Grosvenor Prints

[Life of Aesop: Aesop interpreting an inscription on a tomb, thereby discovering a treasure.] [How poore is man whom sordid interest sways...]
Tho: Dudley fecit [after Francis Barlow.]
[Amsterdam: Etiènne Roger, 1714.]
Proof etching, text verso. Sheet 205 x 165mm (8 x 6½") Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
Aesop agrees to decypher an inscription and find the treasure in return for his freedom. After he digs it up, Xanthus reneges, but Aesop tricks him into giving Aesop half the trove. Plate 19 of thirty-one illustrations added to the second edition of Barlow's "Æsop's Fables, With His Life", to illustrate the translation of Planudes's Life of Aesop, which was unillustrated in the first edition of 1666. This example comes from an Amsterdam edition, 'Les Fables d'Esope', with the printing plate trimmed down. All of the plates were designed by Barlow: they were etched c.1678-9, only five by Barlow; the rest, including this one, by Thomas Dudley. Originally the plate extended down with a title verse (possibly written by Aphra Behn, who wrote new verses for the fables), but for this non-English edition the verse was trimmed off and new borders engraved. Little is known of Dudley: on one plate of this series he signed himself as a student of Wenceslaus Hollar; and in 1679 he went to Lisbon, where he is known to have made further prints, and he is not supposed to have returned to England thereafter. He etched some portraits but these prints after Barlow are his most important work.
BM: 1871,0812.250, described as a proof state.
[Ref: 68293] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Life of Aesop: Aesop interpreting to the Samians the portent of the eagle and the public ring.] [In vaine the learned do their knowledge boast...]
Tho: Dudley fecit [after Francis Barlow.]
[Amsterdam: Etiènne Roger, 1714.]
Proof etching; text verso. Sheet 205 x 165mm (8 x 6½") Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
Aesop agrees to decypher a portent and, in doing so, forces his master Xanthus to give him his freedom. Plate 20 of thirty-one illustrations added to the second edition of Barlow's "Æsop's Fables, With His Life" (1687), to illustrate the translation of Planudes's Life of Aesop, which was unillustrated in the first edition of 1666. This example comes from an Amsterdam edition, 'Les Fables d'Esope', with the printing plate trimmed down. All of the plates were designed by Barlow: they were etched c.1678-9, only five by Barlow; the rest, including this one, by Thomas Dudley. Originally the plate extended down with a title verse (possibly written by Aphra Behn, who wrote new verses for the fables), but for this non-English edition the verse was trimmed off and new borders engraved. Little is known of Dudley: on one plate of this series he signed himself as a student of Wenceslaus Hollar; and in 1679 he went to Lisbon, where he is known to have made further prints, and he is not supposed to have returned to England thereafter. He etched some portraits but these prints after Barlow are his most important work.
BM: 1871,0812.251, described as a proof state.
[Ref: 68292] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Annette & Lubin] Annette In the Dress of a Norman Peasant. [&] Lubin In the Dress of a Norman Peasant.
Drawn & Engraved by Tho.s Gaugain from Marmontel's moral Tales.
London Pub'd according to Act Oct.r 20 1780 by T.Gaugain No. 4 Little Compton Street, Soho London.
Fine & scarce pair of mezzotints with line engraving, printed in sepia. Each 340 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"), large margins. Near Mint.
A young woman dressed in rustic peasant attire stands on a road, a basket resting over her arm and a sheep at her side. She gestures toward the left, while the domes and towers of a city rise in the background to the right, all enclosed within an oval frame. A young man in peasant attire stands to the right, carving a branch with a knife. A dog lies at his feet, and a landscape stretches out behind him, all set within an oval frame.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's London 1997. See Ref: 51026 for a single plate of Annette.
[Ref: 68270] £450.00 view all images for this item

