Grosvenor Prints

View of Acre & H.M. Ship Le Tigre.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury, and Drawn by D.l Orme. Jeakes Aquaforte.
Edw.d Orme Excudit. [n.d. c.1819.]
Aquatint with added hand colour. 295 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed. Chip to paper upper left corner.
A view of St John of Acre (now Akka, Israel) from the sea, with HMS Le Tigre seen in the foreground. The draughtsman F.B. Spilsbury was a surgeon on board Le Tigre, which together with the H.M.S. Theseus, under the command of Commodore Sir Sydney Smith, was sent on a naval mission to the Holy Land and Syria. This operation was launched as part of the overall mission to counter the military campaigns of Napoleon in the Middle East in 1799 and 1800. Spilsbury's original on-site sketches of famous sites and local peoples were redrawn in London by Daniel Orme and reproduced in printed form, as here.
See RMG: PAF4679; Parker: 144A.
[Ref: 29960] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

No 32. [Admiral].
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
The uniform of an admiral including a bicorn hat, also wearing the Order of the Bath. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 52043] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Conference of Capt.n Sir Ja.s Brisbane with the Dey of Algiers, August 30th 1816.
Drawn by G.F.L. [George Francis Lyon.]
[London: James Jenkins, c.1816.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 135 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed into aquatint border.
A group of naval and military officers in audience with the Dey of Algiers, Omar Agha. Two days after the Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Algiers in retaliation for the Dey's violation of a previous anti-slavery treaty, Sir James Brisbane, Admiral Lord Exmouth's Flag Captain, led a delegation to Omar Agha, achieving the release of 3,000 Christian slaves. Captain George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) went to sea at the age of thirteen and wrote and illustrated books on his travels, which included crossing the Sahara, serving under Parry as commander of the 'Hecla' and following Frankin into Hudson's Bay. He went to Mexico in 1826 as commissioner of the Real del Monte and Bolaños Mining Companies, dying on a voyage from Buenos Aires to London.
[Ref: 56655] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Honest Tars and Marines of the Argonaut. Contributing Nobly against the Enemies of Old England...
Published 12.th March 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etching. Plate: 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Cracks and tears in edges.
A view on board HMS Argonaut showing the sharing of the reward for the capture of the French ship Esperance in 1795. Argonaut was originally a French ship called Jason caught by the British Navy in 1782 and renamed.
[Ref: 41936] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Armed lugger close hauled with all sails set.
Drawn on stone by J. Rogers
Printed by Rowney & Forster. [Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket. n.d., c.1824]
Coloured lithograph, 275 x 420mm. 10¾ x 16½".
A lugger, a small sailing vessel setting lugsails on two or more masts.
[Ref: 11249] £220.00

[Naval battle and drinking horn]
F v: Bleyswyck Fecit [c.1710]
Two engravings, each approx. 110 x 135mm (4¼ x 5¼"). Partly glued to backing sheet.
Two engravings, one of which is signed by François van Bleyswyck (1671-1746), Leiden-based engraver mostly of book illustrations.
[Ref: 47087] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Machine Infernale dirigee par les Anglais, Pour incendier Saint Malo. ['Details de la Machine' key lettering below image, brief history of use of incendary ships by the English below that.]
Beauble nee Gipoulou, del. Beauble fils. Sculp.
A Paris chez Beauble fils, Graveur de Geographie et d'Ecriture, Rue des Anglais, N.8. [n.d., c.1805.] Depose a la Bibliotheque.
Engraved plan in the form of a cross-section of a ship's hull, 308 x 199mm. Some creasing and soiling to margins.
A French explanation of the English innovation of cramming unmanned merchant ships with incendiaries, used to destroy harbour defences. Admiral John Benbow arrived off St. Malo, a walled port city in Brittany, in the middle of November 1693 and immediately started firing mortars over the wall in to the town and among the sheltering French ships. This continued for three days and on the fourth night he prepared to send in the first Infernal ever used by the Royal Navy. Benbow intended to manoeuvre the barque under the town's sea wall but it struck a rock and the engineers were forced to light the fuses and row for their lives. The vessel burned for some time but eventually blew up. The force of the explosion rocked the town like an earthquake. It blew the roofs off three hundred houses and broke all the glass and earthenware for miles around. The capstan, which weighed two hundred pounds, flew in to the air and, when it landed, completely levelled a house. Large parts of the sea wall collapsed. If Benbow had had a force of Marines he would undoubtedly have been able to take the town. He was given the task of repeating his success at Dunkirk but the Infernal proved less effective and the Admiralty dropped their use.
[Ref: 7707] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Bermudian Sloop, with a View Upon the Spanish Main.
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 290 x 435mm (11½ x 17"). Trimmed inside plate.
Plate 30 of 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 55162] £450.00

