Grosvenor Prints

[James Buller] Clerk of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, in Ordinary. 19th. July 1821.
P. Stephanoff, del.t. Eng.d by S. Reynolds & E. Scriven, Eng.r to the King.
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1824 by Sir George Nayler, Garter.
Stipple and aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 455 x 355mm (18 x 14"), with very large margins.
A full length portrait of James Buller (1772-1830), dressed for the coronation of George IV. He was MP for West Looe at the 1802 & 1806 general elections, before leaving Parliament and serving as the Clerk in Ordinary to the Privy Council from January 1812 until his death in 1830. From Sir G. Nayler's "The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth, solemnized in the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter Westminster upon the Nineteenth Day of July MDCCCXXI". Nayler only published two of the five proposed parts (1823 & 1827); it was completed by George Henry Bohn and issued in 1837.
[Ref: 60450] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Bullfight.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph, very scarce. 330 x 622mm. 13 x 24½". Crease, vertical fold down centre. Small tear in bottom edge.
A bullring in Spain. A bull charges towards a picador, who on his horse aims his lance directly at the neck of the bull. A banderillero standing next to the bull plunges a small flag into his neck; another banderillero is running around the rear of the horse. Over to the far left stands the matador with his drape over his arm.
[Ref: 16451] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of 18 Bullfighting Scenes.] España corrida de toros...
[Jose Vallejo.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Set of 18 tinted lithographs. Sheet: 200 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Glue stains in corners.
A complete set of 18 bullfighting scenes showing the events in the ring from the herding of the bulls to the ring to the removal of the bull from the ring.
[Ref: 42623] £700.00 view all images for this item

Bullingdon on a Summer's Afternoon.
Published by J. Ryman, High St. Oxford. [n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 341 x 458mm (13 x 18"). Tear into upper margin and in title; damaged.
A sporting scene featuring a cricket match and horse race. The Bullingdon Club was founded over 200 years ago, and by 1875 it was considered "an old Oxford institution, with many good traditions". Originally it was a hunting and cricket club. In 1805 cricket at Oxford University "was confined to the old Bullingdon Club, which was expensive and exclusive". This foundational sporting purpose is attested to in the Club's crest. Printed locally by James Ryman (1840 - 1856; fl.), print publisher.
See Ref: 8527 for heightened with white and added colour version.
[Ref: 31241] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly. Plate 9. Vol. XIV. [&] Bullock's Museum, 22, Piccadilly.
No.80 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. Aug.t. 1. 1815 at 101 Strand, London. [n.d. c.1816.]
A pair: hand-coloured etching and aquatint on J. Whatman watermarked paper. 140 x 235mm (5½ x 9¼") [&] coloured engraving. 171 x 260mm (6¾ x 10¼").
View from the street of Bullock's Museum in Piccadilly; two figures enter the museum, others on the street, a horse-drawn carriage waits outside; and an interior view of exhibits. William Bullock was a showman, collector and naturalist. In 1809 he moved his growing collection from Liverpool to London. He began at 22 Piccadilly, then moved down the street to a larger building styled as an Egyptian temple. The ‘Egyptian Hall' contained around 32,000 objects of natural history, ethnography and archaeology. Bullock wanted to appeal to both the ‘scientific naturalist' and the general visitor. He arranged his specimens according to Linnaean classification and included information on animals' habitats, feeding and behaviours.
[Ref: 52426] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bullock's Museum. 22, Piccadilly.
No.18, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. June 1 1810 at 101 Strand; London.
Hand coloured engraving. 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Offset from text.
The interior of Bullock's Museum, also known as the London Museum and the Egyptian Hall (or Museum), centred on a display of stuffed animals including an elephant, zebra and polar bear. William Bullock (c.1773-1849), a traveller, naturalist, and antiquarian, established the museum in 1812. Built at a cost of £16,000, it contained 15,000 items, collected according to the guidebook 'during seventeen years of arduous research at a cost of £30,000'. Admission was l shilling or 1 guinea for an annual ticket. Over the years special exhibits included Napoleon's carriage, 'the superb Feather, Cloak, and and Helmet, presented by the king of Owyhee to, and worn [by] our Unfortunate Circumnavigator [Captain James Cook] a few days before he fell', Giovanni Battista Belzoni's finds in Egypt, and and James Ward's gigantic painting 'Allegory of Waterloo'. Thomas Shotter Boys' view of Piccadilly for 'London As It Is' shows the exterior of the Egyptian Hall during the exhibition of George Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio'.
