Grosvenor Prints

Magnifico smokentissimo custardissimo astrologissimo cunningmanissimo rabbinissimo viro Iacko Adams de Clarkenwell Greeno hanc lovelissiman sui picturam.
Hobbedeboody pinxit et scratchabat.
[London. Pub. as the Act directs May 30, 1792 by J. Caulfield.]
Engraving. 130 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed within plate, backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Jack Adams, known as "the cunning man of Clerkenwell Green", an astrologer, at a table casting a horoscope, a tobacco pipe tucked into his belt. A woman wearing a torn cap and collar, and over whose head is written "the queene of slutes", stands behind him touching his shoulder asking him to tell her fortune. In the lower right corner, the head and shoulders of a man appear; he holds out his hat with his left hand and with the right offers coins to the astrologer, asking "Is she a princess". On the table, as well as the horoscope on which Adams writes, is an inkwell with another quill, an almanack lettered "Poor Robin's Path to Knowledge" and a horn-book; on the wall behind hangs a medal with the head of a man in a turban; two shelves are partly concealed by a curtain, the top shelf has books and a fool's wand with a horse's head and the shelf below has children's toys, a drum and spinning tops with whips
[Ref: 63190] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

S. Albertu' Clara fugat lampas noctem, liber otia tollit Mactatur Cypris flore, Cupido cruce
[after Hans von Aachen, as engraved by Robert Boissard.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Thread margin at bottom, tipped onto album sheet at corners.
A copy of a portrait of Saint Albertus Magnus (1200-80). [Albert Bullstredt] Albert was one of the Great Medieval Philosophers and scientists.
[Ref: 62686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Anne Princesse Roiale de la Grande Bretagne, Princesse D'Orange, &c. &c. &c.
Amiconi Pinxit. Phil. Endlich Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1735.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
A portrait of George II's daughter Anne (1709-59) who married William IV of Orange in 1734.
[Ref: 63324] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon: Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. President of the Royal Society. From an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A. in the Possession of Samuel Lysons, Esq.
Drawn by W. Evans. Engraved by A. Cardon.
Published Jan. 1 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate on right. Bit dusty.
A portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), seated with left arm resting on a volume labelled 'Royal Society', to which he was elected in 1766. Banks, a botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences, took part in Captain James Cook's first Circumnavigation (1768-71). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 63180] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

R. P. Bonington.
Drawn on Stone by J. D. Harding from a Picture by Margaret Carpenter.
Published, Aug. 1st, 1829, by J. Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fine & rare lithograph on india. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 1828), English Romantic landscape painter. His bust to front, with short dark hair, dark jacket over white shirt; after Carpenter; frontispiece to the series; finished state. Lettered below image with facsimile of sitter's autograph.
[Ref: 63201] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Photographic Group of the British Poets, complete from Chaucer to Beattie.
Published by J.B. de Voto. Glasgow [n.d., c.1875.]
Photograph laid on printed backing card. 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). With wood-engraved index sheet. Some slight oxidisation.
A photographically reproduced montage of 137 writers, including Byron and Scott.
[Ref: 63296] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[George Brooks Esq.]
[After Samuel Woodforde. Engraved by James Heath]
[n.d. c.1820]
Aquatint part printed in colour. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Sheet has become discoloured. Small marking across the image.
Half portrait of George Brooks of Twickenham, active in late 18th-early 19th century.
[Ref: 62852] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

T. Fowell Buxton.
Engraved by John Brain. From a Painting by Geogr Hayter. Esq.r. M.A.L.L.&c.
[n.d., c.1840, London: John Saunders, Junr. 49, Paternoster Row.]
Stipple engraving. 125 x 180mm (5 x 7").
A portrait of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1786 – 1845). As an MP he worked for changes in prison conditions and criminal law and for the abolition of slavery. On 16 June 1824, a meeting was held at Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's Lane, London, at which was created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals – it became the RSPCA when Queen Victoria gave royal assent in 1840. Buxton was appointed chairman for the year 1824.
[Ref: 63123] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

