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Mrs Brooke. Author of Lady Julia Mandeville, &c.
Catherine Read pinx. Mariano Bovi sculp.
[London: Publish'd May 1790, by Mano. Bovi, No. 81, Great Titchfield Street.]
Stipple with etching. 318 x 228mm. 12½ x 9". Cut, crease.
Frances Moore Brooke (c.1724-1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. It was whilst she was in Canada that she wrote her first novel in 1763, "The History of Lady Julia Mandeville".
[Ref: 20671] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Catherine Read pinx. Mariano Bovi sculp.
[London: Publish'd May 1790, by Mano. Bovi, No. 81, Great Titchfield Street.]
Stipple with etching. 318 x 228mm. 12½ x 9". Cut, crease.
Frances Moore Brooke (c.1724-1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. It was whilst she was in Canada that she wrote her first novel in 1763, "The History of Lady Julia Mandeville".
[Ref: 20671] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Lord Newbattle and his Sister.]](jpegs/25242.jpg)
[William Lord Newbattle and his Sister.]
Cath. Reid pinxit. Val. Green fecit.
Reyland, Bryer & Co excud.ut [n.d. c.1768.]
Rare mezzotint. 508 x 355mm. 20 x 14". Trimmed and laid on board.
Double portrait of children William Kerr (1764-1824), later 6th Marquess of Lothian, and his younger sister Elizabeth (1765-1822), later Lady Dormer. William is shown aged about five. wearing a lace collar, looking towards the viewer and holding his hands out to the right, the one laid on top of the other, to receive a dove which his sister holds.
Ex Collection: E. M. Hallenstein. CS: 90, i/ii. Whitman: 4, i/ii.
[Ref: 25242] £380.00
Cath. Reid pinxit. Val. Green fecit.
Reyland, Bryer & Co excud.ut [n.d. c.1768.]
Rare mezzotint. 508 x 355mm. 20 x 14". Trimmed and laid on board.
Double portrait of children William Kerr (1764-1824), later 6th Marquess of Lothian, and his younger sister Elizabeth (1765-1822), later Lady Dormer. William is shown aged about five. wearing a lace collar, looking towards the viewer and holding his hands out to the right, the one laid on top of the other, to receive a dove which his sister holds.
Ex Collection: E. M. Hallenstein. CS: 90, i/ii. Whitman: 4, i/ii.
[Ref: 25242] £380.00
![[William Lord Newbattle and his Sister.]](jpegs/65027.jpg)
[William Lord Newbattle and his Sister.]
[Cath. Reid pinxit. Val. Green fecit.]
[Ryland, Bryer & Co excud.nt] [n.d. c.1768.]
Mezzotint, very rare proof before letters. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Small scrape in blank inscription area, some foxing.
Double portrait of children William Kerr (1764-1824), later 6th Marquess of Lothian, and his younger sister Elizabeth (1765-1822), later Lady Dormer. William is shown aged about five. wearing a lace collar, looking towards the viewer and holding his hands out to receive a dove which his sister holds.
CS: 90, unlisted state before i/ii. Whitman: 4, unlisted state before i/ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65027] £360.00
[Cath. Reid pinxit. Val. Green fecit.]
[Ryland, Bryer & Co excud.nt] [n.d. c.1768.]
Mezzotint, very rare proof before letters. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Small scrape in blank inscription area, some foxing.
Double portrait of children William Kerr (1764-1824), later 6th Marquess of Lothian, and his younger sister Elizabeth (1765-1822), later Lady Dormer. William is shown aged about five. wearing a lace collar, looking towards the viewer and holding his hands out to receive a dove which his sister holds.
CS: 90, unlisted state before i/ii. Whitman: 4, unlisted state before i/ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65027] £360.00
Lord Newbattle and Lady Eliz.th Kerr.
London, Printed for Rob.t Saye, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Rubbed. Slight creasing.
Double portrait of William and Elizabeth Kerr (holding a dove). Probably copied from the larger mezzotint which Valentine Green made of Catherine Read's painting.
Lennox-Boyd database ii/ii; for Green's mezzotint of this portrait see ref. 25242
[Ref: 31379] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
London, Printed for Rob.t Saye, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Rubbed. Slight creasing.
Double portrait of William and Elizabeth Kerr (holding a dove). Probably copied from the larger mezzotint which Valentine Green made of Catherine Read's painting.
Lennox-Boyd database ii/ii; for Green's mezzotint of this portrait see ref. 25242
[Ref: 31379] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Lady Helena Oakeley] Miss Beatson.](jpegs/62741.jpg)
[Lady Helena Oakeley] Miss Beatson.
C. Read pinx.t. Eliz.th Judkins fecit.
[British, n.d., 1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; verso in pencil on bottom Hackney Coll.; 355 x 255 (14 x 10") very large margins. Time stained. Hinged at top on mount.
A portrait of Helena Beatson (d.1839), as a child; with a spaniel, leaning on chair back wearing pale, plain dress and cap. She was the niece of Catherine Read (1723-78)., who painted this portrait, and became skilled amateur painter herself, known under her married name of Lady Helena Oakeley. The engraver, Elizabeth Judkins, was sister-in-law to mezzotinter James Watson.
CS 2, i of ii.
[Ref: 62741] £380.00
C. Read pinx.t. Eliz.th Judkins fecit.
[British, n.d., 1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; verso in pencil on bottom Hackney Coll.; 355 x 255 (14 x 10") very large margins. Time stained. Hinged at top on mount.
