Grosvenor Prints

Winter Amusements in Holland. Les Amusements de l'Hiver.
V. Velde Pinx.t.
printed for Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving. 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate. Slight damage top right.
A scene on frozen marshlands, with a game of kolf (a form of golf), sledging, and a tent selling hot drinks.
[Ref: 57567] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Summer Morning.] [&] [Winter Evening.]
[Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by Edw.d Bell.]
London Publish'd Nov.r 1797, by J. Grozer, No. 48 Goodge Street, & to be had of Mess.rs Colnaghi and Sala. Pall Mall.
Pair of colour-printed mezzotints. Sheets 535 x 410mm (21 z 16"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, without title and artist & engraver's names.
A pair of scenes showing a woman and three children. In the summer she churns milk while one daughter feeds the chickens, the other eating from a bowl with a spoon, and the son behind with a pictchfork with a sack tied to it; in the background roses grow around the cottage window. In the winter the mother carries a pail while the three children gather firewood; in the background is a cow in a barn.
BM 2010,7081.2800 & 2010,7081.2801.
[Ref: 26688] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Winter Evening] La Soirée d'Hyver [parallel text in German] Préchant ce Magistrat à la tête légere [...]
J.H.E. in. S. Freudeberg del.
Printed for Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard London [c.1775]
Mezzotint with very large margins, scarce; 'CLB' collector's stamp verso; platemark 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9½"). Staining in right outer margin.
Continental copy in reverse of a plate depicting a candlelit courtship scene, from the 'Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-huitième siècle', first published in 1774. Sigmund Fredenberger was the intermediate draftsman for the plate from which this is copied, so both the attribution of the print to him and the claim for Carington Bowles as publisher appear to have been made up to conceal the identities of the makers.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36204] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View Near the New Entrance in S.t James's Park. Winter Fashions, from Nov.r 1832, to April, 1833, by B.Read, Pall Mall, St James's & 12, Hart St.t Bloomsbury Sp.e London.
[n.d., c.1833.]
Scarce & rare coloured aquatint Sheet 430 x 570mm (17 x 22½"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1832'. Paper toned, edges chipped and torn,
Fashionable promenaders on the Mall in St James's Park. Behind are Carlton House Terrace and the Duke of York's Column under construction (completed 1832, statue placed 1834).
[Ref: 59361] £520.00

The Palace of the Prince of Trauthson at Vienna.
Drawn on the Spot by J.E.F. van Erl. H. Roberts sculp.
London Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, 1747.
Engraving, 200 x 250mm. 7¾ x 9¾". Slightly soiled and stained.
The Winter Palace, or Stadtpalais, built in Vienna for François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan (1663 – 1736) by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656 - 1723), probably the most influential Austrian architect of the Baroque period.
From a series of reduced views in Vienna published by Bowles, numbered '2' upper right.
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 11119] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Winter Quarters.
[by Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub.d Dec. 14 1793 by S W Fores No 3 Piccadilly where may be Seen the Completest Collection of Caricatures in Europe. Also a correct Model of the Guillotine 6 Feet High. Admitt.ce 1 Shilling.
Etching. Sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, new margins added on three sides.
A military officer wearing a cocked hat sits opposite a blazing fire. He reads a newspaper headed with a star ('The Star', an evening paper) through an eye-glass held in his right hand. Over the chimney-piece is a framed map or plan: 'New Road to Coventry'. According to George this is ''Possibly a portrait of the Duke of York, but (perhaps intentionally) a poor one: it is less unlike Prince Ernest''; "The British army entered winter cantonments on 9 Nov. at Tournay, whence they went to their settled winter quarters at Ghent, entering it on 16 Dec.''
NM Satires 8355.
[Ref: 54458] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Winter Lanscape, Portsonachan.]
K Mackenzie 1954.
Aquatint signed in pencil by artist, with large sheet. As issued by "The Print Collectors Club" (with their label verso, as normal) Plate 127 x 175mm (5 x 7").
A winter scene in Portsonachan, Argyllshire, West Scotland. By Keith Mackenzie, A.R.E.
[Ref: 29043] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ioan Guinteri' Andernack Medicus. Fugasti kethum medica clarifsimus arte, Securus fati vivis in orbe tej.
[n.d., c.1650.]
[Boissard.]
Engraving. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Johann Winter von Andernach (born Johann Winter; 1505 - 1574), German Renaissance physician, university professor, humanist, translator of ancient, mostly medical works, and writer of his own medical, philological and humanities works.
[Ref: 64157] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Winter's Amusement.
W. Hamilton delin. T. Gaugain sculp.
Publish'd May 1789, by T. Gaugain. No.9 Manor Street, Chelsea: & by Mess.rs Harris: Molteno, Colnaghi & Co. & Wilkinson. London. [Late.]
Stipple printed in colours with large margins. Plate 197 x 254mm. 7¾ x 10".
Boys throwing snowballs at two girls who flee into the right foreground; with a church and town buildings in the background.
[Ref: 28187] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Winter's Tale] [The Finding of Perdita.]
Painted by Henry Thomson, R.A. Engraved by I.S. Agar.
Published Aug. 21. 1832: for the Chalcographic Society, by I.S. Agar, Angel Lane, Hammersmith, and may be had of the principal Printsellers in the United Kingdom.
Stipple and engraving on india paper, proof before title with a royal crest below the image. A fine impression, with wide margins.
An illustration of William Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale' (Act I, Scene III): the shepherd kneels in the shelter of rocks, lifting a rich fringed shawl covering the baby Perdita with both hands; he looks up to right at a boy, who carries a basket and spade and looks down on the child in surprise and delight. A dog standing to left, a scroll and casket on the ground. This is actually a re-published plate; the print was first published in 1824. After Henry Thomson RA (1773 - 1843).
[Ref: 23926] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Shakspeare. Winter's Tale, Act III. Scene III.
Painted by J.h Wright. Engrav'd by S. Middiman.
Publish'd June 4. 1794, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, & Cheapside.
Engraving with etching, J. Whatman 1794 watermark, 500 x 630mm (19¾ x 24¾"), with large margins. Small tear in edge taped.
Attempting to return to the baby, Perdita, whom he has just abandoned on the coast of land-locked Bohemia, Antigonus is chased away by a wild animal. This action creates Shakespeare's most famous stage direction: ''Exit Antigonus, pursued by a bear''. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59331] £320.00

