Festive Listing: Catalogue 133!
Peacock and Pie.
[Francis Barlow]
[illegible] N44 Wells S.t Oxford [J Hinton?] [illegible] 268 Hol[born?] [William Elliott?]
Mezzotint with wonderful printed colour, hand finished. 480 x 595 (18¾ x 23½"), with large margins.
From
Fable CIV of Aesop Fables. Also known as the Parliament of Birds plate
33, Fable XVI. We have been unable to find any reference to the large
mezzotint. A peacock on full display is surrounded by birds mostly open
beaked seemingly in reverence. Birds include: an owl, an ostrich, an
emu, a parrot, a heron, chickens, a duck, a dove, a magpie and a falcon.
See BM 1867,0413.394 for the drawing.
[Ref: 61503] £4,500.00
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A Tyger.
Painted by Ja.s Northcote; Engraved by Jn.o Murphy.
Publish'd May 1, 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, closed letters. 485 x 605mm (19 x 23¾"), with very large margins.
A
fine impression of this scene of a prowling tiger in a cave, staring at
the viewer. To the right is the head of a dead wolf. A fantastic image
of 18th century mezzotint art.
[Ref: 61190] £6,800.00
Very Slippy-Weather. [&] Dreadful-Hot Weather. [&] Sad Sloppy Weather. [&] Raw-Weather. [&] Fine Bracing Weather. [&] Windy Weather. [&] Delicious Weather.
Etch'd by J.s Gillray.
London. Published February 10.th 1808. by H. Humphrey N.º 27 S.t James's Street.
Set of seven etchings with very fine hand colour. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to border.
The complete set of seven etchings, showing men affected by the weather. The most famous is 'Very Slippy-Weather', which shows a man slipping on the icy pavement outside Hannah Humphry's shop on St James's Street, the window full of Gillray satires.
BM Satires 11094-11100.
[Ref: 61759] £2,800.00
A Prospect of the City of London from S.t Marie Overs Steeple In Southwark in its flourishing Condition before The Fire. Another Prospect of the above City taken from the Same Place as it Appeared after that Dreadfull Fire in 1666. A Plan for Rebuilding the City after the Fire, Design’d by that Great Architect S.r Christoph.r Wren and approv’d of by King and Parliament but unhappily Defeated by Faction.Vues de la Ville de Londres Comme il doit devant & apres l’incendie de 1666. Avec le plan pour la rebâtir. Projetté par ce grand architecte le chevalier Chrsitopher Wren, & aprouvé par le roi & parliament; mais malheureusement rejetté par faction.
[Prospects after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Publiè par Jean Rocque, Chorographe de Son Altesse Royalle le Prince de Galles.
Engraved map. Sheet 360 x 315mm (14½ x 12½"). Dissected and laid on linen, trimmed close to printed border, some surface loss top centre & top left, stains and creases, mounted on card.
Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666, with copies of Wenceslaus Hollar's prospects of the city before and after the fire.
Rare: OCLC records only two institutional examples, in the British Library and the Yale Centre for British Art
[Ref: 61745] £1,650.00
