Grosvenor Prints

Survey & Plans of Woolley Manor in the County of Somerset, the Property of Miss Eliz: Gunning.
Survey'd by John Hinde in 1760, and planned by Isaac Johnson, Surveyor Woodbridge Suff: 1798, &9.
7 estate plans, 2 figurative vignettes, 1 elaborate frontispiece and 1 view of Woolley church in pen and ink and watercolour separated by blank leaves, in original card wrapper and complete as index. Sheet size 233 x 200mm. Binding extremely worn and chipped, with tatty extremities. Leaves partially disbound.
A set of high quality manuscript surveys, far more decorative than is standard on maps of estates. Each map shows a unique compass point design and corresponds to an index on facing page with elegant calligraphic title within a cartouche in ink and watercolour. 2 leaves with classical female figures in ovals mark the beginning and end of the volume. These and the vignette view of the local church further demonstrate the high degree of draughtsmanship and skill of the artist, Isaac Johnson. Johnson [1754 - 1835], a Suffolk man through and through, practised as a surveyor in Woodbridge for 50 years and he produced detailed maps of many estates throughout East Anglia. He was also a gifted artist, copyist and antiquarian draughtsman. This survey he copied from an earlier work by a John Hinde, perhaps at the request of a Reverend Gunning of Sutton in Suffolk who it is known ordered drawings of Gretna Green and 'Cupids from Cipriani', and may have been a relation of the Elizabeth Gunning who owned Woolley Manor. Includes 4 loose sheets of ephemera relating to the Poulett family, including 2 birth certificates, an engraved genealogical chart and an 1851 certificate of induction of one William Henry Poulett into the 'Grand Lodge of Ireland'. The Pouletts were an ancient Somerset family who it can be reasonably assumed resided at Woolley Manor during the 19th century.
[Ref: 3475] £4,800.00 view all images for this item

Guilielmus Alabaster Anno Aetatis Suae Luxi Studii Arcanae Theologiae 33.
Corn: Iohns: pinxit. Iohn Payne sculpsit:
[n.d. c.1633.]
Engraving. Collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) on reverse. Sheet size: 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed inside plate.
Portrait of William Alabaster, the divine; head and shoulders in an oval. Used as the frontispiece to his 'Ecce sponsus venit' of 1633. William Alabaster (1567-1640) was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain when on a diplomatic mission as chaplain. His religious beliefs led him to be imprisoned several times; eventually he gave up Catholicism, and was favoured by James I. He received a prebend in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Ex Collection: Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) NPG: D26774.
[Ref: 40024] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia Augusta.
Johnson delin et sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Aug.t 20. 1770 by H. Marshall No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard London.
Mezzotint, platemark 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Small margins.
Princess Augusta Sophia (1768-1840), sixth child and second daughter of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, portrayed as a very young child. She was a Princess of the United Kingdom and a Princess of Hanover who remained unmarried and had a particular devotion to her brother William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV.
Not in O'D or CS.
[Ref: 39190] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Robertus Cottonus Bruceus. Aesculapius hic Librorum aerugo, Vetustas Pero quem nulla potest Britonum consumere chartas.
T. Cross sculpsit. [After Cornelius Johnson.]
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching. 140 x 90mm. 5½ x 3½". Cut. Laid on 18th century scrap sheet.
Portrait of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; nearly half length, slightly to the right; in falling ruff; bearded, with hair to his ears. Frontispiece to his 'An answer to Such Motives', 1651. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631) was a collector, particularly of manuscripts and charters; this collection was known as the Cottonian Library and given to the nation by grandson Sir John Cotton. It formed the core of what is now the British Library, but a small number of objects and paintings remain within the registered collection of the British Museum. Cotton was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton Library. He was elected to Parliament as member of Old Sarum (1624), Thetford (1625) and Castle Rising (1628).
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25349] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Cathedral] Cantuariensis Ecclesiæ Cath: facies aquilonalis.
Tho. Johnson delin: Dan: King sculp.
[n.d., 1655.]
Etching on 17th century watermarked paper. 270 x 290mm (10½ x 11½"), with margins. Some creasing and spotting.
A view of Canterbury Cathedral from the north, with a dedication to Edward Darrel. An illustration from William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum'. According to Pennington, Wenceslaus Hollar etched the cartouche with the St George's Cross in the bottom centre.
[Ref: 61223] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain.]
L. Johnson [signed inside the image in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1905.]
Original pencil drawing. 535 x 370mm.21 x 14½".
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (1863-1937) was a British statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Posts he held throughout his career: Postmaster-General (1902-1903); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903-1905 & 1919-1921); Secretary of State for India (1915-1917); Lord Privy Seal & Leader of the House of Commons (1921-1922); Foreign Secretary (1924-1929); First Lord of the Admiralty (1931).
[Ref: 12729] £420.00

