Grosvenor Prints

Realism through Informality. The Conversation Piece in Eighteenth Century Britain and a collection of works by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Leger Galleries, Bond Street, 1983.
Book: Octavo. Colour illustrated wrappers with 24 colour illustrations.
Catalogue for a 1983 exhibition including works by Reynolds and Gainsborough amongst other, with a separate section dedicated to Joseph Wright.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 28070] £50.00

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734- 1797.
Jane Wallis.
Published by Derby Museum & Art Gallery on the occasion of the Bicentenary Exhibition at Derby Art Gallery 28 June-28 September 1997.
Book: Quarto. pp.120.. Colour illustrated wrappers, profusely illustrated.
Catalogue from the Derby Art Gallery's 1997 Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition, including catalogue of Wright's drawings in the Derby collection.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 28072] £45.00

Madam Wright
John Vanderbank pinx.t 1729. J. Faber Fec.t
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet; repair top left.
Portrait of an unidentified sitter, after John Vanderbank (1694-1739), painter and draughtsman whose sitters included Sir Isaac Newton, the sculptor John Michael Rysbrac, and the poet James Thomson.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; O'D 1 (only likeness); CS 396. For Vanderbank's portraits of Newton and Rysbrac see refs. 33218 and 27207.
[Ref: 36692] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

S.r. Sampson Wright. K.n.t.
Leney direx.t.
Line engraving. Sheet: 95 x 130mm, (3¾ x 5"). Trimmed.
Half-length portrait in oval of Sir Sampson Wright, a London magistrate who served as Chief Magistrate between 1780 and 1797.
[Ref: 34495] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Wright. Phil. Nat. Nat. Et. Mat. Prof.
Gent. Mag. Jany. 1793. Pl. I. [top of sheet, illegible]
Engraving, 200 x 115mm (8 x 4½"). Trimmed to image; laid on backing sheet.
Thomas Wright (1711 - 1786), astronomer, instrument maker and landscape gardener. Wright's 'Clavis pannautici' (1734) described the pannauticon, a paper instrument dedicated to George II. His 'Clavis coelestis' (1742) was an enormous engraved diagram of the heavens and theories of their arrangement. He is most famous, however, for 'An Original Theory of the Universe' (1750), embellished with spectacular engravings and fragments of poetry, which ponders why we see the Milky Way as we do. When the work of William Hershel led to acceptance of the galaxy's spiral shape, Wright's 'grindstone' theory was seen as a precursor. Wright also designed gardens (in a style similar to William Kent), published books on architecture ('Universal Architecture', 1755-8) and the antiquities of Co. Louth ('Louthiana', 1748), and designed buildings. With vignette of 'The Astronomical Cylinder or Sun Dial' below portrait. Published in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' of 1793, probably to accompany the posthumous publication of Wright's description of his house in Byers Green, County Durham (which was demolished in 1967).
BM: pg.550, 2. W. 3239-3.
[Ref: 35271] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Wrighten.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 1st 1780 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), a good impression, uncut.
Mary Ann Wrighten (later Pownall) (1751-96), singer and actress. Born in Hoxton, London in 1751, she married the actor James Wrighten in 1769 and was enaged by David Garrick for his Drury Lane Theatre in 1770. She was a leading singer at the theatre for the next sixteen years, and was also a favourite performer at Vauxhall Gardens. Wrighten had six children with only brief respites from the stage in between, and was seriously ill in both 1784 and 1786. In December 1786 her marriage broke down and she left her husband and children and abandoned the theatre, and went to live in Southwark with Hugh Pownall, a manufacturer of sulphuric acid. As a result her father cut her out of his will. The couple moved to America where they married, and the now Mrs Pownall sang to much acclaim in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Charleston (some considered her the best vocalist heard in America up to that point). James Wrighten having died in the meantime, her daughters joined her in America where they performed alongisde her. Mary Ann died in Charleston. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actresses and singers, published by the printseller William Richardson in 1780, apparently to follow up a similar set of actor portraits published the previous year. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area; sitter holding manuscript.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection, and collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 iii/iii.
[Ref: 36684] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. Wrighten]
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 1st 1780 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Mezzotint, good impression. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with very large margins. Slight mount paper tone.
Mary Ann Wrighten (later Pownall) (1751-96), singer and actress. Born in Hoxton, London in 1751, she married the actor James Wrighten in 1769 and was enaged by David Garrick for his Drury Lane Theatre in 1770. She was a leading singer at the theatre for the next sixteen years, and was also a favourite performer at Vauxhall Gardens. Wrighten had six children with only brief respites from the stage in between, and was seriously ill in both 1784 and 1786. In December 1786 her marriage broke down and she left her husband and children and abandoned the theatre, and went to live in Southwark with Hugh Pownall, a manufacturer of sulphuric acid. As a result her father cut her out of his will. The couple moved to America where they married, and the now Mrs Pownall sang to much acclaim in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Charleston (some considered her the best vocalist heard in America up to that point). James Wrighten having died in the meantime, her daughters joined her in America where they performed alongisde her. Mary Ann died in Charleston. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actresses and singers, published by the printseller William Richardson in 1780, apparently to follow up a similar set of actor portraits published the previous year. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area; sitter holding manuscript.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 ii/iii.
[Ref: 36685] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Birth place of John Locke. Wrington Somerset. Original Drawings for Dugdales' England & Wales.
[Thomas Hosmer Shepherd]
[n.d., c.1838.]
Colour wash sketch. Sheet 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"). ''Original Drawings for Dugdales' England & Wales'' written in red ink mss. Mounted on album paper at corners.
The cottage birthplace of philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). This is the original sketch for the engraving published in ''Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated'', by Thomas Dugdale, published by John Tallis in parts from 1838.
[Ref: 60256] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Wriothesley] The Right Hon.ble Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland.
P. Lellÿ Eques Pinxit. I Becket fecit.
Sold by Alex. Brown at ye blew ballcony in little Queen Street [n.d. c.1680].
Rare mezzotint, 17th century watermark. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed just within plate. Laid at edges.
Three quarter seated portrait of Elizabeth Wriothesley (1646-90), one of Lely's 'Windsor Beauties', who married Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, in 1662. After his death she married Ralph Montagu, who became 1st Duke of Montagu after her death. NB: the British Museum (1874,0808.1105) identifies her as Elizabeth Howard, wife of the 10th Earl, Wriothesley's mother-in law.
CS:78, i of iv. Turner B35. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65430] £360.00

