Grosvenor Prints

Marie Stuart Reye d'Ecosse Souffre de martye pour la Foy; et par la constance de sa mort, renouuelle en ces derniers temps, les exemples de l'ancienne Egliose. Augustus Thuanus lib. 86.
Vignon invent.
Mariette excud. cum Privil. Regis. [Paris, n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. Framed over image, visible area 340 x 210mm (13½ x 8¼"). Repaired holes in sky.
A French portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), depicting her as a martyr to her catholicism. As she had been Queen consort of Francis II of France, the French preferred to portray her as a victim of religious intolerance than a traitor to Elizabeth I. The quote is from the 'Historia sui temporis' by Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).
NPG: D13129.
[Ref: 57236] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Maria Stuart Regina Scotiæ.
Done from the Original Painting of C. Janet in the Royal Palace of S.t James's. J. Faber fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles next to the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-yard, London [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins on three sides. Vertical fold, narrow left margin.
Three-quarter length portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, wearing a dark dress with a white ruff and cuffs, a rosary pinned at the waist. Originally published by Thomas Bowles.
CS 235, this state not listed.
[Ref: 57301] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland.
R. Gaywood fecit 1655.
Very rare etching. 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Damaged.
Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), three-quarter length standing, wearing crown, headdress, and collar, and holding a crucifix. The print is probably the frontispiece to William Sanderson, 'A compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scots, and of her son and successor James the Sixth', Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins and George Sawbridge, 1656.
[Ref: 52531] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Will.m Maule of Panmure, M.P. Patron and President of the Forfarshire Agricultural Association.
Painted by Colvin Smith. Engraved on Steel by T. Lupton.
London, Published Jan.y 1, 1823, by the Engraver, 7 Leigh Street, Burton Crescent, Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Charing Cross, & Mess.rs Constable & Co. Edinburgh [illegible]
Mezzotint on india, very rare; platemark 320 x 255mm (12½ x 10"). Damage to edges of india. Tear.
William Ramsay Maule (1771-1852), aristocrat and MP for Forfar, 1796 and 1803-31, made Baron Panmure in 1831. 'As a young man he was one of the most dissipated and extravagant, even of the Scottish gentry of his younger days...he did not alter his manner or morals as he grew older, and scandalized Victorian observers' (DNB).
[Ref: 35241] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew McDouall of Bankton / one of the Lords of the Court of Session in Scotland
TW [by Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Good impression; very large margins; on cream laid paper.
Portrait of Andrew McDouall, Lord Bankton (1685-1760), judge, by Thomas Worlidge (1770-66), 'the English Rembrandt'. Between 1751 and 1753 McDouall published his famous 'Institute of the Laws of Scotland', a comprehensive work still cited to this day.
D130
[Ref: 33052] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Andrew McDouall of Bankton / one of the Lords of the Court of Session in Scotland]
[by Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, sheet 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Unfinished working proof trimmed to around half size of orginal plate but otherwise good condition; on white laid paper.
Portrait of Andrew McDouall, Lord Bankton (1685-1760), judge, by Thomas Worlidge (1770-66), 'the English Rembrandt'. Between 1751 and 1753 McDouall published his famous 'Institute of the Laws of Scotland', a comprehensive work still cited to this day.
D130
[Ref: 33051] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew McDouall of Bankton / one of the Lords of the Court of Session in Scotland
TW [by Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Trimmed on platemark; creasing; paper tone.
Portrait of Andrew McDouall, Lord Bankton (1685-1760), judge, by Thomas Worlidge (1770-66), 'the English Rembrandt'. Between 1751 and 1753 McDouall published his famous 'Institute of the Laws of Scotland', a comprehensive work still cited to this day.
D130
[Ref: 33054] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomson McLintock].
[Signed in pencil by William Strang].
[n.d., c.1900].
Etching, limited edition. Platemark: 375 x 250mm. (14¾ x 10").
Chartered accountant Thomson McLintock opened an office in Glasgow in 1877. His son William achieved membership of the Glasgow Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in 1896, though only after several failures in the final examination, and became a partner in his father's practice in 1901. While most contemporary accounting firms continued to rely heavily on auditing work, the expansion of Thomson McLintock's London office was substantially based on William's reputation both as a tax expert and as an adviser on the amalgamation and reconstruction of companies. Portrait etched by Scotish painter and printmaker William Strang (1859 - 1921), who was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was a part of their first exhibition in 1881.
[Ref: 29864] £330.00

