Queen Mary I (When Princess)
Artist Hans Holbein (The
Younger)etching by
Wenceslaus ( Wenzel) Hollar Production
Date 1647
Medium etching
Signature/Marks (below image)
M. MORETT
(l.c.) Holbein pinxit (l.l.) W. Hollar fecit ex Collectione
Arundeliana, Ao (illeg.) .31 Dece: (l.c.-l.r.)Size
(hxw) 142 x 107mm. by
Wenceslaus
Hollar (1607-1677). Hollar, a Bohemian exile, was employed by the
Earl of Arundel as artist-in-residence to make drawings of his
extensive art collection. Some of these drawings are now the only
information on the contents of that impressive collection. In 1642
the Earl of Arundel left England for the Continent, never to
return. The turmoil of the civil war caused Hollar to move to
Antwerp in 1644, where he settled for a few years. He had taken his
notebooks with him and used them to make the present
engravings.signed "WHollar fecit ex Collectione Arundeliana," some
with the year "1646," and are numbered in the upper right corner.
According to Hagen, there are three issues of this series, the
first series is unnumbered, the second series is numbered and has
the address of F. de Wit, the third series also contains the
address and had different numbers. Tipped on cardboard in a mount
no foxing minor base tear approx 3mm £85 sorry pic done in
electric light
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Mr Morett
Artist Hans Holbein (The
Younger)etching by
Wenceslaus ( Wenzel) Hollar Production
Date 1647
Medium etching
Signature/Marks (below image)
M. MORETT
(l.c.) Holbein pinxit (l.l.) W. Hollar fecit ex Collectione
Arundeliana, Ao (illeg.) .31 Dece: (l.c.-l.r.)Size
(hxw) 142 x 107mm. by
Wenceslaus
Hollar (1607-1677). Hollar, a Bohemian exile, was employed by the
Earl of Arundel as artist-in-residence to make drawings of his
extensive art collection. Some of these drawings are now the only
information on the contents of that impressive collection. In 1642
the Earl of Arundel left England for the Continent, never to
return. The turmoil of the civil war caused Hollar to move to
Antwerp in 1644, where he settled for a few years. He had taken his
notebooks with him and used them to make the present
engravings.signed "WHollar fecit ex Collectione Arundeliana," some
with the year "1646," and are numbered in the upper right corner.
According to Hagen, there are three issues of this series, the
first series is unnumbered, the second series is numbered and has
the address of F. de Wit, the third series also contains the
address and had different numbers. Tipped on cardboard in a mount
no foxing or major defects £85
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Bearded
man
Artist Hans Holbein (The
Younger)etching by Wenceslaus (
Wenzel) Hollar Production
Date 1647
Medium etching
Signature/Marks (below image)
M. MORETT
(l.c.) Holbein pinxit (l.l.) W. Hollar fecit ex Collectione
Arundeliana, Ao (illeg.) .31 Dece: (l.c.-l.r.)Size
(hxw) 142 x 107mm. by
Wenceslaus
Hollar (1607-1677). Hollar, a Bohemian exile, was employed by the
Earl of Arundel as artist-in-residence to make drawings of his
extensive art collection. Some of these drawings are now the only
information on the contents of that impressive collection. In 1642
the Earl of Arundel left England for the Continent, never to
return. The turmoil of the civil war caused Hollar to move to
Antwerp in 1644, where he settled for a few years. He had taken his
notebooks with him and used them to make the present
engravings.signed "WHollar fecit ex Collectione Arundeliana," some
with the year "1646," and are numbered in the upper right corner.
According to Hagen, there are three issues of this series, the
first series is unnumbered, the second series is numbered and has
the address of F. de Wit, the third series also contains the
address and had different numbers. Tipped on cardboard in a mount
no foxing crease over image noother defects
£85
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Sir Richard Whittington from an original painting at Mercers
hall
by Guillaume Philippe Benoist (1725-1770) engraving printed
for Alex Hogg and Co, London. .1766 published in 'A NEW and
ACCURATE HISTORY and SURVEY of
LONDON, WESTMINSTER, SOUTHWARK, and Places adjacent : by By the
Rev. JOHN ENTICK, M.A. LONDON : Printed for Edward and Charles
Dilly, in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House.
