Grosvenor Prints

[Honoré de Balzac.]
P. Hayrick sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist.
[Ref: 52554] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Bartolozzi Esq.r
Rob.t Menageot, del.t et sculp.t
London, Pub.d 12, Oct.r 1778, by R. Menageot, No.49 Broad Street, Soho.
Stipple printed in red. 152 x 114mm (6 x 4½").
Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver who was elected a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). Bartolozzi lived and worked in London for nearly 40 years creating a huge number of stipple engravings throughout his career. Shortly after his arrival in London Bartolozzi was appointed as 'Engraver to the King'.
See Ref: 35725 for same image printed in colour.
[Ref: 52441] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg, Born 1577, Died 1652.
E. Mascal Pinx.t.
[n.d. c.1775.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, small stain.
Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg (died 18th April 1653), Royalist during the Civil War. However his grandson, also Thomas (c.1627-1700), married Oliver Cromwell's daughter Mary.
[Ref: 52567] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Thomas Betterton Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem.
G. Kneller. pinx: R: Williams fe:
E: Cooper Ex: [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Age toned.
Thomas Betterton (c. 1635 - 1710), actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I. Charles II sent Betterton to Paris to study improvements to stage craft, introducing shifting scenes rather than tapestry to the English theatre. He and his actress wife, Mary Saunderson, were regarded as respectable in a period when acting was seen as indecent, and were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's Calisto, 1675, in the last Stuart court Masque.
Chaloner Smith 7, ii of iv. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7833] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Tho.s Betterton. [Engraved for the Universal Magazine.]
[after Sir Godfrey Kneller.]
[For J. Hinton at the King's Arms in Newgate Street.] [n.d., 1754.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed, losing sur-title and publication line.
Thomas Betterton (c. 1635 - 1710), actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I. Charles II sent Betterton to Paris to study improvements to stage craft, introducing shifting scenes rather than tapestry to the English theatre. He and his actress wife, Mary Saunderson, were regarded as respectable in a period when acting was seen as indecent, and were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's Calisto, 1675, in the last Stuart court Masque.
[Ref: 52583] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Brown Norvicencis Chirurgis. Aetatis suae 35 Ano Dom: 1677.
H Morland delin. R White sculp.
[n.d. c.1677
Rare engraving. Plate 159 x 108mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed to the platemark on 2 sides. Small margins on left & right.
Portrait of the surgeon John Browne; half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing long wig, gown, and lace cravat; in oval frame on pedestal; frontispiece to his A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours' (1678). John Browne (1642-c.1700); surgeon to Charles II and William III
[Ref: 52511] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan Minister of The Gospel at Bedford Died at London Aug. 31. 1688. Aged 60 having Written 60 Books.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Woodcut. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed within printed border on left, laid on album paper. Text verso. Stained.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52547] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Edmund Burke.
H. Kingsbury Sculp.
Published April 30th. 1798, by Lee & Hurst, No.32, Paternoster Row.
Scarce mezzotint. 266 x 192mm (10½ x 7½"). Trimmed.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797); Frontispiece to "Memoirs of Edmund Burke" 1798; Politician (in parliament from 1766) and writer, best remembered for "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" (1757) and "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790), a founding text for modern political conservatism; its reference to "the swinish multitude" was frequently quoted in radical contexts.
CS: 3.
[Ref: 52496] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

St. Cicilia.
G.B. Cipriani delin. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament. Jun 1. 1774.
Very fine stipple printed in sanguine. Plate 280 x 252mm (11 x 10"), with wide margins.
Bust of St Cecilia, wearing a turban, turning to the right, her head lifted upwards and her eyes turned towards the sky; in a vertical oval.
See Calabi & De Vesme (1928): 239.
[Ref: 52411] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Cecilia.]
Tho.s Engleheart pinxt. Frans. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Octr. 1.st 1783 by Anthy. Molten
Stipple and etching; in pencil at bottom "Miss Gibson". Plate 190 x 133mm (7½ x 5¼") with very large margins.
