Grosvenor Prints

Edwd. Wortley Montagu Esq. in his Turkish Dress.
Romney pinxt. Conde sculpt.
Published by J. Sewell, 32 Cornhill, 1 April 1793.
Engraving, 145 x 100mm. 5¾ x 4". Large margins.
Bust portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu (1713 - 1776), writer and traveller; son of traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. He wears a turban and long beard. Edward Wortley Montagu was a traveller, linguist and eccentric. He was much influenced by his childhood visit to Constantinople with his parents between 1716-18. Using his inheritance as security against his creditors he left England permanently in 1762 and travelled in the Middle East as an enthusiastic archaeologist for a little over a decade. In 1773, Edward settled in Venice and lived, according to one of his contemporaries, with 'the manners, habit and magnificence of a Turk.' For the 'European Magazine' periodical.
[Ref: 22345] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Edw.d Wortley Montagu Esq. in his Turkish Dress. European Magazine.
Romney pinx.t Conde Sculp.t
Published by J. Sewell, 32 Cornhill, 1 April 1793.
Engraving with large margins. Plate 152 x 102mm. 6 x 4".
Bust portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu (1713 - 1776), writer and traveller; son of traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. He wears a turban and long beard. Edward Wortley Montagu was a traveller, linguist and eccentric. He was much influenced by his childhood visit to Constantinople with his parents between 1716-18. Using his inheritance as security against his creditors he left England permanently in 1762 and travelled in the Middle East as an enthusiastic archaeologist for a little over a decade. In 1773, Edward settled in Venice and lived, according to one of his contemporaries, with 'the manners, habit and magnificence of a Turk.'
[Ref: 26441] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Mary Wortley Montague. From an enamel Miniature by zink in the possession of Charles Colville Esqr.
A.Deveria del. Lith de Villain.
[n.d., c.1800.] London published by Bull & Churton, 26, Holles St Cavendish Square.
Lithograph, in pencil verso "Exhibited at Popes Twickenham Lot 264 Aug 1888". Sheet 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Crease in lower left corner. Bit messy.
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
[Ref: 65874] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Garden at Wotton Rectory near Dorking, Surrey belonging to the Hon. and Rev. J. Evelyn Boscawen [***] to the celebrated John Evelyn.
C.B. 1841.
Scarce lithograph, titled in old ink mss. Sheet 325 x 450mm (12¾ x 17¾"). A small tear and toning on bottom edge.
An amateur lithograph of an ornamental garden.
[Ref: 51672] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The True Effigies of S.r Henry Wotton K.t Embassadour in Ordinary to the Most Serene Republique of Venice, And Late Provost of Eaton Colledge. Anno Aetatus Suae 72.
[n.d., 1657.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Trimmed, paper toned, mounted in album paper at edges.
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) was a diplomat and author, ambassador to Venice for nearly twenty years. From 1624 he was Provost of Eton and followed a literary career, writing the lives of his friends John Donne and Izaak Walton. The frontispiece to his 'The State of Christendom'.
[Ref: 62076] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Henry Wotton.]
[After Pierre Lombart.] W.Dolle f.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 135 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Small margins.
Portrait of Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639), English author, diplomat, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg in 1604, he famously said "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country".
[Ref: 67022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Would-be Cromwell Tooke Horne Mad Attempting to Disperse the Short Parliament. Dec.r 1790.
Pub. Dec.r 18 1790 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Picadilly.
Etching. Sheet: 380 x 240mm (15 x 9½"). Stain in centre. Trimmed and torn in right edge. Manuscript sceptre and book added. Slight central crease.
A scene in the House of Commons in which John Horne Tooke rises through the floor setting off an explosion, Horne Took having been defeated in the election of 1790 petitioned government against the return of Charles James Fox against whom he had stood for the Westminster seat. When the petition was presented to Parliament it was denounced as libellous.
BM Satire 7691A.
[Ref: 44867] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Wounded Bittern. From the Original Picture in the Painter's Possession.
Drawn by Stephen Taylor. Drawn on Stone by T. Fairland. Printed by Lefevre & Kohler.
London, Published November 1st 1834 by J. Mc.Cormick, 147, Strand.
A rare lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 330 x 365mm. 13 x 14½". Lower left corner chipped; small closed tears to upper edge. Sheet trimmed to india.
A cocker spaniel emerging from water to attack a wounded bittern among the reads. Bitterns are in the heron family of wading birds, and are now fairly scarce around Britain's waterways, but were hunted extensively in the 19th century.
[Ref: 19420] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Le Boxeur Blessé et ses Parieurs Consternés. Scènes Anglaises dessinées à Londres, par un français prisonnier de Guerre.
A Paris chez Demaison Rue St. Jacques N.o 43 [n.d., c.1820].
Rare coloured etching. 260 x 330mm (10¼ x 13") very large margins.
The aftermath of a casual street-contest, recorded by a French prisoner of war. A lean pugilist, stripped to the waist, sits on the knee of a supporter as a fat publican pours the contents of a tankard into his mouth, trying to revive him. The punters stand around grim-faced at the loss of their bets. First published in 1814 by Aaron Martinet (BM Satires 12352).
[Ref: 60500] £650.00

