Grosvenor Prints

Portrait & Uniform of An American General. A real representation of the Dress of An American Rifleman. Engraved for Barnard's New Complete & Authentic History of England.
Roberts sculp.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1783.]
Engraving. 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate at top, edges worn.
Contemporary depictions of American Revolutionary War figures set within a decorative border. Their hats both have the skull and cross bones representing 'Death or Liberty'.
[Ref: 44610] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Artificial Sphere. Sacred to the Memory of Cap.t Cook.
Robertson f.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, creased.
An illustration of an armillary sphere, with a plinth dedicated to Cook and a sailor holding a chart of Hawaii.
[Ref: 51299] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Church [Austrian Hungarian Empire] and Monastry of the Holy Trinity for Redeeming Slaves, founded and endowed by the Emperor Leopold the Ist.
S. Kleiner delint. H. Roberts sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, 200 x 250mm. 7¾ x 9¾". Repaired tear to image. Slightly soiled.
After Salomon Kleiner (1703 - 1761), topographical draughtsman and engraver, who lived and worked most of his career in Vienna. Between 1723-27 he was working at court in Mainz. From a series of views, numbered '14' upper right.
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 10947] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Juliana Berners in her Costume as Prioress of Sopewell Nunnery near St Albans. The Earliest English Sportswoman and Poetess of the Chase on record.]
[Drawn from an Antique by Brooke. Engraved by Percy Roberts.]
[Published by Sherwood & Co, July 1st 1825.]
Steel engraving, trimmed as a scrap. Printed area 130 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed around decorative border, losing all inscriptions.
Juliana Berners (or Barnes or Bernes, born 1388) was a Benedictine nun credited with writing 'The Boke of Saint Albans', first printed in 1488, one of the earliest collections of treatises about field sports. She is regarded as the first female author in the English language.
[Ref: 53398] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Caledonia in a Reel. [&] Hibernia in a Jig.
Drawn by Adam Buck. Engraved by Roberts & Stadler.
London Published by William Holland, N.o.50, Oxford Street, March. 25. 1801.
Pair colour printed aquatints with stipple. Plate: 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed within lower margins. Marks. Small margins on 3 sides.
Two scenes featuring allegorical figures of Scotland and Ireland dancing.
[Ref: 39478] £490.00 view all images for this item

Celia Retiring. 298.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene showing an old woman, bald without her wig, preparing for bed, aided by a pretty chambermaid. Originally published by the engraver, Piercy Roberts.
Not in BM Satires. BM 1872.1012.5084.
[Ref: 61907] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Celia Retiring. 298.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
Pub'd Decr 29 [c.1805] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London. London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle-row Holborn.
Hand-coloured etching. 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14"). Date scratched out. Narrow margin to left and right.
A scene showing an old woman, bald without her wig, preparing for bed, aided by a pretty chambermaid. Originally published by the engraver, Piercy Roberts.
[Ref: 51871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The South East View of St. Vincent's Rock, taken from the Clifft, behind the Hot-Well near Bristol.
Chatelain Delin. H. Roberts Sculp.
Publish'd April ye 20th 1752 according to Act of Parliament by Hen. Roberts Printseller facing Great Turnstile Holborn.
Engraving, rare. Plate: 265 x 350mm (10½ x 13¾''). Trimmed to plate on lower edge. Small margins.
A view of the River Avon near Bristol.
[Ref: 48061] £320.00

Viscount Deerhurst & The Turnpike-Man. [&] Viscount Deerhurst & Sophia. [&] The Cock Inn, at Sutton.
J. Finlay del. Roberts. sc.
London, Published by J.J. Stockdale, 24, Opera Colonnade 10, Sept.r 1825.
3 Hand-coloured aquatints on one sheet. Sheet: 485 x 200mm (19 x 8''). Paper tone.
Three scenes, the first shows a carriage leaving an inn, the middle shows George Canning, Viscount Deerhurst leaving a wine and brandy shop with his mistress Sophia Dubochet, the final image shows Canning in a boxing fight with a toll road man. Perhaps illustrations to the memoir of Harriette Wilson, sister of Dubochet, which were published in 1825.
[Ref: 51107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Tho.s Cribb.
Eng.d by Percy Roberts from a painting by Sharples.
Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co, May 1. 1824.
Stipple. Sheet size: 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A bust portrait of English bare-knuckle boxer of the 19th century Tom Cribb (1781 - 1848), directed to the left, facing the front, with his left fist raised in front of him. On 10th December 1810, Cribb fought an American, former slave Tom Molineaux, at Shenington Hollow in Oxfordshire. Cribb beat Molineaux in 35 rounds and became World champion.
[Ref: 50252] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Dagnam Park. Near South Weald in Essex the Seat of Henry Muilman Esq.r.
Roberts jun.r fe.
London Printed for Robert Wilkinson N.o 58 Cornhill. [n.d c.1800.]
Very rare & scarce coloured engraving, 270 x 480mm (10¾ x 18´") with large margins. Scuffed, some stains.
A view of the Seat of Henry Muilman in Dagnam Park.
[Ref: 60621] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

England's Lamentation for the loss of Farinelli. (178) [On Reverse] The Thirsty Topper (177).
H Roberts Sculp.
Publish'd accord.g to Act of Parliamen.t 1739.
Engraving, sheet 230 x 135mm (9 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate top and right.
From Henry Robert's, 'Calliope or English Harmony, A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embelish'd with designs adapted to the Subject of each Song, taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters, in the most Correct Manner, with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute [recorder] (proper for all Teachers, Scholars and Lovers of Musick), Printed on a fine Paper, on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any other thing of the kind ever Publish'd.' Music, words and flute accompaniment. Headpiece illustration of a woman sitting in a room with two men in frockcoats, one addressing her, the other standing nearby. Farinelli (1705 –82) was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi; a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. He was persuaded to move to Spain and only sang for the Spanish Royal Family.
[Ref: 61935] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Margaret Finch Queen of the Gypsies at Norwood.
Drawn from the Life by Ino. Straeke 1739. Engrav'd by Hen. Roberts 1742.
Engraving. 240 x 230mm. Trimmed inside plate mark along bottom edge. Stuck on scrap sheet.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was Margaret Finch [d.1740]. A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 5760] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Englands Glory. The Bombarding of Gueldre by a Body of Troups belonging to the King of Prussia. October 1703.
HRoberts sculp.
[London, 1738.]
Coloured engraving. Plate: 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Repaired tear in top edge.
The siege of the Spanish-held city of Geldern by the Prussians, February-December 1703, part of the War of the Spanish Succession. It shows cannon and a mortar firing at the burning city, with cannonballs being heated and gun carriages being repaired. The print was published thirty-five years after the event as part of the anti-Spanish propaganda in the build-up to the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-48).
[Ref: 38179] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To his Highness the Prince of Bouillon, this Plate The Subject St. Gregory before his Elevation to the Royal Chair observing some Children of Great Beauty set up for Sale in the Slave Market at Rome & finding on enquiry they were English Pagans he exclaimed Non Angli sed Amgeli sorent si essent Christiani they would not be English but Angels were they Christians is with Permission Humbly dedicated by His Highness's most Obedient & most Humble Srvant P. Roberts.
Painted by Heny. Singleton. Engraved by Piercy Roberts.
London Published as the Act directs Jany 1st 1801 by P. Roberts 289 Holborn.
Stipple engraving printed in colours, 540 x 670mm. Water stain upper left corner of image.
Saint Gregory I the Great or Pope Saint Gregory I (c. 540 – 604) was pope from September 3, 590 until his death. This illustrates the circumstances of his famous quote 'Non Angli, sed Angeli' ('They are not Angles, but Angels') when he first encountered blue-eyed, blond-haired English boys at a slave market. The incident is said by Bede to have led to his dispatching of St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to convert the English. A fantastic example of colour printing.
[Ref: 7911] £450.00

The Happy Consultation, or Modern Match.
J.Roberts sc.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No.53 in Fleet Street. Published as the Act directs 13 Augt 1769.
Engraving. 250 x 350mm.
A pre-nuptual agreement.
[Ref: 5389] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Bloody and Inhuman Smugglers throwing down Stones &c on the expiring Body of Daniel Chater, whom they had flung into Lady-Holt-Well.
[n.d., c.1749.]
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼'').
