Grosvenor Prints

[Classical bust] Apud Card. Caesium
[Anon, c.1650]
Engraving, platemark 220 x 150mm (8½ x 6"). False margins added.
[Ref: 46362] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Athlete; a classical cameo] XXXV.
G.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Etching on india paper, 250 x 185mm. 9¾ x 7¼". Light spotting; a fine impression, with margins.
Nude young male figure with inscription and table with jar; in an oval design. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2292. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21168] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Bacchanalian festival; a classical cameo] XLIX.
G.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Etching printed in brown ink on india paper, sheet 260 x 200mm. 10½ x 8". Trimmed within plate; light spotting.
Two satyr-type male figures and a female reveller. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2306. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21169] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Bacchus; a classical cameo] [Plate 13.]
[G.B. Cipriani. F. Bartolozzi.]
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Stipple and etching printed in brown ink on india paper, 270 x 210mm. 10½ x 8¼". Light spotting.
Bust of Bacchus, looking up towards top right; in an oval medallion. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2320, I. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21171] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical guitarist] R. de los Rios [pencil signature.]
R. de los Rios. Sculpt. Charles Sprague Pearce. Paris
[n.d. c.1890.]
Engraving. 357 x 279mm. 14" x 11".
Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929), born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France.
[Ref: 8693] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical guitarist] R. de los Rios [pencil signature.]
R. de los Rios. Sculpt. Charles Sprague Pearce. Paris
[n.d. c.1890.]
Engraving, plate 357 x 279mm (14" x 11"), with very large margins.
Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929), born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France.
[Ref: 58164] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical guitarist] R. de los Rios [pencil signature.]
R. de los Rios. Sculpt. Charles Sprague Pearce. Paris
[n.d. c.1890.]
Engraving on vellum, plate 357 x 279mm (14" x 11"), with very large margins.
Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929), born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France.
[Ref: 58165] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[River scene with ruined castle.]
Clerisau del. Berardi Scul. appo Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S.
[n.d., c. 1760.]
Rare etching. 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½), with large margins. Slight creasing.
After Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), draughtsman and architect. He went to Rome in 1749 and was working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam’s 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. The engraver is Fabio Berardi (1728-88).
[Ref: 52016] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical ruin.]
Clerisau del. Wagner Scul. Venezia C.P.E.S.
[n.d., c. 1760.]
Rare etching. 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½), large margins. Slight crease in title.
After Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), draughtsman and architect. He went to Rome in 1749 and was working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam’s 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution.
[Ref: 52001] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical Scene.]
[n.d. c.1780.]
Mezzotint with etching. Plate 213 x 161mm. 8½ x 6¼". Trimmed within the platemark to the left, no damage to the image.
Possibly the muse Terpsichore introducing a young woman to a possible suitor, educated and well-dressed. It was believed that the muses would help inspire people to do their best.
[Ref: 14941] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical sculpture: a nude warrior seated on the ground surrounded by his armour, weapon and shields.] Tire du Cabinet de Mr. Denon.
[French, c.1820.]
Rare lithograph, sheet 275 x 265mm. 10¾ x 10½". Cut, repaired damage at top.
Unidentified sculpture from the collection of Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (1747-1825), French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. From a series of antiquities depicted by the printmaker and painter Pierre Bouillon (1776-1831). Bouillon, from Thiviers, was joint winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1797 with his painting 'Death of Cato the Younger'.
[Ref: 15794] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Printed Work of Claud Lovat Fraser.
[By Christopher Millard.]
London Henry Danielson 1923.
Book, bibliography, 8vo (255 x 155mm, 10 x 6") five plates by Clark including portrait frontispiece, pp. 106. Quarter black buckram with printed spine label, Lovat Fraser Curwen patterned paper-covered boards. One of a limited edition of 275 copies printed on antique de luxe paper numbered '183' and signed by the author. With errata slip and extra spine label. A very good copy, uncut, with minor rubbing to extremities.