Wounded Buffalo Bull. No.16.
Catlin del._on Stone by Mc.Gahey. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
(From Catlins N.A. Indian Collection.) [London: Geo. Catlin, 1844.]
Tinted lithograph. 411 x 565mm (16¼ x 22¼"). Tear to lower edge.
Buffalo wounded by a spear or arrow in the snow. "The reader has here, a striking illustration of the deadly effects of the Indian's arrow, and also as an emphatic representation of one of the largest specimens of the buffalo bull, shot through the heart, at his last halt; his legs bending under his great weight, and his huge carcass ready to tumble down from loss of blood, which is pouring from his nostrils and mouth, as well as from the wounds in his side. Not only shot, but pinioned, by the arrows of the hunter, (who has already counted him amongst his victims and passed on to claim others of the throng,) the bull is thus left to struggle with death; and in that struggle, hobbles and reels along but a brief distance, wheezing and sighing through streams of frothy blood until he sinks upon his haunches, where he invariably rests for a few moments, bracing up with his fore legs, the noblest object of pity, until his last deep-drawn breath is gushed out, when he falls and rolls in death, without a kick or struggle." An exhibition of Catlin's 'American Indian Portraits' is currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery. George Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvanian-born artist who made five trips to the western United States to document the Native American peoples and their way of life. From Catlin's "North American Indian Portfolio".
Abbey Travel: 653.16.
[Ref: 29517] £620.00

[The Wounded Soldier.]
Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
Published at 8, Clare Street, Bristol, by Frost & Reed Ltd, Print Sellers of Bristol and London, May 19th 1915 Copyright. Copyright 1915 by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol, England,) in the United States vof America.
Fine & scarce etching, proof on vellum, signed by the artist in pencil. 500 x 615mm (19¾ 24¼"), very large margins. Mint.
A trained service dog finds a wounded soldier lying in a field.
Provenance: From the Descendants of Herbert Dicksee.
[Ref: 63080] £850.00

Alte de Cavalerie Ce Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens est de la meme grandeur 6
Wouvermens Pinxit. Beaumont sculp
AParis chez Beaumont, Graveur Ord.re de la Ville, rue St. Jacque, dans la porte Cochere vis-à-vis la rue de la Parcheminerie [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 345 x 455mm (13½ x 18"). Very large margins.
Military encampment with farrier mending horseshoes. One of several good-quality engravings made in the early 18th century after Philips Wouwermans (1619-68), Dutch painter specialising in horses, who was well represented in important collections during this period. He painted many battle scenes, army camps and stables and is well represented in the collection of London's National Gallery.
[Ref: 38602] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Manege Dedié à Messire Marc-René de Voyer Marquis d'Argenson, Maréchal de Camp [...]
Ph. Wouvermens Pinxit. T. Major sculp
A Londres chez l'Auteur Graveur de S.A.R. Frederic Prince de Galles, à la Tete d'or dans West-Street [c.1758]
Engraving, platemark 590 x 470mm (23¼ x 18½"). Folded as issued. Very large margins.
'The riding school': gathering around a post for training horses, with children playing. One of several good-quality engravings made in the early 18th century after Philips Wouvwerman (1619-68), Dutch painter specialising in horses, who was well represented in important collections during this period. Engraved by the English engraver Thomas Major, who had lived and worked in Paris during the 1740s. While published in London, this print was clearly intended to appeal to the French market.
[Ref: 38599] £380.00

