Catalogue 113 is here!
A Tigress.
Engraved by John Murphy by Permission of Mr. George Stubbs
from the Picture Painted by himself and in his Possession.
London, Published July 27, 1798 by J. Murphy, North side Paddington Green.
Rare and extremely fine mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 620mm (19¼ x
24¼"). Framed. Thread margins. Unexamined out of frame.
A
superb example of the finest images produced in the history of
mezzotint, depicting a a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger in
Stubbs's possession when he died. The painting had originally been
engraved by John Dixon in 1772; however that mezzotint plate had been
destroyed, so John Murphy was allowed to engrave a new plate.
Lennox-Boyd 133: ii of ii.
[Ref: 57221] £12,500.00
Seasons greetings!
We have pleasure in sending out our new catalogue, a festive miscellany of over 300 items containing:
Portraits including Mezzotints, French Portraits and Jacobites.
Decorative items, Satire, Views Overseas and UK, Natural History, Sports and Pastimes. Some Naval and Military.
Plus a small amount of Maps, Science, Fireworks, Ephemera and Americana.
Some highlights:
View of Somerset House, From the Strand.
T.H. Shepherd Del.t. J. Bluck Sculp.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1, 1819 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Framed, visible area 400 x 495mm (15¾ x 19½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A view of the Strand looking towards Temple Bar, with St Mary-le-Strand on the left and Somerset House on the right. The street is busy with coaches, cavalry and a flock of sheep. After Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864), for Ackermann's 'Views of London', a series of 18 large aquatints published 1811-22.
[Ref: 57364] £1,250.00
The Lives of the Reformers, Both Englishmen and Foreigners.
comprehending the General History of the reformation; From its
Beginning, in 1360, by Dr. John Wickliffe, To its Establishment, in 166,
under Queen Elizabeth. With an Introduction; wherein The Reformation is
amply vindicated, and its Necessity filly shewn, from the Degeneracy of
the Clergy, and the Tyranny of the Popes. By Mr. Rolt. The Whole
embellished with the Heads of the Reformers, Elegantly done in
Mezzotinto, by Mr Houston. [In ink on Fontis "Thos. Norris"].
London: Printed for E. Bakewell and H. Parker,
opposite Birchin-Lane, Cornhill; J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street; and T.
Pote in Fleet-Street. MDCLIX [1759].
Folio, large paper
copy, later full calf and marbled endpapers; pp (xiv)+202; 21 fine
mezzotint portraits, as called for. Front board detached, inner hinge of
back board taped.
Richard Rolt (1724-70) also wrote
poems and librettos: his 'Almena, an English Opera', with music by
Thomas Arne, successfully produced at Drury Lane Theatre in 1764. The
plates were actually engraved by John Faber senior c.1715; they were
eventually acquired by the Bakewells, who had them retouched by Richard
Houston, who substituted his own name.
CS: Faber snr 58.
[Ref: 57456] £1,850.00
John Nicholson Mappesiani Bibliopolii Cant. Custos. To the Rev.d
the Vise Chancellor, the Masters, Fellows, Scholars & Students, of
the University of Cambridge - this Print published at their request, the
profits of whcih I give to Addenbrookes Hospital is most humbly
dedicated by their obliged & most obedient Servant John Nicholson.
Engraved by Ja.s Caldwell. From a Picture Painted by Phill.p Reinagle.
Cambridge Published March 1. 1790 by John Nicholson.
Stipple. 585 x 410mm (23 x 16"). Framed Age-toned. Unexamined out of frame.
A
full-length portrait of the Cambridge bookseller John Nicholson, shown
with a armful of books in front of Trinity College. Nicholson became a
bookseller and stationer in 1752, when he married the daughter of
Robert Watts, who had started the first circulating library in
Cambridge. He took over a bookshop at the east end of King's College and
the nickname of 'Maps' (Watts used to announce himself at his
customers' doors by calling out 'Maps!"). A Greek hexameter of him, in a
free and easy version, read: 'The Varsity Gods they call him 'Maps';
He's Nicholson to other chaps'.
[Ref: 57267] £1,280.00
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