Grosvenor Prints

W.m Addington Esq.r
Painted by W.m Peters R.A. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Publish'd May 1. 1781 by J. Birchall N.º 473 Strand, London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 385 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed to plate.
A half-length portrait of Bow Street magistrate Sir William Addington (1728-1811), dressed in the uniform of the Westminster Volunteers.
CS 1; Frankau 2, state ii.
[Ref: 62740] £320.00

[Member of the Benevolent Pension Society?]
Painted and Engraved by W.T. Dennis 1852.
Mezzotint. Sheet 375 x 245mm (14¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, creases in corners.
A three-quarter length portrait of a man in tailcoat and velvet waistcoat, resting one hand on architectural plans, probably for almshouses for a Benevolent Pension Society.
[Ref: 63175] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

M,,rs Banks.
H.D. Hamilton Pinx.t. R. Lowrie [Robert Laurie] fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 20 August 1772.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), 18th century watermark. Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A profile portrait in oval of a woman with jewellery in her hair. Chaloner Smith suggests this is probably Mary Banks (1747-1817), ''the daughter of William Southouse, Esq., of Wimbledon, Surrey; married, 1768, the Rev. Mr. Banks, nephew to Sir Henry Banks, Knt., and alderman of London".
CS 6, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 62765] £460.00

[The Fox Petition, 1769.] William Beckford Esq.r Member of Parliament for the City of London, chosen Alderman of Billingsgate ward, 1752. Ja.s Townsend Esq.r Member for Westloe in Cornwall, chosen Aldermann of Bishopsgte ward, June 23.d 1769. John Sawbridge Esq.r Member for Hithe in Kent, chosen Ald.n of Langbourn Ward, July 1st 1769.
R. Houston del et fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Sep.r 29th 1769 by Jn.o Smith No 35 in Cheapside; and Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint. 305 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"). Tears taped.
Portraits of three important London politicians, all supporters of John Wilkes and all Lord Mayors of London in the 1760s and 1770s. They are shown here preparing their petition against the Paymaster General of the Forces, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, who was believed to have amassed a personal fortune of £400,000 in his eight years as Paymaster. Beckford (then Lord Mayor) holds the petition scroll in his hand, which is opened to the section which refers to Fox as 'the public defaulter of unaccounted millions'. Although he escaped from the charges Fox died an embittered man. Sawbridge, on the right, rests upon a volume of 'Locke on Government'.
C.S.Houston 9.
[Ref: 62769] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[The Fox Petition, 1769.] William Beckford Esq.r Member of Parliament for the City of London, chosen Alderman of Billingsgate ward, 1752. Ja.s Townsend Esq.r Member for Westloe in Cornwall, chosen Aldermann of Bishopsgte ward, June 23.d 1769. John Sawbridge Esq.r Member for Hithe in Kent, chosen Ald.n of Langbourn Ward, July 1st 1769.
R. Houston del et fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Sep.r 29th 1769 by Jn.o Smith No 35 in Cheapside; and Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint, very fine impression; 305 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), large margins on 3 sides. Loss in inscription area.
Portraits of three important London politicians, all supporters of John Wilkes and all Lord Mayors of London in the 1760s and 1770s. They are shown here preparing their petition against the Paymaster General of the Forces, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, who was believed to have amassed a personal fortune of £400,000 in his eight years as Paymaster. Beckford (then Lord Mayor) holds the petition scroll in his hand, which is opened to the section which refers to Fox as 'the public defaulter of unaccounted millions'. Although he escaped from the charges Fox died an embittered man. Sawbridge, on the right, rests upon a volume of 'Locke on Government'.
C.S. 9.
[Ref: 63173] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria Broughton-Delves] Lady Broughton.
S.r Jos. Reynolds Pinxt. Wilson fecit.
[London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53. Fleet Street, as the Act directs 1st. Sep.r 1771.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, narrow margins elsewhere.
A three-quarter length portrait of Mary Hill (d.1813, wife of Sir Brian Broughton-Delves (d.1766), 5th baronet of Broughton Hall, Staffordshire. The original portrait, showing Maria full-length, was begun by Reynolds in 1765 but only completed after her husband's death. The oil is now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
CS: 4.
[Ref: 62759] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Cecil] The Countess of Salisbury.
G. Kneller Eques pinx:
J. Smith fe: & ex: [n.d., c.1696.]
Fine mezzotint. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Frances Cecil (née Bennett, 1670-1713) in a landscape, wearing a widow's black high dress with a veil on her head. Her husband, James Cecil (1666-94), the 4th Earl of Salisbury, died on the 24th October 1694, aged only 28; only a month earlier Frances's mother had been murdered by a butcher who broke into her house.
CS 221, ii of iii.
[Ref: 63011] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Cecil] The Countess of Salisbury.
G. Kneller Eques pinx:
J. Smith fe: & ex: [n.d., c.1696.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
Three-quarter length portrait of Frances Cecil (née Bennett, 1670-1713) in a landscape, wearing a widow's black high dress with a veil on her head. Her husband, James Cecil (1666-94), the 4th Earl of Salisbury, died on the 24th October 1694, aged only 28; only a month earlier Frances's mother had been murdered by a butcher who broke into her house.
Chaloner Smith 221, II.
[Ref: 62762] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Honourable Miss Cholmondeley.]
Reynolds pinx.t. Marchi fecit.
Sold by Ryland, Bryer & Co. in Cornhill] [n.d., c.1763].
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins. Small repaired tear in bottom left margin. Very small hole nearby in publication line on left.
Lady Hester Frances Cholmondeley (1763 - 1844) as a child, wading across a stream in bare feet, carrying a shaggy white dog. The daughter of Robert Cholmondeley and granddaughter of George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, she married Sir William Bellingham in 1783.
Chaloner Smith, between states i of ii. Hamilton ii of iii.
[Ref: 62771] £380.00

