Marie Anne Bourher (?) ***

Her Royal Highness Princess Mary

Published in London by E.Harding, 19^th May 1806

Late 19^th century impression. Stipple engraving, printed using 3 different inks. Original hand-colouring.

Plate: 279 x 216 mm

Small worm-hole on the printed border. Good impression.

Price: £95

A portrait of Princess Mary; Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. She was the 11^th child and fourth daughter of George III. Married to Prince William Frederick (Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh) she was the longest living of George’s children.

F. Green after H. Jones ***

Portrait of William George Frederick

Published by J. Green, No. 701 Oxford Street, 23^rd January 1797

18^th century mezzotint with some etching, printed on laid paper.

Sheet: 275 x 208 mm

Trimmed outside the plate mark. Small tear in the left-hand margin. A good impression.

Price: £45

William George Frederick / Prince of Orange & Nassau, Major General in the Imperial Service.

Portrait of William George Frederick, the son of William V and Wilhelmina of Orange.

His most excellent Majesty, George IV by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom

19th century copper engraving

Sheet: 397 x 295 mm

Trimmed within the plate markPrinters crease running through the face and shoulder. Good Impression.

Price: £55

Portrait of George IV, who served as Prince Regent until the death of his father, George III, on the 29^th January 1820, when he was then crowned King of Hanover,  the United Kingdom and Ireland.

[Anon]

[Unidentified Lady]

Published by Thomas Mc Lean, London, July 1^st 1896

Mixed Method engraving printed on chine collé

Plate: 666 x 423 mm

Scratch (approx. 3.5 mm long) under arm of the figure. Otherwise, a good impression.

Price: £88

A decorative full length portrait of a lady. The style of dress and hair is Neo-classical, as is the pillar on which she leans.

Anon

[Lady Emma Hamilton]

19^th C mezzotint

Sheet: 622 x 466 mm

Tide marks in the top corners of the margins.

Price: £86

A full length decorative portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton (born as Amy Lyon), best known as Lord Nelson’s Mistress. She acquired the name Hamilton from her husband, Sir William Hamilton who was the |British ambassador in Naples and was a big collector of classical objects and artefacts.   

John Bromley after R. Bowyer

His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth

Published by R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, Pall Mall 1827

Mixed method PROOF engraving

Sheet: 546 x 429 mm

Slight surface abrasion (faint line across the centre of the image). Otherwise in excellent condition.

 Price: £95

Pichegru

Paris, c. 1796

Mezzotint

Trimmed to image and laid onto card

530x360mm

£250

Pichegru

A rare full length portrait of the French Revolutionary general Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804). He is depicted here peering craftily out to the right, chin resting on his left hand, and with his right hand, holding a bunch of dispatches, resting on the hilt of his sabre. He wears a braided, military frock coat and hat with a bunch of feathers as a cockade. In the background is a military camp. Born into a peasant family, Pichegru taught mathematics at the military academy at Brienne before he joined an artillery regiment in 1780. He was sergeant major at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 and in 1792 became lieutenant colonel. Appointed commander of the Army of the Rhine in October 1793, he helped General Lazare Hoche drive the Austro-Prussian armies from Alsace in December. Nevertheless, Pichegru was jealous of Hoche. By convincing the government that Hoche was a traitor, he managed to have his rival imprisoned in March 1794. Pichegru was given command of the 150,000-man Army of the North. In April 1794, Pichegru and General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, commander of the Army of the Moselle, launched an invasion of the Austrian Netherlands, capturing Amsterdam by January 1795. Returning to Paris, he was hailed as a saviour of his country. Although he was appointed Commander of the Armies of the Rhine and Moselle in mid-1795, he had already begun to turn against France's republican regime. He initiated secret contacts with agents of French émigrés in August, and in March 1796, Pichegru resigned his commission. Elected president of the Council of Five Hundred (the lower chamber of the legislature) in May 1797, he sided with the royalist deputies. Nevertheless, word of his previous treasonable contacts reached Paris, and when the royalists were expelled from the government in the coup d'etat of 18th Fructidor (Sept. 4th 1797), Pichegru was arrested and deported to the Guianas. Escaping from the islands, he made his way to Germany, then to England. In January 1804, he secretly entered France and began plotting to overthrow Bonaparte's military regime. Betrayed and arrested in Paris on February 28th , he was found strangled with his cravat in Temple prison on April 5th. It is not known whether he was murdered or committed suicide.

Davis after John Baptist Caspers

Her Royal Highness, Queen Catherine

Copper engraving

Sheet: 485 x 281 mm

Bottom right-hand corner damaged (small tear) Good impression.

Price: £85

Portrait of Catherine of Braganza; a Portuguese Infanta who became the wife and Queen Consort of Charles II.

Henry Earl of Pembroke & Montogomery. Lord Lieut. & Custos Rotulorum of the County of Wilts, Major Genl. In the Army & Col. of the 1st or Royal Regimt. Of Dragoons

London, Feb. 5th 1772

Trimmed to platemark.

