Grosvenor Prints

[The Departure of Abram and Lot from Egypt.]
Painted by F. Zuccarelli. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi & W Byrne.
London Publish'd as the act directs Feby: 1st: 1777 by F Bartolozzi No. 1 Bentinck Street Berwick St. Soho, & W. Byrne No 69 Wells Street Oxford St.
Engraving, proof before title, sheet 470 x 560mm. 18½ x 22". Trimmed to and within plate at top.
Figures preparing for a journey, near a pool filled from a waterfall over rocks on the right: two men talking on the left, in front of a laden camel, a woman holding a bundle and a pet dog, another behind her holding a child; a third woman sits to right, helping a child to drink while another child leans against her shoulder, a boy driving livestock towards the water in the centre. In the background a man on horseback followed by others, processing towards a distant town with pyramid. An illustration from the Genesis book of the Bible: following the period spent in Egypt, Abram, Sarai, and his nephew Lot returned to the Bethel-Ai area in Canaan. There they dwelt for some time, their herds increasing, until strife arose between the herdsmen. Abram thereupon proposed to Lot that they should separate, allowing Lot the first choice. Lot took the fertile land lying east of the Jordan River and near to Sodom and Gomorrah, while Abram lived in Canaan, moving south to the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, where he built an altar. After Francesco Zuccarelli (1702 - 1788).
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18269] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Adam, Eve and the Archangel Gabriel.]
[T. Stothard Pinx.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t]
[London, Published 15. Sept.r 1795, by J. Jeffryes ...]
Stipple. Proof before all letters. 490 x 317mm. 19¼ x 12½".
Adam seated facing Eve who holds a melon in her right hand with her left hand outstretched plucking a bunch of grapes from the vine; the Archangel Gabriel sits behind a basket of fruits.
De Vesme: 1763; i/iii.
[Ref: 21222] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Adelaide, or the Shepherdess of the Alps.]
[After Giovanni Battista Cipriani.][Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.]
[n.d. c.1780.]
Rare etching with stipple, proof before letters, 18th century watermark; sheet 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Thread margins. Nicks and creases at edges.
Adelaide, a shepherdess, seated in profile to right, feeding grass to five sheep on the right. Illustrates 'Adelaide, or the Shepherdess of the Alps' by Jean François Marmontel (1723 - 1799).
De V: 1411 i of iii. See Marmontel "Moral Tales".
[Ref: 60405] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Admiration. [Pleasures are ever in our hands...]
G.B. Cipriani inv.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Published May, 1782, by W. Palmer No. 159 Strand.
Fine stipple, open-letter proof, printed in sanguine. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
An oval portrait of a woman, hand on breast, looking upwards.
De Vesme 568, state ii of iii, before lines under title.
[Ref: 53321] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

L'Adolescenza.
G. Zocxhi inv. F. Bartollozi Scul.
Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S. [n.d., c.1761.]
Very fine engraving, 18th century watermark. 520 x 340mm (20½ x 13½"), with large margins.
Young people, read, play a pipe and flirt among classical ruins.
[Ref: 55693] £320.00

