Grosvenor Prints

Jane Rice. The Celebrated Teignmouth Bathing Guide.
On Stone, & Printed by W. Spreat, Exeter. [n.d. c.
Published by E. Croydon, Public Library, Teignmouth. [n.d c.1815.]
Rare lithograph. 380 x 272mm. 15 x 10¾".
At the time in Teignmouth, ladies and gentlemen were separated on the beach by the pier. The bathing machines were moved and tended by bathing attendants; Jane Rice was one such person.
[Ref: 27725] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Facsimile signature:] Yours Truly John Rogerson.
Engraved by J.B. Hunt from a Photograph by E.C. Booth, Harrogate.
London, Published by Rogerson & Tuxford 246, Strand, 1859.
Stipple. Plate 229 x 252mm. 9 x 10".
John Rogerson (active 1832-1859) was one of the original founders of the Mark Lane Express and Agricultural Journal, a copy of which he holds in his left hand here.
NPG: D39839.
[Ref: 24733] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Rushton [facsimile signature].
Vincent Brooks, lith.
[n.d. c.1850].
Lithograph. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13¼").
Printer and stationer, and a leading member of the reform party in Liverpool [1796 - 1851].
[Ref: 980] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Duke of Bedford
Drawn by J. Lonsdale from the Original Bust by J. Nollekens Esq.r R.A. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 1802, Engraved by L. Sailliar.
Published Jan.y 12 1802 by Charlotte Brydon No 4 Charing Cross
Very rare stipple, platemark 285 x 240mm (11¼ x 9½"). Small margins. Glued to backing sheet.
Francis Russell, fifth duke of Bedford (1765-1802), agriculturalist and politician. Bedford became known as a leading promoter of agricultural development. He was an original member of the board of agriculture set up in 1793, and the first president of the Smithfield Club in 1798, while he also instituted the annual agricultural fair at Woburn. Russell was also an ambitious urban developer, and used his 119 acres of land around London's West End to develop much of the Bloomsbury estate (including Bedford Square, Russell Square, and Bloomsbury Square). After Russell's death a statue was erected in Russell Square, showing Russell with one hand resting on a plough and the other holding ears of corn. Stipple after one of the three busts of Russell sculpted by Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), whose many portrait busts make up a visual record of the personalities of late Georgian Britain.
[Ref: 40800] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

W.H. Russell. The Times Correspondent.
London: G. Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street. [n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 179 x 114mm. 7 x 4½". Crease lower right corner.
Sir William Howard Russell (1820-1907) was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent twenty-two months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.
[Ref: 24730] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Reverendus Vir Henricus Sacheverell S.T.P. Collegij. Magdal: Socius Oxon: et Eccles:Sti Salvatoris Southwarkiae Cappellanus.
T. Gibson Pinx: Andr: Iohnston Fecit.
Phill:Overton exc: [British, n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 245mm. 13½ x 9¾". Trimmed to the plate.
Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724), High Church clergyman and politician; in an oval frame, head turned towards the viewer, wearing academic gown, bands and light brown wig to the shoulders. Sacheverell came to fame when preacher at St Saviour's, Southwark. His famous sermons on the church in danger from the neglect of the Whig ministry to keep guard over its interests were preached at Derby on 15 August 1709, and at St Paul's Cathedral on 5 November 1709. They were immediately reprinted, the latter being dedicated to the lord mayor and the former to the author's kinsman, George Sacheverell, who was high sheriff of Derbyshire that year. Sacheverell's arguments on behalf of the church supplied the Tories with considerable support. After Thomas Gibson (c.1680 - 1751).
Chaloner Smith 3, I of II.
[Ref: 26131] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Titus Salt [facsimile signature]
[Anon, c.1870]
Chromolithograph, sheet 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8").
Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), textile manufacturer and politician. Based in Bradford, Salt set up a wool business with his father, and by 1850 owned five mills. He set up the model village Saltaire for his workforce which was considered a remarkable experiment in industrial and social relations.
[Ref: 43386] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Titus Salt, Bart.
Engraved by W. Holl, from a Photograph by Appleton & Co., Bradford.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Steel engraving. Printed area 200 x 115mm (8 x 4½").
Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), textile manufacturer, politician & philanthropist. Based in Bradford, Salt set up a wool business with his father and by 1850 owned five mills. He set up the model village Saltaire for his workforce which was considered a remarkable experiment in industrial and social relations. It is estimated that over 100,000 people lined the streets for his funeral.
[Ref: 43390] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

