Grosvenor Prints

Le Bon Avis.
J. Horemens Pinx. Voiez Sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching with engraving. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"). Patch in margin top left, small margins.
Flemish interior with a bailiff seated near a fire-place and holding a letter, three other men around him, a woman seen from behind and pouring the bailiff a drink. Engraved by Nicholas Joseph Voyez after Jan Joseph Horemans II.
BM: 1875,0710.446.
[Ref: 44042] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Bookworm.
J.A. Lomax pinx W. Wright Nooth sc. [c.1880]
Engraving, platemark 200 x 235mm (8 x 9¼") very large margins.
Engraving after a painting by John Artur Lomax (1857-1923), Manchester-born artist who studied in Munich and later lived in London, specialising in historical scenes.
[Ref: 43366] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Les Sylphides. La Conversation. Two Bosom Friends!
Peint d'après nature et Lithographié par C. Bargue. Imprimé par Becquet frères, a Paris.
Paris, F. Sinnett, éditeur, Rotonde Colbert, 10. London, F. Gambart& Co. 25 Berners St. Oxf. St.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet: 420 x 310mm (16½ x 12"), with large margins. Light toning on edges.
A scene in which two nude women recline in conversation by a pond.
[Ref: 47345] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Two lovers in an elegant bedroom]
[after Jean Baptiste Pater.]
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, proof before all letters. Sheet 295 x 380 (11½ x 15"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
The woman sits on the end of the bed, drawing the man to her, while he gestures at a cat and a dog that pick off the remains of their meal.
[Ref: 54602] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Boulanger Flamand. [The Flemish Baker.] Gravé d'Après le Tableau original d'Adrien Van Ostad. Tiré du Cabinet du Chevalier de la Rocque.
A. Van Ostade Pinx. P. Chenu Sculp.
AParis chez Lebas, Graveur du Roy, rue de la Harpe. 1743.
Etching, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8". A fine and early impression.
Blowing a horn, head turned to the left, leaning on the lower half of a door; a small boy looking up to left. Advertised in 'Mercure', March 1743. After Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (1610 - 1685).
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18498] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Boy and Fighting Cocks. [&] Girl and Favourite Cat.
W. Hamilton pinx.t. N. Colibert sculp.t.
London, Pub. Jan.y 1. 1796 by T. Simpson, S.t Paul's Church Yard, and Darling & Thomson, G.t Newport Street.
Pair of stipples. Sheets c.210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
A boy egging on a pair of fighting cockerels; and a girl carrying an evil-looking cat wrapper in her skirts.
[Ref: 53269] £380.00

