Catalogue 136: For the London and Paris Print Fairs!

 

[''Old Man Wearing Velvet Cap'' or ''Old Man with Spectacles''.]
Thos Frye, Pictor, Invenit & Sculpsit [c.1760].
Sold at the Golden Head of Red Lamp, near the Corner of Greville Street in Hatton Garden.
Mezzotint, 515 x 365mm (20¼ x 14¼), with small margins. A fine impression of this magnificent image. Light foxing at the bottom, not in image. Very faint crease near left margin in the centre.
A man wearing a velvet cap facing the right, his left side profile on show. He holds in his right hand a pair of spectacles. From Thomas Frye's (1710-62) set of mezzotint 17 life-size heads which he published in two series between 1760 and 1762 and for which he is chiefly remembered. Russell believes this could be a self-portrait or another artist that dwelled with Frye, 'Query, a portrait of Thomas Frye. On an impression in Mr. J. Holland's handwriting: "Mr Mellish a painter of shipping who lived with Frye."' Thomas Mellish (fl.1761-1778).
CS: 9 only state. Russell: 9 state II of II.
[Ref: 62638]   £1,800.00   

 

 We are pleased to present our latest listing;
Catalogue 136: For the London and Paris Print Fairs!
(Please note we are not exhibiting).
It contains over 200 items consisting largely of modern etchings but also includes:

Portraits
Decorative Items
Views Overseas
Views UK
Ephemera
Mezzotints
Science
Napoleonic Items
Maps
Books
Military and Naval
Satire
Historical, Social and Political items.
Sports and Pastimes
Natural History.
  

A few highlights:

 

To Vice Admiral, The Right Honourable Sir George Cockburn. G. C. B. & M.P. This Plate Representing an Action with the Spanish Slave Ship Frigate "Velos Passahera," captured by boarding by H.M. Ship Primrose, Commander Will.m Broughton, off Whydah, Bight of Benin the 6.th September. 1830.
Engraved by E. Duncan. Painted by W. J. Huggins. Marine Painter to His Majesty and Published by him Sept.r 1.st 1831 at 105 Leadenhall Street, London.
Fine & rare aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. J. Whatman, Turkey Mill 1830 watermark; Sheet 485 x 635mm (19 x 25"), large margins. Trimmed to plate at top.
Stern view of small British ship, HMS Primrose, alongside large Spanish slave frigate, Veloz Passagera; with smoke from the cannons and the British crew pouring onto Spanish foredeck. A small wooden life boat is drifting in the foreground. The capture of the Spanish slaver with a cargo of 555 slaves actually took place on the 7th September 1830 not the 6th as stated in the print's inscription. In the hand to hand conflict which followed, Edward Harris Butterfield again signalised himself, and, when Broughton had been badly hurt, succeeded to the command. The enemy did not surrender until she had lost 46 killed and 20 wounded, and caused a loss to the British of 3 killed and 13 wounded. After marine painter William John Huggins (1781 - 1845), who began his working life as a seaman with the East India Company. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was given royal patronage for his work.
[Ref: 61514]   £850.00   

 


 [Otters and Salmon.]
Engraved by Charles George Lewis after Edwin Henry Landseer.
[April 28th 1871] by J. McQueen, 31 Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street, London.
Mezzotint with engraving. Artist's proof before letters 25/100. 770 x 530mm (30 x 21"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Printsellers Association. Mount burn. Mint.
An otter standing over a dead salmon on a rock, looking back to left with a snarl at another otter which approaches; waterfall and mountain stream bordered by rocks in the background.
[Ref: 62634]   £420.00 

 

[Portrait of a Deerhound.]
Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
Copyright 1924 by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Etching. Framed, sight size 400 x 385mm (15¾ x 15¼"). Frame size 600 x 590mm (23¾ x 23¼") Unexamined outside of frame.
[Ref: 62496]   £1,650.00  
 

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