Grosvenor Prints

'Sunset' Brixham [pencil.]
Francis Wells [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching with aquatint, printed in colours. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). A fine impression, mint with large margins.
Fishing boats at Brixham, a picturesque fishing town at the southern end of Torbay on the south Devon coast. Francis Wells (exh. 1897-1938), portrait and landscape painter who studied at the Slade and Royal Academy Schools; lived Milton Abbas, Dorset.
[Ref: 27482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Caernarvon Castle [pencil].
Francis Wells [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching with aquatint printed in colours. 165 x 315mm (6½ x 12¼"), with large margins, blind-stamped 'Rembrandt Guild Artist's Proof'.
A view of Caernarvon Castle from the sea. Francis Wells (exh. 1897-1938), portrait and landscape painter who studied at the Slade and Royal Academy Schools; lived Milton Abbas, Dorset.
[Ref: 64962] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Southgate, Grimston & Wells, auction catalogue.] Valuable Books of Prints, Copper Plates, &c…the Property of W[illiam] Daniell, Esq. R.A.; Including The Entire Remainders and Copyrights of the following Well-Known Extremely Splendid, and Valuable Works, Views on the coast of Great Britain 8 vol. 320 coppers; ...Sir Walter Scott’s Provincial Antiquities (Author’s original copies)... Which will be Sold by Auction, By Messrs. Southgate, Grimston & Wells...on Thursday, the 14th of July, 1831, and Two following Days.
G. Larrance, Typ. Dorset Street, Fleet Street. [1831.]
Stitched letterpress pamphlet, 8vo., 225 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"); 36pp., complete; partially unopened, lacking wrappers. Slightly tatty extremities and some light spotting; generally good.
Southgate's July 1831 catalogue no. 275, of copper printing plates, plate books and print sets, formerly the property of William Daniell (1769 - 1837), landscape painter and engraver. Among the printing plates for sale were those for his 'A Voyage round Great Britain', 'Views of London', 'The London Docks', Samuel Daniell's 'African Scenery', George Dance's portraits of 'eminent characters', 'Windsor Castle', 'Ceylon' and 'Prince of Wales Island'. The 'Voyage Round Great Britain' plates are now in the Tate Gallery: Iain Bain’s account of their history (William Daniell; a voyage…an exhibition, 1979) does not mention this sale and states 'as yet it has not been possible to arrive at an exact account of their survival'. He states that by the 1850s the plates were owned by the publisher Henry G. Bohn (also owner of the Gillray caricature plates) and subsequent owners include Armand Maurice and Putnam's, before The Bodley Head sold the plates to the Tate Gallery Publications Department in 1972. Southgate specialised in trade remainder sales; his catalogues are generally very uncommon. Certainly we have been unable to trace another example of this catalogue.
[Ref: 17478] £2,300.00

