Grosvenor Prints

[Chinoiserie; a man carrying water in two buckets in a landscape.]
J.J. Avril scul
1773.
Etching, 190 x 125mm. 7½ x 5".
By Paris engraver Jean Jacques Avril (1744 - 1831). Most of his prints were ornamental. Probably from a series of ceramic designs.
[Ref: 11105] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Chinese Fishmen.]
Boucher Inv.t
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with etching. Paper watermarked. Plate 286 x 190mm. 11¼ x 7½". Staining at bottom of image and creasing.
A rare detail of The Chinese Fisherman c.1742 painted by François Boucher (1703-1770).
[Ref: 19772] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Ki-Our Chinois.
Reynep del. Guyot scul.
A Paris chez Guyot, graveur, rue St Jacques, au Grand Gesner No 10. [n.d., 1793.]
Etching, printed in colours and hand finished. 190 x 155mm (7½ x 6"), with very large margins.
A circular image of a Chinese pavilion by an ornamental lake. A wonderful piece of French colour printing, the colour is particularly fine.
[Ref: 51623] £360.00

[Chinoiserie; a family taking tea in a garden landscape.]
[Anon., British., c.1815.]
Lithograph, image 270 x 200mm. 10½ x 8". Slightly soiled; crease through upper left corner.
[Ref: 12608] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 4: An ornamental Rococo design with flowing water and two birds either side.]
Mondon Invenit. Aveline Sculpsit.
Avec privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1736.]
Copper engraving. Plate 242 x 166mm. 9½ x 6½". Uncut with large margins.
An ornamental Rococo design with flowing water and two birds either side. From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the first set: "Premier livre de formes rocailles et cartels".
[Ref: 22988] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Chinoiserie design; a procession between two gates.]
Pillement Invt. J. June sculp.
London Printed for Robt. Sayer Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, 170 x 270mm. 6¾ x 10½". Trimmed within plate and to image at top, moisture spots lower right, laid on conservation tissue.
Some of the figures are riding camels; two are even riding an elephant. Perhaps a ceramic design. Numbered '30' upper right. Ornament print from a series after Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 - 1808). A design which appeared in the Robert Sayer's 1760 rich compedium of designs entitled 'The Ladies Amusement'.
Gordon-Smith: 25.
[Ref: 19622] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 7:] Trophée d'Armes d'un Grand de la Chine.
Mondon le fils Inv. A. Aveline Sculp.
[Avec privilege du Roi. 1736.]
Copper engraving. Paper watermarked. Plate 229 x 178mm. 9 x 7". Large margins, uncut. Some foxing off platemark.
Chinoiserie: a banner flys from a decorated ornament with an urn, parasol, dagger and a drape; a Chinese figure holidng a spear stands over to the right. From "Cinquième Livre de Figures Et Ornemens Chinois, Dédié A ... Monseigneur Alexis Madelaine Rosalie Duc de Chatillon, Pair de France, Gouverneur de Monseigneur le Dauphin". From a series of forty-two ornament prints, divided into six sets of seven plates each; this plates belongs to the fifth set.
[Ref: 22994] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Siquis est Parwlus Veniat ad Me. Prov. 9.V.4.
S. Françoys Turonen inve. et pinx. N. Pitau sculp. cum privil. Regis.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. 495 x 350mm (19½ x 13¾"), very large margins. Damp stain on outside of right margin, pin-sized worm hole on plate mark.
'Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me'. The Christ child sitting on a globe, surrounded by angels and cherubim, arms stretched out in welcome. After Simon François de Tours (1606-1671).
[Ref: 39717] £360.00

An Attempt to Ascertain the Resemblance which some Ornaments now used in China, Bear to those of the Most Polished Times of Grecian Sculpture and Architecture.
[by James Christie.]
London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland Row, St James's [n.d., c.1810].
Folio, 4pp. letterpress with loose plate engraved by P. Sansom, text watermarked 'J Whatman 1810', the plate 'Budgen'.
