Grosvenor Prints

Agricultural Employment.
Published, October 18th 1825 by R.H. Laurie, No 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraved writing sheet, watermark J. Green & Son. 420 x 360mm (16½ x 14¼"). Cracks and tears in edges restored. Creasing, small margins.
A writing sheet with eight agricultural scenes. Above is a large view of Stanborough Farm, with six panels down the sides (Sowing, Reaping, Going to Market, Ploughing, Sheep Shearing and 'Gathering Apple's'), and a vignette of a hay wain at the bottom. Only one panel is humorous, perhaps as a treat for a bored pupil: 'Gathering Apple's' in the bottom right shows a man falling head-first from a tree.
[Ref: 56358] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Agriculture N.º 2.
Published for the Home & Colonial Infant School Society by Darton & Clark 58 Holborn Hill [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 405 x 535mm (16 x 21"). Slight scuffing in bottom edge.
Six agricultural scenes (Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Reaping, Mowing & Haymaking, and Sheep Shearing) and illustrations of a reaping hook and shears.
[Ref: 63274] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

L'Agriculture. F. II.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 200 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Small margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Agriculture, with pots, topiary and tools.
[Ref: 59101] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Agriculture.
G.B. Cipriani Inv. I.M. Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.
Stipple. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 55310] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Yours Truly, John Aitken.
On Stone by S.T.G. From Portrait by Mr. F.F. Hutton. 1854.
Campbell & Fergusson, Melbourne.
Tinted lithograph, rare. Sheet: 460 x 315mm (18 x 12¼") very large margins.
A portrait of John Aitken (1792-1858) a pioneer sheepbreeder. Aitken was the son of a Scottish farmer who arrived in Van Dieman's Land in 1825.
[Ref: 45926] £320.00

View of Saint John's Harbour, Antigua. From Friar's Hill. Proof
Drawn by J. Johnson.
[London Published Feb. 1. 1827 by T. & G. Underwood, Fleet Street.]
Very fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 340 x 480mm (13½ x 19"). Trimmed within plate, tear in left edge.
A distant view of the harbour, looking past a windmill of a sugar plantation. This was the first plate in the series of extremely rare 'Views of the West Indies', which was intended (according to the printed wrapper) ''to convey a faithful outline of the existing State of Slavery on the Plantations in the British Islands''. Five parts were planned, each containg four views: the first two were published by the Underwoods in 1827, with a third by Smith & Elder in 1829, before the series was wound up. Only a map of Antigua and 11 plates were issued.
Abbey: 678, the premature end was ''a pity, for these plates were excellent''.
[Ref: 63005] £950.00

[The Tomb of Edmund Waller, St Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield.] To Harry Edmund Waller Esq. of Farmington in Gloucestershire, the Lineal Descendant of the Poet... E.& R. King.
From a Sketch by J. Smith. S. Straker, Litho., George Yard, London.
Published by E. & R. King, Beaconsfield, and E. King, Wycombe [n.d., c.1845].
Sepia-tinted lithograph, rare, image 270 x 250mm. 10½ x 9¾". One tear into image at right. Tatty margins folded.
Edmund Waller (1606-1687) was a poet and wit of wavering political allegiance. He died at Hall Barn, the house he had designed and owned in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. In the Civil War, Waller first supported Parliament and then led a plot ('Waller Plot') to seize London for Charles I. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to a fine of £10,000 and exile in 1644; was pardoned by Cromwell's influence; praised Cromwell in verse, but later rejoiced in his death.
[Ref: 26445] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Pictorial Beauties of Mona…] Peel Castle (Summer Time). [&] Peel Castle (Stormy). [&] Laxey Village and Bay. [&] Castletown. [&] Ramsey Town, Bay, and Harbour.
J.Burkill del. J.Needham Lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by J. Mylrea, July 1st, 1857. Douglas.
Five lithographs [of six.] with hand colour. Printed areas c. 290 x 420mm (11½ x 16½). With title page. Margins of 'Castletown' trimmed; title page heat-sealed.
Five of the six plates from John Burkill's extremely rare set of views of the Isle of Man, published on the island.
Not in Abbey; Tooley, English Books with Colour Plates, 117.
[Ref: 52717] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

