Grosvenor Prints

[Stockholm] Utsigt af en dek af hamnen och Blasieholmen, tagen fran sjosidan nedanfore Konung Gustaf III.s staty. Vue d'une partie du port de de Blasieholmen prise du côté de ja Mer auprés de la Staue de S.M. le Roi Gustave III.
F. Verner F. Stentryck af C. Müller.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Printed area 320 x 420mm (12½ x 16½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A view of the port of Blasieholmen, Stockholm, with the statue of Gustav III.
[Ref: 55735] £320.00

Utsigt af Stockholm fran Castelholmen pa Stadens ostra sida. Vue de Stockholm prise de Castelholmen du côté oriental de la ville.
J.F. Martin fec.
[Watermarked 1810.]
Aquatint. 370 x 540mm (14½ x 21¼") very large margins. A few small stains in image in sky. Uncut.
The second in a series that eventually numbered 48, engraved by Johan Frederik Martin (1755-1816, brother of Elias Martin) from his own sketch. Martin lived in London between 1770-80, receiving training from William Woollet and Francesco Bartolozzi.
[Ref: 55736] £360.00

Utsigt af Stockholm fran Langholmen pa Stadens vestra sida. Vue de Stockholm prise de Langholmen du côté occidental de la ville.
J.F. Martin sc.
[Watermarked 1810.]
Aquatint. 370 x 540mm (14½ x 21¼") very large margins. Scraped area in central image, stains and wear to margins.
The fourth in a series that eventually numbered 48, engraved by Johan Frederik Martin (1755-1816, brother of Elias Martin) from his own sketch. Martin lived in London between 1770-80, receiving training from William Woollet and Francesco Bartolozzi.
BM 1917,1208.432.
[Ref: 55737] £320.00

Utsigt af Stockholm med en del af Staden, Riddarcholmen och Norrmalm; lagen fran Malare Sidan vid Skinnareviken. Vue de Stockholm...
F. Verner del. Stentryck af Müller.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large margins. Repaired tears below title.
A view of Riddarholmen, one of the islets of Stockholm, with the Church that is one of Stockholm's oldest buildings.
[Ref: 55638] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Utsigt af Stockholm fran sodra sidan. Vue de Stockholm prise du cüté méridionale.
F. Verner del. Stentr. af C. Müller.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large margins.
A view of Stadsholmen, with Stockholm Palace.
[Ref: 55639] £330.00

Utsigt af Stockholm fran Langholmen pa stadens vestra sida. Vue de Stockholm prise de Langholmen du cüté occidentale de la ville.
F. Verner del. Stentr. af C. Müller.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large margins.. Repaired tear in left margin. Creasing in title.
A view of Langholmen, one of the islands of central Stockholm.
[Ref: 55640] £380.00

Utsigt af Stockholm med en del af Norrmalm tagen fran Kongl. Slottet. Vue de Stockholm, avec une partie de Foubourg du Nord; prise du Coté de Chateau.
F. Verner del. Stentr. af C. Müller.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large margins. Repaired tears below title; creasing in centre.
A view of Norrmalm from the Royal Palace.
[Ref: 55641] £380.00

Vue de Stockholm prise de Blasieholmen. Utsigt af Stockholm tagen fran Blasieholmen.
F. Verner del. Stentryck af C. Müller.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large margins. Slight crease in centre.
A view of Stockholm from Blasieholmen.
[Ref: 55642] £320.00

Vues de Stockholm et ses Environs.
[Stockholm: Gjöthstrom & Magnusson, n.d., c.1830.]
Oblong quarto, original red half morocco and boards, title (as above) in gilt on front board; 18 lithographic plates with Swedish titles. French bookseller's label on front pastedown. Some slight wear to binding, hinges strained, some damp staining, one plate loose, one toned overall.
A collection of 18 plates of Stockholm and its environs, bound for the French market. Only three plates are numbered and these are not in order.
[Ref: 37189] £550.00 view all images for this item

