Grosvenor Prints

[India] Sir John Lawrence Bar.t G.C.B., K.S.I. Governor-General of India.
Painted by T.F. Dicksee. Engraved by A.N. Sanders.
London, Published May 14.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen _ 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"), with very large margins.
Seated portrait of John Laird Mair Lawrence (1811-79), Chief Commissioner in the Punjab during the Indian Mutiny and Viceroy of India 1864-9.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66119] £420.00

[Sir John Lawrence Bar.t G.C.B., K.S.I. Governor-General of India.]
[Painted by T.F. Dicksee. Engraved by A.N. Sanders.]
[London, Published May 14.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen _ 6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"), with large margins. Damp in edges of margin. Uncut.
Seated portrait of John Laird Mair Lawrence (1811-79), Chief Commission in the Punjab during the Indian Mutiny and Viceroy of India 1864-9.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66121] £650.00

[Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence.]
[Engraved by George Sanders after John Robert Dicksee.]
[Published by Henry Graves & Co., 25th October 1864.]
Mezzotint on chine collé, with Printsellers' Association blindstamp; Proof before letters except publication. 480 x 380mm (19 x 15"), with large margins.
A portrait of John Laird Mair Lawrence (1811-79), an English colonial administrator in India, painted in England shortly before he returned to India in 1863 to replace Lord Elgin as Viceroy of India. He was made Baron Lawrence 'of the Punjaub and of Grateley in the County of Southampton' on his return to England in 1869.
[Ref: 48287] £280.00

Una. [Mary Lawrence.] From Spencer's Fairy Queen Book 1st. Canto 3. Vers. 4 & 5.
Benjn. West pinxt. R Earlom Sculpt.
Publish'd August 10th. 1772. by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 470 x 580mm. 18½ x 22¾". Scuff to mezzotint surface around sitter's face.
Portrait of Mary Lawrence (1749 - c.1830) as Una, reclining on the ground within a wood, a beam of light from upper left landing on her head. She wears classical dress, leaning on her right elbow and twisting her long hair with her right hand; a lion at right and donkey either side, landscape with hill and sea beyond. Lawrence was a flower painter and watercolourist, wife of Richard J Lawrence of Jamaica. She exhibited at the RA 1794 - 1830 (after 1813 as Mrs. Kearse). In Edmund Spenser's (1552? - 1599) epic poem 'The Faerie Queene', Una was the wife of Finnbheara, king of the Irish fairies. After Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Chaloner Smith: 19.: ii of ii Wessely: 32. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14770] £580.00

[India] Stringer Lawrence Esq. Major General and Commander in Chief in the East Indies.
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. R. Houston Londini fecit.
Printed for John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse, in Cornhall 1761.
Mezzotint. 360 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Creased. Small margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Stringer Lawrence (1697-1775), 'Father of the Indian army'. Lawrence served in Gibraltar and fought in the Battle of Culloden before being placed in command of the East India Company's troops in 1748. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General.
CS 69, state i of ii; Hamilton, p45; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66148] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Major General Stringer Lawrence, who Commanded in India from 1747 to 1767. Died 10th Jan.y 1775, Ageed 78. From the Original Painting in the Possession of S.r Rob.t Palk Bar.t to whom this Place is most respectfully Inscribed by his obliged humble Servant, E.A. Ezekiel.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by E.A. Ezekiel.
[London: c.1795 by E. A. Ezekiel.]
Stipple with etching, scarce. Sheet 580 x 360mm (22¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Stringer Lawrence (1697 - 1775), 'Father of the Indian army', standing at the door of a tent before an Indian fort, wearing uniform, with a stick in his right hand and his sword in his left. Lawrence served in Gibraltar and fought in the Battle of Culloden before being placed in command of the East India Company's troops in 1748. While acting as the governor of Fort St. David, he recognised the abilities of his junior, Robert Clive and assisted in his rise. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General. A rare portrait, after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
See BM 1849,1031.181 for state with different lettering. See reference 63664 for a framed mezzotint.
[Ref: 44436] £480.00