Claud Lovat Fraser (1890 - 1921) was an artist and designer of theatrical characters and scenes, and decorations for chap-books and broadsides, which were published under the title Flying Fame (1913). Judged by their imaginative quality, these latter designs are perhaps the most important which he achieved. On the outbreak of the European War in 1914 Fraser joined the army, and in 1916 was invalided home from Flanders. In 1919 he held the first representative exhibition of his work, and established his reputation. In the next year his designs for the settings and costumes of As You Like It and The Beggar's Opera, produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, brought him unusual fame, and from this time onwards he produced innumerable designs for the theatre. He made a close study also of the various approaches to process-reproduction in colour, and this resulted in a prolific output by him of booklets, rhyme sheets, end papers, trade cards, and similar matter. He had realized early the importance of visualizing design and type together as an inseparable whole; and the methods which he came to employ in his printed and published work exercised a considerable influence. Among the later books which he decorated, Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton (1922) and The Luck of the Bean-Rows by Charles Nodier (1921) are notable examples. He made designs for other theatrical productions, such as La Serva Padrona, Lord Dunsany's If, two ballets for Madame Tamar Karsavina, and Gustav Holst's Savitri.
[Ref: 11922] £220.00

[Landscape with Flight into Egypt] [Engraved from the Original Picture, in the Collection of the Revd Dr Newton...Published by F. Vivares may 5th 1757]
Chatelin & Vivares fecit [1757]
Etching and engraving, platemark 415 x 500mm (16¼ x 19¾"). Small margins; stains; very fine unfinished proof.
Landscape with Mary, Joseph and the Christ child on left, peasant and cows crossing a bridge on right, and a flock in distance. After a painting by Claude Lorrain (c.1600-82), 17th century landscape painter whose paintings were immensely important for the development of British landscape painting in the 18th century, largely disseminated through prints such as this.
[Ref: 38587] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

After a Picture of Claude Lorrain [ms] [In the Collection of Dr. Mead]
[Claudio Gillee Lorenese pinxit 1656. Vivares Sculp]
[Published by C. Knapton 1741]
Engraving, platemark 315 x 405mm (12½ x 16"). Scarce proof before letters; platemark broken in places. Very large margins.
Landscape with bridge in background, fishermen casting nets from a small boat, and a group of figures in the foreground, including a lady putting on stockings, typical of Claude Lorrain's earlier works. Engraving (in reverse) of Claude's painting 'The Ford', executed by Francis Vivares while the painting was in the collection of the physician and collector Dr Richard Mead. The painting is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and it is now believed that it was executed in 1636 rather than 1656 as claimed on the lettered later state of this print. From a successful and well-known series of landscape prints from paintings in important British collections.
For a portrait of Mead see ref. 11688. Private Collection.
[Ref: 38516] £320.00

[The Embarkation of Carlo and Ubaldo] In the Collection of His Grace the late Duke of Kent
Claudio Gillee Lorenese pinx P.C. Canot Sculp
Publish'd by Ar. Pond May 1744
Very fine engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16"), with very large margins.
Scene from Torquato Tasso's epic poem 'Jerusalem Delivered' ('La Gerusalemme Liberata', 1581), a largely mythified account of the First Crusade in which Christian knights fought to seize the city of Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate. Here the knights Carlo and Ubaldo embark on a voyage; the wizard of Ascalon (who has assisted them) departs on the left. Engraving of a 1667 painting by Claude Lorrain (?1604/5-1682), now in the Art Gallery of Ontario.
[Ref: 40465] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The finding of Moses] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 47.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Sept.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 260 x 210mm, 10¼ x 8½". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Classical pastoral scene, engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21833] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Pastoral scene with nymph and satyr.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 55.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Aug. 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
St Ursula was a a Romano-British princess who set sail to get married with 11,000 virginal handmaidens. All were beheaded by the Huns. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21839] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Italianate port scene.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 61.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 270 x 190mm, 10½ x 7½". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21841] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Italianate pastoral scene.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 62.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 270 x 190mm, 10½ x 7½". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Peasants driving a cow and goats across a bridge. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21842] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Landing of Cleopatra.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 63.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
The landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21843] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Samuel anointing David King of Israel.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 69.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Samuel anointing David King of Israel in the portico of a temple. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21847] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Mercury with Herse and Aglaurus.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 70.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
The god Mercury with Herse, with whom he is in love, and her sister Aglaurus. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21848] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The women of Troy destroying the Greek fleet.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 71.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Trojan women setting fire to the Greek fleet. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21849] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Shipwreck in a storm.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 72.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
A shipwreck off a rocky coastline with a keep. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21850] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Ulysses restituting Chryseis to her father Chryses.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 80.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins. Creased left of centre.
