Grosvenor Prints

D.r Musgrave prescribing for Brittania, who is in a deep Consumption.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7").
Dr Musgrave attends Britannia, who sits with a crutch under her arm. Behind are John Wilkes and the Duke of Bedford. Samuel Musgrave (1732-80) lived in Paris when the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. He believed British representatives (including Bute) had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests (for example allowing the return of the Newfoundland fisheries). In 1769 Musgrave published a pamphlet in Devon, suggesting that France had bribed them. The following year the House of Commons decided that the charges were unsubstantiated.
BM Satire: 4307.
[Ref: 59988] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Naturel Genius. Teggs Caricatures - No. 28.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d July 1818 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching, collector's mark. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate at top. Slight mount stain.
An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour discusses needlework with two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen. When the schoolmistress suggests ''Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter'' as a subject, the mother hears ''Charlotte at the Tub of Water''. The daughter responds that she can ''make Water as natural as Life''.
BM Satires 11649.
[Ref: 60093] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Funeral Car of the late Viscount Nelson European Magazine.
Engraved by S. Rawle.
Published by J. Asperne, at the Bible, Crown & Constition, Cornhill, March 1st 1806.
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
The ornate funeral car designed to suggest the battleship Victory on which Nelson died, the car was decorated with a figurehead representing Fame. The coffin inside was made from the mainmast of 'l'Orient', the French flagship blown up during the Battle of the Nile (1798).
[Ref: 59807] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Grantley.] 22.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley (1716-1789), standing in profile to the left. Norton was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782
BM Satires 6071.
[Ref: 60075] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl Nugent.] 11.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Robert Craggs Nugent (1702-1788), his right hand extended, his hat in his left hand as if speaking in the House of Commons, where he was noted for speeches in a rich brogue and for his support of every Ministry in turn. He was nicknamed 'Squire Gawkey' and was also called 'the old rat of the Constitution'.
BM Satires 6059.
[Ref: 60008] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

O God, be good to me: Thy sea is so wide, and my boat is so small.
[illegible pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 185 x 255mm (7¼ x 10"). Repaired tear top right.
A skiff in heavy seas.
[Ref: 59812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Wallace Oak.
J.G. Strutt 1825.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etching, printed on chine collé. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"), large margins.
A portrait of a massive oak at Port Glasgow, to which Scottish independence leader William Wallace was said to have been chained in 1305 by the English. From the expanded edition of 'Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest trees, distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty' by Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867).
[Ref: 59993] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Game. [Colonel George Onslow.] 14.
[JS.] [James Sayers.]
Published 7.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½") with large margins. Nicks and tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Colonel George Onslow (1731-1792) as a cock-fighter. He wears a plain hat and coat, top-boots with spurs like those attached to the legs of gamecocks, holding a riding-whip in his right hand. In the foreground stands a spurred gamecock. Onslow was a British politician and army officer, nicknamed ‘cocking George’ because of his fondness for cock fighting.
BM Satires 6065.
[Ref: 59979] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the City of Oporto. Vue Perspective de la Ville de Oporto. 52.
Published 12.th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, N.o 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured engraving, plate 255 x 425mm (10 x 16¾"), with good margins. Laid on archival paper. Some restoration.
This important trading city on the Douro, Portugal - the so-called 'The Unvanquished City' - was never conquered, although Romans, Moors, and Napoleon tried.
[Ref: 60054] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolo Paganini. 1784-1840.
Printed by A. Salmon, Paris.
Published by F.W. Chanot, at the Office of ''Edition Chanot.'' 73, Berners Street, London, W. 1st Sept. 1889.
Etching. 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"), with large margins.
A head-and-shoulders portrait of violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) wearing his Order of the Golden Spur, awarded to him by Pope Leo XII. A pair of cherubs hold a wreath above his head.
[Ref: 59919] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Passions Delineated.] Poverty. Plenty.
[John Collier as 'Tim Bobbin'.]
Pub. June 4 1810 by Edw.d Orme, London.
Coloured stipple. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Tear taped.
A ragged beggar looks on in disgust as a fat man laughs, holding his extended belly. From 'The Passions, humorously Delineated, by Timothy Bobbin, Esq' by John Collier (1708-86), using the pseudonym Tim Bobbin, first published 1773.
SP Lohia Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection 718.
[Ref: 59962] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Passions Delineated.] Avarice & Dissipation.
[John Collier as 'Tim Bobbin'.]
Pub. June 4 1810 by Edw.d Orme, London.
Coloured stipple. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate, stains in top corners.
A spendthrift son hands a wad of bills to his miserly father. From 'The Passions, humorously Delineated, by Timothy Bobbin, Esq' by John Collier (1708-86), using the pseudonym Tim Bobbin, first published 1773.
SP Lohia Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection 718.
[Ref: 59963] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Treaty of Paris] A Prophecy. The Coach Overturn'd: or, the fall of Mortimer.
H: Tucker Sculp.t [after Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale].
[n.d., c.1762.]
Etching. 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"). Creases and folds as normal.
A satire on the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Year's War. A coach carrying the George III and Queen Charlotte (depicted as lions) crashes into a rock, after Lord Bute (the driver) has lost control having been blinded by 'Havana Snuff'. The horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Lord Bute was accused of taking bribes to ease the negotiations in France's favour. This is a copy of a satire published by John Williams, lacking 16 lines of verse underneath.
See BM 3966 for the original.
[Ref: 60100] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Scrap sheet relating to Peerless Pool, including 2 complete adverts.]
[Various dates, 1746-c.1820]
Eight scraps on one sheet: a pencil sketch, map, etching, two wood engravings & three letterpress extracts. Sheet 680 x 490mm (27 x 19¼"). Scarce. Map trimmed with colour added in places.
In 1743 William Kemp bought a spring-fed pond called Perilous Pond on Old Street, London, and created a pair of stone-edged pools, one for swimming in summer and skating in winter and one for fishing. Originally named for the number of drownings that occured there, he renamed it Peerless Pool and created a very successful business. The map is a section of one sheet of the monumental 24-sheet map of London by John Rocque, 1746.
[Ref: 59824] £360.00

