Grosvenor Prints

Ja.s Turner, a Beggar aged 93, valued his Time at a Shill.g an hour in the Year 1750.
Engraved by Cap.t Baillie from a Miniature by M.r Hone.
Nov. 9. 1774.
Mezzotint, large margins. 80 x 70mm (3¼ x 2¾"). Laid on album paper at corners.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of a man with long white hair and beard. Turner charged the painter Hone a shilling an hour to sit for him. The plate was first published 1762, without the title or border around the oval. This third state has 'aged 93' added. Baillie (1723-1810) devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3.
[Ref: 68862] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[George Villiers.] Birmingham Aº 1624. [Top left]
AVD [supposed monogram of Antony van Dyck]. [Engraved by Captain William Baillie.]
[n.d., c.1785.]
Proof before title stipple and etching . Sheet 310 x 210mm (12¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A half-length portrait of George Villiers (1592-1628) wearing a high, stiff lace collar and doublet with slashed sleeves, the jewel of the garter on a ribbon around his neck. The plate was engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) who ascribed it to van Dyke. However the drawing he copied, now in the British Museum (1862,0524.19), was by Lucas Vosterman, probably itself taken from a painting by Daniel Mytens. Baillie retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Villiers was a royal favourite of Kings James I and Charles I who dominated early 17th-century English politics. His failure to win foreign wars, extreme extravagance, and monopolization of patronage created deep political tensions that fueled the pre-Civil War crises before his assassination in 1628.
[Ref: 68867] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Whay gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? [...]
Vandyke del. W. Baillie sculp.
Publish'd 4.th June 1785.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours, sheet 325 x 260mm (12¾ x 10¼"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate.
A half-length portrait of George Villiers (1592-1628) wearing a high, stiff lace collar and doublet with slashed sleeves, the jewel of the garter on a ribbon around his neck. The plate was engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) who ascribed it to van Dyke. However the drawing he copied, now in the British Museum (1862,0524.19), was by Lucas Vosterman, probably itself taken from a painting by Daniel Mytens. Baillie retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Villiers was a royal favourite of Kings James I and Charles I who dominated early 17th-century English politics. His failure to win foreign wars, extreme extravagance, and monopolization of patronage created deep political tensions that fueled the pre-Civil War crises before his assassination in 1628.
[Ref: 68868] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Lord Villiers & Lady Mary Villiers his Sister.]
[After Sir Godfrey Kneller. Engraved by John Smith.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to plate in upper right corner. Ink mss in bottom mrgin.
Full-length portraits of William and Mary Villiers as children, by a fountain in an ornamental garden, with Mary holding a lamb. William Villers (c.1682-1721), styled Viscount Villiers from 1697 to 1711, when he became 2nd Earl of Jersey in the Jacobite peerage. Mary (died 1735), married Thomas Thynne, who died in 1710, after which she married George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne.
CS 259 i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68564] £320.00

The Lord Villiers & Lady Mary Villiers his Sister.
G. Kneller Eques pinx: J. Smith fec.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden [n.d., c.1700].
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins. Tears in margins taped.
Full-length portraits of William and Mary Villiers as children, by a fountain in an ornamental garden, with Mary holding a lamb. William Villers (c.1682-1721), styled Viscount Villiers from 1697 to 1711, when he became 2nd Earl of Jersey in the Jacobite peerage. Mary (died 1735), married Thomas Thynne, who died in 1710, after which she married George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne.
CS 259, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68888] £320.00

The Lord Villiers & Lady Mary Villiers his Sister.
G. Kneller Eques pinx: J. Smith fec.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden [n.d., c.1700].
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Faint mount burn around image.
Full-length portraits of William and Mary Villiers as children, by a fountain in an ornamental garden, with Mary holding a lamb. William Villers (c.1682-1721), styled Viscount Villiers from 1697 to 1711, when he became 2nd Earl of Jersey in the Jacobite peerage.. Mary (died 1735), married Thomas Thynne, who died in 1710, after which she married George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne.
CS 259, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68889] £320.00

