Grosvenor Prints

Synopsis Ædificiorum Publicorum Di Christophori Wren Equitis Aur. Archtecti Regii.~ A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London Royal Palaces, hospitals, and Publick Edifices; Built by Sr. Christopher Wren Kt. Surveyor General of the Royal-Works du
H. Hussbergh Sculp.
Printed for Sam. Harding in St. Martin's Lane, Dan Brown near Temple Bar. & Wm. Bathoe in Church Lane near St. Martin's Church in the Strand.
Engraving. 440 x 435mm (17¼ x 11½"). Trimmed. Horizontal fold across the middle. Bottom edge curling over, slight loss in centre publication line. Hole between the C and the I in Christophori at the top and another slight hole. Some surface dirt.
[Ref: 52820] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Christopher Wren. Hugh Howard Esquire.
After Sir Godfrey Kneller pinxit. A. Bannerman sculp.
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Toning along left and upper edges.
Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was a highly acclaimed architect, responsible for reparing many churches across London after the Great Fire of London, including St. Paul's. He was also an anatomist, astronomer and geometer.
[Ref: 53732] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London; Royal Palaces; Hospitals; and Publick Edifices; Built by S.r Christopher Wren K.t Surveyor General of the Royal Works, during Fifty Years: Viz.t from 1668, to 1718. A List Of the exect Sums of Money laid out for Rebuilding each Church, with References to their Names & Numbers in the Rounds.
H. Hulsbergh Sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"). Trimmed into image, loss as central fold. Repairs, messy.
A pyramid with roundels listing Wren's works, cross-referenced to tromp-l'oeil scrolls listing the cost (if known). It was the first plate (of 15) in a book with the same title.
See RA Collection 03/2812 for the complete book.
[Ref: 59823] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Wren
G. Kneller Pinx [...] T. Holloway Sculpt
Published as the act directs by T.H. Holloway & the other Proprietors April 25th 1798
Line engraving, platemark 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"), with very large margins. Repaired tear along platemark on left.
Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), architect, mathematician and astronomer best-known as the architect of St Paul's cathedral and the City churches built following the Great Fire of London. Wren was a man of many interests rather than one specialism, who fostered talent wherever he found it (Hawksmoor is the classic example), but left no school of followers. Engraving after a detail of the 1711 portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller (London, National Portrait Gallery), cropped to exclude the plan of St. Paul's Cathedral on which Wren's hand rests in Kneller's portrait. The print was published as a plate to J.C. Lavater's 'Essays on Physiognomy'.
O'D 3
[Ref: 47667] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Wren, D.D. Dean of Windsor.
G. Vander Gucht Sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼").
Christopher Wren (1589 - 1658), Dean of Windsor; oval portrait, arms below. He wears a skull-cap and robes of the Garter; Latin motto 'Virtuti Fortuna Comes' to pedestal. By Gerard Van der Gucht (1695 or 1696 - 1776), for 'Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens; viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, etc., but chiefly of Sir C. Wren..' by Christopher Wren, son of architect Sir Christopher Wren.
[Ref: 15261] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chr. Wren [facsimile signature]. Proof.
Engraved by Edw.d Scriven, Historical Engraver to His Majesty [after John Closterman). Printed by McQueen & Co.
London; Published by Priestley & Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury, 1823.
Proof stipple and engraving. Sheet 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper at edges.
A half-length portrait of Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723), his St Paul's Cathedral behind, after the oil by Closterman now in the Royal Society. The frontispiece to James Elmes's ''Memoirs of the life and works of Sir Christopher Wren''.
[Ref: 59414] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Wren Esq.r. The Compiler of And Eldest son of Sir Chr: Wren Kn.t.
J. Faber fecit 1750.
Rare Mezzotint. 280 x 180mm (11 x 7"). Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait on oval of Christopher Wren (1675-1747), MP for Windsor 1713-5. His collection of documents about his father (the architect) was published as the 'Parentalia' by his own son Stephen, with this portrait as the frontispiece.
CS 395. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67343] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Wren Esq.r. The Compiler of "Parentalia" And Eldest son of Sir Chr: Wren Kn.t.
