Grosvenor Prints

[Adam & Eve confronted by God in the Garden of Eden] Genesis. II. W. 15.
[after Gerard van Groeningen.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, pt 17th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), very large margins.
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, being confronted by God after eating the fruit of the Tree of Life. A plate from 'Humanae salutis monumenta' by Benedicus Arias Montus, first published c.1571, but this example from a later state with the Bible reference added.
See Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-75.529 for the earlier state.
[Ref: 63501] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Ist, Emperor of all the Russias.
Engraved by Cha.s Heath, from a painting by Gerard Kugelgen.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 195mm (5 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Half-length portrait of Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825) in uniform.
[Ref: 38009] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[La malade d'Antiochus.]
Peint par Lairesse. Dessiné par Desenne. Gravé par Baquoy.
[n.d. c.1816.]
Proof before title & publication line, engraving, 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"), with very large margins. Repaired tears to margins. Some surface dirt.
Seleucus giving up his wife for his son: classic interior with prince Antiochus I Soter lying ill on a canopied bed at right, his father Seleucus I pointing in despair at the crown and sceptre on a table at centre, his father's wife Stratonice standing by, the doctor Eristratos seen standing behind. Antiochus I Soter (c. 324/3 – 261 BC) was struck down by a mysterious illness. Erasistratus (c. 304 – c. 250 BC), Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria, realised that the illness of Antiochus was lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice (c. 320 BC - 254 BC), by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises when ever he sees her. Seleucus I Nicator (c. 358 – 281 BC) gave up his young wife to save his son and in 294 BC Antiochus married his stepmother.
[Ref: 60618] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon le Grand.]
[after François Gérard.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etching. 220 x 310mm (8¾ x 12¼"), on Whatman paper.
An outline etched version of François Gérard's iconic portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in his coronation robes.
[Ref: 36004] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon the Great, in His Coronation Robes.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original Painting of Girard.
Published October 13, 1826 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Very fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, small split, album paper stuck over left edge.
A faithful rendering of François Gérard's painting, now housed at Versailles. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53358] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Three children fighting over a bird.]
G.Lairesse Pinxit.
Sold by J.Smith at y.e Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden. [n.d., c.1680.].
Mezzotint. 180 x 170mm.
A reversed copy of a part of Gerard Lairesse's 'Immoderatum Dulce Amarrum' of c.1675. The engraver's name has been removed, but it is believed to be Isaac Beckett.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3650] £380.00

Thomas Cogan, M.D. Living Founder of the Royal Humane Society.
E. Gerard pinx.t. J.s Basire sculp.t.
Published by J. Nichols, Son & Bentley March 1. 1814.
Engraving. Sheet: 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed.
A half-length portrait of Thomas Cogan (1736-1818) a nonconformist physician and founder of the Royal Humane Society.
W. 638.
[Ref: 46464] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Coup de Pommade. Le Jour de la fête du Village.
H.F. [in image.]
A Paris chez Passet, rue S.t. Jaques N.o.64.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 310mm (9½ x 12"). Trimmed within plate.
An interior scene in which a French peasant sits before a fire while his wife dresses his hair in preparation for the Village Fete. Plate 6 from a series titled 'Le Démocrite du Siecle, N.o.6'.
[Ref: 36165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Earth was corrupt before God and filled with Violence.[text in Hebrew, German, Latin, French and Dutch.] Gen.VI.11.
G. Hoet delineavit. J.van Vianen fecit.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Fine coloured engraving. Plate 356 x 432mm. 14 x 17". Tear into upper edge of plate, some creasng along upper edge of margin. Fold down centre.
The earth before the flood; group of men, women and children feasting and drinking under a canopy fixed to trees, in a landscape with figures dancing around a pole decorated with flowers in the middle distance, and building under construction on right, further buildings being looted to left.
[Ref: 26610] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Henry Egerton. Earl of Bridgewater.
Gerard pinxt. =h= Grevedon. 1825.
Lithograph. 541 x 356mm. Uncut sheet..
Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), was a noted British eccentric, and supporter of natural theology. Egerton was known for giving dinner parties for dogs, where the dogs were dressed in the finest fashions of the day, down to fancy miniature shoes. Each day Egerton wore a new pair of shoes and he arranged the worn shoes into rows, so that he could measure the passing time. An animal lover, Egerton kept partridges and pigeons with clipped wings in his garden, allowing him to shoot them despite failing eyesight. Egerton never married, and upon his death, his title became extinct. He bequeathed to the British Museum the valuable Egerton Manuscripts, consisting of 67 manuscripts dealing with the literature of France and Italy.
[Ref: 13256] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Flood] And it rained upon the Earth forty days & forty nights. [repeated in Hebrew, German, Latin, French & Dutch]
G. Hoet delineavit. G. Vander Gouwen Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Engraving. 355 x 430mm (14 x 17"). Repairs at centre fold.
Men, women and children scramble to higher ground to escape the Flood, joined by a lion and elephant. Behind are lightning forks and Noah's Ark.
[Ref: 65799] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

