Grosvenor Prints

[Five scenes of 'Time'.]
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls on the theme 'Time', including 'Time Badly Employed', with a fair including a hot-air balloon, and 'Time is ~', with a man in prison, with a game of real tennis being played against a high wall. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

His Royal Highness Will.m, Duke of Cumberland.
J. Reynolds. T. Watson fec.t.
London Printed for H. Parker opposite Birchin Lane Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") large margins
Half-length portrait of Prince William (1721-65), Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, wearing uniform and sash.
[Ref: 57240] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupping] Will der Chÿrurgus zwar, Sorg, Müh, und Fleiss, nicht spahren, Mus Er osst Statt man Zahlt! dass Gegentheil erfahren. No 337.
Corn Düsart del.
Joh. Georg Hertel exc. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Collector's Mark verso lower right; 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A woman having her foot cupped by an old woman wearing a funnel on her head. Behind a man sharpens a surgical hook.
[Ref: 57430] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Olivarius le Fevre D'Ormesson Comes Consist Libellor . Supplic. Magister.
Ant. Masson ad vivum. Pinge et sculpebat 1665.
Engraving. Sheet: 360 x 260mm (14 x 10¼''). Trimmed, light foxing.
A portrait of French magistrate Olivier le Fevre d'Ormesson (1616-1686).
[Ref: 49920] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Erasmus Darwin, M.D. & F.R.S.
Engraved by H. Wheelwright, from an Original Drawing [by John Wright].
Published by J. Sewell, 32, Cornhill, 2 March 1795.
Engraving. 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides. Slight staining and spotting.
A half-length portrait of physician and poet Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802). His 'Zoonomia' (1794-6) anticipated the evolutionary theories of his grandson Charles (1809-82).
[Ref: 57251] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Melchior S.R.E. Presbyter, tituli S.tæ Mariæ de Angelis ad terminos Cardinalis de Polignac, Archiepiscopus Auscitanus, Abbas e Comes Corbeiæ, Aquiscineti, Boniportus, Mausonii et Begarü, Regiorum Ordinum Commedator, Regüs apud Sanctam Sedem negotüs Præfectus, antea Ludivici Magni Legatus in Poloniam et Bataviam, Sacræ Rotæ Auditor et Regü Sacelli Magister.
Peint par Hyacinte Rigaud, Chevalier de l'Orde de St. Michel. Gravé par Francois Chereau, Graveur du Cabinet du Roi 1729.
Engraving. Framed, visible area 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"). Worm holes, unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, Archbishop of Auch (1661-1741), also diplomat and poet. He is shown wearing the Collar of the Order of the Holy Spirit, awarded to him in 1728. After his death Frederick the Great bought his acclaimed collection of marble statues, which he had collected through his archaeological work in Rome.
[Ref: 57237] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Deianeira receiving the poisoned tunic from centaur Nessus.]
[after Peter Paul Rubens.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Laid on card, some scuffing, evidence of a crack in the printing plate.
The centaur Nessus, dying from a poisoned arrow shot by Hercules, persuades Deianeira, the wife of Hercules, to take his shirt, which has been poisoned by his blood. Hercules later put it on and, in agony, threw himself onto a funeral pyre, after which Deianira committed suicide.
[Ref: 57444] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Diana & Callisto]. 10 Alta 12 Lata 96
I Titian pinxit. T. van Kessel fecit.
[n.d., 1656.]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 375 x 450mm (14¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed within plate, vertical fold, laid on thick 18th century card.
Callisto, a nymph, is discovered to be pregnant by Jupiter and is expelled from Diana's group. Plate 96 from 246 plates of David Teniers' 'Theatre of Paintings'.
[Ref: 57445] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[12 Illustrations from ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' by Frances Milton Trollope.]
Hervieu del.t.
A Ducotes Lithog. 70 S.t Martin's Lane. [n.d., c.1832.]
12 lithographs. Each sheet: 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5'').
A collection of twelve illustrations from ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' by British writer Frances Milton Trollope. Titles include: 'Methodist Preacher Baltimore'; 'Evening at a Boarding House'; 'Wood Cutters Cabin on the Mississipi'; 'Member of Congress'; 'Ancient and Modern Republics'; 'Debate Between Owen & Campbell'; 'Philosophical Millnery Store'; 'The Solemnity of Justice'; 'Toilet'; 'Ex Pede Herculem'; 'Miss Clarissa and Mr Smith'; 'Live Stock Virginia 1830'. Trollope wrote about her travels throughout the USA and the people she met, she was horrified by the egalitarian middle class, slavery and the lack of manners and learning. Mrs Trollope wrote strongly against slavery the illustration 'Live Stock Virginia 1830' shows a white man holding up an elderly black man.
[Ref: 50980] £480.00

