Grosvenor Prints

Duff-house, Banff.
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 Duff House, Banff, a country house set in an open field, with a group of figures harvesting crops in the foreground to the right. Trees line the banks of a river below, with buildings on the hillside to the left and the sea beyond. Duff House, designed by Scottish architect William Adam (1689-1748), and was commissioned by William Duff, Lord Braco, later 1st Earl Fife, as a family home to replace a smaller more modest residence nearby, on the present site of Airlie Gardens in Banff. 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: 36157] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Agriculture.]
B. West R.A. Historical Painter to his Majesty pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Historical Engraver to his Majesty sculp.t.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Printed area (at most) 515 x 640mm (20¼ x 25¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame, probably trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
An idyllic harvest scene, with figures cutting corn with sickles, binding sheaths, gathering grapes and plouching with oxen. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 1331.
[Ref: 50428] £1,200.00

[September, from a set of months of the year] September. / Ventivolante lepus pedibus superatur abumbro, Grex Agitur Campis; poma leguntur agris [...]
P. Cand. pinx. ab Ambling delin. et Sculp. 1701
Etching and engraving, sheet 275 x 345mm (10¾ x 13½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Shepherd leading a bull, milkmaid on the right, and the town of Ingolstadt in the background. An annual harvest festival. One of a set of prints representing the months of the years, engraved after a set of tapestries designed by Peter de Witte (c.1612-14) now in Munich. De Witte's preparatory drawing is in the Staatliche Grafische Sammlung, Munich. De Witte worked with Vasari in Florence before joining the court in Munich.
[Ref: 34537] £320.00

The Blooming Gleaner and Amourous Justice.
London Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard.
Engraving. 420 x 350mm, 16½ x 13¾". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A middle-aged man with a gout-afflicted leg approaches a pretty young harvester.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 8821] £330.00

Nègresses après le Travail. Travailleur do Matto (Fòrêt).
Victor Frond photog _ Chapagne lith. Imp Lemercier r. de Seine Paris.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Two tinted lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 270 x 410mm (10½ x 16"). Repaired tear between images.
Two images: on the left three black women slaves rest after harvestring maize; on the right a man stands with a bundle tied to his hoe. The images are based on photographs by Jean-Victor Frond (1821-81), a French photographer and painter who owned a studio in Rio de Janeiro 1858-62, and published in ''Brazil Pittoresco", a four volume study of Brazilian life by Charles Ribeyrolles.
[Ref: 56605] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Brighthelmston, and of the Sea Coast as far as the Isle of Wight, Inscribed (by Permission) to His Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Earl of Connaught of the Kingdom of Ireland, Ranger of Hampton Court Park, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter By His Royal Highnesses most Obed.t & Devoted Serv.t James Lambert. Lambert's Correct View of Brightelmston in 1765.
Ja.s Lambert pinx.t P.C. Canot sculp.t
Publish'd as the Act directs, 1817. by Ja.s Edwards Brompton Middlesex and Published in his Topographical Surveys.
Copper Engraving. 425 x 635mm. 16¾ x 25". Folds, as normal.
A view of Brighthelmstone, the predecessor of modern-day Brighton. The field was known as Belle Vue Field. A coastal town, with farmers and town-dwellers engaged in the harvesting of the crop; cattle pulling hay to barns, people with scythes cutting the corn; three cloth sailed post-mills standing in the fields.
Ford: 23A.
[Ref: 19066] £330.00

