Grosvenor Prints

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi. From one of the most Capital Pictures ever Painted by Rembrandt: In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.]
[Engraved by William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn.]
[Published by John Boydell, n.d., c.1764.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Some foxing and time-staining. Thread margins. Margins reinforced
First plate portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He wears a white turban and a mantle attached on breast by rich gold clasps, his hands held in front.
CS 39. Charrington 118 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Oettingen-Wallerstein.
[Ref: 65586] £480.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi. From one of the most Capital Pictures ever Painted by Rembrandt: In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.]
[Rembrandt Pinxt. J.Boydell Exc.t. W.m Pether Sculp.t. 1778.]
[Publishd Feb.y 2d 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters; 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Very small margins.
Portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.
Charrington 119. ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65578] £480.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] [A Jew Rabbi.]
[Engraved by William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn.]
[Published by John Boydell, n.d., c.1764.]
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed close to plate at sides.
First plate portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He wears a white turban and a mantle attached on breast by rich gold clasps, his hands held in front.
CS 39. Charrington 118 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & collectors mark.
[Ref: 65587] £480.00

[Isaac Abrabanel.] A Jew Rabbi. From one of the most Capital Pictures ever Painted by Rembrandt: In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
Rembrandt Pinxit. Wm Pether Sculpsit. John Boydell excudit 1778.
Published Feb.y 2d 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), very large margins, large 18th century watermark.
Portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.
Charrington 119. iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65577] £480.00

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[A Jew Rabbi.]
[Engraved by William Pether after Rembrandt van Rijn.]
[Published by John Boydell, n.d., c.1764.]
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins.
First plate portrait of Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437 - 1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel, a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He wears a white turban and a mantle attached on breast by rich gold clasps, his hands held in front.
CS 39. Charrington 118 iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65588] £480.00

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[The Accountant.]
[Rembrandt Pinxt. Humphrey fecit.]
[n.d., c.1765.]
Rare proof mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Some time-staining and creasing.
Portrait of a man, standing behind a table on which there are books. He wears a jewelled cap and in his left hand he holds a pen.
Charrington 93 i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex: Collection Sir Joshua Reynolds (stamp)
[Ref: 65737] £520.00

[Achilles.]
Rembrandt Pinxt. J.G.Haid fecit.
John Boydell excudit 1764.
Mezzotint, proof before title. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Some time-staining and foxing. Small margins.
A half-length portrait of a young man in armour. Profile to the left, a sheild on his left arm and holding a lance in his right hand.
Charrington 67 i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65735] £480.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), with large margins, on 18th century watermarked paper.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
Charrington 33 ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65610] £490.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), with large margins, on 18th century watermarked paper. Some faint foxing. Two small tears in margins.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS 3. Charrington 33 ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65616] £480.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), with large margins, on 18th century watermarked paper. Some faint foxing. Repaired tear at bottom centre going into image.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
Charrington 33 ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65617] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Sir Lawrence Dundas Bart.
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 525 x 440mm (20¾ x 17¼"). Trimmed close to iamge.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
Charrington 33 iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65612] £320.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, with unknown Collector's Mark. 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), large margins. Crease across upper right corner.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS 3. Charrington 33 iii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65620] £420.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"). Trimmed to plate lower bottom. Small margins on 3 sides.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS 1 Uncleaned inbetween i & ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65618] £520.00

Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Sir Lawrence Dundas Bart.
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Very fine mezzotint, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), on 18th century watermarked paper.. Small margins. Some minor foxing.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS3 vii of viii. Charrington 33 iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 65608] £420.00

