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Engravings from the Works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. by J. Scott, G.H. Every, G.Sanders, and other Eminent Engravers.
Published by Henry Graves & Company, Printsellers & Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. 6, Pall Mall, London. [n.d., c.1880.]
Folio, half morocco binding with gilt spine in compartments. 510 x 370mm. 20 x 14½". Marble paper inside cover, gilt front edge. 125 proof mezzotints interleaved on indian paper. Bookplate of Francis H.D.C. Whitmore inside front cover. Light foxing but images unaffected.
Complete volume of 125 engravings from the works of Thomas Gainsborough, divided into portraits, royal portraits and fancy subjects.
[Ref: 12075] £950.00 view all images for this item
Published by Henry Graves & Company, Printsellers & Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. 6, Pall Mall, London. [n.d., c.1880.]
Folio, half morocco binding with gilt spine in compartments. 510 x 370mm. 20 x 14½". Marble paper inside cover, gilt front edge. 125 proof mezzotints interleaved on indian paper. Bookplate of Francis H.D.C. Whitmore inside front cover. Light foxing but images unaffected.
Complete volume of 125 engravings from the works of Thomas Gainsborough, divided into portraits, royal portraits and fancy subjects.
[Ref: 12075] £950.00 view all images for this item
![[Francesco Ageno.]](jpegs/18234.jpg)
[Francesco Ageno.]
T. Gainsborough R.A. del. F. Bartolozzi sculps R.A.
[London: Dennett Jaques, 1790.]
Rare etching with stipple. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to plate at sides; diagonal creases through upper left and lower right corners.
Francesco Ageno was ambassador of Genoa at London from 1760 to 1781. The portrait frontispiece to the sitter's 'Prose e rime del Signor Francesco D'Ageno'; engraved by Bartolozzi from a sketch by Richard Cosway of Gainsborough's portrait in the collection of Grolamo Tonioli. Bartolozzi erased Cosway's name in the published state after Gainsborough remonstrated.
BL: 000029152. Hone 2 II. From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18234] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
T. Gainsborough R.A. del. F. Bartolozzi sculps R.A.
[London: Dennett Jaques, 1790.]
Rare etching with stipple. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to plate at sides; diagonal creases through upper left and lower right corners.
Francesco Ageno was ambassador of Genoa at London from 1760 to 1781. The portrait frontispiece to the sitter's 'Prose e rime del Signor Francesco D'Ageno'; engraved by Bartolozzi from a sketch by Richard Cosway of Gainsborough's portrait in the collection of Grolamo Tonioli. Bartolozzi erased Cosway's name in the published state after Gainsborough remonstrated.
BL: 000029152. Hone 2 II. From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18234] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Signora Baccelli.
Painted by T. Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by John Jones.
London Pub.d Feb.y 5th 1784 by J. Jones No. 63 Great Portland Street Marylebone.
Rare mezzotint. 535 x 350mm (21 x 13¾"), with widemargins on three sides. Slight mark centre top. Top area slightly rubbed.
Giovanna Baccelli (1774, fl.- d.1801), dancer. Baccelli, first appeared at the King's Theatre, Haymarket in 1774. She reached the peak of her career during the 1780-1 season when she appeared with Gaetan Vestris and his son Auguste in several important ballets devised by Noverre. She also danced in Venice in 1783-4, and at the Paris Opéra as late as 1788. Baccelli was equally known as a mistress of John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745-99), who had set up Baccelli in a suite of rooms at Knole by October 1779. Baccelli accompanied him to Paris in 1783 when he was appointed Ambassador to France. They entertained lavishly, patronising the Paris Opéra, and were admitted to the friendship of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Horace Walpole records that when the Duke was awarded the Order of the Garter in 1788, Baccelli danced at the Opéra wearing the blue Garter ribbon around her head. As the events of the French Revolution unfolded, the pair returned to Knole, where Baccelli remained until their amicable parting in 1789. Engraved by John Jones after the portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (exhibited 1782) which hangs in Tate Britain. Gainsborough was well-acquainted with many theatre people, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the famous dramatist and part-owner of the King's Theatre. When this portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782, Gainsborough's portrait of the Duke of Dorset was withdrawn, presumably for reasons of decorum. As well as commissioning this portrait, the Duke also patronised Gainsborough's great rival Joshua Reynolds, who painted Baccelli in 1783.
Horne: 7 II of III; CS 3 II of III.
[Ref: 47602] £1,500.00
Painted by T. Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by John Jones.
London Pub.d Feb.y 5th 1784 by J. Jones No. 63 Great Portland Street Marylebone.
Rare mezzotint. 535 x 350mm (21 x 13¾"), with widemargins on three sides. Slight mark centre top. Top area slightly rubbed.
Giovanna Baccelli (1774, fl.- d.1801), dancer. Baccelli, first appeared at the King's Theatre, Haymarket in 1774. She reached the peak of her career during the 1780-1 season when she appeared with Gaetan Vestris and his son Auguste in several important ballets devised by Noverre. She also danced in Venice in 1783-4, and at the Paris Opéra as late as 1788. Baccelli was equally known as a mistress of John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745-99), who had set up Baccelli in a suite of rooms at Knole by October 1779. Baccelli accompanied him to Paris in 1783 when he was appointed Ambassador to France. They entertained lavishly, patronising the Paris Opéra, and were admitted to the friendship of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Horace Walpole records that when the Duke was awarded the Order of the Garter in 1788, Baccelli danced at the Opéra wearing the blue Garter ribbon around her head. As the events of the French Revolution unfolded, the pair returned to Knole, where Baccelli remained until their amicable parting in 1789. Engraved by John Jones after the portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (exhibited 1782) which hangs in Tate Britain. Gainsborough was well-acquainted with many theatre people, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the famous dramatist and part-owner of the King's Theatre. When this portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782, Gainsborough's portrait of the Duke of Dorset was withdrawn, presumably for reasons of decorum. As well as commissioning this portrait, the Duke also patronised Gainsborough's great rival Joshua Reynolds, who painted Baccelli in 1783.
Horne: 7 II of III; CS 3 II of III.
[Ref: 47602] £1,500.00
The Hon.ble George Cranfield Berkeley Knight of the Shire for the County of Gloucester Captain in his Majesty's Royal Navy, And Surveyor General of the Ordnance.
T. Gainsborough Esq. R.A. pinxt. Henry Birche sculpt.
Published Feb. 17th 1794, by John Fairburn, No.146 Minories London.