M.lle Georges Veimer.
Gerard pinx.t. Maurin Delineavit. Imp.e Lith.e de Villain.
Chez Giraut M.d d'Estampes Boulevard des Italiens No 5. [n.d. c.1835.]
Fine lithograph. Printed area 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Marguerite Joséphine Georges (1787-1867), French actress known for her affairs with Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I and, she claimed, the Duke of Wellington. Her debut was in 1802 at the Théâtre Français in Paris. When she retired in 1853, she received a pension from Napoleon's elder brother, Joseph Bonaparte.
See Harvard Volume II. p.114: 7.
[Ref: 55936] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Gratitude.
G: D: L: pinx.
I. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint, 225 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼".
Female figure, wearing a long robe, pouring liquid from a cup into a fire on a raised stand; beside her another female figure with plate of food on her lap, and two nude putti embracing. Through a clearing in the background a group of figures dancing round a statue is visible. After Gérard de Lairesse (1641 - 1711), engraved and published by the famous early mezzotinter and re-publisher of older plates John Smith (1652 - 1743).
Chaloner Smith: undescribed.
[Ref: 11492] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Jeune Grec.
Printed by Kohler & Co., 22, Denmark S.t Soho.
London J. M.cCormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph with fine fresh hand colour. Sheet 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½").
Young Greek man turned to left, carrying a drapery over his right shoulder, wearing turban and embroidered waistcoat over stripped shirt. Detail from a painting by Baron François Gérard (1770 - 1837).
[Ref: 62340] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Gerard Hoet] G Hoet.
[Engraved by Aert Schouman after Gerard Hoet.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
Head and shoulders self portrait of Gerard Hoet (1648-1733), a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. This appears to be printed from a cut-down plate that originally showed the artist half-length, holding a quill, a palette hanging on the wall behind (edge visible here). The Rijksmuseum has both versions.
Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-17.300 & RP-P-1888-A-13936.
[Ref: 57816] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[St James the Less] St. Jacobus Minor. 8. Book 4. pag: 120.
[after Gerard Segers.]
[English, c.1700.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 225 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate, losing part of inscription area.
A half-length portrait of St James the Less, reading a book and holding his club. A reversed copy of the engraving by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert after Segers, with an inset scene added top right.
[Ref: 58506] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno. Dom 1687. Aetat 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto Vates, en redivivus ades. Immortale duplez micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tua a Penna Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp. 1711. [Early issue]
Sold by G. Vertue at his house the further end of Brownlow street from Drury Lane.
Fine engraving. 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637), Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
Alexander 75. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63873] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno. Dom 1687. Aetat 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto Vates, en redivivus ades. Immortale duplez micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tua a Penna Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp.
Amico suo Mauritio Johnson I.C. Artium Amatori redicat 1730. G. Vertue.
Engraving. Plate 372 x 252mm (14¾ x 10") Fine.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
[Ref: 12633] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Benjaminus Johnson. Obijt Anno} Dom. 1637. aetat. 63. Fronti nulla Fides huic non dicatur: Apelle A tanto, Vates, èn redivivus ades. Immortale duplex micat hic opus: Illius Arte Forma, tuâ a Pennâ Fama, perennis erit. E Pinacotheca Nobilissimi & Honoratissimi Joannis Domini Sommers &c. Cui Tabulam hanc humillimè dicat. Amico suo Mauritio Johnson I.C. Artium Amatori redicat 1730. G. Vertue.
Gerard Honthorst pinxit. Geo: Vertue, Londini Sculp.
[n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving. Image 369 x 253mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Col The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. In
[Ref: 12917] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

