Grosvenor Prints

[Sacred and Profane Love.]
[Engraved by Friedrich Weber after Titian.]
[Vienna, P. Kaeser, n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving, proof before letters on chine collé. 380 x 670mm (15 x 26½"), with very wide margins, with publisher's blindstamp. Uncut. Mint.
A clothed and a nude woman sit by a sarcophagus. Titian's oil of c.1515 is in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
[Ref: 52070] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegory of a love affair.] Tribunal injurie & Armoris. De beschuldinge en klachten van Juffr. Elizabeth Stevenon, gedaen als aenklaegster van der Heer Gabriel Lalande.
[by Crispijn de Passe.]
[n.d., 1661.]
Rare broadsheet with engraving, 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"), set in letterpress, sheet 500 x 285mm (19¾ x 11¼"). Sheet with loss at bottom, not affecting text.
A pair of former lovers in a court case presided over by the Titaness Thenis, with Venus acting for the complainant. Underneath is an extensive satirical verse. A satire on the scandalous events following the end of the love affair between Gabriel Lalande, a French merchant, and Elizabeth Lestevenon, a young woman from a rich Dutch mercantile family. After an intimate relationship of several months, Elizabeth announced she was going to marry someone else. In indignation Lalande started spreading rumours about their affair, including their sexual activity. Lestevenson's family appealed to the Amsterdam Magistrates, who jailed Lalande for seventy days, but this did not stop the gossip. Such was the scandal that at the end of 1661 the printer Johannes van den Bergh collected many of the broadsheets and published a collection, 'The Sweet Courtship of Mr Gabriel de Lalande, or the fallen rose of Miss Elizabeth Lestevenon'.
Arthur der Weduwen: Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, p.154.
[Ref: 56035] £420.00

Sacrifice à l'Amour. Cornaline du Cabinet de Messieurs Masson.
Eliz. Cheron L.H. delin. U. et J. de la Croix sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 286 x 209mm. 11¼ x 8¼".
Beneath a columned roof stands a statue of a cupid with a laurel in one hand a holding a drape wrapped over his body. Four men and a woman appear with an ox as a sacrifice. Plate 18 from "Pierres Antiques Gravées Tirées des Principaux Cabinets de la France".
[Ref: 25087] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sacrifice to Love.
[Cosway pinx.t. Menageot Sculp.t.]
[London, Pub.d Dec.r 11, 1780, by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill.]
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Trimmed to image, oval 180 x 130mm, 7 x 5" at most, title pasted underneath. On album paper. Cut.
A nymph alighting, waving her arms and holding a torch, from a carriage behind in which cupid sits at right, his bow aimed to front, a smoking altar beside at left and two doves embracing on the ground before it.
Daniell 201.
[Ref: 26434] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

In Heaven as on Earth Eternally United. No Time the Dear Remembrance can Remove. No Time Shall Cancel thy Desert. Ev'n o'er your Marble Tomb my Constant Heart will ever Mourn. He Sleeps in Dust & all the Muses Mourn. The Obvious Ills which Checker Human Life to the Sweet Babe are Happily Unknown. In Silent Sorrow o'er they Tomb I'll Mourn. Why do thou Mourn while he with Kindred Angels Reign. The Feeling Heart alone should Tarry here. In grief of Heart I drop the Dutious Tear. Like a Flower in Early Bloom in Early Bloom she Died. Still shall thy Grave with rising Flowers be Drest and the Green Turf lye lightly on they Brest. Here shall the Morn her Earliest Tears bestow Here the First Rose in the year shall Blow. [Numbered stipple ovals:] 1. Conjugal Sorrow. 2. Dito....D.o. 3. Disappointed Hope. 4. Peace & Love. 5. Friendship & Sincerity...15. Hope. 16. Parental Sorrow. 17. Love & Fidelity. 18. Hope & Sincerity. 19. Maternal Sorrow. 20. Filial Sorrow. 21. Conjugal Sorrow.
Designed by J. Hopkins.
[n.d. c.1797.]
Stipple and etching, rare. Sheet 305 x 204mm (12 x 8").
