Father's day gift ideas!

It's Father's day Sunday, 18th June so let us inspire you with some ideas below!

For the classics scholar

Depictions of the faithful son Aeneas and his father:

Eneas carrying his Father Anchyses from the Ruins of Troy. From the Original Picture, Painted by Jacopo Robusti commonly called Tintoretto, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Size of the Picture, 1' 0" by 1' 4" in height.
Tintoretto pinx.t R. Earlom delin.t & Sculpsit
John Boydell excudit London 1767
Mezzotint with etching, 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9". Large margins; creasing through centre
Aeneas carrying his father away from Troy before beginning the journey that will lead to the foundation of Rome. Illustration to an episode featuring in Virgil's 'The Aeneid'. From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes produced in late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to 1773) originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of artists, engravers and patrons, establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
[Ref: 14885] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

From Daddy's girl:

[Chryseis Restored to her Father, parallel text in French]
[G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. - F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1786.]
[London, Publish'd June 12.th 1786, by S. Vivares]
A rare stipple, printed in sepia, platemark 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Proof before all letters. Small margins.
Scene from Homer's 'The Odyssey' in which the enslaved Trojan woman Chryseis is returned to her father after Apollo unleashes a plague on her Greek captors. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case, getting around the rules by electing Bartolozzi as a painter). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton enticed Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal.
Calabi & de Vesme 381 ii/v (before all letters, with etched border). Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire.
[Ref: 46757] £420.00

For the keen sportsman

A lot of Father's Day cards and memorablia always seem to feature golf! However we have many sports which your Dad may be interested in.

Hoylake.
Spy [Leslie Ward.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith.
Vanity Fair. July 16th 1903.
Chomolithograph. Printed area 330 x 190mm (13 x 7½"). Tear in right margin.
Harold Horsfall Hilton (1869-1942), golfer, one of only three amateurs to win an Open Championship, firstly at Muirfield in 1893, and again at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, 1897. He was also the first editor of Golf Monthly, an editor of Golf Illustrated and a course designer (for example Ferndown Golf Club in Dorset). Hewas inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.
[Ref: 40691] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Albert Primrose, Lord Dalmeny.]''In his father's steps''. Vanity Fair. Sept.r 22.d 1904
Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. lith.
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾'').
A portrait of Albert Primrose, Lord Dalmeny (1882-1974) who played cricket for Middlesex and Surrey counties. Supplement to the magazine Vanity Fair. The Cricketers of Vanity Fair.
[Ref: 50042] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

For the beer lover

Rural Life.
Ph, Mercier: Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Large margins on right and upper sides. Stains in title area. Large repaired tear in left edge. Pin holes in upper edge.
Exterior scene in which a young man holds a tankard in his right hand while a scythe rests across his lap.
For reduced copy titled 'The Scythe, Man's Refreshment' see ref: 32343. Ex Collection of the late Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36043] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

For the at home brewer:

[Brewery.] Plate VII. Facing Brew-House.
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 310mm (7½ x 12½"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on lower edge.
A view inside a brewery showing men stirring the contents of a large barrell with large poles.
[Ref: 53836] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

For the Dad with a sense of humour

A Chip of the Old Block.
Published by W. Dudley, 20, Apollo buildings, Gloucester-st, Lambeth [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured woodcut. In ink at top "reform of nature & shiver my timbers carried by one its a brave one!" Sheet 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
A midwife holds up the the new-born son of an old sailor, remarking on the child's resemblance to its father, which includes a hook hand, wooden leg and sailor's queue.
[Ref: 54505] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

A Fry.
[Theodore Lane.]
London Published by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street, Jan 30th 1822.
Coloured etching. 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Large margin on 3 sides, cut to printed border on right.
A scene in an impecunious household, with a man being assaulted by his five children while his wife holds a frying pan over the hearth. From a series of four satires with a cooking theme. Theodore Lane (1800-28) exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy from the age of 16 before becoming a satirist. He died at 28 falling through a skylight.
BM Satires 14453.
[Ref: 33089] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Country Christening. Parson:_Wilt thou cause this Child to be taught &c. &c. in the Vulgar Tongue?_Godfather:_I Wooll.
E_, Del.t.
[London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet.
A scene in a church showing a mother holding her child at the font as the vicar conducts the service.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50727] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The First Interview, or Happiness Sacrificed to Riches. 516
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [****] [1784.]
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Large margins, left margin repaired, tears in edges, date erased.
A young woman turns aside in disgust from a simian-looking suitor. Her father looks very unhappy.
BM Satires 6762; ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37579] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Passions Delineated.] Avarice & Dissipation.
[John Collier as 'Tim Bobbin'.]
Pub. June 4 1810 by Edw.d Orme, London.
Coloured stipple. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate, stains in top corners.
A spendthrift son hands a wad of bills to his miserly father. From 'The Passions, humorously Delineated, by Timothy Bobbin, Esq' by John Collier (1708-86), using the pseudonym Tim Bobbin, first published 1773.
SP Lohia Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection 718.
[Ref: 59963] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

