Grosvenor Prints

[3 September 1843 Revolution] Aohnai. Le Septembre 1843.
[n.d. c.1844.]
Scarce lithograph, sheet 280 x 345mm (11 x 13½"). Repaired crease.
A view of the 3rd September 1843 Revolution; an uprising by the Hellenic Army in Athens, supported by large sections of the people, against the autocratic rule of King Otto. An army stands outside the Old Royal Palace.
[Ref: 61674] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Ali, Vizier of Albanien, also called Pacha of Jannina. This Print forms one of the Series of Greek Portraits (4thPart) now in course of publication in London by A. Friedel, & Sold by the principal Book & Printsellers in Town & Country. June 1826.
Bouvier lithog.
Coloured lithograph. 'J. Whatman' Turkey Mill watermark. Printed area 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½") Some spotting.
Ali Pasha (1740-1822), the Lion of Yannina, a Muslim Albanian ruler who served as an Ottoman pasha of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory. A cruel ruler, he set about creating an almost-independent Greek-speaking state, allying himself with Napoleon, the British and whoever would serve him best. He eventually irked Sultan Mahmud II enough to send an army to bring him back under Ottoman control. Accepting the offer of a pardon he retired to a monastery, but soldiers were sent to arrest him for execution. Aged 82 he died fighting, shot through the floor of his room then beheaded.
[Ref: 41975] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de l'Interior de la Grotte d'Antiparos.
Eenens et Petermanns del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
The interior to the cave of Antiparos, used for shelter since the Neolithic period, visited by Archilochus of Paros, the Marquis de Nointal (French ambassador in Istanbul in the 1670s), Byron and Otto, first king of Greece. Here vistors use blazing torches to view the stalactites and stalagmites. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35157] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Entrée de la Grotte d'Antiparos.
Eenens et Petermanns del. Lithographié à la Calcographie Royale de J. Goubaud à Bruxelles.
[Brussels, 1822-9.]
Lithograph rare with very large margins. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾").
The entrance to the cave of Antiparos, used for shelter since the Neolithic period, visited by Archilochus of Paros, the Marquis de Nointal (French ambassador in Istanbul in the 1670s), Byron and Otto, first king of Greece. The view was published in a Brussels edition of Choiseul-Gouffier's 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce', but which also contained Melling's 'Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore'.
[Ref: 35156] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Stoa of Adrian,_Athens, The rock of the Acropolis in the background.
From a drawing by F.W. Newton, Esq.re Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
[n.d. c.1837.]
Lithograph, rare. 120 x 190mm. 4¾ x 7½".
Adrian's Stoa, Athens, with the Acropolis Rock behind. A stoa was an Ancient Greek covered walkway or portico, commonly for public usage. From "A Short Visit to The Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea. By Edward Giffard, Esq."
[Ref: 25651] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Athene vel Minerva.
[Hartmann Schedel, 1493.]
Woodcut engraving with letterpress text, rare. Image area 140 x 222mm. 5½ x 8¾". Cut.
Athene vel Minerva, a fictional view of Athens. An identical image is used to represent both the land of the Amazons and the city of Alexandra. The same city is also used in other parts of the book to represent Pavia, Austria, Carinthia, and Prussia. From the 'Nuremberg Chronical', by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Maps in his Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.
[Ref: 26186] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus at Athens. Vue du Temple de Jupiter Olimpien a Athens.
LeRoy delin J.Boydell excudit.
Sold by H, Overton at White Horse without Newgate.
Fine hand coloured engraving on 18th century water marked paper. Plate 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾), with large margins.
A view of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens (Olympieion) showing the ruin built up with shops trading in contrast to the sparse open space Museum that it has become today.
[Ref: 56299] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Columns of a ruined temple, Athens.]
[by and after Mrs F. Cunningham?]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, image 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 9").
A very rare early lithograph, similar in style to 'Nine views taken on the continent drawn on stone by Mrs. F. Cunningham'. Cunningham, a talented amateur artist, was born Richenda Gurney, in a prominent Quaker banking family) and was sister to Elizabeth Fry.
[Ref: 35542] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Athens, from the Academy.
C.R. Cockerell R.A. del. L. Haghe Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King [1837]
Rare lithograph, sheet 135 x 225mm (5¼ x 8¾"), large margins. Staining from glue.
View of Athens after a design by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), who first trained with the distinguished watercolourists Thomas and William Daniell. Cockerell was on the continent from 1810-17, spending much of his time studying ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Frontispiece to 'Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There' by Christopher Wordsworth, bishop of Lincoln (1837).
[Ref: 42106] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Athens, South View of the Acropolis. To J. Spencer Smith, Esq.r M.P. F.R.S. & F.S.A. &c. The Print from the Original Drawing in his Collection, is respectfully inscribed by E. Orme.
Drawn by Préaux on the Spot 1799. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Published Nov.r 1 1804, by Edw.d Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, New Bond Street London.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), watermarked 'Russell'. Trimmed within plate, a little creasing.
A view looking up at the Acropolis, with the pediment of the Parthenon just visible above the walls. The artist, Jean Francois Préaulx, was a draughtsman in the service of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in the Levant and near east. He also engraved several pictures in the collection of John Sydney Smith (1796-1845, younger brother of Admiral Sydney Smith), who served in the British Embassy at Constantinople 1793-1801, first as private secretary to the ambassador and Secretary of Legation from 1798.
[Ref: 59676] £480.00

