Grosvenor Prints

[A music teacher and lady in an interior.]
[G. Bickham.]
[London, 1768.]
Engraving on watermarked laid paper, 140 x 100mm. 5½ x 4". Some offsetting. Full margins.
The woman carries a chair towards a well-dressed musician, who seems to be holding a conductor's baton. A violin or double-bass is mounted on the room's panelled wall behind. A plate to 'Æsop at Court; or, The labyrinth of Versailles Delineated in French and English...'. The book includes 42 plates plus a plan and pictorial titlepage. The plates are chiefly of the fountains in the Labyrinth at the Palace of Versailles, which represent some of Æsop's fables. The English translation of the verse and of C. Perrault's prose descriptions is by Daniel Bellamy (b. 1687); the editor is Bellamy the younger (d. 1788).
For the titlepage see item Ref: 26900.
[Ref: 27042] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Titlepage] Æsop at Court; or, The labyrinth of Versailles Delineated in French and English. The Plates Engraved by G. Bickham. From the Paris Edition.
London: Printed for ye editor MDCCLXVIII [1768].
Engraved illustrated titlepage on laid paper, 150 x 115mm. 6 x 4½". Full margins.
The lettering enclosed in a decorative cartouche made up of reedy fronds with birds perched throughout, supported by a classical architectural fragment. The book includes 42 plates and a plan, in addition to this titlepage. The plates are chiefly of the fountains in the Labyrinth at the Palace of Versailles, which represent some of Æsop's fables. The English translation of the verse and of C. Perrault's prose descriptions is by Daniel Bellamy (b. 1687); the editor is Bellamy the younger (d. 1788).
See Ref: 26900. National Art Library (V&A) G.28.Z.24; for a plate from the book see ref. 27042
[Ref: 26900] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

On Princess Amelia. To the Right Hon:a the Earl Rivers, These Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
[Etched by George Bickham.]
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Scarce etched music sheet, 18th century watermark. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins at top, trimmed to plate at bottom, original binding folds,
A music sheet with a headpiece of a woman dancing before an audience in parkland. The song was set to music by Maurice Green (1696-1755), Professor of Music at Cambridge University & 'Master of the King's Musick'. Bath interest. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58699] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The American Colonies.
[Drawn and engraved by George Bickham.]
[n.d., 1748.]
Extract, disbound, 21 engraved plates, numbered 165-185. Each c. 260 x 160mm (10½ x 6¼"). Some damp staining and wear to edges.
Twenty-one pages of engraved-text description of the American colonies (fourteen with illustrations), including New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina, published in George Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain'. One of Bickham's interests was calligraphy, so the text is engraved with great verve.
[Ref: 45950] £950.00 view all images for this item

A Map of the King of Great Britain's Dominions in Europe, Africa, and America.
G. Bickham Fecit.
[n.d., 1748.]
Engraving. 280 x 315mm (11 x 12½"). Binding folds, worm holes in bottom margin.
A map centred on the Atlantic Ocean, showing from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, marking British possessions including Gibraltar, Minorca, the Gold Coast of Guinea and the colonies in North America and West Indies. From George Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain'.
[Ref: 45602] £280.00 view all images for this item

[The British Monarchy.] Introduction.
[Engraved by George Bickham.]
[n.d., 1753.]
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 155mm (10¼ x 6"), with good margins. Slight foxing.
A sheet of stylish engraved italic text explaining the maps in Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain', with a chapter heading vignette of cherubs with surveying instruments including a theodolite.
[Ref: 45304] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

