Grosvenor Prints

L'Adolescence de Paul & Virginie. L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie. [&] Paul... Virgin.e... [&] Le Papayer de Virginie. Le Sommet du Pouce... [Mauritius.]
Dutailly del. Guyot sculp.
A Paris chez Guyot Graveur et M.d d'Estampes, Rue St Jacques au Grand Gesner, No.10 [n.d., c.1788-1800].
Six scenes (of 14) on three plates, each printed from four mezzotint plates in black, red, yellow and blue. Platemark of each sheet 155 x 230mm (6 x 9").
A novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre tells the story of two children who grow up as brother and sister in the French colony in Mauritius, possible inspired by the wreck of the Saint Géran in 1744. In this series twelve views illustrate the novel and two illustrate the subsequent play.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. BM: 1895,1015.137.
[Ref: 9177] £1,100.00 view all images for this item

Le Naufrage de Virginie. Paul alloit s’élancer à la mer, lorsque je le saisais par le bras: mon fils, lui dis-je, voulez vous périr? Que j aille à son secours s’écria-l’il, ou que je meurt!__Paul et Virginie.
Peint par Lambert. Gravé para Felix Mizelle.
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Comp.e sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Aquatint and etching, 414 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼").
The shipwreck. Paul watches on in horror from the shore as a ship is hurled by a huge wave towards rocks on the tropical island of Mauritius; he is restrainted by one white and two black companions. Virginia and a black slave stand on the deck of the doomed ship. The most famous ship name in the history of Mauritius is the slaveship St. Géran which, whilst bringing colonists, was shipwrecked in 1744 on fringing reef of island's northeast coast. Only nine survived the wreck and it inspired the novel Paul et Virginie by Bernadin de St. Pierre. In the novel Virginie, out of modesty, refuses to remove her clothes so that the sailor can carry her to shore and is consequently drowned. On shore grief stricken Paul dies soon afterwards. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
See Ref: 18009 for a rare coloured version of the scene.
[Ref: 28894] £450.00

Paul et Virginie. a peine cette lettre fut lue dans la famille qu’elle y rependit la Consternation. Domingue et Marie se mirent a pleurer, Paul, immobile’ détonnement, paroissoit prêt a se metre en colete. Rirginie les yeux fixés sur sa Mere n’osoit proferer un mot.
Lambert delineavit. Mixelle le J.e Sculp.t
Se Vend à Paris à la Manufacture de papiers peints, chez Arthur et Compagnie sur le Boulevard. [n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. 418 x 560mm (16½ x 22").
A scene depicting the lovers Paul and Virginia, from the novel set on the island of Mauritius, then named Ile de France. Paul and Virginia are seen here with Domingue and Marie, two black slaves who support the young French couple, the slaves' dog Fidele is seen lying in the foreground. The novel was written on the eve of the French Revolution by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.
[Ref: 28893] £450.00

[Paul and Virginie obtaining the pardon of a runaway slave] Virginie Demandant le Grace d'une Esclave.
Schall pinxt.
A Paris chez Jazet, rue de Lancry, No.7, et chez Aumont, Md. d'Estampes, rue J.J. Rousseau, No.10. [n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint with small margins, 420 x 480mm. 16½ x 19". Closed tear to upper margin; generally good.
The master, raising a club, forgives the prostrated black woman as a result of the intercession of two European children. A reissue of a 1790s plate, with the engraver's name erased. Plate 2 from the 'Paul et Virginie' fine set of aquatints after Jean Frédéric Schall (1752 - 1825), telling the tragic story of Paul and Virginie. A novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre about two children who grow up as brother and sister in the French colony of Mauritius, the story was possibly inspired by the wreck of the Saint Géran in 1744.
[Ref: 27989] £520.00

La Jeuness de Paul et Virginie.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Mezzotint and etching, rare. Plate 203 x 165mm. 8 x 6½". Large margins.
Paul and Virginie seated, greeted by a Mauritian and dog. A scene from the novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. The good friends fall in love, but tragically die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French Rule, and written on the eve of the French Revolution.
[Ref: 21090] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

