Grosvenor Prints

[Hon. Edward Stanhope.]
[by Joseph Brown, after Henry Tanworth Wells.]
[n.d., c.1893.]
Stipple engraving on india, proof before letters with large margins. 295 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Some spotting.
Edward Stanhope (1840-1893), Conservative MP for Mid Lincolnshire 1874-85, then Horncastle until his death. He served as President of the Board of Trade (1885-6), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1886-7) and Secretary of State for War (1887-92). In 1861 he played three first-class cricket matches for Kent. Cricket interest.
[Ref: 33143] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Earl of Chesterfield, From the Original Picture in the Possession of Francis Freeling Esq.r.
Painted by Sir. W. Beechey R.A. Engrav'd by J.R. Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Publish'd 30 June 1798.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Very large margins. Light creases.
A portrait of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield (1755 - 1815), a British politician and diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Spain between 1784 and 1787, Master of the Mint between 1789 and 1790, Joint Postmaster General between 1790 and 1798 and Master of the Horse between 1798 and 1804.
[Ref: 38708] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Philip Earl of Chesterfield.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Nov ye 7th 1780. London. Sold by John Ryall No 17 Lombard Street.
Engraving, sheet 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), politician and diplomatist. Stanhope was ambassador to The Hague from 1728, and was subsequently rewarded with the Order of the Garter and the position of Lord Steward. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1745 and Secretary of State in 1755. Chesterfield married George I's daughter Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenberg, a marriage which brought a windfall that Chesterfield put towards completing a magnificent house on South Audley Street in London's Mayfair, then directly facing Hyde Park, it was given its grand opening in 1752. Demolished in 1937, the house was replaced by a block of flats appropriately named Chesterfield House. Oval portrait in frame held by the philosopher Diogenes, probably copied from a French engraving of André Hercules Cardinal de Fleury.
For the portrait of Hercules see ref. 42101.
[Ref: 42100] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. From a Bust in the British Museum.]
[J.K. Sherwin Sculp.]
No.31. 1777 [in ink] [Publish'd Feb. 18th, 1777.]
Etching, proof before all letters, with large margins. 230 x 150mm (9 x 6").
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), engraved by Sherwin after Francesco Bartolozzi's drawing of a marble bust by Louis Francois Roubiliac (1745), depicting Stanhope unclothed in the style of a Roman emperor, now in the National Portrait Gallery. Stanhope was ambassador to The Hague from 1728, and was subsequently rewarded with the Order of the Garter and the position of Lord Steward. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1745 and Secretary of State in 1755.
[Ref: 24942] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. From a Bust in the British Museum.
J.K. Sherwin Sculp. [after Francesco Bartolozzi.]
Publish'd Feb. 18th, 1777.
Etching. Sheet 215 x 130mm (8½ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Stained.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), engraved by Sherwin after Francesco Bartolozzi's drawing of a marble bust by Louis Francois Roubiliac (1745), depicting Stanhope unclothed in the style of a Roman emperor, now in the National Portrait Gallery. Stanhope was ambassador to The Hague from 1728, and was subsequently rewarded with the Order of the Garter and the position of Lord Steward. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1745 and Secretary of State in 1755.
[Ref: 35252] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield.
F. Bartolozzi del. et Sculp.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Etching. Sheet 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, well away from image.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), drawn and engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi from a marble bust by Louis Francois Roubiliac (1745), depicting Stanhope unclothed in the style of a Roman emperor, now in the National Portrait Gallery. Stanhope was ambassador to The Hague from 1728, and was subsequently rewarded with the Order of the Garter and the position of Lord Steward. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1745 and Secretary of State in 1755.
De Vesme 778, iii of iii.
[Ref: 35253] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield.
Le Noir Sculp. [after Francesco Bartolozzi.]
[n.d., c.1777.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 120mm. (8¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), engraved by Le Noir after Francesco Bartolozzi's drawing of a marble bust by Louis Francois Roubiliac (1745), depicting Stanhope unclothed in the style of a Roman emperor, now in the National Portrait Gallery. Stanhope was ambassador to The Hague from 1728, and was subsequently rewarded with the Order of the Garter and the position of Lord Steward. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1745 and Secretary of State in 1755.
