Grosvenor Prints

[An alchemist at work.]
[Engraved by Pierre Chenu after Thomas Wyck.]
[Paris, Chenu? n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, fine proof before letters, very scarce. 430 x 520mm (17 x 20½" Tear entering image on left.
An alchemist at work at a furnace, his books on a stool. His wife and children sit to one side, and one assistant rummages in a cupboard, another watching. Thomas Wyck (or 'Wijck', 1616-77) was a Flemish painter whose interiors are said to have influenced Thomas Wright of Derby. Alchemy was a subject he returned to frequently. A pre-Fire prospect of London by Wyck is in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.
[Ref: 34375] £450.00

[Christ and the Apostles.]
[After Raphael. Engraved by Marcantonio.] Ant Sal Exc.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Twelve copper engravings. 210 x 145mm. 8¼ x 5¾". Some soiling, dirt stained. Trimmed and laid on separate album sheets and bound at the top with string.
Twelve plates (of 14) representing Christ and the Apostles, after Raphael and Published by De Wit and Antonio Salamanca. This is a copy in reverse engraved by Marcantonio. The preparatory drawings are held at Chatsworth. The designs were also replicated in fresco on the pilasters of the church of S. Vincenzo and Anastasio alle Tre Fontane in Rome, and have been linked by Harprath to the designs used for the silver statuettes commissioned c.1518 by Leo X for the altar of the Sistine Chapel; these have since been lost. The first of the series is that of Christ, the only one published by Antonio Salamanca. The Apostles included in this set are: Petrus, Andreas, Jacobus Major, Joannes, Thomas, Philippus, Bartholomeus, Matheus, Simon, Thadeus, and Mathias.
BM: V,5.62 [V,5.76]; V,5.63; V,5.65-V,5.74.
[Ref: 16757] £950.00 view all images for this item

Ludovicus Caraccius Bonon. In Ecclesia Orph. D. Bartholomaei Pinxit.
Joseph de Crispis delin. Ludovicus Matthiolus incidit.
[n.d. c.1730.]
Etching; laid on 18th century Album sheet. Plate 400 x 305mm. 15¾ x 12".
The Circumcision, after Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619). One of the group of etchings signed by Mattioli that Bartsch categorically states are by Crespi.
[Ref: 26535] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Concert.]
Peint par Giorgion. Grave a Dresde par Stoelzel.
Dessine par Vignaud le Jne. [n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. Image 310 x 350mm. 12¼ x 13¾".
A depiction of Titian's "The Concert" attributed to Giorgione. Giorgio Vasari claimed that Giorgione was Titian's master thus demonstrating the close association and confusion behind said image as to who was the true artist.
[Ref: 13931] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Ier Corps de Garde.][in ink]
F. Boucher del. Huquier filius sculp.
[AParis chés Buldet rue de Gesvres.] [n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked, working proof ?. Plate 355 x 228mm. 14 x 9". Trimmed.
Five guards gathered around a drum, playing dice, in a wooded landscape with bas-relief in the background.
[Ref: 27699] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

