Grosvenor Prints

Nihil Invita Minerva. The Academy of the Muses.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Image 191 x 152mm. 283 x 224mm.
A centaur shooting with a bow and arrow standing on top of an argent. The argent has an open music book that sits between two swords in saltire of the first. Either side stand dexter a sinister satyr, and a merman with two tails. Nihil Invita Minerva: Nothing in spite of genius.
[Ref: 12531] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Achievement of our Soveraigne King James as he nowe beareth With the Armes of the Severall kings that have aunciently raigned within his nowe Dominions
Jodocus Hondius Flander coelavit Anno Domini 1611.
Engraving, sheet 375 x 235mm (14¾ x 9¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at edges.
The Royal Arms at the time of James I, with border comprising the arms of the different kingdoms he reigned over. It was engraved by Jodocus Hondius as a frontispiece for John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain', his county atlas, first published 1611-12.
[Ref: 42622] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Design of a Chimney Piece executed in the Great Salon of the Queen’s House. Dessein d’une Cheminée executé dans le Grand Salon du Palais de la Reine. [&] A Chimney Piece designed for one of the Rooms in St. James's Palace. Dessein d'une Cheminée pour une des Chambres dans la Palais de St. Jacques. Plate IV.
R. Adam Architect 1762. D. Cunego Sculp.
Published as the Act directs 1773.
Engraving. 605 x 460mm (23¾ x 8¼"). Narrow margins.
Two chimney designs, one of which is execued in the great saloon of the Queen's House, and the other proposed for a room in the palace of St James's. In the freeze of the former, the crown and supporters are introduced as part of the ornament, and on the tablet of the latter is a bas-relief of the Aldo-brandini marriage; Volume I, part 5, "Works in Architecture". Robert and his brother James Adam forever changed the face of British architecture by introducing innovative Classical design ideas.
[Ref: 27737] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Designs of different pieces of furniture done for this House.] Plate VIII.
R. Adam Architect. B. Pastorini Sculp.
Published as the Act directs 1774.
Engraving with small margins. Plate 444 x 590mm. 17½ x 23¾".
Luton House with designs for the stove-grate, cornices for window-curtain, and brass candelabra designs; Volume I, part 3, "Works in Architecture". Robert and his brother James Adam forever changed the face of British architecture by introducing innovative Classical design ideas. From 1754-57, Robert lived in Italy where he had a long productive friendship with Piranesi, which was inspirational for both men. Upon his return, the brothers launched their career by building the Adelphi from the Thames to the Strand in London, which although not a commercial success at the time, included one of London's most cherished buildings, the Adlephi Theatre. Together, the Adam brothers designed and built some of the most famous buildings in England, including such bastions of English architecture as Kenwood House, Keddlestone Manor, and Syon House. To the interiors of their English country houses, the Adams brought wonderful ornamental elements in niches, lunettes, festoons and reliefs. Their classically designed buildings were so numerous in London that they changed the prevailing feel of the city and established their brand of neo-Classicism as the model of elegance and importance. It is asserted that the brothers originated the concept of the uniform facade attached to the typical English row house, an architectural device that distinguishes London buildings. This monumental contribution is evidenced in the Adams' designs for Portland Place and Fitzroy Square, and these were used as architectural models for the whole city. The brothers brought their talents into other areas by designing furniture to complement their beautiful interiors and by creating and publishing a treatise of design entitled 'Works in Architecture'. The work was published in three volumes over an extended span of time, beginning in 1773, with the final volume being published posthumously in 1822.
[Ref: 27740] £330.00

Ahoy [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Limited edition numbered 3 of 75. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A nude woman waves a towel from the sands of a wet beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62508] £360.00

