Grosvenor Prints

[plate from 'Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade']
Smirke R.A. pinx.t / Worthington Sculpt.
Pub. by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, Dec.r 1 1809.
Stipple, sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Plate from a volume of three poems to celebrate the banning of the slave trade by Britain in 1805: Montgomery's 'The West Indies', Grahame's 'Africa Delivered'; and Elizabeth Benger's 'A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1806'.
For the complete volume see ref. 21739.
[Ref: 36928] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[plate from 'Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade']
Smirke R.A. pinx.t / E. Scriven Sculpt.
Pub. by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, Dec.r 1 1809.
Stipple, sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight foxing.
Plate from a volume of three poems to celebrate the banning of the slave trade by Britain in 1805: Montgomery's 'The West Indies', Grahame's 'Africa Delivered'; and Elizabeth Benger's 'A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1806'.
For the complete volume see ref. 21739.
[Ref: 36929] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Written by James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Embellished with Engravings from Pictures Painted by R. Smirke, Esq. R.A.
London: Printed for R.Bowyer, the Proprietor, No 80, Pall Mall, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. 1809.
4to, original full diced calf gilt, spine rubbed and chipped at foot, inner hinges strained, marbled endpapers; engr. title, half title, 3 frontis. portraits; pp. (xiv)+ii+141, 9 stipple plates with tissue guards. Some foxing.
Three poems to celebrate the banning of the slave trade by Britain in 1805: Montgomery's 'The West Indies', Grahame's 'Africa Delivered'; and Elizabeth Benger's 'A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1806'. The titlepage contains a roundell vignette of Prometheus being rescued by Hercules; the three medallion portraits are of the leading abolitionists Sharp, Clarkson and Wilberforce; and the nine plates show various scenes of the evils of the slave trade.
[Ref: 21739] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

Indian Rubber.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank. Myddleton Terrace Pentonville - August 1st 1834.
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11".
Four Indian figures playing cards at a table surrounded by sketches of black people, including a 'negro driver'. Also a wry observation on the recent Slavery Abolition Act 1833 upper centre, a plump black slave-master with a whip supervising four white slaves as they hoe a field. A satirical print from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878).
[Ref: 12019] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Good Missionary Going Abroad. [&] The Good Missionary Teaching the Savages to Build.
[after Julia Corner.]
[London, c.1839.]
Two coloured wood engravings. Each sheet 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed and mounted on album sheet.
Two scenes of a missionary's journey, within decorative vignette borders. From Julia Corner's 'More Seeds of Knowledge; Or, Another Peep at Charles. Being, an Account of Charles's Progress in Learning; about Black Slaves; A Conversation on History and Missionaries'.
[Ref: 44735] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

What you lazy Nigger you'r afeard of work eh? / Not a bit Massa, you see I lay down and go sleep close by him side!
[Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand.] [n.d., c.1830]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album sheet.
A black man sits on the ground in a plantation, his hoe across his kness. Despite the situation, the slave is depicted more sympathetically, smiling as he answers back to the sharp-faced overseer. A satire from about the time slavery was finally abolished in the British Empire.
[Ref: 68062] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Duel entre Noirs.
N. Maurin del. Lith. de Villain. d'apres le Croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph, sheet 145 x 240mm. 5¾ x 9½".
Two fighting Africans, possibly slaves on a South American plantation. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855). A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 11027] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Russian Sledge.
Miss Crighton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Ink and grey wash colour, 200 x 280mm (8 x 11) mounted on album paper with flowers overpainted. Sheet total 275 x 360 (10¾ x 14¼"). Corners knocked.
[Ref: 38011] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Three Russian sledges racing in a city street.] Sourd-muet P... von-Riser. 1821.
[N. Inashchentzoff?]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, very rare. Sheet 260 x 385mm, 10¼ x 15¼". Trimmed to printed border. Slight glue stain at top.
Three horse-drawn sledges racing in a city street, driven by rough-looking muzhiks, much to the concern of the well-dressed pedestrians. 'Sourd-muet' means deaf-mute.
[Ref: 24689] £230.00

