Grosvenor Prints

Death of Adonis. from Theocrates.
J. Barber inv.t et del.t. S. Wykes, Sculpsit, Birm.
Publish'd as the act directs March 1st 1785 by S. Wykes.
Rare stipple, printed in sanguine. 285 x 300mm (11¼ x 11¾"), with wide margins left & right. Narrow margins top and bottom.
Adonis, having been gored by a boar he was hunting, dies attended by Aphrodite and Eros. A rare Birmingham publication: there is nothing attributed to Wykes listed on the British Museum web site.
[Ref: 54241] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

De Saal van het sadt Huys t'Amsterdam. Vue de la grande salle dans la maison de villle à Amsterdam.
Sevend à { Amsterdam, chez Jof: Buff a et Compe dans le Kalwerstraát, Paris, Chez Ambrefonne, Porte St. Antoine, Mon des Boucheries.
Rare etching lines with aquatint colour, printed in colour. Sheet 29.5 x 22cm (11¾ x 8¾"). Cut and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Plate 11 from a series of at least 20 views of Amsterdam. An interior view of a town hall. The print was published by both Buffa & Co in the Netherlands and Ambresonne in France.
[Ref: 54054] £260.00

De Muyier Poordt te Amsterdam. Vue de la porte de Muyier à Amsterdam.
G.A Meysenheym del. J.A. Le Campion sculp.
Sevend à { Amsterdam, chez Jof: Buff a et Compe dans le Kalwerstraát, Paris, Chez Ambrefonne, Porte St. Antoine, Mon des Boucheries.
Rare etching lines with aquatint colour, printed in colour. Sheet 29.5 x 22cm (11¾ x 8¾"). Cut and glued to backing sheet at edges
Plate 12 from a series of at least 20 views of Amsterdam. A view of a port; a wooden bridge leads to a domed white building. There is a windmill, two small buildings and a couple of trees on the left within circle. The print was published by both Buffa & Co in the Netherlands and Ambresonne in France.
BM 1917,1208.1587
[Ref: 54053] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

An Amusing Novel.
Jos. Scheurenberg pinx.t. Ernst Forbert sculp.t.
Rud. Schuster. Berlin. O. Felsing Imp. [n.d., c.1880.]
Photogravure. Sheet 500 x 385mm (19¾ x 15").
A salon, with two women in 18th century dress. One reads a book, the other sews. Joseph Scheurenberg (1846-1914), a German portrait, genre and history painter. From 1881 he taught at the Prussian Kunstakademie in Berlin.
[Ref: 54285] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Angelica.
J. Gresse del: John Boydell exc.t 1782. Mango sculp.t.
Publish'd Oct.r 25th 1782 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple, sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate, repair to bottom left corner.
Profile portrait, probably a representation of artist Angelica Kauffman, after John Alexander Gresse (1741-1794), drawing master to the royal children in the 1780s.
[Ref: 54237] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Children in the Wood. Their pretty lips with blackberries, Were all besmear'd and dyed, And when they saw the darksome night. They sat them down and cried [...]
Benwell pinx.t L. C. Ruotte sc. Se vend a[?] Paris chez Arthur et Compagnie, a la Manufacture de Papiers au coin de la rue [...] le Boulevard.
Paris, 1914.
Coloured engraving. 280 x 320mm (12½ x 11"), with wide margins. Some creasing in upper right corner.
A scene from the English folk tale better known as 'The Babes in the Wood'. Abandoned in the forest, the two children fall asleep at dusk.
[Ref: 54080] £450.00

