Grosvenor Prints

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 12. His Arms Restored.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"). Printer's creases in margins top.
A pair of doves return Cupid's bow and arrow. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53420] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 17. Turns Away in Dispair.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6"), with very wide margins.
Cupid turns away from his target on the Hill of Difficulty, a heart on a high rock. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53421] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 18. Meets with Hope.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"), with very wide margins.
Cupid with an anchor. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53422] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 2. Going Alone.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾") with very wide margins. Tear in edge of large margins, some soiling.
A baby Cupid with budding wings, learning to walk. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53414] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 21. Going to the Temple of Venus.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6"), with very wide margins.
Leaving his weapons on a pillar, Cupid walks towards the temple with a flag. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53425] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 24. Uniting the Hearts.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"), with very wide margins. Sligth foxing.
On an altar next to two doves, the two hearts burn as Cupid and three other cherubs attend. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53427] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 5. Dreams there is a World.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"), with very wide margins. Ink stain left image.
Cupid asleep, support by a cloud. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53416] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 8. Mistakes His Mark.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"), with very wide margins.
Cupid practising his archery against a tree. His first arrow is embedded in the tree, snapped; his second misses. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53417] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Birth and Triumph of Cupid] 9. In Vexation Breaks his Bow.
P.W. Tomkins Engraver to her Majesty [after 'Lady Dashwood'].
London, Published as the Act directs Jan.y 17, 1795 by Tompkins 19 New Bond Street.
Stipple and line engraving. 135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾"), with very wide margins. Creased.
Practising his archery on a tree, Cupid breaks his bow having missed the target. The title page of this work reads: ''To the Queen, This Book Representing the Birth and Triumph of Cupid In Her Majesty's Collection, from Papers cut by Lady Dashwood, is with permission most humbly Dedicated by her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged Servant P.W. Tomkins''. 'Lady Dashwood' was the pseudonym of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 'papercuts' were engraved by Peltro William Tomkins, the court engraver and former pupil of Bartolozzi, and were published at the King’s expense.
See Complete Set Ref: 31775
[Ref: 53418] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Quarrel of Cupid and Psyche Amantium Irae. Size of the Picture In. 20½ high & 15½ wide
Engraved by Capt. Baillie from a most beautiful Cabinet Picture of Nicolo Pousin in the Collection of Wellbore Ellis Agar Esq.r
Jan.ry 1. 1778.
Etching, 250 x 210mm. 9¾ x 8¼". Later issue c.1800.
After Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell, ‘Baillie, William (1723–1810)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
[Ref: 12240] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid Refusing Love to Desire.
Drawn by F. Bartolozzi R.A. [...] F. Vieira Junior inv.t [...] Engraved by John Vendramini.
London Published May 1 1800 by F. Bartolozzi & J. Vendramini.
Stipple, platemark 365 x 475mm (14¼ x 18½"), with large large margins.
Mythological subject after Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case, getting around the rules by electing Bartolozzi as a painter). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton enticed Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal. One of few prints engraved after a drawing by Bartolozzi rather than by Bartolozzi from another artist's designs.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46764] £380.00

[Cupid Sleeping.] Qu'il possede de Charmes / Dans son Sommeil! / Qu'il causera de larmes / A son Réveil.
Guido Reni Pinxit. Vendramini scu.t.
[n.d., 1780.]
Stipple. Sheet 135 x 140mm, 5¼ x 5½". Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
Cupid asleep on a couch, his chin on his hand, the elbow propped on a cushion on the right, with a curtain above to right.
probably derived from Robert Strange's engraving of the same image, for which see ref. 19734
[Ref: 26589] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Cupido Dormiens. Ex picta Tabula Guidonis Reni, quae apud virum eximium Laurentium Dundas Baronettum adservatur. Cupid Sleeping. From a painting of Guido Reni, in the Collection of Sir Laurence Dundas Bar.t. [Along right-hand plate edge:] XXII.
Guido Reni Pinxit. Rob.t Strange delin.t et Sculp.t.
[n.d., 1766.]
Copper engraving. Plate 376 x 439mm. 14¾ x 17¼". Small tear upper left-hand margin.
Cupid asleep on a couch, his chin on his hand, the elbow propped on a cushion on the right, with a curtain above to right and a view of a landscape with a castle in the background to left. Listed among the engravings in Strange's catalogue of his collection of paintings and drawings after paintings.
for a reduced stipple version of the same image see ref. 26589
[Ref: 19734] £260.00 (£312.00 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

