Grosvenor Prints

[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)

[May Day, or Kate of Aberdeen.]
C, Bretherton invt. T.W.Tomkins sculpt. [This should be P.W. Tomkins]
Publish'd as the Act Directs, March 4 1782 by T. Macklin No. 30 Fleet Street London.
Coloured stipple engraving, Proof impression. 325 x 380mm.
A girl standing in the middle of a circle of spectators in a village, wearing a veil and with her arms outstretched as if partaking in a game, the group including a figure in kilt in the left foreground and a shepherd behind, a church(?) tower visible above trees behind and landscape beyond at right; oval design, after Charles Bretherton. Kate of Aberdeen is a poem by John Cunningham 1729-1773, the published state of this engraving carries lines of verse from the poem. Cunningham's title was "May-Eve or Kate of Aberdeen."
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's London 1997.
[Ref: 10549] £380.00

[Le roi et le fermier.] Trio Betisy.
Frussote sculp [after F.M.I. Quéverdo.]
[Paris: F.N. Martinet, c.1763.]
Etching. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins.
One of six plates illustrating 'Le roi et le fermier', a 1762 opéra-comique in 3 acts by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine. Here Betsy (mis-engraved as 'Betisy' in the title), her sister Jenny and her mother sing a trio while stitching and spinning.
[Ref: 53651] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Saladin & the Knight of the Leopard.
H.F.W. inv. & del.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14''), watermark J. Whatman 1820, with very large margins. Bit messy.
An illustration from Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Talisman' which features David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon (1144-1219). In the novel Sir David takes part in the 3rd crusade under the alias Sir Kenneth of the Couchant Leopard.
[Ref: 50596] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

La Savatier et le Financier. [Fable 2 . de la Fontaine Livre 8.]
Peint par Et. Jeaurat. Gravé par son Frere 1732.
[A Paris chés Joullain Quay de la Mégisserie à la Ville de Rome]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Trimmed into inscription at bottom.
One of Jean de La Fontaine's fables: a financier gives a cobbler a hundred crowns as a nest egg, robbing the man of his peace of mind.
[Ref: 41778] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Homme Entre Deux Ages et ses Deux Maitresses. Fable 16 Livre 1.
Gouget direx.
[Paris, n.d., 1834.]
Engraving with hand colour. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
'The middle-aged man and his two mistresses'. From Jean de La Fontaine's Fables.
[Ref: 55475] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Retour de la Chasse. Adonis et venus, que la fable présente, / Jouïsoit du repos dans les bras du plaisir, / De mëme ce chasseur, dans ceux de son amante, / Se Délasse en offrant, les fruits de son loisir.
A Paris chez Crepy, rue St Jacques à S. Pierre près la rue de la parcheminerie. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"), large margins.
A scene from 'Adonis', one of La Fontaine's fables.
[Ref: 44984] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Bon Chat Bon Rat. Lache, et perfide époux, J'ai découvert ta flâme; / C'est elle qui m'oblige, à braver ton couroux, / Mais lorsque dans ton coeur, las raison te condamne, / Il te sied bien encour de paroitre jaloux.
A Paris chez Crepy, rue St Jacques à S. Pierre près la rue de la parcheminerie. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"), large margins.
A man catches his wife with her beau in a drawing room. She holds up a picture of a cat, claiming her husband loves the cat more than her. Possibly a scene from one of La Fontaine's fables.
[Ref: 44983] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