T. F. Buxton.
Painted by H. P. Briggs. Esq. R. A. Engraved by W. Holl.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 220 x 150 (8¾ x 6"), very large margins.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1786 – 1845), three-quarter length, seated to right, facing the viewer, wearing a jacket, waistcoat and cravat, holding a book in his left hand. As an MP he worked for changes in prison conditions and criminal law and for the abolition of slavery. On 16 June 1824, a meeting was held at Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's Lane, London, at which was created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals – it became the RSPCA when Queen Victoria gave royal assent in 1840. Buxton was appointed chairman for the year 1824.
[Ref: 63191] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Calvinus.
Strasburg zu finden beÿ Johan Tscherning Auf S. Tomas Pla.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed into printed border, mounted in album paper at sides.
Profile portrait of theologian Jean (John) Calvin (1509-64), before a bookcase containing instruments. Engraved by Johann Tscherning (fl. 1684-1729).
[Ref: 62924] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Canova.
Maurin. Imp. lithog. de Chambert, rue Cassette Nº 2.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"), with large margins. Slight foxing in margins.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Italian sculptor who was the most innovative and widely-acclaimed practitioner of the neo-classical style. He was made famous by his marble sculptures rendering the delicate touch of the nude flesh. Being neo-classical, his work marked a return to the classical perfection and fine art after the excessive extravagance of the Baroque era.
[Ref: 63182] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal & Carlos, Prince of Asturias] Maria Filia Emanuelis D. Gratia Regis Portugaliæ. Carolis Dei Grã Hispa Infans Philippi Secundi Angliæ Regis Flius.
ICI [monogram of Jan Collaert].
Cock Excud. [n.d., c.1556.]
Two scarce engraved plates on one sheet. Each c.250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6"), with large margins. Old ink mss. numbers in margins, laid on card at edges.
A pair of portraits of Maria Manuela (1527-45), Princess of Portugal and wife of Philip II of Spain, and their son Don Carlos (1545-68), who decended into insanity within his short life. The title of the portrait of Carlos describes Philip II as king of England, dating it to the duration of his marriage to Mary I, 1554 to 1558. From a series of 39 'Portraits of European Rulers', engraved by van der Heyden, Frans Huys and Jan Collaert. The British Museum's description of the series notes 'Most of these portraits are engraved two on a plate, but the pairs have almost always been cut apart'.
See BM 1854,0614.203 for the description of the series. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63110] £320.00

[Christian III of Denmark & Albert, Duke of Prussia] Cristianus D.G. Rex Daniæ et Norvegiæ Dux Slesvicen Holsatiæ Stormariæ et Ditmersiæ Comes I Oldeborg. Albertus Senior Dei Gratia Marchip Brandeburgensis Dux Prussiæ 1556.
PAVE [monogram of Pieter van der Heyden].
Cock Excud. [n.d., c.1556.]
Two portraits on one plate. 195 x 350mm (7¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Trimmed into plate on right, to plate on left, old ink numeral in bottom margin, laid on card at edges.
A pair of portraits of Christian III of Denmark (1503-1559) and Albert (1490-1568), first Duke of Prussia and 37th grand master of the Teutonic Knights. From a series of 39 'Portraits of European Rulers', engraved by van der Heyden, Frans Huys and Jan Collaert. The British Museum's description of the series notes 'Most of these portraits are engraved two on a plate, but the pairs have almost always been cut apart'.
See BM 1854,0614.203 for the description of the series. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63111] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Churchill Dux de Marlborough &e Brit et Faeder; Exere:Suninus Imperator Invictus.
Joh. de S.t Amour inv. M V.dr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1700 but later]
Fine engraving, plate 220 x 190mm (8½ x 7½"), with large margins.
Half-portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), in an oval fram held by Britania in a heavenly landscape. Above an angel blows a trumpet with a banner hanging down 'Consilio Fortitudine.'
[Ref: 62958] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Honourable Anne Countess Cowper.
W. Hamilton R.A. pixit. F. Bartolozzi R.A sculpt.
London. Pub.d Jan.y 12.th 1798, by Anth.y Molteno Printseller to her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York N.o 76. S.t James's Street.
Stipple engraving, 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼"), with very large margins. Creases in margins where previously folded.
A portrait of Anna Countess Cowper (1806-1880) shown wearing a veil.
De Vesme: 1062.
[Ref: 63021] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth I] The holie Bible.
[Frans Hogenberg?]
[n.d., c.1568.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 340 x 190mm (13½ x 7½"). Trimmed, damaged, laid on album sheet.
The title page to an edition of the 'Bishop's Bible', with a roundel portrait of Elizabeth I within an elaborate design featuring allegorical figures of Charity and Faith, the the Royal Arms and a quote from Romans 1:16. The Bishops' Bible is an English edition of the Bible which was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. Though not formally dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, the Bishops' Bible includes a portrait of the queen on its title page.
[Ref: 63272] £420.00