[Frontispiece to 'A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester' by John Aikin]
Stothard delt Grignion sculpt
Publish'd June 4 1795 by J. Stockdale Piccadilly
Engraving, sheet 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to plate.
Allegory with six female figures sitting in a ring, one holding a cornucopia, another a sickle, another the wand of Aesclepius. Putti overhead, ship in background. Frontispiece to John Aikin's 'A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester' (1795). Aikin (1747-1822) was a physician and writer, who practiced medicine until a stroke ended his medical career in 1796. It was during his spare time while working as a doctor that he produced many of the works for which he is best known, including the 'Description', a valuable account of the Manchester area at a time of rapid industrialization.
[Ref: 40847] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alexandri Magni praecipuæ res geste ab Antonio Tempesta Florentino primum delineatæ, nuc a Michaele van Lochom Sculptore. Regio Ienioris typi tabulis expressæ.
Parisus Apud Petrum Mariette via Jacobæa. sub signio Spei. [n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6¼").
The title-page to a series of 12 prints depicting the life of Alexander the Great. The design features military trophies, a lion, two winged putti and figures of Bellona and Abundance. After Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
[Ref: 26550] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece. London Magazine 1778. London Magazine Continued from the Year 1731.
Des.d Drawn and Engraved by Bonnor.
[n.d. c.1778.]
Engraving. 165 x 121mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed, creased;
Allegorical frontispiece; a winged figure sits to the right with a quill poised over a book with a page titled 'London Magazine 1778', In front of him to the left stand representations of Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.
[Ref: 34699] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

His ego nec metas. rerum, nec tempora pono. Imperium sine fine dedi _________ Virg. aen. lib. I.
Joseph. Zochi Florentinus invenit. F. Bartollozi Florentinus Sculp. Venetiis.
[n.d., c.1761.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Allegory on the marriage of Joseph, Archduke of Austria to Isabella, daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma (6th October 1760). In the sky, the Gods gather on clouds, next to large oval medallions featuring portraits of the Archduke and his wife. Below on the right is the statue of Minerva, the Roman Godess of wisdom, with allegorical female figures in front. Sinking ships are seen in the water, with the burning city of Tuscany in the distance to the left. Frontispiece to 'Discorso del Senatore Cavaliere Giulio Rucellai', Firenze, 1761.
[Ref: 38572] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 2:] l'Amours Couronnée.
Mondon le Fils Invenit. A. Aveline Sculpit.
Avec Privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1736.]
Copper engraving. Paper watermarked. 229 x 184mm. 3 x 7¼". Large margins, uncut.
A Rococo design with two cherubs seated on a cloud with bows and arrows, the left cherub placing a laurel crown onto the other; figurative desgins to the top left. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the third set.
[Ref: 22998] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 6:] l'Amoureux Guerrier.
Mondon le Fils invenit. A. Aveline Sculpsit.
[Avec privilege du Roy, 1736.]
Copper ngraving, paper watermarked. Plate 235 x 183mm. 9¼ x 7¼". Large margins, uncut.
Inside a Rococo design, a man sits with a woman's head resting on his lap; a representation of an inn with two figures outside, one holding a sword. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the third set.
[Ref: 23001] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Three men angling under a large tree.]
W. Barron Aq. Fort. Fecit.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching on beige paper, fine 18th century watermark, very scarce. Sheet 160 x 200mm, 6¼ x 8". Mounted on album paper with a sepia border, as issued.
William Augustus Barron (1751 - after 1806).
[Ref: 26548] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alcune Animali.
desegnate per Giovanni vander Hecke et Intagl.te per Theod. van Kessel. An.o 1654. Bit later.
G. Quineau Exc. in de Raamsteeg.
6 etchings. Sheet: 75 x 105mm (3 x 4''). Laid on album sheet.
A series of five etchings with a frontispiece showing various animals in landscapes. Engraved by Theodorus van Kessel (1620-1660) after Jan van den Hecke I.
[Ref: 49678] £500.00

