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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A Cutter, with a View of South Sea Castle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom right. Some creasing. Holes near bottom edge where previously bound.
Small boats off Southsea Castle, the fort built by Henry VIII to protect Portsmouth. Plate 19 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (and so perhaps explaining the coastal defences shown here). 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: 53540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom right. Some creasing. Holes near bottom edge where previously bound.
Small boats off Southsea Castle, the fort built by Henry VIII to protect Portsmouth. Plate 19 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (and so perhaps explaining the coastal defences shown here). 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: 53540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Sir J.B. Warren's Action off Ireland with a Squadron of French Frigates.
N. Pocock Del. T.Medland sc.
Publish'd by Burney and Gold May 31. 1800.
Aquatint. Sheet 140 x 225mm (5 x 9"). Some creasing. Trimmed.
The Battle of Tory Island, (or Warren's Action, after the British leader, Sir John Borlase Warren), fought off the north-west coast of Ireland on the 12th October 1798 between the British and French. Part of the French Revolutionary Wars, it was also the last action of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the last French attempt to invade the British Isles. Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Irish rebel leader, was found aboard the French flagship: he committed suicide before he could be hanged. Published in the Naval Chronicle.
Parker: 137.
[Ref: 53517] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
N. Pocock Del. T.Medland sc.
Publish'd by Burney and Gold May 31. 1800.
Aquatint. Sheet 140 x 225mm (5 x 9"). Some creasing. Trimmed.
The Battle of Tory Island, (or Warren's Action, after the British leader, Sir John Borlase Warren), fought off the north-west coast of Ireland on the 12th October 1798 between the British and French. Part of the French Revolutionary Wars, it was also the last action of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the last French attempt to invade the British Isles. Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Irish rebel leader, was found aboard the French flagship: he committed suicide before he could be hanged. Published in the Naval Chronicle.
Parker: 137.
[Ref: 53517] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)