Grosvenor Prints

A Map of the East Indies, Drawn from the Best Authorities.
Jn.o Lodge sculp.
London, Published as the Act directs, 30th September 1780, by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row.
Engraved map. Sheet 285 x 390mm (11¼ x 15½"). Trimmed close to neatline lower right for binding, folds.
A map of the East Indies from India to the Philippines, published during the American War of Independence, Anglo-French War, Second Anglo–Mysore War, and Fourth Anglo-Dutch War.
[Ref: 43276] £230.00

[A traditional raft-boat, East Indies.]
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Brown watercolour and wash over pencil, with blue watercolour to figures. c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼".
A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9424] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of the East India Islands, agreeable to the most approved Maps and Charts, by Mr. Kitchin.
[engraved by Thomas Kitchin.]
[London, c.1785.]
Engraved map. 345 x 385mm (13½ x 15¼"), with very large margins. Original folds, some slight staining, some areas weakly inked.
A map of the East Indies, with the Malay Peninsula, Indochina, Indonesia and the Philippines. New Guinea has yet to be mapped properly. Originally published in 'Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography'.
[Ref: 55316] £250.00

View of the Entrance to the East India Docks with Proposed East London Rail Road.
S. Hemming Engineer del.t.
Printed by W.N. Vear 24 Tabernacle Row [c.1827]
Lithograph, scarce; printed area 170 x 250mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Bit dusty.
View of a proposed (but unrealised) proposal to build an 'East London Rail Road' from the entrance to the East India Docks at Blackwall. A railway was eventually built as a branch line from Poplar station (which had opened in 1840). Designed by Samuel Hemming (1800-76), civil engineer whose plans also included a steam navigation dock at the mouth of the river Lea (ref. 46937).
[Ref: 46935] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

East London Water Works. Share. N.º 43. Transfer. N.º 24. A Memorial of the above Transfer was registered pursuant to Act of Parliament on the 30th Day of November 1807.
Scarce engraving on vellum with old ink mss. Sheet 270 x 335mm (10¾ x 13¼"). With pasted label with tax blind stamp and two wax seals. Some wear and staining, taped stain, collector's label pasted on reverse.
A certificate of share transfer, recording the sale of a £100 share in the East London Water Works from James Boote to John Buck of Batson's Coffee House, for £77 10/-. The East London Waterworks Company was founded in 1806 (the year before this transfer) and was absorbed by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904. Their prime source was the River Lea.
[Ref: 61541] £480.00

Officers of the British Army, No. 3. 15th (York E. Riding). Dedicated by Permission to the Adjatant General of his Majesty's Forces.
L. Mansion & S.t Eschauzier inv. & del. Printed by Lefevre & Co.
London, Published by W. Spooner 253, Regent St. Coloured by C.H. Martin. [n.d., c.1830.]
Fine & rare coloured lithograph. Framed. Printed area: 360 x 280mm (14 x 11''). Frame: 520 x 440mm (20½ x 17¼''). Unexamined out of frame. Foxing.
A portrait of an officer from East Yorkshire Regiment, now part of the Yorkshire Regiment.
[Ref: 48972] £320.00

