(Code No. 6975)

Anon.

Portrait Miniatures:watercolour.

England. Frame size, [4 1/4 x 6ins]. (approx) image size 2 x 2 3/4ins]. (c.1820)..

Original watercolour housed in a gilt decorative frame, possibly John Buttler written on back. (very faded ) £120.00

(Code No. 6967)

The Psalm Smiters.

(Antique Print).

Date. [c.1769].

London, Printed for Bowles & Carver. Image size [4 1/2 x 6ins.] Original mezzotint engraved print, Dust marks to edge of margins.....

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing. —Psalm 35:15 ... £35.00

(Code No. 6936)

Anon.

(antique portrait photograph).

Photograph of a scientist with microscope.

Date. [c.1860].

British, Image size (7 1/2 x 5 3/4ins). Original albumen photograph within a rustic surround........ £60.00

(Code No. 6866)

Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)

(Framed & glazed antique mezzotint print)..

Darwin, Erasmus. (Grandfather of Charles Darwin).

Date. (1st May 1797).

Published by John Raphael Smith, after Joseph Wright, Mount size [15 x 13ins]. 0. Original colour engraved mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1797, after J. Wright. With the original antique frame glass . Not examined outside of frame.

In notes dating to 1779, Darwin made a sketch of a simple hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine, with gas tanks connected by plumbing and pumps to an elongated combustion chamber and expansion nozzle, a concept not to be seen again until one century later. Erasmus Darwin also anticipated survival of the fittest in his poem, 'Zoonomia' ; or, The laws of organic life when writing about the fittest view in Zoönomia on how a species "should" propagate itself. Erasmus' idea that "the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved". Today, this is called the theory of survival of the fittest....... £2000.00

(Code No. 6851)

Waynfleet, William. Bishop of Winchester.

(Antique Print).

Date. 1743.

London,J & P Knapton Impensis. Page Size [9 x 14 3/4ins]. Original copper engraved portrait engraved by J. Houbraken, From a picture at Magdalen College, Oxford. very good condition......... £45.00

(Code No. 6811)

Jacobus Houbraken. artist.

(Antique portrait print).

Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough 1658-1735 .

Date (c.1760).

London. Size of image [14 1/4 x 9ins] Hand-coloured copper line engraved print by Sir Godfrey Kneller taken from a paintingby .Jacobus Houbraken.

Lord Peterborough was short in stature. His activity knew no bounds. He was said to have seen more kings than any man in Europe he hastened from capital to capital. He was eloquent in debate and intrepid in war, but his influence was ruined through his inconsistency..... £25.00

(Code No. 6807)

Louis Augustin Boucher Desnoyers..(1779-1857).

(Antique Print).

Custode de la Ville de Pompeu.

Date. (c.1820).

France. Page size [16 3/4 x 23ins] - Image size, (approx} [6 x 11ins]

A Beautiful original engraving by Massol taken from a drawing by Louis Augustin Boucher Desnoyers of a youth, foxing spots to the margins..Louis Augustin Boucher Desnoyers rose rapidly to the first rank in his adopted art of engraving, and in 1806 gained the large gold medal for his engraving of the celebrated antique cameo of 'Ptolemy II. Philadelphus and Arsinoe," belonging to the Empress Josephine, which is now in the Hermitage Palace at St. Petersburg....... £60.00

(Code No.6804)

Loughborough,. Alexander. Baron. Alexander Baron Loughborough, Lord High Chancellor, afterwards created Earl of Rosslyn..

Date. Dec 7th 1812.

London, T.Cadell & W.Davies. Page size [12 x 15 1/2ins]. Original stipple engraving by Meyer, Henry Hoppner taken a drawing by John Jackson. (1778-1831).Creasing and slight nicks to outer margins well away from image.

Alexander Wedderburn, 1733-1805, was a lawyer born in Edinburgh. He was Lord Chancellor 1793-1801. ........ £40.00

(Code No. 6795).

(Antique Portrait Print).

OSCAR..sveriges och Norges Konung. Crown prince Oscar I Joseph François, of Sweden, 4th July 1799 – 8th July 1859).

No date (c.1830).

Sweden, 74 Gjöthström & Magnusson. Page size [12 x 16ins]. Original lithographic print engraved by Cardon taken from a painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, very good condition.

