Grosvenor Prints

Fisher Ames Esqr.
Painted by Stuart. Engraved by Boyd.
Published by Joseph Delaplaine [Philadelphia, USA]. Rogers & Esler Printers.
Stipple, sheet 205 x 120mm. 8 x 4¾". Trimmed to plate.
Fisher Ames (1758 - 1808) was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts. Ames was elected to the First United States Congress, having beat Samuel Adams for the post. He also served in the Second and Third Congresses and as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress. In 1805, Ames was chosen president of Harvard University.
[Ref: 15873] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

General Arnold. [Engraved for Murray's History of the American War.]
[Printed for T. Robson, Newcastle upon Tyne.] [n.d., c.1778-80.]
Fine & rare engraving. Sheet 120 x 95mm (4¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An oval portrait of Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American officer who changed sides during the American Revolution. There are no known lifetime portraits of Arnold. From the Rev. James Murray's 'An impartial history of the present war in America; containing an account of its rise and progress, the political springs thereof, with its various successes and disappointments on both sides'.
[Ref: 58545] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

General Arnold.
April 10 1783 by William Richardson No 174 Strand.
Stipple, very scarce proof. Sheet 155 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, crease on left.
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), the American general whose traitorous plan to to surrender West Point to the British was foiled. The portrait was engraved by Burnet Reading after the original painting by Pierre Eugene Du Simetiere. The completed print was published May 10th, a month after this proof.
[Ref: 23129] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le General Arnold un des Chefs de l Armee Anglo Americaine.
A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques, a la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R. [n.d.,c.1780.]
Etching and engraving, sheet 185 x 130mm. 7¼ x 5".
Benedict Arnold (1741 – 1801). American general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled.
[Ref: 9900] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Brigadier Genl. Arnold.
Engraved for the Universal Magazine.
[n.d., London, c.1781.]
Engraving, 180 x 110mm.
Benedict Arnold (1741 – 1801). American general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled.
[Ref: 7453] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Arnold.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Rare stipple proof. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Thread margins on three sides, old ink mss., 'Aeronaut', in bottom margin.
A bust-length oval portrait of Stuart Amos Arnold (active c.1785) a cockaded hat over his curled and powdered hair tied in a queue, in a dark coat and light waistcoat with large lapels, his linen starched. He was a Royal Navy purser and surveyor and author and. Arnold published several commercial works on Navigation in the 18th Century, before losing an arm, at which point he became famous as a hot air balloonist, touring Europe with his flying circus. He made an ascent from St George's Fields in 1785, which ended in disaster after it got caught on some railings. In 1778 he wrote 'The Merchants and Owners Friend: Or, Seamens Preserver, Etc.'. In 1800 his sea chart 'The Lewis and West Coast of Scotland' was published in London by D. & E. Steel; in 1803 a French edition of his chart of Ireland was published by the Depot de la Marine. The British Museum have incorrectly identified the sitter as the military commander and famous traitor Benedict Arnold (1741-1801).
O'Donoghue 1908-25 undescribed. BM website 1920,1211.147. See also reference 56930.
[Ref: 60800] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Rev. Albert Barnes. [Facsimile:] Albert Barnes. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.
Engraved by Thomas.B. Welch (Philad.a), From a Dauguerreotype by Mc.Clees & Germon. Printed by A.E.Lent.
Published by Wm. Smith 702 S.3rd.St. Philadelphia. [n.d. c.1860.]
Mezzotint. Plate 330 x 247mm. 13 x 9¾".
Reverend Albert Barnes (1798-1870) was born in New York and attended Hamilton College and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Two years later he was ordained paster of the Presbyterian church in Morristown, New Jersey. However from 1830 until 1867 he was pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia where he later resigned and was made pastor emeritus. He advocated the abolition of slavery and worked actively to promote Sunday-school. He later faced trial and was acquitted, but his acusers had him suspended from the ministry, but he was again acquitted in 1836. He was accused of preaching that man had free will to accept or deny the Gospel, and thus broke from strict Calvinism.
