Grosvenor Prints

Genius & Science presenting their Annual Offering to the Shrine of Apollo.
S. Wale delin. Adam Smith sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 200 x 115mm (8 x 4½"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into plate on right.
Allegorical figures of Genius & Science present a volume 'Imperial Magazine' to the statue of Apollo, suggesting this was a frontispiece to that publication.
[Ref: 57944] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece?; an emblem of architecture/design.]
Cochin Filius inv. Soubeyran Sculp.
[French, n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, laid paper, large margins; 215 x 160mm. 8½ x 6¼".
Putti engaged in draughtsmanship and calculations with a compass, under the supervision of a classical female figure; a river, buildings and architectural fragments to background. After Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790). Pierre Soubeyran (1709-1775), who engraved many of Cochin's designs, became Director of the Ecole de Dessin at Geneva, Switzerland in 1751.
[Ref: 27046] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Time uncovering painting] Le Tems decouvre la peinture.
Eisen inv.
A Paris chez Basan [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 130 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed along platemark top and bottom; glued to album sheet at corners; ms inscription bottom right.
Allegorical scene showing the virtues of painting revealed over time. Book illustration 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.
[Ref: 44927] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Art studying Nature.]
G.B. Cipriani Invt. Richd Earlom Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sepr. 1st. 1786 by John & Josiah Boydell, No 90, Cheapside.
Etching and aquatint, oval in frame numbered '2' from 'A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista', sheet 245 x 220mm. 9½ x 8½". Trimmed to plate.
Allegory: a female figure seated at left, paper in her right hand, holding up a glass and scrutinising the figure of Nature who stands by a tree at right; two winged putti attempting to lift her veil.
[Ref: 17348] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Copied from Capt. Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, by permission of the Proprietor.
H. Webber inv.t. T. Holloway sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet: 80 x 70mm (3 x 2¾''). Trimmed.
An allegorical scene showing Hope addressing Peace, Industry and Art by the coast. A copy of a roundel which appeared in the frontispiece of 'The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay' published by John Stockdale in 1789.
[Ref: 51142] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Q 11. Le Théatre. [&] Q 12. La Comedy.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760].
A pair of rare etchings, pt 18th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½") very large margins. Mint
A pair of rococo designs, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58939] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Origin of Design.
H. Singleton pinx.t W. Nutter Sculp.t.
London, Published by C. Taylor, Holborn, April 1. 1824.
Stipple engraving. Plate 190 x 133mm.7½ x 5¼".
With a winged cherub seated holding his bow and arrow in one hand and a torch in the other, the light casts the shade of the young male model onto the wall behind. A seated woman then sketches around the shadow to get a profile outline. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22599] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Learning's a Happiness to Man Below; [/] 'Tis from that source the Stream's of Plenty flow. Seek there ye Young, the Anchor of your Mind; [/] There Suffring Age, a bless'd Provision find.
B. Picart inv. F. Morellon la Cave sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, margins on 3 sides. Sheet: 125 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Some paper tone. Tears and nicks to edges.
Athena, goddess of knowledge, sits on a throne surrounded by gods and putti who read books on the steps below her.
[Ref: 36038] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Free Masonry Crown'd. Dedicated To The Learned Brothers. London.
P Lambert RA Roun Sculp.t. P. Sublime Inv.t.
accord to act of parliament.
Scarce stipple engraving, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with very large margins. Slight crease through centre. Bit messy.
Unusual allegory of Freemasonry, with putti examining a chart filled with symbols.
[Ref: 45694] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Constitutions of Masonry Frontispiece]
G.B. Cipriani & T. Sandby Delin. F. Bartolozzi & J Fittler. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1785]
Scratched proof engraving, sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
Illustration to 'Constitutions of Masonry' 1785. An allegorical scene within Free-Masons Hall. Truth stands on clouds holding a mirror in her right hand which shines rays of lights into the hall. Wisdom, Hope, Charity and three children, sit around Truth and a winged figure holding a torch in his right hand, descends from the clouds. In the foreground sits a celestial sphere, a terrestrial sphere, a compass and other Masonic instruments on a table; by its side, a candle and an armillary sphere on the floor
Calabi & De Vesme 2546 State IV of V.
[Ref: 57076] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Geometry assissting Perspective.
London, Publish'd June 1: 1786 by C. Taylor N.o.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Printed in sanguine. Sheet: 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in which the figure of Geomerty demonstrates the use of a plumb line to the figure of Perspective who holds a painting palette in her hand.
[Ref: 35575] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

History.
G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
Stipple engraving. 205 x 290mm (8 x 11½"). Glued to backing sheet. Top right corner detached.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Clio with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation,Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
[Ref: 14684] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

