Grosvenor Prints

Puck, vide Midsummer Night's Dream.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Engraved by Charles Heath. Proof. Printed by McQueen.
London: Published March 1827, for the Proprietor by R. Jennings, Poultry.
Engraving. Plate 458 x 349mm (18 x 13¾"), very large margins, uncut.
A naked infant with faun's ears sat on a toadstool in a glade, his arms and legs outstretched and holding a sprig of flowers in his right hand; Titiana and Bottom lying amongst the trees in the background. Fagan maintains that this print was the work of two of Charles Heath's distinguished pupils, J.H. Watt and G. Doo. Engraved from a painting which Reynolds sold Boydell for his 'Shakespeare Gallery'. There is also a much smaller 1789 print of the same picture.
Hamilton: p.154. Heath: 1827.12. [p.229].
[Ref: 23635] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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Behold how in the colledge hall, the surgeons and the doctors all, Are met in consultation wise, a carcase to anatomize: the master there displays his art, sagely discants on every part, and that with ears & eyes and nose, we hear, and see, and smell, he shows.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d., engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a dissection, with the characters with animal heads. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19723] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Book of Spirits. Plate III. Ancient Necromancers Invoking An Evil Spirit.
London, William Charlton Wright, 7, York S.t Covent Garden.
Scarce aquatint and etching. 230 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Two men in uniforms stand by a bonfire of bones within a circle of skulls, invoking skeletons, a dragon, a knight in armour and demons. A witchcraft image. From 'Tales of the Horrible, or the Book of Spirits … By the Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century', probably Robert Cross Smith.
[Ref: 61310] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Tableau de Paris. Galerie des Negociauts. No. 10. Apparition nocturne.
Hautecoeur Martinet. Lith de Feillet.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 272 x 280mm. 10¾ x 11".
A man sat up in bed startled by his apparition of bleeding dogs at the end of the bed.
[Ref: 21571] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Leonhart Artbaur war geboren zu Dalmesing Anno 1650. Alles mit Gott, und nichts ohn Ihn.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Very fine engraving. Plate 255 x 180mm. 10 x 7".
An oval portrait within an eleborate border containing an owl, four monkeys with human-like bodies blowing bubbles and a view of a small village.
[Ref: 15550] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

La Fontaine Enchantée de la Verité d'Amour. Dédiée à Monsieur Alexandre Roslin, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal [...]
Dessiné par C.N. Cochin, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel / Gravé a l'Eau forte par Aug. de St Aubin, et terminé au Burin par C.F. Macret
a Paris chez Demonchy Graveur Cloitre St. Benoit la 1.re porte cochere à gauche par la rue des Mathurins A.P.D.R.
Engraving, sheet 315 x 380mm (12½ x 15"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Illustration to Honoré d'Urfé's prose romance 'Astrée': Celadon, Silvandre, Astrée and Diane, followed by two unicorns, approach the enchanted fountain of the truth of love, which is protected by two lions.
[Ref: 38615] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Battle of Bears and Frogs]. Turmæ ranarum periunt non vulnere multo Artus si vivet, quæque salire solet.
Eckstiene pinx [John Eckstein]. Reynolds sculp.
London Pub.d April 1.st 1801.
Rare mezzotint. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"), large margins. Collector's blind stamp of a bee, in lower margin. Repaired tears, central fold, month engraved in a ferrent style to the rest of the inscription.
An army of bears storm a hill defended by frogs with cannon, bayoneting and shooting some as others hop into a pond to escape. A rough translation of the Latin title is 'The host of frogs perish and their limbs, used to jumping, twitch on'. The BM has two examples, one matching this state, and another with a different title ('Im Belles Ferro Ceciderunt Igne Robusti') and joke signatures, from the Lennox-Boyd collection, as this example. The collector's stamp, a blind-stamped Napoleonic Bee, is that of William J. Latta of Philadelphia, a collector of Napolionic prints, who began his collection c.1880, sold it Anderson Galleries, New York, in four sales 1913-4. Lugt (L.2825) says of the collection that it ''was reputed to be the most beautiful of its kind in the world. The portraits were remarkable for the beauty of the prints and the rarity of the states; the series of caricatures was particularly comprehensive''.
BM 1872,0511.896 & 2010,7081.5049. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54044] £320.00