[Ref: 35254] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble William L.d Harrington, His Majtys. Principal Secretary of State & one of his Maj.tys. most Hon.ble Privy Council &c.
I. Fayram pinxt. I Faber fecit.
Sold by I Faber at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane.
Rare mezzotint, fine impression, print 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet.
Three-quarter length portrait of diplomatist, politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland, William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington (c.1683-1756). He wears a shoulder-length wig, lace cravat and a coat with large cuffs, heavily embroidered with large swirls of foliage, right hand tucked inside, left hand on the corner of a table against which he leans, view from a window in the background to right.
CS 181.
[Ref: 58877] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Stanley [facsimile signature] [The Right Hon.ble Lord Stanley. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.]
Painted by Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. Engraved by James Faed.
London, Published June 15th. 1868, by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen, and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales, 6, Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint, proof before title, on chine collé. 760 x 490mm (30 x 19¼"), with Printsellers' Association blind stamp. Limited edition 325. Some wear to edge at bottom, surface soiling.
Edward Henry Stanley (1826-93, 15th Earl of Derby, who was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs twice: firstly 1866-8, in the premiership of his father, Edward Smith-Stanley; and secondly 1874-8, under Benjamin Disraeli.
[Ref: 52077] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Castlereagh.
Engraved by G.S. Facius, from a drawing after a Bust by Jos.h Nollekens R.A.
London, Publish'd by R. Ackermann, Dec.r 17th 1814, at 101 Strand.
Stipple. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Narrow margins,
Robert Stewart (1769-1822), 2nd Marquess of Londonberry and Viscount Castlereagh. As Chief Secretary of Ireland he was instrumental in putting down the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and helped secure the passage of the controversial Irish Act of Union of 1800. As Foreign Secretary from 1812 he was central to the management of the coalition that defeated Napoleon and was the principal British diplomat at the Congress of Vienna that reshaped Europe afterwards. Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonberry and Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822), both an Irish and British statesman. His career ended when he showed signs of paranoia, with claims he was being blackmailed for homosexuality. Now believed this was brought on by syphilitic meningitis. He cut his own throat with a letter-opener.
[Ref: 47444] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Castlereagh.
d'après Lawrence. Lith. de Langlumé.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½''). Trimmed, tipped into album sheet, foxing and creasing.
A portrait of British statesman Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1769-1822). On the verso is Lord Castlereagh's manuscript account between 1812 and 1815 totally £445,000.
[Ref: 49388] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart, Baron Cardiff.
G. Romney pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs Nov.r 17th 1790.
Stipple. 315 x 220mm (12½ x 8¾"), large margins. Uncut. Slight crease in centre.
John Stuart (1713-92), 3rd Earl of Bute, as a young man, wearing ceremonial robes. He served as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1762-3), when he negoatiated the end of thre Seven Years' War.
De Vesme: 876.
[Ref: 45368] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble John Earl of Bute &c.
Ramsay pinx.t. Graham sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼'') large margins.
A half-length portrait of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) who served and Prime Minister from 1762-3.
[Ref: 48676] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Canterbury.
A.D'Orsay 1837. Printed by J.Graf.
London, Published by John Mitchell, 35, Old Bond S.t.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6¼").
Charles Manners-Sutton (1780-1845), Tory Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835. During the political crisis surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 his anti-Reform stance caused the victorious Whigs to vote him out of the Speakership, after which he was raised to the peerage. D'Orsay's original chalk sketch is in the National Portrait Gallery.
See NPG 4026(11) for the sketch.
[Ref: 21932] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Viscount Palmerston, K.G. First Lord of the Treasury. From the original Picture painted for the Harrow Library A.D. 1863.
Painted by F. Grant R.A. Engraved by F. Holl & G. Zobel.
London, Published September 11th 1865, by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen, 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, title in open letters, 555 x 430mm. 21¾ x 17".
Portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), politician who served twice as Prime Minister. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. He served successively as: Secretary at War (1809-28); Foreign Secretary (1830-41 and 1846-51); Home Secretary (1853-5) and Prime Minister (1855-8 and 1859-65). He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through a period when the United Kingdom was at the height of its colonial power. His vigorous policy of intervention, often controversial at the time, made him one of the greatest Victorian statesman and among the most powerful figures in European politics. After Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878).
