Grosvenor Prints

(Ireland, William Henry.) [Something concerning Nobody.] [Edited by Somebody. Embellished with fourteen characteristic etchings.]
[Plates etched by G. M. Woodward.]
[London: Robert Scholey, 1814.]
Fourteen sepia etchings (complete, including frontispiece) attributed to George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), glued into green paper pamphlet, front wrapper annotated in ink. Only edition, 8vo (210 x 135mm, 8¼ x 5¼"). Etchings trimmed within platemarks (lacking text and original binding).
Each captioned plate shows the 'Nobody' character - a large head on small shoulders placed on his legs so that he has no body - in different everyday situations. A real curiosity.
British Library: 010250214.
[Ref: 12610] £230.00 view all images for this item

[Part of frontispiece to 'Secrets of Art and Nature']
[Ric. Gaywood Sculp]
[1660]
Etching, 65 x 160mm. 2½ x 6¼". Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Top part of the frontispiece to 'Secrets of Art and Nature, being the Summe and Substance of Naturall Philosophy ... First designed by John Wecker ... and now much Augmented and Inlarged by Dr R. Read' (London, Simon Miller, 1660). Shows portraits of Saint Alberto Magnus and Alexis of Piedmont, author of 'The secretes of the Reuerende Maister Alexis of Piedmont containing excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes [...]' (1592).
BM 1884,1213.36 (full frontispiece)
[Ref: 15827] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Alsatian] Berger allemagne [pencil].
Paul Wood [pencil.]
© Paris Etching Society NY U.S.A. [n.d., c.1935.]
Aquatint and etching, printed in colours, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 9"). Ink stamp 'Made in France' on verso.
A alert Alsatian (or German Shepherd), by Paul Wood (1897-1964). Wood, who studied art at both the Springfield School of Fine Arts in Massachussetts and at the Art Students League in New York, specialised in watercolours and etchings of dogs.
[Ref: 46169] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Alsatian] Bergers [pencil].
Paul Wood [pencil.]
© Paris Etching Society NY U.S.A. [n.d., c.1935.]
Aquatint and etching, printed in colours, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 9"). Ink stamp 'Made in France' on verso.
The heads of a pair of Alsatian dogs (or German Shepherds), by Paul Wood (1897-1964). Wood, who studied art at both the Springfield School of Fine Arts in Massachussetts and at the Art Students League in New York, specialised in watercolours and etchings of dogs.
[Ref: 46167] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Town of Alton Hampshire.
C.J. Greenwood, Del.t & lith. Printed by Standidge & Co, 36 Old Jewry, London.
Published by D. Walden, Bookseller, Alton. [n.d., c.1850.]
Scarce tinted lithograph, locally published. Printed area 280 x 350mm. Repaired tear in edge. Sky messy.
[Ref: 51235] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Hero of Mafeking.]
R. Caton Woodville. [signed in pencil.]
London, Published 1900 by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd. Publishers to H.M. The Queen, 6 Pall Mall. U.S.A Copyright.
Mint photogravure, printed on india paper, remarque proof. Plate: 600 x 355mm (23¾ x 14''), with large margins. Uncut.
A portrait of army officer Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) who was made famous following his successful holding of the town of Mafeking during the Seige of Mafeking 1899-1900. He was hailed as the 'Hero of Mafeking'.
[Ref: 50933] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur de Balzac:
R. Gaywood fecit. [n.d., c.1660]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Rare; letterpress pasted below.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594 - 1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 37680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

His Serene Highness Leopold George Christian Frederick. Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld.
Engraved by J.T. Wedgwood from a sketch by George Hayter in the possession of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.
London. Published 17th June, 1816, by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street.
Engraving with roulette on india with large margins. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Very fine impression. Some spotting in margins.
