Grosvenor Prints

[Don Giovanni de' Medici.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Don Giovanni de' Medici (1567-1621), illegitimate son of Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later legitimised). He moved to Spain to become a soldier: his career included becoming Master of the Field for the Imperial army (1600) and Commander-in-Chief of the army of the Republic of Venice (1616-7). He also served as the Florentine ambassador in Madrid (1598). He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32685] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie de' Medici] La destinée de la Reine. Les Parques filent la vie de la Reine sous l'heureuse constellation de Jupiter [...]
Rubens pinxit. J.B. Nattier delin Lud. de Chastillon sculp.
A Paris chez Duchange Graveur du Roy, rue St Jacques au dessus de la rue des Mathurins. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving, platemark 505 x 235mm (19¾ x 9¼").
The Destiny of Marie de' Medici, the first picture in Rubens' great narrative cycle on the life of Marie. The three Fates, on clouds beneath Juno and Jupiter, spin the thread which determines Marie's destiny. Consisting of twenty-four paintings, the series was commissioned by Marie for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. They now hang in the Louvre.
[Ref: 35030] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie de Medici surrounded by her children]
[Lucas Vorsterman after Nicolaas van der Horst]
[Published by Balthasar Moretus, 1632]
Engraving, sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Laid onto album sheet on left margin.
Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573-1642), wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. Later she was the regent for her son King Louis XIII of France. Shown here framed within a tree, from the branches of which grow her children: Louis XIII of France; Henrietta Maria; Elisabeth, Gaston of Orléans; and Christine Marie of Savoy. Fame and Fortune water the tree in lower corners. Illustration to Jean Puget de la Serre's 'Histoire Curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'Entree de la Reyne Mere du Roy Treschrestien dans les Villes des Pays Bas" (Antwerp: Moretus, 1632)
[Ref: 43012] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Marie' de Medici] Maria Medicea H.I HIIII.I Coniux [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, 17th century watermark; each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾").
Marie' de Medici (1575-1642), Queen of France as second wife of Henri IV. Following her husband's assassination at the hands of a fanatical Catholic in 1610 she acted as regent until her son, the future Louis XIII, came of age. A notable patron of the arts, Marie oversaw the construction and furnishing of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris (modelled after the Palazzo Pitti in Marie's hometown of Florence) and employed Rubens as her court painter. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men (and women) hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 40069] £320.00

Maria ab Etruria Cosmi Primi Magni Ducis Etruriae Filia Alphonso II. Duci Ferrariae Desponsata.
Adriano Halluech. Sculp: (after Agnolo Bronzino)
[n.d. 1741.]
Engraving. 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
'Regiae familiae Mediceorum etruriae principum effigies' is the source for this engraving by Adrian Halluech [Adrian Haelwegh] working in Italy in the 1660's. The 'Regiae Familiae' used 54 engravings by Halluech and was published in Florence 1741. Agnolo Bronzino painted the sitter when 11years old. Marie de Medici (1540-1557) was engaged to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, but died at the age of seventeen, before the marriage could take place. She was educated with her brothers and was among the brightest of the children. When her brother Francesco didn't understand his Greek lesson, his tutors called on Maria to explain it to him. Maria kept herself somewhat aloof from her younger brothers and sisters. She grew into an elegant, highly educated, and decorous young woman. Accurate accounts indicate that Maria's cause of death was probably malaria. She died in Livorno. Her father Cosimo I mourned for her deeply and kept her portrait in his bedroom until he died. Her sister Lucrezia di Cosimo de Medici later married Alfonso.
[Ref: 17168] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cl. et Excell. Joannis Prævostii Practici ac P.P. Patavini Medicina Pauperum ac ejusdem de venenis ac eorundem alexipharmacis opusculum.
Francofurti Sumptibus Johannes Beyeri. M.DC.XL. [1641.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 65mm (4¼ x 2½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
The engraved titlepage of a herbal by Jean Pre´vost (1585-1631), head of the Botanical Gardens in Padua, the epicentre of renaissance medicine and anti-clerical sentiment. It was an influential work: the English edition of 1670, 'Medicaments for the poor', was intended to break the monopoly of the apothecaries who used Latin to obscure their knowledge.
[Ref: 42369] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Medecine Universelle. Célébre Médecin Docteur par excellence. / Qui nous voyez aux piés de votre révérence [...]
A Paris Chez N. Guerard graveur rue St Jacques proche St. Yves à la Reine du Clergé. C.P.R. [c.1780]
Etching, platemark 285 x 185mm (11¼ x 7¼"), with very large margins.
French-published print paying tribute to the medical profession, with a doctor on a plinth and admiring crowds below.
[Ref: 44209] £320.00

