Sales catalogue 507: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/65
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 507: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — Americana: Portraits—continued. Jones (Captain John Paul)—continued. 26 PAUL JONES SHOOTING A SAILOR WHO. ATTEMPTED _£O STRIKE HIS COLOURS IN AN ENGAGEMENT. Paul Jones depicted standing on deck of a man-of-war shooting sailor to left; wounded soldiers lying on deck; American flag above. Mezzotint from the original picture by John Collet in the possession of Carrington Bowles. Size 13 by g inches, with inscription margins. jf 18: 18s: 27. KEATS (SIR RICHARD GOODWIN, 1757-1834). Short half length, with uniform, sash, decorations. Mezzotint by W. Ward after J. Jackson. Size 934 by 8 inches, with margins. 1825. Open letter proof impression. £4 4s. Admiral; served in the North American Station until end of the war; with Nelson at Toulon and in the West Indies, 1808-5; was Governor of Newfoundland 1813-15. 28 KNOWLES (SIR CHARLES, died 1777). Three-quarter length, standing, wig, breastplate, cannon to right, with uniform, coat thrown over it, fort on fire in background. Mezzotint by J. Faber after T. Hudson. Size 1214 by to inches, with inscription margin only. £6 6s. Admiral. Governor of Louisberg, 1746. Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica, 1752-6. Accepted command in the Russian Navy, 1770. 29 LABILLIERE (MAJOR PETER, died 1800). Three-quarter length, seated at a table, papers, one inscribed ‘‘ American petition presented by Penn,” books on shelves behind, Arms under. Mezzotint by Kingsbury after ]. Wright. Size 1114 by 8 inches, with margin. 1780. — L@ As
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