Mezzotint engraving, 660 x 455mm. Vertical crease breaking mezzotint surface lower right edge of plate.
George Cranfield Berkeley (1753 - 1818), admiral, entered the navy in 1766 on board the Mary yacht, under the flag of his cousin, Rear-admiral Keppel, then appointed to carry over to Denmark the unfortunate Caroline Matilda. Young Berkeley was for some time the queen's page, and was afterwards appointed to the Guernsey, 50 guns, bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Pallisser, then going out as governor of Newfoundland. Here he had the peculiar advantage of instruction from Mr. Gilbert, then master of the Guernsey, and afterwards of the Resolution with Captain Cook, and assisted him in the survey of the coast of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1812 he retired altogether from active, and indeed from public life; for twenty-seven years (1783 - 1810) he had represented Gloucestershire in parliament, and had been a persistent supporter of Pitt, and an uncompromising opponent of the Addington ministry. The publisher Faitburn has re-issued this plate first published by B. Evans in 1793
Chaloner Smith: pg.61.
[Ref: 7410] £480.00
T. Gainsborough Esq. R.A. pinxt. Henry Birche sculpt.
Published Feb. 17th 1794, by John Fairburn, No.146 Minories London.
Mezzotint engraving, 660 x 455mm. Vertical crease breaking mezzotint surface lower right edge of plate.
George Cranfield Berkeley (1753 - 1818), admiral, entered the navy in 1766 on board the Mary yacht, under the flag of his cousin, Rear-admiral Keppel, then appointed to carry over to Denmark the unfortunate Caroline Matilda. Young Berkeley was for some time the queen's page, and was afterwards appointed to the Guernsey, 50 guns, bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Pallisser, then going out as governor of Newfoundland. Here he had the peculiar advantage of instruction from Mr. Gilbert, then master of the Guernsey, and afterwards of the Resolution with Captain Cook, and assisted him in the survey of the coast of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1812 he retired altogether from active, and indeed from public life; for twenty-seven years (1783 - 1810) he had represented Gloucestershire in parliament, and had been a persistent supporter of Pitt, and an uncompromising opponent of the Addington ministry. The publisher Faitburn has re-issued this plate first published by B. Evans in 1793
Chaloner Smith: pg.61.
[Ref: 7410] £480.00
Boys and Dogs.
Painted by T. Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by Henry Dawe.
London, Published July 1st 1824, by W.J. White, 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn.
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Slight foxing.
Mezzotint of Thomas Gainsborough's 1783 painting 'Two Shepherd Boys with Dogs Fighting' (Kenwood House). Inspired by William Hogarth's 'The Four Stages of Cruelty', the scene is presented as a grand anti-pastoral with the boys contravening morality both in neglecting their flocks and encouraging their dogs to fight.
Ex: collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35228] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by T. Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by Henry Dawe.
London, Published July 1st 1824, by W.J. White, 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn.
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Slight foxing.
Mezzotint of Thomas Gainsborough's 1783 painting 'Two Shepherd Boys with Dogs Fighting' (Kenwood House). Inspired by William Hogarth's 'The Four Stages of Cruelty', the scene is presented as a grand anti-pastoral with the boys contravening morality both in neglecting their flocks and encouraging their dogs to fight.
Ex: collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35228] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Lord Frederick Campbell, Lord Register of Scotland. And One of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
Thos. Gainsborough pinxt: G. Dupont Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Fine Mezzotint, 270 x 195mm. 10½ x 7¾".
Portrait in oval of Lord Frederick Campbell (1729 - 1816), Lord Clerk Register of Scotland; son of John, 4th Duke of Argyll MP. After Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788).
Chaloner Smith: 1. Horne: 15 only state.
[Ref: 18840] £320.00
Thos. Gainsborough pinxt: G. Dupont Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Fine Mezzotint, 270 x 195mm. 10½ x 7¾".
Portrait in oval of Lord Frederick Campbell (1729 - 1816), Lord Clerk Register of Scotland; son of John, 4th Duke of Argyll MP. After Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788).
Chaloner Smith: 1. Horne: 15 only state.
[Ref: 18840] £320.00
[John Duke of Argyll. Hereditary Great Master of the Household in Scotland, Colonel of His Majesty's Grey Dragoons, Governor of Limerick, General of Horse & Kn.t of the most Antient Order of the Thistle.]
Tho.s Gainsborough Pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.
J. Boydell excudit Jan.ry 12th 1769.
Fine mezzotint, scratched-letter proof before title. 620 x 390mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere, mounted on album sheet, some creasing.
Full length portrait of John Campbell (General John Campbell (c.1693-1770), 4th Duke of Argyll, wearing peer's robes, the chain of the Order of the Thistle, one hand on his coronet, the other holding the baton of Hereditary Master of the King's Household. Gainsborough's original oil is part of the National Galleries of Scotland's collection at Duff House.
CS 4 i of ii.
[Ref: 43495] £450.00
Tho.s Gainsborough Pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.
J. Boydell excudit Jan.ry 12th 1769.
Fine mezzotint, scratched-letter proof before title. 620 x 390mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere, mounted on album sheet, some creasing.
Full length portrait of John Campbell (General John Campbell (c.1693-1770), 4th Duke of Argyll, wearing peer's robes, the chain of the Order of the Thistle, one hand on his coronet, the other holding the baton of Hereditary Master of the King's Household. Gainsborough's original oil is part of the National Galleries of Scotland's collection at Duff House.
CS 4 i of ii.
[Ref: 43495] £450.00
Robert Lord Clive, Baron Plassey, Major General in the East Indies, Governor of Bengal, and Commander in Chief of the East India Company's Forces.
C. Corbutt fecit, T. Gainsborough pinx.
London, Printed for John Bowles in Cornhill, Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm.
Clive of India.
CS: 18, only state.
[Ref: 2614] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
C. Corbutt fecit, T. Gainsborough pinx.
London, Printed for John Bowles in Cornhill, Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm.
Clive of India.
CS: 18, only state.
[Ref: 2614] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Field Marshall Conway.
[After Gainsborough] Heath sc.
G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, 1st May, 1798.
Engraving. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with wide margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721-1795), inclined to the left and front-gazing, in an oval frame. Conway was a british general, eventually rising to Commander in Chief of the Forces. He was cousin to Horace Walpole.
[Ref: 53853] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[After Gainsborough] Heath sc.
G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, 1st May, 1798.