La Cigale.
Peint par A. Bridgman. Photogravure Goupil & Co.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs, successors de Goupil & C.ie. Entered according to act of congress in the year 1884 by M. Knoedler & Co., in the office of the librarian of congress at Washington.
Chine collé photogravure. 515 x 295mm (20¼ x 11½") with very wide margins. Small toning patch in edge at top.
A woman in a classical shift, her arms wrapped around an ornate lute with broken strings. A scene from Jean de La Fontaine's fable, 'La Cigale et la Fourmi' (The Grasshopper and the Ant'), with a woman representing the grasshopper who has played all summer and is unprepared for winter. Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928), American artist.
[Ref: 54291] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Gardener and His Lord] Le Jardinier et son Seigneur Fable 4 Livre 4.
Gouget direx.
[Paris, n.d., 1834.]
Engraving. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
An illustration to a fable by Jean de La Fontaine. A gardner asks his lord for help ridding his garden of an hare: the lord gathers his huntsmen and makes more of a mess than the hare. The moral: ''Princelings, end your own disputes and be glad. / To call on kings for help you would truly be mad. / In your wars you must never let them take a hand, Nor ever invite them onto your land.''
[Ref: 56280] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Man of Middle Age and his Two Mistresses. Just turn'd upon Grey, an unmortify'd Dunce / Address'd an old Widow, and young one at once [...]
E. Jeaurat Pinx. J. Sympson Fecit.
London Printed for John Ryal & Rob.t Witby, at Hogarth Head, Fleet Street [c.1740]
Mezzotint, sheet 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Cut; damaged. Very scarce.
English copy, in reverse, of a French print by Michel Aubert after Sébastien Leclerc, 'L'homme entre deux âges et ses deux maîtresses'. Contrary to the text on this print, Edmé Jeaurat was the publisher of that print rather than the artist. The French print notes that the scene illustrates one of La Fontaine's fables (although the fable can be traced back to Aesop).
[Ref: 44197] £380.00

Parole de Socrate. Fable 17 Livre 4.
Gouget direx.
[Paris, n.d., 1834.]
Engraving. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
'The Word of Socrates'. Socrates builds a house nobody likes for different reasons, but all agreeing the rooms were too small. Socrates retorts that he would be lucky in he had enough true friends to fill his small house. From Jean de La Fontaine's Fables.
[Ref: 56279] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

['He who easily believes, is easily deceived'] Qui facile credit facile decipitur. Die licht geloogt wort licht bedrogen.
Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et sculp: et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Federati [1668]
Etching, 17th century watermark; platemark 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"), with very large margins.
Man lifting the lid of a plate, with two people stood behind laughing at him. Illustration to Act One of Andries Pels' comedy 'Julfus' (Amsterdam, 1668). Etched by Gérard Lairesse (1640-1711), Dutch painter and etcher who worked for William and Mary amongst other illustrious patrons. A classicist and theorist (after going blind he wrote a major theoretical treatise, the Groot Schilderboek or 'Great Book of Painting'), Lairesse was known as the 'Dutch Poussin'. Most of his plates were originally published by Nicolaes Visscher, who published a collected edition under the title 'Opus Elegantissimum' in c.1675.
[Ref: 41710] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

