Grosvenor Prints

[Six survey map of Wisconsin.] Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin and Teritory of Minnesota. [&] Plan and Section of the North Cut at Milwaukee No. 2 [&] Entrance to Kenosha Harbor [&] Copy of Plate of Kenosha Harbor [&] Harbor of Manitowoc Wis. [&] Plan of Racine Harbor.
D. Chillas Lith 50 So. 3rd St. Phil.a.
[n.d, c.1854.]
Engraved state map and five lithographed maps of harbours. largest (state map) 470 x 560mm, 18 x 22". Each with blind stamp of the Manchester Free Library, state map trimmed lower left for binding, damp stains and toning.
Six survey maps of the state of Wisconsin, prepared for the 33rd Congess of the United States.
[Ref: 26837] £360.00 view all images for this item

[Wisdom, from the original picture presented to the city by Alderman Boydell].
[Painted by J. F. Rigaud R.A. Engraved by I. P. Simon].
[Pub. Sept. 29. 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London]
Rare proof stipple engraving, unfinished before text added to open book. Published state carries a dedication: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte, by Jos. Boydell. Trimmed to plate mark.
Seated Minerva, in glory, with boy at her feet holding an open book, surrounded by a globe with dove, owl, a lamb sitting on a book with seals at right and a cockerel; in the upper part, putto with mirror at left, and two others holding up an uroboros at right. Part of a series Wisdom, Happiness, Providence, Innocence. See ref: 8615. In 1794 Rigaud won what was probably his most important commission, the decoration of the four pendentives of the Common Council Chamber in the Guildhall, London, depicting Providence, Innocence, Wisdom and Happiness; of these only the preparatory oil sketches survive (London, Guildhall A.G.).
[Ref: 15173] £380.00

Wisdom. From the Original Picture presented to the City by Ald.n Boydell. To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte, This Print is most humbly dedicated by their most Dutiful and Loyal Subject, Jn.o Boydell.
Painted by J.F. Rigaud R.A. Engraved by J.P. Simon.
Pub. Sept. 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, No 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Stipple with very large magins. 595 x 440mm (23½ x 17¼"). Surface abrasion, some repairs.
Minerva with helmet and shield, an owl to the left and lamb and cockerel to the right, a boy at her feet holding an open book. Top left a putto holds up a mirror, with two others holding up an uroboros (the ancient ring symbol of a snake eating its own tail) to the right. From a series of four moral allegories, with Happiness, Providence & Innocence.
[Ref: 31137] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Wisdom directing Beauty and Virtue to Sacrifice at the Altar of Diana.
R. Cosway pinx.t. J.R. Smith fecit.
Publish'd 15.th April 1773, by S. Hooper N.º 25 Ludgate Hill, and J.R. Smith N.º 4 Exeter Court, near Exeter Change, Strand.
Mezzotint. 355 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"). Slight cockling. Small margins. Crease down centre.
Juliana, Countess of Carrick, as Wisdom, with her daughters Lady Margaret Corry as Beauty and Lady Harriet Butler as Virtue. Cupid stands at their feet and two nymphs play pipes.
CS 32, ii of ii. O'Oench: Copper into Gold, Prints by John Raphael Smith 31. Frankau: 62 ii of ii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Christopher Mendez.
[Ref: 64520] £450.00

Wisdom directing Beauty and Virtue to Sacrifice at the Altar of Diana.
R. Cosway pinx.t. J.R. Smith fecit.
Publish'd 15.th April 1773, by S. Hooper N.º 25 Ludgate Hill, and J.R. Smith N.º 4 Exeter Court, near Exeter Change, Strand.
Fine Mezzotint. 355 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"), with large margins. Slight cockling.
Juliana, Countess of Carrick, as Wisdom, with her daughters Lady Margaret Corry as Beauty and Lady Harriet Butler as Virtue. Cupid stands at their feet and two nymphs play pipes.
CS 32, ii of ii. O'Oench: Copper into Gold, Prints by John Raphael Smith 31. Frankau: 62 ii of ii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64521] £800.00