[View of the Parthenon from the Propylea.]
[Engraved by J. Bailey after Simone Pomardi.]
[London, published September 1, 1819, by Rodwell and Martin, Bond-street.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 270 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', no date. Trimmed close to printed border (never with printed title).
A view looking across rooftops to the Parthenon, from 'Views in Greece' by Edward Dodwell (1767-1832), published in parts between 1819 and 1821 to accompany 'A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806'. Dodwell produced 400 drawings and Pomardi 600 during their travels around Greece, many of which are now in the Packard Humanities Institute.
Abbey Travel 130.
[Ref: 59683] £390.00

[The Aqueduct of Hadrian.]
Stuart del.t. Lerpiniere Sculp.t.
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraving, with large margins. 330 x 500mm, 13 x 19½".
A view of the remains of the Aqueduct of Hadrian, on the slopes of Anchesmos, to the north east of the Acropolis in Athens, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
[Ref: 26794] £350.00

[The Arch of Hadrian.]
Stuart del.t. Lerpiniere Sculp.t. [&] Stuart del.t. W. Lowry sculp[&] N. Revett del.t.
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.] [&] Published as the act direct. [&] Pub.d as the Act directs April 3 1792.
Three engravings with large margins. 330 x 455mm, 13 x 18"; 395 x 300mm, 15¼ x 12"; & 400 x 300mm, 15¾ x 11¾".
A view and elevations of the front and sides of the Arch of Hadrian, south east of the Acropolis in Athens, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The view shows the existing remains, with a family of shepherds; the elevations show it as it would have been complete, although not guessing what statuary would be used. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the Arch is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD145/9.
[Ref: 26791] £390.00 view all images for this item

