Grosvenor Prints

The Parting of Achilles and Briseis. Bear Witness, Heralds, and proclaim my Vow...
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. 1785. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Publish'd June 12 1786 by S. Vivares No. 13 Great Newport Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Narrow margins.
As the slavegirl Briseis is led away on the orders of Agamemnon, Achilles, sitting in his tent, rails against this insult, causing him to withdraw from fighting in the Trojan War.
De Vesme 349, vi.
[Ref: 67916] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Agriculture.]
[illegible pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1916.]
Linocut, signed by the artist. Printed area 290 x 550mm (11½ x 21½"), paper watermarked 'Van Gelder Zonen', with very large margins.
An elderly couple stuggle with a horse-drawn plough in the rain, a thatched cottage, partially roofless, behind.
[Ref: 67833] £320.00

[13 engravings from The Devil upon Two Sticks] [&] [5 scenes of antiquity]
[Chez Pierre Van Cleef à Londres 1755 ] [&] [n.d. c.1696]
18 engravings front and back on an album sheet. Sheet size, 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½). All trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Thirteen illustrations from, 'Le diable boiteux,' written by Alain-René Lesage (1668-1747). They seem to be from the edition published by Pierre Van Cleef in 1755.? On the reverse the top engraving, 'Bacchantivm Chorvs. Bacchvs Indicvs. Dionysiaca Saltatio.' Images of drunken revelry, dancing and music making in honour of Dionysus/Bacchus and a coin image of the God to the right. The left is a medallion portrait of Midas surrounded by three coins. Central is the title page for the book, 'Q. Curtius Rufus: Historiae Alexandri Magni,' (Histories of Alexander the Great) published in 1696. The right a medallion portrait of Homer surrounded by four coins. The bottom is, 'Bacchi Et Ariadne Chorvs. Liberi Patris Trivmphvs,' a parade with Bacchus and Ariadne in a chariot being led by a procession of mythical creatures. A triumphant Bacchus (Eleutherios) returns drunk on a cow from his conquest of India, surrounded by a rowdy, celebratory procession. Two coin images.
[Ref: 68177] £360.00 view all images for this item

[20 Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer] [&] [7 Illustrations from Considerations of Drexelius on the eternity of hell torments. Translated into English] [&] [Titlepage to Ecclesia Anglicana] [&] [Ignatius Loyola and 4 Jesuit followers]
J. Drapentier. [A: Hertochs fecit]
[n.d. c.1708] [&] [n.d. c.1703] [&] [n.d. c.1659] [n.d. c.1690]
30 engravings on an album sheet front and back. Sheet size, 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½). All trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer. It looks like they are from, 'The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches,' Published by Oxford, The University Printers, Oxford, 1708. Illustrations from, 'Considerations of Drexelius on the eternity of hell torments. Translated into English,' by Jeremias Drexel (1581-1638). Frontis to John Gauden's (d.1662), 'Ecclesia Anglicana' engraved by Abraham Hertochs (fl. 1626-1672) and published in London, 1659. Line engraving of Saint Ignatius Loyola and 4 Jesuit followers, 'Suarez, Mariana, Garnet & Parons,'
See Wellcome 5562i for Saint Ignatius with different follower names.
[Ref: 68193] £580.00 view all images for this item

[Illustrations to Edward Spark's bible] [&] [Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer]
[London printed for J. Redmayne, Jun, For T. Basset and J. Brome,]
[and are to be sold by J. Williams at the Crown in S.t Paul's Church-yard 1682] [&] [n.d. c.1654]
36 engravings on an album sheet. Sheet size, 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½). All trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
18 illustrations to Edward Spark's, 'Thysiasterion, vel Scintilla altaris : Primitive devotion in the feasts and fasts of the Church of England,' published 1682. 18 illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer including images of the gunpowder plot 'The Powder Plot November 5,' , King Charles I's execution, 'K: Charles I Murthered Pf31,' and 'K Charles II his returne 2 Sam.'
[Ref: 68178] £360.00 view all images for this item

