Grosvenor Prints

The Absent Man who came home one night very fatigued & after putting his pony comfortably into his bed went himself and slept in the stable.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Very fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 250 x 135mm (9¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper at corners.
Two scenes: a horse in a four-poster bed and a man lying on hay.
[Ref: 57699] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Satyr and the Peasant.]
Dutius 1764 [Etched by Christian Dietrich, after Cornelis Bega?].
Fine etching. 140 x 170mm (5½ x 6¾"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper at corners.
A fine impression showing a satyr chastises a peasant for blowing on his food, after he had blown on his hands to keep them warm. The satyr says ''I can no longer consider you as a friend, a fellow who with the same breath blows hot and cold". Based on one of Æsop's fables.
Linck 100.39.
[Ref: 57789] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)

Alexandre le Grand avalle la medecine, au mesme temps quil fit lire a son medecin la lettre, qui le taxoit d'empoisonnement.
J. Le Potre in. et Fecit.
Sold by S. Sympson Catherine Street Strand [n.d., c.1732].
Engraving. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Narrow margins.
The famous scene of Alexander the Great drinking a potion prepared by Philip of Acarnania, despite being warned by Parmenion that his physician had been bribed by Darius III to poison him, showing his trust in his friend. The scene is presented within an elaborate baroque architectural surround. In 1732 Samuel Sympson advertised for sale a volume of '164 different designs of the celebrated Master Le Potre' [Jean Lepautre] ... The said Mr Sympson having purchased the plates from France, the prints will be sold at a very low rate'. Sympson moved to Maiden Lane soon afterwards.
[Ref: 57715] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Anna of Austria] Anna Königin in Polen Ertz Herzogin zu Osterreich.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, printed from two plates. Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7"), very large margins.
Anna of Austria (1573-1598) became Queen of Poland following her marriage to Sigismund III Vasa. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57763] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A woman drawing a bow on an archer field.]
Publish'd as the Act directs by E. Sudlow, 18 Jan.y 1791.
Stipple with hand colour. Oval sheet, 105 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
[Ref: 57565] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Army of Reserve Act. St. Clement Danes, 20th July, 1803. Received of Mr [blank] the Sum of [blank] as a subscription, for which we (by the Consent of a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants, held this day) engage to provide him a Substitute under the Act passed on the 6th of July Instant, intitled, ''An Act to enable his Majesty more effectually to raise and assemble in England an additional Military Force for the better Defence and Security of the United Kingdom, and for more vigorous Prosecution of the War,'' if he shall be drawn by Ballot under the said Act, for the Parish of St. Clement Danes, at any time between the Date of this Receipt, and the 20th Day of July, 1804 [...]
Printed by J. Long, 17 Clements Lane [1803].
Letterpress receipt, unused. Sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Some creasing.
The Army of Reserve Act of July 1803 was intended to counter the renewed threat from Napoleonic France after the Peace of Amiens. It introduced a conscription ballot for militia to serve within the United Kingdom, but also the ability to pay a subscription to avoid being called up, which would be used to pay for another man to take the place of the subscriber.
[Ref: 57607] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Army of Reserve Act. St. Clement Danes, 20th July, 1803. Received of Mr [blank] the Sum of [blind stamp 'two pence for Receipts'] as a subscription, for which we (by the Consent of a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants, held this day) engage to provide him a Substitute under the Act passed on the 6th of July Instant, intitled, ''An Act to enable his Majesty more effectually to raise and assemble in England an additional Military Force for the better Defence and Security of the United Kingdom, and for more vigorous Prosecution of the War,'' if he shall be drawn by Ballot under the said Act, for the Parish of St. Clement Danes, at any time between the Date of this Receipt, and the 20th Day of July, 1804 [...]
Printed by J. Long, 17 Clements Lane [1803].
Letterpress receipt with ink mss signatures. Sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Some creasing, two pinholes.
The Army of Reserve Act of July 1803 was intended to counter the renewed threat from Napoleonic France after the Peace of Amiens. It introduced a conscription ballot for militia to serve within the United Kingdom, but also the ability to pay a subscription to avoid being called up, which would be used to pay for another man to take the place of the subscriber. Strangely this example of the subscription receipt has the stamp and signatures of two churchwardens but no name for the draft dodger.
[Ref: 57606] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Aske Hall, the Seat of the Right Hon.ble Lord Dundas.]
J.M.W. Turner R.A. del.t. J. Scott Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Etching, progress proof before title, printed on chine collé. Sheet 275 x 440mm (10¾ x 17¼"). Chine collé with cockling, some slight damp staining.
A view of the house seen from a wooded hill, a flock of sheep resting in the foreground. An illustration to Whitaker's 'History of Richmondshire', London: 1819-1823.
Rawlinson 172B. Provenance: Thomas Davidson Album.
[Ref: 57645] £320.00

