Grosvenor Prints

[Elizabeth Butler] The Countess of Chesterfield.
S.r P Lilly pinx. Is: Beckett fe: & ex:
[n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), large margins.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of court beauty Elizabeth Butler (1640-65), Countess of Chesterfield after her marriage to Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl.. She wears a voluminous dress, pearl necklace and holds an orange blossom.
CS 21, state ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65374] £380.00

[Elizabeth Butler] The Countess of Chesterfield.
S.r P Lilly pinx. Is: Beckett fe:
Cum Privilegio Regis. Sold by E. Cooper at ye 3 Pidgeons in Bedford Street [n.d., c.1690].
Mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins, laid on album paper at corners. Slight staining.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of court beauty Elizabeth Butler (1640-65), Countess of Chesterfield after her marriage to Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl.. She wears a voluminous dress, pearl necklace and holds an orange blossom.
CS 21, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65375] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Emilia Butler] The Countess of Ossorÿ.
W. Wissing pinxit. I. Beckit fecit.
E. Cooper excudit. [n.d., c.1685].
Rare mezzotint, 17th century watermark. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A nearly full-length seated portrait of Æmilia van Nassau-Beverweerd (1635-88) who, as the wife of Thomas Butler (Earl of Ossory in Ireland), was appointed as lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Braganza, at Hampton Court Palace. Their son was James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond.
CS 83. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65462] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

"The Air," (Mr. Frank Hedges Butler.)
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
[Lobndon, 1907.]
Colotype. Printed area 360 x 230mm, 14 x 9", with strip of letterpress biography.
Frank Hedges Butler (1855 - 1928), pictured in a hot-air balloon, megaphone in hand. Butler was one of the first people in England to own a motor-car, becoming the first Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Automobile Club. In 1901 he made a balloon ascent from Crystal Palace accompanied by his daughter Vera and the Hon. Charles Rolls (later of Rolls-Royce): while flying over Sidcup Vera suggested the formation of an Aero Club and so the Aero Club of the United Kingdom (now the Royal Aero Club) was founded. He was also a life Fellow of the R.G.S. and a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Squadron.
[Ref: 24592] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Jacob Butler of Barnwell.]
[Etched by Michael Tyson?]
[n.d. c.1770]
Etching, 185 x 170mm (7¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet at corners.
Etching probably by Michael Tyson (1740-1780) of Jacob Butler (1681-1765) a Cambridgeshire counsellor whose epitaph, which he wrote himself, can be found in the church of St. Andrew the Less, or Barnwell. There is a reverse of this print that is attributed to Rembrandt, Published by Nichols & Co 1815.
RCIN 651727. The oil painting is at Christ's College University of Cambridge. See [Ref: 68388].
[Ref: 68171] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Jacob Butler Esq.r of Barnwell.
Rembrandt D: 1630. [Etched by Michael Tyson?]
Published by Nichols & C.o March 1, 1815.
Etching, 185 x 170mm (7¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate. Crease. Abrasion on left.
Etching probably by Michael Tyson (1740-1780) of Jacob Butler (1681-1765) a Cambridgeshire counsellor whose epitaph, which he wrote himself, can be found in the church of St. Andrew the Less, or Barnwell. This reverse print is wrongly attributed to Rembrandt, as he died whilst Jacob Butler was still a young man.
RCIN 651727. The oil painting is at Christ's College University of Cambridge. See [Ref: 68171].
[Ref: 68388] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.] Illustrifsimo Principi Iacobo Ormondia Duci, & c. Academice Oxon Cancellario.
Summa cum Humil: & Observantia D.D.D. J.Faber.
[n.d., c.1730. Sold by Tho. Bakewell at the Golden Lion in Fleetstreet London.]
Mezzotint with Collector's mark. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Tear on right margin into image. Publication faded.
Portrait of James Fitz James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, KG (1665 - 1745), Irish statesman and soldier. In 1688 he also became Chancellor of the University of Oxford until 1715.
CS 34 IV of IV. Sharp 561. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65142] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Ormond.
W. Wissing pinx. R Williams fe
E. Cooper ex: [n.d. c.1685]
Very rare mezzotint, sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Small margins. Margins reinfoced. Foxing.
A half-length portrait of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond (1610-1688), facing forward and slightly turned to the right. He is depicted with a long curly wig, a lace cravat, and a sash over his armour, set within an oval frame. Born in Middlesex, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Upon his death, his grandson, also named James Butler, succeeded him as the 2nd Duke of Ormond.
CS 42 II of III.
[Ref: 65464] £320.00

