Grosvenor Prints

[Christopher Anstey]
Engraved by J. Hibbert Jun.r [after Thomas Lawrence].
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple. 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"), watermarked 1794. Old ink mss. title. Small margins. Very small pinhole left centre.
English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), sitting at his desk, writing. Resident at 4 Royal Crescent, Bath, he penned 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', an immediate success. Although he is buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath, he has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 59810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Master Ashton.]
Jos.h Wright Pinx.t. W.m Pether Fecit 1770.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 26, 1770, by W.m Pether in G.t Russell S.t Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint, fine scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
John Ashton, son of Nicholas Ashton, a former High Sheriff of Lancashire; seated in a landscape, dressed in the girlish style of the period, hugging his spaniel. William Pether also engraved some of Joseph Wright of Derby's most famous works, including 'A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery', 'The Farrier's Shop' and 'An Alchymist'.
CS: 1, state i of ii.
[Ref: 53219] £650.00

The Beauty unmasked.
[After Henry Morland.]
London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer. N.o 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Scarce mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Glued on an album sheet.
A portrait of a young woman, holding a mask in right hand and wearing an ermine-trimmed cloak over a low-necked gown with pearl jewellery and her hair up in a plumed turban with a coil hanging over left shoulder.
[Ref: 60085] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Ludwig van Beethoven.]
Werner E.A. Hoffmann [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 300 x 260mm (11¾ x 10¼"). Small tear near platemark at top.
The head of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
[Ref: 59821] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Giovanni Bellini Pittore.
Gio. Do. Campiglia del. P. Ant. Pazzi sc.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Fine engraving. 270 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"), with large margins.
A half-length self-portrait of Giovanni Bellini (c.1430-1516), Venetian painter of the Renaissance. This portrait was part of A. F. Gori's monumental 'Museum Florentium', which set out to engrave all the portraits of painters, architects, sculptors and patrons of the arts in the major galleries of Florence. This vast undertaking was issued in parts, taking over thirty years (1731-1766) to complete. In this case, the intermediate artist was Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768) and the engraver Pietro Antonio Pazzi (c. 1706 - after 1766).
[Ref: 59699] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Gio. Lorenzo Bernini Scultore, Archietto, Pittore ecc.
Gio. Do. Campiglia del. e sc.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Fine engraving. 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins.
A half-length of Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (1598-1680), sculptor and architect, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. This portrait was part of A. F. Gori's monumental 'Museum Florentium', which set out to engrave all the portraits of painters, architects, sculptors and patrons of the arts in the major galleries of Florence. This vast undertaking was issued in parts, taking over thirty years (1731-1766) to complete. In this case, the intermediate artist and engraver was Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768)
[Ref: 59698] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Henry Blacker the British Giant. Born near Cuckfield in Sussex 1724. He is thought by all who have viewed him, to be the tallest Man ever exhibited in England, measuring 7 Feet 4 Inches & exceeds ye famous Mynheer Cajanus who was shewn with so much applause several years ago.
[Pub. by C. Johnson, c.1760.]
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate.
Henry Blacker, who came to London in 1751 to launch his career as a travelling giant, and is here compared with the Finnish giant Daniel Mynheer Cajanus (1704-49). From the 'Wonderful Magazine'.
[Ref: 60110] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled portrait of a young man in a broad hat.]
Terburg [Moses ter Borch] se upsum del. A. Bartsch sc.
[Vienna, n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Moses ter Borch (1645-67) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose work mostly consists of drawings. He died during the Dutch attack on Chatham, during the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, and is buried in Harwich. This portrait was etched by Johann Adam Bartsch (von Bartsch fro 1812), a librarian and print historian. As an amateur etcher he produced a large series of facsimile prints after old master drawings, many of which were in the collection of his friend, Charles de Ligne.
[Ref: 59790] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Byrom. M.A. F.R.S. ''Ha!'' quoth I to his Face ''my old friend, are you there?'' / And methought the face smil'd.
Engraved by Thopham, from an Original sketch by D. Rasbotham Esq.r In the Posession of Charles White Esq.r.
Leeds Pub.d 15th Dec.r 1814 by James Nichols.
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper at edges.
John Byrom (1692-1763), poet and inventor of a system of shorthand. He also coined the phrase ''Tweedledum and Tweedledee'', during a dispute about the merits of composers Handel and Bononcini.
[Ref: 59829] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Caxton.
Holl sculp.
[n.d., 1819.]
Stipple set in letterpress. Sheet 230 x 150mm (9 x 6").
A miniature oval portrait of merchant William Caxton (1422-1491) who introduced the printing press to England, published in the 'Biographical Magazine containing portraits and characters of eminent and ingenious persons'.
[Ref: 59832] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chinese Lady.
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00

