Grosvenor Prints

Alexander the Truly Great. While the British Lion is on the point of destroying the Gallic Cock, the Russian Eagle breaks the Chains of Europe.
W.M. Craig del.t. T. Wallis sculp.t.
Published by T. Kinnersley 1814.
Stipple and engraving. Sheet 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Cut to platemark.
A medallion portrait of Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), with the Imperial Eagle above and the British Lion below. The portrait was published just before Napoleon's abdication and his exile on Elba.
[Ref: 38980] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

An American Indian Demanding his Bride.
W.M. Craig del. K. Mackenzie sculp.
London, Published Sept.r 1808 by S.A. & H. Oddy, 27, Oxford Street.
Rare stipple. Sheet 225 x 130mm (9 x 5¼").
A fanciful scene of a Native American presenting a dowry of game.
[Ref: 56214] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The City of Astracan, the Capital of Tartary.
W.M. Craig del. R.W. Wallis sc.
Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool. Feb.y 1816.
Engraving. 210 x 272mm. 8¼ x 10¾". Some toning along edges.
A view of Astrakhan, in southern European Russia and the administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast. The river behind is that of the Volga River, which leads directly to the Caspian Sea.
[Ref: 25844] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Acropolis of Athens.
W. M. Craig del. E. Goodall sc.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 170mm (8½ x 7").
A view of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
[Ref: 63071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Barclay's Dictonary, word Conjurer.
W. M. Craig delin. J. Brown sculp. Published as the Act directs by T. Kinnersley May 1.st 1813.
London, 1813.
Engraving. 260 x 210mm (10Â¼ x 8Â¼").
A scene depicting a man in wizards robes waving a wand over a book, on a table next to a smoking cauldron. Two devil figures, one crouched, one with arms extended upward, stand behind the table. A man crouches next to the wizard clutching his face. The image pressumably illustrates the definition for the word 'conjurer'.
[Ref: 54120] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Pavilion and Steyne at Brighton with the Promenade]
[Etched by Frank Holford after a view by Charles T. Cracklow and figures by William Marshall Craig.]
[n.d., 1889.]
Etching. 215 x 360mm (8½ x 14¼").
A view of the Royal Pavilion and Steyne, with the Promenade filled with the people that made Brighton the most fashionable resort of the period, with George, Prince of Wales, and Martha Gunn, the famous Brighton 'Dipper', named under the image. According to a pencil note on the reverse this was 'Etched by Frank Holford 1889 from Pictures in the Pavilion Brighton', although a second hand clarifies that it is copied from the aquatint after Cracklow and Craig. A painter called Frank Holford is said to have been churchwarden of St Michael, Brighton.
See Ford: Images of Brighton n.396 for the original.
[Ref: 58809] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Revolutionary Fury setting out to enslave or destroy the nations of Europe, is stopped by the interposing Shield of Britannia, who launches her thunders on the lawless Fiend.
W.M. Craig, del.t. I Brown, scp.t.
Published by T. Kinnersley, August 1 1814.
Engraving. Sheet 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate,
An allegorical figure of Britannia fights a gorgon-like figure, a crown and the Scales of Justice on the ground.
[Ref: 45043] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

King's College Chapel Cambridge University Almanack 1836.
Drawn & Engraved by E. Challis. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Coloured engraving. Plate 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"). Small hole repaired bottom left in image (not visible). Small margins.
[Ref: 62172] £360.00

S.t John's College, - New Bridge. Cambridge University Almanack 1837.
Drawn & Engraved by E. Challis. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Coloured engraving. Plate 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"), with large margins.
The New Bridge, built across the River Cam in 1831 to designs by Henry Hutchinson, is now known as the Bridge of Sighs.
[Ref: 62173] £320.00

Cape Town and the Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope.
W. M. Craig del. E. Goodall sculp.
[Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool, April, 1816.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 200 x 255mm (7¾ x 10") Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, corners snipped.
A view of Cape Town from the sea.
[Ref: 63013] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Eikon Basilike.] [Charles I.]
[after Marshall.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet 85 x 85mm (3¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. From 'Eikon Basilike'The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
[Ref: 68089] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Eikon Basilike. Charles I.] Alij diutius. Imperium tenuerunt, nemo tam Y fortiter reliquit. Tacit. Histor. Lib.2.c.47.p.417.
[after Marshall.] R.White sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges
Portrait of Charles I (1600 -1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. From 'Eikon Basilike'The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
[Ref: 68090] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

