Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 205
* Turner (Charles). To the Honourable George Welbore Agar Ellis..., Badgers..., This Plate is by Permission most humbly inscribed by his most truly obliged & obedient Servant, Thos. Bennet, Woodstock, C. Turner, May 15th 1815, uncoloured mezzotint after Thomas Bennet, trimmed to the image on three margins, 420 x 500 mm, framed and glazed, together with Ward (William). Stephen Hemsted Esqre. of Ilsley Berks. Harris & Pearce, 1814, uncoloured mezzotint portrait after John Raphael Smith, very slight staining to the margins, 655 x 455 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Mr Hemsted's bookplate tipped on to the lower mount border, with Phillips (G. H.). [The Marquis of Anglesey, Mounted, Shooting], circa 1850, hand-coloured mezzotint after William Henry Davis, proof before title and letters, 355 x 415 mm, mounted, framed and glazed with an old Christie's auction label to versoQty: (3)Footnote: Stephen Hemsted is recorded as being a surgeon and midwife. The portrait shows him standing outside a pub, filling his pipe with tobacco, a pint of ale on a table to his left, two dogs lie at his feet and a shotgun and a dead pheasant are on a shelf to his right.
