Grosvenor Prints

Duo. Hymne des Marseillois et Air Militaire by L. von Esch. Pr. 2.s 6d.
F. Bartolozzi fecit. Ent.d at Sta. Hall.
Printed & Sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouse, 97, Strand [n.d, c.1800].
Stipple 80 x 115mm (3¼ x 4½"), with large margins.
The title page to a music book, featuring a cherub writing music and another engraving the title. Louis von Esch (c.1765-1829) was appointed music teacher to Princess Charlotte in 1802.
De Vesme 1952 v of V. Different publisher.
[Ref: 65143] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Giovanna Baccelli] Mademoiselle Baccelli.
Painted by S.r Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Pub.d. Jan.y 20, 1793 by J.R. Smith N.º 83 Oxford Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). 'E.M.H.' ink stamp of collector Mrs. E.M. Hamilton, London, on reverse. Small tear in left margin.
A half-length portrait in oval of Venetian ballerina Giovanna Bacchelli (Francesca Antonia Giuseppa Zanerini, 1753-1801), holding a mask. She was the mistress of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, who commissioned this portrait from Reynolds (now at Knole, Kent).
CS 6, state ii of iii. Hamilton iii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64947] £360.00

Henry R. Bishop.
Painted by T. Foster. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds Engraver to the King.
London Published July 1822 by J. Power 34 Strand and Colnaghi & C.o 23 Cockspur Street. To be had of C. Lonsdale, 26, Old Bond Street.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 510 x 345mm (20 x 13½"). Trimmed into image at sides, to plate at bottom.
Seated portrait of early Romantic composer Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1856), holding a score and a document granting the Freedom of the City of Dublin on a table. Despite his success he died in poverty. He is the only 19th century British composer represented on the Albert Memorial's 'Frieze of Parnassus'.
Whitman 29 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64909] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lorenzo Cipriani. In the Character of Don Alfonso Scoglio, in the favourite Opera of la Bella Vescatrice, performed at the King's Theatre, Patheon.
Drawn by P. Violet. Engrav'd by C. Guisan, pupil to F. Bartolozzi R.A.
Publish'd Dec.r 24. 1791 by I. F. Tomkins No. 49. New Bond Street.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). Small margins.
Lorenzo Cipriani, a bass singer who played Figaro in 'Il barbiere di Seviglia' in Turin in 1784. He visited London twice, in 1791 & 1795. He played Figaro again in Genova in 1798.
[Ref: 64743] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

M.dme Rose Didelot, in the Character of Calypso, in the Ballet of Telemachus. Composed by Mr. Dauberval.
Cha.s Henard del.t. Conde & Reynolds sculp[.t.]
[London, c.1791.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 515 x 410mm (20¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, damage to right edge repaired, including a paper crack entering image and slight loss of inscriptions bottom right.
A full length portrait of Rose Didelot (d.1806), wife of Charles Louis Didelot, in classical dress, standing in a garden. A talented ballerina, she was a rival of Parisot, although the three appeared together in a performance of 'Alonzo e Caro' at the Opera in 1796, causing a scandal with their scanty costumes (subject of Gillray's 'Modern Graces').
Whitman 70. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64869] £480.00

