Grosvenor Prints

[Man in turban.]
[Jo. Henric. Sperling Hamburg pinxit. Jo. Jac. Haid sculpsit et excud. A.V.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into plate, losing inscriptions at bottom, creased, ink spot in background.
A head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man in a turban.
[Ref: 68124] £320.00

Lady Catherine Manners. Daughter to his Grace the Duke of Rutland.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx. T. Gaugain sculp.
Publish'd Jan.y 1785 by T. Gaugain, No. 4 Little Compton Street, St. Ann's, London.
Fine stipple and etching printed in brown, title in open letters. 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins
Portrait of Catherine Manners (1779-1829), as a young child, wearing a frilled cap, after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). She married Cecil Forester, 1st Baron Forester.
Hamilton p.116, II of II.
[Ref: 67905] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Frederick G. Manning [&] Maria Manning.
[n.d. c.1849]
Scarce pair of engravings, sheet 130 x 275mm (5¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Creases from where previously folded.
Three-quarter seated portrait of Frederick George Manning (d.1849) and seated bust portrait of Maria Manning (nee de Roux c.1821–49). They were hanged on the roof of London’s Horsemonger Lane Gaol on 13 November 1849, after she and her husband were convicted of murdering her lover, Patrick O’Connor, in the case that became known as the ''Bermondsey Horror.'' It marked the first execution of a husband and wife together in England since 1700. Charles Dickens (1812-70) witnessed the public execution and condemned the behavior of the crowd in a letter to 'The Times' that same day. He later drew on Maria’s life when creating the character of Mademoiselle Hortense, Lady Dedlock’s maid in Bleak House.
[Ref: 68159] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Medusa Antique.
T. Worlidge Fecit.
[n.d. c.1750].
Etching with aquatint, sheet 100 x 85mm (4 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate.
Bust portrait of Medusa in profile to the right, mouth slightly open and within an oval medallion. In Greek mythology, Medusa, was one of three Gorgon sisters and depicted as a woman with snakes for hair, whose terrifying gaze could turn anyone who looked at her into stone. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
[Ref: 68015] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Mercer Esq.r
Painted by Mr. Illidge. Engraved by W. Say, Engraver to the Duke of Gloucester.
Published by Agnew and Zanetti, Repository of Arts, No 10 Exchange Street, Manchester, June, 1831.
Mezzotint, scarce proof impression with publishers' blindstamp at bottom. 550 x 395mm (21½ x 15½"). Tears entering plate repaired, creasing in inscription area.
Portrait of Samuel Mercer with his greyhounds, his estate in background. After Thomas Henry Illidge (1799-1851), who worked as a portraitist in the large manufacturing towns of Lancashire, painting the local civic and financial celebrities.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 31872].
[Ref: 68187] £380.00

[Carey Mordaunt] The R.t Hon.ble the Countess of Peterborough.
G.Kneller Bart Pinxt. J.Faber Fecit.
London Printed for & Sold by Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street ~ & Jnº King at the Globe in Poultrey. [n.d., c.1750.]
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Narrow margins.
Portrait of Carey Mordaunt, Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth (née Fraser, c. 1685 -1709), maid of honour to Charles II's queen consort, Catherine of Braganza, from 1674 to 1680. From the series of thirteen plates 'Beauties at Hampton Court'. The plates were originally full-length, but all were subsequently cut down.
CS 28, ii of ii (addenda). Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67903] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d M.r Zachariah Mudge, Prebend of Exeter &c. &c.
Reynolds pinx.t. Watson fecit.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, at the Kings Arms Cornhill [engraved c.1766 but later].
Mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), on wove paper. Spotting.
Reverend Zachariah Mudge (1694-1769), a clergyman known for his sermons, painted by Reynolds three times, in 1761, 1762 & 1766. When his friend John Smeaton finished the Eddystone Lighthouse in 1759, the pair sang the Old Hundredth Psalm as a thanksgiving from the top of the lighthouse.
CS 106, iii of iii. Goodwin 46, iii of ii. Hamilton p.52, iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68012] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Issac Newton.
Drawn and scraped MDCCLX by James MacArdell from an Original Portrait Painted by Enoch Seeman now in the Possession of Thomas Hollis F.R and A.SS.
[1760.] MDCCLX.
Mezzotint. Sheet 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed close to plate and backed onto album paper at sides.
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor.
CS 138 ii of ii. G78. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Wellcome Collection 7411i for the engraving.
[Ref: 68160] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Isaac Newton.
Drawn and scraped MDCCLX by James MacArdell from an Original Portrait Painted by Enoch Seeman now in the Possession of Thomas Hollis F.R and A.SS.
[1760.] MDCCLX.
Mezzotint. 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"), with large margins.
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor.
CS 138 ii of ii. G78. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Wellcome Collection 7411i for the engraving.
[Ref: 68161] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Issac Newton.
Drawn and scraped MDCCLX by James MacArdell from an Original Portrait Painted by Enoch Seeman now in the Possession of Thomas Hollis F.R and A.SS.
[1760.] MDCCLX.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed close to plate and backed onto album paper. Creasing in upper and lower left corners.
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor.
CS 138 i of ii. G78. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Wellcome Collection 7411i for the engraving.
[Ref: 68158] £360.00

