Grosvenor Prints

The padlock. To be. Or not to be. A queen! is the question
Published April the 3.rd 1786 by S. W. Fores at his Caracature Warehouse N.o 3 Piccadilly London.
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, sheet 300 x 420mm (12 x 16½"). Surface dirt. Trimmed within plate on right. Small brown stains. Knicks to edges of paper.
Satire on the suspected marriage of the Prince of Wales (1762-1830) to Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837). The scene depicts a country churchyard beside a Gothic church. Mrs. Fitzherbert leads the Prince toward the church, holding a riding-switch and a padlocked chain, urging him, ''Oh! fie my dear, let's go unto the Alter; And then you know our conscience cannot falter.'' The Prince pauses at a gravestone, replying, '''Twas there the famous Catherine W-----… Yielded their breath: let's do so too.'' The stone bears an inscription recalling Tom Stitch and Kitty W., who ''Four times died," an allusion to the trial for rape of a Brighton tailor. The Prince’s companions spy on the couple from behind tombstones. Weltje (1745-1810) kneels in the right foreground, while Fox (1749-1806) and Hanger (1751-1824) peer from behind a tomb on the left, remarking, ''Will they stop in the Porch'' and ''And follow the Taylors Example.'' Nearby, North (1732–92) sleeps against a stone reading ''He is not Dead But Sleepeth here.'' Another rider hides among the distant graves. The title alludes to Bickerstaffe’s comic opera 'The Padlock.'
BM Satires 6941.
[Ref: 68036] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Theophilia Palmer.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R. Smith.
Published June 24th 1778, by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside.
Fine mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at edges.
An untitled half-length portrait of Theophilia Palmer 1757-1848), niece of the artist. Her daughter by Robert Lovell Gwatkinm, Theophilia Gwatkin, was Reynolds' 'Strawberry Girl'.
CS 128, iii of iii. Hamilton pg 125, iii of iii. Frankau 266, ii of iii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68020] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Theophilia Palmer.]
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Published the 11th June 1777 by J.R. Smith N.º 10 Batemans Soho Square & W.m Humphrey Gerrard St.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), 18th century watermark. Thread margins, slight central crease.
An untitled half-length portrait of Theophilia Palmer 1757-1848), niece of the artist. Her daughter by Robert Lovell Gwatkinm, Theophilia Gwatkin, was Reynolds' 'Strawberry Girl'.
CS 128, i of iii. Hamilton pg 125, i of iii. Frankau 266, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68022] £320.00

The Party Wot Drives the Sovereign.
H.H. [Henry Heath.]
Published by S.W. Fores, 41, Piccadilly, London, 1832.
Lithograph with fine hand colouring, printed area 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15").
Queen Adelaide (1792-1849), side-saddle on a horse with a man's face, Lord Grey (1764 –1845), using spurs to press him into the 'Slough of Despond', joining other politicians including Wellington (1769-1852). A signpost 'To Reform' points the other way.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 67914] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Paterson Esquire. MDCCCLXXVII. His Life was gentle, and the Elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the World, ''This was a Man!''.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
[n.d., c.1789.]
Mezzotint, proof before title. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''), large margins Title added in old ink mss. Repaired tear through inscription into image, two worm holes in margin, spotting. Damaged.
A portrait of John Paterson (1705-89), painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1777 on a commission from architect Robert Mylne. As Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 1765-8, Paterson played a key role in securing the finance for Mylne's Blackfriar's Bridge. The bridge is referenced by the paper Paterson holds: 'A plan to raise 300,000 £ for the purpose of completing the bridge at Blackfriars and redeeming the toll thereon, and embanking the north side of the Thames'. Paterson was the first Clerk of the Barbers' Comany after a break from the Surgeons in 1745, becoming Master in 1776. The company acquired the original painting in 1890.
CS: 29. i of ii. Goodwin 30, i of ii. Hamilton p.54, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of iii.
[Ref: 68048] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

