[The Topers]
Teniers [bottom left of image] R E [Richard Earlom]
J Boydell ex.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"). Narrow margins.
Two peasants, one of whom holds a very large jug. Genre scene by Richard Earlom after Flemish painter David Teniers and published as the companion to 'The Smokers' in 1768. Not in CS
[Ref: 31378] £95.00
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Thomas Topham, the Strong Man.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Ink, pencil and grey wash, pt. watermark. Sheet 130 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼").
A scene from the life of strongman Thomas Topham (c.1710-49). While at Derby in the late 1730s he twisted a kitchen spit round the neck of a local ostler who had insulted him. This watercolour is copied from an engraving from Wilson's 'The Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a faithful and interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern', 1807. Topham later killed himself after stabbing his unfaithful wife.
[Ref: 57246] £260.00
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Thomas Topham, the Strong Man. Performing one of his astonishing feats of Strength in Spa-fields 28th of May 1741.
[after an etching by William Henry Toms from a drawing by Leigh.]
Pub.d as the Act directs by S. Kirby, 15 Paternoster Row, & J. Scott, St. Martins Court, May 31, 1803.
Etching. 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides, some spotting.
Thomas Topham (c.1710-49), strongman, shown on a stage lifting three hogsheads of water weighing 1,336 pounds (606 kg), using a harness over his shoulders. The exhibition was during the premature celebrations for Admiral Vernon's 'capture' of Catagena de Indias. He later killed himself after stabbing his unfaithful wife. BM 1920,1211.1331.
[Ref: 57245] £85.00
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[Frontispiece to 'Topographia Sueviae' ('the topography of Swabia'), wth city view of Augsburg] Topographia Sueviae dasist Beschreib und Aigentliche Abcontrafeitung [...]
[Matthäus Merian I, 1643]
Engraving, sheet 275 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed to image; creasing.
Frontispiece to the second part of 'Topographia Germaniae' (1642-1660s), a series of volumes depicting, in thirty-eight parts, the topography of Germany.
[Ref: 46386] £60.00
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Topsy Turvey, __or, our Antipodes. Punch's Pocket book for 1854.
[John Leech]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1854.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
A light-hearted illustration of life in a nineteenth century Australian settlement, featuring a game of cards. The 'Regent Street' sign is probably a reference to Melbourne in Victoria. This image appeared as the frontispiece to the 1854 edition of Punch's Pocket Book. By John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63836] £280.00
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Tor Abbey. To George Cary Esquire...
Published Septr. 1st 1824, by James Redaway, London, and Jno. Matthews, Torquay, Devon.
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 195 x 245mm. 7¾ x 9½". Trimmed within plate.
Attractive locally-published view of Torre Abbey, as seen from the sea at Tor Bay, near Torquay, south Devon. The historic house started life in 1196 as a monastery for Premonstratensian canons when William Brewer, lord of the manor of Torre, gave them the land. Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 16368] £130.00
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Torbay
W Hawkes Smith fec. Printed from Stone, by WH Smith
[n.d., c.1820]
Lithograph, printed area 185 x 430mm (7¼ x 17"). Very rare. Slight crease on right.
View of Torbay, with key indicating (l-r) 'St. Mary church / Torquay / A singularly arched rock / Hope's Nose'. By the little-known Birmingham printmaker William Hawkes Smith (1818-1821, fl.). Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32238] £260.00
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Torbay.
W Hawkes Smith, del. & fec. Printed from Stone, by W.H. Smith, 1820
Original pen and ink drawing, drawn area 180 x 435mm (7¼ x 17½"). Unique.
View of Torbay with key identifying (l-r) '[St.] Mary's Church' / Torquay / Hope's Nose'. By the little-known Birmingham printmaker William Hawkes Smith (1818-1821, fl.). Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32248] £420.00
Torbay.
W Hawkes Smith fec. Printed from Stone, by WH Smith.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph, printed area 185 x 430mm (7¼ x 17"). Crease on right & slight crease on left; very rare.
View of Torbay, with key indicating (l-r) 'Cockrington House' / St. Mary church / Torquay / Hope's Nose'. By the little-known Birmingham printmaker William Hawkes Smith (1818-1821, fl.). Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32240] £260.00
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Torbay, Devon.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, London, May 20, 1825.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, on card as issued. Plate 228 x 305mm. 9 x 12".
