Maps
A list of prints which include maps, plans, globes or charts as decorative elements or for their value as symbols:
A map of Mildmay Fane with a map behind him which shows the area between his estate at Apethorpe (at the bottom) and Hull (at the top):
The Efiges of the right Honnorable Mildmay Earl of Westmorland Baron LeDespencer & Burghersh and Knight of the Bath etc.
JBN Invent [intials in the form of a monogram]. P. Williamson Sculp. 1662.
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 260 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8".
Portrait of Mildmay Fane, half length in an oval wreath, short beard and moustache, wearing cap, collar and sash; curtain to the left, and map of part of Lincolnshire on the right. Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, (1602-1665) was an English nobleman, politician and writer.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. NPG: D8277.
[Ref: 24082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
French traveller Jean de Thévenot with a map of the Arabian peninsula, which he points to as a way of representing his familiarity with the area:
Amy tu connoistras l'Autheur par ce portrait. Tu ne Sçaurois trouver Voyageur plus parfait.
[François Chauveau del.]
[Paris : Jolly, Thomas] [n.d. c.1664]
A very rare engraving. Sheet 207 x 134mm. 8¼" x 5¼". Cut.
From the title page to 'Relation D'Un Voyage fait au Levant' - The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. Jean de Thévenot (June 16, 1633 – November 28, 1667) was a French traveller in the East, who wrote extensively about his journeys. He was also a linguist, natural scientist and botanist. He was born in Paris and received his education in the Collège de Navarre.
[Ref: 8988] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
The French cartographer Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) here rests upon an Atlas Gallicus (atlas of France- probably the Atlas francois from which this portrait was the frontispiece, in a curiously self-referential gesture):
Alexius Hubertus Iaillot, Regis Christianissimi Geographus Ordiniarius, 1698.
Culin Pinxit. Vermeulen Sculpsit.
[Paris, c.1700.]
Scarce line engraving, image 365 x 300mm. 14¼ x 11¾". Trimmed to plate.
Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632 - 1712) was a French sculptor, engraver, publisher and cartographer; holding folio atlas in right hand and compass in left, more books behind.
[Ref: 20751] £620
William Hogarth's works are always full of objects, and in his painting The Denunciation (National Gallery of Ireland) and the subsequent print made by Sympson, a large hemisphere map is in the background:
[Magistrate and Recognition of the Child's Father.]
W. Hogarth pinx. J. Sympson Jun.r Sculp.
Sold by J. Sympson Engraver and Print-Seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane.
Etching and engraving. Plate 306 x 356mm. 12 x 14".
BM Satires: 2261. See Paulson: pp.29-30.
[Ref: 19160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
In this portrait of Sir George Saville, 8th Baronet, he rests his hands on plans for the Aire and Calder Navigation, a river and canal system in Yorkshire:
Sir George Savile Bar.t
Painted by Benj.n Wilson. Engraved & Etched by B.W. and Mr. Basire.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Dec.r the 4.th 1770.
Etching and engraving. 494 x 336mm. 19½ x 13¼". Trimmed.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet (1726-1784) was an English politician; seated here with plans marked 'The Calder Navigation', Halifax. This is a reference to his 'Letter of Sir George Savile, Bart. on an attempt made to interfere with the Aire and Calder Navigation in the year 1772'.
Included in the Science & Society Picture Library, Science Museum; Leeds portrait repr.in Andrew Graciano (ed.) 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society, 2012).
[Ref: 20674] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Here, in a caricatured scene in the office of the City of London Militia from 1773, an (illegible) map on the wall relates to the responsibilities of the militia:
The City Train'd Bands Recruiting Serjeant.
Pub Accorg to Act by MDarly Strand Sepr. 2d. 1773.
Etching, 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾".
A new recruit with a peg-leg is presented to a startled-looking recruiting officer of the much-caricatured City of London militia.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14538] £240
This print shows an uncomfortable politician surrounded by three maps showing Great Britain and Ireland (in the shadows on the right), the Iberian peninsula (on the wall on the left) and, most interestingly, 'An Accurate Map of Falklands Is.' over which a cat and dog fight!:
The Politician.
Done from the Original Drawing by S. H. Grimm.
Printed for S. Sledge Printseller, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Publish'd as the Act Directs 2d May 1771.
Engraving 360 x 260mm. Trimmed inside the platemark.
A French Barber appears to be whispering in the ear of his grotesque customer….Lord North, …..'Falkland Islands' - On January 22nd after lengthy negotiations and the threat of war an agreement was signed giving Port Egmont back to the British.View the declarations On 15th September,the Spanish handed Port Emont back to the British represented by Captain Scott commanding the frigate Juno the sloop hound and the store ship Florida.
