Grosvenor Prints

The Elevation of Althrop in Northampton Shire, The Seat of the R.t Hon.ble the Earl of Sunderland &c: to whom this Plate is most humbly Inscrib'd.
Ca: Campbell Delin: H. Hulsbergh Sc:
[n.d. c.1725.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 255 x 500mm (10 x 19¾"), very large margins. Original binding folds.
Althorp House, built by Robert Spencer (1641-1702), 2nd Earl of Sunderland, in 1688, the childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales. Published in Colen Campbell's 'Vitruvius Britannicus'.
See ref: 56260, 56258
[Ref: 58769] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Valley of the Gila & Sierra de Las Estrellas From Maricopa Wells. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 32º Parallel California. General Report Plate V.
A.H. Campbell.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼").
A view of the United States Pacific Rail Road surveyors' camp in a valley now occupied by the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62387] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Barren Landscape.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Soft-ground etching. 121 x 202mm (4¾ x 8"). Cut.
Barren landscape, with small three-arched hump bridge over a meandering river in foreground at left; a group of trees on the opposite bank; long bridge seen in the distance at right. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34811] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Belhus Essex.
HBK.
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 102 x 152mm (4 x 6"). Cut
Belhus, Essex: a road at right leading through a field; trees behind, windmill and house-roofs seen in background, and a small building among trees at left. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34813] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Burlington house in Pickadilly London. Erected by the R.t Honourable Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington and Cork, Lord High Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland &c. Designed by Colen Campbell Anno 1717.
Ca. Campbell Inv. et Delin. H. Hulsburgh Sculp.
[London: Colen Campbell, 1725.]
Engraving. 250 x 500mm (9¾ x 19¾"). Very large margins.
The south façade of Burlington House, designed by Colen Campbell in the new Palladian style, with balustrade and Venetian windows in the projecting end bays. This house and Campbell's monumental book, 'Vitruvius Britannicus' (from which this print comes), were extremely influential on British architecture.
[Ref: 38395] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Castle Howard in Yorkshire the Seat of the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle &c:
Ca: Campbell Delin: [Engraved by H: Hulsbergh?]
[n.d. c.1725.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 245 x 485mm (9¾ x 19"), very large margins. Tear entering image on right repaired. Crease in centre as normal.
An elevation of the front of Castle Howard, designed Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle and built between 1699 and 1712, published in Colen Campbell's 'Vitruvius Britannicus'. From 1845 until the 1950s the estate was served by its own railway station. The building's grandure was put to good use representing Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead' in both the 1981 TV and the 2008 film adaptations of 'Brideshead Revisited'.
See Ref 58766, 45181
[Ref: 58768] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Castle Ruin.]
HBK.
[n.d. c.1812.]
Soft ground etching. 114 x 152mm (4½ x 6"). Cut.
View of a castle with partly ruined tower on a hilltop from a field below, with trees in foreground at left and right. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34804] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Cattle.]
MRoo. [H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 190 x 132mm (7½ x 5¼"). Cut
A cattle standing on a path in frontal view; two learning milestones to left; copy of an etching by Johann Melchior Roos. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34796] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cholera. Pardon, mon Capitaine. Ma[...] crois bien que c’est en donnant une poignée de mans au camarade [...]ntre, que j’aurai attrapé la pidérnie regnante......vu que’il sori de l’hopital y a huit jours.
H.te Bellangé 1832. I.Lith. de Gihaut frères éditeurs.
Boulevard des Italiens No.5.
Lithograph. 228 x 183mm. 9 x 7¼". Stain in the title area. Some text missing.
Cholera didn't reach France until the second pandemic between 1829 and 1831, at which point 20,000 succumbed in Paris and 100,000 deaths in all of France. Here a scene of soldiers and their captain drinking away their pains and sorrows at a local street-side bar. One soldier is particularly drunk, hardly holding himself up against a senior officer.
[Ref: 16816] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Geometrical Plan of the House, Gardens and adjacent Parts of Cholmondley in Cheshire, the Seat of the Right Honourable Earl of Cholmondley. Plan Geometrical de la Maison, Jardins etc part contigu de Cholmondley dans Cheshire Maison de Earl de Cholmondley. p: 29. Vol: 3.d. p:30
Ca: Campbell delin: H: Hulsbergh Sculp:
[n.d. c.1731.]