Royal Agricultural Society's Show Yard, Second Meeting at Cambridge, July 14.th 1840. To His Grace The Duke of Richmond, President,_The Trustees, Vice Presidents,_Committee of Management, and Members. This Print is respectfully dedicated.
Drawn by T. Pinney, Cambridge, T. Picken lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by J. Haskin, Crescent, Cambridge,_W11. Smith._& Sold by R. Ackermann, Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street.
Lithograph. 260 x 355mm. 10¼ x 14". Small repaired tears in margins.
Gentlemen standing around admiring the livestock and discussing issues relating to farming and agriculture.
See: Ref: 57087 for English Agricultural Society's Show Yard in Oxford.
[Ref: 16545] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

View in the Eastern Townships,_Lower Canada on the River St. Francis.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 195 x 220mm (7¾ x 8¾''). Trimmed.
A view of a lake and farming settlements in Canada.
[Ref: 50021] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire. To the Right Hon.ble the Marquis of Worcester ~ this Plate is (by Permisson) respectfully Inscribed, by his Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, James Fittler.
Drawn by G. Robertson. J. Fittler Dirext.
Engraved from the Original Drawing in the Possession of James Moore Esqr. London Publish'd as the Act directs Jany. 6th. 1787, by J. Fittler, No. 62 Upper Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place.
Copper engraving, 340 x 445mm. 13½ x 17½". A strong impression.
Figures loading a wagon to right, in front of the ruins of Chepstow Castle, south Wales.
[Ref: 16352] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire. To the Right Hon.ble the Marquis of Worcester ~ this Plate is (by Permisson) respectfully Inscribed, by his Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, James Fittler.
Drawn by G. Robertson. J. Fittler Dirext.
Engraved from the Original Drawing in the Possession of James Moore Esqr. London Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 28, 1803, by Anthy. Molteno, No.29 Pall Mall.
Copper engraving, 340 x 445mm. 13½ x 17½". A fine impression with full margins.
Figures loading a wagon to right, in front of the ruins of Chepstow Castle, south Wales. A large paper issue of the engraving by Fittler by Molteno who had just his partnership with Paul Colnaghi. Molteno had been Anthony Torre's first partner and the printselling busines that went on to be owned by Colnaghi.
See 16352 for the 1787 impression.
[Ref: 16353] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. To the Nobility and Gentry Proprietors of this College, this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Servants, S.W. Daukes & J.R. Hamilton Arch.ts.
G. Hawkins lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"), with large margins. Some foxing.
The Gothic Royal Agricultural College, published by the architects of the building, Samuel Whitfield Daukes (1811-80) and John R. Hamilton (dates unknown). When it opened in 1845 it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world; it is now the Royal Agricultural University.
[Ref: 60932] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Cornfield.]
[Engraved by David Lucas after John Constable.]
[1834.]
Mezzotint, finished progress proof before all letters, signed in pencil lower right "David Lucas 27 Westbourne Street, Pimlico". 695 x 520mm (27½ x 20½"), housed in a magnificient Vicars Bros. frame c. 1900's, with large margins. Unexamined out of frame.
A boy lies down to drink from a pond beside a path on which a sheepdog is herding a flock; in the background harvesting is in progress. The painting is now in the National Gallery (NG130).
Shirley 36.
[Ref: 63652] £1,500.00

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Cheshire. Kent. Norfolk. Dorsetshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially cheese-making, hop-growing, turkey and chicken farming and butter-making. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55238] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Wiltshire. Gloucestershire. Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially pig farming; pin-making, embroidery and hosiary. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55237] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Hertfordshire. Sussex. Cornwall. Lancashire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing, repaired tear bottom centre.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially corn, sheep, fishing and spinning. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55240] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dairy.]
[French n.d., c.1785.]
Stipple. Plate: 225 x 195mm (9 x 7¾"). Tear in top edge. Small margins on 3 sides.
A scene at a dairy in which two children drink from a milk urn, a woman churns butter inside a house and two women, one holding a yoke, the other a pail have a conversation.
[Ref: 44636] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

