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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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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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HAYTER, William.
No. 5 of 5 artist’s proofs. Signed lower right by Stanley William Hayter. There was also an edition of 35.
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48.5 / 25 x 19
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NICHOLSON, William
From Nicholson’s popular sporting almanac, March’s entry features horse racing in the artist’s striking style. Words on the back are taken from Rudyard Kipling “Verses on Games” written for the almanac read “Racing. The horse is ridden - the jockey rides- The backers back - the owners own ...
Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 25 / 8½ x 10
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HOLBEIN, Hans
Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 37 / 10 x 14½
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HOLBEIN, Hans
Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs.
Dimensions (W x H): 22.5 x 33 / 9 x 13
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HOLBEIN, Hans
Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 34 / 9 x 13½
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke on foot training eight horses. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first published in 1657 in Antwerp. William ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle training horses with ‘a nouvelle invention.’ The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first published in 1657 ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle demonstrating a new training method. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first published in 1657 in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle enacting half turns, canters and pirouettes on horseback. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, wasfirst ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle training the mounted Captain four airs above the ground. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle instructing Captain Mazin in performing four airs above the ground. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows Captain Mazin demonstrating the ‘terre a terre’ move on horseback, watched by the seated Duke. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows Captain Mazin demonstrating six moves on horseback, watched by the Duke on foot. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke, aided by theCaptain Mazin and a groom, training a riderless horse. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first published ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows a Spanish horse being led by the halter in front of Welbeck Abbey where the Duke built his famous riding house. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. It was based on La Methode Et Invention ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle galloping past his home at Bolsover Castle. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first published in 1657 ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle demonstrating six moves on horseback, watched by Captain Mazin on foot. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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Diepenbeke
/ CAVENDISH, William
This striking print shows the Duke of Newcastle demonstrating how to canter. The print is from the 1737 English edition of Cavendish’s exposition on the theory and practice of equestrian dressage. La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was first published in 1657 in Antwerp. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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BREWER, Henry William
This impressive panorama is taken from above the Houses of Parliament, looking west. It shows Parliament Square and Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and The Albert Hall in the distance. Oxford was the birthplace of Henry William Brewer, although he spent most of his life in North Kensington. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 112 x 44.5 / 44 x 17½
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SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph
Magnificent map of New York State, just before Independence, showing the divisions and ownership of land in detail. The map is lithographed from the copperplate original, that was engraved and published by William Faden in 1779. ‘Sauthier's map of New York summarizes much of the British military ...
Dimensions (W x H): 70 x 95 / 27½ x 37½
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HARRIS, John
A delightful map showing the beacons of Kent, above which there is a view of a church called the ‘Reculvers in Kent’. Shield with dedication to Mr Richard Mount, ‘Citizen and Stationer of London Native of Kent’. Before accurate maps were available, people used to navigate by prominent landmarks ...
Dimensions (W x H): 27 x 34 / 10½ x 13½
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MAITLAND, William
A map of the City of London and its surrounds, designed to show the vast extent of the Great Fire of 1666. The excised detail leaves a good clear outline of the streets of the seventeenth century city and the principal sites and buildings are given in keyed indices. The map was based by Bowen on an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 20 / 13 x 8
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
A beautiful view of the town of Altdorf, the capital of the canton of Uri. A coat of arms in the centre of the title shows the head of a fierce bull. In the lake to the left of the scene is a compass, and along the bottom of the map runs a key to the chief landmarks corresponding with numbers ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32.5 x 21 / 13 x 8½
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HOGARTH, WILLIAM
And the child grew and she brought him into Pharaohs daughter, and he became her son. And she called him Moses. The painting upon which this large engraving is based was created by William Hogarth for his favourite charity, the Foundling Hospital. It was jointly engraved and etched by William ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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HOGARTH, WILLIAM
And the child grew and she brought him into Pharaohs daughter, and he became her son. And she called him Moses. The painting upon which this engraving is based was created by William Hogarth for his favourite charity, the Foundling Hospital. The scene depicts the boy Moses being entrusted by his ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53.5 x 42 / 21 x 16½
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COLE, Benjamin
An impressive plan of this part of London, with key buildings drawn in miniature onto the map, and a view of St Paul’s Cathedral on a larger scale at the centre. Dedicated by an inscription running along the bottom to S.r Robert Ladbrook Kn.t and to William Bridgen Esq.r, the coats of arms of these ...
