Grosvenor Prints

[1886 earthquake] Supplement to the New Zealand Herald.
C.P. Wilsons & Horton Chromo-Lith. Auckland.
June 21, 1886.
Three chromolithographs and two litho maps on one sheet. 445 x 290mm (18 x 11½"). Some spotting and wear.
A newspaper sheet published eleven days after the earthquake and volcanic eruptions that hit New Zealand's North Island on June 10th 1886. 150 people, mostly Maori, were killed, and two of New Zealand's most famous natural features, the Pink and White Terraces illustrated here, were destroyed.
[Ref: 44003] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Mrs Abington
Sr. Jos. Reynolds Pinx J. Wilson fec
[n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Frances Abington (1737-1815), actress. Born in lowly circumstances, Abington grew up in the slums around Drury Lane, and sold flowers and sang in Covent Garden as a girl. Along with other jobs she did when young (kitchenmaid, milliner's assistant), various accounts of her life hint at prostitution during her early years. After making a start as an actress in London her first professional success came while working in Dublin, rejoining Garrick's Drury Lane company where she established herself as one of the leading comedy actresses of her generation. She was also the mistress of at least two prominent figures. Engraving after the several portrait 'Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse' by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1764-8, hair and dress repainted 1772-3) now in Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. This was one of several portraits that Reynolds painted of Abington- he was an admirer and purchased twelve tickets for her benefit performance in 1772. Reynolds' portrait was a companion to his portrait of Sarah Siddons as 'the Tragic Muse'.
CS: 2. Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 42094] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria Broughton-Delves] Lady Broughton.
S.r Jos. Reynolds Pinxt. Wilson fecit.
[London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53. Fleet Street, as the Act directs 1st. Sep.r 1771.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, narrow margins elsewhere.
A three-quarter length portrait of Mary Hill (d.1813, wife of Sir Brian Broughton-Delves (d.1766), 5th baronet of Broughton Hall, Staffordshire. The original portrait, showing Maria full-length, was begun by Reynolds in 1765 but only completed after her husband's death. The oil is now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
CS: 4.
[Ref: 62759] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Dedicated with all due Respect to his most Worthy Friends, & Patrons Jos.ph & Hen.y Berens, and John Mitford Esq.rs with the other Gentlemen Educated at Cheam School by their most Obed.t h.ble Serv.t John Young.
From a Drawing by the Rev:d J: Berens. Geo. Wilson, Aqua Tint, &c.
London. Pub.d as the Act directs by J. Young No.143 Tottenham Court Road. [n.d. c.1834.]
Aquatint with added colour to sky. Plate 285 x 388mm. 11¼ x 15¼". Late impression.
Cheam School, the preparatory school in Headley, Hampshire, founded in 1645 by the Reverend George Aldrich. Children playing the grounds, a group in the centre with a kite, and playing hop-skotch, boys to the left holding a hoop, to the right looking inside a hutch, and other boys around the yard.
[Ref: 22054] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with a Herd of Goats] Engraved by W.m Wilson from an Excellent Picture of Claud Lorrain painted in 1641 in the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble L.d James Cavendish. 6
[c.1750]
Engraving. Platemark 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Small margins. Very fine; pinhole upper centre. 41670
Landscape after Claude Lorrain (1604/5-82), French painter often regarded as the greatest of all ideal landscape artists, whose depictions of idealised pastoral scenes were immensely popular amongst the European nobility and clergy. Subsequent British landscape painters such as Richard Wilson and JMW Turner were strongly influenced by his work.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 38517] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Columbus and his Sons Diego and Ferdinand. From an ancient Spanish Picture in the possession of Edward Horne Esq.r of Bevis Mount near Southampton.
Wilson Sculp.t
Publish'd Dec: 13, 1794 by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Engraving. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Stamp of Royal Engineers Library verso.
Christopher Columbus and family. Cartographic elements include charts, globe, dividers and other navigational tools. Also includes dog and woman holding bowl of fruit. Frontispiece to "The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol II".
[Ref: 33985] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Columbus and his Sons Diego and Ferdinand. From an ancient Spanish Picture in the possession of Edward Horne Esq.r of Bevis Mount near Southampton.
Wilson Sculp.t
[Publish'd Dec: 13, 1794 by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly.]
Engraving. 235 x 171mm. 9¼ x 6¾". Cut and laid on album page.
Christopher Columbus and family. Cartographic elements include charts, globe, dividers and other navigational tools. Also includes dog and woman holding bowl of fruit. Frontispiece to "The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol II".
[Ref: 24685] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cottage by River.] 5.
Engraved from a Drawing of Mr Smiths, by Wm. Wilson.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer Printseller, 53, Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1780.]
Etching and engraving. Plate 210 x 241mm. 8¼ x 9½". Some creasing and tear into upper margin and plate edge.
View of a cottage on the bank of a river, a crude footbridge crossing in foreground to part of a ruined wall at right; a figure standing beside the building, looking out towards a church and village in the distance. Number 5 from a series (unknown).
[Ref: 26571] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Dutch Chymist.
Jn.o Stein Pinxit. J. Wilson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 in Fleet Street. 236
Mezzotint, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Large margins.
An alchemist stirring a ceramic pot; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker. The alchemist has the 'bleary eyes' from long sustained efforts of watching his experiment, as described by Thomas Norton in his 'Ordinall of alchemy', 1477. After the painting 'The Village Alchemist' by Jan Havicksz. Steen (c.1625-79), painted in the early 1660s and now in the Wallace Collection. The composition is cropped to omit a crying woman and child, and 'empty money bags suspended from the ceiling with a bloated bladder, symbolising delusion' (from Wallace Collection commentary on the painting).
For a later lithograph reproducing the painting more directly, see ref. 24878
[Ref: 37011] £320.00

