Grosvenor Prints

The Beauty unmasked.
[After Henry Morland.]
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer. N.o 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Scarce mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Glued on an album sheet.
A portrait of a young woman, holding a mask in right hand and wearing an ermine-trimmed cloak over a low-necked gown with pearl jewellery and her hair up in a plumed turban with a coil hanging over left shoulder.
[Ref: 60085] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

"Blea Tarn" [in pencil]
H.W. Williamson [inked inside the image]. Horace W Williamson [pencil signature]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Etching. 298 x 371mm. 11¾ x 14½".
Blea Tarn, on the Lake District's innumberable small tarns, occupies a ridge between the Little Langdale Valley and Dungeon Ghyll in Great Langdale. The name blea derives from 'dark blue'.
[Ref: 14370] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Boys Skating. Garçons Patinant.
Painted by G.Morland. Engrav'd by E Scott.
London. Publish'd Dec.r 9th by J.R.Smith, King Street, Covent Garden.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 365 x 425mm. Horizontal crease through title area.
[Ref: 4283] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Favorita Waltz Brazilense Pava Piano Forte Com Acompantiamento de Flauta e Triangulo Dedicada A Sua Altezza Real Principe Regente de Portugal e Brazil Por Pedro Weldon.
London Printed by Goulding, Phipps, D'Almaine & co., Music Sellers to thier Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales, 124 New Bond St & 7 Westmorland St Dublin. [n.d., c.1810.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 195 x 315mm (7¾ x 12½"). Creased. Trimmed.
The cover of a music sheet, showing the arrival of Joao, prince regent of Portugal, in Rio de Janeiro in 1808, having fled Napoleon's invasion of Portugal. The publication line is a later addition
[Ref: 51661] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Brown Norvicencis Chirurgis. Aetatis suae 35 Ano Dom: 1677.
H Morland delin. R White sculp.
[n.d. c.1677
Rare engraving. Plate 159 x 108mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed to the platemark on 2 sides. Small margins on left & right.
Portrait of the surgeon John Browne; half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing long wig, gown, and lace cravat; in oval frame on pedestal; frontispiece to his A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours' (1678). John Browne (1642-c.1700); surgeon to Charles II and William III
[Ref: 52511] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dorothy Brudenell] The Countess of Westmerland.
J Riley pinx: I. Beckett fec.
[n.d., c.1685].
Mezzotint. 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A half-length portrait of Dorothy Brudenell (1650-1740), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cardigan, wife of Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland.
CS 96, state ii of iii, 'Two known'. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65483] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Dorothy Brudenell] The Countess of Westmerland.
[J Riley pinx:] I. Beckett fec.
[n.d., c.1685].
Mezzotint. 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Messy.
A half-length portrait of Dorothy Brudenell (1650-1740), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cardigan, wife of Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland.
CS 96, unlisted state between ii of iii, without either Riley or Smith's names. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65481] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Dorothy Brudenell] The Countess of Westmerland.
[J Riley pinx:] I. Beckett fec.
J. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1685].
Fine mezzotint. 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of Dorothy Brudenell (1650-1740), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cardigan, wife of Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland.
CS 96, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Christie Miller Collection in pencil "Townley" 1277.
[Ref: 65480] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Castle-head, Westmoreland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & C.o. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland S.t. Fitzroy Square, London Feb.y. 1. 1816.
Coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 300 x 230mm (12" x 9").
View across a small inlet of water out to the sea, a large house is situated on the right overlooking the inlet, several people walk along the water fron. Plate 44 from "Voyage Round Great Britain".
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 33894] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Castle-head, Westmoreland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Feb.y, 1, 1816.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A view of a three-storey building next to a wooded rock on a bank to the right, with a row of trees behind. Three figures stand on a pier to the left, with sailing boats at sea in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Childish Amusement.
Painted by G. Moreland. W. Dickinson Execudit.
London, Published June 10:th 1789 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (16 x 13¾"), with large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A rustic man in rustic dress asleep on a bench outside an inn with a tankard beside him. As he sleeps, three children amuse themselves by placing their hat on his head, tying his ankles together and tickling his nose with a piece of straw. A sign reads 'Burton Ale'.
[Ref: 60969] £320.00

