Grosvenor Prints

Great Subscription Room at Brooks's, St. James's Street.
Rowlandson & Pugin Delt. et Sculpt. J. Bluck Aquat.
London. Pub.1st Octr, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 280mm, 9 x 11", paper watermarked "1808" large margins.
The gaming room at Brooks's, a gentlemen's club founded in 1764, with a barrel-vault ceiling designed by John Adam. Notable members of the club include David Garrick, Herbert Walpole, Joshua Reynolds, William Pitt the Younger, William Wilberforce, George IV and William IV.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 53543] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Main Gateway, King's College, Cambridge.
N.W. Keates [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Publisher's stamp 200 x 270mm (8 x 10½") large margins.
William Wilkins gatehouse to King's College, Cambridge, erected 1824-28 in the neo-Gothic or Tudor-Gothic style. Millbourn watermark.
[Ref: 53563] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge. Trinity College, The Fountain.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 260 x 280mm (10¼ x 11").
The fountain in the Great Court of Trinity College, fed by a conduit leading from a spring more than a mile away.
[Ref: 53511] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the River Thames from Chelsea.
Chas. White, Sct.
[London, n.d., c.1794.]
Rare etching. 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾). Two small stitching marks in the left margin.
A charming view; in the foreground a woman guides a child along the top of a wall. A pedlar approaches from right, his wares in a tray strapped to his front. Numbered 'No.3' upper right, for 'Six Views of the Thames', Laurie & Whittle. After Jean Baptiste Chatelain (1710? - 1771).
Guildhall Library Record: 6832. Longford Images of Chelsea: 201. For an uncut sheet of 'Six Views of the Thames' see ref. 4028.
[Ref: 53573] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Chelsea Reach, Looking Towards Battersea.]
Walter W Burgess [signed in pencil lower right, with sun symbol.]
[n.d. c.1894.]
Etching.Proof. Plate 180 x 285mm (7 x 11¼") large margins.
Fine view of the Thames. William Walter Burgess [1844 - 1908] annually exhibited his etchings at the Royal Academy from 1874 to 1903. Burgess was a full member of the Royal Engravers and such major museums as The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, include his etchings in their permanent collections. From: Bits of Old Chelsea. A series of forty-one etchings by W. W. Burgess. Kegan Paul & Co.: London, 1894.
Elizabeth Longford: Images of Chelsea, 223.
[Ref: 53566] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

New Covent Garden Theatre.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculp.t. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub Jan 1st 1810 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Coloured aquatint. 24 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼) large margins.
The newly-opened theatre, built after the original building burnt down in 1808, itself burning down in 1856. Its replacement become the Royal Opera House in 1892.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 53544] £380.00

The Cowthorpe Oak. Yorkshire.
Drawn by W.H. Hammer Esq.r. F.A.L.S.S. Engraved by J. Laporte.
Publish'd Sep.r 1, 1806, by J. Laporte, 21 Winchester Row, Edgware Road.
Lithograph. In ink under artist "girth 47 feet". Sheet 360 x 525mm (14 x 20¾"). Some small stains, creasing.
Portrait of an ancient oak tree, so famous that it was sketched by J.M.W. Turner. Believed to pre-date the Norman Conquest, it was already on the decline when this view was taken, but it was only when it was hit by lightning in 1950 that it died. However acorns from it have been planted as far away as New Zealand.
See Ref: 57657
[Ref: 53584] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Devonshire Square.
Sutton Nicholls delin et sc.
Published according to Act of Parliament 1754 for Stowes Survey.
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 465mm (13¼ x 18¼"). Trimmed within plate, some creasing. Repaired damage bottom left.
An elevated view of Devonshire Square, off Bishopsgate Street, with a statue of Hermes/Mercury a coach and sedan chair. First published by John Bowles c.1725, the remains of the original publisher's inscription can be seen at the bottom of the image.
[Ref: 53586] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dover.]
T.A. Prior sculp.
[n.d., c.1860s.]
Steel engraving on india laid paper, proof. 260 x 460mm (10¼ x 18").
A prospect of the sea front at Dover, Kent, shipping in the harbour and the famous white cliffs and castle beyond. With separate text sheet.
[Ref: 53610] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Gate Tower, Dover Castle [marked in pencil in lower left of sheet.]
Hy.G. Webb [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Etching, signed in pencil. sheet 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10½"), very large margins. Tear in the left margin.
Constable's tower and gateway, which was inserted into the curtain wall by Hubert de Burgh between 1221 and 1227 to replace the old north entrance. Harry George Webb (1882-1914) was a landscape and architectural painter and etcher, who exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Etchers. He set up the Caradoc Press in Chiswick in 1899 with his wife Hesba.
Guichard: Appendix only as named artist.
[Ref: 53532] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