Portrait of a young woman, facing three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer, peals on hair and ribbons tied under her chin, ribbon bow on her chest. 'Cecilia' is a book published by Frances Burney in 1782. The sitter is identified as Mrs Eastcote by Calabi & De Vesme, who does not seem to have any connection with the book itself.
Calabi & De Vesme (1928): 1279.iii.
[Ref: 52417] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rupert Chawner, M.D.
Painted by T. Barber. Engraved by G. Clint.
Published Augt. 1st. 1806, by T. Barber, Nottingham & Mosley, Derby.
Rare mezzotint. Plate 330 x 234mm (13 x 9¼").
Portrait of Rupert Chawner; half length, seated at table, turned towards the right, looking at viewer; holding letter over pile of books; a curtain in background. Dr Rupert Chawner (18th century); physician at Burton-on-Trent.
[Ref: 52506] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Christ appearing to the Apostles.
Greg. Huret inv. 1664.
Drawn, Printed & Published Sept.r 183.r [c.1836], at A. Friedel's Lithographic Establishment, 252, Tottenham Court Road, London.
Lithograph. Printed area 390 x 270mm (15½ x 10½"). Margins with wear and tears.
A ghost-like Jesus appearing to the Apostles in an ornate room. After an engraving by Grégoire Huret (1606-70). Adam Friedel (1780- death date unknown) was a Danish artist, printmaker and publisher who, after serving in the Napoleonic wars, voluntarily joined the Greek army at the start of the Greek War of Independence, fashioning himself as Danish nobility. He was exposed by a real noble who proved his backstory to be a lie. After spending a year in Egypt he took refuge in London in 1824 where he opened a lithographer's shop. Between 1825 and 1826 Friedel printed and published, both in Paris and London, twenty-four lithographs with portraits of politicians and prominent military figures of the Greek War of Independence. He had drawn the portraits himself, in most cases from nature, while J. Bouvier coloured and lithographed these images. The series was a success and he was awarded for his contributions to the Greek Struggle for Independence with two decorations. For health reasons he travelled around a lot. He travelled to Smyrna and taught at a Greek school. He stayed at the Ottoman Capital during the Crimean War and painted several portraits of various politicians. In 1865 he asked for a pension for his services to Greece however little is known about what happened to him after that and his place and date of death is unknown.
[Ref: 52147] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness William Frederick Duke of Gloucester &c. &c. &c. This Portrait of Thomas Clarkson, Esq.re M.A. Is Dedicated with permission by His Royal Highness’s Most Obedient Obliged & very humble Servant S. Piper. Ipswich.
Painted by A.E. Chalon Esq.r R.A. Engraved by C. Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London: Published [April 19,] 1828, by S. Piper, Bookseller. Colnaghi, Son & Co. Pall Mall East. & Darton & Harvey, Grace Church Street, London.
Mezzotint and etching. 542 x 386mm (21½ x 15¼"). Damaged. Tears in border; trimmed.
Whole-length portrait of the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, seated directed three-quarters to left but facing to front, legs outstretched and quill in his right hand; table to left with 'Map of Africa', inkstand and other papers; on the floor in the foreground, to right, open chest labelled 'Manufactures of Africa', overspilling with various cloths, weapons and implements, and partitioned tray labelled 'African produce', at centre, dagger and sheath; fireplace in background at left with fireguard, busts of Wilberforce and Granville Sharp on the mantelpiece. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), slavery abolitionist.
Whitman: 117. .
[Ref: 52498] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Captain Thomas Coram. Upon whose Petition and Sollicitation The Royal Charter for ye Foundling Hospital was Granted by his Majesty King George ye Second, 17 of October 1739.
Will.m Hogarth Pinxt. Ja.s McArdell Fecit. 1749 [year in scratch letters.]
Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), large margins. Later.
The philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram (c.1668 - 1751), who in 1742 founded the Foundling Hospital in Guildford Street, London. It was a children's home established for the 'education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children.' The artist William Hogarth was a friend of Coram's and later a governor of the institution. Handel donated an organ to the chapel and gave performances of the 'Messiah' on it, raising £7,000.
CS: 45 iii of iii; Goodwin: 8 v of v.
[Ref: 52536] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Cunningham. Author of ''The Story of Nell Gwyn'' &c.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Etching on chine collé. Chine collé lifting.
Peter Nicolas Cunningham (1816-69), author of several topographical and biographical studies, including 'Handbook of London' (1848) and 'The Story Of Nell Gwyn And The Sayings Of Charles II' (1852). He also edited Horace Walpole's Letters (1857). He married Zenobia Martin (1816-1901), daughter of the artist John Martin.
[Ref: 52589] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Alexandre Dumas père.]
W.H.W. Bicknell sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching on Japon vellum. 120 x 95mm (4¾ x 3¾"). Surface soiling.
The elder Alexandre Dumas, author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' & 'The Three Musketeers'.
[Ref: 52555] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dundas Esq.r M.P. for the County of Berks. Thirty Years Chairman of the Committee of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company.
Engraved by W. Say, Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
From the Original Picture by Sir Will.m Beechey R.A. painted at request of the Committee 1823.
Mezzotint. Plate 503 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾") with very large margins.
Portrait of Lord Dundas; nearly whole-length, sitting, directed to the left, facing and looking to the front, left hand on his knee, right hand holding a small book, resting on the table beside him, landscape and a bridge through the window on the left. Charles Dundas, Baron of Amesbury (1751-1832); apart from his political career he was also the first chairman of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company (the waterway in southern England, made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal; from Bristol to Bath) and the Dundas Aqueduct was named after him.
[Ref: 52499] £320.00

Desiderii Erasmi Rotterodam.
[after Hans Holbein.]
London Printed for H. Brome, 1680.]
Scarce etching. 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Thread margins. Loss in margin top right.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian.
[Ref: 52588] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Gabriella di Vergy. Ballo Gabriella di Vergy. Cost. Francesi No.5.
Milano presso l'incisore Stucchi. [n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured aquatint. Plate 236 x 171mm (9¼ x 6¾").
Costume for Gabriella di Vergy, an opera seria in two acts by Donizetti, written in 1826 and revised in 1838. After Donizetti's death, his Gabriella di Vergy finally received its first performance on 29 November 1869 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with the title of Gabriella.
[Ref: 52452] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Gosden.] The Sportsman.
Painted by Benj.n Marshall. Engraved by John Scott.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Trimmed within plate on left.
A portrait of Thomas Gosden (1780-1843) carrying a gun, accompanied by his two dogs. Gosden was a book and printseller, publisher and sportsman, working from Piccadilly, 'The Sportsman's Repository' at 18 Bedford Street in Covent Garden and 107 St Martin's Lane at various times. He published at least three contemporary versions of this portrait, but this version probably appeared in the 'Sporting Magazine'.
[Ref: 52346] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Greville and her Brother.]
J. Reynolds Pinx.t Js. McArdell fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament July 25th. 1792. Sold at the Golden head in Covent Garden.
Mezzotint; paper watermarked. Plate 504 x 351mm (19¾ x 13¾"), very large margins.
Portrait of Frances Greville and her brother after Reynolds (Mannings 443); as Psyche, standing whole-length to left under a tree, head turned to face front, holding up vase in both hands, her brother William (?) as Cupid stands on a stone beside her to left, grasping the scarf flowing around them with his right hand; waterfall at right. Collector's stamps on verso: L.2510 [v.D.] - Derschau, Hans Albrecht von; L.2482 - Kupferstichkabinett, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin; L.1606 - Kupferstichkabinett, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.
CS: 93 ii/ii. Goodwin: 90 ii/iii. Hamilton: p.103 ii.
[Ref: 52491] £380.00

[Francis George Hare.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by R. Thew.
