Grosvenor Prints

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.
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[Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael.]
[Thomas Worlidge after Rembrandt.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching. Plate: 125 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Small margins
A biblical scene showing Abraham casting Hagar and Ishmael out of his hat while Isaac and Sarah watch behind him. After Rembrandt's 1637 etching.
[Ref: 47377] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Prédiction des Anges a Abraham. Gravée d'après le Tableau original d'Alexandre Veronese qui est dans les apartements de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans au Palais Royal.
Alexandre Veronese pinx. / Glairon Mondet Sculp
A Paris chez Beauvarlet graveur du Roy; Rue du Petit Bourbon attenant la Foire St. Germain [c.1790]
Engraving, platemark 320 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"). Very large margins, uncut. Crease in centre.
Abraham standing before the three angels (Genesis 18:2). Engraved after a painting attributed to Veronese artist Alessandro Turchi (1578-1649).
[Ref: 38469] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham offering up his son Isaac]
T Worlidge 1758.
Etching, platemark 190 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"). Trimmed inside platemark; surface loss top right.
Abraham offering up his son Isaac, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, before preventing him from doing so at the last minute, having received proof that he is god-fearing. Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression on wove paper after engraved numbers excised.
State iii/iii; W36; D2
[Ref: 32780] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham offering up his son Isaac]
T Worlidge 1758
Etching, platemark 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"). Ink stains top left and right (possibly to cover up etched numbers 37 and 18); good impression and margins.
Abraham offering up his son Isaac, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, before preventing him from doing so at the last minute, having received proof that he is god-fearing. Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
State i/iii; W36; D2
[Ref: 32777] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

And Isaac said, Behold the Fire & the Wood: But where is the Lamb for a Burnt-offering?
WBaillie inv.t & sculp.t. 1765.
Etching. 175 x 125mm (6¾ x 8¾"), with margins. Chip in left margin.
Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac (Gen. XXII), standing, arms folded, in front of a log pyre, the knife lying on the ground beside him. Isaac holds a bundle of kindling and a torch.
[Ref: 54487] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham offering up his son Isaac.]
T Worlidge 1758
Etching. Plate: 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"), with large margins. Dusty.
Abraham offering up his son Isaac, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, before preventing him from doing so at the last minute, having received proof that he is god-fearing. Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt', a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
W.36.
[Ref: 49743] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Departure of Abram and Lot from Egypt.]
Painted by F. Zuccarelli. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi & W Byrne.
London Publish'd as the act directs Feby: 1st: 1777 by F Bartolozzi No. 1 Bentinck Street Berwick St. Soho, & W. Byrne No 69 Wells Street Oxford St.
Engraving, proof before title, sheet 470 x 560mm. 18½ x 22". Trimmed to and within plate at top.
Figures preparing for a journey, near a pool filled from a waterfall over rocks on the right: two men talking on the left, in front of a laden camel, a woman holding a bundle and a pet dog, another behind her holding a child; a third woman sits to right, helping a child to drink while another child leans against her shoulder, a boy driving livestock towards the water in the centre. In the background a man on horseback followed by others, processing towards a distant town with pyramid. An illustration from the Genesis book of the Bible: following the period spent in Egypt, Abram, Sarai, and his nephew Lot returned to the Bethel-Ai area in Canaan. There they dwelt for some time, their herds increasing, until strife arose between the herdsmen. Abram thereupon proposed to Lot that they should separate, allowing Lot the first choice. Lot took the fertile land lying east of the Jordan River and near to Sodom and Gomorrah, while Abram lived in Canaan, moving south to the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, where he built an altar. After Francesco Zuccarelli (1702 - 1788).
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18269] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Adam] Who am I? or am I? whence did I come?
[London: John Hinton, c.1752.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on right, worm holes in margin.
Adam questions his existance. The frontispiece from The Universal Magazine Vol XXVI, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62375] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.]
JHade fecit [c.1650]
Etching, sheet 185 x 270mm (7¼ x 10½"). Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
Adam and Eve surrounded by animals including a lion, deer and a turkey.
[Ref: 47304] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Adam, Eve and the Archangel Gabriel.]
[T. Stothard Pinx.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t]
[London, Published 15. Sept.r 1795, by J. Jeffryes ...]
Stipple. Proof before all letters. 490 x 317mm. 19¼ x 12½".
Adam seated facing Eve who holds a melon in her right hand with her left hand outstretched plucking a bunch of grapes from the vine; the Archangel Gabriel sits behind a basket of fruits.