A collection of oval stipples depicting love, hope, courtship, harmony, friendship, sincerity, fidelity, affection, peace and sorrow.
[Ref: 30459] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Quand l'Amour nous presente und Heure favorable [...]
Dessiné et Gravé par B. Picart en 1713.
Engraving. 95 x 130mm (9¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate at top.
A design for a snuff box, with an oval scene of a cherub holding a clock face, guiding a shepherd to a woman sleeping, breasts exposed.
[Ref: 66185] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

L'Amour Enchaine le Tems.
B. Picart inv.
AParis chez Surugue rue des Noyers vis-à-vis St Yves [n.d., c.1710].
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 110mm (4¼ x 4½"). Trimmed into plate.
A design for a snuff box, with a scene of a cherubic Love tying Time's hand with flowers as another cherub clips his wings.
[Ref: 66186] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Affection.
Sketch'd by R.K. Porter. Engraved by Cheesman.
Pub as the Act directs. Jan.1.1805, by P. Sintzenich, 5, Charles Street, Midd.x Hospital London.
Stipple. Plate 260 x 304mm. 10¼ x 12". Large margins, some creasing.
Love and Affection; two winged cherubs being blessed.
[Ref: 23201] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Love and folly. After the Spanish, by the author of Old Nick. Composed by Mr Jos.h Major.
Publish'd Octr. 1. 1807. by Laurie & Whittle, 53. Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A procession through a churchyard to a church is headed by a fool in cap and bells who leads a blindfolded Cupid. Behind, a toothless old man and a pretty girl dance along together,
BM Satires 10953.
[Ref: 50705] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Honour. To The Right hon.ble the Countess of Eustonm This Print from an Original Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq,,r is with the gratest respect Dedicated by Her Ladyships Obedient Humble Servant W. Dickinson.
H. Bunbury Esq,,r Delint. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
London, Publish'd: Dec.r 1st; 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in colours. Sheet 405 x 350mm. Some restoration.
A dragoon embraces a young woman before leaving, as another rider holds his rearing horse. A scene from 'The Tobacco Box', author unknown. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). The colour is particularly fine.
[Ref: 51468] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Hope.
H. Bunbury Esqr,, Delint:
Pub.d Dec.r 1st; 1786 by W. Dickinson No.24 New Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in brown ink. 160 x 200mm (6¼ x 8").
Two young women standing either side of a gate, looking over to a soldier seated holding a rifle at left; oval design. After Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811).
[Ref: 26899] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Hope.
H. Bunbury Esq,,r Delint. C. Knight fecit.
London, Publish'd: Decr. 1st; 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in colour. Sheet 400 x 450mm. Some restoration.
An oval scene of a young woman flirting with a seated soldier holding a rifle, as another woman watches from a gate. A pair to 'Love and Jealousy', both after Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). The colour is particularly fine.
[Ref: 51465] £450.00

Vicissitudes of Love & Matrimony.
[Anon., c.1820]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Ladder showing the progressing stages of love on one side (admiration; flirtation; declaration; acceptation; preparation; celebration), with happy couples ascending a hill to the temple of the muses. From there, the descent begins (alteration; irritation; altercation; execration; desperation; separation), with a ship in a storm providing the not-so-subtle metaphor. One of many nineteenth century prints visualising the ups and downs of relationships (see also the 'Map of Matrimony', ref. 40811). This particular impression has been personalised by a previous owner, who has trimmed the print and coloured the edges in trompe l'oeil fashion, to resemble a piece of paper curling at the edges.
[Ref: 41085] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Opportunity.
[London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No.53 in Fleet Street. Published as the Act directs 1 Sepr 1768.]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed losing publication line.
A satire on the folly of marriages between partners of unequal age, and on the sexual opportunism of young military officers. An elderly magistrate has dozed off beside a table holding glasses, pipes, and two bottles, one labelled ''Port'', set before an empty grate. He clutches a copy of ‘Compleat Justice’, identifying him as a Justice of the Peace, while a paper protruding from his pocket reads ''—him for a Trespass on…''. On a bracket table behind him are Burns’ Justice, a document marked ''Stealing a Hare,'' and another inscribed ''Mid to Wit…''. Above his head hangs a stag’s head with antlers, an allusion to his cuckoldry. On the opposite side of the fireplace, his pretty young wife sits with an army officer who fondles her, his hat hanging on the wall behind them. The mantelpiece holds two oriental-style jars and a figure of Budai, the ''laughing Buddha,'' above which a gun is suspended upside down.
