Grosvenor Prints

Miss Fordyce.
Reynolds Pinx. Harris Fecit.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 110mm x 150mm. (4½" x 6"). Trimmed close to margins; crease upper left.
Portrait of Miss Fordyce (later Mrs Greenwood) playing an English guitar whilst reading from a music book. The print is after a portrait of Miss Fordyce which hangs in Waddesdon Manor.
Chaloner Smith: pg.622. Not in Hamilton; for another portrait of Fordyce see ref. 4847.
[Ref: 31912] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Weld Forester [facsimile signature.]
A D'Orsay fecit May 1840 [signed in plate].
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 205 x 160mm. 8 x 6¼". Some light soiling, else a fine impression.
Portrait of Maj. Hon. Charles Robert Weld Forester (1811-1852), son of 1st Baron Forester, Cecil Weld Forester. He gained the rank of Major in the service of the 12th Lancers and was Assistant Military Secretary for Ireland. He married Lady Maria Jocelyn in 1848, but they had no children. 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.
O'Donoghue p.236. See NPG 4026(25).
[Ref: 21815] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Canning. 1818. Wollaston. 1827. Scott. 1820. Crabbe. 1826. From Sketches made in the years above named, by F. Chantry, Sculptor in testimony of his esteem.
Plate 16 of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists by R.J. Lane A.R.A.
Printed by Hullmandel. London. 1832. Published by Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé. 325 x 280mm. 12¾ x 11". Small tear into the margin.
Portrait heads of four men, Canning at top left in profile to right, Wollaston at top right in profile to left, Scott at lower left in profile to right and Crabbe at lower right with head bowed in three-quarter profile to left. George Canning (1770-1827) Prime Minister; William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) scientist, known for his preparation of malleable platinum; Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) poet and novelist; and George Crabbe (1754-1832), poet.
[Ref: 24823] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Dryden Sr Samuel Garth Sr John Vanbrugh Sr Richard Steele.
I.Simon fec et Ex. [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint, four oval portraits to one plate. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). A fine and rich impression with full margins.
One of the great mezzotints. Poet John Dryden (1631 - 1700), physician and poet Sir Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719), architect Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 - 1726), and essayist, dramatist and politician Sir Richard Steele (1672 - 1729); their names on scrolls under the upper pair and on inscription space under the lower pair. From a set of six plates, 'Poets and Philosophers of England', each having four oval portraits; by mezzotinter and publisher John Simon (c.1675 - 1751).
Chaloner Smith: 55, I, first state before division into separate portraits and letters erased.
[Ref: 18321] £490.00

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)

Mrs. Frewer.
Engraved by W.C. Edwards from a Picture by Clover.
[n.d. c.1805].
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 210mm. Trimmed inside plate mark. Publication line missing.
[Ref: 1316] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Payne Galwey.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds Engraved by J.R. Smith.
[London Publishd Feby 1st 1780 by J.R. Smith No 10 Batemans Buildings Soho Square]
Mezzotint, sheet 370 x 285mm (14½ x 11¼"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line;
Double portrait of Philadelphia Payne Gallwey (1758-85) and her son Charles (1777-95) engraved after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds shortly after it was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1779. The painting is now in the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati.
Hamilton p.101; CS 133 iii/iii; D'Oench 144.
[Ref: 46917] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend Andrew Gifford, D.D.
From an Original Picture painted by J. Russel. R. Houston fecit.
Published as the Act directs, 2nd June 1774.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Very large margins.
A portrait of Andrew Gifford (1701 - 1784), a Baptist minsister in Nottingham. Gifford was a great collector of coins, books, and manuscripts and was appointed the assistant librarian to the British Museum.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Chaloner Smith: 47.
[Ref: 37695] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Gill.
T.Murray Pix: I.Smith fec: et [ex:]
[Published by Smith, c.1694.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm. Repairs in lower corners.
Son of the physician of the same name, shown with bow and arrow.
CS: 108.
[Ref: 15677] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Frances Isabella Ker Gordon. Daughter of Lord and Lady Wm. Gordon.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Peter Simon.
Publish'd June 1.st 1789, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90, Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Stipple, very fine with large margins. In pencil "from Duchess of Bedford"; Plate 380 x 285mm. 15 x 11¼".
Portrait, as a cherub, head only with wings, in five different positions within clouds, lit from above right. Frances Isabella Ker Gordon (1782-1831) was daughter of Lord William Gordon.
Hamilton: p.102.
[Ref: 24976] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Duchess of Gordon.]
Stanier Sculp.t. [After Reynolds.]
[n.d., c.1791.]
Stipple. Proof before title. Sheet: 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Jane, Duchess of Gordon (1748-1812), political hostess, agricultural reformer and wife of Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon.
Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 47855] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Green and Child.]
P. Falconet pinxit. Val. Greet Fecit.
Publish'd Oct.r 16th 1770.
Mezzotint, scratch letter proof before title with very large margins. 410 x 280mm (16 x 11"). Small repaired holes on left and in margin.
Mary Valentine and Rupert, wife and son of Valentine Green the engraver.
CS: 54. Whitman: 19 I of II. Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34422] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Greville].
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. Js. mcArdell Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Paliament July 25th. 1762. Sold at Golden Head in Covent Garden.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 500 x 350mm. (19½ x 13¾"). Laid on backing sheet.
Portrait of Frances Greville, represented as Hebe, the Godess of youth, and her brother, as Cupid grasping the scarf flowing around them with his right hand, standing three-quarter length to left under a tree, head turned to face front, holding up vase in both hands.
CS: 93. Goodwin: 90 II; Hamilton: II.
[Ref: 31674] £450.00

