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[Crossing the Lines of Brabant] De Linien, in Braband, by Hillisem, ontrent Loven en Thienen [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to plate, stained on bottom left corner, some creases.
A scene of the Battle of Elixheim, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant, on 18 July 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Grand Alliance army, led by the Duke of Marlborough, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant, an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur in Belgium.
[Ref: 59238] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
[Battle of Francavilla] Bataille tussen de Keyserlyke Troupen onder het belyt van den Generaal Graas van Mercy [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, folding creases as normal.
A scene of the Battle of Francavilla fought on 20 June 1719, near the city of Francavilla di Sicilia in Sicily between Spain and Austria. The battle was part of the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), caused by Spanish attempts to recover territories in Italy ceded in the 1713 Peace of Utrecht.
[Ref: 59215] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Siege of Gaeta] den 30 Sept: 1707 wert Gaeta, waer in de Hertog Escalona, gewese Viceroy van Naples [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc. Amst. C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the three-month Siege of Gaeta in 1707 by the Austrian army commanded by Count Wirich Philipp von Daun. Part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the siege ended on 30 September 1707 with the destruction of the city's historic fortifications.
[Ref: 59216] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Bombardement de Lille, Par les Austriens, au Mois de Septemb. 1792.]
Peint par Watteau Pere à Lille. Gravé par Masquelier le J.ne à Paris.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching. proof before title. 505 x 675mm (20 x 26½"), with large margins. Repairs at original centre fold.
A large scene of the Austrian army bombarding Lille in 1792, defended by a Republican garrison during the War of the First Coalition. The figure mounted on a whte horse in the foreground is probably Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738-1822), the Habsburg commander. After firing 60,000 shots into the city, the Austrians eventually withdrew to avoid being encircled by a French relief army.
[Ref: 59323] £420.00
To the King's most excellent Majesty, This plate, The Death of General Wolfe, is with His gracious Permission humbly dedicated by his Majesty's most dutiful Subject, William Woollett. From the original Picture in the Collection of the Right honourable Lord Grosvenor.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by W.m Woollett, Engraver to his Majesty.
Published as the Act directs January 1.st 1776. by Mess.rs Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, London.
Engraving. 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24¼"), with narrow margins.
Large engraving of Benjamin West's famous painting of 1770 (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada) representing the death of the British General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. Despite Wolfe's death, the result of the battle was a decisive British victory. West's composition deliberately evokes the Lamentation of Christ, a subject frequently depicted in religious painting. Fagan XCIII x/x.
[Ref: 33190] £780.00
A Midnight Scene, at the Head Quarters Bivouac, of the Brierly Hill, 15th Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers, After the Grand Review at Warwick, 24th July, 1861.
W.E. Wood, del.t.
[n.d., c.1861.]
Fine & rare tinted lithograph. In pencil left margin "R.S. Casson". Printed area 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"). Repaired tears, one through title.
Officers relaxing in a tent.
[Ref: 59128] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
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