Major General Ronald Craufurd Ferguson, M.P.
Drawn by R. Cosway R.A. Engraved by Anth.y Cardon.
London: Pub.d April 1. 1810, by Anth.y Cardon, 37, London Street, Fitzroy Square.
Rare stipple, plate 405 x 315mm (16 x 12½"). Trimmed to plate top, left and right. Thread margins.
Full-length portrait of Gen Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson (1773-1841) standing directed and pointing slightly to left, right hand on his sword-hilt at his hip, looking away to right, wearing military uniform with a sash and high collar, his hat, a scroll and plans on a drum in his tent behind to left, a standard on the floor nearby and tents pitched beside a river in the background to right. He served in Flanders during the French Revolutionary Wars, India, the Cape of Good Hope and Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 63032] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

D. Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duca d'Urbino et z.
Franco forma.
Cum Privilegia [n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"), with very large margins. Laid on card at edges.
A half length portrait of Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1549-1631), the last Duke of Urbino.
Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frederick the Great of Prussia.]
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed close to printed border.
A medallion profile portrait of Prussian king Frederick II (1712-86), in a decorative border.
[Ref: 62922] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord George Gordon. [President of the Protestant Association.]
[Drawn from the Life by R. Bran.]
[London, Published as the Act directs, Augt. 4, 1780; by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill - Price 1s.]
Line engraving. Sheet 305 x 220mm (12 x 8¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Trimmed into plate, cutting off lower edge of print. Title pasted to album paper but missing all other information.
Portrait of Lord George Gordon (1751 – 1793), whole length, standing to front on a hill with his right foot on a volume, lettered with 'Popery', pointing with a staff held in his right hand at 'The Protestant Petition', lettered on a scroll, holding a hat and glove in his left hand. Gordon was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric and flighty personality, he was born into the Scottish nobility and sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.
[Ref: 63167] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

James Greenacre & Sarah Gale. Charged with the murder & mutilation of Hannah Brown_ sketched from life, at the bar of the Old Bailway 12th April, 1837. Warranted wirrten only 10 minutes before Sentence was passed!}
AW.W.
Sold by Knight, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. ~ [n.d., c.1837.]
Lithograph, sheet 185 x 255mm (7¼ x 10).
Portraits of James Greenacre and his mistress, Sarah Gale, at their trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of Hannah Brown on 12 April 1837; both half-length, seated on chairs, looking to left; facsimiles of their autographs below.
[Ref: 62996] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Grimaldi's, Bold Dragoon. In the Popular Pantomime of the Red Dwarf.
[William Heath.]
[Published by Thomas Palser, n.d., c.1812.]
Rare hand-colouring etching on 18th century watermarked paper. Verso in ink "J Paul from Ackermanns 44 King St Covent Garden" dealer's stamp. Sheet 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Tear at the top centre. Trimmed.
The clown Grimaldi dressed as a hussar with huge boots and hat, brandishing a sword, threatening a man in wig in eighteenth-century costume. Early clown image.
Not in George BM Satires. 1948.0214.769
[Ref: 63154] £360.00

Mr. Grimaldi as Clown. In the Popular new Pantomime of Mother Goose.
Published Feb. 14. 1807, by S. De Wilde No.9 Tavistock Row, Covent Garden. [n.d., c.1807.]
Very rare hand-coloured etching. 310 x 245mm (12 x 9½"). Small tear and staining right of title.
A portrait of Joseph Grimaldi, as the clown in 'Mother Goose'; whole length, standing, holding a halter, and a letter inscribed 'Sir, I'll just trouble you with a line'; his hair in a blue mohawk, wearing striped breeches. "Price 2.6 colour'd". Early clown image.
Not in George BM Satire.
[Ref: 63152] £380.00