Engraving. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with wide margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721-1795), inclined to the left and front-gazing, in an oval frame. Conway was a british general, eventually rising to Commander in Chief of the Forces. He was cousin to Horace Walpole.
[Ref: 53853] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway]](jpegs/27393.jpg)
[The Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway]
T. Gainsborough pinx.t G, Dupont Sculp.t
London. Printed for R.Sayer and J.Bennett. Fleet Street, 26. July. 1780
Very fine mezzotint, scarce; 380 x 595mm Repaired tear top left, very small margins on left.
Henry Seymour Conway was the intimate friend and correspondent of his first cousin, Horace Walpole, who bequeathed to his only child, the Hon, Anne Damer, his most precious possession, Strawberry Hill. In this depiction, Conway is dressed in military uniform and riding boots. In the distance is a large castle on a rock with the sea before it. This print is the first state of two - Before name and titles of personage, and before portion of subject was scraped away.
J.C Smith: p.239. 3; Horne: 23 From Broadlands the Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27393] £480.00
T. Gainsborough pinx.t G, Dupont Sculp.t
London. Printed for R.Sayer and J.Bennett. Fleet Street, 26. July. 1780
Very fine mezzotint, scarce; 380 x 595mm Repaired tear top left, very small margins on left.
Henry Seymour Conway was the intimate friend and correspondent of his first cousin, Horace Walpole, who bequeathed to his only child, the Hon, Anne Damer, his most precious possession, Strawberry Hill. In this depiction, Conway is dressed in military uniform and riding boots. In the distance is a large castle on a rock with the sea before it. This print is the first state of two - Before name and titles of personage, and before portion of subject was scraped away.
J.C Smith: p.239. 3; Horne: 23 From Broadlands the Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27393] £480.00
Cottage Children. The Original Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Gainsborough to whom this plate is most respectfully inscribed by His Lordships much obliged and obedient Servant Gainsborough Dupont.
T. Gainsborough R.A. Pinx.t. Gainsborough Dupont Delin.t. Hen.y Birche Sculp.t.
Publish'd June 4. 1791, by B.B. Evans Poultry London.
Fine Daniell framed mezzotint, sheet 580 x 390mm (22¾ x 15½"). Frame size 725 x 540mm (28½ x 21¼"). Unexamined out of frame. Trimmed to plate.
A country scene. Two girls in slightly ragged clothing go down a path away from a cottage; one holding one hand to her forehead as she is lifted by her older companion from a donkey.
Horne 78 ii of iii.
[Ref: 61488] £420.00
T. Gainsborough R.A. Pinx.t. Gainsborough Dupont Delin.t. Hen.y Birche Sculp.t.
Publish'd June 4. 1791, by B.B. Evans Poultry London.
Fine Daniell framed mezzotint, sheet 580 x 390mm (22¾ x 15½"). Frame size 725 x 540mm (28½ x 21¼"). Unexamined out of frame. Trimmed to plate.
A country scene. Two girls in slightly ragged clothing go down a path away from a cottage; one holding one hand to her forehead as she is lifted by her older companion from a donkey.
Horne 78 ii of iii.
[Ref: 61488] £420.00
![[Wooded landscape with country cart and figures] 9.](jpegs/60661.jpg)
[Wooded landscape with country cart and figures] 9.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with a figure standing in a stationary horse-drawn cart in the centre next to a rocky bank with trees behind, two figures sitting on the left, sheep and a small pool in the foreground. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60661] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with a figure standing in a stationary horse-drawn cart in the centre next to a rocky bank with trees behind, two figures sitting on the left, sheep and a small pool in the foreground. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60661] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[Wooded landscape with herdsman and cows] 10.](jpegs/60662.jpg)
[Wooded landscape with herdsman and cows] 10.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with four cows amongst trees, figure seen beyond at right. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60662] £230.00
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with four cows amongst trees, figure seen beyond at right. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60662] £230.00
![[Cottage landscape]](jpegs/59213.jpg)
[Cottage landscape]
Gainsborough. [by Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with large margins. Lightly time stained. Small stain/abrasion in tree to left.
A wooded landscape with figures at the door of a cottage at right, a rowing boat on a river seen through the trees at left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 667. John Hayes 'Gainsborough as Printmaker,' p85.
[Ref: 59213] £350.00
Gainsborough. [by Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with large margins. Lightly time stained. Small stain/abrasion in tree to left.
A wooded landscape with figures at the door of a cottage at right, a rowing boat on a river seen through the trees at left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 667. John Hayes 'Gainsborough as Printmaker,' p85.
[Ref: 59213] £350.00
![[Shore scene with cattle.]](jpegs/59211.jpg)
[Shore scene with cattle.]
Gainsborough. [Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), with large margins. Time stained. Small crease in image near bottom right. Central vertical backboard stain.
A landscape with cattle in the foreground, boats in shallow water behind at right. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) in the BM collection. From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 728; Gg,3.391.
[Ref: 59211] £350.00
Gainsborough. [Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d. c.1788]
Soft ground etching with aquatint. Plate 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), with large margins. Time stained. Small crease in image near bottom right. Central vertical backboard stain.
A landscape with cattle in the foreground, boats in shallow water behind at right. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) in the BM collection. From the series by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 'Imitations of Modern Drawings.'
Hayes 728; Gg,3.391.
[Ref: 59211] £350.00
Study From Nature. From an Original Drawing by Tho.s Gainsborough R.A. in the Possesstion of Mrs. Trimmer.
Drawn by Tho.s Gainsborough. Engraved by John Bowles.
London, Published as the Act directs by J & J Boydell No.90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspear Gallery, Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Platemark: 405 x 295mm (16 x 11¾"). Very large margins, very slight creasing.
A rural scene after a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), with a stream in the centre, woodland to the left, and a cottage on the right.
[Ref: 38698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Tho.s Gainsborough. Engraved by John Bowles.
London, Published as the Act directs by J & J Boydell No.90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspear Gallery, Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Platemark: 405 x 295mm (16 x 11¾"). Very large margins, very slight creasing.
A rural scene after a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), with a stream in the centre, woodland to the left, and a cottage on the right.
[Ref: 38698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Watering Place] 6.](jpegs/60660.jpg)
[The Watering Place] 6.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½") very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Wooded landscape with figures and cows at a watering place. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60660] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½") very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Wooded landscape with figures and cows at a watering place. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60660] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[George the Third, King of Great Britain &c. &c. &c.]](jpegs/2611.jpg)
[George the Third, King of Great Britain &c. &c. &c.]
