Grosvenor Prints

Yours truly R Barclay Allardice [facsimile signature.]
Painted by James Giles Esqr. R.S.A. Engraved by R.M. Hodgetts.
Published January 1843 by Andrew Anderson 33 Queen Street Aberdeen.
Mezzotint portrait with engraved iscription area. Total 465 x 350mm (18¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
Robert Barclay Allardice (1779-1854), Scottish pedestrian, generally known as Captain Barclay. He is regarded as the father of the 19th century sport of pedestrianism, a precursor to racewalking, attracting much publicity with the feat of walking of 1,000 miles in 1000 hours for 1000 guineas in 1809. This portrait, after James William Giles (1801-70), shows him with his usual paisley waistcoat and walking cane.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66134] £380.00

Yours truly R Barclay Allardice [facsimile signature.] First Proof.
Painted by James Giles Esqr. R.S.A. Engraved by R.M. Hodgetts.
Published January 1843 by Andrew Anderson 33 Queen Street Aberdeen.
Mezzotint portrait with engraved inscription area. Total 465 x 350mm (18¼ x 13¾"). Large margins on 3 sides. Cut to platemark at bottom.
Robert Barclay Allardice (1779-1854), Scottish pedestrian, generally known as Captain Barclay. He is regarded as the father of the 19th century sport of pedestrianism, a precursor to racewalking, attracting much publicity with the feat of walking of 1,000 miles in 1000 hours for 1000 guineas in 1809. This portrait, after James William Giles (1801-70), shows him with his usual paisley waistcoat and walking cane.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66133] £380.00

Modern Balooning. Or the Newest Phase of Folly.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare etching. Sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and pasted onto album paper.
Satirical scene depicting a donkey sat on top of a horse, suspended in their air by a balloon. The donkey wears a jacket and trousers, and holds a flag, looking down upon the field of other donkeys below.
[Ref: 66810] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Cricket] Baron House Academy, Mitcham.
Drawn by M.r Dilke. Engraved by J. Hassell.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Scarce aquatint. Sheet 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, bottom and left edges chipped.
The grounds of a school with boys playing cricket and flying a kite.
[Ref: 66674] £460.00

[Cricket] Setting Dogs to Fight. There Master George I thought you wou'd get it.
H.y Alken, Del.t.
London Published by Tho.s M.cLean Repoitory of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket, 1823.
Coloured soft ground etching. 220 x 270mm (8¾ x 10¾"). Tears taped, one entering incription area.
Two schoolboys bicker in a stable yard, with a man holding a horse's reins and two dogs snarling at each other. Leaning against the wall is a cricket bat, an archery target, bow and arrows. One plate of 12 from 'Scenes in the Life of Master George', which depict the boy indulging in animal blood sports, including bull, badger and bear baiting, cock fighting and fishing.
[Ref: 66673] £80.00 (£96.00 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)

Verscheyde Aerdig Kinderspel uyt Gebeelt door Cornelis Hostein. Pleusieurs Jeus d'Enfants desseigné de Cornelle Holstein. A Amsterdam.
Corelius Holstein inventer. Michiel Mosÿn Sculpsit.
Clement de Jonghe excudit [n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper.
The engraved title page to a book of plates of children's games played by naked cherubs. One plays with a hoop and stick while the other holds up a blown bubble. A croquet mallet, balls, a drum and another musical isntrument lay on the ground between them.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66770] £420.00

[Cherubs wrestling.] 3.
[Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Cortelius Holstein.]
[Amsterdam, Clement de Jonghe, c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Spot
A child lifts another child upside down. Another boy touches another child on the buttocks. A plate from 'Verscheyde Aerdig Kinderspel uyt Gebeelt door Cornelis Hostein', a book of plates of children's games played by naked cherubs.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66771] £320.00

[Cherubs with a skipping rope.] 6.
[Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Cortelius Holstein.]
[Amsterdam, Clement de Jonghe, c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper.
A plate from 'Verscheyde Aerdig Kinderspel uyt Gebeelt door Cornelis Hostein', a book of plates of children's games played by naked cherubs.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66772] £360.00

[House of cards.]
C. Errar Inventor. M. Mosin fecit.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Rare engraving, 215 x 290mm (8½ x 11½"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Slight crease.
Four cherubs stand at a round table. As one builds a house of cards another attempts to blow it down. Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Charles Errard.
Provenance Cornwell House.
[Ref: 66756] £350.00