Bristol Daily Post. Second Edition. Tuesday, December 16, 10.15 a.m. The Latest News from America.
[Bristol, 1862.]
Letterpress broadside. Sheet 605 x 110mm (23¾ x 4¼"). Folded horizontally, small tear in right margin. Small brown stain above the fold.
A news sheet, mostly concerned with events of the second year of the American Civil War, including: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson joining Robert E. Lee in the defence of Fredericksburg and Union general Ulysses S. Grant's advances in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Also reported is a meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce, in which sending a ship of grain to relieve Lancashire is discussed, necessitated by the Lancashire Cotton Famine and two poor European grain harvests. The Bristol Daily Post ran from January 1860 to January 1878, when it was incorporated with the Bristol Mercury.
[Ref: 52615] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Six Illustrations from Calendar of Shepherds.]
[Wynkyn de Worde.]
[n.d., c.1508.]
6 woodcuts. Sheet: 150 x 125mm (6 x 5''). Trimmed, paper tone.
Six illustrations from Wynkyn de Worde's 'Calendar of Shepherds' showing figures in various seasonal activities like harvesting hay, making wine and gardening. Each illustration has celestial signs in the image. Wynkyn de Worde (d. 1534) was a printer and publisher known for his work with William Caxton, he was the first to popularise products of the printing press.
[Ref: 49655] £900.00 view all images for this item

Prospectus Cantabrigiæ Occidentalis. A Prospect of Cambridge from the West
[Engraved by Johannes Kip.]
[London: c.1710.]
Engraving. 480 x 620mm (19 x 24¼"). Central crease as normal, repaired tear.
A fine distant view of Cambridge, with harvesters in the foreground.
[Ref: 49018] £550.00

Camp et Fourage génerale.
Inventé et Gravé par Antoine Benoist.
Aparis chez Jacqs. Chereau, rue St. Jacques, au grand St. Remy. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 273 x 273mm. 10¾ x 10¾". Creases.
A scene of army officers assisting and controlling the harvest cut of the corn. A camp can be seen to the right-hand side.
[Ref: 15557] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Collection of cricket ephemera.] [Carshalton Cricket Club, Beddington.]
[1855, 1858 & 1859.]
Lithographs. Brochure (folded) 225 x 180mm (9 x 7"). Cards 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3¼"). Letters 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Crease along centre and on right side of invitation.
Four cricket ephemera items for Carshalton Cricket Club, Beddington. Probably a unique collection of cricket ephemera. An invitation published August 28th, 1856, detailing the events of a Harvest Festival to be celebrated on September 2nd, 1858. Starting with a service at the Parish church, 'at half-past two o'clock a dinner will be provided for the labourers and their wives in the National School Room; after which a cricket match will be played in the rectory field'. On the inside right-hand page of the invitation is the Hymn for Harvest. Two 'Carshalton Cricket Club' cards, one showing the matches for the year 1855, and the other for the year 1859. Lastly, two letters, one letter dated August 2nd 1855, from the Hon. Secretary of Carshalton Cricket Club, requesting a cricketer to play at a match commencing at 10:30 o'Clock, on August 8th 1855. The letter attached, is dated May 7th 1855, and informs a player that the club will meet for practice on Wednesday, May 16th, and every Wednesday of the season commencing.
[Ref: 67345] £350.00 view all images for this item

Near Carsleith, Galloway.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & C.o. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland S.t. Fitzroy Square, London, Sept.r. 1. 1816.
Coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 300 x 225mm (12" x 9").
Cliffs near Carsluith, om the Solway coast of southern Scotland. View across the shoreline looking out to sea, sheep lie in the bottom corner whilst men gather the harvest into bales. Boats sail in the open water in the background and a flock of seagulls fly overhead. Plate 54 from Vol II of 'Voyage Round Great Britain'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 33903] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Near Carsleith, Galloway.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Sep.r, 1, 1816.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A coastal view near Carsluith, with surrounding rocky hills. A group of sheep lying on a grassy plateau in foreground, with figures harvesting a crop behind, and others seen near two buildings in the background. 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: 36115] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Der Condor. Vultur Gryphus.
[Lithographed by J. Richter after Carl Wilhelm Medau.]
[Prague: Leitmeritz und Teplitz, 1836.]
Rare lithograph, watermark L. Ziegler Zurich. Sheet 400 x 315mm (15¾ x 12½"). Paper sligtly cockled.
A condor of the Andes, published in Medau's 'Das Erntefeld. eine Bildungschrift für die reifende Jugend' ('The Harvest Field: an educational journal for the maturing youth').
[Ref: 52786] £260.00 (£312.00 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

