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Lot 165

Eight Various Prints Relating To Arms And Armour

20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Eight Various Prints Relating To Arms And Armour

Comprising Claude Simonin, A gunsmith's design for a flintlock firearm, signed G. La Feuille Excudit, no. 7 of seven engraved plates, Paris, 1684; E. Piper, Steel Cuisse L. 19 in. W. 6½ in. 402-1864 [in the Victoria and Albert Museum], etching on wove; Henry Shaw (1800-1873), Francis 1st on horseback, engraving on wove, mid-19th century; Edward Corbould (1815-1905), The Joust between the Lord of the Tournament & The Knight of the Red Rose, lithograph on wove, printed by Day and Haghe, 1839; H. Melville after B. Sly, Tower of London, The Norman Armoury (bottom edge torn), steel engraving, circa 1845; Sutherland after Rowlandson and Pugin, Horse Armoury, Tower, hand-coloured steel engraving, 1809'; after Albrecht Durer, Man in Gothic armour on horseback, reproduction of the original 1498 water-colour, on wove; and Thomas H. Shepherd (1793-1864), Piccadilly from Covent Garden [showing Joseph Egg's shop at 1 Piccadilly], hand-coloured steel engraving (some foxing), published by Jones & Co., circa 1830 (8)
21.4 cm. x 14 cm. to 41 cm. x 31 cm. (mostly framed and glazed)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Late Claude Blair

For the first see Donald L. LaRocca, 'Sorting out Simonin: Pattern Books for Decorated Firearms, 1684-1705', Studies in European Arms and Armor, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 184-207, fig. 117

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