Grosvenor Prints

[Vinegar Valentine] Without beauty of person or mind, / For such graces admirers find; / Such fantastic sport will not do, / Of Folly and ugliness too.
Published by G. Gilbert 2 Green Ardour Court of Bailey.
Rare woodcut with letterpress text. Sheet 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Small tear in edge, paper stuck down on unprinted area. Messy.
A woman with voluminous sleeves, carrying an umbrella.
[Ref: 54599] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.]
[American?, n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9").
A woman looks out of her window to see three winged hearts with men's heads bearing down on her.
[Ref: 53232] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] This creature is willing to marry, / Can you resist the temptation? / Why ladies to you so tarry? / His match is not in the nation. / Take him & mould him as you please. / What all refuse! ain't he the cheese?
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured woodcut. 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¼").
A writing sheet shows a satire of a man wearing a monocle and checked trousers. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 63286] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] A Beauty in the Green & Yellow Leaf.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, image 210 x 125mm, on folded sheet.
A dog lover. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7059] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Your Portrait: Conceited Pup with Ugly Face / Ti's Plain You'r One of the Bull Dog Race.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 440 x 185mm (17¼ x 7¼") . Folded.
With a dog's face, with monocle & pipe.
[Ref: 7027] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Deceit.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 445 x 145mm. Folded, 3 small worm holes.
A woman with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7030] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] An Engraver, you may be by trade, / But withal you're a curious blade, / Whose rule every night, is to go to bed tight, / That the bloom on your nose my ne'er fade. / Chop away, cut and butcher your block, / Never listen again for a knock, / For you in my eyes, I loath and despise / As the ugliest sheep in the flock.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet.
A wood-engraver, smoking a pipe. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] You cry your Fish so loud and shrill / Turbot, Mackarel, Plaice and Brill, / And on the women passing by, / Your leer and cast a fishy eye; / Now who on earth would ever wish / To Have a man who smells of fish.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7066] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

You will be likely getting married, If your intentions out are carried, This little picture do not scorn, It shows a likeness of your first-born.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress. 254 x 190mm. 10 x 7½".
A white hand holding a black baby.
[Ref: 27167] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

With a most pious look and canting croak, / You make Good Templarism nothing but a cloak; / But, pray take care how you carry on your game, / Or, sure as fate, 'twill bring disgrace and shame.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress, sheet 250 x 185.
In front of an advert for 'Good Tipplers Gin'.
[Ref: 7071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hearken Not to the Voice of the Siren.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 630 x 255mm. Folded.
A woman with a fish's tail.
[Ref: 7035] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

'Me Thinks 'tis my Glass, not my Brother.' Shakespeare.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 635 x 250mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7055] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Mongrel.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 565 x 220mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7056] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Will music win your heart to love?
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Printed area 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4") on front of paper folded once. Some creasing.
A valentine. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 44361] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] No use on me to spend your smiles, / I really must resist your wiles; / It may be rude but I decline / A Girl of such a public line, / Barmaids who'll flirt with any spoon / Will bring a man to sorrow soon.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
A bottle-nosed drinker rejecting the advances of a barmaid with a body of a bottle & cask. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7065] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Valentine.]
[n.d., c. 1880.]
Manuscript poem with print overlaid, glued to scrap album page, 180 x 260mm.
A love poem for St. Valentine's Day, with two stanzas either side of an excised coloured lithograph showing an officer and his beloved. Christmas/ New Year cards glued to verso of album page.
[Ref: 7423] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Haste thee with this Valentine, thou silly man of letters, / And try to do the best you can to serve and please your betters. / For I'd sooner live an old maid or else give up the ghost, / Than wed a grinning postman, as stupid as a post.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress, image 210 x 165mm, on folded sheet.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7070] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Postman, ha, what a guy! [/] Who prigs the Letters on the Sly; [/] Do not think I shall e'er incline [/] To have a chap like you for a Valentine.
W.S. Fortey, Steam Printers, Monmouth Ct. [n.d., c.1830.]
4 pp. with coloured wood engraving on the front. Front 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Holes in top edge, some creasing and spotting.
A letterhead vinegar valentine featuring a postman with a roseate nose.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64194] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Which is the Puppy?
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 220 x 175mm.
[Ref: 7057] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Your principles in vain you boast / You look just like Salvation's Ghost.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 560 x 220mm. Folded, some wear.
A Salvation Army trumpeter.
[Ref: 7029] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

