Grosvenor Prints

[Westminster School.] The School Room.
C.W. Radcliffe del et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[London, 1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½").
The interior of The School Room, the names of scholars scrawled on the walls.
[Ref: 32400] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The North-East View of the Old Dormitory, in 1788 When the New Buildings Were Begun in Old Palace Yard Westminster.
W. Courtenay fec.t. 1760.
Etching, sheet 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"). Tipped into album page.
Very rare and interesting etching of a dormitory in Westminster School. The school may have been attended by the artist, William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (1742 - 1788), amateur etcher and caricaturist, who would have been of schoolboy age when he etched this plate.
See Guildhall Library Record: 28413 for a 1788 engraving of the same image by William Angus.
[Ref: 8778] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Westminster School [in plate.] Just Published. ''Famous Schools of England''. A series of original drypoints by Terence H. Lambert. (Limited editions).
Limited edition of 79/250. Terence H. Lambert [pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint, signed by the artist. 200 x 150mm (8 x 6") large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label. Mint.
The School Hall, by Terence Henry Lambert [b.1891].
[Ref: 49235] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Interior of Westminster School.
G.R. Sarjent Fecit.
Published by G.R. Sarjent 3 Charlotte St. Fitzroy Square.
Lithograph on india paper, india 225 x 280mm. 9 x 11".
Interior view of College Hall in Westminster School (The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster); featuring pupils and masters, names inscribed on walls.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 20273] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The North-East View of the Old Dormitory, in 1788 When the New Buildings Were Begun in Dean's Yard Westminster.
W. Courteney fec.t. 1760.
Etching with very lage margins. 160 x 200mm (6¼ x 7¾"). Creased.
Very rare and interesting etching of a dormitory in Westminster School by William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (1742 - 1788), amateur etcher and caricaturist who was probably a pupil at the school when he etched this plate. An earlier state has the title 'Old Palace Yard' rather than 'Deans Yard'.
See Guildhall Library Record: 28413 for a 1788 engraving of the same image by William Angus. Ex Collection: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 35659] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Westminster School Room.
A. Pugin del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
Published Aug.t 1. 1816, at 101, Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Westminster School.
Aquatint on india. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Proof with large margins. Backing paper spotted.
The interior of Westminster School. From one of only 25 proofs on large paper of Ackermann's 'History of the Colleges'; it is one of only two altered plates, with the heads of the schoolmasters bare.
Abbey: Scenery 439.
[Ref: 37890] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Hall of Westminster School.
A. Pugin del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
Published Aug.t 1. 1816, at 101, Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Westminster School.
Aquatint on india. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Proof with large margins. Backing paper spotted.
The interior of the dining hall of Westminster School, with teachers eating by candlelight. From one of only 25 proofs on large paper of Ackermann's 'History of the Colleges'.
Abbey: Scenery 439.
[Ref: 37891] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dormitory of Westminster School.
A. Pugin del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
Published Aug.t 1. 1816, at 101, Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Westminster School.
Aquatint on india. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Proof with large margins. Backing paper spotted.
The interior of the dormitory of Westminster School, from one of only 25 proofs on large paper of Ackermann's 'History of the Colleges'.
Abbey: Scenery 439.
[Ref: 37892] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Westminster Society. For Insurance on Lives and Survivorships, and Granting Annuities.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved trade card. Sheet 90 x 130mm (3½ x 5"). Trimmed within image and laid on album paper.
Established 1792.
BM Banks,7.26.
[Ref: 55204] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of views of London sites seen through arches.]
[Anon.]
[London: R. Ackermann, n.d., c.1820.]
Ten (of 12) fine hand-coloured aquatints, originally published in three strips on a single sheet, here trimmed and pasted to ten scrap sheets, scarce. Each c.80 x 90mm, 3¼ x 3½".
The attractive souvenir vignettes each feature appropriately-attired figures to the foreground and are captioned on the upper part of the arch. They are Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Horse Guards, Admiralty, Charing Cross, Pall Mall East, the Italian Opera House, Waterloo Place, and Regent Street
See Guildhall Library Record: 28155.
[Ref: 22811] £480.00

