Grosvenor Prints

Gordon. [With 'Thos Gordon' signature facsimile.]
Fr: Hanfstaengl fec. [signed in plate.] Nach der Natur gez. v. Krazeisen. Selb Lith.
[Munich, 1828-31.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9".
Thomas Gordon (1788 - 1841) major-general in the Greek army. From the rare folio 'Bildnisse ausgezeichneter Griechen und Philhellenen/Portraits des Grecs et des Philhelle`nes les plus ce´le`bres...' by Carl or Karl Krazeisen, published in Munich, Germany, with text in German and French. Published in parts between 1828 and 1831, the work contains 21 portraits and seven views or scenes. Krazeisen accompanied von Heideck and the Bavarian philhellenes to Greece in 1826 where he served as a junior officer. The portraits are amongst the best-known of the leaders of the War of Independence and are frequently reproduced. The original drawings are preserved in the National Gallery, Athens.
British Library: 002020473. From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 14911] £450.00

Gorgei.
Compose et lith. par H. Sharles. Edite par J.C Kastner. Schenck & McFarlane Lith.rs Edinburgh. [Signed in the image:] H. Sharles.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph, very rare. 361 x 420mm (14¼ x 16½"). Chips and tear into upper edge. Repaired hole to lower left of image; pin hole to left.
The Hungarian freedom fighter surrounded by the monstrous figures of oppression, including skeletal Austrian and Russian officers and a creature coiling around his feet holding a blazing torch with a tail labelled 'Kain', as he steps forward to right to rescue a beautiful woman representing freedom who lies swooningin the lap of a gorgon, a broken sword and paper labelled 'Constitution' beside her. Gorgey Artur (1818-1916), the Hungarian soldier and chemist. He fought in the Hungarain uprising of 1848 and had several successes against the Austrian until the Russians intervened and he surrendered to the Russian General Rudiger at Vilagos in 1849. He was confined at Klagenfurt where he occupied himself with chemistry, until 1867 when he was pardoned and returned to Hungary. Very atmospheric image.
[Ref: 34626] £320.00

Görgey. General der Ungarischen Armee.
N.d. Nat. gez. v. Borowaki. Druck v. Mercier in Berlin. Lith. v. Bülow.
Verlag v. Gebr. Rocco in Berlin. Eigenth d. Verleger mit Vorbehalt gegen Nachdruck.
Lithograph. Sheet: 485 x 360mm (19 x 14"), with large margins.
A portrait of Artur Görgei de Görgu et Torparc (1818-1916) one of the greatest generals of the Hungarian Revolutionary Army. From the collection of Lady Elizabeth Fielding (1773-1846) mother of William Henry Fox-Talbot, and her family.
[Ref: 46449] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Gortchakoff. The Whitehall Review 18th May 1878.
Judd & Co. Lith. Doctors Commons London
Lithograph, sheet 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10").
Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (1798-1883), Russian statesman. A talented scholar and linguist who attended school with Pushkin, Gorchakov entered the foreign office, becoming amabassador at Vienna during the Crimean War and then minister of foreign affairs. In 1863 he was appointed Chancellor of the Russian Empire, a post he held during a period which included the sale of Alaska to the United States, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 and the Russo-Turkish Campaign of 1878.
[Ref: 43502] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Granada.
H. Swinburne del. Angus sculp.t.
[London: Printed for P. Elmsly, 1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾). Trimmed and laid on album paper, text sheet (in English & French) pasted as overlay.
A view of Granada, published in 'Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776 in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot' by Henry Swinburne (1743-1803), an account of his travels with Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Spain was relatively unknown land. It was the first antiquarian book on Spain to be published in England, describing early Roman and Moorish architecture with historical background.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33307] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

