Grosvenor Prints

John Adams, of Edmonton; Teacher of the Mathematics, Navigation, &c. Born at Pondersend 1737/8. Aged 56. To his numerous Pupils, both at sea & son land; to his extensive aquaintance, & particular friends, this Portrait is respectfully inscribed by their obedient Serv.t J.T. Smith.
Painted & Engraved by J.T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities of London and Environs.
Pub.d Feb. 1 1795 by N. Smith, Rembrandt's Head, G.t May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane.
Etipple with engraving/ 185 x 138mm (7¼ x 5½"), with large margins. Foxing in borders. Very small hole in title "the".
Half-length portrait of John Adams, seated at a table on which are a telescope and sextant. He was headmaster of Latymer School, Edmonton, and author of 'The Mathematician's Companion'.
[Ref: 60750] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Arnold.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Rare stipple proof. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Thread margins on three sides, old ink mss., 'Aeronaut', in bottom margin.
A bust-length oval portrait of Stuart Amos Arnold (active c.1785) a cockaded hat over his curled and powdered hair tied in a queue, in a dark coat and light waistcoat with large lapels, his linen starched. He was a Royal Navy purser and surveyor and author and. Arnold published several commercial works on Navigation in the 18th Century, before losing an arm, at which point he became famous as a hot air balloonist, touring Europe with his flying circus. He made an ascent from St George's Fields in 1785, which ended in disaster after it got caught on some railings. In 1778 he wrote 'The Merchants and Owners Friend: Or, Seamens Preserver, Etc.'. In 1800 his sea chart 'The Lewis and West Coast of Scotland' was published in London by D. & E. Steel; in 1803 a French edition of his chart of Ireland was published by the Depot de la Marine. The British Museum have incorrectly identified the sitter as the military commander and famous traitor Benedict Arnold (1741-1801).
O'Donoghue 1908-25 undescribed. BM website 1920,1211.147. See also reference 56930.
[Ref: 60800] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ptolemy & Euclid] Universitas rerum ut pulvis in manu Jehovae.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Trimmed from larger sheet, mounted on album paper, tear in top right corner due to mounting glue, remains of red-lettered title underneath.
Full-length portrait of Claudius Ptolemy and Euclid holding instruments, with an armillary sphere held by a disembodied hand between them. The Latin motto translates as 'The universe is as a handful of dust in the hand of God'. This is later version of an engraving used as a vignette on the titlepage of Girolamo Cardano's 'Opera omnia', 1663.
[Ref: 60759] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Beethoven showing Goethe around a garden.]
[Illegible pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"), very large margins. Serval wormholes filled, laid on archival tissue.
In 1809 Ludwig van Beethoven was commissioned to write incidental music for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play 'Egmont'; he set his 'Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt' for choir and orchestra in 1815.
[Ref: 60804] £230.00 (£276.00 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)

[Margaret Bryant] Mrs. Bryan and Children.
Engraved by W. Nutter from a Miniature of the same size Painted by Sam.l Shelley.
London, Published Septem.r 29th; 1797 by G. Kearsley 46 Fleet Street.
Stipple. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Margaret Bryan (1790 - 1815; fl.), schoolmistress and natural philosopher, with her two daughters. They are shown amidst the scientific instruments Bryan would have used. She taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath, London, at a time when education for ladies was largely self-taught. She also wrote elementary, practical books that gave a general grounding in astronomy and physics. Engraved by Samuel Shelley (1756-1808) as the frontispiece to the sitter's 'A Compendious System of Astronomy' (1797).
[Ref: 60744] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sacred to the Memory of William Buchan M.D. Author of the Domestic Medicine. Ob: Ad: MDCCCV Aet: LXXVI.
Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1809.
Etching, sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾") Trimmed inside platemark.
William Buchan (1729-1805), physician and author. His 'Domestic Medicine, or the Family Physician' was published in 1769, and rapidly sold out of its first edition of 5000 copies. Before the twentieth century, no single health guide matched the popularity of 'Domestic Medicine', which by that time had gone through at least 142 English language editions (it was particularly popular in the US), and translations into several major European languages. In later life he published several other minor works.
W. 464.
[Ref: 60861] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg &c. &c. &c. in their box at Covent Garden Theatre, Drawn by Command of Her Royal Highness by George Dawe, Esq.r R.A. [and Engraved with permission by W.J. Fry.] Proof.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Scarce stipple with fine hand colour. Sheet 430 x 350mm (17 x 13¾"). Framed. Trimmed to image, title excised and pasted to back of frame, title surface rubbed, parts illegible. Unexamined out of frame.
Famous Opera image showing Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817), second-in-line to the throne, with her husband, Prince Leopold (1790-1865), later King of the Belgians.
[Ref: 60855] £590.00