___"Behold him kneeling, there, By the Child's side, in humble prayer; And hymns of joy proclaim through Heaven The triumph of a soul forgiven.......Joy, Joy for ever! my task is done; The gates are passed, and Heaven is won". (Lalla Rookh).
From a Sketch By TPhillips R.A. [facsimile] (in the Possession of T. Phillips, Esq.re) Proof. Plate 9, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Moder Artists by Rich.d J. Lane, A.R.A.
Printed by Engelmann & Co. London 1828. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Slight foxing.
An illustration to 'Lalla Rookh', an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore. A man kneels on the floor praying with a child to his side, also praying, looking up to the winged angel flying overhead.
[Ref: 24896] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Launcelot enjoying the Humours of a General Election] Launcelot Greaves
[Stothard del Blake sculp]
[Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. Sep. 21, 1782]
Engraving, sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Trimmed to image, losing text.
Illustration to Tobias Smollett's novel 'The Adventures of Launcelot Greaves' (first published 1760-62), a picaresque novel reminiscent of 'Don Quixote' (which Smollett had translated), published for the 'Novelist's Magazine'. This scene is strongly reminiscent of William Hogarth's 'Chairing the Member', from his set of paintings (and prints), 'Humours of an Election' (paintings c.1754-5, now in the John Soane Museum). Engraving by William Blake (1757-1827), visionary artist and poet who also worked as a journeyman engraver. This early work was one of many Blake engraved from designs by his friend Thomas Stothard, Britain's most prolific book illustrator. While establishing himself as a copy engraver in the early 1780s, Blake was also studying at the Royal Academy and developing the highly personal approach he used in his original watercolours.
Russell 49D; for Hogarth's election series see ref. 37493
[Ref: 40830] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Lenore] [Death, disguised as William, asks her to mount his horse and ride to their marriage bed.] Plate 1. Page 21. Proof.
Drawn by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Engraved by Harding.
Publish'd June 1st 1796 by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple, proof before title? 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed to plate, centre fold, as usual.
A scene from Gottfried August Bürger's ballad 'Lenore', written 1773. When William, Lenore's fiancé, fails to return with the Prussian army after the Battle of Prague (1757, during the Seven Years' War), she argues with God, complaining about his unfairness. At midnight 'William' appears and takes her to a graveyard, where he is revealed as Death, with scythe and hourglass; the marriage bed is a grave in which William's skeleton lies in shattered armour. One of four plates in 'Leonora. Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq. With designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.' Beauclerk was the daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough.
[Ref: 60733] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Eldred fights a duel with pistols.]
[after William Heath.]
London Pub by W. Sams, 1823.
Coloured aquatint. 140 x 240mm (5½ x 9½"), with very large margins. Small area of foxing.
A scene from William Heath's 'Life of a Soldier': the hero, Eldred, fights a duel (in civvies) at Coombe Wood, near Croydon. Elsewhere in the text Eldred fights in India and the Peninsula War. The author, William Heath (1794-1840), is well known for his satires published under the pseudonym 'Paul Pry'.
Abbey Life 361.
[Ref: 41961] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lingo and Cowslip. Oh Cowslip the Great Old Roman Hero's, Perhaps you never heard of Moses, Homer, Hercules or Wat Tyler; Vide, O.Keefs Agreable Surprise.
H. Singleton pinx.t Edw.d Scott, Sculp.t
London, Pub.d May 1, 1788 by I. Birchall No.473, Strand.
Very fine stipple printed in brown ink with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 380 x 350mm (15 x 13¾").
A scene from O'Keeffe's play 'The agreeable Surprise': in a kitchen, Lingo sits on a chair wearing wig and pointing upwards, while Cowslip faces him with a bowl on her lap. Comic actor John Edwin the Elder (1749-1790) is depicted here as Lingo, with actess and singer Mary Stephens Wells (1762-1829) as Cowslip.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. NPG: D15108.
[Ref: 28412] £360.00

Little Bo-Peep.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph, five vignettes, sheet 210 x 285mm. 8¼ x 11¼". Trimmed to image border. Fold creases.
An attractive illustration of the popular nursery rhyme ‘Little Bo Peep’ or ‘Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep’. The earliest record of this rhyme is in a manuscript of around 1805. There are references to a children's game called 'Bo-Peep', from the sixteenth century, including one in Shakespeare's King Lear (Act I Scene iv), but little evidence that the rhyme existed. A nice example of Victorian popular printing for children.
[Ref: 15707] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lodona. In vain on Father Thames she calls for Aid...[etc., two stanzas from Pope either side of title.] Vide Pope's Windsor Forest.
Maria Cosway Pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
London, Published March 20, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Fine stipple engraving printed in brown ink, closed letters (final state). 430 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"). Some slight creasing and soiling.
A young woman in a wooded landscape leaning by a small waterfall by a river, weeping; her hair and dress begin to merge with the water. A scene from Alexander Pope's poem Windsor Forest (1713). Lodona, a nymph fond of hunting, is chased by Pan and implores Cynthia (an epithet of Diana the huntress goddess) to save her from her persecutor. No sooner had she spoken than she became ''a silver stream which ever keeps its virgin coolness''. She gives her name to The Lodden, an tributary of the Thames in Windsor Forest. After Maria Cosway (1759 - 1838).
[Ref: 19237] £380.00

