Grosvenor Prints

[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)

[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)

[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)

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

[Witchcraft.] The ducking of John Osborn & his Wife on a charge of Witchcraft.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1795.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides. Some foxing.
A scene depicting the ducking of Ruth Osborne (1680–1751) and her husband John. In 1751 John and Ruth Osbourne were seized from a workhouse in Tring and accused of witchcraft. Both were ducked in a pond in Wilstone, but one of the leaders, Thomas Colley, held Ruth down with a stick until she drowned. Colley was convicted of murder and hanged in chains at Gubblecote Cross.
[Ref: 68944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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)

A Natural Arch on Nouk-A-Daban.
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 (4¾ x 6½"). Trimmed to image.
Plate 19 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: 37254] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Zabata-Nor.
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 (4¾ 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: 37255] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Johan Witt] Johannes Witt Mercat Francof. Natus Hamburgi Anno MDCXLIII [...]
Warner Hassells Pinx. Johannes Smith Fecit Londini 1707.
Mezzotint, scarce; platemark 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Rubbed. Slightly broken platemark on left.
Portrait of Frankfurt merchant Johan Witt (1643-1703) with verses in German below, engraved by the celebrated mezzotinter John Smith after a portrait by the little-known Werner Hassel (1674-1710, fl.) who worked in London but probably came from Germany, where he also worked. Vertue recorded that the British artist George Lambert 'learnt of...Hassel', but whether he was Hassells' pupil is not proven.
CS 279 ii/ii; Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33964] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Johan de Wit Raet-Pensionaris en Groot Zegel Bewaerder van Holland ende West Vrieslandt. Ætatis Suæ XLV.
C. Netscher Effigiem pinxit Aº 1670. Jak: Houbraken Sculpsit.
H. Scheurleer Excudit [n.d., c.1730.]
Etching, very fine impression. Sheet 395 x 345mm (15½ x 13½"). Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
Jan de Witt (1625-72), standing in the Schepenbank council chamber, the stamp of Holland in his hand. He was de facto leader of the Dutch Republic for nearly twenty years, until his opposition to the appointment of William of Orange as stadtholder led to the murder of him and his brother Cornelis.
[Ref: 53047] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Netherlands] Jean De Witte Pensionnaire de Hollande. Tires des Estampes du Cabinet du Roi.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 274 x 164mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2162] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Count Wittgenstein. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Armies.
Engrav'd by Facius, after a sketch lately arrived from Russia.
Stipple. Sheet size: 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince Wittgenstein (1769 - 1843) was a Russian Field Marshal distinguished for his services in the Napoleonic wars. He was promoted to Major in 1793 of the Ukrainian light cavalry regiment. He fought with the unit in the Kosciuszko Uprising. In 1800 he took command of the Mariupolski Hussars Regiment and lead the Russian army in numerous campaigns. In 1828 he was appointed to command the Russian army in the war against Turkey, but ill health soon obliged him to retire. In 1834 the King of Prussia gave him the title of Fürst (Prince) zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.
[Ref: 34453] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

General Wittgenstein.
[n.d., c. 1810].
Stipple. Sheet: 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾"). Scuffing and surface dirt.
Half-portrait of Ludwig Adolf Peter Prince Wittgenstein (1769-1845), a Russian Field Marshall who was distinguished for services during the Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 34494] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Frau Clara Maria Herrn D. Johann Conrad Wittner Norimb. Physici Orgin. Frau Eheliebste Eine Gebohrne Negelin. Nata. d.2.Octobr. 1723. Nupta. d.1. Juny. 1745. Denata. d.20 July. 1746.
G Lichtensteger Norib sc. 1747.
[Nuremburg, c.1747.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, old folds.
The daughter of pastor Joachim Negelein, she married doctor Johann Conrad Wittwer (1720-75) in 1745 but died the following year. Her husband wrote a number of medical books, including 'Dissertatio inauguralis medica de vomitu, vomitus remedio', 1742.
[Ref: 62193] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The miraculous windmill']
[n.d., c.1750.]
Fine coloured etching, extremely scarce. Sheet 295 x 450mm (11½ x 17¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing inscriptions, stains mostly not showing on front.
A supposed invention of a miraculous windmill capable of transforming ugly wives into beautiful ones. On the left and behind men bring their wives by boat, barrow and piggyback to place them inside the windmill; on the right the rejuvenated beauties are welcomed by their spouses.
See Wellcome 26373i for a variant.
[Ref: 68953] £680.00

