Grosvenor Prints

Defence of the Breach at S.t Jean D'Acre, May 8.th 1799.
W. Heath del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Pub. Nov.r 1815 by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with accompanying letterpress, J. Whatman 1812 watermark; 210 x 295mm (8¼ x 11¾"), with large margins. Damp stain right corner.
From, 'The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815.' The Siege of Acre,18th March to 20th May 1799, was the unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman-defended walled city of Acre, where he was defeated by Sir Sidney Smith; also the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria.
[Ref: 67652] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M. Coll. Divi Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius. Neptunus calculo monstratus, A.D. 1845.
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"), with very large margins. Backboard stains.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
Whitman 5, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67777] £420.00

The Adoration of the Shepherds. In the Salon at Houghton.
Morellio Pinxit. G. Farington delin.t. Val. Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Published Nov.r. 1.st 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins.
The Virgin on the left, holding open the blanket covering the infant Jesus, the shepherds, one a woman, standing and kneeling each behind the other, adoring Him, St Joseph standing in the background; Plate 24 of the first volume of the 'Houghton Gallery', a set of 129 prints after paintings in the collection of Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall, Norfolk. Many of the paintings were bought by Catherine the Great of Russia, including this one, and are now in the Hermitage Museum.
Whitman 191, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67510] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vittoria d'Albano. From the original Portrait of Vittoria d'Albano, in the possession of J.B. Heath Esq.r to whom this print is with permission, respectfully dedicated by his Obliged Servant M.M. Holloway.
Painted by Horace Vernet. Engraved by Henry Cousins.
London, Published July 16th 1835, by M.M. Holloway, 22, King William Street, Strand. Publié a Paris chez Veith et Hauser, Boulevard des Italiens N.º 11.
Mezzotint. 465 x 265mm (18¼ x 10½"). Paper cockled with slight rubbing.
A three-quarter portrait of popular artist model Vittoria Candida Rosa Caldoni (1805-c.1890) looking towards viewer, wearing veil, shawl, white dress, and holding a rosary in her hands. The British Museum's example is titled 'The Roman Girl', with the rest of the text identical.
BM: 1892,0714.714. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67808] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander and Philip His Physician. From the Original Picture Painted by Mr Benjamin West; In the Collection of G.Stibbert Esq.r.
B. West pinxit. Val: Green fecit.
John Boydell excudit 1772. Published Jan.y 1st 1772 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 440 x 525mm (17¼ x 20¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Alexander the Great in his tent, nursing his head and raising a goblet to his mouth, with his doctor reading from a scroll. Outside the tent is Alexander's cavalry.
Ex Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Whitman: 171.
[Ref: 67512] £490.00

Chaste Arethusa, from Alpheus flies; / Resolv'd to die, rather than be his Prize. / The Moral is: - Take heed, ye flatter'd Fair: / Swains oft dissemble, & Words are but Air. / Lockman.
J Van Neck pinxit, J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Chipped to plate top left, creasing top right corner, small tears in small margins. Bit messy.
The nymph Alpheus is pursued through Arcadia by the river-god Arethusa.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67369] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Amazonen in der Oper: Olimpia.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"), very large margins. Soiling in margins.
Two Amazons dressed in leopard skins, carrying bows. From Gaspare Spontini's three-act opera 'Olimpie', 1819.
[Ref: 67680] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Ammon's great Son, who ravag'd Asia thro, Sigh'd, that more Thrones were wanting to Subdue, Ye slaves to Glory, and an empty Name, I envy not your Thirst of toilsome Fame; Go, take in Worlds by Conquest as you please, Leave me but Master of two Globes like these.
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. I.Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to the Act of Parliament.
Mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"). Trimmed to image. Slight staining on bosom.
A beauty en deshabille washing herself before a mirror.
CS 409. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67358] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

