Grosvenor Prints

[Chinese Aster] Callistephus Chinensis. [with Chinese script]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Watercolour on rice paper. Sheet 280 x 185mm (11 x 7¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A watercolour of two Chinese Aster flowers.
[Ref: 66261] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Leucanthemella linearis.] [with Chinese script]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Watercolour on rice paper. Sheet 275 x 185mm (10¾ x 7¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A Chinese watercolour of a sprig of Leucanthemella linearis.
See ref: 66261
[Ref: 66262] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Kiwi] Mantell's Apteryx. Apteryx Mantelli.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 245 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), with very large margins.
Five kiwis in a landscape, from 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Kiwi arrived at London Zoo in 1851, making it the first zoo to keep the bird, but the first breeding in captivity only occurred in 1945. In 2007 only 13 zoos worldwide held kiwi. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 53913] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Lion and Horse.
[J. Collett Pinx.t. R. Laurie fecit.]
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer & John Bennett, Print & Mapsellers, Nº 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 1.st July 1774.
Mezzotint. 455 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere, creasing, unidentified collector's blindstamp in inscription area bottom left & right.
Pastiche of Stubbs' horse and lion subjects, issued as a companion to Robert Sayers' reprint of Stubbs' 'Lioness and Lion' by George Townley Stubbs. Lennox-Boyd (p.123) supposes that Collett's painting was commissioned by the publisher specifically with a view to being engraved as a pair for the Stubbs print. John Collet (c.1725-80) was a painter and prolific designer of predominantly humorous scenes for publishers to make prints from.
See Lennox-Boyd p.23. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Lugt L.2872.
[Ref: 66414] £680.00

Nero From the Life
B.E. Duppa Esq.r Del.t R. Roe fec.t.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare etching. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into plate at bottom, foxing.
Sketched portrait of the head of a lion, presumably the same 'Nero' which the menagerie owner George Wombwell (1777-1850) attempted to make fight against a pack of dogs in Warwick in 1825. In a notorious event which provoked public outcry, Wombwell sold tickets (prices varied), but Nero took no notice of the dogs and so was replaced by another lion, Wallace. When the dogs were introduced into the cage with Wallace, two at a time, they were immediately destroyed. Lithograph after portrait painter Bryan Edward Duppa (1804-66).
[Ref: 66554] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pointer & Partridge.
Richard Ansdell. H.T.Ryall. Printed by McQueen.
London. Published May 1, 1855, by Lloyd Brothers & Co., Ludgate Hill. Entered according to Act of Congress, by Williams, Stevens, Williams, & C.º in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mixed method engraving. Sheet 430 x 345mm (17 x 13¼"). Crease in unprinted area.
A pointer finding a dead partridge.
[Ref: 66297] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ruben's Three Children. Done from a Capital Picture, in the Possession of Monsieur I. Bertels at Antwerp.
P.P. Rubens pinxit. P.J. Tassaert Fecit.
Sold by P.J. Tassaert Painter to his Royal Highness Prince Charles of Lorrain at M.rs Tinges in great Poland Street Soho Price 10s. 6d.
Mezzotint. 505 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"). Narrow margins, small tear in bottom margin.
Three small children playing with a dog.
CS3 ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66526] £360.00

[Carnation.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour. Sheet 170 x 150 (6¾ x 6"). Laid on card.
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66214] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Geranium.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour on card. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½") Stains.
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66221] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Ipomoea.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour. Sheet 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½")
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66218] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Ipomoea.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour on card, blindstamped 'Bristol boards'. Sheet 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½")
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66219] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Roses and Pansies.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5")
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66216] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Roses, lily and fuchias in a basket.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour on card. Sheet 125 x 140mm (5 x 5½")
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66217] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Tulip.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Watercolour on card, blindstamped 'Bristol boards'. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½")
A fine botanical illustration.
See Ref: 66215
[Ref: 66220] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Vase of flowers.]
[dated 1848 in pencil on reverse.]
Watercolour on card. Verso in pencil "To Dear Sister ..? from her affectionate sister Eleanor Woodham, Clifton Oct 1843"; Sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5").
A fine botanical illustration.
[Ref: 66215] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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