Britannia's Glory. A View of the British Grand Fleet prpearing to sail on a Cruise.
Published Feb.y 16, 1795 by J. Marshall, Nº 4 Aldermary Church Yard London.
Rare etching. 370 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Paper toned, unexamined out of frame. Slight creasing.
A rare popular print of the a Royal Navy fleet setting sail during the French Revolutionary Wars. The ships, identified by names on their sterns, are those that fought in the 'Glorious First of June' the previous year, including Royal Sovereign, Royal George, Queen Charlotte, Culloden, Russell, Alfred, Bruswick & Marlborough.
[Ref: 61192] £690.00

[British Vessels at Sea.]
[Pencil signature:] Frank H. Mason.
[n.d. c.1939.]
Etching. 190 x 388mm. 7½ x 15½".
British Naval vessels at sea. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17984] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Captain Warner's Experiment. On Saturday July 20th 1844 Captain Warner's invention to destroy a vessel was tried at Brighton with Complete Success, the Ship destroyed was the "John O'Gaunt" a Noble Vessel of full Three Hundred Tons Burthen and presented for that purpose by Mr. Soame, an Eminent Merchant. She was towed opposite the Bettery, about a Mile and a Quarter out at Sea, by a Small Steam Tug. "The Sir William Wallace" on board of which was Captain Warner and his apparatus, at a distance from her of nearly 300 Yards,upon a Signal being given from the Battery, and the Gallant Captain answering all was ready, almost In stantaneously, a Volulme of Smoke and Water rose in the air which for the Moment concealed the Vessel, on its clearing disclosed her a Total Wreck, and She sund in upwards of Thirty Feet of Water, Thus, within Three minutes by means of this Awful discovery, was the work of devastation Silently and Surely. Completed.
Day & Haghe Lith to the Queen. R. H. Nibbs.
Published by W. H. Mason, Printseller & Publisher to the Queen, Repository of Arts, 81 Kings Road Brighton, July 27th 1844. ___ London, Ackermann and Compy.
Tinted lithograph. 250 x 350mm image.
Built in 1830 'Sir William Wallace' was the first wooden paddle Steam tug of the Dundee. Perth and London Shipping Company.
[Ref: 4407] £420.00

Immersion d'une Caisse Conique faite en l'année 1785 sur la Rade de Cherbourg.
Gravée d'apres les Dessins Originaux de P. Freret Peintre.
A Paris chez Tilliard Graveur Quay des Augustines près la rue Pavée No. 42.
Engraving. 320 x 505mm. Trimmed to platemark on three sides, small tear in title area.
A pre-fabricated seafort being positioned and sunk into place.
[Ref: 2574] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Chinese Junk of 1000 Tons. Visited by Boats of the Modeste Frigate, off the South Coast of Borneo, August 1811.
From a Sketch by T.W.T.
Printed by P.H. De la Motte, Oxford. [n.d., c.1830.]
Sepia lithograph, sheet c.330 x 400mm. 13 x 15¾". Stain lower left, horizontal crease above lower sheet edge.
HMS Modeste was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in the French Navy in 1786, she served during the first actions of the French Revolutionary Wars until being captured by the British while in harbour at Genoa. She served with distinction in the East Indies, capturing several privateers and enemy vessels, including the French corvette Iéna. She also saw service in a variety of roles, as a troopship, a receiving ship, and a floating battery, until finally being broken up in 1814, as the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close. Artist unidentified.
NMM: PAG8171.
[Ref: 15020] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Conquerors of the Sea. The Words by John Fuffman. _ Tune, Russel's Triumph. Price Six Pence. Entd at Sta[tioners Hall.]
Sold by John Luffman, No 377, Strand, London [n.d., c.1805].
Scarce & rare etching. Sheet 215 x 110mm (8½ x 4¼"). Trimmed, losing some of the inscription. small tag of paper stuck over text, remains of album paper on reverse.
A verse celebrating Britain's naval heroes, penned by John Luffman, a publisher known for his anti-French works. The sheet is decorated with a vignette of the stern of Nelson's 'Victory' with an anchor and a wreath with leaves bearing the names of the heroes. We have dated this print from the mention of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
[Ref: 58199] £320.00