[William Edward Forster.]
[H. T. Wells.] [C. Holl.]
Stipple with very large margins. Plate: 230 x 300mm (9 x 12").
Half portrait of William Edward Forster who was a politician serving as Liberal MP for Bradford between 1861 and 1886. He was appointed the role of Chief Secretary of Ireland by Gladstone in 1880 and resigned office in 1882. The original oil painting by H. T. Wells is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 32629] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[George Robert Canning Harris] Harris [facsimile signature.]
[HTW [monogram] 1898.] Reproduced from a Drawing by Henry T. Wells, Esq, R.A. by the Autotype Company.
Collotype, trimmed and laid on thick paper as issued with very large margins. 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼").
George Robert Canning Harris (1851-1932), 4th Baron Harris, GCSI, GCIE. A keen cricketer, he played for Eton, Kent (for over 40 years) and Oxford University. He became the second-ever captain of the English cricket team, leading a tour of Australia in 1878-9 on which a test match at Melbourne was lost by ten wickets. In 1909 he played an important role in organising the Imperial Cricket Conference, which started with only three nations (England, Australia and South Africa) but expanded to include the West Indies, New Zealand and India under his guidance. His service as Governor of the Presidency of Bombay (1890-5) is not so highly regarded, as he was far more interested in sport than administration. When he left India, having virtually ignored famine, riots and sectarian unrest, a publisher circulated a collection of newspaper extracts from his time as governor. The introduction stated: 'Never during the last hundred years has a Governor of Bombay been so sternly criticised and never has he met with such widespread unpopularity on account of his administration as Lord Harris'.
[Ref: 67292] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Thurstan Holland] H.T. Holland [facsimile signature].
Drawn by H.T. Wells. Engraved by Joseph Brown.
[n.d., c.1885.]
Stipple on india. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼").
Henry Thurstan Holland [1825-1914], Conservative Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1887-92. He granted the charter for Cecil Rhodes's 'British South Africa Company' in 1887. He became Viscount Knutsford in 1895.
[Ref: 51187] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Part of Homesdale from Madamscourt Hill, Kent.
W.F. Wells del: Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, n.d., c.1810.]
Lithograph, rare, image 165 x 240mm. 6½ x 9½". Stitch holes to upper margin; chipped lower extremities. Pin hole to image.
A prospect of the Kentish countryside from rising ground; three figures to foreground, their backs to the viewer, one on horseback. From a folio of views.
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 24610] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

'The Needles' Isle of Wight [pencil.]
Francis Wells [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching with aquatint, printed in colours. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). A fine impression, mint with large margins.
Sailing boats close to The Needles, a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the Isle of Wight, close to Alum Bay. The Needles lighthouse, built in 1859, stands at the end of the formation. Francis Wells (exh. 1897-1938), portrait and landscape painter who studied at the Slade and Royal Academy Schools; lived Milton Abbas, Dorset.
[Ref: 27481] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Dedicated to the Friends of Peace. To Endear the Memory of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Who, at freedom's call, notably devoted himself to extend commerce _ to secure the blessings of plenty _ and to foster universal brotherhood to the farthest verge of the green Earth.
J. Wells. T. Dean & Son, lithographers.
London 1850 [publisher's imprint obsured by mount] Hill, St John's Wood.
Lithograph with hand colour. Visible area 490 x 345mm (19¼ x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A memorial to Sir Robert Peel published the year of his death, with an oval portrait in a decorative border featuring his crest, nine views of building featuring in his life and two roundels listing his achievements, including the Repeal of the Corn Laws.
See Ref: 52552 & 52553
[Ref: 52646] £320.00

A New Map of Present Spain & Portugal, Shewing their Principal Divisions Chief Cities, Townes, Ports, Rivers, Mountains &c. Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Gloucester.
R: Spofforth Sculp.
[Oxford, Edward Wells, c.1700.]
Coloured engraving. 380 x 495mm, 15 x 19½".
Map of Iberia, published
[Ref: 15349] £220.00

[Hon. Edward Stanhope.]
[by Joseph Brown, after Henry Tanworth Wells.]
[n.d., c.1893.]
Stipple engraving on india, proof before letters with large margins. 295 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Some spotting.
Edward Stanhope (1840-1893), Conservative MP for Mid Lincolnshire 1874-85, then Horncastle until his death. He served as President of the Board of Trade (1885-6), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1886-7) and Secretary of State for War (1887-92). In 1861 he played three first-class cricket matches for Kent. Cricket interest.
[Ref: 33143] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Venus and cupid.
Wells del. et sculp.t.
Published by W.m Wells, 20 July 1779 No. 132 Fleet Street
Rare stipple printed in sepia, platemark 100 x 85mm (4 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
[Ref: 45152] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

I had nai been a Wife but weeks only four, / When sitting sa mearnfully at mine ayn door:
Wells del. et sculp.t
Pub.d June 8 1784 by W.m Wells, 20 July 1779 No. 132 Fleet Street
Rare stipple printed in sepia, platemark 70 x 90mm (2¾ x 3½"), very large margins.
An unhappy wife contemplates how much has changed in only four weeks of marriage.
[Ref: 45153] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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