Grosvenor Prints

Professer Einstein. Supplement to The New Statesman and Nation, October 21, 1933 (I).
Low.
Photo-lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 330mm, (9 x 13"). Small tear in left edge.
A portrait of Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) by New Zealand born cartoonist Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (1891-1965). A small Einstein, with his characteristic bushy hair, is depicted walking with his hands behind his back.
[Ref: 37049] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Habito del Sereniss.mo Ser.mo Preneine in Armada Ill.mo et Ccc.mo Collegio.
Giacomo Pecini.
Stefabo Scolari Forma.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet: 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½''). Trimmed.
A portrait of 98th Doge of Venice Francesco Erizzo (1631-1646) shown in armour.
[Ref: 49456] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Military medal]
C. Eisen inv. delin. C. Baquoy sculp. [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 130 x 130mm (5 x 5"). Trimmed along platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Allegorical scene after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established.
[Ref: 44931] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Military medal]
C. Eisen inv. delin. C. Baquoy sculp. [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 130 x 130mm (5 x 5"). Trimmed along platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Allegorical scene after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established.
[Ref: 44932] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Exstant hæc trium charitum Signa, naturali VI circiter pedum attitudine, eonspicua Bruxellæ in ædbus Comilum de Cuypers de Rymenam.
Carolus Eisen Aqua regali Sculp. 1777.
Etching. 240 x 165mm.
Statue of the Three Graces, by Charles Eisen, 1720-1778.
[Ref: 7284] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Eisen, Peintre, Dessinateur du Roy, Professeur de l'Academie de St. Luc, et associé de celle des Sciences, Belles Lettres, et arts de Rouen.
Vispré pinx. E. Ficquet Sculp. 1761
Engraving, sheet 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Trimmed to platemark.
Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine. Engraving by Etienne Ficquet, published as the frontispiece to volume two of the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, illustrated by prints after Eisen's designs.
IFF 154
[Ref: 46485] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

From my Window at the Ranken-Krantz at Eisenach Warsburg Castle Martin Luther Above the Town.
F:W:T Oct.r 6 1839
Lithograph on grey paper, printed area 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼).
Unusual view of Eisenach in Germany, with the Wartburg in the distance. Wartburg is the place where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Amateur lithograph by the army officer and politician Frederick William Trench (c.1777-1859), whose father owned Heywood, Ballynakill in Queen's County. Trench was also keenly interested in architecture: in 1815 he proposed a vast monument to British naval and military victories over France on the site which became Trafalgar Square, and in 1824 he launched a project for an embankment on the north side of the Thames (in conjunction with which a long print of the project was produced).
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For Trench's embankment scheme see refs. 23749, 27468 &c.
[Ref: 35494] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Description du Manège Moderne. Dans sa Perfection. Expliqué par des Leçons necessaires, et representé par des Fifures exactes [...]
B. Picart inventit [1727]
Engraving, platemark 225 x 310mm (9 x 12¼") very large margins. Few wormholes. Time stained.
Frontispiece to Baron d'Eisenberg's horseriding manual, 'Description du Manège Moderne' (1727), featuring various pieces of equipment used in horseriding (stirrups, saddle, bridle etc).
[Ref: 40089] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Description du Manège Moderne. Dans sa Perfection. Expliqué par des Leçons necessaires, et representé par des Fifures exactes [...]
B. Picart inventit [1727]
Engraving with hand-colouring and ms, platemark 225 x 310mm (9 x 12¼") very large margins.
Frontispiece to Baron d'Eisenberg's horseriding manual, 'Description du Manège Moderne' (1727), featuring various pieces of equipment used in horseriding (stirrups, saddle, bridle etc).
[Ref: 40090] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Ejectment. To the Absentees of Ireland this print illustrative of the domestic misery of their Tenantry is respectfully dedicated to their very humble serv.t. Edw.d Hayes.
Drawn on Stone by E. Hayes. Printed by M. H. & J. W. Allen, 32 Dame S.t Dublin.
Dublin, Published by M.H. & J.W. Allen, 32 Dame Street. [1840.]
Lithograph, scarce. Sheet: 370 x 440mm (14¾ x 17½''). Trimmed, creased in centre and laid on album sheet.
A scene in a rustic Irish home showing the poverty many families were experienceing during the mid 19th century. By Irish artist Edward Hayes (1797-1864).
[Ref: 48538] £650.00