General Lawrence.
Sherlock sculp.
[n.d., c.1757.]
Engraving. Platemark: 125 x 105mm (5 x 4¼"). Large margins on three sides, very small margins on left.
A bust portrait of General Stringer Lawrence (1697-1775), known as the 'Father of the Indian army'. Lawrence was the first Commander-in-Chief in India, and was actively engaged in a number of battles including Cuddalore, Pondicherry, and was in command at the capture of Devicota in 1749. In 1759 failing health compelled him to return to England. The East India Company erected a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey. A plate from Tobias Smollett's 'History of England', published in 1757.
[Ref: 35633] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Stringer Lawrence Esq. Major General and Commander in Chief in the East Indies. Price 5s.
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. R. Houston Londini fec.t 1761.
Printed for John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse, in Cornhall.
Mezzotint. 360 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Narrow margins, tear in inscription area taped, small hole in frame.
A half-length portrait in oval of Stringer Lawrence (1697-1775), 'Father of the Indian army'. Lawrence served in Gibraltar and fought in the Battle of Culloden before being placed in command of the East India Company's troops in 1748. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General.
CS 69, unlisted state between i of ii, still with price; Hamilton, p45; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66149] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.
Painted by Sir Tho.s Lawrence. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
[London publish'd April 22 1820 by Walter B Tiffin, N.º3 Haymarket opposite the Opera House.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, mounted in album paper at edges.
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), after an unfinished self-portrait now in the Royal Academy (No 03/950). The portrait was commissioned by George IV, who is supposed to have suggested that Lawrence wear 'the costume of his Doctor-of-laws gown' without the cap as 'we shall not recognise you without your bald head'. However the artist shows himself in everyday clothing.
Whitman 100, state iv.
[Ref: 61630] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Laws of Minos. Book V.
[Taylor, Holborn, excudit.] [n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple. Plate 190 x 140mm. 7½ x 5½".
Minos is one of the dialogues of Plato. The dialogue begins with Socrates, as seated here, asking his nameless companion, "What is law for us?". It then proceeds to examine the nature of law before praising Minos, the mythical king of Crete and an ancient enemy of Athens.
[Ref: 22849] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr. Charles Lawson. M.A. Headmaster of Manchester School]
[W.M.Craig.pinx. James Heath sculpt]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Unfinished proof engraving Sheet 359 x 254mm.
Charles Lawson. 1728-1807.
[Ref: 1413] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Lawson Esq.re F.R.S. &c. &c. &c.
Painted by C. Lucy. Engraved by W. Giller.
[n.d. c.1855.]
An extremely rare mezzotint on india. Plate 310 x 253mm. 12¼ x 10". Very fine and very large margins.
Henry Lawson (1774-1855) was an Astronomer & Meteorologist of Bath, made fellow of the Royal Society in 1840. Holding a chart with a diagram of Uranus or Saturn; an early mounted planatarium stands on the table.
W-1708.
[Ref: 16729] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Wilfred Lawson Bart.t of Brayton House in the Country of Cumberland.
J. Hoppner Esq.r R.A. Pinx.t. C. Yurner Sculp.
London Published Aug.st 1.st 1807 by C. Turner 50 Warrren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 660 x 380mm (26 x 15"), large margins. Repaired tears in margins, horizontal crease just under image.
A full length portrait of Sir Wilfrid Lawson (1764-1806), 10th Baronet of Isel, in his uniform of major in the Loyal Cumberland Rangers. An avid collector of books, prints, military armour and botanical specimens, he was described by the poet Coleridge described him as ''an extremely liberal and good-natured Creature''.
Whitman 306. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66236] £320.00

A Lawyer and his Agent. 628
Printed for & Sold by Bowles and Carver, No 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 18 April, 1795.
Coloured mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10") very large margins.
A lawyer sits in his study, with the Devil's arm around his shoulders. He works through briefs concerning cases of debt. The Devil holds one detailing a debt of £2 incurring £40 of costs. On the wall behind is a picture of a shark gobbling up smaller fish.
BM Satires 3765.
[Ref: 52102] £490.00