[Grimaldi's Tandem in the Comic Pantomime of the 'Golden Fish'.]
[William Heath 'Paul Pry' del.t.]
[n.d., c.1812.]
Very rare hand-coloured etching. 310 x 245mm (12 x 9½"). Small tear on lower edge. Two small worm holes. Trimmed.
A portrait of Grimaldi, the comic actor sits in a wicker tandem cart and is drawn across the stage by dogs in a pantomime scene. Early clown image.
[Ref: 63151] £380.00

Grimaldi & the Nondescript in the Red Dwarf. The Clown kills the Pantaloon and afterwards Dresses him in the Skin of a Lion, the Head of an Ass, Eagles Wings, Cats feet & a Fishes tail.
W. Heath Del.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Very rare hand-coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Tear on lower right. Trimmed.
Joseph Grimaldi (1778 – 1837) in a scene from the pantomime The Red Dwarf. Grimaldi faces the pantaloon, who is on all fours dressed in a lion's skin, ass's head, eagle's wings, cat's feet and a fish's tail. An early clown image.
Not in Georges BM Satire.
[Ref: 63153] £320.00

[Lt Col John Gurwood] J.Gurwood [facsimile signature]. 27 Mai 1845.
[Alfred d'Orsay].
Lithograph on chine collé. 225 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"), very large margins. Backing sheet spotted and toned at edges.
Lt Col John Gurwood (1788-1845). After surviving a forlorn hope at Ciudad Rodrigo in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, he edited and published the 'Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington', a major contribution to military history.
[Ref: 63230] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Westminster Abbey Commemoration of Handel. May XXVI MDCLXXXIV.
B. Rebecca del. J. K. Sherwin engraver to his Majesty &c his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sculpsit. [n.d., c.1784].
Stipple. 190 x 140mm. (7½ x 5½") very large margins.
Portrait of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759); head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, surrounded with laurel leaves, various musical instruments including a clarion, lyre, horn, and flute and music scores.
[Ref: 62798] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Hobbes Malmesburiensis. Aet. suae. 91.
W. Faithorne sculps.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Trimmed just within plate, laid on card.
Half-length portrait in oval of social philosopher, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). The first state of the plate had his age as 76; this state has been changed to 91, the year of his death.
Fagan p.41. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63106] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Hobbes Malmesburiensis Aetatis suae. 76.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Holes and fold in right margin where previously bound. Trimmed within plate on left.
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), social philosopher. Hobbes wrote extensively on history, geometry and politics. His major work, Leviathan (1651), was an important influence on the tradition of utilitarian political thinking. He was the friend of Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson and William Harvey, and tutor of Charles II, who later granted him a pension, but his reputation as an atheist gained him many opponents within the Church and government. Inscribed 'pag. 221' upper right. After William Faithorne (c.1620 - 1691), engraver and draughtsman.
Not in BM, NPG.
[Ref: 63012] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[João Manuel, Prince of Portugal & Joanna of Austria] Emanuel Princeps Portugaliæ. Johannis Regis Felius. Joanna Filia Caroli V Cæsaris Emanuuelis Principis Portugalliæ Coniunx..
PAVE [monogram of Pieter van der Heyden].
Cock Excud. [n.d., c.1556.]
Two scarce engraved portraits on one plate. 195 x 355mm (7¾ x 14"), very large margins. Trimmed to image on right, into plate on left, laid on card at edges, some spotting. Evidence of a crack in the printed plate top left.
A pair of portraits of Dom João Manuel (1537-54), Hereditary Prince of Portugal , and his wife, Joanna of Austria (1535-73), who was the daughter of João's paternal aunt Isabella of Portugal and of his maternal uncle, Emperor Charles V. Their son Sebastian became king of Portugal in 1557. From a series of 39 'Portraits of European Rulers', engraved by van der Heyden, Frans Huys and Jan Collaert. The British Museum's description of the series notes 'Most of these portraits are engraved two on a plate, but the pairs have almost always been cut apart'.
See BM 1854,0614.203 for the description of the series. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63109] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Engrav'd by Tho.s Cook, from An Original Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Possession of B. Langton Esq.r.
Published as the Act directs, March, 23rd 1787, by T. Longman, Paternoster Row.
Engraving, open letter proof. Sheet: 410 x 275mm (16¼ x 10¾''). Trimmed to plate.
Poortrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), in an oval on a plinth, with allegorical figures of knowledge underneath, one holding a caduceus.
[Ref: 63236] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr. Samuel Johnson.]
[Samuel James Bouverie Haydon.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Dry-point etching. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
Portrait head of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) the English author, poet, critic, and lexicographer, in an oval frame, in three-quarter profile to left; after a drawing by Ozias Humphry based on a portrait by Reynolds. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and political conservative, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
[Ref: 63213] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