George Dempster Esq. [European Magazine]
Published 1 Aug 1793 by J. Sewell 32 Cornhill
Engraving, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing 'European Magazine' text; false margins added.
George Dempster (1732-1818), agriculturist and politician. Dempster studied law but turned his back on the legal profession to go into politics. Having inherited family estates of some 6000 acres, he was able to finance a campaign as candidate for the (notoriously corrupt) Perthshire district of burghs, which he won against the odds, but at crippling costs. Dempster strengthened his position in subsequent elections (he was MP for 28 years), but had to sell around 2500 acres of land to cover his costs. Dempster was known for his independence, voting against the Stamp Act and opposing government attempts to oppress the colonists in America. He retired from politics in 1789. Dempster also developed an interest in India, becoming director of the East India Company in 1769 and 1772. He defended Warren Hastings against the Edmund Burke's campaign of impeachment. Dempster was also famous for his efforts to advance Scottish commerce and manufactures, promoting the textile industry, founding the first bank in Dundee (having noticed that the lack of proper banking facilities hampered trade), leading improvements to fisheries and promoting road building. He also carried out significant agricultural improvements on his own land and encouraged other landowners to follow his example. Plate from the 'European Magazine'.
O'D 1
[Ref: 35305] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

George Dempster Esq. [European Magazine]
Published 1 Aug 1793 by J. Sewell 32 Cornhill
Engraving, 155 x 105mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing 'European Magazine' text.
George Dempster (1732-1818), agriculturist and politician. Dempster studied law but turned his back on the legal profession to go into politics. Having inherited family estates of some 6000 acres, he was able to finance a campaign as candidate for the (notoriously corrupt) Perthshire district of burghs, which he won against the odds, but at crippling costs. Dempster strengthened his position in subsequent elections (he was MP for 28 years), but had to sell around 2500 acres of land to cover his costs. Dempster was known for his independence, voting against the Stamp Act and opposing government attempts to oppress the colonists in America. He retired from politics in 1789. Dempster also developed an interest in India, becoming director of the East India Company in 1769 and 1772. He defended Warren Hastings against the Edmund Burke's campaign of impeachment. Dempster was also famous for his efforts to advance Scottish commerce and manufactures, promoting the textile industry, founding the first bank in Dundee (having noticed that the lack of proper banking facilities hampered trade), leading improvements to fisheries and promoting road building. He also carried out significant agricultural improvements on his own land and encouraged other landowners to follow his example. Plate from the 'European Magazine'.
O'D 1
[Ref: 35303] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