Lawyer's and Countryman. Two London Attorney's overtaking a Waggoner on the Road, and thinking to Quiz him, they ask'd why his fore Horse, was so fat, and the others so leab, the Waggoner happened to know them, and shrewdly answer'd, that his fore Horse was a Lawyer, and the rest were his Clients.
R. Newton delin.
Publish'd June 10.th 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Fine etching, 205 x 250mm (8 x 10"), with very large margins.
Two London lawyers quiz a clever countryman.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 67408] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Two of a Trade can never Agree. 22
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Feb.y 1st 1806 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed close to printed border, laid on album paper.
Two bewigged barristers argue. Legal interest. George suggests this print belongs to a series of reduced versions of satires etched by Williams after other artists, in this case Isaac Cruikshank (1799, BM 1948,0214.410).
BM Satires 10667.
[Ref: 61105] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Laxy, Isle of Man.
On Stone by K. Haghe. Sketched from Nature by G. Pickering. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate S.t, London.
Pub.d by G. Pickering. Chester. 1832.
Lithograph. Sheet 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Slight spotting.
A view of Laxey, with a cattle and horse market being held on the shore of the Laxey River.
Not on Abbey.
[Ref: 62297] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Austen Henry Layard Esq. D.C.L. Discoverer of the Ruins of Ancient Nineveh.]
[Painted by W.H. Phillips. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds junior.]
[Published March 23rd 1850 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publishers to Her Majesty.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 505 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"), with Printsellers' Association blindstamp. Trimmed to plate, some toning of paper.
A three-quarter portrait of Orientalist Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94), in Oriental dress, holding a string of beads. He excavated the Assyrian sites of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered the famed library of Ashurbanipal.
Whitman 505, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67787] £380.00

Sir A.H. Layard. The Whitehall Review. 27th July 1878.
Judd & Co. Lith, Doctors' Commons, London, E.C.
Lithograph. Sheet 345 x 220mm (13½ x 8¾"), with accompanying letterpress biography pasted on reverse. Trimmed close to printed area. Slight foxing.
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94), politician, diplomat and archaeologist. In 1839 he left England to travel overland across Asia to Sri Lanka. He broke off his trip in Constantinople where he met Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador, who encouraged him to focus on archaeology. Layard travelled to Mosul and continued excavations at Kuyunjik (which he identified as the site of Nineveh) and Nimrud before returning to England in 1848. The following year he returned to Constantinople as attaché to the British Embassy and embarked upon his second expedition to Babylon and Mesopotamia. In the 1860s he turned to politics, becoming MP for Aylesbury, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, First Commissioner of Works and Privy Councillor. In 1877 Layard was appointed Ambassador at Constantinople.
[Ref: 37062] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Laying Down the Law]. To the Right Honourable John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of England, This Engraving of Laying Down the Law, is by special desire dedicated to His Lordship by his obedient humble servant Thomas McLean.
Painted by Sir E. Landseer, R.A. Engraved by Thomas Landseer.
London, Published Dec. 1. 1860 by A.J. Isaacs, 56, Bishopsgate St. Within.
Mixed method engraving. 685 x 725mm (27 x 28½"), large margins. Part of dedication weakly inked, laid on backing paper. Tear in top just touching plate. Light creasing.
A parody of a courtroom, with a large white poodle mimics a judge in his white wig, a paw upon the statute book. The original painting, exhibited at the R.A. in 1840, was bought by the Duke of Devonshire and remains at Chatsworth. Originally published by Thomas McLean in 1843.
[Ref: 57968] £550.00

