal artist, Thomas Earl. George was an active sportsman who excelled in the depiction of dogs and he is remembered primarily as a sporting dog painter. Little is known of his background and training or his early work.
[Ref: 2283] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Man examining a tiny person in a jar]
[Anon., c.1850]
Engraving on laid paper, platemark 440 x 340mm (17¼ x 13¼"), with very large margins. Unfinished proof?
[Ref: 46587] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Holy Cross, County of Tipperary.
Fred.k Calvert del et sculp.
London, Pub, 1, Jan.y 1813 by S.Inman, 7 Lambs Conduit St, Foundling Hospital.
Rare aquatint. 200 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"). Watermarked 'N Sharp 1817'. Large margins. Slight soiling.
A moonlit scene of Holycross Abbey, a ruined Cistercian monastery near Thurles. It got its name from a relic of the True Cross given to the monastery by Queen Isabella, widow of King John. When the abbey was restored in 1969 the Vatican gave them another authenticated relic of the Holy Cross; in 2012 the relic was stolen but recovered the following year.
[Ref: 37390] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)