Lord George Anson Admiraal Van Groot Brittanje.
J. Wandelaar effig ad viv. J. Houbraken Sculp.
te Amsterdam bu P. Fouquet Junior. [n.d c.1751]
Rare engraving, 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Thread margins. Some very light foxing.
Half length portrait of Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762), wearing admiral's jacket, short wig and set within an oval. A naval reformer, distinguished Royal Navy officer and politician. He sailed around the world (1740-44) ) during the War of Jenkins' Ear attacking the Spanish in the Pacific, burning Payta in Peru, and capturing a treasure galleon full of silver. Worth half a million pounds, 32 wagons were needed to take the silver to the Tower of London. After Dutch draughtsman and etcher Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) and engraved by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780) a Dutch engraver who specialised in portraits, he also collected and dealt in Rembrandt etchings.
[Ref: 65939] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

M. Tullius Cicero. Ex marmore antiquo. II.
F. Faber fecit et Excud.
Sold by Tho: Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard [n.d., c.1710].
Mezzotint. 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), with very large margins. Creasing at edges.
A portrait of Octavian (63BC-14), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. The adopted son of Julius Caesar, he became the first Roman Emperor as Augustus Caesar. From a series of twelve busts of the Twelve Caesars.
CS 19 II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65017] £320.00

The Honourable George Baillie Esq.r of Jerriswood - one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
G. Kneller 1718/19 Pinx. A.V. Heacken fecit.
[n.d., c.1742.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
Half-length portrait in oval of George Baillie (1664-1738), M.P., a director of the 'Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies' and thus one of the first subscribers to the Darien Scheme, and a supporter of the Act of Union treaty that compensated the company for its losses. The accounts of his house, Mellerstain, for 1742 lists the expenses of a copper plate portrait paid for by his widow.
CS i of ii. See BM 1933,0623.52 for the accounts.
[Ref: 65839] £360.00

[Helena Beatson] Miss Beatson.
C. Read pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.
Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1768. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Half-length portrait of Helena Beatson (1762-1839) wearing a turban and necklace, drawing a portrait of a woman and child with a pen.. The British Museum's example of the larger mezzotint identifies her as Catherine Read's niece. A gifted amateur artist, taught by her aunt, she exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1774 (aged twelve!) and accompanied Read to India, where she married Sir Charles Oakley, later governor of Madras.
Goodwin 55. Not in Chaloner Smith. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65867] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

S. Thomas Cantvariensis. Sol, 279.
[n.d. c.1800's]
Engraving, Trimmed and laid onto album paper.
Full lenth portrait of Thomas Becket (1118-70) as Saint Thomas of Canterbury set against a barren landscape. He wears his robes of office. He holds his right hand in a sign of blessing and holds a cross shaped staff in the other.
[Ref: 65755] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Miss. [&] Master.
R. Van Bleeck pinx.t. P.V.B. 1751.
Pair of mezzotints. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Narrow margins.
Oval portraits of a young girl in a fur-trimmed robe and a lace collar and a young boy in van Dyck costume. Engraved by Peter van Bleeck (c.1695-1764) after his father Richard (1670-c.1748).
CS 12 & 13. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65830] £380.00 view all images for this item

Master.
R. Van Bleeck pinx.t. P.V.B. 1751.
Mezzotint. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Narrow margins.
An oval portrait of a young boy in van Dyck costume. A pair to 'Miss'. Engraved by Peter van Bleeck (c.1695-1764) after his father Richard (1670-c.1748).
CS 12. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65827] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Henry Blosset K.t. Chief Justice of Bengal.
Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. _ Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1822.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255 (14¼ x 10"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of Sir Robert Henry Blosset (1776-1823). He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta in 1821, and received the customary knighthood in 1822, but died within a few months, at the age of 4 and was buried in St John's Church, Calcutta.
CS 10, ii of ii. Russell 10, iii of iii. Frankau 32, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65990] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Henry Blosset K.t. Chief Justice of Bengal. Proof.
Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. _ Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1822.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255 (14¼ x 10"), large margins on 3 sides. Narrow bottom margin.
A half-length portrait of Sir Robert Henry Blosset (1776-1823). He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta in 1821, and received the customary knighthood in 1822, but died within a few months, at the age of 4 and was buried in St John's Church, Calcutta.
CS 10, i of ii. Russell 10, ii of iii. Frankau 32, i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65988] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon.
Painted by Count D'Orsay. Engraved by C.E. Wagstaff. Printed by M.cQueen.
London Published June 10, 1847, for the Proprietor, by Robert Jennings, 62, Cheapside.
Scarce mixed-method engraving. 475 x 350mm (18¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, marks in borders.
Three-quarter length portrait of Napoleon, wearing dress uniform with sash and decorations, his right hand tucked into his jacket, his left holding his hat against his hip.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65696] £320.00

