Grosvenor Prints

Ruben's Three Children. Done from a Capital Picture, in the Possession of Monsieur I. Bertels at Antwerp.
P.P. Rubens pinxit. P.J. Tassaert Fecit.
Sold by P.J. Tassaert Painter to his Royal Highness Prince Charles of Lorrain at M.rs Tinges in great Poland Street Soho. Price 7s. 6d. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint. 505 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"), with large margins. Laid on card. Bit messy.
Three small children playing with a dog.
CS3 ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67630] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Ruben's Three Children. Done from a Capital Picture, in the Possession of Monsieur I. Bertels at Antwerp.]
[P.P. Rubens pinxit. P.J. Tassaert Fecit.]
[Sold by P.J. Tassaert Painter to his Royal Highness Prince Charles of Lorrain at M.rs Tinges in great Poland Street Soho.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed in brown. Plate 505 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Loss in left edge. Thread margins.
Three small children playing with a dog.
CS3 i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67632] £420.00

[The Family of Rubens.]
Rubens Pinxit. Tassaert fecit 1768.
J. Boydell excudit.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 430 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"), with large margins. Repaired tear centre top.
The family of the painter Peter Paul Rubens.
CS 2, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67633] £480.00

[The Family of Rubens]
Rubens Pinxit. Tassaert fecit 1768.
J. Boydell excudit.
Mezzotint, fine impression, platemark 430 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"). Part of lower edge missing and filled in. False margins at top.
The family of the painter Peter Paul Rubens.
[Ref: 43750] £360.00

A Fryars Head. In the Gallery at Houghton
Rubens pinx.t. V. Green sculp
Pubd Oct. 1 1774 by John Boydell, Engraver, Cheapside
Mezzotint with large margins; platemark 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Fine.
Head of a friar, after Rubens. The painting was part of the celebrated collection assembled at Houghton in Norfolk by Robert Walpole, the finest pictures of which were engraved in an ambitious project published by John Boydell. The collection was sold to Catherine the Great in the 1770s, and many of the pictures can be seen in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. In 2013 Rubens' 'friars head' was one of a number which temporarily returned to Houghton for the exhibition 'Houghton Revisited'.
Whitman 174 (only state)
[Ref: 36520] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Fruit Garland.] Der Fruchtenkranz. / La Guirlande de Fruits.
Gemalt von P.P. Rubens. Nach d. Originale auf Stein gez v. Ferd Piloty.
Verlag der K.B. priv. Kunstanstaldt v. Piloty & Loehle in Munchen. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Publishers blind stamp in centre of title area, 'Piloty & Loehle Munchen'. Printed area: 570 x 520mm (22¼ x 20½"). Spotting in very large margins.
Putti carrying an elaborate fruit garland, within a rocky landscape. After Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). From the Munich Gallery collection.
[Ref: 38085] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Three figures gathered around a fire.] Quadro di Pietro Paulo Rubens Alto Piedi 4. Onz. 1 Largo Piedi 3 Onz. 3
C. Hutin delin. C.F. Boece Sculps [c.1810]
Engraving, platemark 430 x 330mm (17 x 13"). Uncut sheet with very large margins. Fine.
Italian engraving of a scene attributed to Rubens of three figures in a cave gathered around a small fire.
[Ref: 36532] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleeping Nymphs of Diana.] Dianes Schlafende Nymphen von Waldgoettern Belauscht. Nymphes Dorma
Gemalt von P.P. Rubens u. Breughel. Nach d. Originale auf Stein gez v. Carl Straub.
Verlag der K.B. priv. Kunstanstaldt v. Piloty & Loehle in Munchen. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Printed area: 430 x 675mm (17 x 26½"), with wide margins, publishers blind stamp in centre of title area. Tear in lower edge of sheet.
A scene depicting Diana's Nymphs sleeping under a tree, being watched by two gremlins who are hiding to the left. The foreground is filled with dead game.
After Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). From the Munich Gallery collection.
[Ref: 38053] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Guard Dog.]
Gemalt v. Snyders u. Rubens. Nach d. Originale auf Stein gez v. J. Woelfjle.
Verlag der K.B. priv. Kunstanstaldt v. Piloty & Loehle in Munchen. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Publishers blind stamp in centre of title area, 'Piloty & Loehle Munchen'. Printed area: 570 x 520mm (22¼ x 20½"). Spotting in very large margins.
A large clothed table covered in dead game, poultry, fruit and vegetables, and a Lobster in the centre. A dog is sniffing a stag's head from below the table, with a cat to the left, and a servant picking up some grapes to the right. After Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). The original painting is now held in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. From the Munich Gallery collection.
[Ref: 38050] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Arrest of Samson.] Die Gefangennehmung Simsons. / L'Arrestation de Samson.
Gemalt von P.P. Rubens. Nach d. Originale auf Stein gez v. F. Piloty.
Verlag der K.B. priv. Kunstanstaldt v. Piloty & Loehle in Munchen. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Publishers blind stamp in centre of title area, 'Piloty & Loehle Munchen'. Printed area: 420 x 515mm (16½ x 20¼"). Spotting in vry large margins.
Delilah reclining on a bed to the left, holding a pair of scissors, Samson being tied with ropes surrounded by soldiers in the centre. After Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). From the Munich Gallery collection.
[Ref: 38052] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Femme De Rubens. [The Wife of Rubens.] L'original se trouve dans la galerie Imp. Roy. a Vienne.
Peint P.P. Rubens; grave par J.M.
Se vend a Vienne chez Mr. F.X. Trockl, Md. d' Estampes, dans la Seizergasse vis a vis de la Chancellerie de Guerre. [n.d., c.1805.]
Stipple in brown ink, 325 x 230mm. 12¾ x 9".
Helene Fourment, second wife of the artist, in a fur coat, after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). Published in Vienna. The 1638 oil is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. On Whatman paper watermarked 1801.
[Ref: 11914] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Albertus, Son of P. P. Rubens.
Rubels Pinx.t. Goubaud Del.t. G. Maile Sculp.t.
London. Published Feb.y 1.st, 1816, at Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
A fine mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 445 x 330mm (17½ x 13").
A portrait of Peter Paul Rubens' son Albert (1614-57), as a young boy, from a series of portraits of the artist's family. The artist's eldest son, by Isabella Brant, he became a respected philologist and scholar of antiquity, and succeeded his father as secretary of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64875] £320.00