New Invented Elastic Breeches.
J. Nixon fecit 1784. [Rowlandson]
Pub.d Nov.r 1. 1784 by W Humphrey N.o 227 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album paper. Time stained. Pin holes in top corners.
A satire on the fashion for close-fitting leather breeches. The interior of a breeches-maker’s shop. Two men, one standing on a chair, the other on a stool, strain to pull up the extremely tight breeches of a stout man, lifting him off the ground in the process. A stout woman enters from the right carrying a pair of breeches. On the wall hangs a placard reading: ''Ramskin, Elastic Spring Breeches Maker They set close to the Hips and never alter their Shape which Thousands can Testify Likewise a large & curious assortment of Breeches Balls Straps Boot Garters &c &c &c.'' More breeches hanging on the wall.
BM Satires 6723.
[Ref: 68014] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

View of Porto Ferrajo, in the Isle of Elba; Shewing, 1. Buonaparte's Town Residence. 2. His Country house. 3. The Iron Mountains. 4. The Lazarotte.
W.M. Craig del. T. Dixon sculp.
Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool. Nov.r 1815.
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate, close to publication line.
A view of Portoferraio from the sea, drawn during his exile there, but published after Waterloo.
[Ref: 67140] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon & Elba] Ah! Papa, tu t'es fait bien du mal.
[n.d., c.1814.]
Rare etching. Sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9"). Trimmed within plate.
Napoleon lies on his back measuring a wall map of Elba with a pair of compasses. His young son, dressed in uniform like his father's, speaks the title, 'Ah! Daddy, you're doing yourself a lot of harm'. Napoleon says 'Quelle Chule' (What foot odour).
[Ref: 55781] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Elba. Napoleon Musing.
on Stone by A. Picken. W. Day lith to the King.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8").
An invented view of Napoleon standing on a rock looking down onto a harbour of Elba.
[Ref: 62331] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Elba] Napoleon Musing.
on Stone by A. Picken. W. Day lith to the King.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed, losing surtitle at top
An invented view of Napoleon standing on a rock looking down onto a harbour of Elba.
[Ref: 36752] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Thomas Elder, of Forneth Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh &c.
H. Raeburn, pinx.t. R. Earlom, sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1797.]
Mezzotint. 520 x 360mm (20½ x 14¼") very large margins. Plate mark cracked top and bottom.
Thomas Elder (1737-99), a wine merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh three times (1788-90, 1792-4 and 1796-8). Here he is portrayed with the plans for the new buildings of Edinburgh University, a scheme he was heavily involved with. Raeburn's portrait was painted in 1797 at the request of the principal and professors of the university, and is preserved in their court room.
[Ref: 48516] £360.00