NPG D39516. From Broadlands home of Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27550] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rt Hon Viscount Palmerston, GCB MP &c &c &c. This Portrait is respectfully dedicated to the Committee, who presented to the Right Hon.ble the Viscount Palmeston, the Picture from which the plate was engraved.]
[Painted by John Partridge Esq.re. Engraved by Samuel Cousins Esq.re ARA.]
[London Published May 1st 1852 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co 13 & 14 Pall Mall East _ Publishers to Her Majesty.]
Mezzotint on chine collé, proof before letters. 515 x 800mm (20½ x 31½"). Spotting,
Full-length portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), standing in his study, left hand resting on papers. The painting was executed c.1850, when Palmerston was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, five years before his first term as Prime Minister. After Palmerston's death his widow insisted on the face being replaced with one from an earlier portrait by Partridge, so this mezzotint is the only record of the original image. The painting is now in Parliament's art collection. Palmerston attanded St John's College, Cambridge (1803-6)
[Ref: 48486] £360.00

[William Temple] Dominus Gulielmus Temple Eques Baronettus Ser.mi et Pot.mi Mag. Britanniæ Regis ad Ord.s Fœd.ti Belgÿ Lagatus [...] 1679.
P. Lely Pinx. G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 270 x 160mm (10¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Oval portrait of Sir William Temple (1628-99), a diplomat who negotiated the marriage William of Orange and Princess Mary, and the Triple Alliance between England, Sweden & the United Provinces, 1668. Temple's secretary for most of the last decade of his life was the satirist Jonathan Swift: when Temple died Swift wrote 'He died at one o clock in the morning and with him all that was great and good among men'.
Alexander: 298
[Ref: 59416] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Guillaume Temple. Envoyé de Charles II. Roy de la Grand Bretagne au pres des Etats Generaux. Mort au Mois de Fevrier 1690.
Lely Pinx. Chenu Sculp.
AParis chez Odieuvre, M.d d'Estampes rüe des Mathurins chez Mr Joubert.
Engraving with borders, printed from two plates, with very large margins, total 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½").
Oval portrait of Sir William Temple (1628-99, not 1690 as title), within a separately-printed, frame-like border. As a diplomat he negotiated the marriage William of Orange and Princess Mary, and the Triple Alliance between England, Sweden & the United Provinces, 1668.
[Ref: 34965] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rendlesham.
T. H. Maguire. 1850.
[M. & N. Hanhart.]
Lithograph, printed on india. Printed area: 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½").
A seated portrait of politician Frederick Thellusson, 4th Baron Rendlesham (1798-1852), Conservative MP for Suffolk East from 1843 until his death. He was the grandson of Peter Thellusson (1737-97) whose odd will, in which his estate was allowed to accumulate over the lives of the next three generations of his family, led to law regulating such wills. In 1856 a lawsuit about who were the actual heirs, which eventually reached the House of Lords, inspired the case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.
[Ref: 46829] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Frederic Thesigner, M.P.
Painted by E. =U. Eddis. Engraved by W. Walker.
London 5.th. April 1847, W. Walker, Execudit, 64, Margaret S.t. Cavendish Square.
Rare mezzotint. Plate: 380 x 520mm (15 x 20½").
Half portrait of Sir Frederic Thesiger (1794-1878) a Conservative politician who served as Lord Chancellor between 1866 and 1867 under Lord Derby.
[Ref: 32650] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon'ble James Thomason. Late Lieutenant Governor, N.W.P. [Text in Urdu.]
[n.d., c.1855.]
Lithograph. Printed area 155 x 95mm.
James Thomason (1804–1853), lieutenant-governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1843 until his death.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 395] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Thurloe. From a Gold Medal in the possession of Dr. Mead.
GVertue in.s.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Etching. Plate 101 x 197mm. 4 x 7¾".
Portrait of John Thurloe, after a medal by Abraham and Thomas Simon; medallion suspended from ruined obelisk, emblematic objects, with a fleet of ships and to right, the Banqueting House, Whitehall. John Thurloe (1616-1668) Secretary of State to Cromwell from 1653 and from 1656 he was also Chief Postmaster of England. At the Restoration he was accused of high treason, but out of regard to his personal abilities he was allowed his liberty.
Alexander: 830.