The Flemish Repast. You see both Male & Female clear Will Tipple There as well as Here. 201
A. Kraus pinx.t. Wilson fecit.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 1.st February 1771.
Rare mezzotint, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") very large margins. Slight creasing.
Flemish genre scene, engraved in mezzotint by James Wilson after Carl August Krause (1724-64).
For coloured impression see ref. 36304.
[Ref: 40462] £340.00

The Flemish Repast. You see both Male & Female clear Will Tipple There as well as Here.
A. Kraus pinx.t. Wilson fecit.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 1.st February 1771.
Mezzotint with original colour and large margins. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") A few small tears in margins, one pinhole in image.
Flemish genre scene, engraved in mezzotint by James Wilson after Carl August Krause (1724-64).
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36304] £320.00

Eight Views of Fountains Abbey Intended to Illustrate the Architecture and Picturesque Scenery of that Celebrated Ruin.
Etched on Copperplate from Original Drawings, by J. Metcalf and J.W. Carmichael: with a Historical and Architectural Description by T. Sopwith.
Published by J. Metcalf, Ripon: and J.W. Carmichael, Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle: Printed by J. Blackwell and Co. Pilgrim Street. [1832.]
Bound set of 8 etchings in wrappers. Rare artist's presentation copy. In ink on Frontis "To Miss Hodge with Mr. Carmichael compliments" Folio: 380 x 550mm (15 x 21¾") very large margins. Uncut. Edges torn and creased.
A bound series of eight etchings of Fountains Abbey, views include 'East View of the Abbey', 'Interior of the Lady Chapel', 'Interior of the Church','East Window from the Interior', 'Chapter House from the Cloister Garden', 'Interior of the Refectory', 'The Hospitum' and 'West View of the Abbey'. Some scenes etched after drawings by James Wilson Carmichael (1800-1868).
Abbey Scenery: 373
[Ref: 44886] £360.00 view all images for this item

Grecian Islanders.
Benezech delin. Wilson sculp.
Published by J. Trusler, Sept.r. 1. 1792.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Greek scene with four figures.
[Ref: 32059] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Greenland Whale Fishery, Peche de la Baleine ala Cote du Groenland.
Brooking Pinx.t. Wilson Sculp.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Platemark: 190 x 275mm (7½ x 10¾"). Large margins. Small holes in left margin.
Sailors in longboats hunting a whale, with three larger sailing vessels in the distance and some polar bears on the ice in the foreground to the left.
See Ref: 60511
[Ref: 35656] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Invalid Lodger or How to Follow a Prescription.
M.E[gerton.] I. Wilson Sc.
Published by S.Gans, 15, Southampton Street, Strand. [n.d., c.1825.]
Very fine hand coloured etching with aquatint, on 'W. King' watermarked paper. Image 255 x 195mm, 10 x 7¾". Trimmed to plate.
Social satire: a lodger being asked to keep his dog quiet by the landlord (entering left); the lodger replies that he has no dog and is himself responsible for the barking - following, he claims, the instructions of his doctor! The port the strange guest is drinking is apparently also part of the prescription. After M Egerton (1821 - 1827; fl.), humorous designer and social satirist; apparently an amateur since he often signs as 'Esq'.
BM Satires undescribed.
[Ref: 19575] £380.00

