Grosvenor Prints

King Charles I and the Heads of the Noble Earls, Lords and others, who suffered for their Loyalty in the Rebellion and Civil-Wars of England. With their Characters engraved under each Print, extracted from Lord Clarendon. Taken from the Original Pictures of the Greatest Masters, many of them Sir Anthony Van Dyke's, and all the Heads accurately engraved by Mr. Geo. Vertue,
London: Printed for J.Ryall and R.Withy, Book and Printsellers, at Hogarth's Head, opposite Sailsbury-Court, Fleet Street. [1757.]
Folio, disbound, lacking front board; engraved frontis, 10 numbered plates containing 19 portraits as called for in the index. Damp stain on frontis.
The frontis. has the portraits of the six Stuart monarchs and the Duke of Glocester. The plates include Charles I, Archbishops Laud & Juxon, the earls of Stafford, Litchfield & Caenarvon, and Royalist soldiers Harry Slingsby & George Lisle.
[Ref: 13278] £950.00 view all images for this item

Petrus Barwick M.D. Serenissimo Regi Carolo II.o e Medicis ordinarys.
G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d. c.1721.]
Engraving. 178 x 108mm. 7 x 4¼". Trimmed.
Portrait of Dr Peter Barwick (1619-1705), Physician in ordinary to Charles II., half-length to left, with head turned to look to front; wearing a wig, dark coat decorated with ribbons, fur-trimmed sash, and broad collar trimmed with lace; in an oval frame placed on a pedestal. Frontispiece to Peter Barwick's 'Vita Johannes Barwick', 1721.
W: 192. NPG: D30036. Alexander: 326.
[Ref: 24575] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Hon.ble The Lord Aubrey Beauclerck Slain at Cartagena in America, Feb: the 24th. 1740/1 in the 31st. Year of his Age. [Six lines of verse below.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, sheet 380 x 240mm (15 x 9½"). Trimmed to plate.
Lord Aubrey Beauclerk (1711-1741), youngest son of Charles, 1st Duke of St Albans. A Royal Navy captain, he served at Cartagena under Vernon and was killed during the attack on the Boca Chica, 22 March 1741. A handsome monument to his memory was erected in Westminster Abbey and a pension of £200 per annum was conferred on his widow. By George Vertue (1683 - 1756), after an unidentified artist.
NPG: D1039.
[Ref: 9887] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Lancelot Blackburne DD Lord Archbishop of York Primate of England & Metropolitane and Almoner to his Majesty. Aged 68 Dec ye 10 AD 1726.
I Zeeman pinx. Geo: Vertue Sculp 1727.
Pritned for Rob.t Wilkinson, No 58 Cornhill.
Engraving. 385 x 285mm (15¼ x 11¼"). Thread margins. Small repaired tear bottom centre.
Lancelot Blackburne (1658-1743), Arbishop of York from 1724 until his death, although he often neglected his spiritual duties. The Dictionary of National Biography describes his ''reputation for carnality'' and ''the laxity of his moral precepts''. His character was such that a rumour that in his youth he had been a buccaneer in the West Indies was widely believed, including by Horace Walpole, who knew him well.
[Ref: 59362] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Praecellentissimi Vatis, Samuelis Butler. Calidus excuso populum suspendere Naso. Pers. Illustrissomp Viro Georgio Granville Baroni de Lansdown. Hanc Tabulam Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
G. Soest pinx. G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. Plate: 265 x 240mm (10½ x 9½''), with very large margins. Some marking.
A portrait of poet and satirist Samuel Butler (1613-1680) from Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
[Ref: 50045] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Arthur Capel, and Lucius, 2nd Viscount Falkland] This Noble Royalist on the 9.th of March 1648 was Executed on a Scaffold before Westminster Hall [...]
G. Vertue Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t 1757 Printed for John Ryall & Rob.t Withy at Hogarths head, Fleet Street
Engraving, platemark 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Staining on left; bottom corner missing and filled in. Small margins.
One of nine double portraits of Loyalists which George Vertue engraved between 1731 and 1735, with long engraved accounts of their careers from Clarendon below. They were issued as a set, along with a portrait of Charles I, in 1735 This is a reprint of one of those plates, from 1757
Alexander 671
[Ref: 47294] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Her Most Excellent Majesty Caroline, Queen of Great Britain France and Ireland. &c. &c. &c.
G. Kneller Eques Baron.tus pinxit. Geo: Vertue Sculpsit 1727.
[c.1727.]
Engraving. Sheet 460 x 355mm (18 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737), queen of George II, in an oval. This engraving was first published in 1724, when Caroline was Princess of Wales; for this state the title has been updated and the Prince of Wales's feathers in the border replaced with a crown.
Alexander: 416
[Ref: 48144] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
G. Kneller Eques Baron.tus pinxit. Geo: Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate 355 x 210mm (14 x 8¼"), with large margins. Crease.
Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, queen of George II (1683-1737).
Alexander: 281.
[Ref: 24349] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Honourable Sr. Laurence Carter K.t one of the Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequer.
J. Richardson pinx. G. Vertue Sculp. 1733.
Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street Drury Lane.
Engraving. 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, top right corner rebuilt.
Sir Laurence Carter (1672-1745) was a judge at Lincoln's Inn, and recorder of Leicester from 1697 to 1729. He was Member of Parliament in 1698, 1701 and 1722; for Beeralston in 1710, 1714 and 1716. He was knighted in 1724 and Puisne Baron of the Exchequer from 1726 until his death.
Alexander: 673 [first state.]
[Ref: 24804] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The Market-Cross at Chichester. Inscribed to his Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox and Aubigny & c. High-Steward of the City of Chichester, and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter &c.
Willm. Ride Delin. Ao. 1749. G. Vertue Sculpsit Lond.n.
Fine engraving. 470 x 595mm (18½ x 23½"), with large margins. Uncut.
Chichester Cross, a market cross at the centre of the city, is believed to have been built by the Bishop of Chicheter 14-77-1503. This engraving was probably inspired by its restoration by Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, in 1746. One of only two surviving medieval covered English market crosses, it is now a Grade I listed building.
See Ref: 6324 for duplicate.
[Ref: 59322] £420.00

