Grosvenor Prints

Napoleon Bonaparte. The Alps & Italy stamp'd him a splemdid General _ Spain, Switzerland and Palm, emphatically present the Man.
B. Smith sculp.
Published by A. Beugo, No 38, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, March 1 - 1810.
Stipple & engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
Bust portrait of Napoleon with a depiction of a five-franc piece.
[Ref: 36032] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon I.
D.J. Pound.
The London Printing and Publishing Company. [n.d., 1860.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 255 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
Napoleon in uniform, with the famous pose with one hand inside his jacket. From 'The Gallery of Portraits With Memoirs'.
[Ref: 35990] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Medallion portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte.]
Drawn upon Stone by Helen C. Lawson. Printed by F. Schenck.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph on chine collé. 145 x 140mm (5¾ x 5½"). Margins dusty.
An illustration of a medal with a profile portrait of Napoleon, wearing a high collared jacket.
[Ref: 67075] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon Bonaparte in the ceremonial robes of the King of Italy.]
[after Andrea Appiani.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etching with small margins, rare. 290 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼").
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy on the 17th March 1805 and deposed 11th April 1814. The artist, Andrea Appiani (17540817), was given a pension by the kingdom of Italy which was revoked after Napoleon's fall, leaving him in poverty.
[Ref: 36006] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Tribute to Napoleon.] Sésostius et César, l'ancien, le nouvel âge, / Fredéric, à sa vue abaissent leur laurier, / Et sur le Nord brisé passant comme un orage, / Il à conquis le nom du plus grand des guerriers!!
[after V. Adam?]
à Paris chez Dopter, rue St Jacques, No. 21. Déposé [n.d., c.1835.]
Mezzotint. 250 x 320mm (10 x 12½") Trimmed to plate at sides, some damp staining.
Napoleon ushered to a heavenly pedestal, greeted by some of the greatest generals of history.
[Ref: 36066] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

An English Bull Dog and a Corsican Blood Hound.
Pub by Roberts 28 Middle Row Holborn [n.d., c.1803].
Very scarce etching with hand colour. Framed, visible area 260 x 335mm (10½ x 13¼").
A sturdy bull dog, its padlocked collar inscribed 'Iohn Bull', mauls a lean dog with the head and collar of Napoleon Bonaparte. The latter lies with his head in profile to the left, mouth wide open, under the paws of John Bull, who savagely bites his back. A copy of
BM Satires 10080, but the BM example has Piercy Roberts's inscription scored through and replaced with Thomas Tegg's.
[Ref: 58384] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon late Emperor of France. [&] Maria Louisa late Empress of France.
I. Isabey Pinx. H. Meyer Sculp.t.
[n.d, c.1815.]
Pair of fine & decorative colour-printed stipples. Each c. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album page with seven other portraits.
A collection of nine portraits, six of Napoleon, two of Marie Louise of Austria and one of Josephine.
[Ref: 64013] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

General Buonaparte.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Stipple, proof before title, rare. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
An oval portrait of Napoleon in relatively-plain uniform, probably celebrating his success as an artillery commander of the republican forces at the siege of Toulon, which led to his promotion to brigadier general aged only 24. As he is unrecognisable it is probably an early portrait, as the publishers seem to think that no one would question the inaccuracy.
[Ref: 36050] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Map of the Island of Elba. Porto Ferrajo.
Davies sculp.t.
Published by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1825.
Coloured aquatint with stipple and line engraving; J. Whatman 1811 watermark. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"). Very large margins on 3 sides.
An engraved map of Elba, an aquatint view of Porto Ferrajo, and an untitled stipple portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, with two examples of his signatures. Published in Robert Bowyer's 'Triumphs in Europe, in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814 commemorated by a Series of Twelve Views...', which celebrated (prematurely) the end of the Napoleonic Wars. This work was republished the following year as 'An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe', and again with an sister publication 'The Campaign of Waterloo' from 1816.
[Ref: 55885] £180.00