Lady Elizabeth Montagu, Daughter of George Earl of Cardigan.
J. Reynolds pinx.t Js. Mc.Ardell fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t 1756, by Js. Mc.Ardell; & Sold at the Golden Head in Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. Plate 330 x 229mm. 13 x 9". Large margins.
Elizabeth Montagu (1743-1825), the daughter of George Montagu, first Duke of Montagu; in 1767 she married Henry Scott, third Duke of Buccleuch.
CS 131: ii/ii. Goodwin 55: iii/v. Hamilton: iii/iii.
[Ref: 23060] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry.]
[Engraved by James Faed after Sir Francis Grant.]
[Published by Henry Graves & Co, London, 1864.]
Mezzotint on chine collé, proof before letters. 800 x 515mm (31½ x 20½"). Printsellers' Association blindstamp. Creasing.
A full-length portrait of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-84), Conservative politician, Lord Privy Seal 1842-46 and Lord President of the Council from January to July 1846. He is standing, wearing a dark suit with sash, star and white bow-tie, right hand on his cane, left holding gloves and hat. He attended St John's College, Cambridge (M.A., 1827).
[Ref: 48492] £240.00

[The Right Hon.ble Charles, William, Henry, Earl of Dalkeith. Eldest son of His Grace Henry, Duke of Buccleugh.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V Green. Engraver to his Majesty and the Elector Palatine.
[Published Jan 1 1778 by W Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 355mm (19¼ x 14"). Trimmed into plate, losing publisher's line.
Portrait of Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott (1772-1819), fourth Duke of Buccleugh and sixth Duke of Queensberry, K.T., as a young boy, stroking an owl. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he served as MP for Marlborough, Ludgershall and Mitchell before entering the House of Lords as Baron Scott of Tyndale in 1807. A member of Marylebone Cricket Club, he made four known appearances in first-class cricket matches in 1797.
CS: 33, state i of ii; Whitman 68, ii of iii.
[Ref: 4842] £550.00

The Right Hon.ble Charles, William, Henry, Earl of Dalkeith. Eldest-Son of His Grace Henry, Duke of Buccleugh.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by V. Green Engraver to His Majesty the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd Jan.y. 1.st. 1778, by W.m. Shropshire, N.o. 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 350 x 510mm (13¾ 20"), with very large margins Some slight damage to margin in lower left corner. Laid on album sheet.
A potrait of Charles Montagu-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith eldest son of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Elizabeth Montagu. Montagu-Scott is depicted in an exterior setting resting on a stone bench on which a owl is resting, while a spaniel watches the owl closely.
Whitman: 68; CS: 33 II of II.
[Ref: 35739] £650.00

[The Right Hon.ble Charles William, Henry Earl of Dalkeith. Eldest son of His Grace Henry, Duke of Buccleugh.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V Green. Engraver to his Majesty and the Elector Palatine.
Published Jan 1 1778 by W Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, very fine impression. Sheet 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides
Portrait of Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott (1772-1819), fourth Duke of Buccleugh and sixth Duke of Queensberry, K.T., as a young boy, stroking an owl. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he served as MP for Marlborough, Ludgershall and Mitchell before entering the House of Lords as Baron Scott of Tyndale in 1807. A member of Marylebone Cricket Club, he made four known appearances in first-class cricket matches in 1797.
CS: 33, state i of ii; Whitman 68, ii of iii.
[Ref: 46991] £460.00

Lady Caroline Montagu, Daughter of his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxit. J.R. Smith Sculpsit.
Published Novr. 1st, 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 357 x 509mm, 14½ x 20".
A child wearing dark cape, muff and dark hat with ribbon, small dog beside her. Lady Caroline Douglas [1774 - 1854], daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch; married Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensbury, in 1803.
D'Oench:109CS:10.II, Frankau:244.II.
[Ref: 12353] £420.00