[A woman playing a cittern.]
[n.d., John Boydell?, c.1805.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"), on wove paper with large margins.
A woman playing a cittern, watched by a man leaning on a table. The BM states 'The print was reissued by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits' (1805)'.
BM 1876,1111.63.
[Ref: 59199] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Your M.t humble servt. H.Davy Pres: RS. [facsimile signature]
Engraved on Steel by W.T. Fry, after the Original Picture by T. Phillips, Esq.r R.A.
Published July 1825 by T.Boys, 7, Ludgate Hill.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt (1778-1829), inventor best known for his miner's safety lamp of 1815. He was Presidency of the Royal Society in 1820.
W: 772.
[Ref: 59696] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Steffano de la Belle, natif de Florence en Italie, en l'an 1614…
Stocade pinxit. W. Hollar fecit.
Ioannes Meyssens excudit [n.d. c.1694].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), large margins.
Steffano della Bella (1610-64), Italian engraver. From an edition of the 'True Effigies Of the most Eminent Painters, and other Famous Artists That have Flourished in Europe', first published in Antwerp in 1649, reissued in 1661, 1694, 1705 & 1739. Stocade was the name used by the painter and engraver Nicolaes de Helt [1614 - 1669].
P 1360. iii of iv.
[Ref: 59831] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Don Ferdinand.
Engraved from an Original Drawing by Edw.d Fisher.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 2 May 1777.]
Rare mezzotint. 240 x 200mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A young man in 17th century dress with a plumed hat over long, curly hair, one of a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith.
CS 64, state ii.
[Ref: 60107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies Michaelis Drayton Armigeri, Poetae Clariss. Aetat. Suae L.A. Chr. MDCXIII.
[Pub by W Richardson Sep.r 1. 1796 York House 31 Strand.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, signs of burning on left edge, laid on album paper.
Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631), poet, after the rare 1619 engraving by William Hole. He is most famous for his epic poem, ‘Poly-olbion, or a Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of Great Britaine,' 1613. He is buried in Poet's Corner, Wesminster Abbey.
NPG: D35393.
[Ref: 59876] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[John Evelyn] T. Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura Lib. i. Interpreted by J.E.
W. Hollar fec.
London: Printed for G: Bedell and T: Collins, at Middle Temple Gate A.o 1656.
Etching. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper at edges. Very slight damage top left.
The titlepage to John Evelyn's translation of Lucretius, with a medallion portrait of the author among mythical figures including Ceres, Neptune and Cyele.
Pennington 2677.
[Ref: 59835] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Helena Forman.
Rubens pinx.t. W. Pether Fecit.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1775 by W: Pether Broad Street Soho.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), large margins.
Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673), one breast outside her corset, with bouquets of wheat stems and flowers in her hand and hat. The daughter of a wealthy silk and tapesty merchant of Antwerp, Fourment married Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.
CS 14.
[Ref: 60106] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Grinlin Gibbons.
G. Kneller, pinx. J. Hopwood sculp.
[n.d. c. 1800].
Stipple. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and laid on album paper at edges.
A head and shoulders detail from Godfrey Kneller's oil of Grinling Gibbons (1648 - 1720).
[Ref: 59828] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[William Richard Hamilton.]
[H. Phillips, Pinx.t. R.J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Hanhart, Imp.t]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé, proof before letters and facsmile signature on backing sheet. Chine collé 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"), very large margins. Dusty.
Seated portrait of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), diplomat and antiquarian. As chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, he was in Egypt for the evacuation of Napoleon's defeated army in 1801: with an escort of soldiers he boarded a French ship and recovered the Rosetta Stone, which the French were taking away contrary to the treaty. The following year he collected the Parthenon marbles for removal to England, and organised the recovery of all the pieces that sank at Cerigo. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology, 'Ægyptiaca', which contained an important transcript of the 'Greek copy of the decree on the Rosetta stone', with a translation in English. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti; in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society; and he was a trustee of the British Museum from 1838-58.
[Ref: 59701] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[William Richard Hamilton.] WRHamilton Sec. Soc. Del 1830-1858 [facsimile signature].
H. Phillips, Pinx.t. R.J. Lane, A.E.R.A. Hanhart, Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1858.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé. Printed area 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), very large margins. Dusty.
Seated portrait of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), diplomat and antiquarian. As chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, he was in Egypt for the evacuation of Napoleon's defeated army in 1801: with an escort of soldiers he boarded a French ship and recovered the Rosetta Stone, which the French were taking away contrary to the treaty. The following year he collected the Parthenon marbles for removal to England, and organised the recovery of all the pieces that sank at Cerigo. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology, 'Ægyptiaca', which contained an important transcript of the 'Greek copy of the decree on the Rosetta stone', with a translation in English. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti; in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society; and he was a trustee of the British Museum from 1838-58.
[Ref: 59702] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