[Marie de Médicis.] Sic ivit nostram grandis Medicea per Urbem, Sceptrorum Mater suspicienda trium
[after Gerard van Honthorst, c.1638]
Engraving, sheet 315 x 210mm (12½ x 8¼"). Trimmed inside platemark and glued to album sheet with hand-drawn borders.
Portrait of Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573-1642) with a view of Amsterdam in the background. She was the wife of King Henry IV of France, of the Bourbon branch of the kings of France. Later she was the regent for her son King Louis XIII of France. Frontsipiece to Caspar Barlaeus' 'Medicea Hospes' (Amsterdam, 1638), a series of plates showing the festivals and ceremonies given to Marie de Medici by the city of Amsterdam during her visit from 31 August to 5 September 1638.
For another plate from 'Medicea Hospes' see ref. 28696.
[Ref: 37359] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View of El Medinah. Taken From the Harrah (Or Ridge) West of the Town.
R. Burton Del.t. Hanhart Lith.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Large margins. Slight foxing.
Plate 1 from the first volume of Richard Francis Burton's 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca', 1855-1856. In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access.
Abbey: 368.
[Ref: 37262] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Meditation.]
P. Violet pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
London Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1792 by I.F. Tomkins, No 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple, proof before title. 130 x 100mm (5 x 4") very large margins. Some spotting.
A head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a turban, head turned to her left. A pair to 'Admiration'.
Not in BM. De V: 657 II of IV
[Ref: 55512] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Meditation]
[by Charles West Cope, c.1844]
Etching on india with large margins, platemark 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼").
A woman sitting at a desk with open bible, with painting of the Virgin and Child on the wall. Etching by history painter Charles West Cope (1811-90). From 'Etched Thoughts of the Etching Club', of which Cope was a founding member, and illustrative of a poem by Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich. Cope is primarily remembered for his frescoes in the House of Lords and the peers' corridor, but in addition to his academic renderings of historical and literary subjects, he was a talented printmaker.
[Ref: 35890] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Meditation.
Engraved by S. Phillips, from a Drawing by R. Westall R.A.
London Pub.d April 7 1802 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts 101 Strand.]
Stipple. proof before all letters. Sheet 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Trimmed within platemark, paper patched in inscription area bottom right.
A seated woman in profile; with long dark hair, looking upward to the left, wearing a loose gown with a sash. The British Museum has the original pencil and watercolour with touches of white. In the description the sitter is supposed to be either Emma Hamilton or Mrs Siddons.
BM for the published state, 2009,7006.1 for the original.
[Ref: 48923] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Meditiation.
H. Singleton Delin.t. Geo. Townly Stubbs sculp.t. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of [Wales.]
London Published July 9.th 1800 by G.T. Stubbs No.97 High Street, Marylebone.
Stipple, printed in colours. Sheet: 310 x 215mm (12 x 8½''). Trimmed and foxing.
An allegorical scene showing a female figure in meditation.
CL-B George Stubbs: Appendix II 122. Ex Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 49887] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

