Grosvenor Prints

Rev.d W.m Scoresby.
J.S. Colman del.t 1824.
Rare lithograph. Printed area 170 x 170mm (6¾ x 6¾"), wide margins.
A portrait in profile of English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman, William Scoresby (1789-1857). Working for his father's whaling business, Scoresby began the study of the meteorology and natural history of the polar regions, publishing sixty papers in the Royal Society list, including 'On the Anomaly in the Variation of the Magnetic Needle'. In 1822 Scoresby surveyed and charted with remarkable accuracy 400 miles of the east coast of Greenland. He left whaling in 1823, aged 33, to train for the ministry, but continued to study aspects of science, including optics. In 1850 he published a work calling for a search for the Franklin expedition.
[Ref: 43163] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Iohanna Seymour Regina Henri ci VIII Regis Angliae Uxor 3rd
Hholbein pinxit. W. Hollar fecit aqua forti, ex Collectione Arundeliana 1648, but later.
Etching. Sheet: 130 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A half length portrait of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII after a portrait by Hans Holbein.
Pennington 1427.
[Ref: 43709] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

William Siemens [facsimile signature].
Rudoph Lehmann pinx. Swan Electric Engraving Co.
[n.d., c.1883.]
Photogravure. 220 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), very large margins with a sheet of letterpress biography. Slight foxing.
Half-length portrait of Sir Charles William Siemens (originally Karl Wilhelm, 1823-83), electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Godalming in Surrey had the world's first street lighting, powered by a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill. Rudolf Lehmann's oil, painted in 1882, in in the National Portrait Gallery.
NPG 2632.
[Ref: 43389] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

S.W. Singer Esq.r.
E.U. Eddis del.t 1831. Pr. by Graf & Soret 14, Newman St.
[n.d, c.1831.]
Lithograph. Printed area 130 x 110 (5¼ x 4¼"). Crease in wide margins.
Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858), Shakespearian scholar and author of 'Researches into the History of Playing Cards; with Illustrations of the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood', 1816, a pioneering work on the subject.
See NPG 5822 for the original pencil sketch, dated 1831.
[Ref: 43166] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

John Smeaton. Civil Engineer. F.R.S. Died Oct. 28. MDCCLXXXXII Aged 68 Years.
Painted by Mr. Brown for Al.r Aubert Esquire. Engraved by Mr. Bromley and Published for the Society of Civil Engineers, by W. Faden Feb. 1st 1798
Engraving, platemark 215 x 165mm (8½ x 6½") large margins.
John Smeaton (1724-92), civil engineer, portrayed here with Eddystone Lighthouse (which he designed in 1755-9) in the background. Smeaton was responsible for numerous bridges, canals and harbours.
[Ref: 43613] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Smith Esquire.
E. Gouge Pinxit. G. White fecit.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint, fine & rare; platemark 345 x 247mm (13½ x 9¾"). Glued to backing sheet in corners. Small margins.
Samuel Smith (d.1732), of Weald Hall, son of Erasmus Smith. Portrayed three-quarter length, wearing a long coat, belt, sword, cravat, long white wig and a cloak around his back and drawn under left arm across his chest with one end held under right hand.
NPG D9152; CS 46; for a different state see ref. 28101.
[Ref: 43707] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Very truly yours Southwood Smith [facsimile handwriting].
Miss M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill.
Fine stipple engraving on steel. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") large margins.
Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Despite his belief in the miasma theory his reports on quarantine (1845), cholera (1850), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of international importance. However he is best known for his highly controversial public dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832 and his correspondence with Charles Dickens, wrote the life & letters of Dickens.
[Ref: 43393] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Very truly yours Southwood Smith [facsimile handwriting].
Miss M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill.
Stipple engraving on india. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") very large margins. Backing paper spotted.
Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Despite his belief in the miasma theory his reports on quarantine (1845), cholera (1850), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of international importance. However he is best known for his highly controversial public dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832 and his correspondence with Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 43392] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Snape.
Whitby pinx.t. Godby sculp.
London, Publish'd by the Author, May 1, 1791.
Stipple. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Edward Snape (b.1728), a farrier, holding an book illustrating blood vessels. In 1766 Snape proposed the establishment of a 'hippiatric [horse] infirmary' as a school for the 'instruction of pupils in the profession', which eventually opened in Knightsbridge in 1778, the same year he published a print, 'A Muscular Preparation of a Horse', on which he described himself as 'Farrier to their Majesty’s & the 2nd Troop of the Horse Guards' with an address in Berkeley Square. In 1791 he published 'A Practical treatise on farriery including remarks on all diseases incident to horses', which had a second edition in 1805.
[Ref: 43391] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

