Grosvenor Prints

Joannes Schenckius a Grafenberg Medicus Senior Ann. Aetatis XLV Nulla, pol. tacebitaetas nominis famam tui [...]
[Anon., pub. 1644]
Engraving, fine impression; sheet 285 x 175mm (11¼ x 7"). Trimmed to image.
Joannes Schenck à Grafenberg (1530-98), physician at Strasbourg and Freiburg. Portrait in decorative border with latin text below. Frontispiece to his 'Observationum Medicarum' (1644).
Wellcome 2642
[Ref: 31326] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Three-quarter portrait of a courtesan.]
P.Schenk fecit et excu.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 250 x 180mm. Trimmed into platemark on left, mounted on album paper.
[Ref: 5422] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ista decens facies longis vitiabitur annis. Ovid. 3 Trist.
P.Schenk fec: et exc. Amstelod. cum Privil.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm.
[Ref: 5425] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sebastian Schertlin Burtenbach.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Sebastian Schertlin Burtenbach (1486-1577), a German mercenary in the service of Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V. In 1527 he helped the Imperial army sack Rome and commanded the guard of the captured Pope Clement VII; and in 1532 played a decisive role in the Battle of Leobersdorf, in which an Ottoman army en route to Vienna was destroyed. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32688] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Joh: Jacobus Scheuchzerus: Med. D. Helvetio-Tiguinus Soc: Reg: Lond: et Acad. Nat.
IBBrühl Sc. Lips.
[n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving, rare. 131 x 78mm (5¼ x 3"). Cut.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the Swiss scholar. He took his degree of doctor in medicine at the University of Utrecht and then went to Altdorf to complete his mathematical studies. He then returned to his home town of Zurich and was made junior town physician with the promise of professorship of mathematics. In 1733 he was promoted to the chair of physics with the office of senior town physician.
W: 2646-2.
[Ref: 29901] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christophorus Theophilus Scheurl a Defersdorf.
Christophorus Weigelius. [Nuremberg, Germany, c.1715.]
Mezzotint, 275 x 190mm. 10¾ x 7½". A fine impression.
Portrait in oval frame of Christoph Theophilus Scheurl (1641 - 1713), physician at Nuremberg; coat of arms below. By Christoph Weigel (1654 - 1725).
Wellcome: 2647.
[Ref: 16863] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Gezicht van het Buyten Hof Opgedragen aan den Wel Edele Gestrenge Heer Mr. Carel De La Bassecourt, Regerent Scheepen van'S Gravenhage. 1758
door zyn Wel Edele gestrenge ootmoedigste dienaar H. Scheuleer F.Z.
Rare copper engraving, platemark 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17"). Repaired right corner. Few tears.
A view of Buytenhof in the Hague, with parallel text in French From a series of around thirty views of the Hague and nearby towns by Hendrik Florisz Scheurleer Fz [junior] (c.1724-1768). Scheurleer had connections with England, occasionally printing for British publishers and in 1754 bringing out an English guide to the Netherlands. He is also remembered for instigating the first circulating library in the Netherlands (in 1750).
Uta Janssens-Knorsch, 'Commerce or culture? The fate of the first circulating library in the Netherlands'.
[Ref: 22922] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Scheveningen, Holland. [in pencil.]
W. Haeburn Little [signature in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1940.]
Etching. 190 x 166mm. 7½ x 6½".
Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of the Hague. It is a modern seaside resort.
[Ref: 14448] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Scheveningen, 1653] Abbildung des Bludigen See Treffens Zwischen den Hollandern und Engellandern, so drey tage gewehret Geschehen im Augusto, Anno 1653.
[Anon., c.1655]
Engraving, scarce; 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"). 18th century impression; creases; laid on backing sheet.
German print showing the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653, the final battle of the first Anglo-Dutch war. The British had blockaded the Dutch coast and the battle was the result of Dutch attempts to lift the blockade. Both sides claimed victory- the English because of their greater losses to Dutch, and the Dutch because the blockade was lifted. Detailed key identifying ships and key personnel, including the ship of the Dutch commander Maarten Tromp (killed in battle) right foreground, and those carrying the English admirals George Monck and William Penn.