BM:4857
[Ref: 2850] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
In Joshua Reynolds' portrait of John Barker (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) it is impossible to identify the papers on Barker's desk, but in John Jones' engraving published in the same year, additional details have been added to render them identifiable as plans of Ramsgate Harbour. Barker was a trained engineer and was strongly involved with the development of the harbour, a view of which can be seen through the window behind the sitter. Since the painting has now been cut down, this print also serves as a valuable record of Reynolds' original composition:
John Barker Esqr.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Octr. 10th. 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone.
Mezzotint, published state, image 580 x 380mm. 22¾ x 15". Trimmed to printed area; repaired tear on right; occasional pinholes.
Portrait of merchant John Barker (1707 - 1787), governor of the London Assurance Corporation. Seated at a tapestry-covered table, with his hand resting on a chart. Ramsgate harbour in the background. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton p.5, II of II.; CS: 5 (only state listed).
[Ref: 22389] £230
The use of maps as symbols of military pride is further illustrated in this satirical print, copied from Gillray's print from 1795, in which William Wyndham Grenville stands reading while proudly hanging on the wall is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent', whose haphazard rendering reflects the failure of British campaigns during this period. Gillray's print was issued as a companion to A keen-sighted politician finding out the British conquests, in which Grenville pores over British victories in the West Indies, while ignoring French victories in Europe:
A Keen-sighted Politician warming his Imagination. 152.
'"Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head; "What plenteous stores of
knowledge may contain, "The spacious tenement of Pogy's brain!"Nature in
all her dispensations wise, "Who form'd his head-piece of so vast a
size, Hath not, 'tis true, neglected to bestow, It's due proportion on
the part below; And hence we reason, that to serve the state, His top
& bottom, may have equal weight."
After James Gillray
A rare hand-coloured etching. Plate 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½". Stained.
BM Satires: 8659.
[Ref: 20093] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The general and first president of Chile José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (1785-1821) is here shown with a map of his country (on which 'Argentina' and 'Patagonia' are also visible):
Jeneral José Miguel Carrera, Primer Presidente de la Rupública de Chile. José Migl. Carrera [facsimile signature.]
H. Meyer [inside image.] Imp. Bertauts, Paris.
[n.d. c.1820.]
A very rare lithograph with large margins, 642 x 483mm. 25¼ x 19".
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (1785-1821) was a Chilean general, and considered one the founders of independent Chile. He was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence. After the Spanish Reconquista he continued campaigning from exile, but was eventually betrayed and executed in Mendoza by the pro-San Martin military forces of the United Provinces of South America.
[Ref: 15182] £380
Moving forward to the 20th century, this print shows a court in session debating a 'prize ship', with a map on the wall showing the area surrounding Denmark, with Northern Germany and southern Scandinavia:
The Prize Court.
Arthur Garratt [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1915.]
Drypoint, signed by the artist. 300 x 250mm, 12 x 9¾".
A Prize Court in session. The wall map of Scandinavia & the Baltic suggests that the ship in question was German, during World War One.
[Ref: 13970] £240
A map of Mildmay Fane with a map behind him which shows the area between his estate at Apethorpe (at the bottom) and Hull (at the top):
JBN Invent [intials in the form of a monogram]. P. Williamson Sculp. 1662.
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 260 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8".
Portrait of Mildmay Fane, half length in an oval wreath, short beard and moustache, wearing cap, collar and sash; curtain to the left, and map of part of Lincolnshire on the right. Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, (1602-1665) was an English nobleman, politician and writer.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. NPG: D8277.
[Ref: 24082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
French traveller Jean de Thévenot with a map of the Arabian peninsula, which he points to as a way of representing his familiarity with the area:
[François Chauveau del.]
[Paris : Jolly, Thomas] [n.d. c.1664]
A very rare engraving. Sheet 207 x 134mm. 8¼" x 5¼". Cut.
From the title page to 'Relation D'Un Voyage fait au Levant' - The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. Jean de Thévenot (June 16, 1633 – November 28, 1667) was a French traveller in the East, who wrote extensively about his journeys. He was also a linguist, natural scientist and botanist. He was born in Paris and received his education in the Collège de Navarre.
[Ref: 8988] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
The French cartographer Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) here rests upon an Atlas Gallicus (atlas of France- probably the Atlas francois from which this portrait was the frontispiece, in a curiously self-referential gesture):
Culin Pinxit. Vermeulen Sculpsit.
[Paris, c.1700.]
Scarce line engraving, image 365 x 300mm. 14¼ x 11¾". Trimmed to plate.
Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632 - 1712) was a French sculptor, engraver, publisher and cartographer; holding folio atlas in right hand and compass in left, more books behind.
