After Dance (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1 black and white engraving. 3x3". Signs of wear. Type on verso side. Very Good.From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Condition: Good. 1 black and white engraving. 6x9". Some creasing. Small tear and loss on top edge. Good.Handwritten note on Verso: "see Cook Bibliography, 2nd Ed (Mitchell Library) 1970, no. 3299"From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Condition: Good. Etching. 28.5 x 21 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Sheet mounted to another support sheet. Some soiling in lower quadrant of image.

Condition: Good. Etching. 28.5 x 21 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Sheet hinged to another support sheet. Some light soiling in the image.

Condition: Good. 1 black and white engraving. 6x9". Slight discolorations. Minor tear on top edge. Good.From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Engraving, artist's proof copy 275 x 235 mm, mounted and framed. A proof impression (before title, date and some letters) of the first issue of the first separately published engraving of Captain Cook. This famous portrait of the navigator was published in the year of his death, though news of the events at Kealakekua Bay did not reach Europe until the following year. Now the trademark image of Cook as a result of its very many subsequent versions (Beddie lists an astonishing 284 entries for the Dance group), it was considered the best likeness at the time and is known, for example, to have been distributed to friends by his widow Elizabeth. It is a conspicuously rare portrait in this first version. The engraving is based on Nathaniel Dance's original portrait, commissioned by Joseph Banks, for which Cook sat for Dance in 1776, before sailing on his third voyage. The painting is today in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Dance, one of the greatest of British history painters and a founding member of the Royal Academy, shows Cook wearing captain's full-dress uniform and holding his own chart of the Southern Ocean: the caption "New Holland" can clearly be discerned in the engraving. This extremely rare proof was pulled before the image had been titled and dated, and before the usual pinxit and sculpsit notes had been added to the artists' names; this state corresponds with an example in the Mitchell Library (where it is item 3 in an 18th-century connoisseur's album entitled "Three voyages round the world"), while a subsequent state with the addition of the title is held in the Dixson Library (Beddie 3379). An earlier less-developed form where the shape of Cook's body has been simply blocked out is held by the National Library (Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK10914/A and /B). .

Condition: Good. Etching and aquatint. 33 x 25.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, light toning along sheet edges.

Print. Condition: Very good condition. An engraved portrait of Captain Cook, turned slightly right, wearing a naval uniform and wig, after the original by Dance. Featuring a rectangular vignette underneath the oval portrait, depicting Cook just before his death in Hawaii, his arm raised to stop his soldiers from firing at the crowd of native Hawaiians. Engraved by John Chapman (active 1792-1823), one of the most gifted stipple engravers of the late eighteenth century, of many contemporary personnages of Australian interest. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2", with wide margins. Lower left below portrait: J. Chapman. Lower center below the title: London Publish'd as the Act directs, Septr. 20, 1800, by J. Wilkes. Slight edge toning. Beddie 3264.

40,5 x 29 cm., signed "B. de Bruyn pinx." and "N. Strixner del. 1825" and "Gedruckt unnter der Direction von Strixner in Stuttgart" on the stone. = From: Die Sammlung Alt-Nieder-und Ober-Deutscher Gemälde der Brüder Sulpiz und Melchior Boisseree und Johann Bertram (Stuttgart, 1821-1834). Upper margin with a vertical tear of ca./ 5 cm., touching the hat.