Grosvenor Prints

[Astronomy] To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, &c. This Magazine is most humbly Dedicated by the Proprietors.
B. Cole sc.
[London: John Hinton, c.1752.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on left, small tear taped, paper toned.
The prince (later George III) is given a lesson in astronomy, an adaptation of Le Bas's engraving of Galileo giving a demonstration to the Doge of Venice. The frontispiece from an issue of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62376] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dear Old Boz.]
[Engraved by Herbert Sedcole after Sir Edwin Landseer.]
London, Henry Graves & Co. Sept.r 2nd 1889. Copyright.
Proof mixed-method engraving on chine collé. 215 x 215mm (8½ x 8½"), Printsellers' Association blindstamp lower left. With original descriptive text leaf.
Portrait of a favourite terrier of Queen Victoria; the picture was painted in 1865. After Edwin Landseer (1802 - 1873); from 'The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., "Library Edition"', issued in parts.
[Ref: 23479] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

University College Hospital, St Pancras. For the Relief of Poor Sick and Maimed Persons, and for the Delivery of Poor Married Lying-in Women... Festival in Aid of the Funds of the Hospital. Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street. Tuesday, June 9th, 1840.
Cole, Sculp. 54 Theobald's Road, Holborn.
Engraving. 360 x 260mm. Repaired tear.
Fundraising ticket.
[Ref: 7159] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Arcangelus Corellius.
J. Cole Sc. [after Hugh Howard]
[n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving, fine dark image. 255 x 191mm. 10 x 7½". Repaired tears.
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music. Corelli began in Paris from where he went on to travel and accepted many invitations from nobility, including his stay at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni. He is remembered for his precision and stylistic playing which he passed onto his pupils. His compositions for the instrument mark and epoch in the history of chamber music, influencing Johann Sebastian Bach. One of several engravings based on the famous portrait of Corelli by Hugh Howard (Oxford, Music Faculty collection).
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17217] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian Astronomy.] Comparaison de divers monuments ofrant tous le Sacrifice d'un boeuf Typhonien a l'Époque du Solstice d'Hiver.
A. Nicolet. Litho. de Desportes, Pont-neuf, 15.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. 490 x 300mm (19¼ x 12"). Creased from being folded.
A number of Astronomical illustrations from the temples at Dendera & the Tombs of the Kings, Thebes.
[Ref: 16707] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Diamond Cutters Wheel and Mill.
B. Cole sculp.
Engrav'd for the New Universal Magazine, 1754.
Engraving. Plate: 230 x 195mm (9 x 7¾"). Creasing as normal. Foxing.
A view in a diamond cutters workshop showing several men at work.
[Ref: 44597] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A plan of the intended New Road from Paddington to Islington.
B. Cole sculp.
[London: Gentleman's Magazine, 1756.]
Engraved map. 165 x 480mm (6½ x 19"). Split in the binding fold.
The plan for London's first bypass, building Euston Road & Pentonville Road to allow the Duke of Grafton a better route to drive his cattle to Smithfield Market. Among the features marked are: Oxford Street; Berkeley, Grosvenor, Cavendish, Hanover, Red Lion and Lincoln's Inn Squares; Middlesex Hospital, Foundlings Hospital, Montague House (later the British Museum), St Giles's Church, 'Farthing Pye House' (a pub known for its pies, frequented by William Blake) and White Conduit House (future home to the White Conduit Club, later reorganised as the Marylebone Cricket Club).
[Ref: 51450] £160.00

[George I] O! fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint Anglicanos. Georgius D.G. Mag. Br. Fr. Et. Hib. Rex. F.D. On the Picture of the King by Joseph Addison Esq. This Image on the Medal place Wtih its Bright Round on Titles graced And Stamp.st on British Coins shall Live To Richest Ores the Value give. Or wrought within ye Curious Mould Shape and Adorn the running Gold. To bear this Form the Genial Sun. Has daily since his Course begun. Rejoyced the Metal to Resine. And Ripen'd the Peruvian Mine.
J. Cole Sculp.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 159mm. 8¼ x 6¼". False margins added
Portrait of George I (1660-1727) as a design for a coin/medal. George was the first King to oversee the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694. With verses by Joseph Addison below.
[Ref: 24868] £320.00

Utilis et Bellorum & Belli rebus agendis. Georgius August. Princeps Wallæ.
J.Cole sculp.
[n.d., c.1720-43]
Mezzotint and etching, 170 x 95mm. Glued to backing sheet along top edge.
George II (1683-1760) while Prince of Wales (1714-27). Frontispiece to a book on grammar. By James Cole (1715-74, fl.).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1324] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Kensington Palace.]
Robt. T. Pritchett. Herbert Sedcole. [pencil signatures.]
[n.d., c.1890.]
Etching on india, signed by the artist and engraver. 250 x 420mm (9¾ x 16½") very large margins. A few foxing spots and a small tear, all in the backing paper.
A view of the east facade of Kensington Palace, the 'Round Pond' of Kensington Gardens in the foreground. Behind is the spire of St Mary Abbots Church.
[Ref: 43286] £260.00

The Grand Master of the Order of Knights of Malta.
B. Cole fc. [c.1780.]
Engraving, sheet 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). False margins added.
Unidentified magazine plate of the Master of the Knights of St John.
[Ref: 33983] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Girl with guitar.]
W.S. Coleman [in image]
[n.d., c.1880]
Etching in original frame, scarce with large margins; platemark 460 x 350mm (18 x 13¾"). Outside of frame 820 x 665mm (32¼ x 26"). Unexamined out of frame; paper tone. Remarqué of branches below image.
Victorian genre scene by William Stephen Coleman (c.1829-1904).
[Ref: 28092] £420.00

