Grosvenor Prints

Berkeley Square.
[John Papworth.]
N.º 57 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub.d 1 Sept.r 1813, at 101 Strand, London.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½").
The buildings on Berkeley Square, with a coach and a liveried footman.
[Ref: 61977] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

View of Blackfriars Bridge & S.t Pauls, from the Patent Shot Manufactory on the South Side of the River.
Drawn & Etch'd by Dan.l Turner. Aquatinted by Tho.s Sutherland.
Publish'd Sept.r 1. 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Aquatint with etching. 300 x 410mm (11¾ x 16"). Laid on card at edges.
A view of St Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriars Bridge, with the shot tower built by William Watt in 1789, taken from the Thames.
[Ref: 62009] £320.00

A Section of the Quadrangle design'd for the British Musæum, or Public Repository. including the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Corn.s Johnston Inv.t.
[London: Cornelius Johnston, 1754.]
Scarce engraving. 380 x 760mm (15 x 30¾"), with large margins. Crease in centre as normal. Repaired tears.
An architectural orthogonal elevation of the interior facade of the proposed building, facing into the courtyard, with cut-away views through the two side wings. Johnston, of whom nothing in known, published this print in an attempt to win the contract for the construction of a new national museum. Instead the commissioners decide to convert Montague House. It was published as a pair to 'A Design for the British Musæum, or, Public Repository and Cottonian Library, being on Front of a Quadrangle, in which may be included, the Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, with proper Receptacles for such future Libraries, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, as may be hereafter left'. In January 1759 the Museum opened to the public at Montague House, London.
[Ref: 61429] £580.00

