Grosvenor Prints

Elizabeth Countess of Berkley.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J.s McArdell fecit.
Publish'd according to act of parliam.t 1757 & sold at Golden head in Covent Garden.
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 320 x 225m (12½ x 8¾"). Laid on tissue. Small repaired tears in margins. Top left corner chipped.
Portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) of Elizabeth, Countess of Berkeley. She is standing half-length to front and leaning on a book on a table before her, looking to left. She is wearing a fur-trimmed mantle, and a dress with wide lace cuffs and ribbon bows on the bodice. Elizabeth Craven, more commonly known as Lady Elizabeth Berkeley was an author, playwright, traveller, and socialite, perhaps best known for her travelogues. She was the third child of the 4th Earl of Berkeley, born near Trafalgar Square in the English City of Westminster.
[Ref: 33815] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Tho.s Bewick, celebrated Engraver on Wood.
Miss Kirkley, Pinx.t. T.A. Kidd, Sculp.t
Published as the Act directs, Jan.y 4th 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row, & I.A. Kidd NewCastle upon Tyne.
Engraving with very large margins, 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½").
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), wood-engraver. At the age of fourteen Bewick was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. He devoted himself to engraving on wood, and is credited with reviving this art and establishing it as a major form of printmaking. Bewick developed the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across, rather than with, the grain, using a sharp tool called a bruin. In 1775, he received a payment from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the Huntsman and the Old Hound. Bewick's most important works are illustrations for books such as A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds (1797 and 1804). This portrait is engraved from a painting by Caroline Kirkley (1795-1798, fl.), son of Sir Joshua Reynolds' manservant Ralph Kirkely.
[Ref: 33972] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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[Sir Henry Blount.] Loquendum cum vulgo sentiendum cum sapientibus.
D. Loggan ad Vivum delin et sculp.
1679.
Engraving. Sheet size: 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed to image. False borders. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of the traveller and landowner Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682). Half length, to the right, looking at viewer, wearing a jacket with small collar tied at the neck with a ribbon. In an oval on a pedestal with a motto on ribbon at top, and a coat of arms below. Blount travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was the author of 'Voyage into the Levant' published in London in 1634.
[Ref: 33848] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Thomas Bodley.]
E. Scriven sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple on India paper, small margins. Proof before letters. Platemark: 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Very slight foxing.
A portrait of the founder of the Bodleian Library, Sir Thomas Bodley (1545 - 1613). Half length, facing viewer, with his hand on the hilt of his sword. This print is a fragment from the frontispiece to 'Catalogue of the Bodleian library', first publsihed in 1674. Sir Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, when in 1598 his offer to restore the old library was accepted by the university. Bodley began his book collection effort in 1600, using the site of the former library above the Divinity School, which was in near ruin. For titled impression, see item ref: 33874.
[Ref: 33875] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Thomas Bodley. From the original of Cornelius Jansen, in the Bodleian Gallery Oxford.
Drawn by T. Unwins & Engraved (with permission) by E. Scriven.
London, Published by Lackington, Allen & co. and Langman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne. [n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Platemark: 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Light creasing in title area.
A portrait of the founder of the Bodleian Library, sir Thomas Bodley (1545 - 1613). Half length, facing viewer, with his hand on the hilt of his sword. This print is a fragment from the frontispiece to 'Catalogue of the Bodleian library', first publsihed in 1674. Sir Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, when in 1598 his offer to restore the old library was accepted by the university. Bodley began his book collection effort in 1600, using the site of the former library above the Divinity School, which was in near ruin. For proof impression before letters, see item ref: 33875.
[Ref: 33874] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Coley Philomat. etc.
R. White delin et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1699.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet size: 125 x 85mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of English mathematician and astrologer Henry Coley (1633–1695?), aged 57. Bust length in a decorative oval, wearing long wig and cravat. Coley was the adopted son of the astrologer, William Lilly, who constantly makes reference in his works to Coley's merit as a man and as a professor of mathematics and occult science. He is best known by his celebrated work, 'Clavis Astrologiæ Elimata; or a Key to the whole Art of Astrology, new filed and polished,' which was first published in 1669. He corrected and enlarged Joseph Moxon's 'Mathematics made easy' (London, 1692), and also Forster's 'Arithmetic, or that useful art made easie' (London, 1686).
[Ref: 33844] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Columbus and his Sons Diego and Ferdinand. From an ancient Spanish Picture in the possession of Edward Horne Esq.r of Bevis Mount near Southampton.
Wilson Sculp.t
Publish'd Dec: 13, 1794 by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Engraving. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Stamp of Royal Engineers Library verso.