[A young girl with a dove.]
[Vieira Del.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculps.t R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.]
[London, Published 1st June 1800 by William Jeffrey & Co.]
Stipple, scarce touched proof before letters, with added watercolour either by the artist or engraver. 440 x 340mm (17¼ x 13¼"), with wide large margins.
Portrait of a young girl with a garland in her hair, holding a dove, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after Francisco Vieira 'Portuense' (1765-1805). A later state was published as 'Affection. From an Original Drawing in the Possession of John Scott Esq.r', by Deely in 1809. Vieira came to London c.1796 and became Bartolozzi's lodger. After exhibiting at the R.A. in 1798 and 1799 he returned to Oporto, becoming court painter in Lisbon in 1802. At the same time Bartolozzi became director of the National Academy of Lisbon, living there until he died.
De Vesme 1305. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47336] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Affection. One day pass'd by and nothing saw but Love / another came and still 'twas only Love. / The Sun, was weary'd out, with looking on [...]
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Publish'd June 1.st 1782 by J. Walker Carver, Gilder & Printseller No. 148, opposite Catherine Street, Strand.
Stipple printed in sepia, platemark 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6") very large margins.
An oval stipple engraving of a haf-naked woman by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85).
Calabi & De Vesme 571 iii/iii.
[Ref: 44205] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Francesco Ageno.]
T. Gainsborough R.A. del. F. Bartolozzi sculps R.A.
[London: Dennett Jaques, 1790.]
Rare etching with stipple. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to plate at sides; diagonal creases through upper left and lower right corners.
Francesco Ageno was ambassador of Genoa at London from 1760 to 1781. The portrait frontispiece to the sitter's 'Prose e rime del Signor Francesco D'Ageno'; engraved by Bartolozzi from a sketch by Richard Cosway of Gainsborough's portrait in the collection of Grolamo Tonioli. Bartolozzi erased Cosway's name in the published state after Gainsborough remonstrated.
BL: 000029152. Hone 2 II. From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18234] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Agriculture.]
B. West R.A. Historical Painter to his Majesty pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Historical Engraver to his Majesty sculp.t.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Printed area (at most) 515 x 640mm (20¼ x 25¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame, probably trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
An idyllic harvest scene, with figures cutting corn with sickles, binding sheaths, gathering grapes and plouching with oxen. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 1331.
[Ref: 50428] £1,200.00

[King Ahasuerus & Queen Esther]
Guercino inv. Bartolozzi Sculp. [c.1790]
Etching printed in brown ink, platemark 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼") very large margins.
Two of the main personalities in the Book of Esther, one of the books of the Ketuvim ('Writings') of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Etching after a drawing by Guercino, by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. From a portfolio of eighty-two prints by Bartolozzi after drawings by Guercino in the Royal Collection.
Calabi and De Vesme 2143; for later state see ref. 21218.
[Ref: 44148] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander III. King of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald, the Ancestor of the Present Mackenzie Family.
B. West pinx. F. Bartolozzi, sculp 1788.
Stipple, printed in sepia, faint watermark. 565 x 715mm (21¾ x 28¼") with very wide margins. Damage to margins, margin rebuilt in the top left corner.
Colin Fitzgerald pulls the antler of a stag and raises his spear to kill it. Other huntsmen rush to the aid of the fallen king. Alexander (1241-86) may have survived this episode, but he died aged 44 falling from a horse. His heir was his granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway, but she died before she could be crowned, leaving the throne of Scotland to John Balliol.
[Ref: 52663] £390.00

His ego nec metas. rerum, nec tempora pono. Imperium sine fine dedi _________ Virg. aen. lib. I.
Joseph. Zochi Florentinus invenit. F. Bartollozi Florentinus Sculp. Venetiis.
[n.d., c.1761.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Allegory on the marriage of Joseph, Archduke of Austria to Isabella, daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma (6th October 1760). In the sky, the Gods gather on clouds, next to large oval medallions featuring portraits of the Archduke and his wife. Below on the right is the statue of Minerva, the Roman Godess of wisdom, with allegorical female figures in front. Sinking ships are seen in the water, with the burning city of Tuscany in the distance to the left. Frontispiece to 'Discorso del Senatore Cavaliere Giulio Rucellai', Firenze, 1761.
[Ref: 38572] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Christoph Friedrich von Ammon]
F. Bartolozzi R.A. fecit
London Published as the Act directs Nov.12 1791
Stipple printed in brown, sheet 180 x 130mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed to platemark. Rare.
Christoph Friedrich von Ammon (1877-1850), German theological writer and preacher. Engraved by Francesco Bartlozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver elected a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This portrait was published after Bartolozzi had left England for the continent.
Not in De Vesme.
[Ref: 35844] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Angelic Child. From a miniature painted by Mr. Robinson in the possesion of Mrs. Johnston, to whom this plate is dedicated by her humble ser.t, W. Palmer.
Robinson pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1st. 1790 by W. Palmer. Printseller to Her Majesty. No. 163 Strand, London.
Stipple engraving, printed in brown. 180 x 115mm. (7¼ x 4½"), with wide margins.
A child, half-length, head to right, eyes turned towards the sky; body turned to the left, hands lifted to prayer; in a vertical oval; after John Robinson (1715 - 1745). Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815).
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection; Calabi & De Vesme: 308.iii/iii
[Ref: 28396] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Angelica and Medora.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculps.
Published July 1st 1787 by John & Josiah Boydell No 90 CHeapside London. Bit later.
Stipple, printed in colours, J. Whatman Turkey Mills watermark 1822; 265 x 310mm (10½ x 12¼"), with large margins. Small hole in top margin. Slight printer's crease.
A portrait of lovers Angelica and Medoro, characters in Ludovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'.
[Ref: 54231] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo.]
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London, Publish'd May 20th; 1783 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching. Plate 160 x 114mm. 6¼ x 4½". Slight damage on left.
Apollo holding a lyre under his arm, plucking a string with his right index finger.
De Vesme: 356; iii/iv.
[Ref: 20443] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo calling up the Fine Arts and Sciences.]
B. West inv.t Historical Painter to his Majesty, R.A. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t Historical Engraver to his Majesty.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Sheet 530 x 660mm (21 x 26"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Apollo alighting, torch in hand and wings spread, gesturing towards allegorical figures of the arts and sciences. Half-hidden is a bas-relief of George III. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor,which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 557.
[Ref: 50427] £2,000.00

