Grosvenor Prints

[Monkey and spaniels.]
P. Tempest ex: [n.d., c.1690.]
Fine & scarce mezzotint. 135 x 175mm (5¼ c 7"). Torn to plate lower right, small tear entering plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
A spaniel barks at a monkey that has taken one of her litter. A parrot looks on.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66760] £420.00

Pray Accept Your Photograph.
[n.d., c.1880].
Lithograph, very scarce. Sheet size: 550 x 215mm (21½ x 8½"). Horizontal creases where previously folded.
A smartly dressed monkey, in a green chequered suit and grey overcoat, stands facing the viewer, smiling, with his left hand on his chest, and his right hand by his side. His attire is that of a typical Victorian photographer. Based on the genre of Singerie or 'Monkey Trick', depicting monkeys apeing human behavior, often fashionably attired, always with a gentle cast of mild satire.
[Ref: 33359] £420.00

[A monkey smoking and reading The Times] How Tedious.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Trimmed into image, 'How Tedious' written in ink as a title.
A monkey wearing a fez and smoking jacket, sits in a window smoking an ornate opium pipe and reading the Times.
[Ref: 60404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A monkey and violin] De Beriot.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼". Trimmed into image, 'De Beriot' written in ink as a title.
A monkey wearing a hat sits with his feet on the keyboard of a piano, playing a violin. One hand is on the bow, the other under the violin, not on the strings. Satire on Belgian violinist and composer, Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–70).
[Ref: 60403] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

