Miniature Mezzotint Drolls & Portraits

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A small collection of Miniature Mezzotint Drolls & Portraits

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1. Angels Praising Christ.

Mezzotint Anonymous Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.

Image 138 x 110 mm, Plate 152 x 113 mm, Sheet 207 x 135 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: Worthy is the Lamb that was Slain to receive Power, Riches, Wisdom, Strength, Honour, Glory, and Blessing. Amen. / Revelation 5 Ch.12 V. Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Condition: Foxing to edges of sheet and ink marks to upper margin, not affecting image.

[12950] £100

2. Beauty & Innocence Charm’d with the Turkish Beggar Mezzotint Anonymous Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.

Image 135 x 112 mm, Sheet 149 x 113 mm. unmounted In a square, surrounded by buildings, stand three figures; to the left the Turk, who stands on two peglegs supported by crutches, holding a tambourine in both hands; to the right a fashionably dressed lady who holds a small basket in her left hand; behind her a boy holding a racket.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Good clean impression. Trimmed just inside plate and laid to album page.

[34208] £150

3. [Boy Blowing Bubbles] Mezzotint Anonymous n.d. c.1770 Image 133 x 108 mm, Plate 148 x 108 mm, Sheet 152 x 110 mm unmounted Engraved outline of a boy in ragged clothes blowing bubbles with a straw. A working proof.

[33890] ÂŁ100

4. Domestick Employment, Playing on the Guitar.

Mezzotint Anonymous [Robert Sayer, c.1780] Image 133 x 113 mm, Sheet 147 x 114 mm unmounted A girl sitting, directed to the left, facing and looking to the right; low cut bodice and pearls in hair; playing a guitar.

Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed just inside the plate, tipped to album page.

[34210] ÂŁ150

5. A Jolly Dog. Mezzotint Anonymous Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, No.69, St. Paul’s Church Yard, London. [c.1790] Image 136 x 111 mm, Plate 150 x 111 mm, Sheet 162 x 123 mm unmounted Portrait of a seated man holding a clay pipe in his right hand, and with his wig sliding from his head.

According to the British Museum, Dorothy George attributes this design to Robert Dighton.

BM Satires 7819, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Tipped to album page.

[33424] £185

6. Narcissus and the Nymph Echo.

Mezzotint Anonymous London: Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard. Published as the Act directs [c.1782] Image 137 x 113 mm, Plate 151 x 115 mm, Sheet 163 x 124 mm.

Unmounted Inscription reads: Ye Fates what made me chance to stroll that way;_Where Young Narcissus self admiring lay.

A young woman appears surprised when stumbling across a young military officer in full regimentals wearing a gorget and fringed sash, with a toupet-wig, lying on the grass admiring his reflection in a pool.

Beside him are his hat and sword.

BM Satires 6157, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Publication date scratched off. Trimmed and tipped to album page.

[33592] £165

7. Laugh and Grow Fat. Mezzotint Anonymous Printed for Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church yard, London. [c.1770] Image 132 x 110 mm, Sheet 148 x 113 mm unmounted Lennox-Boyd ii/ii Second state of two, numbered ‘135’ in lower left corner.

Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to platemark.

[33421] £150

8. Laugh and Grow Fat. Mezzotint Charles Corbet (Richard Purcell) [c.1750] Image 313 x 252 mm, Sheet 345 x 251 mm framed BM Satires undescribed, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Russell undescribed Condition: Trimmed to image and beneath inscription space. Japanese tissue margins added.

[33591] £375

9. The Pantheon Macaroni.

Mezzotint Anonymous 1 February 1835 by Ackermann & Co. Image 137 x 113 mm, Plate 150 x 113 mm, Sheet 205 x 138 mm framed A scene inside the Pantheon in Spa Fields, which opened in 1770, two years before the Pantheon in Oxford Street. It closed in 1774 due to the owner’s bankruptcy. In May 1772, a writer in the St. James’s Chronicle, professed to have been shocked at the request from more than one lady, ‘Pray, Sir, will you treat me with a dish of tea’. In 1773 the Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine referred to the Oxford Road Pantheon as ‘The Nobility’s’, and the Spa Fields Pantheon as ‘The Mobility’s’.

BM Satires 5097, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Foxing to left margin of sheet, not affecting image. Framed in reproduction period frame.