General Fatherly Scenes

Der gute Vater.
Schenau del. J.C. Nabholz Sculp.
1779.
Scarce copper engravng. Plate 273 x 205mm. 10¾ x 8".
A good & happy father sits in a chair ambushed by his five children. A woman, presumably his wife, looks on in admiration and adoration.
[Ref: 16185] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Les Etrennes. Le Bon Génie, Journal des Enfans. No.21 Lith No.5.
Marlet del. Lith de Marlet.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph, rare. 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). Slight creasing, cut.
'Les étrennes' (new year gifts in France). A father sat in his chair surrounded by children playing with their new presents, including a tambourine, violin, drum and dolls. A child on the right is dressed as a soldier and rides a toy horse. This military theme is echoed by the painting of a military inspection which hangs on the wall. One of a series published in a children's magazine.
[Ref: 29679] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Farmers Visit to his married Daughter in Town.
Morland pinx. W. Bond sculp.
London Publish'd May 1.st 1780 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Hand-coloured stipple, printed in colour. 395 x 342mm. 15½ x 13½". Cut inside platemark.
A young woman passing papers to her father at which he looks with dismay, seated at right with glass in hand, her husband sitting beside him at a table, their daughter playing with a dead hare in the left foreground, watched by a dog sitting under the farmer's chair.
[Ref: 28160] £320.00

Father, and Mother, and Suke. 359.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Very fine coloured mezzotint. Fantastically bright 18th century colour. 292 x 248mm. 11½ x 9¾". Trimmed to the image top and sides, and to just below the title at bottom. Some creasing.
Outside a country cottage a father sit in his chair smoking a pipe, a mother in a shawl and round spectacles stands next to him to greet their son. The dog with its hind legs leans against his leg excited to see him. In the doorway to the entrance a young lady comes out to greet him too, with a sickle hanging up next to her. In the window sits a cat, a rooster and chicks peck at the food on the floor, and a pig in a sty is to the right with another roost perched on top, above which flies a dove.
[Ref: 16349] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

For Grandfather

Our Early Days. No.1. Now I'm Grandfather. [&] Now I'm Grandmother.
[After T.C. Wilson.] W.Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by O. Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street. [&] Published by Plummer & Co. 457 Strand. [n.d. c.1840.]
A very fine pair of lithograph with hand-colour and added gum arabic. 354 x 260mm (4 x 10¼").
A little boy sitting back in an armchair reading the Evening Herald whilst smoking a pipe; his feet don't quite reach the footstool. On the table to the side is some sherry and jug omitting steam. [&] A little girl in an armchair by the fire. She appears to be knitting a hat, whilst a kitten plays with the ball of wool on the carpet.
[Ref: 16291] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT

Le Souhait de la Bonne Annee au Grand Papa.
Canot pinx. J. Ph. Le Bas Sculp.
A Paris chez J. Ph. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy. Et à Rouen chez J.B. Descamps vis-à-vis S. Amand. 1747.
Engraving. 390 x 275mm (15¼ x 10¾"). Fine, with very large margins.
A French interior scene: a girl gets a birthday present from her grandfather, while her brother looks on. A handsome clock adorns the mantelpiece. A real tennis racquet on chimney piece. After Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707 - 1783).
[Ref: 32652] £280.00

Our Grandfathers' Hobbies.
Frank Paton [pencil signature].
Published by Leggatt Bro.s., 62 Cheapside E.C. 1898.
Engraving, small margins; signed by the artist. 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼").
The central image is a copy of William Mason's painting 'A Country Racecourse', published 1786. The ten remarques are other pursuits: gambling, badger-baiting, bare-knuckle boxing, billiards, etc. Frank Paton (1855-1909), best known for his paintings of animals and scenes of rural life. This print is from his series of etched Christmas cards published annually by Edward Ernest Leggatt from 1880 until Paton's death in 1909, costing half-a-guinea each. Each year a number of the prints would be sent from the printers to be signed in pencil by Paton.
[Ref: 31344] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Visit to the Grandfather.
Painted by J.R. Smith. Engraved by W: Ward.
London publish'd January, 12th 1788 = by J.R. Smith, No. 31- King Stt. Covent Garden.
Mezzotint printed in colours. 704 x 500mm. 27¾ x 19½". Some creasing.
A family scene of mother and children visiting grandfather.
CS: 101. W: 310 III of III. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14756] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)