Grosvenor Prints

The Tortworth Chestnut.
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1824.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 315mm x 380mm (12½" x 15"), large margins. Chine slightly lifting bottom centre.
The Tortworth Chestnut, a sweet chestnut in south Gloucestershire, estimated to be 800-1000 years old. In 2002 The Tree Council named it one of fifty Great British Trees. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60033] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Chinese Lady.
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00

[A woman playing a cittern.]
[n.d., John Boydell?, c.1805.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"), on wove paper with large margins.
A woman playing a cittern, watched by a man leaning on a table. The BM states 'The print was reissued by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits' (1805)'.
BM 1876,1111.63.
[Ref: 59199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Livery Companies]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Top left "page 593"; 220 x 360mm (8¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate on right, new margin added, binding folds flattened. Small margins.
The arms of the fifty of the lesser City Livery Companies, numbered 13-62, after the Great Twelve City Livery Companies that had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515.
[Ref: 59959] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Livery Companies] The Twelve Companies. Mercers. Grocers. Drapers. Fishmongers. Goldsmiths. Skinners. Merchat Taylors. Haberdashers. Salters. Ironmongers. Vintners. Cloth-Workers.
[London: Printed for R. Chiswell, A. and J. Churchill, T. Horne, J. Nicholson and R. Knaplock, 1708.]
Scarce engraving. Top right "To Front. Voll:y.2nd"; Sheet 190 x 500mm (7½ x 19¾"), large margins. Repairs at binding folds, repaired nicks in edges.
The arms of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, those which had the greatest economic or political powers when the City of London settled an order of precedence for the 48 livery companies in existence in 1515. From Edward Hatton's 'A New View of London; or an Ample Account of that City'.
[Ref: 59958] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Slave Merchant, Constantinople.]
[Designed from Nature & on Stone by T. Allom. Printed by C. Hullmandel.]
[Fisher, Son & Co., Paris & London.] [n.d., c.1845.]
Rare lithograph, proof before letters. Printed area 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"). Crease left bottom and slight soiling in unprinted areas.
An interior, with two men haggling over a woman slave, while other women look on. By Thomas Allom (1804 - 1872). Possibly from 'Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy. Designed and drawn ... by Thomas Allom, Esq. With descriptive letter-press by Emma Reeve' (21 plates).
[Ref: 59822] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Consultation of Surgeons.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾").
A group of surgeons debate the death of George Clarke: one says 'Gold is good evidence and carries great weight'', as the chairman decides 'This convinces me that Cl-k did not dye of the Wound he received at Br-d [Brentford]'. Two Irish chairmen, said to have been employed by Sir William Proctor, Wilkes's opponent in the election, were found guilty of the murder of George Clarke on 14 January 1769, but were pardoned after the College of Surgeons had been consulted. According to the Oxford Magazine, in which this satire was published, the consultation, or 'Chirurgical Examination' was held in secret. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1769, p.136, gave the names of those present as Benjamin Cowell, William Bromfield, Stafford Crane, John Ranby, Caesar Hawkins, David Middleton, Christopner Fullager, Robert Young, Percival Pott and Mr Gregory.
BM Satires 4271.
[Ref: 59964] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Beauchamp.] 31.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Small nick and tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Francis Seymour Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford (1743 - 1822), M.P. for Orford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford. He stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand in his hip pocket. He was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Beauchamp.
BM Satires 6643. NPG D9798.
[Ref: 60074] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Order, Order, pray Order. [Charles Wolfran Cornwall.] 27.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature of Charles Wolfran Cornwall (1735 - 1789), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1780-89, in his Speaker's wig and robes. His chair and a raised dais are indicated behind him. He looks to the right, holding out his hat in his left hand. Beneath his feet are the words 'Order, Order, pray Order'.
BM Satires 6064. NPG D9691.
[Ref: 60071] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

John Curtis [facsimile signature].
T. H. Maguire. 1850. M. & N. Hanhart.
[Published by George Ransome, Ipswich, n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Printed area 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Some spotting on backing sheet.
John Curtis (1791-1862), entomologist, author of 'British Entomology: Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland'. This print published for Ipswich Museum Portraits.
W: 737.