Augustus II Rex. Pol. et Elect. Saxon.
Eggelhoff sc.
[Frankfurt am Main: Johann Adam Jung, 1719.]
Engraving. Plate 155 x 115mm (6" x 4½"), with large margins.
Augustus II (1670-1733), known as Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony as well as King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania. His death in 1733 sparked the War of the Polish Succession. Engraved by Johann Friedrich Eggelhoff (1680-1731) for 'Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises', a German edition of Allain Manesson Mallet's 'Description de L'Univers'.
[Ref: 57732] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus II] Frid. Aucust. D.G. Rex Polon. S.R.I. Archim. et Elect. Saxon. &c.
[Frankfurt am Main, n.d., 1652.]
Engraving. 225 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"), very large margins.
Portrait of Augustus II (1670-1733, 'The Strong'), king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, also Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. From 'Theatrum Europeaum'.
[Ref: 57735] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus II] August der Starke.
[German, 1837.]
Lithograph. Printed area 200 x 125mm (8 x 5") very large margins. Some spotting.
Portrait of Augustus II (1670-1733, 'The Strong'), king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, also Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I. From 'Theatrum Europeaum'.
[Ref: 57736] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus III] Friderick Augustus, Rex Poloniarum Elector Saxoniæ.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 110mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed to image.
Portrait of Augustus III (1696-1763), wearing armour, ermine mantle and Order of the Golden Fleece. He was king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, also Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus II.
[Ref: 57733] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Second Voyage Aérien. Expériénce faite dans le Jardin Thueilleries par M.M. Charles et Robert, le 1.er x.bre 1783. Le Globe en Taffettas gommé de 26 Pieds de diamètre était plein d'Air inflammable.
Dessiné par le Ch.r de Lorimier. Gravé par N. De Launay.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, repair on right edge, paper toned.
A view of a balloon carrying professor Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert away from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, on the 1st December 1783. Coming less than a fortnight after Montolfier's first balloon flight, this was the first using hydrogen rather than hot air. Among the 400,000 spectators reported were Montgolfier and Benjamin Franklin.
[Ref: 57654] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Bartholomew Fair] The Fiend's Frying Pan or Annual Festival of Tom Foolery & Vice, Under the Sanction of the Lord Mayor and thew Worshipful Court of Aldermen! In the Age of Intellect. Pl 3.
Desaigned Etched & Published by George Cruikshank, Sept.r 1. 1832.
Etching. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper, small tear, spotting.
Bartholomew Fair is depicted in a frying pan held above a fire by a huge horned demon with a toasting fork. Two imps hold up scrolls listing the 'Amusements of the People', including 'Drunkenness, Riot, Robbery, Rascality', more demons on top left. A tent has large advert for "Wild Beasts". An attack on the lawlessness of Bartholomew Fair, before an 1840 ban on exhibitions sent it into decline, ceasing completely by 1855.
BM Satires 17352.
[Ref: 57709] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Destruction of the Bastile July 14th 1789.
[Painte]d by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by W. Nutter.
Publish'd Mar: 1: 1792 by B.B. Evans, Poultry London.
Scarce stipple with etching. Sheet 490 x 625mm (19¼ x 24½"). Trimmed within plate, stain lower left with loss of some of artist's inscription.
The mob outside the Bastille, exchanging fire with soldiers on the battlements. A scene sympathetic to the attackers, published before the Revolution turned sour.
[Ref: 57686] £450.00

[The Destruction of the Bastile July 14th 1789.]
Painted by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by W. Nutter.
Publish'd Jan.y 7 1792 by B.B. Evans, Poultry London.
Stipple with etching, scarce proof before title. 495 x 635mm (19¼ x 24½"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, creased. Small margins on 3 sides.
The mob outside the Bastille, exchanging fire with soldiers on the battlements. A scene sympathetic to the attackers, published before the Revolution turned sour.
[Ref: 57687] £490.00