[Ref: 18430] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Beltrami] The Author, In his Dress when among the Indians.
Drawn on Stone by J.W.Giles. from a Drawing by Stephanhoff.
Printed by C.Hullmandel.
Lithograph on india paper. India 161 x 102mm.
Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1779-1855) from 1822 explored the United States, finding the source of the Mississippi; after which he travelled in Mexico. This portrait appeared in his account of his travels.
[Ref: 2694] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Burgh] Ye Kind-hearted Man. Lights O' New York.
Tobin. N.Y. [n.d. c.1870.]
Chromolithograph. 158 x 102mm. 6¼ x 4".
Henry Burgh (1811-18), and American philanthropist born in New York City. He founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866. It was the first of its kind in America and was granted the authority to enforce local animal protection laws by the New York state legislature in the same year. In 1875, with Elbridge T. Gerry and others, he helped form the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
[Ref: 15451] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Daniel Boone [facsimile signature]. From the original painting by Chappel in the possession of the publishers.
[after Alonzo Chappel.]
Johnson, Fry & Co Publishers, New York [1862].
Steel engraving. Sheet 270 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾").
Daniel Boone (1734-1820), American pioneer and frontiersman. His rescue of his daughter when she was kidnapped by a Shawnee war party was adapted by James Fenimore Cooper for his classic novel 'The Last of the Mohicans'.
[Ref: 56641] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
C.J. Culliford, lith, 22, Southampton St, Strand.
A.M. Bailey's American agency, 3, Northumberland Court, Charing Cross, London. [n.d., c.1865.]
Lithograph, very rare with large margins. Printed area 190 x 120mm, 7½ x 4¾".
Head and shoulders portrait of Booth, the American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865. When he shot the President Booth reportedly cried out 'sic semper tyrannis' ('thus always to tyrants'), and as he had recently been performing in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar', these words were understood as an allusion to the death of Caesar. This slogan had been fixed on the Great Seal of Virginia in 1796.
Glen Bowerstock, 'Assassins' play' in Times Literary Supplement, 21 & 28 December 2012
[Ref: 27770] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Church.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching, sheet 220 x 140mm. 8¾ x 5½".
Captain Benjamin Church (c. 1639 - 1718) was an American carpenter, military officer, and Ranger during America's Colonial era, and specifically, King Philip's War. King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacom's War or Metacom's Rebellion, was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676. More than half of New England's ninety towns were assaulted by Native American warriors. The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, Metacom, or Pometacom known to the English as "King Philip".
[Ref: 9901] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Governor Clinton & Lady. [Signature facsimile.]
Richd. H. Pease, Sc. Albany. From Engravings by St. Menin, in the possession of Pierre Van Cortlandt.
[American, n.d., c.1820.]
Two medallion portrait profiles to single sheet, etching with mezzotint. Sheet 225 x 135mm. 9 x 5¼". Trimmed to plate.
George Clinton (1739 – 1812), American soldier and politician, and his wife Sarah (nee Tappen). Clinton is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the first Governor of New York, and then the Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Pierre Van Cortlandt was Clinton's Lieutenant Governor and brother-in-law.
[Ref: 17782] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d John Codman. D.D. Dorchester. Massachusetts.
Wildman del. Roffe sc.
Pub. Feb.y 1827, by Westley & Davis, Stationers Court.
Stipple. 215 x 120mm (8½ x 4¾").
Rev. John Codman (1782-1848). Dr. Codman graduated at Harvard College in 1802, studied for the ministry under the Rev. Henry Ware, then of Hingham, and in 1805 embarked for Europe, to finish his theological studies there, before returning to the United States.
[Ref: 28556] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