Bellerophon. I am Bellerophon the bold / Who slew Chimæra in her lair; [...]
John Masefield. Judith Masefield.
[n.d., c.1950.]
Broadside, linocut roundel with letterpress verse. Sheet 450 x 215mm (17¾ x 8½"). Crease through image, surface soiling.
A stark black and white image of the Greek hero Bellerophon riding the winged horse Pegasus, illustrating a poem by John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate 1930-67. The illustration was drawn (and probably cut) by his daughter Judith (1904-88).
[Ref: 52837] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Bunbury's Whims. Round. Triangle. Square.
Engraved from an original Drawing by the late Henry Bunbury, in the possession of the Publisher.
[London, n.d., c.1820s.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"). Trimmed.
Satire showing three highly stylised geometric figures composed of circles, triangles and squares/rectangles respectively. From an early edition of 'Whims and oddities: in prose and verse' by humourist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Lettered with a couplet by Hood beneath each caption.
[Ref: 41589] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Child Christ defeating the demon.] Per mortem destrucit eum qui babebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum. Hebr. 2.
D. Hallé pinxit. G.E. delinck Sculp.
a Paris chez P. Drevet rue St jâque à l'Annonciation.
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 530mm (17¼ x 20¾"). Trimmed within platemark, horizontal centre fold. Occasional foxing.
Christ stabbing the dragon-devil with the heel of his crozier, his right hand raised in the sign of the benediction. Around them are the heads and wings of the cherubim. The print was engraved by Gérard Edelinck after Daniel Hallé and published by Pierre Drevet. Pencil mss. on the reverse notes this as a frontispiece to the Bible's Epistles to the Hebrews: the quote comes from Hebrews 2 and means 'through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil'.
BM: X,6.4. Robert Dumesnil VII 186-16 Undescribed State.
[Ref: 33781] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The death of the beautiful Gabrielle d'Estrées] Mort de la belle Gabrielle destrés [in ms lower margin]
Ch. Eisen inv. et fec. 1765 J.F. Rousseau Sculp.
a Paris chez Basan [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 230 x 150mm (9 x 6").
Engraving after Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator, believed to be an allegorical representation of the death of Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573-99), mistress of Henry IV of France. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, La Fontaine and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46500] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Death in a Frolic or the Misers exit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 21 Aug.t 1778.
Mezzotint with large margins, very scarce. Plate 355 x 254mm (14 x 10"). Crinkling and creasing. Tatty.
Death, as a skeleton with a violin, fiddling before a bearded old man seated at a desk covered with coins and documents, spectacles in one hand and one gouty foot on a stool in front of him; in the background, to right, seen through a door, Death visiting a younger gentleman wearing a plumed hat. A mezzotint by Bernard Lens II, in reverse direction, may have been the source for this. First state [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database].
BM: 2010.7081.942
[Ref: 30668] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rape of Dejanira]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
Publish'd. as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi, 1787.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 255 x 310mm (10 x 12¼"), with very large margins.
Very dramatic image showing Dejanira abducted by the centaur Nessus. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 455.iii
[Ref: 43419] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

St. Dunstan and the Devil. St Dunstan (as the Story goes) / Once pull'd the Devil by the Nose. / With red hot Tongs which made him roar, / That he was heard three Miles and more.
[Anon., c1740]
Engraving, sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet; small view of St Dunstans after Paul Sandby verso.
St Dunstan (d.988), archbishop of Canterbury, holding the devil with his tongs, as claimed by an 11th century legend.
[Ref: 37645] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Harrowing of Hell.]
[Anon. after Albrecht Dürer, c.1650.]
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Top right corner missing, damaged. Thread margins.
Copy of Albrecht Dürer's (1471-1528) woodcut 'The Harrowing of Hell' from his small woodcut passion series of 1510-11. Dürer's series told the story of Man's Salvation from the Fall to the Last Judgement, in 37 images. It was published in a book with a text by a Nuremberg Benedictine monk, evolving a new kind of book in which the pictures were the main element.
[Ref: 41706] £320.00

