Grosvenor Prints

Frederick William IV, King of Prussia.
Drawn on Stone by F. Onwhyn. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Pubd. Jany. 29th. 1842 by A. Schloss, Printseller and Fancy Stationer to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. 12 Berners Street, Oxford Street.
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 550 x 380mm. 21½ x 15".
A fine portrait of King Frederick William IV of Prussia (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV von Preußen; 1795 – 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, who reigned as King from 1840 to 1861. Three vignettes below portrait, including the Prince of Wales's Feathers, Royal Prussian crest and the Order of the Garter, with which he was invested by Queen Victoria in 1842.
[Ref: 12387] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Carolina and Charlotta Frederic] Pygmalion, of Het Beeld Bezield Dood De Liefd; zo als herzelve door Carolina en Charlotta Frederic, oud g en 7 Jaaren, op den Amsteldamschen Schouwbourg, in het laatfte des jaars 1758, gedanst is.
G. vander Myn ad vivum delineavit. J. Punt sculpsit, 1759.
te Amsterdam By J. Punt in den Schouwburg
Etching. 355 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼) very large margins. Crease through inscription.
This rare print depicts the performance of Carolina and Charlotta Frederic (aged 7 and 9) in 1758 at the Amsterdam Schouwbourg Theatre in 'Pygmalion'. The Frederic children were sensations on the European stage of the mid-18th century. Carolina made her debut at age 6 at the Theatre Française in 1754; her sister Charlotte, age 5, joined her at the end of the same year. The Frederic children came from an illustrious background with their grandfather being Salle's partner at the London premiere of Pygmalion. Their father was the Dutch actor-manager known as “Sieur Frederic,” and their ballet teacher was the Maître de Ballet at the Paris Opera, François-Duval Malter. By Gerard Van der Myn. See ref: 13332 for a view of the Theatre interior during a performance.
[Ref: 52033] £680.00

[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany] The Great Chamber at St. James's Palace. with the Remains of His Royal Highness The Duke of York. Lying in State.
Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding from a Sketch taken from the Scene by Authority, on the Morning of the 18th January, the Figures outlined by T. Dighton.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. / London. Published as the Act directs, by R. Ackermann, Strand; Jan.y 20.th 1827.
Rare lithograph, sheet 165 x 175mm (6½ x 7"). Trimmed to edges of printed area; glued to album sheet.
The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), second son of King George III, lying in state in London. He died of dropsy and apparent cardio-vascular diseases. Frederick's remains were then interred in St George's Chapel, at Windsor. A key below the image identifies the figures in the image (grenadier guards, herald etc).
For uncut impression see ref. 28671.
[Ref: 32289] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ Church Cathedral] The Proposed Cathedral Church, Frederickton, New Brunswick, adapted from St Mary's, Snettisham, Norfolk.
Frank Wills, Architect, Exeter. R.K. Thomas lith. Day & Hague Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Sheet 635 x 460mm (25 x 18¼"). very large margins.
The Gothic Revival Anglican Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick, begun 1845, consecrated 1853. When the diocese was established in 1845, John Medley was appointed as its first bishop. Before leaving England he chose a Norfolk church to base the design of the new cathedral on and hired the Exeter architect Frank Wills to make detailed plans which Medley took to Canada.
[Ref: 52546] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Attaco e Presa di Fedricsodde fatta dal General Conti Montecuccoli.
Lerch fec.
[Gualdo Priorato, 1672.]
Engraving 300 x 360mm, 11¾ x 14¼".
The attack on Fredericia (Fredriksodde), Denmark, during the Second Northern War, 1655-60, by Raimondo Montecuccoli (c.1608-1680), an Italian general in the service of the Habsburg Austrians. Published in one of the works of Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato (1606-78), soldier & military historian.
NMM: PAF4568, mis-dating the battle to 1718.
[Ref: 15492] £180.00