The Market-Cross at Chichester. Inscribed to his Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox and Aubigny & c. High-Steward of the City of Chichester, and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter &c.
Willm. Ride Delin. Ao. 1749. G. Vertue Sculpsit Londn.
Engraving. 470 x 595mm (18½ x 23½"). Central crease as is normal for this engraving.
Chichester Cross, a market cross at the centre of the city, is believed to have been built by the Bishop of Chicheter 14-77-1503. This engraving was probably inspired by its restoration by Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, in 1746. One of only two surviving medieval covered English market crosses, it is now a Grade I listed building.
[Ref: 6324] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby, with his daughters Frances and Margaret.]
[Engraved by George Vertue after Sir Godfrey Kneller.]
[London: George Vertue, c.1723.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 465 x 385mm (18¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate. Messy edges.
Thomas Coningsby (1656-1729), MP for Leominster from 1679-1710 and 1715-16, when he was raised to the peerage. Coningsby holds a copy of the Magna Carta? On it is written "this is my birthright purchased with the blood of my ancestors". The painting by Kneller is now in the Tower of London. The appearence of the Tower of London in the background is a reference to his imprisonment there in 1720 for writing some ill-chosen words about Simon Harcourt, the Lord Chancellor.
Alexander: 382 who states that this was presumed a Private Plate.
[Ref: 49022] £380.00