[33428] £230

10. The Fair Nun Unmasked.

Mezzotint after Henry Morland London: Pritned for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. [c. 1770] Image 132 x 112 mm, Plate 151 x 114 mm, Sheet 177 x 133 mm. unmounted Portrait of a beautiful young woman directed to the front, who is looking downwards towards the left.

Her hair is dressed with pearls; and she is wearing pearl earrings, a ruff, a cross hanging from her neck, and a black veil over her head and shoulders. She holds her right arm across her body, with the right hand holding a mask.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Sayer/Laurie & Whittle Small Mezzotints 158 Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Good impression, light time toning to margins, tipped to album page.

[34209] £175

11. The Feather’d Fair in a Fright.

Mezzotint after John Collet Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish’d as the Act directs, [8th May, 1777] Image 138 x 112 mm, Plate 151 x 113 mm, Sheet 231 x 143 mm. unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possession of Carington Bowles.

Two fashionably dressed women with ostrich feathers in their hair are chased by the two ostriches who had their tail feathers plucked.

BM Satires 4550, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Nice impression on full sheet. Publication date scratched from surface.

[34216] £230

12. The Ladies Shooting Poney.

Mezzotint after John Collet Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St.Pauls Ch.Yard, London. Publish’d as the Act directs. [10 May 1782] Image 140 x 112 mm, Plate 150 x 113 mm, Sheet 162 x 123 mm framed Inscribed beneath image with title, publication line and: From the Original Picture by John Collet in the Possession of Carington Bowles.

BM Satires 5817, Carington Bowles Catalogue 1784 117/427, Carington Bowles Catalogue 1790 107/444, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Tipped to album page. Framed in reproduction period frame.

[33433] £210

13. Lofty Riding, or Miss Folly’s Head Exalted.

Mezzotint after John Collet Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [date erased] [c.1781] Image 137 x 112 mm, Plate 152 x 114 mm, Sheet 165 x 129 mm.

Framed Inscription beneath title reads: From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possesion of Carington Bowles.

Satire of a young lady with high-piled hair having her hat knocked off by an inn-sign, as she rides past in a high Phaeton.

BM Satires 3787, Lennox-Boyd ii/ii (with the plate reworked and publication date scratched off).

Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Framed in reproduction period frame.

[33597] £210

14. Lofty Riding, or Miss Folly’s Head Exalted.

Mezzotint with hand colouring after John Collet Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [date erased] [c.1781] Image 325 x 250 mm, Plate 352 x 253 mm, Sheet 467 x 302 mm Unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possesion of Carington Bowles.

Satire of a young lady with high-piled hair having her hat knocked off by an inn-sign, as she rides past in a high Phaeton.

BM Satires 3786, Carington Bowles Catalogue (1784) 117/435, Carington Bowles Catalogue (1790) 107/452, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex-Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Ex-Col.: Minto Wilson (Lugt 1922a) Condition: Crease in right margin of sheet, running into image near standing female figure’s hand.

[4344] £600

15. The Triple Plea.

Mezzotint with hand colouring after John Collet London: Publish’d as the Act directs, 15 May 1780,

by Carington Bowles, No.69 St. Pauls Ch. Yard.

Image 135 x 110 mm, Plate 150 x 112 mm Mounted Inscription beneath image reads: Let Mankind live in peace and love, / The Lawyers tricks they need not prove, / Let them forbear excess and riot, / They need not feed on Doctor’s diet. / Let them attend what God does teach, / They need not care what Parsons preach. / But if Men Fools and Knaves will be - They’ll be Ass ridden by All Three.

A smaller version of the mezzotint ‘The Triple Plea’ (B.M. Satires 3761).

A satirical print of a cleryman, lawyer and doctor in a room, debating which of them has superiority in causing more harm to mankind. The clergyman stands on the left, facing the others, who sit at a table with their papers and books. Pictures on the wall show harpies feasting on a man, and a ‘Wolf in Sheeps Clothing’.

Condition: Small mark in image, above doctor’s head.

[21295] £220

16. French Man in London.

Mezzotint after John Collett [London Printed for R. Sayer Printseller No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1790] Image 139 x 112 mm, Sheet 147 x 116 mm unmounted In the cobbled street, a French man - directed, facing and looking to the right - throws his hands in the air in amazement at the butcher who stands to the right.

