Grosvenor Prints

[Allegory of the Peace of Amiens.]
[n.d., c.1801.]
Rare coloured engraving, trimmed as oval, on paper watermarked '1801 C. Wilmot.' 130 x 215mm (5 x 8½"). Trimmed to printed border.
Three female allegorical figures (Britannia, Liberty & Peace) gather before a view of the City of London, with a cherub emptying a cornucopia at their feet. A lion rests by Britannia's shield, which bears the Union Flag.
[Ref: 61055] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Burns's Address to the Deil. illustrated by Landseer. (Sheet 1.) [&] (Sheet 2.)
[Engraved by Samuel Machin Slater, Charles Milton Gorway, Ebenezer Landells et al after Thomas Landseer] G.H. Davidson, Printer and Stereotyper, Tudor Street, Blackfriars.
London: - Published by G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand; O. Hodgson, 10, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield; sold also at the Office of the Ladies' Penny Gazette, King Edward Street, New Bridge Street; and to be had, on order, of all Dealers of Periodicals.
Two sheets, with wood-engravings and letterpress. Sheets 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Both sheets with stains, '2' laid on album paper.
Two sheets with all 21 verses of Robert Burns' 'Addess to the Deil', illustrated with 10 fantastical wood engravings after Thomas Landseer, including a title and the Devil on horseback. The blocks were also used in book format.
See BM 1867,1214.448 for sheet 1, with references for book issues.
[Ref: 61155] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Don Quixote.
London, Published by S.& J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place, 1823.
Fine coloured etching. 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill'.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza kneel before the Lady Dulcinia del Toboso (slaughterhouse worker Aldonza Lorenzo) who sits on a donkey.
[Ref: 61100] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] Cadaver Balsamo conditum; simul cum Loculo ferali [Greek letters] Pictura hieroglphica pulcerime insignito. Ex vetustis Ægypti Sepulchretis sublatum Londinum attulit D. Guil: Lethieullier. A.º D.º 1722.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
Societati Antiquariæ Londonensi Georgius Vertue D.D.D. et excudit 1724.
Engraving. 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Trimmed into image at top.
Four illustrations of an Egyptian coffin (the front, front profile, interior and back), published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61267] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] 3. Loculi Conspectus anterior, auctior aliquantum, quo Figuræ clarius et distinctius appareant.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
[LOndon: Society of Antiquaries 1724.]
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with large margins.
The lower half of an Egyptian coffin, identified as a man called Irtyru, published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61268] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Front Vol XIX
Gent Mag 1749.
Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed. Hole in right outside image.
Frontispiece to 'The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle Volume XIX for the Year M.DCC.XLIX.' A scene of a fishery inside a frame aurrounded by scientic and artistic instruments. Below on left a woman uses a a pair of compasses to draw on a piece of paper titled 'Noahs Ark'. In the centre is a stack of books labelled 'Phil Transact,' 'Shaw,' 'Essay on Redemption,' 'Codamines Journ,' 'Mem of French Ac,' 'Essay on Rope Making,' 'Middleton,' 'Voyage to America,' 'Ansons Voyage,' 'Flora Siberica,' 'Clarissa,' and 'Tom Jones.' A putti to the right points to glyphs on a piece of rubble, trying to get the attention of a man in a fur hat sitting and studying a coin.
[Ref: 61286] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleepest, or wakest thou]
R. Ansdell.
[Etching Club 1853]
Etching, sheet 165 x 250mm (6½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Shepherd lying asleep surrounded by sheep. Walking stick and horn lay behind him. Illustration of King Lear Act 3, scene 6 from Songs and Ballads of Shakespeare' published by the Etching Club. Richard Ansdell RA (1815-85) was was a British painter of animals and genre scenes and member to the Etching Club.
See BM 1869,0213.232 for letterpress.
[Ref: 61176] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life with flowers in an urn.]
J. Baptiste Monnoyer Pinxit. Vauquer Sculp Privil Regis.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Scarce large etching with engraving. Sheet 670 x 470mm (26½ x 18½"). Trimmed to plate, nicks in edges, creases and surface soiling.
A large still-life of flowers in an urn on a stone wall.
[Ref: 61039] £520.00

