Grosvenor Prints

Boys and Dogs.
Painted by T. Gainsborough R.A. Engraved by Henry Dawe.
London, Published July 1st 1824, by W.J. White, 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn.
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Slight foxing.
Mezzotint of Thomas Gainsborough's 1783 painting 'Two Shepherd Boys with Dogs Fighting' (Kenwood House). Inspired by William Hogarth's 'The Four Stages of Cruelty', the scene is presented as a grand anti-pastoral with the boys contravening morality both in neglecting their flocks and encouraging their dogs to fight.
Ex: collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35228] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Benyon De Beauvoir.]
Painted by S. Lane Esq.r. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Private plate mezzotint, proof before title. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11), with very large margins.
Richard Benyon De Beauvoir (1769-1854), MP and High Sheriff of Berkshire. The richest commoner in Berkshire, he contributed £5,000 for the foundation of the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 1839, with a ward being named after him.
[Ref: 55226] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Emma's Favourite.
W. Thomas Esq.r Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculp.t.
Published for the proprietor by T. Bird, 40, Wigmore St.t May 1.st 1830.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5''). Trimmed.
An interior scene showing a young girl holding a kitten while sitting on her mother's lap.
[Ref: 50287] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. No.46.
Tielemann, Del.t H. Dawe Sculp.
Published by H. Dawe, 5, Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, Dec.1.1830. R. Ackermann, Strand & C. Tilt, Fleet Street.
Rare mezzotint, with large margins. Plate 197 x 152mm. 7¾ x 6". Staining top left.
Prince George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), grandson of George III. He was an army officer and served as commander-in-chief of the British Army from 1856 to 1895. This print was published in 1830, the year his eductaion in Britain began after moving from Hanover.
NPG: D1195.
[Ref: 24237] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Girl in Greek dress with peacock]
Painted by J. Northcote R.A. Engraved by H. Dawe
[n.d., c.1810]
Mezzotint with very large margins, rare; platemark 505 x 315mm (19¾ x 12½").
Girl in Greek dress, with a peacock to her right and a plant to her left. After James Northcote (1746-1831), painter and author. The engraver Henry Dawe (1790-1848) was part of a family of engravers, who like his brother George spent many years working in St Petersburg. Unfortunately during his career the technique of mezzotint, demonstrated so well here, went into decline as it was supplanted by lithography and engraving onto steel plates, both of which enabled publishers to make many good impressions whereas mezzotints yielded very few.
Ex: collection of the late Hon C. Lennox-Boyd;
[Ref: 36610] £460.00

Hermitage.
Rt. Johnston delt. H. Dawe Sculp.
[London, 1815.]
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 180 x 215mm. 7 x 8½". Sheet trimmed.
View of the Hermitage (now a museum) on the banks of the River Neva, Saint Petersburg, Russia. After Robert Johnston (1783 - 1839), for his 'Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the County of Poland, along the southern shores of the Baltic'.
Abbey Travel: 15, 8. BL: 001889216. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18587] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Idle Child. Who can behold this face, so spoil'd by sullen looks [/] And not dislike the Child who thus dislikes his Books.
Painted by T. Ducheé. Engraved by H. Dawe.
London, Published March, 1825, by Zach.h Sweet, 38, Chancery Lane.
Rare mezzotint. Sheet: 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9''). Trimmed, tear in title & crease left corner.
A portrait of a miserable child, relunctant to do his lessons, on the table next to him is a chalkboard on which a teacher has written 'Dunce' and a bundle of sticks used on naughty children. Open book on desk "Bad boy not to mind his book and learn to be wise"
[Ref: 50056] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The late Mr. Gilbert Ives of Cambridge. Died. Juny 16th. 1825. Aged 72.
Painted by Mr. Strutt. Engraved by H.y Dawe.
Published Dec.r 1825 by W. Mason, Profile Painter & Printseller, Cambridge.
Coloured mezzotint. Plate 380 x 279mm. 15 x 11". Trimmed to plate along lower edge; foxing in lower part and general paper tone.
