We have the pleasure of uploading our new Winter Miscellany: Catalogue 120!

Highlights include:

Cover:

Ladys Maid Soaping Linnen.
Hen. Morland pinx.t. Phil. Dawe fecit.
Carington Bowles excudit. [n.d. c.1769.]
Mezzotint, sheet 490 x 360mm (19¼ x 14¼”). Trimmed within plate on bottom edge losing publication line. Slightly creased top left. Time stained.
A young woman wearing a cap and printed cotton dress, standing over a basin in which she is washing linen. A good example of an 18th century “risque” image.
CS 21.
[Ref: 59410] £450.00

[Album of set designs after important Italian theatre designers connected with La Scala, Milan.]
[Milan, c.1800-1820.]
Large folio (585 x 445mm, 21¾ x 17½”), 19th century quarter morocco, gilt lettered “Invenzioni teatrali” on spine; 38 full-page plates (a hand-coloured etching, a hand-coloured aquatint, 29 sepia aquatints, a black aquatint and 5 etchings), 25 half-page plates (4 sepia aquatints, 4 aquatints printed in colours, 1 black aquatint, 16 etchings, proofs?, one printed in red with pencil additions), plus 4 half-page etched topographical views, total 67 plates. Losses to head and foot of spine, boards scuffed, some of the half-page plates trimmed and joined to match book size.
The larger plates include: the hand-coloured title and 10 sepia aquatint plates (of 24) of Gaspare Gallieri’s ”Numero XXIV invenzioni teatrali”, c.1801, with an uncaptioned hand-coloured aquatint after Galliari; 17 sepia aquatints by Francesco Fontanesi & Ludovico Pozzetti (numbered 1-18, lacking no. 6); an aquatint and six proof etchings before aquatint by Luigi Rados after Pietro Gonzaga; and two sepia aquatints (”Carcere” and ”Ampia Volta”) by Carolo Zucchi after Frencesco Fontanesi. The 29 smaller prints include four colour-printed aquatints by Zucchi after Galliari (numbered 1-4), and a number of scenes (one of a courtyard, printed in red with pencil additions) after Sanquirico. The final four etchings have no theatrical connection.
[Ref: 59407] £7,200.00

[Six Visual Arts] F.1. L’Art [&] F.2. Le Dessein [&] F.3. La Peinture [&] F.4. La Sculpture [&] F.5. L’Architecture [&] F.6. La Gravure.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760].
Set of six fine and rare etchings, all with pt 18th century watermark. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼”), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
Six rococo designs, each representing a visual art, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59313] £800.00