Grosvenor Prints

[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba]
[n.d., 1584.]
Engraving. 170 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait in armour of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel (1507-82), 3rd Duke of Alba, famed for his role as Spanish Governor of the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years' War.
[Ref: 62421] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Bishop Nerses Ashtaraketsi.] [Armenian title]
Lith. Federico Brocktorff.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Lithograph, large border. Print area 345 x 220mm (13½ x 8¾").
Bishop Nerses Ashtaraketsi (1770-1857), became Nerses V, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, in 1843.
[Ref: 62127] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Samuel James Arnold] S. Arnold [facsimile signature]
S.J. Arnold Esq.re pinx.t. W.P. Sherlock fecit.
Printed by Lefevre & Co, 52, Newman St. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 155 x 220mm (6 x 8¾"), with large backing sheet and margins. Some rubbing of backing sheet.
Self-portrait of Samuel James Arnold (1740-1802) an English composer and organist, born in London. He began writing music for the theatre in about the year 1764. A few years later, he became the director of music at Marylebone Gardens, for which he wrote much of his popular music.
[Ref: 62169] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joseph Banks Bar.t K.B. P.R.S. From the original of Sir Thomas Lawrence in The British Museum. Drawn by W.m Derby (with the Permission of the Trustees) and engraved by H. Robinson.
London, Published Jan. 1 1831 by Harding & Lepard, Pall Mall East
Stipple. 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10½"). Large margins on 3 sides.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the English botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences, who took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771).
[Ref: 62083] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Rachel Belaney] The Wife of J.C. Belany, of North Sunderland. Mrs. B. died in London on the 8th Day of June 1844, from the effects of Prussic Acid, supposed to have been administered by her husband, and for whicj he was tried at the Central Criminal Court in London, August 21 and 22 of the same year, and acquitted.
Published by William Garret, Bookseller, Newcastle [n.d., c.1842].
Wood engraved silhouette portrait and facsimile text. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 8¾"). Paper toned and spotted, mounted on album paper at corners.
Rachel Belaney (née Skelly, 1823-44) married James Cockburn Belaney, who claimed to be a doctor, in 1843. The pair initially lived with Rachel's mother, a wealthy woman with interests in local mines, but she soon died with James stating that she had died from a 'billious fever', leaving her estate to Rachel. The couple then moved to London, where Rachel also died, with Belaney the beneficiary of her will. The coroner declared the death murder, with Belaney becoming the prime suspect. Despite giving contradictory evidence during the trial, Belaney was acquitted, after which he disappeared.
[Ref: 62116] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremy Bentham.]
On Stone by S. Crosthwaite 1830 [pencil].
Lithograph on chine collé. 320 x 280mm (12½ x 11").
A half-length portrait of philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), seated, holding his spectacles.
[Ref: 62295] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Bentley.
Miss Buck del. T. Bassett sculp.
Published as the Act directs Mar 1791.
Stipple. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
Portrait of Elizabeth Bentley (1767-1839), from a collection of her poems, 'Genuine Poetical Compositions, on Various Subjects' which was published by subscription in Norwich, 1791. The impressive 1,935 subscribers included literary notables Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, William Cowper and Hester Chapone.
[Ref: 62111] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Collection of plates from ''Les Vrais Pourtraits de quelques unes des plus grandes dames de la Chrestiente, desguisees en Bergeres''.]
[Crispijn van de Passe the younger.]
[Amsterdam: Joost Broersz for the author, n.d., c.1640.]
19th century scrapbook, half morocco gilt with marbled boards, all edges gilt, containing an etched titlepage and 51 engraved portraits (of 72) plus one unrelated engraving. Title trimmed to plate, portraits trimmed, losing inscriptions, lacking accompanying text.