A sea-port, with Ulysses returning Chryseis to her father Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21858] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pastoral scene.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 52.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Herdsmen driving cattle and goats across a small wooden bridge. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21859] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 188.]
[Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.]
[Published Mar 1st 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.]
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. Very rare proof before all letters. 210 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"), with large margins. Slight foxing in the margins.
An Italianate scene of a shepherd taking to passers-by, underneath a hilltop town, a bay behind. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 52516] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with a Herd of Goats] Engraved by W.m Wilson from an Excellent Picture of Claud Lorrain painted in 1641 in the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble L.d James Cavendish. 6
[c.1750]
Engraving. Platemark 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Small margins. Very fine; pinhole upper centre. 41670
Landscape after Claude Lorrain (1604/5-82), French painter often regarded as the greatest of all ideal landscape artists, whose depictions of idealised pastoral scenes were immensely popular amongst the European nobility and clergy. Subsequent British landscape painters such as Richard Wilson and JMW Turner were strongly influenced by his work.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 38517] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Pastoral landscape with figures and cattle by a shore]
Claude fecit Roma 1676 [in image lower left]. R. Earlom sculpt.
Pub. Jan. 20 1802 by J. & J. Boydell, No 90, Cheapside &c at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall.
Etching, platemark 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). Large margins. State before mezzotinting.
Etching by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
For a set of 20 plates from the series, in etched outline states, see ref. 20226.
[Ref: 37197] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Imperatoris Cladvdii Apotheosis Sive Consecratio. Clavdivs post mortem, Veterum superstitione, inter Diuos relatus, radiata...
[Pietro Santi Bartoli]
[Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi]
Some creasing. Small margins.
From the series Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum (The Wonders of Ancient Rome). A frieze representing the apotheosis of Emperor Claudius, bust portrait of the Emperor placed above an eagle standing above Jove's globe and thunderbold and a pile of trophies and armour; after an antique relief in the collection of the King of Spain.
[Ref: 54903] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Claudius I.] Ti. Claudius. Caesar. Aug. P. M. Tr. P. Imp. Claudius irrisae privato in tempore vitae...
[Wolfgang Kilian.][After Raffaello Schiaminossi.]
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Sheet: 205 x 130mm (8 x 5''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet, stained.
A portrait of Claudius I from a series of thirteen busts of Roman Emperors engraved by Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662) after Raffaello Schiaminossi.
[Ref: 49699] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Claudius Cæsar.
Titian del.t. J.Pass sc.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis, 1826.
Colour printed stipple with engraving. 180 x 135mm, 7 x 5¾".
Oval portrait of Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus (10BC-AD41), after Titian. Became emperor as by the virtue of being the last male member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty left alive after the purges of Tiberius and Caligula, having been regarded as no threat because of physical infirmities. He added Britain to the empire. The 'Encyclopedia Londonensis' was published from 1796 to 1829, compiled by John Wilkes, edited by John Jones.
[Ref: 18550] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Claude. V. La Vraye Noblesse vient de Vertu, et n'y en a point d'autre.
F.L.D. Ciartres excudit Cum privegio Regis Christianiss.
Copper engraving. 280 x 200mm, 11 x 8".
Claudius, the fifth Roman emperor, by François Langlois (1589-1647), called Ciartres.
[Ref: 19845] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Sheet of figure studies]
[Chevalier Ignace Joseph de Claussin after Carel Dujardin, c.1800]
Etching, platemark 205 x 280mm (8 x 11"). Very large margins.
Etching by Chevalier Ignace Joseph de Claussin (1766-1844), amateur etcher and collector of Rembrandt prints, after an original etching by Rembrandt's contemporary, the Amsterdam-based artist Carel Dujardin (1626-78).
[Ref: 38499] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Katherine Mary & Thomas John Clavering.
