Grosvenor Prints

Mr C. Kemble as Romeo. No 5 New Series.
London. Pub.d by O. Hodgson, 22 Macclesfield St.t City Road.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 245 x 195mm (9¼ x 7¾"). Tear entering inscription area.
A full length portrsait of Charles Kemble (1775-1854) in elaborate dress, designed as a figure for a toy theatre.
[Ref: 51275] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sixteen Portraits of Charles Kemble Esq.re.
Drawn from Life by Richard J. Lane, Lithographer in Ordinary to her Majesty & His Royal Highness Prince Albert A.R.A.
London, 1840, published by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Puckle, Printsellers to Her Majesty, to the Queen Dowager, to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, &c: &c: &c:. 23 Cockspur Street.
Folio. original half half, boards, detached, lacking spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; lithographic title & 1.pp. dedication, 16 numbered tinted lithographs, proofs on india (out of sequence, as issued) plus key sheet, interleaved. Some foxing throughout.
A book of portraits of Charles Kemble (1775-1854) in theatrical costume, drawn and lithographed by Richard James Lane (1800-1872), printed by Graf. Roles include Falstaff, Hamlet, Othello & Iago, Macbeth & MacDuff, and Shylock.
Harvard p. 378-385.
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[Charles Kemble] Othello. 'How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?'' Othello, Act 2, Sc.3. Proof. Plate 10.
RJL [monogram of Richard James Lane]. J. Graf Printer to her Majesty.
London, May 1840, published by Mess.rs Colnaghi and Puckle, No 23 Cockspur Street.
Lithograph, proof on chine collé. Printed area 270 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
Charles Kemble (1775-1854) as Othello, one of Richard Lane's 'Sixteen Portraits of Charles Kemble'.
[Ref: 55295] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Kemble] Falstaff. ''A plague on all cowards! still say I.'' Hanry IV, Part 1., Act 2, Sc. 4. Proof. Plate 3.
RJL [monogram of Richard James Lane]. J. Graf Printer to her Majesty.
London, May 1840, published by Mess.rs Colnaghi and Puckle, No 23 Cockspur Street.
Lithograph, proof on chine collé. Printed area 270 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
Charles Kemble (1775-1854) as Falstaff, seated with a glass in his hand. From Richard Lane's 'Sixteen Portraits of Charles Kemble'.
[Ref: 55293] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Kemble] Macbeth. 'Accursed be the tongue that tells me so!'' Macbeth Act 5, Sc. 7. Proof. Plate 9.
RJL [monogram of Richard James Lane]. J. Graf Printer to her Majesty.
London, May 1840, published by Mess.rs Colnaghi and Puckle, No 23 Cockspur Street.
Lithograph, proof on chine collé. Printed area 270 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
Charles Kemble (1775-1854) as Macbeth, one of Richard Lane's 'Sixteen Portraits of Charles Kemble'.
[Ref: 55294] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Kemble.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London, Published According to Act March 23 1784, by J. Jones, No 63 Great Portland Street. Bit later.
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Frances Kemble (1759-1822), younger sister of Sarah Siddons, also an actress but married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 42.
[Ref: 50434] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Kemble.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
London, Published According to Act March 23 1784, by J. Jones, No 63 Great Portland Street.
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Trimmed to image, mounted in album paper.
Frances Kemble (1759-1822), younger sister of Sarah Siddons, also an actress but married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 42.
[Ref: 44342] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fanny Kemble. as Juliet. No 31.
Pub. by M. & M. Skelt, Swan S.t Minories London. [n.d., c.1831.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Paper toned. 2 very small pin prick holes
Frances Anne [Fanny] Kemble (1809-93), actress and author, in the role in which she made her debut in Covent Garden in 1829. Her parents played Mercutio and Lady Capulet in the production. Her tremendous success in the role is attested to by the several prints made to commemorate it.
[Ref: 51274] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fanny Kemble. in the Character of Juliet.