A View in the Gardens of the Imperial Palace in Pekin. 29.
W.Alexander del.t. S.Smith sculp.t.
London Published April 12, 1796 by G.Nicol.
Engraving. Platemark: 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A detailed view of the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Peking, China. From Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China.
[Ref: 60055] £320.00

A Persian Archer.
Ortowskj ex nat. del. On Stone by D. Dighton.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 205 x 330mm (8 x 13"). Trimmed to image, some creases, stains and tears to edges.
A Persian warrior on horseback with his bow and arrow drawn.
[Ref: 59808] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl of Shelburne.] 9.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, watermark 1809, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), standing, facing three-quarters left, his right hand thrust under his Garter ribbon. He wears a bag-wig and ruffles, and has the sly, complacent smile and half-closed eyes which are conspicuous in satires of Shelburne at this time. He was prime minister (1782-1783) during the reign of George III.
BM Satires 6062.
[Ref: 60012] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pitt the Younger] Talk of an Ostrich! an Ostrich is nothing to him; Johnny Bull will swallow any thing!!
Pub.d Decem.r 13 1795 by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly the corner of Sockville St, NB folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Etching, collector's mark D.K. Sheet 390 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate, corners damaged, paper lightly toned.
William Pitt the Younger (1759 –1806) uses the butt of a musket to ram a document inscribed 'Conven[tion]' down John Bull's throat. A satire on the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills (1775).
BM 8703.S
[Ref: 60101] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Political Coal Heavers.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7").
Coal heavers shovel coal ('cole' was slang for money) into the pocket of Prime Minister, the Duke of Grafton, who tries to bribe John Wikes to be quiet. One bag is marked 'For the Use of MacQuirk, who was found guilty of the murder of George Clarke but pardoned, another for N[anc]y P[arson]s, Grafton's mistress. A Scots Guards grenadier says 'I serv;d you faithfully in St George's Fields, pray give me some Cole.
BM Satires 4321.
[Ref: 59968] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harriot Powell. 157.
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Engraving. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") very large margins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection in inscription area.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00

