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[Király Turkish baths, Budapest.]
[Király Turkish baths, Budapest.]
J.B. F v: E: [Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach] del.
Cum P.S.C.M. [1721.]
Engraving. 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17").
A floorplan, cross-section and exterior view of the Király Turkish baths, built between 1566-72 by the Ottoman occupiers of Budapest and still extant. Plate from the 'Entwurf einer historischen Architektur' ('Outline of Historical Architecture', first published 1721) by Austrian architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach, the first comparative architecture of all periods and nations.
[Ref: 64437]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Luis Vaz de Camões] Corpore quis fuerit Camões tibi præbet Imago...
[Luis Vaz de Camões] Corpore quis fuerit Camões tibi præbet Imago...
[n.d., c.1720.]
Scarce engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"). Trimmed into image, mounted in album paper.
Full length portrait of Luís Vaz de Camões (c.1524-80), Portugal's national poet, showing him dressed in armour, blind in his right eye. From an 1720 edition of his works, with a commentary by Manoel Correa.
[Ref: 64372]   £390.00  
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D. Alonso de Ercilla. Caballero de Santiago...
D. Alonso de Ercilla. Caballero de Santiago...
A. Carnico lo dib.o. F. Selma lo grabó.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 8"). Trimmed within plate.
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-94), Spanish soldier and poet, whose epic poem, 'La Araucana', based on his experiences fighting the Araucanians (Mapuche) in Chile, considered one of the greatest epics of the Spanish Golden Age. A member of the court of Philip II, he was present at Philip's marriage to Queen Mary I of England.
[Ref: 64405]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Honved's Farewell.
Honved's Farewell. Respectfully Dedicated to Frederick William Bennecke, Senior, London, by the Publisher, J. Constantin Kastner, late Hungarian Captain.
N. Ploszeggaski..
Schenck & McFarlane, Lith.rs Edinburgh. [n.d. c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 350 x 370mm (13¾ x 14½"), with very large dusty margins.
Honved was a term used for men who formed battalion groups; those who left their homes to join in the Hungarian Uprising and fight for freedom against the Austrians. This scene depicts a young man saying farewell to his wife, son and father. Two other men to the left on the path, already brandishing their lances.
[Ref: 64438]   £360.00  
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[Albert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon.] Le Duc d'Arenberg.
[Albert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon.] Le Duc d'Arenberg. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Tho.s Will.m Coke Esq.r at Holkham in the County of Norfolk.
Vandyke Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Publish'd August 12.th 1783, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, on verso in pencil "Achetez a Paris Juin 1910"; 630 x 460mm (24¾ x 18"), with large margins. Tear in bottom margin taped.
A magnificent equestrian portrait of Albert de Ligne (1600-74), Prince of Barbançon and Arenberg, a commander in the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. A reversed copy of the painting still at Holkham Hall.
CS 2, state ii of ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64611]   £420.00  
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[Albert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon.] [Le Duc d'Arenberg.
[Albert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon.] [Le Duc d'Arenberg. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Tho.s Will.m Coke Esq.r at Holkham in the County of Norfolk.]
Vandyke Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Publish'd August 12.th 1783, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 630 x 460mm (24¾ x 18"). Trimmed just into plate, remargined on three sides.
A magnificent equestrian portrait of Albert de Ligne (1600-74), Prince of Barbançon and Arenberg, a commander in the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. A reversed copy of the painting still at Holkham Hall.
CS 2, state i of ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64612]   £420.00  
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Mary Theresa by ye Grace of God Queen of Hungary & Bohemia, Archdutchess of Austria, &c &c.
Mary Theresa by ye Grace of God Queen of Hungary & Bohemia, Archdutchess of Austria, &c &c.
C. Valo Pinx. J. Frank fecit.
Sold by T. Millward at the Dial and 3 Crowns in Fleet Street 1741. Prince 2 shillings.
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
Full length portrait of Maria Theresa (1717-80), seated, pearls in her hair and around her neck. The plate is a cut-down and reworked state of a portrait of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, by R. Williams.
CS 13, iv of iv. BM 1935,0413.44, 'The names Valo and Frank are evidently fictitious'. Ex: Collections of Belton House & The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64577]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Andreas Reyher] Reyheri Theatrum Latino Germanico Graecum.
[Andreas Reyher] Reyheri Theatrum Latino Germanico Graecum.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 190 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into image on all sides, laid on album paper.
A medallion portrait of German teacher Andreas Reyher (1601-73), within the engraved title of one of his books.
W 2477- not in.
[Ref: 64365]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Samos] Camos=nel Arcipelago.
[Samos] Camos=nel Arcipelago.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½"), with large margins. Fold, stain in sky.
A view of Samos, depicted as a rocky island with ships in a rough sea. A copy of a plate from 'Diverse Viste delli Dardanelli', a series of nine view of the Dardanelles and the Aegean after Romeyn de Hooghe and others, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64426]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Rethymnon] Retimo in Candia.
[Rethymnon] Retimo in Candia.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. Fold.
A view of Rethymnon in Crete, with ships in the harbour. A copy of one of the ten plates in 'Insula di Candia del Mare Mediteranea', etched by Lucas Vorsterman II, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64430]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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