Grosvenor Prints

[Portrait of Two Women in Headresses.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching; Collector's Mark: G.A.C. Sheet: 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼''). Staining. Trimmed.
A portrait of two women, one wears a veil and the second wears an ornate headress.
[Ref: 48860] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

In ischietto vestir Leggiadra restra / Tasso.
C.P. Rottari pinx: L. Zucchi sc: [n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Portrait of a woman with line from Torquato Tasso's 'La Gerusalemme liberata' ('Jerusalem Liberated'), a popular source in the 18th century. After Pietro Rotari (1707-62), painter of portraits and religious subjects. Afte spending the first part of his career in Italy, in the 1750s Rotari moved north, working in Vienna, Dresden and finally St Petersburg.
[Ref: 37106] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with an oil lamp.] From a Painting of Ger.d Dou, belonging to Cap.t Baillie.
W. Baillie sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Oct.1st. 1771.
Mezzotint. 155 x 230mm (6 x 9"), with narrow margins. Mounted in album paper at sides.
A night scene showing a woman leaning through a window, shielding the flame of a lamp with her hand. Engraved after a painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-75) by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 62182] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with a lantern] Dans ce sombre séjour dans cette nuit profonde, Qui semble rappeller l'ancien Cahos du Monde / J'allume la Chandelle, pour m'en aller Chercher / L'homme que Diogene ná jamais sceu Trouver.
Gerart Dou pinxit. C:H: Van Meurs Sculp:
[n.d., c.1670.]
Rare engraving. 360 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"), with a 17th century watermark and very large margins. Tear in platemark taped top right.
A woman lights a candle to put into a lantern, so she can look for Diogenes' 'honest man'.
[Ref: 62469] £380.00

[Woman with lute.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour, French. Oval, 260 x 195mm, 10¼ x 7¾". Trimmed and laid on album paper, covered in clear varnish.
A romantic scene of a pensive woman, rose on a table, lute at her feet.
[Ref: 25239] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with pearl necklace.]
Drawn by J.B. Ciprani. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin, Engraver to His Majesty, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, Pub.d Feb.y 15th 1787 by E. Wyatt, next the Pantheon, Oxford Street.
Stipple. Sheet 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate.
A woman in classical dress and headband, about to tie a pearl necklace around her neck.
[Ref: 52675] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with right hand raised.]
[Guercino del.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching printed in brown ink. Plate 200 x 265mm. 7¾ x 10½". Uncut.
A girl with head-dress and veil raises her right hand.
[Ref: 14603] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[A Brighton beauty.]
R.S.E.G. 1827.
Printed and Pub. by J. Booty, Brighton, July 6th, 1827.
Lithograph, scarce. Printed area 150 x 120mm, 6 x 4¾".
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman. Booty went bankrupt on October 5th, 1832.
[Ref: 23128] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Woodand Mary.
J.C. Wilson [in image].
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
A pretty young woman, an illustration to a popular ballad.
[Ref: 61420] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Madam Wright
John Vanderbank pinx.t 1729. J. Faber Fec.t
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet; repair top left.
Portrait of an unidentified sitter, after John Vanderbank (1694-1739), painter and draughtsman whose sitters included Sir Isaac Newton, the sculptor John Michael Rysbrac, and the poet James Thomson.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; O'D 1 (only likeness); CS 396. For Vanderbank's portraits of Newton and Rysbrac see refs. 33218 and 27207.
[Ref: 36692] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Original in the Collection of John Blackwood.
After Rembrant.
London, Published March 1830, by A. Friedel 34, Surry Street, Strand. Dean & Mundays, Lithography 35 Threadneedle Street.
Lithograph, rare with large margins. 406 x 273mm. 16 x 10¾".
A man sat at a writing table with papers and manuscript, sharpening his quill. The same picture was engraved in mezzotint by Richard Houston in the 18th century, by which time the picture was already in the collection of John Blackwood (Charrington 83; Alexander et al 96). This lithograph crops the composition to focus more on the figure sat at a table. The painting on which this print is based is unknown. The central motif resembles that of Rembrandt's portrait of an unknown man sharpening a quill (Kassel, Schloss Wilhelmshohe) with the other elements in the print resembling those from other Rembrandt paintings, suggesting that the source image was a pastiche intended to pass for one of Rembrandt's own.
[Ref: 24872] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Ladies Amabel and Jemima Yorke.]
[Sir. J. Reynolds. Fisher.]
[n.d. c.1762.]
Mezzotint, uncleaned proof before letters. Platemark: 507 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Excellent impression.
The two daughters of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl Hardwicke, and his wife, Jemima, Countess De Grey and Baroness of Crudwell. The two children stand in a garden beside a sphinx on a pedestal, Lady Amabel Grey on the left with a dove perched on her right hand, and Lady Mary Jemima running towards her holding another dove, a poodle at her heels. The children grew up to become: Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess de Grey (1751-1833), the political writer and amateur artist; and Mary Jemima Robinson, known as Lady Grantham (1757-1830), mother of Prime Minister Viscount Goderich.
Hamilton: p.139. Russell: 61. CS: 61.
[Ref: 35736] £950.00