[Tho.s Gainsborough Esq.r R.A. Pinxt. Gainsborough Dupont Sculp.t.]
[Pub.d Dec.r 30 1790 by Gainsborough Dupont No 87 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, uncleaned edge. 620 x 380mm (24½ x 15"), large good margins. Thread margins.
A full-length portrait in dress uniform, pillars and landscape behind. The original painting, completed 1781, is in the Royal Collection, Hampton Court.
CS 6, state i of iii, last state with title as above.
[Ref: 2611] £580.00
[Tho.s Gainsborough Esq.r R.A. Pinxt. Gainsborough Dupont Sculp.t.]
[Pub.d Dec.r 30 1790 by Gainsborough Dupont No 87 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, uncleaned edge. 620 x 380mm (24½ x 15"), large good margins. Thread margins.
A full-length portrait in dress uniform, pillars and landscape behind. The original painting, completed 1781, is in the Royal Collection, Hampton Court.
CS 6, state i of iii, last state with title as above.
[Ref: 2611] £580.00
Girl and Piggs. From the Original Picture in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Gainsborough.
T.Gainsborough Pinxit. W.Dickson Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Martin, M.d d'Estampes, Rue de Fossés - Montmatre, no 27.
Mezzotint, printed in colour. 400 x 275mm. [n.d., c.1800.]
Dickinson moved to Paris in the 1790s.
Not in Home.
[Ref: 2612] £450.00
T.Gainsborough Pinxit. W.Dickson Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Martin, M.d d'Estampes, Rue de Fossés - Montmatre, no 27.
Mezzotint, printed in colour. 400 x 275mm. [n.d., c.1800.]
Dickinson moved to Paris in the 1790s.
Not in Home.
[Ref: 2612] £450.00
Going to Market.
Pub. by J. Ogborne No. 5 Great Portland St. [n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple with large margins. Platemark: 215 x 250mm (8½ x 9¾") Fine impression.
An exterior scene in which a farmer is leading a horse along a road to the right, upon the back of which two lambs have been strapped. A cottage can be seen behind to the left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788).
[Ref: 35411] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Pub. by J. Ogborne No. 5 Great Portland St. [n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple with large margins. Platemark: 215 x 250mm (8½ x 9¾") Fine impression.
An exterior scene in which a farmer is leading a horse along a road to the right, upon the back of which two lambs have been strapped. A cottage can be seen behind to the left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788).
[Ref: 35411] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Going to Market.
T: Gainsborough. I: Ogborne Sculp.
Pub: by I: Ogborne No 58 Great Portland St. [n.d. c.1785.]
Stipple and etching. Plate 209 x 254mm. 8¼ x 10". Slight foxing.
A famer leads his horse to market passing along the road and a thatched cottage behind; on the back of the horse are two lambs. After a drawing by Gainsborough now part of the collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
[Ref: 21676] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
T: Gainsborough. I: Ogborne Sculp.
Pub: by I: Ogborne No 58 Great Portland St. [n.d. c.1785.]
Stipple and etching. Plate 209 x 254mm. 8¼ x 10". Slight foxing.
A famer leads his horse to market passing along the road and a thatched cottage behind; on the back of the horse are two lambs. After a drawing by Gainsborough now part of the collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
[Ref: 21676] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[A View Near Hadley in Suffolk'] Drawn after Nature.](jpegs/59631.jpg)
[A View Near Hadley in Suffolk'] Drawn after Nature. No 2.
Tho.s Gainsborough del.t. John Boydell sculp.t.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London [n.d., c.1790].
Engraving, very faint 18th century watermark. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
A view of rural Suffolk, one of a set of four originally published as 'Four Landskips Engrav'd by John Boydell' in 1747, but this example from Boydell's 'Collection of Views of England and Wales', issued to celebrated his becoming Lord Mayor of London.
[Ref: 59631] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Tho.s Gainsborough del.t. John Boydell sculp.t.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London [n.d., c.1790].
Engraving, very faint 18th century watermark. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
A view of rural Suffolk, one of a set of four originally published as 'Four Landskips Engrav'd by John Boydell' in 1747, but this example from Boydell's 'Collection of Views of England and Wales', issued to celebrated his becoming Lord Mayor of London.
[Ref: 59631] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![A Harvest Scene by Gainsborough ~ [in ink in the title area.]](jpegs/14434.jpg)
A Harvest Scene by Gainsborough ~ [in ink in the title area.]
Painted by Gainsborough. Etched by John Scott.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Unfinished proof engraving with etching. 347 x 286mm. 13½ x 11¼".
A rustic harvest scene.
Not in Horne.
[Ref: 14434] £320.00
Painted by Gainsborough. Etched by John Scott.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Unfinished proof engraving with etching. 347 x 286mm. 13½ x 11¼".
A rustic harvest scene.
Not in Horne.
[Ref: 14434] £320.00
![[Augustus Hervey] The Right Hon.ble Augustus John Earl of Bristol, Rear Adm.l of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet.](jpegs/57388.jpg)
[Augustus Hervey] The Right Hon.ble Augustus John Earl of Bristol, Rear Adm.l of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet.
Thomas Gainsborough pinx.t. James Watson Fecit.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Fine mezzotint with separate title plate, total 565 x 355mm (22¼ x 14"). Small stain in inscription area.
Full-length portrait of Admiral Augustus John Hervey (1724-79), 3rd Earl of Bristol, in uniform, with his ship Dragon and Castle Moro (the Cuban fortress he attacked during the Seven Years' War) in the background. The portrait was originally published before his elevation to the peerage in 1775.
CS 74, state II. Horne 41 II of III. Goodwin 97 II of III. Ex: collection of Minto Wilson.
[Ref: 57388] £750.00
Thomas Gainsborough pinx.t. James Watson Fecit.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Fine mezzotint with separate title plate, total 565 x 355mm (22¼ x 14"). Small stain in inscription area.
Full-length portrait of Admiral Augustus John Hervey (1724-79), 3rd Earl of Bristol, in uniform, with his ship Dragon and Castle Moro (the Cuban fortress he attacked during the Seven Years' War) in the background. The portrait was originally published before his elevation to the peerage in 1775.
CS 74, state II. Horne 41 II of III. Goodwin 97 II of III. Ex: collection of Minto Wilson.
[Ref: 57388] £750.00
Interior of a Cottage.
