Grosvenor Prints

The Reading Girl.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engaved by J.W. Huffam.
[n.d., c.1843.] [But later]
Coloured mezzotint. 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½").
A girl in a head scarf reading a book. A church spire can bee seen through the window.
[Ref: 67961] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[An old man with flat cap.] Agli Dilitanti che ano il Sapere senza preguidizio Questa e dedicata.
Rembrandt 1646. WBaillie f. 1765.
Etching with drypoint, printed in brown, 18th century watermark. 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½").
An old man with a white beard, facing the viewer. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Charington 25. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68464] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Revoult, A.M. Master of the Walworth Academy. From an Original Painting by Sir Will.m Beechey R.A. presented to Mr. Revoult by the Gentlemen who had been educated under him as a token of their high respect and affectionate regard towards him. 1798.]
[Engraved by James Ward.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters, 18th century watermark. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), large margins. Inscriptions added in pencil.
A half-length seated portrait of John Revoult (c.1729-1811), holding a closed book lettered 'Introduction to the Arts & Sciences. 1798'. Revoult, a French refugee from the supression of the Jesuits in 1764, ran a private school in Wandsworth, the Walworth Academy, teaching pupils including the explorer Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872) and the actor Thomas Denning.
Frankau 67 i of ii; CS 32 i of ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68324] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Revoult, A.M. / Master of the Walworth Academy. From an Original Painting by Sir Will.m Beechey R.A. presented to Mr. Revoult by the Gentlemen who had been educated under him as a token of their high respect and affectionate regard towards him. 1798.]
Engraved by James Ward.
Rare mezzotint, sheet 350 x 280mm (13¾ x 11"). Trimmed within plate losing title. Creasing towards bottom.
John Revoult, who ran a private school, the Walworth Academy, in south London. Its pupils included the explorer Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872) and the actor Thomas Denning. Sitting here with a closed book lettered' Introduction to the Arts & Sciences. 1798'.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Frankau 67 ii/ii; CS 32 ii/ii. See [Ref: 34111].
[Ref: 68411] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, President of the Royal Academy, Member of the Imperial Academy at Florence, Doctor of Laws of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by V. Green, Dec.r 1.st 1780. N.º 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 480 x 380mm (19 x 15"), very large margins. With Queen Victoria's collector's blindstamp in inscription area.
A three-quarter self-portrait of Reynolds wearing his robes as President of the Royal Academy, one hand holding a scroll, resting on a table with a bust of Michelangelo.
CS 110, i of ii; Russell ii of vi; ; Hamilton p.57, ii of iv; Whitman 105, ii of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68073] £480.00

[Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, President of the Royal Academy, Member of the Imperial Academy at Florence, Doctor of Laws of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin, and Fellow of the Royal Society.]
[Painted by himself, for the Royal Academy, 1780. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.]
[Publish'd by V. Green, Dec.r 1.st 1780. N.º 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street.]
Mezzottint, proof before letters. 480 x 380mm (19 x 15"). Small margins.
A three-quarter self-portrait of Reynolds wearing his robes as President of the Royal Academy, one hand holding a scroll, resting on a table with a bust of Michelangelo.
CS 10, before i of ii; Russell ii of vi; ; Hamilton p.57, ii-iii of v; Whitman 105, iii of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68076] £360.00

