Grosvenor Prints

[Stonehenge.]
[J. Blaeu.]
[c.1665.]
Etching. Plate: 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
A view of the prehistoric monument of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in which a group of three people stand in conversation in the centre of the stones and three men dig bones in the bottom left. An illustration from a German edition of J. Blaeu's 'Atlas Maior Sive Cosmographia Blaviana' first published 1662-1668.
[Ref: 43577] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

North East View of Stonehenge- The Grand Entrance- From an Origial Drawing in the Collection of Rob.t. Duke Esq.r. [&] South West View of Stonehenge- From an Original Drawing in the Collection of Rob.t. Duke Esq.r.
G. Keate Del. 1770. H. Roberts Sculp.
Pair of engravings. Sheet: 155 x 230mm (6 x 9"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into an album sheet, some marking.
A pair of view of the prehistoric monument of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
[Ref: 43578] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Stonehenge.]
I. Kip Sculp.
[n.d., c.1722.]
Engraving. Plate: 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Sheet slightly torn.
A view of the prehistoric monument of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire with a key in the bottom edge. An illustration from the 1722 edition of Edmund Gibson's English edition of Camden's 'Britannia', first published in 1695.
[Ref: 43576] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

To the younger branches of his Family this Portrait of their late Father W.m Strong Esq.r is dedicated by their affectionate Brother F.G.S. Wm. Strong [facsimile signature]
From memory by F. Strong [c.1837]
Stipple, rare, sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5").
William Strong (1767-1837), tulip amateur. Varnish maker in Long Acre, Covent Garden.
O'D 1.
[Ref: 43612] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lord John & Lord Bernard Stuart Sons of Esme Duke of Lenox. Done from the Original in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble Lord Royston and the Marchioness Grey.
Vandyke pinx.t. J.s McArdell fecit.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Small tear in bottom margin. Time stained.
Portrait of the two sons of Esmé Stuart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, who both fought for the Royalist cause in the Civil War: the elder, Lord John Stuart (1621-1644), was killed at the Battle of Cheriton; the younger, Lord Bernard Stuart, Earl of Lichfield (1622-1645), died at the Battle of Rowton Heath. The original painting by Van Dyck in the National Gallery.
CS: 174. Goodwin: 122. Russell: 174. See Ref: 29026 for an earlier reversed version published by Tompson.
[Ref: 43451] £360.00

[Suleyman I] Solimannus Turcarum Imperator. Parat ultima terra triumphos / Tigris et Euphrates Sub tua jura fluunt, Prop. l.3.
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½", very large margins.
Suleyman I ('the Magnificent'), Ottoman Sultan. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century.
for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43705] £460.00

View of Taplow, taken from Maidenhead Bridge.
Drawn by W.m Havell. Engraved by R. Havell.
London, Published August 1 1818 by Thomas McLean.
Aquatint. 425 x 550mm (16¾ x 21½"). Small tear in title area, very small margins.
A view looking from Maidenhead in Berkshire up the Thames to Taplow in Buckinghamshire, painted by William Havell (1782-1857) and engraved by his cousin Robert Havell jnr. (1793-1878), famed for engraving most of Audubon's monumental 'Birds of America'. The paper around the image has been coloured to mimic board, the usual presentation of a watercolour.
[Ref: 43446] £450.00