''Poculum elevatum.'' From an Original Picture in the Possession of Jos.h French Esq.r, Windsor. Proof.
Painted by E. Bristow Engraved by H.D. Dawe.
Pub.d Jan.y 1836 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town. Ackermann & Co. Strand & C. Tilt, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired tear.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed as monks toasting each other with wine.
[Ref: 59168] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Monkey seated at an easel] How oft' at Morning we despise the Dame, / Who to the Pencil owes her Ev'ning's Fame! [...]
Watteau pinxit.
Printed & Sold by J. Tinney at the Golden Lion near the Globe Tavern in Fleet-Street London. [c/1750]
Rare engraving, platemark 250 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"), with very large margins.
Copy, in reverse, of an engraving by Louis Deplaces after Watteau, showing a monkey as an artist. palette on arm before a painting. The verses beneath, while longer than those beneath Desplaces' print, make a similar comparison between monkeys' mimickry of mankind and the disguise of natural appearance accomplished by make-up.
[Ref: 45993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Monkey parish watch-house]
[Anon, c.1820's]
Lithograph with very fine hand-colouring, sheet 245 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Trimmed to image.
Unusual amateur lithograph set in a watch-house, on the wall of which hang the 'Rules & Order For the Watch of Monkey Parish'. Two well-dressed cats have been apprehended and their valuables handed over and kept in a ledger. One monkey in the foreground has been injured and his lamp broken- three other defunct lamps hang on the wall. A particularly odd example for the trend for anthropomorphic prints in Victorian England.
[Ref: 31966] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Adone then you imperdent Monkey, or I'll scratch yer face!
[n.d. c.1800.]
Coloured lithograph, rare. 229 x 215mm. 9 x 8½".
Two monkeys: a dandy leans in to a kiss the cleaning woman who shows her claw in disgust at his forward gesture; broom and bucket spill on floor.
[Ref: 26853] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ha! Ha! very good. Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain? Shakespeare
Thos. Landseer.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Etching. Plate 198 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½".
A monkey in Victorian dress seated in an armchair; with a glass of port in his right hand. A port jug sits on a table; a small dog on the floor looking up at his inebriated master.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18507] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[First King.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom, small scrape in top edge.
A singerie print, with monkeys playing draughts. One is dressed in a soldier's uniform.
[Ref: 62163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Roser.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom.
A singerie print, with monkeys in human clothes playing cribbage.
[Ref: 62164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Tableux de Paris. Les Singes.
Marlet [bottom left inside image.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph. 260 x 330mm. 10¼ x 13".
A street scene in Paris with the Pont Neuf in the background. A showman displays his tightrope walking monkeys. From a series of 'Tableaux de Paris' (1820-4).
[Ref: 15091] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Imago Simiarumquae.
Joh. Ph. Aubry fecit.
[Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1691.]
Engraving. Printed area 290 x 375mm. (11½ x 14¾"). Trimmed, false margin added, some staining..
Illustrations of monkeys, from Hiob Ludolf's 'Historiam Aethiopicam Antehac Editam Commentarius'. A key describes them eating ants, lifting rocks for worms and throwing dust in the eyes of attacking lions. Ludolf (1624-1704), a German orientalist, learned the Ethiopian language from Gregorius, a monk from the Ethiopian province of Amhara. He used this knowledge to research the country, even visiting England to promote a trade scheme, unsuccessfully. The modern scholar Edward Ullendorff called Ludolf 'the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship'.
For a portrait of Ludolf see ref. 26060.
[Ref: 30157] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Dansant. [In pencil.]
L.R. Brightwell. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c. 1923.] James Connell & Sons in an edition of 100 signed proofs.
Drypoint etching. Plate: 375 x 250mm (14¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Uncut, with original mount and attachment.
A scene showing several monkeys on a branch eating fruit. Leonard Robert Brightwell (1889-1962) produced his comical animal etchings from about 1920 to 1932 - Monkeys were his favourite!
See 38926 for his Elephants.
[Ref: 44416] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[...] Guereza. Animalculum e genere eorum quae Hollandi Sanguinen vocant Callitrix veterum ut videtur Nobis Cercopitheculum vel Galeopitheculium appellare visum suit.
Joh. Ph. Aubry fecit.
[Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1691.]
Engraving. Printed area 300 x 250mm. (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, false margin added, some damp staining.
Illustrations of two monkeys from Hiob Ludolf's 'Historiam Aethiopicam Antehac Editam Commentarius'. Ludolf (1624-1704), a German orientalist, learned the Ethiopian language from Gregorius, a monk from the Ethiopian province of Amhara. He used this knowledge to research the country, even visiting England to promote a trade scheme, unsuccessfully. The modern scholar Edward Ullendorff called Ludolf 'the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship'. The guereza is an inhabitant of Ethiopia, but the Callithrix (marmoset) is a New World Monkey. It seems Ludolf, who never left Europe, got confused.
For a portrait of Ludolf see ref. 26060.
[Ref: 30160] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Monkey's at Whist.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Fine coloured etching, watermark Hagar & Son 1826. Sheet 180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Four fashionably-dressed monkeys play cards.
See Ref: 56371
[Ref: 56370] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pugilistic Monkey's.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured etching, watermark Hagar & Son 1826. Sheet 180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A pair of monkeys in a boxing ring, attended by their seconds.
See Ref: 56370
[Ref: 56371] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Du'ellists. Now Sir!!!
Painted by T. Blake. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published March 24, 1828 by C.Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, Mefs.rs Colnaghi & Son, Pall Mall East, & Mefs.rs Moon Boys & Graves, Pall Mall.
Rare mezzotint. 360 x 355mm (14¼ x 14"). Trimmed close to lower plate. Slight creasing bottom right.
Five monkeys gather, two of which hold pistols and engage in a duel. In the lower right of the image is a fallen sign which reads "Rubbish may be shot here by order of the [...]".
[Ref: 65877] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sir If your Grimaces be reasoning I do not know which of us have the best of it, but I repeat I have no doubt of being elected to fill the Papal Chair, grin as much as you please!
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 295 x 400mm. 11½ x 15¾".
Three monkeys dressed as monks, in earnest discussion outside an Italian monastery. A quirky print, pencil annotation below image.
[Ref: 16210] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Awful Moments or Monkeys of Honour!! N.o 37. How many Cowards, whose hearts are all as false, As stains of sand, wear yet upon their chins, The beards of Hercules and Frowning Mars; Who inward search'd have livers white as milk: Shakespeare.
M.arks fc.
[London Published by J.L. Marks, 17, Artillery Street, Bishopsgate] [n.d c.1824]
Etching with colour, 180 x 205mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate. Slight loss lower left.
A caricature of a duel fought in 1824 between Cornet William Battier (fl.1824-) and Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854), both of the 10th Hussars. With a Shakespeare (1564-1616) quote from the 'Merchant of Venice. Act III. Scene 2.' Battier, Londonberry and their seconds Lt-Col. Thomas Weston (-c.1824) and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785-1856) are depicted as monkeys wearing military uniforms.
[Ref: 58441] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[The Mandrill. Plate XII. (Maimon mormon).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
Two mandrills, found in southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo. They mostly live in tropical rainforests and forest-savanna mosaics. They are closely related to the baboon and drill. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30183] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Monkish Vision.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks s.p.
[London Published by Allen & C° Paternoster Row March 25 1797.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A fat monk, his face disfigured with drink, sleeps in an armchair, dreaming of pretty women bringing him wine, meat and grapes.
BM Satires 9148.
[Ref: 54562] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Monks]
H.W.Bunbury del. J.Bretherton f.
Published 1st April 1774.
Soft-ground etching, 290 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Two studies of monks. Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245; for another Bunbury print with a similar subject see ref. 28182.
[Ref: 1058] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Friars of the Order of St Anthony.]
[Jonathan Spilsbury., c.1766.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, 355 x 255mm. 14 x 10". Slightly soiled/stained. Laid on card.
Two bearded friars wearing hooded habits, reading from a book of music held by the nearer; very scarce. Engraved and published by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Information kindly provided by the Lennox-Boyd collection. See BM: 1870,0625.640 for a lettered impression.
[Ref: 10492] £420.00

