Grosvenor Prints

[George Earl of Essex.]
Painted by I. Hoppner Esq.r R.A. 1806. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
London: Pub. Feby. 1.1812, By C.s Turner 56, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, proof before title. Plate 503 x 350mm. 19¾ x 13¾".
Portrait; standing three-quarter length, leaning against a column in a landscape, in peer's robes. George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839) assumed the surname of Coningsby on inheriting the estates of his grandmother, the Countess of Coningsby. He married Sarah, daughter of Henry Bazett, of St Helena in 1786; and married again in 1838 to Catherine, daughter of Edward Stephens, of Leadwell, Oxfordshire.
Whitman: 187.
[Ref: 24827] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George Capel-Coningsby] George Viscount Malden & Lady Eliz: Capel.
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds R.A. Engraved by C. Turner, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
London, Pub.d July 14, 1817, by C. Turner, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"). Thread margins. Light foxing.
Full length portraits of George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, (1757-1839) and his sister Lady Eliabeth Capel (1755 - 1834). George, standing on the left in Van Dyck dress, is directed slightly to the right, facing front, with a stick in his right hand and his left on his hip. Elizabeth seated at right, is directed and facing to left, with her arms extended across her body to the right, holding a garland of flowers. A large urn can be seen behind to the right, and landscape in the distance and Capel-Coningsby succeeded his father as 5th Earl of Essex, and served as Recorder and High Steward of Leominster in 1802, and as Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire from 1802 to 1817. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1801, and received an honorary D.C.L. from Oxford University in 1810.
[Ref: 35399] £320.00

[Sarah Capel-Coningsby] Sarah Countess of Essex.
R.t Fagan Pinx.t a Romæ 1792. C. Turner Sculp.t 1816.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 28, 1816, by C. Turner, Warren S.t Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Uncut.
Sarah Bazett (1759-1838), an English amateur artist who married George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, in 1786.
Whitman 188, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 66481] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edw. Capell. From a model in plaster taken from the Life by Roubilliac 1759.
F. Bartolozzi del. et sculps.
[n.d., c.1770.] Bit later.
Stipple and line engraving. Sheet 245 x 200mm (9¾ x 8") Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Edward Capell (1713-81), Shakespearean commentator. Concerned with inaccuracies in Sir Thomas Hamner'd edition of Shakespeare, Capell After spent three years collecting and comparing early folio and quarto editions, he published his a ten-volume edition in 1768. Drawn and engraved by Bartolozzi from a plaster cameo by Louis François Roubiliac.
De Vesme 774.II.
[Ref: 35323] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Edw. Capell.
[after F. Bartolozzi.]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed within plate and laid on sheet. Foxed.
Edward Capell (1713-81), Shakespearean commentator. Concerned with inaccuracies in Sir Thomas Hamner'd edition of Shakespeare, Capell After spent three years collecting and comparing early folio and quarto editions, he published his ten-volume edition in 1768. Drawn and engraved by Bartolozzi from a plaster cameo by Louis François Roubiliac.
De Vesme 774 copy.
[Ref: 35324] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Edw. Capell.
F. Bartolozzi del. et sculps.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Stipple and line engraving. Sheet 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
Edward Capell (1713-81), Shakespearean commentator. Concerned with inaccuracies in Sir Thomas Hamner'd edition of Shakespeare, Capell spent three years collecting and comparing early folio and quarto editions, he published his ten-volume edition in 1768. Drawn and engraved by Bartolozzi from a plaster cameo by Louis François Roubiliac c.1770.
De Vesme 774.III.
[Ref: 35325] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble the Countess of Essex.
G.Kneller Bart Pinxt. I.Faber Fecit.
[n.d., c.1723] London Printed for & Sold by Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street & In King at the Globe in Poultrey.
Mezzotint on 18th century watermarked paper. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins. Tiny cut into lower plate. Faint crease across upper right. Some time-staining.
Portrait of Mary Capell, Countess of Essex (1679 - 1726), born Lady Mary Bentinck, the daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of stadtholder William, Prince of Orange (the future King of England) and his wife Anne Villiers. From the series of thirteen plates 'Beauties at Hampton Court'.
CS 28 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64945] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Capercaillies? in flight]
Geo~Marples. [Pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. 250 x 190mm.
[Ref: 4077] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Capital Joke [&] No Effect.
London Pub Sept. 1823(?) by J. Dickinson 114 New Bond St.
Scarce pair of lithographs with fine hand colour. Each sheet c.155 x 240mm (6 x 9½"), on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1825. First print with faint water stain upper right; in fresh contemporary hand colour.
The first composition shows a group of gentleman arranged around a dinner table with their wine glasses charged laughing uproariously; in the second a young bachelor with a broad grin is evidently not entertaining three young ladies and their mother or governess with his conversation.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 20663] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Capitalisme.
Comin'Ache (pseudonym of H. Comin).
[Pub. by Tailliardat, 1899-1903.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 565 x 450mm (22¼ x 17¾"), watermarked 'Van Gelder Zonen'. Edges chipped.
An anarchist condemnation of capitalism, showing workers dying beneath a monster consisting of a human skull with money bags in its teeth, bat wings and a peacock as a headpiece. It was published as plate 16 of 'Les Temps nouveaux', which were issued as inserts in the newspaper before being published as a collection in 1903.
[Ref: 63144] £850.00