Arms & Habits of the Antient Britons.
Saunders del. Storer sculp.
Published Feb. 1. 1799, by G. Nicol, Pall Mall.
Engraving. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"), large margins.
An imaginative illustration of Ancient British soldiers, with curved wooden shields, and druids, with sickles, mistletoe and harps. In the background is a stone circle, a dolmen and an oak tree covered in mistletoe.
[Ref: 67683] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Cuisiniére Charitable.
C. Eisen Inv. Chevilet Sculp.
AParis Chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving. Sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate. damp stain bottom left.
A woman ladles soup into a bowl for a ragged wanderer.
[Ref: 68138] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Charter of Liberties. Cardinal Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, producing to the Barons and the rest of the Assembly at S.t Edmund's Bury, the Charter granted by Henry the 1st, in which that Monarch pledged himself to abolish the arbitrary Laws of the Normans then in force... Engraved from the Original Picture in the Gallery of the University of Oxford.
Painted by W. Martin. Engraved by W. Ward.
London. Pub.d Dec.r 16, 1795 by W. Martin, Hamilton Street, Piccadilly.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheet 560 x 620mm (22 x 26"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tears and cracks, creased, backed with paper.
Cardinal Stephen Langton standing behind the altar in Bury St Edmund's in 1213, pointing to the Charter of Liberties, the barons of England raising their hands in agreement. The Charter of Liberties was issued by Henry I upon his ascension to the throne in 1100, addressing abuses of royal power, such as over-taxation of the barons, the abuse of vacant sees, and the practices of simony and pluralism. It was generally ignored by monarchs until 1213, when Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, reminded the nobles that their liberties had been guaranteed a century before. In the face of such unified opposition King John opened negotiations and the Magna Carta was signed two years later. The quality of the colour printing is particularly good.
Frankau 55, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67816] £1,250.00

A Christmas Holiday.
Painted & Engraved by J.R. Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published July 29th 1790 by J.R. Smith, King Street, Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, open-letter title, inscriptions scratched. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), very large margins. Small tears in margins, publication line weakly inked.
A smartly-dressed young boy attempts to entice a girl onto a frozen pond in an ornamental garden.
D'Oench 307. Frankau 79. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67898] £320.00

[Comus] The Enchanted Lady. Vide Milton's Comus.
S. Harding Inv.t. P.W. Tomkins Sculp. Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
London: Published June 8th 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, Fleet Street.
Stipple, open lettered title, printed in brown with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 275mm (10 x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Comus, holding a necromancer's wand, urges 'The Lady', stuck in an enchanted chair, to drink from his magical cup (representing sexual pleasure and intemperance).
See [Ref: 45215] for uncoloured version
[Ref: 67872] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline] Fidele's Tomb. To fair Fidele's grassy Tomb Soft Madis & Village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom And rifle all the breathing spring No waiting Ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet Grove But Shepherd lads assemble here And melting Virgins own their love. Vid: Collin's Poems.
Harding del.t. Delatre sculpt.
London: Published May 20, 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, 39. Fleet Street.
Fine stipple printed in colours. Sheet 260 x 275mm (10¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, top edge chipped.
Women dress the tomb of Fidele with flowers. A scene illustrating 'A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline' by William Collins (1721-59), a poem set to music by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-78).
See [Ref: 17021] for one printed in red and [Ref: 19172] for reversed version.
[Ref: 67871] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Convicerat enim eos Daniel ex ore suo Falsum dixisse Testimonium. To the Earl of Bute this Plate engrav'd from a Picture of [erased] is dedicated by his most obedient humble Servant Will.m Baillie.
Eckhout Pinx.t. WBailie sculp.t. 1764.
Cap.t Baillie's Fifty Guilder Print 1775.
Mezzotint. 395 x 405mm (15½ x 16"), large margins. Collectors ink stamp, 'Collection De Tableaux Paul Delaroff St. Petersbourg.' Backed with paper.
Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna. Baillie was art agent for the Earl of Bute. When this plate was first published the dedication read 'Eckhout's in His Lordship's Collection'; this example seems to have been published after the painting had been sold on. Paul Viktorovich Delaroff (1852–1913) was a prominent Russian privy councillor, legal scholar, and significant art collector based in Saint Petersburg and Pavlovsk. He was known for his extensive collection of prints, drawings, and paintings, particularly works from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Lugt L.663.
[Ref: 68142] £490.00

