Grosvenor Prints

[Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry] M.me Du Barry
[after François-Hubert Drouais]
[n.d. c.1800]
Coloured stipple, sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Madame du Barry, shown as a bust with her head gently tilted toward her right shoulder, within an oval frame. Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93) was the last mistress of King Louis XV of France, she was renowned for her influence in the court of Versailles. During the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, Jeanne was imprisoned over accusations of treason by her servant Zamor; particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She was executed by guillotine on 8th December 1793.
The oil painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art Washington DC.
[Ref: 68617] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Bouquet Francais, Parmi ces fleurs ce bon roi a pour trone le coeur de Sujets.
Dessine et grave par Canu.
[Depose a la Direction g.le et a la Poliee. A Paris, rue S.t Jacques N.o 29.] [n.d. c.1816]
Stipple, sheet 205 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed within plate. Abrasions losing some lettering in publication line.
A puzzle print; a family tree with hidden figures, celebrating the Bourbon restoration of 1814. The Key says, "1. Henri IV. 2. Louis XVIII. 3. Monsieur. 4. Madame d'Angouleme. 5. M.leD d'Angouleme. 6. M.le Due de Berry. 7. Louis XVI. 8. Marie Antoinette. 9. Le Dauphin. 10. Madame Elisabeth."
[Ref: 68623] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur de Calonne, Ministre d'état sous Louis XVI.
M.de Le Brun pinx. De Bré[a Sculp.t].
Publié à Londres en Decembre 1802 par W. Richardson [No.31] Strand.
Mezzotint, sheet 435 x 325mm (17 x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate. Repaired tears. Loss to text. Right corner amateurly restored.
Portrait of Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802), nearly full-length, seated in an armchair, turned left while facing forward, holding a letter marked “Au Roi” in his right hand. Calonne, titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis XVI's Controller-General of Finances (minister of finance) in the years leading up to the French Revolution.
CS 1 II. IFF 4. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher.
[Ref: 68556] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Anne Charlotte Corday D'Armans, Native De La Paroisse De S.t Saturnin Des Lignerets...
Le Vachez Sculp. Duplesssi Bertaux inv & del. Duplesssi Bertaux aqua forti.
[From, Tableaux historiques de la Révolution francaise, volume III] [n.d. c.1804]
Engraving, sheet 435 x 275mm (17 x 10¾").
Bust portrait of Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768-93) and scene of her assassinating revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793 whilst he was in his medicinal bath. With explanitory text underneath.
[Ref: 68990] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, marquise de Vintimille.]
[n.d. c.1800]
Coloured stipple, sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Bust portrait of Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, marquise de Vintimille (1712–1741). She was the second of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become mistresses of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress between 1739 and 1741.
[Ref: 68620] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marco Fieschi] Portrait Phrénologique & Physiognomonique de Fieschi, Vulgairement dit Gérard, auteur de l'attentat du 28 Juillet.
[illegible signature] Lith Deportes.
Chez J. Deportes, éditeur, pont neuf, 15, en face henri IV. A Paris. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 305 x 230mm (12 x 9").
A half-length portrait of Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (1790-1836) who built and fired an 'infernal machine' volley gun at King Louis Philippe, 28th July 1835. Fieschi was a disaffected Corsican Republican who fought with Joachim Murat in his attempt to regain the Napoleonic kingdom of of Naples. Back in Corsica in 1816, he was condemned to ten years imprisonment for theft and forgery, but he eluded the police and escaped to Paris. After continuing a life of crime, he became involved in a plot to kill the king, building a 25-barrel volley gun and installing it at a house in Boulevard du Temple. As the king's entourage passed the machine was fired, grazing the king's forehead and killing Marshal Mortier and seventeen other people. Fieschi was arrested, condemned to death and guillotined on February 19, 1836.
[Ref: 68948] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[L'Elephant Blanc. faite historique, voyez Prudhomme No.96.]