[Ref: 61419] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Valley of Porto-Cruz, from the Portella Madeira
Drawn from Nature by J.B. On Stone by W. Gauci
Printed by Engelmann Graf Coindet & Co. [1827]
Lithograph, printed area 255 x 305mm (10 x 12") large margins. Scuff marks.
Porto da Cruz, in the north-east of Madeira, viewed from the lookout of Portela and showing the Penha da Águia. Plate from 'Views in the Madeiras executed on Stone' (1827) by the Rev James Bulwer (1794-1879), amateur watercolourist and antiquary.
Not in Abbey
[Ref: 43168] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Bun Macaroni.
Pubd accordg to act Octr. 9 1772. by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm (7 x 5").
A man dressed as a baker holding out a tray of buns. Possibly a representation of one of the Bunbury family (see 14286). From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.5' upper left and '2' upper right.
BM Satires: 4660.
[Ref: 14311] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Captain Bun Quixote attacking the Oven. V.5. 23.
Pub according to act Jany. 14th. 1773 by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, paper watermarked. Plate 178 x 127mm (7 x 5").
A bakery print showing a man wearing a cocked hat putting a tray of buns into the door of a blazing oven. Possible a representation of one of the Bunbury family.
BM Satires: 4665.
[Ref: 38213] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

I will pay no more debts of her Contracting.
Mr. Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton f.
Published 7th December 1772 by J: Bretherton New Bond Street.
Etching, sheet 255 x 165mm. 10 x 6½". Trimmed to platemark.
On the left stands a thin man holding out his right hand as if for money. In his left hand is a long bill headed "... Mercer...". His hat is under his right arm. He faces a stout man standing in profile to the right whose right hand points at the bill. He is frowning and appears to be shouting. An open door is indicated in the background. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires: 5085. Provenance: ex-collection J.E. Laboureur.
[Ref: 17871] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Contadina degli Stati di Parma e Modena.
H.W.Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton. f.
Publish'd as the Act dircts 3.d Feb.y 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching with fine hand colour, sheet 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate. Top right corner of paper missing.
Two Italian women, wearing traditional costumes from Parma and Modena, stand next to a customs building, 'Qui si paga la gabella', accompanied by a dog. One of a series of costume prints. Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
[Ref: 65180] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Contadina degli Stati di Parma e Modena.
H.W.Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton. f.
[Publish'd as the Act dircts 3.d Feb.y 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.]
Etching, sheet 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed losing publication line and laid down onto album sheet at corners.
Two Italian women, wearing traditional costumes from Parma and Modena, stand next to a customs building, 'Qui si paga la gabella', accompanied by a dog. One of a series of costume prints. Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
[Ref: 65181] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Wife of Hassan Alhabbal, in cutting open the Fish she finds a large Diamond. Arab.n Nights Ent.s [&] he First Interview of the Prince of Persia and Schemselnihar, at the House of Ehn Thair. Arab.n Nights Ent.s
H. Bunbury Esqr. delt.
London, Pubd. April 10th. 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53, next York House, Piccadilly.
Pair of stipples with etching, printed in brown ink. 285 x 335mm. 11¼ x 13¼". Trimmed.
Kitchen scene with a woman standing over a table at left with knife in hand, displaying a diamond in her palm to a man and young boy, a figure at right seen from behind leaving the room, above a bird-cage hangs; [&] A man leaning on a table at left at which a lady is seated, turning to look at the prince at right, his sword hanging on a chain around his waist, three girls watch the meeting through an arch behind. Related to 'One Thousand and One Nights', known in English as the 'Arabian Nights', from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments'.