Penitence, Admiration, Desire.
Pub. June 4 1810, by Edw.d Orme, London.
Coloured stipple. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½").
A fat friar admires the decolletage of a pretty young penitent.
[Ref: 51901] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Two monks drinking and smoking]
EC [ms below image]
[c.1680]
Fine mezzotint, scarce, platemark 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"), with very large margins. Glued to backing sheet.
[Ref: 46001] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Two Friars of the Order of St Anthony.
Sr. P. Paul Reubens pinx.t J. Spilsbury fecit
Printed for J. Spilsbury Engraver & Map & Printseller in Russell Court, Covent Garden, London May 26th 1766.
Rare mezzotint, in ink bottom right "pr.3s"; sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate;
Two bearded friars wearing hooded habits, reading a book of music. Engraved and published by Jonathan Spilsbury (1737 - 1812) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640).
CS: undescribed; for proof impression see ref. 10492. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40457] £420.00

Anne De Monmorenci Connetable de France. Tire des Antiquites du Pere Monfaucon.
Touze d. Fme. Duflos Sc.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1780] Avec Privilege du Roi.
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 271 x 161mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2090] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[James Scott, Duke of Monmouth greeting his supporters.]
Engraving, sheet 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8½"). Glued to album sheet at edges.
A naive engraving of a scene showing James Scott, Duke of Monmouth greeting his followers, the faces are copies of well-known portraits Monmouth's is a copy of Blooteling's mezzotint after Peter Lely.
[Ref: 42794] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Monmouth Street. Not fit!_(Tho' to be sure as you say a man can't see himself behind)...But I happen'd to be a little out in the measure, Now as I hope to be Saved I lose a Guinea by that there Coat.
S. Collings delt. J. Cooke Sculp.t St. Mary Axe.
[Published June 9, 1789 by S.W. Fores N.3 Piccadilly.]
Stipple, etching and aquatint. 242 x 178mm. 9½ x 7". Publication line cut. Laid on album sheet.
A tailor adjusts the arm of an ill-fitting coat. In the background a man with a tricorn points and laughs.
BM Satires undescribed.
[Ref: 17046] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Monmouth Street Mutton. Pat_Hurra Measter, and what do ye Ax for this here Shoulder of Mutton. Butcher_Why that there Leg of Mutton, will be four and sixpence, I cut it from as nice as Ship as any in Smithfield. Pat_Oh botheration, who do ye take me for, blarneying me over, wid you Ship, and your Second hand Mutton, I can buy a New one in Fleet - Market for half that,_ So good Morning to you Honor, as the Devil said to the Pope.
Published 16th. March 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraving. Plate 197 x 242mm. 7¾ x 9½".
An Irishman talks to a butcher outside his shop.
BM Satires: undescribed. Laurie & Whittle Quarto Drolls: 211 [as coloured state.]
[Ref: 15447] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

