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![[Master Ashton.]](jpegs/53219.jpg)
[Master Ashton.]
Jos.h Wright Pinx.t. W.m Pether Fecit 1770.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 26, 1770, by W.m Pether in G.t Russell S.t Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint, fine scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
John Ashton, son of Nicholas Ashton, a former High Sheriff of Lancashire; seated in a landscape, dressed in the girlish style of the period, hugging his spaniel. William Pether also engraved some of Joseph Wright of Derby's most famous works, including 'A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery', 'The Farrier's Shop' and 'An Alchymist'.
CS: 1, state i of ii.
[Ref: 53219] £650.00
Jos.h Wright Pinx.t. W.m Pether Fecit 1770.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 26, 1770, by W.m Pether in G.t Russell S.t Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint, fine scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
John Ashton, son of Nicholas Ashton, a former High Sheriff of Lancashire; seated in a landscape, dressed in the girlish style of the period, hugging his spaniel. William Pether also engraved some of Joseph Wright of Derby's most famous works, including 'A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery', 'The Farrier's Shop' and 'An Alchymist'.
CS: 1, state i of ii.
[Ref: 53219] £650.00
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)
[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)
Chinese Lady.
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00
![[A woman playing a cittern.]](jpegs/59199.jpg)
[A woman playing a cittern.]
[n.d., John Boydell?, c.1805.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"), on wove paper with large margins.
A woman playing a cittern, watched by a man leaning on a table. The BM states 'The print was reissued by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits' (1805)'.
BM 1876,1111.63.
[Ref: 59199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., John Boydell?, c.1805.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"), on wove paper with large margins.
A woman playing a cittern, watched by a man leaning on a table. The BM states 'The print was reissued by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits' (1805)'.
BM 1876,1111.63.
[Ref: 59199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Helena Forman.
Rubens pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775 by W: Pether Broad Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673), one breast outside her corset, with bouquets of wheat stems and flowers in her hand and hat. The daughter of a wealthy silk and tapesty merchant of Antwerp, Fourment married Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.
CS 14.
[Ref: 60106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Rubens pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775 by W: Pether Broad Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673), one breast outside her corset, with bouquets of wheat stems and flowers in her hand and hat. The daughter of a wealthy silk and tapesty merchant of Antwerp, Fourment married Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.
CS 14.
[Ref: 60106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
S.r Edward Hulse Bar.t M.D. Æt. 75. Physician to his Majesty George II.d.
F. Cotes pinx.t 1757. J. Watson fecit.
[c.1757.]
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), large margins.
Half length portrait in oval of Dr Sir Edward Hulse (1682-1759). Physician to Queen Anne and George I.
CS 78, state ii. Goodwin 3, ii.
[Ref: 59644] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
F. Cotes pinx.t 1757. J. Watson fecit.
[c.1757.]
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), large margins.
Half length portrait in oval of Dr Sir Edward Hulse (1682-1759). Physician to Queen Anne and George I.
CS 78, state ii. Goodwin 3, ii.
[Ref: 59644] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Christoph Frideric Imhof Ab Et In Helmstatt.
J. N. Bemmel ad viv. pingeb. J. J. Preisler invent. delineab. Val. Dan. Preisler sculpeb.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. 415 x 290mm (17½ x 11½"). Tears in margins taped.
Half-length portrait of Christoph Friedrich Imhof (1696-1750), politician of Nuremberg, dressed in councillor's fur robes with lace collar. Astronomical instruments can be seen. Behind is an observatory with a man studying the rising sun, and statue personifications of astronomy and music.
[Ref: 59781] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
J. N. Bemmel ad viv. pingeb. J. J. Preisler invent. delineab. Val. Dan. Preisler sculpeb.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. 415 x 290mm (17½ x 11½"). Tears in margins taped.
Half-length portrait of Christoph Friedrich Imhof (1696-1750), politician of Nuremberg, dressed in councillor's fur robes with lace collar. Astronomical instruments can be seen. Behind is an observatory with a man studying the rising sun, and statue personifications of astronomy and music.
[Ref: 59781] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Miss Lascelles.]](jpegs/59675.jpg)
[Miss Lascelles.]
[F. Cotes pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.]
[Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engrvers at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before all letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins. Sprinkling of pinprick wormholes in image.
Frances Lascelles (1762-1817) as a child, petting a greyhound. She later married the Hon. John Douglas, son of James, 16th Earl of Morton.
CS 88, state i. Goodwin 155, i.
[Ref: 59675] £390.00
[F. Cotes pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.]
[Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engrvers at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before all letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins. Sprinkling of pinprick wormholes in image.
Frances Lascelles (1762-1817) as a child, petting a greyhound. She later married the Hon. John Douglas, son of James, 16th Earl of Morton.
CS 88, state i. Goodwin 155, i.