Der Weise. Fliesst hin, ihr Tage meines Lebens / Für mich benutzt und nicht vergebens / Fur meiner Mitgeschoepfe Glück.
Gemahlt von J.F. Schenau 1773 und gestochen von C.F. Stoelzel 1774.
Engraving. 550 x 415mm (21¾ x 16¼"), large margins. Small stains and slight creasing in title.
A 'wise man', surrounded by his antiques, point at a picture depicting charity.
[Ref: 63273] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Wise Virgins. Quinque Prudentes. [&] The Foolish Virgins. Quinque Fatuae. [Relevant quotations from Matthew Chapter XXV in English and Latin below each title.]
Singleton Pinxt. Gaugain sculp.
[n.d., c.1813.]
Pair of stipple engravings with etching and aquatint, each 592 x 482mm. Crease through upper right corner of first image.
Two contrasting images, the first showing a contented young woman holding up a lamp in both hands, with four others standing in a row behind her to right, in a palace interior with musicians playing in the background. In the second, a woman listlessly holds an empty lamp and stands disconsolately with others, one holding a veil to her head in despair. The Parable of the Ten Virgins is a parable told by Jesus in the gospel of Matthew. In it, the five virgins who are prepared for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded and the five who are not prepared are excluded. The parable has a clear apocalyptic theme: be prepared for the day of reckoning. On paper watermarked 1813.
[Ref: 8021] £550.00 view all images for this item

The Wiseacre Corporation. Gentlemen I am not going to the further end of the Country to prove what I say; the Road which I am obliged to pass to my nown House, is quite unpassable to any thing but a beast. I likeways move that lamps in the Parish be taken down every night, and hung up every morning, to prevent their being broke: Agreed. Resolv'd that the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman for his Partial conduct: passed Crim. con.
Published 10.th Sept.r 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street London.
Etching with stipple. 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"), large margins.
Satire of a country justices' meeting held, according to the map on the desk, in 'Break-Neck Shire'.
BM Satires 10358
[Ref: 51747] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
[Painted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.]
[London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"), with large margins. Repaired nicks to margins.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68206] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

N. Wiseman.
M.R.Giberne delt. 1846. G.E.Madeley, lith. 3, Wellington St. Strand.
Published by Hering & Remington: 157 Regent Street. 1st, Augt. 1846.
Lithograph. Sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
Nicholas Wiseman, Cardinal, first Archbishop of Westminster; b. at Seville, 2 Aug., 1802; d. in London, 15 Feb., 1865.
[Ref: 2683] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Wiseman] N. Card. Wiseman [facsimile signature].
[ainted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.
London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint on chine collé, signed in ink by sitter. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"), withlarge margins. Tear entering plate but not image on right.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68207] £360.00

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
[Painted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.]
[London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, surface scrapes, tears in backing sheet.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex Collection Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68205] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Simonton & Millard, Dublin.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Steel engraving on india, proof before title. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"). Surface dirt.
Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster. The titled state appeared in the Illustrated London News publication 'Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages', 1859.
[Ref: 44429] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
[Painted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.]
[London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Chine collé scraped in lower left corner, backing sheet cracked top right corner.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68311] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Eminence the Most Reverend Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., Cardinal-Archbishop, Consecrated June 8th, 1840.
Dalziel.
[1840?]
Wood engraving. Sheet 250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6"). Laid on album paper, some cockling.
Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster.
[Ref: 61079] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicolas Wiseman & the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851] The Cardinal's Baratarian Banquet. Political Fly Leaves. _ N.º 10.
Touchstone.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Feb 17. 1851. Printed at 70. S.t Martin's Lane.
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 300 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½"). Two repaired tears, creasing.
Cardinal Wiseman (1802-65) seated at a dining table, but the platters (marked 'Territorial Titles' and 'Charitable Bequests') are being removed by the servants, prompted by a staff coming from one side. When Pope Pius IX set up a hierarchy of dioceses in England and Wales in 1850, the government responded with the 'Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851', which prevented anyone outside the established ''United Church of England and Ireland'' to use any episcopal title ''of any city, town or place... in the United Kingdom''. Any property passed to a person under such a title would be forfeit to the Crown. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 63986] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Friends of Mr W.m Wiseman, burying his Body in the Fields near London.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1784.]
Etching. Printed area 125 x 170mm, 5 x 6¾". Trimmed to near title, with added margin or old paper.
Two men lowering a corpse into a grave in fields north of London. On the left are mourners; on the right are two men holding bows, probably Finsbury Archers suggesting the site of the burial is Finsbury Fields. This was an illustration to Hogg's edition of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', 1784, listing the Protestant martyrs who were killed for their faith during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary (1553-1558). The text tells: 'The thirteenth of December, in the Lollards' Tower [in St Paul's Cathedral], died William Wiseman, a clothworker of London, where he was in prison and bonds for the gospel and word of God -- how and whereupon he deceased, it is not fully certain... After the said William was departed (as is said) in the Tower, the holy catholic church-men cast him out into the fields, commanding that no man should bury him; according as their devout manner is to do with all such as die in like sort, whom they account as profane, and worthy of no burial, but to be cast to dogs and birds... And yet all this their merciless commandment notwithstanding, some good Tobits there were, which buried him in the evening, as commonly they did all the rest, thrown out in like sort, whom they were wont privately by night to cover; and many times the archers in the fields standing by, and singing together psalms at their burial'.
[Ref: 26523] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

