Grosvenor Prints

[The Shepherds Pool, River Orchy].
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil] .
[n.d., 1930.]
Drypoint etching. 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 8¾"), large margins.
An angler waist-deep in the River Orchy, a tribuary of Loch Awe in the Western Highlands of Scotland. Wilkinson (1878-1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 67164] £320.00

[The Back-gammon Players.]
Geraats pinx.t. W.Baillie Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Small margins.
A scene depicting three men and a woman in medieval dress gathered around a table playing a game of backgammon.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67491] £180.00

Bartholomew Fair, 1721.
Published as the Act directs by J. F. Setchel, 23, King-Street, Covent-Garden [1824].
Fan leaf: etching and aquatint. 290 x 560mm (11½ x 22"). with letterpress descriptive label. Trimmed to plate on left, repairs to folds.
Scarce & fine Fan leaf showing London's famous Bartholomew Fair and its diverse entertainments, with numerous street sellers, performers and booths. Of interest are the early big wheel and a peep show of the Siege of Gibraltar. Published by bookseller and stationer John Frederick Setchel (1774 - 1846).
[Ref: 67448] £680.00

In Council. O-these are the Ears of an Ass not a Fox.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed.
A satirical scene depicting to devilish figures sat playing cards and gambling. Stood in the centre, on one leg, is a man with an animals head, he is holding his ears and exclaims 'O-these are th Ears of an Ass not a Fox.'
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 67483] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Village Green.
[n.d., c.1840's.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed into image.
A joyful scene of children playing on the village green. In the background, in front of the village church, a game of cricket is played.
[Ref: 67330] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

William Draper Esq:r of Beswick-Yorkshire a Great Lover of Fox Hunting, Aged 66.
Cha.s Philips Pinx.t 1736. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Squire William Draper (1670-1746), standing in a long, plain coat, with right hand in his belt, left hand holding riding whip. He wears a cap with a short brim at the front, looking towards the viewer, a dog looking up at him on sitter's left. He founded the Holderness Hunt c.1726. After Charles Philips (1708-1747).
CS 118. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67247] £320.00

[Reversed text] William Draper Esq:r of Beswick-Yorkshire a Great Lover of Fox Hunting.
[after Charles Philips.]
[n.d., c.1740.]
Two mezzotints. Each 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Laid on album sheet together
Two states of the three-quarter portrait of Squire William Draper (1670-1746), standing in a long, plain coat, with right hand in his belt, left hand holding riding whip. He wears a cap with a short brim at the front, looking towards the viewer, a dog looking up at him on sitter's left. He founded the Holderness Hunt c.1726. A reversed copy (both image and text) of the mezzotint engraved by John Faber Jnr after Charles Philips (1708-1747).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67421] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Reversed text] William Draper Esq:r of Beswick-Yorkshire a Great Lover of Fox Hunting.
[after Charles Philips.]
[n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾").
A three-quarter portrait of Squire William Draper (1670-1746), standing in a long, plain coat, with right hand in his belt, left hand holding riding whip. He wears a cap with a short brim at the front, looking towards the viewer, a dog looking up at him on sitter's left. He founded the Holderness Hunt c.1726. A reversed copy (both image and text) of the mezzotint engraved by John Faber Jnr after Charles Philips (1708-1747).
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67420] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eaton. Aged 49 Years a native of Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats...
[T.C. Smith Del. Freeman Sculp.t.]
[Published by T.C. Smith, Miniature Painter, Aske Terrace, Hoxton, & sold by all Print & Book Sellers.][1817.]
Fine stipple engraving. Sheet: 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"), Whatman paper. Trimmed.
A portrait of Josiah Eaton, (b.1774), a competative pedestrian who completed several famous feats between 1815 and 1817. In 1846 Eaton, described as a former baker from Quebec, was reported to have walked 1000 miles in 1000 hours in Toronto, when he was aged 77.
[Ref: 67495] £360.00

