Grosvenor Prints

Engravings from the Works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. by J. Scott, G.H. Every, G.Sanders, and other Eminent Engravers.
Published by Henry Graves & Company, Printsellers & Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. 6, Pall Mall, London. [n.d., c.1880.]
Folio, half morocco binding with gilt spine in compartments. 510 x 370mm. 20 x 14½". Marble paper inside cover, gilt front edge. 125 proof mezzotints interleaved on indian paper. Bookplate of Francis H.D.C. Whitmore inside front cover. Light foxing but images unaffected.
Complete volume of 125 engravings from the works of Thomas Gainsborough, divided into portraits, royal portraits and fancy subjects.
[Ref: 12075] £950.00 view all images for this item

Trait de Bonté de l'Empereur. Le 7 Mai 1815...
A Paris chez Martinet Libraire, Rue du Coq St. Honoré, No.13. Ostervald l'ainé, Rue du Pont de Lodi, No.3 - et Boyeldieu, Rue Amelot, No.2 [n.d., c.1815].
Etching with aquatint. Sheet 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Ink stamp 'Napoleons Premiere epreuve', with imperial eagle. Trimmed to platemark on 3 sides.
A peasant woman falling at the feet of Napoleon outside her house in the 'barrière de Charonne', Paris, which the Emperor visited on 7 May 1815.
[Ref: 55813] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Les Aigles Brûlés. Dédié aux Braves de la Patrie. Les Braves d e la Vieille-Garde...
A Paris chez Martinet Libraire, Rue du Coq St. Honoré, No.13. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching with aquatint. Sheet 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Ink stamp 'Napoleons Premiere epreuve', with imperial eagle. Trimmed to platemark on three sides.
After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, the Old Guard of his army burn their battle flags and eagles and drink the ashes mixed with wine.
[Ref: 55812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Prédiction des Anges a Abraham. Gravée d'après le Tableau original d'Alexandre Veronese qui est dans les apartements de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans au Palais Royal.
Alexandre Veronese pinx. Glairon Mondet Sculp
A Paris chez Beauvarlet graveur du Roy; Rue du Petit Bourbon attenant la Foire St. Germain [c.1790]
Engraving, platemark 320 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"). Very large margins, uncut. Crease in centre.
Abraham standing before the three angels (Genesis 18:2). Engraved after a painting attributed to Veronese artist Alessandro Turchi (1578-1649).
[Ref: 38469] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Achilles and the daughters of King Lykodemes looking at the gifts sent by Ulysses.]
Invente et peint par S. le Clerc et grave par E. Jeaurat 1713.
à Paris chez Jeaurat demeurant au bas des fossez St Victor chez Mr. le Brun audit. des Comptes, et chez P. Giffart rue s. Jacques a Ste Therese C.P.R.
Copper Engraving, 370 x 445mm. 14½ x 17½".
A scene from Greek mythology. While the women are looking at the jewels, Achilles (centre right) holds a sword and shield and admires the helmet held by a slave on the right. Six lines of French text below image. Engraved and published in Paris by Edmé Jeaurat (1688 - 1738), who married the sister of the painter of this picture Sébastien Leclerc II (1676 - 1763).
[Ref: 11517] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Afghan Joozaeel or Mountain Rifle.
On Stone by J.Bennett. T. Black, Lith Cal. 1840.
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 115 x 205mm, 4½ x 8¼". Narrow margins.
A very unusual illustration of a jezail, with the distinctively curved stock and a bipod. It has been suggested that the jezail was originally designed to be held like a pistol with the stock under the arm, allowing use on horseback. However during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) it came into its own as a sniper weapon, fired down from high cliffs down onto the British Army retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad. Being heavier and longer-barrelled than the British Brown Bess musket, the Jezail outmatched the return fire. Most were hand-made: only a few were rifled.
[Ref: 27025] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

La Famille Africaine.
L. Boilly [signed in plate.]
Chez Aubert gal. vero-dodat. Imp. d'Aubert et de Junca. [Paris, 1823-1828.]
Lithograph, sheet 260 x 210mm. 11½ x 8¼".
Louis-Léopold Boilly, (1761 - 1845), He studied painting as a teenager before moving to Paris in 1785. He created images of the Parisian Salon lifestyle with great detail of expression, gesture, costuming, and textiles. His most famous printed lithographs are 'Recueil de grimâces'. A caricature of an African family (five adults and a baby), with exaggerated racial characteristics, from Louis Léopold Boilly's (1761 - 1845) 'Recueil de grimâces' series of studies of facial expression and gesture.
[Ref: 17975] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