[Diana and Actaeon.]
P. Berchet in. et. pinx.
I. Smith fec. et ex. [n.d., c.1705.]
Rare mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on 18th century card, edge of image on right scraped. Silverfish damage top centre.
Diana and her companions bathing in a pool, discovered by Actaeon. As the goddess gestures at him, Acteaon feels the antlers sprouting from his head and his hunting dogs start barking at him. Pierre Berchet (1659-c1719), French painter of decorative history subjects, worked in Britain, painting the ceiling of the Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, c.1694.
Wessely 365. See [Ref: 53060] for untrimmed version.
[Ref: 67823] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Alderney.
['E-heart-D 81' monogram of Edwin Douglas] Painted by Edwin Douglas. Engraved by A.C. Alais.
London, Published Sept.r 17th 1883 by Henry Graves & C.º, the Propreietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall. Copywright Registered.
Mixed-method engraving on chine collé, 680 x 550mm (26¾ x 21¾"), with large margins. PSA blindstamp, 'YRO.' Tears in backing sheet.
A young woman with clogs, holding a bunch of greens on her shoulder, walking across a meadow with foxgloves, between a cow and a calf. One of four paintings in the ‘Channel Island Series’, featuring young women and Jersey cows by Scottish artist Edwin James Douglas (1848-1914). Douglas first exhibited at the Scottish Royal Academy in 1865, aged 17, and at the Royal Academy four years later. His patrons included Sir Charles Tennant and Queen Victoria, who purchased a picture of setters as a birthday present for Edward, Prince of Wales.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68113] £360.00

Jersey.
['E-heart-D 78' monogram of Edwin Douglas] Painted by Edwin Douglas. Engraved by A.C. Alais.
London, Published Sept.r 17th 1883 by Henry Graves & C.º, the Propreietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall. Copywright Registered.
Mixed-method engraving on chine collé, 680 x 550mm (26¾ x 21¾"), with large margins. PSA blindstamp, 'XDU.' Edges of large margins soiled.
A young milking-girl carrying a pitcher and leading two Jersey cows, through a field full of daisies, with a wood in the background One of four paintings in the ‘Channel Island Series’, featuring young women and Jersey cows by Scottish artist Edwin James Douglas (1848-1914). Douglas first exhibited at the Scottish Royal Academy in 1865, aged 17, and at the Royal Academy four years later. His patrons included Sir Charles Tennant and Queen Victoria, who purchased a picture of setters as a birthday present for Edward, Prince of Wales.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68114] £360.00

[Sark.]
['E-heart-D' monogram of Edwin Douglas] [Pencil signatures of Edwin Douglas and Alfred Clarence Alais.]
London, Published July 17th 1883 by Henry Graves & C.º, the Propreietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall. Copywright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1883 by M. Knoedler & C.º in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
Mixed-method engraving on chine collé, 850 x 680mm (33½ x 26¾"), with large margins. PSA blindstamp, 'LRK'. Tears in backing sheet.
A milkmaid carrying a pitcher on her hip, with a posy of daisies under her chin, in a meadow at the edge of a copse, a cow with a bell hanging round its neck beside her. One of four paintings in the ‘Channel Island Series’, featuring young women and Jersey cows by Scottish artist Edwin James Douglas (1848-1914). Douglas first exhibited at the Scottish Royal Academy in 1865, aged 17, and at the Royal Academy four years later. His patrons included Sir Charles Tennant and Queen Victoria, who purchased a picture of setters as a birthday present for Edward, Prince of Wales. A pair to 'Jersey'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68112] £360.00

