Grosvenor Prints

[Gaelic script] The Old Soldier, From the Original Picture purchased by the Royal Irish Art Union [...] This Lithograph is given as one of the prizes for the year 1845. Ormonde President. Stewart Blackmer, Hon.y Sec.y.
Painted by M. Angelo Hayes, M.S.I.A. Lithographed by J.H. Lynch.
London. Published for the Proprietors July 1845.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 460 x 525mm (18¼ x 20¾"). Cracks taped. Repaired tear in title. Small damage top right.
An old and hobbled horse revives as he watches a military band ride by.
[Ref: 60943] £420.00

The Old Soldier remarkable for constant attendance at St Paul's, done from an original Painting.
JW [?-in image lower left]. C Mosley Sculp [c.1745]
Etching, platemark 220 x 220mm (8¾ x 8¾"). Rare.
A pensioner standing in a square, probably in London's Smithfield.
[Ref: 37377] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Stag of Bond Street.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Edges toned, binding damege on right edge.
An unidentified man with his dog.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 51694] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament] Abygail. Davidem placat Nabali coniux Abygail: Davidis confors postmodo facta thori.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Abigail, wife of Nabal. When Nabal offends King David Abigail intercedes to save his life. After God strikes Nabal and he dies, Abigail becomes David's third wife. Plate 14 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.16, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51918] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament] Debora. Justtitia & bello pollens Debora prophetis, Summa Israelem sedilitate iuuat.
M. de Vos invent. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Deborah, only female judge mentioned in the Bible, a prophetess who tells Barak to lead an army against the Cannanites. When Barak refuses to go without Deborah, she consents but declares that the glory of the victory will therefore belong to a woman. Plate 9 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.11, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51913] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament.] Hester. Assuero coniux Hester charissima Regi, Judæos precibus consilioque iuvat.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Esther, the Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus, who foils Haman's plan to have all the Jews in the kingdom killed. Plate 18 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.20, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51922] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Hannah] Hannah. Quterilis fuerat, tristis Dominium invocat Anna, Et Samuelem edit, læta dicatque Deo.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Hannah, the barren wife of Elkanah, who becomes the mother of Samuel (and five others) after being blessed by the High Priest Eli. Plate 12 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.14, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51916] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Jael] Jahel. Sisaræ iniquj hostis pertundere tempora, clauo Ausa Jahel, celebri nomine nota viget.
M. de Vos invent. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Jael, the Kenite woman who kills Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army, with a tent peg and mallet. Plate 10 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.12, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51914] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament.] Judith Insignis Judith Holofernis nocte sopiti, Numinis auxilio, demetut ense caput.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Judith, a sword in one hand and the head of Holofernes in the other, a scene of her beheading him in background. Plate 17 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.19, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51921] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Mother of the Maccabbees.] Mater Machab. Hæc Machabæorum Mater septem
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of the mother of the Maccabees, a dynasty that fought for independence from the Seleucid empire in the 2nd century BC. Plate 20 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.22, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51924] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Miriam] Maria. Aronis Mosisque soror Maria; æquore mersis Hostibus; exiltat, tympana pilsat ouans.
M. de Vos invent. J. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of the prophetess Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron, banging a drum in celebration of the death of Pharoah and his horsemen in the Red Sea. Plate 7 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.9, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51911] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament] Rahab. Exploratores recipit, celatque receptos, Seeruet ut incolumen seque suosque Rahab.
M. de Vos invent. J. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Rachab, the woman who betrayed Jericho to the Israelites. In the background is a scene of her letting their spies down from a window of her house. Plate 8 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.10, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51912] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament] Rebecca. Isaci amans coniux prudens solersque Rebecca, Esau postponit, teque Jacobe fouet.
M. de Vos invent. Joann. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Rebecca, wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. Plate 3 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.5, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51910] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament] Ruth. Ruth spicas in agro, non cognita, colligit: inde Noscitur affinis, fitque marita Booz.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Ruth, a Moabite woman who, by marrying Boaz, becomes the great-grandmother of David. Plate 13 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.15, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51917] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Samson's mother] Mater Sampsonis. Coelesti Mater Sampsonis voce docetur, Quem, statuente Deo, sit genitura parens.
M. de Vos invent. J. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of the mother of Samson, referred to in the Bible only as 'the wife of Monoah'. A barren woman, she was visited by the Angel of the Lord and told she would bear a son if she abstained from alcohol. In the background is a scene of the Sacrifice of Manoah, with the Angel of the Lord ascending to Heaven in the smoke. Plate 11 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.13, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51915] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament.] Sarah Sara uxor Tobiæ septem viduata maritis, Cum lachrymis findit nocte dieque preces.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Sarah, wife of Tobias. Plate 16 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.18, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51920] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament] Sara. Sara Abrahæ paret vetulo officiosa marito: Isacum anus mater concipit atque parit.