Vladislaus IV. D.G. Rex Poloniæ M. Dux. Lit. Russ. Prus. Mas. Samo. Liv. Nec Non Suec. Got. Vand. Rex. etc.
[Engraved by Matthaus Merian after Peter Paul Rubens.]
[Frankfurt am Main: Merian, 1641.]
Engraving. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") very large margins.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, based on the portrait by Rubens now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57727] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vladislaus IV. D.G. Rex Poloniæ M. Dux. Lit. Russ. Prus. Mas. Samo. Liv. Nec Non Suec. Got. Vand. Rex. etc.
[after Peter Paul Rubens.]
[Frankfurt am Main: Merian, 1641.]
Engraving. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), set in German letterpress, large margins.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, based on the portrait by Rubens now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from a German edition of Lundorp's 'Laurea Austriaca'. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57728] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vladislaus IV. Poloniæ et Sueciæ Rex, Magnus Dux. Litthuaniæ etc.
[n.d., c.1658.]
Engraving. 115 x 65mm (4½ x 2½"). Binding stitch holes on left platemark.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57730] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Wladislaw IV.] Vladislaus König in Polen und Schweden
[n.d., c.1725.]
Engraving. Total 290 x 180mm (11½ x 7"), large margins. Slight stain on bottom left.
Oval portrait of Wladyslaw IV Vasa (1595-1648) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. within a decorative border printed from a separate plate. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'. As well as being King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he was also claimant to the thrones of Russia (after the Polish army captured Moscow in 1610) and Sweden.
[Ref: 57731] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Woburn House, Bedfordshire, The Residence of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.]
[Anon., c.1800.]
Aquatint, proof before letters. 245 x 300mm (9¾ x 12"), with very large margins. Stitch marks in top edge, old ink mss title in inscription area.
Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, family seat of the Duke of Bedford since 1547 when Henry VIII took it from its monastic residents. The architect Henry Flitcroft was employed from 1747 to rebuild the west wing of the house in the Palladian style as seen here.
[Ref: 41256] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Woburn House, Bedfordshire, The Residence of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
[Anon., c.1800]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, family seat of the Duke of Bedford since 1547 when Henry VIII took it from its monastic residents. The architect Henry Flitcroft was employed from 1747 to rebuild the west wing of the house in the Palladian style as seen here.
[Ref: 41174] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Market House & High Street Woburn.
R.C. Stratfold del. G.E. Madeley Lithog. 3 Wellington St. Strand.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Very rare lithograph. 210 x 278mm (8¼ x 11").
A view along the High Street with the Town Hall to the right, in Woburn, Bedfordshire. Individual shop fronts and names are visible, making this a valuable record of the businesses operating in the area at the time.
[Ref: 28509] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

South West View of Woburn Abbey, The Seat of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
R. Creighton Del.t W. Woolnoth sculpt.
[n.d., c.1780]
Etching, watermark 1835 T. Edmends; sheet 355 x 535mm (14 x 21"), with very large margins.
Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, family seat of the Duke of Bedford since 1547 when Henry VIII took it from its monastic residents. The architect Henry Flitcroft was employed from 1747 to rebuild the west wing of the house in the Palladian style as seen here.
[Ref: 41171] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Drakeloe Pond, the Chinese Temple, & Evergreens. taken from Woburn Church Tower
F. Ross lith
Lithograph with very fine hand colouring, printed area 160 x 230mm (6¼ x 9").
The Chinese Dairy at Woburn, designed by Henry Holland in 1787, built in 1794 and restored in 2004. Plate from the 'Hortus Woburnensis' (1833), a volume about the grounds at Woburn Abbey.
[Ref: 41176] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Menagerie, Woburn Abbey.
G.P. Harding delt F. Ross delt
Lithograph with very fine hand colouring, printed area 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"), with very large margins.
The menagerie at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, showing buildings constructed accoding to designs by the great landscape gardener Humphry Repton as part of his improvements to the grounds. The octagonal aviary on the right was divided into a lower section (for canaries) and an upper section (for pigeons). On either side of the octagonal structure are the keepers' apartments, next to which are antelope enclosures. Plate from the 'Hortus Woburnensis' (1833), a volume about the grounds at Woburn Abbey. The aviary was recently reconstructed at Woburn, modelled upon prints such as this.
[Ref: 41175] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Femme Woctiake.
d'Apres Mr. le Prince.
A Paris chez Duflos rue St.Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 279 x 166mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2021] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse.]
W. Carpenter Demerrur 1859.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 455 x 345mm (18 x 13½"). Trimmed into image, edges chipped. Damaged.
A nearly full-length seated portrait of Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (1811-1887) while Governor of British Guiana (1854-61). In 1861 he was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony, then Governor of Bombay from 1872-7.
[Ref: 66309] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