[Ref: 59675] £390.00
Mr. Leviez.
J.E. Eccard Pinx.t. J. Mc.Ardell Fecit.
[London, n.d., 1763.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
A portrait of Charles Leviez (died c.1778), after Johann Aegidius (John Giles) Eckhardt. A French dancing-master who also dealt in prints and drawings, Leviez was living in London in 1759, but sold his stock at auction in March 1761. By 1766 he had established himself in Paris as a 'marchand des estampes' or printseller, publishing a large compilation of Pillement in 1767. He sold up again in 1773, auctioning all his plates in Paris 29/30 July 1773.
CS: 117, ii. Goodwin: 101, iii/iii.
[Ref: 59642] £490.00
J.E. Eccard Pinx.t. J. Mc.Ardell Fecit.
[London, n.d., 1763.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
A portrait of Charles Leviez (died c.1778), after Johann Aegidius (John Giles) Eckhardt. A French dancing-master who also dealt in prints and drawings, Leviez was living in London in 1759, but sold his stock at auction in March 1761. By 1766 he had established himself in Paris as a 'marchand des estampes' or printseller, publishing a large compilation of Pillement in 1767. He sold up again in 1773, auctioning all his plates in Paris 29/30 July 1773.
CS: 117, ii. Goodwin: 101, iii/iii.
[Ref: 59642] £490.00
![[Maria Anna of Neuburg] Maria Anna Hispaniarum Indiarum Regina, Princeps Neoburgicæ.](jpegs/59801.jpg)
[Maria Anna of Neuburg] Maria Anna Hispaniarum Indiarum Regina, Princeps Neoburgicæ.
J. Gole Fe: et ex: Amstel: cum Privil: Ord: H. et W: Frisiæ [n.d., c 1690].
Fine mezzotint, state before lettering in frame. Mary Dickinson Collector's Mark. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Thread margins.
Portrait in oval of Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667-1740), wearing crown and ermine. She became Queen consort of Spain in 1689 as the second wife of Charles II, last Habsburg King of Spain, whose death in 1700 led to the War of the Spanish Succession.
From Halsey Collection.
[Ref: 59801] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
J. Gole Fe: et ex: Amstel: cum Privil: Ord: H. et W: Frisiæ [n.d., c 1690].
Fine mezzotint, state before lettering in frame. Mary Dickinson Collector's Mark. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Thread margins.
Portrait in oval of Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667-1740), wearing crown and ermine. She became Queen consort of Spain in 1689 as the second wife of Charles II, last Habsburg King of Spain, whose death in 1700 led to the War of the Spanish Succession.
From Halsey Collection.
[Ref: 59801] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mr Joseph Martyn of London, Merchant. Obijt 9 Nov: 1718 Ætatis suæ. 75.
M. Dahll pinx. 1705. J. Smith fec. 1719.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait in oval of Joseph Martyn (1643-1718), merchant of London. He was a member of the Muscovy Company formed in 1555.
CS 167, ii.
[Ref: 59645] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
M. Dahll pinx. 1705. J. Smith fec. 1719.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait in oval of Joseph Martyn (1643-1718), merchant of London. He was a member of the Muscovy Company formed in 1555.
CS 167, ii.
[Ref: 59645] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
![[Woman in a ball gown.]](jpegs/59915.jpg)
[Woman in a ball gown.] Anderst von aussen als von innen; / Schwarz und maskiert, von innen weis und schön / Ach! manchen sieht man schwarz in weisser Marke gehn / Aliud extra, aliud intus. / Personam facies mentitus candida nigram, / Saepe animum nigrum candida larva tegit.
J. El. Rindinger excud. A.V. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, very fine impression. 480 x 345mm (18¾ x 13½"). Top left corner repaired with loss, tear in left edge, remains of album paper on reverse. Small margins.
A woman in an exquisite ball gown, holding a mask. A reworked state, with the face altered and the original border reworked.
See BM 1867,0713.91 for an example before the reworking.
[Ref: 59915] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. El. Rindinger excud. A.V. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, very fine impression. 480 x 345mm (18¾ x 13½"). Top left corner repaired with loss, tear in left edge, remains of album paper on reverse. Small margins.
A woman in an exquisite ball gown, holding a mask. A reworked state, with the face altered and the original border reworked.
See BM 1867,0713.91 for an example before the reworking.
[Ref: 59915] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Harriot Powell. 157.
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") , with widemargins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") , with widemargins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00
A Jew Rabbi.
Rembrandt pinx.t. C. Spooner fecit.
Printed for Robert Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with small margin. Bit messy.
Half-length portrait of a Jewish rabbi, wearing a turban and thick cloak fastened with a large clasp with a miniature and two pearl-drops, hands brought together on front of him. In the background, a chair and table with a book and religious emblems.