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[Henry Cort] To the Iron Trade of Great Britain, This Portrait of the late Henry Cort, The Tubal Cain of our Century & of our Country The Father of the British Iron Trade, Times July 29th 1856, is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Ser.t Sydney Marks. Proof.
Engraved and Published by Sydney Marks [n.d., c.1860].
Rare mezzotint. 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Some soiling.
Profile portrait of Henry Cort (c. 1740-1800), an English ironware producer who developed innovative systems for the production of wrought iron from pig iron In 1784 he patented an improved version of the puddling process for refining cast iron, although it was only made economically viable by innovations by ironmasters Crawshay and Homfray, who paid him royalties. This plate was first published by his son, Richard Cort, quoting The Times newspaper's description of his father.
See BM 1931,1211.15 for the original issue.
[Ref: 60742] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Crockery sellers.]
T. Orde ft 1768.
Etching. Sheet 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides.
A portrait of a man and a woman, both carrying baskets of crockery, by Thomas Orde-Powlett (1746-1807), a politician also known for his etched caricatures (mostly of Cambridge celebrities) which were published by his drawing-master, the well-known printmaker James Bretherton. The British Museum's impression has a pencil annotation 'Mrs. Hammond Printseller & D. Randal Printman at Cambridge', which they have taken as an identification. However as they have more than one Orde caricature with 'D. Randal' on the reverse it is more likely that Randal sold the print rather that is the subject.
See BM 1847,0713.61 for this print and 1847,0713.60 for the other 'Randal'. Ex. Collection N. Blackburn.
[Ref: 60747] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cunningham's Adventure with the Astrologer.
Pub.d by Hodgson & Co., 10 Newgate St. [n.d. c.1820].
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Bit messy.
Sawney Cunningham murdered his wife's lover and uncle and terrorised the countryside until he was eventually caught and executed at Leith in 1635. Here he is in an astrologer's study, accompanied by his nurse, with stuffed animals and animal skeletons suspended from the ceiling, specimen jars on the window ledge and globes and a compass on the desk behind. A copy of William Jett's engraving for Johnson's 'A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c, to which is added A Geniune Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Noted Pirates', 1734.
See Ref: 15429 for the original engraving.
[Ref: 57529] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Herbert Mascall Curteis, Esq.r. Master of the East Sussex Fox Hounds.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by Charles Mottram.
London, Published April 1st 1866 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Very rare coloured mixed-method engraving; 580 x 730mm (23 x 28½"). Right top corner margin missing. Nicks to edges. Bit time-stained.
Herbert Mascall Curteis (1823-95) was born in Florence and died in Windmill Hill Place, Hailsham (probably the castellated house in the background). He is shown here on horseback, with three foxhounds in attendence. He was also a cricketer, playing for Oxford University (1841-2), Sussex (1846-1860), Marylebone Cricket Club (1855 and England (1850).
[Ref: 60425] £450.00