P,, P,, Rubens.
Rubels Pinx.t. Goubaud Del.t. G. Maile Sculp.t.
London. Published June 1, 1817, at Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 445 x 330mm (17½ x 13"). Three large foxing spots.
A self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens aged 46, looking towards the viewer, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and cloak. From a series of portraits of the artist's family.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64874] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Excellentis: Dns: D: Petrus Paulus Rubenius...
W. Hollar fecit.
F. van den Wyngarde ex: [n.d., c.1650.]
Etching. Sheet 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed into image, nick in bottom edge.
A self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens, aged 50; wearing wide-brimmed hat and slashed doublet; in an oval ornamental frame.
Pennington 1498, second state, with 'mus' of 'Excellentis:mus' removed.
[Ref: 66812] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Paulus Rubens. 30
J. Meyssens exc. [Antwerp, n.d. c.1694].
Etching laid on 18th century sheet. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Some creasing and distortion across the sheet.
A portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) from the series 'Image de divers hommes' (1694).
[Ref: 56578] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Paulus Rubens
[S. Saverÿ Exc.]
[n.d. c.1670.]
Rare engraving, sheet 245 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate losing engraver's name, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly damaged on image.
Bust portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), wearing wide-brimmed hat and cloak. After the self-portrait by Rubens in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, signed and dated 1623, which was painted for the future Charles I.
Schneevoogt 157.8. Hollstein 128.
[Ref: 59390] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Peterus Paulus Rubens & c.
P. Pelham fec: et Excud: 1724.
Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1735]..
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Thread margins.
A half-length self-portrait of Flemish baroque painter Petrus Paulus Rubens (1577-1640). The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS 33, only state but suggesting an earlier state without the address of John Bowles, see our item 61642.
[Ref: 64857] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.]
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Good impression; trimmed on platemark; paper discolouration and staining.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Lifetime impression.
State iii/v [inscription reworked]; W48; D195.
[Ref: 32796] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Thread margins; printed on fine tissue laid on backing sheet; glue stains and slightly foxed at corners; Worlidge inscription weak.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Lifetime impression.
State iv/v ; W48; D195.
[Ref: 32800] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.]
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 135 x 100mm (5¼ x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark; good impression; glue stains; discolouration and slight staining.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Early impression.
State i/ ; W48; D195.
[Ref: 32793] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Good impression; thread margins; on white laid paper.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Lifetime impression.
State iv/v ; W48; D195; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32798] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Good impression; thread margins; printed on fine cream tissue (slightly wrinkled) laid on backing sheet and false margins added.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Lifetime impression.
State iv/v ; W48; D195.
[Ref: 32799] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Large margins; foxing around margins.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Posthumous impression with number '48' added in top left by Worlidge's widow to correspond with number in her 1767 catalogue of his prints.
State v/v ; W48; D195.
[Ref: 32801] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.]
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Good impression; trimmed on platemark; glued to album sheet.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Lifetime impression.
State iii/v [inscription reworked]; W48; D195. Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32797] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Recollections of Rubens.
By Jacob Burckhardt.
London: Phaidon Press Ltd. All Rights Reserved by Phaidon Press Ltd. 1 Cromwell Place, London, S.W.7. MCML [1950.] Made in Great Britain and Printed at the Curwen Press.
8vo (190 x 121mm. 7½ x 4¾".), with marble board covers and calf spine with title in gilt.
An illustrated first edition. Jacob Burckhardt's penetrating essay conveys a vision of the background against which Ruben's works were produced, and gives revealing explanations of the paintings and their style, and a highly interesting sketch of the painter's life as well. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that highlighted the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a diplomat he was knighted by both Philip IV, King of Spain, and Charles I, King of England.
[Ref: 22176] £20.00