Half-length portrait of Gilbert Ives (c.1753-1825), bookseller of Cambridge, sitting in chair, three-quarter to the right, looking towards the viewer, with wig, spectacles in one hand, the other hand under double-breasted striped waistcoat.
[Ref: 24355] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Margherita Luti] Fornarina. N.º 79.
T.A. Ingres. Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculp.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
A half-length portrait of a woman in Renaissance costume, one hand touching a plant growing in an urn. This is an adapted detail of the painting 'Raphael and La Fornarina' by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1813), which originally depicted the artist with his mistress (Margherita Luti, 'The Baker') on his knee.
[Ref: 62201] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Leach, Knt. Vice Chancellor of England
Drawn by C. Penny. Engraved by H. Dawe
London Pub.d Sep.r 12th by Zach.h Sweet 38 Chancery Lane
Fine and rare mezzotint, platemark 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Large margins.
Sir John Leach (1760-1834), politician and lawyer. Beginning his career as a whig MP for Seaford in Sussex, Leach developed a close relationship with the prince regent, becoming his first legal officer (seen as a betrayal by whigs). Leach was instrumental in the divorce proceedings against queen Caroline following the scandal of her affair with Bergami, and was widely criticised in caricatures and poems (he was the 'leech' of Shelley's 'Oedipus Tyrannus') for his perceived deceit. Leach never achieved his great ambitions of becoming lord chancellor and obtaining a peerage.
[Ref: 37372] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mazeppa Pursued by Wolves.] [&][Mazeppa Surrounded by Horses.]
[Vernet, Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculpt.]
[London, Published by H. Dawe, 6 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, Jan.1832.]
Pair of hand-coloured mezzotints. Sheet: 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½") Trimmed to images. Slight creasing.
A pair of dramatic illustrations to Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa' published in 1819. The poem tells the story of Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1640-1709) who, having been found having an affair with his count's wife, is strapped naked to the back of a horse which rides through the wilds of Eastern Europe. One scene shows Mazeppa lying on the ground, his horse having fallen to the ground, surrounded by wild horses, the other shows him, tied to the horse which gallops through the woods pursued by wolves.
[Ref: 41911] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mazeppa.
Vernet, Pinx.t. H. Dawe Sculpt.
[London, Published by H. Dawe, 6 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, Jan.1832.]
Pair Mezzotints. Sheets: 180 x 150mm (7 x 6"). Trimmed.
A pair of dramatic illustrations to Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa' published in 1819. The poem tells the story of Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa (1640-1709) who, having been found having an affair with his count's wife, is strapped naked to the back of a horse which rides through the wilds of Eastern Europe. One scene shows Mazeppa lying on the ground, his horse having fallen to the ground, surrounded by wild horses, the other shows him, tied to the horse which gallops through the woods pursued by wolves.
[Ref: 41937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

''Poculum elevatum.'' From an Original Picture in the Possession of Jos.h French Esq.r, Windsor. Proof.
Painted by E. Bristow Engraved by H.D. Dawe.
Pub.d Jan.y 1836 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town. Ackermann & Co. Strand & C. Tilt, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired tear.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed as monks toasting each other with wine.
[Ref: 59168] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Roser.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom.
A singerie print, with monkeys in human clothes playing cribbage.
[Ref: 62164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[First King.]
Painted by E. Bristow. Engraved by H. Dawe.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Scarce mezzotint with etching, in fine hand colour. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed close to image on three sides, losing title at bottom, small scrape in top edge.
A singerie print, with monkeys playing draughts. One is dressed in a soldier's uniform.
[Ref: 62163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Disturbed by the Night Mare.
Painted by Theodore Lane. Engraved by Henry Dawe.
London, Pub.d by J. Bulcock, 163 Strand, July 1. 1828, & at Paris by H. Rittner, Boulevard Montmatre.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 445 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, stains in unprinted area.
Pranksters tie a broken down white nag to a house's knocker to scare the owner.