A Sudden Emotion. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl.5.
G.M. Woodward del.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 1804 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Hand coloured etching. On watermarked paper, 'Russell & Co.' Sheet size: 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Large margins left & right, cut to platemark top & bottom. Ink stain in upper right. Small tears in top edge of sheet. Pin holes in left margin where bound.
The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man, pen in hand, addressing an elderly man who looks at him in dismay. To the right, a maid holds a pail of water, prepared to throw its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from behind. On the wall is a large calendar inscribed, 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Plate five from the series, 'Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy'.
[Ref: 38763] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Lazarillo Goncales, surnamed de Tormes Ætat 30.
[n.d., c.1750]
Rare engraving. Sheet 150 x 70mm (6 x 2¾"). Trimmed to printed border.
An oval portrait of the main character in 'The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities' (1554), a Spanish book regarded as the first picaresque satirical novel (from the Spanish word pícaro, meaning rogue or rascal). A boy of humble origins is apprenticed to a wily blind beggar, from whom he learns trickery before moving on to serve other masters.
[Ref: 56265] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Die Godts Armen Hier Veracht Namaels syn Vergelding Wacht. Lazarus Ante Fores Ditis Iacet Ulcere Plenus et Misero Parvam Nemo Ministrat Opem. Luce 16.19.
[Engraved by Pietre Nolpe after Abraham Bosse.]
F. de Wit excudit. [n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. Sheet 415 x 520mm (16¼ x 20½"). Trimmed within plate, top right corner lacking. Damaged.
A broadside on the Parable of Lazarus, telling the story through one large and six small scenes. The cental scene has the rich man ('Dives') feasting while the beggar Larazus can be seen through the window, dogs licking his sores. Both men die: Lazarus is carried to heaven to be at Abraham's side; the rich man is dragged to hell where he spies Lazarus in Heaven and begs Abraham to send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool his tongue.
Rijks Museum: RP-P-1903-A-23998.
[Ref: 51057] £380.00

[Lazarus of Bethany.] Pater, gratis ago tibi, quod me audieris. Ego vero sciebam me semper à te audiri; sed propter turbam circumstantem hoc dixi, ut credant me à te missum esse.
J.J. Haid et filius excud A.V. [Augsburg c.1760.]
Rare mezzotint. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"), large margins. Some creasing, tiny worm hole in image.
Jesus prays to God to raise Lazarus from the grave, ''so that they might believe that I was sent to you''. Two hands lift up from the tomb. To the right is a crowd of Jewish mourners, including a black woman.
[Ref: 63124] £360.00

