Grosvenor Prints

[Vietnam] No 1. Le Grand Chancelier de Royaume de Tunquin. 2.3.4 Mandarins ou Officiers de guerre...
[n.d., c.1679.]
Rare engraving, a fine impression. 190 x 355mm (7½ x 14") very large margins. Original binding folds.
Officials of the Vietnamese court, from the memoirs of traveller and gem merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89). After writing an account of his six expeditions, in which he travelled as far as Burma, he published a supplementary 'Recueil de Plusieurs Relations' which contained an account of Japan and Tonking (Hanoi)
[Ref: 53061] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vue d'Optique Représentant Un Lac et Village de la Cochinchine. Prospectus Lacus et Pagi Singensis.
[n.d., c.1760].
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 245 x 390mm (9½ x 15¼"). Tear in title, some soiling.
A view of a Vietnamese village on a canalised river. The print was designed to be used in a zograscope, an optical viewer, so the title is repeated in reverse above the image.
Ex: Collection of David G. E. Smith
[Ref: 55527] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cochinchine. Madarin de Guèrre. Madarin Civil.
Pâris del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with large margins. Foxing; stain in left margin.
Two portraits of Vietnamese men one showing in military attire and the second in civilian dress. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. A plate from the series 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite'.
[Ref: 46789] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Vietnam] Cochinechine. Soldats de la Guarde de l'Empereur. Soldats de L'Armée.
Paris del. Himely sc. de Sainson Edit. Finot imp.
[Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on chine collé. 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15") with large margins, blind stamp of 'La Favorite'. Some spotting in margins.
Soldiers of the Imperial Guard and the regular army. From the series "Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830,1831,1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace", published in Paris in 1835 under the direction of Louise Auguste de Sainson. Under the command of Laplace, La Favorite explored Indian Ocean and the route to the Indies via the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and Malaysia, into the China Sea (1830-1832).
[Ref: 56202] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vietnam] Natives of Cochin-China, Playing at Shittlecock [sic] with their Feet.
W. Alexander del. J. Landseer & J. Shirt sculp.
London, Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving, very large margins. Platemark: 210 x 255mm. (8¼ x 10").
A game played with a shuttlecock by the inhabitants of a village in the Cochinchina region, now encompassing the southern part of Vietnam. Plate 14 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 40026] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vue d'Optique Représentant Un Lac et Village de la Cochinchine. Prospectus Lacus et Pagi Singensis.
A Parus chez Jacques Chereau rue St Jacques au dessus de la Fontaine St. Severin No 57 [n.d., c.1760].
Coloured engraving. 245 x 390mm (9½ x 15¼"), large margin top and bottom. Trimmed into plate at sides.
A view of a Vietnamese village on a canalised river. The print was designed to be used in a zograscope, an optical viewer, so the title is repeated in reverse above the image.
Ex: Collection of David G. E. Smith
[Ref: 55526] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Vietnam] Natives of Cochin-China, Playing at Shittlecock with their Feet.
W. Alexander del. J. Landseer & J. Shirt sculp.
London, Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving, very large margins. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman 1794.' Platemark: 210 x 255mm. (8¼ x 10").
A game played with a shuttlecock by the inhabitants of a village in the Cochinchina region, now encompassing the southern part of Vietnam. Plate 14 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38151] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Da Nang]. A Chart of part of the Coast of Cochin-China Including Turon Harbour and the Island Callao From an actual Survey in 1793.
J. Barrow del.t. B. Baker sculp.t.
Published April 12, 1796 by George Nicol.
Engraved map. Sheet 560 x 420mm (22 x 16½"). Staining bottom left & top right.
A map of the coast around Da Nang in Vietnam with a coastal profile, sketched by members of the George Macartney mission to China, the first British embassy to that country, 1792-94. It was published in Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'. Da Nang is now most famous for the huge American airbase there during the Vietnam War. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38157] £260.00