T. S. Dupuis, Mus. Doc. Oxon. Organist & Composer to his Majesty. Engraved from the original Picture In the Possession of S.r Cha.s Grave Hudson Bar.t.
J. Russell R.A. pinx.t. C. Turner sculp.t.
Published April 29.th 1797 at N.º 331, Oxford Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 345 x 205mm (13½ x 8"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733-96), wearing a short wig and decorated musical doctor's gown. Regarded as one of the best organists of his day, Dupuis was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey.
Whitman: 170. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64894] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[To the numerous Friends of M.r Fletcher, of Birmingham, This Print is respectfully dedicated by their Obedient Servant, Cha.s Ambrose.]
[Painted by M.r C. Ambrose. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A.]
[Londn, Published Nov.r 20, 1830 by M.r C. Ambrose, N.º 75 Newman Street.]
Scarce mezzotint, proof before letters. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with extremely large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Mr Fletcher of Birmingham in a heavy coat, holding a roll of paper. In the lettered state the roll is titled 'A Selection of Scores by Mozart Arranged [...].
Whitman 200, this early state not listed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64916] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To the numerous Friends of M.r Fletcher, of Birmingham, This Print is respectfully dedicated by their Obedient Servant, Cha.s Ambrose.
Painted by M.r C. Ambrose. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A.
Londn, Published Nov.r 20, 1830 by M.r C. Ambrose, N.º 75 Newman Street.
scarce mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Some toning and staining. Small margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Mr Fletcher of Birmingham in a heavy coat, holding a roll of paper titled 'A Selection of Scores by Mozart Arranged [...].
Whitman 200. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64915] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fordyce.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. Philip Corbutt fecit.
[London. Printed for Rob.t. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at N.º 53 in Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed into image on three sides, losing publication line (& plate number?) at bottom, scrape on left edge.
A circular portrait in a rectangular border, of a woman playing a guitar, reading from music sheets. After the portrait now in Waddesdon Manor. Corbutt was one of the pseudonyms of Richard Purcell, who plagiarised many works for Sayer, including this plate by James Watson.
CS 29, state ii or iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64884] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Fordyce.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. Philip Corbutt fecit.
London. Printed for Rob.t. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at N.º 53 in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1765].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark 355 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A circular portrait in a rectangular border, of a woman playing a guitar, reading from music sheets. After the portrait now in Waddesdon Manor. Corbutt was one of the pseudonyms of Richard Purcell, who plagiarised many works for Sayer, including this plate by James Watson.
CS 29, state ii of iii, first published state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hamilton Pg 100.
[Ref: 64882] £320.00

Miss Fordyce. 150.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. Philip Corbutt fecit.
London. Printed for Rob.t. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at N.º 53 in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1765].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Crease bottom left.
A circular portrait in a rectangular border, of a woman playing a guitar, reading from music sheets. After the portrait now in Waddesdon Manor. Corbutt was one of the pseudonyms of Richard Purcell, who plagiarised many works for Sayer, including this plate by James Watson.
CS 29, state iii of iii, with plate number. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hamilton pg 100
[Ref: 64883] £360.00

[Miss Fordyce.]
[J. Reynolds pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.]
[Sold by Ja.s Watson, N.º 16 Craven Buildings, Drury Lane.] [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, laid on card.
A circular portrait in a rectangular border, of a woman playing a guitar, reading from music sheets. After the portrait now in Waddesdon Manor.
CS 54, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hamilton pg 100
[Ref: 64886] £320.00

[Miss Fordyce.]
[J. Reynolds pinx.t. Philip Corbutt fecit.]
[London. Printed for Rob.t. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at N.º 53 in Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1765.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 355 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Thread margins, some spotting, laid on album paper.
A circular portrait in a rectangular border, of a woman playing a guitar, reading from music sheets. After the portrait now in Waddesdon Manor. Corbutt was one of the pseudonyms of Richard Purcell, who plagiarised many works for Sayer, including this plate by James Watson.
CS 29, state i of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hamilton pg 100
[Ref: 64885] £320.00

Miss Fordyce.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles near the Chapter House in S.t Paul's CHurch Yard, London [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, on 18th century watermarked paper. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
A circular portrait in a rectangular border, of a woman playing a guitar, reading from music sheets. After the portrait now in Waddesdon Manor.
CS 54, unlisted state after ii of ii. Hamilton p.100, iii of iii.
[Ref: 64888] £320.00

Dr. Hague, Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge.
G.H. Harlow pinx.t. H. Meyer sculp. Gt.t Russell Str.t Bloomsbury.]
Published May 4th.1813 by W.D. Jones at his Repository of Arts, Market Hill Cambridge.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
Charles Hague (1769-1821), violinist and composer who was appointed Professor of Music at Cambridge in 1799, a role he held until his death. The Professorship of Music was founded in 1684 and is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64905] £320.00

