Grosvenor Prints

The Parting of Achilles and Briseis. Bear Witness, Heralds, and proclaim my Vow...
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. 1785. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Publish'd June 12 1786 by S. Vivares No. 13 Great Newport Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Narrow margins.
As the slavegirl Briseis is led away on the orders of Agamemnon, Achilles, sitting in his tent, rails against this insult, causing him to withdraw from fighting in the Trojan War.
De Vesme 349, vi.
[Ref: 67916] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Buy a new Almanack. Almanachs Nouveaux. Lunary dell Anno Nuovo. 5. 53.
[after Marcellus Laroon]
[n.d. c.1780]
Etching and engraving, sheet 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An almanac seller walking to right with basket of books around her neck. From late series of the Cries of London, plate reworked with hat, head and shoes altered. First engraved in 1688, they were reworked and published after c.1750. According to Raines, plates in the late editions of the series "were re-engraved with alterations after L.P. Boitard"
Raines p.57.
[Ref: 67648] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece du Traite Complèt de L'Anatomie de l'Homme Par M.M. Bougery et Jacob.
Composé et dessiné par N.H. Jacob. Lith de Langlumé.
[n.d., 1831-1854.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9½").
A group of nude figures: an old man, a man and woman in their prime and a small child, possibly after William Blake. From 'Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médicine opératoire', a 16 volume work on anatomy written by Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849), illustrated with over 700 illustrations mostly after Nicholas-Henri Jacob (1782-1871).
[Ref: 68129] £320.00

[13 engravings from The Devil upon Two Sticks] [&] [5 scenes of antiquity]
[Chez Pierre Van Cleef à Londres 1755 ] [&] [n.d. c.1696]
18 engravings front and back on an album sheet. Sheet size, 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½). All trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Thirteen illustrations from, 'Le diable boiteux,' written by Alain-René Lesage (1668-1747). They seem to be from the edition published by Pierre Van Cleef in 1755.? On the reverse the top engraving, 'Bacchantivm Chorvs. Bacchvs Indicvs. Dionysiaca Saltatio.' Images of drunken revelry, dancing and music making in honour of Dionysus/Bacchus and a coin image of the God to the right. The left is a medallion portrait of Midas surrounded by three coins. Central is the title page for the book, 'Q. Curtius Rufus: Historiae Alexandri Magni,' (Histories of Alexander the Great) published in 1696. The right a medallion portrait of Homer surrounded by four coins. The bottom is, 'Bacchi Et Ariadne Chorvs. Liberi Patris Trivmphvs,' a parade with Bacchus and Ariadne in a chariot being led by a procession of mythical creatures. A triumphant Bacchus (Eleutherios) returns drunk on a cow from his conquest of India, surrounded by a rowdy, celebratory procession. Two coin images.
[Ref: 68177] £360.00 view all images for this item

La Beauté Sacrifiant aux Graces.
Joshua Reynolds Pinx. J.B. Lucien fecit.
Cheau Excudit, Parisiis [n.d, c.1790.]
Stipple printed in brown. 520 x 325mm (20½ x 12¾"), very large margins Some wear to margins, damp stain in top corner.
The personification of Beauty burns incense under a statue of the Three Graces.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67957] £460.00

[20 Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer] [&] [7 Illustrations from Considerations of Drexelius on the eternity of hell torments. Translated into English] [&] [Titlepage to Ecclesia Anglicana] [&] [Ignatius Loyola and 4 Jesuit followers]
J. Drapentier. [A: Hertochs fecit]
[n.d. c.1708] [&] [n.d. c.1703] [&] [n.d. c.1659] [n.d. c.1690]
30 engravings on an album sheet front and back. Sheet size, 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½). All trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer. It looks like they are from, 'The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches,' Published by Oxford, The University Printers, Oxford, 1708. Illustrations from, 'Considerations of Drexelius on the eternity of hell torments. Translated into English,' by Jeremias Drexel (1581-1638). Frontis to John Gauden's (d.1662), 'Ecclesia Anglicana' engraved by Abraham Hertochs (fl. 1626-1672) and published in London, 1659. Line engraving of Saint Ignatius Loyola and 4 Jesuit followers, 'Suarez, Mariana, Garnet & Parons,'
See Wellcome 5562i for Saint Ignatius with different follower names.
[Ref: 68193] £580.00 view all images for this item