William Salte Esqe.
Painted by Sir Willm. Beechey, R.A. Portrait Painter to Her Majesty. Engraved by Willm. Skelton.
Published Octr. 1st. 1813, by W. Skelton, 1 Stafford Place, Pimlico.
A rare engraving. 515 x 393mm (20¼ x 15½"), with wide margins.
William Salte (1746-1817) of Tottenham, a linen draper. This engraving shows him holding a paper, on which the words "Asylum to meet H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge April 9 1812" are legible.
[Ref: 12735] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Schonerus. Carolostadius, excellens Mathematicus in Urbe Norimbergensi. Nasc. Carolostadii Francorum a.1477. d. 16. Ianuarii. Mor. Norimb. 1547. aet. 70.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Rare woodcut. 165 x 95mm (6½ x 7¾"). Creasing.
Johannes Schoner (1477-1547) the renowned and respected German polymath. He had a wide reputation all over Europe as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers. He is remembered as an influential pioneer in the history of globe making and as a man who played a significant role in the events that led up to the publishing of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus" in Nuremberg in 1543.
W: 2659-2.
[Ref: 29903] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Hanns Caspar Schwarz.
J.F. Leonard 1672.
Very early mezzotint. 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Thread margins.
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum describes Hans Kaspar Schwarz as a gardener in Nürnberg.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum MP 21945.
[Ref: 40700] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Sewell. late Bookseller of Cornhill.
Painted by Drummond. Engraved by Ridley & Holl.
Published by Ja.s Asperne at the Bible, Crown & Constitution, 32, Cornhill, 31 July 1806.
Stipple. 165 x 110mm, 6½ x 4½".
Portrait of John Sewell (active 1774-1802).
Not in the NPG.
[Ref: 19020] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Edwardus Simson S.T.D. Aetatis Suae. 73. Expectari Salutare Euum. Agnosco vultus quibus UNI innotuit aevo, Oraq. Daedelea delineata manu: Pinge ALIOS; nam qui Cataclysmo condidit isthmum, Et tot commisit tempora, iure BIFRONS. Magno O CAMDENO major PUPILLE! BRITANNAM Hic terram, MUNDOS astruis ipse NOVOS. Respice Alexander, PLURES qui praebat orbes, A tergo SIMSON conspiciendus adest.
T.J.
[n.d. c.1650].
Engraving. 180 x 115mm.
Edward Simpson or Simson, divine [1578 - 1651].
BM: 1863,0214.562. O'Donoghue: 1.
[Ref: 416] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

John Smith Writing Master In London
[After William Faithorne?, c.1690]
Engraving, sheet 290 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
'This print of Smith, which is finely engraved, was probably by Faithorne, which makes it the more remarkable that no particulars relative to him have reached us' (Noble and Granger, 'A Biographical History of England').
O'D 1 (only likeness). Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38874] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