John Paterson Esquire. MDCCCLXXVII. His Life was gentle, and the Elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the World, ''This was a Man!''.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
[n.d., c.1789.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''). Small margins.
A portrait of John Paterson (1705-89), painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1777 on a commission from architect Robert Mylne. As Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 1765-8, Paterson played a key role in securing the finance for Mylne's Blackfriar's Bridge. The bridge is referenced by the paper Paterson holds: 'A plan to raise 300,000 £ for the purpose of completing the bridge at Blackfriars and redeeming the toll thereon, and embanking the north side of the Thames'. Paterson was the first Clerk of the Barbers' Comany after a break from the Surgeons in 1745, becoming Master in 1776. The company acquired the original painting in 1890.
CS: 29. ii of ii. Goodwin 30, ii of ii. Hamilton p.54, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of iii.
[Ref: 68049] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Paterson Esquire. MDCCCLXXVII. His Life was gentle, and the Elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the World, ''This was a Man!''.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
[n.d., c.1789.]
Mezzotint, unfinished proof before all letters, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11''), with large margins Creasing centre.
A portrait of John Paterson (1705-89), painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1777 on a commission from architect Robert Mylne. As Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 1765-8, Paterson played a key role in securing the finance for Mylne's Blackfriar's Bridge. The bridge is referenced by the paper Paterson holds in the completed plate (but not present here): 'A plan to raise 300,000 £ for the purpose of completing the bridge at Blackfriars and redeeming the toll thereon, and embanking the north side of the Thames'. Paterson was the first Clerk of the Barbers' Comany after a break from the Surgeons in 1745, becoming Master in 1776. The company acquired the original painting in 1890. In
CS: 29. before i of ii. Goodwin 30, before i of ii. Hamilton p.54, before i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state i of iii.
[Ref: 68050] £360.00

[St Paul.] Done from the Original Painting in the Collection of the Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Tyrconnel, Knight of the most Hon:ble Order of the Bath To whom this Plate is Humbly Dedicated by his Lordship's Obliged and Obedient Servant, John Faber.
S.r Ant.y Van Dyke pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1741.
Sold by Faber at ye Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Fine mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
An old bearded man swathed wearing a cloak with one hand on a book with leather ties. The same plate was reissued by Robert Sayer with the title 'Saint Paul'.
Not is CS.
[Ref: 67828] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Pry among the Bankers. [Pry:] Hope I don't intrude....if you don't find it rather hard to make both ends meet...I dare say you haven't stop'd payment eh? ... [Banker:] ...take your Ballance...and put it in a place of safety, if you can find one!
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley. Lithoge. Office. 310 Strand [n.d., c.1835].
Coloured lithograph, sheet 235 x 250mm (9¼ x 10"). Cockling, light staining, remnants of album paper in margins.
John Liston was the leading comic actor of the first half of the 19th century. In 1825, with 20 years of experience behind him, he created his masterpiece character, Paul Pry, in John Poole's farce of the same name. Pry is a man consumed with curiosity, an interfering busybody unable to mind his own business. Here he quizzes a banker about how he maintains his bank as a going concern - a very topical subject! With his striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, Liston moulded Pry into a uniquely endearing character. Most memorable was the umbrella that Pry conveniently left behind everywhere he went so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 67917] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