[Bail form] Public Office, Bow Street. Taske Notice that you [ __ ] of [ __ ] aare bound in the Sum of Forty Pounds, to appear at the Session of the Peace, to be holden for the County of Middlesex, at the Session House, Clerkenwell Greem, on the [ __ ] Day of [ __ ] next, to prefer as Bill of Indictment, and prosecute the Law with effect against [ __ ] for Felony [...]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress form, part 18th century watermark. Sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½").
An unused bail form, to be filled in and signed by a Justice of the Peace.
[Ref: 54219] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Sir J.ph Banks (Voyageur-Naturaliste,) Président de la société royale de Londres. Né à Revesby dans le Comté de Lincoln (Angleterre), en 1743. Mort à Londres, le 9 Mai 1820.
Dessiné d’après le Tableau de Th. Phillips, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Trimmed to plate top & bottom.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the naturalist, botanist and explorer who was patron of science and President of the Royal Society, 1778-1820. He sailed with Captain Cook to the Pacific on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour, 1768-71, and compiled a unique natural history collection. He held a position of great influence in the scientific world and he advised on ventures such as the Kew Botanic Gardens and the first British colonies in Australia.
W: 164 - not in. Kivell & Spence: pg.20.
[Ref: 54236] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Barclay's Dictonary, word Conjurer.
W. M. Craig delin. J. Brown sculp. Published as the Act directs by T. Kinnersley May 1.st 1813.
London, 1813.
Engraving. 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
A scene depicting a man in wizards robes waving a wand over a book, on a table next to a smoking cauldron. Two devil figures, one crouched, one with arms extended upward, stand behind the table. A man crouches next to the wizard clutching his face. The image pressumably illustrates the definition for the word 'conjurer'.
[Ref: 54120] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Bard.
S. Shelley pin.t. C. Taylor sculp.y.
London, Publish'd May 1. 1788], by C. Taylor. No 10 near Castle Street, Holborn
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
An oval portait of a bard holding a harp. An illustration to Thomas Gray's poem, 'The Bard. A Pindaric Ode', 1757. From the first volume of 'The Cabinet of Genius containing frontispieces and characters adapted to the most popular poems', which contained thirty stipples by Charles Taylor after Samuel Shelley of characters from famours poems by various authors
[Ref: 54200] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille, role de Falstaff. dans Le Songe d'Une Nuit d'Ete. Galerie Dramatique. Theatre De L'Opera Comique.
517 Paris maison Martinet _41, r. Vivienne et 15 r du Coq.
Paris, [n.d. c.1850]
Hand coloured lithograph. 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½").
A colour portrait of Eugene Bataille in full costume for his character Falstaff in Le Songe d'Une Nuit d'Ete (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Composed by Ambroise Thomas and first performed in 1850, this opera-comique of the same name bears no similarity to Shakespeare's play, though Shakespeare is a character in the play. Falstaff, in the play, is the govenor of Richmond Palace, charged with transporting an intoxicated Shakespeare.
[Ref: 54087] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Battle of the Nile. Representing the situation of the two Fleets, previous to the blowing up of the L'Orient, on the Night of Aug.1. 1798.
Whitcomb Pinx.t. Hellyer Sculp.t.
London, Published Jan.y 1 1806 by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery Pall Mall.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 475 x 715mm (18¾ x 28"). Trimmed inside platemark, repairs, few creases.
The Battle of the Nile (or Aboukir Bay), fought between the British and French navies on the Mediterranean Coast off Egypt from 1-3 August 1798, which resulted in a decisive victory for the British under the command of Lord Nelson. This print shows the decisive moment when the French flagship 'Orient' (in the centre of the image) caught fire. The British, observing this, directed their cannon fire into the blaze, spreading the flames and preventing French efforts to extinguish the fire. The other ships seen here, both French and British, then moved away from the 'Orient' in anticipation of the huge explosion which took place once the fire reached the ship's magazines.
Not in Parker
[Ref: 54259] £420.00

