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Balms in the County of Middlesex.
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38538] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38538] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
A View of Sunbury, up the River Thames.
J.Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J.Boydell at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside. Price 1s.
Copper engraving, c.1790. 265 x 430mm.
Plate No.2 of the series.
[Ref: 859] £320.00
J.Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J.Boydell at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside. Price 1s.
Copper engraving, c.1790. 265 x 430mm.
Plate No.2 of the series.
[Ref: 859] £320.00
The East Front of Cannons in Middlesex, the Seat of his Grace, James Duke of Chandos, &c. To whom the Plate is most Humbly Inscrib'd by his Graces most Obed.t Servant John Price. Architect. Built, Anno 1720.
J. Price Delin. H. Hulsbergh Sculp.t.
[London: Thomas Badeslade & John Rocque, 1739.]
Engraving. 390 x 645mm (15¼ x 25½") very large margins. Splits in centre fold taped.
An elevation of 'Cannons', a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, named for the Augustinian canons of St Bartholomew's Hospital who owned the estate before the Reformation. Built by James Brydges (1673-1744) and completed in 1720, the building lastest less than 30 years. His expenditure and losses from the South Sea Bubble meant that his heir was left with such debts that he held demolition auction in 1747, in which the contents and architectural features were sold. The Palladian columns now form the portico of the National Gallery in Tragalgar Square.
[Ref: 56259] £480.00 (£576.00 incl.VAT)
J. Price Delin. H. Hulsbergh Sculp.t.
[London: Thomas Badeslade & John Rocque, 1739.]
Engraving. 390 x 645mm (15¼ x 25½") very large margins. Splits in centre fold taped.
An elevation of 'Cannons', a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, named for the Augustinian canons of St Bartholomew's Hospital who owned the estate before the Reformation. Built by James Brydges (1673-1744) and completed in 1720, the building lastest less than 30 years. His expenditure and losses from the South Sea Bubble meant that his heir was left with such debts that he held demolition auction in 1747, in which the contents and architectural features were sold. The Palladian columns now form the portico of the National Gallery in Tragalgar Square.
[Ref: 56259] £480.00 (£576.00 incl.VAT)
Hampton Wick.
H.B. Ker 1812.
Rare etching. 110 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"). Trimmed close to plate.
A view of a riverside house at Hampton Wick by Charles Henry Bellenden Ker (c.1785-1871) was an English barrister and legal reformer. As a young man he was a patron of William Blake but so reluctant to pay his bills that Blake had to take legal steps.
[Ref: 53210] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
H.B. Ker 1812.
Rare etching. 110 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"). Trimmed close to plate.
A view of a riverside house at Hampton Wick by Charles Henry Bellenden Ker (c.1785-1871) was an English barrister and legal reformer. As a young man he was a patron of William Blake but so reluctant to pay his bills that Blake had to take legal steps.
[Ref: 53210] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Hampton Wick.
H.B. Ker 1812.
Rare etching. Plate 108 x 152mm. 4¼ x 6".
A view of a riverside house at Hampton Wick by Henry Bellenden Ker.
[Ref: 20034] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
H.B. Ker 1812.
Rare etching. Plate 108 x 152mm. 4¼ x 6".
A view of a riverside house at Hampton Wick by Henry Bellenden Ker.
[Ref: 20034] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Hanwell Church and Rectory.
Drawn and Engraved by W. Ellis.
Published April 18, 1793.
Very fine and rare aquatint. Plate 380 x 450mm (15 x 17¾"). Uncut sheet, some creasing.
Hanwell Church, Middlesex, on the river Brent.
[Ref: 15175] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn and Engraved by W. Ellis.
Published April 18, 1793.
Very fine and rare aquatint. Plate 380 x 450mm (15 x 17¾"). Uncut sheet, some creasing.
Hanwell Church, Middlesex, on the river Brent.
[Ref: 15175] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Dawly in the County of Middlesex,
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Rare unfolded state with very large margins. Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Dawley in Hayes, Middlesex, northwest of London. In 1725, soon after this print was made, the estate was purchased by statesman Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, whose guests included Swift, Pope, Voltaire and Dryden. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38507] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Rare unfolded state with very large margins. Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Dawley in Hayes, Middlesex, northwest of London. In 1725, soon after this print was made, the estate was purchased by statesman Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, whose guests included Swift, Pope, Voltaire and Dryden. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38507] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Midlesex.
[London, Awnsham Churchill, 1722.]
Engraved map. Sheet 370 x 430mm (14½ x 17"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album sheet.
A map of Middlesex, based on John Speed but with John Ogilby's roads added. First published in 'Camden’s Britannia' in 1695, this example comes from 'Britannia: Or A Chorographical Description Of Great Britain'
[Ref: 61746] £240.00
[London, Awnsham Churchill, 1722.]
Engraved map. Sheet 370 x 430mm (14½ x 17"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album sheet.
A map of Middlesex, based on John Speed but with John Ogilby's roads added. First published in 'Camden’s Britannia' in 1695, this example comes from 'Britannia: Or A Chorographical Description Of Great Britain'
[Ref: 61746] £240.00
Middlesex.