Illustrissimus Princeps Jacobus Dux Ormondiae, Equitum Legatus Praefectus Praetorianus; nec non Legionum Gentium Confaederatarum apud Vigonem Imperator; cujus sub Auspicijs, in Sinu illo Vigoniensi, Penitus, aut Periere, aut captae sunt Galliae atque Hispaniae Classes, XII.o die Octobris 1702.
G. Kneller S.R.Emp. et Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. I. Smith fec.
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel street Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1710]
Mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. Nicks at edge top right.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond (1665-1745), wearing long wig, lace cravat, chain and St George, and robes with a ribbon on the shoulder. Butler was an army officer and politician, born Dublin Castle; succeeded his grandfather James Butler as Duke of Ormond. Jacobite, though reconciled to William III and fought at the battle of the Boyne. He was involved in the 1715 rebellion against the Hanoverians and thereafter lived in exile.
CS 194.
[Ref: 58824] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond.] The Most Noble Prince James Duke of Ormond &c.
[Engraved by John Simon after Michael Dahl.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665 - 1745), Irish statesman and soldier. He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715.
CS 115 ii of ii. Sharp 55. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67462] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

His Grace James Duke, Marquis & E. of Ormond Earl of Ossory & Brecknock, Viscount Thurles, Baron of Arklon, Dingwell, Langthory & Moor-Park [...]
S.r G. Kneller Pinx. P. Pelham Fecit.
Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1735.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides.
Three quarter portrait of James Butler (1665-1745), second Duke of Ormonde, in wig and armour. After the dismissal of the Duke of Marlborough in 1711, Ormonde was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Forces but was impeached as a Jacobite in 1715. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS 30, state not listed. O'D ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Sharp 555.
[Ref: 64855] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Noble Prince James Duke of Ormond
[Anon., c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet. Rare.
James Butler, second duke of Ormonde (1665-1745), Soldier and Jacobite, who went into exile after the 1715 uprising. He never returned to England, leading a Jacobite embassy to Russia and advising on preparations for the attempted Spanish expedition to Scotland in 1719. The rest of his life was mainly divided between Spain and Avignon.
Sharp 564
[Ref: 43035] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Praecellentissimi Vatis, Samuelis Butler. Calidus excuso populum suspendere Naso. Pers. Illustrissomp Viro Georgio Granville Baroni de Lansdown. Hanc Tabulam Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
G. Soest pinx. G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. Plate: 365 x 240mm (14½ x 9½''), with wide margins. Some marking.
A portrait of poet and satirist Samuel Butler (1613-1680) from Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
[Ref: 50045] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Praecellentissimi Vatis, Samuelis Butler. Calidus excuso populum suspendere Naso. Pers. Illustrissomp Viro Georgio Granville Baroni de Lansdown. Hanc Tabulam Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
G. Soest pinx. G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1730.] [Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½''), large margins.
A portrait of poet and satirist Samuel Butler (1613-1680) from Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
Alexander 605. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63877] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Butler Cantabrig Huius Aetatis Princeps Medicorum. Anno 1620. Dec. 1647. Aet. 89. When now the Fates gan wonder, that their thrids Were to oft tired againe, halfe cut i't'h' mids And Charon wanting his usd Naulu, sware He now a days did want of many a fare, They all conspire, and found at last, that it Was skillfull Butler, who mens lives could knit All most untied, they killd him, and yet feard That he from death, by death, would ghosts have reard.
S.P.F. [below image.] [Simon de Passe.]
Are to be Sould by...Peter Stent.
Engraving. 178 x 108mm. 8 x 4¼". Laid on album sheet. Damaged.
Dr. William Butler (1535-1618) was a writer and physician to James I.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection. W: 500-1. NPG: D27932.
[Ref: 18733] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d William Butler, of Frampton, Dorsetshire. From a Picture in the possession of Thomas Bridge Esq.r.
Painted by A. Morton Esq.r. Engraved by T. Lupton 4 Leigh Street, Burton Crescent.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 370 x 290mm (14½ x 11½'') very large margins.
A portrait of Rev. William Butler (1760-1841).
[Ref: 50130] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Butterfly on a Fuscia.]
Scrapsheet. Sheet: 360 x 240mm (14 x 9½'').
A scrapsheet with a watercolour of a butterfly on a fuscia and two scenes with monkeys in clothes playing games including backgammon.
[Ref: 51076] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