Shakspeare. Winter's Tale, Act III. Scene III.
Painted by J.h Wright. Engrav'd by S. Middiman.
Publish'd June 4. 1794, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, & Cheapside.
Engraving with etching. 500 x 630mm (19¾ x 24¾"), with large margins. Creasing where rolled.
Attempting to return to the baby, Perdita, whom he has just abandoned on the coast of land-locked Bohemia, Antigonus is chased away by a wild animal. This action creates Shakespeare's most famous stage direction: ''Exit Antigonus, pursued by a bear''. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59324] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Netherlands] Admiral De Winter. (from the Original Picture) Painted by Mr. Orme, & presented by the Admiral The Lord Viscount Duncan.
D. Orme Pinx. & Sculp. Engraved to his Majesty & the Prince of Wales.
Sold & Pub. Accor.g lo Act of Parliament Jan.y 10.th 1798 by D. Orme 23 Holles St.t Cavendish Sq.e Where Subscriptions are Received for his 2 Prints of L.d Duncan's & L.d St. Vincents Victory's & at E. Orme Printseller 25 Conduit St. Hanover Sq.e
Stipple, very fine with large margins. Plate 184 x 127mm. 7¼ x 5".
Jan Willem de Winter (1761-1812) was a Dutch Admiral of the Napoleonic Wars. He was defeated at the Battle of Camperdown and was taken prisoner until later liberated by exchange. His conduct was declared by a court-martial to have nobly maintained the honour of the Dutch flag.
[Ref: 24385] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Wantorton Thwart Lights.
Engraved by W.H. Timms.
Published by C. Richards. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint, very rare. 190 x 255mm (7½ x 10"). Tear in margin.
A view looking past coastal shipping to the 'Thwart Lights', a pair of lighthouses guarding the dunes off Wintertonness, Winterton, Norfolk. The area had had a lighthouse since before 1618.
[Ref: 32202] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Wire Drawer.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 102 x 63mm. 4 x 2½". Cut and laid on album scrap.
The Wire-Drawer reduces rods of different metals into smaller sizes, in order to render them proper for use in various trades, and for manufactures, and also many other purposes. From "The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts".
[Ref: 25536] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

