Grosvenor Prints

[Richard Brent] Poor Old Tom Thumb, now living in Bristol, at the Age of 105. From an Original Picture in the Collection of Mr. Spackman, in the Picture Gallery at Bath.
T. Barker Pinx.t. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London Pub, July 19. 1790, by Mr Spakeman. Bath.
Rare stipple. 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Framed. Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of Richard Brent (1682-1790), a centenarian known as Old Tom Thumb, engraved by William Nelson Gardiner after an oil by Thomas Barker of Bath now in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. A pedlar who worked the Bristol and Bath area, Brent married four times and had 32 children: Barker painted him three times, raising his profile so much that Bath society they raised money to give the pedlar a weekly income in his old age.
Wellcome Library: V0007336.
[Ref: 48806] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid Turned Volunteer: In A Series of Prints, Designed By ***** [Princess Elizabeth]; And Engraved By W.N. Gardiner, With Poetical Illustrations By Thomas Park, F.S.A.
London: Printed By W. Bulmer And Co. Cleveland-Row, For E. Harding, Pall-Mall Court; And Sold By W.N. Gardiner, No. 48, Pall Mall. 1804.
4to, contemporary boards; half-title, title, dedication and preface; frontispiece and 11 fine colour-printed stipple engravings, each with a page of verse, and 1pp. 'Notes'. Boards distressed, inner hinges stained.
A series of charming stipples showing putti with a variety of military motifs after the designs of Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840), third daughter of George III and a talented artist. Thomas Park (1759-1834) was an English antiquary and bibliographer.
[Ref: 59283] £790.00 view all images for this item

Della Crusca. Once more on Virgils tomb I'll muse, And Lauras gemm'd with evening dews; Once more Rome's Via Sacra tread, And ponder on the mighty dead. Vid the Poetry of the World, Vol: I. P.103.
S. Harding delin. W.N. Gardiner, Sculp:
Publish'd as the Act directs, July, 1. 1797 by T. Philipe, Pall Mall Court.
Stipple. Plate 299 x 203mm. 11¾ x 8".
A young man sitting by a tomb or wall, his head resting in his right hand, holding the feathers of a hat in his left hand, within an oval.
[Ref: 25979] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Faulknor Esq. To The Honble. Samuel Barrington Admiral Of The Blue &c. This Portrait Of An Officer Whose Gallant Conduct Has Done So Much Credit To Your Early Patronage Is Most Respectfully Dedicated By Sir Your Most Devoted Humble Servant James Roberts.
James Roberts (Portrait Painter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence) pinxit. H.D. Gardner sculpsit.
Published as the Act directs May 20. 1795, by James Roberts, Duke Street, Westminster.
Stipple engraving with etching. 355 x 260mm.
Fine copy of this memorial portrait of Robert Faulknor [1763 - 1795], captain in the navy. He was shot during an engagement with a French frigate in the West Indes. His memory is kept alive by a monument by Rossi erected at public expense in St. Paul's Cathedral.
[Ref: 4952] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Busick Harwood, M.D. F.R.S. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge.
S. Harding Del. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London. Pub. May 27, 1790, by E. Harding No.132 Fleet Street.
Stipple, open-lettered state. 508 x 381mm (20 x 15"), with very large margins.
Sir Busick Harwood (c.1745-1814) the English physician and anatomist who became Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge. He was educated as an apothecary, but passed as a surgeon and travelled to India, where he cured a nabob who was wounded in the eye. He returned to England where he was knighted and appointed professor of anatomy. His right hand is holding an anatomical model.
NPG: D35557. Wellcome: 1314-1.
[Ref: 30136] £380.00

Falstaff at Justice Shallows Mustering his Recruits. Vide, Second part of Henry IV, Act 3, Sc.3.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. N. Gardiner Sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1792 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple, printed in brown, proof with scratched letter title and no dedication. 415 x 480mm (16¼ x 19"). Repaired tears in margin, one entering title. Creasing bottom left. Very large margins on 3 sides.
Falstaff seated at a table, preparing to interview a timid young man, as another potential recruit is sent away with bowed head. This state lacks the dedication to Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York, owner of the original drawing.
[Ref: 55394] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Falstaff at Justice Shallow's Mustering his Recruits. Vide, Second part of Henry IV, Act 3, Sc.3. From an Original Drawing in the Collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this Plate is by Her Royal Highnesses most Gracious Permission humbly Dedicated by Her Royal Highnesses most obed.t Serv.t Tho.s Macklin.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. N. Gardiner Sculp.t.
London, Published June 1, 1792 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple. Sheet 415 x 480mm (16¼ x 19"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear in unprinted area on left.
Falstaff seated at a table, preparing to interview a timid young man, as another potential recruit is sent away with bowed head.
[Ref: 55395] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

John Pinkerton. Aet XXXVIII. MDCCXCVI.
S. Harding del. Gardiner Sc.
[n.d. c.1796.]
A rare stipple engraving. 180 x 118mm. 7 x 4½". Cut and laid on separate sheet.
John Pinkerton (1758-1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. Born in Edinburgh, he relocated to London in 1781.
[Ref: 14347] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Edvardus Pocock S.T.P. [&] Ficus Arbor, ex Syria olim regione a Celeberrimo Edvardo Pocockio, circiter centum et septuaginta abhine annis, prima guidem sui generis, in Britanniam adveta hodieque in horto Professoris Ling. Heb. apud Oxoniensis, virens et fructuosa: Altitudo Arboris 21 pedes; ambitus trunci in parte superiori, 3 pedes 6 unciae.
S. Harding del. W.N. Gardiner sc. [&] J. Storer, delin et sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1780.] [&] Junu 12.me A.D. 1806.
Stippled portrait; etching and engraving. Sheet 365 x 227mm. 14½ x 9". Laid on album sheet.
Edward Pococke (1604-1691) was an English orientalist and biblical scholar. In 1660, after the Restoration, Pococke imported from the Syria, the famous 'Arbor Pocockiana' the fig-tree.
[Ref: 19750] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Edvardus Pocock S.T.P.]
[S. Harding del. W.N. Gardiner sc.]
[n.d. c.1797.]
Stipple. Proof before all letters, name of sitter pencilled lower left. 185 x 128mm. 7¼ x 5".
Edward Pococke (1604-1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. He was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1629 and the first result of his studies was an edition from a Bodleian Library manuscript of the four New Testament epistles, which were not in the old Syriac canon, and were not contained in European editions of the Peshito.
NPG: D5538.
[Ref: 23643] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Wilson. in the Character of Harriet, in the Comedy of Seduction.
S. Harding delin. W.N. Gardiner sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directsJuly 1st, 1787, by E. Harding, 132 Fleet Street.
Stipple. Platemark: 205 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to platemark.
A portrait of British actress Sarah Harlowe, also known as Sarah Wilson (1765 - 1852), in character as Harriet in Holcroft's 'Seduction'. A quotation from the play is incribed below the title. Harlowe was a popular actress of the London stage around the turn of the 19th century. She was married to actor, playwright and theatre manager Francis Godolphin Waldron. It was at Sadler's Wells theatre, where, as a singer, actor, and performer in pantomimes, Harlowe gained some celebrity, notably for her comedic roles.
[Ref: 35083] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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