[Ref: 54306] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To the Inhabitants of Nottingham & Nottinghamshire, This Plate of their justly celebrated Market Place is most respectfully inscribed by their obliged and faithful Servamt W. Dearden.
Drawn by W. Goodacre. Engraved by H. Dawe.
Published July 1837, by W. Dearden, Nottingham.
Mezzotint. Plate 324 x 451mm. 12¾ x 17¾". Cut right up to the plate, slight staining.
The Exchange Building standing proudly in the Market Square of Nottingham. The building was built to act as the meeting place of the Corporation of Nottingham, and it was demolished in 1926. A bustling street sceen with carriage, carts, dtreet vendors and people. The shop signs of each premises is clearly printed, allowing an identification of the various businesses in operation in the area at that time.
[Ref: 25006] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

South View of Nottingham Castle, As it appear'd on the Evening of the 10.th Oct.r 1831.
Painted by Parker. Engraved by H. Dawe.
Published by Geo. Simons Nottingham. [n.d. c.1831.]
Mezzotint. 203 x 267mm. 8 x 10½".
In 1831 the Duke of Newcastle opposed the Reform Bill which drove rioters to attack the ducal mansion setting part of the building on fire.
Fitzwilliam Museum: P.363-R / 130638.
[Ref: 21902] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Oriental Love Letter.
Destouches Pinx.t H. Dawe Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured mezzotint with large margins. Plate 185 x 152mm (7¼ x 6")
A woman in oriental dress leaning out of a window and handing a token to a young man who sits below, on a bench against the wall, holding a lute; garden with a minaret in the background to left.
[Ref: 30433] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Paganini.
H. Dawe Sculp
Published for the proprietor by T Bird Cranbourne Street [c.1831].
Mezzotint, sheet 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"). Slight mark on right. Trimmed inside platemark.
Half-length portrait of Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), celebrated Italian violinist and composer. He embarked on a tour of Europe in 1829, reaching London in 1831 where he played to rapturous crowds before embarking on a tour of Ireland and Scotland that same year (in Ireland he pleased the audience by premiering a work based on the Irish folktune 'St Patrick's Day'). Plagued by ill-health, which he treated with mercury and opium, Paganini's gaunt appearance appealed to the romantic sensibilities of his audiences. He was known for his virtuoso playing but also composed music, mostly for to perform himself.
[Ref: 39586] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Phillips as Claudia. In Rienzi. Claud. Me thought a bridal should be merrier: not merrier but happier. Act IV. Scene 4.
Painted from the Life and Drawn on Stone by H. Dawe. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by Mr. Dawe, 6, Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town & C. Bird, 4C, Wigmore St. Cavendish Sqre.
Lithograph on india. Sheet 495 x 343mm. 19½ x 13½".
Possibly Eliza Phillips; famous for her Wagnerian roles.
[Ref: 15717] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Cyrillic name] Lieutenant General Kourouta.
Painted by order of H.I.M. Alexander 1st by G.Dawe Esq.re. Member of the Royal Acad.y of Arts, London, that of St Petersburg &c &c: Engraved on Steel by Hen.y Dawe London.
London. Published May 1st 1825 for the Proprietor by Mess.rs Colnaghi [Russian publishers in Cyrillic].
Mezzotint. 370 x 280mm.
Dimitry D. Kuruta (1770-1833). George Dawe (1781-1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1582] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cyrillic name] General Count Wittgenstein.
Painted by order of H.I.M. Alexander 1st by G.Dawe Esq.re. Member of the Royal Acad.y of Arts, London, that of St Petersburg &c &c: Engraved on Steel by Hen.y Dawe London.
London. Published May 1st 1825 for the Proprietor by Mess.rs Colnaghi [Russian publishers in Cyrillic].
Mezzotint. 370 x 280mm.
Pyotr Kh. (Ludwig Adolf Peter) Wittgenstein (1769-1843). George Dawe (1781-1829) spent from 1819 to 1828 in St Petersburg, invited by Tsar Alexander to paint the portraits of the superior officers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Over 300 of these are in the Hermitage Museum.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 1591] £230.00

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Hermitage.