A scene showing the infamous Hawkhurst Gang throwing large rocks into a well to try and hold down the corpse of Daniel Chater who they had murdered because he had witnessed a murder. The Hawkhurst Gang were a notorious criminal smuggling gang that terrorised the Southeast of England for over ten years. They successfully raided the customs house in Poole and were ultimately defeated by the Goudhurst militia and the leaders were executed in 1748 and 1749.
[Ref: 49306] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Tom Hickman.
Drawn by G. Sharples. Eng.d by Percy Roberts.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Stipple and etching with large margins. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
Tom Hickman (1785-1822), boxer. In 1821 he was said to have engaged in a fight with Bill Neate. Hickman was a controversial fighter, dubbed 'the gas-light man', because he had been to London to construct the boilers and restorts of the new gas light factories. Plate to Pierce Egan's 'Boxiana'.
For Egan's 'Boxiana' see ref. 23818.
[Ref: 29568] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Natives of Holland, with their Diversions during the Winter Season. Engraved for Millar's New, Complete & Universal System of Geography.
Vanloo pinxt. Roberts sculp.
[London: A. Hogg, c.1782.]
Copper engraving, 285 x 170mm. 11¼ x 6¾".
Various winter activities on a frozen lake in the Low Countries; they include an early form of golf with wooden clubs, and women being pulled across the ice on a sleigh. Tents and windmills in the distance. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782.
[Ref: 16691] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The South East View of Kensington Church. 25
Chatelain delin. J. Roberts sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Oct 20 1750.
Engraving. 85 x 130mm (3¼ x 5"); very large margins.
A view centred on St. Mary Abbots, from Jean Baptiste Chatelain's 'Fifty Views of Villages, &c. from the most agreeable Prospects near London'. Later editions were printed by Robert Sayer.
[Ref: 40678] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The South View of Kensington.
Chatelain delin. J. Roberts sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. [n.d. c.1750.]
Etching, with large margins, 85 x 130mm. 3½ x 5". Glue straining visible outside the image, top and bottom.
Figures and buildings in a landscape at Kensington, now in west London. Numbered '24' upper right. One of a series of views around London after Jean Baptiste Chatelain (French/British, 1710 - 1758).
[Ref: 26240] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The East View of Kew and Strand Green.
Chatelain delin. J. Roberts sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. [n.d. c.1750.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Glue straining visible outside the image, top and bottom.
One of a series of views around London after Jean Baptiste Chatelain. A view looking east, showing Kew on the South bank of the river; a rural scene.
[Ref: 19284] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Give me a Kiss. [&] I Will Have a Kiss!
Drawn by Adam Buck. Engraved by Piercy Roberts & J.C. Stadler.
London Published by William Holland. No.50, Oxford Street, March 10, 1800.
Scarce pair of aquatints, printed in colours and hand-finished. Sheets 395 x 310mm (15½ x 12¼") & 385 x 340mm (15¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plates, edges nicked.
A child reaching up to her mother and a mother demanding a kiss from a struggling child.
[Ref: 52738] £550.00

The Chavolant; or Kite Carriage.
Engraved by Percy Roberts.
London. Published by Sherwood & Co. 1827.
Aquatint. 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate mark.
George Pocock (1774-1843) was an English schoolteacher and inventor of the 'Charvolant', a kite-drawn carriage. In 1826, he patented the design of his 'Charvolant' buggy, which used two kites on a single line to provide enough power to draw along a buggy carrying several passengers at considerable speed. This scene depicts five figures in the buggy, travelling along a road in the centre. The two well dressed figures at the back wave to onlookers on both sides.
The Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air, by the Use of Kites, or Buoyant Sails.
[Ref: 56975] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled landscape.]
Chatelain Inv.t. R. Roberts Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June the 27th, by Hen. Roberts, Engraver, & Printseller, facing Turnstile Holborn.
Engraving. 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"), with very large margins. Paper crack in plate on left, Paper toned.
A country road leading away from a town in the distance.
[Ref: 55545] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

To Arthur Champernowne, of Darlington, Devon, Esq.r, this View of Lochlomond, is respectfully Inscribed, by his most obedient Humble Servant. Rob.t And.w Riddell.
R.A. Riddell pinx.t Engraved by A. Robertson.
London Published January 1.st 1796, as the Act directs by R.A. Riddell.