General Amherst.
Aliamet sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with large margins. Platemark: 130 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Time stained.
A bust portrait of Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst (1717-97), 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal KB, dressed in naval attire. Within a decorative oval. Amherst was the Commander-in-Chief of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War.
[Ref: 35640] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

L'Amour Maternelle. Dédiée à Madame Elisabeth Gouël de Villebrune femme de Monsieur de Peters Peintre de S.M. le Roy de Dannemarck et de S.A.R. le Prince Charle Duc de Lorraine Gouverneur des Pais-Bas Grand Maître de l'Ordre Teutonique. Par son tres Humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Chevillet.
Peint par de Peters. Gravé par Chevillet.
AParis chéz Chevillet Graveur ruë des Macons Maison de M. Freville. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with small margins. Plate 440 x 330mm (17¼ x 13").
A woman breast feeding her baby; the child holds an ornate rattle; within trompe l'oeil stone window.
[Ref: 30455] £330.00

[Christopher Anstey]
Engraved by J. Hibbert Jun.r [after Thomas Lawrence].
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple. 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"), watermarked 1794. Old ink mss. title. Small margins. Very small pinhole left centre.
English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), sitting at his desk, writing. Resident at 4 Royal Crescent, Bath, he penned 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', an immediate success. Although he is buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath, he has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 59810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Answer.]
W. Dendy Sadler. Jules Jacquet [Pencil signatures, signed in plate by Sadler.]
London Published 1912 L.H. Lefevre & Son 1a King Street St.James' S.W. The Proprietors of the Copyright. Imprimerie A. Salmon, Paris.
Etching, artist's remarque proof, 460 x 355mm. 18 x 14". A fine impression. Crease to margin lower right.
A woman composing a letter at her writing-desk; wall-mounted clock upper left. Remarque of a carrier-pigeon holding a letter in its beak. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left. After Walter Dendy Sadler (1854 - 1923).
Not listed in PSA.
[Ref: 14073] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Anteater. Myrmecophaga Jubata.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
A pair of giant anteaters, natives to central and South America. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45776] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Leucoryx Antelope. Oryx Leucoryx
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 290 x 350mm (11½ x 13¾"). With a text page.
A large antelope of southern Africa, from 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park.' Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 30149] £350.00

The Young Eland. Oreas Canna.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 280 x 345mm (11 x 13½"). With a text page.
A large antelope of southern Africa, from 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park.' Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 30148] £350.00

[Aphrodite.]
H.C. [Jan Collaert I.]
[n.d., c.1577.]
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾''). Trimmed in an oval losing a decorative border, laid on album sheet.
A mythological scene showing Aphrodite, with Cupid at her feet. From a series of six engravings showing the character from the myth of the Judgement of Paris by Jan Collaert I (1525-1580).
[Ref: 49684] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Artillery Repository Exercises, 1844. And Monument to the Memory of the late Major General Sir Alexander Dickson, G.C.B.
Drawn & Engraved by John Grant. Illustrations of the Army & Navy Register and Woolwich Gazette.
Coloured aquatint in frame. 280 x 389mm. 11 x 15¼".
From the "Illustrations of the Army and Navy Register and Woolwich Gazette. No.2."
From the Collection of Major J.B. Talbot M.C. R.A. Ogilby:484.
[Ref: 13000] £280.00 (£336.00 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

Revd. Charles Atkinson, late of Ipswich. 38 Years Minister at the Independent Meeting, Jacket Street.
Painted by R. Willoughby. On Stone by J. Smart Junr.
Published July 1830, by T. Jennings, Carver & Gilder, Tacket Street, Ipswich.
Lithograph on india paper, india 240 x 205mm. 9½ x 8". A little soiled; margins with chips and tears.
Portrait of Charles Atkinson (1762 - 1830), nonconformist minister at Ipswich. Seated at desk, looking towards the viewer, right hand tucked into his waistcoat; ink well and quill behind.
[Ref: 27075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