[Illustrations to Edward Spark's bible] [&] [Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer]
[London printed for J. Redmayne, Jun, For T. Basset and J. Brome,]
[and are to be sold by J. Williams at the Crown in S.t Paul's Church-yard 1682] [&] [n.d. c.1654]
36 engravings on an album sheet. Sheet size, 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½). All trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
18 illustrations to Edward Spark's, 'Thysiasterion, vel Scintilla altaris : Primitive devotion in the feasts and fasts of the Church of England,' published 1682. 18 illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer including images of the gunpowder plot 'The Powder Plot November 5,' , King Charles I's execution, 'K: Charles I Murthered Pf31,' and 'K Charles II his returne 2 Sam.'
[Ref: 68178] £360.00 view all images for this item

La Cuisiniére Charitable.
C. Eisen Inv. Chevilet Sculp.
AParis Chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving. Sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate. damp stain bottom left.
A woman ladles soup into a bowl for a ragged wanderer.
[Ref: 68138] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 10.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A: 28263:5. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68175] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 12.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68176] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 2.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:2. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68172] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 7.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68173] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 8.
P. Columbani
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A: 28263:1. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68174] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Comus] The Enchanted Lady. Vide Milton's Comus.
S. Harding Inv.t. P.W. Tomkins Sculp. Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
London: Published June 8th 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, Fleet Street.
Stipple, open lettered title, printed in brown with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 275mm (10 x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides.
Comus, holding a necromancer's wand, urges 'The Lady', stuck in an enchanted chair, to drink from his magical cup (representing sexual pleasure and intemperance).
See [Ref: 45215] for uncoloured version
[Ref: 67872] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Essex.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5¼"). Light staining.
From a series of idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties. A woman and a child feed a cow. Essex was known for cattle farming in the 1800s, particularly for fattening cattle to supply the growing demand for meat in London, as well as developing dairy.
See [Ref: 55242].
[Ref: 68146] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline] Fidele's Tomb. To fair Fidele's grassy Tomb Soft Madis & Village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom And rifle all the breathing spring No waiting Ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet Grove But Shepherd lads assemble here And melting Virgins own their love. Vid: Collin's Poems.
Harding del.t. Delatre sculpt.
London: Published May 20, 1785 by Tho.s Macklin, 39. Fleet Street.
Fine stipple printed in colours. Sheet 260 x 275mm (10¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, top edge chipped.
Women dress the tomb of Fidele with flowers. A scene illustrating 'A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline' by William Collins (1721-59), a poem set to music by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-78).
See [Ref: 17021] for one printed in red and [Ref: 19172] for reversed version.
[Ref: 67871] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Domenichino Landscape] N.º 2. From the Original Picture in the Collection of the Rev.d W.m Holwell Carr, to whom this plate s Iscribed by his Obliged Humble Servant, J. Powell.
Painted by Dominichino. Etch'd by J. Powell.
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1812, by J. Powell, 32, Great Portland Street, and by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street.
Rare etching. 555 x 425mm (21¾ x 16¾"). Trimmed to plate.
An Italianate landscape with a man rowing a couple in a boat on a river, with two women and a shepherd on the wooded banks. Behind is a castle and houses. After Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641), known as Domenichino, although the painting is not listed by Spear.
[Ref: 67919] £320.00

[The Finding of Moses] Affigis Tharidas...
Egidius Coninxlogensis Inucntoz. Nicolaus de Bruyn Sculptoe.
1601.
Fine & rare engraving, 420 x 655mm (16½ x 25¾"). Thread margins. Glued to album paper in corners. Central crease where previously folded.
A biblical scene set in a wooded landscape: a man stands on a riverbank holding a cradle with an infant, while Pharaoh’s daughter and her attendants watch from the opposite shore; a stag appears at left, with towns lining a winding river in the background. After Flemish painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544–1607) and engraved by engraver and publisher Nicolaas de Bruyn (1571 - 1656).
New Hollestein 23.
[Ref: 68098] £750.00

Voyage en Enfer. Jugement du Destin.
Lith. de G. Engelmann. B. Goupil del.t. Ch. Soehnée inv.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"). Some foxing
Two scenes: above a group of people ride to hell on a slug. Below men stand, half buried, as they are judged, bats flying overhead. Charles-Frédéric Soehnée (1789-1878), French painter who specialised in grotesque scenes of imaginary beasts and travelers against the backdrop of desert landscapes.
[Ref: 68133] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Saut de Taureau.
F huet in. F.D.
A Paris chez Depeuille M.d d'Estampes, rue S.t Denis, la Boutique attenant à S.t Jacques l'Hopital. N.º 417.
Rare etching, printed in colours. 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"), large margins. Creased.
'The Bull's Leap'. A woman gives a helping hand to a bull mounting a cow.
[Ref: 68136] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Antiope Séduite par Jupiter.
A.Devéria del. Imp. Lemercier, Benard & C.e.
Paris, chez Bulla éditeur, rue Tiquetonne, 18 [n.d., c.1860].
Lithograph with superb original hand colour highlighted with gum arabic. Printed area 310 x 360mm
Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, lifts up a sheet to reveal a naked Antiope, sleeping in a glade, Cupid by her side. He later impregnates her and she gives birth to the twin heroes Amphion and Zethus.
[Ref: 67820] £320.00