Dimensions (W x H): 46.3 x 35 / 18 x 14
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BILLINSGATE WARD AND BRIDGE WARD WITHIN with their Divisions into PARISHES according to a new SURVEY
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COLE, Benjamin
A very interesting plan of this part of London, with key buildings drawn in miniature onto the map. Dedicated by an inscription running along the bottom to William Beckford Esq. and William Stephenson Esq., the coats of arms of these aldermen are presented, one above the other, to the left of plan. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36.3 x 23.2 / 14½ x 9
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BREWER, H. W.
A beautiful view over the city of Oxford, with the River Cherwell in the foreground - Magdalen Bridge spanning it at the centre, with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians crossing. Magdalen College dominates to the right of the view, with its imposing tower at the entrance to the High Street. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 89 x 36.5 / 35 x 14½
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LA PEROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup
Interesting chart of part of the south-western Pacific, showing the routes taken by the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle in 1781 along the northern coast of New Guinea and across the Pacific to Fiji and Tonga. Maurelle was credited with the discovery of the Hermit Islands on this ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 34 / 19½ x 13½
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PREVOST
/ LA PÉROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup
Interesting chart of part of the south-western Pacific, showing the routes taken by the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle in 1781 along the northern coast of New Guinea and across the Pacific to Fiji and Tonga. Maurelle was credited with the discovery of the Hermit Islands on this ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 34 / 19½ x 13½
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after TURNER, William
A beautiful view after painting by William Turner, showing the wooden battleship on her last trip to be broken up as the sun sets. Original mezzotint signed by the famous British artist, with Print Sellers Association stamp in left corner. John Cother Webb, Landseer’s student, was in his lifetime ...
Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 34 / 17½ x 13½
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A fine map of the county of Herefordshire. Published 1610, it is a reprint of the 1607 plate of Camden’s Britannia, and has no text on the back. The last edition of the Britannia published by Camden himself, was the first with county maps. These were engraved, from the surveys of John Norden, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 28.5 / 12 x 11
Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 28.5 / 12 x 11
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QUAD, Matthias
Map of the Bayern region of Germany. Portrait of William I, Duke of Bavaria at top right. Matthaus Quad was a German cartographer based in Cologne, which, at the time was the centre for German cartography. This map is from his Fascilus Geographicus. It was printed by Johannes Bussemacher.
Dimensions (W x H): 29.5 x 21.5 / 11½ x 8½
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William Hogarth
Taste in High Life is based upon a 1742 painting by William Hogarth. In the early 1800's Boydell acquired Hogarth's original engraved plates and printed a posthumous edition from them. He also commissioned artists to engrave several further plates after Hogarth's most famous paintings. Taste in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 47.3 / 25 x 18½
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HOGARTH, William
'I now offer to the public a short essay, accompanied with two explanatory prints, in which I shall endeavour to shew what the principles are in nature, by which we are directed to call the forms of some bodies beautiful, others ugly'. This is the opening sentence on William Hogarth's essay on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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HOGARTH, William
'I now offer to the public a short essay, accompanied with two explanatory prints, in which I shall endeavour to shew what the principles are in nature, by which we are directed to call the forms of some bodies beautiful, others ugly'. This is the opening sentence on William Hogarth's essay on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15
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HAYES, William
A fine late eighteenth century print of a bittern by the zoological artist, William Hayes.
Dimensions (W x H): 63 x 30 / 25 x 12
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HAYES, William
A fine print of a Brent Goose by the zoological artist, William Hayes.
