Grosvenor Prints

[Lady Diana Beauclerk's two daughters]
Lady Diana Beauclerk del. F. Bartolozzi Etched.
Publish'd May 15th. 1780, by F. Bartolozzi No 1 Bentinck Street, in Berwick Street Soho.
Very fine and rare etching with stipple and hand colour, sheet 280 x 295mm (11 x 11¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Mount burn and foxing.
Elizabeth, later Lady Herbert, drawing in a sketch-book leaning on her knees; her younger sister Mary, later Countess Jenison Walworth, seated behind her. Etching after a drawing by their mother, Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734 - 1808), a talented amateur artist whose designs were much admired by Horace Walpole. Etched by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Italian printmaker who was invited to London by George III's librarian Richard Dalton, and who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London. In England Bartolozzi became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 he was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal.
De Vesme 1212 III of III.
[Ref: 60328] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Major John Bernardi Anno ætaris 73 primoqi die Martij A.o Dni. 1728.
W. Cooper pinx. Ger:VanderGucht sculp.
[n.d., 1728.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Portrait of Major John Bernardi (1657-1736), English soldier and Jacobite who spent 40 years in Newgate Prison, without proper trial, for his involvement in an assassination plot against William III, dying there aged nearly eighty. This portrait comes from his autobiography, 'A Short History of the Life of Major Bernardi by Himself', in which he describes marrying in Newgate in 1712 (aged 68) and fathering ten children while imprisoned.
Sharpe 315 I of II.
[Ref: 59862] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable Cadwallader Lord Blayney. Baron Blayney of Monaghan, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the said County, Major General of His Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the 38.th Regiment. Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint, 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾") with large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Cadwallader, 9th Baron of Blayney (1720-1775), wearing heavy robes decorated with plaid, a masonic apron and collar. Cadwallader was one of the most famous and influential Freemasons, elected Grand Master of England in 1764-66.
CS 25 i; pg. 1719
[Ref: 60332] £360.00

[Anne Brown] Clara. From an Original Picture in the Collection of John Taylor, Esq.r.
[After Rev Mathew William Peters]
Pub.d March 1.st 1780 by J.Walker N.o 148 Strand.
Fine stipple printed in colours, plate 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"). Thread margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to left within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape. Reverse copy of a mezzotint by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] Miss Ferard. in the Strand London.
[After Rev Mathew William Peters] J.P. Woffinik Sculp.
[n.d. c.1780]
Stipple printed in sanguine, plate 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to left within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60278] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] [Clara]
Peint par Guill.m Peters: R:A: Egrave' par : P : Charlay : L Ausgsbourg 15 Julliet 1778.
Fine stipple printed in sanguine, plate 200 x 160mm (7¾ x 6½"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to right within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape. A German reverse copy of the stipple after Rev Matthew William Peters (c.1741-1814) engraved by John Walker (fl.1776-1802).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60276] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] Clara. From an Original Picture in the Collection of John Taylor, Esq.r.
Wm. Peters, R.A. pinx:t : Walker Excud:t.
Pubd. 13 Decr. 1777 by J. Walker No:13, Parliament Street
Fine stipple printed in colours, plate 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to left within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape. Reverse copy of a mezzotint by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60277] £320.00

John Bull Mus. Dcot. Cantab. Instaur. Oxon. MDXCII. from an Original Paintng in the Music School Oxford. by J.W. Childe.
Illman sculp.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate, surface soiling.
John Bull (c. 1563-1628), composer, organist, virginalist and organ builder, drawn by Childe after a portrait painted by an unknown artist in 1589, when Bull was aged 27. A favourite of Elizabeth, Bull was appointed Gresham Professors of Music, but had to flee England when incurring the displeasure of James I, settling in Antwerp. The original portrait is now in the Faculty of Music and Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
[Ref: 59857] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Population of the British Empire 1821.
H. Adlard Sculp.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Etching on paper watermarked 1825. Plate 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"), with margins.
A portrait of Prime Minister George Canning surrounded by rings giving the population statistics of London, Edinburgh and Dublin, the Home Countries and counties. Around the outer ring is a text 'India and other Foreign Possessions upwards of 82 Millions'.
