Grosvenor Prints

Alexander giving up his favorite mistress Campaspe to Apelles. To great Apelles when young Ammon brought The darling idol of his captive heart...Quitted his title to Campaspe's charms And gave the fair one to the friend's embrace.
Miller Pinxit. J.B. Michel Sculpsit.
John & Josiah Boydell ext. 1786. Publish'd March 1st. 1786, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London.
Stipple. Plate 325 x 395mm. 12¾ x 15½". Trimmed to the platemark along the bottom edge.
Alexander stands on the right and addresses Appeles, who is seated in front of his easel. Campaspe, seated on the chair to the left, is conversing with two women.
See BM: 1953,0214.35.
[Ref: 17036] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[La Mère en Courroux?]
[after Jean Baptiste Greuze?, engraved P.E. Moitte]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, proof before letters; Collectors mark i:p:h. 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"), large margins. Very slight foxing verso.
An older woman admonishes a young woman, with a small child watching. The child had a doll, a croquet mallet is on the floor, a dog nearby. A pencil and wash sketch of the same basic composition but with different details is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
[Ref: 44989] £360.00

M. Bailly Presid.t de l'Assemblée Nationale, Nommé Maire de Ville par les Citoyens de Paris, le 14 Juillet 1789.
A Paris chez Mad.e Bergny Mde. d'Estampes de S.A.S. la Princesse Lamballe, rue du Coq S. Honore [n.d., 1790-1792.]
Stipple printed in colours, 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). A fine impression, with full margins.
Profile portrait by Jean-Baptiste Vérité, Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736 - 1793), French astronomer and politician, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791 and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He is oted for his computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet in 1759 In oval, lettered to plaque below.
BNF FRBNF40248744. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 24271] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti.
Marco Ricci. pinx.t / Goupy direxit/ / Chatelain fecit.
[n.d. c.1740s]
Etching. 310 x 410mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate. Crease in left side of the title area.
Bandits accosting and robbing a group of travellers by the edge of a lake. This print was part of a set of eight scenes by Chatelain after Ricci under the direction of Goupy.
Ex Collection Hon C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 54008] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The assault on Barcelona, 1714.) An Attack & Lodgement on the Covert Way: i.e. the part which lies between the Ditch and the Glacis.
[Engraved by Jean Baptiste Rigaud after Jacques Rigaud.]
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraving with strong original colour; Whatman 1794 watermark. 245 x 425mm (9¾ x 16¾"). Tears in large margins.
A view of the assault on Barcelona by the Bourbons on the 11th September 1714, led by the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II, during the War of the Spanish Succession. As plate 3 of 'Twelve of the most remarkable sieges and battles in Europe', originally published by Carington Bowles c.1760, it illustrates the art of siege warfare, with the use of sappers to get troops and guns closer to the walls. Other plates in the series depict Culloden (1746) and Minden (1759).
[Ref: 45037] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Beauté Sacrifiant aux Graces.
Joshua Reynolds Pinx. J.B. Lucien fecit.
Cheau Excudit, Parisiis [n.d, c.1790.]
Stipple printed in brown. 520 x 325mm (20½ x 12¾"), very large margins Some wear to margins, damp stain in top corner.
The personification of Beauty burns incense under a statue of the Three Graces.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67957] £460.00

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)