Pagode dans une Grotto à Touranne.
Paris del. Himely sc. de Sainson Edit.
Finot imp. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1832-3.]
Aquatint on india. 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). With blindstamp of the stern of "La Favorite".
From Francois-Edmund Paris's account of Cyrille-Pierre-Théodore Laplace's voyage to the South Seas (1830-2) on 'La Favorite', a corvette of 680 tons and a crew of 177. After exploring the Strait of Malacca, 'le Favorite' sailed for Canton. Anchoring at Tourane [Da Nang] on the east coast of Vietnam, some of the crew took a small boat into the natural canals among grottos there. They were fascinated by the formations of calcium, some as brilliant and as hard as marble. 'We arrived in a place hidden behind the grotto, secluded, where a truly magical effect struck us with astonishment'. There they found two colossal sculptures carved into the stone, one a strangely dressed figure, and the other a ferocious, fabulous animal.
[Ref: 7531] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Hanoi] 19.e Vüe d'Optique Representant Le Grand Lac de Barbarie. Barbariæ Lacus Maximus.
A Parus chez Daumont rue St Martin [n.d., c.1760.]
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A view of Hanoi designed to be used in a zograscope, an optical viewer.
Ex: Collection of David G. E. Smith
[Ref: 55525] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vietti. Role d'Arsace (3.me Acte de Semiramide).
Lith. Tischulanoff.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph on album page. 400 x 297mm. 15¾ x 11¾". Time stained.
Probably Carolina Vietti, who was in Venice at La Fenice and known to Venetian audiences in 1843/44. It is recorded that she sang Semiramide in Torino in 1832-33. She was known by Verdi, who wanted to write the part of Ernani for her, however it was changed to Tenor for Carlo Guasco. While this has been catalogued as Carolina Vietti, this could also be Rosina Pico-Vietti, recorded to have sung the same role and also a contralto primarily in the USA and Havana; she was married to Adelindo Vietti who also performed at La Fenice. Semiramide is an opera by Gioachino Rossini, based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice in 1823. The role of Arsace, the Commander of the Assyrian army is usually played by a Contralto.
[Ref: 23664] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Revue Comique. 47 [in top right-hand corner of plate] Oh le vieux grigou de propriétaire! le voila que fait l'oeil à sa domestique! quelle noirceur! si sa femme l'empoigne, elle n'est pas blanche!
Chez Bauger R. du Croissant, 16, Imp. a Aubert & Co.
[n.d. c.1870] Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse
Lithograph. Sheet 337 x 267mm. 13¼" x 10½". Some spotting and staining.
Slavery Item. The master falls for his servant - but alas she is not white!
Not in BM.
[Ref: 8446] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A View Near Windsor Castle. This Print contains the likenesses of her Majesty with the young Prince, Prince Albert, Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel & L.d John Russell.
Printed by Casey & Mourityan, 34 King St. Holborn.
Published 1842 by R. Sly, 8 Queens Place C.t. Queen St. Lincolns Inn Fields & 40 Up.r Seymour S.t Somers Town.
Lithograph, rare. Framed. Printed area: 300 x 260mm (11¾ x 10¼"). Frame: 340 x 300mm (13½ x 11¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
A puzzle print in which the outlines of the Royal Family and politicians are formed out of branches of four trees on the banks of the Thames by Windsor.
[Ref: 44852] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Vigilance. See Vigilance stands' rapt. Her starry Eyes, eternally on Guard, Bend their firm Gaze on heav'n: her deathless Torch Flames the bright Emblem of her ferved Zeal; And at her side her feather'd Centinel Unslumb'ring keep his watch.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Pub.d Feb.t 1.st 1798 by Colnaghi, Sala, & Co. (late Torre) No.132 Pall Mall.
Stipple and etching. Plate 190 x 136mm (7½ x 5½"). Small margins.
A girl with bare breasts looking up to the heavens holding a flaming torch in her right hand and a cockerel close to her left side.
See De Vesme: 738.
[Ref: 52410] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

