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80. To The Worthy Brethren of the most Ancient &
Noble Order of Bucks. This Plate is most humbly
Inscrib’d By a Brother.
Copper engraving
Edward Sudlow
London, Published by R. Sayer & Co. no. 53 Fleet
Street c.1780
Image 317 x 240 mm, Plate 340 x 250 mm, Sheet 387 x
284 mm
framed
A scarce unrecorded broadside in an 18th century
frame.
Edward Donovan (1768 – 1837) was a traveler and
amateur naturalist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was
the founder of the London Museum and Institute of
Natural History, which contained his extensive natural
history collection. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean
Society and the Wernerian Natural History Society.
This engraving is from Donovan’s Natural History of
British Fishes. Various volumes were published
between 1802–08. The startling colour is original, and is
the result of gum arabic and varnish heightening.
[27284]
£110
The Society of Bucks was founded in 1723, and had
more of less petered out by the end of the first decades
of the 19th century. Although not a masonic order, it
fulfilled similar social functions, and during the course
of the 18th century had various meeting rooms in in
London pubs and coffee houses.
This print, produced by Brother Sudlow, presumably in
a very limited edition for presentation to his Brethren, is
finely engraved and elaborate. The Order’s mottos:
Industry Produceth Wealth, Innocence with Freedom,
Unanimity is the Strength of Society and We Obey, all
appear within elaborately engraved foliate banners. The
central scene of a buck is flanked by a huntsman
standing on doric pillar heads, with a badge scene of the
fable of bundled sticks below, and the heads of Cerus
and Bacchus, and a plough, above. The huntsmen each
have a banner around their midriffs, with the motto
divided between the two: Be Merry...And Wise.
Edward Sudlow was a fan maker, engraver and mapmaker
who flourished between 1787 and 1792 at 191
Strand.
82. Plate 4 [Trigla Lineata, Streaked Gurnard]
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Edward Donovan
London, Pub.d as the Act directs by E.Donovan & F &
C Rivington, April 1st, 1803.
Image 166 x 76 mm, Plate 196 x 114 mm, Sheet 240 x
140 mm
unmounted
[27283]
£110
[26678]
£520
Natural History
81. Plate 4 [Tetrodon Stellatus, Stellated Globe
Diodon]
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Edward Donovan
London, Pub.d as the Act directs by E.Donovan & F &
C Rivington, Nov 1st, 1804.
Image 162 x 88 mm, Plate 199 x 115 mm, Sheet 239 x
141 mm
unmounted
83. Plate 43 [Perca Labrax, Basse]
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Edward Donovan
London, Pub.d as the Act directs by E.Donovan & F &
C Rivington, Dec.r 1: 1803.
Image 137 x 58 mm, Plate 200 x 117 mm, Sheet 246 x
138 mm
unmounted
[27280]
£110