Painted by T. Gainsborough. Engraved by C. Turner.
[London published March 6. 1809, by Miss Lenwood, Leicester Square.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 545 x 412mm. 21½ x 16¼". Cut along bottom edge.
A barefoot child standing by a fire, holding out his arms to warm them, and looking to front, another wearing a cap sitting hunched behind, bowl and wooden spoon in hands; cat, broom and firewood at right, latticed window behind, jug and bread on the windowsill, a bird in a tree outside.
Ex Collection: E. M. Hallenstein. Whitman: 745. Horne: 83.
[Ref: 25244] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by T. Gainsborough. Engraved by C. Turner.
[London published March 6. 1809, by Miss Lenwood, Leicester Square.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 545 x 412mm. 21½ x 16¼". Cut along bottom edge.
A barefoot child standing by a fire, holding out his arms to warm them, and looking to front, another wearing a cap sitting hunched behind, bowl and wooden spoon in hands; cat, broom and firewood at right, latticed window behind, jug and bread on the windowsill, a bird in a tree outside.
Ex Collection: E. M. Hallenstein. Whitman: 745. Horne: 83.
[Ref: 25244] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[A View near Ipswich in Suffolk] Drawn after Nature.](jpegs/59630.jpg)
[A View near Ipswich in Suffolk] Drawn after Nature. No 1.
Tho.s Gainsborough del.t. John Boydell sculp.t.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London [n.d., c.1789].
Engraving, 1789 watermark. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
A distant view of Ipswich, with harvesters and hunters. It was originally published as 'Four Landskips Engrav'd by John Boydell' in 1747, but this example from Boydell's 'Collection of Views of England and Wales', issued to celebrated his becoming Lord Mayor of London.
[Ref: 59630] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Tho.s Gainsborough del.t. John Boydell sculp.t.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London [n.d., c.1789].
Engraving, 1789 watermark. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
A distant view of Ipswich, with harvesters and hunters. It was originally published as 'Four Landskips Engrav'd by John Boydell' in 1747, but this example from Boydell's 'Collection of Views of England and Wales', issued to celebrated his becoming Lord Mayor of London.
[Ref: 59630] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Mr. Kirby.]](jpegs/29073.jpg)
[Mr. Kirby.]
Gainsborough Pinx.t Dixon Fecit.
[Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1770.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. Plate 355 x 253mm (14 x 10"). Laid on card.
Portrait of John Joshua Kirby (1716-1774), draughtsman and writer on perspective; in an oval looking outwards wearing a wig and plain dress. Kirby was drawing master to George III as Prince of Wales, and in 1761 appointed Clerk of Works at Kew; exhibited Society of Artists 1761-70; President of the SA, 1768-70. Friend of Hogarth and Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), the painter of this portrait.
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 21. Horne: 43. See Ref: 26137 for later state.
[Ref: 29073] £520.00
Gainsborough Pinx.t Dixon Fecit.
[Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1770.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. Plate 355 x 253mm (14 x 10"). Laid on card.
Portrait of John Joshua Kirby (1716-1774), draughtsman and writer on perspective; in an oval looking outwards wearing a wig and plain dress. Kirby was drawing master to George III as Prince of Wales, and in 1761 appointed Clerk of Works at Kew; exhibited Society of Artists 1761-70; President of the SA, 1768-70. Friend of Hogarth and Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), the painter of this portrait.
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 21. Horne: 43. See Ref: 26137 for later state.
[Ref: 29073] £520.00
William Lynch Esq.r
Engraved by S. W. Reynolds from a Picture painted by Gainsborough.
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate on lower edge.
William Lynch (1726—1797), steward of Ipswich Races. He attended St. Johns, Cambridge and by the 1750s he was a Captain in the Suffolk Militia under Colonel Francis Vernon, nephew of the famous Admiral Vernon. Both he and Vernon fell out with Philip Thicknesse, the Lieutenant Governor of Landguard Fort, where the regiment of the Suffolk militia was stationed. On one occasion Lynch slipped off to Ipswich for a few days rest and recreation: incensed, Thicknesse demanded his return, which he cheerfully ignored. Thicknesse had Lynch thrown in jail for twenty-four hours to reflect on his lack of discipline and threatened to report him to the Secretary of War. Lynch demanded a court martial, where, despite admitting to all charges, he was found not guilty. The dispute was only resolved by moving the regiment from the fort. The Suffolk Militia was disbanded in 1762; however in 1794 Lynch signed up as Captain for an Ipswich Regiment of Volunteers formed to meet the threat of French invasion, aged 68. Gainsborough painted this portrait (now in the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan) as one of a series of young officers c.1756. However, a decade later, Lynch had Gainsborough rework the portrait to excise the military theme, removing his hat and covering up much of his coa
Whitman: 184. Horne: 45. ii of ii.
[Ref: 19255] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by S. W. Reynolds from a Picture painted by Gainsborough.
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate on lower edge.
William Lynch (1726—1797), steward of Ipswich Races. He attended St. Johns, Cambridge and by the 1750s he was a Captain in the Suffolk Militia under Colonel Francis Vernon, nephew of the famous Admiral Vernon. Both he and Vernon fell out with Philip Thicknesse, the Lieutenant Governor of Landguard Fort, where the regiment of the Suffolk militia was stationed. On one occasion Lynch slipped off to Ipswich for a few days rest and recreation: incensed, Thicknesse demanded his return, which he cheerfully ignored. Thicknesse had Lynch thrown in jail for twenty-four hours to reflect on his lack of discipline and threatened to report him to the Secretary of War. Lynch demanded a court martial, where, despite admitting to all charges, he was found not guilty. The dispute was only resolved by moving the regiment from the fort. The Suffolk Militia was disbanded in 1762; however in 1794 Lynch signed up as Captain for an Ipswich Regiment of Volunteers formed to meet the threat of French invasion, aged 68. Gainsborough painted this portrait (now in the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan) as one of a series of young officers c.1756. However, a decade later, Lynch had Gainsborough rework the portrait to excise the military theme, removing his hat and covering up much of his coa
Whitman: 184. Horne: 45. ii of ii.
[Ref: 19255] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
John Joseph Merlin, The Celebrated Mechanic.
C.P.H. del.t et Sculp. [after Thomas Gainsborough]
[Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, or, Magazine of Remarkable characters 1803].
Rare engraving with stipple, sheet 105 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate. Title removed and glued to the print.
