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Veduta della Gran Curia Innocenziana... Monte Citorio, etching, from Vedute di Roma, published 1752, 42 x 63cmCondition report: small possible rus...

mainly 19th century, of various sizes and dates, some trimmed and mounted, most uncoloured, all in varying condition

many sporting and animal subjects including after Landseer, some with hand colour, mainly 19th century, of various sizes and dates, some trimmed a...

mainly dog and animals subjects, including after Landseer, a few with hand colour, mainly 19th century, of various sizes and dates, some trimmed a...

Sadeler, Christ mocked, trimmed, late 16th century, 11 x 18cm; after N. de Clerck, David with the head of Goliath, 26.5 x 19cm; after Lucas Van Le...

Mrs Abington, mezzotint after Reynolds, trimmed, 62 x 38.5cm; and four 18th century Italian classical subjects, all in modern ebonised frames (5)

Colossus Monarchic Statua Danielis, engraving with hand colouring, published by Tobias Lotter, Augsberg, 58 x 48cmCondition report: overall staini...

Thames Police, etching, 1859, 16.5 x 24cm (plate), rather browned and foxed, small tear around plate mark upper right, mounted

A View of the Public Library the Senate House and St. Mary’s Church in the University of Cambridge; A View of King’s College and Part of Clare Hal...

a collection of framed and loose prints, including prospect engravings by Buck, a view by Kip, engravings by Basire; also 3 signed limited edition...

including works by Seymour Haden, Frank Short, Frank Greenwood, Eyre Walker, Henry Rushbury and others, some mounted or stuck down, and some earli...

Pot Fair, Cambridge, etching published 1777, 35 x 47.5cm; After Buck, North-West Prospect of Cambridge, coloured engraving, 20 x 34cm (trimmed and...

Lot 13

David Loggan

Sidney Sussex College, engraving (browned), c.1700, good margins, 39 x 52cm

16th or 17th century: two of elaborate festivities with a chariot and stags, Medieval figures in a garden, a king on his throne and a German rout ...

Six small decorative engravings, mainly figural subjects, c.5 x 7cm, within modern mounts and frames (6)

mainly classical figural subjects with text, probably 17th century, sizes vary, within large mounts and modern frames (8)

In Sudore Vultus Tuii Vescitor Cibo, 17th century engraving with Dutch text below, 40 x 50.5cm; Heinrich Aldegrever, Three Trombonists, engraving,...

satirical etching with hand colour published 1807 by Walker, 26 x 46cm (wide margins)

Black Brown & Fair, coloured satirical etching with verses below, published by T. Tegg 1807, unframed, 30.5 x 23.5cm ...[more]

Lot 20

James Gillray

The Sleep Walker, hand coloured satirical etching of Pitt the Younger, published by H. Humphrey 1795, unframed, 34 x 23cm

Lot 21

James Gillray

Modern Elegance, coloured etching published 1795 by H. Humphrey, mounted, 34 x 23.5cm (slightly trimmed)

Lot 22

James Gillray

Two-Penny-Whist, hand coloured satirical etching published by H. Humphrey 1796, unframed, 21 x 31.5cm

Making Most of £10000 per Ann. by Saving Travelling Expences, coloured satirical etching, c.1800, unframed, wide margins, 23 x 43cm

Lot 24

James Gillray

A Scene at Cheltenham, hand coloured satirical etching published by Jones, London, 1788, unframed, stuck down, 25 x 36cm

Traveling in France, coloured etching published by Le Petit, Dublin; Le Palais Royal de Paris, published by McCleary; both of similar size, unfram...

hand coloured satirical etching published by Fores 1794, unframed, 24.5 x 39.5cm; with two other satirical etchings - Cruikshank, A Buz in a Box, ...

Counsellor Cozen Consulting Cases, mezzotint published 1773 by Francis Adams, mounted to card, 39 x 28cm

Lot 28

F. E. Adams

Heyday! Is this my Daughter Anne !, coloured mezzotint published 1773 by John Bowles, linen backed, 37 x 27cm

Wellday! is this my Son Tom?, coloured mezzotint published 1773 by S. Sledge, London, linen backed, 37 x 27cm

Lot 30

J R Smith

The Good Girl, coloured mezzotint published by W. Humphrey 1779, loose, 37 x 27cm

Lot 31

James Gillray

A Bravura Air, Mandane, hand coloured etching published H. Humphrey 1801, 37 x 26cm

Lot 32

William Heath

Does the Harp of Rosa slumber; Sketches of Character - the Inside Passenger No.7; One of the Audience - going into the Theatre; three etchings wit...

