Grosvenor Prints

Chaste Arethusa, from Alpheus flies; / Resolv'd to die, rather than be his Prize. / The Moral is: - Take heed, ye flatter'd Fair: / Swains oft dissemble, & Words are but Air. / Lockman.
J Van Neck pinxit, J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Chipped to plate top left, creasing top right corner, small tears in small margins. Bit messy.
The nymph Alpheus is pursued through Arcadia by the river-god Arethusa.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67369] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ammon's great Son, who ravag'd Asia thro, Sigh'd, that more Thrones were wanting to Subdue, / Ye slaves to Glory, and an empty Name, / I envy not your Thirst of toilsome Fame; / Go, take in Worlds by Conquest as you please, / Leave me but Master of two Globes like these.
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. I.Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to the Act of Parliament.
Mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"). Trimmed to image. Slight staining on bosom.
A beauty en deshabille washing herself before a mirror.
CS 409. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67358] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne, Princess Royal & Willem IV] Haar Doorlugtige en Koninglyke Hoogheden Willem en Anna Prins en Princess van Oranjen en Nassau &c. &c. &c.
P. van Dijk pinx.t. J. Faber Londini fecit.
[n.d. c.1734.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 315 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, into image at top. Foxing.
A double portrait of Anne, Princess Royal (1709-59, daughter of George II of England) and her husband Willem IV of Orange (1711-51), probably published to commemorate their marriage in 1734.
CS 268. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Budleigh James Collection.
[Ref: 66997] £320.00

[Anne, Princess Royal & Willem IV] Their Serene Royal Highnesses William & Anne Prince & Princess of Orange & Nassau &c. &c. &c. Done from ye Original Painting which their Highnesses presented to ye Right Hon.ble Algernon Seynour Earl of Hartford &c. To whom this Plate is most himbly Dedicated by his Lordhips most obedient Servant John Faber.
P. van Dyk pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d. c.1734.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 430mm (14 x 17"). Trimmed to plate, several repaired tears.
A double portrait of Anne, Princess Royal (1709-59, daughter of George II of England) and her husband Willem IV of Orange (1711-51), probably published to commemorate their marriage in 1734.
CS 267. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66996] £320.00

[Anne, Princess Royal & Willem IV] Haar Doorlugtige en Koninglyke Hoogheden Willem en Anna Prins en Princess van Oranjen en Nassau &c. &c. &c.
P. van Dijk pinx.t. J. Faber Londini fecit.
[n.d. c.1734.]
Very fine and rare mezzotint, 325 x 380mm (12¾ x 15"). Small margins. Creasing in centre.
A double portrait of Anne, Princess Royal (1709-59, daughter of George II of England) and her husband Willem IV of Orange (1711-51), probably published to commemorate their marriage in 1734.
CS 268. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 66995] £480.00

[Anne, Princess Royal] Son Altesse Royale Anne Princesse d'Orange.
Ph: Mercier Pictor & Bibliothecarius Principis Pinxit. I. Faber fecit. 1734.
Sold by J. Faber at ye Golden head ye South side of Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Anne, Princess of Orange (1709-1759), Princess Royal, daughter of King George II; wife of William IV, Prince of Orange.
NPG: D9252. CS: 264.
[Ref: 17113] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Franciscus Atterbury S.T.P. Episc: Rossensis & Decs West Mons.
J. Faber ad vivum Del.t & Fecit.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper. Damaged.
Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster 1713-21. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was imprisoned in the Tower in 1722 for communicating with the Old Pretender and banished for life the following year.
CS 4.
[Ref: 59424] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness Augusta Princess of Wales, &c.
Chas. Philips ad Vivum pinxt. 1737. I. Faber fecit.
Sold by I Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Sheet trimmed to plate size. Slight creasing in upper & lower left corner.
Augusta, Princess of Wales (1719-72); wearing a bodice with lace around the neck-line, frilled sleeves, panniers decorated with tassels, an ermine-lined cloak, and a crown. Her left hand pointing out to the side, towards the base of a pillar with carved motif of the Prince of Wales's feathers in the right background. Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, married Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1736. She was mother of George III. John Faber Jr after Charles Philips (1708 - 1747).
Chaloner Smith 19, I of II. Ex Collection of Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53617] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

M. Tullius Cicero. Ex marmore antiquo. II.
F. Faber fecit et Excud.
Sold by Tho: Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard [n.d., c.1710].
Mezzotint. 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), with very large margins. Creasing at edges.
A portrait of Octavian (63BC-14), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. The adopted son of Julius Caesar, he became the first Roman Emperor as Augustus Caesar. From a series of twelve busts of the Twelve Caesars.
CS 19 II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65017] £320.00