An Iron Work, for Casting of Cannon; and a Boreing Mill, Taken from the Madeley side of the River Severn, Shropshire.
G. Robertson pinxit. Wilson Lowry Sculpsit
Published Feb.y 1.st 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside London
Fine engraving, rare open letter proof, 410 x 550mm (16 x 21½"), with large margins. Repaired tears in outside of margins.
An industrial scene of ironworks and the boring mill in Madeley, built in 1788.
[Ref: 63113] £480.00

[An Iron Work, for Casting of Cannon; and a Boreing Mill, Taken from the Madeley side of the River Severn, Shropshire.]
[G. Robertson pinxit. Lowry Sculpsit.]
[Published Feb.y 1.st 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell No. 90 Cheapside London.]
Engraving, rich impression. Sheet 335 x 520mm (13¼ x 20½"). Trimmed into image on all sides, laid on card.
A view of the world's first cast iron bridge built by Abraham (1750-89) in 1781, near his the ironworks of his grandfather, also Abraham (1678-1717), who first smelted iron ore with coke, an innovation that kick-started the Industrial Revolution by considerably reduced the coast of making iron. A waterwheel stands by the river. One of six engravings after paintings by George Robertson (1747-88).
See Ref: 59358
[Ref: 59359] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A View of the Iron Bridge, in Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire. Taken from the bottom of Lincoln Hill.]
[G. Robertson pinxit. Francis Chesham Sculpsit.]
[Published Feb.y 1.st 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell No. 90 Cheapside London.]
Engraving, rich impression. Sheet 335 x 520mm (13¼ x 20½"). Trimmed into image on all sides, laid on card.
A view of the world's first cast iron bridge built by Abraham (1750-89) in 1781, near his the ironworks of his grandfather, also Abraham (1678-1717), who first smelted iron ore with coke, an innovation that kick-started the Industrial Revolution by considerably reduced the coast of making iron. One of six engravings after paintings by George Robertson (1747-88).
[Ref: 59358] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with figures and cattle by a stream.] Engraved by Wm. Wilson, from an Original Picture of Zuccarelli, in the Collection of Wm. Herring Esqr.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Etching with engraving, 307 x 405mm. Light even age toning.
Landscape with a woman lying asleep at the edge of a stream, her head on her basket, one arm around her gourd and staff, which trails in the water. Two children are beside her, one reaching out with a stick to tickle her face. Another woman stands next to them, with basket, staff and a dog, pointing towards the town in the distance on the left. A man driving cattle along the bank behind them turns to look at the travellers. On watermarked laid paper, inscribed '3' upper right. After Francesco Zuccarelli (1702 - 1788)
[Ref: 8080] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Jacob blesses Josephs two Sons. Done from an Original Picture Painted by Mr. West, in the Possession of Lord Grosvenor.
B. West pinxt. William Wilson fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 440 x 515mm. Trimmed to image, laid on card.
The elderly Jacob, sitting up on the edge of his bed, leans forward with the help of his attendant and places his hands on the heads of Ephraim, at the front, and Manasseh behind; Joseph, kneeling on the floor facing his father, holds the old man's right hand to attempt to move it to the head of his first born, who he ushers forward. Richard Grosvenor (1731-1802), 1st Earl Grosvenor, was a keen art collector who bought several paintings from Benjamin West, including the famous 'Death of Wolfe'. He also commissioned George Stubbs to paint his 'Arabian' racehorse.
Ex: Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 38191] £320.00

[Polly Kennedy] Miss Jones.
C. Read pinx.t. J. Wilson fecit.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 115mm (5¾ x 4½"). Trimmed into title at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
Polly Kennedy (alias Jones) d.1781, courtesan and mistress of Sir Charles Bunbury. She reads a book and wears an elaborate dress with lace frills, shawl and cap, and a pearl necklace. After Catherine Read (1723 - 1778).
Chaloner Smith: 8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 66635] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Flemish Amusement. The Boorish Family invent Contrivances for Merriment.
A Krause Pinx.t. Wilson fecit.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, No.53, Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 1st February 1771.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm. Laid on thick paper.
Including card playing.
[Ref: 3636] £480.00

