A FRAMED AND GLAZED COLOURED MEZZOTINT DEPICTING A STABLE SCENE TITLED "THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER MORNING", engraved by W. Ward after G. Morland, published by T. Simpson May 1799, 47 x 53 cm inc. frameCondition Report: Discolouration at bottom, no visible major damage but not inspected out of frame
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A collection of artist's materials, to include tins of Landseer and Windsor & Newton watercolours, and charcoal, (most in associated boxes) and a box of card board mounts, together with a selection of small books including Old Engravings, Mezzotint and Stipple, a selection from the stock of Fredk. B. Daniell & Son (a/f)
†LEONARD RUSSELL SQUIRRELL, RE, RI, RWS (1893-1979) EDINBURGH; LOCH NESS AND URQUHART CASTLE; ALNWICK CASTLE; THE HIGH MILL NEEDHAM MARKET; WYMONDHAM ABBEY CHURCH five, etchings, a drypoint and mezzotint, all signed by the artist in pencil, 23.5 x 35cm and various sizes and five other etchings and other prints by James Arden Grant, RP, ARE (1887-1974), Haydn Reyonds Mackey (1883-1979) Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900-1973) and Elsie Gledstanes, RBA (1891-1982), all signed (10)++An attractive selection, in good condition in recent gilt or lightwood frames
John Lindsay Lucas (British, 1807-1874) Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness signed lower left "John Lucas / Jany. 1846" oil on canvas, in a Rococo frame 140 x 110cm (55 x 43in) Other Notes: Born in London in 1807, John Lindsay Lucas first trained under the mezzotint engraver, Samuel William Reynolds. Following his apprenticeship, he set himself up as a portrait painter and became one of the fashionable painters of his day, notably painting Queen Adelaide, Albert, Prince Consort, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Wellington and William Ewart Gladstone, the Prime Minister, amongst other famous sitters. He exhibited 96 portraits at the Royal Academy between 1828 and his death. Oil on canvas which has been lined. The canvas is in plane. The paint layer is stable. There are drying cracks across the surface, which have formed as the paint has dried, but they are not too disturbing. There are retouchings across the surface but are mainly located in the central figures face, hair and hand. The retouchings are applied quite broadly but are fairly well matched to the original. The varnish is semi-matte, clear and even. The frame is in a good condition.
Late 18th Century English school - Coloured mezzotint - Women carrying corn bundles whilst young man plays his pipe, 11.75ins diameter, in gilt moulded frame, monochrome mezzotint - "Florizel and Perdita", 12ins diameter, in gilt moulded frame and glazed, and twenty 18th and 19th Century prints, various, all framed
AFTER JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY (1734-1797)A Blacksmith's Forgemezzotint engraving by Richard Earlom, published by J. Boydell, London, 1778Pl. 19 x 23 1/2 in (48.3 x 59.7cm)Provenance: with Spink, LondonSold with six coloured engravings from the series 'The British Stud', Plates 1-V11 (excluding Plate 5), after J.F. Herring and others
NO RESERVE Peck (Francis) Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces..., 2 vol. in 1, engraved portrait, titles in red and black with engraved vignette, lists of subscribers, engraved head-pieces, initials and 9 plates, with mezzotint portrait of the author by Faber after Highmore trimmed and mounted as frontispiece to vol.2, small stain to first portrait, occasional soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine, corners repaired, folio, 1732-35.
*Martin (John, 1789-1854). The Great Day of His Wrath, 1857, fine hand-coloured engraving on paper by Charles Mottram (1807-1876), after the John Martin painting of 1851, published by Thomas McLean, January 1st 1857, light waterstains to margins and some minor soiling (generally a good impression), plate size 71 x 103 cm (28 x 40.5 ins), sheet size 76 x 108.5 cm (30 x 42.75 ins), period gilt frame, glazed, together with The Plains of Heaven, 1857, hand-coloured mezzotint engraving on paper by Charles Mottram (1807-1876), published by Thomas McLean, January 1st 1857, heavily stained and with some tears and fraying to edges, with loss of upper right blank corner (2)
*Circle of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Portrait of a bearded man, half-length, wearing a dark coat, white cravat and dark headcap, black and white chalk on blue-grey laid paper with fleur de lys watermark to centre, old professional restoration to edges, laid down on pale blue backing paper, 35 x 24 cm (13.75 x 9.5 ins) Provenance: A. Stewart Wright, mezzotint portrait artist active in the 1920's. Leggatt Brothers, 30 St James's Street, London, circa 1954. With a handwritten letter by A. Stewart Wright accompanying this drawing, addressed to Leggatt Brothers, dated January 11th 1954, on paper with address 11, Lynton Road, New Malden, Surrey at head, stating: 'The chalk drawing of a bearded man by Rembrandt, on blue-grey 'wire' paper, has a fleur de lys watermark in the centre of drawing. I repaired the damages to this drawing in December 1953.' The firm of Leggatt brothers, Fine Art Dealers, was established in 1820 and continued to trade until 1992. Pale blue or blue-grey papers (as here) were used by pupils of Rembrandt such as Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608-1651), Govaert Flinck (1615-1660) and others. (1)
LUIGI KASIMIR (1881-1962 AUSTRO HUNGARIAN), a coloured mezzotint etching of continental houses beside a river 19/50, signed in pencil lower right, approximate size 36cm x 26cm, together with a Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) signed etching of a moonlit scene and three other pictures and prints (5)
Thomas Watson (1750 - 1781), after Sir Peter Lely (1618 - 1680), [Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester], [London 1779], mezzotint, 41cm x 32cm, 19th century rectangular gilt country house frame with beaded frieze, incorrectly attributed and inscribed cresting plaque: Elizabeth, Countefs (sic) of Rochester, daughter of Sir John Malet of Enmore [...], 51cm x 42cm overall Condition Report: Country house condition.
Georgian mezzotint portrait of two enormous Durham oxen and a gentleman in rural landscape, dedicated to Sir Clifford Constable, Baronet of Tixall in Staffordshire, engraved by Charles Turner after Thomas Weaver, published in Staffordshire by Benjamin Bond, July 29th 1828, framed & glazed, some repairs to paper, approx. 60cm by 73cm. Farming / Cattle Interest
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