Grosvenor Prints

[As You Like It] Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man.
Published by J & J Smith King St.t [***] London [n.d., c.1840].
Wood engraving, printed in blue on porcelain card. Sheet 125 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Edges oxidised, with loss to publisher's inscription.
With a vignette scene illustrating each age.
[Ref: 66698] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Sleeping baby boy]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Etching. 70 x 95mm (2¾ x 3¾").
A naked baby boy, asleep.
[Ref: 66740] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Caractacus, King of the Silures, deliver'd up to Ostorius, the Roman General, by Cartismandua Queen of the Brigantes.
A. Mac Donald, sculp. [after William Hamilton.]
Dublin Publish'd by W.m Allen 32 Dame Street.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 305 x 330mm (12 x 13"), with very large margins.
Having failed to repell the Roman invasion of Britain, Caratacus, the chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, is handed over to the Romans by Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes. An oval scene, a detail of the stipple engraved by Bartolozzi.
[Ref: 66125] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Excise Bill 1733] A Banner displayed To the Immortal Honour of those Worthy Patriots in the House of Commons who opposed and voted against the Excise Scheme April. 11. 1733. Exhibiting Each of their Coast-Armour with their Names and Places they Represent in Parliament.
[London, John Barber?, c.1733.]
Engraving. Sheet 650 x 590mm (25½ x 23¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides, small tears.
A broadside illustrating 205 coats of arms in a panel, plus the larger arms of the City of London and of John Barber, Lord Mayor of London 1732-3. The sheet celebrates the defeat of the 1733 Excise Bill, in which Robert Walpole's Whig government attempted to impose excise taxes on a variety of goods (including wine and tobacco) and give excise officers the right to search private dwellings to look for contraband. Despite being at his most powerful, Robert Walpole realised the bill was not going to pass and withdrew it. His reprisals against the rebels in his party led to a number of defections to the opposition.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 66603] £520.00

[Miss Harriet Eyre] This is the Age, when human bliss stands still, / Enjoys the good, without the fear of ill.
Cosway del. F. Bartolozzi sculp: 1778.
Published May 14, 1798 by J. Read, Coventry Court, Coventry Street.
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Laid on album paper at corners.
A young girl with her dog.
De Vesme 1073, v of v.
[Ref: 66685] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Les Oyes de Frere Philippe. Sur ces jeunes Beautez...
N. Lancret pinxit. De Larmessin Sculp.
A Paris chez de Larmessin graveur du Roy rüe des Noyers a la 4.e porte cocher adroite entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 320 x 365mm (12½ x 14½"). Thread margins, tear taped, paper toned and stained, creased.
Two pretty young women stand stand under a parasol held by a turned paged boy. A friar restrains a young man who is desperate to approach them. A scene from Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-1695) fable 'Friar Phillipes Geese'. a tale in which a friar takes a boy into the wilderness and brings him up free from temptation. However, at the age of twenty the young man meets the young women and becomes besotted: when he asks his father what they are the friar replies that they are geese, a slang name for prostitutes.
[Ref: 66743] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with anglers.]
Perel in et fe.
le Blond exc. Cum Privil. [n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper
A fantasy landscape drawn and etched Gabriel Perelle (1604-77).
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66746] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Ménales pittoresques et historiques des paysagistes.]
[Etched and aquatinted by Louis Bacler d'Albe & A Guyot.]
[n.d., 1803.]
Oblong quarto (230 x 310mm, 9 x 12¼"), contemporary half morocco with marbled boards; 28 (of 32) rare etchings with aquatint, 22 printed in brown. Hinges strained, last plate loose, some spotting.
Plates after pastural paintings, many in the Louvre. Artists include Teniers, Claude Lorrain, Van Huysum & Poussin.
[Ref: 66613] £480.00 view all images for this item

