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The British Museum.
Aug.s Butler, Delt & Lith. Stannard & Dixon Imp.
[London, printed & Pub.d April 25th 1853 by Stannard & Dixon, 7, Poland Street.]
Rare tinted lithograph with touches of hand colour. Sheet 320 x 480mm (12½ x 19"). Trimmed close to printed border on three sides, losing piblication line at bottom, tears through title repaired.
A view of Sir Robert Smirke's Greek Revival façade of the British Museum from Great Russell Street, published before the museum was fully open to the public.
[Ref: 63933] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
A View of the Foundling Hospital. Vue d'Hopital des Enfants Trouves.
L.P. Boitard Delin. Parr sculpt.
Published 12.th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleeet Street, London.
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"), with large margins. Slight oxidation of colour at edges.
The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 in London, north of Great Ormond Street and west of Gray's Inn Lane, by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the 'education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children.' The plate engraved by Nathaniel Parr (fl.1723 - 1760) after Louis Philippe Boitard (1733 - 1767; fl.) in 1753.
[Ref: 64327] £320.00
Design for the Northern Approach to the British Museum.
Chas FitzRoy Doll RBA Arch.t.
[n.d., c.1911.]
Pen & ink, pencil & watercolour. Sheet 440 x 680mm (17¼ x 26¾"). Laid on card, chips to edges.
A very impressive architect's visualisation of his plan for the development of Bloomsbury between Torrington Square and the British Museum, with terraces designed in ''Flemish Franco-Gothic'' style in 1907. Chas FitzRoy Doll (1850-1929) was appointed Surveyor to the Bedford Estates in Bloomsbury and Covent Garden in 1885. He built the Russell Hotel and the Imperial Hotel, both Russell Square in 1898 & 1905.
[Ref: 63935] £750.00
Fulham.
Thos: Preist Pinx: et Sculp:
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament September 25. 1738.
Etching. 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"), large margins. Some staining at bottom.
View of Fulham showing All Saints Church, the wooden Putney Bridge over the River Thames, and figures including a ferryman on his boat in the foreground. Numbered '4' lower right. Guildhall Library Record: 23145.
[Ref: 64151] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Fulham, from the White Lion Putney. No.4.
J. Dillon, del. R. Laurie sculpsit.
Publish'd Feb.y 24.th 1783, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London.
Hand-coloured aquatint with etching, 18th century watermark. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Small hole repaired, some spotting.
Rare view of Fulham from the White Lion Inn, Putney. Boats and horses can be seen waiting by the shore of the River Thames in the foreground.
[Ref: 64152] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
The entrance of great Portland street.
Published [illegible] 1808.
Etching. 90 x 155mm (3½ x 6"), pasted on album sheet with 2pp. als dated 1826.
A view of Great Portland Street from fields to the north. The manuscript letter from William Spring to a Mr Bourne concerning a list of indentures in the possession of Bourne.
[Ref: 64335] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Greenland Dock] Howland Great Dock near Deptford. [in ink mss]
J. Badeslade Delin. J. Kip Sculp.
[n.d., c.1728.]
Engraving, very rich impression. Sheet 340 x 410mm (13¼ x 16"). Trimmed close to printed border, old ink mss., mounted on album paper at edges.
An elevated view of Howland Great Wet Dock, Rotherhithe, built 1695-9 to refit East India ships. As it was not created for cargo, there are no warehouses around the main quay but an avenue of trees. In the background is London, with St Paul's Cathedral. Soon after this view was published the Greenland whalers started using the dock and blubber boiling houses were built to render oil and the docks were renamed 'Greenland Dock'.
[Ref: 64288] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
View from Greenwich Park. Ausicht vom Greenwich Park. Vue Pris du Parc de Greenwich.
Tombleson del. H. Winkler sculp.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Damp stains. Trimmed to image.
A view looking past Greenwich Hospital towards London, surrounded by an astronomy-themed border. From W.G. Fernside's ''Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway Engraved on Steel By the First Artists''.
[Ref: 64172] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
View Near Greenwich. Ausicht zu Greenwich. Vue près Greenwich.
Tombleson del. W. Taylor sculp.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), large margins.