[Sr. Peter Paul Rubens Kt.]
Thos Worlidge Fecit 1757 [after Rubens]
Etching, sheet 140 x 95mm (5¼ x 4"). Good impression; trimmed on platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) the Flemish Baroque painter, diplomat and proponent of the extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Etched by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt' who reproduced prints by earlier artists, particularly Rembrandt. Lifetime impression.
State ii/v [cloak reworked and inscription faded]; W48; D195. Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32795] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Rubens & His Wife. From an original Picture by Rubens & Snyder in the Possession of the Right Honourable The Earl of Aylesford. To Whom this Print is, with his Lordship's permission Inscribed by his much obliged & most respectful humble Servant, John Summerfield.
Painted by Rubens and Snyders. Drawn and Engraved by J. Summerfield, late Pupil to F. Bartolozzi R.A.
London, Published by J. Summerfield at No 9 Southampton Street, Strand, Feb.y 11th 1814.
Engraving. 570 x 530mm (22¼ x 20¾".) Large margins, watermarked 'H.S. & S'. Tear entering platemark, repairs in margins.
A portrait of the Flemish baroque painter Peter Paulus Rubens (1577 - 1640), with his first wife, Isabella Brant. Originally published 1801, the print is after a painting now in Kenwood House. Despite the attribution here it is not certain whether the figures were painted by Rubens or Cornelis de Vos, although it was Frans Snyders who painted the hind slung over Rubens' shoulder, the game birds in the basket on his arm and the fruit in the basket on Isabella's head.
BM: 1917,1208.619.
[Ref: 29075] £320.00

[Rubens with his Wife and Child. From the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim.]
[S.r Peter Paul Rubens pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, UNRECORDED PLATE, proof before inscription. Sheet 510 x 355mm (20 x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Ink stamp of the Lennox-Boyd Collection on reverse.
An unrecorded plate of McArdell's mezzotint, a very close copy but with some noticeable differences: for example a greater number of bands around Hélène's cuff; Rubens' finger does not extend as out from the hedge; and the caryatid has a different expression. The British Museum has a published example (1902,1011.3379), described as the same as CS 159. A self-portrait of Rubens in an ornamental garden with his second wife Hélène Fourment and their unnamed young son, a parrot in the rosebush behind. The painting, formerly in the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
See CS 159, i of ii. Goodwin: 121 Variant. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34993] £650.00

