Grosvenor Prints

View near Bengrove, Gloucestershire.
J. Bluck del.t et fecit.
London: Published by R.A. Ackermannm at the Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, April 2, 1801.
Aquatint with large margins; 200 x 290mm (8 x 11½").
A view of a farmhouse by a pond at Bengrove, from an unknown series of topographical scenes of Gloucestershire by John Bluck, who is better known for etching other people's work.
Not in Abbey Scenery. See 30811 & 30809.
[Ref: 30813] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Benham Park.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 120 x 185mm (4¾ x 7¼").
Archery butts on the lawns before a country house, Benham Park in Berkshire.
[Ref: 67673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Entrance to the Caves of Beni Hassan.
David Roberts R. A. L. Haghe lith.
[n.d. c, 1840]
Lithograph with letterpress. Printed area: 300 x 540mm (12 x 21"). Light foxing. Left edge frayed where previously bound in a book. Small tear in right margin.
View of the entrance to the Ancient Egyptian cemetery of Beni Hasan in front of which two goat herds and their flock are resting. Beni Hasan, as the letterpress describes, contained detailed depictions of everyday life in Ancient Egypt.
[Ref: 35080] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Benn's Club.]
T. Hudson Pinxit. J. Faber Fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 380 x 530mm (15 x 20¾"). Old ink mss in bottom margin, laid on paper. Small margins, bit messy.
The so-called 'Benn's Club', five aldermen persuaded by William Benn, Lord Mayor of London in 1746-7, to travel to his house Bowcombe on the Isle of Wight in December 1747 and send a message of support to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. The aldermen are (R-L): John Blachford, William Benn, Robert Alsop, Edward Ironside, Sir Humphrey Marshall & Sir Thomas Rawlinson. John Blachford, who commissioned the portrait, was Lord Mayor of London in 1750. His brother is acting as butler, standing behind the group.
Sharp 710. CS: 31.
[Ref: 66555] £420.00

A well known Society of Worthy Aldermen from an Original Painting by T. Hudson in Goldsmith's Hall London.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet St. Price 2.d. & John Bowles and Sons at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 255 x 355mm, 10 x 14". Bottom margin creased and torn.
The so-called 'Benn's Club', five aldermen persuaded by William Benn, Lord Mayor of London in 1746-7, to travel to his house on the Isle of Wight in December 1747 and send a message of support to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. The aldermen are (R-L): John Blachford, William Benn, Robert Alsop, Edward Ironside, Sir Humphrey Marshall & Sir Thomas Rawlinson. John Blachford, who commissioned the portrait, was Lord Mayor of London in 1750. His brother is acting as butler, standing behind the group.
CS 31. Sharp 711, state ii of ii.. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10483] £450.00

[Benn's Club.]
T. Hudson Pinxit. J. Faber Fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 380 x 530mm (15 x 20¾"), with large margins. Laid on card.
The so-called 'Benn's Club', five aldermen persuaded by William Benn, Lord Mayor of London in 1746-7, to travel to his house Bowcombe on the Isle of Wight in December 1747 and send a message of support to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. The aldermen are (R-L): John Blachford, William Benn, Robert Alsop, Edward Ironside, Sir Humphrey Marshall & Sir Thomas Rawlinson. John Blachford, who commissioned the portrait, was Lord Mayor of London in 1750. His brother is acting as butler, standing behind the group.
Sharp 710. CS: 31.
[Ref: 45241] £490.00

William Benn Esq.r Lord Mayor of the City of London 1746.
T. Hudson Pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1746.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Repaired tears, one entering inscription area.
A half-length portrait of William Benn (c.1682-1755), a merchant of the Fletchers Company of London, Lord Mayor in 1746, founder of the Jacobite 'Benn's Club', consisting of himself and five other Tory aldermen.
CS 15, only state. Goodwin 148 only state.
[Ref: 59083] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Benn Esq.r Lord Mayor of the City of London 1746.