[Henry Grey] Henry Earl of Kent, Son of Anthony of Burbage, A.D. 1643. Front an Original Portrait, at Wrest House, Bedfordshire.
T. Athow.
[c.1810.]
Ink, watercolour and wash with inscription in ink. Image 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Henry Grey (1594-1651), 10th Earl of Kent. Three similar works by Thomas Athow (1802-1820, fl.) are in the British Museum and a collection are in the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 42678] £350.00

[Augustus Phipps Earl of Mulgrave, Sir George Beaumont Bart, the Hon.ble Augustus Phipps & Gen.l the Hon.ble Edmund Phipps.]
[John Jackson. William Ward.]
[n.d., c.1822.]
A rare mezzotint, proof before all letters, marked in pencil "Engraver's Proof". Plate: 360 x 385mm (14 x 15"), with large margins.
A group portrait of four men gathered around a table. Edmund Phipps looks through a folio while General Phipps holds a large volume.
Not in Frankau. Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire.
[Ref: 46726] £380.00

To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales This Plate of Martha Gunn the Brighton Bather, is with His gracious permission humbly dedicated by His Royal Highnesses most devoted and obedient servant Diemar. From the Original Painting in the Possession of the Prince.
J.Russell R.A. Crayon-Painter to His Majesty, their Rl. Hs. the Prince of Wales & Duke of York. Engraved by W.Nutter.
London. Published as the Act directs, June 1st 1797, by Diemar. No. 114 Strand.
Stipple. 690 x 490mm. 27¼ x 19¼". Horizontal fold through the centre. Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait, holding an infant. In the background is a bathing carriage. Martha Gunn (1726-1815), the most famous of the dippers, and described by the Morning Herald as 'The Venerable Priestess of the Bath". She was a favourite of the Prince of Wales, the future George IV.
Wellcome Library no. 20268i.
[Ref: 26938] £480.00

[Elizabeth Gunning as Dutchess of Hamilton.]
[after Francis Cotes.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Rare stipple, possible proof before letters 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5"). Slight watermark. Thread margins, stitch holes on left plate mark, some staining.
An oval portrait of Elizabeth Gunning (1733-90) when wife of James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and Argyll. After his death she married John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later Duke of Argyll. She served as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte for over 20 years and was created Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon in her own right by George III in 1776.
The original pastel in in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 4890).
[Ref: 57244] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Maria Countess of Coventry.
[after Jean-Etienne Liotard.]
Printed for John Bowles at No 13 _ in Cornhill, London [c.1760].
Mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Tipped into album sheet. Small margins.
Maria Coventry [née Gunning], countess of Coventry (bap.1732-d.1760), in a floral dress, head resting on her hand. A noted beauty, she died at 27, said to be caused by lead and mercury poisoning, absorbed from her makeup. A detail from a pastel drawing by Jean-Etienne Liotard (1750-55), in the Rijksmuseum.
See Ref: 42089 for reverse image.
[Ref: 55923] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Maria Countess of Coventry.
[Painted by F. Cotes.]
[n.d., c.1755.]
Mezzotint, 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9"). Trimmed to plate. Mounted on album paper at corners, blind stamp in inscription area.
A fantastically rich impression of this portrait of Maria (Gunning), Countess of Coventry (1733 - 1760). A famous beauty, she was the first wife of George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry. She died at 27 from lead and mercury poisoning, absorbed from her makeup. After Francis Cotes (1726 - 1770), by an anonymous engraver.
Not in CS. NPG D2507; ex. collection of J. Milne-Cooper (L.1816c)
[Ref: 9220] £330.00

