Grosvenor Prints

[Bacchus and Ariadne.] From a Drawing of Franceschini.
W. Baillie f.
Publish'd Jan. 2.nd 1772 [but c.1800].
Stipple engraving. 280 x 265mm (11 x 10½"). Trimmed into plate at top, damage bottom left corner spotting. Small margins.
Bacchus and Ariadne being transported upwards on a cloud by three figures, one playing a pipe, another a tambourine, the third holding a crown of stars above Ariadne's head. The plate was Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after Marc Antonio Franceschini (1648-1729). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68863] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pater! transeatame hoc poculum non voluntas mea fiat sed tua.
P V Somer fe. [after Charles le Brun.]
J. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Narrow margins, creasing in corners.
Christ's agony in the garden of Gethsemane, supported by angels.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3..
[Ref: 68879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cornelius Relegatus] Alea, Vina, Venus Virosa Vacuna, juventæ / Numina fugite ô Juvenes: latet anguis in herba. / Cornelius bin ich genant, / Allen studenten woolbekant.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Scarce engraving. 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, margins rebuilt left and top, reapired tears. Damaged.
A scene from 'Speculum Cornelianum', a moralistic tale of a student who lives a life of dissipation. He sits in his rat-infested lodgings, his head and armed bandaged, the signs of his wasted life (including a backgammon board, playing cards, a tennis raquet and lute) as his landlady brings in a baby in swaddling clothes and a baliff writes a list of his debts on the door. The story continues with his disinheritance, after which he tries to hang himself; however the rope breaks and a bag of money, hidden in the ceiling, falls on his head, whereupon he decides to turn over a new leaf.
[Ref: 68946] £690.00

Cromwell at Marston Moor, who made a desperate Charge after being wounded in his right Arm. Engraved from the Original Picture in the Collection of Robert Franland Esq.r M.P. to whom this Plate is respectfully dedicated by his oblidges Servants, A. Cooper & J. Bromley.
A Cooper Esq.r R.A. Pinx.t. John Bromley Sculp.t.
Published for the Painter and Engraver by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square. Feb.y 1st 1826.
Mezzotint. Sheet 235 x 265mm (9¼ x 10½"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into inscription area at bottom; small repaired hole in sky.
The original painting by Abraham Cooper (1787-1868) is now in Chequers Court, home of the Prime Minister, in one of the largest collections of art and memorabilia pertaining to Oliver Cromwell in the country.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68698] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Delineatio Crucifixæ in Cappella Sereniss.æ ac Potentiss.æ Princ: ac Dom.æ DN.æ Catharinæ M. Brit. Gall. et Hib. Reginæ Viducæ, Natæ Princ. R. Portugall ^c. Ipsi Reg Majestati Suæ quam humillme dedicata ab Is: Beckett.
A van Dyke p. I:B: [Isaac Beckett] fe.
J. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1711.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 285 x 175mm (11¼ x 7"). Thread margins, laid down at corners.
The Crucifixion, with cherubs catching the Holy blood in chalices. The dedication is to Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II, died 1705.
New Hollstein, Van Dyck, 528; Le Blanc 4.
[Ref: 68545] £460.00

[The Crucifixion] Clamans voce magna Iesus ait, Pater in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum et hæc dicens expiravit.
A van Dyke Equess pinx. J. Smith fecit.
Sold by John Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden [n.d., c.1711].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 425 x 285mm (16¾ x 11¼"). Thread margins, creasing in corners, some toning.
The Crucifixion, with cherubs catching the Holy blood in chalices. In the upper right is an eclipsed sun. The plate was originally published by Alexander Browne, but reworked by John Smith with his own publication line.
Wessely 302. Le Blanc 303. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of ii.
[Ref: 68541] £360.00

[The Crucifixion] Clamans voce magna Iesus ait, Pater in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum et hæc dicens expiravit.
A van Dyke Equess pinx. J. Smith fecit.
Sold by John Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden [n.d., c.1711].
Fine mezzotint. 425 x 285mm (16¾ x 11¼"), 18th century watermark. Thread margins.
The Crucifixion, with cherubs catching the Holy blood in chalices. In the upper right is an eclipsed sun. The plate was originally published by Alexander Browne, but reworked by John Smith with his own publication line.
Wessely 302. Le Blanc 303. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of ii.
[Ref: 68544] £460.00