T. Hudson Pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1746.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate at bottom left.
A half-length portrait of William Benn (c.1682-1755), a merchant of the Fletchers Company of London, Lord Mayor in 1746, founder of the Jacobite 'Benn's Club', consisting of himself and five other Tory aldermen.
CS 15. Goodwin 148. Sharp 313. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68421] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Benn Esq.r Lord Mayor of the City of London 1746.
T. Hudson Pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1746.]
Fine mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of William Benn (c.1682-1755), a merchant of the Fletchers Company of London, Lord Mayor in 1746, founder of the Jacobite 'Benn's Club', consisting of himself and five other Tory aldermen.
CS 15. Goodwin 148. Sharp 313. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68422] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Alderman Benn. [in ink.]
[Hudson Pinx.t. Faber Fecit.] Faber fecit [in ink.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. 355 x 255mm, 14 x 10". Trimmed to plate.
William Benn, Alderman for Aldersgate, President of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, Lord Mayor of London in 1746. A Jacobite, Benn sent a message of support to Charles Stuart while Lord Mayor. In 1749 he was involved in a drunken fight with another alderman at a London City feast after proposing a toast to the health of the Young Pretender. Died 1755.
CS 30, unrecorded state. Sharp 314. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10482] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of Bennilong; a native of New Holland, who after experiencing for two years the Luxuries of England, returned to his own Country and resumed all his savage Habits.
[London, 1817.]
Engraving. 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate at top, narrow margins elsewhere.
Bennelong (c.1764-1813) was an aborigine kidnapped by Governor Philip in 1789 and forced to learn English, following orders from King George III to open relations with the locals. He was brought to England in 1792 and was said to have had an audience with the king, although there is no evidence. He returned to Australia in 1795 where he returned to the bush and led a clan. His grave was found in 2011 in the garden of a private house in present-day Putney, New South Wales, which is being turned into a museum. From George Alexander Cooke's 'Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography'.
Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK4777. A similar portrait thought to depict Bennelong, signed 'W.W.' is now in the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales.
[Ref: 58729] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Jenny & Miss Nelly Bennet.]
[Ja.s.Nixon pinx.t. G.Marchi fecit.]
[Published as the Act directs, Apr. 2nd, 1773.][Printed for John Bowles at No.13 in Cornhill]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). No margins.
Portrait of sisters Jenny Bennet and Nelly Bennet; daughters of the printseller John Bennet (fl. 1760-d. 1787).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS 2 i of ii.
[Ref: 64515] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Jenny & Miss Nelly Bennet.
Ja.s.Nixon pinx.t. G.Marchi fecit.
Published as the Act directs, Apr. 2nd, 1773. Printed for John Bowles at N.º13 in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper at corners.
Portrait of sisters Jenny Bennet and Nelly Bennet; daughters of the printseller John Bennet (fl. 1760-d. 1787).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS 2 ii of ii.
[Ref: 64516] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Bennet, Earl of Tankerville; with facsimile signature.]
D'Orsay fecit 28 July 1842 [signed in plate.]
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. C. Graf, lith. to the Queen.
Lithograph with colour added by hand, india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼".
Portrait of Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville (1810 - 1899), man of affairs, when Lord Ossulton. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue p.245.
[Ref: 21874] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Henry Bennet Earle and Baron of Arlington, Viscount Thetford, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Lord Chamberlaine of his Ma.ties Household and one the Lords of his most Hon.ble Privy Councell &c.
A.B. [Abraham Blooteling] f. [after Sir Peter Lely].
Jo: Lloyd ex. [engraved c.1680, later printing.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 125 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper at edges.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Henry Bennet (1618-85], 1st Earl of Arlington. A detail of a full-length portrait painted by Sir Peter Lely in 1674, now at Kedleston Hall (National Trust). The black plaster over the bridge of his nose covered the scar he received at the Battle at Andover in 1644.
