Grosvenor Prints

Adam Bearing the Murdered Body of Abel_and sighing under the sad burthen slowly moved towards his dwelling. Gessner's Death of Abel, Book the IV. Plate the 1.st [&] The Departure of Cain. They left their cottage Mahala with weeping eyes beheld the dwellings of her parents and of Mirza. Gessner’s Death of Abel. Book V.
H. Singleton pinxit. John Murphy excudit 1799. James Godby sculpsit. [&] H. Singleton pinxit. John Murphy excudit 1800. James Godby sculpsit.
London: Published Jan.y 7. 1799, by John Murphy, North-side Paddington Green. [&] London: Published Jan.y 2. 1800, by John Murphy. No.19 Howland Street Fitzroy Square.
A pair of stipples. Each 596 x 515mm (23½ x 20¼"), with large margins. First of pair cut into platemark along both side edges, some foxing to edges, but images excellent.
Adam and Eve, wearing animal skins, Adam carrying the dead body of his son Abel over his shoulder, approaching across a landscape, with Eve walking behind him, covering her face in her hands, mourning; [&] Cain, wearing animal skins, one hand to his head in despair, holding a son by the other hand, his wife beside him carrying a child and looking behind her sadly at the home they have left, two other children walking just ahead of them, pointing onward.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28444] £300.00 view all images for this item

The Destruction of the Bastile July 14th 1789.
[Painte]d by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by W. Nutter.
Publish'd Mar: 1: 1792 by B.B. Evans, Poultry London.
Scarce stipple with etching. Sheet 490 x 625mm (19¼ x 24½"). Trimmed within plate, stain lower left with loss of some of artist's inscription.
The mob outside the Bastille, exchanging fire with soldiers on the battlements. A scene sympathetic to the attackers, published before the Revolution turned sour.
[Ref: 57686] £450.00

[The Destruction of the Bastile July 14th 1789.]
Painted by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by W. Nutter.
Publish'd Jan.y 7 1792 by B.B. Evans, Poultry London.
Stipple with etching, scarce proof before title. 495 x 635mm (19¼ x 24½"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, creased. Small margins on 3 sides.
The mob outside the Bastille, exchanging fire with soldiers on the battlements. A scene sympathetic to the attackers, published before the Revolution turned sour.
[Ref: 57687] £490.00

Boadicea. Queen of the Iceni, leading the Britons against the Roman army under Suetonius, Seeing her troops defeated with the slaughter of 80,000 men, She terminated her life by poison, in order to avoid falling into the power of the Roman General.
Painted by Henry Singleton. Engraved by William Bond.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Queen Boadicea in a chariot being drawn to left, spear in her right hand, with her daughters slumped in despair at her knees.
[Ref: 44094] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Cymbal Girl.
H. Singleton pinxt. J. Eginton. sculpt.
Pub. April 1st 1793. by Jee & Eginton [Birmingham].
Stipple printed in brown ink, sheet 200 x 175mm. 8 x 7". Trimmed to plate.
A female street musician, children gathered around; she appears to be playing an accordion-type box-shaped musical instrument, powered by a winding handle. After Henry Singleton (British, 1766 - 1839).
[Ref: 19864] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Origin of Design.
H. Singleton pinx.t W. Nutter Sculp.t.
London, Published by C. Taylor, Holborn, April 1. 1824.
Stipple engraving. Plate 190 x 133mm.7½ x 5¼".
With a winged cherub seated holding his bow and arrow in one hand and a torch in the other, the light casts the shade of the young male model onto the wall behind. A seated woman then sketches around the shadow to get a profile outline. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22599] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Marriage Ceremony of their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of York At Buckingham House on the 29th of September.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by J. Grozer.
London, Published Jan.y 4, 1797, by I. Brydon at his Looking Glass & Print Warehouse Charing Cross.
Mezzotint, very scarce. 535 x 630mm (21 x 24¾"). Repaired tear in title, narrow right margin.Damage in border.
The marriage of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and his cousin Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, the daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia. The couple soon started living apart.
CS: 22 only state.
[Ref: 31148] £420.00

