Grosvenor Prints

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)

[John Fawcett] M.r Fawcett. To the Committee, and the other Members of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, This Place is respectfully inscribed by their most obedient H.ble Serv.t Will.m Say.
Painted by G.H. Harlow. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
London Published Feb. 1 1826, by W. Sams, Book and Printseller to the Royal Family, N.º S.t James's Street, opposite the Palace.
Mezzotint. 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"), with large margins. Top and right margin chipped, spot in inscription area.
A three-quarter length portrait of actor and playwright John Fawcett (1768-1837), standing with hands crossed on his cane, holding a tall hat and gloves. First published 1815. The 'Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, for supporting aged, indigent, and infirm actors and actresses of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and relieving their widows and children' was instituted in 1765 and ended c.1900.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67746] £420.00

[As You Like It] Lover.
Drawn by Tho.s Stothard Esq. R.A. Engraved by Will.m Bromley.
Publish'd Jan.y 24 1799 by W. Bromley, Jessamine House, Hammersmith.
Coloured stipple, sheet 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
From a set of plates illustrating Jaques's monologue in William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'. A young man in quasi Elizabethan dress sitting to left, one hand at his breast as he writes a love letter, by the light of a candle on the table next to a music book and lute, with his cloak hanging over the back of his chair.
For complete series see [Ref: 56479].
[Ref: 67651] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in the Careless Husband. [&] A Scene in the Recuiting Officer.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739. [&] Ph. Mercier Inv.t et Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739. [&] Printed for Rob.t Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Two mezzotints, both 18th century watermarks. Husband: 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"); Officer 240 x 325mm (9½ x 13¼"). Both with thread margins.
Two theatrical scences by Philippe Mercier, both originally published in 1736. The first shows Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). The second is a scene from George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer', which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, recruiting soldiers in Shrewsbury.
CS 414 & 415, officer an unlisted later state with the upper part of plate cut down. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection & that of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67521] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Right Comical Lord Cheif Ioker Isaac Sparks
[after Solomon Delane.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, affecting title.
A rare portrait of Irish actor Isaak Sparks (1719-76), seated, wearing wig and judge's robes. Sparks started acting in Dublin in the 1730s, appeared at London's Drury Lane Theatre 1745-8 and Haymarket Theatre in 1769.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67579] £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

[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. 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. 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)

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