M. de Vos invent. Joan Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins. Staining in margin top left.
Sarah, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Plate 2 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.4, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51909] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament.] Susanna. Susanna, à sensibus falsò accusata malignis, Insons inventa est, frausque retecta sunum.
M. de Vos inv. J. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Susanna, a woman accused of adultery by two lechers attempting to blackmail her into having sex with them. Daniel proves her innocence,after which the two men are executed. Plate 19 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.21, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51923] £320.00

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - The Wise Woman of Abel-beth-maachah.] Abelae Mulier Abelæ Mulier sapiens, Sibæ caput urbem Joab cingenti curat ab urbe dari.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of the Wise Woman of Abel-beth-maachah. When Sheba, a Benjaminite leader, revolted against King David, Joab was sent to Abel-beth-maachah, where Sheba was hiding. The wise woman convinced Joab not to destroy the city but persuaded the citizens to kill Sheba and throw his head over the wall. Plate 15 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.17, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51919] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Old woman holding flower]
[J.G. Wille?, c.1770]
Engraving, platemark 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Fine proof before all letters; collector's stamp of Dr. C.D. Ginsburg verso.
Fine proof engraving formerly in the collection of Dr C.D. Ginsburg (1821-1914), Bible scholar and missionary, and a recognized authority on biblical and Hebrew matters.
L.1145
[Ref: 40294] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vieille ridicule.
Dolivar sculp. Se vend a Paris chez Est. Gantrel rue S. Iaq. a limage S. Maur avec privil.
Paris. [n.d. c.1680-92]
Engraving and etching, 17th century watermark;. 300 x 200mm (12 x 8"). Small tears around the edges. Staining in the margins. Repairs to left margin and upper left corner in platemark. Creasing. Major loss (made up) top left.
Possibly someone cross-dressing in ornate clothing, in the background a flamboyant procession on horseback.
[Ref: 54715] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Old woman in ruff]. GDou 1638. From a Drawing of G.d Dou, in the Collection of W.m Baillie Esq.r.
WBaillie f.
March 1777.
Mezzotint. Sheet 320 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A seated portrait in oval of an old woman wearing cap, ruff and fur-trimmed coat. Engraved after a painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-75) by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68852] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Old woman in ruff]. GDou 1638. [From a Drawing of G.d Dou, in the Collection of W.m Baillie Esq.r.]
[WBaillie f.]
[March 1777.]
Mezzotint, printed in black and sanguine. Sheet 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate, losing inscriptions.
A seated portrait in oval of an old woman wearing cap, ruff and fur-trimmed coat. Engraved after a painting by Gerrit Dou (1613-75) by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who devoted himself to printmaking and dealing after retiring from the army in 1761. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68853] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Bust of an old woman] 4
T.W. [in image]
Etching, platemark 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Glued to backing sheet, trimmed etching by Callot verso. Small margins.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with a number added to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
For a copy of this print by Henry Roberts see ref. 32567.
[Ref: 47686] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[An old woman's head] [22 in reverse top left]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 95 x 80mm (3¾ x 3"). Thread margins; good impression; tipped into album sheet.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '127' added upper right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State i/iii; W127; D227.
[Ref: 32938] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[An elderly peasant woman]
T. Worlidge inv. H. Roberts sculp.
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Later impression with very large margins. Slight vertical crease.
An elderly woman, after a drawing by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt', and showing his interest in 17th century Dutch portraiture. Etched by Henry Roberts (1737-1771, fl.), printmaker and publisher whose small number of reproductive prints cover a range of subjects and styles.
[Ref: 32567] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[An old woman's head]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 95 x 80mm (3¾ x 3"). Very large margins; on cream wove paper.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Late impression after retouching to the plate, erasing numbers in top corners.
State iii/iii; W127; D227.
[Ref: 32939] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[An old woman's head]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 95 x 80mm (3¾ x 3"). Thread margins; good impression; tipped into album sheet.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '127' added upper right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State i/iii; W127; D227.
[Ref: 33021] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Three etchings after Rembrandt's 'Old Woman Sleeping'.]
Three etchings, largest 125 x 100mm (5 x 4). Laid on card, one with glue stains.
Three versions of Rembrandt's portrait of an old woman asleep, head resting on one hand, spectacles in the other.
