William Wheldon, Trumpet-Major of the 13th Light Dragoons. "The palm, the harp of God, and that victorious faith that overcomes the world, be with thee; so prays thy fellow soldier, in the most just and most honourable of all warfare. Wm. Huntington."
I. Renton Pinxt. Jas. Godby Sculpt.
London, Published June 23, 1818, by E. Huntington, 55, High Street, Bloomsbury.
Stipple. 386 x 281mm.
William Weldon was Lord Hill's trumpeter throughout the Peninsular War from the time the 13th reached Portugal in 1810. He was also at the battle of Waterloo.
[Ref: 12601] £140.00
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[Full set of eight text descriptions for John Whessell's ''Portraits of Celebrated Running Horses']. Plate I. Eleanor. [&] Plate II. Penelope. [&] Plate III. Bobtail. [&] Plate IV. Parasol. [&] Plate V. Violante. [&] Plate VI. Trumpator [&] Plate VII. Meteora [&] Plate VIII. Dick Andrews.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Eight sheets of letterpress, extremely rare set. Various sizes, largest 465 x 460mm (18¼ x 18"). Some wear, plate viii with some abrasion with loss of text, laid on thick paper.
The complete set of sheets with the racing histories of the eight horses depicted in ''Portraits of Celebrated Running Horses', painted and engraved by John Whessell in line and stipple, first published 1806-8. The set was republished by Edward Orme in 1809. Siltzer p.337.
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J.H. Whiffen M.R.S.L. Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquarians of Normandy &c &c. Dedicated by Permission to His Grace The Duke of Bedford K.G. &c.&c.&c. by his Graces Hum.b & Grateful Serv.t. G.Hayter.
G.Hayter 1824 del.t. Richard Lane A.R.A. Lith. Printed by J.Graf.
Published by Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East.
Lithograph. Printed area 290 x 210mm.
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792-1836), Quaker, poet; translator of Tasso. In 1821 he was appointed librarian at Woburn Abbey.
[Ref: 6945] £120.00
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[Whig and Tory.]
W. Dendy Sadler. C.H. Boucher [signed in pencil.] W. Dendy Salder [etched in the plate.]
London, Published 1908 by L.H. Lefevre & Son, 1A King Street. St. James S.W. the proprietors of the Copyright. Copyright 1908 by E.L. Knoedler. New York. Printed in London by A. Holdgate & Sons.
Etching, mint. Plate 431 x 325mm. 17 x 12¾".
A Whig and Tory in heated discussion inside a private booth at an inn; a sign reading 'Hot Pies', on the wall. Remarque of the Houses of Parliament in the bottom margin. PSA: Rem.A.P. 300. Present 25.
[Ref: 19168] £240.00
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The Political Death and Burial of the Departed Whigs.
C. Bennett, Printer, 34, Vere Street, Clare Market [n.d., 1834].
Letterpress broadside. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Mounted on album paper, glue stains in corners, small tears, ink mss. date 'Nov.r 1834'.
A satire of the recent change of government from Whig (under William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the last Prime Minister to be sacked by a monarch) to Tory (under Robert Peel), taking the form of a service at a funeral, with a speaker/minister and respondant, praying to William IV for deliverance. The satire is not partisan: the Speaker says 'although we despise the Whigs, yet do we utterly detest the Tories'.
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Whigs. Old Glory. Lord John. Mother Althorp. Penny Magazine. Gaffer Gray. Tories. Can't I do wot I like with my own, Waterloo, Silly Billy, Old Bags, 2__n.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. 235 x 330mm. 9¼ x 13". Creasing to the lower left and right corners.
Whigs, include Lord Althorp, John Charles Spencer, Lord John Russell, Lord Grey, Charles Grey, and Heny Brougham. Tories include Wellington and William Pitt.
[Ref: 26686] £230.00
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Whims & Oddities. Harroo, Denis, will ye come home and have some beef and taties? Be me sowl and it's just the dinner I got meself, barrin the beef.
Printed by W. Kohler 22 Denmark Street Soho.