His Excellency John Duke of Marlborough.
G. Kneller Eques pinx.
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1705.]
Rare mezzotint, plate 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Small margins.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was an English soldier and statesman. He was the great general of the wars against Louis XIV and was rewarded with Blenheim Palace.
CS 164.
[Ref: 63018] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Clarke MA of Marlingford Hall in the County of Norfolk, Arch Deacon of Norwich, & Prebendary of Ely [...]
J. Va n Diest Pinxit. J. Faber fecit 1740.
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Rare mezzotint, Collector's mark verso. Shee 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, almost to image.
Three-quarter portrait of Christopher Clarke (d.1742), archdeacon of Norwich, right hand resting on a bible, left hand gesturing towards a bust of Russian Tsar Peter the Great, who had been present when Clarke was ordained in 1697. Bath interest.
CS 83. only state.
[Ref: 63176] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Catherine ('Kitty') Clarke.]
E.F. Calze pinxit. Val.e Green fecit.
Published July 22 1771 [by John Boydell].
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof, very fine impression, 18th century watermark; 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Thread margins; small hole near left edge & bottom centre repaired.
Elizabeth Catherine Hunter (died 1795), wife of Field Marshal Sir Alured Clarke, commander of the British army in Georgia (1780), Governor of Jamaica (1784), Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army (1796), acting Governor-General of India (1798) and finally Commander-in-Chief of India (also 1798). They married in 1770, eight years after 'Kitty' had eloped with the married 10th Earl of Pembroke, with whom she had a son, Augustus Retnuh (Hunter backwards) Reebkomp (an anagram of Pembroke). Calse was a pseudonym for Edward Francis Cunningham.
CS 71, state i of ii. Whitman: 29 i of iii, before Boydell's name scratched on.
[Ref: 62755] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Karl Clemens graf von Pellegrini.]
Ign. Duvivier pin.t. Nic Rhein inc.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
An exceptionally large & scarce mezzotint, proof before title. 860 x 630mm (33¾ x 24¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, top corners chipped, repaired tears, surface cracking, laid on paper. Damaged.
A huge equestrian portrait of Karl Clemens von Pellegrini (1720-96), Austrian soldier and military engineer. He fought at Philippsburg in 1734, in the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War and the Turkish War of 1796, becoming a field marshal. When the Commander's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa was instituted in 1765, he was one of the first nine recipients. In 1789 he won the Grand Cross of the Order and in 1792 he became a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. One of the largest mezzotints we have ever seen. We have only traced one other example, also untitled.
[Ref: 62661] £490.00