Apollo Introducing the Editor to the Prince of Wales, who is receiving the First Volume of the Carlton House Magazine. Frontispiece.
Grainger del. et sculp.
Published by W. & J. Stratford, No.112 Holborn Hill, Feb. 1 1793.
Engraving, platemark 175 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼").
Mock-heroic frontispiece to the satirical 'Carlton House Magazine', with its editor being introduced to the prince of Wales (the future George IV) by the god Apollo.
[Ref: 45725] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Illustrissimo Virtutum Maecenati Atque Amplissimo Domino Domno Adriano Ulloae Et Regenti Dignissimo Paulus De Matthaeis, ut Tyrones addiscant hec Pictura Artis exempla dicat et consecrat.
Pau: de Mat: Inv. Fran. Aquila d.S.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Etching, 325 x 235mm. Horizontal crease through centre of plate, and along lower edge. Foxing.
A frontispiece.
[Ref: 7412] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Arcadian landscape]
H. Voogd pinx. et inc. Romae [c.1800]
Etching, platemark 280 x 385mm (11 x 15"), with very large margins.
Figures dancing tand listening to music by a river. Etched by Hendrik Voogd (1768-1839), Amsterdam-born painter and printmaker active in Rome from 1788 onwards.
[Ref: 46760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Arc de Triomphe de Titus Vespasien. Dedié à Monsiegneur Armand Thomas Hüe, Chevalier, Marquis de Miroménil, Conseiller du Roi en tous ses Conseils, Premier Président du Parlement de Normandie Par son tres Humble et tres Obéissant Serviteur N. Le Mire.
De la Croix. Le Mire.
à Paris chés le Mire Graveur, des Académies de Vienne et de Rouen, rue S. Etienne des Grècs. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 355 x 475mm (14 x 18¾"), with very large margins.
A capriccio of Rome's Arch of Titus, relocated to the banks of a river with men fishing with nets from a boat, a fortified tower behind.
[Ref: 50665] £320.00

[Vaulted room]
Invent et del: par Angelo Quaglio [c.1818]
Lithograph, printed area 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), with large margins
Early lithograph by Angelo Quaglio, member of a large family of Italian artists from near Lake Lugano. Angelo Quaglio supplied the drawings used to illustrate Sulpiz Boisserée's history of Cologne Cathedral, which was part of the successful effort to get the unfinished nave of the church completed. Examples of his work are in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Provenance: Rokeby Park Durham.
[Ref: 46503] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture, Par Jacques Barozzio de Vignole. Nouvellement revu, corrigé et augmenté par Monsieur B.*** Architecte du Roy [...]
Cochin inv. Vasseur Sculp
A Paris chez Mondhare et Jean, rue St. Jean de Beauvais. No 4 [c.1757]
Engraving, platemark 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8½").
Frontispiece to a posthumous edition of Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola's work 'Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura' (1562), a concise Renaissance tract on the five orders of architecture, which (with various additions and amendments by later editors) enjoyed enormous success and remained the most influential book on classical architecture until the advent of Modernism.
For another plate from the volume see ref. 27318.
[Ref: 40095] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Lector [...]
J. Goddard Sculp.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraved frontispiece, 17th century watermark. Image 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Toning. Crease in bottom margin and torn right hand margin.
A 'To the Reader' message in Latin, surrounded by the standards of the nobility, possibly early 17th century Members of Parliament. Frontis piece to 'Pisgah: Sight of Palestine' by Thomas Fuller.
See Ref: 30273 for coloured version.
[Ref: 56177] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Arms of all the Deaneries in England and Wales together with the Paternal Coat Armour of Each representative Dean alphabetically digested. [&] The Arms of all the Archiepiscopal Sees, in (that part of Great Britain, called) England and Wales, with ye Arms of ye Bishoprick of Man, according to their present Precedencies... [dedicated by] W.m Jackson.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Pair of engravings. Each c.635 x 480mm (25 x 19"), very large margins. 'Sees' with tear entering plate. Slightly dusty in margins.
Extremely rare pair of plates, each with an architectural background and numerous armorials.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52118] £2,000.00 view all images for this item

A Banner displayed To the Immortal honour of those Worthy Patriots in the House of Commons who opposed and voted against the Excise Scheme April 11 1733. Exhibiting Each of Their Coat-Armour with their Names and Places they Represent in Parliament.
[n.d., c.1733.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 670 x 590mm. Trimmed within plate on three sides, torn with loss to one armorial.
A large plate with 207 armorials, celebrating the defeat of Sir Robert Walpole's Excise Scheme, an attempt to replace the land tax (paid by the local gentry), with excise and customs taxes (paid by merchants and ultimately by consumers). To reduce the threat of smuggling, the tax was to be collected not at ports but at warehouses. At the bottom is a list of MPs who were absent during the debate but supported the opposition to the bill.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52120] £480.00

