Grosvenor Prints

Grant's Oddities N.o 3. Exchange No Robbery!
CJG[rant] Invent & Del.
London, Pub by J. Kendrick 54 Leicester Sq.r Jan.y 10.th 1834.
Hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Damaged on right.
One cook explains to another how to cheat customers by lying about the weight of mutton legs.
[Ref: 66896] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nuptial Blessing.
J.B. Greuze Pinx.t. S. Paul [pseudonym of Samuel De Wilde] Fecit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers N.º 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1777.
Scarce mezzotint. 485 x 615mm (17¾ x 24¼"). Narrow margin at bottom, paper toned. Small paper loss at bottom.
An old man opens his arms to bless his new son-in-law, who holds a purse in right hand. A pair to 'Nuptial Felicity'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66663] £460.00

Nuptial Felicity.
J.B. Greuze Pinx.t. S. Paul [pseudonym of Samuel De Wilde] Fecit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers N.º 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1777.
Scarce mezzotint. 485 x 615mm (17¾ x 24¼"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at bottom, paper toned, laid on card.
Children mob an exhausted woman who has just finished breastfeeding a baby. Her husband walks through the door, returnng from hunting with his gun and dogs. A pair to 'Nuptial Blessing'. A guitar on wall at back.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66662] £490.00

Thomas Griffin Esq.r Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesties Fleet. Born 1.st Sept.r 1693. Died 23.d of Dec.r 1771.
T. Hudson pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
[n.d. c.1772]
Rare & scarce mezzotint, 380 x 280mm (15 x 11") Small margins. Tears repaired with old paper tape.
Three-quarter length portrait of Admiral Thomas Griffin (1693-1771), standing turned to the right before a tree, his right elbow resting on a ledge and his left hand on his sword’s hilt. He faces the viewer, dressed in a richly brocaded suit with broad cuffs, a pale waistcoat, and a shoulder-length wig. In the background to the right, a ship sails on the water. Griffin was a Royal Navy officer who served in the War of Jenkins' Ear. He later became Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station.
CS 54.
[Ref: 66906] £380.00

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[Gustav II Adolf, king of Sweden] Gustavus Adolphus D.G. Suecor. Gothor: et Vandalor: Rex Magn: Prin: Finl: Dux eth: Careliæ Dom: Ingr. ec.
Sebastian Furck fecit [after Jacob Hoefnagel?].
[n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. 275 x 175mm (10¾ x 7), large margins. Creasing, laid on album paper.
Gustav II Adolf, king of Sweden (1594-1632), who laid the foundations for the modern Swedish state and made it a major European power. After a painting in Sweden's Royal Armoury attributed to Jacob Hoefnagel (1575-1630).
[Ref: 66734] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Hadleigh Castle near the Nore.]
[Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.]
[n.d. c1829.]
Fine & rare cut mezzotint proof on india. Plate: 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾"). Laid on card.
A view of Hadleigh Castle in Essex after John Constable's 1814 oil painting. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. They worked very closely together with Constable often hand touching up the prints himself, this is a larger version and not from this series.
Shirley: 11.
[Ref: 66966] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Hyder Ally Cawn. Sitting in his Durbur.
European Mag.
Published 1 Aug 1793, by J.Sewell, 32 Cornhill.
Etching. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾ "). Trimmed close to bottom of plate.
Portrait of Hyder Ali (c.1720 - 1782), the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. Born as Hyder Ali, he distinguished himself as a soldier, eventually drawing the attention of Mysore's rulers. During intermittent conflicts against the East India Company during the First and Second Anglo–Mysore Wars, Hyder Ali was the military leader. He is seated, showing his left profile, his left arm stretch out in front of him.
[Ref: 66911] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Geo. Webb Hall Esq. From a Painting by Ja.s Lonsdale, Esq,,re Painter to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. Presented by the Agricultural Associations of Great Britian, to M.rs Webb Hall. In the back ground are Sneed Park & the River Avon, Kings Weston & the Bristol Channel.]
[Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, Engraver to the King.]
[Published Feb.y 7.th 1822, by M.r Lonsdale, 8, Berners St.t London.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before letters. 630 x 400mm (24¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom. Small repaired tears at bottom, rubbing of edges.
A full length portrait of George Webb Hall (1765-1824), standing in a landscape with a ploughing scene. A lawyer, he was Chairman to the Committee of the Agricultural Associations of Great Britain
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66988] £480.00

Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, after Romney, 1786.
H.A.O. Mackenzie, fecit.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), large margins. Cracks in platemark, creases.
Portrait of Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) posing as a baccante.
BM 2010,7081.4625. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66959] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

James Marquis of Hamilton &c.
Martin D sc.
London, 1623. [But later]
Engraving, 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6¼"), with very large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Tears in margins repaired with tape.
Full-length portrait of James Hamilton (1589-1625), 2nd Marquis of Hamilton, shown standing in a collar, breastplate, and sash, holding a baton; to his right, a table with a plumed helmet, with draped curtains in the background
[Ref: 67010] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable William Harcourt Earl Viscount and Baron Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, and Viscount Nuneham of Nunham Courtnay in the County of Oxford...
Painted by H. Edridge 1818. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds Bayswater.
Mezzotint. 355 x 275mm (14 x 10¾"). Trimmed close to plate.
A three-quarter portrait of William Harcourt (1743-1830), 3rd Earl Harcourt, seated in chair surmounted by a coronet, holding a large book propped upright on his knee. He wears a ceremonial robe over his uniform. A career soldier, Harcourt commanded his regiment at the Battle of White Plains and then captured General Charles Lee at Basking Ridge during the American Revolutionary War, and succeeded the Duke of York as commander of the British Army during the Flanders Campaign in 1795. This portrait was painted to celebrate him being appointed Governor of Portsmouth in July 1811. He was promoted to field marshal in 1821.
Whitman 128, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66944] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Charles Hardy, Admiral of the White Squadron, and Commander in Chief of the Grand British Fleet. 409.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Tears repaired with tape.
Very fine Naval portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy (c.1713 - 1780) made Governor of New York in 1755, and Admiral of the White in command of the grand fleet in 1779. He leans against a cannon, holding telescope in his left hand, looking towards the viewer. In the background an officer directing a row-boat towards a ship, the 'Victory'.
Russell: 81a. Chaloner Smith: undescribed.
[Ref: 66891] £420.00

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Extinguish'd is her Bloom and Native Fire. View the poor Wretch in patient Pains Expire.
[Etched by George Cruikshank after William Hogarth.]
[n.d., c.1812.]
Etching. 195 x 175mm (7¾ x 7"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
After plate 5 of Hogarth's 'Harlot's Progress' which tells the story of Moll or Mary Hackabout who arrives in London and becomes a prositute. This scene depicts Moll Hackabout leaning back in a chair by the fire, dying, and attended to by a woman. Two doctors quarrel over which remedy is suited, one holds a medicine bottle and the other a pill. Another woman in the right foreground is looking through a trunk.
[Ref: 66903] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Warren Hastings.] Sacred to the Genii of India who, from time to time, assume material forms to protect its nation's and its laws, particularly to the immortal Hastings, who in these our days, has appeared the saviour of those regions to the British Empire, this fane was raised by John Osborne, in respect to his preeminent virtues in the year MDCCC.
[John Osborne.]
[n.d., c.1815.]
Very rare engraving, J. Whatman 1801 watermark, 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). large margins. Some faint creasing and damage to margins.
The bust of Warren Hastings FRS (1732 - 1811), British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William, the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general of Bengal in 1772–1785. He and Robert Clive are credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India.
[Ref: 66987] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Warren Hastings] H-St-gs Ho, rare H-st-gs! What a Man buys he may sell. [Blackstones Commentaries Page &c. &cc] Plate 2.
[London: Joshua Kirby Baldrey, 12 February 1788.]
Rare coloured etching with watercolour, 235 x 290mm (9¼ x 7½"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed losing publication line. Repair in centre.
Warren Hastings, in oriental dress, pushes George III and Chancellor Edward Thurlow in a wheelbarrow, suggesting that Hastings was bribing them. The title is a London Cry, 'Hastings, ho, rare Hastings', hastings being early peas. Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal).
BM Satires 7267.
[Ref: 66842] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Warren Hastings Esq.r.
Painted by Tho.s Lawrence Esq.r R.A. Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
London, Published May 21st. 1812, by the Engraver 92 Norton Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (15 ½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
Half-length seated portrait of Warren Hastings (1732-1818). Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66117] £320.00

