Grosvenor Prints

John Cartwright in his 77th Year. John Cartwright [facsimile signature].
Engraved by Henry Cook from an Original Drawing [by Adam Buck].
[London, c.1790.]
Steel engraving. 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Creased.
A seated profile portrait of political reformer John Cartwright (1740-1824), supporter of both the American and French revolutions, and prominent campaigner for electoral reform in Britain.
[Ref: 67890] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Cartwright in his 77th Year. John Cartwright [facsimile signature].
Engraved by Henry Cook from an Original Drawing [by Adam Buck].
[London, c.1790.]
Steel engraving. 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Surface soiling.
A seated profile portrait of political reformer John Cartwright (1740-1824), supporter of both the American and French revolutions, and prominent campaigner for electoral reform in Britain.
[Ref: 67888] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Rich.d Cavendish.
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd feb.y 16.th 1781, by J.R. Smith N.º 10, Batemans Building, Soho.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Repaired tear in image on right leg, top right corner of margin rebuilt. Small margins.
Three-quarter portrait of politician Richard Cavendish (1752-81), son of William, 4th Duke of Devonshire, right hand resting on rock and his left on his hip, a brooding landscape behind him.
Chaloner Smith 38, ia (addenda) of ii. Hamilton p.16, ii of iii. Frankau 68, ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68034] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

La Cuisiniére Charitable.
C. Eisen Inv. Chevilet Sculp.
AParis Chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving. Sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate. damp stain bottom left.
A woman ladles soup into a bowl for a ragged wanderer.
[Ref: 68138] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] Charles by the Grace of God. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defen-der of the Faith, &c.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some time-staining.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
[Ref: 68093] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Charles the 1th &cc. Of whom the World was not Worthy.
I.Smith.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Charles I, kneeling before table to left on which is an open book. Crown of glory above with rays proceeding towards his eye. Right hand holding crown of thorns. Left foot on globe, beside which lies a crown. Allegorical portraits of Charles I were frequent after his death, often featuring symbolic depictions of a toppled crown or crown of thorns. This portrait derives from the frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, published shortly after his execution.
CS45.
[Ref: 68092] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] The High and Mighty Monarch Charles by the grace of God King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland.
[After Gaywood.] P.Stent excudit.
[n.d., c.1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
State ii of iii.
[Ref: 68091] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Eikon Basilike. Charles I.] Alij diutius. Imperium tenuerunt, nemo tam Y fortiter reliquit. Tacit. Histor. Lib.2.c.47.p.417.
[after Marshall.] R.White sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. From 'Eikon Basilike'The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
[Ref: 68090] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Eikon Basilike.] [Charles I.]
[after Marshall.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 85 x 85mm (3¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. From 'Eikon Basilike'The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
[Ref: 68089] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Eikon Basilike.] [Charles I.]
[Guil.Marshall sculpsit.]
[n.d., c.1649.]
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 65mm (5 x 2½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. From 'Eikon Basilike'The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
[Ref: 68088] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Eikon Basilike.] [Charles I.]
Guil.Marshall sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1649.]
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 125mm (5 x 5"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. From 'Eikon Basilike'The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
[Ref: 68087] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] [If Prudence, Temprance , Valor, Patience...]
[after Sir Anthony Van Dyck] [Saloman Savery]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 110mm (5¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed losing text and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
[Ref: 68086] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] Fidei Defensor.
Guil. Marshall sculp.
[n.d., c.1649.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 85mm (6 x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649, writing on a globe.
Wellcome.
[Ref: 68085] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

King Charles ye 1st. Butchered before his Palace at Whitehall Jan.30.1648.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
[Ref: 68080] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Charles I. King of England. [H]is Sufferings, & his Death with truth proc[...] For He got Glory, but the Nation Shame [...]
[after Anthony Van Dyck]
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
[Ref: 68079] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

