Grosvenor Prints

View in George Street. Sydney.
J.S.Prout.
[Printed by T. Bluett, Hobart Town, 1844.]
Hand coloured lithograph, with letterpress. Sheet 270 x 360mm (10.75 x 14.25"). Tape stain across the top margin. Some stains in margins.
A view of Sydney looking north up George Street. The accompanying description describes features such as the graveyard beyond the wall on the left of the image and the public house in the middle distance which, according to the description, 'forms one of a very proflific class of public nuisances, where distilled poison is daily dispenced to Her Majesty's lieges in the Australian metropolis'.
[Ref: 39507] £360.00 view all images for this item

[Ben Lomond from Fingal V.D.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone, in reverse.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 245 x 340mm. 9¾ x 13½". Trimmed to image; some creasing. Traces of paint to surface. Damaged.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22644] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Hobart Town from the new wharf.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 265 x 410mm. 10½ x 16". Trimmed to image. Tear from upper edge.
Plate 2 to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22631] £380.00

[Fern Tree Valley, Mount Wellington.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 265 x 400mm. 10½ x 15¾". Trimmed to image.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876); the artist seated, sketching amongst the trees, his portfolio and hat in foreground. Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.
The original watercolour can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

[Ref: 22633] £320.00

[Hobart Town from the New Town road.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 250 x 380mm. 9¾ x 15". Trimmed to image.
Fine prospect of Hobart. Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22634] £320.00

[Cape Raoul, V.D.L.]
J.S. Prout 1844 [signed and dated on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 170 x 275mm. 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed to image.
On the same plate as 'Cape Pillar & Tasman's Island' (see item 22625), in the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22622] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cape Pillar & Tasman's Island, V.D.L.]
J.S. Prout 1844 [signed and dated on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 170 x 275mm. 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed to image. Large chip into lower left corner. Very damaged.
On the same plate as 'Cape Raoul' (see item 22622), in the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22625] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The female factory from Proctor's Quarry.]
J.S. Prout 1844 [signed and dated on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 260 x 405mm. 10¼ x 16". Trimmed to image; tatty, torn and chipped extremities. Filled hole to centre of image. Very damaged.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22640] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Rest Down, on the Derwent, V.D.L.)]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 250 x 390mm. 9¾ x 15¼". Trimmed to image.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22628] £320.00

[The Queen's Orphan Schools, New Town &c. from the Risdon Road.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 260 x 390mm. 10¼ x 15¼". Trimmed to image; repaired tears to outer edges laid on conservation tissue.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22641] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Hobart Town from the government paddock.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 250 x 390mm. 9¾ x 15¼". Trimmed to image. Tear from upper edge. Damaged along upper edge of image.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22629] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

The Derwent/ From Below the Iron Pot [on stone, in image].
[J.S. Prout.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white (fragment), central vignette (one of five) excised from title page to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Trimmed into rough oval, sheet c.135 x 110mm, 5¼ x 4¼". Surface-soiled, trimmed very close to subject.
Published in two parts, the first with title page and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22650] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Hobart Town from Kangaroo Bay.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet c.260 x 390mm. 10¼ x 15¼". Trimmed to image; tatty, torn and chipped extremities, very damaged.
Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22642] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Launceston, V.D.L. from the Westbury Road.]
J.S. Prout [signed on stone.]
[Hobart, Tasmania: J.S. Prout, 1844.]
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, sheet 240 x 355mm. 9½ x 14". Trimmed to image.
Fine prospect of Launceston. Plate to the rare folio 'Tasmania Illustrated' by John Skinner Prout (1805 - 1876). Published in two parts, the first with titlepage and twelve views on eleven plates, with six plates forming the second part. The nephew of the artist Samuel Prout, Prout was born in Plymouth in 1806. He travelled to Australia in the late 1830s and arrived in New South Wales in 1840. In 1844 Prout and his family moved to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. On 14 June he announced a course of lectures 'on the cultivation of the fine arts, with practical illustrations'. They were well received and later in the year he published the first volume of Tasmania Illustrated, 'five grouped vignettes of Tasmanian scenes'. By the time the second volume appeared in 1846 Prout had toured the North of the island, where he was 'engaged by several gentlemen for the purpose of sketching their country seats, farms, and the country surrounding them'. He returned to England in 1848 and began exhibiting many of his Australian works in London.

[Ref: 22637] £320.00

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