William Brooks Writing Master; and Accomptant, London.
P. Tomlinson pinx: G. Bickham sculp.
[c.1730]
Engraving, on verso in ink 4 shil; sheet 195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed.
Only engraved portrait of William Brooks, writing master in the City of London. His apprentices included a well-known writing master of the following generation, Charles Snell (bap.1667-d.1733).
O'D 1 (only portrait listed). Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38868] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The North View of Buckingham. To the Worshipful the Bailif & Burgesses of the above Borough & County Town, This Plate is humbly Dedicated by their humble Servant, George Bickham. 89.
Drawn on Maid Morton Hill & Engrav'd by G. Bickham.
Sold by C. Dicey & Co, in Aldermary Church Yard London [n.d., c. 1780].
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate. Slight central crease.
A view of Buckingham, engraved by Bickham c.1750 and re-issued by Cluer Dicey, who is best known as the last publisher of John Speed's county maps of 1611.
[Ref: 54738] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Charlotte Queen of Great Britain.
Sold in May's Building's Covent Garden [n.d., c.1765.]
Etching, 420 x 320mm. 16½ x 12½". Trimmed to plate; soiled. Small tear lower right.
A rare portrait of Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818), Queen consort of George III. She married to George in 1761 and bore him 15 children. This could be the work of George Bickham the Younger (c.1706 - 1771) who had premises in May's Buildings, Covent Garden from c.1745. He was the son of George Bickham the Elder and collaborated with his father, and their prints have not been properly identified; when there is any doubt, prints have been attributed to George Bickham the Younger. Probably issued originally as a companion to a plate of George III, this is one of several printed adaptations of the portrait of the Queen in profile attributed by Goodwin to Jeremiah Meyer (735 - 1789), enamel, and later minature, painter.
Not in BM. See Goodwin: 84.
[Ref: 9064] £330.00

The Charms of Déshabille, or New Tunbridge Wells at Islington. The Words by Mr Lockman, Written in 1733. To ye Tune of ye Black Joke.
G. Bickham jun.r Sculp.t.
[London, 1738.]
Engraved music sheet. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very wide margins.
A music and lyrics to a song, illustrated by a scene at Islington Spa. From Bickham's 'Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 53384] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Clark Writing Master and Accomptant, London
T. Foster delin. G. Bickham Sculp [1712]
Engraving, in ink verso 5 Shil; sheet 285 x 180mm (11¼ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
John Clark (1683-1736), writing-master. Clark published his first copybook 'The Penman's Diversion' in 1708, and when George Shelley was appointed writing-master to Christ's Hospital in 1710 Clark took over his boarding-school. Clark went on to achieve great commercial success with his several subsequent copybooks, but gained notoriety for his contentious nature. He conducted a long-running dispute with Shelley and another penman, Charles Snell which centred on the place of ornament in penmanship, in which Clark saw such devices as superfluous and misleading. Frontispiece to Clark's 'Writing Improved, or, Penmanship Made Easy', 1712, which is valuable for its lengthy preface explaining the process of producing engraved copybooks and how engravers reproduced the penman's original designs.
O'D 1; for Shelley see ref 38872; for Snell see ref. 38871. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38875] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Clark W.M. Aetat Suae 25
G. Bickham Sculp. [1708]
Engraving, sheet 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Wormhole top left. Cut to image.
John Clark (1683-1736), writing-master. Clark published his first copybook 'The Penman's Diversion' (to which this portrait was the frontispiece) in 1708, and when George Shelley was appointed writing-master to Christ's Hospital in 1710 Clark took over his boarding-school. Clark went on to achieve great commercial success with his several subsequent copybooks, but gained notoriety for his contentious nature. He conducted a long-running dispute with Shelley and another penman, Charles Snell which centred on the place of ornament in penmanship, in which Clark saw such devices as superfluous and misleading.
O'D 2; for Shelley see ref 38872; for Snell see ref. 38871. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38873] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bill of Lading.
G. Bickham sculp.
[n.d. c.1741.]
Engraving. 89 x 178mm. 3½ x 7". Cut.
George Bickham, who in The Universal Penman, published in parts between 1733 and 1741, gathered together examples of contemporary handwriting by all the best masters of the day, and produced one of the most splendid of English copy books. The end of the 17th century saw the beginning of a new era. With the increase of trade at home, and with English merchant shipping penetrating to ever-more-distant parts of the globe, there was a need for more and more clerks and accountants. In the busy world of commerce, what was most necessary was a good clear hand, easily learnt and easily read. So that, after the great variety of styles prevalent earlier, the English round-hand, a composite form which at its best was both practical and legible, became supreme. This hand, carried round the world by bills of lading, letters of credit and other commercial documents, gave the 18th century English writing masters a position in society.
[Ref: 21061] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Democritus; Or, the Laughing Philosopher. This Antient Censor, with a Comic Sneer, Laugh'd at the Follies which did Then appear. Nothing displeas'd; No Object rais'd his Spleen; His Life was One Continu'd Merry Scene; But had he flourish'd in the Present Age, Our Modern Crimes had turn'd his Mirth to Rage.
A. Coypel Pinx. G: Bickham Junr. Sculp.
[n.d. c.1745.]
Engraving. 247 x 157mm. 9¾ x 6¼". Cut and laid.
Democritus (c.460-c.370BC), the Ancient Greek philosopher who was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an atomic theory for the universe.
[Ref: 27660] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Diffident Lover.
Set by Mr Howard. G. Bickham jun.r Sculp.t.
[London, 1738.]
Engraved music sheet, 18th century watermark. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins.
A music and lyrics to a song by Frances Perrott, illustrated by an engraving of a pair of lovers. From Bickham's 'Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 53383] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Fond Celadon. Set by D.r Green.
G. Bickham Sculp.
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Scarce etched music sheet, 18th century watermark. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins top and bottom, original binding folds, some toning.
A music sheet with a headpiece of a rustic couple. The song was set to music by Maurice Green (1696-1755), Professor of Music at Cambridge University & 'Master of the King's Musick'. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Break-Neck Fox Chase.
June 1743. G. Bickham jun.r inv. et sculp.
Very rare engraving, 18th century watermark, sheet 335 x 465mm (13¼ x 18¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining in title on right, repairs.
A hunting scene, with a group of hunters on horseback and dogs chasing a fox.
[Ref: 60692] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