Maria Countess of Coventry.
[Painted by F. Cotes.]
[n.d., c.1755.]
Mezzotint, 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9"), generous margins.
Portrait of Maria (Gunning), Countess of Coventry (1733-60), first wife of George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and a famous beauty. She died at 27 from lead and mercury poisoning, absorbed from her makeup. After Francis Cotes (1726 - 1770), by an anonymous engraver.
Not in CS. NPG D2507.
[Ref: 45948] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Maria Countess of Coventry.
Liotard Pinx.t.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street [c.1760].
Mezzotint, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"); large margins. Tipped into album sheet.
Maria Coventry [née Gunning], countess of Coventry (bap.1732-d.1760), figure of scandal. After a childhood in Ireland, Maria and her sister Elizabeth arrived in London as teenagers and aroused considerable interest in fashionable society (they were nicknamed 'the Beauties' and admired by George II). Both quickly married well: Elizabeth to the duke of Hamilton (in secret) and Maria to George William Coventry, sixth earl of Coventry (1722-1809), the grandest landowner in Worcestershire. In London Lady Coventry's activities were documented in many private diaries and letters (Horace Walpole seems to have been particularly interested by her) and her portrait was painted by several leading artists; she also quarrelled regularly in public with her husband. Lady Coventry died at the age of twenty-eight in 1760, supposedly from lead poisoning from the fashionable white cosmetic, ceruse, which she used on her face, although tuberculosis has also been thought responsible. Mezzotint engraving of a detail from a pastel drawing by Jean-Etienne Liotard (1750-55, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
[Ref: 42089] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Haffey
J. Foldson Pinx.t Rob.t Laurie fecit
London. Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 1 May 1777.
Mezzotint, platemark 355 x 255 (14 x 10"). Small margins.
Elizabeth Haffey, daughter of John Haffey of Walthamstow and the India Office. Elizabeth and her brother John Burgess Haffey were painted by the portrait painter John Foldsone (d.1784); the portraits were engraved by Robert Laurie and sold as a pair.
CS: 27
[Ref: 43768] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

William Hage. The Celebrated guide to Haddon Hall Derbyshire, the descendant of a family which has served in the house of Manners upwards of three centuries. He was born in 1745 and in his present capacity has been known to visitors sixty one years.
Drawn on Stone by Rayner, from a drawing by Oakley.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Fine & rare hand-coloured lithograph, proof. Sheet: 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½''). Trimmed.
A portrait of the William Hage, caretaker of Haddon Hall, one of the seats of the Dukes of Rutland.
[Ref: 50626] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