Oscar I had an excellent education. On January 17th, 1816, he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1818, he was appointed chancellor of Uppsala University, where he spent one semester. In 1839 he wrote a series of articles on popular education, and (in 1841) he published an anonymous work, Om Straff och straffanstalter, advocating prison reforms. Twice during his father's lifetime he was viceroy of Norway. By proxy at the Leuchtenberg Palace in Munich on 22nd May 1823 and in person at a wedding ceremony conducted in Stockholm on 19th June 1823 he married the Princess Josephine, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and granddaughter of the Empress Josephine..........£90.00

(Code. No. 6758)

Anon.

Portrait miniature of James Mongomery.1771- 1854. (author).

Date. (c1809).

British. Wood frame with cast acorn hanger. Size [8 x 10ins], Image size [4 x 5 1/2ins].

Original hand-coloured portrait miniature (painter not known) of James Mongomery on cardboard, split to centre of image. Concave glass.

Author and the book's title displayed with a full hand written title on back of image "James Montgomery Esq. author of the World before the Flood and West Indies etc"

James Montgomery was a Scottish-born poet, hymn writer and editor. He was concerned with humanitarian causes such as the abolition of slavery and of exploitation of child chimney sweeps. He wrote a poem addressing the French annexation of Switzerland and quickly went through two editions. When it was denounced the following year in the conservative Edinburgh Review as a poem that would be speedily forgotten, Lord Byron came to its defence in the satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.The poet's philanthropic enthusiasm and to his own touching associations with the West Indies. The four-part poem appeared in 1809 as "The West Indies". £180.00.

(Code no. 6552)Le Roy.Tsar Peter the Great of Russia.(Antique Print).Date. 1717.Paris. Page size, (10 x 13 1/4ins). Original copper engraved portrait by I. F. Bause.Tsar Peter I of Russia is more usually described as 'Peter the Great'. As a young man, he travelled to Europe in 1697–98 to study new developments in technology, especially shipbuilding. He lived in Deptford, at the home of the writer John Evelyn, for much of his four-month stay in England.......

(Code No. 6476)

Hardess ? Clara.

2 Large Pencil Sketches.

Date. June 1847.

Page sizes [15 x 20ins]. 2 Classical and Religious original pencil sketches, nicks to edges, not affecting images. . Artist's name unclear...... £90.00

(Code No. 6360)

Anon.

Charles Somerscale.

(Watercolour portrait).

Date. 1841.

England. Frame size, [4 x 6ins]. image size 3 x 1 3/4ins]. Original watercolour of Charles Somerscale son of the Earl of Summerfield. In a cardboard mount, (creased), housed in a decorative metal frame.

There are 2 titles in 2 different hands:- "Son of the Earl of Summerfiel" & "Charles Somerscales, Hull. Son of North and Ann Somerscales.1841"...... £120.00

(Code no. 6310)

Jager (Jaeger),Carl.

(Antique print).

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)..

Date. No date. [c.1790].

Page size [11 x 14 3/4ins]. Image size [ 5 x 8ins]. Original Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Haydn engraved by F.A. Andorff, taken from an original drawing by Jager (Jaeger), Carl, .

Joseph Haydn was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".... £60.00

(Code No. 6211)Buck, Adam.(Antique print).HENRY HUNT, ESQ.Date. [c.1820].London, Published by Adam Buck. Page size [10 x 14ins]. Image size [8 x 10ins. Original engraved print drawn from life by Adam Buck.Buck was born in Castle Street, Cork. Becoming an accomplished miniaturist in the 1780s whilst still in Ireland, he then made a permanent move to London. A major influence on Regency culture (producing plates of contemporary costume as well as pictures of family and classical scenes, he was influenced by the Greek Revival the furniture, vases, which he collected, sculptures, costumes and even hairstyles in his works are all ancient Greek. He exhibited more than 170 miniatures and small full-length portraits at the Royal Academy between 1795 and 1833.Henry "Orator" Hunt (1773 -1835) was a British radical speaker and agitator remembered as a pioneer of working-class radicalism and an important influence. He advocated parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Invited, to be one of the scheduled speakers at a rally in Manchester on 16 August 1819, it became the Peterloo Massacre. Arrested and convicted, the incident cost him more than two years in prison.......

(Code No. 6098)

Anon.

Supplement to the Illustrated News of the World.

(Antique Prints).

Date. [c.1860].

Volume 2, only.

The London Joint Stock Newspaper Company Limited. Large folio, [11 x 16 ins]. 134 STEEL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT PLATES, each plate with full-page text or more, plates with tissue guards. ( Approx), image size 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins, slight foxing.