See Ref: 9523, 9524 & 9548
[Ref: 60236] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Chalier] Philipe Sidney.
peint par H.F. Tassaert. gravé par J.J. Tassaert.
A Paris et a Londres chez Tessari et Comp.ie [n.d., c.1835.]
Sripple, printed in colours. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), large margins.
A portrait taken from a bust of Joseph Chalier (1747-93) who was a French lawyer and revolutionary politician. It is apparently a reissue of a portait of Chalier that Jean Joseph François Tassaert engraved, originally attributed to painter Jacques Philippe Caresme. This version has the title changed, Henriette-Félicité Tassaert as painter, and the revolutionary symbols in the borders removed.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60318] £380.00

[Lady Smyth.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.
Publish'd Mar. 15 1789, by F. Bartolozzi & C.o.
Stipple with etching, proof before title, 18th century watermark; 380 x 300mm (15 x 11¾") with small margins. Repaired nicks in margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Charlotte, Lady Smyth (1776-1823), seated wearing black broad-brimmed hat with white feathers and black transparent shawl, with her two daughters holding their brother up between them.
De Vesme 1221 iii of iv. Provenance Brussels Gentleman's Club.
[Ref: 60347] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Dux de Marlborough &c.
G. Kneller S.R.A. et Angl. Eq. Aur. pinx.
E.C. Heiss excud. aug. vind. Cum Privileg. S.C.M. [n.d., c.1710.]
Mezzotint. 325 x 220mm (13 x 8½"). Trimmed to image, tear in top left corner taped.
Portrait in oval of John Churchill (1650-1722) in wig and armour, after a portrait by Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723).
[Ref: 60209] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Cotton Decks of Stanfield in Suffolk Aged 75. A Noted Breaker of Pointers, has attended New Market meetings these 30 Years past is Qualified to Hawk, Hunt &c. by the Hon.ble Cha.s Bertley.
F. Sartotius pinx.t. Rob.t Laurie fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map and Printseller, N.o 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2, March, 1772.
Coloured mezzotint. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Small margins chipped.
Mezzotint by Robert Laurie (c.1755-1836) after Francis Sartorius (1734-1804). According to Siltzer this is a companion to a print after Nathan Drake. An early example, before the printing plate was trimmed by c.20mm at top.
Siltzer 242. CS II of II. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 60130] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria & Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.] Sehr drey Monarchen hier...
Jos. Ant. Natterer inv.t et pinx.t. Carl Pfeiffer sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1813.]
Scarce stipple. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"), with large margins.
Portraits of the monarchs of Russia, Prussia and Austria (allies in the wars against Napoleon) amalgamated into one head, sharing three noses and two noses, surrounded by sunbeams, within a garland.
[Ref: 59803] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Evelina.
Painted by J. Hopner. Engraved by J. Baldrey.
London, Publish'd Jan:y 1.st 1787 by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller N.o 158 New Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, sheet 296 x 220mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Ink stamp Collector's mark: E.M.H., Mrs. E. M. Hamilton. Trimmed within plate.
According to the 'Woman's Exhibition, 1900, Earl's Court, London, S.W.: Official Fine Art, Historical and General Catalogue' this is a portrait of Miss Fanny Burney (1752 –1840) as the titular character in her novel "Evelina" (1778). Half-length portrait facing towards the left, she wears a dress covered by a fichu and a bonnet.
[Ref: 60330] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cobbler Foot. Vendor of Strap Oil, &c. to the Collegians of St. Peter's Westminster.
Painted & drawn on Stone by J. Hayes. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce lithograph on chine collé. 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), with large margins. Slight spotting.
Three-quarter length portrait of a cobbler, standing, holding a strap and papers. George Keppel (1799-1891), 6th Earl of Albemarle, who attended Westminster from 1809 to 1815 (when he fought at Waterloo). In his memoir 'Fifty Years of My Life', he tells how he left school after curfew: 'I took into my counsel the school Crispin, one Cobbler Foot by name, an old man-of-war’s man, and he made for me a rope ladder, a ''Jacob's ladder,'' I think they call it, similar to that made for ascending the sides of ships of small burden. Thus provided, I climbed the wall with much less risk to my neck than via the lamp iron''.