London, Published by W. Sooffe [sic], 380 Strand [n.d., c.1835].
Hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic, sheet 340 x 245mm. 13½ x 9¾". Some light marginal soiling and spotting; small tear from right edge.
A conversation on a construction site; a man offers food to an (Irish?) labourer with a builder's hod over his shoulder. From a series of social satires.
[Ref: 24649] £95.00
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[Whippets.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Etching signed by the artist. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Limited edition: 63/200.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes. See Ref: 9686
[Ref: 47904] £170.00
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[Whippets]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 241 x 297mm (9½" x 11¾"). Limited edition: 65/200.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes. See Ref: 47904
[Ref: 9686] £170.00
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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
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Whipping Top.
[Publish'd March 1.st 1797 by J. Le Petit No.22 Suffolk Street. Midd.x Hospital.]
Stipple on green paper. 129 x 145mm. 5 x 5¾". Publication line cut, cut at corners. Crease upper right corner.
Children playing with a whipping top, also known as the Trompo. It is a Latin American game that was supposedly brought to Mexico from Japan. It is now played all over Latin and South America, with many recorded championships.
[Ref: 26996] £85.00
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Whirlwind on the Base Line in Zwartland, March 2nd. 1841.
[Anon., British, 1841.]
Pen and ink and grey wash, unique, sheet 115 x 170mm. 4½ x 6¾". Lacking some margin. Glue stains to extremities.
A surveying expedition is interrupted by bad weather in the Swartland, an area north of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lies between the towns of Malmesbury in the south, Darling in the west, Piketberg in the north and the Riebeek West and Riebeek Kasteel in the east. Members of the expedition rush to secure their tents against a fierce wind; a piece of surveyor's equipment can be glimpsed inside the large tent in the left foreground. An intriguing sketch, probably from a travel journal. The Dutch founder of Cape Town Jan van Riebeeck called this softly undulating country between the mountain ranges "Het Zwarte Land" (the Black Land) because of the endemic Renosterbos (Elytropappus rhinocerotis, or "Rhinoceros Bush"), a species of flowering plants in the daisy family.
[Ref: 27045] £180.00
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The Mountain Dew, or Donald Wi' The True Glenlivet.
Painted by W. Macarthney. Engraved by Hen.y Dawe.
Published Oct. 2nd 1826 by Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill London.
Extremely rare mezzotint. Sheet: 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾''). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of a man enjoying whiskey from a large jug. George Smith founded the (illegal) Glenlivet distillery in 1822, George IV famously asked to try some of the whisky during his state tour of Scotland in August 1822. In 1824 the law changed and his Glenlivet distillery became the first legal producer of whisky.
[Ref: 51027] £450.00
[Vinegar Valentine.] Oh! Whisky is your soul's delight, / Your only Valentine- / Go steep your brains in alcohol- / You never shall be mine!
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 220 x 165mm (8½ x 6½").
A battered-looking man stands, glass in hand. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 42432] £95.00
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The Reverend Stephen Whisson, B.D. and one of the Senior Fellows of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.
Painted by Vandermine. Engrav'd by Trotter S.A. Ed.
Published as the Act directs, Sept.r 25.th 1784, by Joseph Freeman, Cambridge.
Engraving, mixed-method, with large margins. Plate 342 x 241mm. 13½ x 9½".
Stephen Whisson (d.1783), tutor and Senior Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. NPG: D37557.
[Ref: 27271] £95.00
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A Game of Whist. Tom and Jerry among the Swell 'Broad Coves'.
Drawn & Engraved by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, Jan.y 1 1821.
Coloured aquatint. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Stitch holes within plate. Cut to plate.
Jerry plays whist as a black servant offers him wine. A man lounging against the chimney-piece watches Jerry's cards in the mirror and signals to Jerry's opponent. Tom sits over fruit and wine. The pair had accepted an invitation to dine from elegantly dressed card-sharpers who had lost heavily to them at the Cock Pit. From Pierce Egan's ' Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis', originally issued as a monthly journal at a shilling a time, illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792–1878). Abbey: Life 281; BM Satires 14344.