Napoleon the Great, in His Coronation Robes.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original Painting of Girard.
Published October 13, 1826 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Very fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, small split, album paper stuck over left edge.
A faithful rendering of François Gérard's painting, now housed at Versailles. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53358] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Grand Habit de sa Majestié l'Empéreur Napoleon 1.er le jour du Couronnement.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Engraving with stipple, partially colour-printed. Sheet 320 235mm (12½ x 9¼"), 18th century watermark. Trimmed close to printed border, bottom corners snipped.
Napoleon in his coronation robes, his face and his printed in red for skin tones.
[Ref: 55749] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Tribute to Napoleon.] Ton souffle du chaos faisait sortir les lois ; / Ton image insultait aux dépouilles des rois. / Et, debout sur l'airain de leurs foudres guerrieres, / Entretenait le ciel du bruit de tes exploits. Casimir Delavigne.
Dessiné par V. Adam.
à Paris chez Dopter, rue St Jacques, No. 21. [n.d., c.1835.]
Mezzotint. 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate.
A tribute to Napoleon, showing the second statue of the former emperor on top of the Vendôme Column, depicting him in a tricorn hat, boots and a redingote (riding coat), as erected by Louis-Philippe I (reigned 1830-46). Around the statue are events from Napoleon's life, starting and ending in storm clouds, but his successes shining against a rainbow arching above. The verse is from Casimir Delavigne's 'À Napoléon', part of his 'Les Messéniennes, Livre II' (1835).
[Ref: 55752] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Bonaparte. We cannot see him without admiration but more fortunate than the Continent, we can view him without fear; in England he is quite harmless - Ambitious, and unprincipled, he has acquired no higher Title than that of disturber of Europe.
B. Smith sculp.
[n.d, c.1800.]
Stipple. Sheet 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, spotting.
A bust portrait of a young Napoleon, above an allegorica scene of a burning city with symbols of church and state strewn on a battlefield.
See 36032 for different words.
[Ref: 55774] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte] Then haste thee to thy sullen Isle, / And gaze upon the sea; / That Element may meet thy smil, It ne'er was ruled by thee. Byron.
Drawn & Eng'd by H. Wallis.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼") Trimmed as scrap, scuffed and stained.
Napoleon standing on the shore of Elba. Probably a frontispiece to a volumn of Byron's poetry.
[Ref: 55798] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Napoléon 1.er. Empereur des Francois Roi d'Italie.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Stipple and etching with aquatint. Sheet 175 x 150mm (6¾ x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper. Bit messy.
Napoleon Bonaparte in his coronation robes.
[Ref: 55823] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Asleep in his Study. Taken Shortly Before the Battle of Waterloo.
Drawn by Dr Memes from a sketch by David. _ Eng.d by W.H. Lizars.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper. Foxed.
Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform, asleep in a chair in a tent.
[Ref: 55824] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Statue de Napoléon I.er. Inaugurée à Cherbourg par S,M. Napoléon III, le 8 Août 1858. Le Véel sculp.
V. Adam. V. Adam lith. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
Publié par Marcel Mouchel Imp.r à Cherbourg [n.d., c.1858].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 475 x 280mm (18¾ x 11"). Tears taped.
Armand le Véel's equestrian statue of Napoleon Bonaparte in the harbour of Cherbourg-Octeville, where the remains of Napoleon arrived from St Helena in 1840
[Ref: 55860] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Five portraits of Napoleon on an album sheet.]
[no dates, 1810-1850]
A coloured stipple, a mezzotint and three engravings, various sizes. Sheet 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"). All trimmed.
Five full-length portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform at various times in his career, the last being on St Helena. On the reverse are six more scrap portraits, including Empress Marie Louise.
[Ref: 55891] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Bonaparte.
[n.d., c.1816.]
Two coloured etchings mounted together on album sheet, each c. 95 x 65mm (3¾ x 2½"), one with watermark with partial date '16'. Trimmed to printed border.
Matching portraits of Napoleon in military uniform from front and rear, soldiers behind.
[Ref: 55893] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon as he Appeared after the Battle of Waterloo.
On stone by A. Picken.
W. Day, Lith.r to the King, Gate St. [n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 140 x 160mm (5½ x 6¼"). Trimmed close to image, laid on album paper, artist's name indistinct.
Napoleon mounted on Marengo, before the horse was captured by William Petre.
[Ref: 55899] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon Bonaparte in exile on St Helena]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album page with five other scraps relating to Napoleon.
Napoleon leaning against a rock, book in hand.
[Ref: 64011] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Bonaparte à la bataille d'Arcole le 27 Brumaire an V.
Peint par Le-Gros. Gravé à Milan par J. Longhi 1798.
[Later impression c.1860.]
Engraving, printed in colours. 480 x 330mm (19 x 13"), on laid paper.
The famous painting of the young Napoleon at the Battle of Arcole in 1796 by Antoine Jean Gros (Baron Gros). Bonaparte advances, sword in one hand, standard in the other, wearing an embroidered coast.
[Ref: 63023] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Double portrait of Napoleon] [Fac Simile d'un Dessin de Girodet-Trioson, fait d'après nature à la Chapelle de l'Empereur, le 8 Mars 1812.]
[G. Maile sc.]
[Published by R.G. Jones 34 Brewer Street Golden Square London October 1827.]
Mezzotint, very scarce proof before etched border and letters. Sheet 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Double portrait of Napoleon, after a drawing by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824), who was closely associated with the emperor. He was commissioned to paint an allegory based on James Macpherson's Ossianic legends for Napoleon's country retreat at Malmaison, while Vivant Denon commissioned him to paint Napoleon receiving the keys to Vienna and the Revolt at Cairo (both now in Versailles). In 1812 he was commissioned to paint 36 portraits of Napoleon in his Coronation Robes for the Imperial Courts and had completed 26 by 1814, but the following year Napoleons abdicated for the final time and Girodet came into a considerable inheritance. Thereafter his output decreased.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For Girodet's 'Napoleon receiving the keys to Vienna' see ref. 30836.
[Ref: 65217] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon, Emperor of the French taken from life 1815.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Few worm holes. Repaired tear bottom centre.
A portrait of Napoleon mounted on Marengo during the Hundred Days.
[Ref: 65253] £320.00