Coloured aquatint with etching. Paper watermarked: J Whatman 1794. Plate 451 x 578mm. 17¾ x 22¾". Spectacular colour, small margins.
Landscape, view of the head of Loch Lomond, two figures in a boat in the foreground, cottages at left, mountains surrounding.
See BM: 1877,0811.3.
[Ref: 22913] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To his Grace John Duke of Athol, &c. &c. this View of Lochleven in Arglye-shire, is respectfully Inscribed, by his Grace's most obedient Humble Servant, Rob.t And.w Riddell.
Rob.t And.w Riddell pinxt. Engraved by Arch.d Robertson.
London, Published as the Act directs, March 2.nd 1795, by Rob.t And.w Riddell, 13, Hart Street, Bloomsbury.
Hand-coloured aquatint with very large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 450 x 571mm (17¾ x 22½"). Slight mount burn, crease.
Landscape, view of a loch in the western highlands of Scotland, seen from land with figure on path leading past cottages at right, ship on water and mountains in background.
[Ref: 28767] £350.00

To His Grace James Duke of Montrose, &c. &c. this View of Lochlomond, is respectfully Inscribed by His Grace's most obedient Humble Servant. Rob.t And.w Riddell.
Rob.t And.w Riddell pinx.t Engraved by Arch.d Robertson.
London Published as the Act directs, June 10.th 1795 by Rob.t And.w Riddell, 13, Hart Street, Bloomsbury.
Coloured aquatint and etching Plate 451 x 577mm. 17¾ x 22¾".
Landscape, view near Luss, Loch Lomond, boat ferrying cattle across water, tree in left foreground, mountains in background.
See BM: 1877,0811.6.
[Ref: 22911] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

To Sir John Smith Bar.t of Sydling Dorsetshire, this View of Lochlomond, is most respectfully Inscribed by his obedient Humble Servant Rob.t And.w Riddell.
Rob.t And.w Riddell pinx.t Engraved by Arch.d Robertson.
Published as the Act directs, Feb.y 19.th 1796, by Rob.t And.w Riddell.
Coloured aquatint with etching. Plate 457 x 585mm. 18 x 23".
Landscape, view of the east end of Loch Lomond, with two figures riding a horse on a road in the foreground, cattle beside a cottage with smoking chimney at right, mountains in the background.
See BM: 1877,0811.7.
[Ref: 22912] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Martha [pencil, to lower margin.]
J Elspeth Robertson [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d., c.1930s.]
Wood engraving on chine appliqué, sheet 180 x 160mm. 7 x 6¼". Upper left sheet corner tip lacking.
A (near) silhouette portrait in profile of a young woman; her hair tied in a bunch to the side. J Elspeth Robertson (b.1896) was a British lithographer and wood-engraver active in the 1930s. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (which merged with Saint Martins School of Art in 1989 to form Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), and several of her works are in the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection.
[Ref: 22537] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Military Salutation.
[Piercy Roberts crudely scratched from plate.]
Pub.d Jan.y 1. [1807 scratched from plate] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed inside plate. Light creasing. Some surface dirt.
A fashionably dressed slim young man, stands with his clasped hands, facing a man with his arms and legs in wrappings, and says, 'stand at ease'. The ailing figure, wearing a night cap, sits in an armchair with his legs resting on a stool, answers, his face distorted with pain, 'Yes - its very fine talking - but if you had such a Confounded Gout, as I have young man You'd find it d----d difficult to sit at ease'.
BM Satires 10912.
[Ref: 36181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The North View of Mortlake. 16
Chatelain delin. J. Roberts sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sep.t ye 22 1750.
Engraving. 85 x 130mm (3¼ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
A view of St Mary the Virgin. From Jean Baptiste Chatelain's 'Fifty Views of Villages, &c. from the most agreeable Prospects near London'. Later editions were printed by Robert Sayer.
[Ref: 40681] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The East View of Mortlake. 15
Chatelain delin. J. Roberts sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Sep.t ye 22 1750.
Engraving. 85 x 130mm (3¼ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper.
A view of Mortlake and the Thames, from Barnes, with the tower of St Mary the Virgin. From Jean Baptiste Chatelain's 'Fifty Views of Villages, &c. from the most agreeable Prospects near London'. Later editions were printed by Robert Sayer.