James Morgan. Servant to Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.
K McLeay RSA 1865 [in plate]. K. Mc. Leay R.S.A. Del. Vincent Brooks Lith.
[Blackwood and Sons, London and Edinburgh, 1870.]
Very fine chromolithograph, printed in colour. 553 x 432mm. 21¾ x 17".
James Morgan (1838-1890), wearing hill dress with kilt of Balmorals tartan and the plaid of the Morgan clan, seen against a background of Deeside. He commenced as a gillie at Balmoral, in 1857. He was frequently in attendance on H.R.H., the Prince Consort, when deer-stalking, and since 1861, on the Queen and the princesses; inconsequence of this, he was taken permanently into the Royal Service in June 1866. In 1871 Morgan left the employment of Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holstein following a 'misunderstanding', and returned to the Queen's service, first acting as a gillie, appointed a footman in 1872 and later a Livery Porter. Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, as they were known, made their home at Frogmore House in the grounds of Windsor Castle and later at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Christian was a German prince who joined the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Helena, the fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. From a two volume publication of 31 portraits illustrating the principal clans of the Royal Household at Balmoral, reign of Queen Victoria, titled "Highlanders of Scotland".
[Ref: 20139] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Munro.] Robertus Munro, tribunus. Noli deiici fortiter matum qui patitur, idem post potitur bonum. Sapienta mea tu, es domine doce me facere voluntatem tuam, da intellectum ex teriora contemnere et ad interiora me dare, nam uera laetitia est in timore Dei cum bona coscientia...
Sebastien Furck. fecit.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, rare. Collector's mark of Albert Richard on verso. Plate: 215 x 130mm (8½ x 5'') large margins.
A portrait of Scottish nobleman Robert Munro.
[Ref: 48667] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Noble John Duke, Marquis and Earl of Atholl, Marquis and Earl of Tullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount of Balquhidder, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, Lord Murray... Lord Lieutenant of the County of Perth, One of His Majesties Most Hon.ble Privy Council, and Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
Painted by John Hoppner R.A. Engraved by Charles Knight, 1811.
London Pub.d Aug.t 1 1811. C. Knight Hammersmith at Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Stipple with roulette, with large margins. 660 x 450mm, 26 x 17½". Margins creased.
John Murray (1755-1830), 4th Duke of Atholl, wearing the Order of the Thistle.
[Ref: 24508] £420.00

Alx.r Nasmyth. 1818 [fascimile signature].
Will.m Nicholson R.S.A. Pinxt. Edward Burton, Sculpt.
[c.1818.]
Mezzotint, laid on album paper at edges. Sheet 350 x 270mm (13¾ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Scottish painter Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840), most famous for the portrait of Robert Burns (a close friend) in the Scottish National Gallery. He set up a drawing school, with pupils including both David Wilkie and David Roberts.
[Ref: 61641] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Pinkerton. Aet XXXVIII. MDCCXCVI.
S. Harding del. Gardiner Sc.
[n.d. c.1796.]
A rare stipple engraving. 180 x 118mm. 7 x 4½". Cut and laid on separate sheet.
John Pinkerton (1758-1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. Born in Edinburgh, he relocated to London in 1781.
[Ref: 14347] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