[India] [15 plates from ''Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being the Journal of a Tour in India''.]
[Captain Godfrey Munday]
London. Published by John Murray, April 1832.
15 steel engravings. Each sheet c. 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed and pasted on album sheets in threes, some spotting and glue stains.
A collection of plates from the account of a tour in India by Godfrey Charles Munday (1804-1860), including tiger hunting from elephants and hunting with leopards. An army officer who served in India and Australia, he became Permanent Under Secretary for War during the Crimean War then Lieutentant Governor of Jersey.
[Ref: 66607] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Marbles.]
C. Errar Inventor. M. Mosin fecit.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, 215 x 290mm (8½ x 11½") with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Slight crease
Naked cherubs throw stones into a hole. Engraved by Michiel Mosyn after Charles Errard.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66769] £360.00

Rugby School as it appear'd in the Year 1809, Is by Permission respectfully dedicated to the Honorable the Trustees By their much obliged and Obedient Servant E. Pretty.
Drawn & Etch'd by E. Pretty. Aquatinted by R. Reeve.
Rugby, Published by E. Pretty, Drawing Master, June 1811.
Etching with aquatint. 280 x 490mm (11 x 19¼"). Foxed, creased.
The school with cricketers in the foreground, by Edward Pretty (1792-1865).
[Ref: 66614] £480.00

Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq.re His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Carnavon. From a Portrait Painted by Sir William Beechey, R.A. and placed by his Friends in the Grand Jury Room at Carnarvon. A.D. 1826. Proof.
Painted by Sir W. Beechey R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds. Engraver to the King (and J.P. Quilley.)
[c.1826.]
Proof mezzotint. 520 x 400mm (20½ x 15¾"), large margins. Tears and creasing in margins.
Thomas Assheton Smith (the elder, 1752 -1828), landowner who induced Parliament to pass an act enclosing the common land of Llanddeiniolen parish, adding over 2,600 acres to his land holdings, from which he mined slate. Subsequent rioting was put down by a cavalry unit. A close friend of George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, Smith became one of cricket's main patrons following the establishment of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1787. This portrait was commissioned by Caernarfon Corporation, who paid Beechey £157.10s. It is now in National Museum Cardiff. Cricket interest.
Whitman: 268. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66627] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Frog]
[***] In. L. Ferdinand scul.
P. Ferdinand ex. Cum Privil. Re. [n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Artist's name inndistinctly inked.
A blindfolded cherubs kneels on the ground as another holds a frog. From a series of plates of children's games.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66773] £320.00

[See-saw]
L. Tettelin In. L. Ferdinand scul.
P. Ferdinand ex. Cum Privil. Regis [n.d., c.1650].
Engraving, 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper. Tears in margins.
Cherubs play on a see-saw, with a dog pulling at the toga of one of them. From a series of plates of children's games.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66774] £320.00

[Wrestling]
L. Tettelin In. L. Ferdinand scul.
P. Ferdinand ex. Cum Privil. Re. [n.d., c.1650].
Engraving, 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper.
Naked cherubs wrestle, with a winged one holding a swag. From a series of plates of children's games.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66775] £320.00

[Catch?]
L. Tettelin In. L. Ferdinand scul.
P. Ferdinand ex. Cum Privil. Re. [n.d., c.1650].
Engraving, 205 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"), with large margins. On 17th century watermarked paper.
Naked cherubs play, a tamborine on the ground to one side. From a series of plates of children's games.
Provenance Cornwell House
[Ref: 66776] £320.00

George Wilson, the pedestrian, Aged 50. As he appeared on the morning of Sept.r 19th 1815, being the ninth day of performing the arduous task of walking fifty miles per day for twenty successive days.
C. Woodward del.
Pubd. Sept.r, 21st 1815. by Tho.s Palser Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth.
Coloured etching, sheet 295 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed, mount burn and foxing
George Wilson, the 'Blackheath Pedestrian', sets out on his thousand-mile walk, September 19th, 1815. The intention was to walk around and around the heath - a thousand miles in a thousand hours - and attracted a huge number of spectators. The walk was not completed because the authorities, fearing a riot, arrested George. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pedestrianism was a popular spectator sport. Interest has waned, although it is still an Olympic sport.
[Ref: 66845] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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