Grosvenor Prints

[Charles Dibdin] The Chaunting Orator.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 150 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½. Trimmed, mounted in album paper at edges.
Charles Dibdin (c.1745 – 1814), composer and actor, stands at a harpsichord, holding a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. See 59564 for a different version of the same caricature attributed to the pseudonymical 'Annabal Scratch'.
BM K,59.72; see BM Satires 7953.
[Ref: 62059] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustrations to 'The professional life of Mr. Dibdin written by himself']
[Painted by Mr Devis. Engraved by Mr Smith.]
[London: Dibdin, 1803.]
Small 8vo (150 x 120mm, 6 x 4¾"), paper covers; 58 (of 60) circular aquatint and etchings with hand colour. Extra-illustrated with maps of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire on paste-downs. Paper tone, wear to covers.
A bound volume of the illustrations to Charles Dibdin's 'The professional life of Mr. Dibdin written by himself; together with the words of six hundred songs, selected from his works, and sixty small prints taken from the subjects of the songs'.
British Museum 1873,0308.154-214.
[Ref: 60682] £1,300.00 view all images for this item

Tho.s Frognall Dibdin D.D. Price 3/6.
George Richmond pinx.t. Lowes Dickinson lithog. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by J. Dickinson, 114 Bond S.t 1,st May 1840.
Lithograph on chine collé, on printed backing sheet. Printed area 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Some scuffing and creasing.
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), bibliographer who formed the Roxburghe Club in 1812. Each of the club's members was expected to produce a reprint of a rare work of English literature.
[Ref: 58103] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Dibdin Esq.r.
Painted by W. Owen R.A. Engraved by Jn.o Young, Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London, Feb.y 14. 1807 by the Engraver, No.65, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 360 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾") very large margins. Wear in margins.
Portrait of Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), English dramatist and songwriter, seated at a desk, with quill and music book.
CS: 18 only state.
[Ref: 56389] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Soldiers Quarreling at Dice. From the Original Picture of the same Size, Painted by Valentini, in the Collection of S.r James Lowther, Bart. Vol. II. No.40.
Engraved by Capt.n Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar.1, 1769.
Etching and mezzotint. 292 x 381mm (11½ x 15"). Very large margins.
Five soldiers in 16th century dress around a wooden table on which dice are thrown, gesturing and shouting angrily, one to left reaching for his sword, one to the right leaning forward with one knife on his stool.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38187] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The ''Dick'' (Madras) Testimonial. Sacred to the memory of Maj.r Gen.l Sir Robert H.y Dick, K.C.B._K.C.H. of Tullymet, N.B., K.C.B. K.C.H. &c. who, after a Brilliant Military Career in H.M.s 42nd Royal Highlanders...
Designed, Executed in Marble & Etched by Edw.d Richardson, Sculptor, 7 Melbury Terrace, London. 1850.
Etching. Sheet 230 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
The memorial to Major-General Sir Robert Henry Dick (1787-1846), still in St. George's Cathedral, Madras. It depicts a soldier of the 42nd Highlanders (Black Watch) leaning on a plinth listing the regiment's honours, a Sikh helmet at his feet. Dick was a Scottish soldier who fought at Buçaco, Fuentes de Oñoro, and Salamanca during the Peninsular War, Quatre Bras and Waterloo, before being killed at Sobraon during the First Anglo-Sikh War. Etched by Edward Richardson 1812-1869), a sculptor of church monuments and archaeologist who specialised in the restoration of medieval tombs. In 1842 Richardson was commissioned to restore the effigies of the Knights Templar in the Temple church.
See 65927 for a portrait of Dick.
[Ref: 65748] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sr John Dick, Bart.]
[Drawn by P.Jean. Engraved by P.W.Tomkins, Historical Engraver to Her Majesty.]
Published as the Act Directs, or the Proprietor by P.W.Tomkins, Octr. 16, 1795. Early proof impression with scratched publication line one year earlier than normally found, no title or letters.
Stipple engraving. 401 x 256mm. Trimmed to plate.
English consul at Leghorn.
[Ref: 3437] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Henry Dick] Dedicated by Special Permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, This Portrait of Major General Sir Robert Henry Dick of Tullymet K.C.B. & K.C.H. &c.&c.&c. Who fell at the moment of Victory at Sabraon on the Banks of the Sutledge, 10th February 1846.
Painted by E.F. Green 1830. Engraved by Henry Haig, Edin.r 1847.
Mezzotint. Sheet 405 x 295mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed to plate
A half-length portrait of Robert Henry Dick (1787-1846), in dress uniform. A Scottish soldier who had fought with the Black Watch during the Peninsular War and at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, he commanded the Third Infantry Division during the Sikh War. He was killed leading a charge against Sikh entrenchments at Sobraon.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See 65748 for a plate of his memorial in Madras.
[Ref: 65927] £420.00

