Grosvenor Prints

The Balloon Passing Over Coblenz.
A. Butler Lith. from a sketch by Monck Mason Esq.
[n.d., c.1836.]
Lithograph. 125 x 170mm.
On November 7th 1836 the English aeronaut Charles Green, accompanied by the polymath Thomas Monck Mason, made his most famous flight, from London to Nassau in Germany. The flight was at the time the world's longest, covering an estimated 480 miles (770 km) in 18 hours. This image shows the balloon passing over Koblenz, near the end of the flight. The balloon would land at 7:30 in the morning, and one can see the rising sun.
[Ref: 8226] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Descent of the Balloon in the Valley of Elbern.
A. Butler Delt. & Lithog. from a sketch by Monck Mason Esq.
Lithograph. 125 x 175mm.
On November 7th 1836 the English aeronaut Charles Green, accompanied by the polymath Thomas Monck Mason, made his most famous flight, from London to Nassau in Germany. The flight was at the time the world's longest, covering an estimated 480 miles (770 km) in 18 hours. This image shows the balloon in Germany, having completed the flight.
[Ref: 8225] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bamburgh Castle.
Original Etching by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A. Edition linited to 175 impressions. Plate to be destroyed.
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1935.]
Drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"), very large margins, publisher's blind stamps. In original mount with printed label with title as above, with publisher's 'Minerva's Head' & 'A B C' logo. Mint.
By Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), an artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as a creator of art deco travel and British railway posters. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929.
[Ref: 49158] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Blücher] To his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge This Print of Prince Blucher, in the Costume of D.r in Civil Law of that University, is Humbly Dedicated, by His Royal Highnesses most obedient Servant W. Mason.
W. Mason del.t. J. Swaine sc.
Pub.d Oct.r 5 1815 by W. Mason, near the Hospital, Cambridge.
Aquatint. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Scuffing lower right. Bit dusty.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated.
[Ref: 34262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Brighton] To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, This Panorama is (by Permission) most Gratefully and Humbly Dedicated by W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, 1, Ship St.t Brighton, and W. Mason, Printseller &c. St Mary's Place, Cambridge.
Drawn by H. Wilds, Architect, Brighton. A. Edington sculp.t, 10 Portland St. London.
Ackermann & Co London. Published as the Act Directs 1833.
Very scarce aquatint on several sheets conjoined, with original hand colour, incomplete. Total size c. 140 x 2800mm (5½ x 110"). All folds reinforced on verso, other signs of wear. Lacking approx 1600mm in the west and between Bedford Square and Preston Street.
A rolling prospect of Brighton's King's Road, illustrating the seafront architecture running from the publisher's premises on the corner of Ship Street, west to Waterloo Street in Hove. Among the existing buildings shown are Brunswick Terrace, The Norfolk Hotel (now the 'Mercure Brighton Seafront') and the west of Bedford Square. and street-life captured at a turning point in the town's history, just before its Victorian boom as a resort, precipitated by the arrival of the railway in 1841. William Henry Goodburn Mason (1810 - 1879) was a publisher and printseller, also carver and gilder, based in Brighton. We can trace no other work by the engraver Edington.
Abbey Life 527; Ford: 22.
[Ref: 54165] £750.00 view all images for this item

[British Vessels at Sea.]
[Pencil signature:] Frank H. Mason.
[n.d. c.1939.]
Etching. 190 x 388mm. 7½ x 15½".
British Naval vessels at sea. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17984] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Brown.]
M: Chamberlin R:A: pinxt: 1779. E: Fisher Sculpt: 1780.
Publish'd Sept: 21st: 1780.
Mezzotint with small margins, rare proof before title. Plate 507 x 356mm (20 x 14"). Crease upper right corner.
Robert Brown (1714-1791) was Clerk of the Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company. He wore peculiar dress which caused him to be mistaken for a distressed clergyman. Her holding a document headed with a crest, wearing a peaked black hat, short dark wig, dark suit and cloak trimmed with horizontal bands of dark fur.
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 5. NPG: D32228.
[Ref: 29070] £450.00

Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
Original Etching by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A. Edition linited to 175 impressions. Plate to be destroyed.
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"), large margins, publisher's blind stamps. In original mount with printed label with title as above, with publisher's 'Minerva's Head' & 'A B C' logo. Mint.
A view of Calton Hill from Waterloo Place, showing the Dugald Stewart Monument, the National Monument and the Nelson Monument. By Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), an artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as a creator of art deco travel and British railway posters. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929.
[Ref: 49157] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Country Race Course with Horses Racing.]
[W. Mason Esq. delin.t. Aquatinta by F.Jukes. Engrav'd by J.Jenkins.]
Pub.h.d June 20th [no year] W.m Mason Esq.r. [c.1786.]
Aquatint with engraving, proof before title, scratched publication line. Sheet 465 x 650mm (14¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed within plate, small tears repaired. Some creasing in sky.
A chaotic scene at a racecourse, Newmarket Heath or probably York as the artist, William Mason (1724 -97), was Canon Residentiary of York. The horses pass the finish post, through spectators who wander close to the course. On the left is a high phaeton carriage, in the right foreground a woman pie-seller falls to the ground, spilling her wares. A pair to ''A Country Race Course with Horses Preparing to Start''. The BM's example was published by James Phillips in 1786.
BM Satires 8256. Not in Siltzer.
[Ref: 54700] £690.00

Scene in a Country Town at the Time of a Race.
Drawn by W. Mason Esq.r. Engrav'd by V Green.
Publish'd March 27th 1789 by F. Brydon, Printseller & Framemaker, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London.
A very large & rare etching, with hand colour. Sheet 445 x 600mm (17½ x 23¾"). Trimmed to plate; worm holes filled, mainly in title area.
A chaotic scene in a High Street, probably York as the artist William Mason was Canon Residentiary of York and Rector of Aston. A stagecoach and personal carriages crash into each other, much to the amusement of spectators looking from the windows of the Red Lion coaching inn. Adding to the noise are coach passengers beating a drum and blowing a trumpet, a fiddler and a ballad singer. Other figures include a gipsy woman sitting on the pavement, a Jewish pedlar clutching his box on the roof of the stagecoach and a man riding a racehorse through the melée. The BM's example is trimmed to the image, but has a 1908 report that gives the title and describes an earlier state, ''Publish'd July 26th 1783 by V. Green, N°29 Newman Street, Oxford Street & Sold by F Brydon, Printseller, N° 7, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London''. See Ref: 31344 for Frank Paton's Christmas Card design.
BM Satires 8243; Siltzer p.360; Not in Whitman list of Green's non-mezzotints.
[Ref: 54616] £950.00

[Destroyers in convoy.]
[Pencil signature:] Frank H. Mason.
[n.d. c.1939.]
Etching. 190 x 388mm. 7½ x 15½".
British Naval vessels at sea, the coastline visible in the backgroud, a harbour marker buoy in the centre foreground. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17985] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Dover.]
Frank H. Mason [pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist, Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamps. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9") very large margins. In original mount. Mint.
Dover from the sea, castle atop the cliff, shipping in the foreground. By Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), an artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as a creator of art deco travel and British railway posters. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929.
[Ref: 49249] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thos. Fielder, Fruit-Broker, Aged 66. Done, at the Request of the Merchants, from a Picture w.ch was given by the Grocers as a mark of their Approbation of his Conduct. for a Series of Forty Years.
M. Chamberlin Pinx.t. V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, fecit.
Published March 28th 1774, by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand.
A rare mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 13¾"), with large margins. Extensive restoration.
A three-quarter length portrait, wearing a plain, dark tail-coat and a white wig with rolls at the sides, pointing at a full basket on the left, his left hand on a cane, resting the elbow on a barrel, his tricorn hat behind him on a third barrel. Behind are riverside buildings.
Not in NPG; the BM has three examples, all trimmed.
[Ref: 49574] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Pair.] Easter Hunt. [&] [Peerless Pool.]
G. Carfrae del [Hunt]. [The Pool is totally unlettered, possibly after William Mason? Probably by G. Carfrae.]
[British, n.d., c.1787.]
Extremely rare pair of etchings in outline, image borders 230 x 360mm and 265 x 415mm. Centrefolds; one small marginal tear, generally good.
Popular pastimes for 18th century Londoners. The Easter Hunt at Epping Forest. The Peerless Pool, City Road, Finsbury, was London’s first outdoor public swimming pool. Perilous Pond, an ancient London spring whose overflowing waters formed a pond near Old Street, was a noted place for duck hunting in the 17th century. The pond acquired a dark name because of the many youths that had drowned in it. In 1743, a local jeweller named William Kemp converted this pond into London’s first outdoor public swimming pool, renaming it the Peerless Pool. Situated behind St. Luke’s hospital, the newly embanked pool was 170 x 108 ft in dimension and from 3-5 feet deep.
"Easter Hunt"British Museum:1876,1014.52
[Ref: 22565] £300.00