The Young Aspirant.
M. Gauci lith. Printed by Engelmann, and Co.
London, Published by W. Spooner No. 259, Regent Street. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph, fine. 484 x 353mm. 19 x 14".
A girl holding a fan.
[Ref: 14733] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[A young boy with spaniel.]
W Vaillant fec: et Exc.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 290 x 345mm (11½ x 13½"). Framed. Small margins, small chip in bottom edge, slight crease. Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of a young boy in the long skirts fashionable at the time, holding a stick, a dog on the table beside him. A pencil annotation on the frame suggests this is Charles II; however the life dates of Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77) makes this unlikely.
BM 1868,0612.1133, "young boy"; Hollstein 212.
[Ref: 62577] £360.00

[Young boy's head]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 50 x 35mm (2 x 1¼"). Large margins; good impression.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '106' added lower right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State ii/iii; W106; D30.
[Ref: 32911] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A Young Man's Head]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 80 x 65mm (3 x 2½"). Very large margins; uncut; cream laid paper; good impression.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '103' added lower right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State iii/iii; W100; D233.
[Ref: 32910] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Devotion.]
Francis S Walker pinx et sc [in pencil.]
[London, Published February 1.st 1891, by Stephen T. Gooden, 57, Pall Mall, London, S.W.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, with printseller's association stamp; limited 200. Plate 342 x 254mm. 13½ x 10".
A young girl with chin-length wavy blond hair, shown half-length facing front, looking up solemly, hands clasped and resting on a book open on a lectern in front of her, wearing a broad-brimmed hat tied under her chin with a bow to the right.
[Ref: 28019] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a young man, so-called portrait of Rembrandt.]
[Thomas Worlidge.]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching, unlettered state on laid paper, sheet 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Trimmed within plate.
Bust portrait turned to right to face the viewer, a heavy round collar and chain around his neck, thick dark hair. By Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), probably a later state, with evidence of re-working to the sitter's face. After a painting in a private collection, probably an eighteenth century copy of a painting formerly attributed Rembrandt (1606 - 1669). Collector's stamp to verso.
[Ref: 17158] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Mendicant.
Josiah Boydell Pinxit. Val: Green, engraver to his Majesty Fecit.
Published March 1st, 1776 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint with small margins. Platemark: 265 x 195mm. (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to platemark; rubbed. Glued to 18th century sheet with borders.
The young mendicant, a little girl, half-length in a mock oval frame, wearing a cloak and a bonnet tied under her chin, three-quarter to left, looking solemnly towards the viewer. After Josiah Boydell (1752 - 1817). Engraved by Valentine Green (1739 - 1813), one of the finest of British mezzotinters.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. Whitman 192.
[Ref: 28426] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Moralist. So lovely, young & yet so good, How blest those Parents are, To see the seed of Virtue bud, Which they had planned there.
G. Romney pinx.t T. Nugent, sculp.t
Published 14.th Feb.y 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured stipple, with Collector's Mark. 235 x 178mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed, cut along lower edge.
A girl sitting whole-length to left on rocks, holding an open book in her left hand and looking to front with smiling expression.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute. See Ref: 29151 for uncoloured copy, and Ref: 29152 for proof.
[Ref: 29150] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Moralist. So lovely, young & yet so good, How blest those Parents are, To see the seed of Virtue bud, Which they had planned there.
G. Romney pinx.t T. Nugent, sculp.t
Published 14.th Feb.y 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple, in brown ink. 240 x 202mm (9½ x 8"). Trimmed to platemark.
A girl sitting whole-length to left on rocks, holding an open book in her left hand and looking to front with smiling expression.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute. See Ref: 29150 for coloured copy, and Ref: 29152 for proof.
[Ref: 29151] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Young Moralist. So lovely, young & yet so good, How blest those Parents are, To see the seed of Virtue bud, Which they had planned there.]
[G. Romney pinx.t T. Nugent, sculp.t,]
[Published 14.th Feb.y 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London, Fleet Street, London.]
Stipple, proof before all letters. 240 x 196mm (9½ x 7¾"). Foxing, faint crease. Trimmed.
A girl sitting whole-length to left on rocks, holding an open book in her left hand and looking to front with smiling expression.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute. See Ref: 29150 for coloured copy, and Ref: 29151 for uncoloured copy.
[Ref: 29152] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[The Young Shepherdess.]
[In Pencil: J. Grozer delin.]
[n.d. c.1784.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 445 x 356mm (17½ x 14").
A young shepherdess sitting on a fence within a wood, her head resting on her left hand, her crook leaning against her left shoulder; a lamb standing to nibble at leaves beside her at right, two others on the ground.
CS: 26. Hamilton: p.157: i/ii.
[Ref: 24373] £460.00