Sir Joshua Reynolds, ~ Painted by Himself. Drawn and Engraved by Charles Townley Member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Florence, From the Original Portrait in the Medici Collection.
Published as the Act directs June 30th 1777, and to be had of C.Townley, No.7 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 420 x 280mm (16½ x 11"). Repaired loss bottom left corner. Old ink mss on roll.
A half-length portrait of Joshua Reynolds, in the robes of an Oxford Doctor of Civil Law, holding a roll. The old ink mss on the roll, 'Disegno del Divino Michel Angolo Bono[...]', copies the lettering on the original oil, now in the Uffizi Gallery.
Hamilton p.57, i of ii. CS 24, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67983] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.] Tum demum sanæ mentis Oculus acutè cernere [...] Seneca.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t. Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculpsit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 1. 1789 by T. Cadell; Strand.
Rare mezzotint with stipple and etching. 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
One of the last of 27 self-portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds, showing the artist wearing a white wig, curled to resemble his own hair, and 'wig spectacles', designed with extra-long, double-jointed sides to reach around a wigged head. Painted c.1788, it is his only self-portrait with spectacles, painted when he was about 65. The original oil is in the Kenwood House collection.
Hamilton p.58, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67982] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Rogers Esq.r. F.R.S. and S.A.I.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t 1777. W.m Wynne Ryland Sculp.t 1778.
Mezzotint and stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 280 x 185mm (11 x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Charles Rogers (1711-1784), a customs official and art collector. Rogers commissioned this portrait and used the mezzotint as the frontispiece to his work 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings'. He had reservations about the portrait, writing to Horace Walpole that he thought it made him look too young; Walpole responded that 'posterity will not know at what age the Likeness was taken'.
Hamilton p 61. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67966] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Rogers Esq.r. F.R.S. and S.A.I.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t 1777. W.m Wynne Ryland Sculp.t 1778.
Mezzotint and stipple, printed in sepia. 335 x 235mm (13¼ x 8¾"), very large margins. Repaired hole in unprinted area of plate
Charles Rogers (1711-1784), a customs official and art collector. Rogers commissioned this portrait and used the mezzotint as the frontispiece to his work 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings'. He had reservations about the portrait, writing to Horace Walpole that he thought it made him look too young; Walpole responded that 'posterity will not know at what age the Likeness was taken'.
Hamilton p 61.
[Ref: 67952] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Sepulchre of Cecilia Metella Crasi; upon the Appian Way, Two Miles from Rome. The Walls are 25 Feet thick, Sounding a Trumpet within it the Echo returns it 8 times.
Buisiri del: T. Smith pin: F. Vivares sc.
Publish'd 25 July 1746.
Fine engraving with etching. 550 x 400mm (21¾ x 15¾"), with large margins. Tears in the margins. Slight staining.
A view of the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, whose father served under Julius Ceasar, built in the 1st Century BC and located on one of the southern roads into Rome. The scene shows the ruins of the rotunda and walls, several figures examine the fragments of ancient architecture which line the route.
[Ref: 68304] £330.00

Veduta della Basilica di S.Paolo fuor delle Mura, eretta da Costantino Magno.
Piranesi F.
[Paris, c.1800.]
Etching. 410 x 625mm (16 x 24½"), with very large margins. Laid on backing sheet.
The façade of the Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, founded by Constantine I over the burial place of St. Paul. The building was destroyed by fire in 1823 (an event documented by Luigi Rossini in four views of the aftermath), and a replica rebuilt.
Hind: 6, state iv of vi, first Paris edition.
[Ref: 68382] £360.00

Emma Romer [facsimile signature]. Amina_ ''While my heart its joy revealing / Beats Oh! beats with grateful feeling. / La Sonnambula. Proof.
Drawn & Lithographed by J. Deffett Francis.
London, Published Jan.y 20.th 1838 by Welch & Gwynne Printsellers & Publishers (from Colnaghi's Cockspur S.t) 24, St James's St.
Rare coloured lithograph. Framed, window mounted around title, sight size 430 x 275mm (17 x 11"). Unexamined out of frame.
A full-length portrait of English soprano Emma Romer (1814-68), in Vincenzo Bellini's 'La sonnambula'. The image is the same hexagonal shape as the mount. After her marriage to George Almond in 1835 she continued to sing, but in 1852 Mrs Almond took over management of the Surrey Theatre for three seasons.
[Ref: 68236] £360.00

