Grosvenor Prints

Reform Advised. Reform Begun. Reform Compleat.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Published as the Act directs Jan.y 8.th 1793 by Ino. Brown No.2 Adelphi.
Etching. Sheet: 415 x 275mm (16¼ x 10¾''). Trimmed within plate, staining.
A satirical print in three scenes, in the first scene John Bull sits comfortably with a table full of food next to him, three ragged and hungry French revolutionaries put forward the idea of reform and taunt Bull. The second scene shows a ragged, peg-legged John Bull complaining to the three revolutionaries who brandish clubs; the final scene shows the three Frenchmen overpowering John Bull. A commentary on Grey's advocating reform in light of the French Revolution.
BM Satire 8289.
[Ref: 50965] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan for General Reform, Respectfully submitted to the attention of Members of Parliament, During the Summer Reccess.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[London Pub.d August 29, 1809] by Tho.s Tegg, No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), watermarked 'Willmott 1819'. Publication line partially scratched out.
Seven men and a woman arranged in two rows, each with a statement, for example 'I certainly shall drink two bottles less' and 'In Hot Weather what use is there for a coat, it is downright Extravagence'. A satire on attempts to reform Parliament.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 52696] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Reconciliation or the Return from Scotland.
T. Rowlandson fec.t.
Pub.d Nov.r 22. 1795. by S.W. Fores N.o3 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, surface dirt.
An interior scene showing the reconciliation of a newly-wed couple and the bride's family following her elopement to Scotland. The bride wipes her eyes while her father and mother regard the couple's entrance with shock, two servants clasp their hands in delight in the doorway.
For a 1785 version see BM 9669.
[Ref: 43645] £360.00

[View Near Richmond]
[Drawn & Etched by Rowlandson. Stadler Aquatinta.]
[London: Thomas Tegg, n.d., 1822.]
Fine coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 135 x 200mm (5¼ x 8"). Trimmed into image, losing inscriptions, mounted in album paper.
A view of the Thames from the Twickenham bank, Richmond Hill in the background. From Rowlandson's 'Sketches from Nature': The plate was first published by Rowlandson in a fortnightly series: it was not published in a book until 1822.
Abbey 33; Gascoigne Images of Richmond 782.
[Ref: 61108] £360.00

