Grosvenor Prints

The Introduction of the Princess of Brunswick to the Prince of Wales. The Royal Stranger now mid hopes & fears, / Before he Prince & destind Lord appears;...
Publish'd June 1st 1795, by J. Coard, No 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road.
A rare mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") Thread margins.
An idealised scene of the first meeting of George and Caroline of Brunswick, shortly before their marriage on 8th April 1795. The text refers to Caroline 'In beauty perfect' and George as a 'Godlike Youth': in reality George called for a glass of brandy, obviously disappointed, and Caroline said to her escort Lord Malmesbury '[the Prince is] very fat and he's nothing like as handsome as his portrait'. The pair separated the following year.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36305] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[His most gracious Majesty King George the Fourth.]
Painted by Sir Tho.s Lawrence Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty, P.R.A. &c. &c. &c. Engraved by Cha.s Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London Published Jan.y 1. 1824, by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Printsellers to His Majesty, No. 8 Pall Mall, and 90 Cheapside.
Mezzotint on chine collé, proof before title. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Bit messy, tears in edges.
A portrait of George IV (1762 - 1830) after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), wearing a dark suit with fur collar and garter star, his left arm extended and resting over the back of the seat.
Whitman: 219, this state not listed (without printer's name), before or after state i. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53478] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[His most gracious Majesty King George the Fourth.]
Painted by Sir Tho.s Lawrence Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty, P.R.A. &c. &c. &c. Engraved by Cha.s Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty. Printed by Ja.s Lahee.
London Published Jan.y 1. 1824, by Hurst, Robinson & Co. Printsellers to His Majesty, No. 8 Pall Mall, and 90 Cheapside.
Mezzotint on chine collé, proof before title. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Some surface soiling.
A portrait of George IV (1762 - 1830) after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), wearing a dark suit with fur collar and garter star, his left arm extended and resting over the back of the seat.
Whitman: 219, I. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53477] £320.00

His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom. Dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, [by Her obliged and grateful Servant John P. Thompson.]
Painted by G.H. Harlow Esq.r. Engraved by Will.m Ward Engraver Extraordinary to the Princess of Wales and Duke of York.
[London. Published Feb.y 6th 1811 by J.P. Thompson, G.t Newport Street, Printseller to his Majesty and the Duke & Duchess of York.]
A large mezzotint. 690 x 555mm (27 x 21¾"). Trimmed with the loss of c.2cm of inscription area, several repaired tears
The future George IV astride a fabulous stallion, in ceremonial hussar uniform with sabre unsheathed, published the year he was made regent for his father, George III. The plate is dedicated to his daughter Charlotte, who died following childbirth at the age of 21.
CS 40; Frankau 129; ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43488] £450.00

The Introduction of the Princess of Brunswick to the Prince of Wales. The Royal Stranger now mid hopes & fears, / Before he Prince & destind Lord appears;...
Publish'd June 1st 1795, by J. Coard, No 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road.
A rare & scarce mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") Paper toned, stained.
An idealised scene of the first meeting of George and Caroline of Brunswick, shortly before their marriage on 8th April 1795. The text refers to Caroline 'In beauty perfect' and George as a 'Godlike Youth': in reality George called for a glass of brandy, obviously disappointed, and Caroline said to her escort Lord Malmesbury '[the Prince is] very fat and he's nothing like as handsome as his portrait'. The pair separated the following year.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 60174] £220.00 (£264.00 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)

Godart, Gr. v. Athlone.
Pet. Schenk fec: et exc: Amst.
cum privil: ord: Holl: et West Frisiæ 1703.
Mezzotint. 280 x 180mm. Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Godart van Ginkel (1630-1703), a Dutch general created 1st Earl of Athlone for his part in the pacification of Ireland after the Glorious Revolution.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5415] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Gipsies Tent. From the original Picture in the Collection of the Honorable Colonel Charles Stuart.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by Jos. Grozar.
Published April 23 1793 by B.B. Evans in the Poultry, London.
Mezzotint. 510 x 610mm (20 x 24"). Very large margins. Slight spotting.
A family of travellers setting up camp at the edge of a copse, with a low tent in which a boy sleeps, two mules pasturing and a man and two women laying a fire and constructing a tripod from which to hang a pan. This was a pair to Morland's 'The Happy Cottagers', a painting also owned by Stuart.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 38132] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Girl and Pigs.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by W.Ward.
London Published Feb.y 28 1802 by S.Morgan No 32. Clipstone Street Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 380 x 455mm. Trimmed to plate at bottom
Frankau 134, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4291] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Going South.
Painted by H. Garland. Engraved by J. B. Pratt.
London, Published Oct.r 1.st 1874, by L,, Brall & Sons, 6, Gt. Prescot St., Goodman's Fields.
Mezzotint. 630 x 960mm. Some damage to wide margin. Paper cockled with linked staining.
Companion of piece to 'Going North'. Herd of Highland cattle and dog.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 2632] £550.00

