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[Animals.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Pencil drawings, 18th century watermark; Sheet: 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Laid on album sheet.
A collection of drawings on animals including a kangaroo, a mastiff, a lion dog and a spaniel.
[Ref: 46203] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Scandal [&] Flattery
[Anon., c.1840]
Pair of lithographs, with hand-colouring and gum arabic, each sheet approx. 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼").
Pair of anthropomorphic prints in which cats discuss gossip ('scandal') and engage in courtship ('flattery').
[Ref: 43253] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
High Life [&] Low Life.
[Anon., c.1840]
Pair of lithographs, with hand-colouring and gum arabic, each sheet approx. 140 x 150mm (5½ x 6"). Surface mark to 'High Life'.
'High Life': cat in a luxurious room, wearing a smart bow tie, waits for food to be presented on its china plate; 'Low Life': cat in a humble home, with a dead mouse.
[Ref: 43254] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Kittie.]
E. J. Detmold [signed in pencil].
[n.d., 1926.]
Drypoint etching 230 x 310mm. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A very fine etching of a cat. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957).
[Ref: 8457] £850.00
Gatta e Topo. La Gatta e il Topo sono ivi rappresentati. Sebbene di quella siasi discorso altrovo, Gatto d'angora, credemmo non inopportuna il riprodurre in questio luogo un individuo femmina del Gatto nostrano...Sopporta benissimo l'inverno, e non va soggetto a letargo, come i Ghiri e le Marmotte. Il Gatto è il mezzo più sicuro per allontanare e sperdere questi infesti animali.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Engraving. Plate 361 x 260mm. 14¼ x 10¼".
A print celebrating the beauty of the mouse and its importance as a home animal like the Angora Cat, but that the cat is the only way to rid the house of said mouse.
[Ref: 18806] £170.00
(£204.00 incl.VAT)
Cat.
Howitt.
Published Jany. 2. 1809 by Ed. Orme London.
Etching. Plate 165 x 216mm. 6½ x 8½".
A cat lying on its stomach on a window sill or shelf, with head at left but turned to right, and eyes closed. Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes.
[Ref: 21506] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Hazi Matska. Haus-Kaze. Le chat domestique. 102.
[n.d. c.1847.]
Lithograph with large margins, rare. 368 x 240mm (14½ x 9½").
Two cats in the street, one resting in the sun; a can sat in a basket in the garden, with three kittens that peers over the edge. From "Panorama der Saeugethiere lithographirt und herausgegeben von H. Reichert".
[Ref: 29489] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Hauskazen. 103.
[n.d. c.1847.]
Lithograph, large margins, rare. 368 x 240mm (14½ x 9½").
Indoors scene of a cat rest and her three kittens playing with a mouse-tail tow; outdoors scene of a cat stanind by her three kittens with play with a ball and string. From "Panorama der Saeugethiere lithographirt und herausgegeben von H. Reichert".
[Ref: 29490] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Die Hauskatze. Felis catus domesticus. Le chat domestique. 63.
[n.d. c.1847.]
Lithograph, with small margins, rare. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9").
Cats indoors playing; kittens playing with a homemade mouse tail and a ball and string. From "Panorama der Saeugethiere lithographirt und herausgegeben von H. Reichert".
[Ref: 29493] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
''So Fond of Listening to Those Dear Little Birds'' [&] ''Coming Out in the World''.
Louisa Corbaux del. et lith. Stannard & Co. Imp.t.
A pair of chromolithographs. Each sheet: 320 x 270mm (12½ x 10½'').
Trimmed.
A pair of portraits of cats by artist and illustrator Louisa Corbaux (1808-1889).
[Ref: 48313] £320.00
La Fin du Banquet.
Peint par Eugenè Lambert. Gravé par Pierre Cottin. Imp. R. Taneur.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Mixed method engraving. 515 x 610mm (20¼ x 24"). Trimmed within plate at sides. Slight foxing in margins.
A cat escapes from her nursing kittens. After Louis Eugène Lambert (1825-1900).
[Ref: 51369] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Two Siamese Cats.]
G.Vernon Stokes.
Coloured drypoint etching, 19 of 75, signed by the artist. 210 x 280mm.
[Ref: 5743] £330.00
[Two Siamese kittens looking at a cricket.]
G. Vernon Stokes [signed in pencil and in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930s.]
Coloured drypoint etching, early impression from a limited edition numbered 5/75 in pencil. 250 x 295mm. 9¾ x 11½".
George Vernon Stokes (1873 - 1954).
[Ref: 19458] £360.00
Islay, Macaw, and Love Birds. The picture painted in 1839 is in the possession of Her Majesty the Queen.
Sir Edwin Landseer R.A. C.A. Tomkins.
London, Henry Graves & Co. Decr. 1st 1888 Copyright.
Steel engraving, 290 x 170mm. 11½ x 6¾". Full margins.
A terrier and another dog below a parrot's perch. After Edwin Landseer (1802 - 1873); from 'The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., "Library Edition"', H. Graves (in parts) 1880s-90s.
[Ref: 22723] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
[The Hamster. Plate XXXVII. (Cricetus frumentarius).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The common hamster. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30200] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Marmozettes.]
[Engraved by J.B. Hunt, 1877.] EL. [monogram of Edwin Landseer.]
London Published Feb.y 4.th 1876 by Henry Graves & Co, the Proprietors Publishers to H.M. the Queen &, T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall, Copyright Registered. [Published by Henry Graves & Co. Printsellers and Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen and T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Pall Mall, London. Sold by D. Woodcock & Co., 17, Farringdon Street, London.]
Engraving, proof before letters on india. Printseller's Association Stamp. Artist Proof Edition, Limited to One Hundred Copies. Plate 406 x 508mm. 16 x 20". Uncut, mint.
A pair of Brazilian monkeys on a pineapple, owned by Queen Victoria. The original picture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1842 belongs to Her Majesty the Queen, and hangs at Osborne. It was exhibited at Paris in 1855, and at the International Exhibition in 1862. From "Her Majesty's Pets being a Collection of Twenty Steel-Place Engravings from Paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. By Special Permission of, and Dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen". Ex Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 23026] £380.00
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