No. 2. Paul et Virginie. Madame de la Tour reprit la lettre en en fit la lecture devant toute la famille rassemblée...
Peint par M.lle Adèle Ferrand. Lith. par Ch. Vogt. Imp. par Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris: V.or Delarue & C.e, Place du Louvre 10 [n.d., 1855].
Lithograph on chine collé, publisher's blind stamp. Printed area 570 x 415mm (22½ x 16¼"). Very large margins spotted and soiled, with a few tears in margins.
A scene from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Madame de la Tour reads a letter to Paul and Virginie, a white servant and black slave girl. Set on Mauritius, the novel is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 48512] £480.00

[Paul et Virginie] L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie. [&] L'Adolescence de Paul et Virginie. [&] Le Triomphe de la Vertu. [&] Virginie au Tombeau.
Peint par Schall. Gravé par Augustin le Grand.
A Paris chez Augustin le Grand Rue St. Julien-le-Pauvre No 3 [illegible] [n.d. c.1800.]
Four stipples printed in colours, sheet 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed to platemark on two sides; pinhole in centre. Small tear in margin that just touches plate.
Four scenes from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Set on Mauritius, it is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 38688] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Paul I.st Emperor of Russia.
J. Chapman sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis, 1826.
Stipple, with large margins. Plate 165 x 109mm. 6½ x 4¼".
Paul I (1754-1801), Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his death. His attempts to force the nobility to adopt a code of chivalry alienated many of his trusted advisors and thus this led to the conspiracy of his assassination on 23 march 1808, when he was murdered in his own bedroom in the newly built St Michael's Castle by a band of dismissed officers headed by General Bennigsen.
Frankau: 157.
[Ref: 26406] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Paul 1.st. Emperor of Russia.
J. Chapman sculp.
Published as the Act directs Aug1. 1797.
Stipple with large margins. Plate: 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼").
Half portrait, in a roundel, of Paul 1st Emperor of Russia (1754-1801). Paul 1st ruled Russia from 1796 until his assassination in 1801.
[Ref: 33503] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Petrowitz, Arch Duke of Russia.
Engraved for the Universal Magazine.
For J. Hinton at the King's Arms in Newgate Street [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Large margins.
Oval portrait of Tsar Paul I (1754-1801), son of Peter III and Catherine II.
[Ref: 37920] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Paul I of Russia] The Magnanimous Ally. Painted at St Petersburg 1799.
[by James Gillray.]
Published September 17th 1799 by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 320 x 245mm (12½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to printed border, creased.
A caricature portrait of Tsar Paul I (1754-1801), shown in full ceremonial uniform including two Crosses of the Order of the Knights of St John, standing on a French revolutionary standard. Although the Russians joined with the British to invade the Batavian Republic in August 1799 to neutralise its navy, there was a general dislike of both Paul and the coalition.
BM: 9415.
[Ref: 39009] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Three Orders of St. Petersburgh.
Pub. Mar. 18. 1800 by S.W. Fores, No.50, Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Eve.g.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾''). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical portrait of Paul I's, Tsar of Russia, uncertainty toward the coalition during the Napoleonic campaigns. Paul I is shown wearing a crown labelled 'Disorder' while in each hand he holds documents, one stating 'Order' the other 'Counter Order'.
BM Satire 9526.
[Ref: 50770] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Three Orders of St Petersburgh.
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub. Mar. 18th 1800 by S.W. Fores, No 50, Piccadilly.
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 340 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾"). Small margins.
A caricature of Tsar Paul I of Russia: in one hand he has a scroll marked 'Order'; in the other 'Counter Order'; and on his crown 'Disorder'. A satire on the Tsar's inconsistant statements about his commitment to the anti-French coalition of Britain, Austria and Russia, caused by bad feeling after the withdrawal of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. He was assassinated a year later.
[Ref: 50687] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Paulus, III, Pont, Optmax.
Engraved AD 1616 [in ink mss]
Engraving, 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"), with margins. Ink mss in bottom margin. Some light staining top margin. Two plates do not line up perfectly.
Bust-length portrait of Pope Paul III (1468-1549) , seated facing right, wearing a mozzetta with hood; his coat of arms appears in the upper left corner. Print made with two plates an ornamental one and a small oval portrait.
[Ref: 67016] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Preaching at Athens. Acts Chap. XVII. [parallel text in Latin]
Raphael d'Urbin pinx.t
London. Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard.
Mezzotint, platemark approx 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Crease lower left & right.
Paul preaching to councillors at the Areopagus (seat of the judicial council) at Athens). One from a set of seven mezzotints reproducing Raphael's cartoons, commissioned by Pope Leo X as designs for a set of large designs for tapestries to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel. In 1623 the seven cartoons, depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, were brought to England by Charles I. They were long displayed at Hampton Court and various engravings such as these in the 18th century reinforced the reputation of the cartoons as some of the most significant artworks in the country. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, where they are permanently displayed together.
For the full set of seven, see ref. 34028. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34031] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Pry among the Bankers. [Pry:] Hope I don't intrude....if you don't find it rather hard to make both ends meet...I dare say you haven't stop'd payment eh? ... [Banker:] ...take your Ballance...and put it in a place of safety, if you can find one!
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley. Lithoge. Office. 310 Strand [n.d., c.1835].
Coloured lithograph, sheet 235 x 250mm (9¼ x 10"). Cockling, light staining, remnants of album paper in margins.
John Liston was the leading comic actor of the first half of the 19th century. In 1825, with 20 years of experience behind him, he created his masterpiece character, Paul Pry, in John Poole's farce of the same name. Pry is a man consumed with curiosity, an interfering busybody unable to mind his own business. Here he quizzes a banker about how he maintains his bank as a going concern - a very topical subject! With his striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, Liston moulded Pry into a uniquely endearing character. Most memorable was the umbrella that Pry conveniently left behind everywhere he went so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 67917] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Pry among the Bankers. [Pry:] Hope I don't intrude....if you don't find it rather hard to make both ends meet...I dare say you haven't stop'd payment eh? ... [Banker:] ...take your Ballance...and put it in a place of safety, if you can find one!
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley. Lithoge. Office. 310 Strand [n.d., c.1835].
Coloured lithograph, sheet 210 x 235mm. 8¼ x 9¼".
John Liston was the leading comic actor of the first half of the 19th century. In 1825, with 20 years of experience behind him, he created his masterpiece character, Paul Pry, in John Poole's farce of the same name. Pry is a man consumed with curiosity, an interfering busybody unable to mind his own business. Here he quizzes a banker about how he maintins his bank as a going concern - a very topical subject! With his striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, Liston moulded Pry into a uniquely endearing character. Most memorable was the umbrella that Pry conveniently left behind everywhere he went so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 12274] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Antoine Paul] Pas Gracieux. du 1.er ballet. (M.r Paul.) Dans la Lampe merveilleuse, Opéra, (Acad.e R.le de musique.)
AG [monogram of Auguste Garneray] Lith de G. Engelmann.
[Paris, Martinet, 1822.]
Coloured lithograph. Framed, visible area 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Paper toned, unexamined out of frame.
A full-length portrait of ballet dancer Antoine Paul (1798-1871, known as Mr Paul) in costume in the opera 'La lampe merveilleuse', the Aladdin story. A cross-dressing image.
[Ref: 58493] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Her Grace the Dutchess of Bolton. &c.
G.Kneller S.R.Imp et Angl Eques Aur Pinx. I.Smith fec.
[n.d., c.1700.] Sold by I.Smith at ye Lyon & Crowb in Russel Street Covnet Garden.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 415 x 265mm (16¼ x 10½"). Trimmed to image.
Portrait of Henrietta Paulet, Duchess of Bolton (c. 162 - 1730), the third wife of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton. She was one of several aristocratic female signatories who petitioned the king for the creation of a Foundling Hospital in the late 1720s, but she did not live long enough to see its creation. She spent part of her life in Dublin, and the city's Henrietta Street is reputedly named after her.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 68630] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Paulet?] L.d Paulet. [ink mss.]
T. Ashlow.
[c.1810.]
Ink, watercolour and wash. Image 185 x 160mm (7¼ x 6¼"). Title in later ink mss.
Probably Henry, Lord Paulet (1602-72), MP for Andover. Three similar works by Thomas Athow (1802-1820, fl.) are in the British Museum.
[Ref: 42679] £380.00