View from a rocky hill at Torbay, with a man and woman standing at a gate in foreground at left, on a path leading to a two-storey building overlooking the sea, with circular veranda, porch and arched doors; cliff behind. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'. Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 21490] £140.00
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St. Michael's Chapel and Torbay.
Drawn by E. Vivian. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[.n.d. c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. 318 x 419mm. 12½ x 16½".
Up on the hill sits St Michael's Chapel, dating probably from the 13th century. The cross was erected by order of the Marchioness of Bute in the early 19th century. Down in the distance sits the coatal town of Torbay, Devon.
[Ref: 18888] £160.00
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Chambre Historique de Turkmantchay (Persia)
Dessine d'apres nature et lith. par Jules Laurens. Imp. par Lemercier r. de Seine, 57, Paris.
Publie par Pierre Bertrand Editeur. [Paris, 1853-59.]
Tinted lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 295 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼").
A dilapidated room in Torkamanchay, a Azerbaijani town in northern Persia, with two locals and a European. Joseph Auguste Jules Laurens (1825 - 1901) travelled with the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell on a scientific journey to Turkey and Persia, making over a thousand drawings of the sites, costumes and people he encountered. After Hommaire died of cholera in 1848 Laurens sent his notes back to his widow in Paris who completed a full account of their travels, 'Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, exe´cute´ par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les anne´es 1846, 1847 et 1848', containing many lithographs by Laurens.
[Ref: 35577] £230.00
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[Le Tourment de l'Absence.] O ma tant douce Coombelle.
Martinet [after F.M.I. Quéverdo.]
[Paris: F.N. Martinet, c.1763.]
Etching. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins.
A man playing a lute serenading a young woman as an older lady looks on. An illustration of 'Le Tourment de l'Absence', a song with music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and words by Michel-Jean Sedaine.
[Ref: 53652] £80.00
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1. Phaenomenon, observ'd near Warrington. 2. Ansty Church. 3. Shulbred Priory. Pl. I.p.641.
Father Paul del.
Gent. Mag. August. 1799.
Engraving, plate 180 x 110mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins. Right edge holes where previously bound.
A series of views published in The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle: a tornado June 16th 1798 that occured in Warrignton, Cheshire, the small rural church of Ansty in Wiltshire and of Shulbred Priory (also known as Woolynchmere Priory) , in West Sussex both places of notable antiquity.
[Ref: 57031] £75.00
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Night. Royal York Hotel. Toronto. [In pencil.]
W.A. Howard. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Aquatint. Plate: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6") very large margins. Cockling.
A view of the large Royal York Hotel, now the Fairmont York Hotel, in Toronto which opened in 1929.
[Ref: 47063] £130.00
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Torquay Cricket Ground.
Lithographed by Newman & Co. 48 Watling St. London.
Published by G. Daimond, Newton Abbot [n.d., c.1840].
Trinted lithograph with hand colour. Framed, sight size 205 x 270mm (8 x 10¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
A cricket match in progress before a gothic pavilion.
[Ref: 67036] £280.00
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Torquay.
Drawn from the Life by Woolnoth. Gauci, Lith. North Cres.t Bed.fd Sq.e.
Pub.d by E. Cockrem, Bookseller and Stationer, 10, Strand.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), large margins. Some creasing. Repaired tears.
Two women, arm in arm, identically-dressed in straw hats, hair ribbons, lace collars, gloves and parasols. Perhaps an early lesbian image?
[Ref: 60414] £190.00
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Torquay, from Park Hill.
J. Salter del et Lith. Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen.
[Published by Mr J. Salter, Palk Street...] [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine & rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 310 x 415mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Paper toned.
From Salter's 'Six Views of Torquay'.
[Ref: 55478] £240.00
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Torquay from Park Hill.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
Published by W. Spreat at No 263, High Street Exeter. [n.d, c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph on three sheets conjoined. Total printed area 230 x 950mm (9 x 37½").
A view of the rolling hills of Torquay, with the sea on the far right. Spreat seems to have included a self-portrait: at the centre are two men with drawing books. Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 31134] £490.00
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Torquay, From the Pier Head.