[East York Militia.]
[George Walker del.]
Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row; Ackermann, Strand; and Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, Leeds. 1814.
Aquatint, 300 x 190mm. 12 x 7½". Trimmed to image. Colour faded. Laid on album sheet.
From 'The costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings. With descriptions in English and French.'
[Ref: 13092] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Eastburn. This Likeness was taken in the Mariners Church without the knowledge or desire of the Speaker.
Bowman Pinx.t I.L. Frederick Sc.
Copy Right secured Aug.t 12. 1822 Print.d by C. Woodward.
Rare stipple. Sheet: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Trimmed within plate, paper tone and tears in edges.
A portrait of Joseph Eastburn with a vignette of the Mariners Church below. Joseph Fairburn (1748-1828) started the Mariners Church in an attic in Market Street, Philadelphia in 1819. The congregation was made up of mariners and was the second mariners movement in America. The church moved to a new church in Water St. and later became part of the Presbyterian church.
[Ref: 49063] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Eascote as 'Cecilia'.]
Tho.s Engleheart pinxt. Frans. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Octr. 1.st 1783 by Anthy. Molten
Stipple and etching; in pencil at bottom "Miss Gibson". Plate 190 x 133mm (7½ x 5¼") with very large margins.
Portrait of a young woman, facing three-quarter to left, looking towards the viewer, peals on hair and ribbons tied under her chin, ribbon bow on her chest. 'Cecilia' is a book published by Frances Burney in 1782. The sitter is identified as Mrs Eastcote by Calabi & De Vesme, who does not seem to have any connection with the book itself.
Calabi & De Vesme (1928): 1279.iii.
[Ref: 52417] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Lodge Gate at Eastdene, Bonchurch.
Drawn & Lithographed by G.E. Madeley. 3, Wellington St.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 279 x 375mm. 11 x 14¾". Large margins with folds.
Lodge Gate, a country house in East Dene, Bonchurch, the small village to the East of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.
[Ref: 24998] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Eastdene near Bonchurch.
Drawn from Nature & Lithographed by G.E. Madeley. 3, Wellington St. Strand.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph, with large margins. 279 x 375mm. 11 x 14¾".
A country house in East Dene, Bonchurch, the small village to the East of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.
[Ref: 24999] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Easter Monday. or the Cockney Hunt.
Rowlandson 1807.
designed etched & Pub July 13 1817 by Rowlandson, N I James Street Adelphi London..
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed to printed border, partly laid on album paper.
Having leapt a fence and landing on a slope, an elderly man sits on the horse's neck, holding its ears to stop being unseated completely. A reckless young woman leaps the fence immediately behind.
BM Satires 10813, first published 1811.
[Ref: 60997] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of the River Lea Bridge and Stratford Viaduct as now constructing for the Eastern Counties Railway Company.
On Stone by L. Haghe, from a Drawing by G. Harley Esq.re. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen, Gate St, Linc. Inn F.ds.
London, Published by R. Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery 191, Regent Street, 1857.
Coloured lithograph. Framed, visible area 335 x 575mm (13¼ x 22¾"). Two scratches, some spotting.
Two passenger locomotives on an embankment with two bridges, an angler in the foreground. The Eastern Counties Railway was established in 1836, intending to build a line between London to Yarmouth, via Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich. Difficulties led to the line ending at Colchester. The first section to open was from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford in Essex, on 20th June 1839.
[Ref: 57000] £590.00

The Eastern Union Terminus, St Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk. This Railway was Opened by the Directors on Thursday June, 11, 1846.
Drawn Etched & Published by Henry Davy, Globe Street, Ipswich, June 19, 1846.
Etching. 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10½").
A view of the Eastern Union Railway terminus just prior to opening. The company was sanctioned by Act of Parliament on 19 July 1844 to build a railway from Ipswich to Colchester, which opened for public service on 15 June 1846.
[Ref: 42063] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eastern Union Railway, as seen from the South Bank of the Cut through Sir Robert Harlands Wood, Wherstead, Suffolk; looking towards the River Orwell & Ipswich.
Drawn Etched & Published by Henry Davy, Globe Street, Ipswich, July 11, 1845.
Etching. 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10½"), with very large margins.
A view of the Eastern Union Railway under construction. The company was sanctioned by Act of Parliament on 19 July 1844 to build a railway from Ipswich to Colchester, which opened for public service on 15 June 1846.
[Ref: 41971] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eastjaiks.
I. Ibbetson delin.t. L. How sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs, by Dr. J. Trusler, March 1789.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5). Trimmed to platemark.
The Eastjaiks were a people of Northern Russia. Six figures are depicted in this scene, one of whom is eating a fish.
[Ref: 32118] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