[c.1791.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 365mm (8 x 14¼"), 17th century watermark. Trimmed close to image, losing title and key.
A satirical allegory of France on the eve of Revolution, while the Marquis de Lafayette was attempting to mediate between the National Assembly and the monarchy. The scene is set in Thailand, with Lafayette depicted as a white elephant with a sword and scabbard hanging from a halter around its neck, and Bailly as a stork in uniform at the head of the national guard. Around are Siamese courtiers, soldiers and the elephant's attendants, one of whom is on stilts. On a balcony are Louis XVIII and Marie-Antoinette. A version of the image appeared in issue 96 (7-14 May, 1791) of French newspaper ''Révolutions de Paris, dédiées à la Nation'', which ran from 1789 until 1794, when the 'Terror' scared the publisher into silence. A translation of that key reads: 1. The white Elephant, leader of the Siamese; 2. The Crane Mayor followed by the Municipality; 3. The Mayor’s Guard; 4. The Elephant’s military assistants; 5. Young Siamese carrying flowers and cakes; 6. Siamese Guards; 7. Enlightened Citizens; 8. The king joist [Louis XVI]; 9. His wife the ermine [Marie Antoinette]; 10. The old idol (a bear in the distance). The British Musuem states, "This satire refers to the political fable related by Prudhomme in the first nine pages of no.96 (7-14 May 1791) of his journal "Révolutions de Paris". Under cat.45 of her "Images of the French Revolution", exhib. cat., Musée du Québec, Québec City, 1989, Claudette Hould suggests that the etching (De Vinck 4077) included in Prudhomme's newspaper may have been copied from this more artistically assured satirical etching which may have appeared before the "Journal de Paris" version. In GBA 101 (1983) p.143 the etching is attributed to F J Harriet, but without giving reasons."
De Vinck 4078. Musée Carnavalet G.26495.
[Ref: 68937] £950.00

[St. Joan of Arc.] [La Pucelle d'Orleans. Fortitudine sua restituit Rein.]
[By Noel Le Mire after a painting in the Hôtel de Ville in Orléans.]
[n.d., c.1774.]
Etching, proof before letters. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Joan of Arc (c. 1412-1431), known as the “Maid of Orléans,” who played a pivotal role in lifting the siege of the town in 1429. She was captured at Compiègne in 1430 and subsequently handed over to the English, whereupon she was tried, convicted, and executed by burning at the stake. She was later exonerated posthumously and canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
See also [Ref: 55764].
[Ref: 69016] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Joan of Arc.] The Maid of Orleans.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Lithograph with fine original hand-colour. Sheet 320 x 205mm (12½ x 8").
Depiction of Joan of Arc (c. 1412-1431), revered as the “Maid of Orléans,” who was instrumental in the relief of the city in 1429. Captured at Compiègne in 1430, she was transferred to English custody, subjected to trial, and condemned to death by burning. In later years, she was formally declared innocent and subsequently canonized within the Roman Catholic tradition.
[Ref: 69015] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Die Revolution in Paris am 27. 28 und 29 July, 1830.
[n.d. c.1830]
Rare etching, sheet 100 x 230mm (4 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate. Taped into mount at top.
A German print of the July revolution in Paris. Uniformed military open fire with muskets and cannons on civilians who shoot back with guns and throw rocks.
[Ref: 68550] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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Louis Antoine D' Artois, Duc d' Angoulême Nee a Versailles, le 6 Aout, 1775
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
[London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs. Colnaghi, Printseller, Cockspur St. Haymarket.]
Mezzotint with engraving, sheet 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate losing publication line.
Portrait of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duc d’Angoulême (1775–1844), shown half-length and turned slightly to the right, gazing toward the viewer; he wears a dark double-breasted coat adorned with two stars on the right, a light waistcoat, and a neckerchief; framed by an engraved border with the royal coat of arms below. The eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. In the aftermath of the July Revolution of 1830, he renounced his right to the throne and signed the act of abdication on 2 August 1830.