When I consider thy Heavens the Work thy fingers; the Moon and the Stars, which thou hast ordained. Lord what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou visitest him? Pslam VIII, v.3 & 4.
F. Hayman del. I. Wall M.D inv. C.Gringnion Sculp.
Printed for John Rivinoton and Partners. M.r Hervey's Meditations &c. Vol. II. [n.d., c.1750].
Engraving, sheet 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed to plate top and right, thread margin left.
Frontispiece to Meditations and Contemplations Volume II by James Hervey. Astronomers look through telescopes and a group of men gather around a man who assesses a map of the heavens with a pair of compasses. James Hervey (1714 – 1758) was an English clergyman and writer. 'Meditations and Contemplations' was his earliest work and said to have been modelled on Robert Boyle's 'Occasional Reflections on various Subjects', within fourteen years passed through as many editions.
[Ref: 57016] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled Mediterranean scene Monte Carlo?]
Arthur Walsh. 1957. [pencil.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 130 x 165mm, 5 x 6½". With sheet with pencil presentation inscription from Walsh dated 1957. Spots in margin.
[Ref: 11659] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mediterranean Light [pencil]. Just Published. Original Mezzotint by L. Norsworthy (Limited Edition).
L. Norsworthy [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours, titled and signed by the artist. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6") very large margins. In original mount with printed label with publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A night scene, with lights in the distance behind cypress trees. Lennie Norsworthy (1905-1984).
[Ref: 49222] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled chart comprising of 30 Mediterranean ports & harbours.]
[Amsterdam, Johannes van Keulen, c.1730.]
Very scarce Engraving. 520 x 620mm, 20½ x 24½". Remargined on both sides.
A rare chart by the leading Dutch chart publishers for 150 years: it shows details of ports and harbours in Europe, Africa and Asia. They are: Porto Tanger; Porto Toulon; d'Eylanden van Eres; Porto Taranto; Porto Galipoli; Porto Brundisi; Porto de Cara-Busa; Porto Canea; Porto Zuda; Porto Andrea; I.Milo; Porto Nio; Porto Nixia; Porto Ziva; I. Delis; Eres; Porto Bona; Porto Trapano; Porto S. Pedro; Porto Serigo; Porto S. Nicolo in I. Serigo; Porto Candia; I. Stantea; Porto Spina Longa; Porto Paris; Porto Trio; Porto de Aula; Selue inde Golf van Narbona; Porto Gero in I.Metelino; Tripoli.
[Ref: 16267] £750.00

[Eleven fine watercolours of Mediterranean scenes.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Eleven watercolours by the same hand. Each c. 185 x 225mm (7¼ x 8¾"), some sheets watermarked 'L Tovil Mill 1810.]
Eleven watercolours from an English tour around the Mediterranean, with subjects from Venice, Malta, Naples, and Genoa, including two litters, a wine press, a monk taking confession and various costumes. The Lower Tovil Mill (or Allnut Mill) was a papermaking mill on the River Loose, a tributary of the Medway, Kent.
[Ref: 55050] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

A Medley of Characters. Plate 1. A Stick and Whip Seller in Belfast. Ascot Heath Races June 1791. Enfield Races Aug. 1791. [&] Plate 2. [&] Plate 3. An Irishwoman coming from Market. [&] Plate 4. At a Sale of Pictures. At a Concert.
Drawn by J. Nixon Esq.r. Engraved by Ziegler.
London, Pub. by Will.m Holland Cockspur Street [n.d., c.1805].
Rare set of four aquatints, printed in sepia. Each 280 x 605mm (11 x 23¾"), on Whatman paper, plate 2 dated 1805. All trimmed to plate at sides, plate 2 very small worm holes, nicks in edges, plate 3 with one caricature excised and taped back in place. All margins are tatty.
Four plates of caricature portraits, including several at horse races and a man playing a bassoon.
[Ref: 58411] £950.00 view all images for this item

[Two untitled medley prints in imitation of old master paintings]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Each sheet 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
Two trompe-l'œil medley prints, with Old Master-style Dutch painting stuck on wooden panels with red sealing wax,
[Ref: 54802] £320.00

[Untitled medley print relating to the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74.]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Printed from two plates, mezzotint and a colour-printed engraving, both with hand colour. Total 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
A trompe-l'œil medley print, with a central mezzotint printed over an engraving of proporting to be seven pieces of paper, stuck on a wooden wall by red sealing wax.. The mezzotint is of an Old Master-style Dutch drinker. The other images are two playing cards (front and back); a map of the Aegean; a scene of a 'triumphant' Russian standing over a vanquished Turk with a Greek watching; a scrap with French text relating to the war; and a naval battle engraving (The Battle of Chesme, June 24, 1770) and a German almanac title-page, both printed in sanguine. Christian Gottlob Winterschmidt (1755-1809)
See National Archives for copy Orlov Revolt 1770.
[Ref: 54801] £690.00