La Fontaine De Venus. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens de 20 puces de large, Sur 15 puces de haut, Qui est au Cabinet de Monsieur L Marquis Se Voyer D'Argenson, Marechal des Camps et Armees du Roy, Lieutenant General de la Haute et BAsse Alsace, Inspecteur General de la Cavalaire.
P.pe Wouvermens. Pinxit. J Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris ches Moyreau Graveur du Roy, rue de Petit Pont S.t Severin a l'Image Notre-Dame. Avec Privilege du Roy 1750.
Fine etching with engraving, 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
Group of falconers on horseback rest and drink from an ornate fountain representing Venus on a chariot drawn by two dolphins, both supporting a cupid blowing a conch.
[Ref: 63829] £360.00

Le Boufon Des Chasseurs. Grave d'apres le Tableau de P.pe Wouvermens qui a deux pieds de large sur dix huit puces de haut. Qui est au Cabinet de Monsieur D'Ormesson Du Cheray Conseiller Honaraire Au Parlement.
P. Wouvermens. Pinx. J Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris ches Moyreau Graveur du Roy, rue S.t Jacques a la Vieille Poste vis-a-vis la rue du Platre. Avec Privilege du Roy 1746.
Fine etching with engraving, 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
Group of hunters on horseback, waiting near a grand house located on the left, and about to go hawking; among them is a buffoon sticking out his tongue at a man carrying an owl on his arm.
[Ref: 63830] £320.00

Dedie A Monseigner Le Duc Chartres Prince Du Sang Le Present Du Chasseur. D'apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens de 2 pieds de large, sur 18 pouces dehaut, qui est au Cabinet de Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans.
Ph. Wouvermens. Pinx. Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur J. Moyreau Graveur du Roy.
A Paris chez Moyreau, rue Gallande vis avis la Chapelle de Saint Blaise.Avec Privilage du Roy. 1738.
Fine etching with engraving, 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
Group of hunters on horseback gathered outside a house. The house is decorated with a statue of Diana placed on a high pillar and covered in vines. One woman holds a sparrow hawk.
[Ref: 63831] £320.00

Petite Chasse A L'Oyseau. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens de deux pieds Sept pouces de large, fur vingt pouces de haut. qui est au Cabinet de Monseigneur Le Chevalier D'Orleans.
P.pe Wouvermens. Pinx. J. Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris chez Moyreau, rue Gallande, vis-avis la Chapelle Saint Blaise. Avec Privilage du Roy. 1739.
Fine etching with engraving, 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
Landscape with hunters on horseback approaching a river one carries a hawk. Some hunters are already resting on the bank.
[Ref: 63832] £320.00

[Dutch landscape] Engraved from the Original Picture.
Ph. Wouvermans Pinxit. Aliamet Sculpsit.
Published Oct.r 2.d 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving with sepia wash. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11"), on wove paper. Glue stains in very large margins at corners.
A river with a half-dead tree on the bank.
[Ref: 55617] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Retour De Chasse Et Curee, Le Tableau Original de P. Wouvermens qui est au Cabinet de Monseigner Le Duc D'Orleans a 2.pieds de large sur 18. pouces de haut.
P. Wouvermens. Pinx. J. Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris chez Moyreau, rue Galand vis a vis la Chapelle de S. Blaise Avec Privilage du Roy. [n.d. c.1733]
Etching with engraving, sheet 340 x 445mm (13¼ x 17½") Trimmed to plate and glued to wove backing paper with additional margin added at top. Brown stain going into publication line.
Hunters return to a grand house after the hunt; one has a small hawk on his arm. On the right a man starts butchering the game.
[Ref: 63834] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

