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Selection of Antique Prints
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 HENRY SINGLETON.
The Seasons
A set of four charming untitled stipple and line engravings by William Bond after Singleton.
Each print has the imprint H. Singleton pinxt. and W. Bond sculp. Early impressions, published by C. Taylor in 1792.
Spring
Summer This is the only one of the set with a full publisher's imprint: Augt. 1 1792, Published by C. Taylor No. 10 Holborn London. The other three have the imprint: C. Taylor excudit.
Autumn The top edge of the engraved border is rubbed. The oval image is fine.
Winter
A later edition of 1795 has the heading in the top margin: Temple of Taste, a magazine, with the name of the season beneath, not present in our early set.
£160 the set of four |
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J.C. Bourne. London to
Birmingham Railway.
These three prints are among the best examples of railway construction
in progress.
Plate 3. Hampstead Road Bridge, Sept 5th 1836. J.C.
Bourne del et lith. London, Published Septr 1st 1838 by
J.C. Bourne 19 Lambs Conduit St. & Ackermann & Co.
Strand.
Image size: 26 x 41cm.
£ 300
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Plate 4. Building retaining wall &c near Park
Street, Camden Town, Sept 17th 1836. Titled & signed
within the image, bottom right; signed J.C. Bourne del & lith,
bottom left. Publisher's imprint, outside image: London
Published Decr 1838 by the Proprietor J.C. Bourne, 19 Lambs
Conduit St. & Ackermann & Co Strand. Printed by
C. Hullmandel.
The image is in good condition. There is a repair to the bottom
margin, not affecting the printed surface, and the margins are
a little stained.
Image size: 28 x 42cm.
£ 300
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Plate 6. Building the Stationary Engine House,
Camden Town, April 28th 1837. Titled inside
the image. In very small letters on the left side, almost
hidden by the detail of the print is J.C. Bourne del
et lith. The imprint is beneath the image: London, Published
1839 by the Proprietor J.C. Bourne, 19, Conduit St and
Ackermann & Co. Strand. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Good example. Slight mark in the sky.
Image size: 29 x 43cm.
£ 300 |
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JOSEPH
VERNET.
Engraving by Jacques Aliamet after Joseph Vernet. Published
in Paris in 1760.
In matching hogarth frames.
Jacques Aliamet was born at Abbeville in 1728, and died
at Paris in 1788. Most of his work was line engraving,
as these listed above, and he was chiefly interested in
seascapes in which he excelled.
Joseph Vernet was a member of a large family of painters.
He and his son, Carl, both had a number of prints made
from their paintings. Joseph was born in Avignon in 1714.
His father, Antoine, gave him early lessons in art before
he was sent to Aix, where he worked with a number of well-known
artists. From there he went to Rome when he was still only
seventeen, and the stormy seas of that voyage made a lasting
impression on him, shaping his career. In 1745 he married
the daughter of the Pope's naval commandant. He returned
to Paris in 1753 and was admitted to the Academy. Louis
XV commission him to paint twenty pictures of sea-ports
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Engravings of classical
Italianate scene.
Pair, no 1. & no. 2 VUE DU LEVANT.
A river scene and a harbour scene.
Both dedicated to Dominici Francisco Felic Simoni de Villelle,
with his armorial beneath the image.
Plate size 35 x 45cm.
The pair £750
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Les Italiennes
Labourieuses.
Dedicated to Clemenci Charleci Francoisece de L'Averdy, Controlleur
General deci Finance.
The labourers are washer women, some of them washing clothes in
the river, others hanging the laundry out to dry.
Some slight rubbing in the sky, otherwise fine condition.
Plate size 35 x 45cm.
£300
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 WALLICH,
Nathaniel.
Begonia pedunculosa (plate 97).
Rare lithograph in very fine original colour by M. Gauci, after Vishnupersaud.
Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
From Wallich’s ‘Plantae Asiaticae Rariores’ published
between 1829 and 1832. Image size including text 420 x 290mm.
Blunt considered Vishnupersaud ‘the most talented of the native
Indian artists’
£500 |
 VERNET,
Carle. Retour de la Chasse a la Becassine apres l'Orange
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Aquatint by Pierre Charles Colquet. Published by Rolland, Paris,
c. 1800.
Trimmed to plate mark. Image measures 44.5 x 55.5 cms. Printer's ink
stain in right margin.
£350 |
 Robert
Adam. Design of a Sedan Chair as executed for her Majesty.
Copper engraving by P.Begbie after a design by Robert Adam, published,
in London in1775. 445 x 590mm.
Robert Adam, the formost architect of the period, designed this sedan chair
for Queen Charlotte, with classical decoration including Græcian
sphinxes. He chose to include the design in his Works in Architecture, a
collection of elevations and views of his most famouse works, including
Syon House in Middlesex.
This must surely be the largest engraving of a sedan chair.
£750 |
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