Grosvenor Prints

"I believe I'm right." M.r. Alder.
Drawn Etch.d. Pub.d. as the act directs by Rich.d. Dighton.
London Pub.d. by Tho.s. M.c.Lean 26 Haymarket, 1824.
Hand-coloured etching. 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"), with large margins. Mint.
A full-length portrait in profile facing left of Daniel Alder, an indigo broker. The text 'Y.C.Tallow 60/-" issues from his closed mouth. In the shadow cast by the figure 'Hughes/ 14 Lombard St/Fleet St.' is printed in reverse. Hughes was a manufacturer and supplier of copper plates, Dighton would sometimes use the reverse of the plate causing the manufacturer's impress to appear in the image. Originally published in 1823, this example was published the following year, with McLean's imprint and the 'Mr Alder' added.
BM 14537.A.
[Ref: 63798] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

V. Alfiéri, Poëte dramatique Italien né en 1749, mort en 1803.
Lith. de V. Raltier.
Galerie Universelle. Place Vendome No. 24 Publiée par Blaisoz [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 270 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Mounted in album paper at borders.
Count Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803), Italian dramatist and poet considered the 'founder of Italian tragedy'.
[Ref: 63619] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

"Wholemeal Bread" (D.r T.R. Allinson) "Vanity Fair" Supplement. Men of The Day. No. 1299.
Ray. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
[4th October 1911]
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 250mm (15¼ x 10"), large margins. Paper toned.
Full length caricature portrait of Thomas Richard Allinson (1858-1918) English physician, dietetic reformer, businessman, journalist and vegetarianism activist. He was a proponent of wholemeal bread consumption. His name is still used today for a bread popular in Europe, Allinson bread.
[Ref: 63671] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

["popular Astronomy" Jehu Junior"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 21.st 1904]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Irish astronomer, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913).
See also reference 18036.
[Ref: 63690] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Beaumont. Esq.
Geo: Vertue Sculp 1729. [Early issue]
Engraving. 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), large margins. Small printer's crease on left edge.
A portrait in oval of playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616),
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

John Bellingham. Taken at the Sessions House Old Bailey, May=15th=1812.
Drawn & Etcd by Dennes Dighton.
Pub.d as the Act directs by Dighton. Spring Gardens. May 16th 1812.
Coloured etching. 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1811?, large margins. Mint.
A sketch of John Bellingham (1770-1812), in the dock at the Old Bailey for the murder of Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), the only British prime minister to be assassinated while in office.
[Ref: 63807] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

"the Salvation Army"
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair Nov.r 25 1882.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of General William Booth (1829 –1912), Methodist preacher and founder of the Salvation army along with his wife.
[Ref: 63670] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

["Justice to Dreyfus"]
GUTH 98 [Jean Baptiste Guth]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d Lith.
[Vanity Fair. Oct.r 6.th 1898]
Chromolithograph proof, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of French statesman, Eugène Henri Brisson (1835-1912), Prime Minister of France for a period in 1885-1886 and again in 1898. He leans against a draughtsman table with a smoking cigarette in hand.
For a lettered version see reference: 18035.
[Ref: 63676] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Francis Burdett.
Drawn Etch.d. by Richard Dighton Jan.y. 1820.
Etching with fine hand colour. 195 x 295mm (7¾ x 11¾"), with large margins. Mint.
Full length portrait in profile of Sir Francis Burdett (1770- 1844) a reformist politician and baronet who denounced the war with France and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
BM Satires 14055.
[Ref: 63797] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Praecellentissimi Vatis, Samuelis Butler. Calidus excuso populum suspendere Naso. Pers. Illustrissomp Viro Georgio Granville Baroni de Lansdown. Hanc Tabulam Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
G. Soest pinx. G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1730.] [Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½''), large margins.
A portrait of poet and satirist Samuel Butler (1613-1680) from Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
Alexander 605. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63877] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[George William Campbell] A View of Argyle.
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton. May 1819.
Pub.d by T McLean Haymarket [n.d., c.1825].
Etching. 280 x 150mm (11 x 6"), with large margins, watermarked 1825. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked. Mint.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor George William Campbell (1768-1839), 6th Duke of Argyll.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63806] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

["our Joe"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 27 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼").
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

"War-worn". (The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain M.P,.)
WHO. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
Vanity Fair Supplement. [29th January 1908]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins. Slight mark in coat.
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63675] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