[Elizabeth Wriothesley] The Right Hon.rble Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland.
P. Lellÿ Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alex. Brown at ye blew ballcony in little Queen Street [n.d. c.1680].
Fine & rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed just within plate.
Three quarter portrait of Elizabeth Wriothesley (1646-90), tending an orange tree in an ormamental vase. One of Lely's 'Windsor Beauties', she married Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, in 1662. After his death she married Ralph Montagu, who became 1st Duke of Montagu after her death. NB: the British Museum (1902,1011.408) identifies her as Elizabeth Howard, wife of the 10th Earl, Wriothesley's mother-in law.
CS 26, only state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Turner B34 i of iv.
[Ref: 65450] £460.00

[Elizabeth Wriothesley] The Right Hon.rble Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland.
P. Lellÿ Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alex. Brown at ye blew balcony in little Queen Street [n.d. c.1680].
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere. Small margins on 3 sides.
Three quarter portrait of Elizabeth Wriothesley (1646-90), leaning against a pedestal in a wooded landscape One of Lely's 'Windsor Beauties', she married Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, in 1662. After his death she married Ralph Montagu, who became 1st Duke of Montagu after her death. NB: the British Museum (1902,1011.408) identifies her as Elizabeth Howard, wife of the 10th Earl, Wriothesley's mother-in law.
CS 25, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65451] £450.00