[Theophilia Palmer.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R. Smith.
Published June 24th 1778, by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside.
Fine mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at edges.
An untitled half-length portrait of Theophilia Palmer 1757-1848), niece of the artist. Her daughter by Robert Lovell Gwatkinm, Theophilia Gwatkin, was Reynolds' 'Strawberry Girl'.
CS 128, iii of iii. Hamilton pg 125, iii of iii. Frankau 266, ii of iii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68020] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Theophilia Palmer.]
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Published the 11th June 1777 by J.R. Smith N.º 10 Batemans Soho Square & W.m Humphrey Gerrard St.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), 18th century watermark. Thread margins, slight central crease.
An untitled half-length portrait of Theophilia Palmer 1757-1848), niece of the artist. Her daughter by Robert Lovell Gwatkinm, Theophilia Gwatkin, was Reynolds' 'Strawberry Girl'.
CS 128, i of iii. Hamilton pg 125, i of iii. Frankau 266, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68022] £320.00

[John Paterson Esquire. MDCCCLXXVII. His Life was gentle, and the Elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the World, ''This was a Man!''.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
[n.d., c.1789.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''), large margins Title added in old ink mss. Repaired tear through inscription into image, two worm holes in margin, spotting. Damaged.
A portrait of John Paterson (1705-89), painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1777 on a commission from architect Robert Mylne. As Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 1765-8, Paterson played a key role in securing the finance for Mylne's Blackfriar's Bridge. The bridge is referenced by the paper Paterson holds: 'A plan to raise 300,000 £ for the purpose of completing the bridge at Blackfriars and redeeming the toll thereon, and embanking the north side of the Thames'. Paterson was the first Clerk of the Barbers' Comany after a break from the Surgeons in 1745, becoming Master in 1776. The company acquired the original painting in 1890.
CS: 29. i of ii. Goodwin 30, i of ii. Hamilton p.54, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of iii.
[Ref: 68048] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

John Paterson Esquire. MDCCCLXXVII. His Life was gentle, and the Elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the World, ''This was a Man!''.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
[n.d., c.1789.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''). Small margins.
A portrait of John Paterson (1705-89), painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1777 on a commission from architect Robert Mylne. As Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 1765-8, Paterson played a key role in securing the finance for Mylne's Blackfriar's Bridge. The bridge is referenced by the paper Paterson holds: 'A plan to raise 300,000 £ for the purpose of completing the bridge at Blackfriars and redeeming the toll thereon, and embanking the north side of the Thames'. Paterson was the first Clerk of the Barbers' Comany after a break from the Surgeons in 1745, becoming Master in 1776. The company acquired the original painting in 1890.
CS: 29. ii of ii. Goodwin 30, ii of ii. Hamilton p.54, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of iii.
[Ref: 68049] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Paterson Esquire. MDCCCLXXVII. His Life was gentle, and the Elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the World, ''This was a Man!''.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
[n.d., c.1789.]
Mezzotint, unfinished proof before all letters, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''), with large margins Creasing centre.
A portrait of John Paterson (1705-89), painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1777 on a commission from architect Robert Mylne. As Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 1765-8, Paterson played a key role in securing the finance for Mylne's Blackfriar's Bridge. The bridge is referenced by the paper Paterson holds in the completed plate (but not present here): 'A plan to raise 300,000 £ for the purpose of completing the bridge at Blackfriars and redeeming the toll thereon, and embanking the north side of the Thames'. Paterson was the first Clerk of the Barbers' Comany after a break from the Surgeons in 1745, becoming Master in 1776. The company acquired the original painting in 1890. In
CS: 29. before i of ii. Goodwin 30, before i of ii. Hamilton p.54, before i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state i of iii.
[Ref: 68050] £360.00