The Late Mr John Baxter of the City of Chichester. The following is copied from his Tomb. In Memory of John Baxter who departed this Life the 18th May 1827 Aged 72 Years [...] Published at the request of his Friends & dedicated to the Corporation of the City of Chichester by their Obedient Servant The Publisher.
From a Painting by Hewson in 1812.
Sold by Ja.s Lewis Chichester and the Booksellers 1828.
Stipple and line engraving. 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼") very large margins.
A memorial to John Baxter (1755 - 1827), a Calvinist corn merchant, city beadle and town crier, and his wife Mary (née Mann, 1758-1822)
[Ref: 57543] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[A Bazaar] Well These Specimens are Certainly Very Rare, Have You Any Think Old and Curious My Little Fellow? / Why Not Very Marm Except My Old Boots and They are Out and Out Old and Curious Too.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Litthograph with hand colour. 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed, corners snipped, laid on album paper.
An old woman at a bric-a-brack stall inspects a broken teapot.
[Ref: 57795] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the New Waterworks &c at Belton in Lincolnshire, belonging to the R.t Hon.ble the Lord Vis.t Tyrconnel to whom this Plate is inscrib'd by his Lordships most dutiful and most hu.ble Serv:t T. Smith.
T Smith Pin: F. Vivares Scul.
Publish'd Oct: 1764.
Fine etching and engraving, with hand colour. Sheet 385 x 540mm (15¼ x 21¼"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears. Repair to loss top right corner.
Figures admire impressive cascades in the gardens of Belton House, a mansion built between 1685-88 by Sir John Brownlow near Grantham, Lincolnshire. After Thomas Smith of Derby (c.1720-67).
[Ref: 57780] £360.00

Thomas Bewick the Celebrated Engraver on Wood.
William Nicholson Pinx.t. Thomas Ranson Sculp.t.
London Published by T. Ranson, Judd Place West New Road & Mess.rs Boydell Cheapside, Jan.y 1816.
Scarce etching, scratched letter proof on chine collé. 280 x 180mm (11 x 7"), with large margins. Some spotting and creasing,
Seated portrait of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), holding burin, with a sketch of a cow on a table beside him. Thomas Ranson (1784-1828) was apprenticed in Newcastle before moving to London. He was a noted bank note engraver.
Provenance Davidson Album. Alexander: Pg 731.
[Ref: 57720] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Blacksmith's Forge.]
Done from a Capital Picture of Brouwer in the Collection of B: Cleeve Esq:r By Jas. Mc.Ardell.
Sold by J Mc.Ardell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden. Price 2s.
Scarce mezzotint. 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Narrow margins, some creasing. Repaired tear.
The interior of a blacksmith's forge: one man pulls a chain above him, bending his head down and holding a piece of metal in the embers; another hammers at a piece of metal on an anvil.
Goodwin: 206.
[Ref: 57800] £490.00 (£588.00 incl.VAT)

[Boston] To the Gentrey, Farmers, Graziers, Dealers, Tradesmen, &c of Lincolnshire, This Engraving of Boston, May Sheep-Fair, is most humbly dedicated, by their very Obedient Servant, George Northouse.
Painted by George Northouse. E. Kaufmann Lith. Lahn (Baden).
Published by R.A. & J.H. Munkmann [n.d., c.1845].
Tinted lithograph. Framed, sight size 595 x 650mm (23½ x 25½"). Some toning, a few scratches, unexamined out of frame.
A slightly elevated view of a sheep market held in Wide Bargate, Boston, looking from John Adams Way towards the 14-century tower of St Botolph's Church. To the right is the Red Cow Hotel.
[Ref: 57604] £850.00

The Botanist.
[probably G. Spratt del.] Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St. Stran[d].
Published by C. Tilt. Fleet Street [c.1830]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 190 x 145mm (7½ x 6"). Trimmed, affecting inscriptions, creased, laid on album paper.
An assemblage portrait, with a woman's face and a body created from flowers, with a tulip forming her skirt, one of a series of professions. George Spratt, an English artist, and George E. Madeley, an English engraver and printmaker, produced a series of lithographed satirical designs of tradesmen composed of the objects of their profession. They were published by Charles Tilt, a London book and print seller.
[Ref: 57619] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Avon] Looking Down the Avon to the Black Rock and Cook's Folly. The Hotwell House. The Black Rock _ View Looking Up the Avon. Looking Up the Avon from Without the West Wall of the Down.
on Stone by L. Haghe. W. Day lithog. 17 Gate Str.t.
Pub.d by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place & by O.C. Lane Clifton [n.d., c.1835].
Four lithographs on chine collé, laid on original printed backing sheet with a 'Minerva Head' blindstamp. Total printed area 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15") very large margins. Some marking.
Very rare as a complete sheet. Four matching views of the Avon near Bristol, usually found separated.
[Ref: 57719] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of Broham House, Near Bedford. For Sale by Hampton & Sons, 20, St James' Square, S.W.1.
Estates Gazette, Lith, 33-35, Kirby St, E.C.
[n.d., c.1925.]
Lithographic map, printed border 235 x 355mm (9¼ x 14"). Original binding fold.
An estate agent's plan of the land around Broham House, near Bedford.
[Ref: 57640] £160.00

