Grosvenor Prints

[A Midsummer Night's Dream] Thisbe. Ev'n in this narrow chinkthey quickly found [/] A friendly passage for a trackless sound, [/] Safely they told their sorrows, and their joys, [/] In whisper'd murmurs, and a dying noise.
J. Hoppner del. W. Nutter Sculp.
Publish'd Dec.r 5th, by Bull & Jeffryes. Ludgate Hill London.
Stipple engraving with large margins. Platemark: 395 x 290mm. (15½ x 11¼"). Slight stain inside platemark on right side.
Thisbe listening through a chink in a stone wall. Pyramus and Thisbe is the story of two lovers in the city of Babylon who occupy connected houses, forbidden by their parents to be wed. Through a crack in one of the walls, they whisper their love for each other. From Shakepeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28402] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Bearing the Murdered Body of Abel_and sighing under the sad burthen slowly moved towards his dwelling. Gessner's Death of Abel, Book the IV. Plate the 1.st [&] The Departure of Cain. They left their cottage Mahala with weeping eyes beheld the dwellings of her parents and of Mirza. Gessner’s Death of Abel. Book V.
H. Singleton pinxit. John Murphy excudit 1799. James Godby sculpsit. [&] H. Singleton pinxit. John Murphy excudit 1800. James Godby sculpsit.
London: Published Jan.y 7. 1799, by John Murphy, North-side Paddington Green. [&] London: Published Jan.y 2. 1800, by John Murphy. No.19 Howland Street Fitzroy Square.
A pair of stipples. Each 596 x 515mm (23½ x 20¼"), with large margins. First of pair cut into platemark along both side edges, some foxing to edges, but images excellent.
Adam and Eve, wearing animal skins, Adam carrying the dead body of his son Abel over his shoulder, approaching across a landscape, with Eve walking behind him, covering her face in her hands, mourning; [&] Cain, wearing animal skins, one hand to his head in despair, holding a son by the other hand, his wife beside him carrying a child and looking behind her sadly at the home they have left, two other children walking just ahead of them, pointing onward.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28444] £300.00 view all images for this item

Age & Dress. The Ruling Passion be it what it will, / The Ruling Passion conquers Reason still.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at No 53 in Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Rare & fine mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Small margins.
An elderly lady in the fashionable dress of a young woman, seated at her dressing table looking in her mirror holding a cosmetic box. Appears to be after Charles Antoine Coypel's (1694-1752) pastel 'Folly embellishing Old Age with the adornments of Youth.'
BM Satires 4593. Ex Lennox-Boyd & Oettingen-Wallerstein collections.
[Ref: 51884] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Age of Innocence.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reyolds Engrv'd by J Grozer.
London, Published Feb.y 10th 1788 by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Stipple with etching. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins.
A bare-footed young girl sitting under a tree, hands together on her chest, staring to the right, after a painting in the Tate since 1847 (N00307). The Tate records that ''it is very probably identifiable with a work exhibited by Reynolds at the Royal Academy in 1785, and entitled simply 'a little girl''' and that Sir Robert Edgcumbe, a Victorian descendant of Reynolds, identified her as the artist's great-niece Theophila Gwatkin (1782-1844).
Hamilton: pg. 141. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60317] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Aminto releasing Sylvia. Vide Tasso's Aminto, Act III, Scene 1.
C. R. Ryley pinxit W. Skelton sculpsit.
London Publish'd as the Act directs, March 24.th 1788, by W. Skelton, Engraver, No. 23, Hay Market.
Etching with engraving. 340 x 415mm (13½ x 16¼"), very large margins. A little spotting, mainly in margins.
Aminta unties the nymph Silvia from a tree. The satyr who had attempted to rape her flees in the background. A scene from 'Aminta', the 1573 play by Torquato Tasso's (1544-95).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60344] £320.00

Aminta.
P. Bettelini inv. et sculp.t.
London, publish'd 8 8bre 1788 by Molteno Colnaghi & Co 132 Pall Mall. A Paris chez Tessari Zanna et Cie Quais des Augustins no.42
Stipple, printed in colours. 330 x 250mm (130 x 9¾"). Small margins.
Silvia embraces Aminta on a rocky outcrop, watched by Cupid. A scene from 'Aminta', the 1573 play by Torquato Tasso's (1544-95). Despite being a pastoral set in the time of Alexander the Great, Aminta is in contemporary dress.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60313] £360.00

