Grosvenor Prints

[The Bridge and Cows.] P.
Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner. Engraved by C. Turner.
Published as the Act directs by J.M.W. Turner, Harley Street [1807].
Mezzotint, printed in brown. 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate, scuffs and stains.
Cows being watered under a rustic wooden bridge, from the 'Liber Studiorum'.
Whitman: 864, state i of iv.
[Ref: 69390] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled plates of vases in ornamental designs.]
G.P. Cauvet inv. et del. Viel Sculp.
[Paris: Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1777.]
Two plates on one sheet: each 205 x 150mm (8 x 6") very large margins Spotting, margins and damp stained at top
Engraved by Pierre Viel after Gilles Paul Cauvet for Cauvet's 'Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens'.
[Ref: 69405] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled plates of vases in ornamental designs.]
Cauvet [& G.P. Cauvet] inv. et del. Viel Sculp.
[Paris: Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1777.]
Two plates on one sheet: 205 x 145mm (8 x 5¾") & 230 x 105mm (9 x 4¼"), large margins. Spotting, margins and damp stained at top
Engraved by Pierre Viel after Gilles Paul Cauvet for Cauvet's 'Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens'.
[Ref: 69404] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled plates of vases in ornamental designs.]
G.P. Cauvet inv. et del. Viel Sculp.
[Paris: Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1777.]
Two plates on one sheet: 210 x 115mm (8¼ x 4½") & 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"), large margins Spotting, margins and damp stained at top
Engraved by Pierre Viel after Gilles Paul Cauvet for Cauvet's 'Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens'.
[Ref: 69403] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled plates of urns in ornamental designs.]
Cauvet del. Hemery Sculp.
[Paris: Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1777.]
Two plates on one sheet, each 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"), with large margins. Damp stain in top margins
Engraved by Antoine François Hémery after Gilles Paul Cauvet for Cauvet's 'Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens'.
[Ref: 69400] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled plates of ewers in ornamental designs.]
Cauvet del. Martini Sculp.
[Paris: Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1777.]
Two plates on one sheet, each 315 x 210mm (12½ x 8¼"), with large margins. Spotting, crease.
Engraved by Pierre Antoine Martini after Gilles Paul Cauvet for Cauvet's 'Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens'.
[Ref: 69401] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two untitled plates of vases in ornamental designs.]
Cauvet del. Hemery Sculp.
[Paris: Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1777.]
Two plates on one sheet: 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8") & 260 x 160mm (10¼ x 6¼"), large margins Spotting
Engraved by Antoine François Hémery after Gilles Paul Cauvet for Cauvet's 'Recueil d'Ornemens à l'Usage des Jeunes Artistes qui se Destinent à la Décoration des Bâtimens'.
[Ref: 69402] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid Disarmed.
J.H. Benwell Delin.t. Engrav'd by C.Knight.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 2d; 1786, by W.Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller N.º 158, Bond Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾"), with large margins.
A young woman takes Cupid's bow and arrow.
[Ref: 69293] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled landscape]
Engraved by John Dixon, & partly designed by him after a Drawing in Black Lead.
[n.d, c.1790.]
Scarce etching with engraving. 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"), on laid paper. Laid on archival paper, lettering indistinct.
A landscape with a river flowing through rocks beside a cliff, with two travellers on a road at the right.
See BM 1875,0710.14 for an example with Robert Wilkinson's address.
[Ref: 69476] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Farm Yard. From the Original Picture, by Peter de Laer, called Bamboccio; In the Collection of Rob.t Udny Esq.r. To whom this plate is Dedicated, by his much obliged and most Humble servant, John Boydell. No. 47.
Peter de Laer Pinxit. P.C. Canot Sculpsit.
J. Boydell excudit 1768.
Engraving, 480 x 610mm (19 x 24"). Trimmed to plate at top. Small margins on three sides. Nicks to edges of paper repaired.
Fine cattle image showing rural scene with a ruined building, partially overgrown, part used as a barn, with people sitting at a small table outside. Cattle and goats are shown on the right with a man lifting a basket from a horse nearby. A view of a town is in the background to the right. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
[Ref: 69536] £420.00

Fox and Rabbit. Proof.
Drawn by Shark. Engraved by C. Turner.
Published Feb.y 29th 1812, by R.Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, London.
Mezzotint, printed in colour, very fine colour and condition. 455 x 595mm (17¾ x 23½"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1810'. Repaired tears.
A fox eating a rabbit beside a large burrow, with another fox looking on from the right. A rare plate, possibly never published. Whitman only describes a plate with the same title in the Charles Turner sale catalogue as being after Frans Snyders.
Whitman: 845?
[Ref: 69374] £950.00