A View near Kennaquhair.
E.Gerard.
[n.d., 1822.]
Lithograph. Image 300 x 250mm. With author's ink ALS on verso, folded and used as letter, with wax seal. Trimmed to left edge, splits in folds, some toning.
A medley print, with a playing card, silhouettes, nameplate & a keyhole plate. On verso is a watercolour sketch of two pairs of scissors crossed. Kennaquhair (literally, 'know-not-where' in old Lowland Scots) is an imaginary locality in Walter Scott's novels The Monastery and The Abbot.
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Nach dem leben gegeichnet Lafayette General Commandant der Pariser Nationalgarde.
Gerard gez.
Druck u. Verlag vom Bibliogrphischen Institut zu Hildburghausen. Zeitgenossen No 28 (II Jahrg.) [n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 165 x 105mm (6½ x 4¼"), large large margins. Some light foxing.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834). French citizen who joined Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, voted Major General by Continental Congress. He commanded a light division at the Battle of Yorktown, and was a close associate of George Washington. On 15 July 1789 Lafayette was acclaimed commander-in-chief of the National Guard of France, an armed force established to maintain order under the control of the National Assembly. He held the post for little more than two years.
[Ref: 9942] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

['He who easily believes, is easily deceived'] Qui facile credit facile decipitur. Die licht geloogt wort licht bedrogen.
Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et sculp: et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Federati [1668]
Etching, 17th century watermark; platemark 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"), with very large margins.
Man lifting the lid of a plate, with two people stood behind laughing at him. Illustration to Act One of Andries Pels' comedy 'Julfus' (Amsterdam, 1668). Etched by Gérard Lairesse (1640-1711), Dutch painter and etcher who worked for William and Mary amongst other illustrious patrons. A classicist and theorist (after going blind he wrote a major theoretical treatise, the Groot Schilderboek or 'Great Book of Painting'), Lairesse was known as the 'Dutch Poussin'. Most of his plates were originally published by Nicolaes Visscher, who published a collected edition under the title 'Opus Elegantissimum' in c.1675.
[Ref: 41710] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Six mezzotint portraits after Gérard de Lairesse.] [Two Roman soldiers] [&] [baby's head] [two Roman soldiers] [&] Pietas. [&] [child with bird and dog] [&] [crying girl.]
[Two Roman plates] AB f; [Pietas] G. lairesse pinxit. A Blooteling f et ex; [child] Lairesse in. A. Blooteling ex; [crying girl] G. Lairesse Pinx. A. Blooteling F. et Ex.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Six scarce mezzotints on one sheet, 18th century watermark. Largest 125 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Old ink mss. in margin.
A collection of plates after Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711) by Abrham Blooteling (1640-1690), a Dutch mezzotinter who came to London in the 1670s, helping to introduced the technique to England.
BM 1902,1011.254; 1929,1112.2.99; 1902,1011.255; 1929,1112.2.101; 1929,1112.2.102; & 2010,7081.143.
[Ref: 60186] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Gerard de Lairesse's 'Les Principes du Dessein', with vignette cut out and replaced by portrait of Lairesse]
G. de Lairesse Pinxit J.C. Philips Sculpsit [portrait]
A Amsterdam et a Leipzig, Chez Arkstée et Merkus. MDCCXLVI [frontispiece]
letterpress sheet with vignette cut out and engraved portrait glued into space, total sheet 395 x 245mm (15½ x 9½"). Time stained.
Frontispiece to a posthumous edition of Gérard de Lairesse's (1640-1711) 'Principles of design', a collection of Lairesse's lectures first published in 1701. Lairesse, a Dutch painter and theorist of classical bent, was held in the highest regard during his lifetime. The frontispiece originally featured an image of an aspiring artist studying an artwork, guided by a Muse, but this has been replaced by a Dutch engraving of a self-portrait by Lairesse.
For a mezzotint version of the same Lairesse self-portrait see ref. 24068
[Ref: 40088] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mlle, Mars.
Peint par F. Gerard. Dessine par H. Grevedon.
Pubd. by J.D. Haas 11 Berners Street, Oxford Street, 1828.
Lithograph, sheet 415 x 330mm. 16¼ x 13". A good impression; one small tear to right margin. Slightly surface soiling. Large margins.
A charming likeness of French actress Anne Francoise Hippolyte Mars (1779 - 1847).
Harvard p.159, 1.
[Ref: 20567] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Spot where Gen.al Burgoyne surrendered to Gen.al Gate [parallel text in French, Latin and German] Amérique Septentrionale Etat de New-York.
Dessiné d'après matire par J. Milbert Lithographié par L. Sabatier fig. par V. Adam
Imp. lith. de Bove dirigée par Noel ainé et C.e
Lithograph on india, printed area 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½").
View in Saratoga, New York, where the British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American General Horatio Gates at the end of the Battles of Saratoga on October 17, 1777. Plate from 'Itineraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales de l'Amerique du Nord, d'apres les dessins originaux pris sur les lieux. Atlas.' Lithographed after a drawing by Jacques Gérared Milbert (1766-1840). In 1800 Milbert was designated to be official artist on a voyage to the South Pole but poor health forced him to stop in Ile-de-France, where he spent the next two years. In 1815 he travelled to North America, spending seven years there.
For another plate from the same volume see ref 4233.
[Ref: 39540] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Music.]
Lairesse pinxit A.Blooteling ex.Cum Privilegio
Mezzotint, rare proof before title. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾")..
Two women with a song sheet, within a round border.
[Ref: 3651] £360.00

