Fish Still Life
Serious Fish Picture; This engraving should be pre 1770 as a
virus wiped out the Wallfleet Oyster beds in 1770 ( at Blackwater
Bay,/ River Crouch in Essex.)
Engraved by Gerard van der Gucht after a picture by Pieter Andreas
Rysbrack printed by Boydell on his customary good quality
paper Full page some soiling and marking behind the mount , faint
crease but seriously rare especially 'au naturel' rather than attackecd
by a watercolourist. . .ie if you wish it tinted get it done properly.
All fish identified to the base in latin and english . Image size
58 x 41 cm £385 inc delivery
Gerard van der Gucht. Born: 1696 or 1697.
Died: 18 March 1776. Engraver
Gerard Van der Gucht, engraver and art dealer, was the son of the
engraver Michael Van der Gucht. Taught to engrave by his father, he
studied drawing under Louis Chéron and at the Great Queen
Street Academy. He is credited with being the first English-born
engraver to imitate successfully the French style of blending etching
with engraving in order to combine the advantages of free drawing with
engraved detail and tonal gradation. Van der Gucht worked for various
printsellers and booksellers until his father's death in 1725, when he
took over his business. For the next twenty-five years, he was a
leading engraver and publisher of history prints, antiquities and
decorative subjects.
Pieter Andreas Rysbrack (Paris c. 1684-1748
London) |
The painter and engraver Pieter Andreas Rysbrack was born in Paris, the
son of the Flemish painter Pieter Rysbrack (1655-1729). He studied in
Amsterdam and Antwerp under his father and came to England in 1735,
where he rose to prominence as a painter of classical landscapes.
Rysbrack spent much of his time around the Thames, especially Richmond,
dying of consumption in 1748.
Rysbrack's patrons included the Palladian architect Lord Burlington,
who commissioned him to paint two series of topographical views of
Chiswick House and its recently developed gardens. His brother was the
sculptor John Michael Rysbrack (1693-1770), who carved the celebrated
bust of Alexander Pope. Michael collaborated with the architect James
Gibbs on a number of projects and possibly carved the putti in the
Octagon Room at Orleans House.
John Boydell (19 January 1720
– 12 December 1804) was an eighteenth-century
British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped
alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and
initiated a British tradition of engraving. A former engraver himself,
Boydell promoted the interests of artists as well as patrons and as a
result his business prospered.The son of a land surveyor, Boydell
apprenticed himself to an artist he admired and learned engraving. He
established his own business in 1746 and published his first book of
engravings around the same time. Boydell did not think much of his own
artistic efforts and eventually started buying the works of others,
becoming a print dealer as well as an artist. He became a successful
importer of French prints during the 1750s and was made a fellow of the
Royal Society in 1760. Frustrated by the French's refusal to trade
prints in kind, Boydell commissioned a truly spectacular print to get
their attention. William Wollett's engraving of Richard Wilson's
Children of Niobe revolutionized the print trade. Ten years later,
largely as a result of Boydell's initiative, the trade imbalance had
shifted.
In the 1790s, Boydell began a large Shakespeare venture that included
the establishment of a Shakespeare Gallery, the publication of an
illustrated edition of Shakespeare's plays, and the release of a folio
of prints depicting scenes from Shakespeare's works. Some of the most
illustrious painters of the day contributed, such as Benjamin West and
Henry Fuseli, but financial woes dogged the project as Britain's
economy suffered during the French Revolutionary Wars. Boydell died
nearly bankrupt in 1804.
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Icthyology
Plate IV; order Branchyostegi Genus
Cyclopterus / Lophius . .Angler & Sucker
Fish
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm lightly tinted £15
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Icthyology
Plate 1; order Abdominales genus
Salmo . . Salmon Trout
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15 . . 3 copies
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Icthyology
Plate 1V; order Abdominales genus
Polynemus/Clupea/Cyprinus. . . . . herring,Carp
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15 creased
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Icthyology
Plate V; order Abdominales genus
Silurus /Loricaria/ Cobitis etc. . . . .
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15
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Icthyology
Plate X1; order Thoracici genus
Sciaea / Gasterosteus /Trachythys / Scomber . . . . .Mackerel
etc
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15 . . . 2 copies on one slight corner
loss
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Icthyology
Plate VII; order Thoracici genus
Sparus . . . . Gilt Head etc
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15 . . 2 copies
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Icthyology
Plate VII; order Thoracici genus
Perca . . . . Perch
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15 . .tinted
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Icthyology
Plate VIII; order Thoracici genus
Labrus. . . .
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15 . .
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Icthyology
Plate I; order Apodes genus
Synbrachus etc
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15
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Icthyology
Plate I; order Apodes genus
Stromateus etc. . . swordfish, wolf fish etc
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15
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Icthyology
Plate ; order Pleuronectes genus
Chaetodon. . . flounder etc
from
'Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or,
Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature,
Comprehending compiled by John Wilkes(1750-1810, of Milland House,
Sussex) and issued in 24 volumes about 1810. The majority of the
engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman. Published by
Longman ,Hurst Rees orme & Brown, P{aternoster Row London .
Page size 21 x 27 cm £15.
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Icthyology
Plate ; CCCVII
engraved by
G.Aikman and published by Black's
Edinburgh, 1846.. Page size 21 x 27 cm £12
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Icthyology
Plate ; CCCV
engraved by
G.Aikman and published by Black's
Edinburgh, 1846.. Page size 21 x 27 cm £12
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Icthyology
Plate ; CCCV!
engraved by
G.Aikman and published by Black's
Edinburgh, 1846.. Page size 21 x 27 cm £12
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Icthyology
Plate ; CCCII
engraved by
G.Aikman and published by Black's
Edinburgh, 1846.. Page size 21 x 27 cm £12
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