CS c, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64813] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Henry Bennet Earle and Baron of Arlington, Viscount Thetford, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Lord Chamberlaine of his Ma.ties Household and one the Lords of his most Hon.ble Privy Councell &c.
A.B. [Abraham Blooteling] f. [after Sir Peter Lely].
Jo: Lloyd ex. [n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 125 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Henry Bennet (1618-85), 1st Earl of Arlington. A detailed of a full-length portrait painted by Sir Peter Lely in 1674, now at Kedleston Hall (National Trust). The black plaster over the bridge of his nose covered the scar he received at the Battle at Andover in 1644.
CS c, state ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Eileen Bennett].
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching, proof, signed by artist. 175 x 140mm (7 x 5½"), with very large margins. Holes in margins where previously bound.
Portrait of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis. Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the French and US Championships and lost on two occasions to Helen Wills. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54851] £350.00

[Eileen Bennett].
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching, proof, signed by artist. 100 x 125mm (4 x 5"), with very large margins.
Etching of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis, by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.. Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the French and US Championships and lost on two occasions to Helen Wills.
[Ref: 54852] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Eileen Bennett
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching signed by artist. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"), with large margins, in original mount.
Portrait of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis. Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the French and US Championships and lost on two occasions to Helen Wills. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54853] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Timothy Bennett of Hampton=Wick in Middlesex Shoemaker, Aged 75, 1752. This True Briton *(unwilling; to leave the World Worse than be found it) By a Vigorous Application of the Laws of this Countrey In the Cause of Liberty obtained a Free Passage thorough Bushy Park Which had many Years been with held from the People. * His own favourite Expression.
G. Budd Pinx.t, J.as Mc:Ardell Fecit.
[n.d. c.1752.]
Rare mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Margins stained and rubbed, slight creasing.
A three-quarter seated portrait of cordwainer Timothy Bennett (c.1676-1756) wearing a plain coat buttoned to the lower chest, with a white cravat, holding walking stick and gloves. In 1752 Bennett realised that because Lord Halifax, the Park Ranger, had closed the path through Bushy Park, people were detouring away from his shop on their way to Kingston Market. He joined the campaign to establish public right of way through the park, becoming a figurehead. At first he was dismissed by the ranger as an 'impertinent fellow', but soon Halifax realised that the public had a strong case and, fearing an embarassing defeat, summoned Bennett to a meeting, at which this portrait was sketched. A path was restored, still bearing the name Cobbler's Walk.
CS: 16. Goodwin: 152. Whitman: 152. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68365] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Timothy Bennett of Hampton=Wick in Middlesex Shoemaker, Aged 75, 1752. This True Briton *(unwilling; to leave the World Worse than be found it) By a Vigorous Application of the Laws of this Countrey In the Cause of Liberty obtained a Free Passage thorough Bushy Park Which had many Years been with held from the People. * His own favourite Expression.
G. Budd Pinx.t, J.as Mc:Ardell Fecit.
[n.d. c.1752.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, creased and rubbed, laid on card. Damaged.
A three-quarter seated portrait of corwainer Timothy Bennett (c.1676-1756) wearing a plain coat buttoned to the lower chest, with a white cravat, holding walking stick and gloves. In 1752 Bennett realised that because Lord Halifax, the Park Ranger, had closed the path through Bushy Park, people were detouring away from his shop on their way to Kingston Market. He joined the campaign to establish public right of way through the park, becoming a figurehead. At first he was dismissed by the ranger as an 'impertinent fellow', but soon Halifax realised that the public had a strong case and, fearing an embarassing defeat, summoned Bennett to a meeting, at which this portrait was sketched. A path was restored, still bearing the name Cobbler's Walk.
CS: 16. Goodwin: 152. Whitman: 152. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68366] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Silversmith] Herr Philipp Adam Benz. Silber=Jubelier...
Joh. Holzer pinxit. Joh. Jac. Haid sculps Aug. Uind.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, fine impression 410 x 265mm (16 x 10½") with large margins. Framed. Mould spots in image, foxing. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Philp Adam Benz (1709-49), silver merchant of Augsburg, published posthumously.
