Grosvenor Prints

L'Eclipse de 1832.
Lith. de Delaporte Sr. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat. [Paris, 1832.]
Lithograph with some hand colouring, sheet 255 x 330mm. 10 x 13".
A contemporary satire on reactions to the solar eclipse of July 1832; a military officer (centre) tries to rouse a man in theatrical costume from his slumber in a chair, gesturing towards the celestial phenomenon (coloured) upper right. Rows of sleeping men in armchairs to right, several figures looking through telescopes to left. The unrest of 1830 brought about the popular overthrow of the entrenched power within France and by summer 1832 the political scene was quite altered and the eclipse is used as an analogy. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature', numbered 'No.60' upper right.
[Ref: 17981] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Absent Man who came home one night very fatigued & after putting his pony comfortably into his bed went himself and slept in the stable.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Very fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 250 x 135mm (9¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper at corners.
Two scenes: a horse in a four-poster bed and a man lying on hay.
[Ref: 57699] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Let Sleeping Dogs Lie]
HD 1930.
Copyright 1930 by Frost & Reed Ltd. (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Rare etching signed by the artist in pencil. Frost & Reed blindstamp, one of the smaller limited editions 33/150, very large margins. Frame dimensions 275 x 445mm (11¾ x 16"). Unexamined out of frame.
Two airedale puppies blissfully asleep. Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
[Ref: 56064] £950.00

Ali Mustapha. Born at Candie 1734. His beard they burnt, then vengeance the Turk hurl'd On all near him, and kill'd would have the World [...]
Drawn from Nature by a Passenger.
Sep.r 6th 1787
Engraving, sheet 220 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"). Creases.
According to an often-reprinted story, Ali Mustapha was a Turk who, travelling economically on a barge in France, was sleeping when his fellow passengers set fire to his beard. Upon awaking (as the text and image here recount), the enraged Ali Mustapha killed several people on board the barge and 'could not be stop'd till he was shot with a Pistol, of which wounds he died at Sens three Days after'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', which specialized in extraordinary events.
[Ref: 37947] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Scène Nocturne aux Antilles. France Maritime
Masson del et sculp
Imp.é par Chardon J.e & fils, r. Racine, 3, Paris [c.1840]
Engraving, sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark three sides.
Scene intended to illustrate, in caricatures fashion, vices amongst the indigenous peoples of the Antilles: gambling and on the left a man abducts a sleeping white woman
[Ref: 33756] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Antiope, Sleeping, Suprized by Jupiter in the Form of a Satyr. Jupiter sous la Forme d'un Satyre, Suprenant Antiope Endormie. To The Most Serene Highness Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine Reigning Duke of Bavaria, &c. &c. &c. This Plate Engraved by His Gracious Permission from the Original Picture in the Electoral Gallery in Dusseldorf, is dedicated by His Most Devoted and Obedient Humble Servants. Valentine Gree. Rupert Green.
Painted by Anthony Vandyke. Engraved by V. Green Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector General.
In Mons.r. Pigage's Catalogue of the Dusseldorf Gallery this Subject is N.o.22. Published Jan.y. 2.d.1792, by V. & R. Green Newman Street, London.
Rare mezzotint. 510 x 610mm (20 x 24"), with wide margins. Some light foxing. Repaired damage in margins. Stain on right.
A sleeping Antiope, daughter of the river god Asopus, is approached by the god Zeus in the form of a satyr. Several cherubs play amongst the tree tops while an eagle, the symbol of Zeus, holds thunderbolts in its mouth behind the couple. No. 113 in Green's Catalogue of his Dusseldorf Gallery Exhibition.
Goodwin: 278
[Ref: 36537] £520.00

The Children in the Wood. Their pretty lips with blackberries, Were all besmear'd and dyed, And when they saw the darksome night. They sat them down and cried [...]
Benwell pinx.t L. C. Ruotte sc. Se vend a[?] Paris chez Arthur et Compagnie, a la Manufacture de Papiers au coin de la rue [...] le Boulevard.
Paris, 1914.
Coloured engraving. 280 x 320mm (12½ x 11"), with wide margins. Some creasing in upper right corner.
A scene from the English folk tale better known as 'The Babes in the Wood'. Abandoned in the forest, the two children fall asleep at dusk.
[Ref: 54080] £450.00