Tregear's Flights of Humour No.42. Business. My Master is the Man for Business there's none of your coming twice fot erh Money No! No! he settles at once for he tells you you'll Never Get It!!!
London Pub.d by G.S. Tregear 123 Cheapside [n.d., c.1835].
Very fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 290 x 185mm (11½ x 7¼"). Laid on album paper. Trimmed.
A man in an apron, carrying a bottle basket, writing in a notebook. Published in a series of social satires by Gabriel Shire Tregear (1828 - 1840; fl.).
[Ref: 57695] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. From the Original Picture in the Possession of John Murray, Esq.
Painted by Tho.s Phillips, R.A. Engraved by Rob.t Graves. Printed by R. Lloyd.
[London: Published March 1st 1836 by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6 Pall Mall.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line. Small repaired tear lower right border. Slight marks in title.
The famous portrait of Lord George Byron owned by his publisher.
[Ref: 57545] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[View of the Eagle Tower at Caernarvon.] [Twelve] Views in [North & South] Wales [No D].
[P. Sandby.]
[London Publishd by P Sandby St Georges Row Oxford Turnpike.] [n.d., c.1786.]
Fine coloured aquatint with etched line. Image size 205 x 290mm. Trimmed to image losing title, laid on card. Book title on rock partly rubbed off.
The title plate for the fourth part of Paul Sandby's series of views in Wales, published a decade after the first three parts. The figures in the foreground include a man playing a harp. The first set of twelve aquatints, published 1775, was the first British topographical book in aquatint.
This Part not in Abbey, but see Scenery 511 for the first three parts.
[Ref: 57517] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

U.S. Coastal Survey. A.D. Bache Superintentent. Sketch J. No. 6, Showing the Progress of the Survey of San Francisco Bay and Vicinity. Section X. From 1850 to 1853. Scale 1/400,000 1853. ... Showing the Progress of the Survey in the Bay of San Diego California. Scale 1/200,000. 1853.
[Washington, 1854.]
Engraved map. Sheet 255 x 430mm (10 x 17"). With original binding folds.
A sheet with two charts from early trigonometrical surveys for the U.S. Coastal Survey under Alexander Dallas Bache (grandson of Benjamin Franklin).
[Ref: 57714] £140.00

Jesus College in the University of Cambridge.
Drawn & Engraved by Tho.s Malton.
[Published April 20th 1799 by D. Hood, Cambridge & S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly.]
Aquatint and etching. Sheet 390 x 540mm (15¼ x 21¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing publisher's address.
A view of Jesus College from a field with grazing horses.
[Ref: 56091] £480.00