W.H. Haggard.
[John Stevens.][William Drummond.]
[n.d, c.1829.]
Lithograph, scarce, printed on india. Sheet: 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Marking in large margins.
A bust portrait of William Henry Haggard (1783-1843), from Norfolk, in profile. Facsimilie signature below image.
[Ref: 46325] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Dutchess of Hamilton, Brandon, &c.
Fran.s Cotes Pinx.t. Miller fecit.
London, Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9"), with wide margins.
Elizabeth Gunning (1733-90) met James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and Argyll, at a party in London. Robert Walpole reported that he insisted that they marry that night, and called for a local parson to perform the ceremony. However, without a license, calling of banns and a ring, the parson refused, so they married that night in Mayfair Chapel. Her sister Maria (1733-60) was also a beauty who married well, in her case George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry. Andrew Miller (d.1763), was an engraver in Dublin. Challoner Smith notes 'Nearly all the prints by Miller are of very great rarity' (p.921).
CS: 21. Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34421] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Emma Hamilton] Titania, Puck, the Changeling, &c. (From Shakespear's Play of "Midsummer Night's Dream"). Engraved by Edward Scriven, Historical Engraver to the Prince of Wales from an unfinished Picture by George Romney, Esq. in the Posession of Sir John Fleming Leicesyer, Bar.t. Who by appropriating a Gallery exclusively to English Pictures has evinced a patriotic love for the Fine Arts of his Country, & to whom this plate is most respectfully inscribed.
Class 1. Painting for ''the Fine Arts of the English School''.
London: Published December 1, 1810 by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row: J Taylor, High Holborn & W. Bond 87 Newman St.
Stipple. Sheet: 270 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½''). Crease in top left corner. Trimmed to platemark.
Portrait of Emma Hamilton as Titania after Romney, lying at right, leaning on her elbows and resting her hands on her chin, looking to front with a smile, Puck tying a ribbon around the ankle of baby lying at left, fairies in the sky behind. Lady Emma Hamilton (c.1765-1815), was the famous wife of Sir William Hamilton, and mistress of Nelson.
Horne: 56. II. Ex Collection: Earl of Bute.
[Ref: 50251] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Hamilton, en Sibylle.
M.me Lebrun pinx.t. Grevedon del.
Bonnemaison direx.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet: 390 x 275mm (15¼ x 10¾''). Foxing at bottom.
A portrait of Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) in classical costume after Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (1755-1842).
[Ref: 48613] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Pitt [ms below] 6
TW [Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 85 x 65mm (3¼ x 2½"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheet in corners. Rare
Portrait believed to represent Villiers Clara Hannam (née Pitt), sister of Pitt the elder, first earl of Chatham. By Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
D179; not in O'D; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33046] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Hannibal.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by C. Townley. Engraver to his Majesty the King of Prussia & Member of the Academies of Berlin & Florence.
Published as the Act directs, April 20th, 1792, by Charles Townley, Greek Street, Soho.
Mezzotint with small margins. Rare. Platemark: 330 x 230 (13 x 9").
A half-length portrait of a young child in Roman costume, Master Coke of Holkham, with his right hand upon a sword and his left on his hip.
Ex Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hamilton: Pg 18; CS: Not in.
[Ref: 36473] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Lady Elizabeth Lee, Daughter of Simon Earl Harcourt.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. Engrav'd & Sold by E. Fisher, at the Golden Head in Leicester Fields [c.1770].
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Thread margins.
Lady Elizabeth Harcourt, Lady Lee (1739-1811), engraved after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds now at Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, a property managed by the National Trust.
Hamilton p.114 ii/iii; CS 37 ii/iii.
[Ref: 46867] £480.00

[Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine.]
[William Faithorne, engraved by George Vertue.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving, very scarce proof. Sheet: 390 x 225mm (15¼ x 9''). Trimmed, loss in corners, damaged.
A three-quarter length portrait of politician and antiquary Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine (1636-1708).
[Ref: 49718] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Hare, 2nd Lord Coleraine.] Vivit Herus. Foris et Exteris. Vixit Clarus. Domi et Patriæ. A. Dom M.D.C.C.I.I.I.
[n.d., c.1703.]
Mezzotint, rare. Plate: 285 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate. Slight tear on right.
A half-length portrait of politician and antiquary Henry Hare, 2nd Lord Coleraine (1636-1708).
[Ref: 46322] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Polly Harrison.]
T. Kettle pinx.t. V. Green fecit.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer Engraver & Printsellers, at the Kings Arms in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint. Framed. Platemark: 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Unexamined out of frame. Trimmed to image on 3 sides.
A portrait of Miss Polly Harrison, standing whole-length, walking to the right, looking to the left. She holds a dove on her right hand. She is wearing a simple dress with sash around her waist. Architecture can be seen behind at the right, with woodland to the left; proof before letters. Polly Harrison sat for portrait painter Tilly Kettle (1734/5 - 1786) on a number of occasions.
Whitman: 86 II of II. CS: 63 II of II.
[Ref: 35732] £380.00

Sarah Countess of Kinnoull. From a painting in miniature of the same size by Sam. Shelly_ Engraved by Caroline Watson engraver to her Majesty. [1798]
Stipple, early impression, platemark 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), very large margins.
Sarah Harley (1760-1837), daughter of Sir Thomas Harley; she married Robert Hay-Drummond, later 10th Earl of Kinnoul, in 1781.
[Ref: 42483] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