Free as their thoughts and Wanton as the Air, Thro Life's bright Morning Sports this Infant Pair. Smiles in their Looks and Whinsys in Their Hearts Fir'd of their own They'd act each others part. Miss proves the Joys which Tommy's Cloaths afford,. Struts in his Hat and Hectors with his Sword. Whilt Tommy Drest with Miss's Capa nd Coat on Courtseys and Prins as if he'd Learnt with Haughton Th' observing Eye your Little Pastime teach. what grave Fools Dictate and what pedants preach. The Lust of Change [Disguise it as we can] Dawns as the Child and Rages in the Man.
P. Mercier Pinx. I. Faber fecit 1744.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. March 25th. 1744
Mezzotint, small margins. 350 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Fine impression; collector's stamp of Christopher Lennox-Boyd verso.
A young boy and girl standing in a landscape in front of a classical urn on a pedestal, the boy wearing the girl's collar and cap and holding her fan, hands folded in front of her, the girl in the boy's jacket, right hand on hip with a cane hanging from a ribbon on her wrist, a sword slung over right shoulder, placing a tricorn on her head with left hand. There is no clue to the identity of the children other than 'Tommy' in the verse; however the companion print depicts the three children of Frederick Prince of Wales.
CS: 416 (only state listed); Ex Oettingen-Wallenstein collection and collection of the Late Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For the pendant see ref 34425.
[Ref: 38881] £360.00

Free as their thoughts and Wanton as the Air, Thro Life's bright Morning Sports this Infant Pair. Smiles in their Looks and Whinsys in Their Hearts Fir'd of their own They'd act each others part. Miss proves the Joys which Tommy's Cloaths afford,. Struts in his Hat and Hectors with his Sword. Whilt Tommy Drest with Miss's Capa nd Coat on Courtseys and Prins as if he'd Learnt with Haughton Th' observing Eye your Little Pastime teach. what grave Fools Dictate and what pedants preach. The Lust of Change [Disguise it as we can] Dawns as the Child and Rages in the Man.
P. Mercier Pinx. I. Faber fecit 1744.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. March 25th. 1756.
Mezzotint, small margins. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Bit tatty.
A young boy and girl standing in a landscape in front of a classical urn on a pedestal, the boy wearing the girl's collar and cap and holding her fan, hands folded in front of her, the girl in the boy's jacket, right hand on hip with a cane hanging from a ribbon on her wrist, a sword slung over right shoulder, placing a tricorn on her head with left hand. There is no clue to the identity of the children other than 'Tommy' in the verse; however the companion print (Ref: 4193) depicts the three children of Frederick Prince of Wales. Originally published 1744.
CS: 416, this state not listed. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34426] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Free Grammar School, Birmingham.
T. Underwoof del. T. Radclyffe sc.
Published by W. Emans Sep.tr 26.th 1829 Bromsgrove St. Birmingham.
Engraving. Plate 140 x 222mm. 5½ x 8¾".
The Free Grammar School, New Street, from 1731 to 1834, which was then demolished to make way for King Edward's School, New Street, Birmingham. From "A New and Compendious History of the County of Warwick, from the earliest period to the present time comprising views of the principal towns, buildings, modern improvements, seats of the nobility and gentry, ecclesiastical edifices, &c." by William Smith, published, Birmingham 1830.
[Ref: 21893] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled allegory of Free Trade.]
[Engraved by J. West Giles after Edwin Landseer.]
Published by Graves & C.º London. _ and Agnew, Manchester [n.d., c.1860].
Tinted lithograph. Framed, sight size 445 x 620mm (17¼ x 24½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A stout farmer, holding a banner 'Free Trade Warranted Sound', stands just behind a 'heavy horse' stallion with a rosette on its bridle, signifying a champion. Behind is a cityscape with factories and smoking chimneys. It was published as a pair to an image of a sick and limping racehorse, representing the baneful effects of protection of trade.
Wellcome Collection 42427i, & 42428i for the pair.
[Ref: 66854] £480.00

Free Trade Star. Vicious Monopoly _ thy murky day / Is nearly gone; thy worshippers decay...
W. Snow [n.d., c.1845.]
Fine & scarce coloured engraving on card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
A decorative star filled with mottos and Biblical references promoting Free Trade, during the campaign to repeal the Corn Laws. The central ring reads 'Commerce Should Ever Be Free Like Air and Ocean'.
See 52552, 52856.
[Ref: 52551] £580.00