The Temple of Erictheus at Athens. Le Temple d'Erictheus a Athénes.
R. Dalton del: J.S.Muller Sc:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 12.th 1751.
Engraving. Plate: 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the Erectheion, an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis in Athens. One of the six cariatyds supporting the porch, depicted here on the right, was removed by Lord Elgin in 1801 and now resides in the British Musuem. This is a plate from Richard Dalton's 'Antiquites and Views in Greece and Egypt, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, from Drawings made on the spot A.D. 1749' 1751. The plates were popular and were reprinted in various studies of antiquities and are some of the earliest images of Greece and Egypt compiled by an Englishman.
[Ref: 41358] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Erictheus at Athens. Le Temple d'Erictheus a Athénes.
R. Dalton del: J.S.Muller Sc:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament April 12.th 1751.
Engraving. Plate: 380 x 245mm (15 x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the Erectheion, an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis in Athens. One of the six cariatyds supporting the porch, depicted here on the left, was removed by Lord Elgin in 1801 and now resides in the British Musuem. This is a plate from Richard Dalton's 'Antiquites and Views in Greece and Egypt, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, from Drawings made on the spot A.D. 1749' 1751. The plates were popular and were reprinted in various studies of antiquities and are some of the earliest images of Greece and Egypt compiled by an Englishman.
[Ref: 41359] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[View of the Bridge over the Ilissus River connecting the Panathenaic Stadium with the city of Athens. ]
Stuart del.t. Tho.s Medland Sculp.t.
Published Jan.y 30th 1791 by Eliz:th Stuart Leicesterfields.
Engraving with large margins on 3 sides. 350 x 490mm, 13¾ x 19".
A view of the bridge over the Ilissus, south-east of the Acropolis, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. In the foreground are shepherds, two with musical instruments, a third with a pipe. The bridge led to the Panathenaic Stadium, now rebuilt and site of the first modern Olympic Games. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the bridge is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD146/1.
[Ref: 26796] £330.00

Plan of the Antiquities of Athens as Surveyed by J. Stuart. 1752.
[Drawn by A. Arrowsmith?]
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraved map. 535 x 700mm, 21 x 27½". Small margins.
Map of Athens showing the classical buildings surveyed made by James 'Athenian' Stuart and published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by Stuart & Nicholas Revett. To Stuart's dismay the local authorities would not allow him to survey the Acropolis because of an outbreak of plague. Stuart (1713-88) and Revett (1720-1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'. This map was published in Volume 4; the general map of Attica in the same volume was signed by Arrowsmith.
[Ref: 26784] £260.00

[Athens Polytechnic]
[Unsigned, c.1870]
Lithograph and tintstone, scarce, printed area 255 x 315mm (10 x 12½"), with large margins.
The Averof building, which remains at the centre of the Patision Complex of the National Technical University of Athens (also still known as the Athens Polytechnic). Designed by Lysander Kaftanzoglou, the building is a key example of European Neoclassicism.
[Ref: 47632] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Jupiter Olympius, Athens. Le Temple de Jupiter Olympius, Athènes. Der Tempel Jupiter Olympius, Athen.
Drawn by Wolfensberger. Engraved by J. Sands.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d. c.1841.]
Steel engraving. 208 x 279mm. 8¼ x 11".
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion, in the centre of Athens. Although begun in the 6th century BC, it was not completed until the reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods it was the largest temple in Greece. Its foundations were laid on the site of an earlier temple by the tyrant Pisistratus in 515 BC, but the work was abandoned when Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BC.
[Ref: 20158] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Attica from an Actual Survey by Mr. Stuart.
Drawn by A. Arrowsmith. J. Walker Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act directs by Elizabeth Stuart Feb: 12th 1794.
Engraved map. 660 x 620mm, 26 x 24½". Folded as issued, Two tears repaired.
Map of the peninsula of Attica, the region dominated by Athens in classical times. It was drawn by Aaron Arrowsmith, one of the leading English cartographers of the period, based on the survey made by James 'Athenian' Stuart and published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Stuart (1713-88) and Revett (1720-1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
[Ref: 26783] £260.00