London, Published Nov.r 2nd 1829 by T McLean, 26 Haymarket. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph on india, india dimensions 285 x 185mm (11¼ x 7¼"). Very large margins.
Frances Anne [Fanny] Kemble (1809-93), actress and author, in the role in which she made her debut in Covent Garden, as Juliet. Her parents played Mercutio and Lady Capulet in the production. Her tremendous success in the role is attested to by the several prints made to commemorate it.
Harvard 69
[Ref: 37956] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[J. P. Kemble]
Painted by Sir Thos Lawrence, engraved by C. Turner
Mess.rs Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. Booksellers. Paternoster Row, London. Jan. 1st 1825.
Fine mezzotint, proof before title. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A half portrait of John Philip Kemble (1757-1823). Born into a family of actors, he joined a York theatre company at age nineteen, though his mother had first urged him to become a catholic priest. He had a relatively successful career and became manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1803. He retired in 1817.
W.287 i of ii
[Ref: 53854] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Kemble] We serve a King whom we love = a God whom we Adore. Pizarro
Drawn. Etch'd & Pub.d by Dighton. Char.g Cross June. 1799.
Fine coloured etching, mint. 225 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"), with large margins.
A slightly satirical portrait of John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) as Rolla the noble Peruvian in the play 'Pizarro', which opened on May 24, 1799, with Barrymore as Pizarro and Mrs Sarah Siddons as Elvira.
BM Satires 9436.
[Ref: 39319] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Farewell Dinner to J.P. Kemble Esq.r on his retirement from the Stage. Admit [blank] Secretaries. Not Transferable.
Silvester sc. 27 Strand.
[n.d., 1817.]
Etching with engraving; stamped in ink top right John W. Anson;. 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at top, splits to folds, tears to edges, creasing and foxing.
A blank invitation to a dinner held for actor John Philip Kemble, held at the Freemason's Tavern. 27th June, 1819, four days after his last performance, as Coriolanus at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. He spent most of his last years abroad, dying at Lausanne in 1823.
[Ref: 57770] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Philip Kemble] Tragedy.
R.K. Porter del. J. Godby sculp.
Published by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, April 4th 1806.
Stipple with etching. 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Crease at edge of plate top right, hole in top margin. Small margins.
John Philip Kemble in classical dress, clasping a goblet to his chest.
[Ref: 62409] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Cha.s Kemble.
[n.d., c.1815.] Bit later.
Stipple. Platemark: 205 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½").
A head and shoulders portrait of Maria Theresa Kemble (1774-1838), actress on the English stage and wife of actor Charles Kemble.
[Ref: 40263] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Decamp in the character if Urania.
P. Jean del. J. Vendramini sculp.t
London, Published Oct.r 6th 1802, by John P. Thompson Great Newport Street and No. 51, Dean Street, Soho, Printseller to his Majesty and the Duke and Duchess of York.
Stipple, 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8½"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of actress Maria Theresa Kemble (1774-1838), when Miss De Camp, in character as Urania. She stands in the clouds, reaching upwards with her right hand and pointing her finger. She wears a veil and white dress decorated with stars.
[Ref: 61680] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Hamlet in Scotland. A Large manager in a Great Character. ... that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Drawn & Etch'd by R. Dighton. 12 Charing Cross.
Pub.d Dec.r 6.th 1794.
Coloured etching. 225 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"). Very large margins.
Satirical portrait of George Stephen Kemble (1758-1822), actor and theatre manager, brother of Charles Kemble, John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons. In 1794 he took over management of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, with his opening play being Hamlet, played by his brother John. However this caricature focuses on Stephen when he played Hamlet when he weighed 18 stone. He wears the sash of the Order of the Elephant, the highest order of Denmark.
[Ref: 39297] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas King] The Original Sir Peter Teazle. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Inigo Barlow?, c.1794]
Etching, platemark 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Small margins.