George Dempster Esq. [European Magazine]
Published 1 Aug 1793 by J. Sewell 32 Cornhill
Engraving, 160 x 110mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing 'European Magazine' text; false margins added.
George Dempster (1732-1818), agriculturist and politician. Dempster studied law but turned his back on the legal profession to go into politics. Having inherited family estates of some 6000 acres, he was able to finance a campaign as candidate for the (notoriously corrupt) Perthshire district of burghs, which he won against the odds, but at crippling costs. Dempster strengthened his position in subsequent elections (he was MP for 28 years), but had to sell around 2500 acres of land to cover his costs. Dempster was known for his independence, voting against the Stamp Act and opposing government attempts to oppress the colonists in America. He retired from politics in 1789. Dempster also developed an interest in India, becoming director of the East India Company in 1769 and 1772. He defended Warren Hastings against the Edmund Burke's campaign of impeachment. Dempster was also famous for his efforts to advance Scottish commerce and manufactures, promoting the textile industry, founding the first bank in Dundee (having noticed that the lack of proper banking facilities hampered trade), leading improvements to fisheries and promoting road building. He also carried out significant agricultural improvements on his own land and encouraged other landowners to follow his example. Plate from the 'European Magazine'.
O'D 1
[Ref: 35304] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Don Quixote. Plate II.
Stothard del. Walker Sculp.
Published as the Act directs, by Harrison and Co. Mar.16, 1782.
Engraving with large margins, 175 x 110mm. 7 x 4¼".
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza kneel before the Lady Dulcinia del Toboso (slaughterhouse worker Aldonza Lorenzo). Illustration from Miguel de Cervantes's 'The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote ... To which is prefixed, some account of the author's life ... Illustrated with copper-plates', 4 vols., 1782. After Thomas Stothard (1755 - 1834).
[Ref: 15430] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Copy of an Inventory and Valuation Of all the Live and Dead Stock belonging to the late W.m Picken Esq.r deceased on the Farm at Whitemoor; as taken by the undersigned, on the tenth, eleventh, & seventeenth Days of April, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand, eight hundred and nine.
[1809].
4pp. ink mss., with appraiser's blind stamp and ink tax stamp, unique, very large watermark 1805. Folds with splits.
A valuation of livestock (draught horse, cows, sheep and pigs) and deadstock (wagons, farm tools and manure) for a farm in an area now part of Nottingham.
[Ref: 61360] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Agricolteur. No 389.
M. Benedetti delin.t. A. Ragona sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching with engraving, 18th century watermark. 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"), on wove paper with large margins. Crease in margin.
A bare-footed farm labourer with axe and spade on his shoulder. One of a set of four, with 'Jardiniere', 'Pasteur' & 'Peuchese'.
[Ref: 58086] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Jolly Farmer. [&] The Farmer's Wife.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Pair of fine hand-coloured aquatint. Each sheet: 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Slight loss on right.
Two portraits, the first of a ruddy faced farmer drinking beer. The second shows a farmer's wife churning butter.
[Ref: 49942] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Farmer Macaroni. E'en Farmers dress and mount their Ponies,/ And all alike, are Macaronies.
[by Matthew Darly.]
Pub.d accord.gto Act July 24th. 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5").
The farmer wears the macaroni looped club to his hair, and coat, waistcoat, and frilled shirt. With this he wears a round hat, loose gloves, and spurred riding boots. In his right hand he holds a rough-cut cane. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly'.
BM Satires: 5020.
[Ref: 55586] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Farm Yard.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 170 x 275mm, 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image of a framyard, with hay stacks, animals, a threaser and a milkmaid.
[Ref: 16440] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Boat on the Ganges.]
Etching by Francis Fane [in ink outside the image.]
[n.d. c.1850.]
Etching, extremely scarce. 109 x 120mm.
A view along the Ganges, the river that linked Delhi with Lucknow during the India Mutiny 1857-1859.
Colonel Francis Augustus Fane (1824-1893) was a Colonel who fought in the Indian Mutiny. He was commander of the Peshawar Light Horse. He gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the 25th Regiment. His life was full of excitement starting first as a soldier, then a banker before settling down as a country gentleman. He started life as a soldier in Antigua where he did some extensive sightseeing before returning to England for his second assignment which took him to Quebec, leading to further sightseeing with his uncle Major -General Mildmay Fane, around Niagara, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston. In 1854 he returned to England to immediately join his uncle in India. It was until 1860 when he next moved to join the 25th regiment in Gibraltar. Following the death of his father in 1862 and the later death of his brother-in-law Anthony Willson, the Sleaford banker in 1866, he returned in November to end his army career, and embarked on a career in banking and finance.

During his time as a soldier he managed to find a lot of free time to indulge in numerous pastimes. This enabled him to become adept at music, and at drawing, painting and engraving. Whilst in the West Indies he had a large organ, which he took with him and exchanged in Calcutta in 1857 for a large harmonium, which was lost during the Mutiny. This ability enabled him to play in church in Quebec and in 1860 he received a new piano from Berlin in Gibraltar. It wasn’t until 1851 that he began etching, at which point he was in London based at a printers to learn that art of printing and engraving. He then bought his own printing press, which he took to India.

