Grosvenor Prints

Mme. Galli Marie dans Carmen Theatre de L'Opera Comique.
Chatiniere [signed in plate]. Imp. Becquet à Paris, pv.
[Paris: Martinet, c.1860.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 345 x 240mm. 13½ x 9½". Tear from lower extremity off image. Bit messy outside image.
Célestine Galli-Marié (1840-1905) French mezzo-soprano opera singer in the title role of Carmen, an opéra by Georges Bizet in its first production by the Opera Comique in Paris. Numbered '89' below image; for a series of theatrical portraits ('Galerie dramatique'?).
Not in Harvard. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18536] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Italo Gardoni.]
From a Photograph by Signori Caldesi. Engraved by George Zobel.
London, Published May 21st 1855, by J.Mitchell, Bookseller & Publisher to Her Majesty. 33 Old Bond S.t.
Mezzotint on steel. 510 x 340mm. Damp stain.
From Caldesi's 'Artists of the Italian Opera'.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1139] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Reddere Persona scit convenientia cuique.
J. Reynolds pinxit. E: Fisher Sculpsit Londini 1762.
Sold by Edw.d Fisher, at the Golden Head the South Side of Leicester Square, John Boydell Engraver, at the Unicorn, in Cheapside, and E: Bakewell, & H: Parke, Printsellers in Cornhill, opposite, Birchin Lane, London. Price 10/6.
Mezzotint, split plate for image and title area, small margins. Image plate 400 x 501mm (15¾ x 19¾"). Text area 24 x 501mm (1 x 19¾"). Some creasing.
David Garrick (1717-1779) between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter on the right, but allowing the former to tug him towards her.
CS: 20, ii. Hamilton: p.29, ii.; for proof impression see ref. 25245
[Ref: 29963] £380.00

Garrick.
J. Miller. sc:
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and engraving, with large margins. Plate 121 x 95mm. 4¾ x 3¾". A fine impression.
David Garrick (1717-1779), the English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century. He was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. See NPG: D20571.
[Ref: 25328] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Garrick.
Holl sculp [after Robert Edge Pine].
[n.d., 1819.]
Stipple set in letterpress. Sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼").
An oval miniature portrait of the actor, published in the 'Biographical Magazine containing portraits and characters of eminent and ingenious persons'.
[Ref: 58654] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Garrick.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs July 10. 1779 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), a good impression, uncut.
David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor and theatrical manager. The most celebrated actor of his day, he did more than anyone else to change the British acting style, which prioritised energy and engagement above accuracy and control. As a manager (primarily of the Drury Lane Theatre, Covent Garden) he presided over the creation of Shakespeare as national poet and icon, while shaping the texts to suit the demands of his patrons. The supremacy of Drury Lane during Garrick's management was not to be matched until Irving's reign at the Lyceum in the following century, and in the names of pubs and streets, and the famous Garrick Club, Covent Garden is filled with echoes of one of the greatest men to have occupied the area. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actors published by the printseller William Richardson in 1779. Garrick had died a few months before the print was published. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection and collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 iii/iii.
[Ref: 36675] £330.00

Mr. Garrick.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs July 10. 1779 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Mezzotint, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Thread (partly damaged) margins; water staining not showing on front.
David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor and theatrical manager. The most celebrated actor of his day, he did more than anyone else to change the British acting style, which prioritised energy and engagement above accuracy and control. As a manager (primarily of the Drury Lane Theatre, Covent Garden) he presided over the creation of Shakespeare as national poet and icon, while shaping the texts to suit the demands of his patrons. The supremacy of Drury Lane during Garrick's management was not to be matched until Irving's reign at the Lyceum in the following century, and in the names of pubs and streets, and the famous Garrick Club, Covent Garden is filled with echoes of one of the greatest men to have occupied the area. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actors published by the printseller William Richardson in 1779. Garrick had died a few months before the print was published. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 iii/iii.
[Ref: 36674] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Garrick in Richard the Third.]
N. Dance pinx.t. J. Dixon Fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament April 28 1772 by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Mezzotint, platemark 635 x 395mm (25 x 15½"). Finished proof with scratched inscription; small margins; slight foxing.
David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor and theatrical manager, in the role of Richard III. By the time this print was published Garrick was particularly associated with this role. Hogarth also painted Garrick in the same role. Engraved from the painting by Nathaniel Dance shortly after it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1771. The painting is owned by Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council. It was acquired by Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, who reputedly outbidded Garrick himself (who had promised to buy the painting for his wife!). Garrick is known to have admired this print and sent impressions to his friends with complimentary lines printed and pasted on the back. It was also used as the model for Derby porcelain statuettes.
Lennox-Boyd 28 i/ii; CS 15 i/ii; for other prints of Garrick as Richard III see refs. 12907 and 20562.
[Ref: 36616] £620.00