[Sheet of sketches of Westmont, Isle of Wight]
[J. Blanche, c.1870]
Four pencil sketches glued to album sheet, sheet 530 x 370mm (21 x 14½").
Fine sketches of an elegant house on the Isle of Wight, now Ryde School. Juliet Blanche du Thon married Edmund Henry Peters in 1860 on the Isle of Wight.
[Ref: 37986] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A Front View of the Earl of Westmorlands Villa, in the County of Kent, taken from the Road, with Part of the Park. Book 8. Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c. 1.
W.m Woollett delin.
Printed by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Copper engraving, frontispiece, 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10¾". Small hole in platemark.
[Ref: 16928] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Village and Bay of Weston Super Mare; Taken from the Knightstone Baths.
on Stone by Dean & Munday.
Published by R. Hill, Library. Weston.
A rare lithograph. 210 x 387mm. 8¼ x 14¼". Trimmed. Very slight staining.
A view of the bay of Weston Super Mare, North Somerset. St John's Church to the right with sialing boats in the bay and carriages and carts on the beach.
[Ref: 20298] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Weston Super Mare, from the Beach. To Francis Hutchinson Synge. Esqre. This View is by Permission most respectfully Inscribed by his Obedient Servant.
Day & Haghe, lithrs to the Queen. R. Carrick lith.
Published by J. Whereat, Public Library, Weston Super Mare. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 280 x 380mm. 11 x 15".
Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset. Construction of a bridge going on in the background.
[Ref: 16126] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Amateur Concert of Vocal & Instrumental Music in the School-Room of Weston-under-Penyard, on Wednesday, April 20th, 1864.
Ross: Printed by Richard Powle, MDCCCLXIV.
8vo, printed wrappers; pp. 12. 180 x 125mm (7¼ x 4¾").
With music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Gluck, Gounod and Dibdin.
[Ref: 53201] £60.00

Amateur Concert of Vocal & Instrumental Music in the School-Room of Weston-under-Penyard, on Tuesday, The 2nd of May, 1865.
Ross: Printed by Richard Powle, MDCCCLXV.
8vo, printed wrappers; pp. 12. 180 x 125mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Some pencil mss.
With music by Beethoven, Gounod Haydn and Rossini.
[Ref: 53202] £60.00