William Baker [facsimile signature.]
H.P. Briggs, R.A. F. Joubert, F.S.A.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Mixed-method engraving, with armorial remarque. 540 x 430mm.
Seated half-length portrait, elbow on one book, resting on another.
NPG D7478, no biography.
[Ref: 21802] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Barbary Sheep] The Aoudad. Ovis Tragelaphus.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 355 x 245mm (14 x 9½"), with very large margins.
The Barbary Sheep of North Africa. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 50357] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bear Hunt] Chasse à L'Ours
Peint par Carlo Vanloo. Gravé par J.J. Flipart
A Paris chez Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais No. 32 [c.1773 bit later]
Engraving, platemark 505 x 370mm (19¾ x 14½"). Large margins.
Two bears attacked by numerous dogs and men (mainly on horseback), while another bear is pursued in the background. Engraving after a painting by Carle Van Loo, originally issued as a pair with a 'Tiger Hunt' after Boucher. The paintings were part of a set of nine then at the Surintendance in Versailles, and it appears that the engraver Flipart having obtained permission to reproduce them, originally intended to publish a larger series (see notes to British Museum cataloguing for the latter).
[Ref: 38465] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.]
[Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.]
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"), Limited edition 200 proofs; PSA blindstamp. Paper toned, narrow margins, chipped into plate bottom right corner.
Three quarter seated portrait of Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Stephen Pearce's original oil is in the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66257] £320.00

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Compy. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"). Thread margin on left.
Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Early in his career at sea Beaufort's gallant record and scientific talents made him well known throughout the navy. In 1817 he published a record of his survey and exploration of the southern Turkish coast (then little known to Europeans). In 1829, at the age of 55, Beaufort became the Hydrographer of the British Admiralty, remaining so for 26 years, charting the seas to make them safe for the increasing amount of British and foreign shipping. Beaufort converted a minor chart repository into the finest surveying and charting institution in the world. Some of his excellent charts are still used, 200 years after he created them.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 57021] £480.00

[Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.] F. Beaufort [facsimile signature].
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.
London, Published by Henry Graves & Com.py. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, artist's proof before title. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"), large margins, PSA blindstamp.
Three quarter seated portrait of Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Stephen Pearce's original oil is in the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66255] £320.00

[Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. D.C.L. Corr. Mem. Inst. France, F.R.S. Hydrographer to the Navy from 1829 to 1855. From the original Portrait presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Subscribers to the Beaufort Testimonial.]
[Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.]
London, Published by Henry Graves & Comp.y. March 17th. 1857; Printsellers to the Queen__6 Pall Mall.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. 540 x 415mm (21¼ x 16½"), Limited edition 200 proofs; PSA blindstamp. Foxing. Small margins.
Three quarter seated portrait of Francis Beaufort (1774-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort wind scale. Stephen Pearce's original oil is in the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66256] £320.00

Image de la Beauté. [&] Leçon de Botanique.
Schenau p. Chevillet f.
[A Paris : chez Wille] [n.d., c.1772.]
Pair of etchings, scarce scratch letter proofs before titles. Each 425 x 310mm (16¾ x 12¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frames.
A pair of scenes of two finely-dressed mothers and their daughters framed by stone archways. In 'Beauté' the girl picks a bloom off a potted rose, a set of bagpipes on the window sill; in 'Botanique' the mother holds up a plant she has uprooted from an ornamental pot. Engraved by Juste Chevillet (1729-1802) after Johann Eleazar Schenau (1736-1806)
[Ref: 28309] £850.00 view all images for this item

[W. Beckett Esq.r., M.P. for Leeds.]
[Painted by Sir Fra.s Grant, P.R.A. Engraved by James Scott.]
[Henry Graves & Co., 1861.]
Very fine mezzotint on india, proof before letters. Printsellers' Association blindstamp. 690 x 405mm. Edition limited to 100 proofs.
William Beckett (1784-1863), a respected banker and Conservative politician, MP for Leeds (1841-52), then Ripon (1852-7).
[Ref: 2800] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

L'Aveugle Joueur de Violon.
Dav. Wilkie Peint. Jazet Sculp.t
A Paris, chez Jazet. Faub.g St. Martin, No.71, et Ch.les Bance, Rue J.J. Rousseau, No.10. Déposé à la Direction. [n.d. c.1820.]
Aquatint with etching. 300 x 394mm (11¾ x 15½"). Soiling to right corner,
The blind violinist: rustic interior with at left a blind man sitting on a chair and playing violin for a family of country folk; one of the boys mocks the musician by pretending to play on bellows.
[Ref: 31313] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Emerald tree boa] The Green Boa. Xiphosoma Caninum.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Some slight cockling of paper.
Corallus caninus, a non-venonous snake of the South American rainforests, named for its fangs, proportionately larger than those of any other non-venomous snake. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45780] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Sugar mill] Moulin à sucre.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Arnout et Deroi del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 225 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
Slaves transport lengths of sugar cane to a mill. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45576] £360.00