W.m Eales. The Scientific Professor in his attitude of Seld Defence. Height 5 feet 8½ Inch. Weight 11 Stone 4lb. Age 27. N.B. Portraits of all the Principal Pugilists will be executed in a uniform style.
Drawn from the life & Etch'd by Easto.
London Pub. Feb. 23 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Etching on Whatman paper watermarked 1816. 415 x 290mm. Trimmed to plate at sides, some wear.
[Ref: 6888] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Easton Lodge a Seat of The Right Hon.ble Charles Lord Maynard in Essex.
T. Synner Del: 1756. P.C. Canot sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1756.]
Rare & extremely large copper engraving. 590 x 755mm (23¼ x 29¾") Tears in large margins.
An elevated view of the Elizabethan Easton Lodge near Great Dunmow, Essex, surrounded by landscaped woodlands. Built in 1597, it was burned down in 1847.
Ex Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 56256] £450.00

Eaton. Aged 49 Years,a native Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats. 1st Decr.26.1815, compleated on Blackheath,1100 miles, pn the Barclay plan, viz, a mile every hour. 2nd. July 20th.1816, at the same place he walked 1100 miles, comencing each mile within 20 mintues after each hour. 3rd. Decr. 5th.1816, on Brixton Causeway he accomplished 1998 half miles in 1998 succeeding half hours. 4th. June 18th.1817, this was a task of competitorship btween Baker & himself on Wormwood Scrubs & which was accomplished in one hour less than the given time, making 2000 miles in 42 days. 5th. Sept. 6th.1817, a grand match against time walking from Colchester to London, one day & returning to Colchester the next & so on fro 20 succeeding days, being 1020 miles.
T.C.Smith Del. Freeman Sculpt.
Published by T.C.Smith, Miniature Painter, Aske Terrace, Hoxton, & sold by all Print & Book Sellers. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured stipple engraving with etching. 335 x 250mm.
Pedestrian fl.1810 - 20.
[Ref: 5591] £380.00

Dragon Fountain, in the Gardens at Eaton Hall. The Seat of the Most Noble The Marquis of Westminester.
E.A. Brooke. Chromolith, 70, St Martin's Lane.
[London: Thomas McLean, 1858.]
Scarce chromolithograph. Sheet 360 x 510mm (14¼ x 20"). Repaired tear in title area.
A view of the Grade II Dragon Fountain, in the Italian Garden of Eaton Hall in Cheshire, which survived the rebuilding of the 1960s. From Edward Adveno Brooke's 'Gardens of England', the first British book on landscape gardening to feature plates printed in colour.
Abbey Scenery 392.
[Ref: 60521] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

Eaton. Aged 49 Years a native of Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats...
[T.C. Smith Del. Freeman Sculp.t.]
[Published by T.C. Smith, Miniature Painter, Aske Terrace, Hoxton, & sold by all Print & Book Sellers.][1817.]
Stipple. Album sheet: 235 x 365mm (9¼ x 14¼"). Cut out and title excised and laid on pink album sheet.
A portrait of Josiah Eaton, (b.1774), a competative pedestrian who completed several famous feats between 1815 and 1817. In 1846 Eaton, described as a former baker from Quebec, was reported to have walked 1000 miles in 1000 hours in Toronto, when he was aged 77.
[Ref: 44709] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Josiah Easton] Eaton in his Costume on the Colchester match. Aged 49 Years a native Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats. 1st Decr.26.1815, compleated on Blackheath, 1100, miles, on the Barclay plan, viz. a mile every hour. 2d. July 20th, 1816, at the same place he walked 1100 miles, comencing each mile within 20 mintues after each hour. 3rd. Decr. 5th. 1816, on Brixton Causeway he accomplished 1998 half miles in 1998 succeeding half hours. 4th. June 18th.1817, this was a task of competitorship between Baker & himself on Wormwood Scrubs & which he accomplished in one hour less than the given time making 2000 miles in 42 days. 5th. Sept. 6th.1817, a grand match against time walking from Colchester to London one day & returning to Colchester the next & so on for 20 succeeding days, being 1020 miles.
[n.d. c.1820].
Fine coloured etching. 295 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of Josiah Eaton, (b.1774), a competative pedestrian who completed several famous feats between 1815 and 1817. In 1846 Eaton, described as a former baker from Quebec, was reported to have walked 1000 miles in 1000 hours in Toronto, when he was aged 77.
https://woodfordonline.org.uk/eaton.html
[Ref: 67494] £360.00