Portraits of 2 Indian Princes, Charles Dickens, Robert Stephenson (railway engineer), Giuseppe Garibaldi, (Italian unification), Sir John Herschel (astronomer), Charles Kingsley (writer), George Cruikshank (artist), Abraham Lincoln, David Roberts (artist), Sir John Franklin (explorer), Lady Canning, T.P. Shaffner, (US Telegraph), etc. Original full morocco. Raised spine bands with gilt tooled panels, rubbed, slight splits to hinges. Marbled edges and end papers. Heavy book, 4.9kg....... £200.00

(Code No. 6012)

LLWYD, Richard (1752-1835).

Silhouette portrait of The Bard of Snowdon;

author of Beaumaris Bay and other Poems.

Date. [c.1830].

Size of frame, [5 1/2 x 6 1/2ins]. Original silhouette on cut black paper, gilded highlights, mounted in a wood frame.

A silhouette image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Traditionally, a silhouette is a form of artwork, the term originating in the 18th century and applied to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card...

Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon (1752 - 1835), was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem Beaumaris Bay, which was published in 1800. He died in Chester in 1835, having survived his wife by a year. He is buried at St. John's churchyard in Chester....... £120.00

(Code No. 6009)

Anon.

2 Primitive Portraits of a young man & woman in fashionable dress.

Date. [c.1834].

Britain. Size of frames, [7 1/2 x 9ins]. 2 Original water colour portraits of possibly Husband and Wife in wood frames, contemporary glass. The chair they are seated on seems similar to both images...... £340.00

(Code No. 5977)

Unwins,T & J. Agar.

(Antique Costume Print).

Proctor.

Date. Feb 1814.

London. R. Ackermann. Page size [13 x 10 1/2ins]. Original hand-coloured aquatint & stipple engraved print, drawn by T. Uwins and engraved by J. Agar. Taken from Ackermann's History of Oxford, plate 78. Very good condition.

The word proctor is used to describe someone who oversees an exam or dormitory...... £40.00

(Code No. 5758)

BOYLE, Henry (1669-1725).

( Antique Portrait).

BOYLE, Henry, Lord Carleton.

Date. 1747.

London, J & P Knapton, Image size [9 x 14 inches]. Original copper engraved print. very good condition.

Boyle was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the army under the auspices of his uncle, the Tory politician Lord Rochester. However, Boyle himself became a Whig, and in 1688 deserted the army of James II in favour of the Prince of Orange...... £35.00

(Code No. 5525)

Anon.

Silhouette portrait of a young man in profile.

Date. [c.1840].

Size of frame, [4 1/2 x 6ins]. Original silhouette on cut black paper on to card mounted in a wood frame, slight surface marks.

A silhouette image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Traditionally, a silhouette is a form of artwork, the term originating in the 18th century and applied to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card... £60.00

(Code No. 4770)(Hubard, Master, William James)Two Silhouette Portraits of a Lady and Gentlemen in Profile.Date. [c.1840.]Size 4 3/4 x 6 1/2ins. Two Silhouette Portraits under glass in their original wood frames, very good. Printed trade label on the back of one of the silhouettes regarding the child prodigy, Master, William.James.Hubard, also a hand writen ink title, William Palin 1760. A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. The term was initially applied in the 18th century to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card.

(Code No. 4552)

Thomas Gainsborough [Pinxt.]

(Antique engraved portrait print.)

Thomas Pennant Esq'. 1726-1798.

Date. 8th Jan 1782.

London. P.Mazell. Image size, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2ins. Original copper engraved portrait print by J K Sherwin [Sculpt.]  £65.00

Thomas Pennant was a prolific writer specialising in travel and natural history, one of his most popular works on travel was his tour to Scotland in 1769. The correspondence he received from Gilbert White was the basis for White's book "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne". Unfortunately Pennant's letters to White have been lost. Ref :- List of Objects in the Thomas Pennant Exhibition 1998. No. 38.

(Code No. 4342) Lodge. Edmund and Hans. Holbein.Facsimiles of original drawings by Hans Holbein in the collection of his Majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the Court of Henry VIII. engraved by Francis Bartolozzi.With biographical notices by. E. Lodge.Date. 1884.London. Hamillton, Adams & Co. Folio, [12 x 15ins.]. Ex library. Coloured frontis + Title + pp 2. advertisement + Dedication + Plate list + 90 Coloured lithographic portrait plates by Francis Bartolozzi, including the 1st 12 plates with miniature library stamps to left corner of image, rest of the images in very good condition. Boards detached. Lacking spine.It was Holbein’s 1534 portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s secretary, which impressed the King and led to his royal appointment. During the next seven years, he produced around 150 life-size and miniature portraits of England’s royalty and nobility. .