The Declaration of War, communicated to the Fleet by Signal by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. at Kioge Bay April 4th. 1854.
From the Original taken on board H.M.S. St. Jean D'Acre by O.W. Brierly, Esq. T.G. Dutton, Lith. Day & Son. Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published Sep.r 20 1854, by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand, by Appointment, to H.M. the Queen, H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent, &c.&c.&c.
Lithograph. 419 x 903mm.16½ 35½".
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier (1786-1860) was a Scottish naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the Napoleonic Wars, Syrian War and the Crimean War. At the outbreak of the Crimean War, Napier received command of the largest fleet with the Royal Navy had assembled since the Napoleonic Wars, and it was sent to act in the Baltic Sea. It was in 1854, aboard HMS Duke of Wellington that Napied hoisted his flag, joined by Rear-Admirals Armar Lowry Corry, Henry Ducie and James Hanway Plumridge. Despite the lack of men and particularly experienced seamen, Napier, augmented by the French fleet sent by Napoleon III, managed to overawe the Russian Baltic fleet, so much so that they did not leave their moorings.
See NMM: PAI5083. See GAC: 4592.
[Ref: 17836] £650.00

By the King. A Proclamation, For pardoning such Deserters from his Majesty's Marine Forces as shall return into His Majesty's Service on or before the Thirty-first Day of December next.
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1796.
Broadside. Framed, window 340 x 270mm (13½ x 10¾"). Paper age-toned, time stained. Unexamined out of frame.
A proclamation offering a pardon to naval deserters during the French Revolutionary Wars, announced on the 2nd November 1796. In August that year Spain had entered the war on France's side, threatening Gibraltar and leaving the Royal Navy desperate for experienced sailors. The following year conditions on the Navy's ships led to the Spithead and Nore mutinies.
[Ref: 52123] £420.00

[Destroyers in convoy.]
[Pencil signature:] Frank H. Mason.
[n.d. c.1939.]
Etching. 190 x 388mm. 7½ x 15½".
British Naval vessels at sea, the coastline visible in the backgroud, a harbour marker buoy in the centre foreground. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17985] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

L'Espoir Sloop of 14 Guns & her Prize the Liguria of 44 Guns.
N. Pocock del. W. Ellis sculp.
Publish'd by Bunney & Gold Nov. 1 1801
Aquatint, 130 x 230mm. 5 x 9".
Taken from the Naval Chronicle, vol. vi, p.277. The British ship L'Espoir having defeated the Liguria. The rock of Gibraltar can be seen in the background
[Ref: 8730] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

No.3. The Experimental Squadron. Departure from Spithead, July 15.th 1845.
Painted by J.M. Gilbert _ L. Haghe Lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published under the especial patronage of the Queen by R.A. Grove, Lymington Hants 1846.
Lithograph. 381 x 552mm (15 x 21¾").
The Experimental Squadrons were groups of ships sent out between 1831 & 1845 to test innovations in ship design. This squadron of 1845 travelled from Spithead to Cork and then Plymouth.
[Ref: 25060] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