Bacchus in the Character of Cupid.
Phi. Mercier Inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Backed with newspaper.
Bacchus, crowned with vine-leaves and holding a bow, gestures to a heart on a target hanging on a tree. To the right is a leopard. A pair to 'Cupid the the Character of Bacchus'.
CS: 406a. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67538] £320.00

Bacchus in the Character of Cupid.
Phi. Mercier Inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), very large margins. Creased in centre
Bacchus, crowned with vine-leaves and holding a bow, gestures to a heart on a target hanging on a tree. To the right is a leopard. A pair to 'Cupid the the Character of Bacchus'.
CS: 406a. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67539] £320.00

Bacchus in the Character of Cupid.
Phi. Mercier Inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"), large margins. Paper slightly soiled.
Bacchus, crowned with vine-leaves and holding a bow, gestures to a heart on a target hanging on a tree. To the right is a leopard. A pair to 'Cupid the the Character of Bacchus'.
CS: 406a. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67537] £320.00

Dervorguilla Mater. J.Balliol Scot: Regs. Fund. Coll Balliolensis. A.D.1266. Hanc Effisiem a Tabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverando viro Johanni Baron S.T.P et istius Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. J.Faber. A.1712.
[n.d., c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 - 1290), "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland, the wife of John de Balliol co-founder of Balliol College, Oxford, and mother of John I, future King of Scotland.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65126] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Dervorguilla Mater. J.Balliol Scot: Regs. Fund. Coll Balliolensis. A.D.1266. Hanc Effisiem a Tabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverando viro Johanni Baron S.T.P et istius Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. J.Faber. A.1712.
[n.d., c.1712.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 - 1290), "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland, the wife of John de Balliol co-founder of Balliol College, Oxford, and mother of John I, future King of Scotland.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65127] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44077] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
J: Faber Ao 1732
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below. Loss lower left.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse'.
CS 34
[Ref: 44076] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[John Balliol.] Johannis Balliol. Pater J.Balliol Scot: Regis Fundr. Coll. Balliolensis. Han Effigiem a Fabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverendo viro Johanni Baron S.T.P. et istus Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. J.Faber. A.1712.
[n.d., c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet.
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of John de Balliol (prior to 1208 - 1268), English nobleman, belonging to the House of Balliol. Balliol College, in Oxford, is named after him. Following a dispute with the Bishop of Durham, he agreed to provide funds for scholars studying at Oxford. Support for a house of students began in around 1263; further endowments, made after his death by his widow Dervorguilla, resulted in the establishment of Balliol College.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65123] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[John de Balliol] Johannis Balliol pater J: Balliol Scot: Regis Fund.r Coll: Balliolensis [...]
Printed for H. Parker Print & Bookseller at No 82 in Cornhill London. D.D.D. H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
John de Balliol (b. before 1208, d.1268), magnate and benefactor. As the result of a conflict with Balliol's powerful neighbour, the bishop of Durham, he submitted himself to a public whipping in front of the cathedral church door and undertook to maintain scholars studying at Oxford. Balliol made some provision for this before his death, leaving further endowments in his will, and his widow Dervorguilla formulated the statutes of what became Balliol College in 1282. One of a set of forty-five 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44079] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins on three sides. Paper lightly toned. Creases in margins.
Originally a printer, Barber (1676-1741) made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state). Sharpe 303.Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64700] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm, 14 x 9¾". Tight margins on three sides.
Originally a printer, Barber made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state)
[Ref: 10484] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

S.r John Barnard.
A. Ramsay pinxit. J. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament A.o D 1739.
Rare mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom and glued to album sheet. Damaged top right.
Three-quarters portrait of Sir John Barnard (1685-1764) wearing a fur trimmed robe, eyes to front, his left hand pointing at paper on table at right. He was a politician: MP for the City of London, (1722-61); alderman and Lord Mayor, 1737; his main business interest was in marine insurance and was opponent of Robert Walpole
CS 24 II.
[Ref: 58818] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Gulielmus Bateman. Episcop: Norwic: Aulæ S.S. individuæ Trinitatis Fund: Aº D.ni 1350.
[after Wilhelm Sonmans?]
Summa. cum Humil: & Observ.tia D.D.D. J. Faber. [n.d., c.1715.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"), with large margins.
William Bateman (c. 1298-1355), Bishop of Norwich and founder of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. One of a set of portraits of founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, most after portraits by Wilhelm Sonmans (d.1708).
CS 34.
[Ref: 51984] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Diana Beauclerk] Her Grace the Dutchess of S.t Albans.
G. Kneller Bar.t pinx. J. Faber fec.
[J. Cooper exc.] [n.d. c.1723.]
Mezzotint, 455 x 310mm (18 x 12¼") with large margins.
A full-length portrait of Diana Beauclerk (nee de Vere) (c. 1679-1742) standing beside an orange tree, with the left foot placed on the plinth beneath it. The left arm rests on the large urn containing the tree, while the other hand holds a fruit and gestures toward it. The figure smiles at the viewer. This is from a series of thirteen engravings after Kneller of the Hampton Court Beauties. State with Cooper's name erased. Not to be confused with the artist Lady Diana Beauclerk, this is the wife of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke and the daughter and heiress of Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford.
CS 28 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65161] £320.00

