Grosvenor Prints

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi.] From one of the most Capital Pictures ever Painted by Rembrandt: In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.]
Rembrandt Pinx.t. J. Boydell Exc.t. W.m Pether Sculp.t 1778.
Publishd Feb.y 2..d 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, proof before title. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with wide margins. Stains in lower margin.
Portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.
Charrington 119. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65576] £420.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi.]
[Engraved by William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn.]
[Published by John Boydell, n.d., c.1764.]
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed close to plate at sides.
First plate portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He wears a white turban and a mantle attached on breast by rich gold clasps, his hands held in front.
CS 39. Charrington 118 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & collectors mark.
[Ref: 65587] £480.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi.]
[Engraved by William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn.]
[Published by John Boydell, n.d., c.1764.]
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins.
First plate portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He wears a white turban and a mantle attached on breast by rich gold clasps, his hands held in front.
CS 39. Charrington 118 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65588] £480.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi. From one of the most Capital Pictures ever Painted by Rembrandt: In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.]
[Engraved by William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn.]
[Published by John Boydell, n.d., c.1764.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Some foxing and time-staining. Thread margins. Margins reinforced
First plate portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He wears a white turban and a mantle attached on breast by rich gold clasps, his hands held in front.
CS 39. Charrington 118 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Oettingen-Wallerstein.
[Ref: 65586] £480.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi. From one of the most Capital Pictures ever Painted by Rembrandt: In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.]
[Rembrandt Pinxt. J.Boydell Exc.t. W.m Pether Sculp.t. 1778.]
[Publishd Feb.y 2d 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters; 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Very small margins.
Portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.
Charrington 119. ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65578] £480.00

[Master Ashton.]
Jos.h Wright Pinx.t. W.m Pether Fecit 1770.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 26, 1770, by W.m Pether in G.t Russell S.t Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint, fine scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
John Ashton, son of Nicholas Ashton, a former High Sheriff of Lancashire; seated in a landscape, dressed in the girlish style of the period, hugging his spaniel. William Pether also engraved some of Joseph Wright of Derby's most famous works, including 'A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery', 'The Farrier's Shop' and 'An Alchymist'.
CS: 1, state i of ii.
[Ref: 53219] £650.00

[Thomas Brown?]
Wm. Pether Pinx & Sculp.
[n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
In reference books this mezzotint is said to portray Thomas Gent (1693-1778), printer and topographer based in York, although Chaloner Smith expressed uncertainty. A pencil note on the reverse of this example gives the name Thomas Brown.
CS 16; From Gulston collection.
[Ref: 56418] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Chelsum] Inscribed to the best of Parents by her affectionate Son, J.C.D.D. AEt: 87 A.o 1789. Me, let the tender office long engage...
S. Elmer pinxit. W.m Pether sculpsit.
Rare mezzotint; sheet 375 x 285mm (14¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet at sides.
Half-length seated portrait of Mrs Chelsum with six lines of verse from Pope underneath the dedication line. She wears gloves, a dark shawl, dark sash around her waist and dark bonnet tied under her chin with a frilled white cap underneath. Mary Chelsum (née Ward, born 1702), boarding-house keeper and mother of James Chelsum (c. 1740-1801), clergyman and author.
CS4 II of II.
[Ref: 61574] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Edw. Colston Esq. The Philanthropist! Born in Bristol. Died Oct.r 11th 1721. Æ.t 85.
Jon.n Richardson.Pinx.t. W.m Pether Sculp.t 1817.
Sold by Norton & Sons, Corn Street, Bristol. Price 12 Sh.gs.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾).
Edward Colston (1636-1721), a wealthy merchant whose philanthropy earned him great respect in Bristol, where he was commemorated with statues, a concert hall and street names. However he kept secret his role as a highly placed officer in the Royal African Company (which held the monopoly on trade with Africa for gold, ivory, spices and slaves from 1672 to 1698) so successfully that early biographies do not mention it. In 2020 his links to the slave trade were the focus of the 'Black Lives Matter' protests in Bristol, during which his statue was pulled down and dumped in Bristol Harbour.
CS 5. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4883] £520.00