The Right Hon.ble Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland.
P. Lelij Eques pinxit:
Sold by Alex. Brown at ye blew balcony on little Queen Street. [n.d. c.1685.]
Mezzotint, rich impression. Plate 341 x 247mm. 13½ x 9¾". Trimmed to the plate. Crease and mark down left-hand side. Damaged.
Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberland (1646-1690) was daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. She was first married in 1662 to Josceline Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and then again in 1673 to Ralph Lord Montagu. From a set of prints after a series of paintings by Sir Peter Lely of women at the court of Charles II, known as 'The Beauties of Windsor'.
CS: 25, ii.
[Ref: 24903] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Original in the Collection of John Blackwood.
After Rembrant.
London, Published March 1830, by A. Friedel 34, Surry Street, Strand. Dean & Mundays, Lithography 35 Threadneedle Street.
Lithograph, rare with large margins. 406 x 273mm. 16 x 10¾".
A man sat at a writing table with papers and manuscript, sharpening his quill. The same picture was engraved in mezzotint by Richard Houston in the 18th century, by which time the picture was already in the collection of John Blackwood (Charrington 83; Alexander et al 96). This lithograph crops the composition to focus more on the figure sat at a table. The painting on which this print is based is unknown. The central motif resembles that of Rembrandt's portrait of an unknown man sharpening a quill (Kassel, Schloss Wilhelmshohe) with the other elements in the print resembling those from other Rembrandt paintings, suggesting that the source image was a pastiche intended to pass for one of Rembrandt's own.
[Ref: 24872] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A manuscript decoration with pin writing.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Watercolour & ink. 35mm (1½") diameter.
The handwriting is too small to read.
[Ref: 48823] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

No.VII. [Writing.]
Guercino inv: e del:
SMulinari incis: 1794.
Crayon-manner in red ink, paper watermarked, small margins. Plate 222 x 222mm. 8¾ x 8¾".
A woman sitting at a desk writing with a quill with a putto on her back holding a carved wooden pencil and a book.
[Ref: 27693] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Writing and Drawing Made Easy, Amusing and Instructive. Containing The Whole Alphabet in all the characters now us'd, Both in Printing and Penmanship; Each illustrated by Emblematic Devices and Moral Copies, Calculated for the Use of Schools and Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands.]
[Printed for and Sold by T. Bellamy, Bookseller at Kingston upon Thames; as also by most of the Book-sellers and Print-sellers in Town and Country.] [n.d., c.1750.]
A rare school book; oblong 8vo, 175 x 215mm (7 x 8½"), rebound in limp wrappers, late 18th century calf gilt strips laid on; 46 engraved plates. Lacking two engraved titles and two plates (or six) and 4pp. text. Plates worn and stained, rear plates with burns in margins, first plate laid on front pastedown, some old mss.
A well-used school book, which has obviously suffered at the hands of several pupils. It consisted of two plates for each letter of the alphabet, one illustrated and one of engraved text); this example lacks the illustration of 'The Dog' and the text for 'The Zealot' and possibly both plates for 'I' and 'U', although these were also lacking in the only example we could compare (archive.org).
The binding has been repaired with strips high-quality leather with gilt tooling from other books.
Written by William Chinnery (1708-91)
[Ref: 53767] £690.00 view all images for this item