[François Du Quesnoy ~ il Fiammingo.] Done from the Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon,,ble the Earl of Besborough.
Le. Brun Pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Rob.t Sayer Excudit. [London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 495 x 355mm (19½ x 14"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, small tear in inscription area, cockling top right.
A half-length portrait of sculptor and draughtsman François Du Quesnoy (1597-1643), known as il Fiammingo. Born in Brussels, he was in Rome in 1621 in the workshop of Claude Poussin. He spent many years studying and copying Classical and modern works in Roman collections, taking commissions for Urban VIII and Cardinal Massimi.
CS.12, ii of ii.
[Ref: 62738] £320.00

The Honourable Susanna Fitzpatrick.
A. Soldi pinx.t J. McArdell fecit.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾"), with large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Susanna Fitzpatrick (née Usher, 1729-59), wearing a dress decorated with flowers at the breast, a bow and frills of lace at left elbow, and light collar trimmed with lace, holding cloak over right arm. Her husband was the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick.
Goodwin: 12. CS: 66, state ii.
[Ref: 62766] £320.00

The Florist. Thus Fields of Joy youth's blooming seasons bless...
Painted by J. Hoppner. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Dec.r 12.th 1786 by J. Dean, Bentinck Street, Soho.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed within plate, pinholes in top corners, slight surface soiling.
A young girl picks flowers under trees. An early example?, without the aquatinted border.
For an example with the border see 66945.
[Ref: 62758] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Wilhelmina of Prussia] Frederique: Sophie: Guilhelmine: de Prusse. Princess d'Orange.
Done by V. Green, Engraver in Mezzotinto to his Majesty, London, 1773.
Mezzotint, very fine impression with 18th century watermark. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (1751-1820), who married William V of Orange in 1767. Her brother, Frederick William II of Prussia, helped her suppress the Batavia Revolution of 1787.
CS 94, state ii.
[Ref: 62761] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Gay. Life is a jest, and all things shew it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Zinck pinx. W.m Smith del. et sculp.
Published as the Act directs, Dec.r 1.st 1775 by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho, London.
Scarce mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"), with large margins. Slight rubbing.
A half-length portrait in oval of John Gay (1685-1732), poet and playwright. A member of the Scriblerus Club in London along with Pope, Swift, and other writers, Gay is best-known for 'The Beggar's Opera', which was produced almost every year until the 1880s, and in the twentieth century supplied the plot for Brecht and Weils 'Die Dreigroschenoper' ('The Threepenny Opera'). Engraved from a portrait by Dresden-born miniaturist C.F. Zincke (1684?-1767), a favourite of George II
CS 1., state ii of ii.
[Ref: 62703] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Van Goyen his Wife and Child. From an Original Painting of F: Hals in ye Possession of M,,r Tho,,s Woodington.
Fran,,s Hals pinx,,t. J. Wright fec,,t.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb,,y 15,,th 1771. [And Sold at the Print Shops. ]
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, margin and plate built up lower left, tears, most repaired, surface damage in inscription area.
A scarce portrait of influential Dutch landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), with his wife and child in a landscape.
CS 5, state ii.
[Ref: 62756] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Selina Hastings.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. C. Spooner fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Jerjeants Inn Fleet-street.
Mezzotint, fine impression with 18th century watermark. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Portrait of Selina Hastings (1737-63), daughter of Theophilus, 9th Earl of Huntington, and Selina (a Methodist leader, friend of George Whitfield and John Wesley). She pre-deceased her mother.
CS 22a.
[Ref: 62743] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Holman and Miss Brunton in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet. Act 5. scene last.
Painted by M. Brown. Engraved by T. Park.
London Published by T. Park, No 106 Pall Mall, Jan.y 1st 1787.
Mezzotint, very fine impression, 655 x 450mm (25¾ x 17¾"), with title on separate plate, 40 x 450 (1¼ x 17¾"). Small tear entering inscription plate. Slight repair bottom right.
Portraits of Joseph George Holman (1764-1817) and Ann Brunton Merry (1769-1808) as Romeo and Juliet, by the American painter Mather Brown (1761-1831). Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786 it shows a happy ending to Romeo and Juliet, with the lovers emerging from the tomb.
CS II of II. The original oil is in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.
[Ref: 63266] £480.00