[Ref: 33751] £360.00

Andrea Schiavone Pittore. 151.
Ridolfi PI. H. del. G. Betti Sc.
[Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1769-76.]
Engraving. 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Narrow left margin.
A portrait of the painter Andrea Meldolla (c.1510-63), known as Schiavone, who also created etchings and perhaps woodcuts. This plate was engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti from a portrait by Giacomo Piccini, through an intermediate drawing by Ignazio Enrico Hugford, for the 'Serie degli Uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura e architettura'.
[Ref: 53928] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Lewis Schiavonetti, V. A. Born at Bassano April 1. 1765. Died at London June 7. 1810.
Drawn by Hy. Edridge and Engraved by Anthy. Cardon from the original Drawing in his Possession.
London: Pubd. Jany. 1 1811. by Anthy. Cardon 37, London Street. Fitzroy Square.
Stipple on india laid paper, open letter state, 285 x 240mm. 11¼ x 9½". A fine impression on laid paper, with full margins.
Luigi Schiavonetti (1765 - 1810), Italian-born stipple engraver who set up a publishing establishment at 12 Michaels Place, Brompton, London. Inscribed 'Dedicated to the Members of the Chalcographic Society, by Anthony Cardon' below border. After Henry Edridge (1769 - 1821).
[Ref: 13591] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ioh. Gottfried Schicht. Geb.d.29. Septhr. 1753 zu Reichenau bei Zittan; gust.d. 16 Febr.1823 zu Leipzig.
C.T. Riedel sc.
Leipz 1823.
Stipple and engraving, 235 x 165mm. 9¼ x 6½".
Johann Gottfried Schicht (1753-1823) was a German composer and conductor. He was the conductor for the Gewandhausorchester from 1785 until 1810 and then the cantor of the Thomanerchor until 1823. His compositions included masses, motets, cantatas, one piano concerto, sonatas and a capriccio. His most important work was a great choirbook, published in 1819.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17259] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Eleven Illustrations to Schiller's 'Pegasus im Joche' with frontispiece] Umgriffe zu Schiller's Pegasus im Joche uebst Andentungen von Moritz Retzsch.
Stuttgart und Augsburg, Verlag der J.B. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung [...]
Twelve etched plates in original wrappers, 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"). Foxing.
Set of illustrations to Friedrich Schiller's poem 'Pegasus in Harness' ('Pegasus im Joche'), etched by Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857), German printmaker best known for his illustrations of Schiller, Goethe and other writers (Goethe like Retzsch's illustrations to 'Faust' more than any others). Retzsch's work was more successful in England than in his native country- it has been claimed that his distinctive outline etching style was more popular than that of comparable work by John Flaxman, and that he inspired writers and artists including Byron, Shelley and D.G. Rossetti. The success of Retzsch's work in England let to him producing the eight-volume series 'Retsch's Outlines to Shakespeare (1828-46).
[Ref: 41701] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Schiltwaldbach contre le Staubbach, pris en hyver. No.3.
C. Wolf pinxit. Schellenberg sculpsit.
a Berne chez A. Wagner Imp de LL:EE:
Engraving. Sheet: 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Surface dirt. Cut to platemark.
A view in the Swiss Alps from 'Collection des Vues remarquables des Alpes de la Suisse' 1789 engraved after Caspar Wolf's paintings done from nature.
[Ref: 42755] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Convex ovalinear.
[1815.]
Very rare lithograph with hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed. Damage off image on right margin.
Plate from 'The Theory and Classification of Beauty and Deformity' (1815) by Mary Anne Schimmelpennick [née Galton] (1778-1856), author. Schimmelpennick's interests were wide, involving history, religion and aesthetics, including the study of Hebrew which resulted in her 'Biblical Fragments' (1821-2). She earned her living through literature after her husband Lambert Schimmelpennick, a Dutchman involved in the shipping trade at Bristol, fell into financial difficulties.
[Ref: 41718] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Obtuso-rectilinear. Plate 6.
[1815.]
Very rare lithograph printed on pink paper, sheet 250 x 165mm (10 x 6½"). Trimmed. Ms in pencil bottom front 'If this proof should not be thought [...] Mr. B. will again attempt ...'.
