Grosvenor Prints

[Original ink caricature, published in Punch, 1902.]
C.E.Brock, 1902. [signature in ink.]
Pen & ink on card, 210 x 320mm, laid on paper with pencil caption.
Boy (to Young Lady who has been unfortunate as to upset Colonel Bunkes) 'You'd better ride on before 'e gets his breath, Miss. Young Lady: 'Why?' Boy: 'I've 'eard 'im play golf!'
[Ref: 962] £890.00

Daniel Bryan, The Sailor who so nobly Volunteered at the risk of his life to bury the French General during the Siege of Acre.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & Drawn by Dan.l Orme. T. Vivares sc.t
Edw.d Orme Excu.t Sold & Published March 25th 1803 by Edw.d Orme Printseller to His Majesty & the the Royal Family, 59 Bond Street, London.
Coloured aquatint, platemark 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"), with very large margins. Printed on Whatman paper with 1801 watermark. Very fine.
British soldier burying a French general killed during the Siege of Acre in 1799, an unsuccessful French attach on the city of Acre (now Akko, modern Israel) during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria. Plate from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria', a volume of prints after drawings by Francis B. Spilsbury, a naval surgeon and amateur artist who made the drawings while on board HMS Le Tigre during campaigns in 1799 and 1800. The source watercolour by Spilsbury is in the V & A Museum.
Abbey 381.6
[Ref: 46517] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cæsaria.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & drawn by D.l Orme. I.C. Stadler Aquatinta.
Sold & Published Sept.r 1. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 300 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A view of Caesarea in northern Israel taken from the sea. A scene from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria'.
Abbey Scenery 383.
[Ref: 46227] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Fall of Babylon, M.R. West Side. 176. 1. The Great Tower of Babel. 2. Temple of Belus, the external Buildings by Nebuchadnezzar. 3. Temple of Venus. 4. Dragon, one of the Images of Worship, which are placed one mile apart, to express the vast extent of the Streets. 5. The Street Gates leading to the River, half a mile distance from each other... At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. Isaiah, chap. xiii. verse 19, and chap. xiv. verse 13. Jeremiah, chap. 50, ver.2, 22, 43, and 53.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Etching, scarce, large margins. 166 x 209mm. 6½ x 8¼".
An etched key plate to John Martin's 'The Fall of Babylon".
See Wees & Campbell: p.36; 28.
[Ref: 21036] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Dance at Genin.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & drawn by D.l Orme. Etched by Vivares.
Sold & Published March 1. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 300 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A scene showing three figures dancing while one man plays a lute and an old man smokes a long pipe. A scene from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria'.
Abbey Scenery 383.
[Ref: 46226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

T. Guiccioli [facsimile signature].
Drawn by W. Brockedon, 1833. Engraved by H.T. Ryall.
London, Published 1833, by J. Murray, & Sold by C. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.
Stipple engraving laid on india, small margins. Plate 235 x 178mm 9¼" x 7". India lifting at bottom left corner; small crease to same corner.
Countess Teresa Guiccioli (1801 - 1873), Byron's mistress and author of 'Lord Byron's Life in Italy'.
[Ref: 26905] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Gun-Barrel Proof-House of the Town of Birmingham. Established by Act of Parliament for Public security, A.D. 1813.
Rock.
[n.d. c.1814.]
Engraving. Image 170 x 285mm. 6¾ x 11¼".
The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House was established in 1813 by an act of Parliament at the request, and expense, of the then prosperous Birmingham Gun Trade. Its remit was to provide a testing and certification service for firearms; such testing prior to sale was made mandatory under the Gun Barrel Proof Act of 1868. The Jacobean-style building was designed by John Horton.
[Ref: 21118] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