[Cupid's Arrow.]
Richter del. Taylor Sc.
Pub May 1803 by E. Harding at the Crown & Mitre Pall Mall.
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 254 x 152mm (10 x 6"). Slightly dusty.
A man in Classical dress stands leaning against a tree playing a lyre; cupid on his cloud hovers to the left with his arrow aimed directly at the man; a stream flows through a wood to the right. Image used for Michael Woodhull's 'Poems' (1804).
[Ref: 34638] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Cupid's Bower.
London Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly.
Stipple, 160 x 175mm. 6¼ x 7". 1823 watermark.
Very scarce erotic scene depicting cupid taking aim at a reclining woman.
[Ref: 14683] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupido et Psyché.] To guard the willing Captive he has made, Love seeks from Sculpture no inglorious aid; And fondly binds her Gems expressive charm, A graceful Amulet! on Beauty's arm. Hayley.
Lavinia Countess Spencer invt. et delt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculps: 1792.
London Published as the Act directs May 30. 1792, by N. Marchant No.57 New Bond Street.
Etching with engraving. 285 x 222mm. 11¼ x 8¾". Surface scratching.
Cupid standing on the right, putting a bracelet on Psyche's arm. Illustration to "A Catalogue of One Hundred Impressions from Gems, Engraved by Nathaniel Marchant," by James Edwards (London: 1792).
De Vesme: 2369; iv/iv. See 20471 & 20473 for earlier states.
[Ref: 20440] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cupidon Achetté Trop Cher. Engraved from a fine high finished Painting in Water Colours after the Antique, by F. Bartolozzi.
Jos. Tthurts pinx. F.Bartolozzi Sculps.
London, Pub. Dec.r 1.1786 by J.Thane Rupert Street Hay Market.
Stipple and etching. 201 x 222mm (8 x 8¾"). Cut.
Mercury and Venus leading a young girl towards Jupiter and Juno, seated on a throne on the left; on far right, Cupid, crying.
De Vesme: 389; v/v. See 21226.
[Ref: 20437] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Cupidon Achetté Trop Cher. Engraved from a fine high finished Painting in Water Colours after the Antique, by F. Bartolozzi.
Jos. Tthurts pinx. F.Bartolozzi Sculps.
London, Pub. Dec.r 1.1786 by J.Thane Rupert Street Hay Market.
Stipple and etching. Plate 196 x 222mm. 7¾ x 8¾". Full margins.
Mercury and Venus leading a young girl towards Jupiter and Juno, seated on a throne on the left; on far right, Cupid, crying.
De Vesme: 389; v/v. See 20437.
[Ref: 21226] £320.00

