Grosvenor Prints

[Man, woman and sheep in a landscape.]
J. Smith ex. [first issued c.1700, this a later 18th century impression.]
Mezzotint on wove paper from the republished state by John Smith. Image 160 x 210mm, 6¼ x 8¼". Trimmed into lower part of plate; plate somewhat worn.
A shepherd seated and leaning against a rock in the foreground; he wears a hat and smock and plays on a flute. His companion an attrative young woman, distracts him by offereing a garland of flowers, sheep to left and in the background. John Smith was a leading London publisher in the late 17th and early 18th century and part of his cata;ogue included mezzotint copies in reverse by the famous earlier mezzotints from engravers such as Blooteling who first engraved this scene after Govert Flinck (Dutch, 1615 - 1660), and issued by Bernard Lens.
Chaloner Smith undescribed.
[Ref: 21253] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Courage Displayed!!!
Marks fecit.
London. pubd by Marks, 17 Artillery St, Bishopsgate [n.d., c.1825].
Etching with original colour. Sheet 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within printed border.
A man attacks a mouse with a poker, inadvertently breaking a mirror. Two women stand on a chaise longue, one hitching up her skirts.
[Ref: 51352] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Courage Displayed!!!
Marks fecit.
London. pubd by Marks, 17 Artillery St, Bishopsgate [n.d., 1824].
Etching with original colour, verso Dr. Syntax & a Bookseller coloured aquatint; Sheet 220 x 180mm (8½ x 7"). Trimmed within printed border.
A man attacks a mouse with a poker, inadvertently breaking a mirror. Two women stand on a chaise longue, one hitching up her skirts.
[Ref: 63451] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasure.
A. Courcett Fecit.
Printed and Sold by W. Belch, 258, High St. Borough [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured aquatint, sheet 183 x 150mm. Trimmed to plate, tear just into image lower right corner.
A woman enjoys a favourite tipple. Paper watermarked 'Abbey Mill 1829'.
[Ref: 7518] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Courier, or fate of the Battle.
Painted by W. Kidd. Engraved by W.m Carlos.
London Published 1832 by Ackermann & [C.º 96 Strand.]
Mezzotint and etching. Sheet 385 x 285mm (15¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line, which is also rubbed, losing end text. Repairs.
Two boys in rustic dress, one white, one black, gallopping helter-skelter on a donkey into the left foreground, the foremost carrying a makeshift flag on a stick, both grinning, with a dog running alongside, startling an elderly man who looks out over the half-door of a tavern on the left
Provenance: Ex Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 63320] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[A mounted courier] Troisième suite de Cheveaux d'après Carle & Horace Vernet. N:o 28.
Levachez sculp.
à Paris, rue St Lazare No. 42. [n.d., c.1807].
Fine & rare mezzotint. 315 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾") with large margins.
A mounted officer carrying orders during a battle.
[Ref: 59443] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)

Courier Anglois
H.W.Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton. f.
Publish'd as the act dircts 3.d May, 1774. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. 410 x 280mm.
BM Satire 4736.
[Ref: 1021] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Courier Francois.
H.W.Bunbury Delin. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Js.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1774.]
Etching. 420 x 280mm.
BM Satire 4737.
[Ref: 1022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Courier Francois.
H.W.Bunbury Delin. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Js.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1774.]
Coloured etching. 420 x 280mm. Small tear.
A rider in oversized boots, riding a shaggy horse.
BM Satire 4737.
[Ref: 36056] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Coursing. [pair.]
H. Alken del.t. J. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Pair of aquatints with fine hand colour. Each 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"), watermarked Whatman 1819 & 1820 with large margins. Faint text offset.
Hunting hare with greyhounds: the chase and the kill. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46272] £420.00 view all images for this item

