Grosvenor Prints

Actualités. No.142. -Si j’allais être inquièté pour mon instrument? -Ne craignez rien, voisin, on ne désarme que les gens que des clarinettes de cinq pieds. -Tiens, ma femme, violà probablement un insurgé ….faut-il qu’il en ait tire de ces coups de fusil pour avoir la figuré noire comme ça!.....
Bouchat [facsimile in image.]
Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse. Imp. Aubert & Co. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph.
Two satirical scenes. One: An officer fears that his instrument is about to be taken away from him, but his is reassured that that isn't the case. Two: a couple looking astonished as a black man passes, but claims that he has been shooting so much to get a black figure like that.
[Ref: 15561] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Reve D'Une Pensionnaire. The Dream Of A Boarding School Miss. Pl. 3.
Bouchot [within image]. a Paris Lith de Delaporte. a Londres chez M Charles Thilt.
chez Aubert E.eur du J.al la caricature, Galerie véro dodat. [n.d. 1832]
A very scarce lithograph with fine hand colour, sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼").
A boarder at a girl's school has fallen asleep reading on a bench; dreaming of a daring, over the fence, rescue. A gentleman, most likely her suitor, and man in military dress help her down a ladder to an awaiting carriage. In her real life her schoolmates are seen pointing and running over to the fence.
[Ref: 61489] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Recueil de diverses Figures Chinoise du Cabinet de Fr. Boucher Peintre du Roy Dessinées et Gravées par lui-même. Avec Priv du Roy.
AParis Chez Huquier rue S.t Jacques, au coin de la rue des Matherins [n.d., c.1745].
4to (250 x 210mm, 9¾ x 8¼"), large margins, modern boards; engraved title and 10 plates, lacking one plate, plates 4, 7 & 9 from later state (with plate numbers). Remnants of glue on the reverse.
Scarce collection of portraits of Chinese characters, including musicians, soldiers, women and a doctor. The missing plate (6) is a magician.

[Ref: 60833] £2,000.00 view all images for this item

[French landscape] Engraved from the Original Picture.
Boucher Pinxit. Aliamet Sculpsit.
Published Oct.r 2.d 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving with sepia wash. 205 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"), on wove paper. Glue stains in very large margins at corners.
A river with an old bridge.
[Ref: 55618] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

le Chapitre des illusions. No.10. Cher enfant accuse moi reception des deux cents francs que je t’ai envoyés. Ménage toi, je connais ton ardeur pour le travail ce qui me fait toujours craindre une fièvre cérébrale il faut prendre de la distraction...
Bouchot [in plate.]
á Paris, chez Dupin et C.ie Editeurs, Passage Colbert. Lith: Cabuche & C.ie Pass. Saulnier, 19. [n.d. c.1838.]
Lithograph. 361 x 272mm. 14¼ x 10¾".
After a hearty dinner and the consumption of two bottles of alcohol, the husband slumps back into a chair smoking a pipe with his wife reading to him and the male guest, who smokes a cigar. From 'Le Charivari', the illustrated newspaper published in Paris, from 1832 to 1937. After 1835, when the government banned political caricature, Le Charivari began publishing satires of everyday life.
[Ref: 22876] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Premiere Veue de Charenton. Dedié à Mr Portail Peintre du Roy, et Garde des Plans et Tableaux de sa Majesté Par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur J. Ph. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy.
F. Boucher pinx. J. Ph. Le Bas Sculp.
AParis chez J. Ph. Le Bas Graveur de Cabinet du Roy rue de la Harpe 1747.
Etching with engraving. 320 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"). Worm trail just entering plate at top.
A view of the water mill 'Quiquengrogne' in Charenton, at the junction of the Seine and Marne rivers outside Paris. The original, painted 1739, is in a private collection; the painting of the 'Seconde vue' engraved by Le Bas after Boucher is in 'The Toledo Museum of Art'.
[Ref: 57923] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