The Children in the Wood.
S.r Jos.ua Reynolds pinx.t. Ja.s Watson Fecit.
publish'd according to Act of parliament June 2.d 1772, by James Watson Queen Ann Street.
Rare mezzotint, rare scratched letter proof before title. 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, repaired crack in image. Crease
A scene from the folk tale better known as the 'Babes in the Wood'. The two children, taken to the woods by men paid by their uncle to kill them, die lost in the woods and are covered with leaves by robins. Behind, one of the men has killed the other.
[Ref: 58736] £320.00

[Sleeping baby boy]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Etching. 70 x 95mm (2¾ x 3¾").
A naked baby boy, asleep.
[Ref: 66740] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Sleeping Bacchus. In the Drawing Room at Houghton. Size of the Picture F.8 I.0½ by F.10 I8¾ long,
Luca Giordano Pinxit. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit. [Etched in image:] Luca Giordan.
Published Sep.r 29.th 1780 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate 400 x 456mm (15¾ x 18"). Few scratches.
Bacchus, asleep, reclines with his staff and cloak at his side, surrounding him are putti, satyrs, fauna, a young woman and three shepherds and various animals; a woodland scene with mountains in the distance.
[Ref: 30852] £380.00

Ballet 1946-1947.
Covent Garden Books - Number One. Editor: Anthony Gishford.
Printed by Jarrold and Sons Ltd. Norwich and Published by The Covent Garden Opera Trust. [n.d. c.1947.]
Book, 4to; 63 pages. Coloured cover of the stage from a right-wing box.
An illustrated sixty-three page book on the Royal Ballet. It includes contributions by Philip Page "The Royal Opera House", Anthony Gishford "The Covent Garden Opera Trust" and "Frederick Ashton" (with a portrait by Cecil Beaton), David Webster "Lord Keynes", Frances Harris "Ninette de Valois", Sacheverell Sitwell "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Giselle", and Michael Benthall "The Creation of a Ballet". This volume is superbly illustrated with portraits of the dancers and notables, including Ninette de Valois, Constant Lambert, Frederick Ashton, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Harold Turner, Pamela May, June Brae, Robert Helpmann, David Paltenghi, Alexis Rassine, Beryl Grey, Michael Somes, and so on, together with photographs of performances and stagings. Among the photographs are works by Cecil Beaton, Germaine Kanova, Baron, Frank Sharman, Gordon Anthony, etc. Other illustrations include a colour plate depicting "William Chappell's backcloth design for the first act of Coppelia", and color photographs of performances of "The Sleeping Beauty" featuring Margot Fonteyn .Among the ballets featured in this, number one of the Covent Garden books, are "The Sleeping Beauty", "Giselle", "Adam Zero", "Les Sirenes".
[Ref: 23324] £140.00

[Le Couche De La Mariée.]
[Peint à la Gouasse par P.A. Baudouin. Gravé à l'Eau-f.te par J.M. Moreau le J.ne et terminé par J.B. Simonet.]
[AParis chés Moreau le jeune rue de la Harpe vis à vis Mr. le Bas [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving, proof before all letters, 18th century watermark. 470 x 330mm (18½ x 13"). Narrow margins.
'The Wedding Night' shows a very sleepy woman helped into bed by her new husband and servants. Engraved by Jean Michel Moreau (1741-1814), after a gouache painting by Pierre Antoine Baudouin (1723-69). The coat of arms of Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, to whom the print is dedicated, is engraved below the image.
L & D 186, state ii.
[Ref: 63355] £380.00