A collection of portrait of 17th century women, mostly dressed as shepherdesses. The 'Vrais Poutraits' was issued in four parts: I & II contained 'les Damoiselles Nobles & Dames de Qualité'; III 'les Pourtraits des Femmes et Filles d'honorable Marchants'; & IV 'Le Choeur des Muses, avec leur Chansons a l'honneur des vertueuses Femmes et Filles'. The portraits were engraved in pairs on 36 plates; the titles (here excised) gave no clues to the identities of the sitters, which had to be guessed from the accompanying letterpress verse. Crispijn van de Passe the younger (1594-1670).
[Ref: 62157] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

[Gian Lorenzo Bernini] Beninus Pictor, sculptor et Architectus.
Salvator Rosa, del.t. J. Basire sc.t. 1764.
[London: Printed by J. Nichols and sold by J. Boydell, 1778.]
Etching. 305 x 245mm (12 x 9¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges, small hole filled.
A bust portrait of Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (1598-1680), sculptor and architect, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. From 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings' by Charles Rogers.
[Ref: 62285] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Blake, highwayman] Blake, alias Blueskin, attempting to cut the Throat of Jonathan Wild, on the leads before the Sessions House in the Old Bailey. Engrav'd for the Tyburn Chronicle.
Record sculp [after Samuel Wale].
[n.d., 1768.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 190 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, stains.
Joseph "Blueskin" Blake (1700-24), thief and highwayman (as partner of Jack Sheppard), slashing the throat of 'Thief-Taker General' Jonathan Wild while in irons. Blake had been recruited to a life of crime by Wild, who operated on both sides of the law. The attack was prompted by Wild refusing to put in a good word for Blake at his trial. Blake was convicted and hung, but his act started the decline of Wild's grip over his criminal empire; Wild was hung the following year.
[Ref: 62100] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Mary Blandy In Oxford Castle Goal, charged with the Cruel Murder of her Father, Mr Francis Blandy, late of Henley upon Thames in Oxfordshire, by Puting Poison into his Water Gruel, 1751.
[n.d., c.1752]
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, hole in image on table.
Mary Blandy (c.1718-52) taking tea with another woman before a roaring fire. She was found guilty of murdering her father with arsenic, after he refused to consent to her marrying Captain William Henry Cranstoun. She claimed Cranstoun, who was already married, had told her it was a love potion that would make her father change his mind; he fled to France to avoid prosecution. She was hanged outside Oxford Prison. Expert testimony about presence of arsenic was provided by Dr Anthony Addington, father of the Tory Prime Minister, Henry Addington.
[Ref: 62094] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Blood] Coll' Blood.
[engraved by George White.]
[n.d. c.1750.] But later.
Mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed just within plate, laid on album paper.
Thomas Blood (1618-80) was an Irish-born Colonel who was famed for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. He was also implicated in an attempted kidnapping and murder of the Duke of Ormonde. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms he switched allegiances from Royalist to Roundhead but won the favour of the Court of King Charles II and succeeded in eventually dying of natural causes.
CS 5, state ii of ii, with inscriptions removed.
[Ref: 62420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Forger] The Celebrated James Bolland.
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[n.d., c.1772.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Wormhole in edge of plate top left.
Full-length portrait of James Bolland (c.1727-72), standing before a slaughtered cow and sheep. The son of a butcher, he opened his own shop but it failed. He then became a sheriff's officer, but used the post to commit various crimes, including hiding debtors and illegal seizure of property. Eventually Bolland was arrested for forging the endorsement of a bill of exchange for one hundred pounds, tried at the Old Bailey, and hanged at Tyburn on 18 March 1772.
[Ref: 62103] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Scelte A Bolswart. Calcographus Antverpiae.
Ant. van Dÿc inuentor. Adr. Lommelin sculpsit.
Gillis Hendricx exudit [n.d. c.1650].
Engraving, 17th century watermark; 200 x 285mm. (8 x 11¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere, mounted in album paper at sides.
Portrait of the engraver Schelte Adamsz Bolswert (1586–1659). He was born at Bolsward, and worked in Haarlem (1612-17) and Amsterdam early on in his career, before living in Brussels and Antwerp, where he died. He worked regularly with Rubens and Van Dyck (from whose portrait this engraving was made).
