Grosvenor Prints

Colonel James Read. One of the Fathers of the American Navy.
Engraved by Samuel Sartain, Phila.
[Philadelphia, USA: S. Sartain, n.d., c.1870.]
Steel engraving, with large margins, image 135 x 100mm. 5¼ x 4". Some light marginal spotting and soiling.
Portrait of American soldier James Read (1743 - 1822), promoted from 1st lieutenant to colonel for gallant services at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown during the American Revolutionary War. He was appointed one of the three commissioners of the navy for the middle states by Congress on 4 November, 1778, and on 11 January, 1781, was invested by the same body with sole power to conduct the navy board. Biography below title, and pasted below that a typescript cutting recording that the portrait was presented to Roland Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano (1858 - 1924) by a great-nephew of the sitter, one General Meredith Read. According to a pen inscription in French to verso, the gift was received in 1895. Samuel Sartain (1830 - 1906), engraver.
[Ref: 24422] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d Ja.s Read. Missionary to Africa.
Painted by Morris. Engraved by H. Cook.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple. 215 x 120mm (8½ x 4¾").
James Read (1777-1852), the missionary in Cape Colony and political activist. In November 1798 he set sail for the South Seas under the aegis of the London Missionary Society. His ship was captured and he managed to return to London before setting sail again and arriving in Cape Town in 1800.
[Ref: 28554] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

La Liseuse. Dédié à Monsieur T.M. Osteri, Négiciant à Zurich... Par son Ami et Serviteur Wille.
Peint par G. Dauw. Gravé par J.G. Wille, Graveur du Roy.
à Paris chez l'Auteur Quai des Augustins. [n.d., c.1761.]
Etching. 400 x 285mm (15¾ x 11¼"). Very large margins. Slight stain top left.
An old woman reading, wearing a cap and glasses, seen through a trompe-l'oeil window. Engraved by Johann Georg Wille after Gerrit Dou.
[Ref: 38304] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman Reading.]
[Charles West Cope, c.1844.]
Etching on india with additions in pencil, platemark 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"). Ms below '1st. retouched by Mr. Cope'; foxing to margins.
Proof etching, retouched by history painter Charles West Cope (1811-90) and similar to other of his etchings such as those for 'Etched Thoughts of the Etching Club' (1844). Cope was a founder member of the Etching Club.
[Ref: 35885] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a Man Reading.]
A: V: Ostade Pinx: J: Stolker Fecit.
S: Cruys, Excud. [n.d., c1780.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 280 x 200mm (11 x 8'') very large margins. Slight foxing.
A portrait of an old man reading a sheet of text; after a painting by Dutch artist Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685).
[Ref: 48840] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Reading] Caversham Bridge.
Drawn and Engraved by W.H. Timms.
Published April 1823 [by J. Rusher, King Street Reading].
Aquatint, printed in colour and and finished. 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1822'.
A view looking down on Caversham Bridge, mostly stone but with a wooden span. The colour is particularly fine. From 'Views of Reading Etc.'
Abbey 294.
[Ref: 62385] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Reading] Part of Castle Street from the Turnpike.
Drawn and Engraved by W.H. Timms.
Published May 1823 [by J. Rusher, King Street Reading].
Aquatint, printed in colour and and finished. Plate 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾").
From 'Views of Reading Etc.' The colour is particularly fine.
Abbey 294.
[Ref: 62386] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Reading] East View of High Bridge. Pl.7.
[Printed by Snare and Man. Sold by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street; J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, London; and R. Snare, Minster Street, Reading. 1816.]
Aquatint. 200 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼").
A view of High Bridge (or Duke Street Bridge) over the River Kennet, Reading, from which a boy fishes. From John Man's 'History of Reading'.
Abbey: 293: 6. Ex: Collection of David G. E. Smith
[Ref: 55531] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Reading and Writing _ 8 Dialogue. As you are writing drowsily by the fire, on rousing and recollecting yourself, find your Guardian in possession of your secret thoughts, which he never ceases to upbraid you of.
Rowlandson del et sculp.
Pub. Jan.y 1. 1807 by R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 108 Strand.
Coloured etching. 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾") very large margins.
A young woman sleeps in a chair in a library, her hand still holding a pen on a sheet of paper. An elderly man holding an eye-glass to his eye leans over the back of her chair to inspect a paper inscribed 'My dear'.
See Ref: 54618 for a complete copy of volume.
[Ref: 59200] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Redingia / Redding
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Early map of Reading, in Berkshire. In the medieval period it was the site of Reading Abbey, an important monastery with royal connections. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38543] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mamma, Don't Make Me Beg in Vain; / Pray Read That Pretty Book Again. [&] [A seated woman holding a book, speaking to a child.]
[Mamma inscribed] [Ada]m Buck Delin.t. M.N. Bate Sc[...]
London, Pub. April 15th, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Pair of rare stipple, printed in colours. Sheets 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾") & 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Mamma trimmed into image at sides affecting inscriptions, into plate top and bottom, second trimmed, losing title and inscriptions.
A pair of scenes of a woman dressed in neoclassical style a child begging to be read to. The woman resembles Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852), mistress of Frederick, Duke of York, whose portrait was published by Buck in 1810. The original watercolour of 'Mamma' is in an album the Victoria and Albert Museum.
V&A: P.69-1930.
[Ref: 54182] £320.00 view all images for this item