Coursing, View near Epsom. / Plate 4
Painted by S.N. Sartorius. Engraved by J. Pollard.
London / Published by T. Helme, at his Picture Frame Manufactory, 15, Tabernacle Square, Old Street Road May 1833.
Aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 460 x 550mm (18 x 21½"). Very large margins. Paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1833'. Creasing; damage inside upper platemark.
Final plate from a set of four coursing prints, showing the return from the hunt with a servant carrying a dead rabbit. Presumably after animal and sporting painter John Nost Sartorius (1759-1829), whose popularity in the field was second only to that of his contemporary George Stubbs, but given here as 'S.N. Sartorius'.
Siltzer: Not in.
[Ref: 37554] £550.00

[Coursing off a Cliff.]
Alfred W. Strutt.
[n.d., c.1895.]
Photogravure, printed on india. Artist's Proof, signed in pencil. Plate: 530 x 650mm (21 x 25½''), with large margins. Light foxing
A scene showing two greyhounds chasing a hare over a sea cliff. A rider looks on in horror.
[Ref: 51119] £320.00

The Coursing Macaroni. V.5. 12.
Publish'd as the Act directs Novr. 19. 1772, by MDarly 39, Strand.
Etching. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
A man holding a gun on the move in the countryside.
BM Satires: 4663.
[Ref: 38218] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Coursing set of four] Plate 1 [-4].
Painted by Wolstenholme. Engraved by Reeve.
Published by Rich.d Reeve, 7 Vere Street, Bond Street, May 25th 1807.
Set of four aquatints, printed in colour and hand-finished. Each c. 490 x 580mm (19¼ x 23"). Trimmed to the platemark.
[Ref: 49020] £690.00 view all images for this item

Coursing the Hare. La Course Du Livre.
T. Burford fecit [after James Seymour].
Published 12.th May 1794 by Laurie and Whittle, N.º 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14") large margins. Stitch holes in left margin
Two hounds chasing a hare through a landscape; the beater who has flushed the quarry from cover urges the dogs on, a cottage in the background. The fifth plate of a set of six of hare hunting prints after James Seymour (1702-52).
[Ref: 64834] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Coursing the Hare. La Course Du Livre.
T. Burford fecit.
London Published June 22nd. 1787 by Rob.t Sayer 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). A good impression, unexamined out of frame.
Two hounds chasing a hare through a landscape; the beater who has flushed the quarry from cover urges the dogs on, a cottage in the background. From a series of hare hunting prints, numbered '5' lower right. After James Seymour (1702 - 1752).
Siltzer: undescribed.
[Ref: 13984] £480.00

[The Runup]
Douglas Adams 1894. [Engraved by Franz Hanfstaengl.]
London, published by Henry Graves & Co... 1894.
Photogravure on india paper. Signed by the artist. 470 x 680.
ltd. 150.
[Ref: 27] £480.00