James Craggs Sen.r Esq.r, Post Master Gen:l of Great Britain.
G. Kneller Baron.t pinx: 1709. Geo Vertue Sculpsit 1728
Copper engraving. 381 x 275mm. 15 x 10¾". Trimmed to plate, laid on album page.
James Craggs the Elder (1657-1721) was an English politican. In 1715 he was appointed Post-Master General.
See BM: 1849,1031.16 [proof]. Alexander: 574.
[Ref: 17132] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Dale M.L. Aetatis Suae 78.
Geo. Vertue Sculpsit 1737.
Etching. 202 x 152mm. 8 x 6". Damaged with crease through middle.
Samuel Dale (1659-1739) was an apothecary who became a physician, naturalist and friend of John Ray (1627-1705).
W: 751-1. NPG: D27559. Alexander: 762.
[Ref: 24694] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Dale M.L. Aetatis Suae 78.
[Geo. Vertue Sculpsit 1737.]
Etching. Pre-proof before artist's name. Plate 196 x 151mm. 7¾ x 6". Trimmed just outside plate mark.
Samuel Dale (1659-1739) was an apothecary who became a physician, naturalist and friend of John Ray (1627-1705).
W: 751-1. NPG: D27559. Alexander: 762.
[Ref: 24588] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Dale M.L.
[British, n.d., late 18th C?]
Etching on laid paper, frontispiece, 195 x 150mm. 7¾ x 6".
Oval portrait of Samuel Dale (1659 - 1739), physician, aged 78. From the engraving by George Vertue (1683 - 1756) in the third edition of Dale's ‘Pharmacologia' (1737, features over sitter's left shoulder).
See NPG D9270. DNB. See Wellcome 751.
[Ref: 21603] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Memorial of Henry Darnley.] Magnates et Heroes Sangvine Regali Scotiae et Angliae Prognati. Qui Juxta Cenotaphium Henrici Darnley Scotorum…
Livinius Vounanus incfecit. Geo: Vertue del et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 445 x 580mm, 17½ x 22¾". Wear to edges. Uncut sheet.
Mourners at the memorial to Henry Darnley, consort of Mary Queen of Scots. In front is Darnley's young son, James VI of Scotland and later James I of England; then Matthew Stewart (1516-1571), 4th Earl of Lennox, Darnley's father and James's regent, and his wife Margaret; then Darnley's brother Charles.
[Ref: 13313] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Alonso Quixano in his Study.]
I. Vanderbank Inven.t et delin. Geo: Vertue Sculpsit 1723.
Engraving. Plate: 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½'').
A portrait of Alonso Quixano shown sitting in his study staring up at his great grandfather's armour which hangs above the fireplace. The original drawing for the enrgaving is in the Courtauld's collection.
[Ref: 48022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Drake] Franciscus Draeck Nobilissimus Eques Anglia An Aet Sue 43 [...]
[Jodocus Hondius and George Vertue, c.1733, but 19th century impression.]
Engraving, platemark 400 x 315mm (15¾ x 12½"), with large margins.
Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) the most famous of all English seafarers, large globe in left background. This print has an interesting history: the plate was started during Drake's lifetime, hence the date of 1580 on the print (the artist is widely believed to be Jodocus Hondius although Remigius Hogenburg has also been suggested). The plate was left unfinished (an example of the print in its unfinished state is in the British Museum, registration no. O,8.86) until in the 18th century the printmaker and antiquary George Vertue purchased the plate from Drake's descendants and completed it. Drake earned his fame and fortune through his skilful seamanship and outstandindingly successful piracy. His circumnavigation of the globe from 1577-81 involved a number of very profitable raids on Spanish ships and ports. His increasingly frequent and serious attacks during the 1580s were an important factor contributing to Philip II's decision to launch the Armada against English in 1588. Drake served as vice-admiral of the English fleet which defeated the Armada.
[Ref: 37214] £1,250.00

[Sir Francis Drake] Franciscus Draeck Nobilissimus Eques Anglia An Aet Sue 43 [...]
[Jodocus Hondius and George Vertue, c.1733]
Engraving. Sheet: 300 x 395mm (12 x 15½"). Trimmed to image, paper tone and creasing. 18/19th century impression.
Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) the most famous of all English seafarers, large globe in left background. This print has an interesting history: the plate was started during Drake's lifetime, hence the date of 1580 on the print (the artist is widely believed to be Jodocus Hondius although Remigius Hogenburg has also been suggested). The plate was left unfinished (an example of the print in its unfinished state is in the British Museum, registration no. O,8.86) until in the 18th century the printmaker and antiquary George Vertue purchased the plate from Drake's descendants and completed it. Drake earned his fame and fortune through his skilful seamanship and outstandindingly successful piracy. His circumnavigation of the globe from 1577-81 involved a number of very profitable raids on Spanish ships and ports. His increasingly frequent and serious attacks during the 1580s were an important factor contributing to Philip II's decision to launch the Armada against English in 1588. Drake served as vice-admiral of the English fleet which defeated the Armada.
[Ref: 42846] £1,250.00