Mezzotint

460x330mm

£160

Henry Earl of Pembroke & Montogomery. Lord Lieut. & Custos Rotulorum of the County of Wilts, Major Genl. In the Army & Col. of the 1st or Royal Regimt. Of Dragoons

A three quarter length portrait of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (1734-94). He is handsome and bare headed, his hand resting on his drawn sabre, wearing military uniform and a sash. A fine soldier, a Lord of the Bedchamber and an authority on the training of horses, he was nevertheless known to his contemporaries as an utter scoundrel. In 1755 he married the beautiful Elizabeth Spencer daughter of the 2nd Duke of Marlborough, but caused great scandal by throwing up his place at court and eloping (in a common packet-boat) with Miss Hunter, daughter of Charles Orby Hunter, then one of the Lords of the Admiralty. He afterwards returned to his wife, and the young lady, who had a child by him, is said to have married the future field-marshal, Sir Alured Clarke. He was restored to favour at court, was appointed colonel 1st royal dragoons in 1764, reappointed a Lord of the Bedchamber in 1769, and became a lieutenant-general in 1770. Reynolds’ painting is in the collection at Wilton House.

Vera et Accurata Effigies Richardi Eltoni Generosi Bristol. Nec Non Artis Militaris Magistri Ano. 1649.

London, 1650

Copper engraving

Trimmed within platemark

240x135mm

£85

Vera et Accurata Effigies Richardi Eltoni Generosi Bristol. Nec Non Artis Militaris Magistri Ano. 1649.

A portrait of the military writer and parliamentary supporter Richard Elton of Bristol. He is enclosed in an oval, surrounded by military trophies supported by two entwined cannon, and wears armour and carries a baton. This portrait was engraved as a frontispiece for Elton’s military manual The Compleat Body of the Art Military, dedicated to Elton’s hero Sir Thomas Fairfax. Elton joined the militia of the city of London, and in 1649 had risen to the rank of major. In 1654 he was Parliamentary Deputy-Governor of Hull and two years later, rose to be Governor-General. He later retired to his home at Bristol.

Sir Charles Thompson Baronet; Vice Admiral of the Red. Obit. 17 March 1799

London, 1800

Mezzotint

Repairs to left platemark and margin

380x280mm

£180

Sir Charles Thompson Baronet; Vice Admiral of the Red. Obit. 17 March 1799

A three quarter length portrait of Vice Admiral Sir Charles Thompson (1740-99). He leans against a rock on the seashore, wearing his gold laced coat, and carrying an ornate telescope. Principally stationed in the West Indies, and subsequently in the Mediterranean, he incurred the enmity of Earl St. Vincent for presuming to object to the execution of four mutineers. Thompson was accordingly recalled, and appointed to a command in the fleet off Brest. He held this during 1798, but his health had for some time been failing, and early in 1799 he was obliged to strike his flag and go home. He died at Fareham.

J. Faber after G. Kneller

Portrait of her Royal Highness, Mary II

Mezzotint printed onto laid paper. Watermark visible.

Sheet: 348 x 254 mm

Slight marginal tear (top left hand corner). Small wormhole (bottom of image.

Price: £60

Portrait of Mary II; Queen of England and Ireland from February 1689 and Queen of Scots from April 1689 till her death. Daughter of James II, she ruled jointly with her husband (and first cousin) William II. They ruled jointly due to the fact that Mary was the blood sovereign, and although William wielded more power when in England, he depended heavily on his wife; especially when he was out of the country on military campaigns. On these occasions, she ruled alone, proving herself to be a firm and powerful figure head.

Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria

London, Hodgson, Boys & Graves April 1834

Mixed method engraving

405x322mm

£85

Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria

An idealised portrait of Princess (later Queen) Victoria depicted as a young girl. She sits under a tree, on a grassy bank beside a stream, evidently sketching the scene in her sketchbook. In the background is a classical urn.

Portrait of a gentleman

London, 182[6 ?]

Lithograph, printed on paper watermarked ‘Whatman Turkey Mill’

Neat marginal repairs, slight dust staining

380x250mm

£140

Portrait of a gentleman

An interesting and decorative, full length portrait of a gentleman standing in his study. He holds a book with one hand while the other rests on his hip. In the background his parrot sits on its perch. Possibly a self portrait of Gauci (fl. 1810-46), he wears a neat frock coat, knee breeches, tall neckcloth and has a watchfob dangling at his waist.

Gl. Andreossy. The Ambassador from France to His Britannic Majesty

London, A. Cardon 1803

Stipple engraving

330x240mm

£160

Gl. Andreossy. The Ambassador from France to His Britannic Majesty

A delicately executed, half length portrait, enclosed in an oval of General Andréossy, Napoleon's Ambassador to Britain during the short lived Peace of Amiens 1802-3. Of Hungarian descent, he looks sternly out, wearing a military coat embroidered with oak leaves and a black cravat. The Peace had been principally used by Napoleon as an opportunity to regroup and reorganise his armies. During that time the British Ambassador to France had been Charles, 1st Earl Whitworth (1752-1825). Napoleon had roughly demanded the British evacuation of Malta as a price of lasting peace, a demand that Whitworth had been firmly instructed by Hawkesbury to refuse. On March 13th 1803 Napoleon had summoned the Ambassador to the Tuileries and subjected to him to a violent tirade after which Whitworth noted 'the extreme impropriety of his conduct and the total want of dignity as well as of decency on the occasion.’ The interview was not, however, a final one Whitworth was received by the First Consul once again on 4th April, when the corps diplomatique were kept waiting for an audience for four hours while Napoleon inspected knapsacks. On 1st May an indisposition prevented Whitworth from attending the reception at the Tuileries, on 12th May he demanded his passports, and on 18th May Britain declared war against France. Whitworth reached London on 20th May, having encountered the French Ambassador, Andréossy, three days earlier at Dover. Throughout the trying scenes with the First Consul, Whitworth's demeanour was generally admitted to have been marked by a dignity and an impassibilité worthy of the best traditions of aristocratic diplomacy.