Directed, facing and looking left, the butcher clenches his fists in a fighting attitude. Behind, a dog steals meat from the butcher’s cart. To the left, a woman stands with her right hand on her hip.

BM Satires 4477, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Good clean impression, trimmed just within the plate.

[34213] £170

17. The Antiquerers Mezzotint after John van Eyck c. 1780 Image and sheet 88 x 119 mm. unmounted A group of nine men, including two clerics, sit around a table whilst examining a damaged ‘piss pot’. This particular copy has been trimmed into the image, with the bottom half missing. In the complete state, however, a dog is seen at the bottom of the image urinating on a pile of books entitled ‘Webb on Cobwebs’ and ‘Ducarell on Dild’.

The complete print features an inscription reading: The Connoisseurs will rummage Greece & Rome / Yet wondrous Rarities are found at Home; / A modern Piss pot here delights, you see; / Hail glorious Study of Antiquity! / Done in match & Tinder from a very Curious Drawing of John Van Eyk in the Collection of Dr. Piss Breeches.

BM Satires 4773 (cf.), Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed, Chaloner Smith undescribed Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Image trimmed and tipped to album page.

[34215] £60 18. A Democrat.

Mezzotint after Robert Dighton London: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No.69 St Paul’s Church Yard. [29th September, 1794] Image 137 x 113 mm, Plate 149 x 114 mm, Sheet 163 x 119 mm unmounted The companion print to An Aristocrat, also after Dighton (BM Satires 9054). The pair contrast the loyal Englishman and the ‘treacherous’ Frenchman.

Within an oval, a fierce and ragged Jacobin, directed left, facing and looking to front; wearing a cap and ragged clothes, a smoking lamp in his left hand, a dagger in his right on which is inscribed ‘FRATERNITY’; a sheaf of papers under the left arm on which ‘Assasination’, ‘Equality’ and ‘Paine’s rights of Man’ are inscribed. Behind, to the right, is a picture of the ‘Guillotine’ pinned to the wall.

BM Satires 9055, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Good strong clean impression, tipped to album page.

[34211] £180

19. A Democrat.

Mezzotint with original hand colouring after Robert Dighton London: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul’s Church Yard. [c.1794] Image 137 x 113 mm, Sheet 148 x 113 mm unmounted A coloured impression of the companion print to An Aristocrat, also after Dighton (BM Satires 9054).

The pair contrast the loyal Englishman and the ‘treacherous’ Frenchman.

BM Satires 9055, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed near to image margins on top and sides, and beneath title at bottom.

[34212] £175

20. A Guinea-Pig. Mezzotint with original hand colouring after Robert Dighton Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, No.69 St Paul’s Church Yard, London. [Published as the Act Directs, 25 July, 1795] Image 137 x 111 mm, Sheet 150 x 114 mm. unmounted Portrait of a man, believed to be W. Gillman (fl.

1795), Officer in the Stamp Office, in an oval, directed, facing and looking left in profile. He is fashionably dressed in a wig, hat and high collar, with a cane tucked beneath his left arm. His right arm is raised to reveal a certificate held in the right hand, inscribed with ‘STAMP OFFICE CERTIFICATE. J Whitehead Queer St Lodger [...]’. The certificate references a tax that was introduced in June 1795 for a licence to wear hair powder which cost a guinea.

The young man has his hat tilted to show his expensive coiffure.

BM Satires 8769, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/ii Ex.Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed close to image margins on top and sides, trimmed beneath title at bottom, leaving only part of publication line visible.

[34214] £175

Portraits British Nobility 21. Maria Countess of Coventry.

Mezzotint after Jean Liotard [c.1750] Image 137 x 113 mm, Sheet 147 x 113 mm unmounted Maria, Countess of Coventry (1733 - 1760), was one of the two Gunning sisters; both famous beauties who made splendid marriages. They were the daughters of John Gunning of Ireland. Maria became first wife of George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry. Her sister became Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll.

Chaloner Smith unrecorded, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 11 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to image at top and sides, and just below title to bottom. Laid to album page.

[21278] £120

22. Lady Carpenter.

Mezzotint Robert Laurie after Robert Dighton London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs, 29, Oct 1782.

Image 107 x 89 mm, Plate 118 x 90 mm, Sheet 213 x 165 mm unmounted Lady Almeria Carpenter (1752 - 1809) was the daughter of Georg, Lord Carpenter, later Earl of Tyrconnel. She was the mistress of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh; and bore him a daughter - Louisa Maria La Coast - in 1782.