K. Charles I.
H.Hulfbergh Sc.
1625.
Engraving. Sheet 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
[Ref: 68078] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[T]rue Picture of King Charles. The first Martyr as he sate in [Wes]tminster Hall for his tryall to be beheaded.
[After Edward Bower]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges. Some time staining.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
[Ref: 68074] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] Charles Par La Grace De Diev Roy D'Angleterre.
[attributed to Richard Gaywood]
[n.d., c. 1650.] Sould by P.Stent.
Engraving. Sheet 155 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Illustration to Jean Nicolas de Parival's 'History of this Iron Age'
Globe Stent 42.
[Ref: 68094] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] Charles par la grace de Dieu Roy de la grande Bretaigne, &c.
[after Wenceslaus Hollar] [attributed to Richard Gaywood]
P.Stent excudit. [n.d, c.1647.]
Engraving, sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Frontispiece to Michael Hudson, 'The Divine Right of Government' (London, 1647).
Globe Stent 41 ii of iii. Pl57. Pennington 1433.
[Ref: 68095] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I.] Charles par la grace de Dieu Roy de la grande Bretaigne, &c.
[after Wenceslaus Hollar] [attributed to Richard Gaywood]
[P.Stent excudit.] [n.d, c.1647.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. rontispiece to Michael Hudson, 'The Divine Right of Government' (London, 1647).
Globe Stent 41A i of iii. Pl57.
[Ref: 68096] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Charter of Liberties. Cardinal Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, producing to the Barons and the rest of the Assembly at S.t Edmund's Bury, the Charter granted by Henry the 1st, in which that Monarch pledged himself to abolish the arbitrary Laws of the Normans then in force... Engraved from the Original Picture in the Gallery of the University of Oxford.
Painted by W. Martin. Engraved by W. Ward.
London. Pub.d Dec.r 16, 1795 by W. Martin, Hamilton Street, Piccadilly.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet 560 x 620mm (22 x 26"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears and cracks, creased, backed with paper.
Cardinal Stephen Langton standing behind the altar in Bury St Edmund's in 1213, pointing to the Charter of Liberties, the barons of England raising their hands in agreement. The Charter of Liberties was issued by Henry I upon his ascension to the throne in 1100, addressing abuses of royal power, such as over-taxation of the barons, the abuse of vacant sees, and the practices of simony and pluralism. It was generally ignored by monarchs until 1213, when Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, reminded the nobles that their liberties had been guaranteed a century before. In the face of such unified opposition King John opened negotiations and the Magna Carta was signed two years later. The quality of the colour printing is particularly good.
Frankau 55, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67816] £1,250.00

The Honourable Francis Charteris Esqr.
J. Reynolds pinxt. Rd. Houston fecit.
[n.d. c.1757.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"). Very small margins. Trimmed to plate at bottom.
A half-length portrait of Scottish landowner Francis Wemyss Charteris (1723-1808), second son of James, 5th Earl of Wemyss. His elder brother David, Lord Elcho, should have become 6th Earl in 1756, but had been attainted for his part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. On David's death in 1787, without a legitimate heir, Francis claimed the title of 7th Earl of Wemyss, but it was not until 1826 that his grandson obtained a reversal of the attainder.
Hamilton: p.17, ii. CS: 27, ii. 'E.M.H.' ink stamp of collector Mrs. E.M. Hamilton, London, on reverse. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 24767] for one with large margins.
[Ref: 68182] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A West View of Chelsea Bridge. Un Vue du Pont de Chelsea du Cote du Vest.
Z. Boreman Pinx.t. J. Lodge sculp.t.
London Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street [n.d., c.1761].
Scarce coloured engraving. 270 x 415mm (10½ x 16¼"), with margins. Slight mount burn.
A view of the wooden Ebury Bridge, not over the Thames but over the tidal creek used by the Chelsea Waterworks Company, which later became the Grosvenor Canal. On one side is the tavern of Jenny's Whim, a tea garden, and on the other 'The Flask', on Belgrave Road.
Images of Chelsea
[Ref: 67887] £380.00

A Christmas Holiday.
Painted & Engraved by J.R. Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published July 29th 1790 by J.R. Smith, King Street, Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, open-letter title, inscriptions scratched. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), very large margins. Small tears in margins, publication line weakly inked.
A smartly-dressed young boy attempts to entice a girl onto a frozen pond in an ornamental garden.
D'Oench 307. Frankau 79. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67898] £320.00

Church and Steeple. "Bless me her Ladyship exclaims, "Who's thus, so monstrous tall, This Son of Mars, who holds his head So high above us all?" "They meant him Lady, for the Church, Tis whisper'd 'mongst the people,""Dear Sir, you surely must mistake Perhaps you mean the Steeple."
Alfred Mills del et sc:t.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 175 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate. Creasing. Light staining.
Caricatured scene at a rout: a young woman points out a tall, awkward officer in tight regimentals, while a grotesque elderly man bows beside her. Other caricatured guests look on with amused attention.
BM Satires 10653.
[Ref: 67893] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cigars - Havannah.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 225 x 270mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed to image and around title, laid on album paper.
A ground of men smoke cigars, enveloping themselves in clouds of smoke.
Not in BM
[Ref: 68066] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

