After Henry Fuseli, Shakespeare: A Midsummer Nights Dream, stipple engraving by J. P. Simon, 44cm x 59cm.; together with a mezzotint 'Agrippina' after Benjamin West, and three engravings after Hogarth, including His Majesty the King of Prussia, a plate from the Harlots Progress and a self portrait.(5)
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London. Davies (B. R.), London 1851, published S. D. U. K. circa 1852, uncoloured engraved plan of London 400 x 660 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Starling (T.), Liverpool, published S. D. U. K., circa 1852, uncoloured engraved map, three inset views and plans, 310 x 390 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Birmingham. published S. D. U. K. circa 1852, uncoloured engraved plan, inset map of the environs of Birmingham, 330 x 405 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus Turrell (E.). Edinburgh, published S. D. U. K., circa 1852, uncoloured engraved plan, inset view of Edinburgh Castle, 315 x 405 mm, mounted and framed but lacking glass, and Jukes (Francis). Mr John Willis, Writing Master, circa 1790, uncoloured mezzotint, some spotting and dust soiling, laid on later card, 360 x 255 mm, mounted, together with Gauci (M.). Amheistia nobilis, Bombax insigne [and] Hibiscus macrophyllus, circa 1880, together three lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, two are approximately 460 x 325, and one is 355 x 500 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, with Harris (Moses). Plate XIV from 'The Aurelian. A Natural History of English Insects...', circa 1778, engraving with contemporary hand colouring, some spotting, 295 x 235 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with another six prints and maps, various sizes and conditionQty: (14)
* Faber (John. II, 1695 - 1756). A Venetian Courtezan, 1739, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after P.Mercier, with 6 lines of verse below the title, 330 x 230 mm, framed and glazed, together with Mrs Flora Macdonald, 1747, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after Thomas Hudson, trimmed to image, 335 x 250 mm, framed and glazed, with, Mrs Rudge, n.d. c.1750, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after Isaac Whood, title added in near-contemporary manuscript with additional manuscript annotation below plate mark 'by some called Mistress Rudge - proof', four lines of verse below image, small margins, 350 x 255 mm, framed and glazed plus The Right Honble. Louisa Countess of Berkeley, Daughter of Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond & Lennox, 1742, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after G.Kneller, thread margins, 330 x 225 mm, framed and glazedQty: (4)
* Smith (John Raphael). African Hospitality, published Feby 1st. 1791, uncoloured mezzotint after George Morland, trimmed to the image on three sides, 475 x 620 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESAn anti-slavery image of African natives saving a white English family from a storm which has shipwrecked them. Four lines of verse below the image read 'Dauntless they plunge midst the vengeful waves, and snatch from death the lovely sinking fair. Their friendly efforts lo! each Briton saves! perhaps their future Tyrants now they share'.
Robert Laurie (c.1755-1836) and James Whittle (c.1757-1818) (Publishers) The Four Seasons Four, each hand-coloured mezzotint Each 32.6 x 25.3cm; 12ÎŽ x 10in (plate) Together with 'The Tea Gardens' and 'The Beautiful Fruit Gatherer'; two, both hand-coloured mezzotint published by Robert Sayer; each 35 x 24.5cm; 13ÎŽ x 9ÎŽin (plate) (6)
James Northcote R.A. (1746 -1831) a large gilt framed coloured mezzotint engraving titled Grouse Shooters in the Forest of Bowland. Depicting William Assheton and Rev. Theodore Hoste of Norfolk, this being the elder brother of William Hoste a Lord Nelson protege. Engraved by G. Dawe. Overall size 27" x 32"
Frederick Lord Leighton of Stratton PRA. pencil signed mezzotint on India paper by H. Scott. Bridgewater, titled Clytie the engraving bears the PSA stamp and signature of the engraver, published by the Fine Art Society London 1897, glazed and framed in original period frame and mounting size 36" x 31"
NO RESERVE Martin (Charles).- Merimée (Prosper) Carmen, number 34 of 176 copies, hand-coloured engraved title, mezzotint plates and etched illustrations by Charles Martin, with an additional suite of plates in black bound in, contemporary half burgundy morocco by Flammarion, spine in compartments with coloured floral onlays, t.e.g., others uncut, upper hinge broken, with the original wrappers bound in, decorative upper cover printed in silver and magenta, Paris, 1926; and 2 others illustrated by or about Martin, 4to & 8vo (3)
A Collection of prints including Frank Short RA, nithsdale, mezzotint, label verso for Martin Dunthorne together with two signed prints of beach scenes by Martin handie- label verso for J ARnold Povah, Liverpool (one frame broken), a reproduction print titled 'The Blue Studio St Ives by Frank Sherwin and a reproduction signed print by V Hugart (5)
Thomas Hartley (British fl.1820-1860): Portrait of an Irish Peasant Girl, oil on canvas signed and dated 'Athlone 1834', inscribed 'No.3' verso 75cm x 62cm Notes: Hartley exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1821 and 1859, from various London addresses. A mezzotint after Hartley of William Lockwood is held by the British Museum. - Condition Report
Boydell (John & Josiah, publishers) Boydell's Heads of Illustrious and Celebrated Persons Generally Connected with the History of Great Britain in the Reigns of James I, Charles I, Charles II and James II. The Portraits Painted by Van Dyke, Kneller, Riley &c. Engraved by John Smith &c., fine engraved frontispiece of Mary Queen of Scots by F. Bartolozzi after Zuccheri and 27 mezzotint portraits by Smith and Earlom after Van Dyck, Lely, Kneller, Riley and others, occasional spotting to plates, some light foxing to text ff., contemporary half morocco, joints split, but holding firm, corner little worn, rubbed and scuffed, folio, W. Bulmer and Co. for Messrs. Boydell, 1811.