[Writing sheet]
Sold by R.t Birchall, No 133, New Bond Street. 1790-1815.
Engraved writing sheet. 275 x 200mm (10¾ z 8"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
An oval frame decorated with the head of Apollo and musical instruments including a violin and a flute. Publisher of Mozart, Beethoven, & Handel, musical instrument vendor.
[Ref: 58945] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[PRINTER/BOOKSELLER] J. Wroe, Printer, Bookseller, Account Book Maker 51, Oxford Street Manchester. Established 1835.
[Manchester, c.1840s.]
Printed label of J. Wroe, printer and bookseller; lettering in elaborate rococo frame, on paper, 85 x 65mm. 3¼ x 2½". Chipped and soiled; red paint? spots to surface.
Also lettered 'Atlas Office' above.
[Ref: 16922] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Wrong Box. Capital Joint this Landlord 'pon my Soul, Here's Cut and Come again, / Yes Sir ther's Cut, to be sure, but I'll be___ if ever You shall Come again.
Drawn by M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Pubished by Tho.s Mclean, 26 Haymarket 1827.
Etching and aquatint with hand colouring. 180 x 170mm (7 x 6¾"). Laid on album paper. Toning.
The interior of an eating house, with a gentleman sitting alone at a table to the left. He is eating an enormous joint of beef, seen on the table, with a tankard of beer. A thin dog chews on the scraps on the floor below. The portly owner stands to the right, watching. Other diners can be seen behind, with a row of top hats hanging on the wall above.
Hickman: pg.75 ii of ii. Not in BM.
[Ref: 56498] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Wroughton.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp
Published as the act Directs July 10th 1779 by W.m Richardson No.68 High Holborn
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Small margins; glued to backing sheet; m.s. in ink verso.
Richard Wroughton (real name Richard Rotten) (1748-1822), actor and theatre manager. Wroughton made his debut at Covent Garden in 1768, staying there until an argument with management led to the familiar defection to Drury Lane. Wroughton briefly retired between 1798 and 1800 before returning to Drury Lane as an actor-manager (he had previously managed Sadlers Wells so had management experience), remaining in the position until the end of the 1814-5 season. While unpopular with critics, Wroughton was a competent actor liked by audiences. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), as part of a series of small portraits of actors published by Richardson in 1779. Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 iii/iii; O'D 3.
[Ref: 36695] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Wroughton.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Published as the act Directs July 10th 1779 by W.m Richardson No.68 High Holborn
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Good impression with very large margins, uncut.
The prominent Georgian actor, Richard Wroughton (1748-1822), engraved by Robert Laurie (1755?-1836) after Robert Dighton (1751-1814), as part of a series of small portraits of actors.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection; CS 1 iii/iii.
[Ref: 36696] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Wroghton] Mr. Wroughton.
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp
Published as the act Directs July 10th 1779 by W.m Richardson No.68 High Holborn
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with large margins. Foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Richard Wroughton (real name Richard Rotten) (1748-1822), actor and theatre manager. Engraved after Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), as part of a series of small portraits of actors published by Richardson in 1779.
CS 1 iii/iii; O'D 3.
[Ref: 65761] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Wrymouth Candidates or the Strangers at Home. Plate 1 Dedicated to every Indepent Elector.
June 1808.
Hand-coloured etching; 1808 watermark. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Three candidates for Weymouth are displayed on a table to the electors, whose heads and shoulders form the base of the design. One is a tiny figure standing on the hand of a man who stands on the table; a military officer stands beside the table (left), pointing to the tiny candidate; he bows to the electors. Cranborne bows, hat in hand. The second candidate stands hat in hand; under his arm is a book: 'Slavery vindicated'. None of the electors looks towards him. The third (right) stands hat in hand with both arms above his head; papers inscribed 'Contract' project from both pockets. Only the two electors on the extreme right look up at him. A man stands behind the table (left) addressing the electors. A poll-clerk sits behind the table, putting a finger knowingly to his eye. On the table is an open book (? Bible), each double-columned page headed 'Kings'. Ten electors constitute the audience; all but two gaze up at Cranborne.
BM Satires 12284.
[Ref: 52303] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Wunderblume [pencil title on mount].
V. Coro Benox
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching. 60 x 60mm (2½ x 2½"), with large margins.
A naked woman worships lilypads sprouting large phalluses.
[Ref: 63442] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Wurtzburg Herbipolis, comuniter Wirtzburg Orientalis Franciae Metropolis.
[Frans Hogenberg, c.1600.]
Engraving, sheet 265 x 245mm (10½ x 9¾"). Trimmed; vertical fold as normal.
Würzburg, in Franconia, part of the Bavaria region of Germany. The streets of the Old Town are still recognisable today. The Marienberg fortress can be seen in the distance, with St Kilian's cathedral by the river. Many of the city's landmarks are labelled. Trimmed from a larger sheet from Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', on which it was originally accompanied by views of Mainz and Sion.
[Ref: 42108] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

