L'Accord Parfait. Gravé d'Apres le Tableau original Peint par Watteau, de même grandeur.
A. Watteau pinxit. Baron sculp.
a Paris chez la V. Chereau rüe S.t Jacque aux deux pilliers d'or, et chez Surugue graveur rüe des Noyers vis a vis S.t Yves [n.d., c.1730]
Engraving. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Some restoration.
A scene in a wooded garden, with a man playing the flute while reading from a score held by a woman sitting beside him, as another man plays the guitar lying to one side. 'The Perfect Accord', a 1719 painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), is now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
[Ref: 63003] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Adolphe Adam.
Vogt. d'apres Hip. Adam. Lith. Bertauts, Paris.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 240 x 140mm (9½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Adolphe Adam (1803 -56), French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballet Giselle (1841) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" (Midnight, Christians, 1844, known in English as "O Holy Night").
[Ref: 63225] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Sébastien Bach.
[Grave par Lambert]
[n.d., c. 1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Slight offsetting, trimmed.
Portrait of Johann Sébastien Bach (1685 - 1750), German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including; orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor.
[Ref: 63247] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
[Bach playing the organ for Frederick the Great of Prussia.]
Hermann Kaulbach 1876.
Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin [blindstamp, c.1900.]
Photogravure. 190 x 305mm (7½ x 12"). Mounted on album paper, some cockling.
Johann Sebastian Bach visited the court of Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam in May 1747. The king played a theme for Bach and challenged him to improvise a fugue based on his theme. Bach obliged, playing a three-part fugue on a fortepiano (not an organ as here), which he soon enlarged and published as 'The Musical Offering', dedicated to Frederick. A photographic copy of a picture by Hermann Kaulbach (1846-1909).
[Ref: 62811] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Bach and his family at their morning devotions.]
Toby E. Rosenthal.
Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin [blindstamp, c.1900.]
Photogravure. 210 x 315mm (8¼ x 12½"). Mounted on album paper, some cockling.
Bach plays a harpsicord, accompanied by a young man on a violin, as the rest of the family sing. A photographic copy of an 1870 painting by Toby Edward Rosenthal (1848-1917)
[Ref: 62812] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
J. Van Beethoven. (1814.)
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Faint offsetting, trimmed.
Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.
[Ref: 63256] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
[Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis.]
Gemalt von J. Stieler. Lith. von Kriehuber.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to printed border, losing title? Repaired tear on right, backed with paper.
The only portrait of Ludwig von Beethoven taken from life.
[Ref: 62920] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Bellini.
C. Deblois.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (1801-35), Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".
[Ref: 63237] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
H. Berlioz.
Paris. Rosselin, Editeur, 21 Q. Voltaire. Imp. Lith. Formentin.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6").
Portrait of Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 - 69) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.
[Ref: 63263] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Berlioz.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Faint offsetting. Trimmed.
Portrait of Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 - 69), French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.
[Ref: 63260] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Boieldieu. Maitre de chapelle de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie et membre du Conservatoire de France.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess. au Physionotrace en 1811 et Gravé par Quenedey a Paris.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775 - 1834), French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". In 1825, he produced his operatic masterpiece, La dame blanche (revived in the Salle Favart in 1997 and recorded by the conductor Marc Minkowski). Unusual for the time, La dame blanche was based on episodes from two novels by Walter Scott. The libretto by Eugène Scribe is built around the theme of the long-lost child fortunately recognized at a moment of peril. The style of the opera influenced Lucia di Lammermoor, I puritani, and La jolie fille de Perth. La dame blanche was one of the early attempts to introduce the fantastic into opera.
[Ref: 63304] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Gentil-homme jouant de la Harpe. En agitant mes doigt, fur ce graue Instrument, Du seul pincer Je puis...
N.Bonnart sculp. et ex. cum privil. Rue St Jacques à l'Aigle
[n.d. c.1800]
Rare & fine engraving 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins.
Man seated on an ornate chair in fashionable costume playing a harp.
[Ref: 63084] £390.00
Die Auswahl der Mahlerey aus andern schönen Künsten. Nach dem Original-Gemaehlde von gleicher Grosse. zu finden in Leipzig bey Dyck.
Gemablt von Schenau. Gestochen von C.G Schultze in Dresden 1773.
Engraving, sheet 320 x 195mm (12½ x 7¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to platemark. Some time staining.
