Grosvenor Prints

"Wholemeal Bread" (D.r T.R. Allinson) "Vanity Fair" Supplement. Men of The Day. No. 1299.
Ray. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
[4th October 1911]
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 250mm (15¼ x 10"), large margins. Paper toned.
Full length caricature portrait of Thomas Richard Allinson (1858-1918) English physician, dietetic reformer, businessman, journalist and vegetarianism activist. He was a proponent of wholemeal bread consumption. His name is still used today for a bread popular in Europe, Allinson bread.
[Ref: 63671] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

John Bellingham. Taken at the Sessions House Old Bailey, May=15th=1812.
Drawn & Etcd by Dennes Dighton.
Pub.d as the Act directs by Dighton. Spring Gardens. May 16th 1812.
Coloured etching. 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1811?, large margins. Mint.
A sketch of John Bellingham (1770-1812), in the dock at the Old Bailey for the murder of Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), the only British prime minister to be assassinated while in office.
[Ref: 63807] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

"the Salvation Army"
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair Nov.r 25 1882.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of General William Booth (1829 –1912), Methodist preacher and founder of the Salvation army along with his wife.
[Ref: 63670] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Bride.
Painted by C.R. Leslie, R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Thomson.
Published for the Proprietor Jan.y 31, 1831 by Moon, Boys, & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, London.
Engraving. 365 x 290mm (14¼ x 11½"), with large margins. Spotting and soiling, mainly in margins.
A half-length portrait of a young woman in a white dress with lace and jewels, veil down her back, putting on a glove.
[Ref: 63697] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Praecellentissimi Vatis, Samuelis Butler. Calidus excuso populum suspendere Naso. Pers. Illustrissomp Viro Georgio Granville Baroni de Lansdown. Hanc Tabulam Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
G. Soest pinx. G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1730.] [Early issue]
Engraving. 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½''), large margins.
A portrait of poet and satirist Samuel Butler (1613-1680) from Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
Alexander 605. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63877] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

["our Joe"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 27 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼").
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

"War-worn". (The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain M.P,.)
WHO. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
Vanity Fair Supplement. [29th January 1908]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins. Slight mark in coat.
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63675] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

G. Chaucer. Honoralissimo Dno. Dno. Heneagio Finch Comiti de Winchelsea &c. &c. Ectypum hoc olim dum in vivis destinatum nunc T? µ??? ??78 T8 memoriae consecratum esse volui G. Vertue.
Vertue sculp.
[n.d. c.1710.] [Early issue]
Engraving. 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"), large margins.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
Alexander 572. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63880] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Chudleigh] Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston taken at the Bar of the house of Lords. Apr.l 15 1776.
Published by G. Robinson as the act directs May 1. 1776.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Trimmed into plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-1788). Having had a short, secret marriage, she bigimously married the Duke of Kingston. When her first husband, by then the Earl of Bristol, brought a case seeking to prove their marriage in order to divorce her, she appeared in the House of Lords in elaborate mourning dress, three years after the death of the Duke. Much ridiculed, she was satirised as 'Kitty Crocodile' in Foote's play 'The Capuchin', 1777.
[Ref: 63597] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Ducissa de Marlborough &, Sacri Romani Imperÿ Principissa. &c.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp. et. Angl. Eques Aur. Pinxit. J. Simon fecit.
Sold by J. Simon, against cross Lane in long Acre. [n.d. c.1715.]
Fine mezzotint, plate 355 x 270 (14 x 10½"), with large margins.
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744). The wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; Sarah Jennings was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber in 1683, and became a close friend and advisor to Queen Anne. Vivacious and adept at politicking, she used her position to further the military career of her husband. Eventually in 1711, her self-confident dominance of the Queen provoked a quarrel and estrangement, and both she and the Duke were dismissed from their offices.
CS: 96 only state.
[Ref: 63748] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Abrhamus Cowleius Anglorum Pinarus Flaccus Maro Defieiæ, Decus, Desiderium Ævi sui. Nobillissimo D.no D.no Henrico Hero Baroni de Coleraine, Scientiarum Artiumque Patrono Dignissimo, hanc Tabulam D.D.D. G. Vertue.
P. Lely p. G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d, c.1720.] [Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 370 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾"), large margins.
Abraham Cowley (1618-67), poet and essayist.
Alexander 601. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63876] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. E Collectione W.m Powlet, Gen:
Peter Lely pinx.t 1653. I. Faber fecit 1740.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Thread margins.
Bust portrait in oval of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), in armour with loose hair curling to shoulders and a plain white collar, directed to left, looking over left shoulder. Published as the frontispiece to Peck's 'Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell'.
CS 97.
[Ref: 63617] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[Delarom.] The Fair Circassian. N.º 5.
Lady's Magazine, _ 1819.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, mounted in album paper at edges.
A portrait of Delarom, the favourite companion of the Persian ambassador during his visit to London in 1819. She is shown seated on a mat and cushions, in oriental dress. Her nickname, 'The Fair Circassian', came from Samuel Jackson Pratt's 1781 tragedy.
[Ref: 63773] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

