Grosvenor Prints

Originall Charter of the Lands of Powmode in the year 1057. I, Malcolm: Kaninore King; the first of my reign, give to thee Barron Hunter, uper & nether Powmode; with all the bounds within the flood, with the Hoop and Hooptown; and all the bouwds up & down; above the Earth to Heaven. & all below the Earth to Hell, as free to thee & thine, as Ever God gave to me and mine; and that for a bow and a broad arrow when I come to hunt upon Yarrow. And for the mair faith of this, I bite this white wax with my ain teeth, before Margaret my wife and Mall my Nurse. Sic Subacribitur, MALCOLM: KANMORE, King. MARGRATT, Witness. MALL Witness.
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1820s.]
Lithographic copy of a charter granted by King Malcolm III of Scotland; broadside, hand colouring to crest, sheet 370 x 265mm. 14½ x 10½". Handling creases; bodycolour a little smudged. Glued onto a scrap album page, with tissue guard.
The single page grant of land to one of his Barons by the king of Scotland was apparently discovered c.1799 in an old oak chest in the church at Dumbarton, central Scotland. A very unusual piece of Scottish historical ephemera. Macbeth (immortalised by Shakespeare) murdered Duncan to claim the Scottish throne for himself. Malcolm eldest son of Duncan was installed as ruler of Perth and Fife by a combined army of English, Norse and lowland Scots. In 1057 Macbeth was killed by Malcolm in battle at Lumphanan in Mar, Aberdeenshire. This tale was reported in "the Mirror" of literature, amusement, and instruction, in 1839.
[Ref: 23934] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Simon Forman, Astrologer. Engraved from the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble Lord Mountstuart.
Bulfinch del. Godfrey Sc.
[Publish'd July 7. 1776 by F. Blyth, No.87 Cornhill.]
Engraving. 146 x 82mm. Horizontal crease. Rust markings.
Simon Forman (1552-1611) was arguably the most popular Elizabethan astrologist. Forman dates the first public performance of Macbeth at the outdoor Globe Theatre in April 1611.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18455] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Garrick and Mrs Pritchard in the Tragedy of Macbeth. Act II Scene III. From the Original Picture painted by J. Zoffany, in the possession of George Keate Esq.r. To Whom this Plate is Inscribed, by his Most Humble Servant, John Boydell.
J. Zoffany Pinxit. V. Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Published March 30th 1776 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 460 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"), with large margins. Central vertical crease.
Double portrait of two actors in character, in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': Hannah Pritchard (1711-68) as Lady Macbeth holding dagger and indicating towards an open door, and David Garrick (1717-79) as Macbeth, hesitating. The original painting, at the time owned by poet and artist George Keate (1729-97), is now in the Garrick Club. Painted in 1768 it is said to show Hannah Prichard's last performance: she retired the same year and died shortly afterwards.
[Ref: 55678] £360.00

David Garrick Esq.r
Engraved by Rob.t Cooper from a Picture by Rob.t Edge Pine.
Published May 8. 1815, fro the Proprietor by E. Baldwyn, Catherine Street, London, and R. Cooper, Mornington Place, Hampstead Road.
A rare stipple and etching, with large margins. Plate 375 x 273mm. 14¾ x 10¾".
David Garrick (1717-1779), the English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice. He was a friend and one-time pupil of Dr Samuel Johnson. Here seated, leaning with his elbows on a table to left, left hand on a script labelled 'Macbeth', near an ink-pot and book, looking towards the viewer, wearing a wig with a queue, plain coat and lace cravat and collars.
Harvard Volume II. p.87: 41.
[Ref: 20989] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Henderson in the Character of Macbeth.
Painted by George Romney. Engraved by John Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs Decr. 1st. 1787, by J. Jones, Engraver No. 75, Great Portland Street.
Mezzotint, 455 x 540mm. Trimmed to platemark lower left.
Portrait of John Henderson (1747 - 1785) as Macbeth, looking over his left shoulder at the Three Witches. A procession passes across the landscape in the distance.
Chaloner Smith: 37, II.
[Ref: 8339] £420.00