To the Incouragers of Arts, This Plan and Elevation of Wisbeach Bridge, in the Isle of Ely, and County of Cambridge, Is humbly Inscribed by their Most Obedient Servant, Henry Mackworth Jun.r.
J. Sharman Arch.t & G. Swain Builders. H. Mackworth Sculp.t et Scrip.t.
Lynn Regis [King's Lynn] Publish'd According to Act Nov.r 16th 1761 & Sold by the Engraver & W. Whittingham Books.r.
Scarce engraving. 360 x 495mm (14¼ x 19½"). Some creasing, old ink and pencil annotations on plate.
An engraving of the plan and elevation submitted to the town corporation in 1757 for a replacement bridge, which cost £2200. A floating bridge was used during construction. According to 'The History of Wisbech and the Fens' (Neil Walker, 1849), the bridge was never popular, due to it being too narrow for two carts to pass, a steep ascent and a tight corner on the south side.
[Ref: 56686] £480.00

Sketch of the Parochial Cemetery Bazaar. Held in the Vicarage Gardens, Wishbech, August 1843. Dedicated by Permission to Lady Agneta Yorke.
J.W.
[n.d. c.1843.]
Tinted lithograph, very scarce. 254 x 316mm (10 x 12½"). Cut to image.
Marquees erected in the gardens of the Vicarage, Wisbech, for the parish bazaar. Focal point of a ship in the centre, as an amusement; flags stuck in tree to right.
[Ref: 31306] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Six survey map of Wisconsin.] Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin and Teritory of Minnesota. [&] Plan and Section of the North Cut at Milwaukee No. 2 [&] Entrance to Kenosha Harbor [&] Copy of Plate of Kenosha Harbor [&] Harbor of Manitowoc Wis. [&] Plan of Racine Harbor.
D. Chillas Lith 50 So. 3rd St. Phil.a.
[n.d, c.1854.]
Engraved state map and five lithographed maps of harbours. largest (state map) 470 x 560mm, 18 x 22". Each with blind stamp of the Manchester Free Library, state map trimmed lower left for binding, damp stains and toning.
Six survey maps of the state of Wisconsin, prepared for the 33rd Congess of the United States.
[Ref: 26837] £360.00 view all images for this item

[Wisdom, from the original picture presented to the city by Alderman Boydell].
[Painted by J. F. Rigaud R.A. Engraved by I. P. Simon].
[Pub. Sept. 29. 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London]
Rare proof stipple engraving, unfinished before text added to open book. Published state carries a dedication: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte, by Jos. Boydell. Trimmed to plate mark.
Seated Minerva, in glory, with boy at her feet holding an open book, surrounded by a globe with dove, owl, a lamb sitting on a book with seals at right and a cockerel; in the upper part, putto with mirror at left, and two others holding up an uroboros at right. Part of a series Wisdom, Happiness, Providence, Innocence. See ref: 8615. In 1794 Rigaud won what was probably his most important commission, the decoration of the four pendentives of the Common Council Chamber in the Guildhall, London, depicting Providence, Innocence, Wisdom and Happiness; of these only the preparatory oil sketches survive (London, Guildhall A.G.).
[Ref: 15173] £380.00

Wisdom. From the Original Picture presented to the City by Ald.n Boydell. To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte, This Print is most humbly dedicated by their most Dutiful and Loyal Subject, Jn.o Boydell.
Painted by J.F. Rigaud R.A. Engraved by J.P. Simon.
Pub. Sept. 29 1799 by J. & J. Boydell, No 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Stipple with very large magins. 595 x 440mm (23½ x 17¼"). Surface abrasion, some repairs.
Minerva with helmet and shield, an owl to the left and lamb and cockerel to the right, a boy at her feet holding an open book. Top left a putto holds up a mirror, with two others holding up an uroboros (the ancient ring symbol of a snake eating its own tail) to the right. From a series of four moral allegories, with Happiness, Providence & Innocence.
[Ref: 31137] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Wisdom directing Beauty and Virtue to Sacrifice at the Altar of Diana.
R. Cosway pinx.t. J.R. Smith fecit.
Publish'd 15.th April 1773, by S. Hooper N.º 25 Ludgate Hill, and J.R. Smith N.º 4 Exeter Court, near Exeter Change, Strand.
Mezzotint. 355 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"). Slight cockling. Small margins. Crease down centre.
Juliana, Countess of Carrick, as Wisdom, with her daughters Lady Margaret Corry as Beauty and Lady Harriet Butler as Virtue. Cupid stands at their feet and two nymphs play pipes.
CS 32, ii of ii. O'Oench: Copper into Gold, Prints by John Raphael Smith 31. Frankau: 62 ii of ii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Christopher Mendez.
[Ref: 64520] £450.00