[Mr Powys.] 32.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), standing in profile to the left with both hands extended. Powys was MP for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6642.
[Ref: 60068] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Principal Merchants & Traders assembled at the Merchant Seaman's Office to sign ye Address. Engraved for the Oxford Magazine.
[1769.]
Engraving. 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7").
A group of merchants gather to sign an address to George III, their characters represented by a butcher, who says ''I Shall stick my knife in the Magna Charta, & cut up the carcase of the Bill of Rights''. Another says ''D-mn his swivel eyes'', a reference to John Wilkes who was currently in prison.
BM Satires 4277.
[Ref: 59967] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Escort of the Prisoners by Torch Light to the Bristol Jail, Tried (under a Special Commission) for Riot & Arson in the Year 1832.
Engraved on Steel by J. Brett, 15, Corn Street, Bristol.
Published by George Davey 1, Broad Street, Bristol, and by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, London, and all other Book & Printsellers.
Mezzotint on india laid paper, sheet 235 x 305mm (9¼ x 12"). Some light creasing. Nicks to edges of paper. Slight soiling.
A scene from the aftermath of the Bristol Riots of 1831, after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill, which aimed to get rid of some of the rotten boroughs and give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds greater representation in the House of Commons. The rioters numbered about 500 or 600 young men and continued for three days, during which the palace of Robert Gray the Bishop of Bristol, the Mansion House, and private homes and property were looted and destroyed, along with demolition of much of the gaol. About 100 people involved were tried in January 1832 and four men were hanged despite a petition of 10,000 Bristolian signatures, which was given to King William IV.
See also reference 15397.
[Ref: 60046] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Jew Rabbi.
Rembrandt pinx.t. C. Spooner fecit.
Printed for Robert Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with small margin. Bit messy.
Half-length portrait of a Jewish rabbi, wearing a turban and thick cloak fastened with a large clasp with a miniature and two pearl-drops, hands brought together on front of him. In the background, a chair and table with a book and religious emblems.
[Ref: 60086] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr. Rauzzini.]
[J. Hutchison Pinx.t. R. Hancock Sculp.t.]
[Bath Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.y 1.st 1800.]
Stipple. Sheet 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Trimmed, losing all inscriptions, laid on card.
Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), Italian castrato, composer, pianist and singing teacher, for whom Mozart composed the motet 'Exsultate Jubilate' in 1773. He performed in London from 1774 until his retirement from the stage in 1778. He settled in Bath in 1780, becoming Director of the New Assembly Room Concerts the following year. He continued to promote concerts until his death, after which he was buried in Bath Abbey.
[Ref: 59918] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Sepulchre of King Theodorick near Ravenna, the Roof of one Stone 38 Feet in Diameter about 12 Feet Thick, Erected A.D. 530.
Clerisau Pinxt. P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs by P. Sandby S.t Georges Row, Oxford Turnpike March 1778.
Rare aquatint, scarce in good condition, printed in sepia. 340 x 495mm (13½ 19½), with large margins.
The Mausoleum of Theodoric, built in 520 AD by Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. who ruled Italy from 493 to 526 AD. Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), went to Rome in 1749 working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam's 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. Paul Sandby etched this plate as a pair to the 'Triumphal Arch of Constantine at Fano', one of several aquatints he did after Grand Tourists.
[Ref: 59960] £680.00

The Rejoicing Night. On George's natal Night the Laddies come, To fam'd S.t James's, each to warm his Bum; But this we must allow without dispute, They never did but since here came a B_e: A Birth-day Night they think a Night of Worth, A Bonfire beats the breathing of the North; So bless our King, let all true Partriots say, And shou'd they all jump in _ Huzza! Huzza!
Printed for John Smith in Cheapside. [n.d. c.1763].
Engraving with etching, plate 350 x 250mm (14 x 10), with margins. On 18th century watermarked paper, large margins. Some staining.
People gather around a small campfire. Two Scotsman lift up their kilts to warm themselves. Two youths harass people with fireworks. Satire on the reaction to the birth of George IV (1762–1830) at St James' Palace.
BM Satires 4064.
[Ref: 60042] £360.00

Le Repose.
Peint par Gaspard Netscher. Dessiné par Beaudouin. Gravé par C.E. Gaucher, des acad.ie R.le et Soc.té de Londre, Rouen &c.
Imp. Chardon ainé, à Paris [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving with etching. 270 x 225mm (10¾ x 9"), very large margins.
Interior of a rich bedroom with a naked woman asleep on a canopied bed, a jug on a side-table. First published c.1808, the title also had 'De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. A.P.D.R.'
[Ref: 59646] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Matteo Ricci] Pere Matthew Ricci.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A full-length portrait of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the first European to enter Beijing's Forbidden City in 1601, where he used his knowlege of astronomy to gain influence in court. He is famed for his world map with Chinese characters, which introduced European cartography to China.
[Ref: 59870] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Rigby.] 6.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 6.th April 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Richard Rigby (1722-1788), holding out his hat in his right hand, as if speaking in the House of Commons. Rigby sat in the House of Commons for 43 years from 1745 to 1788.
BM Satires 6052.
[Ref: 60015] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

