Grosvenor Prints

The Dutch Minstrel.
Rembrandt, pinx.t. S. Bennet, Sculp.t.
Publish'd Aug.t 8th 1803 by S. Bennet, No. 2. Spring Garden, London.
Engraving. 490 x 355mm (19¼ x 21¾"). Damp stain, crease in inscription area.
An old man with two children in a window, with a young boy holding a musical instrument.
The engraver/publisher 'S Bennet' is not listed in the BM.
[Ref: 54286] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dutch Peasant.]
A. Brower Pin.t. T. Burke fecit.
[Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 18, 1771, by the Proprietor W.m W. Ryland No. 27, Cornhill.]
Mezzotint, rare scratch letter proof before title. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease in plate bottom right.
A rustic man, clutching a broken pitcher, giggling.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 54228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Peasants] Ni pateat fundus, nova massica non tibi fundo, / In funde cordis namque profunda latent.
A. Ostaden pinxit. J. Suyderhoef sculpsit.
F. de Wit excudit [n.d., c.1670].
Engraving. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Trimmed close to plate, small tear repaired.
A peasant couple seated at a table, the man holding a jug and about to fill the woman's wine-glass, nuts and smoking accessories on the table. Originally published by Clement de Jonghe.
[Ref: 62225] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Interior of a tavern]
Prestel sc 1779.
Scarce aquatint and mixed method. 335 x 275mm (13¼ x 10¾"). Collector's mark on reverse. Narrow left margin.
An interior with barrels, with a man reading a letter to his three companions. A very jovial bar scene.
[Ref: 62252] £360.00

[Dutch Tippler.]
[After Adriaen van Ostade?]
[n.d., c.1790.]
A fine mezzotint with original colour. Sheet 310 x 245mm, 12¼ x 9¾". Trimmed & laid on album paper.
The interior of an inn, with a man raising his glass, pipe in his left hand, probably after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85).
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 13839] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch topers.]
DT [monogram of David Tenniers] J. v. B. [Jan van der Bruggen]
[Brussels, Jan van der Bruggen, n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins, laid on album paper.
An untitled scene of the interior of a Dutch tavern, centred on a man with tankard and pipe. In the background another man urinates into a bowl. Engraved and published by Jan van der Bruggen (c.1648-90) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90).
[Ref: 52794] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vivitur Parvo Bene.
AV Ostade pinxit. Corn. Visscher fecit.
Clemendt de Jonghe excudit [n.d., c.1655].
Engraving with etching. 260 x 220mm (10¼ x 8¾"). Mounted in album paper at sides.
The topers: two boors and an elderly woman drink together, one man clutching a large clay jug and the woman raising her glass.
[Ref: 62253] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch Topers.]
[After Adriaen van Ostade?]
[n.d., c.1790.]
A fine mezzotint with original colour. Sheet 310 x 245mm, 12¼ x 9¾". Trimmed & laid on album paper.
Three men in an inn, smoking & drinking, probably after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85).
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 13838] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ella. I come, dear companion, in grief! Gay scenes and fond pleasures adieu._
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 1; 1789, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
A scene showing a young woman jumping into a lake. A scene from the poem 'Colin and Lucy'.
[Ref: 50301] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Emma. She reach'd with trembling step, Her aged Mother's door, He's gone! she cry'd;.
S. Shelley pinx.t. C. Taylor sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1;st 1788, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with very large margins.
A scene showing a young woman entering a door.
[Ref: 50299] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Emma's Favourite.
W. Thomas Esq.r Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculp.t.
Published for the proprietor by T. Bird, 40, Wigmore St.t May 1.st 1830.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5''). Trimmed.
An interior scene showing a young girl holding a kitten while sitting on her mother's lap.
[Ref: 50287] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Enjoyment [&] Enjoyment Over!
Taylor, Holborn, excudit. [n.d. c.1820.]
Pair of stipples, each plate 177 x 115mm. 7 x 4½". Watermark in paper 1823.
Enjoyment: a boy holding a hoop and stick, with his arm wrapped around his sister approach their pet squirrel, with some food, who sits on the ledge of his hut. Enjoyment Over: a small girl sat at a table in tears, comforted by a small boy with their dead squirrel lying on the table. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22609] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The enraptured Poet - The parturition of a thought.]
[Engraved by John George Murray after Henry James Richter.]
[London: Robert Bowyer & Mary Parkes, 1829.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. Sheet 515 x 410mm (20¼ x 16"). Trimmed to plate, tear to image taped, creasing outside printed area. Plate uncleaned.
An impoverished poet sitting at a desk in an attic room, as inspiration strikes.
See BM 2010,7081.6786 for a scratched-letter proof bought from the Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 54162] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

