edward scriven engraver (9 Ergebnisse)

One page, irregular 8vo, right edge rough through being torn, almost affecting the text but not quite, small hole with loss of some letters from the address but not from text, which is as follows: "I enclose the Six Pounds 4/6, as I said I would do yesterday when in Finsbury Square. Here is the account of what my amount now stands indebted; therefore balances on all sides present matters between me and your House. | Please offer my kind respects to all in Finsbury Square [.]".

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scriven begins: 'I am afraid you will have thought I had forgotten to send the plate of Norfolk: the truth is, I decided on doing a few touches to that hand noticed by you & Mr Lackington; and although it was but a very little, I did not like to trust its going without first seeing a proof, as we can never be quite sure, on at all touching the copper, how it may come afterwards.' He ends by sending his 'best respects to Mr Lackington and the rest of your Gentlemen'.

The word 'Proof' is engraved in the bottom right-hand corner. Dimensions of paper roughly ten inches by seven and a half. Good clean image on lightly aged paper. Head and shoulders portrait, in which a dolorous old biddy in cap stares vacantly at the viewer. Presumably a companion piece to an engraving in the National Portrait Gallery by Isaac W. Slater of a drawing by Scriven of Henrietta Maria Slater, published by Colnaghi in July 1830. This item is not present in the National Portrait Gallery online catalogue.

Zustand: Good. Stipple engraving. 39.5 x 27 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor soiling and foxing in the margin areas.

Zustand: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Zustand: Good. Stipple engraving. 23 x 16 cm (sheet). Very Good, light specks of foxing in the margin areas.

Zustand: Good. Stipple engraving. 21.5 x 13.7 cm. (sheet). Facsimile signature under image. Very Good. Minor surface soiling.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 22.7x13.2 cm (9x5¼"), contemporary brown diced half Russia leather, marbled paper boards, gilt decorated and lettered spines. First Editions.11 volumes, comprising: First Series, Volumes 1-7; New Series, Volumes 1-4. Engraved title-pages to each volume of the first series; 58 portraits; nine folding maps; 12 plates and one folding plan.An unusually long run (and almost complete, save for the final two volumes) of this interesting and important monthly periodical published for British military officers. It contains military histories, news on current campaigns (particularly the conflicts with Napoleon l's France on the Iberian Peninsula), biographies of prominent officers, lists of promotions, essays on the art of war, correspondence and, oddly in volume seven is Voyage Down the Rhine From Mentz to Holland by "the Late Mrs. Radcliffe, Authoress of The Mysteries of Udolpho, etc." When this was issued Ann Radcliffe was to live for another ten years. There are other, but less interesting, anomalies, such as a printing of Voltaire's Life of Peter the Great, etc. .Ownership signature in volumes one through four and nine of Sir Charles Chichester (1795-1847) who "was reputed one of the best regimental commanding officers in the British army" - DNB. The folding map for the January 1811 issue is laid in and possibly provided from another copy.Condition:Only light shelf wear and slight fading to some of the spines; a couple of folding plates torn along the folds, without loss; a near fine set in a handsome contemporary binding.Sabin 73801 and 73802; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:224891395 (first series):Supplements: v. 1. Life of Sir John Moorev. 2. Memoirs of Captain George Carleton and the campaigns of the Earl of Peterborough.v. 3. The life of Prince Eugene, of Savoy .v. 4. The life of Charles XII, King of Sweden .v. 6. Life and campaigns of Field-Marshal Suworow.Campaign of General Moreau in Germany in 1796, with his memorable Retreat through the Black Forestv. 7. The life of the great Conde.

Original copper engraving (44 x 60 cm, overall sheet 55 x 68 cm). Light soiling along outer edge of left margin, not affecting plate. From "A Collection of Prints . Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare." published by Boydell, London, 1803. In 1789, the publisher John Boydell opened the Shakespeare Gallery, an exhibition space in London's Pall Mall showcasing paintings that exclusively represented scenes from Shakespeare's plays. The Gallery was a bid to revive 'history painting' (the practice of depicting scenes from the Bible, mythology or the classics) in contemporary British art, a genre thought to be of great public benefit because of its morally instructive messages. What better unifying theme for such a project than the works of Shakespeare, which had become so popular and so integral to British identity by the mid-18th century? The Gallery opened in May 1789 with 34 canvases by 18 British artists. By the next year there were 55 paintings and in 1796 the total was 84, along with dozens of 'Small Pictures'. Once the exhibition was mounted, reproductive engravings of the paintings produced by an in-house team of 46 printmakers were available to purchase, either as a large portfolio of 90 prints or as a luxurious illustrated edition of the plays. (The British Library).