On the Daro, Granada.
David Roberts 1836. W.G. [William Gauci.]
London Published Nov.r 1st 1836 by Hodgson & Graves, 6, Pall Mall.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 430 x 285mm (17¼ x 11¼"). Repaired tear just entering image on right, bottom left corner margin reinstated.
A view of the river Daro, winding through the city of Granada. It was published in David Roberts's 'Picturesque Sketches in Spain', his first publication. Although the plate bears the initials of William Gauci as lithographer, it is known that Roberts worked on every stone. The success of this work enabled Roberts to finance his important excursion to Egypt and the Holy Land.
Abbey Travel 152.
[Ref: 39713] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Prospect of Granada.]
Ch. Damour sculp. de Chacaton pinx.
[Paris: Gihaut fréres, 1851.]
Etching. 250 x 320mm, 9¾ x 12½".
A prospect of the city of Granada. Etched by Charles Damour after Jean Nicolas Henri de Chacaton for "Espagne: Cinq Passages à l'Eau-forte", a series of folios each with five plates.
[Ref: 17837] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

"Adieu Grenada"
[Illegible signature in plate.]
M. & N. Hanhart, Impt. [n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph heightened in white, Tatty and chipped extremities.
A Spanish gentleman about to take his leave on horseback bids farewell to his sweetheart; a lady at a balcony in the background surrounded by the architecture of Granada, in Andalusia, southern Spain. From an unidentified publication; numbered '209(2)' lower left.
[Ref: 20651] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

On the Daro, Granada.
David Roberts 1836. W.G. [William Gauci.]
[London Published Nov.r 1st 1837 by Hodgson & Graves, 6, Pall Mall.]
Colour tinted lithograph. Sheet 400 x 275mm (17¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed into image. Laid on card as issued.
A view of the river Daro, winding through the city of Granada. It was published in David Roberts's 'Picturesque Sketches in Spain', his first publication. Although the plate bears the initials of William Gauci as lithographer, it is known that Roberts worked on every stone. The success of this work enabled Roberts to finance his important excursion to Egypt and the Holy Land.
Abbey Travel 152.
[Ref: 55046] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Grand Hôtel Victoria & Grand Hôtel du Prince de Galles. Monte Carlo.
Rey Frères.
Engraving. 95 x 132mm. 3¾ x 5¼".
A view of the Grand Hotel Prince of Wales, and the Grand Hotel Victoria, look out over the port of Monaco.
[Ref: 18177] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Charles Grant. Vicomte de Vaux. Marechal des Camps et Armees de sa Majeste tres Chretienne.
Conde pinx et scu.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and engraving, rare. 146 x 89mm. 5¾ x 7½". Cut.
Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux (1749-c.1818) was a French soldier and writer. He served as a sous-lieutenant in the Scots Company of the Garde du Roi, and by 1781 was a lieutenant colonel. After the French Revolution, the vicomte escaped to England, where, in 1802, he appealed for an appointment on refugee allowance from the war Office. The vicomte was obviously fascinated by his ancestry and published his Mémoires de la Maison Grant in London in 1796. Without the income from his property in Mauritius or France, Grant devoted much of his time in exile to his writing, including a 'History of Mauritius' (1801).
NPG: D15493.
[Ref: 24684] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Grasse, France.]
Fred. A. Farrell [signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching. 230 x 370mm.
b.1882. Scotland. Official Artist with the 51st Highlanders 1914-1918.
[Ref: 2441] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Maria Grazia. The Brigand's Wife.
Painted by Schnetz. Engraved by H. Berthoud. Junr.
Published by Berthoud & Son. 65. Quadrant. London. 1828.
Coloured aquatint. 337 x 247mm. 13¼" x 9¾".
In 1819 Papal troops demolished the community of Sonnino, arresting several hundreds of prisoners. The men were detained in the Castel Sant’Angelo, whereas the women and children were held in a workhouse adjacent to the Thermes of Diocletian. After several months the Roman authorities could not maintain the women and children at such a high expense, so released them. Maria Grazia, whom was amongst these captives, became mistress of Schnetz and remained in Rome to make a long career of posing, becoming somewhat of a celebrity.
[Ref: 8522] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Appartement du reverend père prieur de l'hospice du grand St Bernard. [In mss below image.]
[Johann Peter Lamy.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Very fine hand coloured aquatint. Sheet: 195 x 165mm, (7¾ x 6½"). Trimmed.
An interior scene in the rooms of the prior of the Great St Bernard Hospice. There has been a hostel at the Great St Bernard Pass since the 9th century, built for the protection of travellers crossing the alps. It was at the hospice that the St Bernard dog breed was created, bred to help with mountain rescues in the treacherous terrain.
[Ref: 40387] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Fons Aemilym in Graecia.
Henri Cliuen. inuen.
Philipp. Gall. excud. [n.d. c.1612.]
Engraving, very rare with large margins. Plate 172 x 241mm. 6¾ x 9½"
Plate 19: view of the source of an unknown Greek river, a fishing boat in the foreground, a fountain with a sculpture at left, a circular temple in the background This is the ninteenth plate of a set of thirty-eight engravings after Hendrick van Cleve depicting ruins in various cities, mainly around the Mediterranean Sea ,first published by Phillips Galle in Antwerp.
[Ref: 25732] £320.00

