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Scarce 20th century Australian artists print and map drawers

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As you can see, I’ve used this for my 16th to 19th century unframed engravings over the years,

As closing soon, have no more use.

Drawer sizes vary, divided (x8): W.38cm D.51cm / full length (x5): W.78cm D.51cm

H.89cm  W.90cm  D.69cm

 

Above: A 19th Century carved French walnut mantle/wall mirror.

Retaining the original, well aged bevelled mirror.

H.115cm  W.108cm

Three early 17th century Basileus Besler First editions 1613

First editions 1613. Hand coloured copper engravings. 408 years old!

I’ve always wanted to group frame Beslers, but have never had a group so well matched.

I’m very excited to have this to offer my customers.

Certainly something you won’t see anywhere else.

Prints by Basil Besler from Hortus Eystettensis.

Engravings with expert hand colouring.
With typical text showing through and minor spots.
Exceptional condition.

Cartophyllus syluestris

Melilotus Germanica

Bistorta Maior

Frame 88cm x 170cm

Resting above a superb 18th century English oak dresser.

Approx. 240 years old ❤️

Mr Nathl Oldham – 1730

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Mr Nathl Oldham Mezzotint by John Faber published 1730-50. Nathanial Oldham of Middlesex was a noteworthy character who served with the British Army in India and ‘inherited a fortune which allowed him to indulge his love of field sports and fine art’ (Tate Gallery). The print by Faber is after an oil by Highmore, which is now lost, Highmore and Oldham enjoying a friendship described as ‘very intimate’ (Einberg Edgerton, p. 48). Oldham was a compulsive collector, he spent his vast fortune assembling a variety of objects including natural history specimens which early reports describe as ‘whimsical gimcracks’ rather than articles of merit to men of knowledge and science. His love for curiosities bankrupted him, and despite auctioning off his collection in 1747 was sent to the King’s Bench prison where he died in debt.

John Faber the younger moved to England from Holland at a young age and studied engraving under his father, also John Faber. He became well known for his fine quality mezzotint portraits, completing about 165 in his lifetime. The portrait of Oldham, after the lost oil painting, shows the eccentric gentleman out shooting with a male companion and his loyal dog. It is probably set on his estate at Ealing, where Oldham resided from 1728-1735.

Mezzotint: a manner of engraving on copper by scraping a roughened surface to produce light and shade.

61 cm x 80 cm (framed)

The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

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The Exercise of Armes by Jacob de Gheyn (Dutch)

An important and early work on military armes commissioned by Prince Maurice of Orange. Set of six.

1607

Jan Kip – Hampton – A Rare Early 18th Century English Copper Engravings of Grand English Estates 1708

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Jan Kip – Hampton – A Rare Early 18th Century English Copper Engravings of Grand English Estates 1708

Birdseye Maple Frame

66 x 74cm

Johannes “Jan” Kip (1652/53, Amsterdam – 1722, Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer. Together with Leonard Knyff, he made a speciality of engraved views of English country houses.

Kip was a pupil of Bastiaen Stopendaal (1636–1707), from 1668 to 1670, before setting up on his own; his earliest dated engravings are from 1672. In April 1680, at the age of 27, he married Elisabeth Breda in Amsterdam. After producing works for the court of William of Orange in Amsterdam, Kip followed William and Mary to London and settled in St. John Street in Farringdon, where he conducted a thriving printselling business. He also worked for various London publishers producing engravings after such artists as Francis Barlow (c. 1626–1704) and Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700), largely for book illustrations. He made several engraved plates for Awnsham & John Churchill’s A Collection of Voyages & Travels (first published 1704). He signed the African scenes in volume V of the 1732 edition as “J. Kip”.

His most important works were the large fold-out folio illustrations for Britannia Illustrata, 1708; for the 65 folio plates he engraved for the antiquary Sir Robert Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, 1712 (1st edition); and for Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne ou description exacte des palais de la Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des des Seigneurs & des Gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne, 1715, an extended reprint in collaboration with other artists.

CMA206

‘The Donkey – Ster Sweepstakes’ Engraving by Charles Hunt 1852

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The Donkey – Ster Sweepstakes’ Engraving by Charles Hunt 1852

Painted by J.A.Fitzgerald, published London 1852

Years ago I bought this mid 19th Century English lithograph. It has sat around in my stores and found again recently.

The donkey race at the local county fair. I wonder if they’re chimney sweepers? One of my younger contempories stated, ‘He saw this in my shop window display recently, he continued to state the engraving was ‘Racist’?’ Sometimes I simply don’t understand our younger generation?

Anyway, I love this style of engraving. I removed the daggy frame, as I feel it looks much better with no interference.

H.57cm W.65cm