[Catherine Voss] St. Agnes.
G.Kneller S.R.Imp: et Mag: Brit. Baronet Pinx. J.Smith Fec et ex.
1716. [But later]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Horizontal crease across lower centre of image.
Portrait of Catherine Voss (1685/90-1714) as St Agnes, half-length to front embracing lamb on bank before her, holding book in her left hand, head turned to right. The illegitimate daughter of Godfrey Kneller by Mrs. Voss (proprietress of a coffee-house in St. James's Market). Called Catherine, but also known as Agnes, she later married a Mr. Huckle by whom she had son, Godfrey Huckle Kneller. Kneller left her his fortune with a request that her son should assume his name.
CS 262 iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 68880].
[Ref: 68540] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Voss as Saint Agnes.]
[Engraved by John Smith after Godfrey Kneller.]
[Published by John Smith, n.d., c.1716.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), large margins. Paper toned.
A portrait of Catherine Voss (1685/90-1714) portrayed as Saint Agnes of Rome, holding a book and lamb. Voss was the illegitimate daughter of Godfrey Kneller by Mrs. Voss (proprietress of a coffee-house in St. James's Market). Called Catherine, but also known as Agnes, she later married a Mr. Huckle by whom she had son, Godfrey Huckle Kneller. Kneller left her his fortune with a request that her son should assume his name. Kneller's oil is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
CS 262A. Russell 262a i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68687] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Voss as Saint Agnes.]
[Engraved by John Smith after Godfrey Kneller.]
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1730].
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), large margins. Tear taped. Crack in plate on right.
A portrait of Catherine Voss (1685/90-1714) portrayed as Saint Agnes of Rome, holding a book and lamb. Voss was the illegitimate daughter of Godfrey Kneller by Mrs. Voss (proprietress of a coffee-house in St. James's Market). Called Catherine, but also known as Agnes, she later married a Mr. Huckle by whom she had son, Godfrey Huckle Kneller. Kneller left her his fortune with a request that her son should assume his name. Kneller's oil is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
CS 262A. Russell 262a ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68688] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Voss] Devotion in such looks does Gracefull Shine, And forces us to own her pow'r divine.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. I. Smith fec. 1705.
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Loss of margin upper left, narrow margins elsewhere.
Half-length portrait of Catherine Voss (1685/90-1714), wearing a veil at the back of her head, hands clasped in prayer and eyes almost closed, with an open book leaning against a small vase on a table before her. The illegitimate daughter of Godfrey Kneller by Mrs. Voss (proprietress of a coffee-house in St. James's Market). Called Catherine, but also known as Agnes, she later married a Mr. Huckle by whom she had son, Godfrey Huckle Kneller. Kneller left her his fortune with a request that her son should assume his name.
CS 261. ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 68540].
[Ref: 68880] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Voss] Devotion in such looks does Gracefull Shine, And forces us to own her pow'r divine.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. I. Smith fec. 1705.
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
Half-length portrait of Catherine Voss (1685/90-1714), wearing a veil at the back of her head, hands clasped in prayer and eyes almost closed, with an open book leaning against a small vase on a table before her. The illegitimate daughter of Godfrey Kneller by Mrs. Voss (proprietress of a coffee-house in St. James's Market). Called Catherine, but also known as Agnes, she later married a Mr. Huckle by whom she had son, Godfrey Huckle Kneller. Kneller left her his fortune with a request that her son should assume his name.
CS 261. ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68881] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Humfredus Wanley. Natus 21, die Martij AD 1671/2.
T. Hill Pinxit Mense Septemb. A.D. 1717. J. Smith Fec. et ex. 1717/8.
Fine mezzotint, 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper.
Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), palaeographer and scholar of Old English, the first keeper of the Harleian Library. He was one of the three founding members of the Society of Antiquaries. A reversed copy of Thomas Hill's oil, which now hangs in the upper reading room of the Bodleian Library.
CS 263. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68887] £320.00

Mrs Ann Warner.
Nde Largilierre pinx. J.Smith fec et exc.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Scarce & rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Anne Warner (d.1689), half length in an oval, with a ribbon in hair and wearing a loose dress with fine lace edging, and a robe fastened by a brooch. She holds a wreath of flowers; trees in the background. She was the daughter of Sir John Warner of Parham (1640 -1705), in Suffolk, and Trevor (1636-1670), daughter of Sir Thomas Hanmer 2nd Baronet (1612 – 1678). Became a nun, but died shortly afterwards.
CS 264. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Levi Weil the Jew Doctor, preventing Hyam Lazarus from Shooting Mrs Hutchins at Chelsea.
Dodd delin. Sherwin sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 115mm (7½ x 4½"). Small hole in upper centre of image. Trimmed into right side of plate.
A scene depicting a robbery in Chelsea Fields, perpetrated by a Jewish gang led by Doctor Levi Weil on 11th June 1771. Weil, who had a doctorate from the University of Leyden, had been practicing unsuccesfully in London, causing him to turn to crime. He formed a gang of Jews from Amsterdam and started forcing entry to houses and robbing them. They attacked the farm of Mrs Hutchings, a widow, shooting one of her labourers, who died the following day. A reward was offered and one of the gang's accomplices turned them in. Of the six defendants at the Old Bailey trial (Levi Weil, Asher Weil, Marcus Hartagh, Jacob Lazarus, Solomon Porter and Lazarus Harry), four were convicted of murder and robbery, Marcus Hartagh and Lazarus Harry acquitted for lack of evidence. While the four awaited execution they were attended by a rabbi, who did not pray with them; on the scaffold they sang a Hebrew hymn before they were dropped, on the 9th December 1771.
Jewish Museum London AR 2451.
[Ref: 68992] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend Iohn Wesley. M.A.
G: Romney pinx.t. J: Spilsbury sculp.t
Publish'd June 1.st 1789 by I. Spilsbury No.10 St Georges Row, Hyde Park, London & sold by j. Wilkinson, No.58 Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"), large margins. Slighting time staining.
Half-length portrait of John Wesley (1703-91), the Founder of Methodism.
CS: 37. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69025] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss White, Clear Starcher to the Queen.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before letters, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Loss in corners rebuilt with infill, narrow margins also with some replacement, paper toned, title written in old ink mss.
A woman wearing a dress with plaid skirts, white apron and fichu, lace cap and pearls, standing outside a building, patting a white frill into shape. To her side is a bowl.
CS ENA III 159, unlisted state before his only state, 'style of Houston'.
[Ref: 68790] £360.00

