Grosvenor Prints

[J.P. Addenbrook] To General Sir W.m Augustus Pitt, K.B. This Portrait of J.P. Addenbrook, Esq.r is, with Permission, dedicated by his most obedient Servant W.W. Barney.
Katherine Bell pinxit. W. Barney sculp.t.
Published, Jan.y 1 1805, by W. Barney, No. 3, Little George St. Westm.r.
Scarce mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), with large margins.
A half length portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat. The BM describes him as 'Major of the 54th Foot; MP for Berwick; Director of the East India Company', with dates 1764/5-1820. However his name does not appear in any list of Berwick-on-Tweed MPs or E.I.C. directors. A 'John Paul Addenbrooke' was a major in the 54th: his dates are 1753-1821) and his career included being Gentleman Usher to Queen Charlotte & Equerry to Princess Charlotte.
Not in CS. BM 2010,7081.2241. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66957] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Alfonso de Albuquerque II.d Governor of India. 1509. Engraved for a General Collection of Voyages, from an Authenticated Copy from the Royal Printing house at Lisbon.
Silva pinx.t. Wooding Sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6"), with large margins.
A half-length portrait of Portuguese general Afonso de Albuquerque (c.1453-1515), who served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515.
[Ref: 66724] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Bahadur Shah II.] Mohomed Suraj-oo-deen Shan Gazee. Titular King of Delhi.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775 - 1862), the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet. His spouse was Zeenat Mahal.
[Ref: 66364] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Shahi Bridge] The Bridge at Juonpore, Bengal.
[Thomas] Daniell Del. H. Merke, Aquatinta.
Edw.d Orme Excu.t. Sold & Published July 21 1804 by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, 59 New Bond Street London.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"), very large margins. Tear in top margin repaired, holes in bottom margin, slight mount burn.
A view of the 16th century Mughal bridge over the river Gomti in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Plate 14 of '24 Views in Hindostan by William Orme', part of Blagdon's 'A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India'.
Abbey Travel 424, 14.
[Ref: 66818] £360.00

[India] [Kans Qila Fort, Mathura] Multura Fort.
Colonel Ward Pinx.t.
Edw.d Orme Excu.t. Published & Sold Jan.y 1 1803 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59 New Bond S.t London.
Aquatint, printed in brown and blue, without hand finishing. 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"), with large margins. Tears in bottom margin.
A view of the 16th century Kans Qila Fort at Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Plate 8 of '24 Views in Hindostan by William Orme', part of Blagdon's 'A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India'.
Abbey Travel 424, 8.
[Ref: 66820] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] A Pagoda.
[Thomas] Daniell Del. J.C. Stadler Aquatinta.
Edw.d Orme Excu.t. Published & Sold July 30 1804 by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, 59 New Bond S.t London.
Aquatint, printed in brown and blue and hand finished. 490 x 320mm (19¼ x 12½"), paper watermarked 'J WHatman Turkey Mill 1823, large margins. Tears in bottom margin.
Plate 15 of '24 Views in Hindostan by William Orme', part of Blagdon's 'A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India'.
Abbey Travel 424, 15.
[Ref: 66821] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Distant View of Mootee Thurna, A Waterfall in the Rajemahl Hills, Bengal.
[Thomas] Daniell pinx _ W.m Orme Delin. Fellows Aquatinta.
Sold & Published Jan.y 1802 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller in Ordinary to the King, & Royal Family, N.º 59 the Corner of Brook Street in Bond Street London.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"), large margins. Repaired tear just entering inscription area bottom centre, faint mount burn.
A view of the Moti Jharna (pearl cascade) waterfall in Sahebganj district of Jharkhand. Plate 2 of '24 Views in Hindostan by William Orme', part of Blagdon's 'A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India'.
Abbey Travel 424, 2.
[Ref: 66817] £360.00

