Grosvenor Prints

[Adelaide, or the Shepherdess of the Alps.]
[After Giovanni Battista Cipriani.][Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.]
[n.d. c.1780.]
Rare etching with stipple, proof before letters, 18th century watermark; sheet 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Thread margins. Nicks and creases at edges.
Adelaide, a shepherdess, seated in profile to right, feeding grass to five sheep on the right. Illustrates 'Adelaide, or the Shepherdess of the Alps' by Jean François Marmontel (1723 - 1799).
De V: 1411 i of iii. See Marmontel "Moral Tales".
[Ref: 60405] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Sarah Amherst and her older brother Jeffrey.]
Painted at Palermo by Robert Fagan Esq.r His Majesty's Consul General for Sicily and Malta. Engraved by Rob.t Dunkarton, 452, Strand.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Scarce mezzotint with engraved border. 320 x 345mm (12½ x 13½"). Tear touching plate at top, printers crease.
Two of the children of William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, with a dog: the eldest son Jeffrey (1802-26) and Sarah Elizabeth (1801-76). Jeffrey died suddenly in Barrackpore, while his father was leading the Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6); Sarah also travelled to India with her parents, being a painter and botanical illustrator, known under her married name of Hay-Williams. This portrait was painted while Amherst was ambassador-extraordinary to the court of the Two Sicilies, 1809-11. Challoner Smith suggests this plate was never published.
CS: 3.
[Ref: 60210] £450.00

[...] Hans Christian Andersen [facsimile signature]. Portrait Gallery of Hogg's Instructor.
F. Croll.
[Edinburgh, 1851.]
Stipple engraving with facsimile text. Sheet 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½").
Bust portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), Danish author, fairy tale writer and poet, noted for his children's stories.
[Ref: 53311] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n Anderson. Commanding Irregular Cavalry, Shah Shujah's Force.
[after Vincent Eyre.]
[London, John Murray, 1843.]
Lithograph. Printed area 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼").
William Anderson (1803-58) in Afghan dress. Promoted to captain in 1838, he served as Commandant of Shah Shuja's 2nd Cavalry during the 1st Afghan War (1838-42) and was taken prisoner during the retreat from Kabul in January 1842, and released on 22 September. Promoted to major in May 1853, Anderson later served as second-in-command of the Jodhpur Legion, a unit that mutinied in 1857, before eventually retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. A portrait from Vincent Eyre's 'Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners', from an original drawing made during Eyre's captivity in Afghanistan after the Retreat from Kabul during the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842).
[Ref: 60407] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
A. Isola dip. C. Bruni lit. Torino in de Festa.
[Genova: L. Pellas, 1830.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 190 x 117mm (7½ x 4½").
Frontispiece portrait from 'Poemi di Lord G. Byron Tradotti dall'originale inglese da Pietro Isola'.
[Ref: 60401] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus.
Cipriani pinx.t. J. Godby sculp.
London: William Darton & Son, 58 Holborn Hill.]
Hand-coloured stipple with engraving. Sheet 415 x 270mm (16¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, pinholes in unprinted area of plate.
A full length portrait, standing with one hand on a globe, the other holding a telescope. According to the BM (1880,0110.131) the original Cipriani portrait was of Galileo. The plate was also published by Edward Orme in 1815.
See Ref: 60368.
[Ref: 60531] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus.
Cipriani pinx.t. J. Godby sculp.
[Published either by Edward Orme in 1815 or William Darton, c.1820.]
Stipple with engraving. Sheet 380 x 305mm (15 x 12"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
A full length portrait of Christopher Columbus, standing with one hand on a globe, the other holding a telescope. According to the BM (1880,0110.131) the original Cipriani portrait was of Galileo.
See also reference 60531.
[Ref: 60368] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Justitia Hulk, with the Convicts at Work, near Woolwich. New Newgate Calendar or Malefactor's Register.
Dodd delin. Page sc.
Engraving, 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"), with large margins. Right margin stained.
A view of the Justitia Hulk in the Thames which was used to house convicts. Prisoners were often kept in hulks while they awaited deportation; often to Australia. Australian transportation image.
[Ref: 60594] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Convicts taking Water near Black Friars Bridge, in order for their being conveyed to Woolwich.
Dodd delin. Pollard sculp.
Engraving, 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the convicts being loaded onto the hulks in the Thames. Prisoners were often kept in hulks while they awaited deportation; often to Australia. Australian transportation image.
[Ref: 60595] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Singleton Copley.] The R.t Hon.ble Lord Lyndhurst.
A.E. Chalon R.A. R.J. Lane A.R.A.
London. Published March 30th 1836, by John Mitchell, Library, 33, Old Bond Street.
Lithograph, proof. Sheet 430 x 275mm (17 x 10¾"). Trimmed to image.
A full-length portrait of John Singleton Copley (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst, in his baronial gown. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of the American painter of the same name.
[Ref: 60372] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