E.W. Hasell, Esq.re Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Cumberland & Westmorland. Proof.
Painted by T. Carrick. Engraved by G.H. Phillips.
Published July 1st 1842 by Cha.s Thurnam, Carlisle, and M. Brown, Penrith. Printed by Brooker & Harrison.
Rare proof mezzotint. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"), with large margins.
Colonel Edward Williams Hasell (1796-1872) of Dalemain, Ullswater, although his estates straddled both Cumberland and Westmorland. Shortly after the publication of this portrait he became chairman of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, which opened in 1846.
[Ref: 47696] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Walter Hawksworth of Hawksworth Barr.t
G. Lumley Fecit.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Very scarce mezzotint, sheet 375 x 300mm (14¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed to plate and glued to sheet. Possible fake plate mark added to backing sheet.
Sir Walter Hawkesworth (died 1735), 2nd Bt of Hawkesworth. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1721, but following his death the title became extinct due to the vast number of women born at Hawksworth Hall.
CS 3.
[Ref: 61591] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Walter Hawksworth of Hawksworth Barr.t
G. Lumley Fecit.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. Plate 298 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼". Cut to the plate.
Sir Walter Hawkesworth (died 1735), 2nd Bt of Hawkesworth. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1721, but following his death the title became extinct due to the vast number of women born at Hawksworth Hall.
CS: 3.
[Ref: 18171] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Lucia. Comitissa de Carlile.
Antonius Van Dyck Eques pinxit. P. Lombart Sculpsit et ex.
Londini avec Pri. du Roy et ex. parisis. [n.d. c.1660.]
Copper engraving, fine. 349 x 260mm. 13¾ x 10¼". Trimmed.
Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (1599-1660) was an English courtier known for her beauty and wit. She was involved in many political intrigues during the English Civi War, and became second wife to James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. She is known for disclosing to her cousin Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex of the King's intended arrest of the five members of Long Parliament, which enabled Essex and the other to escape. Lombart's most famous work was the series of twelve portraits after van Dyck that he engraved around 1660, often known as the 'Countesses' from the Latin of their titles. Mariette in his entry on Lombart in his Abecedario stated that this set alone would suffice to place him 'au rang des premiers graveurs'. All twelve plates are the same size, and show three-quarter-length figures, ten women and two men, in 15mm wide borders that imitate frames of the period.
[Ref: 24660] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Hemet.
J.R. Smith pinxt. & fecit.
Publish'd July 3d. 1781, by J. Birchall No.473 Strand London.
Mezzotint. 100 x 125mm.
D'Oench 175. Only state.
[Ref: 5599] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus de Monmouth (vulgo dict. Torto Collo) Dux Lancastriæ Fund.r Coll: Corporis Christi Cantal.r A.o D.ni 1351. Hanc Effigiem Rev: Viro Tho: Greene S.T.P et Hujus Coll: Magistro & Academ Procan.
Summa Cum Humil. & observantia D.D.D. J. Faber A.o 1714.
Mezzotint. Plate: 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8") large margins.
A portrait of Henry, Duke of Lancaster a medieval diplomat, politician and soldier. One of a series of forty-five plate illustrating the founders of the Oxford and Cambridge College, the Royal Exchange and Charterhouse.
[Ref: 46463] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Countess of Pembroke, and the R.t Hon.ble George Lord Herbert.
Sr. Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t. J: Dixon Sculp.t.
Publish'd According to the Act of Parliament. 5th, April 1777. London, Published by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 455 x 327mm (18 x 12¾"), with large margins. Collector's mark verso.
Elizabeth Herbert (1737-1831), Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery, with her son George Augustus Herbert (1759-1827), later 11th Earl of Pembroke, 8th Earl of Montgomery. Her marriage to the 10th Earl wasn't happy and she eventually left him to live in what is now Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park, complaining 'Husbands are dreadfull and powerful Animals'.
CS: 27: iii of iii; Hamilton P.126.
[Ref: 46992] £480.00

