Grosvenor Prints

[Siege of Altona] Altona in brant gesteken door den Zweedsen Veltoversten Steenbok [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: Cum Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene showing the fire set to the town of Altona by Swedish troops at the end of a month-long siege during the Great Northern War (1700-1721).
[Ref: 59296] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Ceuta] Hetontset van Ceuta leggende aan het naav der Straat Gibraltar op de Barbarise kust [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Pr. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, creased, tear on bottom edge along folding creases.
A scene of the siege of Spanish city Ceuta (1694-1720) on the North African coast by Moroccan forces. On the left, the Marquis of Lede directs the attack on the besiegers on 15 November 1720.
[Ref: 59300] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Portraits of the Different Tribes of Russian Cossacks, in Marching Order.
Drawn from the Life by Hess. Engraved by Clark & Dubourg.
Published & Sold July 1st 1813, by Edw. Orme, Engraver, [Printseller] & Publisher, Bond St. (Corner of Brook St.) London.
Very fine aquatint with hand colour. 300 x 455mm (11¾ x 18"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1810. Crease.
A party of Ural Cossacks with their Ataman David Martemianovich Borodin (1760-1860) during the Austro-Russian Italian and Swiss Campaign in 1799, led by the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov. The original painting by Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess (1769-1849) was sold by Christies in 2003, with the identification of Borodin from Nicholas Touroverov's 'Cossacks in Works by Foreign Artists', 1939.
Not in Abbey. See Christie's Live Auction 1286, Lot 87 for the painting.
[Ref: 59133] £580.00

[Crossing the Lines of Brabant] De Linien, in Braband, by Hillisem, ontrent Loven en Thienen [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to plate, stained on bottom left corner, some creases.
A scene of the Battle of Elixheim, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant, on 18 July 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Grand Alliance army, led by the Duke of Marlborough, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant, an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur in Belgium.
[Ref: 59238] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Francavilla] Bataille tussen de Keyserlyke Troupen onder het belyt van den Generaal Graas van Mercy [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, folding creases as normal.
A scene of the Battle of Francavilla fought on 20 June 1719, near the city of Francavilla di Sicilia in Sicily between Spain and Austria. The battle was part of the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), caused by Spanish attempts to recover territories in Italy ceded in the 1713 Peace of Utrecht.
[Ref: 59215] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Gadebusch] Den 20 December 1712, is by Gadebusch in het Meckelenburgse [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: C.Pr. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 170 x 195mm (6¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the Battle of Gadebusch fought on 20 December 1712 between Sweden and Denmark during the Great Northern War (1700-1721). It was the last major battle the Swedes won in the war.
[Ref: 59251] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Gaeta] den 30 Sept: 1707 wert Gaeta, waer in de Hertog Escalona, gewese Viceroy van Naples [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc. Amst. C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the three-month Siege of Gaeta in 1707 by the Austrian army commanded by Count Wirich Philipp von Daun. Part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the siege ended on 30 September 1707 with the destruction of the city's historic fortifications.
[Ref: 59216] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Bombardement de Lille, Par les Austriens, au Mois de Septemb. 1792.]
Peint par Watteau Pere à Lille. Gravé par Masquelier le J.ne à Paris.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching. proof before title. 505 x 675mm (20 x 26½"), with large margins. Repairs at original centre fold.
A large scene of the Austrian army bombarding Lille in 1792, defended by a Republican garrison during the War of the First Coalition. The figure mounted on a whte horse in the foreground is probably Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738-1822), the Habsburg commander. After firing 60,000 shots into the city, the Austrians eventually withdrew to avoid being encircled by a French relief army.
[Ref: 59323] £420.00

[Battle of Milazzo] Actie tussen de Kyserse en Spaanse troupen voor Melazzo [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: Cum priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, tear on bottom edge along folding crease, some spots.
A scene of the Battle of Milazzo fought on 15 October 1713 between Spain and Austria during the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720).
[Ref: 59299] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

To the King's most excellent Majesty, This plate, The Death of General Wolfe, is with His gracious Permission humbly dedicated by his Majesty's most dutiful Subject, William Woollett. From the original Picture in the Collection of the Right honourable Lord Grosvenor.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by W.m Woollett, Engraver to his Majesty.
Published as the Act directs January 1.st 1776. by Mess.rs Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, London.
Engraving. 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24¼"), with narrow margins.
Large engraving of Benjamin West's famous painting of 1770 (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada) representing the death of the British General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. Despite Wolfe's death, the result of the battle was a decisive British victory. West's composition deliberately evokes the Lamentation of Christ, a subject frequently depicted in religious painting.
Fagan XCIII x/x.
[Ref: 33190] £780.00

A Midnight Scene, at the Head Quarters Bivouac, of the Brierly Hill, 15th Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers, After the Grand Review at Warwick, 24th July, 1861.
W.E. Wood, del.t.
[n.d., c.1861.]
Fine & rare tinted lithograph. In pencil left margin "R.S. Casson". Printed area 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"). Repaired tears, one through title.
Officers relaxing in a tent.
[Ref: 59128] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Tönning] Tonningen den 20 van Bloeimaent 1713, door den Graef van Steenbok [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: Cum Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, tear on bottom edge along folding crease.
A scene of the siege of Tönning by an anti-Swedish coalition during the Great Northern War (1700-1721). The encircled Swedish forces finally surrendered on 20 May 1713.
[Ref: 59297] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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