S.r Francis Drake. This Picture was taken from an Original Painting, communicated by the Hon.ble S.r Phillip Sydenham Bar.t Kn.t opf ye shire for Somerset, To whom this Place is dedicated by the Publishers.
R. White sculpsit.
[London, c.1705.]
Engraving. Sheet 300 x 185mm (11¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Sir Francis Drake (1540?-96), in embroidered jacket with lace collar, within an oval on a plinth. From Harrison's 'A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels'. The National Portrait Gallery describes this as 'Unknown man engraved as Sir Francis Drake'.
NPG D13560.
[Ref: 60793] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Margaret Finch Queen of the Norwood Gypsies, Died 1740, Aged 108 Years.
Jack Sharp sculp.t [after John Straeho].
[n.d., c.1742.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 210mm (10 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, some damage & loss in edges, mounted on album paper.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was fortune-teller Margaret Finch (d.1740). A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 60891] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Catherine Countess of Desmond. Who lived to the Age of about 140 Years. Wonderful Magazine.
J. Lodge sculp.
[London: C. Johnson, c.1793.]
Engraving. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), large margins, with sheet of letterpress. Some spotting, old ink mss on the reverse of portrait.
A portrait supposed to be Katherine FitzGerald (c. 1504-1604), Countess of Desmond, illustrating a chapter titled 'Remarkable Instances of Longevity', published in 'The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle; or New Weekly Entertainer. A work recording authentic accounts of the most extraordinary productions, events, and occurrences, in providence, nature and art. Consisting entirely of such curious matters as come under the denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the Way! and Unacountable! In 1529, she become the second wife of Thomas FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Desmond (1454–1534). Thomas granted her a life tenancy in Inchiquin Castle, although the title passed to her husband's male relatives. After the Desmond Rebellions the Desmond's property was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh, who allowed Katherine to stay in Inchiquin, although he was surprised how long she lived. It was Raleigh, in his History of the World, who claimed she had married in the time of King Edward IV (1461-83), making her at least 135 years old at the time of her death.
[Ref: 60812] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Portraits of the founders of the colleges of Oxford & Cambridge.]
London. Pub.d for Ackermann's History of Cambridge [& Oxford] [n.d., c.1815].
Folio, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, all edges gilt; 49 aquatints with etching, all in superb original hand colour, interleaved with tissue. A few plates on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1812'. Binding worn, some prints offet on guards but plates unusually clean.
A complete and matching set of the founder's portraits from the 'History of the University of Cambridge' (16 plates) and 'History of the University of Oxford' (33), published 1814 & 1815. Very unusual to find both universities bound together. None of the plates are dated, as usual.
See Abbey Scenery 79 & 278 for the complete Histories.
[Ref: 60845] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Right Honourable Charles James Fox.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r 1.st 1789, by J. Jones, No. 63, Great Portland Street, Marylebone.
Mezzotint. 515 x 360mm (20¼ x 14¼"). Margin restored on right. Small margins.
Three-quarter portrait of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), the first foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and vocal supporter of American independence. From the second of two very similar plates by Jones.
CS: 29. Hamilton p.29, one state only.
[Ref: 60737] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to Engross a Garrick, who to Your Noblest Characters does Equal Honour. Reddere Persona scit convenientia cuique.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street [n.d. c.1765].
Fine mezzotint. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), large margins.
David Garrick (1717-1779) caught between the Muses of Tragedy (Melpomene) and Comedy (Thalia). The original painting (now in Waddesdon Manor, owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation) was completed in 1761 and first engraved by Edward Fisher in mezzotint the following year. This version, engraved by Richard Purcell under his pseudonym of Charles Corbutt, was one of at least fourteen mezzotint copies and pirates. Purcell was a native of Dublin and learned engraving from Brooks and Miller. He followed in the footsteps of McArdell and went to London, where he worked with Sayer copying the works of McArdell, Watson and others.
CS: 31 (only state.) Hamilton: p.29.
[Ref: 60870] £420.00