Pembroke [facsimile signature].
2 Mars 1841. A d'Orsay fecit [signed in plate].
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 205 x 160mm. 8 x 6¼". Repaired tear in title area.
Portrait of Robert Henry Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke, 9th Earl of Montgomery (1791 - 1862). 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.
O'Donoghue p.443, 2.
[Ref: 21826] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Bristol
T. H. Maguire. 1849. [Etched in plate.]
M & N Hanhart Imp.t
Lithograph on chine collé. 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½"), very large margins. Foxing in the margins. Small loss to lower left corner and tear in lower margin.
A three quarter length portrait of Frederick William Hervey (1769-1859), 1st Marquis of Bristol, seated with a book in his lap. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852: the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
[Ref: 57163] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble John Lord Hervey Lord Privy Seal & one of the Lords Justices & Guardians of the Kingdom Eldest Son to John Earl of Britsol, 1741.
Vanloo pinx.t. J Faber fecit.
price 2s. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [n.d. c.1750] A crest with the motto 'Je N'Oublierai Jamais' is also within the publication line.
Mezzotint, print 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet at top. Some light creasing
Three-quarter length seated portrait of English courtier and political writer John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743). He has a chancerial burse propped on right leg and holds the tassells between his hands. He wears a coat lined with fur and a chin-length wig.
CS 188.I State before price and address erased.
[Ref: 58875] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ann Holme Aet suae 77.
J. Smith pinx 1782 P. M Morland delin 1799 Caroline Watson engraver to her Majesty sculp
Stipple, platemark 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait engraved by Caroline Watson (1760/1-1814), printmaker specializing in the stipple technique, and daughter of the Irish mezzotinter James Watson. Watson was made engraver to the queen in 1785, and was also patronized by the Bute family. While she did not exhibit in public exhibitions, Watson was one of few women who maintained an independent printmaking practice, signing her name rather than working unacknowledged, and seemingly operating a successful business judging from her wealth at the time of her death.
[Ref: 43523] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield.]
Angelica Kauffman pinxit. J. R. Smith fecit.
Published March the 12th 1777 by J.R. Smith No. 10 Batemans Buildings Soho Square.
Mezzotint. 610 x 390mm (24 x 15¼"), with large margins. Margins creased.
A wonderful impression of a fine image showing a full length portrait of politician John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821) dressed in 17th century costume, his hand resting on a sword and armour piled at his feet.
D'Oench: 91; Frankau: 181; CS: 85.
[Ref: 46135] £750.00

Hook and Eye.
[Count D'Orsay.]
Published by M. Humphrey, St. James St.
Lithograph. Sheet: 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½").
A satirical double portrait of Tory supporter Theodore Hook (1788-1841) and Tory politician Sir Charles Manners Sutton (1780-1845).
[Ref: 43627] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of Joseph Charles Horsley, carried off by Charles Rennett, on the 8th. November, and recovered again at Brake, near Bremen, Novr. 23rd 1818.
J. Green pinxt. R. Cooper sculpt.
Published May 25th. 1819, at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand.
Aquatint and etching, sheet 295 x 225mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed to plate. Small amounts of foxing occur in the margins, over the title of the print and across the image itself.
Portrait of a young boy sitting facing the viewer and holding a flower, a terrier beside at right with sad expression. A dramatic mask with snake lies on the ground in the left foreground, sea behind. By sweet-talking a nursery-servant, Rennett kidnapped the three-year-old son of his first cousin, who had inherited an estate that Rennett felt should have been his. He absconded to Germany, where he was apprehended and brought back to England. Found guilty, Rennett was sentenced to seven years’ transportation to Australia.
See 53141 for a portrait of Rennell
[Ref: 53549] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mother of Grace Darling.
L. Corbauce. R.Hastings delt.
London Ackermann & Co. Strand, Dickinson, Bond St. & Newcastle Carrie & Bowman. Printed by C Hallmandel.
Etching. Sheet 234 x 184mm. Slight foxing
Thomasin Horsley, married Lighthouse Keeper, William Darling in 1805. Grace Horsley Darling was born 24 Nov 1815 and became a heroine for her courageous rescue of nine sailors in 1838 has become one of Northumberland’s most famous legends.
[Ref: 3070] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. Thomas How Esqr. Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin 1733.
J. Brooks Fecit. [Artist's name illegible].
Sold by T. Jeffrys at the corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross and W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge.
Mezzotint. 260 x 370mm. Light foxing.
CS: 14. II of III.
[Ref: 979] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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