A Greek Reis.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.
Coloured aquatint, rare. 145 x 209mm (5¾ x 8¼").
A womderful image of the Greek Reis, or captain, who sailed to Constantinople from Galatz. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
[Ref: 31163] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Grecian Islanders.
Benezech delin. Wilson sculp.
Published by J. Trusler, Sept.r. 1. 1792.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Greek scene with four figures.
[Ref: 32059] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Greek Lady.
C. Benezech del. I. Neagle sc.t.
Published by J. Trusler Oct.r. 1. 1793.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Greek scene in which a Greek woman walks accompanied by several figures, one holds her dress and one holds a parasol to shield her.
[Ref: 32064] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Greek Lady in her walking dress.
London Published by James Cawthorne, 24 Cockspur Street 1812. [But 1813.]
Coloured aquatint with fine colour. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼").
A costume plate from John Cam Hobhouse's 'A Journey Through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople'. Hobhouse (1st Baron Broughton, 1786-1869), met Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, and travelled with him through Italy, Greece and Turkey, a journey which resulted in this book. Hobhouse became Byron's executor after the poet's death in 1824. Despite being imprisoned in Newgate for writing a Radical pamphlet in 1819 Hobhouse became a successful Whig politician, serving in government as Secretary at War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and President of the Board of Control. He became a Privy Councillor in 1832.
Abbey: 202.
[Ref: 34548] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Carte de la Turquie d'Europe & d'Asie Contenant La Grèce ou Théàtre de la Guerre Entre les Grecs et les Turcs. Dréssée d'aprés les Voyages les plus récents.
Drésée par Hérisson et Gravé par Berthe.
A Paris chez Basset rue St. Jacques No.64 1828.
Engraving with added hand-colour. 580 x 857mm. 22¾ x 33¾". Fold through centre, some nicks and tearing around edges. A few stains.
A map depicting Turkey, Greece and lower Italy; plus an inset map lower left entitled 'Plan des Environs de Constantinople'.
[Ref: 19632] £380.00

The Grecian Maid. 'Dreams of bright days that never can return.'
Painted by S. Newton, R.A. Border by J. Marchant. Engraved by W. Holl.
[n.n., c.1850.]
Mixed method engraving, sheet 360 x 265mm. 14¼ x 10½". Sheet trimmed.
Portrait of a woman in an ornate oval frame, her hands clasped at her waist, wearing rings and bracelet. Illustration from 'The Art Journal', after Gilbert Stuart Newton (1794 - 1835).
[Ref: 15862] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Greece.] Griechenland Taf.I. Tempel des Apollo Epicurius in Arcadien.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, verlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views in Greece arranged around a central view of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae, other views include 'Petras', 'Argos', Korinth und Akrokinth'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46026] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Greece.] Griechenland. Taf. III. Das Parthenon in Athen.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Greece arranged around a central view of the Parthenon in Athens, other views include 'Theben', 'Der Golf von Salamis', 'Suli'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46034] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Greek couple attacked.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 175 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½") Trimmed into image.
A Greek couple stand under a cliff, the man firing his pistol into the air. Behind are men with torches.
[Ref: 59899] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeune Grec.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7").
A young Greek, with mustache and turban.
[Ref: 59902] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Grecian Woman. Engrav'd from the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord Baltimore.
Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 25 July 1768.
Fine engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 272 x 196mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Uncut with large margins.
A Grecian woman, standing with a windmill and a yacht in the background on the Aegean Sea. After Francis Smith (fl.1760s) painter, apparently born in Naples, where he painted topographical views for the tourist trade. He accompanied Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731-1771, named in inscription) to the Levant 1763-4, then exhibited in London 1768-73. From a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits.
Provenance: Hermitage Hexham.
[Ref: 30122] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Young Greek Man.]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Very fine watercolour. 266 x 196mm (10½ x 7¾"). Laid on sheet.
A young Greek man with a green shawl over this shoulder, looking down towards the ground; dressed in traditional costume.
[Ref: 30700] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Greece, Archipelago and Part of Anadoli.
By L.S. de la Rochette MDCCXC. W. Palmer sculp.
Published by Will.m Faden, Geographer tot he King, January 1st 1791.
Engraved map. 550 x 640mm, 21¾ x 25¼". Left edge worn with loss in the bottom left corner, damaged.
Map of Greece, the Aegean and western Turkey, with mountains marked with hatchuring rather than contours, decorated with a title cartouche of classical ruins. A note acknowledges that 'use has been made of the Papers of M.r Stuart'. James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713–88) and Nicholas Revett (1720–1804) travelled on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens.
[Ref: 26789] £180.00

