Grosvenor Prints

[William Salmon.] Guilielmus Salmon, M.D.
R.White delin et sculp.
1700.
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of William Salmon (1644 - 1713), English empiric doctor and a writer of medical texts. He advertised himself as a "Professor of Physick".
W2588-5.
[Ref: 68031] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Paul Sandby] P. Sanby, Rurum Delineator.
P. Falconet del 1769. D. Pariset sculp.
Sold by P. Falconet Broad Street Carnaby Market, & Ryland & BryerCornhill. Pr. 2s.
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Small margins.
A bust profile portrait in oval of artist Paul Sandby (1731-1809), from a series of portrait of the members of the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 67863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Schindlerin.] The Schindlerin.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Published Jan.y 20.th 1777, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Slightly rubbed, small margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of the German singer Catherine Schindlerin. A pupil of Venanzio Rauzzini, she first appeared in London in 1775.
D'Oench 88; Hamilton p. 130, iii of iii, Frankau 306, iii of iii; CS 147, iii of iii.
[Ref: 67970] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 1]
Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank - May 20.th 1828.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Very damaged and crudely repaired.
Seven vignettes: ''A Gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on –'', a sailor startles awake as a maid tugs his peg-leg, mistaking it for a warming-pan handle, prompting his cry ''Hollo! Hollo! avast heaving there!! what the deuce are you pulling my leg for,'' to which she replies, ''O Dear! Sir I beg your pardon but I took it for the handle of the warming pan.'' ''The Advantage of a Wooden leg, upon a Pinch'', a night poaching scene where a steel trap grips a wooden leg. ''Living on wooden legs—'', performers dance on stilts on a village green. ''The Advantage of putting the best leg forward!'', a man shelters in a doorway as a dog attacks his wooden leg, while men rush up with pitchforks. ''Sing Old Rose & burn the Bellows'', a man with a peg-leg thrust into the fire sings ''Polly put a Kittle on, Polly put a Kittle on Polly put a Kittle on all hab tea!'' ''A Jury-Mast—'', a shipwrecked man floats toward shore using his raised wooden leg, bearing a streamer ''Trial by Jury.'' ''A Trifling Accident—'', a sleeping carter’s cart rolls over and snaps the wooden leg of a man lying in the road.
BM Satires 15617.
[Ref: 68106] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 2]
Designed, Etched & Published by Geogre Cruikshank - November 1.st 1829.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). On paper watermarked, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.' Trimmed within plate. Foxing. Repaired tear. Loss in left corner.
Five vignettes: The Horses, ‘going to the Dogs’—'', four horses watch a steam-coach below; one exclaims, ''A coach without Horses!!!—nonsense—come, come, Master Dobbin you are ‘Trotting’ but you must not think to hum me because I'm blind!'' Another adds, ''Well, dash my Wig, if that is’nt the rummest go I ever saw—'' Two dogs in the foreground comment, ''I say Wagtail! what do you think of this new invention?''—''Why I think we shall have meat cheap enough.'' ''A Fiery Steed—'', a horse-shaped engine emits smoke as a jockey cries ''Soho! Soho!'', watched by a coal-heaver. ''Phœnomenon—'', a grotesquely long-backed horse carries a post-boy and five passengers.''The Four Elements—'', a maidservant blows a kitchen fire with bellows beneath a large kettle. ''Faith Hope & Charity—'', a blind beggar is led by a dog.
BM Satires 15978.
[Ref: 68108] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 4]
Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Feb. 1831.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 265 x 350mm (10¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
Seven vignettes contrasting corpulence and leanness: ''Just room for three insides Sir," four lean horses glare at three grossly fat passengers boarding an already overloaded coach, one protesting ''What All fat! really this is too bad,'' while others mutter ''where is our friend Martin'' and ''I shall Kick at it.'' ''Infatuation'', in a kitchen, a huge cook bastes meat as an obese suitor kneels, sighing ''I wish I was a little fly On my loves bosom for to lie.'' ''Round Text & small hand'', a rotund clergyman peers at a paper while a gaunt rogue picks his pocket. ''The Three Tuns.'', at an alehouse door, the host ''Tunbelly'' serves frothing jugs to two enormous customers, their bellies meeting. ''A Spare rib—'', a slender woman walks arm in arm with her massively obese husband in a park. ''Fatima Fatima Selim is near, "a Turk serenades an enormous woman on a balcony. ''The Better half'', a small, thin man trudges beside a flamboyantly fat wife, carrying her pattens and umbrella.