St Anthony & the Infant Jesus.
Morillio Pinxit. John Dean Fecit.
Published Aug.t the 7th 1776, by John Dean, No 13, Church Street, Soho.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Thread margins.
St Anthony (1195-1231), the patron saint of Lost Things, wearing a habit, on one knee in a landscape, holding a lily and a large open book on which the infant Jesus stands. After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67515] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Tho.s Armstrong. Exec.d 20th of June 1684.
Pub.d Oct.r 15th 1801, by W.Richardson, York House, 31, Strand.
Engraving. 155 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Some very faint foxing outside of image but within platemark.
Portrait of Thomas Armstrong (c.1633 - 1684), English Army officer and politician who was executed for treason. Following his alleged involvement in the Rye House Plot in 1683, Armstrong was convicted of high treason and executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
[Ref: 67634] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Armstrong. Binnen Londen, genhangen en gevierendeelt.
[Jan Luyken.] I.L.
[n.d., c.1684.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A scene depicting the aftermath of the execution of Thomas Armstrong (c.1633 - 1684), English army officer and politician. Following his alleged involvement in the Rye House Plot in 1683, Armstrong was convicted of high treason and executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. The image shows his body being cut limb from limb. His head was affixed to Westminster Hall, three of his quarters were displayed in London, and the fourth at Stafford.
[Ref: 67635] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Augustus and Cleopatra. From the Painting of Raphael Mengs, 10 Feet high, by 7 Feet wide, in the Collection of Henry Hoare Esq.r.
Engraved by John Dean.
London: Published 1.st May 1802 by R. Cribb 288 Holborn.
Rare mezzotint, fine impression. 630 x 470mm (24¾ x 18½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
Cleopatra kneels before Octavian (before he assume the honorific 'Augustus'), watched by her servants Eiras and Charmion. Originally published 1784.
Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3.
[Ref: 67612] £360.00

Augustus and Cleopatra. From the Painting of Raphael Mengs, 10 Feet high, by 7 Feet wide, in the Collection of Henry Hoare Esq.r.
Engraved by John Dean.
Publish'd April 16,,th 1786, by J. Dean, N:º 12, Bentinck Street, Soho.
Mezzotint. 630 x 470mm (24¾ x 18½"), large margins. Creased.
Cleopatra kneels before Octavian (before he assume the honorific 'Augustus'), watched by her servants Eiras and Charmion. Originally published 1784.
Ex: collections of Oettingen-Wallerstein & The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 2 of 3.
[Ref: 67611] £380.00

Bacchus in the Character of Cupid.
Phi. Mercier Inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), large margins. Paper slightly soiled.
Bacchus, crowned with vine-leaves and holding a bow, gestures to a heart on a target hanging on a tree. To the right is a leopard. A pair to 'Cupid the the Character of Bacchus'.
CS: 406a. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67537] £320.00

Bacchus in the Character of Cupid.
Phi. Mercier Inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Backed with newspaper.
Bacchus, crowned with vine-leaves and holding a bow, gestures to a heart on a target hanging on a tree. To the right is a leopard. A pair to 'Cupid the the Character of Bacchus'.
CS: 406a. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67538] £320.00

Bacchus in the Character of Cupid.
Phi. Mercier Inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), very large margins. Creased in centre
Bacchus, crowned with vine-leaves and holding a bow, gestures to a heart on a target hanging on a tree. To the right is a leopard. A pair to 'Cupid the the Character of Bacchus'.
CS: 406a. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67539] £320.00

[Barbara Urselin]
G.Scott sc.
[n.d., c.
Proof stipple engraving, sheet 135 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Barbara Urselin (1629-68), a woman who was covered in blond hair. She married John Michael van Beck, her manager, and was exhibited over Europe including London in 1655 and 1668.
[Ref: 67701] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Benham Park.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 120 x 185mm (4¾ x 7¼").
Archery butts on the lawns before a country house, Benham Park in Berkshire.
[Ref: 67673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Hospital of Bethlehem. L'Hospital de Fou.
T. Maurer Delin. T. Bowles Sculp.
Publisd according to Act of Parliament. Printed for John Bowles ~ at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Fine coloured 18th century engraving. Framed. Sight size 265 x 415mm (10½ x 16¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A view of the facade of Bethlem Royal Hospital, the notorious 'Bedlam', with ornamental lawns and promenaders.
[Ref: 67567] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