The Devises Motto's &c used by the Parliament Officers on Standards, Banners, &c. in the late Civil Wars; taken from an Original Manuscript done at that time: Proper to be bound up with the Lord Clarendon's History.
[after Benjamin Cole.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, bisected horizontally. Sheets 345 x 400mm (13½ x 15¾") & 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, top sheet mounted on album paper.
A sheet of 48 illustrations of Parliamentarian banners, each with a caption, published in an edition of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England', first published 1704. A version in the British Library, engraved by James Cole with the same images but a different title, has an engraved text at the bottom. Both were copied from a broadside by Benjamin Cole (see item 42951).
See BM: 1917,1208.2338 for James Cole's variant.
[Ref: 42950] £950.00

The Devises Motto's &c used by the Parliament Officers on Standards, Banners, &c. in the late Civil Wars; taken from an Original Manuscript done at that time, now in ye hands of Benja.n Cole of Oxford: Published at ye Desire of divers Gentleman to be Bound upw.h ye Lord Clarendon's Hist.ry. Price 5.sh
Sold by Benj. Cole in Bear Lane [n.d., c.1710.]
Engraved broadside with contemporary hand colour. Dissected into four sheets, each 325 x 195mm (12¾ x 7¾"), plus original title 35 x 390mm (1¼ x 15¼") Trimmed, laid on album paper, title folded in half and pasted above top left section.
A very scarce sheet of 48 illustrations of Parliamentarian banners, each with a caption. Although the title states the sheet was to be issued in an edition of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England' (first published 1704), the colour suggests this example was a separate issue. The printed area is complete, but the four sections have been pasted in the wrong order, with the caption to Captain Trenchard's banner in the wrong place. The British Museum example has similar (but not identical) colour, is bisected horizontally and has Cole's publication line damaged.
BM: 1852,0214.554-555.
[Ref: 42951] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

[Pheasant Shooting - An Awkward Dilemma]
[Painted by Charles Whymper] [Etched by Herbert Sedcole]
London Published Novr. 1st. 1890 by Fine Art Society [limited] 148 New Bond Street. W.
Etching 610 x 415mm.
Remarqued proof [foxhound] ltd. 150 - The shooting disrupted by foxhunting.
[Ref: 6605] £590.00

To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, This Plate of his Maj.ties Ship the Royal George is most humbly Inscribed.
T. Baston delin: J. Cole Sculp.
[n.d., c.1714.]
Engraving. Sheet 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"). Mss borders added through image from a print screen.
'Royal George' was a short-lived name for the Royal Navy 100-gun ship of the line launched in 1675 as 'Royal James'. After the Glorious Revolution she was renamed 'Victory', then 'Royal George' in 1714, on the Hanoverian accession, but reverted to 'Victory' the following year. She burned to the waterline in 1721 and was broken up.
[Ref: 55056] £680.00

The School Mistress. In every village marked with little spire/ Embower'd in trees and hardly known to fame/ There dwells in lowly shed and mean attire/ A matron old whom we school mistress name/ Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame./ They grieven sore in piteous durance pent/ Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame/ And oft times on vagaries idly bent/ For unkempt hair or task unconn'd are sorely shent./ Vide. Shenston's School Mistress.
F. Wheatly R.A pinx.t. J. Coles sculp.t
London, Publish'd March 20th 1794, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Engraving, 430 x 505mm (16¾ x 20"). Small margins.
A scene from 'The Schoolmistress', a poem by William Shenstone (1714-1763).
[Ref: 48518] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Italian Shepherds.]
C.C. In.t et f. Roma 1850.
Etching, scarce. Sheet: 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed.
A countryside scene showing Italian farmers looking after sheep by a large hut .
[Ref: 47729] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The South East Prospect of ye Cathedral Church of St Paul London.
B. Cole sculp.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of St Pauls from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45309] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

La Grande Sultane. Liefhebbers van iets raars, beschouwd eens dees Sultane...
I. Cole Fc: et ex: Amstelo dami. Cum Privil: Ord: Holl: et West-frisice. [n.d., c.1700.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. Plate: 255 x 180mm (9 x 7''). Small margins.
A portrait of an Eastern sultana in ornate robes and holding a flower.
[Ref: 48890] £320.00

The Surgeon's Theatre in the Old Bailey. 80 Feet in Front.
B. Cole Sculp.
[n.d. c.1756.]
Etching and engraving with large margins. Plate 204 x 349mm (8 x 13¾").
Elevation of front of building, with steps leading to entrance from left and right. The Surgeons' Hall stood in the Old Bailey, on the site of the New Sessions House, till 1809. A plate from Maitland's "The History of London".
[Ref: 29410] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Tower Street Ward with their Divisions into Parishes according to a New Survey..
B. Cole sciulp.
[London, 1756.]
Engraved map with later hand colour. 370 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾"). Thread margins.
A plan of Tower Street Ward with the important buildings shown as elevations, including All Hallows Barking, and Custom House. It is dedicated to the local alderman, Thomas Chitty of the Salter Livery Company, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1759. Underneath are elevations of East India House in Leadenhall Street and Westminster Hall, neither of which are in the ward. From Maitland's Survey of London.
[Ref: 54193] £140.00

A New and Accurate Plan of the City of Westminster The Dutchy of Lancaster and Placed Adjacent.
B. Cole Sculpsit.
[1756.]
Hand-coloured engraved map. Plate: 240 x 375mm (9½ x 14¾''). Marking.
A map of Westminster which shows street names, notable buildings and outer lying villages such as Marylebone, Tottenham Court.
[Ref: 48576] £95.00

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 136

Catalogue 135

Catalogue 134

Advanced Search