Copper Engraving. Plate 355 x 502mm. 14 x 19¾". Vertical fold through centre.
Garden plan from Henry Hulsberg's "Vitruvius Britannicus" series by C. Campbell. Cholmondeley Castle is a mansion house in Cheshire. In the 18th Century, Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley had created gardens around the house, both kitchen gardens and orchards to provide food for the household, and also pleasure gardens. They would have been formal in style as they were laid out by George London.
[Ref: 18019] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Christmas Carol, with Music. I saw the Ship come sailing in / On Christmas day, on Christmas day. / I saw the Ship come sailing in / On Christmas day in the morning [...]
Designed & Etched by William B. Scott
Vizetelly & Co Published by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street, London
Lithograph with tintstone, printed area 405 x 255mm (16 x 10"). Creasing and some ingrained dirt. Rare.
Decorative presentation of a Christmas carol, written by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), which remains popular to this day
[Ref: 41273] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Circassian Chiefs] [Tshûrûkh-Okû Tûghûz. Hadji-Okû Mehmet & Vordezav-Okû Zepsh.]
W. Warren lith. from a sketch by Ja.s Stanislaus Bell. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[London: Edward Moxon, 1840.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed, losing title.
Three Circassians wearing fur hats, from 'Journal of a Residence in Circassia during the years 1837, 1838 and 1839', by James Stanislaus Bell (1796-1858). In 1836 'the 'Vixen', a ship owned by Bell, a Scottish merchant, breached the Russian blockade of Circassia and was seized. Different accounts describe the shipment as either salt or guns. The Vixen incident nearly led to war between Britain and Russia at the time, and certainly contributed to the Crimean War a decade later. The following year Bell travelled to Circassia to try to recoup on his losses. Bell was looked upon as a spy!
Abbey Travel 355.
[Ref: 55610] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Garden and Plantations of Clare Mont in Surry, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of New Castle &c: Les Jardins &c. de Claremont dans le Comté de Surry Maison de Duc de Newcastle. p: 77. Vol: 3.d. p:78
Ca: Campbell delin: H: Hulsbergh Sculp:
[n.d. c.1731.]
Copper Engraving. Plate 397 x 497mm. 15½ x 19½". Vertical fold through centre.
Garden plan from Henry Hulsbergh's "Vitruvius Britannicus" series by C. Campbell. The road along the top the 'Guildford Road to London'. Claremont is a beautiful garden surrounding a small lake and featuring an unusual grass amphitheatre. The garden's creation and development has involved great names in garden history, including Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgeman, William Kent and 'Capability' Brown. In 1726 it was described as 'the noblest of any in Europe' and the garden today is of national importance. The highlight as seen in the upper part of this map is Belvedere, which was built to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh, and from the first floor views could be enjoyed of the whole garden and across many miles of countryside.
See Ref: 18011, 18019
[Ref: 18017] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Coastal Scene.]
HB Ker 1812.
Etching. 95 x 210mm (3¾ x 8¼"). Cut on right.
Three sailing boats moored in a harbour at centre; a figure and rowing boat at left; pier at right. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34791] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Arras]
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
[Published by Israel Henriot, c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 123mm (2? x 4?"). Glued to backing sheet, slight staining on right.
Attack on a besieged town, which Massar identifies as Arras which was taken by the French in 1640. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 256 ii/iii. For another etching of this siege by Della Bella, see ref. 23780.
[Ref: 23778] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cannon with two soldiers sat on its carriage]
S.D. la Bella fecit.
F.L.D. Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis
Etching, 89 x 143mm (3½ x 5?").
Cannon in foreground with ruins behind, and a town in the distance. From a set of six 'Varii capricci militari' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 259
[Ref: 23787] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers playing at cards]
Stef. Della Bella. In.et F.
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 124mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet.
Four soldiers seemingly playing at cards while a sentinel watches them. A cannon mounted on its carriage to left, an encampment to right. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 254 ii/iii
[Ref: 23774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier pointing a cannon]
Stef. Della Bella. In.et F.