[Garrick, Between Tragedy & Comedy. Engraved by Anthony Cardon from a Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the Collection of John Julius Angerstein, Esq. To John Philip Kemble Esq. who from a laudable regard to Historical propriety & to the merits of our great national Dramatist, has revived many of his admirable Plays, in a style honourable to himself and to the character of the British Stage, with the annexed Essay, are inscribed by J. Britton.]
[Class I. Painting for the Fine Arts of the English School. London: Pub'd Decr. 1. 1811 by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, J. Taylor, High Holborn, & Wm. Bond, Newman Street.]
Stipple and etching, proof before all letters. 290 x 315mm (11½ x 12¼"). Ink mss. in margin and inscription area.
David Garrick standing between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her. Illustration to "The Fine Arts of the English School" [ed. John Britton, London: 1811.]
[Ref: 41251] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Garrick in the Character of Tancred.
Painted, Etch'd & Sold by Tho. Worlidge, at his House in the little Piazza Covent Garden.
[1752]
Etching, platemark 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"). Margins; good impression; tipped into album page.
David Garrick in James Thomson's play 'Tancred and Sigismunda', which he acted at Drury Lane in 1752. The painter and printmaker Thomas Worlidge, who lived in Covent Garden and painted several portraits of the actors working in the nearby theatres, painted at least three of Garrick in this role (Garrick Club, Victoria & Albert Museum, and a private collection). Worlidge also made another, full-length etching of Garrick in a different pose. Posthumous impression after numbers erased.
W79; D80; for Worlidge's other etching of Garrick see ref. 7478. Information from V&A website. Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32882] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to Engross a Garrick, who to Your Noblest Characters does Equal Honour. Reddere Persona scit convenientia cuique.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street [n.d. c.1765].
Fine mezzotint. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), large margins.
David Garrick (1717-1779) caught between the Muses of Tragedy (Melpomene) and Comedy (Thalia). The original painting (now in Waddesdon Manor, owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation) was completed in 1761 and first engraved by Edward Fisher in mezzotint the following year. This version, engraved by Richard Purcell under his pseudonym of Charles Corbutt, was one of at least fourteen mezzotint copies and pirates. Purcell was a native of Dublin and learned engraving from Brooks and Miller. He followed in the footsteps of McArdell and went to London, where he worked with Sayer copying the works of McArdell, Watson and others.
CS: 31 (only state.) Hamilton: p.29.
[Ref: 60870] £420.00

Mr Garrick in the Character of Tancred.
Painted, Etch'd & Sold by Tho. Worlidge, at his House in the little Piazza Covent Garden.
[1752]
Etching, platemark 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"). Large margins; good impression.
David Garrick in James Thomson's play 'Tancred and Sigismunda', which he acted at Drury Lane in 1752. The painter and printmaker Thomas Worlidge, who lived in Covent Garden and painted several portraits of the actors working in the nearby theatres, painted at least three of Garrick in this role (Garrick Club, Victoria & Albert Museum, and a private collection). Worlidge also made another, full-length etching of Garrick in a different pose. Posthumous impression after numbers erased.
W79; D80; for Worlidge's other etching of Garrick see ref. 7478. Information from V&A website. Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32881] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Garrick [Between Tragedy & Comedy],
Engraved by Cardon, from the Original Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
E. Evans, pub. Book & Print Seller, No.1, Great Queen Str.
Stipple with etching, india laid paper, image 180 x 220mm. 7 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate.
Allegorical image of the great actor David Garrick standing between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her. Five lines of quotation from The Brothers below title. One of several engravings after the famous painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 21001] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