No.2. The Experimental Squadron. Getting under-weigh, at Spithead, July 15th. 1845.
Painted by J.M. Gilbert _ L. Haghe. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published under the especial patronage of the Queen by R.A. Grove, Lymington Hants 1846.
Lithograph. 375 x 558mm (14¾ x 22").
The Experimental Squadrons were groups of ships sent out between 1831 & 1845 to test innovations in ship design. This squadron of 1845 travelled from Spithead to Cork and then Plymouth.
[Ref: 25059] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The French Mariner. There as I brav'd the storms of fate...
J.W. Harding del. J.W. Harding sculp.
Sold by R. Martin, Book & Printseller, Great Queen, Lincolns Inn Fields.
Lithograph with hand-colour, rare. Sheet: 320 x 260mm (12¼ x 10¼").
A scene in which a mariner, who sits upon a mound, looks out to sea while recounting the tale of his lost friend while the widow weeps behind him.
[Ref: 46889] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Frigate Chaseing an American Schooner Brig. No 20.
Drawn on stone by J. Rogers.
Printed by Rowney & Forster. Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket. [n.d., c.1824]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 305 x 435mm (12 x 17") large margins.
A British frigate chasing what may be an American slave ship.
[Ref: 55045] £450.00

Freg.te Anglaise, de 40 Canons. Courant au plus Prés.
Verico sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Fine & rare engraving. 330 x 470mm (14½ x 18½"), with large margins. Uncut.
A three-masted Royal Navy frigate under sail.
[Ref: 60512] £690.00

Geriah Fort.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by Ja.s Mackgowan & Wm. Davis, May 12.th 1781.
Engraving. Plate 184 x 248mm. 7¼ x 9¾".
British-commanded Indo-Portuguese naval force which attacked the base of the Maratha pirate Tulagee Angria on the 13th of February 1756. The British Admirals Pocock and Watson with their Indo-Portuguese manned naval force (the first time such a mixed force had been used in a military situation) were attempting to suppress Tulagee Angria who had been attacking Portuguese and English shipping.
[Ref: 25167] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Gibraltar, 1704-5] Ponty word geslagen, in de baey van Gibraltar (sie deese ook in de voorige) [...]
P: Schenk exc: Amst: C.P.
Etching, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet; foxing.
The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar (1704-5) during the War of the Spanish Succession, in which combined Spanish and French forces laid siege to the town, which had been captured earlier in 1704 by an Anglo-Dutch naval force. After nine months the siege was finally abandoned by the French and Spanish. From a series of prints showing conflicts in the War of the Spanish Succession, published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenck.
For other prints from the same series see refs.38651-2
[Ref: 47307] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The distressed situation of the Crew of the Guardian Frigate after having struck upon an Island of Ice, Dec.r 23; 1789. Engraved for Ashburton's History of England.
Publish'd Dec.r 24, 1791 W. & J. Stratford, No 112 Holborn Hill.
Engraving. 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Bottom edge ragged. Large margins on 3 sides.
A heroic story. HMS Guardian was transporting stores and convicts to Australia when, two weeks past the Cape of Good Hope, an attempt to get drinking water from an iceberg turned bad, gashing a hole in the hull. After attempts to use a sail to cover the hole failed most of the crew abandoned ship, but Captain Edward Riou manged to steer the ship 400 leagues back to South Africa, taking nine weeks. Riou ran the Guardian aground and soon after a hurricane broke the ship up. At the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, Nelson gave Riou command of all frigates and smaller boats. During the battle he was torn in two by a cannonball. From Charles Alfred Ashburton's 'A new and complete history of England, from the first settlement of Brutus... to the year 1793', published complete in 1795.
[Ref: 44620] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

H.M.S. Renown. [pencil.]
S.C. Rowles signed in pencil.
[n.d., c.1920.]
mild foxing.
HMS Renown, battlecruiser completed 1916, one of only four battlecruisers to survive the Second World War, but sold for scrap in 1948. Stanley Charles Rowles, born 1887, studied at the Royal College of Art 1905-1911, then the Putney School of Art and Battersea Polytechnic School of Art. He was headmaster of West Bromwich Municipal School of Art, begore moving to London. He exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery and Royal Academy.
[Ref: 16956] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Moors on board the Swiftsure.
Cooper Willyams delt. J.C. Stadler sculpt.
London: Pub. by I. White, Fleet Street, 1801.
Hand-coloured aquatint, 185 x 250mm. 7¼ x 9¾".
Arabs or Berbers drinking tea and smoking long pipes with opium, on board a Royal Navy warship; cannon to right. HMS Swiftsure, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy was lauched in 1787. After fighting at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 she was captured by the French off the coast of Libya in 1801 (one of only five Royal Navy ships to be captured in all the Napoleonic Wars), subsequently fighting for the French at the Battle of Trafalgar, in which she was recaptured, returning to Royal Navy service. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'.
See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 11.
[Ref: 22336] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