[Vinegar Valentine.] So very pert and very smart [/] In gossip and in strife; [/] A working servant maid they say, [/] Always makes a lazy wife.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"). Creasing.
A Victorian valentine commenting on the suitability of a maid for a wife.
[Ref: 43815] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[Cosimo Andrea Lazzerini's Family.]
[Jean Coraboeuf? after J.A.D. Ingres]
Etching on india-laid paper, 520 x 410mm. 20½ x 16¼". Chalcographie du Louvre blindstamp.
Etching after Ingres' drawing of the physician and professor of medicine Cosimo Andrea Lazzerini and his family, which is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The original inscription 'Ingres à Monsieur Lazzerini/ florence 1822' is replicated lower right. This may be the etching by Jean Coraboeuf exhibited at the Salon of 1906.
Jon Whiteley, 'Ingres', p.44
[Ref: 17809] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Brun Troisième Consul de la Republique Francaise.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼").
Oval mezzotint portrait of Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance (1739-1824), third consul of the French Republic. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, prince of the Empire was a French statesman. He started his career during the Ancien Régime, making his first appearance as a lawyer in Paris in 1762. He filled the posts of censeur du Roi (1766) and then Inspector General of the Domains of the Crown (1768). Lebrun became a disciple of Montesquieu and an admirer of the British Constitution, travelling through Southern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, and finally to the Kingdom of Great Britain. At the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, he foresaw its importance and in his volume La voix du Citoyen, published the same year, and predicted the course which events would take. After the voting of the 1791 Constitution, ineligible to the Legislative Assembly, he became instead president of the directory of Seine-et-Oise département. Lebrun was made Third Consul following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 18 Brumaire coup in 1799. In this capacity he took an active part in Napoleon's reorganization of the national finances and in the administration of France's départements. In 1804, he was appointed arch-treasurer of the French Empire. Although to a certain extent opposed to the autocracy of the Emperor, he was not in favour of his deposition, although he accepted the fait accompli of the Bourbon Restoration in April 1814. Louis XVIII made him a Peer of France, but during the subsequent Hundred Days he accepted from Napoleon the post of grand maître de l'Université. As a consequence, he was suspended from peerage when the Bourbons returned again in 1815, but was recalled in 1819.
[Ref: 28222] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Le Calme. Grave d'apres le Tableau original de Vandervelde de 15. pounces de large sur 12. pounces de haut.
Vandervelde pinx. T. Major sculp.
[A Londres chez l'Auteur Graveur de S.A.R. le Prince de Galles à la Tête d'or dans West Street.][c.1752]
Engraving, watermark, sheet 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate at bottom losing publication line. Small margins on other three sides.
A seascape with sailing boats. One man stands in the shallows seemingly waiting for another man who stands at the sheets of a small sailboat while another approaches in a small rowing boat to the right of it. Vandervelde could either mean Willem van de Velde I (1610-1693) or his son Willem II (1633-1707) as their work can rarely be distinguished.
[Ref: 56581] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Madame Le Cery]
[Cyrillic - photography by V. Barkanov.]
[n.d., c.1870.]
Photograph, 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"), signed by sitter.
A ballerina dancing.
[Ref: 8898] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Chevalier Dell Acqua.
Barnes & co.
[n.d., c.1800].
Engraving. Size: 94 x 66mm. (3¾ x 2½"). Trimmed to platemark. Manuscript on verso, 'no. 11. Piccadilly near the Hay - Market'.
A decorative 'Carte de visite' bearing the inscription, 'Le Chevalier Dell' Acqua' on a ruined wall. To the left is a pedestal with three figures at the top and 'Honor, Amor, Veritas' inscribed vertically. In the background is what appears to be a volcano billowing smoke.
[Ref: 31532] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A New Drawing-Book, very Necessary for ye Practice of all young Beginners, in the Arts of Painting, Drawing, Engraving &c. Invented & Drawn, by that Eminent French artist, Seb le Clerc
J. Clark sculp 1721 Price 1 shilling
Eighteen etchings over six sheets in original wrappers, bound with incomplete set of etchings in same format, 'Figures from Callot and others', in ink on wrapper "Book of Figures etc (signed) Serrell"; 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8") very large margins.
Set of figure studies, designed for amateurs to study, after Sébastien le Clerc, the Elder (1637-1714). Le Clerc was a prolific engraver and draughtsman who succeeded Claude Mellan as engraver to the king of France, working in a style derived from Jacques Callot. Bound with another, incomplete set of figure studies after Callot and others, including two circus subjects. One of these bears the legend 'June 1727 the Italian Flyer, Flew so from ye top pf ye steeple of St Martins Church into the Meuse, ye Torches he used when he Flew from ye upper Gallery to ye emd of ye Stage'!
Ex collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 41047] £390.00 view all images for this item

George Louis le Clerc, Comte de Buffon. Intendant du Jardin royal des Plantes...
Drouais pinx. 1761. J. Houbraken sc. 1774.
J. H. Schneider executé avec Privilege.
Engraving. Sheet: 255 x 200mm (10 x 8''). Trimmed to platemark
A half-length portrait of French novelist, mathematician and cosmologist George Louis Le Clerc (1707-1788).
[Ref: 49122] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Clericus. Geneve Natus an. 1657. 19 Mart. S.V. Nil sine magno Vita labore deit mortalibus.
B. Picart ad vivum delin. et sculp. 1730.
Engraving. Russian stamp on verso of board with Collector's mark Obolenski Collection. Plate 131 x 82mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Laid on album sheet and board.
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736), Geneva-born theologian and biblical scholar famous for promoting critical interpretation of the Bible. He was author of 'Histoire des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas'.
[Ref: 29759] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Le Courage de Marie Francoeur et du Grenadier Sans-souci.
[n.d. c.1775].
Copper engraving, 370 x 270mm.
[Ref: 251] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The French Barque, "Le Courrier" [Courier/Messenger], Entering Ramsgate Harbour in Distress.
H. Stretton, delt.
Printed by P. Gauci. [n.d., c.1840.]
Sepia tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 260 x 365mm. 10¼ x 14¼".
One of ten plates of miscellaneous scenes, in Henry Stretton's 'Original Sketches, Drawn and Engraved on Stone' (see ref:8840).
[Ref: 17765] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Doceh. Fete religieuse?]
[After Henri de Montaut] Imp. Becquet à Paris.
[Paris: par Henri Plon, [n.d c. 1869]]
Scarce chromolithograph. 320 x 440mm (12½ x 17¼"), trimmed to image and mounted on printed backing board, as issued. Torn at glue point, some wear, laid on board.
From 'L'Égypte Moderne. Tableaux de moeurs arabes.' An Arabic religious leader on a white horse, riding through a crowd of enthusiastic supporters waving flags, as others lie prostrate to form a carpet for his horse to ride upon. The print is trimmed and laid on a printed backboard with an arabesque pattern border, in imitation of a watercolour. Henri de Montaut (c.1830 – c.1900) was a French draftsman, engraver, and illustrator of the 19th century. He sometimes signed Henri de Hem, Monta or Hy. Becquet (fl.1832-1861) also known as Frères Becquet was a French publisher and printer who specialised in lithography. Henri Plon created publishing company 'The Éditions Plon' with his two brothers in 1852.
[Ref: 60971] £480.00