[Ref: 62194] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tycho Brahé Astronome. Ne a Knud- Strup pres d'Helsinborg en Dannemare le 19 x.bre 1546. Mort a Prague le 24 Octobre 1601.
[after Jacques de Gheyn II]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate and mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of Tycho Brahe, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of the Elephant, holding glove and resting hand on ledge. Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe 1546 -1601) was a Danish astrologer, alchemist and astronomer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations.
Not in Wellcome: 405.
[Ref: 62426] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Mode of punishment by Branding, or burning of the Hand, at the New Sessions House.]
[Dodd delin. White sculp.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, proof before letters. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
An illustration from the 'Malefactors Register, or, a Tyburn and Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 62101] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Browne.
Ja: HuÿsmansPinx: Ar: de Jode Scu:
[n.d. 1669.]
Fine & rare engraving. 255 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Half-length portrait within an oval wreath of Alexander Browne, artist and publisher of mezzotints. Published as the frontispiece to his 'Ars Pictoria or an Academy treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, and Etching' in 1675.
[Ref: 62088] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Edmund Burke.
Sir Joshua Reynolds R.A. pinx.t 1775. M. Benedetti sculp.t Pupil to F. Bartolozzi RA.
Pub.d by C. Dyer Compton Str.t Soho [n.d., c.1791].
Stipple. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, stains in edges at bottom
Edmund Burke (1729-97), Anglo-Irish statesman, known as the 'The British Cicero'. Originally published by Benedetti in 1791.
[Ref: 62075] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness Caroline Amelia Elizabeth Princess of Wales, Brunswick, Lunenburg, &c. &c. Mostly humbly Dedicated to Her Royal Highness The Reigning Duchess of Brunswick & Lunenburg, By Her Highness;s Most humble & most devoted Servant Höÿer.
[C. Höÿer pinx.t. P. Sintzenich sculp.t.]
[London, published March 25 1795 by Cornelius Höÿer. No 3 Little Titchfield Street.]
Stipple. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate, losing inscriptions at bottom. Mounted on album paper at sides.
A head and shoulders portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, within a roundel surmounted with the Prince of Wales's feathers, published shortly after her marriage.
[Ref: 62186] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Adams. Executed at Tyburn the 18th day of Jan.y 1737 for robbing (in Company with Tho.s Carr) Mr W.m Quarrington in the Angel Tavern Temple-bar.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1737].
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Creased. Small margins.
Elizabeth Adams and her partner, Thomas Carr (the vestry clerk of the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden) stole ninety-three guineas and a diamond ring from William Quarrington. At Tyburn the pair kissed and held hands as the cart moved away from under their feet.
See Item 53146 for the matching portrait of Thomas Carr.
[Ref: 62246] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Cary] Effigies Praenobilis Henrici Baronis Cary Vicecomitus Falklandiae. The Right honorable Henrie lord Carÿe Vicount Falkland Comptroller of his Majesties moost ho.ble houshold, lord Deputie of Ireland and of his Majesties jo.ble privie Counsell in England and Ireland.
Paulus va~ Somer pinx. Joan Barra Sculp.
[n.d., c.1625.]
Engraving. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Small margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait in an oval frame of Henry Cary (c.1575-1633), first Viscount Falkland, wearing falling ruff and holding a wand.
[Ref: 62069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus Stuart, Koningk van Engelandt, Schotlandt, En Irlandt, Gebooren Ao.1600. Binnen Londen onthast, Ao. 1649. in't 24, Iaer zyner Regeeringe.
Ant: van Dyck pinxit. S. Savery fecit.
Joost Hartgers excud [n.d. c.1649].
Etching. Sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Charles I (1600-49), wearing a broad rimmed black hat, with Westminster and St James's Palace in the background.
[Ref: 62082] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[James Christie] The Specious Orator. Will Your Ladyship Dome the Honor to day £50-000- A Mere Trifle- A Brilliant of the Finest Water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely.