[Battle of Emmendingen] The Battle between the Archduke Charles and General Moreau on the 19th of Oct.r 1796 near Kintzingen.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by N. Schiavonetti Jun.r.
London Published June 1st 1800 by Mess.rs Schiavonetti, 12 Michael Place Brompton.
Stipple. 595 x 715mm (23½ x 28¼"). Small margins. Tear taped on left and right middle margin, wear at edges, some spotting.
A scene of The Battle of Emmendingen, with Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, on horseback leading the advance of his First Coalition Army of the Upper Rhine against the French Army of Rhin-et-Moselle under Jean Victor Marie Moreau.
[Ref: 53907] £280.00

The Foolish Virgins. 'They that were foolish took their lamps, & took no oil with them.' Matt. Chap. XXV.
Singleton Pinx.t. Gaugain sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple with roulette, with large margins. 600 x 480mm, 23½ x 19". Some very small losses.
Five young women milling around, the front two holding empty lamps. Christ's parable of the 'Ten Virgin' warns of the dangers of not being prepared for the Day of Judgement.
[Ref: 26778] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Going to Market.
Engraved by W.Nutter. Painted by Singleton.
London. Published Octob.r 1st 1791. by E.M.Diemar, No.114 Strand.
Stipple, printed in brown. 440 x 330mm.
[Ref: 5540] £520.00

To his Highness the Prince of Bouillon, this Plate The Subject St. Gregory before his Elevation to the Royal Chair observing some Children of Great Beauty set up for Sale in the Slave Market at Rome & finding on enquiry they were English Pagans he exclaimed Non Angli sed Amgeli sorent si essent Christiani they would not be English but Angels were they Christians is with Permission Humbly dedicated by His Highness's most Obedient & most Humble Srvant P. Roberts.
Painted by Heny. Singleton. Engraved by Piercy Roberts.
London Published as the Act directs Jany 1st 1801 by P. Roberts 289 Holborn.
Stipple engraving printed in colours, 540 x 670mm. Water stain upper left corner of image.
Saint Gregory I the Great or Pope Saint Gregory I (c. 540 – 604) was pope from September 3, 590 until his death. This illustrates the circumstances of his famous quote 'Non Angli, sed Angeli' ('They are not Angles, but Angels') when he first encountered blue-eyed, blond-haired English boys at a slave market. The incident is said by Bede to have led to his dispatching of St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to convert the English. A fantastic example of colour printing.
[Ref: 7911] £450.00

Gipsey's Stealing a Child. [&] The Child Restored.
Painted by H.Singleton. Engraved by R.M.Meadows.
London Published May 10, 1798, by I.R. Smith King Street Covent Garden.
Pair of stipples, each image c.350 x 435mm (13¾ x 17"). First plate lacking margins; the second with large margins and marginal tears. Both sheets rather creased.
The first composition shows a group of gipsies gathered with their animals in a landscape, including a woman in the centre who lifts a child onto the pannier of a donkey; a young man holding up an apple to tempt the child. The second is an elegant interior where a mother is embracing her child while her husband, sister and grandmother look on with grateful surprise. The child gestures towards a coachman standing on the left, beside a weeping gipsy woman and two of her children. After Henry Singleton (1766 - 1839).
See Slater p.475.
[Ref: 21749] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Death of Capt.n Alex.r Hood of the Mars 74 Guns, after Engaging & Capturing L'Hercule French 74 700 Men.
Henry Singleton Pinx.t. James Daniell Sculp.t.
Published Sept.. 29, 1798, by James Daniell, No.6, Great Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, London.
Coloured mezzotint. 560 x 655mm. . Staining to title area and margins.
Alexander Hood [1758 - 1798], captain in the navy. He fell early in the action, shot in the thigh by a musket-bullet which cut the femoral artery, was carried below, and expired just as the sword of the French captain was placed in his hand.
[Ref: 5538] £650.00

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The Infant Cottager.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by J. Jones Engraver Extraordinary to His R.H. the Prince of Wales & Principal Engraver to His R.H. the Duke of York
Published as the Act directs March 29th 1799 by J. Jones No 7 Great Portland Street Portland Place
Rare mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Very large margins; staining lower right
Girl, seated beside a stile and surrounded by foliage, feeding a bird.
CS 89; Ex Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 38376] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

I will be a Lady. [&] I will be a Soldier.
H. Singleton Delin.t. C. Knight Sculp.t.
London Publish'd Jan. 1.st 1795 by C. Knight No.53 Piccadilly.
Pair of stipples. Plate: 240 x 180mm (9½ x 8''). Trimmed.
A pair of childhood scenes, in one a little girl tries on a woman's hat and in the second a little boy tries on a soldier's hat.
[Ref: 48086] £360.00