I'd Be a Butterfly. The Wish Granted.
[by William Heath.]
Published by Tho.s McLean 26. Haymarket [n.d., c.1929].
Very fine etching with hand colour. Sheet: 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9½''). Trimmed into plate at sides, losing printed border on right.
A large woman seated at a piano sings 'I'd be a Butterfly' by Thomas Haynes Bayly. As she sings the words 'I'd have a pair of those beautiful wings', a cloven-hooved, dark-skinned, impish figure waves a wand and large butterfly wings sprout from her back, much to her surprise.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 59476] £380.00

Margaret Daughter of the R. Tho. Halyburton Professor of Divinity at Saint Andrews and Wife of William Wishart D.D...[etc.]
G. Vertue Sculp. Lond. 1747.
Engraving, sheet 315 x 210mm. 12½ x 8¼". Trimmed to plate.
Margaret Wishart (died c.1747), daughter of theologian Thomas Halyburton (1674 - 1712). Memorial portrait in oval frame, 14 lines of tribute in Latin and English on pedestal below. By George Vertue (1684 - 1756).
[Ref: 13631] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Michal Korybut Winsniowiecki] Michael Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniæ, etc.
[engraved by Wolfgang Philipp Kilian.]
[Ulm, 1692.]
Engraving. 310 x 180mm (12¼ x 7"), large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Michal Korybut Winsniowiecki (1640-73) in wig and armour. He was elected elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania after the abdication of John II Casimir in 1668. After his early death in 1673 he was replaced by John III Sobieski. From E.G. Happelius, 'Historia moderna Europae'.
[Ref: 57723] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Wissing. Inter Pictores sui Soeculi celeberrimos nulli secundus, Artis suae non exiguum Deeus & Ornamentum, Obijt Sept: 10. An Aet: 31 D.ni 1687. Immodicis brevis est Aetas.
W Wissing pinx: J Smith fe. [1687]
Mezzotint, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾") with small margins. Slightly foxed.
William Wissing (1656-87), portrait painter. Apprenticed to Sir Peter Lely, Wissing became one of the leading portraitists of the 1680s, in the period between the death of Lely and rise of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Wissing's career coincided with the vogue for mezzotint publishing, in which next to Kneller's, Wissing's works were the most widely reproduced (as in this self-portrait). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 278 i/ii.
[Ref: 60249] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Wissing. Inter Pictores sui Soeculi celeberrimos nulli secundus, Artis suae non exiguum Deeus & Ornamentum, Obijt Sept: 10. An Aet: 31 D.ni 1687. Immodicis brevis est Aetas.
W Wissing pinx: J Smith fe. [1687]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate. Nick and stain in top right corner.
William Wissing (1656-87), portrait painter. Apprenticed to Sir Peter Lely, Wissing became one of the leading portraitists of the 1680s, in the period between the death of Lely and rise of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Wissing's career coincided with the vogue for mezzotint publishing, in which next to Kneller's, Wissing's works were the most widely reproduced (as in this self-portrait). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 278 i/ii.
[Ref: 60247] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Witch Cooking at a Cauldron.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3''). Laid on album sheet.
An amateur watercolour of a witch, surrounded by flying bats.
[Ref: 51133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Witch.] Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra sames. Virg. Æn III, v.56. From the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Teniers pinxit. Ric.d Earlom Sculpsit. John & Josiah Boydell Excudit 1786.
Published Jany. 2d 1786 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 670 x 490mm (26½ x 19"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene from Flemish folklore in which the avariciousness of the hag Mad Meg (or Dulle Griet) drives her to plunder Hell. Meg is depicted brandishing a sword at the three-headed Cerberus while the minions of hell, drawn in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, run away in fear. Beneath the image is a quote from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid which comments on man's lust for gold and his willingness to sin for it.
[Ref: 40706] £750.00

[The Witch of Endor.]
[Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by William Sharp.]
[London Publish'd by J. & J Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall.] [n.d., c.1790]
Engraving and etching, unfinished proof before letters. Sheet 470 x 620mm (18½ x 24½"). Trimmed within plate.
The Witch of Endor summons the ghost of the prophet Samuel as Saul protrates himself on the floor.
[Ref: 67116] £390.00