Publish'd Mar. 25, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Rare stipple, proof before title. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8") large margins. Small hole in title area.
Portrait of Francis George Hare (1786-1847), aged about two, dressed in the chiffon frock fashionable for boys in that period. The third state titles it 'Infancy'. The original oil was presented to the Louvre by the heirs of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.
Hamilton p.35, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 52160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

James Harrington Esq.r Author of the Oceana. Engraved from an Original Picture in the Possession of John Hudson Esq.r of Bessingby in Yorkshire.
Marchi fecit.
[Publish'd by J. Wesson Litchfield Street Soho.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 354 x 254mm (14 x 10"), on watermarked paper. Thread margins.
Portrait of James Harrington (1611-1677), political theorist and philosopher, head and shoulders in an oval wearing a lace collar and hair in long ringlets, after on an oil in the National Portrait Gallery dated c.1635. Despite being a Parliamentarian Harrington has a close association with Charles I, becoming a gentleman groom of the royal bedchamber in 1647, a role he played at both Hurst Castle and Carisbrooke. Parliament hasd him removed in 1649 for refusing to spy on the king. After Charles's execution Harrington started work on 'The Commonwealth of Oceana', a composition of Utopian political philosophy, a metaphor for interregnum England, with its beneficent lawgiver Olphaus Megaletor representing Oliver Cromwell. Despite this, the first edition (1656) was seized at the printers on the orders of Cromwell; Harrington appealed to Elizabeth Claypole, Cromwell's favourite daughter, and it was eventually issued with a new dedication to the Lord Protector.
CS: 8, undefined state.
[Ref: 52482] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Rawdon Hastings] Right Hon.ble Earl of Moira. Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in North Britain &c. &c. &c. From the original picture in the possession of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Painted by Jn.o Hoppner R.A. Portrait Painter to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Engraved by Jn.o Young Engraver in Mezzotinto to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London July 15 1805, Published by the Engraver, No 65 Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square; and in Edinburgh, by W.m Walker, Buccheugh Rents, and D. McIntosh, No 15, St Andrews Street.
Mezzotint. 665 x 415mm (26¼ x 16¼"), with large margins. Tears repaired in margins.
Full-length portrait of Francis Rawdon Hastings (1754-1826), first Marquess of Hastings and second Earl of Moira, in uniform. 'North Britain' (or Scotland) was one of the military districts created on the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars.
CS 54, state ii.
[Ref: 52159] £480.00

[John Isherwood.] Mr Isherwood.
Painted by William Bradley Esq.r. Engraved by Tho.s Lupton 4, Leigh Street, Burton Crescent.
Published by Tho.s Agnew, Repository of Arts, Exchange Street, Nov. 1st 1837.
Mezzotint. 535 x 385mm (21 x 15¼"), with printseller's blindstamp of Agnew & Zanetti, Manchester. Repaired tear in large margins. Uncut.
A portrait of John Isherwood, an amateur singer, holding a sheet 'Joshua by Handel'. The original painting, by William Bradley (1801-57) is in the Salford Museum & Art Gallery.
[Ref: 51976] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

G. F. Kiallmark [facsimile signature.]
Drawn on Stone by Isaace W. Slater from a Sketch by Josh. Slater expressly for the Musical Keepsake, 1834.
London, Published by J. Dickinson, 114 New Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Rare lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 442 x 348mm (17½ x 13¾") very large margins. Bit messy.
Portrait of George Frederick Kiallmark, when young, bust to left, looking towards the viewer; after Slater; illustration to the Musical Keepsake (1834) George Frederick Kiallmark (1804-1887) pianist and musician.
[Ref: 52453] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
[after John Simpson.]
London: Published March 1st 1854, by Somers & Isaacs, 67 Houndsditch.
Mezzotint. 370 x 285mm (14½ x 11¼"), with large margins.
