Grosvenor Prints

[Egham Lock.]
Seymour Haden. [Signed in pencil.]
[Plate XIII from the Portfolio "Etudes à l'Eau-forte". 1859.]
Etching 225. x 148mm. Broken on right side of plate.
Francis Seymour Haden, English, 1818 - 1910 Etcher and engraver (also physician and surgeon); born London 16 September 1818, died in Alresford 1 June 1910; brother-in-law of Whistler.
[Ref: 2874] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Plan and Survey of Egham Race Course; in the County of Surrey; with Notes Referring to an Appendix; by Wm. Kemp. To His Royal Highness The Duke of York; This Plate, being No.6 of a Series of Surveys, of the Principal Race Courses in England; is most Respectfully Dedicated, by His most obedient, and very humble Servant, [facsimile signature:] Wm. Kemp.
Davies sc. 34 Compton St. Brunsw.k Sq.re.
London, Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co. Paternoster Row. [n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 216 x 280mm. 8½ x 11". Two vertical folds as published. Small tear into left-hand fold.
Egham Racecourse was situated in Runnymede Meadows from 1734-1884 before the racing was moved to Kempton Park, due to large gangs of London pickpockets invading the Egham meetings.
See Ref: 41083
[Ref: 19557] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Plan and Survey of Egham Race Course; in the County of Surrey; with Notes Referring to an Appendix; by Wm. Kemp. To His Royal Highness The Duke of York; This Plate, being No.6 of a Series of Surveys, of the Principal Race Courses in England; is most Respectfully Dedicated, by His most obedient, and very humble Servant, [facsimile signature:] Wm. Kemp.
Davies sc. 34 Compton St. Brunsw.k Sq.re.
London, Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co. Paternoster Row. [n.d. c.1825.]
Engraved map with hand colour, 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10½). Two vertical folds as published
Egham Racecourse was situated in Runnymede Meadows from 1734-1884 before the racing was moved to Kempton Park, due to large gangs of London pickpockets invading the Egham meetings.
[Ref: 63730] £80.00

This View of the Eastern Window of the Chapel of the Rolls completed 1820, is dedicated by Permission ro the Right Hon.ble Sir Tho.s Plumber KN.t Master of the Rolls by his Humble Servant, W.m Raphael Eginton.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. 425 x 270mm. Some wear to margins.
A stained-glass window with the armorial of the Master of the Rolls, with the personal arms of some of the Masters from 1362 to the encumbent, Thomas Plumber, from 1818 to 1824. To be Master is to serve in one of the highest offices in Law. It was a private chapel, built to serve Henry III's royal foundation of the Domus Conversorum in 1232. The inquisition into its affairs in 1308 was ordered by the King, but from 1377, when the Domus and the chapel were attached permanently to the office of Keeper of the Rolls, it became the private chapel of the Master of the Rolls. The Masters and clerks of Chancery had right to seats in it. At a later date other people could rent pews. From time to time the King interfered in the appointment of clergy: not successfully (?1638) when the Master of the Rolls refused to allow a royal nominee Matthew Griffith to officiate in the Chapel; successfully in 1684 when Harbottle Grimston was forced to dismiss Gilbert Burnet after the Guy Fawkes' day sermon which offended James II. Burnet says that 'North [Lord Chancellor] writ to the Master of the Rolls, that the King considered the Chapel of the Rolls as one of his own Chapels'. But Burnet was rather notorious and the King was James II. There are no later cases of royal interference or intervention by the Lord Chancellor. It is unlikely that any converts lived in the house, the Chapel was not very important and was rather neglected except as providing a nice little sinecure for 'clerical' relatives and friends of the current Mr., and of course, a rather gracious place for services.
[Ref: 7086] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Eglesfield] Robertus Eglesfield Reginae Philippa Edovardi III Regis Angliae Coniugi a Sacris Confessionis [...]
J. Faber Fecit & Excud.t [c.1720]
Mezzotint, sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Robert Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), founder of Queen's College, Oxford. The hall was founded in 1341, on a site purchased by Eglesfield from his own funds. Queen Philippa (whose chaplain Eglesfield was) was closely associated with the foundation.