P.V Gunst after Van Dyke

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Great Britain

Published by Boydell of London.

Copper engraving printed onto rolled paper (19^th Century)

Sheet: 521 x 327 mm

Small repaired marginal tears (top and bottom margin). Otherwise good impression.

Price: £75

Portrait of Henrietta Maria; a Princess of France and Queen Consort of England Scotland and Ireland (a title she obtained from becoming the wife Charles I). She was the mother of Charles II and James II who both became Kings of England, Scotland and Ireland).

His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Duke of Saxony

London, 1840

Lithograph, printed on india paper

Slight overall browning & dust staining

470x345mm

£140

His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Duke of Saxony

A fine, rare, half length portrait of the young Prince Albert (1819-61), taken soon after his marriage to Queen Victoria on Feb. 10th 1840, by the Munich artist Franz Hanfstaengl. He stands wearing resplendent military uniform, carrying his feathered cocked hat under his arm. In the background is a draped curtain and a framed portrait of the Queen.

 Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse

London, c. 1785

Stipple engraving

Trimmed to border and within title, slightly worn impression

570x420mm

£180

Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse

One of the most famous full length portraits of the most popular actress of the late Georgian stage. Sarah Siddons (1751-1831), in the character of the Muse Melpomone, sits dramatically on an immense architectural throne, poised above roiling clouds, dressed in flowing robes and overskirt and looking slightly to the left. In the background are two shadowy male figures, one bearing a dagger and the other a chalice of poison. In a supreme compliment Reynolds has signed his name on the hem of her garment. The painting is now in the collection of the Dulwich Picture Gallery. This engraving has an interesting publishing history, and was the source of one of the most publicized quarrels between an artist and engraver. In view of the popularity of the actress and reputation of the artist any engraving from this painting was certain to be a profitable venture, and the mezzotint artist Valentine Green was extremely eager to secure the commission to engrave it. Green first approached Reynolds, who told the engraver that his application would be considered favourably, but he believed that Mrs Siddons wanted it engraved in stipple which would bear more copies in the print run and thus further enhance her reputation. However, when Mrs Siddons was approached she let Green believe that the decision rested entirely with Reynolds. The playwright Sheridan who had commissioned the portrait also promised to refer the matter to Reynolds. Green thus believed that he would be granted the commission, however, when the painting was ready to be engraved Green learnt that Francis Haward the stipple engraver had been awarded the rights to engrave and publish this lucrative print. Green was furious and wrote to Reynolds demanding an explanation of his deceitful conduct. Reynolds was naturally deeply offended and produced a note proving that Mrs Siddons had personally requested that the work be given to Haward. Green had to apologise, but the damage to his career had been done and he was never again invited to engrave any of Reynolds work.

Rear Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford Bart. M.P.

London, c. 1815

Mezzotint

Trimmed to image, slight scratch in sky

305x230mm

£85

Rear Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford Bart. M.P.

A half length portrait. An illegitimate son of Lord de la Poer, afterwards first Marquis of Waterford, Beresford (1766-1844), wears naval uniform, with an order around his neck on a broad ribbon, and a distant view of the sea in the background. Entering the navy in 1782 on board the Alexander, under the protection of Lord Longford, Beresford enjoyed a adventurous and successful naval career. Early in 1814 he was appointed to the Royal Sovereign yacht, and on 24th April had the honour of carrying the Louis XVIII, the newly restored King of France over to Calais. In May he was created a baronet, and attained the rank of Rear-Admiral. In the following September he hoisted his flag in the Duncan, and was sent to Rio de Janeiro to carry home the Prince Regent of Portugal. The prince, however, decided not to return to Lisbon at that time, and Beresford, after receiving from him the order of the Tower and Sword, returned to England. M.P. for Coleraine since 1809, in 1832, he was unseated on petition; in 1835 he was elected for Chatham, and became a junior Lord of the Admiralty. After this he lived in comparative retirement at his seat at Bedale in Yorkshire, where he died, after a long illness. This portrait was probably published to mark his promotion to Rear-Admiral.

**Francis Holl after John Harrison

[Anon]

Published by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London 1852

Steel engraving with stipple and line engraved background.

Plate: 558 x 432 mm

Time staining and slight spotting in the left hand margin.

Price: £48

A Head-and-shoulders portrait of and unidentified Military Commander.

The Baring Family

London, c. 1840

Steel mezzotint

Trimmed on top platemark, publication line partially obliterated, slight marginal dust staining.