Proof impression of a plate from 'The Theory and Classification of Beauty and Deformity' (1815) by Mary Anne Schimmelpennick [née Galton] (1778-1856), author. Schimmelpennick's interests were wide, involving history, religion and aesthetics, including the study of Hebrew which resulted in her 'Biblical Fragments' (1821-2). She earned her living through literature after her husband Lambert Schimmelpennick, a Dutchman involved in the shipping trade at Bristol, fell into financial difficulties.
[Ref: 41719] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine Schindlerin.] The Schindlerin.
Painted by S,,r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Published Jan.y 20.th 1777, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). 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)

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

Felix Schmidius. Reipubl. Tigur. Consul. anno 1510. obiit d.13. Juny 1524. No.28.
I.Casp. Fuessli delin. S. Walch fec.
[Swiss, n.d., c.1750s.]
Fine mezzotint, uncut, 325 x 215mm. 12¾ x 8½". A fine impression with full margins; some marginal spotting, uncut.
Portrait of Felix Schmid in suit of armour, in rectangular masonry frame, arms to cartouche below. From a series of portraits of Consuls or Burgomasters of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland 1336-1678, after Swiss painter and author Johann Caspar Füssli (1706 - 1782).
See BNF FRBNF40355659.
[Ref: 19830] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[S. Schmidt.]
Drawn from Life on Stone by L. Ghémar.
Schenck &. Ghémar Lithographers Edinburgh. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, scarce. Sheet: 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½''), with large margins. Foxing.
A romantic half-length portrait of S. Schmidt.
[Ref: 48625] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a Man.] I. B.
Marthin Schmid Invenit. Ferd. Landerer scul. 1760.
Fine etching, pt. 18th century watermark; sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait of an unidentified man wearing a fur hat, after Martin Johann Schmidt (1718-1801).
[Ref: 59002] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Erasmus Schmidius Delitzio - Misnicus, Natus MDLXX Denatus MDCXXXVII, Universitatis Wittemberg. Senior & Annos XL.P.P.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 310 x 190mm. 12¼ x 7½". Cut.
Erasmus Schmidt (1570-1637), German philologist, linguist, and mathematician. Image shows a sphere, books on science & a clock.
[Ref: 27958] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Schola Italica Picturae Sive / selectae quaedam summorum e schola Italica pictorum tabulae aere incisae cura et impensis gavini hamilton pictoris / Romae CDDCCLXXIII.
Michelang. Bonaroti pinxit / Joseph Perini sculp. Romae 1771.
Rome, 1773.
Engraving., 18th century watermark; 560 x 355mm (22 x 14"), with wide margins. Repaired tear in the upper left margin. Creasing in top right corner and along top margin, few nicks in margins.
The title page of Gavin Hamilton's 'Schola Italica Picturae', featuring a pair of ignudi above the prophet Jeremiah from Micheal Angelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes. Hamilton (1723-1798) was a Scottish painter and dealer in antiquities and old masters. He was educated in Glasgow and then Rome under the guidance of Agostino Masucci. Including this title plate 'Schola Italica Picturae' contained 41 plates which depict pictures by famous Italian artists, including Caravaggio and Titian.
[Ref: 54009] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Scholars at a lecture] [Price Six Pence.]
Publish'd by W Hogarth March 3.d 1736.
Etching with engraving, plate 215 x 185mm (8¾ x 7½"), with large margins. Price erased. Thread margin at top.
Copy of scholars at a lecture. Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt caps and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed, with various squiggles, 'Datur Vacuum' which translates as, 'Leisure time is given for...' The reader is intended as a portrait of Henry Fisher, Registrar of Oxford University (fl. 1737–61), who had agreed to be drawn by Hogarth.
See BM Satires 2338 & Paulson 143.
[Ref: 67709] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scholars at a lecture] Price Six Pence.
Publish'd by W Hogarth MArch 3.d 1736.
Etching with engraving, plate 215 x 185mm (8¾ x 7½"), with large margins.
Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt caps and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed, with various squiggles, 'Datur Vacuum' which translates as, 'Leisure time is given for...' The reader is intended as a portrait of Henry Fisher, Registrar of Oxford University (fl. 1737–61), who had agreed to be drawn by Hogarth.