South West View of Trostrey Forge & Clytha Castle. Pl. X XIII.
Drawn by the Rev I. Gardnor. Engrav'd by the Rev I. Gardenor & J. Hill.
Publish'd Dec.r 14.th 1793 by Mess.rs Egerton. Charing Cross Mess.rs White, Fleet Street, & M.r I. Edwards, Pall Mall.
Rare engraving with aquatint, plate 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small top margin. Very light foxing at edge of margins.
View of the forge alongside the river at Trostre, showing the waterwheel, and Clytha Castle in the distance. Part of a series of views in Monmouthshire for David Williams's 'History of Monmouthshire'; they were engraved in aquatint by Gardnor himself and J. Hill. Clytha Castle is a folly near Clytha between Llanarth and Raglan in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. Dating from 1790, the castle was built by William Jones, owner of the Clytha Park estate as a memorial to his wife, Elizabeth, who died in 1787. John Gardnor (1729–1808), was an English painter, primarily a teacher, he had an academy in Kensington Square until he quit the profession of drawing full time for the church sometime after 1767. In 1778 he was instituted to the vicarage of St Mary's Church, Battersea, which he continued to hold up to his death.
Abbey 537.
[Ref: 58641] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

East View of Panty Goettre with the Sugar Loaf. Pl. II.nd
Drawn by the Rev I. Gardnor. Engrav'd by the Rev I. Gardenor & J. Hill.
Publish'd Dec.r 14.th 1793 by Mess.rs Egerton. Charing Cross Mess.rs White, Fleet Street, & M.r I. Edwards, Pall Mall.
Rare engraving with aquatint, plate 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small top margin. Some staining within plate mark.
View of Pant-y-Goitre, with Sugarloaf Mountain in the background. Farmworkers are loading hay onto cart in the foreground. Part of a series of views in Monmouthshire for David Williams's 'History of Monmouthshire'; they were engraved in aquatint by Gardnor himself and J. Hill. John Gardnor (1729–1808), was an English painter, primarily a teacher, he had an academy in Kensington Square until he quit the profession of drawing full time for the church sometime after 1767. In 1778 he was instituted to the vicarage of St Mary's Church, Battersea, which he continued to hold up to his death.
Abbey 537.
[Ref: 58642] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

South West View of Coldbrook. Pl. XXIV.
Drawn by the Rev I. Gardnor. Engrav'd by the Rev I. Gardenor & J. Hill.
Publish'd Dec.r 14.th 1793 by Mess.rs Egerton. Charing Cross Mess.rs White, Fleet Street, & M.r I. Edwards, Pall Mall.
Rare engraving with aquatint, plate 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small bottom margin. Right stain in margin that just goes into the plate mark.
A view of Coldbrook House. Part of a series of views in Monmouthshire for David Williams's 'History of Monmouthshire'; they were engraved in aquatint by Gardnor himself and J. Hill. John Gardnor (1729–1808), was an English painter, primarily a teacher, he had an academy in Kensington Square until he quit the profession of drawing full time for the church sometime after 1767. In 1778 he was instituted to the vicarage of St Mary's Church, Battersea, which he continued to hold up to his death.
Abbey 537.
[Ref: 58643] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

View of Llanfihangel Cillcornell with S.t Michael's Mount. Pl. XXVII
Drawn by the Rev I. Gardnor. Engrav'd by the Rev I. Gardenor & J. Hill.
Publish'd Dec.r 14.th 1793 by Mess.rs Egerton. Charing Cross Mess.rs White, Fleet Street, & M.r I. Edwards, Pall Mall.
Rare engraving with aquatint, plate 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with large margins on three sides. Thread bottom margin. Abrasion bottom left in plate mark.
A view of a large house and a summer-house against a backdrop of the hills. Part of a series of views in Monmouthshire for David Williams's 'History of Monmouthshire'; they were engraved in aquatint by Gardnor himself and J. Hill. John Gardnor (1729–1808), was an English painter, primarily a teacher, he had an academy in Kensington Square until he quit the profession of drawing full time for the church sometime after 1767. In 1778 he was instituted to the vicarage of St Mary's Church, Battersea, which he continued to hold up to his death.
Abbey 537.
[Ref: 58644] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