William Capon. Draughtsman and Painter of Architecture and Landscape, to His late Royal Highness, the Duke of York. Born 1757._Died 1827.
Painted in Minature by W. Bone. Engraved by W. Bond.
Published by J.B. Nichols, Parliament Street, March 1, 1828. Gent_Mag. Feb.y. 1828. p.105.
Engraving, on india. Plate: 155 x 235mm (6 x 9¼") very large margins. Very slight crease.
A half-length seated portrait of British draughtsman William Capon (1757-1827) who was employed to do the decorations at Ranelagh Gardens and the Italian Opera House and to do scene painting at the Drury Lane Theatre.
[Ref: 40161] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Capoul et Melle. Ritter dans Paul et Virginie Theatre National Lyrique.
Imp. Becquet à Paris, pv.
Paris, Ancne. Mon. Martinet, r. de Rivoli, 172. [n.d. c.1860.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 340 x 220mm. 13¼ x 8¾". Sheet trimmed unevenly on left.
Victor Capoul and Melle Ritter in opera Paul et Virginie by Victor Masse, Numbered '3' below image; for a series of theatrical portraits ('Galerie dramatique'?).
Not in Harvard. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18535] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Map of the Island of Capri, in the Gulf of Naples. [Numbered key to top left for 12 points of interest.] Plate 20, Vol. 4.
E. Gullan, sculp.
No.22, of R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, &c. Pub. Octr. 1, 1810, at 101, Strand, London.
Engraving with added hand colour. 146 x 234mm. 5¾ x 9¼". Toning and tears around the edges.
A map of the Italian island, Capri, in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula. Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it did cover all of these fields. At the time, it was considered to be of great influence to the English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.
[Ref: 55500] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n Conquest and his Baggage Waggon.
S. H. Grimm del.t. J. Goldar sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.o 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith N.o 35 Cheapside, as the Act directs 15 June 1772.
Engraving. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
In this satire on fashion and unequal marriage, a squat, elaborately dressed woman stands with a tall man dressed in military fashion. The title of the print suggests the man has successfully pursued this marriage for the sake of the woman's wealth.
[Ref: 68280] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Captain Warner's Experiment. On Saturday July 20th 1844 Captain Warner's invention to destroy a vessel was tried at Brighton with Complete Success, the Ship destroyed was the "John O'Gaunt" a Noble Vessel of full Three Hundred Tons Burthen and presented for that purpose by Mr. Soame, an Eminent Merchant. She was towed opposite the Bettery, about a Mile and a Quarter out at Sea, by a Small Steam Tug. "The Sir William Wallace" on board of which was Captain Warner and his apparatus, at a distance from her of nearly 300 Yards,upon a Signal being given from the Battery, and the Gallant Captain answering all was ready, almost In stantaneously, a Volulme of Smoke and Water rose in the air which for the Moment concealed the Vessel, on its clearing disclosed her a Total Wreck, and She sund in upwards of Thirty Feet of Water, Thus, within Three minutes by means of this Awful discovery, was the work of devastation Silently and Surely. Completed.
Day & Haghe Lith to the Queen. R. H. Nibbs.
Published by W. H. Mason, Printseller & Publisher to the Queen, Repository of Arts, 81 Kings Road Brighton, July 27th 1844. ___ London, Ackermann and Compy.
Tinted lithograph. 250 x 350mm image.
Built in 1830 'Sir William Wallace' was the first wooden paddle Steam tug of the Dundee. Perth and London Shipping Company.
[Ref: 4407] £420.00