De Vesme: 1763; i/iii.
[Ref: 21222] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Adorazione de Re Magi. Tavola in Legno di Baldasar Peruzzi alta B.a 4.?. larga B.a 4. Scarse. XXXVI.
Carlo Bozzolini dis. Carlo Lasinio fece all'acqua forte Matteo Carboni termino a bulino.
[published by N. Pagni & G. Bardi, c.1791-5]
Etching and engraving, with large margins. Plate 398 x 280mm. 15¾ x 11". Nicks and tears to margins; creasing; soiling.
The Adoration of the Magi; the three Magi having found Jesus present their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, and worship him. After Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536). Plate from Lastri's 'L'Etruria pittrice' (2 vols, Florence 1791-5).
[Ref: 27309] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[King Ahasuerus & Queen Esther]
Guercino inv. Bartolozzi Sculp. [c.1790]
Etching printed in brown ink, platemark 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼") very large margins.
Two of the main personalities in the Book of Esther, one of the books of the Ketuvim ('Writings') of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Etching after a drawing by Guercino, by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. From a portfolio of eighty-two prints by Bartolozzi after drawings by Guercino in the Royal Collection.
Calabi and De Vesme 2143; for later state see ref. 21218.
[Ref: 44148] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Spirit of A Child Arrived In The Presence Of The Almighty. And the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them/ and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters Rev. Chap. VII. Ver: 17.
Painted by the Revd. Wm. Peters R.A. Engraved by Benjn. Smith.
London. Publishd by Boydell & Co. Cheapside [n.d., c.1800].
Stipple and etching, 440 x 315mm (17¼ x 12½"). Slightly soiled; water stain to upper right, crease through lower left..
An angel, clothed in swirling draperies with a palm in its right hand, ascends upwards with a child at its side. After Rev Matthew William Peters (1742 - 1814), partner to 'Of such is the kingdom of God'. The artist is Matthew William Peters (1742-1814), most famous for his provocative painting of a courtesan (known as 'Lydia' in the mezzotint copy). He came to regret his choice of subject, as he was ordained in 1781, becoming the Royal Academy's chaplain (1784-8), then chaplain to the Prince of Wales.
For a coloured impression see ref. 27565; Lady Victoria Manners' 'Matthew William Peters, R.A.' p.65
[Ref: 10375] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Angel and Tobias. No.7. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Benj.n West, Esq.r P.R.A. to whom this plate is Inscribed by his Obliged & Obedient Servant J. Powell.
Painted by Salvator Rosa. Etch’d by J. Powell.
London, Published May 1st.1815, by J. Powell, 32, Great Portland Street & Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street.
Fine engraving, laid on india. Plate 427 x 558mm (16¾ x 22"). Nicks, tears and creasing to the edges of the paper.
Rocky landscape with at centre Tobias pulling a large fish out of the river whilst listening to the angel.
[Ref: 28477] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[An angel in flight.]
J. Van somer fe 1616. F. le Wit Excudit.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Mezzotint. Plate 215 x 267mm. 8½ x 10½". Vertical creasing through the centre.
An angel in flight pointing to far left, a man collapsed looks up holding his heart.
[Ref: 16280] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[A Group of Angels in Glory]
[After Luca Cambiaso, c.1610]
Etching, sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark, glued to backing sheet.
Anonymous seventeenth century etching, probably copied from an etching by Guido Reni (reversing and simplifying the upper part of the composition). Reni's etching was itself based upon a design by Luca Cambiaso (1527-85), the leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century and founder of the Genoese school.
[Ref: 40789] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Annunciation.]
Warner [Joseph Werner] delin. Lens fe:
E. Cooper ex [n.d., c.1690.]
Scarce Mezzotint. 130 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Thread margins.
The archangel Gabriel informs Mary that she would bear Jesus through a virgin birth. A dove representing the Holy Spirit is bathed in light.
See 1870,0514.2755 for a matching scene of the Holy Family in the stable.
[Ref: 60135] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Opus quod in æde Viginis Deiparæ Annunciatæ Collegii Romam societatis IESW. Federicus Zuccarus S. Angeki in Vado ad Ripas Mitauri perfecit æneis tabellis expressum. Ioannes sadeler excud: Coloniæ Agrippa: A.D. MDLXXX.
Raphael Sadeler sculpsit Ætatis suæ. 19.
In Venetia Stefano Scolari Forma a S. Zulian. [1580.]
Engraving. Sheet: 300 x 440mm (11¾ x 17¼''). Trimmed, creased, stained & damaged.
