Grosvenor Prints

[Ancient Greece. Royal Gallery of British Art.]
Painted by W. Linton. Engraved by J.W. Appleton. Printed by Horwood & Watkins.
London, Published Dec.r 1, 1840, by the Proprietors No.s 18 & 19, Southampton Place, Euston Square, Sold also by F.G. Moon, Threadneedle Street, and Ackermann & Co., Strand.
Etching and engraving on chine collé. Plate 360 x 510mm (14¼ x 20") with wide margins. Some surface dirt in margins.
A city in ancient Greece, after Linton; people on steps in front of a temple in the foreground, with trees round the curved collonaded portico, preparing to offer a sacrifice and looking to left towards a galley carrying men in armour which rows past, other galleys lined up to left in front of another temples, more in the harbour beyond to right with town buildings rising above, including a bridge lined by statues across a cascade, to left. According to ODNB, the 'Royal Gallery of British Art' was the most ambitious publication of the brothers William and Edward Finden, though sadly unprofitable: a set of forty-eight plates after the most notable painters of the day, published by them with the collaboration of others, between 1838 and 1840.
[Ref: 52464] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[View of the Incantada or Propylaea of the Hippodrome, Salonica.]
J. Steuart, delin.t. Lerpiniere Sculp.t.
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraving. 360 x 500mm, 14 x 19¾". Trimmed to plate at top, with large margins on 3 sides..
A view of the prophylaea (gateway) of the Hippodrome, Thessaloniki, with a private house built through it, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Stuart (1713-88) and Revett (1720-1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham 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, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the building is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD146/3.
[Ref: 26793] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Carte de L'Ile de Samos.
Redigé par F. Kauffer. Gravé par J. Perrier.
[Paris, 1782.]
Engraved map with hand colour. 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A map of the Ægean island of Samos prepared by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage for Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce'.
[Ref: 43999] £140.00

Samos. Acts. 20. 15.
[J. Clarked after Luigi Mayer; published by Robert Bowyer, c.1830]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Small margins.
The western harbour on the Greek island of Samos, in the Aegean Sea. Plate from 'A Series of Twenty-Four Views illustrative of The Holy Scriptures, Selected from Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated Collection of Drawings'. Ainslie (1729/30-1812) was a diplomat and numismatist who was in Constantinople from 1776-94 and amassed a collection of antiquities and drawings, many commissioned from Luigi Mayer (d.1803). After a drawing by Mayer which had already been reproduced in a previous volume of drawings from Ainslie's collection, 'Views in the Ottoman Dominions' (1810).
Abbey 382.17 (cp. Abbey 371.60)
[Ref: 41693] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Castro auf Samothrake.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Etching, with large margins, rare. Plate 216 x 280mm. 8½ x 11".
A view from the rugged hillside of Samothrace, the Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea.
[Ref: 25644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Volcanic Isles of Santorini.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"), large margins. Slight ink offset from text.
The archipelago of Santorini in the Aegean, the remains of the volcanic island Thera which exploded 3,600 years ago, probably ending the Minoan civilisation on Crete.
[Ref: 56705] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Côte de Santorin.
Eenens del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
Boats navigating the shores of Santorini, the classical Thera (the island volcano that erupted and destroyed the Minoan civilisation on Crete). The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35163] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Santorini] A View of the Bay of Santerini, with a Burning-Island, which lately rose out of the Sea.
Gent. Mag. April 1770.
Engraved map. 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate on right. Time staining.
A map of Santorini (Thera), with a new volcanic island.
[Ref: 61416] £130.00

Scio, Chio...
[by Giovanni Francesco Camocio.]
[Venice: Bertelli?, c.1575.]
Engraving. 215 x 160mm (8¾ x 6½"), with very large margins. Small hole in bottom margin patched.
An early map of the Ægean island of Chios, with the capital shown as buildings in profile and two galleys in the sea. It was published in Camocio's rare atlas of islands claimed to be subject to Venice, 'Isole famose, porti fortezze e terre marittime sottoposte alla Ser.ma Sig.ria di Venezia'. First published in 1571, this later state has a plate number added.
Zackarakis 517.
[Ref: 51055] £360.00