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet. Number '10' scratched out bottom right.
A soldier pointing a cannon under the surveillance of an officer standing to his right. In the background other soldiers carrying out exercises. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 255 ii/iii
[Ref: 23777] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cartouche with two women holding a vase of flowers.]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, platemark 233 x 182mm (9? x 7?"). Glued to backing sheet at three corners.
Plate ten from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1036.ii or iii
[Ref: 24293] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Cartouche with dogs]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, 156 x 247mm (6? x 9?"). Glued to backing sheet at corners; water staining top left and right.
Cartouche adorned with four dogs, a stag, and a boar's head, with two more dogs left and right. Plate thirteen from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1039.i (before plate numbers added)
[Ref: 24294] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two overlapping cartouches]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, 116 x 192mm (4½ x 7"). Glued to backing sheet at three corners with glue stains at corners; water staining top left and right. Plate number scratched out top right.
Two overlapping cartouches, each showing a combat between an eagle and a serpent. Plate fourteen from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1040. ii or iii
[Ref: 24298] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cartouche with two lions]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, 135 x 191mm (5¼ x 7½"). Glued to backing sheet at corners; plate number scratched out top right.
Plate eighteen from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1044. ii or iii
[Ref: 24304] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Decorative cartouche]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, platemark 248 x 180mm (9? x 7?"). Slight foxing around edges, glued to backing sheet at top corners.
Cartouche with two children sitting astride two eagles, and holding a plumed helmet. Palms and ribbons below. Plate five from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1031.ii or iii
[Ref: 24282] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Carriage at rest]
SD Bella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, top left corner missing, slight staining.
A loaded carriage at rest. The two horses eat the grass while the carriage driver sleeps on the ground next to a dog. Encampment in background with a town in the distance. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 253 ii/iii
[Ref: 23773] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cavaliers crossing a river at a ford]
SDBella f.
Israel ex [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 127mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet. '5' in manuscript bottom left after having been scratched out.
One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 250 ii/iii
[Ref: 23770] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Conversation]
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
Israel ex.
Etching, 73 x 107mm (2? x 4?"). Glued to backing sheet.
Conversation amongst men and women seated on the ground, in the countryside, with other figures left and right. From a set of thirteen etchings of an 'Agréable diversité de figures' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) and published in Paris by Israel Henriet in 1642.
de Vesme/Massar: 123- intermediate state between De Vesme's ii and iii/v.
[Ref: 23782] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two soldiers talking]
SDBella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, bottom right corner missing.
Two soldiers standing to left, on the right a dead horse which two wolves are starting to eat. A corps of lancers in the background. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 252 ii/iii
[Ref: 23772] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a young woman, hair tied back, looking left.] 11.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6), with C17th watermark. One very small wormhole bottom right. Slight crease top left. Small margins.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 374, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58183] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a boy with curly hair, bare shouldered, looking right.] 12.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6), with C17th watermark. Mark middle right. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 375, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58184] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a boy with straight hair, with high collar, looking right.] 13.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6), with C17th watermark. One very small wormhole, bottom right, in unprinted area, crease. Small margins.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 376, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58185] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a bearded old man, looking right.] 19.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾), with C17th watermark. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right. Very slight marking near head on left.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 382, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a bearded old man, with laurel wreath and fur collar, looking left.] 20.
S. D Bella invent et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾), with C17th watermark. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 383, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58182] £350.00

[Hungarian Horseman.]
S.D. Bella.
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching, plate 190 x 180mm (7½ x 7") with small margins. Some horizontal creases.
A round composition of a Hungarian horseman, with a horseman behind on each side and two men on foot behind at centre. From a series of eleven etchings of cavaliers by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), none of which carry a publication line.
De Vesme/Massar: 279.
[Ref: 59003] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Veue des Costes d'Italie.
S.D. Bella inventit et fecit
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [1647]
Etching, 88 x 137mm (3½ x 5?"). Glued to backing sheet, '12' in manuscript bottom right corner, lower margin trimmed.