La Vigilance. R 8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A rococo design, with a magic eye, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59574] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vigilance. See Vigilance stands rapt. Her starry Eyes, eternally on Guard, Bend their firm Gaze on heav'n: her deathless Torch Flames the bright Emblem of her ferved Zeal; And at her side her feather'd Centinel Unslumb'ring keep his watch.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Pub.d Feb.t 1.st 1798 by Colnaghi, Sala, & Co. (late Torre) No.132 Pall Mall.
Stipple and etching. 185 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½". Very slight foxing.
A girl with bare breasts looking up to the heavens holding a flaming torch in her right hand and a cockerel close to her left side.
De Vesme: 738; iii/iii, but later state.
[Ref: 20575] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean Baptiste Amador Vignerot.]
N. Poilly ad vivum.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Engraving, sheet 345 x 275mm. 13½ x 10¾". Trimmed within plate.
Jean Baptiste Amador Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1632 - 1662), grand nephew of Cardinal Richelieu, Abbott of Marmoutier then Marquess of Richelieu. By Nicolas de Poilly (1627 - 1696).
[Ref: 11952] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Draught of ye Bay of Bulls between the Town of Rotta & Fort St. Catherine, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Ormond; with the disposition of the frigates which were ordered to stand in by the shore, to favour the Landing; as also the Situation of the Ground and Bay, with that of the Enemy's Batteries & Troops.
I. Basire Sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 480 x 390mm (19 x 15¼"). Very fine impression with original binding folds, trimmed into printed border on right.
Plan of the Battle of Vigo Bay, 23th October 1702, fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, an attempt to capture ships carrying treasure from the Americas. Although little treasure was captured, all the French and Spanish ships were destroyed or captured. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 28282] £160.00

_"and, would'st thou turn the vile Reproach on me?"
J. C.d Esq_r del.t_ _J.s G.y [James Gillray] fec.t.
London, Publish'd Feb.y. 2.d 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13¼"). Trimmed close to printed border.
A grotesquely hideous man, lean and elderly, sits in an armchair addressing a pregnant young woman. The title is taken from a well-known play of the period, "The Earl of Warwick; a Tragedy, in 5 Acts" by Thomas Franklin.
BM Satires 10802.
[Ref: 61762] £490.00

Villa di Castello di S.E. il Sig:r Principe Corsini.
G. Z. del. N. Mogalli Scolp.
[n.d. c.1744.]
Etching and engraving with large margins. Plate 300 x 476mm (11¾ x 18¾").
Plate 30: view of the villa Corsini. Villa Corsini, belonged to the Strozzi family untill Palla Strozzi was exiled due to his oppositon to Cosimo the Elder at which point the villa was sold on to the Rinieri family. It was not until 1697 that it passed to the Corsini's, when Lucrezia Rinuccini bought it, Filippo Corsini's wife, showing men playing boule. From "Vedute delle ville e d'altri luoghi della Toscana".
[Ref: 28519] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta dell'ingresso alla Villa di Gamberaia del Sr. Marchese Cappioni.
G. Zocchi del. J. Wagner Scolp.
[n.d. c.1744.]
Etching and engraving with large margins. Plate 305 x 482mm (12 x 19"). Very fine; tears to margins.
Plate 45: view of the entrance to the villa Gamberaia of Marchese Capponi. Villa Gamberaia, a 14th-century villa near Settignano outside Florence, is characterised by an 18th-century terraced garden. From "Vedute delle ville e d'altri luoghi della Toscana".
[Ref: 28520] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Villa delle Falle de SS.ri Guadagni dall'Opera.
G.Z. del. F. Morghen scol.
[n.d. c.1744.]
Etching and engraving with large margins. Plate 300 x 489mm (11¾ x 19¼"). Tatty edges;
Plate 48: view of the villa Le Falle of the Guadagni family. At the end of the sixteenth century, Gherardo Silvani was commissioned to transform the building into a grand country house showing large orchards. From "Vedute delle ville e d'altri luoghi della Toscana".
[Ref: 28517] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Villa Marina. Isle of Man.
On Stone by C. Lamb.
[British, n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 135 x 180mm. 5¼ x 7".
The land for the Villa Marina estate was acquired by George Steuart (1730-1806), architect to the Duke of Atholl, shortly before his death; the house was built by his son Robert whose widow sold off some of the land. On her death it became a school, and then became the residence of Governor Pigot which signalled the move of the Isle of Man's capital from Castletown to Douglas. The house was demolished and the Villa Marina (Kursaal) concert hall and gardens opened on the site in 1913.
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 27916] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Arnaldus Villanovanus.
NDL [monogram of N. de Larmessin]
[n.d., 1682.]
Engraving, 190 x 140mm, 7½ x 5½". Trimmed.
Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1235–1311) Spanish alchemist, astrologer and physician. Among his achievements was the discovery of carbon monoxide and pure alcohol. He translated a number of medical texts from Arabic, but is believed to have written 'Breviarium Practicae' himself. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
Not in W.
[Ref: 16993] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Village Chinois.
Pâris del. Himely sc. Finot imp.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris, n.d., 1835.]
Aquatint on india paper, 290 x 380mm, 11½ x 15".
Chinese junk boats at anchor in front of buildings on the waterfront; a pagoda on the hill beyond. Numbered '43' upper right. From 'Voyage autour du Monde par les mers de l’Inde et de Chine sur la corvette de l’e´tat la Favorite pendant les anne´es 1830, 1831 et 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace' by Cyrille Pierre The´odore Laplace.
See BNF FRBNF33995730. BM 002075877.
[Ref: 20291] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

