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Grosvenor Prints 19 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9JN Tel: 020 7836 1979 Fax: 020 7379 6695 E-mail: [email protected] www.grosvenorprints.com Dealers in Antique Prints & Books Catalogue 57 Item 50: George Stubbs. Phillis. A Pointer of Lord Clermonts. All items listed are illustrated on our web site: www.grosvenorprints.com Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Villlage, Station Roaad, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Elliis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 ARTS 1. [Shepherd resting in a field.] Engraving, sheet 440 x 550mm (17½ x 21½"). Boyne [by John Boyne, 1806] Trimmed inside platemark; repaired tear at top. Foxed. Pen lithograph, sheet 225 x 310mm (8¾ x 12½"). Celadon at the centre, looking to the heavens with his Glued to original backing sheet at top corners with arms outstretched in disbelief and grief; Amelia lies printed border. Foxing. £450 dead at his feet. In the background a house with a Early lithograph by John Boyne (1750s-1810), Irish shepherd driving his sheep up a hill, on which is a watercolour painter and engraver who lived a colourful fortress. To right, a bay with stormy seas and a broken and varied life. After moving to England at 9 years old bridge. Verse from 'Summer' by James Thomson from and serving an apprenticeship to engraver William his 'The Seasons' below. Byrne, Boyne soon gave up printmaking to join a After an unlocated painting by Richard Wilson (1714 - company of strolling actors in Essex. He later took to 1782), the preeminent British landscape painter of the the pearl-setting trade and worked as a drawing-master. mid-18th century. Wilson's painting was exhibited in Nonetheless he exhibited regularly at the Royal 1765 as 'A Summer Storm with the Story of the Two Academy in his later years, with works including Lovers from Thompson (Celadon and Amelia), Shakespearean heads reminiscent of J.H. Mortimer, reinforcing the link with this popular literary source for and busy Rowlandsonesque social scenes. 18th century artists. David Solkin has described this This print was included in the 1806 edition of the first subject as a modern, Christian, English equivalent to portfolio of artists' lithographs, 'Specimens of the Ovidian death scene 'Destruction of the Children of Polyauthography', showing that even towards the end Niobe' which Wilson also famously painted. Fagan: of his life Boyne was involved in new technical 57, VI of VIII; for Wilson's 'Niobe' see ref 38488 developments in printmaking. The new medium Stock: 38962 allowed artists to draw directly onto a prepared stone, allowing artists to make prints which arguably 4. Het Ambacht van Cupido. resembled drawings more than any earlier printmaking [Anon, c.1613] technique. Unlike many printmaking techniques, Engraving with letterpress, sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ x lithography required no special training as artists could 7½"). Glued to backing sheet; text verso (not work directly onto the plate and leave specialist corresponding to this image wine making). £160 printers to actually make the prints. For this reason 'Harmonium rerum Amor conservat'. Page from the many artists who were not trained printmakers (such as 1613 edition (reprinted 1615, 1616 and 1619) of Géricault and Delacroix) often worked in lithography. 'Ambacht van Cupido' ('The Trade of Cupid') by Daniel Ex: The collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox- Heinsius (1580-1655). At this time Latin was the Boyd. dominant language used to write poetry in the Stock: 39429 Netherlands, and Hensius, by writing in Dutch, pioneered the use of the language for poetry. 2. Jour de Fête at St Cloud Sept.r 1815 with Stock: 39413 the British Troops on Duty. A. Long. [n.d., c.1815.] 5. Hernes Oak. Windsor Forest. There is Rare amateur lithograph. Printed area: 240 x 320mm an old Tale goes, that Herne the Hunter, (9½ x 12½"). Part of a print on reverse. £140 Sometime a 'Keeper here in Windsor Forest, A fête at the Château de Saint-Cloud, just to the west Doth all the Winter time, at still midnight, of Paris. Although Napoleon had abdicated in June, Walk round about an oak, with ragged horns. some French forces kept up resistance into September, Vide "Merry Wines of Windsor." accounting for the British troops in this scene. Drawn on Stone & Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1830 by W.A. Amelia Long (née Hume) (1772-1837), married Delamotte Jun.r R.M. college, Sandhurst. Printed by Charles Long who was created Baron Farnborough in Chagrey, 310 Strand. 1826. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, Lithograph. Rare. Sheet size: 215 x 155mm (8½ x and her work was widely admired by professional 6½"). £120 artists and drawing masters. For a sketchbook by the Herne the Hunter's Oak was located in Home Park, artist see V&A E.21080-1957. Ex collection of the Windsor. Herne, a character from Shakespeare's 'The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Merry Wives of Windsor', seen seated below the tree Stock: 39358 with antlers on his head, was a forest keeper, said to have hung himself from the tree, his ghost haunted the 3. Celadon and Amelia. From an Original forest at midnight. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox- Picture, in the Collection of Wm. Lock Esqr Boyd. [...] Stock: 39387 R. Wilson pinxit Londini. Browne aqua forti fecit. Woollett sculpt. Publish'd June 10th. 1766 as the Act directs, by W. Woollett in Long's Court, Leicester Fields, & Ryland & Bryer at the King's Arms in Cornhill, London. 6. Ireland Where'er I am, whate'er I be, / then and blest Britannia too; For in this Art these Six Dear ERIN! I'll remember thee: / In the glad the World outdoe' epitomizes the gifted generation of hour of holy mirth, / I'll praise the Lord of writing-masters commemorated here. See Sloan, 'A heaven and earth [...] Charlotte Elizabeth. Noble Art: Amateur artists and drawing masters 1600- Printed by Howlett and Brimmer, 10, Frith Street, 1800' Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Soho, London [n.d., c.1830] Collection. Stock: 38878 Rare letterpress printed in gold, sheet 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). £130 Verses by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (née Browne, 8. Tom Jones assisting Molly Seagrim, In 1790-1846), writer and social reformer. Born in the Church Yard and Repelling her Norwich, Charlotte Elizabeth married an army officer Adversaries [...] [parallel text in French] This and accompanied him to his estate in Ireland. As the Plate is Dedicated To John Pill Esq.r By His DNB states, 'she developed a sincere affection for the Most Obedient Humble Servant V.M. Picot Irish people but at the same time grew increasingly P.J. de Loutherbourg delin.t. The Landscape by W. severe and evangelical in her religious convictions [...] Woollett. The Figures by F. Bartolozzi. V.M. Picot Ex. her stay in Ireland had only intensified her antipathy Engraving, platemark 390 x 350mm (15¼ x 13¾"). towards the Catholic church, since she saw it as the Tear on right; slight foxing; small margins. £240 means by which the Irish people were enslaved in Scene from Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones, ignorance and superstition'. Both Charlotte Elizabeth's engraved after the Alsatian painter P.J. de love of Ireland and contempt for Catholicism are in Loutherbourg by two of the finest printmakers of the evidence in this poem. day, William Wollett and Francesco Bartolozzi. In 1824 Charlotte Elizabeth separated from her first Originally published in 1776, this is a later impression husband and returned to England, and left a legacy of with the publication date having been removed from many literary works engaging with social reform the plate. De Vesme 1385 (unlisted final state with issues, which after a period of neglect have recently publication line excised). Fagan: 94 IV of IV. been rediscovered thanks to increasing interest in Stock: 38960 women's literature. Stock: 38938 9. L'Atelier du Peintre. Alex. Desenne del. B.y Roger Sculp [c.1820] 7. To Mr. Charles Snell, Mr. George Rare engraving, sheet 155 x 130mm (6 x 5"). Trimmed Shelley, Mr. Robert More, Mr. Ralph Snow, inside platemark; glued to backing sheet; staining.£130 Mr. Thomas Ollyffe, Mr. John Clark, Writing The painter's studio: an artist resting from painting his Masters of London / A Poem on Writing [...] female sitter. In decorative frame with tools of the [...]nted Written & Engraven by George Bickham, & artist's trade below. Engraved by Barthélemy Roger Sold by H. Overton at ye White Horse without (1767-1840) after Alexandre Desenne (1785-1827). Newgate, by J. King at ye Globe in ye Poultry, & by J. Stock: 39405 Barnes at ye Crown in ye Pall-Mall London [c.1720] Very scarce broadsheet, sheet 495 x 345mm (19½ x 10. [Une Femme Montrant un Dessin a Deux 13½"). Trimmed; fold through centre. Cut inside Autres Femmes.] image on left. Time stained. £450 [Guercino inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.] Large engraving sheet with multiple portraits by Etching. Proof before letters. Plate: 410 x 280mm, (16 George Bickham (1683/4-1758), writing-master and x 11"). Very large margins. £190 engraver, then the finest engraver of calligraphy in A central woman, wearing a turban and holding a paint London. Bickham engraved both the individual palette demonstrates her work to two further women. portraits of the various writing-masters depicted here, de Vesme: 2127, I of II. and also engraved their individual copy-books. The Stock: 39118 calligraphic figures bordering the portraits are reminiscent of those of Edward Cocker (see ref 38877). The legend at the bottom of the sheet 'Blest Britains BOOKS 11.