[Ref: 59703] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Woman of Spra. A Woman of Cyprus. Vol. VI., p.120.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured etching. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Illustrations of the attire of Greek women of the islands of Psara and Cyprus, from ''The World in Miniature: Turkey''. The work was published during the war for Greek Independence: in 1824 Psara was recaptured by the Ottomans, and 17,000 Greeks (7,000 Psarians and 10,000 refugees from other parts of Greece) were killed or sold as slaves, leaving the island deserted.
Abbey Travel 6.
[Ref: 59692] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Chevalier D'_n producing his evidence against certain persons.
[Oxford Magazine, 12th Auguest, 1769.]
Etching. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7").
An ape-faced Chevalier d'Eon kneels on a platform, vomiting over Bute and other members of the Grafton admininstration. Joining the attack are Horne Tooke, Beckford and an American Indian, who draws his bow and aims at Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the North American Colonies. Behind the Chevalier is Dr Musgrave, who holds a clyster pipe and says 'If the Etetic does not operate sufficiently Chevalier, I have this Ready'. Having acted as minister-plenipotentiary for France in London, the Chevalier d'Eon refused to be recalled, publishing libels against the French embassy members. When Musgrave accused the Grafton administration and the Princess of Wales of taking bribes to sway the settlement of the Treaty of Paris in the favour of the French, he attempted to get the Chevalier to back up his claims, which D'Eon refused to do.
BM 4308.
[Ref: 59973] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Your M.t humble servt. H.Davy Pres: RS. [facsimile signature]
Engraved on Steel by W.T. Fry, after the Original Picture by T. Phillips, Esq.r R.A.
Published July 1825 by T.Boys, 7, Ludgate Hill.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt (1778-1829), inventor best known for his miner's safety lamp of 1815. He was Presidency of the Royal Society in 1820.
W: 772.
[Ref: 59696] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Abele. Will.m Delamotte 1810.
Drawn & Etched by William De La Motte. Prepared & Aquafortis by J. Girtin.
[Great Marlow, 1811.]
Rare soft-ground etching. Sheet 490 x 370mm (19¼ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate, pinholes in corners.
A woman and child gathering firewood in a wood by a river. William Alfred Delamotte (1775-1863) trained under Benjamin West. He presented a number of his own prints (which he published himself) to the British Museum. He was the drawing master at Sandhurst for 40 years. John Girtin was the elder brother of Thomas Girtin.
See ref: 59687 & 59685
[Ref: 59686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Pine. Will.m Delamotte 1810.
Drawn & Etched by William De La Motte. Prepared & Aquafortis by J. Girtin.
[Great Marlow, 1811.]
Rare soft-ground etching. Sheet 490 x 370mm (19¼ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate, pinholes in corners.
A stag and two does in a wooded landscape. William Alfred Delamotte (1775-1863) trained under Benjamin West. He presented a number of his own prints (which he published himself) to the British Museum. He was the drawing master at Sandhurst for 40 years. John Girtin was the elder brother of Thomas Girtin.
BM 1850,0413.47, first state, before added mezzotint. See Ref 59686 & 59685
[Ref: 59687] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Hunters resting under a tree.][Beech] 1810.
[by William Delamotte.]
[Oxford, c.1810.]
Rare soft-ground etching. Sheet 455 x 345mm (18 x 13¼"). Trimmed, to printed border at bottom, pinholes in corners.
Hunters resting under a Beech tree, with a dog and slain rabbits. William Alfred Delamotte (1775-1863) trained under Benjamin West. He presented a number of his own prints (which he published himself) to the British Museum. He was the drawing master at Sandhurst for 40 years.
[Ref: 59685] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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Steffano de la Belle, natif de Florence en Italie, en l'an 1614…
Stocade pinxit. W. Hollar fecit.
Ioannes Meyssens excudit [n.d. c.1694].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), large margins.
Steffano della Bella (1610-64), Italian engraver. From an edition of the 'True Effigies Of the most Eminent Painters, and other Famous Artists That have Flourished in Europe', first published in Antwerp in 1649, reissued in 1661, 1694, 1705 & 1739. Stocade was the name used by the painter and engraver Nicolaes de Helt [1614 - 1669].
P 1360. iii of iv.
[Ref: 59831] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective and Political View of the Timber-Yard at the L-e [Limehouse]. The Saw Mill.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"), with margins.