[Untitled Medley print.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Pen lithograph. Trimmed around image, so irregular, at most 190 x 180mm (7½ x 7"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A medley print, with a trompe l'oeil of eight cards: an illustration of Wellington kissing the hand of George IV, both on horseback; a ship beached for repairs; a map; a floorplan; a romanesque bust; the music to 'La Gazza Ladra' (Rossini's 'Thieving Magpie') arranged by T.W. Lloyd; and the trade card of 'James Bell, Printer, Bookseller & Stationer, 23, Lord Street'. It is probably that the print was published to demonstrate Bell's abilities.
[Ref: 40259] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Honble: Henry Medley Esqr: Rear Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet &c.
John Ellys pinxt. John Faber fecit 1745.
Sold by J Faber in Bloomsbury Square, T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & J Bowles in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 350 x 248 Foxing. Cut. Creasing. Small nick to the bottom left-hand corner.
Henry Medley (1687-1747) naval officer and Commodore Governor of Newfoundland, died on board the Russell at Vado. Medley entered the Royal Navy in 1703 and was appointed Governor of Newfoundland in 1739 and served for two seasons. In 1744 he was promoted to Rear-admiral of the White, and a year later promoted to Vice-admiral and Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. In 1747 he was then promoted to Vice-admiral of the Red.
Parker: 601. C.S. 238. From the Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 17009] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Medusa.]
[Thomas Dutton.]
[c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, printed in blue and sepia. Image 370 x 620mm. Some marginal spotting and a small tear, again marginal
[Ref: 2209] £780.00

[Raid on the Medway.] Abbildung der Statt und Revier von Rochester, Chetham etc...
[n.d, c.1670.]
Etching. Sheet: 155 x 380mm (6 x 15"). Trimmed. Repaired tear on left, printer's crease through image.
A view of the Dutch raid on the Medway inJune 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. After works by Willem Schellinks (1623-78), who painted several versions of the Medway raid.
[Ref: 47489] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Abbildung de Stadt und Revier von Rochester, Chetham, etc. allwo die Statische oder holländische Kriegsfloote ein gefallen seindt / fo fefchehen den 19.20.21.22 under 23 Junÿ.1667
[after Willem Schellinks.]
[Frankfurt: Matthäus Merian, 1677.]
Engraving. Printed area 150 x 375mm (6 x 14¾"). Trimmed from larger sheet, losing second prospect.
A prospect of the River Medway during the raid by the Dutch in June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Engraved after the view by Willem Schellinks as etched by Romeyn de Hooghe and published in the ''Theatrum Europaeum''.
[Ref: 55461] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Raid on the Medway.] Disegno dell'Ingresso, et Abbrvecia, Mento di Vascelli Inglesi Fattoda'gli Olandesi nella Riviera di Hattan.
A. Blom. del. et. f.
[n.d., c.1667.]
Rare etching. Plate: 380 x 300mm (15 x 12"), with very large margins. Three vertical folds, damage to edge of plate in lower left edge.
A scene showing the burning of the English fleet following the Dutch raid on the Medway in June 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. From Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato's ''Teatro del Belgio o sia descritione delle diecisette Provincie del medesimo''.
[Ref: 42717] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Raid on the Medway.] Afbeelding van de Stad en Revier van Rochester, Chattam...
Stoopendal sculp.
[n.d., c.1667.]
Engraving, with letterpress. Sheet: 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½"). Trimmed to image, tipped into album sheet, vertical central fold as normal. Letterpress trimmed and laid on album sheet below. Foxing & creasing.
A scene showing the Raid on the Medway by the Dutch led by Admiral de Ruyter in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Letterpress description in French below, with key identifying key locations and ships.
[Ref: 42935] £320.00