[St Paul.] Done from the Original Painting in the Collection of the Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Tyrconnel, Knight of the most Hon:ble Order of the Bath To whom this Plate is Humbly Dedicated by his Lordship's Obliged and Obedient Servant, John Faber.
S.r Ant.y Van Dyke pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1741.
Sold by Faber at ye Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Fine mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
An old bearded man swathed wearing a cloak with one hand on a book with leather ties. The same plate was reissued by Robert Sayer with the title 'Saint Paul'.
Not is CS.
[Ref: 67828] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Margaretta Elizabeth Perceval] The Right Hon.ble Margaretta, Elizabth, Baroness Arden.
G. F. Joseph Pinxit. W. Skelton Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Sheet 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate.
A head and shoulders portrait of Margaretta Elizabeth Perceval (1768-1851), wife of Charles George Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden, and a keen amateur artist.
[Ref: 67851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Hugh Peters, A Remarkable Character in the Time of Oliver Cromwell, & who was supposed to be one of the two Masked Executioners of King Charles the First. [Wonderful Museum]
[Published by Alex.r Hogg & C.º] [n.d., c.1805-8.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4") Trimmed, losing subtitle and publication line.
A half-length portrait in oval of Hugh Peter (or Peters, 1598-1660), a Parliamentarian preacher who advocated the trial and execution of Charles I and is said to have been the headman's assistant. An illustration from 'The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine'.
[Ref: 67859] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Pope, Poeta Anglus, Ob: A.o 1744 Aetat: 57. Hanc Imaginem ex ipso Archetypo, a Vanlo picto 1742 expressam viro Honorabili Guilmo Murray Solicatori Generali apud quem Deponitur. Humillime D.D.D. Johannes Faber.
[Engraved by John Faber Jnr after Joseph Van Loo.]
Price 2 Shill Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d. c.1750].
Fine mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), with large margins.
Three-quarter portrait of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744), looking towards the right, with paper in his right hand and his left hand slightly pushing his wig back from his head.
CS 294. ii of ii. Russell ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67532] £380.00

[Four heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court.] M.r Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting &c. Vol. IV. p.22. speaking of the Cartoons at Hampton Court, observes that Sir John Thornhill ''having made copious studies of the heads, hands and feet, intended to publish an exact account of the whole, for the use of students: but this work has never appeared''. As the present plate was found among others belonging to the late M.r Hogarth, it is not impossible but that it might have been engraved by him for his father-in-law S.r James's intended publication.
Published as the Act directs May 14, 1781 by M.rs Hogarth, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields.
Etching. 360 x 215mm (14¼ x 8½"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
A detail of one of Raphael's cartoons at Hampton Court, 'The Conversion of the Proconsul (Acts 13: 6-12)', now in the V&A. To the right is the Jewish sorcerer Elymas who Paul struck blind when Elymas attempted to stop Paul converting the proconsul Sergius Paulus; to the left are the head of three of the onlookers. John Thornhill (father of William Hogarth's wife, Jane, the publiher of the print) studied the cartoons in 1729. Paulson suggests that it is possible that he also etched the plate (as the work does not resemble Hogarth's), and Jane used the more profitable name of Hogarth.
Paulson: 264, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 67931] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, President of the Royal Academy, Member of the Imperial Academy at Florence, Doctor of Laws of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by V. Green, Dec.r 1.st 1780. N.º 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Coloured mezzotint. 480 x 380mm (19 x 15"), large margins. Laid on board, spots and damp stains in margins.
A three-quarter self-portrait of Reynolds wearing his robes as President of the Royal Academy, one hand holding a scroll, resting on a table with a bust of Michelangelo.
CS 110, i of ii; Russell ii of vi; ; Hamilton p.57, ii of v; Whitman 105, ii of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68075] £490.00