G Spontini, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal de la Legion d'Honneur et de l'Ordre Royal d'Hesse Darmstadt, Compositeur Dramatique [...]
AP. Vincent del. Bourgeois de la Richardiere sculp.
Déposé à la Direction
Aquatint, sheet 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed.
Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851), Italian composer who dominated serious grand opera of the early 19th century in Paris and later in Berlin. Portrait bust surrounded by the names of Spontini's operas in medals. Aquatint engraving after a miniature by Antoine-Paul Vincent.
[Ref: 43105] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

To the younger branches of his Family this Portrait of their late Father W.m Strong Esq.r is dedicated by their affectionate Brother F.G.S. Wm. Strong [facsimile signature]
From memory by F. Strong [c.1837]
Stipple, rare, sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5").
William Strong (1767-1837), tulip amateur. Varnish maker in Long Acre, Covent Garden.
O'D 1.
[Ref: 43612] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lord John & Lord Bernard Stuart Sons of Esme Duke of Lenox. Done from the Original in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble Lord Royston and the Marchioness Grey.
Vandyke pinx.t. J.s McArdell fecit.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Small tear in bottom margin. Time stained.
Portrait of the two sons of Esmé Stuart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, who both fought for the Royalist cause in the Civil War: the elder, Lord John Stuart (1621-1644), was killed at the Battle of Cheriton; the younger, Lord Bernard Stuart, Earl of Lichfield (1622-1645), died at the Battle of Rowton Heath. The original painting by Van Dyck in the National Gallery.
CS: 174. Goodwin: 122. Russell: 174. See Ref: 29026 for an earlier reversed version published by Tompson.
[Ref: 43451] £360.00

[Portrait of William Upcott] A Collector.
Engraved by T. BRagg from a Drawing by W. Behnes, March 1818.
Engraving on india, very fine impression; platemark 285 x 185mm (11¼ x 7¼").
William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector and son of the artist Ozias Humphry (1742-1810). Along with his early collecting of prints, coins and trade tokens, Upcott inherited his father's artworks and extensive correspondence. It was the latter which led Upcott towards his primary interest of collecting autographs. Upcott also catalogued the library at the Evelyn family home of Wotton in Surrey (in the course of which he acquired, possibly illegally, a number of items which he later refused to return), and compiled a biographical dictionary of British authors and a bibliography of British topgraphical works (a volume of which he holds in this print). In later years Upcott negotiated with various institutions interested in acquiring his collection (from the British Museum to the Library of Congress) but most of his collection remained with him at his Islington residence 'Autograph Cottage'. After his death the collections were dispersed in three sales: the British Museum purchased his collections relating to British topography, while the Evelyn family repossessed items Upcott had taken from the library. Engraved after a drawing by William Behnes (1791x7-1864), who was second only to Francis Chantrey as England's most prolific and successful portrait sculptor at this time.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 43354] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Hubert van Eyck] Huberto ab Eyck, Joannis Fratri; Pictori. Quas modo communes cum fratre Huberte, merenti / Attribuit laudes nostra Thalia tibi [...] 1.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Hubert van Eyck (b.c.1358-90, d.1426), painter and brother of Jan van Eyck. According to the inscription on the famous Ghent altarpiece, that great work was begun by Hubert and completed by Jan. Other work by Hubert is hard to identify. Third state of a plate engraved in 1572 after an unidentified portrait by Michiel Coxie I. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43314] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Jan van Eyck] Joannes ab Eyck Pictor. Ille ego, qui laetos oleo de semine lini /Expresso docui princeps miscere colores [...] 2.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), painter and illuminator best known for his completion of the Ghent altarpiece and his double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami ('the Arnolfini Marriage') now in London's National Gallery. Third state of a plate first published in 1572. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ralph Walker.
Eckstien del. Ridley, sculp.t.
Pub by Ja.s Asperne 32, Cornhill Dec.r 1, 1803.
Stipple. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") large margins. Edges spotted.
Ralph Walker (1749-1824), Scottish civil engineer. He was appointed resident engineer of the West India Docks in August 1799; engineer to the East India Docks Company (working with John Rennie) in 1803; engineer for the Surrey Commercial Docks Company in 1807; and engineer to the East London Waterworks Company, 1807-24.
[Ref: 43395] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Josiah Wedgwood.
Engraved by W. Holl [after George Stubbs.]
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Steel engraving on india. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed, slight foxing.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs.
[Ref: 43400] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Josiah Wedgwood.
Engraved by W. Holl [after George Stubbs.]
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Steel engraving. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs.
[Ref: 43401] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Justice Welch From an Original Sketch by Hogarth in the Collection of Sam.l Ireland 1781 The portrait was began & finished within an hour by which a Considerable bet was Won
S.I. sculp
London, Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Molton & Co. 132 Pall Mall
Etching, sheet 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed
Saunders Welch (1711-84), grocer and magistrate. Originally a greengrocer (in the sense of a wholesale rather than retail business), Welch became a magistrate through his friend, the novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding, who before his death, asked that his salary be split between his half-brother Henry and Welch, who became the two leading metropolitan magistrates. His social circle included Hogarth (after whose sketch this print was made by Samuel Ireland), Samuel Johnson, and Welch's son-in-law, the sculptor Joseph Nollekens.
[Ref: 43103] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Thomas Wentworth Esq.r Brigadier General of His Majesty's Forces Colonel of One of His Regiments of Foot, & Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in America.
A. Ramsay pinx.t A. Van Haecken fecit [c.1747]
Mezzotint, sheet 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Small tear.
Mezzotint of a British soldier serving in America, engraved after Allan Ramsay by Alexander Van Haecken, younger brother of the drapery painter Joseph Van Haecken who worked for some time as Ramsay's studio assistant.
CS: 19; Ex Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43183] £360.00

