Grosvenor Prints

[Angle in the vault of the Sistine Chapel] Pio Septimo Pont. Opt. Max. Eleazar Mathan Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello [in design] .
Ang. di Angelis del. Aloys. Cunego sculp. Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, laid on original album sheet, 405 x 585mm. 16 x 23", large margins. Some creasing.
Two figures from the Hebrew Bible: Eleazar (Elazar) was the second Kohen Gadol (High Priest), succeeding his father Aaron. He was a nephew of Moses. Nathan (fl. c.1000 BC) was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba. Dedication to Pope Pius VII to lower margin. From a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome.
[Ref: 22902] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Expulsion (from Paradise).] Tulit Igitur Mulier de Fructu, et Comedit...
Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello. Dom. Cunego del. et sculp. Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, laid on original album sheet, 305 x 480mm. 12 x 19". A fine impression with full margins.
Two Latin biblical quotations from the Book of Genesis to lower margin, from a series of 37 plates published under the title 'La volta della Cappella Sistina' between 1772 and 1834 after the master painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, by Domenico Cunego (Italian, 1727 - 1803).
See V&A DYCE.1655.
[Ref: 22885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Fluteur. De la Galerie du Palais d'Orleans, École de Lombardie. III.me Tableau de Michel-Ange Amerigi Surnommé Le Caravage. Peint sur Toile, ayant de hauteur 2 Pieds 4 Pouces, sur 1 Pied 11 Pouces de large. Cette figure de jeune homme, qu'on peut considere comme une des plus savantes productions du Caravage, réunit à l'étonnante vérité du Coloris...Le Dominicain fut aussi tenté de la suivre; mais le goût du Dessin qui sáj trouve attaché, et le choix de sa Lumiere, toujours le même dans toutes sortes de Sujéts, l'en a detourné.
Peint par Michel Ange dit Caravage. Gravé par Mondet.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Etching. Plate 419 x 285mm. 16½ x 11¼". Some paper toning.
The flute player: a young man seen half-length, turned to the right and looking towards the viewer, holding a flute with his elbows resting on a rock.
[Ref: 20067] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Blessed Ascending (detail from 'The Last Judgement')]
[C.M. Metz Del.t & Sculp.t; after Michelangelo]
[1803]
Stipple, rare, platemark 500 x 350mm (19½ x 13½"). Slight crease on right; glued to album sheet in corners.
The first group of the Blessed ascending in the middle register, from Conrad Martin Metz's series of fifteen engravings reproducing Michelangelo's fresco 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel (completed 1541). After moving to London by 1781, the German-born Metz (1749-1827) studied under Francesco Bartolozzi and exhibited at the Royal Academy before moving to Rome in 1801.
P. De Vecchi, 'Michelangelo's Last Judgement' in 'The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered' (1980).
[Ref: 22935] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Michel-Ange. Dédié à Son Excellence M: le Baron d'Alquier, Envoyé Ext.re et Ministre Pléni.re de S; M: à la Cour de Danemarck Par som très humble Serviteur J.L. Potrelle.
Michel-Ange Pinx.t. J.L. Potrelle Del.t et sculp.t.
à Paris, chez Potrelle Jeune, Rue St. Honoré, No. 142 [n.d., c.1814].
Engraving. Sheet 375 x 290mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Half-length portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564).
BM: 1910,0610.169, 'Probably wrongly attributed'.
[Ref: 62192] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Schola Italica Picturae Sive / selectae quaedam summorum e schola Italica pictorum tabulae aere incisae cura et impensis gavini hamilton pictoris / Romae CDDCCLXXIII.
Michelang. Bonaroti pinxit / Joseph Perini sculp. Romae 1771.
Rome, 1773.
Engraving., 18th century watermark; 560 x 355mm (22 x 14"), with wide margins. Repaired tear in the upper left margin. Creasing in top right corner and along top margin, few nicks in margins.
The title page of Gavin Hamilton's 'Schola Italica Picturae', featuring a pair of ignudi above the prophet Jeremiah from Micheal Angelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes. Hamilton (1723-1798) was a Scottish painter and dealer in antiquities and old masters. He was educated in Glasgow and then Rome under the guidance of Agostino Masucci. Including this title plate 'Schola Italica Picturae' contained 41 plates which depict pictures by famous Italian artists, including Caravaggio and Titian.
[Ref: 54009] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Fresco in the Sistine Chapel] Pio Septimo Pont. Opt. Max. Hieremias [lettered on plaque in centre]. Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello [in design, to upper corners].
Aloys. Agricola del. Dom. Cunego sculp Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, 400 x 530mm (15¾ x 20¾").
Jeremiah, meaning "Yahweh exalts", or called the "Weeping prophet", was one of the main prophets of the Hebrew Bible. His writings are put together in the Book of Jeremiah. Dedication to Pope Pius VII to lower margin. From a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome. By Domenico Cunego (Italian, 1727 - 1803).
[Ref: 22906] £420.00