The Rival Candidates.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d April 8.th by W. Humphrey No. 227 Stand.
Hand-coloured etching, 1828 watermark. Plate: 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾''). Tears in margins.
A political satire on the Westminster Election of 1784. Charles James Fox and Cecil Wray are named as Athenian statesmen Themistocles and Demosthenes while Samuel Hood, who has previously been MP for Westminster for the Whigs had changed sides and was standing again but supported by the Tories, is shown as Judas Iscariot. A plate from 'History of the Westminster Election, 1784'.
BM Satire 6510
[Ref: 50831] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Robinson] The Apostate Jack R- the Political Rat Catcher - NB. Rats taken alive!
[by Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand. March 1st 1784.
Hand-coloured etching. 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, creased.
Caricature of John Robinson (1727–1802) as a rat catcher, tempting rats with human faces with pensions. As Tory MP for the safe seat of Harwich, Robinson was the chief ministerial agent in carrying on the business of parliament, and he was the medium of communication between the ministry and its supporters. Those whom he seduced from the opposition were known as "Robinson's rats".
BM Satires: 6431, with a list of the rats. Grego I, p118. From Westminster Election pg. 283.
[Ref: 61807] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Estuary with ship and ruined forts, St Maws?]
[Etched by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[London: J. Rowlandson, c.1813.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 255mm (6¾ x 10"), with large margins. Notch in edge of margin on left. Taped in mount.
From Rowlandson's 'Views in Cornwall', without an identified location.
Abbey 105-13.
[Ref: 58147] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Village with stream, bridge and stepping stones, near Helston?]
[Etched by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[London: J. Rowlandson, c.1813.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 255mm (6¾ x 10"), with large margins. Slight mount burn. Taped in mount.
From Rowlandson's 'Views in Cornwall', without an identified location.
Abbey 105-9.
[Ref: 58148] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Everdingen.
[Etched by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[London: J. Rowlandson, c.1813.]
Coloured etching. 165 x 175mm (6½ x 7"), with large margins. Taped in mount.
Two carts on a truck before a church and distant hills. From Rowlandson's 'Views in Cornwall'. Abbey is uncertain whether 'Everdingen' is the title or the artist.
Abbey 105-7.
[Ref: 58146] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Chelsea Volunteer. Prime & Load 4th priming motion (Front Rank). When the Cartridge is opened, the hand is brought to the Pan. which by a couple of shakes is filled.
Rowlandson delin.
London Pub. Aug. 7 1798 at Ackermann Gallery No. 101 Strand
Etching and aquatint, coloured and heightened with gold. Platemark 250 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Outside of frame 425 x 380mm (16½ x 15").
Plate thirty-five from 'Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs. Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, in 87 Plates. Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson, and Dedicated by Permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester'.
Ogilby 778.35; Abbey: Life 379. For complete volume see ref. 7433
[Ref: 18955] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fulham Volunteer. Ground Arms 2.d Motion. At the motion, the left foot makes a firm step out; the right hand at the same time quits the muzzle, takes the Firelock by the middle & brings it to the ground with the right knee upon the lock & the left hand straight down the left calf
Rowlandson delin.
London Pub. June 10. 1798 at Ackermann Gallery No. 101 Strand
Etching and aquatint, coloured and heightened with gold. 250 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Outside of frame 425 x 380mm (16½ x 15").
Plate twenty-seven from 'Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs. Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, in 87 Plates. Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson, and Dedicated by Permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester'.
Ogilby 778.27; Abbey: Life 379. For complete volume see ref. 7433
[Ref: 18953] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Westminster Volunteer Attention. An Upright Position, the muzzle of the Piece placed in the Interval of the right Shoulder. Right hand extended down the Sling, Left hand straight down the thigh.
Rowlandson delin.
London Pub. June 1. 1798 at Ackermann Gallery No. 101 Strand
Etching and aquatint, coloured and heightened with gold. Platemark 250 x 200mm (10 x 8").
Plate two from 'Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs. Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, in 87 Plates. Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson, and Dedicated by Permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester'.
Ogilby 778.2; Abbey: Life 379. For complete volume see ref. 7433
[Ref: 18948] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Unloading A Waggon. 214.
Rowlandson inv.
Pub.d September 12. 1813 by Tho.s Tegg No.111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to image and around title. Pinholes in top corners.
A lively scene depicting a variety of characters descending from a covered wagon, to the left, into a coaching inn to the right, the 'Flying Waggon Inn'. A sign above the door reads, 'Entertainment For Man and Horse'. By renowned English artist and caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827).
[Ref: 58820] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Rum Characters in a Shrubbery.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Aquatint with hand colour. 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Framed Unexamined out of frame.
Two hideous prostitutes stand at the counter of a gin-shop (or vault), each with a glass. A stout man fills a glass from a bottle on the counter. Behind him are huge casks, one inscribed 'Booths Best Gin' (for Booth & Co., the famous firm of distillers).
BM 11115, originally published by Reeve and Jones in 1808.
[Ref: 51838] £350.00

[A Sailor's Family.]
Rowlandson. 1787.
Rare etching, proof before title; 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Small margins.
A scene in the interior of a cottage, with a sailor and his wife playing with their infant child, with another woman and child behind and a dog by their side. A sword and musket are on a shelf.
Metropolitan Museum 33.7(20), also without title.
[Ref: 57787] £320.00

Sailors on Horseback.
Rowlandson scul.
Pub.d March 16, 1811 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside Price One Shilling.]
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), paper watermarked 1819, with large margins on 3 sides. Slight soiling in margins.
Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore, all having trouble with their horses. One complains 'D—n me—how she heaves. Why this is worse than a Jolly Boat, in the Bay of Biscay'.
BM Satires 11801; Grego II 202.
[Ref: 61821] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