[River scene, spire over trees.]
AHHaig [pencil signature.]
18W83 [monogram lower left of image.]
Etching signed in pencil.(200 proofs)216 x 310mm. 8½ x 12¼". Paper loss to lower right-hand corner of paper.
Possibly 'River Scene, Sweden - A punt and Figures on the Bank'.
CLB: 43.
[Ref: 22890] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Upsal, Een Aerts-bisschoppelyke Stad in Zweden, beroemt door hare Acadmie. Upsala, Urbs Archiepiscopalis in Suecia, Academia sua nobilis.
Pet. Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Copper engraving, fine. Plate 216 x 272mm. 8½ x 10¾".
Uppsala, Sweden with a view of a royal coach leaving Uppsala Castle in the foreground, before it essentially ruined in a fire late that year (1702). Uppsala cathedral in the distance.
[Ref: 20814] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Eman.l Swedenborg. Anon ætatis 80. Born at Skockholm Jan. 29th 1688, died in London, March 29th 1772.
Battersby sculp.
Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1786.
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") large margins.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), scientist, theologian and mystic.
W: 2858.
[Ref: 53181] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Emanuel Swedenborg]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 209 x 136mm.
Scientist & Theologian [1688-1772]
W: 2858-1.
[Ref: 3462] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Sweeps racing donkeys.]
Collet inv.t et del. Hancock sculp.
London printed for R. Sayer at Nº53 Fleet Street as the Act directs [n.d., c.1760].
Etching. Sheet 140 x 200mm (5½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Two chimney sweeps race donkeys down a country lane, a parody of horse racing.
[Ref: 61148] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Emmanuel Sweert] Ornatiss. et Expertiss. Emanuel Sweertius Septimont [...]
Rare engraving, platemark 255 x 145mm (10 x 5¾"), with very large margins. Time stained.
Emmanuel Sweert (1552-1612), who in 1612 published his famous 'Florilegium', a superb volume of engravings of flowers (to which this portrait is the frontispiece). The volume was essentially a sales catalogue, in which the beauty of the engravings served to promote the desirability of the plants. This portrait however, with the flower in Sweert's left hand balanced by the skull on which his right rests, is a reminder of the mixed symbolism of flowers.
For coloured impression see ref. 39203. W:2860.
[Ref: 44062] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Emmanuel Sweert] Ornatiss. et Expertiss. Emanuel Sweertius Septimont [...]
Engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 255 x 145mm (10 x 5¾"). Uncut sheet. Very large margins.
Portrait of Emmanuel Sweert (1552-1612), who in 1612 published his famous 'Florilegium' (to which this portrait is the frontispiece), a superb volume of engravings of flowers. The volume was essentially a sales catalogue, in which the beauty of the engravings served to promote the desirability of the plants. This portrait however, with the flower in Sweert's left hand balanced by the skull on which his right rests, is a reminder of the mixed symbolism of flowers.
[Ref: 39203] £320.00

La Douce Comparaison.
Roussau del.t. Pomel sculp.t.
A Paris, chez A. Nöel Frères, Rue St Jacques No 16. et Rue des Noyers, no 47. [n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Very large margins.
'The Sweet Comparison': a couple embrace near a pair of cooing doves.
[Ref: 38104] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Sweet Echo 178 Sweet Echo, Sweet Nymph, That liv'st unseen, Within they Airy Cell. Vide, Mask of Comms.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer Map & Printseller, No.53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 15, Jan 1788.
Rare coloured mezzotint sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾). Thread margins on three sides and trimmed to plate on bottom. Repairs.
A young woman with hair dressed high and a large hat, sitting in a garden holding up a sheet of music; with a waterfall on the right flowing into a stream running past her. The inscription has four lines of verse from Milton's 'Comus' in two columns.
[Ref: 55022] £350.00