[Netherlands] Willem de V.de / Prins van Oranje enz. enz.
G. van Nymegen ad vivum delin. 1765. Par Beauvarlet, Graveur du Roy
Apud J. Burgvliet, Rotterod.
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 375 x 240mm (14¾ x 9½"). Fine
William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806) as a boy, surrounded by allegorical symbols. William was last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. His time as Stadtholder included war with both England (1780-4) and France (1793-5) as a result of which he took refuge in England as the French overran Holland and the Stadtholderate was abolished. William received territories in compensation in 1802, but died before regaining possession of Holland.
[Ref: 31876] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Netherlands] Willem V.de, Prins van Oranje enz. enz.
G. van Nymegen ad vivum delin. 1765. Par Beauvarlet, Graveur du Roy.
Apud J. Burgvliet, Rotterod.
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾). Trimmed inside platemark
William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), grandson of George II, the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. His time as Stadtholder included war with both England (1780-4) and France (1793-5) as a result of which he took refuge in England as the French overran Holland and the Stadtholderate was abolished. William received territories in compensation in 1802, but died before regaining possession of Holland.
[Ref: 38332] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Marshal Ney. Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskwa, Peer of France. Who was Shot for Treason, Dec.r 8, 1815.
Gerard pinx.t. A. Easton Sculp.t.
Published April 9th 1816 by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London.
Stipple, with very large margins. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8").
François Gérard's famous portrait of Marshal Michel Ney (17690815), in ceremonial uniform. He fought for Napoleon from begining to end: after his command of French rear-guard on the Retreat from Moscow in 1812 he was jokingly referred to as 'the last Frenchman on Russian soil. Although he persuaded the emperor to abdicate and accept his first exile in 1814 and prepared a force to stop Napoleon reaching Paris during the Hundred Days, Ney joined with Napoleon in 1815. At the Battle of Waterloo, seeing the day was lost, Ney led a final charge, shouting to his men 'Come see how a marshal of France dies!'. However he survived, only to be shot for treason, one of very few of Napoleon's generals not to be exonerated by the restored Bourbon monarchy.
Gérard's oil remained in the family until the death of the 6th (and last) Prince of Moskow and his daughter, selling at auction for $242,500 in New York, 2013.
[Ref: 36029] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Le Maréchal Ney. Duc d'Elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa. Paiv de France.
F. Gerard pinx.t. Alex.dre Tardieu del et Sculp.t.
1814.
Engraving. Sheet: 175 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A half-length portrait of Michel Ney (1769-1815) a military commander in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, one of 18 men to be made Marshal by Napoleon. With the restoration of the Monarchy in 1815, Ney was tried and executed by firing squad though he refused to be blindfolded and gave the command himself.
[Ref: 42158] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[A young lady holding an amulet.]
G. Hoet pinxit. I. Broedelet fec: et excudit. [in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1700.]
Mezzotint. Plate 267 x 235mm. 10½ x 9¼". Two creases diagonally through the image.
A young lady seated at a tabel in the garden holds up and amulet; a man, perhaps her father, sits next to her resting on an ornate marble table.
