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COLLINS, Capt. Greenvile
Chart of the coast of northwest England from the Mersey to the Solway Firth with adjacent coasts of Scotland and Wales, Isle of Man at upper centre. Compass point at centre shows north to the right of map. Soundings rhumb lines, ships at sea.Two inset coastal silhouettes at lower left. The Great ...
Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 44 / 22 x 17½
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SHAW, Dr N
Six maps on one sheet, showing - 1) Scilly Isles 2) Isle of Man 3) Guernsey and Sercq 4) Alderney & the Casquets 5) Jersey 6) General Map of the Channel Islands. Title on top edge.
Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 38.5 / 11 x 15
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SHAW, Dr N
Six maps on one sheet, showing - 1) Scilly Isles. 2) General Map of the Channel Islands. 3) Guernsey and Sercq. 4) Alderney & the Casquets. 5) Jersey 6) Isle of Man. Title on top edge.
Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 38.5 / 11 x 15
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MORDEN, Robert
Eight maps on one plate of the Isle of Wight, Man, Scilly, Holy and Farne & the Channel Islands. Decorative cartouche at centre
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 33.5 / 16 x 13
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DE FER, Nicholas
This informative map from De Fer’s atlas also includes accompanying text and title cartouche
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 26 / 14 x 10
£350
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A handsome pair of prints, showing before and after scenes of a seduction.‘ ... Said to have been commissioned by "a certain vicious nobleman", the pictures contain an element of moralising in that the man in After looks somewhat dazed and unhappy despite his lustful conquest. Hogarth listened to ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 43 / 13 x 17
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 43 / 13 x 17
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CHÂTELAIN, Henry Abraham
The four prints show, from top left: 1. A holy man, seated on a rich terrace, feeding a peacock. 2. Two men seated on the ground, one with a bird on his head, the other has a bird in hand. 3. Three seated women, near a tree. 4. A woman, barebreasted, sitting on a rug in the lotus position, a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 37 / 9 x 14½
£180
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LABORDE, Alexandre
This magnificent print is a superb example of early printed colour. It was published in Alexandre Laborde's 'Description d'un Pave en Mosaique'. This book documented the discovery of a mosaic floor of a Roman villa, found in the village of Santiponce near Seville.This print shows fragments of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 44 / 14½ x 17½
£350
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LABORDE, Alexandre
This magnificent print is a superb example of early printed colour. It was published in Alexandre Laborde's 'Description d'un Pave en Mosaique'. This book documented the discovery of a mosaic floor of a Roman villa, found in the village of Santiponce near Seville. This print shows various figures ...
Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 38 / 18 x 15
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
This beautiful engraving shows an exploration at the entrance to an unexcavated building. Three men with a flaming torch descend into the dark interior while five guards, with guns and a flute idly stand guard outside. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 38 x 27 / 15 x 10½
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BOWEN, Emanuel
A clean crisp engraving. The cartouche depicts a man and a woman with ship builders in the background
Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 34.3 / 16½ x 13½
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VERTUE, George
Beautiful engraving of the Court of Wards and Liveries in session, eleven men seated round the table, while others look on. The engraver, George Vertue has copied this from a contemporary original. He identifies Lord Burghley as the man at the head of the table and, in a lengthy text below the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 58 x 44 / 23 x 17½
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Sumptuously illustrated title page from Homann’s Atlas Novus. Two giants stand upon a globe, holding up the heavens, a flock of birds fly amongst sunrays, owls and other birds of the night fly in the moonlight at upper right. Four figures blow winds against the globe. In the foreground Neptune, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 50 / 11½ x 19½
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NICHOLSON, William
From Nicholson’s popular sporting almanac, February’s entry features Coursing in the artist’s striking style. Words on the back are taken from Rudyard Kipling “Verses on Games” written for the almanac read “The Pious Horse to church may trot. A maid may work a man’s salvation. Four horses and a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 25.4 / 8½ x 10
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
A beautiful view from overlooking hills of this Swiss city, known in French as Bienne and in German as Biel. The town of Nydauw is labelled in the background, whilst in the foreground two men gesture towards the city spread out before them. Principle buildings in the city are numbered, and along ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 20 / 12½ x 8
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A beautifully detailed view of an encampment around a watering hole in the desert. The scene throngs with men, camels and horses. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of their tour of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 25 / 14½ x 10
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas
Map of the coast of Baja California and part of the Mexican coast, including Acapulco, recording the route of the voyage of Admiral Anson. ‘whose four-year voyage around the world is one of the great tales of naval heroism. In September 1740 Anson set off across the Atlantic with six poorly ...
Dimensions (W x H): 55.5 x 28 / 22 x 11
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HÉRAULT
/ LA PÉROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup
From the Voyages of La Pérouse who set sail from France in 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and views survived and were published in 1797. Chart shows very detailed soundings and all known harbours, straits and island chains. It ...
