Grosvenor Prints

[Unused Commonplace book/diary, published with 16 engravings by Richard Westall.] Nature.
[Plates drawn by Richard Westall, most engraved by John Pye.
[Published by John Sparpe, Duke Street Piccadilly 1823-4.]
4to, original black blind-decorated morocco, black calf gilt title label on spine, all edges gilt, with original lock lacking key; lacking front endpaper; 16 engravings with tissue guards, interspersed with 4 blank pages, fine binding. Some spotting to plates.
A book published as a yearly scrapbook or diary, with a plate for each month and each season, drawn by Richard Westall and engraved with a short text. Both boards are illustrated with allegorical figures of the Arts.
[Ref: 18191] £290.00 view all images for this item

[Agriculture.]
B. West R.A. Historical Painter to his Majesty pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Historical Engraver to his Majesty sculp.t.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Printed area (at most) 515 x 640mm (20¼ x 25¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame, probably trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
An idyllic harvest scene, with figures cutting corn with sickles, binding sheaths, gathering grapes and plouching with oxen. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 1331.
[Ref: 50428] £1,200.00

Agrippina, surrounded by her Children, weeping over the Ashes of Germannicus.
B. West R.A. pinxit, 1773, London. V. Green, Engraver in Mezzotinto to his Majesty Fecit. From the Original Picture in the Possession of A. Vesey.
Publish'd by J. Boydell, Cheapside July 23. 1774.
Mezzotint, very rare open letter title, 610 x 430mm. 24 x 17". Margin with tears, one just into plate at right.
The widow Agrippina, seated, mourns with her head resting against an urn inscribed with her husband Germanicus’s name, comforted by one of her daughters, who touches her neck. A naked boy stands at her feet, leaning back with his hand on his brother's head; behind two young women stand, their arms around each other. A young man beside them buries his head in his hands, another son at the left bows his head; a crown, laurels and a statue of an eagle in the right foreground. In 5 AD Agrippina married Germanicus, her second cousin and step-grandson of the Emperor Augustus. Agrippina had nine children by Germanicus, including the future emperor Gaius (Caligula). Agrippina was very popular among the Roman people, not least because of her marriage to the much-loved Germanicus, whose ashes she brought back to Rome after his death in the east in AD 21. Her strength and popularity aroused the suspicions of the emperor Tiberius and his right-hand man Sejanus, head of the Praetorian guards and she and her eldest son were banished to the Pontian islands on the Bay of Naples in AD 29. Four years later, following a beating so severe that she was blinded in one eye, Agrippina starved herself to death. Her popularity, however, ensured a decent burial, and she was laid to rest at Rome in the Mausoleum of Augustus.
After Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Whitman: 180, II of II. Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14844] £360.00

Alexander and Philip His Physician. From the Original Picture Painted by Mr Benjamin West; In the Collection of G.Stibbert Esq.r.
B.West pinxit. Val: Green fecit.
Published Jan.y 1st 1772 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Scarce mezzotint, 440 x 525mm (17¼ x 20¾"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Nicks and repaired tears on large margins.
Medical interest. Alexander the Great in his tent, nursing his head.
Ex Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd Whitman: 171
[Ref: 60336] £490.00

Alexander III. King of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald, the Ancestor of the Present Mackenzie Family.
B. West pinx. F. Bartolozzi, sculp 1788.
Stipple, printed in sepia, faint watermark. 565 x 715mm (21¾ x 28¼") with very wide margins. Damage to margins, margin rebuilt in the top left corner.
Colin Fitzgerald pulls the antler of a stag and raises his spear to kill it. Other huntsmen rush to the aid of the fallen king. Alexander (1241-86) may have survived this episode, but he died aged 44 falling from a horse. His heir was his granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway, but she died before she could be crowned, leaving the throne of Scotland to John Balliol.
[Ref: 52663] £390.00

L'Allegro To bed they creep [ms]
C.W.C. / 1848
[Published for the Etching Club by Joseph Cundall, 12, Old Bond Street, 1849]
Etching on india, sheet 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Trimmed
Scene illustrating John Milton's poem 'L'Allegro', by history painter Charles West Cope (1811-90). From an edition of the poem with twenty illustrations by members of the Etching Club, of which Cope was a founding member. Cope is primarily remembered for his frescoes in the House of Lords and the peers' corridor, but in addition to his academic renderings of historical and literary subjects, he was a talented printmaker.
[Ref: 35888] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollo calling up the Fine Arts and Sciences.]
B. West inv.t Historical Painter to his Majesty, R.A. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t Historical Engraver to his Majesty.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Sheet 530 x 660mm (21 x 26"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Apollo alighting, torch in hand and wings spread, gesturing towards allegorical figures of the arts and sciences. Half-hidden is a bas-relief of George III. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor,which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 557.
[Ref: 50427] £2,000.00

