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Exterior View of Astley's Amphitheatre. As it appeared in 1777, from an Original Drawing by William Capon.
Charles John Smith, F.S.A. sculp.t
[n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. 216 x 292mm. 8½ x 11½".
Philip Astley (1742-1814), regarded as the "father of modern circus", opened Astley's Amphitheatre in London 1773. Signs outside advertise 'tight rope', 'Astley's Riding School' and 'Sieur Jones'.
[Ref: 20835] £60.00
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A View on Brixton Causeway.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map and Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 7.Decr.1782.
Coloured aquatint in sepia. 355 x 250mm.
Brixton Causeway, now Half Moon Lane in South East London, was a major route south from the capital.
[Ref: 5383] £280.00
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View of the Tread Mill for the Employment of Prisoners, Erected at the House of Correction at Brixton, by M.r W.m Cubitt of Ipswich. Recommended by the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline &c.
Gent. Mag. 1822, Pl 1 P. 9.
Engraving. 220 x 265mm, 8¾ x 10½. With binding folds, as normal.
An outside treadmill, sheltered by a roof, driven by 10 prisoners. Brixton Prison was opened in 1820 and quickly earned a reputation as one of the worst prisons in London, with its small cells overcrowded. This corn mill was installed the following year. During the 1860s the social reformer Edward Smith (1819-1874), who participated in the first govennment-sponsored survey of food consumption in low-income families, complained that the prisoners were maltreated because they received no additional food while toiling on the exhausting 'punitive treadmill'.
[Ref: 23651] £140.00
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[Brixton Prison] Tread Mill. 41.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Engraving. Sheet 90 x 125mm (3½ x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, old ink mss. 'Brixton. 1823'.
An outside treadmill, sheltered by a roof, driven by 10 prisoners. Brixton Prison was opened in 1820 and quickly earned a reputation as one of the worst prisons in London, with its small cells overcrowded. This mill for corn was installed the following year. During the 1860s the social reformer Edward Smith (1819-1874), who participated in the first govennment-sponsored survey of food consumption in low-income families, complained that the prisoners were maltreated because they received no additional food while toiling on the exhausting 'punitive treadmill'. For larger sizes see 25105 & 23651 for uncut state.
[Ref: 61087] £65.00
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St. John's Church, Clapham, Surrey. The first stone of this church was laid on the 24th of September, 1840, by John Thornton Esq.e The Rev.d W.m Dealtry, D.D. F.R.S. Chancellor of the Diocese of Winchester, Rector.
G. Hawkins, lith. T. Marsh Nelson, architect.
Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
Lithograph, 295 x 400mm. 11½ x 14¾".
St. John's Church in Clapham.
[Ref: 9264] £230.00
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View Of The N.E. End Of Clapham Common.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. Powell. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Pubd. Jany. 31st, 1825 by J. Powell; 14, Allsops Builds. New Road, Marylebone.
Lithograph, sheet 305 x 430mm. 12 x 17".
A view on Clapham Common, south west London. Plate 5 from the folio 'Six Views on Clapham Common' by Joseph Powell (1780 - 1834). Abbey Scenery: 224, 5. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10835] £290.00
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Clapham Common.
L. Raven Hill [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 80 x 190mm, 3¼ x 7½". Faint mount burn.
Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1942), artist who contributed to Punch and illustrated Kipling's Stalky & Co (1899). He travelled to India in 1902 and published his 'Indian Sketch-Book' in 1903.
[Ref: 11971] £130.00
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Six Views on Clapham Common, Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J.Powell, 14 Allsop's Buildings, New Road, Marylebone.
[London Pub.d Jan.y 31st, 1825 by J. Powell; 14, Allsops Build.s New Road, Marylebone.]
Oblong folio; card wrappers with illustrated title label; 6 lithographed views. Some damp staining.
Six views of Clapham Common, printed by Hullmandel, extremely rare with the original title label on the wrapper. The views are: View from the Mount Pond, on Clapham Common, Looking N.E.; View of the N.E. End of Clapham Common; View from the S.E. Corner of Clapham Common; View of the S.E. End of Clapham Common; View from the Mount Pond, on Clapham Common, Looking S.E.; View from the Nine Elms, on Clapham Common, Looking S.W. Joseph Powell (1780-1834) started as a landscape artist and etcher who embraced all forms of printmaking, an honourary exhibitor at the Royal Academy until 1833 and first president of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours (founded 1831). The drawings were made between 1818-1823 when Joseph Powell was working there. These views show the architecture of Clapham around the common and bordering Wandsworth at the beginning of the 19th Century when livestock is being grazed on the common in front of Holy Trinity Church. It was at this time that William Wilberforce and other member of the "Clapham Sect" lived around the common and worshipped at Holy Trinity. Most of the houses that the Clapham Sect lived in are gone but their names live on in some of the newer roads in the area. Abbey Scenery: 224.
[Ref: 23608] £1,250.00
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View of Lambeth, from Milbank.
J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt.
Pub. June 1, 1795, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with very large margins. Printed area: 215 x 320mm (8½ x 12½"). Slight staining in margin. Slight oxidisation.
Plate 12 from Joseph Farington's (1747 - 1821) 'History of the River Thames', 1794, a two-volume publication including 76 aquatints. A view of the River Thames looking towards Lambeth. In the foreground to the left, couples stroll down a pathway by the riverbank. a bridge can be seen in the distance. Blackfriars bridge can be seen in the distance to the left. Abbey: 432.
[Ref: 33465] £220.00
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Lambeth, His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterburys Pallace. Lambeth la Maison de L'Archevesque de Canterbury. 8.
L. Knyff Delin. I. Kip Sculp.
[n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Plate 349 x 476mm. 13¾ x 18¾". Fold down centre as published.
