Grosvenor Prints

[Scrap album sheet of photographs and sketches made in Yemen, Mauritius, South Africa and the Seychelles]
[Anon., c.1890]
Album sheet, 355 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"), with three photographs and five sketches attached.
Album sheet comprising three photographs labelled: 'Port Louis' (Mauritius); 'The gardens, Pamplemouse, Mauritius'; 'The tanks Aden' (Yemen); and five sketches: 'The Port Bourbon' (Mauritius); 'Seychelles Islands'; 'East London South Africa'; 'From the Crater Cure Pipe Mauritius'; and 'Tamatave' (Toamasina, Madagascar).
[Ref: 43208] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A Souvenir of the Launch of the Brazilian Training Ship ''Almirante Saldanha" by Her Excellency Madame Getulio Vargas represented by Her Excellency Madame Regis de Oliveira from the Naval Construction Works of Vickers-Armstrong Limited, Barrow-in-Furness. 19th December, 1933.
Oblong 4to, original printed wrappers stitched with green silk; colour offset frontis, pp. (vi), 15 half-tone plates. Front cover chipped and soiled.
With photographic illustrations of other ships of the Brazilian navy. The ''Almirante Saldanha", a sailing ship, is best known for a UFO sighting in 1958, observed by several crew members, with photographs taken.
[Ref: 49012] £160.00 view all images for this item

[The Temple of Hephaestus, Athens.]
[D. Costantin á Athens]
[n.d., c.1860]
Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). A little discolouration in sky.
An early photograph of the Temple of Hephaestus (formerly the Temple of Theseus because it was believed his remains were inside), a well-preserved Doric temple on the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, inaugurated 415BC. P. Constantin in Athens not signed in plate.
[Ref: 47440] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[13 postcards of the Aimoré people of Brazil, from photographs by Walter Garbe.] Série: Indios Botucudos...
[n.d., c.1930.]
13 collotype postcards, each 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Photographs of the Aimoré tribes of Espírito Santo, called Botocudo in Portuguese for 'plugging' their ears and lower lips with plugs to extend them. It shows them using their bows, spears, blowpipes and flutes. Walter Garbe photographed the tribesmen on the left bank of the Doce River betweeen March and May 1909.
[Ref: 45659] £350.00 view all images for this item

[A Pair of Photographs of Brighton.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Pair of photographs in oval frames. Image: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Frames: 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"). Unexamined out of frames.
A pair of very decorative French photographic views of Brighton. The first is a view of the West Pier built in the 1860s, the second is a view of the old Brighton Aquarium with the Chain Pier behind, the Chain Pier was destroyed in a storm in 1896. Labels on the back of the frames state 'From Soper's Emporium Brighton'.
[Ref: 44860] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Advert for Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap] A 20th Century Camera. Draw the Shutter and See the Photograph! [additional text verso]
[n.d., c.1905.]
Chromolithograph with moving parts, total dimensions when extended 225 x 105mm (8¾ x 4¼"). Very scarce in good condition.
Early photographic item. Advert requesting the viewer to 'draw the shutter' of a camera, making a monkey wearing a Tam o' Shanter and bar of 'monkey brand' soap appear. A parallel between cleaning using the soap and developing a photograph is implied. Monkey Brand Soap was a scouring soap first manufactured in Philadelphia by Sidney and Henry Gross. Lever Brothers bought the company in 1899 and transferred production to Port Sunlight, promoting the soap in both the USA and Britain.
[Ref: 33702] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[In ink:] Conservatories _ Larkfield. Oct.r 1874.
A pair of amateur photographs. Sheet 282 x 228mm. 11 x 9".
Two large family conservatories; a photo taken in Larkfield, Kent.
[Ref: 17533] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