Portrait of Leopold (1790 - 1865), soon after his marriage to Princess Charlotte Augusta, the only legitimate child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and therefore heiress to the English throne, May 2nd, 1816 However, on November 5, 1817 she gave birth to a stillborn son and died the following day. Having lost the chance to be prince consort to the British queen (a role later played by Prince Albert) he rejected the throne of Greece in 1830, before accepting the role of first 'King of the Belgians' in 1831. His son was Leopold II, founder of the notorious Congo Free State.
[Ref: 34473] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Plan of Birmingham Survey'd in the Year 1731. To the Honourable Edw.d Digby & Will.m Peyto Esq:rs Members of Parliament for the County of Warwick, this Plate is humbly Dedicated by their most obed.t humble Serv:t W. Westley.
Copied from the Original Engraving and Published by Thomas Underwood, Castle St. High St. Birmingham [n.d., c.1860].
Engraved map. Printed area 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼"), with large margins. Repaired tears.
A Victorian facsimiles of one the first detailed printed map of Birmingham, originally published the year that Samuel and Nathaniel Buck issued their prospect of the city. It names the streets and shows important buildings in perspective. The Corn Market next to St. Martin’s Church is now the Bull Ring. Underneath are statistics fot the city: in 1700 it contained 30 streets, 100 courts and alleys, 2,504 houses and 15032 inhabitants, but by 1730 there were 25 additional streets, 50 courts and alleys, 1252 houses and 8254 inhabitants, representing a doubling in size. William Westley, a local surveyor, owned land in the city's south-easst, commemorated with ‘Westley’s Row’.
[Ref: 59156] £280.00

High Street, Bognor, Sussex.
C.J. Greenwood, Delt. et Lith. Printed by S. Straker, London.
Published by Richard Holmden, Bognor [n.d, c.1850].
Rare sepia-tinted lithograph heightened in white, image 245 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾". Repaired worm holes on top left.
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town in West Sussex. The publisher of this print (as was common practice) has inserted his premises, a shop and 'Library' into this view of the High Street. Richard Holmden is listed in the Post Office Directory for 1851 as a bookseller, stationer, and owner of circulating library, as well as watchmaker and jeweller.
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 26452] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Albert Boguslawski. Célébre auteur et artiste dramatique. Créateur du théatre modern Polonaise [...]
Joseph Korowski del. James Hopwood sc.
P. Dien impr. [Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Stipple engraving on steel. Sheet 270 x 185mm, 10½ x 7¼".
Wojciech Boguslawski (1757-1829), Polish actor and playwright, director of the Polish National Theatre, regarded as the 'Father of Polish theatre'. A portrait from the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 21280] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew Brice of Exeter, Printer: Author of the Topographic Dictionary &c. Aetat 83.
Jackson del. Woodman Sc.
[n.d. c.1770].
Engraving. 125 x 180mm. Trimmed into plate. Light foxing.
Printer at Exeter [1692 - 1773].
[Ref: 3409] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew Brice of Exeter, Printer: Author of the Topographic Dictionary &c. Aetat 83.
Jackson del. Woodman Sc.
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament for Barnabas Thorn Bookseller Exon Ap.r 21st 1774.
Engraving. 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Large margins.
Printer at Exeter (1692 - 1773). His major work, begun in 1746 and finished in 1757, was the 'Grand Gazetteer, or Topographic Dictionary', published in 1759. He also printed: a weekly newspaper from 1715 until his death; William Hals's 'History of Cornwall; and 'John Vowell's Account of the City of Exeter'. When he retired he was the oldest master printer in England; when he died he was the oldest freemason in England, celebrated by three hundred masons escorting his coffin to the grave on 14 November.
[Ref: 37043] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bristol Road School, Birmingham. In Union with the Society of Arts & Commerce, London.
T. Underwood Lith.
Castle St. Birmingham. [n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured and toned lithograph with engraving, rare, 224 x 285mm. 8¾ x 11¼". Paper toning, some creasing.
Bristol Street Board School? At the junction of Irving Street and Bristol Street. Demolished 1960s for widening of the Horsefair road. Was used as a meeting place for the Christian Society from 1877 until 1892.