R. Johnston del.t. H. Dawe Sculp.
Pub. 16 June by J.J. Stockdale, 41 Pall Mall..
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 190 x 265mm (7¼ x 10½").
A view of the Hermitage, St Petersburg, from the Neva, , from Robert Johnston's 'Travels through part of The Russian Empire and the Country of Poland along the Southern Shores of the Baltic'.
Abbey Travel 15.
[Ref: 38991] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward Taylor, Professor of Music in Gresham College. Sheriff of Norwich in 1820.] Proof B L.
Painted by R.S. Tait Esq. Engraved by H.E. Dawe.
Published by Charles Muskett, Norwich & by J.E. Nickolls, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before title. 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼") very large margins.
Edward Taylor (1784-1863), a singer, lecturer & writer on music and Gresham Professor of Music. He translated many of Louis Spohr's operas from German to English.
See NPG: D6932 for published state.
[Ref: 42112] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Taylor, Professor of Music in Gresham College. Sheriff of Norwich in 1820.
Painted by R.S. Tait Esq. Engraved by H.E. Dawe.
Published by Charles Muskett, Norwich & by J.E. Nickolls, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint on india. Plate 356 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Fine impression.
Edward Taylor (1784-1863) was a lecturer and writer on music; Professor of music in Gresham College.
NPG: D6932.
[Ref: 20091] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vesuvius. [No 5.]
[Engraved by H. Dawe, from an Original painting in his possession.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 110 x 145mm (4¼ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing inscriptions.
View of the erupting volcano at night from the bay, with a plume of smoke and blazing ash emerging from the funnel, made more dramatic by the colour printing. In the water is a fortress connected by a spit to rocky land.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34596] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vesuvius. No 5.
Engraved by H. Dawe, from an Original painting in his possession.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Mezzotint with large margins. 130 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½").
View of the erupting volcano at night from the bay, with a plume of smoke and blazing ash emerging from the funnel. In the water is a fortress connected by a spit to rocky land.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34595] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Vesuvius.
Engraved by H. Dawe, from an Original painting in his possession.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Mezzotint, sheet 125 x 160mm. 5 x 6¼". Trimmed within plate, glued to album sheet at corners. Glue stains.
A view of Mount Vesuvius erupting, seen from the Bay of Naples. Numbered 'No.5.' lower right.
[Ref: 11801] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Wandering Musician. No.97.
Dictricy Pinx.t H. Dawe Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 190 x 151mm (7½ x 6"). Cut inside plate.
Dutch scene: a man in the centre playing a viola with a pipe lodged in his hat; behind a tavern with two women conversing; to the right behind the man stands a small boy in the shadows.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34633] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Effect of a Water Spout at Sea. N.o 109.
J.F. Ellis. Pinx.t. H. Dawe. Sculp.
Pub.d April 1832 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town, R. Ackermann Strand & C. Tilt Fleet Street
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½).
A view of a ship on rough seas sailing away from a waterspout.
[Ref: 57034] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Mountain Dew, or Donald Wi' The True Glenlivet.
Painted by W. Macarthney. Engraved by Hen.y Dawe.
Published Oct. 2nd 1826 by Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill London.
Extremely rare mezzotint. Sheet: 355 x 245mm (14 x 9¾''). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of a man enjoying whisky from a large jug. George Smith founded the (illegal) Glenlivet distillery in 1822, George IV famously asked to try some of the whisky during his state tour of Scotland in August 1822. In 1824 the law changed and his Glenlivet distillery became the first legal producer of whisky.
[Ref: 51027] £450.00

[John Wilson, Esq.r Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.]
J. Watson Gordon Pinx.t Edinburgh 1829. Engraved by H. Dawe 7 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town.
Published March 1.st 1833 by M.r A.W. Maclean Edinburgh.
Mezzotint, proof before title. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Mounted in album paper at sides, some spotting.
Seated portrait of John Watson (1785-1854), a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, who used the pseudonym Christopher North to write for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
[Ref: 62288] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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