James 2 by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland etc: Defendor of the Faith.
P. Schenk f. [after Kneller]
ex formis Nicholai Visscher cum Privil: Ordin: General: Belgii Foedarati [n.d., c.1700].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), very large margins.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of James II (1633-1701).
[Ref: 62737] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Le Jeune Eplucheur. Cette ampoule me done a comprendre; Que celui qui trop haut est monté,...
peint par P. Mieris. Grave par G. Bodeneer.
[n.d., c.1700s.] Printed for Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Plate 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"), very large margins.
A young boy shown three-quarters length blowing bubbles, turned to right and looking back to left; after Mieris. Inscription with the title and four lines of verse written in French on the left and German on the right. A rare example of a continental image published in London.
[Ref: 63085] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Louisa Lennox] Lady George Lenox.
Ramsay pinx.t. Corbutt fecit.
London, printed for Rob.t Sayer. Printseller, near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street [n.d., c.1765].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), 18th century watermark. Small tear in inscription repaired.
Lady Louisa Lennox (1739-1830) was the wife of Lord George Henry Lennox, son of Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond. As this plate is a pirated copy of one by James McArdell, the engraver Richard Purcell has used his pseudonym of Corbutt to avoid prosecution.
CS: 51, state before the polished round table removed.
[Ref: 62764] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Noble Granville Leveson Gower, Earl Gower, Visc. Trentham, Baron of Stittenham, Lord Chamberlain of the King's Houshold, Lord Lieut. and Cust. Rot. of the County of Stafford, onw of his Majesty's most hon.ble Priv. Coun. & a Gov. of the Charter House.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. E. Fisher sculps.t 1765.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere, glue stains in corners, creases through face and across image, mounted on album sheet at corners.
Three quarter length portrait of Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), 1st Marquess of Stafford, in robes, A cabinet member for 25 years, he turned down the chance to be Prime Minister after thefall of Lord North in 1782.
CS 22.
[Ref: 62757] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rogerus Long S.T.P. Aulae Pemb. Cantab. Custos. Astronomiae et Geometriae Professor Lowndesianus. R.S.S. A.D. 1769. Aetat. 89.
B. Wilson pinxt. Edw. Fisher Sculp.
[Publish'd as the Act directs 14 July 1769. & sold at the Golden Head southside of Leicester Square.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom
Roger Long (1680 - 1770), divine and astronomer, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, between 1733 and 1770. He constructed a "zodiack", now considered to be the first planetarium, a hollow sphere that could hold thirty people, showing the movements of the planets and constellations; it remained in the grounds of Pembroke until 1871.
CS 39, unlisted state with publication line removed.
[Ref: 62767] £380.00

Her Royal Highness princess Louisa Anne. Born March y.e 8,th 1749.
J. St. Liotard pinx.t. Rich.d Houston Fecit.
[Publish'd by Sam.l Okey the Corner of St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street.]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, thread margins elsewhere.
A half-length portrait of Louisa Anne (1749-68), aged about five. The daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and sister of George III, she died of tuberculosis, aged 19. Jean-Etienne Liotard's original pastel on vellum was commissioned by Augusta, Princess of Wales, in 1754. It it still in the Royal Collection (RCIN 400900).
CS 72. Ex Collection: Lawsonii
[Ref: 62760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Madden DD. Aetatis suae. 68: 1755.
Robert Hunter delineavit. Richard Purcell Sculpsit.
Publish'd and Sold by William Wilkinson, in Chequer Lane, Dublin [n.d. c.1780].
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Trimmed to plate, creasing in centre
A portrait of Rev. Samuel Madden (1686 - 1765), seated in his library. He was one of the co-founders of the 'Dublin Society', begun in 1731 'to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland'. Johnson said that his was 'a name which Ireland ought to honour'.
CS: 54.
[Ref: 62763] £320.00

