Grosvenor Prints

Evelina Surprising M.r Macartney preparing to load his Pistols.
N. Colibert Delin.t. Engraved by N. Colibert.
London, Publish'd March 20th 1786 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No.158 Bond Street.
Stipple. 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"), watermarked '178[?]', with large margins.
The heroine of Fanny Burney's 'Evelina' stops the impoverished Scottish poet from loading his pistols, she believes to commit suicide. He later admits that he had been unable to decide between that and armed robbery. First published 1778, 'Evelina' is a significant precursor to the romanticism of Jane Austen.
[Ref: 54745] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Una Vide Spencers fairy Queen.
Borowsky sc. et ex.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple, rare. Plate: 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½''). Trimmed to plate.
A illustration showing the fairy queen and lion, characters from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen.
[Ref: 48074] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Freeing of Amoret]
[Francesco Bartolozzi after John Opie, 1792]
Stipple, sheet 505 x 410mm (19¾ x 16¼") Proof before letters; trimmed to platemark; uncleaned edges. Slight crease top right margin.
A dramatic & fine image of Britomart freeing Amoret from the enchanter Busirane. Illustration to Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queen' published in 'Macklin's British Poets', an initiative of the publisher Thomas Macklin to encourage ambitious painting and engraving of literary subjects and rival the 'Shakespeare Gallery' of his contemporary John Boydell. Proof stipple 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, Bartolozzi waas invited 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 employed here whereby images were produced using dots rather than lines.
Calabi & de Vesme 1437 ii/iv
[Ref: 46746] £520.00

[Fidelia and Spiranza.]
[Painted by B. West. Engraved by V. Green.]
[London: J. Boydell, 1778.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, uncleaned title area, 610 x 435mm. 24 x 17". Tatty and chipped margins. One tear into image at left.
Illustration of Edmund Spenser's (1552? - 1599) epic poem 'The Faerie Queene'. Two sisters descending steps, Fidelia at left in a white dress, a chalice from which a serpent emerges in her left hand and a large volume under her right arm. Through the arch at left Una, wife of Finnbheara, king of the Irish fairies, approaches on a donkey; a knight in armour on horseback rides alongside her. After Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Chaloner Smith 160. Whitman: 207, unrecorded proof state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14754] £460.00

[The Faithful Shepherd] Doringa Orders her Servant Lupino to hide Silvios Dog. [&] Dorinda returns the Dog to Silvio.
Done after a Sketch of Zucchi by Vispre,
& to be had if him near Slaughton Coffee House St Martins Lane and of W. Darling Engraver in Great Newport Street [n.d. c.1780].
Two aquatints with etching, printed in sepia. 230 x 250mm (9 x 9¾"). Some creasing, wear to edges. Small margins.
Two circular scenes from a series illustrating Giovanni Battista Guarini's ''Il pastor fido'' (1580), in which the nymph Dorinda attempts to win the love of Silvio.
[Ref: 56639] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Fashion and Folly: or the Buck's Pilgrimage.] Dashall and Lubin, at a masquerade [...]
[Henry Alken.]
[London: William Sams, 1822.]
Coloured etching with letterpress verse underneath, J. Whatman, Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 120 x 220mm (4¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed.
A fancy-dress party, including a devil and a skeleton. A scene from 'Fashion and Folly. Or the Buck's Pilgrimage', Lubin, a nabob with a country estate, travels with his friend Dashall to London, where they experience both high and low life with no regard for expense, ending up in debtor's prison.
Abbey 487.
[Ref: 61305] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