The Golden Age.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, June 4.th 1777.
Mezzotint with large margins; Platemark: 475 x 570mm (18¾ x 22¼"). Light foxing and rubbing to surface.
A domestic scene in a stylised Eastern setting. A mother is seen sitting to the front and sewing, watching her sleeping young child beside her. A cat sits in a besket below. An elderly couple, the man seated, are in the doorway to the right with a dog. A rural landscape can be seen beyond. Within an oval. For an open letter proof impression, see item ref: 36646. For a pair, 'The Golden Age [&] The Silver Age', see item ref: 29074.
CS: 159. Whitman: 203. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettinger-Wallenstein collection Sotheby's Lot 736, 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36645] £420.00

The Golden Age. [&] The Silver Age.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver Cheapside, June 4.th 1777. Engraved by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
[&] Painted by H. Walton. Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver. Cheapside Jan.y 30.th 1778. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Pair of framed mezzotints, extremely rare in matching contemporary frames. Visible area 470 x 559mm (18½ x 22").
Domestic scene in stylised Eastern setting; mother sitting to front and sewing, watching her sleeping young child beside her, old couple in doorway at right; oval format. [&] A circular frame with a little girl in a plain bonnet and cape, sitting in profile to left on a path with a basket of chickens beside her, a tree and high ground behind to the right, a town in a landscape below to the left.
CS: 159. Whitman: 203. [&] CS: 198. Frankau: 320. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 29074] £950.00 view all images for this item

The Golden Age.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, June 4.th 1777.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 475 x 570mm (18¾ x 22¼"). Thread margins. Light creasing and rubbing to surface.
A domestic scene in a stylised Eastern setting. A mother is seen sitting to the front and sewing, watching her sleeping young child beside her. A cat sits in a basket below. An elderly couple, the man seated, are in the doorway to the right with a dog. A rural landscape can be seen beyond. Within an oval. For a pair, 'The Golden Age [&] The Silver Age', see item ref: 29074.
CS 159. Whitman: 203. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36646] £450.00

Ludovicus Goupy Pictor.
Se ipse pinx. G. White fec. [c.1750]
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Rubbed; crease lower right.
A self-portrait of Louis Goupy (c.1694-1747), French-born artist active in London, working in a variety of media, and teaching. He was patronized by Richard Boyle, third earl of Burlington, who he accompanied to Italy in 1714.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 19 (only state).
[Ref: 34011] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ludovicus Goupy Pictor.
Se ipse pinx. G. White fec. [c.1750]
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Rubbed; good impression.
A self-portrait of Louis Goupy (c.1694-1747), French-born artist active in London, working in a variety of media, and teaching. He was patronized by Richard Boyle, third earl of Burlington, who he accompanied to Italy in 1714.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 19 (only state).
[Ref: 34012] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable John Lord Gower, Lord Privy Seal [...] Anno 1743.
Vanlo Pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by C. Hitch in Paternoster Row, London, and by S. Parsons at Newcastle Under Lime.
Mezzotint, platemark 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Small margins; glued to backing sheet at corners; rubbed.
John Leveson-Gower, first Earl Gower (1694-1754), politician. Leader of the Tories in the Lords in the 1730s, after Walpole's fall he was the one Tory to take high office (as lord privy seal and a privy councillor, from 1742) in the new ministry, as delebrated here. However, he resigned in December 1743, soon after this print was published. He subsequently regained his position as lord privy seal and held it until his death. Gower's proximity to the whig administration provoked suspicion that he had deserted Tory principles (Dr Johnson included him in his dictionary definition for 'renegado' although the printer removed the reference).
CS: 163. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34230] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Girl in Greek dress with peacock]
Painted by J. Northcote R.A. Engraved by H. Dawe
[n.d., c.1810]
Mezzotint with very large margins, rare; platemark 505 x 315mm (19¾ x 12½").
Girl in Greek dress, with a peacock to her right and a plant to her left. After James Northcote (1746-1831), painter and author. The engraver Henry Dawe (1790-1848) was part of a family of engravers, who like his brother George spent many years working in St Petersburg. Unfortunately during his career the technique of mezzotint, demonstrated so well here, went into decline as it was supplanted by lithography and engraving onto steel plates, both of which enabled publishers to make many good impressions whereas mezzotints yielded very few.
Ex: collection of the late Hon C. Lennox-Boyd;
[Ref: 36610] £460.00