A boy seated at a window, his right arm resting on a violin, holding a brush in his left hand; music sheets, a print and a framed image rest on the window sill. Behind him a harpsichord. Below the window sill is a bas-relief depicting putti forcing one of their companions to drink some pressed grape juice while another seems to be drawing the scene.
[Ref: 63095] £420.00
Michele Carafa.
Lith. de Feillet. L,, Dupre, 1825.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 155 x 240 (6 x 9½").
Portrait of Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (1787 - 1872), Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri.
[Ref: 63240] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Madame Catalani in Semiramide. her first Appearance in England, Dec.r 13th, 1806.
Drawn Etch,d & Pub,d by Dighton, 21 New Bond Street, Dec.r 1806.
Fine coloured etching. 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"), paper watermarked ''E & P 1805''. Small margins.
A full-length portrait of Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), as Semiramide the Assyrian, in the opera by Gioachino Rossini. a soprano with a range of nearly three octaves.
[Ref: 62799] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini.] L. Cherubini.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1809.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (1760 -1842), Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. Cherubini's operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini.
[Ref: 63315] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Muzio Clementi en 1795.
[n.d.]
Lithograph. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾'').
Portrait of Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (1752 - 1832), Italian-British composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly active in England, in side profile.
[Ref: 63243] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
The Comic Society.
G.Douw Pinxit. W.Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾")..
A group of travelling musicians, seen through an arched window, play a flute, hurdy-gurdy and tambourine, for a woman holding a pestle and mortar. One of the group reaches out to take payment. CS: see pg. 995.
[Ref: 62731] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Félicien David.
[By L. Massure]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Slight offsetting.
Portrait of Félicien-César David (1810 - 76), French composer. David wrote a number of operas, of which the most notable are Christophe Colomb (1847), La perle du Brésil (1851), Herculanum (1859), and Lalla-Roukh (1862). Amongst his oratorios are Moïse au Sinaï ('Moses on Sinai') (1846), and Eden (1848).
[Ref: 63251] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Dellamaria.
[Godefroy Engelmann.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Domenico Della Maria (1768 - 1800), a mandolin virtuoso and dramatic composer of operas, sitting facing the right, showing his right side profile.
[Ref: 63239] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Donizetti.
C. Deblois.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Slight staining on left margin. Trimmed.
Portrait of Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1798 - 1848), an Italian composer, best known for his 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi.
[Ref: 63235] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
F. L. Dussek. [Jan Ladislav Dussek.] Defsiné et gravé par son ami F.no. Godefroy. M. G. Pl.4.
Imp. de Lesauwage. Pub. par Blaisot.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 230 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of the composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1761 - 1812) a Czech classical composer and virtuoso pianist, bust-length, directed to front, with head turned to look up to right.
[Ref: 63244] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Music Quartet.]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Photogravure, sheet 130 x 125mm (5¼ x 5"), on album music sheet with letterpress verse, honouring Edgar Allan Poe, 'That Amateur Flute', from the New York Arcadian and two woodcut portraits.
Four musicians sit facing each other.
[Ref: 62815] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
[Christoph Willibald Glück.]
A. Muller [pencil]
Im Verlag der Insel bei Schusler & Zöffler, Berlin [?, c.1905].
Etching. 380 x 370mm (15 x 14½"), publisher's stamp on reverse, large margins.
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was a German opera composer of the early classical period. Insel Verlag was founded in 1901.
[Ref: 63228] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Christoph Willibald Gluck.] Gluck.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey d'apres Le buste de.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 87), composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna.
[Ref: 63316] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
F. J. Gossec. Membre de L'Institut.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1813.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of François-Joseph Gossec (1734 -1829), French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. Bust in profile to left, with powdered hair and jacket with medal at lapel; in oval.
[Ref: 63303] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Gounod.
[Grave par L. Massure]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6").
Portrait of Charles-François Gounod, usually known as Charles Gounod (1818-93), French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been Faust; his Roméo et Juliette also remains in the international repertory.
[Ref: 63248] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Odd Dealer. As Sung by Mr. Grimaldi, at Sadlers' Wells. 'I keep a sung little shop, None excel me at selling or buying can, In merry customers hop...'
Printed and Sold by E. Billing, 10, Star Corner, near Bermondsey Church. [n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress with wood engraving. 225 x 75mm (9 x 3").
The Odd Dealer as sung by Mr. Grimaldi, at Sadlers' Wells, sold for a penny. At the top of the sheet, a dealer stands outside his shop, talking to two women. An early clown image.
[Ref: 63149] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Handel Centenary Commemoration held in Westminster Abbey.] May 29. Messiah.