L'Academie Du Manege. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens de deux pieds six pouces de large sur deux de hauteur; Qui est au Cabinet de Monseigner Le Prince D'Isenghien Marechal De France.
P.pe Wouvermens. Pinx. J. Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris chez Moyreau, Graveur du Roi, rue S.t Jacque, a la Vieille poste, vis-a-vis la rue du Platre. Avec Privilage du Roy. 1742.
Fine etching with engraving, 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"), with very large margins on three sides. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins. Small bottom margin. Top margin trimmed and repaired with wove paper.
A riding school in a field near a village, with several riders training; one has a hawk on his arm.
[Ref: 63833] £360.00

La Defaite Des Sarazins. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens, de dix sept pouces six lignes de large sur treize pouces de hauter. Qui est au Cabinet de Monsieur Crosat De Tugny President Au Parlement 1745.
P. Wouvermens Pinxit. J. Moyreau Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Moyreau graveur du Roy rue S.t Jacques a la Vieille Poste vis-a vis la rue de Platre. Avec Privilege du Roi..
Etching with engraving, 460 x 660mm (18 x 26"), with very large margins. Paper toned. Some foxing, mostly localised to the margins. Extra margin added at top.
The Saracens defeated: a chaotic battle scene featuring cavalrymen and guns.
[Ref: 63850] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Mort Du Cerf. The Death Of The Stag. To Philip Earl of Chesterfield, this Print Ingrav'd after a Capital Picture of P. Wouvermans, is humbly Dedicated to his Lordship, by his most Obedient and Dutiful Servant Tho.s Major. [2 feet 8 in: Wide, 1 foot 9½ in: High. In the Collection of Mons.r Aved.]
P. Wouvermens pinxit. A. Lawrence fe. aqua forti. Tho.s Major Sculpsit.
London sold by T. Major Engraver to H.R.H the Price of Wales at the Golden Head in Chandois Street the Lower end of S.t Matins Lane. [Publish's accord.g to Act of Parliament Feb.y y.e 10. 1753]
Etching with engraving, sheet 495 x 660mm (19½ x 26") Trimmed to plate and glued to 18th century backing sheet on one side. Folded. Small crease at top. Small blue stain on dog bottom left.
Hunting party in a landscape, with at centre a man holding a flaying knife standing over a dead stag. Figures on horseback around him, one of whom, a man, is seen blowing his horn, another a lady with a small hawk.
[Ref: 63839] £360.00

La Fontaine Du Dauphin. Grave d'apres le Tableau de P.pe Wouvermens, de Quinze puce de largeur, Sur Quinze pouce de haui. Qui est au Cabinet de Monsieur Peilhon Secretaire du Roy.
P. Wouvermens. Pinxit. J. Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris ches Moyreau Graveur du Roy, rue des Mathurins la 4.e. Porte Cochere a gauche, en entrant par la rue de la Harpe. 1753 Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching with engraving, 460 x 660mm (18 x 26"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
A rural scene featuring two riders resting next to a fountain decorated with a putto riding a dolphin and blowing a conch. A page prepares a drink while a female rider with a hawk on her arm watches on.
[Ref: 63843] £380.00

Grande Chasse A Loiseau, Dedie A Madame La Comtesse De Verrue Veuve De Monsieur Le Comte De Verrue, Marechal des Camps et Armee du Roy Commissaire General de la Cavallerie de France. Le Tableau original de P.Wouvermans qui est au Cabinet de Madame la Comtesse de Verrue, a trois pieds six pouces de large de large sur deux pieds quatre pouces de haut.
P. Wouvermens. Pinxit. J. Moyreau Sculpsit.
a Paris chez Moyreau rue Galande vis a vis la Chapelle de S. Blaise. Par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur J. Moyreau 1733.
Fine etching with engraving, 460 x 660mm (18 x 26"), with very large margins. Folded. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
A very large hawking scene in a rural landscape.
[Ref: 63835] £480.00