Oval portrait of John Joseph Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 1735 –1803) after the one by Gainsborough with a mechanical chariot designed by him. Merlin was a Belgian Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker and inventor. Notable items he manufactured include; the Silver Swan, Cox's timepiece and inline skates.
[Ref: 57060] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
C.P.H. del.t et Sculp. [after Thomas Gainsborough]
[Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, or, Magazine of Remarkable characters 1803].
Rare engraving with stipple, sheet 105 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate. Title removed and glued to the print.
Oval portrait of John Joseph Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 1735 –1803) after the one by Gainsborough with a mechanical chariot designed by him. Merlin was a Belgian Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker and inventor. Notable items he manufactured include; the Silver Swan, Cox's timepiece and inline skates.
[Ref: 57060] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
George-Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquis of Buckingham. Lord Lieutenant General & General Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland; Knigh Companion of the most Nobles Order of the Garter, &c. &c.
Painted by T. Gainsborough R:A: 1787. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin Historical Engraver to His Majesty, & to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published 20 March 1788 by I.K. Sherwin No. 67 New Bond Street, & R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill.
Very fine engraving. 495 x 361mm (19½ x 14¼"), large margins. Faint crease outside image.
Three-quarter length portrait of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville (1753-1813), 1st Marquess of Buckingham. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Pitt, he was denounced by Grattan for extravagance and was censured by the Irish Houses of Parliament for refusing to transmit to England an address calling upon the Prince of Wales to assume the regency. He maintained his position by bribery for a time but resigned his office in September 1789. The engraver, John Keyes Sherwin (1751-1790), was a painter and engraver who succeeded Woollett as engraver to the king in 1785. Despite an income of more that £12,000 a year he died in penury in 1790 because, as the Encyclopedia Britannia describes him, he was "shiftless, indolent, and without method" and a reckless gambler. However the Encyclopedia also states that his portraits of Buckingham and Pitt (both after Gainsborough) "occupy a high place among the productions of the English school of line-engravers".
Horne: 33, ii of ii.
[Ref: 57672] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by T. Gainsborough R:A: 1787. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin Historical Engraver to His Majesty, & to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published 20 March 1788 by I.K. Sherwin No. 67 New Bond Street, & R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill.
Very fine engraving. 495 x 361mm (19½ x 14¼"), large margins. Faint crease outside image.
Three-quarter length portrait of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville (1753-1813), 1st Marquess of Buckingham. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Pitt, he was denounced by Grattan for extravagance and was censured by the Irish Houses of Parliament for refusing to transmit to England an address calling upon the Prince of Wales to assume the regency. He maintained his position by bribery for a time but resigned his office in September 1789. The engraver, John Keyes Sherwin (1751-1790), was a painter and engraver who succeeded Woollett as engraver to the king in 1785. Despite an income of more that £12,000 a year he died in penury in 1790 because, as the Encyclopedia Britannia describes him, he was "shiftless, indolent, and without method" and a reckless gambler. However the Encyclopedia also states that his portraits of Buckingham and Pitt (both after Gainsborough) "occupy a high place among the productions of the English school of line-engravers".
Horne: 33, ii of ii.
[Ref: 57672] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
George-Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquis of Buckingham, Lord Lieutenant General & General Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland; Knigh Companion of the most Nobles Order of the Garter, &c. &c.
Painted by T. Gainsborough R:A: 1787. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin Historical Engraver to His Majesty, & to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published 20 March 1788 by I.K. Sherwin No. 67 New Bond Street, & R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill.
Very fine engraving, with large margins. Plate 495 x 361mm. 19½ x 14¼". Uncut.
Three-quarter portrait of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville (1753-1813), 1st Marquess of Buckingham. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Pitt, he was denounced by Grattan for extravagance and was censured by the Irish Houses of Parliament for refusing to transmit to England an address calling upon the Prince of Wales to assume the regency. He maintained his position by bribery for a time but resigned his office in September 1789. The engraver, John Keyes Sherwin (1751-1790), was a painter and engraver who succeeded Woollett as engraver to the king in 1785. Despite an income of more that £12,000 a year he died in penury in 1790 because, as the Encyclopedia Britannia describes him, he was "shiftless, indolent, and without method" and a reckless gambler. However the Encyclopedia also states that his portraits of Buckingham and Pitt (both after Gainsborough) "occupy a high place among the productions of the English school of line-engravers".
Horne: 33, ii of ii; Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911); NPG D32297.
[Ref: 24808] £360.00
Painted by T. Gainsborough R:A: 1787. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin Historical Engraver to His Majesty, & to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published 20 March 1788 by I.K. Sherwin No. 67 New Bond Street, & R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill.
Very fine engraving, with large margins. Plate 495 x 361mm. 19½ x 14¼". Uncut.
Three-quarter portrait of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville (1753-1813), 1st Marquess of Buckingham. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Pitt, he was denounced by Grattan for extravagance and was censured by the Irish Houses of Parliament for refusing to transmit to England an address calling upon the Prince of Wales to assume the regency. He maintained his position by bribery for a time but resigned his office in September 1789. The engraver, John Keyes Sherwin (1751-1790), was a painter and engraver who succeeded Woollett as engraver to the king in 1785. Despite an income of more that £12,000 a year he died in penury in 1790 because, as the Encyclopedia Britannia describes him, he was "shiftless, indolent, and without method" and a reckless gambler. However the Encyclopedia also states that his portraits of Buckingham and Pitt (both after Gainsborough) "occupy a high place among the productions of the English school of line-engravers".
Horne: 33, ii of ii; Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911); NPG D32297.
[Ref: 24808] £360.00
Thomas Pennant (Zoologiste), Membre de la Société royale de Londres, de la société royale d'Upsal &a. Né à Downing dans le Comté de Flint en 1726 Mort le 16 Décembre 1798.
Dessiné d'apres le Portrait original de T. Gaisnborough, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Cut to platemark top & bottom.
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) the Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He wrote acclaimed books including 'British Zoology', the 'History of Quadrupeds., 'Arctic Zoology' and 'Indian Zoology', although he never travelled further afield than continental Europe. His first scientific papers focused on his own experiences, geological subjects and palaeontology. One of these so impressed Carl Linnaeus, that in 1757, he put Pennant's name forward and he was duly elected a member of Royal Swedish Society of Sciences.
W: 2267.
[Ref: 29631] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné d'apres le Portrait original de T. Gaisnborough, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Cut to platemark top & bottom.