The Rev.d M:r Tobias Langdon Priest Vicar of the Cathedral Church of S.t Peter in Exon a Celebrated Master of Musick.
Done from a Drawinf in Ciaro Oscura of M.r Nath: Tucker by Faber.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Mezzotint, fine impression. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, mounted in album paper.
Half length portrait of Tobias Langdon (1683-1712), Vicar choral of Exeter Cathedral, wearing a dark wig and gown. He was paid £20 a year to teach choristers.
CS 215. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64913] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Leveridge.
T. Frye pinxit. W.m Pether fecit.
Sold by W.m Pether, in Great Newport Street, Leicester Fields. Pr. 2s. [n.d. c.1758.]
Mezzotint. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), with large margins. Surface scuffs at top corners.
Half-length portrait of singer and composer Richard Leveridge (1670 - 1758), holding sheet music and with right hand held up to mark the time. An associate of Henry Purcell, he composed over 150 songs, the best known being the patriotic ballad 'The Roast Beef of Old England'.
CD 23, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64890] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Leveridge.
T. Frye pinxit. W.m Pether fecit.
Sold by W.m Pether, in Great Newport Street, Leicester Fields. Pr. 2s. [n.d. c.1758.]
Mezzotint. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"). Creasing in top corners, small tear entering inscription area taped. Small margins.
Half-length portrait of singer and composer Richard Leveridge (1670 - 1758), holding sheet music and with right hand held up to mark the time. An associate of Henry Purcell, he composed over 150 songs, the best known being the patriotic ballad 'The Roast Beef of Old England'.
CD 23, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64889] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bernhard Logier.] Presented to J.B. Logier Esq.r by the Professors who have adopted his System of Musical Education in testimony of their personal esteem and high sense of the advantages he has conferred on the Art. Proof.
Painted by J. Lonsdale. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Published July 20. 1819, by J. Green, 33 Soho Square.
Very rare mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with very large margins. Horizontal crease at top.
Three-quarter length portrait of German music teacher John Bernhard Logier (1777-1846), seated in an armchair, wearing a dark double-breasted coat, white neckerchief, and seals on fob. Logier invented the Chiroplast, a pedagogical device that guides the hands and fingers while playing the piano. He also developed his own teaching method, now called the 'Logier method', which he published in 'System der Musikwissenschaft' (1827), where pupils were taught with technical instruction done together with instruction in principles of harmony.
Whitman: 320. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64914] £320.00

Miss Melville.
Painted by Tho.s Phillips Esq.r R.A. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Published Jan.y 1. 1810 by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, printed in brown. 400 x 280mm (15¾ x 11"). Some spotting. Small margins.
Three-quarter portrait of a young girl singing from an album of music, standing behind a parapet with a trompet and sheet music, organ pipes behind. A cherub on a cloud upper left listens.
Whitman 370, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii, with letters partially filled in.
[Ref: 64891] £320.00

Miss Melville.
Painted by Tho.s Phillips Esq.r R.A. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Published Jan.y 1. 1810 by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, printed in brown. 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Three-quarter portrait of a young girl singing from an album of music, standing behind a parapet with a trompet and sheet music, organ pipes behind. A cherub on a cloud upper left listens.
Whitman 370, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of iii, with open letters.
[Ref: 64892] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Moon Serenely Shines.
W. Drummond. G.T. Payne.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A woman in Eastern dress, holding a lyre, reclines by a window through which the moon shines.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64906] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harriot Powell.
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, old ink mss. in inscription area. Small margins.
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64919] £460.00

Miss Harriot Powell.
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.
Scarce mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). 'E.M.H.' ink stamp of collector Mrs. E.M. Hamilton, London, on reverse. Small margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64920] £520.00