BM Satires 16854.
[Ref: 68104] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 4]
Designed, Etched & Pub.d by Geo.e Cruikshank Nov.r 1829.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 265 x 350mm (10¼ x 14"). On paper watermarked, 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.' Trimmed within plate. Foxing. Edges nicked.
Four vignettes: ''Church & State'', a bishop and a layman drink wine at opposite ends of a richly served table beneath a gas chandelier, with stiff footmen and a wall painting of a papal procession alluding to Emancipation. ''The Shop for Bargains!—'', in a coal shed, a poor child begs for coal, complaining ''that penny coal I had yesterday was only a Slate,'' while the dealer retorts, ''Slate was it?! then I’m sure she’s no call to grumble….'' ''Corporal Punishment'', a sweating, corpulent man trudges uphill, remarking, ''They tell me I shall find a good deal of difficulty in getting my fat down!—but I ’fegs I find a good deal of difficulty in getting it Up!!'' ''Taken in Tow—a Scene on a Rope walk—'', a beadle arrests a rope-maker with tow tied round his waist. ''An Unthankful fellow—'', a countryman sits in the stocks in the rain while a beadle lectures him at length, beginning ''What! want to go?!!! after we have taken all this trouble with you!'' and ending with ''or did you expect that we were to find you in Rose water & toothpicks?!!!''
BM Satires 15980.
[Ref: 68105] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps and sketches] [Pl 4]
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.re Cruikshank - May 20.th - 1828.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Foxing.
Six vignettes: ''Johnny Cockaigne, shewing ‘Cousin Tummas’ a ‘Lions’ den—'', a cockney points out Crockford’s with riders and carriages to a countryman, remarking ''That’s one of the London ‘Hells’ Coz!''; the countryman responds, ''No sure! why what a nice looking place!!—Well; no wonder so many people do go to the Devil if he a’ gotten such Foine Housen!!'' ''Legs'' famous for ''Cutting'' & ''Shuffling'', three gamesters appear as long-legged rooks with predatory beaks, a pun on blacklegs (cheaters). ''I could a tale unfold'', a pig with a curly tail. ''Any thing but Fair play!'', a duel where a broad, fat man fires at a comically thin opponent who does not return fire. ''The Abode of Genius'', in a ragged attic, a shabby man struggles with a piece of steak, exclaiming ''To call this a tender Chuck Steak! & charge me two pence half¬penny for it!!—I've a great mind to go & Chuck it in his face!—Aye!—its a fine thing to be a Genius!!!!!'' beneath the verse: "My lodging is on the cold ground, And very hard is my fare;" a standard distressed-poet mot ''House of Industry'', a cobbler, his wife, and three children toil in a miserable room; she asks, ''If you get paid for them shoes shall us have a bit of meat on Sunday?''; he replies, ''Why—I dont know what to say to that—you know we had meat last Sunday!—we must not be extravagant.'' Below: ''A Cobler there was & he lived in a Stall which served him for Parlour & Kitchen & hall''!
BM Satires 15620.
[Ref: 68107] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The Four Seasons] Spring. [&] Summer. [&] Autumn. [&] Winter.
Painted by R. Westall [2] [&] Painted by F. Wheatley [2]. Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.
Pub.d Feb.y 1. 1789 [2] by T. Simpson S.t Pauls Church Yard. [&] Pub.d April 9 1789 [2] by T. Simpson S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Set of four coloured stipples with etching, printed in colours. Each 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. Slight crease on Autumn.
Fine & rare set of four half-length portraits of women in seasonal dresses and hats. Spring features a rainbow, Summer a rose, Autumn grapes and Winter a massive muff. The set is a fine example of colour printing.