The R.t Honorable Henry Grattan, Dedicated (by Permission) to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, By His Royal Highnesses most Obedient & Respectful Servant Alex.r Pope.
Painted by Alex.r Pope. Engraved by E. Scriven, Hist.l Eng.r To H.R.H. the Prince Regent.
London; Published by Alex.r Pope, No.7, Albany Court, Piccadilly, Dec.r 14th 1814.
Engraving on chine collé. 480 x 350mm (18¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Slight loss bottom right margin in india paper.
A very fine full-length portrait of Henry Grattan (1746-1820), Irish statesman and advocate of Catholic Emancipation. After Alexander Pope (1763 - 1835).
From Cecil B. Harmsworth Estate. See reference 34393 for unfinished proof.
[Ref: 60811] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Inte[rior of the res]idence of the Prince of the Sandwich Islands.
[London: Richard Philips, 1821.]
Rare aquatint. Sheet 130 x 205mm (5¼ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, bottom edge frayed with binding damage, affecting title.
A plate from Otto von Kotzebue's 'Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits, in search of a North-east Passage; Undertaken in the Years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick'.
[Ref: 60760] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Ben Holbrook, the Walking Stationer.]
JN [John Nixon] fect.
Pub.d July 16th 1783, by W.m Wells, No. 132, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple with etching, proof before title. Sheet 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A man walking past St Paul's Cathedral, staff in one hand and two notebooks in the other. His eyes are shut, suggesting he was blind.
[Ref: 60748] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander von Humboldt.
Gem. von C. Begas. Lith. von C. Wildt. Druck des Königl. lith. Insituts zu Berlin. (von Berndt)
Berlin, Verlag U. Eigenthum des literarischen Instituts [n.d., c.1840.].
Lithograph on chine collé, on printed backing paper with publisher's blindstamp. Printed area 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Bit dusty. Repair in margin top left.
A half-length portrait of explorer and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) before a backdrop presenting his travels in South America. After Carl Joseph Begas (1794-1854).
Wellcome Collection 4398i.
[Ref: 60810] £350.00

Humboldt (Le Baron Fredéric Henry Aléxander de) Associé Etranger de l'Institute de France.
F. Gouin.
Publié par Blaisot [n.d., c.1820].
Stipple. 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on left.
Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859), the Prussian naturalist and explorer who explored much of Central and South America. Charles Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.'
Wellcome Collection 4393i
[Ref: 60727] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Louis XIV. Roy de France.
Edelinck Eques Sculpsit [after Jean de La Haye].
A Paris chez Demortin Sur le Pont N. Dame aux belles Estampes.
Engraving. 130 x 195mm (5 x 7¾") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), half-length, wearing wig and armour.
[Ref: 60863] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mehemet Effendy Tefterdar Ambassadeur Extraordinaire de la Porte vers le Roy T. C. Louis XV en 1721.
Gravé AParis par E. Desrochers rue di Foin pres la rue S. Jacq.
[c,1721.]
Fine engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"), very large margins Ink mss. in margin.
An oval half-length portrait of Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi Efendi (c.1670-1732), Ottoman ambassador to the court of Louis XV of France, 1720-1. His was the first permanent embassy for the Ottomans, during the 'Tulip Era' of relative peace. He is remembered for his account of the mission, published in French in 1757, and for opening the first printing house in the Ottoman empire.
[Ref: 60879] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon as First Consul] Die Dreÿ Konsuln Franckreichs. 1. Ponaparte. 2. Cambuceres. 3 Le Brun.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Scarce engraving, 18th century watermark. 185 x 280mm (7¼ x 11"). Trimmed to plate at top.
A popular print published as the coup of 18 Brumaire (10th November, 1799) replaced the Directory with the Consulate, a triumvirate of Napoleon Bonaparte, Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès & Charles-François Lebrun.
[Ref: 60731] £360.00