Aedificavit Dominus Deus costam, quam tulerat de Adam in mulierem. Gen. C.II.V.22. 4.
Michelang. Buonarota. P. Ant. Capellan sc. 1772.
Romae in Aedibus Vaticanis nella Cappella Sistina.
Engraving, very large margins. Plate 240 x 291mm (9½ x 11½"). Water stain to upper left and lower right corners; crease.
The Creation of Eve. After the fresco by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 31014] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Tulit igitur mulier de fructu illius, et comedit. Gen. Cap. III. 3.
Michelangelo Buonarota pinxit. Antonio Capellan sculpsit 1771.
Romae in Aedibus Vaticanis nella Cappella Sistina.
Engraving, very large margins. Plate 253 x 465mm (10 x 18¼"). Slight crease in margin bottom right.
The temptation and expulsion from Eden, after the fresco by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 31016] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[God creates the Day and the Night.] Divisit Lucem a Tenebris...
Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello. Aloys Agricola del. Dom. Cunego sculp. Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, laid on original album sheet, 210 x 235mm. 8¼ x 9¼". Some marginal creasing else a fine impression with full margins.
Latin biblical quotation from the Book of Genesis to lower margin. Numbered 'No.1' upper left; from a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome. By Domenico Cunego (Italian, 1727 - 1803).
[Ref: 22895] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Last Judgement (detail)]
[C.M. Metz Del.t & Sculp.t; after Michelangelo]
[1803]
Stipple, platemark 500 x 350mm (19½ x 13½"). Glued to album sheet in corners.
The second group of the blessed ascending in the middle register. One figure uses a rosary to help raise two more. Plate from Conrad Martin Metz's series of fifteen engravings reproducing Michelangelo's fresco 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel (completed 1541). After moving to London by 1781, the German-born Metz (1749-1827) studied under Francesco Bartolozzi and exhibited at the Royal Academy before moving to Rome in 1801.
P. De Vecchi, 'Michelangelo's Last Judgement' in 'The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered' (1980).
[Ref: 22938] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

['The Sounding of the Last Trump' (detail from 'The Last Judgement')]
[C.M. Metz Del.t & Sculp.t; after Michelangelo]
[1803]
Stipple, platemark 500 x 350mm (19½ x 13½"). Glued to album sheet in corners.
The central group of seven angels with seven trumpets in the middle register sounding the call to judgement to awaken the dead below, as described in the Book of Revelation. Plate from Conrad Martin Metz's series of fifteen engravings reproducing Michelangelo's fresco 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel (completed 1541). After moving to London by 1781, the German-born Metz (1749-1827) studied under Francesco Bartolozzi and exhibited at the Royal Academy before moving to Rome in 1801.
P. De Vecchi, 'Michelangelo's Last Judgement' in 'The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered' (1980).
[Ref: 22939] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

['Resurrection of the Body' (detail from 'The Last Judgement')]
[C.M. Metz Del.t & Sculp.t; after Michelangelo]
[1803]
Stipple, platemark 475 x 830mm (18½ x 32½"). Glued to album sheet in corners.
The group of the dead in the process of resurrection at the left of the bottom register. It was an essential part of Christian doctrine that at the end of the world the spirits of the dead would be reunited with their flesh in heaven, and here bodies can be seen in various stages of recomposition, some still as skeletons and others fully restored. from Conrad Martin Metz's series of fifteen engravings reproducing Michelangelo's fresco 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel (completed 1541). After moving to London by 1781, the German-born Metz (1749-1827) studied under Francesco Bartolozzi and exhibited at the Royal Academy before moving to Rome in 1801. Spectacular image.
P. De Vecchi, 'Michelangelo's Last Judgement' in 'The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered' (1980).
[Ref: 22940] £450.00

[The Last Judgement (detail)] Discedite a me Maledicti in ignim Aeternum. Opus Michaelis Angeli Bonarroti in Sacello Sixtino ad Vaticanum.
C.M. Metz Del.t & Sculp.t 1803.
Stipple, platemark 500 x 350mm (19½ x 13½"). Glued to album sheet in corners.
The demons crouching at the gates of Hell at the centre of the bottom register, from Conrad Martin Metz's series of fifteen engravings reproducing Michelangelo's fresco 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel (completed 1541). After moving to London by 1781, the German-born Metz (1749-1827) studied under Francesco Bartolozzi and exhibited at the Royal Academy before moving to Rome in 1801.
P. De Vecchi, 'Michelangelo's Last Judgement' in 'The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered' (1980).
[Ref: 22941] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Sistine Chapel - The Last Judgement]
Leonardus Gaultier fecit.
[n.d., c.1600-35]
Etching, 313 x 233mm (12¼ x 9¼"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners.
Etching of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel, with a portrait of Michelangelo in a medallion. The first engraving from Michelangelo's fresco was by the Italian Martino Rota (1569), which served as the prototype for several subsequent engravings, including this one.
see 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come' (British Museum catalogue) nos. 97-8; for an earlier engraving of the fresco see ref. 25977
[Ref: 26024] £350.00

