Grosvenor Prints

[Edmund Beckett-Denison] Edmund Denison, Esq. Chairman of the Great Northern Railway.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill, Esq.re R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published April 4.th 1848 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & C.º 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publishers to Her Majesty.
Mezzotint. Sheet 505 x 380mm (20 x 15"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear through title, creasing.
A three quarter portrait of Edmund Beckett-Denison (1787-1874), Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, with a copy of the Act of Parliament approving the railway. Because of opposition, the cost of getting the bill passed by Parliament was £600,000, the most expensive in British railway history
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68200] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

John Bowring, L.L.D.&c.&c.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill Esqr. R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraver to His Majesty.
London Published June 4th 1832 by W.m Ward 12 Mornington Place Hampstead Road.
Mezzotint, 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"), wide margins. Paper a little browned, a good impression.
Portrait of Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), linguist and traveller, diplomatist and author; seated, looking to front, his left elbow on a table and wearing a dark coat, holding spectacles in his left hand. Bowring promoted reforms to the keeping of public accounts and obtained the issue of the florin as the first step towards a decimal system of currency. A friend of John Stuart Mill and editor of the radical 'Westminster Review'; after a varied career as journalist, poet, financial and economic expert, MP, traveller and diplomat, he became consul at Canton in 1847. He was later appointed plenipotentiary to China and governor, commander-in-chief and vice -admiral of Hong Kong. Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875).
NPG D32026.
[Ref: 27218] £450.00

John Bowring, L.L.D.&c.&c.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill Esqr. R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraver to His Majesty.
London Published June 4th 1832 by W.m Ward 12 Mornington Place Hampstead Road.
Mezzotint. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Good impression. Slight crease at top.
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), linguist and traveller, diplomatist and author; seated, looking to front, his left elbow on a table and wearing a dark coat, holding spectacles in his left hand. Bowring promoted reforms to the keeping of public accounts and obtained the issue of the florin as the first step towards a decimal system of currency. A friend of John Stuart Mill and editor of the radical 'Westminster Review'; after a varied career as journalist, poet, financial and economic expert, MP, traveller and diplomat, he became consul at Canton in 1847. He was later appointed plenipotentiary to China and governor, commander-in-chief and vice -admiral of Hong Kong. Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875).
NPG D32026.
[Ref: 55991] £450.00

Revd. George Burder, Secretary of the Missionary Society. Author of Village Sermons &c.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill. Engraved by H. Meyer.
London, Published 16. Augst. 1812, by R. Cribb & Son, 288, High Holborn.
Mezzotint. 245 x 340mm.
Nonconformist divine, in early manhood an engraver, but in 1776 he began preaching [1752 - 1832]. He was one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Religious Tract Society.
[Ref: 4648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Femme de l'Orient. Childe Harold (Lord Byron).
Pickersgill R.A. de Londres. Freeman Lith. Lith. Roder & C.ie 1.e Richer.
[n.d., c.1837.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed.
A Greek woman with two children. A scene from Lord Byron's 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', published in the 'Album Cosmopolite, ou Choix des Collectionss de M. Alexandre Vattemare, compose de sujets historiques et religieux, paysages, marines'.
[Ref: 57320] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid. "As bards have seen him in thier dreams. Down the blue Ganges laughing glide. Upon a rosy lotus wreath. Catching fresh lustre from the tide. That with his image shon beneath." Vide Lalla Rookh (The Light of the Harem.)
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W. Say. Eng.r to H.R.H the Duke of Gloucester.
London Published Feb.ry 1.st 1827, by the Engraver 9 Mortimer Street.
Mezzotint on india, 260 x 225mm (10¼ x 8¾"), with large margins.
A young Cupid sits amidst lilies in a pond, aiming his arrow forward. In the background, waterfalls cascade and trees frame the scene. The design is enclosed within a circular border.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Drummond, Esq.r Captain of Engineers, and Under Secretary to the Lord Liuetenant of Ireland, To the Most Noble The Marquis of Normanby, this plate is respectfully dedicated by His Lordship's obedient humble Servants, Paul & Dominic Colgnaghi & Comp.y.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. Engraved by Henry Cousins.
Published at No. 14 Pall Mall East, June 20th. 1841, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Print Publishers to Her Majesty.
Rare and fine mezzotint, plate 505 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"), very large margins.
Three-quarter length standing portrait of Thomas Drummond (1797-1840) facing the front, leaning with his left fist on papers on a table to right, with two books behind it, left hand on his hip, looking ahead and to right, wearing a dark tail-coat suit, velvet waistcoat, jacket collar and bow-tie and wing collar. He was was a Scottish army officer, civil engineer and senior public official. He used the Drummond light which was employed in the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland. He is sometimes mistakenly given credit for the invention of limelight, at the expense of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793 –1875). It was Drummond, however, who realised its value in surveying.
[Ref: 59037] £320.00