Jeune Grec.
Printed by Kohler & Co., 22, Denmark S.t Soho.
London J. M.cCormick, 147 Strand [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured lithograph with fine fresh hand colour. Sheet 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½").
Young Greek man turned to left, carrying a drapery over his right shoulder, wearing turban and embroidered waistcoat over stripped shirt. Detail from a painting by Baron François Gérard (1770 - 1837).
[Ref: 62340] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Danse Grecque. La Grande Maîtresse guide la danse. Elle est suivie par nombre de jeunes Démoiselles qui imitent ses pas, & si elle chante c’est à ces filles à composer le choeur. Lettres de Lady M-y W-y M-es.
T. Stothard del. P. Zancon scul.
A Venise chez Joseph Remondini & Fils. [n.d. c.1790.]
Hand-coloured stipple in oval, small margins, rare. Plate 285 x 254mm. 11¼ x 10".
A clearing in the woods where women dance to music of a pipe played by a boy sitting at right and the tambourine played by central figure, all in late 18th century fashions. Associated with Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1762) whose letters home from Constantinople in 1716-1718, where published as a travel book.
[Ref: 26133] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Greek Dancing]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Unique Watercolour on laid paper. Sheet 260 x 390mm (10¼ x 15¼"). Some wear to grey borders.
Two men dancing, with a turbaned tamborine player.
[Ref: 39237] £480.00

Le Mage Grec.
[Charles Waltner after Rubens.]
[n.d., c.1878.]
Drypoint etching. Sheet 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed.
An interpretative etching after Peter Paul Rubens.
[Ref: 59695] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Greek Merchant of Astrachan, in the Streets of Moscow, from a drawing by Geissler, given to the Author by Professor Pallas. P.48.
Published Nov.r 25th 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, London.
Rare aquatint and etching. Sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½").
Published in 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 59694] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Marchand grec.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Watercolour and a collage of materials including silk and felt. Sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
A full length portrait of a Greek merchant, with his cloak, shirts, trousers, hat and shoes made from different materials, but the background, his features, belt and fur edgings inked in.
[Ref: 50677] £360.00

[Greek Tomb.] Vig:10. Journey through the Interior of the Crimea, along the Peninsula of Kertsh, and to the Isle of Taman.
[Geisler del. Medland sc.]
[John Stockdale.] [n.d. c.1812.]
Hand-coloured engraving with letterpress printed page, offset; stamp: Stamford Library. Sheet 266 x 203mm (10½ x 8").
Vignette 10: a view of an antique Greek tomb discovered among the works of the fortress of Ovidiopol near the Dniester. From Volume 2 of "Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794".
[Ref: 31059] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