S.r Francis Drake.
J. Houbraken Sculp Amst.
[Amsterdam, c.1730.]
Engraving. 365 x 230mm (14 x 9"), with large margins. Crease.
Sir Francis Drake (1540 - 1596), admiral and circumnavigator, in an ornamental oval, a cartouche below showing a sea battle. Armour, canon and a globe below the portrait. Early Dutch impression.
[Ref: 60374] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Franciscus Draeck Nobilissimus Eques Angliæ Ætat Svæ XLIII. Hic est qui toto terrarum Orbe, duorum annor Spatio, et, mensium io circumducto Angliam patriam revisit, 1577 Dere.
[after Jean Rabel.]
[n.d., c.1600.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½"). Trimmed within plate top and right, very slight crease.
A half length contemporary portrait of Sir Francis Drake in armour, with a shield decorated with a scene of a sea battle.
[Ref: 60507] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

S.r John Fielding, K.t.
Hone pinx.t. M.c Ardell fecit.
Sold by C. Marsh at Charing Cross and R. Withy in Cornhill.
Rare mezzotint, sheet 395 x 290mm (15½ x 11½"). Trimmed and glued to album paper. Some surface dirt, creasing and some light foxing at edges.
Three quarter seated portrait of Sir John Fielding (1721-1780), English magistrate and social reformer. He rests his left hand on the 'Holy Bible' and 'Statuits at Large Magna Charta' and his right holds a rolled document labelled 'Plan of' on his knee. He wears a dark coat with narrow embroidered trim along edge and cuffs, over an embroidered waistcoat and a narrow dark band just above his closed eyes. Despite being blinded in a navy accident aged 19, Fielding set up his own business and, in his spare time, studied law. He worked very closely with his half-brother Henry Fielding (a chief magistrate as well as a novelist), creating the first professional police force, the Bow Street Runners. Known as the "Blind Beak", he could allegedly recognise three thousand criminals by the sounds of their voices.
CS: 65, ii of iii. Whitman 187 ii of iii.
[Ref: 60426] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord French F.M.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 320 x 170mm (12½ x 6¾"). Small holes on four corners.
Military caricature of Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypre (1852–1925) by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60680] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Proof.
W.R. Bigg, A.R.A. pinx. T. Gaugain fecit.
Published July 1, 1817, by Tho. Palser, Surrey side, Westm.r Bridge.
Stipple, open lettered proof, 380 x 410mm (15 x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides. Ink stains in margins. Very small margins.
A little boy reaching across a round table to feed a robin on the window-sill with a crumb of cake, with a bat and shuttlecock on the table next to the plate.
[Ref: 60391] £360.00

Commodore Griffith. From an Original Miniature in the Possession of Cap.t Walter Booth.
Harding sc.
Pub'd Aug. 1, 1800, by Edw. Harding 98 Pall Mall.
Engraving. 160 x 105mm (6½ x 4¼"). Small margins.
Welsh naval officer who fought in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, including the battles of St Lucia (1778), Grenada and Martinique (both 1779), killed in action at the later. His commander, Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, noted 'The service cannot lose a better man or a better officer'.
[Ref: 60679] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Camillus Hone] The Piping Boy.
Painted by Mr. Hone. Engrav'd by Capt.n Baillie 1771.
Mezzotint. 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9").
Mezzotint after Nathaniel Hone's 1769 portrait of his son John Camillus Hone (now in the National Gallery of Ireland), engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 60438] £360.00