James Wyatt Esq.r.
Painted by M.C. Wyatt. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published (for the Proprietor) May, 1. 1809.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
Half-length, profile portrait of James Wyatt (1746-1813), architect, president of the Royal Academy 1805-6. A rival to Robert Adam, he designed the famous 'Pantheon' entertainment hall in Oxford Street, which contained a rotunda that was one of the largest rooms built in England up to that time.
Whitman 629, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 4 of 4.
[Ref: 66500] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

James Wyatt Esq.r.
Painted by M.C. Wyatt. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published (for the Proprietor) May, 1. 1809.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Half-length, profile portrait of James Wyatt (1746-1813), architect, president of the Royal Academy 1805-6. A rival to Robert Adam, he designed the famous 'Pantheon' entertainment hall in Oxford Street, which contained a rotunda that was one of the largest rooms built in England up to that time.
Whitman 629, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 4 of 4.
[Ref: 66502] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[James Wyatt Esq.r.]
[Painted by M.C. Wyatt. Engraved by C. Turner.]
[London Published (for the Proprietor) May, 1. 1809.]
Mezzotint, masked proof, signed in ink by Turner on shoulder of sitter. Unique proof. Sheet 315 x 265mm (12¼ x 10½") Trimmed to plate on three sides, into blank inscription area at bottom, laid on card.
Half-length, profile portrait of James Wyatt (1746-1813), architect, president of the Royal Academy 1805-6. A rival to Robert Adam, he designed the famous 'Pantheon' entertainment hall in Oxford Street, which contained a rotunda that was one of the largest rooms built in England up to that time.
Whitman 629, before state i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 1 of 4.
[Ref: 66503] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

James Wyatt Esq.r. [S.G.H.M.W. R.A. F.R.S. &c &c.]
Painted by M.C. Wyatt. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published (for the Proprietor) May, 1. 1809.
Mezzotint with open letters. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Letters in title scratched off, crease through image, margins chipped and creased.
Half-length, profile portrait of James Wyatt (1746-1813), architect, president of the Royal Academy 1805-6. A rival to Robert Adam, he designed the famous 'Pantheon' entertainment hall in Oxford Street, which contained a rotunda that was one of the largest rooms built in England up to that time.
Whitman 629, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 4.
[Ref: 66501] £360.00

The Beheading S.r Tho.s Wyatt.
Terry sculp Paternoster Row.
Published as the Act directs [****] for H. Trapp Paternoster Row. [1784.]
Engraving. 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed from larger sheet.
The executition of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521-1554), leader of Wyatt's Rebellion against Mary I. From Foxe's 'New and Complete Book of Martyrs'', updated by Paul Wright.
[Ref: 53148] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

W. Wycherley. Ætatis Suæ 28. Quantus mutatus ab illo. Virg.
P. Lely Eques pinx. I. Smith fec. 1703.
Mezzotint. Plate: 265 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½").
Thread margins.
A portrait of poet and writer William Wycherley (1640-1716).
CS, 284. Ex: Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Lugt: I.F.P.
[Ref: 47622] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Wicherley.
[John Simon after Sir Peter Lely]
London Printed for John Bowles
Mezzotint, very scarce, sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to platemark and glued to album sheet with letterpress clippings pasted below and another print verso.
William Wycherley (1640-1716), playwright. Like his contemporary the earl of Rochester, posterity saw Wycherley as the epitome of the attractive, wicked, brillant Restoration wit and rake (Charles II's notorious and beautiful former mistress Barbara Villiers was his lover for a time). His greatest plays 'The Plain-Dealer' and 'The Country-Wife'. The young Alexander Pope was a friend towards the end of Wycherley's life, and helped to edit and publish his works after his death. According to the British Museum cataloguing, engraved by John Simon, and probably copied from the similar John Smith engraving. The youthful appearance reproduced here was ironic: when Wycherley commissioned John Smith to engrave Peter Lely's handsome portrait of him in 1703 he accompanied it with the Virgilian motto 'Quantum mutatis ab illo' ('how changed from that').
For Smith's engraving of Wycherley see ref. 24460. CS: Not in.
[Ref: 36521] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