L'Amour de Ville, ou l'Amour Coquet.
Inventé et peint par Ch. Coypel 1731. Graavé par Lépicié 1732.
A Paris chez L. Surugue graveur du Roy rüe des Noyers vis avis S.t Yves.
Fine etching, 18th century watermark. 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins
A young woman pretends to be captivated by a amorous young man while happily accepting a love letter slipped into her hand by a young African servant.
[Ref: 67947] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton.] In progress for G.P. M.cQueen 37, Marlborough Street, Regent St, London, Jan 10th, 1876.
[Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. James Faed.]
Mezzotint, progress proof. 470 x 380mm (18½ x 15"). Spotting, vertical crease through unprinted area of plate.
Full-length portrait of Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton (1727-1760) as a child, feeding chickens. She married her cousin Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln in 1744; he later became the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the subject of George Stubbs' painting, 'The Return from Shooting'. J.R. Smith's mezzotint of the same portrait was published in 1782. Faed's version was eventually published by G.P. McQueen in 1881.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68025] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas William Coke] Hannibal.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by C. Townley. Engraver to his Majesty the King of Prussia & Member of the Academies of Berlin & Florence.
Published July 31st 1792, by W. Richardson, Castle Street, Leicester Fields.
Mezzotint. 330 x 230 (13 x 9"). Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait of a young child in Roman costume, with his right hand upon a sword and his left on his hip. Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1754-1842), painted c.1759, when he was five years old.
Ex Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hamilton: Pg 18; Not in CS.
[Ref: 67968] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aged 42. From the Picture in the possession of George T. Barnard Esq.re.
Painted by Washington Allston. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London: Published July 10.th 1854, by E. Moxon, 44, Dover Street.
Mezzotint. 545 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), with large margins. Slight spotting.
A half-length seated portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), painted in 1814. Along with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was one of the founding members of the Romantic Movement. The original oil is in the National Gallery (NPG 184).
Whitman: 41, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67812] £360.00

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aged 42. From the Picture in the possession of George T. Barnard Esq.re.] Subscriber's Proof.
Painted by Washington Allston. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
[London: Published July 10.th 1854, by E. Moxon, 44, Dover Street.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line, printed on chine collé. 545 x 410mm (21½ x 16"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), painted in 1814. Along with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was one of the founding members of the Romantic Movement. The original oil is in the National Gallery (NPG 184).
Whitman: 41, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67813] £390.00

