Grosvenor Prints

[Portrait of Joshua Barnes] Vera Effigies Joshuae Barnes S.T.B. [...]
R. White ad vivum fecit [1694]
Line engraving, small margins on 3 sides; platemark 295 x 190mm (11½ x 7½"). Glued at corners to backing sheet.
Joshua Barnes (1654-1712), Greek scholar and antiquary. In 1679 his 'History of Esther' rendered the Book of Esther in Homeric hexameters, complete with commentary in Greek. He later turned to English history with a book on Edward III
[Ref: 34871] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

William Briggs M.D. Physician in Ordinary to King William y.e 3.d. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, &c.
R. White delin 1697. I. Faber fecit 1738.
Sold by P. Overton in Fleet Street.
A rare mezzotint. Sheet: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed.
A portrait of William Biggs, doctor to King William III, holding a copy of his book "Ophthalmo Graphia".
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 46469] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Coley Philomat. etc.
R. White delin et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1699.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet size: 125 x 85mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of English mathematician and astrologer Henry Coley (1633–1695?), aged 57. Bust length in a decorative oval, wearing long wig and cravat. Coley was the adopted son of the astrologer, William Lilly, who constantly makes reference in his works to Coley's merit as a man and as a professor of mathematics and occult science. He is best known by his celebrated work, 'Clavis Astrologiæ Elimata; or a Key to the whole Art of Astrology, new filed and polished,' which was first published in 1669. He corrected and enlarged Joseph Moxon's 'Mathematics made easy' (London, 1692), and also Forster's 'Arithmetic, or that useful art made easie' (London, 1686).
[Ref: 33844] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Daniel Colwal Armiger, Musaei Regalis Societatis Fundator.
R. White delin. et Sculp. 1681.
Engraving. Plate: 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼'') very large margins.
A portrait of merchant and philanthropist Daniel Colwal who was a Fellow of the Royal Society and governor to Christ's Hospital.
Wellcome: 653 not in.
[Ref: 48644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon:ble Anthony Earle of Shaftesbury, Baron Ashley of Winbourne, St. Giles, Ld. Cooper of Pawlet And Ld. President of his Ma:ties most Hon:ble Privy Council. Ano. Do.1679. [Ink:] Sometime Lord High Chancellor of England.
R. White delin et Sculpsit 1680.
Sold by R White in Bloomsbury Market.
Engraving. Plate 381 x 268mm (15 x 10½"). Some creasing and paper-thinning hole left in reef frame around portrait; faint ms in old hand below title 'Sometime Lord High Chancellor of England'
Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683), who fought first for Charles I in the Civil War and then for Parliament, but at the Restoration Charles II pardoned him, and he became and influential politician. A member of the Cabal ministry, he was created Earl of Shaftesbury and appointed Lord Chancellor in 1672. He favoured the claim of the Duke of Monmouth to the throne in the place of the Catholic James, Duke of York, and gained political ground briefly in the wake of the 'Popish Plot' (1679-81), but fell from favour so dramatically that he was forced to flee to the Netherlands in 1682.
Later state. NPG: D19280.
[Ref: 28898] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Stephen Dugdale. Discoverer of the horrid Plott.
R. White delin. et sculp [1681]
Etching, sheet 230 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed. Glued to album sheet at edges.
Stephen Dugdale (d.1683), informer. Imprisoned for debt in 1678, Dugdale turned informer, claiming to have knowledge of the 'Popish Plot' to assassinate Charles II. He confirmed the evidence of the plot's chief fabricator Titus Oates, and created a minor sub-plot of his own, based in Staffordshire. At the Popish Plot trials of 1679, however, Dugdale was unpersuasive in his testimony and his respectability ebbed away under bouts of venereal disease and drunkenness. He continued to earn well as an informant until his death, however.
[Ref: 42811] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Erie Basin.
White [?].
Etching, signed in pencil, 6.1/4" x 10".
[Ref: 6592] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

Saturday Afternoon.
Kathleen White. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Glued to sheet at corners.
A scene showing three boys wearing strip kicking a football around a field.
[Ref: 48080] £350.00

[A football match.]
Printed in Germany. 11445.
[n.d., c.1950.]
Colour-printed offset lithograph. Sheet 330 x 425mm (13 x 16¾").
[Ref: 39349] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Football Match.]
[Kathleen White.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut on india paper. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Creases.