Alfred Crowquill's Sketches From Jullien's Bal Masque. The Early Bird. What Tired Already? Shut Its Dear Little Mouth, For I Am Engaged By Twenty More Partners!
Alfred Crowquill, delt. et lith. M & N. Hanhart, Impt.
Published by E. Sidebetham, 38, Burlington Arcade [n.d., c.1850].
Coloured lithograph, sheet 381 x 279mm. Light foxing to margins.
Illustrations to Jullien's Bal Masque quadrille, by Alfred Henry Forrester, best known under the name of Alfred Crowquill (1804 - 1872). Louis Antoine Jullien (1812 -1860) conducted a series of winter season promenade concerts at the Covent Garden Theatre, which were highly successful; and on March 4th, 1844, the first bal-masqué given in England in the 19th century took place at Covent Garden under his auspices. In 1822 Forrester wrote for the Hive and in 1823 for the Mirror. He next applied himself to the study of drawing and modelling, as well as to wood and steel engraving. He was also the writer of burlesques, drew pantomimic extravaganzas for the pictorial papers, and exhibited pen-and-ink sketches in the miniature room of the Royal Academy in 1845 and 1846. For a time he contributed sketches to ‘Punch,’ where his work will be found in vols. ii. iii. and iv., and then went over to the ‘Illustrated London News’ as a member of the literary and pictorial staff. As a writer and illustrator of his own writings he was very popular; upwards of twenty works came from his pen, many of them being children's books. For some years the London pantomimes were indebted to him for designs, devices, and effects. In 1851 he modelled a statuette of the Duke of Wellington, which he produced a fortnight before the duke's death and presented to Queen Victoria and the allied sovereigns. At the time when he originally started as an artist there was not much competition, and he consequently found constant work. His works have enjoyed a considerable amount of popularity.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7814] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Extinguisher.
Geo. Dance Esq.r R.A., del.t. W. Daniell sculp.t. 1806.
London, Published by W. Daniell R.A. 14 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, May 1, 1826.
Aquatint. Plate: 330 x 240mm (9 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate on left and right margins.
A scene showing an old miser sitting at a desk while a demonic figure lowers a candle snuffer over him.
[Ref: 47619] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Save All and Extinguisher.
Geo. Dance Esq.r R.A., del.t. W. Daniell sculp.t. 1806.
London, Published as the Act directs, Aug.t 1st. 1831, by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley Cornhill & King Str.t Holborn.
Aquatint with hand-colour. Plate: 320 x 260mm (12½ x 10¼''), Trimmed within plate.
A scene showing an old miser sitting at a desk while a demonic figure lowers a candle snuffer over him.
A later edition of ref: 47619.
[Ref: 50093] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to L'Anneao d'hans Carvel by La Fontaine]
[After Charles Eisen, c.1761]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Illustration to the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46488] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[France finds consolation in the arms of peace] La France consolee entre les bras de la paix. Dedié au Roi.
F. Chauveau in. J. Boulanger fecit.
P. Bertrand ex. cum privil. Regis [c.1651]
Engraving, platemark 415 x 545mm (16¼ x 21½") large margins. Fold through centre as issued. Slight foxing.
Allegorical scene predicting that Louis XIV will end divisions in France. France (represented by Louis) embraces peace; a winged warrior above whom is inscribed 'souhait des bons francois' ('wishes of good frenchmen') pursues the cowering figures of Fury, Envy and Discord. Engraved by Jean Boulanger (1608-c.1680) after François Chauveau (1613-76).
IFF 111
[Ref: 45433] £320.00