Depart pour la chasse au vol. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de P. Wouvermens qui est au Cabinet de Monsieur Crosat. de 2 pieds 6. pouces de larges, sur 14. pouces 6. lignes de haut.
P. Wouvermens. Pinx. J Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris chez Moyreau rue Gallande vis avis la Chapelle de S.t Blaise. Avec Privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1733]
Etching with engraving, 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"), with very large margins.
Horsemen and their dogs leave a villa to go hawking.
[Ref: 63828] £320.00

La Grote De L'Abreuvoir, Dedie a Monsieur Crosat Baron de Thiers. le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens qui est dans son Cabinet, a 2. pieds de hauteur sur 19. pouces de largeur. Par son tres humble et Obeissant Serviteur, J. Moyreau, Graveur du Roi.
P. Wouvermens. Pinxit. J. Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris ches Moyreau rue des Mathurins. 1756 Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching with engraving, 460 x 660mm (18 x 26"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
A landscape featuring ruins on the right and a river where men are fishing and bathing on the left, with a hunter on a horse and carrying a hawk on his arm in the middle.
[Ref: 63842] £360.00

Les Nageurs. Dédié a Messire Françoi de Baussan, Chevalier Seig.r de Blanville, Richgroux, et autr.s Lieux Conseiller du Roi en ses Conseils; M.e des Requetes ord.re deson Hotel Intendant de Justice, Police et Finances, de la Generalite d'Orleans. Grave d'Apres le Tableau Original de dix huit pounces de large sur quatorze de haut. Qui est au Cabinet de M.r Barez.
P. Wouvermens pinx. Beaumont Sculp.
A Paris, chez Basan. [n.d. c.1754]
Etching with engraving. 345 x 450mm (13½ x 17¾"), with very large margins Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
An early swimming image. Riders watering their horses under a rickety footbridge, with swimmers and washerwomen. Engraved by Pierre François Beaumont and originally published by him in 1738 as part of a set of four scenes after after Philips Wouverman. This was published by Francois Basan circa 1754.
See ref: 55417 for a later version.
[Ref: 63844] £360.00

L'Hyver. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens, de dix huit pouces de large, sur treize pouces de haut, qui est a M.r Gersant.
P. Wouvermens. Pinxit. J. Moyreau Sculp.
A Paris chez Moyreau, Graveur du Roi, Rue Gallande, vis-a vis Saint Blaise. 1739 Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching with engraving, 460 x 660mm (18 x 26"), with very large margins. Some light foxing, mostly localised to the margins.
A Winter scene; on the right men are felling trees and cutting wood, while people and children are skating and playing golf. An early and mint image of early golf.
[Ref: 63848] £490.00