The Head Ranger and his Fallow Deer.
[Thomas Howell Jones (?)].
London. Pub.d 1829 by S.W. Fores. 41. Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching, 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼"). On paper watermarked, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.' Light staining, repaired tear on left. Small margins.
George IV, dressed as a sportsman, walks in Windsor Park beside a deer identifiable as the actress Eliza Jane Chester, a favourite of the king. He promises to build her 'a neat Cottage close by' so she needn't be 'afraid of the old Cunning Doe' (a reference to Elizabeth Conyngham, George's mistress from 1819 onwards).
BM Satires: 15792.
[Ref: 66752] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry IV] Le Roy part pour la guerre d'Allemagne.
Rubens Pinxit J.B. Nattier delineavit. J. Audran sculpsit.
A Paris chez le S.r Duchange Graveur du Roy rüe S.t Jacques audessus de la rüe des Mathurins. Avec Privilege du Roy [n.d., c.1710.]
Etching with engraving. 505 x 345mm (20 x 13½"), large margins. Mount burn.
Henri IV conferring the Regency to Marie de' Medici when he leaves for the war in Germany in 1609 (The War of the Jülich Succession). The Dauphin (later Louix XIII) takes her hand. Behind the queen are Prudence and Generosity.
[Ref: 66868] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Pemberton Heywood.] Private Plate.
Painted by George Richmond Esq.re R.A. D.C.L. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, Esqr. R.A.
[n.d., 1870.]
Mezzotint, printed on chine collé. 535 x 405mm (21 x 15¾"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Liverpool banker John Pemberton Heywood (1803–1877), who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1855.
W.83. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66660] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Guards, of the Highland Broadsword as taught at Mr..H. Angelo's Academy, on the Ancient Scottish Principles. Introduced by M.r Taylor, Broadsword Master to the L.t Horse Volunteers of London & Westminster.
Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Jan.y 20.th 1799, and Sold at the Academies in Bolton Street Piccadilly & at N.o 88, Gracechurch Street.
Hand coloured etching with aquatint,; 310 x 390mm (12¼ x 15¼"), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 'Russell & Co. 1798'.
Infantry guardsmen demonstrate ten swordplay techniques: Lessons 1–8, shown on either side, each feature a lone Highland guard illustrating positions such as Outside Guard, Inside Guard, St George's Guard, Hanging Guard, Outside Half Hanger, Inside Half Hanger, Medium Guard, and Half Circle. Lessons 9 and 10, depicted at the top, show two figures in combat—one illustrating "The consequence of not shifting the leg," where a hussar is injured, and the other "The advantage of shifting the leg."
Grego 1880 pp.374-375.
[Ref: 66749] £360.00

[Miss Hill.]
J. Russell Pinxit. J. Dean Fecit.
Published June the 2d by J. Walker N.º13 Parliament Street 1777.
Rare mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 325 x 405mm (12¾ x 16"). Trimmed just into plate at bottom.
A young Henrietta Maria Hill (d.1831) dressed as a shepherdess, leading a flock out from behind a rock. She married Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury in 1793. A very decorative image.
CS 12. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66956] £480.00