BM Satires 4249. See [Ref: 5396] for publication line.
[Ref: 67926] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Opportunity. 241
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [date erased, c.1780].
Mezzotint`. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Fine with large margins.
An elderly couple sleep round a table with an empty bottle of wine, allowing a young man to pass a love-letter through the door to their daughter.
BM Satires 4591, earlier state unnumbered.
[Ref: 37576] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Opportunity.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No.53 in Fleet Street. Published as the Act directs 1 Sepr 1768.
Engraving. 250 x 355mm.
A gentle satire on the folly of marriages between partners of unequal age, and on the sexual opportunism of young military officers. An elderly magistrate has dozed off beside a table holding glasses, pipes, and two bottles, one labelled “Port”, set before an empty grate. He clutches a copy of ‘Compleat Justice’, identifying him as a Justice of the Peace, while a paper protruding from his pocket reads “—him for a Trespass on…”. On a bracket table behind him are Burns’ Justice, a document marked “Stealing a Hare,” and another inscribed “Mid to Wit…”. Above his head hangs a stag’s head with antlers, an allusion to his cuckoldry. On the opposite side of the fireplace, his pretty young wife sits with an army officer who fondles her, his hat hanging on the wall behind them. The mantelpiece holds two oriental-style jars and a figure of Budai, the “laughing Buddha,” above which a gun is suspended upside down.
BM Satires 4249.
[Ref: 5396] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Love at First Sight.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t G. Shepheard sculp.t
[London Published: Jany. 10th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.]
Finely hand-coloured stipple and etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾). Trimmed within plate.
A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman; a dog to lower right. From a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury.
BM Satires: 11456 (cf). See [Ref: 20101] & [Ref: 67889] for different colouring.
[Ref: 67885] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Love at First Sight.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t G. Shepheard sculp.t
London Published: Jany. 10th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured stipple and etching. 300 x 242mm. 11¾ x 9½". Trimmed to the plate. Tear into lower left.
A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman; a dog to lower right. From a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury.
BM Satires: 11456 (cf).
[Ref: 20101] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Love Cares'd. Come to my arms, thou best, & dearest Boy The God of Love, triumphant, is my joy. The Original in the Possession of George Stainforth Esq.r Jun.r
G.B. Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act directs, March 5.th 1783 by M.mo Bori No.207 Piccadilly.
Stipple. Collector's stamp M Bovi on verso and another. Plate 255 x 190mm. 10 x 7½". Slight creasing through title area and upper right.
Venus, bare-breasted, looks longingly into the eyes of winged cupid; a the plains and mountain behind.
From Broadlands the Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27513] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vryagie van Reinter Adriaasz by Saartje Jansz. Declaration d'Amour de René à Sarotte.
C. Troost inv. Punt et Tanjé fecurunt.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), with very large margins. Light foxing.
A scene showing the puritan René declaring his love for Sarotte. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42659] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Love Disappointed.
W.Beachy pinx.t. R. Read sc.
London, Published Jan.y 1.st 1784 by J. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet: 240 x 255mm (9½ x 10"). Slight staining.
An allegorical scene in which a woman holds one of cupid's arrows aloft.
[Ref: 46904] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Love Feast.
Thaumaso Scrutiny Esq.e Fecit.
Published for the Satirist. Oct.r 1.st 1808, by S. Tipper 37 Leadenhall Street.
Etching with aquatint, plate 185 x 335mm (7¼ x 13½"), with margins. On paper watermarked '1807'. Folds as issued. Small tear in one of the folds just touchng the plate.