Liberté de La Presse chex les Anglais.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Fine & scarce coloured etching. 230 x 270mm (9 x 10½") very large margins.
A wonderful image of a press gang rounding up civilians on a quayside. The French title is a pun, 'The Freedom of the Press according to the English'.
[Ref: 60497] £490.00

Sir Francis Freeling, Bart. &c. &c. &c.
[G. Jones.]
[London: C. Turner, 1834.]
Scarce mezzotint and etching on steel plate, image 550 x 415mm. 21¾ x 16¼". Laid on a conservation backing with minor abrasions in title area and outside the platemark.
Portrait of Sir Francis Freeling (1764 - 1836), postal reformer and book collector, seated in an armchair. His reading glass is suspended from a ribbon, he holds a roll of paper in his left hand; his right arm rests on a table next to papers, books, inkstand, and seal. A vase on pedestal behind to left, an open box with book on floor on right and bookcase in background. Freeling's leisure was devoted to the formation of a curious and valuable library. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1801, and was one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812. A marble monument was erected to him in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. After George Jones RA (1786 - 1869), engraved and published by Charles Turner.
Whitman 210 (unnumbered state). DNB.
[Ref: 21624] £420.00

No. 3526. Play Mr. Freeman's Panto. Character King Robins.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 196mm. 15 x 7¾". Chip to upper and lower right corners of board.
A young lady in a small one-piece suit with buttons down the front. She wears a jacket with feathers along the lower edge and as shoulder enhancers; she also wears a helmet with small wings on the side. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime". A Mr. Harry Freeman was and entertainer in the East end of London performing mainly in muscial theatre from around the late 1890's.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22709] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

No. 3453. Play H.a. Freemans Pantomime. Character Jewel Ballet.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 196mm. 15 x 7¾".
A ballerina in an oranate turquoise jewel-encrusted dress with headpiece. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22699] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

No. 5745 Play. For H.a. Freeman's Panto. Character. Scene IIA.
Rob. Grafton Signed lower right.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board, signed Rd Crapton?; 380 x 191mm. 15 x 7½". Chip to board in lower left corner.
A young lady wearing a brightly coloured and flower-ornated turban, in a small dress with flowers on a ribbon around her waste; she holds a cane behind her back. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22698] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

No. 3650. Play For H.a. Freemans Pantomime. Character Robin of Canonby.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 196mm. 15 x 7¾". Foxing.
A woman dress in a long green cape, tights and fitting corset blouse. She holds a cane in her left hand, and wears a small hate with plush white feathers. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime". A Mr. Harry Freeman was and entertainer in the East end of London performing mainly in muscial theatre from around the late 1890's.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22711] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

No. 3450. Play. Character. For H.a. Freemans Pantomime.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 196mm. 15 x 7¾".
A lady in a sparkly dress with balls on the skirt pleats and as shoulder decorations. She holds a parasol in her left hand; further balls hang from the points; a flapping bird perches on her bonnet. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime". A Mr. Harry Freeman was and entertainer in the East end of London performing mainly in muscial theatre from around the late 1890's.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22705] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

2957. For H.a. Freeman's Pantomime. Marqery Daw 1d dress. No Tights.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.] [Stamp to upper left-corner:] Hugo Baruch & Co. 4084c. 21, Addle St, London, E.C.
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 202mm. 15 x 8".
A dainty maid in a purple and green dress, wearing a white bonnet with a green ribbon and bow. She wears a purple floral corset with a green-bowed drape over her skirt. A costume design for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".A Mr. Harry Freeman was and entertainer in the East end of London performing mainly in muscial theatre from around the late 1890's. Also Margery Daw top right could refer to the "See Saw Margery Daw" rhyming song.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22707] £320.00

No. 5744. Play Mr.Freemans Panto. Character. Scene II C.
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 196mm. 15 x 7¾".
A young lady standing in a paysanne-style dress, almost Turkish in design, holding a wooden staff. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22703] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

For H.a. Freeman's Pantomime. China.
Rob Grafton [ink signature lower right.]
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.] [Stamp to upper left-corner:] Hugo Baruch & Co. 4084c. 21, Addle St, London, E.C.
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 202mm. 15 x 8". Chip to lower left corner of board. Staining.
A young lady dressed wearing a conical shaped hat with a green dragon posing on the top. She stands holding a shield with written 'China' and a green dragon with orange outline. She wears a purple tunic with the words written 'China' and 'Candarins'. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime". Philately interest.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22704] £380.00