NO RESERVE Hoppé (Emil Otto) & M. Dièz-Dührkoop Schöne Frauen: 36 Mezzotinto-Gravüren nach Naturaufnahmen, text by Franz Blei, additional pictorial title, 36 mezzotint plates, captioned tissue-guards, occasional faint spotting, original half-vellum, a little rubbed, 4to, München, F. Bruckmann, [1922].
Botany.- Thornton (Dr Robert John, circa 1765-1832) The Dragon Arum, from 'The Temple of Flora', a very good impression of the first state (of three), etching with mezzotint printed in colour, finished by hand, on J Whatman wove paper with very faint watermark, watermark date not visible, platemark 475 x 350 mm (18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in), sheet 580 x 465, faint signs of damp-staining and browning, unframed, 1801Literature:Dunthorne, p. 250
Francis Blomefield & Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk', 1805-1810, 11 volumes, mezzotint portrait frontis, engraved plates (some folding), folding maps, folding tables, engraved headpieces and woodcut text illustrations, contemporary dilapidated calf bindings gilt, many boards detached but all present, backstrips rubbed and worn with part losses, backstrips with armorial crests in gilt of Thomas Penrice of Great Yarmouth (1757-1816), musician and collector of paintings (11)
After G Hawkins - Clifton & St Vincent's Rocks from Leigh Woods, colour mezzotint, 21x29cm, and two other topographical colour engravings (3)Condition report: Provenance: Consigned from a local deceased estate, being descendants of Robert Heath (of Robert Heath & Sons, founders of the Biddulph Valley Colliery and Iron Works) who resided at Biddulph Grange between 1871-1922, and direct descendants of the Earls of Denbigh of Newnham Paddox.
MARY GOW (BRITISH 1851-1929) portrait of a lady wearing a Gainsborough hat, lithograph signed in pencil lower right, published by Thomas Agnew & Sons 1907, approximate size 62cm x 43cm framed and glazed, together with an oval, mezzotint titled 'A Kensington Beauty', trimmed and mounted as oval, framed and glazed, approximate overall 42.5cm x 38.5cm (2)
* Morland (Henry Robert, 1716-1797). Girl with a Candle, circa 1765-70, colour pastels on paper, laid down on canvas, 56 x 43.5 cm (22 x 17.1 in) mount aperture, overall size including frame 69 x 57 cm (27 x 22.5 in), contemporary or near-contemporary moulded gilt frame, with single leaf decoration to each corner, 20th century printed label attached to lower edge 'Wright of Derby. Young woman holding a candle-pastel-22 ins. by 17 ins.', old auction stencil to verso 751 NFQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Mrs De Walter Storff; Christie's London, 11 June 1963, lot 66, sold for 6 guineas to Smith; Lady Huntington-Whiteley, Ripple Hall, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (descendant of Stanley Baldwin). The auction stencil to verso identifies this work as a pastel, 22 x 17 inches, by Wright of Derby, A Young Woman holding a Candle, vendor Mrs De Walter Storff, buyer Smith. However, this work has now been confidently attributed to Henry Morland by Neil Jeffares and included in his online archive (www.pastellists.com/Articles/MORLAND.pdf) as attributed to Henry Morland (J.547.1335). A mezzotint version in the same direction by James Watson (1740-1790) after Henry Morland exists in both proof and lettered states in the British Museum (Chaloner Smith 1883, 163; Gordon Goodwin, British Mezzotinters (1904) 193). Another mezzotint version of the painting, with some differences, was published by Philip Dawe (1750-1785) as The Pretty Maid with her Apron before the Candle. Henry Morland exhibited a painting in crayons entitled Servant with a Candle at the Society of Artists in 1765, number 86.
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