Adverts for Crosskill's Prize Reaping Machines, Waggons, and Carts, plus three verso adverts.
Hare [in image lower right, c.1850]
Woodblock printed on both sides, sheet 230 x 370mm (9 x 14½").
Advertisement for agricultural machinery.
[Ref: 44129] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Earth.
R, Gaywood fecit.
London, [n.d. after 1648].
Rare etching. 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"), with small margins. Creasing in the margins and across the image. Lower right corner is folded. Small tears in lower and right margins.
A scene of cherubs picking fruit from a tree for a bountiful cornucopia. A number of workers are harvesting their fields in the background. Part of 'The Foure Elements' series by van Avont (1600-1652), which was also engraved by Hollar, published 1647.
[Ref: 54115] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 10. The Elephant.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph. 365 x 485mm (14¼ x 19"). Small tears. Vertical fold through the centre of the image as normal. Creasing in bottom left and both right corners
A central illustration of Indian elephants, surrounded by eight vignette scenes of their harvesting and products, including shellac, dye and sealing wax. Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 53948] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Los ultimos celajes. [The last light.]
Joaquin Macias [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1940s.]
Etching, 90 x 125mm. 3½ x 5". Glued into mount; glue stains to corners.
A man in a sombrero-type hat harvesting crops with a sickle as dusk falls; two other men and an ox in the background. An atmospheric scene somewhere in central or South America. The Latin American artist Joaquin Macias is known to have lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Nicaragua, and to have visited Chile in 1951. In a hand written note discovered with a group of his etchings, he mentions a period of "30 years residence" in Britain. He seems to have etched most of his plates in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
[Ref: 26880] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Harvest Scene with a View of the Old Tower & Part of the Town of Hackney, taken from the Downs.
Drawn by W. Walker. Engraved by W.J. Bennett.
Published Aug 1. 1814, by W. Walker, London Fields, Hackney.
Very rare aquatint printed in brown. 480 x 705mm (19 x 27¾"). Small margins.
A family pauusing while gathering whear sheaves, St Augustine's Tower behind. W. J. Bennett worked in America.
[Ref: 49577] £550.00

[Hamlet] There's a Divinity that shapes our ends / Rough hew them how we will. Shakespr.
E. Edwards delin. J. Hall sculpt. [n.d., c.1790]
Engraving with hand-colouring and gold leaf, sheet 190 x 165mm (7½ x 6½"). Trimmed inside platemark,
A man sits reading amongst a ruined abbey(?) with a skull beside him. Adjacent, two reapers set out to gather crops at harvest. Lines from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' remind us of the impossibility of defying fate. On a rectangular object by the man's feet, text reads 'so it must be'.
[Ref: 37644] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Autumn fruits.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple, proof before letters. 550 x 410mm (21¾ x 16"). Very large margins on 3 sides. Cut to plate at top.
A pair of idealised rustics hand a basket of fruit to a man in contemporary dress, probably their landlord, cat & dog in background.
[Ref: 38103] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Harvest Scene. 60
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reecve sculp.t.
London, Published June 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate.
A still life of a picnic basket, a keg, a cup and a jacket, under a fence with foxglove growing in the verge.
[Ref: 57502] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Harvest Scene by Gainsborough ~ [in ink in the title area.]
Painted by Gainsborough. Etched by John Scott.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Unfinished proof engraving with etching. 347 x 286mm. 13½ x 11¼".
A rustic harvest scene.
Not in Horne.
[Ref: 14434] £320.00