Dresden von der Morgenseite.
[Etched by Christian Friedrich Sprinck.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 110 x 155mm (4 x 6½").
A view of Dresden from the frozen Elbe, with figures skating and sleighing on the ice, with drinks being served from a boat. A Frost Fair item.
[Ref: 57299] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Figure de l'habit de Chevallier a la Pluvinelle. Figure 2. B. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Spotting and creasing at top.
An engraving of the doublet, hat and boots of a dressage rider, within a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57448] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Horse training.] Figure 5. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), with very large margins. Tears taped. Creasing on top.
A scene in the courtyard of the Louvre, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained at a pillar, with two named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57461] £320.00

[Louis XIII watching a horse being trained.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Creasing at top.
A scene in the riding yard of the Tuileries, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained to leap a barrier, watched by a dozen named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57451] £320.00

View of the Corn Exchange - Burgh Quay and Custom House. Dublin
S. F. Brocas del.t H. Brocas Sculp.t
Publish'd July 1.st 1820 by J.Le Petit for his Book of Views of Ireland. at 20. Capel S.t Dublin & by Wright & Bell. Duke S.t Bloomsbury. London. Ent.d at Stationers Hall.
Hand coloured engraving, plate 275 x 435mm (10¾ x 17½"), with very large margins. Time stained. Hole within plate mark fixed with tape. Taped tears in margins.
A view of the Custom House from Burgh Quay showing the Corn Exchange on the quay and ships moored there. The image is held in the National Library of Ireland in the Prints and Drawings Collection. This is the second plate in the twelve set series 'Select views of Dublin.' Samuel Frederick Brocas (c. 1792 – 14 May 1847) was an Irish artist best known for this series depicting Dublin. He was the second of the four sons of painter Henry Brocas (Senior). From 1803 to 1807, Brocas studied under his father at the Dublin Society Schools. Henry Brocas (Junior) (1798 – 1872) was an Irish artist known for his landscapes and engravings. He was the fourth of the four sons of painter Henry Brocas, whom he also trained under.
Bonar-Law: 3.129.
[Ref: 57412] £320.00

Surgeons Hall, Dublin. Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency the Most Noble Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Lieutenant and Lieutenant General of Ireland by His Excellency's most devoted very humble Servants.
Connor & Co.
Published by Tho.s Webb, 43, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin 1828.
Rare lithograph, sheet 360 x 445mm (14¼ x 17") Cut and glued to original backing sheet. Creased top right. Time stained.
A view of Surgeons Hall in Dublin which is now part of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Bonar-Law: 4.104
[Ref: 57414] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity College, Dublin.
James Malton del. et fecit.
London. Published March 1.st 1793. by Ja.s Malton.
Aquatint, plate 315 x 430mm (12½ x 16¾"), with very large margins.
A view from the street of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin (known as Trinity College, Dublin), founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592. From James Malton's 'A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin', 1792-5.
Abbey Scenery: 473; Bonar-Law
[Ref: 57410] £320.00