[Ref: 16279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Paganini.
H: Gerard-Fontallard. Lith. de Fonrouge, quai Con [?] No.5.
Collection du Journal de Veteur de Portraits. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 290 x 220mm. 11½ x 8¾".
Niccolo Paganini (1784 - 1840), Italian violinist. Paganini established himself as Italy's greatest violinist in solo performances between 1810 and 1828. He embarked on a tour of Europe in 1829, reaching London in 1834 where he played to rapturous crowds. Plagued by ill-health, which he treated with mercury and opium, Paganini's gaunt appearance appealed to the romantic sensibilities of his audiences. He was known for his virtuoso playing but also composed music, mostly for his own use.
Provenance: Pemberton family of Trumpington Hall.
[Ref: 13018] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

St Paulus. 3. Book: 6: pag: 208. N:o 39.
[after Gerard Segers.]
[English, c.1700.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 225 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate.
A half-length portrait of St Paul, holding a sword and book. A reversed copy of the engraving by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert after Segers, with an inset scene added top right.
[Ref: 58507] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Payne.]
[Extracted from a painting by Louis Francois Gerard van der Puyl.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving on chine collé. 305 x 205mm (12 x 8), with very large margins. Chine collé lifting from backing sheet.
A half-length portrait of publisher and bookseller Thomas Payne, who ran a shop at Mews Gate in Castle Street near Leicester Fields (the site of the National Gallery), which became a meeting place for the literati of the day. The original painting, by Dutchman Louis François Gérard van der Puyl (1750-1824), shows Payne in his shop, surrounded by a group of people (including the painter). Payne is playing whist but, in this extract, his hand of cards has been replaced by a book!
The painting is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (accession 1951-125-17).
[Ref: 64402] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre II, Roy de Portugal.
Edelinck sculp.
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Minor toning.
Pedro (or Peter) II (1648-1706) was the king of Portugal from 1668 until his death, after the death of his elder brother. During his reign he successfully ended the Portuguese Restoration War and instigated a lasting alliance with Charles II and the English.
[Ref: 53741] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Jupiter Europam Rapit. Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv. et sculp. et per Nicolaum Visscher edit. cum Privil. Ord. Gen. Belgii Foederati.
[n.d., c.1770s.]
Etching, sheet 240 x 295mm. 9½ x 11¾". Trimmed to plate.
The rape of Europa, with Jupiter as a bull bearing her off across the water; Europa who sits on his back, her hand in the air, accompanied by two erotes. In a circular frame. Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. A myth tells of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull. Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC. After Gérard de Lairesse (1641 - 1711)
[Ref: 22281] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Two women reading a letter]
Gerars pinx. van Somer f.
F. de Wit Excudit
Mezzotint. 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Staining at bottom.
Two women reading a letter, while a man, woman, and dog observe. After a painting by G.P. van Zijl, which had previously been engraved by Wallerant Vaillant.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Holl: 48
[Ref: 34657] £350.00

