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PINE, John (1690-1756)

Lot 33
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
€ 11 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1317626
Lot 33 | PINE, John (1690-1756)
Estimate value
€ 12 000 – 18 000
PINE, John (1690-1756)
The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the memorable year 1588. London: J. Pine, 1739.

Exemplaire aux planches coloriées.
Pour célébrer la victoire face à la jadis "Invincible Armada", le Lord High Admiral Charles Howard (1536-1624) passa commande de dix tapisseries à Francis Spierincx, qui lui même chargea l'artiste hollandais Hendrick Vroom d'en dessiner les cartons. Le cycle fut achevé en 1595 : d'abord suspendu à Arundel House, il est acquis par Jacques Ier en 1612. Les tentures traversent les afres de la première guerre civile anglaise, la Restauration de 1660 et, au début du XIXe siècle, ornent les murs de la White Chamber, au Palais de Westminster. Elles sont détruites le 16 octobre 1834 lors de l'incendie qui ravage le palais.
L'ouvrage, publié en 1739, poursuivait le discours célébrant la victoire britannique, et était déjà une réussite technique : les grandes gravures de John Pine relatant avec force détails la campagne, et faisant un usage subtil de la couleur. Mais avec la destruction des tapisseries (dont les cartons avaient également disparu), le livre devint une source iconographique de premier ordre.
Deux cartes supplémentaires (Cornouailles, Devon et la Tamise) ne sont présentes que dans quelques exemplaires de souscripteurs, et ne sont pas décrites dans le Berlin Catalogue.
Brunet, IV, col. 665 ; Shane McMurray, "Prints, politics & peers. John Pine’s tapestry hangings of the House of Lords", Royal Museums Greenwich [Online] ; Berlin Kat. 1677.

Grand in-folio (535 x 373 mm). Titre gravé, 1 feuillet de dédicace au roi, 12 ff./24 pp. de récit de l'invasion espagnole, 1 f./2 pp. (liste des souscripteurs), 1 carte à double-page représentant le trajet de l'Armada, 10 vues de bataille navale à double page imprimées en bleu-vert, 5 plans de bataille à double page (donnant 10 sujets), gravées par Pine d'après Gravelot et Lempriere. Toutes les gravures sont coloriées à l'époque, rehaussées à l'or et l'argent, montées sur onglets (mouillure brune au centre de la marge inférieure d'une demi-douzaine de planches , rousseurs au titre et aux feuillets de texte, taches brunes en marge inférieure du feuillet A1, le feuillet E1 plus court de marge extérieure). Reliure de l'époque : veau écaille, encadrement doré sur les plats, gardes de papier marbré (dos refait avec réemploi du cuir d'origine, frottements).
Provenance : Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766 ; ex-libris héraldique sur le contreplat) -- annotation du XVIIIe siècle au verso de la première garde : "Case 1, Shelf 4" -- Isabel García de la Rasilla et Rafael Ruiz-Gallardón (ex-libris).

Copy with the plates handcoloured and heightened in silver and gold by a contemporary hand. Pine's publication is of considerable historical importance, since the original tapestries, designed by Hendrik Vroom and woven by Francis Spring of Haarlem, were destroyed by fire in 1834. The original cartoons being also long lost, these engraved views are a most vital visual record of the original artworks.

Artist:John Pine (1690 - 1756)
Place of origin:United Kingdom
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