Dimensions (W x H): 63 x 30 / 25 x 12
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after TURNER, William
A beautiful view of Venice after painting by William Turner. Original mezzotint signed by the famous British artist, with Print Sellers Association stamp in left corner. John Cother Webb, Landseer’s student, was in his lifetime called the "doyen" of English mezzotinters. Webb's early works were on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 34 / 17½ x 13½
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S.H. Grimm
A spectacular print of the view from the mainland over the massed troops of the English army, over the Solent, towards the approaching French fleet, who are about to attack Portsmouth. One of a series of prints based on paintings depicting Henry VIIIth’s conflict with France. The prints were ...
Dimensions (W x H): 176 x 54 / 69½ x 21½
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Fraser, A.
Titled proof of William Greatbach’s engraving of Fraser’s painting of a gentleman buying oyster’s from a poor family.
Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 22 / 12 x 8½
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William Hogarth
The Politician is based upon one of William Hogarth's sketches. It was first published in 1775 by his widow, Mrs. Jane Hogarth. This impression originates from the Heath edition, published in 1822. It is reported that the subject of this satirical etching is Hogarth's shortsighted friend, Ebenezer ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 64 / 19½ x 25
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S.H. Grimm
A spectacular print showing the royal procession in 1547 for the coronation of King Edward VI, who at the time was just ten years old. With the Tower of London to the left and Westminster to the right, this print gives a fabulous panorama of Sixteenth-century London, its buildings, people and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 128 x 64 / 50½ x 25
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BARKER, T.J.
Artist’s Proof signed in pencil. William Henry Simmons, mezzotint engraver engraved plates after Landseer, Holman Hunt, Millais, and other artists.
Dimensions (W x H): 50.5 x 68 / 20 x 27
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TOMBLESON, William.
William Tombleson was best known for ‘The Rhine & Upper Rhine’ and for ‘Eighty Picturesque views on the Thames and Medway.’ This magnificent map shows the Thames from its source to the Isle of Sheppey, and the Medway from Eaton Bridge to the Thames.
Dimensions (W x H): 25.7 x 130 / 10 x 51
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after TURNER, William
A beautiful view of Venice after painting by William Turner. Original mezzotint signed by the famous British artist, with Print Sellers Association stamp in left corner. John Cother Webb, Landseer’s student, was in his lifetime called the "doyen" of English mezzotinters. Webb's early works were on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 34 / 17½ x 13½
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after TURNER, William
A beautiful view of Venice after painting by William Turner. Original mezzotint signed by the famous British artist, with Print Sellers Association stamp in left corner. John Cother Webb, Landseer’s student, was in his lifetime called the "doyen" of English mezzotinters. Webb's early works were on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 34 / 17½ x 13½
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Splendid view of Horse Guards in Whitehall, as viewed from St. James Park. The elegant buildings of Horse Guards were designed by William Kent and completed in 1755. Citizens strolling in foreground.
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 24 / 15 x 9½
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HOGARTH, William
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): 42 x 54.5 / 16½ x 21½
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![[The Distressed Poet] ‘Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound’.](itemImages/th_6226.jpg)
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HOGARTH, William
This print shows a despairing writer at his desk in his flat writing for ‘Grub Street’. The print is possibly about Hogarth’s father, who became a hackwriter before being imprisoned for debt. Below the print are four lines from Pope’s Dunciad.
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 36 / 16 x 14
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HOGARTH, William
This print shows a pregnant woman pleading with a seated judge for the ‘rich old lecher’ at the centre of the print to provide security for her child. Twelve lines of text below the print explain the scene. The print was not published in Hogarth’s lifetime.
Dimensions (W x H): 36.5 x 30.5 / 14½ x 12
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RAPIN-THOYRAS, Paul de
An attractive chart of the North Sea and English Channel from the Channel Islands in the south to the Shetland Islands in the north.
Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 47 / 15 x 18½
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SEALE, Richard William
A detailed map with decorative cartouche
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SEALE, Richard William
An attractive map of South America with decorative cartouche at lower right.