George Frederick Handel.
M Gauci del From a Painting by Hudson. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Slight foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait of composer George Handel (1685-1759).
[Ref: 59818] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bar.t.
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
[London Illustrated News, 1862.]
Stipple and engraving. Printed area 260 x 170mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel. He also contributioned to early photography, indroducing sensitized paper, ‘hypo' as a fixed agent, and coining the terms ‘photograph', 'negative', and ‘positive'. From a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), who is best known for his 1875 portrait of Karl Marx.
[Ref: 59700] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n Joseph Huddart, F.R.S. From a Picture in the Possession of Charles Turner, Esq.r.
Painted by John Hoppner Esq.r R.A. Engraved by James Stow.
London, Published 2nd Nov.r 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, Fleet Street and Charles Turner, of Limehouse.
Stipple, sheet 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed within plate.
Joseph Huddart (1741-1816), a British hydrographer who surveyed the coasts of India & Sumatra, and, less exotically, the Hebrides. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1791 and also an elder brother of Trinity House, directing the construction of the Hurst Point Lighthouse. However he made the most money by improving the design and manufacture of rope.
Wellcome: 1459-1.
[Ref: 60045] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Inigo Jones.
[after Van Dyke.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple, watermark 1811. Sheet 220 x 130mm (8¾ x 5¼").
Portrait of Inigo Jones (1573-1652), architect and designer.
[Ref: 59827] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Christoph Kotter, Civis & Alutarius Sprottaviensis in Silesia inferiore [...]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper at edges.
A portrait of Christoph Kotter (1585-1647), quill in hand, standing over the Book of Revelations, probably published as a frontispiece to one of his works. A czech prophet and tanner who began having visions of divine messengers in 1616, he made prophecies about how God would punish mankind for their evils. After spending three months in prison in 1625 for prophecies directed against the Habsburgs, he was put in the pillory and expelled from the country, after which he made no more pronouncements. However his writings continued to be published.
[Ref: 59837] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Heinrich Künzlin] Dominus Henricus Küntzlinus Incytæ Urbis Vitoduranæ. Aetatis sua 54 1635.
HISültzer fecit 1659.
Rare engraving. Sheet 105 x 95mm (4¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
Portait of a bearded man, probably the author of 'Dissertatio inauguralis medica, continens haematologiam physico-medicam...' Doctor in Hematology in Winterthur, Switzerland.
[Ref: 59788] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Lascelles.]
[F. Cotes pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.]
[Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engrvers at the Kings Arms in Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before all letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins. Sprinkling of pinprick wormholes in image.
Frances Lascelles (1762-1817) as a child, petting a greyhound. She later married the Hon. John Douglas, son of James, 16th Earl of Morton.
CS 88, state i. Goodwin 155, i.
[Ref: 59675] £390.00

Mr. Leviez.
J.E. Eccard Pinx.t. J. Mc.Ardell Fecit.
[London, n.d., 1763.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 330 x 228mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
A portrait of Charles Leviez (died c.1778), after Johann Aegidius (John Giles) Eckhardt. A French dancing-master who also dealt in prints and drawings, Leviez was living in London in 1759, but sold his stock at auction in March 1761. By 1766 he had established himself in Paris as a 'marchand des estampes' or printseller, publishing a large compilation of Pillement in 1767. He sold up again in 1773, auctioning all his plates in Paris 29/30 July 1773.
CS: 118, ii. Whitman: 101, iii/iii.
[Ref: 59642] £490.00

[William Leybourn.] Effigies Authoris.
[Anon., c.1669.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed to image, name added in old ink mss., laid on album paper.
William Leybourn (1626-1716), mathematician and land surveyor. Frontispiece to either his 'Art of Dialling' (1669) or 'Panorganon' (1672).
NPG: D21356. Wellcome: 1760-3.
[Ref: 59869] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Liston] [M.r Liston.]
[Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.]
[London, Pub. Jan. 1 1821, by Colnaghi & Co. 23 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, inscription area uncleaned. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of actor and comedian John Liston (1776-1846), a monocle on a ribbon round his neck. He is most famous for his impersonation of Paul Pry.
Frankau 184, state i.
[Ref: 60105] £320.00