'All the Majesty of the British Empire'. Price One Penny.
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
[n.d., c.1832.]
Etching. Sheet: 195 x 285mm (7¾ x 11¼''). Trimmed, stained, creased and laid on album sheet at corners.
A satirical print from 'The Caricaturist' series showing William IV sitting on a throne and Queen Adelaide in a large feathered hat. By Charles Jameson Grant (fl. 1830-1852).
BM Satire 17346.
[Ref: 50260] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The British Museum.
P. Hosmer Shepherd pinx. Imp Lemercier Paris. J.Arnout lith.
London, Published 1th August 1854, by E. Gambart & C.o. 25 Berners S.t. Oxford S.t.
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet: 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼").
View of the British Museum in Bloomsbury. The museum was founded in 1753 though was housed in Montague House which stood where the current building is located.
[Ref: 35179] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

De Winter.
J.Broedelet fecit.
I.Specht excudit. [Utrecht, n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½").
An allegory of winter. A lady seats on a sledge while a cherub ties on her skates. Engraved by Jan Broedelet, possibly after Gerard Hoet, published by Caspar Specht.
[Ref: 970] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Burns In his Cottage composing 'The Cotters Saturday Night'...
Painted by William Allan, R.A. From the Original Picture in the possession of Robt. Nasmyth, Esq. Engraved by John Burnet, F.R.S.
London Published Nov. 1. 1836, by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall [& in Edinburgh]. Printed by R. Lloyd.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 560 x 410mm, 22 x 16". Laid on conservation tissue
Fictitious portrait of Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), poet. Burns shot to fame in 1786 with 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' and the 'Scots Musical Museum' (1787) which contains some of his best-known songs. Burns was celebrated for using his personal experience of rustic subjects and local Scots dialects; Wordsworth wrote of 'Him who walked in glory and in joy/ Behind his plough, upon the mountainside.' After Sir William Allan (1782 - 1850), President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
See NPG D32438.
[Ref: 23424] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Cabinet Council Question- Shall We Resign?
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
Sold by Strange, and Steill, Paternoster Row; Berger, Holywell-street; Purkis, Compton-street; and Clements, Pulteney-street, London.-Printed by J. Pickburn, 14, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, London. [n.d., c.1832.]
Etching. Sheet: 195 x 285mm (7¾ x 11¼''). Trimmed, stained.
Part of a satirical print from 'The Caricaturist' series showing three politicians sitting at a round table, part of No.3. By Charles Jameson Grant (fl. 1830-1852).
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50265] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Collége du Roi Cambridge. King's College Cambridge.
Dessiné et lith. par Jules Arnout. Imp. Lemercier r. de Seine 57, Paris.
Paris, Bulla Freres et Jouy, Editeurs. London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners St. Oxf. St [n.d., c.1840].
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 310 x 425mm (12¼ x 16¾").
[Ref: 10345] £350.00

St. John's College - Cambridge. [in pencil]
Alfred. J. Bennett [in pencil]
[n.d. c.1900]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins. Faint mountburn.
A view of St. John's from the river Cam. Alfred J Bennett (1861 - 1923) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolour and etching. He worked as a jeweller whilst also regularly submitting paintings to the Royal Academy of which four were exhibited between 1861-1880. After this success, Bennett left the jewellery trade to concentrate on his art. Bennett exhibited extensively, regularly contributing work to the Royal Watercolour Society and British Institution exhibitions, the RA, Walker's Gallery in New Bond Street, Fine Art Society, New English Art Club, Grosvenor Gallery, International Society, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
[Ref: 62599] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Canadian Lynx. Felis Canadensis.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
A Canada Lynx, a wild cat of Canada and the Rocky Mountains south to Colorado. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45774] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Caracal. Felis Caracal.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
An illustration of a pair of caracals, wild cats native to Africa and the Middle East. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45772] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Red Caracal. Felis Caracal.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
An illustration of a red caracal, a wild cat native to Africa and the Middle East. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45771] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Caricaturist. A Monthly Show-Up. No. 11.
[C.J. Grant.]
June 1.st 1832.
Album sheet with four lithographs on two sides. Sheet 440 x 325mm.(17¼ x 12¾"). Lithographs with tears, stains & losses.
14 satires from the year of the 1832 Reform Act, several featuring the Duke of Wellington and William IV, one titled Playing at Football.
[Ref: 60988] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A View of Carisbrooke Castle in the Isle of Wight Vue du Chateaue de Carisbrooke dans l'Isle de Wight.
A. Menageot Pinx.t J. Hulett Sculp.t
Sold by J.Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queens Street in Cheapside and R. Sayer Map & Printseller at the Roe Buck facing Fetter Lane Fleet Street 1755.
Very fine hand coloured engraving sheet 320 x 475mm (12½ x 18¾") Trimmed to plate top and bottom, false margin added to left and small margin on right Some abrasions in image.
A view of the walls of Carisbrooke Castle. Two men and a lady on horseback ride in the foreground and another man sits on the grass sketching.
[Ref: 56301] £320.00

[Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal & Carlos, Prince of Asturias] Maria Filia Emanuelis D. Gratia Regis Portugaliæ. Carolis Dei Grã Hispa Infans Philippi Secundi Angliæ Regis Flius.
ICI [monogram of Jan Collaert].
Cock Excud. [n.d., c.1556.]
Two scarce engraved plates on one sheet. Each c.250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6"), with large margins. Old ink mss. numbers in margins, laid on card at edges.
A pair of portraits of Maria Manuela (1527-45), Princess of Portugal and wife of Philip II of Spain, and their son Don Carlos (1545-68), who decended into insanity within his short life. The title of the portrait of Carlos describes Philip II as king of England, dating it to the duration of his marriage to Mary I, 1554 to 1558. From a series of 39 'Portraits of European Rulers', engraved by van der Heyden, Frans Huys and Jan Collaert. The British Museum's description of the series notes 'Most of these portraits are engraved two on a plate, but the pairs have almost always been cut apart'.
See BM 1854,0614.203 for the description of the series. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63110] £320.00

Felis Colocolla.
J. Wolf & J. Smit del et lith. Hanhart imp.
[Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1878-83.]
Coloured lithograph, scarce. Sheet 570 x 475mm, 22½ x 18¾". Some wear.
The Pampas Cat of South America, formerly 'Molina`s Guiana Cat', from Daniel Giraud Elliot's 'Monograph of the Felidae of Family of the Cats'. Elliot (1835-1915), an American zoologist who was curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago, helped found the American Museum of Natural History and the American Ornithologists' Union. He published a series of expensive colour-plate books such as this, writing the text himself and employing artists such as Joseph Wolf (who had made his name working for John Gould), to provide the illustrations.
[Ref: 18607] £650.00

'Cave Canem!' (Beware of the Dog.) Engraved from, and the same size as, the original Picture in the possession of Henry James Turner Esq. of Stockleigh House, Regents Park.
Painted By Briton Riviere, R.A. Engraved by J.J. Chant.
London Published May 3rd. 1881, By Arthur Lucas, The Proprietor, 37, Duke Street, Piccadilly, S.W.
Mezzotint and etching, final published state on india laid paper, 605 x 455mm. 23¾ x 17¾". Some spotting; traces of mold in image. Margins trimmed.
A puppy stands guard at a doorway. After Briton Rivière (1840-1920).
Printseller's Association: pg.49.
[Ref: 8849] £360.00

[Joseph Chalier] Philipe Sidney.
peint par H.F. Tassaert. gravé par J.J. Tassaert.
A Paris et a Londres chez Tessari et Comp.ie [n.d., c.1835.]
Sripple, printed in colours. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), large margins.
A portrait taken from a bust of Joseph Chalier (1747-93) who was a French lawyer and revolutionary politician. It is apparently a reissue of a portrait of Chalier that Jean Joseph François Tassaert engraved, originally attributed to painter Jacques Philippe Caresme. This version has the title changed, Henriette-Félicité Tassaert as painter, and the revolutionary symbols in the borders removed.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60318] £380.00

[The charitable cook] La cuisinière charitable. / Oui, tu fais bien, Fanchon, d'aider ces Malheureux; Mais le Curé ton maitre est, fort peu généreux [...]
C. Eisen Inv. Chevilet Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A kindly woman pours soup for a vagrant; verses by Moraine below. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45067] £550.00

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)

The Martyrdom of Charles the First, King of England, who was beheaded on the 30.th Jan.y 1648, In the 40.th Year of his Age, & the 24.th Year of his Reign.
Drawn, Transferred to Stone & Printed, by J. Netherclift.
London, Pub.d at J. Netherclift's Lithographic Establishment, 8 Newman St. Oxford St. [c.1840]
A rare lithograph on india, printed area 485 x 450mm (19 x 17¾"), with large margins.
Facsimile of Charles I's death warrant, with portraits of leading Parliamentarians and views of the king during the trial and moments before his execution. An earlier engraving of the death warrant had been published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1750.
For the 1750 engraving see ref. 45272.
[Ref: 46753] £360.00

Carolus II.dus D:G: Ang: Sco: Fra: et Hib: Rex Fidei Defensor. &c.
W: Wissing pinx: J. Vandervaart fec:
Cum Privilegio Regis. E Cooper exc: [n.d., 1700].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
Half-length portrait in oval of Charles II, wearing wig, armour and lace cravat.
CS 1, state ii of iv.
[Ref: 65351] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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