My Mother. [&] My Father. by M. Belson.
London, Published July 22.d 1811 [& February 17th 1812] by William Darton Jun.r 58 Holborn Hill.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each sheet c. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed, splits in centre folds, laid on album paper as issued, 'Father' with repaired tears.
Two plates with six images illustrating two odes to perfect parents by women writers. 'My Mother', a poem written by Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782–1866, daughter of the engraver Isaac Taylor), earned a parody by Lord Byron. 'My Father' was written by Mary Belson, a prolific writer of children's books who wrote under her married name of Elliott after 1819.
[Ref: 58499] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Les Oyes de Frere-Philippe. Friar-Phillip's Geese, A Tale from La Fontaine. O l'agréable Oiseau...
H. Bunbury Esq.r. delin.t. Engrav'd by Tho.s. Watson.
London Publish'd Oct.r. 3.d. 1782, by T. Watson, No 33 Strand.
Stipple. Sheet: 370 x 415mm (14½ x 16¼"). Trimmed within plate, repairs. Damaged.
Two pretty young women stand playing lutes. Behind a friar restrains a young man who is desperate to approach them. A scene from Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-1695) fable 'Friar Phillipes Geese'. a tale in which a friar takes a boy into the wilderness and brings him up free from temptation. However, at the age of twenty the young man meets the young women and becomes besotted: when he asks his father what they are the friar replies that they are geese, a slang name for prostitutes.
[Ref: 55705] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Fair Fatima. [&] Grecian Dance - stood up to receive me, saluting me after their fashion, putting her hand to her breast with a sweetness full of majesty that no court breeding could ever give. / Vide Lady M-y W-y M-es Letters. [&] Grecian Dance. _The great lady still leads the dance, and is followed by a troop of young girls, who imitate her steps, and, if she sings, make up the chorus.
T. Stothard del.t. J. Parker Sculp.t
Publish'd 1 Sep.r 1798 by Tho.s Ladd, No. 8 Elliotts Court, Old Bailey.
Pair of stipples. Sheet 265 x 230mm (10½ x 9"). Trimmed to platemark.
Two scenes by Thomas Stothard apparently illustrating a well-known description of dances observed in Turkey by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (bap.1689-d.1762) in a letter to Alexander Pope (Edirne/Adrianople, 12 April 1717). Lady Mary accompanied her husband Edward on his embassy to Turkey (1717-8) and although her stay was brief, her writings made a valuable contribution to the documentation of Turkish culture.
[Ref: 38883] £480.00 view all images for this item

Fidele's Tomb. To fair Fidele's grassy Tomb Soft Madis & Village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom And rifle all the breathing spring No waiting Ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet Grove But Shepherd lads assemble here And melting Virgins own their love. Vid: Collin's Poems.
Harding del.t Delatre sculpt.
London: Published May 20, 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, 39. Fleet Street.
Fine stipple printed in red. Plate 272 x 305mm. 10¾ x 12".
Women dress the tomb of Fidele with flowers.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. See Reverse, Ref: 19172.
[Ref: 17021] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fidelia. How have I been charmed to see one of the most beauteous women the Age has produced on her knees helping on an old man's slipper. Spectator No.449.
Drawn by Rich.d Westall R.A. Engraved by Louis Schciavonetti V.A.
London: Pub. March 1.1819 by Hurst, Robinson & Co_late Boydells, 90 Cheapside.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours and hand-finished. Plate 610 x 502mm (24 x 19¾").
An old man seated in his armchair by the fireplace is assisted by his loyal daughter: papers, ink and quill on the table to the right.
[Ref: 21695] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Fleur. Amiens. La Fleur, in less than five minutes, had pull'd out his Pipe, and leading off the dance himself with the first not, set the fille de chambre, the maitre d'hotel, the cook, the scullion, and all the household, besides an old monkey a dancing; To Mrs. Thornhill, This Print is with the greatest respect Dedicated by Madam Your most Humble Serv.t W. Palmer.
W. Harding Inv.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
[Publish'd 13 April 1787 by W. Palmer No. 163 Strand.]
Stipple, very rare. 370 x 336mm (14½ x 13¼"). Trimmed, some creasing.
A musical scene showing a kitchen; on the left, a young man dancing while playing the flute; on the right, a young woman with a hat dancing; five more figures dancing in background; a dog and a monkey dancing at the extreme left.
De Vesme: 1421.
[Ref: 30379] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Flower painted by Varelst. From Prior. When fam'd Varelst this little Wonder drew...
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. Tho.s Burke fecit.
Published January 1st 1784 by Tho.s Burke, Kemp's Row Chelsea.
Stipple. Plate: 405 x 305mm (16 x 12''). Trimmed to plate on left and right side. Messy.
A tribute to the still-life painter Simon Verelst (c.1644-1721). Thomas Prior's poem on a painting by Verelst is accompanied by an engraving after Kauffman depicting Flora herself lending a hand to the painter's work.
[Ref: 48315] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Fonrose and Adelaide [&] Adelaide and Fonrose. One day when they happened to meet on the declivity of the hill. Shephard, said she to him, are you leading your flocks far off. These first words of Adelaide caused an emotion in Fonrose which almost deprived him of the use of his voice. [/] You must no longer conceal from me who you are, you have said too much about it to dissemble any longer. Well then, I am_I am Fonrose, the son of those travellers whom you filled with admiration and respect. All that they related to your virtues and your charms inspired me with the fatal design of coming to see you in this disguise. [/] Marmontels moral tal of the Shepherdess of the Alps.
W. Hamilton pinx.t. R. Marcuard pupil of F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
london publish'd may 17, 1785 by Ia.s Birchall No. 473, Strand.
Very fine stipple engravings with large margins. Platemark: 255 x 195mm. (10 x 7¾") each. Glued to album sheet at corners.
Pair of scenes from Marmontel's 'La Bergère des Alpes' ('the Shepherdess of the Alps) with the shepherdess Adelaide and nobleman Fonrose (disguised as a shepherd).
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28423] £320.00 view all images for this item