Napoleon Asleep in his Study. Taken Shortly Before the Battle of Waterloo.
Drawn by Dr Memes from a sketch by David. _ Eng.d by W.H. Lizars.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper. Foxed.
Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform, asleep in a chair in a tent.
[Ref: 55824] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
Elisabetta Sirani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sepia. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"), with large margins.
A naked little boy sleeping on the bed, lying on his back with two pillows underneath his head. Elisabetta Sirani (1636-1665), painter and etcher of Bologna. The daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, she took over his studio when he became incapacitated by gout. Her success was cut short by her death at 27.
De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 53324] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
Elisabetta Sirani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Slight crease vertically down by torso.
A naked little boy sleeping on the bed, lying on his back with two pillows underneath his head. Elisabetta Sirani (1636-1665), painter and etcher of Bologna. The daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, she took over his studio when he became incapacitated by gout. Her success was cut short by her death at 27.
Ex: Norman Blackburn Collection. De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 21914] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Felicissima Notte [Happiest Night].
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Pin holes to corners, loss of surface in centre.
A man is welcomed into a brothel. Outside is a woman carrying a sleeping child, lit by lamplight.
[Ref: 11918] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Felicissima Notte.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Watercolour. Sheet 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A man is welcomed into a brothel. Outside is a woman carrying a sleeping child, lit by lamplight. A copy of a lithograph (see ref: 11918).
[Ref: 55523] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bunyan.]
[after Robert White.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Thread margins, repaired tear top left. Bit messy.
Portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), apparently asleep under a tree but, as he is leaning on a skull, his rest is probably eternal. A lion roars bottom left.
[Ref: 52563] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ne Réveillez pas le Chat qui Dort.
Dutallis pinx.t. Parf.t Augrand Sculp.t.
A Paris chez tous les M.ds d'Estampes. Déposée à la Bibliothèque Imp.le [n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple. 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13"), with very large margins.
A woman leans out from behind a drape to touch a cat asleep on the groin of Cupid sleeping on a bed. ''Don't wake the sleeping cat'' is the French equivalent of ''Let sleeping dogs lie".
[Ref: 55431] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cat and three kittens; resting and sleeping.]
[After Gottfried Mind.]
[n.d. c.1830.] [Joseph Brodtmann ?]
Coloured lithograph. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Tear into lower and right edge of paper.
A mother cat sleeps with one of her kittens draped over her back and neck, also asleep; two further kittens to the left: one looks at the viewer, the other licks itself.
[Ref: 52437] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Cat and the Mice.
Howitt.
London: Pub. Feby. 1. 1810 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, Engraver & Publisher, Bond Street, corner of Brook St.t
Etching. Plate 165 x 216mm. 6½ x 8½".
A cat sleeping on the ground in a stable, on the shelf above the left a broom and bucket, and to the right mice in the straw. Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes.
[Ref: 21504] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Catch'd Napping.
[after Isaac Cruikshank?]
Published 1st Dec.r 1794. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple, part 18th century watermark. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9¾") large margins.
Two country girls lie on a bank asleep, one with an errant breast. Two young sportsmen with guns creep up, as if they are stalking game.
BM Satire 8588, suggesting the attribution to Cruikshank.
[Ref: 54346] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleeping cat]
[after Cornelis Visscher.]
[London: Henry Parker, n.d., 1763.]
Engraving. 140 x 205mm (5½ x 8"), with large margins. Stitch holes in top margin.
An adapted copy of Cornelis Visscher's engraving 'The Large Cat', which originally showed a mouse sneaking through the bards of a window behind the cat. From the 'Compleat Drawing Master', 1763.
[Ref: 60964] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Lady and her Children relieving a Cottager.
Painted by W.Bigg. Engraved by J.R.Smith.
London Pub.d March 1 1784 by Ja.s Birchall 173 Strand.
Fine mezzotint. 550 x 455mm (21¾ x 18"). Small margins reinforced with blue paper.
A scene outside a cottage, a well-dressed woman, accompanied by her two daughters, a young black servant and a small dog, instructing her youngest child to give money to a poor woman who is kneeling beside her doorway and holding her sleeping baby. Slavery interest.
CS 180. Fr 204. D'O 194. iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66017] £480.00