The British Museum.
Lithographed & Published by Dickinson Brothers, New Bond Street. [n.d., 1851.]
Coloured tinted lithograph, sheet 300 x 395mm. 11¾ x 15½".
A view of Smirke's Greek Revival facade for the British Museum from Great Russell Street, before the completion of the pediment above the main entrance, which now features fifteen allegorical figures by Sir Richard Westmacott depicting the Progress of Civilisation.
[Ref: 61952] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Hall and Stair Case, British Museum.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. J. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub April 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins, 1807 J. Whatman watermark. Platemark: 285 x 240mm (11¼ x 9¾").
An interior view of the Great Staircase in the British Museum, London. Montagu House was the first home of the British Museum. When it was built in 1686, the French style of decoration was fashionable. The walls of the Great Staircase and the ceiling above it were painted mainly by Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716). The painting on the ceiling illustrated a story from Greek mythology - Phaeton asking for permission to drive the chariot of the sun-god, Apollo. The Great Staircase led from the Entrance Hall (which was near the site of the present-day colonnade) to a landing on the first floor. From there visitors walked through the upper rooms, where they could see some of the Museum's collections of manuscripts, medals, antiquities and natural history specimens. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61997] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Brothel] The Mob attempting to pull down Peter Woods Bawdy House in the Strand.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1749.]
Engraving. 175 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), with letterpress clipping. Narrow margins, some spotting, laid on album paper.
A group of sailors with clubs storm The Star Tavern, near Temple Bar in the Strand, in vengence for being robbed, 1st July 1749. According to the letterpress, they slashed the mattress and through the feathers out of the windows and forced all the women out into the street, naked. The rioters returned the next two nights, attacking other houses. Nine men were eventually arrested: one, Bosavern Penlez (1726-49), a wig-maker, was hanged at Tyburn on 18 October 1749 for stealing linen from the Star.
Wellcome Collection 27976i.
[Ref: 62057] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Chelsea Hospital.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J. Bluck aquat.
London Pub. Jany. 1st. 1810 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, 235 x 280mm. 9¼ x 11".
Interior view of the dining hall at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the Chelsea Pensioners eating. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', 3 vols., 1808-10. Numbered 'Plate 98.' upper right.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 98.
[Ref: 61933] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Cock Lane Ghost.
[n.d., c.1762.]
Etching. Sheet 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"). With three wood engravings and seven 18th century newspaper clippings on the same subject. Trimmed to printed border, laid down and mounted over, laid on album paper.
Rare item. A man enters a room to be confronted by a ghostly woman. 'The Cock Lane Ghost' seemed to haunt William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk who, after his wife Elizabeth had died in childbirth, had taken up with his sister-in-law, Fanny. They moved to London as man and wife, and took lodgings in Cock Lane, in the house of Richard Parsons, a parish clerk. Kent loaned Parsons 12 guineas, to be repaid at a rate of a guinea per month. Then strange noises started to be heard in the house, after which a visitor reported seeing a ghostly white figure ascend the stairs. After a lull Fanny died of smallpox and the knockings resumed. With John Moore, rector of St Bartholomew-the-Great in West Smithfield, Parsons devised a method of communication with the spirit: one knock for yes, two knocks for no. The spirit suggested that the ghost that had scared the vistor was Elizabeth and the latest was Fanny, both of whom had been poisoned by William Kent. Thus Kent fell under public suspicion as a murderer but, protesting his innocence, allowed séances to be held, one attended by Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, 30th January 1762. Eventually a committee (including Samuel Johnson) declared the haunting a hoax, stating the knockings were caused by Parsons' daughter Elizabeth. They were sentenced in 1763.
[Ref: 61758] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Horse Armoury, Tower. Plate 101.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. Sunderland aqua.t.
London Pub, Nov.r 1.st 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
Interior view of the Horse Armoury at the Tower of London. Cavalry in full armour lined up against back wall for inspection; helmets and other pieces of armour hanging from walls and ceiling Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61930] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Exhibition Room, Somerset House. Plate 2.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. Hill Aquatin.
London Pub, 1. Jan.y 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts on the Strand.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"). Paper toned.
Interior view of the exhibition room at Somerset House, London. An extremely crowded exhibition with paintings from floor to ceiling and a large number of viewers. The Royal Academy was founded in 1768 with the backing of George III and twelve years later moved into the newly completed Strand block of Somerset House. Here the Academy held its annual exhibitions until 1836. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61928] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The White Fryers in Gloucester. Aug 24. 1721. Browne Willys Ar. Reliquias sacras d.d. W.s Stukeley.
Stukeley delin. E. Kirkall sculp.
[n.d., 1724.]
Engraving, plate 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very large margins.
A view of the Carmelite Friary once situated outside the north gate of the city, with gentlemen playing bowls in the foreground. Published in Stukeley's 'Itinerarium Curiosum'. Very early image of Bowling.
[Ref: 62043] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Greenwich Hospital, The Painted Hall.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t et sculp.t. J. Bluck Aquat.
London. Pub Jan 1, 1810 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
An interior view of the Painted Hall in Greenwich Hospital, London. The first of the principal buildings constructed for the hospital was the King Charles Court, famous for its baroque Painted Hall, which was painted by Sir James Thornhill in honour of King William III and Queen Mary II (the ceiling of the Lower Hall), of Queen Anne and her husband, Prince George of Denmark (the ceiling of the Upper Hall) and George I (the north wall of the Upper Hall). The Painted Hall was deemed too magnificent for the pensioned seamen's refectory and was never regularly used as such. On 5th January 1806, Lord Nelson's body lay in state in the Painted Hall of the Greenwich Hospital before being taken up the river Thames to St Paul's Cathedral for a state funeral. In 1824 a National Gallery of Naval Art was created in the Painted Hall, where it remained until 1936, when the collection was transferred to the National Maritime Museum, newly established in the Queen's House and adjacent buildings. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61931] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

North Side of Grosvenor Square.
[John Papworth.]
N.º 59 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub.d 1 Nov.r 1813, at 101 Strand, London.
Coloured aquatint, pt J. Whatman watermark. Sheet 145 x 240mm (5¾ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of the terraces of Grosvenor Square, from the west, replaced by the Embassy of the United States of America.
[Ref: 61979] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

India House, The Sale Room. N.o 49.
Rowlandson & Pugin Delt. et Sculpt. J. C. Stadler Aquat.
London. Pub.1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Coloured aquatint, plate 235 x 275mm (9 x 10¾").
Interior of the Sale Room of the East India Company at Leadenhall Street in the City. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61945] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[St John's Wood, Kilburn & Kensal Green] Sheet 5. Stanford's Library Map of London and its Suburbs.
London: Published by Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross Feb. 15.th 1862.
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 350 x 425mm (13¾ x 16¾"). Stained, laid on card.
One sheet of a 24-sheet map of London, showing St John's Wood as the northern limit of London's conurbation, with Kilburn, Kensal Green Cemetery and Willsden surrounded by fields.
[Ref: 61750] £180.00