One who can give a stab in the back.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, printed in green, sheet 380 x 85mm. Folded, three small worm holes.
A woman with serpentine tongue & tail.
[Ref: 7034] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] You'd like to be a Swell, I see, [/] But really it won't do; [/] The right is whay you wish to be, [/] The left, my love, is you! [/] No. 30.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 220 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼").
A vinegar valentine featuring a man with two faces, one good-looking, the other grotesque. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

As a Tailor's Goose, you're more known than admired...
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 370 x 250mm. Folded.
A dandy goose.
[Ref: 7037] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Two to one on Blue Jacket, / 'Gainst any other horse say. / For if I win I take it, / And if I lose I never pay.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 200 x 130mm, on a folded sheet.
A dishonest bookmaker at the races.
[Ref: 7064] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Venomous Reptile!
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 540 x 205mm. Folded, a few small tears.
A immaculately-dressed man with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7031] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] A Wolf in Sheep' Clothing.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 365 x 250mm. Folded, some spotting at edges.
Holding a bible and an umbrella. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7028] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Valentine's Day.
Painted by George Morland. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Nov.r 15.th 1787 by J. Dean Bentick Street Soho.
Rare mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Repaired tears, crack in top platemark, creases.
A scene outside a cottage, with an old woman leaning out over the door, advising a young woman who sits in front, holding a ribbon and gesturing towards a young man, who turns to walk away, looking back over his shoulder, his cane under his arm.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64870] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Valentine's Day.
Painted by George Morland. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Nov.r 15.th 1787 by J. Dean Bentick Street Soho.
Rare mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼").
A scene outside a cottage, with an old woman leaning out over the door, advising a young woman who sits in front, holding a ribbon and gesturing towards a young man, who turns to walk away, looking back over his shoulder, his cane under his arm.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 1997.
[Ref: 64871] £380.00

[A pair of grotesque figures.]
Lewis Marks Del.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of hand-coloured etchings. Sheet: 245 x 180mm (10 x 7''). Laid on album sheets, cockling.
A pair of grotesque portraits of a man and a woman with huge, ugly heads. Portraits like these, with unkind verses below, were often given as Valentines.
[Ref: 50465] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine] Baker. Baker, Baker, do you know, / Your head is like a lump of dough, / And though you may think I speak rough, / Your nose is like a penny puff.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 445 x 140mm (17½ x 5½"). Tear touching title, pinhole.
A humorous valentine.
[Ref: 54503] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Valetta, from the Quarantine Harbour. Malta. Valetta,-dal Porto di Quarantina, Malta.
L.t Allen, Rl. Engineers. W. Wallis.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d. c.1841.]
Steel engraving. Sheet: 280 x 190mm, (11 x 7½"). Tears in lower edge.
A view a of ports of Valetta with Fort Saint Elmo on the shoreline.
[Ref: 39798] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Valetta, _Malta.
T.C. Dibdin. Drawn from Nature by Lieut. H.E. Allen, Rl. Engrs Js. Tingle.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris, 1836.
Steel engraving, sheet 220 x 290mm. 8¾ x 11½".
A view of Valetta on the island of Malta, from the approach to the harbour.
[Ref: 26332] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Towing into Grand Harbour, Valetta.]
William L. Wyllie [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, signed in pencil. Plate 165 x 381mm. 6½ x 15".
A steam tug towing a tall-ship into the Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta. William L. Wyllie (1851-1931) was born on July 5th 1851, in London. He attended Heatherley’s art school until the age of fifteen, leaving to study at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Turner Medal at the age of eighteen. In the early 1870’s Wyllie became an illustrator for the Graphic and also held several exhibitions at the galleries of the Fine Art Society. In 1889 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited his work in 1901. Wyllie spent much of his time at sea working for the White Star Shipping Line. He also served in the Royal Navy during WWI, painting seascapes and coastal landscapes. His etchings and watercolours showing working life on the Thames and the Medway brought him widespread popularity. Later in his life he played an important role in the restoration of the Victory. Wyllie died on the 6th April 1931 in Hampstead, and scouts from the 1st Portchester Sea Scout Troop, which he had founded, rowed his coffin across Portsmouth Harbour for his burial at Portchester Castle.
[Ref: 26596] £850.00