De beroemde Onderneming op de Rivieren van London en Rochester gedaan den 21, 22 en 23 Junij des Jaars 1667, onder het Opperbevel van den Edel Mogenden Heer Cornelis De Witt, Ruwaard van Putten, Regerend Burgemeester der Stad Dordrecht [...]
Getekend door D.k Langendyk, 1782. in't Koper gesneden door M. D. Sallieth, Rotterdam.
Uit gegeven by D.k Langendyk, M. de Sallieth en Dirk de Jong, te Rotterdam. [1782.]
Line engraving. Sheet 485 x 600mm (19 x 23½"). Trimmed within plate, some creasing, laid on album paper. Messy.
The Dutch surprise raid on Royal Navy ships anchored in the river Medway in June 1667, showing hand-to-hand fighting in small boats in the foreground and the elaborate stern of the British flagship 'Royal Charles' (subsequently towed away by the Dutch) upper left. The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter is shown standing, sword in hand, in the foreground. When the Dutch withdrew they took the 'Royal Charles' and 'Unity' as prizes which, along with heavy losses of large ships, left England unable to continue the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-7). Engraved by the Prague-born engraver Mattheus de Sallieth (1749-91).
Parker: 21.a
[Ref: 52827] £450.00

[Raid on the Medway.] Afbeeldingh van de stadt en revier van Rochester, Chatham [...].
[After William Schellinks.][Engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe.]
[n.d c.1667.]
Engraving, sheet 185 x 500mm (7¼ x 19¾). Trimmed within plate, vertical creases.
A prospect of the River Medway during the raid by the Dutch in June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Landwehr: 155.
[Ref: 60610] £420.00