The Comic Society.
G.Douw Pinxit. W.Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾")..
A group of travelling musicians, seen through an arched window, play a flute, hurdy-gurdy and tambourine, for a woman holding a pestle and mortar. One of the group reaches out to take payment.
CS: see pg. 995.
[Ref: 62731] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Comic Society.
G.Douw Pinxit. W.Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾").
Travelling players.
[Ref: 7008] £490.00

[François Du Quesnoy ~ il Fiammingo.] Done from the Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon,,ble the Earl of Besborough.
Le. Brun Pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Rob.t Sayer Excudit. [London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 495 x 355mm (19½ x 14"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, small tear in inscription area, cockling top right.
A half-length portrait of sculptor and draughtsman François Du Quesnoy (1597-1643), known as il Fiammingo. Born in Brussels, he was in Rome in 1621 in the workshop of Claude Poussin. He spent many years studying and copying Classical and modern works in Roman collections, taking commissions for Urban VIII and Cardinal Massimi.
CS.12, ii of ii.
[Ref: 62738] £320.00

Felicity. From an Original Picture, in the Posession of the Rev.d Dr.Chelsum.
W.m.Pether. Pinx et sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs March 31, 1791, by Darling & Thompson, N.3 Great Newport Street, London.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to plate. Fold across lower publication area.
Portrait of a smiling young boy, he holds a pitcher and wears a tattered coat and broad-brimmed hat.
[Ref: 67460] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Helena Forman.
Rubens pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775 by W: Pether Broad Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673), one breast outside her corset, with bouquets of wheat stems and flowers in her hand and hat. The daughter of a wealthy silk and tapesty merchant of Antwerp, Fourment married Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.
CS 14.
[Ref: 60106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Honble. Charles James Fox. Addressing the Electors of Westminster from the Hustings at Covent Garden.
Publish'd Augt. 7. 1802 by I. Hinton, 44, Wells Strt. Oxford Strt. London.
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". Margins a little tatty.
Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806), Whig statesman, third son of Henry Fox, and Lady Carloline Georgina Lennox. Here shown on the Hustings in front of St. Paul's Church Covent Garden, campaigning for the Westminster election. On the wall behind him is a notice 'State of the Poll', Fox leading. Fox was the first foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and vocal supporter of American independence. Also known for his rivalry with William Pitt the Younger and a staunch opponent of George III he was reckless in politics as at the gaming tables. Fox held office briefly as a Tory under Lord North then led the opposition. Fox strongly criticised Lord North and the conduct of the American war, viewing the cause of the American patriots as a struggle for liberty against oppressive external power. He supported the revolutionaries of the United States, often dressing in the colours of George Washington's army. He championed America's cause, denouncing taxation of Americans without their consent. Reform was a passion but as a supporter of the revolutionary cause in France, his credibility was diminished from 1792 by the excesses of the French revolutionaries.
[Ref: 10910] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Leveridge.
T. Frye pinxit. W.m Pether fecit.
Sold by W.m Pether, in Great Newport Street, Leicester Fields. Pr. 2s. [n.d. c.1758.]
Mezzotint. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"). Creasing in top corners, small tear entering inscription area taped. Small margins.
Half-length portrait of singer and composer Richard Leveridge (1670 - 1758), holding sheet music and with right hand held up to mark the time. An associate of Henry Purcell, he composed over 150 songs, the best known being the patriotic ballad 'The Roast Beef of Old England'.
CD 23, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64889] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Leveridge.
T. Frye pinxit. W.m Pether fecit.
Sold by W.m Pether, in Great Newport Street, Leicester Fields. Pr. 2s. [n.d. c.1758.]
Mezzotint. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), with large margins. Surface scuffs at top corners.
Half-length portrait of singer and composer Richard Leveridge (1670 - 1758), holding sheet music and with right hand held up to mark the time. An associate of Henry Purcell, he composed over 150 songs, the best known being the patriotic ballad 'The Roast Beef of Old England'.
CD 23, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64890] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)

