Grosvenor Prints

Machine Infernale dirigee par les Anglais, Pour incendier Saint Malo. ['Details de la Machine' key lettering below image, brief history of use of incendary ships by the English below that.]
Beauble nee Gipoulou, del. Beauble fils. Sculp.
A Paris chez Beauble fils, Graveur de Geographie et d'Ecriture, Rue des Anglais, N.8. [n.d., c.1805.] Depose a la Bibliotheque.
Engraved plan in the form of a cross-section of a ship's hull, 308 x 199mm. Some creasing and soiling to margins.
A French explanation of the English innovation of cramming unmanned merchant ships with incendiaries, used to destroy harbour defences. Admiral John Benbow arrived off St. Malo, a walled port city in Brittany, in the middle of November 1693 and immediately started firing mortars over the wall in to the town and among the sheltering French ships. This continued for three days and on the fourth night he prepared to send in the first Infernal ever used by the Royal Navy. Benbow intended to manoeuvre the barque under the town's sea wall but it struck a rock and the engineers were forced to light the fuses and row for their lives. The vessel burned for some time but eventually blew up. The force of the explosion rocked the town like an earthquake. It blew the roofs off three hundred houses and broke all the glass and earthenware for miles around. The capstan, which weighed two hundred pounds, flew in to the air and, when it landed, completely levelled a house. Large parts of the sea wall collapsed. If Benbow had had a force of Marines he would undoubtedly have been able to take the town. He was given the task of repeating his success at Dunkirk but the Infernal proved less effective and the Admiralty dropped their use.
[Ref: 7707] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Beauchamp Procter.
Painted by Ben. West Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by James Watson.
Published March 25.th, 1779, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. London.
Mezzotint, sheet 380 x 285mm (15 x 11¼"). Thread margins. Repairs.
Three quarter length portrait of Lady Mary Beauchamp Proctor (1760-1848), wife of Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, 2nd Baronet, (1756-1827). She is seen placing wreath of flowers on statue of Hymen, which a putto is clinging to. She wears a loose, flowing gown and her hair dressed high. In the background are pillars and curtains. Born Mary Palmer, she was a noted beauty who was also painted by George Romney (now in the Huntington Library).
CS 121.II
[Ref: 61690] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Jos de Beauchamp Astronomer.
Eng.d by Mackenzie from an Original Picture.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate and laid to album page; a strong impression.
Joseph de Beauchamp, astronomer, scientist, and papal assistant in 1782, in oriental costume, in an oval. Beauchamp explored Babylon and other archaeological sites by questioning nearby residents and watching excavations done by local peasants to salvage ancient fired bricks. He learned that ''by digging up the earth, they found a chamber that had a wall where a cow was formed from glazed bricks… which might shed some further light on the ancient religion of Chaldea''.
[Ref: 13890] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Hon.ble The Lord Aubrey Beauclerck Slain at Cartagena in America, Feb: the 24th. 1740/1 in the 31st. Year of his Age. [Six lines of verse below.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, sheet 380 x 240mm (15 x 9½"). Trimmed to plate.
Lord Aubrey Beauclerk (1711-1741), youngest son of Charles, 1st Duke of St Albans. A Royal Navy captain, he served at Cartagena under Vernon and was killed during the attack on the Boca Chica, 22 March 1741. A handsome monument to his memory was erected in Westminster Abbey and a pension of £200 per annum was conferred on his widow. By George Vertue (1683 - 1756), after an unidentified artist.
NPG: D1039.
[Ref: 9887] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Honorable Lady Catherine Beauclerk.]
F. Cotes pinxit. F. Bartolozzi delin et sculpsit.
Publisedh April 15th 1778 by W.r Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street.
Oval stipple, proof before title, printed in sepia. Sheet 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
Lady Catherine Elizabeth Beauclerk, daughter of the 5th Duke of St Albans, died 1803.
De Vesme 1041, state iii of v.
[Ref: 51575] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles & James Beauclerk] The Effigies of the Right Hon.rbl Charles Beauclaire Baron of Heddington & Earle of Burford. And of ye R.t Hon.rbl James L.d Beauclaire Brother and heir to y.e Right Hon.rble Earl of Burford.
R. White Sculp.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. 290 x 180mm (11½ x 7"), with large margins.
Double portrait of Charles Beauclerk (1670-1726) and his younger brother, James (1671-c.1680), illegitimate children of Charles II by Nell Gwyn. Charles became Earl of Burford and Baron Heddington in 1676, aged 6, and 1st Duke of St Albans in 1684, aged 14. James died at school in Paris, aged about 10.
[Ref: 65324] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Diana Beauclerk] Her Grace the Dutchess of S.t Albans.
G. Kneller Bar.t pinx. J. Faber fec.
[J. Cooper exc.] [n.d. c.1723.]
Mezzotint, 455 x 310mm (18 x 12¼") with large margins.
A full-length portrait of Diana Beauclerk (nee de Vere) (c. 1679-1742) standing beside an orange tree, with the left foot placed on the plinth beneath it. The left arm rests on the large urn containing the tree, while the other hand holds a fruit and gestures toward it. The figure smiles at the viewer. This is from a series of thirteen engravings after Kneller of the Hampton Court Beauties. State with Cooper's name erased. Not to be confused with the artist Lady Diana Beauclerk, this is the wife of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke and the daughter and heiress of Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford.
CS 28 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65161] £320.00