[Ref: 56014] £580.00

George Benson D.D.
[engraved by James McArdell.]
[n.d., c.1764.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 215 x 165mm (8½ x 6½"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
Head and shoulders portrait of Presbyterian theologian George Benson (1699-1762), wearing clerical robes and wig. According to Goodwin, this was the frontispiece to Benson's 'Life of Christ'.
CS 17, only state.
[Ref: 61623] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremy Bentham.]
On Stone by S. Crosthwaite 1830 [pencil].
Lithograph on chine collé. 320 x 280mm (12½ x 11").
A half-length portrait of philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), seated, holding his spectacles.
[Ref: 62295] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

G. Bentinck [facsimile signature.]
d'Orsay 20 Decr. 1840 Bretby Park [signed in plate].
London, Published by J. Mitchell Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.
Lithograph on india paper, india 200 x 150mm. 8 x 6". Margins trimmed.
Portrait of Lord George Cavendish Bentinck (1802 - 1848), statesman and sportsman. Leading Tory MP and well-known sportsman; son of the 4th Duke of Portland. Bentinck was a passionate protectionist who helped to oust Peel in 1846 after the repeal of the Corn Laws. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue supplement p.39, 5. NPG.
[Ref: 21810] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[William Bentinck] Iohn Bull contemplating a Statue of Portland Stone.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d April 1807 by Walker N.o7 Cornhill.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14½'') very large margins. Ink marginalia, printer's crease.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, caricatured as a statue, with a sign saying 'Repaired and Whitewash'd in the Year 1807' around his neck. He became Prime Minister in 1807, despite being deaf, gouty and infirm, merely as an acceptable figurehead to his fractious ministers.
BM Satire 10718.
[Ref: 54470] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[William Bentinck] Iohn Bull contemplating a Statue of Portland Stone.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d April 1807 by Walker N.o7 Cornhill.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14½'') Small margins, time stained.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, caricatured as a statue, with a sign saying 'Repaired and Whitewash'd in the Year 1807' around his neck. He became Prime Minister in 1807, despite being deaf, gouty and infirm, merely as an acceptable figurehead to his fractious ministers.
BM Satire 10718.
[Ref: 61841] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Marquis of Tichfield, Son of his Grace the Duke of Portland.
S.r Joshua Reynolds Pinxit. I. Jehner Fecit.
Pub.d 1.st May, 1777, by I. Jehner, Bear Street, Leicester Fields, & J. Lockington, Shug lane, Piccadilly, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins. Some creasing.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck (1738-1809), as a youth, dressed in Van Dyke costume in a landscape. He was later the 3rd Duke of Portland and Prime Minister twice.
CS 13, ii.
[Ref: 63537] £520.00

[William Bentinck] John Bull contemplating a Statue of Portland Stone.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d April 1807 by Walker No 7 Cornhill.
Etching with fine hand colour. 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"), large margins. Album paper pasted over edge of plate at bottom.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck as a statue sitting in a chair of Portland Stone blocks, a placard: 'Repaird and Whitewash'd in the Year 1807'. On seeing the statue John Bull exclaims 'I really thought this Statue was gone to decay a long time ago!!'. By the time of this caricature Portland, deaf, gouty, and infirm, was a mere figure-head. This example has Portland coloured as a man rather than the intended statue.
BM Satires 10718.
[Ref: 58345] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Dr Tom Bentley.
Cavr. Ghezzi. del. [Engraved by Arthur Pond.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, sheet 345 x 230mm (13¾ x 9¼"). False margins added.
A caricature of Thomas Bentley LLD (1693 - 1742), classical scholar, probably on his grand tour 1725-6. After Pierleone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), caricaturist and etcher who worked in Rome. It was used by Hogarth for his plate 'Characters and Caricaturas' to exemplify the difference (as Hogarth saw it) between the caricature of Ghezzi, Leonardo et al, and his own delineation of character.