The Court Gossops
[Anon., 1732]
Engraving, sheet 185 x 305mm (7¼ x 12"). Folds; trimmed to image.
Frontispiece to 'The Christening', a 1732 verse satire on a famous court scandal. In 1732 Anne Vane, mistress of Frederick, prince of Wales, gave birth to a son, who the prince acknowledged as his, although the paternity was disputed by Vane's other lovers. Vane and the prince are shown here seated on a bed (right), surrounded by courtiers (mostly drinking). The book-case on the left is filled with suggestive titles ('The Art of Love', 'The Fair Concubine' etc).
[Ref: 45452] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Court of Equity, Bell-Savage Ludgate Hill.
Rob.t Dighton Pinxit. Rob.t Laurie Fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1778, by John Smith, Cheapside, London.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 16¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on card, extensive cracking and surface rubbing. Damaged.
The interior of a club room, with a convivial group of men drinking and smoking. The motto behind the presiding officer's chair reads 'Mirth with Justice'. Through its lifespan The Bell Savage Inn was an Elizabethan playhouse, the coaching inn where Pocahontas stayed, the home of England's first rhinoceros and John Cassell's publishing house. It was demolished in 1873. George writes: ''The persons are well-characterized portraits. The chairman is 'Hurford, the Guildhall orator' (William Hurford, Deputy of Castlebaynard Ward). On his r., and on the extreme l. are Wright, distiller in Fleet Street, and Hamilton, clerk to William Woodfall, printer, holding the 'Morning Chronicle'. Opposite the latter sits Smith the printseller. On the chairman's l. are (l. to r.), Lamb, silversmith in Fetter Lane; Clark, sausage maker; Stephenson, an attorney; Clark, a bricklayer in Shoe Lane; Russell, a broker of Harp-Alley; Good, the auctioneer; Thorn; Dighton, the artist, on the extreme r. In the foreground (r.) by a small table sits Dighton's father; between the two Dightons is a man reading the 'Morning Post'. In front of him and facing the chairman stands Towse of Vauxhall, speaking, pipe in his l. hand, r. hand thrust in his waistcoat. Pipes, glasses, pots, papers of tobacco, and a punch-bowl are on the tables. Tom Thorpe, of the Globe Tavern, advances in the middle of the room, carrying a punch-bowl''. A rare print: the British Museum has two proof examples, yet George takes the title from Chaloner Smith, 'Court of Equity or Convivial City Meeting' with a date 1779. Apparently neither had seen a titled example.
BM Satire: 5530; CS 18. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 44334] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Five miscellaneous courtroom scenes.]
[1790-1850]
Four engravings and a wood engraving. Largest 135 x 200mm (5¼ x 8"). Laid on album paper.
Five courtroom interiors, three of the Old Bailey and two of Newgate. The one identified event is the shooting of a Newgate turnkey by William Johnson, during the trial of Jane Housden for coining, 1714.
[Ref: 67172] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Feast of Reason, & the flow of Soul. _i;e_ The Wits of the Age, setting the Table in a roar.
J.s G.y inv. & fect.
Pub.d Feb.y 4th 1797 by H.Humphrey, New Bond St.
Coloured etching 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾ "). Frame measures 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"). Unexamined out of frame. Time stained.
A satirical scene depicting John Courtenay (right), as the Chairman of a Tavern Club, sits at the head of an oblong table, in profile to the left, smoking. He says to George Hanger, who faces him at the foot of the table: "I say, Georgey how do Things look now?" Hanger answers: "Ax my Grandmother's Muff, pray do!" On Hanger's right sits Charles James Fox, leaning back in his chair, registering extravagant amusement and saying "O charming! - charming!" Opposite Fox sits Richard Brinsley Sheridan, clasping a decanter of 'Brandy' in one hand, a glass in the other. He says, with a sly smile, "Excellent! - damme Georgey, Excellent." Next him, and on Courtenay's right, sits M. A. Taylor, flourishing his pipe and saying, "Bravo! the best Thing I ever heard said, damme."
BM Satire 8984
[Ref: 66026] £320.00

[John Courtnay] French Habits No. 9. Juge du Tribunal Correctionel.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Courtnay (1736-1816), then MP for Appleby, in the dress of the French Republican Tribunal Correctionnel, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He opposed Pitt's suspension of habeas corpus. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9210.
[Ref: 59150] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

John Courtenay Jun.r.
A.Tonelli pinx.t. J.Chapman sculp.t
[n.d., c.1795.]
Stipple. Sheet 160 x 105mm, 6¼ x 4¼". Trimmed.
John Courtenay Junior (1776-1794). Oval portrait of a young man, above a harp within a garland. When the M.P. John Courtenay's son died young, he published an elegy prefixed to an edition of his poems.
In the NYPL.
[Ref: 12684] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

