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An album of prints and drawings inscribed on the front pastedown to Miss Martin from Dr and Mrs Lee of Hartwell House 1854 including 2 engraved views of the house 3 etchings with aquatint of antiquities by John Martin and J.C. Stadler 3 etchings by J. Crofton Croker inscribed by the printmaker and a mixed group of drawings and watercolours by various hands including some by members of the de Cosson family landscapes figure studies portraits and caricatures also a manuscript map of Egypt some mounted on album leaves most loosely inserted half-morocco over cloth boards worn gilt-lettered and tooled morocco label Miss Martin on upper board upper joint broken folio. *** Provenance: From the collection of Joseph Bonomi Jnr. (1796-1878) and thence by descent to the present owner. The eminent astronomer Dr John Lee inherited Hartwell House in 1827 and the Royal Meteorological Society was founded in his library there in 1850. This was also the year that the famous Egyptologist and architect Joseph Bonomi Jnr undertook the commission to construct a folly in the garden of Hartwell the Egyptian Spring. Bonomi had earlier married Jessie Martin daughter of the visionary artist John Martin.
Miscellany.- A varied group of larger prints including Chatham Dockyard an etched proof before letters by Evans after Richard Paton and John Hamilton Mortimer [1775] a pair illustrating the activities of the Humane Society by Pollard after Smirke 1787 Clytie engraving on satin printed in sanguine Boydell 1772 and a wide variety of other subjects including portraits 17th-19th centuries v.s unframed (c.30)
Jacques Barraband Perroquet à tête grise femelle plate 117 from Levaillant`s “Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets” stipple engraving printed in colours finished by hand c.1805 325 x 245mm. (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in); with 4 prints of parakeets by Blanchard for Lemrecier Paris each sheet c. 545 x 355mm. (21 1/2 x 14 in) all unframed (5)
Sir George Hayter Sævis compescuit ignibus ignes etched mythological scene with over-printed tone 1841 with pencil dedication to Joseph Bonomi Junior signed with initials and dated 1847 in lower margin 310 x 220mm. (12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in); with another mythological subject aquatint by Maria Cosway after Richard Cosway; and a mixed group of other 18th and 19th century prints mostly allegorical figure groups some portraits natural history and other subjects all unframed (20). *** Provenance: From the collection of Joseph Bonomi Jnr. (1796-1878) and thence by descent to the present owner. Condition report:
After Charles Cooper Henderson The Road Versus Rail from Fores`s Coaching Incidents hand-coloured aquatint heightened with gum-arabic c.1845 or later 395 x 650mm. (15 1/2 x 25 1/2 in); with 2 prints from Fores`s Coaching Recollections All Right and Waking Up aquatints with hand-colouring each c.510 x 710mm. (20 x 28 in) and 1 other all unframed (4) Condition report: Occasional browning some spotting exposure lines minor tears.
Kunisada as Toyokuni III A group of 22 woodblock prints mostly kabuki subjects oban size each 355 x 245mm. (14 x 9 3/4 in) all unframed (22). Condition report: Two mounted back to back one hinged onto support occasional surface wear and handling creases one with a binding strip to one edge other occasional minor defects.
After Hippolyte d` Orschwiller Steeple Chase Cracks lithograph c.1860 François Delarue Paris 380 x 710mm. (15 x 28 in); with 2 lithographs of horses after Kiorboe each c.410 x 570mm. (16 x 22 1/2 in); also The Birth Day Team by Hunt and 3 others 19th century v.s. all unframed (7) Condition report: Steeple Chase Cracks has areas of damp-staining tears into the margin. Other prints ahve handling creases surface dirt and tears.
G. D. Ehret Cereus and four other natural history prints from Christoph Trew`s Plantae Selectae engraving with original hand-colouring the title heightened in gold 1750-73 Augsburg 435 x 300mm.(17 x 12 in) § with Myrtle leaved Camelia after Clara Maria Pope chromolithograph 460mm x 670mm (18 x 26 1/2 in); with 3 other natural history prints (5).