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames? Virgil.
Georg. Vertue del. & sculps.
[n.d., c.1733.]
Engraving. Plate: 255 x 175mm (10 x 7''). Small margins.
A portrait of minister and historian David Durand (1680-1763) shown writing in a large book supported on the shoulders of Father Time while in the corner three cherubs support a double portrait of George II and Queen Caroline.
[Ref: 48735] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Omnibus Numeris Virtutis Divitis Edoardi Sexti Angliæ &c. Regis, Dominii sui Bridewell dicti Civibus, suis Londinensibus pro hospitalibus, in Usem Pauperum & ejusdem Civitatis Donatio. To the Right Worshipfull W.m Benn Esq. Alderman, President . The Worsjipfull Rob.t Alsop Esq.r Alderman, Treasurer. Joseph Ayliffe Esq. Audito-General. and to the Hon.ble and Worshipfull the rest of the Governors of the Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem ~ This Plate is most Humbly Inscribed and Engraved by their Obedient Servant G. Vertue.
Publisht 16. Feb. 1750. according to Act of Parliament.
Engraving. 480 x 630mm, 19 x 24¾". Uncut sheet.
Edward VI granting Bridewell (a former palace) to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London in 1553, to house homeless children and confine 'disorderly women'. On the far right is a self-portrait of Holbein, observing the ceremony.
[Ref: 13309] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

King Edward VI. From an Original in Kensington Palace.
G: Vertue sculp.
[n.d. c.1736.]
Engraving. 292 x 178mm. 11½ x 7" Trimmed and laid on Album sheet.
Portrait of Edward VI set into a rectangular frame with a surrounding composition alluding to his life. Illustration to Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 'The History of England'. King Edward VI (1537-1553) was son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. Scholarly and firmly Protestant, he ruled during his minority with the help of a council, but was dominated first by the Duke of Somerset as Lord Protector, and later by the Duke of Northumberland. The latter induced Edward to will the crown of Lady Jane Grey, in order to ensure the Protestant succession.
Alexander: 729.
[Ref: 24326] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian Mummy] Cadaver Balsamo conditum; simul cum Loculo ferali [...]
GV Sc. [1724]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 340 x 445mm (13½ x 17½"). Trimmed, losing publication line, and glued to backing sheet.
Four views of a mummy case, engraved by George Vertue after a drawing by William Lethieullier. Lethieullier was an army officer who had visited Egypt and was a member of the Egyptian Society founded in 1741. Vertue presented an impression to the Society of Antiquaries, the dedicatee of the print, in 1724. In 1775 Mrs Vertue presented the society with the copper plate. Note on front of album suggests the colour was added by Vertue. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
Alexander 372.
[Ref: 47287] £320.00

[Egyptian Mummy, for Alexander Gordon's 'Essay...'] Viro Ingenio et Artibus ornatiss.mo Richardo Mead Medico Regio: [...]
A.G. del. [...] Vertue Sc. [1733]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9½"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Engraving of a mummy, published as Plate XIII of Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier' (1737). Gordon (c.1692-1754?) was an antiquary and singer. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
Alexander 672.
[Ref: 47203] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Detail from front of Egyptian mummy case] 3. Loculi Conscpectus anterior auctior aliquantum, quo Figurae clarius et distintius appareant.
GV Sc. [1724]
Engraving with fine original hand-colouring, sheet 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Detail of a mummy case, engraved by George Vertue after a drawing by William Lethieullier. Lethieullier was an army officer who had visited Egypt and was a member of the Egyptian Society founded in 1741. Note on front of album suggests the colour was added by Vertue. In 1775 Mrs Vertue presented the society with the copper plate.
Alexander 373
[Ref: 47286] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] 3. Loculi Conspectus anterior, auctior aliquantum, quo Figuræ clarius et distinctius appareant.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
[LOndon: Society of Antiquaries 1724.]
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with large margins.
The lower half of an Egyptian coffin, identified as a man called Irtyru, published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61268] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] Cadaver Balsamo conditum; simul cum Loculo ferali [Greek letters] Pictura hieroglphica pulcerime insignito. Ex vetustis Ægypti Sepulchretis sublatum Londinum attulit D. Guil: Lethieullier. A.º D.º 1722.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
Societati Antiquariæ Londonensi Georgius Vertue D.D.D. et excudit 1724.
Engraving. 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Trimmed into image at top.
Four illustrations of an Egyptian coffin (the front, front profile, interior and back), published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61267] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Flamsteedius Derbiensis. Astronomiæ Professor Regius. Anno Ætatis 74. Obÿt Decem: 31 1719.
T. Gibson pinx. 1712. Geo. Vertue sculp. 1721.
Engraving. 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾"), very large margins. Old ink mss. in lower margin.
Oval portrait of John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) the first Astronomer Royal.
Wellcome: 988-1. See Ref: 54226 for a cut version.
[Ref: 57009] £320.00