A scene showing a group of footballers running for the ball during a football match; the stands are filled with the faces of the spectators.
[Ref: 48489] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Saturday Afternoon.]
[Kathleen White.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut on india paper. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Creases.
A scene showing three boys wearing strip kicking a football around a field.
[Ref: 48488] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Football Match.]
Kathleen White. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Glued to sheet at corners.
A scene showing a group of footballers running for the ball during a football match; the stands are filled with the faces of the spectators.
[Ref: 48081] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nalson Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State]
R.W. Sculp
Printed for A. Mearne, T. Dring, B. Tooke, T. Sawbridge, & C. Mearne [c.1700]
Engraving, rare; sheet 295 x 180mm (11½ x 7"). Tipped into album sheet; letterpress explanation verso.
The frontispiece to Vol 2 of John Nalson Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State 1685. The verse explanation verso suggests that the scene depicted is the occupation the Royal Sovereign (previously named 'Sovereign of the Seas'), a ship ordered by Charles I in 1634 which was in regular service during the three Anglo-Dutch Wars, before finally being lost to fire at Chatham in 1697. It was repeatedly taken by the Dutch, but retaken each time.
BM copy, see 1870 0709 7 BM Satires 748
[Ref: 42843] £480.00

The Right Hon.ble Godart Baron de Ginkel, etc. Commander in Chief of all their Ma.ties Forces in Ireland. & Earle of Athelone.
R. White ad Vivum delinL et Sculpsit 1691.
Printed and Sold by John King at the Globe against the Church in the Poultry [n.d., c.1700.]
Fine & rare engraving, watermark 18th century. 380 x 270mm (15 x 10¾"). Mounted in album paper at sides. Tears to edges.
A half-length length portrait of Godart de Ginkell (1630-1703), 1st Earl of Athlone, a Dutch soldier who came to England in 1688 with William III. He commanded a body of Dutch cavalry at the Battle of the Boyne and took over as commander in Ireland when William returned to England. As First Field Marshal of the Dutch States Army, Ginkell was second in command of the Allied army under Marlborough in 1702. Originally this plate was a portrait by White of the Earl of Rochester, published 1681, here re-engraved by White. When he died in 1703, White's son sold his plates to Jhn King (d.1738).
[Ref: 55976] £360.00

John Green, with a View of The Red Mount Chapel, Lynn Regis.
W.J. White del et Sc.t
Published by W.J. White March 31 1818.
Etching on india. Plate 127 x 95mm. 5 x 3¾".
A man standing with bull-baiting and dog fighting in the background. A dead dog to left, hanging next to a sign that reads 'A Cock Fight on Sunday at Nero HardHart's Newmarket. NB. Horses Poisoned'. By William Johnstone White (1804 - 1829; fl.), engraver, painter, print publisher and printseller.
[Ref: 24234] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies Authoris.
R. White ad Vivum delin et sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1701.]
Engraving. Plate 242 x 152mm (9½ x 6").
Portrait of Nehemiah Grew; half length, to the right, in long wig, in decorative oval frame on pedestal with coat of arms; frontispiece to his 'Cosmologia Sacra' (1701). For a note on Crowle's extra-illustrated Pennant see G,1.1. Dr Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712); MD; FRS; botanist, physician and vegetable physiologist.
Wellcome: 1220.
[Ref: 52509] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon:ble Denzil Baron Holles of Ifield. Etat: 78. Ano 1676.
Ravenet sculp. [After Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1752.]
Fine engraving with etching. 330 x 210mm. 13 x 8¼".
Portrait of Denzil Holles, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown; coat of arms below with motto: "Spes Audaces Adjuvato". Denzil Holles (1599-1680) was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642. Illustration to Collins's "Historical Collections", 1752.
[Ref: 24648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The keenest Sportsman in Broomswell Camp, 1803. Dedicated to Mrs T-d-r-, of Tenby, without permission, by her h.ble Ser.t J. C. White.
J. C. White del. [etched by James Gillray].
[1803.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 255 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, into image at top, slight creasing.
On a moor, a soldier holds a greyhound on a leash, watching a yokel helping him find hares. George writes that this print is warning to Mrs Tuder that her husband is carrying on a flirtation while in camp; 'the subject is identified as William, eldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth Camilla Tuder who died at Tenby aged 80 in 1840'.
BM Satire 10167.
[Ref: 51726] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View in Port Jackson, New South Wales.
