Grosvenor Prints

Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with Biographical Sketches, and Fac-similes of Original Letters. By William H. Brown.
Hartford [Connecticut, USA]: Published by E. B. and E. C. Kellogg. MDCCCXLVI [1846].
Folio, 27 sepia-tinted lithographic portraits in silhouette, plus facing facsimile of an autograph letter by the sitter (complete); including frontispiece of George Washington with facsimile of his letter to Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, May 15, 1784. 111 pp., original dark brown cloth boards backed with black morocco; the upper cover stamped in gilt with title and an image of a seated man examining a book. Binding a little scuffed and rubbed; some foxing to text leaves and spotting and browning to plate margins, as usual. Creasing through upper left corner of frontispiece; generally a good copy.
The subjects are Washington, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Richard Channing Moore, Andrew Jackson, John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John Caldwell Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard Mentor Johnson, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Alexander Macomb, Martin Van Buren, Samuel Lewis Southard, Henry Clay, Henry Alexander Wise, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White, Silas Wright, Nathaniel Potter Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon Hall, Lewis, and John Randolph. William Henry Brown (1808 - 1883), born in Charleston, South Carolina, was widely celebrated for his scissor-cut silhouettes. He wandered all over the United States, tracking down statesmen and distinguished citizens and taking their profiles. All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from life by Brown. This book was originally issued in 1845, but Harry Peters states that: "Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare."
See Library of Congress 06010172 for an 1845 edition.
[Ref: 20881] £1,850.00 view all images for this item

William Beckford Esq.r. Author of Histories of France & Jamaica.
From a Shade by Miers.
Pub.d by Vernor & Hood, 31 Poultry, May 31, 1799.
Stipple, small margins. Platemark: 160 x 110mm. (6¼ x 4¼").
A silhouette portrait of William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790. He moved to Bath where he bought many of the houses on Lansdown Crescent and he eventually commissioned architect Henry Goodridge to design the spectactular folly on Lansdown Hill, known as Beckford's Tower. Most of Fonthill Abbey collapsed under the weight of its poorly-built tower in 1825.
[Ref: 31680] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux] I See Sir I See, it comes to this.
Drawn Engrav'd Printed & Publish'd by I. Bruce, 83, Farringdon Stt.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Silhouette, etching and aquatint, 190 x 170mm. 7½ x 6¾". Lightly soiled.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868), Lord Chancellor, sitting in profile holding his spectacles, a paper inscribed 'Reform' on the lectern in front of him.
Brougham, a radical Whig lawyer and MP, tirelessly campaigned for the advancement of education and reform. As Lord Chancellor (1830-4) he played a leading part in drafting and promoting the Reform Bill (1832) with Lord Grey.
By John Bruce (c.1815 - 1830; fl.).
[Ref: 11821] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Clarke. & Dr. Clarke & the Budhist Priests. [two prints on one sheet].
Silhouette Mollison Sculpt. 220 x 130mm. 8 1/2 x 5inches. Group portrait from a painting by Alexander Mosses. 100 x 80mm. 4 x 3 inches.
[n.d. c. 1845]
Engravings on album sheet Tipped on corners to album page, Silhouette trimmed inside plate mark.
Adam Clarke (1760 or 1762–1832) was a British Methodist theologian and Biblical scholar.
NPG D2082 NPG D2083:
[Ref: 11296] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Rev. Septimus Courtney, M.A. Late Vicar of Charles Plymouth. _ Died March 7th 1843, Aged 63.
Forward pinx. Rogers sculp.
Plymouth, John Bennett, No 3. Ebrigton Place, and 53, Paternoster Row, London.
Steel engraving with facsimile signature. Sheet 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼").
A silhouette portrait of Septimus Courtney, vicar of Charles Church, Plymouth, 1832–43, in the pulpit. Destroyed by incendiary bombs, the church is now a memorial to the bombing of Plymouth during the Second World War.
[Ref: 48607] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

J.F.M. Dovaston.
[Engraved by Thomas Bewick.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Wood engraved silhouette. Image 55 x 30mm, on sheet 185 x 115mm.
Scarce portrait of John Freeman Milward Dovaston, naturalist and romantic poet. A friend of Bewick, he wrote 'Some Account of the Life, Genius and Personal Habits of the late Thomas Bewick' for Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 9, 12, 1829-30. A collection of the correspondence from Bewick to Dovaston, 1824-1828, was published in 1968, with this silhouette illustrated.
[Ref: 10473] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