[Cecil Wray] The Westminster Mendicant. Ye Christians, Charitable, good and Civil / Pray something give to this poor wandering Devil / By Men cast out, perhaps, by God forgiven, / Then may one Judas find a road to Heaven.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Publ.d 11 [May] 1784 by H. Humphrey No 225 Strand.
Etching. 125 x 155mm (5 x 6").
Sir Cecil Wray (1734-1805), a landowner known for being parsimonious, satirised as a blind beggar in Covent Garden, with a dog identified as John Churchill, the Chairman of his Election Committee. Wray contested the Westminster Election of 1784, in which he tried to oust Charles James Fox: At the close of the poll on 5 May a wag hoisted a poor box, upon a staff bearing this inscription; 'Pray remember Sir Cecil Wray's SCRUTINY'.
BM: 6578.
[Ref: 45049] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cecil Wray] Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil Chastised.
Annibal Scratch Fecit [Samuel Collings?].
Published April 2nd 1784 by Willm Wells N" 132 Fleet Street.
Rare etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Folds.
Sir Cecil Wray (1734-1805) stands being berated by a Chelsea Pensioner and a maid-servant. Wray contested the Westminster Election of 1784: his platform included proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and to tax maid-servants.
BM: 6491.
[Ref: 64177] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene of the Wreck of the "Royal Charter". on the Coast of Anglesey near Moelfra, on the Morning of the 26th. Oct 1859, when 500 persons perished.
[n.d. c.1859.]
Very rare Lithograph. 331 x 375mm. 13 x 14¾". Cut.
The Royal Charter Storm of 1859 was considered to be the most severe storms to hit the British Isles in the 19th century, and it took its name from this steam clipper, the Royal Charter. She was returning to Liverpool from Melbourne when the storm reached hurricane force 12, forcing the crew to anchor twice, after the first one snapped, and to cut the masts, but despite all their efforts, the wind pushed her onto a sandbank, but in the morning of the 26th the rising tide drove her on to the rocks at a point just north of Moelfre on the north coast of Anglesey, where she was whipped by winds of over 100mph.
[Ref: 18304] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Graf von Wrede. Königlich Bayrischer General der Cavallerie.
Wein, bey Artaria und Comp. [n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple. Plate: 255 x 210mm (10 x 8¼'') very large margins. Mint. Uncut.
A portrait of Bavarian field marshal Karl Philipp von Wrede (1767-1838), he was an ally of Napoleon until the Treaty of Ried where he switched sides and supported the allied forces.
[Ref: 49465] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Synopsis Ædificiorum Publicorum Di Christophori Wren Equitis Aur. Archtecti Regii.~ A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London Royal Palaces, hospitals, and Publick Edifices; Built by Sr. Christopher Wren Kt. Surveyor General of the Royal-Works du
H. Hussbergh Sculp.
Printed for Sam. Harding in St. Martin's Lane, Dan Brown near Temple Bar. & Wm. Bathoe in Church Lane near St. Martin's Church in the Strand.
Engraving. 440 x 435mm (17¼ x 11½"). Trimmed. Horizontal fold across the middle. Bottom edge curling over, slight loss in centre publication line. Hole between the C and the I in Christophori at the top and another slight hole. Some surface dirt.
[Ref: 52820] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Christopher Wren. Hugh Howard Esquire.
After Sir Godfrey Kneller pinxit. A. Bannerman sculp.
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Toning along left and upper edges.
Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was a highly acclaimed architect, responsible for reparing many churches across London after the Great Fire of London, including St. Paul's. He was also an anatomist, astronomer and geometer.
[Ref: 53732] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Wren
G. Kneller Pinx [...] T. Holloway Sculpt
Published as the act directs by T.H. Holloway & the other Proprietors April 25th 1798
Line engraving, platemark 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"), with very large margins. Repaired tear along platemark on left.
Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), architect, mathematician and astronomer best-known as the architect of St Paul's cathedral and the City churches built following the Great Fire of London. Wren was a man of many interests rather than one specialism, who fostered talent wherever he found it (Hawksmoor is the classic example), but left no school of followers. Engraving after a detail of the 1711 portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller (London, National Portrait Gallery), cropped to exclude the plan of St. Paul's Cathedral on which Wren's hand rests in Kneller's portrait. The print was published as a plate to J.C. Lavater's 'Essays on Physiognomy'.
O'D 3
[Ref: 47667] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London; Royal Palaces; Hospitals; and Publick Edifices; Built by S.r Christopher Wren K.t Surveyor General of the Royal Works, during Fifty Years: Viz.t from 1668, to 1718. A List Of the exect Sums of Money laid out for Rebuilding each Church, with References to their Names & Numbers in the Rounds.
H. Hulsbergh Sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 425 x 280mm (16¾ x 11"). Trimmed into image, loss as central fold. Repairs, messy.
A pyramid with roundels listing Wren's works, cross-referenced to tromp-l'oeil scrolls listing the cost (if known). It was the first plate (of 15) in a book with the same title.
