Grosvenor Prints

[Sons of Henry Fox] A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB. St-e Gamblers. Nature Display'd both Serious and Comic in 12 Designs Dedicated to S. Foot Esq.r by L'Aquaforte & Burin. Pr. a Guinea.
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, printed in blue, watermark Tot & Son. 270 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾") very large margins.
Two 'cubs' (ie sons of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley) ride on horseback. The figure on the right, stood on an ass which refuses to cross the stream, is probably intended for Charles James Fox, while the figure on the left, jeering while crossing the stream, is probably Henry Fox, a keen horserider in his youth. Henry Fox, in the military academy in Strasbourg at this time, was stationed in Boston the following year and participated in the early battles of the American War of Independence. First in a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5112.
[Ref: 63629] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Sons of Henry Fox] A Macaroni Ass Match Between the Cubs NB. St-e Gamblers. Nature Display'd both Serious and Comic in 12 Designs Dedicated to S. Foot Esqr
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, sheet 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"). Trimmed, affecting text.
Two 'cubs' (ie sons of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley) ride on horseback. The figure on the right, stood on an ass which refuses to cross the stream, is probably intended for Charles James Fox, while the figure on the left, jeering while crossing the stream, is probably Henry Fox, a keen horserider in his youth. Henry Fox, in the military academy in Strasbourg at this time, was stationed in Boston the following year and participated in the early battles of the American War of Independence. First in a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5112; See also ref 18916.
[Ref: 39527] £320.00

[Henry Fox, Lord Holland] The ever-memorable Peace-Makers settling their Accounts. N.º XXXVI.
[n.d., but 1769.]
Engraving. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins.
The Duke of Bedford, Earl of Bute and Lord Holland (Henry Fox) sitting around a table, with the devil behind Holland, holding an axe. Holland writes in a book inscribed 'unac.d Millions'. A satire on Holland's alleged diversion of public money to private purposes: shortly before this print was published a petition submitted to the king by the Freeholders of Middlesex described him as 'a notorious defaulter of unaccounted millions', Published in 'The Town and Country Magazine', 5 July 1769.
BM Satires 4300.
[Ref: 43858] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Fox, Lord Holland] The ever-memorable Peace-Makers settling their Accounts. N.º XXXVI.
[n.d., but 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate and around title, losing pagination top right, laid on album paper.
The Duke of Bedford, Earl of Bute and Lord Holland (Henry Fox) sitting around a table, with the devil behind Holland, holding an axe. Holland writes in a book inscribed 'unac.d Millions'. A satire on Holland's alleged diversion of public money to private purposes: shortly before this print was published a petition submitted to the king by the Freeholders of Middlesex described him as 'a notorious defaulter of unaccounted millions', Published in 'The Town and Country Magazine', 5 July 1769.
BM Satires 4300.
[Ref: 67945] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland.] Renard Stating his Accounts.
[Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½'').
Henry Fox, with a fox's face, with his accounts books, with Bute, Norton, Barrington, Grafton and Mansfield offering their support. Charles James Fox is shown as a cub. Lord Holland was the subject of allegations of financial irregularities when Paymaster General.
BM Satire 4299.
[Ref: 59990] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable Henry Fox Esq.r Secretary of State. From the Original in the possession of the Hon.ble Horace Walpole.
Liotard pinx.t 1754. J.s Mc.Ardell fecit.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins. Blindstamp of Chevalier de Dornay in inscription area. Repaired tears in margins.
Half-length portrait in oval of Henry Fox, 2st Baron Holland (1705-1774), a leading figure of 18th century politics. He notably held the posts of Secretary for War, Southern Secretary, Secretary of State and Paymaster of the Forces during the Seven Years' War. He was the father of Charles James Fox.
Goodwin: 41. CS: 71, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68328] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Fox] Guy Vaux the 2d. The Wicked is Snared in the Work of his own Hands thou hast seen it. Psalm 10.
Publish'd according to Act Dec. 16 1756 by Edwards & Darly at ye. Acorn facing Hungerford Strand.
Etching. 80 x 110mm (3 x 4¼"), with large margins.
Scene lampooning Secretary of State Henry Fox shortly after his resignation from the Cabinet (which hastened the collapse of the Duke of Newcastle's government). Fox (drawn literally as a fox, complete with bushy tale) is shown dressed as Guy Fawkes, walking towards the Houses of Parliament beneath the watchful Eye of Providence. Published in 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757', a volume of seventy-five satirical prints with short descriptions. The description of this print read 'Similar to a modern Guy, who would have made as great a Blow-up at the helm as ever his Predecessor in King James's time could have done; had not the Eye of Providence interven'd'.
BM Satires 3439.
[Ref: 53494] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Fox] 77. The Toy Woman, 1757. Here's Pretty Toys for Girls & Boys pretty weathercocks & Turnabouts that go with ev'ry Wind.
[Darly & Edwards, 1757.]
Engraving. 80 x 110mm (3 x 4¼"). Worm hole in right margin. Small margins.
Henry Fox as a fox-faced woman selling toys from a basket on her back. A satire of Fox's attempts at becoming Prime Minister, using the offices of state as bribes. Published in 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757', a volume of seventy-five satirical prints with short descriptions.
BM Satires 3535.
[Ref: 53500] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Honourable Henry Fox Esqr Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces.]
[A. Ramsay Pinx.t. J. M.Ardell Fecit.]
[n.d., 1762.]
Mezzotint, unfinished proof before letters, inscription area uncleaned, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Creasing. Small margins.
Half-length portrait in oval of Henry Fox, 2st Baron Holland (1705-1774), a leading figure of 18th century politics. He notably held the posts of Secretary for War, Southern Secretary, Secretary of State and Paymaster of the Forces during the Seven Years' War. He was the father of Charles James Fox.
Goodwin: 41, before only state. CS: 71, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. G93 i of ii.
[Ref: 68456] £380.00