["sensational art"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Sep.r 15 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of French artist, Paul Gustave Dore (1832-1883).
[Ref: 63681] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Col. Patrick Duff, of the Hon.ble East India Company's Artillery.
Painted by G. Romney Esq: Engraved by C:H:Hodges.
Publish'd by C.H. Hodges No.17, Lambeth Road_Feb.y 3.d. 1791.
Mezzotint. 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), very large margins. Framed. Stain in title.
Half-length portrait of Patrick Duff (d.1803), holding a sword in military uniform, facing forward.
Horne: 27, ii/ii. CS 12.
[Ref: 63663] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Carlo Ferrara. The Poor Italian Boy.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby. Printed by T. Skelton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph on tinted india paper. Printed area 255 x 225mm (10 x 8¾"), with large margins. Foxing in borders.
A boy with a box and puppets, with a tortoise sitting on the box. A street urchin, he was murdered in 1831 by Bishop and Williams, who tried to sell his body to the Medical School at King's College, London. Caught, the pair became known as the 'London Burkers' (after the more notorious Burke and Hare of Edinburgh) and confessed to sixty murders prior to their execution. Bishop's corpse was put on display at King's College anatomy theatre. It is believed that the case was a prime inspiration for Charles Dickens's 'Oliver Twist', which he began five years later.
[Ref: 63765] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Goldsmith.
[After Sir Joshua Reynolds]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins
Oval portrait of Anglo-Irish writer, poet and physician Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). Directed, facing and looking to the right, wearing a fur-lined cloak; within circle frame topped with laurel hanging down.
[Ref: 63600] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Oliver Goldsmith] [Goldsmith.] From the Original Picture in the Possession of Her Grace the Duchess of Dorset.]
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Robert Newton sculpsit.
[London. Pub.d June 4th 1817 by W. Cribb, Tavistock Street.]
Engraving, proof before title, printed on chine collé. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"), with large margins.
The famous portrait of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), half-length, wearing a fur-lined cloak, his right hand holding a book to his chest with forefinger in between the pages. The plate was begun by John Summerfield (c.1773-1817), a former apprentice of Francesco Bartolozzi, and completed by Newton after his death.
[Ref: 63592] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