A satirical scene showing a lawyer sawing through the 'Magna Carta' and 'Bill of Rights' in front of a saw mill while John Wilkes looks on from the left. Charles Dingley, a speculator and mechanic, stood against Wilkes in the 1769 election. He patented a sawmill, built in Limehouse, which rioting sawyers pulled down in 1768, after which an Act was 'for punishing persons destroying mills' was passed.
BM Satires 4278.
[Ref: 59971] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Diogenes looking for an Honest Man. 86.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs, 2nd Oct.r 1777.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, laid on archival tissue. Damaged.
A scene showing the Greek philosopher Diogenes walking through a contemporary English villlage streets in the middle of the day, using a lit lamp to searching for a good man. The villagers point and laugh.
Not in BM but see BM Satires 5392 for a smaller mezzotint also published by Bowles.
[Ref: 59673] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

Don Ferdinand.
Engraved from an Original Drawing by Edw.d Fisher.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2 May 1777.]
Rare mezzotint. 240 x 200mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A young man in 17th century dress with a plumed hat over long, curly hair, one of a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith.
CS 64, state ii.
[Ref: 60107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Dracæna Draco, or Celebrated Dragon Tree, at Ortava in the Island of Tenerife. Proof.
Drawn on the Spot by J.J. Williams. R.G. Reeve, sc.
[n.d., c.1819.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 585 x 380mm (23 x 15"). Trimmed within plate, several tears taped. Slightly time stained.
An old dragon tree with a door in its trunk leading to a chapel. A gash in its stem releases its ''dragon's blood'' resin (used in varnishes and photo-engraving). The tree was believed to be several thousand years old, already in decline when the Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto saw it in 1455. A storm in July 1819 caused the horizontal split (the date on the sign); the tree fell in 1867.
Wellcome 21027i.
[Ref: 59684] £480.00

Effigies Michaelis Drayton Armigeri, Poetae Clariss. Aetat. Suae L.A. Chr. MDCXIII.
[Pub by W Richardson Sep.r 1. 1796 York House 31 Strand.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, signs of burning on left edge, laid on album paper.
Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631), poet, after the rare 1619 engraving by William Hole. He is most famous for his epic poem, ‘Poly-olbion, or a Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of Great Britaine,' 1613. He is buried in Poet's Corner, Wesminster Abbey.
NPG: D35393.
[Ref: 59876] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Dunotter Castle, Kincardineshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), very large margins.
A coastal view of the ruined Dunottar Castle, on a cliff top by the sea, with crashing waves below. Dunnottar Castle has played a prominent role in Scottish history because of its strategic location and defensive strength. When Oliver Cromwell's army invaded Scotland the Honours of Scotland (the Scottish crown jewels), were hidden there. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 59806] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Chipstead Elm.
J.G. Strutt.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 380 x 315mm (15 x 12¼"), large margins.
A sixty-foot elm in Chipstead, Kent. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60025] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ancient Elm, at Checquers.
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1825.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 385 x 320mm (15¼ x 12½"), large margins.
A massive elm tree at Chequers, then the home of the Greenhill-Russell family, almost a century before it became the country home of the Prime Minister. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60024] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Wych Elm at Bagot's Mill.
J.G. Strutt 1825.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé, Sheet 315 x 380mm (12½ x 15"), large margins. Chine very slightly lifting in title centre.
A Wych elm or Scots elm in Bagot's Park in Staffordshire, now a shooting estate. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60003] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Tutbury Wych Elm.
J.G. Strutt.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé, Sheet 310 x 375mm (12¼ x 14¾"), large margins. Lacking backing paper, tear entering image at bottom.
A Wych elm or Scots elm near Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60002] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Elms at Mongewell.
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1824.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 315mm x 380mm (12½" x 15"), large margins.
Elm trees near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60034] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Wych-Elms at Polloc, Renfrewshire.
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1825.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 385 x 330mm (15¼ x 13"), large margins.
Wych elms or Scots elms. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 59996] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

33. Engel Gran Pittore D'Animali e Bestie.
Matthaeus Oesterreich sculpsit 1750 adimi Marzo [engraved in reverse]. [after Pier Leone Ghezzi?]