Engraved on Steel by Pigot & Son, Manchester.
Published by Pigot & C.º 24 Basing Lane, London, & Fountain S.t Manchester [n.d., 1829].
Engraved map with hand colour. 235 x 370mm (9¼ x 14½"), with very large margins. Tear near centre fold, mounted on card at corners.
A detailed map of Middlesex, marking the road layout on London, with a vignette of St Paul's Cathedral. From the first edition of 'Pigot & Co’s British Atlas of the Counties of England', the first county atlas with steel-engraved maps.
[Ref: 61748] £260.00
Engraved on Steel by Pigot & Son, Manchester.
Published by Pigot & C.º 24 Basing Lane, London, & Fountain S.t Manchester [n.d., 1829].
Engraved map with hand colour. 235 x 370mm (9¼ x 14½"), with very large margins. Tear near centre fold, mounted on card at corners.
A detailed map of Middlesex, marking the road layout on London, with a vignette of St Paul's Cathedral. From the first edition of 'Pigot & Co’s British Atlas of the Counties of England', the first county atlas with steel-engraved maps.
[Ref: 61748] £260.00
Midle-Sex.
[engraved by Pieter van den Keere.]
[London: George Humble, c.1627.]
Engraved map. 90 x 120mm (3½ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, a little surface soiling at bottom edge, mounted on album paper on left. Very small tear bottom centre.
A miniature map of Middlesex, engraved by Pieter van den Keere sometime after 1599 but first published in a county atlas by Willem Blaeu in 1617. In 1627 the maps were published with English titles engraved instead of the Latin ones, in a miniature atlas, ''England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historie Relation of things worthy memory''. Although the maps were engraved before John Speed's atlas, the maps gained the nickname 'miniature Speeds' because Humble (son of Speed's original publisher) used an abridged version of Speed's text for the miniature atlas.
[Ref: 61723] £160.00
[engraved by Pieter van den Keere.]
[London: George Humble, c.1627.]
Engraved map. 90 x 120mm (3½ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, a little surface soiling at bottom edge, mounted on album paper on left. Very small tear bottom centre.
A miniature map of Middlesex, engraved by Pieter van den Keere sometime after 1599 but first published in a county atlas by Willem Blaeu in 1617. In 1627 the maps were published with English titles engraved instead of the Latin ones, in a miniature atlas, ''England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historie Relation of things worthy memory''. Although the maps were engraved before John Speed's atlas, the maps gained the nickname 'miniature Speeds' because Humble (son of Speed's original publisher) used an abridged version of Speed's text for the miniature atlas.
[Ref: 61723] £160.00
Middlesex.
Neel et Stand.
Publish'd November 21dt 1811 by Adlard & C.º Ave Maria Lane.
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 205 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A small-format map of Middlesex, with the streets of London shown, published in the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis' by John Wilkes.
[Ref: 61727] £140.00
Neel et Stand.
Publish'd November 21dt 1811 by Adlard & C.º Ave Maria Lane.
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 205 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A small-format map of Middlesex, with the streets of London shown, published in the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis' by John Wilkes.
[Ref: 61727] £140.00
Middlesex. Drawn from Surveys & most approved Maps By Eman: Bowen Geograph.r to His Majesty.
Printed for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in Newgae Street 1752.
Engraved map. 190 x 205mm (7½ x 8"). Mounted on album paper.
A small-format map of Middlesex, with the streets of London shown, decorated with an ornate baroque title cartouche and the arms of the City of London. From 'The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure'; because it was not published in an atlas the map is uncommon.
[Ref: 61726] £180.00
Printed for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in Newgae Street 1752.
Engraved map. 190 x 205mm (7½ x 8"). Mounted on album paper.
A small-format map of Middlesex, with the streets of London shown, decorated with an ornate baroque title cartouche and the arms of the City of London. From 'The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure'; because it was not published in an atlas the map is uncommon.
[Ref: 61726] £180.00
Middlesex Hertforshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Railways. 2.
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Folded as issued, time staining along taped fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A map of the railways showing ones under constuction and stations.
[Ref: 56920] £40.00
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Folded as issued, time staining along taped fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A map of the railways showing ones under constuction and stations.
[Ref: 56920] £40.00
Chateau et Parc d'Osterley, Appartenant a M.me Child. dans le Comté de Midlessex. No. 9 des Jardine Anglois.
W. Watts del. Guyot sculp.
à Paris chez Guyot Graveur et M.d d’Estampes, rue St. Jacques au Grand Gessner No.9. [n.d. c.1790.]
Coloured aquatint and with etched outline, very fine. 200 x 235mm, 8 x 9¼". Laid on board.
Osterley Park, Isleworth, as remodelled by Robert Adam for the banker Sir Francis Child and his brother and heir Robert Child. After Robert Child's death in 1782 the estate came into the possession of Sarah Anne Child, later Countess of Westmorland, in trust for his granddaughter Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey,who also became the principle shareholder of Child's Bank. Published in a series of views of important English gardens.