An examination of a Chinese cup belonging to Dorothea Banks, wife of the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks. The text suggests that the Chinese lotus pattern of the cup derived from the Greek palmette motif. A scarce item. According to the 'Catalogue of the Library of John Dent, Esq.r.' (1825), the author was James Christie (1773-1831), a noted antiquary and scholar, who took over his father's auctioneer business in 1803.
See V&A 28109 for the plate.
[Ref: 62367] £680.00 view all images for this item

[Proof frontispiece from John Bell's 'The poets of Great Britain, complete from Chaucer to Churchill] [Churchill vol. 1 / Let one poor sprig of Bay around my head / Bloom... Candidate line 145]
[Cipriani del. Bartolozzi sculp.t]
[Printed for John Bell ... London Jul. 19th 1779]
Etching and engraving printed in sepia, platemark 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheet; glue stains at corners. Fine proof impression before all letters.
Proof impression of one of twenty-one frontispieces that Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) made for John Bell's 'The Poets of Great Britain', which he published from 1777-82. Bell's edition consisted of 109 volumes in a relatively cheap yet well-produced pocket format, and was a great success. This print, in its later lettered state, was the frontispiece to the first of Bell's edition of poems by Charles Churchill (1732-64). It included a line from his poem 'The Candidate', an attack on John Montagu, earl of Sandwich (1718-92) and his candidature for the high stewardship of Cambridge University. Bartolozzi (1725-1815) was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work.
Calabi & de Vesme 1651 i/ii; for a portrait of Churchill see ref. 27339.
[Ref: 43130] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

To the Memory of the Duke of Marlborough.
D. Creti Eques: et N. Ferravoli et J.P. Mirando Pinx. L. Cars Sculp. et D.M.Fratta delin.
John Boydell excudit London.
Engraving. 650 x 415mm (25¾ x 16¼''). Large margins on 3 sides.
An allegorical scene featuring an invented monument to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, hero of the War of the Spanish Succession, depicting him as a Roman general on horseback. From Boydell's edition of 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne' by Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, first published by Basan in Paris c.1737. Boydell has translated the title into English from Latin and added his name as publisher. McSwiny had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. This series of paintings, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen, was planned for the decoration of the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood.
See BM 1859,0709.685 for the first published state. See: 10619
[Ref: 54252] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Arms of the Trading Companies, Hospitals, Inns of Court, Scocieties &c. Plate IV. Engraved for Noorthouck's History of London.
Longmate sculp.
[London: R. Baldwin, 1773.]
Engraving. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate on left, notch in bottom edge. Repaired tear on left.
Thirty costs-of-arms, including those of the Russia, South Sea, Turkey or Levant and Virginia Companies.
[Ref: 55350] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Arms of the City Companies, Scocieties &c. Plate III. Engraved for Noorthouck's History of London.
Longmate sculp.
[London: R. Baldwin, 1773.]
Engraving. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Thirty costs-of-arms of City Companies, alphabetically from Pewterers to Woomen, and trading companies including those of the African, Hudson's Bay and East India Companies.
[Ref: 55351] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Athlete; a classical cameo] XXXV.
G.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Etching on india paper, 250 x 185mm. 9¾ x 7¼". Light spotting; a fine impression, with margins.
Nude young male figure with inscription and table with jar; in an oval design. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2292. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21168] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Bacchanalian festival; a classical cameo] XLIX.
G.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Etching printed in brown ink on india paper, sheet 260 x 200mm. 10½ x 8". Trimmed within plate; light spotting.
Two satyr-type male figures and a female reveller. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2306. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21169] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Bacchus; a classical cameo] [Plate 13.]
[G.B. Cipriani. F. Bartolozzi.]
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Stipple and etching printed in brown ink on india paper, 270 x 210mm. 10½ x 8¼". Light spotting.