[Watercolour of a little person.]
[Anon., c.1820]
Watercolour, sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5").
[Ref: 43109] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Geoffry the Diver
John Leech [c.1850]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 285 x 195mm (11¼ x 7¾"). Slight paper tone and offsetting.
Bizarre book illustration by prolific Victorian book-illustrator John Leech (1817-64) best-known for his work with Dickens.
[Ref: 33981] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Saint Georges.
D'apres le Tableau de Raphaël qui est dans le Cabinet de M.r Crozai peint sur bois, de la grandeur de l'Estampe gravée par Nicolas de Larmessin.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 220mm (12 x 8¾'') very large margins. Paper tone.
St. George defeating a dragon, after Raphael's painting.
[Ref: 48788] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Ghost.
Designed & Published by G. Rowe [n.d., c.1839]
Rare lithograph, printed area250 x 295mm (9¾ x 11½"). Repaired tear to margins.
Four bankers sit at a table making an inventory of the complex assets of the 'ghost' of the title, who, to make things more complicated, hovers above the company, gleefully distributing codicils. One of these is in the includes the text 'Corporation of Gloucester' and 'Jam. Wood'. The artist and lithograph George Rowe (1796-1864) lived in Cheltenham and depicted sights and people of local interest. The 'ghost' in question here is probably James Wood (1756-1836), who ran Gloucester Old Bank, one of the earliest private banks in England. After Wood's death it was absorbed by the County of Gloucestershire Banking Company. Rowe also made a print of Gloucester Old Bank.
For Rowe's print of Gloucester Old Bank see ref. 17546.
[Ref: 42003] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Gullivers Travels in Lilliput in Brobdingnag.
[Anon, c.1830]
Fine hand coloured wood engraving, scarce, sheet 205 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed around image and title; laid on album sheet.
Popular print with fourteen vignettes of scenes from the first two books of Swift's novel 'Gulliver's Travels'. An interesting record of how the novel was represented visually in the 19th century.
[Ref: 32279] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Hannibal] Vision misteriosa di Annibale, avanti il suo famoso passagio sull Apli. per scenndere nell'Italia. Rollin 1st. Rom. T.V.
Pinelli inve inc. in Roma 1818.
Etching. 320 x 430mm (12½ x 17"). Tear in top margin.
In Hannibal's vision he sees a giant serpent as a winged Mercury leading him to Italy. Mercury tells Hannibal that in the same way the serpent lays waste to mountians, Hannibal will lay waste to Italy. Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835) is best known for his images of contemporary Romans, many of which were incorporated into Luigi Rossini's Views of Rome. He has taken inspiration from 'Storia Antica E Romana Di Carlo Rollin'.
[Ref: 60241] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

