Grosvenor Prints

Gedeon Berbier Du Metz. Con.er du Roy en ses Con.ils President en sa Chambre des Comptes.
Hyachinte Rigault Pinxit. Edelinck Eques Romanus Sculp. C. P. R.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 400 x 300mm (15¾ x 11¾") very large margins. Slightly foxed.
Gédéon Berbier du Metz (16261709), President of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris.
R.D 190 III.
[Ref: 49423] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Jérôme Bignon.]
P. de Champaigne pinxit. F. Poilly sculpsit.
1664.
Engraving with large margins. Platemark: 390 x 320mm (15¼ x 12¼"). Light horizontal crease. Small surface marks on sheet.
A portrait of French laywer Jérôme Bignon (1589-1656), after Philippe de Champaigne (1602 - 1674). Bust directed to right, with curled hair and robes, in an oval frame on ledge with a coat of arms below the image. Jérôme Bignon was a French lawyer born in Paris, who gained great reputation after publishing 'Choréographie, ou description de la Terre Sainte' in 1600, which served to introduce the author to Henry IV, who placed him for some time as a companion to the Duke of Vendôme, and made him tutor to the 'dauphin', and afterwards Louis XIII.
[Ref: 33859] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Franc. Blanchart Abbas S.t Genov Parisiensis Nec Non Praepos. General. Canon. Recvl. Congreg .Cal.
Nanteuil ad vivum ping. et sculpebat 1673.
Engraving. 405 x 325mm (16 x 11¾"). Trimmed to plate mark. Two wormholes near lower left corner. Small stain near lower corner.
A half portrait of Francois Blanchart (1606-1662) in clerical dress with a simple crucifix. Blanchart was appointed abbott of St. Genevieve in 1644.
PW 18. ii/iii
[Ref: 57422] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolas Boileau S.r Despreaux.
A. Bouys pinx. et scul.
Se vend a Paris rue Coquillere au Tems [n.d., c.1700].
Mezzotint. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Small margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), author of 'L'Art poétique' in 1674.
[Ref: 61635] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Boyleau. Avant lui Juvenal avoit dit en Latin, Qu'on est assis à l'aise aux Sermons de Cotin.
Fran. de Troye Pinxit.
Gravé par L Auber a Paris etse vend chez J. Cole Graveur en Tailles Dauce a l'enseigne de la Couronne dans Great Kerly Street en Hatton Garden dans Londres.
Engraving. Plate: 280 x 240mm (11 x 9½''). Thread margins. Slight creasing
A portrait of the French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) in an ornate border.
[Ref: 50466] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[France] In Effigiem Ioannis Iacobi Boissardi Vesvntini. [Greek script... ] In Eandem Effigiem A Nic. Lassaeo Affabre Fictam, Laelÿ Cleopassi Galathei. Oiffardi egregia ora pinxit arte Spirante in tabula, & sere loquente. Naturae aemulus artifez. Quid inquit. Bella in nos Lachesis, parantur ista... Vita in perpetuum tibi erogata est, Inuitis etiam, Iacobe, fatis.
[Jean-Jacques Boissard.]
[Cum priuilegio Regis Hisapniarum & Cancellarij Brabantiae as sex Annos. 1581.]
Engraved portrait and letterpress text, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining.
Portrait of Jean Jacques Boissard, as a foreward page. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21050] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Ianus Iacobus Boissardus Vesuntinus. Ao.97. Aet. LXIX.
[Theodore de Bry.]
[n.d. c.1602.]
Engraving. 197 x 152mm. 7¾ x 6". Cut, laid on card.
Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602), French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25505] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Ianus Iacobus Boissardus Vesuntinus Anno Aet LXV. Cous Alexandrum si nobilitanit Apelles, Dum pinxit docta Principis ora manu: Iane, tuum illustrat Theodori industria vultum, Qui tanto heic pictus cernitur artifice.
Petri Lepidi Metensis in Boissardi effigiem a Theo-doro de Bry sculptam.
[n.d. c.1600.]
Engraving, with Latin letterpress on verso. 146 x 95mm. 5¾ x 3¾". Cut.
Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25484] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres] Franciscus de Lesdiguieres Comes Stabuli [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Foxed.
Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (1543-1626), one of the greatest generals of his age. A protestant who came of age during the French Wars of Religion, Lesdiguieres distinguished himself both in France and in the ongoing wars in Italy. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39898] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vue des Ruines de l'Amphithéatre de Bordeaux, Vulgairement appellé Palais Galien.
Dessiné par Daubigny. Grave par Allix.
[Paris, n.d., c.1790.]
Etching, watermarked laid paper, 245 x 370mm. 9¾ x 14½". A fine impression, with full margins.
The Palais Gallien, the remains of a late second century Roman amphitheatre in Bordeaux. 'Bordeaux No.1' lower right; for the grand series of French views 'Voyage pittoresque de la France', a 1781-96 collaboration of several artists and engravers (12 vols).
See BL 001302621.
[Ref: 20586] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Ville et du Pont de Bordeaux Prise du quai de la Bastide.
L. Garneray Pinx et Sculps.
Paris chez Bassett, rue St Jacques No 64. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint. Sheet 390 x 490mm (15¼ x 19¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A very fine view of Bordeaux by Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857), with the new Pont de Pierre, built 1819-22. The bridge was designed for Napoleon but built until five years after his fall; however it retained the 17 arches (the number of letters in the name 'Napoléon Bonaparte') and the white medallions in honour of the emperor above each pillar.
[Ref: 48284] £480.00

Porte de la Grosse Cloche Bordeaux.
D.Donald.
Published 1923 by the Museum Galleries, Museum Street, London W.C. Copyright.
Etching printed in colours, signed by the artist. 250 x 150mm, 10 x 6".
The "Great Bell Gate" in the 'Quartier Saint-Eloi', Bordeaux.
[Ref: 13544] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Glacier des Bussons (Inferieur). Chamonix.
Dessiné d'ap. nature par Mottu. Lith. par Tirpenne
S. Morel, Ed. à Genève. Imp. Lemercier, Paris [c.1850]
Tinted lithograph, printed area 110 x 120mm (4¼ x 4¾") large margins.
The end of the Glacier des Bussons, looking up towards the Aiguille du Midi. Probably published in 'Chamonix et Ses Environs', one of Morel's 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' series, which contained 23 tinted lithographic views by Morel, Mottu, Linck and others.
[Ref: 46112] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Bouchu Abbas Firmitatis.
R. Nanteuil ad vivum pingebat et sculpebat. 1669.
[French, 1669.]
Engraving. Sheet 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Pierre Bouchu, Abbé de Clairvaux, in robe with crucifix around his neck; in lettered oval frame with coat of arms in the lower part. By Robert Nanteuil (1623 - 1678), engraver and portrait draughtsman.
With collector's stamp of Frederic Robert Halsey (1847-1918), lawyer and bibliophile (Lugt: 1308); second unidentified stamp. RD 47
[Ref: 26799] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[France] [Cardinal Bouffet.]
[n.d., c.1710.]
Etching, proof before letters, 520 x 375mm. 20½ x 14¾". Chip into upper left corner of plate.
Cardinal Bouffet (b.1627 according to ink inscription below plate) set full length into a highly decorative emblematic border. Below is an empty cartouche before inscription. Probably engraved and published by François Chéreau (1680 - 1729).
[Ref: 9009] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[France] [Charles de Bourbon.]
[Engraved by Dominic Custos.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Charles de Bourbon (1566-1612), Count of Soissons, first cousin of Henri IV, best known for being Samuel de Champlain's patron in his attempt to colonise Canada. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32668] £320.00

[France] Le Grand Conde. Louis debourbon [facsimile signature.] Tire du Musee Royal de France.
[Illegible signature in plate.] Lith. de Delpech.
[Paris, c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 485 x 315mm. 19 x 12½".
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1621 – 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Prior to his father's death in 1646, he was styled the Duc d'Enghien. For his military prowess he was renowned as The Great Condé (Le Grand Condé). After the full length painting by Joost van Egmont
[Ref: 12383] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Anthoinne de Bourbon Conte de Moret. Conseiller du Roy en ses conseil Abbe' de sainct estienne de Caen:
Antonius van dyck pinxit.