[Josiah Easton] Eaton in his Costume on the Colchester match. Aged 49 Years a native Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats. 1st Decr.26.1815, compleated on Blackheath, 1100, miles, on the Barclay plan, viz. a mile every hour. 2d. July 20th, 1816, at the same place he walked 1100 miles, comencing each mile within 20 mintues after each hour. 3rd. Decr. 5th. 1816, on Brixton Causeway he accomplished 1998 half miles in 1998 succeeding half hours. 4th. June 18th.1817, this was a task of competitorship between Baker & himself on Wormwood Scrubs & which he accomplished in one hour less than the given time making 2000 miles in 42 days. 5th. Sept. 6th.1817, a grand match against time walking from Colchester to London one day & returning to Colchester the next & so on for 20 succeeding days, being 1020 miles.
[n.d. c.1820].
Fine coloured etching. 295 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of Josiah Eaton, (b.1774), a competative pedestrian who completed several famous feats between 1815 and 1817. In 1846 Eaton, described as a former baker from Quebec, was reported to have walked 1000 miles in 1000 hours in Toronto, when he was aged 77.
https://woodfordonline.org.uk/eaton.html
[Ref: 67494] £360.00

[Walter John Mansfield Hughes.]
Keluiah Collinge. [?]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Watercolour. 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Backed onto board and some time-staining.
Portrait of footballer, Walter John Mansfield Hughes (1858 - 1948), early player for Hitchin FC and son of George Edward Hughes of Offley House. In 1911 he became Hitchin FC's Club Secretary, residing at 22 Gerald Road, Eaton Square, London.
[Ref: 67315] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Gamesters. In the Cabinet at Houghton.
Teniers Pinxit. Geo. Farington delin.t. Val: Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
John Boydell excudit 1779. Published Nov,,r 13.th 1779 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 290 x 350mm (11½ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
The interior of a Dutch inn, with three men playing cards, with other men smoking pipes and one urinating in a corner.
Whitman 210, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67059] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Children of their Royal Highnesses Frederick & Augusta, Prince & Princess of Wales. Prince William Born 14 Nov.r 1743. Prince George Born 24 May 1738. Prince Edward Born 14 March 1738/9.
T. Ryley fecit [after Barthelemy Dupan].
[London: Thomas Jefferys & William Herbert, n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce mezzotint. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Some restoration.
A group portait in a garden, with: George (later George III) firing an arrow at a popinjay; Edward (Duke of York & Albany), holding a gun; and William Henry (Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh), still in skirts, holding a garland of flowers. Dupan's original painting also included Princess Augusta, Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth but they were separated for another print (see ref 67128).
Not in CS; Russell 8a.
[Ref: 67127] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Grimaldis Leap Frog, in the Comic Pantomime of the Golden Fish.
Drawn and Etchd by WHeath.
Pub Jany 21st 1812 by T Palser Bridge Road Lambeth.
Etching. Sheet 245 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
Two images of renowned clown Joseph Grimaldi, wearing his distinctive white makeup and diamond-decorated costume. On the left he offers a giant frog a bowl. On the right the frog leaps over the crouching clown. ''Harlequin & Padmanaba, or The Golden Fish'' was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1811-2, adapted by Charles Farley from a story in the Arabian Nights. It was the first pantomime to include a living elephant. William Heath (1794-1840) was still a teenager when this print was published.
Not in BM Satires, but 1948,0214.769.
[Ref: 67169] £320.00

[Leaving a Gambling House] La Sortie d'une Maison de Jeu.
L. Boilly 1825. J. lith de Delpech.
Very finely hand coloured lithograph, sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Foxing and surface dirt.
From the series, ''Recueil de grimaces'' (1823-1828). Four men have different reactions on leaving a gambling house. One smug holds his coins in a hat, another enviously has his hand on his shoulder and points to his mouth as if contemplating robbing him. On the left a man points his pistol in his mouth and behind one pulls out his hair.
[Ref: 67482] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

View of the long Room at S.t Pancrass & the trap ball Ground. 1775.
[c.1775.][but later]
Etching, printed in sepia. 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
An oval view of a game of ''trap ball'' (or, in Yorkshire, ''Knurr and spell'') in an enclosed pitch, St Pancras Church in the background. A pub game: a trap (spell) throws the ball (knurr) up and the player uses a stick to hit it as far as he can.
Wellcome Collection 38750i.
[Ref: 67045] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled scene of two men with fishing rods clambering up rocks by the side of a small waterfall]
[Etched by Thomas Rowlandson after Samuel Howitt.]
[n.d., c.1785.]
Etching, proof. 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾").
The British Museum's example is in a bound volume of Rowlandson's 'Imitations of Modern Drawings'.
BM: 1849,1208.444.
[Ref: 67171] £490.00

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