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier (1786-1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the Napoleonic Wars, the American War and the 'Hundred Days' War. the Syrian War and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars. This portrait was published just as he was given command of the fleet in Baltic campaign of the Crimean War, which turned out to be a poisoned chalice: his Navy career ended when the Admiralty made him the scapegoat when the press raged about the lack of results. An innovator concerned with the development of iron ships, and an advocate of humane reform in the Royal Navy, he was also active in politics as a Liberal Member of Parliament and was probably the naval officer most widely known to the public in the early Victorian Era.
See Ref: 12605 for lithograph.
[Ref: 52188] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

W.m Page leaving his Phæton, while he Robs a Gentleman, near Putney.
Wale delin. Pollard sculp.
[n.d., c.1774.]
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Binding damage in right margin.
William Page (1730-58), highwayman. Using his own map of the roads 20 miles around London, he would drive his carriage out, change his clothes for the robbery, then return to London as an image of respectability. After this robbery he returned to find his phæton and clothes had been stolen. Following the thieves to an inn, he threw his highwayman's clothes down a well, then burst in to accuse them of robbing him, although he did not press charges. Because of his use of disguises he was acquitted several times because witnesses could not recognise him. However he was eventually convicted at Rochester, for robbing Captain Farrington on Blackheath; the magistrate who sentenced him to death was Henry Fielding, the novelist. An illustration from 'The Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 52585] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Honble Lord George Sackville, Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces, Lieutt General of the Ordnance.]
[Sir J Reynolds. McArdell.]
[n.d. c.1759.]
Very fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 400 x 275mm (15¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed at bottom. Thread margins on 3 sides.
Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1565); standing three-quarter length to right beside horse, eyes to front, wearing fur-trimmed overcoat, sash and his hair powdered, sword in his left hand; proof before letters. George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716-1785); third son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset; George I was his godfather; entered the army and served at Dettingen and Fontenoy; Commander of the British Forces, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, in 1758 where his behaviour at the battle of Minden resulted in a scandal and his dismissal from the army; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1775-1782. Fought in America.
CS: 161. Goodwin: 73. Hamilton: 9.62.
[Ref: 52497] £360.00

[The death of Seneca.]
Corn. Galle Sculp [after Rubens].
[Antwerp, c.1615.]
Engraving. 340 x 200mm (13¼ x 8") very large margins. Laid on card.
The philospher Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65), having been ordered to kill himself by Nero, stands in a bath to open veins to bleed to death. An illustration from Justus Lipsius' 'L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera quae exstant omnia', a detail from Ruben's painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
[Ref: 52266] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sibilla. From a Picture in the Collection of his Imperial Majesty at Vienna.
Guido Reni pinxt. M. Benedetti Sculp.
Pubd. 1st. June 1796 by M. Benedetti No.8, Queen Charlotte Row New Road.
Stipple and etching. Plate 272 x 208mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Small margins.
A woman dressed in a loose gown and cloak around her right arm, her hair loose under a striped turban with a jewel at the centre of her forehead, sitting with her cheek against her right hand, the elbow resting on a cushion, reading a book propped open on her knee, with a curtain behind. The Persian Sibyl reading a book in her turban; the Sibyl was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle. The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world, but the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander of Macedon.
See Ref: 13963 for trimmed to image and title.
[Ref: 52414] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Major Ralph Snow.
[I. W]hood de Bloomsb: sqr. pinxt. pro Zacha. Chambers de Scaccar. Reg. Genero. Cui hanc Tabulam D D: Alex: Vanhaecken [fe.]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Trimmed within the image, losing part of inscription at sides, laid on board.
Ralph Snow (1670-1744), writing master, holding a sheet with 'La plume' written in florid lettering. He was one of the four dedicatees of George Bickham's 'A poem on writing', c.1727. Although Chaloner Smith only lists this state the BM has a proof before title, without the armillary sphere in the background.
Chaloner Smith 15.
[Ref: 52600] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Henry & Lady Charlotte Spencer. To their Graces the Duke & Duchess of Marlborough This Plate is most respectfully Dedicated By their Graces' much obliged and very humble John Jones.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs, April 1st 1789, by J. Jones, No.75 Great Portland Street, Marylebone.