Moncornet excudit. [n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½").
Antoine de Bourbon-Bueil (1607-1632), Count of Moret, was the legitimised son of the French King Henry IV (1553-1610) and his mistress Jacqueline de Bueil (1558-1651). He conspired with Gaston d'Orleans against the policy for the establishment of a strong Royal Government, and took part in the rebellion led by himself and the Duke of Montmorency against King Louis XIII, which led to the Battle of Castelnaudary. He was wounded during the battle, but his body was never found, and legend had it that he survived and carried on the life of a hermit in Anjou.
[Ref: 26040] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Louis de Bourbon duc d'Engvien Prince du Sang et Pair de France. [Below image.] Sonnet. Rome ne vente plus tes illustres Cesars, Grece, ne parle point de ton jeune Alexandre...Vous Grecs, & vous Romains parlez moy sans enuie, Ce que ce jeune Prince a fair en deuz Estez Vos Heros l'ont ils fait en trente ans de leur vie. Desfontaines.
B. Moncornet excudit Cum Privilegio Regis.
[n.d. c.1650.]
Paper watermarked. Sheet 324 x 210mm. 12¾ x 8¼".
Louis II de Bourbon-Condé (1621-1686) was a French General during the Thirty Years War and one of the leaders of the Fronde des Princes. Enghien heroically won the Battle of Rocroi, destroying the reputation of the Spanish invincibility.
[Ref: 15455] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Le C.te de la Bourdonnaye. Député de Maine et Loire.
Louise de C*** 1823. Litho. de Marlet. Lenoir Scrip.t.
Lithograph with very large margins, printed area 170 x 190mm (6¾ x 7½"). Crease upper left.
François-Régis de La Bourdonnaye, Comte de La Bretèche (1767-1839), politician. Bourdonnaye was elected deputy of Maine-et-Loire in 1815 and took an extreme right position in the royalist party. In his political career, which lasted until 1830, he favoured harsh punishments for those who had occupied prominent positions during the Hundred Days under Napoleon in 1815, further reducing the number of citizens entitled to vote, and fought against laws on personal freedoms and the press.
[Ref: 34866] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Victor le Bouthillier]
Champaigne pinxit. Nanteuil sculpebat. 1651.
Engraving. 325 x 245mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Small repaired tear near top of printed area. Minor creasing in small margins. Central crease not visible from front.
A half portrait of Victor le Bouthillier (1590-1670), waering clerical dress a crucifix in an octagonal frame, with coat of arms. Bouthillier was appointed Bishop of Boulogne in 1626 and became the archbishop of Tours in 1641.
PW 35. i/iii
[Ref: 57428] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Theophile Brachet S. De La Milletiere Con.er Du. Roy En Ses Con.ls Destat et Prive.
Ph. Champaigne pinx. T. Morin scul. cum priv. Regis.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet: 310 x 250mm (12 x 9¾''). Trimmed.
A portrait of French statesman Théophile Brachet de la Milletière (1588-1665).
[Ref: 49079] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Port de Brest. Insurrection des Vaisseaux du Léopard et L’América. en Septembre 1790. No. 44.
Prieur inv. & del. Berthault sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. With letterpress. Plate 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11").
A group of workers unload a wagon of supplies onto busy port with a church, several buildings, and two large ships (the 'Léopard' and 'América'). Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
RMG: PAD1499.
[Ref: 28294] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Henri-Auguste, Comte de Brienne.]
R. Nanteuil ad vivam faciebat 1660.
Engraving. Sheet: 365 x 275mm (14½ x 11''). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of French statesman Henri-Auguste de Loménie (1594-1666). He served as secretary of states for the navy from 1615 until 1643. He was responsible for negotiating the marriage of Henrietta Maria of France with Charles I.
Petitjean & Wickert 39.I.
[Ref: 49277] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Guillaume de Brisacier Secretaire des Commandemens de la Reyne 1664.
N. Mignard Auenionensis Pinxit. Ant. Masson sculpebat 1664.
Engraving. Sheet: 350 x 270mm (13¾ x 10½''). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A portrait of French statesman Guillaume de Briscier.