Boors Drinking. In the Cabinet at Houghton. Picture the same size as the print.
Ostade Pinx. G. Farrington delin.t. J. B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published May 1.st 1779 by J.on Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine engraving. 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"), with very wide margins.
A scene of four weary looking men drinking and smoking together.
[Ref: 54121] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Boors at Cards in the Cabinet at Houghton. Picture the same size as the print.
David Teniers Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t J. B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published Dec.r 1st 1778 by J.on Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine engraving. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), with very wide margins.
A scene depicting a group of merry men engrossed in a game of cards.
[Ref: 54122] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Habitation et Propriété de M.r Henri Fournier Sur la Montagne de S.ta Thereza à Rio Janeiro.
Dessiné par Mr N. Desmons.Lith. par A. Guesdon.
Imp. Lemercier, Pris. [n.d., 1855.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet. 395 x 850mm (15½ x 33½"). Extensive tear, repaired, cracking, surface abrasion, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A Brazilian fazenda (plantation) building, with some of the black workers dancing outside. Iluchar Desmons (b.1803) settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1840. In 1855 he published ''Panoramas de la Ville de Rio de Janeiro'', with thirteen lithographs. He often signed his plates with 'N Desmons'.
[Ref: 54161] £450.00

[Brighton] To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, This Panorama is (by Permission) most Gratefully and Humbly Dedicated by W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, 1, Ship St.t Brighton, and W. Mason, Printseller &c. St Mary's Place, Cambridge.
Drawn by H. Wilds, Architect, Brighton. A. Edington sculp.t, 10 Portland St. London.
Ackermann & Co London. Published as the Act Directs 1833.
Very scarce aquatint on several sheets conjoined, with original hand colour, incomplete. Total size c. 140 x 2800mm (5½ x 110"). All folds reinforced on verso, other signs of wear. Lacking approx 1600mm in the west and between Bedford Square and Preston Street.
A rolling prospect of Brighton's King's Road, illustrating the seafront architecture running from the publisher's premises on the corner of Ship Street, west to Waterloo Street in Hove. Among the existing buildings shown are Brunswick Terrace, The Norfolk Hotel (now the 'Mercure Brighton Seafront') and the west of Bedford Square. and street-life captured at a turning point in the town's history, just before its Victorian boom as a resort, precipitated by the arrival of the railway in 1841. William Henry Goodburn Mason (1810 - 1879) was a publisher and printseller, also carver and gilder, based in Brighton. We can trace no other work by the engraver Edington.
Abbey Life 527; Ford: 22.
[Ref: 54165] £750.00 view all images for this item

A Brown Study.
Drawn & Engraved by Fred.k Ja.s Havell.
[London Published Dec.r 8th 1829, for the Proprietor by J. Kendrick, 8 Sidney's Alley.]
Mezzotint with etching. Sheet 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
The interior of a garret studio, with the artist seated on a chair, staring into the fireplace. Behind him is an easel and maulstick, table with palette, paint brushes, paint box and small bottles; a guitar and music book lying on the floor. The room is filled with picture and sculpture. Frederick James Havell (1801-40) was the brother of landscape painter William Havell.
[Ref: 54191] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. Proof.
Painted by T. Phillips, engraved by S. W. Reynolds.
Pub.d by T. Phillips, Feb.y 1822.
Fine mezzotint. 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"), with wide margins.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
Whitman: 45
[Ref: 53855] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Cape St Vincent.] Nelson Receiving the Swords on Board the San Josef, Feb.y 14, 1797. To the British Navy, this Historical Engraving from the Original Picture in the Possession of the Publishers, ie repectfully dedicated by Leggatt, Hayward & Leggatt.
Painted by Tho.s J. Barker. Engraved by Cha.s G. Lewis.
London, Published November 10, 1853, by Leggatt, Hawyward & Leggatt, 79, Cornhill.
Large mixed method engraving, fine impression. 720 x 1200mm (28¼ x 47¼"). Repaired tears, including one entering image at top and one through title area.
A view of the aftermath of the Battle of Cape St Vincent, with Commodore Horatio Nelson receiving the surrender of 'San José', one of the two ships his boarders had overrun, using the novel technique of crossing one ship to get to the second.. Brought into the Royal Navy and renamed 'San Josef', the ship was finally broken up in 1849.
[Ref: 54240] £680.00