[Ref: 34349] £60.00
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The Life of James McNeill Whistler (i) in Two Volumes Illustrated. Volume I. (ii) in two Volumes Illustrated. Volume II.
by E.R. and J. Pennell
London : William Heinemann. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company 1908.
Book: 2 Vols. 4to (253 x 194mm). Board binding with cloth spine. Title stamped in gilt on front cover, and stamped in black on spine. (i) 316 textual pages plus illustrations. (ii) 327 textual pages plus illustrations. (i) Binding worn and pulling away from text. (ii) Binding worn and scuffed.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". These volumes are illustrated narratives of the life and works of James McNeill Whistler. Ex Leggatts.
[Ref: 10427] £130.00
Andrew Whiston.
Pubd April 12. 1813 by R.S. Kirby 11 London House Yard.
Etching with large margins. Plate 159 x 102mm (6¼ x 4").
Andrew Whiston (fl.1813), dwarf, sat in a wooden cart with sticks to propel himelf. From Kirby's "Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, or Magazine of Remarkable Characters".
[Ref: 29567] £50.00
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The Rev.nd William Whiston M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in ye University of Cambridge Nat. Decemb. 90 A.D. 1667 [five lines of text in Greek]
G. Vertue Sculpsit 1720 [after Sarah Hoadly]
Engraving, sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
William Whiston (1667-1752), natural philosopher and theologian. Engraving after a portrait by Sarah Hoadly (private collection; anonymous copy in National Portrait Gallery, London). With mathematical instruments in lower corners, labelled (vertically) 'Norman's Dipping-needle' and 'Whiston's Dipping needle'. Whiston published over 120 separate books, pamphlets, and charts, on subjects ranging across geometry, mathematics, astronomy and longitude, to prophecy, doctrine and textual criticism, along with translations of biblical and historical texts. In natural philosophy his greatest contribution was in popularizing Newtonianism Alexander 307; Wellcome: 3172-1
[Ref: 42473] £160.00
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Rev. William Whiston, M.A. Born at Norton, 1667; Died 1752.
[After Benjamin Wilson.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etching, 175 x 105mm (7 x 4").
Portrait of William Whiston (1667 - 1752), English theologian, historian, natural philosopher, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton. Best known for helping to instigate the Longitude Act in 1714 and his important translations of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus. W3172-3
[Ref: 68269] £160.00
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The Revd: Mr: William Whiston Born 9 Decemr. 1667. Died Augt. 22d. 1752.
B. Wilson Fecit 1753.
Etching, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼". Occasional spotting; a fine impression with full margins.
William Whiston (1667 - 1752), mathematician and divine. By Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788), portrait painter and scientist, also etcher, occasional mezzotinter and collector of Rembrandt. He was appointed Hogarth's successor as Serjeant-Painter to the King. Not in BM. NPG: D8302. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
[Ref: 9638] £160.00
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Thomas Dunham Whitaker L.L.D. F.S.A.
Engraved by W. Maddocks from a Picture Painted by W.D. Fryer, of Knaresbro'
Published as the Act directs May 1st, 1805.
Stipple with very large margins. 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Tear and creasing in margin. Slight marks on face.
Thomas Dunham Whitaker (1759-1821), clergyman and topographer, writing about Yorkshire and Lancashire.
[Ref: 34376] £75.00
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Distant View of Whitbarrow Scar, Westmoreland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Messers. Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London, Feby. 1, 1816.
Coloured aquatint, 230 x 300mm. 9 x 11¾".
Whitbarrow in Cumbria forms part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats. The hill lies about five miles south-west of Kendal, close to the village of Witherslack. It is a mixture of woodland, grassland and limestone pavement. 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: 9629] £110.00
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Distant View of Whitbarrow Scar, Westmoreland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Feb.y, 1, 1816.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A landscape, with two boats sailing on a lake to the left, and rocky mountain range of Whitbarrow Scar in the background. 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: 36126] £160.00
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[Samuel Whitbread.]