[India] [James Bruce.] [8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving on chine paper. Sheet 280 x 205mm (11 x 8").
Portrait of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811 -1863), British colonial administrator and diplomat. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1842 - 1846), Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847 - 1854), and Viceroy of India (1862 - 1863).
[Ref: 66979] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Alexander Burnes.
[after a sketch by Sir Vincent Eyre]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 180 x 155mm (7 x 6").
Portarit of Captain Sir Alexander Burnes FRS (1805 - 1841), Scottish explorer, military officer and diplomat associated with the Great Game. Burnes joined the army of the East India Company at sixteen and while serving in India, he learned Urdu and Persian, and obtained an appointment as an interpreter at Surat in 1822. He was nicknamed Bokhara Burnes for his role in establishing contact with and exploring Bukhara. His memoir, Travels into Bokhara, was a bestseller when it was first published in 1835.
[Ref: 66929] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Charles Cartwright, Esq. Accountant General to the Hon.ble East India Company. Engraved at the Request of his Official Friends.
Painted by G.F. Joseph, Esq. A.RA. Engraved by T. Hodgetts. Westborne Green, Paddington.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Mezzotint, 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Damp stains on left and foxing.
A seated portrait of Charles Cartwright (1753-1825), who joined the East India Company in 1773 and was Accountant General from 1798 until he retired in 1822. As Deputy he was the author of "An abstract of the orders and regulations of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East-India Company".
[Ref: 66858] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] The Hon.ble Sir Christopher Puller, KN.t. Chief Justice of Bengal.
J.W.Slater del.t. F.C.Lewis Sculp.t.g Southampton Row, Paddington.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 375 x 245mm (14¾ x 9½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper as issued. Some foxing.
Portrait of Sir Christopher Puller (1774 - 1824), English lawyer who was briefly Chief Justice of Bengal (1823–26 May 1824). He appeared for the prosecution in the 1812 trial of William Booth for forgery.
[Ref: 66928] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Lord Cornwallis.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving. 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Trimmed into left side of plate, creasing upper left. Bit messy.
Portrait of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738 - 1805), British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. Cornwallis was the chief British signatory to the 1802 Treaty of Amiens and was reappointed to India in 1805. He died in India not long after his arrival.
[Ref: 66803] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Charles Earl Cornwallis.
Drawn from Lue by W.H.Brown. Engraved by W.Granger.
Published according to Act of Parliament by C.Cooke, N°17, Paternoster row. May 4th 1791.
Engraving. 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"), large margins
Portrait of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738 - 1805), British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In 1798 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-chief of Ireland, where he oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion, including a French invasion of Ireland, and was instrumental in bringing about the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Following his Irish service, Cornwallis was the chief British signatory to the 1802 Treaty of Amiens and was reappointed to India in 1805. He died in India not long after his arrival.
[Ref: 66802] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.] Carlo Co. Cornwallis.
Minatellis.
[n.d., c.1800.] Pubblicalo in Venzia a spese di Catterin Minatelle e Company.
Rare stipple engraving, 130 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738 - 1805), British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In 1798 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-chief of Ireland, where he oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion, including a French invasion of Ireland, and was instrumental in bringing about the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Following his Irish service, Cornwallis was the chief British signatory to the 1802 Treaty of Amiens and was reappointed to India in 1805. He died in India not long after his arrival.
[Ref: 66801] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lieu.t General Sir John Cradock, K.B. & K.C. Commander in Chief at Madras.
Painted by T. Lawrence Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W.m Way.
Published by Edw.d Orme, 59 Bond Street, London, 1805.
Fine stipple engraving. 200 x 260mm, large margins.
Three-quarter portrait of John Cradock (1762 - 1839), in uniform, pyramids behind, a reference to him serving in Egypt under Abercromby. Cradock served as Governor of Gibraltar (1809) and Cape Colony (1811-4).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66114] £320.00