[Rogier van der Weyden] Rogero, Bruxellensi Pictori. Non tibi sit laudi, quod multa, & pulchra, Rogere, / Pinxisti, ut poterant tempora ferre tua [...] 4.
Th. Galle excud [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), one of the most renowned painters of the fifteenth century, specialising in religious works and portraits. This engraving was made after an alleged self-portrait by van der Weyden, part of a series of paintings in Brussels town hall now lost. Third state of a plate first published in 1572, in a series of twenty-three portraits of painters from the Low Countries. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'. Another edition was published in 1694.
[Ref: 43317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Whitehead, Esq. of Twickenham. Obiit Dec.r 30 1774 Unhallow'd Hands, this Urn forbear / No Gems, nor orient Spoil, / Lie here conceal'd- but what's more rare / A Heart that Knows no guile
Publishd as the Act directs Sept.r 1 1773 by T. Wright Essex Street, Strand.
Engraving, sheet 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Paul Whitehead (1710-74), satirist in the vein of Alexander Pope who also organised events such as a mock Masonic procession along the Strand which was depicted in a satirical print. By the 1750s Whitehead lived at the elegant Colne Lodge on the north side of Twickenham Common. At this time his friends included the painters Francis Hayman and George Lambert, while his portrait was painted by Gainsborough (now lost). Whitehead's last bequest was his heart to his patron Dashwood, now Lord Le Despencer, with £50 for a marble urn in which it could be placed in Dashwood's mausoleum at West Wycombe. The urn containing the heart (shown here) was ceremoniously deposited in the mausoleum at West Wycombe on 16 August 1775 but was later stolen by a tourist.
For Whitehead's mock Masonic procession see ref. 40356; for Colne Lodge see ref. 15001.
[Ref: 43524] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Jonathan Wooler.
From a Drawing by Cha.s Landseer.
Published 24th Nov.r 1817 by W. Hone, Old Bailey, and Sold by E. Wilson, Royal Exchange, amd all the Print dealers in the United Kingdom.
Etching. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9").
Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786-1853), publisher active in the Radical movement. He is best known for his satirical journal 'The Black Dwarf', published as a response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817). He was soon charged with seditious libel, but was acquitted on the grounds he was the publisher, not the author, of the offending articles. This portrait would have been issued at the time of the trial.
[Ref: 43398] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 136

Catalogue 135

Catalogue 134

Advanced Search