Eaton. Aged 49 Years a native of Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats...
[T.C. Smith Del. Freeman Sculp.t.]
[Published by T.C. Smith, Miniature Painter, Aske Terrace, Hoxton, & sold by all Print & Book Sellers.][1817.]
Fine stipple engraving. Sheet: 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"), Whatman paper. Trimmed.
A portrait of Josiah Eaton, (b.1774), a competative pedestrian who completed several famous feats between 1815 and 1817. In 1846 Eaton, described as a former baker from Quebec, was reported to have walked 1000 miles in 1000 hours in Toronto, when he was aged 77.
[Ref: 67495] £360.00

[Josiah Easton] Eaton in his Costume on the Colchester match. Aged 49 Years a native Northamptonshire, Performed the following Pedestrian Feats. 1st Decr.26.1815, compleated on Blackheath, 1100, miles, on the Barclay plan, viz. a mile every hour. 2d. July 20th, 1816, at the same place he walked 1100 miles, comencing each mile within 20 mintues after each hour. 3rd. Decr. 5th. 1816, on Brixton Causeway he accomplished 1998 half miles in 1998 succeeding half hours. 4th. June 18th.1817, this was a task of competitorship between Baker & himself on Wormwood Scrubs & which he accomplished in one hour less than the given time making 2000 miles in 42 days. 5th. Sept. 6th.1817, a grand match against time walking from Colchester to London one day & returning to Colchester the next & so on for 20 succeeding days, being 1020 miles.
[n.d. c.1820].
Coloured etching. 295 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾").
Josiah Easton (b.1774), competative pedestrian, still competing in his late 70s.
https://woodfordonline.org.uk/eaton.html
[Ref: 190] £490.00

[Advert.] Eau de Cologne du plus ancien Jean Marie Farina vis-à-vis la place Juliers à Cologne, Fournasseur de S.M. Fréderic Guilleaume IV Roi de Prusse, de S.M. Victorie Reine d'Angleterre, &c. &c.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Advert with woodcut illustration. Sheet: 135 x 205mm (5¼ x 8''). Staining in corners.
An advert in French and German for Eau-de-Cologne by Jean Marie Farina. Jean Marie Farina (1685-1766) was an Italian born perfumer in Cologne who created the first eau-de-cologne. The firm, established in 1709 is still in existence and still managed by the 8th generation of the family. The advert is illustrated with a woodcut of the company's building in Jülichs Platz in Cologne.
[Ref: 48940] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Lucy Ebberton.]
G. Knapton Pinxit. J. M.cArdell Fecit.
[n.d., c.1755.]
Rare mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
A three-quarter portrait of Lucy Ebberton (or Everton) wearing a silk gown and carrying a basket of flowers. She married Captain Thomas Gregg of the Royal Marines in 1758. The original oil is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The plate was later reworked and issued as 'The Country Maid'.
CS 58, i of ii; Russell 58, i of iii; Goodwin 130, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68219] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

