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![The Highlander. This is the last and only Remains of the Roman Dress that at present exists in Europe. [&] A Highlander - Un Montagnard d'Ecosse.](jpegs/53657.jpg)
The Highlander. This is the last and only Remains of the Roman Dress that at present exists in Europe. [&] A Highlander - Un Montagnard d'Ecosse.
Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t Sep.r 12th 1771 by M.Darly at No. 39. Strand. [&] Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly Oct 2.d 1771.
Pair of engravings, each 210 x 160mm (8½ x 6½") Trimmed to plate. Some staining.
A highlander wearing kilt & plaid (ie. tartan cloth slung over the shoulders) from front and rear. At the time of publication the anti-Jacobite 1746 Dress Act banning tartans as common wear was still in force. It was repealled in 1782.
[Ref: 53657] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t Sep.r 12th 1771 by M.Darly at No. 39. Strand. [&] Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly Oct 2.d 1771.
Pair of engravings, each 210 x 160mm (8½ x 6½") Trimmed to plate. Some staining.
A highlander wearing kilt & plaid (ie. tartan cloth slung over the shoulders) from front and rear. At the time of publication the anti-Jacobite 1746 Dress Act banning tartans as common wear was still in force. It was repealled in 1782.
[Ref: 53657] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Rev.d E. Irving. Of the Caledonian Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden.
Drawn from Life by G.H. Jones.
London. Pub.d by Thomas Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket Aug.t 16, 1823.
Lithograph on india. 235 x 165mm (9 x 6½") large margins.
Rev. Edward Irving (1792-1834) was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church. He had little success in converting the Scottish public and was about to give up hope and focus his attention towards missionary labour in the East when he suddenly received an invitation from the Caledonian Church in London; over that charge he was ordained in 1822.
[Ref: 53564] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn from Life by G.H. Jones.
London. Pub.d by Thomas Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket Aug.t 16, 1823.
Lithograph on india. 235 x 165mm (9 x 6½") large margins.
Rev. Edward Irving (1792-1834) was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church. He had little success in converting the Scottish public and was about to give up hope and focus his attention towards missionary labour in the East when he suddenly received an invitation from the Caledonian Church in London; over that charge he was ordained in 1822.
[Ref: 53564] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
John Anderson My Jo. 'But now your brow is beld, John./ Your locks are like straw;/ But blessings on your frosty pow./ John Anderson my Jo.'
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet.
London Published Octr. 1827, by Moon Boys & Graves, Successors to Messrs. Hurst, Robinson & Co. 6 Pall Mall. et a Paris par Pieri Bernard, Boulevard des Italiens.
Engraving. Publlisher's stamp at bottom in publication line. 455 x 365mm (18 x 14¼"). Sheet is trimmed to plate. Slight crease lower right bottom.
An old Scottish man sitting by the hearth in a cottage interior, with grandchild and wife, who reminisces about his once youthful looks as they now share old age. Robert Burn's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a cleaned-up adaptation of a bawdy ballad, which Burns wrote for for James Johnson's 'Scots Musical Museum' in 1790. By John Burnet (1784 - 1868), etcher, mezzotint, line engraver and painter of landscapes and humorous genre, also writer; worked in Edinburgh, London, engraved after E.G. Wilkie, Turner and Landseer.
[Ref: 53611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet.
London Published Octr. 1827, by Moon Boys & Graves, Successors to Messrs. Hurst, Robinson & Co. 6 Pall Mall. et a Paris par Pieri Bernard, Boulevard des Italiens.
Engraving. Publlisher's stamp at bottom in publication line. 455 x 365mm (18 x 14¼"). Sheet is trimmed to plate. Slight crease lower right bottom.
An old Scottish man sitting by the hearth in a cottage interior, with grandchild and wife, who reminisces about his once youthful looks as they now share old age. Robert Burn's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a cleaned-up adaptation of a bawdy ballad, which Burns wrote for for James Johnson's 'Scots Musical Museum' in 1790. By John Burnet (1784 - 1868), etcher, mezzotint, line engraver and painter of landscapes and humorous genre, also writer; worked in Edinburgh, London, engraved after E.G. Wilkie, Turner and Landseer.
[Ref: 53611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Prospect of their Ma.ties Castle of Sterling. [with label] Sold as Cheap as in London, by John Hogben, Master of the Mathematical Free-School, ar Rye in Sussex.
[after John Slezer.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with contemporary hand colour. Sheet 240 x 425mm (9½ x 16¾"). Trimmed to image, title excised and pasted on reverse as normal, laid on thick paper with print-seller's label.
A view of Sterling Castle, first published in Slezer's 'Theatrum Scotiae', first published 1693 so predating the outer walls of the present-day castle (built 1711-4). An expanded version of Hogben's label explained that he also sold 'globes, maps, spectacles and fishing tackle'. The Free school is now Rye College.
[Ref: 53756] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[after John Slezer.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with contemporary hand colour. Sheet 240 x 425mm (9½ x 16¾"). Trimmed to image, title excised and pasted on reverse as normal, laid on thick paper with print-seller's label.
A view of Sterling Castle, first published in Slezer's 'Theatrum Scotiae', first published 1693 so predating the outer walls of the present-day castle (built 1711-4). An expanded version of Hogben's label explained that he also sold 'globes, maps, spectacles and fishing tackle'. The Free school is now Rye College.
[Ref: 53756] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)