Calm. [&] Storm.
Chatelain invet. et delin.
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street [originally c.1750, these later impressions on 19th century paper].
Pair of etchings on wove paper, 'Calm' with watermark '1822(?)', each 195 x 255mm. 7¾ x 10". 'Calm' with (printers?) crease through title into lower part of image.
Two landscapes, the serene and peaceful 'Calm' (featuring a gentleman reading a book in centre foreground) contrasting with the windswept scene with two pedestrians struggling at left, and a fallen tree at right. Both compositions show buildings across water in distance. First plate numbered '18' upper left. Jean Baptiste Chatelain (French/British, 1710 - 1758) was a topographical draughtsman and printmaker working in London.
[Ref: 23430] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Les Inconvénients du Jeu.
Peint par A. Van Ostade. Dessiné par Gianni. Gravé par Dupréel.
[Musee Francais, n.d., c.1810.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 335 x 425mm (13¼ x 16¾"). Notch in bottom edge.
''The Disadvantages of Gambling''; peasants playing cards outside a tavern, one playing a violin.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 65573] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Enfance de Napoleon. Napoleon naguit à Ajaccio le 15 Août 1769...
Lith. de Jobert [after Horace Vernet].
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Printed area 185 x 200mm (7¼ x 8"). Foxing.
Napoleon Bonaparte marshalling a snowball battle at his school.
[Ref: 55796] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with Flight into Egypt] [Engraved from the Original Picture, in the Collection of the Revd Dr Newton...Published by F. Vivares may 5th 1757]
Chatelin & Vivares fecit [1757]
Etching and engraving, platemark 415 x 500mm (16¼ x 19¾"). Small margins; stains; very fine unfinished proof.
Landscape with Mary, Joseph and the Christ child on left, peasant and cows crossing a bridge on right, and a flock in distance. After a painting by Claude Lorrain (c.1600-82), 17th century landscape painter whose paintings were immensely important for the development of British landscape painting in the 18th century, largely disseminated through prints such as this.
[Ref: 38587] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Statua di Cleopatra Regina d'Egitto che Dorme con l'Aspide Legato al Braccio Sinistro. VIII.
Gio. Batis. de Poilly Sculp.
In Roma nella Stamp.a di Domenico de Rossi alla Pace con privilegio. [n.d. c.1704.]
Engraving. Plate 235 x 324mm. 9¼ x 12¾". Trimmed to plate left and right.
Cleopatra VII (69 BC-30 BC), Egyptian Queen, lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony. After the Roman armies of Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus) defeated their combined forces, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, and Egypt fell under Roman domination. Rather than be dragged through the city in which she had been borne as a queen, she killed herself, possibly by means of an asp, symbol of divine royalty. From "Raccolta Di Statue Antiche E Moderne".
[Ref: 24900] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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Clytie. In the collection of John Strange Esq.r.
Annibal Caracci Pinxit. John Boydell excudit 1778. J. B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published May 1st, 1778, by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple. Sheet size: 305 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed inside plate at top and side edges.
Clytie, sitting on a rock to the right, holding a sunflower, pushing away Cupid with a thorny branch, while he takes her hand, holding a blazing torch. Within a roundel. after Carracci; state with number added and title. Clytie was a character in Greek mythology who became jealous of her lover, the sun god Apollo. To punish her, he transformed her into a sunflower so that she would always face towards him in his daily journey across the skies.
[Ref: 36890] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mlle. Colombe L'Ainee. Pensionnaire du Roy. Née a Venise eu 1754 ei recue a la Comedie Italienne en 1773. Ciel! ou Fuis-je......Belinde act 1er Scen 3e de la colonie.
Dessiné et Frave par Patas.
Se vend a Paris chez atas Graveur Rue du Platre ai cpom de ce;;e St.Jacques Maison de la Mde.de Modea. [n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving 290 x 410mm (11½ x 16¼").
Marie-Theodore Thérèse Ruggieri, was known as Mlle. Colombe being employed by the Comedie Italienne at an earlier time than her older sister. Marie-Catherine (1751-1830), Marie-Thérèse (1754-1837) and Marie-Madeleine Riggieri (1760-1841), known as Adeline, were among the most celebrated demi-mondaines of their era. Under the stage name 'Colombe', the beautiful (and notorious) Venetian-born actresses made a sensation in late eighteenth-century Paris. Jean Baptiste Patas french printmaker 1748 - 1817 may also be Charles Emmanuel Patas. This prints may be based on a composition by Fragonard who painted the famous actresses.
[Ref: 10548] £320.00