Geo.e Weston.
Pub: by W. Turner, Snow Hill, Aug; 8.th 1782.
Engraving, rare. Plate: 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½''), with large margins. Creasing.
A portrait of highwayman George Weston shown holding a pistol. George Weston and his brother Joseph were executed at Tyburn after a long career in crime which included fraud, forgery, theft and horse stealing though their most famous crime was the robbing of a Royal Mail coach which was carrying about £10,000.
[Ref: 48224] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. James Weston.
J.Dowling pinx. J.Cole sculp.
[n.d., c.1743.]
Engraving. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed.
Portrait of the stenographer James Weston, the frontispiece for 'Stenography' (1743).
[Ref: 65995] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Jo:h Weston.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Very slight printer's crease.
Joseph Weston and his brother George were believed to be respectable Winchelsea citizens, but were actually highwaymen who became known for robbing the Bath and Bristol Mail coach in 1781, between Maidenhead and Hounslow. Acquitted for lack of evidence, they were hung at Tyburn for attempted murder the following year. William Makepeace Thackery's unfinished novel 'Denis Duval' featured the pair.
[Ref: 53145] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[M.r Thomas Weston.]
[M. Dahl pinx. John Faber fecit 1723.]
[1726.]
Rare & scarce mezzotint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed into image on 4 sides, losing inscription area.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Weston (d.1728), astronomer, the frontispiece to 'A copy-book written for the use of the young-gentlemen at the Academy in Greenwich'. As an indentured assistant to Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, he helped Flamsteed draught his celestial atlas, the 'Atlas Coelestis'. He is depicted with Flamsteed in the mural on the ceiling of the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He founded Weston's Academy in Greenwich in 1712, to give maritime training to pupils including orphans from the Royal Hospital. After several changes of name and location, Weston's Academy became the Burney's [Royal] Academy at Coldharbour, Gosport.
W. 3165; C.S. 379.
[Ref: 55302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edvardus Wetenhall S.S.T.P.
J. Vander Vaart Pinxit et fecit.
R. Tompson ex: [n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Trimmed into image, touching inscriptions on left.
Head and shoulder portrait in oval of Edward Wetenhall (1636-1713), an English bishop of the Church of Ireland.
CS 9, unrecorded state between i & ii, with spot on nose but before 'fecit' removed. Russell 9, between iii & iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65357] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Wetterhorn [in pencil]
W Travis Jackson [in pencil]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching signed by the artist, 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
An Alpine view in Switzerland.
[Ref: 62587] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Wetterhorn et Wetthorn, et du Glacier de Rosenlauy.
[Anon, c.1830]
Aquatint printed in colour with gum arabic, fine, sheet 145 x 185mm (5¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed around image and title. Excellent colour.
Rosenlaui Glacier on the left, and the Wetterhorn mountain in the centre. Coniferous forest and river in foreground. This viewpoint was depicted by many 19th century topographers of Swiss scenery.
[Ref: 33757] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Design for Fortifying Duncannon Fort towards the landside, which can be executed for a less Expence by one Eighth part than the Plan proposed by M.r Skinner. N:B: The Dotted lines represent the form of the old Works as they Stand at present. A. Shews the Barracks and new Buildings how they may be dispos'd.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Section of a manuscript watercolour map. At most 170 x 245mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Old ink mss description on album sheet. With a pen description of the 5 Regiment of Foot verso on 18th century Album page. Trimmed with loss, title excised and pasted on opposite page of album sheets.
A plan for improving the landward defences of Duncannon Fort, a star fort that had been built 1587-88 to defend Waterford from possible invasion by the Spanish Armada. The 'Skinner' mentioned in the title is probably William Skinner (1700-80), who was Chief Royal Engineer from 1757 until his death, working on Gibraltar, St Philip's Castle on Menorca and Fort George near Inverness.
[Ref: 61555] £160.00

[Rogier van der Weyden] Rogero, Bruxellensi Pictori. Non tibi sit laudi, quod multa, & pulchra, Rogere, / Pinxisti, ut poterant tempora ferre tua [...] 4.
Th. Galle excud [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), one of the most renowned painters of the fifteenth century, specialising in religious works and portraits. This engraving was made after an alleged self-portrait by van der Weyden, part of a series of paintings in Brussels town hall now lost. Third state of a plate first published in 1572, in a series of twenty-three portraits of painters from the Low Countries. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'. Another edition was published in 1694.
[Ref: 43317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester These Views of Waymouth &c. are by Permission most Humbly Inscribed by His Highness's Devoted Faithful Humble Servants, J.s Fittler J.s Love.
Pub.d as the Act Directs Feb.y 1791.
Etched title and eleven coloured aquatint plates with very large margins (with J. Whatman watermark), as called for, with 7 (of 11) letterpress descriptions of the plates, lacking list of subscribers; rare complete. Some wear and toning of all plates, one plate with crack in platemark. Some staining on edge of margins.
A complete set of oval views of Weymouth and environs, including several views of the town and Portland, Corfe Castle, Lulworth, Wyke, Radipole & Belfield.
Abbey: Scenery 339. Different publication lines to Abbey.
[Ref: 35799] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

To the King's most Excellent Majesty, this View of Weymouth, Is with His Majesty's gracious Permission humbly Dedicated by his most dutiful Subject and devoted Servant.
Painted by J.T. Serres, Marine Painter to His Majesty, H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and the R.t. Hon.ble the Board of Admiralty. Engraved by P.W. Tomkins Engraver to Her Majesty.
Published as the Act directs, for the Proprietors, Aug.st 12, 1803, by J.T.Serres, & G.Field, at the British School, Berres Street, and P.W. Tomkins , 49 New Bond Street, London.
Engraving. 495 x 710mm. Small repaired tear.
A view of the seafront of Weymouth from Nothe Point.
[Ref: 5464] £690.00