[William Paulet First Marquis of Winchester. From the ancient Painting in the College of Arms.]
[Etched M. Tyson]
[n.d. c.1710.]
Very rare etching, proof before all letters. 216 x 133mm. 8½ x 5¼".
William Paulet (c.1485-1572) was an English Secretary of State and statesman who attained several peerages throughout his lifetime: Baron St John, Earl of Wiltshire and Marquess of Winchester.
[Ref: 24829] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. Paulett.]
John Vanderbank Pinxt. John Faber Fecit.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d., c.1750].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Faint staining. Laid on album page.
Half-length portrait of Mrs William Paulett, wife of the secretary to the Archbishop of York.
Chaloner Smith: 277, I.
[Ref: 10487] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. William Paulett.]
John Vanderbank Pinxt. John Faber Fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d., c.1750].
Mezzotint, 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"),on 18th century watermarked paper, with large margins. Tears in left margin.
Half-length portrait of Mrs William Paulett, wife of the secretary to the Archbishop of York, wearing a feathered hat, pearl earring and jewel at her breast.
Chaloner Smith: 277, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67520] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. William Paulett.]
John Vanderbank Pinxt. John Faber Fecit.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d., c.1750].
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), 18th century watermark. Thread margins, damage bottom left corner.
Half-length portrait of Mrs William Paulett, wife of the secretary to the Archbishop of York, wearing a feathered hat, pearl earring and jewel at her breast.
Chaloner Smith: 277, i of ii.
[Ref: 67423] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. William Paulett.]
John Vanderbank Pinxt. John Faber Fecit.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in S.t Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhil [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotin, 18th century watermark. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"), large margins.
Half-length portrait of Mrs William Paulett, wife of the secretary to the Archbishop of York, wearing a feathered hat, pearl earring and jewel at her breast.
Chaloner Smith: 277, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67518] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. William Paulett.]
John Vanderbank Pinxt. John Faber Fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square [n.d., c.1750].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"), very large margins. Old ink mss. in lower margin.
Half-length portrait of Mrs William Paulett, wife of the secretary to the Archbishop of York, wearing a feathered hat, pearl earring and jewel at her breast.
Chaloner Smith: 277, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67519] £320.00