Vue Générale du Temple de Bassae. Prise au Sud. [Key underneath:] Mt. Cotylius. Temple d'Apollon Episcurius. Mt. Maenale. Mt. Borée. Mt. Kérausius. Cime et Autel de Jupiter Lycéus. Mt. Lycéus.
B.on de Stackelberg del. Huber lithog.
Lith: de Frey. [d'Ostervald. n.d. c.1834.]
Lithograph. 310 x 465mm. 12¼ x 18¼".
A general view of Bassae, in the northeastern part of Messinia Prefecture, with the Temple of Apollo Epikourios on the hill behind. It was designed by Iktinos, architect at Athens of the Temple of Hephaestus and the Parthenon. From "La Grece : vues pittoresques et topographiques dessinees par O. M. Baron de Stackelberg".
[Ref: 25638] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Bobolina. The distinguished Heroine from Spezia...
Drawn from Life, & Published in London & Paris, 1827, by A. Friedel. This Print forms one of a Series of Greek Portraits (1st Part) now in course of Publication by A. Friedel, & Sold by the principal Book and Printsellers in Town & Country.
Lithograph. Sheet: 225 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) a naval commander during the Greek War of Independence and an Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. Plate from a series of twenty-four portraits of figures related to the Greek War of Independence, by the Danish painter Adam Friedel. Title in English and French.
[Ref: 42767] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Vestiges d'un Temple de Cybele vulgairement appellé l’ecole d’Homere. Pl.47.
Dessiné par le Comte De Choiseul-Gouffier. Gravé par Decquevauvillier.
A.P.D.R. [n.d. c.1782.]
Engraving. Plate 185 x 254mm. 7¼ x 10". Trimmed to plate along lower edge.
A mosque with minaret to the left in Chios; boats and fishermen on the shore to the right. From 'Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce' and 'Voyage pittoresque dans l' empire ottoman, atlas, 1re partie'.
[Ref: 25656] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Theatre at Erythroe. Straits of Scio.
J.H. Allan. [Captioned and signed to plate.]
[London: Longman & Co., 1843.]
Sepia tinted zincograph (lithograph) heightened in white, sheet 235 x 330mm. 9¼ x 13". Waterstains to lower sheet edge, outside image; sheet slightly trimmed. Overall a fine impression.
Figures at the site of an ancient Greek amphitheatre. The Chios Strait in the Aegean Sea separates the Greek island of Chios from Turkey. From a first edition of John Harrison Allan's folio 'A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean' (40 plates). IT was here that the Battle of Chesma was fought between the Russia and Turkey. The Turkish fleet was so conquered by the Russians that it lead to many territories rebelling against Ottoman rule land eventually to the Greek War of Independance.
See Abbey Travel: 200, 2. BL: 000053361.
[Ref: 17706] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Coastal Profiles.]
[Painted by Lieut. J. Corbett, R.N.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Two watercolours on one sheet. Sheet 185 x 300mm.
Probably in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant John Corbett served with the Royal Navy from the late 1830s to the 1870s, travelling in the Mediterranean, Africa & the Far East. In 1851, serving on the 'Penelope', he took part in the storming of Lagos under heavy fire, spiking the guns of the fort, making Lagos a British Province. He was Commander of HMS 'Inflexible' during the Second Opium War (1856-60), which, in 1857, towed the gun-boat 'Starling' 10,000 miles to Hong Kong after it was damaged in a storm. HMS Formidable was the flagship of Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, commanded by Captain George Frederick Rich, posted in the Mediterranean from 1844.
[Ref: 6818] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Corfu.
Drawn by T. Allom. Engraved by W. Floyd.
[n.d. c.1836.]
Engraving. Plate 178 x 248mm. 7 x 9¾". Some nicking along lower edge.
Corfu, with a view towards the old citadel and the fortress; boats in the bay of the Ionian Sea.
[Ref: 20836] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ch. Platitera.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph, very scarce. 222 x 292mm. 8¾ x 11½".
The Monastery of Platitera, Corfu; was built in 1743. After its part destruction during the French Russian-Turkish War of 1798, restoration began. The building is a mix of Bizantine and post-Bizantine architecture.
[Ref: 18378] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Corfu.
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Brown watercolour and wash over pencil, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼".
Two fishing boats off the island of Corfu, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9400] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Corfu. A fishing boat, a ship and town beyond.]
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼".
A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9417] £360.00

