Grosvenor Prints

[The Ferry at Forfar.]
Charles W Cain [ink signature.]
[n.d. c.1930.] [Published by Arthur Greatrex Ltd. 14 Grafton Street, W1.]
Etching. Limited edition 77 proofs. 316 x 468mm. 12½ x 8¼". Some spotting.
Charles William Cain [1893-1962] A student of Camberwell School of Art and then an illustrator/cartoonist for the Johannesburg Star until WWI when he joined the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia until the Armistice, and entered the Royal College of Art under Frank Short 1920-1.
[Ref: 14375] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Broughty Castle, Forfarshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman. 1821'. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the ruins of Broughty Castle on a bank to the left, with a round tower in front of a high facade and three windows at the top. A number of figures are walking, conversing and fishing in the foreground, with ships and boats on the river Tay to the right. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36173] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Forfeit, Huntsman to John Warde Esq.r.
Biederman Pinx.t. E. Harding Exc.
Pub.d. Jan.y, 1803 by E. Harding Pall Mall.
Stipple, very scarce with large margins. Platemark: 505 x 400mm (20 x 15¾"). Creases, very tatty.
A three quarter length portrait of Robert Forfeit, inclined to the left. He wears a plain coat with a belt, and holds a horn in his right hand A woodland with foliage can be seen in the background.
[Ref: 35250] £360.00

Vue d'un intérieur de forge sur le Hoyoux près de Huy.
Le G.l de Howen del. Lith: de Jobard.
[Brussells, Jobard, 1825.]
Tinted lithograph. 160 x 205mm, 6¼ x 8".
A view of the interior of a forge, published in Jean De Cloet's 'Voyage pittoresque dans le royaume des Pays-Bas'.
Ex Collection of Norman Blackburn
[Ref: 16573] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Forged Bank Note.]
[1827.]
Letterpress banknote. Sheet: 120 x 200mm (4¾ x 8''). Damaged and laid on album sheet.
A damaged forged note, across the letterpress are several stamps stating 'Forged'.
See Ref: 57915
[Ref: 50313] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Forgotten.]
Herbert Dicksee [signed in pencil.] H.D. 1922 [printed within image]
Copyright 1923 by Frost & Reed Ltd in the United States of America.
Etching. 280 x 385mm (11 x 15¼"). Framed, total size 540 x 650mm (21¼ x 25½"). Unexamined outside of frame.
A sad looking black Scottish terrier begs beside an empty bowl.
[Ref: 62495] £920.00

Helena Forman.
Rubens pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775 by W: Pether Broad Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673), one breast outside her corset, with bouquets of wheat stems and flowers in her hand and hat. The daughter of a wealthy silk and tapesty merchant of Antwerp, Fourment married Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.
CS 14.
[Ref: 60106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Simon Forman, Astrologer. Engraved from the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble Lord Mountstuart.
Bulfinch del. Godfrey Sc.
[Publish'd July 7. 1776 by F. Blyth, No.87 Cornhill.]
Engraving. 146 x 82mm. Horizontal crease. Rust markings.
Simon Forman (1552-1611) was arguably the most popular Elizabethan astrologist. Forman dates the first public performance of Macbeth at the outdoor Globe Theatre in April 1611.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18455] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