4060c. Mr Freeman's panto. No. Play. Character.
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 191mm. 15 x 7½".
A young lady dressed as a symbol of British Sovereignty with a head piece with the British Coat of arms, a British rose on her right shoulder and Scottish thistle on her left. She holds a shield with the British Royal Emblem and Union Jack's hang from her elbows. Her breast plate is that of a stamp "Postage and Inland Revenue. One Penny". Letter in top left-hand corner "John Bull Esq. London England". A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime". Philately interest.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22702] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

No. 3574. Play. H.a Freeman's Panto. Character.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 196mm. 15 x 7¾". Chip to lower right-corner of board.
A young lady dressed as a guard. Standing in green tights, a green jacket with gilt decorated sleeves and a growing heart design as the centre-piece, held closed by a belt. She wears a white lace bow tie and a green hat with a feather; in her right hand she holds a spear. A Mr. Harry Freeman was and entertainer in the East end of London performing mainly in muscial theatre from around the late 1890's. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22714] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

No. 5148. Play. Character. Mr. Freemans Panto.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 191mm. 15 x 7½".
A young lady dressed in a chequered black and white dress with white ruffles and long arm length gloves. She holds a large cane with a black and white bow near the top. On her waist a broach joins a piece of flowing material from across her right should to a draping black banner to her left wrist with silver beads. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime".
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22700] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

No. 3520. Play H.a. Freeman's Pantomime. Character. Huntsman 12 Coat.
Hugo Baruch & Co. Commandit-Gesellschaft. Berlin - London. [n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen and ink on board. 380 x 191mm. 15 x 7½".
A man dressed as a huntsman, with an arrow in a coloured target as a headpiece. He wears a green tops and tights, with a target decoration in the middle of the top; he holds a spear over the back of his shoulders. A costume design by the large costumier company of Hugo Baruch & Co. for "Mr Freeman's Pantomime". A Mr. Harry Freeman was and entertainer in the East end of London performing mainly in muscial theatre from around the late 1890's. Archery interest.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22701] £350.00

[In pencil:] Professor Ed. Freeman.
Barraud [facsimile signature.] "Men & Women of the Day".
Eglington & Co. Publishers, 78, Great Queen Street, London, W.C. Copyright. 283, Oxford Street, W. [n.d. c.1888.]
Photograph on board. 375 x 272mm. 14¾ x 10¾".
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892) was an English historian. His reputation as a historian rests largely on his 'History of the Norman Conquest' (1867-1876), his longest completed book. He was in main a medieval and constitutional historian. Peter Gay in 'The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud: the Cultivation of Hatred', states that Freeman dispicable racists views. Freeman viewed social development in terms of race and wrote to a friend, when travelling in the United States with harsh racism about Black Americans and Irishmen.
[Ref: 23335] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Free Masonry Crown'd. Dedicated To The Learned Brothers. London.
P Lambert RA Roun Sculp.t. P. Sublime Inv.t.
accord to act of parliament.
Scarce stipple engraving, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with very large margins. Slight crease through centre. Bit messy.
Unusual allegory of Freemasonry, with putti examining a chart filled with symbols.
[Ref: 45694] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Geometrical View of the Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, Design'd as they were Drawn [...]
Invented & Engrav'd by A. Benoist.
[n.d., F. Vivares, 1771.]
Fine engraving on wove paper, left sheet only, of two. 230 x 590mm (9 x 23¼"). Some creasing. Some tears in margins.
The front of a procession of mock freemasons marching down the Strand in 1742, passing in front of the facade of the old Somerset House (demolished from 1775). Although this left sheet lacks a publication line the use of wove paper suggests the Vivares ree-issued of the 1742 plate.
BM G,5.210 for the Vivares issue. See BM Satires 2546.II for the original.
[Ref: 57395] £320.00