A distant view of Greenwich, with a windmill, surrounded by a maritime-themed border. From W.G. Fernside's ''Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway Engraved on Steel By the First Artists''.
[Ref: 64173] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Greenwich Hospital.
Tombleson del.t.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Steel engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Laid on album sheet with two other views of Greenwich Hospital.
Three views of Greenwich Hospital from the Thames.
[Ref: 64337] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Greenwich Hospital.
[Samuel Ireland]
Pub. for S. Ireland, May 1. 1799.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. Sheet 145 x 205mm (5¾ x 8"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet with two other views of Greenwich Hospital.
Three views of Greenwich Hospital from the Thames.
[Ref: 64336] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Three Views of Greenwich Hospital]. A North View of Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs. [&] The Royal Hospital at Greenwich. [&] [Unitled view of the North Front]
[n.d., 1748-c.1780].
Three engravings. 125 x 210mm (9 x 8¼"); 175 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"); & 155 x 290mm (6 x 11½). All trimmed and laid on album paper at edges.
[Ref: 64332] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Hall of Greenwich Hospital. Kent.
Engrav'd by J. Storer from a Drawing by F. Nash.
London, Publish'd Jam.y 1. 1801, by Vernor & Hood, Poultry. J. Storer & J. Craig, Chapel Street, Pentonville.
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 215mm (7¼ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A view of the exterior.
[Ref: 64176] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Royal Palace of Kinsington. Le Palais Royal de Kinsington.
Mark Anthony Hauduroy delineavit.
Printed & Sold by Tho.s Bowles Print & Map Seller next ye Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1720].
Etching. 470 x 655mm (18½ x 25¾"). Very small repaired tears in borders.
A large bird's-eye view of Kensington Palace from the south, formal gardens in the foreground and fields and hills behind. From the fourth volume of 'Britannia Illustrata' by Joseph Smith
[Ref: 63931] £580.00
G2 [Mile End and Shadwell].
Published as the Act directs by R. Horwood, May 24 1799.
Engraved map with some wash colour. 575 x 530mm (22½ x 21"). Fine.
A map of Mile End and Shadwell, with Stepney Green, marking the 'London Hospital', St George's Church and St Paul's Shadwell. Plate G2 of from Richard Horwood's monumental 24-sheet map of London on a scale of 26 inches to a mile. This was the first attempt to number every house in London.
[Ref: 64028] £390.00
Rotherhithe.
Tombleson del. J. Carter sculp.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9").
A view of Rotherhithe from the Thames, with shipping. From W.G. Fernside's ''Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway Engraved on Steel By the First Artists''.
[Ref: 64175] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Rotherhithe.
Tombleson del. J. Carter sculp.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9").
A view of Rotherhithe from the Thames, with shipping. From W.G. Fernside's ''Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway Engraved on Steel By the First Artists''.
[Ref: 64174] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
The School for the Indigent Blind, St. George's Fields.
Published July 12, 1813, by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, N.º 53, Fleet Street London.
Engraving with fine hand colour. 300 x 445mm (11¾ x 17½"), large margins. Slight crease.
The School for the Indigent Blind was founded in 1799, for pupils aged 10 to 18, instructing them in trades such as basket-making, spinning, weaving and mat-making. This building, near the obelisk at St George’s Fields, was opened in 1812.
[Ref: 64331] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex. A List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Overseers and Agents, Collectors, Constables, Acting Parish Clerk, Beadles, Headboroughs, Searchers, Turcocks, &c. for the Year Ending at Easter, 1828. For the Information of the Inhabitants.
Easter, 1827. Reynold [...]eet.
Scarce letterpress. Sheet 505 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"). Tear at bottom with loss to three lines of text including printer's address, creasing, spots and stains, laid on card.
The parish covered Highgate, Kentish Town, Camden Town, Somers Town, Grays Inn Lane and Tottenham Court Road.
[Ref: 64164] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
A North West View of the Tower of London. Vuë du coté de Nord-Ouest de la Tour de Londres.
J. Maurer Delin.
London Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, R. Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill & Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving with fine hand colour. 260 x 400mm (10¼ x 16"), with large margins.
A view of the Tower of London, looking towards the Thames, so showing the moat and defences, after John Maurer (fl.1713 - c.1761).
[Ref: 64325] £320.00
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