L. Fornasari. [Facsimile signature below.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 425 x 290mm. 16¾ x 11½". Some foxing. Sheet trimmed.
Luciano Fornasari, bass singer whose American debut was in 1832 at the Richmond Hill Theatre, New York City.
Harvard Theatre Collection: pg.54, 1.
[Ref: 9928] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Obelisk at Forres.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, June 1. 1821.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 230 x 305mm (9 x 12'').
A view of Sueno's stone, a Picto-Scottish standing stone, the largest remaining. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey, Scenery 16.
[Ref: 50509] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Captn. Thos. Forrest. Aetat 50, Midn. in the Navy in 1745.
JK Sherwin del. Sharp sculpt 1779.
Published by the Author as the Act directs, Jany. 30th, 1779.
Etching, sheet 260 x 195mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Trimmed within plate.
Thomas Forrest (1729? - 1802?), navigator. Frontispiece to his 'A voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands; ... performed in the Tartar galley ... during the years 1774, 1775 and 1776.'
[Ref: 11376] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Alfred Crowquill, to his Old friend Phil.
Day & Haghe Lithrs.to the Queen. Baugniet 1843. [Signature]
[n.d. c.1843]
Signed proof lithograph on india paper. 513 x 345mm.
Pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester, (1804-1872) the English comic illustrator, caricaturist, and writer.
[Ref: 551] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Forster [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"), with large margins. A few small tear in the bottom edge.
Half-length portrait of Edward Forster the Younger (1765-1849), banker and botanist. An early fellow of the Linnean Society, he was elected treasurer in 1816 and vice-president in 1828. He also had a catalogue of British birds printed in 1817. He helped found a Refuge for the Destitute in Hackney Road: he contracted cholera during an inspection, dying two days later. His herbarium was bought and presented to the British Museum. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
[Ref: 57188] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ioh. Reinhold Forster Geb. zu Dirschau in Westpreusen den 22 Octb 1729. Gestorb. zu Halle den 9 Dec. 1798. Georg Forster Geb. zu Nassenhuben bey Danzig 1754. Gestorb. zu Paris den 12 Jan. 1794.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins, very rare. Plate 140 x 82mm (5½ x 3¼")
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) the German Reformed pastor and naturalist who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America. He is best known as the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage accompanied by his son. In 1779 he was appointed Professor of Natural History and Mineralogy at the University of Halle, and director of the Botanische Garten der Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg. During Cook's voyage, he was accompanied by his son Georg Forster (1754-1794), the German-Polish naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. He was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature. From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden".
Kivell & Spence: pg.114 - not in.
[Ref: 29531] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Iohann Reinhold Forster. Iohann Georg Forster.
von D. Berger Geatz 1782.
Scarce stipple. Sheet 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
A double portrait in oval of Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-98) and his son, Johann Georg Forster (1754-94), the naturalists on James Cook's second Pacific voyage.
[Ref: 64354] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Forster] T. Foster, 1689, from a Pencil Drawing by himself in the Possession of G. Walker Esq.r.
GW. 1797 [George Walker?].
Pub.d by A. Beugo. June 2nd. 1803.
Etching. 100 x 95mm (4 x 3¾").
Thomas Forster (1677-c.1713), portrait painter probably patronised by the second Duke of Ormond, on the grounds that many of his sitters were the duke's associates.
[Ref: 6380] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[William Edward Forster.]
[H. T. Wells.] [C. Holl.]
Stipple with very large margins. Plate: 230 x 300mm (9 x 12").
Half portrait of William Edward Forster who was a politician serving as Liberal MP for Bradford between 1861 and 1886. He was appointed the role of Chief Secretary of Ireland by Gladstone in 1880 and resigned office in 1882. The original oil painting by H. T. Wells is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 32629] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