James Bick ye Famous Mimick Trumpetter of Oxford 1712.
[engraved by John Faber snr.]
[Published by Faber.]
Scarce mezzotint. Each sheet: 115 x 105mm (4½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, thread margins elsewhere, top left corner torn.
A very rare portrait of James Bick (d.1734), set in a circle. He was a ventriloquist and imitator of musical instruments, especially the trumpet, touring the public houses of Oxford.
CS: 5, i and ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67607] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Bolton Abbey on the River Wharfe.]
[John Charles Bromley after Thomas Girtin.] J.M.W. Turner's Copies. [faint etching, lower right ].
[1825.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, bottom right printed "J.M.W.T. Selerlson". 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾''), with uncut margins. Foxing.
A view of Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, from ''The Rivers of England'', on which Girtin collaborated with J.M.W. Turner, which is believed to be the first series of mezzotint landscapes engraved on steel. According to Rawlinson: ''Turner is believed to have ''touched'' the Girtin plates out of regard for the memory of his early friend. The etched initials ''J.M.W.T.'' appear on a Proof of Girtin's York Minster found in Turner's house and now belonging to Mr. Harold Mellor. Probably the same occurs on the other Girtin plates''.
Rawlinson p.364, note 1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67663] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bolton Abbey on the River Wharfe.]
[John Charles Bromley after Thomas Girtin.] J.M.W. Turner's Copies. [faint etching, lower right ].
[1825.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters; 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾''), with uncut margins.
A view of Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, from ''The Rivers of England'', on which Girtin collaborated with J.M.W. Turner, which is believed to be the first series of mezzotint landscapes engraved on steel. According to Rawlinson: ''Turner is believed to have ''touched'' the Girtin plates out of regard for the memory of his early friend. The etched initials ''J.M.W.T.'' appear on a Proof of Girtin's York Minster found in Turner's house and now belonging to Mr. Harold Mellor. Probably the same occurs on the other Girtin plates''.
Rawlinson p.364, note 1. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67662] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Parkinson.]
[Christopher Switter.]
[n.d., c.1635.]
Very rare woodcut. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Parkinson (1567 - 1650), the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. Notably he was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I. Frontis to 'Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris' 1635.
W2231-1.
[Ref: 67698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Thayendaneken. The Mohawk Chief.
Wonderful Magazine. From an Original Drawing in the Posession of James Boswell Esq.r.
[n.d., c.1800.] Published by Alex.r Hogg.
Engraving. 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Some foxing. Trimmed close to plate on left-side.
Portrait of the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant (1742-1807). Brant was closely associated with Great Britain during the American Revolution and journeyed to England in 1775 for an audience with King George III.
[Ref: 67561] £380.00

[Satire of the Bristol Election of 1837.] The Weird Three.
Bagshaw fecit.
Monday, Printer, White's Ruins [n.d., c.1838].
Broadside, etching and letterpress. Sheet 450 x 285mm (17¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, creasing, surface soiling at bottom left.
A broadside presenting Tories attempting to overturn the 1837 Bristol election results as MacBeth's Three Witches around a cauldron, with papers marked 'Perjury', 'Lies', 'Slander' and 'More Perjury' When Liberal Francis Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley (1794-1870) was elected MP for Bristol, three petitioners (Bush Cookson & Payne, on behalf of the defeated Tory candidate William Fripp) accused him of extensive bribery and treating, as well as corruption, using his role as a trustee of the Anchor Society to obtain votes. A committee of the House of Commons was appointed to hear the case assembled in February, 1838, but after three days the petition was abandoned. Individual actions were brought against three other trustees and were all acquitted. In bringing the charges a woman was found guilty of perjury and the editor of the Bristol Journal was sued for libel and lost. Berkeley held his seat until his death in 1870.
[Ref: 67600] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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Sir Francis Burdett. Plate 2. Of Friends to a Constitutional Reform of Parliament.
Done from the life and Published by Adam Buck 17 Bentinck S.t Man. Sq. Price 1.S.
[n.d. c.1820]
Rare etching, 255 x 205mm (10 x 8"), with large margins. Foxing.
Half-length seated portrait of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), 5th Baronet, an English reformist politician.
[Ref: 67650] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Butcher, taken from ye sign of a butcher in ye Butcher Row.
[attributed to George Bickham the Younger]
Decem.r 19 1746.
Etching, 335 x 200mm (13¼ x 8"), with large margins. Old folds
Caricature depicting Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65) as a butcher, symbolised by an ox dressed in butcher’s garb with axe, cleaver, and meat-tray armour, his Garter Star partly visible. He stands before a block bearing a heart, while in the background a house burns, guarded by grenadiers, with bodies on the ground and others hanging from a gallows. The scene is framed with ornate imagery: satyr heads, flaming torches, an inverted thistle, and a snake encircling a cartouche inscribed with verses. Prince William Augustus was nicknamed, 'butcher Cumberland' for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.
BM Satires 2843. Not in Sharp.
[Ref: 67300] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Butts.]
H Holbein inv. Whollar fecit 1649. Adam Alexus Bierling ex: but later.
Rare etching. Sheet: 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed. Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Henry VIII's doctor Sir William Butts (c.1486-1545), shown in a feathered cap and fur-lined robe. The portrait has also been identified as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c.1484-1545)
Pennington 1554.
[Ref: 67642] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