[Ref: 21113] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Billy Buttons. From an Original Painting by the late J. Willis in the possession of the Publisher.
On Stone by W. Woods. A. Pocock lith, Bristol.
Published by C. Parminter, 17 John Street, Bristol. [n.d., c.1840.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 410 x 300mm (16 x 11¾"). Repaired tears, creases.
Billy Button ((b.c.1778–1838), a ballad singer who would wander around Bristol singing and dancing barefoot.
[Ref: 53713] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Byron.]
W.E. West pinxit. J.T. Wedgewood Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 250 x 210mm, 9¾ z 8¼". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet. From the painting by William Edward West (1788 - 1857) in the National Galleries of Scotland collection. West made a name for himself as a painter of miniature portraits in his native Kentucky whilst still in his teens. A benefactor financed his studies in Thomas Sully's studio in Philadelphia. He visited Italy in 1819 and stayed in Europe for the next twenty years. In 1825 he moved to London but financial difficulties forced him to go back to America. Washington Irving, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron were among his most celebrated sitters.
NGS Accession no: PG 1561.
[Ref: 17444] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron after Phillips, 1831 [ms in lower margin]
[possibly by R. Woodman]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, platemark 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Proof before letters; tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
O'D 28?; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34947] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Willi. Camden Clarenceux ye Sone of a painter Nat An.o 1550 Obit. 1623 Joseph's Coat Nobility Dative the Second Booke by S: M: [...]
R: Gaywood fc.
[c.1661]
Etching, 220 x 150mm (8½ x 6"). Trimmed along platemark; glued to backing sheet with engraving of a tomb verso.
Portrait of William Camden (1550-1623), historian and herald, known for his 'Britannia' (1586), a copy of which his hands rest upon here. Engraved by Richard Gaywood as a plate to Sylvanus Morgan's 'Sphere of Gentry' (1661). The work consisted of four 'books', of which Josephs's Coat was the second, to which this was presumably the frontispiece. This engraving was taken from a portrait of Camden which was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666. However, when Morgan became master of the Painter-Stainers' Company in 1676, he presented the company with a portrait of Camden (a former benefactor of the Painter-Stainers), worked up in turn from the Gaywood engraving. That portrait still hangs in the Painter-Stainers' hall.
O'Donoghue 10.
[Ref: 37629] £320.00

Willi. Camden Clarenceux ye Sone of a painter Nat An.o 1550 Obit. 1623
R: Gaywood fc.
[c.1661]
Etching with hand colouring, 220 x 160mm. 8½ x 6¼".
Portrait of William Camden (1550-1623), historian and herald, known for his 'Britannia' (1586). Engraved by Richard Gaywood as a plate to Morgan's 'Sphere of Gentry' (1661).
O'Donoghue 10.
[Ref: 15832] £320.00

Caricature Curiosity, Plate, 1,
Woodward, del.t
Pubd, 1806 by Wm, Holland No.11 Cockspur Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 305 x 246mm (12 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A satyr stands smilling, whilst holding a mirror up for a grinning monkey to stare into. A broken staff lies on the floor with a head of a Punch. Above the image are scribed the words: "To shew Folly its own image "And the very age, and body of the time, "Tis form and pressure._
[Ref: 52229] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Heron's Castle Mona Hotel. Formerly the Residence of His Grace the Late Duke of Athol, Douglas, Isle of Man.
J. Kirkwood Sc. H. Crow S.t Dublin.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Engaving. 107 x 152mm (4¼ x 6"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
The Castle Mona was designed by George Steuart for the fourth Duke of Athol, completed in 1804 shortly after Steuart's death. On the departure of the Duke in 1831, the building became, and until recently remained a hotel, although in 2012 it was allowed to fall into disrepair.
[Ref: 34732] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Royal Coat of Arms] Carolo Dei Gratia Fidei Defensori Anno Restaurato DDD CLVIIIII
R. Gaywood fecit [1660]
Etching, sheet 255 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Text and tomb of Charles I verso.