Lamour Moissonneur.
Boucher inv. et fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed, to image on right. Time stained.
'Harvester love'. Two cherubs tickle Cupid, who is asleep on a sheaf of wheat. His quiver is on the ground. A reversed copy of the engraving by Francois Bernard Lepicie after François Boucher.
[Ref: 60732] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Seat of M. Mitchell, Esq.r Hengar, Cornwall.
Drawn & Etched by Rowlandson. Stadler Aquatinta.
London, Pub. Sept. 1 1809, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside.
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 185 x 235mm (7¼ x 9¼"), watermarked 1809. Trimmed within plate. Taped in mount.
A harvest scene at Hengar House, home of Matthew Mitchell, a banker, a friend and patron of Rowlandson. From the subscription issue of Rowlandson's 'Sketches from Nature', issued fortnightly and not published as a book until 1822.
This edition not in Abbey, but see 33-7 for the edition of 1822. Ex.Collection Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 58149] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Vue Sur Le Lac De Brientz Prise Sur Le Hohbuhl.
Dessiné par G. Lory fils. Gravé par J. Hurlimann.
[n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint and etching with very fine hand colouring. Size: 205 x 300mm (8 x 11¾"). Trimmed around title and glued at corners to album sheet.
A landscape view of Lake Brienz in Hohbuhl, Switzerland. In the foreground, women can be seen harvesting hay, with various other figures sitting on the hillside and walking on the path below. Further down is a bridge on the banks of the river Aare, at the shore of Lake Brienz. In the background, the ruins of St. Peter's Church and in the distance, the Bernese Alps. After painter, etcher and watercolourist Gabriel Lory (1784-1846).
[Ref: 31992] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Hop Picking.
Drawn & Etch'd by W.H. Pyne.
Pub. by Pyne & Nattes 1804. London, Pub.d Sep.r 1804 by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint. 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11¼"), large margins.
Vignette scenes of hop picking, from Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain…'. William Henry Pyne was an English writer, painter and illustrator. He trained at a drawing academy in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.
[Ref: 62457] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

De wyze van Landbouwen aande Kaap. 132.
I.C. Philips delin.
[1727.]
Engraving with very large margins, printed on 18th century watermarked paper. Library stamp top right. Plate 299 x 177mm (11¾ x 7").
A landscape with men and their cows ploughing the fields. From "Naaukeurige beschryving van de kaap de Goede Hoop". Peter Kolbe (1675-1726) was sent to South Africa with a mission to provide information about the country and to do astronomical and surveying research. First published in Germany in 1719 as Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, the book 'professes to be a complete account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants'. This is taken from the Dutch edition, published in Amsterdam in two volumes in 1727.
[Ref: 30718] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

View of Leith from the East Road. Vüe de Leith en Ecosse.
P. Sandby Delin.t et Sculp Windsor Aug [1751].
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer opposite Fetter-Lane Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Engraving with fine hand colour, 18th century watermark. 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"), large margins. Paper toned, blue colour of sea oxidised, date scraped from Sandby's inscription.
Distant view of Leith, with a coach and harvesters in the foreground. The plate was drawn and engraved by Paul Sandby, and first published by him in 1751; Sayer first published the plate in 1753, although this state has had the date erased from the plate. Paul Sandby (1731-1809) was chief draughtsman of the "compleat and accurate survey of Scotland" after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
[Ref: 60876] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] July. Mr Item Dunwell my Lords Steward, and Gaffer Clodhopper a Tenant. The Steward by his spendthrift Lord is sent, To dun poor Hopp for some arrears of rent, The Farmer prays that he'll vouchsafe to say, Till he can thrash his corn, or sell his hay, The Steward swears his angry Lord is poor, And must have present Cash to game & whore.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. 260 x 146mm (10¼ x 5¾"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
Scene in July, a dwarf steward discusses rent and tenancy with a farmer holding a pitch fork. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 15958] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