[Russian horse-drawn sledge with barrels.]
N. Inashchentzoff Sourd-muet.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 270 x 360mm, 10½ x 14¼". Trimmed to printed border.
A horse-drawn sledge of barrels. 'Sourd-muet' means deaf-mute.
[Ref: 24696] £230.00

[Sledge and Plough.] Vign.8. Journey to Tshorguna, Balaklava, and along the South-Western Coast of the Crimea.
[Geisler del. Medland sc.]
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving with letterpress printed page; stamp: Stamford Library. Sheet 266 x 203mm (10½ x 8").
Vignette 8: a peculiar sledge employed by the Tartars for conveying wood down steep mountains; and their stone-plough. From Volume 2 of "Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794".
[Ref: 31058] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[Sledges drawn by a reindeer and dogs.] N.º 11.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 140 x 260mm (5½ x 10¼"). Stains and marks.
Two native sledges.
[Ref: 62330] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sledging. Working up to a Wake.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
[T. McLean.]
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Slight text offset.
A sporting scene showing a figure lying on a sledge with a large gun aimed across the water ready to shoot at ducks. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46236] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sleep. Hush! my dear, lie still & slumber, / Holy Angels guard thy bed! / Heav'nly blessings without number, / Gently fallin on thy Head. Watts.
Freschi sculp.t.
Published & Sold by Edw.d Orme London Nov.r 1 1808.
Rare stipple. Sheet 325 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, bit dusty.
A mother cradles her sleeping infant.
[Ref: 39830] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Repos. Dédié A.S.A. Monseigneur le Prince de Turenne. Pair et grand Chambellan de France survivance, Par son très humble Serviteur N. Depuis.
Colson pinx. N. Depuis Sculp.
AParis chés Buldet rue de Gesvrés.
Engaving, 18th century watermark. 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"), with large margins. Damaged at top & loss at bottom right.
A young girl sleeps as a cat stalks the pet bird tethered by her chair.
[Ref: 51824] £320.00

Les Mystères des Bois. Le Repose. The Repose. Die Ruhe.
Joseph Felon inv.t et lith. Imprimé par Lemercier à Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 425mm (12¾ x 16¾"). Repaired tears in margins.
A woodland scene in which two nude women recline by a pool.
[Ref: 47762] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Brin d'herbe. The Stem of Grass. Das Grashälmchen.
Joseph Felon inv.t et lith. Imprimé par Lemercier à Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 425mm (12¾ x 16¾").
A woodland scene in which two nude women recline by a pool; one tickles the others nose with a grass stem.
[Ref: 48992] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Belle Dormeuse.
F. Boucher Del. W. Ryland Sculp.
Aparis ches Buldet rue de Gesvres au grand Coeur. [n.d., c.1770].
Engraving. Plate: 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½'') very large margins.
A scene in a wood showing a young woman asleep near her sheep and dog, behind her a young man watches from behind a tree.
[Ref: 49042] £320.00

[A sleeping child.]
[Thomas Phillips R.A.]
[n.d., c.1815.]
Soft ground etching, 150 x 205mm. 6 x 8".
A charmingly intimate and rare plate, according to a pencil note below image etched by Thomas Phillips R.A (1770 - 1845), portrait painter, after his own design. Phillips was a Royal Academy student from February 1791, then briefly assistant to Benjamin West. He was elected R.A on 10th February 1808 and became Professor of Painting 1825-1832. Probably this is one of the artist's children. He had two daughters and two sons, the elder of whom, Joseph Scott Phillips, became a major in the Bengal artillery, and died at Wimbledon, Surrey, on 18 December 1884, aged 72. His younger son, Henry Wyndham Phillips 1820-1868, born in 1820, was a pupil of his father. He also adopted portrait-painting as his profession, and exhibited first at the Royal Academy in 1838.
[Ref: 12252] £450.00

