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An Original engraving of John Duke of
Marlborough by
Jacobus Houbraken, after Kneller .. dated to plate 1745.
Size 13 3/8 X 8 7/8 (Sizes in
inches are
approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.)Source : Originally from
Vertues
work "The Heads of
Illustrious Personages of Great Britain " Published in London by
Knapton from 1747-1756. All are signed in plate: "J. Houbraken
sculps. Amst.-Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini.", dates include
1738, 1738, 1740 and 1741 1747Condition: Printed on early eighteenth
century paper and with
margins cropped slightly on all sides. Signed and dated by Vertue
in the plate to the lower right. In very good condition
throughout.Artist: George Vertue (1683 - 1756)
Nationality: British Media:
EngravingBiography: VERTUE, GEORGE (1684-1756),
English engraver and
antiquary, was born in St Martins-in-the-Fields, London, in 1684.
At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to an heraldic engraver,
a Frenchman, who failed in three or four years. Vertue then studied
drawing at home, and afterwards worked for seven years as an
engraver under Michael Vandergucht. He was patronized by Sir
Godfrey Kneller, and was one of the first members of the Academy of
Painting which that artist instituted in 1711. His plate of
Archbishop Tillotson, after Kneller, commissioned by Lord Somers,
established his reputation as an engraver; and he was soon in
anexcellent practice, engraving portraits after Dahl, Richardson,
Jervas and Gibson. In portraiture alone he executed over five
hundred plates. In 1717 he was appointed engraver to the Society of
Antiquaries, and his bun. was employed upon many interesting
statues, tombs, portraits and other subjects of an antiquarian
nature. He died on the 24th of July 1756, and was buried in the
cloisters of Westminster Abbey.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.£25 age toned paper ie yellower than it was when printed
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Pie VI Jean Angie Braschy
1775 (5-2, après un
conclave de 5 mois) Pie VI, Jean Ange Braschi (né 1717 Cesena,
arrêté 20-2-1798 par les Français, †
29-8-1799 à Valence). Stipple with etching , sheet 225 x 145mm.
. A Paris chez F. Bonneville, rue Jacques, No. 195. £25 x 2
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LAURENTIUS S.R.E. EPISCOPUS CARDINALIS
CORSINUS .
Engraved by Gaspare Massi (1698 ca./ 1731) drawn by
Ghezzi Pier Leone (1674/ 1755) Published by : De Rossi Lorenzo Filippo
:1706 post Size
271x208 some creasing easily removed £25
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Pio Sexto Pont. Max.
Drawn by Matth.RONCONI, ca.
1780/90?. Portrait engraved by Ang. Campanella (Size 23 x 16 cm £25 inc
delivery RARE
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Mrs-
Siddons,Flormerly Said to be as Mrs-Haller in The Stranger
ca.1797 but later from the porrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence:
1769-1830 British Sir Thomas Lawrence Galleries was a notable English
painter, mostly of portraits. He was born in Bristol. His father was an
innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age
of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear
as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim
speeches from Milton. In 1779 the elder Lawrence had to leave Devizes,
having failed in business and Thomas's precocious talent began to be
the main source of the family's income; he had gained a reputation
along the Bath road. His debut as a crayon portrait painter was made at
Oxford, where he was well patronized, and in 1782 the family settled in
Bath, where the young artist soon found himself fully employed in
taking crayon likenesses of fashionable people at a guinea or a guinea
and a half a head. This is a Victorian silk picture from
the Gentlewoman laid to baod luckily as this preserves it remnants of
glue to edges but rare and well worth the frame colour & image is
excellent £25 post inc
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Charles II in the Forest of Boscobel
Charles II in the Forest of
Boscobel.' Shows the king, disguised, with woodcutters, before climbing
into the oak tree. Also shows men arriving with news of a search.
'Painted by Farrington and Smirke, R.A.'s; Engraved by Pouncy and
Rhodes' Published 1800 clipped to image age toned and soiled but
still an early engraving £40 inc delivery
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S.E.Lord Cowley Ambassador in Paris
lithograph Emilien Desmaisons, 1856
(1812-1880) Published Paris, Ernest Bourdin (Mayer Freres & Pierson
Photog., Imp. par Auguste Bry a Paris), 1856. Size 32x21,7cm
£15 many of these have facsimile signatures some also have
Cambridge, Mass overstamps all have light soiling printed to card
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SA.Aali Pacha
lithograph Emilien Desmaisons, 1856
(1812-1880) Published Paris, Ernest Bourdin (Mayer Freres & Pierson
Photog., Imp. par Auguste Bry a Paris), 1856. Size 32x21,7cm
£15 many
of these have facsimile signatures some also have Cambridge, Mass
overstamps all have light soiling printed to card
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S.E.Mehemmed Djemil Bey
lithograph Emilien Desmaisons, 1856
(1812-1880) Published Paris, Ernest Bourdin (Mayer Freres & Pierson
Photog., Imp. par Auguste Bry a Paris), 1856. Size 32x21,7cm
£15 many
of these have facsimile signatures some also have Cambridge, Mass
overstamps all have light soiling printed to card
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Charles the first by the grace of God, King
of England, Scotland, France and Ireland
Copper engraving Date unknown ( after
Wenceslas Hollar who lived 1607-1677) Size 15 x 10 cm. £20
slight soiling to margins
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Charles I of England in Armour
Copper
engraving Date unknown similar to : G. Faithorne Size 15 x 10 cm.
£20 slight soiling to margins
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Jeanne Gray
- Proclamée Reine d' Angleterre le 10. Julliet 1553 -
Decapitée a Londres le 12. Fevrier 1554 (English: Proclaimed
Queen of England 10. Julliet 1553 - Executed In London the 12. February
1554.) From "L' Europe Illustre" by Jean-François
Dreux du Radier Drawn by Adriaen van der Werff Engraved
by Basan Published 1755-65 SCARCE £25 tinted
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Thomas Wildey, founder of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in North America
. . . . £35 rare
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Abbe Raynal.
Engraving by Thomas Trotter (c. 1750 - 1803), engraver and very
occasional publisher.; undated. 28 x 23 cm Portrait of abbé
(Guillaume-Thomas-François) Raynal (1713-1796) Head and
shoulders, facing right. Most of this artist's work dates from the
1780's. . . £75
rare
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