P.J. Redouté, Peintre de Fleurs.
Gerard Pinx.t. C.S. Pradier sculp.t 1811.
Engraved with stippled face, with very large margins. 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Slight crease across upper title area.
A finely-executed portrait of Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He published over 2,100 plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many never illustrated before.
[Ref: 32653] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

De Herfst voorfien van Druÿf, wordt vande Winter tydt, Die Scharp en Schraal is, om het mêegenot gevrÿdt.
G. Lairesse pinxit. J. Munnichuÿsen Sculp.
ex Formis Nicolai Visscher Cum Privelegio Ordinum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae. [n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 297 x 241mm. 11¾ x 9½".
Two naked putti, representing Autumn and Winter, one holding grapes, the other holly, beside a fire burning in a brazier
[Ref: 26527] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printemps.
G. Lairesse inv. J. Glauber fe.
Leon: Schenk exc:
Etching, large 17th/18th century watermark; platemark 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Very large margins.
Allegory of Spring: the goddess Flora (Psyche) resting against a tree, with Cupid and two putti on the left and a vase full of flowers on the far left. One of a series of thirty plates depicting mythological and historical subjects after Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711). Lairesse was a Dutch painter and etcher who worked for William and Mary amongst other illustrious patrons. A classicist and theorist (after going blind he wrote a major theoretical treatise, the Groot Schilderboek or 'Great Book of Painting'), he was known as the 'Dutch Poussin'. Most of his own etchings were originally published by Nicolaes Visscher, who published a collected edition under the title 'Opus Elegantissimum' in c.1675.
[Ref: 37350] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Suspicious Lover. From a Picture in the Possession of V.M. Picot.
Terberg [Gerard Ter Borch] pinx.t. Picot Sculp.t.
London. Pub.d March 1 1784 by V.M. Picot No.83 St Martin's Lane.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"), with very large margins.
A man peers over a woman's shoulder as she writes a letter.
[Ref: 54207] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Two men seated at a table.]
Terburg, Pinx. Van Somer, fec. [lower left of image.]
F. de Wit Exc. [lower centre of image.]
Mezzotint, scarce, 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Cut to image.
A man sits disconsolately at a table, absent-mindedly toying with his snuffbox, with a friend looking at him across the table and a standing figure holding a straw-covered wine bottle. Engraved by Dutch mezzotinter Jan van Somer (c.1645-99) after Gerard Ter Borch's 'Scene at an Inn' (c. 1648/50, private collection). Unusually, Van Somer also made another print of the same scene, but in reverse. It has been said of the painting from which this print derives that 'no painting in Ter Borch's oeuvre conveys with such overwhelming power the emotion of loneliness and despair'. The model for the seated figure on the right was a member of the Spanish delegation to Munster for the signing of the 1648 treaty which made the United Netherlands independent from Spain. The same sitter appears in Ter Borch's famous painting of the ratification of that treaty.
Hollstein: 62; for the painting see 'Gerard ter Borch' (NGA, Washington, 2005, cat.15).
[Ref: 23133] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Beata Theresia.
G.D. Lar: inv: ex formis Nicolau Visscher Cum Privi Ordinum General Belgii foederarati. P.V.D. Berge fec.
[c.1675]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed on platemark. Creases.
St Teresa of Avila kneeling in ecstasy and surrounded by angels. Plate from an early edition of the 'Opus Elegantissimum' published by Valk, which contained etchings by Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711) along with a selection of plates (such as this) after his designs. The publication line at the bottom was changed several times in later publications.
Hollstein 14 (after Lairesse).
[Ref: 33072] £360.00