[Annonce de T. Sandby.]
B. West R.A. inv. 1791. F. Bartolozzi R.A. etched.
London Publish'd May 1791. by Mr. Sandby Jun.r St. Georges Row.
Etching and engraving, very scarce and fine. Plate 241 x 165mm. 9½ x 6". Crease to bottom right-hand corner, small margins, overall foxing.
Trade card for Thomas Sandby, depicting the daughter of Dibutades embracing her lover and outlining his shadow on the wall, while he holds a lamp on the left. Thomas Sandby (1721-1798) was a self-taught draftsman who, with his brother Paul took up positions in the military drawing department at the Tower of London. Thomas was sent first to the Battle of Dettingen and then to Culloden as draughtsman to the Duke of Cumberland. In 1747, under the Duke, he was appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park to which he devoted considerable energy in improvements. He was also involved in the London art world and with his brother he was one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He was elected their first professor of architecture and later architect of the King's works. In reality, he built few buildings and was more respected for his architectural theory.
De Vesme: 1892; ii/iii.
[Ref: 20501] £450.00

The Heavens. By Robert Mudie. [with two vignettes] The Seasons. Polar Sky.
Baxter's Patent Oil Colour Printing, 3 Charter-house Square. From a painting by W. Westall, A.R.A.
London: Thomas Ward & Co., Paternoster Row. MDCCCXXXV [1835].
Fine Baxter-printed titlepage and frontispiece. Sheet 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼"). A little faint staining.
The two illustrations are of the Aurora Borealis, with two polar bears and a comet, and the sun with three Earths orbiting.
[Ref: 57024] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Baptism.
R. Westall R.A. Delt. R.M. Meadows Sculpt.
Pub.d by R. Boywer Historic Gallery Pall Mall, Sept.r 1. 1806.
Stipple. 630 x 480mm, 24¾ x 19". Edges chipped, creased.
A priest conducting a baptism, with the participants in Elizabethen dress. One of a series, with 'Marriage', 'Sacrament' & 'Confirmation'.
[Ref: 11226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Baptism. [&] Marriage.
R. Westall R.A. Delt. R.M. Meadows Sculpt.
Pubd. by R. Boywer Historic Gallery Pall Mall, Sept.r 1.1806.
Pair of stipple engravings with etching and aquatint, sheets c.630 x 470mm. Trimmed to plate. Foxing to upper edge of images.
Two scenes in church interiors showing a priest conducting the respective ceremonies, with the participants in Elizabethen dress. Titles in open letters. 'Sacrament' and 'Confirmation' (in the BM) also engraved in the same style and issued as companion prints by Meadows after Westall, published earlier the same year, in January 1806.
[Ref: 8027] £380.00 view all images for this item