The Lord of the Vineyard paying his Labourers. From an Original Picture Painted by Rembrandt in the Collection of Henry Isaac Esq.r.
Rembrandt pinxit. J.Boydell Excudit. Will.m Pether fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament Feb 1st 1800, by J.Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint, printed in colour, 505 x 405mm (20 x 16") on paper watermarked '1816.'
A man in a turban sits at a table, to his right is a clerk with an open book and to his left a man holds out a coin. Very fine colour printing.
Charrington 122 iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65765] £580.00

The Lord of the Vineyard paying his Labourers. From an Original Picture Painted by Rembrandt in the Collection of Henry Isaac Esq.r.
Rembrandt pinxit. J.Boydell Excudit. Will.m Pether fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament Feb 1st 1766, by J.Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint. 505 x 405mm (20 x 16"), very large margins.
A man in a turban sits at a table, to his right is a clerk with an open book and to his left a man holds out a coin.
Charrington 122 iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65762] £480.00

[The Lord of the Vineyard.]
Rembrandt pinxit. J.Boydell Exc.t. Wm Pether fecit.
1766.
Mezzotint proof before titke. 505 x 405mm (20 x 16"), large margins. Faint foxing. Backed onto album paper.
A man in a turban sits at a table, to his right is a clerk with an open book and to his left a man holds out a coin.
Charrington 122. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65760] £390.00

Jer,,h Meyer Esq.r R..A. Miniature Painter in Enamel to His Majesty 1789.
Dance Pinx.t. Pether fecit.
Mezzotint. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼") very large margins. Some cockling of paper, paper crack in edge on image and inscription.
Hand and shoulders portrait of painter of miniatures Jeremiah Meyer RA (Jeremias Majer, 1735-89). His head is full-featured, but his body is composed of broad strokes, the result of Meyer dying before Nathaniel Dance finished the portrait.
CS 24; Russell 24 state ii of ii.
[Ref: 62732] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a man in military costume.] From the Original Picture Painted by Rembrandt, in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Besborough. To whom this Plate is most Humbly Dedicated, by His Lordship's most obliged and most Obedient Hum.ble Servant, J. Boydell.
Rembrandt Pinxt. W.m Pether fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell. Engraver in Cheapside, Nov.r 1.st 1764.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), large margins on 3 sides. Margins restored, horizonal fold flattened, inscription weakly inked.
A portrait of a man, three-quarter length, wearing a breastplate with chain and a large hat with feathers, his left elbow leaning on a ledge holding a sword. After a 1650 painting by Rembrandt now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, once considered to show Rembrandt himself. It was engraved by portrait painter and mezzotinter William Pether (1731-1821).
Charrington. 125. III of III.
[Ref: 56509] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Sarah Porter Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells.
Vander Smissen Pinxit. [engraved by William Pether.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint, 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 10"), with large margins. Tears to edges of margins.
An oval portrait of an old woman, ledger with 'Ladies' Subscriptions', quill and ink. When Richard ‘Beau’ Nash became Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms in 1735, he employed Sarah Porter to assist in touting or enlisting subscribers. She would greet visitors at the door of the ballroom is if she knew them, enquiring after a relative, before asking them to pay a subscription: if they refused, she would shadow them around the room, ledger and quill in hand, until they gave in and paid up. However rude people became Sarah never responded in kind. She continued in the role until 1762.
CS 27.
[Ref: 66887] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Sarah Porter Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells.
Vander Smissen Pinxit. [engraved by William Pether.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 255mm. Trimmed to plate, corners nicked.
An oval portrait of an old woman, ledger with 'Ladies' Subscriptions', quill and ink. When Richard ‘Beau’ Nash became Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms in 1735, he employed Sarah Porter to assist in touting or enlisting subscribers. She would greet visitors at the door of the ballroom is if she knew them, enquiring after a relative, before asking them to pay a subscription: if they refused, she would shadow them around the room, ledger and quill in hand, until they gave in and paid up. However rude people became Sarah never responded in kind. She continued in the roll until 1762.
CS 27.
[Ref: 58073] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Rembrandt as an Officer of State.] From the Original Picture Painted by Rembrandt, In the Collection of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Besborough to whom this plate is most humbly Dedicated, by His Lordship's most Obliged and most Obedient Humble Servant._ J.Boydell.
Rembrandt Pinxt. Wm Pether fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J.Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, Nov.r. 1st 1764.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Small margins.
Portrait of Rembrandt, looking slightly to the left. He wears a hat with a black fetaher in the front and a white feather on the brim. His right arm leans on a piller and he holds a large sword.
CS 38. Charrington 125 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65589] £480.00