L'Etourderie.
Se vend ches Haid. [n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching with large margins, printed in brown ink, paper watermarked. Plate 190 x 133mm (7½ x 5¼"). Some slight foxing, crease along the upper edge.
'Thoughtlessness' an animal on a table top with two girls standing behind, one sharpening a knife and the other holding a pan. From a series of prints of prints showing children performing 'adult' tasks.
[Ref: 28738] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Les Etrennes. Le Bon Génie, Journal des Enfans. No.21 Lith No.5.
Marlet del. Lith de Marlet.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph, rare. 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). Slight creasing, cut.
'Les étrennes' (new year gifts in France). A father sat in his chair surrounded by children playing with their new presents, including a tambourine, violin, drum and dolls. A child on the right is dressed as a soldier and rides a toy horse. This military theme is echoed by the painting of a military inspection which hangs on the wall. One of a series published in a children's magazine.
[Ref: 29679] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

L’Étudiant a Paris. (1.re Semaine du Mois). 30. La Lanterne Comique.
Linder pinx.t Pinson lith.
Bulla Frères, 66, rue Tiquetonne Paris. Imp. Lemercier & C.ie Paris. [n.d. c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. 452 x 319mm.17¾ x 12½". Some mount burn.
A brothel scene with man sat on an arm of a chair holds three 200 Franc bills over the face of a woman who coyly leans back on his leg with a cigar in her right hand; a butler at the doorway holding a tray with refreshments; champagne on the table.
[Ref: 26612] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[European Love] L'Amour européen Cette fiére Beauté, de l'Amour qu'elle brave / Sent en secret toute l'Ardeur [...]
Ch. Eisen Inv. F. Basan Exc.
AParis chés Basan Graveur [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, sheet 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A woman lounges on a chaise longue and reads while her lover caresses her hand. Engraving after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720–1778), painter and draftsman to the Louis XV and drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour. Published by Pierre-François Basan (1723-1797), engraver, printseller and publisher of a 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs' in 1767.
[Ref: 44963] £520.00

The Morning. [&] The Evening.
W. Hamilton R.A. pinxt. P.W. Tomkins (late pupil of F. Bartolozzi R.A.) Sculpt.
London Publish'd April 27, 1789 & June 4, 1789 by S.Vivares, No.13 Great Newport Street.
Pair of stipple engravings. 310 x 400mm.
[Ref: 2930] £550.00 view all images for this item

Expectation. To bosom heaving & to Eyes that weep. / While lovers linger in a distant clime. / Fear multiplies the dangers of the deep / And expectation loads the wing of time. EW.
Designd by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r Engraved by J.R. Smith.
London Publishd Jan.r 1.1784 by J.R. Smith No.83 Oxford Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 400 x 3602mm (15¾ x 14¼") very large margins. Some creasing in margins.
An oval scene of two young women sitting side by side at the edge of a grassy cliff overlooking the sea, worrying about their sailor beaus.
D'Oench: 232. Frankau: 132.
[Ref: 60767] £320.00

The Mother's Bribe. L'Enfant Tempté. [&] The Clean Face Rewarded. L'Enfant Recompensé.
Painted and Engraved by Ja.s. Ward Painter & Engraver to H.R.H, the Prince of Wales.
Pub.d. April 2. 1801, by Mess.rs. Wards & C.o. N.o.6, newman Street London.
Mezzotint. Framed. Plate: 610 x 480mm (24 x 19"). Frames: 800 x 640mm (31½ x 25"). Some faint foxing. Unexamined out of frames.
A pair of mezzotints depicting a mother's attempts to wash her child. In the first plate a crying child sits upon her nurse's knee while her mother bribes her with a doll, next to her on the bed her sisters attempt to persuade her to allow her maid to wash her. Behind them a younger child sleeps and on the floor a boy forces a disgruntled cat to ride a toy horse. In the second plate the cleaned child stands happily upon a table holding the doll in her arms, surrounded by her contented mother, maid and sisters. Behind them the boy tickles the sleeping child with the tail of the cat.
[Ref: 35763] £650.00 view all images for this item