W15. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68631] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Antoine D' Artois, Duc d' Angoulême Nee a Versailles, le 6 Aout, 1775.
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs. Colnaghi, Printseller, Cockspur St. Haymarket.
Mezzotint with engraving, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate. Staining.
Portrait of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duc d’Angoulême (1775–1844), shown half-length and turned slightly to the right, gazing toward the viewer; he wears a dark double-breasted coat adorned with two stars on the right, a light waistcoat, and a neckerchief; framed by an engraved border with the royal coat of arms below. The eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. In the aftermath of the July Revolution of 1830, he renounced his right to the throne and signed the act of abdication on 2 August 1830.
W15. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68632] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Antoine D' Artois, Duc d' Angoulême] [Nee a Versailles, le 6 Aout, 1775.]
[Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.]
[London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs. Colnaghi, Printseller, Cockspur St. Haymarket.]
Proof before letters mezzotint with engraving, 380 x 255mm (15 x 10"), with very large margins. Light foxing.
Portrait of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duc d’Angoulême (1775–1844), shown half-length and turned slightly to the right, gazing toward the viewer; he wears a dark double-breasted coat adorned with two stars on the right, a light waistcoat, and a neckerchief; framed by an engraved border with the royal coat of arms below. The eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. In the aftermath of the July Revolution of 1830, he renounced his right to the throne and signed the act of abdication on 2 August 1830.
W15. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68633] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Quinze.] [S'il aima bien son peuple Il en fut bien aimé]
[Peint par Liotard] [Grave par Vispré]
[A Londres chez l'Auteur dans st Martins Lane et a Paris chez Buldet Quay de Gesvres.] [n.d. c.1760]
Rare mezzotint, proof before letters, 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Small margins. Cockling. Laid on album sheet at three corners.
Half-length portrait of Louis XV turned slightly to the right, gazing forward, dressed with a sash and the badge of the Order of the Saint-Esprit, wearing a frilled cravat and a queue wig, and holding his hat beneath his left arm; set within an oval frame. Louis XV (1710-1774) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death on 10 May 1774. Coming to the throne at the age of five, Louis initially reigned with the aid of the Régent, Philippe, duc d'Orléans, his great-uncle, taking formal personal control of government on 15 February 1723, the date of his thirteenth birthday. Most historians view his reign as damaging, arguing that poor leadership and lavish spending weakened France, drained its finances, and undermined both the monarchy and its global standing. A minority, however, contend he was popular in his lifetime and later maligned by revolutionary propaganda. By the time Louis XVI succeeded him, the kingdom faced severe financial crisis and urgent need for reform, setting the stage for the French Revolution.
CS 2 I of II. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68615] £320.00

Louis Seize Roi de France, cet infortune Monarque, prisonnier au Temple...
Garnerey pere pinx.t. Nyon et Lefevre sculp.
[n.d. c.1793]
Finely coloured engraving, sheet 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4). Trimmed within plate and laid on album sheet.
Louis XVI during his imprisonment at the Temple Tower in Paris in 1792, following the French Revolution. He leans on the terrace of the tower, where he was allowed limited daily walks for reading and reflection before his execution in January 1793. After the painting by Jean-François Garneray (1755–1837), 'Louis XVI au Temple,' now housed in the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.
[Ref: 68579] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Louis XVIII, Roi de France et de Navarre. Ne Versailles le 17 Novembre 1755.
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs Colnaghi, Printsellers, Cockspur Str.t Haymarket.
Mezzotint, 370 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Small margins. Light foxing.
Half-length portrait of Louis XVIII, seated slightly left before a curtain and pillar, facing forward. He wears a dark double-breasted coat with the Order of the Saint-Esprit insignia, a white neckerchief, and frill. The image is framed by layered line borders, with a coat of arms centered below. Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier 1755–1824), known as “the Desired,” was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days. Before ascending the throne, he spent 23 years in exile from 1791 during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.