After leaving finance he soon became involved in local affairs in Fulbeck and in farming. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1875; and was very active in the affairs of the Conservative Association and of the Agricultural Society. His diaries came to abrupt end in 1884, nine years before his death, so little can be said about his remaining years.
[Ref: 16161] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Orange Grove three miles distant from Gibraltar; Drawn by Francis Carter in the Year 1772.
P. Mazell sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan. 1 1777.
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. 205 x 370mm (8 x 14½"). Large margins on 3 sides.
''Half way between Carteia and the Spanish lines, runs into the sea a little river, collected from different springs about a mile up the country; on its pleasant banks several Spaniards have established themselves, and planted gardens of orange-trees, sweet canes, pomegranates, and evergreens; the eternal blossom of the oranges, and the advantage of angling in a river full of fish, induced a gentleman of the garrison to erect a little hut of canes under the shade of an enormous walnut, where the officers find beds, and the little requisites for passing an agreeable day in this amiable spot.'' From Francis Carter's two-volume 'A Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga' (1777). Carter (1741?-1783), a traveller and collector of coins, was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries that same year, but died before completing his next work, a study of early Spanish printed books.
[Ref: 53058] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Girl and Pigs.
Drawn by R. Westall R.A. Engraved by Ogborne & Gaugain.
Pub. May 1. 1802 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Stipple engraving printed in colour. Image size 425 x 490mm (17 x 19¼"), with large margins.
A girl pouring water into a trough from which two pigs are drinking. After Richard Westall RA (1765-1836), a versatile artist who became a full RA in 1794, and in the 1790s worked for both Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and Fuseli's Milton Gallery. He later illustrated the works of Milton, Byron, Walter Scott and many other leading writers. The high point of Westall's career came in 1814 when he exhibited 312 of his pictures in a successful exhibition in Pall Mall, but from 1815 his fortunes declined and he died in penury.
Richard J. Westall, 'Richard Westall' in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
[Ref: 14457] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Gloucestershire team of Oxen.
From an original drawing by R Hills in the possession of the proproeters of this work.
London, Pub. March 1. 1813, by Hassell & C.o 11. Clements inn.
Aquatint, plate 330 x 425mm (13 x 16½"). On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Thread margins on top and bottom. Taped tear in right side that goes into the plate mark but not the image. Some creasing.
A farming scene in Gloucestershire. Men pile hay onto a cart pulled by a team of four oxen. Robert Hills (1769–1844) was an English painter and etcher who primarily focused on rural scenes, particularly farm animals.
See Abbey Life 140
[Ref: 56030] £165.00 (£198.00 incl.VAT)

[Milking Goats.]
J. Smith ex.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 160 x 185mm (6¼ x 7¼"). Laid on album sheet.
A rural scene showing figures milking a pair of goats into large wooden barrels.
[Ref: 46818] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The true and lively pourtraicture of Valentine Greatrakes Esq.r of Affane in ye Country of Waterford, in ye Kingdome of Ireland famous for curing several Deseases and distempers by the stroak of his hand only.]
[Sold by W.m Faithorne.] [n.d.,. 1666.]
Etching. Sheet 130 x 115mm (5¼ x 4½"). Trimmed into image, losing all text, top edged chipped, laid on album paper.
Valentine Greatrakes (1628-82), an Irish faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. A religious man, he started his healing in 1662 after feeling an impulse, curing Robert Phayre, a former Commonwealth Governor of County Cork, of acute ague in 1665. In 1667 he returned to farming in Ireland. The frontispiece of ''A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed''.
[Ref: 57203] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Happy Meeting.]
[After William Gilpin.] [Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, landscape by Thomas Morris.]
[Publ. Oct 1, 1780.]
Rare etching, proof before all letters, sheet 445 x 310mm (17½ x 12¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A girl on horseback, holding a lamb and gesturing as she greets a young man who walks with a small barrel strapped to his back, carrying a ploughshare.
Calabi & De Vesme: 2514 ii of iv.
[Ref: 59596] £340.00

Harrowing.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 115 x 155mm, 4½ x 6". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a boy leading two horses dragging a harrow. Harrowing breaks up clods of earth after ploughing to make a fine finish to the soil in readiness for planting.
[Ref: 16438] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Hay Makers.
Emma Crewe Delint.
Pubd. July 10, 1795, by I. Read No.133, Pall Mall.
Stipple and etching, sheet 270 x 200mm. 10½ x 8". Trimmed within plate.
Two girls looking to front, holding hayfork and rake, one standing, the other reclining against a hay bale; oval. Emma Crewe (active c.1780 - 1818) was a 'gifted amateur artist' who painted the frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's 'The Loves of the Plants'. She also provided designs for Josiah Wedgewood's studio, used for cameos and plaques.
[Ref: 13884] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

J.F. Herring's Farm Yard. No. 6.
J.F. Herring del.t J. West Giles lith.
M. & N. Hanhart lith. printers. London, Published 15th January 1850, by E. Gambart & Co. 25, Berners St, Oxford St.
Fine coloured lithograph, printed area 455 x 410mm (18 x 16"). Loss in margins on right.
Atmospheric barn scene with three cows, after J.F. Herring.
[Ref: 23813] £480.00

