Grosvenor Prints

A Sure and Convenient Machine for Drawing Silhouettes.
T. Holloway Pinxit. [after Johann Rudolph Schellenberg.]
[n.d., c.1792.]
Stipple and line engraving. 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"), with very large margins.
A seat with a screen attached, allowing the shadow from a candle to be traced, a device invented by Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), a physiognomist. Thomas Holloway copied a Swiss print by Schellenberg.
[Ref: 42434] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Slave Sale, or Come, Who Bids? Composed by Henry Russell for his New Entertainment "Negro Life"_Words by Angus B. Reach Esq.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Surface dirt and tears to edges.
[Ref: 42763] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Battle of Sobraon, A Faithful Representation of the Storming of the Sikhs Position at the Bridge of Boats at Sobraon.
[Lithographed by Richard Evan Sly?]
[Published by Blackwood & Page, n.d., c.1846.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 315 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½"), large margins. Trimmed, some staining and marking.
The Battle of Sobraon, between the forces of the East India Company and the Sikh Empire of the Punjab during the First Sikh War (1845-6). The Sikhs were completely defeated, making this the decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War. This scene shows the Sikh retreat over the single pontoon bridge over the Sutlej River; when the bridge collapsed under the weight of the troops, those Sikhs trapped with the British refused to surrender and fought to the death.
[Ref: 42744] £350.00

[Louis XVI, Roi de France.]
[J. Boze. L. Schiavonetti.]
Publisched by Mr Joseph Weber, 2 October 1802. 6 Reysell Street Leicester Square. [ink mss.]
Stipple, platemark 260 x 165mm (10¼ x 6¾"), with very large margins. Proof before all letters; old ink mss. publication details outside bottom plate mark.
A portrait of Louis XVI King of France set in an oval. The Germanic spelling of 'Publisched' suggests it was the publisher himself who wrote the mss. It was published by Weber in the third volume of Memoirs of Maria Antoinetts Archduchess of Austria in 1812
For another portrait with same ms publication inscription see ref. 11800.
[Ref: 41695] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[South America.] Tegenwoodige Staat van Zuid America.
J.C. Philips inv. et fecit.
Te Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion, 1767.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed to platemark on left.
An allegorical scene showing four women holding documents stating the names of various South American countries and well as a coat of arms. A map of South America is hung up behind them on the wall of an Aztec monument.
[Ref: 42741] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Hymn to be Sung by the Charity Children of St Saviour, Southwark, On Christmas Day, 1822. Behold to us a Child is Born...
[n.d., 1822.]
Letterpress. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Old ink mss.
A songsheet, used to record statistics, including 'Consumption of Barley annually'.
[Ref: 42360] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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

Prémiére Chûte du Staubbach dans la Vallée de Lauterbrounn. No.4.
C. Wolf pinxit. Schellenberg sculpsit.
a Berne chez A. Wagner Imp de LL:EE:
Engraving. Sheet: 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Surface dirt. Cut to platemark.
A view in the Swiss Alps from 'Collection des Vues remarquables des Alpes de la Suisse' 1789 engraved after Caspar Wolf's paintings done from nature.
[Ref: 42756] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Second Chûte du Staubbach prise de sa gauche dans lad Vallée de Lauterbraunn. No.5.
C. Wolf pinxit. Schellenberg sculpsit.
a Berne chez A. Wagner Imp de LL:EE:
Engraving. Sheet: 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Surface dirt. Cut to platemark.
A view in the Swiss Alps from 'Collection des Vues remarquables des Alpes de la Suisse' 1789 engraved after Caspar Wolf's paintings done from nature.
[Ref: 42757] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lithography No. 1. of a Series of Studies for Nature Drawn on Stone, by T.C. Holfand. Dedicated by Permission, to the Right Honourable Countess Harcourt. To be Published Quaterly, Price 10s. 6d. Each Part Containing Six Studies.
Published, and Subscriptions Received, by Mr. Ackerman, 101 Strand:...
Set of 6 lithographs in wrappers. Rare. Limited to 300. 330 x 425mm (13 x 16¾"). Creasing, light staining and tears in edges.
A set of six lithographs titled 'The Breakind up of an Old Vessel, near Cumberland Gardens Lambeth', ' Fortescue House, Enfield, (recently pulled down) in which Queen Elizabeth was Confined by her Sister', 'A Cottage, near Kenfield, Kent', 'The Entrance into the Great Cavern, near Castleton, in the Peak of Derbyshire', 'Weathercove Cave, Yorkshire' and 'A Cottage near Epping, Essex'.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 42640] £360.00 view all images for this item

