The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-16 00:00:00

STRAWBERItY HILL.

Among the print sellers it is an axiom the more recent the
reign the less valuable are the engravings which occur in cot-
leetioes for tale. It was not soon Tuesday at Messrs:,.Elobins's,
for the prints throughout obtained more advanced prices than
on the preceding day, and many very rate specimens .of the
chalcographic art remain to be-sold during the ensuing days.
135. King Charles the First, aihrregparter length 7; view of
Whitehall in the digonce, Robert Peake exeudit, folio, rare,
31. los. Messrs. Smith. •

160. Prince Charles, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,
Duke of Cornwall, &c., half-length, after Dobson, engraved by
Faithorne, fine and very rare, 2/. lbs. Graves.
Among the prints of yesterday, one by accident escap-Id
notice, lot 148, Frances Bridges, Countess of Exeter, by Fat-
Thorne. This, from the injuries it had received, produced only
18s. Walpole, in' his •• letter to Cola, from Strawberry-hill,
An. 20, 1768, was in extacies on account of its rarity.—
" Yon are always heaping so many kindnesses on me, dear
Sir, that I think I must 'break off all acquaintance with you.
unless I can find seine way- of returning them. The print or
the Countess of Exeter is the greatest present to me in the
woad • I have been trying for years, to no purpose, to get one.
Reynalds, the pinier, promised to beg one for me of a per-
son he knows, but I never had it. I wanted it for four dif-
ferent purposes—first, as a grandmother (in4aw, by the Cranes
and the Allingtons); secondly, for my collection of heads;
thirdly, for the volumes of prints, after pieces in my collection ;
and, above all, for my collection of Fait'rorr,es, which, though
so fine, wanted such a capital print ; and to this last I have
preferred it. I give you unbounded thanks for it, and 'yet I
feel exceeding • ashamed to rob you." By his pasting it so
firmly into his Faithorne volume, Walpole took especial care he
would not be robbed of it in turn.
165 James Stewart, Duke-of Lennox, Earl of March, after
Geldorp, engraved by Van Voorst. Fine and rare, 3/. 10s
Graves.
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168. William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, his Duchess,
and family of ten other persons, a group seated in conver-
sation; in a compartment below lour lines of English verse;
engraved after Abr. a Diepenbeke, by Peter Closset. Fine and
rare, W. iffin.

170. James, Marquis of Hamilton, Earl of Cambridge, on
a charger, sumptuously caparisoned, "sold by Wm. Webb,
in Cornhill. right against Birchin-lane end." This was one
of the early rogueries of the print publishers. The same
plate had beer engraved in 1623, by Win. Pass, as a por-
trait of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, but whe❑ he
had c ased to exist the Duke's head %skis rubbed off the plate,
and that of the Marquis placed therein its stead. 31. Messrs.
Smith.

173. Henry Somerset, Earle of Worcester, half-length, in
armour, engraved by Faithorne, la:go folio, brilliant impres-
sion, and very r re. 41. 15s. Messrs. Smith.

178. Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, Baron Wil:oughby of
Eresby, Lord Chamberlain, 1627, hale-length, in armour, four
lines in Latin verse below; engraved after Geldorp, by Van
Voorst, fine and rare. 141. 10s. Messrs. Smith.

162. Marquis of Worcester, half-length, in armour, au oval
mezzotint, by R. Williams. 41.
192. Archbishop Laud, whole length, habited as the chief
of the church militant, in pontifical costume, accoutred with
matchlock, bandiliers, and au helmet, with feathers; an etching
is Hollat's manner, and possibly by him, but. subscribed 11. S.,
exc. „Amstelodarnus, folio, very rare. 4/. 10s. Graves.
205. Sir William Waller, Knight, Sergeant-Major-General
of the l'arliament Army, engraved by liodttermond, 1043,
kilo, very rare, 10/. 10s. Smith.
207. George Tooke, of Popes, in Herefordshire, engraved
by Marmion. and the portrait of Captain Charles Salterstall,
engraved by Marshall, both rare, 41. 18s. Messrs. Smith.
220. Sit:Peter Paul Rubens, engraved by P. Pontius, a fine
proof, with two portraits of Maria Ruthven, Vandyck's mis-
tress ; Sir Anthony Vandyek, by Vorsterman, 41. 13s. Tiffin.
227. A print, an oblong halt-sheet in size, containing the
portraits of Walter Evans, Charles the First's gigantic porter ;
Sir Jeffrey Hudson, the Dwarf; and Old Thomas Parr, aged
152, seated, sleeping, in a chair; subscribed Edward Bowers,
Temple-bar, pinxt. 51. Messrs. Smith. Of this extremely
rare print, there is another in the British Museum, with an
inscription below, which in Lord Orford's had been cut off.
Query—Was this Edward Bowers, father of George Bowers,
the medallist ?