O’Donoghue 4, Lennox - Boyd i/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Tear to right margin of sheet, not affecting image.

[21285] £180

23. Lady Charlotte Fitz-William.

Mezzotint after Sir Joshua Reynolds London Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street. [c.1770] Image 136 x 114 mm, Plate 150 x 114 mm, Sheet 209 x 136 mm unmounted Lady Charlotte Dundas (1746 - 1833) was the wife of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas; and daughter of the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam.

Chaloner Smith 1762, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Tipped to album page.

[26765] £120

24. Ann, Countess of Cork & Orrery.

Mezzotint after Hugh Douglas Hamilton London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act Directs 2. Jan. 1772.

Image 100 x 84 mm, Plate 152 x 115 mm, Sheet 210 x 150 mm unmounted A portrait of Anne Boyle (d.1785), Countess of Cork and Orrery. She was the first wife of Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and Orrery.

Chaloner Smith ENA III 1762, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 2 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Crease in upper right corner of sheet, not affecting image.

[21277] £120

Artists 25. [Giuseppe Filippo Liberati (Joseph) Marchi] Mezzotint A. Wilson after Sir Joshua Reynolds c.1780 Image 133 x 113 mm, Plate 152 x 115 mm, Sheet 164 x 129 mm unmounted Giuseppe Filippo Liberati (Joseph) Marchi (c.17351808) was a painter, engraver and assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1752 he was brought by Reynolds from Rome, and was his chief studio assistant until 1792, apart from 1768-9 when he worked independently. Reynolds paid him a salary of £100 a year. Marchi was responsible for many copies of Reynolds’s portraits, and for keeping his sitter books.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Hamilton undescribed, O’Donoghue undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [27929] £120

26. Mrs Brooks.

Mezzotint Charles Corbutt [Richard Purcell] after Thomas Worlidge Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street. [c.1765] Image 135 x 113 mm, Plate 152 x 113 mm, Sheet 177 x 135 mm unmounted Portrait of Mrs Brooke or “Brooks”, who was the wife of the engraver James Brooke. She left him to become an actress in Edinburgh and Norwich.

Chaloner Smith 9a (a&c), Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 2 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [21263] £120

27. Miss Hoare.

Mezzotint Charles Spooner after William Hoare Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street. [c.1750] Image 136 x 113 mm, Plate 152 x 115 mm, Sheet 215 x 140 mm unmounted Portrait of Mary Hoare (c.1725-1820), William Hoare’s daughter. Mary was a painter who married Henry Hoare of Stourhead in 1765. She imitated her father and painted history scenes in crayons. She exhibited with the Society of Artists in 1761 and 1766, and with the Fine Art Society (1761-64).

Chaloner Smith 24 i/i, O’Donoghue 2, Lennox Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Crease to lower right corner, and small mark to upper edge of sheet, not affecting image.

[21242] £120

28. Miss Lewis.

Mezzotint Charles Spooner aftert Jean Étienne Liotard Printed for Robt. Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street. [c.1750] Image 133 x 112 mm, Plate 151 x 112 mm, Sheet 160 x 121 mm unmounted Likely to be a portrait of Mlle Lavergne, niece of the painter.

Chaloner Smith 27 i/i, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 3 Ex. Col.: Oettingen - Wallerstein Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Mark to left of inscription space under artist’s name. Mark to top left corner, at and above plate mark.

[21288] £140

29. Miss Wright’s Mezzotint Richard Brookshaw after Joseph Wright of Derby Printed for John Bowles, No.13 in Cornhill. [c.1780] Image 130 x 112 mm, Plate 149 x 112 mm, Sheet 153 x 117 mm unmounted Presumably a double portrait of Joseph Wright of Derby’s wife Ann Swift, and one of their six children. Lennox-Boyd notes that this is a copy of the left portion of a similar print by Valentine Green in the same direction, with the boy omitted.

Chaloner Smith 27 i/i, Clayton - Tate i/i, 1990 P4b, Lennox - Boyd i/i, not in O’Donoghue Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed close to platemark.

[22149] £120

Mistresses, Courtiers and Genre Figures 30. Maria.