[Ref: 49921] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[France] "Justice to Dreyfus". [In ink below:] (M. Henri Brisson.) Vanity Fair.
Guth 98 [engraved in image.]
Octr. 6th. 1898. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. Lith.
Chromolithograph. 398 x 266mm. 15¾ x 10½".
Eugène Henri Brisson (1835-1912) was a French statesman, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1885 until 1886 and again in 1898. He was a member of the extreme Left, he did however propose amnesty for the condemned but it was voted down. He was also a prominent figure in exposing the Panama scandals. In June of 1898 he formed a cabinet when the country was violently excited over the Dreyfus affair. The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent, who was sentenced to life for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris.
[Ref: 18035] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Britanny.]
George Huardel-Bly. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 230 x 175mm (9 x 7'') very large margins. Mint.
A view of the medieval streets in Brittany in northern France.
[Ref: 49381] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Bureau Seig.r de Monglat &c Marie De Bordeaux , Chabellan des P. Charles Vilet Louis XL et Maistre de l'Artillerie en France. Noble home et puillant leigneur Mellire Jehan Bureau Chevalier.
I. Grignon sculp.
[n.d.., c.1690.]
Engraving. Plate: 325 x 210mm (12¾ x 8¼''), with large margins.
A portrait of French military commander Jean Bureau (1390-1463).
[Ref: 49923] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Maria Coniux Maximiliani. Imperatoris Semper Augusti Archidux Austriæ, Dux Burgundiæ et Belgarum Princeps Serenissima.
P. Soutman Effigiavit et Excud. I. Suÿderhoef Sculpsit.
Cum Priuil Sa. Cæ. M. [Haarlem, The Netherlands, c.1644.]
Engraving, first state before number, sheet 405 x 270mm. 16 x 10¾". Trimmed to image and laid on album page.
Mary, called Mary the Rich (1457 - 1482), was suo jure Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 - 1482. She wears a veil and a cross pendant, set in an oval surrounded by an ornamental border with garlands. As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, Mary was the heiress to the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477. Her mother had died in 1465, but Mary was on very good terms with her stepmother Margaret of York, whom Charles married in 1468. Plate 6 from a series of thirteen 'Duces Burgundiae' published by Pieter Soutman (1580 - 1657).
[Ref: 13624] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

George Cadoual, General of the Royalist Armies of Bretagne, Born at Bresch near Varnes, in the Year 1769, Died in Paris, June 25, 1804. I shall not mention, or name any Person [/] there are too many Victims already. Je ne nommerai personne [/] il y a deja eu asse de Victime.
Dumonlier del.t at Paris. Engraved by A. Freschi.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Stipple. Rare. Sheet: 200 x 295mm (8 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into an album sheet. Some marking.
A three-quarter length portrait of Georges Cadoudal (1771-1804) who was a leader of the Chouannerie, a Royalist movement which fought against the revolutionaries and Napoleon. Cadoudal was arrested and sentenced to death in 1804 and was executed by guillotine.
[Ref: 42155] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Cannes.]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 375mm (8¾ x 14¾"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild.
A view of Cannes on the French Riviera, with pedestrians walking next to a row of buildings and larg palm trees. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62639] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Cardinal Barberini]
R. Nanteuil ad vivum pin. et Sculpebat 1663.
Cum privilegio Regis.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 350 x 275mm (13¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed.
A half portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1608-1671) in an oval garland of oak leaves atop a plinth decorated with a coat of arms. He wears typical clerical dress with skull cap and the isignia of the Order of the Saint-Eprit. Antonio was an influential figure of the House of Barberini, which helped shape the politics, religion art and music of 17th century Italy. His uncle was appointed Pope Urban VIII in 1623 and elevated Antonio and his brothers to Cardinal.
PW 10.
[Ref: 57423] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Carnac in Britanny.
Rev.d J. Eden del.t. G. Hollis sc.
Published by Sir Rich.d Colt Hoare Bar.t Jan.y 1826.