This Mill was drawn from the Spot now called Regency Square to Preston (a distance of two Miles), on the 28th March, 1797, by Eighty-Six Oxen, belonging to the following Gentlemen: - W.Stanford, Esq., Messrs. Hodon, Hamshar, Scrase, Trill, Hall, and Hardwicke. The Expedition was commanded by Mr. T. Honson.
[n.d. c.1870.]
A rare photograph. 241 x 305mm. 9½ x 12". Foxed.
[Ref: 15393] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Garibaldi
G. le Gray [c.1865]
Photo signed in plate as normal, approx 280 x 200mm (11 x 8") Image and text cut out separately and attached to backing sheet.
The Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Portrait by French photographer Gustave le Gray (1820-84), who arrived in Sicily in 1860 when Garibaldi was in the midst of liberating it from Bourbon rule. Le Gray's portrait of Garibaldi was widely distributed in engraved form, thus publicising Garibaldi's enterprise.
[Ref: 43210] £450.00

[William Gilbert Grace].
W&S Ltd.
Barraud. 263 Oxford Steer, London & 92, Bold Street, Liverpool. [n.d., c.1888].
Photograph on card mount. Card size: 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼").
William Gilbert ('W.G') Grace (1848 - 1915) was perhaps the most famous sporting celebrity of the Victorian era, his legendary cricketing triumphs earning him a unique place in national life. Among many records, he was the first player to hit a test century and the first to achieve the 'double' (1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season). In an extraordinary career of forty-three years between 1865 and 1908 he made 126 centuries, scored 54,896 runs and took 2,876 wickets. Herbert Rose Barraud (1845 - 1896) was a noted portrait photographer who had studios in London and Liverpool. He produced cabinet photographs of many famous Victorians including statesmen, artists, and members of the aristocracy.
[Ref: 33592] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Black Fury, by 'Mad Fury' 'Mischief X'. Owner Mr E. Rogers. Winner of the Waterloo Cup February 24th 1899.
[c.1899.]
Contemporary-printed photograph, mounted on album paper, with details as above in old ink mss.
[Ref: 39825] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Norman Neruda. (Lady Hallé). [Facsimile signature:] Wilma Hallé. (Norman Neruda).
Walery, Photographer to the Queen.
164, Regent Street, London. [Published by Sampson Low & Co. May 1889.]
Photograph on card mount. Card size: 400 x 292mm. (16 x 11½").
Wilma Neruda, Lady Hallé, originally Wilhelmine Maria Franziska Neruda (1838 - 1911) was a famous violinist who came from a family long famous for musical talent. She studied with Professor Leopold Jansa (1795-1875), and made her first public appearance as a violinist in Vienna at the age of seven, playing one of Bach's Violin Sonatas. Between 1888 and 1896 the firm of Walery issued a remarkable series of portraits entitled 'Our Celebrities' which were published as a monthly issues by the publisher Sampson, Low & Co., together with biographical text on the subjects. The part works subsequently became available as bound volumes.
W: 1484. NPG: x9139.
[Ref: 33591] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Two photographic copies of pencil sketches of the inside of a hut.
SY [monogram] 1865.
Photographs. Each c. 100 x 150mm (4 x 6"). Edges hidden under contemporary mount.
Apparently the two ends of the same hut, with cots along the sides for the male occupants. In one scene two men play dominoes.
[Ref: 49545] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Professor Huxley, L.L.D. F.R.S. [Facsimile signature:] Thomas H Huxley.
Walery, Photographer to the Queen.
164, Regent Street, London. [Published by Sampson Low & Co. May 1889.]
Photograph on card mount with four acommpanying letterpress sheets. Card size: 406 x 292mm. (16 x 11½"). Slight damage to card mount.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was an English biologist, known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He was a biologist and science educationist. As a key figure in Victorian scientific life, he made important discoveries in several branches of biology. Between 1888 and 1896 the firm of Walery issued a remarkable series of portraits entitled 'Our Celebrities' which were published as a monthly issues by the publisher Sampson, Low & Co., together with biographical text (four pages of letterpress accompanying the portrait) on the subjects. The part works subsequently became available as bound volumes.
W: 1484. NPG: x9139.
[Ref: 33589] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph-Marie Jacquard Né à Lyon le 7 Juillet 1752 Mort à Oullins le 7 Aout 1834
Gravé par Duchene d'apres le Tableau de Bonnefond.