Johannes Flamsteedius Derbiensis. Astronomiæ Professor Regius. Anno Ætatis 74. Obÿt Decem: 31 1719.
T. Gibson pinx. 1712. Geo. Vertue sculp. 1721.
Engraving. Sheet 320 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, crease.
John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) the first Astronomer Royal.
Wellcome: 988-1.
[Ref: 54226] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Fletcher Episcopi Lond. Fili 9. Honoratiss Dno. Dno. Johanni Vicecomiti Percival &c. Hanc Tabulam ad Archetypum expressam.
Geo: Vertue Sculp. 1729. Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
Engraving. Plate 366 x 242mm. Sheet 461 x 332mm. Fine.
John Fletcher (1579-1625) was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivaled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
[Ref: 12640] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Freke.] Obyt Iuly 18 1717.
I. Riley pinx. Geo. Verture Sculp. 1718.
Engraving. Plate 254 x 160mm. 10 x 6¼".
John Freke (d.1717) surgeon, and father of the surgeon John Freke (1688-1756). David Alexander presumes that as a memorial portrait it probably never bore Freke's name.
Alexander: 257.
[Ref: 20032] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Iohannes Freind M.D. Serenissimae Reginae Carolinae Archiatrus. Cui suas Artes sua dona laetus Et Lyram, et Venae Salientis Ictum. Scire concessit, celerem et Medendi Delius Usum.
M. Dahl pinx. G. Vertur Sculpsit 1730.
Etching and engraving. 325 x 190mm. 12¾ x 7½". Cut, some creasing.
John Freind (1675-1728) was an English physician and headmaster of Westminster School. In 1704 he was appointed a lecturer on chemistry at Oxford after proving his scientific attainments by various treatises; in 1705 he published his 'Prelectiones Chimicae', which he dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton. In 1722 he entered the House of Commons as MP for Launceston in Cornwall, but, being suspected of favouring the cause of the exiled Stuarts, he spent half of that year in the Tower of London. During his imprisonment he drew up the plan for his ‘History of Physic’ which appeared in 1725. In 1726 he was appointed physician to Queen Caroline, an office which he held until his death. Seated at a table, with a pedestal next to him with a bust of Hippocrates.
W: 1041-1. Alexander: 592.
[Ref: 20125] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.&c [&] Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales.&c
G. Kneller Eq: Baronet pinx. 1717 [&] 1716. Geo: Vertue Londini Sculp: 1724.
London Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street. Drury Lane.
Pair of engravings, sheets c.460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Trimmed within plates and tipped into album pages.
George II (1683 - 1760) as Prince of Wales and his future queen Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683 - 1737). Caroline Wilhelmina was the daughter of John Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Her parents died while she was still a child and she spent her early life in Berlin, before marrying George in 1705. She accompanied him to England as Princess of Wales in 1714. A fine pair in oval frames, Caroline a particularly strong impression. After Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723).
[Ref: 11680] £480.00 view all images for this item

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.&c [&] Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales.&c
G. Kneller Eq: Baronet pinx. 1717 [&] 1716. Geo: Vertue Londini Sculp: 1724.
London Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street. Drury Lane.
Pair of engravings, sheets c.460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Trimmed within plates, laid on album pages.
A fine pair of portraits of George II (1683-1760) as Prince of Wales and his consort Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737), in oval frames, after Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723). The pair married in 1705, nearly a decade before the Hanoverian succession.
[Ref: 56081] £750.00 view all images for this item