Pl. from the 'Satirist', iii. 225. A satire on the marriage of Calvinist preacher, William Huntington (1745-1813) on 15th August 1808, to the rich widow of Sir James Sanderson (1741–1798), so that gold replaces his former earnings as a coal-heaver. He had formerly (after seducing and deserting another young woman) had 'a connection' (i.e. married) Mary Short by whom he had thirteen children; she died from gin and chagrin at the intimacy from c. 1803 between Huntington and Lady Sanderson. A "love-feast" is underway in a sparsely furnished room, illuminated by a torch that the Devil is holding above Huntington's bride's head. Huntington is holding the hand of a small woman who is staring at a picture (or mirror) that a "fat mid-wife" has held out to her. The picture features little imps or ragamuffins. The Devil offers a miserable literary hack a pair of breeches, while his ragged shirt and coat hang over his nude legs. With great pleasure, the latter accepts the breeches; from his pocket projects a paper: 'Huntington rescued from the Attack of the Satirist'. Hideous men and women can be seen on the left; one man is shown pouring a bottle's contents into the mouth of a woman who appears to be debauched. A woman holding an ugly baby is given a "Warrant f Bastardy" by a man. Demons are seen in the background emptying one sack of coal and stuffing another full of gold. "Bank of Faith this Lucrative Concern to be Disposed of the Present Proprietor retiring from Trade" is written on a placard that is attached to the wall.
BM Satires 11083.
[Ref: 62310] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Love & Glory._Sung by M.r. Braham.
Publish'd' Sep.t. 12. 1805, by Laurie & Whittle., 53 Fleet Street, London.
Very fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 9"). Trimmed within plate. Mounted within album sheet. Some stains.
Illustration to 'Love & Glory' a song which describes the love story between Henry and Jane. When Henry leaves to fight in battle Jane follows after and dies fighting alongside him disguised as a man. The character of Henry is depicted brandishing a sword in his right hand and holding a wounded Jane in his left. A wonderful over the top romantic image!
[Ref: 37447] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Plate from 'Amore prigioniero in Delo' by Giacinto Lodi.]
Gio: Batta: Coriolano [engraved in reverse].
[n.d., c.1630.]
Etching. Sheet 235 x 295mm (9¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into image on left, losing c.50mm. Very small wormhole centre bottom.
A festival float representing Venus with Nereids in a pool, accompanied by knights and soldiers. The last of 15 plates in Lodi's 'Love Held Prisoner on Delos', an account of a 1628 tornament in Bologna in honour of Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. This example is a reversed copy.
The BM also has one plate, Y,8.125, also reversed.
[Ref: 55421] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[L'Amour au Convent.]
[Dugoure.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
A scarce hand-coloured aquatint. Proof before letters. Sheet: 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed.
A scene in a convent in which several nuns gather around a font baptising winged cupids alongside the figure of Mercury and Eros.
[Ref: 47242] £390.00

Oh' How I Love the Ladies. I did it afore his very sight, lard', how the chap did stare![/] For it's my delight on a shiny night, to kiss the charming fair.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 190 x 235mm (7½ x 9¼"). Trimmed and folded.
A comic scene showing a young man kissing a young woman while behind them a gardener looks at them in horror.
[Ref: 43791] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Love Letters.] Sketches for Life. No.10. Vy, you barbarous Willin is this here the way you treat you tender, loveing, [/] Affectionare Wife for to Write love letters to your Wicked Hussey's?
H. Heath del.
London, Published by C. Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Marking around edges.
A large, imposing woman grabs her husband by the collar holding a letter in her other hand.
[Ref: 43792] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Love Masked
Published as the Act directs Oct 10 1799 by P.W.Tomkins, No.49 New Bond Street London.
Fine stipple, printed in colours. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with large margins. Tears in margins, some soiling of edges. Uncut. Publishing line slightly faded.
An infant Cupid hides behind a huge Tragic mask. A pair to 'Cupid Unmasked'.
[Ref: 54209] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Love Me, Love My Dog. Sketches of Head by W.D., No.69.
London; Published July 20, 1833, by T. McLean, Haymarket. Printed by Maguire & Co.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14¼"). Staining and laid on album sheet.
A scene showing a woman holding her dog.
[Ref: 44727] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Love Poem.] [Two embossed prints of a piper with dancing dogs & Lord Brougham.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Hand-written ink & two embossed prints. Sheet 331 x 247mm. 13 x 9¾".