George Byng Esq.r.
Downman pinx.t. Engrav'd by J. Grozer.
Publish'd as the Act directs March 31.st 1786 by W.m Austin Drawing Master Engraver & Print Merchant No. 195 Piccadilly near St. James's Church.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof, 18th century watermark. 390 x 275mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
George Byng (1735-89), MP for Wigan and later Middlesex. He inherited the estate of Wrotham Park from his unmarried and childless uncle Admiral John Byng (1704-1757), famously court-martialled and shot in 1757 following the fall of Minorca.
CS: 3, state i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67620] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The North-West Prospect of the University and Town of Cambridge.
[after Samuel and Nathaniel Buck.]
London Mag. [1775]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 350mm (8 x 13¾"). Trimmed. Creasing as usual. Small hole bottom.
A view of Cambridge with a 31-point key and the University arms underneath, adapted from the large prospect by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. About this time the publisher Robert Sayer bought the Buck copper plates, re-publishing them in 1778.
[Ref: 67417] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Prospectus Cantabrigiae Orientalis. The Prospect of Cambridge from the East.
Dav: Loggan delin: et sculp: cum Privil S.R.M.
[Cambridge, 1690.]
Engraving, very fine impression. 165 x 460mm (6½ x 18"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A view of Cambridge with a 19-point key in Latin and English, from David Loggan's 'Cantabrigia illustrata'. In the foreground are the riders of a hunt and a shepherd and flock.
[Ref: 67416] £420.00

The Prospect of Cambridge from the West. Prispectus Cantabrigiae Occidentalis.
[engraved by Johannes Kip.]
[London: David Mortier, c.1707.]
Engraving. 470 x 595mm (18½ x 23½"). Trimmed to platemark, repaired tear on left and repaired wormholes on right.
A view of Cambridge with a 19-point key, published in 'Britannia Illustrata'. In the foreground a cornfield is being harvested.
[Ref: 67413] £980.00

Sacellum Collegii Emanuelis Apud Cantab:
Dav: Loggan delin: et sculp: cum Privil S.R.M.
[Cambridge, 1690.]
Engraving, 310 x 480mm (12¼ x 18¾"), with large margins.
The courtyard of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from David Loggan's 'Cantabrigia illustrata'.
[Ref: 67415] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Campi Phlegraei] IIII [View of Naples from the Sea Shore.]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour, 18th century watermark. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, very large margins
A view of the city with an ox cart in the foreground. A plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67564] £950.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XI. [View of the Monte S. Angelo on which there is a Convent of Camaldolesi Monks]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour 18th century watermark. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, very large margins.
A view of a volcanic outcrop between Torre del Greco and Torre dell' Annonciata, looking north to a smoking Vesuvius, from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67558] £950.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XVII [Bird's eye view from the Convent of Camaldoli.]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour, 18th century watermark. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, large margins.
A view from one of the highest points above Naples, with Sir William Hamilton examining the volcanic landscape through a telescope. The artist Pietro Fabris talks to a monk. A plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67568] £950.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XXII. [View of the Porto Pavone.]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour, 18th century watermark. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, very large margins.
A view of Porto Pavone, a sunken crater on the island of Nisida in the Bay of Naples, with William Hamilton and Pietro Fabris sketching in the foreground. A plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67562] £800.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XXIV. [View of Puzzoli.]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, very large margins.
A view looking down at Pozzuoli and the sea, with Sir William Hamilton and a woman (probably Catherine, his first wife) in the foreground, a plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. The title is taken from the letterpress description from the book. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67557] £950.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XXVI. [Pozzuoli]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour, pt 18th century watermark. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, very large margins.
A view looking down at Pozzuoli and the sea, with Sir William Hamilton and his artist Pietro Fabris in the foreground, a plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67556] £950.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XXVIIII. [The Lake of Agnano evidently the Crater of an ancient Volcano.]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, large margins. Remains of paper pasted on edge of margins.
A view of Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno), a volcanic crater lake in Pozzuoli, with William Hamilton on horseback in the foreground. He identified the building on the left shore as a temple of Proserpine, and a grotto on the right bank as that of the Cumaean sibyl. A plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67559] £900.00

[Campi Phlegraei] XXXX [View of a hollow road leading from the Grotta of Pausilipo.]
[after Pietro Fabris.]
[Naples, 1776-9.]
Etching with superb hand colour. 215 x 395mm (8 x 15"), with grey washed margins, as issued, very large margins
A view of a sunken road, the sides showing the volcanic strata. A plate from Hamilton's famous work on Italian volcanos, the 'Campi Phlegraei'. Hamilton was 'Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies' in Naples from 1764 until 1800, during which time he published books on his two favourite subjects, classical vases and vulcanology. He and Fabris visited both Etna and Vesuvius, often risking their lives to record volcanic events. The resulting book of 1776, the rare 'Campi Phlegraei', with a supplement of 1779, is regarded as one of the best colour-plate books of the 18th century.
[Ref: 67563] £680.00