[A child asleep lying on a pillow.]
F. Bartolozzi R.A. Delt. Rob.t Sam.l Marcuard, Pupil of Fran. Bartolozzi, Scul.
[n.d. c.1786.]
Stipple printed in sanquine, pt 18th century watermark. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"), with large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to platemark at bottom.
Robert Samuel Marcuard (1751-92).
[Ref: 53325] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleeping Child.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Will.m Doughty.
London Publishd as the Act directs, March 13th 1780 by W.m Doughty and at Watson & Dickinson's No 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, fine & rare, scratched letter proof. 385 x 410mm (15¼ x 16"). Small margins.
A small child, covered to his chest, lies asleep propped up by a pillow.
BM 1840,0808.129, trimmed losing publication line.
[Ref: 45367] £480.00

The Sleeping Girl.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs, April 1st. 1790, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street.
Stipple engraving and etching, 375 x 275mm. Light soiling.
A young woman seated in a landscape, lying against a large rock, her head resting on her right arm. A strong impression.
Hamilton: 149, II.
[Ref: 8078] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleeping nudes unveiled by putti.]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pubd. as the Act directs Marh. 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching, image 225 x 280mm. 8¾ x 11". Trimmed to plate; some spotting.
From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
[Ref: 9644] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

To Sir John Fleming Leicester Bar.t This Plate of the Sleeping Nymph From the original Picture in his possession is by permission respectfully dedicated by his very obliged & obedient Serv.t W.m Ward.
Painted by John Hoppner Esq.r R.A. Engraved by Will.m Ward Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
Published Jan.y 20, 1808 by the Engraver. No 24 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 530 x 630mm.
Said to be Georgina Maria Cottin (1794-1859), who married the painting's owner in 1810.
Frankau: 264. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3292] £960.00

[His First Night From Home.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
Pub. London Nov. 1901 by the Fine Art Society Ltd. 148, New Bond St. W.
Etching on vellum, signed by the artist. 205 x 290mm (8 x 11½). Frame with Frost and Reed label. Small scratch in image. Unexamined out of frame.
A tiny puppy curled up asleep.
[Ref: 50057] £750.00

[Woman asleep beside a candle.]
Godf. Schalken pinx.t. Cha/s Spooner fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Glue stains lower left.
Interior after Dutch painter Godfried Schalken (1643-1706), known for his candlelight scenes. This print is a mid-18th century copy of an image that had already been copied three times previously (by John Smith, Schenk and Gole). Charles Spooner prints were usually (if not always) copied from earlier prints.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32353] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleeping Nymph. Whilst Sylvia Slumbers in the Grove, Behold! the Urchin Pow'r of Love Whose Darts such anguish gave; Steals to the Nymph those lips to kiss Which he jad fill'd with every Bliss, And feels himself a Slave.
Painted by John Opie. Engraved by Peter Simon.
Published July 2.d, 1787, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London
Fine stipple engraving with etching, rich impression, plate 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½) very large margins. Repaired creases in centre. Mark on Cupid's nose.
A nymph sleeping against a tree trunk with a cupid flying above and another woman behind holding her finger in the air.
[Ref: 56644] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleeping women observed by passing man] No. 332
A. Van Dyck del.
J.G. Hertel exc. A.V. [c.1770]
Etching platemark 195 x 285mm (7¾ x 11¼") very large margins.
German etching after a genre scene by Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641), perhaps after Rubens the leading Flemish painter of the first half of the 17th century. Van Dyck produced history paintings, tapestry designs, etchings and landscape drawings, although it is chiefly as a portrait painter that he is remembered. He was court painter first to Archduchess Isabella of the Spanish Netherlands and then Charles I of England, who had him buried in St Paul’s Cathedral and erected a lavish monument in his honour on his death in 1641.
[Ref: 44226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Eye that Spoke the Melting Soul.
[after Richard Wilson]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with wide margins. Crease lower right
Young lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'. This print is one of at leasts four versions of the images. Earlier prints name Richard Wilson (best known for his landscapes) as the artist from whose painting the image derives.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32371] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Eye that Spoke the Melting Soul.
[after Richard Wilson.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770].
Coloured mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed close to platemark.
Young lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'. This print is one of at leasts four versions of the images. Earlier prints name Richard Wilson (best known for his landscapes) as the artist from whose painting the image derives.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32372] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Eye that spoke the Melting Soul. Pope.
Richard Wilson Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
Printed for Tho. Bowles in S.t Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill [c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins on 3 sides, trimmed at bottom.
A young lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table looks at the viewer from under heavy lids. A clock in is on the wall behind. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'. A very suggestive image.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 418.
[Ref: 67006] £320.00