L’Hospitalité ou la Cabane du Paria. Le Docteur jouissait du plaisir d’être ensûreté au milieu de la tempête...En fin jusqu’au chien prenait part au bonheur commun; couché avec un chat, auprès du fue, il entre-ouvrait de temps en temps les yeux et soupirait en regardant son maître. Voyez la Chaumiere indienne, Page 75. Par Jacques-Bernardin Henri de St. Pierre.
Challiou delineavit. Mariage sculpsit.
à Paris chez Bance ainé, Md. d’Estampes, rue St. Denis, No.214. [n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple with small margins, rare. Plate 560 x 412mm (22 x16¼").
A scene from 'La Chaumiere Indienne' ("The Indian Cottage"), by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre in 1790. A traveller finds wisdom in the cottage of an Indian outcast.
for another print from the same series see ref. 1193
[Ref: 28897] £350.00

[Child Christ defeating the demon.] Per mortem destrucit eum qui babebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum. Hebr. 2.
D. Hallé pinxit. G.E. delinck Sculp.
a Paris chez P. Drevet rue St jâque à l'Annonciation.
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 530mm (17¼ x 20¾"). Trimmed within platemark, horizontal centre fold. Occasional foxing.
Christ stabbing the dragon-devil with the heel of his crozier, his right hand raised in the sign of the benediction. Around them are the heads and wings of the cherubim. The print was engraved by Gérard Edelinck after Daniel Hallé and published by Pierre Drevet. Pencil mss. on the reverse notes this as a frontispiece to the Bible's Epistles to the Hebrews: the quote comes from Hebrews 2 and means 'through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil'.
BM: X,6.4. Robert Dumesnil VII 186-16 Undescribed State.
[Ref: 33781] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Kensington House School.]
[G.Marshall delin.] T.Morris Sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Sheet 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"). Trimmed into lower plate. Two folds.
A view of Kensington House School, with four boys playing cricket in the grounds. The school was operated by James Elphinstone, a Scottish educationalist, from 1756 to March 1776, as a boys' school. After operating as a Catholic boarding house from 1815 to 1825, it then became the site of a private asylum in 1830.
[Ref: 67067] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cross Readings.
E.S. Hall. Bellamy lith, 26 G.t. S.t Helens.
[n.d., c.1840's.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 225 x 340mm (9 x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper at corners.
A fence covered with overlapping bills, positioned for humorous effect. An example reads 'The Royal Nassau Balloon will again ascend from Vauxhall, taking up... Four Acres Arable Land A Farm House 2 Hackney Coaches... A four Post Bed...". Another starts "Lunardi who journey'd in a Balloon to the Moon..."
[Ref: 51582] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Cross Readings. Sixpence.
E.S. Hall.
Printed & sold by W. Jeffery 7 Geo.e Yd. Lombard St: [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Tear into upper image. Damage to extremity upper right.
A fence covered with overlapping advertisements and theatre bills, arranged for humorous effect.
[Ref: 12598] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Christian Curwen Esq.r M.P. N.º First Fifty ~ Price £1,, 1,,
Painted by J.J. Halls. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
[London, Published by the Engraver, 47 Poland Street, April 12. 1802.]
Mezzotint, fine impression with 18th century watermark. Sheet 340 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plan, losing publication line at bottom, paper remnants on right edge with slight scrape of print.
Half-length portrait of John Christian Curwen (1756-1828), Whig M.P. for Carlisle.
[Ref: 64394] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dutch.
W: M: Craig, 1813.
Published by W. M. Craig Jan.y. 1st. 1813.
Etching. Plate 210 x 146mm. 8¼ x 5¾".
A boy outside a stable, leaning against the lower part of the door; in one hand he holds a glass and in the other a wine jug. Grape vine leaves can be seen crawling on the side of the stable wall.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18519] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Maria Edgeworth.
Craig del. Mackenzie sc.
Published by Vernor & Co. Nov.r 1. 1808.
Stipple. Sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼"). Binding damage on right edge. Trimmed to platemark.
Oval portrait of Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), one of the first realist writers in children's literature.
[Ref: 51786] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