II.e Corps de Garde.
F. Boucher del. Huquier filius sculp.
Aparis, chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres. [n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 228mm. 14 x 9". Trimmed.
Five guards conversing in a room, one of them holding a bottle; drum, flag and quiver in the background.
[Ref: 27700] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Arras]
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
[Published by Israel Henriot, c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 123mm (2? x 4?"). Glued to backing sheet, slight staining on right.
Attack on a besieged town, which Massar identifies as Arras which was taken by the French in 1640. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 256 ii/iii. For another etching of this siege by Della Bella, see ref. 23780.
[Ref: 23778] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers playing at cards]
Stef. Della Bella. In.et F.
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 124mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet.
Four soldiers seemingly playing at cards while a sentinel watches them. A cannon mounted on its carriage to left, an encampment to right. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 254 ii/iii
[Ref: 23774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier pointing a cannon]
Stef. Della Bella. In.et F.
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet. Number '10' scratched out bottom right.
A soldier pointing a cannon under the surveillance of an officer standing to his right. In the background other soldiers carrying out exercises. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 255 ii/iii
[Ref: 23777] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cannon with two soldiers sat on its carriage]
S.D. la Bella fecit.
F.L.D. Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis
Etching, 89 x 143mm (3½ x 5?").
Cannon in foreground with ruins behind, and a town in the distance. From a set of six 'Varii capricci militari' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 259
[Ref: 23787] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Carriage at rest]
SD Bella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, top left corner missing, slight staining.
A loaded carriage at rest. The two horses eat the grass while the carriage driver sleeps on the ground next to a dog. Encampment in background with a town in the distance. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 253 ii/iii
[Ref: 23773] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cavaliers crossing a river at a ford]
SDBella f.
Israel ex [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 127mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet. '5' in manuscript bottom left after having been scratched out.
One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 250 ii/iii
[Ref: 23770] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Conversation]
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
Israel ex.
Etching, 73 x 107mm (2? x 4?"). Glued to backing sheet.
Conversation amongst men and women seated on the ground, in the countryside, with other figures left and right. From a set of thirteen etchings of an 'Agréable diversité de figures' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) and published in Paris by Israel Henriet in 1642.
de Vesme/Massar: 123- intermediate state between De Vesme's ii and iii/v.
[Ref: 23782] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two soldiers talking]
SDBella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, bottom right corner missing.
Two soldiers standing to left, on the right a dead horse which two wolves are starting to eat. A corps of lancers in the background. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 252 ii/iii
[Ref: 23772] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a young woman, hair tied back, looking left.] 11.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6), with C17th watermark. One very small wormhole bottom right. Slight crease top left. Small margins.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 374, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58183] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a boy with curly hair, bare shouldered, looking right.] 12.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6), with C17th watermark. Mark middle right. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 375, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58184] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a boy with straight hair, with high collar, looking right.] 13.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6), with C17th watermark. One very small wormhole, bottom right, in unprinted area, crease. Small margins.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 376, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58185] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a bearded old man, looking right.] 19.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾), with C17th watermark. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right. Very slight marking near head on left.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 382, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a bearded old man, with laurel wreath and fur collar, looking left.] 20.
S. D Bella invent et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾), with C17th watermark. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 383, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58182] £350.00

[Hungarian Horseman.]
S.D. Bella.
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching, plate 190 x 180mm (7½ x 7") with small margins. Some horizontal creases.
A round composition of a Hungarian horseman, with a horseman behind on each side and two men on foot behind at centre. From a series of eleven etchings of cavaliers by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), none of which carry a publication line.
De Vesme/Massar: 279.
[Ref: 59003] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Veue des Costes d'Italie.
S.D. Bella inventit et fecit
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [1647]
Etching, 88 x 137mm (3½ x 5?"). Glued to backing sheet, '12' in manuscript bottom right corner, lower margin trimmed.
The Italian Coast: four men play cards in the centre while another two watch them, prow of a boat on left, and a tower on the right. From a series of eight etchings of sea ports by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 801
[Ref: 24014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The infant John the Baptist.]
Stef de la Bella fecit.
Cum privilegio Regis. Mariette excudit [n.d., c.1641].
Etching. 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"), with C17th watermark. Small margins.
The infant John the Baptist, holding a crossed staff with banner, a lamb by his side.
De Vesme 24, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 58186] £460.00

Varij Capricij Militarij di Stef. Della Bella
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
[Published by Basan]
Etching, 90 x 144mm (3½ x 5?").
An army on the move, with a dead horse in the foreground. First of a set of six etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 258 iii or iv/iv
[Ref: 23784] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Paisages Maritimes. Faicts par S.D. Bella et Mis en lumiere par Israel.
S.D. Bella in. et fc.
Israel ex. cum privil Regis. [n.d., c.1644]
Seven etched sheets. Title 76 x 141mm (3 x 5½"), remaining plates all approx. 74 x 126mm (2? x 5"). Glued in corners to backing sheets. Some plates numbered in pen and ink lower right.
Complete set of six marine landscapes and title page by Stefano Della Bella (1610-54) and published by Israel Henriet, who also published Jacques Callot's prints.
de Vesme/Massar: 787-793 i/ii.
[Ref: 23733] £650.00 view all images for this item