John Thomas Smith, Late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, Author of Nollekens and his Times, Antient Topography, &c.&c.
Engraved by W. Skelton, from an Original Drawing by J. Jackson, Esqr. R.A.
Published as the Act directs, Decr.1883. by Molteno & Graves, 20, Pall Mall, and by M. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street.
Engraving on india laid paper, india 225 x 150mm. 9 x 6". Trimmed to india, small crease lower left-hand corner.
Bust portrait of John Thomas Smith (1766 - 1833), draughtsman and antiquary. His published work focuses almost entirely on London and its environs, and he was unusual for his time in that he recorded all strata of society. A pupil of Joseph Nollekens and the mezzotint engraver John Keyse Sherwin, Smith began his career as engraver and topographical draughtsman. His first publication, Antiquities of London and its Environs (1800), was followed by his major work Antiquities of Westminster (1807). In 1816, Smith became the keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, a position he held for the rest of his life. After John Jackson (1778 - 1831).
[Ref: 19041] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Mary Smith of Portsmouth.
[by Thomas Worlidge.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce etching. 115 x 90mm (4½ x 3½"), large margins. Some spotting.
A half-length portrait of an inn-keeper, who is wearing a cone-shaped dark bonnet over a frilled cap, a gown with gauze at the elbows and a white shawl trimmed with lace worn high over the throat and shoulders.
[Ref: 58687] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas Smith Esquire, Accountant General of the Court of Chancery.
Painted by W. Owen Esqr., R.A. Portrait Painter to his R.H. the Prince Regent. Engraved by Wm. Ward Engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & Duke of York.
Pubd. Nov. 21. 1812 by the Engraver 24 Buckingham Place Fitzroy Square.
Rich mezzotint, title in open letters, 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". A fine amd rare impression, with full margins.
Portrait of Nicholas Smith (active 1802 - 1819), Barrister-at-law, and later Accountant-General in Chancery; wearing dark coat, vest and necktie, his hair short and curly. After William Owen (1769 - 1825).
From the Encombe Collection, Lord Eldon. Chaloner Smith 75, II. NPG D41759.
[Ref: 21651] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Thomae Smith equitis aurati etc. vera effigies Praeclariss.mi Viri Dom.ni. The honourable Sr Thomas Smith Knight, late Embasador from his Ma.stie to ye great Emperour of Russie, Gouernour of ye Hon:ble and famous Societyes of Marchanes tradinge to ye East- Indies, Mosscovy, the French and Somer Ilands Company, Tresurer for Virginia etc.
[After Simon de Pass.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"), on wove paper. Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Oval portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe or Smith (1558-1625), holding a map of Russia, sailing motifs in the borders. He was the first governor of the East India Company (1600) and was treasurer of the Virginia Company from 1609 to 1620. First published c.1617.
[Ref: 57650] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq.re His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Carnavon. From a Portrait Painted by Sir William Beechey, R.A. and placed by his Friends in the Grand Jury Room at Carnarvon. A.D. 1826. Proof.
Painted by Sir W. Beechey R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds. Engraver to the King (and J.P. Quilley.)
[c.1826.]
Proof mezzotint. 520 x 400mm (20½ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Thomas Assheton Smith (the elder) (1752 -1828), landowner who induced Parliament to pass an act enclosing the common land of Llanddeiniolen parish, adding over 2,600 acres to his land holdings, from which he mined slate. Subsequent rioting was put down by a cavalry unit. A close friend of George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, Smith became one of cricket's main patrons following the establishment of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1787. This portrait was commissioned by Caernarfon Corporation, who paid Beechey £157.10s. It is now in National Museum Cardiff.
Whitman: 268
[Ref: 56518] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Smith Esq.re
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching on india. Plate 229 x 152mm. 9 x 6". Staining and foxing into the upper half of the paper.
William Smith (1808-1876) was a print-seller and antiquary. He started at Cambridge University but following his father's death, he and his brother succeeded to the business and he was obliged to abandon his studies. A year later in 1836 he purchased the collection of engravings formed by John Sheepshanks which were considered to be the most perfect in Europe, which he later sold to the British Museum. Among the collections which reached the Museum through his exertions were those of ‘Mr. Harding of Finchley’ in 1841, of Coningham in 1844 and 1845, selections from the Aylesford and Woodburn collections in 1847, and some etchings of the utmost rarity by Rembrandt, procured at Baron Verstolk's sale at Amsterdam in 1847. He took a prominent part in establishing the National Portrait Gallery, being appointed an original trustee, and chosen deputy chairman in 1858. He was also actively engaged in the management of the Art Union of London. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1852. His collections, which included many rare catalogues of galleries and exhibitions, with copious manuscript notes, he bequeathed to the library of the South Kensington Museum.
[Ref: 21478] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon. W.H. Smith. M.P.
Painted by George Richmond, R.A. D.C.L. Engraved by John D. Miller.
London: Published April 25th. 1883, by P & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14 Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint. Plate 503 x 380mm. 19¾ x 15". Trimmed just outside the platemark.
William Henry Smith (1825-1891) was an English bookseller and newsagent of the family firm W H Smith. He implemented the sale of books and newspapers at railway stations. Elected MP for Westminster in 1868 he progressed his political career and eventually rose to the position of First Lord of the Admirality. He also stood twice as Secretary of State for War, and later First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons, amongst many other posts.
NPG: D20314.
[Ref: 17306] £320.00