[Elderly Woman.] When did ever morning break, and find a beaming eye awake, like that which sparkles here!
[Cruikshank?]
[n.d., c.1828.]
Etching, 150 x 125mm (6 x 5"). On paper watermaked 'J. Whatman 1828.'
Satirical print depicting an old woman, squinting due to having just woken up. She peers through curtains and gives a cat a fright.
[Ref: 67387] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Profile of an Elderly Lady] Plate 32. Page 86.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row. Nov.r 5, 1796.
Coloured etching, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Small printer’s crease on right just going into image. And printers crease bottom right.
Design within a circle: a gaunt, hook-nosed woman, maybe a witch, shown three-quarter length in profile to the right, extending her right hand while pointing with her left. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
[Ref: 67720] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A Labourer in the Good Cause.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket - [n.d. c.March 1829.]
Handcoloured etching, watermark 1827. Sheet: 250 x 350mm, (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Faded.
Satire on Eldon's meetings with George IV. Eldon, leader of the opposition to Catholic Emancipation, induced Tory peers to use their right of demanding audience of the King in order to protest against concessions. Here he carries huge stacks of petitions to present to the King.
BM Satires: 15680.
[Ref: 39168] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable John Scott, Baron Eldon. Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c.
Painted by W. Owen Esq.r Portrait Painter to H.R.H. the Prince Regent
Pub.d May 1 1813, by Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Str. London.
Mezzotint printed on two plates, combined platemark dimensions 630 x 420mm (24¾ x 16½"), with large margins. Uncut.
John Scott, first earl of Eldon (1751-1838), lord chancellor during the reigns of George III and George IV, and a major figure in the political world of early nineteenth-century England. Engraving after a portrait by William Owen (1769-1825), painter whose work included portraits of distinguished sitters including Sir John Soane and William Pitt.
[Ref: 47092] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eldridge The Norwich Artist. To baffle Death & to elude his Dart, Appollo sends a Son to e'ry Part; To Leyden Boerhave & to London Mead; To Norwich ye fam'd Eldridge is Decreed.
T. Hillyard del: et Sculp.
[n.d. c.1743.]
A rare engraving. Plate 152 x 95mm. 6 x 3¾". False margin added on right
Thomas Eldridge was author of "An Authentic History of the Ancient City of Norwich, from its foundation to its present state, &c."
W: 897-1.
[Ref: 24590] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Eleazar Avaran] Eleazar's bold enterprise. [repeated in Greek, German, Latin, French & Dutch]
Picart delin. Broen Sculps.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Engraving. 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Tears taped at edges, two small worm holes.
During the Battle of Beit Zechariah (162BC) Eleazar attacks an elephant he believed to carried the Seleucid King Antiochus V. He kills it by hrusting a spear into its belly (as shown here), but it falls on him, crushing him to death.
[Ref: 65800] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Angle in the vault of the Sistine Chapel] Pio Septimo Pont. Opt. Max. Eleazar Mathan Michael Angelus Bonarotius pinxit in Sixtino Vaticano Sacello [in design] .
Ang. di Angelis del. Aloys. Cunego sculp. Romae.
Venit Romae apud Montagnani - Mirabili ad Forum Pasquini [Rome, n.d., c.1800].
Engraving, laid on original album sheet, 405 x 585mm. 16 x 23", large margins. Some creasing.
Two figures from the Hebrew Bible: Eleazar (Elazar) was the second Kohen Gadol (High Priest), succeeding his father Aaron. He was a nephew of Moses. Nathan (fl. c.1000 BC) was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba. Dedication to Pope Pius VII to lower margin. From a series of plates reproducing the famous frescos by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome.
[Ref: 22902] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Eleazer's bold enterprize. [Title also in Greek, Latin, French, Dutch and German.]
Picart delin. Broen sculps.
I Mach: VI, 43. [French/Dutch, n.d., c.1730.]
Etching on laid paper, image 320 x 415mm. 12½ x 16¼". Centrefold as usual; sheet trimmed close to printed border. Glue stains to corners.
A wonderfully dramatic Biblical battle scene; Eleazar on a war elephant leading a charge into the Philistine ranks, scattering men and horses. Son of Dodai the Ahohite, Eleazar in the Old Testament is a mighty man who fought with David against the Philistines. From a volume of etchings and engravings after Bernard Picart (1673 - 1733) and his father Etienne.
[Ref: 21066] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Elected Cobler.
Publish'd according to Act Augt. 27. 1772 by MDarly, 39 Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man in a long coat standing on a three-legged stool ranting, one foot raised and one arm in the air. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.4' upper left and '10' upper right.
BM Satires: 4709.
[Ref: 14243] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An. Election. Ball.
[Paul Pry] Esq. Del.
London Published by McLean, 26 Haymarket. [n.d., c.1829].
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet size: 245 x 355mm (9¾x 14"). Trimmed.
An interior view in which a well dressed dandy bows and takes the hand of the plain daughter of a grotesquely fat mother, to the shock and confusion of the guests behind. The ballroom can be seen through an open facade in the background. By William Heath (1794/5-1840) ex-Captain of Dragoons, illustrator of colour-plate books, and prolific caricaturist. He published regularly with Thomas McLean.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 32033] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

An Election Ball.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq. dl.
London, Published by M.cLean 26 Haymarket [n.d. c.1829].
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1827'..
A dandy takes the hand of the plain daughter of a grotesquely fat, but rich, mother.
[Ref: 63391] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

An Election Ball.
G. Cruikshank.
[n.d., c.1813., but later impression.]
Hand-coloured etching. 'J. Whatman 1834' watermark. Plate: 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½''), with very large margins. Paper tone.
A scene in a provincial assembly room with a musician gallery on the left, various couples dance while some guests walk from the side.
BM Satire 13432.
[Ref: 49091] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lambeth Election. Sir, Notwithstanding the impossibility of a personal Canvass, the cordial reception which has greeted me throughout the Borough, has convinced me that my long local connexion with Lambeth, and my well-tested zeal for the cause of Civil and Religious Liberty will secure for me your Vote and Interest. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your faithfull Servant, John Hinde Palmer. Your Polling place is Godfrey's Fields. Your Number is [1643].
[n.d., 1850.]
Letterpress election broadside, number added in ink. Sheet 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"), folded once. Creased.
A canvassing broadside from John Hinde Palmer (1808-84), a Q.C. who contested the 1850 Lambeth election, trying to win the seat vacated by his father-in-law, Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, but only getting 10% of the vote. He became MP for Lincoln 1864-74 and 1880-84 (his death). In 1883 Spy caricatured him as 'Lincoln' for Vanity Fair.
[Ref: 42355] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