["She"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. May 21 1887]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of writer, Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925).
[Ref: 63683] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Phoebe Hassel; died at Brighton, 1821, aged 108. [Old ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare wood engraving. Sheet 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½"), with large margins. Crease in centre.
In Hove Church Yard is a tombstone: 'In memory of Phoebe Hassel 1713-1821 died age 108. She served for many years as a private soldier in many parts of Europe and at the battle of Fontenoy, fighting bravely, she received a bayonet wound in the left arm'.
[Ref: 63739] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Rebecca Howse] Mother Goose of Oxford.
Dighton. ad Vivam del.t.
Pub. July 1807 by Dighton, Char.g Cross.
Coloured etching. 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"), large margins. Old ink mss. in lower margin. Mint
Portrait of Rebecca Howse (1737-1818, née Wildgoose), a one-time procuress who took to selling flowers after going blind, being known to the undergraduates as 'Flora'.
[Ref: 63810] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby. "The Ladies of Llangollen." S. Ponsonby [facsimile signature]. Died Dec.r 8th 1831. Aged 74. Eleanor Butler [facsimile signature]. Died June 2nd 1829. Aged 90.
From a Drawing by LADY LEIGHTON carefully taken from life. Drawn of Stone by R. J. LANE, A.R.A.
Printed by J. Graf. Proof.
Lithograph on chine colle. 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾") very large margins. Tears to edges of paper repaired with tape. Some surface dirt in margins.
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known affectionately and famously as 'the Ladies of Llangollen', seated at a table in their library, with their cat similarly seated in the foreground. The ladies moved to Llangollen, North Wales, and moved into Plas Newydd with their servant Mary Caryll in order to avoid the inevatibility of unwanted forced marriages back in their home County Kilkenny. Their home became an epicentre for eccentric contemporaries and they eventually became a popular attraction. All three ladies are buried together in Llangollen.
[Ref: 63557] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby "The Ladies of Llangollen". [Facsimile signatures below.]
Drawn on Stone by J.H. Lynch. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
Entd. at Stationer's Hall. [n.d., c.1835.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 375 x 275mm (15 x 11"). Laid on album sheet with decorative border.
Touching portraits of Sarah Ponsonby (1755? - 1831), daughter of Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby, cousin of the Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1745? - 1829). They resolved to live together in complete isolation from society in a cottage at Plasnewydd in the vale of Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales. Their names were not known in the neighbourhood, and they were called 'the ladies of the vale.' They lived in complete seclusion for some fifty years, and neither left the cottage for a single night until their deaths. Their devotion to each other and their eccentric manners gave them wide notoriety. All tourists in Wales sought introduction to them, and many made the journey to Llangollen for the special purpose of visiting them. With their servant, Mary Caryll, who died before either of them, they lie buried in Plasnewydd churchyard under a triangular pyramid inscribed with their names. An Italian greyhound runs on the path in front of the two ladies; it has been noted that a succession of their pet dogs were named 'Sappho'.
[Ref: 63558] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Stringer Lawrence Esq.r, Major General and Commander in Chief in the East Indies.
J. Reynolds Pinx.t. 1761. R. Houston Londini fec.t 1761.
Printed for John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 390 x 275mm (15¼ x 10¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Small margins.
Stringer Lawrence (1698-1775), the first Commander-in-Chief of Fort William. 'Father of the Indian army', Lawrence served in Gibraltar and fought in the Battle of Culloden before being placed in command of the East India Company's troops in 1748. While acting as the governor of Fort St. David, he recognised the abilities of his junior, Robert Clive and assisted in his rise. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General. A rare portrait, after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
CS 69, state i of ii. Hamilton: Pg 45 i of ii. See Ref: 44436
[Ref: 63664] £480.00

Major General Stringer Lawrence, who Commanded in India from 1747 to 1767. Died 10th Jan.y 1775, Ageed 78. From the Original Painting in the Possession of S.r Rob.t Palk Bar.t to whom this Place is most respectfully Inscribed by his obliged humble Servant, E.A. Ezekiel.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by E.A. Ezekiel.
[London: c.1795 by E. A. Ezekiel.]
Stipple with etching, scarce. Sheet 580 x 360mm (22¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Stringer Lawrence (1697 - 1775), 'Father of the Indian army', standing at the door of a tent before an Indian fort, wearing uniform, with a stick in his right hand and his sword in his left. Lawrence served in Gibraltar and fought in the Battle of Culloden before being placed in command of the East India Company's troops in 1748. While acting as the governor of Fort St. David, he recognised the abilities of his junior, Robert Clive and assisted in his rise. He left India in 1759 after being elevated to the rank of Major-General. A rare portrait, after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
See BM 1849,1031.181 for state with different lettering. See reference 63664 for a framed mezzotint.
[Ref: 44436] £480.00