Hieroglyphic drawing sent to King Charles 1.st. and supposed to contain the following directions for his safety. Charles_your head is eagerly sought after_ make your escape_go through the ploughes field, avoid the sportsman who would hunt you as a dog pursues a hare_ haten to put the clothes of the peasant lying at the feet of the sleeping man under the trees. Proceed by the draw-well near the cottage, and down the steps. The man leaning on the wall will conduct you along it to the one leaning on his fork, who, with the haymaker, and the fisherman, will put you into the boat, and with the boatman row you to the ship.
Lithograph. Sheet: 320 x 255mm (12½ x 10"), with wide margins.
An extremely rare & curious facsimilie of a coded instruction sent to Charles I during the Civil War to aid his escape. Beneath the image is the decoded explanation of the message. The profile in the image is based on Vandyck's portrait of Charles I.
[Ref: 39098] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull In The Council Chamber.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d July 1.st 1813 by W N Jones N.o5 Newgate Street.
Etching with hand colour, Whatman 1811 watermark; sheet 210 x 495mm (8¼ x 19½"). Trimmed within plate. Folds as issued. Some small tears in the folds. Right side ragged. Large repaired tear on left.
Plate from the 'Scourge', vi, frontispiece. In the center of the design, a caricatured Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) sits enthroned beneath a canopy. Her knees are spread wide, and she has one slender foot elevated on a cushioned stool, a coffer holding the "Hastings Diamond"; in her left hand she holds a sceptre topped with an eagle, and her left elbow rests on a bolster bearing the name "German Sausage," which is perched atop a large mound of greenery inside a receptacle labeled "Sauer Kraut." Perched on her feathered cap is a small crown. A lean, hideous courtier (left) kneels and offers her a box labelled 'Strasbu[rgh],' from which she takes snuff; another (right) stands with her knees bent and holds another box bearing the same inscription. Both sport feminine mob-caps, quasi-military attire with epaulets, and have grotesque comic profiles. Behind the first, a third, capless, holds out a jar of 'Strasbu[rgh]' snuff. Three small, hideous demons sprint forward from the left, each holding a box on their head that reads "Real Strasburg," "Princes Mixture," and "Irish Blaguard." A fourth moves forward from the right, carrying a massive jar of "Royal Strasburgh" atop his head. The Queen's festooned canopy is held up by terminal pillars topped with half-length representations of repulsive, nude hags resting their arms on a cluster of money bags bearing the words "1000" or "... 00." A serpent with fangs and fiery jaws is entwined around each, projecting the words "Pride Corruption" on the left and "Malice Hatered" on the right. "Am I not the Q—n?" she asks. I refuse to give up even the slightest bit of my authority—more Strasburgh there—present the reports to me." Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828) is depicted on the left, his body covered in scales, his tail barbed, small horns growing from his forehead, cloven hooves, and an incorrectly placed star on his breast. He is holding out a paper with the words "Secret Inquiry" written on it and is making an exclamatory gesture with his extended arms. " May it please your — The precious Ore resists every Chemical attempt at deterioration— so the Virtue of injured Woman repels the touch of Slander & rises superior to its malevolence. I take Shame to myself at discomfiture—but the Princess is declared "Innocen!" Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750-1818) is seen behind Liverpool on the left, wearing a wig and a gown, and facing right with her fists clenched. "By Hell, I thought to shame the Rogues, but the d—d Brewer [Samuel Whitbread II (1764-1815), the Princess's champion] was too much for me," he says with a frown. "May it please your M—g—ty the Reports of the Physicians is admirably confused & equivocating & well calculated to meet the public eye!" bows Sir Henry Halford (1766-1844), who is positioned on the extreme left and has a huge, hooked nose. He holds a paper with the title "Medical monthly Report." The Regent (1762-1830) is pictured on the far right, sleeping in a cradle with the motto "Ich Dein" and three unkempt ostrich feathers on top. A decanter of "Curacoa" rests between his legs, and he is holding a doll meant for Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford (1760-1834) that has enormous breasts and a spikey crown. A ragged Irishman is seen in profile to the right, kneeling before the cradle and holding out a piece of paper titled "Catholic Claims." Wearing the Chancellor's wig and gown, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838) kneels beside the cradle, offering the child his arms in defense against the Irishman. "Pat, take it easy or you'll wake up the Royal Conscience, who is currently sound asleep." he says. "By St. Patrick, but there's no risk of upsetting it as long as your Lordship is its Keeper," Pat responds. John Bull is standing behind Pat, his hands up in shock and his legs arched. He looks to the left and cries, " Mercy on me what have we hear, Conscience asleep! on the one hand & the Manufacture of Reports on the other— Is this the way I am bubbled?!" As though he is standing in the opening of a cave, rocks surround him.
BM Satires 12066.
[Ref: 62415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Courtship. Plate VI.
[Robert Seymour]
London. Published by Thomas M.cLean. 26. Haymarket. July 1.st 1829.
Fine hand-coloured etching, 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A series of scenes depicts Pickle’s romantic misadventures. He first encounters a fashionable woman when he sees her lying in shallow water after her horse has bolted, leaving an empty gig behind, love at first sight. Later, he dreams of her while sleeping with a copy of Ovid’s Art of Love on his pillow; above his head, dreamlike images of the lady, a galloping horse, and his own face appear among clouds. The next morning, he visits the lady and is welcomed flirtatiously into her neat parlour. Their courtship continues in a picturesque tea garden, where she coyly accepts his declaration of love beneath the trees as a waiter serves tea and a smiling sun looks down. Soon after, Pickle visits her again in her well-appointed room. As they sit together on the sofa, the portrait of her late husband glares down. She remarks that she despises greed, while Pickle replies that only the wealthy can afford to think little of money. Their courtship culminates in marriage, symbolized by a clergyman-like Cupid holding a wedding ring beneath a setting ''honeymoon.'' The dream collapses the next day, when Pickle discovers his new wife is not a wealthy widow but a former milliner with five plain children from her first marriage. She cheerfully explains that, lacking fortune but blessed with family, she thought it best to marry again. Two smaller accompanying scenes show Pickle gallantly helping the lady into a Thames boat and later assisting her from a gig, moments from the courtship that led to his ill-fated union.
Bm Satires 15988.
[Ref: 67476] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Cows, Goats and Sleeping Family.]
C.P. Berghem inventer et fecit [but engraved by Christian Gottlieb Geyser].
[Berlin, n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet: 210 x 255mm (8¼ x 10''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Staining.
A rural scene showing a urinating cow, a herd of goats and a sleeping man, woman and child. A copy of an etching by Dutch printmaker Nicolaes Berchem (1621-1683) by Christian Gottlieb Geyser (1742 - 1803).
BM S.6476.
[Ref: 49654] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Effects of a Crab Supper.
W.S. Printed by L.M. Lefevre.
London: Published Dec.r 22.d 1838, by T. Preston, Burlington Arcade.
A very scarce coloured lithograph. 217 x 286mm (8½ x 11¼").
A man sleeping, on his chest creeps a crab with a human face crying; on the wall hangs a picture of the man seated eating crab.
[Ref: 26854] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Cradle Hymn.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured etchind. Sheet: 185 x 200mm (7¼ x 8"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A scene showing a young mother and father watching over their sleeping child, from above angels shower the cradle with flowers.
[Ref: 43802] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleeping Cupid.]
Guido Rheni, Pinx.t. Anna Louisa Lane, Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, rare. Sheet: 260 x 335mm (10¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A classical scene showing the figure of cupid sleeping in a pastoral landscape.
[Ref: 46214] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid and Psyche.
Painted by Jn.o Hoppner Esq:r Portrait Painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by Jn.o Young Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, Published by Jn.o Young No 58 Upper Charlotte Street Rathbone Place Jan.y 1st. 1793.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 565 x 435mm (22¼ x 17"). Small margins.
Romantic image showing Psyche asleep in a landscape, enveloped in vapour wafting from an open casket at her side, Cupid bending over her.
[Ref: 51164] £690.00