The Chairmen's Terror. Here, Chair, cries Baron Paunch with Venison cram'd / Ay call away cries Paddy, and be damnd."
Rowlandson 1792.
Published July 18th 1792 by T. Rowlandson, No 52, Strand.
Rare coloured etching. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, small tears. Ink spot centre.
Sedan chair porters recoil when hailed by an obese naval officer outside St James's Palace.
Not in BM
[Ref: 58348] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Shipwrecked Mariners]
J. Mortimer delin.t London Published April 18. 1801. by John P. Thompson. G.t Newport Street and N.o 51 Dean Street Soho.
London, 1801.
Etching. 305 x 445mm (12 x 17½"), with very wide margins.
Two shipwrecked mariners in a desperate state sheeking shelter on a shore. A rowing boat from a ship on the horizon looks to be approaching. In 2012 Nicholas Knowles identified the engraver of this print as Thomas Rowlandson after noting that several details, such as the dot hatching and handwriting, were typical Rowlandson features.
[Ref: 53970] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Simmons. The horrid and inhuman Murderer of Mr. Hummerston and Mrs. Warner at the house of is Mr Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon ins Hertfordshire on Tuesday Evening. October th.20 1807. From a Correct likeness Drawn from the Life by Mr. Angelo.
Etched and Pub.d by T. Rowlandson Nov.r 9. 1807 N.1 Tames St. Adelphi.
Coloured etching. 250 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom. Some foxing.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Simmons, who murdered two people in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. A former servant at the house of the Boreham family, Simmons was sacked for brutish behaviour. He returned one evening to confront another servant who had been his girlfriend. Pushing his way into the house, he stabbed a guest, Sarah Hummerstone, in the jugular, then one of Boreham's daughters in the neck and breast. He was then disarmed, the alarm raised and he was found in a cow-crib. He was beaten, bound and taken to the Black Bull Inn, where he nearly died from the tightness of the ligatures, before being transferred to Hertford jail to await trial. There he was sketched by Henry Angelo (1756-1835), the fencing master friend of Rowlandson. Found guilty, Simmons was hanged on the 7th March 1808, After Henry Angelo.
[Ref: 61879] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Joanna Southcott the Prophetess Excommunicating the Bishops. Know I told thee I should begin at the Sanctuary I will cutt them all off, having already cutt off Four Bishops for refusing to hear her Visitation.
[Thomas Rowlandson]
Pub.d Sept.r. 20th 1814 by T. Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), watermarked 'Charles Wise 1819'. Trimmed into plate top and right. Slightly faded.
A satire of Joanna Southcott and William Tozer thrashing a group of fat bishops, she with a birch-rod, him with 'Rev.d Roger Towser's Flail'. She wears a mohair mantle that she was given, which cost £150. Southcott (1750-1814), a charismatic religious figure who announced that, at age 64, she was to become the mother of Shiloh, an obscure messianic figure mentioned in Genesis, and a sketch of the crib given to her in expectation. The date of 19th October 1814 passed without the expected birth and she died, probably of a brain disease, on the 27th December. Despite the non-event, many of her followers continued to study the 60 or more tracts and books of her writings and the sect only died out by the end of the 19th century. After her death she left a locked box with instructions that it should only be opened in the presence of 24 bishops and at a time of national crisis.
BM Satires 12334; Grego II 287.
[Ref: 61818] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham]. A Portrait.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d January 10th 1812 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Platemark: 270 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"), with very large margins.
Caricature portrait of Regency buck Charles Stanhope (1780-1851), known as 'Beau Petersham, standing as if on a flight of steps. He has large whiskers, and wears a brown double-breasted tail-coat with high collar and sleeves gathered at the shoulders to form a peak with long close-fitting breeches and spurred Hessian boots with large tassels. Two months after the publication he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King George III, a post that continued under King George IV until 1829, when he became 4th Earl of Harrington. Serving in the army he reached the rank of major-general.
BM Satires: 11925.
[Ref: 50825] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington] A Portrait.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d January 10th 1812 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Platemark: 270 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Margin missing from bottom edge and lower right corner.
Major-General Charles Stanhope (1780-1851), 4th Earl of Harrington but styled Viscount Petersham until 1829. Lord Petersham stands full-face, as if on a flight of steps, the right foot advanced below the left, with his right hand on hip, holding a long cane and his hat in his left hand. He looks to the left, with a pleasing smile (for which he was noted). He has large whiskers, and wears a 'a Petersham', a brown double-breasted tail-coat with high collar and sleeves gathered at the shoulders to form a peak, with long close-fitting breeches and spurred Hessian boots with large tassels. Companion print to item ref: 32086.
BM Satires ref: 11925.
[Ref: 32088] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Sweet Little Girl that I Love.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
Pub.d June 4 1808 by Thos Tegg N 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1816, large margins top & bottom. Faint mount burn.
A tall, thin, elderly military officer, ugly but elegant, stoops to embrace a fat country woman, short and hideous, yet buxom.
BM Satires 11138.
[Ref: 54568] £280.00