One of the French King's Houshold Soldiers taken Prisoner, and the Standards tken at the Battle near Deltingen 16th of June O.S. 1743 [...]
G. Bickham jun. 10 May's Buildings.
Very rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 330 x 200mm (13 x 8"). Trimmed to plate; good colour.
Likeness of a French soldier captured at the Battle of Dettingen, during the War of the Austrian Succession, in which British forces (in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse) defeated a French army. Etching by George Bickham (c.1704-71), engraver and printseller. Bickham began his career working as a journeyman engraver for the Bowles and Overton families, before he began to publish himself. Bickham's later work was enormously varied and controversial, and included some of the most imaginative political prints of the mid-18th century.
[Ref: 44203] £380.00

The Honest Merchant or, Thorowgood to Trueman [...]
Bland, Scrip.t G.B. Sculp. [c.1741]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, platemark 330 x 200mm (13 x 8"), large margins.
Plate engraved by the printmaker and writing-master George Bickham (1683/4-1758), probably published in 'The Universal Penman' (1733-41). The culmination of Bickham's work as an engraver of calligraphy, this contained examples by twenty-five writing-masters (John Bland in this case) over 212 plates.
[Ref: 44506] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Invoyces Invoyces shew the Cost and Charges on Goods sent by Sea from one Place to another [...]
G.J. Bickham sc. [c.1733-41]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, platemark 330 x 200mm (13 x 8") large margins.
Plate engraved by the printmaker and writing-master George Bickham (1683/4-1758), probably published in 'The Universal Penman' (1733-41). The culmination of Bickham's work as an engraver of calligraphy, this contained examples by twenty-five writing-masters over 212 plates.
[Ref: 44508] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of Ireland, Divided into the Provinces and Counties.
G. Bickham Fecit.
[n.d., 1748.]
Engraving. 255 x 160mm (10 x 6"). Two worm holes in bottom margin.
A small map of Ireland published in George Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain'.
[Ref: 45600] £160.00