Dimensions (W x H): 68 x 49.5 / 27 x 19½
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Interesting map showing Captain Cook’s route from South Georgia to the South Sandwich Islands, with notes on his encounters with icebergs and floes. ‘Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilisation and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.1 x 34.6 / 14 x 13½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.1 x 34.6 / 14 x 13½
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WAHLER, Auguste
Print of man clad in traditional dress of Corsica and holding a rifle.
Dimensions (W x H): 16.5 x 25 / 6½ x 10
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
/ GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
Impressive view of Edinburgh with the castle mound to the left and the city stretching out to the right. Two men on horseback gallop towards the city in the foreground, and in the background ships sail in the port at Leith. Coat of arms in top left corner.
Dimensions (W x H): 34.5 x 20 / 13½ x 8
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NICHOLSON, William
From Nicholson’s popular sporting almanac, February’s entry features Coursing in the artist’s striking style. Words on the back are taken from Rudyard Kipling “Verses on Games” written for the almanac read “Most men harry the world for fun - Each man seeks it a different way / But “of all daft ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.3 x 25.3 / 9 x 10
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A lovely pair of engravings of islanders. The top showing two men, a woman and child by the sea in Naxos, the bottom showing two women inside a house in Tine. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 33.5 / 9 x 13
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
Four engravings on one plate showing citizens of ‘Carie’ on the Turkish mainland - three of armed men and the last of a woman. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of their tour of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 20.5 x 31 / 8 x 12
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Costume plate showing the back of a Pueblan man standing.
Dimensions (W x H): 7 x 15 / 3.0 x 6.0
Dimensions (W x H): 7 x 15 / 3.0 x 6.0
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JANSSON, Jan
A decorative map of China embellished with sailing ships and junks, a title cartouche flanked by Chinese and Jesuit men and a scale of miles surrounded by putti. The Great Wall is shown and Korea has a more or less correct peninsular shape, and there are many cities noted throughout. Johannes ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 47 / 21 x 18½
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OGILBY, John
A beautiful map of the islands with galleons in the sea. The decorative cartouche depicts a man and naked woman holding fish and numerous putti pouring water
Dimensions (W x H): 33.3 x 25.3 / 13 x 10
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ZATTA, Antonio
Attractive map of Menorca, with inset map of the port of Mahon, with depth soundings. Decorated cartouche of a rural scene, with a man under a tree watching a cow. 16 pt compass rose at sea, 2 scales. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante ...
Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 33 / 16½ x 13
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CORONELLI, Vincenzo
A beautiful small map of the Isle of Wight with decorated cartouche at lower left showing title surrounded by a man with dividers, a boy 2cherubs and a cow. Coronelli was the most important Italian cartographer of the time, famous for the fifteen foot globe he made for Louis the XIV
Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 23 / 12 x 9
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A beautiful scene of this verdant, luscious garden. A group of men chat and smoke hookahs in front of a mill driven by a horse. To the left of the picture two women and two children stand with three dogs playing in front of them. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 24.5 / 14½ x 9½
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Apprenticed to an architect in 1819 aged 15 , Allom attended the Royal Academy Schools as an architectural student from 1828, and was one of the founder members of the Institute of British Architects in 1834. His obituary in the Art Journal stated that “in his three-fold capacity of architect, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 72.5 x 50 / 28½ x 19½
Dimensions (W x H): 72.5 x 50 / 28½ x 19½
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Hodges, W.
Fine portrait (head and shoulders) of a bearded Maori man, with a tattooed face, feathers in his hair and wearing a cloak.
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 26 / 8½ x 10
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MOULE, Thomas
Borders in black and white. Plate I shows North East coast of England. Plate II shows the West Coast of England and the Isle of Man. Plate III shows South Wales & Devon and Cornwall. Plate IV shows South East England
Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 25 / 8 x 10
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This print commemorates Hogarth’s arrest by the French when he sketched the gate of Calais in 1748. The print shows various impoverished French men gloating over a huge slab of British beef, in front of the Gate of Calais, bound for a local hotel. ‘a classic distillation of contemporary British ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19
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HOUBRAKEN, Jacobus
A fine engraving of Oliver Cromwell. Portrait within an oval frame, below which there is a scene showing a contingency of men offering Cromwell the crown, which he refuses to their apparent consternation. Underneath this is a sconce filled with fruit, a helmet, a sword and an axe.
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 35 / 9 x 14
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William Hogarth
The scene in this mock ticket is set in the Royal Cockpit in Birdcage Walk near St James’s Park. Cockfighting was a popular sport enjoyed by men from all levels of society. In the centre the figure of the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie presides over the fight, taking bets.
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19
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CORONELLI, Vincenzo
This beautiful map has mer-men in the sea carrying coats of arms, cherubs holding the scales on a banner and a cartouche decorated with cannons, flags and more coats of arms. West is to the top.