[Lodona.]
[Maria Cosway Pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.]
[London, Published March 20, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.]
Stipple, proof before letters. Sheet 370 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Trimmed, top right repaired tear.
A young woman in a wooded landscape leaning by a small waterfall by a river, weeping; her hair and dress begin to merge with the water. A scene from Alexander Pope's poem Windsor Forest (1713). Lodona, a nymph fond of hunting, is chased by Pan and implores Cynthia (an epithet of Diana the huntress goddess) to save her from her persecutor. No sooner had she spoken than she became ''a silver stream which ever keeps its virgin coolness''. She gives her name to The Lodden, an tributary of the Thames in Windsor Forest.
[Ref: 44046] £380.00

Lord Thomas and Fair Annett.
H. Bunbury Esqr,, Delint: Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Published Novr; 22d; 1784 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, published state, sheet 405 x 360mm. 16 x 14¼". Trimmed to plate, repaired tear left..
Illustration in a roundel of the folk ballad 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annett': Lord Thomas leaning forward in a chair to left, one hand on his sword, handing a rose with the other to Annette, who sits opposite, petting a dog at her side. The nut-brown maid, new married to Lord Thomas, runs forward with a dagger to stab her rival in jealousy. Lord Thomas is in love with Fair Annet, or Annie, or Elinor, but she has little property. He asks for advice. His father, mother, and brother (or some of them) advise that he should marry the nut-brown maid with a rich dowry. His mother promises to curse him if he marries Annet and bless him if he marries the nut-brown maid, and Lord Thomas takes his mother's advice. Fair Annet dresses as splendidly as she can and goes to the wedding. The nut-brown maid is so jealous that she stabs Annet to death. Lord Thomas stabs both the nut-brown maid and himself to death. A rose grew from Fair Annet's grave, a brier from Lord Thomas's, and they grew together. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18268] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

See the Tale of Louisa, in Poems & Essays by the late Miss Bowlder of Bath. / Louisa. While thus with agonizing Sighs They view'd the fatal place, Louisa's mild, yet stedfast Eyes Were fix'd on Henrys face.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by T. Gaugain.
[London Pub.d April 10th. 1789 by J.R. Smith, No.31, King Street Covt. Garden.]
Stipple. 508 x 387mm. 20 x 15¼". Trimmed into the plate along bottom edge.
Four figures on a shore, a young sailor and old woman at right and a man at right all sitting looking with distress to left, a young woman standing in the centre, holding the hand of the older man and looking with compassion towards the sailor.
[Ref: 19118] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

See the Tale of Louisa, in Poems & Essays by the late Miss Bowlder of Bath. / Louisa While thus with agonizing Sighs They view'd the fatal place, Louisa's mild, yet steadfast Eyes Were fix'd on Henrys face. Louisa My life! my joy! my only love! A voice at distance cries: That voice her inmost soul could move She starts with wild surprise.
Painted by G.Morland. Engrav'd by T.Gaugin.
London Pubd. April 10th. 1789 by J.R..Smith, No. 31, King Street Covt. Garden.
Pair of stipple engravings, printed in dark sepia. Each plate 495 x 380mm. A minor crease on each plate.
[Ref: 4298] £420.00 view all images for this item

Louisa. My Life! my joy! my only love! A voice at distance cries: That voice her inmost soul could move The starts with wild surprise. [and in French]. [&] While thus with agonizing Sighs They view'd the fatal place, Louisa's mild, yet stedfast Eyes Were fix'd en Henrys face. [and in French.]
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by Aug. Legrand.
a Paris chez Augustin Legrand, rue St. Julien-le-Pauvre No.3. [n.d. c.1780.]
A pair of coloured stipples. 482 x 348mm (19 x 13¾"). Repairs on second image.
A young woman standing on the shore, looking over her right shoulder with dispair as a boat is shipwrecked in stormy waters behind at left, an old veiled woman sitting behind at right, her face obscured by Louisa's hand, point to right. [&] Four figures on a shore, a young sailor and old woman at right and a man at right all sitting looking with distress to left, a young woman standing in the centre, holding the hand of the older man and looking with compassion towards the sailor.
See Ref: 4298 for the same pair but engraved by Gaugain.
[Ref: 29034] £420.00 view all images for this item