J. Faber fecit 1750.
Very rare mezzotint. Sheet 280 x 175mm (11 x 7"). Trimmed within plate. Damaged.
A half-length portrait on oval of Christopher Wren (1675-1747), MP for Windsor 1713-5. His collection of documents about his father (the architect) was published as the 'Parentalia' by his own son Stephen, with this portrait as the frontispiece.
CS 395. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67342] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sr Benjamin Wrench Kt. M.D. Aged 82 Ao 1747, Having practisd Physick in the City of Norwich Sixty Years.
[Anon., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 250 x 180mm. 9¾ x 7". Horizontal creasing. Lower left margin corner missing.
Sir Benjamin Wrench (1665/66 - 1747), physician in Norwich; his daughter married Harbord Harbord, MP for Norfolk. A very scarce portrait.
[Ref: 12443] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Wrestler & Automaton. Tom Tom Player.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1812.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Rare automaton image. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 53251] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Wrestlers] Letteurs Suisses.
D'apres le modèle d'Abart. Grave par F. Hegi.
à Basle dhez Birman & Fils [n.d., c.1830].
Aquatint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, creasing at top.
A pair of wrestlers grabbing each other's pants. The wrestlers are drawn from a sculpture by South Tyrolean Franz Abart (1769-1863).
[Ref: 61399] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Boxing] Page 21.
A. Walker del. et sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving and etching. 159 x 101mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed.
Village scene, with two semi nude men wrestling in the midst of a crowd who gathered in a circle, two musicians up on a tree to the left; illustration to 'Hobbinol'.
[Ref: 34758] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Wrestlers at Yokuhama.
from Nature by Peters. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[n.d. c.1854.]
Tinted lithograph. 217 x 292mm. 8½ x 11½".
On 8th March 1854, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) returned to continue the Opening of Japan to the west, which concluded with the Convention of Kanagawa on 31 March, 1854. This being his second visit saw the opening of Shimoda and Hakodate to foreign vessels. Perry’s landing in Yokohama on March 8 inspired a crowded scene of troops on parade before a horizon prickled with the masts of the black ships, as well as a solemn rendering of the commodore greeting the Japanese commissioners. Formal occasions-the presentation of American gifts, a banquet on Perry’s flagship, and a performance of sumo wrestling-were duly recorded.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18459] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Histoire Du Bonhomme Misere. [The Story of the Wretched Man.] Avec Six Eaux = Fortes Par A. Legros.
Londres: R. Geraut, Editeur. 1877.
Book, folio (430 x 305mm, 17 x 12"), two titlepages, three leaves of introductory text and six mounted etchings, each plate preceded by a leaf with title and quotation, plus 15 pp. Number 25 of 60 signed artist's presentation copies on Whatman paper. Original vellum covered boards, letterpress title in black and red to cover; in original presentation portfolio with cloth spine and paper covered boards, printed with woodcut vignette title. Portfolio rubbed, scuffed and soiled; wear to top and bottom of spine. Staining and soiling to vellum cover; interior and plates generally good.
The atmospheric, sombre and, in one case, macabre plates are based upon an old French fable. Scenes include old men begging outside a church; a frugal candle-lit supper; and 'La Mort dans la Poirer': Death (a skeleton) calling the peasant from the pear tree. Ink annotation to front endpaper to a subscriber (Warwick?), signed by Legros and publisher Gueraut, dated 1879. Alphonse Legros (1837 - 1911) was an etcher, lithographer and painter of landscape, genre and historical subjects and medallist. Born in Dijon, France, in 1851 he moved to Paris, where he worked as scene-painter, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and exhibited at the Salon. Legros moved to London in 1863 with the advice of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and a few years later was appointed teacher of etching at the South Kensington School of Art. In 1876 he became Slade Professor at University College London, succeeding Sir Edward John Poynter; he was a founder member of the Royal Society of Painter Etcher and Engravers.
National Art Library General Collection: 67.E.27.
[Ref: 13255] £650.00 view all images for this item