[Witchcraft.] The ducking of John Osborn & his Wife on a charge of Witchcraft.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1795.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides. Some foxing.
A scene depicting the ducking of Ruth Osborne (1680–1751) and her husband John. In 1751 John and Ruth Osbourne were seized from a workhouse in Tring and accused of witchcraft. Both were ducked in a pond in Wilstone, but one of the leaders, Thomas Colley, held Ruth down with a stick until she drowned. Colley was convicted of murder and hanged in chains at Gubblecote Cross.
[Ref: 68944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Political Drama. No. 17. State Witches Laying A Spell Over the Country.
[C.J. Grant.]
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market. [n.d., c.1830.]
Wood-engraving. Sheet: 440 x 290mm (17½ x 11½") with large margins. Central vertical crease as normal. Staining and tears in edges.
A political satire in which Charles Grey, Althorp, Broom and Queen Adelaide and the comic character of Billy Lackaday, a role made famour by Liston, all sit on a broom and say a spell over the countryside while a farmer with a pitchfork wails in dispair.
[Ref: 44913] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[George Wither.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, Proof before all letters. Plate: 125 x 80mm (5 x 3'').
A portrait of English poet, pamphleteer and satirist George Wither (1588-1667).
[Ref: 50044] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies Georgii Witheri Poetae. What I Was, is passed by; What I Am, away doth flie; What I Shal Bee, none do see; Yet, in that, my Beauties bee.
[John Payne.]
[n.d. c.1635.]
Engraving with letterpress text on verso, rare. Sheet size: 205 x 165mm (8 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
George Wither (1588-1667) was an English poet, pamphleteer and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style.
NPG: D27982.
[Ref: 40025] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d. J. Witherspoon, DD. President of Princeton College, New Jersey, America.
Ridley & Blood, sculp._
[n.d.,c.1808.]
Stipple engraving. 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794), Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, farmer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Witherspoon embraced the concepts of Scottish common sense realism, and while president of the College of New Jersey (1768-1794; now Princeton University) became an influential figure in the development of the United States' national character. Politically active, Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. He was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration. Later, he signed the Articles of Confederation and supported ratification of the Constitution of the United States.
[Ref: 64118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Falls on the Rivek Kopal.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed to image. Small tear to lower left corner.
Plate 15 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37259] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Tamchi-Boulac, or Dropping Spring.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 120 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 15 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37257] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

River Djem-A-Louk.
[W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.]
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 105 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 15 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37258] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Volcanic Crater, Saian Mountains.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 120 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 7 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37256] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Natural Arch on Nouk-A-Daban.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 19 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37254] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Zabata-Nor.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 7 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37255] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Johan Witt] Johannes Witt Mercat Francof. Natus Hamburgi Anno MDCXLIII [...]
Warner Hassells Pinx. Johannes Smith Fecit Londini 1707.
Mezzotint, scarce; platemark 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Rubbed. Slightly broken platemark on left.
Portrait of Frankfurt merchant Johan Witt (1643-1703) with verses in German below, engraved by the celebrated mezzotinter John Smith after a portrait by the little-known Werner Hassel (1674-1710, fl.) who worked in London but probably came from Germany, where he also worked. Vertue recorded that the British artist George Lambert 'learnt of...Hassel', but whether he was Hassells' pupil is not proven.
CS 279 ii/ii; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33964] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Johan de Wit Raet-Pensionaris en Groot Zegel Bewaerder van Holland ende West Vrieslandt. Ætatis Suæ XLV.
C. Netscher Effigiem pinxit Aº 1670. Jak: Houbraken Sculpsit.
H. Scheurleer Excudit [n.d., c.1730.]
Etching, very fine impression. Sheet 395 x 345mm (15½ x 13½"). Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
Jan de Witt (1625-72), standing in the Schepenbank council chamber, the stamp of Holland in his hand. He was de facto leader of the Dutch Republic for nearly twenty years, until his opposition to the appointment of William of Orange as stadtholder led to the murder of him and his brother Cornelis.
[Ref: 53047] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Netherlands] Jean De Witte Pensionnaire de Hollande. Tires des Estampes du Cabinet du Roi.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 274 x 164mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2162] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Count Wittgenstein. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Armies.
Engrav'd by Facius, after a sketch lately arrived from Russia.
Stipple. Sheet size: 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince Wittgenstein (1769 - 1843) was a Russian Field Marshal distinguished for his services in the Napoleonic wars. He was promoted to Major in 1793 of the Ukrainian light cavalry regiment. He fought with the unit in the Kosciuszko Uprising. In 1800 he took command of the Mariupolski Hussars Regiment and lead the Russian army in numerous campaigns. In 1828 he was appointed to command the Russian army in the war against Turkey, but ill health soon obliged him to retire. In 1834 the King of Prussia gave him the title of Fürst (Prince) zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.
[Ref: 34453] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