Lingo and Cowslip. Oh Cowslip the Great Old Roman Hero's, Perhaps you never heard of Moses, Homer, Hercules or Wat Tyler; Vide, O.Keefs Agreable Surprise.
H. Singleton pinx.t Edw.d Scott, Sculp.t
London, Pub.d May 1, 1788 by I. Birchall No.473, Strand.
Very fine stipple printed in brown ink with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 380 x 350mm (15 x 13¾").
A scene from O'Keeffe's play 'The agreeable Surprise': in a kitchen, Lingo sits on a chair wearing wig and pointing upwards, while Cowslip faces him with a bowl on her lap. Comic actor John Edwin the Elder (1749-1790) is depicted here as Lingo, with actess and singer Mary Stephens Wells (1762-1829) as Cowslip.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. NPG: D15108.
[Ref: 28412] £360.00

Lady Macbeth. One! Two! Why, then tis time to do it-.[/] Macbeth. Act V. Scene 3.
H. Singleton del. W. Nutter Sculp.t.
C. Taylor excud.
Stipple with very large margins. 190mm x 140mm (7½" x 5½"). Small tear in lower margin.
Depiction of Act V. Scene 3 of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' in which Lady Macbeth, driven mad by her involvement in the murder of Duncan, King of Scotland, sleepwalks and sleeptalks whilst watched by two female servants from the bedroom door. From a series of Shakespeare illustrations.
[Ref: 31928] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Macbeth. I've done the deed.- did I not hear a noise? [/] Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2.
H. Singleton del. C. Taylor direxit et sculpsit.
Stipple with very large margins. 140mm x 180mm (5½" x 7"). Small tear in upper margin.
Depiction of events in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' Act II. Scene 2. in which Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland. Macbeth is depicted leaving the bedroom of Duncan holding a dagger, Duncan can be seen lying dead in his bed. From a series of Shakespeare illustrations.
[Ref: 31930] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Meditiation.
H. Singleton Delin.t. Geo. Townly Stubbs sculp.t. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of [Wales.]
London Published July 9.th 1800 by G.T. Stubbs No.97 High Street, Marylebone.
Stipple, printed in colours. Sheet: 310 x 215mm (12 x 8½''). Trimmed and foxing.
An allegorical scene showing a female figure in meditation.
CL-B George Stubbs: Appendix II 122. Ex Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 49887] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mother's Pride.
Singleton Pinx.t Godby Sculp.t [c.1815]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"). Trimmed inside platemark. Slight staining at corners.
Sentimental scene after Henry Singleton (1766-1839), London-born painter who began painting large and ambitious historical scenes such as 'Paul I Granting Liberty to Kosciuszko' (1797) and 'The Death of Captain Alexander Hood' but turned increasingly to book illustrations and genre scenes in his later years.
[Ref: 42462] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Nosegay Girl.
Painted by Singleton. Engraved by W.m Nutter.
London Published Jan.y 1.st 1793, by E.M. Diemar No.114 Strand.
Hand-coloured stipple. 432 x 317mm (17 x 12"). Trimmed.
The nosegay girl: outside a house, a woman with a mob cap, seated on a stool on the left, giving a flower to a boy who stands on the right; flowers in a bowl on a table behind the woman, two cats playing on the ground.
[Ref: 28913] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

So spake the false dissembler unperceiv'd. Book III.L.681.
Singleton pinxit. Saunders sculpsit.
Prined for J. Parsons, 21, Paternoster Row. Jany.1.1796.
Engraving. Plate 215 x 154mm. 8½ x 6". Trimmed along the sides.
A plate to some of the text from John Milton's "Paradise Lost"; an epic religious poem concerning the Christian story of the Fall of Man. Satan changes to a cherub, or low-ranking angel. Recognizing the other angel as the Archangel Uriel, Satan approaches and addresses him. Satan claims to have just come down from Heaven, full of curiosity about the new world he has been hearing so much about, and curious about its inhabitants. Satan’s transformation and his speech are so flawless that even Uriel cannot see through the subterfuge.
[Ref: 19327] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Vicar of the Parish Receiving His Tithes. [&] The Curate of the Parish Return'd From Duty.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by T. Burke.
London Pub.d Oct.r 31, 1793, by I. Brydon at his Looking Glass & Print Warehouse, Charing Cross.
Pair. Stipple printed in colour with large margins. Platemark: 435 x 330mm (17 x 13") each.
An interior scene with a young lady standing by a window, gesturing towards a little boy in a smock who holds a piglet in a basket of straw, and looking at a stout clergyman who sits to right at his desk, holding a quill with a sheaf of papers in front of him. [&] Interior with a young lady sitting holding a pair of bellows in her lap, looking up to left towards her husband the curate, who enters to left, his daughter walking beside him and holding his hand, a book under her arm, and a little dog jumping up at him.
[Ref: 36351] £450.00 view all images for this item