Waymouth, or Sands-Foot Castle.
J. Nixon, Esqr. delt. F. Bernie Aqua tint.
Publish'd July 1790 by J. Fittler, London & I. Love, Waymouth.
Etching and aquatint, paper watermarked for J. Whatman, with large margins, platemark 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
A storm with the thunder and lightning and heavy seas at Sandsfoot Castle, Dorset; walkers on the shore flee for shelter. One of Henry VIII's Device Forts, also known as Henrician Castles, built in the 1530s to the west of Weymouth, it sits opposite its contemporary Portland Castle. Together these two forts put the whole of Portland harbour and the roads, within range of their artillery, thus protecting shipping from foreign raiders, and to prevent an invading landing force from storming up onshore. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
Abbey Scenery 339.7 for the complete set see ref. 35799.
[Ref: 37981] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Waymouth.]
[J. Love Delin. F. Bernie A. F.t.]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval prospect of the seafront at Weymouth, with bathing huts on wheels lining the beach. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates).
See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67937] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Weymouth.]
[after John Love]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval view of the bridge over the Wey between the town and Brewer's Quay. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates).
See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67938] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Weymouth.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 1. 1823.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1823 watermark. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), with large margins. Foxing.
A view of the coastal town of Weymouth in Dorset, showing the harbour full of ships and boats. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 47143] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Waymouth. [Weymouth.]
J. Love Delin. F. Bernie A. Ft.
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Scarce etching and aquatint. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"). Some spotting, mostly marginal; tatty extremities.
Charming prospect in an oval of the seafront at Weymouth, Dorset, situated in a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey. Bathing huts on wheels line the beach. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15. See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 22301] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Waymouth, or Sands-Foot Castle.
J. Nixon, Esqr. delt. F. Bernie Aqua tint.
Publish'd July 1790 by J. Fittler, London & I. Love, Waymouth.
Scarce aquatint. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"), on J. Whatman paper with large margins. Some spotting, mostly marginal; tatty extremities. Upper platemark weakened.
A storm with the thunder and lightning and heavy seas at Sandsfoot Castle, Dorset; walkers on the shore fee for shelter. One of Henry VIII's Device Forts, also known as Henrician Castles, built in the 1530s to the west of Weymouth, it sits opposite its contemporary Portland Castle. Together these two forts put the whole of Portland harbour and the roads, within range of their artillery, thus protecting shipping from foreign raiders, and to prevent an invading landing force from forming up offshore. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15. See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 22302] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

