Grosvenor Prints

[Bolivia] View of Potosi in the Kingdom of Peru in South America. Engraved for Bankes's New System of Geography Published by Royal Authority.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed at bottom, losing second image.
A view of Potosi and Cerro Potosí, the mountain that produced 80% of the world's silver between the 16th & 19th centuries. To the right is a windmill.
[Ref: 64009] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Király Turkish baths, Budapest.]
J.B. F v: E: [Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach] del.
Cum P.S.C.M. [1721.]
Engraving. 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17").
A floorplan, cross-section and exterior view of the Király Turkish baths, built between 1566-72 by the Ottoman occupiers of Budapest and still extant. Plate from the 'Entwurf einer historischen Architektur' ('Outline of Historical Architecture', first published 1721) by Austrian architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach, the first comparative architecture of all periods and nations.
[Ref: 64437] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Gli Dardanlei.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. Fold.
A view of the Dardanelle forts with rough seas. A copy of a plate from 'Diverse Viste delli Dardanelli', a series of nine view of the Dardanelles and the Aegean etched by Romeyn de Hooghe and others, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64427] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Houses, Dinant.]
Monk [William Monk].
[n.d., c.1912.]
Etching, proof. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
A view of a street in Dinant, Belgium by William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 64436] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Houses, Dinant.]
Monk [William Monk].
Second Pull Feb 1912 [pencil].
Etching, proof; 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
A view of a street in Dinant, Belgium by William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 64434] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Fair Head, Co. Antrim, Eagle Devouring Sheep.] [&] [Fair Head, Co. Antrim, Fox Pursuing Sheep.]
Drawn by Capt.n H.S. Davis, 52.nd Lt. Infantry. Engraved by David Lucas, 27, Westbourn St. Pimlico.
London, Published April 15.th 1836 by M.M. Holloway, 22 King William St. Strand. A Paris chez Veith et Hauser Boulevard des Italiens N.º 11.
Pair of rare & scarce mezzotints. 365 x 460mm (14¼ x 18"), with very large margins. Some spotting, nicks in edges.
A pair of views of Fair Head, a dolerite mountain cliff on the north coast of Ireland, from the east at sunset, and the west. Henry Samuel Davis was an active amateur artist while serving with the 52nd Light Infantry, which he commanded 1850-1, retiring that year as lieutenant-colonel. He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1833, 1835, and 1843. His father, Samuel, was a director of the East India Company; his brother, John Francis Davis, was the second governor of Hong Kong. The titles, as above, come from 'A Dictionary of Irish Artists', 1913.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64575] £750.00 view all images for this item

Laplanders, English, Americans. Africans, Chinese, Hottentots. 36.
Printed and Published by W.Davison Alnwick.
Very rare etching. 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Backed onto album paper at corners.
Six small scenes showing families from different places in the world.
[Ref: 64568] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Honved's Farewell. Respectfully Dedicated to Frederick William Bennecke, Senior, London, by the Publisher, J. Constantin Kastner, late Hungarian Captain.
N. Ploszeggaski..
Schenck & McFarlane, Lith.rs Edinburgh. [n.d. c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 350 x 370mm (13¾ x 14½"), with very large dusty margins.
Honved was a term used for men who formed battalion groups; those who left their homes to join in the Hungarian Uprising and fight for freedom against the Austrians. This scene depicts a young man saying farewell to his wife, son and father. Two other men to the left on the path, already brandishing their lances.
[Ref: 64438] £360.00

[Will.m. Penn's Treaty with the Indians.]
[After Benjamin West. H.Dawe sculp.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Very fine coloured mezzotint. 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed into image.
Coloured mezzotint after Benjamin West's impression of the 1681 peace treaty rendered between William Penn and the Delaware Indians.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64517] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Will.m. Penn's Treaty with the Indians.
[After] B.West. H.Dawe sculp.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured mezzotint. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins. Some time-staining. Messy.
Coloured mezzotint after Benjamin West's impression of the 1681 peace treaty rendered between William Penn and the Delaware Indians.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64518] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Nankin and the Porcelain Tower, approached by the Creek from the Yang-tse Keang River.
From a sketch by Capt.n J. Clark Kennedy, 18th. Royal Irish, Sept. 1842. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published by Ackermann & Co. Strand, 20th July, 1844.
Rare lithograph. Printed area 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in borders.
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, located on the bank of the Yangtze River, China, built in the 15th century during the Ming Dynasty. John Clark Kennedy (1817-67) served with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in the China War of 1840-42 and was on the staff in the operations in the Canton River in 1847. He also served in the Punjab campaign (1848-9) and Crimea, where he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1855, and was present at the final assault on Sebastopol.
[Ref: 64020] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A View in Port Jackson, New South Wales.
Eastgate Sculpt [after John White],
Published by Alex.r Hogg, Jan.y 25, 1794.
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 225mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed.
A view of Aboriginies fishing, with a canoe with a fire on board. This plate is an enlarged version of a vignette on the titlepage of John White's ''Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'', attributed to the author. White (c. 1756-1832) was principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787.
[Ref: 64017] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Oran e Marsagujur.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. Fold.
A view of the Dardanelle forts with rough seas. A copy of a plate from 'Divarse Viste delli Luoghie Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibraltar', a series of eleven views the Strait of Gibraltar. etched by Lucas Vorsterman II, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64429] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