J. Lawson Johnston.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Photogravure. 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"), very large margins.
John Lawson Johnston (1839-1900), the Scottish entrepreneur who created Bovril.
[Ref: 63234] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Johnstone. To The Members of the Je ne scai quoi Club. This Print is humbly dedicated by their most respectfull and obedient humble Serv.t C. Bestland.
Painted & Engrav'd by C: Bestland.
Pub. as the Act directs March 1791 by C. Bestland No.38 Gt. Marlbro' Street.
Stipple. 177 x 114mm (7 x 4½"), very large margins. Some foxing.
John Henry Johnstone (1749-1828) looking to front in oval; he was a popular tenor and stage Irishman who performed in London. He performed alongside the likes of Benjamin Charles Incledon at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden and with Charles Dignum and Thomas Sedgewick at the Je ne scai quoi Club, where the Marylebone Cricket Club was formed.
Harvard: p.315.1. See Ref: 24454 for coloured version.
[Ref: 63129] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Jean David Koehler, Docteur et Proffesseur en Histoire à Goettingen.
G.P. Busch sc.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4") very large margins.
A frontispiece portrait of Johann David Köhler (1684-1785), a German historian specialising in Roman coins, professor of logic and history at universities in Altdorf and later Göttingen, with maps and books. His 'Atlas Manualis Scholasticus et Itinerarius complectens Novae Geographiae', published by Christoph Wiegel in 1724, contained maps of the Roman world decorated with coins.
[Ref: 62919] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Laperouse.
Maurin [facsimile signature in plate]. Lith. de Delpech.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. Printed area 260 x 240mm (10¼ x 9½"), with large margins. Foxing.
Jean François de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741-88), French explorer. In 1785 he took command of a French government expedition to search for the Northwest Passage from the Pacific and to explore along the coasts of America, China, and Siberia and in the South Seas. In 1788 he sailed from Botany Bay and was lost at sea.
[Ref: 63179] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Leeuwenhoek.
J. Chapman sculp.
London Published Feb 26 1813 by G. Jones.
Coloured stipple. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½") very large margins. Small hole in unprinted area of plate.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) the Dutch scientist considered to be the first microbiologist. He is best known for hs work on the improvement of the microscope and was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms.
W: 1719-4. See Ref: 27071 for black and white version.
[Ref: 63328] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Magdelene?]
[by Karl Friedrich Holzman after Johann Eleazar Zeissig (Schenau).]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching with tone plate. Sheet 105 x 75mm (4 x 3"). Trimmed into image, laid on 19th century mount.
A woman prostrates before a cross, book and skull. The attribution is written in pencil on reverse.
[Ref: 62918] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Matusiewic [facsimile signature].
August 1841. d'Orsay fecit.
Lithograph on chine collé. 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Backing sheet spotted and toned at edges.
A portrait of Count Matusiewicz, Russian ambassador in London, of Polish descent.
[Ref: 63229] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Merry] The Child of Nature.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Rare stipple, sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Title bit messy.
Three-quarter length portrait of Anne Merry, when Miss Brunton, in character as Amanthis in Inchbald's 'Child of Nature,' in an oval, standing to the left with hands joined.
[Ref: 63041] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Modern Celebrities.
[Glasgow: J.B. de Voto, n.d., c.1875.]
Photograph laid on printed backing card. 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). With wood-engraved index sheet. Some slight oxidisation.
A photographically reproduced montage of 78 portraits of politicians, churchmen, scientists and artists. The only women are Queen Victoria and the French Empress Eugénie, including Owen, Faraday, Hershell and Lincoln. David Livingston is described as 'the late' (1873); Pius IX is still pope (until 1878).
[Ref: 63295] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Honble Charles Earle of Halifax, Viscount Sunbury, Baron Halifax, first Commissioner of the Treasury, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey, Privy Councellor and Knight of the most Noble Order of ye Garter.
Keneler eques pinx. Drevet sculp.
[n.d., c.1716.]
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
A half-length portrait of Charles Montagu (1661-1715), 1st Earl of Halifax, after Godfrey Kneller.
[Ref: 63326] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Osborne] Charles Edward Stuart. Engraved by E. Scriven from an original painting [...] now in the possession of M.r G A WIlliams, Librarian, Cheltenham.
[After Hans Hysing.]
Published Oct.r 1st 1830, by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple and etching, on chine collé. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), with large margins. Backing sheet toned.
A full length portrait of a young man in tartan coat and trousers, with broadsword and horn on his belt, a pistol, targe and dirk on the ground. Although the print identifies him as Charles Edward Stuart (1720-88, the 'Young Pretender'), it is in fact Thomas Osborne (1713-89), Earl of Danby, later 4th Duke of Leeds and 3rd Viscount Dunblane. The painting, the property of the 10th Duke of Leeds, was sold at Christies in 2005.
[Ref: 63183] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Richelieu] Armand Jean du Plessis.
[Abraham Bosse.]
F.L.D. Ciartres excudit Parisijs [n.d., c.1638].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 265 x 240mm (10½ x 9½"). Thread margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu known as Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) within a dial, published by François Langlois, il Ciartres.
[Ref: 63325] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