[Annonce de T. Sandby.]
B. West R.A. inv. 1791. F. Bartolozzi R.A. etched.
London Publish'd May 1791. by Mr. Sandby Jun.r St. Georges Row.
Etching and engraving, very scarce and fine. Plate 241 x 165mm. 9½ x 6". Crease to bottom right-hand corner, small margins, overall foxing.
Trade card for Thomas Sandby, depicting the daughter of Dibutades embracing her lover and outlining his shadow on the wall, while he holds a lamp on the left. Thomas Sandby (1721-1798) was a self-taught draftsman who, with his brother Paul took up positions in the military drawing department at the Tower of London. Thomas was sent first to the Battle of Dettingen and then to Culloden as draughtsman to the Duke of Cumberland. In 1747, under the Duke, he was appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park to which he devoted considerable energy in improvements. He was also involved in the London art world and with his brother he was one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He was elected their first professor of architecture and later architect of the King's works. In reality, he built few buildings and was more respected for his architectural theory.
De Vesme: 1892; ii/iii.
[Ref: 20501] £450.00

John Ash, M.D.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.", "Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A./Historical Engraver to his Majesty"
London Published March 1st. 1791 by E. Walker & Co. No. 7 Cornhill, and J.F. Tomkins, No. 49 New Bond Street.
Very rare stipple with etching in sepia, 640 x 400mm. 25¼ x 15¾". Crease to title area, damage to margin upper right. A fine impression.
Impressive and rare portrait of Dr John Ash FRS (1723 - 1798), physician at Birmingham, wearing robes and holding plans in his right hand; a statue of benevolence to right behind. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.2, IV. Wellcome: 112-1.
[Ref: 12897] £360.00

[Astronomy.]
P. Violet pinxt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1 1792 by C. Suisan & Sold by J.F. Tomkins No 49 New Bond Street.
Stipple, proof before title. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), with large margins
A child holding a telescope, looking up at a beam of light.
De Vesme: 574, state iii of iv.
[Ref: 56780] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Attention. [&] Serenity.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Pub.d Feb.y. 1.st 1798 by Colnaghi Sala & Co. (late Tore) No.132 Pall Mall.
A pair of printed stipple. Framed. Image: 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"). Frame: 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"). Unexamined out of frame.
A pair of allegorical scenes, one showing the figure of attention writing at her desk, the second shows serenity looking towards the sky.
[Ref: 45409] £420.00 view all images for this item

[Attention]
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
[London Publish'd March 6th. 1782 by Sus. Vivares]
Stipple printed in colours, sheet 125 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed inside platemark, possibly losing text.
Attention: woman sat at desk, writing. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani.
De Vesme 575 iii[?]/v
[Ref: 36633] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