See valiant Captain Snout appears, the drum beats up for volunteers, you that are weary of your wives, and willing to live merry lives, who from the Tally man woud run, and clutches of the bailiff shun, lift under him without delay, and enter into present pay.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.]
Engraving. 290 x 250mm, 11½ x 9¾". Paper brittle, some chipping, creased.
A satire about army recuiters, with the characters with animal heads, with Captain Snout an elephant and his troop cats. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19728] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Hercules So bald der Hercules [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. / B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
The twelfth and most difficult of Hercules' Labours: he was instructed by Eurystheus to go to the Underworld and kidnap Cerberus, the beast guarding the entrance to Hades. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate from Romeyn de Hooghe, 'Hieroglyphica']
[first edition 1735]
Etching, sheet 175 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet with slight stains.
Etching by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), Dutch artist working in various media, best known for his political caricatures of Louis XIV and his prints glorifying William III. Taken from de Hooghe's 'Hieroglyphica', first published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1735. De Hooghe both etched the plates and wrote the text of this iconographical treatise incorporating the iconography of various myths, cultures and religions from around the world. In the book, de Hooghe gives detailed accounts of the various elements in the image identified by letters.
[Ref: 40858] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Death of Hippolytus.] [To His Grace the Duke of Bedford, this print of Hippolitus, Engraved from a capital cabinet picture, by / P. P. Rubens now in his Graces collection (late in the possession of Mr. Bryan.) is with permission dedicated by his Graces much obliged & most obedient servant. B. B. Evans.]
P.P. Rubens pinx. R. Earlom Aqua.t.
Publish'd March 10th 1796 by B.B. Evans.
Stipple, scarce unfinished proof before mezzotint. Sheet 460 x 620mm )18 x 24½"). Edges worn, tear in sky taped.
A sea monster, a bull with fins and a fish tail, causes Hippolytus to be thrown from his chariot and be dragged to his death. A scene from Ovid's retelling of the Greek myth, eventually published May 7th. 1797.
Ex collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 49982] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The ever-memorable Peace-Makers settling their Accounts.
[Anon., c.1769]
Engraving, platemark 115 x 175mm (4½ x 7") large margins.
The duke of Bedford, earl of Bute and Henry Fox, lord Holland sat around a table, the devil stood behind Holland, holding an axe. The general theme of the satire is Holland's alleged diversion of public money to private purposes- shortly before this print was published a petition submitted to the king by the Freeholders of Middlesex described him as 'a notorious defaulter of unaccounted millions', and here he writes in a book inscribed 'unac.d Millions'. Published in 'The Town and Country Magazine', 5 July 1769.
BM Satires 4300.
[Ref: 43858] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Hopkins the famous Witch-Finder of Maningtree in Essex, who in only one year, during the reign of James I, hanged 60 reputed Witches & was himself at last executed for a Wizard.
Published by Alex.r Hogg [c.1793].
Engraving with letterpress sheet, each 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Cut to platemark
Matthew Hopkins (d.1647), witch-finder and the most notorious individual in English witchcraft history. Resident in Manningtree by the winter of 1644-5, Hopkins was troubled, by his own account, by the activities of supposed witches in the town. From the handful of initial arrests (with Hopkins giving evidence against several), the witchcraft allegations spread to neighbouring towns and counties, with at least a hundred executed during the 'Hopkins witch panic' of 1645-7. The pleasing claim on the print that Hopkins was himself 'executed for a Wizard' is incorrect- he died of tuberculosis. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39632] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Hosier's Ghost. To the Tune of Come and listen to my Ditty. As, near Potro Bello lying / On the gently swelling Flood,/ At Midnight with Streamers flying/ Our triumphant Navy rode [...]
C. Mosley sculp [1740]
Scarce etching and engraving, sheet 395 x 270mm (15½ x 10½"). Trimmed around image and text; repaired tears and creases. Laid on album sheet.
The ghosts of Francis Hosier (1673-1727) and his crew appear to a ship carrying Edward Vernon (1684-1757) and his men, at Portobelo in Panama. Hosier led an unsuccessful unsuccessful expedition to the Spanish Caribbean (1723-27) and was in the course of a blockade of Portobelo when a virulent fever broke out and killed Hosier and 4000 men. Vernon succeeded where Hosier had failed, taking Portobelo in 1739, but, in line with the omens of this print, Vernon's initial success turned into eventual failure by the time of his return to England in 1742. This print was occasioned by the poem printed below, by Richard Glover, 'a blatantly political piece which sought to misrepresent Hosier's fate to support then current attacks on the Walpole government, ascribing his death to his resentment at the inactivity forced on him by government orders and his inability to prevent the devastation of his fleet by disease' (DNB).
BM Satires 2422
[Ref: 39672] £420.00

