Grosvenor Prints

[The Satyr and the Peasant.] Iste frigus & ardorem [...]
J. Jordaens, pinxit. Vosterman scul:
Cum Privilegÿs Reg: [n.d., c.1621.]
Engraving. 415 x 405mm (16¼ x 15¾). Thread margins, repairs to left platemark.
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". One of several paintings by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) based on one of Æsop's fables. According to the BM the original painting is in the Kunstmuseum in Göteborg, with another version in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
BM 1873,1213.588.
[Ref: 57441] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[Attack of robbers in a cave.]
[P. de Laer Pinxit. C. Visscher Fecit.]
[Amsterdam, Cornelis Visscher, c.1660.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 320 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing inscriptions(?), damage in corners, old ink mss bottom right corner.
Riders attack a coach in a cavernous tunnel. The BM has a unlettered proof, but the inscriptions are below the cut here. Other impressions listed were published by Frederick de Wit and Gerard Valck.
From the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), with the signature of his paternal grandfather Pierre Mariette (1634-1716), a Parisian publisher, on reverse.
[Ref: 57438] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Femme de l'Orient. Childe Harold (Lord Byron).
Pickersgill R.A. de Londres. Freeman Lith. Lith. Roder & C.ie 1.e Richer.
[n.d., c.1837.]
Lithograph. Sheet 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed.
A Greek woman with two children. A scene from Lord Byron's 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', published in the 'Album Cosmopolite, ou Choix des Collectionss de M. Alexandre Vattemare, compose de sujets historiques et religieux, paysages, marines'.
[Ref: 57320] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Christmas Pudding.
[T. Webster R.A. pinx.t. W. Ridgway Sculp.t.]
London, Virtue & Co. [n.d., 1868.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 225 x 290mm (9 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped, stains.
A large group around a dining table, the Christmas pudding before the woman on the left.
[Ref: 57333] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Diana & Callisto]. 10 Alta 12 Lata 96
I Titian pinxit. T. van Kessel fecit.
[n.d., 1656.]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 375 x 450mm (14¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed within plate, vertical fold, laid on thick 18th century card.
Callisto, a nymph, is discovered to be pregnant by Jupiter and is expelled from Diana's group. Plate 96 from 246 plates of David Teniers' 'Theatre of Paintings'.
[Ref: 57445] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch interior.] Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Brun
Ostade pinx. Terminé par J.B. LeBas en 1771.
à Paris chez L'auteur rue de Gros Chenet No 47 et chez Poignant rue de Hôtel Serpente [n.d., c.1788].
Engraving. 215 z 170mm (8½ x 6¾") very large margins.
Three Dutch peasants looking at a printed broadside. On the table is a pack of cards. From the series 'Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun', 1777-1791.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57497] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Four Elements.] Terra. [&] Aer. [&] Ingis. [&] Aqua. 1 [-4]
Stef. de la Bella invent fecit.
ex. Cum Privil. Regis Christ.
Set of four etchinga. each 85 x 195mm (3¼ x 7¾"), large margins. Laid on album paper, one sheet.
The set of Four Elements: Earth & Air are landscapes; Fire and Water are seascapes, Fire with a ships on fire, Water with a storm. Etched by Stefano della Bella (1610-54), one of the greatest of Italian printmakers, whose diverse output, characterised by the compression of great precision and detail into small composions, has been the focus of a number of exhibitions and scholarly publications in recent years. It was also influential on later seventeenth century printmakers such as François Collignon and Israel Silvestre.
De Vesme 753-6., states ii of iii. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57495] £490.00 (£588.00 incl.VAT)