[Italianate landscape after Il Borgognone.] In the Collection of Peter Delmé Esq.r.
Giacomo Cortesi, detto il Borgognone pinx. Chatelain Sculp.
Publish'd by Ar: Ponf Feb.y 1744.
Etching with some engraving. 315 x 405mm, 12½ x 16". Edges worn.
A river scene with a bridge leading to a ruined keep, from a painting by Giacomo Cortese (1621-75), known as Il Borgognone, a Frenchman who spent his career in Italy, with an output mainly of battle scenes. The original painting belonged to Peter Delmé (1710-70), a wealthy English merchant, MP for Ludgershall 1734-41 and for Southampton 1741-54. He was nicknamed 'Peter the Czar' for his considerable inherited wealth, but he spent the lot before shooting himself in his house in Grosvenor Square.
BM: 1869,0410.1182.
[Ref: 23125] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cosaque.
Le Barnier L'aine Delt. Lucien Sculpt. No. 50 [upper right]
A Paris, Chez la V.e Chereau Mde. D'Esyamps, rue St. Jacques, No.10 pres la Fontaine St. Severin.
Stipple engraving 395 x 260mm.
[Ref: 3778] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Desires satisfied] Les Desirs satisfaits. Dédié et Présenté a Monsieur de Damery Chevalier de l'Ordre Militaire de St. Louis [...]
Inventé et Dessiné par Charles Eisen. Gravé par Patas 1772
Avec Privilege du Roi. AParis chez Henault et Rapilly, rue St Jacques a la Croix de Lorraine/
Engraving, sheet 395 x 270mm (15½ x 10¼). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Post-coital scene (probably issued as pair with ref. 44961). Engraved after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 44962] £520.00

Faith, Hope and Charity. From the Original Picture in the Possession of Sir Edward Swinburne Bart.
Rubens Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint. J. B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published Feby. 1st 1780 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Very fine engraving with large margins, printed in sanguine, 455 x 405mm. 18 x 16".
The three theological virtues: Charity at left with her two children stretching out their arms; Hope wearing pearls and holding an anchor at right; Faith at centre, veiled and holding a cross and a book. The Holy Spirit above in the sky in the form of a dove, the whole in a circular frame. After Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
[Ref: 27818] £420.00

[James FitzJames, Duke of Berwick] Bataille d'Almanza.
Sergent del. Morret Sculp.t.
A Paris, chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille-Douce, Place Maubert, N.º 17, vis-à-vis la Rue des 3 Portes A. P. D. R. [n.d., 1786-92].
Rare aquatint with fine printed colour, in engraved text. 245 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"), large margins. Split in bottom platemark taped.
A scene of the Duke of Berwick accepting the surrender of the Austrian-English-Dutch army after the Battle of Almansa, 25 April 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession. James FitzJames (1670-1734) was the illegitimate son of James II by Arabella Churchill, born and raised in France. In 1687 his father made him Duke of Berwick and Governor of Portsmouth, although the Glorious Revolution prevented him taking up the post, joining his father in exile. After the Battle of the Boyne he joined the French army and showed similar abilities to his uncle, the Duke of Marlborough. His victory at Almansa was described by Frederick the Great as the most impressive battle of the century. Berwick was decapitated by a cannonball at the Siege of Philippsburg in 1734. From 'Portraits des grands hommes, femmes illustres et sujets mémorables de France', a series of colour prints published 1786-1792.
[Ref: 69050] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Fontenelle Méditant sur la Pluralité des Mondes.
Desfontaines del.t. Moret Sculp.t.
A Paris, chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille Douce, Place Maubert, No.17, vis-a-vis la Rue des 3 Portes, A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1790.]
Aquatint with fine printed colour, with engraved text. 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), with large margins. With tear entering text taped.
A portrait of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757), standing by a telescope, gazing up at a moon with a human face. Fontenelle was a French author known for his accessible scientific texts during the Age of Enlightenment. He died one month short of his centenary.
[Ref: 56861] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hommage A M. Alex. Humboldt, Par MM. Bory De St. Vincent, Drapiez Et Van Mons.
Baptiste. Lith a Bruac(?)
[n.d., pencil annotation gives 1812.]
Lithograph, sheet 207 x 155mm.
Scarce lithograph, an early example of the technique, of Alexander Von Humboldt (1769 - 1859), Prussian naturalist and explorer who explored much of Central and South America. Charles Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveler who ever lived.' He is widely respected as one of the founders of modern geography. Alexander von Humboldt's travels, experiments, and knowledge transformed western science in the nineteenth century. Collector's stamp on verso.
[Ref: 7484] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