[William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, & Harriet Mellon] This is No Caricature.
[by John Doyle.]
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket Oct.r 1st 1827.
Fine lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") Old ink mss. identification under print. Trimmed.
In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-49), married Harriet Mellon (1777-1837), widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. After her death Harriett's money passed to Angela Burdett-Coutts.
BM Satires 15461.
[Ref: 69103] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in the Honey Moon or Conjugal Felicity.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub the Largest assortment of any House in Town. [n.d., 1828.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed 'Best Wiltshire' . The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, married Harriet Mellon, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. The following year, to celebrate their anniversary, they held a reception, attended by two royal dukes and Prince Leopold (seen on the left). The Duke presented his wife with a silver fruit basket on which was engraved a flitch of bacon; the Duchess then announced her gift of a six-oared cutter called The Falcon, and the boatmen in their liveries made an appearance.
BM Satires 15600.
[Ref: 39607] £360.00

[William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, & Harriet Mellon] This is No Caricature.
[by John Doyle.]
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket Oct.r 1st 1827.
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼"), with large margins. Old ink mss. explanation under print.
In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, married Harriet Mellon, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. After her death Harriett's money passed to Angela Burdett-Coutts.
BM Satires 15461.
[Ref: 33100] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Beaudesert, Staffordshire, Marquis of Anglesea
[after Humphry Repton]
London: Published by J. Taylor, Feb. 1 1816
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"). Lacking overlay. Small tears; laid on conservation tissue.
Beaudesert, on the southern edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, one of the family seats of the Paget family. The estate was broken up in the early 20th century, and demolition of the house began in 1935, but was never completed and some ruins still remain. Plate from Humphry Repton's 'Fragments on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening', whose plates were engraved from drawings by the great landscape gardener. Repton's last treatise, 'Fragments' charts the break-up of landscape gardening and the society which sustained it, focusing on small flower gardens and ornate gothic buildings rather than the landscape at large. Repton died two years later, in 1818.
Abbey 391.14. See 34183 for image with overlay.
[Ref: 34862] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Charlotte Sophia, Duchess of Beaufort, Wife of Henry Charles, Sixth Duke of Beaufort _ And Daughter of Granville first Marquis of Stafford...
Painted by Anne Mee. Engraved by A. Cardon.
Pubd. Feby. 1, 1812 by Anne Mee, 66, Upper Berkley Street.
Stipple on india paper, signed in ink lower right by the artist. Plate: 440 x 340mm. 17¼ x 13½", large margins.
Portrait of Charlotte Sophia (Leveson-Gower), Duchess of Beaufort (1771-1854); three-quarter length, draped in ermine cloak and seated in large ornate chair. After miniature painter Anne Mee (née Foldsone) (c. 1770-1851).
NPG D31583.
[Ref: 39935] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Charlotte Sophia, Duchess of Beaufort, Wife of Henry Charles, Sixth Duke of Beaufort _ And Daughter of Granville first Marquis of Stafford...
Painted by Anne Mee. Engraved by A. Cardon.
[London: A. Mee, 1812.]
Stipple in engraved frame on india paper, artist's proof (lacking publisher's imprint). Boldly signed in reddish ink lower right by Mee. India 435 x 335mm. 17¼ x 13¼". Lacking margins, with some light foxing. Remains of tissue guard leaf attached to upper margin.
Portrait of Charlotte Sophia (Leveson-Gower), Duchess of Beaufort (1771-1854); three-quarter length, draped in ermine cloak and seated in large ornate chair. After miniature painter Anne Mee (née Foldsone) (c. 1770-1851).
See NPG D31583.
[Ref: 27217] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Somerset, first Duke of Beaufort.]
Guil: Faithorne del: et sculp:
Engraving. 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed on plate minor all over foxing.
Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, [1629-1700] became the First Duke of Beaufort in 1682. Styled as Lord Herbert from 1646 until 1667, he survived the tumultuous and uncertain decades that followed the English civil war by creating remarkable political alliances. While sitting in the Cromwellian Parliament he maintained good relations with the Lord Protector. He was sent to the Tower in 1659 for his part in a Royalist plot and by 1660 was advocating the Restoration. He worked to restore his family's estates and political power base. He also sought to tame political and religious passions and to bring order and stability. Henry, third marquis of Worcester and first duke of Beaufort, was a powerful regional magnate and became an active member of Charles II's Privy Council. He refused to swear allegiance to William of Orange.
Fagan:p.21 only state.
[Ref: 10867] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.] F. Beaufort [facsimile signature].
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Com.py. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, artist's proof before title. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"), large margins, PSA blindstamp.
Three quarter seated portrait of Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Stephen Pearce's original oil is in the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66255] £320.00

[Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.]
[Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.]
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"), Limited edition 200 proofs; PSA blindstamp. Foxing. Small margins.
Three quarter seated portrait of Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Stephen Pearce's original oil is in the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66256] £320.00

[Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.]
[Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.]
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"), Limited edition 200 proofs; PSA blindstamp. Paper toned, narrow margins, chipped into plate bottom right corner.
Three quarter seated portrait of Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Stephen Pearce's original oil is in the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66257] £320.00

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Compy. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"). Thread margin on left.
Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Early in his career at sea Beaufort's gallant record and scientific talents made him well known throughout the navy. In 1817 he published a record of his survey and exploration of the southern Turkish coast (then little known to Europeans). In 1829, at the age of 55, Beaufort became the Hydrographer of the British Admiralty, remaining so for 26 years, charting the seas to make them safe for the increasing amount of British and foreign shipping. Beaufort converted a minor chart repository into the finest surveying and charting institution in the world. Some of his excellent charts are still used, 200 years after he created them.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57021] £480.00

Frère Jacques Beaulieu. Célèbre Lithotomiste.
Lith. Paul Petit et c.ie.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Scarce lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5") very large margins.
A portrait of Jacques Beaulieu (or Baulot, 1651-1719), an itinerant lithotomist, a surgeon specialising in the removal of calculi like kidney and gall stones. After a short career as a cavalry private, he had a six-year apprenticeship with another travelling surgeon. He travelled around with four assistants, who prepared his patients with cupping and blood-letting, before operating on all of them on the same day, usually leaving as soon as possible to avoid repercussions. From 1690 he donned the robes of a Dominican monk and started calling himself frère, without ordination. In 1697, in a session at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris, he performed a lithotomy in less than a minute and 10 more in less than an hour, with a 53.5% mortality rate while the average at the time was 14%, resulting in a five-year ban from practicing in Paris. He performed around 5,000 lithotomies before retiring in 1711. Based on a life-time portrait.
[Ref: 59172] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Philippe Dece Iurisconsulte.
NL.
[n.d. c.1682.]
Engraving. 185 x 132mm. 7¼ x 5¼". Cut.
Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247-1296) was a French jurist and royal official. After his studies of law in Orleans, and possibly Bologna, he became bailiff of Clemont in the county of Beauvaisis, then senschal of Poitou and the Saintonge; he managed to hold some very senior positions in the realm. All of this administrative experience helped form the basis to his principal work: "Coustumes de Beauvoisis" of 1283, which was first printed in 1690. This work was later regarded as one of the best works bearing on old French customary law, and was often referred to with high admiration by Montesquieu, who called him "la lumiere de son temps". Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
[Ref: 17037] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Beaumaris Castle.
W. Day Lith.rs to the King, London. From Nature, & on Stone by J. Coleman.
Pub.d by W.m Shone, Bookseller, Bangor. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph on india with very large margins, rare. Sheet 246 x 319mm (9¾ x 12½").
A view of the entrance to Beaumaris Castle, on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. It was built as part of Edward I's campaign to conquer the north of Wales after 1282.
[Ref: 29926] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Beaumont College. ___ "The Lawn on Speech Day".
Painted by H.J. Brooks. Etched by E.W. Evans.
London, Published March 18.th 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Plate 438 x 675mm. 17¼ x 26½".
A view of ladies and gentlemen, masters, students and friends, gathered on the bank of the River Thames with a marquee to the right and a fountain in the middle-foreground by a statue. Beaumont College, the Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, the school was closed in 1967.
[Ref: 22024] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Beaumont College. ___ "The Lawn on Speech Day".]
[Pencil signatures:] H. Jamyn Brooks. E.W. Evans.
London, Published March 18.th 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 431 x 666mm. 17 x 26¼".
A view of ladies and gentlemen, masters, students and friends, gathered on the bank of the River Thames with a marquee to the right and a fountain in the middle-foreground by a statue. Beaumont College, the Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, the school was closed in 1967.
PSA: Vol.II. AP. 100.
[Ref: 22025] £320.00

