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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Russo-Swedish War plotters] Shields. Obrien. Benzelstierna.](jpegs/60774.jpg)
[Russo-Swedish War plotters] Shields. Obrien. Benzelstierna. Med Tilladelse af H.s Ex: G: L.t v. Fircks Comandant i Kiobenhavns Castel lit Soldater Börns og andre Fregendes Beste, legnet og slukket ved G.L. Lahde. Avec permission de S: Ex: M.r Fircks L.t. G: Comd.t de la Citadelle de Copenhague au pfofit des Enfans militaires, dessiné et gravé d'apres nature par G.L. Lahde. 1789.
[drawn & engraved by Gerhard Ludwig Lahde.]
[Copenhagen: G.L. Lahde, c.1789.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. Framed. 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Blind stanp in bottom of image and inscription area. Damp stain in lower margin, stain and ink numeral in top margin. Unexamined out of frame.
Profile portraits of three plotters who tried to blow up Russian & Danish ships frozen at anchor in Copenhagen harbour during the Russo-Swedish War in 1789. Lars Benzelstierna (1759-1808), conspiring with an Irish innkeeper called Shields, purchased a cutter from another Irishman, a captain called O'Brien, using money provided by Sweden king Gustaf III. He planned to fill it with explosives and move it among the Russian ships, invite Russian officers aboard and blow them up. However O'Brien mentioned the plot to an Englishman, who had him arrested. Benzelstierna hid in the Swedish embassy but eventually gave himself up and was sentenced to death by beheading, the ladder and wheel. However the sentence was commuted on appeal; he was pardoned in 1796 when the political situation between Sweden and Denmark changed.
[Ref: 60774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[drawn & engraved by Gerhard Ludwig Lahde.]
[Copenhagen: G.L. Lahde, c.1789.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. Framed. 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Blind stanp in bottom of image and inscription area. Damp stain in lower margin, stain and ink numeral in top margin. Unexamined out of frame.
Profile portraits of three plotters who tried to blow up Russian & Danish ships frozen at anchor in Copenhagen harbour during the Russo-Swedish War in 1789. Lars Benzelstierna (1759-1808), conspiring with an Irish innkeeper called Shields, purchased a cutter from another Irishman, a captain called O'Brien, using money provided by Sweden king Gustaf III. He planned to fill it with explosives and move it among the Russian ships, invite Russian officers aboard and blow them up. However O'Brien mentioned the plot to an Englishman, who had him arrested. Benzelstierna hid in the Swedish embassy but eventually gave himself up and was sentenced to death by beheading, the ladder and wheel. However the sentence was commuted on appeal; he was pardoned in 1796 when the political situation between Sweden and Denmark changed.
[Ref: 60774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann.]](jpegs/60892.jpg)
[Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann.]
Franz Alt [in plate].
[Eduard Holzel] [n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed to image and laid on backing card, as issued.
A summer view of the town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, with the Watzmann, Germany's third highest mountain in the background. From the series 'Aus Den Alpen' after Franz Alt (1821-1914), Austrian artist.
[Ref: 60892] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Franz Alt [in plate].
[Eduard Holzel] [n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed to image and laid on backing card, as issued.
A summer view of the town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, with the Watzmann, Germany's third highest mountain in the background. From the series 'Aus Den Alpen' after Franz Alt (1821-1914), Austrian artist.
[Ref: 60892] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Grec.
[Brussels: Librairie historique-artistique, 1843-1844.]
Wood engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 160 x 80mm (6¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
A Greek man in traditional dress, pistol and sword tucked into his belt. From Auguste Wahlen's 'Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde'.
[Ref: 60837] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Brussels: Librairie historique-artistique, 1843-1844.]
Wood engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 160 x 80mm (6¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
A Greek man in traditional dress, pistol and sword tucked into his belt. From Auguste Wahlen's 'Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde'.
[Ref: 60837] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Louis XIV. Roy de France.
Edelinck Eques Sculpsit [after Jean de La Haye].
A Paris chez Demortin Sur le Pont N. Dame aux belles Estampes.
Engraving. 130 x 195mm (5 x 7¾") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), half-length, wearing wig and armour.
[Ref: 60863] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Edelinck Eques Sculpsit [after Jean de La Haye].
A Paris chez Demortin Sur le Pont N. Dame aux belles Estampes.
Engraving. 130 x 195mm (5 x 7¾") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), half-length, wearing wig and armour.
[Ref: 60863] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
People of the Isle of Mycone with a Greek Boat.
Woodforde delin.t. Fittler Sculp.t.
Publsihed by J. Trusler April 1, 1793.
Fine engraving. 125 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"), very large margins.
An illustration of costume of Mykonos. In the background is a building with a flagpole. From the Rev. Dr. John Trusler's 'The habitable world described: or the present state of the people in all parts of the globe, from north to south'.
[Ref: 60836] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Woodforde delin.t. Fittler Sculp.t.
Publsihed by J. Trusler April 1, 1793.
Fine engraving. 125 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"), very large margins.
An illustration of costume of Mykonos. In the background is a building with a flagpole. From the Rev. Dr. John Trusler's 'The habitable world described: or the present state of the people in all parts of the globe, from north to south'.
[Ref: 60836] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
![[Vesuvius] Eruzione dell' anno 1817. Eruzione dell' anno 1821.](jpegs/60775.jpg)
[Vesuvius] Eruzione dell' anno 1817. Eruzione dell' anno 1821.
[c.1821?]
Two gouaches on one sheet, sheet 195 x 110mm (7¾ x 4¼").
Two night-time scenes of Vesuvius erupting, taken from across the bay.
[Ref: 60775] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1821?]
Two gouaches on one sheet, sheet 195 x 110mm (7¾ x 4¼").
Two night-time scenes of Vesuvius erupting, taken from across the bay.
[Ref: 60775] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)