OLD MASTER PRINTS
166* Bolswert (Schelte Adams, 1586-1659). Landscape with Philemon and Baucis, etching after Rubens, published Gillis Hendricx (active 1640-1677), close-trimmed with light stain lower left, sheet size 48 x 65cm (18.75 x 25.5ins), together with three other engravings: The Surprise, by Thomas Rowlandson, after Franceso Albano, Anthony Van Dyck’s Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and his family, 1740 and William Hogarth’s The Pit Ticket. The Cockpit, 1759 [but later] (3)
£150-200
167* Bosse (Abraham, 1602-1676). Graveurs en taille douce au Burin et a Leaue forte, 1643, & Cette figure vous montre comme on imprime les planches de taille douce, 1642, together two etchings on laid paper, with indistinct watermark to the second plate, some marks and light creases to margins, second plate with small rust hole just touching plate mark, plate size 26 x 32.5cm (10.25 x 12.75ins), sheet size 27 x 38cm (10.5 x 15ins) and very slightly smaller Duplessis 1387 & 1388. Blum 356 & 205. (2)
168* Byrne (William, 1743-1805). Angling, & The Corn Field, two oval engravings of pastoral scenes after Thomas Hearne, published John P. Thompson 1810, image size 17.6 x 20.5cm (7 x 8ins), and Bond (William, 1766-1839), The Expiation of Orestes, stipple engraving after Richard Westall, 22.7 x 18cm (9 X 7ins), plus Hollar (Wenceslaus, 1607-1677), Baths of Diocletian [Pennington 1105] & Ruins and a barred gate [Pennington 1111], two engravings of Roman ruins after Sebastian Vranckx (1573-1647), each 7 x 10.5cm (2.75 x 4.25ins), and other engravings including a portrait of a soldier by John Hamilton Mortimer (1741-1779), an etching of shipping by R. Jones and a circular stipple engraving of classical figures, some mounted
£700-1000
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£200-300