Le Fiacre. Pour voiturer une poulette Hors de Paris & cetera Il faut Monsieur double recette Le tarif est à l’Opera.
Jeaurat pinx, 1748. Pasquier sculp.
A Paris chés Jeaurat, au bas de la rue des Fossés St. Victor A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Very fine engraving with large margins, scarce. Plate 380 x 271mm (15 x 10¾"). Mint.
A coach driver with his hand outstretched requesting his fee from a nobleman.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28408] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Gay Garcon. Dedie a Son Altesse Madame la Princesse Regnante de Liechtenstein nee Comtess de Manderscheid Mankenheim. Par Son tress obeissant Serviteur Stoekl.
J. Wolf pinxt. Ch. Pfeiffer Sct.
[n.d. c.1810.] Se vend a Vienne chex Stoekl.
A rare stipple printed in brown. 394 x 292mm. 15½ x 11½". Some slight paper toning.
A young boy with a basket of cherries, admiring a butterfly as he passes a rose bush along the path in the woodlands.
[Ref: 14319] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Le Goût.
J. Phil. Haid del.
[a Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils.]
Mezzotint, 220 x 170mm. Fine impression. Trimmed inside plate at bottom.
Sampling wine and cheese.
[Ref: 2890] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Havre.
Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm, 5¼ x 6½". Some faint toning.
A plan of the defences of Le Havre, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13658] £65.00

[A.L.S by John Le Keux, signed and dated 'June 20th 28']
1pp. ALS, with red wax seal, in wrapper with ink mss. biography.
Le Keux engraved plates for a number of achitectural books.
[Ref: 80] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Michael le Masle Prior des Roches Præcentor et Canonicus Ecclesiæ Parisiensis.
Nanteuil ad vivam faciebat 1658.
Engraving. Plate: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾''), large margins.
A portrait of Michael le Masle who was a protégé of Richelieu and served as his secretary from 1615 until the cardinal's death, he was also appointed Prior of the Roches.
Petitjean & Wickert 64. I
[Ref: 49264] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Le Piper.] Monsieur L' Piper.
Closterman pinx Luttrell sc.
Beckett excud [c.1690].
Mezzotint, scarce; sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). False margins added on album page.
Francis Le Piper (d.1695), artist whose only surviving works are a series of iillustrations to Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' (divided between Tate and Rye Art Gallery) and a group of drawings in the British Museum. According to Buckeridge (whose memoir is the source of all biographical information about the artist), Le Piper's travels took him as far as Egypt. This portrait, published by Isaac Beckett (for whom Le Piper worked at one point), is the only known likeness of Le Piper.
No in CS; but Russell (13a)
[Ref: 45990] £360.00

