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The Tea Gardens North side Bayswater Road.
P. Sandby del.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Printer's crease at top, entering image.
Three men sit at a table under a tree. An amateurish copy of Sandby's watercolour in the V&A (P.16-1952).
[Ref: 63717] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
A View in Hyde Park towards the Knightsbridge Road.
[n.d., c.1781.]
Scarce aquatint and etchng, printed in brown. Sheet 160 x 225mm (6 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate. Mounted in Album paper at edges.
A view from the Serpentine towards a bridge, cottages to the left and a larger building on an incline in the distance. On the river is a boat with anglers. BM: 1880,1113.1874, quoting date from Crace IX.43.
[Ref: 63594] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The geometrical Ascent to the Galleries, in the Coloseum, Regent's Park. Plate IV.
Published June 1829 by R. Ackermann & Co, 96 Strand.
Aquatint, J. Whatman 1828 watermark; Sheet 320 x 250mm (12½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear in title.
A view of the interior of the London Colosseum under construction, with the central spiral staircase and painters in cradles at work on Thomas Hornor's ''Panoramic view of London'', the largest painting ever created. The building, inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, was demolished in 1875. From 'Graphic Illustrations of the Colosseum, Regent's Park, in Five Plates, from Drawings by Gandy, Mackenzie and other eminent artists'.
[Ref: 63660] £320.00
[Portman Square] The Night of an Illumination.
R.M. [after Augustus Pugin.]
Published by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, 1806.
Aquatint, one plate of two. Sheet 480 x 330mm (19 x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
The right plate of two of the 'Illumination For Peace', a view of figures gathered at the residence of the French envoy, L. G. Otto, in Portman Square to watch an illumination celebrating the Peace of Amiens, 1802, between Britain and France. A single-sheet version engraved by Stadler was published by Orme in 1802. See also reference 4496.
[Ref: 63864] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
A substitute for the Sea Side, or the Serpentine as it might be. Punch's Pocket book for 1858.
John Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1858.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
An illustration depicting a nineteenth century whimsical scene as a crowd of people are depicted enjoying seaside leisure activities; swimming, bathing and even building sand castles, though not at the seaside but instead at the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London. By John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63840] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Vue de la Porte du Palais de S.t James à Londres. Cette vue prise de la rue appelée Cleveland Row, représente la porte unique du palais du roi d'Angleterre et qui sert aussi de principale entrée au parc de saint-James. Au fond d'on voit la rue nommée Pall-mall.
A Paris chez Le Coeur, graveur, rue St Jacques, N.º 30 et chez Bance ainé, rue S.t Denis, N.º 214. A Paris. chez Genty, M.d d'Estampes, Rue S.t Jacques, N.º 33, au coin de la Rue du Plâtre [n.d., c.1820].
Stipple and etching, printed in bistre, finished by hand. 295 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"), with large margins.
A view of the north gate of St James's Palace.
[Ref: 63774] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
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