Barabbas with the Condemned Thieves. St. Luke chap. XXIII.v.XVIII.
Painted by Benj.n West, Esq.r P.R.A. Drawn by Henry Corbould. Engraved by Edward Scriven, Hist.l Engraver to The Prince Regent & the Princess of Wales. London: Published by T. Clay, N.o 18 Ludgate Hill, June 4; 1814.
London, 1814.
Rare stipple and etching. 375 x 475mm (14¾ x 18¾"). Trimmed to plate top, left and right edges. Some toning.
Barabbas and two other thieves are restrained and in cuffs, and appear to be surrounded by a number of soldiers in the background. According to the Synoptic Gospels, Barabbas, imprisoned for murder and insurrection against the Roman state according to Mark and Luke, was released by Pontius Pilate according to a Passover tradition whereby a prisoner could have their death sentence communted by popular demand. The story goes that the crowd of Jewish people ask for Barabbas's release, thereby condemning Jesus to death, though the plausibility of Barabbas's release is contested by some historians.
[Ref: 53952] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Barnes Terrace.
Drawn by W. Westall ARA. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London: Pub: by Rodwell and Martin: New Bond St.t Jan: 1. 1823.
Coloured lithograph on india paper, rare. India 210 x 325mm (8¼ x 12¾"). Some surface soiling.
Before the building of Barnes Bridge, with cows wandering along the road. A plate from 'Thirty five Views on the Thames, at Richmond, Eton, Windsor and Oxford', published December 1823. William Westall (1781 - 1850) was a British topographical draughtsman and engraver. He became an Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1812. He was the younger brother of the painter and illustrator Richard Westall.
[Ref: 39007] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Between Barnes and Chiswick.
Drawn by W. Westall ARA. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London: Pub: by Rodwell and Martin: New Bond St.t. Jan: 1823.
Coloured lithograph printed on chine collé. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾").
A view of the Thames riverside. A plate from 'Thirty five Views on the Thames, at Richmond, Eton, Windsor and Oxford', published December 1823.
[Ref: 6551] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Beatrice. Vide Shakespear's Much ado about Nothing.
R. Westall, A. inv. T. Cheesman sculp, late Pupil to F. Bartolozzi.
Publsh'd Feb.y 10, 1793 by J.F. Tomkins, New Bond Street.
Stipple, 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8"), with large margins, partial 18th century watermark
Beatrice, niece of Leonato, governor of Messina, subject of a matchmaking plot.
[Ref: 55070] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Beauchamp Procter.
Painted by Ben. West Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by James Watson.
Published March 25.th, 1779, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. London.
Mezzotint, sheet 380 x 285mm (15 x 11¼"). Thread margins. Repairs.
Three quarter length portrait of Lady Mary Beauchamp Proctor (d.1847), wife of Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, 2nd Baronet, (1756-1827). She is seen placing wreath of flowers on statue of Hymen, which a putto is clinging to. She wears a loose, flowing gown and her hair dressed high. In the background are pillars and curtains.
CS 121.II
[Ref: 61690] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Beaumont Lodge _ Old Windsor. The Seat of Viscount Ashbrooke.
W.Westall. A.R.A. del.t. C.Bentley sculp.t.
Published 1828, by R.Ackermanm, 96 Strand, London.
Coloured aquatint. 220 x 280mm. Faint offset from text.
ABBEY: Scenery 435.
[Ref: 6529] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Benevolent Cardinal.]
[Painted by R. Westall. Engraved by W. Ward.]
[London Published Ap.r 14 1792 by J.R. Smith No 31. King Street, Covent Garden.]
An unrecorded touched proof mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24½") Trimmed to image at bottom, to plate at sides.
A woman pleading her case before a cardinal. An early proof, probably touched by Westall, the artist, around the two women's hair. In the published state, the kneeling woman is changed to a nun, her hair hidden by a wimple; the standing woman's is less bushy; the cardinal's robe is darker; and one of the figures in the doorway has a turban.
Frankau 23, an unrecorded state before i of iii.
[Ref: 56257] £520.00

Les Bergers Ecossais.
A. Westall pinx.t A.e Cardon sculp.t
Publié à Paris en Juin 1807. Chez Bance ainé, rue St. Denis.
Coloured stipple, partly printed in colour, rare. Plate 387 x 431mm (15¼ x 17"). Trimmed to plate.
Scottish shepherds in the fields; a man sat playing bagpipes with two children by his side, another man stood with his staff next to a young maiden. Two sheep seen behind, and a dog lying in the foreground; a barn to the left and ruins in the distance. The given artist's name of 'A. Westall' may mean the print is after Richard Westall, or could be incorrect.
[Ref: 28916] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Plan of Birmingham Survey'd in the Year 1731. To the Honourable Edw.d Digby & Will.m Peyto Esq:rs Members of Parliament for the County of Warwick, this Plate is humbly Dedicated by their most obed.t humble Serv:t W. Westley.
Copied from the Original Engraving and Published by Thomas Underwood, Castle St. High St. Birmingham [n.d., c.1860].
Engraved map. Printed area 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼"), with large margins. Repaired tears.
A Victorian facsimiles of one the first detailed printed map of Birmingham, originally published the year that Samuel and Nathaniel Buck issued their prospect of the city. It names the streets and shows important buildings in perspective. The Corn Market next to St. Martin’s Church is now the Bull Ring. Underneath are statistics fot the city: in 1700 it contained 30 streets, 100 courts and alleys, 2,504 houses and 15032 inhabitants, but by 1730 there were 25 additional streets, 50 courts and alleys, 1252 houses and 8254 inhabitants, representing a doubling in size. William Westley, a local surveyor, owned land in the city's south-easst, commemorated with ‘Westley’s Row’.
[Ref: 59156] £280.00