The Angelic Child. From a miniature painted by Mr. Robinson in the possesion of Mrs. Johnston, to whom this plate is dedicated by her humble ser.t, W. Palmer.
Robinson pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1st. 1790 by W. Palmer. Printseller to Her Majesty. No. 163 Strand, London.
Stipple engraving, printed in brown. 180 x 115mm. (7¼ x 4½"), with wide margins.
A child, half-length, head to right, eyes turned towards the sky; body turned to the left, hands lifted to prayer; in a vertical oval; after John Robinson (1715 - 1745). Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815).
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection; Calabi & De Vesme: 308.iii/iii
[Ref: 28396] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Annette In the Dress of a Norman Peasant. [&] Lubin In the Dress of a Norman Peasant.
Drawn & Engraved by Tho.s Gaugain from Marmontel's moral Tales.
London Pub'd according to Act Oct.r 20 1780 by T.Gaugain No. 4 Little Compton Street, Soho London.
Pair of mezzotints with line engraving, printed in sepia. Each 340 x 265mm.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's London 1997.
[Ref: 2656] £450.00 view all images for this item

[Anthony and Cleopatra] The Death of Mark Anthony. La Mort de Marc Antoine.
Angelica Kauffman pinxit. J.M. Delattre sculpsit.
Published according to Act, Feb.y 23rd, 1785, by Ann Bryer, No. 5, Poland Street, Soho.
Stipple, printed in brown. 385 x 330mm (15¼ x 13"), with large margins. Mint.
The death of Marcus Antonius according to Shakespeare: having stabbed himself he finds that Cleopatra is still alive, dying in her arms.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60310] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT)

S. Antonius de Padua.
[Johann Elias Ridinger.]
[n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint, very scarce with small margins. Plate 526 x 394mm (20¾ x 15½"). Some creasing.
Impressive large mezzotint of St. Anthony of Padua with elliptic gloriole sitting to the left, worshipping the child Jesus in his glory gliding in the clouds. His hands resting on an open book, from which a long blossom branch projects. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), the Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, who was patron of animals.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28372] £360.00

Apollo.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Published Mar 25th. 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside London.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours. 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾") very large margins. A little faint spotting. Slight creasing.
A profile portrait of Apollo as a young man. An early example: the following year the plate appeared in "A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by M.r Richard Earlom'', with the publicated date changed to 1789 (as per BM example.
See BM: 1861,0518.377. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60301] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Apparent Dissolution. [&] Returning Animation.
E. Penny Pinxit. W.m Sedgewick, Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sep.r 10th 1784, by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Pair of stipple engravings, with large margins. Each c. 355 x 280mm, 14 x 11".
A woman faints on seeing her apparently-lifeless husband in the fields; when he revives she clasps her hands in prayer. Pair of stipples after Edward Penny (1714-91), a founder member of the Royal Academy.
ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 27130] £420.00 view all images for this item

Argent de mes petits Oiseaux. Il est si fot de son oiseau Qu'il vient de tirer de sa cage Que pour apprendre son ramage Il le siffle en godelureau.
Chez HBonnart vis a vis les Mathurins au Coq avec pril. [n.d. c.1740.]
Etching and engraving with very large margins. Plate 271 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½"). Mint; glued to backing sheet at corners.
A man selling birds in the street from a cage hung around his waist. From a set of Street Cries.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28417] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

A Bacchant.
F: Bartolozzi Inv.t et Sculp.t.
Mango Exc.t. Pub.d Nov.r 23 1778 as the Act Directs by the Proprieter N.o Bentinck Street near Berwick Street, Soho.
Stipple printed in sanguine, plate 245 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"), with large margins. Very slight paper toning.
A bare breasted priestess of the God of Wine, Bacchus, lifts a bowl as if to drink.
De Vesme 368 II of III. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60283] £350.00