Village Indochinois.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. Finet imp. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on chine collé, 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), with very large margins with blindstamp of 'La Favorite'. Spotting at edges. Staining in margins on left.
From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
[Ref: 49630] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Village Barber L.M. L'Inghilterra.
HW Bunbury delin: 1772. J. Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs March 1772 by J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. 260 x 175mm (10¼ x 7"). Trimmed close to platemark top and bottom, laid on album paper.
A caricature of a country barber-surgeon, depicting a bespectacled man holding a lancet, razor and a bowl for shaving or blood letting. Above is a shop sign of a wig. Behind are the village stocks. According to Wellcome 'L.M.' is an abbreviation for 'Licentiate in medicine', a qualification to practise medicine or surgery, bestowed by a bishop or archbishop.
BM Satire 4757. Wellcome 29464i.
[Ref: 59576] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Dance de Village. La Bergere en Simple Cornette/ Dansante au son des Chatumeaux/ Fait Souvent plus d'Amans nouveaux/ Que la Demoiselle Coquette.
N. Arnoult f. A Paris chex N. Arnoult rue de la Fromagerie a l'Image S.t Claude aux halles Avec Pri. du Roy.
Paris. [n.d. c. 1680-92]
Engraving. 290 x 190mm (11½ x 7½"). Small margins on 3 sides. Trimmed in left side. Staining in margins. Crease affecting title area.
A group of young women and a man dance around a tree. In the tree sits a man playing the pipes. Engraving by Nicolas Arnoult (1650 - c.1722), specialist in fashion plates and historical costume.
See [Ref: 68714] for a reverse copy.
[Ref: 54717] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Village de Nama. (Vanikoro.)
de Sainson pinx. Asselineau lith. Fig par V. Adam.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, n.d. c.1833.]
Lithograph. 330 x 519mm. 13 x 20½".
A view of the village of Nama, Vanikolo, Solomon Islands. French sailors arriving the bay greeted by the locals with gifts and small boats to help them reach the shoreline. Numbered 'Pl.183' upper right; from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829. Publisher's blindstamp below title. After Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887).
NLA: 2923270. Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18847] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Village Elms. Sunday Morning in New England.
A.F. Bellows, J. Duthie.
William Pate & Company, New York & London. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1878 by Wm. Pate & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C.
Engraving, 23 x 29½".
[Ref: 605] £520.00

[A Village Girl Gathering Nuts.]
W.R. Bigg pinxit. P.W. Tomkins Sculpt late pupil of F Bartolozzi.
London Published as the Act directs May 1. 1789 by S. Watts No. 50 opposite old round Court Strand.
Stipple engraving, scratched letter proof before title, printed in sepia. 415 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½").
A girl in patterned dress and bonnet using a stick to hook the branches of the trees above her, to which she reaches to gather nuts, a basket beside her on the ground. A companion to 'A Cottage Girl Shelling Pease';
[Ref: 8091] £420.00

[A Village Girl Gathering Nuts.]
W.R. Bigg pinxit. P.W. Tomkins Sculpt late pupil of F Bartolozzi.
London Published as the Act directs May 1. 1789 by S. Watts No. 50 opposite old round Court Strand.
Stipple engraving, scratched letter proof before title. 415 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"), with very large margins.
A girl in patterned dress and bonnet using a stick to hook the branches of the trees above her, to which she reaches to gather nuts, a basket beside her on the ground. A companion to 'A Cottage Girl Shelling Pease';
[Ref: 45046] £320.00