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 5. Dreams there is a World.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"), with very wide margins. Ink stain left image.
Cupid asleep, support by a cloud. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53416] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupid Sleeping.] Qu'il possede de Charmes / Dans son Sommeil! / Qu'il causera de larmes / A son Réveil.
Guido Reni Pinxit. Vendramini scu.t.
[n.d., 1780.]
Stipple. Sheet 135 x 140mm, 5¼ x 5½". Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
Cupid asleep on a couch, his chin on his hand, the elbow propped on a cushion on the right, with a curtain above to right.
probably derived from Robert Strange's engraving of the same image, for which see ref. 19734
[Ref: 26589] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Cupido Dormiens. Ex picta Tabula Guidonis Reni, quae apud virum eximium Laurentium Dundas Baronettum adservatur. Cupid Sleeping. From a painting of Guido Reni, in the Collection of Sir Laurence Dundas Bar.t. [Along right-hand plate edge:] XXII.
Guido Reni Pinxit. Rob.t Strange delin.t et Sculp.t.
[n.d., 1766.]
Copper engraving. Plate 376 x 439mm. 14¾ x 17¼". Small tear upper left-hand margin.
Cupid asleep on a couch, his chin on his hand, the elbow propped on a cushion on the right, with a curtain above to right and a view of a landscape with a castle in the background to left. Listed among the engravings in Strange's catalogue of his collection of paintings and drawings after paintings.
for a reduced stipple version of the same image see ref. 26589
[Ref: 19734] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cymbeline] Imogen's Chamber. On her left breast a mole, cinque spotted...
W. Martin inv. et pinx. F. Bartolozzi sculps. 1786.
London, Publish'd June 21st; 1786 by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Etching with stipple printed in reddish brown. 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Thread margins, some creasing. Messy.
A scene from William Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline': Imogen sleeps in her bed while Iachimo leans over her writing a letter suggesting he has seduced her. After William Martin (1753 - c.1831), historical painter who was pupil and assistant to Cipriani until c.1784.
De Vesme 1840, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 53334] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Cymon and Iphegenia. The Fool of Nature, stood with stupid Eyes...]
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. W.W. Ryland Fecit.
[Publish'd Jan.y ye 15;th 1782 by W. W. Ryland N.º 159 Strand, London.]
Circular stipple, scratch-letter proof before title, printed in reddish-brown. 365 x 315mm (14¼ x 12½").
Cymon, resting on his walking stick, stares down at Iphegenia, sleeping with her companions, struck by her beauty. Kauffman's painting of this scene from Giovanni Boccaccio's 'Decameron' is now in the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.
Alexander 120.
[Ref: 62361] £360.00