View of Waymouth, up the Harbour.
F. Bowles Esqr. delt. F Bernie Aqua tint.
Pubd. Decr. 1790 by I Fittler London & I Love Waymouth.
Etching and aquatint, scarce, with large margins, paper watermarked for J. Whatman. 255 x 295mm, 10 x 11½". Some spotting, mostly marginal; tatty extremities. One diagonal crease through upper left corner of plate.
An attractive prospect in an oval of Weymouth, Dorset, featuring shipping and a bridge. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15. See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 22303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Weymouth] To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, This View of the Town, Pier, & Bay, of Weymouth; is by permission, humbly inscribed, by His Majesty's most dutiful & Loyal servants, T. Jones & J. Hassell.
Drawn & Engraved by J. Hassell.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1. 1795 by T. Jones, No 93, Clarges Street, & J. Hassell, at Mr Walker's, Printseller, Cornhill.
Aquatint. Sheet 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges, a few spots.
A view of Weymouth from the east, with a group boarding a boat for pleasure and bathing machines in the background. George III spent many summers at his brother's residence, Gloucester Lodge, having been advised to take the waters after his first bout of porphyria.
[Ref: 56360] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sandsfoot Castle Near Weymouth.
J.W. Upham del. J. Bluck fecit.
Published July 1821, by J.W. Upham, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint, sheet c.330 x 465mm. Margins missing top and bottom. Three tears from upper edge of paper, one at right c. 2cm into image with adjacent crease into image.
From 'Views In And Near Weymouth' consisting of 18 plates that according to the titlepage 'May be had of Mr. Upham, Professor of Drawing, Weymouth; at the Libraries, in Weymouth and Dorchester'. Fine colour.
Abbey, Scenery: 340.
[Ref: 7371] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester these views of Waymouth are by permission most humbly inscribed by his Highness’s devoted faithful humble servants Js. Fittler, Jn. Love
Pubd. as the Act Directs Feby. 1791 [Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler].
Etched pictorial titlepage, with large margins, 260 x 300mm. 10¼ x 11¾". Some spotting and staining, with tatty extremities.
Lettered to a stone monument in a landscape, two men and a woman looking at it from a bench to foreground, their backs to the viewer. The oblong folio of views in the environs of Weymouth, Dorset after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love included 12 plates.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15.
[Ref: 22300] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Upway, Near Weymouth.
I.W. Upham delt. J. Bluck fecit.
Published July 1821, by J.W. Upham, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint, sheet c.320 x 425mm. Margins missing. Tear into title area. Creases through upper and lower right corners outsid eimage.
From 'Views In And Near Weymouth' consisting of 18 plates that according to the titlepage 'May be had of Mr. Upham, Professor of Drawing, Weymouth; at the Libraries, in Weymouth and Dorchester'. Fine colour.
Abbey Scenery of Great Britain And Ireland: 340.
[Ref: 7372] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Wyke And Portland.
J.W. Upham del. J. Bluck fecit.
Published July 1821, by J.W. Upham, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint, sheet c.330 x 450mm. Margin missing top and bottom. Small repaired tear into publication line. Two creases across upper right corner of plate.
From 'Views In And Near Weymouth' consisting of 18 plates that according to the titlepage 'May be had of Mr. Upham, Professor of Drawing, Weymouth; at the Libraries, in Weymouth and Dorchester'. Fine colour.
Abbey Scenery of Great Britain And Ireland: 340.
[Ref: 7369] £320.00

The Whale Bone Macaroni.
Publish'd according to Act, Oct 22. 1772, by MDarly, 39, Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man standing with his legs crossed, probably a stay, or corset, maker; an example of his wares is tucked under his right arm. He holds a tasselled cane. A 'bone' is one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame and gives it rigidity. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.5' upper left and '9' upper right.
BM Satires: 5045.
[Ref: 14306] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The North West on Davis's Streights Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t
[n.d. c.1795.]
Engraving, very scarce. Plate 260 x 375mm. 10¼ x 14¾". Large margins. Tearing and creasing in the margins. Crease through lower right-hand corner of image.
Scene of whaling amidst glaciers whre in the foreground the Harpoonist is ready to strike. The Davis Straits can be found between Greenland and Nunavut, Canada's Baffin Island. Francesco Ambrosi may originate from Padua and be associated with Remondini in Bassano. There are some Mediterrean and Spanish town views from the mid 18th century engraved by him. See ref:20316 for companion print and more information on the British Whaling pictures by Dodd.
Parker:2416.
[Ref: 20315] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Greenland Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t. Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1795.]
Very scarce engraving. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), with wide margins. Crease through centre of image, damage in the margins.
“Greenland whale fishery” came to refer to whaling in the waters between Spitsbergen and Greenland. Whaleships followed the northward summer migration of the bowhead, sailing first to Spitsbergen, then drifting west to the edge of the East Greenland ice pack. The season generally laster four to five months. The identity of the two British whaleships in Robert Dodd's portrayal is unknown, but it is almost certain they were London-based vessels operating out of the Thames from where the largest British whaling fleet was based until well into the nineteenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century, the shortage of Arctic whales was already sending the whaling fleets as far away as Greenland. The Howland Great Wet Dock at Rotherhithe - built at the end of the seventeenth century - was, in 1763, renamed the Greenland Dock. In 1783, the year in which Dodd completed the painting from which this engraving is done the British whaling industry saw a marked revival after a wartime depression. The trade soon began to revive after the peace settlement with both France and the United States. An increase in the government whaling bounty was an added incentive to put more vessels into this extremely lucrative trade. This painting was engraved and published twice. The first occasion by John & Josiah Boydell of Cheapside in 1789 and again in 1795, by Fran. Ambrosi. Two separate printings would suggest a strong popular demand amongst whaling ship owners, masters and crews, for whom a generic image would perhaps be rather more attractive than one of vessels belonging to their rivals. See ref:20315 for the companion picture and information of the engraver.
Not in Parker.
[Ref: 20316] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Greenland Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1795.]
Very scarce & fine engraving. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾") very large margins.
A fleet of whalers in the Arctic, with a longboat landing hunters on the ice. The identity of the two ships flying British flags is unknown, but it is almost certain they were London-based vessels operating out of the Thames from where the largest British whaling fleet was based until well into the nineteenth century.
See Ref: 35656
[Ref: 60511] £520.00

