Catalogue 111 is here!
The March of Interlect or a Dust-Man & Family of the 19th Century.
Marks fecit.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper, with second droll on reverse.
A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine). The second droll is 'Very Wet', a coloured aquatint (180 x 140mm, trimmed to image), with a well-dress woman getting soaked despite her umbrella.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 56617] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Marks fecit.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper, with second droll on reverse.
A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine). The second droll is 'Very Wet', a coloured aquatint (180 x 140mm, trimmed to image), with a well-dress woman getting soaked despite her umbrella.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 56617] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
We have the pleasure in sending out our new Catalogue 111; a listing of over 200 items. It includes portraits, topography both Foreign and UK, sports and pastimes such as boxing and fishing, military, naval, some Americana and satire including William Hogarth and Egerton.
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A few highlights:
ames Balfour Esq.r. Secretary & Treasurer of the Edinburgh Company of Golfers. 1795. By desire of the Company.
Henry Raeburn pinx.t. J. Jones sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs by Will.m Murray, Bookseller, Parliament Close Edin.gh October 1796.
Mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Contemporary double frame. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of James Balfour (1705-95), Scottish advocate, author of three philosophical books and keen golfer, seated and gesturing as if in conversation. On his desk are books titled 'Record of the Gent. Golfers' and 'Bet Book'. As Secretary to the Edinburgh Company of Golfers he would have been involved in compiling the original rules of golf in 1777. His great-great-grandson was Robert Louis Stevenson, who was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. The Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh held the first recorded open golf championship on 2nd April 1744.
CS: 4
[Ref: 56714] £1,500.00
Drawn & Engraved by W.m Daniell.
Published as the Act directs, by Tho.s Daniell, R.A. Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, April 1. 1803.
Coloured aquatint, frame size 620 x 755mm (24¼ x 29¾"). Unexamined outside of frame
Plate 22 from the third set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'. A view of the city of Mathura taken from a garden pavilion on the opposite bank of the river Yamuna. Buildings visible in the scene are the fort built by Raja Man Singh of Amber at the beginning of the 17th century, and the Jami Masjid with its four minarets, which was erected 1660-1668 by Aurangzeb's governor 'Abd al-Nabi Khan. In Hinduism, Mathura is believed to be the birthplace of Krishna.
[Ref: 56767] £1,450.00
Destruction by Fire of the Amazon Mail Steamer. of 2250 Tons burden, in the Bay of Biscay, Jan.y 4th 1852, on Her first voyage from Southampton to Chagres, with 50 Passsengers and 106 Crew and attendants, the greater number of whom were lost.
Engraved from a sketch made by one of the Survivors.
Read & Co., 10, Johnson's Court, Fleet St. London [n.d., c.1852].
Rare steel engraving with hand colour. 265 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed close to plate, slight scuffing in inscription area.
RMS Amazon was a wooden barque with three masts and a paddle wheel, launched in 1851. On her maiden voyage the bearings on her two side-lever steam engines kept overheating, which possibly led to a fire in the hay bales kept for animal feed. The order to abandon ship was given, but heavy seas swamped most of the boats launched. The brig 'Marsden', seen in the background, rescued 21 people from a lifeboat, at one stage believed to be the only survivors but, over the course of the next few days, two other boats were recovered. It is estimated that over two-thirds of the passengers and crew died. At the time the Admiralty supervised UK merchant ships contracted to carry mail, demanding that they all have wooden hulls. After the Amazon disaster this order was rescinded, so iron hulls became the norm.
[Ref: 56510] £360.00