Thomas Dick, L.L.D. Author Of "The Christian Philosopher" &c.&c.
Engraved by H. Cook.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Stipple and etching, sheet 225 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Slight scratching to engraver's name.
Reverend Thomas Dick (1774 - 1857) was a Scottish church minister, science teacher and writer, known for his works on astronomy and practical philosophy, combining science and Christianity. Scientific instruments are on the desk behind.
Wellcome: 807.
[Ref: 9898] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens, his wife, & her sister. Drawn by Maclise in 1842.
Maclise R.A. C.H. Jeens [c.1872-4]
Soft-ground etching, sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Triple portraits of the author Charles Dickens, his wife Catherine and her sister Georgina, after a drawing by his friend, the artist Daniel Maclise (bap. 1806- d.1870). Illustration to 'The Life of Charles Dickens' by John Forster (1872-4).
[Ref: 43517] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens reading to his Daughters
F. Au Fray [in image lower left]
1865 [ms]
Photogravure, sheet 280 x 225mm (11 x 8¾"). Glued to backing sheet.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) the English writer widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, reading to his daughters Mamie and Katey on the front lawn his home at Gad's Hill, Higham.
[Ref: 44006] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens [facsimile signature.]
A D'Orsay fecit 16 Decr 1841 [signed in plate].
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph with some colour by hand, india paper, india 200 x 160mm. 8 x 6¼". Slight scratching to india, left and upper right.
Portrait of Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), the greatest novelist of the age; he established his name with Pickwick Papers in 1836. 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.55, 5. See NPG D20137.
[Ref: 21812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens, Esq.
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
"Supplement to the Illustrated News of the World". The London Joint Stoct Newspaper Company _ Limited. Office, 199, Strand, London. [n.d. c.1858.]
Mixed-method engraving. 400 x 272mm. 15¾ x 10¾".
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great English novelist of the Victorian period. In an 1859 publication called "Town Talk" an engraved portrait of Charles Dickens is described as being taken "from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall". The picture of Dickens above was described as "a portrait engraved on steel by D. J. Pound, from a photograph by Mayall, London" when it was published as a Supplement to the Illustrated News of the World on 9th October, 1858. During the engraving process, a beard has been added to Mayall's original image of Dickens. In Mayall's original daguerreotype portrait of Dickens taken around 1853, the author had a moustache but no chin beard.
[Ref: 22257] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens [facsimile signature.]
A. D'Orsay fecit 16 Dec.b 1841.
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india, printed area approx 255 x 165mm (10 x 6¼"). Uncut sheet.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), novelist, as a young man (portrayed shortly after completing 'Barnaby Rudge' in 1841). By Alfred Guillaume D'Orsay, styled Count D'Orsay (1801-52), artist and dandy. D'Orsay and his lover Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington were at the centre of fashionable London life and gathered around them many of the social and literary celebrities of their time. This portrait comes from a series of 125 of his profile sketches which include most of the celebrities of the day. Many of the related pencil sketches are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[Ref: 37542] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens. Reproduction d'un dessin á la plume fait par le Comte d'Orsay en 1845.
Theodore Joyeuse 1885 D'après A. D'Orsay.
Théodore Joyeuse, sc. Le Livre. VIIe Annee. Imp. A. Quentin.
Etching. Plate: 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼'') very large margins. Foxing.
A profile portrait of Victorian writer and social comentator Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
[Ref: 48722] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Dickens.]
[François Corboin after John & Charles Watkins.]
[1888.]
Etching. Plate: 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾'') very large margins.
A profile portrait of Victorian writer and social commentator Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Published in 'L'Artiste' magazine 1888 with Charles Dicken's facsimilie signature below.
[Ref: 48723] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Dickens.]
[François Corboin after John & Charles Watkins.]
[1888.]
Etching on chine collé. Proof before title. Plate: 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾''), with large margins.
A profile portrait of Victorian writer and social comentator Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Published in 'L'Artiste' magazine 1888.