[Ref: 60143] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Charles James Fox.
Ant. Hickel pinx. Jos. Selb del.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Paper toned, with surface soiling.
A reversed detail of the seated portrait of Fox by Karl Anton Hickel (painted 1794, now in the National Portrait Gallery).
See NPG 743.
[Ref: 60251] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[St Geneviève.]
C. Vanlo Eques Pinxt. S. Paul Sculpt.
Rob.t Sayer Excudit. [n.d. c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾") with large margins. Creased in centre.
Saint Genevieve sitting in a landscape at the edge of a stream reading a book, a tree behind her and her sheep sitting beside her to right, while two cherubs look down on her to upper right. Scratched-letter proof with artist and engraver's names only.
[Ref: 60337] £320.00

The Introduction of the Princess of Brunswick to the Prince of Wales. The Royal Stranger now mid hopes & fears, / Before he Prince & destind Lord appears;...
Publish'd June 1st 1795, by J. Coard, No 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road.
A rare & scarce mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") Paper toned, stained.
An idealised scene of the first meeting of George and Caroline of Brunswick, shortly before their marriage on 8th April 1795. The text refers to Caroline 'In beauty perfect' and George as a 'Godlike Youth': in reality George called for a glass of brandy, obviously disappointed, and Caroline said to her escort Lord Malmesbury '[the Prince is] very fat and he's nothing like as handsome as his portrait'. The pair separated the following year.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 60174] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Hunt, Esq.re M.P. for Preston.
[n.d., c.1835].
Stipple. Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to plate.
A portrait of Henry Hunt (1773-1835) a radical politician who advocated the repeal of the Corn Laws.
NPG D20838.
[Ref: 59854] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Godfrid Kneller Germ. À Carolo II. Monarcha Britann. ad depingendum Ludovicum Min Galliam missus; Pictor utrinqu. vere Regius. A.O.C. MDCLXXXV.
G. Kneller p. I. Beckett f.
I. Smith ex.
Mezzotint, sheet 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Thread margins. Slightly creased and repaired tears on margins, some small wormholes.
Half-length portrait of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). Kneller was the leading portrait painter in England during the later 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I.
CS 59.II. Ex Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 60233] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Lambert, Chorographiae Pictor.
J. Vanderbank pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber, at y.e Golden head y.e South side of Bloomsbury Square. [n.d. c.1727.]
Very fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") with small margins at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at bottom edge.
Half-length portrait of George Lambert (1700-1765), holding landscape print in his right hand. Lambert was a landscape and topography painter and scenographer.
CS 214.
[Ref: 60243] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ernestus Guilielmus Londicerus. Nob. Ordin. per Esthoniam Equestris Pictor.
P. Schenck fe: et exc: Amstelo: cum Privilegio [n.d., c.1675-1719]
Mezzotint. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼").
A three-quarter portrait of Estonian painter Ernst Wilhelm Londicer (1655-97) in lavish wig and clothes.
[Ref: 60211] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Cath.e Macaulay.
[after Robert Edge Pine.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear in inscription area.
A full-length portrait of Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) leaning on a plinth lettered 'Government a Power Delegated for the Happiness of Mankind Conducted by Wisdom Justice and Mercy. A reversed version of the painting by Robert Edge Pine, c.1775, depicting the author as a Roman senator (to convey her commitment to representative government), now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 5856). The painting also inspired a figure by the Chelsea-Derby Porcelain Factory (see BM 1887,0307,II.301). England's first female historian and the world's only female historian at the time, she is famous for her Whiggish 'The History of England from the Accession of James I to the Revolution'.
[Ref: 60148] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Lady Essex Mostÿn.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. 1705. I. Smith fec.
Sold by I. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden.
Fine mezzotint, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") with large margins. Small tears in margins.
Portrait of Lady Essex Mostyn as a young woman holding flowers in her lap and wearing a plain, loose dress and robe. Lady Essex Mostyn was the daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham. She married the Welsh politician Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Bt. (1673-1739), with whom she had thirteen children.
CS 184.
[Ref: 60289] £360.00

[William Pitt the Elder] Earl of Chatham. Begun from a Painting by M.r Brompton, but Corrected from a Cast Moulded from his Lordships face, by Joseph Wilton Esq.r Royal Academician.
