Grosvenor Prints

The R.t Honble Charles Earle of Halifax, Viscount Sunbury, Baron Halifax, first Commissioner of the Treasury, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey, Privy Councellor and Knight of the most Noble Order of ye Garter.
Keneler eques pinx. Drevet sculp.
[n.d., c.1716.]
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
A half-length portrait of Charles Montagu (1661-1715), 1st Earl of Halifax, after Godfrey Kneller.
[Ref: 63326] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Lady Essex Mostÿn.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. 1705. I. Smith fec.
Sold by I. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") with large margins. Small tear in margin repaired left & right.
Portrait of Lady Essex Mostyn as a young woman holding flowers in her lap and wearing a plain, loose dress and robe. Lady Essex Mostyn was the daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham. She married the Welsh politician Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Bt. (1673-1739), with whom she had thirteen children.
CS 184.
[Ref: 63010] £360.00

[Lady Helena Oakeley] Miss Beatson.
C. Read pinx.t. Eliz.th Judkins fecit.
[British, n.d., 1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; verso in pencil on bottom Hackney Coll.; 355 x 255 (14 x 10") very large margins. Time stained. Hinged at top on mount.
A portrait of Helena Beatson (d.1839), as a child; with a spaniel, leaning on chair back wearing pale, plain dress and cap. She was the niece of Catherine Read (1723-78)., who painted this portrait, and became skilled amateur painter herself, known under her married name of Lady Helena Oakeley. The engraver, Elizabeth Judkins, was sister-in-law to mezzotinter James Watson.
CS 2, i of ii.
[Ref: 62741] £380.00

Orphée.
Ch. Eisen. inv. et f... De Longueil, Sc. 1762.
[n.d., c.1762.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼").
Orpheus, a legendary figure in Greek mythology, chief among poets and musician, standing with his right arm raised, surrounded by prostrated figures.
[Ref: 63226] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Adriani van Ostade Pictoris.
A. va ostade del. Efigies. J. Gole exc:cum Privil. ord. Holland.
[n.d., c.1700s.] [But later]
Mezzotint. 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Laid onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of the painter Adriaen van Ostade (1610 - 1685), a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women. His head and shoulders, slightly turned to left, wearing a wide brimmed hat; in a lettered oval; after Adriaen van Ostade.
[Ref: 63197] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

James Paine, Architect, and James Paine Jun.r.
Reynolds pinx.t. Watson fecit.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, at the Kings Arms in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1767.]
Mezzotint. 450 x 330mm (17¾ x 13"). Small repair in inscription area.
James Paine (1717-89), the British architect, with his son James Paine (1745-1829) the British sculptor and architect. James Paine Senior was an architect of considerable practice and published plates of Mansion House at Doncaster, 1751. He edited volumes of "Vitruvius Britannicus," and published two large volumes on "Mansions" in 1783. In 1785 he was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey.
CS: 111, ii of iii. Hamilton, p.54: ii of iii.
[Ref: 62736] £420.00

[Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke] Earl Percy, To His Grace the Duke of Northumberland K.G. &c. &c. &c. This Print is respectfully Inscribed by his Grace's most obedient Servant, Samuel William Reynolds.
Painted by T. Philips A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London Published Oct.r 1.st 1806. by S.W. Reynolds, 47, Poland Street.
Fine mezzotint, open lettered state. 355 x 235mm (14 x 9¼"). Mounted at sides in album paper.
A half-length portrait of Hugh Percy (1785-1847), celebrating his election as member for the City of Westminster, after the death of Charles James Fox, a seat he only held for two months. In 1817 he became the 3rd Duke of Northumberland.
Whitman 235, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 62735] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The true Effigies of Mr. Thomas Powell. Aet Suae 20 Annoque Dommini 1676.
Iohannis Drapentier, fec. [after Robert White.]
[n.d. c.1679]
Frontispiece engraving. Scarce. 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Laid on album paper at edges. Trimmed to platemark.
Thomas Powell, cleric of Hereford. Frontispiece to his 'Salve for soul sores'.
[Ref: 63200] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Rembrandt's Mistress.] From a celebrated Picture as large as Life mentioned particularly in the Life of Rembrandt. In the possesion of the Right Hon.b;e Lord Viscount Maynard.
Rembrandt pinx.t. R: Cooper del.t & sculp.t.
[Publish'd as the Act directs June 30.th 1781. by Richard Cooper N.o 24 Edward Street Cav.sh Square.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title, 18th century watermark. 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, affecting inscriptions.
A woman sits up in bed pulling back a curtain. After Rembrandt's painting 'A Woman in Bed' which currently resides in the Scottish National Gallery, said to be illustrating the Old Testament Apocryphal Book of Tobit, with Tobias' wife Sarah waiting for him to defeat the demon Asmodeus on their wedding night. The model is believed to be Rembrandt's partner Hendrickje Stoffels (1626-63).
Charrington 39, i of ii.
[Ref: 62734] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Rêverie.]
[Paul-César Helleu.]
Printed in Paris _ Copyright 1901 by Manzi, Joyant & Co.
Photogravure, printed in colours. 500 x 400mm (19¾ x 15¾"), with large margins. Uncut.
A glamourously-dressed woman seated on a river boat, a cityscape behind.