[Ref: 48724] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens à 18 ans, (Dessin d'un anonyme).
Théodore Joyeuse, sc. Le Livre. VIIe Annee. Imp. A. Quentin.
[1885.]
Etching. Plate: 245 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾''), with large margins.
A portrait of an eighteen year old Charles Dickens (1812-1870) after a portrait by an unknown artist.
[Ref: 48725] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Faithfully yours Charles Dickens [facsimile].
Miss. M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill. [n.d. c.1844.]
Stipple. 224 x 145mm. 8¾ x 5¾".
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) the English writer, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and repsponsible for some of the English literature's most iconic novels and characters. After Margaret Gillies (1803-1887) and engraved by James Charles Armytage (1820-1897) for an 1844 publication "A New Spirit of the Age".
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25354] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Dickens [facsimile signature.]
A. D'Orsay fecit 16 Dec.b 1841.
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. 380 x 273mm. 15 x 10¾". Inscribed in pencil lower right: Dickensiona Folio. Large margins.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), aged 29, the great English novelist of the Victorian period. A drawing by Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay (1801-1852), a French amateur artist, man of fashion and friend of Charles Dickens.
Ex W. T. Spencer.
[Ref: 22259] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait Gallery of British Costume. July 1870.
Et. David, dess. Paris. Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris.
Published with the "Tailor and Cutter" by John Williamson 93, Drury Lane London W.C.
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 195mm. 11¼ x 7¾".
Fashion illustrations from a trade newspaper using images of two leading personalities of the day to demonstrate a particular style. They are Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870, left), the greatest novelist of the age, and statesman and novelist Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 - 1881). Supplement to a Victorian magazine.
[Ref: 22244] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Dickens.]
S. Haydon ad vivam f.t.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching. Plate: 165 x 85mm (6½ x 3¼''), with very large margins. Dusty.
A portrait of John Dickens (1785-1851), father of novelist Charles Dickens and the model for the character of Mr Micawber in the novel 'David Copperfield'. An etching after a bust by Samuel Haydon.
[Ref: 50392] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Dickinson.]
[Drawn from the life by Du Simitiere in Philadelphia] B.B.E. [inscribed lower right].
[n.d. c.1780].
Etching and stipple engraving. Sheet 120 x 110mm. Trimmed inside plate.
John Dickinson [1732 - 1808]. American Revolutionary politician and pamphleteer who became the leading conservative voice of opposition to Great Britain through his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767-1768).
[Ref: 183] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Dickinson] The Country Girl. How Happy is the harmless Country Maid, [...] From an Original Picture in the Collection of the Marquis of Granby.
Painted by W. Peters R.A. Engraved by W. Dickinson.
London, Publish'd Mar. 1st, 1778 by W. Dickinson, No 20 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and T. Watson No 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"), on 18th century watermarked paper, with margins. Repaired tears in margins.
A portrait identified by Chaloner Smith as Mary Dickinson, sister of the engraver, with a high hat with ribbons and low-cut dress, within an oval frame.
CS 17, state ii of ii. From the Halsey Collection.
[Ref: 60125] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Dickinson] [The Country Girl.]
Painted by W. Peters R.A. Engraved by W. Dickinson.
London, Publish'd Mar. 1st, 1778.
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof before title. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"), with wide margins.
A portrait identified by Chaloner Smith as Mary Dickinson, sister of the engraver, with a high hat with ribbons and low-cut dress, within an oval frame. The original painting belonged to the Marquis of Granby.
CS 17, state i of ii.
[Ref: 56319] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Dickinson] Rich.d Dickison Behold the Governor of Scarborough Spaw / The Uglyest Fisz you ever Saw / Yet when you View the Beauty of his Mind / In him a Second Esop you may find
Sold by John Bowles [?Printseller in] Cheapside, London [n.d., c.1720.].
A very scarce mezzotint, Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to image.
Caricature of Richard Dickinson (1669 - 1738), a shoe-cleaner and ginger-bread vendor who used the money he accumulated to build facilities for visitors to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, who came to drink the waters. Dickinson had enlarged extremities, and he may have suffered from acromegaly.
Russell: English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits", 32a.
[Ref: 64355] £340.00