State II of II. BM Satires 2338.
[Ref: 60007] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Facsimile dedication: William Scholefield.] Presented to the Subscribers of the Birmingham Mercury, Octr. 6th. 1849.
R.B. Moody & Co. Lithographers & Printers, Birmingham & London.
Rare lithograph. 381 x 279mm. 15 x 11".
William Scholefield (1809-1867), was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a leading figure in the politics behind the rapidly-growing industrial town of Birmingham. After the Reform Bill of 1832 there was a campaign launched later in 1837 to secure a charter of incorporation under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to create Birmingham a municipal borough with an elected town council. At that time the town was in the hands of a manorial court leet, presided over by a high bailiff. Scholefield became high bailiff in 1837 was very supportive of the campaign to incorporate Birmingham. After the act arrived in 1838, Scholefield was unaninimously chosen as first mayor of Birmingham after their first town council meeting. After returning to local government in 1847, having been defeated three years previously by a Conservative, Scholefield championed the expansion of popular democracy, free trade, and freedom of religion.
[Ref: 18419] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Yours faithfully, William Scholefield. [facsimile signature]
Abraham Wivell, Del. On Stone by Thomas Fairland.
[n.d. c.1850.] Printed by Hullmandel & Watson.
A very rare lithograph. 457 x 340mm. 18 x 13½". Nicks and tears to the corners. Trimmed close to the image.
William Scholefield (1809-1867), was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a leading figure in the politics behind the rapidly-growing industrial town of Birmingham. After the Reform Bill of 1832 there was a campaign launched later in 1837 to secure a charter of incorporation under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to create Birmingham a municipal borough with an elected town council. At that time the town was in the hands of a manorial court leet, presided over by a high bailiff. Scholefield became high bailiff in 1837 was very supportive of the campaign to incorporate Birmingham. After the act arrived in 1838, Scholefield was unaninimously chosen as first mayor of Birmingham after their first town council meeting. After returning to local government in 1847, having been defeated three years previously by a Conservative, Scholefield championed the expansion of popular democracy, free trade, and freedom of religion.
[Ref: 14357] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Sea Officer. The Original Painted by William Hogarth Esq.r in possession of Sir Alexander Schomberg Knight.
W.m Hogarth pinxit. C. Townley fc.t.
Publishd as the Act directs by J. Flight, N.o 400, Strand. [n.d., c.1765.]
Rare mezzotint. Plate: 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"), with very large margins. Creases in margins.
A half-length portrait of Royal naval officer Sir Alexander Schomberg (1720-1804) after a painting by William Hogarth.
[Ref: 43736] £360.00

Frederick Duke of Schonberg. Marquis of Harwich, Earle of Brantford, Baron of Tays, Gen.ll of all his Ma.ties Forces, Master Gen.ll of his Ma.ties Ordnance, One of his Ma.ties most hono.ble Privy Council, Knight of y.e most noble Order of the Garter, Count of y.e Holy Empire, & Mertola, Grandee of Portugal, Gen.ll of y.e Elector of Brandenburgs Forces, Stadtholder of Prussia. &c.
G. Kneller pinx. I. Smith fe: et ex.
[n.d. c.1689.]
Mezzotint, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate, slightly creased on right.
Full-length portrait on horseback of Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615-1690), with a black serving boy on right holding a helmet. Schomberg was a Marshal of France and a general in the English and Portuguese army. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
CS 227.II. Russell 227.I.
[Ref: 60334] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Frederick Duke of Schonberg. Marquis of Harwich, Earle of Brantford, Baron of Tays, Gen.ll of all his Ma.ties Forces, Master Gen.ll of his Ma.ties Ordnance, One of his Ma.ties most hono.ble Privy Council, Knight of y.e most noble Order of the Garter, Count of y.e Holy Empire, & Mertola, Grandee of Portugal, Gen.ll of y.e Elector of Brandenburgs Forces, Stadtholder of Prussia. &c.
G. Kneller pinx. G.H. [Gerard Hoet] fecit.
Carolus Allard, Excud: cum privil: Ordin: Holl: et West-frisiæ [n.d. c.1690].