Napoleon. [Fac Simile d'un Dessin de Girodet-Trioson, fait d'après nature à la Chapelle de l'Empereur, le 8 Mars 1812.]
8 Mars GTR [monogram of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson]. [G. Maile sc.]
Published by R.G. Jones 34 Brewer Street Golden Square London October 1827.
Scarce & fine proof mezzotint, before 'Fac Simile' inscription. 300 x 255mm (11¾ x 10") large margins. Unidentified collector's stamp in lower margin.
Double portrait of Napoleon, after a drawing by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824), who was closely associated with the emperor. He was commissioned to paint an allegory based on James Macpherson's Ossianic legends for Napoleon's country retreat at Malmaison, while Vivant Denon commissioned him to paint Napoleon receiving the keys to Vienna and the Revolt at Cairo (both now in Versailles). In 1812 he was commissioned to paint 36 portraits of Napoleon in his Coronation Robes for the Imperial Courts and had completed 26 by 1814. In 1815, the year of Napoleon's abdication for the final time, Girodet came into a considerable inheritance, after which his output decreased considerably.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For Girodet's 'Napoleon receiving the keys to Vienna' see ref. 30836.
[Ref: 65689] £380.00

Napoleon.
Painted by Count D'Orsay. Engraved by C.E. Wagstaff. Printed by M.cQueen.
London Published June 10, 1847, for the Proprietor, by Robert Jennings, 62, Cheapside.
Scarce mixed-method engraving. 475 x 350mm (18¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, marks in borders.
Three-quarter length portrait of Napoleon, wearing dress uniform with sash and decorations, his right hand tucked into his jacket, his left holding his hat against his hip.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65696] £320.00

N. Bonaparte 1er Consul de la République Française.
Peint par Bacler Dalbe. Gravé par Mercoli fils.
Déposé à la Bibliothèque Nationale. Se vend à Paris chez Bacler Dalbe Ingenieur Géographe rue des Moulins No.542 au coin de la rue Thérèse [n.d., 1800].
Rare stipple. Sheet 510 x 395mm (20 x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate, some creasing and restoration.
Oval bust portrait of a young Napoleon wearing an embroidered jacket, published shortly after he seized power in the coup of 18 Brumaire (10th November 1799). According to the BM the print was deposited on 19 April 1800.
BM: 1850,0211.125.
[Ref: 58102] £480.00

