Grosvenor Prints

Abbotsford, The Seat of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Roxburghshire.
Drawn on Stone by J.S. Templeton. Printed by R. Martin.
Published by T. Fisher, Hanway Street, Oxford Street [n.d., c.1840]. Price 1s/6d.
Lithograph on india paper, rare, india 180 x 225mm. 7 x 9". .
Abbotsford, the home of poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), Melrose, Scotland. An attractive separately-issued print (as the advertised price indicates).
[Ref: 24647] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Alexander Abercromby, One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords Commissioners of Judiciary for Scotland. From a picture in the Possession of Lord Craig to whom this Plate, is respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's Most Ob.t Serv.t Alexander Lawrie.
Engraved by G. Dawe [after Sir Henry Raeburn].
Published Oct.r 22. 1800 by Alex.r Lawrie, Bookseller, Edinburg.
Fine mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins.
Alexander Abercromby (1745-1795), Lord Abercromby, younger brother of lieutenant-general Sir Ralph Abercromby. The original portrait seems to date from 1792, when Abercromby was made one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary; this mezzotint was not published until five years after his death.
[Ref: 51573] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Landing of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in Aberdeen.
[Anon., c.1848]
Rare lithograph, sheet 180 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"). Rare.
Queen Victoria and family disembarking at Aberdeen, probably for their first visit to the city in September 1848. A huge crowd awaits the royal arrival. Queen Victoria's visit followed soon after she purchased the nearby castle of Balmoral, sight unseen. After Victoria had it rebuilt between 1853 and 1855. It has continued to be a popular residence with the monarchy ever since.
[Ref: 41641] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Old Aberdeen, including Kings College and the Cathedral. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. To His Grace Alexander Duke of Gordon, Chancellor, the Rt: Hon:ble Sylvester Lord Glenbervie, Rector Roderick Macleod, D.D. Principal, and the Professors of the University and Kings College of Aberdeen. This View of the Seat of that Ancient Seminary, in respectfully Inscribed by their most obedient humble Servant. John Ewen.
Painted by A. Nasmyth from a drawing by R. Seaton. Engraved by F.C. Lewis.
Pub.d by J. Ewen, Aberdeen 1. March. 1808.
Coloured aquatint. 476 x 621mm. 18¾ x 24½". Laid. Trimmed to the plate along left and lower edge. Repairs.
View of Aberdeen, Kings College and the Cathedral.
[Ref: 19657] £420.00

The University of Aberdeen Marischal College [in pencil lower left].
Wilfred C. Appleby [etched in plate lower left, signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.c., c.1930.]
Etching, 315 x 290mm. 12½ x 11½". Foxing.
Marischal College was an independent university before it was merged with King's College, Aberdeen, in 1860. It is the seconed largest granite building in the world. By Wilfred Crawford Appleby b.1889.
[Ref: 9836] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Banff.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the town of Banff, Aberdeenshire, from a hillside. Cattle can be seen in the foreground, with figures in a street lined by walls in the middle ground. A large house on an estate sits behind, overlooking the bay, with buildings on the coast and hillside in the background, and a church on the hilltop in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36156] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Duff-house, Banff.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of Duff House, Banff, a country house set in an open field, with a group of figures harvesting crops in the foreground to the right. Trees line the banks of a river below, with buildings on the hillside to the left and the sea beyond. Duff House, designed by Scottish architect William Adam (1689-1748), and was commissioned by William Duff, Lord Braco, later 1st Earl Fife, as a family home to replace a smaller more modest residence nearby, on the present site of Airlie Gardens in Banff. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36157] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Kinnaird Head, Aberdeenshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A coastal view at Kinnaird Head in stormy weather. Figures are seen on a rock in the foreground looking down at a mast among splashing waves. A lighthouse in a tower with an adjacent building are on the hilltop in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36155] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the fishing port at Peterhead, with rowing boats on the beach in the foreground, and the town on the bank of the bay behind. A large church is on a plateau in the middle ground. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36172] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