[Woman from Tasmania] Femme du Cap de Diemen. Atlas du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, No 6
Piron del Copia sculp. Dien scripsit.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving, sheet 450 x 315mm (17¾ x 12½"). Creasing on left.
Plate from 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', compiled by Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Labillardière was the botanist on board an expedition led by Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux which in 1791-3 attempted to find Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, who disappeared in 1788 after setting sail from Botany Bay (Australia). Despite finding no trace of La Pérouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists (and sketches by the expedition's artist Jean Piron) which were published in this book.
[Ref: 43175] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eagle Hawk Neck.
On Stone by W.L. Walton. From a Sketch by Coll. Mundy. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852.
Tinted lithograph, sheet 140 x 220mm (5½ x 8½").
Eagle Hawk Neck, the narrow isthmus connecting the Tasman Peninsula and Forestier Peninsula in south-east Tasmania. Plate from 'Our Antipodes' (1852) by Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Charles Mundy (1804-60), soldier and author. Following service in India, Mundy arrived in Australia in 1846 as deputy adjudant general of military forces in Australia, staying there until 1851.
Abbey 562.11.
[Ref: 43381] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Ten Trinity Square.] P.L.A. London. [in pencil.]
Kenneth Ames [? pencil signature]
[Kenan Ltd, n.d., c.1922.]
Etching in original mount and gilt-lettered folio. Plate 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Scuffs to covers, faint mount burn around image.
A view of the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority on Tower Hill, probably at the time it was opened, by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, in 1922. At present there are plans to convert it into a Four Seasons Hotel. This print was published as a corporate Christmas card: the cover reads 'With the Compliments of the Season and Best Wishes for the New Year from Kenan Ltd. Reg 5653'
[Ref: 43213] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Thlinkit and Man from Copper River.
A. Hoen & Co. Lith. Baltimore.
[New York: Julius Bien & Co., 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Paper toned. Right corner creased.
Two tribesmen from the Alaska/British Columbia region. The plate was published to accompany the 'Map of Alaska and Adjoining Regions compiled by Ivan Petroff, Special Agent, Tenth Census 1880. Showing the Distribution of Native Tribes.
[Ref: 43343] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Papagos. Grizzly Bear. Seminole Chief.
A. Schott del.. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[Washington: Department of the Interior, 1857.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Image 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Two Tohono O'odham women harvesting cactus fruits, Arizona. Arthur Carl Victor Schott (1814-1875), a Stuttgart-born artist, topographical engineer and cartographer, joined the 'The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey' which was determining the border after the Mexican–American War (1846-8). His sketches, including this one, appeared in William H. Emory's 'Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey'. They were reproduced in the 'Illustrated London News' in 1858.
[Ref: 43341] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Dance on Tonga in the presence of queen Tineh] Dans des Iles des Amis, en présence de la reine Tiné. Atlas du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, No 27.
Piron del Copia sculp. Dien scripsit.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving, sheet 315 x 450 (12½ x 17¾"). Very slight crease. Small margins.
Plate from 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', compiled by Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Labillardière was the botanist on board an expedition led by Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux which in 1791-3 attempted to find Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, who disappeared in 1788 after setting sail from Botany Bay (Australia). Despite finding no trace of La Pérouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists (and sketches by the expedition's artist Jean Piron) which were published in this book.
For a British-published copy of this image see ref. 20740.
[Ref: 43179] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Trafalgar Square and St Martin-in-the-Fields]
A. Brunet-Debaines [c.1888]
Etching, image 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9½").
Trafalgar Square in London, showing (l-r) one of Sir Edwin Landseer's lions, the National Gallery, the equestrian statue of George IV by Sir Francis Chantrey, and the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Etched by Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines (1845-1939), French painter & printmaker. From 1884 to 1897 he lived in Britain, and in 1878–9 and 1887–8 his views of London, Oxford and Edinburgh appeared in 'Portfolio'.
[Ref: 43328] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Improvements in the Strand and Charing Cross. Gent. Mag March 1831 Pt. 1 p.201.
R. Martin Lithogaph 124 High Holborn.
Lithograph, sheet 125 x 190mm (5 x 7½"). Glued to backing sheet.
Plan showing improvements to the area of central London now occupied by Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery and Charing Cross Station which opened in January 1864. Until 1826 much of this area was occupied by William Kent's Royal Mews (for which see ref. 39702). This print was published shortly before construction began on the 'National Gallery of Painting and Sculpture' (shown on the plan). Work on Trafalgar Square did not begin for several more years (here it remains a largely empty space), eventually opening to the public in 1844.
[Ref: 43586] £70.00

Tunbridge Castle.
P. Sandby Fecit 1787.
Publish'd by P. Sand St Georges Row facing Hyde Park, May 1st 1788.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 370 x 540mm (14½ x 21¼"). Small margins, bit messy.
A view of the Norman Motte and Bailey castle at Tonbridge in Kent in which several labourers fill carts with stone from the ruin, a woman walks past with her children and three men stand in conversation. The owner at the time, John Hooker sold stone from the castle in order to build locks in the river Medway and in 1791 his son Thomas built a house adjoining the gatehouse.
[Ref: 43565] £420.00