[Untitled self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.]
[Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. Caroline Kirkley sculp.t.]
[London Pub.d as the Act Directs, March 15. 1795. by A. Molteno, Printseller to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No. 76, St James's Street.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, inscription area uncleaned. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Collector's stamp on reverse, large margins.
A half-length self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), in a jacket with a high colour, depicted in a plain frame. The engraver was the daughter of Ralph Kirkley, Reynolds' man-servant for over 30 years, and was brought up in Reynolds' house in Leicester Square. In 1789 she was apprenticed to J.R. Smith for 5 years for £50 premium, probably as a print colourist as this is the only known mezzotint by her. She also exhibited as the RA in 1796 and 1797; an engraving after her portrait of Thomas Bewick was publishd in 1798 (see ref 33972).
Hamilton p.57, i of iii; CS 123, before i of ii; Russell i of iii. Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and Alfred Morrison (1821-1897),.
[Ref: 67990] £380.00

[S.r Joshua Reynolds.]
Painted by himself. R. Sayer Excudit. Engraved by James Watson.
[London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer. Map & Printseller, No.53, Fleet Street; published as the Act directs 10 July 1770.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
A half-length self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), hatless, holding a portfolio.
Hamilton p.57, i of ii; CS 123, i of ii; Goodwin 71, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67988] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

S.r Joshua Reynolds.
Painted by himself. R. Sayer Excudit. Engraved by James Watson.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer. Map & Printseller, No.53, Fleet Street; published as the Act directs 10 July 1770.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Narrow margins.
A half-length self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), hatless, holding a portfolio.
Hamilton p.57, ii of ii; CS 123, ii of ii; Goodwin 71, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67987] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, ~ Painted by Himself. Drawn and Engraved by Charles Townley Member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Florence, From the Original Portrait in the Medici Collection.
Published as the Act directs June 30th 1777 [but 1786-1790, by Jean Marc Pascal Berlin.
Proof mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 420 x 280mm (16½ x 11"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of Joshua Reynolds, in the robes of an Oxford Doctor of Civil Law, holding a roll. The publisher, Johann Marc Pascal, founded the 'Königlich Hofkupferstichofficin' in Berlin in 1786 but published nothing after 1790. He purchased a number of the plates for Townley's mezzotint portraits.
Hamilton p.57, i of ii. CS 24, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67984] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremiah Rich.] The Penns Dexterity. By Theife incomparable Contractions by which a Sentence is Writt as soone as a Word Allowed by Authority and past the two Universitys with great aprobation and aplause Invented and taught by Jeremiah Rich 1659.
[n.d., c.1659.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Jeremiah Rich (died 1669), leading stenography specialist of the period who perfected the system invented by his uncle, William Cartwright, but without giving him credit, claiming it to be his own invention. Frontispiece to "Penns Dexterity", 1659.
[Ref: 68007] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremiah Rich.]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 75mm (4¼ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Jeremiah Rich (died 1669), leading stenography specialist of the period who perfected the system invented by his uncle, William Cartwright, but without giving him credit, claiming it to be his own invention.
[Ref: 68006] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremiah Rich.]
[n.d., c.1669.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 55 x 35mm (2¼ x 1¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Jeremiah Rich (died 1669), leading stenography specialist of the period who perfected the system invented by his uncle, William Cartwright, but without giving him credit, claiming it to be his own invention. Frontis to "The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter", 1669.
[Ref: 68003] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rev.d Mr William Romaine, A.M.]
[F. Cotes pinx.t. R.Houston fecit.]
[Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins.
William Romaine (1714-1795), a French protestant who came to England at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. A popular preacher he was an ardent follower of Whitefield. In 1753 he published a pamphlet against the bill for naturalising the Jews.
CS: 105, i of ii. Ex: Collections of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd and Mrs. E.M. Hamilton
[Ref: 68183] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Rudd. M.r D. Perreau.
London Magazine. Publish'd as the Act directs, August 1.st 1775.
Engraving, 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins.
Two portrait busts in ovals. Margaret Caroline Rudd (c.1745-98), courtesan and accused forger. Rudd lived with the bankrupt merchant and stock speculator Daniel Perreau (c.1734-76) who, along with his identical twin Robert, were found to be involved in forgery. The twins accused Rudd of being the mastermind behind the plan, but while the brothers were convicted and executed Rudd was acquitted. After the executions Rudd reportedly became the mistress of the libertine and politician Thomas Lyttelton, second Baron Lyttelton (1744-79) and was also the mistress of Dr Johnson's biographer James Boswell in the 1780s.
See BM Satires 5425.
[Ref: 67895] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by Walter Shropshire May 1.st 1778 N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), large margins. Creasing.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, i of ii. Goodwin 69, i of ii. Hamilton p.8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68054] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Published May. 1st 1778 by W.Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street [but later].
Mezzotint. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), on wove paper. Tear in right margin touching plate. Stain top right.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, ii of ii. Goodwin 69, ii of ii. Hamilton p.8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68052] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by Walter Shropshire May 1.st 1778 N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), large margins. With the 'K' collector's stamp of Thomas Kirk. Narrow margins, crease
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, i of ii. Goodwin 69, i of ii. Hamilton p.8. Lugt 1623, Thomas Kirk (c.1765 97), painter and engraver. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68053] £580.00