Gulielmus Drummond de Hathornden Scotus, Historiographus et Poeta. Dedicated to the Right Honourable David Steuart Erskine, Lord Cardross L.L.D. F.R.S. F.S.A. by his much oblig'd, and most obedient Serv.t J. Finlayson.
Cornelius Johnson pinx.t J. Finlayson del.t. et fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliamet, 1766 Juny 1.st = Sold at the Golden Lamp in Berwick Street, Soho. [c.1811.]
Mezzotint with very large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 381 x 280mm (15 x 11").
Portrait of William Drummond (1585-1649), Scottish poet & historian.
CS: 5, iii/iii.
[Ref: 30910] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Fishermans Hut.
Willes Johnson pinx.t Lith de E. Ardit, r. Vivienne.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 310 x 432mm. 12¼ x 17". Tear in upper left-hand side of margin.
A scene outside a fisherman's hut. A man on a donkey rides along the path to the left. Smoking his pipe, the fisherman sits with two rods.
[Ref: 18434] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Masquerade, Bayswater, Jan.y 1818. No. 162 Admit Mr. Renton[?], Bayswater Jan.y 20 1820 / Masquerade Ticket / Not Transferable.
Johnson Esq delin.
Etching and aquatint with ms., scarce; sheet 105 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"). Ink marks at top; box with user's name has been cut out, with a new piece of paper stuck behind.
Ticket for a masquerade with a scene showing revellers at the masquerade two years earlier, many of whom are dressed up in costumes of Native Americans, Wizards etc. The British Museum suggest the print was made by S.W. Reynolds, although we have found no further confirmation of this.
see BM 1867,0309.1798
[Ref: 32276] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Morning after the Gale.
Willes Johnson pinx.t Lith de E. Ardit, r. Vivienne.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 305 x 440mm. 12 x 17¼".
The skeleton of a ship's hull sits amongst some rocks on the shoreline; other parts of the ship scattered.
[Ref: 18435] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hugh Myddelton Knight & Baronet. The famous Aqueduct call'd the New River was performed at his Charge...
C.J. fe. 1632. Ad Tabula, Cornelii Janssonii, jam penes Illustriss. Comitem Oxoniensem, Georgius Vertue sculpsit, A.D. 1722.
[London, c.1722 or later.]
Engraving. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Small margins.
Sir Hugh Myddelton (1560-1631), goldsmith and entrepreneur, after Cornelius Jonson or Janssen. Early in the seventeenth century Myddelton became involved in the successful project to bring a supply of water to London, which was still the most important source of piped water into the metropolis two hundred years later. In 1605 an act of parliament was obtained to bring water from springs near Hertford to north London (a distance of nearly forty miles), as surveyed by the mathmatician Edward Wright (1561-1615, famed for his correction of Mercator's Projection). Myddelton's involvement is not recorded until 1609, when he took the lead in the project which was completed in 1613. The establishment of the New River was Myddelton's main claim to fame, and he was involved with the running of the company for the rest of his life, although he was also involved in mining and land draining projects.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Alexander: 962.
[Ref: 53618] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hugh Myddelton, Bar.t. The Projector of the New River Aqueduct.
On Stone by _ Fussell / Printed by G.E. Madeley
London. Pub.d by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. March 25 1835
Lithograph on india, sheet 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5").
Sir Hugh Myddelton (1560-1631), goldsmith and entrepreneur. Early in the seventeenth century Myddelton became involved in the successful project to bring a supply of water to London, which was still the most important source of piped water into the metropolis in the early nineteenth century, when this print was made. In 1605 an act of parliament was obtained to bring water from springs near Hertford to north London (a distance of nearly forty miles). Myddelton's involvement is not recorded until 1609, when he took the lead in the project which was completed in 1613. The establishment of the New River was Myddelton's main claim to fame, and he was involved with the running of the company for the rest of his life, although he was also involved in mining and land draining projects. Lithograph after one of several paintings of Myddelton by Cornelius Johnson, used as frontispiece to William Matthews' 'Hydraulia; an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Water Works of London, and the Contrivances for Supplying other Great Cities, in Different Ages and Countries' (1835).
For an earlier scene of Myddelton observing the first issue of the New River, see ref. 28983.
[Ref: 35269] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hugh Myddelton. This public-spirited character was a native of Denbigh, in North Wales, and afterwards became a goldsmith of London [...]
Holl sculp.t
Stipple engraving and letterpress, sheet 235 x 145mm (9¼ x 5¾").
Sir Hugh Myddelton (1556-1631), goldsmith and entrepreneur. Early in the seventeenth century Myddelton became involved in the successful project to bring a supply of water to London, which was still the most important source of piped water into the metropolis in the early nineteenth century, when this print was made. In 1605 an act of parliament was obtained to bring water from springs near Hertford to north London (a distance of nearly forty miles). Myddelton's involvement is not recorded until 1609, when he took the lead in the project which was completed in 1613. The establishment of the New River was Myddelton's main claim to fame, and he was involved with the running of the company for the rest of his life, although he was also involved in mining and land draining projects. With letterpress describing Myddelton's involvement with the New River project.
For an earlier scene of Myddelton observing the first issue of the New River, see ref. 28983.
[Ref: 35270] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Sir William Noy Attorny General.
Corn: Iohnson pinx. 13. 'Vertue' [faded m.s. lower right]
[1713.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 171 x 95mm (6¾ x 3¾").
William Noy (1577-1634) the noted British jurist. In 1631 he was created Attorney-general. Plate from Edward Ward's 'History of the Grand Rebellion' (3 vols, 1713), the list of plates to which gives George Vertue as engraver of unsigned prints such as this.
NPG: D26967; O'D 1 (as printmaker anonymous); Alexander 29
[Ref: 29692] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