[Ref: 44075] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Robertus Eglesfield. Regina Philippa Edovardi III Regis Anglice Coniugi a Sacris Confession. Coll. Reginense Fundav. A.D. MCCCXL.
J.Faber Fecit & Excud.t.
[n.d.,c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetstreet London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Pasted on sheet with separately-printed engraved border as issued.
Portrait of Robert de Eglesfield (c. 129 - 1349), 1341 founder of The Queen's College, Oxford, and a chaplain of Queen Philippa of Hainault in whose honour he named the college.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65137] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Robertus Eglesfield. Regina Philippa Edovardi III Regis Anglice Coniugi a Sacris Confession. Coll. Reginense Fundav. A.D. MCCCXL.
J.Faber Fecit & Excud.t.
[n.d., c.1712.]
Mezzotint, with collector's mark. Sheet 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Small hole on lower left of image. Some time-staining. Creases to right side & top left.
Portrait of Robert de Eglesfield (c. 1259 - 1349), 1341 founder of The Queen's College, Oxford, and a chaplain of Queen Philippa of Hainault in whose honour he named the college.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65136] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert de Eglesfield] Proepositio & Scholaribus Coll: Reg: Oxon: hanc Roberti Eglesfeld Pientissimi Fundatoris Effigiem.
T. Murray pinx. D.D.J. Faber
Sold by J. Faber at ye Golden head ye South Side of Bloomsbury Square [c.1720]
Mezzotint. Sheet 415 x 260mm (16¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper. Unidentified ink stamp with leg and initials "FFF".
A full-length portrait of Robert de Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), chaplain to Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III. In 1341 he founded Queen's College, Oxford, on a site purchased by Eglesfield from his own funds.
CS 121. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68590] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert de Eglesfield] Proepositio & Scholaribus Coll: Reg: Oxon: hanc Roberti Eglesfeld Pientissimi Fundatoris Effigiem.
T. Murray pinx. D.D.J. Faber
Sold by J. Faber at ye Golden head ye South Side of Bloomsbury Square [c.1720]
Mezzotint. Sheet 415 x 260mm (16¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to image and pasted to album sheet with letterpress below.
Robert de Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), founder of Queen's College, Oxford. The hall was founded in 1341, on a site purchased by Eglesfield from his own funds. Queen Philippa (whose chaplain Eglesfield was) was closely associated with the foundation.
[Ref: 44072] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Eglintoun Castle and Tournament. taken on the spot for the Court Gazette.
G. Brandard,lith. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
Glenny, Publisher, Strand [n.d., c.1839].
Rare lithograph. Sheet 280 x 385mm (11 x 15¼"). Marks in margins.
Two knights in full armour jousting, showing the moment of impact. The Eglington Tournament of 1839 was a re-enactment of a medieval tournament with other games and entertainments held at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. It drew 100,000 spectators.
[Ref: 56438] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Eglinton Testimonial. A Representation of the Piece of Plate Presented by the Noblemen, Gentlemen and Ladies Present at the Festivities Celebrated at Eglinton Castle, in the Autumn of 1839, to the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Lord of the Tournament.
Manufactured by Mess.rs Garrard and Co., London. Goldsmiths, &c. to the Crown.
Landells, Bride Court, Fleet Street, sculpt.
Engraving on india paper. Scarce. Sheet: 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Offset.
An illustration of the Eglinton Trophy presented to Archibald, Earl of Eglinton in thanks for his holding the Eglinton Tournament on 30th August 1839. The tournament was a re-enactment of a medieval joust and drew a huge crowd of 100,000. Many famous people and nobility watched and participated including Prince Louis Napoleon. In ink in bottom left corner "Weight 1501 ½ Ounces, Height 4' 6"".
[Ref: 42683] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Eglinton Tournament] General View of the Lists.
[James Henry Nixon.]
London: March 1st 1842. Published by Colnaghi & Puckle, Cockspur St.
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15½ x 22"), with large margins. Surface soiling, dusty.