[Young Woman.]
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t R.d. Earlom Sculp.t
Published Sep.r 2.d 1787, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90 Cheapside, London.
Stipple, with very large margins, printed in black and brown, partly printed in colour. Plate 279 x 205mm (11 x 8").
A young woman, holding flowers to her bosom and wearing a hart with lace. From "A collection of prints, after the sketched and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani".
[Ref: 30351] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled Female.] Ecce viro quae grata suo est, nec pulchrior ulla: Pignora coniugii ventre pudica gerit. Sed tamen an viuens an mortua picta tabella, Haec magni Titiani, arte notanda refert.
Titian pinxit. Franciscus vanden Wyngaerde excudit.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Copper engraving, very fine. Plate 280 x 204mm. 11 x 8".
Portrait of a young woman wearing a flat cap, string of pearls and a fur coat, with one hand held to her exposed breast.
[Ref: 23991] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

On the Wings of Love. 218.
Publish'd 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margin. Glued on an album sheet.
A woman with a plumed hat sitting on a striped sofa, holding a letter in her left hand and pointing at it with the other, while smiling towards the viewer.
Reworked state republished 1794.
[Ref: 60087] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Youth. [in pencil.]
J.F. Rigaud pinx. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London: Pub. as the Act directs by G. Bartolozzi, 1st. Aug.t [1795.]
Stipple and etching. Plate 241 x 183mm. 9½ x 7¼". Two small stains on left of image.
A young woman leaning over a table, pouring water from a jug into a shell-shaped dish.
De Vesme: 743; ii/iii.
[Ref: 20433] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

'Zenobia'. Engraved from an original Picture in the possession of Sr, Josa. Reynolds.
Michelangelo Buonarota pinxt. Willm. Sharp Sculpt.
Publish'd May 1st. 1787, by W. Sharp, & Sold by B.B. Evans, Poultry, & W. Skelton, No. 23 Hay Market. London'.
Greek characters in scratched open letters. Engraving. 208 x 276mm.
After Michelangelo; head and shoulders of a woman in rich classical dress in profile to left, head turned slightly towards the viewer, her hair dressed with a comb and with a jewelled band across her forehead; published state with title in Greek characters, in open letters.
[Ref: 6858] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Zenobia. Engraved from an original Picture in the possession of Sr, Josa. Reynolds.
Michelangelo Buonarota pinxt. Willm. Sharp Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1st. 1799, by William Sharp, London.
Engraving on india laid paper, 280 x 210mm. 11 x 8¼". Dent to lower platemark; a fine impression, with full margins.
Bust portrait in profile of a woman in rich classical dress, her hair dressed with a comb and with a jewelled band across her forehead; she is Zenobia (240 - after 274), a Syrian queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which encompassed the Roman provinces of Syria, Palestine, Egypt and large parts of Asia Minor. In 269, she conquered Egypt, expelling the Roman prefect, Tenagino Probus, whom she beheaded when he led an attempt to recapture the territory. She then proclaimed herself queen of Egypt. She ruled Egypt until 274, when she was defeated and taken as a hostage to Rome by Aurelian. Zenobia appeared in golden chains in Aurelian’s military triumph parade. Impressed by Zenobia, Aurelian freed her and granted her an elegant villa in Tibur (modern Tivoli, Italy). She became a prominent philosopher, socialite and Roman matron. After the drawing by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564).
See Ref: 6858 for 1787 publication.
[Ref: 16978] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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