View of Porto Ferrajo, in the Isle of Elba; Shewing, 1. Buonaparte's Town Residence. 2. His Country house. 3. The Iron Mountains. 4. The Lazarotte.
W.M. Craig del. T. Dixon sculp.
Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool. Nov.r 1815.
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate, close to publication line.
A view of Portoferraio from the sea, drawn during his exile there, but published after Waterloo.
[Ref: 67140] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

W.m Hall, Pattern Drawer, & Engraver.
[n.d., c.1770]
Sheet 115 x 110mm (4½ x 4¼"). Stained top left, messy.
Engraver's tradecard with elaborate floral design.
[Ref: 28502] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A Pair.] View of the Fort of Joux in Franch Comté on the Frontiers of France & Switzerland. [&] View of the Fort of Joux. In which Coll. Moulin and Captains de Frotté, Girod, & d'Hauteroche were confimed for eleven months and fourteen days at the end of which they effected their escape by working a passage through the walls of their dungeon. It was axcessively damp and dark and received so little light that often they were obliged to have the candles lighted at midday. Their food was brought to them every twenty four hours, they were by great favor allowed to walk in a court yard of the Fort once or twice a week surrounded by a Serjeant & six Men with loaded Firelocks and fixed Bayonets!!.
From a Drawing by W. M.Craig Engraved by C. Turner.
London Pubd for the Proprietors Octr. 16 1809. by E. Orme, Printseller, Bond Street.
Coloured aquatints 370 x 330mm. Trimmed to plate, faint creases in title.
The first image shows mountainous wintery landscape with four figures absailing down the side of a steep cliff, escaping from the fortress. The second four men, Colonel Moulin, the Captains de Frotté, Girod and d'Hauteroche and a dog confined in a prison, one reading to the others from a book inscribed 'Baron Trench', sitting at a table, with beds at either side of the arched space and a kettle on a fireplace at left. Fort-de-Joux, at the summit of snow-clad mountain peaks, in the Jura Mountains, served as a prison for successive French Governments and was where Toussaint L'Ouverture died of neglect and starvation in 1803. Moulin, de Frotté, Girod, & d'Hauteroche 'effected their miraculous escape, on 27th January, 1805, after a severe Captivity of eleven months and 14 days. They resolved to obtain their liberty, & succeeded by making a hole in the wall of their cell, which was 3 feet 1/2 thick and then had to work through another wall 9 feet thick & after ten nights of anxiety & fatigue they descended the Rock almost perpendicular on which the Fort stands near 700 feet in height, by the help of a Rope they made with their linen & bed clothes after having proceeded on foot to Neufchatel, they separated, and journied to Vienna, and from thence set off on their way to England, where three of men arrived safely two months after their escape!' [E.extract from Whitman:708.]
Whitman:707.708
[Ref: 1412] £550.00 view all images for this item