[K. Cannon.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 320 x 160mm (12½ x 6¼").
A horse racing caricature of jockey Kempton Cannon (1879–1951) by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60678] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The late W.T. Evan. J. Loates colours.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 330 x 170mm (13 x 6¾").
A horse racing caricature of jockey William Thomas Evans (1913-68) wearing the colours of jockey John Loates (1846-68) by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60677] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[W. Griggs.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 320 x 160mm (12½ x 6¼"). Small holes on four corners.
A horse racing caricature of a jockey (either William or Walter Griggs) by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60673] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Bart Lievier in his own colours.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 320 x 170mm (12½ x 6¾"). Slightly foxed.
A horse racing caricature of a jockey by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60672] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[F. Wootton in Mr R. Wootton Colours.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 320 x 170mm (12½ x 6¾"). Trimmed, slightly foxed.
A horse racing caricature of jockey Frank Wotton (1893-1986) by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60671] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Stubbs.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 330 x 170mm (13 x 6¾"). Some creases, Small holes on four corners. Slightly foxed.
A horse racing caricature of a jockey by Nap, signed recto and titled verso. Most likely William Arthur Stubbs (1891-1952) an amateur before the war he turned professional in January 1918 and his first paid ride was a winner.
[Ref: 60669] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Payne Knight, Esq. F.R.S. & S.A. From an Original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A.
Drawn by W. Evans. Engraved by E. Scriven.
Published May 30th 1811, by T.Cadell & W.Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple, J. Whatman 1808 watermark. 375 x 320mm (14¾ x 12½"). Trimmed into plate at sides, creased, ingrained pencil over plate lower right.
Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824), classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist, best known for his 'A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus' (1786), a study of ancient phallic cults.. He served as a MP for Leominster (1780-4) and for Ludlow (1784-1806).
[Ref: 60373] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Red.d Samuel Lee M.A. Professor of Arabic.
J. Gooch del.t Cambridge 1821. J. Thompson sculp.
Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London, Nov. 1, 1821.
Stipple. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Samuel Lee (1783-1852), Orientalist scholar, professor of Arabic at Cambridge then Hebrew. He also helped create the first dictionary of 'te Reo', the Maori language.
[Ref: 60402] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Amante Inconstante.]
[L.B. Coclers Pinx.][A.L. Claessens sculps.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching and stipple, scarce proof before letters, sheet 355 x 280mm (14 x 11"). Trimmed to plate, small repaired tear and creases at edges.
A young woman - most likely Aletta, the artist's daughter - standing in a doorway, holding a candle and looking at a young man, probably the painter Pieter Janson.
[Ref: 60411] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

W. Manson [facsimile signature].
[Painted by H.W. Phillips. Engraved by W.J. Edwards.]
[n.d. c.1840].
Stipple engraving. Trimmed in oval, sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾").
William Manson, London auctioneer who worked with George Henry Christie from 1831 until his death in 1852.
[Ref: 60406] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Master Douglas.
J. Hazlitt pinx.t. E. Harding sculp.
Pub.d June 6, 1794, by E. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple, sheet 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Full length portrait of 'Master' Douglas, standing in a landscape and holding a hat in his left hand.
[Ref: 60419] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Die Kleine Minnette.
Gemalt von F.G. Weitsch. Geschabt von J.J. Freidhof.
Berlin, bei J.J. Freidhof 1801.
Rare & scarce mezzotint. 460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"), with large margins. Some foxing in margins.
A curly-heaired child leans on a window sill, holding a pear, watched by a scowling cat. The window is draped by a vine with grapes.
[Ref: 60491] £520.00

[Heads. Representing the Various Passions of the Soul] Drawn by that Great Master Mons.r Le Brun]
[n.d., c.1763.]
18 (of 20) plates, each c. 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½") vry large margins. Stitch holes in left margins.
A collection of sketched portraits of heads, highlighting expressions: Attention; Admiration; Admiration with Astonishment; Veneration; Rapture; Desire; Joy with Tranquility; Laughter; Acute Pain; Simple Bodily Pain; Sadness; Weeping; Compassion; Terrour or Fright; Anger; Hatred or Jealousy; Dispair; Horreur; and Scorn. This series was first published by Henry Parker in his 'Compleat Drawing Master' in 1763.
[Ref: 60580] £680.00 view all images for this item

