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Percy Matthew Dove

Also known as: Percy Matthew Dove; primary name: Dove, Percy Matthew
Details: individual; British; Male
Life dates: 1803-1868
Address: Castleden Lodge, Claughton
Biography: Print collector. An actuary, founder and manager of Royal Insurance Company Ltd, Liverpool. He built up its annual revenue to £800,000 (The Sheffield Daily Post 25 August 1868). Lived at Castleden Lodge, Claughton on the Wirral. Provided a complete exhibition of French etchings and engravings to the Free Library, Liverpool in 1865, reviewed in 'The Builder' 16 September 1865, pp. 657-8. It was most unusual to find a review of a print collection exhibition in the provinces in 'The Builder'. Dove died aged 65 in 1868, and was buried in the abandoned churchyard of St Mary's Birkenhead. Obituaries appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Mail, Irish Times, Dublin Evening Mail and The Scotsman. His Sotheby's sale catalogue [marked] is in the Prints and Drawings library [Lugt 31334] 28 May - 5 June 1869 [1530 prints 45 drawings]. [Information from Martin Hopkinson by email, October 2016].
Bibliography: Posthumous sale Sotheby's 28 May 1869 and the seven following days [1530 prints 45 drawings].

269 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1867,0511.425 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 17thC

print

Title: Claudius Gros Deboze |
Museum number: 1869,0612.401 |
Producer name: BIOG20552 Print made by:André Bouys |
Production date: 1708

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.561 |
Producer name: Print made by:James TobinAfter:Johann Heinrich Roos |
Production date: 1771

print; book-illustration

Title: Philippe de France Duc d'Orléans... |
Museum number: 1869,0612.443 |
Producer name: Print made by:Michel AubertAfter:Jean Nocret |
Production date: 1755-1765 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.470 |
Producer name: Print made by:Conraad WaumansPublished by:Jan Meyssens |
Production date: 1650 - 1670

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.418 |
Producer name: BIOG44706 Print made by:Jan Sadeler I |
Production date: 1581

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.548 |
Producer name: BIOG45618 Print made by:Cornelis Schut |
Production date: 1612-1655

print

Title: Icones legatorum qui ex mandatorum plenitudine Noviomagi in restitutione pacis universalis ... |
Museum number: 1869,0612.454 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hermann Hendrik QuiterPublished by:Hermann Hendrik Quiter |
Production date: 1679 |
Production place: Published in:Nijmegen

print

Museum number: 1867,0511.427 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1637

print

Title: Il Serenissimo Principe di Venetia Leonardo Donado creato alli 10 Gennaro 1606 |
Museum number: 1869,0612.403 |
Producer name: BIOG30288 Print made by:Jan van Haelbeck |
Production date: 1606-1612 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; title-page

Museum number: 1869,0612.499 |
Producer name: BIOG24099 Print made by:Thomas Cross |
Production date: 1657

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.549 |
Producer name: BIOG45618 Print made by:Cornelis Schut |
Production date: 1612-1655

print

Title: Alexander Boudan Iconopola Lutetiae |
Museum number: 1869,0612.383 |
Producer name: BIOG35286 Print made by:Claude Lefebvre |
Production date: 1647-1675

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.550 |
Producer name: BIOG45618 Print made by:Cornelis Schut |
Production date: 1612-1655

print

Title: St Mary's Abbey neare Yorke |
Museum number: 1869,0612.543 |
Producer name: Print made by:William LodgePublished by:Pierce Tempest |
Production date: 1680-1690

print; title-page

Museum number: 1869,0612.509 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Esaias NilsonPublished by:Johann Esaias Nilson |
Production date: 1765-1770 |
Production place: Published in:Augsburg

print

Title: Ioannes Carolus Welser ... |
Museum number: 1869,0612.477 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Wilhelm WinterAfter:Johann Leonhard Hirschmann |
Production date: 1757

print; book-illustration

Title: S. R. E. Cardinalis Arnaldus Ossatus |
Museum number: 1869,0612.444 |
Producer name: BIOG48385 Print made by:Simon Thomassin |
Production date: 1698

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.496 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis BosAfter:Maarten van Heemskerck |
Production date: 1537

print

Title: Serenissimus Venetae Reip:cae Princeps / Franciscus Molinus |
Museum number: 1869,0612.440 |
Producer name: BIOG41936 Print made by:Giacomo Piccini |
Production date: 1646