[India] The Twenty-Eight Hindoo lunar mansions. [To the most noble John James, Marquis of Abercorn, this curious & valuable fragment of Oriental astronomical science, is respectfully and gratefully inscribed by T. M. [Thomas Maurice].
[engraved by Inigo Barlow.]
[London: W. Bulmer & Co for Thomas Maurice, 1795-8.]
Engraving. Sheet 480 x 260mm (19 x 10¼"). Trimmed to printed border and around title, edges chipped with loss, laid on album paper. Damaged.
A plate illustrating the 28 lunar nakshatras or constellations of the Hindoo zodiac. A folding plate from 'The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, During the Most Ancient Periods of the World' by Orientalist scholar Thomas Maurice (1754-1824).
[Ref: 66819] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[James Hodder.] Hee that more of thine Excellence would now, On this thy Book let him some thoughts bestow; [...].
[Richard Gaywood fecit.]
Engraving. 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of James Hodder, and frontispiece to his book 'Hodder's Arithmetick', published 1661.
[Ref: 66970] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[James Hodder.] Hee that more of thine Excellence would now, On this thy Book let him some thoughts bestow; [...].
[Richard Gaywood fecit.]
Engraving. 120 x 70 mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of James Hodder, and frontispiece to his book 'Hodder's Arithmetick', published 1661.
[Ref: 66971] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Holcroft.]
[J. Opie Pinx.t.] [Engraved by Thomas Hodgetts.]
[Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, April 1816.]
Mezzotint, proof better letters. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A half-length portrait of Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809), holding spectacles. A dramatist, poet and political activist, he was indicted for high treason in 1794. He helped Thomas Paine publish the first part of "The Rights of Man".
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66669] £360.00

Thomas Holcroft.
J. Opie Pinx.t. [Engraved by Thomas Hodgetts.]
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, April 1816.
Mezzotint. 305 x 225mm (12 x 9"), with large margins. Stains. Rubbed.
A half-length portrait of Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) dramatist, poet and political activist indicted for high treason in 1794. He helped Thomas Paine publish the first part of "The Rights of Man".
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66668] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Wenceslaus Hollar.] Venceslas Hollar.
Seipsum Sculp.
[n.d., c.1630.]
Engraving, 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"), with large margins
A self portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–77) was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. He is particularly noted for his engravings and etchings. He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.
VI of VIII. P.1420
[Ref: 66943] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Verscheyde Aerdig Kinderspel uyt Gebeelt door Cornelis Hostein. Pleusieurs Jeus d'Enfants desseigné de Cornelle Holstein. A Amsterdam.
Corelius Holstein inventer. Michiel Mosÿn Sculpsit.
Clement de Jonghe excudit [n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper.
The engraved title page to a book of plates of children's games played by naked cherubs. One plays with a hoop and stick while the other holds up a blown bubble. A croquet mallet, balls, a drum and another musical isntrument lay on the ground between them.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66770] £420.00

[Cherubs wrestling.] 3.
[Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Cortelius Holstein.]
[Amsterdam, Clement de Jonghe, c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Spot
A child lifts another child upside down. Another boy touches another child on the buttocks. A plate from 'Verscheyde Aerdig Kinderspel uyt Gebeelt door Cornelis Hostein', a book of plates of children's games played by naked cherubs.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66771] £320.00

[Cherubs with a skipping rope.] 6.
[Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Cortelius Holstein.]
[Amsterdam, Clement de Jonghe, c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper.
A plate from 'Verscheyde Aerdig Kinderspel uyt Gebeelt door Cornelis Hostein', a book of plates of children's games played by naked cherubs.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66772] £360.00

[Laura Honey] [The Sea Nymph.]
[Painted by T. Harper. Eng.d by A.M. Huffman.]
[London, J. & F. Harwood] [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 270 x 205mm, (10½ x 8"), with large margins.
A bathing beauty with a headdress of shells. We have seen another proof example with a pencil identification for Laura Honey (1816?-1843), described by DNB as 'a pleasing and graceful actress and a delightful ballad-singer'. Harper & Huffman worked together on Folker's 'Beauties of Brighton', with women in local settings.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Richardus Hooker Exoniensis scholaris... Sunt Meloria Mihi.
Guil: Faithorne sculp.
[n.d. c.1662]
Engraving, 260 x 165mm (10 x 6½), with large margins. Some light creasing and foxing.
Frontispiece to his 'Works', ed. Gauden (1662). Portrait of Richard Hooker (c.1554-1600), shown half-length within an oval frame, slightly turned to the left; wearing an academic gown, a Canterbury cap, and a ruff around his neck.
Fagan 1888 p. 42.
[Ref: 67009] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Queen. (An American Mare.)
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 475 x 290mm (18 x 11½"). Tear on right side of sheet close to image.
An American Mare in its stable, a broom leans against the wall in the right of the image.
[Ref: 66700] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Mare and Foal. Plate I.
By Haid.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Scarce & fine engraving, 360 x 295mm (14¼ x 11½"), with large margins. Tear in lower margin close to image.
An engraving depicting a mare stood over her foal. A reverse copy of Thomas Gooch "Life of a Racehorse" Siltzer pg 125. Copy of Francis Jukes (1745-1812) Life of a Racehorse, Siltzer pg. 369.
[Ref: 66701] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Hossein Ali Beg Bayat] Cucheinollibeag Magni Sophi Persiarum Regis Legations Socius. Straturus turcas bellis rex persa celebris, Caesar dive tuas hunc per adivit opels.
[n.d., c.1600.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 130mm (6¾ x 5"). Trimmed within plate, holes in oval. Tipped into album sheet.
A half-length portrait in oval of Persian ambassador Hossein Ali Beg Bayat, part of the first Safavid embassy to Europe (1599-1602).
[Ref: 66839] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[House of cards.]
C. Errar Inventor. M. Mosin fecit.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Rare engraving, 215 x 290mm (8½ x 11½"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Slight crease.
Four cherubs stand at a round table. As one builds a house of cards another attempts to blow it down. Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Charles Errard.
Provenance Cornwell House.
[Ref: 66756] £350.00