Dimensions (W x H): 37.6 x 46.8 / 15 x 18½
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SEALE, Richard William
This unusual map of the West African coast, with its inset map of the Gold Coast, has copious ‘Explanatory notes of all the Forts and Settlements belonging to the several European Powers’
Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 38 / 19 x 15
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HOGARTH, William
Plate IV. A Rake’s Progress tells 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.
Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 35 / 16½ x 14
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HOGARTH, William
Plate VII. A Rake’s Progress tells 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.
Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 35 / 16½ x 14
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FRITH, William Powell
Dimensions (W x H): 94 x 62 / 37 x 24½
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Map of Australia and Tasmania, with numbered lists of counties.
Dimensions (W x H): 28.5 x 23 / 11 x 9
Dimensions (W x H): 28.5 x 23 / 11 x 9
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HOGARTH, William
Thomas Bambridge was a warder at the Fleet prison who was tried for cruelty to prisoners. In this print, a pitiable prisoner kneels in front of a committee of bewigged gentlemen. Bambridge is to the left of the print. Hogarth’s father was imprisoned in the Fleet prison for debt, which made him ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
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BURGESS, William Walter.
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author.
Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 11.5 / 10 x 4½
£500
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BURGESS, William Walter.
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 11.5 / 9½ x 4½
£450
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BURGESS, William Walter
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 17.5 x 15 / 7 x 6
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BURGESS, William Walter.
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 14 / 10 x 5½
£450
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BURGESS, William Walter.
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author.
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 12.5 / 10 x 5
£475
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BURGESS, William Walter
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author.
Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 13 / 8 x 5
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BURGESS, William Walter.
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 14 / 11 x 5½
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BURGESS, William Walter
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 16 / 10 x 6½
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BURGESS, William Walter
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 12 / 10 x 4½
£450
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BURGESS, William Walter.
Limited edition of 110, signed by the author
Dimensions (W x H): 17 x 15 / 6½ x 6
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BURGESS, William Walter
Limited edition of 110, signed by the artist.
Dimensions (W x H): 15 x 20 / 6 x 8
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Signed in ink by the artist. Blind stamped ‘Published Nov 1905 The Stafford Gallery 34 Old Bond Street’. Nicholson made numerous drawings and sketches of Oxford between 1902 and 1904. The series was completed in 1904 and published November 1905 in two portfolios consisting of 24 plates. The ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.2 x 27 / 14 x 10½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.2 x 27 / 14 x 10½
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COOK, Captain James R N
An interesting chart of French Polynesia with Tahiti named Wallis’s King Georges Island. The chart contains information supplied to Capt. Cook by native Tahitian navigators on his First voyage. It is showing Byron’s, Wallis’s, Carteret’s and Cook’s tracts. The publication is described as ‘an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 54 x 27 / 21½ x 10½
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Three detailed maps of Denmark and the Danish territories of Iceland and Greenland on one sheet. On the map of Greenland, a small inset is included showing the Feroe Islands.
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 33.5 / 19½ x 13
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 33.5 / 19½ x 13
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HOGARTH, William
Pair of Prints. Originally printed in 1751, each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero. Beginning with the torture of a dog as a child in the First stage of cruelty, Nero progresses to beating his horse as a man in the Second stage of cruelty. The prints were ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 40 / 13 x 15½
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
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SMITH, William
Benevolent societies with the intention to disseminate knowledge were a distinguishing feature of the Victorian age. SDUK was founded in 1827 by John, Earl Russell and Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor of England. The Society published books that were deemed to be of high educational worth but ...
Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 40 / 12½ x 15½
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NORDEN, John
A beautiful decorative map. The cartouche displays the title, explanation and list of hundreds. Compass rose, ship and sea monster.
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 30 / 13 x 12
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HOGARTH, William
Plate 1. The harlot's progress begins when a young woman, Mary (or Moll) Hackabout, arrives in London from the country. Presumably she has come to look for work as a servant, but a procuress praises her beauty and suggests a more profitable occupation. In the background an old lecher watches with ...
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 36 / 16 x 14
£320
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
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BEECHEY, William
A striking and beautifully engraved full length portrait of King George III clutching his sword standing beside an urn with his horse being led away behind him.