The Connoisseur and Tired Boy. (from Morland.)
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop'.
[Ref: 60880] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseur; sometimes called The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.]
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 230 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Trimmed to image.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop.'
[Ref: 11911] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseur; sometimes called The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.]
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured aquatint, excised and glued to album page, set into embossed gold leaf frame. Original guard leaf. Frame 245 x 200mm, 9¾ x 8". Cut around image.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop.'
[Ref: 11912] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair] Plate 1. The Contented Waterman / Plate 2. Jack in the Bilboes. [Plate 1.] From Mr. Dibdin's celebrated Song, call'd My Poll & my partner Joe. My pot was smug, well fill'd my keg, My grunter in the sty. / [Plate 2.] From Mr. Dibdin's celebrated Song, call'd My Poll & my partner Joe. Till woe is me so lubberly, The press gang came and pressed me.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by W. Ward.
Published as the Act directs, Sept. 8. 1806, by James Linnell, No. 2 Streatham Str. Charlotte Str. Bloomsbury.
Pair of mezzotints, very fine colour with large margins & rare; printed in colour. Plate size: 460 x 410mm, 18 x 16" each. Unexamined out of frame.
Plate 1. Subject from Charles Dibdin's 'the Waterman'; a family outside a small house on the waterfront, with a view of the river to left, and a small boat tethered alongside, the waterman standing leaning on the back of a chair upon the seat of which his young daugther leans playing with a doll, his wife seated sewing at left with dog at feet, a young man seated to right, drinking, beside a pig in its sty. Plate 2. A pressgang seizing a waterman on the morning of his wedding day.
Frankau: 71 II of II; 169 II of II.
[Ref: 28093] £950.00 view all images for this item

Credulous Innocence. In baleful whispers see the temper tries. To fill the Maid with prospects fine and gay, Her Lewd invention deals out pleasant lies to lead believing innocence astray.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London Pub.d Nov.r 5, 1788, by Ia.s Birchall No.473, Strand.
Mezzotint. 506 x 355mm. 20 x 14", with wide margins.
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, a child carrying a basket of straw, bundle and water bottle standing beside her, looking towards the viewer, holding onto her mother's skirt.
CS: p.1646 [listed].
[Ref: 26960] £320.00

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

[Dancing Dogs]
J.B. Huet del
Bonnet direx [c.1780]
Rare stipple printed in colours, sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed, left hand corner missing.
Two dogs in human dress dance, supervised by their master. Dancing dogs were a popular street entertainment in the 18th century, and appear in the artwork of many artists, including Carle Vernet and George Morland. By, or perhaps after Jean-Baptiste Huet I (1745-1811), painter and engraver. Huet made his name as an animal painter with his 1769 painting of a dog attacking geese (Paris, Louvre).
[Ref: 39655] £450.00

Delia in the Country. [&] Delia in Town. At length from Town the peerless Maid ... A Blessing Cities cannot give. [&] With beauteous Form and sparkling Eyes ... The Seat of Innocence and Love.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
London publish'd February 12th. 1788, by J.R. Smith No 31, King Street Covent Garden..
Pair of stipples printed in brown ink, ovals, 300 x 260mm. 11¾ x 10¼". Presented in attractive gilt frames, F.B. Daniell labels to versos. Slight toning to 'Delia in Town'; overall fine impressions, platemarks visible.
A rural and urban young lady, the first seated under a tree, in a wide-brimmed hat and lace shawl, reading a book held up in her left hand; the second seated, to left, smiling towards the viewer from beneath a large-brimmed hat with tall plumes, her hands joined and resting on the round table in front of her. Eight lines of verse below titles. After George Morland (1762/3 - 1804).
Frankau 109, II & 110, II. D'Oench 294 & 295.
[Ref: 20551] £950.00 view all images for this item