[Illustration to L'Anneao d'hans Carvel by La Fontaine]
[After Charles Eisen, c.1761]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Illustration to the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, 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 also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46488] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to "Les Lunettes" by La Fontaine]
[After Charles Eisen, c.1761]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Illustration shows a nun fainting on seeing a naked man, from the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, 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 also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46489] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to a fable by La Fontaine]
De Longueil [After Charles Eisen, c.1761]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Illustration shows monks taking "women" into their rooms from the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, 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 also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus. Engraved by Joseph de Longueil.
[Ref: 46490] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Fool of Quality]. Master Harry Clinton, releaving the distress of the Country Girl. [Mrs Vindex, meeting with Master Harry Clinton.
P.W. Tomkins delin.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
Pub. as the Act directs, April 12, 1791 by J.F. Tomkins No. 49 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples. Each 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with large margins. Mint.
Two scenes from the Irish writer Henry Brooke's novel 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', privately published in five volumes 1765-70. Among Brooke's inspirations was the Methodist movement; in 1781 John Wesley wrote and published an abridged version with a preface that describes the story as 'one of the most beautiful pictures that ever was drawn in the world'.
Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 52927] £450.00 view all images for this item

[The Fool of Quality]. Master Harry Clinton, releaving the distress of the Country Girl. [&] Mrs Vindex, meeting with Master Harry Clinton.
P.W. Tompkins delin.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.t.
Pub, as the Act directs, April 1. 1791 by I.F> Tomkins No 49. New Bond Street.
Pair of stipple engravings, printed in brown. 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Some small tears outside platemark.
Two scenes from 'The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland', written by the Irish writer Henry Brooke and published in five volumes 1765-70. It tells the story of Harry Clinton who, rejected by his decadent and aristocratic father, is educated on enlightened principles by his philanthropic uncle. Inspired by the Methodist movement, it was influential in its day: Charles Kingsley described it as 'more pure, sacred and eternal than anything since the Faerie Queene'. However to modern taste it is rambling and sentimental: Walter Allen, author of the important study 'The English Novel' (1954), called it 'one of the worst novels ever written, but a remarkable book'.
[Ref: 30313] £420.00 view all images for this item

Bowzebeus and Cicly, vide Gay's Sixth Pastoral of the Flights. [&] Hobnelia and Lubberkin. Vide Gays Fourth Pastoral of the Spell.
Painted by J. Northcote.
London Publish'd September 30:th 1786 by J.R. Smith N.º 83 Oxford Street.
Pair of stipples, 'Bouzebeus' printed in brown. Sheets 400 x 345mm (15¾ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, nicks in edges.
Two pastoral scenes, with young couples embracing.
[Ref: 62129] £450.00 view all images for this item