The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Lithograph. 151 x 115mm. 6 x 4½". Very cut down.
A group of slaves sit around eating and dancing.
[Ref: 15476] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The North-East View of Wrexham Church, in the County of Denbigh. To the Hon:ble Sr. Watkin Williams Wynn Bar:t This Plate is with all possible respect, humbly Dedicated by his most Obedient Servant. John Boydell. [77 in ink]
J. Boydell Delin & Sculp. 1748.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament & Sold by J. Boydell, at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand. & by Tho.s Payne Bookseller at Wrexham. Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 420 x 520mm (16½ x 20½") Centre fold, slight staining.
A view of St Giles' Church, Wrexham, Wales, with several figures in foreground. Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University, is buried in the churchyard. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
[Ref: 29403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Wright Parker, Church Steeple and Mill Chimney Repairer in all their Branches. Chimneys Straightened and Pointed with Mastic. Manufacturer & Erector of Copper-Rope & Tape Lightning Conductors. Regent Street, Oldham.
[Anon, n.d., c.1862.]
Rare Steeplejack's illustrated promotional brochure/leaflet, letterpress with woodcut vignettes, single sheet folded; small 4to (250 x 185mm, 9¾ x 7¼"). Stamped and addressed in ink to 'Mr Alfred Towgood Helpstone Northamptonshire'. Vertical and horizontal folds; chipped, no text missing.
Impressive graphic advertisement showing the extensive range of services offered by a Lancashire-based steeplejack, with testimonials from West Middlesex Waterworks Company.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16806] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Advertising Directory] Wright's Hotel and Ship Inn, Dovor, Adjoining the Custom House, and immediately opposite the Alien-Office.
[n.d., c.1832.]
1 sheet folded to make 4pp. of adverts, each page 280 x 230mm, 11½ x 9", with wood engraving on front. Some slight creasing.
The Ship Hotel, Dover, known as 'Wright's Hotel and Ship Inn' between 1805 to 1833.
[Ref: 11093] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Etched Work of F.L. Griggs R.A., R.E., F.S.A.
by Harold J.L. Wright with a Catalogue by Campbell Dodgson C.B.E., Hon. R.E.
Publication Number Twenty. The Print Collectors' Club 26 Conduit Street, London, W.I. MCMXLI [1941].
Book: 8vo (242 x 183mm). pp. 80, including 16 b/w illustrations. Limited edition 10/400. Cloth binding with Print Collectors' Club emblem stamped on front binding in gilt, and title along spine. Binding worn and scuffed. Some light spotting in first few title pages.
Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, RA, RE (30 October 1876 - 7 June 1938) was a distinguished English etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator, and early conservationist, associated with the late flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds. He was one of the first etchers to be elected to full membership of the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 10331] £120.00

Joseph Wright Esq.r. From a Picture painted by himself in the possession of James Cade Esq.r.
Engraved by Ja.s Ward Painter and Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London. Published by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street, Charing Cross. Feb.y 1 1807.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), very large margins Margins messy.
Self-portrait of artist Joseph Wright (1734-97).
Frankau:82, iii/CS:36, .iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68330] £420.00

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734- 1797.
par Judy Egerton
Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1990
Book: 4to, colour illustrated wrappers, profusely illustrated, mainly in colour, pp.200
French text catalogue for a 1990 international exhibtion of Joseph Wright's work.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 59756] £45.00