La Charmante Catin. [The Charming Doll.]
[Anon.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1775.]
Etching printed in red, laid paper, very scarce, 170 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾".
Four lines of verse below title; numbered '29' upper right. After Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) famous series "Etudes dans le bas peuple prises ou les cris de Paris" Bouchardon executed drawings of Paris street merchants, Cris de Paris, that were widely distributed as engravings; some figures were reproduced in porcelain by the Meissen porcelain manufactory.
[Ref: 22946] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Reveuse. [The Dreamer.]
Fr. Boucher D. Aveline le jeune sc.
a Paris ches Audran rue S. Jacques a la Ville de Paris [n.d., c.1765.]
Etching, 315 x 205mm. 12½ x 8". Full margins.
A Chinese girl in robes sitting against a wall in a landscape; her fan is on the ground in front of her. After François Boucher (1703 - 1770).
[Ref: 19617] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Muse Clio. A Madame de Pompadour Dame du Palais de la Reine. Le Tableau Original appartient à Madame de Pompadour. Par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur J. Daullé.
Peint par F. Boucher. Gravé par J. Daullé gr. du Roy 1756.
A Paris chés l'Auteur ruë du Platre S.t Jacques attenant le College de Cornouaille. A.P.D.R.
Engraving. Plate: 340 x 380mm (13½ x 15''). Foxing. Very large margins on 3 sides.
A scene in the clouds showing Clio, holding a horn and harp helping a cherub write music.
[Ref: 49043] £360.00

[Ier Corps de Garde.][in ink]
F. Boucher del. Huquier filius sculp.
[AParis chés Buldet rue de Gesvres.] [n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked, working proof ?. Plate 355 x 228mm. 14 x 9". Trimmed.
Five guards gathered around a drum, playing dice, in a wooded landscape with bas-relief in the background.
[Ref: 27699] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

II.e Corps de Garde.
F. Boucher del. Huquier filius sculp.
Aparis, chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres. [n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 228mm. 14 x 9". Trimmed.
Five guards conversing in a room, one of them holding a bottle; drum, flag and quiver in the background.
[Ref: 27700] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Erreurs. No.5. Pardon, Monsieur, nous avons oublié le vin du Rhin, c'est 20 fr. de plus!!
Bouchot [in the plate.]
Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie Chez Aubert gal Vero. dodat. [n.d. c.1838.]
Lithograph. 361 x 280mm. 14¼ x 11".
A satire at a restaurant; the waiter apologising to the client that he had forgotten the wine at 20 frances more! It forms part of an 1838 series of lithographs devised by Bouchot for "Le Charivari" under the thematic title of "Erreurs". From 'Le Charivari', the illustrated newspaper published in Paris, from 1832 to 1937. After 1835, when the government banned political caricature, Le Charivari began publishing satires of everyday life.
[Ref: 22881] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Etude dessinee par Francois Boucher premier Peintre du Roi,
Gravee par J. Edme Nochez, Dirigee par Fessard Graveur orde. du Cabinet du Roi, et de l'Academie Royale de Parme.
A Paris ches Fessard Bibliotheque du Roi, et rue Se. Anne Butte S. Roch. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, Framed; 260 x 320mm. 10¼ x 12½". Some foxing, one rust spot to image.
A reclining female nude in a landscape. After François Boucher (1703 - 1770).
[Ref: 12013] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Handsome Cook Maid. 197
[After François Boucher].
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter house, St. Paul's Church yard, London. [n.d., c.1780].
Hand coloured mezzotint. Sheet size: 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed inside plate at bottom edge.
A rustic interior scene depicting a young man, seated leaning against a large tub filled with vegetables and pulling a girl towards him, who carries eggs in her apron. Firewood and a pot hanging over a fire in a hearth can be seen in the background to the right. For uncoloured impression, see item ref: 32998.
Ex CLB ii/ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32996] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Lamour Moissonneur.
Boucher inv. et fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed, to image on right. Time stained.
'Harvester love'. Two cherubs tickle Cupid, who is asleep on a sheaf of wheat. His quiver is on the ground. A reversed copy of the engraving by Francois Bernard Lepicie after François Boucher.
[Ref: 60732] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent From an Original Portrait drawn at Lisbon Decem. 1797
Drawn by Bouch. Engraved by Aguilar
Rare engraving, published in Lisbon. False margins added, stain lower left, crease in lower right corner.
John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent (1735-1823). As commander in chief in the Mediterranean he blockaded the French at Toulon (1795) before defeating the Spanish of the Coast of St. Vincent in 1797. Jervis later served as the first Lord of the Admiralty (1801-4) where he instigated reform in the administration of the navy. Engraved by Manuel Marques Aguilar, a Portuguese engraver who served an apprenticeship in London under Thomas Milton (1793-6).
[Ref: 15308] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