G. Chaucer. Honoralissimo Dno. Dno. Heneagio Finch Comiti de Winchelsea &c. &c. Ectypum hoc olim dum in vivis destinatum nunc T? µ??? ??78 T8 memoriae consecratum esse volui G. Vertue.
Vertue sculp.
[n.d. c.1710.] [Early issue]
Engraving. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), large margins.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
Alexander 572. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63880] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Chudleigh] Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston taken at the Bar of the house of Lords. Apr.l 15 1776.
Published by G. Robinson as the act directs May 1. 1776.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Trimmed into plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-1788). Having had a short, secret marriage, she bigimously married the Duke of Kingston. When her first husband, by then the Earl of Bristol, brought a case seeking to prove their marriage in order to divorce her, she appeared in the House of Lords in elaborate mourning dress, three years after the death of the Duke. Much ridiculed, she was satirised as 'Kitty Crocodile' in Foote's play 'The Capuchin', 1777.
[Ref: 63597] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Ducissa de Marlborough &, Sacri Romani Imperÿ Principissa. &c.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. et. Angl. Eques Aur. Pinxit. J. Simon fecit.
Sold by J. Simon, against cross Lane in long Acre. [n.d. c.1715.]
Fine mezzotint, plate 355 x 270 (14 x 10½"), with large margins.
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744). The wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; Sarah Jennings was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber in 1683, and became a close friend and advisor to Queen Anne. Vivacious and adept at politicking, she used her position to further the military career of her husband. Eventually in 1711, her self-confident dominance of the Queen provoked a quarrel and estrangement, and both she and the Duke were dismissed from their offices.
CS: 96 only state.
[Ref: 63748] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Abrhamus Cowleius Anglorum Pinarus Flaccus Maro Defieiæ, Decus, Desiderium Ævi sui. Nobillissimo D.no D.no Henrico Hero Baroni de Coleraine, Scientiarum Artiumque Patrono Dignissimo, hanc Tabulam D.D.D. G. Vertue.
P. Lely p. G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d, c.1720.] [Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 370 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾"), large margins.
Abraham Cowley (1618-67), poet and essayist.
Alexander 601. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63876] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Cribb. The Champion of England 1811.
De Wilde Del.t. Warren Sculpt.
Publish'd Jany.. 1st,, 1812 by J. K. Nettleship 39 Arundel Street Strand.
Etching with engraving. 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to platemark, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of English bare-knuckle boxer of Tom Cribb (1781-1848), On 10th December 1810, Cribb fought an American, former slave Tom Molineaux, at Shenington Hollow in Oxfordshire. Cribb beat Molineaux in 35 rounds and became World champion.
[Ref: 63771] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[M.r Frank Crisp]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. May 31, 1890]
Chromolithograph proof, wit text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of English lawyer and microscopist, Frank Crisp (1843-1919), looking through a miscroscope.
[Ref: 63693] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. E Collectione W.m Powlet, Gen:
Peter Lely pinx.t 1653. I. Faber fecit 1740.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Thread margins.
Bust portrait in oval of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), in armour with loose hair curling to shoulders and a plain white collar, directed to left, looking over left shoulder. Published as the frontispiece to Peck's 'Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell'.
CS 97.
[Ref: 63617] £320.00

[Delarom.] The Fair Circassian. N.º 5.
Lady's Magazine, _ 1819.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Delarom, the favourite companion of the Persian ambassador during his visit to London in 1819. She is shown seated on a mat and cushions, in oriental dress. Her nickname, 'The Fair Circassian', came from Samuel Jackson Pratt's 1781 tragedy.
[Ref: 63773] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

["sensational art"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Sep.r 15 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of French artist, Paul Gustave Dore (1832-1883).
[Ref: 63681] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