William Forsthe.
Freeman sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Sheet 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"), with wide margins. Trimmed within plate, foxing.
William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish botanist, superintendent of the royal gardens at Kensington and St James's Palace, and a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society. 'Forsythia' is named in his honour.
W1011-1
[Ref: 53179] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Squadron under the command of Sir J Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio. From a sketch by Sir J. Brisbane.
Painted by T. Whitcombe. Engraved by T. Sutherland.
[London, c.1820.]
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 150 x 210mm. 6 x 8¼". Trimmed within plate.
A British naval bombardment on April 11th 1814 of the French Port Maurigio, close to Monaco in the Mediterranean. The ships are HMS Aigle, HMS Alcmene, and HMS Pembroke, of which Brisbane was Captain. For James Ralfe's 'The Naval Chronology of Great Britain'.
Parker: 235. NMM: PAD5848.
[Ref: 14894] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Fort Nottich, Bomarsund. August, 1854. Breach made by the English Battery of three 32 pounders, manned by Marines & Blue Jackets under command of Cap.n. W.Ramsay, H.M.S. Hogue. Fort Nottich, Bomarsund. Aout. 1854. Brêche faite par la Batterie Anglaise de trois pièces de 32 servie par l’infanterie de marine et les matelots sous le commandement du Capitaine W. Ramsay du Vaisseaux de S.M. La Hogue. The English & French Fleets in the Baltic, 1854.
O.W. Brierly del.t J. Needham lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
London Published Feb.y 1.st 1855, by Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen, 17 Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Lithograph. 350 x 521mm. 13¾ x 20½".
From a set of 15 lithographs. The Battle of Bomarsund was fought by an Anglo-French task force against Russian defences at Bomarsund during the Crimean War. Fought during the August of 1854, and after a week of fighting, the British stormed the fort’s centre and eventually destroyed it by the end of the battle. There were three hundred Finnish grenadiers that greeted the British troops at the fortress, but all were captured and imprisoned in Lewes. The fortress was originally built in 1832 by Russia in Sund on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. In the Treaty of Paris, 1856, the entire Åland Islands were demilitarized, which is a status that has been preserved until this day
NMM: PAH8314; Parker 266(d)
[Ref: 20641] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A Pair.] View of the Fort of Joux in Franch Comté on the Frontiers of France & Switzerland. [&] View of the Fort of Joux. In which Coll. Moulin and Captains de Frotté, Girod, & d'Hauteroche were confimed for eleven months and fourteen days at the end of which they effected their escape by working a passage through the walls of their dungeon. It was axcessively damp and dark and received so little light that often they were obliged to have the candles lighted at midday. Their food was brought to them every twenty four hours, they were by great favor allowed to walk in a court yard of the Fort once or twice a week surrounded by a Serjeant & six Men with loaded Firelocks and fixed Bayonets!!.
From a Drawing by W. M.Craig Engraved by C. Turner.
London Pubd for the Proprietors Octr. 16 1809. by E. Orme, Printseller, Bond Street.
Coloured aquatints 370 x 330mm. Trimmed to plate, faint creases in title.
The first image shows mountainous wintery landscape with four figures absailing down the side of a steep cliff, escaping from the fortress. The second four men, Colonel Moulin, the Captains de Frotté, Girod and d'Hauteroche and a dog confined in a prison, one reading to the others from a book inscribed 'Baron Trench', sitting at a table, with beds at either side of the arched space and a kettle on a fireplace at left. Fort-de-Joux, at the summit of snow-clad mountain peaks, in the Jura Mountains, served as a prison for successive French Governments and was where Toussaint L'Ouverture died of neglect and starvation in 1803. Moulin, de Frotté, Girod, & d'Hauteroche 'effected their miraculous escape, on 27th January, 1805, after a severe Captivity of eleven months and 14 days. They resolved to obtain their liberty, & succeeded by making a hole in the wall of their cell, which was 3 feet 1/2 thick and then had to work through another wall 9 feet thick & after ten nights of anxiety & fatigue they descended the Rock almost perpendicular on which the Fort stands near 700 feet in height, by the help of a Rope they made with their linen & bed clothes after having proceeded on foot to Neufchatel, they separated, and journied to Vienna, and from thence set off on their way to England, where three of men arrived safely two months after their escape!' [E.extract from Whitman:708.]
Whitman:707.708
[Ref: 1412] £550.00 view all images for this item

A South View of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in North America.
Engraved for the London Magazine, 1760.
Engraving on watermarked laid paper, sheet 150 x 270mm. 6 x 10½". Trimmed within plate. Pin hole to sky.
Fort Oswego was an important frontier post for British traders in the 18th century. A trading post was established in 1722 with a log palisade, and New York governor William Burnet ordered a fort built at the site in 1727. The fort established a British presence on the Great Lakes. During the French and Indian War, this fort was captured and destroyed by the French in 1756. The site is now included in the city of Oswego, New York. Illustration to the London Magazine, numbered in image, with key lower left.
From Capper Album.
[Ref: 10950] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Storming of Fort Oswego, May 6th, 1814.]
Drawn by Capt.n Steele. Engraved by R.Havell & Son.
[London: R.Havell, 1817.]
Coloured aquatint, 300 x 430mm. Some restoration, title excised, gap filled.
An extremely rare print of the storming of Fort Oswego, part of the struggle for control of Lake Ontario, during the 1812 War. After their ammunition was soaked and rendered useless during thir landing the Royal Marines were forced to make a bayonet charge against the artillery in the fort. The American commander, George Mitchell, ordered a retreat into the woods, leaving 2400 barrels of supplies and seven guns. In the foreground of the print is a British naval officer, Captain William Mulcaster, who was wounded while leading 200 sailors armed with boarding pikes. His injuries ended his active career, but he received a pension of £300, and later became aide-de-camp of William IV.
[Ref: 5715] £750.00