Sir Nathaniel Dance, To the Society of East India Commanders, This Print is respectfully dedicated by their oblig'd & obed.t. Serv.t Robt: Cribb.
R. Westall Esq.r R.A. pinx.t. C. Turner sculp.t.
London Published July. 24, 1805, by R. Cribb, 288, Holborn.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, repaired loss in lower left corner.
Half-length portrait of Sir Nathaniel Dance (1748-1827), commander in the service of the East India Company, famed for the Battle of Pulo Aura (1804) in which he protected a Company convoy from a French attack.
Whitman 150, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66150] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Alfonso de Albuquerque, A.D.1509. Governor of India.
[n.d., c.1792. Published by C.Forster.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 90mm (4¼ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed into album paper.
Portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c. 145 - 1515), Portuguese general, admiral, statesman and conquistador. He served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander.
[Ref: 66975] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Defeat of the India Bill] The Fall of Dagon _ or Rare News for Leadenhall Street. And behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord & the head of Dagon and both the Palms of his hands were cutt off upon the threshold.
[Thomas Rowlandson]
Publish'd Jany. 4. 1784 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand.
Coloured etching. Sheet 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A satire on the fall of the Coalition after the defeat of the India Bill in 1783. Dagon, a figure with a Janus-like head with the faces of Fox and North, has fallen from a pedestal, with head and hands severed. In the distance is Tower Hill, with a scaffold with an executioner with his axe raised. Rowlandson's sketch is in the BM (1854,0513.288).
BM Satires 6365; Grego I, p.112. See [Ref: 61809] for different colouring.
[Ref: 66873] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Baboo, Kashiprasad Ghosh [facsimile signature]. Author of The Shair, a Poem in the English Language.
Painted by Miss J. Drummond. Engraved by J. Cochran.
Fisher, Son & C.º London, 1834.
Mezzotint on steel. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾").
A half-length portrait of Bengali poet Kashiprasad Ghosh (1809-74), published in 'Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book', 1835
[Ref: 66722] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Il Gran Mogor.
C.V. [Claude Vignon] invent. [J. Falke]
F. L. D. Ciartres [François Langlois] excud. Cum Privil. [n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 180mm (8¼ x 7"). Trimmed, losing Falke's name. Laid on 18th century album sheet.
A head and shoulders portrait of the Grand Mughal, wearing crown and turban adorned with a feather set on a brooch, and a fur-trimmed cloak. From a series of thirty-six representing various kings and philosophers, engraved after Vignon, Rembrandt and Padovanino.
[Ref: 66859] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Hyder Ally Cawn. Sitting in his Durbur.
European Mag.
Published 1 Aug 1793, by J.Sewell, 32 Cornhill.
Etching. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾ "). Trimmed close to bottom of plate.
Portrait of Hyder Ali (c.1720 - 1782), the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. Born as Hyder Ali, he distinguished himself as a soldier, eventually drawing the attention of Mysore's rulers. During intermittent conflicts against the East India Company during the First and Second Anglo–Mysore Wars, Hyder Ali was the military leader. He is seated, showing his left profile, his left arm stretch out in front of him.
[Ref: 66911] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Warren Hastings.] Sacred to the Genii of India who, from time to time, assume material forms to protect its nation's and its laws, particularly to the immortal Hastings, who in these our days, has appeared the saviour of those regions to the British Empire, this fane was raised by John Osborne, in respect to his preeminent virtues in the year MDCCC.
[John Osborne.]
[n.d., c.1815.]
Very rare engraving, J. Whatman 1801 watermark, 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). large margins. Some faint creasing and damage to margins.
The bust of Warren Hastings FRS (1732 - 1811), British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William, the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general of Bengal in 1772–1785. He and Robert Clive are credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India.
[Ref: 66987] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Warren Hastings] H-St-gs Ho, rare H-st-gs! What a Man buys he may sell. [Blackstones Commentaries Page &c. &cc] Plate 2.
[London: Joshua Kirby Baldrey, 12 February 1788.]
Rare coloured etching with watercolour, 235 x 290mm (9¼ x 7½"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed losing publication line. Repair in centre.
Warren Hastings, in oriental dress, pushes George III and Chancellor Edward Thurlow in a wheelbarrow, suggesting that Hastings was bribing them. The title is a London Cry, 'Hastings, ho, rare Hastings', hastings being early peas. Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal).
BM Satires 7267.
[Ref: 66842] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Warren Hastings Esq.r.
Painted by Tho.s Lawrence Esq.r R.A. Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
London, Published May 21st. 1812, by the Engraver 92 Norton Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (15 ½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
Half-length seated portrait of Warren Hastings (1732-1818). Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66117] £320.00

[India] The Twenty-Eight Hindoo lunar mansions. [To the most noble John James, Marquis of Abercorn, this curious & valuable fragment of Oriental astronomical science, is respectfully and gratefully inscribed by T. M. [Thomas Maurice].
[engraved by Inigo Barlow.]
[London: W. Bulmer & Co for Thomas Maurice, 1795-8.]
Engraving. Sheet 480 x 260mm (19 x 10¼"). Trimmed to printed border and around title, edges chipped with loss, laid on album paper. Damaged.
A plate illustrating the 28 lunar nakshatras or constellations of the Hindoo zodiac. A folding plate from 'The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, During the Most Ancient Periods of the World' by Orientalist scholar Thomas Maurice (1754-1824).
[Ref: 66819] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Hume.]
[Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by T. Hodgetts.]
[London Published June 1823, by Mr. Graham, 63 Upper Charlotte Str.t Fitzroy Sq.e.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before letters. 555 x 405mm (21¾ x 16"). Very narrow lateral margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Joseph Hume (1777-1855), standing by a pillar, hand resting on papers on a table. After serving as a surgeon to the East India Company's 7th Sepoy Regiment, he became Tory MP for Weymouth in 1812. He became more radical: in 1830 he set up the 'Metropolitan Political Union' in London, with Henry Hunt and Daniel O'Connell.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66670] £360.00