On the Kenibeckasis near St. John.
[Drawn by Bouchette.] Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the King, 17 Gate St. Linc. Inn Fds.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 160 x 205mm.
From Bouchette's 'British Dominions in North America'.
Abbey: Travel, 622.
[Ref: 731] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Le Md. de Moulins d'Eenfans. [Seller of toy windmills.]
[Anon.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1775.]
Etching printed in red, laid paper, very scarce, 175 x 120mm. 7 x 4¾".
Four lines of verse below title; numbered '30' upper right. After Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) famous series "Etudes dans le bas peuple prises ou les cris de Paris". Bouchardon executed drawings of Paris street merchants, Cris de Paris, that were widely distributed as engravings; some figures were reproduced in porcelain by the Meissen porcelain manufactory.
[Ref: 22950] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Muse Erato. [&] La Muse Clio. A Madame de Pompadour Dame du Palais de la Reine...par...J...Daulle.
Peint par F. Boucher. Grave par J. Daulle Graveur du Roi 1756.
AParis chés l'Auteur rue du Platre St. Jacques attenant le college de Cornouaille.
Rare pair of engravings, each c.330 x 380mm (13 x 15"), with wide margins.
Two of the nine Muses, the goddesses of classical mythology who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. They are both reclining among clouds, with respectively tambourine and flute and lyre, each accompanied by a winged putto. The two plates reproduce the overdoors executed by François Boucher (1703 - 1770) for Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721 - 1764). Actually the Muses are both misidentified by engraver Daullé; they are in fact Terpsichore ('Erato') and Polymnia ('Clio'). The pair were advertised in 'Mercure', October 1756. Madame de Pompadour was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1750; her coat of arms to lower margins.
See BM 1866,0113.13.
[Ref: 22485] £900.00 view all images for this item

Le Soir. La Dame allant au Bal.
Boucher pinxit. Petit sculp.
a Paris chez Petit ruë St Jacques pres les Matherin, et chez la Veuve Chereau aux deux Pilliers d'Or. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching with engraving. 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"), with large margins. Slight surface soiling.
Night, from a series of Times of Day, with a woman holding a mask.
[Ref: 45050] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

La Poesie. No. 190.
F. Boucher, inv. G. L. Hertel sculp.
Ioh: Georg Hertel, excud. A: V.
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 300mm (7½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
An allegorical depiction of poetry showing two cherubs seated upon a cloud, one writes upon a scroll and the other plays on a harp.
[Ref: 47583] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A2.
F. Boucher, In
Huquier, Sculp et Ex. [n.d. c.1740.]
Etching with engraving. Plate 266 x 204mm. 10½ x 8". Cut to platemark.
A young woman cleaning her infant; two other children, one sat by the hearth; a dog to the left and a cat to the right, poised ready to pounce. From "Premier Livre de Sujets et Pastorales".
[Ref: 27711] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

City of Quebec. Taken from the Harbour.
R.S.M. Bouchette del.t. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the King, 17 Gate St. Linc. Inn Fds.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 160 x 205mm. Paper fault across image.
From Bouchette's 'British Dominions in North America'.
Abbey: Travel, 622.
[Ref: 733] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Villag of St. Thomas, Riviere du Sud.
Drawn by J. Bouchette. Engraved by W. J. Bennett.
[W. Faden. 1815.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet size: 145 x 240mm (5¾ x 9½"). Cut inside platemark.
A view of the village of St. Thomas, Québec, with Regents Bridge crossing the river in the centre, and a horse and cart appoaching from the left. From a 'Collection of Five Rural view of Québec' after Bouchette (Nicolet, Harrowers Mill, Lake Temiscouata, Isle aux Noir and Village of St. Thomas), published by W. Faden, 1815.
[Ref: 37239] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Le Md. de Couteaux et Peignes. [Blade/razor and comb seller.]
[Anon.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1775.]
Etching printed in red, laid paper, very scarce, 175 x 120mm. 7 x 4¾".
Four lines of verse below title; numbered '42' upper right. After Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) famous series "Etudes dans le bas peuple prises ou les cris de Paris" Bouchardon executed drawings of Paris street merchants, Cris de Paris, that were widely distributed as engravings; some figures were reproduced in porcelain by the Meissen porcelain manufactory.
[Ref: 22949] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Reclining Nude] Tire du Cabinet de Monsieur Cayeux
F. Boucher delineavit. L. Bonnet Sculpsit
A Paris chez la V.e de F. Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2. Piliers d'Or.
Crayon manner with very large margins, platemark 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Creasing; damage to margins.
Nude engraved from a drawing by leading French eighteenth century painter François Boucher (1703-70). The printmaker, Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93), was the inventor of the distinctive crayon manner employed here which skilfully replicates pastel drawings. Bonnet, in common with several leading printmakers of his day, spent time working in Russia (1764-6).
[Ref: 33186] £420.00