South West View of Fort William & Inver Lochy Fort. Vüe Meridionale des Forts William et Inver Lochy en Ecosse.
[after Paul Sandby.]
[n.d., c.1818.]
Etching with fine hand colour. Mounted with old paper, visible area 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Pasted on the calf leather backboard of an album.
A view of the English Fort William, drawn by Paul Sandby when he was assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
[Ref: 60197] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Forth & Clyde Navigation] By Virtue of several Acts of Parliament, passed in the Reign of His present Majesty, the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, have made and established the following Rules, Regulations and Bye-Laws, to be observed and obeyed by all Persons, resorting to the Harbours, Basons, Wharfs, and Landing Places of the Canal from and after the 1st Day of July 1794, and to continue in Force till altered by the Said Company. [...] Thomas Dundas Governor. John Seton, Secretary.
[c.1794.]
Letterpress, scarce. Sheet 550 x 370mm (21¾ x 14½"). Folded, wear to edges, damp stains, old ink mss addenda.
A list of 12 regulations for using the Forth and Clyde Canal, a 35-mile canal from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the Clyde at Bowling, opened in 1790. The addenda to the text raises the harbour duty; on the back is a calculation of cost of a vessel's use of the canal. Port Dundas, the terminus of the canal in the centre of Glasgow, was named after a major backer of the canal, Sir Lawrence Dundas (1710-81); his son, Thomas Dundas (1741-20, 1st Baron Dundas), was the governor of the company mentioned on this broadside.
[Ref: 54173] £390.00

[Forth & Clyde Navigation] By Virtue of several Acts of Parliament, passed in the Reign of his present Majesty, the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation have made and established the following Rules, Regulations and Bye-Laws, to be obeyed and observed by all Masters of Vessels and other persons, resorting to and using the said Navigation. [... ] Dundas Governor. John Seton, Secretary.
[c.1799.]
Letterpress, scarce. Sheet 455 x 370mm (18 x 14½"). Folded, wear to edges, top margin narrow, as issued, damp stain in inprinted area.
A list of 22 regulations for using the Forth and Clyde Canal, a 35-mile canal from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the Clyde at Bowling, opened in 1790. Port Dundas, the terminus of the canal in the centre of Glasgow, was named a major backer of the canal, Sir Lawrence Dundas (1710-81); his son, Thomas Dundas (1741-20, 1st Baron Dundas), was the governor of the company mentioned on this broadside.
[Ref: 54172] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Forth & Clyde Navigation] By Virtue of several Acts of Parliament, passed in the Reign of His present Majesty, The Governor and Council of the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation have ordered the following Rates and Duties on all Vessels, Goods, Commodities, navigated or conveyed on the said Navigation and Collateral Cut to the West End of the Monkland Canal, and lying in the Harbours and Basins, and on the Quays, Wharfs, and Landing Places belonging thereto, to be levied agreeably to the Rules and Regulations herein-after mentioned; and to commence from the 31st Day of March 1818, and continue in force till altered by the said Governor and Council.
[c.1818.]
4pp. letterpress, scarce. 445 x 270mm (17½ x 10¾"). With three a.l.s. from the company secretary, David Caldwell to Graham Hamond. Creasing.
A list of tolls and dues for the Forth & Clyde canal, including fines for not returning ice-fenders. The letters are addressed to Sir Graham Hamond (1779-1862) (mis-spelt Hammond), a Royal Naval officer who appears in Mather Brown's painting of the Battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), at which he served as a young midshipman. He continued to serve throughout the Napoleonic wars, including the Battle of Copenhagen and the siege of French-held Malta. These letters, giving details taking his yacht through the Forth & Clyde Navigation, are dated 1818, three years before he was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight. The address is Norton Lodge (now Norton Grange), where Hamond died in 1862, less than a month after being promoted full admiral.
[Ref: 54178] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Forth Bridge, Length Including Viaduct, 8098Ft. Height 369Ft. Spans 1710Ft. Each. 676.
Alex. A. Inglis. Landscape & Architectural Photographer. Rock House, Carlton Hill. Edinburgh. Silver Medal, International Exhibition, Edinburgh 1888.
[1888.]
Photograph, mounted on card. 140 x 210mm (5½ x 8¼'').
A photograph showing the nearly completed Forth Bridge in Scotland which spans the Firth of the Forth from the villages of North Queensferry to South Queensferry and designed to carry railway carriages. Construction was started in 1882 and the bridge was opened on the 4th March 1890 by Duke of Rothesay, later Edward VII.
See ref: 50244
[Ref: 50245] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Introduction ala Fortification Dediée A Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne Par N. De Fer, Beaulieu, &c. Tome Premier
A Paris Chez N. de Fer
Etching, platemark 205 x 230mm (8 x 9"). Creased.
Frontispiece to the first volume of Nicolas de Fer's 'Introduction à la Fortification' (first published in 1693, but this from a later edition after the text changed), with military and naval battles above and below the text. De Fer (1646-1720) was renowned for his town plans and military maps.
[Ref: 40091] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Fortitudo.
[Jacob Gole?]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"), with very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on right, toning in top margin, old ink number bottom right of plate. Stain top left & right.
An opulently-dressed woman representing 'Courage', with high headress, seated on a fallen column, armour and a trumpet at her feet. Through a window is a triumphal columan and a palace. The blackness of the background mezzotint suggests it has been reworked.
[Ref: 60180] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Fortuna. E Tabula Guidonis Reni, in Pinacotheca Roberti Strange conservata.
Guido Reni Pinx.t. R. Strange sculpsit.
[London: Robert Strange, 1790.]
Engraving. 520 x 350mm (20½ x 14¼"), large margins.
Fortune flies over the globe dropping coins and jewels from a purse, with Chance, a winged putto, trying to restrain her by pulling on her hair. From a collected edition of the engravings by Sir Robert Strange (1721-92) after famous paintings, in this case one by Guido Reni (1575 - 1642).
[Ref: 46548] £360.00