William Pitcairn M.D. F.R.S. President of the College of Physicians, London. Anno MDCCLXXVII.
Painted by Sir J. Reynolds. Engraved by J. Jones.
[Published according to Act of Parliament (1777).]
Very rare mezzotint, published state, image 335 x 270mm. 13¼ x 10½". Title area chipped and damaged; crease through upper right corner.
William Pitcairn (1712 - 1791), Scottish physician and botanist; president of the Royal College of Physicians from 1775-85. He wears a short wig and president's gown. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Chaloner Smith: 62. Hamilton p.55, I.
[Ref: 12782] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Archibald Primrose.]
I Riley pinx: P. Vandrebanc sculp.
[n.d., c.1685.]
Engraving, 305 x 210mm. 12 x 8¼". Lightly foxed.
Portrait of Archibald Primrose, first Earl of Rosebery (1661 - 1723). He was one of the commissioners for the union of Scotland with England, and after its accomplishment was chosen a Scottish representative peer in 1707, 1708, 1710, and 1713. After portrait painter John Riley (1646 - 1691). Above oval is inscribed the motto: 'Fide Et Fiducia'.
BM: pg. 612.
[Ref: 10486] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Public Characters in Perth and its Vicinity. No. 6.
I.R. s.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Very scarce & rare aquatint with etched line. Plate: 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¼"). Top left-hand corner missing, damage in margins. Marks.
A unidentified man with his hands in his pockets, engraved by I.Robertson.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 40106] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Alan Ramsay Scotus.
A.Ramsay ad viv. del. D.Allan Sc. Edin. 1788.
Published according to Act of Parliament by D. Allan Edinr. July 12 1788.
Etching and aquatint, frontispiece to Alan Ramsay's 'Gentle Shepherd'. 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8".
Allan Ramsay (1686 - 1758), Scottish poet; in an oval with comic mask to left and pipe with his manuscript to right. Father of the painter of the same name, who seems to have painted this portrait.
Abbey Life: 244, 1.
[Ref: 13896] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Allan Ramsay.
G. White Fecit. [William Aikman Pinxt.]
Sold by Sam.l Sympson at his Print Shop in the Strand near Catherine Street. [n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint, rare. Plate 196 x 152mm (7¾ x 6"). Tear and paper loss in lower edge and into publication line.
Portrait of the poet half length facing to right but looking forward; wearing coat unbuttoned to waist and cap; in oval. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) the Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker. His works include 'The Gentle Shepherd' (1725). He was father to the painter of the same name.
CS: 37.
[Ref: 28963] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[James Ramsay] Illustris et Generosus Dominus Dominus Jacobus Ramsay, Scotus, Eques Auratus [...]
[Engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius, 1636]
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed, possibly losing text; folds; tipped into album sheet.
James Ramsay (1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. Copy in reverse of a print engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius.
[Ref: 42903] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[James Ramsay] Illustris et Generosus Dominus Dominus Jacobus Ramsay, Scotus, Eques Auratus, Gen Mai. Anno Ætat MDCXXVI.
Johann: Cressius fec: Sebast: Furck ad vivum sculpit.
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Collector's stamp of Edward Wenman Martin on verso. Thread margins, wear at top of image, signs of damage to the printing plate.
Portrait of James Ramsay (known as 'Black Ramsay', 1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service, engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius in 1636, two years before Ramsay's death. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. However Hanau was attacked and taken in 1638: Ramsay, wounded, died in prison soon after. The collection of Edward Wenman Martin warranted a special mention by Chaloner Smith when it came up at auction (Sotheby's 1854-5): apparently Martin ''had obtained an extraordinary number of the very great rarities amongst the English portraits, but unfortunately, did not preserve all his prints with proper care; indeed, he is said to have permitted a favourite monkey to handle them, so that prices, even for those uninjured in what the catalogue calls their ''unadorned state'' were not very high''.
Lugt: 914.
[Ref: 43121] £320.00

[James Andrew Bourn Ramsay, tenth Earl and first Marquis of Dalhousie]
Engraved by C.H.Jeens.
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 248 x 179mm.
[Ref: 3446] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Pat Robertson [autograph, ink].
d'Orsay fecit 28 april 1845 [artist's signature.]
Pencil drawing with some red crayon to face, on artist's paper, mounted to album leaf, ink-ruled border. Sheet 280 x 205mm, 11 x 8". A little surface-soiled.
Portrait of Patrick Robertson, Lord Robertson (1794 - 1855), Edinburgh-born judge of a literary bent. He published several volumes of verse and was well-acquainted with Sir Walter Scott (Robertson was croupier at the 1827 theatrical fund dinner at which Scott acknowledged authorship of his novels). An original 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.
DNB
[Ref: 21941] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies, Alexandri Rossaei Anno aetatis 63.
P. Lombart Sculpsit Londin.
[n.d. c.1653].
Engraving. Sheet size: 145 x 75mm (5¾ x 3"). Trimmed inside plate.
A portrait of Scottish writer Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654), seated, facing the viewer, writing in a book, with a library behind. Ross was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Charles I. One of his most significant accomplishments, published in 1649, the same year as the beheading of the king, was his complete translation of the Qur'an into English.
[Ref: 40117] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensberry, the Right Honb.le the Earl of Dalkeith, and the Right Honb.le Lord Henry Scott.]
[Painted by F. Grant Esqre. A.R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.]
[London: Published Octr. 24th. 1850, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East _ Publishers to her Majesty.]
Mezzotint with very large margins. Proof before letters, rare. On India paper. 'Printsellers Association' blind stamp in lower left corner. Platemark: 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Uncut.
A portrait of Charlotte Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, with her children, William Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and 8th Duke of Queensberry (1831 - 1914), and Lord Henry Scott (1832 - 1905), in a landscape setting.
PSA: Artist's Proof: 100; L.P. 100
[Ref: 36652] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