W. Wycherley. AEtatis Suae 28. Quantum mutatus ab illo. Virg.
P. Lely Eques pinx. I. Smith fec. 1703.
Fine mezzotint, with small margins. Plate 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Laid on thin archival paper. Discolouring around corners of the plate.
Portrait of William Wycherley seen almost half-length to right within oval frame, head turned to face front, wearing loose gown, lace cravat and full wig. William Wycherley (1640-1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known are the plays 'The Country Wife' and 'The Plain Dealer'.
CS: 284.
[Ref: 53820] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[A pedlar dancing?, a boy hiding behind a column, an Italianate town behind.]
[William Young Ottley after Thomas Wijck]
[n.d., c.1650 but later.]
Etching. 130 x 115mm (5 x 4½"). Narrow margins, area abraded on reverse.
From a set of 'thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings' by William Young Ottley. Thomas Wyck (Dutch, c.1616-74), journeyed through Italy in the 1640s and visited London in the mid-1660s.
[Ref: 27890] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Italianate building above a river, goods on bank.]
[William Young Ottley after Thomas Wijck]
[n.d., c.1650 but later.]
Etching with small margins. 120 x 110mm. 4¾ x 4¼". Corner torn.
From a set of 'thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings' by William Young Ottley. Thomas Wyck (Dutch, c.1616-74), journeyed through Italy in the 1640s and visited London in the mid-1660s.
[Ref: 27888] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Two travellers and a dog resting by a bridge, an Italianate town behind.]
[William Young Ottley after Thomas Wijck]
[n.d., c.1650 but later.]
Etchingwith small margins 130 x 115mm. 5 x 4½". Tape stain.
From a set of 'thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings' by William Young Ottley. Thomas Wyck (Dutch, c.1616-74), journeyed through Italy in the 1640s and visited London in the mid-1660s.
[Ref: 27889] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Two people fishing in a river, an Italianate ruin behind.]
[William Young Ottley after Thomas Wijck]
[n.d., c.1650 but later.]
Etching with small margins. 130 x 120mm. 5 x 4¾".
From a set of 'thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings' by William Young Ottley. Thomas Wyck (Dutch, c.1616-74), journeyed through Italy in the 1640s and visited London in the mid-1660s.
[Ref: 27891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A river with goods vessels being unloaded, an Italianate building and bridge behind.]
[William Young Ottley after Thomas Wijck]
[n.d., c.1650 but later.]
Etching with small margins. 120 x 115mm. 4¾ x 4½".
From a set of 'thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings' by William Young Ottley. Thomas Wyck (Dutch, c.1616-74), journeyed through Italy in the 1640s and visited London in the mid-1660s.
[Ref: 27892] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A man leading a donkey being ridden by a suckling mother.]
[William Young Ottley after Thomas Wijck]
[n.d., c.1650 but later.]
Etching with small margins. 120 x 120mm. 4¾ x 4¾".
From a set of 'thirty-nine facsimiles of rare etchings' by William Young Ottley. By Thomas Wyck? (Dutch, c.1616-74), journeyed through Italy in the 1640s and visited London in the mid-1660s.
[Ref: 27893] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Jan Wyck] Optimi Ingenÿ Viro Joanni Wootton, Joannis Wyck insignis Præliorum Pictoris quondam Discipulp hanc Magistri Effifiem 29. Octobris 1652 Natus est Obÿt 1700. D.D.D. Faber.
G: Kneller pinx: 1685. J. Faber fecit 1730.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾").
Half-length portrait of painter Jan Wyck (1645-1702), born in Haarlem but probably living in London from the age of twelve. He received patronage from the Dukes of Ormond and Monmouth, as well as William III. Among his military subjects were several paintings of the Battle of the Boyne. He died in Mortlake.
CS 397.
[Ref: 60716] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Wiclif S.T.P. Rector de Lutterworth. A Tablua penes Nobilissimum Ducem Dorsettiae.
A.Vanhaeken fec.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (10 x 7"). Some damage to small margins. Faint crease across center.
Portrait of John Wycliffe (c. 1328 - 1384), English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford. Wycliffe is traditionally believed to have advocated or made a vernacular translation of the Vulgate Bible into Middle English
CS 20. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65187] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View on the River Wye.
Drawn by Payne. Aquat.a J Hassell.
London, Pub. 1 Jan 1811, by J. Hassell, Drawing Master
Aquatint, printed in colours. 260 x 349mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, some surface soiling.
View of the River Wye, Four women and a man with baskets in the foreground; a man herding two donkeys up the lane to the cottage; and a sailing ship on the river. From Hassell's 'Aqua Pictura'.
Abbey: Life in England: 140.
[Ref: 48994] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View on the River Wye.
Drawn by Payne. Aquat.d J Hassell.
London Pub July 1 1818 by T. McLean.
Hand-coloured aquatint with very large margins. Paper watermarked: J Whatman Turkey Mills 1817. Plate 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾").
Washer women by the River Wye, Wales; a man loads the baskets onto two donkeys standing by.
[Ref: 34738] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