[Ref: 40680] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Solo. Musical Amateurs. Sweet Bird, that Shun'st the Noise of Folly, Most Musical, _ Most Melancholy. Vide Milton.
Woodward del. Etch'd by Roberts.
London Pub.d P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn. [n.d. c.1803.]
Hand-coloured etching. 274 x 198mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed to the plate.
A man stands in a country road, pointing at an enormous owl perched on the wall of a ruined Gothic church. Behind there are trees, with a full moon.
BM Satires: 10203.
[Ref: 52230] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Latest Portrait of Napoleon. (On Board the Bellerophon) Painted by C.L. Eastlake R.A. in 1815.
Eng.d by J. Roberts from the Original Picture by C.L. Eastlake, R.A.
Published exclusively in the Art-Journal
Engaving, sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed; unidentified 'R.J.' collector's stamp verso.
Detail of Charles Eastlake's full-length portrait of Napoleon in the uniform of the Chasseurs, on board the Bellerophon with soldiers around him. Eastlake's painting was enormously popular when first exhibited in 1815 and established the painter's reputation. The painting is now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Collector's stamp not in Lugt.
[Ref: 41420] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Nautical Experience. 105.
Etc.d by Roberts.
London Pub.d Jan.ry 1. 1812 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. 260mm x 350mm (10'' x 14''). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Bit messy.
A comic scene showing a sailor trying to carry a donkey on his back while another sailor helps, a third man with a stick and dog asks who has given them permission to free the animal. The sailor replies, ''Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance''.
See BM Satire 10192 for the first state published by Roberts. Here his publication is etched over in the plate.
[Ref: 63419] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nautical Experience.
Etc.d by Roberts.
London Pub by Roberts middle row Holborn [n.d. c.1807].
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 300mm x 355mm (11¾ x 14''). Trimmed to plate slightly on all sides except bottom.
A comic scene showing a sailor trying to carry a donkey on his back while another sailor helps, a third man with a stick and dog asks who has given them permission to free the animal. The sailor replies, ''Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance''.
BM Satire 10192.
[Ref: 61904] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Natives of Holland, with their Diversions during the Winter Season. Engraved for Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography.
Vanloo pinx.t. Roberts sculp.
[Hogg c.1782.]
Engraving. Plate: 290 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾'') large margins.
A scene showing various winter activities on a frozen lake in the Low Countries; they include an early form of golf with wooden clubs, and women being pulled across the ice on a sleigh. Tents and windmills in the distance. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782.
[Ref: 49323] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[An elderly peasant woman]
T. Worlidge inv. H. Roberts sculp.
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Later impression with very large margins. Slight vertical crease.
An elderly woman, after a drawing by Thomas Worlidge, the 'English Rembrandt', and showing his interest in 17th century Dutch portraiture. Etched by Henry Roberts (1737-1771, fl.), printmaker and publisher whose small number of reproductive prints cover a range of subjects and styles.
[Ref: 32567] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Peace of Amiens] Iohn Bull and his Friends Commemorating the Peace.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
[n.d., c.1802.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
John Bull dancing with various foods and drinks with human arms and legs, hoping that the 1802 Peace of Amiens would bring down food prices and stop adulterations.
BM Satire 9850.
[Ref: 61813] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Peine forte et dure] The Punishment formerly inflicted on those who Refused Pleading to an Indictment. Engraved for the Malefactor's Register.
Vangro delin. Roberts sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed into plate at sides, some time staining.
A prisoner being subjected to 'Peine forte et dure' (Law French for 'hard and forceful punishment'), having more and more weights added to a tray on his chest in an attempt to force him to enter a plea of 'guilty' or 'not guilty'. Defendants charged with capital offences would refuse to plead in order to prevent their property withheld from their heirs.
[Ref: 62099] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Perth.
D.O. Hill Lithogr. Printed by J. Robertson Edinbr.
[Perth: T. Hill, c.1821.]
Lithograph, sheet 300 x 485mm. 11¾ x 19". Tatty extremities.