[Flemish interior with a boy acrobat.] Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Brun.
Q. Messis. Guyard.
à Paris chez L'auteur rue du Gros Chenet No.47 et chez Poignant rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with etching. 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾"), large margins.
Interior of a Flemish inn, with several peasants watching a young boy performing acrobatics. From the first volume of 'Galerie des peintres flamands hollandais et allemands', a set reproducing paintings by Dutch, Flemish and German masters from the collection of J. B. Lebrun, engraved by various artists from 1777 to 1790 (or 1791), and published in 3 volumes, in 1792 and 1794. The plates were issued in series of twelve.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57498] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[An amphora]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with very fine original hand colour. 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with large margins.
An illustration of a Corinthian amphora, with panels showing the patterns of lions and geese on the body and base.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57492] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A lekythos]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with very fine original hand colour. 230 x 230mm (9 x 9"), with large margins.
An illustration of a Greek lekythos, with a panel of a woman's head underneath.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57491] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[George Frideric Handel] Frontispiece. Inscribed to the Genius of Musick. Europ. Mag., Vol. VI.
Published Aug.t 1st 1784 by J. Sewell, Cornhill.
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate on left.
Allegorical figures pay tribute under a memorial to Handel. With verse by Walpole beginning "Sweet strains along the vaulted roof decay''.
[Ref: 57315] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Harvest Scene. 60
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reecve sculp.t.
London, Published June 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A still life of a picnic basket, a keg, a cup and a jacket, under a fence with foxglove growing in the verge.
[Ref: 57502] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Hercules présenté à Jupiter et Junon.
[Engraved by Jean Francois Janinet after Jean-Guillaume Moitte.]
[Paris: J.G. Depeuille?, c.1790.]
Aquatint with etching, 155 x 250mm (6 x 9¾"), within original printed mount with letterpress title, total 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾").
Hercules being presented to Jupiter and Juno by Mercury and Minerva. Ganymede steps forward to offer Hercules a drink.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57479] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Infant Academy.]
[Engraved by William Walker from a Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
London: Published February 1st 1854, by Evans & Son, 403, Strand.]
Stipple, unique proof before letters. 330 x 380mm (13 x 15"). Trimmed to plate, damage to edges, old pencil mss inscription.
A young boy painting on an oval canvas a young girl with a fashionable hat, who is flanked by two other children; curtain and pillar behind, landscape beyond at left. As well as giving the title and artist, the manuscript also notes 'Engraved for W. Walker during my Apprenticeship - J.B. Bird', contradicting the attribution on the finished plate. The same picture had earlier been engraved as a small mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds.
Not in Hamilton; for S.W. Reynolds' mezzotint, see ref. 21500
[Ref: 57398] £480.00

Mackerel.
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reecve sculp.t.
London, Published June 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line.
A still life of three fish, a basket and a pot on a table.
[Ref: 57501] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

London Fashions for the Summer of 1833.
[by Charles Sibley?]
Published and Sold by G. Walker, 20, Southampton St. Bloomsbury Sq.re
Framed very scarce hand-coloured lithograph. Image size: 560 x 585mm (22 x 23"). Unexamined out of frame.
A large fashion plate showing the various fashions in men's and boy's clothing in the summer of 1833. The plate is divided into two halves, the bottom showing outer and domestic urban wear while the top shows formal wear and country sportswear.
See: Ref 37822 & 55184
[Ref: 57418] £750.00

Les Delices Maternelles. Dedié à Son Aktesse Sérenissime Madame la Duchess Douaireiere de Saxe-Weimar, née Duchesse de Brunswik et de Lunebourg par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur J: G: Wille. 25.le Pl. 1781.
Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi, de S.M. Impr: et Roy: et du Roi de Danemark, d'après le ableau de son fils, P.A. Wille Peintre du Roi.
à Paris, chez l'Auteur, Quay des Augustins [1781].
Engraving. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½"), very large margins. A little spotting and staining.
An oval portrait of a woman sitting in an armchair with her son standing on her knee.
[Ref: 57455] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Memorial to Sir Hugh Brawne in St Mary's Church Newington Butts]
Ink and wash, 18th century watermark. Sheet 315 x 200mm (12½ x 8"). A few stains.
A watercolour of the monument to Sir Hugh Brawne (d.1615), his two wives and six children, once in St Mary's Church, Newington Butts. The church was rebuilt in 1715, 1790, 1876 and after an air raid in 1941, and it is uncertain when this memorial was removed. We have found no photographic record of the monument.
[Ref: 57363] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Penelope and the suitors] Ingratam Veneri pone superbiam. Non te Penelopem difficilem procis. Tyrrhenus genuit Parens. Horat. lib. 3.
Dom.us Magiotto pinx. Nicolaus Cavalli sculp Venetiis.
[Venice, n.d., c.1760.]
Rare engraving. 370 x 490mm (14½ x 19¼"), with very large margins. Creasing in margins.
A young man addresses a young woman in the centre who holds an apple, with an elderly bawd watching behind. The lines from Horace refers to the scene in the Oddysey in which Penelope receives unwelcome suitors.
BM 1951,0714.159. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57476] £340.00