[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)

The Right Honble. Lord Grenville.
Painted by T. Phillips R.A. Engraved by J. Fittler A.R.A.
London Publish'd as the Act directs by J. Fittler No 62. Upper Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square March. 1812.
Engraving. Platemark: 530 x 390mm (20¾ x 15"). Light foxing. Trimmed to plate at sides.
Portrait of William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759 - 1834). He wears a long lace cravat and ruffles, and a heavy black brocaded silk Chancellor's robe with gold lace trimming on collar, facings and sleeves. His right hand clasps an upright brass bound volume standing on a table to left, on which are also a bundle of papers tied up with tape. Curtain behind to right, and to left, a view of Christ Church seen through a window. Grenville, William Pitt's first cousin, served as Speaker of the House of Commons (1789) and Foreign Secretary (1791-1801). The protégé and loyal follower of his cousin, Grenville was angered by Pitt's failure to oppose Addington and broke with him to join Fox and Grey in opposition. It was as head of the 'Ministry of All the Talents' coalition government, following Pitt's death, that Grenville was Prime Minister from 1806 to 1807. A reluctant leader, he resigned over George III's refusal to agree to Catholic emancipation. His administration nevertheless saw the abolition of British participation in the slave trade. For alternative open lettered impression, see item ref: 24080.
Ex Collection: The Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35136] £320.00

The Right Hon.ble Charles Earl Grey.
T. Phillips Esq R.A. Pinx.t. C.Turner sculp.t.
London Pub.d May 28, 1811 by A. Molteno, Printseller to H.R.H. the Dutchess of York 29 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint with large margins, very fine. Platemark: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
Charles Grey (1764-1845), 2nd Earl Grey, Whig Prime Minister 1830-34. His political achievements included the Reform Act of 1832, and the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, but is still best known today for giving his name to the aromatic blend of tea.
Ex Collection: The Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. W: 236 I of II.
[Ref: 35134] £360.00

Lady Jane Grey. The Night before her Execution.
Fulton Pinx.t. Ward scsulp.t.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1793 by T. Simpson St Pauls Church Yard.
Mezzotint. 610 x 355mm (24 x 14"). Large margins.
Lady Jane Grey (c.1536-54), the Nine Day Queen, reading the bible by candlelight, an hourglass keeping time. Engraved by William Ward after Robert Fulton.
CS 42. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's London Lot 627 13/11/97.
[Ref: 38206] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Giulia Grisi.]
From a Photograph by Signori Caldesi. Engraved by George Zobel.
London, Published May 21st 1855, by J.Mitchell, Bookseller & Publisher to Her Majesty. 33 Old Bond S.t.
Mezzotint on steel. 510 x 340mm. Spotting.
From Caldesi's 'Artists of the Italian Opera'. Giulia Grisi (1811-1869), a brilliant dramatic soprano, a prima donna for thirty years.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1140] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Grotesque figure.] No. 47 by Gordon Craig [old ink mss.]
[by Edward Gordon Craig.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Wood engraving on Japon. Printed area 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾").
A wood engraving of a figure by Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), modernist actor, director and scenic designer, son of Ellen Terry and lover of Isadore Duncan. In 1910 he wrote 'A Note on Masks', in which he expounded on the use of masks to capture the audience’s attention, imagination and soul: certainly this figure's features resemble a Japanese Noh mask.
Ex: collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33998] £650.00