A love poem accompanied by two embossed images; above: a young pied piper dancing in the street, with two dressed-up dancing dogs, one wearing a clown hat and holding a small flag; below: a portraits in profile of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom. He studied law and was called to the English bar in 1808. He took up the fight against the slave trade and opposed restrictions on trade with continental Europe.
[Ref: 19157] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Remember me. [&] The power of Love.
[n.d. c.1830]
Two letterpress' sheet 395 x 250mm (15½ x 9¾") Glued to album paper.
Two letterpress poems with flower designs framed around them.
[Ref: 62272] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Love Sheltered. It's a cold, rainy night, and I'm wet to the skin / And I have lost my way, Ma'am: so pray let me in [...]
H. Thomson Pinx.t W.m Say Sculp.t
London, Published Nov.r 10.th 1806 by H. Macklin, 39, Fleet Street
Mezzotint, Open-letter proof, rare, platemark 655 x 415mm (25¾ x 16¼"), with very large margins.
Allegorical scene after one of the major works of Henry Thomson (1777-1843), engraved the same year as the Thomson painted the picture. Thomson was elected as a Royal Academician two years earlier, in 1804, and in 1825 would succeed Henry Fuseli as keeper of the Royal Academy. The publisher, Hannah Macklin, was the widow of Thomas Macklin, continuing his business after his death in 1801.
[Ref: 45436] £420.00

The Love Sick Frog. ''-She pin'd in thought...
Drawn by H. Walter. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
Published 1828, by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Haymarket, London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 305mm (9 x 12''). Creasing and foxing.
A scene showing a group of frogs surrounding a reclined frog pining for her love.
[Ref: 51081] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Love Sleeps.
Angelica Kauffman del. T. Kirk sculp.
Published Jan. 1. 1794, by A.C.de Poggi, No. 91 New Bond Street, London.
Very rare stipple. 175 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½"), with large margins. Top corner of margin torn, well outside plate mark.
Eros sleeps leaning on his mother Aphrodite as a putto takes his bow. The image is within a decorative border suggesting a Græcian pottery plate.
[Ref: 41948] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A Love Story.]
Frank Dicksee pinxt. A. Lalaure aqu. [Both signed in pencil:] Frank Dicksee. A Lalauze.
Published July 1st.1884 by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, Liverpool & Manchester, & by M. Schaus, New-York.
Engraving and etching. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 386 x 508mm. 15¼ x 20". Laid on board.
Lovers seated on a stone bench under a bush at close quarters. Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853-1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator. He was best known for his dramatic historical and legendary scenes.
PSA: AP, limited to 300.
[Ref: 20266] £520.00

Love triumphant over Reason.
Painted by Warniment. Engraved by Philippeaux.
Se venf à Paris chez Arthur et Comp.ie à la Manufacture Royal de aperper peint, Rue Louis le Grand au coin du Boulevard [n.d., c.1790].
Stipple. Sheet 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, extensive restoration. Damaged
A bare-brested woman lies on a bed, a suitor standing at her feet. Cupid stands at her head, his quiver on the floor. With four lines from 'Love Triumphant Over Reason', a poem by the Rev. Mr John Pomfret (1667-1702). Although obscure now, Samuel Johnson included Pomfret in his 'Lives of the Poets'..
[Ref: 55423] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Love Your Own Land.
[Dublin, P. Brereton? c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
Irish famine interest. ''Can you equal famed Killarney / Whose name resounds from Shore to Shore''.
See ref: 52233.
[Ref: 52235] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Christophorus Love, jn zyn leiten getrouw bedienaar des H. Evangliumsin laurense jury, binnen Londen, onthalst op Toitwehil den 22, Augusti Ao. 1651. Siet hier de schrand're Lov...Vermelden Eeuwighlyk de lof van Godes Naarm.
A. Conradus fecit. P.e de Lange.
[n.d. c.1650.]