Lector [...]
J. Goddard Sculp.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Colour engraved frontispiece. Image 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper, other scraps on reverse.
A 'To the Reader' message in Latin, surrounded by the standards of the nobility, possibly early 17th century Members of Parliament.
See Ref: 56177 b/w version.
[Ref: 30273] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Les Douceurs de l'Automne.
Gravé par P. C. Canot d'apres le dessein original de même grandeur, inventé et dessiné par Jean Pillement.
London Publish.d according to Act of Parliament December y.e 26 1759.
Etching, very fine impression, 430 x 530mm (17 x 21"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed, repaired tear on top margins, wormholes.
Autumn landscape with a man pouring a glass of wine to a companion while another is drawing wine from a barrel in the foreground, beyond some men seated around a table under a vine arbour. A tavern is visible in the background on the left. From a series of four plates after Jean Pillement, engraved by Canot, Mason and Woolett and representing the different seasons.
IFF 24.
[Ref: 59606] £360.00

L'Automne
Van Goyen del. Weirotter sculp
Huquier ex. [c.1670]
Etching, sheet 230 x 320mm (9 x 12½"). Thread margins.
Autumn scene showing a pig market after a drawing by the Dutch painter and draughtsman Jan van Goyen (1596-1656).
[Ref: 47657] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Autumn] 8 Alta 12 Lata
J. Bassan p. I. Troyen f. [c.1660]
Etching, platemark 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Large tear upper right.
Autumn scene, with cooper making barrels on right and grapes being picked and pressed. One of a set of scenes representing the four seasons, etched by Jan van Troyen (c.1610-66) after paintings by the Italian artist Francesco Bassano (1549-92) (the painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). These etchings were published in the 'Theatrum Pictorum' ('Theatre of Pictures') assembled by the Flemish artist David Teniers, a large volume of prints after Italian paintings then owned by the Habsburg Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (for whom Teniers worked as court painter).
[Ref: 45270] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cartouche Nouveau 1 [-4].
Babel invenit et delineavit. Avec Privilege de Roy.
A Paris chez Jacques Chereau rue St Jacques au grand St Remy. [n.d., c.1760.]
4 etchings stitched at top. Each plate 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼") with large margins. Staining on 4th plate. Uncut.
The designs of four baroque frames by Pierre-Edmé Babel (1720-75). A famous engraver and frame-maker, some of whose work are on display in the Hall of Mirrors Versailles. In 1772 he charged the Bishop of Limoge 400 livres for a frame for Joseph-Benoît Suvée's 'St Louis receiving the crown of thorns', now in the Musée Municipal de Limoges.
[Ref: 46275] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Trophée à Bachus.
Salembier inv. et delin.
Bonnet excudit. [n.d., c.1775.]
Crayon manner, printed in red, scarce. 270 x 195mm, 10½ x 7¾". Pinholes in margins.
An ornamental plate in honour in viniculture, with a bust of Bacchus, a gushing cask and various wine-making tools. Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93), the engraver and publisher of this print, was the inventor of crayon-manner, the technique used here.
[Ref: 26590] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Vase with head of Bacchus]
Falbe fe 1750.
Etching, sheet 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Mounted on backing sheet. Staining.
Etching by Joachim Martin Falbe (1709-82), German painter who created a number of prints between 1750 and 1752 while working for Antoine Pesne.
[Ref: 46014] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Les Mystères des Bois. Sous le Bananier. Under the Bananier. Unter des Bananier.
Composé et lith. par Joseph Félon. Imprimé par Lemercièr, á Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxford S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 420mm (12¾ x 16½"). Marking on left.
An exotic Middle Eastern scene in which two scantily clad women lie beneath a banana tree.
[Ref: 47761] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Banderole with allegorical figures.]
[By Laurent Guyot?]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 135 x 435mm (5¼ x 17"), very large margins.
An ornamental banderole with six allegorical figures, including Mercury and two figures representing the Arts.
[Ref: 45180] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