Illustration from 'The Sphere of Gentry' (1661) by the herald-painter Sylvanus Morgan. Although not credited here, the painter and etcher Francis Barlow (d.1704) is known to have worked on designs for the book's illustrations. British Museum cataloguing states that Barlow's hand is visible in the rendering of the lion and unicorn in this print.
[Ref: 42828] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Chinese Junk Keyring. Length 160 feet, breadth 33 feet, depth of hold 16 feet, burthen about 800 Tons.
London J.T. Wood Holywell St. Strand
[c.1850]
Zinc engraving, sheet 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Foxing at edges.
The Chinese junk, Keying, which sailed from China to England and the United States (via the Cape of Good Hope) between 1846 and 1848. Probably published to coincide with its arrival in British waters in 1848. The ship subsequently sailed on to the US; even though the ship’s captain Charles Alfred Kellett (b.1812) did not plan to stop in New York City, he found himself off-course and eventually anchored in Battery Park, a resort for racing, sports, ice-skating and fashion. The ship remained for nine days in New York and over 7000 people a day paid 25 cents each to board the boat to examine its cabins and observe the crew. The American publishers Currier & Ives made a similar print to this one to commemorate the arrival of the ship in New York.
For another image of the same vessel see ref. 41651.
[Ref: 43257] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christina queene of Swethland, Goths & Vandalls,
R. Gaywood fecit.
Sould by P. Stent [n.d., c.1660].
Etching. Sheet 155 x 140mm (6 x 5½") at most. Trimmed around image.
A copy of Hollar's etched portrait of Christina (1626-69), Queen of Sweden, remembered as one of the most learned women of the 17th century. The publisher Peter Stent died of the plague in 1665; his widow sold his business to John Overton. Stent also published a reversed version of this portrait with the same date, title and wreath decorations.
[Ref: 53049] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Cleopatra.
Drawn by V.D. Riviere. Engraved by W. Woodley.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple, printed in colours. 320 x 365mm (12½ x 14½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A portrait of Cleopatra holding a cup and a pearl earring, after Daniel Valentine Riviere (1780-1854).
Rare: not in BM; Woodley is not listed in Alexander's Dictionary.
[Ref: 62357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Behold rare Cocker's Life-resembling Shade: [...].
R. Gaywood. fec[?].
[n.d. 1657]
Rare etching. 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6"). Vertical creasing affecting the title area. Small perforation near lower left corner. ,Foxing.
A decorated portrait of Edward Cocker (1631-1676) and frontispiece to 'Arts glory; or the pen mans treasury'. Edward Cocker was an English engraver as well as a notable teacher of arithmetic, on which he also wrote several books.
[Ref: 54125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegory of the Four Continents.] Minerva instructing Britannia in the Science of Geography: In the Foreground are allegorically represented the four Quarters of the World [...]
Designed by W.H. Brown. Engraved by R. Woodman.
Printed for C. Cook 1801.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
Allegorical figures of the Four Continents, with Minerva and Britannia behind in a roundel within a border featuring Neptune and the names of maritime explorers including Anson, Drake and Cook.
[Ref: 58732] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

George Frederick Cooke as Sir Pertinax MacSycophant.
Engraved by Woodman after a Drawing of the same size by De Wilde.
London, Published as the Act directs, by John Cawthorn, No.5, Catherine Street, Strand, Apr. 10. 1808.
Stipple, open letter state to watermarked laid paper; sheet 475 x 315mm. 18¾ x 12½". Trimmed roughly to plate; two small tears from lower extremity. Few small nicks.
Actor George Frederick Cooke (1756 - 1811) in costume in Charles Macklin's 'Man of the World', holding the pommel of his sword; rectangular frame. After Samuel De Wilde (1751-1832).
NPG D34094. Harvard p.282, 42.