Boy and Birds Nest. In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk.
B. Murillo Pinxit. Caroline Watson Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sep.r 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple. 225 x 180mm (8¾ x 7"), on wove paper with very large margins.
A boy stroking a bird in a nest, after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-82).
[Ref: 55604] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Breakfast Table.]
D. Wilkie R.A. Etched by C.W. Marr.
London, Nov. 24, 1823, Published by J. Young, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, and Hurst, Robinson & Co 90 Cheapside.
Etchin on chine collé. 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), very large margins.
An etching after David Wilkie's painting 'The Breakfast Table', with an old couple and a young man sitting at a round breakfast table. A maid pours hot water into a teapot.
[Ref: 56664] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Broken Plate.]
peint par M. Kraus. gravé a Paris par J. Schmuzer 1763.
se vend a Vienne par F.K. Stoekl.
Engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾") very large margins. Rust hole half-way up on right.
Domestic interior with a mother seeing that her son has broken a plate while playing with a top. Engraved by Jakob Schmutzer (1733-1811), Vienna-born engraver trained in Paris by the famous printmaker J.G. Wille in 1762-6.
[Ref: 41711] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Brothel] [Les Debauches].
[after Jan Miense Molenaar by William Young Ottley].
[London. 1828].
Etching. Plate 158 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed close to the platemark; cut just inside along bottom edge.
The brothel. Three men drinking and playing music at a table in the centre; a bare chested woman steals from the left man's purse. A dog lying under the table to the left, and a couple embracing in the background. See British Museum "1880,0807.86" described as copy included in "A collection of thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings" Plate 18, by William Young Ottley (1771-1836) Artist, turned dealer and collector of Italian paintings, prints and drawings and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, 1833-36.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18633] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Felicissima Notte.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Watercolour. Sheet 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A man is welcomed into a brothel. Outside is a woman carrying a sleeping child, lit by lamplight. A copy of a lithograph (see ref: 11918).
[Ref: 55523] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Felicissima Notte [Happiest Night].
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Pin holes to corners, loss of surface in centre.
A man is welcomed into a brothel. Outside is a woman carrying a sleeping child, lit by lamplight.
[Ref: 11918] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Brown Study.
Drawn & Engraved by Fred.k Ja.s Havell.
[London Published Dec.r 8th 1829, for the Proprietor by J. Kendrick, 8 Sidney's Alley.]
Mezzotint with etching. Sheet 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
The interior of a garret studio, with the artist seated on a chair, staring into the fireplace. Behind him is an easel and maulstick, table with palette, paint brushes, paint box and small bottles; a guitar and music book lying on the floor. The room is filled with picture and sculpture. Frederick James Havell (1801-40) was the brother of landscape painter William Havell.
[Ref: 54191] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Burglars.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 275 x 360mm (10¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed into remarques top and bottom, repaired tears in title, paper cracks in edges.
A scene at dawn: two burglars disturb a man in a bed decorated with a coronet, who shoots one of them with a pistol.
[Ref: 57836] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Gypsies stopped outside a tavern] Vous qui prenez plaisir en leurs paroles / Gardez vos blanc, vos testons, et pistolles.
Callot f. [c.1625] Bit later.
Etching, sheet 125 x 235mm (5 x 9¼"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Gypsies outside a tavern; fortune-tellers in middle-ground; figures climbing into the tavern through a window; others running away with stolen goods in background. One of a set of four plates depicting gypsies (then known as 'Egyptians', from which the word derives) by Jacques Callot (1592-1635), one of the greatest seventeenth century printmakers. The text seems to suggest that those who take pleasure in the entertainment provided by gypsies should be careful with their possessions- including their guns. British Museum cataloguing for the series suggests that it was produced after Callot returned to his native Nancy from Florence (where he spent several years) in 1621. A preparatory drawing for one of the set (now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) bears a watermark indicating the paper was from Lorraine.
[Ref: 42248] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Camp et Fourage génerale.
Inventé et Gravé par Antoine Benoist.
Aparis chez Jacqs. Chereau, rue St. Jacques, au grand St. Remy. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 273 x 273mm. 10¾ x 10¾". Creases.
A scene of army officers assisting and controlling the harvest cut of the corn. A camp can be seen to the right-hand side.
[Ref: 15557] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Campaign.
CMF [monogram of Catherine Maria Fanshawe].
[n.d., c.1796.]
Etching with drypoint, presentation copy. 205 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"), watermarked 1794, very large margins Ink inscription showing through from reverse in margin, foxing
Three elderly men sit at a table examining a map by candlelight. On the walls are two plans of the fortifications of cities. An ink text on verso reads ''Drawn & Etch'd by Miss Fanshaw & given by her to Mrs Scott August 1796''. In pencil on front margin composed and elected by Miss Catherine Fanshawe and given to her by Lady Polworth. Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765-1834) was best known for her poetry, including the 'Riddle on the Letter H', which was originally mistakenly ascribed to Lord Byron.
[Ref: 58246] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Campaign.
CMF [monogram of Catherine Maria Fanshawe].
[n.d., c.1796.]
Etching with drypoint. 205 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"), watermarked 1794, very large margins Creased, tears in margins.
Three elderly men sit at a table examining a map by candlelight. On the walls are two plans of the fortifications of cities. Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765-1834) was best known for her poetry, including the 'Riddle on the Letter H', which was originally mistakenly ascribed to Lord Byron.
[Ref: 58247] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