History of Eton College.
[London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1816 but later]
Extract. 4to, later maroon cloth gilt; pp. 72; nine aquatints and one etching, all with original hand colour. Some spotting.
An extract containing all the plates and text relating to Eton from Ackermann's 'Public Schools', first published 1816. The plates are are four exterior views, interiors of the chapel, School Room, Hall and Library and a portrait of a scholar.
Abbey: Scenery 438.
[Ref: 53764] £450.00 view all images for this item

Fire in London.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J. Bluck, Aqua.t.
London. Pub 1st Sept, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 230 x 280mm (9 x 11") very large margins. Slight mount burn.
The fire that destroyed the Albion Flour Mills, on the Southwark side of Blackfriars Bridge, March 2nd, 1791. Also destroyed were John Rennie's steam-driven milling machines inside: it was rumoured the fire was deliberately set to prevent these innovations putting windmill-owners out of business. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 53466] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Haileybury from the 20 Acre Field.
G. Hayes.
Published by W.H. Beynon & Co Cheltenham. [n.d., c.1900.]
Etching on india. 190 x 355mm (7½ x 14"), with large margins.
Haileybury and Imperial Service College (usually shortened to Haileybury), is an independent school founded in 1862 at Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, in 500 acres of parkland occupied until 1858 by the East India College. The principal architect, William Wilkins, also designed the National Gallery in London, and Downing College, Cambridge. The school is built around four ranges which enclose an area known as Quad, the largest academic quadrangle in the UK and one of the largest in the world. By Gertrude Ellen Hayes (1872-1956), who married Alfred Kedington. Both were art tutors at Rugby School.
[Ref: 53475] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Quad. Haileybury.
G. Hayes.
Published by W.H. Beynon & Co Cheltenham. [n.d., c.1900.]
Etching on india. 190 x 350mm (7½ x 13¾"), with large margins.
Haileybury and Imperial Service College (usually shortened to Haileybury), is an independent school founded in 1862 at Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, in 500 acres of parkland occupied until 1858 by the East India College. The principal architect, William Wilkins, also designed the National Gallery in London, and Downing College, Cambridge. The school is built around four ranges which enclose an area known as Quad, the largest academic quadrangle in the UK and one of the largest in the world. By Gertrude Ellen Hayes (1872-1956), who married Alfred Kedington. Both were art tutors at Rugby School.
[Ref: 53474] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Halifax From The S.E.
Drawn on Stone by John Horner. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by N: Whitley, Halifax. 1822.
Coloured lithograph. Image 305 x 465mm (12 x 18¼"). Mount burn.
A locally published prospect of Halifax, in West Yorkshire. A folio of 20 lithographs by Horner, ' Buildings in Halifax', was published in 1835.
Abbey: 148.
[Ref: 53481] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Highlander. This is the last and only Remains of the Roman Dress that at present exists in Europe. [&] A Highlander - Un Montagnard d'Ecosse.
Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t Sep.r 12th 1771 by M.Darly at No. 39. Strand. [&] Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly Oct 2.d 1771.
Pair of engravings, each 210 x 160mm (8½ x 6½") Trimmed to plate. Some staining.
A highlander wearing kilt & plaid (ie. tartan cloth slung over the shoulders) from front and rear. At the time of publication the anti-Jacobite 1746 Dress Act banning tartans as common wear was still in force. It was repealled in 1782.
[Ref: 53657] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ironmongers Hall with a View of Fenchurch Street. L'Hotel des Ferronniers dans la Rue de Fenchurch a Londres.
J. Donowell delin. T. Bowles Sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament Aug 1. 1753. London Printed for Tho. Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhill, R Sayer in Fleet Street and H. Overton without Newgate.
Engraving and etching. 260 x 415mm (10¼ x 16¼"), with large margins.
View of Thomas Holden's new Ironmongers' Hall in Fenchurch Street, opened 1745, destroyed by a German bomb in 1917.
[Ref: 53482] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Peter Pan.] [No.9]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching with original description sheet. 200 x 140mm (5½ x 8") large margins. Slight mount stain.
View of the statue of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan held in Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park. The statue was commissioned by Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie and sculpted by Sir George Frampton in 1912, and was erected secretly overnight on the eve of May Day 1912.
[Ref: 53614] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