Jer,,h Meyer Esq.r R..A. Miniature Painter in Enamel to His Majesty 1789.
Dance Pinx.t. Pether fecit.
Mezzotint. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼") very large margins. Some cockling of paper, paper crack in edge on image and inscription.
Hand and shoulders portrait of painter of miniatures Jeremiah Meyer RA (Jeremias Majer, 1735-89). His head is full-featured, but his body is composed of broad strokes, the result of Meyer dying before Nathaniel Dance finished the portrait.
CS 24; Russell 24 state ii of ii.
[Ref: 62732] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Lady Essex Mostÿn.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. 1705. I. Smith fec.
Sold by I. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") with large margins. Small tear in margin repaired left & right.
Portrait of Lady Essex Mostyn as a young woman holding flowers in her lap and wearing a plain, loose dress and robe. Lady Essex Mostyn was the daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham. She married the Welsh politician Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Bt. (1673-1739), with whom she had thirteen children.
CS 184.
[Ref: 63010] £360.00

Adriani van Ostade Pictoris.
A. va ostade del. Efigies. J. Gole exc:cum Privil. ord. Holland.
[n.d., c.1700s.] [But later]
Mezzotint. 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Laid onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of the painter Adriaen van Ostade (1610 - 1685), a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women. His head and shoulders, slightly turned to left, wearing a wide brimmed hat; in a lettered oval; after Adriaen van Ostade.
[Ref: 63197] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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. 450 x 330mm (17¾ x 13"). Small repair in inscription area.
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.
CS: 111, ii of iii. Hamilton, p.54: ii of iii.
[Ref: 62736] £420.00

[Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke] Earl Percy, To His Grace the Duke of Northumberland K.G. &c. &c. &c. This Print is respectfully Inscribed by his Grace's most obedient Servant, Samuel William Reynolds.
Painted by T. Philips A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London Published Oct.r 1.st 1806. by S.W. Reynolds, 47, Poland Street.
Fine mezzotint, open lettered state. 355 x 235mm (14 x 9¼"). Mounted at sides in album paper.
A half-length portrait of Hugh Percy (1785-1847), celebrating his election as member for the City of Westminster, after the death of Charles James Fox, a seat he only held for two months. In 1817 he became the 3rd Duke of Northumberland.
Whitman 235, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 62735] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

William Powell.
Lawranson delin. J. Dixon fecit.
London, Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Aug.t 1. 1769. & Sold by J. Goldar N.º 187. te Corner of Cliffords Inn Passage Fleet Street.
Rare mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"). Trimmed to image on three sides, some creasing, wear to inscription area, mounted on lined album paper. Damaged.
Half-length portrait in oval of actor William Powell (1735-69), who premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1763, purchased a share in Covent Garden Theatre in 1767 and played at both the Jacob's Well and King Street Theatres in Bristol. He died young, having caught a cold playing cricket.
CS 229, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 63178] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness, the Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg &c. &c. &c. Proof.
Painted by Geo. Dawe, Esq. R.A. October 1817. and Engraved with Permission of Her Royal Highness by Will.m Say.
London Published Dec. 1. 1817. by M.r Dawe. 22 Newman Street.
Mezzotint, sheet 365 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) in an oval. She wears a headband with flowers in her hair and an elegant curtain is behind her. Charlotte Augusta married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (1824 –84) in c.1816 and died the following year in childbirth.
[Ref: 63054] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Rembrandt's Mistress.] From a celebrated Picture as large as Life mentioned particularly in the Life of Rembrandt. In the possesion of the Right Hon.b;e Lord Viscount Maynard.
Rembrandt pinx.t. R: Cooper del.t & sculp.t.
[Publish'd as the Act directs June 30.th 1781. by Richard Cooper N.o 24 Edward Street Cav.sh Square.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title, 18th century watermark. 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, affecting inscriptions.
A woman sits up in bed pulling back a curtain. After Rembrandt's painting 'A Woman in Bed' which currently resides in the Scottish National Gallery, said to be illustrating the Old Testament Apocryphal Book of Tobit, with Tobias' wife Sarah waiting for him to defeat the demon Asmodeus on their wedding night. The model is believed to be Rembrandt's partner Hendrickje Stoffels (1626-63).
Charrington 39, i of ii.
[Ref: 62734] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Stillingfleet.]
Painted by J. Zoffani R.A. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Eleector Palatine, 1782.
[London: Valantine Green, c.1782.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 360 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-71), botanist, translator and author. He was tutor to William Windham and accompanied him and Rochard Pococke on a trip to Chamonix in 1771, the first recorded travellers for pleasure in the region. Exploring the glaciers, they named the 'Mer de Glace'. As a botanist he was instrumental in popularising the Linnean System in England.
CS: 124. Whitman: I of II; Wellcome: 2831.
[Ref: 62739] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
published according to Act of Parliament by R. Sayer June 12, 1771.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Ink collector's stamp on reverse. Time stained. Tear from left edge to plate mark and around plate mark repaired.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer published the plate on the 20th June with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137,i of ii; Goodwin 79, i of iii. Lugt L.2178, Fritz Reiss of London, whose collection of mezzotints is described by Lugt as 'l'une des plus belles de ce genre'; It was dispersed in 1914.
[Ref: 62701] £420.00