Trinity College. No XVIII Cambridge University Almanack 1818.
J. Burford del. S. Sparrow Sculp.
Engraving,. 330 x 485mm (13 x 19").
A view of the Great Court of Trintity College, Cambridge, with the Fountain and the Clock Tower.
[Ref: 56141] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Catherina II.
Rauch sc.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple. 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"), very large margins.
A bust portrait of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (1729-96).
[Ref: 57767] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Catherine of Austria] Catherina Königin in Polen,
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, printed from two plates. Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") very large margins.
Anna of Austria (1573-1598), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, became Queen of Poland following her marriage to Sigismund II Augustus. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57764] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Cavern. From the original Transparent Drawing by W.m Orme.
[Published & Sold Sept.r 1, 1798, by Edw.d Orme, Conduit Street, Hanover Sq.r London, Where may be had a variety of Transparent Prints, & new Publications Wholesale & Retail.]
Aquatint, 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed to image at top, new margin added, trimmed within plate at bottom, losing publication line.
Two fishermen in the mouth of a dark cavern, looking out onto a moonlit lake with a cottage and lit windows at right.
[Ref: 57639] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Cecilia Renata of Austria] Cecilia Renata Ertz Herzogin zu Osterreich Vladislao Königs in Pohlen Gemahlin.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, printed from two plates. Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7"), very large margins.
Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611-44) became Queen of Poland following her marriage to Wladyslaw IV Vasa. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57762] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus I. [Greek text.] Ecce Spectaculum dignum ad quod respeciat Deus operi suo intentus, Vir fortus cum malâ fortuna compositur Sen: de Provid: c.2. Aº 1662.
P. Fruytus Delin. A. Hertochs Sculp Antwerp.
[1662.]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark. Red ruling. Sheet 340 x 415mm (13½ x 16¼"). Repairs, with red ruling replaced top left.
Portrait of Charles I, whole-length, wearing robes and chain, kneeling before a table on which there is an open book, one foot on a globe, holding a crown of thorns; crown on floor beside globe; above, cloud and crown of glory with rays directed to the king's eye; pillar in the background. To the right, four heads of wind blow about a ship on a choppy ocean. Published in 'Works of King Charles the Martyr', this is an adaptation of William Marshall's design for the frontispiece to 'Eikon Basilike', by Philips Fruytiers (1610-66).
Wellcome: 26105
[Ref: 57656] £360.00