A Meek-aroni Hornpipe.
Pub according to Act by MDarly 39 Strand May 24th 1774.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7". Some staining and offsetting.
A caricature of Mr Meek, a portly man holding hat and stick standing full-face. Little is known about him; he was the subject of several social satires in 1774. Possibly he was from Harrowgate, Yorkshire. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '6' upper right.
BM Satires: 4708.
[Ref: 14520] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Meekness.
G.B. Cipriani del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Published according to Act, Nov.r 6th 1783, by the Proprietor, No 5, Poland Street, Soho
Stipple printed in sepia, platemark 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Thread margins. Fine impression.
Woman sat on clouds with dove and sheep. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. This impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work.
Calabi & de Vesme 658 ii/ii
[Ref: 43143] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Aboo's Tomb - Merut.
Drawn from Nature & on stone by Capt.n J. Luard.
Printed by Graf & Soret. [n.d., c.1835].
Lithograph on India paper with large margins. Printed area: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 15")
A scene in Meerut, with a camel rider, two elephants and a mahout, with ornate tombs behind. By Major John Luard (1790 - 1875), who published 'Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone' in 1835, and 'History of the Dress of the British Soldier' in 1852.
[Ref: 36879] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Meet Me by Moonlight Alone & Then I Will Tell Thee a Tale.
Pr. by Graf & Soret.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Tear entering image on right.
A ruffian with a club waits to bushwack a corpulent man on a moonlit path.
[Ref: 54396] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Meeting of Jephthah and his Daughter
Painted by Edwin Long, R.A. Engraved by Herbert Bourne.
London May 2nd. 1892, Published by Fairless & Beeforth. 128, New Bond Street. W. Copyright Registered.
A mixed-method engraving. 674 x 921mm. 26½ x 36¼. Uncut. Mint.
Edwin Long (1829-1891) was born in Bath, had an early and precocious talent for drawing, studied at the RA Schools from 1849, and also was a student under John Phillip, who encouraged him to travel. in 1874 he visited Egypt and Syria, and this was the start of his career as an Orientalist painter. He developed a rich, exotic style, strong in detail and often on canvases of large size, allowing him to show long processions, enormous palaces or sweeps of mountains on an epic scale. His best years were in the 1870s-80s, when he was a popular, successful artist specialising in biblical stories and life in ancient Egypt. He became ARA in 1876 and RA in 1881. Jephthah's victorious return having defeated to the Ammonites, so be met on his return by his daughter, his only child. “And Jephthah made a vow unto the LORD: ‘If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.’ Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands. He devastated twenty towns … When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, ‘Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.’ ‘My father,’ she replied, ‘you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites” (Judges 11:30-36, NIV). This picture with The Martyr and Days of Mourning [see ref:14085 & 14094] make the trilogy.
[Ref: 14087] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Meeting of Paris and Helen.
E. Burney Esq.r del.t. R. Cooper sculp.
Published June 21. 1814 by S. & J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Very fine stipple printed in colour. Sheet 280 x 265mm (11 x 10½") Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Venus introduces Helen to a reclining Paris.
See [Ref: 65942] for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 65941] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Meeting of Paris and Helen.
E. Burney Esq.r del.t. R. Cooper sculp.
Published June 21. 1814 by S. & J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Stipple on india, 305 x 360mm (12 x 14"), with margins. Foxing and surface dirt. Tear in right bottom corner going into india paper.
Venus introduces Helen to a reclining Paris.
See [Ref: 65941] for one in colour.
[Ref: 65942] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Meetingers.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured woodcut. Sheet 160 x 185mm (6¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed close to printed border, repaired tear entering image.
An old lady holding a prayer book asks a man if he knows of a meeting nearby. The man, who is dressed is good but worn-out clothes, replies that he is holding a meeting of his creditors and would be offering only 'Five Farthings in the Pound'. A 'meetinger' was a name for a Protestant dissenter.
[Ref: 61095] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Mehemt Effendy Tefterdar Ambassadeur Extraordinaire de Laporte Vers Le Royt.C.Lovis XV.en 1721. Hunc Regi Summus mittit Dominator Eoi...De temoigner son Zete au plus charmant des Rois.
Gravé Par E. Desrochers.
AParis rue du Foin. [n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving. Plate 152 x 104mm (6 x 4"). Rare.
Mehemet Effendi (d.1732) , the Georgian Ottoman statesman who was delegated as ambassador by the Sultan Ahmed III to Louis XV's France in 1720. He is remembered for his account of his embassy mission.
[Ref: 29819] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mehemet Effendy Tefterdar Ambassadeur Extraordinaire de la Porte vers le Roy T. C. Louis XV en 1721.
Gravé AParis par E. Desrochers rue di Foin pres la rue S. Jacq.
[c,1721.]
Fine engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4"), very large margins Ink mss. in margin.
An oval half-length portrait of Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi Efendi (c.1670-1732), Ottoman ambassador to the court of Louis XV of France, 1720-1. His was the first permanent embassy for the Ottomans, during the 'Tulip Era' of relative peace. He is remembered for his account of the mission, published in French in 1757, and for opening the first printing house in the Ottoman empire.
[Ref: 60879] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Mehmed IV] Sultan Echmet Empereur des Turcs Aagè de 10 Ans.
B. Moncornet excudit [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Mounted in album paper, another portrait pasted on reverse.
A portrait of Mehmed IV (1642-1693), aged ten, sultan of the Turkish Empire from 1648 (aged 8) to 1687, when he was deposed.
[Ref: 66836] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sultan Mohammed IV; Mahumet Quartus Magnus Turcarum Imperator Christianitatis Hostis Perpetuus.
J. Gole Sculp.
Ex firmis Nicolai Visscher cum Privil: Ordin: Gen: Belgii Fœderati. [n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving, very rare. Sheet 390 x 285mm (15¼ x 11¼") Trimmed within platemark.
Mehmed IV (1642-93) became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire aged six. More interested in hunting, he gave up most of his executive power to his Grand Vizier, a situation that was never reversed. During his reign the Ottomans suffered the catastrophic defeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski (1674–96) at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
[Ref: 30961] £420.00