Lady Sale.
[Engraved by William James Ward after Sir Thomas Lawrence.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint. 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"), with large margins.
A half-length portrait of Lady Florentia Sale (née Wynch, 1790-1853), wearing a turban. She travelled the world with her husband, Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale (1782–1845), and was famously taken prisoner while the British Army retreated from Kabul in 1842, during the First Anglo-Afghan War. She published her diary as 'A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-42'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68192] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Paul Sandby] P. Sanby, Rurum Delineator.
P. Falconet del 1769. D. Pariset sculp.
Sold by P. Falconet Broad Street Carnaby Market, & Ryland & BryerCornhill. Pr. 2s.
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Small margins.
A bust profile portrait in oval of artist Paul Sandby (1731-1809), from a series of portrait of the members of the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 67863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cuthbert Sidenham.] This shade's the Authors outside: but this booke his inside opens, prethee doe not looke [...]
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Cuthbert Sydenham (or Sidenham) (1622 - 1654) received Presbyterian ordination, and was a Reformed Calvinistic Preacher during the era of the Westminster Assembly. Frontis to Hypocrisie Discovered (1657).
[Ref: 68001] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus Walliae Princeps &c. &c. &c.
Peint par L Tocqué 1748 et Gravé par J. G. Will en la même année.
Etching and engraving. 460 x 330mm (18¼ x 13¼"), with large margins. Small tear in margins taped, margins spotted and stained.
Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, half-length, turned to right; in armour, with insignia of the Order of the Garter; in trompe l'oeil masonry border, title and coat of arms.
Sharp: 230. Le Blanc 1847
[Ref: 68141] £650.00

Frances Stuart Countess of Portland.
Antonius van Dyke Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alexander Browne at the blew Balcony in little Queen Street. [n.d. c.1680.]
Scarce & fine mezzotint, 17th century watermark; 365 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland (1617-94), daughter of Esmé Stuart, Duke of Lennox. She married Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland.
CS: 29. Simon Turner 39.
[Ref: 67829] £360.00