Wisdom directing Beauty and Virtue to Sacrifice at the Altar of Diana.
R. Cosway pinx.t. J.R. Smith fecit.
Publish'd 15.th April 1773, by S. Hooper N.º 25 Ludgate Hill, and J.R. Smith N.º 4 Exeter Court, near Exeter Change, Strand.
Fine Mezzotint. 355 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"), with large margins. Slight cockling.
Juliana, Countess of Carrick, as Wisdom, with her daughters Lady Margaret Corry as Beauty and Lady Harriet Butler as Virtue. Cupid stands at their feet and two nymphs play pipes.
CS 32, ii of ii. O'Oench: Copper into Gold, Prints by John Raphael Smith 31. Frankau: 62 ii of ii. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64521] £800.00

Der Weise. Fliesst hin, ihr Tage meines Lebens / Für mich benutzt und nicht vergebens / Fur meiner Mitgeschoepfe Glück.
Gemahlt von J.F. Schenau 1773 und gestochen von C.F. Stoelzel 1774.
Engraving. 550 x 415mm (21¾ x 16¼"), large margins. Small stains and slight creasing in title.
A 'wise man', surrounded by his antiques, point at a picture depicting charity.
[Ref: 63273] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Wise Virgins. Quinque Prudentes. [&] The Foolish Virgins. Quinque Fatuae. [Relevant quotations from Matthew Chapter XXV in English and Latin below each title.]
Singleton Pinxt. Gaugain sculp.
[n.d., c.1813.]
Pair of stipple engravings with etching and aquatint, each 592 x 482mm. Crease through upper right corner of first image.
Two contrasting images, the first showing a contented young woman holding up a lamp in both hands, with four others standing in a row behind her to right, in a palace interior with musicians playing in the background. In the second, a woman listlessly holds an empty lamp and stands disconsolately with others, one holding a veil to her head in despair. The Parable of the Ten Virgins is a parable told by Jesus in the gospel of Matthew. In it, the five virgins who are prepared for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded and the five who are not prepared are excluded. The parable has a clear apocalyptic theme: be prepared for the day of reckoning. On paper watermarked 1813.
[Ref: 8021] £550.00 view all images for this item

The Wiseacre Corporation. Gentlemen I am not going to the further end of the Country to prove what I say; the Road which I am obliged to pass to my nown House, is quite unpassable to any thing but a beast. I likeways move that lamps in the Parish be taken down every night, and hung up every morning, to prevent their being broke: Agreed. Resolv'd that the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman for his Partial conduct: passed Crim. con.
Published 10.th Sept.r 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street London.
Etching with stipple. 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"), large margins.
Satire of a country justices' meeting held, according to the map on the desk, in 'Break-Neck Shire'.
BM Satires 10358
[Ref: 51747] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

N. Wiseman.
M.R.Giberne delt. 1846. G.E.Madeley, lith. 3, Wellington St. Strand.
Published by Hering & Remington: 157 Regent Street. 1st, Augt. 1846.
Lithograph. Sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
Nicholas Wiseman, Cardinal, first Archbishop of Westminster; b. at Seville, 2 Aug., 1802; d. in London, 15 Feb., 1865.
[Ref: 2683] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
[Painted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.]
[London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, surface scrapes, tears in backing sheet.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex Collection Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68205] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Wiseman] N. Card. Wiseman [facsimile signature].
[ainted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.
London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint on chine collé, signed in ink by sitter. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"), withlarge margins. Tear entering plate but not image on right.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68207] £360.00

