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Click here to subscribeAfter Albrecht Durer 1471-1528- "The Last Supper"; (Bartsch 13, Strauss 199, Meder 184a). woodcut, originally published 1523, 19.3x29.2cm., (trimmed within the plate): After Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, 1775-1851- "Mill Near the Grand Chartreuse Dauphiny" from Liber Studiorum, proof, published by Thos Lupton, 4 Keppel, St, London; etching with mezzotint, 21x28.3cm., (scattered foxing): together with further 19/20th century etchings and engravings, by and after various hands, (6). Note: One of D³rer's last major prints, this version of the Last Supper differs radically from earlier versions.
HUNT (W. HOLMAN)-Pre-Raphaelitism and The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2 vols., MacMillan & Co. London 1905, 40 photogravure plates and other illustrations, some light foxing, t.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt lettering, some wear and spotting, spine edges bruised; Ruskin (John)-Modern Painters, 5 vols. inc. index, second edition in small form, George Allen , 1898, b/w plates and illustrations, minor spotting to edges, t.e.g., green cloth, gilt lettering; Penrose (Roland)-Pablo Picasso Four Themes, Folio Society 1961; Lambourne (Nigel)-Albrecht Durer Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Folio Society, 1969, orig. 1/4 buckram, glassine wrappers; Sandilands (G. S.)-Richard Parkes Bonington, 'The Studio' Limited 1929, orig. boards, spine poor (10)
Howard (Michael). Lowry. A Visionary Artist, 1st ed., 2000, num. col. illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, together with Renaissance Venice and the North. Crosscurrents in the Time of Durer, Bellini and Titian, ed. Bernard Aikema and Beverly Louis Brown, pub. Thames & Hudson, 1999, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., thick folio, and other misc. art ref., mostly G/VG (6 shelves)
panofsky (E.) Albrecht Durer, 1948 2 vols, 4to orig. cl; Baker (C.H.C.) Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, No. 90 of 250 copies, orig. card wraps; Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Early English Portraiture, 1909, fo, orig. cl; with A Quantity of Volumes art-related (qty.)
Robert Baker (1909-1992). A group of assorted drawings and etchings, including a pen and ink sketch of farm labourers, a pen sketch of gleaners and an etching of the same subject, an etching of a head study after Durer, a pen and ink scene from Macbeth, and a drawing of figures, squared for transfer. All unframed (5). (see illustration on our website)
Bofa, Gus La symphonie de la peur. Paris, 1925, one of 125 copies, 4to, limited to 1125 copies, this copy unnumbered, plates, original wrappers, slipcase; Cooper, Douglas. Fernand Leger et le nouvel espace. Geneva: Trois Collines, 1949, 8vo, inscribed a Virginia and signed by the artist on title, plates, wrappers somewhat soiled and slightly frayed at head of spine; Gide, Andre. Les nourritures terrestres. Paris: Grenier a sel, 1948, 4to, limited to 237 copies, number 15 of 33 copies on velin teinte, signed by the artist, uncoloured lithographs by Andre Marchand, loose as published in original wrappers, spine torn and frayed; Eluard, P. Le dur desir de durer. Philadelphia & London, 1950, 4to, number 847 of 1500 copies, frontispiece & illustrations by Chagall, original wrappers, all with library number affixed to base of wrapper spine (4)
Eluard, Paul & Chagall, Marc Le dur désir de durer. Philadelphia: The Grey Falcon Press, 1950, 4to, number 1397 of 1500 copies, illustrated by Marc Chagall, English translation by Stephen Spender and Francis Cornford, colour frontispiece, original wrappers, library label taped at foot of backstrip, a good copy; Eluard, Paul Voir, poèmes, peintures, dessins. Geneva-Paris, 1948, folio, number 1018 of 3000 copies, 32 tipped in colour plates, prospectus inserted to front with one colour plate, original boards with decorative wrappers, rubbed at corners (2)
Bible [Syriac New Testament]. The Syriac version of the New Testament, reprinted from volume 5 of the Antwerp Polyglot, [C. PLantin, Antwerp, 1574], no title (as noted in Darlow & Moule), A-H8, printed in small Hebrew characters without vowel-points, with an appendix of various readings compiled by Franciscus Raphelengius (Plantin's son-in-law), EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 101 late 17th/early 18th c. eng. plts. and eng. title "Evangeliorum Dominicalium et Festivalium... oder Kern aller sonn und Fest-tagigen Evangelien von Paul Decker neu ersonnen und gereichnet, in Kupffer von Christoph Weigel in Nurnberg" (some plts. mounted), plus 118 late 16th/early 17th c. woodcut illusts. on 59 leaves (including some after Durer), early 19th c. calf, spine detached and boards near detached, 8vo. Darlow & Moule 8951. (1)
* Prints & engravings. Poussin (Gaspar, after), The Cascade,. uncoloured engraving after Vivares, plate dimensions 310 x 405 mm, together with Rosa (Salvator, 1615-73), Diogenes Adolescentem manu bibentem intuitus Scyphum proycit, and Sensit Alexander, testa quum, uidit in illa Magnum habitatorem, two uncoloured engravings, some light foxing, each 460 x 275 mm, plus others including an 18th century engraving after Albrecht Durer, a book entitled 'Jos. Fuhrich's Triumph Christi in eilf Tafeln', published in 1839 containing eleven engraved plates, etc., some framed and glazed (11)