Bust of Bacchus, looking up towards top right; in an oval medallion. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2320, I. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21171] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical ruin.]
Clerisau del. Wagner Scul. Venezia C.P.E.S.
[n.d., c. 1760.]
Rare etching. 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½), large margins. Slight crease in title.
After Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), draughtsman and architect. He went to Rome in 1749 and was working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam’s 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution.
[Ref: 52001] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical sculpture: a nude warrior seated on the ground surrounded by his armour, weapon and shields.] Tire du Cabinet de Mr. Denon.
[French, c.1820.]
Rare lithograph, sheet 275 x 265mm. 10¾ x 10½". Cut, repaired damage at top.
Unidentified sculpture from the collection of Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (1747-1825), French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. From a series of antiquities depicted by the printmaker and painter Pierre Bouillon (1776-1831). Bouillon, from Thiviers, was joint winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1797 with his painting 'Death of Cato the Younger'.
[Ref: 15794] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with Flight into Egypt] [Engraved from the Original Picture, in the Collection of the Revd Dr Newton...Published by F. Vivares may 5th 1757]
Chatelin & Vivares fecit [1757]
Etching and engraving, platemark 415 x 500mm (16¼ x 19¾"). Small margins; stains; very fine unfinished proof.
Landscape with Mary, Joseph and the Christ child on left, peasant and cows crossing a bridge on right, and a flock in distance. After a painting by Claude Lorrain (c.1600-82), 17th century landscape painter whose paintings were immensely important for the development of British landscape painting in the 18th century, largely disseminated through prints such as this.
[Ref: 38587] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

After a Picture of Claude Lorrain [ms] [In the Collection of Dr. Mead]
[Claudio Gillee Lorenese pinxit 1656. Vivares Sculp]
[Published by C. Knapton 1741]
Engraving, platemark 315 x 405mm (12½ x 16"). Scarce proof before letters; platemark broken in places. Very large margins.
Landscape with bridge in background, fishermen casting nets from a small boat, and a group of figures in the foreground, including a lady putting on stockings, typical of Claude Lorrain's earlier works. Engraving (in reverse) of Claude's painting 'The Ford', executed by Francis Vivares while the painting was in the collection of the physician and collector Dr Richard Mead. The painting is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and it is now believed that it was executed in 1636 rather than 1656 as claimed on the lettered later state of this print. From a successful and well-known series of landscape prints from paintings in important British collections.
For a portrait of Mead see ref. 11688. Private Collection.
[Ref: 38516] £320.00

[The Landing of Cleopatra.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 63.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
The landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21843] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Pastoral scene with nymph and satyr.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 55.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Aug. 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
St Ursula was a a Romano-British princess who set sail to get married with 11,000 virginal handmaidens. All were beheaded by the Huns. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21839] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Italianate port scene.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 61.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 270 x 190mm, 10½ x 7½". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21841] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The finding of Moses] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 47.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Sept.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 260 x 210mm, 10¼ x 8½". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Classical pastoral scene, engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21833] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Claude Lorraine. From the Original Drawing in the Collection of Arthur Chapernowne.
Drawn by Claude. Engraved by G. Lewis.
London Published by G. Lewis, Salisbury Street, Strand.
Rare aquatint, printed in brown. 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"). Narrow margins.
Pastoral landscape. Goats grazing under trees, the outlines of buildings in the distance.
BM 1867,0309.1791 (but with 'Etched by' rather than 'Engraved by').
[Ref: 32389] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Pastoral scene.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 52.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Herdsmen driving cattle and goats across a small wooden bridge. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21859] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Ulysses restituting Chryseis to her father Chryses.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 80.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins. Creased left of centre.
A sea-port, with Ulysses returning Chryseis to her father Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21858] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 188.]
[Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.]
[Published Mar 1st 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.]
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. Very rare proof before all letters. 210 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"), with large margins. Slight foxing in the margins.