[Cupidon et Psyche.]
Lavinia Countess Spencer inv.t F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1792.]
Etching and engraving, unfinished proof. 292 x 242mm (11½ x 9½").
Cupid standing on the right, putting a bracelet on Psyche's arm. Illustration to "A Catalogue of One Hundred Impressions from Gems, Engraved by Nathaniel Marchant," by James Edwards (London: 1792), in final state.
De Vesme: 2369; ii/iv. See 20473 & 20440 for later states. Lugt: 1736 [unidentified].
[Ref: 20471] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupidon et Psyche.]
Lavinia Countess Spencer inv.t F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt.
Published as the Act directs May 30. 1792 by N. Marchant.
Etching and engraving, unfinished proof. 292 x 241mm. 11½ x 9½".
Cupid standing on the right, putting a bracelet on Psyche's arm. Illustration to "A Catalogue of One Hundred Impressions from Gems, Engraved by Nathaniel Marchant," by James Edwards (London: 1792), in final state.
De Vesme: 2369; iii/iv. See 20471 for earlier state & 20440 for later state.
[Ref: 20473] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Cupping] Will der Chÿrurgus zwar, Sorg, Müh, und Fleiss, nicht spahren, Mus Er osst Statt man Zahlt! dass Gegentheil erfahren. No 337.
Corn Düsart del.
Joh. Georg Hertel exc. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Collector's Mark verso lower right; 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A woman having her foot cupped by an old woman wearing a funnel on her head. Behind a man sharpens a surgical hook.
[Ref: 57430] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The "Cur" What drinks! [&] T.Total "Curs".
RRS[canlan] [initials/monogram in images.]
[Dated 1840 and 1839 in plate.]
Lithograph, two images to one sheet. Sheet 380 x 275mm, 15 x 10¾". Some surface soiling/scuffing.
Two caricatures showing dogs in human guises, one stumbling drunkenly out of a gin parlour (above), two others pumping water from a public well. They are visual puns on the double meaning of the "cur" (popular slang for a mongrel dog and a disreputable person) of the captions.
[Ref: 19476] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Irish Cur! [&] "Military Curs!"
[R.R. Scanlan monogram in images.]
1839 [dated in plate.]
Lithograph, two images to one sheet. Sheet 380 x 275mm ( 15 x 10¾"). Some surface soiling; tatty extremities left and right.
Two caricatures showing dogs in human guises: one shows a club-wielding Irishman in characteristically shabby clothes; the other below two military types in uniform beside a cannon, one holding a sword, the other a telescope. They are visual puns on the double meaning of the "cur" (popular slang for a mongrel dog and a disreputable person) of the captions.
[Ref: 19487] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Literary Cur! [&] The Nautical Cur!
[R.R. Scanlan monogram in images.]
1839 [dated in plate.]
Lithograph, two images to one sheet. Sheet 380 x 275mm, 15 x 10¾".
Two caricatures showing dogs in human guises: one shows an elderly man sitting writing with a quill in a book in his Library/Study; the other a sailor in his dingy at sea. They are visual puns on the double meaning of the "cur" (popular slang for a mongrel dog and a disreputable person) of the captions.
[Ref: 19486] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Curate going on duty.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼).
Three men grin in the doorway of an inn watching a curate riding off to work. William Davison of Alnwick (1780-1858), print publisher and pharmacist, produced a number of naive popular prints between 1812 and 1817, usually based on other prints.
[Ref: 54527] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Curate on a Visit.
G.T. Inv. I. Roe sc.
Pub by MDarly Strand April 4th 1772 accor to Act.
Etching, 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾".
A couple with their small child riding on a horse in a landscape; a woman under tree to left and a large house in the distance to right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered '7' upper right.
[Ref: 14127] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Buy my Curds and Whey.
[L. P. Boitard.]
[n.d., c.1821]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 250mm (6¼ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A scene showing a woman offering a cup of curd, a dairy product, to a boy. A plate from 'The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life', a later impression.
[Ref: 44644] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Benefit of a Plaster, or, A Cure for a Scold!!! Now Ladies I Hope not to Offend, This Cure for a Scold I Recommend.
London Pub.d by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St.t Bishopsgate.
Coloured etching. Sheet 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed into printed border.
A husband attempting to silence his angry wife by putting a large plaster over her mouth.
[Ref: 54401] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Cure for Love. No Cure. No Pay.
Last MD Invt.
Pub.d Octo.r 1806 by Walker 7 Cornhill.
Hand-coloured etching. 350 x 247mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to coloured edge.
A fat ugly man stands in a dilapidated wash-house, one foot on a rough stool, the other trampling on his wig; he gazes up at a noose hanging from a beam, saying, "Oh! my hard Fate!" / Why did I trust her ever?" / What story is not full of Womans Falsehood?" At his feet is a letter: 'You old Fool if you ever [? trouble] me again with your Stupid epistles I will expose you in the public Papers Peggy Perkins.'
BM Satires 13454.
[Ref: 52281] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Cure for Scandal! Recommended to the notice of M___ Take of "Good Nature" one ounce [...]
[Anon., c.1860]
Engraved text on porcelain card, 60 x 90mm (2¼ x 3½"). Glued to backing sheet; significant discoloration.
Humorous Victorian card advising the reader on how to avoid scandal (the medicine suggested includes substantial amounts of 'mind your own business' and 'charity for others').
For a collection of eight similar cards (including another example of this one) see ref. 17495.
[Ref: 46414] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Marin. Curaeus a Camera Cenoman. Regi a Sanctior. Consil. Et Med. Ordin.
P. Mignard Romanus Pinxit. Ant. Mason Sculpebat. 1665.
Copper Engraving. 280 x 227mm. 11 x 9". Cut.
Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594-1669) was a French physician and philosopher. He was court councellor and physician to Louis XIII, and entered the Académie Française in 1634 and the Academy of Sciences in 1666.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection. W: 1648-2.
[Ref: 21142] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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Curiale. Nell Gabinetto di S.M. il Re di Pol. Elet. di Sassonia.
Cavallier P.L. Ghezzi delin. Mattaeus Oesterreich Sculps Dresde.
OM [overlapping monogram.]: Sculpsit: 1750: adi: 5: July.
Etching, paper with an 18th century watermark, fine. Plate 305 x 203mm. 12 x 8". Large margins.
Number 11 from a series of plates of carictures of the Roman court and its foreign visitors; a gentlemen of the Curia, the Roman Catholic Church central administration. After Pier Leone Ghezzi (1675-1755), regarded as the first professional caricaturist. Based in Rome, he moved freely amongst the Italian nobility, even associating with Pope Clement XI. His satirical portraits include one of Vivaldi and several British grand tourists. Title taken from the index to 'Raccolta di XXIV Caricature Disegnate colla penna dell Celebre Cavalliere Piet: Leon: Ghezzi. Conservati nell Gabinetto di Sua Maestà il Rè di Polonia Elett. di Sassonia'.
[Ref: 23891] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Pierre & Marie Curie] Radium.
Imp. Inside plate
Vanity Fair. Decr 22nd., 1904.
Chromolithograph. 340 x 205mm (13½ x 8").
A caricature double-portrait of the famous scientists in their laboratory, carelessly handling the radioactive metal that would eventually kill Madame Curie. She and her husband Pierre shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
[Ref: 6290] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