The University of London constituting the most wonderful aggregation of institutions to be found anywhere in the World. To the Memory of the Founders and Benefactors of the noble Colleges and Schools of the University of London this plate is gratefully and respectfully dedicated.
Designed, Executed & Published by S. Gordon Wilson. Copyright and under the approval of the Vice-Chancellor.
[n.d., c.1923.]
Etching. Sheet 290 x 635mm (11½ x 25"). Repaired tear at top, some surface abrasions in margins.
22 vignette illustrations of the buildings and numerous crests of the University. Wilson published a book with a similar title in 1923.
[Ref: 50664] £320.00

View of the Tchin-Shan, or Golden Island inthe Yang-Tse-Kiang, or Great River of China.
W. Alexander del.t. Wilson sculp.t.
London, published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving, very large margins. Platemark: 495 x 360mm. (19¼ x 14¼"). Very slight foxing in sky.
A view of an island with two principle peaks, dotted with buildings, including a tall pagoda to the right. In the foreground several vessels on the water, including a two-masted ship to left. In the centre boat a European sits sketching, probably William Alexander, the official artist of the Macartney expedition. Plate 39 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China.
[Ref: 55445] £350.00

Ratification of Magna Charta, by King John.
Mortimer Pinx.t Wilson Sculp.
Published by J. & J. Cundee, Albion Press, London, 1813.
Engraving. 420 x 255mm (16½ x 10"). Creasing, nicks around edges.
King John seated on throne below canopy, pointing at the Magna Carta held by churchman. King John confronted by his barons in 1215. Despite the title it was only after the death of John in 1216 that either Crown or nobility attempt to abide by the terms of the document.
[Ref: 28942] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fanny.
T.C. Wilson [in image.] Star, No.38. T.C. Wilson, Sc.
Alvey, lith, London Rd. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 285 x 229mm. 11¼ x 9".
A profile portrait of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Miss Fanny.
[Ref: 23930] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Usurer. With Rature Gripus huggs his Gold; Both Morn and Eve the Cash is told; The God his Soul admires, His Profits on the Table heap'd [...]
Vandermyn pinx. Wilson Fecit.
[n.d., c.1770.] Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleetstreet.
Very rare and fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Frame measures 535 x 425mm (21½ x 16¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of a Jewish man, holding a bag of coins and looking down upon them. The title refers to an individual that lends money at an exorbitant rate.
[Ref: 66041] £680.00

The Musical Shepherdess. From the Original Picture, In the Collection of Welbore Ellis Agar Esq.r.
Claude le Lorraine Pinxit. Wilson Lowrie Sculpsit.
Published August 24.th 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 495 x 610mm (19½ x 24"), laid paper watermarked 'J Whatman 179-'. Narrow margins, repairs to edges.
A large image showing a woman playing a pipe while tending her sheep by a river with an Italianate town and bridge behind.
[Ref: 64066] £460.00

A Peach Girl.
Rosalba pinx.t. Wilson fecit.
[n.d., c.1886.] London, Printed for Rob.t. Sayer N.º53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small stain in upper left corner.
A portrait of a girl, in her hands she holds peaches.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS 22 II of II.
[Ref: 64505] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Life of a Gentleman. Scene the Tenth._ Wounds & Destitution. Given with No.40 of the Teetotaler. Progress of Inebriety. No.10.
T.C. Wilson [written inside the image.]
Lithograph. 318 x 254mm. 12½ x 10".
An officer outside the Spanish Legion Office, stands with a broken arm ready to join the queue of officer awaiting compensation.
[Ref: 15466] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Love declar'd from Rene to Sarotte. Upon my Word, 'twill never do! / Cease, formal Fool, to sigh and Woo! [...]
C. Froost Pinxit / Wilson Fecit
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Thread margins; crease through title area
British copy of a Dutch satirical scene (one of a pair), in which the Puritan, René, declares his love to Sarotte. As the verses below underline, René's stiff demeanour is intended to contrast with the vivacious Sarotte ("trust me a sprightlier Bird, Mynheer"). In the accompanying plate René asks Sarotte's parents for their permission for him to marry her. After a painting from 1738 by Cornelis Troost (1697 - 1750).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for the pair of Dutch prints from which this derives, see ref. 27722.
[Ref: 36209] £320.00