Domestick Ducks.
D. Cox Del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London, Published May 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished; Watermark J. Whatman, Turkey Mill 1822; Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
Sleeping ducks by a pond.
[Ref: 57503] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch interior.] Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Brun
Ostade pinx. Terminé par J.B. LeBas en 1771.
à Paris chez L'auteur rue de Gros Chenet No 47 et chez Poignant rue de Hôtel Serpente [n.d., c.1788].
Engraving. 215 z 170mm (8½ x 6¾") very large margins.
Three Dutch peasants looking at a printed broadside. On the table is a pack of cards. From the series 'Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun', 1777-1791.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57497] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Four Elements.] Terra. [&] Aer. [&] Ingis. [&] Aqua. 1 [-4]
Stef. de la Bella invent fecit.
ex. Cum Privil. Regis Christ.
Set of four etchinga. each 85 x 195mm (3¼ x 7¾"), large margins. Laid on album paper, one sheet.
The set of Four Elements: Earth & Air are landscapes; Fire and Water are seascapes, Fire with a ships on fire, Water with a storm. Etched by Stefano della Bella (1610-54), one of the greatest of Italian printmakers, whose diverse output, characterised by the compression of great precision and detail into small composions, has been the focus of a number of exhibitions and scholarly publications in recent years. It was also influential on later seventeenth century printmakers such as François Collignon and Israel Silvestre.
De Vesme 753-6., states ii of iii. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57495] £490.00 (£588.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Queen of England. She dyed at Richmond the 24th March 1602, in the 44th yeare of Her Raign and 70th of Her Life.
W. Marshall sculp:
[n.d., 1648.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper, slight staining.
A half-length portrait of Elizabeth I, the frontispiece to the 1648 edition of Thomas Fuller's 'Holy and Profane State'.
[Ref: 57250] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The English Coachman. 157.
[after George van der Mijn.]
Carington Bowles excudit. London, Published as the Act directs. Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard [n.d., 1769].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250 (14 x 9¾"), with wide margins. Abrasion in title area, repair in margin.
A coachman sits in the kitchen of an inn, with a foaming tankard in one hand and a serving girl on his knee.
BM Satires 4501.
[Ref: 57330] £360.00