300x380mm

£75

The Baring Family

An interesting group portrait of three members of the Baring banking family, sitting around a large desk on which rests an enormous ledger inscribed HOPE and an Act of Parliament labelled 1807. On the left is the founder of the dynasty Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), who sits in a large armchair, his hand cupped around his ear (he was deaf from early youth), in the centre is his elder brother John and on the right, leaning earnestly over the table is his son in law Charles Wall. In the background is a draped curtain and a classical column.

Lady Erskine

London, c. 1767

Mezzotint

Slight rubbing and dust staining,traces of old folds

550x365mm

£75

Lady Erskine

A half length, standing portrait of Janet Lady Erskine (d. 1797). Her fair hair is dressed in a simple swept back style, and she wears a high, lace ruffled collar and elaborate lace shawl over a loose silk robe. A rose is fastened in her bodice. Daughter of Peter Wedderburn of Chesterhall, in 1761 she married Lieutenant General Sir Henry Erskine 5th baronet of Alva and Cambuskenneth in Clackmannanshire, who sadly died soon after in 1765. Janet was the sister of Alexander Wedderburn, afterwards Lord Chancellor of England, and first Earl of Rosslyn, and the eldest of her two sons succeeded his maternal uncle as second Earl of Rosslyn.

The Honourable Susanna Fitzpatrick

London, c. 1760

Mezzotint

Trimmed to border

320x230mm

£150

The Honourable Susanna Fitzpatrick

A half length portrait of Susanna Fitzpatrick (née Usher), wife of Richard Fitzpatrick, grandson of the 1st Lord Gowran. She is directed slightly to the left, with her dark hair neatly pulled back, wearing a dress trimmed with roses at the bosom, lace edged fichu and lace trimmed sleeves. In the background is a panelled room and draped curtain. Sadly she seems to have died young in 1759.

Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales and of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld

London, R. Ackermann October 22nd 1816

Stipple engraving

Trimmed within platemark, slight spotting

400x255mm

£140

Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales and of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld

A decorative, full length portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817), daughter of the Prince Regent. She stands on the terrace of Windsor Castle, wearing a satin striped dress, with broad flounces around the hem, and with a embroidered oriental shawl cast over her shoulder and over her arm. She wears a wreath of roses in her hair and little satin slippers on her feet. Evidently published to mark the Princesses marriage to the handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1790-65), son of Duke Francis of Saxe-Coburg, sadly their marriage did not last long as Princess Charlotte died in childbirth on 5th Nov. 1817. After a long labour the Princess had given birth to a stillborn son, dying herself a few hours later, largely due to the incompetence of the fashionable accoucheur, Sir Richard Croft (who later, overcome by guilt, committed suicide). In 1831 Prince Leopold was invited to become King of the Belgians, becoming an advisor to the young Queen Victoria to whom he suceeded in marrying his nephew Prince Albert, and was himself succeeded on the Belgian throne by Prince Francis his son by his second wife.

Portrait of Captain George Farmer

Published by John Boydell in Cheapside, London on February 14th 1780

Mezzotint printed on laid paper. Watermark visible on lower margin

Good impression. A few wormholes on image. Repaired wormholes on the left margin. Marginal tear on bottom edge.

399 x 281 mm

£130

Portrait of Captain George Farmer

Portrait depicting Captain George Farmer who gallantly fought the French frigates off the island of Ushant (near the coast of Brittany). It fought gallantly against the more powerful French frigate for three and half hours before exploding due to its cannons catching fire (earlier when the Quebec had returned to Portsmouth to be repaired, these 9 pounder cannons had been fitted instead of the original 12 pounders, leaving the ship at a disadvantage to it’s French enemies).

 Mrs. Chelsum

London, c. 1795

Etching on laid paper

350x255mm

£380

Mrs. Chelsum

A rare, three quarter length portrait of an old lady wearing a black shawl and lace bonnet, with a dress with frilled sleeves and long mittens on her folded hands. Beneath are a set of laudatory verses. Mrs Chelsum was the mother of James Chelsum D.D., author, print collector and authority on mezzotint engraving. Chelsum was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and who subsequently became chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, who gave him the living of Droxford in Hampshire where he died in 1801.

His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and Chandos, Colonel of the Buckingham Yeomanry Cavalry

London, Henry Graves & Co. May 25th 1841

Mixed method mezzotint

500x360mm

£85

His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and Chandos, Colonel of the Buckingham Yeomanry Cavalry

A three quarter length portrait of the handsome Richard Grenville Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861). He stands wearing his heavily gold braided cavalry uniform, with a view of Stowe Park in the background. An inveterate opponent of Reform and Peel’s intended Repeal of the Corn Laws, he inherited a huge fortune from his father, including Stowe Park, Buckinghamshire. One of his expensive habits was purchasing land with borrowed money, regardless of the fact that the interest of the money he borrowed was much heavier than the rental he recovered from the land. In 1844, on his eldest son coming of age, the entail to some of the estates was cut off, leaving intact the Chandos estates, which were entailed upon female heirs. Although it was known that the Duke was in financial difficulties, the Queen and Prince Albert paid him a visit at Stowe Park. This visit cost a large sum of money, and helped to precipitate the impending catastrophe. On 31st August 1847 the effects at Stowe and other residences were taken possession of by the bailiffs, and in September the Duke left England with debts estimated at upwards of a million pounds. Subsequently, his wife Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of the Marquis of Breadalbane, divorced him. The Duke died at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington, London, 29th July 1861.