[Engraved by S.W. Reynolds after James Northcote.]
[n.d., c.1815.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 630 x 355mm (24¾ x 14"). Framed. Lettered in pencil. Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper. Mounted over paper edge.
Full length portrait of Samuel Whitbread (1756-1815), politician and brewer, shown with a bust of Fox, the Bill of Rights and a Magna Charta scroll. Whitbread was a friend and early patron of the engraver, Samuel William Reynolds. This mezzotint comes from an album belonging to the Northcote family and is the only example we can trace. Probably the plate was never published, shelved by the family after Whitbread's messy suicide. A lithographed version by Samuel Cecil was published by Ackermann in 1831. The painting hangs in Bedford Magistrates' Court. Not in CS or Whitman. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54627] £450.00
[Samuel Whitbread] The Effect of Whitbreads Entire or Wha Wants a Guinea.
[after Charles Williams.]
Pub.d as the Act directs June 1805.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained. Nicks and creases to edges.
Samuel Whitbread stands at his tavern door (indicated by the chequerboard sign), holding a foaming tankard. Melville sits on a stool vomiting coins into a bag marked 'Pro Bono Publico', aided by Fox and Sheridan. Pitt leans against a wall. Whitbread was a close friend and colleague of Fox, leading the campaign to have Viscount Melville impeached. After Fox's death in 1806 Whitbread took over the leadership of the Whigs. A reversed copy of a plate by Charles Williams. See BM Satires 10400 for the Williams version.
[Ref: 58381] £230.00
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Samuel Whitbread Esqr. M.P.
Painted by J. Opie, R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London, 1804. Second Fifty.
Mezzotint. 660 x 460mm, 26 x 18". Paper crack entering plate on right.
Portrait of Samuel Whitbread (1756 - 1815), politician and brewer, seated at a table with inkstand and papers, a landscape through a window at left. See Whitman: 297, this early state not mentioned; NPG D37563.
[Ref: 22910] £130.00
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Evening, Whitby.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Aquatint. Limited to 100 proofs, in original mount with Advert slip. Plate: 150 x 225mm (6 x 9''), with very large margins. Mint.
A view of Whitby in Yorkshire. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49351] £140.00
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Whitby, Yorkshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour, J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1824 watermark. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), with large margins. Creasing in bottom right corner.
A view of Whitby from the cliffs to the north, with the ruins of Whitby Abbey. 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: 47147] £240.00
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Whitby. Yorkshire [in pencil].
Marion Rhodes [signed in pencil].
[n.d., c.1940].
Etching. Plate: 325 x 240mm (12¾ x 9½"). Slight crease in sky. Split top margin.
View of the harbour in Whitby in North Yorkshire.
[Ref: 35177] £140.00
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Whitby Abbey, from the South.
W. Richardson, del.t. G. Hawkins lith. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[York: Robert Sunter, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 270 x 440mm (10¾ x 17¼"). Trimmed, losing the publisher's address.
From 'The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire'. See Abbey Scenery 381 for the de-luxe edition.
[Ref: 56384] £240.00
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Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A close view of the ruins of Whitby Abbey. 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: 35968] £180.00
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Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire. To Mrs Cholmley, of Whitby and of Howsham, the Proprietor; This View of that celebrated Manastic Structure, is by Permission most humbly dedicated, by her much obliged and devoted Servantm John Buckler.
Drawn & Etched by J. Buckler F.S.A. Engraved by R. Reeve.
Published March 1812 by J. Buckler, Bermondsey, Surrey.
Aquatint. Sheet 505 x 645mm (20 x 25½"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate, repaired tears bottom left, surface abrasions.
A detailed view of the ruins of Whitby Abbey.
[Ref: 52073] £190.00
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Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire.
G. Weatherill del. C.F. Cheffins, Lithogr. 9, Southampton Buildings, Holborn.
Published 31st. August, 1837, for the Proprietor, by Horne and Richardson, Booksellers, Whitby.