Regnard sur Les Bords de la Mer Glaciale.
Dessiné par Bouchot. Gravé par Charon. Imprimé par Veyron.
A Paris, chez Charon, Graveur, Rue St Jan de Beauvais, No. 26.
Rare & scarce aquatint. Sheet 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, paper toned.
Portrait of Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709), standing on a glacier in Lapland, writing on a block of ice. Regnard was a comic poet and traveller: at the age of 22 he was captured by an Algerian pirate and was taken to Constantinople as a slave, where he was ransomed by the French consul. in 1681 he travelled through Scandinavia, including Lapland, inspiring this fanciful portrait.
[Ref: 60492] £590.00

Trading Post on the River Aux Rats. The Forges, River St. Maurice. Falls of the Grande Mere, on the St Maurice.
Jos. Bouchette Jnr Dep.t sur. Gen.l delt. del.t. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to Her Majesty.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 205 x 160mm.
From Bouchette's 'British Dominions in North America'.
Abbey: Travel, 622.
[Ref: 734] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Vue d'après Nature dessinée par F. Boucher No. 1 Bis. a Paris chés F. Basan Graveur
F. Boucher Del. F. Basan Exc.
[c.1767]
Etching, good impression, platemark 275 x 365mm (10¾ x 14¼") very large margins.
Fine landscape after a design by François Boucher (1703-70), French painter, draughtsman and etcher who, aided by the vast number of such engravings produced from his designs, arguably had more influence than any other artist on the fine and decorative arts in the eighteenth century. Amongst Boucher's achievements was the reinvention of the pastoral genre, in which shepherds and shepherdesses disported themselves in idyllic rural landscapes. Possibly from a set of 'XII Vues de la Seine' published by François Basan.
[Ref: 44118] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Repos champetre. [Rustic relaxation.]
F. Boucher Del. Ryland Sculp.
A Paris chez Buldet, rue de Gesvres, au Grand Coeur. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Full margins.
Peasant women and children resting with their sheep in a makeshift shelter; a thatched cottage in the background. After François Boucher (1703 - 1770).
[Ref: 13365] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Les Sabots. D'après le Tableau Original de François Boucher premier Peintre du Roi.
F. Boucher pinx. R. Gaillard Sculp.
[n.d., 1773.] but later.
Etching. 495 x 380mm (19½ x 15"), with very large margins.
'The wooden shoes'. A young couple pick and feed each other cherries, having kicked off their shoes under the tree. A reversed copy of François Boucher's 1768 oval painting, now in the Art Gallery of Ontario (Object number 78/6).
[Ref: 61255] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sapho [sic], Peinture Antique.
B. Desnoyers delt. Girard sculpt.
[French, n.d., c.1800.]
Rare stipple. 390 x 325mm (15¼ x 11¾"), with large margins. Some foxing.
Roundel portrait of Sappho (c.630 - 570BC), ancient Greek lyric poet, holding tablet, writing tool to her lips. Numbered 'Pl.16' upper right. After Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers (1779 - 1857).
[Ref: 25400] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Les Delices de L'Automne. A Madame de Pompadour Dame du Palais de la Reine...par...J...Daulle.
Peint par F. Boucher. Grave par J. Daulle Gr. du Roy et de l'Academie Imperiale d'Auxbourg.
A Paris chés l'Auteur rue du Platre St. Jacques attenant le College de Cornouaille. A.P.D.R.
Copper engraving, sheet 390 x 460mm. 15¼ x 18". Lacking margins; one rust spot to image. Pinholes to extremities; tape over edges.
An allegory on the fruitfulness of autumn: a young man courting a young lady in a wooded landscape by offering her bunches of grapes. After the painting by François Boucher (1703 - 1770) for Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721 – 1764). Madame de Pompadour was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1750; her coat of arms to lower margin.
See BM 1866,0113.13.
[Ref: 26896] £320.00

