Catalogue 146 out now!

 

T. E. Lawrence, 1928 [pencil]. [WITH STEEL PRINTING PLATE.]
Henry Rayner.
£990
Stock Ref: 66081
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We are pleased to present another small listing:
Catalogue 146!
 
It contains just over 50 items including the following subjects:

India Portraits
Portraits
Satire

View the whole catalogue here
Happy browsing!
 
 A few highlights:
 

William Fairlie Esq.re.
Engraved from a Picture of M.A. Shee by John Young, Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince Regent. 1817.
Rare mezzotint. 660 x 390mm (26 x 15¼"). Creasing. Small margins.
A full length portrait of Scottish merchant William Fairlie (1754-1825), known as the 'Prince of Indian Merchants', a highly successful merchant in Bengal, independent of the East India Company. Fairlie Place in Calcutta is named after him. Shee's oil was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816, no. 142.
CS 22 i of ii.. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65966]   £480.00    
 
 

 The Nutting Villager. 'If timely warn'd wou'd the dear charming Maid...
London, Published as the Act directs, June 10.th 1786, by R. Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. Framed, sight size 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾"). Framed over edge of image, slight damp staining in inscription area. Unexamined out of frame.
A young girl wearing a hat and a gown which exposes a breast, pulling down a branch to pick nuts, collecting them in a basket.
[Ref: 66086]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
 
 

The Famous Dutch Woman.
[After Marcellus Laroon II.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Small margins left and right.
Portrait of a female acrobat balancing on a rope from the "The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life" series.
[Ref: 65986]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
 
 

Catalogue 147 will be out lunctime 16th July. 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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