Grosvenor Prints

[Collection of comic actors.] Gandolin/ [Untitled]/ Seignior Doctoroe Medico/ Guillot. Goriv/ Iacquemin Iadot/ Gros. Guillaume/ Iodolet/ Sigr. Scaramouch & his company of Comedians./ Gautier Gargville/ Turlupin.
[n.d., c.1690.]
14 etched figures with titles, excised and glued to ten laid paper sheets c.291 x 190mm, sometimes two per sheet, the whole mounted into thick paper stitched album (495 x 395mm).
Representations of noted Continental comedians in character as their most famous creations and aliases. Gaultier-Garguille (pseudonym of Hugues Guéru, d. 1633), Gros-Guillaume (Robert Guérin, d. 1634) and Turlupin (Henri Legrand, d. 1637) were members of a famous trio of farceurs who played at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in the early 17th century. They also performed in tragedies. From etched plates attributed to a Jacob Collins (1675 - 1713; fl). Part of the 'I Collins fecit' lettering visible in the 'Signor Scaramouch' image lower left. A note accompanying these prints in the BM suggests Nicolas Bonnart I (1637 - 1718) was the publisher at Paris.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7811] £1,300.00

Opus quod in æde Viginis Deiparæ Annunciatæ Collegii Romam societatis IESW. Federicus Zuccarus S. Angeki in Vado ad Ripas Mitauri perfecit æneis tabellis expressum. Ioannes sadeler excud: Coloniæ Agrippa: A.D. MDLXXX.
Raphael Sadeler sculpsit Ætatis suæ. 19.
In Venetia Stefano Scolari Forma a S. Zulian. [1580.]
Engraving. Sheet: 300 x 440mm (11¾ x 17¼''). Trimmed, creased, stained & damaged.
A scene set under an arch, an angel, holding a rose announces to the Virgin that she will be the mother of the messiah, above her are hoards of angels and around her are the saints. Engraved by Raphael Sadeler I (1560-1632).
[Ref: 49724] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre Aretin Ne a Arezzo en Toscane, mort environ l'an 1556. age de 65 ans. [Top of image left] Titianus pinxit [right] W Hollar fecit 1647
Etching, 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was a well-regarded Italian author, poet and playwright as well as an influential satirist and notorious blackmailer. He was a close friend of Titian's, who painted his portrait many times.
Pennington 1346 iii of iii.
[Ref: 53770] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a bearded man; style of Rembrandt.]
T. Worlidge fecit 1752 [but a later impression].
Etching with drypoint, wove paper, state with (faint) plate number. 120 x 95mm, 4¾ x 3¾".
Portrait study of an unidentified man, looking towards the viewer, bearded, in fur-trimmed jacket. Numbered '1' [or 4] upper right. Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766).
[Ref: 23493] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of the Boyne, July 1st 1690. From the Original in the Collection of the Earl of Leicester.
Wyke Pinx.t. [Engraved by John Brooks.]
Printed for T. Kitchin Engraver, at No 59 Holborn Hill, London [but later 1770].
Rare mezzotint. 460 x 710mm (18 x 28"). Framed. Some spotting and staining. Unexamined out of frame.
A large battle scene, centred on William III on his white horse, surrounded by his officers, named in a key bottom left. The main sites of the battle are listed in a key bottom right. Extremely scarce & very large mezzotint in reasonably good condition. Originally Chaloner Smith listed this state as Engraver Not Ascertained; however his addenda describes a single example of a state with letters but no key (suggesting a separate key plate) with 'I Brooks fecit'. A second state has the key added but 'Sold by Tho.s Jefferys at Charing Cross and W. Herbert on London Bridge', also listing only one example. Thus this is the third known state. According to the British Museum, John Brooks learned mezzotint from John Faber and set himself up publishing mezzotints in his native Dublin. He moved to London in 1746 with his apprentices James McArdelll and Richard Houston.
See Alexander pg. 157; CS Engraver not Ascertained 120, Addenda 33a. See Ref: 54702
[Ref: 59079] £2,000.00