La Danse de Village. [&] Le Village Abondonné.
J.K. Sherwin Del. Chaponnier Sculp.
AParis chez Bance, Rue du petit Pont au Grand Balcon Quartier St. Jacques. [n.d.].
A pair of stipples, very fine, printed in colour. Plate 481 x 596mm (19 x 23½"). Trimmed to plate, some scuffing and rubbing. Repaired tear to 'Village Abondonné'.
Pair of French rural scenes after the British artist J.K. Sherwin. In 'La Danse de Village' villagers dance around a tree, a man standing playing a pipe and tambourine in the middle; a water mill seen to the right. In 'Le Village Abondonné' a family leave their village, accompanied by a laden donkey, a small boy at the front carries a small white kitten and a bouncing dog.
[Ref: 29957] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Village Scene.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Soft-ground etching. 133 x 152mm (5¼ x 6"). Crease to lower right corner. Cut.
View of a village, with two figures resting on a bank near buildings in foreground at right; house at left, with a tall sign on a pedestal at the front. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34810] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Village School.
Pub.d Dec.r 1828, by J. Harris, corner of St Paul's and Baldwin & Craddock Paternoster Row.
Engraving, sheet 180 x 100mm (7 x 4").
Two vignettes, including a cricket match taking place at a school, within decorative border.
[Ref: 42451] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[The village shepherd] Le Berger du Village.
Ch. Eisen inv. Basan excudit [c.1760]
A Paris chez Basan
Fine engraving, sheet 220 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners; rust spot to upper margin.
A young shepherd plays music on a recorder; woman, child and dog in attendance. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45069] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

The Village Vanderer. Health sparkles in her sprightly eye.
Painted by S. Shelley. G. Zancon Sculp.t.
Pub.d. Apr.l. 1788.
Stipple, rare. Sheet: 110 x 175mm, (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed within plate on right edge. Small pin holes in lower edge. Some surface dirt.
A half portrait of the protagonist from a poem called 'Wanderer, or the Village Maid'.
[Ref: 35105] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Village Wedding. Page 118. Col.l Nesbit presenting a Wedding portion to the Old Peasant his Daughter.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 172 x 101mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed.
The rich colonel, sitting to the right, attempts to hand the old peasant a dowry for his daughter who will not accept it.
[Ref: 34757] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Les Villageois de L'Apennin. Dédié à Monsieur C.N. Cochin Garde des Desseins du Cabinet du Roy, Secretaire et Historiographe de l’Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Par son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur et Ami J. Ouvrier.
J.B.M. Pierre pinx. J. Ouvrier sculp. Gravé d’apres le Tableau Origiinal d’un pied cinq pouces de hauteur sur un pied dix pouces de largeur Peint para M. Pierre Ecuyer premier Peintre de S.A.S.M. le Duc d’Orleans.
A Paris chez l’Auteur Place Maubert chez M. Bellot Md. Bonnetier au Soleil d’Or. [n.d. c.1760.]
Etching and engraving with small margins. Plate 253 x 310mm (10 x 12¼"). Small hole to right above head of shadowed man.
Standing woman conversing with a shepherd lying in front of her, with sheep and goats behind him, in mountainous landscape; another figure stands on the right; lying cow and vegetables in the foreground.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28440] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Villager Oh! come, and while the rosy footed May / Steals blushing on, together let us tread [...]
Drawn by a Lady. J.P. Levilly sculp
[n.d., c.1790]
Stipple, platemark 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Small margins; foxing in centre.
Decorative scene after anonymous female artist by Jacques Philippe Levilly (1780-1800, fl.), French engraver active in England. Verses from James Thomson's 'Spring' below.
[Ref: 44204] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Villagers] Les villageois / Tandis qu'au point du jour vous portés dans les Villes / Les agréables fruits de vos travaux utiles [...]
C. Eisen Inv. de Fehrt Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 395 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two figures transporting baskets of food stop to talk to a vagrant sitting on the ground. Engraved after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45066] £420.00