The Sweet Little Girl that I Love.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
Pub.d June 4 1808 by Thos Tegg N 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1816, with large margins top & bottom. Faint mount burn.
A tall, thin, elderly military officer, ugly but elegant, stoops to embrace a fat country woman, short and hideous, yet buxom.
BM Satires 11138.
[Ref: 54568] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sweet Nan of Hampton Green.
Pub.d July 1 1802 by P. Concena, London.
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. Framed, sight size 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾"). Framed over edge of image, slight damp staining in inscription area. Unexamined out of frame.
A hunter with a musket approaches a pretty country girl, her sheep and an older woman waving a warning from a cottage behind. One of at least two mezzotint illustrations to this ballad published by Concena, a publisher of 104 Great Saffron Hill. The BM has only five examples of his prints, and not this one.
[Ref: 66085] £320.00

Sweet Poll of Plymouth.
Printed, 6th March, 1786 for R. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A scene by the sea showing a young woman weeping as her lover sails away in a ship shown in the distance. Poll of Plymouth was a character in a romantic poem but the character was then taken on as a comic figure in satirical prints, often shown as a prostitute working in the docks. 'Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth' published by Laurie & Whittle takes two poetic characters and turns them into prostitutes being exported to Botany Bay.
[Ref: 48837] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Itinerant sweet seller] Halvadgi. vendeur de Confitures par les rues.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving, mint, platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") very large margins
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 de Ferriol. After Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, remembered for his his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
[Ref: 46959] £320.00

Sweet William.
Stubbs pinx. J.G.B.
Hullmandel No. 10. [n.d., c.1840.]
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet size: 360 x 450mm (14¼ x 17½"). Very light mount burn.
A portrait of the racehorse 'Sweet William', standing in profile to the left. Sweet William was bred by William Cornforth of Barforth, near Richmond, Yorkshire, and was bought by Lord Bolingbroke, for whom he won his first race in 1772, at the New Market Spring Meeting. His success brought him to the attention of one of George Stubbs's most important patrons, Richard, 1st Earl Grosvenor, a celebrated breeder and racehorse owner, who promptly purchased Sweet William. The horse remained in Lord Grosvenor's ownership thereafter. The original portrait was one of sixteen paintings which Stubbs executed for the Turf Gallery project.
Ex Collection: the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35375] £490.00

Sweet William's Farewell, to Black Eyed Susan.
P. Monemie Pinx.t. Foudrinier sculp from the Original Painting in Vaux-hall Garden.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Published by F. West, 83, Fleet S.t, London [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured engraving. 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"), with large margins. Mount burn, spot on left edge.
An illustration to John Gay's poem of the same name which tells the tale of Susan, whose eyes are black from crying. The scene shows Susan standing in a boat heading away from the ship. Gay's poem was set to music by Richard Leveridge and became a popular song amongst sailors. Originally published 1743, this example was issued by Francis West, along with many other Bowles plates. Australian & American interest.
See Ref: 47341 for an earlier cut version.
[Ref: 58537] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Sweet William's Farewell, to [Black Eyed Susan.]
P. Monemie Pinx.t. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Foudrinier sculp from the Original Painting in Vaux-hall Garden.
[London Printed for Bowles and Carver No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard & Robert Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill.][c.1800.]
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet: 290 x 470mm (11½ x 18½"). Trimmed within plate on bottom edge losing some title, text and publication line.
An illustration to John Gay's poem of the same name which tells the tale of Susan, whose eyes are black from crying. The scene shows Susan standing in a boat heading away from the ship. Gay's poem was set to music by Richard Leveridge and became a popular song amongst sailors. Originally published 1743.
See Ref: 58537 uncut version
[Ref: 47341] £460.00

[Unrecorded plate of Stubbs' Sweetbrier] Sweetbryer.
G.Stubbs pinx.t. Geo.e Townley Stubbs sculp. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London publish'd [***] by Mess.rs Stubbs, Turf Gallery Conduit Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours and hand finished, title in open letters. Publication line excludes date. 400 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"), with large margins. Framed. Repairs in sky, publication date unprinted. Unexamined out of frame.
Sweetbriar, a black colt foaled in 1769, raced for Lord Grosvenor 1773-5, retiring to stud unbeaten. In the background is Grosvenor's stud farm at Oxcroft, Cambridgeshire. This image of this plate is identical to 'Sweetbrier' (Lennox-Boyd 112), other than detail in the clouds; however the plate is 1cm smaller, height and width, with an alternative spelling of the horse's name, as used in the smaller-format version.
[Ref: 54815] £2,000.00