The 13th Earl of Eglinton staged a tournament for his family and friends at his estate in Ayrshire. The 4,000 expected visitors turned into 100,000 from all over the British Isles but, because tickets were free, Eglington had to spend much of the wealth of his estate on the three-day event.
Twenty of James Henry Nixon's watercolours of the event are held in the Future Museum, Scotland.
[Ref: 53353] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Eglinton Tournament] [The Banquet.]
[James Henry Nixon.]
London: March 1st 1842. Published by Colnaghi & Puckle, Cockspur St.
Tinted lithograph with very fine hand colour. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15½ x 22"), with very large margins. Surface soiling in borders, edges chipped.
The tournament banquet, with the diners in period costume. The 13th Earl of Eglinton staged a tournament for his family and friends at his estate in Ayrshire. The 4,000 expected visitors turned into 100,000 from all over the British Isles but, because tickets were free, Eglinton had to spend much of the wealth of his estate on the three-day event.
Twenty of James Henry Nixon's watercolours of the event are held in the Future Museum, Scotland.
[Ref: 53289] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Eglinton Tournament] Procession to the Lists.
[James Henry Nixon.]
London: March 1st 1842. Published by Colnaghi & Puckle, Cockspur St.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15½ x 22"). Surface soiling in borders, tears edges chipped.
A team of bagpipers lead a knight to the joust. The 13th Earl of Eglinton staged a tournament for his family and friends at his estate in Ayrshire. The 4,000 expected visitors turned into 100,000 from all over the British Isles but, because tickets were free, Eglington had to spend much of the wealth of his estate on the three-day event.
Twenty of James Henry Nixon's watercolours of the event are held in the Future Museum, Scotland.
[Ref: 53290] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Eglinton Tournament] Knights of the White Rose.
J.H. Nixon.
London: March 1st 1842. Published by Colnaghi & Puckle, Cockspur St.
Tinted lithograph with very fine hand colour. Sheet 390 x 560mm (15½ x 22"), with very large margins. Surface soiling in borders, edges chipped.
The White Rose team for the Eglinton Tournament of 1839, led by William Campbell as a knight in armour, with standard bearer, squires and foot soldiers. The 13th Earl of Eglinton staged a tournament for his family and friends at his estate in Ayrshire. The 4,000 expected visitors turned into 100,000 from all over the British Isles but, because tickets were free, Eglington had to spend much of the wealth of his estate on the three-day event.
Twenty of James Henry Nixon's watercolours of the event are held in the Future Museum, Scotland.
[Ref: 53288] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Eglinton Tournament] Authentic Costume of Lady Seymour, Queen of Beauty, as She appeared at the Tournament. Eglinton Castle. Aug.st 1839.
Bouvier, Del.
Published by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, Sep.t 16th 1839.
Tinted lithographs with very fine hand colour. Sheet 455 x 355mm (18 x 14"), with large margins. Published version trimmed into publication line at bottom.
A full-length portrait of Jane Georgiana Seymour (1809-84, wife of Duke of Somerset), in gothic dress for the Eglinton Tournament of 1839. The 13th Earl of Eglinton staged a tournament for his family and friends at his estate in Ayrshire. The 4,000 expected visitors turned into 100,000 from all over the British Isles but, because tickets were free, Eglington had to spend much of the wealth of his estate on the three-day event.
[Ref: 53287] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mount Egmont.
C.D. Barraud del. E. Walker Litho. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
From 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61019] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Scenes in Egypt.
R. Ackermann 101 Strand.
Rare aquatint with hand colour on both sides of the sheet. 200 x 325mm (8 x 12¾"), watermarked 'Russell & Co 1799'. Crack in left image, trimmed into plate at bottom, crack in platemark at top, creasing and soiling. Messy.
Two scenes of ruins on on one plate, apparently designed to be separated. They are coloured front and rear to create an effect when held up to a light source. Transformation image.
[Ref: 53587] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Combat et Victoire d'Aboukir, en Egypte, le 10 Brumaire An 8. No. 142
Duplessi-Bertaux inv. aqua forti. Dupréel sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching with 4 pages of text. Plate 235 x 310mm (9¼ x 12¼"). Some creasing.