William Pendrill of Boscobell in the County of Salop Aetis Suae 84 The Royall Oake. His face you see. Now breifly heare the Rest.; How well he serv'd his Prince in flight destrest. Twas , He whose little Household did Combine In Piois Care to save : the Royall Line. An Oake was thought most safe:for what could prove More Luckie tthen the sacred tree to Love. See where the Hen=roost Ladder stands; by that, The Might Monarch climb'd the Boughs of Statem Where Noble Carlos lent his Manlike Knee, The last support of Fainting Majestie, and Natures Tapistrie was the onely Shroud To shelter that Great Prince was Rage pursu'd. The Nutthook reaching up his Honely fare supply'd the want of Waiters standing Bare; Shile busie Wife and Children gather Wood To dress the Sheep prepar'd for Better food Thus, Many Oakes defend the British Maine but one Preferr'd the Brittish Soveraigne. "Pendrill thy name will shine in History /Brighter then their's whose Hospittallity / Disguised Deitys hath entertayn'd / for thine was reall t'other Poets saynd."
From the very rare print in the possession of A H Sutherland Eq.r. Are to be sold by S. Woodburn, St. Martin's Lane, London. [n.d. c.1810]
Engraving. Sheet: 345 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾" ). Trimmed within plate. Staining in corners.
A portrait of William Pendrill set in an oak. Pendrill was one of five brothers: George; Richard; Humphrey; John and William who helped Charles II escape from England after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 during his failed attempt to regain control of England from Cromwell. The Pendrills were a Royalist family who lived and worked on the estate of Boscobel House where the King sought refuge after his defeat. Having been forced to hide in an oak tree in order to escape Cromwell's troops Charles and the Royalist Colonel Carlos finally managed to escape disguised as land workers and escorted by the Pendrills. The Pendrill brothers were richly rewarded when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660.
[Ref: 68163] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Margaretta Elizabeth Perceval] The Right Hon.ble Margaretta, Elizabth, Baroness Arden.
G. F. Joseph Pinxit. W. Skelton Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple. Sheet 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate.
A head and shoulders portrait of Margaretta Elizabeth Perceval (1768-1851), wife of Charles George Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden, and a keen amateur artist.
[Ref: 67851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Hugh Peters, A Remarkable Character in the Time of Oliver Cromwell, & who was supposed to be one of the two Masked Executioners of King Charles the First. [Wonderful Museum]
[Published by Alex.r Hogg & C.º] [n.d., c.1805-8.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4") Trimmed, losing subtitle and publication line.
A half-length portrait in oval of Hugh Peter (or Peters, 1598-1660), a Parliamentarian preacher who advocated the trial and execution of Charles I and is said to have been the headman's assistant. An illustration from 'The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine'.
[Ref: 67859] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[William Phillips] Merry Andrew on the Stage. Le plaisant Charlatan. Il Ciarlatano Buffone.
[Mauron delin.]
P Tempest [exc: Cum privilegio.] [Henry Overton, c.1711?]
Etching. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9¾ x 6"). Trimmed into printed border, losing artist's name and part of publication line at bottom.
A portrait of actor William Phillips playing a cello, dressed in a clown's costume with ass's ears . After Marcellus Laroon (c.1650-1702), from the series 'The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life' published by Pierce Tempest (1653 - 1717). This example has the added plate number '63'.
[Ref: 67866] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Drawing. Colour. Space. Form. Order. P.3.
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.e Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Etching with hand-colour, 253 x 300mm (10 x 11¾"), with margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A satire on 'Drawing' and the different components of the 'art', shows a black man smoking a cigar. From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'.
BM Satires: 15194. For the complete series in wrappers see [Ref: 9088]. For one in black and white see [Ref: 30361].
[Ref: 68082] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Language P.5.
Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, 250 x 300mm (10 x 11¾"), with margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound. Foxing.
From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'. Five vignettes: A Billingsgate market quarrel, where two fishwives hurl insults amid an amused crowd, while a prim woman departs in shock beneath a notice beginning ''Notice All boats laden with Oysters arriving at Billings-Gate Market…'' ''Ideality," a man bolts upright in bed, mistaking clothes on a chair and peg for ghostly figures, as a grinning full moon peers through the window. ''Wit," in a churchyard, boys frighten an old woman with a lantern by raising a turnip-headed ''ghost'' behind a tomb marked ''Alas Poor Yorick.'' ''Imitation— &—Approbation'', Mathews performs a mock phrenological lecture on stage, brandishing a marked skull to the delight of an applauding audience, one holding a bill for ''Mathews at Home.'' ''Comparison'', a comically tall, thin man at ''Long Acre'' meets a very short woman at ''Little St Martin’s Lane,'' as barefoot boys point and jeer.
BM Satires 15196. For the complete series in wrappers see [Ref: 9088]
[Ref: 68103] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cyrillic nam.] Count Platoff, Hetman of the Cossacks of the Don, General, & Commander in Chief of all the Cossacks. Proof.
Painted by T. Thillips Esq.r R.A. Engrav'd by W. Say, Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
London, Publish'd Aug. 24. 1816, for the Proprietor, by the Engraver, 92 Norton Str.t Marylebone.
Fine and rare mezzotint. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"), with large margins.
A half-length portrait of Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov (1757-1818), in dress uniform with medals and miniatures. His horsemen scourged the French during their retreat from Moscow in 1812 and again after their defeat at the Battle of Leipzig, 1813.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68190] £460.00