General Wittgenstein.
[n.d., c. 1810].
Stipple. Sheet: 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾"). Scuffing and surface dirt.
Half-portrait of Ludwig Adolf Peter Prince Wittgenstein (1769-1845), a Russian Field Marshall who was distinguished for services during the Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 34494] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Frau Clara Maria Herrn D. Johann Conrad Wittner Norimb. Physici Orgin. Frau Eheliebste Eine Gebohrne Negelin. Nata. d.2.Octobr. 1723. Nupta. d.1. Juny. 1745. Denata. d.20 July. 1746.
G Lichtensteger Norib sc. 1747.
[Nuremburg, c.1747.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, old folds.
The daughter of pastor Joachim Negelein, she married doctor Johann Conrad Wittwer (1720-75) in 1745 but died the following year. Her husband wrote a number of medical books, including 'Dissertatio inauguralis medica de vomitu, vomitus remedio', 1742.
[Ref: 62193] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The miraculous windmill']
[n.d., c.1750.]
Fine coloured etching, extremely scarce. Sheet 295 x 450mm (11½ x 17¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing inscriptions, stains mostly not showing on front.
A supposed invention of a miraculous windmill capable of transforming ugly wives into beautiful ones. On the left and behind men bring their wives by boat, barrow and piggyback to place them inside the windmill; on the right the rejuvenated beauties are welcomed by their spouses.
See Wellcome 26373i for a variant.
[Ref: 68953] £680.00

Vladislaus IV. D.G. Rex Poloniæ M. Dux. Lit. Russ. Prus. Mas. Samo. Liv. Nec Non Suec. Got. Vand. Rex. etc.
[Engraved by Matthaus Merian after Peter Paul Rubens.]
[Frankfurt am Main: Merian, 1641.]
Engraving. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, based on the portrait by Rubens now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57727] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vladislaus IV. D.G. Rex Poloniæ M. Dux. Lit. Russ. Prus. Mas. Samo. Liv. Nec Non Suec. Got. Vand. Rex. etc.
[after Peter Paul Rubens.]
[Frankfurt am Main: Merian, 1641.]
Engraving. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), set in German letterpress, large margins.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, based on the portrait by Rubens now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from a German edition of Lundorp's 'Laurea Austriaca'. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57728] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vladislaus IV. Poloniæ et Sueciæ Rex, Magnus Dux. Litthuaniæ etc.
[n.d., c.1658.]
Engraving. 115 x 65mm (4½ x 2½"). Binding stitch holes on left platemark.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57730] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Wladislaw IV.] Vladislaus König in Polen und Schweden
[n.d., c.1725.]
Engraving. Total 290 x 180mm (11½ x 7"), large margins. Slight stain on bottom left.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. within a decorative border printed from a separate plate. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57731] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Woburn House, Bedfordshire, The Residence of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.]
[Anon., c.1800.]
Aquatint, proof before letters. 245 x 300mm (9¾ x 12"), with very large margins. Stitch marks in top edge, old ink mss title in inscription area.
Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, family seat of the Duke of Bedford since 1547 when Henry VIII took it from its monastic residents. The architect Henry Flitcroft was employed from 1747 to rebuild the west wing of the house in the Palladian style as seen here.
[Ref: 41256] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Woburn House, Bedfordshire, The Residence of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
[Anon., c.1800]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, family seat of the Duke of Bedford since 1547 when Henry VIII took it from its monastic residents. The architect Henry Flitcroft was employed from 1747 to rebuild the west wing of the house in the Palladian style as seen here.
[Ref: 41174] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Market House & High Street Woburn.
R.C. Stratfold del. G.E. Madeley Lithog. 3 Wellington St. Strand.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Very rare lithograph. 210 x 278mm (8¼ x 11").
A view along the High Street with the Town Hall to the right, in Woburn, Bedfordshire. Individual shop fronts and names are visible, making this a valuable record of the businesses operating in the area at the time.
[Ref: 28509] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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