James Fenimore Cooper [with facsimile signature].
Painted by J.W. Jarvis. Engraved by E. Scriven.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Stipple. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate (as issued)
A half-length portrait of James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), in naval uniforum. The American author, best known for the romantic novel 'The Last of the Mohicans', went to sea in 1806, aged 17, on a merchant ship, before serving in the US navy 1808-10. The original portrait was painted in 1822 by his friend John Wesley Jarvis (c.1780-1839), a member of Cooper’s famous 'Bread and Cheese Club'. Described by Cooper's wife as her favourite portrait of her husband, it now resides in the Fenimore Art Museum.
[Ref: 55649] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas P.Cope, Esq. President of the Mercantile Library Co. Philadelphia.
[En]graved by Jn.o Sartain after the original portrait painted by J.Neagle in 1848, for the Comp[...].
[c.1848.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 170 x 100mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on board.
Thomas P. Cope (1768–1854), a Quaker originally from Lancaster, was the son of Caleb Cope. He was apprenticed to a dry goods merchant in Philadelphia at the age of 17. He became one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest citizens as a merchant, politician, and active philanthropist.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4387] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Cruger Esq.r.
W. Hincks del et sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs, March 11th 1783 by W.m Hincks.
Rare stipple, platemark 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3"). Small margins.
A bust portrait of Henry Cruger (1739-1827), an American and British merchant who is the only person in history to have be elected to both the Parliament of Great Britain and the New York State Senate. Born in New York to a political and mechant family, his uncle and grandfather both serving as mayor of New York, Cruger left America in 1757 having graduated from Kings College, now Columbia University. He was placed in his family's merchant firm in Bristol, where he was elected as MP for the Whig party. He was elected for two terms 1774-1780 and 1784-1790. As an MP he criticized Britain's increasing failing relationship with its colonies and campaigned for conciliation with America. Following American Independence Cruger returned to New York where he was elected to the New York State Senate as a Federalist.
[Ref: 41432] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Jefferson Davis.
Metzmacher del et in. 1862.
Engraving. 290 x 215mm. Some damage.
Jefferson Davis (1808-89), President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to the end of the Cicil War in 1865.
[Ref: 7573] £125.00 (£150.00 incl.VAT)

Jefferson Davis.
Metzmacher del et sc.
1862.
Engraving. Plate 286 x 216mm. 11¼ x 8½".
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President for its entire history. He also fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment and as the United States Secretary of War under Democratic President Franklin Pierce.
[Ref: 23284] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Silas Dean] No. XXIV. The Captivating Miss B_. No. XXVI. The American Negotiator.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street, Oct.r. 1;1783.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼").
Two portrait busts in ovals, on the left is depicted a courtesan while on the right is the American merchant Silas Deane (1737-1789) who negotiated with France on behalf of supporters of American Independence. However following a dispute with Congress he returned to France to settle his affairs, but was barred from returning to America after the publication of letters to his brother which criticised the Revolution and argued for an approchment with Britain. He was anti-slavery involved in most of the action on the Canadian border. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6303.
[Ref: 45512] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Silas Deane Esq.r Commissioner from Congress in France.
B.B.E.
Pub.d May 15th 1783 by R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill London.
Stipple and etching pt printed in colour, platemark 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"). Thread margins on 3 sides.
Silas Deane (1737-89), revolutionary politician and diplomat in America. Born in Connecticut, Deane graduated from Yale in 1758 and rose rapidly in Connecticut politics. He was an active member of congress and in 1776-8 was in France to solicit arms and supplies and seek support for an independent United States, a mission which had mixed results. He was regarded with suspicion by Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, and on a return trip to Europe in 1780, by which time Deane was disillusioned with the American cause, he called for the Americans to abandon the French and reach a reconciliation with Great Britian. From this point on most Americans regarded Deane as a traitor, and he never returned to the country, living in Ghent and London before dying on a ship en route to Canada in 1789. Mixed-media print after Pierre Eugène Du Simitière (1737-84), American painter of Swiss birth. Based in Philadelphia from 1770-84, Du Simitière arranged for 14 of his profile portraits to be sent to Paris for engraving in 1779, although pirated copies and the failure of many sets to return to him made the project unsuccessful.
[Ref: 43113] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