Omnia tu nostra tempora letitie.
Greuse pinx. F. Pedro sculp. ap. Cavalli Venetys.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 12"). Trimmed.
A scene in a room in which a group of chidlren rush to hug their seated mother.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46807] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Family Distressed occasioned by the Loss of a Child. Two happy Parents returning from their morning with their elder children, anticipate the warm kiss of their youngest infant_he does not run out to meet them as usual...ah! Ye unhappy hearts, what a painful fluctuation of hopes and fears! Affliction d’une Famille qui a Perdu un de ses Enfans. Des Parens fortunés par les prétieux gages du noeud qui les unit, reviennent de la promenade du matin avex les ainés de leur famille_leur tender coeur s’ouvre d’avance aux vives caresses du plus jeune enfant qu’ils ont laissé au logis_hélas! Ils ne le voyent point, comme á son ordinaire, accourir á leur rencontre...oh! Quel pénible combat d’esperances et de craintes, déchire ces coeurs infortunes! [&] The Family’s Happiness restored by their Childs return. Joy! Joy! He is found! He is found! Tears once more deluge their cheeks, but they are tears of rapture; every eye lightens with gladness...cast thyself into the longing arms of thy brother and sister, and make them feel how sweet, how heavenly sweet is the union of affectionate hearts. Ioie de la Famille en Retrouvant L’Enfant qui s’etoit Perdu. Joie! Joie! _ le voice! Il est retrouvé! Oui il est retrouvé! Des larmes, mais des larmes de délices inondent leurs visages_quel ravissement brille dans tous les yeux!...voilá ton frère, et ta soeur vole dans leurs bras, pour y gouter les douceurs celestes reserves a une vive et veritable affection.
Painted by Cosse. Directed by L. Schiavonetti. Engraved by M. Place.
London Pub.d May 1. 1798, by Mess.rs Schiavonetti. No.12 Michael's Place Brompton.
Pair of stipples with etching, partly printed in colour. 515 x 590mm (20¼ x 23¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Pair of large stipples showing the distress caused by a family's loss of their youngest child, their efforts to recover him, and their relief following his recovery.
See Ref: 28403 for uncoloured from the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28909] £650.00 view all images for this item

The Family Distressed occasioned by the Loss of a Child. Two happy Parents returning from their morning with their elder children, anticipate the warm kiss of their youngest infant_he does not run out to meet them as usual...ah! Ye unhappy hearts, what a painful fluctuation of hopes and fears! Affliction d’une Famille qui a Perdu un de ses Enfans. Des Parens fortunés par les prétieux gages du noeud qui les unit, reviennent de la promenade du matin avex les ainés de leur famille_leur tender coeur s’ouvre d’avance aux vives caresses du plus jeune enfant qu’ils ont laissé au logis_hélas! Ils ne le voyent point, comme á son ordinaire, accourir á leur rencontre...oh! Quel pénible combat d’esperances et de craintes, déchire ces coeurs infortunes! [&] The Family’s Happiness restored by their Childs return. Joy! Joy! He is found! He is found! Tears once more deluge their cheeks, but they are tears of rapture; every eye lightens with gladness...cast thyself into the longing arms of thy brother and sister, and make them feel how sweet, how heavenly sweet is the union of affectionate hearts. Ioie de la Famille en Retrouvant L’Enfant qui s’etoit Perdu. Joie! Joie! _ le voice! Il est retrouvé! Oui il est retrouvé! Des larmes, mais des larmes de délices inondent leurs visages_quel ravissement brille dans tous les yeux!...voilá ton frère, et ta soeur vole dans leurs bras, pour y gouter les douceurs celestes reserves a une vive et veritable affection.
Painted by Cosse. Directed by L. Schiavonetti. Engraved by M. Place.
London Pub.d May 1. 1798, by Mess.rs Schiavonetti. No.12 Michael's Place Brompton.
Pair of stipples with etching with large margins, very fine. Plate 515 x 590mm (20¼ x 23¼").
Pair of large stipples showing the distress caused by a family's loss of their youngest child, their efforts to recover him, and their relief following his recovery.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28403] £550.00 view all images for this item