A view of Perth and the River Tay, Scotland; figures on shore and ships on the river in foreground, also Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge and, locally, the Old Bridge) in distance far right. From 'Sketches in Perthshire' by David Octavius Hill, 30 lithographs published in Perth in six parts. David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) was a Scottish painter and arts activist. He collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. He studied and learnt lithography at the School of Design and went on to produce his album of views "Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire". He was dissatisfied with the 'Institution' and established a separate Scottish Academy in 1829, along with Henry Cockburn. Over time, Hill took a turn towards photography and his collaboration with Adamson grew whereby Adamson's studio, "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh became the centre of their photographic experiments. They photographed local scenes and persons and were prominent in developing "action" photographs. Both Adamson and Hill died due to ill health at early ages.
Abbey Scenery: 509, 5.
[Ref: 16358] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Engraved frontispiece.]
J. Rob. sculp.
Apud Jos. Pote, Bibliop Etonens. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 130 x 80mm.
Pote (1703-1787) was a publisher and bookseller of Eton.
[Ref: 4708] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Praise of Bacchus. The Musick by M.r Corelli. (16) [On Reverse] The Lovers first Address (15).
Hen: Roberts fecit.
[1739]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 135mm (9 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate top and right.
From Henry Robert's, 'Calliope or English Harmony, A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embelish'd with designs adapted to the Subject of each Song, taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters, in the most Correct Manner, with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute [recorder] (proper for all Teachers, Scholars and Lovers of Musick), Printed on a fine Paper, on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any other thing of the kind ever Publish'd.' Music, words and flute accompaniment. Headpiece illustration of Bacchus being held in the air by two satyrs with two children and an adult couple standing round them.
[Ref: 61936] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

In Praise of Burgundy. By M.r Tho.s Phillips. (109) [On Reverse] The Miller of Mansfield. (110)
H. Roberts Sculp.
[1739]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 135mm (9 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate top and left.
From Henry Robert's, 'Calliope or English Harmony, A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embelish'd with designs adapted to the Subject of each Song, taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters, in the most Correct Manner, with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute [recorder] (proper for all Teachers, Scholars and Lovers of Musick), Printed on a fine Paper, on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any other thing of the kind ever Publish'd.' Music, words and flute accompaniment. Headpiece illustration of a group of six men sitting in the countryside round a table drinking wine with a servant kneeling on the ground filling a carafe. An extremely rare image of Burgundian drinking
[Ref: 61937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Public Characters in Perth and its Vicinity. No. 6.
I.R. s.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Very scarce & rare aquatint with etched line. Plate: 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¼"). Top left-hand corner missing, damage in margins. Marks.
A unidentified man with his hands in his pockets, engraved by I.Robertson.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 40106] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The punishment formerly inflicted on those who Refused Pleading to an Indictment.
Vangroddin. Roberts sculp. [c.1770]
Engraving, sheet 210 x 125mm (8 x 4¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
[Ref: 46578] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Point St Peter. C.E.
Thomas Pye, Delineator. Roberts & Reinhold, lith. Place d'Armes, Mt.l.
[Montreal: John. Lovell, 1866.]
Tinted lithograph, rare. Sheet 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½"). Some spotting, small tear in margin.
A settlement on the Gaspé Peninsula at the mouth the Saint Lawrence River. From Thomas Pye's 'Canadian Scenery: District of Gaspé. Beautifully Illustrated with Tinted Lithographs, from Photographs by the Author'.
[Ref: 33873] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Quebec the Capital of Canada, in North America. Engraved for Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geograhy.
Roberts sculp.
[London, 1782.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 209 x 310mm. 8¼ x 12¼". Hole centre-right.
A British ship in the foreground with other vessels around, and the City of Quebec in the distance. From George H. Millar's "New and Universal System of Geography".
In the Library of Congress; for a related view see ref. 25853.
[Ref: 25851] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Fox River. C.E.
Thomas Pye, Delineator. Roberts & Reinhold, lith. Place d'Armes, Mt.l.
[Montreal: John. Lovell, 1866.]
Tinted lithograph, rare. Sheet 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½"). Some spotting.
The Riviere au Renard on the Gaspé Peninsula at the mouth the Saint Lawrence River. From Thomas Pye's 'Canadian Scenery: District of Gaspé. Beautifully Illustrated with Tinted Lithographs, from Photographs by the Author'.
[Ref: 33876] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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