The anxious mother and sick child. In the Collection of John Barnard Esq.r
Dominichino del. WBaillie fecit.
Publish'd 1.st Sept.r 1773.
Soft ground etching, printed in sanguine, pt 18th century watermark. 230 x 330mm (9 x 13").
Stipple engraving after Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641), known as Domenichino, engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 12231] for one in black and white.
[Ref: 68468] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Quo me, Bacche, rapis tui Plenum?
Aurel.o Milani del. W. Baillie Sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching, printed on very fine India paper. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
Horace, Odes III:25: 'Where are you taking me, Bacchus?'. Here Bacchus sits leaning on a barrel, a faun and cherub behind. Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. A collection of Baillie's prints was issued by Boydell in 1792 and 1803; this example has a gilt fore-edge, indictating it had been bound.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 4231].
[Ref: 68470] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Ceres and Stellio.] Dum frugum genitrix, tadas accendit in AEtna [...]
AElsheimer pinit. W. Hollar fecit aqua forti 1646 [but later].
Etching, platemark 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"), with very large margins.
Ceres drinks thirstily, while a small boy mocks her by pointing to her. In Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' she responds by turning the boy into a lizard. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar, perhaps the greatest printmaker active in 17th century England, after the miniaturist and specialist in night scenes Adam Elsheimer. This is actually a copy in reverse of Hendrik van Goudt's 1610 print of Elsheimer's original painting.
Pennington 273
[Ref: 68294] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The entombment of Christ] From a Capital Drawing by Rembrandt, in the Collection of M.r Hudson.
Engrav'd by C.t Baillie.
[n.d., c.1769.] [But later]
Mezzotint with etching. 265 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the entombment of Christ after a sketch by Rembrandt. Joseph of Arimatheia and one of the apostles on the left, laying Christ on a ledge in a rock tomb. Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) was a well-known amateur engraver and etcher from Ireland. He fought at the Battle of Culloden and served in various campaigns on the continent. retiring early to hold an appointment of Commissioner of Stamps. Over 200 of Baillie's prints were republished by Boydell in a collected edition of 1792, re-issued in 1803.
BM 1872,1012.4729. Charington 23. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68476] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The entombment of Christ] From a Capital Drawing by Rembrandt, in the Collection of M.r Hudson.
Engrav'd by C.t Baillie.
[n.d., c.1769.]
Mezzotint with etching, printed in black and brown, some hand colour, 18th century watermark. 265 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). Small indentation in top printed border.
A scene of the entombment of Christ after a sketch by Rembrandt. Joseph of Arimatheia and one of the apostles on the left, laying Christ on a ledge in a rock tomb. According to the BM: ''This is one of very few English colour prints to have been printed using more than one plate. It was advertised for seven shillings and sixpence as ‘printed in colours from separate plates’ (Public Advertiser, 8 June 1769). This information supplied by David Alexander (via email, February 2019)''.
BM 1872,1012.4729. Charington 23. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68475] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Better is a dry Morsel and Quietness therewith, / than a House full of Sacrifices with Strife. / Solomon's Prov. Chap. 17. V. 1st.
A. Ostade pinx.t. W. Baillie Sculp.t.
Published Aug.t 1.st 1784.
Rare mezzotint. 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Bottom margin chipped and messy.
A peasant family of four saying grace before their meal, which is a stew in a bowl on a three-cornered table. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810), who retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68463] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Maid of the Mill.][in pencil]
J. Richards pinx.t. W. Woollett sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Fine engraving, proof before title. Platemark: 380 x 470mm (15 x 18½"), with large margins on three sides. Small top margin.
An exterior scene; a barn to the left, with two women by the entrance, one mending a net, a mill in the centre, from which a person looks out of the window, and a house to the right, with a woman reading in the upstairs window. This scene is taken from the stage design of John Inigo Richards for the opening scene of 'The Maid of the Mill' (1765) by Irish playwright Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733 - 1812).
Fagan LX. State bIV of V. Provenance: Hooton Pagnell Hall, Yorkshire.
[Ref: 68482] £490.00

[Richard Owen Cambridge, 'The Scribleriad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Books'.]
L.P.Boitard Inv.t & Sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751 [by Richard Dodsley].
Etching. 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 10½"), large margins.
The frontispiece to Book II of Richard Owen Cambridge's 'The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books'. Scriblerus relates the story of his travels to a group of pilgrims, friends of his father. They sit on the grass in the foreground with a tiered dish, fruit, oriental figurines and statuettes, including one of Buddha, one of them to right reading a strip of paper he has drawn with much surprise from a small goblet, two on the left looking up at the sky with astonishment, with mountains in the distance, groups of indigenous people drawn up in the background to left, others chasing a solitary figure towards a broad river flowing on the right, where unicorns and other animals are swimming, with a mermaid on an island and seals and an enormous fish on the shore.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 68279] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to The Scribleriad]
L.P. Boitard inv.t & sculp.
According to Act of Parliament 1751.
Engraving, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), with large margins. Staining in margins
Night scene of a long-robed man with stepped shoes and an elaborate hair or tail headdress, coiled around his waist and trailing to the ground, gesturing toward an overgrown arched cave while grabbing the cloak of a turbaned man who recoils in fear as two owls burst from the cavern. This book-illustration comes from Richard Owen Cambridge's (1717 -1892), 'The Scribleriad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Books', London, 1751. A a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Miguel de Cervantes as his master. It is full of literary in-jokes.
[Ref: 68389] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical collonade and courtyard after David Teniers.]
Æsheimer inv. W Hollar fecit.
F. van den Wyngarde exc. [n.d., c.1650.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. light creasing.
Although Pennington calls this plate 'Healing the cripples' after Elsheimer, the BM has traced a drawing by David Teniers the Elder in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pennington: 114, iii of iii; BM 2005,U.178.
[Ref: 68278] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Italian landscape.] Engraved from an Original Picture of F: Zuccarelli, In the Possession of W:m Herring Esq.r.
F. Zuccarelli Pinx.t. F. Vivares Sculp.
Publish'd by F. Vivares 7th August 1753.
Etching. 410 x 500mm (16 x 19¾"), with very large margins. Rubbing in margins.
An Italianate landscape with an itinerant woman and child begging. A state with 'No.10' added bottom left.
[Ref: 68400] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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