[Ref: 27254] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bunbury's Whims. The Lovers.
L.M. Re
[n.d., c.1825.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14"), with 18th century watermark.
A watercolour copy of Henry Bunbury's Whims. A male figure kneels before a standing woman with a fan, made up of triangles.
See: Ref: 43975
[Ref: 43974] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bunbury's Whims. Round. Triangle. Square.
Engraved from an original Drawing by the late Henry Bunbury, in the possession of the Publisher.
[London, n.d., c.1820s.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"). Trimmed.
Satire showing three highly stylised geometric figures composed of circles, triangles and squares/rectangles respectively. From an early edition of 'Whims and oddities: in prose and verse' by humourist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Lettered with a couplet by Hood beneath each caption.
[Ref: 41589] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bunbury's Whims. The Lovers. A pair of Conscious Lovers _ do not flout 'em, / Foth both have plenty of good points about 'em! T.H.
Engraved from an original Drawing by the late Henry Bunbury, in the possession of the Publisher.
[London, n.d., c.1820.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed, tape remains at edges, some staining.
Caricature showing two highly stylised geometric figures composed of angular shapes; a young man on bended knee before woman holding a fan. From an early edition of 'Whims and oddities: in prose and verse' by humourist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Lettered with a couplet by Hood beneath the caption.
See Ref: 43974 for a period watercolour.
[Ref: 63735] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Bunbury's Whims.] Round. Triangle. Square.
Engraved from an original Drawing by the late Henry Bunbury, in the possession of the Publisher.
[London, n.d., c.1820.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 170 x 260mm (6¾ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing sub-title.
Caricature showing three highly stylised geometric figures composed of circles, triangles and squares/rectangles respectively. From an early edition of 'Whims and oddities: in prose and verse' by humourist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Each figure has a couplet by Hood beneath a caption.
[Ref: 63736] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Bunbury Esq.
Laurence pinx. Ryder sculp.
London Published as the Act directs 24 Apr: 1789 by S: Watts No28 Walcot Place Lambeth & to be had at T: Ryder's No.43 Great Titchfield St.
Stipple printed in sepia with small margins, platemark 412 x 322mm (16¼ x 12¾"). Damaged at top of two corners.
Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left. The Long Minuet is one of Bunbury's famous large panoramic images.
For impression printed in black ink see ref. 29958.
[Ref: 41062] £420.00

Henry Bunbury Esq.
Laurence pinx. Ryder sculp.
London Published as the Act directs 24 Apr: 1789 by S: Watts No28 Walcot Place Lambeth & to be had at T: Ryder's No.43 Great Titchfield St.
Stipple with small margins. Plate 412 x 322mm (16¼ x 12¾").
Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left. The Long Minuet is one of Bunbury's famous large panoramic images.
[Ref: 29958] £480.00

[Lady Sarah Bunbury.] Lady S-B, - habited as a Clergyman.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Etching with stipple. Sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to printed border.
Lady Sarah Bunbury (née Lennox, 1745-1826), a society beauty, dressed in clerical robes and wig. A great-granddaughter of Charles II and daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Lennox, she married Charles Bunbury in 1762 and an army officer, Hon. George Napier, in 1781. She was no stranger to scandal: she was a favourite of George III when still in her mid-teens and was divorced by Bunbury for adultery, having eloped and having an illegitimate daughter. However it is not known whether this portrait records an event or is a caricature.
[Ref: 55510] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Sarah Bunbury.
J Reynolds pinx.t. E Fisher Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov: 8, 1766, & Sold by E . Fisher at the Golden head in Leicester Square.
Fine mezzotint. 600 x 340mm (23½ x 14½"). Narrow margins.
Lady Sarah Napier (1745-1826), noblewoman and society beauty, offering incense to a statue of the Three Graces. A great-granddaughter of Charles II and daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Lennox, she married Charles Bunbury in 1762, shortly after which he commissioned this portrait. The marriage was not successful, and she was soon involved in affairs, becoming pregnant by her cousin Lord William Gordon.