L'Écarté. Les Salons d'aujourd'hui.
Charlotte n... Lith de Villain r de Sévres N.11.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph, very rare. 240 x 318mm. 9½ x 12½". Trimmed, title cut and pasted.
A salon with gentlemen playing Écarté to the right, with a winged snake-like devil (patterned with the four symbols from a pack of cards) hovering above; to the left, women seated waiting, with cupids flying above. Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France and popular in the 19th century.
[Ref: 19959] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Eccentricities No XIV,
Lodon: Published by W. Spooner, 377 Strand. Printed by W.Kohler 22 Denmark St Soho [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾"). Soiled.
A clergyman exchanges repartee with a countryman who is eating off a knife: ''I'll tell you what fellow you'r better fed that taught!''; ''Ah that be loikley Doctor, cos you teaches me, & I feeds mysel''.
[Ref: 54507] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Eccentrics, or Fine Singing. ''A Good Voice _ My Dear fellow you sho'd say a very fine Voice, but I am rather hoarsse just now _ I have such powers I can turn by Voice into any thing" _ "Can you indeed, then I wou'd advise you to turn it into a Pair of Breeches."
Publish'd Aug.t. 15, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½"), with wide margins. Small area of paper thinness.
A group of men singing and smoking around a punch bowl.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 54479] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Echelle de la Gravure. Echelle de la Copie.
J.Bte. Fay del et Sculp.
A Paris chez Mondhare et Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais. [n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving. 390 x 235mm. 15¼ x 9¼".
An ornate French periodic frame; decorated with floral patterns and designs. Perhaps the frame or border to a scientific image. The globes, scrolls, telescopes and compass suggest an explorer.
[Ref: 13037] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Eco A Madame Stamaty Son Fior Narciso Eco sonora io sono: To la bellezza, io l'armonia to dono.
Guido Head inv. e dipin. Agostino Tofanelli delin. Gio Folo incis. e vende in Roma. In segno di rispetto Giovanni Folo dedica.
Rome, [n.d. 1801].
Etching, open letter proof. 415 x 290mm (16¼ x 11½"), very large margins. Uncut. Foxing and creasing in the margins.
The nymph Echo by Agostino Tofanelli (1770-1834) and Giovanni Folo (1764-1836), after the oil painting 'Echo Flying from Narcissus' (1798) by Guy Head (1753-1800). As told by Ovid in Met III, Echo flees Narcissus' presence, humiliated and distraught, after he rejects her. The engravers have embellished Head's original composition with the addition of a figure in the background on the far bank on the water's edge, which is perhaps Narcissus.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54993] £320.00

Municipal School of Art Kingston-upon-Hull. The Echo. A Folio of Graphic Art. No 3. 1919.
Printed at the School of Art, Anlaby Road, Kingston-upon-Hull, and Published Privately, in the Year of Peace 1919.
Portfolio, printed wrapper; Contents, Forword, 4 etchings, a colour stencil & three lithographs, mounted on card, as called for. Extra plates are a second example of one of the lithographs, two further lithographs and a pencil sketch. Very scarce item. Some foxing.
A collection of works by students of the 'School of Engraving & Lithography' at Hull, including: C.F. Trangmar, who is now known for his work with colour photography in the 1930s; George F. Holmes (1861–1940), a founder member of the Humber Yawl Club in 1883 and an early pioneer of British amateur yachting; and Harry Hudson Rodmell (1896-1984), a commercial artist who produced advertising posters for shipping lines P & O, Canadian Pacific and the British India Line.
[Ref: 32812] £450.00 view all images for this item

Echoes Cartoons and Lyrics of the Time. First Series.
London: Published at "Echoes" Office, 19 Catherine Street, Strand. [1868.]
Oblong 4to, maroon morocco, gilt; scarce 270 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Worn, corners scuffed, some leather worn. Paper tone.
A bound series of cartoons commenting on life in Victorian Britain, many scenes focusing on aspects of womens daily life. Some scenes are more political, commenting on Queen Victoria, women's suffrage and foreign affairs.
[Ref: 43875] £600.00 view all images for this item

