Grosvenor Prints

[France] J.S.Bailley Député aux États Généraux de 1789, et Maire de Paris, Jugé à mort le 12 Novembre 1794.
Lavachez sc. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), astronomer, mathematician and politician who presided over the Tennis Court Oath. He was guillotined at the Champs de Mars for refusing to testify at Marie Antoinette's trial. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
Wellcome: 148-2
[Ref: 28400] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bernadotte, Consiller d'État, et Général de l'Armée de l'Ouest.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Torn outside printed border.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Marchal Jean Baptiste Benardotte, surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his taking of Gradisca. Formerly a General in Napoleon's army, after this portrait was published (in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française') he was elected the heir-presumptive to King Charles XIII of Sweden, becoming Charles XIV John in 1818, ruling until 1844.
[Ref: 28215] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Jean Baptiste Anacharsis Clootz Orateur du Genre Humain a l'Assemblée N.le de France le 19 Juin 1790, Décapité le 3 Germinal l'an 2.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots (1755-1794), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing him addressing the National Convention. A Prussian nobleman educated in France, he was given French citizenship for his support of the Revolution and was elected to the Convention. He voted in favour of the death penalty for Louis XIV, but was sentenced to death himself by Robespierre. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28224] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Danton Député de Paris a la Convention Nationale, Jugé le 6 April 1794.
Lavachez sc. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794), first President of the Committe of Public Safety, surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his declaring the state of emergency that led to the Terror (a flag is waved advising 'la Patrie en danger'. He was subsequently guillotined on charges of corruption. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28230] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Hoche Géneral des Armées de la République Française dans le Nord, Et ensuite dans l'Ouest.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼").
Oval mezzotint portrait of General Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his pacification of the Vendée in 1796. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française' Louis Lazare Hoche was a French soldier and is often considered one of the best of the Revolutionary generals. Hoche began serving in the Guards. In 1789 he went over to the side of the Revolution. During the years 1792-93 he distinguished himself in battles against the interventionists in northeastern France. He was close to the Jacobins and enjoyed great popularity. Hoche successfully defended Dunkerque against an Anglo-Austrian army in 1793, and he then commanded the Moselle Army and the combined Moselle and Rhine armies; he defeated the Austrian Army at Woerth and at Fröschweiler (Frueschwiller). In March 1794 he was arrested without grounds, and in August he was freed. During the years 1794-95, Hoche successfully crushed counterrevolutionary uprisings in Brittany and La Vendée. In 1797, while commanding the Sambre-Meuse Army, he smashed the Austrians at Neuwied and Altenkirchen. In July 1797 he refused the post of minister of war. Hoche died suddenly in his staff quarters (possibly poisoned).
[Ref: 28214] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Joubert, Général en Chef de l'Armée d'Italie, mort le 28 Thermidor an VII à la bataille de Novi.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769-1799), acclaimed here as 'amongst the heroes who have contributed the most to the prodigious triumphs of our armies'. He joined the royal French army in 1784 and rose rapidly to the rank of general uring the French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleon recognised his talents and gave him increased responsibilities. He was later killed whilst commanding the French army at the Battle of Novi in 1799.
[Ref: 28218] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Kléber Géneral de Division à l'Armée dy Rhin, ensuite Géneral en Chef par interim. de l'Armée de Sambre a Meuse.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Repaired tear lower left.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene of his assassination in Cairo. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. Jean Baptiste Kléber was a French General. He served in the Austrian Army and in 1789 he joined the French National Guard. For his distinguished services in 1793 in the defence of Mainz, he was promoted to brigadier general. In 1793 he was among those in charge of suppressing the revolt in La Vendée. During the Egyptian expedition of 1798-1801 he commanded a division; after Bonaparte’s departure in August 1799, he was commander of all French troops in Egypt. In March 1800, he routed the Turkish Army at Heliopolis and forced its remnants out of Egypt. He was murdered by a Turkish nationalist.
[Ref: 28216] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Gilbert Mottier Lafayette, Député d'Auvergne aux États Généraux de 1789, et Commandant de la Garde Nationale Parisienne.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of General Lafayette (1757-1834), hero of both the Ameican and French Revolutions, surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his civic oath on the Champs de Mars. He vowed to 'be ever faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king; to support with our utmost power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king'. However as commander-in-chief of the National Guard of France his attempts to keep order resulted in his fall from power. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28229] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Fermier Général né a Paris ke 16 Aout 1743. Jugé le 16 Floréal l'an 2.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Outside edges foxed.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology, known as the 'father of modern chemistry'. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), abolished the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He was an investor and administrator of the "Ferme Générale" a private tax collection company; chairman of the board of the Discount Bank (later the Banque de France); and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic administrative councils. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. Before the Revolution he was an administrator of the 'ferme génerale', which during the ancien regime collected duties on behalf of the king, but at its height he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and was guillotined in 1794.
[Ref: 28225] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Louis XVI, Dernier Roi des Français, décapité le 2 Pluviose, l'an 1ev de la République.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some foxing off printed area.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Louis XVI (1754-1793), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene of the massacre of the Swiss Guards on 10th August 1792, resulting in the arrest and eventual execution of the king. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28227] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Masséna, Général de Division, a l'Armée d'Italie, puis Général en Chef des Armées du Danube et d'Italie.
Bonne maison pinxit. Lavachez sculp. Reville inv et del.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Bottom left corner missing.
Oval mezzotint portrait of André Masséna (1758-1817), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his defence of Genoa in 1800. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. André Masséna, Marshal of France (1804); Duke of Rivoli (1808); and Prince of Esslingen (1810). He entered the army in 1775 and served as a soldier; in 1789 he retired but entered the revolutionary army in 1791. In 1793 he was a brigadier general and took part in the siege of Toulon. In 1794 he became a division general. Massena operated successfully at the head of the vanguard of the army in Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1796-97. In 1799 he commanded troops in Switzerland and defeated General A. M. Rimskii-Korsakov’s Russo-Austrian corps. In 1800, Massena commanded the troops besieged at Genoa. In the war between Austria and France in 1809 he commanded the left wing at Wagram. In 1810-11 he was commander of troops in Portugal but was removed for a series of defeats. In 1814 he went over to the side of the Bourbons and in 1815 was made a peer of France.
[Ref: 28217] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Mirabeau, Député de Provence Aux États Généraux de 1789, Mort le 2 Avril 1791.
Lavachez sculp. Duplesi-Bertaux inv et del. Duplesi-Bertaux aqua forte.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Some spotting.
Oval mezzotint portrait of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene from his life. A moderate revolutionary, he tried to persuade Louis XVI to accept constitutional monarchy, but died before any deal could be reached. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, the French writer and revolutionary. In the 1770s he was condemned to death for the "seduction and abduction" of another man's wife, although he was only imprisoned at the castle of Vincennes, where he met the Marquis de Sade. Having reversed his conviction he was elected to the Estates-General in 1789, in which he a moderate, favouring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. He made secret attempts to negotiate with Louis XIV to achieve this, but died of pericarditis in 1791. Regarded as one of the fathers of the revolution he was buried in the Panthéon, but when his secret negotiations became public knowledge he was disinterred in 1794 and reburied, and his remains are now lost.
[Ref: 28226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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