A Boy Angling.
[London, John & Josiah Boydell, 1 May 1802.]
Fine colour-printed stipple. Sheet 280 x 350mm, 11 x 13¾". Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, small repaired tear and hole.
A boy fishing while crouched on one knee. Another version of this scene was engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Beazley: 226.
[Ref: 24491] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of the Boyne.
Painted by West. Engraved by J. Grozer.
London: Republished 1. May 1824 by Robert Wilkinson, No. 125 Fenchurch Street.
Rare aquatint with etching. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman'. Sheet size: 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾"). Trimmed to platemark. Light creasing and scuffs.
A scene after Benjamin West, depicting William III in the centre, leading his army on horseback as they surge onto the banks of the River Boyne, where, in the lower left corner, the Duke of Schomberg, mortally wounded, is carried by four soldiers. The Battle of the Boyne took place in 1690 between the Catholic James II and the Protestant William III across the River Boyne near the town of Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland, resulting in a victory fo William III.
[Ref: 37321] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of the Boyne.] To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, This Plate engraved from the original Picture of The Battle of the Boyne, in the Collection of the R.t Hon.ble the Lord Grosvenor Is by permission Dedicated by His Roal Highnesse's most faithful obedient Servants - Benj.n West and John Hill.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by John Hall.
Published as the Act directs, 18 Oct.r 1781 by B. West, j. Hall & W. Woollett, London.
Etching with engraving, 18th century watermark. 485 x 615mm (19 x 24¼"). Trimmed to plate, some toning of paper.
William III on a white horse, leading his army across the Boyne, 1st July 1690. Bottom right the Duke of Schomberg is carried off by four soldiers, having been shot in the neck
BM: 1876,0708.2600, final published state.
[Ref: 54702] £420.00

[Lord Byron.]
W.E. West pinxit. J.T. Wedgewood Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 250 x 210mm, 9¾ z 8¼". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet. From the painting by William Edward West (1788 - 1857) in the National Galleries of Scotland collection. West made a name for himself as a painter of miniature portraits in his native Kentucky whilst still in his teens. A benefactor financed his studies in Thomas Sully's studio in Philadelphia. He visited Italy in 1819 and stayed in Europe for the next twenty years. In 1825 he moved to London but financial difficulties forced him to go back to America. Washington Irving, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron were among his most celebrated sitters.
NGS Accession no: PG 1561.
[Ref: 17444] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cambridge from the Ely Road.
London, Pub.d March 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 245 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A view of Cambridge from the banks of the Cam.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 57387] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Botanic Garden.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler Sculp.t.
London, Pub. July 1st 1815 for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1812'. Large margins on 3 sides. Very slight crease bottom right.
The Walkerian Botanic Garden, now The New Museums Site.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59245] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Christ College, from the Street.
W. Westall del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub. June 1 1815 at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. 300 x 255mm (11¾ x 10") very large margins on 3 sides. Narrow right margin.
A view of the Great Gate of Christ's College.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59247] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Downing College.
W. Westall del.t. D. Havell sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Dec.r 1 1814 at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), very large margins on 3 sides. Small hole in image.
The exterior of Downing College, from Parker's Piece, also showing King's College Chapel.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59249] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Jesus College from the Close.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53023] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Entrance to the Avenue, from Clare Hall Piece. With the New Buildings of King's.
W. Westall del.t J. Stadler sculp.t.
London Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾").
From Rudolph Ackermann's "History of Cambridge".
[Ref: 21892] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Magdalen College Library
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53022] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Queen's College.
W. Westall del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d July 1st, 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1812', very large margins.
A view of Essex Building of Queen's College, taken from the Cam.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59263] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Queen's College from the Private Walk.
W. Westall del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾") Narrow margins.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53018] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Second Court of St John's College.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Nov.r 1. 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾") very large margins.
The First Court with the Great Gate of St John's College.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59253] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] St John's College. From Fisher's Lane.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Oct.r 1. 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
A view of Third Court of St John's College, with Kitchen Bridge, known as Wren Bridge as it was based on a design by Christopher Wren. The Bridge of Sighs was not built until 1831.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59254] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] S.t John's Library.
W. Westall del.t. D. Havell sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Sept.r 1, 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾").
The Old Library, built in 1624 from funds mostly donated by John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, regarded as one of the earliest examples of English neo-Gothic architecture.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 60237] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Part of St Peter's College from the Private Garden.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53024] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Trinity College Bridge.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d July 1, 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾ ") very large margins.
Trinity Bridge, built of Portland stone in 1765, over the Cam on The Avenue.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59270] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Trinity Gate.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d April 1, 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾") very large margins.
Trinity College's 'Great Gate', leading to the Great Court., with its statue of Henry VIII.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59268] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Quadrangle of Trinity College.
W. Westall del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d May 1, 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾ ") very large margins.
Trinity College's Great Court, with the Clock Tower and fountain.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 59269] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Trinity Library. From St. John's Gardens.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London Pub.d Aug.t 1 1814, at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 230mm (10 x 11¾").
A view of the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. From Rudolph Ackermann's 'History of Cambridge'.
Abbey Scenery 79: 61.
[Ref: 20343] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Colonnade under Trinity Library.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d May 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
The library was designed by Christopher Wren.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53021] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Situation of H.M.S. Hecla & Griper. Sept.r 20.th 1819.
Drawn & Engraved by W. Westall A.R.A. from a Sketch by Lieu.t Beechey.
Published by John Murray, London, March 6. 1821.
Aquatint. Plate 202 x 260mm (8 x 10¼").
H.M.S. Hecla and Griper caught in drifting ice. Illustration to 'Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific', led by Sir William Edward Parry.
[Ref: 29687] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Cave of Despair. From Spenser.
B. West, R.A. pinxit. Val. Green Engraver to his Mayesty, fecit.
Published, June 1st. 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint, uncleaned title area, 445 x 530mm. 17½ x 20¾". Few stains.
Illustrates Edmund Spenser's (1552? - 1599) epic poem 'The Faerie Queene': Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind. To left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her. After the painting by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Whitman: 190. Chaloner Smith undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14841] £450.00