A scene set under an arch, an angel, holding a rose announces to the Virgin that she will be the mother of the messiah, above her are hoards of angels and around her are the saints. Engraved by Raphael Sadeler I (1560-1632).
[Ref: 49724] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Babia Refusing Sacrifice.] All Ill.mo Sig. et Pron. Col.mo Il Sig. Marcello Sacchetti. Ill.mo Sig.nel presente folgio, chi io ho...
In Roma li 20 di Decembre 1626. Gio. Batta Mercati F.
Superior pmissu. [1626.]
Engraving. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Trimmed.
A religious scene showing St. Babia refusing to make sacrifices to the pagan dieties.
[Ref: 49735] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Daughters of Jerusalem Weeping. Psalm. CXXXVII. 1.2.
J. Martin PX. T. Williams SC.
[n.d., c.1834.]
Wood engraving. Printed area 80 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼") large margins.
Israelite women at the waters of Babylon, after John Martin.
[Ref: 39945] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Belshazzar's Feast.
John Bull [John Martin] 1821.
Rare etching. Sheet size: 145 x 200mm (5¾ x 8"). Central vertical crease where folded as published.
A pamphlet etching inscribed 'John Bull 1821' (changed to from John Martin) which gave information, with arrow lines to guide the eye in sequence, to 28 of the various features of the biblical scene. William Collins, in whose glass factory Martin had worked from 1809 - 1811, sold the pamphlet whilst the original painting was exhibited at his premises. Collins changed the signature from 'J. Martin' to 'John Bull', the personification of the 'true' Englishman, representing the artist's patriotism.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The Prints of John Martin: Clark.
[Ref: 39571] £360.00

Johannes est nomen eius. 7.
Andrea del Sarto pinxit. Camillus Tinit sculpsit Romae 1771.
Florentiae in Aede vulgo della Compagnia della Scalzo.
Engraving. Plate 292 x 432mm (11½ x 17"). Water staining to left edge; creasing and tears. Bit messy.
The birth of St John the Baptist, with St Elizabeth on the right sitting in her bed dictating the child's name to Zacharias who is sitting by her side; a servant carrying the infant Baptist stands at centre with two more to the left. After the fresco by Andrea del Sarto for the Chiostro dell Scalzo, Florence. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 31005] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Nativitas Gloriosae Virginis Mariae
Anibal Caracci Inven. R.V. Auden Aerd Sculp.
Romae Apud Iacobum Frey an. 1728 Cum privil Sumni Pont. Et Regis Christianissimi
Fine copper engraving, large margins, 590 x 340mm (23¼ x 13½") to platemark. Central fold as issued.
The birth of the Virgin, from Carracci's painting now in the Louvre.
[Ref: 19706] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Birth of the Virgin. From the Original Picture Painted by Pietro da Cortona in the Collection of Robt. Cary Esqr. Size of the Picture 1F. 8½I by 2F. 5I in height. Vol. II. No.28.
Pietro da Cortona Pinxt. Joan: Baptista de Cipriani del. Carlo Fauccij Sculpt.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1768.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 489 x 342mm (19¼ x 13½"). Very large margins.
Birth of the virgin; after the painting from the Chiesa Nuova of Perugia (now Pinacoteca Perugia).
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38253] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Blind Leading the Blind. From the Original Picture of the same size, Painted by Jacopo Robusti, commonly called Tentoretto; In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield.
Tentoretto pinxit. Gab.l Smith sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit, London, 1767.
Engraving. Platemark: 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Very large margins.
A group of three blind figures, walking on a hill to the left. The leading figure takes the hand of an elderly man,, both men with staffs and hats, as a boy follows behind. A dog is chained to a cup hung at the elderly man's hip. A landscape view in seen in the background.
Ex: Collection of Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 39475] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Adam and Eve Mourning Abel.] Hornâ fruge Cain lectoque aram imbuit agno...
A. Blomaert inv.
[n.d, c.1605.]
Engraving. Sheet: 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾''). Trimmed.
A biblical scene showing Adam and Eve mourning over the body of Abel, in the background Cain is shown killing Abel amd in the far right Cain is shown running away. A reverse copy of an 1604 Jan Saenredam engraving after Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651).
[Ref: 49734] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Christ's Charge to Peter. [parallel text in Latin]
Raphael d'Urbin pinx.t
London. Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark approx 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾").