[Lady Christiana Collier] Passer mortuus est meæ puellæ [...] 86.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Prinseller, at N.º 53 Fleet Street London. [c. 1770 but later].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"), large margins. Rubbed.
A half-length portrait of Lady Christiana Collier in the character of Lesbia, despairing over her dead bird, with part of Catullus 3, a eulogy to the pet bird of the poet's girlfriend (in English translations Caelia or Chloe). In 1763 Christiana Gwyn (b.1749) married Vice-Admiral Sir George Collier (1732-1795), who was best known for destroying the American fleet in Penobscot Bay in 1779, the worst naval defeat of the Americans until Pearl Harbour. They divorced in 1772. First published by the engraver.
Hamilton p.91. Goodwin 27, v of v. CS 32, after ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67980] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Christiana Collier] Passer mortuus est meæ puellæ [...]
J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Prinseller, at the Golden Buck near Searjeants Inn Fleet Street [n.d., c. 1765].
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A half-length portrait of Lady Christiana Collier in the character of Lesbia, despairing over her dead bird, with part of Catullus 3, a eulogy to the pet bird of the poet's girlfriend (in English translations Caelia or Chloe). In 1763 Christiana Gwyn (b.1749) married Vice-Admiral Sir George Collier (1732-1795), who was best known for destroying the American fleet in Penobscot Bay in 1779, the worst naval defeat of the Americans until Pearl Harbour. They divorced in 1772. First published by the engraver.
Hamilton p.91. Goodwin 27, iv of v. CS 32, after ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67978] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Christiana Collier] Cælia, Lamenting her Dead Sparrow.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. Graham Sculp.
Printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London [engraved c.1765 but published c.1790].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), on wove paper. Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait of Lady Christiana Collier in the character of Caelia, despairing over her dead bird, with a verse in English and Latin. The verse is part of Catullus 3, a eulogy to the pet bird of his girlfriend, named Lesbia rather than Caelia. In 1763 Christiana Gwyn (b.1749) married Vice-Admiral Sir George Collier (1732-1795), who was best known for destroying the American fleet in Penobscot Bay in 1779, the worst naval defeat of the Americans until Pearl Harbour. They divorced in 1772. The engraver, George Graham, had emigrated to America by 1796 and is recorded working in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. It is likely that he put his name on a reworked plate, as John Bowles died in 1779, the year before the 16 year old Graham entered the RA School. Compare BM 1902,1011.2254 (proof before letters) and 1833,0610.19 (signed by Graham).
CS 2, ii of ii. Alexander p388-9. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67977] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 10.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A: 28263:5. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68175] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 12.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68176] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 2.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:2. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68172] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 7.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68173] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 8.
P. Columbani
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A: 28263:1. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68174] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Comus] The Enchanted Lady. Vide Milton's Comus.
S. Harding Inv.t. P.W. Tomkins Sculp. Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
London: Published June 8th 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, Fleet Street.
Stipple, open lettered title, printed in brown with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 275mm (10 x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Comus, holding a necromancer's wand, urges 'The Lady', stuck in an enchanted chair, to drink from his magical cup (representing sexual pleasure and intemperance).
See [Ref: 45215] for uncoloured version
[Ref: 67872] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Concert out of Tune!!
London Published by J.L Marks, 11 Artillery St.t Bishopsgate. [n.d. c. 1824-1832.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 210 x 335mm (8½ x 13¼"). Trimmed on three sides. Surface dirt. Creased. Tears. Laid on album paper.
An orchestra coming to blows, using their instruments as weapons. Among the music sheets tossed around are: 'Grand Battle Sinforna' and 'Britons Strike Home'.
Yale Center for British Art B2019.17.49, also unidentified. Not in BM.
[Ref: 68056] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Essex.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5¼"). Light staining.
From a series of idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties. A woman and a child feed a cow. Essex was known for cattle farming in the 1800s, particularly for fattening cattle to supply the growing demand for meat in London, as well as developing dairy.
See [Ref: 55242].
[Ref: 68146] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Master John Crewe as Henry VIII.]
Josh.a Reynolds Eques Pinxit. J.R. Smith Fecit.
Published 10th Decem.r 1775. Published Jan.ry 23 1776 by by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title, inscription area uncleaned. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with very large margins, 18th century watermark. Ink collector's stamp 'R.B.' in inscription area.
Sir Joshua Reynolds's painting of John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe (died 1835) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1776 and the mezzotint at the Society of Artists that same year with the title 'Portrait of a Young Gentleman'. In an interior, with spaniels at Crewe's feet, and a view of a landscape through the window in the upper right.
D'Oench: 67. Hamilton: pg.19, ii of iv. CS: 47, ii/iv. Frankau: 100, ii/iii. D'Oench 67. Lugt 2191, 'R. Brandt'. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68051] £580.00

Stephen Croft Esq.r F.AS.
J. Reynolds Equa Pinx.t. C. Carter fecit.
Published Oct.r 1.st 1787 and old by Robert Wikinson, N.º 58 Cornhill.
Scarce etching. 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Printer's creases in margins.
Portrait of Stephen Croft (1712-98) of Stillington, Yorkshire. His father, also Stephen, had founded a company importing wine from Portugal and helped to found the York Assembly Rooms. The younger Stephen was elected a director of the Rooms in 1752. Lawrence Sterne was vicar at Stillington (1745-68), becoming a friend of the family.
Hamilton p19, iii of iii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67974] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline] Fidele's Tomb. To fair Fidele's grassy Tomb Soft Madis & Village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom And rifle all the breathing spring No waiting Ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet Grove But Shepherd lads assemble here And melting Virgins own their love. Vid: Collin's Poems.
Harding del.t. Delatre sculpt.
London: Published May 20, 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, 39. Fleet Street.
Fine stipple printed in colours. Sheet 260 x 275mm (10¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, top edge chipped.
Women dress the tomb of Fidele with flowers. A scene illustrating 'A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline' by William Collins (1721-59), a poem set to music by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-78).
See [Ref: 17021] for one printed in red and [Ref: 19172] for reversed version.
[Ref: 67871] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Convicerat enim eos Daniel ex ore suo Falsum dixisse Testimonium. To the Earl of Bute this Plate engrav'd from a Picture of [erased] is dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant Will.m Baillie.
Eckhout Pinx.t. WBailie sculp.t. 1764.
Cap.t Baillie's Fifty Guilder Print 1775.
Mezzotint. 395 x 405mm (15½ x 16"), large margins. Collectors ink stamp, 'Collection De Tableaux Paul Delaroff St. Petersbourg.' Backed with paper.
Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna. Baillie was art agent for the Earl of Bute. When this plate was first published the dedication read 'Eckhout's in His Lordship's Collection'; this example seems to have been published after the painting had been sold on. Paul Viktorovich Delaroff (1852–1913) was a prominent Russian privy councillor, legal scholar, and significant art collector based in Saint Petersburg and Pavlovsk. He was known for his extensive collection of prints, drawings, and paintings, particularly works from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Lugt L.663.
[Ref: 68142] £490.00