The Italian Coast: four men play cards in the centre while another two watch them, prow of a boat on left, and a tower on the right. From a series of eight etchings of sea ports by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 801
[Ref: 24014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The infant John the Baptist.]
Stef de la Bella fecit.
Cum privilegio Regis. Mariette excudit [n.d., c.1641].
Etching. 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"), with C17th watermark. Small margins.
The infant John the Baptist, holding a crossed staff with banner, a lamb by his side.
De Vesme 24, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 58186] £460.00

Varij Capricij Militarij di Stef. Della Bella
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
[Published by Basan]
Etching, 90 x 144mm (3½ x 5?").
An army on the move, with a dead horse in the foreground. First of a set of six etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 258 iii or iv/iv
[Ref: 23784] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Paisages Maritimes. Faicts par S.D. Bella et Mis en lumiere par Israel.
S.D. Bella in. et fc.
Israel ex. cum privil Regis. [n.d., c.1644]
Seven etched sheets. Title 76 x 141mm (3 x 5½"), remaining plates all approx. 74 x 126mm (2? x 5"). Glued in corners to backing sheets. Some plates numbered in pen and ink lower right.
Complete set of six marine landscapes and title page by Stefano Della Bella (1610-54) and published by Israel Henriet, who also published Jacques Callot's prints.
de Vesme/Massar: 787-793 i/ii.
[Ref: 23733] £650.00 view all images for this item

Montjoye Saint Denis Roy, D'Armes de France.
S. de la Bella fecit [etched by Della Bella, engraving by Jean Couvay].
Van Merle [Paris, n.d., c.1650].
Etching with engraving. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A full length portrait of the King of Arms of France in full costume, with the funeral procession of a French prince at Saint-Denis in the background.
De Vesme 38, intermediate state between ii & iii.
[Ref: 58187] £580.00

[The Aveunue of Fountains, Pratolino]
S. D. Bella [n.d., c.1650-56]
Etching, platemark 255 x 375mm (10 x 14¾")
One from the set of six views that Stefano della Bella (1610-64) produced of the villa at Pratolino, near Florence. Built for Francesco I de'Medici in the sixteenth century, the villa was praised by Montaigne, amongst others. This view shows the spectacular path from the garden to the villa, along which the visitor walks beneath a succession of fountain jets. After being left unattended for much of the eighteenth century, the villa was demolished in 1820 and the garden was redesigned. It is now part of the Villa Demidoff, as it was named by a Russian industrialist who owned the site in the nineteenth century.
De Vesme 839 ii/iii
[Ref: 31936] £320.00

Desseins de Quelques Conduites de troupes, Canons, et ataques de villes; faictes Par de la Belle. Dediées a Mon Seigneur Henry Du Plesseys Conte De La Roche-Guyon. Par son tres humble Serviteur Israel. Avec Privilege u Roy.
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella].
[Published by Israel Henriet, c.1644]
Etching, 60 x 127mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet.
Frontispiece to a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), with the title written on a drape, beneath which can be seen the coat of arms of the dedicatee.
de Vesme/Massar: 264
[Ref: 23764] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier leaning against cannon]
S.D. la Bella fecit.
F.L.D. Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis
Etching, 92 x 142mm (3½ x 5 17½").
Soldier with pike leaning against wheel of a cannon inforeground. Behind him more soldiers and another cannon, and a windmill centre right. From a set of six 'Varii capricci militari' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 262
[Ref: 23789] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Roseau in the Island of Dominique, with the Attack Made by Lord Rollo & S.r James Douglass, in 1760.
Drawn on the Spot by L.t Arch. Campbell Engineer. Engraved by James Peake,
London, Printed for John Bowles at No 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No 53 in Fleet Street, Tho.s Jeffreys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at No 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, and Henry Parker at No 82 in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1770.]
Etching. Framed, visible area 355 x 520mm (14 x 20½"). Several repaired tears. Unexamined out of frame.
The successful invasion of Dominica in June 1761 (not 1760 as in the title), towards the end of the Seven Years' War, the troops led by Andrew Rollo (the Brigadier-General in America), the ships by James Douglas (commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station). It shows The island remained a British possession after the war.