One from a set of seven mezzotints reproducing Raphael's cartoons, commissioned by Pope Leo X as designs for a set of large designs for tapestries to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel. In 1623 the seven cartoons, depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, were brought to England by Charles I. They were long displayed at Hampton Court and various engravings such as these in the 18th century reinforced the reputation of the cartoons as some of the most significant artworks in the country. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, where they are permanently displayed together.
For the full set of seven, see ref. 34028. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34029] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Mocking our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And when they had platted a Crown of Thorns, they put it upon his head, and a Reed in his right hand [...]
Published 16 June 1795 by Haines & Son, 19 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London
Mezzotint, rare, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Christ taunted by soldiers placing crown of thorns on his head and offering him a reed. Mezzotint droll after the painting by Anthony van Dyck formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (but destroyed); another version with a dog is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. William Faithorne also engraved two plates after the composition.
[Ref: 43152] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Deus Benedicta Me e.r Operamea. Fabrica d'Seda è Organisi. Soprafinissimi d'Gio: Batti.a Maffeis d'Bergamo.
Giuseppe dalla Via scul.
Engraving. Sheet: 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Crease. Trimmed.
A scene showing figures in the fires of Hell being recused by an angel while Christ, holding a cross which says ' I am the lamb of God', watches over. Perhaps a religious souvenir?
[Ref: 46208] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Jesus Disputing in the Temple. And all that heard him were astonished at this Understanding and Answers. / Luke II. ver. 47.
London printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 8 June 1775.
Mezzotint and etching with small margins. Platemark: 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9½").
Christ, as a young boy standing on a dais, pointing upwards and gesturing as he speaks to the Jewish elders in the synagogue, while they sit rapt with attention all around. The Virgin and St Joseph appear in the background to right.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32129] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ecce Homo.
[Engraved by Jean Baptiste Poilly?]
A Paris, chex Jean, rue St Jean de Beauvais, No 10 [n.d., c.1800].
Engraving. 430 x 350mm (17 x 13¾"), with large margins. Surface soiling, tear in edge of right margin.
A scene in oval of Christ carrying the cross, wearing the crown of thorns, with Mary Magdalene helping him bear the weight of the cross. A pencil note suggests Poilly as the engraver.
[Ref: 57862] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Denieth Christ. St Luke XX. 1. 55.
J. Martin PX. F.W. Branston SC.
[n.d., c.1834.]
Wood engraving. Printed area 80 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼") large margins.
Peter denying Christ after his arrest.
[Ref: 39949] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Birth of Christ. And again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the Worl he saith & let all the Angels of God worship him. / Heb. Ch. I. ver. 6.
London, printed for Rob.t Sayer ap & Printseller No.53 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint with etching and small margins. Platemark: 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9½").
A nativity scene. The Virgin Mary, sitting on straw by the manger, lifts a cloth around the infant Jesus who is lying in front of her.Two angels kneel to the right, while St Joseph stands watching on the left, one arm on a ledge, the other at his chest. An ox and ass can be seen on the left and three cherubs appear in clouds in upper right.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32127] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Woman taken in Adultery, brought before Christ. They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. John c8, v4. / From an original Painting in His Majesty's Collection, at Hampton Court Palace
Sebastianus Ricci, pinxt. J.M. Loitard, sculpt.
London, Published by Freeman & Co No. 95, corner of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, Ap.l 1 1792
Rare engraving, sheet 530 x 425mm (21 x 16¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Reissue of a plate first published c.1735-43, as part of a set of eight engraving after Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) in the collection of Joseph Smith., English collector and patron based in Venice who also had a long association with Canaletto. By the time this plate was published in 1792 the painting was already in the Royal Collection, where it remains to this day (although it currently hangs at Osterley). One of few prints after Ricci, an itinerant Italian artist whose career took him all over Europe, including time spent in England.
[Ref: 38591] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Child Christ defeating the demon.] Per mortem destrucit eum qui babebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum. Hebr. 2.
D. Hallé pinxit. G.E. delinck Sculp.
a Paris chez P. Drevet rue St jâque à l'Annonciation.
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 530mm (17¼ x 20¾"). Trimmed within platemark, horizontal centre fold. Occasional foxing.
Christ stabbing the dragon-devil with the heel of his crozier, his right hand raised in the sign of the benediction. Around them are the heads and wings of the cherubim. The print was engraved by Gérard Edelinck after Daniel Hallé and published by Pierre Drevet. Pencil mss. on the reverse notes this as a frontispiece to the Bible's Epistles to the Hebrews: the quote comes from Hebrews 2 and means 'through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil'.