CS: 6, ii of ii. Hamilton: p.87, ii of iv. The painting is now in the Kimball Collection, Art Institute of Chicago.
[Ref: 68731] £520.00

[Lady Sarah Bunbury.]
[J Reynolds pinxt. E Fisher Sculpt.]
[Publish'd as the Act directs Nov: 8, 1766, & Sold by E . Fisher at the Golden head in Leicester Square.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 600 x 340mm (23½ x 14½"). Small margins, old ink mss in lower margin.
Lady Sarah Napier (1745-1826), noblewoman and society beauty, offering incense to the Graces.
A great-granddaughter of Charles II and daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Lennox, she married Charles Bunbury in 1762, shortly after which he commissioned this portrait. The marriage was not successful, and she was soon involved in affairs, becoming pregnant by her cousin Lord William Gordon.
CS: 6. Hamilton: p.87. The painting is now in the Kimball Collection, Art Institute of Chicago.
[Ref: 46337] £680.00

[Illustration to German translation of 'The Life of John Buncle' by Thomas Amory] Leben Joh. Bunkels. S.45 No.1
D. Chodowiecki inv & sc.
[1778]
Etching, sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed.
Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), German painter and etcher whose output as a printmaker consists of over 2000 plates. He was the director of the Berliner Akamie from 1797, and also an avid collector of prints and drawings.
[Ref: 46370] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to German translation of 'The Life of John Buncle' by Thomas Amory] Leben Joh. Bunkels. S.119 No.4
D. Chodowiecki inv & sc.
[published by Friedrich Nicolai, 1778]
Etching, sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed. Slight foxing.
John Buncle looking at the skeleton of John Orton. One of a set of illustrations to John Amory's 'The Life of John Buncle, Esq.' by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), German painter and etcher whose output as a printmaker consists of over 2000 plates. He was the director of the Berliner Akamie from 1797, and also an avid collector of prints and drawings.
[Ref: 46371] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to German translation of 'The Life of John Buncle' by Thomas Amory] Leben Joh. Bunkels. S.93 No.2
D. Chodowiecki inv & sc.
[published by Friedrich Nicolai, 1778]
Etching, sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed.
John Buncle saving the unconscious Miss Melmoth from her flooded cabin. One of a set of illustrations to John Amory's 'The Life of John Buncle, Esq.' by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), German painter and etcher whose output as a printmaker consists of over 2000 plates. He was the director of the Berliner Akamie from 1797, and also an avid collector of prints and drawings.
[Ref: 46372] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to German translation of 'The Life of John Buncle' by Thomas Amory] Leben Joh. Bunkels. S.93 No.2
D. Chodowiecki inv & sc.
[published by Friedrich Nicolai, 1778]
Etching, sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed.
John Buncle in a chapel for morning prayers. One of a set of illustrations to John Amory's 'The Life of John Buncle, Esq.' by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), German painter and etcher whose output as a printmaker consists of over 2000 plates. He was the director of the Berliner Akamie from 1797, and also an avid collector of prints and drawings.
[Ref: 46373] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Bunker's Hill.
[after John Trumbull.]
Wood engraving on shiny paper. Printed area 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾").
A later printing of a keyplate to John Trumbull's famous scene 'The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill'. Trumbull painted several versions, but made more money from the engraved versions, including an edition published in London by Poggi in 1798 and one he published himself in New York in 1808.
[Ref: 45678] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Bunker's Hill. June 17th 1775.
Painted by J. Trumbull Esq. Engraved by J. Rogers.
J & F Tallis, London, Eduinburgh and Dublin. [n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 205 x 270mm (8 x 10½").
A scene depicting the death of General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17th 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, within a decorative border showing the surrender of Charlestown to General Clinton below. Warren, an influential Massachusetts politician, had been commissioned a general but served in the battle as a volunteer. He was killed during or shortly after the storming of Breed's Hill by British troops.
[Ref: 37318] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bunyan.]
S.M. Litten [pencil signature].
Published 1922 by The Museum Galleries, 26, Museum Street, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 295 x 255mm (11½ x 10"), very large margins.