Dr. Syntax & Bookseller.
Drawn & Etched by Rowlandson.
Published. June.1.1819, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand. Pl.25.
Coloured aquatint and etching. 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼") Paper toning, foxing and water staining.
Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1829. It covered all fields from arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. From "The Tours of Dr. Syntax," depicting the various escapades of the fictional 19th-century English clergyman, Dr. Syntax.
BM Satires: 11686.
[Ref: 30382] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tour to Foreign Parts.]
[After Henry W. Bunbury.][Engraved by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[n.d. c.1807.]
Watercolour with etching lines, sheet 240 x 310 mm (9½ x 12¼"). Laid on card. Some stains, creases and tears on edges.
A satire on Grand Tourists, in which a young English gentleman arrives with his tutor and servant to an inn in France and he is promptly welcomed by the innkeeper holding out a menu. Out of the window of the inn, a cook chases away three cats with long tails with a carving knife in hand. To the rear of the group, another cook prepares to butcher a cock.
[Ref: 59108] £360.00

How to Vault in the Saddle. Or a New Invented Patent Crane for the Accomodation or Rheumatic Rump'd Rectors. 270.
Rowlandson del 1813 [but later].
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins. Staining in left edge.
A clergyman is hoisted onto his horse by a pulley-system attached to the wall of the rectory, with two girls pulling on a rope tied around his waist.
[Ref: 58297] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Very Restaurateur. Palais Royal Paris. La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee de Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris.
Rowlandson Scul. J.N. [John Nixon]
[London, Thomas Tegg, 1814 but later.]
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Two scenes of Parisian high life on one plate: above is Madame Very, the foremost restaurateur of the period; below is Madame Romain, who presided over the Café des Mille Colonnes, renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors. Usually the two scenes are found separately. John Nixon visited Paris in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon.
BM Satires 12409 & 12410.
[Ref: 41132] £320.00

Volunteer Wit or not Enough for a Prime. 227
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾''). Crease on left.
A scene in a gothic-style room in which seven elderly men in uniforms at dessert, the colonel asks the men to toast the king but a second man complains that the glasses are not large enough.
BM Satire 11136.
[Ref: 50787] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Loyal Volunteers Of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, In 87 Plates.
Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. and Dedicated by Permission to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
[London: Rudolph Ackermann, n.d., plates dated 1798 - 1799.]
Subscriber's copy, with large 4to, original marbled boards, rebacked, uncut; pp. viii incl. dedication, plus list of subscribers & foreign subscribers, and contents; hand-coloured etched titlepage & 86 hand-coloured aquatint plates, many heightened with gold or silver, total 87 as called for. Binding worn, plates generally good with well-preserved vivid colour, occasionally stained. Some offsetting of image to facing text.
The volunteer corps were established as a direct response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by Napoleon's forces. A volunteer from each London regiment is placed by Rowlandson in a particular drill position, with an etched description below. The corresponding adjacent text sheet gives a brief history and description of the composition of the corps, and lists the commanding officers. Arguably the greatest of all military costume books, no mere record of uniforms but an important social document in its own right that should be viewed in the context it was published - a time of great national peril with Britain under threat of invasion from France.
Abbey Life In England: 379, "Later impressions can be recognised by not being heightened with gold".
[Ref: 7433] £4,900.00 view all images for this item

The Westminster Mendicant. Ye Christians charitable food and Civil. Pray something give to this poor wondering Devil. By Men cast out, perhaps, by God forgiven, Then may one Judas find a road to Heaven.
[Etched by Thomas Rowlandson]
Publd 11th.1784 by H. Humphrey no.227 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching, scarce. 208 x 146mm. 8¼ x 5¾".
Sir Cecil Wray, represented as a blind beggar, sings in the streets, being led by his dog. He was the rejected candidate for Westminster .
BM Satires: 6578. Grego I 137.
[Ref: 16011] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Wooden Leg or Careful Landlady.
Tho.s Tegg No.111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1809].
Handcoloured etching 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A scene in which a shortsighted landlady attempts to remove a lodger's wooden leg mistaking it for a warming pan.
BM Satire 11466.
[Ref: 51847] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cecil Wray] The Westminster Mendicant. Ye Christians, Charitable, good and Civil / Pray something give to this poor wandering Devil / By Men cast out, perhaps, by God forgiven, / Then may one Judas find a road to Heaven.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Publ.d 11 [May] 1784 by H. Humphrey No 225 Strand.
Etching. 125 x 155mm (5 x 6").
Sir Cecil Wray (1734-1805), a landowner known for being parsimonious, satirised as a blind beggar in Covent Garden, with a dog identified as John Churchill, the Chairman of his Election Committee. Wray contested the Westminster Election of 1784, in which he tried to oust Charles James Fox: At the close of the poll on 5 May a wag hoisted a poor box, upon a staff bearing this inscription; 'Pray remember Sir Cecil Wray's SCRUTINY'.
BM: 6578.
[Ref: 45049] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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