Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year!

 This year is the year of the Tiger!

[A Tigress.]
Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
London, Published December 1st 1891, by C. E. Clifford & Co. 200 Piccadilly W.
Drypoint etching on vellum, limited edition of 225 signed proofs. 580 x 495mm (22¾ x 19½), with Printsellers' Association stamp. Unexamined out of frame
Dramatic head of a snarling tigress, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1891.
[Ref: 12055]   £950.00  

You can see the rest of our catalogued tiger stock here; we also have more in store!

 Let's check out the other members of the Chinese zodiac:

2023: Rabbit 


Tom and his Pidgeons. [&] The Favorite Rabbit.
J.Russell Esq.r pinx.t. C.Knight sculp.t.
Published June 1. 1792 by C.Knight, Stoke Bucks & Random, Stainbank & Sayer, 17 Old Bond Street, London.
Pair of oval stipples. Each 160 x 170mm. Trimmed to platemarks.
Tom protecting his pigeons from a cat, and a girl feeding her rabbit.
[Ref: 5309]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)

 

2024: Dragon

Saturno Alla cognizone e transporto per le Belle Arti di S. Ex.ca il Sig.r D. Mario dei Principi Gabrielli degnissimo Presidente delle Ripe ed Acque de questa Citta de Roma.
Raffaele Sanzio d'Urb. inv. Stefano Tofanelli delin. Pietro Bonato Veneto incise. In Roma presso Venanzio Monaldini Mercante de Libri e Stampe in Piazza di Spagne a N.o 79.
Rome, [n.d. c.1800-1820].
Engraving and etching. 340 x 410mm (13¼ x 16), large margins Uncut. Foxing around the edges.
A depiction of Saturn holding a scythe in his chariot pulled by two winged serpent-monsters. After a design by Raphael in the Sala dei Pontefici.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 55079]   £450.00 


2025: Snake 


[Emerald tree boa] The Green Boa. Xiphosoma Caninum.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Some slight cockling of paper.
Corallus caninus, a non-venonous snake of the South American rainforests, named for its fangs, proportionately larger than those of any other non-venomous snake. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45780]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT) 

 

2026: Horse

Anvil.
George Stubbs pinx.t. Geo: Townley Stubbs sculp.t Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London. Published Dec.r 1 1794 by Mess.rs Stubbs, Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.
Stipple and etching, open-letter finished proof, printed in colours and hand finished. 405 x 500mm (16 x 19¾"). Framed. Some spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
Anvil, foaled in 1777 and described by 'A Review of the Turf' as 'ranked amongst the best stallions of the present day'. In 1793 Anvil was in Mr O'Kelly's stud at Edgware, at 10 guineas per mare.
Lennox-Boyd: 114, state I of III, ''100 proofs were issued''.
[Ref: 54816]   £1,850.00  

 

2027: Goat 


Ye Wicked Goat.
Joaquin Macias [signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.d., c.1940.]
Etching, 150 x 225mm. 6 x 9". Upper left corner missing.
A goat in a yard eating washing hanging on a line. The Latin American artist Joaquin Macias is known to have lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Nicaragua, and to have visited Chile in 1951. In a hand written note discovered with a group of his etchings, he mentions a period of "30 years residence" in Britain. He seems to have etched most of his plates in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
[Ref: 9944]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT) 

 

2028: Monkey

The Dansant. [In pencil.]
L.R. Brightwell. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c. 1923.] James Connell & Sons in an edition of 100 signed proofs.
Drypoint etching. Plate: 375 x 250mm (14¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Uncut, with original mount and attachment.
A scene showing several monkeys on a branch eating fruit. Leonard Robert Brightwell (1889-1962) produced his comical animal etchings from about 1920 to 1932 - Monkeys were his favourite!
See 38926 for his Elephants.
[Ref: 44416]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)

 

2029: Rooster

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 4. Domestic Fowl.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal. Mint
A central illustration of a rooster, hens & chicks, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of the uses of their products, including feathers for hats, pillows and shuttlecocks. Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 13280]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)


2030: Dog


[Golden Labrador]
Henry Wilkinson [signed in pencil]. Edition 148/250.
[n.d. c.1950.]
Coloured etching. 178 x 222mm (7" x 8¾").
[Ref: 9704]   £125.00   (£150.00 incl.VAT) 

 

2031: Pig


[Pig.]
Etched by I.C. Zeitter, from the Original Painting by James Ward Esq. R.A. in the Possession of F.H. Baily Esq. R.A.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. Plate: 180 x 240mm (7 x 9½") large margins. Uncut.
A portrait of a pig etched by John Christian Zeitter after a drawing by artist James Ward who was well known for his paintings of animals.
[Ref: 47266]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)

 

2032: Rat 

Bat. Water Rat. Short tail'd field Mouse. Long tail'd field Mouse.
P. Paillou pinx. P. Mazell sculp.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 385 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾'')very large margins.
A diagram of a bat, water rat and mice in a naturalistic setting from 'The British Zoology' 1766 by Thomas Pennant.
[Ref: 48381]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)


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