E: Méhul. Membre de l'Institute.
Dess. au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve-des-petits-champs no.15 à Paris 1808.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue neuve-des-Petits-Champs No 15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Aquatint. 245 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Some minor staining.
Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817), composer influential in the development of French opera. A physionotrace is an instrument designed to trace a person's profile, invented by a Frenchman named Gilles-Louis Chrétien in 1783-84. Chrétien's device transmitted the tracing of the silhouette, whilst crucially also including details such as clothing, to an engraving needle via an eyepiece. Enabling the production of multiple and therefore cheap copies, the physionotrace represented a precursor to photography in making portraiture a mass phenomenon.
[Ref: 46257] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies amplissimi consultissimique Viri, Dn. Iusti Meieri Noviomagensis, jc.ti eminentissimi, et in Acad: Argentorat: Antecellor: celeber.mi. Urbs me Noviomagum vitalibus edidit oris: Argentoratus docuit, fovitq, benigne: Commisitq, mibi Cathedram, sacra jura docenti. Hanc ego dum studeo pro parte ornare virili; Corpus, non animum, duri fregere labores.
Iac: de Heyden F.
[n.d. c.1640.]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 95mm (8 x 3¾").
Justus Meier, was a 17th century academic and editor. Engraved by Jakob von der Heyden (1573-1645).
[Ref: 24861] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape.] 6.
[Hendrik Meijer.]
Published by H. Meyer Goodge St May 1.st 1792.
Etching and aquatint, scarce, very fine with large margins. Plate 222 x 330mm (8¾ x 13"). Crease.
A landscape with a traveller resting at the foot of a large tree, his dog next to him; rocks and a pond at left. From "Twelve Designs Calculated for the Use of those who are Learning to Draw Landscape", by H. Meyer.
[Ref: 30934] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with hay-barn and sleeping shepherd in foreground]
[Etched by Hendrik Meijer with aquatint by T. Sheldrake]
Published by H. Meyer Charles St May 1.st 1792.
Etching and aquatint, rare, sheet 220 x 325mm (8¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Landscape published in a set of 'Twelve Designs Calculated for the Use of those who are Learning to Draw Landscape', drawn, etched and published by Hendrik Meyer with aquatint by the little-known 'T. Sheldrake'. Meijer (1744-93) was born in Amsterdam and moved to London in 1788/9, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.
For another plate in the set see ref. 30934.
[Ref: 47802] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lieut. G. Mein. H.M. 13th Regt. Infantry.
[after Vincent Eyre.]
[London, John Murray, 1843.]
Lithograph. 222 x 152mm (8¾ x 6").
George Mein (1815-1896) in Afghan dress, smoking a hookah. A portrait from Vincent Eyre's 'Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners', from an original drawing made during Eyre's captivity in Afghanistan after the Retreat from Kabul during the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842). Mein joined the Army as an ensign and was promoted to lieutenant in 1839. He served during the 1st Afghan War (1839-1842) with the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot. Present at the capture of Ghazni fort, he was wounded in the forehead by a spent bullet during the advance on Kabul. During the subsequent retreat of General Elphinstone's force from the Afghan capital he was taken prisoner at Tezeen on 8 January 1842, released in September. He was promoted to captain in 1846 and major in 1854, he eventually retired as a major-general in 1878.
[Ref: 15521] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Jean II Le Meingre] Joannes Boucicault Polemarchus Sub Carolo 5.o et Carolo 6.o [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Some foxing.
Jean II Le Meingre (1366-1421), knight and marshal of France. Beginning in 1384, Jean spent some twenty years travelling in Europe and Asia and fighting in numerous campaigns against pagans, Moors and the Ottoman Empire. He combined undoubted military prowess (defeating the most famous English soldiers at the tournament of Saint-Inglevert) with literary talents, assisting in the 'Livre des Cent Ballades' which set out the knight's code of chivalry. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39880] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Meissen on the Elbe from the West.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
[Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.]
Coloured aquatint, rare. Image area 101 x 161mm (4 x 6¼"). Cut.
A view of Meissen on the Elbe River; the Albrechtsburg castle and Gothic Meissen Cathedral to the right; Neal explained how he travelled by water from Koenigstein to Meissen. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
See Ref: 31166 from a view from the East.
[Ref: 31164] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Meissen on the Elbe from the East.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
[Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.]
Coloured aquatint, rare. Image area 101 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Cut.
A view of Meissen on the Elbe River; the Albrechtsburg castle and Gothic Meissen Cathedral to the left; Neal explained how he travelled by water from Koenigstein to Meissen. Merchant vessels and barges in the foreground unloading barrels and products. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
See Ref: 31164 from a view from the West.
[Ref: 31166] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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