H.M.S. Twickenham Designed and Lithographed at the Twickenham School of Art in Aid of our Warship Week March 21-28 1942
Vernon P. Milner 1942 15/20
Lithograph, rare, printed area 290 x 195mm (11½ x 7¾").
Lithograph produced in aid of the war effort by a student at the Twickenham School of Art.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 43675] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Nelson's Flag Ship The Victory at Portsmouth [in plate; also titled 'The Victory at Portsmouth' in pencil by artist.]
J. Hutchnson 1899. [Dated and signed in plate; pencil signature.]
Etching, 125 x 330mm. 5 x 13". A fine impression.
A charming etching in a naive style; HMS Victory at the centre of the composition. After the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar Victory took Nelson's body back to England where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 6 January 1806. Her active career ended on 7 November 1812, when she was moored in Portsmouth Harbour off Gosport and used as a depot ship. In 1889, Victory was fitted up as a Naval School of Telegraphy. She soon became a proper Signal School, and signal ratings from ships paying off were sent to Victory, instead of the barracks, for a two-month training course. The School remained on Victory until 1904.
Guichard: pg.72, Appendix 1 'Minor Etchers'.
[Ref: 20230] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Homecoming.]
Bernard Carr [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Etching. Plate 217 x 285mm. 8½" x 11¼".
A view of a small sailing boat coming into the dock, where people are awaiting its arrival.
[Ref: 9344] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Idrografia.
[Coronelli.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 425 x 284mm. 16¾ x 11¼", Wormholes outside platemark.
Title page to 'Idrografia', by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, official cartographer to the Doge of Venice and Louis XIV of France.
[Ref: 25089] £320.00