The Battle of Abukir was Napoleon's decisive victory over Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army in 1799 during the French invasion of Egypt (1798). Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28291] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian Street Scene.]
W.A. [monogram] William Ashton [pencil.]
[n.d., c1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 180 x 100mm, 7 x 4".
Sir John William Ashton (1881-1963). Born in York, emigrated to Australia aged three, but returned to Europe to study art and travelled around Britain, Europe & Egypt 1912-14. His is known to have executed 25 etchings during his stay in Europe. On his return to Australia he became a prolific painter, and Director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1937. He was knighted in 1960 for his service as Chairman of the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board.
[Ref: 16737] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Convention d'Alexandrie.
Grenier del. Litho de C. Motte. [Signed in plate: F Grenier.]
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 445 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins. Small tears to left edge.
The Convention of Alessandria (or the Armistice of Marengo) was concluded on the 15th June 1800, the day after the Battle of Marengo. Napoleon had defeated the Austrian army with the support of Kellermann. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30783] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Defeating the Turkish Pacha, at the Battle of Aboukir.
Engraved by George Cruikshank , from the original design of M. Denon, executed at Paris by I. Duplexi Bertaux.
Published September 22, 1824 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint, 1823 J. Whatman watermarked paper. Sheet 210 x 320mm (8¼ x 12½"). Original binding folds, trimmed within plate on three sides, as issued.
The Battle of Aboukir (25 July 1799) in which Napoleon Bonaparte's defeated Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army. From William Henry Ireland's four-volume 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte' 1823-28.
[Ref: 36008] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Egypt, Called in the Language of the Country Missir; Drawn from D'Anville's Atlas.
Engraved for J. Harrison, No 115 Newgate Street. Oct.r 11th, 1788.
Engraving. 490 x 370mm.
Map of Egypt after the French cartographer d'Anville, showing the Nile south to Aswan.
[Ref: 3043] £130.00

[Portrait of a Woman Sitting on Ruins.]
C. Werner, f. 1873.
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 255 x 375mm (10 x 14¾'').
A scene by the Nile showing a young woman sitting on Ancient Egyptian ruins. From set of 24 plates in 'Carl Werner's Nile Sketches', printed in 5 parts.
[Ref: 48575] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Der Tanz der Almeh zy Benisouef.
G. Döbler sc. [after Jean Honoré Fragonard]
Prag bey P. Bohmanns Erben [1825.]
Sepia aquatint. Sheet 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate, nick in bottom edge.
'The Dance of the Almeh at Beni Suef', after a drawing by Fragonard. Originally they were like the Japanese Gheisha, being educated girls of good social standing, trained in dancing, singing and poetry, present at festivals and entertainments, and hired as mourners at funerals. By the mid-19th century the name had become synonymous with the more erotic belly dancer. This plate was etched by Jiri (George) Döbler for the scarce Prague edition of 'Voyage dans le Levant' by Louis, Comte de Forbin. Forbin (1779-1841), a painter and antiquarian, succeded Vivant-Denon (head of Bonaparte's 'Savants') as curator of the Musée du Louvre after the restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy. He travelled around the Levant 1817-18, painting and collecting artifacts for French museums. The original French edition was illustrated with lithographs.
see V & A SP.265:71
[Ref: 30319] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Conquête de l'Égypte, par les Français, en Messidor, an 6.e.
Desaulx inv. & del. Desaulx Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13").
The French fleet gathered in Alexandria's harbour, 1798. Despite taking control of Egypt the French army was stranded there after Nelson's victory at the Battle of Abukir that year. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28236] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Exodus.]
[After David Roberts.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed in sepia, proof before letters. Sheet 200 x 270mm, 8 x 10½". Trimmed within plate.
The start of the Exodus, as painted by David Roberts in 1829, nearly a decade before the Middle Eastern trip that made him famous.
The original oil is in City of Birmingham Art Gallery.
[Ref: 13976] £380.00

[Napoleon in Egypt] ''Praetor-Urbanus:'' _ Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune.