[Landscape with two figures conversing]
Guercino del. Basire fecit.
[published by John Boydell, 1764]
Etching printed in brown ink with very large margins, platemark 225 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Fine impression; slight foxing to edges.
Landscape after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 – 1666), known as Guercino. A collection of original drawings by Guercino and other Italian masters were acquired by the Earl of Bute while on his Grand Tour, and later given to George III (they remain in the Royal Collection today). The king's librarian, Richard Dalton, met engraver Francesco Bartolozzi in Italy and brought him to London in 1764 to engrave many of these drawings, alongside other engravers including (in this case) Joseph Basire. The plates were later published in two volumes by the Boydells as 'Eighty-two prints, engraved by F. Bartolozzi & c. from the original drawings of Guercino, in the collection of his Majesty'.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for various other plates from the same project see refs. 21271, 21268 etc.
[Ref: 34837] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Simon the Dutch Skipper.
G. Aikman pinx. J. Smith fec. 1719.
Mezzotint. 345 x 250mm, 13½ x 9¾". Mounted on album paper.
Thomas, sixth Earl of Haddington (1680-1735), anti-Jacobite who fought at Sheriffmuir in 1715, and agriculturalist. His dress of a Dutch sea captain is apparently alluding to his Hanoverian sympathies.
Ex collections of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18449] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Master John Burges 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 with very large margins, 18th century watermarked paper; platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Crease on right.
John Burges Haffey entered the army and died in Jamaica in 1814 as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment. Pendant to portrait of his sister Elizabeth.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 28 II of II.
[Ref: 34039] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Iacobus Wilibaldus Haller. Ab Hallerstein in Kalckreuth et Bukenhof. S.C.M...
G. Held, et P. Decker. jun del. et Sculp. Norimb.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 440 x 410mm. Trimmed to image.
Jakob Bilibald Haller von Hallerstein.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3163] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edmundus Halleius, Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus.
T. Murray pinx 1712. John Faber Fecit 1722
Sold by Faber in fountain Court near ye Fountain Taverne in the Strande
Mezzotint with very large margins on 3 sides, 1817 watermark; sheet 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer. He went to the University of Oxford, where he studied the theories of Sir Isaac Newton. Because he was so intrigued with these theories, it inspired him to write the Principle which he published with his own money in 1687. In 1721 he was made Astronomer Royal and began an 18 year study of the moon's complete revolution through its ascending and descending nodes. During his life he also wrote another important treatise called Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis (Synopsis on Cometary Astronomy). It was started in 1682 and published in 1705. In this he mathematically demonstrated that comets move in a elliptic orbits around the sun and how over time they would pass the same point. He had such an accurate prediction that when the comet (now Halley's Comet) returned in 1758, it validated his theory. Engraved from a portrait by Thomas Murray (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). Murray's painting shows Halley pointing to a globe with buildings behind him, although the composition has been reduced and the background removed here.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS II of III; for first state see ref. 34102.
[Ref: 34112] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Edmundus Halleius, Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus.
T. Murray pinx 1712. John Faber Fecit 1722
Sold by Faber in fountain Court near ye Fountain Taverne in the Strande
Mezzotint, sheet 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Repaired damage upper right; rare in this state.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer. He went to the University of Oxford, where he studied the theories of Sir Isaac Newton. Because he was so intrigued with these theories, it inspired him to write the Principle which he published with his own money in 1687. In 1721 he was made Astronomer Royal and began an 18 year study of the moon's complete revolution through its ascending and descending nodes. During his life he also wrote another important treatise called Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis (Synopsis on Cometary Astronomy). It was started in 1682 and published in 1705. In this he mathematically demonstrated that comets move in a elliptic orbits around the sun and how over time they would pass the same point. He had such an accurate prediction that when the comet (now Halley's Comet) returned in 1758, it validated his theory. Engraved from a portrait by Thomas Murray (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). Murray's painting shows Halley pointing to a globe with buildings behind him, although the composition has been reduced and the background removed here.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS i/iii ('one known')
[Ref: 34102] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Smiling man and woman.]
F:Hals Pinx. N. Verkolje Fec.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Scarce mezzotint. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"), with large margins. A good impression.
Engraved by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746), who like his father Jan was a painter (influenced by Lairesse, van der Werff and Metsu) and printmaker. Supposedly after Frans Hals (1585 - 1666), who had died before Verkolje was born.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Not recorded by Le Blanc.
[Ref: 34658] £390.00

[Woman in profile.]
H.D. Hamilton pinx.t. R. Laurie fecit.
London, Printed for Robt Sayer No 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 Octr 1771.
Mezzotint, very rare, sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed to image.
Decorative mezzotint by engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), after an early work by the Irish portrait and subject painter Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808). After building up a reputation in Ireland, Hamilton moved to Italy for thirteen years in 1779, where his work was popular among Irish Grand Tourists, before reluctantly returning to Ireland due to political events on the continent. One of few engravings made from Hamilton's work.
CS 41.
[Ref: 41433] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman in profile.]
H.D. Hamilton pinx.t. R. Laurie fecit.
[London, Printed for Robt Sayer No 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 Octr 1771.]
Mezzotint with thread margins, very rare, sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed inside plate at bottom, losing text.
Decorative mezzotint by engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), after an early work by the Irish portrait and subject painter Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808). After building up a reputation in Ireland, Hamilton moved to Italy for thirteen years in 1779, where his work was popular among Irish Grand Tourists, before reluctantly returning to Ireland due to political events on the continent. One of few engravings made from Hamilton's work.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 41.
[Ref: 36688] £120.00 (£144.00 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)