For Mr. Didelot's Benefit.
L.Legoux Pupil of F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1790.]
Scarce stipple with engraving. 157 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed.
A ticket depicting a Muse dancing and playing cymbals, followed by Cupid, who adorns her with a garland of flowers. Charles-Louis Didelot (1767 - 1837) was a French dancer and choreographer.
See De Vesme: 1936 [for different version. & description].
[Ref: 20513] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

M.dme Rose Didelot, in the Character of Calypso, in the Ballet of Telemachus. Composed by Mr. Dauberval.
Cha.s Henard del.t. Conde & Reynolds sculp.t.
[London, c.1791.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 510 x 385mm (20 x 15¼"). Ink collector's mark on reverse. Trimmed to plate, some surface rubbing
A full length portrait of Rose Didelot (d.1806), wife of Charles Louis Didelot, in classical dress, standing in a garden. A talented ballerina, she was a rival of Parisot, although the three appeared together in a performance of 'Alonzo e Caro' at the Opera in 1796, causing a scandal with their scanty costumes (subject of Gillray's 'Modern Graces').
Whitman 70. Ex: Collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and American collector Frederic Robert Halsey (1847-1918), Lugt 1308.
[Ref: 67909] £420.00

[La Lecture chez Diderot.]
J. Meissoner 1859. L.Ruet [pencil signature.]
Published 1907 by C. Klackner, 1 Haymarket, London, Imprimerie A. Salmon Paris. Copyrighted 1907 by C. Klackner, 7 West 38th Street, New York.
Etching, remarqued proof signed by the etcher. 320 x 360mm, 12½ x 14¼" Original frame. Unexamined out of frame.
'The Lecture at Diderot's' after Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.
Printsellers' Association, but dated 1905.
[Ref: 23222] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Diderot's Lamentation ofr the loss of his Night Gown. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Published by W & J. Stratford No. 112 Holborn Hill, March 1793
Engraving, platemark 175 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Small margins.
Denis Diderot (1713-84), philosopher and writer, holding his nightgown, probably to illustrate his 1769 text 'Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown'. Print published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', 1793, although a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45855] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Une Lecture Chez Diderot (Collection de Mr. le baron Edmond de Rothschild.)
Meissonier 1859 [etched in plate.] E. Meissonier, pinx. Mongin, sc.
L'Art. Imp. A. Salmon. [n.d., c.1870.]
Etching. Plate: 235 x 210mm (9¼ x 8¼").
Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784), French philosopher, art critic and writer, talking to friends around a table in his library. After Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815 - 1891).
[Ref: 39884] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Didmarton the Seat of Robert Codrington Esq.r 15.
J. Kip Delin. et Sculp.
[n.d. c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate 343 x 425mm (13½ x 16¾"). Fold as normal.
A bird's eye view of Didmarton Manor, in Gloucestershire; a road running past on the right. formal gardens to the left. From 'Britannia Illustrata'. Didmarton Manor, the 16th century manor house owned by the Seacole family. In 1571, Simon Codrington married Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Seacole, and the estate thus passed to their son Robert Codrington.
[Ref: 31204] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of Dido.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J. Grozer.
London, Published at the Act directs, 9th. May 1796, by J. Grozer. No.8, Castle Street, Leicester Square.
Mezzotint, very fine impression & image. Plate: 490 x 590mm (19¼ x 23¼"). Creasing in top left corner. Small tear in top right corner. Small margins.
A dramatic scene in which Dido, having stabbed herself, lies dying on a pyre while beside her Anna throws her arms up in horror and Iris cuts a lock of her hair. In the distance Aeneas's ships sail away. Said by Leslie to be a portrait of Miss Wateridge.
CS: 25
[Ref: 46177] £650.00