[Ref: 62658] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Giuseppe Ignazio Rossi. Architetto. Dis. 1727.
Carol Gregori Sc.
[n.d., c.1739.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 400 x 260mm (15¾ x 10¼"), very large margins.
Roundel portrait of Giuseppe Ignazio Rossi (1696-1731, engraved by Carlo Gegori (1702-59) as the frontispiece portrait for his 'La Libreria Mediceo-Laurenziana, architettura di Michelagnolo Buonarotti'. This work was a study of the Laurentian Library, designed and built by Michelangelo between 1525 and 1562.
[Ref: 62819] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of Gunda von Savigny.]
[Ludwig Emil Grimm.]
[1810.]
Scarce & fine etching with drypoint. 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼") Small margins.
A portrait of a woman in a fur-lined cap, in the style of Rembrandt. Kunigunde Brentano (1780-1863) married the famous lawyer, Friedrich Carl von Savigny. She sat at least twice for Grimm (1790-1863) who was the younger brother of the Brothers Grimm of fairy-tale fame.
BM 1855,0310.79, unidentified; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1985-52-6039.
[Ref: 62911] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mother Damnable, the remarkable Shrew of Kentish Town, the person who gave rife to the Sign of Mother Red Cap, on the Hampstead Road, near London AnDom, 1678. Taken from Caulfields Copy of an Unique Print in the Collection of I. Bindley Esq.r.
Pub.d. by C. Johnson. [n.d.,c.1790.]
Etching. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Copy of a print of 1676 satirising a shrewish woman in Kentish Town; showing a woman in rags sitting in front of a fire place, holding a crutch over it, on the ground next to her a pitcher and leaves, in the top left corner a sign with two cats hanging up-side down; illustration to the 'Wonderful Museum'.
[Ref: 63199] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Cath.e Stepney [facsimile signature].
A.E. Chalon R.A. S. Freeman.
London, Published by Henry Colburn, Dec.r 1837.
Rare stipple on chine collé. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins. Spotting on backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of novelist Catherine Pollok (1778-1845), who wrote novels under her married names of Catherine Manners and Catherine Stepney.
[Ref: 63294] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Stothard Esq.r R.A. Proof.
G.H. Harlow Pinx.t. W.H. Worthington Sculp.t.
Published May 1. 1818, by W.H. Worthington, 15, Compton Street, Brunswick Square.
Chine collé engraving. 345 x 300mm (13½ x 11¾''), with large margins. Foxing in margins, creasing in edges..
A fine half-length portrait of painter and engraver Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), posing before his painting 'The Pilgrimage to Canterbury', 1806-7.
[Ref: 63172] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

James Stuart, F.R.S. & F.S.A. From a Picture in the possession of Richard Brettingham, Esq.rr. Shotford Hall, Norfolk.
Proben Poinx.t. Rome. W. C. Edwards Sc'p.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Proof engraving on india. Sheet 255 x 325mm (10 x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-88), a compelling figure in the history of British design. Widely recognised for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism, Stuart developed his influential career across the various fields of interior decoration, sculpture, furnishing, metalwork and architecture. The creation of the 'Greek Style' and its impact on British design in the late 18th century is largely due to Stuart's landmark publication Antiquities of Athens (1762). This influential book was the first accurate record of Classical Greek architecture and served as a principal source book for architects and designers well into the 19th century.
[Ref: 63196] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

G. Stubbs, Animalium Pictor.
From an Original Drawing by P. Falconet. B. Reading Sc,,t.
Pub.d. by E. Jeffery, Pall Mall, 1792.
Stipple. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed into plate, laid on album paper at edges.
George Stubbs (1724-1806), the British painter of portraits, animal pictures, heroic animal histories and poetical scenes of rural life. He is known primarily for his images of horses and in 1758 he began his dissections of horses, which lead to the engraved work 'The Anatomy of the Horse' in 1766.
Ref: Christopher Lennox-Boyd pg. 379 ii of ii.
[Ref: 63198] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iiii of iii.
[Ref: 62772] £380.00

[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
published according to Act of Parliament by R. Sayer June 12, 1771.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Ink collector's stamp on reverse. Time stained. Tear from left edge to plate mark and around plate mark repaired.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer published the plate on the 20th June with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137,i of ii; Goodwin 79, i of iii. Lugt L.2178, Fritz Reiss of London, whose collection of mezzotints is described by Lugt as 'l'une des plus belles de ce genre'; It was dispersed in 1914.
[Ref: 62701] £420.00