BM: 1873,0712.643. See Martin Myrone & Tim Batchelor, 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art'; Bindman: Hogarth and his Times; Hake:80.
[Ref: 60018] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Tom Bentley.]
Cavr. Ghezzi. del. [Engraved by Arthur Pond.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching. 340 x 220mm (13¼ x 8¾"). Repaired tear, some surface wear, laid on card.
A caricature of Thomas Bentley LLD (1693 - 1742), classical scholar, probably on his grand tour 1725-6. After Pierleone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), caricaturist and etcher who worked in Rome. It was used by Hogarth for his plate 'Characters and Caricaturas' to exemplify the difference (as Hogarth saw it) between the caricature of Ghezzi, Leonardo et al, and his own delineation of character.
BM: 1873,0712.643. See Martin Myrone & Tim Batchelor, 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art'; Bindman: Hogarth and his Times; Hake:80.
[Ref: 53510] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Dr Tom Bentley.
Cavr. Ghezzi. del. [Engraved by Arthur Pond.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, 18th century watermark; 340 x 210mm (13¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, to image on right. Crease lower corner.
A caricature of Thomas Bentley LLD (1693 - 1742), classical scholar, probably on his grand tour 1725-6. After Pierleone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), caricaturist and etcher who worked in Rome. It was used by Hogarth for his plate 'Characters and Caricaturas' to exemplify the difference (as Hogarth saw it) between the caricature of Ghezzi, Leonardo et al, and his own delineation of character.
BM: 1873,0712.643. See Martin Myrone & Tim Batchelor, 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art'; Bindman: Hogarth and his Times; Hake:80.
[Ref: 54324] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Benton Castle, Looking down the Reach to Milford Haven.
[Paul Sandby.]
Published Sept.r 1775 by J Boydell in Cheapside.
Fine aquatint. 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12¼"). Some creasing in sky.
A view of the remains of the castle from the river, by Paul Sandby (1725-1809), from his 'XII Views in Aquatinta from Drawings taken on the spot in South Wales', the first British book of aquatint views.
Abbey Scenery 511.
[Ref: 56747] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

James Benwell Aged 82. of the Physic Gardens, Oxford.
A. Burt del. J. Skelton sculp.
Published Nov.r 1st 1817 by J. Skelton, St Aldates, Oxford.
Rare etching, on chine collé. 315 x 245mm (12½ x 9¾"). Cut into chine collé at bottom right.
John Benwell (c.1735-1819), Head Gardener of the Oxford Physic Gardens, standing with a bag of leaves suspended from a hoe over his shoulder. The garden's Black Pine tree, the garden's largest tree and J.R.R. Tolkien's favourite, was planted as a sapling by Benwell in 1800.
[Ref: 51314] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Maurit. August. Comes. De. Benyowsky.
Heath Sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving. 70 x 65mm (2¾ x 2½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some foxing and time-staining.
Portrait of Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó (1746 - 1786), military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole. He is considered a national hero in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.
[Ref: 64453] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Russo-Swedish War plotters] Shields. Obrien. Benzelstierna. Med Tilladelse af H.s Ex: G: L.t v. Fircks Comandant i Kiobenhavns Castel lit Soldater Börns og andre Fregendes Beste, legnet og slukket ved G.L. Lahde. Avec permission de S: Ex: M.r Fircks L.t. G: Comd.t de la Citadelle de Copenhague au pfofit des Enfans militaires, dessiné et gravé d'apres nature par G.L. Lahde. 1789.
[drawn & engraved by Gerhard Ludwig Lahde.]
[Copenhagen: G.L. Lahde, c.1789.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. Framed. 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Blind stanp in bottom of image and inscription area. Damp stain in lower margin, stain and ink numeral in top margin. Unexamined out of frame.