Le Mort. Suppose and suppose the Giraffe it should die, Old Bags he should play over Him, we'd sit down and cry
HB. [John Doyle.]
London Published by T. M.cLean, 26, Haymarket. Aug.t 11 1829.
Lithograph, sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15") Tipped into album sheet.
George IV (1762-1830) and Lady Conyngham (1769-1861) weep unrestrainedly over the dead giraffe. The former, in back view, seated on a stool facing the corpse, places a hand on the shoulder of the latter, who sits on the floor with her face buried in a handkerchief. The animal lies on its back, its legs swathed in bandages and raised, the neck extended along the ground with the head on a cushion. Lord Eldon (1751-1838), seated with legs dangling and toes turned in, plays the bagpipe (tune, "Highland Laddie"), beside a large pill-box and a prescription signed 'Abe[rne]thy'. Behind, curtains mark the creature’s stall (at Sandpit Gate, Windsor Park), where two Nubians give way to grief. The giraffe was a diplomatic gift from Muhammad Ali, Viceroy of Egypt (1769–1849) to George IV in the summer of 1827. He sent a second giraffe to France’s Charles X and a third to the Austrian emperor, each traveling with two Egyptian milk cows, two keepers, several African animals, and a translator. George kept his in the private menagerie at Sandpit Gate in Windsor Park and he allegedly visited it every day with Lady Conyngham. Interestingly this print was published two months before the creature’s demise.
BM Satires 15845.
[Ref: 67920] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Renatus Descartes, Nobil. Gall. Perroni Dom. Summus Mathem.et Philos..
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), sitting at a desk, writing in a large volume resting on a table; books on shelf in the background
[Ref: 67865] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Deserter.] Alexis. Adieu, chère Louise, adieu, Ma vie étoit à toi.... je la perds, vis heureuse: C'est là mon dernier voeu.
à Augsbourg chès J.H. Haid, et fils [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 410 x 295mm (16 x 11½").
A scene from 'Le Déserteur', an opera by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and librettist Michel-Jean Sedaine, first performed 1769. Having being tricked into believing his love Louise has married someone else, Alexis deserts, expecting to be arrested and shot. Having discovered the situation, Louise manages to secure him a pardon from the king, but collapses in his cell before she can produce it. Here Alexis is about to be taken out to the firing squad. Fortunately Louise revives and rushes out to save him, the subject of the print's pair.
[Ref: 68139] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Devonport Mail, Assisted by Six Fresh Post-Horses, Crossing the Downs Near Amesbury, Leaving Their Own Jaded Cattle Behind. Scenes During the Snow Storm December 1836. Plate 2.
Drawn by J. Pollard. on Stone by G.B. Campion. Printed by J. Graf.
London, Published February 1st 1837, by Ackermann & C.º 96 Strand.
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 305 x 440mm (12 x 17¼"). Nicks in edges.
A fully laden Royal Mail coach struggling through a snow drift with new horses, leaving the previous six to be recovered from deep snow. One of a scarce set of four winter coaching scenes, the others being: "The Liverpool Mail in a Snow-Drift"; "The Birmingham Mail Fast in the Snow"; and ''Louth Mail Stop by the Snow''. The winter of 1836 was particularly long and harsh, lasting from October to April 1837. A snowstorm across southern England began on Christmas Eve, mixed with high winds. A built-up of snow on the South Downs caused an avalanche to crash onto Lewes in Sussex on the 27th December, killing eight people.
[Ref: 67932] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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