North View of Pontypool. Pl. XXIX
Drawn by the Rev I. Gardnor. Engrav'd by the Rev I. Gardenor & J. Hill.
Publish'd Dec.r 14.th 1793 by Mess.rs Egerton. Charing Cross Mess.rs White, Fleet Street, & M.r I. Edwards, Pall Mall.
Rare engraving with aquatint, plate 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with large margins on three sides. Thread bottom margin.
A view of Pontypool, showing people riding horses towards the town. Part of a series of views in Monmouthshire for David Williams's 'History of Monmouthshire'; they were engraved in aquatint by Gardnor himself and J. Hill. John Gardnor (1729–1808), was an English painter, primarily a teacher, he had an academy in Kensington Square until he quit the profession of drawing full time for the church sometime after 1767. In 1778 he was instituted to the vicarage of St Mary's Church, Battersea, which he continued to hold up to his death.
Abbey 537.
[Ref: 58645] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life of flowers in a vase.]
J. Baptiste Monnoyer. J. Smith fecit & excudit.
[London: John Boydell, c.1805.]
Rare mezzotint. 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
Table-top still-life with roses and other flowers in a wide, rounded glass vase. The light source, a window, is reflected in the vase.
Wessely 482. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3. See Item 59547 for his guessed first state.
[Ref: 66059] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life.]
J. Baptiste Monnoyer.
[n.d. c.1691.]
Very fine mezzotint, 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Repaired tear on right edge. Slight crease on right bottom.
Table-top still-life with roses and other flowers in a wide, rounded glass vase. An early state, before additions to artist's signature.
Wessely 482. Nagler 500. Collector's stamp of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.
[Ref: 59547] £420.00

[Still-life with flowers in an urn.]
J. Baptiste Monnoyer Pinxit. Vauquer Sculp Privil Regis.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Scarce large etching with engraving. Sheet 670 x 470mm (26½ x 18½"). Trimmed to plate, nicks in edges, creases and surface soiling.
A large still-life of flowers in an urn on a stone wall.
[Ref: 61039] £520.00