P: Curie MD [facsimile signature.]
Cte d'Orsay fecit 16 Mai 1843 [signed in plate.]
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. C. Graf, Lith. to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Light soiling. Few creases in india.
Portrait of Paul Francis Curie MD (1799 - 1853), French homoeopathist and surgeon, Grandfather of Pierre Curie. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue p.542. Wellcome 7341
[Ref: 21936] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Calius Secundus Curio. Philosophus. Coelius hic coclum tripici fibi vendicat ufu, Corde pius, lingua purus, et arte bonus Fff 2.
Ao. 1599.
Engraving. 135 x 105mm (5¼ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Celio Secondo Curione (1503 - 1569), Italian humanist, grammarian, editor and historian, who exercised a considerable influence upon the Italian Reformation.
[Ref: 64446] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

La Curiosité. Q.10.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing curiosity, with two frogs.
[Ref: 59317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Curiosité Punie. Dediée à Monsieur le Baron Thadée de Reischach, Chambellan de leurs Majestés Imp.les et Royal Apostoliques, Conseiller Aulique du Commerce, &c. Par son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur J.G. Schwab.
Peint par Schenau. Gravé A Paris par J.G. Schwab.
A Paris chés Joullain Quais de la Megisserie, à la Ville de Rome. [n.d., c.1765.]
Fine etching. 400 x 290mm (15¾ x 11½"). Very large margins.
'Curiosity punished': a young woman throws her hands up in surprise as a snake toy pops out of a box held by a man sitting on the left as another man claps his hands. The scene is within a trompe-l'oeil window, with heavy drapery resting on the window sill.
[Ref: 38302] £320.00

Curious Inns And Outs. Or The Disputed Thunder!
Printed at 72 St. Martins Lane.
Published by T Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket, Decr. 1842.
Lithograph, 305 x 410mm. Light foxing/staining. Trimmed to printed border at left, extreme upper left corner of border missing.
A satire on 1840's party politics during the Corn Law debates. The Corn Laws were import tariffs designed to support domestic British corn prices against competition from less expensive foreign-grain imports between 1815 and 1846. The Anti-Corn Law League, founded in 1838, was peacefully agitating for their repeal. By John Doyle (1797 - 1868), the Irish lithographer famously know by his 'H B' monogram that appears in the lower left of the image. Also 'Suscribers Copy' blindstamp below this.
[Ref: 7390] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A curious Junto of Slandering Elves - or - List'ners seldom hear good of themselves.
EHL del. G. Cruikshank sculp.
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 25, Haymarket, Aug.t. 1st 1835.
Etching. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed into printed border, laid on album paper with some cockling.
An elderly women reads gloatingly from a pile of letters to three others seated at a round tea-table, one of whom uses an ear trumpet. A fifth listens in dismay from behind a curtain. First published by Hannah Humphrey in 1817.
BM Satires 12923; Cohn 1032.
[Ref: 61046] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A curious Junto of Slandering Elves - or - List'ners seldom hear good of themselves.
EHL del. G. Cruikshank sculp.
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 25, Haymarket, Aug.t. 1st 1835.
Very rare & fine hand-coloured etching, sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed into printed border. Loss in left corner. Tears repaired with acid free tape. Damaged.
An elderly women reads gloatingly from a pile of letters to three others seated at a round tea-table, one of whom uses an ear trumpet. A fifth listens in dismay from behind a curtain. First published by Hannah Humphrey in 1817.
BM Satires 12923; Cohn 1032.
[Ref: 66925] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Storming the Curricle in Queens S.t No.140
J Jenkins Fecit 1805.
Rare etching, plate 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with large margins. Staining and some surface dirt.
A woman clings on to the reigns of a carriage and starts to hoist herself on board, the driver protests, "Let go the Reigns you shall not come into the Curricle this day as I have no servant with me." "No matter for that I am determined to be along side of you so up I come," the woman replies. A rare Edinburgh satire. J. Jenkin(s) 1794-1812.
See National Library of Scotland.
[Ref: 58431] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