Portrait of Christian V of Denmark

Copper engraving

Watermark [Cauvergne 1749] at right-hand side of sheet

Very slight browning/spotting of the paper. Marginal tear on the upper left-hand side of the sheet. Wormhole in the image

329 x 229 mm

£50

Portrait of Christian V of Denmark

A portrait of Christian V of Denmark (reigned 1670-1699), son of Frederick III of Denmark and Sophia Amelia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Known for introducing the ‘Dansk Lov’ (Danish Code); the first law code for all of Denmark. One of a series of regal portraits of the Danish Kings published by Preisler.

Portrait of Christian VI of Denmark

Copper engraving printed on watermarked paper (watermark visible on the right hand margin).

Slight paper below title

329 x 230 mm

£ 50

Portrait of Christian VI of Denmark

A portrait of Christian VI of Denmark (reigned 1730-1746), son of Frederick IV of Denmark and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstenrow. One of a series of regal portraits of the Danish Kings published by Preisler.

The Right Honble. Charles James Fox

London, c. 1806

Stipple engraving, within line engraved border

Narrow margins

390x290mm

£140

The Right Honble. Charles James Fox

A full length, seated portrait of the Whig statesman Charles James Fox (1749-1806). He sits comfortably in an empire style armchair, pushed back from his desk, with one hand in his lap and the other holding his spectacles and resting on his desk. Books and a writing set are on his desk and scrolls of paper and a large book are on the floor. A vista of parkland is visible through the open window. Probably published to mark his death from dropsy at the age of 58 in September 1806. he is buried in Westminster Abbey.

L. Sailliar after Richard Cosway

His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales

Published by Richard Cosway, August 24^th 1787

18^th Century stipple engraving printed onto laid  paper.

Plate: 328 x 239 mm

Excellent, clear impression.

Price: £100

Portrait of Prince George of Wales; the Prince Regent, who later became King George IV.

The Countess of Salisbury

London, J. Smith 1699

Mezzotint

340x245mm

£120

The Countess of Salisbury

A three quarter length, seated portrait of the daughter and co-heir of Simon Bennett of Beechampton, Bucks. She is depicted as a young, pretty widow, and wears a black dress and veil over her hair. She married James 4th Earl of Salisbury who died in Dec. 1694, and for whom she appears in mourning in this engraving.

The Late Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart. Vice Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of the Nore

Mezzotint

Very slight overall browning

500x360mm

£140

The Late Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart. Vice Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of the Nore

A half length portrait of Admiral Sir Richard King (1774-1834). He wears a splendid naval uniform, with epaulettes and medals and Garter Star on a broad ribbon around his neck, with the sea and ships in the background. Sent to sea initially with the East India Company, he entered the navy in 1788 under Cornwallis. In 1805, he took part in the battle of Trafalgar, and on the death of his father in 1806, King succeeded to the baronetcy. In 1811 he was appointed Captain of the Fleet to Sir Charles Cotton in the Mediterranean and afterwards in the Channel. He was promoted to be Rear-Admiral in 1812, and for the rest of the war had his flag in the San Josef, in the Mediterranean, as second in command to the famous and dashing Sir Edward Pellew. He was commander-in-chief in the East Indies from 1816 to 1820, and became a Vice-Admiral in July 1821. In July 1833 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, and died at Admiralty House, Sheerness, on 5th Aug. 1834.

Joannes Fletcher. Episcopi Lond. Fili

London, 1729

Copper engraving

Trimmed on platemark

365x235mm

£120

Joannes Fletcher. Episcopi Lond. Fili

A rare and interesting portrait of the dramatist and poet John Fletcher (1579-1625). He sits, half length, enclosed in an oval architectural frame, surmounted by comic and tragic masks, with curly hair and beard and wearing a loosely buttoned jacket. This engraving is after a contemporary painting, now in the National Portrait Gallery, by an unknown artist. A son of Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, he was one of the most important playwrights in Jacobean London. Fletcher is particularly known for his extremely successful collaborations with Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), which included the productions of Philaster (c.1609), The Maid’s Tragedy (c.1610) and A King and no King (1611). Fletcher also wrote several plays himself, and collaborated on works with other playwrights, including Shakespeare in Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen (both 1613). He died of the plague in 1625 and was buried in St. Saviour’s, Southwark in the same grave as his friend Philip Massinger.

The Rev. William Whiston M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in ye University of Cambridge

London, c. 1720

Copper engraving

Trimmed to platemark

355x250mm

£140

The Rev. William Whiston M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in ye University of Cambridge

A half length portrait, enclosed in an architectural frame of the mathematician, cosmologist, religious writer, follower of the Arian heresy and erstwhile pupil of Sir Isaac Newton, William Whiston (1667-1752). He sits half length, smiling and turned slightly to the right, pointing to a passage in a book with one hand.

