Catalogue 145: For the ABA Saatchi Fair!

 

 

Mr. John Jackson. From an original Picture in the posession of Sir Henry Smyth Bart.
Painted by B.Marshall. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London Published May 19 1810, by C.Turner No.50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 640 x 450mm (25¼ x 17¾"), with large margins. Central crease and repaired tears. Title area bit messy top left. Damaged.
Full length portrait of the pugilist known as Gentleman Jackson (1769-1845), standing to front in a gallery beside a sculpture of a boxer, holding a top hat with his right hand on the pedestal, pictures of a fight between two boxers hangs on the wall, English champion 1793-1803. A very rare large boxing image.
Whitman: 277.
[Ref: 65936]   £1,800.00    

We're participating in Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery 15th-18th May.
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We are pleased to present our listing:
Catalogue 145: For the ABA Saatchi Fair!
 
 
Please let us know in advance anything you would like us to bring to the fair.
We look forward to seeing you there on stand J101 on the 2nd Floor!

Highlights include:

 

An Exhibition of Wild Beasts. Or the Macaroni in Distress.
London Printed for R.Sayer & J.Bennett, No.53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 10 Octo.r 1774.
Coloured mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Frame 420 x 320mm (16½ x 12½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting an elderly couple and a child visiting a menagerie are amused to see a monkey seizing the long queue of a macaroni while it seizes its own tail. The monkey is chained as are a bear and a wolf; a peacock and a bird are in cages. One of the finest of 18th century drolls.
BM 4620.
[Ref: 66044]   £1,800.00    

[Francis Rawdon Hastings] Right Hon.ble Earl of Moira. Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in North Britain &c. &c. &c. From the original picture in the possession of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Painted by Jn.o Hoppner R.A. Portrait Painter to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Engraved by Jn.o Young Engraver in Mezzotinto to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London July 15 1805, Published by the Engraver, No 65 Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square; and in Edinburgh, by W.m Walker, Buccheugh Rents, and D. McIntosh, No 15, St Andrews Street.
Mezzotint, printed in colour and hand-finished. 665 x 415mm (26¼ x 16¼"), large margins. Long tear on right, crack in top platemark and small tears in inscription area all taped.
Fine full-length portrait of Francis Rawdon Hastings (1754-1826), first Marquess of Hastings and second Earl of Moira, in uniform. 'North Britain' (or Scotland) was one of the military districts created on the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. Rawdon served in the American Revolutionary war, fighting at Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill and Hobkirk Hill. He later served as Governor-General of India (1813-23).
CS 54, state ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65965]   £680.00    





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