[Punished Arrogance.] Bestrafter Hochmuth. No.221. Fabel N°1.
[n.d., c.1800.] bei Winckelman & Sohne in Berlin.
Fine & rare lithograph with inscription below. Image 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Sheet 415 x 355mm (16¼ x 14"). Crease across centre of sheet.
A scene depicting a rat, full from stolen food. The Sultan approaches on the back of an elephant, adorned with beautiful blankets and goods, with him, his parrot, his favourite dog and a monkey. The rat having expressed that the elephant is a clumsy animal with little beauty, is paid for her excess as a cat catches her.
[Ref: 66787] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [15 plates from ''Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being the Journal of a Tour in India''.]
[Captain Godfrey Munday]
London. Published by John Murray, April 1832.
15 steel engravings. Each sheet c. 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed and pasted on album sheets in threes, some spotting and glue stains.
A collection of plates from the account of a tour in India by Godfrey Charles Munday (1804-1860), including tiger hunting from elephants and hunting with leopards. An army officer who served in India and Australia, he became Permanent Under Secretary for War during the Crimean War then Lieutentant Governor of Jersey.
[Ref: 66607] £550.00 view all images for this item

[India] [John James.] J.T.James D.D. Bishop of Calcutta.
Engraved by E.Finden.
[n.d, c.1850.] From an Electro Type Plate by E.Palmer, 103, Newgate Street, London.
Stipple engraving on Chine paper. Sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Crease in left side of image.
Portrait of John Thomas James bishop of Calcutta (1786 - 1828). He also wrote travel and art books.
[Ref: 66989] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Aboo Taleb Khan. European Magazine.
Eng.d by Ridley from an original Picture Painted by Drummond.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple engraving. Frontispiece. Sheet 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed into plate with repairs
Portrait of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, more formally Mirzá Abú Muhammad Tabrízí Isfahání, known as The Persian Prince during his stay in London and as Abú Tálib Londoni once back in India (1752 - 1805/6), an Indian tax-collector and administrator of Iranian stock.
[Ref: 66363] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 235 x 195mm (9¼ x 7¾"), with very large margins.
An untitled portrait of Lawrence (1806-57). As a colonial soldier and administrator, Lawrence aided the consolidation of British rule in the Punjab region. He died while defending British interests at Lucknow in 1857.
[Ref: 66158] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Sir John Lawrence Bar.t G.C.B., K.S.I. Governor-General of India.
Painted by T.F. Dicksee. Engraved by A.N. Sanders.
London, Published May 14.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen _ 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"), with very large margins.
Seated portrait of John Laird Mair Lawrence (1811-79), Chief Commissioner in the Punjab during the Indian Mutiny and Viceroy of India 1864-9.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66119] £420.00

[India] Stringer Lawrence Esq. Major General and Commander in Chief in the East Indies.
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. R. Houston Londini fecit.
Printed for John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse, in Cornhall 1761.
Mezzotint. 360 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Creased. Small margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Stringer Lawrence (1697-1775), '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. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General.
CS 69, state i of ii; Hamilton, p45; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66148] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell] Major General Lovell, K.H.
Painted by T.W. MacKay. Engraved by G.T. Payne.
Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, surface scratches
Half-length portrait of General Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell (1786-1861), in huzzar uniform, an Indian camp scene behind. He holds the scabbard of his mameluke sword in one hand and his shapka in the other. Born Badcock, he assumed the surname of Lovell under royal sign manual in 1840. After fighting under General Auchmuty at Montevideo in 1807 and in the Peninsula War with the 14th Light Dragoons (being awarded the Peninsular Medal with eleven clasps, the most earned by a cavalry officer), he transfered to command the 15th Light Dragoons (later hussars). The regiment was stationed in India between spring 1840 and 1854, but in 1850 Lovell exchanged from the 15th Hussars to half pay with the 11th Hussars. He became major-general on 20 June 1854, and in 1856 was made KCB and appointed colonel of the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal lancers.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66237] £320.00