Corfu & Manduchio, from Mount Olivet. Ionian Isles. Corfu et Manduchio dal Monte di Olivet.
C. Bentley. Drawn from Nature by Lieu.t H.E. Allen R.l Eng.rs. J. Sands.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 208 x 279mm. 8¼ x 11".
Corfu , Greek Island, in the Ionian Sea, the second largest of the Ionian Islands , separated by a narrow channel from the Albanian and Greek coasts; seen on the other side of the bay is the Citadel.
[Ref: 20167] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Island of Corfu, in the Mediterranean.
F. Cary sculp.t [c.1790]
Engraving, platemark 185 x 245mm (7¼ x 9½"). Very slight crease left corner. Very large margins.
Good early view of the east coast of the island of Corfu, showing the Venetian Old Fortress. The island was ruled by Venetian nobility between 1386 and 1797.
[Ref: 38659] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Citadel and Albanian Hills Corfu]
320 x 247mm.
Anonymous watercolour view of the Palaio Frourio, the old Venetian fortress. Built on an islet with fortifications surrounding its entire perimeter as seen through sculptural trees on the crest of a hill.
[Ref: 167] £750.00

[View of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth.]
J. Steuart, delin.t. Lerpiniere Sculp.t.
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraving. 360 x 510mm, 14 x 20". Trimmed to plate at top, large margins on 3 sides..
A view of the exterior of the Temple of Apollo, Corinth, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'.
Stuart's gouache of the temple is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD146/2.
[Ref: 26792] £330.00

Villageois Grec.
[after Nicolas de Nicolay.]
[Paris: Mathieu Guillemot, 1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 265 x 160mm (10½ x 6¼"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image on right. Small creases left and right corners.
A Greek villager playing the bagpipes. From Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s ''L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs'', with plates after woodcuts by Nicolas de Nicolay.
See BM 1927,0210.61 for Nicolay's original woodcut.
[Ref: 61243] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Grec.
[Brussels: Librairie historique-artistique, 1843-1844.]
Wood engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 160 x 80mm (6¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
A Greek man in traditional dress, pistol and sword tucked into his belt. From Auguste Wahlen's 'Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde'.
[Ref: 60837] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Delos.]
[Drawn by A. Arrowsmith?]
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraved map with aquatint. 530 x 370mm, 21 x 14½".
Map of the Greek island of Delos, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Delos had been the meeting place of the Delian League, a defensive group of Greek city states founded in 477BC but eventually overwhelmed and turned into the Athenian Empire by 454BC. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'. This map was published in Volume 4; the general map of Attica in the same volume was signed by Arrowsmith. The hatchuring of elevated regions has been aquatinted, an uncommon usage.
[Ref: 26786] £140.00

Democritus; Or, the Laughing Philosopher. This Antient Censor, with a Comic Sneer, Laugh'd at the Follies which did Then appear. Nothing displeas'd; No Object rais'd his Spleen; His Life was One Continu'd Merry Scene; But had he flourish'd in the Present Age, Our Modern Crimes had turn'd his Mirth to Rage.
A. Coypel Pinx. G: Bickham Junr. Sculp.
[n.d. c.1745.]
Engraving. 247 x 157mm. 9¾ x 6¼". Cut and laid.
Democritus (c.460-c.370BC), the Ancient Greek philosopher who was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an atomic theory for the universe.
[Ref: 27660] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Gordon. [With 'Thos Gordon' signature facsimile.]
Fr: Hanfstaengl fec. [signed in plate.] Nach der Natur gez. v. Krazeisen. Selb Lith.
[Munich, 1828-31.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9".
Thomas Gordon (1788 - 1841) major-general in the Greek army. From the rare folio 'Bildnisse ausgezeichneter Griechen und Philhellenen/Portraits des Grecs et des Philhelle`nes les plus ce´le`bres...' by Carl or Karl Krazeisen, published in Munich, Germany, with text in German and French. Published in parts between 1828 and 1831, the work contains 21 portraits and seven views or scenes. Krazeisen accompanied von Heideck and the Bavarian philhellenes to Greece in 1826 where he served as a junior officer. The portraits are amongst the best-known of the leaders of the War of Independence and are frequently reproduced. The original drawings are preserved in the National Gallery, Athens.
British Library: 002020473. From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 14911] £450.00