[Ref: 24244] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Thurlow.]
S. Collings pinx.t J Conde sculp.t
Publish'd Feby. 29 1792 by S.W. Fores No3 Piccadilly.
Fine proof stipple and etching. Plate 274 x 210mm. 10¾ x 8¼".
Edward Thurlow (1731-1806), 1st Baron Thurlow, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor for fourteen years (1778-1792) and under four Tory Prime Ministers.
[Ref: 20122] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Lord Thurlow.
Painted by T. Phillips. A. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Published April 20, 1807, by C. Turner 50. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint with large margins, very fine; laid on Album sheet. Platemark: 480 x 340mm (18¾ x 13¼"). Light foxing in margins.
A portrait of lawyer and politician Edward Thurlow (1731-1806). 1st Baron Thurlow was Lord Chancellor for fourteen years (1778-1792) and under four Tory Prime Ministers. Thurlow was a constitutionalist and anti-reformer. He opposed reform in Ireland and defended the interests of the slave-trader.
Ex Collection: The Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Whitman: 559 I of II.
[Ref: 35058] £340.00

George Tierney Esq.r Member for Southwark. To the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Lauderdale, This Plate, is by his Lordship's permission, humbly Dedicated by W. Matthews.
Painted by L.F. Abbott. Engraved by W. Nutter. W. Matthews exc.t.
Published May 7th 1798, by W. Matthews, No 86 Blackman Street, near St George's Church, Southwark.
Stipple. 540 x 410mm (21¼ x 16") fine impression. A little wear to large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of George Tierney (1761-1830), rolled petition in one hand, the Southwark end of London Bridge visible through a window. After attending Peterhouse, Cambridge, Tierney became a whig politician, a rival of William Pitt during the French Revolutionary Wars, even fighting a duel with him on Putney Heath in 1798, three weeks after this portrait was published. The same year Gillray caricatured Tierney as a guillotine operator. In 1803 he joined the government of Henry Addington, who made him Treasurer of the Navy and Privy Councillor; after Fox's death in 1806 he became President of the Board of Control (overseers of the East India Company) under Grenville.
[Ref: 48502] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honorable Lord John Townshend. To the Gentlemen of the Whig Club, and the Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster This Plate is Dedicated by their most obedient faithful and humble Sert.t Will.m Austin.
Painted by Sr. Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Published as the Act directs Mar. 25 1789 by Wm. Austin private Teacher of Drawing and Etching in York Street near St James's Church and the Surry Side of Westminster Bridge.
Fine mezzotint. 505 x 360mm (19¾ x 14¼"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left margin
Lord John Townshend (1757-1833), Whig M.P. for Cambridge University in 1780-4, Westminster from 1788-90 and Knaresborough 1793-1818. He became a Privy Councillor in 1806 and served as Paymaster of the Forces 1806-7.
[Ref: 55690] £360.00

James Trail Esq.r. From an Original Drawing in the Possession of Lord Glenbervie.
H. Edridge Del.t 1794. Anth.y Cardon sculp.t.
[c.1794.]
Fine & rare stipple on chine collé. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), with large margins. Very slight creasing, uncut.
Seated, reading a letter. Probably James Trail (1745-1808), lawyer and Tory M.P. for Orford between 1802 and 1806.
[Ref: 58141] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

M. Guill. Trumbull. Agent pour Les Roys Jac. I. et Char. I. A La Cour de Bruxelles.
S. Gribelin sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Engraving, rare. 165 x 102mm. 6½ x 4".
Portrait of William Trumbull, half length in an ornamental oval frame on a pedestal, wearing large ruff. William Trumbull (d.1635) was an English diplomat, administrator and politician. He was the English minister at Brussels.
[Ref: 24555] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

J.T. Tyrell [facsimile signature.]
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Charles Tompkins.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y Dec.r 17th 1855; Printsellers to the Queen 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint on india, Printsellers' Association blindstamp. 680 x 420mm. Slight toning of margins.
Sir John Tyssen Tyrell (1795-1877), 2nd Bt, MP for Essex North 1832-57.
[Ref: 3969] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor & Under Treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer. _ 1815.