To the Electors of the County of Huntingdon. Gentlemen...[eight paragraphs]... Yours Faithfully, H.W. Fitzwilliam. Milton, Peterborough, June 13th, 1877.
[Anon., 1877.]
Letterpress broadside, campaign flyer/handbill in form of an open letter; issued by the Liberal Party on behalf of their local candidate, Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam. Sheet 225 x 180mm, 9 x 7".
Consisting of a serious of suitably vague pledges on the issues of the day, local and national concerns including the 'Eastern Question', i.e. Russia's policy towards the Ottoman Empire. The Hon. (William) Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1840 - 1920), was a Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist politician. He entered Parliament for Wicklow in 1868, a seat he held until 1874. He later represented the West Riding of Yorkshire South between 1880 and 1885 and Doncaster between 1888 and 1892. Initially a Liberal, he disagreed with William Ewart Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and sat as a Liberal Unionist between 1888 and 1892.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16458] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Election Car of James Barlow Hoy Eqr: MP. for Southampton. Chaired January 13th 1830.
T. H. Skelton Printer. H. Pether Pinxit.
Presented Gratuitously to the Subscribe of the Hampshire Advertiser.
A very rare lithograph. Sheet: 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾''). Creasing, tears and staining.
A print of the election car used by Conservative MP James Barlow Hoy (1793-1843). The seat has spiked wheels like a Roman chariot and is covered by a canopy supported by pillars shaped like axes.
[Ref: 48858] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

By Royal Authority! The Birmingham Races Will take place on Saturday next. July 13, 1844,
Printed under Authority by Thomas Vale, Freeman-street. [n.d.c. 1844].
Scarce letterpress, frame 400 x 275mm (15¾ x 10¾"). Framed. Unexamined outside of frame. Time stained and creased.
A satirical election report in the style of horse racing. In 1844, Joshua Scholefield (1775 – 1844), radical politician and one of the members of parliament for Birmingham, died. Consequently, a by-election was held. The "horses"; 'Mr. Churchman's old hack, 'Yellow Dick,' most likely refers to the Tory candidate Richard Spooner (1783 – 1864), a former radical, 'Mr. Corndealer's Hack Sturge-on aged,' most likely refers to Joseph Sturge (1793 – 1859) a Quaker, abolitionist and part of the Anti Corn Law League and 'Mr. Dissenter's horse Young Scoltefield,' most likely refers to William Scholefield (1809 – 1867) son of the deceased Joshua and a Liberal. Thomas James Vale had a long career as a printer at several different sites such as at 3 Freeman Street (1832-c.1844), and finally at 113 Moor Street (1850-55). During his time at Freeman Street he reprinted on broadsides extracts from newspapers on topical events such as French losses at the siege of Antwerp (1832), fire at the Palace of Westminster (1834), 'Dreadful Riots at Dudley' (1834) and a 'great discovery' (1836).
See also 59534.
[Ref: 59529] £390.00

An Election Entertainment. Plate I.
Designed by W. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook
[London Published by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row October 1st 1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 555mm (17 x 21¾") Trimmed within plate, losing publication line and c.1cm of image on left. Laid on archival tissue.
A raucaus tavern dinner held by the Whigs to ingratiate themselves with their supporters. The Tories protest outside, carrying an antisemitic caricature of a Jew, a reference to Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753, passed by the Whig government but repealed the following year. From Thomas Cook's ''The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth, as Originally Published'', issued in parts between 1791 and 1802.
[Ref: 56751] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Citizen T_rn_y drawn by the Populace through the Borough to the Grove-house at Camberwell. / The glorious triumph shouting mobs proclaim. / And the throng'd Grove-House echoes back my fame.
[1797.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 240mm, 7¼ x 9½".
George Tierney (1761-1830), Whig MP for Southwark from 1796 to 1806 (then other constituancies continously until his death), being paraded through the streets after his election. He was a prominent opponent of William Pitt; when Pitt accused him of want of patriotism they fought a duel on Putney Heath in May 1798, but neither was injured. The same year James Gillray caricatured Tierney as a French executioner. The frontispiece to 'A Political Eclogue. Citizen H. T***e, Citizen T**rn*y, R.B. Esq.'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 16435] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