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1869,0612.506 |
Producer name: BIOG31987 Print made by:Romeyn de Hooghe |
Production date: 1685

print

Title: Petrus Adriani Werfius |
Museum number: 1869,0612.478 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter PhilippeLettering engraved by:Jemaar |
Production date: 1661

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.429 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan van de Velde IIAfter:Pieter Jansz. Saenredam |
Production date: 1629

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.493.+ |
Producer name: BIOG20134 After:Giulio Bonasone |
Production date: 1531-1576

print

Title: B. Hieronymus Aemilianus |
Museum number: 1869,0612.558 |
Producer name: BIOG48528 Print made by:Domenico Tiepolo |
Production date: 1750-1780

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.420 |
Producer name: Print made by:Elias HainzelmannAfter:Daniel Preisler |
Production date: 1683-1693

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.519 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wallerant VaillantPublished by:Wallerant Vaillant |
Production date: 1660-1675

print

Title: Fr. Paul de Neufville de Villeroy Archiep. et comes Lugd. Galliar. Primas |
Museum number: 1869,0612.471 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Imbert DrevetAfter:Jean Baptiste Santerre |
Production date: 1713-1731

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.494 |
Producer name: BIOG20134 Print made by:Giulio Bonasone |
Production date: 1531-1576

print

Title: DDn. Carolus Niellius Is Geboren Tot Wesel den 15 September 1576: EndeGestroven Tot Amsterdam Den 28 |
Museum number: 1869,0612.442 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the youngerAfter:Thomas de Keyser |
Production date: 1652 - 1670

print

Title: Fr. Vincentius S.R.E. / Card. Justinianus |
Museum number: 1869,0612.472 |
Producer name: BIOG37677 Print made by:Theodor Matham |
Production date: 1630s

print

Title: Henricus Geldorpius, Theologus Ecclesiastes Amstelredamensis |
Museum number: 1869,0612.408 |
Producer name: Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the youngerPublished by:Jan Kralinge |
Production date: 1652-1670

print

Title: Cornel. Cornelii, Harlemensis, Pictor Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae In |
Museum number: 1869,0612.396 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert de BaudousPublished by:Hendrik Hondius I |
Production date: 1610

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.469 |
Producer name: Print made by:Georg FennitzerAfter:Lucas Cranach the Elder |
Production date: 1661-1722

print

Title: S.Francesco di Paula |
Museum number: 1869,0612.557 |
Producer name: BIOG48528 Print made by:Domenico Tiepolo |
Production date: 1750-1780

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.486 |
Producer name: BIOG31788 Published by:Frans Hogenberg |
Production date: 1570

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.457 |
Producer name: BIOG27607 Print made by:Giovanni Fosella |
Production date: 1840-1870

print

Title: D. Leonardus Marius Goezanus |
Museum number: 1869,0612.411 |
Producer name: Print made by:Theodor MathamAfter:Nicolaes Cornelisz. Moyaert |
Production date: 1620-1655

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.474 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jonas SuyderhoefPublished by:H Troyen |
Production date: 1640

print

Title: Bildnus / Des Ehrwürdigen und Sinnreiche Vatters Bertold Schwartz ... |
Museum number: 1869,0612.462 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1643

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.416 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacob GoleAfter:Michiel Gillig |
Production date: 1685

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.382 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan van de Velde IIAfter:Pieter Jansz. Saenredam |
Production date: 1629

print

Title: Paulus Brillius Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae In |
Museum number: 1869,0612.384 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik Hondius IPublished by:Hendrik Hondius I |
Production date: 1610

print

Title: Petrus Cornelius Hoofdius, eques Regii ordinis S. Michaelis... |
Museum number: 1869,0612.424 |
Producer name: After:Joachim von SandrartPrint made by:Reinier van Persyn |
Production date: 1647

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.446 |
Producer name: Print made by:Theodor MathamAfter:Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn |
Production date: 1658

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.544 |
Producer name: BIOG44501 Print made by:Alexander Runciman |
Production date: 1751-1785

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.555 |
Producer name: Print made by:Domenico TiepoloAfter:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo |
Production date: 1750-1780