[Ambrose Godfrey, F.R.S.] Hac Amicitiae tessera Fautorib valedicit Perigri / naturus Ambros: Godfrey Hanckwitz Chym: / ad Phoenici Londini [...]
R. Schmutz pinxit / Geo Vertue Sculp 1718
Engraving, sheet 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; printer's crease lower left; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Ambrose Godfrey, the elder (1660-1741), chemist. Born in Germany, after moving to England Godfrey first worked for Robert Boyle, and distinguished himself by learning the difficult skill of isolating white phosphorus. Godfrey kept his means of doing so a secret, and maintained a monopoly on his method for over forty years until in old age he disclosed his secret. Godfrey was also employed at Apothecaries' Hall, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and began his own chemical and pharmaceutical trade. One of his more unusual discoveries was the 'fire annihilator', a wooden barrel containing an aqueous solution surrounding a pewter container of gunpowder. In 1723 he successfully demonstrated that the device, when detonated in a burning building (it had a pipe and fuse attached) extinguished the fire by the explosion and dispersed water. Bust after a painting by the Zurich born Rudolph Schmutz (1670-15), a pupil of Kneller, who was in London from 1702 until his death.
Alexander 235 [as done in 1717]
[Ref: 38358] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Richardus Graves de Michleton in Com. Gloucestriæ Armiger. Obiit: 1731. Aº Ætat 51.
G. Vertue sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 280 x 170mm (11 x 6¾"), large margins.
Portrait of Richard Graves (1677-1729), antiquary.
Alexander: 758
[Ref: 47546] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Graves of Mickleton Esq.r. a Bencher & Reader of Lincoln’s Inn, Clerk of the Peace & Receiver General for the County of Middlesex. He had two Wives by whom he had Issue 19 Children, 6 sons & 13 daughters, & died 1669 Aged 59.
G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving with large margins. 275 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾").
Richard Graves (1610-69) of Mickleton, Gloucestershire, dressed in his lawyer's robes. Graves amassed a fortune practising law during the Civil Wars and Interregnum, becoming a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and Receiver General of Middlesex.
Alexander: 590
[Ref: 34970] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Lady Jane Grey. Inscrib'd to his Most Noble Grace Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset. by his Grace's most humble and most obedient Servant Geo: Vertue. 1748.
Ad architypum, delin et sculpsit. G.Vertue.
Engraving. 475 x 570mm, 18¾ x 22½". Uncut sheet.
Oval portrait of the Nine-Day Queen, within an architectural surround.
[Ref: 13312] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine.]
[William Faithorne, engraved by George Vertue.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving, very scarce proof. Sheet: 390 x 225mm (15¼ x 9''). Trimmed, loss in corners, damaged.
A three-quarter length portrait of politician and antiquary Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine (1636-1708).
[Ref: 49718] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Johannes Harris Sac. Theo. P. ro & R.S.S.] Non civium Ardor parva jubentium Nec vultrus instantis Tyrannu mente quatit solida. Horat.
[A. Russell pinx. G. Vertue sculp.]
[n.d. c.1719.]
Engraving, proof before lettering of title, artists' names and date. Plate 292 x 196mm. 11½ x 7¾".
Portrait of John Harris (c.1666-1719), the writer and lecturer on science and Prebendary of Rochester; half-length to right, looking to front; wearing a wig and ecclesiastical robes and bands; in an oval frame decorated with Acanthus leaves on top, placed on a pedestal with coat of arms in front; frontispiece to the first volume of John Harris' 'History of Kent' (1719). Harris was a fellow of the Royal Society and for a time its vice-president. He wrote a paper on microscopic observations, and is still known for his Lexicon Technicum, or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1704), "which became one of the first books to display the importance to the public of Newton's science, and which has since been regarded a prototype of the more famous dictionaries and encyclopaedias of the Enlightenment."
Alexander: 291. NPG: D35521. Wellcome: 6810046; Lugt 53 unknown.
[Ref: 22824] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.
PTillemans d. Gvertue S. 1723.
Etching, 200 x 130mm. 8 x 5¼". A fine impression.
Portrait of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquarian. After graduating from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was made assistant keeper of the Bodleian Library, where he worked on cataloguing the books. As a nonjour he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to King George I, and so in early 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship. He turned down many professional and academic positions, including the Camden professorship of ancient history, rather than take the oaths. He did however remain in Oxford and spent his time editing the English chroniclers. Several volumes on shelves behind, some with etched tiles to spines. From a different plate to item 26283, with several differences of detail in the image. After P. Tillemans.
Alexander 377.
[Ref: 26284] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Hearne Antiquar: Oxon: [ink mss.]
G. Vertue scul.
[British, n.d., c.1723.]
Rare etching, proof before letters titled in ink by hand. 160 x 110mm. 6¼ x 4¼". Unrecorded state before title of book he holds open changed to 'Oath of Alleg[iance]'. A fine impression.
Portrait of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquarian. After graduating from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was made assistant keeper of the Bodleian Library, where he worked on cataloguing the books. As a nonjour he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to King George I, and so in early 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship. He turned down many professional and academic positions, including the Camden professorship of ancient history, rather than take the oaths. He did however remain in Oxford and spent his time editing the English chroniclers. Several volumes on shelves behind, some with etched tiles to spines. From a different plate to item 26284, with several differences of detail in the image. After P. Tillemans.
Alexander 379, unrecorded state.
[Ref: 26283] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.
Tillemans d. Gvertue S.1723.
Copper engraving. Plate 202 x 133mm (8 x 5¼").
Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), English antiquarian, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire. After graduating from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was made assistant keeper of the Bodleian Library, where he worked on cataloguing the books. As a nonjour he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to King George I, and so in early 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship. He turned down many professional and academic positions, including the librarianship of the Bodleian and the Camden professorship of ancient history, rather than take the oaths. He did however remain in Oxford and spent his time editing the English chroniclers.
NPG: D4070. Alexander 377.
[Ref: 14972] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Familia Regia ab Holbenio picta.
Geo. Vertue del. & Sculp.
[n.d., c.1743.]
Engraving. Sheet: 485 x 540mm (19 x 21¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet with a vertical fold.
A group portrait of Henry VII and Henry VIII with their wives Elizabeth of York and Jane Seymour. The original Holbein painting was destroyed by fire in 1698, so this engraving is after a copy by van Leemput commissioned by Charles II in 1667.
[Ref: 43732] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