My Father urg'd me sair, my Mother did nae speak, / But she look'd in my Face till my heart was like to break. / Auld Robin Grey To Her Grace the Dutchess of Hamilton and Brandon, This Print after an Original Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq.r is with the greatest respect Dedicated, by Her Graces most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t Engraved by F. Bartolozzi
London, Publish'd Feb.y 10th 1783 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No 158 New Bond Street
Stipple, sheet 410 x 365mm (16 x 14¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; small stain on right.
Illustration to 'Aud Robin Grey', a Scots ballad in which a young woman is compelled by her parents to marry an old man, Robin Grey, who promises to support her and her parents, even though she is in love with another man. Stipple engraving after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Tim Clayton).
Calabi & De Vesme 1404 iii/iii
[Ref: 45439] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Baby lying down on straw basket.]
Guercino inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London, Published Jany. 1. 1798, by Darling & Thompson Gt. Newport Street, and T. Simpson, St. Paul's Church Yard.
Etching. Plate 229 x 260mm. 9 x 10¼".
A baby lying on a straw bed inside a basket, his hands clasped on his stomach.
De V: ?
[Ref: 21217] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Bacchant.
F: Bartolozzi Inv.t et Sculp.t.
Mango Exc.t. Pub.d Nov.r 23 1778 as the Act Directs by the Proprieter N.o Bentinck Street near Berwick Street, Soho.
Stipple printed in sanguine, plate 245 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"), with large margins. Very slight paper toning.
A bare breasted priestess of the God of Wine, Bacchus, lifts a bowl as if to drink.
De Vesme 368 II of III. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60283] £350.00

A Bacchante. From an Original Picture in the Collection of Sir John Leicester Bar.t.
Greuze Pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculps.t R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.
London, Published 1st. June 1800 by William Jeffryes & C.o Ludgate Hill.
A rare stipple. Plate: 440 x 340mm (17¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A portrait of a priestess of Bacchus, shown looking over he right shoulder.
De Vesme 369 III of III. Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46717] £330.00

[Bacchus and Ariadne.]
B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Fecit.
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1786 by W. Dickinson Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching. 157 x 190mm. 6¼ x 7½". Publication line cut, slight foxing.
Bacchus and Ariadne naked seated under a tent embracing and holding cups. A satyr pouring water on the left, with a putti asleep on the right, young child lying on the back of a tiger in the foreground.
De Vesme: 375; iii/vi. See 20573 for earlier state.
[Ref: 20572] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Bacchus and Ariadne.]
[B. Cipriani Delin.t F. Bartolozzi Fecit.]
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1786 by W. Dickinson Bond Street.]
Stipple and etching, very scarce. 203 x 209mm. 8 x 8¼". Slight foxing.
Bacchus and Ariadne naked seated under a tent embracing and holding cups. A satyr pouring water on the left, with a putti asleep on the right, young child lying on the back of a tiger in the foreground.
De Vesme: 375; ii/vi. See 20572 for late state.
[Ref: 20573] £340.00

[Bacchus Enfant.]
Guercino inv. F. Bartolozzi del et sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Plate: 280 x 340mm (11 x 13¼"). Very large margins.
The infant Bacchus seated on a rock faces right towards a barrel of grapes and in two hands he holds a large bottle from which he drinks.
de Vesme: 2132 II of II.
[Ref: 39119] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Johann Christian Bach] [Ionnes Christianus Bach, Saxoniae Natus, Insugnis Musicae Magistser XLVo. Aetatis Anno Obit Londini. Kal Ianuarii A.D. MDCCLXXXII.]
Aug. Carlini inv. et delin.t. etched by F. Bartolozzi.
London Pub.d 10th March 1782 by Augustin Carlini Soho Square.
Scarce & fine etching, proof before title. 225 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Trimmed to the plate
A medallion portrait of Johann Christian Bach (1735-82, son of Johann Sebastian) within an architectural caprice with a pipe organ decorated with the head of Apollo, with a female figure of Fame and a cherub playing a lyre.
De Vesme 754. iii.
[Ref: 51269] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[1775.]
Etching with engraving in black ink. A very fine impression, mint. Plate 241 x 216mm. 9½ x 8½". Foxed. Very large margins.
Ticket. A young woman is seated with her upper body bear and crowned with flowers, in the right hand she holds a caduceus. Three putti dance on the floor; two fly above holding grapes and a basket of flowers. The host is politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv. See Ref 14666 for same state in red/brown ink & 14667 for earlier state. See Ref: 20524 for same state.
[Ref: 21223] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
Very fine etching with engraving, fine impression. 240 x 215mm. 9½ x 8½" large margins.
Ticket for a ball at the Mansion House, hosted by politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), who was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774. The design depicts Iris, messenger of the gods, holding a caduceus and watching three putti dancing, with two more flying above holding grapes and a basket of flowers.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv.
[Ref: 40268] £340.00

