Grosvenor Prints

[A Good Day's Hunting.]
[James Hardy.]
[London, c.1885.]
Etching, remarque proof on india. Plate 381 x 470mm. 15 x 18½". Stamped: Artist's London Proof.
A hunter in the lane with his horse and dogs; his gun slung over this shoulder. A young boy with him holding some foul; rabbits, pheasants hung on the tree to the right, and lying on the ground by his feet. Remarque of pointer lower right.
[Ref: 19624] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Attacking the Badger. From the Original Picture by S. Taylor.
Painted by Stephen Taylor. Drawn on Stone by Fairland. Printed by Fraf & Soret.
London Published June 1st 1833 by J. McCormick No. 147 Strand.
Coloured lithograph. 300 x 240mm. Framed. Single crease effecting title.
[Ref: 5875] £380.00

A Beater carrying a spare Gun on the Highland Sling. The Highland Gun Sling.
Rallin lith.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Pen lithograph, very rare. 178 x 127mm. 7 x 5".
[Ref: 18331] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Bittern Shooting.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 197 x 254mm. 7¾ x 10". Frame 394 x 439mm. 15½ x 17¼".
Two gentlemen in long reeds at left, one shooting a bittern in the sky at right, one dog barking at the shot bird, preparing to retrieve it, and the other running away; windmills seen in the far background and a flock of swans flying overhead. Plate 33 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25712] £320.00

Bittern Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. J. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Slight offsetting.
A scene in marshland in which a man flushes out a bittern while another takes aim at the flying bird. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46243] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Pheasants. After Thomas Blinks.]
Thos. Blinks [Signed in pencil]. T. Blinks [within plate].
Copyright 1904, by Photographische Gesellschaft.
Photogravure printed in colour. Rare. Blind stamp in lower left corner, 'Berlin Photographic Society. PP.' Platemark: 580 x 380mm (22¾ x 15").
A flock of pheasants in flight over a field, two birds falling as they are shot. After British sporting and animal painter, Thomas Blinks (1860 - 1912), who worked in Abbey Road and exhibited paintings at the RA from 1883.
[Ref: 37689] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Chasse au Chien D'Arrêt.
Peint par O.De Penne. Photogravure Goupil & Co.
Imprimé & Publié par Goupil & C.ie Editeurs le 1.er Avril 1880.
Photogravure on india paper. 620 x 760mm. A few marginal tears.
A shooting party with setters.
[Ref: 1665] £470.00

Cockney Sports on Kennington Common.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 175mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed.
A shooting scene showing a group of men shooting on Kennington Common.
[Ref: 47941] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Death of the Wild Bull.]
[After Sir Edwin Landseer][Engraved by A.C. Alais.]
London, Henry Graves & Co. June 1st 1892. Copyright.
Mixed-method engraving, india proof from a limited edition, 210 x 205mm. 8¼ x 8". Presented with original descriptive text leaf. A fine impression, with untrimmed margins.
The Earl of Tankerville and W. Wells with their dogs and pony stand over the corpse of an overly-aggressive bull; the picture painted in 1836. After Edwin Landseer (1802 - 1873); from 'The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., "Library Edition"', H. Graves (in parts, 1880s-90s). Printsellers' Association blindstamp lower left.
Printsellers' Association p.153.
[Ref: 23478] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Death of the Doe.
[George Stubbs.]
London Republished June 4, 1817 by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, corner of Brook Street.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 400 x 505mm (15¾ x 20").
A rare mezzotint of the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801 with the title ''A park scene at the Grove, near Watford Herts, the seat of the Earl of Clarenden'', which includes a portrait of the Earl's gamekeeper Thomas Freeman. In 'The Complete Engraved Works of George Stubbs' the authors write that as the mezzotint was first published in 1804 it is likely to have been a collaboration between George Stubbs (who was 80 years old at the time) and his son George Townley Stubbs: the 1804 impression have the inscription 'G. Stubbs, No. 24 Somerset Str. Portman Square’, thus listing George Stubbs only as publisher. The painting is now in the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art.
Lennox-Boyd 145.ii. See Mellon Collection: B1985.19.5 for the painting.
[Ref: 20937] £7,500.00