Fine & scarce mezzotint with separate title plate. Total 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, ink stamp on reverse.
Full-length portrait on horseback of Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615-1690), with a black servant on right holding a helmet. Schomberg, a Marshal of France and a general in both the English and Portuguese armies, was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. A copy of John Smith's mezzotint (CS 227).
Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Edward Rose Tunno (1794-1863), Lugt L902 .
[Ref: 66054] £480.00

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)

Ioannes Schonerus. Carolostadius, excellens Mathematicus in Urbe Norimbergensi. Nasc. Carolostadii Francorum a.1477. d. 16. Ianuarii. Mor. Norimb. 1547. aet. 70.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Rare woodcut. 165 x 95mm (6½ x 7¾"). Creasing.
Johannes Schoner (1477-1547) the renowned and respected German polymath. He had a wide reputation all over Europe as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers. He is remembered as an influential pioneer in the history of globe making and as a man who played a significant role in the events that led up to the publishing of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus" in Nuremberg in 1543.
W: 2659-2.
[Ref: 29903] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Going to School. [&] After School.
Maria Spilsbury Pinx.t. Edwd. Orme Excut. Chas. Turner Sculp.
[Published & Sold, Feby. 1802. by Edwd. Orme, Printseller to the King & Royal Family, No. 59 the corner of Brook Street, in Bond Street, London.]
Pair of mezzotints with etching, sheets 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾). Trimmed losing publication lines. Some surface dirt.
Two scenes of country life. Two young women standing in the doorway of a cottage; one is handing over an apple to a boy, on his way to school with a girl, drying her tears; to left, a young girl feeding a hen, cock and chicks. Two women sit under a veranda while the the two school age children read. The other child picks grapes of a vine.
[Ref: 60623] £360.00 view all images for this item

Come child of misfortune - come hither_.
Moore.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Very rare etching. 150 x 125mm (6 x 5").
A scene depicting a classroom, one child appears to be running to the door, hands covering his ears, screaming. The teacher is running after them, holding a stick, whilst the class look in shock.
[Ref: 67180] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Black Monday or the Departure for School. [&] Dulce Domum or the Return from School.
Painted by W.R. Bigg A. Engraved by John Jones. Principal Engraver to his Royal Highness the Duke of York [&] Engraved by John Jones. Extraordinary Engraver to his R.H. the Prince of Wales, and Principal Engraver to his R.H. the Duke of York.
Pub.d as the act directs. Dec.r ye 1st, 1790 by W. R. Bigg No.11 Tavistock Row Covent Garden.
Pair of mezzotints. 485 x 610mm (19 x 24"). 'Black Monday' trimmed to plate, re-margined to two sides; 'Dulce Domum' trimmed into plate, re-margined on left.
Two of the most famous education scenes: the first shows two boys leaving for boarding school; the second shows the joyous greeting they receive from their family on their return. William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828) specialised in genre scenes, often depicting children and acts of charity. Because of the popularity of his paintings he could commission the best engravers to produce prints from his works, including Jones, Robert Dunkarton, William Ward and John Raphael Smith.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 55284] £450.00 view all images for this item

[A School Boy.]
Sr Joshua Reynolds Pinxit. John Dean Fecit
Published Oct. 31st 1777 by Jn Dean Church Street Soho
Mezzotint with very large margins, fine, platemark 395 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). First state before plate cleaned.
Engraving of one of Sir Joshua Reynolds' popular 'fancy pictures' of the 1770s, a schoolboy holding a portfolio. The first owner of the painting (which was recently sold by Sotheby's) was the great collector George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Hamilton p.156 i/iii; for the painting, see Sotheby's Old Master & British Paintings evening sale, 9 July 2014.
[Ref: 36505] £380.00

School Boys Giving Charity to a Blind Man.
Painted by W. Begg [Bigg]. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London Publish'd Octr. 10. 1781 by J.R. Smith No.83 opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street, and J.Birchall No. 473 Strand.
Mezzotint. 460 x 560mm (18 x 22"), large margins. Repairs to margins.
After a painting by William Redmore Bigg RA (1755-1828) exhibited in the R.A. in 1778.