W328 I of II. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68552] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, Monsieur.
[after Louis Michel Van Loo] Brookshaw Sculp.
[n.d. c.1773]
Rare mezzotint, 390 x 280mm (15½ x 11). Collecter's ink stamp 'G.M' within square and 'col'? 'EB' within a circle/artists palette. Thread margins. Paper slightly toned. Left corner repaired.
Head and shoulders portrait of the future Louis XVIII, within an oval frame with coat of arms below. Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier 1755–1824), known as “the Desired,” was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days. Before ascending the throne, he spent 23 years in exile from 1791 during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.
CS page 99. Undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Not in Lugt database.
[Ref: 68555] £360.00

Louis XVIII, Roi de France et de Navarre. Ne Versailles le 17 Novembre 1755.
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs Colnaghi, Printsellers, Cockspur Str.t Haymarket.
Mezzotint, 370 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"), with very large uncut margins. Foxing, mostly in margins. Creasing and tears to margins.
Half-length portrait of Louis XVIII, seated slightly left before a curtain and pillar, facing forward. He wears a dark double-breasted coat with the Order of the Saint-Esprit insignia, a white neckerchief, and frill. The image is framed by layered line borders, with a coat of arms centered below. Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier 1755–1824), known as “the Desired,” was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days. Before ascending the throne, he spent 23 years in exile from 1791 during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.
W328 I of II. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68553] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Louis XVIII, Roi de France et de Navarre. Ne Versailles le 17 Novembre 1755.
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs Colnaghi, Printsellers, Cockspur Str.t Haymarket.
Mezzotint, 370 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Small margins. Laid on paper. Very light foxing.
Half-length portrait of Louis XVIII, seated slightly left before a curtain and pillar, facing forward. He wears a dark double-breasted coat with the Order of the Saint-Esprit insignia, a white neckerchief, and frill. The image is framed by layered line borders, with a coat of arms centered below. Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier 1755–1824), known as “the Desired,” was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days. Before ascending the throne, he spent 23 years in exile from 1791 during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.
W328 II of II. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68551] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Queen of Louis XVI King of France At The Guillotine, Oct. 16-1793.
London, Published by Thomas Kelly, Pater-noster row, June 24-1815.
Finely hand-coloured engraving, sheet 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet at edges.
An idealised portrait of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), moments before her execution by guillotine, kneeling on the floor.
[Ref: 68664] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, Madame, Duchesse d' Angoulême, Nee a Versailles, le 19 Decembre, 1788.
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs. Colnaghi, Printseller, Cockspur St. Haymarket.
Mezzotint with engraving, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulême (1778-1851), seated on a terrace with her head turned slightly left, wearing a pale gown with a ruffled neckline and an embroidered cloak, framed by an engraved border with the royal coat of arms below. Marie Thérèse Charlotte was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, son of Charles X, becoming Duchess of Angoulême and the sole survivor of her immediate family after the French Revolution. She became Dauphine in 1824 when Charles X took the throne. After the July Revolution, both he and her husband abdicated. Legitimists regard her as the rightful Queen of France from 1836 to 1844.
W16. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68583] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pascal Paoli, General of the Corsicans; Born 6.th April, 1725; elected 15.th July, 1755. From the Original Picture for James Boswell Esq.r of Auchinleck.
Hen.y Bembridge pinx.t 1768.
Ca. Bowles excudit. Publish'd as the Act directs May 1.st 1769. Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Scarce mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Restoration to right margin and inscription area. Damaged.
A full-length portrait of Corsican patriot Pasquale Paoli (1725-1807) in a landscape with boulders. James Boswell, commissioned Henry Bembridge paint the portrait, sending him to Corsica. It was exhibited in May 1769 at the Free Society of Artists and was engraved for Bowles with Boswell's permission. Paoli split from the French Revolution over the issue of the execution of the King and threw in his lot with the royalist party.
CS ENA III, 121. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68765] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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