[Charles Snell] Carolus Snellius / Ars Illucens Luso
P. La Vergne inv.t. G. Bickham sculp.t
[1712]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Charles Snell (bap.1667-1733), writing master who 'became a bright star in a contemporary galaxy of writing-masters' (DNB). Initially apprenticed to a senior writing-master, William Brooks, Snell was known for his critical attacks on writing-masters with elaborate styles, and he promoted a simpler and more standardized mode of handwriting suitable for commercial houses. Frontispiece to Snell's second book, 'The Art of Writing in its Theory and Practice', 1712.
O'D 2; for Brooks see ref 38868. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38871] £320.00

Mr. Thos. Snelling, Author of the View of the Coin & Coinage of England, &c, &c, &c.
Jno. Thane del. et sculp. 1770.
Etching printed in sanguine. 100 x 145mm. Light foxing.
Numismatist [1712 - 1773]. Rare and fine.
[Ref: 6110] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. John Lord Sommers.
J. Richardson pinx. 1713. I. Smith fec.
Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. Image 342 x 252mm. 13½ x 10". Cut and laid on sheet. Some light spotting.
John Somers, Baron Somers (1651-1716). Somers was called to the Bar in 1676, and he combined his work as a barrister with involvement with Whig politics. He was at the centre of the Whig party in the twenty-five years following the revolution of 1688. Entering Parliament as an MP in 1689, Somers was made first Solicitor General and then Attorney General; he became William III's most confidential adviser. He served in a number of other senior government offices including Lord Keeper, Lord Chancellor and Lord President to the Council. Somers' legal abilities, constitutional achievements and his belief in religious toleration were extravagantly praised by Whig historians throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12870] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Aet. M. Viri clarissimi Joannis Speed….Corpore suo levat est July 28. 1629. D. Georgius Humble.
S. Savery Sculp [etched in plate].
[n.d. c.1632].
Engraving. Sheet 305 x 195mm. Trimmed to plate mark. Very old ink stains emrging from verso.
John Speed [1552? - 1629], historian and cartographer.
for a cleaner impression see ref. 26294
[Ref: 372] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[John Speed] Aet. M. Viri clarissimi Joannis Speed... Corpore suo levat est July 28. 1629.
S. Savery Sculp.
[London: George Humble, c.1630s.]
Engraving, frontispiece to Speed's famous atlas, 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'. Sheet 320 x 190mm, 12½ x 7½". Trimmed within plate, with filled chip to lower left corner tip. Bit messy.
John Speed (1552? - 1629), historian, cartographer and antiquary; seated, wearing fur trimmed robes, a white ruff, and wide brimmed hat, and holding a compass on a chart on the table in front of him. A curtain in top right corner. Speed produced the first world atlas by an Englishman, entitled 'A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', which first appeared in London in 1627.
[Ref: 26294] £320.00

[Mark Sprot.]
A. Skirving Pinx.t. W. Ward Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1806.]
Mezzotint, 375 x 270mm. 14¾ x 10½". Age toned. Residue from old mount window.
Mark Sprot (d.1808), financier. He was examined on the investigation about Queen Caroline in 1806. Published as a pair with 'Mrs. Sprot'.
Frankau: 275, III of III. Chaloner Smith: 77, II of II.
[Ref: 9815] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Iacobus Stanier, Mercator. Londinensis Ao. 1643.
H. Garret delineavit. W: Hollar fecit. Aqua forti.
[1643.]
Etching. 135 x 95mm. 5¼ x 3¾". Trimmed.
Portrait of James Stanier, half length in an oval, ships and a port in the background. James Stainer (active 1643) was a merchant.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. Pennington: 1506.
[Ref: 25271] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Will Stewart.
Drawn, Etched & Published by Nath.l Whittock High Street Oxford March 1820
Etching, platemark 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½") very large margins.
Etching of a rabbit-catcher, presumably a well-known Oxford personality. Etched and published by Nathaniel Whittock (1791-1860), teaching master and commercial artist hailing from London but working in Oxford during the 1820s, styling himself 'teaching of drawing and perspective, lithographist to the University of Oxford'.
[Ref: 44067] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