[Joseph Hume.]
[Painted by J. Graham. Engraved by T. Hodgetts.]
[London Published June 1823, by Mr. Graham, 63 Upper Charlotte Str.t Fitzroy Sq.e.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before letters. 555 x 405mm (21¾ x 16"). Very narrow lateral margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Joseph Hume (1777-1855), standing by a pillar, hand resting on papers on a table. After serving as a surgeon to the East India Company's 7th Sepoy Regiment, he became Tory MP for Weymouth in 1812. He became more radical: in 1830 he set up the 'Metropolitan Political Union' in London, with Henry Hunt and Daniel O'Connell.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66670] £360.00

[The Right Hon.ble William Huskisson, M.P. Engraved after the original picture in 1830, in the possession of M.rs Huskisson.]
Painted by R. Rothwell. M.R.H.A. Engraved by Thomas Hodgetts.
London, August 1832, Published by M. Colnaghi, 23, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Mezzotint engraving, proof before title, printed on chine collé. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), with large margins. Creasing in margins.
Half-length seated portrait of William Huskisson (1770-1830), who served as colonial secretary and leader of the House of Commons under Viscount Goderich and the Duke of Wellington (1827-28), resigning after a dispute with Wellington over parliamentary reform. He was killed by George Stephenson's 'Rocket' at the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway.
[Ref: 66652] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble William Huskisson, M.P. Engraved after the original picture in 1830, in the possession of M.rs Huskisson. Proof.
Painted by R. Rothwell. M.R.H.A. Engraved by Thomas Hodgetts.
London, August 1832, Published by M. Colnaghi, 23, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Proof mezzotint. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), large margins.
Half-length seated portrait of William Huskisson (1770-1830), who served as colonial secretary and leader of the House of Commons under Viscount Goderich and the Duke of Wellington (1827-28), resigning after a dispute with Wellington over parliamentary reform. He was killed by George Stephenson's 'Rocket' at the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66651] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. An.o Doni 1667.
P. Lely pinx. MBurg. sculp.
[n.d. c.1699]
Engravng, sheet 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate. Nick in left touching engraved area. Paper a bit thin in middle.
Half-length portrait of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), within an oval, shown wearing robes and a collar; a mace and the royal purse below, with his coat of arms. Hyde was a statesman and historian who became Charles II's chief minister following the Resoration
[Ref: 66940] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [15 plates from ''Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being the Journal of a Tour in India''.]
[Captain Godfrey Munday]
London. Published by John Murray, April 1832.
15 steel engravings. Each sheet c. 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed and pasted on album sheets in threes, some spotting and glue stains.
A collection of plates from the account of a tour in India by Godfrey Charles Munday (1804-1860), including tiger hunting from elephants and hunting with leopards. An army officer who served in India and Australia, he became Permanent Under Secretary for War during the Crimean War then Lieutentant Governor of Jersey.
[Ref: 66607] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Punished Arrogance.] Bestrafter Hochmuth. No.221. Fabel N°1.
[n.d., c.1800.] bei Winckelman & Sohne in Berlin.
Fine & rare lithograph with inscription below. Image 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Sheet 415 x 355mm (16¼ x 14"). Crease across centre of sheet.
A scene depicting a rat, full from stolen food. The Sultan approaches on the back of an elephant, adorned with beautiful blankets and goods, with him, his parrot, his favourite dog and a monkey. The rat having expressed that the elephant is a clumsy animal with little beauty, is paid for her excess as a cat catches her.