Views of Swanwich Bay.
Drawn by H. Gastineau from a Sketch by a Lady & on Stone by G. Barnard [& W. Gauci]
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d., c.1840.]
Very scarce set of 4 lithographs on india, stitched in original printed wrappers, plus extra lithograph inserted loose. Sheets: 380 x 280mm (15 x 11") with large margins. Slight paper tone to backing paper of loose print.
A set of five views of Swanage Bay in Dorset.
[Ref: 42853] £580.00 view all images for this item

Sydney, New South Wales.
Guide to Knowledge.
Saturday, December 27, 1834.
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet: 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½").
An illustration from a 1834 edition of 'Guide to Knowledge' a serialised partwork edited by W. Pinnock sold cheaply for a penny.
[Ref: 42481] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Melle Taglioni, dans la Sylphide.
Lith. de Gihaut frères Editeurs. Lith par F. Courtin.
Boulevard des Italiens, No. 5, Paris. [n.d., c.1831.]
Lithograph, on india paper. Sheet: 320 x 440mm (12½ x 17¼"). Marking in plate and margins, margins toned. Tears in edges, one in lower edge just into india.
A full-length portrait of Romantic ballet dancer Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) shown in costume and en pointe. Taglioni was the first dancer to use en pointe to express character in a dance. While this print is titled 'dans la Sylphide' the portrait is actually of Taglioni in the title role of La Bayadère and is after and English lithograph by R. J. Lane after A.E. Chalon. Dedication in pencil in lower right corner.
[Ref: 42851] £1,250.00

A Gateway, Tangier. [In pencil below image.]
R. Herdman-Smith. [signed in pencil.]
Etching with hand colour. Limited edition 57/75; original Publishers' label attached. Plate: 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6").
A view of Tangier in Morocco, in which a figure with a lamp approaches through a large gate. Robert Herdman-Smith (1879-1945) was born in Liverpool and exhibited at the Royal Academy and Paris Salon. He taught at the Wellington Technical School, New Zealand, from 1902, later returning to England.
[Ref: 42522] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Small Tea Party of Superannuated Politicians.
H.B. [in image lower left]
London, Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket. Aug.t 13, 1829. Printed by J. Netherclift 8 Newman St.
Lithograph with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13"). Tear from top edge.
Satirical likenesses of elderly Tory stalwarts who opposed Catholic Relief: (l-r) Thomas Manners Sutton, 1st Baron Manners (shown in by a servant); Sophia, sister of Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (who stands second from right); a servant attending John Freeman Mitford, 1st Baron Reedesdale; John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon; Bexley; and Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. Reedsdale and Sidmouth both gave their last speeches earlier in 1829. Lithograph by John Doyle (1797-1868), cartoonist and painter who went by the pseudonym 'H.B.' Doyle began making political prints in 1827 and over a period of 22 years usually issued one a month during parliamentary seasons. While his prosperity enabled Doyle to move to a fashionable address overlooking Hyde Park which drew him into a circle of prestigious writers and artists including Wordsworth, Dickens and Coleridge, Doyle preserved his anonymity as 'H.B.' until 1843, when he revealed himself to Sir Robert Peel in a seventeen page letter justifying his motives and principles as a cartoonist.
BM Satires 15846
[Ref: 42466] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thorp Cloud &c. This Pyramidal Mountain in Derbyshire, the River Dove washes its foot; the front (where the View was taken) is in Staffordshire at the bottom of the Gardens of Geo. Port, of Ilam Esq.r. To whom This View is Inscrib'd by his most hum.le Serv.t T. Smith.
T. Smith pinx. J. Mason Sculp.
Publish'd pursuant to an Act of Parliament Decem.r 1751 by T.Smith.
Engraving. Plate: 540 x 390mm (21¼ x 15½"), with very large margins. Tear in lower edge into plate.
A view of Thorp Cloud on the border of Staffordshire and Derbyshire at the southern end of Dovedale.
[Ref: 42782] £420.00