[India] John Lumsden Esq.r Late a Director of the Honorable East India Company. Dedicated by Permission to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone Esq.r late member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, by his obliged Servant William John Newton. Proof.
W.J. Newton pinxit. R. Newton Sculpsit.
Published May 10, 1819, by W.J. Newton, 33 Argyle Street, London.
Fine engraving, rare proof on chine collé. 340 x 280mm (13½ x 11"), with large margins. Foxing in margins.
Half-length portrait, of John Lumsden of Cushnie (1761-1818), seated at a desk.
[Ref: 66846] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Embassador Extraordinary from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China.
Painted by T. Hickey. Eng.d by J. Hall Eng.r to his Majesty.
London Published April 12. 1796 by G. Nicol.
Engraving. 305 x 245mm (12 x 9¾"), with large margins, watermarked 'J. Whatman 1794'.
Seated portrait of George Macartney (1737 - 1806), 1st Earl Macartney, diplomatist and colonial governor, the first envoy of Britain to China in 1793. The frontispiece to Sir George Staunton's 'An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'. Macartney's career included roles as Governor of Grenada, Madras and the Cape Colony, as well as Chief Secretary of Ireland and Envoy to Russia.
[Ref: 66084] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[India] The Right Hon. George Macartney.
London Mag.e Feb.y 1781.
Etching, 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins left and right.
George Macartney (1737-1806), 1st Earl Macartney, diplomatist and colonial governor, the first envoy of Britain to China in 1793. London magazine. Macartney's career included roles as Governor of Grenada, Madras and the Cape Colony, as well as Chief Secretary of Ireland and Envoy to Russia.
[Ref: 66718] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[India] The Right Hon. George Macartney, Earl of Macartney, K.B.
Engraved by G. Bartolozzi, from an original Drawing by H. Edridge.
Published Jan. 14. 1817, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple with etching. 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½").
George Macartney (1737-1806), 1st Earl Macartney, diplomatist and colonial governor, the first envoy of Britain to China in 1793. Macartney's career included roles as Governor of Grenada, Madras and the Cape Colony, as well as Chief Secretary of Ireland and Envoy to Russia. Engraved by Gaetano Bartolozzi (1757-1821, son of Francesco and father of Madame Vetris) after Henry Edridge (1768 - 1821), for 'The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits'.
[Ref: 66307] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mahadagee Scindia.
Drawn by W. Daniell R.A. Engraved by W.D.Taylor.
London, Published October 1, 1833 by Edw.d Bull, 26, Holles Street, Cavendish Square.
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed
Portrait of Mahadagee Scindia (1730-94), later known as Mahadji Scindia or Madhava Rao Scindia, statesman and general of Maratha Empire who served as the Maharaja of Gwalior from 1768 to 1794. He was the fifth and the youngest son of Ranoji Rao Scindia, the founder of the Scindia dynasty. He is reputed for having restored the Maratha rule over North India and for modernizing his army.
[Ref: 66792] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D.D.F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Calcutta.
Engraved by H.Meyer: from an original Drawing by J.Jackson.
Published Sep. 7, 1815, by T.Cadell & W.Davies, Strand, London.
Engraving. 375 x 330mm (14¾ x 13"). Some creasing on left side and time staining.
Portrait of Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (1769-1822), an Anglian Bishop, who became the first Bishop of Calcutta in 1814, this included not only India but also the entire territory of the British East India Company. Upon his arrival in India, he discovered that he was prohibited from ordaining "Natives of India," as all ordinations were conducted by the East India Company in London. In response, he established Bishop's College in Calcutta, which admitted British, Indian, and Anglo-Indian students, some of whom were eligible to pursue ordination. However, despite being designed to accommodate seventy students, the college had only enrolled eight students even fourteen years after its founding. He died in Calcutta of sunstroke on 8 July 1822.
[Ref: 66788] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Mussoorie] From Missourie.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by Major J. Luard. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London, c.1835.]
Lithograph on chine collé. 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"). Spotting on backing sheet.
A view of Mussoorie in the foothills of the Himalayas, from 'Views in India, Saint Helena, and Car Nicobar ' by Major John Luard (1790-1875) of the 16th Lancers.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 66720] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Nandi Hills, Mysore] N.W. View of Nandydroog.
Drawn by R.H. Colebrooke, from a sketch by Ensign Caldwell. Engraved by J.W. Edy.
London: Pub.d July 1. 1793, for the Proprietor, by M.r Thomson, N.º 22, Great Mary le bone St.t.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 445 x 575mm (17½ x 22½"), on Whatman watermarked paper, very large margins. Some spotting.
A view of the walls of the Nandy Hills fort, first used in the 11th century, becoming the summer residence of Tipu Sultan. It was captured by the British under Charles Cornwallis in 1791. From 'Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot' by Robert Hyde Colebrook, 1794.
Abbey 419, 9.
[Ref: 66831] £360.00