Pietro Paolo Rubens.
Gio. Dom. Campiglia del. G.M. Priesler sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving. 275 x 175mm (10¾ x 7"), with large margins.
A half-length self portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), hatless, wearing a voluminous dark velvet coat From a drawing by Domenico Campiglia after the self-portrait in the Uffizi, Florence, engraved for the 'Museum Florentinum'.
[Ref: 62191] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Peterus Paulus Rubens & c.
P. Pelham fec: et Excud: 1724.
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Thread margins, mounted in album paper at edges. Repairs left centre border.
A half-length self-portrait of Flemish baroque painter Petrus Paulus Rubens (1577-1640).
CS 33, apparently predating the listed first state, which has the address of John Bowles.
[Ref: 61642] £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)

M.rs Rudd. M.r D. Perreau.
London Magazine. Publish'd as the Act directs, August 1.st 1775.
Engraving, 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins.
Two portrait busts in ovals. Margaret Caroline Rudd (c.1745-98), courtesan and accused forger. Rudd lived with the bankrupt merchant and stock speculator Daniel Perreau (c.1734-76) who, along with his identical twin Robert, were found to be involved in forgery. The twins accused Rudd of being the mastermind behind the plan, but while the brothers were convicted and executed Rudd was acquitted. After the executions Rudd reportedly became the mistress of the libertine and politician Thomas Lyttelton, second Baron Lyttelton (1744-79) and was also the mistress of Dr Johnson's biographer James Boswell in the 1780s.
See BM Satires 5425.
[Ref: 67895] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Margaret Caroline Rudd] Mrs Rudd.
[c.1775.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 110mm (6 x 4") Slight offset. Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53135] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Margaret Caroline Rudd on her Trial at the New Sessions House, in the Old Bailey.
Dodd delin. Tidd sculp.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Engraving. Sheet: 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¾''). Trimmed to plate.
A scene showing Margaret Caroline Rudd on trial for forgery.
[Ref: 49140] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd. Tried for Forgery Dec, 8, 1775 & Acquitted. Engraved for the Lady's Magazine.
Published as the Act directs Jan, 1, 1776, by G. Robinson.
Engraving. 191 x 114mm. Trimmed to an inch outside the platemark.
Margaret Caroline Rudd, the mistress of Daniel Perreau, was accused by both the brothers of being the forger and the instigator of forgeries, in particular of a bond belonging to William Adair, which she supposedly uttered and published. In the end the brothers were tried and convicted on the clearest evidence, whilst Mrs. Rudd was tried and acquitted. Following this result the Perreaus, who had been respited, were both ordered for execution. Great efforts were made to save Robert, but it was decided that they must die together.
[Ref: 12547] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Margaret Caroline Rudd.
D. Dodd pinxt. G. Sibelius sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Decr ye 2d 1775. by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho.
Engraving. Image 350 x 250mm. Trimmed to plate and laid on card.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 1847] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd.
[c.1770]
Rare engraving. Sheet 170 x 90mm (6¾ x 3½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) in jail, was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53136] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd.
[Anon., c.1770]
Engraving, sheet 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
Margaret Caroline Rudd (c.1745-98), courtesan and accused forger, dressed in finery but in a prison cell. Rudd lived with the bankrupt merchant and stock speculator Daniel Perreau (c.1734-76) who, along with his identical twin Robert, were found to be involved in forgery. The twins accused Rudd of being the mastermind behind the plan, but while the brothers were convicted and executed Rudd was acquitted. After the executions Rudd reportedly became the mistress of the libertine and politician Thomas Lyttelton, second Baron Lyttelton (1744-79) and was also the mistress of Dr Johnson's biographer James Boswell in the 1780s. Engraving published in the 'Tyburn Chronicle'.
For other likenesses see refs. 1847 and 12547.
[Ref: 46574] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Margaret Rudd.
G. Bartolozzi jun. sculp.
[n.d., c.1776.]
Engraving. Sheet: 125 x 80mm (5 x 3''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of criminal Margaret Rudd who was tried for forgery; she was aquitted while her accomplices Daniel and Robert Perreau were hanged for their crimes.
[Ref: 50033] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. William Ruddiman. Late Physician to His Highness the Nauasunt Wallayah of the Carnatic, and in the Service of the East India Company on the Coromandel Coast.
Engrav'd by Anth.y Cardon.
Printed by J. Smart, 1807.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 230 x 125mm (9 x 5"). Trimmed and pasted into album paper.
Portrait of William Ruddiman, Physician to Mohammad Ali Wallajah (1717-1795), Eighth Nawab of the Carnatic, whose residence Chepauk Palace in Madras (Chennai) was hospitable to many men of learning and British visitors. An Indian landscape appears in the background.
[Ref: 66793] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Rudge Esq.r.
J. Whood pinx.t. 1730. J. Faber Fecit 1740.
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. Plate: 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾'') very large margins. Creasing.
A portrait of politician John Rudge (1669-1740) who served as MP for Evesham.
CS 310
[Ref: 48034] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A fragment of the standard of Rudolph 1st, founder of the House of Habsburg, and first Emperor of Germany, given me at the Civic Arsenal, at Vienna, Dec.r 23rd 1841. It is 566 years old.
Manuscript, fabric and printed decorative border, 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Cut out and pasted onto nineteenth century album sheet.
[Ref: 25514] £450.00