[Capuchin Monk] Cercante Cappuccino. Nell Gabinetto di S.M. il Re di Pol. Elet. Sassonia.
Eques. P.L. Ghezzi delin. Matthaeus Oesterrich sculps
OM Sculpsit Dresdae 1750 : adi 5. 8bre
Etching, in ink bottom left Matthias Oesterreich fecit; platemark 285 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to the platemark top and bottom.
Etching after a drawing by Pier Leone Ghezzi (1675-1755), regarded as the first professional caricaturist. Based in Rome, Ghezzi moved freely amongst the Italian nobility, even associating with Pope Clement XI. His satirical portraits include one of Vivaldi and several British grand tourists. This is one of a collection of Ghezzi's designs engraved by Matthias Oesterreich (1716-78) from drawings in the collection of the Elector of Saxony, 'Raccolta di XXIV Caricature Disegnate colla penna dell Celebre Cavalliere Piet: Leon: Ghezzi. Conservati nell Gabinetto di Sua Maestà il Rè di Polonia Elett. di Sassonia'.
[Ref: 43914] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Breland, or the Prodigal.] Pellicus hinc Modulis...
Jac. Callot fec.
Con: Meyer fecit et excudit. [Engraved c.1680 but much later.]
Engraving. 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"), with very large margins. Impression weak, printer's crease centre of image.
A night scene, with the Prodigal Son playing cards by candle-light, engraved by Conrad Meyer (1618-89) after Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635) .
[Ref: 55348] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Earl of Northesk. [in ink.]
J. Hibbert Jun.r Bath, Fecit. [n.d., c.1800.]
Scarce aquatint. Plate: 295 x 220mm (11½ x 8½''). Small margins.
A portrait of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk (1858-1831) as a Post Captain. Carnegie joined the Royal Navy in 1771 and served during the American Wars of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.
[Ref: 50416] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Geof.y Chaucer.
Geo. Naylor H.C. fecit.
Mezzotint, very fine impression; platemark 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Glued onto album sheet.
Geoffrey Chaucer, bearded and wearing a hood, with a pen case hanging from a ribbon around his neck. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400), known as the Father of English literature, was an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer and maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. He was a crucial figure in developing the legitamacy of vernacular Middle English at a time when French and Latin dominanted England. He is remembered for his unfinished frame narrative 'The Canterbury Tales'.
For a similar mezzotint of Chaucer but facing in the other direction see ref. 24004.
[Ref: 42001] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Devereux, Earle of Essex, His Excellency, etc. Generall of ye. Army, [in plate] W. Hollar fecit.
Etching. Sheet 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper. Large margins with minor toning around edges.
Robert Devereux (1591-1646) third Earl of Essex. He served as a Parliamentarian soldier during the Civil War, but resigned in 1446 having been overshadowed by Cromwell and Fairfax. He died from a stroke later that year.
P 1401 ii P. Stent excudit variant state
[Ref: 53730] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Fecit mihi magna qui potens est: et Sanctum nomen ejus. Luc. Cap. J.
Ex Tabula Guidi Reni asservata in aedibus Marchionis de Angelis.
Iacobus Frey delineavit et incidit Romae sup.pm. [n.d. c.1722.]
Engraving, very large margins. Plate 578 x 355mm (22¾ x 14"). Tears into margins. Crease as normal. Bit dusty.
The Disputa, the six Fathers of the Church seated around a table, debating; on a cloud above, the Virgin and two angels. After the painting then in the collection of the Marchese de Angelis, and now in the Hermitage via the Walpole collection at Houghton.
[Ref: 31273] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

These are to certify that Mr. Francis Cole has attended two Courses of my lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, as well as on Chemistry and the Materia Medica.
Signed and dated in ink 'Joseph Ager, M.D. London, May 2. 1816.'
Printed diploma with etched vignette, completed in in ink, sheet 385 x 240mm. Creasing.
With etching inscribed 'I. Harding fecit' and titled 'Ocyrrhoe delivering Aesculapius to be instructed by Chiron', with quotation from Ovid's Metamorphosis in Latin below.
[Ref: 7940] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