Alfred Crowquill's Sketches From Jullien's Bal Masque. I've Hardly The Face To Ask You: But Are You Angel Enough. To Smile When Nobody Asks You To Dance.
Alfred Crowquill, delt. et lith. M & N. Hanhart, Impt.
Published by E. Sidebetham, 38, Burlington Arcade [n.d., c.1850].
Coloured lithograph, sheet 379 x 279mm. Light foxing to margins.
Illustrations to Jullien's Bal Masque quadrille, by Alfred Henry Forrester, best known under the name of Alfred Crowquill (1804 - 1872). Louis Antoine Jullien (1812 -1860) conducted a series of winter season promenade concerts at the Covent Garden Theatre, which were highly successful; and on March 4th, 1844, the first bal-masqué given in England in the 19th century took place at Covent Garden under his auspices. In 1822 Forrester wrote for the Hive and in 1823 for the Mirror. He next applied himself to the study of drawing and modelling, as well as to wood and steel engraving. He was also the writer of burlesques, drew pantomimic extravaganzas for the pictorial papers, and exhibited pen-and-ink sketches in the miniature room of the Royal Academy in 1845 and 1846. For a time he contributed sketches to ‘Punch,’ where his work will be found in vols. ii. iii. and iv., and then went over to the ‘Illustrated London News’ as a member of the literary and pictorial staff. As a writer and illustrator of his own writings he was very popular; upwards of twenty works came from his pen, many of them being children's books. For some years the London pantomimes were indebted to him for designs, devices, and effects. In 1851 he modelled a statuette of the Duke of Wellington, which he produced a fortnight before the duke's death and presented to Queen Victoria and the allied sovereigns. At the time when he originally started as an artist there was not much competition, and he consequently found constant work. His works have enjoyed a considerable amount of popularity.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7816] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Jerusalem Delivered] A Moon Light Scene of a Forest where Ismen the Magician is sacrificing to Demons and invoking them to rise. [&] The Magicians marching off after the success of their Incantations. [&] A Turkish Mosque lighted after the Mahometan Manner where Aladine the Emperor is seated on a Throne Surrounded by his Divan. [&] The Forest as Enchanted, where Alcast General of Swiss is stopp'd by a firy Castle, defended by Daemons. [&] The Christian Army under the Command of Godfrey of Bulloigne encamped before the Walls of Jerusalem. [&] A Morning Scene of the Forest with Rinaldo, on the Bank of the Enchanted River.
[Various engravers, including Edward Rooker and Paul Sandby after John Collins.]
[Published by Elizabeth Jane Collins, n.d., c.1763.]
Complete set of six etchings, each c.460 x 540mm (18 x 21¼"), stitched. With two end papers in disbound contemporary marbled boards, large folio, 575 x 480mm. (22½ x 19"). Boards scuffed and rubbed, with chips and tears to extremities. Some spotting to plates, some cut very close to or along lower platemark.
A fine set of 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.
[Ref: 9494] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

[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

[Jerusalem Delivered] The Forest as Enchanted, where Alcast General of Swiss is stopp'd by a firy Castle, defended by Daemons. Plate 4. Page 400. To the most Noble Peregrine Bertie, Duke of Ancaster & Kesteven, Lord Lord great Chamberlain of England &c, &c., This Plate is most humbly Inscrib'd by his Grace's most Devoted and Obedient Serv.t Eliz.th Jane Collins.
J. Collins Pinx.t from Tasso's Jerusalem deliver'd. P. Sandby & E. Rooker sculp.
[Published by Elizabeth Jane Collins, c.1763.]
Etching. Sheet 460 x 545mm (18 x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate, a few nicks, small stains, dedication weakly inked on left.
A knight walks through a forest during the siege of Jerusalem and is confronted by a castle surrounded by fire-breathing demons and dragons. From 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: 53229] £380.00

What a Bore!!
E. Hull del.t. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Pub.d by Rowe & Waller 49 Fleet Street. _ 1826.
Very scarce coloured lithograph. Printed area 175 x 230mm (7 x 9"), 1826 Edmonds watermarked, with wide margins. A few marks, old ink mss. in margin "W Thomas 1826".
A bizarre jousting scene: a contest between an armoured knight mounted on a bear with fangs and an unarmoured rider on an elephant-headed horse! The armoured knight uses a spike on his helmet to pierce his opponent through his horse's chest.
[Ref: 33096] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

