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A Bermudian Sloop, with a View Upon the Spanish Main.
A Bermudian Sloop, with a View Upon the Spanish Main.
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 290 x 435mm (11½ x 17"). Trimmed inside plate.
Plate 30 of 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 55162]   £450.00  
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B. Franklin of Philadelphia.
B. Franklin of Philadelphia.
[After James McArdell engraved Benjamin Wilson.]
[n.d., c.1800's.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate, losing part of title.
A three-quarter length portrait of Benjamin Franklin, holding his book on electricity, a lighting bolt hitting a village behind. We believe this is a 19th century later state of McArdell's mezzotint, without artist's and engraver's signatures and without the wart on Franklin's cheek. Possibly French. Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, in what was then known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[Ref: 54806]   £850.00  
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[Trujillo] A View of Truxillo Bay and City on the Coast of Honduras.
[Trujillo] A View of Truxillo Bay and City on the Coast of Honduras.
T. Bowen sc.
London, Republished 4th June 1796 by Robert Wilkinson, No 58, Cornhill. c. 1810
Coloured engraving. Printed area 245 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾"). Stuck in mount.
A view of Trujillo, once the capital of Spanish Honduras, but abandoned as being too vulnerable to pirate attacks.
[Ref: 55167]   £320.00  
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[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.]
[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.]
Charles Burt [pencil].
[n.d. 1883.]
Engraving on chine collé, proof signed by the engraver. In pencil (faded) at bottom "1st proof before the copyright inscription"; 405 x 305mm (16 x 12"), with large margins. Dusty margins
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) the American poet and educator.
[Ref: 55065]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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