[John Ross] Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!
G. Cruikshank fec.t [after Frederick Marryat].
Pub.d Jan.y 18 1819 by G Humphrey 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 460mm (5 x 18"). Trimmed c. 10mm into image on left and c.50mm on right, split to fold taped, holes in corners of folds.
A satire on the return of Sir John Ross's expedition in search of North-West Passage, arriving at Whitehall Stairs in November 1818. Ross, wearing uniform and a large false nose, goose-steps at the head of a line of sailors who have all lost noses to frostbite. They carry artifacts from the expedition: a polar bear skin, a barrel of 'Red Snow', a bird on the end of a bayonet ('Larus Sabini', a newly discovered species), and other specimens 'for the British Museum'. Behind is the Greenlandic Inuit intrerpreter and artist Hans Zakæus, with spiky hair and a fur band around his waist. Among the onlookers are Joseph Banks (on a wall in the distance) and Billy Waters, the famous one-legged black busker.
BM Satires 13194, with extensive description.
[Ref: 68507] £690.00

Life on the Water. The Grand Rowing Match for Mr Kean's Prize Wherry. Red House, Battersea.
[Knight & Lacey London, 1827.]
Engraving with very fine colour. Sheet 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed and edges backed onto album paper. Tear across bottom right corner, repaired with tape.
A satirical print depiciting distressed men rowing frantcially in a match, with the Red House, Battersea in the background..
[Ref: 68420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Amusement or Nature will Prevail.!! 130.
Woodward del. IC.k [Isaac Cruikshank] sc.p.
London Published 1. [blank] by Tho.S Tegg Cheapside Price one Shilling [n.d., 1807].
Coloured etching. 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½'').
A couple sit by a table in a kitchen remarking on a newspaper, dicussing what the countryman would do if he were king.
BM Satires 10903.
[Ref: 68515] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Gio: B: Rubini. Arturo "_e son beato, [/] Mè celeste il giubilar!" [/] I Puritani Atto.1.Sc.5.
A.E. Chalon R.A. R.J. Lane A.R.A.
London, Published Jan.y 1.st 1836, by J.Mitchell, 33, Old Bond Street._á Paris chez Rittner & Goupil Boulevard Montmatre. Printed by Graf & Soret.
Coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"). Paper watermarked 'J Whatman'
Full length portrait of Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854), a dramatic tenor, depicted in the role of Arturo from Vincenzo Bellini, a role he occupied when the opera first premiered on 24th January 1835. Rubini was one of four international singers who, along with Guilia Grisi, Antonio Tamburini and Luigi Lablache, was known as one of the "Puritani Quartet". The group acquired the name on account of the large quantity of performances the group performed together which included a private performance for Crown Princess Victoria on her 15th birthday. From Alfred Edward Chalon's "Recollections of Italian Opera 1835".
Harvard Vol III, P. 449-7.
[Ref: 68232] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Sailor sitting for his Miniature.
Woodward delin. Etch'd by Roberts.
London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle Row, Holborn. Pub Jan.y xxxx T Tegg 111 Cheapside. [engraved c.1807 but later]
Coloured etching. 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13¼"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1824'. Coloured faded, time-staining, small top margin.
The artist (a self-portrait of Woodward, wearing a floral dressing gown/artists smock, sits at a writing desk painting a miniature of the sailor that sits on a stool opposite arms akimbo. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge."
BM Satires 10894. See [Ref: 61900] for one with different colouring.
[Ref: 68511] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Collection of Landscapes and Figures, Beautifully Etched, by the Late Paul Sandby, Esq. and M. Chatelain.
London: Published by R.H. Laurie, No 53, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1810]
4to, disbound, blue paper front wrapper with printed title label, with 16 (of 29?) etchings, each c. 145 x 180mm (5¾ x 7"), large margins Lacking back wrapper.
A collection of etchings after Paul Sandby (1731-1809) and Jean Baptiste Chatelain (1710-58), published after Sandby's death. Six landscapes and a full-length portrait of a woman have no inscriptions; the other nine plates signed by Chatelain, suggesting the unsigned ones are after Sandby. The Chatelain plates include a pair 'Calm' and 'Storm', with the publication details of Robert Sayer, suggesting Richard Holmes Laurie was republishing plates dating back to c.1750.
[Ref: 68298] £320.00 view all images for this item