Dimensions (W x H): 37.8 x 52.6 / 15 x 20½
£600
![Hudibras [TWELVE Excellent and most Diverting PRINTS; Taken from the Celebrated POEM of HUDIBRAS. Wrote by Mr. SAMUEL BUTLER. Exposing the Villany and Hypocricy of those TIMES. Invented and Engraved on Twelve COPPER PLATES, by William Hogarth.]](itemImages/th_8850.jpg)
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Hudibras is a mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler. The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work was written in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678 although an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 48.5 x 64 / 19 x 25
Dimensions (W x H): 48.5 x 64 / 19 x 25
£300
![HUDIBRAS. [TWELVE Excellent and most Diverting PRINTS; Taken from the Celebrated POEM of HUDIBRAS. Wrote by Mr. SAMUEL BUTLER. Exposing the Villany and Hypocricy of those TIMES. Invented and Engraved on Twelve COPPER PLATES, by William Hogarth.]](itemImages/th_6222.jpg)
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HOGARTH, William
Hogarth’s 12 prints illustrating Samuel Butler’s poem Hudibras, were among his favourite works. Although a little more obscure than some of his works, they represent an important stage in his development; Butler’s comic narrative was the perfect subject for Hogarth to develop his gift for social ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 54 / 14 x 21½
£320
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
£220
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HOGARTH, William
Set of 6 engravings on 3 sheets. Illustrations for Don Quixote printed from the original plates. The original copper plates for these engravings were created in 1732 for a Spanish language edition of Don Quixote. The book was never published and the plates were never pulled. Heath was the last ...
Dimensions (W x H): 18.5 x 25 / 7½ x 10
£600
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HOGARTH, William
The twelve prints in this set show the the relative fortunes of two apprentices; one industrious, one idle: the industrious apprentice becomes Lord Mayor of London, the idle apprentice is executed at Tyburn. Hogarth regularly used events of his time to produce series of prints charting a story. His ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£210
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HOGARTH, William
This famous print shows Henry the VIII talking at court to Anne Boleyn, with a slightly despairing Cardinal Wolsey at right of picture. It is thought that the print was Hogarth’s comment on the relationship of the Prince of Wales with Harriet Vane. The painting on which this print is based was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 48 / 13 x 19
£120
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Detailed map of Argentina, Chili, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The Patagonia region is included in a separate inset on the bottom right margin.
Dimensions (W x H): 34 x 49.5 / 13½ x 19½
Dimensions (W x H): 34 x 49.5 / 13½ x 19½
£320
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
£75
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BRYCE, James
A beautiful view of London overlooking the Thames. On the left are the Houses of Parliament and to the far right St. Paul’s Cathedral stands in the distance. Good margins.
Dimensions (W x H): 33.6 x 26 / 13 x 10
£145
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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
£275
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FRITH, William Powell
Dimensions (W x H): 80 x 61 / 31½ x 24
£75
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£70
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BRYCE, James
A beautiful and uncommon view of Melbourne showing bridges over the Yarra River, on which the city was founded. Good margins.
Dimensions (W x H): 33.6 x 26 / 13 x 10
£320
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LYDON, Alexander Francis
/ GREENE, William Thomas
Stunning chromolithograph from one of the most comprehensive colourplate studies of parrots ever made, encompassing macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Greene’s study was published in three volumes and the series was intended largely as a guide for those interested in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 21.5 / 6 x 8½
£85
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BRYCE,James
An uncommon and beautiful view of Montreal as seen from the mountain showing the main town overlooking the bay. Good margins
Dimensions (W x H): 33.6 x 26 / 13 x 10
£250
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HOGARTH, William
This magnificent print shows the famous actor, David Garrick acting Richard the Third, the role that made him famous. He is pictured here in the famous tent scene before the Battle of Bosworth, haunted by the ghosts of all those he had murdered. His body is sprawled out along a serpentine curve, a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 40 / 21 x 15½