I'd be a Butterfly / Born in a bower.
Drawn by Joe Lisle.
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant, London.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate on three sides.
An old soldier selling ballads in a heavy storm, singing a song, written by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839). One of his crutches is a broom.
See BM 1993,1107.43 for an example published by Gans in 1830.
[Ref: 59451] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

A Butterfly of the Summer Season 1829. at Home. In Flight. Crysalis.
W. Sharp del.t. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Pub.d by J. Dickinson, 114. New Bond Street.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 10"). Marking and stains.
Three portraits of a woman, the woman on the left is shown as she would dress at home, the middle is dressed for going out while the third is dressed for bed.
[Ref: 43795] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Billy Buttons. From an Original Painting by the late J. Willis in the possession of the Publisher.
On Stone by W. Woods. A. Pocock lith, Bristol.
Published by C. Parminter, 17 John Street, Bristol. [n.d., c.1840.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 410 x 300mm (16 x 11¾"). Repaired tears, creases.
Billy Button ((b.c.1778–1838), a ballad singer who would wander around Bristol singing and dancing barefoot.
[Ref: 53713] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Butts?]
H Holbein inv. Whollar fecit 1649. Adam Alexus Bierling ex: but later.
Etching. Sheet: 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed, some damage to edges and paper loss. Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Henry VIII's doctor Dr Butts, shown in a feathered cap and fur-lined robe. The portrait has also been identified as Charles Brandon.
Pennington 1554.
[Ref: 43710] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Butts.]
H Holbein inv. Whollar fecit 1649. Adam Alexus Bierling ex: but later.
Rare etching. Sheet: 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed. Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Henry VIII's doctor Sir William Butts (c.1486-1545), shown in a feathered cap and fur-lined robe. The portrait has also been identified as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c.1484-1545)
Pennington 1554.
[Ref: 67642] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Prospect of the Chee-Torr on the River Wie &c., Two Miles below Buxton. No. 7.
J. Smith Pinx. et fecit in Aqueforti. Terminat: P.r Scotin.
Publish'd July 13th 1743.
Rare etching with engraving. 400 x 550mm (15¾ x 21¾"), large margins. Nicks in margins repaired.
Chee Dale, a 400-foot gorge above the River Wye. From the series 'Eight of the most extraordinary prospects in the mountainous parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire commonly call'd the Peak and the Moorlands'.
[Ref: 58742] £520.00

A Prospect of the Chee-Torr on the River Wie &c., Two Miles below Buxton. No. 7.
J. Smith Pinx. et fecit in Aqueforti. Terminat: P.r Scotin.
Publish'd July 13th 1743.
Rare etching with engraving. 400 x 550mm (15¾ x 21¾"). Narrow margins, creasing and stains, repairs to margins.
Chee Dale, a 400-foot gorge above the River Wye. From the series 'Eight of the most extraordinary prospects in the mountainous parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire commonly call'd the Peak and the Moorlands'.
[Ref: 58743] £380.00

Jed: Buxton. [Two accompanying slips with biographical details.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching with two added type-press slips. Sheet 260 x 216mm. 10¼ x 8½". Cut, laid on album sheet.
Jedediah Buxton (1707-1772) was a noted English mental calculator. Although his father was a schoolmaster, his education had been so neglected that he could not write; and his knowledge, except for numbers, was extremely limited.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection. Not in W.
[Ref: 18744] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Jedidiah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r the 22.d 1781 by B. Killingbeck, N.º 14 Dover Street Piccadilly.
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Laid down on album sheet at sides.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. First published 1773.
CS 7, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64704] £380.00

Jedidiah Buxton.
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Published pursuant to an Act of Parliament May the 1.st 1773, by B. Killingbeck at Mrs. Totton's Mount Street Berkley Square, London,
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"), 18th century watermark. Title area smudged. Small margins; horizontal central crease.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. A 1781 state of this print gave this biography: ''Jedediah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards''.
CS 7, state i of ii.
[Ref: 61368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