Le petit famille. Gravé par P.C. Canot d'aprés le dessin Original de même grandeur inventé et dessiné par Jean Pillement.
C. Norton.
London Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Dec. 26th 1759.
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 335 x 375mm (13¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of a ramshackle house by a river with goats in the foreground From a series of three plates, with 'La Petite Montagne' and 'La petite famille'.
Gordon Smith p.77. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57494] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Petit Pont de pierre. Gravé par C. Norton d'aprés le Dessin original de même grandeur inventé et dessiné par Jean Pillement.
C. Norton.
London Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Dec. ye. 26th 1759.
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 335 x 375mm (13¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of a ramshackle three-arched bridge in a rural landscape, with a ferryman taking a couple across the river by boat. From a series of three plates, with 'La Petite Montagne' and 'Le Petit Pont de pierre.'.
Gordon Smith p.80, plate 70. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57493] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Still life of pots & bottles.] 53.
D. Cox, Del.t. T. Sutherland, Sculp.t.
London, Pub. March 1st 1821 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A broken pot, two bottles and an ewer on a table.
[Ref: 57500] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rose Maiden.]
S. Melton Fisher. John Cother Webb [pencil signatures.]
Copyright 1899 by Jean Boussard, Manzi, Joyant & Co Publishers, Successors to Goupil & Co, London, New-York, Berlin. - Printed in Paris.
Mezzotint on chine collé, artist's proof signed in pencil by the artist and engraver, Limited edition 225. 565 x 365mm (22¼ x 14½") very large margins. Slight spotting, original backing paper laid down.
A young girl holding a bouquet of roses by Samuel Melton Fisher (1860-1939).
Not in Leissring.
[Ref: 57265] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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[Set design] Scena D'Invenzione e Disegno del Cavalier Bibiena rappresentante Cortili Diversi Reali.
J.G. Bibiena inven: et delin: A.O. [Ambroglio Orio] sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 355 x 500 (14 x 19¾"), with large margins. Spotting in margins.
A set design for a 'Royal Court', with colonades and archways. Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1757) of Palma was 'First Theatrical Engineer' at the Viennese court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and his daughter Maria Theresa from 1723-47, organising festivities including the Maria's wedding, and designing sets for theatrics. In 1753 he moved to the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin.
[Ref: 57362] £320.00

[The illustrations from Sir Thomas Hanmer's 'Works of Shakespear'.]
F.Hayman Inv. H. Gravelot Sculp.
[Oxford: University Press, c.1743-4.]
Original wrappers; 39 engraved plates, in ink on frontis "Thos. Norris"; c.250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Binding strained, some plates with small tears in margins, damp staining and age-toning.
The complete set of 36 scenes engraved by Hubert Gravelot after Francis Hayman. The other three plates are a portrait of Shakespeare after Houbraken, his memorial in Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon and Scheemakers' 18th-century monument in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The Oxford University Press published a deluxe six-volume illustrated edition of Shakespeare, the first complete edition to be published outside London. The fine bindings and the quality of the illustrations made the edition very popular; however Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746, a Speaker of the House of Commons) had edited the text (not present here) with his own conjectures, without indictating what he had changed. 'William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion' (1997) describes the edition as ''one of the worst in the eighteenth century''.
[Ref: 57459] £850.00 view all images for this item

[Floral still life.] Tiré du Cabinet de M.r le Brun d'apres le Tableau original hauteur 16 pouc. ½ larg. 13 pouc. ½,
Rachel Ruisch Pinx. Vandermeer Sculp.
a Paris chez Chereau et Joubert rue des Mathurins aux deux Pilliers d'or [n.d., c.1788].
Engraving with etching. 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Small margins.
A still life with cut roses and insects, painted by Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). From 'Galerie des peintres flamands hollandais et allemands', a set reproducing paintings by Dutch, Flemish and German masters from the collection of J. B. Lebrun, engraved by various artists from 1777 to 1790 (or 1791), and published in 3 volumes, in 1792 and 1794. The plates were issued in series of twelve.
From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57499] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Susanna and the Elders.] Turpe Senilis Amor.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
A naked Susanna washing at a pool with a sea-monster fountain. The elders lurk in the background.
[Ref: 57433] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Morning. [&] Midday. Cottage near Birmingham. [&] Twilight. Snowden seen from across Traeth-Mawr, N. Wales.
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reeve Sculp.t.
[London, c.1822 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.]
Three fine aquatints, printed in colours and hand finished. Morning has J. Whatman 1822 watermark, Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
The times of day.
[Ref: 57505] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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