[Oriental man reading a large book]
[by Henry Singleton, 1803]
Pen lithograph, sheet 225 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"). Very damaged; losses.
Early lithograph by Henry Singleton (1766-1839), painter. A professional portrait painter from the age of sixteen, Singleton was commissioned by Benjamin West to paint a large group portrait of the Royal Academicians in 1796, but Singleton never became an academician himself. He was known for his history paintings initially, but later moved into decorative and pastoral subject matter, often designed with a view to engraving. This print, a rare excursion into printmaking for Singleton, was included in the 1806 edition of the first portfolio of artists' lithographs, 'Specimens of Polyauthography'. The new medium allowed artists to draw directly onto a prepared stone, allowing artists to make prints which arguably resembled drawings more than any earlier printmaking technique. Unlike many printmaking techniques, lithography required no special training as artists could work directly onto the plate and leave specialist printers to actually make the prints. For this reason many artists who were not trained printmakers (such as Géricault and Delacroix) often worked in lithography.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36943] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sit up Papagèno.
Engraved from a Drawing by H. Singleton, in the possession of Sir Tho.s Duke Acland, Bar.t M.P. and most respectfully dedicated to Lady Acland, By her Ladyship's greatly obliged and most obedient humble Servant, J.S.Agar.
London. Published Feb 21st 1825 by I.S.Agar, 59 Stafford Place, Pimlico.
Stipple engraving with roulette. 350 x 385mm. Trimmed to platemark at top and bottom.
Two young children training a poodle to beg. Alarmingly one has a whip.
[Ref: 5544] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Key to the Plate of the Royal Academicians.
[after the painting by Henry Singleton.]
Pub. by C. Bestland 1802.
Etching. 290 x 375mm (11½ x 14¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1839. Slight creasing and staining.
Scarce keyplate to Henry Singleton's painting, engraved by Bestland as 'The Royal Academicians Assembled in their Council Chamber'. The 40 Academicians named include: James Barry, Francesco Bartolozzi, Sir William Beechey, Richard Cosway, Henry Fuseli, Angelica Kauffmann, James Northcote, Paul & Thomas Sandby, Benjamin West, Francis Wheatley & Johann Zoffany. The painting still hangs in the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 58949] £360.00

Scarcity in India [&] British Plenty.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by C: Knight.
Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1794 by C. Knight, Stoke, Bucks, & Random Stainbank & Sayer, 17 Old Bond Street, London.
Pair of stipple engravings with hand colour. Each c. 600 x 455mm (23½ x 18"), with large margins. 'Scarcity' with surface wear in inscription area and margins. 'Plenty' with worming in inscription area and some wear in margins.
A rare pair of scenes after Henry Singleton (1766-1839) which contrast British wealth with food shortages in India at a time of famine in Bengal between 1769-1770. 'British Plenty' shows a single seaman between two women who, although they appear to be selling the man vegetables, are marked as prostitutes by their fine dresses. In contrast, 'Scarcity in India' depicts two young Englishmen offering cheap trinkets to a young Indian girl outside an impoverished village.
[Ref: 50059] £850.00 view all images for this item

[Seasons] - Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter.
H. Singleton pinx.t W. Bond Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1820.]
Set of four stipple engravings, Plate 153 x 158mm. 6 x 6¼".
Spring: threes youngsters picking flowers; Summer: a bird-seller with two held in a cage to his left, woos a young maiden who holds a rake; Autumn: a family harvest scene; Winter: an old lady seated sewing, with her daughter to the right and her partner smoking a pipe to the left. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22604] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The Four Seasons.] Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter.
H.Singleton pinx.t. W.Bond sculp.t.
Jan.y 1st 1795 C.Taylor excudit, London.
Set of four stipples, printed in sepia. Each c. 150 x 155mm.
From the 'Temple of Taste'.
[Ref: 5546] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Settling Family attacked by Savages.
Painted by H.Singleton. Engraved by G.Keating.
[Publication line excised, Published 10th. of August 1799, by G. Keating, 18 Warwick Street, Golden Square.]
Mezzotint, printed in very bright colours. Sheet 645 x 510mm. Trimmed within plate at bottom.
Pair to 'The Settling Family Secure and Happy', engraved by J.Murphy.
BM: 1877,0811.878 Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5547] £950.00

