Grosvenor Prints

I had nai been a Wife but weeks only four, / When sitting sa mearnfully at mine ayn door:
Wells del. et sculp.t
Pub.d June 8 1784 by W.m Wells, 20 July 1779 No. 132 Fleet Street
Rare stipple printed in sepia, platemark 70 x 90mm (2¾ x 3½"), very large margins.
An unhappy wife contemplates how much has changed in only four weeks of marriage.
[Ref: 45153] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Why! hollo Muggins where have you bin? I aint seen you this long while _ how are yer? Oh! Tray Bang _ Tray Bang _ I've bin stopping on the Contment at Bolong _ for the change of Hair, and to become fammar with french manners.
[Unidentified artist's monogram.] Printed by L.M. Lefevre, Newman St.
London: W. Spooner, 377 Strand. [n.d., c.1838.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 265 x 180mm. 10½ x 7". Fine colour; sheet trimmed.
The artist uses an unusual monogram of a wine bottle. Social satire; conversation outside a hairdressers/wig shop. A pretentious man (left) sporting the latest Continental fashions boasts of a recent trip to France - partly in cod-French - and proudly refers to his new hair style. In window adverts for "Balm of Columbia the growth of hair" and "A fine young bear this day sold in pots". For the satirical series 'Funny Characters' published by William Spooner (1833 - 1847; fl.).
[Ref: 17336] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eleazar Wigan Writing Mr. At the Hand and Pen on Great Tower Hill London, MDCLXXXXV. Penna Vetat Mori.
I. Closterman Pinxit. I. Sturt Sculpsit. 96.
[1696.]
Fine engraving. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait of writing master Eleazar Wigan, used as the frontispiece of his 1696 "Practical arithmetick an introduction to ye whole art wherein the most necessary rules are fairly describ'd in the usuall hands adorn'd with great variety of flourishes perform'd by command of hand design'd to be interleav'd for ye more speedy fitting of youth for merchandise or trade".
BM: 1881,0611.333.
[Ref: 55206] £380.00

Eleazer Wigan Writing Mr. At the Hand and Pen on Great Tower Hill / London MDCLXXXXV
[John Sturt after John Closterman]
Rare engraving, on verso in ink 7:6; sheet 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed
Eleazer Wigan, writing master. Frontispiece to his 'Practical Arithmetick: An introduction to ye whole art wherein the most necessary rules are fairly describ'd in the usuall hands adorn'd with great variety of flourishes perform'd by command of hand design'd to be interleav'd for ye more speedy fitting of youth for merchandize or trade' (1695).
O'D 1 (only likeness). Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38869] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Device of John Wight.] Welcom The Wight That Bringeth Such Light.
[n.d., c.1580.]
Woodcut. Sheet 90 x 75mm (3½ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at borders
A publisher's device incorporating a portrait of bookseller and publisher John Wight (1549-89), who traded at the Sign of the Rose in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, between 1549 and 1589 and published Shakespeare. He holds a book titled Scientia, which likely functions as a ''canting'' device (that is, an emblematic motif similar to a merchant’s mark), exploiting a pun on the surname: ''Welcome the Wight that bringeth such light.''
[Ref: 68000] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev. John Wightman. D.D. mm. [a collection]
From a Miniature by Alexander Painted by Maxwell. Engraved by R....
[n.d. c.1840.]
Six mixed-method engravings. A rare series of printing processed proofs taken by the artist. One lettered; one with ink signature; two proofs; one unfinished proof; one with pencil title added. Appox plate 229 x 159mm. 9 x 6¼". Some trimmed to the plate at the top; one trimmed to the plate.
Reverend John Wightman (1762-1847), minister of Kirkmahoe, Dumfries, Scotland.
[Ref: 17445] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Goe: Wightwick [facsimile.]
R.R. Scanlan del.t E. Scriven sc.
Library of the Fine Arts, 1832.
Stipple, rare. Plate 190 x 140mm. Trimmed to the plate along right edge.
George Wightwick (1802-1872) was an architect and considered to have been the first architectural journalist.
[Ref: 19050] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Richardus Wightwick. T.B. alter Fund:m Coll: Pembrochiae Ao Di 1624 Hanc effigiem Rev:do Viro Collwell Brickenden S.T.P. et istius Coll: Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observanntia D.D.D. J.Faber.
[n.d., c.1712.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8") very large margins.
Portrait of Richard Wightwick (c. 1547 - 1629), Church of England clergyman, co-founder of Pembroke College, Oxford.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65051] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Richardus Wightwick. T.B. alter Fund:m Coll: Pembrochiae Ao Di 1624 Hanc effigiem Rev:do Viro Collwell Brickenden S.T.P. et istius Coll: Magistro.
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, 18th century watermark. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
Portrait of Richard Wightwick (c. 1547 - 1629), Church of England clergyman, co-founder of Pembroke College, Oxford.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65053] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire. Antiquities, N.º 4.
Painted by W. Hodges. Engraved by V. Green, & J. Jukes.
Published Oct. 16th. 1778 by V. Green, Mezzotint Engraver to his Majesty &c. No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, and at No. 52, Strand. Se vend à Londres, chez les Freres Torre, Marchands d'Estampes.
Aquatint. 410 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Laid on original card at corners. Thread margins, creasing in corners.
The ruins of the Norman Wigmore Castle, founded around 1070 but slighted during the Civil War.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67686] £320.00

Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire.
Painted by W. Hodges. Engraved by V. Green, & J. Jukes.
Published Oct. 16th. 1778 by V. Green, Mezzotint Engraver to his Majesty &c. No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, and at No. 52, Strand. Se vend à Londres, chez les Freres Torre, Marchands d'Estampes.
Aquatint, 410 x 550mm. Some foxing throughout image; hand inscription '(from Strawberry Hill)' in title area.
Wigmore Castle was first founded after the Norman Conquest, around 1070, but following the English Civil War was left in a state of ruin.
[Ref: 8396] £360.00

Wigs.
Pub,d Accor:g to Act Octr 12 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½").
14 caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn by men. A companion print to 'Hats' (item 14112). Some are apparently portraits, including Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714 - 1794), Lord Chancellor. A caricature published by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91).
BM Satires: 5170.
[Ref: 14113] £420.00

Wigs.
Pub,d Accor:g to Act Octr 12 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 18th century watermark. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with very large margins. Mint.
14 caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn by men. A companion print to 'Hats' (reference 63586). Some are apparently portraits, including Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714 - 1794), Lord Chancellor. A companion plate to 'Hats', both published by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91).
BM Satires: 5170.
[Ref: 63585] £380.00

How do you like, Mem my light Summer Wig _ I'm told it will be all the rage.
[n.d., c.1790?.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed from a larger sheet, laid on album paper.
A large woman with a large, curly wig. One of four satires of wigs on one plate.
[Ref: 61102] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Wigton, Galloway.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. June, 1, 1816.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A view at Wigtown, with boats on a stretch of water in the foreground and buildings among trees on the hillside behind. Figures stand on the bank to the right, with others walking uphill on a road. A church can be seen in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36113] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Wigton, Galloway.
Drawn & Etched by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & C.o. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland S.t. Fitzroy Square London, June 1. 1816.
Coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 225 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Some slight foxing.
View across an inlet of water up towards the town of Wigtown. Two boats filled with figures sail on the water whilst groups of figures walk on the path towards the town. Plate 55 from Vol. II of 'Voyage Round Great Britain'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 33900] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Wijnendale] The Battle of Winendael September the 28. 1708.
A. Benoist Inv. Cl. Du Bosc fecit.
Publish'd by Cl. Du Bosc September the 22. 1735. according to Act of Parliament..
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), with large margins.
A scene in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), an Allied ammunition convoy protected by troops under the command of Major General John Richmond Webb and Brigadier Cornelis van Nassau-Woudenberg came under attack by French troops. The Allied officers are shown on horseback with the battle behind. A plate from 'The Military History of the Late Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of the Late John Duke of Marlborough: Including a Particular Description of the Several Battles, Sieges, &c. in which Either or Both Those Generals Commanded'. The scene is surrounded by a decorative frame.
[Ref: 64727] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Wijnendale.] Relation de l'Action qui s'est passée à Wynendale...
G. Harrewyn f.
[n.d., c.1708.]