O Rare Ben: Johnson. Wit, and Humour. No. XIII. MDCCXXXV.
E. Austin Scripsit. G. Bickham sculp.
[London: Henry Overton, 1743.
Engraving. 330 x 200mm (13 x 8").
A portrait of Ben Jonson after an oil by Abraham Blyenberch (now in the National Portrait Gallery, above three examples of Jonson's verse, each in a distinctive script. A page from George Bickham's 'Universal Penman', a treatise on handwriting.
[Ref: 41331] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Le Comte de Kevenhuller Veld Maréchal, et General ~ Commandant des Armées de Sa Majesté la Reine d’Hongrie &c. en Baviére ~
J. Meitens Pinxit à Vienne. G. Bickham Sculp. London.
Publish'd by Wm. Meyer according to Act of Parliament; August 1742. Sold by Henry Overton without Newgate London 1745.
Copper engraving. 317 x 216mm. 12½ x 8½". Trimmed to the plate.
Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, (1683-1744), Austrian field-marshal who came of a noble family that was originally from Franconia and had settled in Carinthia. He first saw active service under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Spanish Succession and by 1716 had been given command of Prince Eugene's own regiment of dragoons. He distinguished himself at the battles of Peterwardein (5 August 1716) and Belgrade (1717), and became in 1723 Major-General of Cavalry (General-Feldwachtmeister), in 1726 proprietary colonel of a regiment and in 1733 Lieutenant-General (Feldmarschalleutnant). After the Battle of Guastalla (19 September 1734), his skilful generalship won for him the grade of General of Cavalry. He continued in military and diplomatic employment in Italy to the close of the war. In 1737 Khevenhüller was made Field Marshal, Prince Eugene recommending him to his sovereign as the best general in the service. Khevenhüller surpassed himself in the War of the Austrian Succession. As commander-in-chief of the army on the Danube he not only drove out the French and Bavarian invaders of Austria in a few days of rapid marching and sharp engagements (January 1742), but overran southern Bavaria, captured Munich, and forced a large French corps in Linz to surrender. On his return to Vienna, Maria Theresa decorated the field marshal with the Order of the Golden Fleece. He died suddenly at Vienna on 26 January 1744.
[Ref: 19468] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Knowledge In Nature's Search we to the Cause advance; / But Knowledge must inform our Ignorance [...]
[George Bickham, c.1733-41?]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, sheet 280 x 235mm (11 x 9¼"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge.
Plate probably engraved by the printmaker and writing-master George Bickham (1683/4-1758) and published in 'The Universal Penman' (1733-41). The culmination of Bickham's work as an engraver of calligraphy, this contained examples by twenty-five writing-masters over 212 plates.
[Ref: 44507] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Prospectus Monumenti Erecti in Memoriam Funesti Incendiianno MDCLXVI Londini. Viso del Monumento Fabricato per Memoriam del Incendio Tragico del Anno MDCLXVI a Londra.
[Antonio Canaletto]
[Robert Sayer n.d. c.1790.]
Copper engraving. Plate 312 x 420mm. 12¼ x 16½".
A view of the Monument and Fish Street Hill. In the background can be seen St Magnus and Martyr, and in the foreground is a lot of busy market and workday activity. A View erected in memory of the dreadful fire in the year 1666.
[Ref: 16086] £320.00

Sr.Hugh Middleton's Glory. or The first issuing of the Water into the New-River-Head, before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder and a Worthy Company who stood to behold it. Humbly inscrib'd to the Directors of the New River Company by Geo. Bickham. Mr. Middleton undertook to bring a River from Chadwell and Amwell to the north side of London, near Islington; where he made a large Cistern to receive it...Clerk of the works, reach me to the book to show, How many Arts from such a labour flow First here’s the Overseer, this try’d Man An ancient soldier, and an Artizan...And with thy Chrystal murmers strook together Bid all they true well-wishers welcome hithers, At which words the flood gates flow open, the stream ran gallantly into the Cistern, Drums and Trumpets sounding in triumphal manner, and a Peal of Chambers gave ful Issue to the intended Entertainment.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller No.53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 1 Sep.r 1772.
Etching and engraving. 427 x 552mm (16¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed and folded. Laid on album sheet on one side.
Sir Hugh Myddleton (1560?-1631) observing the first issue of the New River, a canal which brought water from Chadwell and Amwell in Hertfordshire to a reservoir in Clerkenwell whence it supplied the City of London. Work was completed in 1613. The following year Myddleton sold shares in the undertaking and in 1619 the New River Company was incorporated. Extensive letterpress text below describing the scene and the history of the New River project.
[Ref: 28983] £360.00