[Carriage at rest]
SD Bella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, top left corner missing, slight staining.
A loaded carriage at rest. The two horses eat the grass while the carriage driver sleeps on the ground next to a dog. Encampment in background with a town in the distance. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 253 ii/iii
[Ref: 23773] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Devoir Naturel. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Savoye.
Dessiné par Lavy Peintre du Roi de Sardaigne. Par son très Humble très Soumis et très Fidel Serviteur Porporat. Graveur en 1770.
Se vend à Paris chés Basan et Poignant Mds. Estampes, rue et Hôtel Servente.
Engraving. 291 x 228mm. 11½ x 9". Cut.
A young mother gazing upon her sleeping baby while two other infants play before her. After Carlo Cignani (1628-1719).
[Ref: 26528] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Diana The bright Diana and her Nymph were found, / Laid Side by side, & both a sleeping sound [...]
A. Watteau pinx. T. Ryley fecit.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill London [c.1750]
Mezzotint, rare; platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Thread margins; 'CL-B' collector's stamp verso.
Diana and a nymph sleep, with a satyr looming over them. Mezzotint in reverse of an etching published in Jean de Jullienne's posthumous edition of prints after Watteau's drawings, traditionally known as the 'Recueil Jullienne'. Jullienne was one of the leading French amateurs and collectors of the eighteenth century and in assembling prints reproducing Watteau's drawings he did much to spread the artist's reputation outside France.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36208] £350.00