[Benn's Club.]
T. Hudson Pinxit. J. Faber Fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 380 x 530mm (15 x 20¾"), with large margins. Laid on card.
The so-called 'Benn's Club', five aldermen persuaded by William Benn, Lord Mayor of London in 1746-7, to travel to his house Bowcombe on the Isle of Wight in December 1747 and send a message of support to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. The aldermen are (R-L): John Blachford, William Benn, Robert Alsop, Edward Ironside, Sir Humphrey Marshall & Sir Thomas Rawlinson. John Blachford, who commissioned the portrait, was Lord Mayor of London in 1750. His brother is acting as butler, standing behind the group.
Sharp 710. CS: 31.
[Ref: 45241] £490.00

A well known Society of Worthy Aldermen from an Original Painting by T. Hudson in Goldsmith's Hall London.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet St. Price 2.d. & John Bowles and Sons at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 255 x 355mm, 10 x 14". Bottom margin creased and torn.
The so-called 'Benn's Club', five aldermen persuaded by William Benn, Lord Mayor of London in 1746-7, to travel to his house on the Isle of Wight in December 1747 and send a message of support to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. The aldermen are (R-L): John Blachford, William Benn, Robert Alsop, Edward Ironside, Sir Humphrey Marshall & Sir Thomas Rawlinson. John Blachford, who commissioned the portrait, was Lord Mayor of London in 1750. His brother is acting as butler, standing behind the group.
CS 31. Sharp 711, state ii of ii.. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10483] £450.00

[Benn's Club.]
T. Hudson Pinxit. J. Faber Fecit.
Scarce mezzotint. 380 x 530mm (15 x 20¾"). Old ink mss in bottom margin, laid on paper. Small margins, bit messy.
The so-called 'Benn's Club', five aldermen persuaded by William Benn, Lord Mayor of London in 1746-7, to travel to his house Bowcombe on the Isle of Wight in December 1747 and send a message of support to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender. The aldermen are (R-L): John Blachford, William Benn, Robert Alsop, Edward Ironside, Sir Humphrey Marshall & Sir Thomas Rawlinson. John Blachford, who commissioned the portrait, was Lord Mayor of London in 1750. His brother is acting as butler, standing behind the group.
Sharp 710. CS: 31.
[Ref: 66555] £420.00

Alderman Benn. [in ink.]
[Hudson Pinx.t. Faber Fecit.] Faber fecit [in ink.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. 355 x 255mm, 14 x 10". Trimmed to plate.
William Benn, Alderman for Aldersgate, President of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, Lord Mayor of London in 1746. A Jacobite, Benn sent a message of support to Charles Stuart while Lord Mayor. In 1749 he was involved in a drunken fight with another alderman at a London City feast after proposing a toast to the health of the Young Pretender. Died 1755.
CS 30, unrecorded state. Sharp 314. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10482] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

James Bick ye Famous Mimick Trumpetter of Oxford 1712.
[engraved by John Faber snr.]
[Published by Faber.]
Scarce mezzotint. Each sheet: 115 x 105mm (4½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, thread margins elsewhere, top left corner torn.
A very rare portrait of James Bick (d.1734), set in a circle. He was a ventriloquist and imitator of musical instruments, especially the trumpet, touring the public houses of Oxford.
CS: 5, i and ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67607] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Boy blowing charcoal] Done from the Original Painting at Althrop, in the Collection of John Spencer Esq.r To Whom this Plate is humbly Dedicated, by His Obliged & most humb,,ble Serv,,t. John Faber.
God,,y Schalcken Pinx,,t, W,,m Shipley Delin.t. J. Faber fect 1751.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9").
Thread margins. Attached to backing sheet on left. Cockling and staining where glued.
A chiaroscuro of a boy bit by the charcoal he is blowing on, a candle in his other hand. Godfried Schalcken's original oil remained at Althorp until 1988, when it was purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland (NG 2495), now titled 'A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand to Light a Candle'.
CS, mentioned on p.460. Ex: collections of Oettingen-Wallerstein & Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67246] £360.00