From Nature & on Stone by W. Spreat. Printed by W. Spreat, Exeter.
Torquay New Series No1, published by W. Spreat Exeter [n.d., c.1840]
Lithograph with tintstone, printed area 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½"). Large margins.
Fine view of the coastal town of Torquay, with clearly identifiable buildings and numerous figures at work and rest.
[Ref: 37108] £220.00
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Hesketh Crescent, Torquay.
J. Salter del et Lith. Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen.
[Published by Mr J. Salter, Palk Street...] [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine & rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 310 x 415mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Paper toned.
A view looking down on Hesketh Crescent and Meadfoot Beach. The Crescent was built in 1846 by John Tapley Harvey & William Harvey. From Salter's 'Six Views of Torquay'.
[Ref: 55479] £240.00
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Torquay, from Waldon Hill.
J. Salter del et Lith. Day & Son, Lithr.s to the Queen.
[Published by Mr J. Salter, Palk Street...] [n.d., c.1838.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Very large margins. Spotting in margins.
From Salter's 'Six Views of Torquay'.
[Ref: 37897] £240.00
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Torquay Cricket Ground.
Lithographed by Newman & Co. 48 Watling St. London.
Published by G. Daimond, Newton Abbot [n.d., c.1840].
Trinted lithograph with hand colour. Framed, sight size 180 x 240mm (7 x 9½"). Paper toning, unexamined out of frame.
A cricket match in progress before a gothic pavilion.
[Ref: 67048] £190.00
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Coast between Torquay & Exmouth
W. Hawkes Smith fec. Printed from Stone, by W.H.S.
[n.d., c.1820]
Lithograph, printed area 185 x 430mm (7¼ x 17"). Crease on right; very rare.
View of the Devon coast with key indicating (l-r) 'Babicomb Bay / Situation of Teignmouth / Dawlish / Exmouth / Cliffs near Tor-Abbey'. By the little-known Birmingham printmaker William Hawkes Smith (1818-1821, fl.). Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32245] £260.00
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Nathanael Torriano M.D.
Highmore Filius Pinx. A. Walker Sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 153 x 89mm. 6 x 3½".
Nathaniel Torriano (c.1716-1761) was a physician before taking holy orders and becoming a vicar in the mid-18th century. W: 2054. In the National Library of Medicine.
[Ref: 24618] £50.00
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[Man being tortured with a grinding wheel.] Valet de gagne Petit. Frere piedebanc.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Trimmed into plate. Some creasing.
A man is seated, his hands tied behind his back, he is being forced foward by a man on to a grinding wheel. A monkey is perched above the man, urinating and a woman stands in the right background admiring herself in a hand mirror. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65399] £260.00
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[Eight plates of vignettes of torture methods.]
[Anon., c.1650.]
Eight etchings, each sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed inside platemark, a few tears and repairs. Damaged.
Illustrations of a range of bizarre and sadistic torture techniques, including: tying geese to a minister's body and setting dogs upon him; burning a victim's stomach 'till their Bowels fell out'; flaying victims 'with the Clawes of wild Beasts'; the removal of a victim's heart 'which the Papists gnawed with their teeth'; crushing victims beneath lead weights; and sewing victims in the skins of wild animals and setting 'great dogges' upon them;
[Ref: 47990] £560.00
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Sir J.B. Warren's Action off Ireland with a Squadron of French Frigates.
N. Pocock Del. T.Medland sc.
Publish'd by Burney and Gold May 31. 1800.
Aquatint. Sheet 140 x 225mm (5 x 9"). Some creasing. Trimmed.
The Battle of Tory Island, (or Warren's Action, after the British leader, Sir John Borlase Warren), fought off the north-west coast of Ireland on the 12th October 1798 between the British and French. Part of the French Revolutionary Wars, it was also the last action of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the last French attempt to invade the British Isles. Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Irish rebel leader, was found aboard the French flagship: he committed suicide before he could be hanged. Published in the Naval Chronicle. Parker: 137.