Lithograph, sheet 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Offered with photograph of the 1862 International Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society, London.
Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French silk-weaver and inventor. After fighting in the French Revolution Jacquard, the son of a weaver, patented a drawloom for weaving patterned silks in 1801. In 1804 he introduced (but never patented) the so-called Jacquard mechanism, the 'first practical application of punch-cards to the automatic control of a manufacturing process'. After a portrait by Claude Bonnefond (1796-1880), genre painter and teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Jacquard's hometown of Lyon.
[Ref: 39585] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.]
[Verso:] Published By A.W. Bennett, 5, Bishopsgate Without, London, E.C. [n.d., c.1861.]
Albumen print on card, 100 x 65mm. 4 x 2½". Some spotting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) was an American educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.
[Ref: 9940] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Photograph of Major Sam Weil and the men of the 'Imperial Transport Service'.]
[c.1900.]
Photograph. 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"). Long tear repaired.
During the Second Boer War the family firm of Julius Weil & Co. evolved into the 'The Imperial Transport Service', taking responsibility for the provisioning of Mafeking during the siege of 1899-1900. Members of the family were given commissions and brothers Benjamin and Samuel became majors. Samuel participated in the Mafeking Relief Column that broke the siege. On the back of the photograph is written in pencil: 'I was up in the camp when the Conductors asked me if I would allow myself to be grouped with them and the Officers of my Staff. Samuel Weil'. Also written in pencil is 'appeared Feb 3 - 1900", suggesting the photograph was used in a newspaper.
[Ref: 30235] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Ink:] My love to very dear Jane always. Alicia 1941.
[On verso, stamped:] Photograph by Carl Van Vechten 101 Central Park West Cannot be Reproduced Without Permission.
Signed photograph. Photo, in ink XXVR.17; Oct 6 1940; 350 x 272mm. 13¾ x 10¾". Laid on card.
Dame Alicia Markova (1910-2004) holding a cross and flowers with glittered letters 'Gis[elle]'. She was an English ballerina and choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be the greatest classical ballet dancers of the 20th century. She was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and was co-founder and director of the English National Ballet. As prima ballerina with the Vic-Wells Ballet, 1933-5, she was the first British dancer to appear as Giselle and Odette/Odile and created roles in Rendezvous (1933) and The Rake's Progress (1935). She appeared in many ballets around the world, but is remembered mostly for her 'Giselle'. Carl Van Vecthen (1880-1964) was an American essayist and novelist, particularly of 'Nigger Heaven' (1926). He took up photographer in 1932, aiming to portray all the leading creative talent of his era.
[Ref: 23927] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Ink:] For Reggie with affectionate thoughts alway Alicia.
Maurice Seymour Chicago.
[n.d. c.1945.]
Signed photograph. 120 x 95mm. 4¾ x 3¾".
Head portrait of Dame Alicia Markova (1910-2004). She was an English ballerina and choreagrapher, director and teacher of classical ballet born in December 1910. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be the greatest classical ballet dancers of the 20th century. She was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and was co-founder and director of the English National Ballet. Photo by Maurice Seymour (1900-1993), a Chicago celebrity photographer from the 1920s through the 1960s, who photographed many of the top stage and film stars of the era as well as a prima ballerinas and famous dancers.
[Ref: 23925] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Naples.]
Robert Rive. Naples [blind stamp.]
[n.d., c.1870.]
Albumen silver print, 265 x 370 (10½ x 14½"), mounted on card with the photographer's blind stamp, with pencil title. Dealer's label on reverse.
A view of Naples, looking across the bay towards a smoking Vesuvius. Photographer Robert Rive (1817-68) was born in Breslau from a French Huguenot family, but was active in Italy from the 1850s with his younger brother Julius. In the mid 1860s he started using the more Italian 'Roberto'. Although he travelled around the county he had a studio in Naples. After Robert's death Julius continued the firm without changing the name.
[Ref: 47431] £350.00