Joseph Wright Esq.r. From a Picture painted by himself in the possession of James Cade Esq.r.
Engraved by Ja.s Ward Painter and Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London. Published by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street, Charing Cross. Feb.y 1 1807.
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), large margins. Margins scraped.
Self-portrait of artist Joseph Wright (1734-97).
Frankau:82, iii/CS:36, .iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68331] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool.
Elizabeth E. Barker and Alex Kidson, with contributions by Martin Hopkinson, Jane Longmore and Sarah Parsons.
Published by Yale University Press, 2007.
Book: 4to with dark blue cloth covers, colour illustrated dustjacket. profusely illustrated, pp.216.
Catalogue for a Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition held in Liverpool and the Yale Centre for British Art, including Martin Hopkinson's essay 'Printmaking and Print Collectors in the North West, 1760-1800'.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 27333] £45.00

Wright of Derby. Mr & Mrs Coltman. Acquisition in Focus.
Exhibition organised and booklet written by Allan Braham.
The National Gallery, London. 5 February - 27 April 1986. Booklet sponsored by National Westminster Bank.
Book: 8vo [229 x 166mm, 9 x 6½"], illustrated, pp.20.
A catalogue linked to the arrival of 'Mr and Mrs Coltman' to the National Gallery, London. It was the second work of Joseph Wright to be acquired by the National Gallery. Other paintings were borrowed to make a small exhibition.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 27341] £45.00

Wright of Derby.
Judy Egerton.
Tate Gallery. Copyright 1990 The Tate Gallery All rights reserved.
Book: 4to [292 x 241mm, 11½ x 9½"] with turquoise cloth covers and title in gilt along spine, colour illustrated dustjacket. Profusely illustrated, pp.294.
A catalogue of works exhibited at the Tate Gallery with explanatory chapters on: Joseph Wright and the Lunar Society, the engraving and publication of prints of Joseph Wright's paintings by Tim Clayton, his techniques of paintings and Wright's picture frames. A reference book on Prints after Wright by Tim Clayton.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 27345] £70.00

Joseph Wright of Derby.
Copyright 1968 Benedict Nicolson.
First Published in Great Britain 1968 by The Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 38 Bury Street, Lodnon, S.W.1 in association with Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., Broadway house, Carter Lane, London, E.C.4.
Book: 4to, two volumes [323 x 260mm, 12¾ x 10¼"] with green cloth covers with title in gilt along spine, colour printed dustjackets; illustrated. pp.545.
Two volume biographical and interpretative study, which attempts to present Wright in every aspect. It records what is known about his life, affords a critical commentary on his painting; describes his friends and associates, and provides a catalogue of the surviving paintings. Nicolson's work is highly regarded and considered to be very important.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 27349] £95.00

Joseph Wright of Derby.
Copyright 1968 Benedict Nicolson.
First Published in Great Britain 1968 by The Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 38 Bury Street, Lodnon, S.W.1 in association with Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., Broadway house, Carter Lane, London, E.C.4.
Book: 4to, two volumes [323 x 260mm, 12¾ x 10¼"] with green cloth covers with title in gilt along spine; illustrated. pp.545. Spine broken on volume I; no dustjackets, spine rubbed and worn.
Two volume biographical and interpretative study, which attempts to present Wright in every aspect. It records what is known about his life, affords a critical commentary on his painting; describes his friends and associates, and provides a catalogue of the surviving paintings. Nicolson's work is highly regarded and considered to be very important.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 27350] £95.00

The Great Artists 65. Their lives, works and inspiration. Wright of Derby.
A Marshall Cavendish Weekly Collection.
Marshall Cavendish Ltd, 1986. Published by Marshall Cavendish Partworks Lts, 58 Old Compton Street, London W1V 5PA, England.
Book: Quarto. Illustrated and printed in colour. pp.31.
A biographical volume detailing the artist's life and his work; illustrated throughout. A chapter also focuses on the Industrial Revolution, as a backdrop to Wright and the time he was most prominent, and how he was influenced.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 28071] £35.00

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)

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. She was one of the Windsor Beauties, and was thus painted by Sir Peter Lely.
CS: 25, ii. See Ref: 3812 for proof before all letters.
[Ref: 24903] £130.00 (£156.00 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 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)

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)

[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)

[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)

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)

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