Lieu.t. General The Honorable Henry Edward Fox. Lieut Governor of Gibraltar &c. &c. &c
T. Phillips A. pinx. C. Turner sculp.
London Published Aug.st. 17 1805 by Colnaghi & C.o. Cockspur Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Foxing and slight staining around edges. Laid on album sheet.
Half portrait of General Henry Edward Fox (1755-1811). Fox was a commander in the British Army, serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars. Fox also served in various governing positions such as Lieutenant-Governor of Minorca and Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Whitman: 205
[Ref: 35128] £360.00

[Stephen Fox] Robb'd between Sun and Sun. Old Law Tria Juncta in Uno
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament January 18 1773 by J. Almon in Piccadilly. Price one Shilling.
Engraving, sheet 265 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Nicks to edges; creasing. Trimmed.
Lord Holland seated between his sons Stephen and Charles. He focuses his attention on the sleeping Stephen (elsewhere caricatured as the 'Sleepy Macaroni' [see refs. 41513 and 14220]), not noticing Charles picking his pocket. Beside Charles are emblems of gambling (a dice box and dice) while a devil, chained to his ankle, crouches under a table: Lord Holland paid Charles' extensive gambling debts at this time.
Cp. BM Satires 5223 [smaller version of same image, published 1774]
[Ref: 45462] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Stephen Fox] A Flaw in the Ice or Stephens Dream of the Macaroni Bucks and Does Turn'd Topsy Turvy.
[William Austin].
Pubd as the Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 295 x 380mm (11¾ x 15"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A group of people crash through the ice. The central figure is Stephen Fox (1723-74), brother of Charles James Fox. Stephen inherited the title 2nd Baron Holland the year after this caricature was published but died five months later.
[Ref: 63565] £350.00

