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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 

  


     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

     

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

  



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

   

 


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

     


 "   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

 

 


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

 

 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

 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

 


 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



 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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