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J.R. Smith,
London, Pub.d Jan y.e 29, 1779, by J.R. Smith, N.º 10 Batemans Buildings, Soho Square. & Torre, Printseller back of the Ópera House, Market Lane.
Mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Thread margins.
A portrait of the children of George Clavering (1719-94), of Greencroft, Durham: Catherine Mary Clavering (1769-85) and Thomas John Clavering (1771-1853), later 8th Baronet. Thomas holds two spaniels on a lead and Catherine holds a puppy. The painting is held by the The Huntington Library (78.20.35).
CS 41. Russell 41, state iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. O'Oench: Copper into Gold, Prints by John Raphael Smith 129
[Ref: 64523] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Katherine Mary & Thomas John Clavering.
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J.R. Smith,
London, Pub.d Jan y.e 29, 1779, by J.R. Smith, N.º 10 Batemans Buildings, Soho Square. & Torre, Printseller back of the Ópera House, Market Lane.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Narrow margins, trimmed into plate at bottom, surface scratch bottom right, foxing.
A portrait of the children of George Clavering (1719-94), of Greencroft, Durham: Catherine Mary Clavering (1769-85) and Thomas John Clavering (1771-1853), later 8th Baronet. Thomas holds two spaniels on a lead and Catherine holds a puppy. The painting is held by the The Huntington Library (78.20.35).
CS 41. Russell 41, state ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. With ink stamp of Fritz Reiss (Lugt 2178), whose collection was sold at Christie's London in 1923. O'Oench: Copper into Gold, P
[Ref: 64524] £320.00

Mausoleum of Ralph Allen, the Squire Allworthy of Tom Jones.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Chromolithograph with gum arabic. 101 x 146mm. 4 x 5¾".
Ralph Allen (1693-1764) was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, and was notable for his reforms to the UK postal system. It was Henry Fielding who used Allen as the model for Squire Allworthy in the novel Tom Jones. His memorial, seen here is Claverton churchyard, on the outskirts of Bath.
[Ref: 15452] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Clavichord and Lute Players.]
[After Hendrik Goltzius.]
[n.d., c.1600.]
Engraving. Framed. Visible area: 120 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Frame: 220 x 275mm (10¾ x 8½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A concert scene in which a lavishly dressed woman plays the clavichord while behind her a young man plays a lute.
[Ref: 39559] £320.00

Calvin.
Holbein. F: Piloty del.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 430 x 300mm (17 x 12"). Trimmed to border.
A portrait of French theologian and pastor Jean Calvin (1509-1564) who preached during the Protestant Reformation, he was the principal figure in the development of Calvanism.
[Ref: 46852] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Christophorus Clavius.
E. de Boulonois fecit.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Scarce engraving. 330 x 215mm (13 x 8½") Trimmed to image minus left corner. Damaged.
Mathmatician & astronomer, opponent of the heliocentric model of Copernicus, and architect of the Gregorian Calendar.
W621
[Ref: 53661] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Christophorus Clavivs Bambergensis E Societate Iesu Aetatis Suae Anno L XIX.
I. Le Clerc ex. [n.d. c.1610.] Bit later.
Engraving, fine with very large margins. Plate 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5").
Christopher Clavius (1538-1612), the German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar. Image includes books, globes and instruments. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe and his textbooks were used for astronomical education for over fifty years in Europe and even in more remote lands (on account of being used by missionaries). Clavius joined the Jesuit order in 1555. He went to Italy and studied theology at the Jesuit Collegio Romano in Rome. In 1579 he was assigned to compute the basis for a reformed calendar that would stop the slow process in which the Church's holidays were drifting relative to the seasons of the year. Using the Prussian Tables of Erasmus Reinhold, he proposed a calendar reform that was adopted in 1582 in Catholic countries by order of Pope Gregory XIII and is now the Gregorian calendar used worldwide.
W: 621-2.
[Ref: 29757] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Cleypole. Daughter to Oliver Cromwell. From an Original Picture at Checkers, Bucks.
T. Athow.
[c.1810.]
Ink, watercolour and wash with inscription in ink. Image 260 x 180mm (10¼ x 7¼").
