After Thomas Phillips (9 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fair. Portrait of George Gordon Lord Byron, engraving by Thomas Phillibrown, British, active 1834 - 1860,after a painting by Giles Firman Phillips, British, 1780 - 1867, Engraving on paper, Half length portrait of the English poet, George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824). overall approx 9 1/2 x 6 ins. c1840's. "some foxing spots, mostly in the margins, some edge wear" We have a nice collection of antique prints listed, as well as a great selection of books. DB-18.

Condition: Good. 1. black and white engraving. 4"x6". Signs of wear. Light discoloration around inner edge. Loss on top edge. Good. From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Condition: Good. 1 black and white engraving. 4"x6". Signs of wear. Light discoloration. Tears on inner edge. Loss on top edge. Good. From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Condition: Good. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), poet. Line engraving measuring 8 x 7 inches. Mold and stains, corner piece missing top right. Fair.

Condition: Good. Stipple and line engraving on chine colle. 34 x 25.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light specks of foxing in the margins.

Condition: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 31.5 x 23.5 cm. (sheet). Facsimile signature below image. Very Good. Light specks of foxing in the margins.

Condition: Good. Mezzotint. 29.5 x 22.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light specks of foxing throughout.

Mezzotint engraving on paper, 441 x 357 mm.; with good margins on all sides, including all of the unlettered area at the bottom of the impression, cut on plate-mark at bottom (but showing all the blank lettering space). Fine portrayal of the mature Banks, after the last of his portraits by Thomas Phillips. This is a rare and desirable proof impression of the mezzotint, printed before the lettering had been added at the foot of the portrait. At the time of painting Banks's portrait, Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) was one of the leading portraitists of his day, and a particular favourite of men of genius and talent. His famous sitters included Michael Faraday, William Blake, and Lord Byron resplendent in his Albanian Dress. He had been elected member of the Royal Academy in 1808 and held the office of professor of painting to the Academy 1824-1832. Beginning in 1808, Phillips had made several large portraits of Banks to the order of different clients, the first remaining with the family until it was purchased by Sir William Dixson (now SLNSW) and another being taken for the Royal Society. Much to Banks's delight, the portraitist was adept at presenting him as the great statesman of British science, wearing his Order of the Bath decorations, sitting amid the ceremonial trappings of the Royal Society. Banks had been elected President of the Royal Society in 1778, and held the distinguished and highly influential position until his death in 1820. He remains the longest serving President in the history of the Royal Society. Following his voyage with Cook on the Endeavour (1768-1771), Banks became the lynch-pin of Pacific exploration and the settlement of Australia. For the first three decades of settlement Banks -"the Father of Australia"-was the accepted authority on the new colony and involved himself in all aspects of its development. The Phillips portrait was so popular that others of Banks's friends commissioned different versions, the last of which was this one, ordered by the Horticultural Society shortly after Banks's death in 1820. Although the face is copied in essentials from the earlier works, Phillips no longer felt the need to make his sitter so formal and forbidding, softening his eyes, while also replacing the trappings of his Presidency with subjects much dearer to the old botanist, a botanical plate by William Hooker on his desk and a new paperback book in his hand. Placed near his hand are some spectacles, the only known representation of the glasses he needed in old age. This mezzotint was engraved by Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835) and Samuel Cousins (1801-1887) from the original picture in the possession of the Horticultural Society. The proof is "before letters": when the title block was eventually added for the final version, it read thus: 'The Rt. Honble. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., G.C.B., president of the Royal Society of London, Honorary member of the Horticultural Society of London &c. / painted by T. Phillips; engraved by S.W. Reynolds and S. Cousins. Pubd. by S.W. Reynolds, Augt. 1822'. . A small sealed tear in top margin, margins foxed, otherwise fine.

Ambroise Tardieu, engraver [Thomas Phillips, after] (illustrator). 1st edition. Original engraved portrait of Sir Joseph Banks wearing the 'Star and Garter', after a painting by Thomas Phillips, 200mm x 120mm, titled in French below image : [translation: Sir Joseph Banks, voyager-naturalist, President of the Royal Society of London. Born at Revesby in the County of Lincoln, England, 1743. Died in London, 9 May 1820). near fine condition Sir Joseph Banks once wrote :'I am a bird of peace. My business as an encourager of the transport of plants from one country to another is suspended during war, and then, as I am no politician, I am the least employed when all other people are in hurry and bustle'. Accordingly he returned to the French, unopened, parcels of specimens which, collected by La Billardière, had fallen into English hands by the fortunes of war [ADB]. Engraved by the French to mark the death of Sir Joseph Banks.