David Garrick Esq.r
Engraved by Rob.t Cooper from a Picture by Rob.t Edge Pine.
Published May 8. 1815, fro the Proprietor by E. Baldwyn, Catherine Street, London, and R. Cooper, Mornington Place, Hampstead Road.
A rare stipple and etching, large margins. Plate 375 x 273mm. 14¾ x 10¾".
David Garrick (1717-1779), the English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice. He was a friend and one-time pupil of Dr Samuel Johnson. Here seated, leaning with his elbows on a table to left, left hand on a script labelled 'Macbeth', near an ink-pot and book, looking towards the viewer, wearing a wig with a queue, plain coat and lace cravat and collars.
Harvard Volume II. p.87: 41.
[Ref: 20989] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Garrick Surrounded by His Friends. [Names listed underneath each sitter.]
Painted by W. Hogarth. Engraved by G.S. Shury.
London: Published Aug.t 20.th 1866, by A.J. Isaac, 56, Bishopsgate St.
Fine hand-coloured mezzotint and stipple. Plate 470 x 604mm. 18½ x 23¾". Mount stain.
Group portrait of Mr. Garrick surrounded by his friends (from left to right) John Beard, Robert Baddeley, Eva Maria Garrick, Henry Woodward, Unknown man, Francis or James Aickin, Charles Macklin, William 'Gentleman' Smith, Mary Ann Yates, Frances Abington, William Hogarth, William O'Brien, David Garrick and Peter Garrick.
NPG: D34380. V & A: S.499-2009.
[Ref: 20918] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Garrick and Mrs Pritchard in the Tragedy of Macbeth. Act II Scene III. From the Original Picture painted by J. Zoffany, in the possession of George Keate Esq.r. To Whom this Plate is Inscribed, by his Most Humble Servant, John Boydell.
J. Zoffany Pinxit. V. Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Published March 30th 1776 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 460 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"), with large margins. Central vertical crease.
Double portrait of two actors in character, in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': Hannah Pritchard (1711-68) as Lady Macbeth holding dagger and indicating towards an open door, and David Garrick (1717-79) as Macbeth, hesitating. The original painting, at the time owned by poet and artist George Keate (1729-97), is now in the Garrick Club. Painted in 1768 it is said to show Hannah Prichard's last performance: she retired the same year and died shortly afterwards.
[Ref: 55678] £360.00

Mrs Garrick age 93.
[Anon., c.1840.]
Rare lithograph printed on both sides of sheet. Sheet 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8½").
[Ref: 46591] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Madamoiselle Adelina Genee. [Drummer Girl.]
[01 Jan 1900.]
Photograph with signature. Sheet 216 x 228mm. 8½ x 9". Cut.
Dame Adeline Genée (1878-1970) was a Danish/British ballet dancer. Her dancing career started as a young girl in her uncle's touring company from the age of 10. In 1895, she became the principal dancer at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen, and in 1896 she danced with the Berlin Court Opera Ballet and the Munich Opera Ballet. In 1897 she moved to the England and stared at the Ballet of the Empire Theatre in London, where she was later offered the position of Prima Ballerina. After much success in London she sailed to the USA in 1907 to perform at the New York Theatre, and the producer, Florenz Ziegfeld, described her on the posters as "The World's Greatest Dancer." She then chose to spend many years alternating between a season in London and one in New York; however in 1913 she performed in Melbourne and Sydney, where she later embarked on a sixteen-week tour of Australia. In 1916 when she returned to London, she gave her last major performance at the Coliseum, but it was her last performance there in 1933, that marked the change when the theatre turned from a music hall into an opera house. In 1923 she was awarded the Order of the "Ingenu et Arti" by the King of Denmark and in 1950 she became a Dame of the British Empire. She similarly gave her name to the Genee Theatre in East Grinstead and the Genée Studio in the Royal Academy of Dance, Battersea, London.
[Ref: 17834] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