[Stephen Fox] The Sleepy Macaroni. Dreaming for the Good of his Country.
WB [Bunbury] Invt. et sc.
Pubd. accorg. to Act June 4th 1772 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A portly Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland (1723 - 1774), elder brother to Charles James Fox, slumped asleep in an arm chair holding book. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '14' upper right.
BM Satires: 4648.
[Ref: 14220] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Stephen Fox] The Sleepy Macaroni Ste'_aling a Nap.
Sam Sharp Eye del.t. ad vivam, 1772. J. Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 1.st 1772 by J. Bretherton No. 134, in New Bond Street.
Etching. Plate: 100 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"); very large margins
A satirical portrait of Stephen Fox (1745-1774), later 2nd Baron Holland, elder brother of politician Charles James Fox. Fox is shown half asleep while standing up.
[Ref: 41513] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Stephen Fox] The Voluptuos. Luxurious. Spendthrift. Macaroni. From Holland. In. A. Breathing. Sweat. 3.
[by William Austin]
Pubd as ye Act Directs May 1st 1773.
Etching, 18th century watermark 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾"), very large margins.
A caricature of Stephen Fox (1723-74), eldest son of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley, older brother of Charles James Fox. He is depicted obese and asleep, lying on a garden seat, with nosgay, sword and toupet wig with a large macaroni club. From a set of twelve prints by William Austin (1721/33-1820), drawing-master and engraver. Austin taught caricature to amateurs and this series, which mocked several well-known personages (as did its dedicatee, the actor Samuel Foote) contains some of the most lively English caricatures of the period between Hogarth and the late Georgian satire of Gillray and Rowlandson.
BM Satires 5114.
[Ref: 63630] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The R:t Hon:ble Lady Susan O'Brien.
F. Cotes Pinx.t. James Watson Fecit.
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament May 20 1772 by James Watson, N.º 45. little Queen Anne Street, and B,, Clowes, N.º Gutter Lane, Cheapside.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
A half-length portrait in oval of Susan Fox-Strangways (1743-1827), cousin of Charles James Fox, who eloped and married Irish actor and playwright William O'Brien, after which the couple lived in New York for six years.
Goodwin: 88, iii of iv; CS 108, iii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65848] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The R:t Hon:ble Lady Susan O'Brien.
F. Cotes Pinx.t. James Watson Fecit.
Printed and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1.st April 1776 by J. Brethertob. N.º 134 Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Repaired tear in narrow margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Susan Fox-Strangways (1743-1827), cousin of Charles James Fox, who eloped and married Irish actor and playwright William O'Brien, after which the couple lived in New York for six years.
Goodwin: 88, iv of iv; CS 108, iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65849] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Foxe] ANNO DO 1587. ÆTAT 70. Cujus in hac humili confusus imagine pendes...
G: Glouer Sculp:
[n.d. c.1641]
Engraving, sheet 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet at edges. Very small pinprick holes within face. Repairs left bottom corner.
Frontispiece to Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments' ('Book of Martyrs'), 1641 edition. Half length portrait of martyrologist and author John Foxe (1516-1587). He wears a hat, ruff, and fur-lined gown.
[Ref: 61637] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Richardus Fox. E Pisc: Winton Henrico VII & VIII a Secretioribus & Privati Sigilli Custos Coll: Corp. Christi Fundr. A.D.1516. Hanc effigiem Rev.Viro Tho.Randolph, S.T.P & ejusdem Coll. Presidi Dignissimo.
Summa cum Humil & Observanntia D.D.D. H.Parker.
[n.d., c.1740.] Printed for H.Parker, Print & Bookseller at No.82 in Cornhill, London.
Fine mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait of Richard Foxe (sometimes Richard Fox) (c. 1448 - 1528), English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord Privy Seal.
CS 34 IV of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65035] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Fuchshündinn. Une chienne renarde. Pejnösteny..kutya. 14.
Reichert lithographirt.
[n.d. c.1847.]
Lithograph with large margins. 240 x 368mm (9½ x 14½").
A foxhound in a stable drinking water from a trough; below here lie four puppies resting, a fifth tries to reach her to suckle, and a sixth tries to get to the trough. From "Panorama der Saeugethiere lithographirt und herausgegeben von H. Reichert".
[Ref: 29485] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Foxhound.]
Arthur Wardle 1897.
Etching on india, printed in brown, signed in pencil by the artist. 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
[Ref: 43345] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Limier de la Venerie - Sabro.
[G.Jadin pinxt]. Pirodon lith. Imp. Lemercier & Co. Paris.
Publie par Goupil & Compie. Editeurs Paris, London, La Haye, Berlin., n.d. c. 1870.
Lithograph. Printed area 370 x 445mm.
Louis Godefroy Jadin (1805-82) painted hunting scenes in both Napoleon III's rooms in the Louvre and the dining room of the Palace of Tuileries for Ferdinand-Philippe, Duke of Orleans.
[Ref: 3420] £320.00

Limier de la Venerie - Verone.
[G.Jadin pinxt]. Pirodon lith. Imp. Lemercier & Co. Paris.
Publie par Goupil & Compie. Editeurs Paris, London, La Haye, Berlin., n.d. c. 1870.
Lithograph. Printed area 370 x 445mm.
Louis Godefroy Jadin (1805-82), painted hunting scenes in both Napoleon III's rooms in the Louvre and the dining room of the Palace of Tuileries for Ferdinand-Philippe, Duke of Orleans.
[Ref: 3421] £320.00