The Farewell.
Morland Jun.r Pinx.t. Knight Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1786.]
Colour-printed stipple. Sheet: 305 x 305mm (12 x 12"). Trimmed to printed image and laid on French mount board. Title in ink.
A scene in which a young woman waves goodbye to a ship setting sail from a rowing boat. The print was originally called 'Susan's Farewell' when published. American & Australian interest. See 46914.
[Ref: 46707] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Farm Yard. From the Original Picture, by Peter de Laer, called Bamboccio; In the Collection of Rob.t Udny Esq.r. To whom this plate is Dedicated, by his much obliged and most Humble servant, John Boydell. No. 47.
Peter de Laer Pinxit. P.C. Canot Sculpsit.
J. Boydell excudit 1768.
Engraving. Platemark: 480 x 610mm (19 x 24"). Cut to inside platemark at top. Slight foxing.
Fine cattle image showing rural scene with a ruined building, partially overgrown, part used as a barn, with people sitting at a small table outside. Cattle and goats are shown on the right with a man lifting a basket from a horse nearby. A view of a town is in the background to the right. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
[Ref: 53724] £420.00

The Farmer Come to Town on a Foolish Errand.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Coloured mezzotint. Fantastically bright 18th century colour. 292 x 248mm. 11½ x 9¾". Trimmed to the image top and sides, and to just below the title at bottom, losing lines of verse. A lot of creasing and rubbing to the image and loss of colour.
A young farmer has come to town looking for his love Fanny. He tells his story to two ladies in bonnets and shawls and a seated female apple-seller with a ballad in her hand and other notices pinned on the wall beside her, who all look sympathetic
[Ref: 16347] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[The pretty farmer's wife] La Jolie Fermière
Inventé et dessiné par M. Charles Eisen et gravé par M. De Longueil
A Paris chés Daumont rue St Martin près St Julien Avec Privilege du Roy
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Interior scene displaying the spoils of a hunt. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45104] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Farmers Visit to his married Daughter in Town.
Morland pinx. W. Bond sculp.
London Publish'd May 1.st 1780 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Hand-coloured stipple, printed in colour. 395 x 342mm. 15½ x 13½". Cut inside platemark.
A young woman passing papers to her father at which he looks with dismay, seated at right with glass in hand, her husband sitting beside him at a table, their daughter playing with a dead hare in the left foreground, watched by a dog sitting under the farmer's chair.
[Ref: 28160] £320.00

The Favorite Cat. [&] The Favorite Bird.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Pair of hand coloured stipples with aquatint, each sheet 190 x 160mm. 7½ x 6¼". Trimmed within plates and glued to scrap sheets. Glue stains to corners.
Two little girls, one with her pet cat, the other a caged bird.
[Ref: 11635] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Het St. Nicolaas Feest. La Fete de St. Nicolas.
C. Troost inv. J. Houbrakken sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 440 x 385mm (17¼ x 15"). Scoring, small tears and foxing in margins.
A domestic scene showing a family celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, three children happily play with their toys while one little boy cries because he only has a bunch of sticks in his shoe. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42657] £420.00

Les Enfants Qui Donnent À Manger Aux Canards. Gravée d'aprés le Tableau de M.r W. Hamilton.
W. Hamilton pinx.t. Gravé par Sunlach.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving with very large margins. Platemark: 175 x 190mm (7 x 7½").
A young boy and girl feeding ducks by a pond. The boy is seen holding back a dog who jumps towards the pond, whilst the girl stands with a basket in the centre. Trees can be seen in the backgrond. Within a oval. Italian copy.
[Ref: 36459] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Deceptive feminine charm] L'Appas Trompeur / Une Souris qu'on tient au bout d'une ficelle, / Tente le Chat friand qui voudroit la happer [...]
Eisen Pater Pinx. J.G. Schwab Sculp.
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 360 x 280mm (14 x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border showing a boy dangling a mouse in front of a cat; verses below drawing analogy with love, delighting in teasing those who fall victim to beautiful women. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44942] £360.00

Femme de Qualité en Déshabillé Sortant du Lit.
Peint par J. D. de St. Jean.
a Paris sur le Quay Pelletier, la Pomme d'or, au premier apartement. Avec privilege du Roy 1688.
Very scarce. Etching, image 355 x 385mm. 14 x 15¼". Trimmed to lower plate mark; vertical centrefold, two closed tears from lower edge. A strong impression.
A black servant respectfully brings a morning letter to his affluent French mistress inside a lavish interior; a man observing from behind a curtain to right. Published by Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean (c.1655 - 1695) after his own design. From a series of prints illustrating the domestic life of an upper class French woman.
BNF: FRBNF41096070.
[Ref: 12314] £550.00