History.
F. Bartolozzi fecit 1792.
London. Publish'd May 18th. 1793 by T. Tomkins Foster Lane.
Etching and engraving. 178 x 127mm. 7 x 5". Trimmed.
A woman seating writing on an oval tablet hanging from a tree; beside a her, a little angel seated reading a book.
De Vesme: 629; ii/ii.
[Ref: 20449] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Justice Justice her equal scale aloft displays / And Rights both human and divine she weighs: / But laws no safety to the weak afford / Unless the scale is balanc'd by the sword
[Anon., c.1770]
Engraving, sheet 165 x 105mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Allegory of justice, holding sword with putto to left holding scales.
[Ref: 38503] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Knowledge by Time advances slow and wise, Turns every where its deep-discerning Eyes; Sees what befel, and what may yet befal, Concludes from both, and best provides for all.
The Universal Magazine.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 203 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Allegory of knowledge: various water wheels and pumps seen in the background, with a castle behind; allegorical figures in the foreground as representations of wisdom and science and Apollo sat on a cloud with his lyre. The woman, possibly Britannia to the right, sat holding a wreath and with various geometrical intruments and papers around, sat also to the right on the ground is the staff of Hermes. From the 'Universal Magazine'.
[Ref: 28646] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Law.
Macquin del.t Chapman sc.
[n.d. c.1813.]
Engraving with added hand-colour. 266 x 210mm. 10½ x 8¼". Crease down right-hand side.
A flame on the altar of Patria or 'Fatherland', in a representation of the concept of Law. On a list behind are the names of ancient law-givers Moses, Minos, Solon, Lycurgus, Draco and Numa Pompilius.
[Ref: 19341] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[An allegory of learning and scientific enquiry.]
A. Walker Inv. Del. et Sculp.
Engrav'd for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences for W. Owen at Temple Bar 1756.
Etching, frontispiece(?), image 170 x 105mm. 6¾ x 4¼". One small tear to upper margin.
The composition includes scholars pouring over a globe, one with a compass, also an orrery, boys with writing tablets and books in a library in the background. For Benjamin Martin's 'General magazine of arts and sciences' (W. Owen, 1755-1757). Following initial issue as monthly parts, directions were provided for binding annual volumes.
See Wellcome Library 35600/B.
[Ref: 27237] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Allegorie de Nicolas Lefevre Né en 1600, Mort en....
Parisot inv. M.G. J. Blanchon inv. et sculp.
[n.d., c.1740]
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6'') very large margins.
A scene showing a cherub using bellows into a furnace. An allegory of the role Nicaise Lefevre (1610-1669) played in the development of Chemistry in the 17th century. LeFevre was a teacher and chemist in the Jardin du Roi, he then Royal Professor of Chemistry and Apothecary-in-General to Royal Household Royal Society and was one of the founding members of the Royal Society.
Wellcome Library 370961.
[Ref: 48216] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Poetry.
Printed for Carington Bowles, in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into image.
Elegently-dressed people relax in a pleasure garden with classical ruins and a monument to William Shakespeare. One man is writing in a notebook. One plate of seven depicting the 'Seven Liberal Arts'.
[Ref: 60415] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mechanics.
[Taylor, Holborn, excudit.] [n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple. Plate 178 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
Mechanics, from a series on trades and science. A young lady leaning on a wooden press machine; a pulley system behind to her left.
[Ref: 22843] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Genius of Literature and Science presenting her Pupils to Minerva.
Drawn by R. Corbould. Engraved by J. Chapman.
London. Published as the Act directs Sep.r 19.th 1803, by J. Wilkes.
Stipple. 292 x 222mm. 11½ x 8¾". Nicks and tears around edges. Trimmed.
An allegory of two pupils being presented to Minerva, the goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts and magic.
[Ref: 26836] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

L'Harmonie. G.4.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 200 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing harmony, with several musical instruments; bagpipes,drums, harps, a horn, a triangle, a violin and a clarinet.
[Ref: 59311] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

La Pastorale. G.8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing pastoral music, with rural clothes, animals and musical instruments.
[Ref: 59310] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Music.
G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
A very fine stipple engraving. Plate 203 x 286mm. 8 x 11¼". Glued to backing sheet. Corners damaged.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Euterpe with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation,Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
De Vesme: 686; v/vi. See Ref: 21212 for first state, proof before all letters.
[Ref: 14685] £320.00