[Cyclists at Newton under Roseberry.]
[c.1895.]
Photograph on printed backboard. In pencil below names, of cyclists. Photograph 155 x 205mm (6 x 8"), ballpoint ink inscription on reverse. Wear to backboard.
Seven cyclists posing in front of the King's Head Inn in Newton under Roseberry, North Yorkshire, with the distinctive peak of Roseberry Topping behind. Hermon Dittburn & William Hall etc mentioned in pencil below photograph.
[Ref: 56592] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Capt. Montagu O'Reilly Rn. [In pencil underneath the image.]
[n.d. c.1856]
Photograph. 318 x 285mm. 12½ x 11¼".
Montagu Frederic O'Reilly (b.1822), watercolourist and naval officer. He entered the Royal Naval College in 1835 and exactly two years later he joined HMS Pelorus as a volunteer; based in Australian waters in 1838-39, he started his watercolour collection at sea. In 1845 he was promoted to Lieutenant on Lily on the West Coast of Africa, before being transferred in 1847 to Bellerophon. It was in 1855 when the Seagull, one the Royal Navy Russian 'Crimean' war gunboats, was commanded by the newly promoted Lieutenant Commander Montagu Frederic O'Reilly, as suggested by the slip on the table "Fortifications of Sebastopol".
Not in Kivell & Spence.
[Ref: 18909] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A Foot-ball Match].
W. H. Overend.
[n.d., c.1910].
Photographic print, very scarce. Size: 240 x 400mm. (9½ x 15¾"). Glued to sheet.
A photographic print of the late Victorian monochrome photogravure by Goupil & Co entitled 'A Football Match, Association Game', after the original painting by W. H.Overend and L .P. Smythe. This print shows the action from the 1890 F.A. Cup final between Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday. Blackburn Rovers defeated Sheffield Wednesday 6-1, the second widest winning margin in Cup final history.
[Ref: 31811] £850.00

Wood Sailing Ship "Paramatta". Built by James Laing, Esq., Sunderland.
P. Stabler, Sunderland.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Photograph. Photographer's label on verso of Paul Stabler. Board: 485 x 360mm (19 x 14"). Damage to board on left side.
A photograph of the Scottish sailing ship Paramatta which operated between 1866 and 1898. She was launched in May 1866 and named after the river Paramatta near Sydney. The Paramatta sailed from England to Australia and the crew would issue a magazine fortnightly for amusment during the three month voyage. She sank during a journey from Texas to Norfolk in 1898.
[Ref: 42506] £380.00

Yours Truly, I.B. Poznanski [facsimile autograph.]
Printed by C.G. Roder, Leipzig.
London, The London Music Publishing Co. (Limited.) [n.d., c.1890.]
Albumen print from a photograph, image 300 x 245mm. 11¾ x 9¾".
Isaac B Poznanski (d.1896), violinist and composer, from Charleston, USA, performed with his brother a pianist all over Europe and was particularly popular in New York and Charleston.
[Ref: 17311] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Rossini.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Photograph on album page with title cover-page. Sheet 330 x 256mm. 13 x 10".
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Italian composer who is known for his inspired and song-like melodies, hence his nickname "The Italian Mozart". Rossini was one of the most popular composers of his time with success after success. He was a foreign associate of the institute and grand officer of the Legion d'honneur, amongst other innumerable orders. Following Rossini's death, Verdi proposed to collaborate with twelve other Italian composers on a "Requiem for Rossini", to be performed on the first anniversary of his death. The score was written, but the performance was abandoned shortly before its scheduled premiere.
[Ref: 24376] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Scenes in New Zealand. To James Baxter. Esq., Manager of the British Rugby Football Team. From the New Zealand Government August, 1930.
Album of 25 Photographs. Small, oblong folio, Morocco binding with gilt. 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Rubbing to binding, some foxing.
A scarce early Rugby Lions item, with a copy of "History of the British Lions" by Clem Thomas, 1997. A presentation copy of an album of photographs of scenery of New Zealand presented to James Baxter with a dedication from George Forbes (1869-1947), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1930-1935, in celebration of the first British 'Lion's' tour to New Zealand in 1930. The team was the first bona fide British team to tour New Zealand. Dedication reads: 'With complts & best wishes George Forbes, Prime Minister N.Z. Augt. 14th 1930.'
[Ref: 42852] £700.00 view all images for this item