R: Smirk pinx.t. F. Haward sculpt RA.
Publish'd 29 May 1784.
Stipple, pt 18th century watermark; 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"), large margins. Creases and stains.
Britannia, seated on a lion, gestures towards a pyramid inscribed 'Handel'. A winged cherub places a garland on a pedestal.
[Ref: 62796] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Westminster Abbey Commemoration of Handel. May XXVI MDCLXXXIV.
B. Rebecca del. J. K. Sherwin engraver to his Majesty &c his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sculpsit. [n.d., c.1784].
Stipple. 190 x 140mm. (7½ x 5½") very large margins.
Portrait of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759); head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, surrounded with laurel leaves, various musical instruments including a clarion, lyre, horn, and flute and music scores.
[Ref: 62798] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Harmony.
J. F. Rigaud pinx. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
London: Pub. as the Act directs by G. Bartolozzi, 1st Aug.t. 1795.
Stipple engraving. Plate 185 x 240mm (7¼ x 9½). Small margins.
Portrait of a woman playing the harp, looking up with her head turned to her left. De Vesme: 62 III of III.
[Ref: 63076] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
[Franz Joseph Haydn.] D'apres le Buste sculpe par le celebre Grassi de Vienne. et tire du Cabinet de Mr. le Chevalier Neukomm.
Feuillet-Dumas Editeur. Panorama d'Allemagne.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet".
[Ref: 63257] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Haydn.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Slight offsetting. Trimmed.
Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet".
[Ref: 63246] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
Nicolò Isouard de Malte. Dernier Maitre de Chapelle de L'ordre.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Nicolas Isouard (1773 - 1818), Maltese-born French composer. He moved to Paris, where he worked as a free composer and became friends with Rodolphe Kreutzer. The pair worked together on several operas, including Le Petit page, ou La Prison d'état (1800) and Flaminius à Corinthe (1801). Isouard adopted the pseudonym Nicolò (or Nicolò de Malte) and found rapid success in the field of opéra comique with Michel-Ange (1802) and L'Intrigue aux fenêtres (1805). He composed regularly for the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, writing some thirty works for it. He composed masses, motets, cantatas, romances, and duos, along with over 45 operas.
[Ref: 63305] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Le Jeune Musicien. Cet instrument me procure du pain, luoique souvent je joue envain...
peint par G. Schalcken. Grave par G. Bodeneer.
[n.d., c.1700s.] Printed for Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint. Plate 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"), very large margins. Creasing in margins.
A young boy plays an instrument, holding it in his right hand and playing it with his left. He plays it to earn money for bread, though often plays in vain. Inscription with the title and four lines of verse written in French on the left and German on the right.
[Ref: 63086] £380.00
Mr. Johnstone. To The Members of the Je ne scai quoi Club. This Print is humbly dedicated by their most respectfull and obedient humble Serv.t C. Bestland.
Painted & Engrav'd by C: Bestland.
Pub. as the Act directs March 1791 by C. Bestland No.38 Gt. Marlbro' Street.
Stipple. 177 x 114mm (7 x 4½"), very large margins. Some foxing.
John Henry Johnstone (1749-1828) looking to front in oval; he was a popular tenor and stage Irishman who performed in London. He performed alongside the likes of Benjamin Charles Incledon at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden and with Charles Dignum and Thomas Sedgewick at the Je ne scai quoi Club, where the Marylebone Cricket Club was formed. Harvard: p.315.1. See Ref: 24454 for coloured version.
[Ref: 63129] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[Rodolphe Kreutzer.] Kreutzer.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1809.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766 - 1831), French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel. He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, known as the Kreutzer Sonata, though he never played the work.
[Ref: 63310] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Jean-François Le Sueur.] J. F. Le Sueur. Membre de L'Institut, Surintendant de la Musique du Roi.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1818.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Jean-François Le Sueur (1760 - 1837), French composer, best known for his oratorios and operas. He spent some time in London, 1788–92, then returned to revolutionary Paris and gave three successful operas at the Théâtre Feydeau: La Caverne, ou le Repentir (1793), Paul et Virginie, ou le Triomphe de la vertu (1794), which was inspired by the hugely popular novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and the classical Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso, ou le Triomphe de la sagesse (1796).
[Ref: 63313] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Listz.
Lith: Guillet.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6").
Portrait of Franz Liszt (1811-86), Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
[Ref: 63262] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
N. Lupot. Dessiné par Dubois, Gravé par Kamermann.
[Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin, c.1900.]