[Cardinal César d'Estrées.]
R. Nanteuil ad vivu. faciebat 1660.
Engraving. Verso in pencil Anthony Wright. Sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 10"). Trimmed nearly to image.
César d'Estrées (1628-1714), cardinal and French ambassador to Rome and Spain. By Robert Nanteuil (1623 - 1678), engraver and portrait draughtsman.
Petitjean & Wickert 70, only state.
[Ref: 49420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman extinguishing a firework]
JS
[n.d., c.1650]
Engraving sheet 125 x 125mm (5 x 5"). Trimmed within plate. Miniscule tear on left.
A woman in mid-16th/17th century dress extinguishes a firework in a fountain.
[Ref: 57325] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Day, Lady Fenhoulet.]
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. J. M,,cArdell fecit.
Sold at the Golden Head in Covent Garden [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small margins.
Portrait of Anne Day after Sir Joshua Reynolds, wearing a Woffington hat and an ornate dress with lace and ribbons and posy, hands in fur muff. She was the mistress of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe, and married Sir Peter Fenoulhet in 1761 after the death of Edgcumbe. James McArdell (1729-65), a Dublin-born mezzotinter, is said to have been Reynolds' favourite engraver.
CS 53, state i of iv.
[Ref: 57322] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fete Du 14 Juillet An IX. Vue des 3 Theatres construits aux Champs Elysees dans le Carre Marigny; Sur les quels on a Celebre aussi la Fete du 1.er Vendemiare An X.
A Paris chez B[as]set M.d d'[e]stampes et Fabriquant de Papiers Peints rue St.t Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 670. [n.d., c.1802].
Hand coloured engraving, plate 275 x 445mm (10¾ x 17½"), with margins. Slightly crea top right. Abrasions in publication line.
A view of a large crowd watching acrobatic, musical and theatrical entertainment happening in the three theaters built on the Champs-Élysées in the Marigny square. With a firework in the shape of a Masonic (a five pointed star) symbol lighting up the sky. In celebration of the national holiday of July 14 (25 Messidor) 1801 organized in Paris, by the architect Chalgrin, to commemorate the storming of the Bastille in 1789. They were reused on September 23, 1801 (1st Vendémiaire, year X) for the celebrations of the anniversary of the founding of the Republic in 1792.
[Ref: 57436] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Fireworks] Francica Seqvantis Atollit Gloria Rebvs. Pacatori Orbis Vota Publica. Soclorum Vindici Principum Concordia. Iurium Assertori Victoria Perpetva.
[Feu de Ratisbone fait Par M.r Verius].
[Paris: I. B. Nolin c.1691]
Proof engraving, plate 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 6¾"), with small margins.
Print from 'Histoire du roi Louis le Grand, par les médailles, emblèmes, devises, jetons, inscriptions, armoiries, et autres monuments publics,' written by French author, heraldist, Jesuit and attendant of the royal court Claude-François Ménestrier (1631 –1705).
[Ref: 57361] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Afbeelding der Illuminatie voor het Huis van de WelEd. Geftr. Heer M.r W.C. Backer. Hoofd Officier &c. &c. der Stad Amsterdam, op den 8.sten Maart 1788.
W. Kok ad Vivum del. D.t Veebraard fecit.
De Wed: J. Doll. Excud:
Engraving, sheet 210 x 205mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed.
Dutch print of fireworks structure.
[Ref: 57294] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Flemish interior with a boy acrobat.] Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Brun.
Q. Messis. Guyard.
à Paris chez L'auteur rue du Gros Chenet No.47 et chez Poignant rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with etching. 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾"), large margins.
Interior of a Flemish inn, with several peasants watching a young boy performing acrobatics. From the first volume of 'Galerie des peintres flamands hollandais et allemands', a set reproducing paintings by Dutch, Flemish and German masters from the collection of J. B. Lebrun, engraved by various artists from 1777 to 1790 (or 1791), and published in 3 volumes, in 1792 and 1794. The plates were issued in series of twelve.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57498] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley & Mrs Gibbon?] No. XXXIV. M.rs G_b_n. No. XXXV. Lord Balloon.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street. Jan.y. 1; 1785.
Engraving. 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate on right.
Bust portrait of a man and woman in ovals. The right portrait is Thomas Foley (1742-93), 2nd Baron Foley, known as Lord Balloon because of his girth. In 1773 he was reported to have lost £50,000 gambling at Newport, which his father paid off on the condition he never gambled again. In 1775 he lost £70,000 more. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
[Ref: 56802] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Geometrical View of the Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, Design'd as they were Drawn [...]
Invented & Engrav'd by A. Benoist.
[n.d., F. Vivares, 1771.]
Fine engraving on wove paper, left sheet only, of two. 230 x 590mm (9 x 23¼"). Some creasing. Some tears in margins.
The front of a procession of mock freemasons marching down the Strand in 1742, passing in front of the facade of the old Somerset House (demolished from 1775). Although this left sheet lacks a publication line the use of wove paper suggests the Vivares ree-issued of the 1742 plate.
BM G,5.210 for the Vivares issue. See BM Satires 2546.II for the original.
[Ref: 57395] £320.00

A Scene from Don Giovanni as Performed at the Kings Theatre. Don Giovanni by His M_y, Donna Anna by a celebrated actress her first appearance on this Stage these 7 years. Leperello by derry Down Triangle the other caricters by the Corps de Ballet.
Pub July 23 1820 by H. Fores 16 Panton St.
Coloured etching, framed, image size 260 x 365mm, (10¼ x 14½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satire on the royal divorce, wit George IV and Caroline of Brunswick in operatic pose. Mozart's opera premiered in 1787 and was such a success that the comparison of George and the obnoxious Giovanni could still be relevant over thirty years later.
Not in BM Satires, but in the BM, registration 1975,0118.28.
[Ref: 57416] £360.00