Sweetwilliam.
G. Stubbs pinx.t. Geo. Townley Stubbs Sculp. Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, Republished June 4., 1817, by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, Corner of Brook Street.
Stipple, printed in colour and hand finished. 405 x 505mm (16 x 20"). Small area of damage under horse's body. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of the racer Sweetwilliam, standing in a paddock facing left, with Sweet William flowering at his feet. Foaled about 1770, Sweetwilliam raced for Lord Bolingbroke until 1778, when he went to stud at Lord Grosvenor's Oxcroft estate.
Lennox-Boyd: 118, state III of III.
[Ref: 54814] £1,850.00

Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem, Plin. Espist.
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, fine impression. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), frontispiece to Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life & Writings of Swift' 1752.
[Ref: 50014] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev:d Doctor Jonathan Swift Dean of St: Patricks.
C. Jarvis [Charles Jervas] Principal Painter to his Ma.tie Pinxit. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1730
Etching with engraving. 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"), large margins Slight damage in title area "Doctor Swift".
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), seated in an armchair, holding a quill. After the second portrait of Swift painted in oils by Charles Jervas c.1718, now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 278).
[Ref: 60519] £360.00

D.r Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habemimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist.
Ravenet sculp. [after Rupert Barber.]
[n.d., 1752.]
Fine etching with engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Oval bust portrait of Jonathan Swift, the frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift'.
[Ref: 58544] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Dean Swift and the Post Boy.
A.M. del et sc.
London Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 3 Feb. 1806.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate
A satirical print involving Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and a post boy. The boy having been charged with delivering a turbot to the Dean charms into giving him half a guinea for his trouble.
BM Satire 10657.
[Ref: 41369] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Swift.
Walker sculp. [after Charles Jervas.]
[n.d. c.1779.]
Engraving. 127 x 76mm (5 x 3"). Cut.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the satirist and divine; author of Gulliver's Travels. He was Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, from 1713, but his support for the Tories cost him further preferment and after 1715 he lived mostly in Ireland, after a short visit to London where he met Addison, Steele and Congreve.
[Ref: 24490] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Swift.
For the Lond: Mag:
Printed for R. Baldwin in Pater Noster Row 1754.
Engraving. 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate on left.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) after Richard Barber, shown in an oval, without a wig. An Irish-born writer and dean of St. Patrick's, he is best known for his satirical works, including 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'A Modest Proposal'.
[Ref: 53258] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist..
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, sheet 165 x 95mm (6½ x 3¾"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Chiefly remembered as author of 'Gulliver's Travels' (first published 1726 and now perhaps the most-read of all eighteenth-century literary works) and as a satirist has few rivals in the English language. Epigram from Pliny's 'Epistles' below. Original etching by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 42099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[La natation.] [Swimming.]
Chaurand [signed in plate lower right.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Limited edition proof lithograph, numbered 4/24 in pencil lower left. Sheet 445 x 560mm, 17½ x 22".
Two female swimmers. From a series of lithographs depicting Olympic sports, 'Les jeux Olympiques', possibly designs for posters, by Jean Raoul Chaurand-Naurac (1878 - 1948).
[Ref: 11357] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Fair Start. ''Take de water togedder when yous hear de shot'' [&]. The Result in Doubt. ''De one you's gets de water outen fust, am de winner''.
King & Murphy Dels.
Published by Currier & Ives. Copyright 1884, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. 115 Nassau St. New York.
A pair of hand-coloured lithograph. Sheets: 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17''). Repaired tear top right.
A pair of scenes showing two African Americans engaging in a swimming race. In the first scene the two swimmers prepare to race while four spectators, one with a starting gun watch from a boat. The second scene shows the two swimmers laid out on the jetty having water pumped out of them after the race.
[Ref: 48591] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Morning Dip [in pencil].
J. H. Dowd [in pencil and in image].