H.M.S. Barham quitting Constantinople. With Sir Stafford Canning on b.d 12th August 1832.
C.F. Brocktorff del. Malta.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 330 x 350mm, 13 x 13¾". Slight scuffing in margins, very scarce.
HMS Barham leaving Istanbul, lithographed after James Kennett Wilson by Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775-1850), the famous Maltese artist. Barham was launched in 1811 as a 74-gun third rate ship of the line. However, after nearly being wrecked near Bonaire in the Antilles in 1829, it was rescued and restored with only 50 guns. This view is one from a series depicting the voyage between England and Constantinople, starting 1831, which was of particular interest because one of the passengers was Sir Walter Scott: the writer has suffered a series of debilitating strokes and had been advised to seek warmer climes to recuperate. The Barham took Scott to Gibraltar and Malta before leaving him at Naples, from where he returned to Scotland overland to die at home in Abbotsford in 1832. At Constantinople they picked up Canning, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, who spent a decade on other postings before returning to Constantinople in 1842.
[Ref: 26297] £520.00

H.M.S. Barham. Entering the Harbour of Milo 26. Feb.y 1832.
J.K. Willson. C.F. Brocktorff, del. Malta 1833.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 330 x 350mm, 13 x 13¾". Slight scuffing in margins.
HMS Barham entering the harbour of Milos, in the southern Aegean, after James Kennett Wilson by Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775-1850), the famous Maltese artist. Barham was launched in 1811 as a 74-gun third rate ship of the line. However, after nearly being wrecked near Bonaire in the Antilles in 1829, it was rescued and restored with only 50 guns. This view is one from a series depicting the voyage between England and Constantinople, starting 1831, which was of particular interest because one of the passengers was Sir Walter Scott: the writer has suffered a series of debilitating strokes and had been advised to seek warmer climes to recuperate. The Barham took Scott to Gibraltar and Malta before leaving him at Naples, from where he returned to Scotland overland to die at home in Abbotsford in 1832.
[Ref: 26296] £650.00

[Jazzar Pacha] Gezzar Pacha Condemning a Criminal.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & drawn by D.l Orme.
Sold & Published Feb.y 14th. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate.
Ahmad Pasha (c.1725-1804), known as 'al-Jazzar' (the Butcher), Ottoman governor of Sidon from 1776. In 1799, aided by Sir Sidney Smith and the Royal Navy, al-Jazzar defended Acre from the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte. A scene from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria'.
Abbey Scenery 383.
[Ref: 50676] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Jezzar Pacha Condemning a Criminal.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & drawn by D.l Orme. Edw.d Orme Excu.t.
Sold & Published Feb.y 14. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. J. Whatman 1801 watermark; Plate: 300 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A scene showing an Ottoman court in which Jazzar Pasha, who served as Ottoman Governor of Sidon from 1776-1804, condemns the criminal who kneels before him. A scene from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria'.
Abbey Scenery 383.
[Ref: 46228] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Lander. The discoverer of the termination of the Niger, In his African Costume. Respectfully dedicated to the Committee and Subscribers to the Lander Column at Truro.
Painted by W.m Brockedon, F.R.S. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A.
London, Published July 13 1835, by Colnaghi, Son & Co. Printsellers to their Majesties, Pall Mall East.
Proof mezzotint, platemark 355 x 255mm (14 x 10") very large margins. Tears in left margins taped.
A half-length portrait of Richard Lemon Lander (1804-34), famed for finally solving the mystery of where the Niger ended. after the portrait by William Brockedon now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. The print was dedicated to subscribers to the memorial to Lander, proposed the year after he was killed in Africa. Erected on Lemon Street in his hometown of Truro in 1835, it collapsed the following year but its replacement is still standing. For a set of views along the Niger made from sketches by the Landers see ref. 37241.
Whitman 300, state ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv.
[Ref: 65243] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Lander. The discoverer of the termination of the Niger, In his African Costume. Respectfully dedicated to the Committee and Subscribers to the Lander Column at Truro.
Painted by Wm. Brockedon, F.R.S. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A.
London, Published July 13 1835, by Colnaghi, Son & Co. Printsellers to their Majesties, Pall Mall East.
Proof mezzotint, platemark 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
Richard Lemon Lander (1804 - 1834), traveller in Africa. After travels in the West Indies and work as a servant in London, Lander travelled to west Africa with the Scottish explorer Hugh Clapperton in 1825. They crossed the Niger, and after Clapperton's death in Sokoto, Lander returned to England. Dissatisfied with the menial job he had obtained at the customs' house in London, Lander undertook a second expedition to Africa with his brother John, to trace the source and course of the Niger. Sailing to Cape Coast (now in Ghana), they travelled to Bussa and sailed upstream as far as Yelwa. Heading downstream in canoes they were robbed and nearly killed by locals at Kerre, and at Igbo Ora they were imprisoned by the king and only released after payment of a large ranson. Eventually the Landers found that the river flowed into the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlandtic coast, rather than Lake Chad as many had thought. They arrived back in England in 1831 and their journal of the expedition were published the following year. In 1832 Lander led an unsuccessful expedition hoping to use the Niger as a trade route to open trade with the countries of central Africa. He was shot by middlemen who wanted European traders to remain on the coast and died on the island of Fernando Po (Bioko). Fine engraving after the portrait by Brockedon now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. The print was dedicated to subscribers to the memorial erected on Lemon Street in Lander's hometown of Truro, Cornwall in 1835, which collapsed the following year although its replacement is still standing.
Whitman 69, state ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv..
[Ref: 41150] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.]
G. L. Brockhurst. [Signed in pencil.]
1923.
Etching. Working proof impression. Platemark: 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Light foxing.
David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (1871 -1940), styled Lord Balcarres or Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913, was a British Conservative politician and art connoisseur. Apart from his political career Crawford was Chancellor of the University of Manchester between 1922 and 1940 and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He also became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1900 and of the Royal Society in 1924. This portrait is a unique early working proof impression, with pencil annotations by the artist. Brockhurst's notes explain that it is the second state of this private plate.
[Ref: 35407] £320.00