View of the Road by Saorgio to the Passage of the Col de Tende.
Drawn by Mary Countess Harcourt, Engraved by J. Hibbert, jun. Bath.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 365 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Trimmed close to plate mark top and bottom. Small loss entering platemark in top left corner.
View of a town on cliffs, seen from below, a winding road and river at left in the foreground. 1809-33. Department of Alpes-Maritimes region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, while Col de Tende is a high mountain pass in the Alps, on the border of France and Italy. Mary, Countess Harcourt (1749 - 1833) Wife of William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt, and amateur painter.
[Ref: 68307] £420.00

[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"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Narrow 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: 67971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Isaac Schomberg. From an Original Picture Painted by Hudson in the Posession of S.Edwards Esq.r.
Engraved by W.P.Sherlock.
Published by J.Sewell, cornhill, August 1st 1799.
Stipple engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins.
Portrait of Dr. Isaac Schomberg (1714 -1780), German physician.
[Ref: 68203] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Owen Cambridge, 'The Scribleriad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Books'.]
L.P.Boitard Inv.t & Sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751 [by Richard Dodsley].
Etching. 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 10½"), large margins.
The frontispiece to Book II of Richard Owen Cambridge's 'The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books'. Scriblerus relates the story of his travels to a group of pilgrims, friends of his father. They sit on the grass in the foreground with a tiered dish, fruit, oriental figurines and statuettes, including one of Buddha, one of them to right reading a strip of paper he has drawn with much surprise from a small goblet, two on the left looking up at the sky with astonishment, with mountains in the distance, groups of indigenous people drawn up in the background to left, others chasing a solitary figure towards a broad river flowing on the right, where unicorns and other animals are swimming, with a mermaid on an island and seals and an enormous fish on the shore.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 68279] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to The Scribleriad]
L.P. Boitard inv.t & sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751.
Engraving, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), with large margins. Staining in margins
Night scene of a long-robed man with stepped shoes and an elaborate hair or tail headdress, coiled around his waist and trailing to the ground, gesturing toward an overgrown arched cave while grabbing the cloak of a turbaned man who recoils in fear as two owls burst from the cavern. This book-illustration comes from Richard Owen Cambridge's (1717 -1892), 'The Scribleriad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Books', London, 1751. A a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Miguel de Cervantes as his master. It is full of literary in-jokes.
[Ref: 68389] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Spring. O Come! and what the rosy footed May [/] Steals blushing on, together let us tread [/] The morning dews, and gather in their prime [/] Fresh blooming flowers, to grace thy braided hair, [/] And thy lov'd bosom that improves their sweets. [/] Vide Thompson's Seasons.
Published June 1.st.1796 by John Fairburn, 146, Minories, London.
Hand coloured mezzotint. Plate: 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed. Damage to title area. Tears to margins. Paper tone. Marks to printed area.
Exterior scene in which a family gather flowers and a young boy finds a bird's nest. In the background a man fishes in a river and another pushes a barrow.
Ex: Collection the Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68483] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Summer. Now swarms the village o'er the jovial mead'...
Drawn by T. Hearne. Engraved by W. Ellis.
London: Published as the Act directs, 12 Aug. 1784, by W.m Ellis, No. 9 Gwynne's Build.gs Islington.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 345 x 375mm (13½ x 14¾"). SIGNED in ink by the engraver on reverse. Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line and signature on reverse, creasing, small tear taped.
An oval harvesting scene, one of a set painted by Thomas Hearne illustrating Thomson's poem 'The Seasons'.
The BM's example (1849,0328.73) is also signed by William Ellis.
[Ref: 68412] £320.00

Shooting.
Sartorius pinx.t Reynolds sculp.t
London, Published July 4. 1801. for S.W. Reynolds by John Jeffryes, Clapham Road.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 460 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate left and bottom, repaired tears in margin.
A man sits on a shaggy horse holding a gun, with his pointer and English setter. Another man stands by a gate.
Whitman 446. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68217] £520.00