Dovedale.
Drawn by J. Rathbone. Aquat.a J. Hassell.
Published 1st Sept.r 1788, by J. Hassell Strand.
Sepia aquatint, large margins on 3 sides. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Trimmed just into platemark at bottom.
A rare early aquatint view of Dovedale in the Peak District, Derbyshire, by John Rathbone (c.1750-1807). Born in Cheshire, he exhibited forty-eight landscapes at the Royal Academy 1785-1806. George Morland sometimes collaborated with Rathbone, painting the figures in his landscapes.
[Ref: 31572] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dublin from Sarah's Bridge.
Le Porte del. et Sculpt.
London Publish'd Oct.r 25th 1796 by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Steet.
Coloured etching. Sheet 430 x 580mm (17 x 22¾"). Trimmed within plate, three repaired wormholes.
A rare view of Dublin from Island Bridge, built over the Liffey 1791-3 and originally named after Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland, the wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who laid the first stone on 22 June 1791. It was renamed in 1922. One of a series of Irish views drawn by John Laporte.
Bonar Law: 2.114
[Ref: 54782] £650.00

La Chasse du Canard. [Duck hunting].
Peinte par G. Morland et Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Decembre 1791 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼"). Large margins. Small holes in margins.
A man sitting beside water with a duck in his hands, his rifle resting against tree at left and his dogs at right, one looking up hungrily at the bird. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Ibbetson.
[Ref: 33234] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Morland's Emblematical Palette. Engraved from the original painted for the Society founded by him, called Knights of the Palette, & attached to the ceiling of their Assembly Room, under which each Candidate drank his wine to the Founder's health, & became a member. "Spite of detraction, long envied Name. "Shall grace the annels of Immortal fame." "Vide Collins's Life of G.Morland".
London Published Jan 1 1806 by J.Linnell, Streatham Street, Bloomsbury. Engraved by S.W.Reynolds.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 348 x 397mm. Trimmed to plate.
A painter's palette, with a tobacco box, two pipes and a wine glass.
Whitman: 410. Rx: collection of the the Honorable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6806] £690.00

[Four plates from the 'Histoire d'Angleterre.] L'Impératrice Métilde... [&] Henri II et Rosamonde... [&] Edouard I et Eléonore... [&] Jeanne de Flandre et sons Fils.
G.B. Cipriani del. Dirige par A.Suntach.
[Antonio Suntach, c.1790.]
Four engravings, stitched on left edge. Each c. 240 x 300mm, 9½ x 11¾".
Four scenes from a pirate edition of the series of the 'History of England', showing: the Holy Roman Empress Matilda (1102-67), uncrowned queen of England; her son Henry II (1133-89) with his mistress Rosamund at Woodstock; Edward I (1239-1307), Hammer of the Scots and banisher of the Jews from England in 1290, with his consort Eleanor; and Jeanne of Flanders addressing her supporters with her young son in her arms following the capture of Montford in 1342. Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828) was a reproductive stipple engraver, active in Paris, who produced work after Kauffman and Morland. He published some of his own prints, but specialised in engraving his own versions of the most popular English prints.
[Ref: 16740] £520.00 view all images for this item

[John Fane] Lord Burghersh.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.
London, Publish'd March 1788, by Molteno Colnaghi & Co. 132 Pall Mall.
Stipple in brown. Sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate
John Fane (1784-1859), 11th Earl of Westmorland, as a child, dressed in the feminine style of the period.
De Vesme 770, state v of v.
[Ref: 53432] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Efiges of the right Honnorable Mildmay Earl of Westmorland Baron LeDespencer & Burghersh and Knight of the Bath etc.
JBN Invent [intials in the form of a monogram]. P. Williamson Sculp. 1662.
Engraving. Sheet: 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet at edges.
Portrait of Mildmay Fane, half length in an oval wreath, short beard and moustache, wearing cap, collar and sash; curtain to the left, and map of part of Lincolnshire on the right, below a monogram; at top, banderol with motto 'Patriæ causa principis iussu semper in utrumq[ue] paratus'; in lower left spandrel, troops being led by men on horseback; in lower right spandrel, a town with breached walls against which rest ladders; coat of arms in lower margin, with motto 'Neville Fano'. Milmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, (1602-1665) was an English nobleman, politician and writer.
[Ref: 43069] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Farewell.
Morland Jun.r Pinx.t. Knight Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1786.]
Colour-printed stipple. Sheet: 305 x 305mm (12 x 12"). Trimmed to printed image and laid on French mount board. Title in ink.
A scene in which a young woman waves goodbye to a ship setting sail from a rowing boat. The print was originally called 'Susan's Farewell' when published. American & Australian interest. See 46914.
[Ref: 46707] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Farmers Visit to his married Daughter in Town.
Morland pinx. W. Bond sculp.
London Publish'd May 1.st 1780 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Hand-coloured stipple, printed in colour. 395 x 342mm. 15½ x 13½". Cut inside platemark.
A young woman passing papers to her father at which he looks with dismay, seated at right with glass in hand, her husband sitting beside him at a table, their daughter playing with a dead hare in the left foreground, watched by a dog sitting under the farmer's chair.
[Ref: 28160] £320.00