These are to certify that Mr. Francis Cole, has diligently attended......three.....Courses of our lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, Materia Medica & Chemistry.
Signed and dated in ink 'March 5 = 1812. R Hooper M.D. Joseph Ager, M.D.'
Printed diploma with etched vignette, completed in in ink, sheet c.435 x 280mm. Tatty extremities, tear in image.
With etching inscribed 'I. Harding fecit' and titled 'Ocyrrhoe delivering Aesculapius to be instructed by Chiron', with quotation from Ovid's Metamorphosis in Latin below. One of the signatories is Robert Hooper (1773 - 1835), medical writer. After a course of medical study in London he was appointed apothecary to the Marylebone workhouse infirmary. He entered at Pembroke College, Oxford, on 24 Oct. 1796, graduated B.A. in 1803, M.A. and M.B. in 1804. He was admitted licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 23 Dec. 1805. Settling in Savile Row, he lectured there on the practice of medicine for many years to large classes. He made a special study of pathology, and formed a large collection of illustrative specimens. While carrying on an extensive practice, he was a most industrious writer, and his books had a large sale. Revised editions of several of them continue in sale. He retired from practice in 1829, having made a fortune, and lived at Stanmore.
[Ref: 7943] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with a hairdresser.]
Petrus Schenck inven: Fecit et exc Amstela: Cum Privil. Ord: Holl et West-Frisi [n.d., c.1690.]
Scarce mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Thread margins, a little surface scuffing.
A hairdresser positions two mirrors so a woman with long, crimped hair can see the back of her head.
[Ref: 60129] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Guiliemus King L.L.D. Aulæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis P. Ætatis Anno LXVII.
John Mich. Williams Pinx.
J. Faber fecit 1751.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾''). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of academic William King (1685-1763) shown in his library, who served as Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1719.
CS: 207 II. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 48033] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Leith from the East Road. 105.
P. Sandby Delin.t et Sculp Windsor Aug.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1790.]
Coloured etching. 270 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾), on wove paper watermarked 'E & P.' Small repaired holes and small tear in very large margin.
A view of Leith, looking across fields to the Firth of Forth, with a coach on the left. This plate was engraved by Sandby in 1751 and published by William Sandby (a cousin) and Gavin Hamilton that year. A related drawing is in the Sutherland Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, signed 'Paul Sandby Delin.t et fecit Edin.r 1749'.
See BM 1904,0819.508 for the original issue.
[Ref: 54651] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Linnaeus in his Lapland Dress. From an original Picture in the possession of Dr. Thornton.
Hoffman pinxt. H. Kingsbury sculpt.
London published by Dr. Thornton June 1805.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Slightly rubbed, 4cm break on platemark lower left.
Carolus Linnaeus the elder, 1707-1778, a plant with a label attached in one hand, a shaman's drum in the other. An inscription on the drum reads 'Carolus Linnaeus a Lapponia redux aetat 30, anno 1737 / Mart Hoffman fecit.' An illustration from Robert Thornton's 'Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus'.
[Ref: 3212] £650.00

Linnaeus in his Lapland Dress. From an original Picture in the possession of Dr. Thornton.
Hoffman pinx.t. Dunkarton sculp.t.
London published by Dr. Thornton June 1. 1805.
Rare mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾").
Carl Linnaeus the elder, (1707-1778), a plant with a label attached in one hand, a shaman's drum in the other. An inscription on the drum reads 'Carolus Linnaeus a Lapponia redux aetat 30, anno 1737 / Mart Hoffman fecit.' An illustration from Robert Thornton's 'Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus'. Other states give the engraver's name as Henry Kingsbury.
Chaloner Smith 8, state iii of iii. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome: 1778-2
[Ref: 36872] £850.00