An Italianate scene of a shepherd taking to passers-by, underneath a hilltop town, a bay behind. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 52516] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Italianate pastoral scene.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 62.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 270 x 190mm, 10½ x 7½". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Peasants driving a cow and goats across a bridge. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21842] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The women of Troy destroying the Greek fleet.] From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 71.
Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. 210 x 260mm, 8½ x 10¼". Uncut, with large margins, slight soiling of margins.
Trojan women setting fire to the Greek fleet. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 21849] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with a Herd of Goats] Engraved by W.m Wilson from an Excellent Picture of Claud Lorrain painted in 1641 in the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble L.d James Cavendish. 6
[c.1750]
Engraving. Platemark 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Small margins. Very fine; pinhole upper centre. 41670
Landscape after Claude Lorrain (1604/5-82), French painter often regarded as the greatest of all ideal landscape artists, whose depictions of idealised pastoral scenes were immensely popular amongst the European nobility and clergy. Subsequent British landscape painters such as Richard Wilson and JMW Turner were strongly influenced by his work.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 38517] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Pastoral landscape with figures and cattle by a shore]
Claude fecit Roma 1676 [in image lower left]. R. Earlom sculpt.
Pub. Jan. 20 1802 by J. & J. Boydell, No 90, Cheapside &c at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall.
Etching, platemark 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). Large margins. State before mezzotinting.
Etching by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
For a set of 20 plates from the series, in etched outline states, see ref. 20226.
[Ref: 37197] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[An engraved silver salver or tray.] Presented to Edward Page Clowser, Esquire, by his Neighbours and Friends As a Small Testimonial of the many and various services rendered by him to the Parish of St. John, Hampstead; during a long series of Years. January 1847.
Standidge & Co. Litho. London.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, sheet 230 x 205mm. 9 x 8". Horizontal crease.
A generous retirement gift for a parishioner of St John at Hampstead, north London. Perhaps the Mr. Clowser to whom the tray is inscribed was a long-serving churchwarden.
[Ref: 15444] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to 'Introduction to Universal Geography' by Philip Cluver] Philippi Cluverii Introductionis in Universam Geographiam cum notis J. Bunonis Hekelii [...]
Veduntur Amsteldami Apud Joannem Wolters. Ao 1697
Engraving, sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at corners
Portrait of the geographer and historian Philip Cluver (1580-1623) surrounded by allegorical figures and scientific instruments. Frontspiece to a 1697 edition of Cluver's 'Introduction to Universal Geography', first published in 1624, a foundational text for the study of modern geography. He is remembered by collectors and historians of cartography for his edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', and for miniature atlases that were reprinted throughout the seventeenth century. Cluver was also a prolific writer on mathematical and theological subjects.
For a portrait of Cluver see ref.29733.
[Ref: 47782] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Coast Scene. R.P. Bonington. From a Picture in the Possession of Sir George Warrender.
J.D. Harding lithog.
Published June 1st. 1830 by J. Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph on india, with very large margins. 286 x 380mm. 11¼ x 15". Uncut.
View of a beach on the coast at low tide, with a young girl and her mother looking at a dead ray; a horse and cart in the background to the left and a ship caught in the sand to the right. A castle in the far background. One of a series of lithographs published in 4 parts from 1829-1830 and entitled: A series of subjects from the works of the late Richard Parkes Bonington
[Ref: 24972] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Great Britains Coasting Pilot being a new Survey of the Sea Coast By Captain Greenvile Collins Hydrographer to his Majesty.
[London, Mount & Page? c.1720.]
Engraved title page, very large margins. 445 x 280mm (17¾ x 11"). Ink stamp of 'Dover Public Library' on reverse.
The title page to the first British sea atlas of British waters, surveyed by Greenville Collins between 1681-88, then first published by Richard Mount in 1693 after five years of preparation. The title is on a shell held aloft by a mer-man, with figures of Britannia and Neptune in his chariot drawn by sea-horses, and other mer-people holding up a sea chart of the British Isles, a cross-staff and a plumb-line. Above is the royal crest. This state has Richard Mount's inscription removed from under the image.