The most Rev.d Father in God his Grace Doctor Hugh Boulter Lord Archbishop of Armagh Primate & Metropolitan of all Ireland and one of the Lords Justices of the said Kingdom.
[After Michael Dahl]
Sold by I.on Brooks at S.r Isaac Newton's head on Cork Hill Dublin.
Rare mezzotint, sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of Hugh Boulter (1672-1742). Boulter wears clerical robes, bands, and a chin-length wig, he gazes at the viewer with his right elbow resting on the arm of his chair and his left hand resting on the enormous volume balanced on his knee. Irish interest and Dublin publication.
CS 15 III of IV.
[Ref: 65767] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.B.
Painted by F Grant, R.A. Engraved by James Faed.
London, Published June 7.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen_6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 795 x 505mm (31¼ x 20"). A few small stains. Small margins.
Full-length portrait of colonial administrator and diplomat James Bruce (1811-63), 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trade links with the Chinese and Japanese, and Viceroy of India.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 65932] £360.00

[The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.B.] Truly Yours Elgin & Kincardine [facsimile signature]
[Painted by F Grant, R.A. Engraved by James Faed.]
[London, Published June 7.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen_6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before title, 795 x 505mm (31¼ x 20"). Printseller's Association blindstamp, limited edition of 125 in proof state. Tears entering unprinted area of plate, edges chipped and soiled.
Full-length portrait of colonial administrator and diplomat James Bruce (1811-63), 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trade links with the Chinese and Japanese, and Viceroy of India.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of iii.
[Ref: 65910] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.B.]
[Painted by F Grant, R.A. Engraved by James Faed.]
[London, Published June 7.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen_6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed on chine collé. 795 x 505mm (31¼ x 20"). Printseller's Association blindstamp, limited edition of 125 in proof state. Trimmed to chine collé top and bottom, edges chipped, spotted and stained. Unidentified collector's stamp on reverse.
Full-length portrait of colonial administrator and diplomat James Bruce (1811-63), 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trade links with the Chinese and Japanese, and Viceroy of India.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state i of iii.
[Ref: 65909] £320.00

The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.B.
Painted by F Grant, R.A. Engraved by James Faed.
London, Published June 7.th 1864, by Henry Graves & C.º the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen_6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 795 x 505mm (31¼ x 20"). Tear entering plate at bottom. Small margins.
Full-length portrait of colonial administrator and diplomat James Bruce (1811-63), 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trade links with the Chinese and Japanese, and Viceroy of India.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 65907] £320.00

Mark Isambard Brunel Esq.r F.R.S. Author of the Block Machinery in his Majesty's Dock Yard at Portsmouth, and of other eminent works belonging to the British Government, &c. &c. Whose public works will best attest his fame While private worth adds value to his name. Dedicated by permission to the R.t Hon.ble Lord Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, &c. &c. &c. by his Lordship's most ob.t. & hum.ble s.t Cha.s Turner.
Painted by James Northcote Esq.r R.A. Engraved by C.Turner.
London. Pub.d. March 30th, 1815 by C.Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Fine mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), very large margins.
Three-quarter portrait of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), seated, studying mechanical drawings, engraved from a painting now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 978).
Whitman 77, state ii of iii. See Science Museum MS/0346/09 for ticket. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65238] £620.00