Montjoye Saint Denis Roy, D'Armes de France.
S. de la Bella fecit [etched by Della Bella, engraving by Jean Couvay].
Van Merle [Paris, n.d., c.1650].
Etching with engraving. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A full length portrait of the King of Arms of France in full costume, with the funeral procession of a French prince at Saint-Denis in the background.
De Vesme 38, intermediate state between ii & iii.
[Ref: 58187] £580.00

[The Aveunue of Fountains, Pratolino]
S. D. Bella [n.d., c.1650-56]
Etching, platemark 255 x 375mm (10 x 14¾")
One from the set of six views that Stefano della Bella (1610-64) produced of the villa at Pratolino, near Florence. Built for Francesco I de'Medici in the sixteenth century, the villa was praised by Montaigne, amongst others. This view shows the spectacular path from the garden to the villa, along which the visitor walks beneath a succession of fountain jets. After being left unattended for much of the eighteenth century, the villa was demolished in 1820 and the garden was redesigned. It is now part of the Villa Demidoff, as it was named by a Russian industrialist who owned the site in the nineteenth century.
De Vesme 839 ii/iii
[Ref: 31936] £320.00

Desseins de Quelques Conduites de troupes, Canons, et ataques de villes; faictes Par de la Belle. Dediées a Mon Seigneur Henry Du Plesseys Conte De La Roche-Guyon. Par son tres humble Serviteur Israel. Avec Privilege u Roy.
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella].
[Published by Israel Henriet, c.1644]
Etching, 60 x 127mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet.
Frontispiece to a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), with the title written on a drape, beneath which can be seen the coat of arms of the dedicatee.
de Vesme/Massar: 264
[Ref: 23764] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier leaning against cannon]
S.D. la Bella fecit.
F.L.D. Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis
Etching, 92 x 142mm (3½ x 5 17½").
Soldier with pike leaning against wheel of a cannon inforeground. Behind him more soldiers and another cannon, and a windmill centre right. From a set of six 'Varii capricci militari' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 262
[Ref: 23789] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Carro de Deana.
Excudebat Ant Salamanca MDXLI.
Engraving, sheet 310 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"), with good margins. Laid on album paper, slightly foxed and scuffed on margins, pin holes on corners.
In an oval plate, Diana sits in her chariot with two companions, being drawn through the sky above towns and the sea by two dogs.
Bartsch XV.39.9. TIB 2801.045.
[Ref: 59610] £480.00

[The Harrowing of Hell.]
[Anon. after Albrecht Dürer, c.1650.]
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Top right corner missing, damaged. Thread margins.
Copy of Albrecht Dürer's (1471-1528) woodcut 'The Harrowing of Hell' from his small woodcut passion series of 1510-11. Dürer's series told the story of Man's Salvation from the Fall to the Last Judgement, in 37 images. It was published in a book with a text by a Nuremberg Benedictine monk, evolving a new kind of book in which the pictures were the main element.
[Ref: 41706] £320.00

[Flora.]
IV. Bonaso. F. Ant. Lafrery Romae. [after Giulio Romano.]
[n.d. c.1560.]
Engraving. 336 x 432mm (13¼ x 17"). Trimmed; staining towards top.
Flora passing to another woman a wreath, set within a garden with various male and female figures.
[Ref: 29420] £360.00