Capt.n Conquest and his Baggage Waggon.
S. H. Grimm del.t. J. Goldar sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.o 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith N.o 35 Cheapside, as the Act directs 15 June 1772.
Engraving. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with large margins. Uncut.
In this satire on fashion and unequal marriage, a squat, elaborately dressed women stands with a tall man dressed in military fashion. The title of the print suggests the man has successfully pursued this marriage for the sake of the woman's wealth.
[Ref: 54082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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Îles CarolinesL Dances et Costum des Naururels.
J.s. Arago delin.t. Lerouge et Choubard sculpt.
[Paris, 1822-4.]
Stipple. 235 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"), with wide margins.
Men of the Caroline Islands dancing with staves, under instruction from a man at the side. A plate from the official account of Louis-Claude de Freycinet's circumnavigation, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 54234] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Catechism
Painted by J. Rising. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare mezzotint, open letter proof, inscription area partially uncleaned. Sheet 485 x 605mm (19 z 23¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Four children in a cottage interior, listening intently to a boy reading from a catechism.
Whitman: 286. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 54255] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Saint Catherine.] From a Picture in the Collection of Robert Wigram Esq.r M. P. To whom this Plate is dedicated by his obedient Servant C. Turner.
Painted by Correggio. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London, Published Jan.y 18. 1810, by C. Tur[ner No. 50, Warren Street,] Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 560 x 405 mm (22 x 16"), with wide margins. Publisher's inscription weakly inked; evidence of a printer's patch over armorial.
Saint Catherine holding a broken wheel, crowned with a wreath by a cherub. The emperor Maxentius condemned the Christian virgin to death on a spiked breaking wheel but, at her touch, it shattered. She was then beheaded and a milk-like substance flowed instead of blood.
Whiman, Turner, 704.
[Ref: 54254] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

(No. 1) View of Cato Street. Description of the Plate. A. Front view of the Stable in Cato Street [...].
W. H. Harriott delin.t 26 Feb.y 1820. Printed by F. Moser 4 Greenland Place Cromer St. London. Published by J & S Fuller Rathbone Place Feb. 26. 1820.
London, 1820.
Lithograph. 370 x 270mm (14½ x10½"). Laid on album paper. Some light foxing across the print. Horizontal crease across the centre.
A view of the stable on Cato Street where the Cato Street Conspirators assembled, including a key and description. Plate 1 of the 'Cato Street Conspiracy' series. A black and white version of the coloured lithograph.
[Ref: 54124] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