T. Webley Sculp.t. [after John White.]
Published by Alex.r Hogg, May 1, 1793.
Engraving. 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Edges toned.
Published in ''A New Royal System of Universal Geography'', this plate is an enlarged version of a vignette on the titlepage of John White's ''Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'', attributed to White himself. White (c. 1756-1832) was principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787.
[Ref: 44576] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Titus Oates. Anagramma Testis Ovat.
This is the true Original taken from the Life. done for Hen: Brome and Ric: Chiswell [therefore] All others are Counterfeit. [n.d. c.1679.]
Engraving, printed on both sides. 235 x 157mm. 9¼ x 6¼". Trimmed, crease, damaged.
Curiousity. Portrait of Titus Oates, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing wig, bands, and robe. From a broadside entitled 'A poem upon Mt Tytus Oates, the first discoverer of the late Popish Plot', published by Henry Brome and Richard Chiswell (1679). Titus Oates (1649-1705) was an English perjurer who fabricated the 'Popish Plot', a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. He began his career as an Anglican priest, but converted to Catholicism in 1677. This secured his admission to Jesuit college at St Omer, and this gave him enough information to give his story about a Catholic plot to murder Charles some plausibility. Oates swore his testimony to Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in September 1678, and it was Godfrey's murder a few weeks later (a death that has never been explained) that overnight turned the plot in the public mind from allegation to certainty. Oates managed to retain a central role in the unfolding affair by continually inventing new accusations. In 1684, in the flood of the Tory reaction, he was prosecuted for perjury, and in 1685 sentenced to the pillory and public flogging. The Glorious Revolution saved him; he was pardoned, given a pension and married a wealthy widow.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25273] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Titus Oates Anagramma Testis Ovat. This is the true Originall taken from the Life done for Hen: Brome and Ric: Chiswell: All others are Counterfeit.
R. White ad vivum delin et sculp.
[n.d., c.1679.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of English perjurer Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing wig, bands, and robe. This portrait is from a broadside entitled 'A poem upon Mt Tytus Oates, the first discoverer of the late Popish Plot', published by Henry Brome and Richard Chiswell (1679). Oates was said to have fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
[Ref: 33846] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Ottoman warrior on horseback with sword brandished.]
J.s Whitefoord [below image]. Drawn & lith. by James Whitefoord at Addiscombe 15th Dec. 1825 [ms]
Lithograph, very rare; sheet 260x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Glued to album sheet with another print verso.
Amateur lithograph by a military officer, probably based on his own experiences of service in Asia.
For another lithograph by Whitefoord showing the 'attack of a Burmese stockade' see ref. 6598.
[Ref: 35497] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Owen S.T.P. Dec. An. Aed. Chr. Et Per Quiquenn. Vice Canc. Oxon. Umbra refert fragiles, dederunt quas cura dotorqs, Mentem humitem, sacri servantem limina veri, Relliquias, studijs assiduusqs labor, Votis supplicibus, qui dedit ille videt.
Vertue Sculp.
Printed for Iohn Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry, near Cheapside.
Engraving. 272 x 190mm. 10¾ x 7½".
John Owen (1616-1683), Puritan divine, in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing skull-cap, bands and gown; curtain and bookshelves in the background. Owen was dean of Christ Church, Oxford and vice-chancellor of Oxford under Cromwell. Coat of arms below. Frontispiece to 'The Works of the late [...] John Owen, D.D.' (William and Joseph Marshall et al ed, London: 1721); after White.
Alexander: 314. See Ref: 13860 for proof before title.
[Ref: 24748] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Ioannes Owenus D.D. (John Owen D.D.)]
R: White sculpsit. Nath: Ponder excu:
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving, proof before title, sheet 260 x 195mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Trimmed within plate and into image at top; laid on to album page. A strong impression.
John Owen (1616 - 1683), Puritan divine, in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing skull-cap, bands and gown; curtain and bookshelves in the background. Owen was dean of Christ Church, Oxford and vice-chancellor of Oxford under Cromwell. Coat of arms below. By Robert White (1645 - 1703).
BM: unrecorded state.
[Ref: 13860] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The true Effigies of Mr. Thomas Powell. Aet Suae 20 Annoque Dommini 1676.
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Scarce.
Thomas Powell (b.1656), cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 30349] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mr: Miles Prance. Discoverer of the Horrid Plott and the Murtherers of Sr. E.B. Godfree.