La Machine électrique. Le Bon Génie, Journal des Enfans, 3 Année, No.13. Lith. No. 3.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Repaired tear on right edge, vertical fold as normal and foxing.
A scene showing two children playing with an electric machine, the figure on the right turns a handle to generate the current while the figure on the left touches the machine with his finger.
[Ref: 46301] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Electric Telegraph.
J.B. Roberts 18th Feburary 1849. [signed in ink]
Watercolour and ink mss. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). on Whatman paper dated 1846. Top corners snipped, some staining.
An illustration of the Electric Telegraph Company's 'double-needle' Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, designed for use in Devon, with a guide to the reading of the messages. The Cooke and Wheatstone system had been installed on the Great Western Railway in 1838, but the Electric Telegraph Company was the world's first public telegraph company, founded 1846.
See: Ref: 2844
[Ref: 62451] £480.00

A New Electrical Machine for the Table.
[Benjamin Martin?]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 105mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A man demonstrates a table-top electrical machine, probably a generator of static electricity, to a young woman.
[Ref: 66697] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Original. Electrotype.
Drwan by H. Park. Engraved by T. Sherratt.
by E. Palmer, 103, Newgate Street [n.d., c.1850.]
Two vignettes, one conventionally engraved on steel, the other an almost identical copy. Sheet 275 x 220mm. Small, very tatty margins with small nicks and tears. Some staining.
Sample sheet intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of electrotyping as a means of duplicating printed images. The process was invented in the mid-nineteenth century, around the date of this print, almost immediately after electrical batteries good enough to manage the process were invented. A duplicate printing plate is created through electrolysis from a wax or metal mold of the original printing plate. The impression taken is dusted with a very fine conductive powder (usually graphite), and then metal (usually copper) is electroplated onto the surface, forming a thin metal shell that can have a remarkably accurate image, as witnessed here. Electrical experiments are amoung those being performed by the industrious putti engaged in scientific and mechanical pursuits who feature in these images.
[Ref: 7418] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Gray's Elegy. For thee, who, mindful of th'unhonour'd Dead. [...] Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
W. Hamilton R.A. pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t.
Loindon Publish'd June 27, 1799, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Stipple. Platemark: 435 x 505mm (17 x 19¾"). Very large margins. Light foxing in margins. Small tears along top and bottom edges. Puncture holes for binding into wrappers along left margin. Stain in lower right corner of title area.
A family on a bench in a churchyard at evening, their arms around each other, leaning forward to right to read the epitaph on a tombstone to right, as they listen to an old man sitting beside him, who gestures towards it as he speaks. An illustration to 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. From Macklin's 'One hundred pictures/Prints illustrative of the most celebrated British Poets [...] with letter-press explanatory of the subject, extracted from the writings of the respective poets.'
[Ref: 38511] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Air. [&] Earth. [&] Fire. [&] Water. From the Original Drawing in the Possession of W. Palmer.
G.B. Cipriani Invent.t F. Bartolozzi Sculpi.t
Publish'd by W. Palmer No. 163 Strand Oct.r 1; 1784
Set of four stipple engravings, each 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10") to platemark. Large margins.
The four elements.
De Vesme: 609-612, v/v.
[Ref: 21189] £1,850.00 view all images for this item

[The Four Elements.] M. 5. Le Feu. [&] M 6. L'Eau. [&] M 7. L'Air. [&] M 8. La Terre.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of four rare etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), large margins.
Four rococo designs, each representing an element, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58932] £600.00 view all images for this item

[Four Elements.] Terra. [&] Aer. [&] Ingis. [&] Aqua. 1 [-4]
Stef. de la Bella invent fecit.
ex. Cum Privil. Regis Christ.
Set of four etchinga. each 85 x 195mm (3¼ x 7¾"), large margins. Laid on album paper, one sheet.
The set of Four Elements: Earth & Air are landscapes; Fire and Water are seascapes, Fire with a ships on fire, Water with a storm. Etched by Stefano della Bella (1610-54), one of the greatest of Italian printmakers, whose diverse output, characterised by the compression of great precision and detail into small composions, has been the focus of a number of exhibitions and scholarly publications in recent years. It was also influential on later seventeenth century printmakers such as François Collignon and Israel Silvestre.
De Vesme 753-6., states ii of iii. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57495] £490.00 (£588.00 incl.VAT)