The Genij takes, Beddridin Hasen, from the Bed of the beautiful Lady, and lays him at the Gates of Damascus. Arab.n Nights Ent.t
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Pettit fecit.
[London, Publish'd Decr. 23rd. 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63, Great Portland Street, Marylebone.]
Stipple. Sheet: 270 x 330mm (10½ x 13''). Trimmed.
A fictional scene showing a spirtual figure carrying a sleeping man from the bed of a sleeping woman.
[Ref: 49050] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Fiancée d'Abydos (Ch. X) Je t'ai dit que je n'étias pas ceque tu avais cru jusque'ici; tu vois maintenant la vérité de mes paroles. (Lord Byron)
Géricault et Eug. Lami 1823. Lith. de Villain
chez Gihaut b.ard des Italiens N.5
Lithograph, printed area 180 x 180mm (7 x 7"). Collector's stamp of [?]Paul and Véronique Sanchez verso (probably variant of L.3289).
Illustration of Lord Byron's poem 'The Bride of Abydos'. Specifically, the scene corresponds with Canto 2, verse X and the lines 'I said I was not what I seem'd;/ And now thou see'st my words were true'. Salim throws his cloak aside, revealing himself as a dashing pirate, and reveals to Zuleika that she is not his sister. From a set of six lithographs illustrating Byron, by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) and Eugène Lami (1800-90), of which two were by Lami alone. Prior to 1822, Géricault had been able to live without much thought to the saleability of his works owing to a comfortable annuity he received following the death of his mother. However, the loss of part of his fortune in 1822 required him to produce work designed to appeal to dealers and collectors, with illustrations of exotic literature such as Byron falling into this category.
Delteil 96
[Ref: 35587] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Boy Discovering the Golden Eggs. [&] The Boy Disappointed of His Treasure.
Painted by R.M. Paye. Engraved by John Young.
London, Published Jan.y 1.1796, by John Jeffreyes Ludgate Hill.
Pair of coloured mezzotints with small margins, partly printed in colour. Plate 603 x 440mm (23¾ x 17¼").
A boy and girl standing in front of the ruins of a wooden shed, the boy, smiling towards the viewer, displays two golden eggs to the girl, who throws up her hands in delight, while the goose flaps its wings, standing between them. [&] A boy and girl distraught at the death of their golden goose; the girl standing in the background, wiping her eyes, the boy sitting at a table on which the goose lies dead, one hand to his head, the other holding the goose's feet.
CS: listed on p.1646.
[Ref: 31116] £690.00 view all images for this item

I sit me down a pensive hour to spend.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 65 x 85mm (2¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed, stained.
A man sits under a tree overlooking a city. The title is a line from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Traveller', 1765.
[Ref: 51392] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Gorille enlevant une femme.]
Gravé par E. Salmon d'après Fremiet.
[n.d. c.1888.]
Etching. Paper watermarked: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1879. Plate 196 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½".
'Gorille enlevant une femme' was executed as a statue in 1887 and is held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan Arc in Paris, and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez. From 1855 to 1859 he was engaged on a series of military statuettes for Napoleon III, none of which have survived. He produced his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868, and of Louis d'Orleans in 1869. This statue of the Gorilla carrying off a Woman won him a medal of honour at the Salon in 1887.
[Ref: 24102] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[An illustration from 'The Triumphes of Gods Revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of (willfull and premeditated) murther'.]
W. SHerwin fecit aqua forti.
[n.d., c.1669.] [bit later]
Etching. Sheet 155 x 155mm (6 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Eight scenes from a story in 'The Triumphs of God's Revenge'. Grand-Pré's sister Hautefelia, persuades him that his wife Mermanda is being unfaithful; Grand-Pré challenges the 'Lover', Baron Betanford, to a duel, in which both are injured, after which Grand-Pre finds out that his wife is innocent. Hautefelia then pays La Fresnay, an apothecary, to poison Mermanda, who dies, and Hautefelia blames Grand-Pré for the murder. Hautefelia's husband de Malleray challenges Grand-Pré to a duel and is killed. La Fresnay then poisons Grand-Pré and Hautefelia is chief mourner at his funeral. However a drunken La Fresnay rapes an young girl and is condemned to be broken on the wheel. He then confesses to the poisoning of Mermanda and Grand-Pré, and Hautefelia is also executed.
[Ref: 61448] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Grisalda. [&] The Shepherdess of the Alps. From the Original Picture in the Collection of George Bowles Esq, to whom this Plate is Dedicated by his most Obedient Humble Servant, W.Dickinson.
Painted by Angelica Kauffman. Engraved by F.Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd Feb.y 20th 1785 by W.Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller, No.158 Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in sepia, scratch-letter proofs. Each 440 x 330mm (17¼ x 13"). Large margins on the Shepherdess; Small margins on Grisalda. Slight repaired hole on right in Grisalda.
A pair of scenes from 'The Shepherdess of the Alps', a play by Charles Dibdin's play, 1780, based on 'Patient Griselda', one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. In 'Grisalda' (later with the full title 'Gualtherus and Grisalda') Gualtiero, King of Sicily, meets the poor shepherdess, Griselda, who he had married years before but had forced to exile. The story has also been made into an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti (1721) and Antonio Vivaldi (1735).
[Ref: 39240] £490.00 view all images for this item