[Ref: 20559] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Georgii Croke Equitis Aurati et Utriusqu Banci Iusticiar: Ut Vulturs hominum, Ita Sumulacra vultus quae Marmore, aut aere finguntur Imbecilla, ac mortalia sunt: Forma mentis aeterna: quam tenera, et exprimere non per alienam maeriam, et artem, sed tuis ipse moribus possis. Tac: in vita Iulÿ Agric: Socri Sui.
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., 1657.]
Etching, with Collector's Mark. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Trimmed close to plate, mounted in album sheet at edges.
Portrait of George Croke (c.1560 – 1642), bust in an oval, wearing skull-cap, ruff, and robes, and holding a scroll; coat of arms below, with a row of books. Frontispiece to 'The Reports of Sir George Croke' (1560-1642), judge and law-reporter.
[Ref: 62071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Henri Dombrowski. Général d'un corps d'armée polonais en 1794 [...]
Michel Stachowicz pinx. James Hopwood sc.
P. Dien impr. [Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Stipple engraving on steel. Sheet 270 x 185mm, 10½ x 7¼".
Jan Henryk Dabrowski (1755-1818), fought under Poniatowski in the campaign of 1792 against the Russians, in the 1794 Kosciuszko Insurrection, set up the Polish Legions in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars, joining Napoleon on the march on Moscow in 1812. His name appears on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. A portrait from the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 21276] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Tomb Of Lord Bardolf. This Tomb is in Dennington Church in ye County of Suffolk, & was erected to ye Memory of Willm. Lord Bardolf, Chamberlain to K. Hen.6. who by his Will, bearing Date Dec.1:1438, bequeath'd his Body to be buried in this place. To Sr. John Rouse Bart. This Plate is Inscrib'd, by his most Obedient abd Humble Servt. Jos:a Kirby.
Drawn after ye Tomb by Jos:a Kirby, & Publish'd by him March 25: 1748. Engrav'd by J. Wood.
Engraving. 245 x 315mm (9½ x 12¼"). Some foxing. Crease into lower part of image at right.
Sir William Phelip (1383 - 1441) of Dennington, Suffolk, and Erpingham, Norfolk. He served at Agincourt, was captain of Harfleur 1421 - 1422, treasurer of the household to Henry V, and chamberlain to Henry VI, and on 13 Nov. 1437 was created Baron Bardolf. On his death in 1441 the peerage became extinct. Rare.
[Ref: 7524] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Diana.
Painted by Stroehling. Engraved by R. Woodman.
Publish'd and Sold April 2nd 1813, by Edw.d Orme Bond Street, London.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 220 x 205mm (8¾ x 8"). Trimmed to plate.
Head and shoulders portrait of the Huntress, over foliage, wearing crescent moon headdress.
[Ref: 56607] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Dogs and cats in a yard.]
[Richard Gaywood.]
[British, n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 140 x 210mm. 5½ x 8¼".
A greyhound and spaniel looking up at two squirrels in a tree upper right; two cats lower right, a mastiff chained to a thatched building at left, and a forth dog sitting at centre of composition. From a series of plates showing groups of animals, numbered '10' lower right. The composition derives from Francis Barlow's drawing of three dogs and two cats, which was etched in reverse by Gaywood for 'Variae quadrupedum species'. Gaywood modified this design, including another dog at bottom centre and another cat at lower right, and has removed one of the original cats and added the tree with squirrels in the background. This appears to be a reissue of his plate, with the number and a 'Y' added (upper right).
[Ref: 19465] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Dovey Furnace.
Drawn & Etched by J.G. Wood.
London Published by Jno. Geo. Wood 1813.
Etching, platemark 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾") with large margins.
Dyfi Furnace, near Aberystwyth in Wales. The furnace was constructed in around 1755 for smelting iron ore, and was already abandoned by the time this print was made. It is still in existence and open to the public.
[Ref: 43617] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Italianate landscape with cattle.] In the Collection of John Hadley Esq.r.
Gaspar Poussin [Gaspard Dughet] pinx. J. Wood Sculp.
[Published by Arthur Pond, c.1742.]
Etching. 320 x 450mm (12½ x 17¾"). Slight crease through top left corner.