BM: X,6.4. Robert Dumesnil VII 186-16 Undescribed State.
[Ref: 33781] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Christ's Entry into Jerusalem. Matt. XXI. 3.
J. Martin PX. W.J. Linton SC.
[n.d., c.1834.]
Wood engraving. Printed area 80 x 110mm (3¼ x 4¼") large margins.
Christ riding the donkey up to the city gates.
[Ref: 39947] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Presentatio B.M.V. ad Templum.
Piazzetta inv. F. Bartolozzi sc.
Ap. T.Viero Ven.us. [n.d. c.1760.]
Etching and engraving. Plate 140 x 94mm. 5½ x 3¾". Trimmed very close to the plate.
The presentation in the temple. At the altar the new-born Christ is presented to the priest.
De Vesme: 36; ii/ii.
[Ref: 21221] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Christ Appearing to Mary in the Garden. From the Original Picture Painted by Pietro da Cortona, in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford, at Houghton.
Pietro da Cortona Pinxit. W.m Walker Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1766.
Engraving. Platemark: 305 x 245mm (12 x 9¾"). Very large margins.
Christ standing in a garden holding a staff, looking down at Mary Magdalen who kneels distraught to his left. He is turned away pointing to the right.
Ex: Collection of Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 39472] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ as the Good Shepherd] Ego sum Pastor Bonus.
C. pre S.C.M. M. de vos inventit: Raphael Sadeler fec: Monarchij [c.1580]
Engraving, 16th century watermark; platemark 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Small margins.
Christ carrying a sheep, after design by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603), Flemish painter and draughtsman.
[Ref: 46385] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ carrying the cross] Si quelqu'un veut venir apres moy, qu'il renonce a luy meme, et qu'il prenne sa Croix et me suive [...]
C. le Brun pinx. P. Picault Sculp. C.P.R.
A Anvers chez C. Vermeulen et a Paris chez B. Picart rue St. Jacques au Buste de Monseigneur [c.1785]
Engraving, platemark 435 x 550mm (17 x 21½"). Crease in centre as normal. Small margins.
Large engraving after painting (now in the Louvre) by Charles Le Brun (1619-90), most famous for painting the ceilings of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), Versailles. According to Louis XIV Le Brun was 'the greatest French artist of all time'.
[Ref: 43149] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Flagellation of Christ] O scelus; o pietas qui fers haec verbera Verbum? Erga te summus ferre coegit amor [...]
Christoff Swartz Monachiens pinxit Elias va den bosche sculp
Peter Overradt excudit [c.1610]
Engraving, pencil drawing verso; platemark 285 x 180mm (11¼ x 7"). Thread margins; staining. Later impression.
The Flagellation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ which precedes the Mocking of Christ and the Crowning with Thorns. Engraved by Elias van den Bossche (c.1594-1613, fl.) after Christoph Schwarz (1548-92), Munich-based painter and draughtsman who became the Bavarian court's foremost painter of religious pictures during the reign of Duke William V. Probably a reduced copy of a scene first engraved by Jan Sadeler I as part of his Passion after Schwarz.
[Ref: 39406] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Christ healing the Impotent Man at the Pool of Bethesda Now there is at Jerusalem by the Sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porches. John c5, v2.
Sebastianus Ricci, pinxt. J.M. Liotard, sculpt.
London, Published by Freeman & Co No. 95, corner of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, Ap.l 1 1792
Rare engraving, sheet 530 x 425mm (21 x 16¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Reissue of a plate first published c.1735-43, as part of a set of eight engraving after Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) in the collection of Joseph Smith., English collector and patron based in Venice who also had a long association with Canaletto. By the time this plate was published in 1792 the painting was already in the Royal Collection, where it remains to this day (although it currently hangs at Osterley). One of few prints after Ricci, an itinerant Italian artist whose career took him all over Europe, including time spent in England.
[Ref: 38592] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ healing the sick] 4 [top left]
T.W. 1758 [Thomas Worlidge after Rembrandt, published November 1758]
Etching, 275 x 390mm (10¾ x 15½"). Fine impression printed in brown; thread margins; glued to backing sheet at corners, stain, one small hole top centre.