R. Dighton 1794.
Pub by R. Dighton March 25 1794.
Coloured etching. Sheet 165 x 135mm (6½ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of auctioneer James Christie (1730-1803) shown standing at an auctioneer's rostrum.
BM Satire 8526.
[Ref: 62180] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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Cleopatra.
Drawn by V.D. Riviere. Engraved by W. Woodley.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple, printed in colours. 320 x 365mm (12½ x 14½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A portrait of Cleopatra holding a cup and a pearl earring, after Daniel Valentine Riviere (1780-1854).
Rare: not in BM; Woodley is not listed in Alexander's Dictionary.
[Ref: 62357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Henry Cole] Men of the Day, No. 29. ''King Cole.'' No. 146.
Vanity Fair. Aug. 19, 1871.
Chromolithograph. Sheet 355 x 230mm (14 x 9").
Sir Henry Cole (1808-82), FRSA, a civil servant who, as an assistant to Rowland Hill, played a key role in the introduction of the Penny Post and is sometimes credited with the design of the Penny Black. He is also credited with devising the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas, introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843. Later he pushed to make the Great Exhibition of 1851 an international event and to spend the profits on the museums of South Kensington, becoming the first director of what became the Victorian and Albert Museum in 1857.
[Ref: 62315] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Stephen College.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink and wash. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Stephen College (also Colledge, c.1635-81), with a skull in the background. A joiner by trade, he aided the fabricated Popish Plot by writing ballads and polemics against catholics and lawyers. He was tried and executed for high treason in Oxford in 1681. An adapted copy of a contemporary mezzotint.
[Ref: 62113] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

J.W.H. Conradi.
L.E. Grimm fec. ad vivum Cassel 1826.
Etching. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"), with very large margins. Mounted in album paper at sides.
Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi (1780-1861), German doctor, author of medical books and professor of medicine at Heidelburg then Göttingen.
Wellcome 661-6
[Ref: 62198] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Honb.le Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, &c, &c, &c, L.d Lieu.t & Custos Rot.m of the County of Warwicj, One of the Lords of His Majestys most Hon.ble Privy Council & Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. John Watts Sculp.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 28, 1786, by Jn.o Watts No 34 Red Lyon Street Holborn & W.m Dickenson, No 158, New Bond Street.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾"). Crease in inscription area, mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait of Francis Seymour Conway (1743-1822), 2nd Marquess of Hertford, wear a jacket with a fur collar.
CS: 4; Hamilton: pg 37 iii of iii.
[Ref: 62087] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

James Cook the Murderer of Mr Paas at Leicester. Vivant.
W. Wadsworth 7 Vinegar Yard, Dury Lane.
Etching. Sheet 265 x 165mm (10½ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, notched in top left edge.
A full-length portrait of murderer James Cook (1811-32), standing looking down with a horrified expression, holding a hat with both hands, wearing short open double-breasted jacket, waistcoat and neckerchief tied in a bow. Cook, a 21-year old bookbinder, owed John Pass (originally Paas), an engraver and bookbinders' toolmaker, money. When Pass called to collect, Cook killed him and attempted to hide the crime by dismembering Pass and trying to burn the limbs. Cook was hung and gibbetted in Leicester: so many visitors came to view the body that the Home Office intervened, ordering it removed. This was the last recorded gibbeting in England.
[Ref: 62110] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolas Copernic. Dedie a Monsieur De Sartine...
Dessine et Grave par N. Dandeleau.
Se Vend a Paris Chez Mr. Fallery Horloger... Et Chez l'Auteur Rue du Four, pres de la Croix Rouge, Chez un Boulanger No.73 [n.d., c.1790].
Very rare engraving. 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Some time staining.
Oval bust portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), mathematician and the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. By Nicolas Dandeleau (b.1749); from the portrait which is part of the collection held in the Museum of Thorn, Poland.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 62427] £450.00

William Corder. From a Drawing Made at the Time of his Trial.