The Gin Shop.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
November 1st 1829.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 255 x 295mm (10 x 11½"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1829. Trimmed within plate. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
The satirised interior of a gin shop, with the products in coffin-shaped containers. The red-nosed customers stand in an enormous gin-trap, one feeding gin to her baby. A skeleton with an hourglass says 'I shall have them all dead presently'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
See reference 61960 for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 57280] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean Francoise Paul de Gondi] Haec Domat. Illa Tuetur.
R. Nantueil Faciebat. 1650 [after Philippe de Champaigne].
Engraving. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼").
A half portrait of Jean Francoise Paul de Gondi (1613-1679), wearing clerical dress and a crucifix in a trompe l'oeil stone window. Gondi was a politically motivated churchman, elected Cardinal de Retz in 1650, and was a key player in The Fronde, earning himself the longstanding emnity of Louis XIV. Throughout his career he was protected and supported by Pope Innocent X. Their relationship proved exceptionally forunate after Retz escaped from prison, during which he became the Archbishop of Paris, and was welcomed by the Pope in Rome. Innocent X refused to let him resign as archbishop despite immense pressure from the King. Eventually, yielding to the King's demands, he returned to Paris after the death of his nemesis Cardinal Mazarin but was compensated handsomely with income from twelve estates. Petitjean and Wickert assert that Nanteuil's engraving was after the portrait by Jean Morin after de Champaigne. Frontis "Histoire des Papes" 1653.
PW 199. ii/iii
[Ref: 57415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[An amphora]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with very fine original hand colour. 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with large margins.
An illustration of a Corinthian amphora, with panels showing the patterns of lions and geese on the body and base.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57492] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A lekythos]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with very fine original hand colour. 230 x 230mm (9 x 9"), with large margins.
An illustration of a Greek lekythos, with a panel of a woman's head underneath.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57491] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabeth Grossmann. La belle Bateliere de Brienz.
[Johann Rauch]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint with etching, with fine hand colour. Sheet 200 x 155mm (8 x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate as normal and stuck down on left top & bottom.
Elisabetha Grossmann (1795-1858, 'the beautiful boatwoman of Brienz') ferried tourists across Lake Brienz, and becoming an attraction herself because of her beauty. Several portrtait prints were published.
BM 1958.0712.1014
[Ref: 57332] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Gunning as Dutchess of Hamilton.]
[after Francis Cotes.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Rare stipple, possible proof before letters 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5"). Slight watermark. Thread margins, stitch holes on left plate mark, some staining.
An oval portrait of Elizabeth Gunning (1733-90) when wife of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and Argyll. After his death she married John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later Duke of Argyll. She served as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte for over 20 years and was created Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon in her own right by George III in 1776.
The original pastel in in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 4890).
[Ref: 57244] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[George Frideric Handel] Frontispiece. Inscribed to the Genius of Musick. Europ. Mag., Vol. VI.
Published Aug.t 1st 1784 by J. Sewell, Cornhill.
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate on left.
Allegorical figures pay tribute under a memorial to Handel. With verse by Walpole beginning "Sweet strains along the vaulted roof decay''.
[Ref: 57315] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Queens Cross near Northampton.
[W. Williams]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1776.
Scarce etching. Sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom. Creases.
A view of the Eleanor Cross at Hardingstone, marking where the body of Queen Eleanor rested on the night of 8 December 1290, on its journey to burial in Westminster Abbey. Built at the cost of over £100, it is now one of only three that survive out of the orginal twelve.
[Ref: 57406] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Harvest Scene. 60
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reecve sculp.t.
London, Published June 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A still life of a picnic basket, a keg, a cup and a jacket, under a fence with foxglove growing in the verge.
[Ref: 57502] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Henry ye VIIIth. King of England, France & Ireland.
H. Holbein pinx. J. Faber jun.r Fecit.
Cum privilegio Regis. Sold by John Bowles, opposite to Stocks Market & at Mercers Hall Cheapside [n.d. c.1730.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Narrow margins top and right, vertical fold.
Henry VIII (1491-1547), after Holbein by John Faber the younger, one of the leading mezzotinters of the early eighteenth century.
CS 185 ii/ii; see ref. 12797 for first state, published by Edward Cooper.
[Ref: 57302] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