Gullivers Travels in Lilliput in Brobdingnag.
[Anon, c.1830]
Fine hand coloured wood engraving, scarce, sheet 205 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed around image and title; laid on album sheet.
Popular print with fourteen vignettes of scenes from the first two books of Swift's novel 'Gulliver's Travels'. An interesting record of how the novel was represented visually in the 19th century.
[Ref: 32279] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Voyage à Lilliput. De retour en son pays, Gulliver tire un parti considérable de l'Exhibition de son troupeau microscopique.
[after Gavarni.] Imp. Lemercier, r. de Seine 57, Paris.
Paris, chez Aubert et C.ie, Pl. de la Bourse, 29. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 155 x 230mm (6 x 9").
After his return to England, Gulliver puts on a show 'Wondering Lilliputian Bulls, Cow, & Sheep imported by D.r L. Gulliver', with an enthusiastic audience. A scene from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, illustrated by Garvani (real name Hippolyte Chevalier, 1814-66).
[Ref: 51243] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The History of Sir William Harrington.] The Libertine relaim'd.
W. Harding Inv.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd May 1st 1792 by W. Palmer, Printseller to her Majesty No 163 Strand.
Stipple, printed in brown. 380 x 355mm (15 x 14"). Thread margins, faint mount burn.
A scene from 'The History of Sir William Harrington', first published 1771, by Anna Meades (1734- before .1779). Published anonymously, it is sometimes credited to actor and dramatist Thomas Hull, who brought out a 'revised and corrected' edition in 1797.
De Vesme 1504, iii of iii.
[Ref: 55634] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Harry Bluff. Gem. 29.
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Paine, Holywell St., Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
An illustration of a ballad: in the midst of a sea battle the plucky British tar is killed as he nails the Union flag to the mast with the butt of his pistol.
[Ref: 49488] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of Love. Heavens! my Augusta is no more!
Engraved for the European Magazine.
[February. 1784.]
Engraving, small margins. 172 x 108mm. 6¾ x 4¼".
Published in the European Magazine to accompany a narrative, 'The Death of Love', in which Mrs. M---- enters her daughter Augusta's appartment, finds her dead, 'shriek'd out, and fell lifeless beside her daughter'. Augusta's lover Mr. B--- then rushes in, 'and with the cry of distraction he pronounced, "Heavens! my Augusta is no more!".
[Ref: 27006] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[10 Plates from 'Viaggi de Enrico Wanton alle terre incognito australi...'.]
Domenico dell'Acerra Sculp.
[c.1756.]
Ten engravings. Plates: c.150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"). Staining and creasing, as normal.
Ten plates from 'Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle terre incognito australi...' or 'Journeys of Henry Wanton to unknown Australian lands and to the lands of the Monkeys...' a bizarre tale of a traveller who discovers the land of the apes written by Zaccaria Seriman. The selection of scenes shows Wanton attending balls and gatherings with the monkey people who are dressed in contempoary clothes.
[Ref: 42075] £600.00 view all images for this item

Hey diddle diddle, / The Cat and the Fiddle, / The Cow jump'd over the moon. / The little dog laugh'd, To see such fine sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate St.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 180 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed close to image.
Lithograph illustrating the ancient nursery rhyme: on the left the dish absconds with the spoon; a cow jumps over the moon; a dog on the right raises a paw in approval, and a bespectacled cat plays the fiddle.
[Ref: 42431] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[L'Horreur ou Un Tombeau violé.]
R.A.Houasse pinx. L.Audran sculp.
A Paris chez la Veuve Audran rue S.t Iacques aux 2 piliers d'or.
Engraving. Plate: 350 x 280mm (13¾ x 11"), very large margins. Light foxing and paper tone in margins and some tears.
A moralistic scene showing the horror of a soldier, who in the hunt for gold and treasure has violated a tomb to find a maggot ridden, partially decomposed corpse. The original 1686 oil is housed in the musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orleans.
[Ref: 40783] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