['The Bark of Charon' (detail from 'The Last Judgement')]
[C.M. Metz Del.t & Sculp.t; after Michelangelo]
[1803]
Stipple, sheet 475 x 830mm (18½ x 32½"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet in corners.
The dead being pulled into Hell, with Charon's boat, at the right of the bottom register. The figures of Charon (striking those in his boat) and Minos (the judge of souls, with a serpent wrapped around him) were staples of classical descriptions of the underworld and introduced to Christian hell by Dante, whose descriptions probably inspired Michelangelos's representations in the Sistine Chapel fresco. The heads of the Demons show the influence of Leonardo's grotesque 'caricatures', whilst Minos is traditionally acknowledged to carry the characteristics of Biagio da Cesena, who criticised the work in progress. Plate from Conrad Martin Metz's series of fifteen engravings reproducing Michelangelo's fresco 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel (completed 1541).After moving to London by 1781, the German-born Metz (1749-1827) studied under Francesco Bartolozzi and exhibited at the Royal Academy before moving to Rome in 1801. A spectacular image.
P. De Vecchi, 'Michelangelo's Last Judgement' in 'The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered' (1980).
[Ref: 22943] £580.00

Latone. Le Ciel pour punir ces Brutaux / Par qui Latone est outragée / Vut que leur forme soit changée / En celle de vils animaux [...]
Jouvenet pinx Du Bosq sculp 1714.
A Pais chez Duchange Graveur du Roy rue St Jacques
Engraving, platemark 330 x 245mm (13 x 9½"). Trimmed to platemark; rust spot near centre; good impression.
Latona, daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, gave birth to Artemis and Apollo, children of Zeus, on Delos. Fleeing the wrath of Hera, Latona passed through Lycia. When she tried to drink from a well the local peasants stirred up mud to make the water undrinkable, so Latona turned them all into frogs, as shown here. Engraving after 'Latona and the Peasants of Lycia' by Jean Jouvenet (1649-1717), one of the most important painters of religious works in France in the late 17th and early 18th century. The painting was a royal commission for the château of Fontainebleau, executed c.1700-1.
For another engraving from the same painting see ref. 38113.
[Ref: 42000] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Diableries. No. 4.
LP [monogram of Eugene Lepoittevin]. Lith: de Frey, rue de Croissant, 20.
à Paris chez Aumont rue J.J. Rousseau, 10. London, Cha.s Tilt, 86, Fleet Street [n.d., 1832].
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 335 x 500mm (13¼ x 19¾") very large margins.
A medley of humorous scenes featuring demons. The main scene shows a rag-tag troop of cavalry rinding horses cattle and a defecating donkey, a winged skull flying above. Bottom right a demon playing its horn-shaped nose is inflated by a bellows inserted into its rectum. A satire from the rare 'Les Diables de Lithographies' by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-70).
[Ref: 59431] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Diableries. No. 5.
LP [monogram of Eugene Lepoittevin]. Lith: de Frey, rue de Croissant, 20.
à Paris chez Aumont rue J.J. Rousseau, 10. London, Cha.s Tilt, 86, Fleet Street [n.d., 1832].
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 305 x 395mm (12 x 15½"). Nearly cut to image, crease in right.
A medley of humorous scenes featuring demons. Top right a man with a tail distracts a woman at a fountain as a demon defecates in her water pot. Bottom left anthropomorphic frogs play cards and dance. A satire from the rare 'Les Diables de Lithographies' by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-70).
[Ref: 59435] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Diableries. No. 7.
LP [monogram of Eugene Lepoittevin]. Lith: de Frey, rue de Croissant, 20.
à Paris chez Aumont rue J.J. Rousseau, 10. London, Cha.s Tilt, 86, Fleet Street [n.d., 1832].
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 350 x 480mm (13¾ x 19"), very large margins.
A medley of five humorous scenes featuring demons. Top right a woman uses the tails of two demons clutching trees as a swing. Top right a magician uses a lathe to reduce a woman's waist. Bottom right is a boat rowed by demons, in which a woman beseeches a horned man.A satire from the rare 'Les Diables de Lithographies' by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-70).
[Ref: 59432] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Diableries. No. 8.
LP [monogram of Eugene Lepoittevin]. Lith: de Frey, rue de Croissant, 20.
à Paris chez Aumont rue J.J. Rousseau, 10. London, Cha.s Tilt, 86, Fleet Street [n.d., 1832].
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 305 x 395mm (12 x 15½"). Narrow margins
A medley of humorous scenes featuring demons. The central figure is Satan as a peasant, gathering women in his basket, pockets and boots. Top right a woman fishing using a small demon as bait is about to be kicked into the water by a larger demon. On the left a dandy introduces himself to a woman in the street, not noticing the tail poking out from under her skirts. A satire from the rare 'Les Diables de Lithographies' by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-70).
[Ref: 59434] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Diableries. No. 11.
LP [monogram of Eugene Lepoittevin]. Lith: de Frey, rue de Croissant, 20.
à Paris chez Aumont rue J.J. Rousseau, 10. London, Cha.s Tilt, 86, Fleet Street [n.d., 1832].
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 335 x 500mm (13¼ x 19¾") very large margins.
A medley of humorous scenes featuring demons. In the top corners are two demonic figures playing catch with women and cups. In the centre is a bed in which a demon hides his face from a woman. Bottom right a demon uses his enormous belly as a drum, inflated by a bellows inserted into its rectum. Four hunchbacked dwarfs are attributed to Callot. A satire from the rare 'Les Diables de Lithographies' by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-70).
[Ref: 59433] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Diableries. No. 12.
LP [monogram of Eugene Lepoittevin]. Lith: de Frey, rue de Croissant, 20.
à Paris chez Aumont rue J.J. Rousseau, No 10. London, Cha.s Tilt, 86, Fleet Street [n.d., 1832].
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 325 x 455mm (12¾ x 18") very large margins. Repaired tear.
A debauched feast with human diners but demon chef, waiters and orchestra. Above a couple fly on a broomstick. A satire from the rare 'Les Diables de Lithographies' by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-70).
[Ref: 59430] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