229. Female head, an impression from a woodcut, said to
have been executed by Maria de Medici, in 1586, in her six
teenth year. See Fournier, the Younger's, dissertation on the
art of engraving en wood, 21. 2s. M'Kinley.
242. Anna d'Acres, Countess of Arundel and Surrey, in
Ler sixty-ninth year, engraved by Hollar, fine and extremely
rare, 101. ss. Messrs. Smith.
219. King Charles the Second, an etching by NVallerant
Valliant, 1576, very rare, 3/. 15s. Ales.re. smith.
254. King Charles the Second on horseback, in the back-
ground ; " the true manner of his Majestie's riding by St.
l'aule's Church the day before his coronation, April 22, 1661."
sheet print, in Chantry's manner, rare, :31. ss. Messrs.
Smith. _ _

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255. Ki,g Charles the Second on horseback, in the costume
as he rode t.iwards St. Peter's Church, Westminster, to his co-
ronation. In the background is displayed a procession, and
below are six linos in English verse ; engraved by Chantry,
she t, very rare, 31. Messrs. Smith.
260. Henrietta Stuart, Duchess of Orleans, holding a basket
of flowers, half-length, engraved by Larmessin, most beautiful
cn cl -ire, 2/. 15s. Graves.
rare,
3ohuthu, two portraits ')63. •• Portraitures of the Royall progepnoiretroafitls(.inbgy CharlesLoggan
of Beauehamp's Court, Warwick-
I." half•lengths, in six oblong ovals, engraved on a large quarto
Plate, a print of the greatest rarity, al. Messrs. Smith.
Viscount Stafford, executed in 1678,
and 2852.. Vanderjßanmb eeNs:ta apiLrout
r,kdbe otfhsral
Brooke,
Warwick-
shire, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Stafford, engraved by
aVaniteetzz;otlinritioliaomf great rarity, 12/. is. 6d. Moltino.
287. Charles Lord Gerard, inezz., by Sherwin ; George
Fitzroy, Earl of Northumberland, a mezz., after Gaspar;
both fine and rare, 4/. 4s. Graves.
The amount of the day's sale was 3171. 10s. ; the deteriora-
tion in many of the lots being caused by the damage the en-
ess way of pasting
them into his volumes.
cravings have sustained from Walpole 's reek'

T.—PatlOnzed by the Royal-
.
Fam3 ti il
y, ; Ohre,
ter Majesty
B oi)- sre t i ..-
queen of Hanover, the Duchess of
Richmond, Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Lced,,, the late Duke of
Buckingham, the Marquis of
James Johnson, M.D., FilY-
Sir J. E. Anderson,
M.D., 11, New Burlington-street C. Brodie, Bart ,
1.R.5., Saville-row; Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S., Langham.place;
J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.R.S., 13, Finsbury.square; Jos. Copland,
Ie;le Sir leY
B'
eareija ;
min
M.D., F.R.S., Bulstrode.street, Manchester.square ; Br ansby B.
Cooper, Esq., F RS., Surgeon to Guys Hospital ; E. W. Duffin,
ail:Allan" Extraordinary I.R. C . S . , l4, L
og thtetam late
Keats., Sergeant. Su-
rgeon to the Queen, 15, Albemarle-street ; C. Aston Key, Esq.,
Senior Surgeon to Guy's Hospital; Martin Ware, New Bridge-
streetßing;
; J. G. Andrews, Senior Surgeon to the
London Hospital.
The above and numerous other Medical Practitioners of eminent
standing have given the most flattering certificates to the superior
value and importance of E. Solomons and Co.'s Patent Spectacls,
testifying 'to their peculiar power of softening the light to weak and
irritables eyes, and the immediate and continued relief that its
chastened transmission affords—their freedomfrom the pernicious
attributes of ordinary glasses ; in short, to a combination of pro.
peities which render them superlatively pre-ernine..t ia-preserving
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Deafness,
and additional satisfaction is derived from the fact that they are
worn entirely unseen. In consequence of the mistakes arising
from a similarity of names, the PATENTEES' address should be par-
ticularly noted..-36, Old Bondsstreet, .
The murderer, John Cumming, the seaman of the
Hastings, who murdered the second-class boy at Malta, and
who was under sentence of death by a Court-martial, .has been
brought to London, from her Majesty's brig Weitzle, by a war-
rant from the Marshalsea. The mureerer was convejed in a
,+st-ahsise by two Mar:hese& officers.