Possibly a reissue of 'Sir Peter! The King of the Old School', a plate issued in the 'Attic Miscellany' for 1792, depicting the actor Thomas King who first played the role of Peter Teazle in Sheridan's play 'The School for Scandal'. The 'Carlton House Magazine' often reissued plates in this way.
See BM Satires 8181
[Ref: 45723] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

E. Knight Box. Proof.
W. Foster pinx. H.R. Cook S.t
[n.d. c.1825.]
Engraving. Image 115 x 76mm. 4½ x 3".
Edward Knight (1774-1826), actor. Autographed proof of the print used as admission to the Box at the benefit for him.
[Ref: 20949] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

James Sheridan Knowles [facsimile signature.]
1st Decb 1839 D'Orsay fecit [signed in plate].
London, Published by John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to the Queen.
Lithograph on india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼".
Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles (1784 - 1862), the Irish dramatist and actor, born in Cork. He first published a ballad entitled 'The Welsh Harper', which, set to music, was very popular. His talents secured him the friendship of William Hazlitt, who introduced him to Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1810 he wrote 'Leo', in which Edmund Kean acted with great success. In William Tell (1825), Knowles wrote for William Charles Macready one of his favourite parts. In 1832, his best-known play, The Hunchback, was produced at Covent Garden. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
See O'Donoghue.
[Ref: 21822] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Christiane Henriette Koch als Pelopia aus Atreus und Thyest von Herrn Weise.
Anton Graff pinx. J.F. Bause ornav. et sculps. Lips. 1770.
zu Finden in Leipzig bey Bausse. [German, c.1770.]
Rare Engraving, 315 x 235mm. 12½ x 9¼". Very slight foxing.
Portrait of Christiana Henriette Koch, German actress, as Pelopia in Christian Felix Weisse's (1726 - 1804) Atreus und Thyest (1767). In an oval garlanded with flowers on a lettered pedestal, in front of which is suspended a dramatic mask and crown.
Harvard: p.424, 2. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18530] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Harriette Deborah Lacy] Miss Taylor as Nell Gwynne.
Lithographed, Printed & Pub.d by G.E. Madeley, 3, Wellington S.t, Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Edges soiled. Bit messy
Harriette Deborah Lacy (1807-74), the daughter of a London tradesman named Taylor, as Nell Gwynne in Jerrold's play of that name, singing the once well-known song, ‘Buy my Oranges’. She retired from the stage in 1848.
[Ref: 60658] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lacy, the Comedian in three Characters.
G.P.H. delr.
[n.d. c.1820s]
Pen and ink with grey wash. 160 x 190mm.
John Lacy 'the Famous Roscius', playwright and actor [1615 - 1681]. After the painting by J.M.Wright showing him in 3 costumes as 'gallant', presbyterian minister and Scottish Highlander. By George Perfect Harding [1781 - 1853], portrait painter, copyist and antiquary.
[Ref: 2973] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. John Lacy, Comedian and Dramatic Writer, in his three Principal Characters. Teague in the Committee, Scruple in the Cheats, and Galliard in the Variety, Died 1681.
[John Michael Wright.] Etched by Hopkins, from the Picture in Windsor Castle.
Published 1825 by Wm. Smith 24, Lisle Street Leicester Square.
Fine Etching. 349 x 266mm. 13¾ x 10½". Trimmed.
John Lacy (c.1615-1681) was an English comic actor and playwright during the Restoration era, and was the favourite comic of King Charles II. Here he stands as his three principle characters; Teague in "The Committee", Seruple in "The Cheats", and Galliard in the "Variety".
Harvard: Vol III: p.6: i of ii.
[Ref: 19078] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Adrienne Le Couvreur Morte a Paris le 20 Mars age de trente sept ans.
Peint par Ch. Coypel. Gravé par P. Drevet.
[French, n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, 415 x 300mm. 16¼ x 11¾". Good impression with large margins. Some foxing off image.
Portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692 - 1730), French actress, as Cornelia in Pierre Corneille's tragedy 'The Death of Pompey'. In lettered oval masonry frame, on a pedestal inscribed with tribute verse. After Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752).