[Ref: 63989] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Woman's Complaint, or the Greek Alphabet.
Woodward Delin. Rowlandson sc.
London Published by Thomas Tegg No.111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½''), with wide margins. Bit messy in margins.
A scene in a schoolroom, an angry woman stands before a schoolmaster to complain that the group of schoolboys have been shouting things like 'beat her' as she walks along the road. One of the boys claims that they are not shouting at the woman but practising their Greek alphabet and shouting 'Beta'.
BM Satire 11460.
[Ref: 50790] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[An old woman's head]
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 95 x 75mm (3¾ x 3"), with large margins.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '127' added upper right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State i/iii; W127; D227.
[Ref: 47679] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Wye Bridge] To His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Gloucester and Monmouth, and to the Chairmen of the Quarter Sessions and Magistrates of Said Counties, under whose auspices the work was begun and completed - This Low Water View of the Cast-Iron Bridge erected over the River Wye at Chepstow in the Year 1816, By John U. Rastrick, Civil Engineer,_is Respectfully Dedicated by their Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant,_ Thomas Jukes.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on chine collé. 340 x 500mm (13½ x 19¾").
The Old Wye Bridge, an iron bridge designed and built by John Urpeth Rastrick in 1816, now the largest iron arch road bridge remaining from the first half-century of iron and steel construction. It was built by the Bridgnorth firm of Hazeldine, Rastrick & Co., at a cost of £17,850, less than half the estimate of a rival design by John Rennie. Rastrick built the London-Brighton Railway in 1841.
[Ref: 57012] £420.00

[Execution of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt] 13 Mey 1619. Ik ben wel gerust te sterven: maer kan geen redenen bedenken waerom ik sterven met [...]
[Anon., c.1650]
Etching, sheet 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Repaired tear.
Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619) led to his execution at the Binnehof in the Hague. Van Oldenbarnevelt held the influential position of Land's Advocate of Holland for thirty-two years, but after he proposed that the States of Holland raise a force of 4000 men to keep the peace, this was interpreted as a declaration of independence by the States-General, who arrested Oldenbarnevelt and sentenced him to death.
For another image of Oldenbarnevelt's execution see ref. 42795.
[Ref: 44191] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Oldenzaal under siege.] Olden Zeel
Cum privilegio [after Franz Hogenberg, c.1605]
Etching, platemark 220 x 310mm (12¼ x 8½"). Fold through centre; late impression.
The city of Oldenzaal in the Netherlands under siege during the Eighty Years' War. In the hands of the Spanish since 1572, it was taken by Maurice of Orange in 1597 and then captured for Spain again by Ambrogio Spinola in 1605. Despite various differences, this print is probably derived from a representation of the 1605 conflict in the 'Geschichtsblätter' (history sheets) published by Franz and Abraham Hogenberg between 1570 and 1610.
[Ref: 38640] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Dedication to Frederick IV, from Adam Olearius' 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia'] A sa Majesté Frideric IV. Roi de Danemark, de Norvegue, des Vandales et des Goths [...]
[1727]
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8").
Dedication from a 1727 edition, in French, of Adam Olearius' (1603-71) 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia', first published in the 1640s. A famed mathematician, geographer, librarian and writer, Olearius was the secretary on an embassy sent by Frederick III to Russia and Persia to try and establish the newly-founded town of Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein as the European terminus for an overland silk trade. The trip proved unsuccessful but Olearius' observations provided the material for a highly influential volume.
[Ref: 40094] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Olearius, Bibliothecaire du Duc de Holstein, et Mathematicien de sa Cour.
[n.d, c.1727]
Engraving. 285 x 160mm (11¼ x 6¼") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Adam Olearius (1603-71), afamed mathematician, geographer, librarian and writer. He was appointed secretary on an embassy sent by Frederick III to Russia and Persia to try and establish the newly-founded town of Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein as the European terminus for an overland silk trade. The trip proved unsuccessful but Olearius' observations provided the material for the highly influential 'Travels in Muscovy, Tartary and Persia', first published in the 1640s. This is likley to have been the frontispiece to an edition.
Wellcome: 2179
[Ref: 48920] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Carte de l'Isle d'Oleron.
[by Christophe Tassin.]
[Paris: Nicolas Berey, 1648.]
Engraving. 110 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"), with very large margins. Crease touching neatline.
Small format map of the island of Oléron, published in Tassin's scarce pocket atlas 'Cartes generales de toutes les Provinces de France et d'Espaigne'.
