Portraits & Prints
Geographic Allegorical Figures. W.B. WALKER (publisher) [London: 4 Fox & Knot Court, Cow Lane: 1805] EUROPE. ASIA. 10 ½ x 14 3/8 inches. Mezzotint, transferred to glass, finished with oil color. Sightly age-toned, small area of lower right corner chipped off, two areas of bubbling; color rich & vibrant, overall.....
The First Hotel Erected by the Oak Bluffs Land & Wharf Co. 1867.
A superb chromolithograph, subtly capturing the burnishing effects of rosy dawn lighting, on Martha’s Vineyard first resort hotel. The plain, somewhat barn-like structure depicted here is in keeping with the middle-class nature of the Wesleyans who created the island’s first resort community. Other and grander hotels soon followed, resulting in.....
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Gerardus Mercator . . . Iudocus Hondius . .
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers in a richly colored example. Created by the widow of Jodocus Hondius as a tribute to her late husband who died in 1612. It appeared as the frontispiece in editions of the Mercator-Hondius atlas beginning in 1613. In the well-executed design, the.....
Title Page. CELLARIUS, Andreas [Amsterdam, 1660] Atlas Coelestis, seu Harmonia Macrocosmica… Image sized: 17 x 10 ¼ inches; with frame: 25 x 18 ¼ inches. Superb original color, heightened with gold; a few rubbed areas else excellent. A magnificent example, in full original color heightened with.....
Antigua/ Slave Emancipation. STOBWASSER, L./ HURLIMANN [Basel, 1835] Vue de Gracehill dans I’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales. 8 ¾ x 11 1/8 inches. Aquatint with fine original color; slight mended edge split, few spots, else excellent. Rare, luminously colored view that relates directly to the then recent emancipation of slaves.....
NIC. MULLER (Printer)/ NICHOLS, David (Engraver) [New York: dated October 1854] BUSSINES (sic) DIRECTORY OF WESTPORT. 20 ½ X 25 ½ inches. Two-stone lithograph (red and blue) mounted on heavy card stock. Two mended 4-inch splits at right and left, a few other mended splits entering printed surface, some edge.....
Militaria/ Arms Export History. MAKER UNKNOWN [Spain, c. 1880s] Panuelo De Instruccion Militar... 25 x 30 ¾ inches. Lithograph in red & black printed on cotton. Lightly age-toned, few small holes, overall excellent of this type. A fascinating broadside printed on cloth, illustrating the Springfield rolling block rifle, Model.....