Rare etching on chine collé. 230 x 370mm (9 x 14½"), with large margins. Slight surface soiling, crease in title.
A view of the Carnac stones, a collection of Neolithic stone alignments. From 'The History of Modern Wiltshire', published for Sir Richard Colt Hoare in eleven volumes (1822-44). Despite being of France, the view was included as a comparison to similar stone-age sites in the county.
[Ref: 61225] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Casine in the Environs of Nice.
Bacler d'Albe f.t. Drawn on Stone by N. Chater & Co.
Printed & Published by N. Chater & Co. 33 Fleet Street, May 30. 1823.
Lithograph, rare, printed on india. Printed area: 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"). Marking.
A view of a house on the coast of the Mediterranean, with a woman holding a guitar and a young child looking out to a large ship.
[Ref: 46074] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Jacques Marquis de Castelnau Marsechal de France...
J. Frosne Sculpsit.
A paris chez F. Jollain [n.d., c.1680.]

Jacques de Castelnau-Bochetel (1620-58), lieutenant general of the king's armies during the Thirty Years War. In 1658, he took the fort of Leon near Dunkirk from the Spaniards and began strenghening work on the fortifications. During an inspection he was shot by a musket which lodged in his body. The king rewarding the capture of Leon by making Castelnau marshal of France, but he died of his wound a month later, aged only 38 years old.
[Ref: 51443] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Jacques Marquis de Castelnau Mareschal de France Lieutenant General des Armees du Roy en Flandres, Gouverneur de Brest, nommé a l'Order du Saint Esprit &c.
Nanteuil ad viv. faciebat 1658.
Engraving. Plate: 275 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½''). Trimmed to plate at bottom, 3 sides thread margins.
A portrait of Jacques de Castelnau-Bochetel Seigneur de Mauvissière (1620-1658), Lieutenant-General and Governor of Brest who was mortally wounded during the seige of Dunkirk in 1658 and given the title of Marshall on his deathbed.
Petitjean & Wickert 41 11.
[Ref: 49259] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[March of the Catholic League] Procession de la Fameuse Ligue Contre Henri IV, en 1593.
[after François Bunel.]
[n.d., c 1800.]
Scarce etching with engraving. 360 x 490mm (14¼ x 19¼"). Narrow margins.
The French Catholic League marching around Notre Dame in Paris, protesting against the Calvinist Henri IV (Henri of Navarre) during the Wars of Religion (1562-98). Eventually Henri converted to Catholicism and was accepted as the rightful king of France. A reversed copy of an engraving by Pieter van den Keere, published by Cornelis Danckerts c.1625, after François Bunel le Jeune (1522-99), a painter in the service of Henri IV.
[Ref: 59370] £480.00

Nicolas Catinat, Marechal de France.
D'apres la Statue pedestre Sculptee pour le Roy, Par Mr. de Jou.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St Victore. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 278 x 168mm. Some paper toning.
[Ref: 1958] £10.00 (£12.00 incl.VAT)

Entrée de la Caverne de Balme [on verso in ink.]
[n.d. c.1815.]
Very fine hand coloured etching. Watermarked. 241 x 330mm. 9½ x 13". Bader Dalbi pinxt & sculpt in image.
Les Grottes de la Balme lie 30km north of Lyon and are are caves carved into the cliffs of limestone of l'Isle Crémieu.
[Ref: 15335] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Chalier] Philipe Sidney.
peint par H.F. Tassaert. gravé par J.J. Tassaert.
A Paris et a Londres chez Tessari et Comp.ie [n.d., c.1835.]
Sripple, printed in colours. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), large margins.
A portrait taken from a bust of Joseph Chalier (1747-93) who was a French lawyer and revolutionary politician. It is apparently a reissue of a portait of Chalier that Jean Joseph François Tassaert engraved, originally attributed to painter Jacques Philippe Caresme. This version has the title changed, Henriette-Félicité Tassaert as painter, and the revolutionary symbols in the borders removed.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60318] £380.00

[France] Marivaux.
Eng.d by Page.
London, Pub.d as the Act directs June 1.st 1815, by G. Jones.
Stipple, with very large margins. Plate 166 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½".