[Three lithographs after bas-reliefs by Thorvaldsen for the Bethmann-Hollweg family tomb in Frankfurt] Bas-reliefs exécutés en marbre dans le caveau de la famille Bethmann, par le chevalier Thorwaldsen.
Trois planches, lithographiées par F. Leuchtweiss.
Francfort a/M. Publiés par Charles Jugel, Libraire. 1837.
Three lithographs in original wrappers, bottom right in pencil "Lord Ryland"; each sheet approx 320 x 260mm (12½ x 10¼").
Lithographs of the three relief panels executed by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768/70-1844) for Johann Philipp Bethmann-Hollweg's funerary monument in the Bethmann-Hollweg family tomb in Frankfurt. In the left-hand panel Johann Philipp's mother and daughters express their grief; in the right-hand panel Florence (where Johann Philipp died) is referenced by the presence of a river god (the embodiment of the river Arno flowing through the city) and the city's emblem of a lion); in the central panel Johann Philipp is flanked by his younger brother and a youthful spirit extending poppy heads over his shoulder as a symbol of sleep. The three marble tablets are now in the Liebieghaus Skulpturen Sammlung, Frankfurt.
[Ref: 41712] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Opera Ticket. [Leucippo 31 Mar. 1764. N. 122] [in manuscript.]
[c.1760.]
Extremely rare engraving. Sheet: 140 x 240mm (5½ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
A ticket to an opera. The opera is either 'Leucippo' by Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783) an arcadian tale of two star-crossed lovers or 'Leucippo e Zenocrita' by Mattia Vento (1735-1776), an Italian composer living in London. 'Leucippo e Zenocrita' was first performed in 1764 and was repeated for the wedding of Princess Augusta, granddaughter of George II and sister of George III. This particular ticket seems to have been used as template for several operas the British Museum has a ticket for an Assembly in 1771 with the same design.
[Ref: 42068] £620.00

[Tobacco] Thos. Slous, Tobacco and Snuff Maunufacturer, Lower Road, Deptford. Said to be written over the Ten Commandments in a Country Church. PRSVRYPRFECTMN. VRKPTHSPRFCTMN. Add a Vowel, and you can read these lines.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress with woodcut border. Sheet 550 x 80mm (2¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed close to border, mounted on album paper.
A trade card with a word puzzle.
[Ref: 42420] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Wells humbly Dedicated to Thomas Pellet M.D.
T. Badeslade Delin. J. Kip Sculp.
[London: D. Midwinter, 1719.]
Engraving, very fine impression. 350 x 430mm (13¾ x 17"), with very large margins. Crease as normal.
A detailed bird's-eye view engraved by Johannes Kip after Thomas Badeslade for John Harris's 'History of Kent in Five Parts'. The houses are named in the image, with the wells in the centre of the plate. The title is on a scroll at the top of the plate, along with Pellet's armorial. Thomas Pellet was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1716 and served as President 1735-9. William Hogarth painted his portrait about that time, which is now in the Tate Gallery.
[Ref: 42302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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Uncle Ned, the Popular Negro Ballad.
London Office, 192 High Holborn, &.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 250 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½"0.
A songsheet telling the story of an old man called Ned.
[Ref: 42645] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[La Case de l'Oncle Tom.]
à Paris chez Miné, Imp. Lith Rue S.t Jacques, 22. [n.d., c.1860.]
Set of 4 lithographs. Each sheet: 420 x 285mm (16½ x 11¼") very large margins. Marking and tears in margins.
A set of four lithographs illustrating scenes in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' published in 1852. The novel centres around a slave called Uncle Tom and the various other people he comes into contact with. The book was one of the most popular novels of the 19th century.
[Ref: 42726] £380.00 view all images for this item

d'Stadt Bergen, in Noorweegen.
C. Decker in. et sc.
[Jacob van Meurs, 1676.]
Engraving. Sheet: 290 x 190mm (11½ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A scene showing the Battle of Vagen which took place near Bergen between the British and the Dutch in 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. An illustration from 'Wouter Schouten Oost-Indische...' 1676 published by Jacob van Meurs.
[Ref: 42395] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Campo di S. Geremia con la Famosa Caccia del Toro.
Per il Lovisa in Realto. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet 365 x 490mm (14¼ x 19¼"). Trimmed within image, folded and laid on album paper.
A scene in Venice, showing bull-baiting in Campo San Geremia, published in 'Il gran Teatro di Venezia' (The Great Theatre of Venice).
[Ref: 42175] £350.00

[Dedication from Queen Victoria to Victor, prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg] To my dear Nephew Victor Hohenlohe on his passing his Examination for Lieutenant This record of the glorious Services of Nelson is given With every pryaer for his Welfare & distinction in the noble Service to which he belongs By his most affectionate Aunt Victoria R. December 16 1854
Ms, sheet 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Glued to backing sheet.
Victor, prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1833-91), naval officer and sculptor, was the daughter of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later the duchess of Kent), half-sister to Queen Victoria. In 1848, through the interest of Queen Victoria, he entered the British navy as a midshipman, and this dedication shows the monarch's delight at Prince Victor's promotion to Lieutenant six years later. Prince Victor was forced to retire from the navy in 1866 due to repeated illness; he then devoted himself to a second career as a sculptor, in which capacity his main achievement was a large statue of Alfred the Great for the market place at Wantage, Oxfordshire.
[Ref: 41976] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Vienna.] Vienna Assediata da Turchi e Liberata da Christiani. All Ill.mo Sig,r Marchese Sachetti Suo riueritissimo Signore.
Era.co Bufalini D.D.D.
[n.d., c.1683.]
Engraving, scarce. Key on verso. Sheet: 400 x 365mm (15¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Central vertical fold.
A plan of Vienna showing the city during the siege and Battle of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire in 1683. The Ottomans were badly defeated by the Christian Allies and the battle staged the recapture of much of Eastern Europe from the Turks. Key to the plan on verso.
[Ref: 42670] £320.00

