Grosvenor Prints

[Ballet.]
J. Brandard.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 315 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Framed. Staining. Unexamined out of frame.
A couple dancing, wearing Central European dress.
[Ref: 57272] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Preservation. An African Settlement. Spoon=bill. Botheration. A Vane Man.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tears in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls. 'Preservation' has hunters shooting each other rather than the pheasants; 'An African Settlement' shows a graveyard. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57283] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis XIII watching a horse being trained.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Creasing at top.
A scene in the riding yard of the Tuileries, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained to leap a barrier, watched by a dozen named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57451] £320.00

Figure de l'habit de Chevallier a la Pluvinelle. Figure 2. B. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), very large margins. Spotting and creasing at top.
An engraving of the doublet, hat and boots of a dressage rider, within a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57448] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Horse training.] Figure 5. 1 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), with very large margins. Tears taped. Creasing on top.
A scene in the courtyard of the Louvre, with Louis XIII watching a horse being trained at a pillar, with two named courtiers. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57461] £320.00

[Louis XIII practicing jousting.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), on paper with 17th century watermark, very large margins. Creasing at top.
Louis XIII riding down a tilt barrier striking a mannikin in the forehead, watched by four named courtiers, including Earl of Carlisle. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57450] £320.00

[Jousting armour.] Pieces des Armes rompce en lice faict au Naturel dans Le Logis de M. le Duc de Bellegar de grand Escuter de france. Figure 50. ooo 2 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), large margins on 3 sides. Tears affecting image at top, damp stains and creasing. Small loss top right.
An illustration of various parts of a knight's jousting armour. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57452] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A Likely Cast.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 200 x 265mm (8 x 10¼")
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56107] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis XIII on horseback with a lance.] Figur. 39. 3 part.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed within image, edges chipped. Damaged and loss.
The king in profile with portraits of eleven named courtiers. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, so the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57449] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Newmarket] A View of the Round Course or Plate Course with divers jockeys and Horses in different Actions and Postures going to start for the Kings Plate at New Market.
Tillimans Pinx. J.s Sympson and J.n Lord [ex].
[n.d., c.1730.]
Rare engraving. 305 x 420mm (12 x 16½"); Trimmed. Worm holes filled. Some creasing.
The artist, Peter Tillemans (1684-1734), was born in Antwerp and moved to England in 1708. He specialised in sporting and landscape paintings.
Not in Siltzer.
[Ref: 57276] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Fomes Virtutis Gloria. Ut facile est leni candelam accendeze flatu, Cum presso Lychnus fumigat ignae micans; Mens Virtutis amans facili sic pectore motus Concipit, Heroum fortia facta sequi. 13.
[n.d., c.1620]
Engraving, plate 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
A man blows on a roman candle firework at a jousting tournament.
[Ref: 57297] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A satire on the different sexes.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"). Trimmed to printed border, foxing.
Possibly Americana. A scene in a drawing room: on one side are the young women in their party dresses, with a flock of cherubs with bows above their heads, representing romantic thoughts; on the right the batchelors are fixated on a game of cards, with a demon with a bat's head and wings and coiled serpent's tail, skin marked with the suit symbols, breathing down on them.
[Ref: 57386] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Shooting. Plate IV. Engraved after an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr Bradford.]
[Geo. Stubbs pinx.t. W.m Woollett sculp.t.]
[Published by Tho.s Bradford, No.132 Fleet Street, London; as the Act directs, 25th Oct.r 1771.]
Very rare progress proof engraving. Sheet 390 x 530mm (15¼ x 20¾"). Trimmed close to image, part of image skimmed lower right, tip of bottom left corner lacking, vertical central fold, some surface wear, laid on album paper.
A very rare progress proof of the last plate in the famous set of 'Shooting' after George Stubbs, showing the sportsmen resting in a wood with their bag. At this stage in the engraving, the sky is blank, the faces and hands of the men have scratched details, and the trees and dog are half-finished.
Lennox-Boyd et al: George Stubbs 14, undescribed state between ii & iii.
[Ref: 57482] £490.00

Trotting Match in Harness Against Time. Creeping Sally, a Brown Mare 14 Hands high and Blind, the Property of & Drove by Mr. W.E. Walter [...]
Engraved by Ja.s Pollard from the Original Drawing by J.N. Sartorius.
[Published Feb.y 1817. as th Act Directs by W.E. Walter Stable-keeper Grub Street Cripplegate.]
Aquatint, scarce, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 455 x 530mm (18 x 20¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line, some scuffing.
A record of a race of 50 miles on 17th October 1816, from Shoreditch Church, through Epping and Harlow, accomplished within the allotted five hours, despite fog and rain.
[Ref: 57396] £420.00

Representation De La Joute Qui S'est Faite Sur La Riviere De Sein... Le Jour De La Feste Donnee Par La Ville De Paris, A L'Occasion Du Mariage De Madame Louise-Elisabeth De France, Et De Dom Philippe Infant Et Grand Amiral D'Espagne.
Jac. Rigaud del. et Sculp.
[engraved c. 1740 but published later.]
Engraving, plate 160 x 310mm (6¼ x 12¼"), with large margins on three sides. Small bottom margin.
A view on the river Seine of water jousting, one of the festivities given by the City of Paris, on the occasion of the Wedding of Marie Louise-Elisabeth of France (1727 - 1759), & Infante Philip, Duke of Parma (1720 -1765). With key.
[Ref: 57419] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Full set of eight text descriptions for John Whessell's ''Portraits of Celebrated Running Horses']. Plate I. Eleanor. [&] Plate II. Penelope. [&] Plate III. Bobtail. [&] Plate IV. Parasol. [&] Plate V. Violante. [&] Plate VI. Trumpator [&] Plate VII. Meteora [&] Plate VIII. Dick Andrews.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Eight sheets of letterpress, extremely rare set. Various sizes, largest 465 x 460mm (18¼ x 18"). Some wear, plate viii with some abrasion with loss of text, laid on thick paper.
The complete set of sheets with the racing histories of the eight horses depicted in ''Portraits of Celebrated Running Horses', painted and engraved by John Whessell in line and stipple, first published 1806-8. The set was republished by Edward Orme in 1809.
Siltzer p.337.
[Ref: 57348] £850.00 view all images for this item

A Key to the Great Wiltshire Coursing Picture.
[After William & Henry Barraud.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Ink sketch. Sheet 260 x 535mm (10¼ x 21"). Surface soiling, pingoles in corners, laid on card.
A key of the 46 participants in a coursing match, with the winner and runner up, depicted before Stonehenge.
[Ref: 57343] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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