Frankau: J.R.Smith, 307.
[Ref: 56670] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The School for the Indigent Blind, St. George's Fields.
Published July 12, 1813, by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, N.º 53, Fleet Street London.
Engraving with fine hand colour. 300 x 445mm (11¾ x 17½"), large margins. Slight crease.
The School for the Indigent Blind was founded in 1799, for pupils aged 10 to 18, instructing them in trades such as basket-making, spinning, weaving and mat-making. This building, near the obelisk at St George’s Fields, was opened in 1812.
[Ref: 64331] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The School Mistress. In every village marked with little spire/ Embower'd in trees and hardly known to fame/ There dwells in lowly shed and mean attire/ A matron old whom we school mistress name/ Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame./ They grieven sore in piteous durance pent/ Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame/ And oft times on vagaries idly bent/ For unkempt hair or task unconn'd are sorely shent./ Vide. Shenston's School Mistress.
F. Wheatly R.A pinx.t. J. Coles sculp.t
London, Publish'd March 20th 1794, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Engraving, 430 x 505mm (16¾ x 20"). Small margins.
A scene from 'The Schoolmistress', a poem by William Shenstone (1714-1763).
[Ref: 48518] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The School of Eloquence.
A. Robertson fecit.
[c.1800, first published 1780]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), 'Ivy Mill' watermark, wide margins. Repaired tears, tatty;
'The interior of a fashionable debating society of the period; the members are the quality of both sexes' (Grego). One member uses an ear trumpet; another takes snuff. Social satire after an early drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, first published by Archibald Robertson in 1780. This later state has the publication line effaced.
Grego vol. 1, p.98; an early impression is in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
[Ref: 38625] £390.00

The School of Eloquence.
A. Robertson fecit [after Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching with hand-colouring, 18th century watermark 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), very large margins. Small repaired tear in title, creases.
'The interior of a fashionable debating society of the period; the members are the quality of both sexes' (Grego). One member uses an ear trumpet; another takes snuff. Social satire after an early drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, first published by Archibald Robertson in 1780. This later state has the publication line effaced.
Grego vol. 1, p.98; an early impression is in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
[Ref: 56612] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The School of Projects.
[by Samuel De Wilde.]
Published for the Satirist, Octr 1st 1809. by S. Tipper Leaden (St.
Etching with aquatint, Sheet 205 x 370mm (8 x 14½"). Folds as issued. Trimmed within plate. Holes in right edge where previously bound.
A satire on some of the outlandish projects being touted to investors. On the left is a model of a bridge from the Earth to the Moon, a plan devised by Ralph Dodd, who is depicted boring a hole through the Earth, a satire on his plan to dig a dry tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury (before Brunel's Thames Tunnel). In the centre is Frederick Albert Winsor (1763-1830), pioneer of gas lighting, whose system was to be used to light both Dodd's tunnel and his proposed Strand Bridge. On the right is William Robert Henry Brown, manager of the Golden Lane Brewery, and also Chairman of the Hope Insurance Company and promoter of a Cattle Insurance Company. To his left is George Leybourne, a supporter of the cattle insurance scheme, said to have had a plan for making a sheep grow as large as an ox.
BM Satires 11439.
[Ref: 62374] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The School of Reform. Conjugation of the Verb to Reform.
CJGrant.
[Pub. Feb. 1831 by S Gans Southampton St. Strand.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 373 x 279mm. 14¾ x 11". Bit tatty at edges.
Charles Grey (1764-1845) as a schoolmaster standing on a low dais in profile to right, addressing nine schoolboys, or Tories. Brougham (1778-1868) stands full-face, as usher, holding a big birch-rod. Four pupils sit on the front bend behind which sit another four; Wellington (1769-1852) stands behind on a stool wearing a fool's cap, like an extinguisher, decorated with bells. Two of the pupils include Lyndhurst (1772-1863) and Goulburn (1784-1856), wearing spectacles.
BM Satires: 16586. See Ref: 30676 for similar print.
[Ref: 25720] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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[Frontispiece to 'The School of Venus: Or, the Lady's Miscellany: Being, a Collection of Original Poems and Novels Relating to Love and Gallantry'.]