Vera Effigies Sancti Thomae a Villanova. Ordinis Eremit S. Augustini Archiepiscopi Valentini Patris Pauperum appellati & ab Alexandro VII. Pont. Max. Anno 1658. Prima Novemb. Sanctorum Catalogo adscripti, cuius Festum celebratur die 18. Septembris...
Carol. Marattis delin. G. Castell. Sculp Romae Superiorum permissu.
Arnoldo Van Westerhout formis. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet: 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾''). Trimmed, staining in edges. Central crease.
A portrait of St. Thomas of Villanueva (1488-1555) who had been Archibishop of Valencia and reknowned for his charity. He was cannonised in 1658. The saint is shown handing coins to young children while their thankful parents look on.
[Ref: 49676] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Villefranche.]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 365mm (8¾ x 14½"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild.
A view of the lovely resort town of Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62637] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Therese Villetle F. La Ruette De La Comedie Italienne. Recu en 1761. Quel air pur,/ Le Ciel tranquile/ La paix regne dans cette asile; Isabelle Gertrude Scene VIII.
Avec privilege du Roy [n.d., c.1765].
Engraving, sheet 229 x 173mm. Trimmed within plate.
A French comic actress.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7875] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Aug Villiers [facsimile signature].
A D'Orsay fecit 15 Decr. 1841 [signed in plate].
[London: J. Mitchell, c.1841.]
Lithograph with colour added by hand, india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Margins trimmed.
Portrait of Augustus Villiers (1810 - 1847), soldier; son of 5th Earl of Jersey. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time
O'Donoghue p.375.
[Ref: 21884] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Barbara Villiers] The Dutchess of Cleaueland.
P.Lely pinxit. R.Tompson excudit.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint sheet 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10") Cut. Light staining in title area. Bit messy.
A three-quarter length portrait of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709) and mistress of of Charles II from 1659 until the early 1670s. Seated with her hair in curls, wearing a necklace, a low-cut dress, and an ermine robe. A curtain drapes to the left, while a pillar stands to the right, with trees and a distant mountain in the background on the right.
CS9. Blackett-Ord T25 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65001] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Barbara Villiers] The Dutchess of Cleaueland.
P.Lely pinxit. R.Tompson excudit.
[n.d., c.1690.] But later.
Mezzotint sheet 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10") Cut.
A three-quarter length portrait of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709) and mistress of of Charles II from 1659 until the early 1670s. Seated with her hair in curls, wearing a necklace, a low-cut dress, and an ermine robe. A curtain drapes to the left, while a pillar stands to the right, with trees and a distant mountain in the background on the right.
CS9. Blackett-Ord T25 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Kedleston Hall 13/4/2002
[Ref: 65011] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Barbara Villiers] The Dutchess of Cleaueland.
P.Lely pinxit. R.Tompson excudit.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"), with large margins, in pencil on verso "sale at Sothebys 1/30/1830" .
A three-quarter length portrait of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709) and mistress of of Charles II from 1659 until the early 1670s. Seated with her hair in curls, wearing a low-cut dress. She holds a flower to her breast and a bowl of flowers in her lap. A curtain drapes to the left, while a window on the right reveals trees in the distance.
CS10. Blackett-Ord T24 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65012] £360.00

[Barbara Villiers] The Dutchess of Cleaveland.
G. Kneller pinx. I. Beckett fe: et e[x.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. Sheet x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, affecting inscription on right.
A half-length portrait in oval of Barbara Villiers (1640-1709), seated with her hair in curls, wearing a pearl necklace. She was a mistress of of Charles II, who made her Duchess of Cleveland, from 1659 until the early 1670s.
CS 22, i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65376] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Barbara Villiers] The Dutchess of Cleaveland.
G. Kneller pinx. [engraved by Issac Beckett.]
J. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1690.] [But later]
Mezzotint. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Old ink mss. in margin.
A half-length portrait in oval of Barbara Villiers (1640-1709), seated with her hair in curls, wearing a pearl necklace. She was a mistress of of Charles II, who made her Duchess of Cleveland, from 1659 until the early 1670s. Originally published by Beckett.
CS 22, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65377] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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