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[Mary Queen of Scots.]
[Mary Queen of Scots.]
[engraved by Charles Turner after an anonymous portrait.]
Published Oxford Oct.r 17. 1813, by James Wyatt, Carver, Gilder, & Picture Frame Maker.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. Sheet 565 x 435mm (21¾ x 17"). Trimmed within plate, losing title, notches in edges, entering image lower right. Unidentified blind-stamp 'J W' in inscription area bottom left. Damaged.
A fanciful half-length portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, wearing a headdress consisting of a heart-shaped hood (atifet) with lace trimmings and a wired veil extending over shoulders and arms, a ruff, a square-necked slashed bodice with a white partlet, and a crucifix suspended from a ribbon around her neck. It was engraved from a portrait at the Bodleian Library in Oxford: in 1838 the painting was cleaned, removing this portrait to reveal an earlier one underneath.
BM 1871,1209.922; Whitman 360, unlisted third state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65225]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Mary Queene of Scots. Anno. 1568 [old paint mss].
Mary Queene of Scots. Anno. 1568 [old paint mss].
[engraved by Charles Turner after an anonymous portrait.]
[Published Oxford Oct.r 17. 1813, by James Wyatt, Carver, Gilder, & Picture Frame Maker.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours. Sheet 540 x 450mm (21¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed into image at top, close to image at bottom, losing title, tears in image expertly repaired.
A fanciful half-length portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, wearing a headdress consisting of a heart-shaped hood (atifet) with lace trimmings and a wired veil extending over shoulders and arms, a ruff, a square-necked slashed bodice with a white partlet, and a crucifix suspended from a ribbon around her neck. It was engraved from a portrait at the Bodleian Library in Oxford: in 1838 the painting was cleaned, removing this portrait to reveal an earlier one underneath. The British Museum's colour-printed example has the same painted title (1872,0113.563).
Whitman 360, unlisted third state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65226]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Sir Walter Scott, Bar.t.
Sir Walter Scott, Bar.t. From the original Picture by Sir John Watson Gordon, painted in the year 1830.
Painted by Sir John Watson Gordon. Engraved by A.G. Campbell.
Published by Joseph Laing, London, Edinburgh, New York [n.d., c.1830].
Fine mezzotint. Sheet 500 x 395mm (19¾ x 15½"). Trimmed to plate, small tear in left edge.
A seated portrait of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), leaning on a walking stick, next to a deerhound and Abbotsford House in the background.
Not in O'D. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64867]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Floransay, Isle of Skye.
Floransay, Isle of Skye.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Messrs. Longman & Co., Paternoster Row & W.Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, May 1, 1818.
Aquatint with original hand colour, 225 x 295mm (9 x 11¾"), with large margins. Faint mountburn around plate mark. Slight damage to margins.
From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 65167]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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