[A Young Man at a Curtain.] From the Original Picture, Painted by Rembrandt; In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln.
Rembrandt Pinxit. Wm. Pether fecit.
J.Boydell Excudit 1767.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Foxing.
A half-length portrait of a young man, looking to the front. He wears a velvet cap and a jewelled chain, in his right hand he holds a roll of paper and his left hand holds back a curtain.
Charrington 128. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Oettingen-Wallerstein.
[Ref: 65591] £460.00

[Rembrandt as an Officer of State.]
Rembrandt Pinxt. Jn Boydell Ex. Wm Pether fecit.
1764.
Mezzotint before the Arms. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed close to plate.
Portrait of Rembrandt, looking slightly to the left. He wears a hat with a black feather in the front and a white feather on the brim. His right arm leans on a pillar and he holds a large sword.
Ch 125. ii of iii. CS28. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and Collector's Mark
[Ref: 65575] £480.00

[Revd. Seyer, Bristol]
W.Pether delt. et sculpt.1816.
[n.d. c.1816]
Mezzotint. Plate 318 x 254mm.
Samuel Seyer (1757-1831), historian of Bristol, known for his 'Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and its Neighbourhood, from the Earliest Period Down to the Present Time' (Bristol, 1821-23).
CS: 31 before II.
[Ref: 4618] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[The Standard-Bearer.] Done from a Picture in the Collection of Sr. Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy.
Rembrandt Pinxt. W.Pether, delin & fecit.
London Printed for Robt. Sayer Map & Printseller No.53, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins, laid down on card.
Portrait of a man, he wears a large hat with long white feathers, a sash over his right shoulder and his left hand is holding standard.
Charrington 127 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65820] £480.00

[The Standard Bearer (Floris Soop)]
Rembrandt Pinx.t W.m Pether fecit
R. Sayer Exc.t [c.1770]
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to platemark; fine impression.
Engraving after Rembrandt's 1654 painting 'The Standard Bearer', believed to be a portrait of the collector Floris Soop (1604-1657). The painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is one of numerous engravings made after Rembrandt by William Pether (c.1738-1821), mezzotint engraver and painter, best remembered as the engraver of prints after Rembrandt and Joseph Wright of Derby. These prints stand amongst the finest mezzotints ever produced in Britain, demonstrating how mezzotint was the printed medium which most effectively reproduced the chiaroscuro effects of these painters.
CS 42 i/ii; Charrington 127 ii/ii.
[Ref: 46868] £450.00

The Studious Society.
G. Scalken Pinxit. W. Pether Fecit.
[London: William Pether, n.d., 1787.]
Mezzotint. 295 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"). Surface rubbed.
Three children studying around a table by candlelight, long after their classmates have gone, as their teacher sharpens a quill. A woman approaches with a lantern to take them home. On the wall behind is a map of Europe. The whole scene is framed by an archway. After Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706), published as a pair to 'The Comic Society' after Dou. It was also published with a separate plate with descriptive text, with Pether's publication line dated October 1.st 1787).
Rare: not in BM.
[Ref: 11088] £360.00

Rembrandt's Wife in the Character of a Jew Bride. From the Original Picture Painted by Rembrandt, In the collection of the Right Hon.ble William Henry Fortescue.
[After Rembrandt.] Will.m Pether fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament by J.Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London, 1763.
Mezzotint. 300 x 275mm (15½ x 10¾") large margins. Some creasing and foxing in margins.
Portrait of Saskia Van Uylenburg (1612 - 1642), wife of Rembrandt van Rijn. Saskia and Rembrandt were engaged on 5 June 1633, a year later Rembrandt asked permission to marry in Sint Annaparochie. On 2 July 1634 the couple married.
Charrington 126 iii of iii. CS 30. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65667] £380.00

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