[Jupiter and Antiope.]
[after Benigne Gagneraux.]
[n.d., c.1820].
Stipple, with superb original hand colour. 415 x 575mm (16¼ x 22½"). Long tear through image taped, trimmed to plate.
Jupiter, disguised as a satyr, reaches towards a naked Antiope, asleep in a glade. He later impregnates her and she gives birth to the twin heroes Amphion and Zethus. An adaptation of the painting by Benigne Gagneraux (c.1780), reversed and removing Cupid from under the canopy.
[Ref: 67825] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Londons Gazette here. Novelle Gazette. Chi Compra gl'auisi di Londra.
Mauron delin: P Tempest exc: Cum Privilegio.
[Henry Overton, n.d. c.1720.]
Etching and engraving, sheet 250 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate. '56' in right bottom corner erased.
From an edition of the 1688 plates from series of the Cries of London (originally published by Pierce Tempest (1653-1717)), published after 1709 and before c.1750. A paper seller in cape and straw hat standing to front with a newsheet in hand and a pouch around her waist.
[Ref: 67647] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Stipple on silk] [The Morning.]
[after William Hamilton.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, printed in colours on silk. Oval, 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"). Laid on album paper.
A scene outside a cottage, with one women milking a cow, another about to don her yoke with the aid of a third, and a fourth churning butter. Two small children play with empty pails. A fine example of printing on silk.
[Ref: 67870] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

La Soeur donne les Etrennes a son Frere.
J.B. Huet del. Bonnet direx 1791.
A Paris chez Bonnett, rue du Platre S. Jacques, N.º 12.
Rare crayon-manner etching, printed in colours, in ink verso F.A. Maglin 1899. Sheet 185 x 215mm (7¼ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
The sister gives a New Year's gift of a puppet to her brother.
[Ref: 68119] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Four heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court.] M.r Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting &c. Vol. IV. p.22. speaking of the Cartoons at Hampton Court, observes that Sir John Thornhill ''having made copious studies of the heads, hands and feet, intended to publish an exact account of the whole, for the use of students: but this work has never appeared''. As the present plate was found among others belonging to the late M.r Hogarth, it is not impossible but that it might have been engraved by him for his father-in-law S.r James's intended publication.
Published as the Act directs May 14, 1781 by M.rs Hogarth, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields.
Etching. 360 x 215mm (14¼ x 8½"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
A detail of one of Raphael's cartoons at Hampton Court, 'The Conversion of the Proconsul (Acts 13: 6-12)', now in the V&A. To the right is the Jewish sorcerer Elymas who Paul struck blind when Elymas attempted to stop Paul converting the proconsul Sergius Paulus; to the left are the head of three of the onlookers. John Thornhill (father of William Hogarth's wife, Jane, the publiher of the print) studied the cartoons in 1729. Paulson suggests that it is possible that he also etched the plate (as the work does not resemble Hogarth's), and Jane used the more profitable name of Hogarth.
Paulson: 264, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 67931] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tesselated Pavement Found in Dyer Street Cirencester Sep: Ad. MDCCCXLIX. with Part of the Under Structure. [&] Tesselated Pavement Found in Dyer Street Cirencester August 1849.
Drawn on Stone & Printed by J. Beauchamp, Cirencester. [&] Drawn on Stone, Printed & Published by J. Beauchamp, Park S.t Cirencester. [n.d., c.1849]
Two scarce & fine coloured lithographs. Printed areas 330 x 320mm (13 x 12½) & 300 x 290mm (11¾ x 11½"), large margins.
Two rare lithographs locally published recording the 2nd century Roman mosaics dug up when excavating new sewers in Dyer Street. The first features heads representing three of the Four Seasons and an illustration of Greek hero Actaeon, transformed into a stag by Artemis and being killed by his own dogs. The second has the head of Medusa, hunting dogs, dragons and geometric patterns. Both are now in the Corinium Museum.
[Ref: 67939] £520.00 view all images for this item