Plan with letterpress. Sheet: 430 x 510mm (17 x 20"), with very large margins. Some light creasing and staining.
A battle plan with letterpress description in French below explaining the events of the Battle of Wijnendale between the allied forces and the Bourbon French army in 1708 during the War of Spanish Succession.
[Ref: 42720] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Samuel Wilberforce.]
[painted by] Geo. Richmond [engraved by] Richardson Jackson.
[1871]
Mixed-method engraving, image 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"). India-laid proof before all letters withpencil inscription 'To John Ogle Esq with the painter's kindest regards. 1874'. Names of artist and engraver in same hand.
Samuel Wilberforce (1805-73) bishop of Oxford and Winchester and son of William Wilberforce.
[Ref: 20319] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Wilberforce.
From a Model in Wax by Miss C. Andras. W. Worthington sculp.
Pub. by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, Jan, 1, 1810.
Engraving, image 140 x 110mm. 5½ x 4¼".
Cameo bust portrait in profile of William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), an evangelical Christian and social reformer who dedicated himself to the 'suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners'. He entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years of campaigning, Wilberforce's bill to end Britain's part in slave trading was passed to a standing ovation in 1807. A further act of 1833 provided for the emancipation of slaves in British colonies. After sculptor and medallist Catherine Andras (1775 - 1860).
[Ref: 19920] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

William Wilberforce Esq. Member of Parliament for the County of York.
Engraved by J. Vendramini, from an original Drawing by H. Edridge.
Published Oct. 27. 1809, By T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Creasing, small margins.
Portrait of abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), half-length, seated in armchair, directed and looking to the right, reading a book that he is holding close to his face with both hands, wearing double breasted coat with eyeglass on a ribbon hanging around his neck.
[Ref: 59648] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

T. Clarkson et Wilberforce.
hardivillier.
1835.
Stipple. Sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Light foxing, vertical crease to right edge of sheet.
William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) was an evangelical Christian and social reformer who dedicated himself to the 'suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners'. He entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years of campaigning, Wilberforce's bill to end Britain's part in slave trading was passed to a standing ovation in 1807. Thomas Clarkson (1760 - 1846) was one of the early British abolitionists, and interested Wilberforce in the issue. A further act of 1833 provided for the emancipation of slaves in British colonies.
[Ref: 61300] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

William Wilberforce Esqr. Member of Parliament for the County of York. Engraved from an Original Painting in the possession of the Rev.d the Dean of Carlisle D.D. F.R.S. Master of Queen's Colledge Cambridge &c, to whom with permission, this Plate is most respectfully dedicated by William Russel.
Painted by the late John Russell Esqr. R.A. Crayon Painter to the King the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. Engraved by James Heath A.R.A.
[Published by William Finden, 1807.]
Copper engraving, fine impression. 405 x 280mm (16 x 11"). Sheet is trimmed to plate with loss of publication line.
William Wilberforce [1759 - 1833], was an evangelical Christian and social reformer who dedicated himself to the 'suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners'. He entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years of campaigning, Wilberforce's bill to end Britain's part in slave trading was passed to a standing ovation in 1807. A further act of 1833 provided for the emancipation of slaves in British colonies.
[Ref: 53632] £320.00