View of the City of Genoa.
W. M. Craig del. T. Dixon sc.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 170mm (8½ x 7").
A view of the city of Genoa, Italy.
[Ref: 63070] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sportsman.]
R.C. Peters. [after Benjamin Marshall.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 480 x 360mm (19 x 14"), with large margins. Slight stain bottom right.
A portrait of printseller, bookseller and publisher Thomas Gosden (1780-1843) showing him out shooting. Gosden was a book and printseller, publisher and sportsman, working from Piccadilly, 'The Sportsman's Repository' at 18 Bedford Street in Covent Garden and 107 St Martin's Lane at various times. He published at least three contemporary versions of this portrait. This version is a new, larger plate, engraved by Robert Charles Peter ARA (1888-1980).
[Ref: 47483] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sportsman - Thomas Gosden.]
R.C. Peter [pencil signature]. [after Benjamin Marshall.]
Published in London on the 10th September 1920 by H.C. Dickens, 9 Great Pulteney St. W.1. Copyright in the U.S.A. in 1920 by H.C. Dickens.
Mezzotint, signed by the engraver. 480 x 365mm (19 x 14½"), on thick paper with wide margins.
A portrait of Thomas Gosden (1780-1843) after Benjamin Marshall, carrying gun, accompanied by his two dogs. Gosden was a book and printseller, publisher and sportsman, working from Piccadilly, 'The Sportsman's Repository' at 18 Bedford Street in Covent Garden and 107 St Martin's Lane at various times. He published at least three contemporary versions of this portrait. This version is a new, larger plate, engraved by Robert Charles Peter ARA (1888-1980).
[Ref: 47710] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Gosden.] The Sportsman.
Painted by Benj.n Marshall. Engraved by John Scott.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Trimmed within plate on left.
A portrait of Thomas Gosden (1780-1843) carrying a gun, accompanied by his two dogs. Gosden was a book and printseller, publisher and sportsman, working from Piccadilly, 'The Sportsman's Repository' at 18 Bedford Street in Covent Garden and 107 St Martin's Lane at various times. He published at least three contemporary versions of this portrait, but this version probably appeared in the 'Sporting Magazine'.
[Ref: 52346] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, This View of the Royal Hospital at Haslar is by permission most respectfully inscribed by their Lordships' obedient humble servant, J.Hall A.B. To the Commssioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen by Permission; the Governor and Principal Officers This View of the Royal Hospital at Haslar is most respectfully inscribed by their obedient humble servant J.Hall A.B.
The Rev.d J.Hall A.B. Chaplain to the R.H. Haslar Delin.t. John Wells Aqua Tinta Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Septr. 11.1799.
Two sepia aquatint views, 340 x 390mm, and an engraved floorplan 290 x 240mm, and a page of text. Occasional spotting.
[Ref: 2918] £450.00 view all images for this item

Household Troops Preparing for an Attack.
Drawn on Stone by E. Hull from a Design by G. Eckersall Esq.r. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by Rowe & Waller 49 Fleet St. May 1826.
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 215 x 290mm (8½ x 11½").
A play battle between three children with household items as armour and weapons and two boys with garden implements.
[Ref: 54446] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. John Jackson. From an original Picture in the posession of Sir Henry Smyth Bart.
Painted by B.Marshall. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London Published May 19 1810, by C.Turner No.50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 640 x 450mm (25¼ x 17¾"), with large margins. Central crease and repaired tears. Title area bit messy top left. Damaged.
Full length portrait of the pugilist known as Gentleman Jackson (1769-1845), standing to front in a gallery beside a sculpture of a boxer, holding a top hat with his right hand on the pedestal, pictures of a fight between two boxers hangs on the wall, English champion 1793-1803. A very rare large boxing image.
Whitman: 277.
[Ref: 65936] £1,800.00

The Right Hon.ble Sir Alexander Johnston, Knt. Chief Justice of the Admiralty Court in the Island of Ceylon.
W.M. Craig del. T. Woolnoth sculp.
Stipple, laid on album page. 178 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849), the British colonial officer who served as 3rd Chief Justice of Ceylon and 2nd Advocate Fiscal of Ceylon. Along with Henry Thomas Colebrooke and others he was a founding member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
[Ref: 34585] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Robert Jones, Practical Farrier, Curtain Road, Finsbury Square.
Marshall pinx.t. J. Scott. Sculp.t.
Published June 1.st 1797 by J. Wheble, Warwick Court.
Engraving with etching, sheet 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Thread margins.
Oval portrait of the farrier Robert Jones, illustration to the 'Sporting Magazine'.
Wellcome: 1545; O'Donoghue.
[Ref: 57055] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Part of the Natural History of Asia.
W.M. Craig del.t. T. Wallis sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾") Trimmed within plate, some staining.
A composite image, illustrating parrots, a toucan, elk, camel and tiger but, most significantly, the kangaroo, based on the George Stubbs painting. This plate was published in at least two of the Rev. Ezekiel Bloomfield's works: 'A General View of the World' (1807), & 'Complete and Universal Dictionary' (1812).
Lennox- Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, 424.
[Ref: 54184] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Part of the Natural History of Asia.
W.M. Craig del.t. T. Wallis sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾") Trimmed within plate.
A composite image, illustrating parrots, a toucan, elk, camel and tiger but, most significantly, the kangaroo, based on the George Stubbs painting. This plate was published in at least two of the Rev. Ezekiel Bloomfield's works: 'A General View of the World' (1807), & 'Complete and Universal Dictionary' (1812).
Lennox- Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works, 424.
[Ref: 63343] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr. Charles Lawson. M.A. Headmaster of Manchester School]
[W.M.Craig.pinx. James Heath sculpt]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Unfinished proof engraving Sheet 359 x 254mm.
Charles Lawson. 1728-1807.
[Ref: 1413] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Leveson Gower] The Right Honorable Lady Anne Vernon.
Painted by G. Marshall. Engraved by W.m Ward Jun.r Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence. Winchester Row, New Road, London. Printed by J. Fisher.
Published Aug.st 8, 1826, by M.r Marshall, & H. Bellerby, Book & Printseller, Stonegate, York; Colnaghi & C.º Pall Mall East, & W. Sams, S.t James's Street, London.
Mezzotint. 510 x 335mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Uncut.
A seated portrait of Anne Leveson Gower (1761-1832), holding a book in her lap. The daughter of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, she married Edward Venables-Vernon Harcourt, archbishop of York, by whom she bore sixteen children.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66397] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Leveson Gower] [The Right Honorable Lady Anne Vernon.]
[Painted by G. Marshall. Engraved by W.m Ward Jun.r Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence. Winchester Row, New Road, London.]
[Published Aug.st 8, 1826, by M.r Marshall, & H. Bellerby, Book & Printseller, Stonegate, York; Colnaghi & C.º Pall Mall East, & W. Sams, S.t James's Street, London.]
Mezzotint, unfinished working proof. Sheet 465 x 335mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A seated portrait of Anne Leveson Gower (1761-1832), holding a book in her lap. The daughter of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, she married Edward Venables-Vernon Harcourt, archbishop of York, by whom she bore sixteen children.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66398] £360.00