["A Connoisseur"]
N. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Oct.r 21 1899]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾") very large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of painter and costume designer, John Seymour Lucas RA (1849-1923).
[Ref: 63684] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Ladies Hero or the Unfortunate James MacLeane Esq.r. Done from the Original late in the possession of M.r Salt Keeper of the Gate House.
Printed for T. Harrison. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sep.r 29. 1750.
Scarce hand-coloured engraving with etching. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, edge black-ruled, a few stains, mounted in album paper at edges. Horizontal crease left.
Full-length portrait of James MacLaine (1724-1750), grocer-turned-highwayman, with the mask he used as a disguise on the ground to the side. With his partner William Plunkett (a bankrupt apothecary), he committed 20 robberys in six months between Hounslow Heath and Hyde Park. His most famous victim was Horace Walpole, who was grazed by an accidentally-fired bullet. Captured, Maclaine was sent to trial at the Old Bailey, where his dashing good looks created a sensation: he reputedly received nearly 3,000 guests at Newgate before he was hung. His body was handed over to surgeons for dissection: his skeleton can be seen on display in the operating theatre in the last plate of Hogarth's 'Four Stages of Cruelty'. Plunkett is said to have escaped to Pennsylvania where he fought for independence.
[Ref: 63569] £480.00

"Stonehenge 1911." (M.r W. M.c Auliffe, M.N.G.A.) "Vanity Fair" Supplement. Men Of The Day No. 1309.
Alick P.F. Ritchie. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
[3 December 1911]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of William McAuliffe (fl.1911), Chief Druid of England.
[Ref: 63679] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Milton.] Life of M. by I.T. ed. II, P.LXXX.
I.B.C.I.F. MDCCLXVII [Giovanni Battista Cipriani].
[1767]
Etching. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½") very large margins. Some spotting.
A bust of poet John Milton surmounting a term with ''Def. Pro Pop. Anglic" and a medallion portrait of French writer Claudius Salmasius on the front. It was published in John Tolland's 'Life of Milton' and references Milton's ''Defensio pro Populo Anglicano'', a rebuttal of Salmasius' ''Defensio Regia pro Carolo I'' (Royal Defence on behalf of Charles I).
[Ref: 63706] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

In His Majesty's Collection.
From the Original Drawing by Annibale Carracci. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi RA Historical Engraver to His Majesty.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 11 1796 by I. Chamberlaine.
Stipple in sanguine, sheet 430 x 325mm (17 x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A very fine image showing head of a young monk, possibly Saint Francis of Assisi.
De Vesme 2106.
[Ref: 63782] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Hamilton Mortimer Esq.r.
J. Mortimer Pinxit. Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd Aug.t 18,th 1779 by M.r Jordanm Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof, 18th century watermark. Sheet 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom. Slightly rubbed.
Half-length self portrait of artist John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-79), before an easle, palette in hand.
CS: 87, state i of ii.
[Ref: 63863] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Iohannes Ogilvius.
P. Lilly Pinxit. P. Lombart Sculpsit. Londini.
[n.d. c.1670.]
Copper engraving, 17th century watermark, 330 x 240mm (13 x 9¼"). Trimmed close to plate. Slight foxing mainly outside of printed image.
John Ogilby (1600-1676), a multi-talented Scotsman. Starting his life with an early apprenticeship to a dancing master, he went on to become a successful publisher, cartographer and translator, with his crowning achievement being his 'Britannia', the first printed road atlas.
NPG: D5387.
[Ref: 63738] £320.00

Out of Work.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby Printed by T. H. Skelton, Southampton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph on tinted india paper; 250 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"), very large margins.
A three quarter length portrait of a glum-looking man
[Ref: 63766] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

"P.R.A"
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair. March 4.th 1897
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼") large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), English painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy. He sits on a traveling combination artist's chair and easel, holding a palette and bush, with a mahl stick and other brushes resting on his legs.
[Ref: 63678] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Solicitor General] [(Sir, W. S. Robson, K.C.)]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward] [Bemrose Dalziel Ltd., Watford & London.]
[Published in Vanity Fair 25 January 1906]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 400 x 270mm (15¾ x 10½") large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of William Snowdon Robson, 1st Baron Robson (1852-1918), lawyer, judge and Liberal politician: MP Bow and Bromley and Shouth Shields 1855.
[Ref: 63666] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

