Grosvenor Prints

[Sketchbook of an upper-class lady amateur, Sarah Monk Cuslace(?); subjects include houses, marine views and scenes from drama and popular literature, some copied from other images.]
[British, c.1815.]
Charming and desirable sketchbook, 12mo, 18 pp. [+6], 15 pen and ink and watercolour drawings numbered to verso, complete as 'description of The preceding Drawings' (three following pages of ink mss.); original gilt tooled calf binding. Binding scuffed and rubbed; upper cover and fly leaf disbound. Some leaves excised; three doyley-form cartes-de-visit loosley inserted.
All compositions are executed with considerable skill by an accomplished hand. The identity of the artist is revealed at the back, with cut-out initials 'SMC' and full name glued to the final two pages. The 'description' refers to "a scene which passed in the May of 1809", a fishing party at Eythrope, seat of the Earl of Chesterfield. Houses depicted include Lethington House, East Lothian, Scotland; Shakespeare's house at Stratford; Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire; the mausoleum at Cobham Park; and Longleat in Wiltshire. Also included is a scene from Shakespeare, Mr. Kemble as Cato, scenes from the Ballad of Chevvy Chase and Marmion, the epic poem by Sir Walter Scott; two marine views featuring British warships and sailors.
[Ref: 18565] £680.00 view all images for this item

The Battle Ground Of The Eights The Thames The Isis The Cam.
Drawn & Etched by R. Farren 1884.
Cambridge Macmillan And Bowes.
Oblong folio, etched titlepage and nine etched plates, plates c.145 x 200mm. Edition limited to 200 copies. Binding scuffed and frayed with odd water stain. Plates good, faint evidence of foxing.
Includes attractive views on the Thames at Chiswick and Putney, punting on The Isis, and fishing on The Cam. The decorative titlepage with attractive vignette of a swallow and reeds signed in pencil by the artist, who has also captioned each plate in pencil. Robert Farren rarely signed his work. He lived and worked in Cambridge where he owned a print business.
[Ref: 7427] £380.00 view all images for this item

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the fishing port at Peterhead, with rowing boats on the beach in the foreground, and the town on the bank of the bay behind. A large church is on a plateau in the middle ground. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36172] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Admiralty Islands. No. II.
Piron del. Harding ex. Angus sc.
Published Apr. 20 1800 by J. Debrett Piccadilly.
Engraving. 222 x 291mm. 8¾ x 11½".
Natives fishing in tbe bay outside the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. From the English edition of Jacques Labillardière's ''An Account of A Voyage in search of La Perouse... Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux'', an expedition that crossed the South Pacific, visiting Australia, New Zealand and the East Indies between 1791-3.
[Ref: 20743] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Vue des Îsles de L'Amirauté
Piron del. Dien scripsit. Imprimée chez Dien.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving. 310 x 440mm (12¼ x 17¼").
View in the Admiralty Islands, in the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea, with locals spear-fishing from canoes. In 1788 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse set sail from Botany Bay and was never seen again. Despite the upheaval of the French Revolution the National Assembly was moved to send an expedition in search of their lost hero, 1791-3, under Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Despite finding no trace of La Perouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists, especially in Australia. This account, compiled by the expedition's botanist, Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière, was published as 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', with natural history plates by Redouté and Audebert. The work even has its own abbreviation in botantical literature, 'Voy.Rech.Perouse'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18696] £550.00

Vue d'un Établissement des Habitans du Port des Francais pour la Saison de la Peche.
Dessiné par Blondela. Gravé par Le Grand. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 390 x 560mm, 15½ x 22". Crease through middle.
A temporary settlement in Lituya Bay, Alaska (now part of the Glacier Bay Park & Wilderness), used for the fishing season. In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked in Kamchatka and spent a year crossing Siberia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.
[Ref: 18689] £360.00