[Ref: 33215] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Coastal scene]
[Anon. Dutch/Flemish., c.1660]
Etching, platemark 240 x 375mm (9½ x 14¾"). Crease through centre.
See 45264
[Ref: 45266] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Coastal Scene.]
HB Ker 1812.
Etching. 95 x 210mm (3¾ x 8¼"). Cut on right.
Three sailing boats moored in a harbour at centre; a figure and rowing boat at left; pier at right. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34791] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Coastal scene with fishermen eating and drinking] 3.
[Anon. Dutch/Flemish., c.1660.]
Etching, platemark 240 x 375mm (9½ x 14¾"). Crease through centre.
See 45266
[Ref: 45264] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Vintners' Company Coat of Arms] St. Martin Patron
[Anon., c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 180 x 245mm (7 x 9½"). Glued to album sheet; 18th century engraving of Vinters' Hall verso.
The coat of arms of the Vinters' Company, one of the Twelve Great City of London Livery Companies (it was placed eleven out of the twelve in the 1515 order of precedence). The crest depicts three tuns (large barrels) used for transporting wine, with satyrs holding flasks perched above. St. Martin is the patron saint of the company. From "Londons Armory Accuratly delineated in a Graphical display of all the Arms, Crests, Supporters, Mantles and Motto’s of every distinct Company and Corporate Societie in the Honourable City of London". View of Vintners Hall on Upper Thames Street verso.
[Ref: 37624] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Life, Death and Burial of Cock Robin. Dulce est desipere in loco.
Fer.d Bawer delt. M.no Bovi Sculp. [c.1810]
Very rare engraving, sheet 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
"Who Killed Cock Robin" is an English nursery rhyme, which is often used as a murder of archetype in world culture. The earliest record is in 'Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book' published c. 1744. Here it is accompanied by images of the animals from each stanza.
[Ref: 38330] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Collegium Academie Naturea Curiosirum
[n.d. c.1652.]
Engraving. 205 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Trimmed. Damaged.
Frontispiece to 'Collegium Academie Naturea Curiosirum'. This refers to the Leopoldina, the national academy of Germany. In 1670 the society began to publish the 'Ephemeriden Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum', the world's first medical and scientific journal.
[Ref: 29638] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates. H 1. Price 2.sh.
Columbani delin ac. sculp.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate, very small stain.
A large ornamental vase topped by two Graecian spinxes. The title page to a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:3. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 60788] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 3.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼") Trimmed into plate, affecting publication line.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60790] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 4.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed to plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:9. Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60789] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 5.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed to plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:6. Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60791] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A compass rose.]
[Dutch, n.d., c.1620.]
Hand coloured engraved compass rose, sheet 100 x 100mm. 4 x 4". Excised from an atlas and glued to card.
Finely engraved and decorated with floral and animal motifs, fine later colour. From a Dutch atlas.
[Ref: 10752] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnal Sun Set.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London Pub.d by M.r Constable 35, Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Fine mezzotint. Plate: 175 x 255mm (7 x 10")), with very large margins. More mount burn than the others.
A rural landscape at sunset near East Bergholt after an oil painting by Constable now in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. They worked very closely together with Constable often hand touching up the prints himself.
Wedmore 3. Shirley: 14: I of VI.
[Ref: 58194] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnal Sun Set.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Foxing mainly in margins.
A rural landscape at sunset near East Bergholt after an oil painting by Constable now in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832.
Wedmore 3. Shirley: 14. Osbert Barnard: I of VI.
[Ref: 50864] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnal Sun Set.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Foxing mainly in margins.
A rural landscape at sunset near East Bergholt after an oil painting by Constable now in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 3. Shirley: 14. Osbert Barnard: I of VI.
[Ref: 44380] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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