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Cover Image 1. Aborigines of England J.Chapman Stipple London Published as the Act directs March 10th. 1804 by J.Wiles Image 185 x 162 mm, Plate 237 x 190 mm, Sheet 260 x 207 mm An early 19th century romanticised representation of Ancient Britons, with their bodies tattooed or painted with symbols of the zodiac, suns, moons and faces, holding spears and a shield with swords on chains around their waists. Illustration from 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature' .

Condition: Foxing and toning to margins, not affecting image.

[38238] £70

2. [Rollright Stones] Johanes Kip Copper engraving 1695 Image 93 x 190 mm, Plate 97 x 198 mm, Sheet 392 x 245 mm.

Image of the Rollright Stones from William Camden’s Britannia.

The Rollright Stones, a collection of prehistoric monuments, are situated upon the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.

The earliest know belief about the stones, that they were petrified men, was first recorded in the 1586 version of Camden’s Britannia, stating that ‘the common people usually call them Rolle-rick stones, and dreameth that they were sometimes men by a wonderful Metamorphosis turned into hard stones’.

William Camden (1551-1623) was an English historian and antiquary who devoted himself to the study of the antiquities of Britain, travelling round the country visiting sites. The results of his work were brought together in the "Britannia", first published in 1586 then much

reissued and augmented over the following two centuries.

[37579] £50

3.The Rollright Stones F. Mackenzie Copper engraving Published as the Act directs 1st June 1823 By J. Skelton, Magdalen Bridge, Oxford Image 56 x 86 mm Image of the Rollright Stones from Joseph Skelton’s Antiquities of Oxfordshire.

[7485] £15

4.View of White Horse Hill in the County of Berks Copper engraving c.1769 Image 140 x 250 mm Originally produced for the part-work publication "England Displayed" (London 17691770) [23037] £45

5.View of White-Horse Hill, Berks.

Samuel Lysons Copper engraving Published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, 1st Jany. 1806.

Image 250 x 360 mm, Plate 286 x 395 mm, Sheet 289 x 450 mm From Magna Britannia; being a Concise topographical Account of the several counties of Great Britain. Vol. 1 containing Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire

by Rev. Daniel Lysons, and Samuel Lysons (1806).

Samuel Lysons (1763-1819) was the son of the Rev. Samuel Lysons and Mary Peach Lysons of Gloucestershire, England. Lysons began studying law in Bath in 1780. He relocated to London, was called to the bar in 1798, then served as Keeper of the Records in London from 1803 until his death in 1819. Samuel was also an engraver and antiquary, serving as Director of the Society of Antiquaries from 1798 to 1809. He illustrated his brother Daniel's Environs of London, and the two collaborated on Magna Britannia, Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, published in several volumes from 1806 to 1822.

The work was cut short by Samuel's death in 1819.

Condition: Trimmed to plate mark on upper margin, not affecting image. Centre fold.

[25846] £35

6.The Druid’s Temple at Park Place, Berkshire Aquatint Published Jany. 1st, 1791 by A. Robinson & W. Faden Image 104 x 173 mm, Plate 150 x 225 mm, Sheet 230 x 285 mm The neolithic monument at Park Place in Berkshire. It is a 3,000 year old Neolithic Channel Islands Passage tomb brought from Jersey in 1785 and reconstructed as a folly.

[34275] £15

7.A Druids Temple John Peltro after Joseph Pocklington Copper engraving

Joseph Pocklington Esqr. delin. John Peltro Sculp. [c.1800] Image 175 x 165 mm, Plate 262 x 188 mm, Sheet 272 x 198 mm Inscription reads: ‘A Druids Temple discover’d on Pocklington’s Island in Derwentwater near Keswick in Cumberland on ye 3d. Day of Sepr. in the Year 1779.

This is suppos’d to be the most compleat & last built Temple in Europe. N.B. The above was discover’d by Joseph Pocklington Esqr. of Carlton upon Trent near Newark Nottinghamshire.’