12 Old English Sports & Pastimes.
By Cecil Aldin.
London. Lawrence & Bullen, Limited [n.d., 1901.]
Portfolio, printed cover, flaps; twelve near mint colour plates, each 385 x 475mm (15¼ x 18¾") Portfolio worn, one plate with a tear in margin taped.
A very rare complete set of twelve satirical sporting scenes: Golf, Shooting, Racing, Hawking, Cricket, Coaching, Bowling, Fishing, Coursing, Skating, Curling & Hunting.
See Ref: 37827 for 'Golf'.
[Ref: 62518] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Premiere Galerie Pres De Crevola. (Route du Simplon.)
Villeneuve 1826. les figures par V. Adam.
Lith. de Engelmann.
A very rare lithograph, image 500 x 335mm. 19¾ x 13¼".
A dramatic Alpine river valley with steep sides, on the Swiss-Italian border; a group of figures that have been fishing to left foreground, a wagon pulled by horses on road to right. From a folio of scenery, after Louis Jules Frédéric Villeneuve (1796 - 1842), the figures by Victor Adam (1801 - 1866).
[Ref: 13998] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Amsterdam on each side of the Old Rampart as seen from the Harbour. Veüe d'Amsterdam des deux Cotés du Vieux Rampart Vue du Port.
I. Smit delin. T. Bowles sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1752.
Hand-coloured etching, with printseller's label glued on verso. Sheet: 450 x 300mm (17¾ x 12"). Title removed as usual and glued to verso as issued. Trimmed into publication line.
A view of Amsterdam from the harbour. On the reverse is the printseller's label of John Hogben Master of the Mathematical Free School, at Rye in Sussex, now Rye College. A wonderful & rare country printseller's descriptive label. The label lists the variety of books, prints and stationary he stocks including account books, penknives, pens, sealing wax, inks, mathematical instruments, globes, maps, spectacles and fishing tackle 'Sold as Cheap as in London'.
Label is different from 41620.
[Ref: 41619] £380.00 view all images for this item

[An Angler.]
Alex. H. Kirk.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed in pencil by the artist. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾") very large margins
An angler holding rod and catch bag, with mountainous scenery behind. Alexander Horace Kirk (1871-1950) was an RA Schools student 1893-96. During WWI he commanded motor launches, receiving the Legion of Honour (Chevalier) and Croix de Guerre. The National Portrait Gallery hold his portrait of explorer Sir John Kirk, a companion to Livingston on his Second Zambezi Expedition (NPG 1936); the National Army Museum holds his portrait of watercolour portrait of Subadar Ayodhya Pathan Bahadur, a veteran of the Indian Mutiny and the last survivor of the Powder Bag Party, Kashmir Gate, Delhi 1857.
[Ref: 57988] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Angler's Rest.]
W Dendy Sadler. Oswald Burns. [pencil signatures.] W Dendy Sadler [etched into the plate.]
London, Published 1920 by L.H. Lefevre & Son, 1A King Street. St. James's S.W.1. the proprietors of the Copyright. Printed by A. Holdgate & Sons. Copyright 1920 by L.H. Lefevre & Son, in the U.S.A.
Etching. Plate 444 x 344mm. 17½ x 13½". Crease into plate on left-hand side.
The fisherman sat at the table next to the stream being served chicken by a maid.
Beazley: 281.
[Ref: 19169] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[South Stack, Anglesea.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to image.
A view of South Stack off Holy Island and Anglesea showing the suspension bridge built in 1828. Several figures are shown heading toward the bridge, one figure looks through a telescope, two carry fishing rods and other watch a large ship out to sea.
[Ref: 46039] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[On the Tay.]
[Robert Nesbet Snodgrass.]
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with drypoint. 205 x 150mm (8 x 6"), with very large margins. Taped in mount.
Etching of a man wading in the river and casting a line.
[Ref: 56133] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Fish caught on a line.] Final state [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1920s.]
Etching with drypoint, signed in pencil by George Marples; 205 x 305mm (8 x 12") with very large margins.
A fish being pulled from the water caught on a line.
Guichard, p.50: "Fish, except by the Detmolds, have not been better portrayed in the British School than by Marples".
[Ref: 56138] £360.00

[Photograph of an angler fishing in the River Purwell, Ickleford, with another of the same location.]
Photographed by T.B. Lachmore, Bancroft Street, Hitchin.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Two photographs. 185 x 240mm (7¼ x 9½").
Two photographs of a house by the side of the River Purwell, Ickleford, Herts. One has an angler, probably the owner of the house, fishing. The house still exists, where the Arlsey Road crosses the river.
[Ref: 53755] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[On the Gary or Salmon Fishing on the Brora]
Norman Wilkinson [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾") with very large margins.
Angler casting from the bank of a Scottish river. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56105] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Loch Tay.]
[Robert Nesbet Snodgrass.]
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with drypoint. 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"), with very large margins. Taped in mount.
Two men boat fishing on Lock Tay, one seated rowing the boat and the other reeling in a fish on his line.
[Ref: 56134] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Angling]
Norman Wilkinson [pen signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") with very large margins.
Angler casting from a higher river bank. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56106] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Images of Angling. An Illustrated Review of Three Centuries of British Angling Prints.
By David Beazley.
Haslemere: Creel Press, 2010.
4to, blue cloth with illus. d/w; pp. viii + 256, 230 illustrations.
The rod and reel in print.
[Ref: 59956] £50.00