[Ref: 67425] £650.00 view all images for this item

[Four Seasons] Les Fleurs du Printems. [&] Les Dons de l'Eté. [&] Les Fruits de l'Automne. [&] Les Rigeurs de l'Hiver.
Se vend à Augsbourg chès J.J. Haid et fils [n.d., c.1780].
Set of four numbered mezzotints. Each c. 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"), very large margins Repaired tears, creasing, foxing.
Four seasonal scenes depicting two young boys and a girl is outdoor settings throughout the year.
[Ref: 68135] £650.00 view all images for this item

L'Automne.
N. Lancret pinxit. Larmessin Sculpsit.
A Paris chez De Larmessin graveur du Roy, rüe des Noyvers a la 2.e porte cocher agauche entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1745.]
Fine etching, 18th century watermark. 335 x 380mm (13¼ x 15"). Small margins
A scene with women harvesting grapes, with a man grabbing one around the waist. Underneath are four lines of verse by 'M.r Roy Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel'. One of a set of Four Seasons shown at the Salon in 1745.
BM 1889,0318.36.
[Ref: 67948] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printems.
N. Lancret pinxit. Larmessin Sculpsit.
AParis chez De Larmessin graveur du Roy, rüe des Noyvers a la 2.e porte cocher agauche entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1745.]
Fine etching. 335 x 380mm (13¼ x 15"), 18th century watermark. Narrow margins.
Three gardeners next to an ornamental waterfall. Underneath are four lines of verse by 'M.r Roy Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel'. One of a set of Four Seasons shown at the Salon in 1745.
BM 1889,0318.38.
[Ref: 67949] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Winter.
Designed & Engraved by J. Peirson.
London, Published by J. Le Petit, 22 Suffolk Street, Middlesex Hospital, 1st Sepr 1797.
Stipple, printed in colours. 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9"). Narrow bottom margin, slight scuffing at printed border top left. Small margins on 3 sides.
Children by the side of a pond. A fine example of colour printing, from a set of Four Seasons.
[Ref: 67875] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Winter.
Designed & Engraved by J. Peirson.
London, Published by J. Le Petit, 22 Suffolk Street, Middlesex Hospital, 1st Sepr 1797.
Stipple, printed in colours. 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9").
Children ice skating on a pond. A fine example of colour printing, from a set of Four Seasons.
[Ref: 67874] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Seeing. La Vue.
Drawn by L. Schiavonetti. Engraved by I. Geremia.
London, Published March 1 1801, by Mess.rs Schiavonetti N.º 12 Michels Place Brompton.
Stipple, partially printed in colour. Sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed top and bottom, bit messy.
A woman in white classical dress lifts a veil to look at herself in a mirror. From a set of the Five Senses.
[Ref: 67873] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Shuter.
P. Dawe Fecit.
[Publish'd June 12, 1773 by P. Dawe, No 4 Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, & by W.m Darling in Great Newport Street.]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 340 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Trimmed losing publication line.
Edward Shuter (c.1728-1776), actor holding the 'Comedy' mask.
CS 10.2.
[Ref: 68165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cuthbert Sidenham.] This shade's the Authors outside: but this booke his inside opens, prethee doe not looke [...]
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
Portrait of Cuthbert Sydenham (or Sidenham) (1622 - 1654) received Presbyterian ordination, and was a Reformed Calvinistic Preacher during the era of the Westminster Assembly. Frontis to Hypocrisie Discovered (1657).
[Ref: 68001] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

What you lazy Nigger you'r afeard of work eh? / Not a bit Massa, you see I lay down and go sleep close by him side!
[Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand.] [n.d., c.1830]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album sheet.
A black man sits on the ground in a plantation, his hoe across his kness. Despite the situation, the slave is depicted more sympathetically, smiling as he answers back to the sharp-faced overseer. A satire from about the time slavery was finally abolished in the British Empire.
[Ref: 68062] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Solander, F.R.S.
Drawn by James Sowerby. Engraved by James Newton.