Le Général Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes. Dédié à Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III par ses très humbles & très respectueux Serviteurs Goupil & C.ie.
Peint par Paul Delaroche. Gravè par Alph.se François.
London. Published October 1.st 1852, by P.&D. Colnaghi & C.o, 13 & 14, Pall Mall East. Berlin. Verlag von Goupil & c.ie. Imprimé par Goupil & C.ie à Paris.
Rare steel engraving on india paper, 710 x 515mm (28 x 18"). Trimmed to plate, creases on top left corner.
A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte leading his army through the Alps on a mule, a journey Napoleon and his army made in the spring of 1800 to surprise the Austrian army in Italy. The original painting by Paul Delaroche was inspired by Jacques-Louis David's series of five paintings of Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801–1805).
[Ref: 59608] £480.00

[Napoleon Bonaparte.]
Charlet Pinx.t. S.W. Reynolds Grav. du Roi d'Ang.re sculp.t.
à Paris chez Schroth Editeur rue St Honoré No 353 bis London published february 1829 by Rittner, 8 Surrey St., Strand.
Rare mezzotint. 385 x 290mm (15 x 11½") very large margins. Publisher's blindstamp below image, some surface soiling.
Full-length portrait of Napoleon, standing, one hand inside his waistcoat, in a landscape, probably St Helena. The artist, Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845), was originally a soldier (he distinguished himself in the defence of Clichy in 1814) before losing his commission upon the restoration of the monarchy and turning to painting. He specialised in Napoleonic scenes, which made him popular with the opposition under the Restoration and influential in the propagation of a mythic view of the Napoleonic era. Engraved by the leading British printmaker S.W. Reynolds, who also worked in Paris.
Whitman 204, unrecorded state between i and ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64747] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Part of Bonchurch.]
[T.Malton fecit.]
[Pub.d as the Act Directs, Decr. 30 1785 by T.Malton, N.6 Conduit Street, Hanover Square, and to be had of W.Hinton, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.]
Aquatint with original hand colour. Image size 195 x 285mm. Trimmed to image & laid on card
From a series of at least six views in the Isle of Wight. Rare.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 4038] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Part of Bonchurch.
T.Malton fecit.
Pub.d as the Act Directs, Decr. 30 1785 by T.Malton, N.6 Conduit Street, Hanover Square, and to be had of W.Hinton, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 230 x 305mm.
From a series of at least six views in the Isle of Wight. Rare.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 4039] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bonchurch Village, Isle of Wight.
Drawn by R.B. Harraden. Engraved by R. Havell.
Published by R. Harraden & Son. Cambridge 1814.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, sheet 390 x 500mm. 15¼ x 19¾". Small chips to extremities.
An impressive and attractive view. After Richard Harraden (1756 - 1838).
British Library: 004806437.
[Ref: 15845] £360.00

His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Bart: K.C.H. Lieuenant Governor of Upper Canada, &c &c &c From an Original Picture painted at the solicitation of the Inhabitants of the City of Toronto This Plate is reprectfully dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty's Loyal Canadian Subjects by their fellow Citizens & most ob. hum.le Serv.t Frederick Chase Capreol
Painted by Nelson Cook Esq.re Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.
Published Sept.r 1. 1837, by Fred C. Capreol Toronto, Upper Canada & in London for the Proprietor by Messrs Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Printsellers, 14 Pall Mall East & Mr. Leggatt, Printseller, 85 Cornhill.
Mezzotint. Plate: 390 x 290mm (15½ x 11½").
Francis Bond Head (1793-1875). A soldier in the British Army from 1811 to 1825, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1835. In 1837 he quashed a brief rebellion in Toronto led by William Lyon Mackenzie, the first mayor of Toronto.
[Ref: 38087] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bond Street Bucks & Keen Countryman. Two Bond Street loungers discoursing in Piccadilly, one of them said, he wish'd much to go into the Country, upon which the other made the following observation: / "In the Country, my Friend there is nought to be seen, / "But an Ass on a Common, or a Goose on a Green." / A countryman passing at the time, pronounced the following impromptu: / "There would be in the Country them things to be seen / "Were you on a Common your Friend on a Green''.
Published 20.th Aug.t 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple. 200 x 250 (8 x 9¾"), with wide margins.
A conversation outside a bookshop on the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly.
BM Satires 10356.
[Ref: 54414] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Bond Street Lounger Recently Detected. Sir you've stole my Gown here it is under your Hat...
Publish'd Nov.r 18 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 235mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Caught by his landlady with her gown under his hat, the lodger tries to laugh it off as a prank. However a painting on the rear wall, 'View of Port Jackson', reminds the viewer that penal transportation to Australia was a common penalty for such petty theft.
[Ref: 54355] £320.00