Christopher Columbus and family. Cartographic elements include charts, globe, dividers and other navigational tools. Also includes dog and woman holding bowl of fruit. Frontispiece to "The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol II".
[Ref: 33985] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupid reading from a Scroll.] Frontispiece. To the Select Works of Engravings Under the Direction of William Buchanan Esq.r
Correggio pinxt. Engraved in the School of Morghen.
Pub.d by Mr. Stone at the Historic Gallery, 87, Pall Mall.
Steel engraving on India with very large margins, platemark 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Fine impression, numered '132' lower right, on uncut sheet.
Engraving of a detail from Correggio's 'Venus with Mercury and Cupid' ('The School of Love') in the National Gallery, London, in which Mercury acts as schoolmaster to the young Cupid. This print was the frontispiece to a series of engravings illustrating 'Portraits and Ideals of the Great Masters of the Various Schools of Painting', supervised by the dealer William Buchanan (1777-1864). The reference to the 'School of Morghen' refers to the famous Italian engraver Raphael Morghen (1758-1833).
For another print in this series, see ref. 24232; for Morghen's work see ref. 23992.
[Ref: 33953] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Goethe.
J.H. Fiedler sc: Hannau
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching with very large margins. Plate 95 x 89mm. 3¾ x 3½". Very fine.
A portrait in profile of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German writer and statesman, in middle-age.
[Ref: 33717] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Kauffmann. (Angelica) Nasceo em Coira, e morreo em Roma, em 1807.
A. do Carmo del. J.J. de Souza sculp. [n.d.]
Stipple, part printed on J. Whatman watermarked paper; platemark 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½").
Angelica Kauffma (1741-1807), a Swiss-Austrian painter who lived in England from 1766 to 1781, during which time she was one of only two women amongst the thirty-six founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts. Kauffman was very involved with the printmaking trade and collaborated with printmakers, resulting in a great number of prints were made from her designs, usually in the new 'stipple' process. Produced for a Portuguese series of engravings of prominent personages from history (the series included various Portuguese monarchs).
[Ref: 33956] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Kersey Borne at Bodicot Neere Banbury in the County of Oxford. A.O D.NI 1616. Vox audita perit Litera scripta manet.
Soest pinx. Faithhorne Sculp.
1672.
Engraving. Sheet size: 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
Portrait of English mathematician and textbook writer, John Kersey the elder (1616 - 1690?) half length in an oval, wearing bands and a gown. Inscribed below is a banner with the inscription 'Vox audita perit. / Litera scripta manet.', and four books, two open and displaying mathematical equations and symbols. A frontispiece to Kersey's 'Elements of that Mathematical Art Commonly Called Algebra' (London: William Godbid for Thomas Passinger and Benjamin Hurlock, 1673).
Fagan. p.43. III of III.
[Ref: 33837] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Adrienne Le Couvreur Morte a Paris le 20 Mars age de trente sept ans.
Peint par Ch. Coypel. Gravé par P. Drevet.
[French, n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, 415 x 300mm. 16¼ x 11¾". Good impression with large margins. Some foxing off image.
Portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692 – 1730), French actress, as Cornelia in Pierre Corneille’s tragedy 'The Death of Pompey'. In lettered oval masonry frame, on a pedestal inscribed with tribute verse. After Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752).
BNF FRBNF41506932.
[Ref: 33768] £320.00

The Grand Master of the Order of Knights of Malta.
B. Cole fc. [c.1780.]
Engraving, sheet 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). False margins added.
Unidentified magazine plate of the Master of the Knights of St John.
[Ref: 33983] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Venteri Mandey. Etatis Suae 37.
R. White Sculp.
[n.d., c.1682.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet size: 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of the British mathematician Venterus Mandey (1646 - 1702). Bust, to the right, looking at viewer, with shoulder length hair, wearing cloak and neck scarf. In an oval on a pedestal. This portrait was the frontispiece to Mandey's 'Marrow of Measuring' (1682).
[Ref: 33843] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Johannes Mayne. Philo: Accomp.
M. Marlow Scul.
[n.d., c.1674.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet size: 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of arithmetician and philospher John Mayne. Bust, to the right, with long curled hair, wearing a robe and cravat, in oval frame on pedestal. This portrait was the frontispiece to his publication 'Clavis Commercialis' (1674).
[Ref: 33842] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

General Miller
Sharpe pinxt. C. Turner sculpt.
Londres, Publicado 1829 por Londman y C.ia.
Mezzotint, scarce; sheet 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed as issued; paper tone.