I Promessi Sposi. Del Sig.r D. Alessandro Manzoni. Disegni del Sig.r Roberto Focosi.
Focosi dis. Milano Litog. Vassalli. [&] W. Gail del.t.
[n.d., c.1840].
Book of 18 lithographic prints; the first 12 are illustrations to Alessandro Manzoni's 'I Promessi Sposi' by Roberto Focosi. The following six are Italian scenes by Wilhelm Gail. Oblong, marbled boards with title. Scarce. Foxing to some plates. Sight damage to bottom of spine.
The first set of prints in this book are the first twelve scenes (of thirteen) from 'I Promessi Sposi', a novel the Italians regard as a masterpiece of world literature, and the basis for the modern Italian language. It is the most widely read work in the Italian language. Set in 1628, in northern Italy, then under the harsh rule of the Austrians, it tells of how the local baron, Don Rodrigo, attempts to abduct Lucia from her betrothed, Renzo. The pair flee, get separated and endure tribulations of war, famine and plague in Milan before being reunited. When the novel was first published in 1828 the Austrians were still in control, but the independence movement had moved so far forward that there was heated debate on which Italian dialect was going to be the 'official' version. Manzoni prefered the Florentine dialect and he revised the text of the novel for republication in 1842. At the back are the following set of prints of six Italian scenes by German painter of architecture, Wilhelm Gail (1804-1890).
See Ref: 32150 for complete set of 30 views of Italian cities including Florence, Rome & Naples.
[Ref: 32003] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Il Trovatore. (Azucena.)
Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
[n.d, c.1858.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Nicks and creases at edges. Few fox marks.
A fanciful portrait of Azucena, the gipsy supposed to be the mother of the troubadour Manrico, but was actually his kidnapper. From Giuseppe Verdi's 'Il trovatore'.
[Ref: 38845] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Agamemnon deluded by the Vision appearing under the form of Nestor. Monarch Awake! 'tis Jove's command I bear. Iliad Book II.
Painted by H.y Fuseli R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Heath A.
[London, c.1805.]
Engraving. Sheet 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
A plate from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's 'Iliad', after Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).
W: 228 VII of VII.
[Ref: 53213] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to Pope's Canto 4.]
Lud. Du Guernier inv. C. Du Bosc sculp.
[n.d. c.1714.]
Etching. 145 x 84mm (5¾ x 3¼").
The engraving accompanying canto 4 shows Belinda, sitting in the middle, resting her head on her hand, in the Cave of Spleen, the poems analogue for the underworld that heroes of epics frequently visit. Allegorical figures of Affectation and Ill-Nature flank her. Illustration to Canto41 in Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' (1714). 1714
Ex Collection: The Right Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collector's stamp on verso.
[Ref: 52514] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Juliette dans Jadis et Aujord'hui, Opéra bouf.
Corresponance Theatrale de Perlet. Rue de l'Odéon, No 58.
Etching. Sheet 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, damage at top, mounted on album sheet. Damaged.
A larger portrait of a woman with two small figures of men behind, one in contemporary dress, the other in the clothes of a century earlier. An illustration to a printing of 'Jadis et Aujourd'hui' (roughly 'Then and Now'), a comic opera by Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) with lyrics by Charles-Augustin Bassompierre (Sewrin) (1771-1853).
[Ref: 53649] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Jemmy's Farewell.
Published 1.st May 1799 by E. Walker & Co. No.7 Cornhill.
Stipple. Plate: 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5"). Thread margins.
An illustration of a Scottish ballad called 'Auld Robin Grey' written by Lady Anne Lindsay in 1772. The ballad tells the story of Robin Gray who marries a young woman already in love with a sailor called Jamie (or Jemmy) who returns from sea shortly after the marriage.
[Ref: 47620] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Jemmy's Return. At length the merry Bells rung round I could na guess the cause, But Rodney was the Man they said, who gained so much applause...I blush'd, consented and reply'd; Adieu to Robin Grey. To Lady Rogers, this Print is with the greatest respect dedicated by her Ladyship's most obliged Servant, J. Walker.
I.H. Benwell inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Published April 3 1786 by I. Walker Printseller...
Hand-coloured stipple with small margins. Plate 380 x 350mm (15 x 13¾"). Text faint; spot upper left.
A man wearing a kilt holding the hand of a lady with a pair of scissors suspended from her waist, both standing before rocks, a cottage and rocky cliffs beyond. llustration to the Ballad of 'Auld Robin Gray'.
De Vesme: 1387.
[Ref: 28770] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Jerusalem Delivered] A Moon Light Scene of a Forest where Ismen the Magician is sacrificing to Demons and invoking them to rise. [&] The Magicians marching off after the success of their Incantations. [&] A Turkish Mosque lighted after the Mahometan Manner where Aladine the Emperor is seated on a Throne Surrounded by his Divan. [&] The Forest as Enchanted, where Alcast General of Swiss is stopp'd by a firy Castle, defended by Daemons. [&] The Christian Army under the Command of Godfrey of Bulloigne encamped before the Walls of Jerusalem. [&] A Morning Scene of the Forest with Rinaldo, on the Bank of the Enchanted River.
[Various engravers, including Edward Rooker and Paul Sandby after John Collins.]
[Published by Elizabeth Jane Collins, n.d., c.1763.]
Complete set of six etchings, each c.460 x 540mm (18 x 21¼"), stitched. With two end papers in disbound contemporary marbled boards, large folio, 575 x 480mm. (22½ x 19"). Boards scuffed and rubbed, with chips and tears to extremities. Some spotting to plates, some cut very close to or along lower platemark.
A fine set of prints based on John Collins' stage sets for a performance of Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered' at the Royal Theatre in the Tuileries in Paris in 1754. Tasso's epic poem, first published 1581, tells the story of the First Crusade mixed with heroic myth featuring magic and monsters, based on the styles of Homer and Virgil. John Collins (c.1725-58/9) was a London-born set designer who had studied in Italy. This series was published by his widow.
[Ref: 9494] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