The Vicar of Bond Street.
Pubd. by H. Humphrys Bond St April. 9th 1791.
Hand coloured etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5". Fine. Slightly stained; glued to album page.
A plainly dressed man with crudely etched legs walks in profile to the right. 'The Rev. Mr. Newman, Vicar of Bond Street ... in the diocese of John Stockdale, Bishop of Piccadilly' is mentioned in a note to 1. 79 of the verse satire, 'Imperial Epistle to Kien Long ...' 1795, by T. J. Mathias. This would seem to imply a pamphleteer.
BM Satires: 7963.
[Ref: 13073] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

No. 1. From an Original Drawing of the same size by Dan.l Bond.
Pye sculpsit.
London, published March 1st 1796, by B.B. Evans, in the Poultry and Colnaghi & C.o Pall Mall.
Rare etching. 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with very large margins.
A ruined church on a countryside hill, with travellers in the foreground. Daniel Bond (c.1725-1803), painter and japanner, the first of the Birmingham School of landscape artists.
[Ref: 60729] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Bone of Contention. "Chu Chunky of Notts" "Comedian of Notts". The property of Her Grace The Duchess of Newcastle.
Kate Beard 1915 [signed and dated in plate.]
Published by Art Engraving Department, Spratt's Patent Limited London, E.C.3 1924.
Large photogravure on india paper with some colour added by hand, 375 x 460mm. 14¾ x 18". A fine impression with wide margins. Mint.
Two wire haired fox terriers facing each other inside a kennel, a joint of meat on the floor between them.
[Ref: 23439] £350.00

A Bone of Contention. "Chu Chunky of Notts" "Comedian of Notts". The property of Her Grace The Duchess of Newcastle.
Kate Beard 1915 [signed and dated in plate.]
Published by Art Engraving Department, Spratt's Patent Limited London, E.C.3 1924.
Large photogravure on india paper, 375 x 460mm. 14¾ x 18". A fine impression with wide margins. Mint.
Two wire haired fox terriers facing each other inside a kennel, a joint of meat on the floor between them.
[Ref: 23449] £360.00

Henry Bone RA [facsimile.]
H. Corbould del. Thomson sculp.
London Published for the Proprietors of the European Magazine, by Lupton Relfe 13 Cornhill, May 1st. 1822.
Stipple, india proof. Plate 241 x 140mm. 9½ x 5½". Uncut.
Henry Bone (1755-1834), was an enamel painter who he moved from Cornwall to London in 1779 where he worked on jewellery designs and the enamelling of watches and fans. He began to exhibit miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1781. He executed many beautiful miniature pieces of much larger size than had been attempted before in England. Among them are copies of eighty-five portraits painted during the time of Queen Elizabeth I that are considered among his greatest works.
[Ref: 18946] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[H. Bone Esq.r R.A.]
[G.H. Harlow pinx.t. F.C. Lewis sculp.t. ]
[London, Published by G. Lawford, Saville Place Decr. 1st. 1824.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. 220 x 180mm (8½ x 7"), with large margins. Faint printer's crease in inscription area.
Henry Bone (1755-1834), enamel painter who began to exhibit miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1781.
[Ref: 61632] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

General Nap turned Methodist Preacher, A New Attempt to Gull the Credulous; Dedicated to Mr. Whitbread. ''Dear Sam, repeat my Words, but not my Actions''.
[George Cruikshank.]
[n.d., 1815.]
Broadside, with coloured etching and letterpress. Sheet 455 x 275mm (18 x 10¾"). Tear taped.
A satire on Napoleon Bonaparte's promises to the French after his escape from Elba. He preaches from a high pulpit in a Gothic church, wearing a gown over a military coat and an ill-fitting wig. Marshal Ney fills the Clerk's desk underneath. Hanging from the pulpit are three of Napoleon's former costumes: the uniform of a republican soldier with an imperial cross underneath it; a mitre and bishop's robe supported on a musket and inscribed 'Scarecrow'; and a Mahometan turban and robe, with a bottle inscribed 'Arsenic for the Poor Sick of Jaffa'.
BM Satires 12546, with an extensive description.
[Ref: 68508] £360.00