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
[Painted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.]
[London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"), with large margins. Repaired nicks to margins.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68206] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Simonton & Millard, Dublin.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Steel engraving on india, proof before title. 410 x 285mm (16 x 11¼"). Surface dirt.
Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster. The titled state appeared in the Illustrated London News publication 'Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages', 1859.
[Ref: 44429] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.]
[Painted by T.R. Herbert, R.A. Engraved by G.R. Ward.]
[London: Published March 1.st 1855, by the Engraver at 31, Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 515 x 375mm (20¼ x 14¾"). Chine collé scraped in lower left corner, backing sheet cracked top right corner.
A three-quarter length seated portrait of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster, in his robes.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68311] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Eminence the Most Reverend Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., Cardinal-Archbishop, Consecrated June 8th, 1840.
Dalziel.
[1840?]
Wood engraving. Sheet 250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6"). Laid on album paper, some cockling.
Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal and first Archbishop of Westminster.
[Ref: 61079] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicolas Wiseman & the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851] The Cardinal's Baratarian Banquet. Political Fly Leaves. _ N.º 10.
Touchstone.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Feb 17. 1851. Printed at 70. S.t Martin's Lane.
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 300 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½"). Two repaired tears, creasing.
Cardinal Wiseman (1802-65) seated at a dining table, but the platters (marked 'Territorial Titles' and 'Charitable Bequests') are being removed by the servants, prompted by a staff coming from one side. When Pope Pius IX set up a hierarchy of dioceses in England and Wales in 1850, the government responded with the 'Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851', which prevented anyone outside the established ''United Church of England and Ireland'' to use any episcopal title ''of any city, town or place... in the United Kingdom''. Any property passed to a person under such a title would be forfeit to the Crown. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 63986] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Friends of Mr W.m Wiseman, burying his Body in the Fields near London.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1784.]
Etching. Printed area 125 x 170mm, 5 x 6¾". Trimmed to near title, with added margin or old paper.
Two men lowering a corpse into a grave in fields north of London. On the left are mourners; on the right are two men holding bows, probably Finsbury Archers suggesting the site of the burial is Finsbury Fields. This was an illustration to Hogg's edition of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', 1784, listing the Protestant martyrs who were killed for their faith during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary (1553-1558). The text tells: 'The thirteenth of December, in the Lollards' Tower [in St Paul's Cathedral], died William Wiseman, a clothworker of London, where he was in prison and bonds for the gospel and word of God -- how and whereupon he deceased, it is not fully certain... After the said William was departed (as is said) in the Tower, the holy catholic church-men cast him out into the fields, commanding that no man should bury him; according as their devout manner is to do with all such as die in like sort, whom they account as profane, and worthy of no burial, but to be cast to dogs and birds... And yet all this their merciless commandment notwithstanding, some good Tobits there were, which buried him in the evening, as commonly they did all the rest, thrown out in like sort, whom they were wont privately by night to cover; and many times the archers in the fields standing by, and singing together psalms at their burial'.
[Ref: 26523] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

I'd Be a Butterfly. The Wish Granted.
[by William Heath.]
Published by Tho.s McLean 26. Haymarket [n.d., c.1929].
Very fine etching with hand colour. Sheet: 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9½''). Trimmed into plate at sides, losing printed border on right.
A large woman seated at a piano sings 'I'd be a Butterfly' by Thomas Haynes Bayly. As she sings the words 'I'd have a pair of those beautiful wings', a cloven-hooved, dark-skinned, impish figure waves a wand and large butterfly wings sprout from her back, much to her surprise.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 59476] £380.00

Margaret Daughter of the R. Tho. Halyburton Professor of Divinity at Saint Andrews and Wife of William Wishart D.D...[etc.]
G. Vertue Sculp. Lond. 1747.
Engraving, sheet 315 x 210mm. 12½ x 8¼". Trimmed to plate.
Margaret Wishart (died c.1747), daughter of theologian Thomas Halyburton (1674 - 1712). Memorial portrait in oval frame, 14 lines of tribute in Latin and English on pedestal below. By George Vertue (1684 - 1756).
[Ref: 13631] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Michal Korybut Winsniowiecki] Michael Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniæ, etc.
[engraved by Wolfgang Philipp Kilian.]
[Ulm, 1692.]
Engraving. 310 x 180mm (12¼ x 7"), large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Michal Korybut Winsniowiecki (1640-73) in wig and armour. He was elected elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania after the abdication of John II Casimir in 1668. After his early death in 1673 he was replaced by John III Sobieski. From E.G. Happelius, 'Historia moderna Europae'.
[Ref: 57723] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Wissing. Inter Pictores sui Soeculi celeberrimos nulli secundus, Artis suae non exiguum Deeus & Ornamentum, Obijt Sept: 10. An Aet: 31 D.ni 1687. Immodicis brevis est Aetas.
W Wissing pinx: J Smith fe. [1687]
Mezzotint, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾") with small margins. Slightly foxed.
William Wissing (1656-87), portrait painter. Apprenticed to Sir Peter Lely, Wissing became one of the leading portraitists of the 1680s, in the period between the death of Lely and rise of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Wissing's career coincided with the vogue for mezzotint publishing, in which next to Kneller's, Wissing's works were the most widely reproduced (as in this self-portrait). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 278 i/ii.
[Ref: 60249] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Wissing. Inter Pictores sui Soeculi celeberrimos nulli secundus, Artis suae non exiguum Deeus & Ornamentum, Obijt Sept: 10. An Aet: 31 D.ni 1687. Immodicis brevis est Aetas.
W Wissing pinx: J Smith fe. [1687]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate. Nick and stain in top right corner.
William Wissing (1656-87), portrait painter. Apprenticed to Sir Peter Lely, Wissing became one of the leading portraitists of the 1680s, in the period between the death of Lely and rise of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Wissing's career coincided with the vogue for mezzotint publishing, in which next to Kneller's, Wissing's works were the most widely reproduced (as in this self-portrait). Engraved by John Smith (1652-1743), a first-class mezzotint engraver who made the mezzotint portrait a serious rival to the traditional engraved portrait (in which the French specialised). In the first half of the 18th century no serious print collection, whether in Britain or abroad, was without examples of Smith's work. In 1688 Smith became the regular engraver of Kneller's portraits.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 278 i/ii.
[Ref: 60247] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Witch Cooking at a Cauldron.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3''). Laid on album sheet.
An amateur watercolour of a witch, surrounded by flying bats.
[Ref: 51133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Witch.] Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra sames. Virg. Æn III, v.56. From the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Teniers pinxit. Ric.d Earlom Sculpsit. John & Josiah Boydell Excudit 1786.
Published Jany. 2d 1786 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 670 x 490mm (26½ x 19"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene from Flemish folklore in which the avariciousness of the hag Mad Meg (or Dulle Griet) drives her to plunder Hell. Meg is depicted brandishing a sword at the three-headed Cerberus while the minions of hell, drawn in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, run away in fear. Beneath the image is a quote from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid which comments on man's lust for gold and his willingness to sin for it.
[Ref: 40706] £750.00