[Three men angling under a large tree.]
W. Barron Aq. Fort. Fecit.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very scarce etching. Sheet 160 x 200mm (6¼ x 8"), on beige paper with fine 18th century watermark. Mounted on album paper with a sepia border, as issued.
William Augustus Barron (1751 - after 1806).
[Ref: 26548] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bothy Pool]
Norman Wilkinson [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾") with very large margins.
Angler casting from the bank of a Scottish river. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 52178] £320.00

A Good Bite or Swallowing the Bait.
T.L. W.H [William Heath] fec.t.
Pub May 15th 1823 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St & 74 New Bond St.
Coloured etching. 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins. Tear entering inscription area taped.
Two men stand fishing on a river bank. As one catches a frog a dog furtively munches on the fish they have caught.
BM Satires 14579.
[Ref: 56738] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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Angling in the Volga, through the ice. [old ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1783.]
Etching. Sheet 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"). Trimmed to image.
Angling through holes in the river ice, with multiple rods suspended from tripods. From William Tooke's 'Russia, or a Complete Account of all the Nations which compose that Empire'.
[Ref: 45195] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Arc de Triomphe de Titus Vespasien. Dedié à Monsiegneur Armand Thomas Hüe, Chevalier, Marquis de Miroménil, Conseiller du Roi en tous ses Conseils, Premier Président du Parlement de Normandie Par son tres Humble et tres Obéissant Serviteur N. Le Mire.
De la Croix. Le Mire.
à Paris chés le Mire Graveur, des Académies de Vienne et de Rouen, rue S. Etienne des Grècs. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 355 x 475mm (14 x 18¾"), with very large margins.
A capriccio of Rome's Arch of Titus, relocated to the banks of a river with men fishing with nets from a boat, a fortified tower behind.
[Ref: 50665] £320.00

Areneños (subtribe of the Papagos).
A. Schott del.. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[Washington: Department of the Interior, 1857.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Image 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Two Hia C-e? O'odham ('Sand Dune People), also known as Areneños or Sand Papagos, after a fishing expedition. Today the tribe is based in Arizona. Arthur Carl Victor Schott (1814-1875), a Stuttgart-born artist, topographical engineer and cartographer, joined the 'The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey' which was determining the border after the Mexican–American War (1846-8). His sketches, including this one, appeared in William H. Emory's 'Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey'. They were reproduced in the 'Illustrated London News' in 1858.
[Ref: 43338] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Fishing.]
[E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t]
[London: Published by R. Ackermann, 101, Strand. Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand. M.DCCC.XX. (1820).]
Coloured aquatint, paper watermarked. 120 x 165mm. 4¾ x 6½". Cut.
In the river a cart pulled by oxen is being loaded with fish collected by two men on horses with a net to the right, and then gutted by a man in the middle. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.9. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 25011] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Fishing.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London: Published Aug.t 1. 1820, at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (10 x 11¾") with wide margins. Holes in top edge where it has previously been bound. Light staining in margins.
In the river a cart pulled by oxen is being loaded with fish collected by two men on horses with a net to the right, and then gutted by a man in the middle. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.9. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52744] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Loch Fyne Argylshire - 1855. [ink outside image.] 1814 - John Henry Mole - 1886. [ink outside image.]
J.H. Mole 1855. [In ink underneath:] J.H. Mole. V.P.R.I. 1855.
Fine coloured lithograph. Image 405 x 610mm. 16 x 24".
Loch Fyne is notable for its oyster fishery, and its herring fishing industry. Here a lady returns with some herring, caught by the man who stands in his boat to the right; a small girl and child walk out of a thatched cottage to greet the woman. John Henry Mole (1814-1886) was a landscape and figure painter in oil and watercolour. He exhibited at Newcastle, the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Gallery, the Grosvenor and other London galleries.
[Ref: 19635] £320.00