[London, Pub.d 24th, 1784 for the Proprietor, by I Matthews Carver, Guilder & Printseller No 438, Strand.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper
Profile portrait of Swedish naturalist Daniel Carlsson Solander (or Daniel Charles, 1733 - 82), an 'apostle of Carl Linnaeus', taught by the great botanist. After working on cataloguing the natural history collections of the British Museum he joined Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's first voyage, becoming the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil and the first Swede to circumnavigate the world. The artist, James Sowerby, was a prolific botanical illustrator.
Kivell p.283.
[Ref: 67846] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Songs for Children N.º 10. The Owl & The Cockatoo. By M.rs J. Worthington Bliss. (Miss Lindsay). Price 3/~.
M & N. Hanhart Lith.
London; Lamborn Cock, 63, New Bond Street [n.d., c.1880].
Songbook, 8pp), rare chromolithographic cover illustration. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Stitch holes along left edge, old ink mss top right with date, circulating library stamp lower right.
A nonsense poem by T.G. Godfrey-Faucett, telling the story of an owl's unrequited love for a cockatoo, set to music. Maria Lindsay Bliss (1827-98) was one of the first women songwriters to achieve commercial success. Other songs in this series include Edward Lear's 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and 'The Duck & The Kangaroo'. Australian interest
[Ref: 67934] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Songs for Children N.º 7, The Duck & The Kangaroo. Words by Edward Lear, Esq.r. Music by M.rs J. Worthington Bliss. (Miss Lindsay). Price 3s/=.
London: Lamborn Cock, 63, New Bond Street [n.d., c.1874].
Songbook, 8pp (disbound), fine & rare lithographic cover illustration. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Stitch holes along left edge, old ink mss top right with date.
One of Edward Lear's nonsense poems (in the same style as the 'Owl and the Pussycat), set to music. The cover illustration shows the duck sitting on the kangaroo's tail smoking as they travel around the world. The poem originally appeared in Lear's 'Nonsense Songs', 1870. Maria Lindsay Bliss (1827-98) was one of the first women songwriters to achieve commercial success. She also scored Lear's 'The Owl and the Pussycat' for this series (N.º 5]. Australian interest.
[Ref: 67933] £380.00

An East View of the Square at Stockton, with the Improvements, taken from the Church Gates.
Drawn by W. Green. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Publish'd July 25 1803, by Christopher & Jennett, Stockton.
Scarce aquatint and etching, printed in brown. Sheet 245 x 400mm (9½ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, pin holes in corners and top edge.
A square in Stockton-on-Tees, surrounded by a white fence.
[Ref: 67901] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus Walliae Princeps &c. &c. &c.
Peint par L Tocqué 1748 et Gravé par J. G. Will en la même année.
Etching and engraving. 460 x 330mm (18¼ x 13¼"), with large margins. Small tear in margins taped, margins spotted and stained.
Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, half-length, turned to right; in armour, with insignia of the Order of the Garter; in trompe l'oeil masonry border, title and coat of arms.
Sharp: 230. Le Blanc 1847
[Ref: 68141] £650.00

Frances Stuart Countess of Portland.
Antonius van Dyke Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alexander Browne at the blew Balcony in little Queen Street. [n.d. c.1680.]
Scarce & fine mezzotint, 17th century watermark; 365 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland (1617-94), daughter of Esmé Stuart, Duke of Lennox. She married Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland.
CS: 29. Simon Turner 39.
[Ref: 67829] £360.00

The Student.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1: 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Coloured mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Tears in top margin taped, staining in left edge.
A seated young man looks at his drawing of the classical sculpture on the table behind. A landscape is seen through the window beyond.
D'Oench: 107. Hamilton: 158, iii of iii. Chaloner Smith: 189, iii of iv. Frankau: 337, iv of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iv of iv.
[Ref: 67954] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[View of Sydney in New South Wales (Taken from Bell Mount).]
[after John Eyre.]
[Published 12th April 1814 by James Whittle & Rich.d Holmes Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Coloured engraving. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed into image, losing title and inscriptions, tears taped, stain in sky.