The Captive.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd R. Blyth.
London, 1781.
Etching. 300 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate, loss of inscription and publication line.
A captive sitting shackled in a cell. Subject from Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey', published in 1768 as Sterne was close to death; the novel is partly autobiographical as it details the author's journey through France to the most southern point of Italy.
[Ref: 53973] £320.00

[The Captive.]
E.J.D. imp. E.J. Detmold. [all pencil.]
[1923.]
Etching on india paper, printed by the artist, unfinished proof. 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A superb impression of this fantastic image of an eagle perched on a rock with a middle eastern city in the background with the temple to the left. To the right can be seen two camels seated with the city walls and mountains in the background. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64301] £600.00

[The Captive.]
[Edward Julius Detmold.]
[1923.]
Etching on india paper, unfinished proof. 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A fantastic image of an eagle perched on a rock with a middle eastern city in the background with the temple to the left. To the right can be seen two camels seated with the city walls and mountains in the background. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64302] £600.00

['The Captive']
[Engraved by J.R. Smith after Sir Joshua Reynolds.]
[n.d., c.1777.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. Sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom.
An untitled portrait after the painting known as 'The Captive', depicting an old man with a thin face, moustache and hair swept back, looking up to right. According to the BM the title ''derives from a comment on a prisoner in the Bastille in Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey'''. Also named "Study from Nature Beggar Man"
BM 1839,1012.54. D'Oench 111. Not in CS. Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and Walter Francis (1806-84), 5th Duke of Buccleuch (Lugt 402).
[Ref: 66381] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Captive.]
E.J. Detmold. [pencil signature.]
[1923.]
Etching, signed by the artist, published edition of 100 proofs. 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A fantastic image of an eagle perched on a rock with a middle eastern city in the background with the temple to the left. To the right can be seen two camels seated with the city walls and mountains in the background. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) began etching with his twin, Maurice, and exhibited at The Royal Academy aged 13. In 1908 Maurice committed suicide and Edward, traumatised, stopped etching. In 1922 an appreciative article about the Detmolds in the Print Collector's Quarterly inspiring Edward to return to printmaking.
[Ref: 64303] £850.00