Constantia Charming.
Elias Martin inv.t. & Sculp.t.
Published December 18.th 1778, Leicester Street, No. 8.
Stipple printed in sanguine with large margins. Platemark: 220 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Lower left corner creased. Small mark in title area.
A half portrait of a woman wearing a veil, with covered shoulders, directed to the left, reading from a book. By Elias Martin, A.R.A. Swedish, born Stockholm in 1739, died Stockholm 1818. He came to London in 1768, becoming a Royal Academy student the next year and was elected A.R.A in 1770.
See 60281 for coloured version.
[Ref: 36350] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The East view of the Ruins of the Abbey of Reading, Berks.
M. Blackamore delin. 1759.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Aquatint. 349 x 529mm. 13¾ x 20¾". Folding. Laid on conservation tissue. Some damage on right.
The ruins of Reading Abbey; the abbey was largely destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. See ref:20312 for companion print.
[Ref: 20312] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A boy seated in a studio.]
W. Vaillant fecit et excudit.
[Engraved c.1670 but printed c.1800.]
Mezzotint. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), on wove paper. Thread margins.
A boy seated reading in a studio, with a drawing book and a statue of a cherub.
[Ref: 60183] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Reading & Understanding. A Prince of Wales 95 feet Long!! my eyes. Wot a King he'll Make!!
London. Thomas. C. Lewis. & Co. 96 Cheapside.[n.d., c.1835.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾''). Slight foxing.
A man in rags stands before a sign announcing the arrival of an exhibition of a 95 foot long whale at the Pavilion at Pall Mall, however he misunderstands and believes the broadside to be describing the Prince of Wales.
[Ref: 49315] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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)

[Two women reading a letter]
Gerars pinx. van Somer f.
F. de Wit Excudit
Mezzotint. 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Staining at bottom.
Two women reading a letter, while a man, woman, and dog observe. After a painting by G.P. van Zijl, which had previously been engraved by Wallerant Vaillant.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Holl: 48
[Ref: 34657] £350.00

Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870.
B.E. Maidment.
Manchester University Press, 1996.
8vo., cloth and d/w; pp. xv + 190, 32 b/w illus. Owner's blindstamp on endpaper. Rare.
Five essays, including 'Prints as history and the history of Prints' and 'Conglagration! The burning of Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791'.
[Ref: 59741] £65.00

Reading School [in pencil to the right.]
Etched by A.E. Wardle [in pencil to the left.]
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with watermark in paper; stamped remarque proof. Plate 203 x 254mm. 8 x 10".
Reading School, the state-funded, selective academy for boys in Reading. Its history can be traced back to the school of Reading Abbey, making it one of the oldest schools in England.
[Ref: 22567] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