London.
Drawn, Engraved and Published by John Swertner, Maudlin Lane, St. James's, Bristol, July 1st 1801.
Hand coloured aquatint. Printed area approx: Unexamined out of frame. Vertical crease to right where previously folded.
A view of London from the north (Islington); St Paul's central at mid-distance; fields in foreground with figures working on harvest, Islington church to the right. Print made by Johannes Swertner (1746 - 1813) a Moravian Minister who, in 1787 ascended the spire of St Mary's church, (depicted in print) which was being fitted with a lightning conductor at the time, in order to study London from a height.
[Ref: 29192] £1,250.00

[Louth] To the Worshipful the Warden and Assistants of the Corporation of Louth, This North West View of the Town of Louth is Inscribed By their obliged humble Serv.ts Tho.s Espin and Bart.w Howlett.
Drawn by Thomas Espin. Engraved by B. Howlett.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 17th [1793?] by John Jackson Lincolnshire.
Scarce etching. Sheet 430 x 585mm (17 x 23"). Trimmed within plate, some surface wear including loss of date, repairs left top corner.
A view of Louth, Lincolnshire, with workers harvesting hay in the fireground and a windmill on the far horizon. Thomas Espin (1767-1822) was an amateur artist who ran a 'Mathematical, Architectural, Nautical and Commercial Academy' in Louth. This plate was first published by the engraver, Bartholomew Howlett, in London, 1793; this example was issued by local Louth publisher John Jackson who operated until at least 1811.
See BM 1870,0514.2877 for earlier version.
[Ref: 51233] £320.00

View of Malay Road, from Pobassoo's Island.
Painted by W. Westall A.R.A. F.L.S. Engraved by S. Middiman.
Pub.d by G & W. Nicol, Pall Mall. Feb.y 12 1814.
Engraving. 255 x 323mm. (10 x 12¾").
A view in Australia; a man holding a spear looking out into the bay. The figure is a romaticised portrait of Pobassoo (the English version of Bapapasu), a Malay fishing captain commanding a fleet of praus (seen in the bay) harvesting terang (sea-cucumbers) to dry and sell to China. A plate to 'Views of Australian scenery painted by W. Westall...', a separate issue of the 9 plates by Westall from Matthew Flinders' 'A voyage to Terra Australis'. William Westall (1781 - 1850) was the official artist aboard HMS Investigator, the first ship to circumnavigate Australia, under the command of Matthew Flinders, 1802-3.
[Ref: 20350] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Meadow Pool [as inscribed on small plaque on lower rim of frame.]
John Clayton Adams. David Law. Charles O. Cummings [pencil signatures.]
Issues October 1.st 1900 in the Art Union of London, W2, Strand. Copyright Registered. F. Goulding, Printer, London, W.
Etching signed in pencil., in original frame. Plate 456 x 705mm. 18 x 27¾".
A countryside view in a meadow by a small pool with floating lillies; a hay bale with farmers behind in the meadow. On verso in ink: "On this Artist's Proof Etching it will be noticed that there are very unusually, two signatures of Etchers in addition to the signature of the painter of the original picture - John Clayton Adams. The reason of this is that David Law was taken seriously ill whilst at work on the etching, and was unable to finish it. The work was then completed for him by Charles O. Cummings." The 1899 painting by John Clayton Adams is in the collection of Brighton & Hove museums.
[Ref: 22623] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Twelve Months.] Januarius. [&] Febuarius. [&] Martius. [etc]
Hamilton pinx. Gabrieli [& Bonato] sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Set of twelve engravings. Each c.310 x 255mm (12½ x 10"). Most trimmed to plate, some with stains to edges. May with slight loss at top; June very small tear top centre margin; September small repaired tear left top margin and crease on left in image; December repairs in title area.
A set of twelve ovals representing each month, named in Latin and with lines from Ovid, including scenes of skating, angling, a may pole, harvesting, sheep-shearing hop-picking and chopping fire wood. Engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli and Pietro Bonato.
[Ref: 55633] £2,800.00 view all images for this item