[The Street, Chelsea Embankment.]
Theodore Roussel.
[c.1889.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8").
A view of the shops on Cheyne Walk before its redevelopment during the 1890s. A newsagent displays a board advertising the 'News of the World' (the 'N' reversed). By Theodore Casimir Roussel (1847-1926), English painter and etcher of French birth. He was born and educated in France and settled in England in 1878, when he quickly established a reputation. In 1885 he was introduced to James McNeill Whistler, his neighbour in Chelsea, London, and in consequence a lifelong friendship was formed. In 1888 Whistler introduced him to the techniques of etching and drypoint. As Roussel was a member of Whistler’s London circle his work was influenced by the latter in style and choice of subject-matter.
Hausberg 26, limited edition of about 40.
[Ref: 57554] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Christian, Duke of Brieg] Christianus Dux Silesiæ Lignicensis Bregensis et Wolaviensis, etc.
M. v. Sommer f.
[n.d., c.1665.]
Engraving. 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Some text faded, time stained. Small margins.
Oval portrait of Christian, Duke of Legnica-Brzeg-Wolów-Olawa. (1618-72), candidate for the Polish throne in 1668.
[Ref: 57756] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Clubbist. V.I.P 1779. Classic Tales.
Painted by David Wilkie. Engraved by Anker Smith A.R.A.
Published by John Hunt & Carew Reynell, at the News Office, Brydges Street, Strand, Jam.y 1st, 1807.
Engraving on chine collé. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼").
Men sitting around a table in a club, one wearing a tricorn, with a hand on the punch bowl, another pointing at the contents, both looking up and talking to the butler, who stands between them, scratching his chin; other men to right, carousing, one sitting in the left foreground, inspecting a watch-chain. From Leigh Hunt's 'Classic Tales'.
[Ref: 57549] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[The Clubbist. From the Original Picture in the Collection of W.m Catley Esq.re To whom this Plate is respectfully dedicated by his Obliged Serv.t W. Raddon.]
[D. Wilkie, R A Pinx.t. W.Raddon Sculp.t.]
[London, Published Jan.y 2, 1832 for the Proprietor by H.y Leggatt & Co, 85, Cornhill, 3 doors East of the Royal Exchange.]
Engraving on chine collé, proof; 95 x 120mm (3¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed to image, top and bottom, tear affecting india paper repaired.
Men sitting around a table in a club, one wearing a tricorn, with a hand on the punch bowl, another pointing at the contents, both looking up and talking to the butler, who stands between them, scratching his chin; other men to right, carousing, one sitting in the left foreground, inspecting a watch-chain. This example was printed after the plate was cut down, leaving only the heads.
See BM: 1840,0627.110 for same state.
[Ref: 57547] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Clubbist. From the Original Picture in the Collection of W.m Catley Esq.re To whom this Plate is respectfully dedicated by his Obliged Serv.t W. Raddon.
D. Wilkie, R A Pinx.t. W.Raddon Sculp.t.
London, Published Jan.y 2, 1832 for the Proprietor by H.y Leggatt & Co, 85, Cornhill, 3 doors East of the Royal Exchange.
Engraving. 355 x 305mm (14 x 12"). Some spotting. Bit messy.
Men sitting around a table in a club, one wearing a tricorn, with a hand on the punch bowl, another pointing at the contents, both looking up and talking to the butler, who stands between them, scratching his chin; other men to right, carousing, one sitting in the left foreground, inspecting a watch-chain.
[Ref: 57546] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Clubbist. From the Original Picture in the Collection of W.m Catley Esq.re To whom this Plate is respectfully dedicated by his Obliged Serv.t W. Raddon.]
D. Wilkie, R.A. pinx.t. W.Raddon sculp.t.
London, Published Jan.y 2, 1832 for the Proprietor by H.y Leggatt & Co, 85, Cornhill, 3 doors East of the Royal Exchange.
Engraving on chine collé, proof before title, insciption in scratch letter. 355 x 305mm (14 x 12").
Men sitting around a table in a club, one wearing a tricorn, with a hand on the punch bowl, another pointing at the contents, both looking up and talking to the butler, who stands between them, scratching his chin; other men to right, carousing, one sitting in the left foreground, inspecting a watch-chain.
See BM 1839,0309.14 for this state.
[Ref: 57548] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Les Clubistes
[after David Wilkie.]
H. Maneville, Paris.
Steel engraving. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾").
Men sitting around a table in a club, one wearing a tricorn, with a hand on the punch bowl, another pointing at the contents, both looking up and talking to the butler, who stands between them, scratching his chin; other men to right, carousing, one sitting in the left foreground, inspecting a watch-chain.
French version, for English see ref: 57549, 57548, 57547, 57546.
[Ref: 57550] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Le Comte Walewski.
[n.d. after 1856]
Engraving. 290 x 225mm (11½ x 9"), with 1pp French letterpress biography. Sheet laid on album paper. Horizontal crease through the centre. Minor toning.
Half portrait of Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810-1868), right incline, right-gazing, seated and oval framed. Walewski was a politician and active diplomat for the Polish and French governing bodies. His poltical service sent him to places such as Buenos Aires and Florence. In 1855 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and later become France's Minister of State in 1860. It was rumoured, with recent convincing evidence, that Walewski was the illegitimate son of Napoleon by his mistress Countess Marie Walewska.
[Ref: 53938] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Constantia von Österreich Königin von Polen.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving, printed from two plates, 17th century watermark Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") very large margins. Printer's crease at top.
Constance of Austria (1588-1631) became queen of Poland on her marriage to Sigismund III Vasa (his second wife). She was the mother of King John II Casimir.
[Ref: 57759] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Constantia of Austria] Constantia Austriaca Poloniæ Regina, Nag.-Duc. Lithuaniæ etc. Constantia van Oosternrÿck [...]
[n.d., c.1620.]
Coloured engraving. 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"), set in text, very large margins. Slight vertical crease.
Constance of Austria (1588-1631), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles II, was the second wife of Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland-Lithiania. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57765] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

''The Convict Ship.'' page 110.
H. Adlard.
[London, c.1825.]
Rare steel engraving. Sheet 110 x 60mm (4¼ x 2¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Convicts being taken to a convict ship about to set sail for Australia. Possibly an illustration to Thomas Kibble Hervey's 'The Convict Ship'.
[Ref: 57653] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cossack of the government of Irkoutsk.
Drawn by Weidenbach. Engraved by Stadler.
[n.d., c.1818.]
Aquatint and etching, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet 530 x 440mm (20¾ x 17¼). Trimmed just within plate, repaired tears.
A very fine and impressive image showing a mounted Cossack lancer in a winter landscape.
[Ref: 57779] £480.00

[Sketch of a cottage.]
F.B.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Pen and ink sketch on the trade card of printer Marius Vidal. Sheet 85 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾"). Remains of album sheet over printing of the trade card.
[Ref: 57577] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Market.
Drawn by Will.m & Fred.k J. Havell Engraved by Fred.k Ja.s Havell.
[Published by J. Robins & Sons, Tooley Street, Southwark]. [c.1832]
Engraving. sheet 220 x 415mm (8½ x 16¼"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, publisher's inscription scraped and illegible. Repaired tear on right.
Busy view of the Covent Garden Market from the corner of King Street, published for the Stationers' Company Almanack.
[Ref: 57571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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