[June - The Long Vacation.]
Maud Earl.
Photographische Gesellschaft - Berlin Photographic Company Berlin, London W, 133 New Bond Street; New York, 14 East 23rd Street. Copyright 1906
Colour photogravure, signed artist proof. 220 x 350mm. Extremely large margins. Original title pasted to reverse as issued.
From 'the Sportsman's Calendar'. Maud Alice Earl (1864-1943) was an eminent British-American canine painter. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds. Earl was the born in London, the daughter of artist George Earl and his first wife Alice Beaumont Rawlins. Maud's profession was the continuation of a family tradition. George Earl, an avid sportsman and noted sporting painter, was his daughter's first teacher and had his daughter study the anatomy of her subjects, drawing dog, horse and human skeletons to improve her skill. She later said that her father's instruction had given her ability that set her apart from other dog painters. After her father's tutelage Maud went on to study at Royal Female School of Art (later incorporated into the Central School of Art). Earl became famous during the Victorian Era, a time when women were not expected to make their living at painting. Nevertheless, she developed a select clientele, including Royals amongst her patrons such as Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Although evidently extremely successful in England, Earl felt that the world she knew had been destroyed by World War I and she emigrated to New York City in 1916. By this time her work had received wide international recognition and her popular images were published in a number of books and in print form. The Sportsman's Year featured twelve of Earl's works as engravings. Maud Earl died in New York in 1943 and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
[Ref: 36024] £320.00

[June - The Long Vacation.]
Maud Earl.
Photographische Gesellschaft - Berlin Photographic Company Berlin, London W, 133 New Bond Street; New York, 14 East 23rd Street. Copyright 1906
Colour photogravure. 220 x 350mm.
Foxhounds from 'the Sportsman's Calendar'. Maud Alice Earl (1864-1943) was an eminent British-American canine painter. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds. Earl was the born in London, the daughter of artist George Earl and his first wife Alice Beaumont Rawlins. Maud's profession was the continuation of a family tradition. George Earl, an avid sportsman and noted sporting painter, was his daughter's first teacher and had his daughter study the anatomy of her subjects, drawing dog, horse and human skeletons to improve her skill. She later said that her father's instruction had given her ability that set her apart from other dog painters. After her father's tutelage Maud went on to study at Royal Female School of Art (later incorporated into the Central School of Art). Earl became famous during the Victorian Era, a time when women were not expected to make their living at painting. Nevertheless, she developed a select clientele, including Royals amongst her patrons such as Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Although evidently extremely successful in England, Earl felt that the world she knew had been destroyed by World War I and she emigrated to New York City in 1916. By this time her work had received wide international recognition and her popular images were published in a number of books and in print form. The Sportsman's Year featured twelve of Earl's works as engravings. Maud Earl died in New York in 1943 and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
[Ref: 7448] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Foxhounds outside their kennels.]
Drawn on Stone by George Augustus Frederick Fitz-Wygram Esqr.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph, image 270 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Lightly foxed.
An attractive lithograph. Very rare, possibly a private plate.
[Ref: 8883] £350.00

[June - The Long Vacation.]
Maud Earl.
Photographische Gesellschaft - Berlin Photographic Company Berlin, London W, 133 New Bond Street; New York, 14 East 23rd Street. Copyright 1906
Colour photogravure, signed artist proof. 220 x 350mm, very large margins.
Four dogs sit in the shade, avoiding the bright June sun. From 'the Sportsman's Calendar' by Maud Alice Earl (1864-1943) an eminent British-American canine painter.
See Ref: 36024
[Ref: 40207] £320.00

[Foxhounds outside their kennels.]
On Stone by George Augustus Frederick Fitz Wygram Esqr.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1820.]
Rare lithograph on india, with very large margins. Sheet: 495 x 635mm. 19½ x 25".
Foxhounds inside and outside their kennel area. Probably from a private plate.
[Ref: 39948] £350.00

Modish. A remarkable fine Fox Hound bred by Colonel Thornton, Modish was the Daughter of Merlin & Rival both which lineally discended from the celebrated Ackham's Old Conqueror.
S. Gilpin Pinx.t. Engraved by R. Pollard, Aqua.t by F. Jukes.
Published Feb.y 11, 1788 by S. Gilpin, Knightsbridge & R. Pollard, No 15. Braynes Row, Spa Fields, London.
Rare coloured aquatint with engraving, fine colour. Framed, sight size 440 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
A fox hound bitch with litter. The dog's owner, Colonel Thomas Thornton (1757 - 1823), was a Yorkshire sportsman who wrote 'A sporting tour through the northern parts of England', 1804; and 'A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802', 1806.
[Ref: 63269] £520.00