Apollo & Daphne.
Ex Tabula Titiani.
J. Smith fecit Londini. 1709.
Mezzotint in sepia ink. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"). Trimmed to plate. Crease through lower right corner. Some spotting.
Daphne, wearing a loose dress with one breast bared, her hands beginning to sprout leaves and branches, pursued by Apollo, nude and carrying a bow and quiver. In the foreground, nude and sitting on the ground, Daphne's father, ther river-god Peneus, beside whom is an upturned urn pouring out water that forms a river. From the series 'Tabulæ novem coelo elaboratæ ad totidem Titiani archetypos Nine Prints from the Celebrated Paintings of Titian, in the Duke of Marlboroughs Gallery, at Blenheim' by the famous early mezzotinter and re-publisher of older plates John Smith (1652-1743). The series of Smith mezzotints commonly known as 'The Loves of the Gods' are after a series of leather wall-hangings formerly in the Titian Room at Blenheim destroyed by fire in 1861. The attribution to Titian is uncertain, however, and was doubted as early as 1766 (see G. Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné, Blenheim Palace, London, 1862, pp. 83-92). The designs are based on prints by Caraglio after Pelino del Vaga and Rosso Fiorentino.
Wessely: 340.
[Ref: 10496] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Apollo & Daphne.
Ex Tabula Titiani.
J. Smith fecit Londini. 1709.
Mezzotint. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"), with very large margins.
Daphne, her hands beginning to sprout leaves and branches, pursued by Apollo. In the foreground, Daphne's father, the river-god Peneus. From the series 'Tabulæ novem coelo elaboratæ ad totidem Titiani archetypos / Nine Prints from the Celebrated Paintings of Titian, in the Duke of Marlboroughs Gallery, at Blenheim' by the famous early mezzotinter John Smith (1652-1743). The series, commonly known as 'The Loves of the Gods', derives from a series of leather wall-hangings formerly in the Titian Room at Blenheim destroyed by fire in 1861. The attribution to Titian is uncertain, however, and was doubted as early as 1766 (see G. Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné, Blenheim Palace, London, 1862, pp. 83-92). The designs relate to prints by Caraglio after Perino del Vaga and Rosso Fiorentino.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.; for impression printed in sepia see ref. 10496; Wessely: 340.
[Ref: 36201] £350.00

Bacchus & Ariadne
Ex Tabula Titiani.
J. Smith fecit Londini. 1709.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 415 x 280mm. 16¼ x 11".
Ariadne, discovered on the island of Naxos by the god Bacchus, having been left there by her lover Theseus (whose ship sails away in the distance). A putto brings grapes to echo those worn by Bacchus, the god of wine. The cheetah is one of two which drew Bacchus' chariot. From the series 'Tabulæ novem coelo elaboratæ ad totidem Titiani archetypos / Nine Prints from the Celebrated Paintings of Titian, in the Duke of Marlboroughs Gallery, at Blenheim' by the famous early mezzotinter John Smith (1652 - 1743). The series, commonly known as 'The Loves of the Gods', derives from a series of leather wall-hangings formerly in the Titian Room at Blenheim destroyed by fire in 1861. The attribution to Titian is uncertain, however, and was doubted as early as 1766 (see G. Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné, Blenheim Palace, London, 1862, pp. 83-92). The designs relate to prints by Caraglio after Perino del Vaga and Rosso Fiorentino.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Ref: Wessely: 341.
[Ref: 36202] £500.00