See RA Collection 03/2812 for the complete book.
[Ref: 59823] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Wren, D.D. Dean of Windsor.
G. Vander Gucht Sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼").
Christopher Wren (1589 - 1658), Dean of Windsor; oval portrait, arms below. He wears a skull-cap and robes of the Garter; Latin motto 'Virtuti Fortuna Comes' to pedestal. By Gerard Van der Gucht (1695 or 1696 - 1776), for 'Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens; viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, etc., but chiefly of Sir C. Wren..' by Christopher Wren, son of architect Sir Christopher Wren.
[Ref: 15261] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chr. Wren [facsimile signature]. Proof.
Engraved by Edw.d Scriven, Historical Engraver to His Majesty [after John Closterman). Printed by McQueen & Co.
London; Published by Priestley & Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury, 1823.
Proof stipple and engraving. Sheet 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper at edges.
A half-length portrait of Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723), his St Paul's Cathedral behind, after the oil by Closterman now in the Royal Society. The frontispiece to James Elmes's ''Memoirs of the life and works of Sir Christopher Wren''.
[Ref: 59414] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sr Benjamin Wrench Kt. M.D. Aged 82 Ao 1747, Having practisd Physick in the City of Norwich Sixty Years.
[Anon., c.1750.]
Mezzotint, 250 x 180mm. 9¾ x 7". Horizontal creasing. Lower left margin corner missing.
Sir Benjamin Wrench (1665/66 - 1747), physician in Norwich; his daughter married Harbord Harbord, MP for Norfolk. A very scarce portrait.
[Ref: 12443] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Wrestler & Automaton. Tom Tom Player.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1812.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Rare automaton image. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 53251] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Wrestlers] Letteurs Suisses.
D'apres le modèle d'Abart. Grave par F. Hegi.
à Basle dhez Birman & Fils [n.d., c.1830].
Aquatint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, creasing at top.
A pair of wrestlers grabbing each other's pants. The wrestlers are drawn from a sculpture by South Tyrolean Franz Abart (1769-1863).
[Ref: 61399] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Boxing] Page 21.
A. Walker del. et sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving and etching. 159 x 101mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed.
Village scene, with two semi nude men wrestling in the midst of a crowd who gathered in a circle, two musicians up on a tree to the left; illustration to 'Hobbinol'.
[Ref: 34758] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Wrestlers at Yokuhama.
from Nature by Peters. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[n.d. c.1854.]
Tinted lithograph. 217 x 292mm. 8½ x 11½".
On 8th March 1854, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) returned to continue the Opening of Japan to the west, which concluded with the Convention of Kanagawa on 31 March, 1854. This being his second visit saw the opening of Shimoda and Hakodate to foreign vessels. Perry’s landing in Yokohama on March 8 inspired a crowded scene of troops on parade before a horizon prickled with the masts of the black ships, as well as a solemn rendering of the commodore greeting the Japanese commissioners. Formal occasions-the presentation of American gifts, a banquet on Perry’s flagship, and a performance of sumo wrestling-were duly recorded.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18459] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Histoire Du Bonhomme Misere. [The Story of the Wretched Man.] Avec Six Eaux = Fortes Par A. Legros.
Londres: R. Geraut, Editeur. 1877.
Book, folio (430 x 305mm, 17 x 12"), two titlepages, three leaves of introductory text and six mounted etchings, each plate preceded by a leaf with title and quotation, plus 15 pp. Number 25 of 60 signed artist's presentation copies on Whatman paper. Original vellum covered boards, letterpress title in black and red to cover; in original presentation portfolio with cloth spine and paper covered boards, printed with woodcut vignette title. Portfolio rubbed, scuffed and soiled; wear to top and bottom of spine. Staining and soiling to vellum cover; interior and plates generally good.
The atmospheric, sombre and, in one case, macabre plates are based upon an old French fable. Scenes include old men begging outside a church; a frugal candle-lit supper; and 'La Mort dans la Poirer': Death (a skeleton) calling the peasant from the pear tree. Ink annotation to front endpaper to a subscriber (Warwick?), signed by Legros and publisher Gueraut, dated 1879. Alphonse Legros (1837 - 1911) was an etcher, lithographer and painter of landscape, genre and historical subjects and medallist. Born in Dijon, France, in 1851 he moved to Paris, where he worked as scene-painter, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and exhibited at the Salon. Legros moved to London in 1863 with the advice of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and a few years later was appointed teacher of etching at the South Kensington School of Art. In 1876 he became Slade Professor at University College London, succeeding Sir Edward John Poynter; he was a founder member of the Royal Society of Painter Etcher and Engravers.
National Art Library General Collection: 67.E.27.
[Ref: 13255] £650.00 view all images for this item

