Grosvenor Prints

Bismarck.
Engraved by W. Holl, from a photograph.
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Trimmed.

Colin Campbell, 'William Nicholson: The Graphic Works' (p.65)
[Ref: 41244] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Bonnet. This eminent naturalist was born at Geneva in 1720, in a family originally from France; but, disliking dry grammatical studies, his father provided him with a domestic tutor...Public honours were rendered to his remains by his fellow citizens, and his funeral eulogy was pronounced by his illustrious friend and kinsman M. de Saussure.
Holl sculp.t
[n.d. c.1800.]

Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) the Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, born at Geneva.
Wellcome: 556 (not in).
[Ref: 28751] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

T. F. Buxton.
Painted by H. P. Briggs. Esq. R. A. Engraved by W. Holl.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d., c.1800.]

[Ref: 63191] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Byron sometimes Biron [facsimile signatures.]
C. Sanders. W. Holl.
[n.d. c.1850.]

George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23996] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Caxton.
Holl sculp.
[n.d., 1819.]
Stipple set in letterpress. Sheet 230 x 150mm (9 x 6").
A miniature oval portrait of merchant William Caxton (1422-1491) who introduced the printing press to England, published in the 'Biographical Magazine containing portraits and characters of eminent and ingenious persons'.
[Ref: 59832] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Captain James Cook.
Painted by N. Dance Esq. R.A. Engraved by W. Holl.
Fisher, Son & Co. London, & Paris 1837.
Small margins.
A portrait of explorer Captain James Cook (1728-1779), the first European to visit Hawaii and who mapped the east coast of Australia and the complete outline of New Zealand for the first time. Portrait shows him looking at a chart of the Pacific.
[Ref: 45731] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Les Amours trainant aux pieds de Venus le Sanglier qui tua Adonis.
Westall pinxit. Will.m Holl sculpsit.
A Paris chez Bance rue S. Denis, No. 175 pres celle aux Ours.
Tears going into plate at top. Repaired with acid free tape.
A classical scene showing two cherubs pulling the boar which killed Adonis towards Venus.
[Ref: 48093] £360.00

[Drake. From an original picture in the possession of Sir T.F. Eliott Drake Bart. of Nutwell Court near Exeter.]
[Engraved by W. Holl. Under the Superindendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.]
[London: Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.]

The explorer and vice-admiral Francis Drake (c.?150-96), first English circumnavigator and second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
[Ref: 37737] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Drake. From an original picture in the possession of Sir T.F. Eliott Drake Bart. of Nutwell Court near Exeter.
Engraved by W. Holl. Under the Superindendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
London: Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.
Tear in top edge taped.
The explorer and vice-admiral Francis Drake (c.?150-96), first English circumnavigator and second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
[Ref: 37736] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Garrick.
Holl sculp [after Robert Edge Pine].
[n.d., 1819.]

An oval miniature portrait of the actor, published in the 'Biographical Magazine containing portraits and characters of eminent and ingenious persons'.
[Ref: 58654] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Grecian Maid. 'Dreams of bright days that never can return.'
Painted by S. Newton, R.A. Border by J. Marchant. Engraved by W. Holl.
[n.n., c.1850.]
Sheet trimmed.
Portrait of a woman in an ornate oval frame, her hands clasped at her waist, wearing rings and bracelet. Illustration from 'The Art Journal', after Gilbert Stuart Newton (1794 - 1835).
[Ref: 15862] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

John Harrison. From an Engraving by Tassaert; published in 1768, after a Painting by King. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. [n.d. c.1835.]
Hole in the sky area.
John Harrison (c.1693-1776), clockmaker celebrated for his work in marine timekeeping. He was the maker of five innovative and ground-breaking timekeepers and perfected the chronometer, winning the prize for determining Longitude at sea in 1773. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 24815] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Warren Hastings.
Holl, sculp.
Trimmed from larger sheet.
Portrait of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), the first Governor-General of India, 1773-85. He was famously impeached for corruption in 1787 but was acquitted in 1795. In 1814 he was made a Privy Councillor.
[Ref: 55327] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Hawkesworth.
[After Sir Joshua Reynolds.] Holl, sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Slight indentation of plate through image.

Kivell p.141.
[Ref: 64418] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Felicia Hemans [facsimile signature].
W.E. West pinx.t. Engraved by W. Holl.
Joseph Rogerson London [n.d., 1836.].
Trimmed to platemark
Portrait of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), poet, painted in 1827 by American artist William Edward West (1788-1859). Her poem 'Casabianca' (1826) is better known by its first line, 'The Boy stood on the Burning Deck'; 'The Homes of England' (1827) is the origin of the phrase 'stately home'.
[Ref: 51792] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Felicia Hemans [facsimile signature].
W.E. West pinx.t. Engraved by W. Holl.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris.
Trimmed to platemark
Portrait of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), poet, painted in 1827 by American artist William Edward West (1788-1859). Her poem 'Casabianca' (1826) is better known by its first line, 'The Boy stood on the Burning Deck'; 'The Homes of England' (1827) is the origin of the phrase 'stately home'.
[Ref: 51950] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hugh Myddelton. This public-spirited character was a native of Denbigh, in North Wales, and afterwards became a goldsmith of London [...]
Holl sculp.t

Sir Hugh Myddelton (1556-1631), goldsmith and entrepreneur. Early in the seventeenth century Myddelton became involved in the successful project to bring a supply of water to London, which was still the most important source of piped water into the metropolis in the early nineteenth century, when this print was made. In 1605 an act of parliament was obtained to bring water from springs near Hertford to north London (a distance of nearly forty miles). Myddelton's involvement is not recorded until 1609, when he took the lead in the project which was completed in 1613. The establishment of the New River was Myddelton's main claim to fame, and he was involved with the running of the company for the rest of his life, although he was also involved in mining and land draining projects. With letterpress describing Myddelton's involvement with the New River project.
For an earlier scene of Myddelton observing the first issue of the New River, see ref. 28983.
[Ref: 35270] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Penn. [William Penn, the celebrated founder of Pennsylvania, son of admiral sir William Penn, was born on Tower-hill, October 14, 1644. About the age of fifteen, he became a student of Christ-church, Oxford; but having early inbibed strong religious impressions, through the preaching of Thomas Loe, on of the people callled quakers...]
Holl. sculp.
[n.d.,c.1819.]