To His Grace the Duke of Somerset This Portrait of Michael Faraday Esq.r F.R.S. M.R.I. F.G.S. Corr. Mem. Royal Acad. Sciences Paris &c. &c. is by Permission dedicated by His Graces most humble & obliged Serv.ts Colnagni, Son & Co.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Feb.y 1st 1830 by Colnagi Son & Co. Printsellers to the King, Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"), with wide margins. Edges of wide margins creased.
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a chemist & physicist whose work on electricity provided the foundation of modern electrical applications.
Whitman 59 iii of iii. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref:65634] for proof before title.
[Ref: 34329] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[To His Grace the Duke of Somerset This Portrait of Michael Faraday Esq.r F.R.S. M.R.I. F.G.S. Corr. Mem. Royal Acad. Sciences Paris &c. &c. is by Permission dedicated by His Graces most humble & obliged Serv.ts Colnagni, Son & Co.]
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill Esq.r R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Feb.y 1st 1830 by Colnagi Son & Co. Printsellers to the King, Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint, proof before title. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of a youthful Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a chemist & physicist whose work on electricity provided the foundation of modern electrical applications.
Whitman 59, i of iii. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 948-6. See [Ref: 34329] for full titled version.
[Ref: 65634] £320.00

Major General Sir Archibald Galloway, K.C.B.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. Engraved by F. Joubert.
Published by W.R. and L. Dickinson, 114 New Bond Street [n.d., c.1848].
Scarce mezzotint. 405 x 315mm (16 x 12½"). Damaged. Tear entering image taped; top left corner missing, paper toned.
A half-length portrait of Archibald Galloway (1779-1850), a Scottish soldier and Director of the Honorable East India Company, in uniform. He was created a K.C.B. when knighted by Queen Victoria on 25th August 1848; when this portrait would have been painted. Certainly there is no mention of his chairmanship of the E.I.C. in 1849 or his death the following year.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66144] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

To the Red.d the Master, the Fellows & Scholars of St John's College, Cambridge, This Portrait of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, M.A. F.R.S.L. & E.. M.R.I.A., F.R.A.S., M.G.S. &c. &c. &c. And late Fellow of their Ancient & Religious Foundation, Is respectfully dedicated by the Publishers.
H.W. Pickersgill, Esq.r R.A. pinx.t. W.m Ward sculpt. Engraver to his Majesty.
Published 1835.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm, 14 x 10". Trimmed to plate.
From a painting in St. John's Cambridge, Sir William Herschel (1738 - 1822), astronomer, famous for his 1781 discovery of Uranus, the first new planet to be identified since classical times. He was appointed 'King's Astronomer' to George III the following year.
Wellcome:1378.2
[Ref: 24255] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward Lawford.]
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward, Engraver to the late King.
Published as the Act directs, April, 1839.
Untitled mezzotint, private plate. 700 x 450mm (27½ x 17¾"), with large margins.
Portrait of East India Company solicitor Edward Lawford (1787-1864), seated, wearing a dark gown over a dark jacket, light shirt and cravat. On the floor is a letter addressed ''To Edward Lawford Esq''. Behind is part of a wall map of India. Lawford was a founder member of the Royal Asiatic Society and also Clerk to the Drapers' Company, 1826-54. The original painting hangs in Drapers' Hall.
Not in Frankau. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66123] £360.00

Roger Monk Esq.r Exon of His Majesty's Yeoman of the Guard, on duty at the Coronation of George IVth.
Painted by W. Pickersgill R.A. Drawn on Stone by Tho.s Fairland.
R. Martin, Lithog. 124. High Holborn [n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph with superb hand colour, J. Whatman 1827 watermark. Printed area 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9¼"), with very large margins. Sellotape stain in upper right margin.
A full length portrait of Roger Monk (d.1831) in the Tudor-style uniform of the Yeoman of the Guard (Beefeaters). A London businessman, he purchased a commission in the Guards, becoming Exon (equivalent to Corporal but in the Elizabethan meaning of a commissioned officer, similar to a captain) in 1805, holding the position until his death. Monk's uniform cost over £300 and was the last of its kind to be made for officers, being too expensive for the few ceremonial occasions for its use. Monk commissioned this oil, which now hangs in the hall of the Tallow Chandlers' Company, of which Monk had been master in 1826.
www.yeomenoftheguard.co.uk/roger-monk
[Ref: 55490] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Hannah More. From the Original Picture in the possession of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland Bar.t MP.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill, A.R.A. Engraved by W. H. Worthington.
London Published March 1, 1824 by J. Hudson, Cheapside.
Engraving on india, platemark 445 x 327mm (17½ x 13"), with very large margins. Tear to right margin. Fine impression.
Hannah More (1745 - 1833) writer and philanthropist. More's conservative and paternalist views, expressed, in prose, verse and religious and political writings, long saw her dismissed as merely the reactionary antithesis of her contemporary Mary Wollstonecraft, although she is now increasingly recognized as a unique public figure in late Georgian Britain. Engraving after the 1822 portrait by H.W. Pickersgill, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
For another impression see ref. 11936. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47080] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Hannah More.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill, A.R.A. Engraved by W. H. Worthington.
London Published March 1, 1824 by J. Hudson, Cheapside.
Engraving, 445 x 327mm. 17½ x 13". Trimmed to plate laid on separate sheet.
Hannah More [1745 - 1833] evangelical moralist and propagandist. Publisher of the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts between 1795-8, which were printed for her by John Marshall and S. Hazard. The painting of 1822 is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[Ref: 11936] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S.] [Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.]
[Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.]
[London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.]
Mezzotint proof before letters. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67781] £460.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), large margins. Some age-toning.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and whtie shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67784] £380.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12") very large margins. Foxing
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67785] £380.00