[Beaumont College. ___ "The Lawn on Speech Day".]
[Pencil signatures:] H. Jamyn Brooks. E.W. Evans.
London, Published March 18.th 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Remarque in title area. Plate 431 x 672mm. 17 x 26½".
A view of ladies and gentlemen, masters, students and friends, gathered on the bank of the River Thames with a marquee to the right and a fountain in the middle-foreground by a statue. Beaumont College, the Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, the school was closed in 1967. Remarque of the arms of the college.
PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 60.
[Ref: 22026] £320.00

Beaumont Lodge _ Old Windsor. The Seat of Viscount Ashbrooke.
W.Westall. A.R.A. del.t. C.Bentley sculp.t.
Published 1828, by R.Ackermanm, 96 Strand, London.
Coloured aquatint. 220 x 280mm. Faint offset from text.
ABBEY: Scenery 435.
[Ref: 6529] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Beaumount.____"St. John's."_____General View of Exterior.
Painted by F.P. Barraud. Etched by W. Allingham. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published March 18.th 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Plate 437 x 585mm. 17¼ x 23". Some light toning. Two worm holes.
A view of Beaumont College, the Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, the school was closed in 1967. A master and with three boys playing cricket, two saint bernard dogs to the right on the lawn. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900). The PSA states that the artist was A.H. Wardlow.
[Ref: 22027] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Beaumount.____"St. John's."_____General View of Exterior.]
[Pencil signatures:] A.H. Wardlow. William J. Allingham. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published March 18.th 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title and signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 438 x 580mm. 17¼ x 22¾".
A view of Beaumont College, the Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, the school was closed in 1967. A master and with three boys playing cricket, two saint bernard dogs to the right on the lawn. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900). PSA states that the artist is A.H. Wardlow.
PSA: Vol.II. AP. 100.
[Ref: 22028] £330.00

[Beaumount.____"St. John's."_____General View of Exterior.]
[Pencil signatures:] A.H. Wardlow. William J. Allingham. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published March 18.th 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title and signed in pencil. Remarque in title area. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 436 x 584mm. 17¼ x 23". Some creasing through the image.
A view of Beaumont College, the Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, the school was closed in 1967. A master and with three boys playing cricket, two saint bernard dogs to the right on the lawn. Remarque of the arms of the college. PSA states that the artist is A.H. Wardlow.
PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 60.
[Ref: 22029] £320.00

Francis Beaumont. Esq.
Geo: Vertue Sculp 1729. [Early issue]
Engraving. 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), large margins. Small printer's crease on left edge.
A portrait in oval of playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616),
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Beaumont.
[engraved by John Simon.]
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street [n.d., c.1780].
Very rare mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), large margins. Slight time staining.
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), English Renaissance dramatist and poet most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. He had a stroke while still in his twenties, after which he wrote no more plays. This portrait was originally one of four on one plate engraved by John Simon, along with Fletcher, John Milton and Abraham Cowley, for the series 'Poets and Philosophers of England'. For this second state the plate was cut down and a new title engraved.
CS 55, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 59279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