A landscape with buildings by the side of a river, after Gaspard Dughet (1615-75), brother-in-law and pupil of Nicolas Poussin, so often known as Gaspar Poussin. The painting was owned by John Hadley (1682-1744), natural philosopher and mathematician, inventor of the reflecting octant.
BM: U,9.36.
[Ref: 41326] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Earth.
R, Gaywood fecit.
London, [n.d. after 1648].
Rare etching. 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"), with small margins. Creasing in the margins and across the image. Lower right corner is folded. Small tears in lower and right margins.
A scene of cherubs picking fruit from a tree for a boutniful cornucopia. A number of workers are harvesting their fields in the background. Part of 'The Foure Elements' series by van Avont (1600-1652), which was also engraved by Hollar, published 1647.
[Ref: 54115] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Viva Effigies Generosi Issi Mi Guliemi Fairfax Prefecti Coh: Agl In Palat. To Frankenthal when Seige Cordoua Layde So was our Britishe King - craft ouerknav'd By Gondomer, as in it Martir-made This honourable Cadet; and so staued Of all recreuts, that Burroughs there comander Our Glorious Borroughs was compell'd to render.
R. Gaywood fecit.
1656.
Engraving. Sheet size: 195 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed inside plate.
A portrait of William Fairfax, a famous Parliamentarian General from Yorkshire with only 1 eye.
Hind I. p.318.
[Ref: 38997] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Four Elements Fire.
P. van Avont inu. R. Gaywood fecit. R. Walton Excudit.
London, [n.d. after 1648].
Rare etching, 17th century watermark, 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Creasing in the corners and some small tears along the top edge. Repaired tear in the centre of the lower margin. Small margins.
A scene depicting three cherubs playing with a gunpowder cannon and a discarded suit of armour. After Petrus van Avont's series the Four Elements, in which the first was fire, which were also done by Hollar, published 1647.
[Ref: 54114] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Folly of Ridicule. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Wood sculp.
Published by W. & J. Stratfords, No. 112 Holborn Hill, Jan.y 1 1793
Engraving, sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. Rare.
Three figures, presumably in the environs of Carlton House, ridiculing one another. Illustration to the 'Carlton House Magazine'.
[Ref: 34830] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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[John Freeth and the Birmingham Book Club]. Birmingham Men of the Last Century. From a fine Picture in the possession of Dugdale Houghton Esquire.
Painted by John Eckstein. W. Underwood Lith.
Published by T. Underwood, Castle St., Birmingham,
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"), with large margins.
A meeting of the Birmingham Book Club, at the Leicester Arms, a coffee house run by John Freeth (1731-1808), who was also a poet and songwriter under the pseudonym John Free. A book club and debating society, its members included Radicals, supporters of John Wilkes and Unitarians, causing its opponents to call it the Jacobin Club. It existed until at least 1964.
[Ref: 56870] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Grinlin Gibbons.
G. Kneller, pinx. J. Hopwood sculp.
[n.d. c. 1800].
Stipple. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed and laid on album paper at edges.
A head and shoulders detail from Godfrey Kneller's oil of Grinling Gibbons (1648 - 1720).
[Ref: 59828] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Glencoe. [pencil, lower left.]
John Fullwood [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Drypoint etching, from an edition limited to 150. 200 x 350mm (8 x 13¾") very large margins. Glued into mount at top two corners as issued with original label.
John Fullwood (1855-1931) exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy on 21 occasions and the Royal Society of British Artists on 99 occasions.
[Ref: 62593] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Glencoe. [pencil, lower left.]
John Fullwood [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Drypoint etching, from an edition limited to 150. 200 x 350mm (8 x 13¾"). Faint trace of old mount residue; a fine impression.
John Fullwood (1855-1931) exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy on 21 occasions and the Royal Society of British Artists on 99 occasions.
[Ref: 14039] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Hackney]
[C.J. Greenwood Del.t et Lith.] [****] & Son Litho. Ludgate Hill. London.