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Theophilus Bonetus. D.M.
[n.d. 1700.]
Engraving. 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") Trimmed. Some faint staining in the title area.
A portrait of Theophile Boneti (1620-89) seated at a desk and surrounded by piles and shelves of books. He holds a quill, suspended above the page, near an ink pot in one hand and an hourglass in the other. A skeleton with a scythe stands at the open door. Published as the frontis piece to his complete works "Sepulchretum" on all known surgical., medical and pharmacological knowledge at the time, published as three volumes.
Wellcome: 353-2
[Ref: 57214] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Boney at Brussells.
I Cks.
Pub.d by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly London Augt 14 1803.
Coloured etching, 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). On paper watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Faded.
Belgian dignitaries make obeissance to Napoleon Bonaparte, with plates of offerings of words on their heads. He sits on a throne, using large forks to spear their offerings and bring them to his mouth. On each side stands a Mameluke with crossed arms holding cocked pistol and drawn sabre. A satire on the bombastic addresses given to Napoleon during his tour of the Channel ports in June 1803.
BM Satires 10066.
[Ref: 68510] £260.00

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[Mrs. Bonfoy.]
J. Reynolds pint. J. McArdell fecit.
Published'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755].
Mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, bottom left inscription area rebuilt, marks over inscription line, small crease.
The published state ot this portrait of Lady Ann Bonfoy (1729-1810), unusually still untitled. The daughter of Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Cornwall, Anne married to a captain in the Royal Navy, Hugh Bonfoy (c1720-1762) in November 1751. They had one daughter together before he died in 1762, also Ann, who married the First Earl of Ely. The elder Ann was Lady of the Bedchamber to the daughters of George III. Reynolds had painted a group portrait of the Eliot family in 1746, before his departure for Italy. This was one of the first of his portrait to be engraved in mezzotint.
CS 23, Goodwin 44, Hamilton p.84. The oil is in the Box Gallery, Plymouth.
[Ref: 63536] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Parkes Bonington.]
[Charles Damour.]
[n.d., c.1852.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 130 x 100mm (5 x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet with the collector's stamp of Alfred Beurdeley.
A portrait of Romantic landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828). Frontispiece to 'Oeuvres inédités de Bonington' 1852.
[Ref: 48674] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

R. P. Bonington.
Drawn on Stone by J. D. Harding from a Picture by Margaret Carpenter.
Published, Aug. 1st, 1829, by J. Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fine & rare lithograph on india. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 1828), English Romantic landscape painter. His bust to front, with short dark hair, dark jacket over white shirt; after Carpenter; frontispiece to the series; finished state. Lettered below image with facsimile of sitter's autograph.
[Ref: 63201] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Siege of Bonn.] Die Eroberung der Vestung Bonn.
Georg Phil. Rugendas. Abraham Drentwett Ornam: del. Ioh: August Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Privileg: Sac: Caes: Majest: Ieremias Woldd excudit, Aug: Vind: [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 420 x 380mm (16½ x 15"). Trimmed, vertical crease.
A scene showing the Siege of Bonn in 1703 in which the allies laid siege to Bonn which was held by the French. The scene is decorated with a ornate border, with a plan of the battle above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42971] £340.00

Gentil-homme jouant de la Harpe. En agitant mes doigt, fur ce graue Instrument, Du seul pincer Je puis...
N.Bonnart sculp. et ex. cum privil. Rue St Jacques à l'Aigle
[n.d. c.1800]
Rare & fine engraving 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins.
Man seated on an ornate chair in fashionable costume playing a harp.
[Ref: 63084] £390.00

[Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres] Franciscus de Lesdiguieres Comes Stabuli [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Foxed.
Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (1543-1626), one of the greatest generals of his age. A protestant who came of age during the French Wars of Religion, Lesdiguieres distinguished himself both in France and in the ongoing wars in Italy. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39898] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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