Publish'd August 27 1778 by I. K. Sherwin No. 234 Strand & No. 4 Old Bond Street.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 380 x 285mm (15 x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A three-quarter portrait of William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, in his robes, gesturing towards right with his left hand, his right on his chest.
[Ref: 60220] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Jesse Ramsden] M.r Ramsden.
Engraved by C. Knight, from an original in the possession of M.r Colnaghi.
London, Published Aug.st 31 1803 by A. Tilloch, Cary Street.
Stipple. 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right.
Oval head and shoulders portrait of Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker specialising in dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments . Based on a painting by Robert Home.
[Ref: 59833] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Adriene Sophie Marquise de ??? Sage ou folle à propos, tendre, enjouée ou grave / Apollon est son maitre det l'Amour son Esclave.
aug. de St. Aubin ad vivum delin. et sculp. [scratched letters]
Se trouvé à Paris chéz Aug. de S.t Aubin Graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliotheque, rue Thèrese Butte S.t Roch, et à la Bibliotheque de Roi. A.P.D.R.
Etching with engraving. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8") very large margins. Paper toned around image.
A profile portrait of a woman in oval, with instruments and music at bottom. Slater suggests she is Adriene Sophie, Marquise de Breteine (Adrienne Sophie, Marquise de Bretagne)
[Ref: 60213] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Louise Emilie Baronne de ??? L'Amour en la voyant crut voir sa mere un jour / Et Tout ce qui la voit les yeux de l'Amour.
aug. de St. Aubin ad vivum delin. et sculp. [faint scratched letters]
Se trouvé à Paris chéz Aug. de S.t Aubin Graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliotheque, rue Thèrese Butte S.t Roch, et à la Bibliotheque de Roi. A.P.D.R.
Etching with engraving. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8") large margins. Paper toned around image.
A profile portrait of a woman in oval. The BM suggests the woman is Augustin de Saint-Aubin's wife; however her name was Louise-Nicole Godeau.
[Ref: 60212] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Frederick Duke of Schonberg. Marquis of Harwich, Earle of Brantford, Baron of Tays, Gen.ll of all his Ma.ties Forces, Master Gen.ll of his Ma.ties Ordnance, One of his Ma.ties most hono.ble Privy Council, Knight of y.e most noble Order of the Garter, Count of y.e Holy Empire, & Mertola, Grandee of Portugal, Gen.ll of y.e Elector of Brandenburgs Forces, Stadtholder of Prussia. &c.
G. Kneller pinx. I. Smith fe: et ex.
[n.d. c.1689.]
Mezzotint, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate, slightly creased on right.
Full-length portrait on horseback of Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615-1690), with a black serving boy on right holding a helmet. Schomberg was a Marshal of France and a general in the English and Portuguese army. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
CS 227.II. Russell 227.I.
[Ref: 60334] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte & Anne Spencer] The Mask. From the Original Picture in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxit L. Schiavonetti sculp.t.
London, Pub.d April 21 1790 by T. Simpson St Pauls Church Yard.
Stipple. 230 x 265mm (9 x 10½"), very large margins. Repaired tear in margin, faint crease.
Portrait of two of the daughters of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough: Charlotte (1769-1802), holding a Graecian theatrical mask, and Anne (1773-1865). It was engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti after an intermediary drawing by Francesco Bartolozzi (a different state of the print indicates 'F. Bartolozzi delineavit').
See Ref: 60369; Hamilton: pg. 133. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60316] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jane, Countess of Harrington, with her children Lord Petersham and the Hon. Lincoln Stanhope.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.
Publish'd Mar. 15. 1789, by F. Bartolozzi & Co.
Stipple and etching printed in brown ink, proof before title, 380 x 300mm (15 x 11¾"). Collector's mark in ink on verso of M. Bovi, the famous engraver. Very small & thread margins.
Jane, Countess of Harrington (1755 - 1824), wife of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, with her children. Seated to right, she looks up at Lord Petersham who stands on a stone ledge, wearing a large feathered hat. Her other son stands behind her at left, with his right hand on her shoulder; curtain behind and landscape beyond at right.