[Cupidon Malin or Mischievous Cupid.]
Drawn from the Antique and Engraved by Ant.Van Assen.
London, Pub.d. Dec.r 1st 1789, by J.Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Proof before title stipple engraving. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Thread margins. Faint creasing in top left and right corners.
Portrait of Venus standing on a river bank, three cupids are playing on the rocks behind her. On the left one of the cupids has pushed the other into the water below.
[Ref: 68538] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Convicerat enim eos Daniel ex ore suo Falsum dixisse Testimonium. To the Earl of Bute this Plate engrav'd from a Picture of [erased] dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant Will.m Baillie. Cap.t Baillie's Fifty-Guilder-Print 1775
Eckhout Pinx.t. WBailie sculp.t. 1764.
Mezzotint and etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 390 x 405mm (15¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate.
Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, acting as art agent to the Earl of Bute, owner of this painting. When this plate was first published in 1764the dedication read 'Eckhout's in His Lordship's Collection'; this example seems to have been published after the painting had been sold on. Baillie specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3.
[Ref: 68878] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Convicerat enim eos Daniel ex ore suo Falsum dixisse Testimonium. To the Earl of Bute this Plate engrav'd from a Picture of Eckhout's in His Lordship's Collection is dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant Will.m Baillie.
Eckhout Pinx.t. WBailie sculp.t. 1764. Re-Sculp.t 1774.
Mezzotint and etching. Sheet 390 x 405mm (15¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate.
Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, acting as art agent to the Earl of Bute, owner of this painting. Baillie specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 2 of 3.
[Ref: 68877] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Convicerat enim eos Daniel ex ore suo Falsum dixisse Testimonium. To the Earl of Bute this Plate engrav'd from a Picture of Eckhout's in His Lordship's Collection is dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant Will.m Baillie.
Eckhout Pinx.t. WBailie sculp.t. 1764.
Etching, proof before mezzotint. 395 x 405mm (15½ x 16"). Small margins.
Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, acting as art agent to the Earl of Bute, owner of this painting. Baillie specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 1 of 3.
[Ref: 68876] £360.00

Convicerat enim eos Daniel ex ore suo Falsum dixisse Testimonium. [To the Earl of Bute this Plate engrav'd from a Picture of Eckhout's in His Lordship's Collection is dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant Will.m Baillie.]
Eckhout Pinx.t. WBailie sculp.t. 1764.
Etching, proof before mezzotint. Sheet 370 x 400mm (14½ x 15¾"). Trimmed, into plate, losing dedication at bottom, creasing, bit messy.
Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing, acting as art agent to the Earl of Bute, owner of this painting. Baillie specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. A pencil annotation on the reverse reads 'First Impression - of the first state of the Plate'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 1 of 3.
[Ref: 68875] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Good Man at the Hour of Death. When from this Life calls the Just away, Serene he does the pleasing Call obey. Of all Offence he finds his Conscience clear, And all is Hope, and nothing is to fear.
[After Francis Hayman]
[Republished by Robert Sayer] [n.d. c.1794]
Rare mezzotint 355 x 330mm (14 x 13"), large margins. Crease lower centre. Laid on backing sheet repaired small tears to margins. Small margins left and right.
The 'Good Man' is approached by Old Father Time, who holds out an hourglass. Republished by Robert Sayer after engravings published by Boydell., with slight reworking to the image, for example the facial features. 'These two large engravings, published by Boydell in 1783, are the only surviving record of a fascinating decorative scheme commissioned by Jonathan Tyers [proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens], probably in the late 1740s, for the garden of his weekend retreat, Denbies, near Dorking in Surrey. If Vauxhall Gardens was designed primarily for public enjoyment, then, by contrast, Denbies was created for Jonathan Tyers' personal delectation and reflects his apparent preoccupation with the theme of death and "momento mori"' (Allen). Hayman, who also produced large decorative paintings for Tyers at Vauxhall, for this commission made two life-size pictures (to which these engravings are related) which were installed inside an amphitheatre in Tyers' garden at Denbies. The paintings, were, 'along with all traces of this macabre garden, destroyed soon after Tyers' death in 1767'.
Ex Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Brian Allen, 'Francis Hayman' 72A+B. See [Ref: 65254] for another version.
[Ref: 68913] £390.00

Evening.
Rembrandt del.t. WB [William Baillie] Leyde 1765.
Mezzotint with etching. 180 x 300mm (7 x 11¾"). Title weakly printed.
A Dutch landscape with a view of a river with windmills, a fisherman with a rod walking with a child.
Not in Charington. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68842] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Agrippina Mourning the Ashes of Germanicus]
AR [monogram of Alexander Runciman]
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine & rare etching, 18th century watermark,140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼), with large margins.
Death of Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 BC–AD 19): Agrippina the Elder (14 BC–AD 33), seated in profile to the left on a stool, holds an urn inscribed with his name upon her lap; at left, a servant stands weeping with her eyes covered by her hand, while Gaius (better known as Caligula) (AD 12–41) beside her looks up at Agrippina. In AD 19, Germanicus died of a mysterious illness in Antioch, Syria, after accusing Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso of poisoning him. Agrippina, devastated and suspicious of murder, transported his ashes back to Rome herself. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
[Ref: 68643] £350.00