James Currie, M.D. F.R.S. [Freedom and Peace shall tell to many an Age. Thy warning Counsels thy prophetic Page; Art, taught by thee, shall o'er the burning Frame...]
Engraved by R.H.Cromek, late Pupil of F.Bartolozzi Esq. R.A. from the Original Drawing by Horace Hone, in the possession of Mrs, Cairncross Dr. Curries Sister.
London: Published March 2nd 1807, by R.H.Cromek, 64 Newman Street, Oxford Street. Price 10s 6d.
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Loss lower corner left.
Portrait of James Currie (1756 - 1805), Scottish physician, best known for his anthology and biography of Robert Burns and his medical reports on the use of water in the treatment of fever. A watercolour portrait by Horace Hone (1756 - 1825) is in the National Galleries of Scotland.
[Ref: 64229] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives: A Note on Their Lives and Times.
Russel Crouse.
Published by Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. Garden City MCMXXXVI New York.
Book: 4to (230 x 300mm). Cloth binding with title stamped on spine and front cover. pp. 135. 32 illustrations in colour and b/w.
An illustrated narrative dicsussing the lithographic works of American printers Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merrit Ives (1824-1895).
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36423] £45.00

Currier & Ives. Printmakers to the American People.
Harry T. Peters.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. garden City, New York. MCMXLII.
Book 4to (230 x 310mm). pp. vii-xvi + 192. Cloth binding. Gilt title stamped on spine. Printed title and illustration glued to front, stamped decoration. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w.
Illustrated narrative describing the lithographic works of Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merrit Ives (1824-1895) American "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Prints".
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36424] £45.00

Currier & Ives: A Manuel for Collectors.
By Jane Cooper Bland.
published by Double Day, Doran and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. 1931.
Book. 4to (230 x 300mm). Cloth binding. Title stamped on binding. pp.v + 349. 16 coloured and 14 b/w illustrations.
An alphabetical catalogue of the prints (including auction prices) published by American publishers and lithographers Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888), Charles Currier (1818-1887) and James Merrit Ives (1824-1895).
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36437] £65.00

James Curry.M.D.&F.A.S. Lecturer, on the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Guy's Hospital, 1819.
Francis Simonau delin Isaac Mills sculp
Publishd as the Act directs by Benjn.& Geo Ridge & Co. Chichester. Sussex. May 1.1819.
Proof engraving. Plate 230 x 155mm. 9 x 6".
W: 736-1.
[Ref: 12282] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

A Curtain Lecture. "As usual, you drunken sot! [...]"
H.V.
July, 1832...
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½") On blue Regency album paper.
A drunk returns home to get abuse from his wife which he returns!
[Ref: 31482] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Herbert Mascall Curteis, Esq.r. Master of the East Sussex Fox Hounds.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by Charles Mottram.
London, Published April 1st 1866 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Very rare coloured mixed-method engraving; 580 x 730mm (23 x 28½"). Right top corner margin missing. Nicks to edges. Bit time-stained.
Herbert Mascall Curteis (1823-95) was born in Florence and died in Windmill Hill Place, Hailsham (probably the castellated house in the background). He is shown here on horseback, with three foxhounds in attendence. He was also a cricketer, playing for Oxford University (1841-2), Sussex (1846-1860), Marylebone Cricket Club (1855 and England (1850).
[Ref: 60425] £450.00

John Curtis [facsimile signature].
T. H. Maguire. 1850. M. & N. Hanhart.
[Published by George Ransome, Ipswich, n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Printed area 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Some spotting on backing sheet.
John Curtis (1791-1862), entomologist, author of 'British Entomology: Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland'. This print published for Ipswich Museum Portraits.
W: 737.
[Ref: 59703] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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