[The Gypsy Fortune Teller].
[Published by R.Sayer] [n.d., c.1780].
Woodblock engraving. Sheet: 230 x 315mm (9 x 12½"). Trimmed to image. Crease across centre.
Exterior scene by a church. A gypsy with a young child strapped to her back and a child standing behind her tells the fortune of a well dressed woman using her palm. A well dressed man looks on smiling.
[Ref: 33137] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Avez vous vu les Suites du Libertinage? [Have you seen the consequences of debauchery?]
R. Brichet. Sculp. 1784.
Se vend à Augsbourg dans le Négoce comun de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire, sous son Privilege et avec défense de n'en faire ni vendre de Copies.
Etching, watermarked laid paper, 220 x 160mm. 8¾ x 6¼". Some spotting, mostly marginal. Full margins.
Caricature of an elderly woman with a head-scarf in a landscape. She has a walking stick and proffers an elaborate bead necklace with several carved tokens - including human skull, hands, feet, horn and a symbolic eye. She seems to be a wandering fortune-teller or gypsy; tip of church spire and weather vein in background. Numbered '48' upper right; from an unidentified series. Possibly after German painter Gottfried Bernhard Goetz (1708 - 1774).
See BM 1861,1012.285 for another plate apparently from the same series.
[Ref: 19615] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Fortune Teller.]
C.W. White Sculpt.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple, 140 x 140mm (5½ x 5½"). Mark on clothing of figure on right.
The figure on the left reads the palm of the girl on the right, while a third girl looks on.
[Ref: 8564] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