R. White delin: et Sculp:
[n.d. c.1679.]
Engraving, rare, paper watermarked. 235 x 153mm (9¼ x 6"). Cut.
Miles Prance (fl.1678) the English Roman Catholic who was caught up in and perjured himself during the Popish Plot and the anti-Catholicism of London during the reign of Charles II. He was an accomplice to Oates and Bedloe. Frontispeice to Prance's "True Narrative and Discovery of several very remarkable passages relating to the horrid Popish Plot".
[Ref: 30373] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mr: Miles Prance. Discoverer of the Horrid Plott and the Murtherers of Sr. E.B. Godfree.
R. White delin: et Sculp:
[n.d. c.1679.]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed; laid into album sheet at edges.
Miles Prance (fl.1678-88), perjurer involved in the 'Popish Plot', a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill Charles II. Prance was arrested in relation to the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (to whom Titus Oates had sworn testimony), and after admitting involvement in Godfrey's murder (which has never been conclusively proved), gave evidence against Henry Berry, Robert Green, and Lawrence Hill, who were executed as a result. Prance, meanwhile shared with William Bedloe the reward for the discovery of the murderers. Under the influence of Bedloe and Oates, Prance subsequently informed on a number of Catholics and published pamphlets defending his evidence. Prance faded from view with the ebbing of the Popish Plot, but in 1686 he was found guilty of perjury, fined and stood in the pillory at Westminster (although he was spared the whipping he was sentenced to). Frontispiece to Prance's 'True Narrative and Discovery of several very remarkable passages relating to the horrid Popish Plot' (1679).
[Ref: 42792] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Ram Ruttun A Brahman. Dr. Pritchard's Natural History of Man. Plate V. Page 169.
Branwhite del.t J. Bull sc.
London & New York, H. Bailliere, 1855.
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Ram Ruttun, a man from India. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
In the Museum of New Zealand.
[Ref: 30264] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Reynolds.
Engraved by H.Meyer, from the Original Picture by N.Branwhite, in the Possesion of the Family.
Published as the Act directs, March 1st. 1817, by N. Branwhite, Queen Square, Bristol.
Stipple engraving on india paper. 250 x 300mm. Foxing, mostly outside image.
Quaker and 'Ironmaster' at Bristol [1735 - 1816].
[Ref: 905] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Royall Exchange Of London. Nobilissimo, Fortissimo, Consultissimo, Viro Domino, R: Ford Equiti Aurato Praetori. T: Cartwright.
R: White delint: et sculpsit 1671.
[London: John Overton, first published 1671.] Cum Privilegio.
Engraving, 470 x 595mm. 18½ x 23½". Age toned; hole to centre of upper margin with tear into plate. Full margins. Some repairs.
The south façade, and a view of the inner courtyard with colonnade, of the Royal Exchange in the City of London, seen slightly from above; two angels in sky holding up a banner inscribed with title. Dedication to Sir Richard Ford by the builder, Thomas Cartwright, lower left, and two lines of Latin below image. The Royal Exchange was founded in 1565 by Sir Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the city. The design was inspired by a bourse Gresham had seen in Antwerp. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth I who awarded the building its Royal title, on January 23, 1571. Gresham's original building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Gresham College, the first institution of higher learning in London, was established in 1597. An impressive print.
[Ref: 13369] £390.00

Paul Rycaut Esq. late Consul of Smyrna; & Fellow of the Royall Societies.
After P Lely pinxit., R. White sculp
Engraving. Sheet 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning
Sir Paul Rycaut (1629-1700) was a British diplomat, spending much of his career in (now) Anatolia. He was a historian, specialising in the Ottoman Empire.
[Ref: 53747] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Reverendissimus in Christo Pater D. D. Gulielmus Sancroft Providentetia Divina Archepis copus Cantuariensus, Totius Anglice Primas &c.
R. White Sculp.
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning and foxing along the left margin. Stain in the title area.
Head and shoulders portrait of William Sancroft (1677-1693), inclined to the right and framed in an oval. Snacroft was the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (1677-1690).
[Ref: 53776] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Smith [facsimile signature] Deputy Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons of the Province of Bristol.
N.C. Branwhite, delt. Edwd. Morton, lith.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Lithograph. 317 x 240mm. 12½" x 9½". A small mark in the title area
Richard Smith (1772 - 1843). Surgeon of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, established in 1826. Wrote 'Biographical Memoirs of the Bristol Infirmary'.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 8288] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus Spelmannus Eques Auratus.