The Reverend Mr Thomas Bradbury.
Mrs. Mary Grace Pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill. Price 2. Shill.
Fine mezzotint. Plate: 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾'') very large margins.
Portrait of Thomas Bradbury (1677-1759), dissenting minister; seated facing front, in clerical dress without a wig, left hand on his knee, right elbow resting on a table beside a book, document and ink stand. Curtain and bookshelves behind. After Mary Grace (d. 1786).
[Ref: 48801] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend Robert Bragge P.D.
Robert Bragge Pinx.t. J. Faber fe. 1738.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins, left edge with a small repair.
Rev Robert Bragge (1665-1738), an Independent minister in London, known as 'eternal Bragge' of Lime Street. A moderate Calvinist, he was a popular preacher at Salters' Hall, where he once preached for four months on Joseph's coat. Among his written works are 'A Brief Essay Concerning the Soul of Man' and 'Church Discipline according to its Ancient Standard, as it was Practis'd in Primitive Times'.
[Ref: 40509] £220.00 (£264.00 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)

Jack Bristowe.
J. Shackleton pinxt. I. Faber fecit 1746.
Mezzotint. 225 x 330mm. Thread like margins outside the platemark
John Faber the Younger [c.1695 - 1756]. In pencil on the reverse is a claim that the sitter is Colonel in the Guards, while the British Museum supports the suggestion he is Robert Bristowe, a clerk comptroller in the royal household whose sister married John 1st Earl of Buckingham, and also keeper of the Punch House on London Bridge.
CS:46:ii
[Ref: 13870] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Honble: Charles Brown Esqr. Who Commanded in ye Second Post at the Takeing Porto-Bello, on the 21st. of Novr. 1739. (by Vice Admiral Vernon) and led the Attack on His Majties. Ship the Hampton Court.
J. Faber fect. 1740
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
A rare mezzotint. 348 x 251mm. Damaged with stain to the top right hand part of the image (not too visible from the front.)
Captain Charles Brown (1753). He served in the Baltic and commanded the Hampton Court in the taking of Porto Bello in 1739. Died of gout of the stomach.
Parker: 112. C.S. 47 only state. In the NMM. From the Collection of Viscount Hood.
[Ref: 12435] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d Thomas Burnet L.L.D. Master of the Charterhouse Obÿt a,o 1715.
G. Kneller Equees Pinx.t 1697. I. Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2-6. Sold at the Golden Head near the Church, Bloomsbury-Square.
Mezzotint with large margins. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Slight damp stain.
Thomas Burnet (c. 1635-1715), a theologian and writer on Cosmogony (how the Cosmos came into existence), author of 'Sacred Theory of the Earth' (1681), 'The Ancient Doctrine Concerning the Origin of Things' (1692) & 'On the State of the Dead and of the Resurrection' (1720, posthumous). As Master of Charterhouse he blocked James II's attempt to interfere in the running of the school. After the Glorious Revolution Burnet became chaplain in ordinary and Clerk of the Closet to William III, but following the near-heretical views expressed in 'Ancient Docrine' (positing that The Fall of Man was symbolic not historic) he resigned his court posts, under the patronage of his majesty.
CS: 51. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34326] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.] Illustrifsimo Principi Iacobo Ormondia Duci, & c. Academice Oxon Cancellario.
Summa cum Humil: & Observantia D.D.D. J.Faber.
[n.d., c.1730. Sold by Tho. Bakewell at the Golden Lion in Fleetstreet London.]
Mezzotint with Collector's mark. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Tear on right margin into image. Publication faded.
Portrait of James Fitz James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, KG (1665 - 1745), Irish statesman and soldier. In 1688 he also became Chancellor of the University of Oxford until 1715.
CS 34 IV of IV. Sharp 561. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65142] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Sr. George Byng Bar.t &c Commander in Chief of His Maj:ties Fleet that Took and Destroyed 22. Sail of the Spanish Fleet, of Cape Passaro. Ao. 1718.
G. Kneller S.R.I. et Mag: Brit: Bart: pinxit.
Done & Sold by Faber Iun.r in Catherine Street in ye Strand. [n.d. c.1727.]
Mezzotint. 197 x 146mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image.
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733); One of the young army officers who supported William III's accession; 1691, transferred to the navy; 1704, played an important part in the capture of Gibraltar,which resulted in a knighthood; August 1718, decisive victory against the Spanish off Cape Passaro, Sicily; 1721, he was raised to the peerage with the title Baron Byng of Southill; 1725, created Viscount Torrington; 1727, first lord of the Admiralty.
[Ref: 52495] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] III. Tiberius Nero Cæsar. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber Fecit et Excud.t
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Tears in margins taped.
A marble bust of Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (42BC - 37AD), third emperor of Rome, in an oval.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64626] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] IV. C Cæsar Caligula. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber Fecit et Excudit.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A marble bust of Caligula (Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 12-41AD), fourth emperor of Rome, in an oval.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64627] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] V. Claudius Drusus Cæsar. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber Fecit et Excud.t.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A marble bust of Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 10BC-41AD), fifth emperor of Rome, in a niche.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64628] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] VI. Nero Claudius Cæs. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber fecit et excud.t.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins
A marble bust of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (37-68AD), sixth emperor of Rome, in an oval.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64629] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] VII. Sergius Sulpitius Galba. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber Fecit et Excud.t.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A marble bust of Galba (3BC-69AD), seventh emperor of Rome, in an oval. He ruled for only seven months.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64630] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] IX. A. Vitellius. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber Fecit et Excud.t.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Creased.
A marble bust of Aulus Vitellius (15-69AD), ninth emperor of Rome, although he only ruled for eight months.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64631] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Caesars] XII. Titus Favius Domitianus. Ex Marmore Antiquo.
J. Faber Fecit et Excud.t.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A marble bust of Domitian (51-96AD), twelfth emperor of Rome, in an oval.
CS 19. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64632] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