Her Majesty The Queen Dowager Adelaide. Entering Malta Harbour on Board H.M.S. Hastings 30th Nov.ber 1838.
Drawn and Lith.d by C. von Brocktorff. Malta.
[n.d., c.1838.]
Very scarce hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 365 x 520mm (14¼ x 20½"). Central vertical crease. Taped to mount.
A scene at Valletta Harbour, Malta, depicting Queen Adelaide on board H.M.S Hastings, greeted by crowds of joyful supporters both in boats and on the waters edge. The fortifications of the city can bee seen in the background. A year after her husband William III's death, Queen Adelaide cruised the Mediterranean and visited Malta, where she was received enthusiastically. Apparently there was no Anglican church at Malta, and she was ultimately responsible for founding and endowing the Anglican Cathedral of St Paul at Valetta, Malta (she laid the foundation stone in 1839).
[Ref: 38030] £620.00

[Saint John's Co-Cathedral] The Vault _ Il Sotterraneo.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾") very large margins. Several repaired tears in edges.
The crypt of Saint John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, containing the tombs of Grand Masters, including Fra' Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle (1531-95) and Jean de la Cassière (1572-81), shown here.
[Ref: 58091] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A small town in a wooded valley.]
J. Koller 1776 [in ink].
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 200 x 290mm (8 x 11½").
[Ref: 51383] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Valley Farm, Semur.]
Malcolm Osborne. [Signed in pencil.].
Etching. 140 x 325mm (5½ x 12¾"). Slight crease across top right corner. Very large margins.
Malcolm Osborne [1880-1963] was born in Frome, Somerset. He studied at Bristol School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, under Sir Frank Short. When Short retired in 1924 he succeeded him as head of the etching and engraving school. Osborne produced just over a hundred prints, including British and European land and townscapes.
[Ref: 38927] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Valley of Rocks, Linton, Devon.
Drawn, Printed & Published by G. Rowe, Cheltenham.
[n.d. c.1840]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 117 x 225mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Tears to backing sheet restored.
View of rocky cliffs by the sea with seagulls flying over the water.
[Ref: 62956] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Charles de Valois Duc D'Angoulesme Pair de France Comte D'Auvergne.
Champagne pinxit. Aeg. Rousselet sculp.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet: 330 x 255mm (13 x 10''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Central crease.
A half-length portrait in an oval of Charles de Valois, Duke of Angouleme (1573-1650), illegitimate son of Charles IX and Marie Touchet.
[Ref: 49704] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Adiournement fait a Henry de Valois pur Assister aux Etats Tenus en Enfer.
[etched by Ernest Jaime]
[Paris: Chez Delloye, Libraire-Éditeur, 1838.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 140 x 220mm (5½ x 8½"). Trimmed close to image.
Henry III of France being led by the Devil to see Hell for himself. A copy of an earlier satire, published in Ernest Jaime's 'Musée de la caricature ou Recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quatorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, pour servir de complément à toutes les collections de mémoires'.
[Ref: 62168] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mars Récompense La Valeur. [On shield in image] La Guerre rend plus doux les Charmes de la Pai [x] . [under] Du Dieu de la valeur fiers et nobles Enfants; Qui joignez la sagesse a la fougue guerriere: Soit pacificateur, soit hardis conquerants, Vous courez des Héros, la brillnate carriere; Recovez lono le prix derservatus, les talents. Plein le Gloire et l'amour, maitre du champ l'honneur. Chacun des Combattants rend hommage a sa belle: Manque t-il a son sort, la conquete lun coeur; Leclat de ses lauriers, soumettra la cruellle, De la Chaste Cypris, ars fut Cheureux Vainqueur.
Colibert inv. Colibert sculp.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Fine stipple engraving, printed in colours and highlighted with gold. 300 x 375mm. Some staining, creases and small tears to the far outer edges of the paper.
Very fine example of french 18th century colour printing by a talented and notable printmaker Nicolas Colibert. [1750-1806].
[Ref: 1325] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Valour is Priz'd tho' Vanquish'd. Alexander admiring the greatness of soul of King Porus, whom he had defeated and made Prisoner, not only pities him but (as an honourable mark os his Esteem) admits him into the number of his Friends, and gives him a Kingdom greater than that which he had Lost. La Vertu Plast Quoy que Vaincue. Alexander n'est pas seulement touché de compassion en voyant la Grandeur d'ame du Roy Porus qu'il a vaincu, et fait son Prisonnier, mais il luy donne des marques honorables de son estime en le recevant au Nombre de ses amis, et en luy donnant en suitte un plus Grand Royaume que celuy qu'il avoit perdu. 4.
Le Brun pinx. Parr sculp.
Printed for R. Wilkinson at No.58 ____ in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1809.]
Copper engraving. Paper watermarked. Plate 203 x 412mm. 8 x 16¼".