Maria Stuart die hier voor uw oogen staat, Vertoont haar Mayesteyt int Koninglyk gewaat.
J. Gole. fecit et excudit cum privil:ordin:Holl:et West-Frisiæ.
Mezzotint. 250 x 185mm. Narrow margins.
Queen Mary II (1662-1694), reigned 1689-94. The eldest daughter of James II, Mary married Prince William of Orange in 1677. In the dilemma of the 1688 Revolution she supported her husband and Protestantism rather than her Catholic father, and she was invited to return to England in 1689 to share the monarchy with William. She proved a wise and effective ruler, especially during William's absences at war.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 2765] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Quintinus Mesius Anver: Pianus Pictor. Ante faber fueram Cyclopeus; ast ubi mecum, Ex aequo pictor coepit amars1 procus: Seque graves tuditum tonitrus postferre silenti, Peniculo obiecit cauta puella mihi: Pictorem me fecit amor. tudes innuit illud, Exiguus, tabulis quae nota certa meis, Sic ubi Vulcanum nato Venus arma rogarat, Pictorem e fabro summe Poeta facis.
Hh ex. [n.d. c.1610.]
Engraving, rare. 202 x 121mm. 8 x 4¾". Glued to backing sheet
Quentin Matsys (1466-1529) was a painter in the Flemish tradition and a founder of the Antwerp School. In the background a blacksmith and his forge, alluding to the legend that Matsys trained as a blacksmith before becoming a painter. Copy in same direction as Cock 1572 engraved Pictorum.
In the Courtauld Gallery.
[Ref: 24828] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Meursius Ser. Daniæ Regis Historiograph, & Hi.st Ac Pol.it in Acad Sora.na Prof. Æternitatem Cogita. Anno 1631 Ætat 52. Non ego divitias, nec honores, opto, Jehoua, te timeam, voti est hæc mihi summa mei.
Sereniss. Daniæ, Novegiæ &c Regis sculptor Sim: de Pas fecit.
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 100mm (6 x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Dutch classical scholar and antiquary Johannes Meursius (1579-1639).
[Ref: 50314] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Netherlands] Ne Te Quaesiueris Extra. Illustris et Generosus Dominus D. Hieronymus van Beverningk. Teylinge Toparcha, in Consessu D.D. Ordinum Generalium Assessor Faederati Belgy Exthelaurarius; Resp. Goudanae ex Consul; Lycaet Batavi Curator: Varys Pro Patriae Salute et Pace Negociationibus Conspicuus Ad Bataviam. Adspicis augustos nitida sub imagine vultus?...Mitis pacifico crescit oliva tibi.
Maes pinxit. Janus Broukhusius.
A Blooteling fecit et ex. cum Privilegio. [n.d. c.1780.]
Rare Mmzzotint. 425 x 310mm. 16¾ x 12¼". Trimmed; small tears to top and right centres. Laid on separate sheet. Added lower edge.
Hieronymus van Beverningh (1614-1690) was a prominent Dutch regent, diplomat and amateur botanist. He was sent as a plenipotentiary to the English Commonwealth to negotiate the Treaty of Westminster (1654) which was to end the First Anglo-Dutch War. He was similarly involved in negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda, the Triple Alliance (1668) and the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
[Ref: 19664] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Paris. Engraved after an Original Picture of the same size Painted by Rosalba.
WP. [Engraved by William Smith after Rosalba Carriera]
Published April 14 1773 & sold by Tho.s Pether Berwick, Street, Soho.
Rare mezzotint, title area uncleaned. 460 x 310mm (18 x 12¼), with large margins. Creasing in margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of a young man as Paris, a sheepskin over his shoulder, holding up an apple. The British Museum has a scratch letter proof before title, with the inscription 'W.Smith, Pupil to M. W. Pether Fecit'; it is possible that William Pether intended to put his name on the finished print, accounting for the 'WP' monogram on this example. As we can find only these two impressions it might never have been published. Smith's career was short, with plates dated 1773-6; it is said that in later life he became a stockbroker.
See BM 1858,1113.23 for the proof. CS 5, describing the BM's proof, this state not listed.
[Ref: 58828] £690.00

Guido Rhenus. Excelloit en granded ordonances, d'un esprit abondant: ses inventions sont assez cognues par les estampes, qu'on voit de sa main faictes, en eau fort. le iour de sa nativite, a ete, a Boloigne 1574; et mourut en l'an 1642.
Guid. Rhenus pinxit.
I. Meyssens fecit et excudit. [n.d. c.1655.]
Engraving. Plate 165 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½". Glued to backing sheet.
Guido Reni (1575-1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He worked all over Italy from Bologna to the Vatican in Rome, and into Spain and Germany. From Cornelis de Bie's "Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const".
[Ref: 24523] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Two ornamental vignettes.]
Paris inv. et Delin.
PP Choffard Sculp 1781. [&] PP Choffard fecit 1781.
A pair of etched vignettes. Sheet 335 x 254mm. 13¼ x 10".
A pair of vignettes by Pierre Philippe Choffard for his 'Voyage pittoresque de Naples et de Sicile' of Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non.
[Ref: 19981] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Adam Silo.
F: M: La Cave fecit 1766 [in image.]
Rare etching, sheet 155 x 140mm. 6 x 5½". Trimmed to plate and laid to album page.
Portrait of Adam Silo (1674 - 1756/1760), etcher and shipbuilder at Amsterdam, seated on a chair next to an easel with a seascape. By François Morellon de la Cave (1706 - 1766; fl.).
[Ref: 15392] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