**J.A. Vinter after F. Winterhalter

Portrait of Prince Alfred 1865

Published by Day & Son Ltd.

Lithograph printed on chine collé, laid onto old mount-board.

Sheet: 570 x 440 mm

Slight spotting of image. Otherwise in good condition.

Price: £85

Portrait of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Alfred Ernest Albert; second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria. He received the titles of Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent and Earl of Ulster on 24th May 1866 in the peerage of the United Kingdom. He later on succeeded his paternal Uncle Ernst as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire on August 23rd 1893.

Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector

London, c. 1800

Copper engraving, printed on vellum

Slight dust staining in margins

180x135mm

£75

Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector

A small interesting engraved, three quarter length portrait, after the famous painting (executed c. 1649) by Robert Walker in the National Portrait Gallery, unusually printed on vellum.This view shows the great Lord Protector (1599-1658), wearing armour and carrying a baton, with a page adjusting his sash.

The Right Honourable George Grenville, First Lord of the Admiralty, And One of His Majesty's Most Honourable. Privy Council

London, John Bowles c. 1740

Mezzotint

Printing smudge and collector's mark in title area

350x250mm

£140

The Right Honourable George Grenville, First Lord of the Admiralty, And One of His Majesty's Most Honourable. Privy Council

An interesting, three quarter length, seated portrait of the statesman and naval reformer George Grenville (1712-70). He is depicted in a large leather armchair, a bookcase in the background, wearing an elaborate velvet coat and breeches and lace cravat and cuffs. In his right hand he holds a paper inscribed An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen employed in the Royal Navy, and for establishing a regular method for the punctual, frequent and certain Payment of their Wages ... &c. In December 1744 Grenville had been appointed a Lord of the Admiralty in Pelham's administration. He immediately instituted an inquiry into reported abuses of seamen and the long standing grievance of the erratic payment of their wages and destitution of their families. On 10th April 1763, Grenville was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, his first act in office being to make the huge mistake of prosecuting John Wilkes for libel, and his second even worst mistake being to impose certain stamp duties on the American Colonies. The prosecution of Wilkes led to the discredit of the executive and the legislature alike. His ill-considered attempts to enforce the trade laws, to establish a permanent force of some ten thousand English soldiers in America, and to raise money by parliamentary taxation of the colonies, in order to defray the expense of protecting them, led directly to the American Revolution and subsequent independence.

James Watson after F. Cotes

Portrait of the Reverend Charles Lyttleton

Published in London 1770

18^th century mezzotint printed onto laid paper.

Sheet: 397 x 282 mm

Slight creasing of the image. Otherwise, a good impression. Trimmed just outside the plate mark.

Price: £85

Portrait of the Reverend Charles Lyttelton, Dean of Exeter. He was also the President of the Antiquarian Society.

Watson after H. D. Hamilton

 Portrait of Ann, Countess of Cork and Orrery

 Printed for R. Sayer in January 1772

 18^th C. mezzotint on laid paper

 Sheet: 384 x 288 mm

Small area of surface abrasion to the left of her forehead; some other areas of slight rubbing. Otherwise, an excellent impression.

Price: £135

Portrait of Anne Courtenay, Countess of Cork and Orrery; wife of Edmund Boyle, 7^th Earl of Cork and Orrery. She is most famous for being put on trail for adultery and violating her marriage vows.

John Brown, Surgeon to King Charles II
Vera Effigies Joannis Brown, Ragis Majestati Chirurg. Ordinar. Ætatis suæ 36 Ano. Dom. 1678

London, c. 1680

Copper engraving with etching

215x150mm

£85

John Brown, Surgeon to King Charles II
Vera Effigies Joannis Brown, Ragis Majestati Chirurg. Ordinar. Ætatis suæ 36 Ano. Dom. 1678

A small, half length portrait, enclosed in an elaborately engraved carved frame, composed of scrolls and cherubs, of the surgeon John Brown of Norwich. A plump gentleman, he is directed right and faces front, wearing a lace cravat and large fair periwig. A surgeon at St. Thomas’s Hospital, he was appointed surgeon in ordinary to King Charles II, and is principally famous for his numerous books on surgery and comparative anatomy. In addition he published accounts of sixty cases of persons cured of scrofula or the ‘King’s Evil’, having been ‘touched’ and therefore cured by the King. Charles, during his reign ‘touched’ nearly one hundred thousand persons, and the outlay for gold medals issued to the afflicted on these occasions rose in some years as high as ten thousand pounds.

Jacob Bernhard Limburger

Berlin, Druck des Konigl Institut c. 1850

Lithograph, printed in india paper

Slight marginal foxing

440x360mm

£220

Jacob Bernhard Limburger

An interesting half length portrait of the German composer and pianist J. B. Limburger. He has dark hair, and stands, wearing a neat dark coat and black cravat, holding a sheet of music in one hand, and leaning his other arm on a piano.

London, c. 1823

Mezzotint, proof before all lettering

455x300mm

£150

George Hyde Wollaston

A privately published three quarter length mezzotint portrait of the chairman of the Thames Tunnel Company George Hyde Wollaston of Clapham Common (1765-1841), and brother of the chemist and physicist William Hyde Wollaston. An admirer of the Brunels, Wollaston was chairman of the Company between 1824 and the suspension of tunnelling operations due to lack of funds in 1829. Enclosed in a square frame, he sits in a comfortable armchair, hand tucked into the front of his coat and the other hand holding a paper.