The Pilgrim's Castle.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & drawn by D.l Orme. Edw.d Orme Excud.t. Merke Aquaforte.
Sold & Published June 4. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 300 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A view of Château Pèlerin near Altit in Israel. The castle was built by the Knights Templar during the fifth crusade. A scene from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria'.
Abbey Scenery 383.
[Ref: 46229] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Quarantin Harbour.
Lith. by C. de Brocktorff. Malta.
Lithograph, sheet 95 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). 'Malta 1846' in ms.
Marsamxett Harbour, Malta. In the nineteenth century it was commonly known as Quarantine Harbour, perhaps because of the quarantine hospital which briefly occupied nearby Manoel Island. Lithograph by the German/Danish artist resident in Malta, Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775-1850)
[Ref: 47421] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Stirling from Millhall Siding.
James Crockart. 1910. [Pencil signature:] James Crockart.
Etching with large margins; paper watermarked. Plate 146 x 203mm (5¾ x 8").
A view of Stirling, Scotland, with the towering Castle in the background. James Crockart (1885-1974).
[Ref: 31083] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Her Majesty The Queen Dowager Adelaide. Entering Malta Harbour on Board H.M.S. Hastings 30th Nov.ber 1838.
Drawn and Lith.d by C. von Brocktorff. Malta.
[n.d., c.1838.]
Very scarce hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 365 x 520mm (14¼ x 20½"). Central vertical crease. Taped to mount.
A scene at Valletta Harbour, Malta, depicting Queen Adelaide on board H.M.S Hastings, greeted by crowds of joyful supporters both in boats and on the waters edge. The fortifications of the city can bee seen in the background. A year after her husband William III's death, Queen Adelaide cruised the Mediterranean and visited Malta, where she was received enthusiastically. Apparently there was no Anglican church at Malta, and she was ultimately responsible for founding and endowing the Anglican Cathedral of St Paul at Valetta, Malta (she laid the foundation stone in 1839).
[Ref: 38030] £620.00

Zeta near Jaffa in Syria.
Sketched on the Spot by F.B. Spilsbury & drawn by D.l Orme. Edw.d Orme Excud.t. I.C. Stadler Aquaforte.
Sold & Published March 25. 1803, by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to His Majesty & the Royal Family, 59, New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. J. Whatman 1801 watermark; Plate: 300 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A scene near a well in Syria, a man draws water from the well while one woman carries a jug on her head, another woman kneels with a child clinging to her. In the distance is a camp with camels and figure sitting beneath a tree. A scene from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria'.
Abbey Scenery 383.
[Ref: 46231] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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