View of a grand house fronting the Thames, with formal gardens to the left and the City of London beyond in the distance.
[Ref: 26399] £320.00
Lambeth ~ The Archbishop of Canterbury's Palace Lambeth le Palais ~ de L'Archveque de Canterbury.
Maurer Delin. Canot Sculp.
Printed for John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Coloured engraving. 426 x 270mm.
[Ref: 4150] £450.00
To the Society of Methodists in the Connexion of the late Revd. John Westly, A.M. this View of Lambeth Chapel is respectfully inscribed by their most obedient humble Servt. Chs. Rosenberg. [&] To the Congregation of their most worthy Pastor, the Revd. Rowland Hill, A.M. this View of Surry Chapel, is respectfully inscribed by their most obedient humble Servant. Charles Rosenberg.
T.D.W. Dearn delt. Ch. Rosenberg, Sculpt.
Published June 24th, 1812, by Ch. Rosenberg, 22, East Street, Lambeth, and Thos. Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
Pair of coloured aquatints. Image 315 x 225mm. Trimmed to just outside plate mark. Repaired tears through lower right corner of plate, and through top right on Lambeth Chapel. Right hand edges tatty with small tears and pieces missing.
[Ref: 1688] £330.00
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[Nash & Miller Barge Builder, Lambeth.]
William Strudwick.
[n.d., c.1882.]
Scarce chine collé etching, signed by the artist in pencil. Sheet 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾").
A view of Nash & Miller's boatyard on Bishop's Walk, Lambeth, with Lambeth Palace in the background, adapted from a photograph taken by William Strudwick (1834-1910) before the yard had to move to Battersea to make way for the building of the Albert Embankment (1865-8). Strudwick was a photographic storekeeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well a draftsman, architect, sculptor and comic poet. He took photographs for the 'Society for Photographing relics of Old London' which they published in 1882. The V&A purchased of Strudwick’s series of about 50 photographs titled 'Old London: Views by W. Strudwick' in 1869. In 1910, Lambeth Archives acquired a set of Strudwick’s photographs, the same year they he was admitted as a pauper to Croydon workhouse where he died. See Historic England BB94/20532 for the original photograph. V&A collection: "William Strudwick"
[Ref: 63099] £280.00
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[View of the Thames near Lambeth Palace]. ['Lambeth' cut out from separate broadsheet and pasted above image].
I.H: fecit 1791.
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Image 340 x 220mm. Trimmed to plate and glued to scrap sheet at 4 corners.
Charmingly naïve, unfinished, and very rare etching. Possibly an early work by John Hassell [1767 - 1825], a draughtsman and aquatint engraver who lived and worked in London.
[Ref: 245] £280.00
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[Vauxhall & Kennington.] London. Sheet LXXXIX. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Backed onto linen, staining and creasing to edges
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Vauxhall & Kennington, with the Oval cricket ground, Kennington Park Camberwell New Road and the end of the Grand Surrey Canal, cut short when the company ran out of money. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority. From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 30691] £260.00
Royal Coburg Theatre, Surrey. This first stone of the Royal Coburg Theatre was laid on the 14th day of September in the year 1816, by his serene Highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg and her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, by their serene and Royal Highness's Proxy Alderman Goodbehere.
Schnebblie del. Dale sculp.
London, Published 1st Januarary 1819 by Robert Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street.
Coloured etching. 225 x 315mm (9 x 12½"). Small margins.
A plate celebrating the opening of the Coburg Theatre in London (now the Old Vic) in Waterloo Bridge Road.
[Ref: 38817] £130.00
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St Thomas's Hospital [pencil].
Etched by C. Stanley Pollitt [pencil].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Rare etching, titled and signed by the artist. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼").
A view of the buildings of St Thomas' Hospital from the Thames, with a steam ferry passing. Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone in 1868 and opened the new buildings in 1871.
[Ref: 58767] £180.00
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The Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord William Russell, Streatham Surry.
Drawn & Engraved by J. Hassell.
London Pub.d by J. Hassell 1st. May 1804
Engraving, platemark 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾") very large margins.
The seat of William Russell on Streatham High Road, with St Leonard's church on the left. The house was later demolished and the site is now occupied by the English Martyrs Catholic Church. Streatham is now part of the south London borough of Lambeth but formerly in the county of Surrey. Plate from a set of 'Notable English Places' by John Hassell (1767-1825) showing notable residences in and around London. The text which accompanies the plate in the full volume notes: 'the house appears to have undergone a total change in its external form, about the beiginning of the last century, and is now receiving considerable additions and improvements, from its present proprietor, Lord William Russelll, to whom it was presented by his brother, the late Francis Duke of Bedford, during his life-time.' For a complete volume of 'Notable English Places' see ref. 7430.
[Ref: 44480] £95.00
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Surrey Zoological Gardens, Walworth, Patroness Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving, letterhead(?), sheet 55 x 100mm. 2¼ x 4". Trimmed and glued to scrap sheet.
Vignette view of Royal Surrey Gardens, pleasure gardens in Kennington, London, slightly east of The Oval. The gardens were the grounds of the manor house of Walworth, and, as can be seen in this image, included a lake of about 3 acres. The site was acquired in 1831 by impresario Edward Cross to be the location of his new Surrey Zoological Gardens, using animals from his menagerie at Exeter Exchange, in competition with the new London Zoo in Regent's Park. A large circular domed glass conservatory was built in the gardens (in background), 300 feet (90 m) in circumference with more than 6,000 square feet (560 m2) of glass, to contain separate cages for lions, tigers, a rhinoceros, and giraffes. The gardens were heavily planted with native and exotic trees and plants, and dotted with picturesque pavilions.
[Ref: 10743] £95.00
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