William III. Viscount Courtenay, 1809.
R. Cosway, Esq.r R.A. Pinxit. J. Murphy Sculpsit.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark 655 x 500mm (25¾ x 19¾"). Trimmed into plate, restoration to tears and folds.
A full-length portrait of William Courtenay (c.1768-1835), standing by a balustrade and steps leading to an ornamental garden, in the masquerade dress he wore to his coming-of-age ball at Powderham Castle in 1789. In 1784 Courtenay was embroiled in a scandal when his pre-adulthood homosexual relationship with novelist William Beckford was discovered. Both men were forced to live abroad, although this did not prevent Courtenay successfuly petitioning to revive the dormant title of Earl of Devon, after which he became 9th Earl.
Whitman: 144, stating that Charles Turner engraved the plate for Murphy. CS Murphy 3.
[Ref: 65711] £490.00

A Courtezan & Frizeur.
Pubd. accordg to Act August 9th by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A woman walks away from the man but looks round over her left shoulder. She wears a high conical cap trimmed with lace and ribbons, a hooded cloak over a voluminous skirt ornately embroidered at the hem. The man walks after her. His left hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder; his right is thrust under his waistcoat. He is fashionably dressed with a laced hat, and his coat appears to have epaulettes. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.4' upper left and '5' upper right.
BM Satires: 5023.
[Ref: 14250] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Courtship. By this hand I swear that your property I can easily dispense - But your person...oh, oh. there I feel it Oh. Oh.'
H. Alken del.t. W. Day lithog. 17 Gate Str.t.
[London, Pub.d by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place, 1828.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 165 x 190mm (6½ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A handsome beau on one knee before a large woman dressed like a wedding cake.
[Ref: 41797] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Courtship.
Dean & Co. Threadneedle St.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed close to title, some staining at top corner.
A young couple at a ball.
[Ref: 64084] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Courtship. Plate VI.
[Robert Seymour]
London. Published by Thomas M.cLean. 26. Haymarket. July 1.st 1829.
Fine hand-coloured etching, 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A series of scenes depicts Pickle’s romantic misadventures. He first encounters a fashionable woman when he sees her lying in shallow water after her horse has bolted, leaving an empty gig behind, love at first sight. Later, he dreams of her while sleeping with a copy of Ovid’s Art of Love on his pillow; above his head, dreamlike images of the lady, a galloping horse, and his own face appear among clouds. The next morning, he visits the lady and is welcomed flirtatiously into her neat parlour. Their courtship continues in a picturesque tea garden, where she coyly accepts his declaration of love beneath the trees as a waiter serves tea and a smiling sun looks down. Soon after, Pickle visits her again in her well-appointed room. As they sit together on the sofa, the portrait of her late husband glares down. She remarks that she despises greed, while Pickle replies that only the wealthy can afford to think little of money. Their courtship culminates in marriage, symbolized by a clergyman-like Cupid holding a wedding ring beneath a setting ''honeymoon.'' The dream collapses the next day, when Pickle discovers his new wife is not a wealthy widow but a former milliner with five plain children from her first marriage. She cheerfully explains that, lacking fortune but blessed with family, she thought it best to marry again. Two smaller accompanying scenes show Pickle gallantly helping the lady into a Thames boat and later assisting her from a gig, moments from the courtship that led to his ill-fated union.
Bm Satires 15988.
[Ref: 67476] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Courtyard with a Farrier shoeing a Horse.] From the Original by Wouvermans.
[Ralph Cockburn c.1816.]
Aquatint with fantastic colour. Sheet: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed to printed image and mounted on card with captions pasted below as issued.
A scene in a courtyard in which a farrier shoes a horse, women and man gather and a shepherd herds his flock. From a collection of aquatints of popular paintings in the Dulwich Picture Gallery's collection drawn, engraved and published by Ralph Cockburn, keeper of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, between 1816-1820.
Abbey 201.
[Ref: 43560] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Penny Sunday Times, And People's Police Gazette. The Execution of Francois Benjamin Courvoisier. [&] Execution of Courvoisier, for the Murder of Lord William Russell, July 6th, 1840.
London, Sunday, July 12th, 1840.
Two etching from newspapers, sheet 575 x 385mm (22¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Two woodcut scenes of criminal François Benjamin Courvoisier (1816-40) being hung outside Newgate Prison. The Swiss-born valet who was convicted of murdering his employer, aristocrat and longtime MP Lord William Russell (1767-1840). A crowd of around 40,000 witnessed his death, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
[Ref: 61949] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Samuel Cousins.]
[After Edwin Long.]
London, Published 9.th May 1884 by The Fine Art Society (Lim.d) 148, New Bond Street. New York, M. Knoedler & Co.
Mixed-method engraving on chine collé, Artist's Proof. 525 x 405mm (20¾ x 16").
Portrait of the mezzotint engraver Samuel Cousins (1801-87), engraved by Cousins himself. He sits at his etching table, in profile to right, head turned to look towards the viewer, with engraving tools in his hands. The portrait demonstrates, with unusual clarity, the tools and working process of a printmaker like Cousins. After the painting in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter. Cousins (1801-1887) one of the leading engravers of the nineteenth century, was elected as a full member of the Royal Academy in 1885.
Whitman: 46. PSA: [Vol.I.] AP.175. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68218] £580.00