H.M.S. Impregnable In a Gale of Wind. Of [sic] the Island Sardinia Oct.br 29. 1841.
[Anon., c.1841 Maltese School]
Lithograph, sheet 270 x 310mm (10½ x 12¼"). Trimmed around image and text; glued to backing shee; some surface loss and small tears.
HMS Impregnable, a navy ship launched in 1810, off the coast of Sardinia. The ship saw service in the Mediterranean from 1841-3. Previously it was involved in the bombardment of Algiers in 1816, in which the ship was severely damaged and lost many men. According to the Royal Museums Greenwich, which holds a copy of the print, it was made by Joseph (Giovanni) Schranz (1803-53), Maltese topographical artist. Schranz's father Anton (1767-1839) was a German artist who migrated to Minorca (where he married) and subsequently to Malta. Joseph and his brother Antonio (1801- after 1865) operated a lithographic establishment as the Schranz Brothers.
For the ship's commander Edward Bruce see ref.17307.
[Ref: 47290] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Plate. 2. Jack in the Bilboes, From M.r Dibdin's celebrated Song, call'd My Poll & my partner Joe. Till woe is me so lubberly, The press gang came and pressed me.
Painted by G.Morland. Engrav'd by W.Ward.
Pub. As the Act directs Sept 19: 1790 by P.Cornman, Great Newport Street.
A very rare mezzotint. 400 x 455mm. Platemark cracked losing margins at top and bottom left; paper age-toned.
A pressgang seizing a waterman on the morning of his wedding day.
Frankau 169; NMM PAH7342 . Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4293] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jack's Trump of Defiance
G. Cruikshank fec.t
London Pub.d April 1825 by J Robins & Co Ivy Lane P N Row
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾").
One of twelve etchings by George Cruikshank illustrating 'Greenwich Hospital: a series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By an Old Sailor' (London: 1826). These illustrations were some of Cruikshank's first after the famous caricaturist began his second career as a book illustrator, in which he worked with Charles Dickens amongst others. A related drawing is in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Abbey 226.2
[Ref: 43331] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Silver Jubilee Review. The King Leads His Fleet to Sea. [In pencil.] "Resolution" "Victoria & Albert" "Revenge" "Queen Elizabeth" "Rowilles" "Royal Sovereign".
Rowland Langmaid. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching. Platemark: 115 x 375mm (4½ x 14¾").
A view of the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert, wearing Court Flags, proceeding through the lines of the heavy ships during the Fleet Review of 16th July 1935 to mark HM King George V’s Silver Jubilee year. Each ship is named below the image. By Rowland John Robb Langmaid R.A. (1897 - 1956). Born in Vancouver, Langmaid studied maritime art with William Lionel Wyllie and Langmaid was the official war artist to the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet from 1941 to 1943.
[Ref: 38070] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Launch of a 74.
[Anon, c.1810.]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, very rare; sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Title pasted separately to bottom of image; trimmed to image.
The launch of a 74 gun ship, with large crowds watching. Illustration from a scrapbook.
[Ref: 32468] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Chromolithograph of a man overboard with a life-saving buoy with a signal fire.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 255 x 410mm (10 x 16"). Cut as issued.
A sailor, overboard from a warship, clings to a buoy with two flotation spheres and a thin chimney with a smoking flame. A longboat approches, guided by men in the rigging of the ship. Perhaps an artist's impression of the use of a new invention.
[Ref: 58708] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Man of War Cutter of 10 Guns, as Bramble, &c. Sailing by the wind, on the Larboard tack._Ensign and Pendant flying.
Knell, del.t. N. Fielding sculp.t.
London, Pub.d by Ackermann & Co. Oct.r 1. 1840.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾'').
A view of a Man of War H.M.S Bramble which served as tender to H.M.S Fly and H.M.S Rattlesnake, it also undertook several tours around Australia.
[Ref: 49896] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Marine Royalle d'Angleterre.
[n.d. c.1780].
Very fine and decorative manuscript table in pen and coloured ink with occasional watercolour wash. Sheet 755 x 355mm.
An accurate and detailed contemporary list of ships serving in the Royal Navy as recorded by a French hand. Divided into 3 principal sections, 'Vaisaux. De Lignes', 'Batus. Armes' and 'Fregates', there are columns of named ships with figures for their guns and souls aboard. All the information is collated into a 'Resultat' table at the bottom which records a total figure of 308 vessels carrying 13788 canon and 115240 men. Laid paper, watermarked 'Honig & Zoonen', well-known Dutch papermakers between 1737 and 1787 of Zaandyk, Holland.
[Ref: 276] £880.00

[Marine Society.] For the Service of Our Country.
S. Wale delin.t et donavit. T. Major sculp.t et donavit.
[London: Marine Society, c.1770.]
Etching, part 18th century watermark. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins. Two tears, one entering plate, taped.
The trade card of the Marine Society, a charity founded in 1756 by Jonas Hanway (1712-86), to encourage young men to go and join the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. Later the Scociety turned to the education of poor boys in preperation for their joining the navy, as depicted here. Ragged boys are being directed to Britannia outside the Marine Society's Warehouse, where they are dressed as cadets. As well as founding the Marine Society in 1756, Hanway was a vice president of the Foundling Hospital, instrumental in the establishment of the Magdalen Hospital and a commissioner for victualling the navy (experimenting with ways to alleviate scurvy amongst seamen). He is said to be the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella, facing down heckling hackney coachmen.
[Ref: 55195] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Pavillons et Cocardes des Principales Puissance du Globe d'apres des Documens Officiels.
Atlas Universel N.o 50. Paris. Imp.ie Chardon J.ne Fils. Rue Racine 3.
Publie a Paris par E. Andriveau-Goujon Rue du Bac. N.o 21. 1860.
Hand coloured engraving. 455 x 600mm (17½ x 23½"). Small losses to left and bottom right corners. Small tear through the publication line.
Global maritime ensigns as of 1860, which most notably includes the US Great Star flag.
[Ref: 55126] £320.00