This Likeness of his most Excellent and venerable Majesty, King George The Third, in the fiftieth Year of his Reign, is by Permission Dedicated to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and all the Loyal Subjects of the British Empire by their most obliged and very humble Servant Charles Rosenberg.
Drawn by C.Rosenberg. Engraved by I.C. Stadler.
Pub.d Oct 1. 1810 by Colnaghi & Co. 23 Cockspur Street London.
Aquatint. 340 x 280mm (13½ x 11"). Some toning at edges.
George III on horseback, with Windsor in the background. The figure of George is in silhouette, while his horse is shown in detail.
[Ref: 5082] £750.00

Lieu.t R. Hood.
Published 1828 by John Murray, London.
Rare engraving, printed on chine collé. Plate: 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½''). Small margins.
A silhouette portrait of Robert Hood (1797-1821) who was a naval officer who joined John Franklin's First Land expedition between 1819 and 1821, he made sketches of the expedition until he was murdered by a Canadian.
[Ref: 49324] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Martha [pencil, to lower margin.]
J Elspeth Robertson [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d., c.1930s.]
Wood engraving on chine appliqué, sheet 180 x 160mm. 7 x 6¼". Upper left sheet corner tip lacking.
A (near) silhouette portrait in profile of a young woman; her hair tied in a bunch to the side. J Elspeth Robertson (b.1896) was a British lithographer and wood-engraver active in the 1930s. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (which merged with Saint Martins School of Art in 1989 to form Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), and several of her works are in the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection.
[Ref: 22537] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

M.r. Palmer.
Pub, June 1, 1807 by James Cundee, London.
Stipple. Sheet: 85 x 80mm, (3½ x 3"). Trimmed. Laid on backing sheet. Surface dirt.
Silhouette portrait in profile of John Palmer (1742-1818), who served as Comptroller General of the Post Office, as Mayor of Bath on two occasions and as MP for Bath between 1801 and 1807.
[Ref: 34502] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Granville Sharp. To whom England owes the glorious Verdict of her Highest Court of Law. that "The Slave who sets his Foot on British ground becomes at the instant Free." Prince Hoare Esq.r Scrip.t
Chantry Sc.
T. Stackhouse. Lithog.r 5 Copthall Build.s
215 x 100mm. 8½ x 4". Slight staining and wrinkling in paper.
Silhouette of the bust by Chantry of Granville Sharp (1735-1813), one of the earliest British campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. He was also instrumental in establishing Freetown, Sierra Leone.
[Ref: 11127] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Silhouette.
Mrs. E. Nevill Jackson.
Methuen & Co. Limited. 36 Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. [1938.]
4to, original cloth gilt; pp. xviii + 1554, profusely illustrated. Stained cover, distressed binding.
Notes on and a dictionary of the art of silhouettes.
[Ref: 59910] £75.00 view all images for this item

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

[Germany] Matth. Chr. Sprengel. Geb.zu Rostock 1746. Gestorb. zu Halle d.7.Ian. 1803.
[n.d. c.1803.]
Etching; silhouette with large margins. Plate 140 x 85mm. 5½ x 3¼".
Matthias Christian Sprengel (1746-183) was a German geographer and polymath. In 1778 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at Göttingen, where he taught about the history and the then state of the British colonies in America. He also gave lectures on the statistics and history of the European countries concerned. A year later he was summoned to assume his position as associate professor of history and statistics at the University of Halle, where in his inaugural lecture he addressed 'the origin of the slave trade'.
[Ref: 26006] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Silhouette of a violinist] Cap.t Newbery by one of his brother officers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and grey wash silhouette. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A violinist playing from a Beethoven score.
[Ref: 62093] £320.00

Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Stipple. Platemark: 120 x 82mm (4¾ x 3¼").
A silhouette portrait of Priscilla Wakefield, (1751-1832) an English Quaker, educational and feminist economics writer, and philanthropist. Priscilla Bell was born into a family in Tottenham, then a village north of London. She married Edward Wakefield (1750–1826), a London merchant, and had three children. Writing to support her family financially, she wrote seventeen books in two decades. She was one of many female English writers at the end of the eighteenth century who began to demand a wider life for women. Charities which she founded included a maternity hospital, a Female Benefit Club, and a Penny Bank for children, which developed into England's first savings bank. She was a member of the Society of Friends, and conformed to their religious practice, but did not observe their restrictions.
[Ref: 34442] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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