Portrait of William Penn (1644 - 1718), English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate of democracy and religious freedom, was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements in the state.
[Ref: 64110] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Humphry Repton.]
[S. Shelley del. W. Holl fecit.]
[London Publish'd June 4th 1802, by J. Taylor, High Holborn.]
Thread margins, laid on album sheet. Foxing.
A half-length portrait of Humphry Repton (1752-1818), the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, eventually published as the frontispiece to his 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening' (Abbey Scenery 390). A very fine impression.
[Ref: 55312] £660.00

Sir Titus Salt, Bart.
Engraved by W. Holl, from a Photograph by Appleton & Co., Bradford.
[n.d., c.1870.]

Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), textile manufacturer, politician & philanthropist. Based in Bradford, Salt set up a wool business with his father and by 1850 owned five mills. He set up the model village Saltaire for his workforce which was considered a remarkable experiment in industrial and social relations. It is estimated that over 100,000 people lined the streets for his funeral.
[Ref: 43390] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

John Baron Eldon, Lord High Chancellor.
Engraved by W. Holl from a Drawing by W.H. Behnes, taken in Lincoln Inn Hall, 1817.
London, Published Apr. 1. 1818 by R. Cribb & Son, No. 288 Holborn.
Foxing, old ink mss.

Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire.
[Ref: 46902] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Selden. From the original of Mytens in The Bodleian Gallery, Oxford.
Drawn by H. Crease, & Engraved (with Permission) by W. Holl.
London, Published March 1 1815 by Lackington, Allen & Co and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on right. Toning and light foxing around lower and left margins. Creasing to upper left corner.
John Selden (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, called to the Bar in 1612. He wrote dissertations on legal theory, angering James I with his 'History of Tythes' (1618) but redeeming himself with 'Mare clausum', which argued that James had full sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. He became MP for Oxford University and sided with Parliament during the Civil War. Throughout his life Selden studied oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese; after his death his extensive library of books was donated to the Bodleian. In 2008 the historian Robert Batchelor rediscovered an early 17th century Chinese map of the Far East among the bequest, now known as the Selden Map. Engraving after a portrait by Daniel Mytens (c.1590-1647), Dutch portraitist in London by 1618, who was the leading court portraitist in the city until the arrival of van Dyck in 1632.
[Ref: 53819] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[William Shakespeare] ''The Earth hath bubbles, as the Water hath, and This Is of them.''
W. Holl sculp.t.
London, Published by A. Wivell, 40 Castle Street, East 1827.
Trimmed within plate at sides.
A full-face portrait of William Shakespeare, set in an oval surrounded by text in old English, Greek and Latin.
[Ref: 61088] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. From the original of Mark Gerards, in the Collection of John Shelley Sidney Esq.r
Drawn by W. Satchwell & Engraved (with Permission) by W. Holl.
London, Published July 20.th 1816, by Lackington, Allen & Co. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.
Narrow margins.

Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 27269] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

James Sims, M. & L.L.D. Pres. Med. Soc. London.
Painted by S. Medley. Engrav'd by W. Holl.
Publish'd October 1, 1804, by H.D. Symonds.
Few marks top left off image.
Dr James Sims (1741-1820) was a physician and president of the Medical Society of London.
W: 2742.
[Ref: 24614] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hans Sloane M.D.
W. Holl.
A. Fullarton & Co. London & Edinburgh [n.d., c.1840.]
Small margins except top.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753), physician and botanist, founder of the British Museum. Copied from the mezzotint by Faber after T. Murray.
Not in BM. W 2750-8.
[Ref: 61114] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Smith. From a Medallion executed in the lifetime of A. Smith by Tassie. Under the Superintendance of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Proof.
Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight. Ludgate Street. [n.d., c.1835.]

Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of politial economics. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 52694] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Smith.
From a Medallion executed in the lifetime of A. Smith by Tassie. Engraved by W. Holl.
London, Published by Charles Knight & Co. Ludgate Street. [n.d., c.1835.]

Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of politial economics. Published in the ''The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs'', 1833-7.
[Ref: 15631] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Titus Salt]
[n.d.] Late 19th century.
Some foxing in the left margin.
Seated half portrait of Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876), inclined to the left and left-gazing. Salt was a successful textile manufacturer and business owner in West Yorkshire. He is most famous for the construction of 'Salt's Mill' and the village of Saltaire, near Bradford.
[Ref: 53869] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Josiah Wedgwood.
Engraved by W. Holl [after George Stubbs.]
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Trimmed to platemark.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs.
[Ref: 43401] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Josiah Wedgwood.
Engraved by W. Holl [after George Stubbs.]
William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Trimmed, slight foxing.
A half-length portrait of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95], patron of the artist, George Stubbs.
[Ref: 43400] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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