David Scott Esq.r M.P.
Painted by Geo. Romney Esq.r. Engraved by Jn.o Young, Engraver in Mezzotinto to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, July 16.th 1798, Published by Jn.o Young, No.58, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 616 x 410mm (24¼ x 16¼") large margins. Repaired tear through inscription area, other small nicks, creases.
David Scott (1746-1805) of Dunninald, a very successful Scottish merchant in Bombay, director of the East India Company and a Member of Parliament. The original oil, painted 1780, is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
CS: 61. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43497] £320.00

[Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleugh, with her daughter Lady Mary Scott]
[James Watson after Sir Joshua Reynolds]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, March 1st 1775 by Ja. Watson, No. 64 Little Queen Anne Street, Portland Chapel, & B. Clowes, No. 8 Gutter Lane Cheapside.
Mezzotint, 625 x 380mm (24½ x 15"). Trimmed to platemark; nicks to edges;
Elizabeth Scott (née Montagu), Duchess of Buccleuch (1743-1827), the only daughter and heir of George, duke of Montagu. In 1767 she married Henry Scott, third Duke of Bucchleuch. She inherited the Montagu estates, largely in Northamptonshire, in 1790. Together with her husband she was involved in charitable work such as the founding of Edinburgh's Royal Blind Asylum and School.
Hamilton p.86 ii/iii; Goodwin 100 ii/iii
[Ref: 35022] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Walter Scott Bart.]
Sir T Lawrence P R A. J H Robinson.
[n.d. 1830.]
Line Engraving. 536 x 432mm. Unfinished proof, rich contrast in impression.
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (14 August 1771-21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. In some ways Scott was the first author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and (to a lesser extent) his poetry are still read, but he is far less popular nowadays than he was at the height of his fame. Nevertheless many of his works remain classics of English literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian.
[Ref: 3774] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Walter Scott [facsimile signature.]
Etched by W Mayor after a Sketch by Edwin Landseer [facsimile.]
[n.d. c.1880]
Etching vignette. Imitation of a pen sketch. Plate 223 x 173mm. 8¾ x 6¾" Some patched tears, some rubbing and scuffing.
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (14 August 1771–21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. In some ways Scott was the first author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and (to a lesser extent) his poetry are still read, but he is far less popular nowadays than he was at the height of his fame. Nevertheless many of his works remain classics of English literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian.
BM: Vol.4. 27.
[Ref: 14480] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Walter Scott, Bar.t in his Study at Abbotsford.]
Painted by William Allen, R.A. Engraved by John Burnet.
London: Published March 25th, 1836 by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6, Pall Mall, & Sold also by F.G. Moon, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Engraving on india, proof before title. 555 x 395mm, 21¾ x 15½". Margins spotted.
Sir Walter Scott seated in his study at his home at Abbotsford in Scotland, reading a proclamation made by Mary Queen of Scots. One of his many dogs, thought to be either Maida or Bran, sits by the fire. The artist made a record of the many remarkable objects in the room: 'the vase was the gift of Lord Byron; the keys hanging by the window are those of 'Heart of Mid Lothian' or Old Tolbooth of Edinburg(h). The Sword suspended from the Bookcase belonged to Montrose, and the Rifle surmounting the various articles hanging over the Mantlepiece to Speckbacher the Tyrolese Partriot; near the Bookcase are hung an ancient Border Bugle, James VI's travelling Flask, and the Sporan or Purse of Rob Roy Mcgregor. Behind the Bust of Shakespeare is Rob Roy's long gun, above which is Claverhous's Pistol and below a brace formerly the Property of Napoleon'.
See NPG 321 for the original oil (1831).
[Ref: 13844] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Walter Scott Bart. P.R.S.E.
[n.d. c.1820]
Rare stipple with textile and metal buttons, unique. Sheet 184 x 158mm. 7¼ x 6¼".
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt (1771-1832), Edinburgh-born poet and novelist. In pencil under"Come to the door to be sold Mount Pleasant Liverpool".
[Ref: 15302] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Walter Scott] The Author of Waveley. Extract from Memoir of Charles Mayne Young._ When a boy Mr. Young was taken by his father to Abbotsford, on a visit to Sir Walter Scott, and he describes minutely what he saw there. He was dressed in a green cut-away coat with brass buttons, drab vest, trousers, and gaiters, with thick shoes on his feet, and a sturdy staff in his hand. He looked like a yeoman of the better class, but his manners bespoke the ease, self-possession, and courtesy of a high-bred gentleman.
B.W. Crombie Xt.
Schenck & McFarlane Lith.rs [n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 324 x 254mm. 12¾ x 10". Tears into the margins and title.
Waverley is an 1814 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, which became so popular that Scott's later novels were advertised as being by "the author of Waveley".
[Ref: 25880] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Walter Scott Bar.t.
A. Wivell Del. C. Picart Sculp.
London, Published April 20. 1824 by Geo. Lauford, Saville Place.
Stipple with very large margins. Proof 2/6; Plate: 185 x 255mm (7¼ x 10").
Half portrait of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) a Scottish advocate and judge best known for his poetry and novels. Scott is dipicted with a tartan shawl wrapped around him.
[Ref: 35485] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