M.lle Georges Veimer.
Gerard pinx.t. Maurin Delineavit. Imp.e Lith.e de Villain.
Chez Giraut M.d d'Estampes Boulevard des Italiens No 5. [n.d. c.1835.]
Fine lithograph. Printed area 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Marguerite Joséphine Georges (1787-1867), French actress known for her affairs with Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I and, she claimed, the Duke of Wellington. Her debut was in 1802 at the Théâtre Français in Paris. When she retired in 1853, she received a pension from Napoleon's elder brother, Joseph Bonaparte.
See Harvard Volume II. p.114: 7.
[Ref: 55936] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Green as Mrs Cadwallader, 1776.
[Published 1803, by J H Green, No. 1 Wells Street, Oxford Street.]
Rare etching. Sheet 135 x 185mm (5¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed into image at sides and into platge at bottom, losing publication line.
The actress Jane Green, in character in Foote's 'The Author'; half length, wearing hat perched on top of raised hairstyle and a sunflower pinned to dress.
[Ref: 52641] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Griffin & Johnson in the Characters of Tribulation and Ananias Act 3d. Scene 2d. Play of The Alchemist.]
[Painted and engraved by Peter Van Bleeck.]
[n.d., c.1748.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, 410 x 310mm. Light spotting.
The actors Benjamin Griffin (1680 - 1740) and Benjamin Johnson (c.1665 - 1742) in Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist'. One holds a bag of money, the other a book, in an interior with a globe at the left edge of the image. By Peter van Bleeck (c.1695 - 1764), Dutch portrait painter and mezzotinter born at The Hague, son of Richard van Bleeck. In London by 1723, where he married in 1745. This a fine impression from the Reiss collection, with his stamp on verso.
Chaloner Smith: 5, I of II. BM: 1902,1011.5995. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7920] £650.00

Griffin & Johnson in the Characters of Tribulation and Ananias Act 3d. Scene 2d. Trib: I do command thee Spirit (of Zeal, but Trouble) to peace within him. Play of The Alchemist.
Peter Van Bleeck Pinxt. 1738. PVB 1748.
Mezzotint. 470 x 310mm (18½ x 12¼"). Repairs to margins and inscription area.
The actors Benjamin Griffin (1680-1740) and Benjamin Johnson (c.1665-1742) in Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist'. One holds a bag of money, the other a book, in an interior with a globe at the left edge of the image. By Peter van Bleeck (c.1695 - 1764), Dutch portrait painter and mezzotinter born at The Hague, son of Richard van Bleeck. He moved to London by 1723, where he married in 1745.
CS 5 ii/ii; for proof impression see ref. 7920.
[Ref: 50089] £320.00

Griffin & Johnson in the Characters of Tribulation and Ananias Act 3d. Scene 2d. Trib: I do command thee Spirit (of Zeal, but Trouble) to peace within him. Play of The Alchemist.
Peter Van Bleeck Pinxt. 1738. PVB 1748.
Mezzotint, 470 x 310mm (18½ x 12¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet at corners.
The actors Benjamin Griffin (1680-1740) and Benjamin Johnson (c.1665-1742) in Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist'. One holds a bag of money, the other a book, in an interior with a globe at the left edge of the image. By Peter van Bleeck (c.1695 - 1764), Dutch portrait painter and mezzotinter born at The Hague, son of Richard van Bleeck. In London by 1723, where he married in 1745.
CS 5 ii/ii; for proof impression see ref. 7920.
[Ref: 43753] £320.00

Carlotta Grisi, La Giselle.
A.E. Chalon, R.A. H. Robinson.
[n.d.c.1830.]
Mixed-method, stipple and engraving. 209 x 157mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Cut.
Carlotta Grisi (Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi, 1819-99), the Italian ballerina, as Giselle, a role written for her by Théophile Gautier.
[Ref: 27707] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Carlotta Grisi. La Giselle.
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street April 1. 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Trimmed. Slight mark.
A portrait of Italian ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi (1819-1899) in the title role of the ballet Giselle. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 40921] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Giulia Grisi.
London, Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple. Sheet: 190 x 115mm (7½ x 4½''). Slight foxing.
A portrait of Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi (1811-1869) in costume.
[Ref: 50106] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Guilia Grisi [signature facsimile].
[after Joseph Mathias Negelen?] Imp Lemercier a Paris.
Paris chez Cuhaut freres, 3 Boulevard des Italiens [n.d. c.1840].
Lithograph on india laid paper. India 439 x 330mm. Foxing to wove paper outside india. Faint traces of foxing to image.
Portrait of Giulia Grisi [1811 - 1869], dramatic soprano, probably after Swiss artist Joseph Matthias Negelen and playing the role of Desdemona in Rossini's 'Otello'.
Not in Harvard.
[Ref: 3842] £420.00