La Credulite Sans Reflexion. Dedie a Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur le Prince de Conde Prince du Sang. par son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur Halbou.
Peint par Schenau, Peintre de S.A.S.E. de Saxe. Grave par Louis Halbou 1770.
A Paris chez Halbou, Rue de la Harpe, vis a vis la Rue des deux Porte [c.1770]. Ce Tableau Original apartient au Sr. Halbou.
Etching and engraving, 480 x 380mm (18¾ x 15").
A wealthy lady and her maid visit a fortune teller who reads the playing cards she has spread on the table in front of her. After Johann Eleazar Schenau (1737 - 1806), painter and etcher born in Saxony who trained in Dresden, went to Paris 1756-70. He returned to Dresden as a member of the Academy, professor there in 1774. Director of the Meissen drawing school together with G B Casanova 1776, on his own from 1795.
[Ref: 10287] £320.00

The Fortune Teller. To His Grace the Duke of Dorset, Ambassador to the Court of France; This Plate is humbly Dedicated, by his Grace's much Obliged and most humble Servant, John Keys Sherwin.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin, Engraver to his Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Publish'd Mar. 10th 1785 by J.K. Sherwin, No 28 St James's Street & W. Hinton No. 5 Sweetings Alley Royal Exchange.
Etching with engraving, fine impression. 405 x 560mm (16 x 22"), with wide margins.
A woman in gypsy dress, standing at left, reads the palm of a shy young girl sitting on her brother's lap. The print is dedicated to John Sackville (1745-99), 3rd Duke of Dorset, cricketing enthusuast. When ambassador to France he organised what might have become the first international cricket tour had the French Revolution got in the way. He later became one of the first members of the Marylebone Cricket Club
[Ref: 53437] £320.00

The Fortune Teller, To His Grace the Duke of Dorset, Ambassador to the Court of France; This Plate is humbly Dedicated by His Grace's much Obliged and most humble Servant, John Keyse Sherwin.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx. Engraved by J.K.Sherwin, Engraver to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Publish'd Mar. 10th. 1785 by J.K.Sherwin No.28 St. James's Street & W. Hinton No. 5 Sweetings Alley Royal Exchange. _
Engraving and etching, 405 x 460mm. 16 x 18¼". Tatty extremities.
A woman in gypsy dress reads the palm of a shy young girl, sitting on the lap of a boy in a plumed cap.
Hamilton: pg.147, IV of V.
[Ref: 9571] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Les Devineresses.
Gouget direx.
[Paris, n.d., c.1834.]
Engraving. 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½").
A young couple consult a fortune-teller who reads cards. An owl stands on her table. From Jean de La Fontaine's Fables, Fable 15, Book 7.
[Ref: 36871] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Fortune Teller]. O Fortune, fair, like all thy treach’rous kind, / But faithless still, and wav’ring as the wind! / O painted monster, form’d mankind to cheat, / With pleasing poison, and with soft deceit!
[n.d., c.1740.]
Rare etching. Sheet 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A fortune teller reads the palm of a young woman. The verse comes from Alexander Pope's paraphrasing of Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'.
[Ref: 57528] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Calender-Narr.
[engraved by Johann Christoph Weigel.]
[Würzburg, 1698-1711.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Glue stains in border, paper toned.
'The Calendar Fool". A caricature of a man too invested in astrology. From ''Etwas für Alle, das ist: Eine kurtze Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- Und Gewerbspersonen'' bu Abraham à Sancta Clara.
[Ref: 60781] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Fortune Teller]
[N: Verkolje Pinx: et fecit.]
[G: Valck Excud: Cum Previl: Ord: Holl: et West-frisiae.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to image. Loose attachment to original mount.
A ragged girl reads the palm of a woman on a terrace, a fountain behind, after a painting by Nicolass Verkoje in the Toledo Museum of Art (inv.55-39).
BM: 1875,0710.1382, 'a rare example by Verkolje of an outdoor scene during daylight'. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66521] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fortune - Hunting.
B [compass monogram (North)] Esq. _del._ [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street.
Hand coloured etching, pt 1804 watermark. 265 x 385mm (10½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate. Small losses to each corner.
A fat elderly man in hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak-tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gipsy woman, who reads his hand. Meanwhile another gipsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his pocket. Behind to left stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle through the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood; in the distance two huntsmen are galloping. After Brownlow North (1778 - 1829), amateur draughtsman of satires, by James Gillray (1756 - 1815).
BM Satires: 10301. Grego: pg. 313.
[Ref: 53838] £480.00