W. Jennings Demorest & Mme. Demorest.
Printed by Vammel & Voigt N.Y. Engraved by A.H. Ritchie.
Demorests Monthly Magazine 1877.
Steel engraving, sheet 191 x 147mm. Trimmed, lightly soiled.
William Jennings Demorest, publisher on Broadway, New York City, and his wife Ellen Louise Curtis Demorest. Ellen Curtis married Demorest in 1858. She conceived the idea of mass-produced accurate paper patterns for home dressmaking. In 1860 she opened Madame Demorest’s Emporium of Fashions on Broadway and he began publishing the quarterly Mme. Demorest’s Mirror of Fashions, which featured, in addition to the obligatory colour fashion plates, a pattern stapled into each copy. The patterns also were distributed by themselves, soon through a nationwide network of agencies as they proved immensely popular; in 1876, their peak year, three million patterns were sold. The success of the magazine led to its becoming the expanded Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Mme. Demorest’s Mirror of Fashions in 1864 (Illustrated was dropped from the name in 1865). While her husband established a mail-order operation to deal in sewing aids and other merchandise, Demorest developed a cheap hoopskirt and a new line of corsets, cosmetics, and other products, at the same time presiding over her emporium. She also supported her husband in his reform work, especially the temperance crusade, and interested herself in projects for the betterment of opportunities for women. She employed a great many women herself, including a large number of African-American women who worked on the same terms as their white coworkers, and she was active in the management of the New York Medical College for Women and the Welcome Lodging House for Women and Children. In 1868 she helped organize Sorosis, a social club. In the 1880s the business declined, in large part because of the Demorests’ failure to patent their paper pattern idea and the consequent competition of, among others, Ebenezer Butterick (often credited with having originated the idea). In 1887 Demorest sold the pattern business.
[Ref: 7894] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[John Dickinson.]
[Drawn from the life by Du Simitiere in Philadelphia] B.B.E. [inscribed lower right].
[n.d. c.1780].
Etching and stipple engraving. Sheet 120 x 110mm. Trimmed inside plate.
John Dickinson [1732 – 1808]. American Revolutionary politician and pamphleteer who became the leading conservative voice of opposition to Great Britain through his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767–1768).
[Ref: 183] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Edison] M.r Edison.
Judd & C.o Lith. Doctors' Commons, London E.C.
The Whitehall Review. 7th February 1880.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾").
Head and shoulders portrait of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).
[Ref: 61396] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Benj. Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S.
Drawn & engraved by T. Holloway from the Bust modelled at Paris, from the Life.
[n.d. c.1791.]
Engraving, with large margins. 160 x 114mm. 6¼ x 4½".
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a noted polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Peace Treaty in 1783 and the United States Constitution in 1787. The study of electricity was also a particular interest and he published 'Experiments and Observations on Electricity' in 1751.
W: 1034-18.
[Ref: 24591] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

B. Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S.
Pollard sculp [c.1790]
Engraving, rare; sheet 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾"). Offset.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a noted polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Peace Treaty in 1783 and the United States Constitution in 1787. The study of electricity was also a particular interest and he published 'Experiments and Observations on Electricity' in 1751. Bust in profile with vignette of military action during the War of Independence, probably published in a magazine.
[Ref: 43327] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S.
T. Cook sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed within plate, faint crease.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, wearing fur cap and spectacles.
[Ref: 58550] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Franklin [facsimile signature.]
Engd. from an Old Print by J.A. O'Neill.
New York: Elias Dexter, 562 Broadway [n.d., c.1830].
Etching with mezzotint, sheet 170 x 115mm. 6¾ x 4½". Trimmed within plate, glued to album page at corners.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790). Born in Boston, Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin's achievements as a statesman, diplomat and writer influenced the outcome of the American War of Independence (1775-83). He is recognised as Founding Father of the United States of America, being the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Peace Treaty in 1783 and the United States Constitution in 1787. The study of electricity was also a particular interest and he published 'Experiments and Observations on Electricity' in 1751.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 9904] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D.
J. Chapman sculp.
London Published as the Act directs May 24th. 1806 by J. Wilkes.
Stipple with etching, 160 x 115mm. 6¼ x 4½". Foxing.
Half-length portrait in oval of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), above a vignette etching of kite flyers in a lightning.
[Ref: 9937] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Franklin,
London: Published by William Cole. 10. Newgate Street Jan.y 1825
Engraving, offset; sheet 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Wrinkling.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), American statesman, diplomat, writer and Founding Father of the United States of America. Franklin was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Peace Treaty in 1783 and the United States Constitution in 1787. The study of electricity was also a particular interest and he published 'Experiments and Observations on Electricity' in 1751. Nineteenth-century portrait of Franklin in the coonskin cap he famously wore when in Paris to seek French support for the Revolutionary War.
[Ref: 46106] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Home on a Furlough. To the Loyal Mothers, Wives and Daughters, of our Country This Engraving is Respectfully Dedicated.
From the Original design by C. Schussele. Engraved by John Sartain, Phil.a.
Bradley & Co. Publishers, 66 N. Fourth St. Philadelphia,
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 455mm (14 x 18"). Tears in edges.
A Union soldier is greeted by his family during a break in fighting in the American Civil War. Christian Schussele (1824-79), a German-born artist, is credited with designing the American Medal of Honor.
[Ref: 59780] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Lloyd Garrison By H. Anelay. The People's Journal. The People's Portrait Gallery. No.37. Sept. 12, 1846.
Wood engraving. Sheet: 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾''). Marking.
A profile portrait of American abolitionist, suffragist and social reformer William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879). Garrison was the editor of The Liberator which was founded in 1831 and published until the abolition of slavery after the American Civil War.
[Ref: 48225] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Horatio Gattes. Major Général, Commandant les Troupes Amériquaines Vainqueur des Anglois devant Saharatoga; ou le Général Burgoine fut fait Prisonnier avec toutes son Armée, le 17 Octobre 1777.
Published: A Paris chez Mondhare rue St. Jacques.
Engraving, 7¾ x 4¼".
American general who fought in the French and Indian War and then was, at different times, commander of both the Northern Army of the U.S. and the Southern Army of the U.S. He was the commanding officer of the American force that retreated from the recaptured Fort Ticonderoga, and he was in command at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga. This success, coupled with George Washington's recent failures, prompted a movement to replace Washington with Gates as commander-in-chief. Washington, however, stayed on. Gates retired to his farm in 1789 but was called back a year later and given the command of the Southern Army. The defeat at Camden proved disastrous, and Gates was replaced by Nathanael Greene.
[Ref: 210] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Isabella Graham. of New-York.
Jarvis Pinx.t Scott Sculp.t Edin.r
[n.d. c.1818.]
Stipple. 145 x 88mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmed inside plate.
Isabella Graham (1742-1814), the Scottish-American philanthropist, and educator. In 1765 she moved to the United States with her husband John Graham, a physician of the Royal Army. Her charitable work, inspired by her faith, included running multiple schools for girls, founding several benevolent societies for widows and orphans, and giving generously to the poor. An estimated 50,000 copies of her memoir 'The Power of Faith' were printed.
[Ref: 31307] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

H. W.me Green. Major Géneral Commandant les Armees des Etats unis de L'Amérique.
[A Paris chez Mondhare rue St. Jacques. n.d, c.1780.]
Engraving, 115 x 75mm.
William Green was governor of Rhode Island and cousin to Nathanael Greene (1742-86). As the French inscription described the sitter as Major General it is more likely to be a portrait of Nathanael Greene hero of the American Revolutionary War. When the War began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war as a major general of the Continental Army.
[Ref: 217] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

John Hancock Esq.r. European Magazine.
Published Nov.r 1, 1783 by I. Fielding, No 23 Paternoster Row.
Engraving. Sheet: 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of American merchant and statesman John Hancock (1737-1793) famous for his role in the American Revolution and his large and stylish signature on the Declaration of Independence of the Unites States of America.
[Ref: 47951] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