Winter Life in Canada - a Skating Carnival at Ottawa.
Roberts Sc. Arthur Hopkins.
[The Graphic] [n.d. c.1876]
Wood engraving, sheet 340 x 505mm (13½ x 19¾"). Trimmed, laid on backing paper on one half and crease down the middle where folded as usual.
Scene at an ice skating festival. Costumed ice skaters circle around a pole. Arthur Hopkins (1848–1930) was a landscape and genre painter and a skilled illustrator. A member of the Royal Watercolour Society, he exhibited frequently with it, the Royal Academy, and other major London institutions. His greatest success came from his illustration work, featured in the London News (1872–1898), The Graphic (1874–1876), and Punch (1893–1902), as well as in books by Thomas Hardy and Wilkie Collins.
[Ref: 67728] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina &c.
P. Mercier Pictor Principis pinx. 1728. J. Simon fec: et excud.
Rare mezzotint, very fine & impressive. Sheet 475 x 305mm (18¾ x 12"). Trimmed close to plate. Slight crease bottom right.
Princess Caroline Elizabeth (1713-57), fourth child of George II. She died, unmarried and childless, on 28 December 1757, aged 44, at St James's Palace.
CS 33, i of iv. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67553] £360.00

J. de Castro Sarmento, M.D. Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium Collega, Regiæ Societatis Socius.
Pine Pinx:t. Houston Fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Jacob de Castro Sarmento (1690-1762), a Portuguse doctor (and privately a practicing Jew), who came to London in 1720. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1730, in recognition of his having introduced a new medicine for curing fevers, based on the bark of the cinchona tree, from which quinine is obtained. Jewish interest.
CS 108. Wellcome 557. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67584] £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. Turner No. 50, Warren Street,] Fitzroy Square.
Fine mezzotint, 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"), on 18th century watermarked paper, with large margins. Publisher's inscription weakly inked; evidence of a printer's patch over armorial, spotting.
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 704, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67614] £360.00

Angling - No Sport At All. Good gracious! M.r Cat'em will be drowned.
On Stone by R Seymour.
[n.d. c.1830]
Hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Staining. Edges nicked.
Anthropomorphic satire with cats fishing from a rowboat in incredibly rainy weather. One cat is actively fishing while others appeared bored, seasick or catnapping. One is about to fall into the water.
[Ref: 67722] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of Caversham, through the Gateway. Nº8.
Drawn & Engrav'd by C.Tomkins.
[n.d, c.1885.]
Coloured aquatint. 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
A view of Caversham, Reading. On the field, a game of cricket is being played.
[Ref: 67310] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus everso missus succurtere seclo. If they who flew the Monsters of the Age...
[n.d., engraved c.1684, but later.]
Engraving. Sheet: 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Damaged.
A satirical print showing Charles II standing upon a monster with the three heads of a Jesuit, Turk and Presbyterian while Victory hands a sword to the King. From Edward Petitt's 'Visions of the Government' 1684.
BM Satire 1130.
[Ref: 67592] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Arrival of Charles II at Delft, 1660]
AV. Venne Inv. P. Philippe Fc: 1660
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate; centre fold as normal.
When parliament proclaimed Charles II king and invited him to return in 1660, he turned down invitations from France and Spain to embark for England from their territory, instead accepting an invitation from the Dutch states general. Having waited in Breda for the summons to return, he sailed to Delft by yacht (this print depicts his brief visit) before travelling on to the Hague, from where he departed for England on 23 May 1660 (he arrived triumphantly in London six days later). One of six illustrations published in 'Verhael van de Reys van Carel II, Coning van Groot-Brittannië, in Hollandt van 25 Mey tot 2 Junij 1660', a volume published in the Hague in 1660. Engraved after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662), Dutch artist and poet who had a connection with both Delft (his birthplace) and the Hague (where he lived from 1625 onwards).
[Ref: 67677] £330.00

[Walter Charleton.] Gualteri Charletoni, Med. Doct, & Coll. Med. Lond. Soch. Anno Christ. M.D.C.LXXVIII.
D.Loggan as Vivum delin et sculp.
1679.
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges
Portrait of Walter Charleton (1619 - 1707), natural philosopher and English writer. Frontis to his work 'Inquiries into Human Nature', 1680.
W587-3
[Ref: 67753] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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