William Adam Esq. 2.nd Fifty.
Painted by John Opie R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, 1804.
Mezzotint. 655 x 455mm (25¾ x 18"), with large margins. Small printer's crease on face, others in background.
William Adam (1751-1839), Scottish barrister, politician and judge. He was the son of architect John Adam and nephew of Robert and James Adam. Through his friendship with the Prince of Wales William received the posts of Solicitor General for Scotland (1802-5), Attorney General to the Prince (1805-6), Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall (1806-15), Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer (1814-9), Privy Councillor (1815) and Lord Chief Commissioner of the Scottish jury court from 1815 until his death. Adam once shot Charles James Fox in a duel, although they became friends afterwards.
Whitman 4, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 51574] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mr: Will:m Aikman, Painter. Engraved for the Bee.
From an Original painting by himself, in the possession of Mrs. Forbes, Edin.r
Published by J. Anderson, Nov.r 13th. 1793.
Stipple. Sheet 228 x 146mm. 9 x 5¾". Trimmed.
William Aikman (1682-1731), was a portrait painter who studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He took up a career as an artist and, by 1703, was painting portraits professionally in Edinburgh. He sold his family estate near Arbroath to enable him to travel unfettered to Europe to complete his artistic training. Aikman spent three years in Rome, before visiting Turkey and then spent a further period in Rome. He returned to Scotland in 1712, where he made the acquaintance of the poet Allan Ramsay and found an enthusiastic patron in John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, who persuaded Aikman to move to London. He established a distinguished portrait practice in London, portraying royalty and many members of the aristocracy.
[Ref: 18956] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander III. King of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald, the Ancestor of the Present Mackenzie Family.
B. West pinx. F. Bartolozzi, sculp 1788.
Stipple, printed in sepia, faint watermark. 565 x 715mm (21¾ x 28¼") with very wide margins. Damage to margins, margin rebuilt in the top left corner.
Colin Fitzgerald pulls the antler of a stag and raises his spear to kill it. Other huntsmen rush to the aid of the fallen king. Alexander (1241-86) may have survived this episode, but he died aged 44 falling from a horse. His heir was his granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway, but she died before she could be crowned, leaving the throne of Scotland to John Balliol.
[Ref: 52663] £390.00

James Anderson L.L.D. F.R.S._F.A.S._S.&c.
Anderson del. Ridley sculp.
[n.d. c.1809.]
Stipple. 146 x 114mm. 5¾ x 4½".
James Anderson (1739-1808) was a Scottish agriculturist, journalist and economist. He was a member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society and a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and invented the Scotch Plough.
W: 67.
[Ref: 24572] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Pier at Ardrossan, Ayrshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Jan.y 1, 1817.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
Ardrossan in Ayrshire, with Arran visible across the Firth of Clyde. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36286] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sherif D'Argyle. Lac Dow. Pres Inferary. Loch Dow. Near Inferary.
Dupressoir. Lith: de Kaeppelin, r. du Croissant, 20.
Paris, Publie par Kaeppelin, rue du Croissant, 20. London, published, by Chs. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. H.Hooper, 13, Pall Mall East [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, sheet 360 x 550mm. 14¼ x 21¾".
View of a Loch near Inveraray in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. A figure in Highland dress rests against a rock in the foreground while cattle graze near the water's edge. From a series of Scottish views by French painter and lithographer François Joseph Dupressoir (1800 - 1859), published in London and Paris. Numbered 'PL.12' upper right.
[Ref: 10634] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Loch Fyne Argylshire - 1855. [ink outside image.] 1814 - John Henry Mole - 1886. [ink outside image.]
J.H. Mole 1855. [In ink underneath:] J.H. Mole. V.P.R.I. 1855.
Fine coloured lithograph. Image 405 x 610mm. 16 x 24".
Loch Fyne is notable for its oyster fishery, and its herring fishing industry. Here a lady returns with some herring, caught by the man who stands in his boat to the right; a small girl and child walk out of a thatched cottage to greet the woman. John Henry Mole (1814-1886) was a landscape and figure painter in oil and watercolour. He exhibited at Newcastle, the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Gallery, the Grosvenor and other London galleries.
[Ref: 19635] £320.00