Mark Isambard Brunel Esq.r F.R.S. Author of the Block Machinery in his Majesty's Dock Yard at Portsmouth, and of other eminent works belonging to the British Government, &c. &c. Whose public works will best attest his fame While private worth adds value to his name. Dedicated by permission to the R.t Hon.ble Lord Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, &c. &c. &c. by his Lordship's most ob.t. & hum.ble s.t Cha.s Turner.
Painted by James Northcote Esq.r R.A. Engraved by C.Turner.
London. Pub.d. March 30th, 1815 by C.Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), very large margins. Repaired tear in right margin centre edge.
Three-quarter portrait of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), seated, studying mechanical drawings, engraved from a painting now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 978). His most most notable achievement was the Thames Tunnel.
Whitman 77, state ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65237] £480.00

[The Burgomaster.]
[Rembrandt Pinxit. R.Houston fecit.]
[n.d, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, 18th century watermark. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Creasing in upper left of image and faint foxing. Trimmed to platemark.
Portrait of a Burgomaster, the Mayor of a Dutch, Flemish, German, Austrian or Swizz town. He wears a a white ruff and a wide hat.
CS 147.Charrington 79 i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65709] £420.00

Joannes Calvinus, Noviodunensis Theologus.
P. Schen fe: et en. c. Privil.
[n.d. c.1700]
Very rare mezzotint, 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾") Trimmed to platemark.
Half-length portrait of Jean (John) Calvin (1509-64) theologian of the French reformation, in an oval frame, with full beard and wearing cap, fur-lined coat and reading a book.
[Ref: 65770] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Colin Campbell] Lieu.t General Lord Clyde, G.C.B.
Painted by H.W. Phillips. Engraved by G. Zobel.
London, Published June 20th 1856, by J. Mitchell, Bookseller and Publisher to the Queen, and by Special appointment to the Emperor Napoleon III.
Mezzotint 555 x 430mm (21¾ x 14"), large margins. Laid on board, paper toned. '16th Colonel Coldtream Gards 1860 to 1863' added in pencil.
Half-length portrait of Colin Campbell (1792-1863), who served in the Crimea 1854-5 and was Commander-in-Chief during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. This example is a later state, with the title altered to 'Lord Clyde' (ennobled 3 August 1858). After Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820-68).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65915] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Lieu.t General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B.
Painted by H.W. Phillips. Engraved by G. Zobel.
London, Published June 20th 1856, by J. Mitchell, Bookseller and Publisher to the Queen, and by Special appointment to the Emperor Napoleon III.
Mezzotint. 555 x 430mm (21¾ x 14"), large margins. Tear in left taped, one entering plate.
Half-length portrait of Colin Campbell (1792-1863), who served in the Crimea 1854-5 and was Commander-in-Chief during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. After Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820-68).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65913] £320.00

Cecilia.
P.S. del.t. L. C. Ruotte sculp.
Se vend à Paris chez Chaise jeune M.d d'Estampes Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, vis à vis le Ministre des Finances, N.º 490.
Stipple, printed in colours. Sheet 345 x 280mm (13½ x 11"). Trimmed into plate, some marking in image.
A bust-length portrait of St. Cecilia, the patroness of music.
[Ref: 65829] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