After Angelica Kauffman A Flower Painted by Varelst circular stipple-engraving by Thomas Burke c.1785 355 x 285mm. (14 x 11 1/4 in); with a small mixed group of stipple-engravings other prints and a small oil on canvas (14). Condition report: Lead item trimmed on or just within platemark mounted on board support under glass with no other visible defects. Others with various condition issues of browning repairs surface dust.
Old Master Prints.- A varied collection including etchings and engravings 16th-18th centuries by Bosse Boetius Bolswert Van Swanevelt Lafreri and others mezzotints by Robert Williams and Earlom a group of early portraits and c.60 plates from a drawing manual by Bloemaert v.s. unframed (Qty.) Condition report: Occasional defects.
A mixed group of 16th to 19th century prints including a biblical scene by Julius Goltzius after Hans Bol others similar by Gerard Valck and Cornelius Visscher and a quantity of other classical and rustic landscapes portraits genre scenes and other decorative subjects including several after Hogarth engravings v.s. various conditions all unframed (c.70). Condition report: Some trimmed occasional browning spotting surface dirt handling creases occasional smal losses at some sheet edges.
François Collard Exposition Universelle 1878 5 general views of the Paris International Exhibition and 18 of individual nations` buildings albumen prints 1878 each c.270 x 345mm.(10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in) on original card mounts with printed titles and credits [Paris] unframed (23) Condition report: Occasional spotting to mounts.(23)
George Stubbs A group of 6 anatomical horse prints from The Anatomy of the Horse etchings 1766 [but plates watermarked 1815] each sheet c.445 x 565mm. (17 1/2 x 22 1/4 in) unframed; with 2 from the series of the Mothers after John Frederick Herring later impressions (8) Condition report: Handling creases fingers-soiling and surface dust.
A large mixed group of animal prints including a hand-coloured Planer`s lamprey after Kruger many small mammals and some from Schinz`s `Naturgeschichte` engravings lithographs v.s. 19th century (c.230). Condition report: Loose occasional spotting and damp-staining surface dirt. Some with later pen marks.
A large quantity of miscellaneous prints British architecture and topography foreign travel mostly Europe and the Middle East portraits romantic and religious scenes a few natural history children`s and other decorative subjects engravings lithographs wood-engravings a few photographs almost all 19th century v.s. various conditions all unframed (Qty).
A small mixed group of bird prints including a Barraband print from Description de l`Egypte a large lithograph of falcons after Wolf and others engravings lithographs some hand-coloured 19th century v.s. largest 680 x 490mm. (26 3/4 x 19 1/4 in) unframed (17) Condition report: Edges slightly frayed minor tears surface dust.
A small mixed group of late Victorian and Edwardian prints chromolithographs including a family of cats and a Nelson commemorative scene 1904 both for Pears Soap a hunting scene after Herring for an 1898 calendar and others similar v.s.; also 2 large watercolours each of a mother and child signed Ernest F. Baker 1921 each c.51 x 41 cm. (20 x 16 in) (11).
Heath`s Court Beauties 10 of the rare set of 12 playing card caricatures original hand-coloured lithographs c.1840 W. Spooner each c.265 x 210mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in); with a small mixed group of un related watercolours prints and early photographs (19). Condition report: 10 of the rare set of 12 playing card caricatures original hand-coloured lithographs c.1840 W. Spooner each c.265 x 210mm. (10? x 8? in); with a small mixed group of unrelated prints watercolours and early photographs (19).
Emil Karl Zoir Hildegard Florence etching with drypoint and wash signed in pencil lower right titled and dated 1903 in the plate inscribed and dated Paris Salon 1903 lower left 200 x 150mm. (8 x 6 in); Pescatore etching with drypoint and wash signed in pencil lower right signed and dated 1902 in the plate titled lower left 220 x 105mm. (8 3/4 x 4 1/4 in); with an unsigned duplicate of Hildegard and a small mixed group of mostly early 20th century prints including Aboukir by Leslie Greener and Winter at Finistère by Rhona Haszard and a 19th century portrait photograph from the Cameron Studio all unframed (9).
A mixed quantity of prints including 18th century engraved plates on calligraphy views of the Middle East and biblical scenes a few Vanity Fair caricatures specimens of commercial art and advertising of the early to mid 20th century 19th century photographic plates of statues and paintings engravings photographs and offset lithographs v.s. (Qty).

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