A Greek Reis.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.
Coloured aquatint, rare. 145 x 209mm (5¾ x 8¼").
A womderful image of the Greek Reis, or captain, who sailed to Constantinople from Galatz. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
[Ref: 31163] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Grecian Maid. 'Dreams of bright days that never can return.'
Painted by S. Newton, R.A. Border by J. Marchant. Engraved by W. Holl.
[n.n., c.1850.]
Mixed method engraving, sheet 360 x 265mm. 14¼ x 10½". Sheet trimmed.
Portrait of a woman in an ornate oval frame, her hands clasped at her waist, wearing rings and bracelet. Illustration from 'The Art Journal', after Gilbert Stuart Newton (1794 - 1835).
[Ref: 15862] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeune Grec.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7").
A young Greek, with mustache and turban.
[Ref: 59902] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Greece.] Griechenland. Taf. III. Das Parthenon in Athen.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Greece arranged around a central view of the Parthenon in Athens, other views include 'Theben', 'Der Golf von Salamis', 'Suli'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46034] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Greece.] Griechenland Taf.I. Tempel des Apollo Epicurius in Arcadien.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, verlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views in Greece arranged around a central view of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae, other views include 'Petras', 'Argos', Korinth und Akrokinth'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46026] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fons Aemilym in Graecia.
Henri Cliuen. inuen.
Philipp. Gall. excud. [n.d. c.1612.]
Engraving, very rare with large margins. Plate 172 x 241mm. 6¾ x 9½"
Plate 19: view of the source of an unknown Greek river, a fishing boat in the foreground, a fountain with a sculpture at left, a circular temple in the background This is the ninteenth plate of a set of thirty-eight engravings after Hendrick van Cleve depicting ruins in various cities, mainly around the Mediterranean Sea ,first published by Phillips Galle in Antwerp.
[Ref: 25732] £320.00

Carte de la Turquie d'Europe & d'Asie Contenant La Grèce ou Théàtre de la Guerre Entre les Grecs et les Turcs. Dréssée d'aprés les Voyages les plus récents.
Drésée par Hérisson et Gravé par Berthe.
A Paris chez Basset rue St. Jacques No.64 1828.
Engraving with added hand-colour. 580 x 857mm. 22¾ x 33¾". Fold through centre, some nicks and tearing around edges. A few stains.
A map depicting Turkey, Greece and lower Italy; plus an inset map lower left entitled 'Plan des Environs de Constantinople'.
[Ref: 19632] £380.00

Grecian Islanders.
Benezech delin. Wilson sculp.
Published by J. Trusler, Sept.r. 1. 1792.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Greek scene with four figures.
[Ref: 32059] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Greek Lady.
C. Benezech del. I. Neagle sc.t.
Published by J. Trusler Oct.r. 1. 1793.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Greek scene in which a Greek woman walks accompanied by several figures, one holds her dress and one holds a parasol to shield her.
[Ref: 32064] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Greek Lady in her walking dress.
London Published by James Cawthorne, 24 Cockspur Street 1812. [But 1813.]
Coloured aquatint with fine colour. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼").
A costume plate from John Cam Hobhouse's 'A Journey Through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople'. Hobhouse (1st Baron Broughton, 1786-1869), met Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, and travelled with him through Italy, Greece and Turkey, a journey which resulted in this book. Hobhouse became Byron's executor after the poet's death in 1824. Despite being imprisoned in Newgate for writing a Radical pamphlet in 1819 Hobhouse became a successful Whig politician, serving in government as Secretary at War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and President of the Board of Control. He became a Privy Councillor in 1832.
Abbey: 202.
[Ref: 34548] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A Greek couple attacked.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 175 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½") Trimmed into image.
A Greek couple stand under a cliff, the man firing his pistol into the air. Behind are men with torches.
[Ref: 59899] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Grecian Woman. Engrav'd from the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord Baltimore.
Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 25 July 1768.
Fine engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 272 x 196mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Uncut with large margins.
A Grecian woman, standing with a windmill and a yacht in the background on the Aegean Sea. After Francis Smith (fl.1760s) painter, apparently born in Naples, where he painted topographical views for the tourist trade. He accompanied Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731-1771, named in inscription) to the Levant 1763-4, then exhibited in London 1768-73. From a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits.
Provenance: Hermitage Hexham.
[Ref: 30122] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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