[Charles Kemble] Macbeth. 'Accursed be the tongue that tells me so!'' Macbeth Act 5, Sc. 7. Proof. Plate 9.
RJL [monogram of Richard James Lane]. J. Graf Printer to her Majesty.
London, May 1840, published by Mess.rs Colnaghi and Puckle, No 23 Cockspur Street.
Lithograph, proof on chine collé. Printed area 270 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
Charles Kemble (1775-1854) as Macbeth, one of Richard Lane's 'Sixteen Portraits of Charles Kemble'.
[Ref: 55294] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Macaroni Cauldron.
Pub'd accordg to Act March 9 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand. to be had with many other Macaronies pubd by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Paper toned.
Six men gambling with dice at a table, with strange pointed hats with cap-like peaks; they are all portraits. The man casting the dice (having removed his hat) is Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland (1723 - 1774); also represented is his famous younger brother Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806). Four lines of verse taken from the 'Epilogue to the Grecian Daughter' either side of title. Eight lines adapted from the witches' song in William Shakespeare's Macbeth are etched within image, to side of table. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 4829.
[Ref: 66241] £480.00

[Macbeth] "A drum! a drum!_Macbeth doth come!" Macbeth Act I. Sc. I. [Facsimile signatures:] G.J. Bennett. Drinkwater Meadows. W.H. Payne.
J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
London, Published Dec.r 1. 1838, by J. Mitchell, Old Bond Street.
Lithograph on india, with large margins. Sheet 255 x 354mm (10 x 14"). Soiling and repaired tears to margins.
George John Bennett (1800-1879), Drinkwater Meadows (1799-1869) and William Henry Payne (1804-1878) as the three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
[Ref: 28978] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Macbeth.] [From an Original Picture, in the Collection of Will,m Lock Esq.r.]
[Painted by Fran.co Zuccarelli. Engrav'd by W,,m Woollett.]
[Published as the Act directs Dec.r 29th. 1770, by W.m Woollett, in Green Street, Leicester Fields, London]
Etching. Proof before letters. Plate 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17"), with margins. Repaired tears and some creasing.
Macbeth and Banquo meet the Three Witches in a wind-swept landscape. Behind soldiers try to restrain their terrified horses as lightning strikes a castle on the hilltop behind.
Fagan 74. See Ref: 54251 for lettered impression
[Ref: 55160] £380.00

Macbeth. From an Original Picture, in the Collection of Will,m Lock Esq.r.
Painted by Fran.co Zuccarelli. Engrav'd by W,,m Woollett.
Published as the Act directs Dec.r 29th. 1770, by W.m Woollett, Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, London.
Etching. Sheet 455 x 560mm (18 x 22"). Trimmed to plate top and left, narrow margins elsewhere, some surface scuffing to edges.
Macbeth and Banquo meet the Three Witches in a wind-swept landscape. Behind soldiers try to restrain their terrified horses as lightning strikes a castle on the hilltop behind. The second published state, with a new address of Charlotte Street.
Fagan 74.
[Ref: 54251] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Macbeth. One! Two! Why, then tis time to do it-.[/] Macbeth. Act V. Scene 3.
H. Singleton del. W. Nutter Sculp.t.
C. Taylor excud.
Stipple with very large margins. 190mm x 140mm (7½" x 5½"). Small tear in lower margin.
Depiction of Act V. Scene 3 of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' in which Lady Macbeth, driven mad by her involvement in the murder of Duncan, King of Scotland, sleepwalks and sleeptalks whilst watched by two female servants from the bedroom door. From a series of Shakespeare illustrations.
[Ref: 31928] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Macduff and Family Surprized and Murdered by the Order of Macbeth. Vide Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth, Act. IV. Sc. 2. Enter Murderers. Lady Macduff.__"what are these fuces." Murderer. "where is your husband?" Lady Macduff. "I hope in no place so unsanctified, where such as thou may'st find him." To the Corporation and Inhabitants of the Borough of Liverpool this plate of Lady Macduff, is most respectfully dedicated; by their much obliged and obedient humble servant, William Martin.
Wm. Martin Historic Painter to his Majesty, Pinx.t F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t
Engraved from the Original Picture 12 feet by 9 (presented by the Artist &) placed in the Exchange of Liverpool.~Published for the Proprietor August 11th.1804, by Wm Martin, Windsor Castle; and H. Macklin, 39, Fleet Street, London.
Rare Stipple. 509 x 636mm. 20 x 25".
The murder of Lady Macduff and her family, following the orders of Macbeth.
[Ref: 18328] £320.00