L'Oeillet.
Héloise Leloir pinx.t. Regnier & Brittannier lith. Imp. Lith. Formentin & Co.
Paris, Victor Delarue & C.ie Editeurs, Place du Louvre, 10. Et chez Genix & C.ie, Rue Montmorency, 27. Berlin, bei Gebruder Rocca Leipzig, bei Gebruder Rocca.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand-colour. Sheet: 440 x 300mm (17¼ x 11¾''), with large margins.
A interior scene in which two young women look at a carnation pulled from a bouquet on the ground.
[Ref: 50138] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Escorted carriage.]
De Bourin Vialant de St. Morys inv. Bartro Scp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Copper engraving with large margins. Plate 138 x 208mm. 5½ x 8¼".
A covered carriage with an escort of riders.
[Ref: 15295] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A Catechism
Painted by J. Rising. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare mezzotint, open letter proof, inscription area partially uncleaned. Sheet 485 x 605mm (19 z 23¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Four children in a cottage interior, listening intently to a boy reading from a catechism.
Whitman: 286. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 54255] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

La Vieille importune
Baudouin pinx: P. de Colle sculp ap N. Cavalli Venets. c.1780]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8½"). Very large margins.
A young woman's lover escapes up the stairs out of sight while she distracts an inquisitive older woman, whose bunch of keys suggest she owns the barn. After a painting by Pierre Antoine Baudouin (1723 - 1769) who worked in Boucher's studio and married the elder painter's daughter.
[Ref: 38327] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Le Baiser pris de Force.
Clermont pinx: F. Pedro sculp. ap N. Cavalli Venetys [c.1770]
Engraving. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Spotting, edges frayed, creased. Tear in left edge.
A young man grabs a woman from behind and kisses her, causing her to drop a basket of fruit in surprise. Goat on the left, and man peering over the fence on right. Decorative scene after Jean François Clermont (1717-1817), a French artist who also spent time in England working for Horace Walpole, Lord Stafford and the Prince of Wales.
[Ref: 40317] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Baiser pris de Force.
Clermont pinx: F. Pedro sculp. ap N. Cavalli Venetys [c.1770]
Fine engraving, platemark 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"), very large margins.
A young man embraces and kisses a woman, taking her by surprise and causing her to drop a basket of fruit. Goat on the left, and man peering over the fence on right. Decorative scene after Jean François Clermont (1717-1817), a French artist who also spent time in England working for Horace Walpole, Lord Stafford and the Prince of Wales.
[Ref: 38329] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Les Cerises.]
Peine à la Gouaße par P.A. Baudouin. Gravé par N. Ponce.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving, proof before title and publication. 450 x 317mm. 17¾ x 12½". Cut inside platemark.
Les Cerises; cherry-picking with a young man on a ladder passing cherries down to two young maidens with a laden donkey to the right; a small dog in the foreground and four sheep seen to the left.
Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery: GLAHA 950.
[Ref: 27972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The charitable cook] La cuisinière charitable. / Oui, tu fais bien, Fanchon, d'aider ces Malheureux; Mais le Curé ton maitre est, fort peu généreux [...]
C. Eisen Inv. Chevilet Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A kindly woman pours soup for a vagrant; verses by Moraine below. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45067] £550.00

[The charitable woman] La dame de charité / Dédiée à Madame Marie Charlotte de Bethune [...]
D'apres le Dessin Original de Charles Eisen Peintre et Dessinateur du Roi [...] Gravé par Voyez l'Ainé en 1773.
A Paris chez Le Pere et Avaulez M.ds d'Estampes rue St. Jacques vis-à-vis celle du Platre, à l'ancienne Poste
Fine engraving, sheet 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners; wormholes lower right corner.
Family and friends grouped around the bedside of a sick or dying man. Engraving after a painting by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45115] £420.00

[The pretty charlatan] La jolie charlatane / Sur les quays, ou les boulevards / Si jamais l'avois l'avantage [...]
F. Eisen le Pere Pinx. L. Halbou sculp
A Paris chez Ouvrier Graveur Place Maubert chez un M.d Bonnetier au Soleil d'or [c.1760]
Fine engraving, sheet 425 x 305mm (16¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border showing a 'pretty charlatan', with verses below explaining why she is best avoided. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'le Pere' [father] on this print. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44946] £520.00