View of Reading School & Playground. Dedicated by Permission To the Rev.d R. Valpy, D.D. F.A.S. and the Gentlemen of Reading School, by their very humble and respectful Servant Edmund Havell. Virginibus Sedes Fuit Haec Monialibus Aedes Hospitium Henricus Musis Donavit Amicus.
Drawn by E. Havell. Engraved by R. Havell & Son. 3, Chapel Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Published Oct.r 1816, by E. Havell, Frier Street, Reading.
Very scarce & fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Framed. Sight size 445 x 600mm (17½ x 23½"). Repaired tear in right edge.
A view of Reading Grammar School, in what had been Reading Abbey's guest house or Hospitium, with the scholars at play ouside. The pastimes include cricket, rounders, hoops, reading and driving other boys like horses, with whips. Bottom right an old woman sells pastries. Edmund Havell (1785-1864) succeeded has father Luke (b.1752) as drawing-master at the school and as owner of the family print shop in Reading. His older brother was the landscape artist William (1782-1857); the engravers of this plate were his uncle Robert (1769-1832) and his son, also Robert (1793-1878), engraver of most of the Audubon bird plates.
[Ref: 67231] £550.00

Sycamore near Reading, Berks.
Drawn by Will.m Havell. Etched by W.m Dela Motte.
Pub.d as the Act directs by W.m Dela Motte. Gt. Marlow Jan.ry 1. 1806.
A rare soft-ground etching. 513 x 387mm. 20¼ x 15¼". Soiling and paper toning.
View of a churchyard with a large tree in the centre; two children on a path in the foreground, reading a memorial at left; arch over gate beyond.
[Ref: 18898] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Reading Telegraph Coaches, Meeting near Salt Hill. Windsor & Eton in the Distance.
London, Pub.d June 1. 1835 by Rob.t Havell, Zoological Gallery, 77, Oxford Street.
Coloured aquatint. 405 x 580mm (16 x 22¾"), on paper watermarked 'Ruse & Turners 1846'. Paper toned.
Two coaches drawn by four horses, passing on the road, with Windsor Castle and Eton College in the background.
[Ref: 49979] £680.00

[A Woman Reading] Soit d'un epoux soit d'un amant / Cest une lettre assurement / Quicy la belle on vous voit lire [...]
Detroy p. C.A. Bouchet f. [c.1730]
Engraving, platemark 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8½"), with very large margins.
A woman viewed through a window, her back to the viewer, reading a letter whose contents and author are not disclosed by the text below. Engraving after 'A Woman Reading' (1723) by Jean-François de Troy, a painting which the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin recently acquired, thereby reuniting it with its pennant 'Young Woman Drinking Coffee'. Both works were acquired soon after they were painted by the collector and patron of Watteau Jean de Jullienne (1686 - 1766). De Troy (1679-1752) was a leading painter of the Parisian élite, and while primarily a history painter he worked in most genres. De Troy made decorative paintings for the châteaux of Versailles and Fontainebleau, and designed a series of tapestries for the Gobelins factory.
[Ref: 40282] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Real Inhabitants of this Earth.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t G. Shepheard sculp.t
London Published: Jany. 10th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin & Republished 1805 by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street.
Hand-coloured stipple and etching. Watermarked: 1802. 310 x 235mm. 12¼ x 9¼". Fly spots at top.
An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy, both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a high-waisted travelling dress and small hat, takes the officer's arm; her left hand is in a large muff. Behind are the masts of a vessel backed by chalk cliffs, showing that the rail edges a small creek or harbour; on the right are a beam and pulley; lower right a dog. From a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury.
BM Satires: 11456.
[Ref: 20100] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni. Le Petit Maitre Partant Pour La Promenade.
[After Brandoin.]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 260 x 180mm (10½ x 7''), with very large margins.
A satirical scene showing a barber finishing a macaroni's queue.
[Ref: 48530] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Reaper.
Painted by T. Faed R.A. Engraved by F. Stacpoole. [In image area:] TFaed 1863.
London: Published Jan.y 17th. 1865, by B. Brooks & Sons, 48, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate 711 x 539mm. 28 x 21¼".
A young woman in rustic dress with a shawl around her shoulders, standing full-length in a field directed to left, holding a sickle, looking to right at a bundle of hay; a man is cutting hay behind her.
[Ref: 25295] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rear Guard.]
J.P. Beadle.
[c.1910.]
Photogravure. 345 x 515mm (13½ x 20¼"). Laid on board.
Major-General Robert Crauford (1764-1812) commanding the 1st Flank Brigade (composed of the 1/43rd, 1/52nd and 2/95th), the rearguard protecting the British Army's retreat from Mayorga to Corruna, 1808-9, during the Peninsula War. Marching through mountain passes in the snow, without food, it is the disciplinarian Crauford's leadership that is credited for the success of the retreat. James Princip Beadle (1863-1946), who specialised in military scenes, experienced both the Boer War and the First World War.
[Ref: 53115] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Reasonable Charges or Ducks Metamorphosed!
Woodward del.
Published by T. Tegg No 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1805.] Bit later.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed into plate, laid on paper.
A waiter offers the menu to two men at table, one of whom exclaims that the ducks, priced at £1 1s, are guinea fowls.
BM: 1991,0720.39, suggesting the etcher was Isaac Cruikshank.
[Ref: 50714] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rebecca.
C.Marato del. Pitou Sculp.
A Paris, chez Bonnet, rue St. Jacques, au coin de celle de la Parcheminerie. [n.d., c. 1790]
Stipple, printed in colours. 230 x 190mm. Triimed into platemark.
[Ref: 4052] £320.00