M. Gauci lithog. Rackstraw del.t.
Bury: Published Aug. 16, 1828, by T.C. Newby, & R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, London.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 150 x 135mm (6 x 5¼"). Slight time staining.
William Corder (1803-28), convicted for the 'Red Barn Murder' of 1827. Corder, a fraudster and ladies' man, made a rendezvous with his girlfriend Maria Marten at the barn on the pretext of eloping. Instead he killed her, stuffed her body in a sack and buried her. Corder disappeared but wrote home pretending the two were together, but her body was discovered and a hunt for Corder started. He was discovered, arrested, tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hung and dissected. The hanging attracted a huge crowd; the dissection was performed before an audience of Cambridge students. A battery was connected to his limbs to demostrate muscle contraction; Corder's skin was tanned by the surgeon George Creed and used to bind an account of the murder; and his skeleton was put on display in the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons.
[Ref: 62411] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Charles, Earl Cornwallis. Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &c.
Painted by H.D. Hamilton. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
[London. Publish'd March 15th. 1781, for Watson & Dickinson No. 158, New Bond Street.]
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 130 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Oval portrait of Charles Cornwallis (1738- 1805), one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
De Vesme 793, state iii of iv. See Ref: 18233 for a proof printed in red ink.
[Ref: 62073] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Georgii Croke Equitis Aurati et Utriusqu Banci Iusticiar: Ut Vulturs hominum, Ita Sumulacra vultus quae Marmore, aut aere finguntur Imbecilla, ac mortalia sunt: Forma mentis aeterna: quam tenera, et exprimere non per alienam maeriam, et artem, sed tuis ipse moribus possis. Tac: in vita Iulÿ Agric: Socri Sui.
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., 1657.]
Etching, with Collector's Mark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Trimmed close to plate, mounted in album sheet at edges.
Portrait of George Croke (c.1560 – 1642), bust in an oval, wearing skull-cap, ruff, and robes, and holding a scroll; coat of arms below, with a row of books. Frontispiece to 'The Reports of Sir George Croke' (1560-1642), judge and law-reporter.
[Ref: 62071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Eigentliche Abbildung des Frankosisch-gewesenen Obristen De la Brosse.
[n.d., c.1677.]
Rare engraving, pt 17th century watermark. Sheet 165 x 135mm (6½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper.
A caricature portrait of Captain De la Brosse, a French soldier nicknamed 'L’incendiaire' (arsonist) for setting fire to Haguenau (then a German city) on 10th February 1677, during the Franco-Dutch War (1672-78). De La Brosse was killed in a melée with Imperial troops soon after, his body stripped and left. In this satire, by Johann Chrisoph Sartorius, he is depicted with long hair, wearing a hat and lace cravat, sash and jacket, his face seemingly blackened. The letterpress mocks his appearance.
See also reference 49450.
[Ref: 62200] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Antoine-François Desrues, Rompu et Brûle vif, par Arrêt du Parlement, à Paris le 6 Mai, 1777, âgé de 32 ans et demi.
[n.d., c.1777.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 175mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Antoine François Desrues (1744-77) poisoned Madame de la Motte and her teenaged son, then forged a receipt for the purchase of her country estate. Convicted and still maintaining his innocence, he was tortured in an attempt to get his to admit his guilt, before being broken with an iron bar and burned alive.
[Ref: 62097] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pickpocket] Jenny Diver.
[n.d., c.1741.]
Engraving Sheet 190 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Jenny Diver (née Mary Young, c.1700-41), with a watch and purse in her hands. She was a skilled pickpocker, capable of mixing in high society, and said to sometimes use fake arms so she could steal with her hands apparently in her lap. Twice she was arrested but, by using false names, was sentenced to transportation to Virginia as a first offender. Both times she bribed her way back to London. On her third arrest she was recognised and sentenced to death: as a famous criminal, she was taken to her execution in a mourning carriage.
[Ref: 62095] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William Dodd, forger] Der Ehrwürdige Doctor Dodd.
Berndt sculpsit
[n.d., c.1780.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed within plate, affecting engraver's signature.
