Grosvenor Prints

Alexandre étant tombé malada et ayant receu avis de Parmenion, que Philippe son medecin…ne s auroient même en concevoir le soupçon dans les autres. A Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'orleans.
Se vend à Paris avec privil. du Roy au Palais du Luxembourg ou le dit Audran demeure. Par son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur Benoist Audran.
[n.d. c.1711.]
Copper engraving. Plate 411 x 368mm. 16¼ x 14½". Some creasing.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was King of Macedon and is remembered for uniting the states of Greece. He managed to conquer Persia, Egypt and a number of other kingdoms up to the borders of India. He died of a sudden fever, as depicted here on his death bed, at the palace of Nebuchadnezzarr II of Babylon. Engraved in reverse from the painting by Le Sueur now in the National Gallery, London.
IFF 12: ii. BM: X,8.61.
[Ref: 17326] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nero depositing the Ashes of Britannicus. [& Printsellers Label on Verso] A. Beugo. Picture & Printseller. No.29 Greek St. Soho. NB a low price on each print. [Written in ink.]
Le Sueur Pinx.t. E. Edwards delin.t. J. S. Mullar Sculpsit.
[Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t. By J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London May 1st 1765.][Label n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 360 x480mm (14 x 19"). Label printed on tissue paper, laid on reverse of print. Engraving trimmed within plate and title area. Creasing. General paper tone. Messy.
The intrigues of Agrippa to displace Nero and to elevate Britannicus, the son of Claudius, led to Nero's first domestic tragedy—the poisoning of Britannicus. The painting hangs at Windsor Castle with the title Caligula depositing the ashes of his mother and brother in the tomb of his ancestors. "The Most Capital Paintings in England" series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to 1773) originally published under the title .Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints. On verso for Alexander Beugo (1801-1827), print publisher and seller. For a portrait of Beugo, see item ref: 33957.
[Ref: 37269] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Cassowary]. Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile Descrès. Casoar de la N.elle (Casuarines novæ Hollandiæ. Lath.)
C.A. Lesueur del. J. Milbert direx. F.res Lambert sculp.
De l'Imprimerie de Langlois. [Paris, 1807.]
Engraving, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed within plate, tape stains on edges. Very slight crease top right.
A family of cassowaries, drawn by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur for the official account of Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia. Leseuer was originally an assistant gunner on the expeditions, but took over artist and naturalist duties after a number of the expedition members left the ship due to illness at Mauritius.
[Ref: 39128] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

La Muse, Calliope.
Peint par le Sueur Dessiné et Gravé par Picart [c.1720]
Very fine engraving, platemark 335 x 220mm (13¼ x 8½"), with very large margins.
Although claiming to represent the muse Calliope (associated with epic poetry), the work from which this derives is traditionally believed to by Terpsichore (associated with music). Engraved after the painting by Eustache Le Sueur (1616-55), one of a series which he produced for his patron, the financier Nicolas Lambert. Together, they were installed as the 'Chambre des Muses' at the Lambert's residence, Hôtel Lambert in Paris. Le Sueur, a founder of French classicism long considered the 'French Raphael', decorated the room in 1652 with paintings depicting the nine Muses and a ceiling painting of 'Phaeton asking Apollo's Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun'. In 1776 the paintings were all sold to Louis XVI, and today are in the Louvre. From a folio of engravings recording in details Le Sueur's many works for the Hôtel Lambert.
For a view of the 'Chambre des Muses' see ref. 38586; for Terpsichore see ref.40172.
[Ref: 40171] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Muse, Terpsichore
Peint par le Sueur Dessiné et Gravé par Picart [c.1720]
Very fine engraving, platemark 335 x 220mm (13¼ x 8½"), with very large margins.
Although claiming to represent the muse Terpsichore (associated with music), the work from which this derives is often believed to be Calliope (associated with epic poetry). Engraved after the painting by Eustache Le Sueur (1616-55), one of a series which he produced for his patron, the financier Nicolas Lambert. Together, they were installed as the 'Chambre des Muses' at the Lambert's residence, Hôtel Lambert in Paris. Le Sueur, a founder of French classicism long considered the 'French Raphael', decorated the room in 1652 with paintings depicting the nine Muses and a ceiling painting of 'Phaeton asking Apollo's Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun'. In 1776 the paintings were all sold to Louis XVI, and today are in the Louvre. From a folio of engravings recording in details Le Sueur's many works for the Hôtel Lambert.
For a view of the 'Chambre des Muses' see ref. 38586; for Calliope see ref. 40171.
[Ref: 40172] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Quinze Roy de France et de navarre.
Peint par N. le Sueur. Grave par M. Aubert.
a Paris chez la Veuve Chereau, aux deux pilliers d'Or, et chez Francois Chereau, rue St. Jacques au grand St. Henry. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving. 320 x 480mm. Discolouration and foxing in margin only, except for band of staining through top of sky.
Louis XV [1710 - 1774], King of France 1715 - 1774.
Collection of the Royal House of Savoy and Italy.
[Ref: 5850] £450.00