Dimensions (W x H): 59 x 44.5 / 23 x 17½
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THOMSON, John
Five maps on one folio sheet showing Guernsey, Jersey, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Man and the Isle of Wight. There are two inset views- ‘The Eddystone Lighthouse’ and ‘Freshwater bay in the Isle of Wight with a distant view of the Needle Rocks’. Title at centre. The New General Atlas was one of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 59 x 49.5 / 23 x 19½
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A rather raffish character, McSwiny made and lost “a moderate younger brother’s fortune” as a theatrical impresario in London. With the failure of Handel’s Teseo in 1713 he was bankrupted and forced to flee abroad. Settling in Italy he continued to act as an agent for Italian opera in London, ...
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FRINK, Elisabeth.
No. 55 from 65 and 5 artist’s proofs. Signed and dated in pencil lower right by Elisabeth Frink. From a series of 8 lithographs titled Spinning Man. Dame Elisabeth Frink, printmaker and sculptor, her work is distinguished by her commitment to naturalistic forms and themes. Frink’s popular subjects ...
Dimensions (W x H): 57.5 x 80.5 / 22½ x 31½
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WIT, Frederick de
Handsome map of South East Asia, showing the mythical Lake Chiang Mai, the northcoast of Australia and the slightly thinned view of India. Title cartouche at top right flanked by four jesting Asian men.
Dimensions (W x H): 56.5 x 45.5 / 22 x 18
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This famous set of eight prints shows the slow decline of a young man falling prey to the corrupting effects of eighteenth-century consumerism: he spends his miserly father's fortune on art, music, whores and other gentlemanly pursuits; marries a rich older woman and gambles away her wealth; is ...
Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 35.5 / 16½ x 14
Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 35.5 / 16½ x 14
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The eight scenes tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his miserly father. It was Hogarth's second 'modern moral subject', and followed the hugely successful A Harlot's Progress (1730). In an advertisement ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A stunning picture of the country near Bodrum in modern-day Turkey. Locals sit around the ruined colonnaded tomb, smoking hookahs, whilst two men lead three camels up a hill to the right of the picture. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 21.5 / 14 x 8½
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DODD, Robert
Four magnificent prints of the Battle of Trafalgar, at various stages. Two prints, from before the battle, show the Van and Rear divisions approaching battle. Plate 3 shows a scene ‘nearly at the close of action’, with the French ships trying to escape and Plate 4, at the end of the battle shows ...
Dimensions (W x H): 77 x 51 / 30½ x 20
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STEPHANOFF, James
A fine and rare proof engraving of the House of Lords interior. The scene relates to the time when Caroline Brunswick, estranged wife of King George IV was brought before the House of Lords following her husband’s accession to the Throne. The Pains and Penalties Bill 1820 was introduced in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 34 / 18½ x 13½
£120
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
Pretty view of a ruined aqueduct in mountainous scenery near Ephesus. Two camels and three men relax on the banks of the river in the foreground. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 24.5 / 14½ x 9½
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
View from Ephesus of an imposing ruined stone gateway, carved along the top with classical figures. Two men and their goats rest in front of it. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the Mediterranean. Volume I of Voyage Pittoresque, his account of ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 21 / 14 x 8½
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A beautiful picture of the spectacular grotto at Antiparos. Impressive stalactite and stalagmite formations dominate the scene, whilst groups of men explore the cave holding flaming torches. Stock number 6855 shows the entrance to the same grotto. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 21 / 14 x 8½
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A beautiful view of this mountain above the Turkish town of Fethiye. The craggy mountain is interspersed with impressive, colonnaded tombs carved into the rock. In the foreground to the left three camels rest whilst two men near them converse and smoke hookahs, to the right another man leads two ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 25 / 15 x 10
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A beautiful view in which the town of Naxos stands to the right of the picture, sloping down to the shores of the sea, where there are three rowing boats and five naked women bathing. A group of men chat together on the shore to the right of the scene. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 25 / 15 x 10
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A beautiful view of the ruins at Milet, once an important Ionian port, in Western Turkey. In the foreground, a group of men sit on the banks of the Meandre gazing across at the ruins in the distance. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 38 x 25 / 15 x 10
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Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Auguste Florens, Comte de.
A charming view of this picturesque town in the northwest of Crete. The town nestles on the shore across the bay, with hills towering behind it. In the foreground, a group of men push a boat out to sea. In 1776 Choiseul-Gouffier and the artist J.B. Hilaire joined a cartographic survey of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 34 x 21 / 13½ x 8½
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BANKSY
This is the actual original images spraypainted on paper by Banksy from a handcut stencil, that was then scanned, retouched and seperated by Chu to make the limited edition screenprint published by PYMCA (later Pictures on Walls). Comes with full provenance and paperwork including communication to ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 25 / 13 x 10