View 1st. Of the Memorable Victory of the Nile, Gained in August 1798 over the French by the British Fleet in Aboukir Bay. [View 2d - 3d - 4th.]
Finished from a Drawing in the possession of His Majesty, by F.Chesham, the Aquatinta by W.Ellis. _ Painted by W.Anderson.
Published by Alex.r Riley, 82 Pall Mall London Dec.1.1800.
Rare set of four proof aquatints. Each. c. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾"). 2nd View slight loss in left border. Trimmed to borders.
Four views of the Battle of the Nile, each with a descriptive text and with each ship named.
[Ref: 56104] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

J. Ritson.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1820.
Rare stipple. 175 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides.
A profile portrait of English antiquarian Joseph Ritson (1752 - 1803), after a portrait engraved by Gillray, itself a detail from a satire by James Sayers (NPG D48868). He is best known for his collections of English nursery rhymes and ballads relating to the myth of Robin Hood, to which he added the concept of giving to the poor rather than simply robbing the bishops and the Sheriff of Nottingham, exhibiting his own Jacobin prejudices. He was also an early vegetarianism activist.
[Ref: 59855] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

In Te Domine Speravi. [Philip Rosenhagen.] 28.
[James Sayers.]
[n.d. c.1788.]
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Philip Rosenhagen (1737-1798), fashionably dressed, holding his hat and cane. He gazes with a complacent smile at a bust portrait of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805).
BM Satires 7294.
[Ref: 60006] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Gioachino Rossini.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Spots & stains in edges.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) the Italian composer of operas.
[Ref: 59813] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London. Veue du dedans de la Bourse Royale a Londres.
Bowles Delin et Sculpt.
London, Printed for Bowles and Carver 69 St Paul's Church, R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill amd Laurie & Whittle 53, Fleet Street [n.d., c.1794].
Coloured engraving. 285 x 425mm (11¼ x 16¾"). A few marks in title, top corners of margins snipped.
A view of the interior courtyard of London's second Royal Exchange, designed by Edward Jerman and opened in 1669, destroyed by fire in 1838.
[Ref: 59819] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford] The Duke of B_d's Reception at Exeter.
Murgo-resky Fuergrock inv. delin sc. [Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7'').
A satirical scene showing the Duke of Bedford (1710 –71) passing the doors of St Peter's Church, Exeter, followed by a shouting mob of inhabitants of the city. Some of crowd seem to be holding cricket bats (Bedford was a cricket fan). On a ceremonial visit to Exeter, Bedford was followed by a pro-Wilkes mob, who heckled him constantly.
BM Satire 4302.
[Ref: 59987] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

5345. Saas-Fee.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Notch in top edge.
A photographic view looking up from the valley to the mountain snows. Saas-Fee is a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border.
[Ref: 59880] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