Banditti Gambling. From an Original Picture, in the Possession of Josh. Fortnom Esq.r.
Jn,o Mortimer pinx.t. Jn,o Hall sculp.t.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs, May 1.st 1780 J. Hall Berwick Street Soho, and J. Boydell, Cheapside.
Etching with engraving. 385 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"), with large margins. Ink fingerprints within plate but not in image.
Three banditti playing dice on a rock.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60343] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti at Market. From an Original Picture, in the Possession of Jos.h Fortnom Esq.r
Jn.o Mortimer pinx. Jno Hall sculp.t
London Publishd as the Act directs May 1.st 1780, by I. Hall, Berwick Street Soho, and I. Boydell Cheapside.
Mint engraving. 380 x 305mm (15 x 12"), with large margins.
Three banditti and a girl with a basket of eggs; the girl seated at left with her head bent down, on a step outside a building, one of the banditti watching her and leaning on a shield decorated with a cross.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. Sunderland: 138b.
[Ref: 28410] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Storming a Banditti Stronghold]. From an original drawing of Mortimer in the possession of Mr. Richard Thorhold.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by Blyth.
London publish'd as the act directs. May 1st, 1782, by R. Blyth, No. 27, Great castle Street, Cavendish Square.
Etching. 345 x 280mm. (13½ x 11"), with large margins.
Four men fighting, two brandishing swords, one a club, the fourth pulling another's hair. After John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1799), painter of historical and romantic literary themes.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harper
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 1st 1780 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Rare mezzotint, with very large margins; platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Good impression; glued to backing sheet along left edge at corners; uncut.
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harper) (1757-1849), actress and singer. She also accompanied herself on the guitar, as shown in John Russell's 1799 portrait. At the time this print was made Harper was only three years into her career but was already earning high salaries. In 1778 she was contracted to perform at the Pantheon (on London's Oxford Street) for two years, earning one thousand pounds in the process. In 1783 she married the actor and comedian John Bannister, and she retired in 1792. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actresses and singers, published by the printseller William Richardson in 1780, apparently to follow up a similar set of actor portraits published the previous year. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection, and collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 iii/iii.
[Ref: 36669] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harper [in pencil]
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 1st 1780 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Rare mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), a good impression, uncut. Glued to backing sheet along left edge.
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harper) (1757-1849), actress and singer. She also accompanied herself on the guitar, as shown in John Russell's 1799 portrait. At the time this print was made Harper was only three years into her career but was already earning high salaries. In 1778 she was contracted to perform at the Pantheon (on London's Oxford Street) for two years, earning one thousand pounds in the process. In 1783 she married the actor and comedian John Bannister, and she retired in 1792. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actresses and singers, published by the printseller William Richardson in 1780, apparently to follow up a similar set of actor portraits published the previous year. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 ii/iii. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 36671] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Beauty & Time.
Published according to Act of Parliament the 1.st of January 1781[?] by [illegible] Humprey.
Fine stipple, printed in sepia. 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Mint.
A bare-breasted young woman and Chronos tussle over his scythe. Ozias Humphrey (1742-1810), miniaturist and publisher, is best known for commissioning William Blake's 'A Small Book of Designs' and 'A Large Book of Designs', containing colour-printed plates from his other works.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Benedicte Hollandois.
Scalf Pinx. Basan Sculp.
A Paris chés Baran Graveur rue St. Jacques. [n.d. c.1760.]
Very fine engraving with large margins, plate papermarked. Plate 291 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Mint.
A husband and wife sat at their table ready to eat, with a pastor standing behind looking to the heavens and praying; a dog on the ground in front.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28411] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Gioseffina Borghi.
Drawn by Bartolozzi. Engraved by T. Suntach.
Published by Ant. Suntach 1799.
Stipple with etching, with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 340 x 273mm (13½ x 10¾). Very rare.
Possibly a relation to Luigi Borghi (1745-c.1806) the Italian composer and violinist; Bartolozzi made prints for his music books.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28406] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] Clara. From an Original Picture in the Collection of John Taylor, Esq.r.
[After Rev Mathew William Peters]
Pub.d March 1.st 1780 by J.Walker N.o 148 Strand.
Fine stipple printed in colours, plate 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"). Thread margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to left within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape. Reverse copy of a mezzotint by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] Miss Ferard. in the Strand London.
[After Rev Mathew William Peters] J.P. Woffinik Sculp.
[n.d. c.1780]
Stipple printed in sanguine, plate 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to left within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60278] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] [Clara]
Peint par Guill.m Peters: R:A: Egrave' par : P : Charlay : L Ausgsbourg 15 Julliet 1778.
Fine stipple printed in sanguine, plate 200 x 160mm (7¾ x 6½"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to right within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape. A German reverse copy of the stipple after Rev Matthew William Peters (c.1741-1814) engraved by John Walker (fl.1776-1802).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60276] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Brown] Clara. From an Original Picture in the Collection of John Taylor, Esq.r.
Wm. Peters, R.A. pinx:t : Walker Excud:t.
Pubd. 13 Decr. 1777 by J. Walker No:13, Parliament Street
Fine stipple printed in colours, plate 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins.
Portrait of Anne Brown (also known as Cargill, c.1748-84) as Clara in Sheridan's 'The Duenna', seen bust-length in profile to left within oval frame, wearing lace-edged veil and cape. Reverse copy of a mezzotint by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60277] £320.00