Tobias and the Angel. From an Original Picture in the Possession of Samuel Athawes Esq.r to whom this Place is Inscribedm by his very obliged & obedient Serv.t W.m Woollett.
The Landscape painted by Glauber, and the Figures by G. Lairesse. Engraved by W. Woollett and J. Emes.
Publish'd as the Act directs 2 May 1785, by W.m Woollett, No.1, North Street, Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, London.
Engraving, 380 x 450mm (15 x 17½"). Some scuffing and staining in margins.
Depiction of a scene from the book of Tobit, one of the Apocrypha in the King James Bible. Much of the narrative of this book is dedicated to Tobit's son, who is sent by his father to collect a sum of money from the land of Media, in which he is aided by the angel Raphael, who represents himself as Tobit's kinsman Azariah.
Fagan CXIX.
[Ref: 54253] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Ultoniae Orientalis Pars.
[engraved by Pieter van den Keere after Gerard Mercator.]
[Amsterdam: Jan Jansson van Waesberge, 1673.]
Engraved map with hand colour. 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼"), with large margins.
A map of eastern Ulster from Jan Cloppenburg's edition of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', the largest of the pocket-size versions. First published in 1630 the plates were suppressed for many years before resurfacing for this last edition.
[Ref: 57716] £95.00

[William II, Prince of Orange] Guilielmus Nassavius, Nat. Princeps Auriacus etc.
G. Hondthorst Pinxit. I. Suiderhoef Sculp.
P. Soutman Inven. Effigiavit et Excud. Cum Privil [n.d., c.1645]
Etching. Collector's mark bottom right; 450 x 365mm (17¾ x 14½"). Narrow margins, large repaired tear, right edge frayed. Damaged.
Head and shoulders portrait of William II, Prince of Orange (1626 - 1650) as a boy, taken from the full-length painting by Gerard van Honthorst from c.1640 now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
[Ref: 46411] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[William III when Prince of Orange] Dit's Welhem's Laasten Naam, en's eersten Deugdgenoot; / Goot om zyn Stam, en om zyn eigen Waarde groot [...]
Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv: et sculp:
et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit cum priv: Ord: Gen: Belgii Foederati nunc G. Vall [c.1672]
Etching, sheet 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
William III (1650 - 1702) when Prince of Orange, wearing armour and laurel headdress, in oval frame alongside the trumpeting figure of Fame. Son of stadholder William II of Holland and Mary, daughter of Charles I, William married his cousin Mary, daughter of James II and Anne Hyde in 1677. In 1688 he accepted an invitation by a group of leading statesmen to land in Britain with an armed force (the 'Glorious Revolution'). In 1689, after the flight of James II, he was crowned jointly with his wife. Etched by Gérard Lairesse (1640-1711), Dutch painter and etcher who worked for William and Mary amongst other illustrious patrons. A classicist and theorist (after going blind he wrote a major theoretical treatise, the Groot Schilderboek or 'Great Book of Painting'), Lairesse was known as the 'Dutch Poussin'. Most of his plates were originally published by Nicolaes Visscher, who published a collected edition under the title 'Opus Elegantissimum' in c.1675.
[Ref: 43009] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

George Wilson, The Celebrated Blackheath Pedestrian, Born 24th June 1766, in Love Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has performed the most extraordinary Feats in Walking of any Man in the Kingdom both in length of distance and number of Walking Matches, especially at his advanced Age.
E. Gerard Pinx, Norwich. H.y Adlard, Sculp, London.
London, Published by Geo.e Wilson, 17th March, 1821.
Etching. 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"), with very large margins. Bit dusty.
George Wilson (1766-1839), known as the 'Blackheath Pedestrian' for his attempt to walk a thousand miles around the heath in 20 days for a prize of £100. He failed because the authorities charged him with disturbing the peace because of the crowds that followed him. Although he was acquitted his arrest made the feat impossible, so he lost the prize, but a collection at the London Stock Exchange matched the £100 within two hours.
[Ref: 53062] £380.00

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