BNF FRBNF41506932.
[Ref: 33768] £320.00

Anthony Leigh or the Spanish Fryar.
G. Kneller pinx: 1689 [in image on right] J. Smith fecit.
[1811]
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate; faint crease upper left.
Portrait of comedian Anthony Leigh (d. 1692), in the role of the 'Spanish Friar' in Dryden's eponymous tragi-comedy. Leigh was popular with Charles II and the public, and played the friar in 1681-2, although the play was subsequently forbidden by James II. Charles, Earl of Dorset, commissioned Kneller to paint Leigh's portrait to commemorate the performance. This plate was first published before 1698 by Smith and John Savage. This impression was published in Josiah Boydell's 'Famous Heads' of 1811 by which time several changes had been made to the plate.
CS 155.v.
[Ref: 31322] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Anthony Leigh or the Spanish Fryar.
G. Kneller pinx: 1689 [in image on right] J. Smith fecit.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell-Street Covent-Garden.
Mezzotint. Mounted over edges, visible area 410 x 245mm (16 x 9¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of comedian Anthony Leigh (d. 1692), in the role of the 'Spanish Friar' in Dryden's eponymous tragi-comedy. Leigh was popular with Charles II and the public, and played the friar in 1681-2, although the play was subsequently forbidden by James II. Charles, Earl of Dorset, commissioned Kneller to paint Leigh's portrait to commemorate the performance.
CS 155, state iii of v.
[Ref: 50431] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Leviez.
J.E. Eccard Pinx.t. J. Mc.Ardell Fecit.
[London, n.d., 1763.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
A portrait of Charles Leviez (died c.1778), after Johann Aegidius (John Giles) Eckhardt. A French dancing-master who also dealt in prints and drawings, Leviez was living in London in 1759, but sold his stock at auction in March 1761. By 1766 he had established himself in Paris as a 'marchand des estampes' or printseller, publishing a large compilation of Pillement in 1767. He sold up again in 1773, auctioning all his plates in Paris 29/30 July 1773.
CS: 118, ii. Whitman: 101, iii/iii.
[Ref: 59642] £490.00

[John Liston] M.r Liston, as Tristram Sappy, in ''Deaf as a Post''. ''Let me see, what was I going to say?"
GEM [George Edward Madeley].
[Pub.d at the Lithographic Office 310 Strand May 1st 1824.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 350 x 155mm (13¾ x 6"). Trimmed, affecting monogram, losing publication line, tear taped.
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776-1846) in character in John Poole's one-act farce.
[Ref: 63918] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Liston as Paul Pry. "Well, if ever I do another kind action_ may I_" (Theatre Roy.l Haymarket)
Printed & Pub.d by Ingrey & Madeley Lith.c Office 310 Strand. [n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. 270 x 160mm (10½ x 6¼").
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776 - 1846) in character the busybody Paul Pry, from 'Paul Pry' by English playwright John Poole. It premiered in London on 13 September 1825 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran for 114 performances.
[Ref: 12181] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] M.r Liston, as "Billy Lackaday" in "Sweethearts & Wives''.
GEM [George Edward Madeley].
[Printed and Pub.d at the Lithographic Office 310 Strand. [n.d., c.1824.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776-1846) in character in James Kenney's most popular play, produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1823 and revived several times.
[Ref: 63919] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] Henry Augustus Mug, A Witty Cockney.
Publish'd Sept.r. 1. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8½ "). Trimmed, losing letterpress verse, some damage on left edge, foxing.
John Liston (c.1776-1846), comic actor, on stage in the role of Mug, enslaved in Africa by 'a trading blackamoor', becoming 'his black Mandingo Majesty's white Minister of State'. The letterpress, not present, was a song 'Sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Liston, in the New Play called The Africans; or War, Love, and Duty: written by George Colman, the Younger'. Refrain: '. . . won't you, won't you, come Mr. Mug ?' George Colman the younger (1762-1836), was manager of the Haymarket Theatre and the most successful playwrights of his age. His three-act musical 'The Africans' was based on Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's 'Selico, Nouvelle Africaine'. An anti-slavery piece, it depicted the European slave traders as ridiculous characters.