Painted by W. Owen Esq.r R.A. Portrait Painter to His R.H. the Prince Regent. Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Nicholas Vansittart in his ceremonial robes. Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, was one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer. He is best remembered for not abolishing Income Tax at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
CS 86, only state listed; Frankau 301, published state, iii of iii.
[Ref: 40690] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Holland and Lord John Russell in consultation on the Bill for the abolition of The Sacramental Test, This Plate is dedicated to the friends of Religious Liberty.
Painted and Engraved by H. Hughes.
[n.d., c.1828.]
Rare hand-coloured mezzotint. Sheet: 455 x 340mm (18 x 13¼''). Trimmed and damage in margins, stains and paper tones.
A double portrait showing Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840) sitting in a chair and Lord John Russell (1792-1878) standing beside him. The portrait commemorates the Scramental Test Bill which repealed the requirement for MPs to take communion in the Church of England.
[Ref: 50551] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Holland.]
E. B. Morris Pinx.t. R. Woodman Sculp.t. 1838.
Stipple, very large margins, rare. On india. Plate: 150 x 230mm, (6 x 9"). Some paper tone. Foxing. Damage to lower right corner.
A half portrait of Henry Vassell-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), a British politician, seated in a large armchair. In his hand Lord Holland holds a scroll titled 'A Circular The American Settlement for Jewish Proselytes.' Vassell-Fox was an advocate for Jewish emancipation in Britain and supported figures such as Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid who became the first Jew to be given a baronetcy.
[Ref: 35477] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Iohannes Vaughan Miles Capitalis Just. de Com: Banco. Ano: 1674.
R. White sculp
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Toning and foxing.
John Vaughan (1639-1731), 3rd Earl of Carbery and Governor of Jamaica (1675-78). He was known for being corrupt throughout his governance and had a general reputation for lewd decadence.
[Ref: 53746] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, Bart. M.P.]
[Charles Turner.]
[1833.]
A rare mezzotint on india laid paper, proof before letters, 560 x 410mm. 22 x 16". Tear from above to edge of image; a strong, well-inked impression.
Sir Robert Williames Vaughan (1768-1843), sitting on an attractive armchair in an interior. Of Nannan, Merionethshire, which county he representes in Parliament. After Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850).
Whitman: 582 (unnumbered state).
[Ref: 14129] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Wm. V Fitz - Gerald [facsimile signature] The Right Honble. W. R. Vesey Fitz-Gerald. Engraved from the original picture presented to him by the inhabitants of Horsham and others, on his departure from England to assume the Governorship of Bombay.
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Saml. Bellin.
London Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 7 Haymarket, and Thomas Jull, Horsham, Decb. 12th. 1867.
Mixed-method engraving. 492 x 386mm. 19" 1/3 x 15¼".
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE PC (1818 – 28 June 1885) was a British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham. FitzGerald was an illegitimate child of William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He studied at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837. FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. During this time he served as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1866, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay and was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. On his return to Britain, he again served Horsham as MP from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner.
AP: 42. LP: 25. PSA.
[Ref: 8309] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[William Vesey Fitzgerald]
[Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Saml. Bellin.]
[London Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, 7 Haymarket, and Thomas Jull, Horsham, Decb. 12th. 1867.]
Mixed-method engraving on india. Proof before all letters. 521 x 407mm. 20½" x 16".
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE PC (1818 – 28 June 1885) was a British politician and Member of Parliament for Horsham. FitzGerald was an illegitimate child of William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He studied at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837. FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. During this time he served as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1866, he was appointed as Governor of Bombay and was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. On his return to Britain, he again served Horsham as MP from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner
AP: 42. LP: 25. PSA.
[Ref: 8313] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[William Vesey-Fitzgerald.]
[Charles J. Tomkins.]
London Published Feb.y 1885 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors. Publishers to H.M the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales. 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. Very rare. 'Printsellers Assosiation' blind stamp in lower right corner.Sheet size: 415 x 310mm (16¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A portait of William Gerald Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald (1841 - 1910), half-length, seated, directed to the right, facing the viewer, his left hand placed inside his jacket, holding papers with his right. Vesy-Fitzgerald was a political ADC to the Secretary of State for India.
AP.25 P.25. B.L.I. 25.
[Ref: 37336] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Rob.t Patten, Esq.re Ald.n.