[India] The Twenty-Eight Hindoo lunar mansions. [To the most noble John James, Marquis of Abercorn, this curious & valuable fragment of Oriental astronomical science, is respectfully and gratefully inscribed by T. M. [Thomas Maurice].
[engraved by Inigo Barlow.]
[London: W. Bulmer & Co for Thomas Maurice, 1795-8.]
Engraving. Sheet 480 x 260mm (19 x 10¼"). Trimmed to printed border and around title, edges chipped with loss, laid on album paper. Damaged.
A plate illustrating the 28 lunar nakshatras or constellations of the Hindoo zodiac. A folding plate from 'The History of Hindostan; Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as Connected with the History of the Other Great Empires of Asia, During the Most Ancient Periods of the World' by Orientalist scholar Thomas Maurice (1754-1824).
[Ref: 66819] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Inn and Houses near a Bridge.]
R:S: [Roeland Savery] Invetor.
Eg: S: [Aegidius Sadeler] excu. Marco Sadeler excudit [Venice, n.d., c.1640].
Etching. 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on left, narrow margins elsewhere. Laid on album sheet at corners.
Marco Sadeler, perhaps the grandson of Aegidius, worked as a publisher in Venice, reissuing many plates by Aegidius.
[Ref: 66804] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Ben Johnson.] [Westminster Abbey.] P.124.
Jacobo Gibbs Architecto. E.Kirkall sculp.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 370 x 195mm (14½ x 7 ¾"), large margins.
Sepulchral monuments, erected in 1723, found in Westminster Abbey, designed by James Gibbs and attributed to the sculptor J.M. Rysbrack. From left to right, monument to a poet, a monument to Ben Jonson (1572 -1637), dramatist and poet, and a monument to Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), librarian to the Earl of Oxford.
[Ref: 66785] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mausoleum.
[M.D. Vos Invent.]
[Crispianus Passaeus Sculp: ex excudit.] [n.d., c1614.]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Trimmed into plate, losing half of verse and inscriptions at bottom, laid on album paper. Damaged.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, with masons in the foreground. To the right is Artemisia, the sister-wife of Mausolus, who continued his grand plan of the building. From a series of the 'Seven Wonders of the World'.
[Ref: 66741] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Catching moths at night] Melliferis infesti Apibus sunt Papiliones...
I. Stradan. inv. C. Galle sculp.
Phls Galle excu. [n.d., c.1596].
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed, losing title, tipped onto album paper at top corners
Farmers use lamps to lure moths at night. From the series ''Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium...'', with inscriptions in the image.
[Ref: 66800] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Pamela, Plate 7]. Pamela undressing herself (Mrs Jewkes being first got to bed) while M.r B. disguised in the maids clothes, with the apron thrown over his face, is impatiently waiting for the execution of his plot.
Jos: Highmore inv. et pinx. L. Truchy sculp.
Published, acording to Act of Parliament, July 1.st. 1762. [But later]
Engraving, 300 x 370mm (11¾ x 14½"). Small tears.
As the virtuous Pamela undresses, her employer prepares to sexually assault her. One of twelve plates illustrating Samuel Richardson's hugely popular novel, 'Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded', 1740. First published 1745.
[Ref: 66686] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Pamela, Plate 7]. Pamela on her knees before her Father, whom she has discovered behind the door, having overturned the card table on her way. S.r Simon Darnford, his Lady &c. observing her with eagerness and admiration. M.r B. struck with this scene is waiting the issue.
Jos: Highmore inv. et pinx. L. Truchy sculp.
Published, acording to Act of Parliament, July 1.st. 1762. [But later]
Engraving. 300 x 370mm (11¾ x 14½"). Binding marks on left edge.
At a gathering on the local gentry Pamela rushes to her father to reassure him that she has not been forced into the relationship with Mr B. One of twelve plates illustrating Samuel Richardson's hugely popular novel, 'Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded', 1740. First published 1745.
[Ref: 66687] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[One of the sons of Peter Paul Rubens.]
A. Blotelingh fecit et ex. [after Peter Paul Rubens]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Rare engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed.
A bust portrait of a young boy, wearing a black cap with feathers. The BM states it is after a drawing in their collection (1994,0514.40), once described as a portrait of William II of Orange by van Dyck, but now attributed to Rubens. Theories of the identity include Frans, Albert & Nikolaus Rubens, and Charles, Duke of Beaufort.
BM P,5.106.
[Ref: 66888] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[One of the sons of Peter Paul Rubens.]
A. Blotelingh f. et ex. [after Peter Paul Rubens]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Rare engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed.
A bust portrait of a young boy, wearing a black cap. Theories of the identity include Albert & Nikolaus Rubens, and Charles, Duke of Beaufort.
BM 1917,1208.481.
[Ref: 66892] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Surgical Tools.] Heelkundige Werktuigen. Chururgische Instrumente. A Instrumens de Chirurgie.
Arthus-Betrand editeur. Imp. de Lemercier Bernard et Ce.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A diagram depicting various surgical tools.
Wellcome 493629i.
[Ref: 66715] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Greeks fighting the Amazons.]
[Engraved by Robert Mitchell Meadows after Rubens & van Dyke.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very fine stipple, possibly a working proof. Sheet 530 x 640mm (21 x 25¼"). Tear entering plate in left taped, top edge chipped.
The Greek army, led by Achilles, drive back the Amazons over a narrow bridge, with women and horses falling into the river below. Troy, in flames, can be seen through the arch of the bridge. The original painting is in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
[Ref: 66617] £480.00

Venus and Her Doves.
Painted by R. Westall. Engraved by E. Scriven, Historical Engraver to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales.
Published January 2.d 1804 by Clay & Scriven, No. 18 Ludgate Hill London.
Coloured aquatint, printed in colours. 420 x 490mm (16½ x 19¼").
A very decorative image. Venus reclining in a bower, with doves at her feet. Cupid flying towards her, firing an arrow behind him.
[Ref: 66136] £390.00

[The Younger Pliny Reproved. We went out into a small court belonging to the house which separated the sea from the buildings. As I was at that time But eighteen years of age, I know not whether I should call my behaviour in this dangerous juncture courage or rashness]
Ange[lica Kauffman pinx.t. Burke sculp.t.]
[London. Published Jan.y, 20th 1791 by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.]
Rare stipple, printed in colour. Sheet 395 x 490mm (15½ x 19¼"). Trimmed to printed border top and bottom, losing all inscriptions, margins rebuilt, trimmed within plate at sides. Damaged.
Pliny the Younger (61 - c. 113), sits by his mother, writing his account of the eruption of Versuvius, which can be seen through the arch in the distance to the left. The elder Pliny berates his son for writing instead of helping, before dying leading a relief fleet across the Bay of Naples.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66967] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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