Macbeth.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxt. S.W. Reynolds Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Mixed media, 230 x 260mm. 9 x 10¼".
William Shakespeare's Macbeth, seen from the back, faces the witches and the apparitions. By his feet, inside a coiled snake, stand a small bloody child and a child wearing a crown and holding a tree. Behind them are the kings, one holding a mirror, and a large figure of a soldier, pointing; the witches sit on the far right, Hecate in the middle, with her forefinger pointing upwards. For Samuel William Reynold's (1774 - 1835) 'Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds'.
Whitman: Appendix, pg. 149, 56.
[Ref: 9567] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Macbeth. I've done the deed.- did I not hear a noise? [/] Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2.
H. Singleton del. C. Taylor direxit et sculpsit.
Stipple with very large margins. 140mm x 180mm (5½" x 7"). Small tear in upper margin.
Depiction of events in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' Act II. Scene 2. in which Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland. Macbeth is depicted leaving the bedroom of Duncan holding a dagger, Duncan can be seen lying dead in his bed. From a series of Shakespeare illustrations.
[Ref: 31930] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Macbeth] The Banquet. _ Prithee, see there. Behold! look! loe! How say you! Shakespeare's Macbeth Act III Scene 3.d.
S. Harding delin.t. J. Baldrey Fecit.
London, Publish'd Oct.r 10th 1786, by W. Dickinson, Bond Street.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. 385 x 330mm (15¼ x 13") with margins. Title bit messy on right.
As Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost sitting in his chair he starts to rave and is retrained by his wife.
[Ref: 53327] £320.00

[Charles Macklin] Shylock turnd Macbeth. I see thee yet, inform as palpable/ As that which now I draw ---
Young Vanity invt. Old Envy sculp.
Pub by MDarly Nov. 5. 1773. 39. Strand . where any sketch that is fair game will have due Honor shewn.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7".
Caricature of Charles Macklin (1699? - 1797) as William Shakespeare's Macbeth, his dagger held up in his left hand, his head in profile to right. He wears a feathered hat, long hair, and Scottish dress: a large plaid, kilt, bare knees, and tartan stockings, a thistle badge hangs from his neck on a ribbon, a claymore (so-called) hangs at his waist. Macklin appeared on 3rd October 1773 as Macbeth, the part being played for the first time in Scottish dress, before a very hostile audience; they expected to be "spectators of his downfall", thinking his age would not allow him to go through the part to the end. "Lady Macbeth's modern robes by no means accorded with the habits of the other personages, and Mr. Macklin's flowing curls, like the locks of an Adonis, were unpardonably out of character." 'Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine', ii. 8, Oct. 1773. Before this time Macbeth was dressed as a modern military officer. The public treated him with great injustice, and accustomed to see him in comedy, and regarding his Shylock (in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice) as above criticism, refused to accept him in a heroic part. The mob would not be satisfied until Macklin was dismissed. Numbered '19' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 5175.
[Ref: 14083] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Harry Rowe, Born in York 1726. Trumpeter in the Duke of Kingston's Light Horse at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Forty six Years Trumpeter to the High Sherrifs of Yorkshire and Manager of a Company of Artificial Comedians.
F:A ad viv del.t & fecit 1798.
Etching and drypoint. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"), with large margins with ink note '4th State different inscription May 30 1799 R.A.'.
Half-length portrait of the english showman, trumpeter and puppet master Harry Rowe (1726-1799), aged seventy-two, standing in profile to left at stage of puppet theatre. Drum, trumpet and images of puppets hang at right, a man drowning at sea can be seen in the background. He is best known for his ammended publication of Shakespeare's Macbeth, 'with Notes by Harry Rowe. York, printed for the Annotator (1797).' The notes were of humorous nature, and in this image he is shown holding a copy of the publication.
BM 1851,0308.572
[Ref: 55016] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Prophecy.
XXX. [John Doyle.]
London, Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket April, 1829.
Hand-coloured lithograph with fine colour and large margins; printed on J. Whatman 1829 paper. Plate 279 x 355mm (11 x 14").
Satire on the intrigues of the Duke of Cumberland with the ultra-Tories: Cumberland, as Macbeth, addresses the three witches who hold wands: Eldon, Lord Redesdale and Lord Manners. From Doyle's "Political Sketches"
BM Satires: 15742.
[Ref: 30626] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Prophecy.
XXX. [John Doyle.]
London, Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket April, 1829.
Hand-coloured lithograph with very fine colour and large margins; printed on J. Whatman 1829 paper. Plate 279 x 355mm (11 x 14").
Satire on the intrigues of the Duke of Cumberland with the ultra-Tories: Cumberland, as Macbeth, addresses the three witches who hold wands: Eldon, Lord Redesdale and Lord Manners. From Doyle's "Political Sketches"
BM Satires: 15742.
[Ref: 48384] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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