''Sir Walter Scott'' Original Drypoint by R.G. Matthews (Limited Edition).
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the etcher. 220 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½") large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and a publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A copy of Henry Raeburn's famous portrait.
[Ref: 49164] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Members of the Scottish Bench & Bar. [&] Key to the Portraits of the Members of the Scottish Banch & Bar.
[Thomas Gaugain after Benjamin William Crombie.] [&] Etched by Benj.n M. Crombie.
[1825.]
Stipple portrait plate, sheet 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6") with etched key plate, sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 7¾"). Stipple trimmed to image, both laid on album paper.
Portraits of twenty lawyers, all in left profile, named on the key plate, including John Hope (the Solicitor General), Lord Eldin & Sir Walter Scott. It is rare to find the two together.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36967] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Connubium Scoticum. Enguerrand de Coucy. Christiana de Bailleul.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving, very scarce. Collector's mark on verso. 201 x 165mm. 8 x 6½".
Enguerrand V, Enguerrand de Guines, (1311-c.1324) Lord of Coucy married in 1280 to Christiane de Bailleul, cousin to the Alexander III, King of Scotland and niece to Jean de Ballieul, a previous monarch to the Scottish throne.
Ex Collection: W.B. Dukes (architect, d.1942.) Lugt: 2757a.
[Ref: 20144] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