M.rs Margaret Woffington.
Johannes Aegidius Eccard Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1745.
Price 1s 6d. Sold in Church Street S,,t Anns Soho opposite the Golden Ball.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, creases.
Half-length portrait of Irish actress Margaret 'Peg' Woffington (c. 1720-60), holding a volume with a portrait of Shakespeare on the cover, a finger being used to hold her place. Woffington danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in 'The Constant Couple' led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. She lived openly with David Garrick, the foremost actor of the day, and her other love affairs were notorious.
CS: 391. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67346] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Woffington.
A. Pond pinx.t. Ja.s McArdell fecit.
[n.d., c. 1745.]
Mezzotint. 315 x 225mm (12½ x 9"). F Trimmed into image on right, to plate elsewhere, slight loss of print in top edge, crease in title area, laid on album paper.
Margaret Woffington (c. 1720-60), an Irish actress known as Peg. She danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in 'The Constant Couple' led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. She lived openly with David Garrick, the foremost actor of the day, and her other love affairs were notorious.
CS: 188.
[Ref: 65768] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Phebe.
P. Van Bleeck Pinx.t 1747. PVB [mongram] 1747.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm. Creased.
Margaret Woffington (c. 1720-60), an Irish actress known as Peg. She danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in 'The Constant Couple' led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. She lived openly with David Garrick, the foremost actor of the day, and her other love affairs were notorious.
CS: 11, unclear whether first or second state. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Chrisopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7561] £330.00

Captain Wogan.
[George Perfect Harding, c.1801]
Watercolour and wash, 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½").
Probably Charles Wogan [Jacobite Sir Charles Wogan, first baronet] (c.1685-1754), Jacobite soldier and agent. Wogan left his native Ireland in around 1712, moving to England (he was a friend of the poet Alexander Pope and later corresponded with Jonathan Swift), where he dedicated himself to Jacobite restoration. Charged with treason in 1715, he escaped from Newgate prison prior to his trial and made his way to the continent. There he met the Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart [James III] and was involved with the selection of Maria Sobieska as a suitable bride for him. Frustrated by the exiled Jacobite court, Wogan made his way to Spain where he acted as an unofficial Jacobite ambassador and acquired some influence at the Spanish court. In 1733 he won distinction for his defence of the fortress of Santa Cruz near Oran in Algeria, and the following year he was appointed governor of La Mancha. Watercolour by George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), miniature painter. Harding devoted himself to producing minute copies in watercolour of works of historical and antiquarian interest. Examples of his work are in several major British institutions.
[Ref: 42327] £380.00

D. Carolus Godofredus Woide. Nat: in Polonia, d: IV Jul: Anno: MDCCXXV. Denat: d IX. Maji Anno: MDCCXC. Studii Linguee Agyptiaca, utriusque dialecti, Cultorac, Restaurator Hune Doctum desiderant Docti, sed Hominem Ehu! quam multi!
F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculps 1791.
Published as the Act directs June 25. 1791.
Stipple, rare with very large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 266 x 202mm. 10½ x 8".
Dr Charles Godfrey Woide (1725-90) bust portrait, facing three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer; base of column and drapery in background; in an oval. Woide was a Polish oriental scholar who from 1768 worked in the British Museum as a librarian. He was one of the first scholars to work on the Egyptian Sahidic texts.
De Vesme 931: iv. NPG: D14155.
[Ref: 28051] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Market Place, Wokingham, Berks. from Mr. Johnson's.
W. A. Delamott Jun.r Del.t Sandhurst 1832.
A rare lithograph. Sheet 220 x 345mm (8¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Some surface dirt and foxing.
Wokingham, Berkshire with a view of the market place and the old Market Hall with its pillared undercroft. This building was replaced in 1858.
[Ref: 53601] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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