In the Valley of Chamouni.
On Stone by T.S. Cooper. A Ducotés Lithog.y 10 St Martins Lane.
London, Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.
Lithograph. Printed area 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"), with very wide margins.
A view from the valley looking up at the Mont Blanc massif. Thomas Sydney Cooper (1803-1902) is better known for his cattle subjects.
[Ref: 54244] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To the Memory of the Duke of Marlborough.
D. Creti Eques: et N. Ferravoli et J.P. Mirando Pinx. L. Cars Sculp. et D.M.Fratta delin.
John Boydell excudit London.
Engraving. 650 x 415mm (25¾ x 16¼''). Large margins on 3 sides.
An allegorical scene featuring an invented monument to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, hero of the War of the Spanish Succession, depicting him as a Roman general on horseback. From Boydell's edition of 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne' by Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, first published by Basan in Paris c.1737. Boydell has translated the title into English from Latin and added his name as publisher. McSwiny had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. This series of paintings, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen, was planned for the decoration of the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood.
See BM 1859,0709.685 for the first published state. See: 10619
[Ref: 54252] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Clio gesta canens, transactis Temposa reddit. In the Collection of Mr Reynolds.
il Guercino del.t. W.W. Ryland sc.t 1763.
CR [Charles Rogers] edid.t. [c.1763.]
Mezzotint with etching, printed in sepia, 18th century watermark; 320 x 460mm (12½ x 18") with large margins on 3 sides. Narrow top margin. Slightly time stained
Clio, the muse of History, sitting on a throne in the clouds, reading. One putto holds a hourglass, another a small book. From 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings' by Charles Rogers. A Second edition was published by Boydell in 1778.
[Ref: 54168] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Behold rare Cocker's Life-resembling Shade: [...].
R. Gaywood. fec[?].
[n.d. 1657]
Rare etching. 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6"). Vertical creasing affecting the title area. Small perforation near lower left corner. ,Foxing.
A decorated portrait of Edward Cocker (1631-1676) and frontispiece to 'Arts glory; or the pen mans treasury'. Edward Cocker was an English engraver as well as a notable teacher of arithmetic, on which he also wrote several books.
[Ref: 54125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Columbia's Accommodations, [***] Commander. For [***] direct. Burthen per register 510 tons, has elegant and spacious accommodations, fitted up in a superior style for passengers, and carries an experienced Surgeon. To sail [***]. For tems of Freight or Passage apply to the Commander on board or to Mess.rs [***].
R. Perera. Lithog Bombay.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Extremely rare lithograph. Sheet 330 x 210mm (13 x 8¼"). Stains, chips to edges.
A diagram of the layout of the passenger accomodation of a ship on the India line, with gaps for added manuscript details.
[Ref: 54175] £480.00

[Composition]
J. B. Cipriani del.t. Rob.t Sa.l Marcuard Scu.t.
London, [n.d. 1784]
Stipple and etching, proof before title and publication line, watermark 1784; 165 x 225mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate. Light foxing
An allegorical scene of a classical female figure painting a figure of Athena; she is being advised by a cherub over her shoulder, while another cherub holds her drawing board. A companion print to 'Study' also by Marcuard (after Cipriani), published by Palmer 1784.
[Ref: 54116] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Field Marshall Conway.
[After Gainsborough] Heath sc.
G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, 1st May, 1798.
Engraving. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with wide margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721-1795), inclined to the left and front-gazing, in an oval frame. Conway was a british general, eventually rising to Commander in Chief of the Forces. He was cousin to Horace Walpole.
[Ref: 53853] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Coquet Viaduct. York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. T.E. Harrison Esq.re Engineer. Erected by Mr James Sanderson. Span of Arches 50 feet. Height from Water to the Level of Railway 100 Feet.
Drawn by I.E. Watson.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 405 x 485mm (15¾ x 19"). Repairs to tears and cracks.
A railway viaduct over the river Coquet in Northumberland. The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway was formed in 1847 from an amalgamation of existing companies and lasted until 1854, when it became part of the North Eastern Railway.
[Ref: 54280] £380.00

Nathaniel Crew Episcopus Dunelmensis.
F. P [Francis Place] fecit.
P. Tempest ex: [n.d., c.1680.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, tear in edge repaired.
Nathaniel Crew (1633-1721), 3rd Baron Crew. This portrait was painted to celebrate him becoming Bishop of Durham in 1674, having been Bishop of Oxford from 1671. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1676.
CS: 4 ii of ii great benefactor of Lincoln College, Oxford.
[Ref: 54208] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Crinan Canal in Scotland. It is long since the Dangers and Difficulties attending the Navigation round the Peninsula or Mull of Cantire, in Argyllshire, suggested the importance of a Canal by which these Perils might be avoided; and in 1792, a subscription was opened for that purpose. Thhis Canal is now finished...
J. Barfield, Printer, No. 91, Wardour-Street, Soho [n.d., c.1801].
A rare letterpress broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet 410 x 255mm (16 x 10") Old ink mss. on reverse.
A decription of the Crinan Canal, designed to link the Clyde and the Inner Hebrides bypassing the Kintyre peninsula and opened 1801, including the tolls.
[Ref: 54177] £360.00