William Lilly.
[after William Marshall]
[n.d., c.1817].
Engraving, sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate on left, small margins top and bottom.
Half length portrait of the astrologer William Lilly seated at table; right hand on globe, left hand on paper; wearing black doublet, cloak, and white collar; with shoulder length curled hair; landscape and curtain in background. Possibly the print after Marshall by G P Wainwright and published by Charles Baldwyn. William Lilly (1602 –1681) was an English astrologer who had significant impact on the future course of Western astrological tradition, despite his socioeconomic position early in life.
Wellcome: 1772
[Ref: 57156] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lient. Gen. Lord Hill
W. M. Craig del. Brown sculpt.
Published by T. Kinnersley Jany. 1 1815
Engraving with etching, sheet 280 x 225mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed, slight creasing.
Oval portrait of General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772 -1842) dressed in uniform, below on a stone inscribed with the sitter's name, and surrounded by sword, cannonballs, a fortress with bridge and trees. Illustration from 'A New History of the Twenty Years War with France'. Hill was a British Army officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828.
[Ref: 55844] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the City of Malta, on the side of the Cotonere.
Drawn by the W. M. Craig, from the original by Goupy. E. Goodall sc.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving, sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Crease in upper centre. Tiny tears down left margin.
Bird's eye view of the fortified harbour of Malta, looking towards Valetta.
[Ref: 63073] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Manchester from Mount Pleasant. Dedicated to the Inhabitants of Manchester and its Environs, by their obliged Servants, W.M.Craig and J.Landseer.
Drawn by W.M.Craig. Engraved by J. Landseer, Engraver to the King
Published Aug.t 1 1802 by J. Landseer, No 88 Queen Anne Street, East. & W.M.Craig, No 88 Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, London; and in Manchester at No 79 Market Street Lane.
Scarce engraving. 365 x 480mm (14¼ x 18¾"), very large margins.
A fine prospect of Manchester from sheep fields to the north of the city. John Landseer, the engraver, was the father of Sir Edwin Landseer.
[Ref: 58706] £380.00