K. Henry VIII.
Vertue sculp.
[n.d., c.1745.]
Stipple. Sheet: 165 x 90mm (6½ x 3½"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A half-length portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547) set within an oval with a decorative border. An illustration from Rapin and Tindall's 'History of England.'
[Ref: 43720] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

a Description of the Solemn Justes held at Westminster the 13th day of February in the first year of Henry the VIII in honor of his Queen Katherin upon the birth of their eldest Son Prince Henry. A.D. 1510. taken from the Oriiginal Roll now in the College of Armes, London.
Sumptibus Soc. Antiquariæ Lond. A.D. 1726.
Engraved frontispiece and five plates, complete. 250 x 500mm (9¾ x 19¾"). Laid on album paper at the corners.
A mounted procession, with an engraved text description.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52273] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Reverend Mr Benjamin Hoadly B.D. Rector of St Peter Poor, London.
G. Vertue Sculp.
[London, 1709.]
Engraving. 18th century watermark; 365 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Small margins.
Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly (1676 - 1761) as a young man, prior to appointment as Bishop of Bangor in 1715, Salisbury in 1723 and finally Winchester in 1734. He was appointed Bishop of Bangor by George I on his succession, and became the king's chaplain at the same time. He repaid the largesse by speaking on behalf of the king in the 'Bangorian Controversy'; he argued that there was no Biblical justification for any church government, an attack on the bishops sitting in the House of Lords. His portrait was more famously painted by William Hogarth; Hoadly's son Benjamin helped Hogarth on his 'Analysis of Beauty', 1753.
Collector's stamp of Lawson Thompson (1837-1919) on verso (Lugt L1770); collection of portraits sold in two sales at Sothebys, 1920.
[Ref: 40545] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Howard Earle of Surrey. Ob.t 1546. [From an Original in Kensington Palace.]
Hans Holben pinxt G. Vertue del & Sculp 1747.
[n.d. c.1747.]
Etching and engraving. Stamped: Free Public Library. Wigan. 355 x 223mm (14 x 8¾"). Cut.
Portrait of the Earl of Surrey; half length, to the right, wearing cap and fur trimmed robes, a medal visible below fur; in oval frame with ornaments. On verso, trimmed portrait titled "Henricus Howardus Comes Surrlae &" with production details "Holbein pinxit. GVSculp". Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), courtier, soldier and poet at the court of Henry VIII. He was at one time suggested as a husband for Princess Mary (later Mary I). He introduced blank verse into England, and was responsible, along with Sir Thomas Wyatt, for bringing the sonnet form to this country from Italy. His personal vanity, ambition and powerful family connections led Henry VIII to regard him as a threat, and he was executed on a false charge of treason.
See NPG: D24240. Alexander: 910.
[Ref: 28998] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The High And Mightie Prince Thomas Lord Howard, Duke Of Norfolke, Earle Of Surry And Earle Marshal Of England, Lord Mowbrey, Segreve, & Brusse Of Gore, And Knight Of the most honorable order of the Garter and of St. Michael ec. He decesed 1572, ye 2. of June.
[Engraved by George Vertue after R. Elstracke.]
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1536-1572) with his arms, after the engraving by Renold Elstracke, c.1600.
See Walpole Society Vol XXVI, p.74 Not in Alexander.
[Ref: 57344] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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