Philp Affleck, Esqr. Rear Admiral of the White, Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships at Jamaica & the Bahama Islands

London, 1792

Mezzotint, partially filled open letter proof

Trimmed within platemark

500x350mm

£250

Philp Affleck, Esqr. Rear Admiral of the White, Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships at Jamaica & the Bahama Islands

A particularly fine, strong impression of a rare portrait. A full length, seated portrait of Admiral Philip Affleck (1726-99). He is depicted seated at a small round table, on which rests a globe, a book, map and dividers. He wears his splendid naval uniform, with his sword by his side. A marine painting is on the wall behind him and a turkey patterned carpet on the floor. Sent to sea with the East India Company, he entered the navy as a lieutenant in 1755. In the spring of 1780 he was sent out to the West Indies to reinforce Sir George Rodney, and was with him at the capture of St. Eustatia in the following February, and returned with Rodney to England in August 1781. He became an Admiral in 1787, and in 1790 went out to the West Indies as commander-in-chief. On his return in 1793 he was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty under the Earl of Chatham, and continued in the post until 1796, when he retired.

John Ash, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & of the Royal & Antiqaurian Societies London, And late Physician to the General Hospital near Birmingham

London, E. Walker & Co. March 1st 1791

Stipple engraving

Slight brown stained patch affecting bottom of image and title area, backed onto linen

650x410mm

£380

John Ash, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & of the Royal & Antiqaurian Societies London, And late Physician to the General Hospital near Birmingham

A fine, rare, large, full length, seated portrait of Dr. John Ash (1723-98). He leans back in a large armchair, wearing a dark suit, elaborate lace cravat and his doctoral robes, with a plan of the hospital at Birmingham in one hand, and with the other resting on some papers on a sidetable covered with a turkey cloth. In the background a view of a country house is visible through a window and a statue of a mother and child labelled Benevolentia stands in a niche behind his chair. In 1752 before taking his M.D. he settled in Birmingham and soon acquired a large practice. The general hospital at Birmingham was founded through his influence, and he was its first physician. He became affected with temporary mental illness, seemingly finding a cure in the study of mathematics and botany. He was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1786, and in the following year resigned his office in Birmingham and removed to London, where he achieved both social and professional success. His splendid portrait by Reynolds hangs in the boardroom of Birmingham Hospital. He is buried in Kensington church.

 Sir William Burnett K.C.H. M.D. F.R.S. Director General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy

London, c. 1850

Mixed method mezzotint

Misc marginal repairs, slight overall browning and time staining1607

810x460mm

£130

Sir William Burnett K.C.H. M.D. F.R.S. Director General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy

A full length, seated portrait of the naval physician Sir William Burnett (1779-1861). Sir William sits in a comfortably upholstered leather chair, writing at his desk, wearing his medals awarded by Queen Victoria. Two large books on medical practice in the navy are propped on the floor, and in the background is a draped curtain and classical columns. Born in Montrose, Scotland and apprenticed to a surgeon, he was appointed surgeon's mate on board the Edgar, 74 guns. Burnett went on the serve in most of the great fleet actions of the Napoleinic Wars, including the Nile and Trafalgar. Later he became Physician-General of the Navy, instituting many reforms in the medical care of seamen, and pioneering the use of disinfectants. In 1841 the naval medical corps testified their high regard Burnett had conferred on the Service by presenting him with this full-length portrait by Shee and a service of plate. He died at Chichester.

John Fletcher M.D. F.R.S.E. Lecturer on Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence &c. Edinburgh

London, H. Benham May 14th 1838

Mixed method mezzotint, open letter proof

405x305mm

£100

John Fletcher M.D. F.R.S.E. Lecturer on Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence &c. Edinburgh

A half length, seated portrait of John Fletcher (1792-1836), medical writer and lecturer on physiology. Son of a merchant of London, he soon left his father’s business and enrolled as a student at Edinburgh. He graduated M.D. in 1816. After making a start in practice at Henley-on-Thames, where his family had retreated after some financial reverses, he returned to Edinburgh and took private pupils in medicine. He subsequently became a popular lecturer on physiology, and medical jurisprudence and was much criticised after the trial of Robert Reid for the murder of his wife, after Reid got off after a medico-legal plea entered by Fletcher. He died in 1836 after a sudden illness.

Joseph Black, M.D. F.R.S.E. Late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh

London, J. Heath & J. Thompson March 10th 1800

Stipple engraving

Slight spotting, traces of old creases

275x230mm

£85

Joseph Black, M.D. F.R.S.E. Late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh

A half length portrait, enclosed in an oval of the eminent chemist Dr. Joseph Black (1728-99). Born at Bordeaux where his father was a wine merchant of Irish and Scottish descent, Black was sent to the University of Glasgow as a pupil of William Cullen. He is known today for his work upon alkalis and magnesia, and later on for his discovery of the principle of ‘latent heat’. In 1766 Black became Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at Edinburgh in succession to Cullen, and thereafter restricted his medical practice to a narrow circle of friends, and abandoning all thought of original research, concentrating on becoming one of the University’s most effective lecturers. Amongst other honours Black was elected member of the Paris and St. Petersburg Academies of Sciences, of the Society of Medicine of Paris, as well as of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Royal College of Physicians. He was also first physician to the King in Scotland. It is worth noticing that in 1767 he made the first attempt to inflate a balloon with hydrogen.