A Little pritty, witty, Charming She.
E. Martin inv. J.F. Martin sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs 1778 No.8 Leicester Street Leicst Fields.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 225 x 165mm (9 x 6½'') large margins. Publication line and inscriptions are faint. Creasing.
A portrait of a young woman sitting on a chair near a pianoforte while a puppy paws at her.
[Ref: 48754] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ma Chere Amie.
L.E. Regaud inv.t. I.M. Delattre Sculpt.
Pub.d by Pollard Spa Fields London.
Stipple. Plate: 130 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"), very large margins.
A scene showing two friends in an embrace.
[Ref: 42500] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Girl and Chickens. From the Original Picture Painted by Amoroso in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Vol II No. 34.
Amoroso pinx.t. W.m Walker Sculp.t.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1769, by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Engraving. Platemark: 400 x 295mm (15¾ x 11½"). Very large margins.
A girl sitting in a garden, watering a chicken and its chicks with a bowl from a fountain on the right. A coat-of-arms with stag charges is below within the title area, flanked by cherubs and stags, with the motto 'Cavendo Tutus'. After Amorosi's painting, then in the collection of Duke of Devonshire (1748 - 1811). From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38247] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Childish Amusement.
Painted by G. Moreland. W. Dickinson Execudit.
London, Published June 10:th 1789 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (16 x 13¾"), with large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A rustic man in rustic dress asleep on a bench outside an inn with a tankard beside him. As he sleeps, three children amuse themselves by placing their hat on his head, tying his ankles together and tickling his nose with a piece of straw. A sign reads 'Burton Ale'.
[Ref: 60969] £320.00

[Childish malice] La Malice enfantine, Dédiée à Monsieur Farrenc, Par son Ami et Serviteur Buldet.
F. Eisen Pere Pinx. N. Dupuis Sculp.
A Paris chés Buldet, rue de Gevres au grand Coeur [c.1762]
Engraving, platemark 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with a boy interrupting games by squirting water over a girl. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pere' [father] on this print.
[Ref: 44954] £520.00

The Dancing Children. From the Original Picture of the same size Painted by Le Nain, In the Collection of Sr. James Lowther Esq.r. Vol II No. 18.
Le Nain Pinxit. Alex'r Bannerman Sculp.
J.no Boydell excudit London 1767.
Engraving. Platemark: 355 x 400mm (14 x 16"). Very large margins.
A rustic interior scene with six children dancing in front of a fireplace, while on the right a young man plays the flageolet. An old peasant woman is standing by the fireplace in the background. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38271] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Children at Play. It Often Ends in Sorrow.
C. le White Sculp.
Published Janu.y the 25th 1782 by C. White Stafford Row Pimlico.
Stipple, part printed in colours. 185 x 160mm (7¼ x 6") very large margins.
A small and tearful boy turns from his two female playmates.
[Ref: 53933] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Children at Their Mothers Grave. Advance sweet innocents, and view that grave! [/] Beneath that rising dust your mother lies; [/] A clay cold silent corps! Pale as the shroud [/] Which now she wears. Dedicated to Noel Desenfans Esq.r, Consul General of Poland in Great Britain, &c. By his most obedient humble Servant John Ogbourne.
Sir Francis Bourgeois pinxit. R.A. John Ogborne sculpsit.
London, published Jan.y 2 1797, by J. Ogborne, No.58 Great Portland Street, & Testolini, No. 73, Cornhill.
Stipple engraving with very large margins. Platemark: 590 x 465mm. (23¼ x 18¼").
A family mourning their mother, two grave-diggers on left. Lines of verse by Joseph Strutt below image. The print is dedicated to Noel Desenfans, who was employed by King Stanislaw of Poland to assemble a collection of paintings (and was appointed Polish Consul General in London). After Stanislaw was forced to abdicate, the paintings eventually formed the basis of th Dulwich Picture Gallery.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28428] £350.00

[Boys Fighting]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub'd. as the Act directs Mar.h 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½") very large margins.
Etching 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 (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 1253.iii
[Ref: 43424] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Lever des Enfans.
Ch. Eisen inv. Basan excudit
A Paris chez Basan
Fine engraving, sheet 215 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners
Interior scene of children's bedroom, with toy horse in bottom left and one child holding a cat. Fine engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Children Nutting.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by E: Dayes.
London publish'd July 1st 1788 by JR: Smith N:o 31: King Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. Plate 456 x 549mm. 18" x 21?".
A scene of children collecting and picking nuts, with some sneakily being eaten.
[Ref: 9186] £480.00