Profile portraits of three plotters who tried to blow up Russian & Danish ships frozen at anchor in Copenhagen harbour during the Russo-Swedish War in 1789. Lars Benzelstierna (1759-1808), conspiring with an Irish innkeeper called Shields, purchased a cutter from another Irishman, a captain called O'Brien, using money provided by Sweden king Gustaf III. He planned to fill it with explosives and move it among the Russian ships, invite Russian officers aboard and blow them up. However O'Brien mentioned the plot to an Englishman, who had him arrested. Benzelstierna hid in the Swedish embassy but eventually gave himself up and was sentenced to death by beheading, the ladder and wheel. However the sentence was commuted on appeal; he was pardoned in 1796 when the political situation between Sweden and Denmark changed.
[Ref: 60774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Beppo. More than the rest one person seemed to stare. / With pertinacity that's rather rare. / It was a Turk the color of Mahogany.
William Locke Jun.r del. Lith. de Villain. V. de Villeneuve lith.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Printed area 205 x 140mm (8 x 9½"). Crease.
A scene from Lord Byron's 'Beppo: A Venetian Story'. A Venetian lady, Laura, off to attend the Venetian Carnival with her lover, is stalked by her long-lost husband, who had been captured by Barbary pirates. Revealing himself, Beppo accepts his wife's actions and befriends the lover. Byron's poem argues that the English attitude to adultery is hypocritical compared to the custom of the 'Cavalier Servente; in Italy.
[Ref: 41745] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Gedeon Berbier Du Metz. Con.er du Roy en ses Con.ils President en sa Chambre des Comptes.
Hyachinte Rigault Pinxit. Edelinck Eques Romanus Sculp. C. P. R.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 400 x 300mm (15¾ x 11¾") very large margins. Slightly foxed.
Gédéon Berbier du Metz (16261709), President of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris.
R.D 190 III.
[Ref: 49423] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Dessin de Nicolas Berghem de Harlem. No. 12.
M.C. Prestel sc.
[n.d., 1797.]
Rare. Crayon manner stipple with white highlights, 270 x 405mm (10¾ x 16"), mounted on original backing sheet with engraved border and title, outside platemark 370 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Repaired tear at top centre into image.
A rocky landscape with peasants, from a catalogue of the drawings in the collection of Paulus Praun II (1548–1616) in Nuremberg, prior to their sale in 1801. Written by by Christoph Murr, the catalogue was illustrated with engravings by husband and wife team Johann Gottlieb Prestel (1739-1808) and Maria Katharina (maiden name Höll, 1747-94), despite their separation in 1786, when Maria Katharina moved to London, working for John Boydell and others.
[Ref: 48602] £320.00

[Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann.]
Franz Alt [in plate].
[Eduard Holzel] [n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed to image and laid on backing card, as issued.
A summer view of the town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, with the Watzmann, Germany's third highest mountain in the background. From the series 'Aus Den Alpen' after Franz Alt (1821-1914), Austrian artist.
[Ref: 60892] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Pieter Johan van Berckel, Minister-Plenipotentiaris van den Staet der Vereenigde Nederlanden Bij de Staten van Noord-Amerika, Raed in de Vroedschap en Oud-Burgemeester der Staad Rotterdam. enz. enz. enz.
F.J. Pfeiffer, ad viv delin. L. Brasser. sculps.
A. Blussé & Fil. excud. [n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet: 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½''). Trimmed within plate. Bit dusty.
A portrait of Dutch politician Pieter Johan van Berckel (1725-1800) who served as Mayor of Rotterdam and then as the first Dutch ambassador to the U.S.A. 1783-8
[Ref: 50587] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Berdmore S.T.P. Scholae Carthusiae Magister, MDCCLXXXVIII.
Painted in Miniature by S. Shelley. Engraved by W. Nutter
Publish'd Oct.r 28 1788 by R. Cribb N. 288 High Holborn
Stipple with very large margins, platemark 205 x 150mm (8 x 6").