The Suspicious Husband.
Martin pinx.t. Wilson fecit
London Publish'd Feb.y 16 1772 by R. Marshall N4 Aldermary Church Yard.
Coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, extra margins added on three sides.
A woman seals a letter at a candlelit table, while her maid waits to take it. Her husband peers anxiously around the door, believing it to be addressed to another lover. On the wall is a picture of cupid oriented towards the wife. Engraved by the little-known printmaker James Wilson from a painting by either Johan Fredrik or Elias Martin, Swedish artists sometime resident in London.
CLB database: state iii of iii.
[Ref: 36308] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Suspicious Husband.
Martin pinx.t. Wilson fecit
London Publish'd Feb.y 16 1772 by Henry Parker No.82 Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Creasing; 'CL-B' collector's stamp verso.
A woman seals a letter at a candlelit table, while her maid waits to take it. Her husband peers anxiously around the door, believing it to be addressed to another lover. On the wall is a picture of cupid oriented towards the wife. Engraved by the little-known printmaker James Wilson from a painting by either Johan Fredrik or Elias Martin, Swedish artists sometime resident in London.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB state ii/iii
[Ref: 36221] £380.00

Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem, Plin. Espist.
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, fine impression. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), frontispiece to Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life & Writings of Swift' 1752.
[Ref: 50014] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist..
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, sheet 165 x 95mm (6½ x 3¾"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Chiefly remembered as author of 'Gulliver's Travels' (first published 1726 and now perhaps the most-read of all eighteenth-century literary works) and as a satirist has few rivals in the English language. Epigram from Pliny's 'Epistles' below. Original etching by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 42099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

William Tempest. F.R.S. Aet. 70.
Painted & etched by B.Wilson.
[n.d. c.1752].
Etching. 190 x 100mm.
[1682 - 1761]. Very fine copy of the frontispiece to 'Chronology' 1752. Etched by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 6655] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Waggoner and Fisherman.
Ostage pinx.t J. Wilson fecit.
[London. Printd for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"), Trimmed at bottom, losing two lines of verse and publication line. Small margins on 3 sides.
Two smiling men in a tavern, one holding a mug, the other a pipe.
[Ref: 54216] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Another View of Wanstead House in the County of Esses, the Seat of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Tylney.
George Robertson delin.t. Wilson Lowrie sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1st. 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving with etching. 400 x 554mm (15¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate, backed with paper.
A fine impression of this view of Wanstead House, built in 1715 by Scottish architect Colen Campbell for Sir Richard Child, 3rd Baronet, was the first Palladian mansion built in England. After the notorious rake William Wellesley-Pole ruined the estate, the house's contents were sold at auction in 1825, after which the house demolished and the building materials salvaged also auctioned, raising only £10,000 of the reputed £360,000 cost of building. The surrounding grounds are now Wanstead Park.
See [Ref: 67453] for coloured version.
[Ref: 51316] £360.00

Another View of Wanstead House in the County of Essex, the Seat of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Tylney.
George Robertson delin.t. Wilson Lowrie sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1st. 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Coloured engraving with etching, 18th century watermarked paper. 400 x 554mm (15¾ x 21¾"), large margins. Tears in margins taped.
A fine impression of this view of Wanstead House, built in 1715 by Scottish architect Colen Campbell for Sir Richard Child, 3rd Baronet, was the first Palladian mansion built in England. After the notorious rake William Wellesley-Pole ruined the estate, the house's contents were sold at auction in 1825, after which the house demolished and the building materials salvaged also auctioned, raising only £10,000 of the reputed £360,000 cost of building. The surrounding grounds are now Wanstead Park.
See [Ref: 51316] for one without colour.
[Ref: 67453] £360.00

The Revd: Mr: William Whiston Born 9 Decemr. 1667. Died Augt. 22d. 1752.
B. Wilson Fecit 1753.
Etching, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼". Occasional spotting; a fine impression with full margins.
William Whiston (1667 - 1752), mathematician and divine. By Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788), portrait painter and scientist, also etcher, occasional mezzotinter and collector of Rembrandt. He was appointed Hogarth's successor as Serjeant-Painter to the King.
Not in BM. NPG: D8302. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
[Ref: 9638] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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