Louise von Voss.
Inventirt und gemalt von Strack. Die Landschaft gestochen von J. Schumann, die Figuren von Al. Kessler.
Nürnberg bey J.F. Frauenholz & Co 1807.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 475 x 605mm (18¾ x 23¾"). Trimmed to plate, restoration in inscription area.
A scene from Johann Heinrich Voss's 'Luise', an idyllic poem first published 1783. It shows a family seated under an oak tree by a river, a picnic basket to one side. Behind an old woman is making coffee over a file.
BM 1877,0609.1652.
[Ref: 45223] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Love triumphant over Reason.
Painted by Warniment. Engraved by Philippeaux.
Se venf à Paris chez Arthur et Comp.ie à la Manufacture Royal de aperper peint, Rue Louis le Grand au coin du Boulevard [n.d., c.1790].
Stipple. Sheet 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, extensive restoration. Damaged
A bare-brested woman lies on a bed, a suitor standing at her feet. Cupid stands at her head, his quiver on the floor. With four lines from 'Love Triumphant Over Reason', a poem by the Rev. Mr John Pomfret (1667-1702). Although obscure now, Samuel Johnson included Pomfret in his 'Lives of the Poets'..
[Ref: 55423] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Love, Jealousy, Revenge & Despair.
by F.P.Stephanoff [facsimile]. (in the Possession of the Engraver) Proof. Plate 5, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketched by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane.
Printed by C Hullmandel. London 1827. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé, rare with large margins. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Some foxing.
Four images [from top left, clockwise]: Love, two women picking flowers at the edge of a forest, watched by a man behind the trees to the right; Jealousy, a man inviting a woman to dance, in a clearing of the forest, from another man by the bench on left, other dancers in the background; Despair, a man standing on the edge of a cliff about to jump; Revenge, a couple sitting on a veranda, watched by another man behind a pillar to the left. After Francis Philip Stephanoff (1788-1860), painter and architectural designer. Best known for Nayler's Coronation of… George IV series of costume portraits which record details of elaborate ceremonial costume and are richly coloured, elegant, and highly finished. George IV attempted to rival the coronation of Napoleon when he was crowned emperor. He gave visual expression to intense contemporary interest in antiquarian and historical subjects brought about by the arrival in Britain of the Elgin marbles, by the novels of Sir Walter Scott and his arrangements for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in 1822. Their richly coloured work illustrates a romantic view of history that found its fullest expression during the Regency period.
[Ref: 24892] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Rose Bud. [Four verses below.]
Drawn by R. Westall. Engraved by Nutter.
Published by Diemar No. 114 Strand, Janry. 2d. 1796.
Stipple engraving with etching, sheet 435 x 440mm. Trimmed to plate, some soiling and light marginal staining.
An illustration of Matthew Prior's poem 'A Lover's Anger'. A beau complains about being kept waiting but, when Cloe shows the mark caused by a rosebud falling on her bosom, he forgets his anger.
[Ref: 8037] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Testamento di Evdamida di Corinto. Lascio ad Areteo mia Madre, Perche la Nvtrisca; A Carisseno la Mia Figlivola, perche le dia Marito, e la doti givsta il svo potere. F. Bartolozzi Fiorentino, disegno e scolpi in Londra l'anno MDCCLXV della grandezza del qvadro di N. Pvssino dipinto a olio in carta, nella Collezione di Tommaso Hollis, Inglese.
[N. Poussin pinx. F. Bartolozzi sculp. n.d. c.1765.]
Etching, with large margins. Plate 248 x 298mm. 9¾ x 11¾".