2.e Vue de Twickenham. Angleterre. Sites historiques
H. Vander-Burch lith.
Paris Turcis Jeune Imp.e Editeur, rue des Ecoles 80.
Lithograph, rare, sheet 285 x 335mm (11¼ x 13¼"). Crease through centre.
The distinctive Ferry House and adjacent buildings on Riverside, Twickenham, with the river Thames in the foreground. The houses are very near to Orleans House (now the Orleans House Gallery), so named because in 1815, after Napoleon's return to power in France, Louis Philippe, duc d'Orleans became tenant of the house. Louis Philippe was accompanied by a large retinue, including two aides de camp who lived at Ferry House. It is probably for this reason that this French print focuses on this uncommon view.
Not in Gascoyne
[Ref: 43169] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Concert Ticket] University College Musical Society / President- Lord Reay / Conductor Sig.r Alberto Randegger / The Members request the pleasure of the company of [...]
[Anon, c.1900]
Etching printed in brown, rare, platemark 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½").
Ticket for a concert conducted by Alberto Randegger (1832-1911), conductor, teacher and composer of German and Italian descent, to be held at the Royal Academy of Music under the auspices of the music society of University College London. Randegger did much to encourage a following for Wagner's early operas, and those of Verdi (whom he had known in Italy). His greatest influence, however, was as a singing teacher, through his teaching at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and his 1893 textbook 'Singing'.
[Ref: 43499] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of William Upcott] A Collector.
Engraved by T. BRagg from a Drawing by W. Behnes, March 1818.
Engraving on india, very fine impression; platemark 285 x 185mm (11¼ x 7¼").
William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector and son of the artist Ozias Humphry (1742-1810). Along with his early collecting of prints, coins and trade tokens, Upcott inherited his father's artworks and extensive correspondence. It was the latter which led Upcott towards his primary interest of collecting autographs. Upcott also catalogued the library at the Evelyn family home of Wotton in Surrey (in the course of which he acquired, possibly illegally, a number of items which he later refused to return), and compiled a biographical dictionary of British authors and a bibliography of British topgraphical works (a volume of which he holds in this print). In later years Upcott negotiated with various institutions interested in acquiring his collection (from the British Museum to the Library of Congress) but most of his collection remained with him at his Islington residence 'Autograph Cottage'. After his death the collections were dispersed in three sales: the British Museum purchased his collections relating to British topography, while the Evelyn family repossessed items Upcott had taken from the library. Engraved after a drawing by William Behnes (1791x7-1864), who was second only to Francis Chantrey as England's most prolific and successful portrait sculptor at this time.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 43354] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Northern Provinces of the United States.
Drawn and Engraved for Thomson's New General Atlas. [Edinburgh: John Thomson, c.1815.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. 530 x 620mm (20¾ x 24½"). Paper pasted around printed border at bottom to hide damp stains.
A map of United States north east of Pennsylvania, with a vignette illustration of Niagara Falls.
[Ref: 43575] £360.00

[Hubert van Eyck] Huberto ab Eyck, Joannis Fratri; Pictori. Quas modo communes cum fratre Huberte, merenti / Attribuit laudes nostra Thalia tibi [...] 1.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Hubert van Eyck (b.c.1358-90, d.1426), painter and brother of Jan van Eyck. According to the inscription on the famous Ghent altarpiece, that great work was begun by Hubert and completed by Jan. Other work by Hubert is hard to identify. Third state of a plate engraved in 1572 after an unidentified portrait by Michiel Coxie I. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43314] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Jan van Eyck] Joannes ab Eyck Pictor. Ille ego, qui laetos oleo de semine lini /Expresso docui princeps miscere colores [...] 2.
Th. Galle exc [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), painter and illuminator best known for his completion of the Ghent altarpiece and his double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami ('the Arnolfini Marriage') now in London's National Gallery. Third state of a plate first published in 1572. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'.
[Ref: 43315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

H94 Washington's House at Mount Vernon. [ms]
E Morin Del H Linton [c.1850]
Wood engraving, printed area 120 x 160mm (4¾ x 6¼"), with large margins. Left corner creased. Nicks to edges.
Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, Virginia, the plantation house of George Washington (1732-99), first President of the United States. After Washington's death, the mansion and its grounds passed through Washington's descendants, falling into disrepair due to the dwindling funds of the family. After the federal government declined to purchase it, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchased the mansion and a portion of its land in 1858-9. It is now open to the public as a museum. wood engraving after Edmond Morin (1824-82), French artist. The print was made by Henry Duff Linton, with whom Morin established a journal, 'Pen and Pencil', in London.
[Ref: 43677] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ralph Walker.
Eckstien del. Ridley, sculp.t.
Pub by Ja.s Asperne 32, Cornhill Dec.r 1, 1803.
Stipple. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") large margins. Edges spotted.
Ralph Walker (1749-1824), Scottish civil engineer. He was appointed resident engineer of the West India Docks in August 1799; engineer to the East India Docks Company (working with John Rennie) in 1803; engineer for the Surrey Commercial Docks Company in 1807; and engineer to the East London Waterworks Company, 1807-24.
[Ref: 43395] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Josiah Wedgwood.
Engraved by W. Holl [after George Stubbs.]
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Steel engraving on india. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed, slight foxing.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs.
[Ref: 43400] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Josiah Wedgwood.
Engraved by W. Holl [after George Stubbs.]
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Steel engraving. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs.
[Ref: 43401] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Justice Welch From an Original Sketch by Hogarth in the Collection of Sam.l Ireland 1781 The portrait was began & finished within an hour by which a Considerable bet was Won
S.I. sculp
London, Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Molton & Co. 132 Pall Mall
Etching, sheet 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed
Saunders Welch (1711-84), grocer and magistrate. Originally a greengrocer (in the sense of a wholesale rather than retail business), Welch became a magistrate through his friend, the novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding, who before his death, asked that his salary be split between his half-brother Henry and Welch, who became the two leading metropolitan magistrates. His social circle included Hogarth (after whose sketch this print was made by Samuel Ireland), Samuel Johnson, and Welch's son-in-law, the sculptor Joseph Nollekens.
[Ref: 43103] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Thomas Wentworth Esq.r Brigadier General of His Majesty's Forces Colonel of One of His Regiments of Foot, & Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in America.
A. Ramsay pinx.t A. Van Haecken fecit [c.1747]
Mezzotint, sheet 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Small tear.
Mezzotint of a British soldier serving in America, engraved after Allan Ramsay by Alexander Van Haecken, younger brother of the drapery painter Joseph Van Haecken who worked for some time as Ramsay's studio assistant.
CS: 19; Ex Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43183] £360.00