S.te Cécile.
Blaizot del.t. Henry sculp.
Déposé à la Direction de l'Imp.te et de la la Lib.te. A Paris, Chez Nöel, Rue S.t Jacques N.º 16 [n.d., c.1825].
Stipple, printed in colours. 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), large margins. Worm holes in title area filled.
A full-length portrait of Saint Cecilia, Roman Christian virgin martyr and patron saint of music and musicians, sitting at an organ, music book in hand. In the clouds behind are winged cherubs with book and instruments.
[Ref: 65828] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Night, Boy blowing Charcoal.
Schalcken Pinx.t. Ph. Corbut fecit.
Printed for R. Sayer Map & Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1760 but later impression]
Mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼") Small left margin.
A boy blowing a flaming stick of charcoal in his left hand, while carrying a candle in a flat holder in the right hand.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65802] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Field Marshal Lord Seaton, G.C.M.G., K.M.T., K.T.S. K.S.t G. Colonel of the 2.nd Life Guards _ Colonel in Chief of the Rifle Brigade, Governor General and Commander of the Forces in British North America, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, and Commander of the Forces in Ireland.]
[Painted by G.W. Fisher. Engraved by James Scott.]
London, Published April 11th. 1864, by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen _ 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, proof before title, printed in chine collé. 725 x 450mm (28½ x 17¾"), with large margins. Printseller's Association blindstamp, limited edition of 125 in proof state.
Full-length portrait of John Colborne (1778-1863), in dress uniform. He saw service in the Helder campaign (1799), Egypt (1801), Peninsular War (1808-14) and Waterloo (1815). He was Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1825), Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1828-36), and Commander-in-Chief of the forces in Ireland.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65935] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Cooper.] [Beauty's Tribute.]
P.Lelly Eques pinx. W.Faithorne fec.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed close to plate. Some faint markings in image.
A kneeling boy, whose identity as African or Asian remains unclear, presents a girl with a bunch of grapes. This mezzotint is based on a late seventeenth-century painting by Sir Peter Lely of Elizabeth Cooper, daughter of an eminent London print publisher. Slavery interest.
CS 7. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66066] £390.00

Statue in Honour of Marquis Cornwallis. Dedicated by Permission to the Hon,,ble Court of Directors of the East India Company, & likewise respectfully Inscribed to the Gentlemen of Bengal, by whom this Group is erected, is by their most obliged & odedient Serv,,t George Dawe. Proof.
Painted & Engraved by G. Dawe.
London, Publish'd May 30, 1803 by G. Dawe, N.º 44 Wells Street Oxford Street.
Extremely rare mezzotint. 710 x 535mm (28 x 21"). Repaired tears, large portrait laid on archival tissue.
A 8' statue of Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805), dressed as a Roman soldier, standing on a pedestal flanked by figures of Fortitude & Prudence. Commissioned by the residents of Calcutta, designed by John Bacon senior and completed by his son John Bacon junior, it is now in the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, India. Governor-General of India (1786-1793), Charles Cornwallis became famous for his reforming administration. He established the Cornwallis (or Bengal) code for stamping out corruption and pioneered a more professional, salaried civil service. His improvements had valuable long-term consequences for the effective government of India.
CS 2a (additions). Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65897] £680.00

William III. Viscount Courtenay, 1809.
R. Cosway, Esq.r R.A. Pinxit. J. Murphy Sculpsit.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark 655 x 500mm (25¾ x 19¾"). Trimmed into plate, restoration to tears and folds.
A full-length portrait of William Courtenay (c.1768-1835), standing by a balustrade and steps leading to an ornamental garden, in the masquerade dress he wore to his coming-of-age ball at Powderham Castle in 1789. In 1784 Courtenay was embroiled in a scandal when his pre-adulthood homosexual relationship with novelist William Beckford was discovered. Both men were forced to live abroad, although this did not prevent Courtenay successfuly petitioning to revive the dormant title of Earl of Devon, after which he became 9th Earl.
Whitman: 144, stating that Charles Turner engraved the plate for Murphy. CS Murphy 3.
[Ref: 65711] £490.00

Claude Champion Crespigny Esq.r.
Painted and Engraved by J.R.SMITH &.
Published by him July 1.1804, at No.4 King Street Covent Garden, London, & at R.ACKERMANN's, No. 101 Strand.
Very rare mezzotint. 655 x 455mm (25¾ x 18"). Some damage to margins.
Portrait of Claude Champion Crespigny (1734-1818) 1st Baronet Champion Crespigny. The Champion de Crespigny Baronetcy, of Champion Lodge, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, created on 31 October 1805 for Claude Champion de Crespigny.
CS 46. Fr 98. D'O 390. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66016] £420.00