Sir. Beniamin Rudyerd Surveyor of His Ma.tyes Court of Wardes and Liveryes. Ano. Dom. 1632. Aetatis 54. Ano.1627. Could we, as heere his Figure, se his Mynd...As he doth lack a Foe even to forgive.
D: Mytens pinxit. Iohn Payne sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1632.] later impression.
Fine engraving. Plate 336 x 223mm. 13¼ x 8¾".
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd (1572-1658), Surveyor of the Court of Wards, politician and poet. Rudyerd was a minor poet and an influential member of Parliament. In 1618, as the lettering of the plate states, he was appointed to the lucrative sinecure of Surveyor of his Majesty's Court of Wards and Liveries. He was a close friend of the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and the two conducted an exchange of poems that was edited by John Donne's son for publication in 1660. He retained his seat throughout the Civil War, and retired only in 1648. Mytens's portrait (now at Audley End) was painted in 1627, whereas this plate was engraved in 1632. Both dates are carefully specified on the print. The obvious explanation why this plate was made to such a large size and high standard is that it was a private plate, commissioned and owned by Rudyerd himself. If so, it must have been sold after his death to Peter Stent who reprinted it.
[Ref: 24646] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Man wearing a ruff]
TW [Thomas Worlidge] 1751
Etching, platemark 120 x 95mm (4¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; good impression; 'J.B.' for John Barnard verso (Lugt 1419).
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Previously in the collection of the famous print collector John Barnard.
State i/ii; D146.
[Ref: 33059] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Man wearing a ruff]
TW [Thomas Worlidge] 1751.
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Good margins; good impression on cream laid paper.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
State i/ii; D146.
[Ref: 33058] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Man wearing a ruff]
TW [Thomas Worlidge] 1751.
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Very large margins; on white wove paper.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression after number added top left and then erased.
State ii/ii; D146.
[Ref: 33060] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Reitres et Lansquenets. Dédiés à Monsieur Wasserschlebe Premier Secretaire des affaires Etrangeres de S.M. le Roi de Dannemark et de Norwege, par son Ami et très-humble Serviteur Will.
C. Parrocel inv. J.G. Will fecit.
A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, Quay des Augustines, à côté de l'Hotel d'Augurgne. [c.1753.]
Complete set of 12 numbered etchings. Each sheet c. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper, a few signs of wear.
Twelve plates of 'ruffian soldiers', etched by Johann Georg Will after Charles Parrocel (1688 - 1752). The second plate is dated 1753.
[Ref: 40310] £480.00 view all images for this item

Rufus's Stone / New Forest [ms]
[Mary Anne Theresa Whitby] Litho. Newlands 1825.
Rare lithographPrinted area and title approx 205 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
The Rufus Stone, marking the spot where King William II is believed to have been fatally wounded in 1100AD during a royal hunting visit in the New Forest (the king was nicknamed Rufus). The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35714] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sua Cuique Voluptas.
[Unsigned, c.1940]
Pen and ink drawing with colour, sheet 160 x 270mm (6¼ x 10½").
Comical rugby sketches, probably a preparatory drawing for a publication.
[Ref: 47638] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Rugby] Imp-ossible!
[n.d., c.1900.]
Scarce chromolithograph on thick paper. 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Binding holes on left edge.
Four vignette scenes, two of football, two of Rugby, illustrating a verse in which imps complain to the Devil about their injuries playing Rugby. His response: ''go and play Football!".
[Ref: 58849] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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