John Birch Esqr. Late Surgeon Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and one of the Surgeons of St. Thomas’s Hospital

London, c. 1816

London, c. 1816

Trimmed on platemark, slight overall time staining and slight marginal creasing and spotting

435x280mm

£120

John Birch Esqr. Late Surgeon Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and one of the Surgeons of St. Thomas’s Hospital

A three quarter length, seated portrait of John Birch (1745-1815). He sits in a carved armchair, holding a book in one hand and resting his elbow on a small side table. In the background is a draped curtain. He wears a dark suit, with a white shirt, cravat and waistcoat. On the table beside him is a specimen jar and a rolled paper. Birch is now chiefly remembered as an advocate for the use of frictional electricity as a (ineffective !) therapy for gynaecological problems and as an ardent and obstinate opponent to Jenner’s inoculation with cow pox as a vaccine for the smallpox.

William Bromfield Esqr

London, D. Orme July 21st 1792

Stipple engraving with etching on laid paper

Trimmed within left platemark

280x210mm

£220

William Bromfield Esqr

A half length, seated portrait of the surgeon William Bromfield (1712-92). A handsome man, he wears a neatly curled tie wig, dark coat and frilled cravat. He glances slightly to the right and is evidently giving a lecture as he has an anatomical specimen resting on a book in front of him, which he indicates with a small pointer. In 1741 he began a course of lectures on anatomy and surgery which attracted a large number of pupils and some years later he was instrumental in founding the Lock Hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases, to which he was subsequently appointed surgeon. He was appointed surgeon to St. George’s Hospital and became one of George III’s surgeons after his marriage to Queen Charlotte. He died in Chelsea.

John Heaviside Esqr. Surgeon Extraordinary to the King. F.R.S. F.A.S.

London, (publisher illegible) July 6th 1803

Mezzotint, scratch proof

Slight overall browning, publication line abraded

385x280mm

£140

John Heaviside Esqr. Surgeon Extraordinary to the King. F.R.S. F.A.S.

A half length portrait of John Heaviside (c. 1748-1828), surgeon to George III, anatomist, friend of Sir Joseph Banks and specialist in bone diseases. Sadly Heaviside does not receive a notice in the D.N.B. and thus details of his life and achievements are sketchy.

John Willis Esqr. M.D. Greatford, Lincolnshire

Stamford, Henry Mortlock June 2nd 1834

Steel mezzotint

Repair to right margin and platemark

660x460mm

£150

John Willis Esqr. M.D. Greatford, Lincolnshire

A large, rare, seated portrait of Dr. John Willis (1751-1835), son of the famous Francis Willis of Greatford, Lincolnshire, called in to treat the madness of King George III. John Willis is seated comfortably in a carved armchair, next to a small, velvet covered sidetable, with a vista of Lincolnshire visible through a colonnade in the background. He wears a dark coat, leather breeches and topboots. Willis attended the King with his father during the monarch’s first attack of mania (caused by the metabolic disorder porphyria) in 1788, and after his father’s death in 1807, he was called in again after the King’s final descent into madness in 1811. He died at Longhills, Lincolnshire after a party held by the Marquis of Exeter at Burleigh House the previous night.

John Abernethy, Lecturer on Surgery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, &. &c. &c.

London, c. 1830

Steel mezzotint

Trimmed on platemark, repairs to right margin affecting engraved surface

450x330mm

£140

John Abernethy, Lecturer on Surgery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, &. &c. &c.

A three quarter length, seated portrait of the eminent surgeon and anatomist John Abernethy (1764-1831). He is seated in an armchair with basket woven arms, one hand tucked into the breast of his dark coat. Abernethy (1764-1831), was a pupil of John Hunter and founder of the Medical School at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, was famous both as a teacher and for ‘the masterly roughness’ of his bedside manner. He died of heart disease at Enfield.

Doctor John Willis. Of Greatford near Stamford Lincolnshire

London, C. Turner August 12th 1834

Steel mezzotint, open letter proof

Slight overall spotting

505x360mm

£140

Doctor John Willis. Of Greatford near Stamford Lincolnshire

A three quarter length portrait of Doctor John Willis (1751-1835), son of the famous Francis Willis of Greatford, Lincolnshire, called in to treat the madness of King George III. He stands, his cane under his arm, gloves clutched in one hand and his upturned top hat in the other. Behind him a vista of Lincolnshire is visible through the open window. Willis attended the King with his father during the monarch’s first attack of mania (caused by the metabolic disorder porphyria) in 1788, and after his father’s death in 1807, he was called in again after the King’s final descent into madness in 1811. He died at Longhills, Lincolnshire after a party held by the Marquis of Exeter at Burleigh House the previous night.