Samuel Berdmore (1739-1802), headmaster of Charterhouse School from 1769 to 1791 where he maintained the reputation and finances of the school. Bredmore was also a keen literary scholar, publishing 'Specimens of Literary Resemblance in the Works of Pope, Gray, and other Celebrated Writers' in 1801, and he was a member of the Unincreasable Club, meeting in Holborn that included the painter George Romney amongst its members.
[Ref: 35836] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Charles Beresford.
From a Photograph by the London Steroscopic Co. Maclure & MacDonald, Chromo Lith. London.
The Pictorial World. Supplement to the New Series. December 16th 1882.
Chromolithograph. 626 x 416mm.
Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO (1846-1919), known as Lord Charles Beresford until 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament. He combined the two careers of the navy and a member of parliament, making a reputation as a hero in battle and champion of the navy in the House of Commons. He was a well-known and popular figure who courted publicity, widely known to the British public as "Charlie B". He was considered by many to be a personification of John Bull, indeed was normally accompanied by his trademark, a bulldog. His later career was marked by a longstanding dispute with Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher, over reforms championed by Fisher introducing new technology and sweeping away traditional practices. Fisher, slightly senior to Beresford and more successful, became a barrier to Beresford's rise to the highest office in the navy. Beresford rose to occupy the most senior sea commands, the Mediterranean and Channel fleets, but failed in his ambition to become First Sea Lord.
NPG: D31692.
[Ref: 12587] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d James Berresford Author of the 'Miseries of Human Life' & drawn in the Printroom of the British Museum for my friend J. T. Smith - Tho.s Foster. May 19th 1823.
1823.
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

His Excellency Lieu.t General Lord Beresford, K.B. [Gran]d Cross of the Portuguese Military Order of the Tower & Sword [...]
[Heapy pinx.t.] W. Say sc. Engraver to H.R[.H. the Duke of Gloucester.]
[Published & Sold Jan.y 2. 1815 by Edw.d. Orme Publisher to his Majesty & H.R.H. the Prince Regent Bond St.r corner of Brook Str.t. London.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 465 x 320mm (15¼ x 12½"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into inscription area at bottom, creased.
A full-length portrait of William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, (1768 - 1854), in dress uniform, a battle behind. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68191] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Passage de la Bérézina.
L. Marin. Marin del. Lith. de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 320 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"), with very large margins.
On the Retreat from Moscow in 1812, Napoleon's army was trapped by the Berezina River. A swiftly-constructed pontoon bridge allowed Napoleon and his generals to cross, but many ordinary soldiers perished tryring to swim the icy waters after Napoleon ordered the bridge to be burned to stop the chasing Russian army. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55861] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Baron Bergami.
Engraved by T. Illman from an original Drawing.
London, Pub.Nov.r 6. 1820 by T. Illman, 127 Oxford Street.
Stipple and etching. Sheet 135 x 100mm (5¼ x 4"). Trimmed within plate, laid on card.
Medallion half-length portrait of Bartolomo Pergami (or Bergami), in uniform, surrounded by trophies. Pergami headed the household of Caroline, wife of the Prince Regent, during her exile from England, and was widely believed to be Queen Caroline's lover.
[Ref: 61540] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Bartolomo Bergami.
Designed from the life, by Mons.r Marinette, Artist at St. Omers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching, very fine. 320 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾") large margins.
Full length portrait of Bartolomo Pergami (or Bergami), believed to be Queen Caroline's lover, in uniform.
[Ref: 42182] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Count B. Bergami.
Engraved by R. Cooper from an original Drawing.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple and etching. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Half length portrait of Bartolomo Pergami (or Bergami), believed to be Queen Caroline's lover, hand inside jacket, medals on chest.
[Ref: 58076] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Le Comte Bergami.
Litho: de C. Motte rue des marcais.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 226 x 143mm.
Portrait of Bartolomo Pergami (or Bergami), believed to be Queen Caroline's lover.
[Ref: 4335] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

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