The Harponiers poking a Whale with their Lances, after he is enfeebled through great loss of Blood, at the Wound made by the Harpone Iron.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving. 176 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Trimmed.
A whaling fleet in the North Atlantic; attacking the whale further as it surfaces for more air.
[Ref: 30386] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Whale struck with the Harpone Iron diving among the Ice, the Harponier going to chop the Rope off, to prevnt the long Boat being drawn under Water or split against the Ice.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving, paper watermarked. 176 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed.
A whaling fleet in the North Atlantic; the hunters cutting the rope lose before they are dragged underneath by the whale.
[Ref: 30387] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Greenland Fishery. 68.
Brooking Pinx. Boydell Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J Boydell, Engraver at the Unicorn ye corner of Queen Street Cheapside, London 1754.
Engraving. Plate: 295 x 420mm (11½ x 16½") large margins.
A scene in the seas off Greenland showing several British whaling boats, the water is full of rowing boats and in the foreground figures harpoon a whale. Polar bears watch from the ice in the forground. By the mid eighteenth century whaling off the coast of Greenland was a fully established enterprise with the South Sea Company funding many excursions to the Arctic.
[Ref: 46249] £320.00

[Whaling] The Fishery of Great Britain in its three different Branches viz.t Herring, Cod, and Whale Fishing. 19
Tho. Baston Pinx.t. I. Kirkall Sculp.t.
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St Paul's Church Yard London [n.d., c.1800].
Scarce etching with engraving with fine colour, 18th century watermark. 230 x 375mm (9 x 14¾"), large margins Repaired tear in top right margin, slight oxidation of colour in sky.
A composite image of British warships guarding whalers, with scenes of fish houses and whale fat rendering. First published in 1721 as part of the series 'Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy with variety of other sea pieces'.
[Ref: 59511] £390.00

[Set of four whaling prints.] A Ships Boat Attacking a Whale. [&] Boats Approaching a Whale. [&] A Whale Brought Along-Side a Ship. [&] Shooting the Harpoon an a Whale.
J.H. Clark del. Dubourg sculp.t.
Published & Sold March 1t 1813 by Edw.d Orme, Bond St, London.
Four aquatints with fine hand colour. 185 x 235mm (7¼ x 9¼"), with large margins. With 9pp letterpress describing the plates.
From 'Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting, Anecdotes, &c.' by Samuel Howitt.
[Ref: 58022] £450.00 view all images for this item

Material=Ramme. Das Wind=berittne Schiff, laufft mit der Baar zu Lande. Die Baar dir zum sewin und Ruken mit Berstande.
Cor: Nico: Schurtz. Sc:
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 266 x 160mm. 10¼ x 6¼". Crease.
Two allegorical scenes: a very Dutch figure of Mercury, surrounded by trade goods, includng bags of crocus bulbs and mistletoe (lignum sancti). Underneath is a ship, with whalers and a fort.
[Ref: 15204] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Navigatio Piscatorum in glacie quaerentium Balaenam. La Navigation dans la glace, et chercher du Baleine.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 320 x 430mm. 12½ x 17". Stain to centre of title area. Trimmed close to upper platemark.
A Greenland whale fishery with polar bears (coloured in black!) in the foreground. Title in Latin and French. Possibly from a set of four arctic whaling and fishing scenes published by George Balthasar Probst (1732 - 1801) in Augsburg. Numbered 'CCI.' lower left.
[Ref: 9826] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

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