[Ref: 25760] £360.00
W. Watts del. Guyot sculp.
à Paris chez Guyot Graveur et M.d d’Estampes, rue St. Jacques au Grand Gessner No.9. [n.d. c.1790.]
Coloured aquatint and with etched outline, very fine. 200 x 235mm, 8 x 9¼". Laid on board.
Osterley Park, Isleworth, as remodelled by Robert Adam for the banker Sir Francis Child and his brother and heir Robert Child. After Robert Child's death in 1782 the estate came into the possession of Sarah Anne Child, later Countess of Westmorland, in trust for his granddaughter Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey,who also became the principle shareholder of Child's Bank. Published in a series of views of important English gardens.
[Ref: 25760] £360.00
A View of Sheperton.~
J. Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver, 1752. Price 1s. ~ & Sold by him at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street, Cheapside No.3.
Engraving 425 x 265mm (16¾ x 10½").
View of Sheperton from across the Thames, with various ferries.
[Ref: 855] £320.00
J. Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver, 1752. Price 1s. ~ & Sold by him at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street, Cheapside No.3.
Engraving 425 x 265mm (16¾ x 10½").
View of Sheperton from across the Thames, with various ferries.
[Ref: 855] £320.00
A View near Staines, Middlesex. 6.
London, Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 Oct.r 1779.
Engraving. 172 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Trimmed and laid on album page.
A view of Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex; two donkeys on the bank to the right; windmill in the distance.
[Ref: 34745] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
London, Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 Oct.r 1779.
Engraving. 172 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Trimmed and laid on album page.
A view of Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex; two donkeys on the bank to the right; windmill in the distance.
[Ref: 34745] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Summer Evening.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of a rural landscape, a field near East Bergholt, after a oil painting by Constable now housed in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 7. Shirley: 6. Osbert Barnard: II of V.
[Ref: 44387] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of a rural landscape, a field near East Bergholt, after a oil painting by Constable now housed in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 7. Shirley: 6. Osbert Barnard: II of V.
[Ref: 44387] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Summer Evening.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint on india. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of a rural landscape, a field near East Bergholt, after a oil painting by Constable now housed in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832.
Wedmore 7. Shirley: 6. Osbert Barnard: I of V.
[Ref: 50865] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint on india. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of a rural landscape, a field near East Bergholt, after a oil painting by Constable now housed in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832.
Wedmore 7. Shirley: 6. Osbert Barnard: I of V.
[Ref: 50865] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Louis Philippe instructing his children at Orleans House.]
Lithographed & Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3, Wellington Stt. Strand.
Presented with the Atlas Newspaper of August 29th. 1830 [on stone].
Lithograph, supplement to the 'Atlas' periodical. Image 175 x 265mm. 7 x 10½".
An interior scene of domesticity at Orleans House, Twickenham, featuring at its centre the house's most famous resident Louis Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (1773 - 1850). Forced into exile from France in the period leading up to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Louis Philippe made this house his home in London between 1815 and 1817. Attracted to the tranquillity of the area he wrote to a friend: 'I bless heaven, noon and night that I am in my peaceful house in old Twick'. In 1844 he returned to England as King of the French, and visited his former residence accompanied by Queen Victoria. The pupils are portraits of his children.
For other lithographs of the same scene, see refs. 7988 and 8065.
[Ref: 23472] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Lithographed & Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3, Wellington Stt. Strand.
Presented with the Atlas Newspaper of August 29th. 1830 [on stone].
Lithograph, supplement to the 'Atlas' periodical. Image 175 x 265mm. 7 x 10½".
An interior scene of domesticity at Orleans House, Twickenham, featuring at its centre the house's most famous resident Louis Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (1773 - 1850). Forced into exile from France in the period leading up to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Louis Philippe made this house his home in London between 1815 and 1817. Attracted to the tranquillity of the area he wrote to a friend: 'I bless heaven, noon and night that I am in my peaceful house in old Twick'. In 1844 he returned to England as King of the French, and visited his former residence accompanied by Queen Victoria. The pupils are portraits of his children.
For other lithographs of the same scene, see refs. 7988 and 8065.
[Ref: 23472] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Westbourne Farm, Middx. The residence of Mrs. Siddons.
Drawn by P. Galindo Esq. Engraved by I. Hassell.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet size: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼").
A view of the grounds and house at Westbourne Farm, Middlesex, occupied by Mrs. Siddons, the great actress, from 1805-1817, and by comedians Charles James Mathews and Mrs. Mathews (Madame Vestris) from 1845-1848. It was located where the Westway, Harrow Road and the Regent's Canal now converge.
[Ref: 39364] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by P. Galindo Esq. Engraved by I. Hassell.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet size: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼").
A view of the grounds and house at Westbourne Farm, Middlesex, occupied by Mrs. Siddons, the great actress, from 1805-1817, and by comedians Charles James Mathews and Mrs. Mathews (Madame Vestris) from 1845-1848. It was located where the Westway, Harrow Road and the Regent's Canal now converge.
[Ref: 39364] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)