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.380 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Friedrich LeonartAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1660-1680

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.459 |
Producer name: Print made by:Abraham BlootelingAfter:Andreas Stech |
Production date: 1655-1690

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.559 |
Producer name: BIOG48528 Print made by:Domenico Tiepolo |
Production date: 1750-1780

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.556 |
Producer name: Print made by:Domenico TiepoloAfter:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo |
Production date: 1750-1780

print

Title: A View of a Piece of Water at Woodford Row in Essex, with the Adjacent Country |
Museum number: 1869,0612.530 |
Producer name: After:William BellersPrint made by:William Henry Toms |
Production date: 1758-1765

print

Title: Carel Ryniersz Gouveneur Generaal van Nederlands Indiën |
Museum number: 1869,0612.460 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik Frans DiamaerAfter:Matthys Balen |
Production date: 1725

print

Title: A View of Armathwaite Bay in Cumberland, from the Road |
Museum number: 1869,0612.529 |
Producer name: After:William BellersPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1758-1765

print

Title: Marie François Arrouet de Voltaire |
Museum number: 1869,0612.475 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste GuélardAfter:Maurice Quentin de La Tour |
Production date: 1730s

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.516 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wallerant VaillantPublished by:Frederick de Wit |
Production date: 1660-1675

print

Title: A View of Warwick Hall, in Cumberland, on the River Eden |
Museum number: 1869,0612.531 |
Producer name: After:William BellersPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1758-1765

print

Title: Hugo Grotius |
Museum number: 1869,0612.414 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter van GunstAfter:Michiel Jansz. Mierevelt |
Production date: 1724

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.514 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wallerant VaillantAfter:Jacques Vaillant |
Production date: 1660-1675

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.490 |
Producer name: After:ParmigianinoAfter:Giulio Bonasone |
Production date: 16thC

print

Title: Henrico Blesio Bovinati Pictori Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae In |
Museum number: 1869,0612.381 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik Hondius IPublished by:Hendrik Hondius I |
Production date: 1610

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.517 |
Producer name: BIOG49241 Print made by:Bernard Vaillant |
Production date: 1660-1675

print; book-illustration

Title: Victorieus gevegt van Koning William tegens den gewesen Koning Iacobus in Irland den 8 Iuly 1690 |
Museum number: 1869,0612.487 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1690

print

Title: Iohannes Christenius. I. V. D. Et Apud Gelros Professor Primarius Academiæ P. T. Rector An. 1655 |
Museum number: 1869,0612.393 |
Producer name: BIOG41262 Print made by:Crispijn de Passe the younger |
Production date: 1655

print

Title: Vera effigies viri clarissimi Dn. M. Ludovici Lucii, |
Museum number: 1869,0612.432 |
Producer name: BIOG31447 Print made by:Jakob von der Heyden |
Production date: 1630

print

Title: Wolfgang Gabriel Pachelbl-Gehag |
Museum number: 1869,0612.407 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Wilhelm WinterAfter:Gabriel Müller |
Production date: 1732

print

Title: Ludovico Manino / Venetorum Optimo Principi |
Museum number: 1869,0612.433 |
Producer name: Print made by:Vincenzo GiaconiIntermediary draughtsman:Vincenzo Giaconi |
Production date: 1789

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.386 |
Producer name: BIOG27076 Print made by:Georg Fennitzer |
Production date: 1650

print

Title: Philbert Marquis de Nerestamg Grand maistre des ordres de St Lazare et de N Dame du Mont Carmel |
Museum number: 1869,0612.441 |
Producer name: BIOG49361 Print made by:Pierre van Schuppen |
Production date: 1701

print

Title: Roundels of the Schetus family |
Museum number: 1869,0612.463 |
Producer name: BIOG47703 Print made by:Lambert Suavius |
Production date: 1554

print

Title: A View of the Town and Vale of Keswick in Cumberland, from the Side of Castlehead Cragge |
Museum number: 1869,0612.527 |
Producer name: After:William BellersPrint made by:William Henry Toms |
Production date: 1758-1765

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.495 |
Producer name: After:Giulio BonasoneAfter:Perino del Vaga |
Production date: 1531-1576