[John Liston] M.r Liston.
Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty & to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
London, Pub. Jan. 1 1821, by Colnaghi & Co. 23 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins. Repair in bottom margin.
A half-length portrait of actor and comedian John Liston (1776-1846), a monocle on a ribbon round his neck. He is most famous for his impersonation of Paul Pry.
Frankau 184, state ii.
[Ref: 60104] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Joseph Martyn of London, Merchant. Obijt 9 Nov: 1718 Ætatis suæ. 75.
M. Dahll pinx. 1705. J. Smith fec. 1719.
Fine & rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait in oval of Joseph Martyn (1643-1718), merchant of London. He was a member of the Muscovy Company formed in 1555.
CS 167, ii.
[Ref: 59645] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman in a ball gown.] Anderst von aussen als von innen; / Schwarz und maskiert, von innen weis und schön / Ach! manchen sieht man schwarz in weisser Marke gehn / Aliud extra, aliud intus. / Personam facies mentitus candida nigram, / Saepe animum nigrum candida larva tegit.
J. El. Rindinger excud. A.V. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, very fine impression. 480 x 345mm (18¾ x 13½"). Top left corner repaired with loss, tear in left edge, remains of album paper on reverse. Small margins.
A woman in an exquisite ball gown, holding a mask. A reworked state, with the face altered and the original border reworked.
See BM 1867,0713.91 for an example before the reworking.
[Ref: 59915] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Massey Esqr Major General of the West Taken Prisoner at Gloucester.
[n.d., c. 1660.]
Etching. Sheet 95 x 65mm (3¾ x 2½"). Trimmed into plate, laid on album paper.
Head and shoulders portrait in armour of Sir Edward Massey (c.1691-74), a Presbyterian soldier who fought for Parliament in the Civil War before switching to the Royalist side. After he was captured after the Battle of Worcester (1651), he escaped from the Tower of London and left for Holland. Returning in secret to Gloucester (where he had been a Parliamentarian governor), he was again arrested (as mentioned here) for his part in 'Booth's Uprising' in 1659, and again escaped. At the Restoration the following year he received a knighthood.
Rare: not in BM or NPG.
[Ref: 59809] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Jonas Moore] Effigies Joanæ Moore Matheseos Professoris Ætat: Suæ 45. An:o Dm: 1660.
[1660.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679), Mathematician, surveyor responsible for draining the Great Level of the Fens and building the Mole at Tangier. As Surveyor-General of the Ordnance he was the driving force behind the establishment of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Frontispiece to his 'Moore's Arithmetick'.
[Ref: 59874] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolo Paganini. 1784-1840.
Printed by A. Salmon, Paris.
Published by F.W. Chanot, at the Office of ''Edition Chanot.'' 73, Berners Street, London, W. 1st Sept. 1889.
Etching. 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"), with large margins.
A head-and-shoulders portrait of violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) wearing his Order of the Golden Spur, awarded to him by Pope Leo XII. A pair of cherubs hold a wreath above his head.
[Ref: 59919] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harriot Powell. 157.
C. Read Pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 Fleet Street [n.d., 1770].
Engraving. 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 9¾") very large margins. Blind stamp of the Milne Cooper Collection 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'. Engraved by Richard Purcell under pseudonym of Corbutt, after Catherine Read..
CS: 63, ii of ii.
[Ref: 60090] £390.00

A Jew Rabbi.
Rembrandt pinx.t. C. Spooner fecit.
Printed for Robert Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") with small margin. Bit messy.
Half-length portrait of a Jewish rabbi, wearing a turban and thick cloak fastened with a large clasp with a miniature and two pearl-drops, hands brought together on front of him. In the background, a chair and table with a book and religious emblems.
[Ref: 60086] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr. Rauzzini.]
[J. Hutchison Pinx.t. R. Hancock Sculp.t.]
[Bath Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.y 1.st 1800.]
Stipple. Sheet 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Trimmed, losing all inscriptions, laid on card.
Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), Italian castrato, composer, pianist and singing teacher, for whom Mozart composed the motet 'Exsultate Jubilate' in 1773. He performed in London from 1774 until his retirement from the stage in 1778. He settled in Bath in 1780, becoming Director of the New Assembly Room Concerts the following year. He continued to promote concerts until his death, after which he was buried in Bath Abbey.
[Ref: 59918] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