A distant view of Sydney just over 25 years after its foundation, with the Blue Mountains in the far distance. It is presumed to be based on a watercolour by John Eyre, a convict who was transported to Australia in 1801. Conditionally pardoned in 1804, he spent several years painting in the area before leaving Australia as a free man in 1812, probably returning to London, where this plate was published.
McCormick: 127 & pp. 277-278. Australian National Maritime Museum 00000897.
[Ref: 67811] £680.00

The Romp.
R. Delin.
Publishehed Jan.y 3.d 1786, by S. W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse N.o 3 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 290 x 440mm (11½ x 17¼"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate. Tears to edges. Staining.
A boxing scene from The Romp, Act II, shows Young Cockney, played by James William Dodd (c.1740-96) and Priscilla Tomboy, played by Dorothy Jordan (1761-1816) facing off with clenched fists. He is fashionably dressed and portly, while her hat and mittens lie on the floor. Captain Sightley, played by William Barrymore and Miss La Blond, played by Mrs Barnes (fl. 1782-1808) watch from behind, with a folding screen and framed pictures in the background. The Romp is a comic opera (altered from Bickerstaffe's 'Love in the City' for the Dublin stage c. 1780) becoming a favourite due to Mrs. Jordan's acting. Female boxing image.
BM Satires 6875.
[Ref: 68039] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Frederic de Thoms] Fredericus. Comes de Thoms.
[Engraved by John Faber Jnr after V. Tucker.]
[n.d., c.1736.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, but with title of state iv pasted on. 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), large margins Tatty
A half length portrait of Frederic de Thoms (1669-1746), a German diplomat and art collector. As the Duke of Brunswick's envoy, he came to London in 1719 and became secretary to George I. He was the first Freemason in Germany, a fact commemorated in later states of this print, which had a masonic jewel added. This proof state is the only one in which he looks to the side rather than the front.
CS 343, state i of iii, 'one known'. Russell iv of iv for title. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67534] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[George Thomson.] Vera Effugies Georgy Thomsoni, M.D. Ætat suæ 50.
W.Sherwin ad viu faciebat.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾/2). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders. Some time-staining.
Portrait of George Thomson (c. 1619 - 1676), English physician, medical writer and pamphleteer. He was a leading figure in an attempt to create a "College of Chemical Physicians", a rival to the established Royal College of Physicians. He rejected the traditional Galenic approach to medicine and argued against medical bloodletting, purging and the doctrine of curing by "contraries". He performed a splenectomy on a dog which stimulated debate in scientific and medical circles, and challenged prevailing medical theories about the body.
W2927.
[Ref: 68026] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Tireuse de Cartes. N.o 17.
[Adrien Joly]
a Paris chez L.M. Petit, rue du Battoir, S.t Andre N.o3. chez Martinet rue du Coq, N.o 13 et 15. et rue des Mathurins, N.o18. Dep.se a la Bib.que Imp.le. [n.d. c. 1815]
Hand-coloured engraving, 175 x 100mm (7 x 4") with large margins on three sides. Foxed. Small left margin.
Plate 17 from, 'Arts, Métiers et Cris de Paris par Joly d'après nature'. A card reader stands behind a table, shown in left profile, with her right hand raised and her left hand holding three cards.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 68153] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Tomkins] Mr. Tomkins. From the original Picture, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The last Portrait Sir J. Reynolds Exhibited 1789. Engraved by Charles Turner.
Published by the Proprietor, Foster Lane, London, May 6 1805.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Slight mount stain. Unidentified collector's stamp 'I F P' on reverse.
Portrait of Thomas Tomkins (1743 - 1816), calligrapher and author of ‘Rays of Genius' and other works on penmanship. He sits to left at a small table with inkstand, eyes to front, holding paper in his left hand and a quill pen in his right; curtain behind.
Whitman 561, ii. Hamilton p.69, iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68017] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Master Taylor] [Trap Ball. From an original Picture in the Collection of George Watson Esq.r.]