His Excellency S. Huntingdon President of Congress.
[n.d., c.1783.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 115 x 75mm (4½ x 3"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides.
A portrait of Samuel Huntington (1731 - 1796), head and shoulders in profile to the left; within an oval. Huntingdon was a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and was the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death.
[Ref: 37156] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le G.al Jackson. President des Etats-Unis.
A Paris, chez Chaillou, rue S.t Honoré, No.140. Lith. de Lemercier, rue du Four S.G. No.55.
Lithograph. Publishers blindstamp. Sheet: 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼").
A portrait of American soldier and statesman Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) who served as 7th President between 1829-1837.
[Ref: 47053] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson] T.J. Jackson [facsimile signature.] Sold by authority of the Jackson Memorial Association for purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of Gen.l Thomas J. Jackson at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.
After a Photo from Life [by Nathaniel Routzahn]. A.B. Walter Eng.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1871 by Bradley & Co [...]. W. W. Bostwick & Co. 177 & 178 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, General Agents for Jackson Memorial Association.
Stipple on steel, with three facimile signatures. 580 x 480mm (22¾ x 19"), with large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Confederate General Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson (1824-63) published to raise money for a bronze statue, unveiled July 21st 1891. The portrait is based on the famous 'Winchester' photograph of Jackson by Nathaniel Routzahn (1822-1908), taken in 1862.
[Ref: 59225] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

His Excellency John Jay President & Minister Plenipotentiary from Congress at Madrid.
B.B.E.
Pub.d May 15th 1783 by R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill London.
Stipple and etching pt printed in colour, platemark 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"), very large margins.
John Jay (1745-1829), revolutionary and politician in the United States of America. Born in New York City, of French and Dutch ancestry, Jay served on the first and second continental congresses, and wrote most of the constitution that New York state adopted in 1777. He was made president of congress in 1778 , making him nominally American head of state, until he was elected American minister to Madrid (a difficult role, since the Spanish Bourbons, unlike the French, would not recognize American independence). After the American victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin called upon Jay to assist in negotiating the peace treaty. After the publication of this print he went on to become secretary for foreign affairs and secretary of state under President Washington, and first chief justice of the US supreme court. Mixed-media print after Pierre Eugène Du Simitière (1737-84), American painter of Swiss birth. Based in Philadelphia from 1770-84, Du Simitière arranged for 14 of his profile portraits to be sent to Paris for engraving in 1779, although pirated copies and the failure of many sets to return to him made the project unsuccessful.
[Ref: 43114] £320.00

Thomas Jefferson.
Published by William Smith, 702 South Third Street, Philadelphia [USA, n.d., c.1865].
Lithograph, sheet 710 x 560mm. 28 x 22". Some light soiling; generally a good impression on a full sheet. Uncut.
Large and very impressive bust portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), third President of the United States (1801-1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States.
Not traced in LoC.
[Ref: 23294] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew Johnson [with facsimile signature.] Proof.
[Engraved by John Sartain.] Printed by Irwin & Sartain.
Published by W.m Smith, 702, South 3rd St Philad.a. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, by William Sartain in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.a.
Mezzotint with stipple and line engraving. Sheet 640 x 460mm (25¼ x 18"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A large half-length portrait of Andrew Johnson in his office, the dome of the Capitol Building visible to the left. Published in 1865 it is not clear if this is a portrait of him as Vice-President or as President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14th.
[Ref: 44523] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[John Paul Jones] Capitaine Paul Jones.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and sepia wash. Sheet 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½").
A sketch portrait of John Paul Jones (1747-92), American naval captain during the American Revolution, holding a telescope. A copy of the mezzotint portrait by Richard Brookshaw (BM Satires 5561).
[Ref: 58772] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Lee Esquier. Major Général d'Armee des XIII Provinces unies d'Amerique, Prisonier de Guerre, fait par les Anglois.
peint par Thomlinson a Novelle Yorck.
Se vend a Londres chez Thom. Hart. [n.d. c.1778.]
Mezzotint, 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"), with very large margins. Paper lightly toned, three small worm holes in frame and background.
Portrait of Charles Lee (1731-82), British-born general during the American Revolution. After successes at Charleston in 1776 he was captured by Banastre Tarleton and held as a prisoner of war until he was exchanged in 1778. Returning to the Continent army he led a frontal assault the Battle of Monmouth (1778), but ordered his men to pull back instead of attacking the retreating English. Washington had him court-martialed and dismissed. The artist's name 'Thomlinson' is regarded as a pseudonym for a plagiarist.
BM Satires 5404. Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43388] £790.00