[Mrs. William Paulett.]
John Vanderbank Pinxt. John Faber Fecit.
[Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.] [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image at top, into plate at sides and into inscription at bottom, losing publication line; large collector's blind stamp in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of Mrs William Paulett, wife of the secretary to the Archbishop of York.
Chaloner Smith: 277, I. Ex Milne Cooper Collection & Morrison Collection.
[Ref: 65769] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

James Paull Esqr.
Hopwood sculp.t
[n.d. c.1800]
Stipple engraving. 138 x 108mm.
James Paull (1770-1808), Politician.
[Ref: 3294] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Paulo Purganti and his Wife: an Honest, but a Simple Pair. She often set the Doctor's Band, / And strok'd his Beard, and squeez'd his Hand: / Kindly complain'd, that after Noon / He went to pore on Books too soon: / She held it wholesomer by much, / To rest a little on the Couch 399
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [date erased, c.1779.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 255mm. (14 x 10"), very large margins. Repaired hole in centre, tear in margins, creased.
A couple sit on a sofa together, the wife trying to persuade him to stop reading his book and rest instead. A scene from a poem by Matthew Prior.
BM Satires 4568; both BM examples also have the date erased.
[Ref: 48156] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Well, what is it pav'd with.
London Pub.d by A. Sharpe.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼''). Trimmed.
A scene on the road to London showing two men with napsacks greeting each other, the man heading to London asks the second what the road is paved with, probably checking to see if the legend that the road to London is paved with gold is true.
[Ref: 50784] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

This Pavement Was found at West-Dean near Salisbury in March 1741, is compos'd of Black & White Stones halftg an Inch Each; & is now to be seen intire.
[n.d., c.1770]
Engraving with large margins, scarce, platemark 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Creased.
Example of the interest in English history in the eighteenth century, typified by the activities of the Society of Antiquaries, which saw many examples of early pavements, mosaic fragments and other ruins dissimentated through prints.
[Ref: 31855] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Prise de Pavie.
Grenier del. Litho: de C. Motte, R. des Marais.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 444 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins.
The arrival of Napoleon and his troops at Pavia, northern Italy, who took control from the Austrians in 1796. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30786] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pavillon Chinois. près le jardin du Sénat Conservateur. No. 3.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Engraving; paper watermarked. Plate 217 x 305mm. 8½ x 12". Crease to upper right hand corner.
The Sénat Conservateur was a body set up in France during the Consulate by the Constitution of the Year VIII (1799).
[Ref: 19770] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pax Artium Nutrix.
B. West inv. 1787 R.A. Etched by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Publish'd in the Act Jany. 28 1787 by Greenwood.
Colour-printed stipple. Sheet: 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9''). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, publication line faint.
A woman seated on a rock, wearing the emblems of the three arts on her belt, in front of her are six putti, writing, carrying books and sheets of paper inscribed 'Italy'. On the left, the lion of Britannia and on the right, a bust of King George III, and the shield of Brtiannia; in the background are ships at sea. Frontispiece to "A Catalogue of that superb and well known Cabinet of Drawings of John Barnard Esq., which will be sold by auction by Mr. Greenwood on Friday, Feb. 16. 1787".
De Vesme: 553 II.
[Ref: 48990] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Adoration. [&] Praise.
Painted by R.M.Paye. Engraved by W.Nutter. [Praise] Engraved by W.Ward.
London published May 12th 1785. by J.R.Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in colour. 250 x 230mm.
[Ref: 4579] £650.00 view all images for this item