[James Paine, Architect, and James Paine Jun.r.]
[Reynolds pinx.t. Watson fecit.]
[Sold by Ryland & Bryer, at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1767.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 415 x 335mm (16¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed at bottom, losing inscriptions.
James Paine (1717-89), the British architect, with his son James Paine (1745-1829) the British sculptor and architect. James Paine Senior was an architect of considerable practice and published plates of Mansion House at Doncaster, 1751. He edited volumes of "Vitruvius Britannicus," and published two large volumes on "Mansions" in 1783. In 1785 he was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey. The younger James bequeathed the original oil to the Bodleian Library.
CS: 111, ii of iii. Goodwin: 52, iii of iv. See also references 46990 & 19663.
[Ref: 60736] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Panama] Marche des Indiens lors qu'ils vont rendre visite à quelcum, ou qu'ils vont à un Festin. P.220,
[after Lionel Wafer.]
[Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1711.]
Engraving. 150 x 285mm (6 x 11¼"). Original binding folds.
Portraits of the Cuna king Lacenta, his wife and children, with his bodyguard, after Lionel Wafer (1640-1705), published in part of a French edition of Dampier's account of his voyages to Australia. Wafer, a Welsh ship's surgeon who served on buccaneer and privateer ships, was injured by a gunpowder blast while with Dampier near Cartagena in 1680. Left with the Cuna Indians on the Darien Isthmus to recover, he integrated with the tribe so much that when his crewmates returned they did not recognise him. In 1695 he published 'A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America', which contained much about Cuna culture and the natural history of Panama. His glowing account influenced the infamous 1698 Darien Scheme that nearly bankrupted Scotland: the 'Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies' hired him as an advisor and quoted his account in their promotional literature.
[Ref: 60824] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Pleydell-Bouverie] Anne Countess of Radnor
Rich.d Cosway R.A. Del.t. M.no Bovi Sculp.t pupil to F. Bartolozzi.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Fine stipple printed in sepia. 295 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"), with large margins. Uncut.
Full length portrait of Anne Duncombe (1759-1829), who married Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in 1777.
Daniell 119.
[Ref: 60768] £320.00

[The Twelve Sibyls] Beschryvinghe ende heerel?cke afbeeldinghe der twaelf Sibyllen.
[C. V. Sichem]
CSV excudit [Amsterdam, 1608.]
Letterpress title with engraved vignette, and eleven plates of Sybyls by Christopher van Sichem numbered engraved plates. Each plate 230 x 140mm (9 x 5¼"). Some staining. Loss at top on Sibylla Aegiptia.
Portraits of the prophetesses of Ancient Greece, with verse underneath.
[Ref: 60886] £880.00 view all images for this item

Le Duc de Wellington.
Gravé par Isabey. 1817. Gravé par Mécou.
[a Paris rue de trois freres No 7.]
Stipple. Sheet 215 x 120mm (8½ x4¾"), with the ink stamp of Jean Baptiste Isabey. Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Portrait bust of Wellington in uniform with cross and star, Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a ribbon around his neck. Isabey used this ink stamp on authorised prints after his paintings.
Lugt 1478.
[Ref: 60725] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend George Whitefield,
John Russell Pinx.t 1768. W. Faden excudit. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Published by James Wyld 5 Charing Cross. [n.d. c.1823.]
Very scarce mezzotint. Sheet 500 x 330mm (19¾ x 13"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, extra margin added at top. Damaged. Repairs top right.
Full length portrait of George Whitefield (1714-70) preaching in a field with St Paul's on the sky-line to right. James Wyld was apprenticed to William Faden in 1804, taking over his business in 1823. He left his premises at 5 Charing Cross in 1832.
CS: 154, iv/iv; Godwin 90, iv/iv.
[Ref: 60798] £380.00

M.r Jos.h Williams. Obiit Anno. 1755, Ætatis 64.
D. Read, Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate on right.
Joseph Williams (1692-1755), evangelical dissenter and journal writer of Kidderminster.
[Ref: 60726] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Wood.
[after David Ogbourne.]
[c.1820.]
Stipple and etching. Sheet 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of one of England's first dieters and vegetarians, Thomas Miller (1719-83) of Bellericay Mills, known as the 'Abstemious Miller' or the 'Ghastly Miller'. As a young man he was fond of fatty meat, milk and cheese, causing his weight to reach dangerous levels. By the age of 44 he was suffering from gout, heartburn, constipation and diarrhoea, a constant thirst and epilepsy. In 1764 a friend recommended a Venetian book, 'Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life' by Luigi Cornaro; Miller started to follow the book's advice, reducing his comsumption of ale and meat, replacing them with meals of sea-biscuit mixed with skimmed milk. A paper describing the improvement in his health was published in the 'Medical Transactions' (Vol. 2 p. 259) by Sir George Baker of the Royal College of Physicians.
[Ref: 60843] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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