M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), 18th century watermark. Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iii of iii.
[Ref: 62772] £380.00

[Maria Anna Veronese] M.lle. Coraline.
Allais Pinxit. Vispré Sculp.
[n.d., c.1700s.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾").
Portrait of Maria Anna Veronese (French: Marie Anne Véronèse) (died 1782) was a Franco/Italian actress active at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris. She became the mistress of Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, by whom she had two illegitimate children, born in 1761 and 1767. Nicknamed "Mademoiselle Coraline", Anna Veronese was the daughter of Italian Pantalone-actor Carlo Veronese and the sister of actress Giacoma Antonia Veronese (d. 1768). She debuted with her sister at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1744. The Veronese sisters are considered two of the most notable interpreters of the soubrette-parts of the commedia dell'arte. They were known as Corallina (Coraline in French) and Camilla, respectively, after their standard parts. Anna was particularly known for her quick costume changes.
[Ref: 63171] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Vestal Virgin.]
B. Wilson delin. W.m Humphrey fecit.
[London: Robert Sayer, c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, fine impression. 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line. Very slight crease on right.
A young woman wearing a cloak and veil, holding a pitcher and looking back over her shoulder at an incense brazier;
[Ref: 62773] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Watson-Wentworth] The Right Noble Charles Marquis of Rockingham, &c. &c. 1.
[engraved by Richard Houston after Benjamin Wilson.]
Printed for R. Sayer, Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck, near Sergeants Inn Fleet Street, London [n.d., c.1760].
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, some creasing in bottom left corner.
Three quarter length portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730-82), 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, standing in profile to the left. Rockingham was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister, in 1765-6 and 1782. For this third state a Garter star has been added to his jacket.
CS 104, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 62704] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Royal Highness William Duke of Gloscester.
G. Kneller Eques pinx. I. Smith fec:
[John Boydell, c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of Prince William Duke of Gloucester (1689-1700), son of Princess Anne and George of Denmark. He was viewed as a Protestant champion and his birth seemed to cement the Protestant succession as established in the 'Glorious Revolution'. He died at the age of 11, before Anne came to the throne, so the Protestant line of the House of Stuart lost its only chance if continuation. So as not to revert to a Catholic state, Parliament chose to pass the Act of Settlement 1701, which settled the throne of England on Sophia, Electress of Hanover, granddaugther of James I, and her Protestant heirs.
CS: 114, state ii of ii, ''Boydell Catalogue''.
[Ref: 62649] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with giant fur hat]
Joh Melchoir Roos pinxit. Joh. Georg Seiller. Heb. Scanphusian fecit. A: 1689.
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate at bottom . Thread margins on three sides.
Woman wearing a large cape secured with a chain she gathers the excess in her arms with flowers. She wears jewellry of pearls and an enormous fur hat. Possibly Regina Maria Pömer (née Behaim) (1646–1669), wife of Gabriel Pömer, who is depicted in at least two prints wearing similar giant fur headgear. Or perhaps Madame Braun; a sitter in another mezzotint portrait by Johann Georg Seiller after a painting by Johann Melchior Roos, which forms a pair with a print of her husband Captain Braun.
See BM 1902.1011.7808.
[Ref: 63091] £480.00

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