The Wife's Fortune Told. With Maid or Widow e'er so old, A Youth of Spirit gets the Gold; Why then to know your Fate so silly? "You gave your Cash to keep a _ filly.
Published as the Act directs, [date erased from this impression] Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1784]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark; sheet 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Trimmed to plate on all but right side. Creases. Foxing.
An elderly gypsy woman, dressed in worn, ragged clothing and carrying a baby on her back, reads tea leaves to foretell the future of an unattractive woman seated at a round table. As the woman pays her with a coin, her husband stands behind her, gently stroking the chin of a young servant girl who leans against the back of her chair.
CS undescribed. BM Satires undescribed. Ex Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 68914] £320.00

The Husband's Fortune Told. When gay Eighteen to Sixty weds, How just the Scheme of seoerate Beds; This Dotard beeds no Gypsy's Prate, His Wife and Betty know his Fate.
Published as the Act directs, [date erased from this impression] Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1784]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Small margins. Damaged.
An elderly gypsy woman reading the palm of a newly married old man, whose young wife holds two fingers up behind his head, the sign of a cuckold, while her maid laughs.
CS undescribed. BM Satires undescribed. Ex Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68915] £320.00

La graine de niais; ou la sorciere en plein air L'as de coeur [m'annonce] que vous êtes enciente.
Lith. de G. Engelmann.
[chez Martinet rue de Coq.] [n.d., c.1820.]
Rare original coloured lithograph. Sheet 245 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line, stains & creasing.
A fortune teller says to an obviously pregnant woman, "The ace of hearts tells me that you are pregnant." A sign next to her reads, 'Par Permission, Madame Mathurin va tirer en ville les Cartes pour Six Sous elle fait Son petit jeu, et pour vignt Sous le grand.' A man sitting next to it on a chair holds his head with his hand in despair. Two other onlookers watch on.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 65574] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

''Your Thoughts are upon a Dark Man, My Dear'', and ''You'll have 18 Children.''
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
London Published by Glover & Co, Water Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
A gypsy reads a young woman's palm. ''Designed for & presented GRATIS with No. 118 of the FLY''.
[Ref: 49492] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Fortune-Hunting.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 255 x 385mm (10 x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Two gypsy women read the fortunes of a pair of hunters, as their accomplices empty their pockets and saddlebags.
BM Satires 10301.
[Ref: 61781] £650.00

'Forty Thieves' H.a. Freeman [pencil instructions to the right "...silk...".]
Rob Grafton [ink signature lower right.]
[Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 202mm. 15 x 8".
A man dressed in silk tights and a red jacket and a white lace bow tie. He wears a monocle and a red teachers-style cap, holding a cane. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22708] £320.00

Mrs. Forty, 30 years Pumper at Chelt.m Spa, Dedicated to its Visitors, by Their most Respectfull Humbl Servent J Spornberg and Published by him as the act Directs June 1st 1803.
Stipple, platemark 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼").
Unusual locally-published print of the well-known Cheltenham personality Hannah Forty (1744-1816), who pumped water for the visitors to the spa from 1772 until the first day of 1816. A monument to her exists in Cheltenham Minster St. Mary's. When George III visited Cheltenham he quipped to her: 'Mrs Forty, you and your husband together make eighty'. This bon mot is often quoted to prove the king had a sence of humour, just not a very good one.
[Ref: 38889] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Elizabeth Foster.
Engraved by Miss Caroline Watson, Engraver to Her Majesty after an original drawing made by Mr Downman for the Scenery at Richmond House Theatre.
London. Pub.d by R. Cribb, 288, Holborn, Jan.y 1 1797.
Stipple, very fine impression. 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8"), with very large margins.
Lady Elizabeth Foster (1757-1824), novelist and friend of Georgina Cavendish who lived with her and the Duke of Devonshire in a ménage à trois for 25 years, becoming duchess when Georgina died in 1806. Downman executed a series of portraits of women who had acted in the Richmond House Theatre, the 3rd Duke of Richmond's private theatre in Richmond House, Whitehall. Regarded as one of the grandest houses of the period, it burned down in 1791, after which the Duke concentrated on his country estate, Goodwood. First published by M. Lawson in 1788.
[Ref: 51313] £330.00

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