John Dryden, whose tunefull Muse affords The sweetest numbers, and the fittest Words. Addison. Nat 1632 denat Aetat 68. Praenobili Dno. Dno. Edoardo Comiti Oxoniae &c. ad Archetypu Museo Harleyano asservatum Quâ par est Ovservantiâ D.D. Vertue Sculpt.r.
G. Kneller eques pinxit. Geo: Vertue London Sculpsit 1730.
[Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), large margins.
Half-length portrait of poet John Dryden (1631-1700), within a stone window. From Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
Alexander 606. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63875] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Col. Patrick Duff, of the Hon.ble East India Company's Artillery.
Painted by G. Romney Esq: Engraved by C:H:Hodges.
Publish'd by C.H. Hodges No.17, Lambeth Road_Feb.y 3.d. 1791.
Mezzotint. 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), very large margins. Framed. Stain in title.
Half-length portrait of Patrick Duff (d.1803), holding a sword in military uniform, facing forward.
Horne: 27, ii/ii. CS 12.
[Ref: 63663] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[His Majesty the King]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
[Vanity Fair 19th June 1902]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 400 x 270mm (15¾ x 10½"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of King Edward VII (1841-1910) in formal military dress.
[Ref: 63672] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mr W Farren as Sir Peter Teazle.
Drawn Etchd [---] by Richd. Dighton.
Pub.d by T McLean H [***][n.d., c.1824].
Etching. 300 x 195mm (11¾ x 7¾"), large margins. Several small tears in right margin, publication line weakly inked.
A full-length, slightly satirical portrait of the actor William Farren making his first London appearance as Sir Peter Teazle (in Sheridan's The School for Scandal), at Covent Garden in 1818.
BM Satires 13031.
[Ref: 63805] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Carlo Ferrara. The Poor Italian Boy.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby. Printed by T. Skelton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph on tinted india paper. Printed area 255 x 225mm (10 x 8¾"), with large margins. Foxing in borders.
A boy with a box and puppets, with a tortoise sitting on the box. A street urchin, he was murdered in 1831 by Bishop and Williams, who tried to sell his body to the Medical School at King's College, London. Caught, the pair became known as the 'London Burkers' (after the more notorious Burke and Hare of Edinburgh) and confessed to sixty murders prior to their execution. Bishop's corpse was put on display at King's College anatomy theatre. It is believed that the case was a prime inspiration for Charles Dickens's 'Oliver Twist', which he began five years later.
[Ref: 63765] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Fletcher Episcopi Lond. Fili 9. Honoratiss Dno. Dno. Johanni Vicecomiti Percival &c. Hanc Tabulam ad Archetypum expressam.
Geo: Vertue Sculp. 1729. Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
[Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
John Fletcher (1579-1625), a Jacobean playwright who followed Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men. He was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
Alexander 583. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Govaert Flinck's Wife (so-called)] gravé d'apres le Tableau orig.le dans la Gallerie de Düsseldorff.
Rembrandt f. 1642 [but Ferdinand Bol]. Hess fecit aqua forti.
[n.d., c.1778.]
Etching. 205 x 170mm (8 x 6¾"). Trimmed into plate at top, narrow margins elsewhere, tear in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of a woman, said to be Sophie van der Houven, wife of painter Govert Flinck (1615-60), a pupil of Rembrandt.
[Ref: 63698] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

"Our Sailor Prince"
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair May 24 1890.
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert (later George V) (1865-1936) in formal naval dress.
[Ref: 63674] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Goldsmith.
[After Sir Joshua Reynolds]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins
Oval portrait of Anglo-Irish writer, poet and physician Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). Directed, facing and looking to the right, wearing a fur-lined cloak; within circle frame topped with laurel hanging down.
[Ref: 63600] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Oliver Goldsmith] [Goldsmith.] From the Original Picture in the Possession of Her Grace the Duchess of Dorset.]
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Robert Newton sculpsit.
[London. Pub.d June 4th 1817 by W. Cribb, Tavistock Street.]
Engraving, proof before title, printed on chine collé. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), with large margins.
The famous portrait of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), half-length, wearing a fur-lined cloak, his right hand holding a book to his chest with forefinger in between the pages. The plate was begun by John Summerfield (c.1773-1817), a former apprentice of Francesco Bartolozzi, and completed by Newton after his death.
[Ref: 63592] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

"Surgical Diagnosis." Sir Alfred Pearce Gould. "Vanity Fair" Supplement. Men Of The Day, No. 1298.
WH. [Wallace Hester]. The Grout Engraving Compy., London.
[27th Sept. 1911]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of surgeon, Sir Alfred Pearce Gould (1852-1922). His book ‘Elements of Surgical Diagnosis’ was first published in 1884 and went through ten editions.
[Ref: 63691] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Riversdale Grenfell. Supplement to "The World."
"EMU" [Will Dyson]
Gill.t Whitehead & C.o L.td New Eltham. S.E. [Aug 24th 1910]
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½").
Full length caricature portrait of Riversdale Nonus ‘Rivy’ Grenfell (1880-1914) wearing polo gear. All nine Grenfell brothers were accomplished polo players however 'Rivy' and his twin brother Francis (1880-1915) were regarded as the best in the family and were on the Ranelagh team that won the American Open and on the team Freebooters, alongside Leopold Christian Duncan Jenner and the Duke of Roxburghe, that won the Hurlingham Champion Cup.
[Ref: 63669] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