Parr Sculp.
[London: E. Curll, 1739.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 140 x 75mm (5½ x 3") very large margins. Some spotting, mounted in album paper at edges
Promenaders and a sedan chair.
[Ref: 63581] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Maîtresse d'école.
[after Pierre Alexandre Wille]
[n.d. c.1780]
Engraving, plate 250 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Proof before letters. Small repaired tears in large margins.
A reverse copy of the print after Pierre Alexandre Wille (1748-1837) made by Jean Georges Wille (1715-1808). Half-length portrait of an old woman in a trompe l'oeil border. Her right hands holds a burch branch and rests on an open book her left hand points commandingly.
[Ref: 63053] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Schoolboys playing cricket.] Their's is the Sunshine of the Breast.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Cut and backed onto album paper. Album paper residue left on right side, close to image.
A scene depicting school boys, in a garden. Sitting under a tree, three boys are reading and writing, while in the background a game of cricket is played. the phrase 'Sunshine of the Breast' derives from Thomas Gray's 1747 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", a comment on the carefree days of childhood.
See also [Ref: 56252].
[Ref: 67359] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Schoolboys. [Master Henry Gawler. Master J.no Gawler.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R. Smith.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 6, 1778, by J.R. Smith, No.10 Batemans Buildings, Soho Square.
Mezzotint, paper watermarked. Plate 376 x 279mm (14¾ x 11"). Fine impression..
The sons of John Gawler, a solicitor; the elder, also John (on right, c.1764-1842), changed his name to John Bellenden Ker and became famous as a botanist, writing Recensio Plantarum (1801), Select Orchideae (c.1816) and Iridearum Genera (1827). The second highest peak in Queensland, Australia, is named Mount Bellenden Ker in his honour. Henry Gawler (on left, fl.1794), a barrister who married Lydia Frances Neale.
CS: 67. Hamilton: p.30. Russell: 67. From the Collection of Mary Palmer, sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds..
[Ref: 28507] £320.00

Petite Ecoliere. Dedié à son Excellence Monsieur le Baron de Groschlag Premier Ministre d'Etat [...]
Peint par Schenau de SAE de Saxe Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi 1771
A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins Par Son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Wille.
Engraving, platemark 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins.
Young schoolgirl holding a bird, seen through trompe l'oeil niche. After Johann Eleazar Schenau (also identified as Johann Elias Zeissig, 1737-1806), painter and etcher born in Saxony who trained in Dresden, went to Paris 1756-70. He returned to Dresden as a member of the Academy, professor there in 1774. Director of the Meissen drawing school together with G B Casanova 1776, on his own from 1795. Engraved by J.G. Wille, engraver and publisher who became Schenau's patron, buying several paintings from the artist including that from which this print derives (now in the Dresden collection).
[Ref: 40287] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Petite Ecoliere.] [Dedié à son Excellence Monsieur le Baron de Groschlag Premier Ministre d'Etat...]
[Peint par Schenau de SAE de Saxe Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi 1771]
[A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins Par Son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Wille.]
Engraving, platemark 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Very scarce proof before all letters. Collector's stamp of Lewis Loyd bottom left.
Young schoolgirl holding a bird, seen through trompe l'oeil niche. After Johann Eleazar Schenau (also identified as Johann Elias Zeissig, 1737-1806), painter and etcher born in Saxony who trained in Dresden, went to Paris 1756-70. He returned to Dresden as a member of the Academy, professor there in 1774. Director of the Meissen drawing school together with G B Casanova 1776, on his own from 1795. Engraved by J.G. Wille, engraver and publisher who became Schenau's patron, buying several paintings from the artist including that from which this print derives (now in the Dresden collection). This impression was formerly in the collection of the banker and print collector Lewis Loyd (1811-91). Between 1840 and 1870 Loyd assembled a collection of prints distinguished by their fine condition and early states.
L.2802.
[Ref: 40288] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[A village schoolroom.]
[by Maria Spilsbury]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Crayon-manner etching. Sheet 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, central fold.
A group of children, seated on stools and a settee, listening attentively to a girl standing. The scene is lit from a doorway to the right.
[Ref: 60734] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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