The Rev. William Dodd (1729 - 1777), parson and author who was hanged for forgery. Known as the "Macaroni Parson". In February 1777 he offered a bond for £4,200 in the name of Lord Chesterfield to a stockbroker named Robertson. Robertson procured the money, for which, according to Dodd, Chesterfield would pay an annuity of £700. Dodd then brought the bond apparently signed by the earl. The bond was transferred to the lender's solicitor, who noticed some blots on the document, had it rewritten and presented to Chesterfield for signing. The fraud was discovered and warrants for the arrest of Dodd and Robertson were issued. Despite attempts to obtain a pardon, especially by Dr. Johnson, who composed several papers for him, Dodd was sentenced on 26 May and hanged in June.
[Ref: 62098] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Sylvester Douglas.
T. Lawrence R.A. pinx.t. E. Harding sculp.
Pub.d June 4, 1794 by E & S Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple with etching, title in open letters. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Sylvester Douglas (1743-1823), Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, leaning against the arm of his chair and with his right hand raised to his cravat; the table beside at left with inkstand and papers, pillar and curtain behind. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830).
NPG D11004.
[Ref: 62187] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Edwards R.S.S. Ætat Suae 60 AD 1754 Nat. Mar. 23. April 3.
Dandridg Pinx. J.S. Miller Sculp.
[London: George Edwards, 1758.]
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
George Edwards (1694-1773), ornithologist and artist, best known for his four volume 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds'. The frontispiece to 'Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c...'.
W890-1.
[Ref: 62079] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Q. Elizabeth. The ages mirrour, and all Europes wonder, / Arm'd gainst ye Bulls of Rome, and Spains lowd thunder, / The Netherlanders sheild, greate Frances ayde, / O neuer shall thy fame dye, Princely Maide.' 9
[engraved by George Glover]
[n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Thread margins, ruled with black ink within plate, laid on album paper.
Three-quarter length portrait of Elizabeth I, holding a baton. Originally published in Glover's 'The Nine Woemen Worthys. Three Jewes. Three Heathens. Three Christians'; this example has the added plate number 9 lower left, published 1640 in Thomas Heywood's 'The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the Most Worthy Women of the World'.
[Ref: 62077] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fair Phyllis.
Prud.hon, pinx.t. J. Neele sculp.t.
Published by C.M. Lean 1.st May 1828.
Stipple, printed in colours. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), with large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of a young woman, wearing only a diaphanous wrap around her head, bearing a breast, probably by Pierre Paul Prud'hon. The English madrigal 'Fair Phyllis' by John Farmer (1599) tells the ribald story of a shepherdess and her lover.
[Ref: 62358] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[George Field.]
R. Rothwell, Esq. R.H.A. Pinx. D. Lucas Sculp.t.
Published by Geo. Field, Islesworth, Sept. 1843.
Mezzotint. 185 x 155mm (7¼ x 6"). Mounted in album paper.
George Field (c.1777-1854), chemist specialising in pigments and dyes, author of 'Chromatography; or, a Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting', 1835.
[Ref: 62289] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marco Fieschi and his 'infernal machine'] Fieschi.
Madeley lith, from an original Drawing.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Tear just entering image on right. Creasing.
A scene of Giuseppe Marco Fieschi (1790-1836) about to fire his 'infernal machine' at King Louis Philippe, 28th July 1835. Fieschi was a disaffected Corsican Republican who fought with Joachim Murat in his attempt to regain the Napoleonic kingdom of of Naples. Back in Corsica in 1816, he was condemned to ten years imprisonment for theft and forgery, but he eluded the police and escaped to Paris. After continuing a life of crime, he became involved in a plot to kill the king, building a 25-barrel volley gun and installing it at a house in Boulevard du Temple. As the king's entourage passed, the machine was fired, grazing the King's forehead and killing Marshal Mortier and seventeen other people. Fieschi was arrested, condemned to death and guillotined on February 19, 1836.