In constant Industry (deserving Praise) Honest Will: Crouch has Spent his youthfull Days. He pious Bounties, undistinguish’d gave; Intomb’d the *Princess, and reliev'd the Slave. Age he undaunted bears, nor fears decay; Since Art preserves, what Time would take away. *She call’d the German Princess.
N. Tucker pinx. 1725. P. Pelham fecit.
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Thread margins, slight damage in inscription area.
A half-length portrait of William Crouch (d. after 1725), philanthropist, wearing a plain greatcoat with a broad collar. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS: 14, only state.
[Ref: 65630] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

In constant Industry (deserving Praise) Honest Will: Crouch has Spent his youthfull Days. He pious Bounties, undistinguish’d gave; Intomb’d the *Princess, and reliev'd the Slave. Age he undaunted bears, nor fears decay; Since Art preserves, what Time would take away. *She call’d the German Princess.
N. Tucker pinx. 1725. P. Pelham fecit.
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A half-length portrait of William Crouch (d. after 1725), philanthropist, wearing a plain greatcoat with a broad collar. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother.
CS: 14, only state. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65631] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Major General Mark Cubbon &c &c &c Commissioner for the Government of the Territories of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore.
This portrait painted by F.C. Lewis, at Mysore 1845, & Engraved by F.C. Lewis, Esq,,re Sen,,r Engraver to the Queen is Executed by the desire & direction of the friends of General Cubbon.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 735 x 470mm (29 x 18ï¿½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, almost to image at top, with part taped back on, tears in inscription area taped.
A full length portrait of Mark Cubbon (1775-1861) in uniform, standing at a tables with globe, papers and books including 'Mysore Papers'. An East India Company officer, he was Chief Commissioner of Mysore 1834-1861, his reforms and good administration ensured that the 1857 rebellion had almost no impact in the region.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65911] £480.00

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The Right Honourable John Earl of Stair, Viscount Dalrymple, Lord Glenluce & Stranraer, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons, Governour of Minorca, Knight of the most Ancient Order of the Thistle, one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in South Britain.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t. I. Faber Fecit
Price 2s. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head Bloomsbury Square. [n.d. c.1735]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to plate and tipped into album paper at edges.
Three-quarter portrait of Scottish diplomat and army officer, John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1673-1747), leaning on truncheon beside hat on stone tablet, his right hand on hip. He wears a breastplate and long wig. Against a landscape with foliage. Menorca interest.
CS 335 I of II
[Ref: 65779] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Democritus Gelasinus Abderites. Ex marmore antiquo. h.
P.P. Rubens Del.t. [engraved by John Faber snr.]
Printed for, & Sold by Tho: Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Y.d [n.d., c.1720].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, printed in brown. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Narrow margins. Repaired tears.
A portrait of Greek philosopher Democritus (c.470 - 360BC), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65007] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Renatus Descartes. Nobillis Gallus Perroni Dominus summus Mathematicus & Philosophus.
Pet: Schenk fec: et Amstelod: cum Priv: [n.d., c.1680.]
Fine & scarce mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Narrow margins.
Portrait of René Descartes (1596 - 1650), French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
[Ref: 66050] £650.00

[Richard Dickinson] Rich.d Dickison Behold the Governor of Scarborough Spaw / The Uglyest Fisz you ever Saw / Yet when you View the Beauty of his Mind / In him a Second Esop you may find
Sold by John Bowles [?Printseller in] Cheapside, London [n.d., c.1720.].
A very scarce mezzotint, Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to image.
Caricature of Richard Dickinson (1669 - 1738), a shoe-cleaner and ginger-bread vendor who used the money he accumulated to build facilities for visitors to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, who came to drink the waters. Dickinson had enlarged extremities, and he may have suffered from acromegaly.
Russell: English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits", 32a.
[Ref: 64355] £340.00

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