John Couts Esq.r. [Late Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.]
A. Ramsay Pinx.t. Ja.s McArdell Fecit.
[Printed for and Sold by Alex.r Palmer Picture Framer at the Windmill Edinb.r.] [n.d., c.1745.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 285 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed within plate, losing the title and publication line. Bit damaged.
John Coutts (1699-1750), a Scottish merchant and banker, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1742-4. His sons James and Thomas were founders of the banking house of Coutts & Co. The British Museum's biography of the publisher consists of a vague date and this mezzotint.
CS 46.
[Ref: 48149] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

John Couts Esq.r. Late Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh. Price 2.s.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t. Ja.s McArdell Fecit.
Printed for and Sold by Alex.r Palmer Picture Framer at the Windmill Edinb.r [n.d., c.1745].
Fine mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"), with large margins. Hair in printed background.
John Coutts (1699-1750), a Scottish merchant and banker, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1742-4. His sons James and Thomas were founders of the banking house of Coutts & Co. The British Museum's biography of the publisher consists of a vague date for this mezzotint.
CS 46. Ex The Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 68358] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

John Couts Esq.r. Late Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.
A. Ramsay Pinx.t. Ja.s McArdell Fecit.
[Edinburgh: Alexander Palmer, n.d., c.1745.]
Scarce mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), with large margins. Small tear entering inscription area taped.
John Coutts (1699-1750), a Scottish merchant and banker, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1742-4. His sons James and Thomas were founders of the banking house of Coutts & Co. The British Museum's biographer of the publisher consists of a vague date for this mezzotint.
CS 46.
[Ref: 65264] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Covenanters Preaching. [&] Covenanter's Wedding.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Pair of very fine coloured lithographs. Sheet 280 x 229mm. 11 x 11¾". Cut and laid on separate album pages.
The Covenanters were a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland, opposing the reintroduction of episcopacy by Charles II. Facing persecution they started holding 'conventicles', outdoor meetings and services, far from snooping government officials. Despite the romance in these prints, these meetings were dangerous: Covenanters were often shot on sight, or captured to be hanged or staked out in the Solway Firth to drown.
[Ref: 24141] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Piazza, Covent Garden.
[Drawn and etched by Thomas Malton.]
Published March 15th. 1796 by T. Malton.
Aquatint. Sheet 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½").
A view of Covent Garden piazza from King Street, including Lord Archer's House, which still stands in the northwest corner of the square. From 'A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta by Thomas Malton', 1792 - 1801.
Abbey Scenery: 204.
[Ref: 64169] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Piazza.
P. Sandby delin. Edw.d. Rooker Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.ry. 20 1768, by Edw.d Rooker Queens Court Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Etching. 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22"). Thread margin at bottom, small repaired tears, mounted on card.
Covent Garden seen from the south east side of the colonnade, with figures including a woman selling goods on the right, a pair of shoe-shiners, a beggar, a boy with a hoop and two boys playing marbles in the foreground to left. A sedan chair sits unoccupied. An early example, published by the engraver. Later editions were published by John Boydell.
[Ref: 63940] £450.00