S. Ludovicus Gallorum Rex.
J Humbelot fecit.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Copper engraving. 400 x 293mm. 15¾ x 11½". Repaired tear across centre of image and other damage on this very rare print.
Louis IX (1214-1270) known as Saint Louis. He worked with the Parliament of Paris in order to improve the professionalism of his administration in regards to legal actions. He is the only canonised King of France; he is considered the model of the ideal Christian monarch. Here he stands depicted as King of France with a crown holding a sceptre with a fleur-de-lys on the end.
[Ref: 17605] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Love matchmaking shepherds] L'amour assortit les bergers
Ch. Eisen inv delin Patas sculp [c.1760]
AParis Chez Hénaut et Rapilly Rue St. Jacques à la Croix de Lorraine Avec Priv. du Roi
Engraving, sheet 225 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Allegorical pastoral scene after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 44941] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Statua d Marforio nel Palazzo Capitolino. XXVI.
Gio. Batis. de Poilly Sculp.
In Roma nella Stamp.a di Domenico de Rossi alla Pace con Privil. [n.d. c.1704.]
Engraving. Plate 217 x 341mm. 8½ x 13½". Trimmed to plate left and right.
Marphurius, one of the talking statues of Rome. A Roman marble sculpture of a reclining bearded river god, which in the past has been variously identified as a depiction of Jupiter, Neptune, or the Tiber. From "Raccolta Di Statue Antiche E Moderne".
[Ref: 24898] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mazarin Conclut la Paix des Pyrénés et le Mariage de Louis XIV.
Desfontaines del. 1790. Moret Sculp.
A Paris, chez Blin, Imprimeur en Taille Douce, Place Maubert, No.17, vis-a-vis la Rue des 3 Portes, A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1790.]
Aquatint with fine colour, with engraved text. 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), with large margins. Stain in engraved text bottom left.
Jules Mazarin concluding the Treaty of the Pyrenees (7th November 1659), ending the Franco-Spanish War and agreeing the marriage between Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain, the daughter of Philip IV. From the series 'Portraits des Grands Hommes et Femmes Illustres, et sujets mémorables de France', published between 1786-92.
[Ref: 55602] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Moses striking the rock. In the Gallery at Houghton.
Nicolas Poussin pinxit. J.B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell, No 90 Cheapside, London.
Fine engraving with small margins, platemark 490 x 610mm (19¼ x 24").
Moses striking the rock with his staff, creating a miraculous spring from which people rush to gather water and drink. The 1649 painting by Nicolas Poussin, then in the collection at Houghton, was regarded as one of his finest. Like most of the Houghton Collection, it was purchased by Catherine the Great where it forms part of the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
[Ref: 28346] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Nouveau Theatre Italien.
Coypel jun. Inventit. J.B. Scotin Sculp.
[Paris, Briasson,1733.]
Etched titlepage. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A decorative titlepage, with cherubs dressing up before an audience of other cherubs. From Monicault's 'Le nouveau the´atre italien, ou, recueil general des come´dies represente´es par les Come´diens italiens ordinaires du roi'.
[Ref: 53647] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Nymph and Shepherd. In the Gallery at Houghton.
Carlo Cignani Pinxit. G. Farington delin.t. Michel Sculpsit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 315 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"), with large margins on three sides. Creasing.
A young woman gazes adoringly at a young man holding a musical pipe, who holds her stare. In front of them two children wrestle on a sheep. A scene based on a painting by Carlo Cignani (Bolognam 1628-1719), engraved by Jean Baptiste Michel (1748-1804) from an intermediate sketch by painter George Farington (1752-88)
[Ref: 51729] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

1.re Pastorale.
Le Prince 1769. bit later
Etching with aquatint, with hand colour. 305 x 380mm (12 x 15"), very large margins on 3 sides. Narrow right margin.
A shepherd plays a pipe to his family, dog and resting sheep and cows. Drawn and etched by Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734-81), the possible inventor of aquatint: he first used the technique in 1768, the year before this print.
[Ref: 57651] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