Pointer Bitch, & Puppies.
Painted by J.Ward. Engraved by S. Reynolds.
London Published March 1. 1799 by S. Morgan No. 22 M[argaret Street Cavendish Square.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 325 x 380mm (12¾ x 15"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into plate at bottom, part of publication line erased.
A white and tan pointer and her puppies lying on straw.
Whitman 462. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 67791] for one in reverse.
[Ref: 68195] £320.00

[Polo in India.]
[Photographed c.1880.]
Photograph. Sheet 185 x 235mm (7¼ x 9¼"). Small crease bottom right.
Four European polo players on horses posing with their mallets, probably in India.
[Ref: 67930] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Pope, Poeta Anglus, Ob: A.o 1744 Aetat: 57. Hanc Imaginem ex ipso Archetypo, a Vanlo picto 1742 expressam viro Honorabili Guilmo Murray Solicatori Generali apud quem Deponitur. Humillime D.D.D. Johannes Faber.
[Engraved by John Faber Jnr after Joseph Van Loo.]
Price 2 Shill Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d. c.1750].
Fine mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), with large margins.
Three-quarter portrait of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744), looking towards the right, with paper in his right hand and his left hand slightly pushing his wig back from his head.
CS 294. ii of ii. Russell ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67532] £380.00

[Portchester Castle.]
[From an Original Transparent Drawing by W. Orme.]
[Orme, Conduit Street, Excu.t. Sold & Published May, 1, 1799, by Ed.wd Orme, corner of George Street and Conduit Street, London, the first Inventor of Transparent Prints. Where may be had a great Variety, and every requisite for Drawing them.]
Oval mezzotint. Sheet trimmed as oval, at most 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9") Trimmed around image, losing all incriptions, album paper on verso obscuring transparent effect.
A night scene of a small castle with a square tower lit by a full moon, with a guard standing at a guardpost at the top of stairs. An old man and a child walk past, carrying a lantern.
[Ref: 67935] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Porcupine] Das Stachelschwein aüs der Meerenge von Hüdson. Hystrix Canadensis. Le Porc-epic de la Baye de Hudson.
G. Eduard ad viv. del. J.M. Seligman sculps et excudit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Fine coloured engraving, 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼") large margins.
An early illustation of a porcupine, copied from the plate by George Edwards. Canadian interest. Johann Michael Seligmann (1720-1762), a German artist and engraver primarily known for his ornithological artwork in "Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel" (1749-64), which contained translations of George Edwards's 'A Natural History of Birds' and 'Gleanings of Natural History'.
[Ref: 68121] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[View of the port of Livorno]
SDBella.
[n.d. c.1655]
Etching, 17th century watermark; 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Slight creasing and surface dirt.
A view of Livorno (Leghorn) in the Tuscany coast of Italy. A fortified port: men work on the quay at right, lifting a plank and sacks, while the fortifications extend behind them. To the left is a large boat, with smaller rowing boats clustered in the centre and foreground.
De Vesme 849.
[Ref: 68058] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Gabriel Malagrida, Jean de Matos, Jean Alexandree autres Jesuites. Religion des Jesuites Parricide des Rois.
19, Janvier, 1759.
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 70mm (6 x 2¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portraits of Gabriel Malagrida, Jean de Matos, Jean Alexandree autres Jesuites. Following the attempted assassination of Dom José (1714 - 1777) on September 3, 1758. Father Gabriele Malagrida (1689–1761) was executed for these reasons as he was judged to have personally participated in the assassination attempt.
[Ref: 68097] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Owen or Men of Letters.
Alfred Mills Del et fec.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, 2 Jan 1806.
Coloured etching, sheet 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Small bottom margin. Damaged.
A Quaker stands stiffly on Mr. Owen's doorstep, asking a liveried footman if 'Friend O,-N' is within. The footman, hands on hips, bending with a grin towards the visitor, replies 'N,-O'.
BM Satires 10655.