Part of Homesdale from Madamscourt Hill, Kent.
W.F. Wells del: Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, n.d., c.1810.]
Lithograph, rare, image 165 x 240mm. 6½ x 9½". Stitch holes to upper margin; chipped lower extremities. Pin hole to image.
A prospect of the Kentish countryside from rising ground; three figures to foreground, their backs to the viewer, one on horseback. From a folio of views.
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 24610] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

To the Right Honourable The Earl of Sandwich, This View of Huntingdon...
Geo. Tytler, pinxt. F.C. Lewis sculpt.
Huntingdon, Published Octr. 1817, by G. Wooll & Messrs. Cribb & Sons, 288, Holborn, London.
Scarce hand-coloured aquatint with etching, plate reworked. Image 325 x 470m, 12¾ x 18". Trimmed to plate; several filled worm holes. Damaged.
A fine prospect of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; in the foreground figures walking along a path through a field containing sheep, and some agricultural workers with scythes resting. The town was chartered by King John in 1205. It is the traditional county town of Huntingdonshire (formerly a separate county), and is known as the birthplace in 1599 of Oliver Cromwell.
[Ref: 56182] £380.00

Infant's School Pictures No. I. Patriarchal Times. A woman drawing water from a well...[description follows].
London, Published by James Nisbet, 21, Berners Street, and Edmund Fry, 73, Houndsditch [n.d., c.1845]. Price per Set, (containing 4 Pictures), 2/6 plain or 4/- coloured.
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm. 11 x 15". Stitching holes to margins.
An illustration of everyday life in the Holy Lands during biblical times. From a set of educational lithographs for schools.
For another print from the same series see ref. 10913.
[Ref: 24652] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Irish Tennant Farmers Lament From Eviction from his Native Home.
[Dublin, P. Brereton? c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with woodcut vignette. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
Irish famine interest. Chorus: ''So now kind friends just lisnen to my Irish tale of woe / Cause'd by the Agents veugence upon poor Patt Roe".
See ref: 52235
[Ref: 52233] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Twelve views of Killarney] No. 1. North View of the Lower Lake of Killarny.. [&] No.2. East View of the Lower Lake of Killarny. [&] No.3. South East View of the Lower Lake of Killarney. [&] No. 4. Distant View of Mucrus Abbey. [&] No. 5. West View of the Lower Lake of Killarney. [&] No. 6. View of Ross Bay &c. from Innisfallen Island. [&] No. 7. Front View of O Sullivan's Cascade, near Killarney. [&] No. 8. The Old Weir Bridge on the Riber between the Lakes of Killarney. [&] No. 9. From the Old Weir Bridge to the Eagles Nest. [&] No.10. The Eagles Nest on the River between the Lakes of Killarney. [&] No.11. North East View of the Upper Lake of Killarney. [&] No.12. South East View of the Upper Lake of Killarney.
[after Jonathan Fisher.]
London Published by J. Fisher June 1796.
Set of twelve aquatints. Each sheet 200 x 285mm (8 x 11¼). Trimmed to platemark, 6 mounted in album paper.
The full set of twelve views of Killarney after Jonathan Fisher, perhaps reissues of the plates in his 'Picturesque tour of Killarney' of 1789.
See Abbey 452 & 479 for works by Fisher.
[Ref: 58015] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Lieut.t King.
J. Wright del. W. Skelton sculp.
Publ.d May 1. 1789, by J. Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Engraving with small margins. Sheet size: 230 x 135mm (9 x 5¼"). Cut to plate on left.
A bust portrait of Captain Philip Gidley King (1758 - 1808) within an oval. King was the third Governor of New South Wales, Australia where he helped develop livestock farming, whaling and mining, built many schools and launched the colony's first newspaper. From Phillip's 'Voyage to Botany Bay', 1789.
Portraits of the Famous and Infamous Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Kivell & Spence. P.164.
[Ref: 35646] £360.00

Sketches at Komgha.
The Observer, Monday, February 18, 1878.
Wood engraving. 360 x 286mm. 14¼ x 11¼".
Komga, a town in Amatole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, was founded as a farming centre in 1877 on the site of a military camp established in 1854, and acquired municipal status in 1904.
[Ref: 15509] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