John Beaumont Esq.r. Registrar & Secretary to the Royal Humane Society.
F.Gerard pinx.t. J.s Basire, sculp.
1812.
Sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed.
Portrait of John Beaumont (1733 - 1814), Registrar of the Royal Humane Society.
W216.
[Ref: 68268] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Claudius Berigardus Molinensis Philosophus et Medicus Aet. LI. Ellipsi minima Physici solertis imago Clauditur, aetbereo Mens nequit orbe capi.
Excudi curavit Joan. Jacobus Scharandeus Solodorensis. G. Georgi. Sc.
[n.d. c.1750.]
A scarce copper engraving. Plate 133 x 102mm. 5¼ x 4". Laid on album sheet.
Claude Beauregard (c.1591-1664) was a French physician and philosopher. He was professor at Pisa from 1628 until 1640, and from there he moved to Padua. His 'Circulus Pisnniis', published in 1643, was considered an Atheistic work. In the form of a dialogue he exhibited the various hypotheses of the formation of the world. The work was forbidden and is very rare. He was later charged for scepticism following the release of his book entitled 'Dubitutiones'.
[Ref: 16761] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Beauties of Grease [altered to] Greece_or_Luxuries of the Kremlin. Vide Brighton Vagaries. a kitchen frolic. 335
Pub.d by T.Tegg, N°111 Cheapside London.
Coloured etching, Printseller's label stuck to top middle margin "Clinch 20 Princes of Soho". 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
A satirical scene depicting the Regent, drunk, sitting with one leg on the supper table, leaning back in his chair. He puts a hand under the chin of each of two maidservants. The one on the left stands by the fire, holding steak tongs and a glass of wine. He says to her: "Dolly, I like your chops. Soon, I’ll discover the beauties of the Kremlin. Dolly, I think I’ll make you a Duchess. You’d be a nice, fat Duchess, and Cis here will be a Countess. Do you want to be a Duchess?" She replies, "Anything you want, your Highness!" General Bloomfield stands up to hand a glass of wine to Cis, saying, "Here, Cis, drink some Claret. A Countess should only drink Claret." A group of men and cooks crowd in the doorway to watch. One of them says, "What will he do with Dolly?" Another replies, "I think you’re finished with Monsieur Fricassée." The table has decanters and candelabras. The Pavilion, with its onion domes, was called the "little Kremlin."
[Ref: 66514] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Morning Beauty.
Miss A. Green Pinx.t.
London Pub;ished 7th June 1781, for J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Stipple, printed in brown, scarce. Sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½). Trimmed within plate, corners snipped. Bit dusty.
A well-dressed young woman, hands in a fur muff, with four lines of verse from Rev. Dr Lisle's 'History of Porsenna'.
[Ref: 45377] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Evening Beauty.
Miss A. Green Pinx.t.
London Published 7th June 1781, for J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Stipple, scarce. Sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½). Trimmed within plate, corners snipped. Bit dusty.
A well-dressed young woman, fan in hand, with four lines of verse from Rev. Dr Lisle's 'Charms of Beauty'.
[Ref: 45378] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Beauty unmasked.
[After Henry Morland.]
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer. N.o 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Scarce mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Glued on an album sheet.
A portrait of a young woman, holding a mask in right hand and wearing an ermine-trimmed cloak over a low-necked gown with pearl jewellery and her hair up in a plumed turban with a coil hanging over left shoulder.
[Ref: 60085] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Power of Beauty. What can delight like Wealth? the Miser cries...
[Engraved by Philip Dawe? after Heroman van der Mijn.]
Sold by T. Bowles in St. Pauls Ch. Y.d & J. Bowles at ye black Horse, Cornhill.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A young ballad singer holding a music sheet is embraced by an old man who holds up his money bag.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36303] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Power of Beauty. Vain is you powr, all efforts vain will prove. The Power of Beauty sways the God Love. To the Countess of Harrington. The Print from the Original Drawing by G.B.Cipriani, is with ye greatest respect Dedicated by Her Ladyships most Humble Serv.t W Palmer.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. Le Grand, Sculp.t.
A Paris chez Mme. Breton, Mde. d'Estampes, au Pavillon, Jardin du Palais Royal, et rue du Chantre, Maison du Chandellier. [n.d. c.1780]
Stipple, printed in colours. 197 x 192mm (7¾" x 7½").
[Ref: 8481] £420.00