Professor Stephan Sinding and His Famous Group. "To Mennesker" (Two Mortals). [Facsimile signature:] Stephan Sinding. [On verso:] Stephan Abel Sinding was born in Thronhjem, Norway, the 4th of August, 1846. He matriculated at the University of Christiania, intending to become a lawyer. Quite by chance he discovered the great gift with which Nature had endowed him, and immediately went abroad for the purpose of studying sculpture in the great art centres. For many years he visited Berlin, Vienna and Paris, and in 1882 settled down to work in Rome. In 1883 he went to Copenhagen. Here he met the famous art patron, Dr. Carl Jacobsen, who at once realised the realism, the beauty and the grandeur of his work, and commissioned him to execute series of masterpieces for the "Glyptotek". He married a Danish lady, and became in 1890 a naturalised Dane. All his chief works were executed in Denmark, until a few years ago when he took up his domicile in Paris. The Sculpture by Stephan Sinding, on view at Harrods, May 26th-June 13, 1914. includes this master's most notable works, which have never before been exhibited in England. The Exhibits...The Barbarian Mother...A Captive Mother...Two Mortals...The Widow...Siegmund and Siegelinde. Finished in marble in Paris, 1914. Now exhibited for the first time.
Photograph, Willie Wulff, Paris.
Harrod's Ltd. London S.W. [n.d. c.1914.]
Photograph, signed in ink. Plate 152 x 197mm. 6 x 7¾".
Stephan Sinding (1846-1922) was a Norwegian-Danish sculptor. In 1890 he received Danish citizenship but in 1910 he moved to Paris, where he worked until his death. The sculptor Willie Wulff (1881-1962) is the photographer.
[Ref: 21002] £420.00 view all images for this item

[Ruins of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion.] Temple on Cape Colonna.
[D. Costantin á Athens]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper, titled in English in pencil. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
An early photograph of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion, 40 miles south-west of Athens, at the southernmost tip of Attica. Built c.440BC in the Doric style, it has Byron's name carved into one of the columns; although Byron mentions Sounion in his poem 'Isles of Greece' ('Place me on Sunium's marbled steep...') there is no evidence that he carved it. Another column is now in the British Museum.
[Ref: 47443] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Scrap album sheet of photographs and sketches made in South Africa and Mauritius]
[Anon., c.1890]
Album sheet, 355 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"), with four photographs and two sketches attached.
Album sheet comprising four photographs labelled: 'Kaffir Kraal Natal'; 'Isandlhana Battle Field' (probably in reference to the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War); 'Umgeni River Durban'; 'Port Louis Mauritius'; and two sketches. One is labelled 'Agricultural Show, Port Elizabeth, March 1890', and another show the various forms of transport used by the artist while in South Africa.
[Ref: 43205] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Henry M Stanley [facsimile signature].
Photographed by the London Stereoscopic Company.
[n.d., 1872.]
Albumen photograph on printed card. Photo 90 x 60mm (3½ x 2¼"), sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼"). Repaired tear in backing sheet.
Full-length portrait of Henry Morton Stanley with pith helmet and gun, with staged 'Africa' background. The National Portrait Gallery has a carte-de-visite from the same session titled 'Mr Stanley in the Dress he wore when he met Livingstone in Africa'.
See NPG x46623.
[Ref: 55075] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Photographer.
Copyright:-John G. Murdoch. 41, Castle Street, Holborn. [n.d. c.1870.]
Chromolithograph, rare. 655 x 520mm. 25¾ x 20½". Laid on board.
Inside a country cottage parlour an elderly woman sits in a chair, a young girl offers her hand up whilst holding the side of a camera, which her brother stands behind ready to take a photograph. A windmill can be seen through the open door out to the meadow and countryside; a cat sits by the woman's feet.
[Ref: 25997] £320.00

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