[Ref: 20751] £620
William Hogarth's works are always full of objects, and in his painting The Denunciation (National Gallery of Ireland) and the subsequent print made by Sympson, a large hemisphere map is in the background:
W. Hogarth pinx. J. Sympson Jun.r Sculp.
Sold by J. Sympson Engraver and Print-Seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane.
Etching and engraving. Plate 306 x 356mm. 12 x 14".
BM Satires: 2261. See Paulson: pp.29-30.
[Ref: 19160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
In this portrait of Sir George Saville, 8th Baronet, he rests his hands on plans for the Aire and Calder Navigation, a river and canal system in Yorkshire:
Painted by Benj.n Wilson. Engraved & Etched by B.W. and Mr. Basire.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Dec.r the 4.th 1770.
Etching and engraving. 494 x 336mm. 19½ x 13¼". Trimmed.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet (1726-1784) was an English politician; seated here with plans marked 'The Calder Navigation', Halifax. This is a reference to his 'Letter of Sir George Savile, Bart. on an attempt made to interfere with the Aire and Calder Navigation in the year 1772'.
Included in the Science & Society Picture Library, Science Museum; Leeds portrait repr.in Andrew Graciano (ed.) 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society, 2012).
[Ref: 20674] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Here, in a caricatured scene in the office of the City of London Militia from 1773, an (illegible) map on the wall relates to the responsibilities of the militia:
Pub Accorg to Act by MDarly Strand Sepr. 2d. 1773.
Etching, 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾".
A new recruit with a peg-leg is presented to a startled-looking recruiting officer of the much-caricatured City of London militia.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14538] £240
This print shows an uncomfortable politician surrounded by three maps showing Great Britain and Ireland (in the shadows on the right), the Iberian peninsula (on the wall on the left) and, most interestingly, 'An Accurate Map of Falklands Is.' over which a cat and dog fight!:
Done from the Original Drawing by S. H. Grimm.
Printed for S. Sledge Printseller, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Publish'd as the Act Directs 2d May 1771.
Engraving 360 x 260mm. Trimmed inside the platemark.
A French Barber appears to be whispering in the ear of his grotesque customer….Lord North, …..'Falkland Islands' - On January 22nd after lengthy negotiations and the threat of war an agreement was signed giving Port Egmont back to the British.View the declarations On 15th September,the Spanish handed Port Emont back to the British represented by Captain Scott commanding the frigate Juno the sloop hound and the store ship Florida.
BM:4857
[Ref: 2850] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
In Joshua Reynolds' portrait of John Barker (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) it is impossible to identify the papers on Barker's desk, but in John Jones' engraving published in the same year, additional details have been added to render them identifiable as plans of Ramsgate Harbour. Barker was a trained engineer and was strongly involved with the development of the harbour, a view of which can be seen through the window behind the sitter. Since the painting has now been cut down, this print also serves as a valuable record of Reynolds' original composition:
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Octr. 10th. 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone.
Mezzotint, published state, image 580 x 380mm. 22¾ x 15". Trimmed to printed area; repaired tear on right; occasional pinholes.
Portrait of merchant John Barker (1707 - 1787), governor of the London Assurance Corporation. Seated at a tapestry-covered table, with his hand resting on a chart. Ramsgate harbour in the background. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton p.5, II of II.; CS: 5 (only state listed).
[Ref: 22389] £230
The use of maps as symbols of military pride is further illustrated in this satirical print, copied from Gillray's print from 1795, in which William Wyndham Grenville stands reading while proudly hanging on the wall is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent', whose haphazard rendering reflects the failure of British campaigns during this period. Gillray's print was issued as a companion to A keen-sighted politician finding out the British conquests, in which Grenville pores over British victories in the West Indies, while ignoring French victories in Europe:
After James Gillray
A rare hand-coloured etching. Plate 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½". Stained.
BM Satires: 8659.
[Ref: 20093] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The general and first president of Chile José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (1785-1821) is here shown with a map of his country (on which 'Argentina' and 'Patagonia' are also visible):
H. Meyer [inside image.] Imp. Bertauts, Paris.
[n.d. c.1820.]
A very rare lithograph with large margins, 642 x 483mm. 25¼ x 19".
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (1785-1821) was a Chilean general, and considered one the founders of independent Chile. He was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence. After the Spanish Reconquista he continued campaigning from exile, but was eventually betrayed and executed in Mendoza by the pro-San Martin military forces of the United Provinces of South America.
[Ref: 15182] £380
Moving forward to the 20th century, this print shows a court in session debating a 'prize ship', with a map on the wall showing the area surrounding Denmark, with Northern Germany and southern Scandinavia:
Arthur Garratt [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1915.]
Drypoint, signed by the artist. 300 x 250mm, 12 x 9¾".
A Prize Court in session. The wall map of Scandinavia & the Baltic suggests that the ship in question was German, during World War One.
[Ref: 13970] £240