[Twelve Months.] Januarius. [&] Febuarius. [&] Martius. [etc]
Hamilton pinx. Gabrieli [& Bonato] sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Set of twelve engravings. Each c.310 x 255mm (12½ x 10"), very large margins.
A set of ovals representing the Twelve Months, named in Latin and with lines from Ovid, including scenes of skating, angling, a may pole, harvesting, sheep-shearing hop-picking and chopping fire wood. Engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli and Pietro Bonato.
[Ref: 63465] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

[Twelve Months.]
Walter Severn.
[n.d., c.1865.]
Twelve etchings with chromolithographed floral borders, plus sheet with printed titles and 'Table of Moveable Feasts' starting 1865. Very rare complete. Small tear in margin of title sheet.
Twelve seasonal scenes, most sporting (including skating, shooting, racing, fishing & cricket) but also harvest and Christmas scenes. Walter Severn (1830-1904) was one of the original members of The Arts Club, London.
[Ref: 37585] £600.00 view all images for this item

No.8. ~August~ The Jolly Farmer here Despotie Stands. / While Men & Maids obey, his just Commands; / His Golden heaps Surveying Count's his Store, / Blest with a due encrease, he asks no more.
[n.d. c.1770]
Copper line engraving. 254 x 362mm. 10" x 14¼".
A rustic scene at a mill, where the corn is being harvested.
[Ref: 8657] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nestling. 19.
G.B. O'Neill.
[London, 1872.]
Etching on india. Plate 140 x 185mm. 5½ x 7¼".
Children outside the farmhouse playing in the hay, two girls nestled in a pile, a boy hiding in the hay by the girl to the left, another boy adding hay to the pile; workers in the background piling hay onto a laden horse-drawn cart. Plate 19 from "Etchings for The Art-Union of London By The Etching Club, 1872".
The original oil in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
[Ref: 19913] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Harvest. North Conway, White Mountains.
After B.B.G. Stone. Original in possession of the Publishers.
Chromo-Lithographed and Published by L. Prang & Co. Washington St., cor. Gardener, Boston.
Chromolithograph, 225 x 370mm. 9 x 14½". Mounted on board with original labels on verso.
Louis Prang purchased Stone's painting 'Harvest Scene' for $50, which became the most popular chromolithograph issued by the firm. On the reverse are three labels- one identifying the print, a second from 'Insley brothers, dealers in Chromos, Engravings & Small Prints', and a third listing 'Prang's chromos, April 1st, 1871'.
[Ref: 10476] £450.00

[Harvesting reeds on the Nile.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Etching, unlettered proof on chine collé. 330 x 600mm (13 x 23½") very large margins. Some spotting, on backing card. Crack in plate bottom right coner.
A scene of Egyptians harvesting reeds on the banks of the Nile, with camels and goats.
[Ref: 60939] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de la Ville d'Orleans. Dediée a S.A.S. Monsigneur Le Duc d'Orleans Premier Prince du Sang. Par les Maire & Echevins de la Ville d'Orleans et Présentée par M. de Cypierre Intendant dela Province en 1766.
Desinnée par AT Desfriches Negociant a Orléans en 1761. Gravé par PP Choffard en 1766.
Se vend a Paris chéd la V.ve Cochin aux Galleries du Louvre.
Scarce large etching, 18th century watermark. 505 x 735mm (20 x 29") Several small repairs. Thread margins.
A view of Orleans from across the Loire, with promenaders and harvesters on the bank and watermen at work in the river, after Aignan Thomas Desfriches (1715-1800).. The plate was begun c.1761 by Charles-Nicolas Cochin Jnr (1715-1790), but left it to be finished by Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1730-1809). The British Museum has a progress proof (BM 1871,0429.994). The publisher is Cochin's mother, Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1886-1767). Although similar in scale to Cochin's 'Ports de France' it was not one of that series.
[Ref: 54043] £650.00