[Jerusalem Delivered] Rinaldo e Armida. Torq. Tasso Gerusa. lib. Can. 14. St. 65 e 66. L'originale esiste in Roma nella Galleria Corsini alto palmi 6. lungo p.10.
Gasp. Poussin [Gaspard Dughet] pinx. W. F. Gmelin del et sculp, Romae 1816.
Vendible presso l'Autore in Roma.
Etching. Plate: 620 x 480mm (24½ x 19"), with very large margins. Staining and tears in margins.
A scene from Torquato Tasso's epic 'Gerusalemme librata' (Jerusalem Delivered), showing the Saracen sorceress Armida approaching the sleeping Christian crusader Rinaldo. Ordered to kill the soldier, instead she falls in love (represented by the figure of Cupid who stays her hand).
[Ref: 40321] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Jerusalem Delivered] Tancred and Clorinda. Her clay cold hand, the pledge of lasting peace, She gave the cheif; her lips their music cease. So life departing left her lovely breast, So seem'd the virgin lull'd to silent rest. Dedicated to John George Payne Esq.r by his most obedient Servant W. Palmer.
Angelica Kauffman Invenit. F. Bartolozzi Sculpit.
London, Pub:d Dec:r 1.st 1784 by W. Palmer No.163 Strand.
Stipple and etching in sanguine. Plate 300 x 394mm. 11¾ x 15½". Rubbing to title area.
Clorinda seated on ground, leaning against a tree, head in profile to left; to left, Tancred in profile to right, down on his right knee, holding Clorinda's right hand with his right; in a landscape. Two characters from Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered'. Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595) was an Italian poet. He was author of 'Aminta', 'Rinaldo and Armida' published in 1562, and 'Gerusalemme Liberata', finished in 1575. It concerns the First Crusade to the Holy Land (1096-9) and the Crusaders siege of Jerusalem under the leadership of Godfrey of Boulogne. His models for this heroic epic were Homer and Virgil's Aeneid. Tasso portrayed both imaginary characters and real historical persons, among them the heroes Rinaldo and Tancredi, and their Saracen ladies Armida and Clorinda.
De Vesme: 1366.iv.
[Ref: 25067] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Jerusalem Delivered] Clorinda meets Tancred at the Fountain. From the original Picture in the Possession of Henry Cutler Esq.r/ Loose in the wind her golden tresses flow'd,/ And now a maid confus'd to all she stood,/ Keen flash her eyes her look with fury glows/ Yet evn in rage each lovely feature shows./ Vide Tasso Jerusalem. [&] The Death of Clorinda. From the original Picture in the Possession of Henry Cutler Esq.r/ His hands now trembled while his helm he rear'd,/ Ere yet the features of his foe appear'd/ He sees_he knows_and deathless stands the Knight,/ O fatal knowledge_O distracting sight./ Vide Tasso Jerusalem.
Painted by W. Hamilton R.A. Engraved by Henry Birche [Richard Earlom].
Published June 1.st 1792. by B.B. Evans Poultry London.
Pair of mezzotints. Each 475 x 435mm (18¾ x 17¼"). Some repairs.
A pair of mezzotints depicting scenes from Torquato Tasso's poem 'Jerusalem Delivered'. The first shows the meeting of the female warrior Clorinda and the knight Tancred, whilst the second depicts the death of Clorinda with Tancred kneeling beside her. Richard Earlom is credited under his pseudonym 'Henry Birche.'
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. Lugt: 2715A.
[Ref: 8552] £720.00 view all images for this item