William Wilberforce Esq.r M.P.
[Anon., 1820]
Stipple, rare; sheet 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½). Trimmed inside platemark; laid on backing sheet.
William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), politician, philanthropist and slavery abolitionist. Wilberforce entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years of campaigning, Wilberforce's bill to end Britain's part in slave trading was passed to a standing ovation in 1807. A further act of 1833 provided for the emancipation of slaves in British colonies. He holds "Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade".
[Ref: 35281] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Peculiar Inscription on the wall of Burial-Ground-Wilburton-in the Isle of Ely. 1881. Our Life is but a Winters Day, Some only Breakfast and Away, Other to Dinner stay, and are full-fed, The Oldest only Sups, & Goes to Bed. Large is his Debt, who lingers out his Day, Who goes the soonest, has the least to Pay.
J.S. Clarke. del. /93.
Pen and ink, scarce. 140 x 190mm. 5½ x 7½".
Wilburton, Cambridgeshire, England. The burial ground was formed in 1881, from land given by the Pell family, who were the prominent local landowners, who sponsored the somewhat optimistic Ely to Wilberton railway in the late 19th century.
[Ref: 17891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mary Wilcox, of Witheridge, Devonshire, alias Caraboo.
Drawn & Engraved by N. Bramwhite.
Published by J.M. Gutch Augt. 16th. 1817.
Stipple engraving, sheet 250 x 150mm. 9¾ x 6". Tatty and chipped extremities.
Mary Baker, born Mary Wilcox, alias 'Princess Caraboo'. She arrived one day in the spring of 1817 at Knole Park near Bristol. By speaking a made-up language and not a word of English, she convinced the lady of the house, Elizabeth Worrall, that she was a lost noblewoman from the East Indies. She stayed with the Worralls for a few months, until one day she ran away to Bath. She was spotted in the Circus by a family friend Dr Wilkinson, the proprietor of the Pump Rooms, who followed her as far as the Pack Horse. He took her to some ladies in Russell Street, who gave her tea and treated her like the royalty they believed her to be, until Mrs Worrall arrived to fetch her home in the evening. Dr Wilkinson, a polymath and scientific lecturer (who later lived at 55 Great Pulteney Street and introduced gas lighting to Bath), had been very intrigued by Caraboo and her language when visiting the Worralls, and had written a long description of her in the Bath Chronicle a few days earlier. The article was published at his request in several other newspapers, and it was not long before the story was read in Bristol by a woman who recognised the description of Mary Baker and her eccentric behaviour. Just as Dr Wilkinson in Bath was launching an appeal to send the poor lost Caraboo home, Mrs Worrall in Bristol was being told that her house-guest was a fraud. The story created a sensation in the local and national press, and Dr Wilkinson in particular became the object of much merriment. Frontispiece to John Matthew Gutch's 'Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition practised upon the benevolence of a lady residing in the vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu', 1817. After Nathan Cooper Branwhite (1775 - 1857), painter, miniature painter and engraver.
[Ref: 9651] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Wild Boar. No.V.
Drawn by Samuel Daniell.
[London, R. Havell?, c.1831.]
Fine aquatint. 385 x 500mm (15¼ x 19¾"), with wide margins.
A wild boar at a watering hole, from Robert Havell's reissue of 'African Scenery and Animals' (1804-5) by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
See Abbey Travel 321 for the first edition.
[Ref: 52841] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Dogs and wild-boar. 12.
Fred.k Tayler.
[n.d. c.1872. Etching Club?]
Etching on chine collé, plate 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
Two dogs sink their teeth into a wild boar attempting to flee in a grassy landscape. (John) Frederick Tayler (1802– 89) was a 19th-century English landscape watercolour painter, president of the Royal Watercolour Society and member of the Etching Club. Tayler executed some two dozen ‘lithotints,’ which were published by T. McLean in 1844, under the title of ‘Frederick Tayler's Portfolio.’ A member of the ‘Etching Club,’ he etched a number of small plates for the various publications of that body (Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village,’ ‘Songs of Shakespeare,’ ‘Etched Thoughts,’ &c.), and also made drawings on wood for several popular classics, such as Thomson's ‘Seasons,’ ‘Sir Roger de Coverley,’ and Goldsmith's ‘Works.’
[Ref: 61182] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

