Grosvenor Prints

A Capt.n of Banditti sending out a Party.
[I.H. Mortimer.]
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I Mortimer.
Etching. Plate 300 x 197mm. 11¾ x 7¾".
Captain standing at left, leaning on a stone block and pointing to right, where an armoured banditti sits, others in a line at left behind the block, only their heads seen. From a series of "Fifteen etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds".
[Ref: 28027] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti on the look out.
[I.H. Mortimer.]
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I Mortimer.
Etching. Plate 300 x 197mm (11¾ x 7¾"). Crease.
Two banditti standing, leaning against a stone block which one figure rests his arm over beside his removed helmet, the other looking out to right with hand on hilt of sword; landscape with river beyond at lower right. From a series of "Fifteen etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds".
[Ref: 28030] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Bardolph My Lord do you see these meteors? do you behold these exhalations? Henry the IV Act the II Scene the 9.
[Drawn & etched by John Hamilton Mortimer.]
Publshed May 20th, 1775 by J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand. [Watermarked 1821.]
Etching. 400 x 325mm (15¾ x 12¾"), with wide margins.
Bardolph, one of the companions of the young Prince Hal, alongside Falstaff, Poins and Peto. This group is the comic relief in a grim slice of English history. From the first set of "Six Characters from Shakespeare", here as re-issued by Thomas Palser after Mortimer's death.
[Ref: 15868] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Beatrice. Much ado about nothing. Ac t 1. Scene 2d. Is it possible disdain should die whilst she has such meel food to feed it as Senior Benidict.
[Drawn & etched by John Hamilton Mortimer.]
Publshed March 15th, 1776 by J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand. [Watermarked 1821.]
Etching. 400 x 325mm (15¾ x 12¾"), with wide margins.
Beatrice, niece of Leonato, governor of Messina, subject of a matchmaking plot. From the second set of "Six Characters from Shakespeare", here as re-issued by Thomas Palser after Mortimer's death.
[Ref: 15872] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cassandra Troilus and Cressida Act IId Scene 4th. Cry Trojans cry. practice your eyes with tears / Troy must not be nor goodly Ilion stand.
[Drawn & etched by John Hamilton Mortimer.]
Publshed March 15th, 1776 by J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand. [Watermarked 1821.]
Etching. 400 x 325mm (15¾ x 12¾"), with very wide margins.
Cassandra, daughter of the Trojan king Priam, cursed to be a prophetess no one ever believed. From the second set of "Six Characters from Shakespeare", here as re-issued by Thomas Palser after Mortimer's death.
[Ref: 15870] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Clifton College Bristol. [in pencil.]
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 150 x 225mm (6 x 9''), very large margins.
A view of Clifton College in Bristol with two figures walking across the lawn. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49339] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Crazy Kate's, Clovelly.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of the old house on the shore in Clovelly known as Crazy Kate's. The house is named after Kate Lyall who died in 1736 who used to watch her husband fishing from the window, but one day she watched him drown in a storm. The sight drove her mad and one day she put on her wedding gown and walked into the sea. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49336] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Foxgloves & Gorge. Mouth of the Dart.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 60 x 95mm (2¼ x 3¾''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of mouth of the River Dart in Devon. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49335] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Pump Court, Upton Slip, Falmouth.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 85 x 60mm (3¼ x 2¼''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of a street in Falmouth. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49331] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Falmouth Bay [in pencil].
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1910.]
Aquatint, printed in colours. 95 x 65mm (3¾ x 2½"), with large margins. Glue damage in margins.
Figures under trees above the bay. Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949), a watercolour painter of landscapes and coastal scenes, both in England and on the Continent, known for his use of bright colours.
[Ref: 54239] £55.00 (£66.00 incl.VAT)

Falstaff There's a merry hear good master Silence. / I'll give you a health for that anon. Second part Henry IV Act V Scene 4th.
[Drawn & etched by John Hamilton Mortimer.]
Publshed March 15th, 1776 by J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand [watermarked 1821].
Etching. 400 x 325mm (15¾ x 12¾"), with very wide margins.
Falstaff, one of the companions of the young Prince Hal, alongside Bardolph, Poins and Peto. This group is the comic relief in a grim slice of English history. From the second set of "Six Characters from Shakespeare", here as re-issued by Thomas Palser after Mortimer's death.
[Ref: 15867] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Flushing Slipway.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
The view in the town of Flushing in Cornwall. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49338] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