G. Sissini. [With 'Georgio Sissini' signature facsimile.]
Hanfstaengl ft. 1829. [signed in plate.] Nach der Natur gez. v. Krazeisen. Gedr. von Selb.
[Munich, 1828-31.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 335 x 230mm. 13¼ x 9". Foxing. Slight marks near head.
Georgio Sissini (1769 - 1831), politician and leader in the Greek War of Independence. 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: 14914] £450.00

Vue du Village de St George de Skyros.
Lemonnier del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph, rare. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
A view of Chora, the capital of Skyros, dominated by the Venetian fortress. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35152] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Mountains Of Suli.
Hanhart lith.
[London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1864.]
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 152 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Some soiling to left edge.
A view in what is now north-western Greece. Souli is a mountain settlement in Thesprotia, Greece. From "The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1863. With a Visit to Montenegro", by Emily Anne Beaufort, Viscountess Strangford.
[Ref: 53126] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Nikitas. A Chief Leader in the Greek Army, distinguished for his Patriotism & disinterestedness. This Print forms one of the Series of Greek Portraits (1st part) now in course of Publication in London & Paris, 1827, by A. Friedel, & Sold by the principal Book & Printsellers in Town & Country. [parallel text in French]
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9") Cut.
Nikitas Stamatelopoulos (1784-1849), Greek revolutionary also known as 'Nikitaras' or 'Tourkofagos' ('Turk-eater'). He earned this sobriquet during the Battle of Dervenakia. After the War of Independence he was imprisoned owing to his opposition to King Otto. Plate from a series of twenty-four portraits of figures related to the Greek War of Independence, by the Danish painter Adam Friedel.
For a similar version of this lithograph see ref. 2581
[Ref: 25359] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Nikytas. A Chief Leader in the Greek Army, distinguished for his Patriotism & disinterestedness...
Drawn from Life, & Published in London & Paris, 1827, by A. Friedel. This Print forms one of a Series of Greek Portraits (1st Part) now in course of Publication by A. Friedel, & Sold by the principal Book and Printsellers in Town & Country.
Lithograph. Sheet: 225 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Nikitas Stametelopoulos (1784-1849) a Greek revolutionary during the Greek War of Independence. Plate from a series of twenty-four portraits of figures related to the Greek War of Independence, by the Danish painter Adam Friedel. Title in English and French.
[Ref: 42768] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Ville et de L'Isle de Syra.
Eenens et Petermanns del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Ano Syros, built by the Venetians on Syros, ringed by their fortifications and topped by the Roman Catholic cathedral of San Giorgio. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35158] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of Apollo, near Phigaleia.
From a drawing by F.W. Newton Esq.re Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
London, J. Murray, Albermarle St. 1837.
Lithograph. 120 x 190mm. 4¾ x 7½.
A snow scene. The Temple of Apollo Epicurios, at Phigaleia, in Arcadia, stands in a slight depression on the bare and wind-swept side of Mount Cotylion, above the valley of the river Neda. It was discovered towards the end of the eighteenth century, but on account of its remote position it was seldom visited before 1811. From "A Short Visit to The Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea. By Edward Giffard, Esq."
[Ref: 25646] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Greek War of Independence.] Die Helden von Tenedos.
[Etched by Wunder after Geissler?]
[Nuremberg?, c.1829.]
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 170 x 205mm (6¾ x 8"). Trimmed.
A scene from Greek War of Independence (1821-29), with Constantine Canaris blowing up a Turkish warship using a fireship off Tenedos, a tactic he used several times.
[Ref: 29826] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Straights of Thermopylae.
London: Published by J. McCormick, 147, Strand, June 1.st 1832. A. Ducôte's Estab.t 70, St. Martins Lane.
A very scarce lithograph. 272 x 380mm. 10¾ x 15". Uncut sheet.
The straits of Thermopylae, Greece. A narrow coastal passage that existed in antiquity, its names from its hot sulphur springs, meaning 'hot gate'. It was here that the Battle of Thermopylae took place between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
[Ref: 22962] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Trhaia.
[Hartmann Schedel, c.1493.]
Woodcut engraving with letterpress text, rare. Image area 230 x 224mm. 9 x 8¾". Cut.
A view of Thrace, modern Greece, a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains in the north, the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara in the east. From "Schedelsche Weltchronik" published by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) in 1493 in Nuremberg. Maps in his Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
[Ref: 26187] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Tinos] Vue de Bourg San-Nicolo.
Lemonnier del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Tinos, the main town of the island of the same name, called San Niccolo by the Venetians. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35155] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Tinos] Vue de Bourg de San-Nicolo, Prise du côté du Levant.
Lemonnier del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Tinos, the main town of the island of the same name, called San Niccolo by the Venetians. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35159] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Tinos] Vue de Bourg de San-Nicolo dans L'Ile de Tine. Prise du côté du Couchant.
F. Eenens del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
View of Tinos, the main town of the island of the same name, called San Niccolo by the Venetians. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35160] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Tryphon Imperator. Ex nummo Argenteo penes Math. Duane Armig.
F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp.
London, Publish'd Decr. 1. 1788, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Etching with stipple, printed in brown ink; published state, with very large margins. 215 x 155mm, 8½ x 6". A fine impression.
A coin bearing the head in profile of Diodotus Tryphon, a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom; a measure immediately below. As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus, the infant son of Alexander Balas, in Antioch after Alexander's death - but then in 142 BC deposed the child and himself seized power.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18241] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ulysse, also called Odisea Governor-General of Eastern Greece.
Bouvier Lithog. Printed by P. Simonau.
Drawn from Life & Published in London, April 1825, by A. Friedel, & Sold by all the Principal Printsellers.
Lithograph on india. 255 x 205mm (10 x 8"). Some surface soiling.
A Greek official during the Greek War of Independence (1821-32).
[Ref: 38984] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