[Sapeur des gardes suisses.]
J.G. Wille fecit.
[Paris: Johann Georg Wille, 1779.]
Etching with engraving, proof before title. Unidentified collector's stamp in inscription area.
Head and shoulders portrait of a soldier with a crossed-axes emblem on his busby and shoulder belt.
Nayler 197
[Ref: 63327] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Verité.]
Ch. Eisen inv. E. De Ghendt Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 115 x 85mm (4½ x 3½"), very large margins. Foxing near bottom of margin.
Portrait of a nude woman, holding a book and large quill. The woman may be Veritas is the name given to the Roman virtue of truthfulness, which was considered one of the main virtues any good Roman should possess.
[Ref: 63227] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Vestal Virgin.]
B. Wilson delin. W.m Humphrey fecit.
[London: Robert Sayer, c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, fine impression. 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line. Very slight crease on right.
A young woman wearing a cloak and veil, holding a pitcher and looking back over her shoulder at an incense brazier;
[Ref: 62773] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Watson-Wentworth] The Right Noble Charles Marquis of Rockingham, &c. &c. 1.
[engraved by Richard Houston after Benjamin Wilson.]
Printed for R. Sayer, Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck, near Sergeants Inn Fleet Street, London [n.d., c.1760].
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, some creasing in bottom left corner.
Three quarter length portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730-82), 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, standing in profile to the left. Rockingham was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister, in 1765-6 and 1782. For this third state a Garter star has been added to his jacket.
CS 104, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 62704] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin West, Esq.r President of the Royal Academy.
Engraved by H. Meyer, from an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A. For the fourteenth Number of the British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits.
Published April 13. 1813, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Very fine stipple engraving, plate 375 x 320mm (14¾ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Benjamin West (1738-1820) American painter of historical scenes. In 1760 he became the first American painter to travel to Italy, spending three years there. West met George III's librarian Joseph Dalton in 1762, who gave him a royal commission to paint the lovers Cymon and Iphigenia. It was partly due to Dalton's encouragement that West arrived in London, where he was to spend the rest of his career. In 1768 West played an instrumental role with the king in obtaining patronage for a Royal Academy of Arts, joining other charter members in helping to elect Reynolds as its first president. Eventually, despite his American origins, West became historical painter to the king in 1772, surveyor of the king's pictures in 1791, and second president of the Royal Academy in 1792, after Reynolds's death.
[Ref: 63019] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Der Weise. Fliesst hin, ihr Tage meines Lebens / Für mich benutzt und nicht vergebens / Fur meiner Mitgeschoepfe Glück.
Gemahlt von J.F. Schenau 1773 und gestochen von C.F. Stoelzel 1774.
Engraving. 550 x 415mm (21¾ x 16¼"), large margins. Small stains and slight creasing in title.
A 'wise man', surrounded by his antiques, point at a picture depicting charity.
[Ref: 63273] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with giant fur hat]
Joh Melchoir Roos pinxit. Joh. Georg Seiller. Heb. Scanphusian fecit. A: 1689.
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate at bottom . Thread margins on three sides.
Woman wearing a large cape secured with a chain she gathers the excess in her arms with flowers. She wears jewellry of pearls and an enormous fur hat. Possibly Regina Maria Pömer (née Behaim) (1646–1669), wife of Gabriel Pömer, who is depicted in at least two prints wearing similar giant fur headgear. Or perhaps Madame Braun; a sitter in another mezzotint portrait by Johann Georg Seiller after a painting by Johann Melchior Roos, which forms a pair with a print of her husband Captain Braun.
See BM 1902.1011.7808.
[Ref: 63091] £480.00

[William Woollet, Engraver.]
[T. Hearne F.S.A. advivum del. 1790. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp. 1790.]
[London Pub April 30 1795 by J. Thane, Spur Street, Leicester Square.]
Stipple, proof before letters. 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"), with large margins. Some foxing.
William Woollett (1735-85), famed for his engravings after Benjamin West, including the 'Death of General Wolfe'.
De Vesme 933, i of iii.
[Ref: 63098] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Woollet, Engraver.
T. Hearne F.S.A. advivum del. 1790. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp. 1790.
London Pub April 30 1795 by J. Thane, Spur Street, Leicester Square.
Stipple, printed in brown. 125 x 100mm (5 x 4").
William Woollett (1735-85), famed for his engravings after Benjamin West, including the 'Death of General Wolfe'.
De Vesme 933, iii of iii.
[Ref: 63097] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Worlidge.]
Tho.s. Worlidge. Fecit 1754.
Fine frontispiece drypoint etching. 200 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Small margins. Laid on album paper at edges.
Frontispiece to a Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems. Half length portrait of Worlidge (1700-66), seated at table to left, etching plate from bust of Cicero, looking towards the viewer, in cap and fur-trimmed gown, with easel behind him, in the style of Rembrandt.
[Ref: 63202] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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