[St Cecilia.]
Benjamin West inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpst.
London. Published Jany 1.st 1783, by A. Poggi.
Stipple and etching, fine. 204 x 190mm. 8 x 7½". Trimmed, and cut inside platemark
St Cecilia playing an organ, with a cherub standing by her right shoulder pulling on a rope.
De Vesme: 2217; ii/iv. See Ref: 20448 for unknown cut state.
[Ref: 20481] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

S.t. Cecilia.
Benjamin West inv. K. Bartolozzi Sculpsit.
London Published June 1.st 1784, by A: Poggi, No.7, St. Georges Row, Hyde Park.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Plate: 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½'') very large margins.
A portrait of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, shown playing the organ.
De Vesme 2217 III.
[Ref: 48293] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

King Charles the 2nd Landing on the Beach at Dover. From the original Picture in the possession of The Right Honourable the Earl Grosvenor.
Painted by B. West Historical Painter to His Majesty. Etch'd by Will.m Woollett, Historical Engraver to His Majesty. Engraved by De Launay.
Published as the Act directs, by B. West, E. Woollett & J. Hall, London. [n.d. c.1815.]
Copper engraving. 310 x 362mm. 12¼ x 14¼". Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Charles II returning to England after exile, on the beach being greeted by General Monk, the Dukes of Gloucester and York, the Earl of Clarendon and Sir John Grenville and others, with Dover Castle in the background. After Benjamin West, American-born painter who succeeded Reynolds as President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
[Ref: 24356] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Charter House, from the Play Ground.
W. Westall del.t. W. Bennett sculp.t.
London: Pub.d July 1, 1816, at 101, Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Charter House School.
Fine coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (6 x 11¾"). Mint.
A view of Charterhouse School at its original location in Charterhouse Square, in Smithfield, London. In the foreground pupils play cricket, watched by masters.
[Ref: 60871] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[A pauper lying in bed; possibly the boy poet Thomas Chatterton?]
R. L. West pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R A sculps. 1801.
[London, 1801.]
Etching on india paper, sheet 170 x 195mm. 6¾ x 7¾". Sheet trimmed; some spotting.
A young man with bare torso lying on a straw bed in an impoverished interior, looking up to the ceiling, his head bandaged; two mice, a spoon and a plate on the floor. Shafts of light from a window upper left. The plate was used to illustrate 'Juvenilia, or a Collection of poems' by James Henry Leigh Hunt. The artist Raphael Lamar West (1769 - 1850) seems to have been inspired by the story of Thomas Chatterton (1752 - 1770), a poet who spent his last months in poverty in a London attic before committing suicide at the age of 17. The print has been labelled 'The Death of Chatterton', as indeed this impression is captioned, in pencil, to verso. Chatterton's life and work had a powerful effect on the Romantic imagination; witness Wordsworth's tribute: 'the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul, that perished in his pride'. Raphael Lamar West, painter and lithographer, was the son of Benjamin West.
De Vesme 1738, III of IV. See NPG D1372.
[Ref: 21188] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Chiswick.
Drawn from Nature & on stone by W. Westall ARA. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London. Pub: by Rodwell and Martin: New Bond St. Dec.r 1823.
Hand coloured lithograph, on india paper. Printed area: 195 x 320mm (7¾ x 12½") Marking in lower left corner.
A plate from William Westall's 'Views on the Thames', published in 1823. A view of Chiswick along the river Thames, London. The river can be seen on the left, with barge landed on beach in the middle distance. Figures are walking on the bank to the right, along which is a row of houses. Two pigs are below the trees in the right foreground.
[Ref: 34483] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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