View of Wyke Church, Village & West part of the Island of Portland.
F. Bernie Aqua tint. Etch'd by Fittler.
Pub.d as the Act directs Feb.y 11.1790 by I. Fittler, London, I.Love, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint and etching with watercolour wash, plate 260 x 299mm (10¼ x 11¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
A view of the fifteenth century church of All Saints at Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, looking across the channel to Portland. A woman and child with a hoop in foreground. The churchyard was the burial site for victims of the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny (including William Wordsworth's brother, John) and the East Indiaman 'Alexander'. King George III frequented the church during his summer visits to the area from 1790-1805. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love, whose publication may have been inspired by interest arising from George III's visits to the area.
Abbey Scenery 339.3 for the complete set see ref. 35799.
[Ref: 37977] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Wyke Church, Near Weymouth.
[Drawn by H. Horsnell.] C. Graf, Lith. to Her Majesty.
Published by B. Benson, Library, Weymouth. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph on india, very large margins. Sheet 222 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼").
A view looking out towards Portland Harbour, across Wyke Regisd and the Church of All Saints; the village is known to have been frequented by King George III.
[Ref: 31299] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

View of Wyke Church, Village & West part of the Island of Portland.
F. Bernie Aqua tint. Etch'd by Fittler.
Pub.d as the Act directs Feb.y 11.1790 by I. Fittler, London, I.Love, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint and etching with large margins. Plate 260 x 299mm (10¼ x 11¾").
A view of All Saints Church at Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, looking across the channel to Portland.
[Ref: 31119] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Two portraits of William Wykeham]
Two engravings and letterpress, trimmed and pasted to album sheet covering area 495 x 200mm (19½ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet.
Two portraits of William Wykeham (c.1324-1404), bishop of Winchester, administrator, and founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
[Ref: 44082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[William Wykeham.] Gui:mi de Wykeham. Fundat: Coll: B. Mariae Winton in Oxon: Vulgo vocat: New: Coll: et paula post: Coll: B. Mariae Winton prope Winton. Effigiem hanc a Tabula in Coll: Aula asservata factam. Revdo: viro Joh: Cobb L.L. D et iftius Collegy Custodi.
Summa cum Humil & Observanntia D.D.D. Henry Parker.
[n.d., c.1740.] Printed for H.Parker, in Cornhill, London.
Mezzotint, very rich impression. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Cut and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324 - 1404), Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of works when much of Windsor Castle was built.
CS 34 IV of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65056] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[William Wykeham.] Gui:mi de Wykeham. Fundat: Coll: B. Mariae Winton in Oxon: Vulgo vocat: New: Coll: et paula post: Coll: B. Mariae Winton prope Winton. Effigiem hanc a Tabula in Coll: Aula asservata factam. Revdo: viro Joh: Cobb L.L. D et iftius Collegy Custodi.
Summa cum Humil & Observanntia D.D.D. J.Faber.
[n.d., c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet London.
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324 - 1404), Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of works when much of Windsor Castle was built.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65058] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight.]
W.L. Wyllie [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920]
Drypoint etching, 130 x 390mm. 5 x 15¼". Faint crease.
An atmospheric yacht race in Cowes.
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: 17290] £850.00

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