[Fighting Dogs.]
G.Morland.
[Published Jany 1. 1800 by John P Thompson, Gt Newport Street, London.]
Coloured soft ground etching, 1809 watermark in paper. Printed area 380 x 430mm. Minor tears in margins affecting the publication line.
[Ref: 4288] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Fleecy Charge. Now Shepherds; to your helpless charge be kind ...
G. Moreland Pinx.t. G. Shepheard Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd June 7th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with etching, printed in brown, with hand colour. Sheet 390 x 455mm (15¼ x 18"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, some colour bleed at sides.
The interior of a barn, with a man carrying in a bundle of hay in for his sheep, talking to another who stands by the doorway, through which a snow-covered tree can be seen. This seems to be a colouring guide: it is printed on a progress proof of Robert Freebairn's ''A View of the Bay of Naples, The City of Pozzuoli, the Elysian Fields, the Stygean Lake, and Cape of Miseno'', with the etched outline before the addition of aquatint, so not a commercial printing.
[Ref: 54260] £360.00 view all images for this item

Thomas Bowles, Herald, Sign, House Painter & Gilder; 17 Snow-Hill, London. Paintings and Prints Framed and Glazed, Old Pictures judiciously cleaned. Arms Painted on Vellum. Old Picture frames bought.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Very rare engraved frame label, stuck to canvas backing of a mezzotint dated 1789. Label 70 x 90mm (2¾ x 3½"). Paper browned.
Bowles went bankrupt in 1791. The mezzotint is 'An Ass Race', engraved by William Ward for George Morland,
[Ref: 41325] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

No. 2 Gathering Wood
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by R.M. Meadows
Published Jan. 4 1816 by T. Palser Surrey side Westminster Bridge
Stipple, platemark 450 x 350mm (17¾ x 13¾"). Large margins.
Two children gathering wood. Originally published as a pair with 'Gathering Fruit'. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Later edition of a print first published by J.R. Smith in 1795.
[Ref: 38618] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius III. Magn: Brit: Franc: et Hibern: Rex. Defensor Fidei Dux Brunsv: et Luneb: et Elector. nat: d: 4 Juny. 1738.
Morland Efig: pinx. J: E: Nilson fec: et excud: Aug: Vind.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼''), with large margins.
A portrait of George III (1738-1820) after a painting by Henry Morland.
[Ref: 48645] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Girl and Pigs.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by W.Ward.
London Published Feb.y 28 1802 by S.Morgan No 32. Clipstone Street Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 380 x 455mm. Trimmed to plate at bottom
Frankau 134, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4291] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

To his esteemed Friend Joseph Tarver, of Briddlesford in the Isle of Wight, Esq.re This Print of 'The Death of the Hare' is affectionately dedicated by Thomas Sharpe of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
Lithograph with large margins, very scarce; printed area 210 x 180mm (8¼ x 7"). Slight foxing.
Amateur lithograph. The British Museum cites information suggesting that the image derives from a picture by George Morland.
See BM 1907,0515.82. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35609] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse du Lievre. [Hare hunting].
Peinte par G. Morland et Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Septembre 1791 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple with very large margins. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼"). A fine impression.
A man is preparing his rifle to the left, as his dog smells a hare in the undergrowth at the lower right. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Ibbetson.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 33221] £390.00

Hare Shooting.
G. Morland pinx.t London.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Mixed method engraving. 340 x 370mm. Repaired tear, just touching the title.
[Ref: 4292] £550.00