Modish. A remarkable fine Fox Hound bred by Colonel Thornton, Modish was the Daughter of Merlin & Rival both which lineally discended from the celebrated Ackham's Old Conqueror.
S. Gilpin Pinx.t. Engraved by R. Pollard, Aqua.t by F. Jukes.
Published Feb.y 11, 1788 by S. Gilpin, Knightsbridge & R. Pollard, No 15. Braynes Row, Spa Fields, London.
Rare aquatint with engraving. Sheet 445 x 560mm (17½ x 22"). Trimmed close to plate, some surface wear and toning, some repairs.
A fox hound bitch with litter. The dog's owner, Colonel Thomas Thornton (1757 - 1823), was a sportsman who wrote 'A sporting tour through the northern parts of England', 1804; and 'A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802', 1806.
[Ref: 39719] £590.00

[Foxhounds] [November - Full Cry.]
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1906 by Photographische Gesellschaft. Berlin Photographic Company Berlin, London W, 133 New Bond Street; New York, 14 East 23rd Street. Copyright 1906
Photogravure on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the artist in pencil. 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½"), with large margins. Title label on verso.
Three foxhounds, one of twelve plates in Maud Earl's ''Sportsman's Year".
[Ref: 56246] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Lieu.t Général Foy. Député du Dép.t de l'Aisne.
Maurin.
Chez l'Editeur, petite rue S.Race. No.10. Imp. Lith. de Villain.
Lithograph. Sheet: 510 x 335mm (20 x 13¼"), with large margins. Repaired tear
A portrait of French general, statesman and writer Maximilien Sebastien Foy (1775-1825). Following his military career during the French Revolutionary Wars Foy entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, a position he held until his death. From the collection of Lady Elizabeth Fielding (1773-1846), mother of William Henry Fox-Talbot, and her family.
[Ref: 46457] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Fra Diavolo.]
J. Brandard.
[n.d., c.1857.]
Tinted lithograph. Framed, sight size 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Mounted over image, unexamined out of frame.
A scene from the three-act comic opera 'Fra Diavolo' by Daniel Auber (1782-1871), with the main character, an Italian bandit, captured by French occupation soldiers. It was first performed in London at the Lyceum Theatre in 1857, with Italo Gardoni in the title role and soprano Angiolina Bosio as Zerline; their names are written on the mount.
[Ref: 68494] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ein Frachtwagen. Eigenthum des Verlegers.
J. Höchle del. Gurk sc.
Wein bey Tranquillo Mollo. [n.d. c.1820.]
Very fine coloured aquatint. Plate 336 x 446mm. 13¼" x 17½".
A coaching print. Eight working horses and loaded carriage.
See 8971
[Ref: 8970] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Frail Sisters.
Published 12th. May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint, with original hand-colour. Plate: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10''), with large margins. Paper tone and staining.
A scene in a room, on a chair a young woman, wearing a large hat sits with her pet squirrel on her knee while her sister, who wear a cap, stands behind her with an open window in background.
Ex. Collection the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 48832] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Design for a frame.] No. 2
Publish'd by F: Vivares Novemr. 1757.
Engraving on laid paper. Sheet 100 x 235mm (4 x 9½").
From a set of designs by Francis Vivares (1709 - 1780), French-born engraver and publisher who came to London in 1727. He enjoyed a very high reputation in France, where he was regarded as the greatest landscape engraver, and became a key teacher of the British school of line engraving.
[Ref: 53578] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Design for a frame.] No. 2
Publish'd by F: Vivares Novemr. 1757.
Engraving in red ink on laid paper. Sheet 125 x 210mm (5 x 8¼").
From a set of designs by Francis Vivares (1709 - 1780), French-born engraver and publisher who came to London in 1727. He enjoyed a very high reputation in France, where he was regarded as the greatest landscape engraver, and became a key teacher of the British school of line engraving.
[Ref: 53579] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Rembrandt's Frame-Maker.]
Rembrandt pinx. Dixon Fecit.
[n.d, c.1769.]
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Very small margins. Some faint time-staining.
Portrait of Hermann Doomer (1595 - 1650), a Dutch Golden Age furniture and frame-maker. Born in Anrath, near Venlo, he married Baertje Martens in 1618. He ran a successful business in ebony-veneer furniture and frames in the Kalverstraat, Gasthuismolensteeg and Hartenstraat. By 1625 Doomer already played a prominent role within the group of Amsterdam ebony workers.
Charrington 44. i of iii. CS 40. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Bute Collection.
[Ref: 65585] £360.00