Musick.
P. da Cortona Inv.t. R. Marcuard Sc.t.
[Mango Exc.t. Publish'd According to Act of Parl.m 1st Sep.r 1777 for the Proprietor No. 150 Strand.]
Stipple. Sheet 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
A female figure, wearing a turban, a roll of sheet music in her left hand, her right resting on a violin. The British Museum suggests that the publisher is Jakob Mangot.
[Ref: 53692] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Musique. F.7.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing music, with musical instruments including a violin, trumpet, pipe organ and drums.
[Ref: 59309] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Musick.
P. da Cortona Inv.t. R. Marcuard Sc.t.
Mango Exc.t. Publish'd According to Act of Parl.m 1st Sep.r 1777 for the Proprietor No. 150 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"), with wide margins. Repaired tear & stain on left, entering plate but not image.
A female figure, wearing a turban, a roll of sheet music in her left hand, her right resting on a violin. The British Museum suggests that the publisher is Jakob Mangot.
[Ref: 52686] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Music.]
[G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t]
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.]
A very scarce and very fine stipple engraving, printed in red/brown ink. Proof before all letters, with small margins. Plate 198 x 286mm. 7¾ x 11¼". Some foxing.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Euterpe with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation, Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
De Vesme: 686; i/vi. See Ref: 14685 for later state.
[Ref: 21212] £480.00

Music.
Domenichino pinxt. M. Benedetti Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1797.]
Stipple; ink collector's mark on verso. Sheet size: 280 x 195mm (11 x 7¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A seated figure, wearing a decorative head-piece, depicted with a music book. The subject has the attributes of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of musicians and Church music, and the viola di gamba, seen in the background to the right, and sheet music are indicative of the artist portraying the subject as the saint. After the painting 'The Cumaean Sibyl' (1616-17) by Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641, known as Domenichino), now in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
[Ref: 36841] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

L'Optique.
N. Corneille pinxit. Simonneau, Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Jacq. Chereau rue St. Jacques au grand St. Remi. [n.d., c.1740.]
Etching on laid paper, sheet 165 x 260mm. 6½ x 10¼". Trimmed within plate.
An allegory of astronomy in an oval design (possibly a fragment or from a book?). A female figure in robes, left breast exposed, leaning back on to a pile of books looking through a telescope, surrounded by four putti, one of whom pulls back a curtain to reveal the French royal observatory at Versailles in the background. Another putti points to 'Picart Petit' inscribed on a scroll in the woman's left hand.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18221] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Origin of Painting.]
F. Bartolozzi inv. et sculp.
Pubd. June 1.st 1782. by A. Poggi.
Stipple and etching. 280 x 241mm. 11 x 9½".
A young girl painting her fiance on the wall, using his shadow as the outline. Cupid guides her hand.
De Vesme: 2223; ii/v.
[Ref: 20605] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Bright Truth the genius of fair Painting lights, while the fam'd Hist'ry of her sons he writes.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed, stain in lower edge.
An allegory of Painting and History.
[Ref: 44248] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Painting and Design. From the Original Picture Painted by Guido Reni; In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick. Size of the Picture 2F. 9I. by 2F. 11I in Length. Frontispiece to Vol: the 1.st.
Guido Reni Pinx.t. S.F. Ravenet Sculpsit.
Published March 25.th. 1769, by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. Sheet: 400 x 430mm (15¾ x 17"). Trimmed.
An allegorical depiction of Painting and Design, the male figure of Design holds a drawing implement while the female figure representing Painting holds a paint palette and brushes.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38325] £320.00