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E.W. Hasell, Esq.re Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Cumberland & Westmorland. Proof.
Painted by T. Carrick. Engraved by G.H. Phillips.
Published July 1st 1842 by Cha.s Thurnam, Carlisle, and M. Brown, Penrith. Printed by Brooker & Harrison.
Rare proof mezzotint. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"), with large margins.
Colonel Edward Williams Hasell (1796-1872) of Dalemain, Ullswater, although his estates straddled both Cumberland and Westmorland. Shortly after the publication of this portrait he became chairman of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, which opened in 1846.
[Ref: 47696] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Pointer.]
[George Morland.]
[Thomas Vivares.][n.d., c.1800.]
Soft-ground etching. Edmeads & Co 1809 watermark; Sheet: 280 x 370mm (11 x 14½"). Trimmed. Small hole bottom left.
A scene showing a pointer looking into a wood.
[Ref: 47469] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Infant Hercules.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds K.t. Engraved by William Ward Jnr.
London, Published March 1st 1819 by W.Cribb, 13 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. 480 x 380mm. Slight surface soiling.
After Reynolds' painting 'The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents', 1786, now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The engraver is William James Ward (1800-40), son of William Ward, nephew of James Ward and nephew by marriage of George Morland.
[Ref: 4857] £650.00

Plate. 2. Jack in the Bilboes, From M.r Dibdin's celebrated Song, call'd My Poll & my partner Joe. Till woe is me so lubberly, The press gang came and pressed me.
Painted by G.Morland. Engrav'd by W.Ward.
Pub. As the Act directs Sept 19: 1790 by P.Cornman, Great Newport Street.
A very rare mezzotint. 400 x 455mm. Platemark cracked losing margins at top and bottom left; paper age-toned.
A pressgang seizing a waterman on the morning of his wedding day.
Frankau 169; NMM PAH7342 . Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4293] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Kennel. "of the right Honourable Adolphus v.d. Luhe Great Master of the huntsmen in the Service of the Duke of Mecklenburg Suerin." [Letterpress added below title at a later date.]
Design'd by G.Morland. Engrav'd by S.W.Reynolds.
London. Published April 20th 1796 by S.W.Reynolds, No.6. Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. Fine colour printing. Signed in the plate "G. Morland Del." 325 x 375mm. Very fine, unexamined out of frame.
Samuel William Reynolds [1774 - 1835] Produced his first mezzotints in 1794 as a pupil of C. H. Hodges and also John Raphael Smith where he more than likely met George Morland and had the opportunity to engrave the 'Kennel' in 1796. Being among the earliest works by this engraver it is regarded as one of his finest plates.
Whitman:401a. This impression has added letterpress suggesting the dogs belong to the Friedrich Franz Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4296] £650.00

No. 4 The Labourer's Luncheon.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by C. Josi.
Published Jan. 1 1816 by T. Palser Surrey side Westminster Bridge.
Stipple. 450 x 350mm (17¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins. Slight mark on dog.
Two children gathering wood. Originally published as a pair with 'The peasant's repast'. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. He painted large numbers of rustic and smuggling scenes, and regularly spent time in the company of gypsies. Later edition of a print first published by J.R. Smith in 1797.
[Ref: 38619] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Laetitia / The Virtuous Parent.]
[George Morland.] E Leslie Haynes [pencil signature.]
London Published 1908 by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd, 6 Pall Mall S.W. Printed by A. Salmon, Paris.
Mezzotint on india laid paper, proof before title, 440 x 350mm. 17¼ x 13¾".
A young woman wearing a wide brimmed hat with a plume in the centre of a simple interior, where her mother sits on the left, holding up a handkerchief as she laments her daughter who offers a present to her father. The father sits to right, looking away unhappily and throwing out his arms in refusal of the offering; on the wall behind are pictures of 'Virginia' and 'Good Samaritan'. Originally plate 3 to a set of six, 'Laetitia', after George Morland (1762/3 - 1804). Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
Printseller's Association: pg.146.
[Ref: 12366] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Progress of Seduction.]
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by A. Gabriel.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Set of 6 etchings, complete, stitched on left edge. Each plate 280 x 320mm (11 x 12½") Very large margins, uncut. Wear to edges.
"The Progress of Seduction" complete set of six scenes of the downfall and penitence of Lætitia, seduced by a faithless lover. These plates were engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli (1749 - 1817) after the stipples published by John Raphael Smith in 1789. See Ref: 36865 for complete set.
Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. D' Oench 300 copies; Frankau: 214-19
[Ref: 35800] £980.00 view all images for this item