Lady Frederick Campbell.
Publish'd Sept.r 14.th 1784, by J.K.Sherwin, Engraver to his Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, No. 28, St James's Street, and Sold by W. Hinton No. 5, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London.
Stipple. Plate 348 x 234mm. 13¾" x 9¼". Very fine.
Mary Meredith (d.1807), wife of Lord Frederick Cambell, her second husband. She became famous for obtaining a divorce from her first husband, Laurence Shirley (1720-60), 4th Earl Ferrers, on the grounds of cruelty. Ferrers became the last peer to be hanged, for the muder of his steward, who is said to have stood witness for his wife in the divorce. Ferres was hanged at Tyburn, cursing his wife that she should experience a death more painful than his own. She died a very torturous death, in a fire in the tower of Combe Bank, after which all that could be found of her a bone of her thumb. Her ghost is said to still haunt the grounds.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9205] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Tales] Departure of the Canterbury Pilgrimes. Prologue, Canterbury Tale Chaucer.
Drawn by Mortimer. Engraved by J Hogg.
London Publish'd Feb.y 12.th 1787 by J. R. Smith No. 31 King Street Covent Garden.
Etching with engraving. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"), with large margins. Single spot in unprinted area of plate.
The pilgrims and their horses gather in a square outside the Tabard Inn, Southwark. One of nine plates after John Hamilton Mortimer, probably prepared for an edition of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' that was abandoned before publication.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Canterbury Tales] Griselda. There, lowly seated on the dewey ground, she feeds her little charge that bleats around.
Angelica Kauffman del.t. Fran. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
London Publish'd March 35, 1784 by Sus,a Vivares, No 13 Great Newport Street.
Fine stipple with etching, printed in colours. 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Thread margins, repair to bottom left corner of plate.
Griselda sitting in a landscape with sheep, holding a spindle under her left arm and a shuttle in her right hand. From Chaucer's 'Clerk of Oxford's Tale'.
De Vesme 1369. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60306] £480.00

[Joseph Chalier] Philipe Sidney.
peint par H.F. Tassaert. gravé par J.J. Tassaert.
A Paris et a Londres chez Tessari et Comp.ie [n.d., c.1835.]
Sripple, printed in colours. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), large margins.
A portrait taken from a bust of Joseph Chalier (1747-93) who was a French lawyer and revolutionary politician. It is apparently a reissue of a portait of Chalier that Jean Joseph François Tassaert engraved, originally attributed to painter Jacques Philippe Caresme. This version has the title changed, Henriette-Félicité Tassaert as painter, and the revolutionary symbols in the borders removed.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60318] £380.00