Pleasures of Memory.
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
March 1, 1844 Published By J.C Grundy, Machester; R. H. Grundy, Liverpool; The Anaglyphic Company, Berners Street, London, & Goupil & Vibert, Paris.
Mezzotint with engraving, 460 x 350mm (18 x 13¾"), with very large margins. Repaired tear in top left margin. Very light creasing including one very small crease in her face.
Portrait in an oval frame of a woman looking at a picture book. She studies the book resting her hand on her head. The book is raised on a cushion. An illustration to poem 'The Pleasures of Memory', (1792) by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855).
[Ref: 60697] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl Roberts F.M.]
Nap.
[n.d. c.1910.]
Signed gouache, sheet 365 x 180mm (14½ x 7"). Creased top left, tear on top edge.
Military caricature of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914) by Nap, signed recto and titled verso.
[Ref: 60681] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

J.J.Rousseau. L'Original appartient a M.r le C.te Louis de Giardin.
[After François Gérard] Y.in Melliaze [[?]Lithograph signature] Imp. Lith de Delpech. Latour pinx.t
[n.d c.1825]
Fine lithograph, sheet 510 x 335mm (20 x 13¼") very large margins.
Portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), half-length, turned to left, looking to the viewer, wearing a fur-trimmed coat and a fur hat. The print is actually after Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard's (1770-1837) black and white chalk drawing which was after Maurice Quentin de La Tour's (1704-88) painting which is claimed to be the only one that Rousseau admitted as a likeness.
Original black and white chalk drawing in National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
[Ref: 60608] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Anthony Shirley, Ambassador from the Schah of Persia. From a miniature by P. Oliver formerly in the Strawberry Hill Collection, now in the possession of William Blamire Esq.re.
G.P. Hardining F.S.A. del. Joseph Brown sculp.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple on steel. 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"), Trimmed to plate, surface crack in unprinted area.
A head and shoulders portrait of Sir Anthony Shirley (or Sherley, 1565-c.1636), an English adventurer and opportunist, in Persian dress. He had become the Shah Abbas the Great's representative in Europe in 1598, visiting Moscow, Prague and Rome in his behalf, but ran up huge debts and alienated his Persian associates. He abandoned the embassy and from 1601-4 he was living in Venice, working as a spy for Spain and Scotland, for which he was ejected from the city. Subsequently he entered the services of the Holy Roman Emperor then the king of Spain, but always offending his paymasters and running up debts. He died in obscurity c.1636.
[Ref: 60375] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Philip Sydney.
[after Antonio Moro.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½), very fine mounted within embossed border.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the English poet, courtier and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age. Probably after an 18th century portait in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 2096), copied from a painting by Antonio Moro (or Antonis Mor, c. 1517-77)
[Ref: 60486] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

The Late M.rs Stamp, Wife of the Rev.d J. Stamp, P.M. Nine Years a Preacher in the Primitive Methodist Connexion. / She preched to All. & cried in death. / ''Behold, behond the Lamb!'' / at Sheerness, Kent, May 4th 1839 _ Aged 27 Years. / Dedicated to Female Preachers.
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by J. Pasco, 12 Paternoster Row.
Scarce lithograph. Printed area 250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6").
Portrait of Mrs Stamp, seated and reading a book. Born in a Quaker family, she married the Reverend John Stamp (c.1808-1847), becoming a female itinerant preacher for the Primitive Methodists on the Louth circuit. The pair had much success in conversions, but John's was not a wise financial administrator and his early advocacy of teetotalism made him unpopular with the connexion. He also shocked his congregation by conducting the funeral service of his wife and daughter in 1839. In 1841 he was ejected from the Primitive Methodist ministry and, taking umbrage, he moved to Hull to set up a rival independent society that quickly failed.
[Ref: 60535] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton known as General Tom Thumb, the American in Miniature. [Facimile signature.] Born Jan.y 11th 1832. He is smaller than any infant that ever walked alone, is 25 inches in height and weeights only 15 Pounds!
Baugniet 1844. Baugniet lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Creasing in text at bottom. Trimmed
A portrait of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-83), aged 14. Known as General Tom Thumb, he was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
See Ref: 37654, 58043 & 48993
[Ref: 60364] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Sturge. This Print is dedicated to the Most Noble the Marquis of Sligo. as a tribute of respect for the Justice and humanity he displayed in liberating his Slaves.
Drawn on Stone by H. Millichamp, from a Picture in the Possession of W. Boultbee, Esq.r. M. & N. Hanhart, Lith. Printers, 64, Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl.
London, Published by H. Millicamp, 14, Church St Lisson Grove [n.d. c.1840].
Rare lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½") very large margins. Slight crease above head to left.
Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), Quaker and founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, now Anti-Slavery International. He spent his life engaged in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves. In Jamaica, Joseph Sturge helped to found Free Villages with the Baptists, one of which was named Sturge Town in his memory. The dedication is to Howe Browne (1788-1845), 2nd Marquess of Sligo. Although he campaigned for abolition he inherited two slave-holding plantations from his grandmother. When he was appointed Governor and Vice-Admiral of Jamaica in 1834, only a year after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, his attempts to transition to a free society put him at odds with the Jamaican Assembly, who forced him to resign the governorship.
See Ref: 9348.
[Ref: 60515] £380.00