[The Progress of Seduction]
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by A. Gabriel.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Five out of six etchings (lacking plate 3) with large margins. Each plate 280 x 320mm (11 x 12½"). Spotting.
Five out of six scenes from The Progress of Seduction showing the downfall and penitence of Lætitia, seduced by a faithless lover. These plates were engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli (1749 - 1817) after the stipples published by John Raphael Smith in 1789.
D' Oench: 300 copies. Frankau: 214-19
[Ref: 36865] £690.00 view all images for this item

See the Tale of Louisa, in Poems & Essays by the late Miss Bowlder of Bath. / Louisa. While thus with agonizing Sighs They view'd the fatal place, Louisa's mild, yet stedfast Eyes Were fix'd on Henrys face.
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by T. Gaugain.
[London Pub.d April 10th. 1789 by J.R. Smith, No.31, King Street Covt. Garden.]
Stipple. 508 x 387mm. 20 x 15¼". Trimmed into the plate along bottom edge.
Four figures on a shore, a young sailor and old woman at right and a man at right all sitting looking with distress to left, a young woman standing in the centre, holding the hand of the older man and looking with compassion towards the sailor.
[Ref: 19118] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Louisa. My Life! my joy! my only love! A voice at distance cries: That voice her inmost soul could move The starts with wild surprise. [and in French]. [&] While thus with agonizing Sighs They view'd the fatal place, Louisa's mild, yet stedfast Eyes Were fix'd en Henrys face. [and in French.]
Painted by G. Morland. Engrav'd by Aug. Legrand.
a Paris chez Augustin Legrand, rue St. Julien-le-Pauvre No.3. [n.d. c.1780.]
A pair of coloured stipples. 482 x 348mm (19 x 13¾"). Repairs on second image.
A young woman standing on the shore, looking over her right shoulder with dispair as a boat is shipwrecked in stormy waters behind at left, an old veiled woman sitting behind at right, her face obscured by Louisa's hand, point to right. [&] Four figures on a shore, a young sailor and old woman at right and a man at right all sitting looking with distress to left, a young woman standing in the centre, holding the hand of the older man and looking with compassion towards the sailor.
See Ref: 4298 for the same pair but engraved by Gaugain.
[Ref: 29034] £420.00 view all images for this item

See the Tale of Louisa, in Poems & Essays by the late Miss Bowlder of Bath. / Louisa While thus with agonizing Sighs They view'd the fatal place, Louisa's mild, yet steadfast Eyes Were fix'd on Henrys face. Louisa My life! my joy! my only love! A voice at distance cries: That voice her inmost soul could move She starts with wild surprise.
Painted by G.Morland. Engrav'd by T.Gaugin.
London Pubd. April 10th. 1789 by J.R..Smith, No. 31, King Street Covt. Garden.
Pair of stipple engravings, printed in dark sepia. Each plate 495 x 380mm. A minor crease on each plate.
[Ref: 4298] £420.00 view all images for this item

The Lucky Sportsman. [&] The Weary Sportsman.
G. Morland Pinx.t F.D. Soiron sculp.t [&] Wheatley Pinx.t F.D. Soiron Sculp.t
London Pub.d Feb.y 1793 by B. Tabart No.13 Great Newport Street. [&] London Pub.d by I. Rayment No.2 Bride Court Fleet Street.
A pair of hand-coloured stipples. 362 x 291mm (14¼ x 11½"). Cut inside platemark.
In a wood, a man standing at right leaning on his rifle with dog beside him encounters a woman sitting cradling a baby at right, her daughter sitting beside her; [&] At home, a man reclines in his chair with a woman behind carrying a platter and a second woman serving him a drink; on the table lies a hare and two hounds by his feet.
Siltzer: p.190 [&] -.
[Ref: 28185] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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