View of Truxillo in the Kingdom of Peru in South America.
[engraved by Thomas Bowen?]
[London: C. Cooke, c.1789.]
Engraving. 160 x 215mm (6¼ x 8½"). Trimmed into plate at top.
A view of the coastal city of Trujillo in northwestern Peru. From 'A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography', by Thomas Bankes et al, with many plates engraved by Thomas Bowen.
[Ref: 64001] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Samos] Camos=nel Arcipelago.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½"), with large margins. Fold, stain in sky.
A view of Samos, depicted as a rocky island with ships in a rough sea. A copy of a plate from 'Diverse Viste delli Dardanelli', a series of nine view of the Dardanelles and the Aegean after Romeyn de Hooghe and others, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64426] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Rethymnon] Retimo in Candia.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. Fold.
A view of Rethymnon in Crete, with ships in the harbour. A copy of one of the ten plates in 'Insula di Candia del Mare Mediteranea', etched by Lucas Vorsterman II, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64430] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The fortunate escape of Capt.n Cook from the furious Natives of Erramangea.
Granger delin. Warren sculp.
[n.d. c.1778.]
Engraving. Sheet 155 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom. Slight stain top right.
The landing of Captain Cook's men on the island of Eromanga, Vanuatu, on the 4th August 1774, resisted by a crowd of hostile locals.
[Ref: 64006] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband.
Painted by J. Wright. Engravd by J R Smith, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highn.s the Prince of Wales; & his Serene Highn.s the Duke of Orleans.
Published March, 2. 1812, by Tho. Palser, Surry-side of Westminster Bridge.
Mezzotint, very fine printing in colours and hand finished. 460 x 560mm. (18 x 22"). Thread margins.
A Native American woman sitting beneath a tree stump on which her dead husband's quiver, bow, knife and axe are hung. Below is choppy water, above a stormy sky. Engraved by John Raphael Smith after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97). The painting, now in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, was first exhibited in Wright's one-man show of 1785, following his break from the Royal Academy. In the catalogue that accompanied the first showing of the painting in London in 1785, Wright explained that it depicts the custom whereby the widow of a great Native American warrior would sit all day for a month beneath a memorial in the form of a tree on which were hung his weapons. Wright, as always, strove for accuracy in depicting his subject: here his source was James Adair's 'History of the American Indians' (1775), an important record of mid 18th-century life in America.
J. Egerton p.144; Frankau 375, iii of iii; D'Oench 301. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64544] £1,350.00

The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband.
Painted by J. Wright. Engravd by J R Smith, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highn.s the Prince of Wales; & his Serene Highn.s the Duke of Orleans.
London, Pub.d Jan.y 29, 1789 by I.R.Smith N.31 King Street, Cov.t Garden.
Mezzotint, very fine printing in colours and hand-finished. 460 x 560mm. (18 x 22"). Edges damaged and browned. Small margins.
A Native American woman sitting beneath a tree stump on which her dead husband's quiver, bow, knife and axe are hung. Below is choppy water, above a stormy sky. Engraved by John Raphael Smith after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97). The painting, now in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, was first exhibited in Wright's one-man show of 1785, following his break from the Royal Academy. In the catalogue that accompanied the first showing of the painting in London in 1785, Wright explained that it depicts the custom whereby the widow of a great Native American warrior would sit all day for a month beneath a memorial in the form of a tree on which were hung his weapons. Wright, as always, strove for accuracy in depicting his subject: here his source was James Adair's 'History of the American Indians' (1775), an important record of mid 18th-century life in America.
J. Egerton p.144; Frankau 375, ii of iii; D'Oench 301. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64545] £1,350.00

The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceas'd Husband.
Painted by J. Wright. Engravd by J R Smith, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highn.s the Prince of Wales & his Serene Highn.s the Duke of Orleans.
London, Pub.d Jan.y 29, 1789 by I.R.Smith N.31 King Street, Cov.t Garden.
Fine mezzotint, etched letter proof. 460 x 560mm. (18 x 22"). Some restoration to edges.
A Native American woman sitting beneath a tree stump on which her dead husband's quiver, bow, knife and axe are hung. Below is choppy water, above a stormy sky. Engraved by John Raphael Smith after Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97). In this early state the 't' of 'the Arms' is not crossed. The painting, now in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, was first exhibited in Wright's one-man show of 1785, following his break from the Royal Academy. In the catalogue that accompanied the first showing of the painting in London in 1785, Wright explained that it depicts the custom whereby the widow of a great Native American warrior would sit all day for a month beneath a memorial in the form of a tree on which were hung his weapons. Wright, as always, strove for accuracy in depicting his subject: here his source was James Adair's 'History of the American Indians' (1775), an important record of mid 18th-century life in America.
J. Egerton p.144; Frankau 375, i of iii; D'Oench 301. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64548] £1,350.00

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