[Ioannes Henricus Hampe.]
Angelica Kauffman pinx. T.Burke fec.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint, 115 x 130mm, set in page of letterpress. Creased.
John Henry Hampe [d.1777], M. D., F. R. S. Author of 'An experimental system of metallurgy, with general remarks an explanations', London 1777.
CS: 4. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3549] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Handsome Cook Maid. 197
[After François Boucher].
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter house, St. Paul's Church yard, London. [n.d., c.1780].
Hand coloured mezzotint. Sheet size: 165 x 130mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed inside plate at bottom edge.
A rustic interior scene depicting a young man, seated leaning against a large tub filled with vegetables and pulling a girl towards him, who carries eggs in her apron. Firewood and a pot hanging over a fire in a hearth can be seen in the background to the right. For uncoloured impression, see item ref: 32998.
Ex CLB ii/ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32996] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Happy Villagers.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer No.53 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770].
Hand coloured mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Stained in corners where previously mounted.
A rustic exterior scene outside an Inn. A group of four men gather around a table on which is a jug. To the left, a woman comes through a door, holding a bowl in her right hand. In the distance to the right, a man walks with a stick.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33000] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Harvey.
Vandyke Pinx.t
[Laurie & Whittle 1794]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 315 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge, losing publication line; glued to backing sheet.
William Harvey (1578-1657), physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood. While Harvey's discoveries are now universally acknowledged, he met with much opposition during his own time. This portrait wrongly claims to be after van Dyck- more likely the source image is by Cornelis Janssens. The engraving is by James MacArdell, but he left the plate unfinished at the time of his death. This is the published state (after additional work by another hand), issued by Laurie & Whittle in 1794.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 114 ii/ii; CS (MacArdell) 102 ii/ii; O'D 8. Wellcome collection: 4026i.
[Ref: 34125] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Acutus Eques Britannicus Dux Aetatis Suae Cautissimus Et Rei Militaris Peritissimus Habitus Est Pauli Uccelli Opus 1436.
TPatch 1771.
Societati Antiq. Londini Ds. David Dalrymple De Hailes. D.D.D.
Engraving with very large margins, 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9").
Sir John de Hawkwood (1320 - 1394) was an English mercenary or condottiere in 14th century Italy who in the 1390s became a commander-in-chief of the army of Florence in the war against the expansion of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan. By Thomas Patch (1725 - 1782), a painter and engraver-etcher who settled in Florence in 1755. The image is taken from a painting by Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475) in the Duomo at Florence.
BM: pg.471. NPG: D35622. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34529] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Christ in the Wilderness]
George Hayter Inv.t Pinxit et Sculpt 1849
Etching, platemark 410 x 330mm (16 x 13"). Late impression.
Christ on a rock, surrounded by angels. The devil, as a snake, slithers away on the left of the rock. By Sir George Hayter (1792-1871), who by the time of this print was well established, having been knighted and appointed Principal Painter-in-Ordinary, painting several royal portraits and ceremonies.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35040] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Man's head.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Fine lithograph. Printed area 180 x 180mm (7 x 7").
A man's head, with hair flowing down over his high collar. An amateur lithograph.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36478] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Rev.d Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta.
T. Phillips Esq.r R.A. Pinx.t. S.W. Reynolds, Sculp.t Engraver to the King.
London, March 1827, Published by M. Colnaghi, 23 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Wear in very large margins.
Reginald Heber (1783-1826) was the Church of England's second Bishop of Calcutta. His missionary hymn 'From Greenland's Icy Mountains', written in 1819 for a service in aid of the 'Society for the Propagation of the Gospel' in Wrexham, was widely sung until recently, but lost favour when it was denounced by John Betjeman and Gandhi as patronising, particularly the line ''the heathen in his blindness [bowing] down to wood and stone''. Other hymns, for example ''Holy, Holy, Holy'', remain popular. First published by Reynolds in 1824.
Whitman: 137: iii of iii. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 48514] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