["Barron Lionel"]
Ape. [Carlo Pellegrini] [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Sep.r 22 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins. Lightly foxed.
Full length caricature portrait of British Jewish banker, politician and philanthropist, Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808 –79). He sits in a plush green armchair.
[Ref: 63682] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch in Jersey. at Samarés Manor.
Drawn by the Rev.d T. Kilby. Printed by Skelton, Southampton.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph on tinted india paper; 285 x 240mm (11¼ x 9½") very large margins.
A housekeeper sitting with a massive ledger on her lap, a cat by her side.
[Ref: 63767] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

["Conservative Whip"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 21.st 1904]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Major Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill (1864-1934).
[Ref: 63688] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Steele] M.r Steele.
J. Thornhill pinxit. G. Vertue sculpsit.
[n.d., 1714.]
Engraving. 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), Irish writer who often used the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of 'The Spectator'. He was also a prominent member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club.
Alexander: 101
[Ref: 63591] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

M. General James Stuart.
Painted by George Romney. Engrav'd by C.H. Hodges.
Publish'd Jany. 1st. 1789, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 445 x 320mm (17½ x 12½"). Framed. Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom. Unexamined out of frame.
Three-quarter length portrait of General James Stuart (1741-1815), standing directed to left, looking round towards the viewer, right hand on maps labelled 'Moro 1762' & 'Cuddalore 1783', left hand on his cane, wearing military coat, sword and powdered wig tied at the nape, in a landscape with water behind him. He served in the American War of Independence, commanded the centre column in the assault on Seringapatam in 1792 and captured Ceylon in 1796.
Horne: 117, ii/ii. CS: 29.
[Ref: 63662] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Sturge Esq.r President of the Complete Suffrage Association. Specimen of the Sentinel Portrait Gallery. No. 1.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Very scarce mezzotint. Sheet 437 x 310mm (17¼" x 12¼"). Varnished.
Seated portrait of Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), he holds 'Human brotherhood through the Bible' in his left hand and his right is around the shoulders of a little black girl. Sturge was a Quaker and founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, now Anti-Slavery International, who 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.
[Ref: 63665] £420.00

His Majesty's Servants.
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Gilb.t Whitehead & C.o L.td, New Eltham S.E.
Supplement To "The World," December 21ST, 1909.
Chromolithograph, sheet 365 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"). Vertical fold as issued. Tears repaired by being laid on archival paper.
A lightly caricatured group portrait of actors. They are from left to right: Miss Gertie Millar (Our Miss Gibbs) [Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (née Millar (1879 –1952)], Miss Irene Vanbrugh (The Thief) [Dame Irene Boucicault DBE (née Barnes .1872 –1949)], Mr. Edmund Payne (Our Miss Gibbs) [Edmund James "Teddy" Payne (1863 –1914)], Mr. George Alexander (The Thief) [George Alexander Gibb Samson (1858 –1918)], Mr. H.B. Irving (The Lyons Mail) [Harry Brodribb Irving (1870 –1919)], Miss Violet Vanbrugh (The Women in the Case) [Violet Augusta Mary Barnes (1867 –1942)], Mr. George Grossmith, Junr. (Our Miss Gibbs.) [(1874 –1935)], Mr. Lewis Waller (Sir Walter Raleigh) [William Waller Lewis (1860 –1915)], Sir Herbert Tree (Trilby) [Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 –1917)], Mr. Arthur Bourchier (Making a Gentleman) [(1863 –1927)] and Mr. Weedon Grosmith (Mr. Preedy and the Countess) [Walter Weedon Grossmith (1854 –1919)].
[Ref: 63825] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