An isometric view of a supposed ‘druidic’ stonecircle on Derwent Island, near Keswick in Cumbria. The cardinal points are marked outside the ring of standing stones, and a small square within the circle is labelled as the ‘Sanctum Sanctorum,’ the ‘Holy of Holies.’ The monument bears a close resemblance to the Cumbrian stone circle at Castlerigg, though the only known stone-circle on Derwent Island was a folly built by the eccentric owner of the island, Joseph Pocklington.

Castlerigg, like many other monuments of British antiquity, had been visited by William Stukeley in 1725, though his account of the visit was not published until 1776 in the posthumous Itinerarium Curiosum. The legacy of the antiquarian John Aubrey meant that the site was long identified with the Iron-Age Druids, rather than its more probable Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date. The popular connection of this monument with the Druids was an enduring one, and also a source of inspiration for the Romantic poets, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

John Peltro (1760-1808) was a British engraver.

Joseph Pocklington Esqr. was a British eccentric, and the owner of Derwent Island House. Pocklington purchased the land of Derwent Island in 1778 from the Company of Mines Royal. On it, he constructed the Italianate Derwent Island House, as well as a fort, stonecircle, and boathouse.

Condition: Trimmed to plate mark at bottom.

[37112] £50

8.Scene at Park Place including the Druids Temple Joseph Constantine Stadler after Joseph Farington Aquatint with hand colouring Published June 1.1793 by J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall & No.90.

Cheapside.

Image 210 x 322 mm, Sheet 310 x 414 mm From A History of the River Thames published by John and Joshia Boydell in 1793 and 1796. The brothers originally intended to include the rivers Thames, Severn, Forth and Clyde 'and intended to illustrate an original History of those Rivers, including all that adorns, dignifies or enriches them and their Vicinities, whether of Art or Nature'. The project was abandoned at the completion of the History of the Thames.

Joseph Constantine Stadler was a printmaker of German origins, working in London between 1780 - 1819. He specialised in aquatint.

Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a landscape painter and diarist. He studied in Manchester, and moved to London in 1763 to be taught in the studio of Richard Wilson. He became a member of the Society of Artists in 1765, joined the Royal Academy at its inception in 1769, and became an academician in 1785. He submitted work annually until 1801, and continued to exhibit at the academy until 1813.

[32275] £140

9.Druidical Antiquities Goodnight Copper engraving Pubd. by S. Hooper April 16, 1784 Image 212 x 140 mm, Plate 234 x 158 mm, Sheet 275 x 210 mm From Francis Grose’s The Antiquities of England and Wales, this print illustrates various types of megaliths including: Cromleh near Dundalk, Ireland, Gromleh near Plainsewdd in Anglesea, Lanyon Gromleh Cornwall, Tolmen St. Mary’s Scilly, Tolmen Northwethel Scilly, Rocking Stone, the stone circle at Kewick in Cumberland, and Rock Bason Coit at Karnbre.

[34388] £20

10.Cromlech at Enstone, Oxfordshire. Plan of Cromlechs Near Kits Coty House, Kent.

Copper engraving Gentleman’s Magazine, Feb. 1824 Image 180 x 100 mm [36320] £15

11.Ancient Temple at Avebury, Wiltshire, as presumed to have been orginally.

Robert Havell after John Martin after John Britton Aquatint London, Published Aug 1, 1824, by the Author Burton Street.

Image 98 x 172 mm, Sheet 140 x 221 mm A rare aquatint from John Britton’s Beauties of Wiltshire.

[36038] ÂŁ85

Inscription reads: ‘Diamr. of the outer circle of Stones 104 feet. Do. Circle formed by the ditch 312_ Upright of the great Hexagon 20 feet_ Estimated weight of each 70 Tons.’

Condition: Small tear on left edge, slightly affecting image. Creases in bottom right corner.