[Ticket/Invitation] Dinner at the Mansion House, April 15th. 1805. The Right Honble. Peter Perchard, Lord Mayor.
Wm. Craig Del. Gale & Butler Sc.
[London, c.1805.]
Large admission ticket to a Dinner/Ball at the Mansion House, City of London, April 15th 1805. Etching with stippling in brown ink to thick wove, 200 x 255mm. 8 x 10". Fold creases as normal; lower right corner lacking, indicating ticket has been redeemed. Some foxing.
Three winged putti supporting a shield/crest; musical instruments and mayor's sceptre immediately behind. Numbered 'No 131' in ink to upper left margin, (part of) signature of issuing officer lower right. Dinner hosted by Peter Perchard, Lord Mayor of London. After William Marshall Craig (c.1765 - c. 1834).
[Ref: 21153] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The 12 Months of the Year.]
Craig delin.t. J.Timms [et al.] sculp.
Published by Charles Brightley, Bungay, 1812.
Twelve engravings. Each c. 190 x 120mm, 7¼ x 4¾".
Scenes representing the twelve months of the year, illustrating subjects like astonomy, fishing, shipwrecks and wine-making, each with a quotation. Brightley had published the same set in 1803, all plates engraved by Barlow.
[Ref: 22431] £360.00 view all images for this item

[The 12 Months of the Year.]
W.M. Craig delin. J.Barlow sculp.
Published by Charles Brightley, Bungay, Suffolk, Sep.r 1803.
Twelve engravings. Each c. 190 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾").
Scenes representing the twelve months of the year, illustrating subjects like astonomy, fishing, shipwrecks and wine-making, each with a quotation.
[Ref: 22430] £360.00 view all images for this item

The Musical Spaniel of Darmstadt.
Craig Del. & Sc.
[London: George Henderson, 1840.]
Engraving on steel. Sheet 95 x 130mm (3¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed.
A Water Spaniel called Poodle, trained by its owner to howl at bad notes in music recitals. From 'The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance', Volume 3. A copy of the text is included.
[Ref: 58045] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

View of Naples, From the South-East.
W.M. Craig del. T. Smith sculp.
[n.d., c.1816.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of Naples from the south.
[Ref: 67136] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Procession of Lord Viscount Nelson, Jan.y 9th 1806.
W.M. Craig del. Edw.d Orme excu.t. J. Godby sculp.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y 12 1806 by Edwd Orme Engraver, Printseller to the King & Royal Family, 59, Bond Street, London.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 330 x 430mm (13 x 17''). Central vertical crease as issued.
Nelson's hearse in Ludgate Street, with St Paul's Cathedral behind. The design mimicked the 'Victory', with a figurehead and ship's stern. A plate from 'Orme's Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horation Nelson', published only three days after the funeral.
Abbey Life 327.
[Ref: 39094] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Funeral Procession of Lord Viscount Nelson, Jan.y 9th 1806.]
[W.M. Craig del. Edw.d Orme excu.t. J. Godby sculp.t.]
[Published & Sold Jan.y 12 1806 by Edwd Orme Engraver, Printseller to the King & Royal Family, 59, Bond Street, London.]
Coloured aquatint, sheet 270 x 395mm (10¾ x 15½"). Trimmed to image, losing all letters, tear in right edge.
Nelson's hearse in Ludgate Street, with St Paul's Cathedral behind. The design mimicked the 'Victory', with a figurehead and ship's stern. This example is apparently an early state: most examples have the shadows of spectators in the upper windows of Ludgate Street, all blank here. A plate from 'Orme's Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horation Nelson', published only three days after the funeral.
Abbey Life in England 327.
[Ref: 39092] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Funeral Procession of Lord Viscount Nelson, Jan.y 9th 1806.
W.M. Craig del. Edw.d Orme excu.t. J. Godby sculp.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y 12 1806 by Edwd Orme Engraver, Printseller to the King & Royal Family, 59, Bond Street, London.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 330 x 430mm (13 x 17'') with very large margins. Central vertical crease as issued.
Nelson's hearse in Ludgate Street, with St Paul's Cathedral behind. The design mimicked the 'Victory', with a figurehead and ship's stern. A plate from 'Orme's Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horation Nelson', published only three days after the funeral.
Abbey Life 327.
[Ref: 50898] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Prospect of Newark from Hawton Way.
R: Hall delin: W: Hollar sculp: 1676.
Etching. Sheet 150 x 295mm. (6 x 11½"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper with five other etchings.
Prospect of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, etched by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77) for Thoroton's ''Nottinghamshire''. The other prints include a view of Francis Bacon's Tomb by Hollar (Pennington 2273, state iv of v, c.1740), and four small Dutch portrait.
Pennington: 1047.
[Ref: 52268] £360.00

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