Guilia Grisi. La Norma.
Widal [Vincent Vidal]. W.H. Mote.
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street Dec. 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Giulia Grisi (1811-69), a soprano, as the priestess Adalgisa in Bellini's opera 'Norma', the role she played at its premier in 1831. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 49514] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Giulia Grisi [facsimile.] Anna " _____Cessa A questa iniqua accusa Mia dignita riprendo, ed allamento Di Smeton seduttor te_Sier_io grido" Anna Bolena, Alba, 2. Sc. 6.
A.E. Chalon R.A. R.J. Lane A.R.A. Printed by Graf & Soret. depose.
London, Published Jan.y 1.st 1836 by J. Mitchell Library 33, Old Bond Street.____a Paris, chez Rittner & Goupil Boulevard Monmartre.
Coloured lithograph. 361 x 254mm (14¼ x 10").
Giulia Grisi (1811-1869), a brilliant dramatic soprano, a prima donna for thirty years; here as Anna Bolena in Donizetti's opera of the same name.
Harvard Vol.II.23: p. 161.
[Ref: 30414] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Giulia Grisi.]
From a Photograph by Signori Caldesi. Engraved by George Zobel.
London, Published May 21st 1855, by J.Mitchell, Bookseller & Publisher to Her Majesty. 33 Old Bond S.t.
Mezzotint on steel. 510 x 340mm. Spotting.
From Caldesi's 'Artists of the Italian Opera'. Giulia Grisi (1811-1869), a brilliant dramatic soprano, a prima donna for thirty years.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1140] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Mlle. Guimard. La Pastorale. 5. L'Opera.
Guérard del. E. Desmaisons lith.
Paris, publié par J. Bulla et F. Delarue, 10 rue JJ Rousseau. Imp. Lemercier. London pub.15 June 1844 by the Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berners St. Oxford St.
Fine coloured lithograph, rare. 317 x 261mm. 12½ x 10¼". Cut.
Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743-1816) was a French ballerina who dominated the Parisian stage during the reign of Louis XVI. For twenty-five years she was the star of Paris Opera. From 'Les annales de l'Opéra ou Recueil des premières danseuses'.
[Ref: 23939] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nell Gwyn] The Sculpters part is done the features hitt / of Madam Gwin, No Arte can shew her Witt,
P Lely Pinxit G Valck Sculp et ex
Cum Privilegio ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae [1673]
Very fine and rare engraving. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
Nell Gwyn (1651?-1687), actress and mistress of Charles II, in a landscape as a shepherdess. Gwyn arrived in London as an orange-seller and rose to become one of the leading comic actresses of the day. The playwright Dryden supplied her with a series of saucy, bustling parts, ideally suited to her talents. She had two sons by the King, the elder of whom was created duke of St Albans, and she was said to have been remembered by Charles on his deathbed with the words "Let not poor Nelly starve".
For another engraving after the same painting by Lely see ref. 19681.
[Ref: 42904] £490.00

