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Audran, Jean (Lyon 1667-Paris 1756). La vraye valeur est toujours invincible. Porus abandonné des siens blessa plusieurs de ceux qui l'environnoient, tua le frère de Taxile, & apres ce dernier éfort de courage il tomba luy même accablé de coups de dessus son elephant. Virtus timoris nescia sordidi... Paris, chez B. Audran et chez I. Audran, 1699-1708. Beautiful large oblong etching and engraving by Jean Audran after Charles le Brun, depicting the Battle of Hydaspes, 326 BC, where Alexander the Great fought against King Porus; with the latter riding an elephant at centre, and trying to repel the Greek soldiers surrounding him; two eagles flanking Mansart's arms in the bottom margin. Signed in the plate: C. le Brun in. I. Audran ex.; with 5 lines of engraved text in French and Latin underneath (see above); and dedication to Jules Hardouin Mansart by J. Audran. 29,1 x 59,6 cm. (# 5830)

Not. in I.F.F. In database of British Museum. Very fine and rare etching/engraving after Charles le Brun (Paris 1619-Paris 1690). Alexander the Great fought 326 BC at the battle of Hydaspes, nowadays in Pakistan, against the Indian Râja Pûru, named Poros by the Greek. Alexander won, but his army refused to go further into India, also because they encountered for the first time war elephants. The French King Louis XIV demanded Charles le Brun to paint a large series of paintings depicting the History of Alexander the Great. Several of those paintings, painted 1665-1673, are now in the Louvre; others were not executed and exist only in drawn preparatory studies. J. Audran, his brother B. Audran and others made prints after these paintings, at the request of Louis XIV. According to Claudia Sommer, Leiterin der Graphischen Sammlung des SPSG, Potsdamer neueste Nachrichten (18.07.09), the painting for our print stayed unfinished and existed only as a preliminary drawing on canvas. The plate is dedicated to Julles Hardouin Mansart, Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi, a charge he held from 1699 to 1708. - Fine impression, cut to the plate mark, mounted. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Indian miniature, showing a kneeling lady at breakfast. 17th century. Very fine drawing in watercolour in various colours and highthened with gold. ca. 14,5 x 9,8 cm. Framed under glass. (# 2246)

Indian drawing of great refinement. - Tiny repair.

Sayers, James (1748-1823). For the trial of Warren Ha(stings) ... Seventh Day. (London, February 1788). Political English caricature etched by James Sayers, with his signature JS, showing the trial in the House of Commons, including portraits of Warren Hastings, Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox and Sir Philip Francis. 17,8 x 12,7 cm. (# 5813)

National Portrait Gallery, www.npg.org.uk, No. NPG D12246, with picture. Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818) was Governor-General of India. His impeachment on ground of corruption and cruelty in his Indian administration begun 1788 and was concluded in 1795. Edmund Burke (1729 or 1730 - 1797), statesman, was active member of the committee which investigated the affairs of the East India Company and he opened the case of the impeachment in Westminster Hall. Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806), Whig statesman, and Sir Philip Francis (1740 - 1818), politician and pamphleteer, both also opposed Warren Hastings. James Sayers or Sayer (Yarmouth 1748 - London 1823) worked from c. 1780 as political caricaturist in London, supporting Pitt against Fox. - Thread margins, small hole in right lower margin just touching one letter, lightly browned, pasted on a leaf of 19th century paper.