One photogravure, 2 photographs. Largest 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Mounted on album paper.
A copy of a lithographic portrait of Nicolas Lupot (1758-1824) famed luthier (violin maker), often called 'The French Stradivarius', with photographic images of the fronts and backs of two of his violins. Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin also operated in London and New York as the Berlin Photographic Company c.1880-c.1920.
[Ref: 62809] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
[By C. Deblois]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 47), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music.
[Ref: 63252] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny.] Monsigny.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1809.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729 - 1817), French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
[Ref: 63311] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Mozart.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6"). Faint offsetting. Trimmed.
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
[Ref: 63258] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Music for the Million.
London, J.T. Wood, 9 Curriers Hall C.t, London Wall [n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce steel engraving on porcelain card. 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½").
A pair of ragged urchins sit, one playing a trumpet, the other holding a music book 'The Light of Other Days has Faded'.
[Ref: 62830] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
New Musical Fund.
J. Ibbetson del. J. Thornthwaite sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, rare subscriber's copy. Sheet 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing venue & date, foxed.
Apollo stands on a cloud before an organ, lyre in hand, pouring coins from a cornucopia into a widow's apron, her two children clinging to her dress. Behind is a group of musicians. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786. The British Museum has examples of this image dated from 1788 to 1796. See BM 1969,0130.4 for the earliest example. Subscriber In ink verso "Edmund Warren-Horne". See Ref: 62793 for one printed in sepia.
[Ref: 62794] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
New Musical Fund. King's Theatre. [Thursday, March 27, 1788.]
J. Ibbetson del. J. Thornthwaite sculp.
[1788.]
Rare stipple, printed in sepia., subscriber's copy; Sheet 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed, losing date, stains.
Apollo stands on a cloud before an organ, lyre in hand, pouring coins from a cornucopia into a widow's apron, her two children clinging to her dress. Behind is a group of musicians. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786. BM 1969,0130.4. Subscriber in ink verso "Edmund Warren-Horne" See Refs: 62794 & 62795 for ones printed in black.
[Ref: 62793] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
New Musical Fund.
J. Ibbetson del. J. Thornthwaite sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, rare subscriber's copy. Sheet 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing venue & date, tear in left edge, spotted.
Apollo stands on a cloud before an organ, lyre in hand, pouring coins from a cornucopia into a widow's apron, her two children clinging to her dress. Behind is a group of musicians. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786. The British Museum has examples of this image dated from 1788 to 1796. See BM 1969,0130.4 for the earliest example. Subscriber In ink verso "Edmund Warren-Horne". See Ref: 62793 for one printed in sepia.
[Ref: 62795] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Musicienne] Dedie a M.e Huet. No.483.
Dessine par J.B Huet Pentre du Roi. PAr son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur Damrteau.
A Paris ches Demarteau et Pensionnaire du Roi rue de la Pelierie a la Cloche. [n.d. c.1773]
Very rare crayon-manner etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 335 x 270mm (13¼ x 10½"). Trimmed to square trompe-l'œil border. Small tears repaired with acid free tape. Very slight loss bottom left.
A woman wearing a ruffled dress and feathered hat sits on a chair playing a lute. This could be Madame Huet playing the mandolin. Published by engraver Gilles Demarteau (1722 - 1776), a specialist in crayon manner, after Jean Baptiste Huet (1745 - 1811).
[Ref: 63088] £780.00
Olinda. On thee attends a radiant Choir, Soft smiling peace, and downy rest, With Love that prompts thy warbling lyre, And Hope that soothes thy throbbing breast.
Drawn and Engraved by W.m. Platt.
Publish'd as the Act directs by Eliz. Walker. No. 7. Cornhill, Jan.y. 1. 1796.
Coloured stipple engraving, pt printed in colour. Plate 145 x 210mm (5¾ x 8¼"). Small margins.
Portrait of Olinda, a woman sits under a tree playing a lute. Under the title is the fourth stanza in John Ogilivie's poem Ode to Innocence (1762).
[Ref: 63075] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Georges Onslow.
Vigneron.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 155 x 240 (6 x 9½"). Trimmed.
Portrait of André George Louis Onslow (1784 - 1852), French composer of English descent. His wealth, position and personal tastes allowed him to pursue a path unfamiliar to most of his French contemporaries, more similar to that of his contemporary German romantic composers; his music also had a strong following in Germany and in England.
[Ref: 63241] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)