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Sancta Elisabeth Regis Ungarie Filia vas Virtu Tum Et Miraculorum Magnitudine Clara Quae Parentum Generositate Et Divitiarum Iactantia Contempta Pro Corona Cinere Et Pro Pectorali Fascia Cilicium Suscipiens Mundo Se Fecit Ignobilem Ut Nobilis Cum Christo Eficeretur in Coelis’
Hieronumo Muciano Brixiano Invent. Nicolaus Beatricius Lotharingus incidit et formis suis Exc.
[n.d. c.1660.]
Engraving. 445 x 355mm (17½ x 14"). Cut.
St Elizabeth of Hungary visting the sick, she blesses a woman who kneels before her. A depiction of an episode from Girolamo Muziano's lost frescoes from 1559-60 in the Cathedral of Foligno, of which this print is the only record.
[Ref: 29414] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Karl XII, king of Sweden] Carolus XII D.G.
Suecorum Gothorum et Vandalorum Rex Augustissimus &c. &c. [...]
D.K. Ehrenstrahl pinxit W. Faithorne Fecit. Cum Privilegio Regis. E. Cooper excudit [1701].
Rare mezzotint, sheet 330 x 245mm (13 x 9½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet at edges.
Karl XII (1682-1718), king of Sweden from 1697 until his death. Karl first demonstrated his exceptional skills as a military leader when winning several victories in the Great Northern War (1700-21) which was begun when a triple alliance of Denmark-Norway, Saxony-Poland-Lithuania and Russia launched an attack on the Swedish protectorate, significantly outnumbering the forces of the inexperienced Swedish king. A major victory over a Russian army some three times the size at the battle of Narva in 1700 led Peter the Great to sue for peace, which Karl rejected. Mezzotint published soon after the battle of Narva (to which the text refers), engraved after a portrait by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628-98), German-born artist who became a founding father of Swedish painting.
CS: 5 only state; Fagan: Not in.
[Ref: 42985] £320.00

The Tower of London
[after Wenceslaus Hollar]
R.P. Fecit et ex. [in image lower right] Sold by P. Stent.
Etching, sheet 160 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate; surface damage towards bottom; tipped into album sheet. Unidentified collector's stamp lower left.
View of the Tower of London from the river Thames, with Traitor's Gate in front; at wharf, two ships, pinnace-rigged, with sails reefed, one flying St George's cross at the mast-head and barrels of culverin ranged in a row; rowing boats with passengers in the foreground. Copy in reverse of a c.1647 plate by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677).
For the print from which this is copied see ref.26454. Not in Lugt.
[Ref: 44227] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Jan Vande velde Fecit.
Claes Janss Visscher Excudebat Anno 1616.
Etched titlepage. Sheet 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Thread margins top and bottom, mounted on album paper.
The titlepage for one of the five parts of the series 'Sixty Landscapes' after Jan van der Velde II.
[Ref: 60217] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Wilhelmus Henricus D.G. Prins van Orange.
Wissing Pinxit.
et excu[dit] J. Gole fecit.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 335 x 235mm (13¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed, some text missing.
A portrait of William of Orange (1650-1702) who later reigned as William III alongside his wife Mary II of England following the Glorious Revolution in 1689.
[Ref: 48311] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

From a Statue Erected to the Memory of The Very Reverend James Wood D.D. Master of St John's College, Cambridge, and Dean of Ely. E.H. Baily R.A. fecit.
H. Corbould delin.t. E.R. Whitfield sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1840,]
Engraving on chine collé. 500 x 410mm (19¾ x 16"). Chine collé lifting bottom right corner, small tears in edges of backing paper.
A sketch of Edward Hodges Baily's statue of James Wood (1760-1839).
[Ref: 47541] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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