John Shanks. Cicerone of Elgin Cathedral.
[n.d., c.1830.
Rare etching. Sheet 260 x 175mm (10¼ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, some cockling of paper.
Full-length sketch portrait of John Shanks (c.1759-1841), an Elgin shoemaker who was paid by a local gentleman to clear the derelict Elgin Cathedral of rubbish. According to an obituary in the Inverness Courier ''he removed, with his pick-axe and shovel, 2866 barrowfuls of earth, besides disclosing a flight of steps that led to the grand gateway of the edifice. Tombs and figures, which had long lain hid in obscurity, were unearthed and every monumental fragment of saints and holy men was carefully preserved, and placed in some appropriate situation ... So faithfully did he discharge his duty as keeper of the ruins, that little now remains but to preserve what he accomplished''. Shanks was officially appointed the site's Keeper and Watchman in 1826.
[Ref: 54391] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Reverendisimus in Christo Pater et Dominus Jacobus Sharp St Andreae Archi-Episcop [...]
Lillie Eques pinx: Da. Patton delin: G: Vertue Londini sculp 1710
Engraving, sheet 410 x 310mm (16 x 12¼"). Rich impression. Trimmed inside platemark.
Portrait of James Sharp (1613-79), Archbishop of St Andrews who was murdered by covenanters in 1679. The earliest engraved portrait of Sharp, and also one the first prints engraved by the prolific George Vertue. This print derives from a portrait by Lely of c.1670, by way of a drawing by Scottish artist David Paton.
O'D 1; Alexander 71; for a scene of his murder see ref. 24582
[Ref: 31320] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Robert Sibbald Bar.t M.D. 1761_AEtatis 60.
Lizars. sc.
Engraved for the Naturalist's Library. [n.d. c.1838.]
Engraving, cut. 156 x 96mm (6¼ x 3¾").
Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722) the Scottish physician and antiquary. In 1667 he started the botanical garden in Edinburgh with Sir Andrew Balfour, and he took a leading part in establishing the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 1685 he was appointed the first professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh; he was also appointed Geographer Royal in 1682.
W: 2724.
[Ref: 29904] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Sinclair.
T. Lawrence del.t. W. Skelton sculp.t.
[Pub. as the Act directs April 16 1790 by T. Cadell, Strand.]
Etching with large margins. Plate 253 x 178mm (10 x 7").
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Bt (1754-1835), agriculturalist, his right arm resting on a volume inscribed 'Hist. of the Revenue' (referring to his 'History of the public revenue of the British Empire'). Sinclair was the first President of the Board of Agriculture in 1793; he initiated sheep-shearings, introduced improved methods of tillage and established new breeds of livestock in Scotland. His Statistical Account of Scotland, drawing on returns from every parish minister in Scotland, was published in 1799. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830).
NPG: D5992.
[Ref: 28381] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Archibald Skirving.]
[A. Geddes.]
[British, n.d., c.1820.]
Etching with drypoint, 225 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼".
Portrait of Scottish portrait painter Archibald Skirving (1749 - 1819). His most successful portraits were executed in crayon. The best known is his crayon portrait of Robert Burns, executed partly from Nasmyth's famous portrait. By Andrew Geddes (Scottish, 1783 - 1844), portrait painter and occasional etcher.
DNB. See Scot. Nat. Portrait Gallery PG 745 for the Burns portrait. C.D. 15 VI.
[Ref: 22827] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Smith.
From a Medallion executed in the lifetime of A. Smith by Tassie. Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight & Co. Ludgate Street. [n.d., c.1835.]
Stipple. 222 x 152mm (8¾ x 6").
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of politial economics. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 15631] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Smith, L.L.D.
R. Scott sculp
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. 107 x 70mm. 4¼ x 2¾". Cut.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of politial economics. A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Probably taken from James Tassie's glass plate medallion, 1787.
Not in O'Donoghue
[Ref: 26594] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Smith. From a Medallion executed in the lifetime of A. Smith by Tassie. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Proof.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight. Ludgate Street. [n.d., c.1835.]
Stipple, printed on chine collé. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"), with wide margins.
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of politial economics. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 52694] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Spottiswoode] Joannes Spotiswoode Archiepiscopus St Andreanus, Totius Scotiae Primas et Metropolitanus [...]
W: Hollar fecit.
Etching, sheet 280 x 180mm (11 x 7"). Tipped into album sheet.
John Spottiswoode (1565-1639), archbishop of St Andrews and historian. Made Lord Chancellor of Scotland by Charles I in 1634, Spottiswoode was subsequently forced to seek exile in England after attempting to implement controversial liturgical alterations in Scotland (these led to the Bishops' Wars of 1639-45). Frontispiece to the 1668 edition of Spottiswoode's 'The History of the Church of Scotland', completed shortly before his death but not published until 1655, during the Cromwellian interregnum. Largely focused on the reign of James I, who commissioned the work, the 'History' was unquestionably an apologia for the royalist and episcopal cause in Scotland. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), Bohemian printmaker who spent most of his career working in England, and whose patron was Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, who as one of Charles I's most trusted advisors led the king's forces against Scotland in 1639.
Pennington 1505 ii/iii;
[Ref: 42228] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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