Rare engraving. Plate 305 x 222mm. 12 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Christopher Love, half length, standing in a pulpit, wearing skull-cap, collar and gown, one hand to his breast, the other holding a book on a cushion. Christopher Love (1618-1651) was a Welsh Protestant preacher and advocate and Presbyterianism at the time of the English Civil War. In 1651 he was executed by the government, after it was discovered that he had been in correspondence with the exiled Stuart court.
[Ref: 24643] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Christ.r Love. AEtat: 35:
1652.
Engraving. Plate 108 x 82mm. 4¼ x 3¼". Small crease lower left-hand corner.
Christopher Love (1618-1651) wearing a skull-cap and gown, and holding a book; curtain and pillar in the background. Frontispiece to his "Soul's Cordiall" of 1653. He was a Welsh Protestant preacher and advocate of Presbyterianism at the time of the English Civil War. In 1651 he was executed by the government, after it was discovered that he had been in correspondence with the exiled Stuart court. He went his his death as a hero and martyr of the Presbyterian faction which had petitioned in vain for his pardon.
[Ref: 19193] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

David Love, Aged 74. 1824. / Here's David's likeness for his Book, / All those who buy may at it look; / As he is in his present state, / Now Printed from a Copper plate. [&] Eliz.th Love Aged 49. 1825. / Here's the likeness of David's Wife, / Whom he loves dearly as his life; Industrious, steady, kind, and free, And lovingly they do agree.
W.S. [in David Lowe plate].
[n.d., c. 1825.]
Pair of coloured etchings, each c. 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed irregularly and laid on old card.
A pair of portraits of David and Elizabeth Love. David, a travelling ballad singer and song-and-bookseller, is shown in Nottingham's market square with the Nottingham Exchange to the right, probably holding a sheath of songs sheets in his hands. Elizabeth is shown pointing at the portrait of her husband.
Rijksmuseum: RP-P-2015-26-1390.
[Ref: 51878] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Love, Jealousy, Revenge & Despair.
by F.P.Stephanoff [facsimile]. (in the Possession of the Engraver) Proof. Plate 5, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketched by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane.
Printed by C Hullmandel. London 1827. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé, rare with large margins. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Some foxing.
Four images [from top left, clockwise]: Love, two women picking flowers at the edge of a forest, watched by a man behind the trees to the right; Jealousy, a man inviting a woman to dance, in a clearing of the forest, from another man by the bench on left, other dancers in the background; Despair, a man standing on the edge of a cliff about to jump; Revenge, a couple sitting on a veranda, watched by another man behind a pillar to the left. After Francis Philip Stephanoff (1788-1860), painter and architectural designer. Best known for Nayler's Coronation of… George IV series of costume portraits which record details of elaborate ceremonial costume and are richly coloured, elegant, and highly finished. George IV attempted to rival the coronation of Napoleon when he was crowned emperor. He gave visual expression to intense contemporary interest in antiquarian and historical subjects brought about by the arrival in Britain of the Elgin marbles, by the novels of Sir Walter Scott and his arrangements for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in 1822. Their richly coloured work illustrates a romantic view of history that found its fullest expression during the Regency period.
[Ref: 24892] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Love, Bookseller, of Weymouth, The Fatest & Heaviest Man ever known in England.
[Anon, c.1805]
Engraving, platemark 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾").
Portrait of bookseller John Love (1793, fl.). Weighing around twenty-six stone, Love was in fact only a fraction of the size of his contemporary Daniel Lambert of Leicester (1770-1809), who weighed 52¾ stone! From the 'Wonderful Magazine', which included numerous portraits of eccentric and remarkable individuals.
O'D 1; For a portrait of Lambert see ref. 17776. Private Collection.
[Ref: 43358] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Loveday.] Wouldst know whose Face this Figure represents; He was the Muses Darling [...]
[William Faithorne.]
[1659.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders.
Portrait of Robert Loveday (c.1620-56), translator. Frontispiece to Loveday's 'Letters Domestick and Forrein' (London, 1659).
Fagan pg. 46.
[Ref: 67996] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Loveday.] Wouldst know whose Face this Figure represents; He was the Muses Darling [...]
[William Faithorne.]
[1659.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders. Some staining.
Portrait of Robert Loveday (c.1620-56), translator. Frontispiece to Loveday's 'Letters Domestick and Forrein' (London, 1659).