A View From Nature.
Painted by G Morland. H Schutz Sculp.
London Pub.d May 1. 1798 at R. Ackermanns Gallery. 101 Strand.
Rare engraving with fine hand colour, plate 295 x 355mm (11½ x 14"), large margins. Some surface dirt and creasing. Bit dusty.
A rustic scene; featuring a few houses settled round a church. People go about their business including a woman hauling washed clothes from the river to put on the line and a man walking with a stick and a dog. After George Morland (1762/3 - 1804), painter, especially of scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes.
[Ref: 61185] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Les Sabots. D'après le Tableau Original de François Boucher premier Peintre du Roi.
F. Boucher pinx. R. Gaillard Sculp.
[n.d., 1773.] but later.
Etching. 495 x 380mm (19½ x 15"), with very large margins.
'The wooden shoes'. A young couple pick and feed each other cherries, having kicked off their shoes under the tree. A reversed copy of François Boucher's 1768 oval painting, now in the Art Gallery of Ontario (Object number 78/6).
[Ref: 61255] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnus.
Theodor Bernard invet: J. Sadeler Sculps:
[n.d. c.1580.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed within plate, loss of image on right edge. Damaged.
A plate representing Autumn as a time for wine-making. In the foreground is a naked male personification, with wine leaves in his hair, leaning on a tub of grapes. Behind people pick grapes, tread them, barrel them up and cart them away. One of a set of the ‘Four Seasons’ engraved by Jan Sadeler (1550-1600) after Dirck Barendsz. (1534-92).
[Ref: 61335] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Shepherd] 26
Henry J Townsend.
H J Townsend 1850 [within plate]
Etching on chine collé, plate 120 x 115mm (4¾ x 4½"), with very large margins. Some light foxing in margins.
A shepherd sits within a rocky landscape, staring into space as he tending his flock. Plate 26 from The Etching Club's 'Etchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club.' Henry Townsend (1810-1890) was one of the founding members of the Etching Club and a painter of fairy pictures and historical subjects.
[Ref: 61181] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[The Spring Flood.]
CWC
1858.
Etching on india applied to backing sheet, 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼") with margins beyond the image on all sides. Proof.
A woman carries a girl across ankle deep water. A boy holding a basket and a stick looks on in concern with his dog. The published version of this etching was issued by the Etching Club in 1865. Charles West Cope (1811-1890) was the founder and leader of the Etching Club.
See also 61150 for another proof.
[Ref: 61147] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[The Spring Flood.]
CWC
1858.
Etching on india applied to backing sheet, 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼") with margins beyond the image on all sides. Early working proof impression.
A woman carries a girl across ankle deep water. A boy holding a basket and a stick looks on in concern with his dog. An early working proof impression before the covering of his intials and the date with added water, rocks and marshy looking river bank. The published version of this etching was issued by the Etching Club in 1865. Charles West Cope (1811-1890) was the founder and leader of the Etching Club.
See also 61147 for another proof.
[Ref: 61150] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