Artulley Bridge between Kenmare and Killarney.
T. Walmsley Pinx.t. S. Alken fecit.
Published as the Act directs, by T. Walmsley, N.º 5 Rathbone Place, April 10, 1798.
Rare aquatint. 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"). Narrow margins, staining on edge of plate.
A stone bridge in a mountainous landscape, with men fishing in Roughty river underneath. According to a limestone plaque on the extant but disused bridge: 'This Bridge was Built by Richard/Orpen Esq. at His Own Expence in the Year 1786'.
[Ref: 62670] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Tower Hill Esculapius.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at N.o.60 in S.t. Paules Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act direct, 25 Sep.r. 1782.
Handcoloured etching. Printed area: 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Frame: 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame. Staining.
A scene by the Tower of London in which a quack stands upon a dias selling his potions to a crowd. A pickpocket rifles through the pockets of a man who is being poked in the eye by a fishing rod.
[Ref: 40336] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Away Forward [pencil, to lower margin].
Philip Kappel [pencil signature.]
[American, c.1934.]
Etching, laid paper, 200 x 250mm. 8 x 9¾". Inscribed by the artist in pencil "For my friend Samuel C. Endicott 1934".
An interesting perspective on board a ship, looking towards the bow; two men climb the foremast to unfurl a sail. By Philip Kappel (American, 1901 - 1981), etcher, illustrator and painter. Born Hartford, Connecticut in 1901.
[Ref: 23191] £340.00

The Fish Cross, Ayr. Taken in 1814.
J.B. Muirhead, Litho Glasgow from an Oil Painting in the Possession of Mr. Auld, Doonbrae.
J. Tweed, Glasgow. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 390 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Framed. Old ink mss. in title area, some spotting. Laid on board, stickers and foxing on reverse.
An extremely rare lithograph of the fishermen, fishwives and their customers gathered around a set of scales in an open-air fish market. All but two of the characters have been named in ink, both with hidden faces. According to the annotation the names were obtained 'from older fishermen in Ayr and revised by Deacon Gowan of the Sailors Incorporation of Ayr 4th June 1890'. One is 'Daddy Auld', probably the owner of the original painting, shown selecting a fish. It is likely this is David Auld (died 1852), the custodian of the Burns monument at Alloway, who lived in Doonbrae Cottage in the gardens of the monument. On the reverse is a photographic copy of 'The Rules of Ayr Poors-House' at its opening in 1756', with a printed list of the 'Committee of Management 1891-2', with the blind stamps of 'Marshall Wane' and 'Edinburgh'. Marshall, a photographer originally from the Isle of Man, had a studio in Ayr as well as Edinburgh.
[Ref: 35205] £420.00 view all images for this item

Babbacombe.
T. Fidlor Delint. T. Sutherland Sculpt.
Published by E. Croydon, Public Library, Teignmouth.
Aquatint, image 190 x 300mm. 7½ x 11¾". Trimmed within plate. Slight stain bottom left and right off image
A coastal village, boats and figures on beach to foreground; Babbacombe is now a district of Torquay, Devon.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 20289] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Balagans or Summer Habitations, with the method of Drying Fish at St. Peter & Paul. Kamtschatka.
J. Webber R. A. fecit.
London Pub.d April 1. 1809 by Boydell & Comp.y No. 90 Cheapside.
Aquatint with large margins and very fine hand colour on watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman. 1819'. Platemark: 325 x 450mm (12¾ x 17½"). Small stain in left margin.
A thatched building, at the edge of a river where men are fishing with large nets. Behind is a thatched hut on stilts and a large frame from which fish are hanging to dry, with surrounding figures working, gathering and storing the fish. A woman and child are in the foreground, beside a pot hanging from a tripod over a fire. Wooded hills are in the background to the left. John Webber was the official artist on Cook's final voyage through the Pacific; his drawings formed the basis for printed illustrations to the account of 'A Voyage to the Pacific', published in 1784.
Vol. III. Book VI page 375.
[Ref: 31817] £420.00