Etched by J.s Gillray, from the Original Intercepted Drawing.
Pub.d March 12.th 1799 by H. Humphrey, 27. S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"), with large margins. A few small spots, catalogue description pasted on reverse.
A Coptic Egyptian wearing a French military uniform, with breeches and plumed hat, his naked belly protruding from his coat, sits on an ass being led by another Copt, naked except for French hat and tricolour sash. At the back of the procession a French soldier goads the ass with his bayonet. A satire of Napoleon's introduction of a new civil authority in Egypt after his ciobquest of the country. Being Christian, the Copts were outsiders in their own country.
BM Satires 9358.
[Ref: 63377] £550.00

De Stadt Cairus. The Citÿ Cairus.
[London: John Ogilby, 1670.]
Engraving with very large margins. 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Central crease as normal.
A bird's-eye view of Cairo, with the pyramids and a tiny sphinx on the opposite bank of the Nile. It was first published in Dapper's 'Beschrijvinge der Afrikaanse Gewesten', but this example comes from the English edition, published by John Ogilby as 'Africa: being, An Accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abysinnes, with All the Adjacente Islands', with the Dutch title and 11-point key duplicated into English.
[Ref: 30219] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Ghawazi, or Dancing Girls.
Drawn on stone by Lemoine [after Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes].
James Madden, London. [1851.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 365 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
A pair of arab dancing girls with finger castanets, a seated man with a riq (an arab tamborine) behind. Published in the 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile' by Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79), a French orientalism who embraced Islam and took the name Edris-Effendi.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 32041] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian] Arnaute du Caire.
Peint par J.L. Gérôme. PL XL. Photogravure Goupil & Co.
[n.d. c.1870] Berlin_Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé & Publié par Goupil & Cie. Editeurs Paris_Londres_La Haye. New_York. Published by M. Knoedler.
Photogravure. 261 x 204mm. 10¼" x 8".
A police officer in Cairo with a pair of Pharoah hounds.
[Ref: 8704] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[A Study in the Egyptian Antiquity Department in the British Museum]
H.S. Marks.
London, Published December 1st 1861 by Day & Son, Lith to the Queen.
Etching on india, platemark 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"), with very large margins.
Etching by painter Henry Stacy Marks (1829-98), plate 17 from Passages from 'Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club' (1862). Marks first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 and regularly exhibited there in the next two decades (mostly with Shakespearean or historical subjects). Family responsibilities forced him to take on additional work, including illustrations such as this, art criticism, and designs for porcelain, church and theatre interiors, and even Christmas cards! He was elected as an Academician in 1878.
[Ref: 41167] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Egypte._Costumes Civils. Echanson. 1.ère Série. No.28.
Tiré des bas-reliefs du musée Belzoni. Lith de G. Engelmann.
[n.d. c.1850.
Coloured lithograph. 355 x 267mm. 14 x 10½". Light foxing.
An Egyptian in typical civilian costume; standing holding and urn.
[Ref: 26616] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian doorway, with hawk statue.]
M. Sherlock [signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1947.]
Etching. 300 x 180mm.
Marjorie Sherlock (1897-1973). Part of a series Cairo and Egyptians subjects etched and exhibited after the Second World War in Glasgow.
[Ref: 5514] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Egyptian Hall. On the 30th April, 1828.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 275 x 310mm (10¾ x 12"). Some light foxing and remains of glue stains in corners.
An interior view of the Egyptian Hall, the main reception room in Mansion House, official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. The Egyptian Hall is so named because the architect George Dance used a style of column described by Vitruvius as 'egyptian' and not because of any ancient egyptian motif.
[Ref: 41813] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Interior of the] Exhibition of Modern Mexico at the Egyptian=Hall Piccadilly.
Drawn & Printed by A. Aglio. 36 Newman S. Oxford S.t.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 190 x 310mm (7½ x 12¼"). Original binding folds, small tear repaired.