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Gleaners.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight Fecit.
London, Published March 1;st 1787, by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Stipples printed in brown, 400 x 450mm (15¾ x 17¾"), with large margins and original tissue guard stuck on left edge. On 18th century watermarked paper. Small tears in margins, spotting, staining and creasing.
An oval scene of women and girls working in the fields bundling and carrying sheaves of corn.
[Ref: 69299] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Within this Goblet, Rich and Deep, / I Cradle all my Woes to Sleep.
Design'd Engraved, and Published by J.W. Cook.
[n.d., c.1850].
Scarce etching on porcelain card. Sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Slight oxidisation.
An image of an ornate chalice, decorated with the word 'Wine', the head of a satyr and verse from Lord Byron: ''Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil''. The title underneath in from ''Odes of Anacreon'' (1801) by Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
[Ref: 69287] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Love & Hope. [&] Love and Jealousy.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight fecit.
London: Published Dec.r 1st 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver and Printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in brown, 400 x 450mm (15¾ x 17¾"), with large margins and original tissue guards stuck on left edge. On 18th century watermarked paper. 'Hope' with tear touching bottom platemark; both with spotting and staining, faint creasing.
A pair of of oval scenes: in 'Love & Hope' a soldier flirts with a woman by a gate; in 'Love and Jealousy' a woman with a spindle is courted by a sailor as another looks on.
[Ref: 69298] £690.00 view all images for this item

La Peinture. A Madame de Pompafour Dame du Palais de La Reine Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Fessard.
Carle Vanloo pinxit. St. Fessard Sculp 1756.
AParis chez l''Auteur, graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliothèque rue St Thomas du Louvre.
Rare etching with engraving. 345 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Restoration in left of inscription area and margin top right. Small margins.
A small boy paints a near naked young girl. The plate is dedicated to Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), favourite mistress and confidant of Louis XV. Van Loo's portrait of the previous year, 'La Marquise de Pompadour en jardinière' still hangs in Versailles.
[Ref: 69479] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Penelope.
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. Dumée Sculp.
London Pub. Jn 1795 by J. Read, N.º 133 Pall Mall. [But later]
Stipple, printed in sepia. 330 x 355mm (13 x 14"), with large margins.
Penolope, the wife of Odysseus, sitting on a terrace with her attendants, unravelling the burial shroud she is weaving for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes. She had promised to pick a new husband when she finished it. A scene from near the end of Homer's 'Odyssey'.
[Ref: 69393] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Prosperity.
G.B. Cipriani, Del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pub.d as the Act directs December 19.th 1783, by G. Bartolozzi N.º 5 John Street Oxford Street.
Rare stipple printed in brown. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, crease between title and publication line.
An allegory of prosperity, with a woman and two children amongst emblems of natural and material wealth. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and published by his son Gaetano.
De Vesme 697 iii of v.
[Ref: 69471] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Seven Famous Cartons of Raphael Urbin, Drawn at the Command of Pope Leo the 10th as Patterns for Tapesty: They were bought by K. Charles the first (at the Persuasion of Sr. P. P. Rubens) and brought from Flanders into England: afterwards K. William fix'd them in his Palace of Hampton-Court in the Gallery here Represented. In 1707 they were drawn and Engraven by Sim: Gribelin and by him most humbly Dedicated to Her Late Majesty.
S.G. Inv.t et Sculp.t & excudit 1720.
Frontispiece and seven plates. Each c. 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Frontispiece with paper tone, frontis laid on album paper, nicks and tears to all plates.
The seven plates were first published in 1707; the frontispiece accompanied their re-issue in 1720.
[Ref: 69389] £550.00 view all images for this item

Samson Carrying Off the Gates of Gaza.
Designed and Engraved by Jas. G. S. Lucas.
[probably published by J. Mc. Cormick, 62, Gracechurch Street, c.1830]
Scarce mezzotint. 300 x 385mm (11¾ x 15"). Repairs in large margins.
Samson carries the gates to the city of Gaza up to 'the hill that is in front of Hebron', after escaping from a planned ambush (see Judges 16:1-3). Engraving by James G. S. Lucas (1831-4, fl.), mezzotinter who usually engraved after John Martin, and artist whose influence is evident in this print by Lucas. No other artist is mentioned, but as Richard A. Burnett noted, 'Lucas rarely acknowledged the artsts whose work he had so shamelessly plagiarised, as is the case with his copies of Martin's 'Illustrations to the Bible'.
Campbell, 'John Martin: Visionary Printmaker', p.196. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69486] £380.00