To the younger branches of his Family this Portrait of their late Father W.m Strong Esq.r is dedicated by their affectionate Brother F.G.S. Wm. Strong [facsimile signature]
From memory by F. Strong [c.1837]
Stipple, rare, sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5").
William Strong (1767-1837), tulip amateur. Varnish maker in Long Acre, Covent Garden.
O'D 1.
[Ref: 43612] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Godfrey Sykes Esqre. Solicitor to the Board of Stamps.
Painted by T. Stewardson Esqr.___Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A.Engraver to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
London, Published March 18.1822, by W.J.White, Brownlow Street, Holborn.
Mezzotint. Plate 384 x 269mm. Rubbed.
F: 286-II.
[Ref: 5723] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Snip!
From Nature and on Stone by John Corbet Anderson. Printed by Stannard and Dixon.
London; Published by John Corbet Anderson 15.th May. 1855.
Lithograph, sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
A very fine image showing a man sitting cross-legged on a table sewing a piece of fabric. On the table sits an iron and patterns hang behind him. By lithographer John Corbett Anderson (fl. 1850-1853) known for his series ' Sketches at Lords'.
[Ref: 60603] £320.00

[George Tappin, Old George the Grave Digger]
E. Butler, del & lith. London. Printed by L.M. Lefevre.
Published by E. Buter, Reading [n.d., c.1832].
Rare lithograph. Sheet 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Repaired tear in right edge. Pencil writing.
George Tappin (1785-1842), gravedigger at St Mary's Church, Reading, shown up to his waist in a grave, pick in one hand, spade handle with his initials to one side. The original painting, by Edward Butler (1810-1894), a local artist, bookseller & stationer, is in the Reading Museum, without the open grave.
See Reading Museum 1947.45.1 for the painting.
[Ref: 58083] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ioh. Bapt. Tavernier. Ritter u. Freyherr von Aubone, Geb: zu Paris 1605 gestorb: zu Moskau 1698.
Westermayr f.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 89mm (5½ x 3½").
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1698) the French diamond merchant, traveller and pioneer of diamond trade with India. He is best known for the discovery and sale of the 118-carat blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668; this was stoel in 1792 and re-emerged in London as the Hope Diamond. He travelled a lot around the Middle East, in particular Persia. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29752] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Thomas Tayler, Twenty Two Years Master Of Lloyds Coffee House. Died 6th. June 1796, aged 50.
W.R. Bigg A.R.A. pinxt. Gate St. Lins. Inn Fields. W. Ward sculp.
Publish'd Novr. 1st. 1796. as the Act directs.
Mezzotint. 355 x 285mm. Some evidence of rubbing to the mezzotint on what is otherwise a fine impression. Two small tears to right paper edge, well outside plate.
Thomas Tayler [1746 - 1796], Master of Lloyd's Coffee House. The coffee house that Edward Lloyd opened in 1687 near the Thames on Tower Street was a favourite haunt of men from the ships that moored at London's docks. The house was 'spacious, well built and inhabited by able tradesmen' according to a contemporary publication. It grew so popular that in 1691 Lloyd moved it to much larger and more luxurious quarters on Lombard Street. Nat Ward, a publican whom Alexander Pope accused of trading vile rhymes for tobacco, reported that the tables in the new house were 'very neat and shined with rubbing.' A staff of five served tea and sherbet as well as coffee. Lloyd's coffee house served from the start as the headquarters for marine underwriters, in large part because of its excellent mercantile and shipping connections. In 1771 seventy-nine of the underwriters who did business at Lloyd's subscribed £100 each and joined together in the Society of Lloyd's, an unincorporated group of individual entrepreneurs operating under a self-regulated code of behavior. These were the original Members of Lloyd's; later, members came to be known as 'Names.' The Names committed all their worldly possessions and all their financial capital to secure their promise to make good on their customers' losses. That commitment was one of the principal reasons for the rapid growth of business underwritten at Lloyd's over the years. In 1774 the 'Subscribers to Lloyd's' occupied new premises at the Royal Exchange at Cornhill. By the turn of the century the traditional club of marine underwriters had become an international market for insurance risks of almost every type. Lloyd's pre-eminence as a world centre for insurance had been established.
CS: 83. Only state. Frankau: 288. Only state.
[Ref: 655] £490.00