The interior of Bullock's Museum during the exhibition of artefacts from Mexico in 1824 and 1825. A fold-out illustration to the exhibition catalogue titled 'Catalogue of the Exhibition, called Modern Mexico; containing a panoramic view of the city, with specimens of the natural history of New Spain ... Now open for public inspection at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.' The London Museum, the Egyptian Hall or Museum, or Bullock's Museum, was established at 22 Piccadilly by William Bullock (c.1773 - 1849) in 1812. By Agostino Aglio (1777 - 1857), lithographer born in Cremona, Italy who settled in England in 1803 and began working in lithography from 1809.
[Ref: 63008] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian Mummy, for Alexander Gordon's 'Essay...'] Viro Ingenio et Artibus ornatiss.mo Richardo Mead Medico Regio: [...]
A.G. del. [...] Vertue Sc. [1733]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9½"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Engraving of a mummy, published as Plate XIII of Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier' (1737). Gordon (c.1692-1754?) was an antiquary and singer. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
Alexander 672.
[Ref: 47203] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Egyptian Mummy] Cadaver Balsamo conditum; simul cum Loculo ferali [...]
GV Sc. [1724]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 340 x 445mm (13½ x 17½"). Trimmed, losing publication line, and glued to backing sheet.
Four views of a mummy case, engraved by George Vertue after a drawing by William Lethieullier. Lethieullier was an army officer who had visited Egypt and was a member of the Egyptian Society founded in 1741. Vertue presented an impression to the Society of Antiquaries, the dedicatee of the print, in 1724. In 1775 Mrs Vertue presented the society with the copper plate. Note on front of album suggests the colour was added by Vertue. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
Alexander 372.
[Ref: 47287] £320.00

The Representation of an Egyptian Mummy, in the Collection of Rackstrow's Museum Fleet Street.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 285 x 285mm (11¼ x 11¼"). Thread margins, tiny hole in corner of folds.
Three illustrations of an Egyptian mummy, said at the time to be a pharoah's daughter: the front and back of the case and the wrapped figure inside. It was probably published as a souvenir of Benjamin Rackstrow's Museum, 197 Fleet Street, which contained curiosities, waxworks (including one of a dissected pregnant woman) and electrical devices. Rackstrow was colonel of the Trained Bands (Militia) of the City of London, which had an inactive Samuel Johnson in its ranks.
[Ref: 57718] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Detail from front of Egyptian mummy case] 3. Loculi Conscpectus anterior auctior aliquantum, quo Figurae clarius et distintius appareant.
GV Sc. [1724]
Engraving with fine original hand-colouring, sheet 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Detail of a mummy case, engraved by George Vertue after a drawing by William Lethieullier. Lethieullier was an army officer who had visited Egypt and was a member of the Egyptian Society founded in 1741. Note on front of album suggests the colour was added by Vertue. In 1775 Mrs Vertue presented the society with the copper plate.
Alexander 373
[Ref: 47286] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] Cadaver Balsamo conditum; simul cum Loculo ferali [Greek letters] Pictura hieroglphica pulcerime insignito. Ex vetustis Ægypti Sepulchretis sublatum Londinum attulit D. Guil: Lethieullier. A.º D.º 1722.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
Societati Antiquariæ Londonensi Georgius Vertue D.D.D. et excudit 1724.
Engraving. 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Trimmed into image at top.
Four illustrations of an Egyptian coffin (the front, front profile, interior and back), published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61267] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Coffin of Irtyru, 26th Dynasty, 600-300 BCE] 3. Loculi Conspectus anterior, auctior aliquantum, quo Figuræ clarius et distinctius appareant.
GV [George Vertue] Sc.
[LOndon: Society of Antiquaries 1724.]
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with large margins.
The lower half of an Egyptian coffin, identified as a man called Irtyru, published in Alexander Gordon's 'An Essay Towards explaining the Hieroglyphical Figures on the Coffin of the Ancient Mummy belonging to Capt William Lethieullier'. Among the illustrations are the winged Isis, the sky goddess Nut, Anubis, and Irtyru being judged by Osiris and Thoth. Lethieullier bequeathed his mummies to the British Museum in 1756, the first they acquired. Although there were mummies in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the basis of the Museum, they later proved to be fake.
See BM EA6695.