The Greek Wife.
Drawn by E. T. Parris. Engraved by L. Stocks.
London, 1836. Charles Tilt, Fleet Street.
Line engraving with large margins. 220mm x 150mm (8¾" x 6").
A greek woman sits in an ornate balcony, looking outwards over the countryside, with a small child asleep in her lap. Illustration to 'The Keepsake' in a subsequent state.
[Ref: 31932] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Greeks at Prayer.]
[After Gerome] Rajon.
Etching. Early proof before all letters; Sheet: 280 x 400mm, (11 x 15¾").
An interior scene in an oriental style room, in which two men kneel in prayer while a third stands behind them with his head bowed.
[Ref: 40780] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Greeks Combating.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Fine pencil sketch with body colour. Sheet 175 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Glued to backing sheet
A fine sketch of two Greeks in national dress, fencing with rapiers.
[Ref: 25891] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Gregoire XVI, Pape le 2 Fevrier 1831.
A Maurin [signed in plate.] Lith Ligny Freres, R. Quincampoix No.38.
Paris, chez Rosselin, Editeur, 21 Quai Voltaire. No.120. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 355 x 275mm. 14 x 10¾".
Pope Gregory XVI (1765 – 1846), born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, named Mauro as a member of the religious order of the Camaldolese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he opposed democratic and modernizing reforms in the Papal States and throughout Europe, seeing them as fronts for revolutionary leftism, and sought to strengthen the religious and political authority of the papacy.
[Ref: 12368] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Cascade Du Gressbach.
[n.d., c.1840].
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet size: 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Trimmed to printed area and glued to backing card with modern title pasted below.
A scene depicting the Giessbach waterfall in Switzerland. A number of well dressed figures can be seen at the foot of the falls, with others on the path winding up the hillside to the left. A small viewing platform is also shown at the bottom of the waterfall with a figure pointing up towards the top.
[Ref: 31994] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Donna Genovese Col Mezzo Calato Che Vende Fiori. 7 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"). Very large margins.
A flower seller; Plate 7 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38715] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Piemontese D'Asti. 5 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. P.E. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A peasant woman from Piedmont standing whole-length in an interior, in profile to left, and looking into a small mirror hung beside a straw hat on the wall and a violin below. A landscape is seen to the right. Plate 5 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38716] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Donna Frascatana Vesitta Da Giorna Di Festa. [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. F.A. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Large margins. Tear into image on left bottom.
An interior of a cellar as a woman from Frascati holds a candle, watching wine pour from a barrel into a jug. Plate 24 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38717] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Donna Plebea di Napoli Riscaldono si I Piedi Ad Un Focone. 21 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A rustic interior; a woman of Naples, seated, warming her feet on coals. Plate 21 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
Duplicate see 38345 for cut version.
[Ref: 38718] £320.00

Donna Pleabea Di Napoli Vestita Da Giorno Di Fiesta. 20 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A woman dressed in the peasant costume of Naples, looking down, standing in a street with a fountain behind. Plate 20 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38719] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Contadina Di Napoli Con Un Bambino. 19 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A peasent woman of Naples standing on steps next to a port, holding a baby. Plate 19 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38720] £320.00

Contadina Di Bolognese. 10 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A rustic interior with a peasent woman of Bologna, seated, spinning yarn using a drop spindle. A bird cage hangs from the ceiling above. Plate 10 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38721] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Citadina Di Frascatana. 23 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. F.A Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A woman of Frascati, Rome, holding a fan and rosery beads, within a large columned interior. Plate 23 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38722] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Glaciers Of Grindelwald, With The Mettenburg And Wetterhorn.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph heightened in white, image 270 x 380mm. Trimmed close to printed area below.
Grindelwald in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the usual starting point for ascents of the Eiger and the Wetterhorn. Nowadays Grindelwald is also a popular summer activity resort with many miles of hiking trails across the Alps. By George Barnard (fl.1832 - 1890), painter and lithographer.
[Ref: 8030] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Upper Glacier of Grindelwald & the Schreckhorn.
IDG [within plate].
Lithograph. Collector's ink stamp of Christopher Lennox-Boyd on verso. Sheet size: 400 x 240mm (15¾ x 9½"). Large lower margin.
The Upper Grindelwald Glacier is one of the two valley glaciers south of Grindelwald on the northern side of the Bernese Alps, in the Canton of Berne. The Glacier arises from a vast snow field south of Schreckhorn, depicted here, with two birds of prey in the foreground.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37170] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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