Going to Market.
T: Gainsborough. I: Ogborne Sculp.
Pub: by I: Ogborne No 58 Great Portland St. [n.d. c.1785.]
Stipple and etching. Plate 209 x 254mm. 8¼ x 10". Slight foxing.
A famer leads his horse to market passing along the road and a thatched cottage behind; on the back of the horse are two lambs. After a drawing by Gainsborough now part of the collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
[Ref: 21676] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[A set of four etchings by Benjamin Green].
B. Green f.
Pub.d Nov.r 24, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 58 Fleet Street, London.
Four bound etchings. Platemark: 123 x 90mm (5 x 3½") each. Time staining to edges of sheets. Puncture holes in bottom margin on all four sheets. Bound at top margin by thread.
A set of four etchings by Benjamin Green (1739 - 1798), plates numbered 1 - 4. Plate 1; untitled, depicts three figures on a large boulder by the side of a path, with what appears to be a ruined building behind. Two other figures, one on horseback, can be seen in the distance. Plate 2; 'At Abingdon'. Two figures are stood outside a house with a ladder leaning up against it. A dog can be see to the right. Plate 3; 'At Islington'. A figure is sat in the foreground with a dog, facing towards a large Georgian house. A church spire can be seen in the background to the left. Plate 4; untitled scene at the waters edge, with a sailing boat in the centre. Two figures can be seen in the foreground, one kneeling down to a basket, the other standing. Green was one of the first English artists to use soft-ground etching (the technique employed here). Many of his plates were sold on to other publishers, with the result that impressions continued to be printed posthumously (as here).
DNB
[Ref: 31833] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Landscape with two figures conversing]
Guercino del. Basire fecit.
[published by John Boydell, 1764]
Etching printed in brown ink with very large margins, platemark 225 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Fine impression; slight foxing to edges.
Landscape after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 – 1666), known as Guercino. A collection of original drawings by Guercino and other Italian masters were acquired by the Earl of Bute while on his Grand Tour, and later given to George III (they remain in the Royal Collection today). The king's librarian, Richard Dalton, met engraver Francesco Bartolozzi in Italy and brought him to London in 1764 to engrave many of these drawings, alongside other engravers including (in this case) Joseph Basire. The plates were later published in two volumes by the Boydells as 'Eighty-two prints, engraved by F. Bartolozzi & c. from the original drawings of Guercino, in the collection of his Majesty'.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for various other plates from the same project see refs. 21271, 21268 etc.
[Ref: 34837] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with man on right drawing a ruin]
Guercino del. Basire fecit.
[published by John Boydell, 1764]
Etching printed in brown ink with very large margins; platemark 200 x 300mm (8 x 11¾"). Fine impression.
Landscape after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 – 1666), known as Guercino. A collection of original drawings by Guercino and other Italian masters were acquired by the Earl of Bute while on his Grand Tour, and later given to George III (they remain in the Royal Collection today). The king's librarian, Richard Dalton, met engraver Francesco Bartolozzi in Italy and brought him to London in 1764 to engrave many of these drawings, alongside other engravers including (in this case) Joseph Basire. The plates were later published in two volumes by the Boydells as 'Eighty-two prints, engraved by F. Bartolozzi & c. from the original drawings of Guercino, in the collection of his Majesty'.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for various other plates from the same project see refs. 21271, 21268 etc.