I Banditi Italiani. The Italian Banditti. No. 19. Engraved from an Original Picture of Francisco Simonini, in the Possession of Mr. Panton Betew.
Francisco Simonini Pinx.t. F. Vivares Sculp.t.
Published by Franc.s Vivares April 25th. 1759.
Fine etching. 400 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"), with large margins. Small tears to margins.
A group of bandits cross a stream to attack a party of travellers; some beg for mercy, holding out bags of money, while another man rides away. Engraved by Francis Vivares (1709-80) after Francesco Simonini (1686 - c.1755), a pair to 'La divisione delle preda. The Booty Divided'. Boydell republished the plates in 1781.
[Ref: 53370] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life banquet piece]
I Beckett ex [illegible traces of effaced inscription, lower right]
Mezzotint, platemark 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. 19th century impression on wove paper.
Crabs and prawns on a platter on a covered table; grapes, peaches, an open melon, plums and a lemon behind; silver tobacco jar upper left. Mezzotint by painter and engraver Robert Robinson (fl.1674-d.1706). Robinson is chiefly remembered for early mezzotints such as this, while the most notable of his surviving paintings are the panels he painted for a house on St Botolph Street in the City of London, now housed at the Sir John Cass School in Aldgate.
State ii/ii (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database).
[Ref: 40220] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life banquet piece]
[?Robert Robinson, c.1680]
Fine mezzotint, sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed to image (possibly losing text beneath image); false margins added on album sheet.
Food and drink (including game, grapes and other fruit) on a covered table. Probably engraved by painter and engraver Robert Robinson (fl.1674-d.1706). Robinson is chiefly remembered for early mezzotints such as this, while the most notable of his surviving paintings are the panels he painted for a house on St Botolph Street in the City of London, now housed at the Sir John Cass School in Aldgate.
See Ref: 40220
[Ref: 45998] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Young Boy Seated]
[Thomas] Barker del.
[Published in 1803 by Philipp Andre.]
Very rare pen lithograph, sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glued to backing sheet at corners. Crease across centre. Overall staining.
A separately issued early lithograph from 'Specimens of Polyautography'. by Thomas Barker (1769-1847) Barker was born in Wales but was known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841. He also published 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436
[Ref: 36810] £380.00

[Young Boy Seated]
[Thomas] Barker del.
[Published in 1803 by Philipp Andre.]
Very rare pen lithograph, sheet 285 x 205mm (11¼ x 8"). Laid on backing sheet with aquatint borders, tear in backing sheet taped.
A separately issued early lithograph from 'Specimens of Polyautography'. by Thomas Barker (1769-1847) Barker was born in Wales but was known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841. He also published 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436; See Ref: 36810 without aquatint backing sheet.
[Ref: 58403] £380.00