[Ref: 67894] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Four heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court.] M.r Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting &c. Vol. IV. p.22. speaking of the Cartoons at Hampton Court, observes that Sir John Thornhill ''having made copious studies of the heads, hands and feet, intended to publish an exact account of the whole, for the use of students: but this work has never appeared''. As the present plate was found among others belonging to the late M.r Hogarth, it is not impossible but that it might have been engraved by him for his father-in-law S.r James's intended publication.
Published as the Act directs May 14, 1781 by M.rs Hogarth, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields.
Etching. 360 x 215mm (14¼ x 8½"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
A detail of one of Raphael's cartoons at Hampton Court, 'The Conversion of the Proconsul (Acts 13: 6-12)', now in the V&A. To the right is the Jewish sorcerer Elymas who Paul struck blind when Elymas attempted to stop Paul converting the proconsul Sergius Paulus; to the left are the head of three of the onlookers. John Thornhill (father of William Hogarth's wife, Jane, the publiher of the print) studied the cartoons in 1729. Paulson suggests that it is possible that he also etched the plate (as the work does not resemble Hogarth's), and Jane used the more profitable name of Hogarth.
Paulson: 264, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 67931] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, ~ Painted by Himself. Drawn and Engraved by Charles Townley Member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Florence, From the Original Portrait in the Medici Collection.
Published as the Act directs June 30th 1777 [but 1786-1790, by Jean Marc Pascal Berlin.
Proof mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 420 x 280mm (16½ x 11"). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of Joshua Reynolds, in the robes of an Oxford Doctor of Civil Law, holding a roll. The publisher, Johann Marc Pascal, founded the 'Königlich Hofkupferstichofficin' in Berlin in 1786 but published nothing after 1790. He purchased a number of the plates for Townley's mezzotint portraits.
Hamilton p.57, i of ii. CS 24, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67984] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

S.r Joshua Reynolds.
Painted by himself. R. Sayer Excudit. Engraved by James Watson.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer. Map & Printseller, No.53, Fleet Street; published as the Act directs 10 July 1770.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Narrow margins.
A half-length self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), hatless, holding a portfolio.
Hamilton p.57, ii of ii; CS 123, ii of ii; Goodwin 71, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67987] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[S.r Joshua Reynolds.]
Painted by himself. R. Sayer Excudit. Engraved by James Watson.
[London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer. Map & Printseller, No.53, Fleet Street; published as the Act directs 10 July 1770.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
A half-length self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), hatless, holding a portfolio.
Hamilton p.57, i of ii; CS 123, i of ii; Goodwin 71, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67988] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.]
[Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. Caroline Kirkley sculp.t.]
[London Pub.d as the Act Directs, March 15. 1795. by A. Molteno, Printseller to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No. 76, St James's Street.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, inscription area uncleaned. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Collector's stamp on reverse, large margins.
A half-length self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), in a jacket with a high colour, depicted in a plain frame. The engraver was the daughter of Ralph Kirkley, Reynolds' man-servant for over 30 years, and was brought up in Reynolds' house in Leicester Square. In 1789 she was apprenticed to J.R. Smith for 5 years for £50 premium, probably as a print colourist as this is the only known mezzotint by her. She also exhibited as the RA in 1796 and 1797; an engraving after her portrait of Thomas Bewick was publishd in 1798 (see ref 33972).
Hamilton p.57, i of iii; CS 123, before i of ii; Russell i of iii. Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and Alfred Morrison (1821-1897),.
[Ref: 67990] £380.00