[London: n.d., c.1845.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Image 220 x 345mm (8¾ x 13½"). Trimmed, losing most of the inscriptions, new margins added.
A railway bridge over a London street, with a locomotive passing.
[Ref: 56701] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Hawksworth, L.L.D.
Engraved by J. Hopwood.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple engraving, 176 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
John Hawkesworth (c.1715 - 1773) compiled ‘An Account of the Voyages undertaken by order of his present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere...', 1773, which contained the official account of Captain Cook's first circumnavigation. Adverse criticism to the book affected his health and he died the year of publication. This is engraved from a portrait by Reynolds. According to DNB, 'Hawkesworth appears to have sat to Sir Joshua Reynolds four times, viz.: in September 1769, January 1770, October 1772, and July 1773'. It also notes that 'Malone also records that Sir Joshua Reynolds told him that Hawkesworth was latterly ‘an affected insincere man and a great coxcomb in his dress'.
[Ref: 7739] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Hee that more of thine Excellence would now, On this thy Book let him some thoughts bestow; [...].
Gaywood fecit.
Scarce etching. 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed and laid on backing board at top. Some tears along right edge and in top right corner. Losses on right and bottom. Damaged.
A head and shoulders portrait of James Hodder (17th century), and frontispiece to his book 'Hodder's Arithmetick', published 1661.
[Ref: 54127] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Horizon. Plate 5.
G. Wright Esq. inv et del. et pinx. Engraved by V. Woodthorpe, No 29 Fetter Lane London.
Published Dec.r 1st 1801 by R. Woolsey Islington.
Rare aquatint. 440 x 780mm (17¼ x 30¾"). Trimmed to plate at sides, some creasing.
An astronomical diagram, illustrating the celestial horizon. Underneath is large illustration of a bay lit by moonlight, with a man with a telescope sitting by a ruined classical arch.
[Ref: 40914] £360.00

[Jerusalem Delivered] A Moon Light Scene of a Forest where Ismen the Magician is sacrificing to Demons and invoking them to rise. Plate 1st. Page 393. To the right honourable Lord Visc.t Charlemont this plate is inscribed by his Lordship's most obliged humble Servant. Eliz.th Jane Collins.
J. Collins Pinx.t from Tasso's Jerusalem deliver'd. J. Wood Sculp.t.
[Published by Elizabeth Jane Collins, first published c.1763 but later.]
Etching. Sheet 460 x 540mm (18 x 21¼"). Trimmed to plate, a few nicks, small stains, dedication weakly inked on left. Slight staining.
The Muslim sorcerer Ismen casts a spell to protect the forest with enchantments to stop the Crusaders cutting wood for engines for the siege of Jerusalem. It is the first of a set of six prints based on John Collins' stage sets for a performance of Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered' at the Royal Theatre in the Tuileries in Paris in 1754. Tasso's epic poem, first published 1581, tells the story of the First Crusade mixed with heroic myth featuring magic and monsters, based on the styles of Homer and Virgil. John Collins (c.1725-58/9) was a London-born set designer who had studied in Italy. This series was published by his widow.
See Ref: 9494 for complete set.
[Ref: 53228] £280.00

Kalmucks Seeking a Fresh Abode.
Burney del. Wooding sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs by dr. J. Trusler Oct.r. 1788.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of a procession of Kalmucks driving their cattle to new pastures. The Kalmucks, or Kalmyks were a western Mongol people who migrated to Russia in the seventeenth century. They lived a nomadic life travelling around the lands between the Don and the Volga Rivers. Illustration from Dr John Trusler's 'The Habitable World Described' (c1788-1806).
[Ref: 32137] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Sledge of Kamtschatka.
J. Webber del. Woodyer sc.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving, very fine. On watermarked paper. Platemark: 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾"). Uncut with very large margins.
A plate from 'Cook's Voyage to the Pacific'. A traditional sledge from the Kamtschatka peninsula, far eastern Russia. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 34198] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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