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The true Effigies of Mr. Thomas Powell. Aet Suae 20 Annoque Dommini 1676.
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Frontispiece engraving. Scarce. 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Laid on album paper at edges. Trimmed to platemark.
Thomas Powell, cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 63200] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Giuseppe Ignazio Rossi. Architetto. Dis. 1727.
Carol Gregori Sc.
[n.d., c.1739.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 400 x 260mm (15¾ x 10¼"), very large margins.
Roundel portrait of Giuseppe Ignazio Rossi (1696-1731, engraved by Carlo Gegori (1702-59) as the frontispiece portrait for his 'La Libreria Mediceo-Laurenziana, architettura di Michelagnolo Buonarotti'. This work was a study of the Laurentian Library, designed and built by Michelangelo between 1525 and 1562.
[Ref: 62819] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of Gunda von Savigny.]
[Ludwig Emil Grimm.]
[1810.]
Scarce & fine etching with drypoint. 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼") Small margins.
A portrait of a woman in a fur-lined cap, in the style of Rembrandt. Kunigunde Brentano (1780-1863) married the famous lawyer, Friedrich Carl von Savigny. She sat at least twice for Grimm (1790-1863) who was the younger brother of the Brothers Grimm of fairy-tale fame.
BM 1855,0310.79, unidentified; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1985-52-6039.
[Ref: 62911] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engravd by Jn.º Hall, Engraver to his Majesty, 1791. Printed by G.W. Richards.
London. Publish'd as the Act directs, April 30.th 1791, by Jn.º Hall, N.º Berwick Street. Sold by W Dickinson, Bond Street, T. Maklin, Poets Gallery & Fleet Street, & B.B. Evans in the Poultry, &c.
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark; 520 x 380mm (20½ x 15"), very large margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Irish politician, playright and theatre-owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), standing, according to Manning, 'at the table of the House of Commons, speaking on the subject of the Regency Bill'. Originally published by Hall, this fourth state was publisahed by a consortium.
See Manning 1612. Hamilton p.64.
[Ref: 63174] £450.00

Mother Damnable, the remarkable Shrew of Kentish Town, the person who gave rife to the Sign of Mother Red Cap, on the Hampstead Road, near London AnDom, 1678. Taken from Caulfields Copy of an Unique Print in the Collection of I. Bindley Esq.r.
Pub.d. by C. Johnson. [n.d.,c.1790.]
Etching. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Copy of a print of 1676 satirising a shrewish woman in Kentish Town; showing a woman in rags sitting in front of a fire place, holding a crutch over it, on the ground next to her a pitcher and leaves, in the top left corner a sign with two cats hanging up-side down; illustration to the 'Wonderful Museum'.
[Ref: 63199] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Cath.e Stepney [facsimile signature].
A.E. Chalon R.A. S. Freeman.
London, Published by Henry Colburn, Dec.r 1837.
Rare stipple on chine collé. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins. Spotting on backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of novelist Catherine Pollok (1778-1845), who wrote novels under her married names of Catherine Manners and Catherine Stepney.
[Ref: 63294] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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