[Four Elements] La Terre. [&] L'Air. [&] Le Feu. [&] L'Eau.
N. Lancret Pinxit. C. N. Cochin Sculp [& N. Tardieu, B. Audran & L. des Place].
A Paris Chez la Veuve de F. Chereau graveur du Roy Rüe St Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or Avec privilege du Roy. [n.d., c.1730.]
Set of four etchings. Each 430 x 335mm (17 x 13¼"), with wide margins. Laid on paper.
Four fêtes galante scenes. In 'Earth' a group of young people gather fruit beside an ornamental fountain. In 'Air' a man stands on a picnic table blowing bubbles, with others build houses of cards and fly a kite. In 'Fire' a group dance around a tall bonfire, accompanied by a piper. In 'Water' a group assist a fisherman with a net.
[Ref: 51856] £1,650.00 view all images for this item

[The Four Elements.] Terra. [&] Aer. [&] Ignis. [&] Aqua.
I.I. Heid Sculpsit [Johann Jacob Haid after Jean-Antione Watteau].
Joh. Elias Ridinger excud. cum Pr. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Set of four mezzotints, rare as a set; ea. c.570 x 485mm (22½ x 19"). A few small repairs to each plate, creases.
Four large plates after Jean-Antoine Watteau, with figures in park landscapes representing the Four Elements, each with a quatrain in Latin and German.
[Ref: 51812] £1,950.00 view all images for this item

[The Four Elements.] Die Erde. Terra. [&] Die Lüfft. Aer. [&] Das Feür. Ignis. [&] Das Wasser. Aqua.
Amiconi inv.
Georg Leop: Hertel exc: A.V. [n.d., c.1780.]
A rare set of four engravings, each c. 310 x 190mm, 12¼ x 7½. Trimmed, creased.
Four scenes with romantic couples representing the Four Elements after Jacapo Amioni: a gardener presenting a woman with flowers for Earth; a couple removing a bird's nest from a tree for Air; a couple fleeing a burning house for Fire; and a pair of anglers for Water. Jacopo Amigoni (c. 1682-1752), a Venetian painter, lived in England between 1729-39 and attempted to set up a print shop with Joseph Wagner before both returned to Venice. Patronised by Queen Caroline (wife of George II) he is credited with introducing Venetian rococo to British royal portraiture.
[Ref: 26438] £590.00 view all images for this item

Earth.
Ph. Mercier pinx.t. Rich.d Houston fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, October 1.st 1756. London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street & Eliza.th Bakewell in Cornhill. Prince 1s-6d.
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Top left margin rebuilt, nicks and rubbing in margins. Bit messy.
A pretty gardiner pots a flowering plant in a garden. One of a set of the Four Elements.
CS 134, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68839] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Earth.
G.B. Cipriani inv [printmaker's name illegible].
Publié by Isidor Weiss [c.1790]
Stipple printed in red, platemark 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"); very large margins.
Continental copy, in reverse, of a stipple by Bartolozzi after Cipriani from a set of 'the Four Elements' (Earth, Fire, Water, Air).
For a set of the four elements by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, see. ref. 21189.
[Ref: 40367] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Fire. From the Original Drawing in the Possession of W. Palmer.
G.B. Cipriani Inveni.t. F. Bartolozzi Sculpi.t.
Publish'd by W. Palmer N.o 163 Strand Oct:r 1784.
Very fine stipple, printed in sepia. 185 x 225mm (7¼ x 8¾"), with large margins. A little spottting mostly in margins.
An allegorical figure of Fire as a woman in classical robe in a cloud, holding fire in her right hand and a salamander in her left. One of the two winged cherubs blows a wind.
De Vesme 611. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60295] £350.00

[Elements of Bacchus] Drops of Comfort and Draughts of Delight.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, old ink mss. on bottle.
A country woman makes a toast as she fills her wine glass from a bottle. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62153] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Bacchus] May the Eye of Science pierce through the mists of Obscurity.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A man stands before a table, making a toast, glass of wine in his hand. The text (not present here) describes him as an amateur astronomer. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62152] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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