A scene from Lucian's 'Toxaris, or Friendship': Corinthian Eudamidas lying in a bed with a man sitting next to him and taking down the dictation of the will, and another man standing beside the dying man; at the end of the bed, at right, and old woman and a young woman mouring; book illustration to "Memoirs of Thomas Hollis" (London, 1780.)
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18340] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegory of the senses: illustration to book four of Lucretius' 'Of the nature of things' IV]
Frans van Mieris inv. et delin. / J. Wandelaar fecit
[published Leiden by J. van der Aa, 1725]
Engraving, 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Allegorical illustration to book four of Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura', which is devoted to a theory of the five senses. They are represented here by: the fruit held by the goddess in her chariot (taste); a musician playing the lute (hearing); a putto playing with a small animal (smell) while a bird pecks his hand (touch); and another putto looking at his reflection in the mirror (sight). Also includes a globe showing Europe and Africa. Frans van Mieris designed six illustrations which were engraved by Wandelaar for the 1725 Leiden publication of the work. These were copied by Duflos for the 1754 French publication.
[Ref: 31388] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegorcal illustration to book five of Lucretius' 'Of the nature of things']
Frans van Mieris inv. et delin. / J. Wandelaar fecit
[published Leiden by J. van der Aa, 1725]
Engraving, 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Allegorical illustration to book five of Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura', alluding to several subjects discussed therein, including: the origin of the world (an idyllic picture of early man); the movement of the heavenly bodies (a diagram of the solar system, on the side of a monument); the rise and progress of humankind (the scene of construction and cultivation in the foregound); and the arts and sciences (the book held by the seated figure in the middle ground). Frans van Mieris designed six illustrations which were engraved by Wandelaar for the 1725 Leiden publication of the work. These were copied by Duflos for the 1754 French publication.
[Ref: 31389] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Lucy of Leinster. Of Leinster, fam'd for maidens fair ... Her life now near its end. Vide Colin & Lucy [three verses of four lines each below title].
Henry Bunbury Esq. delt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.
London. Publish'd May 10. 1799, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Etching and stipple in sepia, 435 x 510mm. 17 x 20". Some light foxing. Uncut sheet.
A young woman supported by three others, helping her to a stool in front of a cottage under a vine trellis. An old woman sits with an open book looking at Lucy with concern, a little boy holding a basket of flowers and a dog. After Bunbury, this illustrates poet and statesman Thomas Tickell's (1685 - 1740) 'Lucy and Colin', in which Colin abandoned Lucy for a wealthier bride. Lucy died on her lover's wedding day and, pursuant to her request, was brought to the church. Upon seeing his true love's body, Colin succumbed to death as well, and the lovers were buried in the same tomb. Published by Thomas Macklin (c.1760 - 1800) for his series of 'British Poets', begun in 1787.
[Ref: 8892] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Le Lutrin. Chant Premier [ - Sixiéme].
B. Picart scul. dir. 1717.
[Amsterdam: David Mortier, 1718.]
Complete set of six etchings. Sheets 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Trimmed, losing decorative printed borders, mounted in album paper.
The frontispieces of each of the six cantos of 'Le Lurin' by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), one of the first mock-heroic poems, satirizing the state of the French Law and Church.
[Ref: 56346] £450.00 view all images for this item