Foundation of the Royal Order of the Free Masons in Palestine A.M. 4037 Pray Br Let's Know the Secret of our Symbolical History. Br. Indeed I Can't. See This [...]
Engraved after the Masonic Stone P. Lambert Sculp.t as the Act Directs 1789 London
Scarce stipple engraving, platemark 165 x 185mm (6½ x 7½"), with very large margins. Creasing.
Stipple engraving celebrating the orgins of Freemasonry.
[Ref: 45713] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street.
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. Stadler Aquat.
London. Pub Oct.r 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
An interior view of a full Freemans Hall in Queen Street, London, the headquarters and meeting place for the Masonic Lodges in the London area. In 1775 the premier Grand Lodge purchased a house on Queen Street, behind which was a garden and a second house. A competition was held for the design of a Grand Hall to link the two houses. The winning design was by draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher, Thomas Sandby. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34147] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Constitutions of Masonry Frontispiece]
G.B. Cipriani & T. Sandby Delin. F. Bartolozzi & J Fittler. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1785]
Scratched proof engraving, sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
Illustration to 'Constitutions of Masonry' 1785. An allegorical scene within Free-Masons Hall. Truth stands on clouds holding a mirror in her right hand which shines rays of lights into the hall. Wisdom, Hope, Charity and three children, sit around Truth and a winged figure holding a torch in his right hand, descends from the clouds. In the foreground sits a celestial sphere, a terrestrial sphere, a compass and other Masonic instruments on a table; by its side, a candle and an armillary sphere on the floor
Calabi & De Vesme 2546 State IV of V.
[Ref: 57076] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Borough of Plymouth. At a Meeting of the Freemen of this Borough, convened by public Advertisement, and held at the King's Arm's, in Plymouth, on Monday the 25th Day of September, 1809. John Hawker, Esq. in the Chair. Resolved-That the Franchises of the Freemen have not been violated since the ever memorable Decision of a Court of Law, whereby the Rights they now enjoy, were solemnly adjudged to them, of which, for a long Series of Years, they had been deprived...Resolved-That these Resolutions be signed by the Chairman, and printed in Hand-bills, and circulated in the Town of Plymouth. John Hawker. The Chairman Having Quitted the Chair. Resolved unanimously-That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to him, for his very proper and impartial Conduct therein. Borough of Plymouth. Whereas the Franchises of the Freemen, of this Borough, have been grossly violated, and their Priviledges narrowed and restrained by several illegal Bye Laws, which have of late Years been passed. Such of the Freemen as are desirous of preventing further Encroachments upon their just Rights, and recovering such as they have been unjustly deprived of, are requested to meet at the King's Arms, on Monday the 25th Day of September Instant, at Six O'Clock in the Evening. Signed John Hawker, John Bayly...Thomas Pollard, William Penphraze. September 20, 1809.
Haydon, Printer, &c. No.75, Market-Place, Plymouth.
Letterpress, two sided, folded. 376 x 235mm. 14¾ x 9¼". Some small damage to print.
The minutes taken from a meeting held by the Freemen of Plymouth, the chairman was John Hawker who was Mayor of Plymouth from 1805 to 1806.
[Ref: 23923] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Freeth and the Birmingham Book Club]. Birmingham Men of the Last Century. From a fine Picture in the possession of Dugdale Houghton Esquire.
Painted by John Eckstein. W. Underwood Lith.
Published by T. Underwood, Castle St., Birmingham,
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"), with large margins.
A meeting of the Birmingham Book Club, at the Leicester Arms, a coffee house run by John Freeth (1731-1808), who was also a poet and songwriter under the pseudonym John Free. A book club and debating society, its members included Radicals, supporters of John Wilkes and Unitarians, causing its opponents to call it the Jacobin Club. It existed until at least 1964.
[Ref: 56870] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Freeth,
Miller delin. Martin Sculp.
Publish'd Apl: 22d. 1788 as the Act directs, by Pearson & Rollason Birmingham.
Stipple, sheet 140 x 105mm. 5½ x 4¼". Trimmed to plate and glued to album page.
A rare portrait of John Freeth (1731 - 1808), political ballad writer and innkeeper. By 1768 Freeth had become landlord of the Leicester Arms, Birmingham, where he remained until his death in 1808. Freeth’s Coffee House, as the Leicester Arms was known, became one of the most celebrated taverns in England. It was Freeth’s custom to write songs setting his words to popular tunes about remarkable events in local and national news, and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House. The habit was profitable: it crowded the place with patrons, attracted eminent visitors, and, since Freeth wrote as a determined radical and Nonconformist, it created a political meeting-place. The interest aroused by his songs encouraged Freeth to publish them, and the words of nearly 400 songs appeared in more than a dozen collections between 1766 and 1805.
[Ref: 10489] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