[The Finding of Moses] Affigis Tharidas...
Egidius Coninxlogensis Inucntoz. Nicolaus de Bruyn Sculptoe.
1601.
Fine & rare engraving, 420 x 655mm (16½ x 25¾"). Thread margins. Glued to album paper in corners. Central crease where previously folded.
A biblical scene set in a wooded landscape: a man stands on a riverbank holding a cradle with an infant, while Pharaoh’s daughter and her attendants watch from the opposite shore; a stag appears at left, with towns lining a winding river in the background. After Flemish painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544–1607) and engraved by engraver and publisher Nicolaas de Bruyn (1571 - 1656).
New Hollestein 23.
[Ref: 68098] £750.00

The Parting of Hector and Andromache. La Partenza di Ectore e Andromache.
Angelica Kauffman R.A. pinxt. Jas. Watson fecit.
Robt. Sayer Excudit. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, London. Published as the Act directs, 1.st Jan.y 1772.
Mezzotint. 465 x 565mm (18¼ x 22¼"). Restoration to margins.
Andromache embraces Hector, who is dressed for war, with a plumed helmet and a spear, with a nurse holding their bab. In the background is the Greek camp. A scene from Homer's 'Iliad'. After the painting by Angelica Kauffman in the National Trust property at Saltram, Devon.
Goodwin: 177, state ii of ii, but also published later by Laurie & Whittle.
[Ref: 67815] £490.00

Voyage en Enfer. Jugement du Destin.
Lith. de G. Engelmann. B. Goupil del.t. Ch. Soehnée inv.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"). Some foxing
Two scenes: above a group of people ride to hell on a slug. Below men stand, half buried, as they are judged, bats flying overhead. Charles-Frédéric Soehnée (1789-1878), French painter who specialised in grotesque scenes of imaginary beasts and travelers against the backdrop of desert landscapes.
[Ref: 68133] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Saut de Taureau.
F huet in. F.D.
A Paris chez Depeuille M.d d'Estampes, rue S.t Denis, la Boutique attenant à S.t Jacques l'Hopital. N.º 417.
Rare etching, printed in colours. 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"), large margins. Creased.
'The Bull's Leap'. A woman gives a helping hand to a bull mounting a cow.
[Ref: 68136] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jupiter and Antiope.]
[after Benigne Gagneraux.]
[n.d., c.1820].
Stipple, with superb original hand colour. 415 x 575mm (16¼ x 22½"). Long tear through image taped, trimmed to plate.
Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, reaches towards a naked Antiope, asleep in a glade. He later impregnates her and she gives birth to the twin heroes Amphion and Zethus. An adaptation of the painting by Benigne Gagneraux (c.1780), reversed and removing Cupid from under the canopy.
[Ref: 67825] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Antiope Séduite par Jupiter.
A.Devéria del. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.e.
Paris, chez Bulla éditeur, rue Tiquetonne, 18 [n.d., c.1860].
Lithograph with superb original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. Printed area 310 x 360mm
Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, lifts up a sheet to reveal a naked Antiope, sleeping in a glade, Cupid by her side. He later impregnates her and she gives birth to the twin heroes Amphion and Zethus.
[Ref: 67820] £320.00

Jupiter et Leda. Collection des Tables des Dieux, des Heros, et autres Personnes d'Antiquité tirees d'Ovide et autres auteurs, d'apres les Tableaux de diverses Maitres tres fameuses.
paint par F. Boucher. Gravee par A.H.J. Degmair.
Negotium Academiae Caes. Franc. excudit Viennae et Aug. Vind. à Paris chèz Rosselin [n.d., c.1763].
Scarce & fine mezzotint. 330 x 425mm (13 z 16¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, monted in album paper.
Jupiter, disguised as a swan, approaches Leda, Queen of Sparta, and her companion. A pair to 'Jupiter et Calisto'. Gilles Rosselin (fl c.1763-4) acted as an agent for German publishers including J.J. Haid.
[Ref: 68140] £580.00