King Henry the Eight. Only Son of hen.y ye 7th [...]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of Henry VIII, from an untraced history.
[Ref: 57304] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Hercules présenté à Jupiter et Junon.
[Engraved by Jean Francois Janinet after Jean-Guillaume Moitte.]
[Paris: J.G. Depeuille?, c.1790.]
Aquatint with etching, 155 x 250mm (6 x 9¾"), within original printed mount with letterpress title, total 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾").
Hercules being presented to Jupiter and Juno by Mercury and Minerva. Ganymede steps forward to offer Hercules a drink.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57479] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus Hervey] The Right Hon.ble Augustus John Earl of Bristol, Rear Adm.l of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet.
Thomas Gainsborough pinx.t. James Watson Fecit.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Fine mezzotint with separate title plate, total 565 x 355mm (22¼ x 14"). Small stain in inscription area.
Full-length portrait of Admiral Augustus John Hervey (1724-79), 3rd Earl of Bristol, in uniform, with his ship Dragon and Castle Moro (the Cuban fortress he attacked during the Seven Years' War) in the background. The portrait was originally published before his elevation to the peerage in 1775.
CS 74, state II. Horne 41 II of III. Goodwin 97 II of III. Ex: collection of Minto Wilson.
[Ref: 57388] £750.00

Members of a Ladies' Hockey Club at Play. From the Picture by Lucien Davis, Exhibited at the Royal Insitute of Painters in Water Colours.
Lucien Davis.
[n.d, 1894.]
Coloured wood engraving. 365 x 465mm (14½ x 18¼"), with very large margins. Laid on card, damage at centre fold as normal.
A hockey game, with the players wearing long skirts and boaters. From 'The Graphic' newspaper.
[Ref: 56690] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Painter's March from Finchly. Dedicated to the King of the Gypsies [hand symbol] as an Encourager of Art &c.
Captain T_ Inv.t et sculp. [Paul Sandby]
[London, 1753.]
Rare etching. 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed to plate, creases, tears and holes.
A satire on William Hogarth, drawn by Paul Sandby to ridicule Hogarth after the publication of 'An Analysis of Beauty'. Hogarth is shown with cuckhold's horns, being chased from a village, accompanied by a nagging woman. Hogarth's pug dog is tugging on the woman's skirts. Underneath is another image, with Hogarth in the stocks before a water pump.
BM Satires 3248.
[Ref: 57273] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Appreciation of Ladies' Art] Eene dames Kunstbeschouwing in de Kunstzaal der Maatschappij "Arti et Amicitiae".
C. Rochussen del. Joh.s de Mare sculps. Gedrucht door J.F. Brugman.
Vereeniging tot bevordering van Beeldende Kunsten 1851.
Rare steel engraving. 310 x 350mm (12¼ x 13¾"), Trimmed to plate at top, tear in marinb taped, some slight surface damage.
An art appreciation meeting of the Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae (Society for Art and Friendship), focused on art by women. The society was founded in 1839, on the Rokin in Amsterdam. This meeting was held in the exhibition room on the first floor designed by Marinus van Elven Geradur Tetar.
[Ref: 57393] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The High And Mightie Prince Thomas Lord Howard, Duke Of Norfolke, Earle Of Surry And Earle Marshal Of England, Lord Mowbrey, Segreve, & Brusse Of Gore, And Knight Of the most honorable order of the Garter and of St. Michael ec. He decesed 1572, ye 2. of June.
[Engraved by George Vertue after R. Elstracke.]
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1536-1572) with his arms, after the engraving by Renold Elstracke, c.1600.
See Walpole Society Vol XXVI, p.74 Not in Alexander.
[Ref: 57344] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Infant Academy.]
[Engraved by William Walker from a Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
London: Published February 1st 1854, by Evans & Son, 403, Strand.]
Stipple, unique proof before letters. 330 x 380mm (13 x 15"). Trimmed to plate, damage to edges, old pencil mss inscription.
A young boy painting on an oval canvas a young girl with a fashionable hat, who is flanked by two other children; curtain and pillar behind, landscape beyond at left. As well as giving the title and artist, the manuscript also notes 'Engraved for W. Walker during my Apprenticeship - J.B. Bird', contradicting the attribution on the finished plate. The same picture had earlier been engraved as a small mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds.
Not in Hamilton; for S.W. Reynolds' mezzotint, see ref. 21500
[Ref: 57398] £480.00

Iroquois Indians of Canada. F.
[London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, c.1818.]
Engraving with original hand colour, Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½").
The man carries a musket, bow and quiver of arrows, and the woman holds a baby in a papoose. A plate from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present; being being descriptions of the principal countries of the world. With representations of the various Inhabitants in their respective costumes, beautifully coloured'.
[Ref: 57323] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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