Grosvenor Prints

The Wages of Sin is Death. A Characteristic Design for the Arms of Buonaparte.
Designed Drawn & Invented by E.F. Stratton Reader
Published for the proprietor, March 10, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Strand, 1807.
Scarce stipple. 320 x 260mm (12½ x 10¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A satirical heraldic set of arms for Napoleon, supported by Death and the Devil. An early example of the theme, later copied by Vogel, Cruikshank and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 10706. See item 63811 for later impression.
[Ref: 63973] £650.00

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)

Trial of Queen Caroline.
W. Read del. & sc.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Vertical folds.
A scene showing the trial of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV, for adultery in 1820.
[Ref: 41568] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Apotheosis of Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. To Perpetuate the Memory of this Amiable Princess, so justly beloved and regretted By the British Nation, This tribute of Respect is most humbly Dedicated to her afflicted Consort His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, by Lieut.t R.P. Read. Proof.
Lieut.t Read Inv.t E. Burney Del.t Fry & Wright Sculp.
London Published June, 4.th 1818, for the Proprietor by J. Rippin, No.21. Theobalds Road.
Stipple. 470 x 325mm (18½ x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A tribute to Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) who tragically died following childbirth aged 21. The Princess raised to heaven, people around the tomb weepeing, including Britannia to the left; Windsor Castle seen to left background, where a monument was erected at her tomb in St George's Chapel.
NPG: D33524.
[Ref: 53629] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Prosody Correcting his Proof in a Printing Office.
Drawn & Eng.d by W. Read.
Published June 1, 1821 by M. Iley, 1 Somerset St, Portman S[qu.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 120 x 175mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
The inside of a printing office, press to the left, drying sheets flying about. A Rowlandson-style caricature from William Combe's ''The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in Search of the Antique and Picturesque Through Scotland, The Hebrides, The Orkney and Shetland Isles''.
Abbey Life 277.
[Ref: 44755] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Grand Coronation Banquet, In Westminster Hall, July 19th 1821. [&] The New Imperial Crown to be worn by His Majesty George the Fourth at his Coronation. [&] Coronation of His Majesty George the Fourth. July 1821.
W.Read Fecit.
Drawn & Engraved for La Belle Assemblee N.o 150 July 1.st 1821.
Three fine hand coloured engravings on one sheet. Sheet 240 x 380mm (9½ x 15"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album paper at corners.
La Belle Assemblée (in full La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies) was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837, founded by John Bell (1745–1831).
[Ref: 60461] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Goethe.]
[D.C. Read.]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching. Plate 95 x 89mm. 3¾ x 3½". Very fine.
A profile to left bust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) the German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. After David Charles Read (1790-1851), an admirer of Rembrandt's etching who began producing his own from 1827.
[Ref: 23404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

James Grey Jackson.
Engraved by E. Scriven (Historial Engraver to H.R.H the Prince Regent.] from an Aquatinta profile by Mrs. Read.
Published Aug.st 12.th.1811, by G & W Nicol, Pall Mall.
Stipple. Plate 210 x 140mm. 8¼ x 5½".
Frontispiece to James Grey Jackson's travel journal; second edition of 1811, "An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the Districts of Suse and Tafilelt...". James Grey Jackson, was Professor of African Languages, and formerly British Consul and Agent for Holland, Sweden, and Denmark, at Santa Cruz, South Barbary.
[Ref: 20250] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[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

[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

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)

[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

The Origin of a Painter.
From a Sketch By Wm. Mulready R.A. [facsimile] (in the Possession of W. Mulready Esq.re) Proof. Plate 10, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane A.R.A.
Printed by Engelmann & Co. London 1828. Publishd by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé, rare with large margins. 406 x 266mm. 16 x 10½". Foxing around edges of chine collé.
Plate 10; interior scene with a boy tracing on the wall at right around the shadow of his father who sleeps in a chair in the centre, his mother and another child watching with merriment at left.
[Ref: 24890] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

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

[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

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

[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

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)

Key to the Battle of Waterloo, by Lieut. Read.
G.W. Ginger, College Street, Westminster.
[n.d., watermarked 1836.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 450 x 560mm (17¾ x 22"). Watermarked 'Sweetapple 1836', Wear to edges.
Keyplate to the aquatint drawn and etched by William Heath after Lieut. R.P. Read, first published by Reeve in 1816. This keyplate is for a later issue as the letterpress 'Summary Account of that Decisive Victory' has been updated to include Napoleon's death on St Helena in 1821.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36969] £360.00

The Rev.d Mr. Hugh Worthington.
Wm. Read Pinx.t Harding Sculp.t
Publish'd as ye Act Directs, For W. Read, 157, Fleet Street & R. Eynon, Back of ye Royal Exchange. [n.d. c.1790.]
Etching. 254 x 215mm. 10 x 8½". Trimmed.
Portrait of Hugh Worthington (1752-1813), Arian divine. He was a pastor at Salter's Hall, London, from 1782. In 1785 he wasmad a trustee of Dr. Williams's Foundations, the library of Dr. Daniel Williams. He was a lecturer on classics and logic from 1786 to 1789.
O'D: 1 (only engraved portrait listed for sitter).
[Ref: 27180] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[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

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

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