[Ref: 51054] £240.00

Olinda. On thee attends a radiant Choir, Soft smiling peace, and downy rest, With Love that prompts thy warbling lyre, And Hope that soothes thy throbbing breast.
Drawn and Engraved by W.m. Platt.
Publish'd as the Act directs by Eliz. Walker. No. 7. Cornhill, Jan.y. 1. 1796.
Coloured stipple engraving, pt printed in colour. Plate 145 x 210mm (5¾ x 8¼"). Small margins.
Portrait of Olinda, a woman sits under a tree playing a lute. Under the title is the fourth stanza in John Ogilivie's poem Ode to Innocence (1762).
[Ref: 63075] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Olive Mount.
Drawn & Engraved by I. Shaw.
[British, c.1831.]
Wood engraving, rare; image 155 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"). Crease top left corner.
Engraving by Isaac Shaw showing a view of a steam locomotive pulling carriages through the Olive Mount cutting during the construction of the railway line between Liverpool and Manchester. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the world's first inter-city railway and was built under the supervision of chief engineer George Stephenson. Railways were developed mainly for the transportation of goods, mainly coal, but it was quickly realised that trains were also a good way of carrying passengers.
[Ref: 57065] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bridge and Excavation at Olive Mount. Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road.
[n.d. c.1832.]
Lithograph on india, rare. 132 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed; creasing on india paper.
Built under the supervision of chief engineer George Stephenson (1781-1848), the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (LMR) was the world's first intercity railway. The Olive Mount Cutting, on the LMR route near Liverpool, was one of the first extensive cuttings on any railway, and is still considered one of the most formidable. It is approximately two miles long, and in some parts nearly 80 feet (25 metres) deep. The sandstone rock was blasted out and used to construct the Roby Embankment and the Sankey Viaduct, also on the LMR.
[Ref: 28939] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Description of the Drawing of the Celebrated Oliver, The Miller's Tomb. On Highdown Hill, near Worthing.
Published by J.Rouse, Fulham, 14th August, 1823.
Letterpress broadsheet. 450 x 285mm, 17¾ x 11¼". Tipped on album sheet.
Advert for a print of a Sussex tourist attraction near Findon, the tomb of John Oliver, a local miller. He built it in 1766, 27 years before he died, covering it with text from the burial service and his own verse, reproduced here. Apparently he also built his own coffin, keeping it under his bed, with a spring-loaded mechanism to wheel it out when he wanted to look at it.
[Ref: 13386] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Oliver Introduced to the Respectable Old Gentleman. Vide Oliver Twist, Vol 1, page 132. Sketches No 576.
HB. [John Doyle.] A. Ducôte's Litho.y St Martins Lane.
Published by T. M.cLean, 26, Haymarket, 25th Feb.y 1839.
Lithograph with subscribers' stamp. Sheet 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½"). Trimmed to printed border.
A parody of Cruikshank's illustration to 'Oliver Twist': the 'Artful Dodger' (Lord Normanby) introduces Oliver Twist (Lord Morpeth) to Fagan (Daniel O'Connell) to be initiated into the secrets and practices of the appropriation trade
[Ref: 51630] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Oliver Esqr. Chosen Alderman of Billinsgate Ward 5 July 1770. Elected Member of Parliament for the City of London 11 July 1770. Sent Prisoner to the Tower 26. March 1771. To The Worth Liveryman of the City of London. Gentlemen, When first I offered myself from the hustings a candidate...I can make for the honour I have received by your trust, and confidence. Fenchurch Street, July 12, 1770, I am, Gentleman, your most obedient and faithful humber Servant, Richard Oliver. [followed by another letter to the Committee appointed by the Common Council of London].
Engrav'd by F: Aliamet from an Original Portrait Painted in the Tower by R: E: Pine April 1771.
Publish'd according ot the Act of Parliament April 20, 1771. Price Is.
A rare copper engraving. Sheet 385 x 247mm. 15¼ x 9¾".
Richard Oliver (1734?-1784), British politician and statesman. At an early age he was sent to London to work for his uncle, Richard Oliver, a West India merchant. Following this he took up his freedom in the Drapers' Company on 29 June 1770, and was later elected alderman of Billingsgate ward. On March 1771 he became engaged in the famous struggle between the city and the House of Commons and was committed to the Tower by order of the speaker on the 26th of that month. After written pleas to state officials and the City council and application for representation, the end came at the close of the parliamentary session on 8 May when he was released from the Tower. Oliver resigned his gown at the court of aldermen held at Guildhall on 25 November 1778, and shortly afterwards sailed to Antigua in order to look after his West Indian estates. He died on board the Sandwich packet, while returning to England, on 16 April 1784.
