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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 96 Strand. Plate 31, Vol. IX.
No.54 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. June 1, 1827.
Very fine, coloured aquatint, pt watrmark. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed into plate.
Rudolph Ackermann's (1764 - 1834) Repository of Arts to Her Majesty at no. 96 on the south side of the Strand, on the eastern corner of Beaufort Buildings; figures passing on the street pause to look at the pictures decorating the windows. Numbered 'Plate 31, Vol.IX' upper right, from his own 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 63212] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
No.54 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. June 1, 1827.
Very fine, coloured aquatint, pt watrmark. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed into plate.
Rudolph Ackermann's (1764 - 1834) Repository of Arts to Her Majesty at no. 96 on the south side of the Strand, on the eastern corner of Beaufort Buildings; figures passing on the street pause to look at the pictures decorating the windows. Numbered 'Plate 31, Vol.IX' upper right, from his own 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 63212] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Agriculture N.º 2.
Published for the Home & Colonial Infant School Society by Darton & Clark 58 Holborn Hill [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 405 x 535mm (16 x 21"). Slight scuffing in bottom edge.
Six agricultural scenes (Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Reaping, Mowing & Haymaking, and Sheep Shearing) and illustrations of a reaping hook and shears.
[Ref: 63274] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Published for the Home & Colonial Infant School Society by Darton & Clark 58 Holborn Hill [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 405 x 535mm (16 x 21"). Slight scuffing in bottom edge.
Six agricultural scenes (Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Reaping, Mowing & Haymaking, and Sheep Shearing) and illustrations of a reaping hook and shears.
[Ref: 63274] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![[Bookseller] Mess.rs Lackington Allen & Co.](jpegs/62642.jpg)
[Bookseller] Mess.rs Lackington Allen & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square.
For No. 4 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. 1.st April 1809, 101, Strand London.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"), with partial Whatman watermark. Trimmed.
A scene inside a large bookshop, showing customers at a large, round counter while other customers look at books and prints. James Lackington (1746-1815) began selling books in 1774, advertising himself as the ''Cheapest Bookseller in the World''. He moved to the 'Temple of the Muses', designed for him by George Dance, c.1791; it burnt down in 1841. After he retired in 1798 the business was run by his third cousin George Lackington (1777-1844), who also owned the 'Egyptian Hall' in Piccadilly 1825-32) and a former employee, Robin Allen. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62642] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
For No. 4 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. 1.st April 1809, 101, Strand London.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"), with partial Whatman watermark. Trimmed.
A scene inside a large bookshop, showing customers at a large, round counter while other customers look at books and prints. James Lackington (1746-1815) began selling books in 1774, advertising himself as the ''Cheapest Bookseller in the World''. He moved to the 'Temple of the Muses', designed for him by George Dance, c.1791; it burnt down in 1841. After he retired in 1798 the business was run by his third cousin George Lackington (1777-1844), who also owned the 'Egyptian Hall' in Piccadilly 1825-32) and a former employee, Robin Allen. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62642] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Saloon to the Private Boxes, Covent Garden Theatre. Plate 12, Vol. 2.
N.º 14 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. Feb. 1. 1810, at 101 Strand London.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate.
A corridor lined with statues and seats, the doors to the boxes off the left side. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62665] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
N.º 14 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. Feb. 1. 1810, at 101 Strand London.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate.
A corridor lined with statues and seats, the doors to the boxes off the left side. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62665] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Glassware] Messrs. Pellatt & Green, St. Paul's Church Yard.](jpegs/62643.jpg)
[Glassware] Messrs. Pellatt & Green, St. Paul's Church Yard.
For No.5 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. May 1809, at 101 Strand, London.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Trimmed.
Glassware on display inside the showroom of Apsley Pellatt in the City of London. He was the inventor of the glass lenses, known as ‘deck lights,' used for giving light to the lower parts of ships, for which he obtained a patent in 1807. From Rudolph Ackermann's periodical, the ''Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics'', published from 1809-29. It discussed English day to day life; the illustrations influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62643] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
For No.5 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. May 1809, at 101 Strand, London.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Trimmed.
Glassware on display inside the showroom of Apsley Pellatt in the City of London. He was the inventor of the glass lenses, known as ‘deck lights,' used for giving light to the lower parts of ships, for which he obtained a patent in 1807. From Rudolph Ackermann's periodical, the ''Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics'', published from 1809-29. It discussed English day to day life; the illustrations influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62643] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
An Iron Work, for Casting of Cannon; and a Boreing Mill, Taken from the Madeley side of the River Severn, Shropshire.