[Seige of Vienna.]Belegeringe en onset de Stadt Weenen.
C. Decker fe.
[n.d., c.1683.]
Engraving, with letterpress descriptions. Sheet: 350 x 285mm (13¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A plan of Vienna showing the city during the seige and Battle of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire in 1683. The Ottomans were badly defeated by the Christian Allies and the battle staged the recapture of much of Eastern Europe from the Turks. Key to the plan on album sheet adjoining and description below, both in French.
[Ref: 42671] £450.00

The Village School.
Pub.d Dec.r 1828, by J. Harris, corner of St Paul's and Baldwin & Craddock Paternoster Row.
Engraving, sheet 180 x 100mm (7 x 4").
Two vignettes, including a cricket match taking place at a school, within decorative border.
[Ref: 42451] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

General Washington. Parson's Genuine Edition of Hume's England.
Engraved for J. Parsons, Paternoster Row, May 1795.
Stipple. Plate: 100 x 160mm (4 x 6¼") very large margins.
A half-length portrait in an oval of George Washington (1731-1799), the first President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The American victory at the Battle of Princeton in January 1777 was one of the most consequential of the American Revolution.
[Ref: 42601] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Waterloo. [Conveying the French Cannon from the Field of Battle, on the 24th July, 1815.] From a Drawing made on the Spot, July 24th, 1815.
Publish'd by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1816.
Coloured aquatint. Plate: 400 x 300mm (15¾ x 11¾").
An illustration from Bowyer's 'Campaign of Waterloo', a sequel to his 'Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe', which had ended after the first abdication of Napoelon Bonaparte in April 1814.
Abbey Life: 354.
[Ref: 42634] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

De Bruiloft van Cloris en Roosje. Les Noces de Clorus et Rosette.
C. Troost pinxit. P. Tanjé fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 520 x 410mm (20½ x 16"), with very large margins.
A scene at a wedding in which the newly married couple dance together while the guests look on. 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: 42667] £390.00

Wellington. Born May 1st, 1789.-Died Sept. 14th, 1852. Buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, Nov.18th, 1852. With him the aim and end of War was Honourable Peace.
Mansell.
Embossed card. Sheet: 75 x 115mm (3 x 4½"). Laid on card.
A funeral card of the death of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) on which an angel with a trumpet kneels above a tomb with Wellington's portrait.
[Ref: 41810] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Wellington. Born May 1, 1769. Died Sep.t 14. 1852.
Windsor London.
Embossed card. Sheet:155 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Laid on card.
A funeral card of the death of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) showing an angel laying a wreath at the base of a monument, while the allegorical figure of Brittania weeps before his portrait.
[Ref: 41811] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Welch Peasants.
H. Bunbury Esq.r. Delin.t. J. Baldrey Fecit.
London, Publish'd Aug.st 20th 1788 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Oval stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of rustic women, carrying a tub and a ewer.
[Ref: 42028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Oh! Whisky is your soul's delight, / Your only Valentine- / Go steep your brains in alcohol- / You never shall be mine!
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 220 x 165mm (8½ x 6½").
A battered-looking man stands, glass in hand. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 42432] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman Sleeping]
Drawn by T. Harper
[n.d., c.1830]
Stipple printed in colour, sheet 205 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed around image and artist's name. Very fine impression.
Stipple after Thomas Harper (1817-43, fl.), portrait and miniature painter who specialised in attractive pictures of women such as his 'Beauties of Brighton'.
[Ref: 42463] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Wombat.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Narrow bottom margin. Loss in title area.
A wombat, the Australian marsupial.
[Ref: 42425] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Woodman. Far removed from noise and smoak, [/] Hark I hear the woodman's stroke...
Published 16th May 1793 by Rob.t Sayer & C.o Fleet Street London.
Fine hand-coloured mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Small margins. Some chips in edges.
A portrait of a woodman, stood by a fallen tree and his dog, behind them two woodmen say through a large log.
[Ref: 42598] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Six Views of York Cathedral. South West. [&] North West. [&] South East [&] The Choir. [&] The Nave. [&] North Trasncept.
Drawn & on Stone by W. Bevan. Printed by W. Monkhouse, York.
Sold by John Sampson Coney St. York. [n.d., c.1830.]
Set of 6 lithographs. Sheet: 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾").
A complete set of six views of York Minster.
Abbey 384 different version.
[Ref: 42738] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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