the whirling round, in which Exercise none Drawn on the Spot by an eminent Artist. Designé sur le can equal these Zealots. II.de Partie. Lieu par un Amateur distingué. [J. Wells aquatinta.] London Publish'd Nov. 24. 1789. by B. Vander Gucht Quand le Predicateur a fini son Discours, Lower Brook Street.& J.White Tavistock Street. A et tandis que son Compagnon est assis sur Londres chez B. Vander Gucht et I. White Nov. 24 le Plancher avec lui, les Dervis changeant 1789. leur Habillement en un Veste courte & une Aquatint. Plate 318 x 603mm. 12½" x 23¾". Very fine. longue Jupe, se mettent a tourner sur eux- £480 Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. mêmes de la maniere representée; au Son Ref: 9209 d’une Musique lugubre; puis s’arretent & recommencent à tourner, Personne ne sauroit égaler ces Zélotes dans cet Exercise. Pl. XX. R Dalton delt. et fecit. [n.d. c.1700.] Engraving. Plate 269 x 422mm. 10⅝" x 16⅝". £220 The Ottoman Sultan and his assistant watch as his Subjects spiritually dance. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Ref: 9251 229. Prince William offering his sword to the Dean, at the Altar, the Knights Standing under their Banners. J. Highmore del: J. Pine Sculpt. [n.d., c.1770.] Etching and engraving, 445 x 610mm. 17¾ x 24". 231. The Taking of the Bastille on the 14 Vertical centrefold as issued. Small chips and tears into of July 1789. Prise de la Bastille, le 14 image from extremities. £360 Juillet 1789. Ceremony of installation of knights of the Order of the Drawn on the Spot by an eminent Artist. Designé sur le Bath inside Westminster Abbey. A young Prince Lieu par un Amateur distingué. J. Wells aquatinta. William, Duke of Cumberland (1721 – 1765), a London Publish'd Nov. 20. 1789. by B. Vander Gucht younger son of George II, kneels before the altar. The Lower Brook Street.& J.White Tavistock Street. A knights stand in plumed hats in rows at either side Londres chez B. Vander Gucht & J. White. under their banners, a huge crowd of spectators beyond Aquatint. Plate 375 x 501mm. 14¾" x 19¾". Very fine. the altar. £480 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is an order of Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The Ref: 9208 name derives from the medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. Recipients of the Order are now usually senior military officers or senior LONDON civil servants. The Order of the Bath is the fourth-most senior of the 232. The London Fish Market At British Orders of Chivalry, after The Most Noble Order Billingsgate. Erected By The Corporation of the Garter, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order Of The City Of London. of the Thistle, and The Most Illustrious Order of St Chromolithographed By C.F. Kell, 8 Castle St. Patrick. Holborn, E.C [n.d., 1877]. Numbered 'III' upper left, this is a plate to 'The Chromolithograph trimmed to image and laid on procession and ceremonies observed at the time of the publisher's card as issued, image 295 x 650mm. 11¾ x Installation of the Knights Companion of the Order of 25½". Card trimmed/damaged. Missing some of the the Bath', London; J. Pine, first published 1730. John text below image. £450 Pine (1690 - 1756), engraver, publisher, print and View of Billingsgate market from the river. In 1849, mapseller, was Bluemantle pursuivant at the College of the famous London fish market was moved off the Arms and engraver to the king's signet and stamp streets into its own riverside building, which was office. demolished c. 1873 and replaced by this arcaded Very scarce. market hall. It was designed by City architect Sir Ref: 9099 Horace Jones and built by John Mowlem & Co. in 1875. This building, known as Old Billingsgate 230. The Paris Militia setting out for Market, is now used as a corporate events venue. Versailles on the 5th. of October 1789. Guildhall Library Record: 21750. Départ de la Milice Bourgeoise pour Ref: 8814 Versailles le 5 Octobre 1789. 233. Part of the Bridge at Blackfriars. As it was in July 1766. Edw.d Rooker delin et Sculp. Publish'd Accordijng to Act of Parliament by Edward Rooker, December the 31 1766. Engraving. 420 x 660mm. 16½ x 26". Mint. £850 The first Blackfriars Bridge, built by Robert Milne from Portland stone, opening 1769. Ref: 9089 234. Red Lyon Square. [n.d., c.1750.] 237. A Perspective View of Covent Engraving. 165 x 245mm, 6½ x 8½". Tears in margins. Garden. Vue de Covent Garden. £90 Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil. & Carington Red Lion Square in Bloomsbury, named after the local Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., inn. Laid out in 1698, it was described by Hatton in c.1750]. 