Thomas Bowles, Herald, Sign, House Painter & Gilder; 17 Snow-Hill, London. Paintings and Prints Framed and Glazed, Old Pictures judiciously cleaned. Arms Painted on Vellum. Old Picture frames bought.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Very rare engraved frame label, stuck to canvas backing of a mezzotint dated 1789. Label 70 x 90mm (2¾ x 3½"). Paper browned.
Bowles went bankrupt in 1791. The mezzotint is 'An Ass Race', engraved by William Ward for George Morland,
[Ref: 41325] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Framers.] Thomas Fentham, Carver, Gilder and Picture-Frame Maker, at No. 52. Opposite Old Round-Court, Strand, London, Sells all Sorts of Picture, Print, and Looking-Glass Frames, of any Colour to match Rooms; various sorts of Green and Gold Dressing-Glasses, rich Girnadoles, &c and Green and Blue Venetian Window-Blinds. Old Pictures and Prints cleaned, lined, repaired, and secured from dust.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Letterpress label, 70 x 65mm (2¾ x 6¼"). Pasted to canvas on the back of a religious engraving after Rheni.
According to the British Museum Fentham was active at that address from c.1783 to at least 1796; by 1802 he had moved to 132 Strand, his address to c.1811. They also have a mezzotint portrait of Sir William Wallace engraved by Thomas Watson published by Fentham from 52 Strand.
Ex collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36483] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Freeman, Carver and Gilder, Looking [Gl]ass Manufacturer, and P[rint]-Seller, No. 2 [Londo]n-lane, Norwich, [...]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare frame label, 115 x 85mm (4½ x 3¼"), on reverse of contemporary frame with a maritime watercolour. Label scraped, with loss of text.
Frame label of a framemaker of Norwich. The British Museum has a trade card of William Freeman (1813 - 1897) of London Lane, probably the next generation. The watercolour is a scene of a British warship and cutter before a mountainous headland.
Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37714] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Framer's Label.] Drawings, Prints and Pieces of Needle-Work, framed and glazed in the neatest Manner; also Maps & Charts completely fitted up on Cloth and Rollers, by T. Whitewood, Stationer & Bookseller, Queen-street, on the Common, Portsmouth.
[n.d., c.1791.]
Letterpress label, with marbled border. Label: 45 x 65mm (1¾ x 2½''). Engraving creased and trimmed.
A Portsmouth framer's print label glued to the verso of an engraving 'The Murder of David Rizzo' engraved by Isaac Taylor after Opie, published by John Boydell in 1791.
[Ref: 56623] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

F. Irish, Carver, Gilder, &c. 35, Windmill Street. Tottenham Court.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etched trade card. Sheet 40 x 60mm (1½ x 2¼"). Trimmed, crease top right.
[Ref: 61352] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Father of the Turf, Tregonwell Frampton Esq.re of Moreton, in Dorsetshire, _Keeper of the Running Horses at Newmarket, to their Majesties William the Third, Queen Anne, George the First, & George the Second; Died 12th of March 1727_Aged 86 Years.
Engraved (from an Original Painting by Mr. Wootton) by John Jones Engraver Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, & Principal Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
Publish'd as the Act directs 7 June 1791, & sold by the Proprietor J. Bodger, Land Surveyor, Stilton, Hunts & at 53 High Holborn. Mr. Weatherby, Racing Calendar Office No.7 Oxendon Street Haymarket & at. Mess.rs Tattersalls, London. at the Coffee Room, Newmarket: Also at all the Principal Towns in England.___ See the Seven Companion Prints in Racing Calendar Book 1791, last Page...
Coloured mezzotint, 560 x 385mm (22 x 15¼"). Trimmed inside platemark at bottom; collector's stamp bottom right.
Portrait of Tregonwell Frampton (1641-1727), 'a commoner who thought nothing of losing 1,000 guineas on a race, who managed the royal stable though five reigns, from Charles II's to the first year of George II's, and became the arbiter in any enquiries, fouls, and disputes at the finishing line'. The text below includes an anecdote about Frampton and his horse, Dragon, 'supposed to be spoken by the Horse in the Elysium of Beasts and Birds'.
CS: 30; see Donald W. Nichol, 'Lost Trousers' in TLS, July 26 2013; for uncoloured impression see ref. 23419
[Ref: 8627] £750.00

