Grosvenor Prints

[Aeneas saving his father from the burning of Troy.] A Monsieur De Jullienne Ecuyer Chevalier de l'Ordre de St Michel. Par son tres humble Serviteur Nicolas Dupuis. Quand tu sauves la vie à l'auteur de tes jours, Tout vancu que tu sois, Tendre et pieux Enée, Et que pour le porter tu prestes ton secours, Tu me parois plus grand sous poids précieux, Fuyant ta ville infortunée, Que tous les Grecs victorieux. Moraine.
Carles Vanloo pinxit. N. Dupuis junior Sculp.
a Paris chez Dupuis graveur du Roy rüe de la Vannerie à L'Ange St Michel. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Very large margins.
After the defeat of Troy Aneas carries his elderly father Anchises from the burning city, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius.
[Ref: 38123] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Pierre Bayle] Baelius hic ille est cujus dum scripta vigebunt Lis erit, oblectent, erudiant ne magis.
Jam.s Smith Sculpsit 1733 [after [Carle Van Loo].
Engraving, 320 x 190mm (12½ x 7½"). Creased.
Portrait of French philosopher Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), the frontispiece to 'Bayle's General Dictionary'.
[Ref: 66725] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre Bayle, ne en 1647 mort en 1706.
Carle Vanloo del. François sc. et ex. C.P.R.
[Paris: Brunet, c.1760.]
Crayon manner printed in reddish-brown ink, sheet 295 x 220mm. 11½ x 8¾".
Portrait of Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706), French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695. Bayle was a Protestant who advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. By Jean Charles François (1717 - 1769), inventor the crayon manner technique of etching in 1757. Numbered 'VIIe. Metha.' upper right. For Alexandre Savérien's 'Histoire des Philosophes modernes', published in eight 4to volumes from 1760-1767. 79 plates (and eight frontispieces) were engraved for the book.
[Ref: 22207] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Bear Hunt] Chasse à L'Ours
Peint par Carlo Vanloo. Gravé par J.J. Flipart
A Paris chez Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais No. 32 [c.1773 bit later]
Engraving, platemark 505 x 370mm (19¾ x 14½"). Large margins.
Two bears attacked by numerous dogs and men (mainly on horseback), while another bear is pursued in the background. Engraving after a painting by Carle Van Loo, originally issued as a pair with a 'Tiger Hunt' after Boucher. The paintings were part of a set of nine then at the Surintendance in Versailles, and it appears that the engraver Flipart having obtained permission to reproduce them, originally intended to publish a larger series (see notes to British Museum cataloguing for the latter).
[Ref: 38465] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupid] Qu’il est malin! Qu’il a d’appas! Ah! Que n’inspire t-‘il des flames éternelles! Les Roses naissent-sous ses pas; Quel dommage qu’il ait des aîles. Pesselier. Dedié à Mr. Descamps Professeur de l’Academie de Dessein, et Associé à celle des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen; Par son très humble Serviteur Robert Strange.
Carolus Vanloo Eques pinx.t Robertus Strange sculp.
Gravé d’après le Tableau de Carle Vanloo Ecuier, tire du Cabinet de Mr. Le Noir [n.d. c.1750].
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with wide margins. Water stain lower left of margin.
Cupid standing and leaning back against a rocky seat, his left hand on his bow, his quiver at his feet, smiling towards with viewer, with a cloak over his arm. A rose-bush on the right; rock face behind and a view of a trees and a valley in the background to left. This is believed to be Robert Strange's first engraving.
[Ref: 31260] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupid] This chamrning Archer of the Skies! His Dart a thrilling Please brings; Roses beneath his feet arise. Tis Pity such a God has Wings!
Carolus Vanloo eques Pinx.t. James Moore fecit.
London Published June 1.st by Rob.t Sayer N.o55 Fleet Street.
Very rare mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") Thread margins. Tear on right repaired with acid free tape.
Cupid stands leaning back against a rocky seat, his right hand resting on his bow and his quiver lying at his feet. He smiles warmly toward the viewer, a cloak draped over his left arm. To the left, a rose-bush blooms, while a rugged rock-face rises behind him. In the background to the right, a scenic view reveals trees and a valley stretching into the distance.
CS page 941.
[Ref: 65906] £320.00

[Cupid] Qu’il est malin! Qu’il a d’appas! Ah! Que n’inspire t-‘il des flames éternelles! Les Roses naissent-sous ses pas; Quel dommage qu’il ait des aîles. Pesselier. Dedié à Mr. Descamps Professeur de l’Academie de Dessein, et Associé à celle des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen; Par son très humble Serviteur Robert Strange.
Carolus Vanloo Eques pinx.t Robertus Strange sculp.
Gravé d’après le Tableau de Carle Vanloo Ecuier, tire du Cabinet de Mr. Le Noir [n.d. c.1750].
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
Cupid standing and leaning back against a rocky seat, his left hand on his bow, his quiver at his feet, smiling towards with viewer, with a cloak over his arm. A rose-bush on the right; rock face behind and a view of a trees and a valley in the background to left. This is believed to be Robert Strange's first engraving.
[Ref: 59162] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sainte Geneviève Patrone de Paris Dedié au Roy. Tiré de la Galerie de Mr. de Siffredy Mornas a Avignon.
C. Vanle Eques Pinxit. J. Balechou Archat.s Sculpsit.
Par son tres humble tres obeissant et tres fidelle serviteur et sujet Balechou. Chez l'auteur au bout de la rue portail mayanen a avignon. [n.d. c.1758.]
Engraving. 533 x 362mm (21 x 14¼"). Trimmed, repairs.
In a landscape, St. Geneviève, patron saint of Paris, sitting in profile to the right, is reading a book, with her flock at her feet and three cherubs' heads in the sky. After a painting by Carle van Loo, 1740.
[Ref: 28645] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[St Geneviève.]
C. Vanlo Eques Pinxt. S. Paul Sculpt.
Rob.t Sayer Excudit. [n.d. c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾") with large margins. Creased in centre.
Saint Genevieve sitting in a landscape at the edge of a stream reading a book, a tree behind her and her sheep sitting beside her to right, while two cherubs look down on her to upper right. Scratched-letter proof with artist and engraver's names only.
[Ref: 60337] £320.00