The Isle of Arran, taken near Ardrossan.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Messrs. Longman & Co., Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Jan.y 1, 1817.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
Arran from the mainland in Ayrshire, dominated by Goat Fell. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36285] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Largs.
Tom Maxwell [signed in pencil and etched in the plate.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 301 x 470mm. 11¾ x 18½".
A view from the pier of St Colombia's and the attractive seaside town of Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland. Tom Maxwell (d.1937).
[Ref: 20053] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Auld-Riekie Cross Well.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching. 108 x 122mm (4¼ x 4¾").
Outside a tavern in Edinburgh, a brawl begins between two drunkards; a thirs man sits on a barrel with the tankard in one hand and a spoon in the other. Edinburgh gets the name Auld-Riekie (old smoky) from the thick columns of smoke that would spew into the air from the chimneys where coal and wood fires were burnt.
Not in NMS.
[Ref: 16282] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Fish Cross, Ayr. Taken in 1814.
J.B. Muirhead, Litho Glasgow from an Oil Painting in the Possession of Mr. Auld, Doonbrae.
J. Tweed, Glasgow. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 390 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Framed. Old ink mss. in title area, some spotting. Laid on board, stickers and foxing on reverse.
An extremely rare lithograph of the fishermen, fishwives and their customers gathered around a set of scales in an open-air fish market. All but two of the characters have been named in ink, both with hidden faces. According to the annotation the names were obtained 'from older fishermen in Ayr and revised by Deacon Gowan of the Sailors Incorporation of Ayr 4th June 1890'. One is 'Daddy Auld', probably the owner of the original painting, shown selecting a fish. It is likely this is David Auld (died 1852), the custodian of the Burns monument at Alloway, who lived in Doonbrae Cottage in the gardens of the monument. On the reverse is a photographic copy of 'The Rules of Ayr Poors-House' at its opening in 1756', with a printed list of the 'Committee of Management 1891-2', with the blind stamps of 'Marshall Wane' and 'Edinburgh'. Marshall, a photographer originally from the Isle of Man, had a studio in Ayr as well as Edinburgh.
[Ref: 35205] £420.00 view all images for this item

Distant View of Ayr.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Dec.r 2, 1816.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A view of Ayr from the south, with Greenan Castle, a 16th-century tower house, perched on a cliff in the foreground. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36287] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Culzean Castle, Aryshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Dec.r 2, 1816.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
Culzean Castle on the coast at Carrick, looking south towards Ailsa Craig. Designed by Robert Adam and built 1777-92, it was donated to the National Trust for Scotland in 1946. In the deal, General Eisenhower was given an appartment there, which he used four times, once during his presidency. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36288] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Fairies! Flee o'er the dale! Flee o'er the Bourn...
Design'd & Sketche'd on stone by I.Baker.
Printed by N.Chater & Co, 33 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 180 x 230mm. Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Three kilted Scots pursued by 'Brownies, Bogles, Phantons'.
[Ref: 7097] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
J: Faber Ao 1732
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below. Loss lower left.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse'.
CS 34
[Ref: 44076] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Dervorguilla de Balliol] Dervorguilla Mater J. Balliol Scot: Regis Fund Coll: Balliolensis Ao. Do. 1266
H. Parker
Mezzotint, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Dervorguilla de Balliol, lady of Galloway (d.1290), noblewoman and benefactor. After the death of her husband John de Balliol, Dervorguilla brought together the endowments and formulated the statutes of Balliol College, Oxford, a house of scholars founded as an indirect result of transgressions committed by her husband against the bishop of Durham in 1255. One of a set of 'Founders of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse' (this impression, bearing the name of H. Parker, is from the final state).
CS 34
[Ref: 44077] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Balmoral Castle. (Dee Side) Published By Royal Permission. W. Smith, Architect.
Drawn by E. Duncan. Engraved by T.A. Prior.
London J. & W. Robins 57, Tooley Street, London [n.d., c.1857].
Steel engraving, sheet 230 x 440mm. 9 x 17¼". Trimmed within plate. Vertical centre crease.
View of Balmoral Castle, a large estate house situated in the area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known as Royal Deeside. The estate was purchased by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, and remains a favourite summer royal residence. Albert paid just over £30,000 for full ownership in 1852 and immediately started making plans with William Smith to extend the existing 15th century castle, and make a new and bigger castle fit for the royal family. The new building Prince Albert ordered to be built within a hundred yards of the old castle was planned and designed partly by himself and completed in 1856. Engraved for the Stationers' Almanack. The Stationers' Company had published the Stationers' Almanack since 1747, a single-sheet which consisted of calendar text set out beneath an engraved headpiece that recorded significant events of the preceeding year.
[Ref: 9981] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of Banff.
Waterston. Edinburgh.
Published by William Smith, Bookseller, 22, Low Street, Banff.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 350 x 420mm (13¾ x 16½"), very large margins.
A rare locally-published view of Banff from above the town. On the right is John Smeaton's bridge over the River Deveron. Before the town is Duff House, built 1735-40 by William Adam, father of Robert Adam.
[Ref: 60735] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Village of Barnhill The Property of The Right Hon. Lord Panmure. [&] East Section of the Village of Barnhill...
G.Mathewson Arch.t. G.Cumming Lithog.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Pair of lithographic maps. Each 290 x 460mm. "East" sheet cut.
The expansion of the village of Barnshill near Dundee, with building land parcelled into lots for selling on 99-year leases. Fox Maule-Ramsay (1801-74), 11th Earl of Dalhousie, was Lord Panmure between 1852 and 1860.
[Ref: 7102] £130.00 view all images for this item