William Miller (1795-1861), army officer, who served in the Peninsular Wars, America, and in the struggle for Chilean independence. He became a close friend of Simón Bolívar and repeatedly distinguished himself in Chile and Peru before returning to Europe in 1826. The Spanish-language publication line on this print suggests that although produced in London it was distributed to capitalise on Miller's celebrity in South America (it was also used to illustrate Miller's 'Memoirs').Miller later returned to Peru and was made British consul-general in the Pacific, dying in Callao where he spent much of his time.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33984] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Moxon. Born at Wakefield, August 8. Anno 1627.
[n.d., c.1699.]
Rare engraving. Sheet size: 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of English academic Joseph Moxon (1627 - 1691). Half length, to the right, looking at viewer, wearing long wig, gown and bands, in oval frame on pedestal. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to his 'A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography' (1699). Joseph Moxon, hydrographer to Charles II, was an English printer of mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and a mathematical lexicographer. He produced the first English language dictionary devoted to mathematics. In November 1678, he became the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 33840] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Lodowick Muggleton. Dyed the 14.th of March 1697/8. then Aged 88 years 7 months and 14 dayes.
[n.d., 1698.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet 170 x 115mm (6¾ 4½) Trimmed and mounted on album paper.
Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1698) was an English plebeian religious thinker, who gave his name to Muggletonianism. Worked from 1631 as a tailor for his cousin, William Reeve, whose brother John co-founded the Muggletonian sect. In 1651 he experienced a series of revelations. He declared himself and John Reeve the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation and claimed they had been given the power to bless believers and curse sceptics. In 1656 Muggleton and Reeve published the highly controversial The Divine Looking-Glass, in which the doctrines of the sect were developed. Amongst these were the beliefs that the distinction of the three persons in the Trinity were merely nominal and that God was a corporeal, embodied being. In 1677 Muggleton was imprisoned for blasphemy. The last Muggletonian, Philip Noakes, died in 1979.
[Ref: 33922] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Titus Oates Anagramma Testis Ovat. This is the true Originall taken from the Life done for Hen: Brome and Ric: Chiswell: All others are Counterfeit.
R. White ad vivum delin et sculp.
[n.d., c.1679.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of English perjurer Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing wig, bands, and robe. This portrait is from a broadside entitled 'A poem upon Mt Tytus Oates, the first discoverer of the late Popish Plot', published by Henry Brome and Richard Chiswell (1679). Oates was said to have fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
[Ref: 33846] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Potter, 25 Years Groom of Magdalene College, aged 82
[Anon., c.1790]
Soft-ground etching, very scarce; platemark 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed inside top platemark edge, with good margins.
Anonymous etching in the genre of locally-distributed portraits of celebrated eccentrics and other well-known figures.
[Ref: 33982] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Christophori Simpson Effigies.
J. Carwarden pinxit. Guil: Faithorne sculp.
[n.d., c.1659.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet size: 205 x 145mm (8 x 5¾). Trimmed to image. Glued to abum sheet at corners.
A portrait of English musician and composer, Christopher Simpson (1602/1606 - 1669), nearly half length in an oval frame, wearing bands and gown. A coat of arms is inscribed below the image. The portrait was used as a frontispiece to Simpson's 'Division-violist, or, An introduction to the playing upon a ground' (London, 1659).
Fagan. p.59. II of II.
[Ref: 33839] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Col.l St. Leger. European Magazine.
Engraved by P. Roberts from a Miniature Painted by R. Cosway Esq.r R.A.
Published March 20th 1795 by J. Sewell Cornhill.
Stipple with large margins, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
Anthony St Leger (bap. 1731- d. 1786), army officer and racing enthusiast. St Leger saw action in the Seven Years' War, and the American War of Independence (serving in the West Indies), before ending his life as a general officer in Ireland. Between wars he was MP for Great Grimsby, but is best-remembered now for instigating the St Leger stakes, one of the classic British flat races. St Leger had a racecourse at his Park Hill estate and the race continues to be run annually at Doncaster racecourse. After a miniature by Richard Cosway.
Daniell 127
[Ref: 33965] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Gilham Stanes Formerly Corporal. 62.d Reg.t Foot. Born at Brighton 1766.
Sketch'd from the life & Etch'd by J. Bruce.
Brighton, 1829.
Fine hand coloured etching. Platemark: 175 x 135mm (7 x 5½"). Very large margins.