London Bridge.
Published May 29.th 1799 by T.Malton.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with etching, 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16½"). Some tape stains in margins where previously mounted. Title and publishing line slightly faded.
A view of London Bridge from the south bank looking towards the north and the Monument. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53670] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Index to the View of London.
[J. Swertner.]
Published as the Act directs by J. Swertner Aug.t 1.st 1789.
Etching with aquatint. Sheet 125 x 750mm (4¾" x 29½"). Folds with some creasing through the image.
The extensive key to an aquatint view of Westminster and the City of London from Islington, lettered A-Z and numbered 1-90. The Rev. John Swertner (1746-1813) was a Moravian Minister who, when not producing views such as this, was a prolific writer of hymns.
Guildhall Library Print Room: p7494442.
[Ref: 53659] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Mansion House from the Poultry.
Published Nov.r 5, 1798 by T.Malton.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with etching, 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16½"). Some tape stains in margins where previously mounted.
A view of the Mansion house from Poultry street. T. Malton [jun.], A picturesque tour through the cities of London & Westminster, London 1792 [-1801], vol.II, pl.59. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53669] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House.
Rowlandson & Pugin Del.t. Et Sculpt. J. Bluck, Aqua.t.
London. Pub 1st Jany, 1809 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 230x280mm (9 x 10¾") large margins. .
A dining scene inside Egyptian Hall in Mansion House; waiters and servants running around serving all the guests on the long tables. It would seat 350 and was based on the designs by the classical Roman architect Vitruvius of Roman buildings in Egypt, with giant columns supporting a narrower attic area.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 53545] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

The Monument.
Publish'd March 31st. 1798 by T.Malton.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with etching, 380 x 310mm (15 x 12½"). Some tape stains in margins where previously mounted.
A view of the Monument to the Great Fire of London. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53667] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

New Hungerford Market, London. On the Day of Opening, July 2nd 1833 - with the Ascent of Mr Graham in his Balloon.
Drawn by R.W.Billings. On stone by I.S.Templeton.
London, Published Aug.15 1833 by R.W.Billings (at Mr Brittons, 17 Burton Street) & sold by J.W.Williams, 10 Charles St, Soho Square.
Lithograph. 275 x 340mm (10½ x 13½). Tear in top margin. Margins soiled with crease in the bottom left-hand corner.
A very large crowd gathered at New Hungerford Market in London July 2nd 1833. George Graham is ascending in his balloon in the top right.
[Ref: 53662] £350.00

Entrance to All Souls College, and St Mary's Church from the High Street.
Published Feb. 24th 1802 by T. Malton.
Aquatint. Sheet 430 x 330mm (17 x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of the High Street, Oxford.
[Ref: 53454] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