A portrait of Helena Beatson (d.1839), as a child; with a spaniel, leaning on chair back wearing pale, plain dress and cap. She was the niece of Catherine Read (1723-78)., who painted this portrait, and became skilled amateur painter herself, known under her married name of Lady Helena Oakeley. The engraver, Elizabeth Judkins, was sister-in-law to mezzotinter James Watson.
CS 2, i of ii.
[Ref: 62741] £380.00
Miss Harriot Powell. 157.
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") , with widemargins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") , with widemargins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00
Miss Harriot Powell.
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, old ink mss. in inscription area. Small margins.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64919] £460.00
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, old ink mss. in inscription area. Small margins.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64919] £460.00
Miss Harriot Powell.
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). 'E.M.H.' ink stamp of collector Mrs. E.M. Hamilton, London, on reverse. Small margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64920] £520.00
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). 'E.M.H.' ink stamp of collector Mrs. E.M. Hamilton, London, on reverse. Small margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64920] £520.00
![[Miss Harriot Powell.]](jpegs/64921.jpg)
[Miss Harriot Powell.]
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. [London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Narrow margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64921] £520.00
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. [London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Narrow margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64921] £520.00
![[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]](jpegs/62701.jpg)
[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
published according to Act of Parliament by R. Sayer June 12, 1771.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Ink collector's stamp on reverse. Time stained. Tear from left edge to plate mark and around plate mark repaired.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer published the plate on the 20th June with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137,i of ii; Goodwin 79, i of iii. Lugt L.2178, Fritz Reiss of London, whose collection of mezzotints is described by Lugt as 'l'une des plus belles de ce genre'; It was dispersed in 1914.
[Ref: 62701] £420.00
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
published according to Act of Parliament by R. Sayer June 12, 1771.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Ink collector's stamp on reverse. Time stained. Tear from left edge to plate mark and around plate mark repaired.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer published the plate on the 20th June with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137,i of ii; Goodwin 79, i of iii. Lugt L.2178, Fritz Reiss of London, whose collection of mezzotints is described by Lugt as 'l'une des plus belles de ce genre'; It was dispersed in 1914.
[Ref: 62701] £420.00
M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iiii of iii.
[Ref: 62772] £380.00
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iiii of iii.
[Ref: 62772] £380.00
Miss Trimmer.
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the King's Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 515 x 355mm (20½ x 14"). Rust marks from stretcher nails in left margin, repaired tear in inscription area. Some damage.
A young girl holding a cat. Although the DNB calls this a portrait of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), evangelist and children's writer, the NPG notes that it ''is in fact one of Mrs Trimmer's six daughters'', one of whom was Selina (1764-1829), who became governess to the family of the Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
[Ref: 59674] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the King's Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 515 x 355mm (20½ x 14"). Rust marks from stretcher nails in left margin, repaired tear in inscription area. Some damage.
A young girl holding a cat. Although the DNB calls this a portrait of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), evangelist and children's writer, the NPG notes that it ''is in fact one of Mrs Trimmer's six daughters'', one of whom was Selina (1764-1829), who became governess to the family of the Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
[Ref: 59674] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Joseph Sidney York, Aged Three Years.]](jpegs/58478.jpg)
[Joseph Sidney York, Aged Three Years.]
Cath. Read pinxit. Val.Green fecit. John Boydell excudit.
Publish'd by John Boydell Cheapside Feby. 17th 1772 .
Mezzotint, a rare scratched letter proof before title. 455 x 325mm. Small margins.
Oval portrait of Joseph Yorke (1768-1831), hugging a fluffy white dog. He grew up to be Admiral of the Blue, KCB and MP. Sailing between Portsmouth and Hamble, a squall upset the 14-ton yacht he was on, drowning everyone.
Whatman: 35 & CS 145, neither mentioning this proof state. See Ref: 4799
[Ref: 58478] £320.00
Cath. Read pinxit. Val.Green fecit. John Boydell excudit.
Publish'd by John Boydell Cheapside Feby. 17th 1772 .
Mezzotint, a rare scratched letter proof before title. 455 x 325mm. Small margins.
Oval portrait of Joseph Yorke (1768-1831), hugging a fluffy white dog. He grew up to be Admiral of the Blue, KCB and MP. Sailing between Portsmouth and Hamble, a squall upset the 14-ton yacht he was on, drowning everyone.
Whatman: 35 & CS 145, neither mentioning this proof state. See Ref: 4799
[Ref: 58478] £320.00
Joseph Sidney York, Aged Three Years.
Cath. Read pinxit. Val.Green fecit. John Boydell excudit.
Published Feby. 17th 1772 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 455 x 325mm.
Oval portrait of Joseph Yorke (1768-1831), later Admiral of the Blue, KCB and MP. Sailing between Portsmouth and Hamble, a squall upset the 14-ton yacht he was on, drowning everyone.
Whatman: 35; CS 145. See Ref: 58478.
[Ref: 4799] £340.00
Cath. Read pinxit. Val.Green fecit. John Boydell excudit.
Published Feby. 17th 1772 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 455 x 325mm.
Oval portrait of Joseph Yorke (1768-1831), later Admiral of the Blue, KCB and MP. Sailing between Portsmouth and Hamble, a squall upset the 14-ton yacht he was on, drowning everyone.
Whatman: 35; CS 145. See Ref: 58478.
[Ref: 4799] £340.00