to Night and Death / Made he flaming with rage, folling his eyes / So fast that whirlwinds rose about him.
J. Martin K.I. A. Martin.
[London: Francis Baisler, 1844.]
Mezzotint, fine image. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Trimmed inside plate.
Two angelic figures by an underground sea representing Hell. Engraved by Alfred Martin (1841-1872) after John Martin (1789-1854) as the frontispiece to 'The Wars of Jehovah, in Heaven, Earth and Hell: in nine Books' by Thomas Harkins.
[Ref: 40347] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Meths Drinkers /66
P. John Burden
Line engraving, platemark 180 x 205mm (7 x 8") large margins. Signed in pencil by artist;
Macabre scene of homeless drinkers by contemporary artist P. John Burden.
[Ref: 41663] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 2: A God on his throne above water.]
Mondon le fils inv. A. Aveline Sculp.
Avec privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1736.]
Copper engraving. Plate 234 x 184mm. 9¼ x 7¼". Uncut, large margins.
A double-headed god seated on a thone, on top of a stone ornamental bridge with a Chinese woman and a large feathered bird in the near foreground to right. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the fourth set "Quatrième livre de formes ornées de rocailles".
[Ref: 22987] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 7: Mystical Creature and Rococo design.]
Mondon le fils Inv. A. Avelin Sculp.
Avec Privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1736.]
Copper engraving. Paper watermarked. Plate 235 x 184mm. 9¼ x 7¼". Large margins, uncut.
A mystical creature wrapped around a part of an ornate and decorative Rococo ornament. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the fourth set: "Quatrième livre de formes ornées de rocailles".
[Ref: 22991] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

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