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, President of the Royal Academy, Member of the Imperial Academy at Florence, Doctor of Laws of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by V. Green, Dec.r 1.st 1780. N.º 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Coloured mezzotint. 480 x 380mm (19 x 15"), large margins. Laid on board, spots and damp stains in margins.
A three-quarter self-portrait of Reynolds wearing his robes as President of the Royal Academy, one hand holding a scroll, resting on a table with a bust of Michelangelo.
CS 110, i of ii; Russell ii of vi; ; Hamilton p.57, ii of v; Whitman 105, ii of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68075] £490.00

[Jeremiah Rich.]
[n.d., c.1669.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 55 x 35mm (2¼ x 1¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Jeremiah Rich (died 1669), leading stenography specialist of the period who perfected the system invented by his uncle, William Cartwright, but without giving him credit, claiming it to be his own invention. Frontis to "The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter", 1669.
[Ref: 68003] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremiah Rich.]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 75mm (4¼ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Jeremiah Rich (died 1669), leading stenography specialist of the period who perfected the system invented by his uncle, William Cartwright, but without giving him credit, claiming it to be his own invention.
[Ref: 68006] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremiah Rich.] The Penns Dexterity. By Theife incomparable Contractions by which a Sentence is Writt as soone as a Word Allowed by Authority and past the two Universitys with great aprobation and aplause Invented and taught by Jeremiah Rich 1659.
[n.d., c.1659.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Jeremiah Rich (died 1669), leading stenography specialist of the period who perfected the system invented by his uncle, William Cartwright, but without giving him credit, claiming it to be his own invention. Frontispiece to "Penns Dexterity", 1659.
[Ref: 68007] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

N.oX M.rs G_s. N.oXI Sir Timothy Tall Boy.
London, Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r near S.t John's Gate 1.st May 1774.
Engraving, 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of portrait busts set in ovals of Sir 'Long' Thomas Robinson (1703-77) and an unidentified mistress . From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility. Robinson was English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734 and was a Governor of Barbados (1742–47).
Bm Satires 5253.
[Ref: 67900] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Roland.
[Armand Gustav Houbigant] [V. Dambrin?]
[n.d. c.1816]
Hand-coloured engraving, sheet 80 x 55mm (3¼ x 2¼"). Trimmed within plate.
From, 'Dames de France.' Armand Gustave Houbigant (1789–1862) designed a new series of playing cards around 1816, drawing on realistic portrayals of historical figures to free players from what he saw as the dull, standardized “portraits” then in use. The court cards depict members of the dynasties of Charlemagne, Saint Louis, Francis I, and Henry IV. Houbigant’s designs appeared in multiple editions of differing quality, including a special issue produced to mark the marriage of the Duke of Berry in 1820, 'Histoire de France,' published in Paris by V. Dambrin. These cards subsequently inspired numerous imitations and helped establish a new genre of playing cards based on historical costume. A playing card, ace or jack of spades, Roland (c.736-78) (Hroudland) stands in armour holding his shiled and legendary sword Durendal (Durandal) with a dog by his side.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 68151] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rev.d Mr William Romaine, A.M.]
[F. Cotes pinx.t. R.Houston fecit.]
[Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins.
William Romaine (1714-1795), a French protestant who came to England at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. A popular preacher he was an ardent follower of Whitefield. In 1753 he published a pamphlet against the bill for naturalising the Jews.
CS: 105, i of ii. Ex: Collections of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd and Mrs. E.M. Hamilton
[Ref: 68183] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Tesselated Pavement Found in Dyer Street Cirencester Sep: Ad. MDCCCXLIX. with Part of the Under Structure. [&] Tesselated Pavement Found in Dyer Street Cirencester August 1849.
Drawn on Stone & Printed by J. Beauchamp, Cirencester. [&] Drawn on Stone, Printed & Published by J. Beauchamp, Park S.t Cirencester. [n.d., c.1849]
Two scarce & fine coloured lithographs. Printed areas 330 x 320mm (13 x 12½) & 300 x 290mm (11¾ x 11½"), large margins.
Two rare lithographs locally published recording the 2nd century Roman mosaics dug up when excavating new sewers in Dyer Street. The first features heads representing three of the Four Seasons and an illustration of Greek hero Actaeon, transformed into a stag by Artemis and being killed by his own dogs. The second has the head of Medusa, hunting dogs, dragons and geometric patterns. Both are now in the Corinium Museum.
[Ref: 67939] £520.00 view all images for this item