Mrs. Ellen Gwynn A celebrated Actress and distinguish'd favourite of King Charles the 2d.
P. Lely Eques Pinx.t Van Bleeck, P. Sculp.t
Mezzotint, 255 x 305mm Fine impression, trimmed at bottom.
Nearly full length, the subject is sitting on a block, directed and looking forwards with her legs crossed. Her dress is loose and sits off of her right shoulder. A long curl of hair rests on the left. There is a slight glow eminating from the subject's face. Rocks and trees can be seen in the background.
J.C. Smith part III: p.1399. 6. From Broadlands the Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27391] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eleanor Gwynn. From an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr. Thane.
Sr. P. Lely pinx.t. John Ogborne Sculp.t.
Published May 1, 1779 for the Proprietor at No. 159 Strand.
Stipple. 250 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾"), with wide margins. Bit messy in margins.
The famous portrait of Nell Gwyn (1650-87), bare-breasted with a lamb. Once an orange-seller at the Theatre Royal, she became a member of Killigrew's company, making her debut there in 1665. Her charm and vivacity in comic roles endeared her to the public, as did her witty renditions of prologues and epilogues. She became the mistress of Charles II (1669) and bore him two sons, one of whom was created the duke of St. Albans.
[Ref: 45033] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nell Gwynn.]
[A. De Blois?]
[n.d. c.1680.]
A very rare and fine mezzotint. Sheet 324 x 210mm (12¾ x 8¼"). Oval cut and laid on sheet.
Nell Gwyn (1651-1687) rose from a humble orange-seller to one of the leading comic actresses of the day, and mistress of the King, Charles II. Dryden supplied her with a series of saucy, bustling parts, ideally suited to her talents.
[Ref: 24235] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Nell Gynn as a shepherdess?] Om fulk een Herderin...
Petr: Schenck, Sculptor, cum Privil: Amst:
[n.d. c.1680.]
Mezzotint with very small margins, rare. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¾"). Small tear just entering plate at bottom, creases.
An over-dressed sheperdess, feeding flowers to a sheep, a long crop in her left hand. Sir Peter Lely painted Nell Gwyn in a similar pose.
[Ref: 33001] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eleanor Gwynn. From an Original Picture in the Collect.n of the late Duke Buckingham.
Sir P. Lely pinx.t. Engraved by V. Green Engraver to his Majesty& to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd Nov.r 17th 1777 by W. Shropshire, No 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image.
A bare-breasted portrait of Nell Gwyn (1651?-1687), actress and mistress of Charles II.
CS: 60, ii/ii. Whitman: 66, iii/iii.
[Ref: 41884] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Madam Elinora Gwin.
S.r P. Lely. pinx.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. Sheet: 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
A portrait of Charles I's mistress Nell Gwynn shown holding a lamb.
[Ref: 45545] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Madam Elinora Gwynne.
P: Lely pinx. A: de Blois fecit.
N: Visscher exc: [n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint, 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Stained, chips to margin (one filled).
Nell Gwyn (1650 - 1687), prominent English actress and long-time mistress of Charles II.
[Ref: 11590] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Madam Gwin.
[n.d., late 17th century but 18th century printing.]
Very rare engraving. 254 x 171mm (10" x 6¾").
Nell Gwyn (1650-1687), prominent English actress and long-time mistress of Charles II.
[Ref: 8439] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Ellen Gwynn. A celebrated Actress and distinguish'd Favourite of King Charles the 2.d.
P. Lely Eques pinx.t. P.V.B. F.t 1751.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A three quarter length portrait of Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, an actress and long-term mistress of Charles II following the Restoration. In manuscript below image: 'K. Cha.s 2.d nat. children by her were, Charles Beauclere, created Duke of St Albans//. and another son named James who died young.'
[Ref: 43054] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Eleanor Gwynne Actress and mistress of Charles 2nd. Ob 1687. From a beautiful miniature by S. Cooper.
After Samuel Cooper. Richard Earlom sculp
S. Woodburn, London. 1810
Mezzotint, trimmed. 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper. Toning and some distortion around the edges of the paper.
Eleanor Gwynne (1650-87), better known as Nell Gwyn was one of the first actresses on the English stage and was a widely popular and lauded celebrity during the Restoration period. She was a long standing mistress to Charles II and had two sons by him, who were treated well. She is thought to have been illiterate but through her good looks, strong voice and wit propelled herself out of poverty and to stardom.
[Ref: 53731] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir John Hare.]
Painted by Sir John E. Millais, Bart. R.A.
Printed in Paris, Goupil. Gravure. 1893.
Photogravure. 545 x 368mm. 21½ x 14½".
Sir John Hare (1844-1921) was an English actor and manager of the Garrick Theatre in London from 1889 to 1895. He started his stage career in Liverpool in 1864, before moving to London and acting with the Bancrofts at the Prince of Wales Theatre. He was famous particulary in T. W. Robertson's comedies, and in 1875 he was made manager of the Court Theatre. After leaving the Garrick Theatre he took the Globe Theatre in 1897. He was knighted in 1907 and retired from the stage in 1912. Hanging on the wall behind him is a print of Garrick after Reynolds, probably by Thomas Watson.
for the Reynolds/Watson portrait of Garrick, see ref. 22369
[Ref: 17383] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Hartley. Distressed Mother / Act 4th last Scene / In the Character of Andromache [...]
Painted & Engraved by J.K. Sherwin.
Pub.d by J.K. Sherwin No. 28, St. James's Street, & W. Hainton, Sweetings Alley Royal Exchange Dec.r the 15 1782.
Etching and stipple printed in sepia, platemark 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"). Small margins; repaired tear on right; slight creasing. Nice impression.
Portrait of the actress Elizabeth Hartley (née White) (1750/1-1824) in the role of 'The Disstresst Mother' in Philips' translation of Racine's 'Andromache'. Hartley was a popular actress throughout her career, and the subject of a number of paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds. An obituary after her death in 1824 acclaimed her as the greatest female actress before Mrs. [Sarah] Siddons. Mixed-method print by J.K. Sherwin, published in 1782 by which time Hartley had been retired for two years.
O'D 22
[Ref: 36629] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Bacchante. From the Original Picture in the Possession of the Marquis of Thomond.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by W. Nutter.
Published April 14th 1801 by R. Cribb No 288 Holborn London.
Stipple, rare; sheet 580 x 455mm (22¾ x 18"). Thread margins; tears to margins; staining lower left; on wove paper. Trimmed to platemark.
Portrait of Elizabeth Hartley (1750/1-1824) as a nymph with the young Bacchus on her shoulder. Engraved after the 1771 portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Tate Gallery) which was painted near the beginning of what was to be a long and successful stage career for Hartley.
Hamilton p.106 ii/ii.
[Ref: 34844] £320.00