J. Ritson.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1820.
Rare stipple. 175 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides.
A profile portrait of English antiquarian Joseph Ritson (1752 - 1803), after a portrait engraved by Gillray, itself a detail from a satire by James Sayers (NPG D48868). He is best known for his collections of English nursery rhymes and ballads relating to the myth of Robin Hood, to which he added the concept of giving to the poor rather than simply robbing the bishops and the Sheriff of Nottingham, exhibiting his own Jacobin prejudices. He was also an early vegetarianism activist.
[Ref: 59855] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Gioachino Rossini.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Spots & stains in edges.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) the Italian composer of operas.
[Ref: 59813] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, plate 175 x 105mm (7 x 10¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small right margin.
Half-length portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
[Ref: 59826] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t.
T. Prescott, sculp.
Pub.d by C. Dyer, Soho [n.d., c.1810].
Stipple, printed in brown, watermark 1809. Printed area 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Profile portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum.
Wellcome Library no. 8800i.
[Ref: 59825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Trimmer.
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the King's Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 515 x 355mm (20½ x 14"). Rust marks from stretcher nails in left margin, repaired tear in inscription area. Some damage.
A young girl holding a cat. Although the DNB calls this a portrait of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), evangelist and children's writer, the NPG notes that it ''is in fact one of Mrs Trimmer's six daughters'', one of whom was Selina (1764-1829), who became governess to the family of the Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
[Ref: 59674] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr Nicolase Tulp, Burgemeester en raad der staad Amsterdam.]
[Engraved by Jacob Houbraken after Hendrik Pothoven.]
[Amsterdam: n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), large margins.
Nicolaes Tulp (1593-1674) was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. Pothoven drew this portrait from Rembrandt's painting 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp'.
Ver Huell: Jacobus Houbraken et son oeuvre, 247.
[Ref: 59784] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

William Tyndale, the Venerable Translator of the Bible into English who was burned ar Vilvoord in the Year 1536, for Dissenting from Religion as by Law Established. Engraved by W.m Dennis Jun.r from a very old painting in the possession of George Offor Esq.r Grove Street, Hackney. On one side of the portrait is respesented the Pope & Satan striving to extinguish the light (an allusion to their fruitless endeavours to supress the Scriptures. Proof.
London, Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street [n.d., 1843].
Stipple, proof on chine collé. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½") very large margins. Slight spotting on backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of William Tyndale (c.1494-1536), wearing a cap. The owner of the painting, George Offor (1787-1864), was a bookdealer specialising in early English bibles, with a particular interest in Tyndale. While researching the martydom of Tyndale he visited Brussels, got caught up in the Revolution of 1830 and was imprisoned in Vilvoord Castle, where Tyndale was incarcerated before his execution. Offor also collected the works of John Bunyan: after his death Sothebys had 500 lots of his 'Bunyaniana', but most was destroyed in a fire in the auction house in 1865.
[Ref: 59697] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Van Der Borcht Peinctre. Ne a Franckendael au Palatinat [...] Serviteur du Prince de Galles.
Johann: Meyssens pinxit et excudit. W: Hollar fecit, 1648.
[Antwerp, c.1705.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), with large margins.
Hendrik Van Der Borcht the younger (1614-76), German Baroque painter whose patron, Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, made him curator of his art collection in 1637. From an edition of the 'True Effigies Of the most Eminent Painters, and other Famous Artists That have Flourished in Europe', first published in Antwerp in 1649, reissued in 1661, 1694, 1705 & 1739.
Pennington:1365 iv of v.
[Ref: 59830] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Iohannis Weever Aetatis Suaw 55. Anno 1631. Lancashire gave him breath, And Cambridge educaton. His studies are of Death. Of Heaven his meditation.
I. Taylor sculp.
[n.d. 1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, mounted in album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Weever (c.1575-1632), poet and antiquarian, wearing an embroidered cap and lace ruff, half-length in an oval, with hand on a skull next to two books. A reversed copy of the frontispiece engraved by Cecill for his 'Ancient Funeral Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and The Islands Adjacent', originally published 1632.
[Ref: 59853] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Wickliffe. Penn. Luther. Calvin Winchester. Baxter. Whitfield. Wesley.
Engraved by P. Roberts.
Published March 25 1801 for Crosby & Letterman Stationers Court.
Stipple. 175 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed to plate at top. Small margins.
Medallion portraits of eight religious figures with their dates, probably to accompany biographies: John Wycliffe (c.1328-84), Martin Luther (1483-1546), William Penn (1644-1718), John Calvin (1509-64), Richard Baxter (1615-91), Elhanan Winchester (1751-97), George Whitefield (1714-70) and John Wesley (1703-91).
[Ref: 60109] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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