A Sketch of Nature.
Barrett del. J. Ogborne sculp.
Pub Nov.r 12.th 1793 by J. Ogborne No.58 Gt Portland St.
Rare coloured stipple with etching, partly printed in colour. Plate 210 x 252mm (8¼ x 10"). Trimmed to the plate along lower edge. Very light foxing outside of image.
Country view with two cows in the centre, walking towards a river on the left; trees and a fence on the right; a house in the left background behind trees.
[Ref: 68276] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Sidney Smith.]
[Robert Ker Porter pinxt. W. Say sculpt.]
[London Published as the Act directs, June 19, 1802, John P. Thompson, Printseller to his Majesty and their Royal Highness's the Duke & Duchess of York. Gt.Newport Street, and No.51 Dean Street, Soho.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 630 x 440mm (24¾ x 17¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, repaired tears in margins. Top margin messy.
A full-length portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), in uniform, with a turk, flag and broken sword behind. A naval officer, Smith fought in the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action in 1778 against the American frigate Raleigh. He also distinguished himself in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1780), Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) and the Battle of the Saintes (1782). His subsequent career included important service during the Napoleonic Wars, notably in the defence and relief of Acre. Napoleon said of him "That man made me miss my destiny", concerning his defence of Acre.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68216] £850.00

Soldiers Quarreling at Dice. From the Original Picture of the same Size, Painted by Valentini, in the Collection of S.r James Lowther, Bar.t.
Engraved by Capt.n Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar. 1. 1769. [But later]
Etching, 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼").
An argument amongst five soldiers playing dice, engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 38187].
[Ref: 68481] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Sontag as Rosina "Barber of Seville".
JBrandard.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Chromolithograph with gold highlights. Framed, sight size 265 x 205m (10½ x 8"). Unexamined out of frame, mounted over inscriptions.
A full-length portrait of German soprano Henriette Sontag (1806-44), in Mozart's opera. A music cover.
[Ref: 68249] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Mad.e Sontag's celebrated Linda Song.]
JBrandard.
[London; T. Boosey & Co 28, Holles St.] [n.d., c.1843].
Coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 235 x 200m (9¼ x 8"). Unexamined out of frame, mounted over inscriptions.
A full-length portrait of German soprano Henriette Sontag (1806-44), in Gaetano Donizetti's operatic melodramma 'Linda di Chamonix', premiered in London in 1843. A music cover.
[Ref: 68243] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester & Thomas Spratt A.M. Archdeacon of Rochester.
M. Dahll pinx. J. Smith fec. et ex. 1712.
Mezzotint. Sheet 285 x 365mm (11¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, folded, laid on album paper.
A double portrait of Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), Bishop of Rochester, pointing to his son, also Thomas Sprat, Archdeacon of Rochester (1679-1720). In 1692 an attempt was made to frame the bishop as a Jacobite, the so-called 'flowerpot plot', with his signature (and Marlborough's) forged on a document detailing a plot against William III, hidden under a flowerpot in Bromley Palace. He and the Duke were arrested for high treason but soon released.
CS 243.
[Ref: 68524] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Emily St Clare] Hilaria. From the Original Picture, in the Possession of Sir J.F> Leicester Bart.t &c.&c.
Painted by H. Thomson Esq.r. R.A. Engraved by W.m Say/
London, Published May 20, 1806 by the Engraver, 92 Norton Street, Marylebone.
Fine & rare mezzotint, title in open letters. Sheet 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing part of title.
A full-length portrait of Emily St Clare (fl 1800-10) in a landscaped garden, pointing at a barn owl in a tree above an ornamental pedestal. In the title are four lines of verse The BM's example of this print is titled 'Portrait of a Lady', also in open letters, with the same inscriptions, but only two lines of verse. Emily was the mistress of John Fleming Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley, before his marriage to Georgiana Maria Cottin in 1810; he commissioned several portraits of her, including at least three that were published.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68213] £420.00