The Sleepy Eye that spoke the Melting Soul. Pope.
Richard Wilson Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
Printed for Tho. Bowles in S.t Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill [c.1770.]
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A young lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table looks at the viewer from under heavy lids. A clock in is on the wall behind. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 418.
[Ref: 67005] £360.00

The Sleepy Eye that spoke the Melting Soul. Pope
Richard Wilson Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
[c.1770.]
Scarce mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired tears to lower edge faint; creases.
Young seductive lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'. This print is one of at leasts four versions of these images, some of which include it as one of a set of the four 'Times of Day'. A wall clock in background.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 418.
[Ref: 47652] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Macaroni Ste-aling a Nap
Sam Sharp-Eye del advivum 1772 [Bunbury?]. J.Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 1 1772 by J.Bretherton No.134, in New Bond Street.
Engraving. 90 x 115mm. Trimmed outside platemark. Very small margins
Caricature of Stephen Fox, 2nd Lord Holland
BM Satire 5005.
[Ref: 1082] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Maid.
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit. Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.o 53 in Fleet Street.
London, [n.d.].
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with margins.
A maid nodding off as she darns a piece of clothing.
[Ref: 54083] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Politician.
Pub by MDarly Strand. [n.d., c.1775.]
Etching, early unnumbered state, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A caricature politician in a chair asleep at his desk, which is covered by books and newspapers (one inscribed 'The London Chronicle'); he wears a coat, wig and spectacles. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14498] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[George III] The Sleepy Shepherd.
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 115 x 165mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
George III asleep leaning on the 'Pillar of too much Security', while he is undermined by, among others, Lord Mansfield, the Duke of Grafton, & Lord Weymouth. Lord Bute flies away on a broomstick with money bags hanging down.
BM: 4320.
[Ref: 59976] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Traineau Russe ['Russian Sleigh'].
Ph. Ledieu 1835 [signed and dated in plate lower left.] Ledieu pinxt. Hurliman sculpt.
Paris, publie par Rittner & Goupil, Boulevart Montmartre 15.
Aquatint, 680 x 865mm. 26¾ x 34". Light spotting. Water stain encroaching on lower left corner of image.
Dramatic image showing a pack of wolves attacking a horse-drawn sleigh in a wintry Russian landscape. The male passenger shoots one of the wolves with his pistol.
[Ref: 8521] £550.00

Schlitten=fahrt auf der Elbe. 36
Kliedertracht u. Gebrauche in Hamburg.
Fine coloured aquatint; Sheet 175 x 265mm (6¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to image, small tear top right.
'A Sleigh-Ride on the Elbe'. A horse-drawn sleigh driven by a man seated on the back, a woman passenger under a leopard-skin, the outline of Hamburg in the background.
[Ref: 37989] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Sleighing in North America.
H. Alken [ms]
London, Pub.d 1844 by J.W. Laird, 1 Leadenhall St.
Aqautint with hand-colouring, rare, platemark 250 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Repairs.
Sleighing scene by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), one of a famous family of painters and engravers. Beginning in 1813, Henry designed prints for London's leading sporting printsellers, specializing in field sports and coaching scenes. While Alken occasionally provided illustrations for travel books (including one on Rio de Janeiro), this American scene is an oddity in his work as a whole.
Not in Abbey
[Ref: 43411] £480.00