Abraham Nicholas.
[by George Bickham, 1722]
Engraving. Platemark 190 x 285mm (7½ x 11¼"), with large margins.
Abraham Nicholas (1692-c.1744), writing-master. The third generation of a family of writing-masters, Nicholas kept a school in Southwark, London, before moving south to set up a boarding-school in Clapham. He eventually transferred this school to his brother James and emigrated to Virginia. Frontispiece to Nicholas' second and final copybook, 'The Compleat Writing-Master' (1722).
O'D 1 (only likeness).
[Ref: 58609] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Publick Credit. Is represented as a Man in hr Vigour of his Years, healthy, String and Active, nobly clithed heaving his Senator's gown and a Gold chail about his Neck, that seens to command Esteem & Honour, holdingunderhis Arm a Merchant's book of accounts, indorsed on he cover with a botto that signifies True Credit, free from All Interest, & a Griffin befow which imaginary Animal amongst hy Antients was used for a Synbot of Sale Custody, & therefore intimates that a person should have a watchful Eye over his Stock if he means to get & preserve credit, The Figures behind represent Popery, Stript and exposed on his Back, & left handed Rebellion blindfold furiously drwing his sword, both seeming to threaten Publick Credit, while Slander behind them is blowing ye Brand of sedition, the Fox is ye Emblem of Cunning & Deceit, for which ye Enemy is Remarkable, ye Malk & Dagger, atop Private Treachery for which he is notoriously infamous.
G. Bickham invt. Et Sculp.
October ye 18 1745.
Etching 200 x 326mm, 8 x 12¾inches. Trimmed just inside the platemark.
Celebrating William Pitt and London merchants who declared to continue to accept paper money at a time of financial crisis caused by the Jacobite Rising and other events in 1745; with an etching by Bickham showing a full-length portrait of Pitt, holding in his right hand a bank note, in the background on the ground the Pope with Tiara, but stripped of his clothes, behind him a blindfolded soldier in armour and tartan drawing a sword, respresenting the landing of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, in image surrounded by an ornamental frame with a fox withdrawn into the corner, representing Lord Holland, Lord of the Treasury.
BM:2686.
[Ref: 12913] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

To Mr. Charles Snell, Mr. George Shelley, Mr. Robert More, Mr. Ralph Snow, Mr. Thomas Ollyffe, Mr. John Clark, Writing Masters of London / A Poem on Writing [...]
[...]nted Written & Engraven by George Bickham, & Sold by H. Overton at ye White Horse without Newgate, by J. King at ye Globe in ye Poultry, & by J. Barnes at ye Crown in ye Pall-Mall London
[c.1720]
Very scarce broadsheet, sheet 495 x 345mm (19½ x 13½"). Trimmed; fold through centre. Cut inside image on left. Time stained.
Large engraving sheet with multiple portraits by George Bickham (1683/4-1758), writing-master and engraver, then the finest engraver of calligraphy in London. Bickham engraved both the individual portraits of the various writing-masters depicted here, and also engraved their individual copy-books. The calligraphic figures bordering the portraits are reminiscent of those of Edward Cocker (see ref 38877). The legend at the bottom of the sheet 'Blest Britains then and blest Britannia too; For in this Art these Six the World outdoe' epitomizes the gifted generation of writing-masters commemorated here.
See Sloan, 'A Noble Art: Amateur artists and drawing masters 1600-1800' Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38878] £450.00

The Charms of Dishabille, or New Tunbridge Wells at Islington.
For the Flute. The Words by Mr. Lockman, Written in 1733. To ye Tune of ye Black Joke. G. Bickham junr. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1745.]
Engraved musical score lettered with lyrics, three verses of lyrics below, etched illustration above, plate 320 x 200mm (12¾ x 7¾"), with margins. Glued to backing sheet on borders at edges. Fold. Some light foxing.
An ode to sartorial variety at the pleasure gardens at Sadler's Wells (sometimes called 'New Tunbridge Wells') in Islington, London. The author of the lyrics remarks upon the array of fashions sported by a socially mixed clientele. During the 18th century the initial exclusiveness of Sadler's Wells declined along with the quality of the clientele, who were described as 'vermin trained up to the gallows' by a contemporary, while, by 1711, Sadler's Wells was characterized as 'a nursery of debauchery'. By George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706 - 1771), printmaker and publisher, and son of George Bickham the Elder. From a book of sheet music. Plate inscribed '42' upper right.
[Ref: 62004] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Snell] Carolus Snellius / Ars Illucens Luso
P. La Vergne inv.t. G. Bickham sculp.t
[1712]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Charles Snell (bap.1667-1733), writing master who 'became a bright star in a contemporary galaxy of writing-masters' (DNB). Initially apprenticed to a senior writing-master, William Brooks, Snell was known for his critical attacks on writing-masters with elaborate styles, and he promoted a simpler and more standardized mode of handwriting suitable for commercial houses. Frontispiece to Snell's second book, 'The Art of Writing in its Theory and Practice', 1712.
O'D 2; for Brooks see ref 38868. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38871] £320.00