A Wild Elephant Trumpeting, or A Scene from Paradise Lost! ________"the unwieldy elephant "To make them mirth used all his might, and wreathed "His lithe proboscis." Par.e Lost. Bk.4.
HB Sketches. No.284. HB [monogram in bottom left corner.]
Published, Decr. 28th, 1844, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket. Printed at 70, St. Martin's Lane.
Lithograph with "HB Subsribers copy" blindstamp. 304 x 444mm. 12 x 17½".
An elephant in the woodland, with the face of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871). The elephant looks towards two men seated underneath a tree, the one on the left is Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). A snake coiled round the tree watches the elephant.
BM: 1868,0808.12157.
[Ref: 16109] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Wild Fowl Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Slight offsetting.
A sporting scene showing two men slowly creeping towards the waters edge with their two spaniels. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46237] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Wild Geese on the Marshes.]
Winifred Austen [signed in pencil lower right].
[n.d.]
Coloured aquatint 290 x 390mm
By Winifred Austen, R.I., R.E. (1876-1964). Although she also worked in both oils and watercolours, Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. She made some two hundred etched plates and the naturalist Sir Peter Scott said she was 'certainly the best bird etcher of this century'. illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver of birds and mammals.
Guichard British Etchers: pg.24.
[Ref: 472] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. George Wild as Demosthenes Dodge Esq.re, in E.L. Blanchard's Original Farce entitled, "The Artful Dodge". [Facsimile autograph:] George Wild Royal Olympia.
Madeley Lith 3 Wellington St. Strand.
[n.d. c.1842.]
Rare coloured lithograph. 458 x 318mm. 18 x 12½". Cut, small tears in lower edge. Soiling.
George Wild (1805-1856) was an actor and manager. Edward L. Blanchard (1820-1889) was a drama critic and a playwright who specialised in pantomimes.
Not in Harvard.
[Ref: 19926] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Jonathan Wild going to the Place of Execution.
[London: Olive Payne, 1736.]
Engraving. 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Small tears in edges. 2 very small holes on right centre. Trimmed to plate on right.
Soldiers leading Jonathan Wild (c.1682-1725) past St Sepulchre's Church on Skinner Street on the way to the gallows at Tyburn. Wild was known as the ''Thief-Taker General'' for apprehending criminals, most notably Jack Sheppard the highwayman. However he was a gang-master himself, protecting his associates and arresting his conspirators. Eventually he was caught out and executed: his skeletal remains are on public display in the Royal College's Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
[Ref: 53149] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mathilde Wildauer.
Prinzhofer 1845. Gedr. B. J. Rauh.
Lithograph, printed on india. Sheet: 540 x 360mm (21¼ x 14"), with large margins.
A seated portrait of Austrian opera singer Mathilde Wildauer (1820-1878).
[Ref: 46513] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Henry S Wilde [facsimile signature].
D'Orsay fecit Decb. 1847 [signed in plate.]
[London: J. Mitchell(?), c.1848.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 225 x 165mm. 9 x 6½". Closed marginal tears.
Portrait of a young Victorian gentleman, seated in a chair. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
Not in O'Donoghue.
[Ref: 22518] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Hero of the Ring and his Agent. The National Soporting Club, taken from Life. Jimmy Wilde & Teddy Lewis.
Drawn & Etched by George Belcher April 1919.
Coloured etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), large margins. Repaired hole, scratch through title, signature smudged
Jimmy Wilde (1892-1969'), Welsh miner turned army PT instructor, the original ‘Mighty Atom’, but also the 'Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand' and the 'Tylorstown Terror. He was the world’s first World Flyweight Champion and was ranked as the number 1 flyweight of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2006. He is shown having his hands strapped by his manager, Teddy Lewis, who had been reserve captain of Pontypridd RFC.
[Ref: 58285] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Oscar Wilde.
Photo by Ellis & Walery.
[London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906.]
Photogravure. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate on right.
A studio portrait of playwright Oscar Wilde, in buttoned-up jacket, cigar in one hand, gloves in the other. The frontispiece portrait to Robert Harborough Sherrard's biography.
[Ref: 63708] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Nil Admirali. Major John Wildman.
[after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Pub.d by W.Richardson Castle Street, Leicester Fields.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate at sides, oxidation of colour.
A head and shoulders portrait of soldier and Republican agitator John Wildman (c.1621-1693), in an oval frame of palms, wearing collar and gown, landscape with church behind. A civilian adviser to the New Model Army, he agitated against Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and was sent to prison with John Lilburne and was released. He survived the Restoration because of his opposition to Cromwell but was sent to prison in 1661 for complicity in republican plots against the government. In 1683 he was committed to the Tower of London for complicity in the Rye House Plot; in 1685 he fled to the Netherlands when he was accused of involvement in the Monmouth Rebellion. Returning with William III he was made Postmaster General but was sacked after reports that he was intriguing with the Jacobites.
See Pennington 1697 for Hollar's original.
[Ref: 65793] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Modern Movement in Art
by R.H. Wilenski.
London Faber & Gwyer. Second Impression March MCMXXVIII Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Limited Frome and London.
Book: 8vo (217 x 139mm). Cloth binding with title label stuck onto the spine.pp. ix-xvi + 243. 32 b/w images.
An illustrated narrative of the character, development, techniques and relative values of the modern art movements.
[Ref: 10372] £50.00