Fagan pg 46.
[Ref: 67997] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Loveday.] Wouldst know whose Face this Figure represents [...]
[n.d., c.1659.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to platemark on 3 sides. Hinged to backing sheet at right edge. Repaired tear in lower edge.
A portrait of translator Robert Loveday (1620 - 1656) within an ocatogon. An illustation in each corner shows the sun, two doves, a bird in a cave and a vessel at sea. Loveday translated into English the first three parts of La Calprenède's romance of ‘Cleopatra,’ under the title of ‘Hymen's Præludia, or Love's Master-Piece,’ which appeared respectively in 1652, 1654, and 1655. An illustration to 'Loveday's Letters Domesick and Forrein, To Several Persons, occasionally distributed in Subjects Philosophicall, Historicall & Morall. By R. Loveday', published in London, 1659.
Fagan: p.46/47. II/II.
[Ref: 37719] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Lovejoy.
Pub accor to Act Feby. 9th 1772 by MDarly Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A prostitute with hair dressed high with tight curls at the side, wearing a fur-bordered cloak with a hood over a frilled and flounced petticoat with a looped-up train. Her hands are in a muff trimmed with frills of ribbon. A double row of pearls or beads is round her neck. A well known house of ill-repute in the Piazza, Covent Garden, was known as Lovejoy's. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '12' upper right.
BM Satires: 4995.
[Ref: 14173] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[India] [Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell] Major General Lovell, K.H.
Painted by T.W. MacKay. Engraved by G.T. Payne.
Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, surface scratches
Half-length portrait of General Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell (1786-1861), in huzzar uniform, an Indian camp scene behind. He holds the scabbard of his mameluke sword in one hand and his shapka in the other. Born Badcock, he assumed the surname of Lovell under royal sign manual in 1840. After fighting under General Auchmuty at Montevideo in 1807 and in the Peninsula War with the 14th Light Dragoons (being awarded the Peninsular Medal with eleven clasps, the most earned by a cavalry officer), he transfered to command the 15th Light Dragoons (later hussars). The regiment was stationed in India between spring 1840 and 1854, but in 1850 Lovell exchanged from the 15th Hussars to half pay with the 11th Hussars. He became major-general on 20 June 1854, and in 1856 was made KCB and appointed colonel of the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal lancers.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66237] £320.00

The lovely babe was born with every grace; / Such was his form, as painters, when they show / Their utmost art, on naked loves bestow. _ Dryden.
Painte by W. Owen, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, Engraver to the King.
London Published June 1st 1833 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Printsellers to the Royal Family. Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint. Mount sight size 330 x 370mm, 13 x 14½". Framed with Christies's auction description pasted on verso. Faint spotting, unexamined out of frame.
Cupid on a cloud, quiver over his shoulder, arrow in hand.
Provenence: Heathcote Heirlloms, Bighton Wood, Alresford, Hants. Whitman: 423, iii of iii.
[Ref: 27836] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A New Song on Lovely Katey of Liskehan.
P. Brereton Printer, Lr, Exchange St, Dublin [c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
''You gentle muses I pray excuse me, / Your kind infusion to me grant once more, / Til I praise a maiden sweet engageing, She is lovely Venis that I do adore...''
[Ref: 52238] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Lovely Sacarissa dressing for the Pantheon. She Blooms in the Winter of her Days, like the Glastonbury Thorn.
Published Feby. 24, 1772.
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm. Repaired tears to left margin. Some scratching/scuffing to mezzotint.
A stout, ugly, and elderly woman holds in her left hand a barber's block, with a carved head in profile, on which is an elaborate pyramidal wig with ringlets. This she is covering with powder or flour from a dredger. Her back is turned to the casement window through which look two grinning old women, wearing frilled muslin caps. Behind on the wall, in deep shadow, is a picture of a dome inscribed 'The Pantheon'. Attributed to Philip Dawe (c. 1750 - 1791?).
BM Satires: 5533. Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Image appears to be based on BM Satires: 4647, Lady Drudger going to Ranelagh, 1772.
[Ref: 7888] £650.00

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