Hamilton: pg.106, I. De Vesme 1216 iii of iv. Provenance Brussels Gentleman's Club.
[Ref: 60349] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov] General Suwarrow. (from the Life)
Published 12th Dec.r 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 115 x 90mm (4½ x 3½"), large margins. Some staining and spotting.
Oval half-length portrait of Alexander Vasilievich Suvoroff (c.1729-1800), in uniform. The fourth (and last) Generalissimo of Russia, Suvoroff was famed for never losing a battle when he was in command.
[Ref: 60254] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Thynne Esq.r.
P. Lellij Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alex: Browne at y.e blew ballcony in little Queen Street. [n.d. c.1680.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark, 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Thread margins, stained in title.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Thynne (1648-1682), wearing wig, jacket with wide sleeves. Thynne was as an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1670 to 1682. He was assassinated on 12 February 1682 by emissaries of the Count of Koningsmark, who was pursuing his wife.
CS 40.II. Blackett-Ord & Turner B.49.II. Ex Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 60333] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble the Dutchess of Dorset.
G. Kneller pinx. R. Williams fecit.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Fine mezzotint, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾") with large margins.
Full-length portrait of the Duchess of Dorset, whom identity has not been ascertained. The personage has been altered from Henrietta Wentworth (1660-1686), wearing bejewelled dress and robe lined with ermine.
CS 54.IV. Not in Layard.
[Ref: 60291] £320.00

[William IV] His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Published 12th. May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Scarce mezzotint with etching. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Trimmed to plate at sides, tear taped.
Full length portrait of Prince William Henry (1765-1837, later William IV) as a naval officer, standing at the deck, guns and sword in hand. At 13 William joined the Navy as a midshipman and was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent two years later. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1785, captain in 1786, and commanded a frigate and became vice-admiral in 1788. His active serve ended in 1790, the year after George III created him Duke of Clarence and St Andrews in 1789, and four years before this print was published.
Not in CS. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 60177] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Wissing. Inter Pictores sui Soeculi celeberrimos nulli secundus, Artis suae non exiguum Deeus & Ornamentum, Obijt Sept: 10. An Aet: 31 D.ni 1687. Immodicis brevis est Aetas.
W Wissing pinx: J Smith fe. [1687]
Mezzotint, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾") with small margins. Slightly foxed.
William Wissing (1656-87), portrait painter. Apprenticed to Sir Peter Lely, Wissing became one of the leading portraitists of the 1680s, in the period between the death of Lely and rise of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Wissing's career coincided with the vogue for mezzotint publishing, in which next to Kneller's, Wissing's works were the most widely reproduced (as in this self-portrait). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 278 i/ii.
[Ref: 60249] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Wissing. Inter Pictores sui Soeculi celeberrimos nulli secundus, Artis suae non exiguum Deeus & Ornamentum, Obijt Sept: 10. An Aet: 31 D.ni 1687. Immodicis brevis est Aetas.
W Wissing pinx: J Smith fe. [1687]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate. Nick and stain in top right corner.
William Wissing (1656-87), portrait painter. Apprenticed to Sir Peter Lely, Wissing became one of the leading portraitists of the 1680s, in the period between the death of Lely and rise of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Wissing's career coincided with the vogue for mezzotint publishing, in which next to Kneller's, Wissing's works were the most widely reproduced (as in this self-portrait). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 278 i/ii.
[Ref: 60247] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of an unknown woman.]
WHollar fec 1646.
Etching. 105 x 100mm (4¼ x 4"). Thread margins. Slight foxing.
A head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a black dress, wearing pearl necklace and a shoulder wrap with scalloped lace border joined with a jewel at the front. Her hair is parted in the middle in two tresses tied in two bows falling over her shoulders. From an unnumbered series of thirty-seven women's heads in roundels, apparently an open-ended sequences of etchings.
Pennington 1912, state i of iv.
[Ref: 60348] £320.00

[John Woodward] D.r Woodward, From an Original Picture in the family of his Executor, the Late Col. R..d King.
W. Humphrey Fec.t.
Pub. 2 May 1774 by W. Humphrey.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), large margins.
Portrait in oval of John Woodward (1665-1728), English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist. He was the founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge.
CS 19.
[Ref: 59836] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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