the Small Pox Hospital
From an engraving in The American Quaker JP Malcolm(James
Peller
Malcolm ( 1767-1815)), engraver and topographer, artist/engraver and
author of Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London,
Published 1808. £12 unmounted scarce
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Somerset House
Antique
engraved print from Dr David Hughson's
'New Description of London' and the area for thirty miles around
was a multi-volume illustrated work issued between 1805 and 1809.
Published by J Stratford, 112 Holborn Hill. Print image : 118 x 182
mm 'Hughson' was actually the pseudonym of writing
as David Hughson £15
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Foundling
Hospital Guildford
Street
Antique
steel engraved print
by Thomas
Hosmer Shepherd (1793
to 1864) who was employed by Frederick Crace for a series of
drawings of London. Many of the engravings include figures, carriages
or boats . Originally produced for
Shepherd's "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the
Nineteenth Century" (1826 to1827).
Image 16 x 11 cm
£8.
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the Foundling Hospital
From an engraving in The American Quaker JP Malcolm(James
Peller
Malcolm ( 1767-1815)), engraver and topographer, artist/engraver and
author of Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London,
Published 1808. £12 unmounted scarce
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The Coliseum
Steel engraving published in London Image 17 x 22 cm £10 some
staining
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Wyld's Monster Globe,
Leicester Square, London, 1851-1862.Engraving by Chavanne after T H
Shepherd. James Wyld (1812-1887) was a member of Parliament,
distinguished geographer, and publisher of atlases. His exhibit,
designed in competition with the Great Exhibition, was a globe 60 feet
in diameter. Wlyd's globe was hollow and contained a staircase which
members of the public, for the price of a shilling, could climb to view
the continents, mountain ranges and seas modelled to scale inside.
After the 10-year lease had expired, it was removed in 1862, and the
central garden of Leicester Square was redesigned. Scarce £20
Image 23 x 15.5 cm plus title & borders
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THE NEW BUILDINGS IN THE STRAND, CALLED THE ADELPHI, VIEWED FROM THE
RIVER THAMES.
Originally produced for Hogg's partwork publication "The New, Complete,
and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London
and Westminster" written by "A Society of Gentlemen" and
revised by William Thornton.. Copper engraved print by Carey
published in London : by Alexander Hogg, 1784/6 . .
. ..the
recently completed Adelphi Terrace designed by Robert Adam - a view
from the Thames - the spire of St. Martin in the Fields in the
distance. £20 folds as issued closer cut
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a View of the Foundling Hospital
Engraved for The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure:
Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History,
Geography, Voyages, Criticism, Translations, Philosophy, Mathematicks,
Husbandy, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanicks, Trade, Navigation
Architecture and Other Arts and Sciences, which may render it
Instructive and Entertaining to Gentry, Merchants, Farmers, and
Tradesmen: to which occasionally will be added An Impartial Account of
Books in several Languages and of the Store of Learning in Europe Also
of the Stage, New Operas Plays and Oratorios. Vol. LXI. Published
Monthly according to Act of Parliament, by John Hinton, at the King's
Arms in Paternoster Row, near Warwick-Lane, London. £30 rare
Image 26 x 17 cm plus title & Borders
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South View of the Foundling Hospital
1. The Wing already built........2. The Wing already built ........ 2.
Chapel now Erecting........3. Chapel now Erecting ........ 3. A Wing to
be built. A Wing to be built.From James Jefferys
(1751-1784),,
London .James Jefferys began his career as an apprentice engraver
before coming under the artistic influence of John Hamilton Mortimer.
At the Royal Academy Schools in 1774 he won a gold medal for history
painting and a scholarship allowing him to travel to Rome. In London
again by 1781, he failed to fulfil his early promise and died
young.Scarce view during construction £15 unmounted 2x
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The
New Church Regent Square
Sidmouth Street;
Antique
steel engraved print
by Thomas
Hosmer Shepherd (1793
to 1864) who was employed by Frederick Crace for a series of
drawings of London. Many of the engravings include figures, carriages
or boats . Originally produced for
Shepherd's "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the
Nineteenth Century" (1826 to1827).
Image 16 x 11 cm
WC1. . . 3 copies
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34.
Russell Institution, Great
Coram Street
Full page
Original
Aquatint from .The "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce,
Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, commonly known as Ackermann's
Repository, after Rudolph Ackermann, its publisher .... first
appeared in London in 1809 as a monthly publication Dated 1811 at
101 Strand. Rowlandson & Pugin del et Sculpt. J.C. Stadler
Aquat. London, Image 20 x 13 cm Page 54 x 36 cm so Full margins !
£95
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Powis House Drawn
and engraved by Sutton Nicholls, (fl.1680-1740) published in 1754
in London published according to Act of Parliament for Stowes
Survey. Approx 45cms by 33cms. Price: £125.00
mounted inc delivery . . . . Powis House was an 18th century mansion in
London, England. It stood on the northern side of Great Ormond Street,
not far from Queen Square. The first version of Powis House was built
in the 1690s for William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis. No drawings of
this version survive. At some point it was let for use as the French
embassy, and on 26 January 1713 it burned to the ground. Jonathan Swift
attributed this event to "the carelessness of the rascally French
servants". A replacement house was soon built. It had three main
storeys above an arched basement and was 104 feet (32 metres) wide. The
subtle but lively façade featured Corinthian pilasters and a
phoenix above the front door. The architect is unknown, but may have
been French. The staircase walls were painted by the Venetian painter
of the rococo, Giacomo Amiconi. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
leased the house in the mid 18th century and from 1764 to 1783 it was
the Spanish embassy. However, the locality was rapidly falling from
favour with the aristocracy, making the demise of the house more or
less inevitable, and by the end of the 18th century it had been
demolished. There is now a small access street to Great Ormond Street
Hospital called Powis Place.
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View of the
River Thames
looking west showing York Stairs, York Buildings Waterworks and
York Watergate with boats on the river and Westminster Bridge in
the distance.
by
Thomas MALTON,
(1748-1804)London: Published by T. Malton, September 2nd 1799.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Image size (including text): 10 1/8 x 12
1/8 inches. Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches.from Malton's
ambitious series of aquatints and engravings "A Picturesque Tour
Through London," issued between 1792-1801. The son of the
architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton, Thomas Malton the younger
was an early exponent of the art of aquatint, which he used to make
multiple copies of the topographical views for which he was famous.
He was chiefly known for his stunning views of London, which were
prized for their architectural accuracy and regarded as valuable
topographical records. Like his brother James, Malton worked as a
draughtsman in the office of the celebrated Irish architect James
Gandon in London. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy,
beginning in 1773, and was awarded a prestigious pecuniary prize by
the Society of Arts in 1774. From 1783 to 1789, he taught an
evening drawing class from his home in London's Conduit Street,
where he instructed a young Thomas Girtin and J. M. W. Turner, the
latter of whom he greatly influenced. £220 framed glazed no
defects
! Pictured behind glass actually better colour no age toning
stunningly good and rare.
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