View in the Island of Saint Christopher In The Parish of Nicola Town. Proof.
Drawn by J. Johnson. Engraved by T. Fielding.
[London Published Feb. 1. 1827 by T. & G. Underwood, Fleet Street.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Framed, sight size 300 x 435mm (11¾ x 17"). Hand colour faded, framed over publication line? Unexamined out of frame.
A rare view of slaves at work in the cane fields of the Eastridge Estate on the north east side of St Christopher's, with a windmill and mountains behind. From the series 'Views of the West Indies', which was proposed to be five parts. The first two parts were published by the Underwoods in 1827, with a third by Smith & Elder in 1829, before the series was wound up. A map of Antigua and 11 plates were issued.
Abbey: 678, ''a pity, for these plates were excellent''.
[Ref: 61568] £520.00

Calliaqua, Saint Vincent. From the Villa Estate.
Drawn by J. Johnson. Engraved by T. Fielding.
[n.d., c.1827].
Coloured aquatint, very fine. Plate: 490 x 350mm (19½ x 13¾"). Slighted faded.
A view from the Villa Estate, Calliaqua on the island of St. Vincent, looking out to the Caribbean Sea. Calliaqua is a town in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the far south of the main island of Saint Vincent, close to the island's southernmost point.
ex Parker Gallery.
[Ref: 29995] £1,200.00

[Wearmouth Bridge] A South East View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland in the C.o of Durham. Built by Roland Burdon Esq.r M.P. Span 236 Ft, height 100 Ft, Spring of the Arch 33 Ft, It is supposed to be the Largest Arch in the World - The Foundation Stone was laid 24th Sept, 1793 & the Bridge was opened 9th Aug.t 1796.
R. Johnson Delt. A.Hunter Scult.
[n.d. 1796]
Rare engraving. Sheet 355 x 420mm (14 x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears.
A view of the first Wearmouth Bridge, shortly after it opened, showing that masted ships could pass underneath it easily. It was the second major cast-iron bridge in the world, but twice as long as the Severn Iron Bridge, with an unprecedented single span of 236ft. The bridge was designed and built by the engineer Thomas Wilson, sponsored by Rowland Burdon.
[Ref: 54167] £650.00

[John Webster.] Saepe suas laudes Marti persolvimus & me Passa fuit vatem Cypris amica Suum. Mercurii, Webstere, decus plaelustre, Cameonis Hos etiam Vultus da placuise meis. Vendis, emis permulta fagax mercator. at inter Commoda, mercanti Stat tibi salvus honor. Si falluntur opes alys, aut fallere norunt, Gloria non falli aut fallere prima tua est.
Cor. Jo. pinx. T. Matham Sculp. C. Barlaeus.
[n.d. c.1660.]
Rare engraving, first state. 285 x 190mm. 11¼ x 7½".
Sir John Webster, Bt (d.1675.) was the Commisary for Russia at the Hague.
See NPG: D27225.
[Ref: 24075] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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