The Distressed Girl. [&] The Sulky Boy.
Painted by R.M.Paye. Engraved by J.Young..
Published April 6th by J.Young No. 28 Newman Street Oxford Street London.
Pair of mezzotints. Each plate 590 x 440mm.
[Ref: 4582] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Boy Discovering the Golden Eggs [&] The Boy Disappointed of his Treasure.
Painted by R.M.Paye. Engraved by John Young.
London, Published Jany. 1st 1786 by John Jeffryes Ludgate Hill.
Pair of mezzotints. Each plate 600 x 440mm. Small surface creae on "Discovering".
Two scenes from Aesop's 'The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs'
[Ref: 4584] £780.00 view all images for this item

R.M. Paye.
Engraved by R. Dagley, from a Drawing by R.M. Payne.
Library of the Fine Arts, 1832.
Stipple and etching, 180 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
Self-portrait of a youthful Richard Morton Paye (1750 - 1821), painter of portraits and miniatures. He has long hair and wears a fur hat; faintly lettered to scroll below easel and roundel portrait. Engraved for a memoir of Paye in Arnold's ‘Library of the Fine Arts'.
[Ref: 18993] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Pierre Payen] Pet. Payen D. Deslandes Senat. Cler. In Sup. Cal. Curia Decanus Ab. S.t Mart. Prior Et D. De Charitate
Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat 1659.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Trimmed to plate mark.
A half portrait of French magestrate Pierre Payen (d.1664) in magesterial robes in oval frame with coat of arms.
PW 190. ii.
[Ref: 57431] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Curia Decanus Ab. S.ti Mart. Prior et D. De Charitatepet Payen D. Deslandes Senat. Cler. In SVP Gal.
Nanteuil ad vivam faciebat 1659.
Engraving. Plate: 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10'').
A portrait of French conseiller-clerc Pierre Payen who served at the Parliament of Paris (1621), he followed Marie de' Medici in Belgium (1632) and was her 'secrétaire des commandements'; he returned to France after Cardinal Richeieu's death, in 1643, and was reinstated in his charge.
Petitjean & Wickert 190.I
[Ref: 49270] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Union; or the Pay-Master-s. Our great Mans Pride sure cannot very big be. To ride behind so great a ***** as R-
Pub: Ledger, July 2, 1768. [Oxford Magazine]
Etching, 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"). Small margins. Paper toned.
Illustration to the Oxford Magazine. Satirical print of Thomas Harley, MP and Lord Mayor of London, shown riding pillion behind Richard Rigby, Paymaster General, on a single galloping horse headed for a toll-gate. The keeper offers a ticket reading, ''And these two are one – Pay Master.'' Harley, in his mayoral robes and oversized boots, exclaims: ''If we ride so fast, Mr. R——y, I shall lose my SEAT!'' Rigby, brandishing a whip and wearing equally large boots, replies: ''Stick close to me, my Lord M——r, and I’ll ensure you for seven years.'' Behind them stands Private MacLaughlin, the soldier accused of shooting William Allen during the St. George’s Fields riots, holding his musket reversed and saying, ''I was naked, and he clothed me,'' pointing toward Rigby. A bystander notes the filth of the road, another the filth of the riders, while a Scotsman quips: ''By my sol, but they are well BUTE’D.'' Harley was appointed a Privy Councillor and granted a profitable army supply contract as a reward for backing the Government during the unrest that followed the Middlesex elections of 1768.
BM Satires 4210.
[Ref: 67409] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Payne's Bang up Tandem, Drawn by his Faithful Dogs, Rover & Bob. This Carriage is made of a Cradle, a Fender, a Dust Shovel, & Four Cheeses.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured etching, very scarce. 170 x 236mm. 6¾ x 9¼". Trimmed around the image and title area. Laid on card.
A man standing on a carriage made up of a cradle and four cheese, amongst other bits. The man is dressed like a type of harlequin mockery, with a trumpet hanging out of his mouth. His two dogs strapped to the carriage, march along in an elegant fashion.
[Ref: 17424] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Commodore Payne.
Orme Jun.r Sculp. 1795.
Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1. 1795.
Stipple, 4¼ x 3¼"[image size].
John Willett Payne (1752-1803): Saw much service during the war of the American revolution, and at peace became a boon companion and private secretary to George Prince of Wales.
Ref: Parker, p36.
[Ref: 4490] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Commodore Payne.
Orme Jun.r Sculp. 1795
Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1 1795
Stipple, 185 x 120mm. 7¼ x 4¾". Foxing around image and in title area.
Rear-Admiral John Willett Payne (1752-1803). A senior member of the British navy who was also a close friend to Prince George during his first regency. He was noted for his bravery in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars and was made Rear-Admiral in 1799.
[Ref: 8732] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Payne Galwey.
Painted by S.r Jos.a Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
London Published Feb.y 1.st 1780 by J.R. Smith No.10 Batemans Buildings Soho Square.
Mezzotint. Plate: 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Thread margins.
A portrait of Philadelphia Payne Gallway (1758-1785) carrying her son Charles.
CS 133; Frankau: 273; Hamilton 101; D'Oench 144.
[Ref: 47623] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Philip Payne Huntsman to his Grace the Duke of Beaufort on his favorite Horse (Cherrington) with hounds This Print is dedicated by permission to His Grace by his most Obdt. Humble Servant ['Thos R Davis' signature facsimile.]
Painted by T.R. Davis Esqr. Student of the Royal Acdemy, London. Engraved by C. Turner Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
Published Decr. 8th, 1826 by Mr Ackerman, Strand, London, Mr Thompson & Mr Parker, Oxford - & Duffield & Weller at Cheltenham, & Bath.
Mezzotint, 550 x 710mm. 21½ x 28". Tatty extremities, with tear into plate (well outside image) lower right corner. Scarce.
Philip Payne, huntsman to the Duke of Beaufort in 1826, seated on horseback in parkland surrounded by a pack of hounds.
Whitman: 417.
[Ref: 8850] £520.00