A copy of Jacob Huysmans' portrait of Elizabeth Claypole (bap. 1629- d.1658), daughter of Oliver Cromwell, still at the Prime Minister's country retreat of Chequers. Three similar works by Thomas Athow (1802-1820, fl.) are in the British Museum and a collection are in the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 42574] £350.00

Ralph Clayton, Serjeant at Law.
Painted by L.F. Aboot, Esq.r 1784. Engraved by Henry Meyer, 1814.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Slightly trimmed, stained.
Half-length portrait of Ralph Clayton, died 1813 aged 55.
[Ref: 55632] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble S.r Rob. Clayton Kt Lord Mayor of ye City of London 1680.
J. Riley pinx. J. Smith fec.
[London, c.1707.]
Fine mezzotint. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"), with large margins.
Portrait of Sir Robert Clayton (1629-1707), merchant banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London, in an oval above ceremonial regalia. After founding a bank, Clayton & Morris Co., he amassed such a fortune that he could buy Brownsea Island and its castle in the 1650s and lend William III £30,000 to pay for the army in 1697. He became a director of the Bank of England in 1702.
CS 52 ii.
[Ref: 49957] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Cleeve Prior near Evesham [pencil].
Henry G. Walker [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching printed in colours, signed by the artist. 130 x 200mm (5 x 8") very large margins. In original mount with printed label with publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
[Ref: 49220] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Cleghorn, MD. Anatom. In Acad. Dublin Pr. &c. Notus in Fratres animi paterni.
Engraved by Cha. Sherwin. From an original Drawing in the possession of Dr. Lettsom.
[n.d. c.1786].
Stipple engraving. 115 x 155mm (4½ x 6¼"). Foxing and general time staining. Crease through centre of image.
Physician who settled in practice in Dublin in 1751 and was the first person to establish what could be considered an anatomical school in Ireland. [1716 - 1787]. Plate to Lettsom's 'Memoirs' 1786.
[Ref: 5521] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Clemens XIV. Ganganelli Vadensis ad Sanctam Basilicam Late-ranensem Solemni ritu proficiscens Die 26 gmbris ann. 1769.
Engraving. Sheet: 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½''). Trimmed, 2 stains at bottom centre.
A portrait of Pope Clemens XIV (1705-1774), who was head of the Catholic church from 1769 until his death, shown upon a horse with classical ruins in the background riding to the Lateran.
[Ref: 49292] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Karl Clemens graf von Pellegrini.]
Ign. Duvivier pin.t. Nic Rhein inc.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
An exceptionally large & scarce mezzotint, proof before title. 860 x 630mm (33¾ x 24¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, top corners chipped, repaired tears, surface cracking, laid on paper. Damaged.
A huge equestrian portrait of Karl Clemens von Pellegrini (1720-96), Austrian soldier and military engineer. He fought at Philippsburg in 1734, in the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War and the Turkish War of 1796, becoming a field marshal. When the Commander's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa was instituted in 1765, he was one of the first nine recipients. In 1789 he won the Grand Cross of the Order and in 1792 he became a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. One of the largest mezzotints we have ever seen. We have only traced one other example, also untitled.
[Ref: 62661] £490.00

Pope Clement The Ninth. From the Original Picture...In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick... Size of the Picture 3F,,4I by 4F,,2I in Height. No.35.
Carlo Maratti pinxit. John Hall sculpsit 1767.
Published by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London; March 25th. 1767.
Engraving, 510 x 380mm. 20 x 15".
Portrait of Pope Clement IX (1600 - 1669), born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 1667 to 1669. After Carlo Maratti (1625 - 1713).
For proo impression see re. 27723
[Ref: 27372] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pope Clement The Ninth. From the Original Picture...In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick... Size of the Picture 3F,,4I by 4F,,2I in Height.] No.35.
Carlo Maratti pinxit. John Hall sculp.t: Londini 1767.
J. Boydell Excudit. [Published by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London; March 25th. 1767.]
Engraving, scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 380mm. 20 x 15".
Seated portrait of Pope Clement IX (Giulio Rospigliosi, 1600 – 1669), pope from 1667-9, after Carlo Maratti (1625 - 1713), with a remarque with armorial, stags & putti.
For a lettered impression see ref. 27372
[Ref: 27723] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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