John Campbell. Duke of Argyll & Greenwich &c. Hereditary Justice General of the Shire of Argyll, the Western Islands &c [...]
A. Ramsay pinx.t 1740. J. Faber fecit.
Mezzotint. Sheet 505 x 355mm (20¼ x 14"). Collector's mark on reverse: E.M.H. (Mrs. E. M. Hamilton). Trimmed to plate; small tear at bottom.
John Campbell (1680-1743), army officer and politician. Commissioner for negotiating Union with Scotland in 1705, Campbell served with distinction at Ramillies, Oudenard, Malplaquet and other battlefields in the War of the Spanish Succession. In 'the Fifteen', Argyll led the government army at Sheriffmuir and defeated the Jacobites led by the Earl of Mar. He was Master General of the Ordnance from 1725-1740 and was promoted to Field Marshal in 1736. In 1742, a year before his death, he was given the position of Commander in Chief of the British Army. Engraved after the full-length portrait by Allan Ramsay (Inverary Castle).
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 15 (only state); for another portrait of Campbell see ref. 7108.
[Ref: 34103] £420.00

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The Right Hon.ble the Countess of Essex.
G.Kneller Bart. Pinx. J.Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1723. Printed & Sold by Rob.t Sayer Near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, & John King at the Globe in the Poultrey.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark 455 x 305mm (18 x 12"), with large margins.
Portrait of Mary Capel, Countess of Essex (1679 - 1726), born Lady Mary Bentinck, was the daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of stadtholder William, Prince of Orange (the future King of England) and his wife Anne Villiers (died 30 November 1688). From the series of thirteen plates 'Beauties at Hampton Court'.
CS 28 iii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65000] £360.00

The R.t Hon.ble the Countess of Essex.
G.Kneller Bart Pinxt. I.Faber Fecit.
[n.d., c.1723] London Printed for & Sold by Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street & In King at the Globe in Poultrey.
Mezzotint on 18th century watermarked paper. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins. Tiny cut into lower plate. Faint crease across upper right. Some time-staining.
Portrait of Mary Capell, Countess of Essex (1679 - 1726), born Lady Mary Bentinck, the daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of stadtholder William, Prince of Orange (the future King of England) and his wife Anne Villiers. From the series of thirteen plates 'Beauties at Hampton Court'.
CS 28 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64945] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint. 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"), with large margins. Few miniscule wormholes.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''.
CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Ref: 67263.
[Ref: 67266] £360.00

A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, platemark 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"), with large margins. Slight printer's crease bottom left.
Scene from the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, engraved from a painting by Philip Mercier, showing a moment in Act V, Scene IV of the play with the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). Originally a pendant to another theatrical scene after Mercier, 'A Scene from the Recruiting Officer'.
Lennox-Boyd 1994 cat 2 (only state); CS 414; for the pendant see ref 7855. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38880] £380.00

A Scene in the Careless Husband.
P. Mercier Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper at borders. Cockling.
Act V, Scene IV of the play 'The Careless Husband' by Colley Cibber, depicting the characters Mrs Edging, Sir Charles Easy and Lady Easy; the last is supposed by some to be a portrait of Kitty Clive (1711-85). A pair to ''A Scene in the Recruiting Officer''.
CS 414. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel,
[Ref: 67267] £320.00

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