[Wilhelm IV., Duke of Bavaria] Quadro di Luca Kranach.
Loren. Lorenzi del, P. Ant. Pazzi sc.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 390 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"). Narrow margins, taped bottom left corner.
A portrait of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria, with hat and a chain around his neck, which he grasps with one hand. The inscriptions state that this print was engraved by Pietro Antonio Pazzi from a drawing by Lorenzo Lorenzi, taken from a painting by Lucas Cranach.
[Ref: 56507] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[William II of Orange] Wilhem II Prinz von Oranien nachmahliger Statthalter. Jhro Hochfürst Durchlaucht der Frau Erbprinzessin zu Anhalt Dessau &c. &c. &c.
Nach dem Originalgemählde von Van Dyk im adlichen Fraülein stift zu Mosikau. Geschabt von Michelis.
Unterthänigst gewidmet von der Chalcographischen Gesellschaft in Dessau 1797.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 530 x 380mm (20¾ x 15"). Small margins.
A full-length portrait of William II (1626-50) as a boy of about six, with a greyhound, after Anthony van Dyck. He became sovereign Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland in 1647; married Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I in 1641, by whom he fathered William III, king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1688.
Le Blanc 9
[Ref: 64763] £360.00

The Rape of the Petti-coat. He valiantly seiz'd the Petti-coat and Boot at the Portal of his own Mansion. Daily adv.
[Oxford, 1768.]
Etching, offset, sheet 125 x 200mm. 5 x 8". Slight offsetting.
Lord Mayor Thomas Harley is shown removing a petticoat and boot from a gallows erected outside the Mansion House in the City of London. A satire on Harley's personal intervention to subdue a riot after the election of John Wilkes (1727-797) as Radical MP for Middlesex in 1768. From 'The Oxford Magazine'.
BM Satires 4190.
[Ref: 17208] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[The] Sweets of Liberty. 45.
Painted by J. Collet. Engrav'd by S. Okey.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament May 31st 1770 and Sold by S. Okey the engraver [illegible, but also Reake, John Smith & John Swan].
An extremely rare mezzotint with engraving, with hand colour. Sheet 465 x 520mm (18¼ x 20½"). Trimmed close to plate, tear affecting title, some surface wear with parts of the inscription area illegible.
A scene outside the Fleet Prison with sellers selling ballads in support of John Wilkes, centred on a young woman holding up a ballad 'An irregular Ode to Wilkes & Liberty'. A buyer has '45' chalked on his back by a boy. On the left another woman presses 'Wilkes & Bull' on an unwilling Scotsman and behind a woman sells 'Parson Horne & the Devil' to prisoners reaching out through a barred window of the prison.
Not in BM but see 1872,1012.4775 for a smaller format version, 'The City Chanters', also engraved by Okey. Royal Academy 17/914.
[Ref: 55366] £1,450.00