[Painting and Engraving]
G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Publish'd by F. Bartolozzi, 1788
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Women and putti studying works of art. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and 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. This 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 692 iii/iii
[Ref: 43146] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Pax Artium Nutrix.
B. West inv. 1787 R.A. Etched by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Publish'd in the Act Jany. 28 1787 by Greenwood.
Colour-printed stipple. Sheet: 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9''). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears, publication line faint.
A woman seated on a rock, wearing the emblems of the three arts on her belt, in front of her are six putti, writing, carrying books and sheets of paper inscribed 'Italy'. On the left, the lion of Britannia and on the right, a bust of King George III, and the shield of Brtiannia; in the background are ships at sea. Frontispiece to "A Catalogue of that superb and well known Cabinet of Drawings of John Barnard Esq., which will be sold by auction by Mr. Greenwood on Friday, Feb. 16. 1787".
De Vesme: 553 II.
[Ref: 48990] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Perspective requesting assistance of Geometry.
London, Publish'd July 1: 1786 by C. Taylor N.o.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Sheet: 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
Scene set in a roundel in which the figure of Geometry holds up her compass to the figure of Perspective who sits holding a lens.
[Ref: 35572] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Physic.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. J.M. Lelattre Sculp.t.
London, Published March 31st 1788 for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding, No 163 Strand.
Rare stipple, printed in brown. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with large margins. Uncut.
A winged cherub sitting on a cloud, holding the Rod of Asclepius in his right hand, a bowl in his left. A lyre rests behind him.
[Ref: 55074] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A plan of the Road from the City of Destruction to the Coelestial City adapted to the Pilgrim's Progress.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Engraving. Plate: 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Small margins. Vertical creases as normal.
An illustration from John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' first published in 1678 several editions of the book contained plans of the pilgrim's progress.
[Ref: 44412] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Poesie. No. 190.
F. Boucher, inv. G. L. Hertel sculp.
Ioh: Georg Hertel, excud. A: V.
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 300mm (7½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
An allegorical depiction of poetry showing two cherubs seated upon a cloud, one writes upon a scroll and the other plays on a harp.
[Ref: 47583] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Poetry.]
G.B. Cipriani del. Fra.s Bartolozzi sculp.
London Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.y 15th 1783 by A. Torre No44 Market Lane.
Stipple, fine. Plate: 230 x 175mm (9 x 7"). Small margins.
A portrait of a young woman, wearing a laurel crown and holding a harp.
[Ref: 45413] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Poetry.]
Ang. Kauffman Inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Published as the Act directs Octo.r 1.st 1781 by James Buckland.
Etching with engraving, scarce. 183 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½". Trimmed.
A Muse seated holding a lyre and a Pan flute with both hands; a waterfall in the background on the right. Frontispiece to 'The Poetical works of John Scott, by John Scott (London: Buckland, 1788).
De Vesme: 1785; iii/iv.
[Ref: 20486] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Poesie. G.3.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing poetry, with a harp, mask, birds and books.
[Ref: 59312] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Poetry.
London Printed for & Sold by W.Herbert on London Bridge, F.Bull on Ludgate Hill, & J.Boydell in Cheapside.
Engraving. 250 x 350mm.
[Ref: 850] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Dessein.
A. Le Clerc, pinx. E. Jeaurat Sculp.
1734. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 255mm (8¾ x 10) Thread margins. Trimmed within plate slightly at bottom. Paper border glued to top margin and within plate.
A woman points to a sketch seemingly to teach the two young boys with her. A very attractive image.
[Ref: 58571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Rythme.
Peint par C.H.Dufau. Photogravure Goupil & C.ie.
Imprimé & Publié par Goupil & C.ie Editeurs, Imprimeurs, Manzi, Joyant & C.ie Imprimeurs, Successors _ Paris _ Londres.
Photogravure, printed in colours and hand-finished. 535 x 735mm, 21 x 29". Some damage at top, entering platemark but not image.
Clementine Helene Dufau (French, 1869-1937).
[Ref: 10050] £420.00

Inscriptiones a Marquardo Guido Collectae. Sacrum Musis. Lucius Lycilius Deo. Penino Optimo Maximo Donum Dedit.
F. Ottens inv. et delin. A. van Buysen fecit.
Engraving. Plate: 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9'') very large margins.
An allegorical scene classical figures including wisdom and architecture with the ancient ruins behind.
[Ref: 49322] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Engraved from the Original Picture Painted by Geo. Romney Esq.r In the Possession of Francis Newbery, Esq.r.
Painted by G. Romney Esq.r. Engraved by B. Smith.
London Pub Dec.r 1st 1803 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mallm & No 90 Cheapside.
Stipple. 320 x 420mm (12½ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, top right corner torn, bit messy in margins.
The infant Shakespeare sitting on a basket covered by a sheet beneath a tree, Tragedy holding a pipe which he plays. The smiling Comedy is Emma Hamilton, Romney's muse, wife of Sir William Hamilton and lover of Horatio Nelson.
[Ref: 44285] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Group of Figures Representing Study]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub.d as the Act directs F. Bartolozzi, 1788
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
A drawing lesson. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy 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. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 692.iii.
[Ref: 43415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Wisdom, from the original picture presented to the city by Alderman Boydell].
[Painted by J. F. Rigaud R.A. Engraved by I. P. Simon].
[Pub. Sept. 29. 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London]
Rare proof stipple engraving, unfinished before text added to open book. Published state carries a dedication: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte, by Jos. Boydell. Trimmed to plate mark.
Seated Minerva, in glory, with boy at her feet holding an open book, surrounded by a globe with dove, owl, a lamb sitting on a book with seals at right and a cockerel; in the upper part, putto with mirror at left, and two others holding up an uroboros at right. Part of a series Wisdom, Happiness, Providence, Innocence. See ref: 8615. In 1794 Rigaud won what was probably his most important commission, the decoration of the four pendentives of the Common Council Chamber in the Guildhall, London, depicting Providence, Innocence, Wisdom and Happiness; of these only the preparatory oil sketches survive (London, Guildhall A.G.).
[Ref: 15173] £380.00

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