[A Roman painting of dwarfs, a hippopotamus and crocodiles.]
Camillo Paderni delin. J. Mynde sculp.
[London: George Turnbull, 1740.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 390 x 360mm (15½ x 14¼"), large margins. Margin rebuilt lower right, just affecting plate, repair to fold.
A bizarre scene of two dwarfs guarding an island with classical temples and an altar. One raises a spear at an angry-looking hippopotamus. A plate from George Turnbull's 'A Treatise on Ancient Painting: containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans''. Unfortunately the text (available on archive.org) gives no details of its origin or meaning.
[Ref: 67824] £490.00

[Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's 'The History of the Royal Society of London'.]
Evelyn inv. D.D.C. Wenceslaus Hollar f. 1667.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed within image and backed onto album paper at borders.
Under an open vault a bust of Charles II is being crowned with a wreath by Fame. On the left William Brouncker (president of the Royal Society in 1662) points to the inscription on the pedestal; on the right Francis Bacon holds his chancellor's bag. On the walls are inventions, a bookcase and scientific instruments. Outside a man looks through a huge telescope.
Pennington 459.
[Ref: 67998] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Four Seasons] Spring. [&] Summer. [&] Autumn. [&] Winter.
Painted by R. Westall [2] [&] Painted by F. Wheatley [2]. Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.
Pub.d Feb.y 1. 1789 [2] by T. Simpson S.t Pauls Church Yard. [&] Pub.d April 9 1789 [2] by T. Simpson S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Set of four coloured stipples with etching, printed in colours. Each 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. Slight crease on Autumn.
Fine & rare set of four half-length portraits of women in seasonal dresses and hats. Spring features a rainbow, Summer a rose, Autumn grapes and Winter a massive muff. The set is a fine example of colour printing.
[Ref: 67425] £650.00 view all images for this item

L'Automne.
N. Lancret pinxit. Larmessin Sculpsit.
A Paris chez De Larmessin graveur du Roy, rüe des Noyvers a la 2.e porte cocher agauche entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1745.]
Fine etching, 18th century watermark. 335 x 380mm (13¼ x 15"). Small margins
A scene with women harvesting grapes, with a man grabbing one around the waist. Underneath are four lines of verse by 'M.r Roy Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel'. One of a set of Four Seasons shown at the Salon in 1745.
BM 1889,0318.36.
[Ref: 67948] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printems.
N. Lancret pinxit. Larmessin Sculpsit.
AParis chez De Larmessin graveur du Roy, rüe des Noyvers a la 2.e porte cocher agauche entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1745.]
Fine etching. 335 x 380mm (13¼ x 15"), 18th century watermark. Narrow margins.
Three gardeners next to an ornamental waterfall. Underneath are four lines of verse by 'M.r Roy Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel'. One of a set of Four Seasons shown at the Salon in 1745.
BM 1889,0318.38.
[Ref: 67949] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Winter.
Designed & Engraved by J. Peirson.
London, Published by J. Le Petit, 22 Suffolk Street, Middlesex Hospital, 1st Sepr 1797.
Stipple, printed in colours. 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9"). Narrow bottom margin, slight scuffing at printed border top left. Small margins on 3 sides.
Children by the side of a pond. A fine example of colour printing, from a set of Four Seasons.
[Ref: 67875] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Winter.
Designed & Engraved by J. Peirson.
London, Published by J. Le Petit, 22 Suffolk Street, Middlesex Hospital, 1st Sepr 1797.
Stipple, printed in colours. 190 x 230mm (7½ x 9").
Children ice skating on a pond. A fine example of colour printing, from a set of Four Seasons.
[Ref: 67874] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Seeing. La Vue.
Drawn by L. Schiavonetti. Engraved by I. Geremia.
London, Published March 1 1801, by Mess.rs Schiavonetti N.º 12 Michels Place Brompton.
Stipple, partially printed in colour. Sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed top and bottom, bit messy.
A woman in white classical dress lifts a veil to look at herself in a mirror. From a set of the Five Senses.
[Ref: 67873] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Wheelwright] Une Femme de Charon. Eine Wangnerin.
J.J. Stelzer fecit.
Cum Priv. Maj. M. Engelbrecht exc. A.V. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 305 x 195mm (12 x 7¾"), large margins.
A fanciful representation of a female wheelwright, with a wheel as the hoop of her dress, on which are hanging the tools of her trade. She holds a saw and an axle. Cross-dressing image.
[Ref: 68125] £480.00

Da cibo il prato al gregge, e l'amo a noi. C.5.
Zucarelli Pinx in Domo I. Schmid.
Appo Wagner in Merzeria Venezia C.P.E.S.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 360 x 460mm (14¼ x 18¼"), large margins. Creases.
An Italianate pastoral scene, with a shepherd at the side of a river, with women and a child The title translates as ''The meadow gives food to the flock and love to us''.
[Ref: 67910] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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