* Jackson (John Baptist, 1701-c. 1780). The Deposition, after Rembrandt, 1738, chiaroscuro woodcut, sheet size approx. 480 x 320mm (19 x 12.5ins), mounted on card, together with two other 18th c. chiaroscuro woodcuts, after Durer and Cigoli, plus Cesio (Carlo, 1626-1686), Cyclops, after Annibale Caracci, copper engraving, trimmed to margins, approx. 350 x 245mm (13.75 x 9.5ins), mounted on card, and other various Old Master prints and engravings, including Simon Lord Lovat, by William Hogarth, 1746 (trimmed), The Holy Family, after Dominichino, an etched landscape by Perelle, etc. (30)
*Old Master drawings. An important album of Old Master drawings and prints, principally of the Italian & Dutch Schools, including works by or after Castiglione, N. Bair, Van Stralen, Donato Creti, School of Caracci, Bartolomeo Breenburg, Sir James Thornhill, Thomas Worlidge, Gravelot, Durer, Della Bella, Julio Romano (with ownership stamp of Sir Joshua Reynolds), Bloemart, Falconet, Gerard Lairesse, Everdingen, Theodor van Kessel, Silvestre and others, 16th-19th centuries, containing seventy-five original drawings in pen & ink, wash, red chalk, five early 19th c. English watercolours and drawings (including Thomas Churchyard), 225 prints and engravings, mostly 17th-19th centuries (including John Martin, Paul Sandby, Silvestre, Mariette, Klein, Wenceslaus Hollar etc.) album leaves measuring approx 360 x 240mm, a.e.g., early 19th c. straight-grained full maroon morocco, decorated in blind and gilt, rubbed and scuffed to edges, with chased brass clasp and key, in working order, large folio Provenance: William Quilter, with his early 19th c. bookplate to front pastedown and initials to hand drawn title page dated 1831. Also with ownership signature of Sir William Cuthbert Quilter to front pastedown. Quilter, William (1808-1888), accountant & art collecter, was born on 7 August 1808, the youngest of four sons of Samuel Sacker Quilter, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah May Chapman. William married Elizabeth Harriot, née Cuthbert (d. 1874), in 1834 and they had three sons, including the art collector and politician Sir William Cuthbert Quilter and the art critic Harry Quilter, and two daughters. His notable collection of watercolours fetched £58,000 at Christies in 1875; and the value of the remaining pictures at the time of his death was £31,486. Quilter died on 12 November 1888 at his home, 28 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, London, leaving well over half a million pounds, one of the largest known estates of any Victorian accountant. Sir William Cuthbert, first baronet (1841-1911), art collector and politician. In 1883 Quilter purchased the Bawdsey estate near Felixstowe in Suffolk. He spent vast sums of money on the estate, which totalled 9000 acres, in the form of sea defences, a manor house, and an alpine garden. Quilter shared his father's interest in art collecting, although he cultivated his own unique, albeit catholic, taste. His collection included works by modern English artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelite painters D. G. Rossetti, Millais, and Holman Hunt; Royal Academicians including Sir Frederic Leighton, Sir Edwin Landseer, and Sir Hubert von Herkomer; nineteenth-century French masters, for example Corot, Daubigny, and Millet; and old masters such as Frans Hals and Velázquez. His collection was well respected. The art critic F. G. Stephens praised Quilter's collection in a series of articles written for Cassell's Magazine of Art in 1896-7. Quilter's assemblage of paintings at his London house, 28 South Street, Park Lane, was sold at Christies on 9 July 1909, realizing £87,780. (1)
*Durer (Albrecht, 1471-1528). Holy Anthony, or Anthony in front of the town, 1519, engraving, signed with initials and dated 1519 in the image, trimmed to image, with some loss of border line, some surface marks, and both lower outer corners with some small loss, approx. 97 x 141 mm, tipped to upper outer corners onto 18th c. leaf Meder 51. (1)
Priestley J.B. Angel Pavement limited edition 522/1025 signed by author Heinemann London 1930. Bevelled brown buckram with glassine wrapper in card slip-case portrait frontispiece octavo; Anzelewsky Fedja. Durer new edition Fraser London 1982. Brick red cloth dustjacket in card slip-case illustrations throughout translated into English by Heide Grieve octavo; Newland Amy & Uhlenbeck Chris. (Editors). Ukiyo-e to Shin hansa: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints Magna Books Leicester 1990. Black boards illustrations throughout dustjacket; and three other works (6)
A late 19th Century stained glass panel after Albrecht Durer possibly Birmingham Guild, the image depicts St George and the Dragon with St George mounted on a white steed with lance and standard stood above the dragon and set within decorated acanthus scrolled pillared surround, bears painted monogram AD 1508, measures 19’ by 14.25'.
*Rubens (Peter Paul, 1577-1640). The Crucifixion, 18th century engraving by Michiel Bunel, contemp. ink writing to lower margin, approx. 450 x 325 mm, together with 'Christi Funus', 18th century engraving after Rubens, approx. 490 x 380 mm, and other old master engravings after Durer, Visscher, Raphael, Van Dyck, etc., various sizes (12)