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[1775.]
Etching with engraving in black ink, fine impression. 241 x 216mm. 9½ x 8½". Trimmed.
Ticket. A young woman is seated with her upper body bear and crowned with flowers, in the right hand she holds a caduceus. Three putti dance on the floor; two fly above holding grapes and a basket of flowers. The host is politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv. See Ref 14666 for same state in red/brown ink & 14667 for earlier state, & 21223 for same state.
[Ref: 20524] £340.00

[Frontis to Caldecott's Musical Miscellany MS Vol. III.]
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co. Music Publishers 20 Soho Sq. [c.1810].
Etching. 115 x 210mm (4½ x 8¼") very large margins. Old ink mss. name added, crack in platemark, some spotting and creasing.
In middle Mrs. Wadham Wyndham "Caldecott's Musical Miscellany MS Vol. III” was a musical score book printed by Goulding D'Almaine, Potter & Co music publishers and musical instrument sellers, with a cartouche design by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), filled with songs and pieces, most with titles and some composers, with an index of titles and composers at the back, and various verses at the front and comments on John Barratt at the back. Music publishers 'Goulding & D’Almaine' was founded in 1785; it became 'Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter & Co.' c.1810.
[Ref: 60980] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Music publisher's invitiation.]
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co. Music Publishers 20 Soho Sq. [c.1810].
Etching. 115 x 210mm (4½ x 8¼"). Narrow margins.
Decorative design by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Music publishers 'Goulding & D’Almaine' was founded in 1785; it became 'Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter & Co.' c.1810.
[Ref: 35839] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled Female Profile.]
F. Bartolozzi in. et Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament de 15 June 1776.
Stipple printed in sanguine. 125 x 165mm. Very slight paper discolouration.
[Ref: 538] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Shepherdess sitting with sheep outside a cottage, spinning wool] Guidata ch'a la Greggia Irminda poi / S'asside e sta filando i Lini suio
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1342
[Ref: 43124] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Young man fishing, with a woman and small boy nearby] Osservato da Fille il Pesce piglia / Per sostentar la debil sua Famiglia
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1343
[Ref: 43125] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Young couple embracing; young woman and sheep on right] Soglion gli Amanti coltivar non poco / Le lusinghe, gli scherzi il riso, e il gioco
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1345
[Ref: 43126] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman mourning and embracing a tomb in the form of a pot]
G.B. Cipriani inv. / F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Published as the Act directs Nov. 20 1776
Etching, sheet 155 x 160mm (6 x 6¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight foxing.
Title page to 'Miscellaneous works of Ph. D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield' (1777). In a later state this print was identified as Bathsheba mourning her husband Uriah.
de Vesme 1694.2
[Ref: 35960] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Profile of a Woman.]
F. Bartolozzi inv. et sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament de 15 june 1776.
Stipple with large margins; Rare. Plate: 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾"). Some light foxing.
Profile portrait of a woman wearing a shawl.
De Vesme: 117. State II of II. For an example in sanguine see ref: 538.
[Ref: 35553] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Diana Beauclerk's two daughters]
Lady Diana Beauclerk del. F. Bartolozzi Etched.
Publish'd May 15th. 1780, by F. Bartolozzi No 1 Bentinck Street, in Berwick Street Soho.
Very fine and rare etching with stipple and hand colour, sheet 280 x 295mm (11 x 11¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Mount burn and foxing.
Elizabeth, later Lady Herbert, drawing in a sketch-book leaning on her knees; her younger sister Mary, later Countess Jenison Walworth, seated behind her. Etching after a drawing by their mother, Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734 - 1808), a talented amateur artist whose designs were much admired by Horace Walpole. Etched by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Italian printmaker who was invited to London by George III's librarian Richard Dalton, and who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London. In England Bartolozzi became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 he was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal.
De Vesme 1212 III of III.
[Ref: 60328] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Honorable Lady Catherine Beauclerk.]
F. Cotes pinxit. F. Bartolozzi delin et sculpsit.
Publisedh April 15th 1778 by W.r Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street.
Oval stipple, proof before title, printed in sepia. Sheet 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
Lady Catherine Elizabeth Beauclerk, daughter of the 5th Duke of St Albans, died 1803.
De Vesme 1041, state iii of v.
[Ref: 51575] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Beauty looking in the Mirror of Prudence, with a Genius representing Innocence. From the Original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, To whom this plate is dedicated by his Grace's Obedient Servant, Ja.s Birchall.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpx.
London, Pub'd August 15 1786 by Jas. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 385 x 345mm (15¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, creases and tears in inscription area.
[Ref: 53084] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Beauty.
G.B. Cipriani del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Published according to Act, Nov.r 6th 1782, by the Proprietor, No 5, Poland Street, Soho
Stipple printed in sepia, platemark 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
Woman sat on clouds with peacock. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work.
Calabi & de Vesme 576 iii/iii
[Ref: 43144] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