[A Roman painting of dwarfs, a hippopotamus and crocodiles.]
Camillo Paderni delin. J. Mynde sculp.
[London: George Turnbull, 1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 390 x 360mm (15½ x 14¼"), large margins. Margin rebuilt lower right, just affecting plate, repair to fold.
A bizarre scene of two dwarfs guarding an island with classical temples and an altar. One raises a spear at an angry-looking hippopotamus. A plate from George Turnbull's 'A Treatise on Ancient Painting: containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans''. Unfortunately the text (available on archive.org) gives no details of its origin or meaning.
[Ref: 67824] £490.00

L’Aurora Nebbiosa. o il Trasporto della Capitale a Roma (seguito alla notte sparì).
Bologna: Presso Manfredi Manfredo Editore, Via Venezia N. 1749 [n.d., c.1868].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 470 x 665mm (18½ x 26¼"). A few repairs, laid on archival linen.
A satire depicting the transfer of the capital of the Kingdom of Italy from Turin to Rome as a carnival procession., with a key of 24 verses in Italian.
[Ref: 67832] £360.00

[William Rowland.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of William Rowland (c.1600s), Physician.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 68027] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Royal Manchester Institution] Exhibition of Works of Art in Black & White. W.E. Hamer has the honor ro invite [blank] & Lady to a Private View & Conversazione on Tuesday, April 2nd at the Royal Insitution, Mosely St. Private View, 10 to 4 o'clock. Conversazione, 7 o'clock. Evening Dress.
[Perhaps by C. Green RI] [n.d., 1872 or 1878?]
Rare etched invitation on card. 135 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½").
An invition to a sale exhibition held yearly during the 1870s at the Royal Manchester Institution, intended to promote local artists. The design features two footmen, one black, the other white, pulling back a curtain hanging from a porte-crayon, revealing paintings, including Hogarth's selfportrait with his dog Trump.
[Ref: 67946] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's 'The History of the Royal Society of London'.]
Evelyn inv. D.D.C. Wenceslaus Hollar f. 1667.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed within image and backed onto album paper at borders.
Under an open vault a bust of Charles II is being crowned with a wreath by Fame. On the left William Brouncker (president of the Royal Society in 1662) points to the inscription on the pedestal; on the right Francis Bacon holds his chancellor's bag. On the walls are inventions, a bookcase and scientific instruments. Outside a man looks through a huge telescope.
Pennington 459.
[Ref: 67998] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Rudd. M.r D. Perreau.
London Magazine. Publish'd as the Act directs, August 1.st 1775.
Engraving, 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins.
Two portrait busts in ovals. Margaret Caroline Rudd (c.1745-98), courtesan and accused forger. Rudd lived with the bankrupt merchant and stock speculator Daniel Perreau (c.1734-76) who, along with his identical twin Robert, were found to be involved in forgery. The twins accused Rudd of being the mastermind behind the plan, but while the brothers were convicted and executed Rudd was acquitted. After the executions Rudd reportedly became the mistress of the libertine and politician Thomas Lyttelton, second Baron Lyttelton (1744-79) and was also the mistress of Dr Johnson's biographer James Boswell in the 1780s.
See BM Satires 5425.
[Ref: 67895] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Rural Life.
Ph. Mercier: Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Repairs at bottom. Small margins.
A boy playing bagpipes. One of a set of six with the same title. Musical interest.
CS 405 for set. Ex Collection of the late Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67354] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Rural Retirement. Pl2.
Designed & Etched by R. Seymour.
London. Published by Tho.s M.cLean 26 Haymarket July 1.st 1829.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), On paper watermarked, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.' Trimmed to plate top and left. Light creasing an surface dirt. Staining.