Diana The bright Diana and her Nymph were found, / Laid Side by side, & both a sleeping sound [...]
A. Watteau pinx. T. Ryley fecit.
Printed for John Bowles ~ at the Black Horse in Cornhill London [c.1750]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Some staining top right and short tear in margin.
Diana and a nymph sleep, with a satyr looming over them. A mezzotint in reverse of an etching published in Jean de Jullienne's posthumous edition of prints after Watteau's drawings.
[Ref: 60187] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Does Your Mother Know You Are Out?
W. Lee 1838.
Printed by Standidge & Co., London.
Lithograph. Sheet 325 x 210mm (12¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed.
A child falls from a window, as the mother dozes, watched by a ragged roadsweep.
[Ref: 53216] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Two dogs, one sleeping, the other awake.]
Jo Eli Ridinger fec: et excud A.d.
[1728]
Etching, platemark 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½"), with large margins.
Plate from the 'Zeichenbücher, Säugethiere betreffend' (Sketch books of mammals) produced and published by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), one of the most celebrated German engravers of animals. Much of his career was spent in Augsburg.
[Ref: 47791] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Drinking Scene.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 191 x 240mm. 7½ x 240". Trimmed to the image.
A scene inside a rustic tavern. To the right, and man leans sleeping against a column next to the fire with a pitcher of beer next to him; another man with a tankard in his hand talks to him. In the foreground, a man leans over a man who is seated eating a table. A man leaning on the table looks out holding up a measuring cylinder.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18515] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Domestick Ducks.
D. Cox Del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London, Published May 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished; Watermark J. Whatman, Turkey Mill 1822; Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
Sleeping ducks by a pond.
[Ref: 57503] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dutch Interior.]
[Rembrandt pinxit. J.McArdell fecit.]
[n.d., c. 1760.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 470 x 345mm (18½ x 13½"), large margins.
A large room, with two women seated in the centre. One woman reads a book and at the other woman's feet is a sleeping baby in a cradle.
Goodwin 212. Charrington 105 i of iii. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65786] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Euphrosine. Come thou Goddess fair & free [...]
G. Amiconi Pinxit. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
London Publish'd Sep.t 1 1784 by Ja.s Birchall N473 Strand.
Fine stipple with etching, printed in colours. 350 x 265mm (13¾ x 10½"), with large margins. Mint.
Euphrosine, goddess of good cheer, joy and mirth, one of the Three Charities, dances naked at a bacchanalia, with a tamborine. A man and a sleeping baby lie on the ground. Behind is a statue of Pan.
De Vesme 411. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60307] £650.00

[Two Sleeping Pheasants in an Ale House]
ABrawer pinx. Vansomer fe. 1672.
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark, 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾") Thread margins, bottom left corner chipped to plate, ink stain upper right.
An interior, with two peasants asleep, one leaning back with his mouth open, snoring.
BM 1877,0210.171.
[Ref: 65598] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Clean Face Rewarded. L'Enfant Recompensé.
Painted and Engraved by Ja.s. Ward Painter & Engraver to H.R.H, the Prince of Wales.
London Published Oct.r 10. 1818, by T. griffiths, Printseller, 230, Oxford Street.
Mezzotint with later hand colour. 610 x 480mm (24 x 19"), with large margins. Margins stained.
The second of a pair of mezzotints depicting a mother's attempts to wash her child, a sequel to 'The Mother's Bribe. L'Enfant Tempté''. After been coaxed with a promise of a doll, the cleaned child stands happily on a table holding it in her arms, surrounded by her contented mother, maid and sisters. Behind them the boy tickles a sleeping infant with the tail of the cat. Originally published 1801.
Frabkau 18. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Ref: 35763 for the original issue of the pair.
[Ref: 66642] £320.00

The Clean Face Rewarded. L'Enfant Recompensé.
Painted and Engraved by Ja.s. Ward Painter & Engraver to H.R.H, the Prince of Wales.
Pub.d. April 2. 1801, by Mess.rs. Wards & C.o. N.o.6, Newman Street London.
Mezzotint, 610 x 480mm (24 x 19"). Trimmed into plate, time stained.
The second of a pair of mezzotints depicting a mother's attempts to wash her child, a sequel to 'The Mother's Bribe. L'Enfant Tempté''. After been coaxed with a promise of a doll, the cleaned child stands happily on a table holding it in her arms, surrounded by her contented mother, maid and sisters. Behind them the boy tickles a sleeping infant with the tail of the cat.
See Ref: 35763 for the pair.
[Ref: 66641] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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