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The Sheep Shearer [parallel text in French]
Peint par H. Singleton. Gravé par Ruotte.
A Paris chez Pomel Jne et C.ie rue du Temple 43 [n.d., c.1810].
Stipple engraving, rare, sheet 485 x 355mm (19 x 14"). Trimmed inside platemark; nicks to edges.
Henry Singleton (1766-1839), London-born painter who began painting large and ambitious historical scenes such as 'Paul I Granting Liberty to Kosciuszko' (1797) and 'The Death of Captain Alexander Hood' but turned increasingly to book illustrations and genre scenes (often intended specifically for engraving) in his later years.
[Ref: 44199] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bestümrung und Einnahme von Seringapatam den 4.ten May 1799. General Major Baird hatte seine Macht in zwey Divisionen abgetheilt, die eine unter dem Comand der Obertsn Sherbrooke...Wiederstands erfochten beede Divisionen den vollkomensten Sieg. The Assault and Taking of Seringapatam on the 4.th of May 1799. Major General Baird having devided his force into two divisions, one under the command of Colonel Sherbrooke and the other of Colonel Dunlop, the troops ascended the breach under a heavy fire, when the latter officer was severely wounded, but though vigrrously opposed, loth divisions, were completely successful. Dedicated by Permission To His most Gracious Majesty George III King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland, &c.&c.&c. By His Majesty's most dutiful servants. Anth.y Cardon & N.& S. Schiavonetti.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by Laminet.
Zu finden in der Akademischen Kunsthandlung in Augsburg. [n.d. c.1800.]
Rare hand-coloured engraving, 425 x 483mm. 16¾ x 19". Trimmed.
The Battle of Seringapatam was the final battle of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore; which came to an end with the defeat and death of Tippu Sultan. It was a decisive British victory after breaching the walls of the fortress and storming the citadel. The British restored the Wodeyar dynasty to the throne after the victory, but retained indirect control of the kingdom.
See 20810 for the pair.
[Ref: 20809] £750.00

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Bestümrung und Einnahme von Seringapatam den 4.ten May 1799. General Major Baird hatte seine Macht in zwey Divisionen abgetheilt, die eine unter dem Comand der Obertsn Sherbrooke...Wiederstands erfochten beede Divisionen den vollkomensten Sieg. The Assault and Taking of Seringapatam on the 4.th of May 1799. Major General Baird having devided his force into two divisions, one under the command of Colonel Sherbrooke and the other of Colonel Dunlop, the troops ascended the breach under a heavy fire, when the latter officer was severely wounded, but though vigrrously opposed, loth divisions, were completely successful. Dedicated by Permission To His most Gracious Majesty George III King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland, &c.&c.&c. By His Majesty's most dutiful servants. Anth.y Cardon & N.& S. Schiavonetti. [&] Lezte Anstrengung und Tod des Sultans Tippo. Der verwundete Sultan hatte sich under das Thor de inern Forts zuruck gezo=gen, hier...Muskete durch den Kopf, und der Sultan stirbt in dem nemlichen Augenblick. The Last Effort and Fall of Tippo Sultaun. The wounded Sultaun retired under the gateway of the inner fort, his Horse having sunk under him, his people raised him up & placed him on his Palankeen, from which, on the appearance of some European Soldiers, he with difficulty removed himself grasped his sword & tho nearly exhausted from loss of blood, wounded one of them above the knee who attempted to seize his sword belt, and who shot the Sultaun thro the head when he instantly expired. Dedicated by Permission To the honourable The Court of Directors of the United Last India Company By Their most obliged and mos obedient humble Servants, L.N. & S. Schiavonetti & A. Cardon.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by Laminet.
Zu finden in der Akademischen Kunsthandlung in Augsburg. [n.d. c.1800.]
Pair of hand-coloured engravings, large margins. Plate 431 x 488mm. 17 x 19¼".
The Battle of Seringapatam was the final battle of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore; which came to an end with the defeat and death of Tippu Sultan. It was a decisive British victory after breaching the walls of the fortress and storming the citadel. The British restored the Wodeyar dynasty to the throne after the victory, but retained indirect control of the kingdom. The Tippu Sultan was killed in action nea the Water Gate.
See Ref: 20809 for first plate.
[Ref: 20810] £1,850.00 view all images for this item