The Right Honourable John Lord Gower, Lord Privy Seal [...] Anno 1743.
Vanlo Pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by C. Hitch in Paternoster Row, London, and by S. Parsons at Newcastle Under Lime.
Mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10") Small margins.
John Leveson-Gower, first Earl Gower (1694-1754), politician. Leader of the Tories in the Lords in the 1730s, after Walpole's fall he was the one Tory to take high office (as lord privy seal and a privy councillor, from 1742) in the new ministry, as delebrated here. However, he resigned in December 1743, soon after this print was published. He subsequently regained his position as lord privy seal and held it until his death. Gower's proximity to the whig administration provoked suspicion that he had deserted Tory principles (Dr Johnson included him in his dictionary definition for 'renegado' although the printer removed the reference).
CS: 163.
[Ref: 69362] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable John Lord Gower, Lord Privy Seal [...] Anno 1743.
Vanlo Pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by C. Hitch in Paternoster Row, London, and by S. Parsons at Newcastle Under Lime.
Mezzotint, platemark 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Small margins; glued to backing sheet at corners; rubbed.
John Leveson-Gower, first Earl Gower (1694-1754), politician. Leader of the Tories in the Lords in the 1730s, after Walpole's fall he was the one Tory to take high office (as lord privy seal and a privy councillor, from 1742) in the new ministry, as delebrated here. However, he resigned in December 1743, soon after this print was published. He subsequently regained his position as lord privy seal and held it until his death. Gower's proximity to the whig administration provoked suspicion that he had deserted Tory principles (Dr Johnson included him in his dictionary definition for 'renegado' although the printer removed the reference).
CS: 163. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34230] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Josephe de Saxe Dauphine De France.
Vanloo pinxit. De Larmessin Sculp.
a Paris chez De Larmessin Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers a la deuxieme porte cochere entrant par la rue St. Jacques Avec Privilege du Roy. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 355 x 450mm. Light paper discolouration. Trimmed to platemark on 2 sides.
Marie-Josèphe of Saxony (1731-67), Dauphine of France, daughter of Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and king of Poland, and Marie Josepha of Austria, the daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor. She married Louis, dauphin de France, only surviving son of Louis XV, in 1747 and had eight living children, three of whom became kings of France; Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X.
[Ref: 52684] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Peinture. A Madame de Pompafour Dame du Palais de La Reine Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Fessard.
Carle Vanloo pinxit. St. Fessard Sculp 1756.
AParis chez l''Auteur, graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliothèque rue St Thomas du Louvre.
Rare etching with engraving. 345 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Restoration in left of inscription area and margin top right. Small margins.
A small boy paints a near naked young girl. The plate is dedicated to Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), favourite mistress and confidant of Louis XV. Van Loo's portrait of the previous year, 'La Marquise de Pompadour en jardinière' still hangs in Versailles.
[Ref: 69479] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable Stephen Poynz Esq.r one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, 1744.
Vanloo pinxit, 1732. J.Faber fecit.
Price 2.d. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 244mm.
Stephen Poynz (1685-1750), governor of the young Duke of Cumberland, diplomat and Privy Councillor.
[Ref: 7293] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Small margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, repaired tears, creased.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67541] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
[Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, folded in centre.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67540] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Narrow margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv.
[Ref: 67516] £320.00

Guillelmo Comiti Cadogan &c.
Carolus Vanloo inv. et delin. Eques Nicolaus Dorigny Sculp. anno 1737.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 650 x 410mm, 25½ x 16". Tears to margins, creased, some staining.
An allegorical monument to William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (1675–1726), one of Churchill's senior officers during the War of the Spanish Succession and commander of the army during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715.
From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10622] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable S.r Robert Walpole, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter; First Lord Commissioner of His Majesties Treasury, Chanceller and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, one of His Majesties most Hon.ble Privy Council and one of the Lords of the Regency. Anno 1741.
Vanloo Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
Price 5.s Sold by Faber at ye Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [c.1741].
Mezzotint. Sheet 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, creasing, laid on album paper at edges.
A full-length portrait Robert Walpole (1676-1745), standing, wearing the sash and star of the Order of the Garter, propping the Chancellor's purse on a table. The painting was by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Walpole is regarded as the first Prime Minister.
CS 372, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69729] £360.00

The Right Honourable S.r Robert Walpole, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter; First Lord Commissioner of His Majesties Treasury, Chanceller and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, one of His Majesties most Hon.ble Privy Council and one of the Lords of the Regency. Anno 1741.
Vanloo Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
Price 5.s Sold by Faber at ye Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [c.1741].
Mezzotint. Sheet 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper at edges.
A full-length portrait Robert Walpole (1676-1745), standing, wearing the sash and star of the Order of the Garter, propping the Chancellor's purse on a table. The painting was by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Walpole is regarded as the first Prime Minister.
Ex: Collection Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Belton
[Ref: 69730] £320.00

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