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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....