[Le maréchal ferrant] Jannette. ''Colin, Colin, J'ai leau l'appeller, il ne me respond point... il est mort...''
[Engraved by Marie Thérèse Martinet after François Marie Isidore Queverdo.]
[Paris: Claude Jan-Baptiste Héissant, 1765.]
Etching. 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼") large margins.
Jeannette, daughter of the Blacksmith of the title, finds Colin slumped across a table asleep after a drinking a potion and thinks him dead. One of six plates in an edition of 'Le maréchal ferrant', a comic opera by François-André Danican Philidor and Antoine-François Quétant, based on one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. The opera was first performed in 1761, including a staging before Louis XV.
[Ref: 53644] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Le maréchal ferrant] Chantant a plein gorge. Dedié à Mr de la Ferté Indendant et Controller Général de l'Argentrie, munus plaisirs et affaires de sa Majesté. Par son très Humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Martinet.
Queverdo del. Therese Martinet 1767.
[Paris: Claude Jan-Baptiste Héissant, 1765.]
Etching. 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼") with large margins
Marcel, the Blacksmith of the title, sings as he hammers a horseshoe. The first scene of 'Le maréchal ferrant', a comic opera by François-André Danican Philidor and Antoine-François Quétant, based on one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. The opera was first performed in 1761, including a staging before Louis XV. This illustrated edition had six plates engraved by Marie Thérèse Martinet after François Marie Isidore Queverdo.
[Ref: 53645] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Angelique vient trouver Maugis d'Aigremont sur le rocher ou il étoit enchainé. Lui promettant de le délivrer s'il la fait aimer de son cousin Renaud. tiré de Roland l'Amoureux. L. pr ch. XIIII.e du Boyard.
J. Dumont le Rom. pinx. C.N. Cochin Sculp.
Se vend a Paris chez la v.e Chereau ruë St Jacques aux 2 pilliers d'or avec privilege du Roi. [1733.]
Engraving. 275 x 350mm (10¾ x 13¾"), very large margins. Uncut.
Angelique, carried by angels, comes to rescue the magician Maugis from a rock on which he had been chained. One of a series of scenes from the 12th-century Old French chanson de geste 'Les Quatre Fils de Aymon', the four sons of Aymon who revolted against Charlemagne); Maugris was their cousin who built their castle Montessor on a peak overlooking the Meuse.
[Ref: 44987] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Mazeppa Pursued by Wolves.] [&][Mazeppa Surrounded by Horses.]
[Vernet, Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculpt.]
[London, Published by H. Dawe, 6 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, Jan.1832.]
Pair of hand-coloured mezzotints. Sheet: 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½") Trimmed to images. Slight creasing.
A pair of dramatic illustrations to Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa' published in 1819. The poem tells the story of Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1640-1709) who, having been found having an affair with his count's wife, is strapped naked to the back of a horse which rides through the wilds of Eastern Europe. One scene shows Mazeppa lying on the ground, his horse having fallen to the ground, surrounded by wild horses, the other shows him, tied to the horse which gallops through the woods pursued by wolves.
[Ref: 41911] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Mazeppa Pursued by Wolves.]
J.S. [Sir James Stuart].
London, Published by Colnaghi, June 1821.
Lithograph on chine collé. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), on large original backing sheet. Slight cockling of chine collé.
An illustration to Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa', published in 1819. The poem tells the story of Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1640-1709) who, having been found having an affair with his count's wife, is strapped naked to the back of a horse which rides through the wilds of Eastern Europe.
[Ref: 62174] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mazeppa.
Vernet, Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculpt.
[London, Published by H. Dawe, 6 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, Jan.1832.]
Pair Mezzotints. Sheets: 180 x 150mm (7 x 6"). Trimmed.
A pair of dramatic illustrations to Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa' published in 1819. The poem tells the story of Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1640-1709) who, having been found having an affair with his count's wife, is strapped naked to the back of a horse which rides through the wilds of Eastern Europe. One scene shows Mazeppa lying on the ground, his horse having fallen to the ground, surrounded by wild horses, the other shows him, tied to the horse which gallops through the woods pursued by wolves.
[Ref: 41937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Medical Consultation. Algerine Captive, Chap. XX
Engraved for the Lady's Magazine.
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving with very large margins, rare; platemark 155 x 105mm (6 x 4").
Scene from 'The Algerine Captive: or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines', published anonymously in 1797 by Royall Tyler, and one of the first American novels. Underhill recounts his time working as a physician travelling through America (carrying out consultations such as that shown here) before working on a slave-ship ends with him being taken to Algiers as a slave. At the end of the book Underhill is freed and returns home.
[Ref: 33178] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier invt. et pinxt. I. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Mezzotint, 276 x 323mm. Foxing, small marginal tear upper left.
Illustrates George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer'. Farquhar (1677 or 1678 – 1707) was an Irish dramatist noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy. The play follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7855] £320.00