The bay of Barrisdale, in Loch Hourne.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Jan.y, 1, 1819.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A view of Barrisdale bay on Loch Hourn, with sailing boats in the water, buildings on the coast and rocky mountains behind. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36106] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Latus Insulae Bassae Orientale. The East syde of the Bass. 53.
[John Slezer, 1718.]
Engraving. 266 x 420mm. 16½". Large margins. Fold vertically through centre, as issued.
Sea-view of the Bass Rock; Tantallon Castle on the distant shore. The outline of the fortress is to the left of centre on the rock. Bass Rock, or The Bass, is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland; it is famous as being home to a large colony of fowl, in particular gannets. Plate from John Slezer's 1718 edition of 'Theatrum Scotiae'.
[Ref: 20188] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bay of Tongue.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. May, 1, 1820.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman, 1819'. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the Bay of Tongue, located in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. A number of figures can be seen on the shore of the bay, with a mountainous landscape in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36070] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ben Venue.
John Fullwood. [Signed in pencil]
Etching. Plate: 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6'') very large margins. Mint.
A view of Ben Venue, a mountain in the Trossachs National Park.
[Ref: 49374] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Les Bergers Ecossais.
A. Westall pinx.t A.e Cardon sculp.t
Publié à Paris en Juin 1807. Chez Bance ainé, rue St. Denis.
Coloured stipple, partly printed in colour, rare. Plate 387 x 431mm (15¼ x 17"). Trimmed to plate.
Scottish shepherds in the fields; a man sat playing bagpipes with two children by his side, another man stood with his staff next to a young maiden. Two sheep seen behind, and a dog lying in the foreground; a barn to the left and ruins in the distance. The given artist's name of 'A. Westall' may mean the print is after Richard Westall, or could be incorrect.
[Ref: 28916] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Blackwood] Henricus Blacuodaeus Henrici Filius Parisiensis Doctor Medicus [...]
Cl. Mellan Gall. del et scul [1626]
Etching, sheet 165 x 105mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed to image.
Henry Blackwood (1588-1634), Scottish physician active in Paris and Rome. Engraved by Claude Mellan (1598-1688), French artist who made this print soon after moving to Rome. In Rome he found a new master in the great painter Simon Vouet. Mellan's simple, spare style makes him one of the most immediately distinctive of all major printmakers.
O'D 1; Wellcome: 319-1.
[Ref: 39433] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

South View of Bothwell Castle. Vue Meridionale du Chateau de Bothwell en Ecosse. 109.
P. Sandby Delin.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15") Mount burn, small margins.
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) went to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, becoming draughtsman to the survey until 1751. While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolour landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751. He left his post with the survey in 1751,
[Ref: 60615] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

North East View of Bothwell Castle in Clydsdal. Vue Septentrionale du Chateau de Bothwell dans la province de Clydsdal en Ecosse. 108.
P. Sandby Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Mount burn, small margins.
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) went to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, becoming draughtsman to the survey until 1751. While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolour landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751. He left his post with the survey in 1751,
[Ref: 60614] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Bothwell Castle.
[Lithographed by William Gauci after Samuel Prout.]
[London: Gambart & Co & Joseph Hograrth, 1854.]
Tinted lithograph with very fine hand colour, trimmed to image and laid on card, as issued. 290 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾").
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire, south east of Glasgow. Plate 81 of the rare series 'Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views', which contained views by artists including J.M.W. Turner, David Roberts, J.D. Harding, Joseph Nash and Clarkson Stanfield, as well as Samuel Prout. The project was unrealistically expensive (David Roberts was paid £1,000 for his contribution), resulting in commercial failure, with limited sales resulting in today's extreme rarity.
Abbey Scenery 493.
[Ref: 48122] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