[Joseph Récamier.]
Peint par Paulin Guérin. Gravé par F. Girard.
Imprimé par Alfred Chardon, J.ne rue Racine, 3, Paris. [n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint, scarce. Sheet 535 x 380mm (21 x 15"). Tear in top edge. Margins rubbed.
Joseph-Claude-Anthelme Récamier (1774-1852), French gynecologist who coined the term ''metastasis''. His two most important papers are: 'Recherches sur le traitement du cancer' (Research on Treatment of Cancer, 1829) & 'Recherches sur le traitement du cholera-morbus' (Research on Treatment of Cholera, 1832), which is shown propped up on the table next to him in this portrait.
[Ref: 46396] £450.00

[Receipt.] Es wird hiemit bescheiniget, dass H. Gottfer, den An 1743. Osternfalligen Schoss mit card Schilling, nebst Bacht-Geld bezahlet hat. Lubed, an 1743 den 26 Oct. [It is hereby certified that H. Gottfer, who paid An 1743th Easter shot lap with card shilling, and Bacht money. Lubed, at 1743 the 26 Oct]
[1743.]
Letterpress receipt. Sheet: 85 x 115mm (3½ x 4½").
A receipt written in German confirming that payment was made on 26th October 1743.
[Ref: 47886] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Ink mss receipt.] On the 25th of [Leshrim Lwel?] 1261 or Seventh of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-five I have received in full from Mess.rs John Ross & Co., English merchants of Malta, the sum of two thousand one hundred and seventy four effective Spanish dollars, amount of a letter of credit given me by Mess.rs Hanson & Co. of Constantinople on the aforesaid Mess.rs John Ross & Co. In consequence I have delivered to them the letter of credit and sealed receipts in duplicate for the said some of 2,174 Spanish dollars. Malta. November 7th 1845. [With an Arabic text, probably a Maltese translation, and an ink stamp.]
Single sheet, folded in four. Sheet 300 x 200mm, 11¾ x 8". Some foxing.
John Ross & Co were appointed agents to the East India Company in Malta in 1805. Charles S. Hanson & Co was an English bank in Istanbul, until the firm failed in December 1881.
[Ref: 17510] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Receiving Absolution for Past Heresies. Pl.2_
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath.] Esq.
Pub by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830].
Etching with hand colour. 265 x 365mm (10½ x 14½"), with large margins. Colour slightly faded.
Satire on Catholic emancipation: a caricatured papal legation watch as a cardinal gives absolution to Lyndhurst, Peel, and Wellington, who kneel before them.
BM Satires: 15740.
[Ref: 55409] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Receiving Absolution for Past Heresies. Pl.2_
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath.] Esq.
Pub by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830].
Etching with hand colour. Framed, sight size 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼") Framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
Satire on Catholic emancipation: a caricatured papal legation watch as a cardinal gives absolution to Lyndhurst, Peel, and Wellington, who kneel before them.
BM Satires: 15740.
[Ref: 61229] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Decorative monogram - initials A and R, entwined.]
[C. de Saint-Aubin.]
A.P.D.R. [Paris: Veuve de Chereau, c.1760.]
Etching, laid paper, 325 x 230mm, 12¾ x 9". Slightly soiled; marginal staining.
From the first series of decorative floral monograms attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '2' lower right. See ref:19871, ref:19877 and ref:19878.
See BM 1991,0615.53. See item 19871 for titlepage.
[Ref: 19874] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Decorative monogram - initials F and C, entwined.]
[C. de Saint-Aubin.]
A.P.D.R. [Paris: Veuve de Chereau, c.1760.]
Etching, laid paper, 325 x 235mm, 12¾ x 9¼". Stitch holes to left margin.
From the first series of decorative floral monograms attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '6' lower right. See ref:19871, ref:19877 and ref:19874.
See BM 1991,0615.53. See item 19871 for titlepage.
[Ref: 19878] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Premier Receuil De Chiffres Invente par De Saint Aubin Dessinateur du Roi.
Drouet Scrip [inscription].
A.P.D.R. A Paris chez la V[euv]e de F. Chereau rüe St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'Or [n.d., c.1760].
Attractive etched titlepage, laid paper; lettering to scroll surrounded by fronds and flowers, the whole surmounted by a floral crown. 335 x 240mm, 13¼ x 9½".
For a series of decorative floral monograms, attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '1' lower right.
See BM 1991,0615.53.
[Ref: 19871] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Reclining Nude] Tire du Cabinet de Monsieur Cayeux
F. Boucher delineavit. L. Bonnet Sculpsit
A Paris chez la V.e de F. Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2. Piliers d'Or.
Crayon manner with very large margins, platemark 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Creasing; damage to margins.
Nude engraved from a drawing by leading French eighteenth century painter François Boucher (1703-70). The printmaker, Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93), was the inventor of the distinctive crayon manner employed here which skilfully replicates pastel drawings. Bonnet, in common with several leading printmakers of his day, spent time working in Russia (1764-6).
[Ref: 33186] £420.00