New Meadow Buildings, Christ Church (in course of erection).
Drawn & Engraved by. J. H. Le Keux, Durham.
[Published by Macmillan & Co. Oxford & London Nov.r 1st. 1864.]
Etching on india. 330 x 400mm (13 x 16 "). Backing paper worn.
A view of the Meadow Building of Christ Church College in Oxford University, showing the college under construction. Several groups of figures walk by the building while construction workers work by some scaffolding.
[Ref: 53457] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[New College Chapel.]
F.P. Barraud [in plate]. F.P. Barraud. R.W. Hester [pencil signatures].
London, Published April 2nd 1891 by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen, 114, New Bond Street, W, Copyright Registered.
Coloured etching, signed by the artist and engraver. 450 x 580mm (17¾ x 22¾"), with Printsellers' Association blind stamp
A large-scale view of the chapel at New College, by Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900). The arms of the college appear under the image.
[Ref: 53462] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

St John's College from the Garden.
M.A. Rooker., del & sculp.
[c.1787.]
Engraving, fine impression. Sheet 345 x 485mm (13½ x 19"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
Drawn and engraved by Michael Angelo Rooker for the Oxford Almanack.
[Ref: 53453] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Cutter, with a View of South Sea Castle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom right. Some creasing. Holes near bottom edge where previously bound.
Small boats off Southsea Castle, the fort built by Henry VIII to protect Portsmouth. Plate 19 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (and so perhaps explaining the coastal defences shown here). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 53540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

St Albans School [pencil.] Plate 1 [in pencil.]
Etched by W.A. Donald [pencil.]
[Engraved c.1930, but later impression.]
Etching. Plate 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½") very large margins.
A view of part of St Albans School, the public school in Hertfordshire, and one of the oldest in the world. The school was established in 498 A.D.
[Ref: 53528] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

St. Bennet's Fink, Threadneedle Street.
Published Sep.r 29th. 1797 by T.Malton.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with etching, 380 x 310mm (15 x 12½"). Some tape stains in margins where previously mounted.
A view of St Benet Fink church. This version of the church was built to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London. The Wren church was demolished between 1841 and 1846. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53668] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

St. Lawrence's Church & Guild-hall
Published Nov.r 5.th 1798 by T.Malton.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with etching, 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16½"). Some tape stains in margins where previously mounted.
A view of St Lawrence Jewry, a Church of England guild church, and Guildhall. Built to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53671] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

St. Paul's from Cheapside.
Published Sep.r 29th. 1797 by T.Malton.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with etching, 420 x 310mm (16½ x 12½"). Some tape stains in margins where previously mounted.
A fine view of St. Paul's Cathedral. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53666] £320.00

The Pest Houses, Tothill Fields Commonly Called The Five Chimnies. Formerly the Residence of Dick Hubbard.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph with hand colour, on india laid paper. 210 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼").
Figures skating on a pond in front of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Tothill Fields, Westminster. 'Pest Houses' were built originally to house victims of the Plague.
[Ref: 53508] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[National Gallery & St. Martins in the Field]
Fred. A. Farrell [signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 13) very large margins. Some foxing.
Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
See Ref: 55003
[Ref: 53664] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of Vauxhall Iron Bridge.
Publish'd Aug.t 20. 1816. by Whittle & Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Fine coloured engraving. Plate 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17½"). Some creases, small margins.
View of the Vauxhall Iron Bridge, with moored boats to the left an the bridge beyond; a windmill can be seen in the distance to the left.
Adams (London): 191.29. Crace: IV.14.
[Ref: 53602] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

White Hall.
Publifh'd Oct.r 30 1794 by T.Malton.
Fine aquatint, 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16½"). Faint mount burn.
A view of Whitehall with the Banqueting House. T. Malton [jun.], A picturesque tour through the cities of London & Westminster, London 1792 [-1801], vol.I, pl.15. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
[Ref: 53672] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Market Place, Wokingham, Berks. from Mr. Johnson's.
W. A. Delamott Jun.r Del.t Sandhurst 1832.
A rare lithograph. Sheet 220 x 345mm (8¾ x 13½") large margins. Some surface dirt and foxing.
Wokingham, Berkshire with a view of the market place and the old Market Hall with its pillared undercroft. This building was replaced in 1858.
[Ref: 53601] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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