[A Captive Family]
Mortimer del.t. Published by W.m Richardson. York House, Strand, June 10, 1805. Blyth Fecit.
London, 1805.
Etching. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10") with wide margins, 18th century watermark. Creasing in top right corner in margin.
An arresting scene of two people in restraints while two children cry by their side. This print was originally part of the 'British School II' album, which contained 170 prints published between 1713 and 1810. The purpose of the album is prefaced by two paragraphs that describe the role that the Royal Academy and its academicians have played in the development and promotion of British art.
[Ref: 53961] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Captn. Cut-Lass.
Pubd. by MDarly No.39 Strand Novr. 18th 1771 Accorg. to Act.
Etching, early state before the addition of 'V.2' at top left. 160 x 105mm, 6¼ x 4". Ink annotation to lower margin, 'of the Rifle Brigade'.
A smiling man dressed as a military officer wears an enormous cutlass. In his right hand is a cane which rests on his right shoulder; his left hand is on his hip. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered '1' upper right.
See 14177 for later state (BM Satires: 4986).
[Ref: 14214] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Capoue l'Amphithéatre. Capua l'Anfiteatro.
Dessiné d'après nature par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris. Lith par. Bachelier.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, Succ. 10 rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"), with very large margins. Very slight foxing.
A view of the ancient Roman amphitheatre built in the time of Augustus, now located in the town of Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The amphitheatre was originally four stories high but now only a few arches and the ground level really remain.
[Ref: 41867] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Capuchin Monk] Cercante Cappuccino. Nell Gabinetto di S.M. il Re di Pol. Elet. Sassonia.
Eques. P.L. Ghezzi delin. Matthaeus Oesterrich sculps
OM Sculpsit Dresdae 1750 : adi 5. 8bre
Etching, in ink bottom left Matthias Oesterreich fecit; platemark 285 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to the platemark top and bottom.
Etching after a drawing by Pier Leone Ghezzi (1675-1755), regarded as the first professional caricaturist. Based in Rome, Ghezzi moved freely amongst the Italian nobility, even associating with Pope Clement XI. His satirical portraits include one of Vivaldi and several British grand tourists. This is one of a collection of Ghezzi's designs engraved by Matthias Oesterreich (1716-78) from drawings in the collection of the Elector of Saxony, 'Raccolta di XXIV Caricature Disegnate colla penna dell Celebre Cavalliere Piet: Leon: Ghezzi. Conservati nell Gabinetto di Sua Maestà il Rè di Polonia Elett. di Sassonia'.
[Ref: 43914] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Caput Incognitum.
Guescino da cento pinx. Printed by Dean & Munday.
London Published by A. Friedel Jan.y 1831 Cambridge House Kennington.
Lithograph on india, rare with large margins. 400 x 266mm. 15¾ x 10½".
An old man with beard, with left elbow on table and head on left hand; in his right he holds a rolled-up scroll, after Guercino (1591-1666), who was born in Cento, Italy.
[Ref: 24874] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Cara Duliman Lee or Black-Coat, a Chiaus of the Janizaries.
R. Dalton delt et fecit.
[London, n.d., c.1780s.]
Copper engraving on laid paper, 230 x 320mm. 9 x 12½". Untrimmed folio sheet; small hole to upper margin.
A sergeant of the Janissaries, the Turkish Sultan's household troops and bodyguards; on horseback in a landscape, preceded by a pedestrian with a stick. Title in English and French; numbered 'Pl XI' lower right. From a series of prints depicting the customs, manners, costume etc. of Turkey and Egypt, drawn and engraved by Richard Dalton (1715? - 1791). Dalton, who was trained as an artist, went to Rome to pursue his studies, and in 1749 travelled with Roger Kynaston and John Frederick to Naples and Sicily, where they joined a party consisting of James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont, Francis Pierpoint Burton, and others. From thence Dalton accompanied Lord Charlemont on his tour to Constantinople/Istanbul, Greece, and Egypt. Dalton managed to obtain the position of librarian to George III. He was subsequently appointed keeper of the pictures and antiquary to his majesty. He was one of the original members of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1765, and became their treasurer. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1767. 'Antiquities and Views in Greece and Egypt, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, from Drawings made on the Spot.' was published in London in 1791 and is all three of Dalton's Tours in one volume.
DNB.
[Ref: 21952] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Caracal. Felis Caracal.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
An illustration of a pair of caracals, wild cats native to Africa and the Middle East. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45772] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Red Caracal. Felis Caracal.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
An illustration of a red caracal, a wild cat native to Africa and the Middle East. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45771] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Lodovico Carracci. Painted by Himself. Drawn and Engraved by Charles Townley Member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Florence. From the Original Portrait in the Medici Colection.
Publish'd as the Act directs 1st March 1778, and to be had of C. Townley No. 75 near the Adelphi Strand.
Mezzotint, platemark 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 11½"). Small margins.
Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619), one of the famous Carracci family of artists. More than his cousins Annibale and Agostino, Lodovico retained the Mannerism that had dominated much 16th century painting in Bologna (where he spent most of his career). Engraving after a self-portrait by Carracci, by Charles Townley (1746-1801). This engraving was one of seven engravings by Townley, of self-portraits of famous artists which they presented on their election to the academy of Florence (to which the Medici devoted a gallery).
[Ref: 43766] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Six of Caracogia's ships taken by the Prince of Hess near the port of La Goulette, Tunis, 24 September 1640] Prise de Six Vaisseaux de Caracogia faite auprès le Port de la Goulette de Tunis par le Ven.ble Prince de Hesse General des Galeres le 24. 9.bre 1640
[Anon.]
Pen and ink with watercolour wash, 195 x 270mm (7¾ x 9½"). Damaged; glued to backing sheet; oxidising in sky.
The taking of ships from the famous corsair Caracogia in the port of Tunis in 1640.
[Ref: 41642] £650.00