[Miss Harriot Powell.]
C. Read pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
R. Sayer Excudit. [London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.º in 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1769.]
Mezzotint, proof before title and publication line. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Narrow margins, small nick in inscription area
Seated portrait of Harriet Powell (or Lamb, died 1779), tuning a guitar. She became the second wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, although the marriage was secret. The daughter of an apothecary, she was described by Sir James Balfour Paul as 'a fashionable beauty of the town'. However Horace Bleackley was more explicit: 'The graceful Harriet Powell, equally frail and famous, whose winsome face was portrayed in many a mezzotint, had spent her early youth as an inmate of Mrs Hayes's disreputable establishment in King's Place, but now at last she had become faithful to one man, and was keeping house with Lord Seaforth, the creator of a famous regiment'.
CS: 99, state i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64921] £520.00

M.rs Anastatia Robinson. When Robinson awakes the warbling strings, / and with her heavenly voice responding sings; / the winged graces float upon the sound, / bless the sweet airs, and smiling play around.
J. Banderbank Pinx. 1723. J. Faber fec. 1727.
London, Sold by J. Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d., c.1755].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A three-quarter length portrait of opera singer Anastasia Robinson (c.1692-1755), playing a harpsicord. A soprano, she sang in several premieres of Handel's operas. In 1722 she secretly married Charles Mordaunt, becoming Countess of Peterborough and Monmouth.
CS 307, state iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64902] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Mary Lilias Scott.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1748.
[Price 1.s 6.d. Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head, in Bloomsbury Square.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 315 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾"). Trimmed close to image, into armorial at bottom, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait of a young woman holding a music sheet entitled 'Miss Lusie Erskine Minuet', looking at the viewer. Mary Lilias Scott of Harden was a known beauty: among her suitors was the painter and the Duke of Hamilton. A full length oil by Ramsay is in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (SN387),
CS 318. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64897] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Sheridan] S.t Caecilia.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by W Dickinson.
London Publish'd May 21st. 1776. by W. Dickinson, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, & Tho.s Watson No. 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A very fine image of singer and writer Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley, 1754 - 1792) as Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians and of Church music. She plays the organ seated on a low stool, two angelic children singing behind; from upper left, cloud with shafts of light. Miss Linley of Bath eloped with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, marrying him in 1773. Sheridan ordered the picture but could not afford to pay for it. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775.
Hamilton p.131, ii of iii. CS: 74, ii/iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64952] £450.00

[Elizabeth Sheridan] S.t Caecilia.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by W Dickinson.
London Publish'd May 21st. 1776. by W. Dickinson, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, & Tho.s Watson No. 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 490 x 350mm (19¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A very fine image of singer and writer Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley, 1754 - 1792) as Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians and of Church music. She plays the organ seated on a low stool, two angelic children singing behind; from upper left, cloud with shafts of light. Miss Linley of Bath eloped with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, marrying him in 1773. Sheridan ordered the picture but could not afford to pay for it. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775.
Hamilton p.131, ii of iii. CS: 74, ii/iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64954] £450.00

Six Conversation Sonatas for the Harpsicord or Piano Forte, with accompanyments for two Violins and a Violoncello, Composed and Dedicated (by Permission) to her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire, by M. Hawden Organist of Beverley Minster, Opera Seconda.
C. Thomas inv.t. G. Vitalba, aque forti. sculp.t.
[n.d., 1775.]
Etching with engraving, 18th century watermark. 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), with very large margins.
A female allegorical figure sits before an organ, writing music, watched by a winged cherub.
[Ref: 64735] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Group of Waltzers.
J.H.A. Randell delin. J. Alais sculp.
Engraved for La Belle Assemblee N.º 93. Published Feb.y 1. 1817.
Coloured stipple. 140 x 235mm (5½ x 8¾"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom.
The interior of a salon, with two couples and a group of three women dancing to a band of harp, cello and violin. One woman stands en pointe. 'La Belle Assemblée or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine' was one of the most important women's magazines. Founded by John Bell (1745-1831) in 1806, it remained in print until 1832.
[Ref: 65140] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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