Scarce etching. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of a German painter as a dwarf, holding a pen and sheet with a sketch of a horse's head with a title as above. Matthaeus Oesterreich (1716-1778) engraved many caricatures in this style after Pier Leone Ghezzi.
[Ref: 60091] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Compilers of the English Liturgy.
P. La Vergne. Hinchliffe.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Binding marks on right edge.
Thirteen churchmen, including Cranmer (1489-1556) and Ridley (c.1500-55), debating around a table, all named under the image.
[Ref: 60108] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha] Ernestus, der Dritte/herzog zu Sachsen/Jülich/Clve und Berg/etc.
[Nuremberg, n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 320 x 190mm, with letterpress surtitle. Small margins. Mounted on album paper at corners.
A full-length portrait of Ernest 'the Pious' (1601-75) From an edition of 'Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze H. Schrift, Altes vnd Newes Testaments Teutsch', first published 1641. Text verso.
[Ref: 59804] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir James Erskine.] 36.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by James Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), resting both hands on the table of the House of Commons. Erskine was a Scottish soldier, politician, and Acting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, on behalf of King George IV.
BM Satires 7293
[Ref: 59982] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[John Evelyn] T. Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura Lib. i. Interpreted by J.E.
W. Hollar fec.
London: Printed for G: Bedell and T: Collins, at Middle Temple Gate A.o 1656.
Etching. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper at edges. Very slight damage top left.
The titlepage to John Evelyn's translation of Lucretius, with a medallion portrait of the author among mythical figures including Ceres, Neptune and Cyele.
Pennington 2677.
[Ref: 59835] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William Fellowes] Gulielmus Fellowes de Eggesford in Com Devon Arm Sen Magister Cur. Cancl 1723.
J. Vanderbank pinx. J. Smith Fec. 1723.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait in oval of William Fellowes (1660-1723), Senior Master of the High Court of Chancery and one of the Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn.
CS: 88, state ii.
[Ref: 59643] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

La Fete au Village. The Feast of the Village.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Six coloured wood engravings, trimmed as scraps (from the same sheet?) and laid on album sheet with title pasted underneath. Sheet 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), on another backing sheet.
A rare set of six slightly caricatures scenes, each titled in French and English.
[Ref: 59775] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Silver Fir at Roseneath.
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1825.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 385 x 315mm (15¼ x 12¼"), large margins.
A ninety-foot silver fir on the estate of the Duke of Argyll. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60004] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Scotch-Fir at Dunmore.
J.G. Strutt fec.t 1826.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 385 x 315mm (15¼ x 12¼"), large margins.
A 67-foot high fir tree on the estate of the Earl of Dunmore. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 60000] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus FitzRoy] The great Duke of Grafton mortally wounded before the Walls of Cork.
S,, Wale delin. C, Grignion sculp.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 90 x 110mm (3½ x 4¼").
A satire comparing the condition of Prime Minister Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke (1735-1811), with that of great-grandfather, the first duke (Henry FitzRoy (1663 –90)). He resigned in January the following year.
BM 4331.
[Ref: 59975] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus FitzRoy, Duke of Grafton] The Political Machine that goes without Horses
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5").
Prime Minister Augustus FitzRoy driving a carriage to the Gates of Hell, drawn by Bute and Beford, with the Devil acting as footman. The wheels have run over the prostrate figure of Britannia. Grafton sits on a chest 'Treasure taken from the Nabobs'. In 1769 AMr. Moore invented a carriage to travel without horses.
BM 4319.
[Ref: 59977] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] The Contrast. Or a Court Character that Appear'd at the King of Denmark's Masquerade
[10 October 1768.]
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
A caricature portrait of Prime Minister Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), dressed in an brocade coat, cuckold's horns with the words 'The Just Reward' protruding from under a coronet. In one hand is a book, 'A Modest Essay on Pregnancy and Good-Breeding'; in the other a playbill for 'A Wife to be Let'; and in his pocket is 'A Bill to procure a Divorce, &c, for Inconvenience'. This engraving was published in 'The Oxford Magazine' opposite a text claiming that the image does not represent 'any particular person; it is a sort of general character at the west-end of town'. However the figure certainly is Grafton, who shortly after divorced his wife on account of her adultery.
BM Satires 4214.