A West Prospect of the City of Oxford. Veuë de la Ville d'Oxford du Côtè de l'Occident.
Jn.o Boydell Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by the Proprieter Jn.o Boydell at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street in Cheapside London 1751. Price 1.s
Fine hand coloured etching, plate 260 x 430mm (10¼ x 17"), with very large margins. Glued to album sheet.
Workers picnic and bale hay against a background view of Oxford.
[Ref: 55549] £520.00

A South Prospect of the City of Oxford. Veuë de la Ville d'Oxford du Côtè du Midi.
Jn.o Boydell Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by the Proprieter Jn.o Boydell at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street in Cheapside London 1751. Price 1.s
Hand coloured etching, plate 260 x 430mm (10¼ x 17"), with very large margins. Glued to album sheet. Slight vertical marking on right.
Workers scythe and bundle wheat against a background view of Oxford.
[Ref: 55548] £480.00

Mariage des Indiens de Panama. Les Pariens & les Amis Défrichant la Terre que est destinée aux Nouveaux Mariés.
B. Picart, del. Tom. VII. No. 25.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 344 x 217mm. Sheet 391 x 246mm. Some creasing in the bottom right-hand corner.
Two scenes. 1. The marriage of Indians from Panama. Day-to-day business of cutting, selling, playing and harvesting goes on around the coupld on the centre who are to be wed. The woman primarily naked except a loin cloth and veil - draped over her head. 2. The parents and friends clear the Earth that is intended for the newly weds. The digging and sowing of seeds, and the felling of trees to create an area and habitable environment for the newly married couple. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12510] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Reaper.
Painted by T. Faed R.A. Engraved by F. Stacpoole. [In image area:] TFaed 1863.
London: Published Jan.y 17th. 1865, by B. Brooks & Sons, 48, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate 711 x 539mm. 28 x 21¼".
A young woman in rustic dress with a shawl around her shoulders, standing full-length in a field directed to left, holding a sickle, looking to right at a bundle of hay; a man is cutting hay behind her.
[Ref: 25295] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Rice cultivation] Reaping.
AH [Augustin Heckel] delin.
[London: John June, n.d., c.1770.]
Etching, 18th century watermark, 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Paper toned and spotted. Small margins.
Plate 16 of a series about the cultivation of rice in China.
[Ref: 60919] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

English Agricultural Societies' Dinner, in Queen's College Quadrangle, Oxford, July 1[7th?] 1839. [&] English Agricultural Society's Show Yard. First Meeting at Oxford, July 17th. 1839. To the Right Honble. John Charles, Earl Spencer, President, the Trustees, Vice Presidents, Committee of Management, and Members, This Print is most respectfully dedicated.
G. Scharf, lith: from a drawing by W.A. Delamo[tte]. [&] On Stone by T. Picken, from a Drawing by W.A. Delamotte. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
Published by J. & R. Dewe, Broad St. Oxford; and Sold by R. Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street: and T.M. McLean, 26, Haymarket, London [c.1839].
Pair of lithographs, each image 195 x 300mm. 7¾ x 11¾". Creases. The 'dinner' plate trimmed at top.
The English Agricultural Society was founded in 1838. In 1840 it was granted its Royal Charter by Queen Victoria, and so became the Royal Agricultural Society of England. It organises the annual 'Royal Show' at the Society's headquarters at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. This fascinating pair of prints includes a depiction of the society's first show at Oxford, and features cattle, ploughs and other examples of the latest agricultural and harvesting technology.
[Ref: 9598] £320.00 view all images for this item

Rural Felicity. Behold the blest couple return from their toil ... With stories soft stories of love.
H. Corbould del.t Rob.t Cooper sculp.t
London. Published March 1.1814, by S & J. Fuller at the Temple of Fancy Rathbone Place.
Rare stipple. Plate 303 x 229mm (12 x 9"), very large margins.
A couple in rustic dress walking through a hayfield to the right, the youth carrying a cask and staff, his arm around the girl's waist, while she carries a sheaf of hay tied in a cloth on her head, holding her straw hat in her other hand.
[Ref: 31312] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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