[Stipple on silk] [The Morning.]
[after William Hamilton.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, printed in colours on silk. Oval, 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"). Laid on album paper.
A scene outside a cottage, with one women milking a cow, another about to don her yoke with the aid of a third, and a fourth churning butter. Two small children play with empty pails. A fine example of printing on silk.
[Ref: 67870] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Eurydice Hurried Back to the Infernal Regions.
Painted by H Thomson Esq.r R.A. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & the Duke of York
[Published June 16, 1815, by the Engraver, 24 Buckingham Place Fitzroy Square.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 555 x 620mm (21¾ x 24½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on card, mark top right. Repaired tear top centre.
Three spirits of the Underworld carry Eurydice away from Orpheus, who watches in horror, hands clasped, his lyre by his side. Below left is Virgil's verse; on the right is Dryden's translation.
Frankau 108. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67817] £850.00

William Pendrill of Boscobell in the County of Salop Aetis Suae 84 The Royall Oake. His face you see. Now breifly heare the Rest.; How well he serv'd his Prince in flight destrest. Twas , He whose little Household did Combine In Piois Care to save : the Royall Line. An Oake was thought most safe:for what could prove More Luckie tthen the sacred tree to Love. See where the Hen=roost Ladder stands; by that, The Might Monarch climb'd the Boughs of Statem Where Noble Carlos lent his Manlike Knee, The last support of Fainting Majestie, and Natures Tapistrie was the onely Shroud To shelter that Great Prince was Rage pursu'd. The Nutthook reaching up his Honely fare supply'd the want of Waiters standing Bare; Shile busie Wife and Children gather Wood To dress the Sheep prepar'd for Better food Thus, Many Oakes defend the British Maine but one Preferr'd the Brittish Soveraigne. "Pendrill thy name will shine in History /Brighter then their's whose Hospittallity / Disguised Deitys hath entertayn'd / for thine was reall t'other Poets saynd."
From the very rare print in the possession of A H Sutherland Eq.r. Are to be sold by S. Woodburn, St. Martin's Lane, London. [n.d. c.1810]
Engraving. Sheet: 345 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾" ). Trimmed within plate. Staining in corners.
A portrait of William Pendrill set in an oak. Pendrill was one of five brothers: George; Richard; Humphrey; John and William who helped Charles II escape from England after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 during his failed attempt to regain control of England from Cromwell. The Pendrills were a Royalist family who lived and worked on the estate of Boscobel House where the King sought refuge after his defeat. Having been forced to hide in an oak tree in order to escape Cromwell's troops Charles and the Royalist Colonel Carlos finally managed to escape disguised as land workers and escorted by the Pendrills. The Pendrill brothers were richly rewarded when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660.
[Ref: 68163] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Poachers Going Out. [&] Poachers Attacked.
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet S.t & by Turner & Fisher, New York and Philadelphia.
Pair of lithographs with fine hand colour. Printed areas c.210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6").
A pair of scenes with poachers: leaving a cottage and being attacked by gamekeepers.
[Ref: 67848] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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[A Roman painting of dwarfs, a hippopotamus and crocodiles.]
Camillo Paderni delin. J. Mynde sculp.
[London: George Turnbull, 1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 390 x 360mm (15½ x 14¼"), large margins. Margin rebuilt lower right, just affecting plate, repair to fold.
A bizarre scene of two dwarfs guarding an island with classical temples and an altar. One raises a spear at an angry-looking hippopotamus. A plate from George Turnbull's 'A Treatise on Ancient Painting: containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans''. Unfortunately the text (available on archive.org) gives no details of its origin or meaning.
[Ref: 67824] £490.00

[Venus rebuking Cupid.]
J.M. Nattier Pinx. J. Johnson Fecit 1751.
Scarce mezzotint. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere, crease.
An oval scene of Venus using a bunch of roses to beat Cupid, holding him with the other hand as he tries to run away. Two doves and Cupid's bow and quiver are on the ground. Alexander suggests Johnson is a pseudonym used by John Faber jnr.
Alexander: Biographical Dictionary of British & Irish Engravers, p. 506.
[Ref: 67876] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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