Time clipping Cupid's Wings.
London [n.d. c.1790]
Mezzotint, fine impression. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate and each edge lined with paper mount. Some markings along the top edge.
A scene depicting Time, an old winged man, taking clippers to the young Cupid's wings, who tries to struggle out of his grasp. The personified image of Time has its roots in the Greek association of time ('chronos') with Cronos, their god of agriculture, which is why he is often depicted with a scythe, as here. It is possible that Van Dyck's arresting characterisation of Time derives from Brozino's depiction of Time in 'Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time', who somewhat sinisterly gazes upon the ambiguous scene of Cupid and Venus. Possibly Van Dyck's scene asserts with more force that time is fleeting to the detriment of love. In a mezzotint portrait of James McAdell by Richard Earlom (after a drawing by McArdell), McArdell holds a scraper in his hand over a copper plate before him of 'Time clipping Cupid's Wings' (1771).
[Ref: 54097] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Amantium Iræ. The Quarrel of Cupid and Psyche. Engraved by Cap.t Baillie from a most beautiful Cabinet Picture of Nicolo Pousin in the Collection of Wellbore Ellis Agar Esq.r.]
[Jan.y 1. 1778.] Bit later.
Stipple and soft-ground etching with surface-tone, rare proof before letters, printed in orange on thin paper. Plate area 225 x 210mm (8¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed into black inscription area at bottom.
A group of cherubs, two embracing, one holding a fruit, others behind catching butterflies, another leaning over a basket of fruit. Etched by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Having retired from the army in 1761 he devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, specialising in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 54243] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses. ...
Fred Millar 58.09[?] R. A. Bell . Robert Anning Bell. Fred Millar se et Imp. No. 11
[n.d.]
Mezzotint Printed in colours on india paper, 270 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"), with wide margins. Small tear in right margin. Light stain in upper left corner. Toning.
A scene depicting Cupid and a young mistress, or Campaspe, playing cards surrounded by four other young women. Campaspe was the supposed lover of Alexander the Great; her name became a generic synonym for a man's young mistress in poetry and this meaning was popularised in John Lyly's (1553-1606) poem 'Cupid and my Campaspe play'd. At cards for kisses'. He also wrote a play titled 'Campaspe' (1584).
[Ref: 54092] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Disraeli. Facsimile of the sketch by Daniel Maclise, R. A. in the South Kensington Museum.
L. Lowenstam William Mackenzie, London, Edinborough & Glasgow.
London.
Engraving. 265 x 175mm (10½ x 7").
Portrait of a young Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). Disraeli served as British Prime Minister twice, was a parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. Before his political career, he was known as a literary and social figure, and mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today.
[Ref: 53880] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Vice. ''Gentlemen _ Feeling as I do on the present occasion''. [&] The Chair. ''Gentlemen _ This is the very happiest moment of my life''.
Painted by Alfred Crowquill. Engraved by W.H. Simmons.
London, Published by S. Knights, Change Alley, 25, March 1841.
Pair of mezzotints. Each 325 x 260mm (12¾ x 10¼"), with very large margins.
A pair of scenes at a dinner table littered with decanters.
Ex: Collection late Hon. Christopher Lennoz-Boyd.
[Ref: 54212] £380.00 view all images for this item