Not in O'Donoghue. Not in BM.
[Ref: 14986] £350.00

Johannes Olson. A Shore Laplander in his Summer Dress.
Drawn from Nature by Capn. de C. Brooke. Drawn on Stone by D: Dighton.
London Pubd. by Rodwell and Martin New Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. Image sheet 254 x 172mm. 10 x 6¾".
From a collection of drawings made by Captain A. deC. Brooke during two journeys to Scandinavia, 1820 and 1820-21.
Scott Polar Research Institute: Y: 56/18/9. Abbey: 248
[Ref: 15133] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Das Wünder=Bild des Olympischen Jupiters von Gold ünd helffernbein [...] La Statue Colossale du Jupiter Olympien, composée d'or et d'ivoire [...]
Joan: Bernard: Fischers v: E: delineav.
[Leipzig, 1725.]
Engraving with very large margins; 305 x 430mm (12 x 17"). Spotting.
The chryselephantine statue of Zeus, sculpted by Phidias for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was destroyed during the fifth century AD. The descriptive text, in German & French, tells that Erlach based this image on the description of Pausanias, the Greek traveller of the 2nd century AD, who descriptions of classical sites have frequently been authenticated by modern archaeologists. This plate was published in Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's 'Entwürst Einer Historischen Architectur', a study of the architecture of the ancient world. Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was a successful Austrian architect: his baroque works include the Schönbrunn Palace, Karlskirche, and the Austrian National Library in Vienna. He also studied ancient architecture, publishing 'A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture' in 1721, taking on classical influences in his building.
[Ref: 33735] £420.00

Omer. Ebu'Bekir. Fig.4. Fig. 3.
J.B. Hilaire, Del. Ingouf junior, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1785.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked. 201 x 272mm. 8 x 10¾".
Two Turkish men, turned towards each other, seated on carpet on each side of a small table on which sits a book; the man on the left holds a small book and seems to be conversing with his companion, who makes argumentative gestures. Probably Abu Bakr (573-634), a senior companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who ruled over the Rashidun Caliphate from 632 to 634 CE when he became the first Muslim Caliph following the death of Muhammad; and Umar bin Khattab (581-644), the leading companion and adviser to Islamic prophet Muhammad who later became the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death. From Ohsson's 'Tableau général de l'empire Ottoman' (Paris, 1787-1820).
[Ref: 25050] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Omnium-Gatherum. Second Series, No 3.
[By Henry Heath.]
Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1831.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼").
A caricature miscellany with fifteen vignettes: a Chinese scene; above, two squinting men, one asking 'Who are you Squinting at Mister Swivel Eye?', an (?) Italian woman at a window, cooks fighting; below, 'The whispering Gallery!', a rowdy group of spectators watching a performance, including a sweep and a woman with a black eye. At upper left, 'taking pot luck', a man with a flower pot on his head, a shelf above having broken; below, 'Slave trade', a black servant woman scrubbing a step; a black minstrel; a man in a cart pulled by a dog; 'Betting the long odds', a short man approaching a tall man with a whip at a racecourse. At upper right, 'the last token!!', a sailor on shore, having lopped of his pigtail, offers it to a weeping woman; devils boxing; a black man running from a gigantic tiger; an old woman with patterns and broomstick; a quayside encounter between three (?)Chinese and two black people.
BM: 2013,7069.11.
[Ref: 44364] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Omphale Queen of Lydia.
John Boydell exc.t 1782. Publish'd Oct.r 25th by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple. Sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed to plate, small repaired tear bottom left.
Oval portrait of Omphale, queen of Lydia, best known as the mistress of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude. She is depicted holding his olive-wood club and wearing the head of the Nemean lion as a headress.
[Ref: 63549] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Omphale Queen of Lydia.
John Boydell exc.t 1782. Publish'd Oct.r 25th by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Stipple. 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Thread margins, some staining & creasing.
Oval portrait of Omphale, queen of Lydia, best known as the mistress of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude. She is depicted holding his olive-wood club and wearing the head of the Nemean lion as a headress.
[Ref: 58070] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[On Guard.]
J.S. Noble 1882 [etched in plate]. J S Noble Chas O Murray [pencil signatures].
London Published 1.st February 1883, by Rob.t Dunthorne at The Cabinet of Fine Arts, Vigo Street, W._Copyright Registered.
Etching, signed in pencil, with very large margins. Plate 405 x 520mm. 16 x 20½". Uncut.
Two dogs sitting guard and keeping watch over a sleeping baby in a cradle.
[Ref: 27954] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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