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) was a French novelist and playwright. He was considered one of the most important playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comedie-Francaise and the Comedie-Italienne of Paris.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25520] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Cascade des Pélerins. Chamonix.
Dessiné d'après nature par Mottu. Lith. par Tirpenne
S. Morel, Ed. à Genève. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
A waterfall with a rock formation that forces the flow to arch out from the rock face. Ruskin records a visit in his diary. Probably published in 'Chamonix et Ses Environs', one of Morel's 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' series, which contained 23 tinted lithographic views by Morel, Mottu, Linck and others.
[Ref: 46113] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Chamouni.
A. Cuvilier lith. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
Briquet & Fils à Genève.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 105 x 125mm (4 x 5").
[Ref: 46114] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

In the Valley of Chamouni.
On Stone by T.S. Cooper. A Ducotés Lithog.y 10 St Martins Lane.
London, Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.
Lithograph. Printed area 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"), with very wide margins.
A view from the valley looking up at the Mont Blanc massif. Thomas Sydney Cooper (1803-1902) is better known for his cattle subjects.
[Ref: 54244] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Elysian Fields: Distant Gardens of the Tuileries: The New Bridge: Quai d'Arsai: Palace of the Corps Legislatie. Champs Elysées: Jardin de Tuileries, vu de loin. Pont de la Concorde: Quai d'Arsai: Palais du Corps Legislatie.
[P.A. Demachy.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving with text page. Plate: 340 x 530mm (13¼ x 21''), very large margins.
A view of the Louvre, the Tuilerie Gardens and Pont Neuf.
[Ref: 50609] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Fètes et Illuminations aux Champs-Elysées le 1 Juillet 1790. No. 41.
Prieur inv. & del. Berthault Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. Plate 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"). Some foxing to margins and mount burn.
The Fête de la Fédération (14 July 1790) was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the establishment of the short-lived constitutional monarchy. A popular aspect of the event were the lights in the Champs-Elysées. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28298] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Palace of Chantilli taken from the Orangery. ~ Vue de Chateau de Chantilli prise du Parterre de L'Orangerie
J. Rigaud delt.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whttle, 53 Fleet Street, London [This impression c.1805].
Engraving with fine contemporary hand colour. 245 x 415mm (9¾ x 16¼"), on wove paper. Evidence of some scuffing to colour in sky.
Figures in the grounds of the Château de Chantilly in the town of Chantilly, France, to the north of Paris. Partially destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s, the chateau is now owned by the Institut de France, and houses the Musée Condé, which is one of the finest art galleries in the country. Numbered '14' upper right. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 20735] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Chapelain Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseiles.
R. Nanteuil ad vivum delineabat et sculpebat 1655.
Engraving. Sheet 270 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Small margins.
Jean Chapelain (1595-1674), poet, critic and counsellor of Louis XIII, founding member of the Académie française. By Robert Nanteuil (1623 - 1678), engraver and portrait draughtsman.
Petitjean & Wickert 43, ii of iv.
[Ref: 49404] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles V, Duke of Lorraine] Serenissimus Princeps Carolus a Lotharingia.
Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat 1660.
Engraving with small margins. 320 x 250mm (12½ x 9¾"). Fine impression.
Charles V (1643-90), Duke of Lorraine but not allowed to rule, as Lorraine was under French occupation during his lifetime. He entered Habsburg service, becoming one of their most successful generals, defeating the Turks at the Siege of Vienna, 1683. He died suddenly in 1690. According to Voltaire, Louis XIV paid tribute to him with the words "I have lost the greatest, wisest and most generous of my enemies". The portrait was engraved by Robert Nanteuil, the most celebrated of French 17th century portrait engravers, published in his 'Portraits de Nanteuil Tome I'.
R.D. 63
[Ref: 28526] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Depiction of a female saint on a shield.]
AH [monogram of Axel Haig] 1881.
Etching. Printed area 105 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"). Narrow margins.
A decoration in Chartres Cathedral. Published as a tailpiece in the 'Chartres Brochure'.
Mordant Crook & Lennox-Boyd: 31b. Ex: Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 53197] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

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