Caractacus, King of the Silures, deliver'd up to Ostorius, the Roman General, by Cartismandua Queen of the Brigantes.
A. Mac Donald, sculp. [after William Hamilton.]
Dublin Publish'd by W.m Allen 32 Dame Street.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 305 x 330mm (12 x 13"), with very large margins.
Having failed to repell the Roman invasion of Britain, Caratacus, the chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, is handed over to the Romans by Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes. An oval scene, a detail of the stipple engraved by Bartolozzi.
[Ref: 66125] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The British Chief Caractacus, a Prisoner Before the Roman General Ostorius, 50 AD.]
W. Walcot [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., 1934.]
Etching with aquatint in brown ink, 195 x 235mm, 7¾ x 9¼". A good impression, with full margins.
Caratacus is named by Dio Cassius as a son of the Catuvellaunian king Cunobelinus. Caratacus and his brother Togodumnus led the initial defence of Britain against Aulus Plautius's four legions, primarily using guerrilla tactics. They lost much the south-east after being defeated in two crucial battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. Togodumnus was killed and the Catuvellauni's territories were conquered. Caratacus survived and carried on the resistance further west. We next hear of him in Tacitus's Annals, leading the Silures and Ordovices of modern Wales against Plautius's successor as governor, Publius Ostorius Scapula. Finally, in 51, Scapula managed to defeat Caratacus in a set-piece battle, capturing Caratacus's wife and daughter and receiving the surrender of his brothers. Caratacus himself escaped, and fled north to the lands of the Brigantes (modern Yorkshire) where the Brigantian queen, Cartimandua handed him over to the Romans in chains. Plate II to a set of 6 etchings, 'The Pageant of Ludlow', three by Frank Brangwyn and three by Walcott, to celebrate the tercentenary of the production of Milton's Comus at Ludlow Castle. William Walcott R.E (1874 - 1943) was described by Furst as 'next to Brangwyn the greatest decorative etcher this country has produced'.
[Ref: 11557] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Caradori, as Zora in Pacini's opera. La Schiava in Bagdad.
Drawn on Stone by R.J. Lane from a Sketch by J. Hayter.
Published by S. Robinson Chapter House Court St. Pauls. Printed by Engelmann G.C.& Co. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 202 x 127mm. 8 x 5".
Caterina Rosalbina Maria de Munck [Maria Caradori-Allan] 1800-1865. A distinguished Italian soprano. Her chief attributes seem to have been clearness, beauty, polish, invention, and taste. She sang with sweetness, delicacy, and variety, and was one of the best singers in the 1840s.
[Ref: 12941] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Caradon Allan.
Published by M.r Ainsworth, 27, Old Bond St., London, June, 1828. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 225 x 140mm (9 x 5½''). Foxing.
A portrait of the French operatic soprano Maria Caradori Allan (1800-1865). She was half Russian.
[Ref: 49071] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

D. Gregoire Caraffe G. M. de Malte. M.C.D.LXXXI.
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Coloured engraving. 155 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"), set in letterpress.
Portrait of Gregorio Carafa (1615 - 1690), 62nd Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Saint John (Knights of Malta) 1680 until his death in 1690. The sea battle underneath the portrait probably represents the Third Battle of the Dardanelles, in which the Venetian fleet, aided by seven Maltese galleys commanded by Carafa, gave the Ottomans their worst naval defeat since the Battle of Lepanto. As Grand Master he ordered the strengthening of Fort St. Angelo. From Alain Manesson Mallet's 'Description de L'Univers'.
[Ref: 40255] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Michele Carafa.
Lith. de Feillet. L,, Dupre, 1825.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 155 x 240 (6 x 9½").
Portrait of Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (1787 - 1872), Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri.
[Ref: 63240] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Polidoro Da Caravagio Pit. [In plate] DL
From 'Academie des Science et des Arts', Amsterdam 1682.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of Caravaggio (1499-1543). Caravaggio was an Italian painter in the post-Renaissance period and a pupil of Raphael.
[Ref: 53787] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Halt of a Caravan: Scene between Sardis and Philadelphia, Asia Minor.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by T. Allom. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fisher Son & Co. Paris and London. [n.d. c.1839.]
Rare Lithograph. 420 x 324mm. 16½ x 12¾". Tear and paper loss top left-hand corner, well off image.
From Thomas Allom's "Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy". A group of Turkish men sit around smoking with hookah smoking shisha.
[Ref: 18397] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Portrait of Anibale Caracci, Drawn by himself.
F. Bartolozzi Scolpi in Londra 1761.
Etching in red/brown ink. Plate 208 x 184mm. 8¼ x 7¼". A very fine impression.
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. Famous for his landscapes and genre paintings, but primarily for his recommendation by the Duke of Parma to the Cardinal Odoardo Farnese ,who wished to decorate the piano nobile of the cavernous Roman Palazzo Farense.
De Vesme: 775.
[Ref: 21219] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Le Joli Jeu de Ecarte.
A chez Alex.dre Tessier, Suc, de M.me V.e Chereau rue S.t Jacques N.o 10. Depose. [n.d. c.1823]
Etching with wonderful hand colour, 19th century watermark. Plate 235 x 325mm (9¼ x 12½"), with large margins.
Grotesque figures play écarté (an old French casino game for two players) at two tables while a couple in the background dances.
[Ref: 63100] £390.00

