The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn
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The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn
An important and early work on military arms commissioned by Maurice of Orange (unframed).
1607
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Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’
Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’
Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari
(1584 in Siena – 1 February 1655 in Siena), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, a botanist, and an author of illustrated
botanical books and a Latin-Syrian dictionary. He was born to an affluent Sienese family and entered the Jesuit Order in Rome in 1602. His career, besides the authoring of two important works, included being professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome and horticultural advisor to the Pope.
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)
Van Veen (unframed collection) – “Divini Amoris Embelata” – 1615
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A collection of unframed cherub copper engravings.
“Divini Amoris Embelata”
Otto Van Veen also so known as Octavius Vaenius (1556-1629)
A Dutch painter and humanist who is well known for his Emblem books.
1615
23 cm x 17.5 cm (unframed)
Neue Wiener Schuhmode (unframed collection)
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Neue Wiener Schuhmode
A fun series of shoe designs manufactured in Vienna in the early 20th Century
34 cm x 23 cm
Austria 1925
Three framed – Neue Wiener Schuhmode – Austria 1925
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Neue Wiener Schuhmode
Three framed from fun series of shoe designs manufactured in Vienna in the early 20th Century
68.5 cm x 113 cm
Austria 1925
Charles Barnett Esquire – 1862
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‘Charles Barnett Esquire’
Engraved by James Scott after a painting by Stephen Pearce
Published by Henry Greaves & Co ‘London’ 1862
Print sellers to the Queen.
Original hand coloured engraving, very high quality and rare.
81.5 x 96.5 cm
Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds – 1860
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‘Sir Richard Sutton & the Quorn Hounds’
Original hand coloured engraving by Frederick Bromley.
Many of his works are in the collection of the ‘London National Portrait Gallery’
This image has been reproduced to meet the demands for this popular subject,
but the original such as this is hard to come by.
Engraved by Frederick Bromley after a painting by Sir Francis Grant.
Published by John O’Malley & Sons, London.
1860
80 x 112 cm
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Cipriani – Grotesque Statue – 1765
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“Grotesque” Statue
Two copper engravings, one with front and one with side view
Cipriani
41 cm x 51 cm
1765
Longmate – Seals of Nobility & Great Men of Scotland – 1750
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Longmate – Seals of Nobility & Great Men of Scotland
Guache hand coloured medallion engravings
75 cm x 57 cm
Colossus Gigante – 1665
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Colossus Gigante
Agedidius (Gillis) Hendricx after Pieter Coecke Van Aelst, ‘Colossus Gianteus Antverpianus’ dated 1665 with an unidentified collector.
69 cm x 53 cm
16th Century antiphonal sheet of handwrittten text with later embellishments – 1650
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16th Century antiphonal sheet of handwrittten text with later embellishments.
57.5 cm x 44.2 cm
1650
18th Century Music Antiphonals (collection unframed)
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18th Century Music Antiphonals on paper with later highlights.
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’
Yet to be professionally photgraphed, these are iPhone photos.
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’ (Pre Framing)
A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’
Here, pictured unframed.
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married. She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.