R. White Sculp
Engraving. Sheet 280 x 185 (11 x 7¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning
Bust portrait of Sir Henry Spelman (1562-1641) in an oval frame. He served as a member of parliament for Worcester and was a well-regarded antiquarian.
[Ref: 53777] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

St George's Hanover Square [in pencil]. 5/50
Ethelbert White [Signed in pencil].
Limited edition wood engraving 5/50. Sheet 265 x 215mm (10½ x 8½), with large margins. Hinged to backing sheet on two corners. Some light creasing in margins.
A view of St George's, Hanover Square, the anglican church, in the City of Westminster, central London. Ethelbert White (1891–1972) was an English wood engraver however he also worked in oils and water colour. He was an early member of the Society of Wood Engravers and a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society in 1925. He was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society, and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 55009] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Isaac Taverner and Mother Newton.
W. J. White. delt. et sc.
Published, March 20th. 1819. by W. J. White.
Etching on india laid paper, 130 x 100mm. 5 x 4".
A rustic couple conversing beside a leafless tree in a rural landscape; cottages in the distance behind a fence to left. From "Sketches of characters consisting of whole length portraits with picturesque or topographical back-grounds, and distinct plates illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Middlesex to which are added, biographical and historical notices" by William Johnstone White (1804 - 1829; fl.), engraver, painter, print publisher and printseller.
[Ref: 19216] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Iohannes Vaughan Miles Capitalis Just. de Com: Banco. Ano: 1674.
R. White sculp
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Toning and foxing.
John Vaughan (1639-1731), 3rd Earl of Carbery and Governor of Jamaica (1675-78). He was known for being corrupt throughout his governance and had a general reputation for lewd decadence.
[Ref: 53746] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A view of the latest improvements at the Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, [23, High Holborn.]
Design'd & Eng.d by W.J. White. H. Brownlow St.t Holborn.
[1840.]
Engraved advert. Sheet 115 x 145mm (4½ x 5¾"). Trimmed, losing part of title.
An advert for Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, illustrating the tunnels of their wine cellar.
[Ref: 48810] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Attack of a Burmese Stockade.
J.Whitefoord.
Addiscombe 10th June 1826.
Lithograph. Printed area 270 x 365mm. Some creasing.
Very scarce. print of the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1823 to 1826.
[Ref: 6598] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mary Wilcox, of Witheridge, Devonshire, alias Caraboo.
Drawn & Engraved by N. Bramwhite.
Published by J.M. Gutch Augt. 16th. 1817.
Stipple engraving, sheet 250 x 150mm. 9¾ x 6". Tatty and chipped extremities.
Mary Baker, born Mary Wilcox, alias 'Princess Caraboo'. She arrived one day in the spring of 1817 at Knole Park near Bristol. By speaking a made-up language and not a word of English, she convinced the lady of the house, Elizabeth Worrall, that she was a lost noblewoman from the East Indies. She stayed with the Worralls for a few months, until one day she ran away to Bath. She was spotted in the Circus by a family friend Dr Wilkinson, the proprietor of the Pump Rooms, who followed her as far as the Pack Horse. He took her to some ladies in Russell Street, who gave her tea and treated her like the royalty they believed her to be, until Mrs Worrall arrived to fetch her home in the evening. Dr Wilkinson, a polymath and scientific lecturer (who later lived at 55 Great Pulteney Street and introduced gas lighting to Bath), had been very intrigued by Caraboo and her language when visiting the Worralls, and had written a long description of her in the Bath Chronicle a few days earlier. The article was published at his request in several other newspapers, and it was not long before the story was read in Bristol by a woman who recognised the description of Mary Baker and her eccentric behaviour. Just as Dr Wilkinson in Bath was launching an appeal to send the poor lost Caraboo home, Mrs Worrall in Bristol was being told that her house-guest was a fraud. The story created a sensation in the local and national press, and Dr Wilkinson in particular became the object of much merriment. Frontispiece to John Matthew Gutch's 'Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition practised upon the benevolence of a lady residing in the vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu', 1817. After Nathan Cooper Branwhite (1775 - 1857), painter, miniature painter and engraver.
[Ref: 9651] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Wool Bridge, Dorset.
Fred Whitehead f.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 175 x 250mm, 7 x 10".
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853–1938).
From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 15376] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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