Autumn. Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky... Thomson, v. 151.
Drawn by T. Hearne. Engraved by W. Ellis.
London: Published as the Act directs, 12 Aug. 1784, by W.m Ellis, No. 9 Gwynne's Build.gs Islington.
Etching with engraving. 355 x 375mm (14 x 14¾"). SIGNED in ink by the engraver on reverse, large margins.
An oval harvesting scene, one of a set painted by Thomas Hearne illustrating Thomson's poem 'The Seasons'.
The BM's example (1849,0328.72) is also signed by William Ellis.
[Ref: 69485] £360.00

Summer. Now swarms the village o'er the jovial mead'... Thomson, v. 352.
Drawn by T. Hearne. Engraved by W. Ellis.
London: Published as the Act directs, 12 Aug. 1784, by W.m Ellis, No. 9 Gwynne's Build.gs Islington.
Etching with engraving. 355 x 375mm (14 x 14¾"). SIGNED in ink by the engraver on reverse, large margins.
An oval harvesting scene, one of a set painted by Thomas Hearne illustrating Thomson's poem 'The Seasons'.
The BM's example (1849,0328.73) is also signed by William Ellis.
[Ref: 69484] £360.00

Sylvia & her Fawn. The Wanton Troopers riding by, / Have shot my Fawn , and it will die. / O help, O help, I see it faint, / And die as carmly as a Saint.
W, Hamilton. T. Gaugain.
London pub: May 1787 by Jane White, N.º38 Tavistock Street Cov.t Garden.
Fine stipple, printed in brown, with large margins.
An illustration from 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', by MP and poet Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
[Ref: 69295] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Télémague, arrivant a la Cour de Sparte, Déplore, en Présence de Ménélas et d'Hélene, les Malheurs de son Pere Ulisse.
Angelica Kauffman ex acad.a Regoli Art.rn Londini Pinx.t. D'aprés Guli.s Wynne Ryland Chalcog.s Regis Britain.ae.
A Paris chez Vidal, graveur, rue des Noyers N.º 29 [n.d., c.1780].
Stipple with etching, printed in red-brown. 300 x 350mm (11¾ x 13¾"). Nicks in edges.
A scene from Homer's Odyssey, in which Odysseus' son Telemachus visits Menelaus and Helen hoping to hear news of his father. A reversed copy of Ryland's print, engraved by Gerard Vidal.
[Ref: 69482] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ulysses Conducted by Calypso to the Forest, Cuts the Trees to build his Ship. These pointing out to View. The Nymph just Shew'd him with Tears withdrew. Homers
Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. P. Dawe fecit.
Published 12.th May 1794. by L. Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Mezzotint, 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. Creasing. Light staining. Nicks to edges. False margin at bottom. Messy.
On a seashore, Ulysses (Odysseus) swings an axe to chop down a tree on the left, while Calypso turns away to the right, her head bowed as she wipes away her tears with her left hand, holding a fold of her cloak in her right.
CS undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69562] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Ulysses Conducted by Calypso to the Forest, Cuts the Trees to build his Ship.] [These pointing out to View. The Nymph just Shew'd him with Tears withdrew. Homers]
Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. P. Dawe fecit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, as the Act directs April 17th. 1776.
Scratched letter proof before title. Mezzotint , 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins. Ink mss title.
On a seashore, Ulysses (Odysseus) swings an axe to chop down a tree on the left, while Calypso turns away to the right, her head bowed as she wipes away her tears with her left hand, holding a fold of her cloak in her right.
CS undescribed. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69565] £490.00

[Venus in her chariot.]
[Ignaz Unterberger]
[Vienna: Ignaz Unterberger, 1797.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 200 x 200mm (8 x 8"). Slight printer's crease.
A night scene with a naked Venus lighting torches for her amoretti. Behind is a crescent moon with a human face. Ignaz Unterberger (1748-97) was a Tyrolese painter & mezzotinter who invented a machine for preparing a copper mezzotint plate in a day rather than three weeks, which was never patented and was dismantled by Unterberger just before his death, leaving the design forgotten. On this print, ''the grounding of the plate for the mezzotint is not done in the usual way with a rocker, but has been ruled with parallel horizontal and oblique diagonal lines''.
Antony Griffiths and Frances Carey: 'German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe', BM 1994, no. 47.
[Ref: 69408] £360.00

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