Nine vignettes: ''Lodging at a Farm House'', Pickle, morose, leans on a table as the farmer’s wife in mid-18th-century dress holds a tattered book, saying, ''I ha gotten a Book Sir her es half the whole duty of man— and we shant be so dull presently as they be going to toll the bell for the Tailor as is just dead.'' ''Weeds''—walking through fields, Pickle gives a coin to one of two rural children. ''Village Gossip'', a barber shaves Pickle while holding his nose, as the farmer’s wife peeps round a folding screen; the barber recounts, ''Yes Sir, one Thought you Mad another you was a fraudulent Bankrupt… Mrs Maggot said you might be a Papist Conspirator & the Beadles wife feared you might hang yourself & cause Trouble to the Parish.'' ''Thorns'', his coat-tail is torn by a briar on a country walk. ''Crossing the Farmyard'',approaching a stile, his coat is seized by a chained watchdog, with hostile turkeys, geese, a boar, scampering pigs, and a bull beyond; a grinning yokel watches from the paling. ''Patience'', he sits on a tomb in the churchyard. ''Rural Evening Walk'', Pickle perches on a bank with feet in a swamp while two yokels watch and whistle; he exclaims, ''A Plague upon those rascally clowns sending one round about down the Bank, over the Moor—through Deadmans Lane & the Halfpenny Hatch—and now up to my knees in this swamp and—good Lord theres a thieves whistle.'' ''A Morning Walk'', reading as he walks, he nearly steps into a stream. ''Blue Devils'', in his farmhouse, Pickle sits beset by tiny demons: one holds a noose, another points to an imp under a book labeled Faux Pas, a bill-sticker demon hovers with ''Bank Stopt Payment'', and others manipulate a watch; he laments, ''Was ever any poor wretch so beset by the blue Devils as I am—not ten o'clock yet, not so much as a mouse stirring through the Village, not a soul to speak to.''
[Ref: 68111] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Published May. 1st 1778 by W.Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street [but later].
Mezzotint. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), on wove paper. Tear in right margin touching plate. Stain top right.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, ii of ii. Goodwin 69, ii of ii. Hamilton p.8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68052] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by Walter Shropshire May 1.st 1778 N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), large margins. Creasing.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, i of ii. Goodwin 69, i of ii. Hamilton p.8. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68054] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by Walter Shropshire May 1.st 1778 N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), large margins. With the 'K' collector's stamp of Thomas Kirk. Narrow margins, crease
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, i of ii. Goodwin 69, i of ii. Hamilton p.8. Lugt 1623, Thomas Kirk (c.1765 97), painter and engraver. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68053] £580.00

Lady Sale.
[Engraved by William James Ward after Sir Thomas Lawrence.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint. 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"), with large margins.
A half-length portrait of Lady Florentia Sale (née Wynch, 1790-1853), wearing a turban. She travelled the world with her husband, Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale (1782–1845), and was famously taken prisoner while the British Army retreated from Kabul in 1842, during the First Anglo-Afghan War. She published her diary as 'A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-42'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68192] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William Salmon.] Guilielmus Salmon Medicinæ Professor. Ætatis Suæ 36 annº 1681.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders.
Portrait of William Salmon (1644 - 1713), English empiric doctor and a writer of medical texts. He advertised himself as a "Professor of Physick".
W2588-2.
[Ref: 68029] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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