[Robert E. Lee] Sold by authority of the Lee Memorial Association for the erection of a monument at the Tomb of Genl. R.E. Lee, at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
After a Photo from Life [by Julian Vannerson]. A.B. Walter Eng.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1870 by Bradley & Co [...]. W. W. Bostwick & Co. 177 & 178 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, General Agents for the Lee Memorial Association
Stipple on steel, facimile signatures of Lee, Chas. A. Davidson & Genl. W. N. Pendleton. 580 x 520mm (22¾ x 20½"), with wide margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70), published to raise money for a memorial and mausoleum, eventually completed in 1883.
[Ref: 56254] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

H.W. Longfellow.
Eng.d by T.H. Ellis.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 395 x 260mm (15½ x 10¼").
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) the American poet and educator. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy", and was one the five Fireside Poets.
[Ref: 26072] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[James Russell Lowell]
C.H.Jeens [Etched in plate with signature]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 208 x 134mm.
Poet., Diplomat, U.S. Minister to Great Britain. [1819-1891]
[Ref: 3455] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Rev. Andrew Manship. [Facsimile:] Yours affectionately Andrew Manship.
Engraved by T.B. Welch, From a Dauguerreotype by Richards.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Mezzotint. 508 xx 393mm. 20 x 15½". Tearing in the margins. Horizontal crease through top of the image.
Reverend Andrew Manship (1823-1892) was a clergyman born in Maryland. In 1843 he was admitted to the Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church and two years later was made a deacon and later an elder. In 1856 he was appointed tract agent but in 1863 he was again assigned to regular pastoral work. From that date until his death he became engaged in missionary work in Philadelphia and set about editing the "Home Missionary and Tract Magazine". He was author of "Thirteen Years in the Itineracy" (1856); "History of Gospel-Tents and Experience" (1884); he compiled "The Patriot's Hymn-Book" (1862) and wrote a complete review of his life, "Forty Years in the Wilderness".
[Ref: 18429] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

President McKinley.
W.N. 1900.
[London: William Heinemann, 1901.]
Offset lithograph on card with very large margins. Printed area 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9"). Crease in outer margins.
Portrait of 25th American president William McKinley (1843-1901) by William Nicholson (1872-1949). The portrait was originally executed as a woodcut for the cover of American periodical 'Harper's Weekly', June 1901. However, after McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in September 1901, the portrait was reissued as a lithograph priced 2s 6d by Heinemann, a week after the president's death.
Colin Campbell, 'William Nicholson: The Graphic Works': 93C.
[Ref: 31975] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel L. Mitchill. Fellow Of The Royal Antiquarian And Wernerian Societies Of Edinburgh; Honorary Member Of The Royal Jennerian And London Vaccine Institutions; Correspondent Of The Administration For The King's Garden And Museum At Paris; And Of The Royal And Central Society Of Agriculture For France, &c.c. &c.c.
Drawn on Stone by V. Balch from an original Painting by Trott in the Gallery of the Fine arts N.Y. Imbert's Lithography.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 290 x 210mm.
Samuel Latham Mitchell [1764 - 1831], physician to New York Hospital and US Senator.
W: 2020.
[Ref: 491] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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