Hébé.
Will.m Hamilton pinxit. Bartoloti Sculperunt.
Publish'd Aug.t 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, N.º 90 Cheapside London.
Scarce stipple. Sheet 330 x 390mm (13 x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An oval scene of Hebe (the goddess of healing, youth and beauty) pours water into a bowl for Jupiter (in the guise of an eagle, standing on thunderbolts, drinks. After William Hamilton (1751 - 1801). The engraver's name is probably spoofing the famous engraver Francesco Bartolozzi.
[Ref: 68951] £320.00

A Moral Philosopher Instructing His Grand Children. 265.
Publish'd 22.nd Feby 1791, by Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired tears, creasing and scrapes. Bit messy.
A bearded old man sitting on a grass bank, holding a staff and hat, looking at a child who kneels beside him on the left, while two other children in tattered clothing kneel behind a rock below a tree nearby
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Musidora Disrobing]
ARunciman ['AR' in monogram] inv: & fecit.
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine & rare etching, 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"), with very large margins.
In a woodland setting, Musidora bathes at the water’s edge, seated on the bank and drawing her robe from her left leg, crossed over her right, while Damon watches from behind a bush in the right background. Musidora Disrobing" (or Musidora undressing near stream) is a popular 18th and 19th-century artistic theme, often painted or etched by artists like Angelica Kauffman (1782) and Alexander Runciman, depicting the character Musidora from James Thomson’s (1700–48) poem "Summer" (from The Seasons (1730)) undressing to bathe while being watched by her lover, Damon. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
Catalogue raisonné Nagler 1.
[Ref: 68644] £350.00

[The seven bishops imprisoned in the Tower of London by James II in June 1688] De Seven Bischoppen naar den Tour gevangen gebragt den 8/18 vry gelaaten den 15/25 Juny 1688.
Apud Carolum Allard Cum Privi: Ord: Holl: et Westfri: [c.1700]
Rare etching, sheet 250 x 295mm (9¾ x 11½"). Tipped into album sheet; fold through centre. Trimmed to border.
View on the Thames with London Bridge (incorrectly) on right, showing the Seven Bishops imprisoned by James II for seditious libel over their opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence. The bishops were: Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough; Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely; Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop Exeter and Winchester; John Lake, Bishop of Chichester; Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells; William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester; and William Sancroft, Bishop of Canterbury. The bishops were acquitted, to James II's disappointment but to universal rejoicing amongst his subjects. Plate from a Dutch publication comprising twenty plates depicting key episodes from the Glorious Revolution.
For portraits of the Seven Bishops see refs: 68895 & 68894.
[Ref: 68900] £320.00

[The marriage of St Catherine.]
[Engravd by Capt: Baillie from a Drawing of Romanelli:
June ye 5. 1778.]
Soft ground etching, proof before letters, printed in sanguine, 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Creasing, small margins.
The infant Jesus puts a ring on the finger of St Catherine of Alexandria, an early 4th century Christian saint and virgin martyr, patron of education and learning, mystically 'married' to Christ. Behind is the Virgin Mary, with cherubs in the clouds all around. Engraved after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli by Capt William Baillie (1723 - 1810) who retired from the army and became a picture dealer. He was also an amateur then semi-professional printmaker, later selling his plates to Boydell. After Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (c.1610 - 1662).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 12217] for lettered version.
[Ref: 68847] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[L'Histoire touchante.] Gravé fun Dessin de Rembrandt dans le Cabinet de Mons.r Dan: Neyman a Amsterdam.
WB [William Baillie] 1767.
Fine mezzotint with etching, 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Torn in top right corner.
A young man by an unlit hearth uses a lamp to read from a small volume to an old man, who shielding his eyes with one hand. Behind a woman occupies herself with household work. Rembrandt's drawing, which probably depicts Tobias' son reading to his father, was sold from the collection of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927) at Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1920, lot 57. The catalogue acknowledged Baillie's mezzotint. Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Charington 24. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv. See also [Ref: 68840].
[Ref: 68841] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[L'Histoire touchante. Gravé fun Dessin de Rembrandt dans le Cabinet de Mons.r Dan: Neyman a Amsterdam.]
[WB [William Baillie] 1767.]
Etching, proof before mezzotint and letters, printed in brown, 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper.
A young man by an unlit hearth uses a lamp to read from a small volume to an old man, who shielding his eyes with one hand. Behind a woman occupies herself with household work. Rembrandt's drawing, which probably depicts Tobias' son reading to his father, was sold from the collection of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927) at Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1920, lot 57. The catalogue acknowledged Baillie's mezzotint. Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Charington 24. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 1 of 4. See also [Ref: 68841}.
[Ref: 68840] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Venus Bathing. Thou canst not gaze rash Man, but to thy Cost; / Check thy bold sight; or know thy Heart is lost / Beauty tho' naked, most distructive prove; Since arm'd with all th'Artilley of Love.
F. la Moyne Pinx. a Paris. I. Johnson fecit.
Printed for Robert Sayer N.º 53 Fleet Street
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, backed with paper.
The goddess steps into a pool, an attendant helping with her garb.
[Ref: 68837] £350.00

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