[Maritime ensigns.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving with original hand colour. Sheet 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"). Trimmed from larger sheet. Loss at right corner.
Illustrations of sixty maritime ensigns, including Russian & Eastern flags engraved with colour-coding used so that colourists did not need a sample. For example red is engraved with vertical lines, blue with horizontal lines and gold with dots.
[Ref: 45244] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mast=headed.
Rowlandson, Del.t W. Read, Sculp.t
Published by W. Simpkin, & R. Marshall, Stationers Court, Ludgate Street. [n.d. c.1818.]
Coloured aquatint, watermarked. 210 x 133mm. Small tear in the publication area.
From "The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy" by John Mitford (1782-1831) was a British naval officer, poet and journalist. Johnny Newcome (a generic term for new recruits) is a clergyman’s son who is forced to leave school and join the navy when his clergyman father loses all his money in a banking crash. He embarks on HMS Capricorn at Sheerness and, under the good captain Dale his career prospers, but in Jamaica yellow fever strikes the ship, Captain Dale dies and is replaced by the bullying Captain Teak, and Johnny regretfully leaves the navy.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18749] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

The Northumberland & Myrmidon Conveying Napoleon to the Island of St. Helena, Oct.r 15, 1815.
T.H. Shepherd, del
Engraving, sheet 70 x 130mm (2¾ x 5"). Rare.
British ships transporting Napoleon to the island of St Helena, where he was taken after surrendering to Captain Frederick Maitland in 1815, and remained until his death in 1821.
[Ref: 41285] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Flags and Ensigns of the French and British Navy.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured pen and ink drawing. 89 x 133mm. 3½ x 5¼". Small tears and fold through centre.
A marked compass with keyed flags of the international code with the British and French naval ensigns.
[Ref: 21027] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Naval Review at Spithead. Her Majesty the Queen Leading the Fleet to Sea. From the Original Drawing by O.W. Brierley, Esquire. [Names of boats underneath.] No.1. [&] The Naval Review at Spithead. Her Majesty the Queen Reviewing the Fleet in Action. From the Original Drawing by O.W. Brierley, Esquire. No.2.
Paris, despose. T.G. Dutton, lith. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published Oct.r 8.th 1853 by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand, by Appointment to H.M. the Queen H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, H.R.H. Prince Albert, &c. &c. &c. [&] London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1853 by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand, by Appointment to H.M. the Queen, H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent &c. &c. &c.
Pair of lithographs. 431 x 908mm. 17 x 35¾".
The Great Naval Review of 1853 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, as demonstration of progress and power before the Declaration of the Crimean War.
Both held in the Government Art Collection.
[Ref: 23370] £750.00 view all images for this item

Physician.
[British, n.d., c.1830.]
Rare and fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 195mm. 11 x 7¾". Sheet trimmed.
A naval physician below deck aboard a ship studying an anatomical volume at a desk; officer's hat, books and papers, and ink and quill in front of him, a sailor sitting at a window looking out in background. From an unidentified book or series of costumes of the British navy.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18621] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

V.au Napolitain de 74. Canons en Galla. No 590.
Emeric in. & del 1794. G. Maria Merlo sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Fine & rare engraving. 330 x 470mm (14½ x 18½"), with large margins. Stain on right. Uncut.
A fine naval engraving showing a Neapolitian warship at anchor, with the rigging filled with national flags including the British Union flag.
[Ref: 60514] £850.00

Trafalgar.
F. Mackenzie del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
[Published Feb.y 1, 1820 by Whitmore & Fenn, Charing Cross London.]
Aquatint, printed in blue and brown. Image 200 x 140mm, 8 x 5½". Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
A design for a memorial to dead of the Battle of Trafalgar. A statue of Nelson is on a plinth below an architrave with the word 'Trafalgar' held up by Corinthian columns, behind which are a number of statues of other naval officers. Published in James Ralfe's 'The Naval Chronology of Great Britain'
[Ref: 26848] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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