He_igh........Ho.
C. Spooner pinx.t.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1780].
Mezzotint. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed to bottom edge losing platemark. Small stain in right bottom corner.
A man, directed, facing and looking to front. His left hand is tucked into his waistcoat and his mouth is wide open in a large yawn. One of a pair showing a woman half-length in profile to right, also yawning broadly. See item ref: 32823.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33106] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

He_igh........Ho.
[C. Spooner fecit]
Printed for Rob.t sayer near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1780].
Mezzotint. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Very large margins.
A man, directed, facing and looking to front. His left hand is tucked into his waistcoat and his mouth is wide open in a large yawn. One of a pair showing a woman half-length in profile to right, also yawning broadly. See item ref: 32823.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33004] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

He...igh____Ho.
Ostade pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
[Printed for Rob.t sayer near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street. n.d., c.1780].
Hand coloured mezzotint. Sheet size: 150 x 125mm (6 x 5"). Trimmed at bottom edge losing platemark. Creasing to sheet. Damaged.
A man, directed, facing and looking to front. His left hand is tucked into his waistcoat and his mouth is wide open in a large yawn. One of a pair showing a woman half-length in profile to right, also yawning broadly. See item ref: 32823.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33105] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

John Henderson Esq.r
Published May 16th 1786 by J. Wingrave Park Street London.
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Open letters; fine impression; slight foxing. Slight loss on left bottom outside platemark.
Anonymous portrait of John Henderson (bap.1747-d.1785), actor known as the 'Bath Roscius'. During his brief spell acting in London, he was admired as a successor to Garrick who had recently retired. Henderson's friends included Gainsborough, who also painted him.
O'D 20; CS (not attributed) 82; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for an engraving after Gainsborough's portrait of Henderson, see ref. 30777.
[Ref: 34036] £350.00

Henry & Emma.
London, Publish'd 1.st July 1787, by R. Sayer 53 Fleet Street.
Hand coloured mezzotint with very large margins. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼").
A scene depicting a couple in a landscape. A young woman in fashionable dress, holds a ribbon in both hands above a man's head. The well dressed man leans against a tree trunk with his feet crossed and a handkerchief held up to his left cheek.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33007] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henry ye VIIIth. King of England, France & Ireland.
H. Holbein pinx. J. Faber jun.r Fecit.
Cum privilegio Regis. Sold by E. Cooper at the 3 Pigeons in Bedford Street. [n.d. c.1720.]
Mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. A fine impression. Image 344 x 247mm (13½ x 9¾"). Cut to the image. Some staining to the corners and damage.
Half-length portrait in oval of Henry VIII (1491-1547), after Hans Holbein.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12797] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus VIII Angliae Fr: & Hiberniae R.E.X &c Fund.r Coll: Trinit: Cantab: A.o Di 1546. Hanc Effigiem a Tabula in istius Coll: asservata factam Ao. 1714 Rev:do Viro Rich: Bentley. S.T.P & ejusdem Coll: Magistro.
Summa cum Humil: & Observ:a D.D.D. J. Faber.
[c.1714.]
Mezzotint with small margins. 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). A few nicks.
A three-quarter lenth portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547), one of the 45 plates engraved by John Faber Snr for his 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges', first state, before plate number.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 34, i of iv.
[Ref: 34424] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[High Life.]
Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Engraved by C.C. Hollyer.
London Published Oct, 17th 1873 by Henry Graves & Co. Proprietors Publishers to H.M. the Queen, and to H.R.H the Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1873 by WilliamSchaus in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Printsellers Association Blind stamp.
Mezzotint, Limited edition 205 proofs. 590 x 490mm.
The Deerhound image from Landseer's diptych “High Life / Low Life”.
Printsellers:169. Letters but no engraved title.Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3678] £420.00

[The Death of Hippolytus.] [To His Grace the Duke of Bedford, this print of Hippolitus, Engraved from a capital cabinet picture, by / P. P. Rubens now in his Graces collection (late in the possession of Mr. Bryan.) is with permission dedicated by his Graces much obliged & most obedient servant. B. B. Evans.]
P.P. Rubens pinx. R. Earlom Aqua.t.
Publish'd March 10th 1796 by B.B. Evans.
Stipple, scarce unfinished proof before mezzotint. Sheet 460 x 620mm )18 x 24½"). Edges worn, tear in sky taped.
A sea monster, a bull with fins and a fish tail, causes Hippolytus to be thrown from his chariot and be dragged to his death. A scene from Ovid's retelling of the Greek myth, eventually published May 7th. 1797.
Ex collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 49982] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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