View of Leith from the East Road. 105.
P. Sandby Delin.t et Sculp Windsor Aug.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1790.]
Coloured etching. 270 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾), on wove paper watermarked 'E & P.' Small repaired holes and small tear in very large margin.
A prospect of Leith, looking across fields to the Firth of Forth, with a coach on the left. This plate was engraved by Sandby in 1751 and published by William Sandby (a cousin) and Gavin Hamilton that year. A related drawing is in the Sutherland Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, signed 'Paul Sandby Delin.t et fecit Edin.r 1749'.
See BM 1904,0819.508 for the original issue.
[Ref: 54651] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Love Your Own Land.
[Dublin, P. Brereton? c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
Irish famine interest. ''Can you equal famed Killarney / Whose name resounds from Shore to Shore''.
See ref: 52233.
[Ref: 52235] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Colonel Ranaldson Macdonell of Glangarry, &c. &c. Dedicated with permission to the Most Noble His Grace the Duke of Gordon by his Grace's Most Obliged and very Humble Servant.
Painted by Sir Henry Raeburn R.A. Engraved by Tho.s Hodgetts.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare mezzotint with separate engraved title plate. Total 680 x 400mm (26¾ x 15¾"). Paper cracks, toning, laid on board.
A full length portrait of Alexander (Alistair) Ranaldson Macdonell (1773-1828), clan chief of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, wearing Scottish dress with a Glengarry (the plumed cap he invented) and sporran, hand resting on a musket. His romantic attachment to the Gaelic custom and costume did not stop him evicting his tenants to clear his lands for sheep farming, prompting Robert Burns to write 'Address of Beelzebub' about Glengarry.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66671] £420.00

Market Day.
London J Fairburn 110 Minories. [n.d., c.1818.]
Woodcut with very fine hand colour. Sheet 240 x 355mm (9½ x 14").
The busy high street scene includes sellers of fresh meat and game, and livestock pens; buildings and churches beyond. Numbered '3' lower left; from a series of popular prints (for children?) by John Fairburn (1793 - 1830; fl).
[Ref: 19960] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[To Sam.l Oldknow Esqr. _The Proprietor, This West View of Mellor Mill in Derbyshire is with the greatest respect, inscribed by his obedient H.ble Servants, F.Jukes & V.Zanetti.]
[From an original Picture by J.Parry. Engraved by F.Jukes.]
[Published July 12th 1803 by Francis Jukes, No. 10 Howland Street _ And Vittore Zanetti, Repository of Arts, Manchester.]
Aquatint with very fine original hand colour, very large margins, proof before all letters 370 x 480mm (14½ x 18¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Ruse'. Several tears in margin, one just entering plate at bottom. Slight time staining.
Mellor Mill, a six-story cotton mill in Marple (now Greater Manchester), built by Samuel Oldknow 1793-5. Extremely rare & fine image. Oldknow (1756-1828) was a cotton manufacturer at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. Early in his career he used the 'putting-out' system of production, distributing raw cotton to spinners and yarn to weavers who worked in their own homes and workshops. This could not compete against the Indian muslin trade, so he secured money to built this factory. A financial crisis caused by the French Revolutionary Wars put him on the brink of bankrupcy, but he was saved by a partnership with Richard Arkwright. By the time this print was published the mill had over 500 employees, including a number of parish apprentices who were brought up from London. He was known as a good employer: his farming interests allowed him to supply his workers with food and he built them housing. He also introduced his own system of paper money to pay his workforce which could be exchanged for goods at the village shop or for cash via third parties. However by the time of his death he was £206,000 in debt. Oldknow also invested in the Peak Forest Canal, on which was the Marple Aqueduct, which was also the subject of an aquatint by Joseph Parry and Francis Jukes.
See Ref: 35461
[Ref: 56183] £620.00

Mercifull Nell. A Butcher with a Heart as hard as Stone...
London Publish'd Nov.r 10; 1786 by Rob.t Sayer Maps & Printsellers No 53. Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with very large margins.
A comic scene in which a woman laments the killing of a lamb by a butcher, while skinning eels with no qualms.
[Ref: 44694] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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