Half-length portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, after Thomas Sadler. Dated 1684, it is the earliest dated portrait of Bunyan, is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
See NPG 1311.
[Ref: 57861] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan,
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare woodcut. Sheet 150 x 85mm (6 x 3½"). Light time staining.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52548] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bunyan.]
[after Robert White.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Thread margins, repaired tear top left. Bit messy.
Portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), apparently asleep under a tree but, as he is leaning on a skull, his rest is probably eternal. A lion roars bottom left.
[Ref: 52563] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan Minister of The Gospel at Bedford Died at London Aug. 31. 1688. Aged 60 having Written 60 Books.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Woodcut. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed within printed border on left, laid on album paper. Text verso. Stained.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52547] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

M.r John Bunyan, Late Minister of the Gospel at Bedford, Author of the Pilgrim's Progress, Holy War, and other Celebrated Treatices. Done from an Original Painting in the Possession of Henry Stimpson, Gent.
T. Sadler Pinx.t 1685. J.Spilsbury fecit.
London Printed for Tho.s Kitchin at the Star Holborn Hill, Engraver to His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Price 1.s 6.d [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Laid on album sheet at sides.
A half-length portrtait of clergyman and author John Bunyan (1628-1688), in plain jacket with white china collar, holding a book. Thomas Stadler's portrait in now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 1311).
CS 2. ii of iii.
[Ref: 69997] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of John Bunyan Author of the Pilgrims Progress.
Engraved by W.m Sharp, from a Picture formerly in the possession of the late George Phillips Esqr.
London, Pub. Aug. 1819. by Hurst Robinson & Co./late Boydells/.90 Cheapside.
Etching. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7")
John Bunyan (1628 - 1688), preacher and writer of 'Pilgrim's Progress'.
[Ref: 7928] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Camp at Bunzelwitz.] Plaan der merckwürdigen Stellùng der dreÿ grossen Armeen, als der Kaÿl. Königl., Kaÿl: Russichen, u Königl: Preüssisschen...
H. von Mayer 1781 auc.
Rare etching. 360 x 340mm (14¼ x 13½"). Large margins.
A detailed plan of the camp of Frederick II of Prussia's army at Bunzelwitz (now Boleslawice), outside Schweidnitz (Swidnica) in south-west Poland, nearly surrounded by the Russian and Austrian Armies. The positions of each corps is marked, with the names of the commanders. With all the armies short of supplies the Prussians withdrew, allowing the Austrians to storm and take the important fortress of Schwiednitz later in September.
[Ref: 38453] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Cleghorns Buoyant Line & Mr. Boyces Life Boat or Safety Buoy. Pl.18.
C. Varley del. A. Warren sculp.
[n.d. c.1811.]
Very rare engraving. 132 x 209mm (5¼ x 8¼").
In 1812, the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce awarded the silver medal and ten guineas to Mr Thomas Boyce for a life boat or safety buoy, and the silver medal to Mr T. Cleghorn for a buoyant line, to preserve the lives of mariners.
[Ref: 25158] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Burbage [in pencil]. [Richard Burbage. The First Performer of King Richard III. From the Original Picture in Dulwich College…]
[S. Harding del et sculp.]
[n.d. c.1790.]
Stipple. Proof before letters. Image 157 x 126mm. Image stuck onto separate sheet.
Richard Burbage (1568-1619) was an actor and theatre owner. Burbage was a popular actor by his early 20s. His early acting career is poorly documented. It has been suggested that it included a stint in the Earl of Leicester's company, but there is no good evidence for this. He probably was acting with the Admiral's Men in 1590, with Lord Strange's Men in 1592, and with the Earl of Pembroke's Men in 1593; but most famously he was the star of William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men which mutated into the King's Men on the ascension of James I in 1603. He played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including Hamlet, Othello, Richard III and King Lear. But he was in great demand and also appeared in the plays of many of the great contemporary writers, such as Ben Jonson (the title role in Volpone, and Subtle in The Alchemist), John Marston (The Malcontent), John Webster (The Duchess of Malfi) and Beaumont & Fletcher (The Maid's Tragedy).