I1.e Pastorale.
Le Prince 1769. bit later.
Etching with aquatint, with hand colour. 305 x 380mm (12 x 15"), very large margins on 3 sides. Narrow right margin.
Two shepherds rest, with three sheep and a goat. Drawn and etched by Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734-81), the possible inventor of aquatint: he first used the technique in 1768, the year before this print.
[Ref: 57652] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre-Louis Dubus de Preville, Comédien François. Il a débuté le 20. 7.bre 1753 par Crispin du Légataire [...]
Jean Bap. Michel fecit 1787
A Paris chez Petit, rue du petit Pont, à l'Image N.D.
Rare engraving, sheet, 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed inside platemark. Slight crease at top.
Pierre-Louis Dubus (1721-99), French comic actor known as simply 'Préville'. As the text on the print recounts, he joined the Comédie Francaise in 1753 in the role of Crispin in Jean-François Regnard's 'Le Légitaire Universel'. Admired by Louis XV and a friend of the greatest British actor of the day, David Garrick (who christened him 'enfant de la nature'), he created more than sixty roles during his time at the Comédie Francaise (1753-86). Portrayed here in decorative frame with symbols of the arts and scene from another play by Regnard, 'Les Folies Amoureuses'.
[Ref: 37957] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Danse Russe.
Le Prince 1760.
Hand coloured etching and aquatint, image 300 x 235mm. 11¾ x 9¼".
A Russian man and woman dancing in front of an audience to the accompaniment of musicians with guitar-like instruments. A large tent behind. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), painter and etcher; inventor of aquatint: 1757-62 in Russia.
[Ref: 13303] £390.00

[Russian orthodox parish priest] Curé en habit de Choeur [Parish priest in choir dress].
[J.B. Le Prince.]
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 225 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. Uncut.
Full ecclesiastical robes, making a blessing gesture with his right hand and holding a book in the other. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Divers Habillements des Prêtres de Russie' series (10 plates including title). Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21261] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Russian orthodox parish priest] Curé en Habit de Ville.
[J.B. Le Prince.]
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 230 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. One rust spot in plate edge upper left. Uncut.
With walking stick in right hand and fur hat in left hand; he wears a skullcap and a long robe over a tunic. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Divers Habillements des Prêtres de Russie' series (10 plates including title). Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21259] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Russian orthodox abbot] Abbé Commandataire au Choeur [Abbot commandataire at the choir].
Le Prince 1764 [in plate].
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 230 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. Uncut.
Rosary beads in right hand and staff in the other, with long, hooded cape worn over tunic, and tall hat. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Divers Habillements des Prêtres de Russie' series (10 plates including title). Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21258] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Russian orthodox parish priest] Diacre Séculier en Habit de Choeur [Secular deacon in choir dress].
Le Prince 1764 [in plate].
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 225 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. Uncut.
His right arm rests on a pedestal upon which is a censer; he wears an alb and a stole. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Divers Habillements des Prêtres de Russie' series (10 plates including title). Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21260] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Tambour des Strelits [Drummer from the Streltsy militia].
[J.B. Le Prince.]
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 225 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. Uncut.
A young Russian soldier walking to right, beating a drum. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Les Strelits' series (8 plates including title). Streltsy (strelsi; Russian: “musketeers”) was an elite Russian military corps. Established in the mid-16th century, they provided the tsar's bodyguard. Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21263] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Ecrivain de la Chancellerie du Corps des Strelits [Chancellery writer from the Streltsy militia].
[J.B. Le Prince.]
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 225 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. Uncut.
Man standing wearing fur lined hat and coat; he holds a quill in his right hand, and carries an inkpot hung from his belt. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Les Strelits' series (8 plates including title). Streltsy (strelsi; Russian: “musketeers”) was an elite Russian military corps. Established in the mid-16th century, they provided the tsar's bodyguard. Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21262] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Soldat du Corps des Strelits [Soldier from the Streltsy militia]. Sous les Armes.
[J.B. Le Prince.]
[Paris, c.1782.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 225 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Full margins, stitching holes to upper part. Uncut.
Russian soldier carrying axe over his left shoulder, shotgun over back, and sword at his left side. A horn and gunpowder hangs from his belt at right side. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), from a late 18th century collection of his sets of (mainly Russian) costume and character. This from the 'Les Strelits' series (8 plates including title). Streltsy (strelsi; Russian: “musketeers”) was an elite Russian military corps. Established in the mid-16th century, they provided the tsar's bodyguard. Le Prince was a painter and etcher, inventor of aquatint; 1757-62 in Russia. A collected edition of his plates was published in 1782 by Basan.
[Ref: 21265] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Niskani, Aoucantouri et Erougantoi, habitans de la Baie de Langle. Orotchis, habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Dessiné par Duche de Vancy. Gravé par Simonet. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.]
Engraving. 565 x 410mm (22¼ x 16"). Tear in edge, well outside image area. Small margins.
Two round group portraits: above are inhabitants of the Tomari Bay, Sakhalin; below are the inhabitants of De Castries Bay, on the mainland coast of the Gulf of Tartary. They were drawn by Gaspard Duchè de Vancy (1756-1788), the official artist of the La Perouse expedition, who disappeared with the rest of the crews of the Astrolabe and Boussole in 1788.
[Ref: 40543] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Soiree Des Thuileries. Dediee a Monsieur Boyer de Fonscolombe Gravee d'apres le Tableau tire de son Cabinet Par Son tres humble et tres obeisst. Serviteur Basan.
Baudouin pinx. Simonet sculp.
Se vend a Paris ches Basan et Poignant M.ds d'Estampes, rue et Hotal Serpente. [n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving, 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼").. Light foxing, mainly to wide margins.
The royal Tuileries Palace stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871. In the eighteenth century it was used as a theatre, and its gardens became a fashionable resort of Parisians. The couple in this print are watched by their pet dog. Engraved by Jean Baptiste Simonet (1742 - 1810) after a gouache painting by Pierre Antoine Baudouin (1723 - 1769) who worked in Boucher's studio and married his daughter.
[Ref: 7362] £420.00