T. Fowell Buxton.
Engraved by John Brain. From a Painting by Geogr Hayter. Esq.r. M.A.L.L.&c.
[n.d., c.1840, London: John Saunders, Junr. 49, Paternoster Row.]
Stipple engraving. 125 x 180mm (5 x 7").
A portrait of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1786 – 1845). As an MP he worked for changes in prison conditions and criminal law and for the abolition of slavery. On 16 June 1824, a meeting was held at Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's Lane, London, at which was created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals – it became the RSPCA when Queen Victoria gave royal assent in 1840. Buxton was appointed chairman for the year 1824.
[Ref: 63123] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

T. F. Buxton.
Painted by H. P. Briggs. Esq. R. A. Engraved by W. Holl.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 220 x 150 (8¾ x 6"), very large margins.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1786 – 1845), three-quarter length, seated to right, facing the viewer, wearing a jacket, waistcoat and cravat, holding a book in his left hand. As an MP he worked for changes in prison conditions and criminal law and for the abolition of slavery. On 16 June 1824, a meeting was held at Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's Lane, London, at which was created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals – it became the RSPCA when Queen Victoria gave royal assent in 1840. Buxton was appointed chairman for the year 1824.
[Ref: 63191] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Bujuckdere. Sommeraufenthalt der Franken aus Constantinopel [parallel text in Russian]
P. par Sergeeff Gravé par Koschkin Gravé par Kasatschinsky
[pub. by Schnoor, 1803]
Engraving, platemark 360 x 560 (14 x 22"). Vertical fold through centre, further creases, staining and nicks to margins. Very rare.
Büyükdere, Istanbul, where several embassies were established in the later 18th century. Plate from H.C. von Reimer's 'Reise der russisch-kaiserlichen ausserordentichen Gesandtschaft an die othomanische Pforte im Jahr 1793'.
[Ref: 30057] £550.00

''Buzz''. To the President and Members of the Beef Steak Club, this print is most respectfully Dedicated.
M.W.Sharp. Pinx.t. W.m Sharp Sculp.t.
London, Published July 4th. 1834 by Tho.s Mclean, 26 Haymarket.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 335 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Scratches in top left corner. trimmed to platemark.
A comic portrait of a middle aged man shaking the last drop out of a decanter. The Beefsteak Club or the Sublime Society was a dining club which, in 1834, met at the Bedford Coffee House, where members would dine on steak and potatoes and drank port. Members were required to wear a uniform of a blue coat with a buff waistcoat with brass buttons. The member depicted also wears a gridiron medal, the gridiron being the symbol of the club. An empty bottle and a corkscrew are on the table.
[Ref: 42046] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas Byfield. [Minister sometimes of the City of Chester...]
Pub.d. July 30 1790 by W.Richardson, Strand.
Stipple and line engraving. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Nicholas Byfield (1579 - 1622), English clergyman who was a leading preacher of the reign of James I. He died on Sunday, 8 September 1622. The following day a surgeon removed from his body a stone which weighed 35 ounces; William Gouge was present at the autopsy.
[Ref: 64155] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Nichollas Byfield, Minister sometimes of the City of Chester but last of Isleworth in the County of Middlesex...
Publish'd April 1790 by J. Simco, No 11 Great Queen Street.
Stipple with engraving. Framed, visible area 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"). Unexamined out of frame.
Nicholas Byfield (1579-1622) an English clergyman who was a leading preacher of the reign of James I. He died from 'the stone', a calculus found to weigh 35 ounces (just under a kilgram), shown on the table in front of him.
[Ref: 48807] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n B. Bygrave. Paymaster 5th Bengal N Infantry.
[Vincent Eyre.]
[John Murray. 1843.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 235 x 130mm (9¼ x 5¼"). Small tear in left edge of sheet.
A portrait of Captain B. Bygrave, a paymaster of the 5th Bengal Infantry, who was held in captivity in Kabul. Full-length, facing the viewer, seated cross-legged with his head resting on his hand leaning on an architectural element to the left. He is dressed in Afghanistani costume of a short coat over his robe with a striped shirt and sash beneath, and a turban on his head. An illustration to Eyre's 'Portraits of the Kabul Prisoners', 1843.
[Ref: 35413] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Ruins of Byland Abbey Yorkshire.
J.R. Hamble sculp.
Published March 16. 1812 by J. Deeley Berwick S.t Soho.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 475 x 580mm (18¾ x 22¾"), on Whatman paper. Tear entering image and another in margin taped.
A fine view of Byland Abbey in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, centred on the tower and the remains of a huge rose window. Founded in 1135 by the Savigniac Order, the abbey became Cistercian in 1147 and was dissolved in 1538. It is now an English Heritage property.
[Ref: 55700] £360.00