Appears in NPG with title area.
[Ref: 12670] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[William John Burchell.]
T.H. Maguire 1854.
Tinted lithograph, proof before letters. Printed area 295 x 245mm (11½ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Foxing.
Half length portrait of William John Burchell (1781-1863), botanist and nauralist, who lived on St Helena and in South Africa 1805-15, returning with 48 crates of specimens, including plants, skins, skeletons, insects, seeds, bulbs and fish. He wrote 'Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa' (1824-4). His travels in Brazil from 1825 to 1830 resulted in another large collection, including more than 20,000 insects. When he killed himself in 1863 his plant specimens, drawings and manuscripts, both South African and Brazilian, were presented to Kew Gardens and the insects to Oxford University Museum.
[Ref: 59769] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Joh. Henricus Burckhard Medicinae Doctor Ser: Ducum Brunsw: Luneburg [...]
Muller pinx. G.F. Schmidt Sc Berolini [c.1720]
Engraving, platemark 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Very large margins.
German botanist Johann Heinrich Burckhardt (1676-1738).
Wellcome Library no. 1540i.
[Ref: 38357] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Burckhardt.
Stewart delt. Lizars sc.
Engraved for the Naturalist's Library [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving, sheet 165 x 100mm. 6½ x 4".
Johann Ludwig (also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (1784 - 1817) was a Swiss traveller and orientalist. He is best known for rediscovering the ruins of the city of Petra (today in Jordan).
[Ref: 24046] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Revd. George Burder, Secretary of the Missionary Society. Author of Village Sermons &c.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill. Engraved by H. Meyer.
London, Published 16. Augst. 1812, by R. Cribb & Son, 288, High Holborn.
Mezzotint. 245 x 340mm.
Nonconformist divine, in early manhood an engraver, but in 1776 he began preaching [1752 - 1832]. He was one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Religious Tract Society.
[Ref: 4648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Genial Rays, or John Bull enjoying the sunshine.
[Charles Williams.]
Tegg's Caricatures 111 Cheapside. Pub.d June 1810 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at top.
John Bull, a fat 'cit', his hat and bludgeon beside him, reclines on his back against a grassy bank covered with roses. He looks up ecstatically to the sky where the profile head of Burdett is enclosed in a circle or sun inscribed 'Clarior e Tenebris'; this is irradiated, the rays illuminating a distant view of London and John himself. These passions set—and the great Patriot shines" The rays are inscribed: 'Magna Charta', 'King and Constitution', 'Loyalty', 'Reform', 'Good of the People', 'Integrity', 'Laws of the Land', 'Trial by Jury', 'Lords', 'Habea[s Corpus]', 'Liberty', 'Candour', 'Justice', 'Truth', 'Freedom of the Pr[ess]', 'Bill of Rights', 'Commons', 'Free Representation'. A circle of clouds is still not entirely dispersed by the rays: on the right they are over the Tower of London and on the left they surround three evil stars: 'Corrupti[on]', 'Imbe[cillity]', 'Democ[racy]'.
BM Satires 11563.
[Ref: 52292] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Genial Rays, or John Bull enjoying the sunshine.
[Charles Williams.]
Tegg's Caricatures 111 Cheapside. Pub.d June 1810 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾").
John Bull, a fat 'cit', his hat and bludgeon beside him, reclines on his back against a grassy bank covered with roses. He looks up ecstatically to the sky where the profile head of Burdett is enclosed in a circle or sun inscribed 'Clarior e Tenebris'; this is irradiated, the rays illuminating a distant view of London and John himself. These passions set—and the great Patriot shines" The rays are inscribed: 'Magna Charta', 'King and Constitution', 'Loyalty', 'Reform', 'Good of the People', 'Integrity', 'Laws of the Land', 'Trial by Jury', 'Lords', 'Habea[s Corpus]', 'Liberty', 'Candour', 'Justice', 'Truth', 'Freedom of the Pr[ess]', 'Bill of Rights', 'Commons', 'Free Representation'. A circle of clouds is still not entirely dispersed by the rays: on the right they are over the Tower of London and on the left they surround three evil stars: 'Corrupti[on]', 'Imbe[cillity]', 'Democ[racy]'.