North East View of Bothwell Castle in Clydsdal.
P. Sandby Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with fine original hand colour, 18th century watermark. 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"), very large margins.
The ruins of Boothwell Castle in South Lanarkshire. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) went to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, assisting in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, becoming draughtsman to the survey until 1751. While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolour landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751. He left his post with the survey in 1751,
[Ref: 45283] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Archibald Bower Esq.r.
George Knapton pinx.t. J.s Mc.Ardell fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250 (14 x 10"), with large margins, ink stamp of the Duke of Cambridge's collection lower right.
A portrait of Scottish historian Archibald Bower (1686-1766) shown in his library. A religious controversialist and historical writer born near Dundee, Bower entered the Society of Jesus in Rome and lectured at Jesuit colleges in Italy before suddenly leaving Perugia to return to England, allegedly having been discovered in a love affair with a nun. In England Bower converted to the Church of England and wrote about bibliographic history and ancient Rome. His 'History of the Popes', a violent attack on papal supremacy, was published between 1748 and the 1760s. During the publication of the work letters emerged purporting to show that despite his protestant zeal Bower was flirting with Catholicism, shattering his reputation.
CS 27 (only state); Whitman 174 ii/ii; L.151.
[Ref: 58003] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

David Brewster [facsimile signature.] Author of 'The Life of Newton'.
Alfred Croquis del.t Daniel Maclise.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching. 262 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8".
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal. In 1855 he issued 'Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton', which embodied the results of more than twenty years' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.
NPG: D1096. See Wellcome: 417-2.
[Ref: 24468] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cavern the Bullers of Buchan.]
Rare lithograph with added hand-colour, mounted on board as issued, titled in ink on reverse. Sheet 328 x 470mm (13 x 18½").
Bullers of Buchan, south of Peterhead in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A collapsed sea cave forming an almost circular chasm (the "pot").
[Ref: 14963] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Moonlight in the Bullers of Buchan] - on verso in ink.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Fine lithograph with added hand-colour, mounted on board as issued. Sheet 312 x 452mm. 12¼ x 17¾".
Bullers of Buchan, south of Peterhead in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A collapsed sea cave forming an almost circular chasm (the "pot").
[Ref: 14961] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Geo. Buchanani Scoti Opera.
Andr Johnston Excud. M. Vdr. Gucht Sculp.
Edimburgi, apud Robertum Fribarnum Typographum Regium Ano. Dom. MDCCXV. [Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1715.]
Engraved titlepage to 'Georgii Buchanani ... opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata [Works]...' by George Buchanan. 350 x 210mm, 13¾ x 8¼". Worm hole to left edge of plate.
Allegorical and classical figures with putti surround the bust of George Buchanan (1506 - 1582), Scottish historian, scholar and poet. The composition includes a harp, lyre and trumpets; the royal arms of Scotland lower right. Educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Paris, Buchanan taught in Paris until his return to Scotland in 1536. Condemned as a heretic, he was imprisoned in the castle of St Andrews before escaping into exile in France in 1539. He held professorships at Bordeaux and Paris, and later at Coimbra, Portugal, where he was put on trial for heresy in 1550-01. He returned to Scotland in 1561 and tutored Mary, Queen of Scots. Initially loyal to the Queen, he later testified against her at her trial for the assassination of her husband, Lord Darnley. He became principal of St Leonard's College in St Andrews in 1566. His most substantial work, Rerum Scoticarum Historia, a history of Scotland, was published in Latin in 1582.
British Library: 000513218.
[Ref: 13597] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Buchananus. Aetat: LXXVI.
R: Blokhuysen Fecit.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Rare. Engraved frontispiece/dedication, sheet 210 x 165mm. 8¼ x 6½". Trimmed to plate.
Bust in an alcove of George Buchanan (1506 - 1582), Scottish historian, scholar and poet; 16 lines of tribute in Latin by the author Pieter Shrijver to pedestal below, profiles of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI right and left. Educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Paris, Buchanan taught in Paris until his return to Scotland in 1536. Condemned as a heretic, he was imprisoned in the castle of St Andrews before escaping into exile in France in 1539. He held professorships at Bordeaux and Paris, and later at Coimbra, Portugal, where he was put on trial for heresy in 1550-01. He returned to Scotland in 1561 and tutored Mary, Queen of Scots. Initially loyal to the Queen, he later testified against her at her trial for the assassination of her husband, Lord Darnley. He became principal of St Leonard's College in St Andrews in 1566. His most substantial work, Rerum Scoticarum Historia (lower left of bust), a history of Scotland, was published in Latin in 1582.