Painted by W.m Patten, Jn.r, 1818. Engraved by Edw.d Scriven, Historical Engraver to the King. Proof.
London: Jan.y 1, 1821, Published by W.m Patten & Son, No.34, Ludgate Hill.
Very fine and rare Stipple engraving on india. 470 x 345mm, 18½ x 13¾".
Robert Waithman (1764-1833), made his fortune as a draper. He became a Liberal MP for the City of London in 1820, and Lord Mayor of London in 1823. An obelisk to his memory is situated in Salisbury Square.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18598] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Walpole.]
[Arthur Pond.] J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1746.
[J.& P. Knapton, c.1746.]
Line engraving, proof before title. 372 x 229mm, 14½ x 9". Full margins; a fantastic proof impression.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), was a Whig statesman; in all but name he was Prime Minister, 1721-42. He came to office in the wake of the South Sea Bubble crisis and built up British prosperity in a long period of peace by his economic reforms. He obtained more power than any previous minister and remained in office for over twenty years, resorting to bribery and patronage to overcome unpopularity. His reign came to an end when he was drawn into an unsuccessful war with Spain. A fine proof printed in amsterdam prior to Thomas Birch's 'Heads of the Illustrious Persons of Great Britain' 1743-52.
[Ref: 13464] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Robert Walpole Earl of Orford - 1744.
F. Zinke effig.p. 1744. G. Vertue del. & sculp, 1748.
[London, c.1748.]
Engraving, 225 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼".
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), was a Whig statesman; in all but name he was Prime Minister, 1721-42. In an oval frame decorated with feathers, on a table draped with a cloth and covered with scrolls and a royal standard. Curtain above to left, his country seat Houghton Hall visible through columns in distance to right. Walpole came to office in the wake of the South Sea Bubble crisis and built up British prosperity in a long period of peace by his economic reforms. He obtained more power than any previous minister and remained in office for over twenty years, resorting to bribery and patronage to overcome unpopularity. His reign came to an end when he was drawn into an unsuccessful war with Spain. From 'Ædes Walpolianæ: or, a description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford' probably printed by John Hughs in 1748. Numbered 'Vol.2. P.225' upper right. After Christian Friedrich Zincke (1684? - 1767), portrait-miniaturist in enamel, born in Dresden; worked in England from 1706, living in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, and, from 1746, in Lambeth.
British Library: 015311021.
[Ref: 14044] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford. Prime Minister to King George the First, & King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber at Houghton.
Vanloo Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90, Cheapside London.
Very fine mezzotint. Plate 502 x 349mm (19¾ x 13¾").
A full length portrait of Robert Walpole (1676-1745) who dominated Parliament as de facto Prime Minister between 1721 and 1742. This portrait was published as frontispiece to Volume II of Boydell's series of prints of Walpole's art collection at Houghton, engraved after the collection was sold by the 3rd Earl in 1779, including 206 sold to Catherine the Great of Russia to decorate her Hermitage palace.
NPG: D39367. Goodwin: 131. CS: 149.
[Ref: 27338] £480.00

Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford. Prime Minister to King George the First, & King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber at Houghton.
Vanloo Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 1.st 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90, Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. Framed. Plate: 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Frame: 700 x 540mm (27½ x 21¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of Robert Walpole (1676-1745) who dominated Parliament as de facto Prime Minister between 1721 and 1742. This portrait was published as frontispiece to Volume II of Boydell's series of prints of Walpole's art collection at Houghton, engraved after the collection was sold by the 3rd Earl in 1779, including 206 sold to Catherine the Great of Russia to decorate her Hermitage palace.
CS: 149
[Ref: 46975] £450.00

Franciscus Walsingham Reg: Elis a Secretis A.D. 1573. Obiit A.D. 1590.
G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Engraving with large margins, 18th century paper watermarked. Plate 247 x 152mm (9¾ x 6"). Late eighteenth century impression.
Portrait of Francis Walsingham, illustration to Gilbert Burnet's 'History of the Reformation in England' Walsingham (1530-1590) established and ran the great Elizabethan secret service, providing information particularly for William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Its spies operated mainly against Roman Catholic conspirators and the agents of Philip II of Spain. As Secretary of State (1573-90), Walsingham continually advised Elizabeth to wage war on Spain and foresaw the threat of the Armada. He secured the conviction and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Alexander: 122.