Sepia tinted lithograph, sheet 330 x 485mm. 13 x 19". Tear at right sheet edge; a fine impression overall.
Attractive and dramatic locally-published view of Whitby Abbey, a ruined Benedictine abbey sited on the East Cliff above Whitby harbour in North Yorkshire. It was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu). T. H. English Whitby Prints C17
[Ref: 13612] £140.00
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South West View of Whitby Abbey, Taken a Few Days Previous to the Falling of the Tower.
Drawn by J. Brown. Lithographed by Greenwood & Co. Hull.
[1830.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 340 x 485mm. 13½ x 19". Tear at right sheet edge; a fine impression overall.
Whitby Abbey, a ruined Benedictine abbey sited on the East Cliff above Whitby harbour in North Yorkshire. It was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu). Figures to foreground. T. H. English Whitby Prints G3
[Ref: 13613] £140.00
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South West View of Whitby Abbey, Taken Immediately after the Falling of the Tower, June 25th. 1830.
Drawn by J. Brown. Lithographed by Greenwood & Co. Hull.
[1830.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 340 x 480mm. 13½ x 19". A fine impression.
Whitby Abbey, a ruined Benedictine abbey sited on the East Cliff above Whitby harbour in North Yorkshire. It was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu). Figures and cattle to foreground. T. H. English Whitby Prints G4
[Ref: 13614] £140.00
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Whitby from the East Cliff.
Lithographed by Newman & Co. 48 Watling St. London.
Published by S. Reed, Stationer, Whitby. [n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾). Large margins.
A locally published fine view of Whitby from the East Cliff. The abbey ruin at the top of the East Cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark. A number of couples are seen walking along a path in the centre, with various ships on the water in the bay below and the coast in the distance.
[Ref: 37260] £120.00
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[Figure next to a structure.]
[Probably by Mary Anne Theresa Whitby, c.1820s]
Rare lithograph. 95 x 135mm (3¾ x 5¼).
Scene, probably inspired by travels in Sardinia by Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850). The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868). Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for a London view by Whitby, see ref. 19290.
[Ref: 35682] £65.00
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Whitby from the end of the West Pier.
Lithographed by Newman & Co. 48 Watling St. London.
Published by S. Reed, Stationer, Whitby. [n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾). Large margins.
A locally published view of Whitby from the end of the West Pier. The pier is busy with figures leading towards Whitby in the background, as a steam ship passes on the left.
[Ref: 37261] £120.00
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Daniel Whitby S.T.P. Ecclesiae B.M.V. Sarum Praecentor Ano. Aetat: Suae 71.no
E. Knight delin: M: Vdr. Gucht Sculp [Greek text above].
[n.d. c.1708.]
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 266 x 176mm. 10½ x 7".
Daniel Whitby (1637-1726) was a controversial English theologian and biblical commentator. An Arminian priest in the Church of England, Whitby was known as strongly anti-Calvinistic and later gave evidence of strong Arian and Unitarian tendencies. Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. NPG: D26152.
[Ref: 25391] £50.00
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Whitchurch. From the Alms houses in Dodington erected by Miss Langford in 1830. Charles Porden Architect.
Lithog. by W. Crane Chester.
[n.d.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph; watermark J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828. Sheet: 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"). Creasing at extreme edges.
A view of the market town of Whitchurch in Shropshire taken from Dodington.
[Ref: 47374] £140.00
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The White Charger. (A Sketch in the Phoenix.)
H Hope Crealock del.
[Published by Dickinson Brothers c.1856.]
Fine & rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 280 x 360mm (11 x 14¼"), with large margins.
An officer in the Lancers in full uniform, with leopardskin saddle blanket. Henry Hope Crealock (1831-91), a captain in the 90th Light Infantry during the Crimean War, was an accomplished draughtsman, who also sketched during the Indian Mutiny, Opium Wars in China and the Zulu campaign (for the Illustrated London News). He retired from the army as a Lieutenant-General. Irish interest.
[Ref: 56515] £360.00
[White Eared Pheasant] Crossoptilon Tibetanum.