5346. Saas-Fee et les Mischabels.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Collotype. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Some creasing.
A photographic view of Saas-Fee, including the Hotel Belle Vue, a resort village in the Swiss Alps near the Italian border.
[Ref: 59884] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Sawbridge.] 34.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Publ.d by Ja.s Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins. Very small hole top left.
Caricature portrait of John Sawbridge (1732-1795), holding out his hat in his left hand and a paper inscribed 'Motion for Reform in the Representation' in his right. Sawbridge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780.
BM Satires 7291.
[Ref: 60083] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scholars at a lecture] Price Six Pence.
Publish'd by W Hogarth MArch 3.d 1736.
Etching with engraving, plate 215 x 185mm (8¾ x 7½"), with large margins.
Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt caps and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed, with various squiggles, 'Datur Vacuum' which translates as, 'Leisure time is given for...' The reader is intended as a portrait of Henry Fisher, Registrar of Oxford University (fl. 1737–61), who had agreed to be drawn by Hogarth.
State II of II. BM Satires 2338.
[Ref: 60007] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.
Tho: Cross fecit.
[London: John Crook, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Alvaro de Semedo (1585-1658) the Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China. Along with another Jesuit, he was imprisoned during an anti-Christian campaign in Nanjing in 1616, and then sent back to Macau. He later returned to to China and in 1636 he went back to Europe as a procurator. The frontispiece to Semado's 'History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China',
[Ref: 59871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Continuation of the Procession of Shakespear's Characters.
[London Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7). Spotting.
Including Henry VIII, Shylock, the Apothecary from 'Romeo and Juliet' and the Gravedigger from 'Hamlet'. The Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 was organised by David Garrick to celebrate the Jubilee of the birth of the Bard. Bad weather affected the events, which included a gun salute, masquerade and dinner in a specially-constructed rotunda, which was flooded when the Avon burst its banks.
BM 4312.
[Ref: 59978] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Procession at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon.
[London Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7).
Characters from Shakespeare's works, including Falstaff and Mrs Ford, the Three Witches, Caliban and Richard III. The Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 was organised by David Garrick to celebrate the Jubilee of the birth of the Bard. Bad weather affected the events, which included a gun salute, masquerade and dinner in a specially-constructed rotunda, which was flooded when the Avon burst its banks.
BM 4311.
[Ref: 59984] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev] [Cyrillic title] Lieutenant General Schepeleff.
Painted by order of the Emperor M. Alexander 1st by G. Dawe Esqr. Member of the Roy.l Ac.dy London, that of St. Petersburg &c: &c. Engraved by Hy Dawe London.
[Russian publisher in Cyrillic] & Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. London, Sep.t 1828.
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins Surface dirt, creasing.
Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev (1771-1841). Born into a noble family he enlisted as a sergeant in the Russian Life Guards in 1782. He served in Poland (1794), Persia (1796), Switzerland (1799, under Rimsky-Korsakov) and the Battle of Austerlitz (1805). In 1813 he led an advance guard of Wittgenstein's Corps that captured Koenigsberg. In 1815 he became commander of the 2nd Hussar Division, but had to retire due to ill-health the following year. George Dawe (1781 - 1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 59652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Weekly Register. To John Bentley Esq. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, This print from the Original Picture in his Collection, is respectfully dedicated by The Publishers.
H. Liverseege. W. Giller.
London: Published Aug.t 1, 1832, by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, and J.C. Grundy, Manchester.
Mezzotint. 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"), with large margins.
A shoemaker with spectacles reads a newspaper surrounded by his tools, framed by the window of his workshop. A pipe lies on the sill.
[Ref: 59768] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Parker's Manufactory & Show Rooms, for Silver & Plated Wares, Summer Row, Birmingham. A Splendid assortment of the Most Fashionable Table Servies always on view... Orders for Exportation executed with the utmost dispatch.
W. Green Del. I. Tye Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare engraving, J. Whatman 1825 watermark. 355 x 230mm (14 x 9"), large margins. Some restoration.
A large scarce advertisment, with an elevation of the premises and a display of tableware.
[Ref: 59647] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[George III] The Sleepy Shepherd.
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 115 x 165mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
George III asleep leaning on the 'Pillar of too much Security', while he is undermined by, among others, Lord Mansfield, the Duke of Grafton, & Lord Weymouth. Lord Bute flies away on a broomstick with money bags hanging down.
BM: 4320.
[Ref: 59976] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
T. Prescott, sculp.
Pub.d by C. Dyer, Soho [n.d., c.1810].
Stipple, printed in brown, watermark 1809. Printed area 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Profile portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
Wellcome Library no. 8800i.
[Ref: 59825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, plate 175 x 105mm (7 x 10¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small right margin.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
[Ref: 59826] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Portraictuer of Captayne Iohn Smith / Admirall of New England. There are the Lines that Shew thy Face but those That shew thy Grace and Glory, brighter bee Thy Faire-Discoueries and Fowle-Overthrowes Of Salvages, much Civilliz'd by thee Best Shew they Spirit and to it Glory Wyn: So, though art Brasse without-but Golde within.
[Simon van de Passe.]
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, damage in image at top, laid on album paper.
Captain John Smith (1580-1631), soldier and adventurer who led the 1606 expedition to Virginia from Blackwall. He was largely responsible for the establishment of a trading settlement at Jamestown. During his stay in Virginia his life was saved by the Indian Pocahontas.
[Ref: 59877] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

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