[Noah and his Sons.] Evigilans Autem Noe ex Vino...
Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello. Ang. Deangelis dis. Heir. Carattoni inc.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, 210 x 240mm. 8¼ x 9½". Some minor marginal creasing else a fine impression with full margins.
Latin biblical quotation from the Book of Genesis to lower margin. From a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome.
See V&A DYCE.1584.
[Ref: 22893] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Madonna, the Infant Christ and St. John, From an unfinished Basso relievo in Marble by Michelangelo Buonaroti. Done by him about the Year 1503 for Taddeo Taddei [...]
Michael Angelo [...] F. Bartolozzi R.A.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Jan. 1 1795 by A. Molteno Printseller to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York No. 76 St. James's Street
Soft-ground etching, rare, platemark 355 x 300mm (14 x 11¾"), with very large margins. Creases top right in margin.
Etching of Michelangelo's Taddei Tondo, which since 1830 was been in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The text below the image claims that the print was made by the celebrated Italian printmaker (and founding member of the Royal Academy) Francesco Bartolozzi and published in 1795, but this cannot be true, as the tondo was not acquired by George Beaumont until 1822. After Beaumont died in 1827, the print was briefly in possession of Lady Beaumont (who is named as the owner of the tondo on this print) before it waas received by the RA in 1830. During this time an etching of the tondo after a drawing by William Young Ottley was made by F.C. Lewis and published in London by W.B. Tiffin in 1828. This print would appear to be an altered impression of that plate, with the publisher (potentially Molteno, who was active until 1845) backdating the print and attributing the print to Bartolozzi, dead by this time but one of the foremost eighteenth century engravers, in a bid to increase demand for the print. In a recent book about the tondo, Alison Cole described the source drawing by Ottley as follows: 'the drawing sensitively attempts to amend the 'unfinished' nature of the tondo, in much the same way as plaster casts of the period tend to do, focusing on making sense of the shadowy figure of St John and the 'dove' and further delineating the exquisite features of the Virgin. Ottley probably drew the tondo soon after the purchase was made [by George Beaumont] (c.1822)'.
Not in Calabi & De Vesme; see Alison Cole, 'Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Taddei Tondo', p.37.
[Ref: 47668] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

'Zenobia'. Engraved from an original Picture in the possession of Sr, Josa. Reynolds.
Michelangelo Buonarota pinxt. Willm. Sharp Sculpt.
Publish'd May 1st. 1787, by W. Sharp, & Sold by B.B. Evans, Poultry, & W. Skelton, No. 23 Hay Market. London'.
Greek characters in scratched open letters. Engraving. 208 x 276mm.
After Michelangelo; head and shoulders of a woman in rich classical dress in profile to left, head turned slightly towards the viewer, her hair dressed with a comb and with a jewelled band across her forehead; published state with title in Greek characters, in open letters.
[Ref: 6858] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Zenobia. Engraved from an original Picture in the possession of Sr, Josa. Reynolds.
Michelangelo Buonarota pinxt. Willm. Sharp Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1st. 1799, by William Sharp, London.
Engraving on india laid paper, 280 x 210mm. 11 x 8¼". Dent to lower platemark; a fine impression, with full margins.
Bust portrait in profile of a woman in rich classical dress, her hair dressed with a comb and with a jewelled band across her forehead; she is Zenobia (240 - after 274), a Syrian queen of the Palmyrene Empire, which encompassed the Roman provinces of Syria, Palestine, Egypt and large parts of Asia Minor. In 269, she conquered Egypt, expelling the Roman prefect, Tenagino Probus, whom she beheaded when he led an attempt to recapture the territory. She then proclaimed herself queen of Egypt. She ruled Egypt until 274, when she was defeated and taken as a hostage to Rome by Aurelian. Zenobia appeared in golden chains in Aurelian's military triumph parade. Impressed by Zenobia, Aurelian freed her and granted her an elegant villa in Tibur (modern Tivoli, Italy). She became a prominent philosopher, socialite and Roman matron. After the drawing by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564).
See Ref: 6858 for 1787 publication.
[Ref: 16978] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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