["She"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. May 21 1887]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of writer, Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925).
[Ref: 63683] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Hall] Sell and Repent.
Drawn Etchd & Pubd by Richd Dighton.
1817 Novr 29th.
Coloured etching. 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"), with large margins. Mint.
A full length satirical portrait of Reverend Thomas Hall (1750-1825). Born in Pennsylvania, Hall had several parishes in Virginia and argued for colonists' rights, but left America when he realised that the colonies intended to split entirely with England. In 1784 he became the chaplain of the British Factory in Livorno, Italy.
BM Satires 12909.
[Ref: 63801] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Phoebe Hassel; died at Brighton, 1821, aged 108. [Old ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare wood engraving. Sheet 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½"), with large margins. Crease in centre.
In Hove Church Yard is a tombstone: 'In memory of Phoebe Hassel 1713-1821 died age 108. She served for many years as a private soldier in many parts of Europe and at the battle of Fontenoy, fighting bravely, she received a bayonet wound in the left arm'.
[Ref: 63739] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus Walliae Princeps Natus Anno MDXCIII XIX Die Febuarii.
Crispin van de Pass excudit [n.d., 1604].
Engraving, 2 collector's marks verso. 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
A half-length portrait in oval of Henry Frederick (1594-1612), Prince of Wales as the eldest son of James I & VI before he died of typhoid aged 18..
[Ref: 63583] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Hilbers] Very like a Whale.
Drawn Etch.d. & Pub.d. by Rich.d. Dighton.
1818 Feb.y.
Fine coloured etching. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), large margins. Crease in bottom right.
Full-length portrait in profile of a man wearing spectacles, glove and top hat. The British Museum's example has a pencil identification as 'Mr. Vale'. The National Portrait Gallery identifies him as 'Mr Hilbers'. The watercolour in the Royal collection is described as being of 'The Scent-Oil Merchant': this is probably also Mr Hilbers, with the title here alluding to ambergris.
BM 13016.
[Ref: 63791] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Rebecca Howse] Mother Goose of Oxford.
Dighton. ad Vivam del.t.
Pub. July 1807 by Dighton, Char.g Cross.
Coloured etching. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"), large margins. Old ink mss. in lower margin. Mint
Portrait of Rebecca Howse (1737-1818, née Wildgoose), a one-time procuress who took to selling flowers after going blind, being known to the undergraduates as 'Flora'.
[Ref: 63810] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr John Ireland] Ireland in Scotland, or a trip from Oxford to the land of Cakes.
Drawn, Etch.d & Pub.d by Dighton. Char.g Cross.
June 1807.
Fine coloured etching. 275 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"), with large margins. Mint
A gentle caricature portrait of Scottish doctor John Ireland (1745-1839), a prominent Oxford resident, wearing the old-fashioned dress for which he was noted, with ruffles and pigtail.
http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/doctors/apothecaries/ireland_john.html
[Ref: 63789] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[James I & VI] Serenissimus Iacobus VI. Dei Gratia Scotorum Rex. Anno Domini 1598.
[by Crispijn van der Pass.]
[n.d., c.1598.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 195mm (5¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
A portrait of James I in armour, with a moustache but no beard, from the series 'Effigies Regum ac Principum ... in re nautica'.
[Ref: 63616] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno. Dom 1687. Aetat 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto Vates, en redivivus ades. Immortale duplez micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tua a Penna Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp. 1711. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue at his house the further end of Brownlow street from Drury Lane.
Fine engraving. 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637), Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
Alexander 75. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63873] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