[Painted by H. Thomson Esq.r R.A.Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.]
[London, Published Jan.y 2. 1809. by the Engraver 92 Norton Street, Marylebone.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14").
A portrait of a boy, master Taylor, crouched ready to strike a ball with a bat. A pencil note suggests he is the son of G.W. Taylor. Trap Ball is also known in Yorkshire as 'knurr and spell'. It is a competition to see who can hit a knurr (wooden ball) the furthest, once it is thown into the air by the spell (a levered wooden trap, shown on the ground here).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68188] £480.00

Trepanning.
U.U. [Theodore Lane]
London Published by G.Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street June 1821.
Etching with hand colour, 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"), with large margins. Paper slighlty toned and surface dirt.
From set of four prints with punning medical titles. A handsome, naive young man is hurried along by two evening-dressed courtesans, each holding a hand, one with her arm around his shoulders, as he looks passively bewildered. They pass through a theatre portico, while behind them two men and a lady adjusting a long glove descend a staircase.
BM Satires 14301.
[Ref: 68059] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[J.M.W. Turner] The Fallacy of Hope.
[Alfred, Count d'Orsay.]
London. Published by J. Hogarth. No. 5, Haymarket, Jan.y 1st 1851. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
Rare lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing sheet. Printed area 365 x 230mm (14½ x 9"). Slight loss in india on bottom.
A caricatured portrait of landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), standing by a piano, stirring a cup of coffee, at the house of businessman and art collector Elhanan Bicknell. The title is taken from Turner's incomplete poetic composition "Fallacies of Hope". From a sketch by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue:vol VI. pg:414.
[Ref: 67892] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ein bewaffneter Tiroler Bauer aus der Gegend bey Innsbruck.
I. George Laminit fec.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Hand-coloures stipple, sheet 225 x 155mm (9 x 6). Trimmed to plate.
Costume plate of a Tyrol farmer sitting with sabre in front of a rock wall, holding his rifle with his arms and a morning star. Johann Georg Laminit (1775–1848) was a German artist and engraver, known for detailed hand-colored etchings depicting rural Tyrolean subjects, such as farmers in traditional dress (Tracht) from the Zillertal region, works that reflect the 19th-century (Biedermeier) interest in folk life and regional costume.
[Ref: 68144] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St Mark's Basilica and Piazzetta, Venice.]
[Robert Charles Goff]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5").
Proof by Robert Charles Goff (1837-1922).
[Ref: 67844] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Canal, Venice, with goldolas.]
[Robert Charles Goff]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5").
Proof by Robert Charles Goff (1837-1922).
[Ref: 67845] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Venus rebuking Cupid.]
J.M. Nattier Pinx. J. Johnson Fecit 1751.
Scarce mezzotint. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere, crease.
An oval scene of Venus using a bunch of roses to beat Cupid, holding him with the other hand as he tries to run away. Two doves and Cupid's bow and quiver are on the ground. Alexander suggests Johnson is a pseudonym used by John Faber jnr.
Alexander: Biographical Dictionary of British & Irish Engravers, p. 506.
[Ref: 67876] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Jument Persan. envoyée par le Roi de Perse à S.A.R. le Prince Régent d'Angleterre.
Carle Vernet. Imp. Lithog. de F. Delpech.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Printed area 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15"). Slight mount burn.
A portrait of a Persian mare, held by a groom, other horses and a camel behind. The horse was the one sent to George, Prince Regent. After Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758-1835), published in the 'Grande Suite de Chevaux' (1817-21).
[Ref: 67897] £390.00

[A Vestal. From an Original Picture in the possession of Ja.s Ferguson Esq.r M.P.]
S. Woodforde del.t. S.W. Reynolds sculp.t.
London: Pub as the Act directs Feb.y 15. 1800, by M. Parr, No.52. Pall Mall.
Rare mezzotint with etching, proof before title. Sheet 455 x 330mm (18 x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
A Vestal Virgin, three-quarter length, standing behind an altar with burning fire, holding a small plate in her left hand; etched border around image.