Diversæ Avium Species Studiosissime ad Vitam delineatæ Per Fra: Barlow Insignissim: Anglum Pictorem.
H. Terasson Fecit London [in cartouche.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1755.]
Etching; 18th century watermark. 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Creasing; small margins.
A cartouche with three birds, one in flight, with trees and church in background, and a dovecote on the left. Pencil drawing of a man verso. Plate 9 of an edition of Francis Barlow's 'Various Birds' published c.1755.
[Ref: 48157] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Barren Landscape.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Soft-ground etching. 121 x 202mm (4¾ x 8"). Cut.
Barren landscape, with small three-arched hump bridge over a meandering river in foreground at left; a group of trees on the opposite bank; long bridge seen in the distance at right. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34811] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Presentation in the Temple] Venerunt in Jerusalem, ut sifterent eum Domino / S. Luc. Cap. II V.22 / Florentiae in Sacrario S. Marci
Fra. Bartolomeo di S. Marco pinxit / Ang. Campanella sculpsit Romae 1771
Engraving with small margins, platemark 290 x 275mm (11¾ x 10¾"). Glued to backing sheet.
'They brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord'. Engraving after Florentine painter Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517). Painted for the novitiate chapel of S Marco, Florence in 1516, The Uffizi exchanged the work in 1793 for Durer's 'Adoration of the Magi' in Vienna. Fra Bartolommeo's painting is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
For another engraving of the same work, see ref. 27307.
[Ref: 35209] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Shepherdess sitting with sheep outside a cottage, spinning wool] Guidata ch'a la Greggia Irminda poi / S'asside e sta filando i Lini suio
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton 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. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1342
[Ref: 43124] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Young man fishing, with a woman and small boy nearby] Osservato da Fille il Pesce piglia / Per sostentar la debil sua Famiglia
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton 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. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1343
[Ref: 43125] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Young couple embracing; young woman and sheep on right] Soglion gli Amanti coltivar non poco / Le lusinghe, gli scherzi il riso, e il gioco
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton 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. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1345
[Ref: 43126] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman mourning and embracing a tomb in the form of a pot]
G.B. Cipriani inv. / F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Published as the Act directs Nov. 20 1776
Etching, sheet 155 x 160mm (6 x 6¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight foxing.
Title page to 'Miscellaneous works of Ph. D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield' (1777). In a later state this print was identified as Bathsheba mourning her husband Uriah.
de Vesme 1694.2
[Ref: 35960] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Four Seasons.]
[After Bassano.] Lucas Fecit.
[Italian, c.1680.]
Set of four engravings. Each c. 210 x 280mm.
Showing seasonal agricultural tasks.
[Ref: 542] £550.00 view all images for this item - Currently not available

[Frontispiece] Severall Views of Ships in Variety of Weathers, neatly Engraved after ye Designs of Tho.s Baston, 1745.
Part of ye Royall Navy of England. Printed for Hen. Overton without Newgate, London.
Engraving, very rare; sheet 140 x 170mm (5½ x 6¾"). Small tears and areas of surface loss; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Titlepage to an important series of maritime prints after the little-known painter Thomas Baston. Many prints were made from Baston's designs, but while the National Maritime Museum has drawings by him, no oil paintings are known to survive.
See E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters'. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33961] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bathers [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Two women in a rowing boat. One is fully nude about to dive into the water while the other holds the oars. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62506] £380.00

[Bathers by a Pool.] No. 5.
Peint d'après nature et lithographié par C. Bargue. Imprimé par Becquet frères, à Paris.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 335 x 280mm (13¼ x 11"). Trimmed.
A bathing scene in which two women prepare to bathe in a pool.
[Ref: 47759] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Tapestry of Bayeux. By Matilda Consort of William the Conqueror 1066.
Lithographed in 1829 by M.A. Gilbert.
Lithograph with large margins, very rare. 219 x 291mm (8½ x 11½").
This section shows William the Conqueror aboard the flagship 'The Mora' landing at Pevesney. The Bayeux Tapestry, depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. French legend maintained the tapestry was commissioned and created by Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife, and her ladies-in-waiting. However, scholarly analysis now concludes that the tapestry was probably commissioned by William's half-brother, Bishop Odo.
See Ref: 29054 for coloured copy (missing part of printed area on left).
[Ref: 29053] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Tapestry of Bayeux. By Matilda Consort of William the Conqueror 1066.
Lithographed in 1829 by M.A. Gilbert.
Lithograph with hand colour, very rare. 218 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Some creasing and scuffing.
This section shows William the Conqueror aboard the flagship 'The Mora' landing at Pevesney. The Bayeux Tapestry, depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the Battle of Hastings. French legend maintained the tapestry was commissioned and created by Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife, and her ladies-in-waiting. However, scholarly analysis now concludes that the tapestry was probably commissioned by William's half-brother, Bishop Odo.
See Ref: 29053 for uncoloured copy (with additional printed area on left)
[Ref: 29054] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Belhus Essex.
HBK.
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 102 x 152mm (4 x 6"). Cut
Belhus, Essex: a road at right leading through a field; trees behind, windmill and house-roofs seen in background, and a small building among trees at left. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34813] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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