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C. St S. &c. & F.R.S. Ex-President of the Geological Society and Royal Geographical Societies; Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, & of the Academies of Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. Proof. Private Plate.
Engraved by Will.m Walker, from a Picture by W.H. Pickersgill, R.A.
London: Published 2.nd February 1851, by the Engraver, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Square.
Proof mezzotint. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), with large margins.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), wearing a fur-lined cloak draped over his right shoulder and falling back on his chair, a dark coat and white shirt and cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar, with star, medal and cross on a ribbon around his neck. His hand rest on his own book, 'Silurian System'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2097-3.
[Ref: 67786] £380.00

[John Samuel Murray.]
[Engraved by Edward Finden after Henry William Pickersgill.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before letters. 275 x 220mm (11 x 8¾") very large margins,
Oval portrait of John Murray II (1778-1843), the publisher of Byron, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, reading a letter He gained infamy for burning Byron's memoirs rather than publishing them as the poet wanted.
[Ref: 40260] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian professor and conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.]
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), Tear just entering plate.
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67800] £360.00

[Richard Owen, F.R.S. Hunterian professor and conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.]
[Engraved by William Walker, from the original picture by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A. In the collection at St. Bartholemews Hospital presented by Dr. Roupell.]
London. 1st. January 1852 by W. Walker, excudit, 64, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq.
Mezzotint, proof before title, artist and engraver's details. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"),
A portrait of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen FRS (1804-92). Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome 2197-2.
[Ref: 67801] £360.00

George Peabody. From the original Painting in the possession of The Honourable the Corporation of London. Dedicated to the Kindred Nations of England and America.
Painted hy H.W. Pickersgill R.A. Engraved by Henry Lemon.
Published September 21st 1869; by B. Brooks and Sons, 18, Hatton Garden, London, and 18 High Street, Oxford.
Rare engraving. Sheet 695 x 430mm (27 x 17"). Some repairs, surface wear, laid on card.
George Peabody (1795-1869), American-born banker acknowledged as the father of modern philanthropy, having founded the Peabody Trust in Britain and the Peabody Institute and George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Engraved by Henry Lemon (1822-1902).
[Ref: 40538] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[William Edward Powell.] [Col.l Powell, M.P.]
[Painted by H. Pickersgill, Esq: R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraved to the Late King.]
[Published Feb.y 1 1838, by W.m Ward, 12 Mornington Place, Hampstead Road.]
Rare mezzotint, proof before title. 670 x 430mm (26¼ x 17"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom
Full length portrait of William Edward Powell (1788-1854), MP for Cardiganshire 1816-54 and Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire 1817-1854). He is dressed in the military dress of Lord Lieutenant, with a plumed hat at his feet. His family home, Nanteos near Aberystwith, is now a Grade 1 listed hotel. Engraved by William James Ward (1800-40), son of William Ward.
See National Library of Wales Portrait collection 99233549802419 for lettered example. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66164] £320.00

[George Stephenson.]
S.M. Litten [pencil signature].
Published by The Museum Galleries, 26, Museum Street, London, W.C. Copyright. 1922.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½") very large margins.
Seated portrait of engineer George Stephenson, the inventor of the first steam locomotive, after Henry William Pickersgill, now in the National Portrait Gallery.
See NPG 410.
[Ref: 57860] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of William Williams Esq.re M.P. As Provincial Grand Master for the County of Dorset, from the Picture painted for the Brethern of the All Souls Lordge at Weymouth.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill _ Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to his Majesty & to H.R.H, the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1820.]
A rare mezzotint. 710 x 460mm (28 x 18"). A few pin holes, creasing in inscription area, small surface abrasion within image above title.
A portrait of William Williams (1774-1839), MP for the united boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, seated on a ceremonial chair, dressed in his masonic regalia, large tomes leaning against the chair. Williams was a member of The Knights Templar (The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta); in 1836 Prince Augustus Frederick (the Duke of Sussex) raised Dorset to the status of a Province, with Williams the first Provincial Grand Commander. The death of Williams three years later curtailed the province's activities.
Frankau 325; NOT IN CS.
[Ref: 50096] £320.00

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