[Ref: 28733] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

H.G. Ward. From a drawing by James Holmes Esq.r. This plate is by express permission dedicated most respectfully to the Members of the Reform Club by their faithful Servant Thomas Collins.
Engraved by W.H. Mote.
London, Thomas Collins, 170, Picadilly, Jan.y 23, 1842.
Engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾''). Time staining.
A portrait of statesman and colonial adminstrator Henry George Ward (1797-1860) who was involved in the administration of Australia and New Zealand. He served as governor of Ceylon from 1855 and briefly as governor of Madras in 1860 until his death later that year.
[Ref: 50573] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Watts Esq.r died 1580 from a Bust in Rochester Cathedral.
Pub.d as the Act Directs by J. Seago. [n.d., c.1790.]
Fine mezzotint. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins.
A portrait of Richard Watts (1529-1579) who served as M.P. for Rochester.
[Ref: 46326] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Webster.] Saepe suas laudes Marti persolvimus & me Passa fuit vatem Cypris amica Suum. Mercurii, Webstere, decus plaelustre, Cameonis Hos etiam Vultus da placuise meis. Vendis, emis permulta fagax mercator. at inter Commoda, mercanti Stat tibi salvus honor. Si falluntur opes alys, aut fallere norunt, Gloria non falli aut fallere prima tua est.
Cor. Jo. pinx. T. Matham Sculp. C. Barlaeus.
[n.d. c.1660.]
Rare engraving, first state. 285 x 190mm. 11¼ x 7½".
Sir John Webster, Bt (d.1675.) was the Commisary for Russia at the Hague.
See NPG: D27225.
[Ref: 24075] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Rodolphus Weckherlin. Natus 14 Sept: 1584 Denatus 13 Feb: 1653 AEt 69 Ano AEt. 50.
Mytins Pinxit. W. Faithorne fec.
Engraving, sheet 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
George Rudolph Weckerlin (1584-1653), Latin Secretary to Charles I, after a portrait by Daniel Mijtens I (1590-1647), leading artist at the court of Charles I for much of the 1620s and 1630s. Engraving by William Faithorne (c.1620-91), printmaker who was apprenticed to the printseller William Peake, with whom he served in the royalist army during the civil war. At the Restoration Faithorne was appointed engraver in copper to the king, doubtless as reward for his devotion to the Stuart cause. The finest native British engraver born before the eighteenth century, Faithorne was highly esteemed by Pepys (who recorded many visits to his shop) while enthusiasts such as Horace Walpole ensured his posthumous reputation, which led to fine proofs of his work fetching extraordinary prices in the late Georgian period.
Fagan p.66.
[Ref: 42240] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Last Return from Duty. Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, K.G. leaving the Horse Guards Aug.t 20th 1852.
Painted by James W. Glass. Engraved by James Faed.
London Published Sept.r 3rd 1855 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publishers to Her Majesty.
Coloured mezzotint. Image 580 x 865mm (22¾ x 34"), laid on backing sheet with printed title. Cut to image with title in script.
A large image of the first Duke of Wellington on horseback, returning the salute of a pair of Chelsea pensioners. Wellington had retired from political life in 1846 although he kept his seat in the Lords, as well as the role of Chief Ranger and Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James's Park. He died less than a month after this event.
[Ref: 36818] £420.00

Marquis Wellesley.
Engraved by Jn. Young, Engraver to H.R.H the Prince of Wales from a Bust Modelled after Life by J.Nollekins, R.A. From a Drawing by G.A.Konan.
London Published, Jany.1st.1809, by the Engraver No. 65, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint in frame. 559 x 393mm.
Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (20 June 1760 - 26 September 1842), was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. British politician and colonial administrator who expanded the British Empire in India and sought reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland.
CS: 68. II.
[Ref: 6769] £480.00

[Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley]
[After Sir Thomas Lawrence]
[n.d. c.1846]
Fine mezzotint, plate 390 x 305mm (15½ x 12"), with very large margins. Proof before letters.
Seated half-length portrait of Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) to front, wearing garter star partly obscured by his lapel and ribbon with medal around his neck, his left hand just visible, curtain behind. He first made his name as fifth Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
[Ref: 59034] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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