[Ref: 34838] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Semper Pauperes habetis vobiscum, me autem non semper habetis. Math. C. XXVI. V.11. 23.
Paulo Veronese pinxit. Giovanni Volpato sculpsit Romae 1772.
Genuae in Aedibus Durazzo.
Engraving, with very large margins. Plate 310 x 391mm (12¼ x 15½"). Water staining and tear to left edge.
Christ in the House of Simon; a group of figures seated around a table, party beneath a colonnade; Christ seated at right with Mary Magdalene crouched on the floor washing his feet. After a painting commissioned in 1556 for the dining room for the Benedictines for Verona, and now in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin. 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: 31009] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vidit Moyses Vitulum, et Choros, iratusque proyecit de manu Tabulas ad radicem montis. Exod. Cap. XXXII. V.29. 16.
Parmigianino pinx. Dom. Cunego sculpsit Romae 1773.
Ex Tabula Parmae existente.
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 349 x 202mm (13¾ x 8"). Water stain lower left of margin.
Moses, the semi-draped, bearded prophet holding the tablets of the law above his head. From Parmigianino's grisaille fresco in the church of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma. 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: 30991] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Nereides Nymphae. 38.
Franc Albano pinxit. Dom. Cunego sculpsit Romae 1771.
Exstat Romae in Aedibus Ghisus.
Engraving, very large margins. Plate 241 x 406mm (9½ x 16"). Water staining to left and upper edge; tears to right.
Two Nereids on a shore, one reclining while a cupid scatters pearls over her body, and the other one holding a seashell containing pearls and flanked by two cupids holding coral; in the background, to the right, a cupid with a fishrod. 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: 31011] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Venerunt in Jerusalem, ut sifterent cum Domino. S. Luc. Cap II. V.22. 6.
Fra. Bartolomeo di S. Marco pinxit. Ang. Campanella sculpsit Romae 1771.
Florentiae in Sacrario S. Marci.
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 292 x 272mm (11½ x 10¾"). Water stain lower right of margin.
Presentation in temple, with at centre the High Priest carrying Christ Child, on the right the Virgin grasping Christ's feet, and on the left St. Joseph; two further women adoring Christ. After the painting in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 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: 30990] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Providentia. Providit ille maximus Mundi Parens, Cum tam rapaces cerneret Fati minas, Ut damna semper sobole repararet nove. Sen. Hip. 27.
Lud. Carracci Pinxit. Dom. Cunego Sculpsit Romae 1772.
E Tabula Romae in Capitolio asservata.
Engraving, very large margins. Plate 425 x 293mm (16¾ x 11½"). Water stain lower left of margin.
Allegory of Providence; a seated female suckling a child and looking up at a cherub leaning on her shoulder; at her feet, a putto carrying a torch and another a cornucopia and handing fruits to his companions. 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: 30997] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