[Reclining Nude]
R Nunkeles ad viv del. J.C. fecit 1767
Crayon manner, sheet 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"). Trimmed to image; glued to backing sheet at corners with watercolour border around edges. Borders dusty.
Nude reminiscent of the drawings of François Boucher (1703-70), engraved using the crayon manner invented by Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93) to skilfully replicates pastel drawings.
[Ref: 33187] £420.00

[Turkish Woman Reclining on the Sofa after a Bath.] Femme Turque qui repose usr le Sopha sortant du bain.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
A Turkish woman in a suggestive mode. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47015] £330.00

[Magistrate and Recognition of the Child's Father.] Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parish Laws are grac'd...And Swears She'l be reveng'd upon his Brows' The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And from him to provide Security.
W. Hogarth pinx. J. Sympson Jun.r Sculp.
Sold by J. Sympson Engraver and Print-Seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane.
Etching and engraving. Plate 306 x 356mm. 12 x 14".
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist. This man meanwhile, raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him. The true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs. After William Hogarth's (1697-1794) painting entitled "The Denunciation" c.1729 (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin). Paulson in "Hogarth's Graphic Works" comments on Sympson's use of 'modern moral subjects', of which this is one. According to Paulson there is no sufficient proof to shoe that Hogarth employed Sympson, and thus is therefore more likely that Sympson undertook the job himself
BM Satires: 2261. See Paulson: pp.29-30.
[Ref: 19160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Clemens VIII. Pont. Opt. Max. Pace inter potentissimos Henricum IV. Gallie ac Navarre Philippumque II. Hispaniarum Reges conciliata felicissimus extat A. MDXCVIII. All Eminentissimo, e Reverendissimo Principe il Sig. Cardinarle Francesco Bertazzoli Prefetto della S.C. sugli studj.
Giovanni di Matio Bertazzoni dif e inc. [in image.] Giovanni de Mateo Bertazzoni e Guiseppe Meloni D: O: C:
A very scarce engraving printed in brown ink. 330 x 361mm. 13 x 14¼". Vertical crease. Scuffing and spotting. Water stain across the top.
Giovanni de Matteo Bertazzoni (1805-1884). Pope Clement VIII (1536-1605); Henry IV (1553-1610) of France and Navarre; & Philip II of Spain (1527-1598). Probably around the 1593 with the Reconciliation of France bringing years of religious war to an end and forming alliances.
[Ref: 14423] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Recounter with a Rattle Snake, on the banks of the Ohio. Voy.s No.XXX.
Neele & Son 352 Strand.
Published by Sir R. Phillips & Co. Bridge Court, Bridge Street. [1821.]
Engraving. Plate 222 x 253mm. 8¾ x 10". Creasing as normal.
A hunter carrying his rifle walks with his dog, when they encounter a rattlesnake. From "A Voyage to North America, and The West Indies, in 1817. By E. Montule. Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour. Author of Travels in Egypt, &c." 1821.
[Ref: 23844] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Récréations. Interieur d'un Atelier.
Henry Monnier. Lith de Bernard.
Publié par Giraldon-Bouvinet, Passage Vivienne 26 [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 130 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Crease through top of image.
'The interior of a workshop', with an artist working on a painting on an easle while his models take a break, smoking and sewing.
[Ref: 67668] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Recrimination.
Giles Grinagain inv.t et fec.t.
Published Dec.r 1. 1801. by S. Howitt, Panton Street.