Jonas Slichting à Bukowiez Eques Polonius. Natus A. 1592. Den Selcihoviæ in MArch Brandenb, d. 1. Novembr. A. 1661.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 135 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼") very large margins. Crease.
Jonas Slichting von Bukowicz (1592-1661), a Polish theologian.
[Ref: 51189] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Slight of Hand by a Monkey _ or the Lady's Head Unloaded.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs 25th October, 1776.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Some surface wear.
A monkey rips the elaborate wig off the head of a woman, revealing her sparse hair pulled back. A fruit-picker and butcher's boy laugh.
BM: 4546. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51769] £420.00

La Pan Toufle [The Slipper] Dedié a Monsieur Wistan de Scharp par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur Nerbé
[Anon., c.1770]
Se vend à Paris rue du petit Bourbon près la Foire St. Germain No. 23
Engraving, sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed. Creasing; tear upper right.
A woman uses her slipper to defend herself against attempted rape.
[Ref: 43320] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

D.nus Hans Sloane Baronettus Collegii Regii Medicorum Londinensiu, & Regniæ Societatis Præses, &c.
T. Murray pinx. J. Faber fecit 1728.
Sold by Philip Overton at ye Golden Buck neat St Dunstans Church Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Narrow margins Slight central crease.
A half-length portrait in oval of physician Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), best known for his collections and library that formed the nucleus of the British Museum.
CS 328, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67527] £320.00

Sir Hans Sloane.
Angus Sculp.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 152 x 109mm. 6 x 4¼". Cut.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) studied medicine in France, followed by a short stint in Jamaica as physician to the Governor. He then returned to England with a major collection of plant and animal specimens and became physician to Queen Anne in 1712, and physician-general to the army in 1716, and was made a baronet. In 1713 he purchased the Manor of Chelsea and its estate and leased it to the Society of Apothecaries. In 1727 he became President of the Royal Society, a post he held for fourteen years. His collection and library formed the nucleus of the British Museum. Plate to 'Literary Mag. & Brit. Review, 1790'.
Wellcome: 2750-10; for an uncut impression see ref. 27114
[Ref: 24547] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane. Literary Magazine & British Review.
Angus Sculp.
Published as the Act directs 1st. Decr. 1790, by C. Forster, 41, Poultry.
Engraving, 170 x 110mm. 6¾ x 4¼".
Profile portrait in an oval: Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) studied medicine in France, followed by a short stint in Jamaica as physician to the Governor. He then returned to England with a major collection of plant and animal specimens and became physician to Queen Anne in 1712, and physician-general to the army in 1716, and was made a baronet. In 1713 he purchased the Manor of Chelsea and its estate and leased it to the Society of Apothecaries. In 1727 he became President of the Royal Society, a post he held for fourteen years. His collection and library formed the nucleus of the British Museum. From a periodical.
Wellcome 2750-10.
[Ref: 27114] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
T. Prescott, sculp.
Pub.d by C. Dyer, Soho [n.d., c.1810].
Stipple, printed in brown, watermark 1809. Printed area 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Profile portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
Wellcome Library no. 8800i.
[Ref: 59825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

D.nus Hans Sloane Baronettus Collegii Regii Medicorum Londinensiu, & Regniæ Societatis Præses, &c.
T. Murray pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by Robert Sayear at ye Golden Buck near St Dunstans Church Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on on album paper.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), in long wig and lace cravat. In 1716 he was appointed physician-general to the army; in 1727 he became President of the Royal Society. His collection and library formed the nucleus of the British Museum.
Wellcome: 2750-1; CS 328, ii of ii.
[Ref: 65785] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

D.nus Hans Sloane Baronettus Collegii Regii Medicorum Londinensiu, & Regniæ Societatis Præses, &c.
T. Murray pinx. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by Robert Sayear at ye Golden Buck near St Dunstans Church Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), in long wig and lace cravat. In 1716 he was appointed physician-general to the army; in 1727 he became President of the Royal Society. His collection and library formed the nucleus of the British Museum.
Wellcome: 2750-1; CS 328, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Belton House.
[Ref: 67372] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, plate 175 x 105mm (7 x 10¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small right margin.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
[Ref: 59826] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

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