Charity.
I.H. Ramberg delin. F. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
London Published 1st. Janry. 1787. by Robert Wilkinson No.58 Cornhill London.
Stipple with etching on india paper, printed in brown ink. 200 x 225mm. 8 x 9". Small upper and lower margin, one rust spot to plate; else a fine impression.
Allegorical representation of Charity, as a woman comforting a little girl and two naked putti; basket of fruit far left. In an oval. After Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - 1840).
De Vesme 581, III of III. Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 21194] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Children at Their Mothers Grave. Advance sweet innocents, and view that grave! [/] Beneath that rising dust your mother lies; [/] A clay cold silent corps! Pale as the shroud [/] Which now she wears. Dedicated to Noel Desenfans Esq.r, Consul General of Poland in Great Britain, &c. By his most obedient humble Servant John Ogbourne.
Sir Francis Bourgeois pinxit. R.A. John Ogborne sculpsit.
London, published Jan.y 2 1797, by J. Ogborne, No.58 Great Portland Street, & Testolini, No. 73, Cornhill.
Stipple engraving with very large margins. Platemark: 590 x 465mm. (23¼ x 18¼").
A family mourning their mother, two grave-diggers on left. Lines of verse by Joseph Strutt below image. The print is dedicated to Noel Desenfans, who was employed by King Stanislaw of Poland to assemble a collection of paintings (and was appointed Polish Consul General in London). After Stanislaw was forced to abdicate, the paintings eventually formed the basis of th Dulwich Picture Gallery.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28428] £350.00

La Chose Impossible. Que ne peut point sur nous l’attrayante Beauté; Puisque pour contenter un amour qui l’accable, Et de la jeune Iris vaincre la Cruauté, Lisandre est assez fou pour se donner au Diable. De ce séxe enchanteur qui trouble la raison, Que ne peut point aussi l’ingénieuse adressé, Puisq’Iris a bien seu d’un seul trait de finesse. Et sauber son amant et duper le Demon. Moraine.
Lorrain inv. D. Sornique Sculp.
AParis chez Buldet rue de Gêvres. Avec privilege du Roi. [n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate 318 x 362mm (12½ x 14¼). Crease not visible from front. Faint time stain. Very fine impression.
A young man attempts to court Lisandre, with the help of the Devil who sits floating on a dark cloud beside them.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28359] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Contemplating the Picture.
J.R. Smith Delin.t.
London publish'd Nov.r 14.th 1785 - by J.R. Smith, N.o 83 - Oxford Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"). Glue stain in edge of plate top left.
A woman stares at a miniature portrait in a locket.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997. BM 1880,0807.113, ''D'Oench notes that the drawing for this print is now known as 'The Locket' Ref: 268; (Huntingdon Library)"
[Ref: 60298] £420.00

[Edwin & Emma]
J. [Flaxman] Delin. Rob.t Marcuard. scul.t.
Publishd as the Act Directs Feby ye 10 1780 by Geo Durand No 8 Catherine Street Strand.
Scratched letter stipple proof printed in sanguine. Plate 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8), with large margins.
A cottage interior in which Edwin dressed as a monk reaches to embrace Emma disguised as a youth, who sits in front of a fire and turns back towards him, gestures with surprise, while a cat plays with a ball by their feet; the moon visible above the half-door behind to right.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997. BM 1868,0808.2947
[Ref: 60285] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Country Girl Carrying a Present to the Lord of the Manor meets with an unwelcome Reception. [&] The Country Girl Persued by the Mastiffs rescued by the Courage of her Brother.
Painted by R.M. Paye. Engraved by J.no Young, Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Huighness the Prince of Wales.
London, Published Jan.y 1st 1792 by J.no Young, Engraver to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Cockspur St.t.
Pair of very fine & rare mezzotints with large margins. Ea. 630 x 430mm (24¾ x 17").
The Country Girl has dogs set on her as a joke and is rescued by her brother with a club.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28437] £850.00 view all images for this item

Credulous Innocence. [&] Seduction.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London Pub.d Nov.r 5, 1788, by Ia.s Birchall No.473, Strand.
Pair of mezzotints. 506 x 355mm. (20 x 14"). Damage to upper area.
A pair of scenes set in rustic settings: a young woman sitting in a bare interior, unaware of a young man who peers slyly through the window, listening attentively to another woman in tattered clothes with a broad-brimmed hat, who reads her palm; and a young woman wearing a mob cap, shawl and apron, sitting at the door of a thatched cottage, her left arm hooked over the back of her chair, reading a letter. There is a basket upside down beside her, and a bird drinking from a plate on the ground next to it. A young man is seen bribing a second woman behind a tree next to the cottage to the right.
Chaloner Smith: p.1646 [listed]. Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection Sotheby's 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36981] £590.00 view all images for this item