Lot 33

James Gillray

A Decent Story, published by H. Humphrey Nov. 9th 1795, etching on wove with original hand colouring, slight overall toning, unframed, 22 x 29cm; ...

Ever Memorable Battle Off Cape Trafalgar: 21 October 1805, coloured etching (part of a broadside, with text section removed), published by Laurie ...

Woodward, Sailors at a Methodist Sermon, coloured etching published 1807 by Walker, London, 29 x 44cm, (cuttings pasted verso); with a smaller lit...

Lot 36

James Gillray

Metallic Tractors, coloured satirical etching published by H Humphrey 1801, 26 x 32.5cm (corners previously mounted to reverse)

An Imperiale Bonne Bouche, published by Walker 1807; A Quartet in Character, published by T. Reid; Mr Deputy Dumpling and Family, coloured mezzoti...

Lot 38

James Gillray

Progress of the Toilet, Plates 1,2 and 3; coloured etchings published by H. Humphrey 1810, loose, with margins, 38 x 24cm (3)

Old Ways and New Ways, series of plates numbered 1 to 6, hand coloured satirical etchings published Charles Tilt, London, unframed, 25.5 x 35cm (6)

John Wilkes Esq., etching and engraving, 1763, 37 x 26cm; William Heath, Mr Primate the Churchwarden, hand coloured etching, 1829, 35 x 25cm (2)

Lot 41

Rowlandson

A French Dentist, hand coloured etching published Thomas Tegg 1811, unframed, with margins, 28 x 44.5cm

Lot 42

James Gillray

A Block for the Wigs, hand coloured etching for W. Humphrey 1783, some marginal browning, loose, 26.5 x 37cm

Lot 43

Rowlandson

The Preacher and Parishioners, (proof impression); The Last Shift, both hand coloured satirical aquatints, the latter published by Reeve and Jones...

The Regent's Hack, coloured satirical etching published 1812, 28 x 43cm; James Gillray, Inspecting a Volunteer Corps in Hyde Park, hand coloured e...

A Trip to Margate, series of six plates, hand coloured etchings by George Cruikshank, [published by McLean c.1831], loose, 26 x 35.5cm (6)

The Two Greatest Men in England, hand coloured satirical etching, published by Fores 1806, with margins, 28 x 47cm

Veduta Degli Auanzi Del Foro Di Nerua, black and white etching, 51.5 x 76cm; please note this lot now comprises only the Piranesi print. ...[more]

‘View of the Town and Harbour of St. Thomas, West Indies, Taken from an Eminence near the Castle built by the notorious Buccaneer called Blackbear...

Five coloured steel engravings, late 19th century, with captions below, each c.15 x 19cm; together with a framed montage of modern photographs of ...

comprising tavern scenes, peasants and labourers, together with a portrait of A.V. Ostade, all late impressions and later printings 11 x 9cm and s...

A coloured engraving by James Basire after Dayes, 35 x 45cm; an Oxford Almanack engraving, 1766, 37 x 44cm; a small etching by T. Mackenzie c.1946...

Collection of five unframed etchings, signed, including 'On the Banks of the Bure', 'Rough Weather at Blatchington', and 'Langston Mill', together...

Collection of four etchings, including 'An April Day, Kent', 21 x 31cm; and two mezzotint tranquil landscape scenes, largest 17 x 35.5cm (image), ...

Views in the South of France, chiefly on the Rhone. London: W B Cooke 1825, slim 4to, 24 engraved plates as required, contemporary spotted calf

collection of 10 mainly 19th century prints and engravings, including an etching signed by Malcolm Osborne, maps, some with hand colour, etc (10)

Great Room House of H B M Consul Damascus, lithograph, 35 x 28cm Aden with paddle steamer, lithograph by W A Delamotte, 25 x 30cm Gebel Mousa - Su...

View of Grand Cairo, handcoloured aquatint, published by W. Miller, London, 1809, 51 x 71cmCondition report: occasional light foxing and bubbling ...

Grande Piazza di Romela in Cairo; and Grande Piazza in Alessandria di Egitto, handcoloured lithographs, published by G. Draghi, Venezia, 39 x 59cm...

including the Queen's Navy in 1887, publ. The Graphic, 49 x 95cm (image); A panoramic prospect of Stockholm after Perelle, 25 x 79cm, another of L...

18th and 19th century, including topographical views from Middleton's Geography, steel engraved book illustrations, (some coloured and mounted), e...

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