The Student.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1: 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Coloured mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Tears in top margin taped, staining in left edge.
A seated young man looks at his drawing of the classical sculpture on the table behind. A landscape is seen through the window beyond.
D'Oench: 107. Hamilton: 158, iii of iii. Chaloner Smith: 189, iii of iv. Frankau: 337, iv of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iv of iv.
[Ref: 67954] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Frederic de Thoms] Fredericus. Comes de Thoms.
[Engraved by John Faber Jnr after V. Tucker.]
[n.d., c.1736.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, but with title of state iv pasted on. 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), large margins Tatty
A half length portrait of Frederic de Thoms (1669-1746), a German diplomat and art collector. As the Duke of Brunswick's envoy, he came to London in 1719 and became secretary to George I. He was the first Freemason in Germany, a fact commemorated in later states of this print, which had a masonic jewel added. This proof state is the only one in which he looks to the side rather than the front.
CS 343, state i of iii, 'one known'. Russell iv of iv for title. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67534] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Tomkins] Mr. Tomkins. From the original Picture, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The last Portrait Sir J. Reynolds Exhibited 1789. Engraved by Charles Turner.
Published by the Proprietor, Foster Lane, London, May 6 1805.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Slight mount stain. Unidentified collector's stamp 'I F P' on reverse.
Portrait of Thomas Tomkins (1743 - 1816), calligrapher and author of ‘Rays of Genius' and other works on penmanship. He sits to left at a small table with inkstand, eyes to front, holding paper in his left hand and a quill pen in his right; curtain behind.
Whitman 561, ii. Hamilton p.69, iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68017] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[J.M.W. Turner] The Fallacy of Hope.
[Alfred, Count d'Orsay.]
London. Published by J. Hogarth. No. 5, Haymarket, Jan.y 1st 1851. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
Rare lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing sheet. Printed area 365 x 230mm (14½ x 9"). Slight loss in india on bottom.
A caricatured portrait of landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), standing by a piano, stirring a cup of coffee, at the house of businessman and art collector Elhanan Bicknell. The title is taken from Turner's incomplete poetic composition "Fallacies of Hope". From a sketch by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue:vol VI. pg:414.
[Ref: 67892] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Vestal. From an Original Picture in the possession of Ja.s Ferguson Esq.r M.P.]
S. Woodforde del.t. S.W. Reynolds sculp.t.
London: Pub as the Act directs Feb.y 15. 1800, by M. Parr, No.52. Pall Mall.
Rare mezzotint with etching, proof before title. Sheet 455 x 330mm (18 x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
A Vestal Virgin, three-quarter length, standing behind an altar with burning fire, holding a small plate in her left hand; etched border around image.
Whitman: 465, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Vicar of Wakefield] Lucilla.
Engraved from an Original Picture by Edw.d Fisher.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett N.º 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 Dec.r 1776.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, losing publisher's inscription at bottom.
A half-length portrait in oval of a young woman reading, wearing a dark veil and cape, with a cross around her neck. One of a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith.
CS 64, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3.
[Ref: 67598] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Your Obedient Sert James Watt [facsimile singature].
Painted by John Mc. Donald. Engraved by John Le Conte. Printed by A. Mc.Glashon.
Edinburgh. Published. May 1858. By William H. Vannan, Printseller & Published, 46 Home Street.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 570 x 410mm (22½ x 16"), large margins. Six wormholes top margin outside platemark.
A seated portrait of Scottish inventor James Watt (1736-1819), before a window with a factory behind. The design of one of his engines is at his feet.
W: 3128. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66132] £320.00

[Device of John Wight.] Welcom The Wight That Bringeth Such Light.
[n.d., c.1580.]
Woodcut. Sheet 90 x 75mm (3½ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
A publisher's device incorporating a portrait of bookseller and publisher John Wight (1549-89), who traded at the Sign of the Rose in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, between 1549 and 1589 and published Shakespeare. He holds a book titled Scientia, which likely functions as a ''canting'' device (that is, an emblematic motif similar to a merchant’s mark), exploiting a pun on the surname: ''Welcome the Wight that bringeth such light.''
[Ref: 68000] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[William Wollaston] M.r W. Wollaston.
Vertue sculpsit.
[London: James & John Knapton, c.1731.]
Engraving. 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Very small repaired wormhole.
A half-length portrait in oval of philosophical writer William Wollaston (1659-1724), used as the frontispiece to his 'The Religion of Nature Delineated'.
[Ref: 67862] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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