Whitman: 465, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Vicar of Wakefield] Lucilla.
Engraved from an Original Picture by Edw.d Fisher.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett N.º 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 Dec.r 1776.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, losing publisher's inscription at bottom.
A half-length portrait in oval of a young woman reading, wearing a dark veil and cape, with a cross around her neck. One of a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith.
CS 64, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3.
[Ref: 67598] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Victoria] The Queen.
Painted by William Fowler. Engraved by J.R. Jackson.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1847, by H.G. Bohn, York St. Cov.nt Garden, London.
Mezzotint on steel, very fine impression. 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13"), with large margins. Repaired tears.
A portrait in oval of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) in an ermine robe, wearing crown and Star of the Order of the Garter. An adaptation of William Fowler's portrait of 1843, with an added jewel at the cleavage.
[Ref: 67907] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] The Sunflower. You are, indeed most brazen-faced And Fiery red's your hair, The Sunflower, can alone with thee, In those respects, compare...
[n.d. c.1840]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 250 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Creasing. Laid on album sheet.
An insulting valentine comparing a man to a sunflower, how his face turns to every woman like the flower to the sun. Large building in background "Nurseryman & Florist". Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 68148] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Your Obedient Sert James Watt [facsimile singature].
Painted by John Mc. Donald. Engraved by John Le Conte. Printed by A. Mc.Glashon.
Edinburgh. Published. May 1858. By William H. Vannan, Printseller & Published, 46 Home Street.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 570 x 410mm (22½ x 16"), large margins. Six wormholes top margin outside platemark.
A seated portrait of Scottish inventor James Watt (1736-1819), before a window with a factory behind. The design of one of his engines is at his feet.
W: 3128. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66132] £320.00

West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company, Chief Office, Exeter. - Office for the Metropolis, No. 20, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars.
[Printed date 1837, mss date 1838]
Insurance certificate, letterpress and wood-engraving, completed in ink. Sheet 555 x 435mm (21¾ x 17"), with tax blindstamp and ink stamp. Folds.
An insurance document for Emanuel Hodges, Crewkerne.
[Ref: 67840] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Waymouth.]
[J. Love Delin. F. Bernie A. F.t.]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval prospect of the seafront at Weymouth, with bathing huts on wheels lining the beach. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates).
See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67937] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Weymouth.]
[after John Love]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval view of the bridge over the Wey between the town and Brewer's Quay. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates).
See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67938] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Wheelwright] Une Femme de Charon. Eine Wangnerin.
J.J. Stelzer fecit.
Cum Priv. Maj. M. Engelbrecht exc. A.V. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 305 x 195mm (12 x 7¾"), large margins.
A fanciful representation of a female wheelwright, with a wheel as the hoop of her dress, on which are hanging the tools of her trade. She holds a saw and an axle. Cross-dressing image.
[Ref: 68125] £480.00

[The Life and Adventures of John Jefferson Whitlaw or Scenes on the Mississippi] A Billiard Table at New Orleans.
Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.
[London: Richard Bentley, 1836.]
Etching. Sheet 115 x 195mm (4½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, binding marks at bottom.
A group of men in a billiards room. An illustration from Frances Trollope's 'The Life and Adventures of John Jefferson Whitlaw or Scenes on the Mississippi', a novel based on her experiences travelling to New Orleans, up the Mississippi to Nashoba, Tennessee and Cincinatti, Ohio. The first anti-slavery novel, it was an influence on Harriet Beecher Stowe.
[Ref: 67867] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Device of John Wight.] Welcom The Wight That Bringeth Such Light.
[n.d., c.1580.]
Woodcut. Sheet 90 x 75mm (3½ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
A publisher's device incorporating a portrait of bookseller and publisher John Wight (1549-89), who traded at the Sign of the Rose in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, between 1549 and 1589 and published Shakespeare. He holds a book titled Scientia, which likely functions as a ''canting'' device (that is, an emblematic motif similar to a merchant’s mark), exploiting a pun on the surname: ''Welcome the Wight that bringeth such light.''
[Ref: 68000] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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