Femme de qualité Solicitant un Juge.
Ce vend à Paris chez J. Vander Bruggen. Rue St. Iacques au grand Magazin d'images avec P. D. R.. [n.d., c.1685.]
Very scarce. Etching, image 355 x 395mm. 14 x 15½". Trimmed to plate. Two rust spots to image.
An affluent French lady consults a lawyer in a lavish interior; her black servant exits to left as a vessel in the foreground releases perfume. Published by Jan van der Bruggen (1648/49 - 1690). From a series of prints illustrating the domestic life of an upper class French woman.
BNF: FRBNF41504489.
[Ref: 12315] £580.00

Femme de qualitez a sa Toillette.
[Paris, c.1685.]
Very scarce etching, 370 x 400mm. 14½ x 15¾".
A maid dresses the hair of an affluent French lady in a lavish interior, while a singing-master conducts a lesson. Apparently a copy in reverse of the plate published by Jan van der Bruggen (1648/49 - 1690). From a series of prints illustrating the domestic life of an upper class French woman.
BNF: Hennin, 5461.
[Ref: 12316] £580.00

La Fête de Village.
Peint par Wilkie. Gravé par Jazet.
A Paris chez Jazet, rue de Lanery, No.7, et chez Aumont, M.d d’Estampes, rue J.J. Rousseau, No.10. Déposé à la Direction. [n.d. c.1823.]
Aquatint. 316 x 419mm (12½ x 16½"). Slightly dusty, off image.
A scene in a market place; women and children to the right but a water pump and torught; men drinking to the right; a bustling scene.
[Ref: 31120] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Filial Piety.
Painted by Wheatley R.A. Engrav'd by J. Eginton.
Publish'd March 12 1762 by J. Eginton Birmingham & I. F. Tomkins No. 49 New Bond Street London.
Hand-coloured stipple partly printed in colour, with small margins. Platemark: 405 x 320mm (16 x 12½"). Rubbing to sheet off image. Small holes in right upper margin. Trimmed to platemark at lower edge.
An interior scene of a young woman kneeling beside the bedside an elderly man, reading from a book. After British painter and draughtsman Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
[Ref: 32157] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A l'Anglaise or the English Fireside [&] A la Francaise or the French Fireside
Cha.s Ansell del.t P W Tomkins sculp.t late pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Published Sept. the 22nd 1787. by In.o. Matthews No. 441 Strand.
Pair of stipples part printed in colour, each sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate;
Pair of scenes contrasing the decorous courtship of English men and women (reinforced by the neoclassical order of the objects on the fireside behind) and the uninhibited behaviour of the equivalent French fireside.
For the prints sold individually (uncoloured) see refs. 18068-9.
[Ref: 41226] £320.00

The First Letter from the Emigrants. Royal Association Promotion of Fine Arts Scotland. 1850.
Painted by Thomas Faed, ARSA. Engraved by W. Howison, & J. Horsburgh.
Proof. Printed by McGlashon & Wilding.
Engraving, laid on india, proof. India 438 x 552mm (17¼ x 21¾").
Cottage interior with a family gathered listening to a young man reading from a letter.
See Ref: 25616 for later copy (not proof and not on india).
[Ref: 28997] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The First Letter from the Emigrants. Royal Association Promotion of Fine Arts Scotland. 1850.
Painted by Thomas Faed, ARSA. Engraved by W. Howison, & J. Horsburgh.
Printed by McGlashon & Wilding.
Engraving. 463 x 578mm. 18¼ x 22¾". Toning and nicks around the edges of the sheet.
Cottage interior with a family gathered listening to a young man reading from a letter.
[Ref: 25616] £320.00