Jean Baptiste Monoyer Peintre en Fleurs.
G.Kneller Baronettus pinx. G.White.
[n.d..c,1715.] c.Sold by Sam.l. Sympson in ye Strand near Catherine Street.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Small margins.
Portrait of Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-99), a Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in florals.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 68627] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Baptiste Monoyer Peintre des Fleurs. Issustrimo Principi Joanni Duci de Montagu &c. hanc Effigiem Viri Arte sua (undiquaque in Palatio Montacutensi nitente) celeberrimi humille D.D G. White.
G. Kneller Baronettus pinx.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Mezzotint. Platemark: 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Edges of sheet worn. Small margins.
A portrait of Jean Baptiste Monoyer (1635-99), painter of flower still lives. He was employed at Versailles before being brought to England by the Duke of Montegu. He then worked at Montegu House, painting over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which were later transferred to Boughton House, Northamptonshire.
[Ref: 40122] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Baptiste Monoyer Peintre des Fleurs.
G. Kneller S.R.J. Equ: Aur; et Mag: Brit: Equ: Aur: et Baronettus Pinx. E. Fisher fecit.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9½").
Jean Baptiste Monoyer (1635-99), painter of flower still lives. He was employed at Versailles before being brought to England by the Duke of Montagu. He then worked at Montagu House, painting over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which were later transferred to Boughton House, Northamptonshire.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 42.
[Ref: 36311] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Baptiste Monoyer Peintre des Fleurs. Illustrissimo Principi Joanni Duci de Montagu &c [...]
G. Kneller Baronettus pinx
Printed for & Sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate London.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½")
Jean Baptiste Monoyer (1635-99), painter of flower still lives. He was employed at Versailles before being brought to England by the Duke of Montagu (to whom this print is dedicated). He then worked at Montagu House, painting over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which were later transferred to Boughton House, Northamptonshire.
[Ref: 36634] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Baptiste Monoyer Peintre des Fleurs.
G. Kneller S.R.J. Equ: Aur; et Mag: Brit: Equ: Aur: et Baronettus Pinx. G. White fecit. 1715.
Mezzotint. 255 x 345mm. Laid on backing sheet. Margins torn away along platemark, part of top right hand corner missing, filled in pen. Tear c.3cm into image on right.
Jean Baptiste Monoyer (1635-99), painter of flower still lives. He was employed at Versailles before being brought to England by the Duke of Montegu. He then worked at Montegu House, painting over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which were later transferred to Boughton House, Northamptonshire.
[Ref: 3600] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The incurable] Dazzled with hope He could not see the Cheat Of aiming with impatience to be great - With wild Ambition in his heart we find Farewell content and quiet of his mind For Glittering Clouds he left the solid Shore And wonted happiness returns no more.
[Thomas Rowlandson]
Pub.d April 4.th 1784 by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand. [but later copy c.1828]
Hand-coloured etching, 250 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"), with large margins. On paper watermarked, '1828., very large margins. Repaired tears to edges of paper.
Satire on the fall of the Coalition. Dr. John Monro (1715-91), physician at Bedlam, examines Fox (1749-1806) through an eyeglass. Fox, disheveled, distraught, and restrained in a straitjacket, sings of his misery and loss of position, "My Lodging is on the Cold ground and very hard is my Case But that which grieves me most is the Loosing of my Place." Monro dismisses any chance of recovery, ordering Fox to be sent among the incurables, "I have not the least hope of his Recovery Let him be remov'd among the Incurables - M------o."
BM Satires 6495.
[Ref: 67389] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Al. Monro Sen.r. M. D. and F.R.S. Fellow of the R. College of Physicians and P of Physic and Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh A.D. 1749 Aetat 52.
A. Ramsay pinxit. Tho.s. Donaldson delin & sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1749.]
Etching. Sheet: 185 x 225mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate. Laid on album sheet.
A half-length portrait of Alexander Monro (1697-1767) a physician and professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, a founding member of the Edinburgh medical school.
Not in Wellcome: 2039.
[Ref: 36451] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Monro Senr. M.D. Professor of Anatomy, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, and F.R.S.
Painted by Allan Ramsay Esqr. Engarved by James Basire 1775.
Published as the Act directs, for C. Elliot, Edinburgh 1781.
Engraving. Sheet: 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate. Very slight stain marks.
Half-length portrait of Alexander Monro (1697 - 1767), physician The frontispiece to 'The Works of A. Monro published by his son A. Monro...' after Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784).
Wellcome: 2039-1.
[Ref: 39985] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Capture of Mons.] Die Eroberung Mons.
P. Decker junior del. P. Decker Archit inv. et del. Iohann August: Corvinus Sculpsit.
[Cum Gratia et Privileg: Sac: Caes: Maj. Ieremias Wolff excudit Aug. Vind.] [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 370 x 450mm (14¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed inside image. Repaired tear at centre bottom.
A battle scene showing the attempted capture of Mons by the Duke of Marlborough in September 1709, the French and Allied armies eventually met each other in the gap of Malplaquet south of Mons, following the Allies' victory at the Battle of Malplaquet they returned their attention to Mons, now defended by a weaker French force, and were eventually able to capture her. The central scene shows soldiers resting in the camp, a group play cards, while in the background Mons is shown under fire. Framed by a highly decorative border, a small map of Mons is shown above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42528] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Siege of Mons. September ye 20. 1709.
A. Benoist del. Cl. Du Bosc fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. 1735 [by Claude du Bosc].
Engraving. 270 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"), with large margins.
A scene in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), with Prince Eugene of Savoy and his officers on horseback before a prospect of Mons under bombardment. A plate from 'The Military History of the Late Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of the Late John Duke of Marlborough: Including a Particular Description of the Several Battles, Sieges, &c. in which Either or Both Those Generals Commanded'. The scene is surrounded by a decorative frame.
[Ref: 64725] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Monsal Dale][in pencil]
Rare lithograph, sheet 345 x 445mm (13½ x 14½"). Trimmed and glued to backing card, as issued.
A view of Monsal Dale in the White Peak limestone area of the Peak District. A man fishes on the river Wye opposite a small cluster of buildings where people walk and a man herds his flock of sheep. A small makeshift bridge joins the two sides of the river and another man fishes upstream all surrounded by the beautiful rolling hills of the Peak District.
[Ref: 56567] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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