Die Zerstörung U. Eroberung der Dänishen Schiffe Christian VIII U. Gefion durch die Shleswig-Holsteiner U. Nassauer unter dem Oberbefehl S.r Duchl. Des Herzogs Ernst V.Sachsen Corurg-Gotha, gesehen von der Kieler Chaussée.
Otto Specter fec.
Verlag v. Rob. Kittler in Hamburg. [n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph, printed area 290 x 350mm. Tape stains in margins.
Attack on the German-held town of Eckernförde by the Danish ship Christian VIII, 1849. Part of the struggle for Shleswig-Holstein.
[Ref: 5690] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Eckhardt genannt Koch. Regisseur des K.K: Hof Burgtheaters.
Lieder lithog: 1824. Lith: Inst in Wien.
Lithograph. 297 x 235mm. 11¾ x 9¼". Foxing. Glue staining in the corners.
Siegfried Gotthilf Eckhardt (1754-1831), actor and director. From 1798 he was a tragic and comic actor at the Vienna Burgtheatre.
[Ref: 16511] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Eckington Station.]
[S. Russell?]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 200 x 290mm (8 x 11½"), very large margins. Slight surface soiling.
A view of the exterior of the railway station at Eckington in Derbyshire, on the North Midland Railway, which opened in 1840 and became part of the Midland Railway in 1844. The line was noted for the extravagance of its stations. A matching lithograph of Belper Station on the same line was signed by the artist S. Russell.
[Ref: 57108] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille d'Eckmühl.
V. Adam del. Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 330 x 405mm (13 x 16"), with large margins. Slight foxing.
Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback, surrounded by his officers, watching the progress of the Battle of Eckmühl (21-22th April 1809), in which the French beat the Austrians. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55873] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An Extraordinary Eclipse.
Rowlandson. sc. Quiz.fecit.
London published by T. Tegg. N.o 111. Cheapside. Nov. 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 135 x 230mm (5¼ x 9"). Some surface dirt. Repaired tears.
From the series 'The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? In Hindostan a Hudibranstic poem in eight cantos by quiz'. A group of officials, military and civilian, watch an eclipse across a piece of water. Satire phrophesising Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings', 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754 -1826), failure as Governor-General of India.
BM Satires 12725.
[Ref: 57064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The appearance of the Total Solar eclipse from Haradon hill May 11. 1724.
Stukeley del. E. Kirkhall Sculp.
[1724-c.1776.]
Mezzotint on wove paper. 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very large margins. Slight creasing in margins.
Three men, two holding their horses, looking across a field at the solar eclipse; rays edged with light radiating from a bank of darkened clouds. In the modern calendar the date of the eclipse was May 22nd. A plate from 'Itinerarium Curiosum, Or, An Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observ'd in Travels thro' Great Brittan', by Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765), who best known for his early researches of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. Although the book was first published in 1724, there was a second edition in 1776.
[Ref: 57017] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Partial Eclipse.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Taped to album sheet.
A half-length portrait of a young woman, with some of her face obscured by a veil.
[Ref: 57095] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipse, the Property of Capt.n O Kelly, was got by Mask when in the Possession of M.r Wildman, he won the Following Prizes, Vizt. in 1769, six Kings Plates of 100 Gunis each at inchester, Canterbury, Newmarket, Salisbury, Lewes & Litchfield most of them he walk'd over the Course alone, No Horse daring to Start against him. At Newmarket 17 April 1770, he beat the famous horse Bucephalus & on the 19th following he won the Kings 100 Guins against some of the most famous Horses & double distanc'd them the Second Heat.
Geo. Stubbs, Pinx.t.
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), paper watermarked 'W. King, Alton Mill 1834', with large margins.
A reduced version of either the mezzotint by Burke or the stipple by G.T.Stubbs, unlikely to have been authorised by the artist. King worked from Alton Mill in Hampshire.
CLB: Stubbs 144.
[Ref: 65684] £380.00

Eclipse, the Property of Capt.n O Kelly, was got by Mask when in the Possession of M.r Wildman, he won the Following Prizes, Vizt. in 1769, six Kings Plates of 100 Gunis each at inchester, Canterbury, Newmarket, Salisbury, Lewes & Litchfield most of them he walk'd over the Course alone, No Horse daring to Start against him. At Newmarket 17 April 1770, he beat the famous horse Bucephalus & on the 19th following he won the Kings 100 Guins against some of the most famous Horses & double distanc'd them the Second Heat.
Geo. Stubbs, Pinx.t.
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), with large margins.
A reduced version of either the mezzotint by Burke or the stipple by G.T.Stubbs, unlikely to have been authorised by the artist.
CLB: Stubbs 144.
[Ref: 65685] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