[John Wilkes] The Patriots deceived, or Townsend triumphant. Vol. IV. No. XXXIII.
[London: A. Hamilton, November 1772.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
John Wilkes, carrying the Cap of Liberty, is prevented entering his carriage by James Townsend, Lord Mayor of London. In the election of 1772 Wilkes had come first in the polls but Sheriff Richard Oliver manipulated the voting process to give Townend the position, leading to riots. From the Town and Country Magazine.
[Ref: 45348] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes Esqr. - Member of Parliament for Aylesbury Bucks. Great without Title, beyond fortune blef'd, Rich ev'n when plundered, honour'd, while opprefs'd, Lov'd without Youth, & follow'd without Power, At Home, tho exil'd; free, tho' m the Tower. Pope.
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, creases.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
[Ref: 53489] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[John Wilkes.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17th June 1782 by C.Bretherton.
Etching. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼), with large margins. Some spotting.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Wilkes, wearing a hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt, and sword, with wrinkled riding-boots, looking old and toothless, with his squint exaggerated.
BM Satires 6067.
[Ref: 54342] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes, Esq.r
Engrav'd by Freeman from an Original Portrait by Zoffani.
Published by Longman & Co. November 5th. 1804.
Stipple, with small margins. Plate 165 x 102mm. 6½ x 4".
John Wilkes (1725-1797), politician and agitator. His imprisonment for libel and banishment from the House of Commons brought into question the validity of parliamentary elections. Arrested in 1763 for publishing an attack on the King's speech. His case became very popular causing violent public protests to the cry of "Wilkes and Liberty". He was finally permitted to take his seat in 1774 and was elected Lord Mayor of London the same year. After a portrait by Johan Zoffany, the German painter who made his name in London with his portraits and 'conversation pieces' of influential figures.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25526] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilks, Esq.r
Hopwood, sculp.
Publish'd by Vernor & Hood, Oct.r 1.1805.
Stipple in oval, title in open letters. 222 x 146mnm. 8¾ x 5¾". Creasing along lower edge.
John Wilkes (1725-1797), politician and agitator. His imprisonment for libel and banishment from the House of Commons brought into question the validity of parliamentary elections. He was arrested in 1763 for publishing an attack on the King's speech. His case became very popular causing violent public protests to the cry of "Wilkes and Liberty". He was finally permitted to take his seat in 1774 and was elected Lord Mayor of London the same year. Engraved in reverse from the parodic portrait by Wilkes' enemy William Hogarth.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25527] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes Esqr. - Member of Parliament for Aylesbury Bucks. Great without Title, beyond fortune blef'd, Rich ev'n when plundered, honour'd, while opprefs'd, Lov'd without Youth, & follow'd without Power, At Home, tho exil'd; free, tho' m the Tower. Pope.
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, bottom right corner repaired.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
[Ref: 53550] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[John Wilkes.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17th June 1782 by C.Bretherton.
Etching. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Faint glue stains at edges of outer margins.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Wilkes, wearing a hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt, and sword, with wrinkled riding-boots, looking old and toothless, with his squint exaggerated.
BM Satires 6067.
[Ref: 60133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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