A full-length portrait of war veteran, Gilham Stanes in part-uniform, on crutches, outdoors. A flagstaff can be seen at right, with a building in background. Stanes was severely wounded in the Irish Rebellion and discharged from the military.The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was an uprising against British rule in Ireland lasting from May to September 1798. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions, were the main organising force behind the rebellion. A short desciprtion of Stane's injury and his life after service is inscribed below the portrait.
[Ref: 33824] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, Daughter of Thomas Lord Wotton.
A. v. Dyck pinx. 1636. P. v. Gunst sculps. et exc. Amstelod.
Ex Museo Sereniss. Domini de Wharton. [n.d. c.1715.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 500 x 300mm (19¾ x 12"). Trimmed to image. Glued at top corners to album sheet.
Portrait of Katherine Stanhope (1609-1667), Countess of Chesterfield, full-length with arm resting on a rock in an open landscape. Katherine was the governess and confidante of Mary Henrietta Stuart, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange. Katherine was the eldest daughter to Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton. She married Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope (d.1634), known as Sir Henry Stanhope, a noble and politician.
[Ref: 33857] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender.] Jacqs Francois Edouard, Prince de Galles, Fils de Jacques II, Roy d'Angleterre Et de Marie Eleonor d'Este [...]
De L'Armessin Scul
AParis chez N. de L'Armessin Rue St Jacques, a la Pome d'Or / Avec Privil du Roy [c.1689]
Engraving, sheet 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), Trimmed inside platemark top edge; stains caused by tape; one small wormhole.
The Old Pretender as a child, holding a rattle, with text below.
Sharpe: 80.
[Ref: 33958] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The true effigies of Captaine Samuel Sturmy.
AH. [Abraham Hertochs.]
[n.d., c.1699.]
Engraving, very scarce. On verso in ink Robert Deek 1706; Sheet size: 275 x 175mm (10¾ x 7"). Trimmed to image. False border. Glued to album sheet.
A portrait of English writer Samuel Sturmy (1633 - 1669), three-quarter length, standing to the right, with his right hand on a globe, wearing a gown with large puffed and slit sleeves, and a lace cravat. In a decorative oval frame of leaves on a pedestal. This portrait was the frontispiece to his publication 'The Mariner's Magazine' (1669). Lettered above with the title on a ribbon at the top of oval, continuing "Aetatis Suae 36 Anno Domini 1669", and with four lines on pedestal below; "What here you see is but a graven face, [/] Only the picture of that brittle case, [/] whose soules the magazine of all these arts [/] which here most freely he to all imparts". At bottom right the initials "AH".
[Ref: 33845] £320.00

Jean Francois de Troy.
Aved pinxit. N. De Launay sculpsit.
[n.d., c. 1750.]
Engraving with large margins. Platemark: 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 9¾").
A portrait of Jean François de Troy (1679 - 1752), bust length with an easel and painting behind to the right. In an oval frame on a pedestal. Jean François de Troy was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer. He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy (1645 - 1730), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.
[Ref: 33865] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vera effigies Eduardi Waterhousi Armigeri Anno Domini 1663: Annoque Aetatis Suae 44.
D. Loggan ad vivum Sculp.
[n.d., c.1663.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of British antiquary and author, Edward Waterhouse (1619 - 1670). Head and shoulders in an oval frame, wearing a cap, collar and gown. This portrait was the frontispiece to his publication 'Fortescutus illustratus, or a commentary on that nervous treatise De laudibus legum Angliæ' (1663). A coat of arms is inscribed below image, with a motto on scroll above arms reading "Firma Nobis Fides".
[Ref: 33847] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Eduardus Water - hous Armig.
A. Hertochs fe.
[n.d., c.1665.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet size: 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of British antiquary and author, Edward Waterhouse (1619 - 1670). Half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing a cloak wrapped over shoulders. In an oval frame on a pedestal with arms below. This portrait was the frontispiece to Waterhouse's publication, 'The Gentleman's Monitor' (1665).
[Ref: 33849] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Johan Witt] Johannes Witt Mercat Francof. Natus Hamburgi Anno MDCXLIII [...]
Warner Hassells Pinx. Johannes Smith Fecit Londini 1707.
Mezzotint, scarce; platemark 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Rubbed. Slightly broken platemark on left.
Portrait of Frankfurt merchant Johan Witt (1643-1703) with verses in German below, engraved by the celebrated mezzotinter John Smith after a portrait by the little-known Werner Hassel (1674-1710, fl.) who worked in London but probably came from Germany, where he also worked. Vertue recorded that the British artist George Lambert 'learnt of...Hassel', but whether he was Hassells' pupil is not proven.
CS 279 ii/ii; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33964] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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