[Ref: 61268] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Women of Middle Egpyt.]
Drawn by E. Prisse Esq.re. On stone by Mouilleron.
Print.d by Lemercier, Paris. [1848.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, laid on card as issued. Card: 575 x 460mm (22¾ x 18''). Foxing.
A scene showing two women by some Ancient Egyptian ruins, one stands with a pot on her head facing the second who sits on a piece of stone; a young child with a chick sits on the ground. A plate from 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, And Modes of Life In the Valley of the Nile' by James Augustus St. John, illustrated after drawings by Emile Prisse d'Avennes. Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French Egyptologist and archeologist who moved to Egypt in 1827 and adopted the Egyptian way of life, converting to Islam and being known as Idriss-effendi. Very fine 1st state with wonderful fresh colour.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 50921] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

From my Room Window at the White House Ehrenbreitstein Sept.r 1842.
F:W: Trench.
Lithograph, scarce & rare. Sheet: 195 x 550mm (7¾ x 21¾"). Creasing.
A view across the Rhine in Koblenz from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress. A lithograph by British army officer Sir Frederick William Trench (1775-1859).
[Ref: 47492] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Mettenberg & du mont Eiger dans la vallée de Grindelwald.
Zurich chez R. Dikenman peintre Rindermarkt 353 [n.d., c.1820].
Aquatint with fine gouache colour and gum arabic highlights. 195 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"), with large margins. Marks in unprinted area.
A superb view of the two mountains. In the foregound are walkers and mountain goats.
[Ref: 62683] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Grand Eiger vu de la Wengernalp.
Maxi de Meuron, pinx. J. Hurlimann, sc.
à Neuchatel chez Jeanneret & Baumann.
Scarce & fine aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 405 x 325mm (16 x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate but well outside printed area, small stains in inscription area, laid on album paper. Very slight marks in title on right.
A view of the north faces of the Eiger, from an alpine meadow called Wengernalp, with cows drinking from a tarn in the foreground.
[Ref: 57801] £750.00

[Eight vignettes]
Marks fec.t
[n.d. c.1820]
Scarce hand-coloured etching, watermark 1822; 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Thread margins. Paper toned. Creases.
Eight comedic vignettes, 'D.r Syntax sketching,' 'D.r Syntax Attack'd by a Bull,' 'DerFrieschutz. Scene Last,' 'Rolla,' 'Life of an Actor, Studying & Throwing a Light on the Subect,' 'The Life of an Actor; A Benefit,' 'York,' 'The Diligence.'
[Ref: 67730] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

This Mill was drawn from the Spot now called Regency Square to Preston (a distance of two Miles), on the 28th March, 1797, by Eighty-Six Oxen, belonging to the following Gentlemen: - W.Stanford, Esq., Messrs. Hodon, Hamshar, Scrase, Trill, Hall, and Hardwicke. The Expedition was commanded by Mr. T. Honson.
[n.d. c.1870.]
A rare photograph. 241 x 305mm. 9½ x 12". Foxed.
[Ref: 15393] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Ilan-dreoch-Glenbeg, Invernesshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Dec.r, 1, 1818.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A landscape view of Eilanreach, with a figure wading in the river Glenbeag in the foreground. A large house sits on the opposite bank with a row of trees to the right. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36107] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Harbour of Taloo, in the Island of Eimeo.
J. Webber fecit.
London Pub.d April 1. 1809 by Boydell & Comp.y No. 90 Cheapside.
Aquatint with large margins and very fine hand colour. Platemark: 325 x 450mm (12¾ x 17½"). Repairs to sheet including an area inside the printed area to the bottom left, stain in printed area to the left.
A landscape with several small vessels and canoes on a lake, surrounded by steep, craggy mountains covered with trees. Three figures can be seen on the shore in the left foreground, where boats are putting in. John Webber was the official artist on Cook's final voyage through the Pacific; his drawings formed the basis for printed illustrations to the account of 'A Voyage to the Pacific', published in 1784.
Vide Cook's last Voyage Vol II. Chap. V.
[Ref: 31818] £420.00

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