[Ref: 60086] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Rembrandt pinx.t. C. Spooner fecit.
Printed for Robert Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with small margin. Bit messy.
Half-length portrait of a Jewish rabbi, wearing a turban and thick cloak fastened with a large clasp with a miniature and two pearl-drops, hands brought together on front of him. In the background, a chair and table with a book and religious emblems.
[Ref: 60086] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev] [Cyrillic title] Lieutenant General Schepeleff.](jpegs/59652.jpg)
[Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev] [Cyrillic title] Lieutenant General Schepeleff.
Painted by order of the Emperor M. Alexander 1st by G. Dawe Esqr. Member of the Roy.l Ac.dy London, that of St. Petersburg &c: &c. Engraved by Hy Dawe London.
[Russian publisher in Cyrillic] & Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. London, Sep.t 1828.
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins Surface dirt, creasing.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev (1771-1841). Born into a noble family he enlisted as a sergeant in the Russian Life Guards in 1782. He served in Poland (1794), Persia (1796), Switzerland (1799, under Rimsky-Korsakov) and the Battle of Austerlitz (1805). In 1813 he led an advance guard of Wittgenstein's Corps that captured Koenigsberg. In 1815 he became commander of the 2nd Hussar Division, but had to retire due to ill-health the following year. George Dawe (1781 - 1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 59652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by order of the Emperor M. Alexander 1st by G. Dawe Esqr. Member of the Roy.l Ac.dy London, that of St. Petersburg &c: &c. Engraved by Hy Dawe London.
[Russian publisher in Cyrillic] & Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. London, Sep.t 1828.
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins Surface dirt, creasing.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev (1771-1841). Born into a noble family he enlisted as a sergeant in the Russian Life Guards in 1782. He served in Poland (1794), Persia (1796), Switzerland (1799, under Rimsky-Korsakov) and the Battle of Austerlitz (1805). In 1813 he led an advance guard of Wittgenstein's Corps that captured Koenigsberg. In 1815 he became commander of the 2nd Hussar Division, but had to retire due to ill-health the following year. George Dawe (1781 - 1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 59652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Weekly Register. To John Bentley Esq. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, This print from the Original Picture in his Collection, is respectfully dedicated by The Publishers.
H. Liverseege. W. Giller.
London: Published Aug.t 1, 1832, by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, and J.C. Grundy, Manchester.
Mezzotint. 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A shoemaker with spectacles reads a newspaper surrounded by his tools, framed by the window of his workshop. A pipe lies on the sill.
[Ref: 59768] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
H. Liverseege. W. Giller.
London: Published Aug.t 1, 1832, by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, and J.C. Grundy, Manchester.
Mezzotint. 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A shoemaker with spectacles reads a newspaper surrounded by his tools, framed by the window of his workshop. A pipe lies on the sill.
[Ref: 59768] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Trimmer.
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the King's Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 515 x 355mm (20½ x 14"). Rust marks from stretcher nails in left margin, repaired tear in inscription area. Some damage.
A young girl holding a cat. Although the DNB calls this a portrait of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), evangelist and children's writer, the NPG notes that it ''is in fact one of Mrs Trimmer's six daughters'', one of whom was Selina (1764-1829), who became governess to the family of the Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
[Ref: 59674] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the King's Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 515 x 355mm (20½ x 14"). Rust marks from stretcher nails in left margin, repaired tear in inscription area. Some damage.
A young girl holding a cat. Although the DNB calls this a portrait of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), evangelist and children's writer, the NPG notes that it ''is in fact one of Mrs Trimmer's six daughters'', one of whom was Selina (1764-1829), who became governess to the family of the Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
[Ref: 59674] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Vicar of Wakefield] Don Ferdinand.](jpegs/60107.jpg)
[Vicar of Wakefield] Don Ferdinand.
Engraved from an Original Drawing by Edw.d Fisher.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2 May 1777.]
Rare mezzotint. 240 x 200mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A young man in 17th century dress with a plumed hat over long, curly hair, one of a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith.
CS 64, state ii.
[Ref: 60107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved from an Original Drawing by Edw.d Fisher.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2 May 1777.]
Rare mezzotint. 240 x 200mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A young man in 17th century dress with a plumed hat over long, curly hair, one of a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith.
CS 64, state ii.
[Ref: 60107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
On the Wings of Love. 218.
Publish'd 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margin. Glued on an album sheet.
A woman with a plumed hat sitting on a striped sofa, holding a letter in her left hand and pointing at it with the other, while smiling towards the viewer.
Reworked state republished 1794.
[Ref: 60087] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margin. Glued on an album sheet.
A woman with a plumed hat sitting on a striped sofa, holding a letter in her left hand and pointing at it with the other, while smiling towards the viewer.
Reworked state republished 1794.
[Ref: 60087] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)