BM Satires 11563.
[Ref: 63420] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Francis Burdett, Bar.t M.P. From an original Drawing in the Possession of Walter Fawkes Esq.r of Franley Hall, Yorkshire.
Drawn by T. Wageman. Engraved by R. Cooper.
London, Published Sep.r 1st 1821 by W. Cribb, 34, King Street, Covent Garden.
Stipple, very fine proof on chine collé. 430 x 300mm (17 x 11¾"), with uncut margins.
Three-quarter portrait of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), a reformist politician and baronet who denounced the war with France and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
NPG D32401. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36542] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Peter and Paul expell'd from Paradise. The World was all before them where to choose [/] Their place of rest and Parson T_e [Tooke], their guide.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Dec.r 1806 by S.W. Fores N.o 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Tear in margins.
A political satire commenting on Sir Francis Burdett and James Paull's defeats at the 1806 election. William Mellish and Richard Sheridan, who won the seat of Middlesex and Westminster, brandish flaming swords from under an arch labelled 'Gate of St Stephens' while the defeated Burdett and Paull hurry away from them, an unconcerned John Horne Tooke, their mentor walks before them reading 'Diversions of Purley' towards his home in Wimbledon.
BM Satire 10622.
[Ref: 43646] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Francis Burdett Bar.t.
James Northcote R.A. pinx.t. William Sharp sculp.t.
Engraved from a Picture painted during his imprisonment in the Tower and Published by W.m Sharp, 27 London Street, Fitzroy Square, Feb. 14, 1811.
Etching with engraving. 475 x 350mm (18¾ x 13¾"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of Sir Francis Burdett (1770 - 1844), his right hand on a book, the Magna Charta. In 1810 Burdett was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of libelling the House of Commons. After James Northcote (1746-1831).
From the Northcote family Albums.
[Ref: 70016] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Peter and Paul expell'd from Paradise. The World was all before them where to choose [/] Their place of rest and Parson T_e [Tooke], their guide.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Dec.r 1806 by S.W. Fores N.o 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark; sheet 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed to printed border.
A political satire commenting on Sir Francis Burdett and James Paull's defeats at the 1806 election. William Mellish and Richard Sheridan, who won the seat of Middlesex and Westminster, brandish flaming swords from under an arch labelled 'Gate of St Stephens' while the defeated Burdett and Paull hurry away from them, an unconcerned John Horne Tooke, their mentor walks before them reading 'Diversions of Purley' towards his home in Wimbledon.
BM Satire 10622.
[Ref: 69813] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Burdett] Peter and Paul expell'd from Paradise. The World was all before them where to choose [/] Their place of rest and Parson T_e, their guide.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Dec.r 1806 by S.W. Fores N.o 50 Piccadilly.
Etching, 1805 Edmeades watermark; 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Trimmed to plate at top.
A satire on Sir Francis Burdett and James Paull's defeats at the 1806 election. William Mellish and Richard Sheridan, who won the seat of Middlesex and Westminster, brandish flaming swords from under an arch labelled 'Gate of St Stephens' while the defeated Burdett and Paull hurry away from them, an unconcerned John Horne Tooke, their mentor walks before them reading 'Diversions of Purley' towards his home in Wimbledon.
BM Satire 10622.
[Ref: 61875] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Francis Burdett.
Drawn Etch.d. by Richard Dighton Jan.y. 1820.
Etching with fine hand colour. 195 x 295mm (7¾ x 11¾"), with large margins. Mint.
Full length portrait in profile of Sir Francis Burdett (1770- 1844) a reformist politician and baronet who denounced the war with France and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
BM Satires 14055.
[Ref: 63797] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Burdett] French Habits No. 12. Messager d'Etat.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802', very large margins.
Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), 5th Baronet, in the dress of the French Republican state messenger, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He was a supporter of the Radicals and opponent of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9213.
[Ref: 64705] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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