[Deer Stalking] The Shot.
Richard Ansdell. F. Bacon.
London_ Published by Owen Bailey, 4, Arlington St., Mornington Crescent._Jany. 1, 1851 [but later].
Engraving in outline, a late impression on thick paper, very large margins. 375 x 640mm. 14¾ x 25¼". Surface slightly soiled.
A stalker takes a shot at a fleeing stag as the animal leaps a burn in a highland landscape. From a set of six 'Deer Stalking', after Richard Ansdell (1815 - 1885).
See Printseller's Association: pg.85.
[Ref: 23446] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Deer Stalking.]
Richard Ansdell. F. Bacon.
London_ Published by Owen Bailey, 4, Arlington St., Mornington Crescent._Jany. 1, 1851.
Etching on india laid paper, proof before title, 370 x 645mm. 14½ x 25½". Surface slightly soiled.
A stalker takes a shot at a fleeing stag in a highland landscape. From a set of six 'Deer Stalking', after Richard Ansdell (1815 - 1885).
Printseller's Association: pg.85.
[Ref: 12363] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Park's Juvenile Drawing Scraps. No.18.
London, Pub. by A. Park, 41, Leonard S.t Finsbury. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand-coloured lithograph, rare. Sheet: 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15") large margins. Tears and creasing at edges.
A series of shooting vignettes showing men dogs and their prey.
[Ref: 47452] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse du Canard. [Duck hunting].
Peinte par G. Morland et Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Decembre 1791 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼"). Large margins. Small holes in margins.
A man sitting beside water with a duck in his hands, his rifle resting against tree at left and his dogs at right, one looking up hungrily at the bird. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Ibbetson.
[Ref: 33234] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Chasse Aux Canards.
Peint par Heywood Hardy / Boussod, Valadon & Co.
Berlin Verlag von Boussod, Valadon & Co. Imprimé & Publié le 1.er Avril 1894 par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie Editueurs, Successeurs de Goupil & C.ie. Paris_Londres_La Haye. New-York published by Boussod, Valadon & Co.
Phototgravure laid on India paper. Platemark: 605 x 790mm (24 x 31"). Light foxing to sheet. Water stains to right side of sheet. Tear from top edge of sheet to just inside platemark.
A rural countryside scene; two gentlemen with rifles at the edge of a lake attempting to shoot at ducks as they are flying away. One of the figures takes aim, whilst the other is kneeling behind him with his dog by his side. Would make a good pair with item ref: 3022. After British painter Heywood Hardy (1842–1933).
[Ref: 32008] £550.00

Duck Shooting.
G. Morland pinx.t London.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Mixed method engraving. 335 x 370mm. Paper crack in title area.
[Ref: 4286] £550.00

The Dutch Sportsman. Le Chasseur Hollandois.
Printed by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle St.
Published, London July 1828, by A. Friedel 34, Surry Street, Strand.
Framed lithograph. Sheet size: 210 x 270mm. (8¼ x 10½"). Cut. Title and publication line glued to reverse of sheet.
A sportsman sits by an arched frame of a window with his shot gun behind him; on the sill is a dead fowl and a jug to the right, which accompanies the glass he holds in his left hand, perhaps a wine glass! Possibly after Gerrit Dou (1613-75), Dutch Golden Age painter who frequently used windows as framing devices in his paintings.
[Ref: 30294] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Flacker Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 255 x 340mm (10 x 13½"), with very large margins.
A sporting scene showing two figures with rifles raised and aimed at a flight of ducks while two spaniels jump into the water. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
Siltzer p.70.
[Ref: 46235] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Flacker Shooting.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 234 x 324mm. 9¾ x 12¾". Frame 419 x 520mm. 16½ x 20½". Slight offsetting.
Two gentlemen with rifles stood at the edge of a lake attempting to shoot at ducks swimming away; their two dogs leap into the water in hot pursuit. Plate 32 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25716] £420.00

[Gun dogs at rest.]
[Painted by James Hardy, Etched by E. G. Hester.]
[n.d. c.1880.]
Etching on india, proof before letters. 265 x 375mm.
A Gordon Setter and a Pointer at rest, with the day's bag behind. A remarque of 'a drive' lower left.
[Ref: 3019] £420.00

Grouse Driving.
Painted By Archibald Stuart Wortley. Engraved By T.G. Appleton.
London, Published June 10th 1878, by The Fine Art Society (Limited) 148, New Bond Street.W. Printed by T. Brooker.
Mixed method engraving. 430 x 590mm (17 x 23¼"). Very slight crease at centre.
A moorland scene, with grouse being driven towards a hide with one gun, a keeper and two dogs.
[Ref: 43344] £360.00

Grouse Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins.
A scene on the Scottish moors in which two men and their dogs try to flush out grouse, a ghillie on horseback follows them. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46242] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse du Lievre. [Hare hunting].
Peinte par G. Morland et Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Septembre 1791 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple with very large margins. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼"). A fine impression.
A man is preparing his rifle to the left, as his dog smells a hare in the undergrowth at the lower right. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Ibbetson.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 33221] £390.00