BM Satire 11205.
[Ref: 46483] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Liston as Paul Pry. "I hope I don't intrude; Just called to ask you how your tooth is".
Drawn & Engraved by J. W. Gear. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [Signature 'J.W. Gear' in lower left corner.]
Pub.d by J. W. Gear. Wilson Street North Place Gray's Inn Road. 1825.
Hand coloured lithograph. 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"), with large margins. Trimmed
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776 - 1846) in character the busybody Paul Pry, from 'Paul Pry' by English playwright John Poole. It premiered in London on 13 September 1825 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran for 114 performances. Whole length, standing to the left, holding an umbrella under his arm, with spectacles hanging from his neck.
[Ref: 54075] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] M.r Liston, as Van Dunder in 'Twould puzzle a Conjuror. "Read it indeed! that's very easily said, read it''.
GEM [George Edward Madeley].
London, Pub.d by Infrey & Madeley Lithographic Office 310 Strand Dec.r 1824.
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾").
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776-1846) in character in John Poole's comic play. Poole is best known for 'Paul Pry'.
[Ref: 63920] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] M.r Liston as Paul Pry.
Published by Orl. Hodgson [n.d., c.1825].
Coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776 - 1846) in character as the busybody Paul Pry, full length, holding an umbrella under his arm. John Poole's play 'Paul Pry' premiered in London on 13 September 1825 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran for 114 performances.
[Ref: 62312] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] M.r Liston, as Maw-Worm, in the Play of the Hypocrite, Act 5.th Scene Last.
[Designed, Drawn, Engraved & Pub.d by J. W. Gear, 6, Wilson St.t Grays Inn Road 1824. Printed by C Hullmandel.]
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, losing publication line at bottom.
A portrait of the comic actor John Liston (1776-1846) in character in Isaac Bickerstaffe's play, long-haired, floral waistcoat, holding a handkerchief aloft.
[Ref: 63917] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] M.r Liston.
Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
London, Pub. Jan. 1 1821, by Colnaghi & Co. 23 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins. Repair in bottom margin.
A half-length portrait of actor and comedian John Liston (1776-1846), a monocle on a ribbon round his neck. He is most famous for his impersonation of Paul Pry.
Frankau 184, state ii.
[Ref: 60104] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] [M.r Liston.]
[Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.]
[London, Pub. Jan. 1 1821, by Colnaghi & Co. 23 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, inscription area uncleaned. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of actor and comedian John Liston (1776-1846), a monocle on a ribbon round his neck. He is most famous for his impersonation of Paul Pry.
Frankau 184, state i.
[Ref: 60105] £320.00

Giovanni Liverati.
Drawn on Stone, from Life by John Cardini.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. London. Pubd. by Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East. [n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph on india. Image 177 x 103mm. Laid on sheet. Fine and rare.
Liverati, Giovanni (1772-1846). Dramatic singer and composer; born at Bologna. His early musical instruction was under Giuseppe and Ferdinand Tibbaldi, who were celebrated composers. At the age of fourteen he began to study under Abbate Mattei for piano, organ, thorough-bass and composition. Later he took singing lessons from Lorenzo Gibelli. At seventeen he had composed some psalms, and two years later appeared his first dramatic composition, a one-act opera. About the same time he composed a mass for two voices with organ accompaniment, also The Seven Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross, for three voices with wind accompaniment, and A Grand Requiem Mass. In early youth he had been a singer in churches and concerts, and in 1792 he became first tenor in the Italian Theatre in Barcelona. Afterwards he went to Madrid, and for several years he directed Italian Opera at Potsdam, besides performing the duties of chapel-master at Prague and Trieste. He went to Vienna in 1805, where he taught singing, remaining there until 1814, when he went to London as a composer to the King's Theatre. In Vienna he stood on terms of intimacy with the celebrated masters, Haydn, Beethoven, Kozeluch and Salieri. Liverati wrote fourteen operas; several cantatas; two oratorios; many vocal compositions; several stringed quartets; and much sacred music.