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) the Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He wrote acclaimed books including 'British Zoology', the 'History of Quadrupeds., 'Arctic Zoology' and 'Indian Zoology', although he never travelled further afield than continental Europe. His first scientific papers focused on his own experiences, geological subjects and palaeontology. One of these so impressed Carl Linnaeus, that in 1757, he put Pennant's name forward and he was duly elected a member of Royal Swedish Society of Sciences.
W: 2267.
[Ref: 29631] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Pennant Esq.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 20, 1787 by Peter Mazell, Engraver No. 32 James Street, Covent Garden.
Etching, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"). Foxed.
Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798), naturalist and topographer. Detail from the painting by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) in the collection of the National Museum of Wales, engraved by John Keyse Sherwin (1751? - 1790).
Not in BM. NPG: D14536. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth; for another engraving from the same picture (also by Sherwin) see ref. 19819.
[Ref: 9637] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd as the Act directs June 20, 1787 by Peter Mazell, Engraver No. 32 James Street, Covent Garden.
Etching, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"). Foxed.
Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798), naturalist and topographer. Detail from the painting by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) in the collection of the National Museum of Wales, engraved by John Keyse Sherwin (1751? - 1790).
Not in BM. NPG: D14536. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth; for another engraving from the same picture (also by Sherwin) see ref. 19819.
[Ref: 9637] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Pennant Esqr.
Thos. Gainsborough Pinxt. J.K. Sherwin Sculpt. 1778.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jany. 1st. 1779.
Rare copper engraving, fine impression, sheet 315 x 215mm (12½ x 18½"). Trimmed within plate.
Thomas Pennant (1726-98), Welsh naturalist and antiquary, famed for his 'History of Quadrupeds'.
For another engraving from the same painting (also by Sherwin) see ref. 9637.
[Ref: 59559] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Thos. Gainsborough Pinxt. J.K. Sherwin Sculpt. 1778.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jany. 1st. 1779.
Rare copper engraving, fine impression, sheet 315 x 215mm (12½ x 18½"). Trimmed within plate.
Thomas Pennant (1726-98), Welsh naturalist and antiquary, famed for his 'History of Quadrupeds'.
For another engraving from the same painting (also by Sherwin) see ref. 9637.
[Ref: 59559] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Marquis of Lansdowne.]](jpegs/25449.jpg)
[Marquis of Lansdowne.]
Gainsborough R.A. pinx. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Stipple printed in brown, with very large margins. Plate 280 x 222mm. 11 x 8¾".
Half-length portrait of the Marquis of Lansdowne, with sash and wearing garter insignia, in an oval. William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805) was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister from 1782 to 1783 during the months of the American War of Independence.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. De Vesme: 856.
[Ref: 25449] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Gainsborough R.A. pinx. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Stipple printed in brown, with very large margins. Plate 280 x 222mm. 11 x 8¾".
Half-length portrait of the Marquis of Lansdowne, with sash and wearing garter insignia, in an oval. William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805) was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister from 1782 to 1783 during the months of the American War of Independence.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. De Vesme: 856.
[Ref: 25449] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Hon: William Pitt.
Gainsborough Pinxit. William Bromley Sculpsit.
Pub. by Rob.t Bowyer, No 80 Pall Mall, June 4th 1808.
Engraving, title in open letters. 720 x 475mm (28¼ x 18¾"). Thread margins, wear to lower left edge, small repairs to margins.
Full length portrait of Pitt the Younger, standing at a table, official robes to his right. He had died in office two years earlier.
[Ref: 49831] £380.00
Gainsborough Pinxit. William Bromley Sculpsit.
Pub. by Rob.t Bowyer, No 80 Pall Mall, June 4th 1808.
Engraving, title in open letters. 720 x 475mm (28¼ x 18¾"). Thread margins, wear to lower left edge, small repairs to margins.
Full length portrait of Pitt the Younger, standing at a table, official robes to his right. He had died in office two years earlier.
[Ref: 49831] £380.00
The Right Hon.ble Lord Rodney K.B. Vice Adm.l of Great Britain & Adm.l of the White &c &c &c.
Painted by Thomas Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by G. Dupont.
Published 12th. April, 1788. by B. Beale Evans in the Poultry, London.
Mezzotint. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"). Trimmed close to plate at bottom, stitch holes through inscription area. Small margins.
A full-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (1719 - 1792), first Baron Rodney, naval officer and politician, famous for his victories against the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1780, relieving Gibraltar, and against the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean in 1782. The Hon. Thomas Harley commissioned Gainsborough to paint this portrait (now Earl of Rosebery collection, Dalmeny) to commemmorate the Battle of the Saintes. It was engraved by the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont.
CS 9; Russell 9 ii
[Ref: 48868] £450.00
Painted by Thomas Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by G. Dupont.
Published 12th. April, 1788. by B. Beale Evans in the Poultry, London.
Mezzotint. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"). Trimmed close to plate at bottom, stitch holes through inscription area. Small margins.
A full-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (1719 - 1792), first Baron Rodney, naval officer and politician, famous for his victories against the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1780, relieving Gibraltar, and against the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean in 1782. The Hon. Thomas Harley commissioned Gainsborough to paint this portrait (now Earl of Rosebery collection, Dalmeny) to commemmorate the Battle of the Saintes. It was engraved by the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont.
CS 9; Russell 9 ii
[Ref: 48868] £450.00
The Right Hon.ble Lord Rodney &c &c &c.
Painted by Tho.s Gainsborough. Engraved by G. Dupont.
Published 12th. April, 1788. by B. Beale Evans in the Poultry, London.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"). Some spotting.
A full-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (1719 - 1792), first Baron Rodney, naval officer and politician, famous for his victories against the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1780, relieving Gibraltar, and against the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean in 1782. The Hon. Thomas Harley commissioned Gainsborough to paint this portrait (now Earl of Rosebery collection, Dalmeny) to commemmorate the Battle of the Saintes. It was engraved by the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont.
CS 9; Russell 9. Horne 57 II of IV. Ex: collection of Minto Wilson.
[Ref: 57390] £750.00
Painted by Tho.s Gainsborough. Engraved by G. Dupont.
Published 12th. April, 1788. by B. Beale Evans in the Poultry, London.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"). Some spotting.