(Code No. 4274)

The National Portrait Gallery;

1st, 2nd & 3rd Series in 1 Volume.

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, No date ca1880. 4to, [9 x 11/14 ins.] Pp 160,160, 160 + 61 Coloured lithographic portraits of statesmen scientists, clergy, artists, etc.Listing, Professor T H. Huxley, John Ruskin, Samuel Plimsoll, Disraeli, etc.. Original gilt decorated morocco. poor condition. £70.00

(Code No. 4130)

LAWRENCE, THOMAS, SIR:

Cabinet of Gems with Biographical & Descriptive Memorials by P. G. Patmore.

London. Ackerman & Co. 1837. Folio, [10 3/4 x 14 ins]. Pp 2, 30, foxing to prelims + Portrait frontis, foxing + 12 Full page hand tinted lithographic portraits, slight marginal foxing. All with tissue guards. Original cloth gilt, slight marks and part of spine cloth, missing. £70.00

(Code No. 4129)CAULFIELD, James.Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic records extant.Volume 2, only of 4. London. T. H. Whiteley. 1819. 4to, [10 1/4 x 12 1/2 ins]. Pp vi, 235, marginal spots & staining. 39 Copper engraved portraits, each with descriptive text. Original half calf, poor.

(Code No. 4060)

Portraits of Eminent Conservatives and Statesmen: with genealogical and historical memoirs.

[Edited by H. T. Ryall?]

2. Volumes.

London. George Virtue. [1836-46.] . Folio, [ 13 1/2 x 11 ins.] 1st & 2nd series. 72 Steel engraved portraits, each with descriptive text and armorial headpiece, some foxing, mostly to blank margins. First published in parts. Original half morocco with raised spine bands. Gilt tooled panels. All edges gilt. Some scuffing and one volume with slight splits to hinges. Holding firm. £100.00

(Code No. 3884)BOWYER, (Robert.) [publ.]15 Loose (as published), contemporary hand coloured copper engravings. (Proof set after letters.) + one uncoloured. London. Printed for R. Bowyer at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall,1793-1804. Folio, [14 x 19 ins]. 15 Original hand coloured copper engravings + one uncoloured, from designs by R. Smirke and P J. de Loutherbourg, showing portraits medallions, battle scenes, etc, good condition. All engravings with "Proof" and Bowyer's imprint, date and engraver listed below the image.

(Code No. 3877)

Domine.

Two Silhouette Portraits of Gentlemen in Profile.

ca1840. Page sizes 11 x 5 ins & 11 1/2 x 5 1/2 ins. One Silhouette on cut black paper on to card and the other silhouette drawing on to card, signed, Domine, slight surface marks. £60.00

(Code No. 3798).POUND. D. J. (Engraver).The Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages.London. John Tallis. ca1860. Folio, [11 1/2 x 16 1/2 ins.] Steel engraved portrait frontis (v blank) + Title (v blank) + 39 Steel engraved portraits of eminent Victorian personages from Europe and U.S.A, slight marginal foxing. A separate index accompanying each portrait. Persons shown, David Roberts R.A. Artist,(Robert's Holy Land), Baron von Humboldt, Naturalist & Traveller. Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts. W H. Prescott, U.S Author. Earl of Cardigan, famed for his involements with the Charge of the Light Brigrad. Original gilt stamped cloth, rubbing to top and bottom of spine, vg.

(Code No. 3722).

150 Engraved Portraits.

London. Original 18th & 19th Century engraved Portraits. Page size 14 1/2 x 17 ins. Image sizes 2 x 1 1/2 to 8 x 6 1/2 ins, (approx). 150 Original Copper/Steel engraved portrait plates, "mixed style" etched lines & mezzotints prints pasted on to 18 loose leaves. Names and titles are on back of the page, some page edges frayed, not affecting images. Showing, Scientists, authors, artists, Royalty, etc.

Mezzotint engravings were produced by pricking the surface of a metal plate with innumerable small holes that will hold ink. When the engraving is printed, the ink produces large areas of tone with soft, subtle gradations. Engraved or etched lines are often introduced to give the design greater definition. Mezzotint was invented in Holland by German-born Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century but thereafter was practiced primarily in England. Its adaptability to making colour prints made it ideal for the reproduction of paintings. £100.00