[Ref: 12653] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Mackay. In the Character of Bailie Nicol Jarvie.
J. Keith Sc. Abdn.
Pubd. July 1819 by A. Keith, Aberdeen.
Etching with aquatint, 255 x 163mm, paper watermarked 1817. Creasing.
Rare portrait of Charles Mackay (1787 - 1857), Scottish actor.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7810] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Macready, In the Character of King Henry 4th. "Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself." Shakespeare's King Henry IV. Part IId.
Drawn on Stone by Richard Lane from a Picture by John Jackson R.A.
London Pubd. by R. Ackermann. Strand May, 1824. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph. Image 263 x 213mm. 10½ x 8¼".
William Charles Macready (1793-1873), actor and theatre manager. He made his first appearance in Birmingham as Romeo in 1810 and acted with his father's company in the provinces. He first appeared at Covent Garden in 1816, becoming undisputed head of the theatre after his Richard III in 1819, until his retirement in 1851: a great Shakespearean and romantic actor.
[Ref: 12961] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Shakespeare. Macready. Royal Album No. 28.
Alf.d Carlile Lithog.r London. T.C. Wilson.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph, rare. 268 x 209mm. 10½ x 8¼". Some toning around the edges.
William Charles Macready (1793-1873) was an English actor who appeared at Covent Garden, Drury Lane and abroad. Here his roles, as seen in the ovals, have included Richard 3rd, Hamlet, Shylock and Coriolalus (Corio-Lanus).
[Ref: 21521] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

W. C. Macready. January 19th 1850. To Sir Thomas N. Talford, Knight This Portrait of W. C. Macready Esq.re is with permission most respectfully dedicated by his very Obedient Servant, J. Deffitt Francis.
J. Deffett Francis Del.t. N. Phoszczynski Lith.
London, April 22.nd 1850 Published J.S. Welch St. James's Street.
A rare lithograph. Sheet: 450 x 320mm (17¾ x 12½").
A dramatic portrait of actor William Charles Macready (1793-1873)
[Ref: 46851] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mlle, Mars.
Peint par F. Gerard. Dessine par H. Grevedon.
Pubd. by J.D. Haas 11 Berners Street, Oxford Street, 1828.
Lithograph, sheet 415 x 330mm. 16¼ x 13". A good impression; one small tear to right margin. Slightly surface soiling. Large margins.
A charming likeness of French actress Anne Francoise Hippolyte Mars (1779 - 1847).
Harvard p.159, 1.
[Ref: 20567] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Martyr as Dolly Fairlop in the Woodman.
Springsguth sculp.
[n.d, c.1790.]
Engraving, with small margins, rare. Platemark: 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
The actress Margaret Martyr (or Thornton, d.1807) as Dolly Fairlop in 'The Woodman' written by Bate Dudley, 1791, standing in a woodland scene, holding a large bow with her left hand, with her right arm outstretched. An archery target can be seen in the background. The Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745-1824) was a British minister, magistrate and playwright.
[Ref: 36330] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Mathews in the Character of the Old Scotch Lady as represented by him At Home.
Drawn by A. Chalon Esq. R.A. Engraved by G. Clint.
London, Published March 1st. 1819, by W. Cribb, 13, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. 254 x 203mm. 10 x 8".
Charles Mathews (1776-1835) was an English theatre manager and comic actor. His play "At Home", in which he played every character, was the first monopolylogue and the defining work of the genre.
[Ref: 20197] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Mathews, in the Several Characters which he assumes in the part of Captain Patter, in his comedy of "Patter Versus Clatter". Pierre Peitter. Capt.n Patter. Percy Pouter. Paul Powderpuff.