Life on the Water _ The Grand Rowing Match, for Mr. Kean's Prize Wherry. Red House, Battersea. [&] Pierce Egan's Anecdotes Of The Turf, The Chase, The Ring, And The Stage
[Knight & Lacey. London, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint with two pages of double sided text. Sheet 125 x 220mm (5 x 8¾"). Time stained.
View of an annual waterman's race, funded by Edmund Kean, the actor. One heat was from Westminster Bridge to the 'Red House', a tavern famous for pigeon shoots.
[Ref: 62022] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

A North View of London. Vue Septentrionale de la Ville de Londres.
Canaleti Delin. Stevens Sculpt.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. [Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.]
Engraving. Sheet 250 x 395mm (10 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, mounted on card at edges.
A view of London from the bowling green at Islington, showing the New River Head waterworks and Sadler's Wells in the foreground. After Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768).
[Ref: 62018] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Londen aen de Theems een seer vermaerde Koopstadt van de gantsche Werelt en des Konings Residenzie Plaats. Londinum ad Tamesin Emporium toto orbe famigeratis simum, Sedes Regia.
Pet Schenk exc: amst: cum privil:
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving. 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). Mounted on album paper. Small margins.
A view of London before the Great Fire of 1666, taken from an imaginary hill south of the Thames. In the centre is the Norman St Paul's Cathedral; London Bridge is filled with houses; and the Tower of London appears on the right.
[Ref: 62053] £450.00

Londres.
[after Pierre Aveline.]
AParis chez Chiquet [n.d., c.1700].
Scarce engraving, some amateur colour. Sheet 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, affecting key, chips and surface abrasions. Loss on left especially at top corner.
A naive prospect of London before the Great Fire of 1666, taken from Southwark, with a 12-point key. In the centre is the Norman St Paul's Cathedral, depicted very much as an artist's impression, with London Bridge with houses and the heads of criminals on the gatehouse.
[Ref: 61724] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

London.
Printed in the Year 1683.
Two engravings, trimmed and conjoined, laid on album sheet. Total printed area 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½").
An amalgam of two engraved titlepages. Above are the arms of Charles II on an architrave; below is a stylised prospect of London from the south, with an odd Pre-Fire Norman St Paul's Cathedral and three theatres grouped close together on the South Bank, including Shakespeare's Globe.
[Ref: 61728] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Correct Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster & Borough of Southwark, including the Bills of Mortality, with the Additional Buildings &c. Engraved from a New Survey for the London Magazine 1761.
Engraved map. 230 x 410mm (9 x 16"). Trimmed into plate on left, original binding folds.laid on card.
A map of London based on John Rocque's important 24-sheet map of 1746. The Bills of Mortality were the areas in Greater London that reported death notices directly to the London government.
Darlington & Howgego 118.
[Ref: 61741] £360.00

London.
Published as the Act directs Feb.y 1815 by G. Jones, Ave Maria Lane.
Engraved map. Sheet 255 x 405mm (10 x 16"). Vertical fold, laid on card.
A Georgian plan of London, published a matter of months before the Battle of Waterloo. It shows from the Serpentine River in Hyde Park, clockwise to Paddington, Regent's Park, Hackney, Stratford, the East India Docks, Greenwich, Walworth, Nine Elms and Chelsea. The map shows Regent's Park and the Millbank Penitentiary under construction, and 'Tomlins Town', a shanty town for workers off the Edgware Road.
Darlington & Howgego 265.
[Ref: 61729] £260.00

A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Borough of Southwark.
[London: R. Dodesley, 1744.]
Engraved map. Sheet 230 x 420mm (9 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, folds and creasing, slight ink offset, laid on album sheet
A map of London, extending from Park Lane in the west, clockwise to Marylebone, Sadlers Wells, Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Rotherhithe and Lambeth. The map shows the extent of the damage caused by the Great Fire of 1666. From "The Geography of England".
Darlington and Howgego 92.
[Ref: 61743] £360.00

A Prospect of the City of London from S.t Marie Overs Steeple In Southwark in its flourishing Condition before The Fire. Another Prospect of the above City taken from the Same Place as it Appeared after that Dreadfull Fire in 1666. A Plan for Rebuilding the City after the Fire, Design’d by that Great Architect S.r Christoph.r Wren and approv’d of by King and Parliament but unhappily Defeated by Faction.Vues de la Ville de Londres Comme il doit devant & apres l’incendie de 1666. Avec le plan pour la rebâtir. Projetté par ce grand architecte le chevalier Chrsitopher Wren, & aprouvé par le roi & parliament; mais malheureusement rejetté par faction.
[Prospects after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Publiè par Jean Rocque, Chorographe de Son Altesse Royalle le Prince de Galles.
Engraved map. Sheet 360 x 315mm (14½ x 12½"). Dissected and laid on linen, trimmed close to printed border, some surface loss top centre & top left, stains and creases, mounted on card.
Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666, with copies of Wenceslaus Hollar's prospects of the city before and after the fire.
Rare: OCLC records only two institutional examples, in the British Library and the Yale Centre for British Art
[Ref: 61745] £1,650.00