G. Robertson pinxit. Wilson Lowry Sculpsit
Published Feb.y 1.st 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside London
Fine engraving, rare open letter proof, 410 x 550mm (16 x 21½"), with large margins. Repaired tears in outside of margins.
An industrial scene of ironworks and the boring mill in Madeley, built in 1788.
[Ref: 63113] £480.00
G. Robertson pinxit. Wilson Lowry Sculpsit
Published Feb.y 1.st 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside London
Fine engraving, rare open letter proof, 410 x 550mm (16 x 21½"), with large margins. Repaired tears in outside of margins.
An industrial scene of ironworks and the boring mill in Madeley, built in 1788.
[Ref: 63113] £480.00
Royal York Foundry & Stove Grate Manufactory.
Osborne & Co. Sc. London.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate. Some foxing near title.
Interior view of the Royal York Foundry & Stove Grate factory.
[Ref: 63206] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Osborne & Co. Sc. London.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate. Some foxing near title.
Interior view of the Royal York Foundry & Stove Grate factory.
[Ref: 63206] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
New Stock Exchange. Plate. 75.
Rowlandson & Pugin del et Sculpt. J.C. Stadler Aquat.
London, Pub. July 1st July, 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 275 x 230mm (10¾ x 9"), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1808.'
London's 'New' Stock Exchange, built in Capel Court by James Peacock, 1801-2. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62691] £320.00
Rowlandson & Pugin del et Sculpt. J.C. Stadler Aquat.
London, Pub. July 1st July, 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 275 x 230mm (10¾ x 9"), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1808.'
London's 'New' Stock Exchange, built in Capel Court by James Peacock, 1801-2. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62691] £320.00
Patent Architectural Pottery, Hamworthy.
Drawn & Eng.d by P. Brannon.
Pub.d by Sydenham, Poole, August 1.st 1855.
Engraved writing sheet. Folded, front 205 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Creased, tape stains.
A Dorset pottery specialising in patent coloured and glazed bricks and mouldings; tessellated glazed wall tiles and encaustic paving tiles. The Architectural Pottery Company was originally based in Stoke-on-Trent, but opened in Hamworthy in 1854. It became the Poole Pottery in 1895.
[Ref: 63289] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Eng.d by P. Brannon.
Pub.d by Sydenham, Poole, August 1.st 1855.
Engraved writing sheet. Folded, front 205 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Creased, tape stains.
A Dorset pottery specialising in patent coloured and glazed bricks and mouldings; tessellated glazed wall tiles and encaustic paving tiles. The Architectural Pottery Company was originally based in Stoke-on-Trent, but opened in Hamworthy in 1854. It became the Poole Pottery in 1895.
[Ref: 63289] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t.
for No.1 Jany. 1809 [London: for R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts.]
Scarce hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate.
Figures browsing through folios and prints inside Rudolph Ackermann's famous emporium, the Repository of Arts to Her Majesty, at 101 The Strand. This is only the second plate produced for Ackermann's own 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics': it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature. The figures by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827).
[Ref: 62644] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t.
for No.1 Jany. 1809 [London: for R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts.]
Scarce hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate.
Figures browsing through folios and prints inside Rudolph Ackermann's famous emporium, the Repository of Arts to Her Majesty, at 101 The Strand. This is only the second plate produced for Ackermann's own 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics': it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature. The figures by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827).
[Ref: 62644] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Naples] Sampognaro che fa ballare i pupi.](jpegs/62673.jpg)
[Naples] Sampognaro che fa ballare i pupi.
[Naples, c.1831.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Faint stains.
A man playing a Zampogna (Italian bagpipes) makes punchinello and 'Judy' dolls dance with a string tied to his knee. From 'Scene Populari di Napoli'.
[Ref: 62673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Naples, c.1831.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Faint stains.
A man playing a Zampogna (Italian bagpipes) makes punchinello and 'Judy' dolls dance with a string tied to his knee. From 'Scene Populari di Napoli'.
[Ref: 62673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Hall at the Royal Academy, Somerset House. Plate 29, Vol. 3.
N.º 17 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. May 1. 1810, at 101 Strand London.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate, slightly time stained.
A neo-classical room with Greek and Roman sculpture. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62656] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
N.º 17 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. May 1. 1810, at 101 Strand London.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate, slightly time stained.
A neo-classical room with Greek and Roman sculpture. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62656] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)