Coloured etching. 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins.
An angry French hairdresser complains about the patch of soot left on his sleeve by a chimney sweep, saying, ''Morbieu! You black Devils! see have You make black all my Jacket! How I can go to dress my Lord? for what you not wear white Clothes''. The sweep holds out his left arm, whitened by impact, saying, ''Look ye here, d--n You! what You've done you at Frog - I shan't be able to get the White out for Six Months to come''. 'Giles Grinagain' was probably a pseudonym for Samuel Howitt.
BM Satires 9815.
[Ref: 42183] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13"). Crease top left, narrow margins, mounted on album paper on left.
A woman stands holding a basket of poultry. Behind, a man slips an arm into the basket while pushing another man away. A scene from George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer', which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers. A pair to 'A Scene in the Careless Husband'.
CS: 415. See Ref: 67266
[Ref: 67263] £350.00

A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier invt. et pinxt. I. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Mezzotint, 276 x 323mm. Foxing, small marginal tear upper left.
Illustrates George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer'. Farquhar (1677 or 1678 - 1707) was an Irish dramatist noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy. The play follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7855] £320.00

A Recuiting Party.
Drawn by H. Bunbury Esq.r.
London Publish'd 1 June 1790 by Bull & Jeffryes Ludgate Hill.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate,
Three members of a recruiting party march stiffly inline. The leader is a tall obese man carrying a pike and wearing a sword; next is a diminutive drummer; and last is a thin officer holding a cane.
[Ref: 41684] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Recruiting Party. Now's Your Time My Lads- Whigs & Tories - Christians, Jews & Turks- no distinction made.
[Monogram of Paul Pry - John Phillips?] Esq.r.
Pub. by S. Gans 15 Southampton St. Strand.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Wellington, dressed in his military uniform salutes, to George IV. Beside Wellington stands James Scarlett, into whose hand Wellington places a coin marked 'Attorn[ey]'. George IV's mistress Lady Conyngham drums as Robert Peel plays the flute. Wellington found it difficult to gather ministers once elected, so this satire suggests that he was bribing Scarlett, who had resigned from the post of Attorney-General when Wellington came to power in 1828, to return. This a pirated copy of William Heath's satire, even copying his Paul Pry monogram, probably by John Phillips.
See BM Satire: 15812 for Heath's original.
[Ref: 55404] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Recruiting Party. Now's Your Time My Lads- Whigs & Tories - Christians, Jews & Turks- no distinction made.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub June 20 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P-Pry Caricatures - none are oritinal with T McLeans Name.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Wellington, dressed in his military uniform, salutes George IV. Beside Wellington stands James Scarlett, into whose hand Wellington places a coin marked 'Attorn[ey]'. George IV's mistress Lady Conyngham drums as Robert Peel plays the flute. Wellington found it difficult to gather ministers once elected, so this satire suggests that he was bribing Scarlett, who had resigned from the post of Attorney-General when Wellington came to power in 1828, to return. This a pirated copy of William Heath's satire, even copying his Paul Pry monogram, probably by John Phillips.
BM Satire 15812.
[Ref: 55955] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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