S. Michaels Church Steeple, Dorsetshire. East Window.
Jas Powell & Sons Whitefriars Glass Works, London E.C.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Ink and watercolour, cut to image and laid on card with ink titles. Card 330 x 210mm (13 x 8¼"). A few small marks.
A presentation design for a window in the church of St. Michael & All Angels, Steeple, by James Powell & Sons, owners of the Whitefriars Glass Works. In the mid 1850s the company had developed a glass that copied medieval stained glass and, with an aggressive marketing campaign, became the most prominent supplier of church glass, especially for commemorative windows after the Great War. Powell and Sons continued to make stained glass until 1973. This window is still extant.
[Ref: 61233] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] ¿ Porque le llamaran à esto el Sardinero? -Hija à la vista está.
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara in bathing costume on the famous beach at Santander. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61338] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] ¡ Y hay quien me teche de ligra!
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara rock climbing above a lake in the Alps. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61339] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] ¡ Que de encantos tienen estios, al lado de una mhugar encantadora como V.! - Me agradaria poseer una quinta en las orillas del lago.
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara admiring the view from a hill above Lake Geneva. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61340] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] ¡¡¡...........!!!
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara, thrown from her horse in a wintery forest, is rescued from a wild boar in Russia. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61341] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] - Esos pies merecen pisar unicamente alfombras de flores. - ¿ Y Las manos?
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara on stage at Vaudeville in Paris, surrounded by bouquets thrown from the audience, with two adoring men looking up at her. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] - Señorita ¿ Quiere V. que la coja ? - Esto no se dice.
Planas 1878. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara swimming at seaside town of Biarritz with a man, her maid calling from the beach. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61344] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] ¿ Quieres apoyarte en mi brazo máscara?
Planas 1878. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11") very large margins.
Clara at a masked ball, dressed in a quasi-naval officer's uniform. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61336] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] - Antes de empazar nuestras escursiones terrestre-acuático-aéreas à través de la Exposicion, permite della Clara, que la tripulacion del Barbo magnético te nombre su capita
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara visits the Paris Exhibition and travels on a magnetic boat, stopping to drink wine at the side of the river. A rowing image. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61337] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Historia de una Mujer.] - Surte has tenido amiga Clarita; el Principe es el potentado mas rico de Europa.
Planas 1879. Lit - Tip de J. Aleu.
[Barcelona: Fugarull, 1880.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
Clara and another woman, wrapped in furs in a Russian sleigh, in St. Moritz, discuss an eligible bachelor. One of 50 plates in the series 'The Story of a Woman' by Eusebio Planas (1833-97), an account of Clara's progress from dressmaker to vaudeville actress to the mistress of a series of men, travelling around Europe, before ending her days worn-out in a convent. The series first appeared as cigarette cards, accounting for the lack of text other than the plate captions.
[Ref: 61342] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of Diana.
R.Brown Pinx.t. T.L Busby. Sculp.
Leigh & Son 421 Strand. [n.d. c.1830]
Very rare aquatint, with hand colour. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾" Glued to album sheet.
A view of a rotunda decorated with the goddess Diana and stag heads, situated in a wooded landscape. Richard Brown (c. 1770-1845) was a British architect, designer, draughtsman and engraver. Thomas Lord Busby (fl. 1804-1837) was a painter, etcher and humorous illustrator. Samuel Leigh was a bookseller and publisher in 19th century London working with his son James Mathews Leigh (1808 –60).
[Ref: 61119] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Tabac.
V. Adam.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 590 x 385mm (23¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed into image top and bottom, repaired tears.
An elaborate design of a vase filled with, and surrounded by, smoking paraphernalia, including pipes, ranging from plain to exquisitely carved, and Turkish hookahs.
[Ref: 61074] £390.00

Les deux extrêmes.
carle Vernet. Lith. de G. Engelmann rue Cassette N.º 18 à Paris.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"), with very large margins. Margins soiled and creased.
A mounted officer is poured a drink by an innkeeper as water-carriers fill their buckets at the village fountain.
[Ref: 61331] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dogs and wild-boar. 12.
Fred.k Tayler.
[n.d. c.1872. Etching Club?]
Etching on chine collé, plate 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
Two dogs sink their teeth into a wild boar attempting to flee in a grassy landscape. (John) Frederick Tayler (1802– 89) was a 19th-century English landscape watercolour painter, president of the Royal Watercolour Society and member of the Etching Club. Tayler executed some two dozen ‘lithotints,’ which were published by T. McLean in 1844, under the title of ‘Frederick Tayler's Portfolio.’ A member of the ‘Etching Club,’ he etched a number of small plates for the various publications of that body (Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village,’ ‘Songs of Shakespeare,’ ‘Etched Thoughts,’ &c.), and also made drawings on wood for several popular classics, such as Thomson's ‘Seasons,’ ‘Sir Roger de Coverley,’ and Goldsmith's ‘Works.’
[Ref: 61182] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

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