Henry Simon Thomassin A celebrated Engraver died at Paris 1741 Aged 53. for an account fo hin see Strutts, dictionary.
etching 100 x 145mm, 4 x 5¾inches. [n.d. c.1740]. trimmed with false margins added.
Henry Simon Thomassin French engraver 1688-1741, son of Simon Thomassin engraver.
[Ref: 12885] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Thurlow.
Stewart del.
Published as the Act directs by Rob.t Stewart N 287 Near Great Turnstile Holborn, June Ye 24 1779.
Mezzotint, 135 x 105mm. Fine impression.
Edward Thurlow ((1731-1806), 1st Baron Thurlow, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor for fourteen years and under four Tory Prime Ministers.
[Ref: 5727] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Titus Salt]
[n.d.] Late 19th century.
Stipple engraving. 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9") large margins. Some foxing in the left margin.
Seated half portrait of Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876), inclined to the left and left-gazing. Salt was a successful textile manufacturer and business owner in West Yorkshire. He is most famous for the construction of 'Salt's Mill' and the village of Saltaire, near Bradford.
[Ref: 53869] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Anthony Todd Esqr.
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J. Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 17.th by John Jones. No.75 Gr. Portland Street. [n.d. c.1770.]
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 274mm (15 x 10¾"). Very large margins. Crease bottom right.
Anthony Todd (c.1718-1798), foreign secretary of the Post Office. This made him responsible for supervising the opening and copying of foreign correspondence, liaison with the deciphering branch to deal with intercepted items in code, and making recommendations to be laid before the king. He fulfilled the position (albeit with interruptions during which his rival Henry Potts was favoured) under several governements and in both the Seven Year' War and American War of Independence. Following his marriage in 1758, Todd purchased an estate of around 150 acres in Walthamstow, Essex (now London), to which he retired after 1787. The painter George Romney befriended Daniel Braithwaite, the clerk to the Postmaster General, who introduced him Todd, who became one of Romney's first high-profile sitters. The oil is now in the British Postal Museum & Archive Collection.
CS 72 ii/ii; for proof before letters see ref. 29141.
[Ref: 38372] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Anthony Todd Esqr.]
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J. Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 17.th by John Jones. No.75 Gr. Portland Street. [n.d. c.1770.]
Very fine mezzotint with large margins, proof before title. Plate 380 x 274mm (15 x 10¾").
Anthony Todd (c.1718-1798), Anthony Todd, the Postmaster General from 1762-65 and 1768-1798. Portrait seated half-length to right, eyes to front, wearing short wig and plain coat and waistcoat. Romney befriended Daniel Braithwaite, the clerk to the Postmaster General, who introduced him Todd, who became one of Romney's first high-profile sitters. The oil is now in the British Postal Museum & Archive Collection.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute. Horne: 125. CS: 72, i/ii.
[Ref: 29141] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

R. Tompson.
From a Rare Print by F.Place. Engraved by W. Bond.
London. Published by John Major. 50 Fleet Street. Feb.y 15th 1828.
Stipple. 215 x 135mm, 8½ x 5¾".
Richard Tompson (died c,1693), printseller. A copy of a portrait by Place after G. Zoest, engaved by Bond for Walpole's ‘Anecdotes of Painting’.
[Ref: 19027] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Jacob Tonson.
[after Geoffrey Kneller.]
[n.d., 1814?.]
Stipple and etching. Sheet 140 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed, slight crease.
Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher of Dryden & Pope, and secretary of the Kit-Kat Club (this portrait is based on the painting done for the series of members.)
NPG D27628 [?].
[Ref: 19028] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Jacob Tonson. 43
G. Kneller Bar.t Pix.t I. Faber fecit 1733.
Mezzotint. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Seated portrait of Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), holding a volume of Milton's Paradise Lost'. The publisher of Dryden & Pope, he was also secretary of the famous Kit-Cat Club: this portrait is one of the series recording the resemblances of the members.
CS 208-43.
[Ref: 59415] £320.00

The Right Honble. Sr. Thomas Trevor Knt. Lord Chief Justice of his Maties. Court of Comon Pleas.
P. Murray pinxit. R. White Sculpsit 1702.
Printed and Sold by John King at the Globe against the Church in the Poultry.
Engraving. Mounted on an album page. Image 377 x 267mm. 14¾ x 10½". Cut and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Sir Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC (1658-1730), was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General and in 1695 became Attorney-General. In 1701 he was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, and in 1712 he was created a peer as Baron Trevor of Bromham. On the accession of George I in 1714 he was deprived of the justice-ship, but from 1726 to 1730 he was Lord Privy Seal. Three of his sons succeeded in turn to his barony, and a fourth son, Richard Trevor (1707-1771), was bishop of St David’s from 1744 to 1752, and then bishop of Durham.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12892] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