William Beckford Esq Twice Lord Mayor of London. Taken from the Original Model presented by Augustin Carlini, and REJECTED by a Majority of the Committee of the Court of Aldermen and Common Council. on the 16th January 1771.
Aug. Carlini inv. Biagio Rebecca del. Fran. Bartolozzi sculp.`
Published according to Act of Parl.t 5. Apr. 1772.
Engraving, rare & scarce. Sheet 640 x 430mm (25¼ x 17") Trimmed within plate top and bottom, without loss of image; some loss around platemark.
An illustration of the statue of William Beckford (1709-70, MP and twice Lord Major of London) that Agostino Carlini (c.1718 - 1790) proposed for the Guildhall but which was rejected for another design. He is shown in his mayoral robes and chain, his sword and mace to the side. Two putti hold the Bill of Rights, a Liberty Pole and a scroll, which probably contains the text of his famous admonition of George III.
De V: 759
[Ref: 33151] £550.00

The Beggar's Opera. Jenny. I must and will have a kiss to give my wine a zest. Act 2 Scene 1.
Burney pinx. Bartolozzi Sc.
London Printed for J. Bell, British Library, Strand, July 9, 1791.
Etching with engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"), large margins. Some foxing, mainly in margins.
Macheath sits with arms around two women. One of six frontispieces to 'British Theatre'.
De Vesme 167, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 55517] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

For the Benefit of Mr. Dragonetti.
E.F. Burney del._ F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
[n.d. c.1792.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet size: 105 x 135mm (4¼ x 5¼"). Cut in an octagonal shape.
A ticket for the benefit of Mr Dragonetti. A woman stands holding a naked child who plays the lyre. On the right stands Apollo. Domenico Dragonetti (1763 - 1846) was a violinist and double-bass player. For a proof impression of this ticket, see item ref: 28892.
De Vesme: 1918.
[Ref: 35625] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[For the Benefit of Mr. Dragonetti.]
E.F. Burney del._ F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
[n.d. c.1792.]
Etching with engraving. Plate 120 x 152mm. 4¾ x 6". Light foxing; tipped into album page.
Ticket for the benefit of Mr Dragonetti. A woman stands holding a naked child who plays the lyre. On the right stands Apollo. Domenico Dragonetti (1763 - 1846) was a violinist and double-bass player.
De Vesme: 1918; ii/iii. See Harvard p.383.
[Ref: 28892] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[For the Benefit of Mrs. Banti.]
F. Bartolozzi inv.t Sculps.t 1797 aetatis suae 69.
138 x 172mm. 5½ x 6¾". Slight foxing.
Ticket for the benefit of Mrs Banti. Muse seated on clouds holding a lyre with three putti; one holds a trumpet, another two laurel crowns and the third holding a banner over Muse. Brigitta Giorgi Banti (1756 - 1806), singer.
De Vesme: 1914; iv/vii.
[Ref: 20507] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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