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching signed by the artist, 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"), with very large margins.
Children swim in a large bathing pond amongst a wooded area. James Henry Dowd (1883 - 1956) specialised in images of children, and portrayed his subjects in a less sentimental way than some of his contemporaries, such as Eileen Soper.
[Ref: 62606] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Swimming for ladies. Punch's Pocket book for 1860.
[John Leech]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1860]
Coloured etching, sheet 125 x 225mm (5 x 8¾"). Folded as issued, lacking frontis.
A scene at a Victorian swimming pool. Fully clothed ladies swim, some holding onto ropes, one tethered with another woman holding the rope. Others stand around the pool. Illustration for Follies of the Year by John Leech, a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844–1864, published by Bradbury Evans & Co. John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63852] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Swimming in the Stream.] 32.
TB [monogram lower left: Thomas Barker of Bath.]
[Bath, D. Redman, 1814.]
Pen lithograph. 310 x 240mm. 12¼ x 9½".
Two people, a man and a woman, dragging themselves out of the water after a swim, with their dog; a third person wades in the stream in the distance. From "Thirty Two Lithographic Impression from Pen Drawings of Landscape Scenery", 1814. Views around Bath, Wales, the Lake District and elsewhere.
[Ref: 23862] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Edw.d Swinburn Bar.t. Proof.
Painted by J. Ramsay. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Pub. 3rd April 1821 for the Proprietor, by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Sons, Cockspur Str.t & M.r Molteno Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, open letter proof. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Some foxing in borders, slight surface cracking in inscription area.
Half-length seated portrait of Sir John Edward Swinburne (1762-1860), wearing dark coat and eyepatch. A Whig politician and patron of the arts, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Whitman 551. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66454] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Edw.d Swinburn Bar.t. Proof.
Painted by J. Ramsay. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Pub. 3rd April 1821 for the Proprietor, by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Sons, Cockspur Str.t & M.r Molteno Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, open letter proof. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with very large margins. Some foxing. Uncut.
Half-length seated portrait of Sir John Edward Swinburne (1762-1860), wearing dark coat and eyepatch. A Whig politician and patron of the arts, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Whitman 551. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66455] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Canofiena in Roma.
Pinelli Fece 1815 Roma.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾''). Small margins.
An Italian scene showing men and woman on a large swing in Rome.
[Ref: 49192] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Swing. On two near Elms the slacken'd Cord I hung, ... 211.
London; Publish'd as the Act directs, 20.th July, 1786, by Rob.t Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. Framed. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Tear in sky with taped stains. Unexamined out of frame.
A young man swings a pretty shepherdess on a rope strung between two trees. He stares at her pettycoat and ankles. A rustic scene inspired by Jean-Honoré Fragonard's iconic painting.
[Ref: 66088] £490.00

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Small margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
[Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, folded in centre.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67540] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Narrow margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv.
[Ref: 67516] £320.00

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, repaired tears, creased.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67541] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Ketly. Costume Suisse.
Numa pinxt. Imp. Lemercier. Regnier et Bettannier lith.
[Paris: H. Gache & London: J. Bouvier, n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph in fine contemporary colour by hand, image 250 x 195mm. 9¾ x 7¾". Margins trimmed [through publisher's imprint].
A woman in traditional Swiss alpine dress holding a wicker fan in her left hand; a wooden chalet in the landscape behind. From a series of national costume plates.
[Ref: 23942] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Berne Houper.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A man dressed in Swiss costume, pouring wine into a glass.
[Ref: 24118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Encien Magistrat Suisse.
de Jean Weigel
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. A.D.P.R [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour, with gold leaf border. 274 x 166mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 8567] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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