[Ref: 53517] £60.00
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Quatrieme Combat Soutenu par la Loire sur la Côte d'Irlande, la 26 Vend.re an 7. Cette Frégate sortie de Brest, sous le Commandement d'Ad.m Th. Segond, avoit depuis le 21, Combattu successivement, le Robuste de 74, l'Anson de 50, & le Kangaroo, appuyé par deux frégales: Dématée en partie, et se trouvant avoir perdu un grand nombre de ses meilleurs hommes, elle fut attaquée le 26 à 7 heures du matin, par la Mermaid, frégate de sa forc, Commandée par le Cap.ne de V.eau Newman; à 11 h. et demie, la Loire n'ayant plus que ses ba.C mats, en présence d'un Ennemi que n'a point encore d'avarie majeure, Est prés de succomber, lorsque par une maneuvre habile & hardie, son Cap.ne envoie dans l'arriere de la frégate anglaise, une bordée que la mettant hors de Combat, la force à prendre la fuite. Extrait du Procés verbal, déposé au Greffe maritime à Brest.
Dessiné par Crépin. Gravé à Brest par Lambert.
A Paris chez Bance, rue St. Denis, No. 175, près celle aux Ours. Déposé à la Biblothéque Nationale.
Engraving, very large margins. 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"). Tear entering platemark but not image.
A scene from the Battle of Tory Island, 12th October 1798, the last battle of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. When the revolt broke out Revolutionary France sent an invasion force to Ireland in support of Wolfe Tone's rebels, but it was quickly defeated and captured. Before news had reached France reinforcements were sent out from Brest, but this time the Royal Navy was ready for them. The French were chased north and scattered to be picked off by the superior British fleet. The French frigate 'La Loire' had managed to escape from HMS Mermaid despite severe damage, but came up against HMS Kangaroo, which closed on the unprotected stern of Loire, raking the immobile French ship, as shown here. After her capture the Royal Navy recommissioned her as HMS Loire. NMM: PAG8994. Not in Parker.
[Ref: 30927] £420.00
[Paolo Toschi.]
[after Carlo Raimondi]
[n.d., c.1851.]
Steel engraving on chine collé, proof before letters and remarque. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½").
A portrait of painter and engraver Paolo Toschi (1788-1854), working on a printing plate on an easel, by his former pupil Carlo Raomondi (1809-83). Toschi was appointed Professor of Engraving and Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma in 1837. A scarce image of an engraver with his equipment.
[Ref: 63535] £360.00
[Tothill Fields]
[Abraham Aubry after Wenceslaus Hollar, c.1644]
Etching, sheet 90 x 165mm (3½ x 6½"). Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
View across Tothill Fields towards Westminster Abbey (marked 'S. Peter in westminster'), with Parliament buildings to the right and the old St. Paul's Cathedral (destroyed by the 1666 fire) in background. Copy by Abraham Aubry of an etching by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), whose etching was originally issued as part of a set of four English views (the other three were of central London and Windsor). Born in Bohemia, Hollar spent around 32 of his 52 years as a professional artist working in England. An outstanding draughtsman and topographical etcher, Hollar's work was enormously varied and has done much to inform the way that 17th century London is visualised. Pennington 913 (copy)
[Ref: 68291] £90.00
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The Pest Houses, Tothill Fields Commonly Called The Five Chimnies. Formerly the Residence of Dick Hubbard.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph with hand colour, on india laid paper. 210 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼").
Figures skating on a pond in front of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Tothill Fields, Westminster. 'Pest Houses' were built originally to house victims of the Plague.
[Ref: 53508] £120.00
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Totnes from Totnes Down Hill.
Lithographed by Newman & Co. 48, Watling St. London.
Published by T. Hannaford, Totnes.
Tinted lithograph with large margins. 299 x 439mm (11¾ x 17¼"). Some spotting; water stain to lower right. Uncut.
Locally-published view of Totnes, Devon, seen on the River Dart, with the Church of Saint Mary to the left and Saint John to the right.
[Ref: 29987] £220.00
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South East View of the Old Totnes Bridge 1826. Plan and Elevation of the New Bridge commenced April 7th. 1826, opened March 25th, 1828.
Drawn on Stone by T.M. Baynes, London, from an Original Drawing by Mr. C. Fowler, the Architect. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Published by R. Ackermann, March 15th, 1828.
Rare and scarce lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 330 x 425mm. 13 x 16¾".
