Domestick Happiness
After Johann Gerhard HUCK (c.1759-1811) -
'Domestick
Happiness', early 19th Century sepia stipple engraving
by
Thomas I RYDER (1746-1810) within an oval still in
the
original Georgian frame some age soiling but a rare survivor
£95 inc
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The Politician.
Done from the Original Drawing by S. H. Grimm .Printed for S. Sledge
Printseller, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Publish'd as the Act
Directs 2d May 1771.
Engraving 36 x 26cm. Trimmed
to image and laid to paper but in a nice
'early style' frame.A French Barber appears to be whispering
in
the ear of his grotesque customer….Lord North,
….."Falkland Islands" - On January 22nd after lengthy
negotiations and the threat of war an agreement was signed giving Port
Egmont back to the British.View the declarations On 15th September,the
Spanish handed Port Emont back to the British represented by Captain
Scott commanding the frigate Juno the sloop hound and the store ship
Florida. . with various other comments listed on the newspapers in the
image. . fun and £85 inc posted
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Classical pre-empire French engraving ' He loves
me . . . he loves me not
c1780
motto beneath the picture reads " Jusques dans la Moidre chose, Je Vois
mon Amani empeint, Quand j'eparillo , une rose, Dans chaque feuille il
est peinz. . . .In a silk covered oval mount and tired gilt frame
. £65 inc /DP
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Love Wounded
Stipple engraving dawn
by Samuel
SHELLEY (1750/56-1808) engraved by Robert Cooper
(fl.
1795-1836) Published John Young, 58 Upper Charlotte Street, London:
March 14, 1798 11.75 x 9.25 inches, plate mark 13.75 x 11.25 inches,
overall .Depicting Venus, the goddess of love, stepping from her
chariot and extending her helping open arms to Cupid, messenger of
love, who points to an injury on his hand within a classical landscape
also seen printed in sepia,this has an old faint soft tint. . . .
Samuel Shelley was born in Whitechapel, London, but nothing is known of
his parents. He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 21 March
1774; their records state that he was '17 last August'. He
was
self-taught as a miniaturist, but was greatly influenced by the Royal
Academy and its first President, Sir Joshua Reynolds.
£125
framed glazed inc /DP
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