S. Catharina. 15.
F. Mazzola detti il Parmegianino pinxit. Camillus Tinti sculpsit Romae 1771.
Romae ex Tabula in aedibus Burghesianis.
Engraving, very large margins. Plate 341 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Water stain lower left of margin.
The mystic marriage of St Catherine, 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. The painting is in the National Gallery, London.
[Ref: 30999] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Six Military Scenes from the History of Louis XIV, King of France]
Vmeulen jn. et ex. cum privil Regis...HB fe.
[n.d., c.1667-70]
Six etchings, each approx 100 x 135mm (4 x 5¼"). Slighty foxing, damage to corners in two, two glued to backing sheet.
Six military scenes from a set of eight etched by Jan van Huchtenburg (1647-1733) after Adam Francois van der Meulen, who also published the prints. Although not dated on the prints, these etchings can be dated to 1667-70, during which time van Huchtenburg worked for van der Meulen in Paris.
see Hollstein 15-22 for the set. All state II/II
[Ref: 24017] £320.00 view all images for this item

Terram in qua dormis, tibi dabo et Semini tuo. Gen: Cap: 28.V:13.
Raphael Sanctius Urbinas, invenit et pinxit in Vaticano. Joannes Alex:r delin: et Sculp: Romae A:D: 1718.
Etching with large margins. Plate 283 x 476mm. 11¼ x 18¾". Tears into edges and upper right corner of plate, crease.
Jacob's ladder, detail from the ceiling of the stanza d'Eliodoro designed by Raphael: Jacob sleeping on the left and, beyond, to right, the angels walking up and down the steps leading to God. From one of the frescoes in the Palace of the Vatican.
[Ref: 26608] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Een dorre hand (op de zabbath-dag) gesond gemaakt. Math: 12:13. 4.
I. Van Orley invent: H. Eland fecit.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 260mm. 8¼ x 10¼". Creasing.
Matthew 12:13 'Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand". So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other'; Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.
[Ref: 26525] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[St John the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness.] Vox ego ... Viarum.
M. de Vos inventor.
CJ Visscher excudit. [Amsterdam, c.1620?]
Engraving, later reworked state with '1' and 'Luce 3.3' added lower right. Sheet 210 x 295mm, 8¼ x 11½". Closed vertical tear through centre of image.
Christian saint John the Baptist (fl. 1stC BC) stands behind a bar nailed between two trees addressing a mostly seated mixed crowd. After Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603), from a series of scenes from the life of St John the Baptist and Christ.
[Ref: 19332] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of Ananias [parallel text in Latin] Act. Chap. V.
Raphael Urbin Pinxit. E. Kirkall Fecit.
Mezzotint printed in blue, scarce; platemark 360 x 515mm (14¼ x 20¼"). Crease through centre; several tears; glued to backing sheet.
The death of Ananias, struck down in front of the Apostles gathered on a platform at centre. Ananias and his wife Sapphira were, according to the Acts of the Apostles, members of the Early Christian church in Jerusalem. Ananias dropped dead suddenly after attempting to deceive the Holy Spirit by withholding part of the profit from the sale of a piece of land. Engraved from one of the famous cartoons executed by Raphael (1483 - 1520) for a series of tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, which were bought by Charles I. The cartoons were placed in Hampton Court Palace in 1699 and are now on permanent display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The first set of engravings of the cartoons were produced by Nicolas Dorigny between 1711-1719, after which several other sets were made. This mezzotint is by Elisha Kirkall (1681/2-1742), one of the most distinctive of British engravers. Often printed in a blue-green ink which itself was innovative at a time when almost all British prints were still printed in black, Kirkall used the mezzotint technique which in the 17th and 18th century was used predominantly for portraits and domestic subjects, and used it to render a much wider range of subjects.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for Dorigny's engraving of the same Raphael cartoon, see. ref. 14717.
[Ref: 34668] £420.00

[Roman statue said to be the Empress Matilda, with child and dolphin]
[by Elisha Kirkall.]
Scarce mezzotint. 365 x 215mm (14¼ x 8½"), with very large margins. Tear at bottom slightly inside platemark; creasing; foxing lower left.
Unusual mezzotint by Elisha Kirkall (1681/2-1742), one of the most distinctive of British engravers. Kirkall used the mezzotint technique which in the 17th and 18th century was used predominantly for portraits and domestic subjects, and used it to render a range of subjects usually represnted in line engravings at the time, including naval and topographical subjects. This print, with its large uninked areas, is an very unusual subject to depict in mezzotint. The British Museum's impression, from the collection of Hans Sloane, has an inscription in Sloane's hand: 'Empress Matilda / The statue is in the Palace at Kensington given by Mr Davenant'.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34667] £460.00

[Lady & Child.]
Salsa Ferrata pinx.t. R.E. delin et Sculp.st 1767.
J. Boydell Excudit. Publish'd January 10th 1772.
Mezzotint, very fine with large margins. 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Mounted in album paper.
The Virgin and child by Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato (1609-85), drawn and engraved by Richard Earlom. Earlom's drawing was also used for an etching by Bartolozzi in 1767 and a mezzotint by Laurie also 1772.
Wessely 67.I. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34550] £375.00

Cloathing the Naked. I was Naked, & Ye Cloathed me. St Matth. C.25 V.36.
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 280 x 260mm (11 x 10¼"). Small margins.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44282] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Relieving the Prisoners. I was in Prison, & Ye came unto me. St Matth. C.25 V.36.
Old Franck Pinxit. H. Fletcher Sculp.t.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard and John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to platemark top and left, partially top right and bottom. Bit tatty.
A street scene under an elaborate archway, from a series illustrating corporal works of mercy engraved by Henry Fletcher after Frans Franken. Fletcher (fl. 1710-53), is best known for engraving Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers and Fruit.
[Ref: 44284] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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