[Thomas Gray] Mr. Gray. from a Drawing by M.r Mason.
W. Henshaw Sc.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Dry point etching. 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed to plate, paper toned, laid on card.
Half-length portrait in profile of Thomas Gray (1716-71), poet, classical scholar and letter writer, famed for his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'. After William Mason (1725 - 1797), poet and divine; friend and biographer of Gray.
[Ref: 65154] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Gray] Mr. Gray. Engraved by J.R. Smith, from an Original Drawing in the possession of The Revd. Mr. Potter.
[n.d., c.1783.]
Stipple and etching. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Thread margins, mounted in album paper.
Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771), poet, classical scholar and letter writer, famed for his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'. Frontispiece to Robert Potter's 'Inquiry into Some Passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets'. After William Mason (1725 - 1797), poet and divine; friend and biographer of Gray.
Frankau: 157. D'Oench: 278. Not in BM, NPG.
[Ref: 53515] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Gray.
Etch'd by W Doughty, from an Original Drawing.
[n.d., c.1778.]
Etching. Plate: 155 x 100mm (6 x 4''). Small margins.
Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771), poet, classical scholar and letter writer. Wolfe is said to have remarked that he would rather have been the author of Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard' than take Quebec.
[Ref: 49076] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Thomas Gray.]
[After William Mason], [Engraved by James Basire].
[Published According to Act of Parliament March 1st 1775].
Rare proof engraving. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771), English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', published in 1751.
[Ref: 64212] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Lowestoft. Original Etching by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A. Edition linited to 175 impressions. Plate to be destroyed.
Frank H. Mason [pencil.]
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1935.]
Drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"), very large margins, publisher's blind stamps. In original mount with printed label with title as above, with publisher's 'Minerva's Head' & 'A B C' logo. Mint.
By Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), an artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as a creator of art deco travel and British railway posters. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929.
[Ref: 49159] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Morning market?]
Frank H. Mason [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, 200 x 250mm. 8 x 9¾".
Marine scene: rowing boats, sailing ships, and a paddle steamer (upper right) in front of some distant buildings. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 12022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape by river with town in distance]
[?James Mason, c.1770]
Etching, platemark 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Staining. Very large margins.
Landscape etching probably by James Mason (c.1723-1805), talented landscape engraver with a European reputation, based largely on engravings after artists including Sandby, Gainsborough and Wilson.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 38630] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape by with bridge, castle and man fishing in river]
[?James Mason, c.1770]
Etching, 18th century watermark; platemark 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Staining. Very large margins.
Landscape etching probably by James Mason (c.1723-1805), talented landscape engraver with a European reputation, based largely on engravings after artists including Sandby, Gainsborough and Wilson.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 38631] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Israel Mauduit Esq.r. European Magazine.
From an Original Picture by M. Chamberlin Esq.r 1751, in the Possession of Benj.n Lethieulier Esq.r. Engraved by Tho.s Holloway.
Published as the Act directs, by J. Sewell Cornhill, 1787.
Engraving with small margins. 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
Portrait of Israel Mauduit (1708-87), merchant, writer and colonial agent, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1751, published to illustrate his obituary. His 1760 political pamphlet 'Considerations on the Present German War' attacked the use of British troops to protect George II's (then George III's) Hanoverian interests during the Seven Years' War (1754-63) and went through five editions. He later served as colonial agent for Massachusetts and wrote 'A Short View of the History of the New England Colonies: With Respect to their Charters and Constitution', 1769.
[Ref: 35336] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[In pencil underneath the image:] "ML's" on Patrol-possibly commissioned from Francis Edward Foster (who knew Mason) was on the 'North Sea' Patrol & Commander of "flotilla".
[Pencil signature:] Frank H Mason.
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 254 x 381mm. 10 x 15".
A group of ML ships on patrol in the North Sea. Frank Henry Mason (1876-1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17968] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Tea Party. From the collection of the comical creatures from Wurtemberg _ By H. Ploucquet.
Engraved by G. Greatbach, from a Drawing by Mason.
[n.d., c.1840s.]
Steel engraving, sheet 135 x 210mm. 5¼ x 8¼".
Four cats take tea around a table.
[Ref: 11807] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Xmas Rose. The Adventures of Tom Thum's
By E.A. Mason 1886.
James Clarke & Co., 13 & 14 Fleet St EC.
Photo lithograph. Sheet 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18½"). Small tear to edges.
Eight vignette illustrations, including Tom Thumb leaning on a mushroom, anthropomorphic mice and three of a Welsh woman.
[Ref: 59774] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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