Spanish Fète. Theatre Royal Covent Garden, July 4th 1823.
[c.1823.]
Finely coloured lithograph. Sheet 230 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"), with 1821 watermark. Tears.
The interior of the theatre, the audience in fancy dress.
[Ref: 54803] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Market Westminster Election.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. J. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub June 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint. 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"), with large margins.
A view of the hustings in front of St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, with crowds extending to scaffolds and roofs listening to candidates during the Westminster Elections. Parades with pennants showing the names of the parishes "St Margaret's Westminster" and "St Martin's in the Fields" can be seen in the foreground. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 46884] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The House of Lord Archer in Covent Garden.
[Sutton Nicholls?]
Published according to Act of Parliament 1754, for Stowes Survey.
Etching with engraving. 350 x 465mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Original folds. Small margins.
43 King Street, Covent Garden, built in 1717 for Admiral Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, to designs by Thomas Archer. The Lord Archer of the title was the architect's nephew, also Thomas (1695-1768), who had married Lord Orford's great-niece in 1726 and came into ownership of the house in 1729. He was raised to the peerage in 1747 as 1st Baron Archer. The house, once the home of the National Sporting Club, is now the London premises of 'Glossier', a cosmetics firm. From the sixth edition printed in 1754 - 1755 of John Stowe's work 'A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminter and the Borough of Sothwark', originally published in 1598 and 1603.
[Ref: 62522] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The House of Lord Archer in Covent Garden. 6.
Published according to Act of Parliament 1754 for Stowes Survey.
Copper engraving with etching, image 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"). Age toning. Vertical folds as issued.
43 King Street, Covent Garden, built in 1717 for Admiral Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, to designs by Thomas Archer. The Lord Archer of the title was the architect's nephew, also Thomas (1695-1768), who had married Lord Orford's great-niece in 1726 and came into ownership of the house in 1729. He was raised to the peerage in 1747 as 1st Baron Archer. The house, once the home of the National Sporting Club, is now the London premises of 'Glossier', a cosmetics firm. From the sixth edition printed in 1754 - 1755 of John Stowe's work 'A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminter and the Borough of Sothwark', originally published in 1598 and 1603.
[Ref: 8771] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden.
Publish'd March 15th. 1796 by T. Malton.
Hand coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 370 x 285mm. 14½" x 11¼". Trimmed to plate.
A view of Covent Garden piazza from King Street, including Lord Archer's House, which still stands in the northwest corner of the square. From 'A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta by Thomas Malton', 1792 - 1801. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
Abbey Scenery: 204, 34.
[Ref: 15846] £320.00

The West Front of St. Paul's Covent Garden.
P.Sandby delin. Edwd Rooker Sculp.
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament by Edw. Rooker Dec. 31 1766.
Copper Engraving, first issue, good impression, 555 x 415mm (21¾ x 16½"). Small repaired tear on left, slight crease in sky..
The classic view of Covent Garden. One of Edward Rooker's 'Six Views of London' published in 1768. This engraving is one of three in the series executed by Rooker from drawings by Paul Sandby, the influential watercolourist and printmaker.
Adams: 58.5
[Ref: 19619] £380.00