A full-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (1719 - 1792), first Baron Rodney, naval officer and politician, famous for his victories against the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1780, relieving Gibraltar, and against the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean in 1782. The Hon. Thomas Harley commissioned Gainsborough to paint this portrait (now Earl of Rosebery collection, Dalmeny) to commemmorate the Battle of the Saintes. It was engraved by the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont.
CS 9; Russell 9. Horne 57 II of IV. Ex: collection of Minto Wilson.
[Ref: 57390] £750.00
![[The Right Hon.ble Lord Rodney K.B. Vice Adm.l of Great Britain & Adm.l of the White &c &c &c]](jpegs/36624.jpg)
[The Right Hon.ble Lord Rodney K.B. Vice Adm.l of Great Britain & Adm.l of the White &c &c &c]
[Painted by Thomas Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by G. Dupont]
[Published 12th. April, 1788. by B. Beale Evans in the Poultry, London.]
Mezzotint, a very fine proof before letters. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"), with large margins. Slight paper tone.
A full-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (1719 - 1792), first Baron Rodney, naval officer and politician, famous for his victories against the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1780, relieving Gibraltar, and against the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean in 1782. The Hon. Thomas Harley commissioned Gainsborough to paint this portrait (now Earl of Rosebery collection, Dalmeny) to commemmorate the Battle of the Saintes. It was engraved by the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont.
Horne 57 ii; CS 9 (undescribed state); Russell 9 i.
[Ref: 36624] £950.00
[Painted by Thomas Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by G. Dupont]
[Published 12th. April, 1788. by B. Beale Evans in the Poultry, London.]
Mezzotint, a very fine proof before letters. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"), with large margins. Slight paper tone.
A full-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (1719 - 1792), first Baron Rodney, naval officer and politician, famous for his victories against the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1780, relieving Gibraltar, and against the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean in 1782. The Hon. Thomas Harley commissioned Gainsborough to paint this portrait (now Earl of Rosebery collection, Dalmeny) to commemmorate the Battle of the Saintes. It was engraved by the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont.
Horne 57 ii; CS 9 (undescribed state); Russell 9 i.
[Ref: 36624] £950.00
To Charles Turner Esq. of Norwich, This Etching, from an Original Picture by Gainsborough now in his possession, and formerly in that of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough at White Knights, is dedicated and presented by Edmund Girling.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Etching on india. 260 x 305mm (10¼ x 12"), with large margins.
Landscape with a ruined church among trees on a cliff to right, with two shepherds under a pair of trees nearer the viewer on the left, donkeys and a foal near a fallen tree-trunk in the foreground, a river snaking through fields with houses and a church in the background below and a man leading a donkey up the path towards the shepherds. By Edmund Girling (1796-1871), an amateur draughtsman and etcher of the Norwich school.
See BM: 1902,0514.805 for a proof before letters.
[Ref: 40498] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1830.]
Etching on india. 260 x 305mm (10¼ x 12"), with large margins.
Landscape with a ruined church among trees on a cliff to right, with two shepherds under a pair of trees nearer the viewer on the left, donkeys and a foal near a fallen tree-trunk in the foreground, a river snaking through fields with houses and a church in the background below and a man leading a donkey up the path towards the shepherds. By Edmund Girling (1796-1871), an amateur draughtsman and etcher of the Norwich school.
See BM: 1902,0514.805 for a proof before letters.
[Ref: 40498] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Right Hon.ble the Earl of Derby.
Painted by Thos Gainsborough Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Geo.e Keating.
London, Publish'd May 20; 1785 by W.Austin, Drawing Master, at the Patriotic Printrooms No.41 St James's Street.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Small crease in corner of title area.
Edward Smith-Stanley (1752-1834), 12th Earl of Derby. The Epsom Oaks is named after a horse race held on his estate, 'The Oaks', in 1779. The Derby Stakes is also named for him.
CS: Keating 2.
[Ref: 2609] £450.00
Painted by Thos Gainsborough Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Geo.e Keating.
London, Publish'd May 20; 1785 by W.Austin, Drawing Master, at the Patriotic Printrooms No.41 St James's Street.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Small crease in corner of title area.
Edward Smith-Stanley (1752-1834), 12th Earl of Derby. The Epsom Oaks is named after a horse race held on his estate, 'The Oaks', in 1779. The Derby Stakes is also named for him.
CS: Keating 2.
[Ref: 2609] £450.00
![[A View near Sudbury in Suffolk] Drawn after Nature.](jpegs/59629.jpg)
[A View near Sudbury in Suffolk] Drawn after Nature. No 3.
Tho.s Gainsborough del.t. John Boydell sculp.t.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1747 [but 1790].
Engraving, very faint 18th century watermark. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins.
A view of rural Suffolk, one of a set of four originally published as 'Four Landskips Engrav'd by John Boydell' in 1747, but this example from Boydell's 'Collection of Views of England and Wales', issued to celebrated his becoming Lord Mayor of London.
[Ref: 59629] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Tho.s Gainsborough del.t. John Boydell sculp.t.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1747 [but 1790].
Engraving, very faint 18th century watermark. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins.
A view of rural Suffolk, one of a set of four originally published as 'Four Landskips Engrav'd by John Boydell' in 1747, but this example from Boydell's 'Collection of Views of England and Wales', issued to celebrated his becoming Lord Mayor of London.
[Ref: 59629] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Sir Charles Thompson Baronet, Vice Admiral of the Red. Obiit 17 March 1799.
Painted by Gainsborough Anno 1774. Engraved by Earlom Anno 1800.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"), with large margins.
Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet (c.1740-99), naval officer. After long service in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence (fighting at the Battle of the Chesapeaks) and War of the First Coalition, he was Admiral John Jervis's second in command at the battle of Cape St Vincent. However, his disregard for Jervis's signal to tack to counter a Spanish attacking move nearly lost the battle, and began an enmity with Jervis that eventually led to Thompson's retirement. From 1796-99 he was also MP for Monmouth.
CS: 40 ii/ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34414] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Gainsborough Anno 1774. Engraved by Earlom Anno 1800.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"), with large margins.
Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet (c.1740-99), naval officer. After long service in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence (fighting at the Battle of the Chesapeaks) and War of the First Coalition, he was Admiral John Jervis's second in command at the battle of Cape St Vincent. However, his disregard for Jervis's signal to tack to counter a Spanish attacking move nearly lost the battle, and began an enmity with Jervis that eventually led to Thompson's retirement. From 1796-99 he was also MP for Monmouth.
CS: 40 ii/ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34414] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)