Il est venue le brave S.t Michel, Faire avec nous la Kermesse a Brussel.
Lithogr. de Jobard.
Déposé [n.d., c.1850].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"), watermarked 'Hennessey'.
A statue-like figure of St Michael in armour stands on a bat-like Satan, sword raised. A cross sword seems to be embedded in his forehead. A Kermesse is a Dutch festival.
[Ref: 62467] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pl. XLVIII. [Scenes of everyday life in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (two images), sheet 350 x 245mm. 13¾ x 9¾". Margins tatty and chipped, affecting edge of india in places.
A canoeist on a hunting expedition, with dog, monkey and provisions aboard; below a woman dressed-up in elaborate costume. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 18007] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pl. IX. [Funeral in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (two images), sheet 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10".
Funeral procession for a European, presumably a plantation owner, at a cemetary in Paramaribo, the capital and largest city of Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The compositons feature black slaves as mourners, holding parasols and carrying the coffin, also a skull in the ground in lower image. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 17996] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Pl. XI. [Scenes of everyday life in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (three images), sheet 345 x 260mm. 13½ x 10¼".
The upper vignette showing three black women dressed up for a special religious celebration, looking towards a church in the background. Also donkey and cart, and below women with children carrying commodities on their heads. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 18000] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pl. XIII. [Scenes of everyday life in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (two images), sheet 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10".
A women carrying her child to a baptism, and thre women in different costumes below. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 18001] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pl. XVIII. [Scenes of everyday life in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (two images), sheet 350 x 260mm. 13¾ x 10¼".
A female snake-charmer or fortune-teller at a consultation in an interior; below Europeans and black Africans in a bar, a game of billiards in progress. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 18002] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pl. XIX. [A festival in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 255 x 340mm. 10 x 13½".
The text describes a dance at the Dou, a special celebration for the slaves, usually occurring on New Year's Day. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 18003] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Exclaimauit Susanna. [...]. A Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur Philippe d'Orleans Duc de Chartres.
Ant. Coypel in et pinx. Joan. Bap. Poilly Sculpsit.
[n.d., c 1700.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 525 x 695mm (20¾ x 27½"). Cut to image. Laid on 18th century backing sheet.
Susanna accused by the elders. A classical setting Susanna, standing with her arms outstretched in the centre. The two elders pointing at her with crowds surrounding them, with many people expressing grief. Susannah was a biblical figure, a virtuous woman who refused the advances of two elders. In revenge she was brought to trial and condemned to death, but rescued by Daniel, sent from God. Lettered below with titles and a dedication to Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans, Regent of France. After French historical painter Antoine Coypel (1661 - 1722).
[Ref: 38444] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

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