Mezzotint Anonymous Published 23rd. July 1787. by Robert Sayer 53 Fleet Street London Image 140 x 113 mm, Plate 152 x 114 mm, Sheet 210 x 135 mm unmounted A young woman shown full-length sitting against a tree in the left foreground, chin on her hand and gazing meditatively at a puppy at her feet, while holding its lead in her lap; a carriage driving along the path in the background.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Condition: Small crease to upper right corner of sheet. “204” handwritten in ink in upper margin of sheet.

[12942] £120

31. Miss Jones.

Mezzotint after Catherine Read Printed for John Bowles No.13 in Cornhill. [c.1765] Image 133 x 113 mm, Sheet 150 x 113 mm unmounted Portrait of Polly Kennedy alias ‘Jones’; a courtesan and mistress of Sir Charles Bunbury.

Chaloner Smith ENA III 1769, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 7 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed within platemark.

[25305] £120

32. Miss Eyebright.

Mezzotint after George Willison Printed for John Bowles, at No.13 in Cornhill. [c.1770] Image 129 x 112 mm, Plate 150 x 113 mm, Sheet 241 x 146 mm unmounted A young woman, half-length almost in profile to right, turning head to smile towards the viewer, hair tied at the nape, wearing a hat with ribbons hanging down the left side of her face, dark, hooded shawl trimmed with lace, a bow at the bodice of her gown.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Russell undescribed Condition: Good clean impression, surface dirt and staining to top margin not affecting image.

[12948] £155

33. Miss and her Kitten.

Mezzotint with etching Charles Corbutt after Philippe Mercier Printed for Robt. Sayer, No.53 in Fleet Street. [c.1750] Image 131 x 110 mm, Plate 150 x 111 mm, Sheet 223 x 142 mm unmounted Chaloner Smith undescribed, Russell undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [33434] £180

34. Plenty.

Mezzotint Charles Spooner after Robert Pyle Printed for Robt. Sayer near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street, London. [c.1735-1767] Image 133 x 110 mm, Plate 150 x 111 mm, Sheet 210 x 135 mm unmounted First state of two, with the inscription space not fully cleaned. Note in manuscript in ink in upper margin “Plate Missing”.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Russell undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: ‘Plate missing’ handwritten in ink in upper margin. Small mark near right edge of sheet, not affecting image.

[33423] £150

35. Henry Jenkins Mezzotint after Walker Printed for Robt Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [c.1775] Image 127 x 114 mm, Plate 152 x 115 mm, Sheet 239 x 146 mm unmounted Full title reads: Henry Jenkins, (who lived to the Surprizing Age of 169 Years.) / Departed this Life Decr. 1670 at Ellerton upon Swale in Yorkshire, was 12 Yrs. old when ye Battle / of Flowden Field was fought in Septr. 1513. he lived 16 Yrs. longer than Old Parr, & was the oldest / Man born since the deluge in the last Century of his Life he was a Fisherman & frequent- / ly Swam in the Rivers after the Age of 100 years. He hath sworn in Chancery / & other Courts to above 140 Yrs. memory, was often at the Assizes at York where generally went on foot.

Henry Jenkins was a supercentenarian. He claimed to have been born in 1500, although parish registers were not required to be maintained until 1538.

He lived in Ellerton upon Swale, Scorton, North Yorkshire, and claimed to have been butler to Lord Coniers, of Hornby Castle. He later became a fisherman and ended his life begging for alms.

Chancery Court records show that in 1667 he stated on oath that he was aged “one hundreth fifty and seaven or theirabouts”. When asked by the judge which notable battle he remembered, he named Flodden Field, of 1513 and claimed to have carried arrows to the English archers.

Although his birthdate is undocumented, his burial is recorded in the register of Bolton-on-Swale as having occurred on 9 December 1670.

Chaloner Smith 96 i/i, Lennox - Boyd i/i, Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Marks to lower margin of sheet, not affecting image.

[21240] £120

Military 36. The hon,,ble Robert Monckton, Governor of New York; & Commander in Chief, of His Majesty’s Forces at ye Reduction of Martinico.

Mezzotint after Thomas Hudson [c.1760] Image 133 x 113 mm, Sheet 147 x 112 mm unmounted Robert Monckton (1726 - 1782) was an officer of the British army and a colonial administrator in British North America. He was the first British Governor of Quebec.

Chaloner Smith ENA 114 i/i, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 3 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to image to top and sides, publication line cut off to bottom.