The Rev:d Doctor Jonathan Swift Dean of St: Patricks.
C. Jarvis [Charles Jervas] Principal Painter to his Ma.tie Pinxit. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1730
Etching with engraving. 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"), large margins Slight damage in title area "Doctor Swift".
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), seated in an armchair, holding a quill. After the second portrait of Swift painted in oils by Charles Jervas c.1718, now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 278).
[Ref: 60519] £360.00

Snip!
From Nature and on Stone by John Corbet Anderson. Printed by Stannard and Dixon.
London; Published by John Corbet Anderson 15.th May. 1855.
Lithograph, sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
A very fine image showing a man sitting cross-legged on a table sewing a piece of fabric. On the table sits an iron and patterns hang behind him. By lithographer John Corbett Anderson (fl. 1850-1853) known for his series ' Sketches at Lords'.
[Ref: 60603] £320.00

Sanguinea. An fortuna ridens, an sint mihi tempora acerba, / Semper ero constans, semper ero imobilis.
Gabriel Spizel inv. et excud. a.v.
[n.d., c.1750].
Scarce mezzotint, printed in greenish blue. 335 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼") very large margins. Crease, tears in edges of margin. Stain bottom right margin.
A smiling woman holds up scales marked 'Lucky' and 'Unlucky' in her right hand, her left hand on a pack of cards. The Latin text translates as 'Whether fortune laughs, whether times are bitter for me, I will always be steadfast, I will always be immovable'. One of a set of four Temperaments by Spizel (or Spitzel, 1698-1760).
[Ref: 60488] £390.00

Voltaire.
J. Pass sc. [After Maurice Quentin de La Tour.]
Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1828.
Stipple, pt printed in colours, 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Small margins.
Oval half-length portrait of French philosopher, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778).
[Ref: 60397] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Arthur Wentworth of Bulmer, near Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Aged 75. Earth Stopper to Charles late Earl of Carlisle; to Hen. Brewster Darley Esq.r & now to W.m Tuffnell Joliffe & Mann Horsfield Esq.rs.
N. Drake Pinx.t. Val. Green sculp.t.
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament 1st August 1767.
Fine Mezzotint. 280 x 360mm (11 x 14¼"). Laid on card. Small margins.
A blocker of fox holes, astride a black pony, carrying lantern and tools, accompanied by two terriers. A fox watches him from a hillock.
CS 137. Whitman 1 only state.
[Ref: 60443] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend Mr. George Whitefield. A.M. Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon.
N. Hone pinx.t. Carington Bowles Excudt. J. Greenwood Fecit.
London Published as the Act directs July 1st, 1769. Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69. St. Paul's Church Yard.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins, repairs top right. Margins restored, pinholes, slight scuffing on image..
George Whitefield (1714-70), Anglican evangelist, one of the founders of Methodism.
CS:7 only recorded state. See also references 13602, 13603, 13607, 13611 & 60367.
[Ref: 60366] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[William Williamson?]
Rob.t Grave Sc.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, stained by blue mss.
Pencil mss. suggests this is bookseller William Williamson, 1796.
[Ref: 60394] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Jan Wyck] Optimi Ingenÿ Viro Joanni Wootton, Joannis Wyck insignis Præliorum Pictoris quondam Discipulp hanc Magistri Effifiem 29. Octobris 1652 Natus est Obÿt 1700. D.D.D. Faber.
G: Kneller pinx: 1685. J. Faber fecit 1730.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾").
Half-length portrait of painter Jan Wyck (1645-1702), born in Haarlem but probably living in London from the age of twelve. He received patronage from the Dukes of Ormond and Monmouth, as well as William III. Among his military subjects were several paintings of the Battle of the Boyne. He died in Mortlake.
CS 397.
[Ref: 60716] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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