[Ref: 57576] £700.00

[Dresden] Prospectus exterius Portæ Wilsche, cum Bibliotheci Regia, Dresdæ. Vüe exterieur de la Porte Wilsche, avec la Bibliotheque Royale a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's fortifications at the Wilsche Gate, with a bridge over the moat. Behind is the Royal Library. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38385] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille de Dresde.
Bellangé del.t Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 445 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins.
The Battle of Dresden (1813), which resulted in a French victory under Napoleon against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussian under Field Marschal Schwartzenberg. Unfortunately the French troops did not completely deter all the Coalition Forces, and a few days later at the Battle of Kulm, Napoleon's forces were surrounded and forced to surrender. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30790] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Prospectus pontis fluvio Albi Dresdae impositi Ecclesia versus B. V. Mariae dicata. Vüe du Pont de Dresde sur l'Elbe verse l'Egise de Notre Dame.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Augustus Bridge over the Elbe, with the Hofkirche, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38310] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Ecclesia Regia Catholicorum, cum Ontem super Fluviam Albis, Dresdæ. L'Eglise Royale Catholique, avec le Pont sur la Riviere de l'Elbe, a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Hofkirche, with the Augusts bridge over the Elbe, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the 'Staatliche Kunstsammlungen', shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38386] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Four Elements.] Terra. [&] Aer. [&] Ingis. [&] Aqua. 1 [-4]
Stef. de la Bella invent fecit.
ex. Cum Privil. Regis Christ.
Set of four etchinga. each 85 x 195mm (3¼ x 7¾"), large margins. Laid on album paper, one sheet.
The set of Four Elements: Earth & Air are landscapes; Fire and Water are seascapes, Fire with a ships on fire, Water with a storm. Etched by Stefano della Bella (1610-54), one of the greatest of Italian printmakers, whose diverse output, characterised by the compression of great precision and detail into small composions, has been the focus of a number of exhibitions and scholarly publications in recent years. It was also influential on later seventeenth century printmakers such as François Collignon and Israel Silvestre.
De Vesme 753-6., states ii of iii. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57495] £490.00 (£588.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Fantel de Lagny. [on verso]: De l’Academie Royale des Sciences, et de la Société Royal de Londres, et sous Bilbiotheraire du Roy. Né à Lyon le 1er. 9bre.1672 et Mort le n. Avril 1734 agé de 72 ans. Gravé par les Soins de Madame de Lagny la Veuve.
Peint par S Belle. Gravé par T. Mutel.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 286 x 216mm. 11¼ x 8½". Cut.
Thomas Fantel de Lagny (1672-1734), parliamentary lawyer, Veteran-Pensionner of the Royal Academy of Science of Paris for Geometry, received in 1696. Member of the Royal Society of London. Committed to the King's Library to research Mathematics books.
Not in W.
[Ref: 15756] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Ordinanza nella quale si fermarono il Ser.mo Princ.pe le squadre de caval.ri, ed i carri delle Deità Interno almonte d'Atlante nella Festra a Cavallo Rappre.ta. Per le Reali Noze dell A.S.S. Nel Teatro Cong.to al Pala.zo del S.G.D.
S.D. Bella 1661.
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 280 x 435mm (11 x 17"). Trimmed close to image.
An elaborate tournament held in the amphitheatre of the Giardino di Boboli, behind the Medici's Pitti Palace. Top left is the Forte di Belvedere.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62142] £490.00

[George III and Queen Charlotte] G.III C. A King Revered A Queen Beloved This Medallion, commorative of their Majesties Presence at St Paul's Cathedral, on St George's Day 1789, attended by the Houses of Parliament and the Corporation of London, where they joined in giving solumn national Thanks, for the Sovereign's late happy Recovery: is humbly Dedicated to all loyal Britons.
London, Designed & Publish'd by Amelia Campbell Apr.l 23: 1789.
Scarce stipple and etching. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4").
Medallion portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte. In 1789 George was in the grip of acute mania, causing the House of Commons to pass the Regency Bill. Before the bill passed through the Lords, the king returned to sanity.
[Ref: 57904] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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