John Freeth [facsimile signature.]
Painted by E.W. Coleman. Engraved by Ja.s Scott.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Mezzotint on india. Plate 546 x 394mm. 21½ x 15½". Rare.
John Freeth (1731-1808), was an English inkeeper, poet and songwriter; he published work under the pseudonym John Free. As the owner of Freeth's Coffee House between 1768 and 1808, he was a major figure in the political and cultural life of Birmingham during the Midlands Enlightenment. He composed the song "Birmingham Lads" for the opening of the Birmingham Canal in 1769 using Charles Dibdin's tune for 'The Warwickshire Lads' which had been composed earlier that year by David Garrick for the Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations. The canal halved the price of coal in Birmingham.
[Ref: 23372] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

William Freind D.D. Dean of Canterbury.
T. Worlidge del. et sc.
according to Parliament [n.d., c.1750]
Etching, small margins, platemark 95 x 75mm (3¾ x 3"), Slight staining bottom left. Early ms. verso 'Hayes's sale / Jan. 24th 1784' 2d.
Portrait of William Freind (1715 bap.-1766), Dean of Canterbury and collector of books, paintings and prints. Etched by portrait painter and printmaker Thomas Worlidge (1700-1766)
O'D 1 (only engraved likeness); W23; D78. Ex: Collection of the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32583] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

William Freind D.D. Dean of Canterbury.
T Worlidge del et sc.
according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755]
Etching, platemark 95 x 75mm (3¾ x 3"). Thin margins; vertical crease.
Portrait of William Freind (1715 bap.-1766), Dean of Canterbury and collector of books, paintings and prints. By Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before numbers added.
i/iii; W22; D78.
[Ref: 32751] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

William Freind D.D. Dean of Canterbury.
T Worlidge del et sc.
according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755]
Etching, platemark 95 x 75mm (3¾ x 3"). Thin margins.
Portrait of William Freind (1715 bap.-1766), Dean of Canterbury and collector of books, paintings and prints. By Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression with number '23' added in top right and top left in reverse by Worlidge's widow to correspond with number in her 1767 catalogue of his prints.
ii/iii; W22; D78.
[Ref: 32752] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

William Freind D.D. Dean of Canterbury.
T Worlidge del et sc.
according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755]
Etching, platemark 95 x 75mm (3¾ x 3"). Large margins; lightly foxed.
Portrait of William Freind (1715 bap.-1766), Dean of Canterbury and collector of books, paintings and prints. By Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression with numbers erased from top corners.
ii/iii; W22; D78.
[Ref: 32753] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

I.re Vue du Parc et Chateau de Freising a 2 lieues de Munich Capitale de la Baviere. [&] II.re Vue du Parc et Chateau de Freising a 2 lieues de Munich Capitale de la Baviere.
Le Poussin Pinx.t Paris Sculp.
A Paris chez Bonvalet, rue de Faub.g St. Jacques vis-a-vis l'Institution des Sourds Muets, No.235.
A pair of engravings. Plate 355 x 286mm. 14 x 11¼". [&] 368 x 285mm. 14½ x 11¼". Repairs.
A beautiful pair of engravings in the gardens of the Chateau Freising, Munich. The first: the gardener with his wheelbarrow in the foreground with ladies and a gentleman standing by the vase ornament at the bottom of an ornate stone staircase, in the background a fountain and more figures. The second: a man sits painting a young lady and her child with the backdrop of a towered house and a boat on the water, two boys sit reading.
[Ref: 20396] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[John Freke.] Obyt Iuly 18 1717.
I. Riley pinx. Geo. Verture Sculp. 1718.
Engraving. Plate 254 x 160mm. 10 x 6¼".
John Freke (d.1717) surgeon, and father of the surgeon John Freke (1688-1756). David Alexander presumes that as a memorial portrait it probably never bore Freke's name.
Alexander: 257.
[Ref: 20032] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Tho. F. Freemantle. [facsimile signature.]
Painted by Sir J. Watson Gordon. Engraved by F.Stacpoole, Esq.r.
1860.
Mezzotint on india. 450 x 330mm.
Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798-1890), 1st Baron Cottesloe. MP for Buckingham from 1826-46, when he resigned to serve as Deputy Chairman, then Chairman, of the Board of Customs. In 1874 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cottesloe in recognition of his services.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6486] £320.00