A Garden of Flowers. Flushing.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of a garden in the seaside town of Flushing, a young woman stands by gate. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49330] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Goodrington Sands, Torbay.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of Goodrington Sands, near Paignton. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49329] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Helford Creek
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1910.]
Aquatint, printed in colours. 70 x 105mm (2¾ x 4¼"), with wide margins. Glue damage in margins.
Cottages and a wooden bridge, Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949), a watercolour painter of landscapes and coastal scenes, both in England and on the Continent, known for his use of bright colours.
[Ref: 54238] £55.00 (£66.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Kelvin]
[after Sir Hubert von Herkomer] T. Hamilton Crawford [signed in pencil].
Published 1922 by The Museum Galleries, 26 Museum Street, London WC, Copyright.
Colour-printed mezzotint on india, proof before letters, platemark 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8¾") very large margins. Offered with accompanying letterpress description. Blindstamp lower left.
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), mathematician and physicist who served as a professor at Glasgow University for fifty-three years. Engraved after the portrait by Herkomer (1891) which remains at the university. One of a series of colour-printed mezzotints published by the Museum Galleries in the 1920s.
[Ref: 47312] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Carl von Linnaeus.]
T. Hamilton Crawford [pencil signature].
Published 1925 by The Museum Galleries, 53, Shorts Gardens, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 275 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins, with a letterpress biography.
Seated portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707-78) Swedish botanist & zoologist, known as the "father of modern taxonomy". According to the letterpress, the original oil, painted by Alexander Roslin, is owned by the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 1778 - not in.
[Ref: 57848] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Mortimer's Etchings of Figures] To Jos.a Reynolds President of the Royal Academy, these Etchings are dedicated by his humble Serv.t J.H. Mortimer.
Published Dec.r 8th 1778 by J. Mortimer Norfolk Street Strand [but Thomas Palser, 1812?].
Folio, 370 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾"), original boards with printed title label; etched title and 16 plates, some watermarked '1811'. A little wear to covers, plates generally clean.
A posthumous edition of Mortimer's 'Fifteen Etchings', a collection of romantic scenes inspired by Mortimer's hero, the painter Salvador Rosa (a portrait of whom is one of the plates); the subjects include banditti, allegorical figures of Comedy and Tragedy, a portrait of painter Gerard Lairesse and six fantastical plates of sea-monsters. Two of the monsters are additional plates, by Mortimer but dated 1780, added to the work by Mortimer's widow Jane. The series was dedicated to the President of the Royal Academy the year that Mortimer first exhibited there (rather than at the Society of Artists) and, shortly after, elected A.R.A. Mortimer died in 1779, aged only 38. His widow republished the plates in 1780, with the addition of two more plates of sea-monsters ('Revengeful' and 'Sleeping', dated 1780 but both drawn and engraved by Mortimer). Christie's held a sale of Jane Mortimer's property in 1808, at which Thomas Palser presumably bought the printing plates: he published 'Mortimer's works: a collection of fifty historical designs' (including this series) in 1812, with a second edition in 1816
[Ref: 53765] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Bonaparte's Monkey. The above is a faithful portrait of a monkey belonging to Bonaparte during his residence at Longwood House, St. Helena. After Bonaparte’s death it was purchased by Captain Thompson, of the Abundance, and given by him, on his return to Spithead, to Mr. Stephen Taylor, the artist, then residing at Winchester. The monkey was very mischievous, and upon one occasion, made his way into a dressing closet, broke a glass, opened the dressing case, and was viewing himself in the looking glass, when discovered by Mr. Taylor, who made a sketch at the time, from which he afterwards painted a fine picture, and from which this print is taken. The monkey died after being in Mr. Taylor’s possession two years, and was buried in his garden at Winchester.
[Painted by M.r S. Taylor. Lith. by M.rs Hamilton.]
[Published Feb.y 18. by W. Soffe, 388 Strand, Corner of Southampton Street.] [c.1830.]
Scarce coloured lithograph. Image 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"), with original title and text pasted underneath. Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions and publication line, pasted on album paper with other scraps. Two Pin holes bottom of image.
A monkey seated on a dressing table, looking at itself in a mirror, a smashed glass to one side. Stephen Taylor, a British painter, was active 1817-1849, he specialized in dogs, portraits, and dead game. The shop, W. Soffe sold animal prints and other popular images.
Princeton Graphic Arts Collection GA 2005.00490. Last in our stock 2007.
[Ref: 62437] £490.00