F. Waller Chromo Lith. 18 Hatton Garden, London.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 255 x 160mm (10 x 6¼").
The white eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon), also known as 'Dolan’s Eared Pheasant' or 'Bee's pheasant', native to alpine China and Tibet.
[Ref: 55234] £75.00
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A White Ghost in Ireland.
Woodward Del. Cruikshank Sc.
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg 11 Cheapside April 6, 1807.
Coloured etching. 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Narrow margins on three sides, laid on album paper with some cockling on right.
Two Irishmen are suprised by a white cat in a church graveyard. Pasted on the reverse is a satire by Bunbury. Not in BM.
[Ref: 59219] £280.00
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White Hall.
Publifh'd Oct.r 30 1794 by T. Malton.
Fine aquatint, 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16½"). Faint mount burn.
A view of Whitehall with the Banqueting House. T. Malton [jun.], A picturesque tour through the cities of London & Westminster, London 1792 [-1801], vol.I, pl.15. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53672] £250.00
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The White Negro, female.
J. Ihle del.t. J.Pass sculp.
Published as the Act directs, June 1 1794.
Engraving with fine hand colour, 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾").
An albino negress, wearing a fur cape, holding an axe and an exotic bird. The colour highlights her pink eyes. Drawn by Johann Ihle for Ebenezer Sibly's five-volume ''Universal System of Natural History'', 1794-6.
[Ref: 51664] £80.00
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The White Negro male
J. Ihll del J.Pass sculp.
[c.1794]
Engraving, sheet 210 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Unfinished state before publication line added? Trimmed, messy.
Engraving drawn by Johann Ihle for Ebenezer Sibly's five-volume ''Universal System of Natural History'', 1794-6.
[Ref: 45467] £60.00
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White Negroes.
Published by Tho.s Kelly Paternoster Row.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 235 x 180mm (9¼ x 7''). Paper tone.
A portrait of a two albinos in furs holding weapons.
[Ref: 49948] £50.00
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[White's Club.] Cog-it & Nummi Petition. . 56.
[Matthew Darley.]
[London: Darly & Edwards, 1757.]
Etching. 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"), with large margins. Worm hole in top margin.
A scene in White's, with six men standing around the White's coat of arms, discussing the impending execution of Admiral Byng for failing to ''do his utmost'' to prevent Minorca from falling to the French. Comments include '1000 to 1 he dies" and ''He dont see Tuesday for 100". From, 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762', a volume of political and social caricatures covering a pivotal period in the history of Great Britain and the Americas. The letterpress (not present here) describes it as 'The arms of two great Gamesters well known at Arthur's and the Cocoa-tree'.
[Ref: 60817] £140.00
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Conversation at Whites.
HB [John Doyle]. Printed by C. Mott, 23, Leicester Sq.r.
Published by Tho.s McLean, Haymarket Dec.r 30.th 1830.
Lithograph. Printed area 270 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"), with large margins.
Three men stand in discussion by the fireplace of White's Club, although all are dressed for outside, with top hats. One says ''Of course vested Interest's will be respected, to which another replies ''How! no such thing as vesated Interests in our days''. Another man, seated reading a newspaper, eavesdrops and says ''That is one of S-ft-n's perculiar hits! agad! I'll send it as a hint to HB''. According to McLean's 'Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.' (1841): The subject of this conversation appears to be the Reform Bill, then the prominent topic of the day. The dress and figure of the Speaker, who observes that ''vested interests will of course be respected,'' sufficiently prove him, although his face is not seen, to be Sir Francis Burdett; the respondent is the late Earl of Sefton, a nobleman equally eminent for the good things which he said, and for those which he devoured. Though not conspicuous in Parliament, he was a very distinguished and influential member of the Whig party, of which it was sometimes alleged, by their opponents, that Lord Sefton's head contained more sense than the heads of all the rest of the party put together. This species of supremacy, some of his party might not be disposed to allow him; but his taste and judgment in gastronomy were universally admitted. The other figures in the sketch are not portraits.
[Ref: 60818] £80.00
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