Rt. Honble. W.H. Fremantle M.P.
A. Wivell del. Scriven sculp.
London, Published July 9, 1822, by A. Wivell, No.40 Castle Street East, St. Marylebone.
Stipple. Plate 228 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Large margins.
Sir William Henry Fremantle GCH PC (1766-1850) was a British politician. He was treasurer of the household.
W: 1403. NPG: D7820.
[Ref: 15765] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. French.]
C. B. Jr [Bretherton]
Publish'd as the Act Directs Jy 23d 1782.
Etching 76 x 103mm, 3 x 4inches Trimmed to plate and laid album paper.
Old Madam French who lived close by the bridge at Hampton Court who collected china and pictures.
BM:6090.
[Ref: 12935] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

French Salutation. English Salutation.
[Paul Pry, monogram of William Heath ] Esq.
Pub May 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Stained, cut. Damaged top right.
Two designs side by side, both of an accidental meeting of pedestrians, and contrasting the exhuberant Frenchmen with gloomy Englishmen.
BM Satires: 15961.
[Ref: 30517] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Réunion d'Artistes. Dédiée aux Amateurs des Arts.
Peint par Boilly en 1800. Gravé par A. Clement. Imprimé par Bassand.
à Paris chez l'Auteur, Cloitre des Bernadines d.ion des Plantes No.136 & à l'entrepôt de Thé, rue des fossés Montmartre, No.6'.
Stipple. 550 x 430mm (21¾ x 17"), very large margins on 3 sides Trimmed within plate on left, year entering plate taped, slight spotting. Some loss on left in margin
A group portrait of twenty-nine French artists, all seen head and shoulders, grouped together amidst clouds, in an oval. They include Boilly, Redouté, Isabay, Bourgeois, Demarne, Vernet and Gérard.
See BM 1882,0311.1242 for the original key of persons.
[Ref: 54913] £980.00

La Peri pour gage de son retour offre au ciel la larme d'un pecheur repentant.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph, sheet 335 x 260mm. 13¼ x 10¼". Spotting, small marginal tears.
An angel or fairy above a young boy fisherman, who prays with another man in a Middle Eastern landscape. Illustrates La Péri, a ballet by Friedrich Burgmüller, Jean Coralli, and Théophile Gautier, first performed in 1843. A book illustration, possibly to accompany sheet music.
[Ref: 10394] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Compensations N.o11 bis. Celui la voudrait zedescendre.
Ch. Philpon inv et del. Lith de Ducarme. Wattier, lith.
a Paris, chez Ostervald aine, Quai des Augustins, N.o 37 etched Hautecoeur Martinet rue du coq S.t Honore.
Very rare lithograph, sheet 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾").
A man in the basket of a hot air balloon crouches, mouth agape in terror looking down at the mountainous scenery. Text in French captures his sentiment 'He would like her to come down.'
[Ref: 57081] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le Grand Barbet. Tom V. Pl. XXXVII. Pag. 300.
De Seve del. P.E. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1755.]
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Small margins.
A portrait of a French Barbet or waterdog.
[Ref: 47736] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Bouledogue].
Baring? Signed in pencil.
Edite par la Ste. Les Graveurs Modernes, 194 Rue De Rivoli, Paris, 1929. Copyright 1929 Les Graveurs Modernes Paris.
Aquatint. 245 x 315mm.
[Ref: 515] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Shaver, A French Bulldog Asleep.]
H.D. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, Restricted edition of 325 proofs, plate destroyed. 70 x 155mm (2¾ x 6"). Framed with publisher's title label on backboard. Slight discolouration at edges. Unexamined out of frame.
Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 54839] £1,200.00

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