William Daniell after George Dance

Thomas Hearne, artist, portrait, soft ground etching, 1809

1809

This portrait of King George the III's son was published in the same year that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered in London. 'The Protestants Champion!!' (Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex...

An excellent example of Rowlandson's visual commentary on the challenges of changing fashion for those with a less than ideal physique. Rowlandson, Thomas (after George Murgatroyd W...

London: c 1750. Steel engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (sheet) (142 x 162 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered handling wear, creasing and edge nic...

London: Thomas McLean, 1825. Aquatint with engraving and handcoloring in watercolor on wove paper, 8 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (225 x 272 mm), wide margins. Light handling wear and four s...

London: Allen & West, 1797. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (213 x 270 mm), wide margins. Scattered toning, mat tone, and dog-e...

English School, 19th century The Sunday Before Confirmation; Parson: What did your godfathers & godmothers then for you? Boy: Nothing sir, rot'em for I never had none. London: Thoma...

A collection of gruesome 19th century images illustrating the barbarism of the Qing penal code. London: William Miller, 1801. Six (6) stipple point engravings with hand coloring in...

THE GAMESTERS and THE FORTUNE TELLER. A wonderful pair of color printed mezzotint engravings after paintings by the Rev. Matthew William Peters, R....

Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper. 6 3/4 X 9 5/8 inches (170 x 244 mm), margins trimmed, image intact. Rubbing in the lower left image area obscuring the publishing information (which reads Published by Mm. Darchery, St. James Street March 11, 1783), scattered light foxing, corner loss, top left corner, well outside of image area. "SMP" collector's stamp in red ink on the verso (not in Lugt), and the name "Renier" and the initials "AR" in black ink on the verso. Colors are extremely fresh. Impressions of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the British Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art. Ex-Collection of Anne & Ferdinand Gabriel (F.G.) Renier, reknowned for their inspriational collection of children's books and works on paper, now housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum. _____ The devil officiates at the wedding of Tory Lord North, and Charles James Fox, the Whig statesman whose career spanned almost four decades in Parliament. The satirical scene is the signing of the Fox-North coalition, which was a short-lived partnership the two formed while combining forces in the House of Commons to oust then Prime Minister William Petty, Earl of Shelburne. Fox had fallen out of favor with the Irish born Shelburne, also a Whig, whose ministry remained in power just long enough to see the American War of Independence...

Etching with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper laid down to archival cardstock, 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches ( 235 x 342 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. C...