MDCCLXVI.
Condition
as per pic other pics can be done if
wished .. mounted, matted £35 inc
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Hon.ble Edward Boscawen, admiral of the Blue Squadron
Stipple engraving by [William] Ridley, after Sir Joshua Reynolds,
published by Burney and Gold, [London] 1802 William,
RIDLEY,
1764-1838
Condition as per pic other pics can be done
if wished .. . . . .
. £35
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" The ADMIRABLE CRICHTON - "
Publication England, Warrington: printed by W. Eyres, 1774.
From an engraving by J. Hall, after Moses Griffith used as
frontespiece to "A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXXIV", by Thomas Pennant
(1726-1798) 18x14cm plus wide margins. Thomas Pennant was one
of the leading English naturalists and traveller of the 18th
century as well as one of the foremost Zoologists. His publications
were valued for their highly readable treatment, informative essays
and detailed research. He employed the artistry of Moses Griffith
who provided the majority of the illustrations for his various
publications.
Condition
as per pic other pics can be done if
wished .. mounted, matted £35 inc
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Idle Joan . .She did just nothing all the day:
An illutration to ' An Epitaph . . .
INTERR'D beneath this marble stone, Lie saunt'ring Jack and
idle Joan. a poem by Matthew prior . by C.Taylor
after
S.Shelley Stipple in sepia published London, Published Feby
1, 1789, by C.Taylor No10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Condition as per pic other pics can be done if wished
.. mounted, matted £25 inc
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Anne
Stanhope, Dutchess of Somerset; Widow of
the Protector
probably from Vol. II, f. 5.
of Thomas,
Pennant, 1726-1798. Some account of
London, extra-illustrated engravings by Nugent,
after
Harding. Image size: 225 x 163 mm. Sheet size: 541 x 349
mm.)
listed in the Yales
collection as an extra illustration tipped in to this and matches
his other work with
Griffiths
Condition as per pic other pics can be
done if wished
.. mounted, matted £40 inc
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To the Right Honble. Earl
Onslow. This Plate
representing the House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole’s
Administration. Is with Permission dedicated by his Lordships most
obedient humble Servt. E. Harding. From an original Picture painted
by Hogarth, and Sir James Thornhill, in the collection of Earl
Onslow. ”
Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The
House of Commons in Sir
Robert Walpole’s Administration. Interior during a session
with
designation of the notables. Stipple by A. Fogg. Inscribed:
Engraved by A. Fogg. historical Engraver. / to his Royal Highness
Prince Wm. Frederick. / London Published Novr. 1. 1803. by E.
Harding, No. 100, Pall Mall, otherwise as below. 54.3 x 40.4 cm.
Among those portrayed in the center the presiding Rt. Hon. Arthur
Onslow himself. At his side Robert Walpole, in the rows in the
middle distance further Sydney Godolphin, Sir Joseph Jekyl, Colonel
Onslow, Sir James Thornhill as well as at the table in front Edward
Stables Esq. and Mr. Aiskew as Clerk and Clerk Assistant of House
of Commons Mounted matted perfect £85 or a later edition at
£45
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Copper Engraving of John Wormberg . .aged 38 years and only
31 inches high.
Published July 22, 1813 by R.S.
Kirby, 11 London House
Yard. Born Switzerland 1650. Died 1695. "The portraiture of John
Wormberg, by birth a Switzer, by religion a protestant; his height
not exceeding two feet seven inches, aged thirty-eight years; who
had the honour to be exposed to view most princes in Europe and
since to the king of Great Britain and chiefest of the nobility:
the like not hitherto seen, being the strangest prodigy in nature,
and great astonishment of all beholders." was the dwarf of the king
. . . . . £35 rare
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Copper Engraving of John Jarvis. .3 feet 8 inches high died
1560 aged 57 years
from
the Original in the possession
of geo Walker esq, Winchester Row, Lisson Green, Published
March 1 1796 by I Caulfield . From Caulfield, J.:
Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of remarkable persons from
the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution. Vol. 1-2.
London: Herbert; London: Caulfield 1794-95.
The first authentic English
‘dwarfs’
appears to be John Jarvis (2 ft. high), who was page to Queen
Mary I.. . . £35
rare
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