M.r C. Kemble as Charles Surface in the School for Scandal.
Drawn, Etch.d by Rich.d Dighton 1821.
Pub.d by T. McLean, Haymarket
Hand-coloured etching. 325 x 205mm (12¾ x 8"), large margins. Soiling and creasing, mainly in margins.
A gentle caricature portrait of actor Charles Kemble (1775-1854), the younger brother of John Philip Kemble. He enjoyed a relatively successful career, independent from his siblings.
BM Satires 14271.
[Ref: 63788] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby. "The Ladies of Llangollen." S. Ponsonby [facsimile signature]. Died Dec.r 8th 1831. Aged 74. Eleanor Butler [facsimile signature]. Died June 2nd 1829. Aged 90.
From a Drawing by LADY LEIGHTON carefully taken from life. Drawn of Stone by R. J. LANE, A.R.A.
Printed by J. Graf. Proof.
Lithograph on chine colle. 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾") very large margins. Tears to edges of paper repaired with tape. Some surface dirt in margins.
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known affectionately and famously as 'the Ladies of Llangollen', seated at a table in their library, with their cat similarly seated in the foreground. The ladies moved to Llangollen, North Wales, and moved into Plas Newydd with their servant Mary Caryll in order to avoid the inevatibility of unwanted forced marriages back in their home County Kilkenny. Their home became an epicentre for eccentric contemporaries and they eventually became a popular attraction. All three ladies are buried together in Llangollen.
[Ref: 63557] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby "The Ladies of Llangollen". [Facsimile signatures below.]
Drawn on Stone by J.H. Lynch. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
Entd. at Stationer's Hall. [n.d., c.1835.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 375 x 275mm (15 x 11"). Laid on album sheet with decorative border.
Touching portraits of Sarah Ponsonby (1755? - 1831), daughter of Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby, cousin of the Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1745? - 1829). They resolved to live together in complete isolation from society in a cottage at Plasnewydd in the vale of Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales. Their names were not known in the neighbourhood, and they were called 'the ladies of the vale.' They lived in complete seclusion for some fifty years, and neither left the cottage for a single night until their deaths. Their devotion to each other and their eccentric manners gave them wide notoriety. All tourists in Wales sought introduction to them, and many made the journey to Llangollen for the special purpose of visiting them. With their servant, Mary Caryll, who died before either of them, they lie buried in Plasnewydd churchyard under a triangular pyramid inscribed with their names. An Italian greyhound runs on the path in front of the two ladies; it has been noted that a succession of their pet dogs were named 'Sappho'.
[Ref: 63558] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

"Willie." Mr. W. Arbuthnot Lane. Vanity Fair Supplement, No. 2324. Men Of The Day.
Eianley Cock. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[21st May 1913]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of British surgeon and physician, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet (1856-1943).
[Ref: 63689] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Stringer Lawrence Esq.r, Major General and Commander in Chief in the East Indies.
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. 1761. R. Houston Londini fec.t 1761.
Printed for John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 390 x 275mm (15¼ x 10¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Small margins.
Stringer Lawrence (1698-1775), the first Commander-in-Chief of Fort William. 'Father of the Indian army', Lawrence served in Gibraltar and fought in the Battle of Culloden before being placed in command of the East India Company's troops in 1748. While acting as the governor of Fort St. David, he recognised the abilities of his junior, Robert Clive and assisted in his rise. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General. A rare portrait, after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
CS 69, state i of ii. Hamilton: Pg 45 i of ii. See Ref: 44436
[Ref: 63664] £480.00

["A Connoisseur"]
N. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Oct.r 21 1899]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾") very large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of painter and costume designer, John Seymour Lucas RA (1849-1923).
[Ref: 63684] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Ladies Hero or the Unfortunate James MacLeane Esq.r. Done from the Original late in the possession of M.r Salt Keeper of the Gate House.
Printed for T. Harrison. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sep.r 29. 1750.
Scarce hand-coloured engraving with etching. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, edge black-ruled, a few stains, mounted in album paper at edges. Horizontal crease left.
Full-length portrait of James MacLaine (1724-1750), grocer-turned-highwayman, with the mask he used as a disguise on the ground to the side. With his partner William Plunkett (a bankrupt apothecary), he committed 20 robberys in six months between Hounslow Heath and Hyde Park. His most famous victim was Horace Walpole, who was grazed by an accidentally-fired bullet. Captured, Maclaine was sent to trial at the Old Bailey, where his dashing good looks created a sensation: he reputedly received nearly 3,000 guests at Newgate before he was hung. His body was handed over to surgeons for dissection: his skeleton can be seen on display in the operating theatre in the last plate of Hogarth's 'Four Stages of Cruelty'. Plunkett is said to have escaped to Pennsylvania where he fought for independence.
[Ref: 63569] £480.00

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