The Father of the Turf, Tregonwell Frampton Esq.re of Moreton, in Dorsetshire [...] "I turned about in honest confusion, and blushed that I was a man".
Engraved (from an Original Painting by Mr. Wootton) by John Jones Engraver Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, & Principal Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
Published as the Act directs, 4 June, 1791 & sold by the Proprietor J. Bodger, Land Surveyor, Stilton, Hunts. & at No. 53 High Holborn. Mr. Weatherby, Racing Calendar Office, No. 7 Oxendon Street Haymarket, & at Messrs. Tattersalls, London, at the Coffee Room, Newmarket: Also at all the Principal Towns in England. ____ See the Seven Companion Prints in Racing Calendar Book 1791, last Page.
Mezzotint, approx 550 x 360mm (21½ x 14¼"). Outside of frame 690 x 510mm (27 x 20"). Unexamined out of frame. Title area dirty.
Portrait of Tregonwell Frampton (1641-1727), 'a commoner who thought nothing of losing 1,000 guineas on a race, who managed the royal stable though five reigns, from Charles II's to the first year of George II's, and became the arbiter in any enquiries, fouls, and disputes at the finishing line'. The text below includes an anecdote about Frampton and his horse, Dragon, 'supposed to be spoken by the Horse in the Elysium of Beasts and Birds'.
CS: 30; see Donald W. Nichol, 'Lost Trousers' in TLS, July 26 2013; for coloured impression see ref. 8627
[Ref: 23419] £490.00

[Battle of Francavilla] Bataille tussen de Keyserlyke Troupen onder het belyt van den Generaal Graas van Mercy [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, folding creases as normal.
A scene of the Battle of Francavilla fought on 20 June 1719, near the city of Francavilla di Sicilia in Sicily between Spain and Austria. The battle was part of the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), caused by Spanish attempts to recover territories in Italy ceded in the 1713 Peace of Utrecht.
[Ref: 59215] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[French almanak] L'Indicateur Général. 1836.
Chez Binet, Propriétaire-éditeur rue Aubry-le-Boucher, No 34m et au Bureau Central d'Imprimeriem rue Saint-Marc No 21.
Engraved map with hand colour with letterpress and engravings. Sheet 525 x 650mm (20¾ x 25½"), with watermark. Damage in lower edge and bottom right corner.
A map of France surrounded by tables of information, five vignette scenes of Napoleon's life and portraits of him and his son Napoleon II. The tables include a diary of Saints' days, currency exchange rates, interest rates, and populations of different countries.
[Ref: 55769] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

La France. A.6.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed in margin.
A rococo design representing France, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59304] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Francorum Regum Simulcra a Pharamundo ad Ludovicum XIV…
Pietro VansicKleers Sculp.
[Rome, G.G. de Rossi, c. 1715.]
7 engraved sheets (of 8), each c. 580 x 400mm. Some staining to margins.
56 [of 65] portraits of the Kings of France from the legendary Pharamond (c. 370 - c. 430) to Louis XV, a later addition to the plate. With a blank for a future king and two decorative cartouches and an elaborate border. Incomplete.
[Ref: 1672] £1,250.00

Les Costes de France Sur l'Ocean et sur la Mediterranée Corigées, Augmentées, et Divisées . en Capitaineries Garde-Costes, Dediées A Monseigneur le Dauphin Par Son tres Himble et tres Obeissant Serviteur et Geographe De Fer.
A Paris Chez le O.r de Fer dans l'Isle du Palais Sur le Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale. avec Pri. du Roy 1690.
Engraved titlepage. 225 x 335mm. Splits in upper and lower centrefold.
Titlepage from Nicolas de Fer's atlas of charts of the French coasts. de Fer (1646-1720) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher who issued altogether more than 600 separate maps, including atlases, sheet maps and large wall maps. He gained a great reputation in his lifetime and was appointed 'Geographer to the King' in 1690.
[Ref: 7577] £280.00

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