Allégorie de Shaftesbury, ne en 1671, mort en 1713.
F. Boucher del. Francois Sc.
[n.d., c.1761.]
Soft ground etching, printed in brown. Sheet: 220 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Slight damage on right side. Crease in bottom right corner.
Allegorical figure, with helmet, spear and shield, associated with Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 - 1713), philosopher and writer on the fine arts. Illustration to Savérien's 'Histoire des philosophes modernes', second volume, Paris: Brunet, 1761. After François Boucher (1703 - 1770) by Jean Charles François (1717 - 1769), printmaker. He invented the crayon manner technique of etching in 1757.
[Ref: 39855] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Le Berger Recompensé. Dedié à Madame La Marechale Duchesse de Duras, Dame d'honneur de Mesdames de France. Par son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteurt Gaillard.
F. Boucher Pixit. R. Gaillard Sculp.
APAris chés l'Auteur rue St Jacques au dessus des Jacobins, entre un Perruquier et une Lingere [n.d., c.1770].
Fine etching with engraving. 500 x 380mm (20 x 15"), with large margins. Uncut.
A shepherd, lying on the ground playing bagpipes, is given a garland by a peasant girl with a basket of produce. Francois Boucher (1703-70), found favour with the mistress of Louis XV, Madame du Pompadour, soon becoming the 'premier peintre' to the king, in which role he rejuvenated the 'pastoral tradition' in French art.
[Ref: 57885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cloudesleio Shovel Equiti Aurato &c Copiarum Navalium Magnae Britanniae Praefecto.
F. Boucher invenit et delin. N. Tardieu Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. Plate: 650 x 410mm (25¾ x 16''). Central horizontal crease as normal. Small margins. Creasing in bottom right corner.
An allegorical monument to British naval commander Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707) who saw action in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the War of Spanish Succession. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 50888] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

La Belle Dormeuse.
F. Boucher Del. W. Ryland Sculp.
Aparis ches Buldet rue de Gesvres au grand Coeur. [n.d., c.1770].
Engraving. Plate: 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½'') very large margins.
A scene in a wood showing a young woman asleep near her sheep and dog, behind her a young man watches from behind a tree.
[Ref: 49042] £320.00

Kilborn's Mills, Standstead, L.r. Canada & The United States Settlements, Verm.t. South of the Privince Line _ Lat 45N.
On Stone by C. Haghe. Sketched by Col.n Bouchette.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 160 x 205mm.
From Bouchette's 'British Dominions in North America'.
Abbey: Travel, 622.
[Ref: 732] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Joanni Churchill Duci dse Marlborough, Forti Felici, Invicto.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. Lau: Cars Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, stained.
An allegorical monument to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), famed for his military triumphs in the Nine Years' War (1688-97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10619] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Guillelmo Comiti Cowper &c. Magnæ Britanniæ Cancellario.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. Beauvais Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, (c.1665-1723), Lord Chancellor of England, who conducted the negotiations that led to the Act of Union in 1707. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10617] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sydneio Comiti Godolphin & c. Magno Angliæ Thesaurario.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. C.N.Cochin Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (c. 1645-1712). From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10613] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Carolo Sackville Comiti de Dorset et Middlesex & c. sui termporis Mœcenati.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. M.Aubert Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638-1706), with a winged horse, putti and a pair of leopards. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10616] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

D.O.M.. & Piæ Memoriæ Johannes Tillotson Proventia Divina Archiepiscopi Cantuar. & c.a.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. N. de Larmessin Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, stained.
An allegorical monument to John Tillotson (1630-94), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10621] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Guillrlmi III Libertatis Angliæ Vindicis Memoriæ Immortali.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. L.Surugue Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 650 x 420mm, 25½ x 16½". Tears to margins, creased, some staining.
An allegorical monument to William III, with putti, a lion and unicorn. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10612] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with Bird]
Boucher inv. del. Demarteau l'Ainé sculp.
A Paris chéz Demarteau, Avec Privilége.
Stipple. Plate: 215 x 300mm (8½ x 12"). Trimmed on left edge, damage to other margins.
Scene in which a woman catches a bird on her finger in order to put it in a cage resting on a table. An alarmed cat sits on a chair.
[Ref: 35109] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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