[Ref: 59986] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Grafton.] 13.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811). Grafton became Prime Minister in 1768, and led an unstable Government for two years from 1768 to 1770, and a prominent figure in the period of the American Revolutionary War.
BM Satires 6060.
[Ref: 60001] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A New Flying Machine upon D.r Musgrave's Plan, that moves with ye same Rapidity as Mr. Moore's machine without Horses.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A satirical engraving, with Lord Bute in a flying machine cranked by a devil, surrounded by money bags. He says 'waft me to Bareges, or any where but to Tower Hill', to which the devil replies 'Now I've got you, Head & all; I was afraid I should have had only the Trunk'. On the Princess Augusta clasps her hands saying ''And art thou fled, so is my Happiness''. Samuel Musgrave (1732-80) lived in Paris when the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. He believed British representatives (including Bute) had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests (for example allowing the return of the Newfoundland fisheries). In 1769 Musgrave published a pamphlet in Devon, suggesting that France had bribed them. The following year the House of Commons decided that the charges were unsubstantiated.
BM Satire: 4212.
[Ref: 59965] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Helena Forman.
Rubens pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775 by W: Pether Broad Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673), one breast outside her corset, with bouquets of wheat stems and flowers in her hand and hat. The daughter of a wealthy silk and tapesty merchant of Antwerp, Fourment married Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.
CS 14.
[Ref: 60106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Foundling Hospital Chapel.] To Sir Charles Whitworth Kn,,t Member of Parliament; Vice President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce; Treasurer of the Foundling Hospital; &c. &c. &c. this View of the Inside of the Chapel of the Foundling Hospital, is with all due Respect dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant, John Sanders.
J. Sanders, delin et Fait.
Publish'd & Sold by the Author in Great Ormond Street, And at W: Sharp's N.o 9, Bartholomew Lane, according to Act, Jan.y 1774.
Scarce & rare etching. Sheet 385 x 510mm (15¼ x 20"). Trimmed within plate, folds flattened.
A view of the interior of the chapel of Foundling Hospital, looking west, with some of the pupils.
Wellcome Library: 23506i.
[Ref: 59650] £420.00

[Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland.] Renard Stating his Accounts.
[Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½'').
Henry Fox, with a fox's face, with his accounts books, with Bute, Norton, Barrington, Grafton and Mansfield offering their support. Charles James Fox is shown as a cub. Lord Holland was the subject of allegations of financial irregularities when Paymaster General.
BM Satire 4299.
[Ref: 59990] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Fridericus IIII. D.G. Com. Pal. Reni. Utr. Bavar. Dux, Sac. Rom. Imp. Archidapifer Elector Sept.
Crispiano Passære cælatore.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Verso in ink "Claude Augustin Mariette 1694" From a famous collection. Sheet cut in oval, 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on J Whatman album paper top left.
Portrait of Frederick IV (1574-1610), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, engraved by Crispijn de Passe, curiously clean-shaven.
[Ref: 59860] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Home on a Furlough. To the Loyal Mothers, Wives and Daughters, of our Country This Engraving is Respectfully Dedicated.
From the Original design by C. Schussele. Engraved by John Sartain, Phil.a.
Bradley & Co. Publishers, 66 N. Fourth St. Philadelphia,
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 455mm (14 x 18"). Tears in edges.
A Union soldier is greeted by his family during a break in fighting in the American Civil War. Christian Schussele (1824-79), a German-born artist, is credited with designing the American Medal of Honor.
[Ref: 59780] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Bamber Gascoyne.] 5.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 6.th April 1782 C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Bamber Gascoyne (1727-1791), depicted as a stout, plainly dressed man wearing a hat and a buttoned-up coat. Gascoyne was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons of between 1761 and 1786.
BM Satires 6056.
[Ref: 59980] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz] Sereniss: Sax: Elect: Consiliarius Intimus et ad Comitia VII Viralia Ratisbonham Legatus Amplissimus etc. Nicolaus Gebhartus a Militis Sibeneichæ, Burkerstorfii, et Bertelstorfii Toparcha. etc. A.o 1630.
Lucas Kilian sculpsit.
[c.1630.]
Fine rich engraving but damaged impression, 17th century watermark. Sheet 245 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, tear in inscription area and middle right.
Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz (1597-1635), Privy Councillor in Regensburg.
[Ref: 59802] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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