Moses in the Bulrushes. In the Gallery of Houghton.
Le Sueur Pinxit. Richard Read Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1779. Published May 1.st 1779 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple and engraving. 405 x 280mm (16 x 11"), very large margins. Slight creasing in centre.
Pharoah's daughter finds Moses in a basket, caught in the bulrushes.
[Ref: 67106] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Moses in the Bulrushes. In the Gallery of Houghton.
Le Sueur Pinxit. Richard Read Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1779. Published May 1.st 1779 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple and engraving. 405 x 280mm (16 x 11"), very large margins. Slight creasing in centre.
Pharoah's daughter finds Moses in a basket, caught in the bulrushes.
[Ref: 66878] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Les Muses Melpomène, Polymnie, et Erato.
Le Sueur, Delinavit. Guyot, Excudit.
a Paris chez Guyot Graveur, rue Jacques, No. 9..[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching with printed and hand colour, sheet 165 x 194mm. Trimmed to plate and glued to album page at corners.
Attractive image of three Muses seated in a landscape beside a clump of trees, with good colour. From left to right, Melpomene, kneeling and singing whilst looking at a music score, Polymnia with her arm resting on a book, and Erato, playing the cello. Engraved and published by Laurent Guyot (1756 - 1808).
[Ref: 7905] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Nero depositing the Ashes of Britannicus. From the Original Picture painted by Le Sueur, in the Collection of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, to Whom this Print is , with the most profound submission, dedicated by her Royal Highnesses most humble, most obedient and most dutiful, Servant, J.Boydell.
Le Sueur Pinxt. E. Edwards delin.t. J. S. Mullar Sculpsit.
Size of picture 4F:5 by 5F:2 in Height. No. 17 under. Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. By J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London May 1st 1765.
Copper engraving 375 x 510mm, 14¾ x 19¾inches.
The intrigues of Agrippa to displace Nero and to elevate Britannicus, the son of Claudius, led to Nero’s first domestic tragedy—the poisoning of Britannicus. The painting hangs at Windsor Castle with the title Caligula depositing the ashes of his mother and brother in the tomb of his ancestors. "The Most Capital Paintings in England" series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to 1773) originally published under the title .Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
[Ref: 14373] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Nero depositing the Ashes of Britannicus.
Le Sauer Pinx.t J. Boydell excud.t 1765 J. S. Muller Sculpsit.
London, 1765.
Copper engraving, proof before title, 18th century watermark. 510 x 385mm (20 x 15¼"), with widee margins.
The intrigues of Agrippa to displace Nero and to elevate Britannicus, the son of Claudius, led to Nero’s first domestic tragedy—the poisoning of Britannicus. The painting hangs at Windsor Castle with the title Caligula depositing the ashes of his mother and brother in the tomb of his ancestors. "The Most Capital Paintings in England" series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to 1773) originally published under the title .Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
[Ref: 53955] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Queen of Sheba's Visit to King Solomon. From the Original Picture, Painted by Le Sueur, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire; To whom this Plate is Dedicated, by his Grace's most Obliged, & most humble Servant, John Boydell.
Le Sueur pinx.t E. Edwards delin.t Gabriel Smith Sculp.t
Published by J. Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London; Jan.y 1.st 1767.
Copper engraving, 345 x 380mm. 13¼ x 15". Uncut sheet.
The Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon of Israel, who she visited after hearing of his great wisdom, as described in the Book of 1 Kings in the Bible. Engraved after the painting of 1650 by Eustache Le Sueur (Paris 1616-55), now in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. The scene was one of a pair (with 'The Dream of Solomon') painted by Le Sueur to hang above a fireplace in the Paris mansion of the Countess de Tonnay-Charente. A pupil of Simone Vouet, Le Sueur followed a clasically-inspired course in his works. He is now remembered chiefly for his St. Bruno series painted for Chartreuse (now in the Louvre). Numbered 'No. 31', from "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
Christopher Wright, 'The World's Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day'.
[Ref: 14556] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ansicht von Sidney von der Südseite, und er Mündung des Parramatta Fluesses. Taf. 2.
[after C.A. Lesueur.]
[Germany, c.1810.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 160 x 320mm (6¼ x 12½"). Folds and creases as normal.
A view of Sydney Cove with the camp of the French Baudin expedition on the foreshore and an aborigine camp to the left. It was published in a German edition of the official account of the Baudin voyage.
[Ref: 54751] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Tobias's Nuptial Night. From the Original Picture, Painted by Eustache le Sueur, In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Besborough; To whom this Plate is most Humbly Dedicated, by his Lordship's most Obliged, and most Obedient Servant, John Boydell.
Le Sueur pinx.t, R. Earlom delin.t S.F. Ravonet
Published by J. Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London; Jan.y 1.st 1767.
Line engraving, 44 x 54cm. 17¼ x 21¼". Large paper.
Biblical scene, from the painting (now in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier) by Eustache Le Sueur (Paris 1616-55). A pupil of Simone Vouet, Le Sueur followed a clasically-inspired course in his works. He is now remembered chiefly for his St. Bruno series painted for Chartreuse (now in the Louvre). From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes, late 1760s-1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell who promoted the interests of both artists, engravers and Patrons establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints.
Christopher Wright, 'The World's Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day'.
[Ref: 14569] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

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