[Jerusalem Delivered] A Moon Light Scene of a Forest where Ismen the Magician is sacrificing to Demons and invoking them to rise. Plate 1st. Page 393. To the right honourable Lord Visc.t Charlemont this plate is inscribed by his Lordship's most obliged humble Servant. Eliz.th Jane Collins.
J. Collins Pinx.t from Tasso's Jerusalem deliver'd. J. Wood Sculp.t.
[Published by Elizabeth Jane Collins, first published c.1763 but later.]
Etching. Sheet 460 x 540mm (18 x 21¼"). Trimmed to plate, a few nicks, small stains, dedication weakly inked on left. Slight staining.
The Muslim sorcerer Ismen casts a spell to protect the forest with enchantments to stop the Crusaders cutting wood for engines for the siege of Jerusalem. It is the first of a set of six prints based on John Collins' stage sets for a performance of Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered' at the Royal Theatre in the Tuileries in Paris in 1754. Tasso's epic poem, first published 1581, tells the story of the First Crusade mixed with heroic myth featuring magic and monsters, based on the styles of Homer and Virgil. John Collins (c.1725-58/9) was a London-born set designer who had studied in Italy. This series was published by his widow.
See Ref: 9494 for complete set.
[Ref: 53228] £280.00

Julia.
Emma Crewe De. C. White sc.t.
London Pub. 20 Jan.y 1787. Sold at Tobe and Mrs Vivares Widow.
Fine stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
A sorceress whispers in young Julia's ear. Emma Crewe (active c.1780 - 1818) was a 'gifted amateur artist' who painted the frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's 'The Loves of the Plants'. She also provided designs for Josiah Wedgewood's studio, used for cameos and plaques.
[Ref: 58255] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Julia.
Emma Crews De. C. White sc.t.
London Pub. 20 Jan.y 1787. Sold at Tobe and Mrs Vivares Widow.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, inscription line unclear.
A sorceress whispers in young Julia's ear. Emma Crewe (active c.1780 - 1818) was a 'gifted amateur artist' who painted the frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's 'The Loves of the Plants'. She also provided designs for Josiah Wedgewood's studio, used for cameos and plaques.
[Ref: 58220] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Retirement.] And ah! let Pity turn her dewy eyes...
R.L. West pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculps. 1801.
Rare engraving. Sheet: 120 x 140mm (4¾ x 5½''). Trimmed.
A scene showing a man lying on a bed with a bandage on his head. The poet Chatterton on his death bed. An illustration to 'Retirement' from 'Juvenilia, or a Collection of Poems' by James Henry Leigh Hunt published in 1801. The artist, Raphael Lamar West (1769-1850), son of Benjamin West, contributed to Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.
[Ref: 48237] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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