From Photographs by Charles Watkins and H.B. Lee. Drawn on Stone by R.J. Lane A.E.R.A Lith.r in Ord.y to Her Majesty & H.R.H. the Prince Consort.
London, Published March 25.th 1861 by J. Mitchell Bookseller & Publisher to the Queen, and by Special Appointment to the Emperor Napoleon III. 33, Old Bond St. M & N. Hanhart, Lith. Imp.t
A very rare lithograph. 505 x 374mm (20 x 14¾"). Spotting, small tear lower left-hand corner.
Charles Mathews (1776-1835) was an English theatre manager and comic actor. His last appearance was in 1835 in New York City, before he returned home to Plymouth, cutting short his American tour because of illness.
[Ref: 21019] £420.00

[Charles Mathews] Mr. Mathews. Portrait of Himself And as Representing Four Extraordinary Characters. That this Print may not be mistaken for a collection of subjects merely Theatrical, it has been deemed expedient to accompany it by a short explanation of its object. _ The characters introduced are all taken from the life. _ The principal figure is an Idiot amusing himself with a fly: _ The next o him a Drunken Ostler, (introduced in 'Killing no Murder'.) _ The third an extraordinary fat man whose manners and appearance suggested the idea of Mr. Wiggins, in the face of that name: _ And the last Fond Barney, a character well known on the York Race course. _ The intention of the Artist is to present a portrait of Mr. Mathews as Studying those characters for imitation, preserving at the same time his likeness, as varied in the representation of each.
Painted by G.H. Harlow. Engraved by H.y Meyer, Red Lion Sq.re Bloomsbury 1819.
London Published April 1st 1819 for the Proprietor, No 3 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury.
Stipple. 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"), with very large margins.
A scene incorporating five portraits of the actor Charles Mathews (1776-1835) in roles from different plays.
[Ref: 51478] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Mathews] M.r Mathews, as the Lecturer.
I.R.C. [Isaac Robert Cruikshank] fecit.
[n.d., c.1823.]
Etching. 185 x 105mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
The actor Charles Mathews (1776 - 1835) as a lecturer in crainiology, standing at a table, a skull in his hand. Mathews specialised in playing all the characters in his 'monodrama' entertainments.
Not in BM, but see 1865,1111.2477 for the same character by George Cruikshank.
[Ref: 61996] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Charles James Mathews, Aetat 75.
from the last Photograph taken by Charles Watkins.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Photolithograph, 200 x 135mm. 8 x 5¼". Spotting.
Charles James Mathews (1803 - 1878), actor and dramatist, son of Charles Mathews. On 18 July 1838, at Kensington Church, he married his manager, Lucia Elizabeth or Elizabetta Mathews, also known as Madame Vestris (1797 - 1856). She has written and signed the ink inscription attached to the verso of the paper on to which the portrait is laid. It reads 'To William Algernon Young, with kindest regards from Mrs. Charles Mathews'.
[Ref: 9018] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Mr. Mattocks.]
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp [m.s.]
Published as the act Directs July 1st 1779
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). A good first state impression with very large margins. Slight paper tone.
George Mattocks (1734/5-1804), singer and theatre manager. Initially a singer in Covent Garden and the provinces, Mattocks leased the Portsmouth theatre in 1771 and the following year leased the newly built Theatre Royal in Liverpool alongside the Covent Garden prompter Joseph Younger. They also took a twenty-one-year lease on the Manchester theatre in 1775 and Mattocks became involved with a Birmingham theatre in 1779. Mattocks concentrated on management but began to lose singing roles in London to younger performers, and in 1784 moved with his wife, singer and actress Isabella Mattocks, to the north of England. Younger died that year, leaving Mattocks in sole charge of the Liverpool and Manchester theatres, sustaining heavy losses. Isabella returned to performing in London and George was declared bankrupt in 1788 after which he worked in administrative positions at other theatres. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS ii/iii. For Isabella Mattocks see refs 36671-2
[Ref: 36676] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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