[Frederick Gerald Byng] Byng-Go. M.r. Byng.
Drawn Etch.d. by Rich.d. Dighton. Jan.y. 1820.
Pub.d. bt T. M.c.Lean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 190 x 285mm (7½ x 11¾").
A full-length portrait in profile of Frederick Gerald Byng (1784-1871) who was sometimes referred to as 'Poodle' Byng on account of his curly hair, a feature Dighton captures. Byng was the 5th son of the 5th Viscount Torrington and worked as a clerk in the Foreign Office between 1804-1839.
BM 14054.
[Ref: 34239] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

George Byng Esq.r.
Downman pinx.t. Engrav'd by J. Grozer.
W. Austin excudit. Publish'd as the Act directs March 31st. 1786 by W.m Austin Drawing Master Engraver & Print Merchant No. 195 Piccadilly near St. James's Church.
Mezzotint. 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, just inside plate at bottom.
George Byng (1735-89), MP for Wigan, and later Middlesex. He inherited the estate of Wrotham Park from his unmarried and childless uncle Admiral John Byng (1704-1757), famously court-martialled and shot in 1757 following the fall of Minorca.
CS: 3, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 40527] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Sr. George Byng Bar.t &c Commander in Chief of His Maj:ties Fleet that Took and Destroyed 22. Sail of the Spanish Fleet, of Cape Passaro. Ao. 1718.
G. Kneller S.R.I. et Mag: Brit: Bart: pinxit.
Done & Sold by Faber Iun.r in Catherine Street in ye Strand. [n.d. c.1727.]
Mezzotint. 197 x 146mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image.
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733); One of the young army officers who supported William III's accession; 1691, transferred to the navy; 1704, played an important part in the capture of Gibraltar,which resulted in a knighthood; August 1718, decisive victory against the Spanish off Cape Passaro, Sicily; 1721, he was raised to the peerage with the title Baron Byng of Southill; 1725, created Viscount Torrington; 1727, first lord of the Admiralty.
[Ref: 52495] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

George Byng Esq.r.
Downman pinx.t. Engrav'd by J. Grozer.
Publish'd as the Act directs March 31.st 1786 by W.m Austin Drawing Master Engraver & Print Merchant No. 195 Piccadilly near St. James's Church.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof, 18th century watermark. 390 x 275mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
George Byng (1735-89), MP for Wigan and later Middlesex. He inherited the estate of Wrotham Park from his unmarried and childless uncle Admiral John Byng (1704-1757), famously court-martialled and shot in 1757 following the fall of Minorca.
CS: 3, state i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67620] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