The Inside of St Martin's in the Fields. ~ in the Liberty of Westminster.
T. Malton delin. G. Bickham sculp.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured etching, rare. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with large margins. Some creasing.
A view of the interior of St Martin's in the Fields, built by James Gibbs in Charing Cross (now Trafalgar Square) 1722-6, detailing the ceiling.
[Ref: 45301] £320.00

A View of the House from the Parterre in the Gardens of Earl Temple at Stow, in Buckinghamshire./Vue de la Façade du chateau du Cate du Parterre. According to the Plan Proposed by Sginor Borra Extent 540 feet, exclusive of the Offices.
Chatelain del. G. Bickham Sculp
Printed for Robt. Sayer. No. 53 in Fleet Street, Carington Bowles No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard & Jno. Bowles _ at ye Black Horse in Cornhill.
Engraving with later hand colouring. 260 x 400mm
The Beauties of Stow were engraved by George Bickham [1706?-1771] from drawings by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain [1710-1771]. Stowe was one of the most famous gardens in England, boasting designs by some of the most celebrated English gardeners. Charles Bridgeman, Richard Kent, and Capability Brown all had a hand in designing the garden. The 1753 edition of Bickham’s prints were reissued in several editions throughout the second half of the eighteenth century, so it is difficult to identify the precise date.
[Ref: 1238] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A View from Lord Cobham's Pillar to the Lady's & Grecian Temples, in the Gardens of Earl Temple at Stow, in Buckinghamshire. [Parallel text in French]
Chatelain del. G: Bickham Sculp.
London, Printed for R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill, Laurie & Whittle 53 Fleet Street, & Bowles & Carver 69 St Pauls Church Yard.
Engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 260 x 395mm (10¼ x 15½"), paper with large margins on three sides, J. Whatman watermark. Oxidisation of blue in sky.
The garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, created by Viscount Cobham from 1717. Designers and architects hired by Cobham to work on the house and gardens included Charles Bridgeman, Sir John Vanbrugh, James Gibbs, William Kent and 'Capability' Brown.
[Ref: 45155] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View from Nelson's Seat.....Vüe prise a Cotè du Pavillon de Nelson's Seat. e.
Chatelain del. G. Bickham sculp.
According to Act of Parliam.t Drawn on the Spot. 1753.
Copper engraving and etching. Plate 261 x 400mm. 10¼ x 15¾". Trimmed to platemark and very tiny pin hole upper right.
Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire. Figures strolling in a formal garden, with two parallel walk, both lined with trees and bushes, leading to monuments.
[Ref: 20830] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View from Nelson's Seat.....Vüe prise a Cotè du Pavillon de Nelson's Seat. e. in the Gardens of Earl Temple at Stow, in Buckinghamshire.
Chatelain del. G. Bickham sculp.
Printed for T. Bowles in St Pauls Church Yd. Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhil.
Rare & fine copper engraving and etching. Plate 261 x 400mm. 10¼ x 15¾". Small margins.
Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire. Figures strolling in a formal garden, with two parallel walk, both lined with trees and bushes, leading to monuments. At the time this print was made as part of a lavish guide to the grounds, it was perhaps the finest landscaped garden in the country. Richard Temple, first Viscount Cobham (1675-1749) developed the estate employing John Vanbrugh to contribute ornamental buildings and Charles Bridgeman to design the garden, with William Kent, James Gibbs and 'Capability' Brown joining later.
For the same plate with different publication line see ref. 20830.
[Ref: 37973] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Grotto & two Shell Temples in the Gardens of Earl Temple at Stow, in Buckinghamshire. [Parallel text in French]
Chatelain del. G: Bickham Sculp.
London, Printed for R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill, Bowles & Carver 69 St Pauls Church Yard, Laurie & Whittle 53 Fleet Street [c.1770].
Engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 260 x 395mm (10¼ x 15½"). Sky oxidisation. Very large margins on 3 sides.
The garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, created by Viscount Cobham from 1717. Designers and architects hired by Cobham to work on the house and gardens included Charles Bridgeman, Sir John Vanbrugh, James Gibbs, William Kent and 'Capability' Brown.
