Grosvenor Prints

[Acre] Buonaparte Sends a Flag of Truce & at the same instant commences an Assault on Acre.
From a Design by M.r R.K. Porter.
London Published at the Act directs May 12 1803, by J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, J. Giner, Piccadilly, and J. Asperne, Cornhill.
Scarce coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 260mm (16¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed into image on three sides, title and inscriptions excised and pasted below in four strips, laid on album paper. Staining at top.
A young French officer parleys with the Turks as the smoke of artillery rises over Acre behind, pointed out by a British officer. One of four plates 'illustrative of the atrocious actions of Buonaparte', alongside the massacre of Royalist civilians at Toulon, massacring Turkish captives at Jaff and poisoning his own wounded soldiers at Jaffa, all wild exaggerations.
BM Satires 9992.
[Ref: 55782] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

England.
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12 1800 by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint with hand colour. 455 x 400mm (18 x 15¾"), with large margins. Tear touching plate mark, laid on card.
A young milk-maid walking along a country path holding a milk pail against her hip and carrying her stool. One of a set of four allegories of the four nations that became the United Kingdom later in the month of publication.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 49978] £320.00

[Europa riding on the back of Zeus disguised as a bull.] Methinks the pictur'd bull we see / Is amourous Jove - it must be he! [...] Ode LIV.
Robert Ker Porter del. John Vendramini sculp.
London, Published June 4th. 1805 by John P Thompson, Gt. Newport Street, Printseller to His Majesty, & the Duke and Duchess of York.
Crayon manner. Sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), 1818 watermark. Trimmed within plate, toning of edges.
An illustration from ''Odes of Anacreon''.
[Ref: 55473] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ireland
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins.
A figure representing Ireland as a barefoot young boy, sitting on a boulder outside a cottage with thick walls and thatched roof, hugging a sheepdog. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62150] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Philip Kemble] Tragedy.
R.K. Porter del. J. Godby sculp.
Published by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, April 4th 1806.
Stipple with etching. 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Crease at edge of plate top right, hole in top margin. Small margins.
John Philip Kemble in classical dress, clasping a goblet to his chest.
[Ref: 62409] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Kirghises.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t. P.A. Herbert direx.t.
[London: John Stockdale?, c.1821.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9").
From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'. First published in 1809 by Richard Phillips, Stockdale published the second edition in 1813.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 34448] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Love and Affection.
Sketch'd by R.K. Porter. Engraved by Cheesman.
Pub as the Act directs. Jan.1.1805, by P. Sintzenich, 5, Charles Street, Midd.x Hospital London.
Stipple. Plate 260 x 304mm. 10¼ x 12". Large margins, some creasing.
Love and Affection; two winged cherubs being blessed.
[Ref: 23201] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Physical exercises for soldiers.]
[drawn by Robert Ker Porter.]
Published as the Act directs, Aug.st 1798, at Egerton's Military Library Whitehall.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark, pencil drawing verso. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"), large margins. Paper toned. Slight creasing top right.
Two illustration of exercises for the back, one with dumbells. One of 24 plates in 'Military Instructions: including each particular motion of the manual and platoon exercises; elucidated with very minute drawings by Mr. R.K. Porter', by David Roberts.
[Ref: 55776] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Moscow.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t.
[London: Richard Phillips, 1809.]
Aquatint with blue wash in sky. Sheet 260 x 390mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 6973] £320.00