The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Lithograph. 151 x 115mm. 6 x 4½". Very cut down.
A group of slaves sit around eating and dancing.
[Ref: 15476] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The North-East View of Wrexham Church, in the County of Denbigh. To the Hon:ble Sr. Watkin Williams Wynn Bar:t This Plate is with all possible respect, humbly Dedicated by his most Obedient Servant. John Boydell. [77 in ink]
J. Boydell Delin & Sculp. 1748.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament & Sold by J. Boydell, at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand. & by Tho.s Payne Bookseller at Wrexham. Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 420 x 520mm (16½ x 20½") Centre fold, slight staining.
A view of St Giles' Church, Wrexham, Wales, with several figures in foreground. Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University, is buried in the churchyard. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
[Ref: 29403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Wright Parker, Church Steeple and Mill Chimney Repairer in all their Branches. Chimneys Straightened and Pointed with Mastic. Manufacturer & Erector of Copper-Rope & Tape Lightning Conductors. Regent Street, Oldham.
[Anon, n.d., c.1862.]
Rare Steeplejack's illustrated promotional brochure/leaflet, letterpress with woodcut vignettes, single sheet folded; small 4to (250 x 185mm, 9¾ x 7¼"). Stamped and addressed in ink to 'Mr Alfred Towgood Helpstone Northamptonshire'. Vertical and horizontal folds; chipped, no text missing.
Impressive graphic advertisement showing the extensive range of services offered by a Lancashire-based steeplejack, with testimonials from West Middlesex Waterworks Company.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16806] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Advertising Directory] Wright's Hotel and Ship Inn, Dovor, Adjoining the Custom House, and immediately opposite the Alien-Office.
[n.d., c.1832.]
1 sheet folded to make 4pp. of adverts, each page 280 x 230mm, 11½ x 9", with wood engraving on front. Some slight creasing.
The Ship Hotel, Dover, known as 'Wright's Hotel and Ship Inn' between 1805 to 1833.
[Ref: 11093] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Etched Work of F.L. Griggs R.A., R.E., F.S.A.
by Harold J.L. Wright with a Catalogue by Campbell Dodgson C.B.E., Hon. R.E.
Publication Number Twenty. The Print Collectors' Club 26 Conduit Street, London, W.I. MCMXLI [1941].
Book: 8vo (242 x 183mm). pp. 80, including 16 b/w illustrations. Limited edition 10/400. Cloth binding with Print Collectors' Club emblem stamped on front binding in gilt, and title along spine. Binding worn and scuffed. Some light spotting in first few title pages.
Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, RA, RE (30 October 1876 - 7 June 1938) was a distinguished English etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator, and early conservationist, associated with the late flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds. He was one of the first etchers to be elected to full membership of the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 10331] £120.00

Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool.
Elizabeth E. Barker and Alex Kidson, with contributions by Martin Hopkinson, Jane Longmore and Sarah Parsons.
Published by Yale University Press, 2007.
Book: 4to with dark blue cloth covers, colour illustrated dustjacket. profusely illustrated, pp.216.
Catalogue for a Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition held in Liverpool and the Yale Centre for British Art, including Martin Hopkinson's essay 'Printmaking and Print Collectors in the North West, 1760-1800'.
Ex Collection of Judy Egerton, author and former curator at the Tate Britain.
[Ref: 27333] £45.00

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