L'Eclipse. Dediée aux Astronomes, et aux Philosophes du dixhuitieme Steele par VA.
Etch'd by J. Barlow.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb.y 20, 1787, by H. Humphrey No 51, New Bond Street.
Rare etching with fine hand colour. 300 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Mounted in album paper.
A woman's head, topped with a conical hat trimmed with a monstrous arrangement of feathers, peers over a huge fur muff. Eclipses were in the news in 1787 because there were seven full eclipses of the sun and moon, the maximum number possible, which usually happens once every 130 years. A note on the British Museum's example of this print (from the Banks Collection) ascribes it to a Miss V. Aynscombe.
BM Satires 7248. The three examples in the BM are all uncoloured.
[Ref: 43889] £480.00

The appearance of the Total Solar eclipse from Haradon hill May 11. 1724.
Stukeley del. E. Kirkhall Sculp.
[c.1724.]
Fine mezzotint, printed in green. 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Trimmed to plate, creased, laid on album paper.
Three men, two holding their horses, looking across a field at the solar eclipse; rays edged with light radiating from a bank of darkened clouds. In the modern calendar the date of the eclipse was May 22nd. A plate from 'Itinerarium Curiosum, Or, An Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observ'd in Travels thro' Great Brittan', by Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765), who best known for his early researches of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. First published in 1724, there was a second edition in 1776.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CLB state I, before the plate was cut down and title re-engraved.
[Ref: 64472] £450.00

Eclipse the property of Cap.t O. Kelly was got by Mask when in the Possession of Mr Wildman, he won the following Prizes Viz. in 1769 six Kings Plates of 100 G.s each at Winchester, Canterbury, Newmarket, Salisbury, Lewis & Litchfield, most of which he walked over the course alone, no Horse daring to start against him, at Newmarket 17 April 1770 he beat ye famous Horse Bucephalus & on ye 19.th following he won the Kings 100 G.s against some of the most famous Horses double distanced them ye second heat.
F. Sartorius pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer. No 53 Fleet Street [n.d., c.1854].
Mezzotint. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), paper watermarked 'J King Alton Mill 1854), with large margins.
First published 1770.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 64838] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled map of the path of the 1764 Solar Eclipse]
Gent. Mag. 1764.
Engraved map. 185 x 115mm.
A map of the path of the 1764 solar eclipse across northern France and south east England. Three disks show how much of the sun was obscured in Bologne (total), Orleans & London (almost total) 6.
[Ref: 56817] £120.00

[The Ceremonies Observed In Every Province & City Of China, On The Occasion Of An Eclipse.]
Drawn by G.F. Sargent from a Painting by Foshang. On Stone by J.W. Giles.
[London, Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. 1846].
Tinted lithograph. 134 x 222mm. 5¼ x 8¾". Paper toning. Cut.
An interior scene in a Chinese building. To the right, a man observes a comet through a telescope. Plate to Julia Corner's 'The History of China & India, pictorial and descriptive' 1846.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn; for the full 'History of China and India' see ref. 23817.
[Ref: 18451] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Annular Eclipse of the Sun.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Damage in right corner repaired,
A solar eclipse over a seascape. Plate 62 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 57025] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipses. The Theory of the Tides.
[Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie]
[London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Small tears at the bottom and some of the explanatory text faded. Some ageing to the paper.
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. Diagrams explaining eclipses of the Moon, eclipses of the Sun, and the theory of tides
[Ref: 56887] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Limits of Solar and Lunar Eclipses. Plate XVII
[Benjamin Martin.]
[London 1755.]
Engraving with hand colour, in mount, pt 18th century watermark. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Bits of paper stuck on right.
A diagram of Eclipses, drawn by Benjamin Martin (c.1705-82), a ploughboy turned instrument maker. Published in the 'General Magazine of Arts and Sciences', which became 'Martin's Magazine' when he took it over in 1755.
[Ref: 58145] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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