Beauty.
G.B. Cipriani del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Published according to Act, Nov.r 6th 1782, by the Proprietor, No 5, Poland Street, Soho
Stipple printed in sepia, platemark 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Thread margins.
Woman sat on clouds with peacock. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work.
Calabi & de Vesme 576 iii/iii
[Ref: 43144] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Beauty looking in the Mirror of Prudence, with a Genius representing Innocence. From the Original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, To whom this plate is dedicated by his Grace's Obedient Servant, Ja.s Birchall.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpx.
London, Pub'd August 15 1786 by Jas. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 385 x 345mm (15¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, creases and tears in inscription area.
[Ref: 53084] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A la Beaute. [&] A la Volupte. ['To Beauty' and 'To Pleasure'.]
Peint par J.A. Laurent. Grave par Roger. [&] Peint par J.A. Laurent. Grave pa Mecou.
Depose a la Bibliotheque Nle. le 13 Pluvoise An XIIe. [&] Depose a la Bibliotheque Nle. en Fructidor An XIIe. [French, 1803.]
Pair of stipples printed in colours, each sheet c.220 x 240mm. 8¾ x 9½". Trimmed to or close to plates. Second plate chipped at lower left. Some staining and light soiling to both, mostly marginal.
Two charming images of winged putti; one emerging from inside a fallen rose in a woodland, the other peacefully asleep (inebriated?) in an empty wine glass, a background of vine leaves and grapes.
[Ref: 25588] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Beauty & Time.
Published according to Act of Parliament the 1.st of January 1781[?] by [illegible] Humprey.
Fine stipple, printed in sepia. 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Mint.
A bare-breasted young woman and Chronos tussle over his scythe. Ozias Humphrey (1742-1810), miniaturist and publisher, is best known for commissioning William Blake's 'A Small Book of Designs' and 'A Large Book of Designs', containing colour-printed plates from his other works.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Beauty and Beast.
H.Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t.
London, Publish'd June 1st 1790 by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
Fine & scarce stipple, printed in brown, 360 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"), with very large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Platemark cracked at bottom, restored
An obese monk smiles at an unimpressed young girl with a basket over her shoulder.
[Ref: 67950] £380.00

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

Image de la Beauté. [&] Leçon de Botanique.
Schenau p. Chevillet f.
[A Paris : chez Wille] [n.d., c.1772.]
Pair of etchings, scarce scratch letter proofs before titles. Each 425 x 310mm (16¾ x 12¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frames.
A pair of scenes of two finely-dressed mothers and their daughters framed by stone archways. In 'Beauté' the girl picks a bloom off a potted rose, a set of bagpipes on the window sill; in 'Botanique' the mother holds up a plant she has uprooted from an ornamental pot. Engraved by Juste Chevillet (1729-1802) after Johann Eleazar Schenau (1736-1806)
[Ref: 28309] £850.00 view all images for this item

The Beaver.
J.E. Ridinger at viv. del. J.S. Muller Sculpt.
[British, n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 340 x 415mm. 13½ x 16¼". Tatty extremities.
Landscape with six beavers, one of them in the centre eating the bark of a tree. Extensive description below title. Numbered '10' lower and upper right. After Johann Elias Ridinger (1698 - 1767) from an English publication of the c.1736 series of natural history and hunting subjects 'Betrachtung der wilden Thiere mit beygefügter vortrefflicher Poesie des hochberühmten Herrn Barthold Heinrich Brockes'.
[Ref: 20558] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Beaver. Plate XXXV. (Castor fiber.)]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
The Eurasian or European beaver. It was once widespread, but it was hunted to near-extinction for its fur and castoreum. They have since been reintroduced from Great Britain to China and Mongolia. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30198] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Bechuana Belle.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana; a tribes woman standing bare-breasted with a small child strapped to her back peering up over her shoulder. Tribesmen are seen in the background standing around a wagon. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30174] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bechuana of Distinction.
W.C. Harris del.t
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana; a tribesman with a loin of meat hanging off of his spear and holding a feather parasol. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30173] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

S. Thomas Cantvariensis. Sol, 279.
[n.d. c.1800's]
Engraving, Trimmed and laid onto album paper.
Full lenth portrait of Thomas Becket (1118-70) as Saint Thomas of Canterbury set against a barren landscape. He wears his robes of office. He holds his right hand in a sign of blessing and holds a cross shaped staff in the other.
[Ref: 65755] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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