[35779] £250

12.Stonehenge in its original state / Stonehenge in its present state Etching 1834 Image 310 x 280 mm, Sheet 380 x 310 mm A bird's eye view artist's interpretation of how Stonehenge would have looked in it's original state compared to the condition it would have been found in 1834, since the 19th century a pair of stones and cap have been reinstated .

Condition: Creases to sheet and image.

[34302] £55

14.[Stonehenge] attributed to William Kip Copper engraving with letter press London, c. 1610 Image 180 x 125 mm, Sheet 320 x 210 mm From the 1610 edition of William Camden’s Britannia on page 252 in the Wiltshire (Belga) section. The first engraved image of Stonehenge was printed in the 1600 edition of Britannia.

[34273] £75 13.Stonehenge, looking North East.

Lithograph on india laid paper Pubd. by Clapperton, Bookseller, Catherine St. Salisbury Price 2s. c.1840 Image 203 x 351 mm, Sheet 241 x 363 mm

London, Pub,,d Sept,,r 10, 1791, by Robert Wilkinson, No. 58, Cornhill' Condition: Three vertical creases [29157] £250

15.North East View of Stonehenge H. Roberts after George Keate North East View of Stonehenge - From an Original Drawing of George Keate Esqr. in the Possession of Robt. Duke Esqr.

Copper engraving Sold by E Easton Sarum, c. 1770 Image 141 x 230 mm, Sheet 158 x 241 mm Condition: Trimmed within plate mark and a central vertical crease.

[36037] £65

16.Stone Henge 7 Miles, N.W. of Salisbury.

Julius Caesar Ibbetson Aquatint and etching London, Pubd. Septr. 10,1791, by T. Read, Coventry Court, Haymarket.

Image 206 x 280 mm, Plate 252 x 320 mm Sheet 292 x 393 mm Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759 - 1817) was a British printmaker, painter, draughtsman, author and poet.

This print has a different publication line to the one in the British Museum which reads:

17.Vûe de Stonehenge du Côté d’Occident.

Vûe de Stone-Henge de Côté du Midi Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan Copper engraving 1707 Image 125 x 150 mm, Sheet 158 x 166 mm Two views of Stonehenge from James Beverell’s Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande.

First published in 1707, Beverell’s Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande was an eight volume series depicting a variety of views from across the United Kingdom, including those of royal palaces, stately homes, cathedrals, and naval towns. Two volumes were dedicated solely to Oxford and Cambridge, consisting of plates of the colleges that were copied and reduced directly from David Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata of 1675. In total, Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande comprised of 241 engraved plates and maps after David Loggan, Johannes Kip, John Selzer, and others. Despite the publication ultimately being a collection of reduced copies of other engravers’ work, Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande is a fine example of early eighteenth-century printmaking.

[21618] £50

18.Stonehenge J. Boosey after Nathaniel Whittock Lithograph Image 287 x 407 mm, Sheet 428 x 505 mm Inscription reads: From a Drawing made on the Spot Jany. 5, 1823.

Nathaniel Whittock (1791-1860) was lithographer to the University of Oxford. He was born in Oxford but moved to London in 1828. His nephew, Henry Hyde, was also an engraver.

[35776] ÂŁ190

19.Druids Sacraficing to the Sun in their Temple Called Stonhenge Nathaniel Whittock Lithograph Designed, Drawn, Engraved & Published by N. Whittock, High Street, Oxford. c.1820.

Image 287 x 407 mm, Sheet 428 x 505 mm Inscription reads: ‘The Building taken from the Model according to Dr. Stukeley’s Plan of Stonehenge restored in the Ashmolean Mus. Oxford’.

Nathaniel Whittock (1791-1860) was lithographer to the University of Oxford. He was born in Oxford but moved to London in 1828. His nephew, Henry Hyde, was also an engraver.

[35777] £190

Plate A View of Stone-Henge Wiltshire With its accompanying Plate of explanation, is humbly Dedicated by their obedient Servant James Malton’.