The Cov: Garden Morning Frolick. Gaillardise du Commun Jardin.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard Publish'd According to Act of Parliam.t. Octr. 9. 1747 Price Six Pence. Sold by C. Moseley Engraver & Printseller in Round Court in ye Strand.
Scarce engraving. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins, notch in bottom edge, stains in top corners, laid on card at margins.
A scene of three drunken revellers in the centre of Covent Garden. In a sedan chair carried by two exhausted chairmen is Betty Careless (c.1704-1739), a brothel-keeper. Seated on the chair's roof is Captain 'Mad' Montague, said to be the brother of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Behind, carrying an artichoke presumably stolen from a street vendor, is Marcellus Laroon III, painter and army officer. Before the chair is Laurence Casey (known as Little Cazey), the personal linkboy of Careless. Henry Fielding, novellist and magistrate at Bow Street, complained that Montague, Laroon and Casey were 'the three most troublesome and difficult to manage of all my Bow Street visitors'. Casey was transported to America in 1750. This state has Moseley's inscription added.
BM Satire 2877.
[Ref: 64201] £480.00

A View of Covent Garden / Vue de Couvent Jarden
T. Loveday Sculp.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving rare with very large margins, 18th century watermark, 200 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Slight creasing.
Covent Garden piazza, in London's West End. Until the 1970s a market was held in the centre of the piazza, as shown here. Until the early 19th century the market was open-air, but in 1830 Charles Fowler was commissioned to design the market building which stands to this day. The view looks northwards, with St. Paul's church on the left.
[Ref: 33778] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Covent Garden. Vüe de Covent Garden.
J. Maurer de. & sc. London 1753.
Engraving and etching. 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Small margins.
View of the Covent Garden Piazza looking north, with St Paul's Church on the left.
See 43297 for 1746 version.
[Ref: 43298] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 100 x 155mm. (4 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A rare view of the Piazza, looking north, with St Paul's Church on the left.
[Ref: 51657] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Piazza.
P. Sandby delin. Edw.d. Rooker fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.ry. 20 1768, by Edw.d Rooker Queens Court Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Etching, very scarce scratched letter proof before title. 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22"). Narrow margins, repaired tears, mounted on card.
Covent Garden seen from the south east side of the colonnade, with figures including a woman selling goods on the right, a pair of shoe-shiners, a beggar, a boy with a hoop and two boys playing marbles in the foreground to left. A sedan chair sits unoccupied. One of Edward Rooker's 'Six Views of London' published in 1768.
[Ref: 63941] £650.00

[Pair of portraits from comic operas performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.] Flora. [&] Rosina.
H. Singleton Pinx.t. F.D. Soiron Sculp.t. [&] T. Stothard Pinx.t. C. Knight sculp.t.
London. Published June 1, 1791, by C. Knight, Engraver, Brompton Road, W. Dickinson, No. 23 Old Bond Street, & Moltino Colnaggi, Pall Mall.
Pair of very fine stipples, printed in sepia, with very large margins. 365 x 275mm (14½ x 10¾").
Two pastoral scenes with portraits of women from comic operas performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, during the 1780s: 'Flora' is from John O'Keeffe's 'Love in a camp; or, Patrick in Prussia', 1786; 'Rosina' from Frances Brooke's 'Rosina', 1783.
[Ref: 28155] £520.00 view all images for this item

A Perfect Description of the Firework in Covent Garden that was performed at the Charge of the Gentry and other inhabitans of that Parish for y.e joyful return of his Ma.tie from his Conquest in Ireland Sept, 10, 1690. From a rare print communicated to the publisher by General Dowdeswell, F.A.S.
B Lens fe
London Published as the Act directs 30 May, 1809, by John Thomas Smith, N.o 4 Polygon, Somers Town.
Aquatint, plate 255 x 285mm (10 x 11¼"), with margins on three sides. Trimmed to plate.
A copy of a 1690 print, with additional information printed underneath; on either side of the 1809 title is a short column entitled: Extracts from the Parish Books. Most likely after one of the Dutch/British artists either: Bernard Lens I (c.1630–1707) or his son Bernard Lens II (1659–1725).
[Ref: 57432] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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