[The Witch of Endor.]
[Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by William Sharp.]
[London Publish'd by J. & J Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall.] [n.d., c.1790]
Engraving and etching, unfinished proof before letters. Sheet 470 x 620mm (18½ x 24½"). Trimmed within plate.
The Witch of Endor summons the ghost of the prophet Samuel as Saul protrates himself on the floor.
[Ref: 67116] £390.00

The Political Drama. No. 17. State Witches Laying A Spell Over the Country.
[C.J. Grant.]
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market. [n.d., c.1830.]
Wood-engraving. Sheet: 440 x 290mm (17½ x 11½") with large margins. Central vertical crease as normal. Staining and tears in edges.
A political satire in which Charles Grey, Althorp, Broom and Queen Adelaide and the comic character of Billy Lackaday, a role made famour by Liston, all sit on a broom and say a spell over the countryside while a farmer with a pitchfork wails in dispair.
[Ref: 44913] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[George Wither.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, Proof before all letters. Plate: 125 x 80mm (5 x 3'').
A portrait of English poet, pamphleteer and satirist George Wither (1588-1667).
[Ref: 50044] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies Georgii Witheri Poetae. What I Was, is passed by; What I Am, away doth flie; What I Shal Bee, none do see; Yet, in that, my Beauties bee.
[John Payne.]
[n.d. c.1635.]
Engraving with letterpress text on verso, rare. Sheet size: 205 x 165mm (8 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
George Wither (1588-1667) was an English poet, pamphleteer and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style.
NPG: D27982.
[Ref: 40025] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d. J. Witherspoon, DD. President of Princeton College, New Jersey, America.
Ridley & Blood, sculp._
[n.d.,c.1808.]
Stipple engraving. 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794), Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, farmer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Witherspoon embraced the concepts of Scottish common sense realism, and while president of the College of New Jersey (1768-1794; now Princeton University) became an influential figure in the development of the United States' national character. Politically active, Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. He was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration. Later, he signed the Articles of Confederation and supported ratification of the Constitution of the United States.
[Ref: 64118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Falls on the Rivek Kopal.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed to image. Small tear to lower left corner.
Plate 15 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37259] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Tamchi-Boulac, or Dropping Spring.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 120 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 15 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37257] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

River Djem-A-Louk.
[W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.]
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 105 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 15 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37258] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Volcanic Crater, Saian Mountains.
W. Atkinson del. _ J. Needham lith. Day & Son, Lithr's to the Queen.
London, Published by Hurst & Blackett. [n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph. Very rare. Sheet size: 120 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 7 from 'Oriental and Western Siberia' by Thomas Witlam published in 1858, a narrative of seven years of exploration in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia.
Abbey: 530.
[Ref: 37256] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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