John Wilkes Esq.r. Member of Parliament for the County of Middlesex. Friend to Libery, a Lover of his King, opposer of Ministerial Tyranny & Defender of his Country._
R.E Pine pinxt. Kitcheman delin.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map adn Printseller, N.o53 Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1768]
Fine mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Very faint foxing.
Three-quarter length portrait of John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), seated at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney on Gov', a letter addressed 'To Hump,,y Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta' on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left. Wilkes was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters, rather than the House of Commons, to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the Massacre of St George's Fields. In 1771, he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776, he introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. The painting by Robert Edge Pine (1730-1788) is in the Parliamentary Art Collection.
CS ENA 161 i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68784] £360.00

The Right Honourable John Wilkes Esq.r Lord Mayor of the City of London. And Member of Parliament for the County of Middlesex in the year 1775.
[after John Dixon?] Carrington Bowles excudit
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.o 69 in S.t Pauls ChurchYard, London. Published as the Act directs Nov.r 9.th 1774.
Mezzotint with hand-colour, 350 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Small margins. Foxed. Light creasing, bit tatty.
Whole length seated portrait of John Wilkes (1727-97), wearing fur lined robes and chains of office, holding a scroll marked 'Magna Charta', leaning on a table on which is a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', and 'Bill of Rights'. Wilkes was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters, rather than the House of Commons, to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the Massacre of St George's Fields. In 1771, he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776, he introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament.
CS undescribed. Russell 161. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68788] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable John Wilkes Esq.r Lord Mayor of the City of London. And Member of Parliament for the County of Middlesex in the year 1775.
[after John Dixon?] Carrington Bowles excudit
[Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.o 69 in S.t Pauls ChurchYard, London. Published as the Act directs Nov.r 9.th 1774.]
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"), with large margins on three sides. On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate at the bottom losing the publication line.
Whole length seated portrait of John Wilkes (1727-97), wearing fur lined robes and chains of office, holding a scroll marked 'Magna Charta', leaning on a table on which is a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', and 'Bill of Rights'. Wilkes was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters, rather than the House of Commons, to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the Massacre of St George's Fields. In 1771, he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776, he introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament.
CS undescribed. Russell 161. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68791] £320.00

[Witchcraft.] The ducking of John Osborn & his Wife on a charge of Witchcraft.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1795.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides. Some foxing.
A scene depicting the ducking of Ruth Osborne (1680–1751) and her husband John. In 1751 John and Ruth Osbourne were seized from a workhouse in Tring and accused of witchcraft. Both were ducked in a pond in Wilstone, but one of the leaders, Thomas Colley, held Ruth down with a stick until she drowned. Colley was convicted of murder and hanged in chains at Gubblecote Cross.
[Ref: 68944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with an oil lamp.] From a Painting of Ger.d Dou, belonging to Cap.t Baillie.
W. Baillie sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Oct.1.st 1771.
Mezzotint. 155 x 230mm (6 x 9"). Small margins.
A night scene showing a woman leaning through a window, shielding the flame of a lamp with her hand. Engraved after a painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-75) by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68849] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Christophorus Wren Eques. Ædificiorum Regalium per totam Angliam Præfectus...
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. et Angl. Eques Aur Pinx. 1711. J. Smith Fec.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell street Covent Garden
Mezzotint. 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), architect, mathematician and astronomer, a detail of the 1711 portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller (National Portrait Gallery 113).
CS 283, state ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69001] £320.00

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