[Young man fishing, with a woman and small boy nearby] Osservato da Fille il Pesce piglia / Per sostentar la debil sua Famiglia
Francesco Bartolozzi scolp. Appo Teodoro Viero Ven.d 1774
Etching, fine impression; scarce; platemark 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins.
One a series of six pastoral subjects etched after designs by the Venice-based publisher and artist Teodoro Viero (1740-95) by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Bartlozzi was a Florentine engraver who in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. Fine impression from the collection of Dr. Augusto Calabi of Milan, art historian who co-authored (with A.B. de Vesme) the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Bartolozzi's work. Inscription 'Solo all'Albertine' verso suggests the only other impression known to Calabi was in the Albertine Museum, Vienna.
Calabi & de Vesme 1343
[Ref: 43125] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect der Statt Basel von Seiten der Vestung Hüningen. Vue et Perspective de la ville de Bâle du côté de Huningue. (Coat of arms and key listing buildings beneath the image.)
Em Büchel delin. et pinxit, I. M. Weis Argent. sc. 1744.
Cum Privil. Ampliss. Senat. Basil.
A rare engraving. Plate 458 x 679mm. 18 x 26¾".
A view of Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine towards the Mittlere Brücke with the Basler Münster in the background. Boats and rafts on the river; a fisherman in the near foreground. Emmanuel Büchel, Swiss artist, 1705-1775, was baker, illustrator, topographer and painter and Johann Martin Weis 1711-1751, was a German engraver from Stuttgart. This is print number two of a series of four prints drawn by Büchel between 1743 and 1747 and engraved by J.M. Weiss in Strasbourg.
[Ref: 20210] £520.00

Part of the North Parade, Bath, taken from the opposite side of the River, near the new Bridge.
Publish'd [space for date] 1788 as the Act directs by W Payne, Plymouth.
Rare outline etching, image 185 x 265mm. 7¼ x 10½". Lacking margins; some small stains and cluster of pinholes in sky area. Dab of brown paint to one of the figures at left.
North Parade in Bath, Somerset, is a historic terrace built around 1741 by John Wood, the Elder. This composition shows walkers around a lake, a punt on the water and fishing lodge on far bank (right). William Payne (1760 - 1830) was an important watercolour landscape painter, but also a printmaker who published some of his own works. He started as an engineer at Plymouth, Devon.
Bath Central Library Collection LP M10 IOB 610.
[Ref: 27559] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Battersea.] [Set of three views.]
Engraved by C.Tomkins.
Published June 1st 1784 by H.W.Billington Nº438 Strand London.
Scarce set of engravings. Sheets 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed into plate and edges backed onto album paper.
Set of three topographical oval views of Battersea and the Thames. A view from the bank overlooking the river, a man and woman in the left foreground and a sail boat in the right foreground. A view of the bank, in the foreground a man and dog watch two men carrying a boat, the river in the background. A view of the bank, in the foreground a man with a wheelbarrow and a man and woman fishing in the river, in the background sail boats drift along the river.
[Ref: 68433] £460.00 view all images for this item

"Billing Mill" Northants. [Billing Mill, Northamptonshire.]
J.S. Adams [pencil signature].
[1924.]
Dry-point etching. 260 x 180mm (10 x 7”).
Two young boys sit fishing on a boat across the Billing river from a Mill.
[Ref: 62583] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Eight Curious prints of Fowl and Fish.
P. And. Rÿsbrack Pinx. G: Vander Gucht Sculpt.
Published by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Extremely scarce complete set of eight engravings, including one proof impression. Plates: 570 x 420mm (22½ x 16½").
Eight plates after Pieter Andreas Rysbrack's (1685-1748) series of four paintings showing fish and four paintings showing fowl. The fish are depicted lying haphazardly on tables next to baskets as if ready for preparation or on the market stall while the birds are all shown in landscape settings as if freshly shot, ready to be collected. Each bird is numbered and named in a key below the image. John Boydell reissued the plates in 1760s which had previously been published in 1735 by Richard Hylton.
[Ref: 41786] £6,500.00 view all images for this item

Balsa ou bateau de peau de phoque soufflé à Cobija. (Bolivia)
A. d'Orbigny et E. Lassalle lith. E. Lassalle lith. lith Adrien r. richer, 7.
[Paris: P. Bertrand, c.1844.]
Lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½"). Trimmed.
A spear fisher on a raft made of inflated skin bladders on the Cobija River, Bolivia. The plate was published in 'La Relation du Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale pendant les annés 1826 à 1833' by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-57), a work described by Charles Darwin as 'one of the great monuments of science in the 19th century'. It was an account of his mission to South America for the Paris Museum, on which he visited Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, returning to France with more than 10,000 specimens.
[Ref: 32162] £320.00