George Byng Lord Torrinton. In the Collection of the Right Hon: the Lord Visc.t Torrington
G. Kneller pinxit. J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1747
Impensis J & P Knapton Londini 1747.
Fine engraving, plate 350 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"), with margins. Glued to album sheet. One small crease.
Bust portrait of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733), in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond; a seascape with a seabattle in a cartouche below; a mythical sea creature in lower left. He wears a long wig and neckerchief. From the series Birch's heads. In the mid-eighteenth century, the British historian Thomas Birch (1705 - 1766) published a series of short biographies of famous figures from his nation’s past. Accompanying each of the 108 biographies was an engraved portrait of the subject, whose likeness was presented within an elaborate decorative setting. These ornamental frames were designed by Hubert-François Bourguignon (1699 - 1773)—commonly known as Gravelot—a Parisian artist then working in London. After finishing the drawing, Gravelot sent sheets to Amsterdam. There, the Dutch printmaker Jacob Houbraken (1698 - 1780) created the final image by combining Gravelot’s design with portraits. Byng was one of the young army officers who supported William III's accession; 1691, transferred to the navy; 1704, played an important part in the capture of Gibraltar,which resulted in a knighthood; August 1718, decisive victory against the Spanish off Cape Passaro, Sicily; 1721, he was raised to the peerage with the title Baron Byng of Southill; 1725, created Viscount Torrington; 1727, first lord of the Admiralty.
O' Donoghue 4.
[Ref: 58871] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dinner at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 11th March 1840 to George Byng Esq.re M.P. in Celebration and grateful Acknowledgment of Fifty Years uninterrupted Services as Representative in Parliament for the County of Middlesex.
[1840]
Invitation, lithograph on porcelain card, printed on both sides, with blindstamp. Sheet 125 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"). Some creasing, back has glues stains and abrasions.
Ticket numbered 624 in ink, issued to 'Mr. B. Byng Esq.'. George Byng (1764-1847) eventually spent 57 years in parliament, the last fifteen as Father of the House of Commons, only giving his seat up at his death.
[Ref: 51441] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Byng.
Benoist sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 132 x 102mm. 5¼ x 4".
Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was a Royal Navy officer. At age thirteen he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718 and over the next thirty years he built up a reputation that enabled his promotion in 1747 to Vice-Admiral. He is best known for his loss at Minorca, whereby he was court-martialled for failing to prevent Minorca falling to the French in 1756. He was sentenced to death and shot by firing squad on 14 March 1757.
NMM: PAD2795.
[Ref: 24136] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Byng.
Harding sc.
Publishd 1 May 1800, by Edwd. Harding 98 Pall Mall.
Stipple with large margins, 160 x 100mm. 6¼ x 4".
Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was a Royal Navy officer. At age thirteen he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718 and over the next thirty years he built up a reputation that enabled his promotion in 1747 to Vice-Admiral. He is best known for his loss at Minorca, whereby he was court-martialled for failing to prevent Minorca falling to the French in 1756. He was sentenced to death and shot by firing squad on 14 March 1757.
NMM PAD2797.
[Ref: 26346] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

John Byrom. M.A. F.R.S. ''Ha!'' quoth I to his Face ''my old friend, are you there?'' / And methought the face smil'd.
Engraved by Thopham, from an Original sketch by D. Rasbotham Esq.r In the Posession of Charles White Esq.r.
Leeds Pub.d 15th Dec.r 1814 by James Nichols.
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper at edges.
John Byrom (1692-1763), poet and inventor of a system of shorthand. He also coined the phrase ''Tweedledum and Tweedledee'', during a dispute about the merits of composers Handel and Bononcini.
[Ref: 59829] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
A. Isola dip. C. Bruni lit. Torino in de Festa.
[Genova: L. Pellas, 1830.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 190 x 117mm (7½ x 4½").
Frontispiece portrait from 'Poemi di Lord G. Byron Tradotti dall'originale inglese da Pietro Isola'.
[Ref: 60401] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

George, Gordon, Byron, Lord Byron.
Lithographié par Delorieux d'après le tableau original de G. H. Harlow. Imprimeries Lithog: de C. Motte.
A Paris chez Ladvocat libraire Editeur de la traduction des oeuvres complétes de Lord Byron (3 volumes in 8.o prix 18 F) Palais Royal galeries de bois N.o 197 et 198.
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾''), with large margins. Repaired damage in bottom right edge.
A portrait of Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824).
[Ref: 48677] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. (oeuvres de Chateaubriand).
Emile Giroux.
Paris. Imp. Lesauvage r. de Sorbonne, 6. [n.d., c.1845.]
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾'') very large margins.
A portrait of Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824).
[Ref: 48678] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple engraving, rare. 160 x 127mm. 6¼ x 5".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23995] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Byron.
Engraved by Cha.s Heath.
Published by Tho.s Tegg, Cheapside. [n.d. c.1825.]
Engraving with stipple, india proof, with large margins. Plate 230 x 152mm. 9 x 6".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him a sa national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23993] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Byron's Dream.]
Painted by C. L. Eastlake R. A. Engraved by J. T. Willmore.
London, Published Nov.r. 1, 1833, by F. G. Moon, Threadneedle Street & Moon, Boys & Graves, No.6 Pall Mall.
Engraving, scarce & fine. Plate: 665 x 510mm (26 x 20"). Marking, trimmed. Slight damage.
An impressive scene showing a pastoral Greek landscape in which Lord Byron lies asleep, his companions sleep nearby. The scene illustrates a section from Byron's 1816 poem 'The Dream'. Byron died not long after this print was published and is the last portrait of him while in Greece fighting the War of Greek Independence.
[Ref: 44269] £390.00

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