[Ref: 13155] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Buchananus Aeta Suae 76. Scotia fi Vatern hunc gelidam produxit ad arcton, Credo equidem gelidj percaluere polj.
I CH f.
[n.d. c.1669.]
Engraving. 120 x 89mm. 4¾ x 3½".
George Buchanan (1506-1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. He was part of the monarchomach movement, which consisted of Huguenot theorists who opposed absolute monarchy. Monarchomachs were people who opposed absolutism, believing that sovereignty belonged to the people, but the irony here was that "the people" for monarchomachs in fact only meant to refer to the bourgeoisie and nobility, never the popular masses. Buchanan was a key figure in developing the monarchomach theories in Scotland. Similar to Erasmus, Buchanan had the same ideas about the Catholic church, and was persecuted like all Lutherans in 1539, however he managed to effect his escape, and fled to London and then onto Paris. It was here where faced with further persecution, he accepted an invitation by Andre de Gouveia to take on the post of professor of Latin at the College of Guienne at Bordeaux. Portrait from: 'Bibliotheca Chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines' by Jean Jacques Boissard. The work with 100 portraits was first published under the title 'Icones virorum illustrium' in 1597-98.
[Ref: 24622] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Buchananus: Aeta: suae 76.
Esme de Boulonois fecit.
[n.d. c.1682.]
Engraving. 188 x 140mm. 7½ x 5½".
Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'. George Buchanan (1506-1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. He was part of the monarchomach movement, which consisted of Huguenot theorists who opposed absolute monarchy. Monarchomachs were people who opposed absolutism, believing that sovereignty belonged to the people, but the irony here was that "the people" for monarchomachs in fact only meant to refer to the bourgeoisie and nobility, never the popular masses. Buchanan was a key figure in developing the monarchomach theories in Scotland. Similar to Erasmus, Buchanan had the same ideas about the Catholic church, and was persecuted like all Lutherans in 1539, however he managed to effect his escape, and fled to London and then onto Paris. It was here where faced with further persecution, he accepted an invitation by Andre de Gouveia to take on the post of professor of Latin at the College of Guienne at Bordeaux.
[Ref: 17104] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Young Burns at the Grave of his Father. If my Son should happen to be a man of feeling, sentiment and taste, I shall thus add largely to his enjoyments. Let me flatter myself that this sweet little fellow, who is just now running about my desk, will be a man of a melting, ardent, glowing heart, and an immagination delighted with the painter, and rapt with the poet. Let my figure him wandering out in a sweet evening to inhale the balmy gales and enjoy the growing luxuriance of the spring, himself the while in the blooming youth of Life. He looks abroad on all nature,and through nature up to nature's God! Burns Letters.
Buck del. Bate sculps.
London, Published August 1. 1808, by William Holland, No.11 Cockspur Street.
Coloured stipple printed in colours and etching. 306 x 222mm. 12 x 8¾". Slight damage below title.
A young Robert Burns (1759-1796) standing dressed in a kilt and holding a book of his father's poems above the gravestone of his father in Auld Kirk churchyard, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.
[Ref: 24440] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Robert, Born Sep.r 3.rd 1786. Eldest Son of the Poet Burns. "Bagatellle" 1795.
From "Kerry Miniatures". Engraved by C. Coole.
David Wilson, Publisher, Glasgow.
Stipple and engraving. 274 x 215mm. 10¾ x 8½".
Robert Burns (1786-1857) was the son of poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) and Jean Armour (1765-1834), He was born in Mossgiel, Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland. He married Anne Sherwood in 1809.
[Ref: 24139] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

''Robert Burns'' Original Drypoint by R.G. Matthews (Limited Edition).
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the etcher. 225 x 165mm (9 x 6½") very large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and a publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A reversed copy of Alexander Nasmyth's famous portrait. Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire, was a Scottish poet and lyricist born in January 1759.
[Ref: 49163] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Burns In his Cottage composing 'The Cotters Saturday Night'...
Painted by William Allan, R.A. From the Original Picture in the possession of Robt. Nasmyth, Esq. Engraved by John Burnet, F.R.S.
London Published Nov. 1. 1836, by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall [& in Edinburgh]. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 560 x 410mm, 22 x 16". Laid on conservation tissue
Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), poet. Burns shot to fame in 1786 with 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' and the 'Scots Musical Museum' (1787) which contains some of his best-known songs. Burns was celebrated for using his personal experience of rustic subjects and local Scots dialects; Wordsworth wrote of 'Him who walked in glory and in joy/ Behind his plough, upon the mountainside.' After Sir William Allan (1782 - 1850), President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
See NPG D32438.
[Ref: 23424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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