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General Peace concluded at Aix le Chapelle
Oct:18, 1748) and exhibited June 13, 1749.
N.S.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine according to Act
of Parliament 1749, for J. Hinton at ye Kings Arms in
St. Pauls Church-Yard London.
Etching and engraving, 180 x 300mm. 7 x 11¾".
Vertical folds as normal, tearing at lower paper edge.
Some staining. £90
Preparations for a display of fireworks to celebrate the
second Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) of 1748,
which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.
Fold-out illustration to the Universal Magazine.
9654 An Arabian belonging to John Warde
Esqr.
Painted by Mr. Stubbs. London, Printed for R. Sayer &
J. Bennett Map & Printsellers No.53 Fleet Street, as the
Act directs 2 June 1777.
Mezzotint, 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾". Two surface
scratched to right. A few stain spots; unexamined out
of frame. £650
Numbered '522' lower right.
Lennox-Boyd: 22, IV of VIII. Siltzer: pg. 270.
9845 Royal and Ancient [St. Andrews
1798].
by Frank Paton, Signed in pencil. Published by Leggatt
Bros, 62 Chaepside, London. 1894
Proof etching, 200 x 265mm £320
Frank Paton (1856-1909) was a successful artist during
his lifetime and could even count Queen Victoria as an
admirer of his work. He is perhaps most widely known
for his series of etched Christmas cards published
annually by Edward Ernest Leggatt from 1880 until
Paton's death in 1909. They were intended to be a cut
above the average Christmas card and sold for half a
guinea each. Their format became quite formulaic over
the years. A central subject reflecting the title of the
print was usually complemented by a series of often
humorous sketches around its border. A number of the
prints would be sent from the printers to be signed in
pencil by Paton.
The Green at St. Andrews surrounded by anecdotal
vignettes from golfing teminology is from this series.
9835 Ruines de la partie interieure d'une
basilique a Rome [in pencil.]
Robert pinexit Guyot Sculpsit [ink mss.] [n.d.,
c.1790.]
Hand coloured etching with aquatint, proof before all
letters (with ink ruled border). 305 x 380mm. 12 x 15".
Small split in printed border. Minor soiling/staining.
£420
Women attending to their laundry inside a ruined
church in Rome. In fine colour.
9829 Tyre, from the Isthmus. Tsur, ancient
Tyre, from the Isthmus, April 27th 1839.
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith. London,
Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, Aug.t
18th , 1843.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 355 x 510mm. £520
Early in the 6th century B.C. Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, laid siege to the city for 13 years. Later
Alexander the Great stormed Tyre without success for
seven months. Only by joining the island city to the
mainland by a causeway was he able to bring up his
siege engines to scale Tyre's formidable walls.
9664 The first Interview of Christopher
Columbus with the Natives of America.
Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of
Geography. [n.d., c.1777.]
Etching and engraving, 295 x 175mm. 11½ x 7". Trace
of water stain to lower left corner. £75
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) landed within the
Bahamas Archipelago in October 1492 at a locale he
named San Salvador. Mistaking the Carribean island
for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its
inhabitants as "Indians". Severely underestimating the
circumference of the Earth, Columbus had
hypothesized that a westward route from Iberia to the
Indies would be shorter and more direct than the
overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would
have allowed his royal Spanish patrons entry into the
lucrative spice trade.
Plate to Charles Theodore Middleton's 'A new and
complete system of Geography ... Embellished ... with
... copper plates, etc.', London 1777-78.
9828 Engedi. Convent of St Saba April 4th
1839.
David Roberts. R.A. London, Published F.G.Moon, 20
Threadneedle Street, Nov.r 1st, 1842.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 350 x 505mm. £490
Mar Saba in the West Bank, a Greek orthodox
monastery founded in 439 C.E.and believed to be the
oldest surviving monastery in the world, today housing
20 monks.
9827 Baalbec. [Ruins of Baalbec, May 5th
1839.]
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith. London,
Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, Sept.r
18th, 1843.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 350 x 510mm. £850
The Acropolis of Baalbek is the largest and best
preserved corpus of Roman architecture left to us. Its
temples, dedicated to Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus
(larger than the Parthenon in Athens), were built in the
second and third centuries A.D.
9812 [Scene On The French Coast.]
Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner R.A. Engraved by
C. Turner. Published as the Act directs by J.M.W.
Turner Harley Street [n.d., c.1807].
Mezzotint and etching in sepia, 210 x 290mm. 8¼ x
11½". £260
A ship on the shore in the foreground is being unloaded
with the aid of horses and carts.
A collaboration between the draughtsmanship and
etching of J.M.W. Turner and the considerable skills of
engraving in mezzotint provided by Charles Turner
(1773 - 1857). For the artist's 'Liber Studiorum', a