[Thomas Payne.]
[Extracted from a painting by Louis Francois Gerard van der Puyl.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving on chine collé. 305 x 205mm (12 x 8), with very large margins. Chine collé lifting from backing sheet.
A half-length portrait of publisher and bookseller Thomas Payne, who ran a shop at Mews Gate in Castle Street near Leicester Fields (the site of the National Gallery), which became a meeting place for the literati of the day. The original painting, by Dutchman Louis François Gérard van der Puyl (1750-1824), shows Payne in his shop, surrounded by a group of people (including the painter). Payne is playing whist but, in this extract, his hand of cards has been replaced by a book!
The painting is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (accession 1951-125-17).
[Ref: 64402] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne la France
H.Bunbury fecit
Etching, platemark 165 x 145mm (6½ x 5¾")/ Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet.
A 'French peasant' draped with Catholic symbols and wearing exaggerated regional costume, as was the norm in 18th century caricatured prints of Frenchmen. Etched by Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
BM Satire 4751; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 1066] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne de la Bourgogne
H.W.Bunbury del. J.Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs 2d. Feb 1773 By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Engraving. 175 x 245mm. Trimmed to platemark.
[Ref: 1067] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le Paysant Civil. On vouloit vous donner ici/ Quelque Nouvieaute quiscut plaire/ On a pris pou cela le sujet que voici./ Un Paysant Civil n'est pas chose ordinaire.
D. Tennier pinxit. Loisel Sculp.
A paris Chez P. Landry rue St. Iacques a St. Francois de Sales [n.d. c.1690].
Engraving. 720 x 490mm (28¼ x 19¼"). Crease through centre. Tiny margins.
The interior of an inn, with an old peasant doffing his hat.
[Ref: 6108] £650.00

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