James Malton (1761–1803) was an Irish engraver and watercolourist, and worked in the office of the Irish architect James Gandon. Malton was the son of Thomas Malton, an architectural draughtsman.

Condition: Short tear into plate mark centre top not affecting the image, [35774] £450 20.To His Grace Ye Duke of Queensbury.

This West View of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. Supposed Ye Ruins of a Druids Temple. Is Respectfully Dedicated by His Graces Most Obedt. Servant. Thomas Watson, J. Jeakes after Thomas Watson Aquatint with hand colouring Published Decr. 1805, by T. Watson, No. 22, Wellclose Square.

Image 212 x 333 mm, Sheet 280 x 401 mm.

With the inscription: The Trilithon which fell in the Year 1797 would weigh according to the measurement of it 70 Tons, the Impost or Stone laying on the top would weigh 11 Tons.

[34477] £150

21.A View of Stone-Henge Wiltshire James Malton Aquatint London, Published according to Act of Parliament July 1800.

Image 273 x 437 mm, Plate 352 x 505 mm, Sheet 414 x 585 mm Inscriptions read: ‘View taken March 1796’ and ‘To the society of Antiquarians London, This

22.Stone Henge Robert Wallis after J.M.W. Turner Copper engraving with hand colouring London, Published 1829, for the Proprietor, by R. Jennings, Poultry, & by Giraldon Bovinet, Gallerie Vivienne, Paris.

Image 164 x 235 mm, Sheet 248 x 318 mm Although Turner had drawn Stonehenge on various occasions, this particular view bears little resemblance to the recognisable landmark.

Instead, Turner manipulated the topographical representation to allow for a catastrophic scene.

The foreground of the image presents a shepherd and his flock of sheep having been struck by lightning Condition: Trimmed within plate mark.

[36039] £85

23.Stone Henge.

W. Byrne and T. Medland after T. Hearne Copper engraving London: Published as the Act directs, 2 Feb. 1786, by T. Hearne & W. Byrne.

Image 166 x 285 mm, Plate 190 x 306 mm, Sheet 226 x 328 mm With descriptive text.

Condition: some light foxing to sheet.

[36319] £120

25.A Map of Stonehenge and its Environs Basire, James after P. Crocker Lithograph 1876 392 x 593 mm With the text: Transferred to stone from the Original Copper plates by the kind permission of J. Bruce Nichols Esqre A lithograph reproduction of Basire’s 1810 map from Stonehenge and its Barrows, by William Long, 1876, Devizes from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. xvi.

Condition: Horizontal and vertical creases as issued. Repaired tear along left horizontal crease and a stain in the title.

[36323] £90

24.North View of Stonehenge, Wilts.

W. Millington Lithograph with hand colouring On Stone & Printed by W. Millington 1849.

Image 284 x 462 mm, Sheet 323 x 479 mm [35773] £125 26.Wiltshire Speed, John Copper engraved with early hand colouring 1611 385 x 525 mm A wonderful example of the first edition Speed map of Wiltshire, with excellent early hand colouring.

[30590] £1,500

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27. Oxonium Comitatus, Vulgo Oxfordshire Blaeu, Johannes Copper engraved with original hand colour c.1645-48 380 x 500 mm An excellent example of this decorative map of Oxfordshire.

French text and coloured copper engraving of the Rollright Stones on verso.

Condition: Centre fold as issued and light timetoning in margins not affecting map.

[36094] ÂŁ800 28 -31. [Heads] Paul Farinate Etching A Paris Chez A Bosse Graveur en taille douce, en l'Isle du Palais, avec Privilege. 1644 Image 122 x 170 mm, Plate 130 x 170 mm PlateS from Diverses figures a l'eau forte de petits Amours, Anges vollants, et Enfants, propre a mettre sur frontons portes et autres lieux ensemble plusieurs sortes de masques de l'invention de Paul Farinaste Italien.

Lothe 1203-1232, Blum 358-387, Duplessis 504-533 ÂŁ100 Each

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