[Bookseller] Sold as Cheap as in London, by John Hogben, Master of the Free-School, at Rye in Sussex. All sorts of Bibles and Common Prayers, Books of Divinity, History, and all other Books, both Ancient and Modern... Globes, Maps, Pictures and Copy Books... By whom Books of all Sorts, are neatly Bound, and buys Old Libraries, or Parcels of Books.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Letterpress advert, sheet 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Small tear in edge.
Besides books, etc, Hogben also sold toothpicks, spectacles and fishing rods and lines.
[Ref: 43891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Natives of Botany Bay.
R. Cleveley del.t T. Medland sculp.t
Published June 4. 1789 by J. Stockdale.
Copper engraving. Plate 196 x 254mm. 7¾ x 10". Some tears around the edges.
Australian aboriginals fishing. In 1787, British naval commander Arthur Phillip (1738-1814) led the 'First Fleet' carrying convicts to Australia. Illustration from Arthur Phillip's 'The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay', published in London in 1789.
NLA:285291
[Ref: 20323] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Design of a Bridge in imitation of the Aqueducts of the Ancients proposed to be built over the Lake at Bowood Park, in Wiltshire. One of the Seats of the Earl of Shelburne.
R.t Adam Architect 1768. Bened: Pastorini incidit.
Published as the Act directs 1778.
Engraving. 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), with large margins. Central crease as normal.
A bridge designed by Robert Adam (1728-92) to resemble a half-ruined classical bridge, with classical rustic figures fishing. It was intended for Bowood House in Wiltshire, during Adam's work on the interiors as well as creation of an orangerie, menagerie and mausoleum. Published in Adam's 'Works on Architecture'.
[Ref: 55680] £390.00

A Boy Angling.
[London, John & Josiah Boydell, 1 May 1802.]
Fine colour-printed stipple. Sheet 280 x 350mm, 11 x 13¾". Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, small repaired tear and hole.
A boy fishing while crouched on one knee. Another version of this scene was engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Beazley: 226.
[Ref: 24491] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Brighthelmstone. Fishermen Returning.
P.J. De Loutherbourg R.A. delt. J. Hill sculp.t
Pub.d Oct.r 1. 1808, by J. & W. Macgavin, No. 107 New Bond Street, London.
Hand-coloured aquatint with etching, very large margins, platemark 385 x 550mm (15¼ x 21½").
Fishermen at work on the shore at Brighton (then named Brighthelmstone). The reissue of 'Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain' after designs by the landscape painter and scene designer Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812), published seven years after the first edition. The plates, originally engraved by J.C. Stadler, were re-engraved by J. Hill, 'only slight differences of detail being noticeable in the engraving' (Abbey).
Abbey Scenery 6.5; Ford 75.
[Ref: 31391] £420.00

[The Chain Pier, Brighton.]
Published by W.H. Mason. Repository fo Art. 81, King's Road, Brighton. [1841.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 120 x 229mm. 4¾ x 9". Very fine colour.
A view of the beach and pier at Brighton, Sussex. People sitting and relaxing on the beach with boats on the ocean and a steamer in the background; men fishing just below the pier. From "Fashionable Handbook for Visitors to Brighton".
Ford: 282.
[Ref: 24126] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Stanley Bridge, Norman Creek, Brisbane.
Phillip-Stephan Process Co [c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼").
A man fishing in Norman Creek, a small tributary of the Brisbane River. From a book of Australian views.
[Ref: 44023] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

'Sunset' Brixham [pencil.]
Francis Wells [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching with aquatint, printed in colours. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). A fine impression, mint with large margins.
Fishing boats at Brixham, a picturesque fishing town at the southern end of Torbay on the south Devon coast. Francis Wells (exh. 1897-1938), portrait and landscape painter who studied at the Slade and Royal Academy Schools; lived Milton Abbas, Dorset.
[Ref: 27482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Brixham Harbour Devon [pencil, lower right.]
JHWiley [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 200 x 150mm. 8 x 6".
The quayside with fishing boats at Brixham, a picturesque fishing town at the southern end of Torbay on the south Devon coast. By J.H. Wiley.
Guichard: pg.75, Appendix 1 'Minor Etchers'.
[Ref: 13855] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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