A landscape with King Porus, wounded, carried before Alexander the Great after the Battle of the Hydaspes River. The result of the battle was a decisive Macedonian victory for Alexander. Robert Wilkinson republished many of the Bowles plates in the early 1800s. He took over the business of John Bowles following his death in 1799.
[Ref: 20829] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Valse de Don Pasquale, arrangée pour piano par Th. Labarre.
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Cramer Addison & Beale, 201, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1843.]
Lithograph, rare, trimmed as scrap sheet. Sheet (at most) 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Glue stains.
The cover of the music sheet for Donizetti's comic opera 'Don Pasquale', showing the don with the title written across his vast belly, 'Opera de Donizetti' written on the camelia in his lapel and the publishers' names on a scroll in his hand. When the opera had its London premier at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1843 this sheet had the face of Luigi Lablache, the bass who played Don Pasquale originally. The portrait here would be a singer who played the role subsequently.
[Ref: 33863] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[2nd set of Quadrilles de Punch with] Valse de Judy.
J. Brandard.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Coloured lithograph, fine colour. Trimmed to printed border as scrap. Sheet 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"), with title pasted underneath, on album sheet with decoupage flowers.
A music sheet cover, showing the hook-nosed Judy in a rocking chair, loosely cradling The Baby.
[Ref: 33856] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vattle of Valvasone] Passage de Tagliamonto.
L. Gudin. Lithog. de Motte, rue des marais.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 360 x 440m (14¼ x 17¼"), with large margins.
Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback, surrounded by his officers, watching his army crossing the Tagliamento River to attack and defeat an Austrian army led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen,during the Battle of Valvasone (16th March 1797). Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55881] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Issac van Amburgh with his big cats.]
Madeley, lith.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Timmed losing Madeley's address, indelible pencil in bottom corner.
Isaac van Amburgh (1808-65), American animal trainer, wearing Roman dress on stage with a lion, tiger and three leopards. Van Amburgh arrived in London in 1838, performing first at Astleys then at Drury Lane. In 1839 Queen Victoria saw van Amburgh's show six times, and later commissioned Landseer to paint a portrait of him and and his cats. By George Edward Madeley.
[Ref: 55480] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Issac van Amburgh with his big cats.]
Madeley, lith.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Timmed losing Madeley's address, indelible pencil in bottom corner.
Isaac van Amburgh (1808-65), American animal trainer, wearing Roman dress on stage, resting on a lion, while a tiger licks his face. Van Amburgh arrived in London in 1838, performing first at Astleys then at Drury Lane. In 1839 Queen Victoria saw van Amburgh's show six times, and later commissioned Landseer to paint a portrait of him and and his cats. By George Edward Madeley.
[Ref: 55483] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Iohannes Van Balen. Bon Painctre….ou il ce tient mentinant. '40' annotated in ink.
Iohannes van Balen pinxit. W: Hollar fecit. I: Meyssens excudit.
[n.d. c.1694].
Engraving. 160 x 110mm.
Painter born c.1600, son of Hendrick Van Balen. From the 'True Effigies Of the most Eminent Painters, and other Famous Artists That have Flourished in Europe' published in 1694 in Antwerp.
P. 1356. III.
[Ref: 4223] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Van Bleeck, Pictor.
Se Ipfe pinxit, 1723. P.Van Bleeck jun.r fec.t.
1735.
Very rare mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"), with large margins. Water stain in the right corner of publication line.
Portrait of Richard van Bleeck (1670 - 1733), Dutch Golden Age painter, after a self-portrait. He was born in The Hague. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was the pupil of Theodor van der Schuer and Daniel Haringh. He became a portrait painter and painted the portrait of the engraver Coenraet Roepel, before moving to London in 1733, where he stayed.
CS 10. O'Donoghue 328/1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65179] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Van Der Borcht Peinctre. Ne a Franckendael au Palatinat [...] Serviteur du Prince de Galles.
Johann: Meyssens pinxit et excudit. W: Hollar fecit, 1648.
Etching, platemark 164 x 115mm. Laid on album sheet.
Portrait of Hendrick van der Borcht the Younger, etched by Wenceslaus Hollar. This is one of nine portraits etched by Hollar, when in Antwerp, for a collection of portraits published there by Meyssens in 1649 under the title 'Image de divers hommes desprit sublime'. This etching is taken from a portrait by the publisher himself. Below the portrait is a biographical note, as Pennington notes, 'in execrable French'. As recounted in the text, van der Borcht was taken into service by Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel, who after sending him to train in Italy, engaged him as keeper of his collections in London from 1637.
Pennington:1365 ii/v. For a later state see ref. 4225.
[Ref: 23799] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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