Interesting view of the bridge over the River Dart at Totnes, Devon, with a plan of the new bridge below; workmen can be seen in the foreground building the new foundations. From an architectural prospectus.
[Ref: 15033] £290.00
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Tottenham Church in Middlesex.
Hen.e R: P: Townsend fecit 1771.
A rare etching. 285 x 388mm. 11¼ x 15¼".
Tottenham Church in Middlesex. with farmers in the foreground to left, a foal suckles, with sheep grazing and relaxing. To the right sculptors design a grave piece for P.Delahayes.
[Ref: 18420] £190.00
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Tottenham Lecture Hall.
Drawn by A. Waterhouse. J. Bell, Architect.
Day & Son lith.rs to the Queen. [n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph, scarce. 234 x 323mm. 9¼ x 12¾".
A view of Tottenham's Lecture Hall.
[Ref: 18410] £140.00
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Totteridge.
[n.d. c.1870.]
Lithograph. 113 x 164m (4½" x 6½").
View of St. Andrew's Church in Totteridge, North London.
[Ref: 9238] £45.00
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Totteridge Park One of the Seats of the Right Hon.ble William Lord Viscount Bateman, Knight of the most Hon.ble Order of the Bath.
[n.d., c.1755.]
Rare engraving. 450 x 565mm (17¾ x 22¼"). Tears in large margins. Uncut.
Sir William Lee (1688-1754), Lord Chief Justice from 1737 until his death, purchased Totteridge Park in 1748. From one of the later volumes of Colen Campbell's 'Vitruvius Britannicus'. See ref: 56260
[Ref: 56258] £550.00
T'Gevoel. 5.
G. Honthorst pinxit. H.R. Sculpsit.
Gedruckt t'Amsterdam by Clement de Longhe. [n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving with etching in oval frames decorated with cherubs and natural subjects, very scarce, 451 x 369mm. 17¾ x 14½". Trimmed. Tear in top right corner, where it is pulling away from the board. Glued down to board in right-hand corners.
"Touch" one of the five senses is represented by a startled lady fishing by the river's edge, as man leans across in front to untangle her bodice.
[Ref: 16418] £450.00
A Touch of the Yawns. Here's a precious day for Hunting!!
Etched by H. Cook Jnr.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed to image and around title, laid on album paper.
A man wearing a dressing gown over his riding dress stretches and yawns. Heavy rain can be seen through the window.
[Ref: 61014] £160.00
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La Music touchante. La fortune est quelque fois capricieuse!...
I. Iac. Haid excud. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Plate: 405 x 260mm (16 x 10¼''). Staining and repaired tear on left. Creasing.
A scene showing two young girls playing musical instruments in the street. The seated figure on the left plays the hurdy-gurdy and the figure on the right plays a triangle.
[Ref: 48848] £190.00
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[L'Histoire touchante. Gravé fun Dessin de Rembrandt dans le Cabinet de Mons.r Dan: Neyman a Amsterdam.]
[WB [William Baillie] 1767.]
Etching, proof before mezzotint and letters, printed in brown, 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper.
A young man by an unlit hearth uses a lamp to read from a small volume to an old man, who shielding his eyes with one hand. Behind a woman occupies herself with household work. Rembrandt's drawing, which probably depicts Tobias' son reading to his father, was sold from the collection of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927) at Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1920, lot 57. The catalogue acknowledged Baillie's mezzotint. Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Charington 24. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 1 of 4. See also [Ref: 68841}.
[Ref: 68840] £220.00
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[L'Histoire touchante.] Gravé fun Dessin de Rembrandt dans le Cabinet de Mons.r Dan: Neyman a Amsterdam.
WB [William Baillie] 1767.
Fine mezzotint with etching, 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Torn in top right corner.
A young man by an unlit hearth uses a lamp to read from a small volume to an old man, who shielding his eyes with one hand. Behind a woman occupies herself with household work. Rembrandt's drawing, which probably depicts Tobias' son reading to his father, was sold from the collection of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927) at Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1920, lot 57. The catalogue acknowledged Baillie's mezzotint. Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Charington 24. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv. See also [Ref: 68840].