1708 as 'a pleasant square of good buildings, between Engraving and etching with hand colour, 250 x High Holborn south and the fields north'. According to 425mm. 9¾ x 16¾". Marginal staining. £450 legend the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and two other View of the piazza towards St Paul's church, with the regicides had been placed in a pit on the site of the market in progress. square. Ref: 8755 Ref: 9233 238. Crinoline 1858. Cremorne. 235. The Royal Military Asylum At T.H. Guerin [in image lower right]. Published by T. Chelsea. For Soldiers Children of the Archer [damage] Mortimer Street, Regent Street. Regular Army__Intended for 500 Girls & Sepia tinted lithograph with colour added by hand, 500 Boys. sheet 345 x 435mm. 13½ x 17". Creases; tear into Published 20th. May, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, publication line. £180 No.53, Fleet Street, London. A satire on mid 19th century female fashion set in Etching and engraving coloured by hand, image 260 x Cremorne Gardens, once a popular pleasure gardens by 405mm. 10¼ x 17¾". Trimmed to plate at top. Tear the side of the River Thames in Chelsea. A woman in a through title. £220 huge dress descends from a carriage, the driver above View of the Royal Military Asylum, (Duke of York's ensuring that his reins are well out of the way. Royal Military School) Chelsea, with soldiers, women Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of and children outside. The Asylum was opened as a horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The school for the children of soldiers. It is now the Duke fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the of York's Barracks. word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid Ref: 8737 skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman’s dress in the required shape. The 236. A View of Chelsea Water Works. ~ crinoline was the subject of much ridicule and satire, particularly in Punch magazine. Dress reformers did J. Boydell del & Sculp. Publish'd according to Act of not like it either — they seized upon the cage aspect of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the the crinoline and claimed that it effectively imprisoned Corner of Queen Street, Cheapside. London 1752. women. Given that the crinoline did eventually have a Price 1s. maximum diameter of up to 180 centimetres (six feet), Engraving. 430 x 260mm. Trimmed to plate and tipped it is easy to imagine difficulties in getting through into album page. Vertical centre crease from fold. A doors, in and out of carriages, and the general problems strong impression. £180 of moving in such a large structure. The second The Chelsea Waterworks Company was formed in problem was the potential impropriety of the crinoline. 1723 and supplied water to Westminster and adjacent Its lightness was a curse as well as a blessing, as a gust parts. It introduced the first iron main in London in of wind or a knock could set it swinging and reveal the 1746. The company held water in reservoirs in Hyde wearer's legs. Even worse, if a woman tripped or was Park and Green Park and pumped water through an knocked over, the crinoline would hold her skirts up. elaborate sysstems of canals which covered a large area Ref: 8997 of today's Pimlico. As the years marched by the water was becoming more and more contaminated and the Company installed the first Sand filtration operation to 239. Crinoline 1858. Belgravia. purify the water. Eventurally in the late nineteenth T.H. Guerin. Del [in image lower left.] [London, T. century the company became part of the Metropolitan Archer.] Water Board. Numbered 'No.5' lower right. Sepia tinted lithograph with colour added by hand, This was reprinted in Boydell's "A collection of one sheet 315 x 415mm. 12½ x 16¼". Trimmed to image hundred views in England and Wales" in 1770. top and sides. £180 Ref: 8739 A satire on mid 19th century female fashion. A woman in a huge dress rather awkwardly descends from a carriage. Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a worse, if a woman tripped or was knocked over, the weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. crinoline would hold her skirts up. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the Ref: 8993 word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the 241. [The Thames and the Embankment skirts of a woman’s dress in the required shape. The looking east, with a view of St.