"A General Group."
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov.r 29.th, 1900.
Chromolithograph, sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Middle fold as issued. Faint mount burn. Some light foxing outside of image.
Lightly caricatured portraits of military men in South Africa. They are from left: Colonel Plummer (Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857-1932)), General Hunter (Sir Archibald Hunter (1856-1936)), General MacDonald (Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald (1853-1903)), Sir Redvers Buller (1839-1908), General Baden-Powell (Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides), Lord Roberts (Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914)), Lord Dundonald (Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl Dundonald (1852-1935)), Lord Kitchener (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916)), Sir George White (1835-1912), General Pole-Carew (1849-1924), Sir Frederick Carrington (1844-1913) and General French (John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925)). Lord Roberts rests one of his boots on the Vanity Fair caricature of Stephanus Johannes Paulus ('Paul') Kruger (1825-1904), President of the Transvaal Republic.
[Ref: 63821] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Heads Of The Law.
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Hentschel-Colourtype Process.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov. 27th, 1902.
Chromolithograph, sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Unfolded proof.
Lightly caricatured portraits of ten senior legal figures. They are from left: Lord Justice Stirling (Sir James Stirling (1836-1916)), Mr. Justice Barnes (John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell PC (1848–1913)), Master of the Rolls (Richard Henn Collins, Baron Collins PC (1842–1911)) , Lord Justice Cozens-Hardy ((Lord Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, 1st Bt (1838-1920)), Mr. Justice Bingham, The Lord Chief Justice (Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, GCMG, PC, FRS (1842 –1915)), Mr. Justice Wright (Sir Robert Samuel Wright (1839-1904)), Lord Justice Romer, Lord Justice Williams (Sir Roland Bowdler Lomax Vaughan Williams (1838 – 1916)) and Lord Justice Mathew.
[Ref: 63823] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

["Bench and Bar"]
Stuff [Henry Wright]. [Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.]
[Supplement To Vanity Fair] Dec.r 30 1881.
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 515mm (15 x 20¼"). Trimmed losing title and publication lines. Vertical creases as issued.
Lightly caricatured portraits of forty-one bewigged jurists. As listed below they are: M.r Gill (Sir Charles Frederick Gill), The Attorney General, Lord Coleridge (John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge), The Solicitor General (Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell), Sir Charles Russell .Q.C., M.r Justice Williams, The Lord Chancellor (Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne), Lord Justice Lindley, M.r Murphy. Q. C., M.r Justice Collins, M.r Justice Jeune, M.r Inderwick. Q. C., M.r Cozens-Hardy. Q.C. M.r Jelf. Q.C., M.r Justice Smith, Sir Horace Davey. Q.C., Baron Pollock (Sir Charles Edward Pollock), M.r Finlay. Q.C., M.r Graham, M.r Bosanquet. Q.C., M.r Justice Day, M.r Coward, Sir Henry James. Q.C. (1st Baron James of Hereford), Lord Esher (William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher), Lord Justice Bowen (Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen), M.r Justice Charles, M.r Waddy. Q. C. (Samuel Danks Waddy), M.r Poland. Q. C., M.r Dugdale. Q.C., M.r Charles Mathews & M.r Justice Hawkins (Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton).
[Ref: 63814] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

On The Terrace A Political Spectacle.- "The Ayes have it - the Noes have it".
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov.r, 30 1893.
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 545mm (15¼ x 21½). Vertical creases as issued.
Lightly caricature portraits of a group of MP's on a terrace outside parliament, with a small black dog. They are: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), Joseph ('Joe') Chamberlain (1836-1914), Sir John Eldon Gorst (1835-1916), Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), Anthony John Mundella (1825-1897) & Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902).
[Ref: 63815] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

"Empire Makers And Breakers" A Scene At The South Africa Committee 1897.
Stuff [Harold Wright]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov. 25, 1897.
Chromolithograph, sheet 375 x 530mm (14¾ x 20¾"). A few small tears in margins repaired with tape. Top and bottom margin chipped. Folds as issued, splits in folds repaired with tape.
Lightly caricatured portraits of politicians in a board room around a green table They are from left: Lord Chief Justice Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone (1842-1915); Liberal politician and MP for Windsor, Middlesex and Northampton, Henry du Pré Labouchère (1831-1912); statesman in South Africa, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902); MP for Oxford and Derby, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the British Liberal Party, Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) and MP for Birmingham, Joe Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63820] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Edmond Waller Esq.
G. Kneller pinx. 1784 G. Vertue Sculp. 1727.
[n.d., c.1730.] [Early issue]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾''), large margins.
A portrait of poet and politician Edmond Waller (1606-1687)
ALexander 535. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 63878] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Oscar Wilde.
Photo by Ellis & Walery.
[London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906.]
Photogravure. 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate on right.
A studio portrait of playwright Oscar Wilde, in buttoned-up jacket, cigar in one hand, gloves in the other. The frontispiece portrait to Robert Harborough Sherrard's biography.
[Ref: 63708] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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