Didoos Dood. Boertig in Hollandsche kleedy afgebeeld. Onnoozle Dido sterft, van haar Galant verlaaten…Och, Vrouwtjes! wacht u wel voor de ontrouw van de Mans. L.P La Mort de Didon, Representée en burlesque, à la Hollandoise. La pauvre Didon meurt: son Amant l’abandonne...Mesdames! gardez-vous des pièges des Galants. H.J.R.
C. Troost inv. S. Fokke del. et fec.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Etching and engraving with very large margins. Plate 375 x 272mm (14¾ x 10¾").
Dido's death; the queen lying on a pyre, dressed in peasant clothes. A fantastic Dutch Burlesque. From a series of thirty-one unnumbered plates after Cornelis Troost. The series was begun in 1754 with three prints by Punt and Tanjé; between 1757 and 1764 twenty-nine plates were added, engraved by Jan Punt, Pieter Tanjé, Jacobus Houbraken, Pelletier, Simon Fokke, Radigues and Muys.
[Ref: 30049] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

H.M.S. Dido (18 Guns) Casting from Spithead, 1841. To the Hon.ble Capt.n Keppel and the Officers of the Ship this print is respectfully dedicated by The Publishers. [&] H.M.S. Dido (18 Guns) running up Channel, 1845...
Lieu.t Inglefield del. T.G.Dutton, lith. Day & Hague, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London. Published Oct.r 21st 1845 by Messrs Fores 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street.
Pair of tinted lithographs. Each printed area 325 x 400mm (12¾ x 15¾") Publication line '1845' rubbed.
Pair fine naval lithographs. HMS Dido shown en route to the Far East to participate in the First Opium War in 1841 and her return to England after her involvement in James Brooke's campaign for the suppression of Borneo pirates in 1845. Her captain, Henry Keppel (1809-1904), published ''An Expedition to Borneo'' in 1846, making this backwater campaign famous. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1877, appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen in 1878 and retired in 1879. Dido was an 18-gun Daphne-class corvette built for the Royal Navy launched 1836. Other services included the Syrian War (1840) and a visit to New Zealand in 1847. Later she became a coal hulk at Sheerness bafore being sold for scrap in 1903.
[Ref: 46197] £850.00 view all images for this item

Didood Dood. La Mort de Didon.
C. Troost inv. S. Fokke del. et fec.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 270 x 380mm (10½ x 15") very large margins.
A burlesque death of Dido, she lies upon a pyre while grieveing women look on. A plate from a series of 31 engravings published between 1754-1764 after paintings, drawings and pastels by Cornelius Troost made between (1738-1748).
[Ref: 42655] £420.00