[The First Mug] La Première Chope.
Peint par Schloesser. Lithog par Durand. Imp. Lemercier, r. de Seine 57, Paris.
Publié par Goupil et C.e le 1.r Octobre 1864. Paris, Londres, La Haye, Bruxelles. Berlin _ Verlag von Goopil & Co. New York, Published by M. Knœdler.
Rare tinted lithograph. Printed area 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"), with large margins, publisher's blind stamp.
A small boy being given his first mug of beer, in a large rustic room. One side is a basket of vegetables, the other a gun and shooting bag. Engraved by André Durand (1837-67) after Carl Schloesser (1832-1914).
[Ref: 53900] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The First Scrape.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"), on waxy paper. Slight creasing, mounted on album paper.
A young boy plays the violin, music book propped on a chair, watched by his smaller sister.
[Ref: 56339] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Marche au Poisson. [The Fish Market.]
Peint par Pierre. Grave par Pelletier.
A Amsterdam chés Pierre Fouquet Junior, A Paris, chés Basan, Graveur, Place Maubert. [n.d., c.1765.]
Etching, 365 x 275mm. 14¼ x 14¾". Tear into plate at left; full margins.
After Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714 - 1789). This particular scene very eastern in content. The man on the left is dressed in Turkish style costume while the market is being held on a harbour front dominated by an antient "lion" fountain.
[Ref: 17578] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A fish market.]
Snyders pinxit. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1782. Publish'd June 1.st 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 18th century watermark, 415 x 580mm (16¼ x 22¾") with large margins. Repaired margins, uncleaned. Platemark splits repaired.
A Dutch market scene, with a man shaking fish into a large basket and another chopping fish. A long table with a variety of sea animals. One of a set of four markets engraved by Earlom after Frans Snyders and Jan Boeckhorst. The original painting is now in the Hermitage Museum, having being bought by Catherine II.
[Ref: 60698] £580.00

The Fisherman.
Pillement inv.t et delin. P.C. Canot sculp.t.
Published according to Act of Parliament Sep.r 30, 1757. London, Sold at the Golden Head, Little Chapple Street, Soho.
Etching. 205 x 295mm (8 x 11¾"), with very large margins.
Men fishing with nets on a shoreline, with the setting sun.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60319] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Morning. The Fishermans Departure. [&] Evening. The Fishermans Return.
Painted by R. Corbould. Engraved by W. Ward.
Published August 1st 1799 by B. F. Scott, No. 80 Tottenham Court Road, London.
A pair of coloured mezzotints, very fine colour & rare. Plate size: 610 x 490mm, 24 x 19¼" each. Few marks and minor stains. Unexamined out of frames.
Morning. A young man wearing a fur hat and carrying oars over his shoulder, gesturing towards a boat drawn up on the seashore to the left while looking back at a baby held in its mother's arms at the doorway to a thatched building; two boys carry nets and a basket on poles ahead of their father, and a little girl stands holding onto her mother's skirts. / Evening. Interior of a cottage where a young man wearing a fur hat is displaying his catch to his wife, who sits on the left with a sleeping baby on her knee and knitting on the stool beside her; a little girl and two boys bend over the basket at the man's feet, one boy showing a large crab, while the man holds up a large fish, and a kitten menaces a lobster.
Frankau: 204 II of II.
[Ref: 28098] £750.00 view all images for this item

Flavia. On her rais'd arm reclined her Drooping head.
S. Shelley pinx.t. C. Taylor sculp.t.
London, Publish'd May 1;st 1787, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
A scene showing a young woman by her bed at nightime.
[Ref: 50300] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

A Flemish Club. 407.
David Teniers Pinx.t. C. Corbutt Fecit.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller at No.53 in Fleet Street.
Fine mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾'') very large margins.
A scene in a tavern in which men and women sit drinking, eating and smoking.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 48846] £320.00

[A Flemish Collation.]
Van Harp Pinx.t. Isaac Taylor Sculpsit. [Scratched letters.]
J. Boydell exc.t 1765 [scratched letters].
Engraving. Proof before title. Platemark: 480 x 600mm (18¾ x 23½") large margins. Two small repaired tears to upper edge of sheet.
A busy, rustic interior of a tavern where men and women are smoking, drinking and eating. Various figures are gathered in the room, including a woman sitting in a wicker chair, feeding a child on her lap, a man on the steps behind taking an apple from a woman who stands with an apron-full in the doorway, and a woman tending to a pot over the fire to the left. A cat is lapping at a saucer in the centre foreground. Crest inscribed below image.
[Ref: 40054] £320.00

[Flemish interior with a boy acrobat.] Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Brun.
Q. Messis. Guyard.
à Paris chez L'auteur rue du Gros Chenet No.47 et chez Poignant rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with etching. 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾"), large margins.
Interior of a Flemish inn, with several peasants watching a young boy performing acrobatics. From the first volume of 'Galerie des peintres flamands hollandais et allemands', a set reproducing paintings by Dutch, Flemish and German masters from the collection of J. B. Lebrun, engraved by various artists from 1777 to 1790 (or 1791), and published in 3 volumes, in 1792 and 1794. The plates were issued in series of twelve.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57498] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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