[21261] £120

37. Major General James Wolfe Commander in Chief, of His Majesty’s Forces.

Mezzotint Charles Spooner after H. Smith [c.1760] Image 129 x 112 mm, Sheet 142 x 112 mm unmounted General James Wolfe (1727 - 1759) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canada.

Chaloner Smith 37 ii/ii, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 7, Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to platemark and marginally within image to top and sides, under second line of title to bottom. Missing publication line.

[21236] £280

39. Major Gen.l James Wolfe, Commander in Chielf of his Majesty’s Forces in the Expedition against Quebec.

Mezzotint Richard Houston after J.S.C. Schaak Printed for E. Bakewell & H. Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhil, T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, Jon,. Bowles & Son, in Cornhill, & Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, Fleet Street.

Image 300 x 248 mm, Plate 350 x 248 mm framed Chaloner Smith 128, Lennox-Boyd i/i Condition: Some surface dirt and a repaired worm hole in left margin. Framed in original 18th century frame.

[33764] ÂŁ650

Naval 39. Sr. Edward Hawke Mezzotint Anonymous Printed for Carrington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [c.1775] Image 134 x 113 mm, Plate 153 x 115 mm, Sheet 165 x 130 mm Unmounted Full title reads: Sr. Edward Hawke / Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Rear- / Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty’s Fleet.

Portrait of the Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Lord Hawke, KB (1705-1781). Hawke was an officer of the Royal Navy and the Victor of Quiberon Bay. Chaloner Smith ENA III 1763, Lennox - Boyd ii/ii, O’Donoghue 17 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [21246] £180

40. The Hon.ble Sr. Edw.d Hawke, Kn.t of the Bath. Admiral of the Blue.

Mezzotint Charles Spooner [c.1760] Image 122 x 112 mm, Plate 150 x 114 mm, Sheet 220 x 138 mm unmounted Portrait of Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Lord Hawke, KB (1705-1781). Hawke was an officer of the Royal Navy and the Victor of Quiberon Bay. Chaloner Smith 23, Lennox - Boyd iv/iv, O’Donoghue 13 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [21250] £180

41. Sir Charles Hardy.

Mezzotint Philip Dawe after Thomas Hudson [c.1779] Image 135 x 112 mm, Sheet 143 x 112 mm unmounted Sir Charles Hardy (c.1714 - 1780) was Commanderin-Chief, North Atlantic; a post that included that of Governor of New York. In 1759, he married Catharine Stanyan, the daughter of the politician Temple Stanyan. Through Catherine, he inherited Rawlins Manor (Woodcote Manor) in Oxfordshire.

Chaloner Smith unrecorded, Lennox - Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 2, Russell 4a Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to image at top and sides, and below title at bottom. Tipped to album page.

[21276] £120

42. Admiral Sir Charles Hardy.

Mezzotint Robert Stewart Published as the Act directs by Rob.t Stewart No287 Near Great Turnstile Holborn November ye 15 - 1779 Image 91 x 74 mm, Plate 134 x 103 mm, Sheet 145 x 115 mm unmounted Sir Charles Hardy (c.1714 - 1780) was Commanderin-Chief, North Atlantic; a post that included that of Governor of New York. In 1759, he married Catharine Stanyan, the daughter of the politician Temple Stanyan. Through Catherine, he inherited Rawlins Manor (Woodcote Manor) in Oxfordshire.

Chaloner Smith 442/6, Lennox-Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 6 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Collectors stamp of an anchor on verso not in Lugt. Overall foxing. Small black mark in lower margin.

[21343] £150

Religious & Clerical 43. The Rev.d Mr. William Romaine A.M. Mezzotint Charles Corbutt [Richard Purcell] after Francis Cotes Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street. [c.1750] Image 134 x 111 mm, Plate 150 x 113 mm, Sheet 175 x 127 mm William Romaine (1714 - 1795) was an evangelical divine of the Church of England, and author of ‘Treatises on The Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith’. Born in Hartlepool, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was ordained as a deacon in 1736, and a priest in 1738. In 1741 he was appointed chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London, Daniel Lambert. In 1750 he was appointed assistant morning preacher at the fashionable church of St George, Hanover Square.

Chaloner Smith 66, Lennox-Boyd i/i, O’Donoghue 5 Condition: Small crease to lower right corner of image and inscription space. Iron inclusion in sheet.

[34404] £70

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