Stipple. Sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½"). Collector's stamp of painter Sir Thomas Lawrence lower left. Trimmed within plate, small repaired hole in title edge.
The fourth & fifth children of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough: Lady Charlotte Spencer (1769-1802), later married Rev. Edward Nares; and Lord Henry John Spencer (1770-95), later MP and diplomat, but died of fever in Berlin aged 24. Charlotte is telling Henry's future by reading his palm. In this example the names of the subjects are in small letters just under the image. The British Museum has two apparent later states: the first, dated 1790, has the dedication removed and 'Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer' as the scratched letter title, engraved around the crest, described as a proof; the second, dated 1791 has the crest removed and the title 'The Young Fortune Teller'. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) took over as 'Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King' when Joshua Reynolds died in 1792.
Hamilton, p.65, states jumbled. This predates the 1790 of the first state, has the dedication of the second state and has 'Marylebone' added to the publisher's address as per the third.
[Ref: 52206] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Edmund Spenser.
London. Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No.53 Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1774-1783].
Fine mezzotint. Plate 152 x 114mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins. Uncut.
Portrait, bust in an oval facing front, looking slightly to left, wearing a dark doublet with a herringbone pattern, and small, square, lace-trimmed collar, with short, curly, fair hair, beard and moustache. Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), poet and administrator in Ireland, born London; author of 'The Faerie Queene' (1589).
BM Catalogue: 1902,1011.7339. CS: undescribed, but listed p.1764.
[Ref: 52490] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth Stanley] Vera Fffigies Dominæ Elizabethæ nuper Comitissæ Huntingdon.
[after John Payne.]
Published Jan.y 1802 by W.m Richardson, York House, No 31 Strand.
Engraving. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Portrait of Elizabeth Stanley (1588-1633), Countess of Huntingdon. As the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Henry VII's sister, she was considered third in line to Elizabeth I's throne (behind her two older sisters). However they were passed over in favour of James I & VI, against the terms of Henry VIII's will, which specifically barred the Scottish descendents of Henry's older sister Margaret. This plate is a copy of the frontispiece portrait to her funeral sermon, 'A sermon preached at Ashby-de-la-zouch' by ''F.J.'' (1635).
[Ref: 52590] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

John Stewart Esq.r Captain of His Majesty's Ship Sea Horse.
Engraved from an original Picture by C. Turner.
London, Published Sept.r 30, 1812 by C. Turner, 50 Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. Plate 356 x 254mm (14 x 10"), very large margins. Uncut.
John Stewart (1775-1811), captain of HMS Sea Horse, which defeated a Turkish Squadron. Whitman gives James Northcote as the painter of the original portrait.
Whitman: 544.
[Ref: 52488] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas D'Urfey Poeta Lyricus. Whilst D'Urfey's voice his verse do's raise, When D'Urfey sings his Tunefull Layes, Give D'Urfeys Lyrick-Muse the Bayes. E.G.
E. Gouge pinx. G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d. c.1719.]
Engraving. 134 x 83mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Cut.
Portrait; half length, to the left, wearing long curled wig, jacket, and cravat; in lettered oval; frontispiece to 'Songs Compleat Pleasant and Divertive set to Musick' (1719). O'Donoghue notes this as a frontispiece to his 'Wit and Mirth' (1719). It may well have been used as a frontispiece for both, signed in ink verso, Cornelius Paine. Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723), poet and dramatist.
Alexander (2008): 103.
[Ref: 52394] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Timely Caution. Arm yourself sweet Maid; with jealous caution...through the Fence of Decency, & triumph in the Plunder of Innocence.
Published 12th. May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple. Plate 272 x 228mm (10¾ x 9"), large margins.
A decorative young woman contemplating the amorous advances of suitors, five lines of advice in verse below portrait; she holds a love poem.
See Ref 11486 for Pair [different publication].
[Ref: 52412] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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