Jour de Fête at St Cloud Sept.r 1815 with the British Troops on Duty.
A. Long.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Rare amateur lithograph. Printed area 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"), very large margins. Margins time stained.
A fête at the Château de Saint-Cloud, just to the west of Paris. Although Napoleon had abdicated in June, some French forces kept up resistance into September, accounting for the British troops in this scene. Amelia Long (née Hume) (1772-1837), married Charles Long who was created Baron Farnborough in 1826. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely admired by professional artists and drawing masters.
For a sketchbook by the artist see V&A E.21080-1957.
[Ref: 68264] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

W. de St Croix [facimile signature].
to be had only of Mr Dawe 13, High Street Windsor [n.d., c.1840].
Scarce mezzotint. 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of William de St Croix (1819-1877), a clergyman who played cricket from 1839 to 1842 for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Cambridge Town Club, making 15 known appearances in first-class matches. He organised the restoration of the 'Long Man of Wilmington' hill figure, 1873-4, giving it its modern outline.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67923] £320.00

Henry St John, late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
T. Murray pinxit.
[n.d., c.1751.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper.
A half-length portrait in oval of Henry St John, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1851), politician, diplomatist and author. St John first entered parliament in 1701 and was appointed secretary at war in 1704 before resigning in 1708. He was subsequently secretary of state (1710-14) and aligned himself with the Jacobite cause to secure power for himself and the Tories (spending several years in exile in France from 1716-23 as a result). Pardoned in 1723, Bolingbroke returned to England and tried to rally tory opposition in parliament, but was mostly active as a writer in later years.
CS 8. Sharp 332.
[Ref: 68520] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Henry St John, late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
[T. Murray pinxit.] T. Murray pinxit. [engraved by George White.]
[n.d., c.1751.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing artist's name, creased, mounted in album paper.
A half-length portrait in oval of Henry St John, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1851), politician, diplomatist and author. St John first entered parliament in 1701 and was appointed secretary at war in 1704 before resigning in 1708. He was subsequently secretary of state (1710-14) and aligned himself with the Jacobite cause to secure power for himself and the Tories (spending several years in exile in France from 1716-23 as a result). Pardoned in 1723, Bolingbroke returned to England and tried to rally tory opposition in parliament, but was mostly active as a writer in later years.
CS 7. Sharp 332.
[Ref: 68521] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A sailing ship in a storm.]
A Ballin D.t S.t.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching on chine collé. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed to image on right, into plate top and left.
By French painter and etcher Auguste Ballin (1842-85 or 1909).
[Ref: 68326] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

William Strahan Esq.r. From a painting in the Posession of John Spottigwoode Esq.r.
Chamberlayne pinx.t. Leney sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 8¼"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of William Strahan Esq.r. (1715 - 85), Scottish printer and publisher, as well as a politician who served in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1784. He was also a correspondent and later a close friend of Benjamin Franklin.
[Ref: 68204] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Student.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London, Publish'd June 14 1814 by A. Wivell, 57 Great Portland Street.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere
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. Chaloner Smith: 189, between iii of iv. Frankau: 337, between iv of v. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state v of vi.
[Ref: 67953] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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.
Mezzotint. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Thread margins. Repaired small hole by back neck.
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: 67955] £320.00