[Ref: 45169] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the House from the Parterre......Vüe de la Façade du Chateau du Cotè du Parterre. According to the Plan propos'd by Signor Borra, Extente 540 Feet exclusive of the Offices.
Chatelain del. G. Bickham sculp.
According to Act of Parliam.t Drawn on the Spot 1753.
Copper engraving. 260 x 401mm. 10¼ x 15¾". Trimmed to the plate, repair in top edge
A view of the magnificent country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. George Bickham (1684-1758) published an engraved illustrated guide of Viscount Cobham's gardens of Stowe, which also highlighted the house.
See Ref: 1238.
[Ref: 21903] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the House from the Equestrian Statue in the Park......Vüe du Chateau prise a coté de la Figure Equestre. q.
Chatelain del. G. Bickham sculp.
According to Act of Parliam.t Drawn from the Spot 1753.
Copper engraving and etching. Plate 265 x 401mm. 10½ x 15¾". Trimmed.
Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire. Cows, sheep, horses and deer in the park by the lake, upon which swim ducks. Seen looking towards the North entrance of Stowe House with the equestrian statue of King George I.
[Ref: 20831] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View from Nelson's Seat in the Gardens of Earl Temple at Stow, in Buckinghamshire. [Parallel text in French]
Chatelain del. G: Bickham Sculp.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver 69 St Pauls Church Yard, Laurie & Whittle 53 Fleet Street, & R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill.
Engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 260 x 395mm (10¼ x 15½"), with very large margins. Sky oxidisation.
The garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, created by Viscount Cobham from 1717. Designers and architects hired by Cobham to work on the house and gardens included Charles Bridgeman, Sir John Vanbrugh, James Gibbs, William Kent and 'Capability' Brown.
[Ref: 45168] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Submissive Admirer. Set by Mr Handel. To the R.t Hon.ble the Earl Cowper, These Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
[Etched by George Bickham.]
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Etched music sheet. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins top and bottom, original binding folds,
A music sheet with a headpiece of a courting couple. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58701] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Vauxhall Gardens] The Adieu to the Spring-Gardens. To the R.t Hon. ye Earl of Anglesea, These four Plates are humbly Inscrib'd.
Bickham sc.
[n.d., 1737.
Etching with engraving, 18th century watermark. 325 x 195mm (12¾ x 7¾"). Narrow margins.
A music sheet with a scene in Vauxhall Gardens, illustrating a song with words by John Lockman and music by William Boyce. No XIII of 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 57799] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[With a vignette of a festival] Yorkshire.
G.B. [George Bickham.] Fecit.
[n.d., 1748.]
Three engraved sheets, each 255 x 160mm (10 x 6").
An engraved-text desciption of Yorkshire, the first page surmounted with a vignette of a street market with a high-wire acrobat, musicians and a dancing dog, and the last page with a vignette of a militia armed with swords and staves. It was published in George Bickham's 'The British Monarchy or a Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain'.
[Ref: 45604] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

England's Glory. A View & Representation of ye Battle of Zenta, fought on ye 11th of Sept.ber 1696 [...]
Bickham junr sculpsit
Publish'd by W. Rayner Nov.r 22 1735 Acc.ing to Act of Parliament
Engraving, sheet 355 x 480mm (14 x 18¾"). Folds. Very slight hole in fold.
The Battle of Zenta, fought on 11 September 1697 near Senta (now part of Serbia). In a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683-99), Habsburg Imperial forces routed the Ottoman army as it crossed the river Tisa, as shown here. Engraving from the popular patriotic series depicting British naval achievements, 'England's Glory'. It was published to promote a pro-war (with Spain) agenda, and to undermine Prime Minister Robert Walpole's policy of avoiding military conflict, by William Rayner (1699 - 1761).
[Ref: 41181] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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