Eneas going into the Cave, from an Original Drawing of Solimene.
Fran: Solimene inv. e del. Gius Zocchi inv:
1764.
Etching. 255 x 240mm (10 x 9½") with large margins. Uncut.
A scene depicting Aeneas and Dido holding hands as they are about to enter the cave to shelter from the storm conjured by Juno. Perhaps one of the most controversial plot points of the Aeneid, Dido interprets their time spent in the cave as consecration of their marriage, which Aeneas only later attempts to deny as he realises he must leave Carthage and continue his search for a new settlement. Dido, humiliated and believeing her reputation to be irretrievable, kills herself with Aeneas' sword and curses enduring enmity between their peoples, an overt invocation of the Punic Wars.
[Ref: 54011] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Death of Dido]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Pub'd. as the Act directs Mar.h 1 1787 by F. Bartolozzi.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½") very large margins.
The death of Dido of Carthage, who committed suicide after the warrior Aeneas left her (as recounted in Virgil's 'Aeneid'). Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited 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. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 406.ii
[Ref: 43427] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Dido fainting with grief.]
G.B. Cipriani inv. et pinx. F Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Published as the Act directs Octr,, 30th 1778 by F. Bartolozzi No.1 Bentinck Street Berwick Street Soho.
Engraving in oval, proof before title. Sheet 385 x 490mm. 15¼ x 19¼". Trimmed to plate.
Dido, supported on a pyre by a woman wearing a veil and diadem, a dagger at her side; an old woman stands behind to left and weeping women are gathered on the right. In Virgil's 'Aeneid', Dido, legendary queen of Carthage, falls in love with Aeneas after the Trojan fleet is shipwrecked on her shores. She throws herself on a pyre at his departure. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18280] £350.00

H.M.S. Dido (18 Guns) running up Channel, 1845. To the Hon.ble Capt.n Keppel and the Officers of the Ship this print is respectfully dedicated by The Publishers.
Lieu.t Inglefield del. T.G.Dutton, lith.
London. Published Oct.r 21st 1845 by Messrs Fores 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 525mm (15 x 20¾"). Some staining, damage to edges.
HMS Dido was an 18-gun Daphne-class corvette built for the Royal Navy launched 1836. After service including the Syrian War of 1840, the First Opium War of 1839-42, the action against Borneo Pirates and a visit to New Zealand in 1847 she became a coal hulk at Sheerness bafore being sold for scrap in 1903. Dido was the first command of Henry Keppel (1809-1904) as captain. He spent 10 years on board, later progressing to the rank of admiral.
[Ref: 54065] £440.00

Die Bären=Iagd. Venatio Urforum. So starck der Bär auch ist bringt doch der Hunde menge Bet alter seiner Wut denselben ins Gedränge Viel Feinde bringen auch den stärcksten in die Enge. Copia magna canum praestantem viribus ursum Assequitur, superat, villosa pelle cruentat Hostibus innumeris superatur maxima virtus.
G.P. Rug. del. I.P. Koch excud. A.V.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Mezzotint in blue ink. 254 x 362mm. 10 x 14¼".
Bear hunt; hounds attacking two bears, men with spear behind, and others on horseback, in a wooded landscape.
Original chalk drawing is in the BM.
[Ref: 18980] £330.00

[Russo-Turkish War.] Die grosse Doppel=Schlacht des Generals Paskewitsch gegen den Seraskier von Erzerum und den Hagki=Pascha den 1.t-u. 2.t July 1829.
[Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, c.1829.]
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed.
A scene from Russo-Turkish War (1827-29): a battle between the Russian and Ottoman armies near Erzurum in eastern Turkey. The Russians, under Ivan Paskevich, took the city but returned it under the Treaty of Adrianople. The war started after the Russians helped the Greek independence movement fight the Battle of Navarino in 1827: the Turks closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships and revoked the Akkerman Convention. The war ended with the Treaty of Adrianople, which increased Russian dominance around the Black Sea area and Georgia, and, most importantly, forced the Sultan to promise autonomy for Greece.
[Ref: 29836] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