In Sussex [in pencil] 2/50
Marjorie Firth [signed in pencil]
1935 [in pencil]
Very rare modern wood engraving in original mount, 145 x 225mm (5¾ x 8¾). Limited edition of 50. Slight mountburn.
A view of Lancing College in Sussex. Margaret 'Marjorie' Firth (1898–1991) was a British painter and printmaker. She studied at the Bradford School of Art under Fred Stead and Harry Butler. She has exhibited with the English Wood Engraving Society, Redfern Gallery, Royal Academy, Society of Women Artists and the New English Art Club. The Hunterian, Manchester Art Gallery hold examples of her work, as well as the British Museum.
[Ref: 68392] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Enrico Tamberlik.]
JBrandard.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A full-length portrait of the Italian tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) as Manrico in Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Il trovatore', holding a lute.
[Ref: 68246] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tamberlik as Peter the Great. [Valse Hollandaise from Jullien's Grand Opera Pietro il Grande.]
JBrandard.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Unexamined out of frame. Mounted over text, likely trimmed.
A full-length portrait of the Italian tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) in a fur-trimmed robe.
[Ref: 68248] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A. Tamburini. Riccardo. "Io ardo_e il mio ardore [/] E amore, é furor!" [/] I Puritani Atto 1. Sc.3.
A.E. Chalon R.A. N.J. Lane A.R.A.
London, Published Jan.y 1.st 1836 by J.Mitchell, 33 Old Bond Street_á Paris chez Rittner and Goupil, Boulevard Montmatre. Printed by Graf & Soret.
Coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"). Slight mount burn, unexamined out of frame.
Full length portrait of the Italian dramatic Baritone opera singer Antonio Tamburini (1800-1876) in the role of Riccardo in Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani", from Alfred Edward Chalon's "Recollections of Italian Opera 1835". Tamburini was one of four international singers who, along with Guilia Grisi, Giovanni Battista Rubini and Luigi Lablache, was known as one of the "Puritani Quartet". The group acquired the name on account of the large quantity of performances the group performed together which included a private performance for Crown Princess Victoria on her 15th birthday.
Harvard Vol IV: P.130-10.
[Ref: 68227] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Divers Prospects in and about Tangier Exactly delineated by W: Hollar his May.ties designer, Ao1669, and by him afterwards to satisfie the curious, etchd in Copper.
And are to be Sold by John Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, London 1673.
Etching, sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8½"). Very slight repaired damage on left. Trimmed.
Title plate to a series of views in Tangier (modern Morocco) by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77). Tangier came into English possession as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married Charles II in 1662, although attempts to develop it strategically and commercially were unsuccessful. In 1688 Hollar, in his capacity of 'Scenographus Regus', went there as part of a mission sent to deal with problems with hostile natives. Hollar made some sketches of the fortifications, published in 1673. The fortifications shown were demolished in 1684 when the English government abandoned Tangier. Some of Hollar's drawings of Tangier are in the British Museum.
Pennington 1187 i/ii
[Ref: 68290] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect of ye Inner part of Tangier with the upper Castle from South-East.
W. Hollar delineavit et scul.
[Published by John Overton, 1673] [But later]
Etching, sheet 125 x 220mm (5 x 8½"). Trimmed.
One of series of views in Tangier (modern Morocco) by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77). Tangier came into English possession as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married Charles II in 1662, although attempts to develop it strategically and commercially were unsuccessful. In 1688 Hollar, in his capacity of 'Scenographus Regus', went there as part of a mission sent to deal with problems with hostile natives. Hollar made some sketches of the fortifications, published in 1673. The fortifications shown were demolished in 1684 when the English government abandoned Tangier. Some of Hollar's drawings of Tangier are in the British Museum.
Pennington 1192 ii/ii.
[Ref: 68288] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect of ye lower part of Tangier from the hill West of White-hall.
W. Hollar delin.
[Published by John Overton, 1673.]
Etching, sheet 125 x 215mm (5 x 8½"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Collector's stamp of G.A. Cardew, 'G.A.C.' Trimmed to platemark.
One of series of views in Tangier (modern Morocco) by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77). Tangier came into English possession as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married Charles II in 1662, although attempts to develop it strategically and commercially were unsuccessful. In 1688 Hollar, in his capacity of 'Scenographus Regus', went there as part of a mission sent to deal with problems with hostile natives. Hollar made some sketches of the fortifications, published in 1673. The fortifications shown were demolished in 1684 when the English government abandoned Tangier. Some of Hollar's drawings of Tangier are in the British Museum.
Pennington 1190 i/ii. Lugt: L.1134.
[Ref: 68287] £360.00

[Classical collonade and courtyard after David Teniers.]
Æsheimer inv. W Hollar fecit.
F. van den Wyngarde exc. [n.d., c.1650.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. light creasing.
Although Pennington calls this plate 'Healing the cripples' after Elsheimer, the BM has traced a drawing by David Teniers the Elder in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pennington: 114, iii of iii; BM 2005,U.178.
[Ref: 68278] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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