Les Soldats en Jeu.
peint par Valentin.
à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils. [n.d., c.1770.]
A rare mezzotint with hand colour. Plate: 380 x 420mm (15 x 16½''). Very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on lower edge, foxing.
A scene showing two soldiers playing a game of cards at a table.
[Ref: 49211] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Card Party Pl.t 8.
[Henry Heath.]
Published Nov.r 15 1824 by S.W.Fores, 41 Picadilly, London Jan.y. 1.st 1825.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½''), with large margins.
A scene in a parlour showing a group of four people at cards, an elderly woman has a monkey sitting on the chair behind her.
[Ref: 50835] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pam, Flush and Loo.
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by H. Meyer, 3 Red Lion Square.
Engraved from the original Picture in the possession of W. Owen R.A. 1825.
Stipple, very rare. Sheet size: 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Trimmed at top and bottom inside platemarks.
A scene depicting two young women and a boy playing cards at a table, with a curtain behind to the right, and a landscape in the left background. Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking card game, considered a modification of the game of 'All Fours', another English game possibly of Dutch origin.
[Ref: 34612] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Three men playing cards.]
E. Van Hemskirke pinx. / J. Smith Fec. et ex. [1704]
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Fine.
Three men gambling. Cards, dice and coins on the table, score marked in chalk. Broadside on wall behind. Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34832] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Gamesters. [&] The Fortune Tellers.
Painted by the Rev.d Mr: Peters R.A. Engraved by William Ward.
London Published May 22.nd 1786 by J.R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Pair of mezzotints. Plates: 420 x 440mm (16½ x 17¼''). Trimmed to margins or thread margins, marking and creasing.
A pair of scenes of cheating. The first shows two men playing cards as a third man pretends to help one player while holding up three fingers the other of his opponant's hand. The two players have been identified as Lord Courtenay (the mark) and Thomas Rowlandson (the cheat). The second scene shows an opulently-dressed young woman having her palm read while a young accomplice smiles over her shoulder. The artist is Matthew William Peters (1742-1814), most famous for his provocative painting of a courtesan (known as 'Lydia' in the mezzotint copy). He came to regret his choice of subject, as he was ordained in 1781, becoming the Royal Academy's chaplain (1784-8), then chaplain to the Prince of Wales.
CS 97 & CS 186.
[Ref: 48974] £780.00 view all images for this item

[All Fours.]
[Design'd by W.H. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[Publish'd Mar.h 14th 1783 by J.R. Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, London.]
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into image area, losing title and inscriptions, but keeping the important part of the image.
A satirical scene of a pair of card players, one with a long pig-tail queue, the other in a bob-wig.
D'Oench 214; BM Satire 6341.
[Ref: 59289] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Couple playing cards.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching and engraving, with dutch text on verso. Plate 77 x 114mm. 3 x 4½". Trimmed to plate.
A anonymous engraving, with two people sat at a table, playing cards by candlelight; a greyhound sits to the right near a large chest.
[Ref: 23339] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Heath's Court Beauties N.o3. Give you the Deal eh? No, we'll cut for it to be sure!
[Henry Heath]
[London W Spooner 25 Regent S.t] [n.d. c.1835-40]
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 200 x 220mm (8 x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to album paper.
One from a set of twelve series of visual puns inspired by the four playing card suits, each one captioned below, it is rarely found complete. Two Jacks hold a plank of wood. The Jack of Clubs has sliced the Jack of Diamonds in half with his sword.
[Ref: 58440] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Card-Players.]
D.T.P. J.V.B.F. [ie. David Teniers pinxit. Jan van der Bruggen fecit]
Mezzotint, platemark 425 x 340mm (16¾ x 13¼). Thread margins; good impression.
Men playing cards and smoking in a tavern, after Dutch painter of genre scenes David Teniers (1610-90), and engraved during the artists' lifetime by his contemporary Jan van der Bruggen (1648/9-1690) was an early mezzotinter working in France. This same scene was later engraved by the British collector and printmaker Captain William Baillie.
For Baillie's version of the scene, see ref. 12253. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34835] £360.00

Heironymi Cardani, Mediolanensis, Proxeneta, Seu De Prudentia ciuili Liber: 'Recens in Lucem protractus: vel e tenebris erutus'.
Lugd. Bat. Ex Officina Elzeviriana Anno CIDIDCXXVII [1627].
Engraving, 100 x 55mm (4 x 2¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Frontispiece to the Book 'Recens in Lucem protractus: vel e tenebris erutus' by Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576). He was an Italian polymath, credited with describing apparatus yet to be invented, such as the combination lock. He was a profoundly influential mathematician and wrote over 200 scientific works.
[Ref: 53816] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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