Hare Shooting.
G. Morland pinx.t London.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Mixed method engraving. 340 x 370mm. Repaired tear, just touching the title.
[Ref: 4292] £550.00

Highland Shooting Pony.
Richard Ansdell. Edward Hacker.
London. Published May 1st 1855 by Lloyd Brothers & Co., 22 Ludgate Hill. Entered according to the Act of Congress by Williams, Stevens, Williams & Co.in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
A fine mixed method engraving on india. Plate 481 x 375mm. 19 x 14¾". Worm hole in the sky above the horse's neck.
A horse chomping at some grass on a verge where the hunter's catch lies out spread across the ground; peering through underneath the horses neck is a lurcher.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18781] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Pheasant Shooting.
London, Published 13 May 1810 by R. Hixon, 440 Strand.
Coloured mezzotint. 255 x 355mm.
[Ref: 7286] £450.00

[The Huntsman.]
Mügl Staedpfuidl & Brüder [?]
Etching. 178 x 140mm. 7 x 5½". Cut.
Huntsman, probably a priest, with a gun slung over his shoulder and a powder flask hanging from his right arm; his left hand place on the head of an accompanying dog.
[Ref: 18441] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Tandem]
Heywood Hardy [in pencil]
Printed in Paris - Copyright 1896 by Boussod, Valadon & C.o Successors to Goupil & C.o Publishers Paris, London & New York
Very rare and fine photogravure on india. India 640 x 465mm (25¼ x 18¼"), with very large margins. Limited edition of 125 signed proofs before letters. Printsellers Association blindstamp.
Two women in a horse and cart on a dirt road watch fox hunting in the distant hills.
[Ref: 61526] £550.00

Dans la Bruyère.
Peint par Hermann-Leon. Photogravure Goupil & Co.
Imprimé et Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie., Successeurs de Goupil & C.ie le 1.er 8bre 1885_ Paris_ Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on india paper. 480 x 480mm.
A pointer in the heather, with a partridge.
[Ref: 7024] £400.00

Lord Andover's Beagles.
T.Sampson Del. E.Walker Lith.
Day & Son, Lith. to the Queen. [n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 450 x 610mm. Margins knocked.
[Ref: 5333] £480.00

Partridge Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins.
A sporting scene in which two men shoot at partridge in a field. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46239] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse du Faisan. [Pheasant Shooting].
Peinte par J. Ibbetson. Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Avril 1791 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple with small margins. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼").
A Pheasant hunting scene with two men and their dogs in a woodland area. In the foreground to the right, a man is directed to the left with his gun facing outwards, whilst in the background to the left, the second man takes aim at a Pheasant in flight, which can be seen in the sky in the centre of the image. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Morland.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 33225] £370.00

Pheasant Shooting.
Engraved by T. Sutherland.
London: Published by R. Ackermann, at His Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street. [n.d. c.1820 bit later.]
Coloured aquatint. Plate 267 x 718mm. 10½ x 28¼".
Pheasant Shooting; two pheasants fall having been shot by men and hunters to the left, dogs running to catch the game.
[Ref: 23633] £750.00

Pheasant Shooting. La Chasse au Faisand. 216.
T. Buford fecit.
London Published May 1st 1787 by Rob.t Sayer 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Repaired tears, one affecting engraver's signature. Small margins. Title messy.
A man shoots at a pheasant while three dogs chase it. A second hunter watches. Since the plate was originally published by Burford in 1770 it has been reworked, with the addition of the second hunter.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 55418] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Pheasant Shooting - An Awkward Dilemma]
[Painted by Charles Whymper] [Etched by Herbert Sedcole]
London Published Novr. 1st. 1890 by Fine Art Society [limited] 148 New Bond Street. W.
Etching 610 x 415mm.
Remarqued proof [foxhound] ltd. 150 - The shooting disrupted by foxhunting.
[Ref: 6605] £590.00

Pigeon Match.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 270 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"), with very large margins. Slight offsetting.
A sporting scene showing several men taking part in a pigeon match in which pigeons are released from traps at set distances. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46244] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Pigeon Match.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 229 x 330mm. 9 x 13". Frame 419 x 520mm. 16½ x 20½".
Gentlemen pigeon shooting. A man seated with dead pigeons holds a string attached to a box to the far right from which pigeons fly out of; a man holding a rifle poised shoots at the flying birds. Other men to the right stand ready to collect the fallen pigeons; three further men by the shooter. Plate 34 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25711] £350.00