A Uralsky Cossac.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t. P.A. Herbert direx.t.
[London: John Stockdale?, 1821.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9"), watermarked 'J. Whatman 1821'. Worm holes in unprinted area of plate. Crease on right.
From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'. First published in 1809 by Richard Phillips, Stockdale published the second edition in 1813.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 34447] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Scotland.
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark 1800. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark.
A figure representing Scotland as a young boy in a kilt, walking up a hill in the wind, holding down his tamoshanter. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62149] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Sir William Sidney Smith. Seige Of Acre.
Painted by Robert Ker Porter. The Portrait Engraved by Anth.y Cardon__the Battle by Ja.s Mitan.
London, Published April 1804, by Anth.y Cardon, 31, Clipstone Street, Fitzroy Square.
Portrait, stipple with etching, and engraved battle scene from one plate. Plate 439 x 266mm. 17¼ x 10½". Large margins. Bit dusty.
Sir William Sidney Smith KCB (1764-1840), the admiral of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said 'That man made me miss my destiny', having aided the Turks in their resistance to Napoleon in Egypt and the Levant. The Siege of Acre of 1799 was an unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre (now Akko in modern Israel) and was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria. A Royal Navy flotilla under Commodore William Sidney Smith helped to reinforce the Turkish defences and supplied the city with additional cannon manned by sailors and marines. The seige was eventually raised and Napoleon withdrew to Egypt.
[Ref: 21291] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Sidney Smith.
Robert Ker Porter pinxt. W.Say sculpt.
London Published as the Act directs, June 19, 1802, John P.Thompson, Printseller to his Majesty and their Royal Highness's the Duke & Duchess of York. Gt.Newport Street, and No.51 Dean Street, Soho.
Coloured mezzotint. 630 x 440mm (24¾ x 17¼") Slight repair in image.
Sir William Sidney Smith KCB (21 June 1764 - 26 May 1840) fought in the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action in 1778 against the American frigate Raleigh. He also distinguished himself in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1780), Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) and the Battle of the Saintes (1782). His subsequent career included important service during the Napoleonic Wars, notably in the defence and relief of Acre. Napoleon said of him "That man made me miss my destiny" concerning his defence of Acre.
[Ref: 4705] £850.00

Monks of St Basil.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t. P.A. Herbert direx.t.
[London: John Stockdale?, c.1821.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9").
Two brothers of St. Basil the Great, members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the Eastern Byzantine Rite. From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'. First published in 1809 by Richard Phillips, Stockdale published the second edition in 1813.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 34451] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Nuns of St Basil.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t. P.A. Herbert direx.t.
[London: John Stockdale?, c.1821.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9").
Two sisters of St. Basil the Great, members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the Eastern Byzantine Rite. From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'. First published in 1809 by Richard Phillips, Stockdale published the second edition in 1813.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 34450] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Stone Theatre at St. Petersbourg.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler Sculp.t.
[Pub. Jan.y 2 1809 by R.Phillips, Bridge Street, London.]
Aquatint. 222 x 292mm. 8¾ x 11½". Publication line cut.
Published in Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, by Sir Robert Ker Porter, an English archaeologist and diplomat. The St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. Built in 1783 to Antonio Rinaldi's Neoclassical design. Until 1886, it was the principal theatre to the Imperial Ballet and the Imperial Russian Opera.
Abbey:13
[Ref: 15218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Stone Theatre at St. Petersbourg.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler Sculp.t.
[Pub. Jan.y 2 1809 by R.Phillips, Bridge Street, London.]
Aquatint with sepia wash applied by hand. 200 x 250mm, 8 x 9¾". Publication line cut.
Published in 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden', by Sir Robert Ker Porter, an English archaeologist and diplomat.
[Ref: 12678] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Buonaparte massacreing fifteen hundred persons at Toulon.
From a design by Mr. R. Ker Porter.
[n.d., c.1805.] Bit later.
Rare coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Trimmed.
A propaganda piece showing the French Royalist civilians surrendering after the fall of Toulon in 1793 having cannons turned on them on the orders of Napoleon. In reality the victims were shot or bayoneted and Napoleon, who had been wounded, had already left the city to take up a new post. This print is a pirate copy, not particularly well executed, of a section of Porter's original aquatint, published by John Hatchard and John Ginger in 1803. It was published as a companion to 'Buonaparte massacreing three thousand eight hundred men at Jaffa'.
[Ref: 51698] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

This Print of the Loyal Associated Ward and Volunteer Corps of the City of London is respectfully Dedicated to those Ladies who Honored them with the Presentation of Colours by their most obedient humble Serv.ts LI & N Schiavonetti. [&] This Print of the Loyal Associated Ward and Volunteer Corps of the City of Westminster is respectfully Dedicated to those Ladies who Honored them with the Presentation of Colours by their most obedient humble Serv.ts LI & N Schiavonetti.
Painted by R. K. Porter. Engraved by M. Place.
London. Pub. May 30 1799 by Mess.rs Schiavonetti No. 12 Michaels Place Brompton
Pair of coloured stipples, each approx. 490 x 640mm (19¼ x 25¼"). Some staining.
Pair of impressive scenes of London volunteer corps. The uniform of each individual ward can be identified from the key plates published by Schiavonetti, examples of which are in the British Museum.
[Ref: 19299] £750.00 view all images for this item

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