John Tweddell. Nat. 1st. June 1769. Ob. 25th. July 1799. See Correspondence-Letter XXXII P.171.
Published May 1st. 1815 by J. Mawman.
Stipple engraving. 205 x 255mm. Crease through middle of paper. Light foxing.
Profile in silhouette of John Tweddell, classical scholar. Frontispiece to his 'Remains'.
[Ref: 4159] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Twining Esqr.
Painted by I.J. Halls. Engraved by C. Turner.
London: Pubd. Jan.y 1. 1812, by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. Printsellers, 23, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Mezzotint, title in open thick and thin letters, 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾". A fine impression, with full margins.
Richard Twining (1749 - 1824), Director of the East India Company and head of the old tea business in the Strand; seated in an armchair in front of a curtain, he wears a dark double-breasted coat fastened by two buttons, white waistcoat with high collar, and neckerchief. After John James Halls (1776 - 1853).
Whitman 576, II.
[Ref: 22359] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

To Mr Joseph Tylor. Respected Sir _ At a meeting of Workmen employed in your Manufactory, August 26th 1850, it was unanimously resolved that a Memorial of Respect be presented to you... Presented August 11th 1851...
[Privately published, c.1851.]
Lithographic portrait on india, rare, 350 x 265mm, 13¾ x 10½, on paper with lithographed text, sheet 430 x 320mm, 17 x 12½". Laid on board, some toning of backing paper.
Portrait of Joseph Tyler, a quaker who owned a succesful brassfoundery, J. Tyler & Sons, 2 Newgate Street, London. The Post Office Commercial Directory for 1865 described the firm as 'engineers (hydraulic, mechanical & pharmaceutical), brassfounders, brass finishers, cockfounders, braziers, coppersmiths, plumbers, pottery dealers, manufacturers of pumps, water closets, soda water engines & machines, diving apparatus, baths & patent bath boilers, hot water apparatus, fire engines, hose pipe, garden engines & syringes, chemical apparatus for laboratories, brass manufacturers, pewterers & beer engine makers, ice mould makers, manufacturers of moderator & belmontine lamps, lamps for India & colonies, standard weights & measures for corporation use, condensing apparatus for distilling salt water for ships’ use...'. His sons, Alfred (1824-84) and Edward (1832-1917) both started in the family business but made their names elsewhere. Alfred wrote extensively on geology and proposed the name 'pluvial' for periods of extended rainfall. Edward left the business due to ill-heath, becoming an anthropologist, developing the modern definition of 'animism', becoming the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford University in 1896, receiving a knighthood in 1912. A third son, Louis, remained in the business.
[Ref: 21391] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Publisher. [Pencilled:] (T Fisher Unwin.) Fisher Unwin.
[n.d. c.1908.]
Photogravure. 255 x 185mm. 10 x 7¼".
Probably Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935); he was an English publisher. He founded the publishing house T. Fisher Unwin in 1882 and was a joint founder of the First Council of Publishing Association.
[Ref: 19032] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

John Vine the Celebrated Kentish and Surrey Molecatcher. Wonderful Museum.
J: Mills sculp.
Pub by Alex. Hogg 16 Paternoster Row April 1 1804.
Engraving. 215 x 122mm. 8½ x 4¾". Crease on left.
A molecatcher underneath a tree, various traps with dead and caught moles lie around his feet; a hound with a mole in his mouth sits to his right.
[Ref: 19221] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Walker].
Romney Pinx.t. Sharp Sculp.
Published Nov.r 5th 1794 at No. 8 Charles Street near Middlesex Hospital, London.
Proof before title. Platemark: 310 x 230mm. (12¼ x 9"). Small tears along right and bottom edges.
Portrait of Thomas Walker (1749 - 1817), almost half-length directed to left, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a plain coat buttoned up with a white waistcoat and cravat, with curly hair brushed forwards over the ear. Walker was a cotton merchant as well as a political reformer, and also a leader of an anti-slavery group. He was also a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society founded in 1781 to promote improvements in local health and sanitary issues. Walker helped found the Manchester Constitutional Society which advocated parliamentary reform and equality for dissenters. This was not seen favourably by the supporters of 'church and king' and he was accused of conspiring to overthrow the king, constitution and government. A trial was held at the Lancaster Assizes in June 1794 but Walker was acquitted because the key witness, Thomas Dunn, was shown to have lied under oath. After George Romney (Male; 1734 - 1802); scratched-letter state before title and border.
[Ref: 28486] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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