A Plan of London as in Q. Elizabeths days.
London. Printed for T. Bowles at N.º 43 in Cornhill [n.d., c.1750].
Engraved map. Sheet 175 x 550mm (6¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing half of plate; paper toned, some stains.
A map of London in Tudor times, based on the large woodcut map often attributed to Ralph Agas. Originally published c. 1700 by John Bowles. The missing lower half of the plate contained a prospect of London after Visscher and five views.
[Ref: 61744] £450.00

[Prospect of Pre-Fire London]
[after Pieter Hendrickszoon Schut]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. Sheet 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed into image, stains, laid on album paper.
A prospect of London before the Great Fire of 1666, from an imaginary hill south of the Thames, with people and dogs in the right foreground. Possibly a later state of Schut's broadsheet view of the Fire of London published by Visscher in 1666, with the flames removed, as well as Schut & Visscher's names, and the key under the dogs.
See BM 1872,0113.592 for Schut's original.
[Ref: 61736] £320.00

Clue Plan for Collins's Illustrated Guide To London By J. Batholomew.
William Collins, Sons & C.º London, Glasgow & Edinburgh [n.d., c.1871.]
Rare wood-engraved map, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 190 x 365mm (7½ x 14¼"). Original folds, mounted on card at corners.
A map of the roads of London, with landmarks and railways.
Not in Hyde's Victorian Maps of London.
[Ref: 61749] £360.00

[Prospect of Pre-Fire London]
[after Pieter Hendrickszoon Schut?]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. Sheet 165 x 255mm (6½ x 10"). Trimmed into image, losing title at top, laid on album paper.
A prospect of London before the Great Fire of 1666, from an imaginary hill south of the Thames, with people and dogs in the right foreground. Possibly a later state of Schut's broadsheet view of the Fire of London published by Visscher in 1666, with the flames removed, as well as Schut & Visscher's names, and the key under the dogs.
See BM 1872,0113.592 for Schut's original.
[Ref: 61735] £350.00

Panorama of the River Thames in 1845. Given With The Illustrated London News.
[by Frederick James Smyth.]
[London: William Little, 1845.]
Wood engraving on two sheets conjoined, total 380 x 2460mm (15 x 97"), with wood-engraved title page & keyplate & 8pp letterpress description illustrated with small wood engravings. Mint.
A large and impressive prospect of London, extending from Lambeth Bridge in the west to Greenwich, with Woolwich in the distance. Superbly-detailed, the separate key lists 237 points of interest, including Brunel's newly-opened Hungerford Suspension Bridge and Nelson's Column, erected only three years before, although without Landseer's lions. This prospect was first published as a supplement to the Illustrated London News, as a gift to subscribers. It was normally presented in two halves, printed one above the other: this example has been joined to show the entire length in one piece.
[Ref: 62061] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

The Demolition of Old London Bridge, 26th January 1832. Proof.
H.C. Esq.r del.t. H. Pyall Scp.t.
London, Published 31st 1832, by S. Knight Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Fine & rare aquatint, printed in sepia. 305 x 375mm (12 x 14¾"). Mounted in album card at edges.
The removal of the old bridge once James Rennie's New London Bridge was completed.
[Ref: 62008] £450.00

[Old London Bridge] To the Right Honorable Mathias Prime Locas, Lord Mayor of London. This sketch representing the South View of a Portion of the Old London Bridge with the works in progress for the relief of the Navigation on the Southwark Side during the Execution of the New Bridge as it appeared in June 1826. [&] ... the North View...
Drawn and Engraved by William Knight.
[1827]
Scarce pair of etchings. Sheets c. 310 x 455mm (12¼ x 18"). Trimmed within plates, laid on album card at edges.
Two views of a temporary wooden arch built on Old London Bridge while Rennie's New London Bridge was being built.
[Ref: 62007] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Environs of London] General Map.
[London: John Cary, n.d., 1786.]
Engraved map with outline colour. Sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Surface soiling, central fold, as usual.
A sketch map of the environs of London, extending from Uxbridge in the west, clockwise to North Mims, Chipping Ongar, Thurrock, Coulsdon and Weybridge. The county boundaries are marked in colour. From ''Cary's Actual Survey of the Country Fifteen Miles round London''.
[Ref: 61725] £95.00