[Ref: 68841] £220.00
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L'Histoire touchante. Gravé fun Dessin de Rembrandt dans le Cabinet de Mons.r Dan: Neyman a Amsterdam.
WB [William Baillie] 1767.
Mezzotint. 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). Small margins.
A young man by an unlit hearth uses a lamp to read from a small volume to an old man, who shielding his eyes with one hand. Behind a woman occupies herself with household work. Rembrandt's drawing, which probably depicts Tobias' son reading to his father, was sold from the collection of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927) at Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1920, lot 57. The catalogue acknowledged Baillie's mezzotint. Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. BM 1870,1008.918.
[Ref: 60801] £180.00
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[Caricature of Napoleon at the Siege of Toulon.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 110 x 205mm (4¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper.
A caricatured scene of Napoleon firing a mortar, probably the Siege of Toulon in 1798, the engagement that first brought him to the attention of the nation.
[Ref: 55778] £160.00
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Vue de Port de Toulon.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier. Lith. par Bichebois.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of the harbour of Toulon. Plate 1 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite', published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47196] £90.00
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The French attacked Toulon by Land, when it was evacuated by the English Fleet, December 19th 1793.
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle 53 Fleet Street London.
Etching with hand-colouring with very large margins, platemark 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Tear in centre of image.
The Fall of Toulon in 1793, an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion. After the royalists called for aid, the British admiral Sir Samuel Hood committed British, Spanish, Piedmontese and Neapolitan troops to assist. Nonetheless, the republicans (including a young captain, Napoleon Bonaparte) defeated the allies after their captain, Charles O'Hara, was taken prisoner. Part of a set of battle scenes published by the popular printmakers Laurie & Whittle soon after the actions had taken place. For O'Hara during the siege see ref. 31423; for Sir Samuel Hood, see ref. 1885 and 12186.
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Le Port vieux de Toulon. Vu du coté des Magasins aux Vivres.
Exit Par M.elle Godefreid. Peint par J. Vernet de l'Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture. C. N. Cochin filuis.
J.P. le Bas Sculpserunt 1762 A.P.D.R.
Hand coloured etching, 18th century printing. Sheet size: 550 x 730mm (21½ x 28¾"). Trimmed inside plate. Light surface damage to edges.
A view of the old harbour of Toulon, France. The busy port depicts a large number of figures in the foreground including traders and men leading cattle to the left. French naval ships are seen in the background, with smaller boats around the edges of the port. Plate 5 from a set of eighteen, form the series, 'Ports du Royaume. Ports de France.' These views of various ports of France are from a series of paintings by the French painter Joseph Vernet, executed between 1754 and 1765, commissioned by King Louis XV to promote the French navy. Upon completion, the total of fifteen paintings were exhibited in Paris in the Royal Academy's Painting and Sculpture Exhibition.
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Balaguier Point, Cape Sicie & Sablet, Eastward towards Cape Sepet, Toulon. Drawn on the Spot by Cap..t Knight R. N.
F. Jukes fecit.
London Pub;d as the Act directs March 31st 1794, by W. Faden Geographer to his Majesty Charing Cross, and by F. Jukes Engraver Howland Street.
Aquatint and etching, printed in blue and brown, with hand finishing. 275 x 390mm (10¾ x 15¼"). Crack in top platemark taped, slight mount burn.
A view of a warship at anchor in a bay, one of a series by a captain serving with the Royal Navy during the Girondin/Royalist revolt in Toulon, during which the city was handed to the British. After a three-month siege by the French (in which the young artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte distinguished himself), the British left, taking 7,000 refugees, taking or destroying the ships of the French Mediterranean Fleet.
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Buonaparte massacreing fifteen hundred persons at Toulon.
From a design by Mr. R. Ker Porter.
[n.d., c.1805.] Bit later.
Rare coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Trimmed.
A propaganda piece showing the French Royalist civilians surrendering after the fall of Toulon in 1793 having cannons turned on them on the orders of Napoleon. In reality the victims were shot or bayoneted and Napoleon, who had been wounded, had already left the city to take up a new post. This print is a pirate copy, not particularly well executed, of a section of Porter's original aquatint, published by John Hatchard and John Ginger in 1803. It was published as a companion to 'Buonaparte massacreing three thousand eight hundred men at Jaffa'.
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