Thomas Worlidge's (1700-66) copy of Rembrandt's famous 'hundred guilder print', depicting Christ healing the sick and debating with the Pharisees. Its sobriquet originated with a story that Rembrandt himself had to pay this (then exorbitant) price to buy back an impression. Since Rembrant etched his plate in 1648 it was celebrated as his most complex and ambitious print, and its masterful lighting compared with his 'Night Watch'. Its lasting influence in England is demonstrated by both Worlidge's attempt to take up the challenge of emulating Rembrandt, and by Captain William Baillie's notorious reissuing of the (heavily-worked) original plate. Posthumous impression: after Worlidge's death, his prints were republished by his widow with numbers added in the plate corners to correspond with her 1767 sale catalogue of Worlidge prints. The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge (1700-66) was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
State iii/iii; W4; D54.
[Ref: 32729] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

In the Collection of Richd: Richardson Esqr. from St. John Chap. 4. V. 46.
Francisco Mielly Pinxt. Chatelin et Vivares Sculp.
Publish'd by F. Vivares June 2d. 1749.
Etching, 430 x 505mm. 17 x 19¾".
Christ walking with his disciples, meeting the centurion's servant on the road half-way to Capernaum. A city at the foot of a mountain in the background to right, overlooking a river, and a family walking by the river, turning to look. After Italian painter Francesco Mielly (fl.1750). Numbered 'No.1' lower right.
[Ref: 11494] £360.00

[The Placing of Christ in the Sepulchre.]
L. Caracci pinxit. Va. Green fecit.
Published March 25.th 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint with large margins. Plate 508 x 369mm (20 x 14½") Damaged; repaired tear to lower left of image.
The dead Christ, propped in a sitting position in a landscape, with St John leaning inwards on the left holding a torch, the Magdalen crouching on the right, dipping one hand into a pot of ointment to anoint the body, the Virgin behind, clasping her hands together in sorrow, and Joseph of Arimathea standing beside a cherub on the right.
From Houghton Gallery. Ref: Whitman 188.
[Ref: 31115] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Christ Preaching To The Doctors.
Published by Reeve & Jones No.7 Vere Street, Bond Street, Novr. 1st. 1808.
Mezzotint with etching in sepia, image 460 x 295mm. 18 x 11½". Trimmed within plate. Stain into image upper left.
Representation of the first time Christ preached, at around 12 years old, when he preached to the doctors in the temple.
[Ref: 8873] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ Shown to the People] Purpurea quid opus ueste? he num cernis ur illi / Onmia purpureo membra cruore rubenr.t
Callot f [in image; c.1620]
Engraving, platemark 110 x 215mm (4¼ x 8½"). Glued to Album sheet at margins.
Plate from a set by Jacques Callot depicting episodes from the Passion, designed in Florence and engraved between 1619 and 1624. There are seven plates in the set, although preparatory drawings suggest the engraver originally planned more. Callot (1592-1635) was one of the greatest seventeenth century printmakers, bringing combining elegance and (in his 'Miseries and Misfortunes of War') grotesquerie.
[Ref: 46004] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christ Tempted in the Desert. To His Most Serene Highness Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine, Reigning Duke of Bavaria, &c. &c. &c., This Plate Engraved by His Gracious Permission from the Original Picture in the Electoral Gallery of Dusseldorf, is Dedicated by His Most Devoted and Obedient Humble Servants Valentine Green, Rupert Green. In Mons.r Pigage's Catalogue of the Dusseldorf Gallery this Subject is no 153.
Painted by Luca Giordano. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine.
Published July 1st, 1797 by V. & R. Green, No 14, Percy-Street London.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand finished, scarce. 640 x 425mm (25¼ x 15¾"), watermarked 'HS & S 1822' very large margins. Nicks in edges of wide margins.
The devil, dressed as a Franciscan monk with bare, clawed feet, holds out bread to Jesus Christ. Valentine Green (1739-1813) was granted exclusive rights to publish engravings of the pictures in the Duke of Bavaria's Düsseldorf gallery in 1789. After publishing more than twenty plates the siege of Düsseldorf by the French put an end to the project and caused him losses that contributed to his bankruptcy in 1798. His son Rupert (c.1767-1804) worked with him between 1785 and 1798.
[Ref: 47706] £420.00

Christi Praecursor Ioannes.
a Titiano pictus Venetijs, in SS. aedibus D. M.ae Majoris.
[n.d. c.1691.]
Etching and engraving, large margins. Plate 286 x 216mm (11¼ x 8½"). Creasing.
St John the Baptist standing in a rock landscape, his right hand pointing to the left, a lamb at his feet. From Patin's "Tabellae selectae ac explicatae"; a series of forty-three plates, representing patinting, published as a book in Padua, 1691. After the painting by Titian, now in the Accademia, Venice.
[Ref: 31085] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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