John Henderson Esq.r
Published May 16th 1786 by J. Wingrave Park Street London.
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Open letters; fine impression; slight foxing. Slight loss on left bottom outside platemark.
Anonymous portrait of John Henderson (bap.1747-d.1785), actor known as the 'Bath Roscius'. During his brief spell acting in London, he was admired as a successor to Garrick who had recently retired. Henderson's friends included Gainsborough, who also painted him.
O'D 20; CS (not attributed) 82; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for an engraving after Gainsborough's portrait of Henderson, see ref. 30777.
[Ref: 34036] £350.00

Mrs. Honey, as Psyche in...[text cut.] Royal Album, No. 21.
Alf.d Carlile, Litho.r London.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph. 269 x 209mm. 10½ x 8¼". Some toning around the edges.
Laura Honey (1816? - 1843), actress and vocalist, with butterfly on head; as Psyche in the burlesque 'Cupid'.
DNB describes her as 'a pleasing and graceful actress and a delightful ballad-singer'.
[Ref: 21524] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Laura Honey] Mrs Honey (as Psyche).
Lithographed, Printed & Pub.d by G.E. Madeley, 3, Wellington S.t, Strand [n.d., c.1835].
Coloured lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Edges soiled, crease. Bit messy.
Laura Honey (1816-43) as Psyché in the burlesque Cupid, performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, in 1832.
[Ref: 60659] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Hood.
F. Croll.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Engraving. 260 x 171mm. 10¼ x 6¾".
Thomas Hood (1835-1874) was an English humourist and playwright. A prolific author, he was appointed, in 1865, editor of the magazine 'Fun'. He also founded Tom Hood's Comic annual in 1867.
[Ref: 18995] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Ariel. Priseilla Horton [Facsimile within plate.]
LANE [monogram of Richard James Lane]. J. Graf. Printer to Her Majesty.
London, Published Dec.r 17, 1838 by J. Mitchell, 33 Old Bond St.
Lithograph with hand colouring. Laid, on India paper. Sheet size: 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼").
Priscilla Horton (1818 - 1895) was a well-known singer and actress in 19th century London, famous with her husband, Thomas German Reed, for their refined entertainments which became popular with middle-class audiences who did not otherwise go to the theatre. The print shows her as Ariel, in the 1838 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. By Richard James Lane (1800 - 1872).
[Ref: 39046] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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