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[Vice Admiral S.r Edw.d Vernon.]
Painted by H.Singleton. Engraved by J.Jones, Engraver Extrasordinary to His R.H. the Prince of Wales and Principal Engraver to His R.H. the Duke of York.
Publish'd as the Act directs Sept.r 1, 1791 by J.Jones, No 75 Great Portland Street, Portland Place.
Mezzotint, proof before title. With engraved bookplate of the Vernon family and Vernon's signature ink pasted in the inscription area. 665 x 335mm. Some faint damp staining, mainly in margins, some creasing.
Sir Edward Vernon, commanded the fleet that took Pondicherry in 1778. Subsequently he was promoted to rear-admiral in 1779 and returned to England early in 1781. He saw no more active service, but was made a vice-admiral in 1787 and admiral in 1794, only to die a few weeks later. In 1785 he made a couple of balloon ascents from Tottenham Court Road, one reaching Horsham, the other Colchester. He was only a distant relative of his more famous namesake. Apparently Vernon's own copy of this full-length portrait.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5548] £690.00

War.
H. Singleton pinx.t. J. Whessell sculp.t.
London Published June 4, 1805 by John P. Thompson, G.t Newport Street.
Rare stipple. 650 x 500mm (25½ x 19¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, edges worn, several tears. Messy.
An allegorical scene, with the interior of a tent in which an officer takes leave of his wife and young child. Another woman and a black page boy look on. Throught the entrance of the tent are soldiers in ranks and ships drawn up in front of a fort. The print was first published in 1798 as a pair to 'Peace'.
[Ref: 38134] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

War. [&] Peace.
H. Singleton pinx.t. J. Whessell sculp.t.
London, Published June, 1. 1798, by T. Simpton, St Paul's Church Yard; and Darling & Thompson, G.t Newport Street.
Pair of stipple engravings. 650 x 505mm (25½ x 20") with large margins. One repaired tear on each, entering inscription area on 'War'
A pair of allegorical scenes. In 'War' an army officer embraces his wife and child before leaving for war, watched by a maid and a negro pageboy, with massed troops and ships in the background. 'Peace' depicts a cottage interior, with a soldier with a scythe on his shoulder, a farmer gesturing trough the door to other harvesters working in a field with a windmill. Singleton's original oils were sold at a Sotheby's sale of Important British Pictures in November 2007.
[Ref: 51464] £680.00 view all images for this item

[Summer Morning.] [&] [Winter Evening.]
[Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by Edw.d Bell.]
London Publish'd Nov.r 1797, by J. Grozer, No. 48 Goodge Street, & to be had of Mess.rs Colnaghi and Sala. Pall Mall.
Pair of colour-printed mezzotints. Sheets 535 x 410mm (21 z 16"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, without title and artist & engraver's names.
A pair of scenes showing a woman and three children. In the summer she churns milk while one daughter feeds the chickens, the other eating from a bowl with a spoon, and the son behind with a pictchfork with a sack tied to it; in the background roses grow around the cottage window. In the winter the mother carries a pail while the three children gather firewood; in the background is a cow in a barn.
BM 2010,7081.2800 & 2010,7081.2801.
[Ref: 26688] £550.00 view all images for this item

The Wise Virgins. Quinque Prudentes. [&] The Foolish Virgins. Quinque Fatuae. [Relevant quotations from Matthew Chapter XXV in English and Latin below each title.]
Singleton Pinxt. Gaugain sculp.
[n.d., c.1813.]
Pair of stipple engravings with etching and aquatint, each 592 x 482mm. Crease through upper right corner of first image.
Two contrasting images, the first showing a contented young woman holding up a lamp in both hands, with four others standing in a row behind her to right, in a palace interior with musicians playing in the background. In the second, a woman listlessly holds an empty lamp and stands disconsolately with others, one holding a veil to her head in despair. The Parable of the Ten Virgins is a parable told by Jesus in the gospel of Matthew. In it, the five virgins who are prepared for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded and the five who are not prepared are excluded. The parable has a clear apocalyptic theme: be prepared for the day of reckoning. On paper watermarked 1813.
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