[Ref: 62109] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Furttenbach] Vera Effigies Viri Nobilissimi et Prudentissimi Dn. Josephi Furtenbachi, Reipubl. Ulm. Senatoris et Architecti Ingeniosissimi, debiti honoris, et gratitudinis ergo, picta et oblata, ab Andrea Schuch, Pictor. A.º M.D.C.L.I. Ætat 60.
Melchir Küsell fec. [after Andreas Schuch]
[n.d., c.1661.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed to printed border at sides, mounted in album paper.
A three-quarter portait of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (1591-1667), a German architect, mathematician, engineer and diarist, who had a particular interest in theatre and stage design. His building designs included a hospital, waterworks system, schoolhouse and theatre.
Collector's stamp of Comte C. W. de Renesse-Breidbach (1776-1833), Belgian soldier and politician on back (Lugt 1209).
[Ref: 62203] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius II.us D.G. Mag. Brit. Fra. & Hib. Rex &c.
Jos. Highmore pinxit. J. Tinney fecit.
Printed & Sold by J. Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street London [n.d. c.1740].
Fine mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, tipped onto album paper on left side.
A profile portrait of George II, wearing wig and armour with lion-head epaulette, medal on a ribbon around his neck.
CS 3.
[Ref: 62086] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV as Prince Regent] Georgius Princeps Waliae Patriam Pro Patre Regens. Dedicated by Permission to His Majesty Frederick William King of Prussia, by His Majesty's most Grateful & most Devoted Humble Serv.t H.D. Thielcke.
Published August 12th 1814, by H.D. Thielcke, Queens House.
Stipple with etching. 250 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). Some cockling of paper.
Decorative medallion portrait of the Prince Regent, wearing a laurel crown, within a border of laurel and oak, topped by a crown.
[Ref: 62074] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Cav. Pietro Leone Ghezzi.
Cav. P.L. Ghezzi del.t. W.W. Ryland sc.t 1762.
ap.d CR. Edit.m [London: Charles Rogers, 1778].
Etching, printed in sepia. 355 x 275mm (14 x 10¾"). Trimmed just within plate on right.
A self-portrait of Pier Leone Ghezzi (1675-1755), standing before an easel wearing a loose hooded coat and hat, pointing out a window at a procession of caricatured monks. From the folio 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings' London, 1778.
[Ref: 62196] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The true Effigies of Sr. Edmond Bury Godf[reye] Knight and Iustice of the Peace who was Murthered by Papists the 12th day of October An. Dom. 1678.
F.H. Van Ho[ve] Sculp:
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed to image, some loss in title and border, laid on album paper.
Rare portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate. In 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a 'Popish Plot', and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch. Three men were hanged for Godfrey's murder on perjured evidence.
[Ref: 62115] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Margarite, de Gojen. Femme de J. Steén.
J. Steén Pinx. J. Heudelot, Sculp.
à Amsterdam chez P. Fouquet Junior: à Paris chez Basan rue St Jacques [n.d. c.1770].
Engraving. 280 x 203mm (11 x 8"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at sides.
Portrait of Margarite, the wife of the artist Jan Steen (c.1625-79), holding a wine glass in one hand and a bottle in the other.
[Ref: 62195] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Roehampton Monster] Daniel Good. No. 23.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Nicks in left edge, creases at edges, slightly paper toned.
A half-length portrait of Daniel Good, a 42-year old coachman. On April 6th, 1842, a police constable visited a stable to question Good about the theft of a pair of trousers from a pawnbroker. Good admitted the crime and was arrested but was not helpful about returning the trousers. The constable started to search the stable, upon which Good fled, locking the constable inside. Under some bales was a woman's torso, headless and limbless, later identified as Good's common law wife, Jane Jones. The body parts were removed by the coroner but were returned so people could view the spectacle. For ten days the Times newspaper berated the police for their failure to capture Good, despite a reward of £150 being offered, but then Good was discovered in Tonbridge, Kent, arrested and taken to Maidstone Gaol. He was executed the following month outside Newgate,
[Ref: 62112] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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