[India] [Ramagiri Fort, Mysore] West View of Ramgherry.
Drawn on the spot by R.H. Colebrooke. Engraved by J.W. Edy.
London. Pub.d July 1. 1793, for the Proprietor, by M.r Thomson, N.º 22, Great Mary le bone St.t.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 445 x 575mm (17½ x 22½"), on Whatman paper. Edges chipped.
Defensive walls snaking through hills above a river. The fort was captured by the British in 1791. From 'Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot' by Robert Hyde Colebrook, 1794.
Abbey 419, 3 .
[Ref: 66823] £380.00

[India] [Mysore] Prospect of the Country near Mooty Tallaow.
Drawn on the spot by R.H. Colebrooke. Engraved by J.W. Edy.
London. Pub.d Oct.r 1. 1793, for the Proprietor, by M.r Thomson, N.º 22, Great Mary le bone St.t.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 445 x 575mm (17½ x 22½"), on Whatman paper. Bottom right corner chipped,, faint mount burn.
A rocky landscape, north west of Seringapatam. From 'Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot' by Robert Hyde Colebrook, 1794.
Abbey 419, 5.
[Ref: 66822] £420.00

Sir Charles Oakeley, Bar.t, Governor of Madras 1790 - 1794.
Painted in 1816 by T. Barber. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
[c.1820.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"), with large margins. Presentation copy inscribed 'A Present from Sir Charles & obtained by the kindness of the Rev.d W.m Gorsuch Rowland. 1820.' in lower margin.
Sir Charles Oakeley (1751-1826), first Baronet, appointed governor of Madras in 1790. After Thomas Barber (c.1790 - 1843), pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence. William Gorsuch Rowland (1770-1851) was Methodist minister at St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury from 1828 until his death.
Whitman: 219.
[Ref: 66083] £320.00

Dr. William Ruddiman. Late Physician to His Highness the Nauasunt Wallayah of the Carnatic, and in the Service of the East India Company on the Coromandel Coast.
Engrav'd by Anth.y Cardon.
Printed by J. Smart, 1807.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 230 x 125mm (9 x 5"). Trimmed and pasted into album paper.
Portrait of William Ruddiman, Physician to Mohammad Ali Wallajah (1717-1795), Eighth Nawab of the Carnatic, whose residence Chepauk Palace in Madras (Chennai) was hospitable to many men of learning and British visitors. An Indian landscape appears in the background.
[Ref: 66793] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Storming of Seringapatam.
[After Isaac Robert Cruikshank.] Radcliffe sculp.
[n.d., c.1812.]
Very rare etching. Sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some cockling and time-damage.
An illustration from Clarke's 'Life of Wellington', depicting the siege of Seringapatam (5 April 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. Two officers standing at left beside a flag-bearer, as troops storm through a large archway at right with Indian soldiers lined along the top of the walls.
[Ref: 66914] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[India] The Death of Tippoo Saib at the taking of Seringapatam.
H.Richter delin. Amb:se W.Warren Sculp.
Published as the Act directs March 20, 1802 by J.Stratford No.112, Holborn Hill.
Engraving. 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Some time-staining.
A scene depicting a soldier grabbing the fallen Tippoo Saib (1751-99) by the strap around his chest with rifle in hand, as he attempts to raise his sword in defense, soldiers storming through arch behind.
[Ref: 66921] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Britain's Triumph._ The two Sons of Tipoo Sultan delivered as Hostages to Earl Cornwallis.
Publish'd Oct.r. 18 1792 by J.Johnson St Pauls Church Yard.
Rare engraving. Sheet 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed. Some damage to lower right corner.
A scene depicting the two sons of Tipu Sultan being handed over to Lord Cornwallis as hostages at the termination of the war in the East Indies in 1792.
[Ref: 66922] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Seventy Third Regiment. Storming of Seringapatam 4th May 1799. For Cannon's Military Records.
[after Captain Alexander Allan.]
[London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1851.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Framed. Sight size 120 x 185mm (4¾ x 7¼"). Mounted over left edge, unexamined out of frame.
The 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot shown as part of the storming party at the siege of Seringapatam, during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. A copy of the aquatint by Cardon and Schiavonetti (1802), published in the ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment: containing an account of the formation of the Regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-Second Highlanders in 1780 and of its subsequent services to 1851'.'
[Ref: 66852] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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