17. Die Stadt.
[Eduard Walther.]
[Published in Munich. c.1870.]
Chromolithograph. 318 x 413mm (12½ x 16¼"). Centre fold as published.
A view of a German city and showing a train and carriage. Possibly an unregistered plate from Walther's "Geographische Charaketerbilder".
[Ref: 56996] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Dieppe. Faub.g du Pollet. Pêcheur. Ancien Costume. [&] Femme de Pêcheur. Ancien Costume. [&]Pêcheur. Costume Modern. [&] Femme de Pêcheur. Costume Moderne. (Four seperate costumes ) & No. 70. Jeune fille de Varangeville, Servante à Dieppe.
A. Feret. [facsimile in image.] Litho de C: Motte on four lithographs and on one engraving, Lanté del.t Gatine sculp.t.
à Dieppe chez Marais fils, Libraire Editeur. [n.d. c.1860.]
[Five plates: four hand-coloured lithographs. 280 x 196mm. 11 x 7¾". [&[ one hand-coloured engraving. 285 x 196mm. 11¼ x 7¾".
Five plates - four made by the same printer of fishers from Pollet, Dieppe, France; plus one odd engraved image of a servant girl of Dieppe. Dieppe, is a port town in Normandy, France. The area is famous for its scallops and other fine seafood.
[Ref: 20687] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Vue Prise dans la Port de Dieppe.
J. Ph. Hackert pinx. Canali sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, a fine impression. Plate 351 x 450mm. 13¾ x 17¾". Some toning an inch into lower edge, all way along; crease to lower and upper right corners.
A view in Dieppe, the famous French port on the English Channel for its scallops.
[Ref: 26108] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Chateau- Dieppe.]
George Huardel-Bly. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 175 x 245mm (7 x 9½'') very large margins.
A view of the medieval castle in Dieppe in France.
[Ref: 49371] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Dieppe Seafront.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint, rare, proof before all letters. Printed area: 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾").
A very early swimming image showing a view of the beach at Dieppe in Normandy, in which figures swim in the beach and use striped beach huts.
[Ref: 45936] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Diessenhoven.
[Frankfurt, Matthias Merian, 1642.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 180 x 280mm, 7 x 11". Trimmed inside to plate mark, some damage on bottom.
Plan of Diessenhofen, in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland, published in the 'Topographia Helvetia'.
[Ref: 16474] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Babbage's Difference Engine]. Impression from a woodcut of a small portion of Mr. Babbage's Difference Engine, No. 1, the property of Government, at present deposited in the Museum of King's College, Somerset House.
B. H. Babbage del.
June, 1853.
Woodcut engraving, on album page in ink "from C. Babbage". 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Laid on album paper bottom right. Creasing in bottom right corner.
Frontis from "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher" Longman 1864. A small section of Charles Babbage's (1791-1871) Difference Engine No. 1, which was never completed. After Babbage announced plans for his invention in 1822, he drew intense interest from the Government, who agreed to finance his project. However, they withdrew support when the project remained incomplete two decades later and had cost more than ten times the initial budget. By then, father of Computing, Babbage's interest drifted towards designing a more general analytical engine. Woodcut engraving by Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878), Charles' oldest son.
[Ref: 55119] £480.00

The differance of Times, between those Times, and there Times. Britannia's Isle, like Fortune's Wheel, In Politicks does daily reel...
[n.d., c.1739.]
Engraving. Sheet: 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed, folds and laid on album sheet.
A satirical broadside which comments on Robert Walpole's reluctance to go to war in the 1730s. It is a print of a medal struck during the rule of Oliver Cromwell which commented on France and Spain's subservience to him, however in this print Cardinal Fleury of France replaces Cromwell and the Dutch ambassador and Walpole replace the Spanish and the French ambassadors. Fleurey, resting his head in the lap of Britannia presents his bare behind while Walpole and the Dutch Ambassador debate who has to kiss it first.
[Ref: 42691] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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