Ophelia. There's Fennel for you and Colombines. / There's Rue for you, and some for me. Hamlet Act IV, Scene 7.
[Drawn & etched by John Hamilton Mortimer.]
Publshed May 20th, 1775 by J.Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand. [Watermarked 1821.]
Etching. 400 x 325mm (15¾ x 12¾"), with wide margins.
The tragic Ophelia's last appearance in the play, prior to her drowning. From the first set of "Six Characters from Shakespeare", here as re-issued by Thomas Palser after Mortimer's death.
[Ref: 15869] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Pastoral.
[I.H. Mortimer.]
Publishd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I Mortimer.
Etching. 300 x 197mm (11¾ x 7¾").
A woman sitting with her arm around a shepherd reclining on a bank, holding up her skirts which are full of flowers, sheep around them. From a series of "Fifteen etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds".
[Ref: 28025] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Shrine of the Saline, Rapallo.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
The view of a shrine in the Italian town of Rapallo, near Genoa. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49337] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Zuagli, Bay of Rapallo (Italy).]
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Edition strictly limited to 100 signed artists proofs. In original mount. Plate: 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6'') very large margins. Marking.
A view of the Bay of Rapallo. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49340] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Reposo.
[I.H. Mortimer.]
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I Mortimer.
Etching. 300 x 197mm (11¾ x 7¾").
A bearded man in a turban sitting back in thought on a step beneath a tree, his head resting on his hand, looking to right. From a series of "Fifteen etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds".
[Ref: 28032] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Paul's and London Bridge from the south bank of the Thames.]
Claude H. Rowbotham [signed in pencil.]
[British, n.d., c.1900.]
Etching and aquatint printed in colours, 155 x 205mm. 6 x 8".
An atmospheric scene at low tide, with sailing barges beached in the foreground to left. Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864 - 1949) was a watercolour painter of landscapes and coastal scenes, both in England and on the Continent. He was related to the Rowbotham family of painters who originated in Bristol area. He used characteristically bright colours.
[Ref: 23271] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Comedy. [&] Tragedy.
Publish'd Decr. 8, 1778, by I. Mortimer [but reissues on 19th century paper].
Pair of etchings, each c.295 x 200mm (11½ x 8"). Decent impressions, with margins.
Two allegories: 'Tragedy' is the Muse Melpomene in classical dress standing over the body of a man laid at left, a chalice in her hand and leaning upon an altar at right, urn below; smoke rising behind and another grieving figure cloaked at left. 'Comedy' the the Muse Thalia, standing pointing to figure sketch labelled 'nature' within a book resting on plinth beside; a child sitting on step below looking into a hand-mirror, watched by a satyr beside with jester's staff. For a series of 15 etchings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, originally published shortly after Mortimer's election as ARA in November 1778 - which suggests that he began work upon them before the elections. These prints appeared in 'Mortimer's Works...' published by Thomas Palser, London, 1816.
See Sunderland pgs.92-96 for a detailed discussion of the set. See V&A E.450-1961.
[Ref: 22480] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Evening, Whitby.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Aquatint. Limited to 100 proofs, in original mount with Advert slip. Plate: 150 x 225mm (6 x 9''), with very large margins. Mint.
A view of Whitby in Yorkshire. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49351] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

St. Williams College, York.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 75 x 100mm (3 x 4''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of St Williams College, a medieval building built to house the priests travelling to visit York Minster. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49332] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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