Rabbit Shooting
Painted By Heywood Hardy. Goupil Gravure.
Printed in Paris & Published April 1.st 1895 by Boussod, Valadon & C.o Successors to Goupil & C.o Paris _ London _ The Hague. Berlin. Verlag von Boussod, Valdon & C.o. New York Published by Boussod, Valdon & C.o.
Photogravure on india. India 580 x 730mm (22¾ x 28¾"), with very large margins.
Shooting rabbits, with weasel and retreiver.
[Ref: 61525] £450.00

[Shooting with spaniels].
Drawn by Philip Reinagle Esqr. R. A. 1826.
Lithograph 295 x 375mm. Edges of paper wrinkled.
[Ref: 4810] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Setters and a Pointer].
Arthur A Davis 93 [etched in plate]. Walter Cox [signed in pencil].
[n.d. c.1895.]
Mixed method engraving on india paper. 690 x 480mm.
[Ref: 1410] £420.00

The Setting Dog and Partridges. Le Chien Couchant et La Perdrix.
J. Seymour invent. T. Burford del. fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, October, 1758.
Mezzotint. Plate 255 x 356mm. 10 x 14".
Not in Siltzer.
[Ref: 15083] £420.00

[Shoot.]
London, Publsihed April 1. 1817 by S. & J. Fuller 34 Rathbone Place.
Soft-ground etching. Plate: 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾") large margins. Bit messy.
A scene showing two men shooting with pointers.
[Ref: 47470] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Duck Shooting.
G. Morland Pinxt. London.
[n.d. 1800].
Mezzotint. Plate: 370 x 335mm (14½ x 13¼"). Tear into plate in top edge. Margins messy.
An exterior scene in marshland which a man, accompanied by his gun-dog, shoots at some ducks.
[Ref: 39881] £360.00

[Shooting. Plate IV. Engraved after an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr Bradford.]
[Geo. Stubbs pinx.t. W.m Woollett sculp.t.]
[Published by Tho.s Bradford, No.132 Fleet Street, London; as the Act directs, 25th Oct.r 1771.]
Very rare progress proof engraving. Sheet 390 x 530mm (15¼ x 20¾"). Trimmed close to image, part of image skimmed lower right, tip of bottom left corner lacking, vertical central fold, some surface wear, laid on album paper.
A very rare progress proof of the last plate in the famous set of 'Shooting' after George Stubbs, showing the sportsmen resting in a wood with their bag. At this stage in the engraving, the sky is blank, the faces and hands of the men have scratched details, and the trees and dog are half-finished.
Lennox-Boyd et al: George Stubbs 14, undescribed state between ii & iii.
[Ref: 57482] £490.00

Sledging. Working up to a Wake.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
[T. McLean.]
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Slight text offset.
A sporting scene showing a figure lying on a sledge with a large gun aimed across the water ready to shoot at ducks. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46236] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse De La Becassine. [Snipe Shooting].
Peinte par G. Morland. Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Aout 1792 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple with large margins. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼").
Winter scene with a man aiming a rifle to right to shoot a bird out of the sky, his dog, below at left watching the prey. Two other men can be seen with their guns on the snow in the background. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Ibbetson.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. See 33225
[Ref: 33230] £380.00

Snipe Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
A scene in marshland in which two men and their dogs flush out snipe. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46241] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Snipe Shooting.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 202 x 254mm. 8 x 10". Frame 394 x 439mm. 15½ x 17¼". Slight offsetting.
Two gentlemen standing at the edge of a marsh plain, with lighthouse in the background. Accompanied by two dogs, one man looks up trying to spot snipe. Plate 27 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25713] £350.00

Snipe Shooting.
Painted by Heywood Hardy, Goupil gravure.
Printed in Paris & Published April 1st 1895 by Boussod Valadon & Co. Publishers, Successors to Goupil & Co. Paris_London_The Hague. Berlin Verlad von Boussod, Valadon & Co. New York Published by Boussod, Valadon & Co.
Photogravure. 590 x 755mm.
Very fine shooting scene with retrievers.
[Ref: 3022] £680.00

[Gun Dog.]
F. Barlow delin. J. Smith excudit.
[n.d., engraved c.1690 but printed later.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 145 x 200mm (5¾ x 8"). Small margins.
A scene showing a pheasant shoot, one figure is led on a horse while in the foreground a spaniel lies watching a covey of games birds.
[Ref: 47451] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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