Cupid and Ganymede. From Prior. From the Original Picture, in the Possession of Geo.e Bowles Esq.r.
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. Tho.s Burke fecit.
Publish'd Jan.y 1.st 1784, by Tho.s Burke, Kemp's Row, Chelsea.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. 410 x 310mm (16 x 12¼"), with large margins.
Cupid kneels, covering his face in his hands, compaining to his mother Venus that Ganymede has cheated him out of his arrows with false dice. Ganymede, holding the arrows, protests his innocence.
Alexander 170. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60304] £450.00

[Girl in thought.] [&] [Tearful girl.]
V.M. Picot ex.t
Pub: and Sold Nov.r 21. 1775 by V:M: Picot, No.16, in the Strand, London. a Londre: Ches Picot au No.16 dans le Strand.
Pair of stipples, with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 278 x 228mm (11 x 9"); [&] 290 x 253 (11½ x 10"). Glued to backing sheet at corners; excellent impressions.
A young woman covering herself and looking rather deep in thought; another young girl tearful whilst resting her head on a plinth and looking up towards the heavens. Published (and possibly engraved by) Victor Marie Picot (1744-1802), a French engraver who spent most of his career working in London.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28439] £490.00 view all images for this item

Diana und Endimion. Seiner Excellenz Friederick Frey=herrn von Loë genant Winckelhausen, Sr Chufürstl Dhlt zu Pfalz Bayeren Kämmere, des Pfälzischen Löwen ordens Rittern, general Lieutenant, Inhabern eines Reuter Regiments, Commandierenden general aller in beiden Herzogthümern gulich und Berg befindlichen Trouppen, un Bergischen land Commissarius, &c.&c. ergebenst gewidmet von J Brulliot.
I. Bruillot Prof. Acad. El. Pinx. I.G. Huck sculp.
herausgegeben durch I.G. Huck Dusseldorf den 1. Jan.ry 1788.
Mezzotint. Plate 520 x 336mm. 20½ x 13¼".
Endymion the shepherd, in Greek mythology, seated sleeping with a dog next to him and his staff. The myth of Endymion being not dead by endlessly asleep, ensured that scenes of Selene and Endymion were popular; this later became the moon goddess Diana and Endymion in the Renaissance. See Ref: 20706 for an fine printed colour impression.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 20705] £430.00

Die Andacht. / Wan sich die Gottesfurcht auf schönen Wangen findet, / Und mit der Jugned Flor ein fromes Herz verbindet, / Wird eines solchen Kinds verdienter Ruhm erhöht, / Schaut, eitle Töchter! Schaut, wie dies so schöne Steht. Meditabunda devotio. / Religionis opus pingens clarissima forma, / Inter virgineos fax pietate choros, / Emicat ut fulgens coeli inter sidera luna, / Illustris pietas ecce venusta simul.
I.I. Haid exc. A.V.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Plate 381 x 280mm. 15" x 11". Very fine.
A prayer advocating the fear of God.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9201] £380.00

Die harte Erziehung. / Ein Herz, das Freundlichkeit und Gütigkeit vergist, / Wird mit verstiegnem Stolz kein Herz vernünfftig ziehen, / Die Weißheit weiß gar klug die Härtigkeit zu fliehen, / Ob sie in Wort un Werck gleich scharf und ernstlich ist. Dura educatio. / Dum jucunda fugit prudentis gratia vultus, / Filiolam mater fingere nulla potest. / Evitat duram vigilaris prudential mentem, / Severaque tamen pectoral lege regit.
I.I. Haid exc. A.V.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Plate 381 x 280mm. 15" x 11". Very fine.
A stern mother looks on as her daughter knits. A poem advocating a hard upbringing.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9202] £380.00