Francis Le Pipre [in pencil]
[Engraved by Edward Lutterell]
[n.d. c.1690]
Rare mezzotint proof before letters, 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.Slighlty foxed.
Head and shoulders portrait of the English artist with Flemish ancestry, Francis Le Piper (1640-98), set within an oval.
CS 13. Russell: 13A. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65938] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Philippe Le Roy.]
Engraved & printed in colour by Fred Millar [pencil inscription and signature.]
[n.d., c.1908.]
Mezzotint printed in colours, signed india proof from a limited (first?) edition. 405 x 230mm, 16 x 9". Inscribed 'Limited to 220' in pencil lower left.
Philippe Le Roy (1596 - 1679) represented the Spanish Netherlands in the negotiations of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. One hand on sword, the other stroking a large hound. This engraving by Fred Millar (exh. 1915 - 1923) is after the painting hanging in the Wallace Collection London with its companion portrait of 1631 "Marie de Raet" as the 16 year old wife of this very much self made man. Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) was the leading Flemish painter of the first half of the 17th century, after Rubens. He produced history paintings, tapestry designs, etchings and landscape drawings, although it is chiefly as a portrait painter that he is remembered. He was appointed as court painter to Archduchess Isabella of the Spanish Netherlands and later Charles I of England, who had him buried in St Paul's Cathedral and erected a lavish monument in his honour on his death in 1641.
[Ref: 19365] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Philippe Le Roy.]
Engraved and printed in colour in one printing by Fred Millar [pencil inscription and signature.]
Fred Millar Sc 1908, 1911 [in plate.]
Mezzotint printed in colours on india laid paper for a limited edition from the original plate (see item 19365) for . 405 x 230mm, 16 x 9". Numbered 'No75' in pencil lower left.
Philippe Le Roy (1596 - 1679) represented the Spanish Netherlands in the negotiations of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. One hand on sword, the other stroking a large hound. This engraving by Fred Millar (exh. 1915 - 1923) is after the painting hanging in the Wallace Collection London with its companion portrait of 1631 "Marie de Raet" as the 16 year old wife of this very much self made man. Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) was the leading Flemish painter of the first half of the 17th century, after Rubens. He produced history paintings, tapestry designs, etchings and landscape drawings, although it is chiefly as a portrait painter that he is remembered. He was appointed as court painter to Archduchess Isabella of the Spanish Netherlands and later Charles I of England, who had him buried in St Paul's Cathedral and erected a lavish monument in his honour on his death in 1641.
[Ref: 19367] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Le Sentiment Contraire a la Pensée.
Vander-Werff Pinx. Ingouf Junior Sculp.
A Paris chez Basan et Poignant Md. d'Estampes rue et hotel Serpente. [n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 215 x 165mm (8½ x 6½").
Two boys seen in a window frame, the nearest rests his basket of exotic fruit on the ledge and peers down at a cat, and he holds up a small bird perched on his left hand. Inside the room lies a recorder, sheet music, a cello and a globe. In the background can be seen Italianate architecture.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28442] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Le sermon d'un Missionnaire.
A Paris chez Lambert rue Serpente n° 10 et chez Martinet rue du coq.
Rare etching. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, small stain in image.
A French priest preaches fire and brimstone to a congregation prostrating themselves on the floor. Through the door is a Fury in a cloud, scourge in one hand, snakes in the other.
[Ref: 54375] £360.00

Capture of Le Sparviere, May 3.rd. 1810.
Painted by T. Whitcombe. Engraved by J. Baily.
London, Pub.d. Aug.t. 1. 1816, by J. Jenkin, No. 48 Strand.
Handcoloured aquatint. Plate: 300 x 220, (12 x 8¾"). Very large margins.
A naval scene showing the capture of the French frigate Sparviero by the British frigate Spartan under the command of Capatin Jahleel Brenton off the Italian island of Ischia. From 'The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793-1817' by J.Jenkins.
Parker: 204.
[Ref: 39370] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean-François Le Sueur.] J. F. Le Sueur. Membre de L'Institut, Surintendant de la Musique du Roi.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1818.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Jean-François Le Sueur (1760 - 1837), French composer, best known for his oratorios and operas. He spent some time in London, 1788–92, then returned to revolutionary Paris and gave three successful operas at the Théâtre Feydeau: La Caverne, ou le Repentir (1793), Paul et Virginie, ou le Triomphe de la vertu (1794), which was inspired by the hugely popular novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and the classical Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso, ou le Triomphe de la sagesse (1796).
[Ref: 63313] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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