[Ref: 66787] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Inn and Houses near a Bridge.]
R:S: [Roeland Savery] Invetor.
Eg: S: [Aegidius Sadeler] excu. Marco Sadeler excudit [Venice, n.d., c.1640].
Etching. 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on left, narrow margins elsewhere. Laid on album sheet at corners.
Marco Sadeler, perhaps the grandson of Aegidius, worked as a publisher in Venice, reissuing many plates by Aegidius.
[Ref: 66804] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Irish Hospitality. 531. Sung with great Applause by Mr. Incledon, in his New Entertainment, called ''The Minstrel'.'
I. R. Cruikshank. G. C.k sculp.
Published, the 20th October, 1815, by J. Whittle and R.H. Laurie, No. Fleet Street, London.
Engraving set in letterpress. Sheet 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9"). Pasted onto backing sheet. Slight staining.
A song sheet with a scene in a dining room in which four large men sit drinking wine. In profile to left is the publisher James Whittle.
BM Satire 12699.
[Ref: 66848] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Ismail I of Persia] Hismael Sophi, Roy de Perse.
[n.d., c.1584.]
Engraving. 175 x 145mm (7 x 5¾"). Sheet trimmed, losing letterpress.
Half-length portrait of Ismail I (1487-1524), holding a sword with a leopard handle. The founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, he ruled from 1501 until his death, making Shia Islam the official religion. From André Thevet's ''Les Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens''.
[Ref: 66833] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Lake Como.] Veduta della Villa D'Esta altre volte il Garuvo sul Lago di Como.
G.Castellini dis. L.Rados inc.
[c.1830.] Milano presso Francesco Bernucca Contrada de'tre Alberghi No.4091.
Very fine lithograph. 195 x 225mm (7¾ x 9"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into lower plate and backed onto album paper.
A view of Lake Como, Italy. In the foreground are two boats, in the background the Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. In 1815, the villa became the residence of Caroline of Brunswick, estranged wife of the future King George IV.
[Ref: 66691] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

His Majesty James the First, King of England, and his Royal Progeny; Together with the Family of the King of Bohemia. Proof.
Engraved by Charles Turner from an extreme rare Print by Passe.
London: Pub.d 1814 by S. Woodburn, 112 S.t Martin's Lane.
Mezzotint, printed in brown. 340 x 440mm (13¼ x 17¼"), with large margins.
A group portrait of the Royal house, James I enthroned at the centre. Winged cherubs hold up banners with the names of the personages to left and right. The members of James's family who have died hold skulls. A copy of the engraving by Willem de Passe, published by John Bill and Thomas Jenner in 1622. From a series of 15 copies of early engravings, 'Portraits of Royal Personages', by Turner, Earlom and Dunkarton, issued by Samuel Woodburn in book form in 1816.
Whitman: 469, iii of iii.
[Ref: 66490] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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[King James II.]
[n.d., c. 1700.]
Engraving on vellum, part of a legal document. Sheet 150 x 125mm (6 x 5"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Crease across face. Some cockling.
Oval portrait of James II and VII (1633 - 1701), King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution.
[Ref: 66972] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [John James.] J.T.James D.D. Bishop of Calcutta.
Engraved by E.Finden.
[n.d, c.1850.] From an Electro Type Plate by E.Palmer, 103, Newgate Street, London.
Stipple engraving on Chine paper. Sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Crease in left side of image.
Portrait of John Thomas James bishop of Calcutta (1786 - 1828). He also wrote travel and art books.
[Ref: 66989] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Jewish woman of Smyrna, at home.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Tear taped, surface scraping in margins, spotting.
[Ref: 66684] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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