The Dutch Minstrel.
Rembrandt, pinx.t. S. Bennet, Sculp.t.
Publish'd Aug.t 8th 1803 by S. Bennet, No. 2. Spring Garden, London.
Engraving. 490 x 355mm (19¼ x 21¾"). Damp stain, crease in inscription area.
An old man with two children in a window, with a young boy holding a musical instrument.
The engraver/publisher 'S Bennet' is not listed in the BM.
[Ref: 54286] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dutch Peasant.]
A. Brower Pin.t. T. Burke fecit.
[Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 18, 1771, by the Proprietor W.m W. Ryland No. 27, Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare scratch letter proof before title. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease in plate bottom right.
A rustic man, clutching a broken pitcher, giggling.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 54228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Dutton.
D. Lundin sc.
Pub.d by R. Ogle, Holborn London 1.st June 1804
Engraving. 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4").
Head and shoulders portrait of Anne Dutton (1692-1765), inclined to the left. Dutton was an English poet and wrote prolifically and zealously on religion from a Baptist point of view.
[Ref: 53842] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Ann Dutton.
Hopwood sc.
Published by Ogle, Duncan & Comp.y, Patermost Row, June 1st. 1815.
Engraving. 180 x 105mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed to platemark
Head and shoulders portrait of Anne Dutton (1692-1765), inclined to the left. Dutton was an English poet and wrote prolifically and zealously on religion from a Baptist point of view.
[Ref: 53841] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Earth.
R, Gaywood fecit.
London, [n.d. after 1648].
Rare etching. 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"), with small margins. Creasing in the margins and across the image. Lower right corner is folded. Small tears in lower and right margins.
A scene of cherubs picking fruit from a tree for a bountiful cornucopia. A number of workers are harvesting their fields in the background. Part of 'The Foure Elements' series by van Avont (1600-1652), which was also engraved by Hollar, published 1647.
[Ref: 54115] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[The enraptured Poet - The parturition of a thought.]
[Engraved by John George Murray after Henry James Richter.]
[London: Robert Bowyer & Mary Parkes, 1829.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. Sheet 515 x 410mm (20¼ x 16"). Trimmed to plate, tear to image taped, creasing outside printed area. Plate uncleaned.
An impoverished poet sitting at a desk in an attic room, as inspiration strikes.
See BM 2010,7081.6786 for a scratched-letter proof bought from the Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 54162] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Erminia.
Angelica Kauffman Inv.t. Ja.s Hogg Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 1st 1784 - By A. Torre, No 44 Market Lane.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 265 x 285mm (10½ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Tiny holes on edge of image.
A scene from Tasso's 'La Gerusalemme liberata' (Jerusalem delivered): Erminia, living as a shepherdess, carves Tancred's name on a tree.
[Ref: 54247] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Falmouth Bay [in pencil].
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1910.]
Aquatint, printed in colours. 95 x 65mm (3¾ x 2½"), with large margins. Glue damage in margins.
Figures under trees above the bay. Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949), a watercolour painter of landscapes and coastal scenes, both in England and on the Continent, known for his use of bright colours.
[Ref: 54239] £55.00 (£66.00 incl.VAT)

Falstaff Reproved by King Henry.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. Shenner Sculp.t.
London Published June 1. 1792, by Thos. Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, open letter proof; 410 x 475mm (16 x 18¾"). Narrow margins, tear at top repaired, creasing.
Falstaff at left glares in the direction of the new monarch at right who has banished him. The BM records a note from David Alexander regarding the engraver 'Shenner', suggesting he was the 'Sheneker' who engraved a plate of Nell Gwynn
BM: 1951,0702.12.
[Ref: 54229] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Four Elements Fire.
P. van Avont inu. R. Gaywood fecit. R. Walton Excudit.
London, [n.d. after 1648].
Rare etching, 17th century watermark, 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Creasing in the corners and some small tears along the top edge. Repaired tear in the centre of the lower margin. Small margins.
A scene depicting three cherubs playing with a gunpowder cannon and a discarded suit of armour. After Petrus van Avont's series the Four Elements, in which the first was fire, which were also done by Hollar, published 1647.
[Ref: 54114] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Fisherman Going Out. [&] The Fisherman's Return.
GCarter pinx.t. J. Jones fecit.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Nov.r 19 1782 by GCarter Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.
Pair of mzzotints, matching pair; 490 x 340mm (19¼ x 13½"), on 'H & S' wove paper. Repair to margin of 'Going Out'.
A fisherman walking to his boat, carrying the nets, and his return to his family with some of his catch. After George Carter (1737-94).
[Ref: 54222] £550.00 view all images for this item

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