View of Yannina.
From the Original, taken on the spot, by Theophilus Richards Jun.r Esq.r I. Clark sculp.t
Published by L. Relfe, 13, Cornhill, London. 1823.
Aquatint with large margins. Plate 185 x 565m. 7¼ x 22¼". Fold down middle as normal.
A view of Yannina, in the Epirus region of northwestern Greece. It is located on a plateau on the Western side of Lake Ioannin, facing the gray limestone mass of Mount Mitsikeli.
[Ref: 26124] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Demitrios Ypsilantis. President of the Legislative Body of the Greek Government, in 1822. At present A General in Chief, in the Morea. Drawn from Life & Published in London, Nov.r 1824, by Adam Friedel, 12 Phenix Row, Blackfriars Road. This Print forms one of the Series of Greek Portraits, first Part, nowin Course of Publication, by A. Friedel.
Bouvier Lithog.
Lithograph and tintstone, sheet 280 x 205mm (11¼ x 8") Trimmed.
Dimitrios Ypsilantis (Ypsilanti) (1793 - 1832) was appointed as the first Field Marshal in modern Greece by the first head of state of independent Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias; he was brother of Alexander Ypsilantis, the leader of the secret nationalist organisation Filiki Eteria. Plate from a series of twenty-four portraits of figures related to the Greek War of Independence, by the Danish painter Adam Friedel.
For an earlier version of this lithograph see ref. 2581.
[Ref: 25361] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Zaimis.
Hanfstaengl ft: 1828. [signed in plate.] Nach der Natur gez. v. Krazeisen. Gedr. v. I. Selb.
[Munich, 1828-31.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9". Trimmed, slight printers' crease through waist.
Andreas Asimakou Zaimis (1791 - 1840) was a Greek freedom fighter and government leader during the Greek War of Independence. In 1826, Zaimis was chosen as the leader of the interim Greek government. His son, Thrasivoulos Zaimis, and grandson, Alexandros Zaimis, would also serve as Prime Ministers of Greece. 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: 14910] £650.00

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