Such was the glassy globe that Merlin made... Gent. Mag. 1735. p.761 671 715.
[1735]
Engraving. Sheet: 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾''). Trimmed.
An illustration from Spencer's 'Faerie Queene' showing Merlin and his globe from the Gentleman's Magazine.
[Ref: 51137] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Miser counting money- illustration to Erasmus' 'In Praise of Folly'?]
C. Eisen Inv. Gravé à l'eau forte par N. Lemire, et retouché au burin par A. Pincio. [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼") large margins. 'Eloge de la Folie' in ms lower left.
Book illustration after 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, La Fontaine and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46497] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Missionary's Daughter teaching a Negro Girl.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 85 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
A illustration showing a young woman teaching a young black woman who kneels by her.
[Ref: 47954] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur Thomas. Vol. 3, p.1403.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾").
A scene from 'Monsieur Thomas', a Jacobean play by John Fletcher. The anti-hero is climbing a rope to a hoped assignation with Mary; however, when he reaches the window the maid Madge appears with a devil mask and makes to kiss him, cauing him to fall. Violinist at bottom.
[Ref: 45056] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Mother Shipton and the Abbot of Beverly.
Published July 12.th 1837 by T. Hughes 3 Broadway, Ludgate Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾''). Slight crease.
A scene showing the prophetess Ursula Southeil (1488-1561) known as Mother Shipton, sitting before a fire with Abbott of Beverly. The true story of Ursula Southeil is unknown and various legends exsist about her life and powers. One story states that she was the daughter of a 15 year old unmarried girl who took Ursula and went and lived in a cave. They were helped by the Abbot of Beverly who found a good home for the child. Mother Shipton's cave is now a tourist site in Knaresborough.
[Ref: 48898] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Le Mouchoir du Sultan. [The Sultan's handkerchief.] Saladin donne le Mouchoir a la belle Mirza.
Ph. Caresme del. C. Venzo scul.
A Venise, chez Joseph Remondini & Fils. [n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple, 290 x 245mm. 11½ x 9¾". Full margins.
Joseph Remondini had published a pair of engravings as illustrations to the letters written by Lady May Wortley Montague during the Embassey to Istanbul. These had been taken from drawings by Thomas Stoddard and had been very popular due to their exotic content. This print by the same publisher illustrates an imagined historical scene set inside an Islamic palace. Saladin (c.1138 - 1193), who led the Islamic opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant, and a favourite female companion are seated around a table, drinking tea and smoking long pipes; two female figures to background, guitar to left. This and other engravings of the similar theme were produced by the popular publishers as Lady Mary's letters were published and she became the inspiration of a generation of female writers, artists, and travellers. Published in Venice by a firm of print publishers run by successive generations of the same family, Remondini between 1634-1811 after Jacques Philippe Caresme (1734 - 1796)
for coloured impression see ref. 26134
[Ref: 17781] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Nampont. Vide Yorick's Sentimental Journey Vol.1.Page 124. From the Original Picture, in the Possession of Commodore James. To whom this Print is inscribed by his very humble and Obedient Servant, George Carter.
[Inside image plate: ] George Carter pinxit. V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to His Majesty fecit. [Inside title plate area:] George Carter pinxit. V. Green Metzotinto Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Publish'd by J. Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, May 9.th 1774. [Inside title plate area:] Published May 9.th 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, total plate area 590 x 445mm (23¼ x 17½"); uncut with large margins. Image and title area in two separate plates. Soiling to upper margin edge.
Nampont, from Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'; "The mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door, with the ass's pannel and its bridle on one side, which he took up from time to time,--then laid them down,--look'd at them, and shook his head. He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat it; held it some time in his hand,--then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle,--looked wistfully at the little arrangement he had made--and then gave a sigh."
CS: 151. Whitman: 179; for another impression of this print, with its pair 'Maria' see ref. 29169
[Ref: 21694] £450.00

Young Enterrant Sa Fille.
C. P. Marillier Inv. C. A. Mercier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving. Sheet: 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½''). Trimmed.
An illustration to a French edition of English poet, Edward Young's poems 'Night Thoughts' published in 1769.
[Ref: 48662] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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