[Woman in enormous hat.]
Rob. Dighton pinxit. R. Laurie Fecit.
London: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No 53 Fleet Street, 26 Feb.y 1778, as the Act directs.
Extremely rare mezzotint. 115 x 90mm (4½ x 3½"), with large margins. Uncut; glued to backing sheet along left side.
Decorative mezzotint by engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), after Robert Dighton (1751-1814), draughtsman and singer. After the death of John Collett in 1780, Dighton became the foremost designer of droll mezzotints such as this. As business in the art world declined during the Napoleonic Wars, Dighton began stealing prints from the British Museum, only getting caught after several years of theft.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection and collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in CS.
[Ref: 36691] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman holding quill and letter.]
Rob. Dighton pinxit. R. Laurie Fecit.
London: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No 53 Fleet Street, and J. Smith No 35 Cheapside, as the Act directs, 1st January 1778
Extremely rare mezzotint. 115 x 95mm (4¼ x 3½"), with large margins. Glued to backing sheet at lower left corner.
Decorative mezzotint by engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), after Robert Dighton (1751-1814), draughtsman and singer. Shows a woman holding a letter inscribed 'My Lord Duke' and seemingly contemplating what to write next. After the death of John Collett in 1780, Dighton became the foremost designer of droll mezzotints such as this. As business in the art world declined during the Napoleonic Wars, Dighton began stealing prints from the British Museum, only getting caught after several years of theft.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection and collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in CS.
[Ref: 36690] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Disarming Cupid.
Zucchi del.t. J.Baldrey sculp.t.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1788 by J.Baldrey No.15 Carlisle Street Soho.
Stipple, finely printed in colours. 250 x 230mm (9¾ x 9"), with large margins. Mint.
Four nymphs surround Cupid on a terrace, stealing his bow. An oil by Antonio Zucchi in similar composition, 'Nymphs garlanding Cupid', is in Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire (NT 960273)
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60300] £360.00

Mr. Dodd.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Published as the act Directs July 10th 1779 by W.m Richardson No.68 High Holborn
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Good impression with very large margins, uncut.
The prominent Georgian actor, James William Dodd (1740?-1796), engraved Robert Laurie (1755?-1836) after Robert Dighton (1751-1814), as part of a series of small portraits of actors.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection; CS 1 iii/iii. For individual portraits see refs. 36694-5.
[Ref: 36816] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dutch Peasant.]
A. Brower Pin.t. T. Burke fecit.
[Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 18, 1771, by the Proprietor W.m W. Ryland No. 27, Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare scratch letter proof before title. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease in plate bottom right.
A rustic man, clutching a broken pitcher, giggling.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 54228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edwin & Emma. She came, his cold hand softly touch'd, [/] And bath'd with many a Tear, [/] Fast falling o'er the Primrose pae [/] So morning dews appear, [/] But oh! his sister's jealous care, [/] A cruel Sister she! [/] Forbade what Emma came to say, [/] My Edwin! Live fo me!.
Painted by J. Downman. Engraved by J. Young. Engraver in Mezzotinto to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London. Published Sept.r 30th, 1789 by J. Young, No.23, New Store Street, Bedford Square.
Very fine mezzotint. Platemark: 610 x 485mm. (24 x 19"), with large margins.
Scene from The Ballad of Edwin and Emma, by David Mallet. The sister prevents a discussion between lovers.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28401] £520.00

Fire. From the Original Drawing in the Possession of W. Palmer.
G.B. Cipriani Inveni.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculpi.t.
Publish'd by W. Palmer N.o 163 Strand Oct:r 1784.
Very fine stipple, printed in sepia. 185 x 225mm (7¼ x 8¾"), with large margins. A little spottting mostly in margins.
An allegorical figure of Fire as a woman in classical robe in a cloud, holding fire in her right hand and a salamander in her left. One of the two winged cherubs blows a wind.
De Vesme 611. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60295] £350.00

Nymphe Erigone. Gravée d’Aprés le Tableau Original de Mr. Pierre Premier Peintre du Roy. Du Cabinet de Mr. le Comte de Baudoüin.
J. B. M. Pierre Reg. Ord. Eques Primus Reg. Pictor Pinx. Anna le Fort Sculp.
A Paris chez Chereau rue des Mathurins au coin de celle de Sorbonne. [n.d. c.1750.]
Line engraving. Plate 330 x 438mm. 13" x 17¼". Very fine.
The nymph, Erigone, is mentioned by Statius and Virgil, and figures prominently in the sixth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. She is, in legend, the source of the constellation Virgo.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9204] £320.00

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