A View of Westminster Bridge, with parts adjacent as in the Year 1760. Engraved from the Original Painting.
Sam.l Scott Pinx.t P:C: Canot Sculpt.
London, Printed for R. Wilkinson, R.H. Laurie and Bowles & Carver.
Engraving, platemark 340 x 570mm (13½ x 22½") large margins.
FIne view of Westminster Bridge and the riverside, after a painting by Samuel Scott (1701/2-1772), who painted repeatedly from a handful of favoured locations along the river Thames.
For a hand-coloured impression in period frame see ref. 15842.
[Ref: 43528] £480.00

The Sanctuary at Westminster, From a sketch by Doctor Stukeley made before its destruction in 1775. The Santuary at Westminster 1775 [in image lower right]
Pen lithograph, scarce, sheet 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾") large margins.
Copy of a sketch by the antiquary and natural philosopher William Stukeley (1687-1765), of a sanctuary in Westminster which Stukeley claimed belonged to Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 43589] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Rogier van der Weyden] Rogero, Bruxellensi Pictori. Non tibi sit laudi, quod multa, & pulchra, Rogere, / Pinxisti, ut poterant tempora ferre tua [...] 4.
Th. Galle excud [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), one of the most renowned painters of the fifteenth century, specialising in religious works and portraits. This engraving was made after an alleged self-portrait by van der Weyden, part of a series of paintings in Brussels town hall now lost. Third state of a plate first published in 1572, in a series of twenty-three portraits of painters from the Low Countries. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'. Another edition was published in 1694.
[Ref: 43317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Whitehead, Esq. of Twickenham. Obiit Dec.r 30 1774 Unhallow'd Hands, this Urn forbear / No Gems, nor orient Spoil, / Lie here conceal'd- but what's more rare / A Heart that Knows no guile
Publishd as the Act directs Sept.r 1 1773 by T. Wright Essex Street, Strand.
Engraving, sheet 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Paul Whitehead (1710-74), satirist in the vein of Alexander Pope who also organised events such as a mock Masonic procession along the Strand which was depicted in a satirical print. By the 1750s Whitehead lived at the elegant Colne Lodge on the north side of Twickenham Common. At this time his friends included the painters Francis Hayman and George Lambert, while his portrait was painted by Gainsborough (now lost). Whitehead's last bequest was his heart to his patron Dashwood, now Lord Le Despencer, with £50 for a marble urn in which it could be placed in Dashwood's mausoleum at West Wycombe. The urn containing the heart (shown here) was ceremoniously deposited in the mausoleum at West Wycombe on 16 August 1775 but was later stolen by a tourist.
For Whitehead's mock Masonic procession see ref. 40356; for Colne Lodge see ref. 15001.
[Ref: 43524] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Suspension Bridge over the river Tees at Whorlton.
Green Arch.t Lambert [c.1831]
Engraving on india, platemark 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins. Paper tone to india; foxing. Rare.
The suspension bridge in the small village of Whorlton, County Durham, designed by John Green of Newcastle. Opened in 1831 it was the earliest such road bridge in England.
[Ref: 43619] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Jonathan Wooler.
From a Drawing by Cha.s Landseer.
Published 24th Nov.r 1817 by W. Hone, Old Bailey, and Sold by E. Wilson, Royal Exchange, amd all the Print dealers in the United Kingdom.
Etching. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9").
Thomas Jonathan Wooler (1786-1853), publisher active in the Radical movement. He is best known for his satirical journal 'The Black Dwarf', published as a response to the Gagging Acts (Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817). He was soon charged with seditious libel, but was acquitted on the grounds he was the publisher, not the author, of the offending articles. This portrait would have been issued at the time of the trial.
[Ref: 43398] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Youth of the Garden See the club-room full crowded, / The lads they all run, / To hear a rum chant [...]
Published Aug.t 2 1793 at No 22 Golden Lane London. Later.
Etching, platemark 270 x 175mm (10½ x 7").
Ballad about young men looking for love, leaving a 'bagnio' with women and bags of money. The image suggests a Covent Garden setting.
[Ref: 43330] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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