A View of London Taken off Lambeth Church Veue de Londres dessine de dessus l'Eglize de Lambeth.
Jn.o Boydell Delin & Sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver at Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside London, 1752. Price 1s. No.24
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 420mm (9¾ x 16½"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Mounted on Album paper.
An elevated view of London from Lambeth, showing the sweep of the Thames from Westminster Bridge and Abbey to St Paul's Cathedral. The large open space on the right is Lambeth Marsh, the site of what is now Waterloo Station.
[Ref: 62017] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of the London Gymnasium.
[n.d. c.1828]
Very rare aquatint, sheet 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at sides.
A scene in a high walled outdoor park. Men exercise on various pieces of equipment including; pole vaulting, rope climbing, javelin, rope lader climbing, gymnastics, pole climbing, jumping over ditches, pull ups and high jump.
[Ref: 62045] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Lord's Ground. M.C.C. & Ground v. Cambridge University Monday, June 26, 1905.
Letterpress sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Tear at bottom.
A list of matches at Lord's Cricket ground May-September 1905.
[Ref: 62041] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Grand Cricket Match, played in Lord's Ground Mary-le-bone, on June 20.th & follwing day between the Earl's of Winchelsea & Darnley for 1000 Guineas. [&] The Laws of Cricket.
Cook sculp.
[n.d. c. 1839][&] Published July 1.st 1793 by I. Wheble, Warwick Square, London. [&]
Sheet 570 x 380mm (22½ x 15"). Glued to backing sheet at edges.
View of a cricket game at Lord's and two pages from 'The Laws of Cricket., published in Sporting Magazine.
[Ref: 62048] £480.00

Cricketing. (Lord Cricket Ground, S.t John's Wood, Match of the Gentlemen & Players.) [&] Lords [in pencil].
G. Dore. Pannemaker. Fils.
London: Henry Lea & C.o, 125 Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1850]. [&] [n.d. c. 1872]
Lithograph and wood engraving, sheet 570 x 380mm (22½ x 15"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at edges. Foxing and marks.
Two views of cricket games at Lord's mainly focusing on the crowd.
[Ref: 62049] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Marybone Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk, and the Orchestra, with the Musick a Playing. [French translation to right.]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, N.o 69 S.t Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d. c.1780.]
Coloured etching, 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½"). Tipped into album sheet.
Marylebone or Marybone Gardens was a London pleasure garden, officially opened as a venue for concerts and other entertainments in 1738 by Daniel Gough, the proprietor of the Rose of Normandy tavern on the east side of Marylebone High Street. Originally consisting of two bowling greens adjoining the tavern, its size was increased by acquisition of land from Marylebone Manor House. The Gardens were mentioned by John Gay in "The Beggar's Opera" as a haunt of its 'hero', MacHeath and were used for, amongst other entertainments, gambling, cock-fighting, bull-baiting and boxing matches (with both male and female contestants). From a series of reduced views in London, numbered '12a' upper right. After John Donowell (1753 - 1786; fl.).
[Ref: 61998] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Middle Temple Hall and Fountain Court.]
Sydney R. Jones.
[n.d., c.1927.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). very large margins.
The Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. Sydney Robert Fleming Jones (1881-1961) was a notable watercolourist and etcher, particularly of architectural views; he also wrote several books on the English countryside and provided illustrations for several publications including The Times, Illustrated London News and The Studio.
[Ref: 61747] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Midlesex.
[London, Awnsham Churchill, 1722.]
Engraved map. Sheet 370 x 430mm (14½ x 17"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album sheet.
A map of Middlesex, based on John Speed but with John Ogilby's roads added. First published in 'Camden’s Britannia' in 1695, this example comes from 'Britannia: Or A Chorographical Description Of Great Britain'
[Ref: 61746] £240.00

Middlesex.
Engraved on Steel by Pigot & Son, Manchester.
Published by Pigot & C.º 24 Basing Lane, London, & Fountain S.t Manchester [n.d., 1829].
Engraved map with hand colour. 235 x 370mm (9¼ x 14½"), with very large margins. Tear near centre fold, mounted on card at corners.
A detailed map of Middlesex, marking the road layout on London, with a vignette of St Paul's Cathedral. From the first edition of 'Pigot & Co’s British Atlas of the Counties of England', the first county atlas with steel-engraved maps.
[Ref: 61748] £260.00