Children Reading the Inscription, on their Mothers Grave-Stone.
Painted by R.M.Paye. Engraved by W.Ward.
London published June 24th-1785 by J.R.Smith No. 83-Oxford Street.
Mezzotint. 460 x 560mm.
[Ref: 4580] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

The Studious Society.
G. Scalken Pinxit. W. Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint, 295 x 250mm. 11½ x 9¾". Surface rubbed.
Three children studying around a table by candlelight, while their father sharpens a quill, and the mother approaches in the background with a lantern. The whole scene is framed by an archway. After Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706).
[Ref: 11088] £360.00

[Two children with sheep]
PLombart Academiae sculpsit et ex. cum Privil. Regis [c.1650]
Engraving, platemark 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Repaired tears to top margin.
Fine decorative engraving by Pierre Lombart (1613-82), French engraver who spent much of his career in London, admired particularly for his set of twelve countesses after Van Dyck.
[Ref: 44009] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Childrens' disguises] Deguisements enfantins. A Messire Jean-Louis-Etienne d'huteau Chevalier &. [...]
F. Eisen le Pere pinx. N. Dupuis Sculp.
A Paris chez Buldet, rue de Gevres [c.1762]
Engraving, platemark 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with three children in fancy dress. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pere' [father] on this print.
[Ref: 44958] £520.00

Remissio Peccatorum.
Egbertus van Heemskirk p. J. Smith fe:
P Tempest ex: [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins. Worming in bottom left corner of margin. Creasing.
'The remission of sins.' A friar hears the confession of a chained prisoner. Engraved c.1685, the paper of this example suggests a later printing.
BM 1874,0808.1282, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 60179] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Confessional] Le Mari-Confesseur. Dit Madelenntje [...] syn overspelig Wyf.
P. Schenck Fec: et Exc: cum Privil: Ordi: Hollan: et West Frisae [after Marcellus Laroon II, c.1695]
Mezzotint, 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Hole to right of woman.
One of several prints of the period showing a monk and a beautiful penitent, this one copied by the Dutch printmaker Pieter Schenck from 'A Lady at Confession' (John Smith after Marcellus Laroon II, 1791). Schenck has reversed Smith's composition, added four lines of text in Dutch, and as Antony Griffiths notes, he 'had the effrontery to add a Dutch privilege to protect himself from copying'.
Hollstein:431.I; for Smith's 'A Lady at Confession' see our ref. 5607, also Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart England', cat. 181.
[Ref: 23134] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Conjugal Affection. From the Original Picture presented to the City by Ald.n Boydell. To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte. This Print is most humbly Dedicated by their most Dutiful and Loyal Subject Jn.o Boydell.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke R.A. Engraved by Rob.t Thew, Hist. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Pub. Sept. 29, 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheaside. And at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Coloured stipple. 500 x 635mm (19¾ x 25"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Slight stain on right.
An affluent family in a room filled with paintings, surrounded by pets. Through the window is a bridge over a river, probably London, with dock workers unloading goods, suggestive of the source of the family's wealth. An interesting representation of late Georgian family life.
[Ref: 28196] £350.00

The Connoisseur and Tired Boy. (from Morland.)
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop'.
[Ref: 60880] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseur; sometimes called The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.]
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured aquatint, excised and glued to album page, set into embossed gold leaf frame. Original guard leaf. Frame 245 x 200mm, 9¾ x 8". Cut around image.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop.'
[Ref: 11912] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseur; sometimes called The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.]
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 230 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Trimmed to image.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop.'
[Ref: 11911] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Consentement Refusé.
Eisen del. Dorgez Sculp.
A Paris chez Vidal Graveur, rue des Noyers No.29.[n.d. c.1790.]
Copper engraving. Plate 292 x 210mm. 11½ x 8¼".
'Consent refused.' In an 18th Century library with a wall clock where the young woman is jesturing towards a suitor.
[Ref: 16204] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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