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.497 |
Producer name: BIOG44992 Print made by:Giulio Sanuto |
Production date: 1540-1588

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.445 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis VermeulenAfter:Jakob Christoph Le Blon |
Production date: 1708

print

Title: M.lle Pelissier |
Museum number: 1869,0612.448 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean DaulléAfter:Hubert Drouais |
Production date: 1735-1736 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.485 |
Producer name: BIOG150259 Published by:John King |
Production date: 1698-1738

print

Title: Villa Aldobrandina Tusculana sive varii illius hortorum et frontium prospectus |
Museum number: 1869,0612.489 |
Producer name: BIOG18541 Print made by:Dominique Barrière |
Production date: 1647

print

Title: Eight scenes from the life of the brothers de Witt |
Museum number: 1869,0612.348 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gaspar BouttatsPublished by:Gaspar Bouttats |
Production date: 1672-1695 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Title: Eight scenes from the life of the brothers de Witt |
Museum number: 1869,0612.347 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gaspar BouttatsPublished by:Gaspar Bouttats |
Production date: 1672-1695 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.375 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ludolph BüsinckPublished by:Pierre Mariette I |
Production date: 1620-1630 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Alexandre du Puy chevalier marquis de Saint André Montbrun |
Museum number: 1869,0612.313 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antoine MassonAfter:Gilbert de Sève |
Production date: 1670

print

Title: Marie Princesse de Pologne, Reine de France et de Navarre, morte à Versailles le 24 Juin 1768 agée d |
Museum number: 1869,0612.318 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques TardieuAfter:Jean Marc Nattier |
Production date: 1755 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.306 |
Producer name: BIOG33742 Print made by:Andreas Kohl |
Production date: 1640-1649

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.358 |
Producer name: BIOG35740 After:Lucas van Leyden |
Production date: 1700-1750

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.357 |
Producer name: BIOG35740 After:Lucas van Leyden |
Production date: 1800-1899

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.340 |
Producer name: BIOG37725 Print made by:Cornelis Matteus |
Production date: 1640-1650

print

Title: Eight scenes from the life of the brothers de Witt |
Museum number: 1869,0612.351 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gaspar BouttatsPublished by:Gaspar Bouttats |
Production date: 1672-1695 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.371 |
Producer name: BIOG37150 After:Marcantonio |
Production date: 1555

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.370 |
Producer name: BIOG37580 Print made by:Master of 1515 |
Production date: 1510-1520

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1869,0612.325-326 |
Producer name: BIOG41925 Print made by:Bernard Picart |
Production date: 1724

print

Title: Vray pourtrait de S. François de Paule |
Museum number: 1869,0612.339 |
Producer name: Print made by:Michel LasneAfter:Jean Bourdichon |
Production date: 1644

print

Title: Eight scenes from the life of the brothers de Witt |
Museum number: 1869,0612.353 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gaspar BouttatsPublished by:Gaspar Bouttats |
Production date: 1672-1695 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1869,0612.333 |
Producer name: BIOG25842 Print made by:Louis Duguernier II |
Production date: 1675-1716

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.356 |
Producer name: Print made by:Coryn BoelAfter:Gerard van Opstal |
Production date: 1635-1668

print

Title: Eight scenes from the life of the brothers de Witt |
Museum number: 1869,0612.350 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gaspar BouttatsPublished by:Gaspar Bouttats |
Production date: 1672-1695 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.307 |
Producer name: BIOG49254 Print made by:Gerard Valck |
Production date: 1667-1726

print

Title: La Sculpture The Four Arts |
Museum number: 1869,0612.329 |
Producer name: After:Carle Van LooPrint made by:Étienne Fessard |
Production date: 1760

print

Museum number: 1869,0612.372 |
Producer name: BIOG37102 After:Andrea Mantegna |
Production date: 1500-1550

print

Title: Grotesque Masks |
Museum number: 1869,0612.370.+ |
Producer name: BIOG147357 Print made by:Master of the Name of Jesus Christ |
Production date: 1556-1572

print

Title: F. de Villemontée Cher Seigneur de Montaiguillon et Villenauxe, Conseiller d'Estat Ordinare Intendan |
Museum number: 1869,0612.314 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean MorinAfter:Philippe de Champaigne |
Production date: 1640-1650

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