Middlesex.
Neel et Stand.
Publish'd November 21dt 1811 by Adlard & C.º Ave Maria Lane.
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 205 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A small-format map of Middlesex, with the streets of London shown, published in the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis' by John Wilkes.
[Ref: 61727] £140.00

Midle-Sex.
[engraved by Pieter van den Keere.]
[London: George Humble, c.1627.]
Engraved map. 90 x 120mm (3½ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, a little surface soiling at bottom edge, mounted on album paper on left. Very small tear bottom centre.
A miniature map of Middlesex, engraved by Pieter van den Keere sometime after 1599 but first published in a county atlas by Willem Blaeu in 1617. In 1627 the maps were published with English titles engraved instead of the Latin ones, in a miniature atlas, ''England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged With ye Historie Relation of things worthy memory''. Although the maps were engraved before John Speed's atlas, the maps gained the nickname 'miniature Speeds' because Humble (son of Speed's original publisher) used an abridged version of Speed's text for the miniature atlas.
[Ref: 61723] £160.00

Middlesex. Drawn from Surveys & most approved Maps By Eman: Bowen Geograph.r to His Majesty.
Printed for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in Newgae Street 1752.
Engraved map. 190 x 205mm (7½ x 8"). Mounted on album paper.
A small-format map of Middlesex, with the streets of London shown, decorated with an ornate baroque title cartouche and the arms of the City of London. From 'The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure'; because it was not published in an atlas the map is uncommon.
[Ref: 61726] £180.00

The Penitentiary, Millbank. As it Appeared from the River during the Fire on Wednesday Night, the 7th Oct 1835.
Drawn on Stone by J. Freeman.
Printed and Published by W. Annan, 12 Gracechurch S.t.
Fine & scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"). Faint surface scuffing, laid on album paper.
A view from the Thames, with the walls of Millbank Prison sihouetted by the flames in the interior. The fire started in the laundry and destroyed the female wing and the infirmary, without loss of life.
[Ref: 61983] £320.00

The Inside of S.t Paul's Cathedral as Fitted up for the Funeral of Lord Nelson.
London, Publish'd by W.m Suttaby, Oct.1.1806.
Etching, 1806 watermark. Printed area 110 x 115mm (4¼ x 4½"), with another etching on the same sheet. Notch in right edge.
The additional image is 'Fashional Dress', showing a woman in a flowing, full-length dress.
[Ref: 61967] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Nottingham Market Place. Vivi Post Funera Virtus.
Drawn by R, Bonington. T. Cartwright Sculp.
Publish'd Aug.t 1813 by R, Bonington, Nottingham.
Coloured aquatint, 475 x 705mm (18¾ x 27¾"), Small margins.
A cobbled market square surrounded either side by neoclassical buildings with shopfronts, with carriages carts and people passing through. After Richard Bonington Senior father of the celebrated ,landscape painter, Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28), who despite dying aged only twenty-five was one of the most influential British artists of his generation. A wonderful coloured image of the market place.
[Ref: 61486] £580.00

[The Old Sessions House, Old Bailey.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Fine etching. Sheet 210 x 340mm (8¼ x 13½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
A rare etched view of the Sessions House, built in 1674, after the Great Fire destroyed the earlier building in 1666. The front was left open to the weather to prevent the spread of disease (closed in 1734).
[Ref: 61986] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Paddington Canal, with the Passage Boat and Warehouse. [&] View of the Bason of the Grand Juction Canal, at Paddington. View of the First Bridge and Accommodation Barge of the Grand JunctionCanal at Paddington.
Published Feb.y 15, 1821, by Rich.d Holmes Laurie, 53, Fleet Street London
A sheet of two rare engravings, sheet 580 x 390mm (22¾ x 15¼"). Top print trimmed within plate loss in title. Both glued onto backing sheet. Both have small tears.
Two views of Paddington Basin.
[Ref: 61948] £320.00

A View of the Bason of the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington.
Published 10th August, 1801. by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Aquatint, printed in brown. Sheet 275 x 420mm (10¾ x 16½"). Trimmed within plate, stained at fold, laid on card.
Barges and warehouses, with promenaders.
[Ref: 62016] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 153

Catalogue 152

Catalogue 151

Advanced Search