Grosvenor Prints

Elizabeth Queen of England. She dyed at Richmond the 24th March 1602, in the 44th yeare of Her Raign and 70th of Her Life.
W. Marshall sculp:
[n.d., 1648.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper, slight staining.
A half-length portrait of Elizabeth I, the frontispiece to the 1648 edition of Thomas Fuller's 'Holy and Profane State'.
[Ref: 57250] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth thanks Thomas Gresham (text in German and French)]
[Anon., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 100 x 55mm (4 x 2¼").
Elizabeth I and Sir Thomas Gresham, the mercer and merchant adventurer much esteemed by her. Anonymous book illustration.
[Ref: 46369] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies Elizabethæ Reginæ Angliæ etc.
R. White sculp:
[Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crowne in St. Pauls Church yard.] [n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, part 1820 watermark, sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate.
From Gilbert Burnet's 'History of the Reformation', first published 1681. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in inscribed oval frame on pedestal, wearing crown and holding orb and sceptre; royal arms and Latin lettering below.
O'Donoghue: 42.
[Ref: 55262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Her Sacred Majesty Queen Elizabeth, in the Superb Dress in Which She Went to St Paul's, to Return Thanks for the Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Engraved by Charles Turner. from the extremely rare Print by Crispin de Passe, after a Drawing by Isaac Oliver.
London: Published by S. Woodburn, 112 St Martin's Lane [n.d., 1816.].
Mezzotint and etching. Sheet 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 16½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, to plate on right and slightly on publication line, mounted in album paper at edges.
A full-length portrait Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), based on a contemporary engraving, published in the series 'Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages'.
[Ref: 59417] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

This Print of The Arrival of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle, 9.th July 1575. is with Permission most respectfully dedicated to The Right Honourable the Countess of Clarendon. by her Ladyship's most obedient humble servant, C. Elston. The Scene represents the Cavalcade within the Chase Vide Sir W. Scott's Kenilworth Vol: 3 p.p. 75 to 79.
J. Brandard del. et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Leamington, Published by C. Elston, Lower Union Parade. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 260 x 342mm (10¼ x 13½").
Between the 9th and 27th July 1575, the 41 year old Elizabeth I visited the home of her friend and favourite, Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester, Kenilworth Castle.
[Ref: 28951] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Queen Elizabeth at the Head of her Army at Tilbury-Fort, A.D. 1588. Acta Historica Reginarum Angliae. Plate X. Engraved from the Original Drawing, of the same dimensions in the Possession of Mr. V. Green. To Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the 2:d Empress and Autocratix of All the Russias. This plate is Most Humbly Dedicated by Her Imperial Majesty's Most Devoted and Obedient Servant Valentine Green.
Drawn by J. Gerhard Huck. Engraved by V. Green Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd September 3rd 1792 by V. & R. Green No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London.
Fine mezzotint, very rare, platemark 490 x 625mm (19¼ x 24½"). Creasing; stain top right, uncut, large margins
Queen Elizabeth I delivering her speech to the troops at Tilbury in August 1588 in preparation of the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada. Plate ten of 'Acta Historicae Reginarum Angliae' by the celebrated mezzotinter Valentine Green (1739-183) from drawings by his former student Johann Gerhard Huck (c.1759-1811), with parallel text in French.
Whitman: 257 II of II; CS: 153.10. Ex Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 23085] £450.00

[Queen Elizabeth in Parliament.]
[n.d., c.1682.]
Engraving. Sheet: 325 x 205mm (12¾ x 8''). Trimmed. Some small loss at edges.
A scene showing Queen Elizabeth seated on an ornate throne in Parliament. An illustration to Sir Simonds D'Ewes 'The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth' 1682.
[Ref: 48653] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Luncheon to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Guildhall 12 June Coronation Year MDMLIII. [Intro Page:] To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A Royal Luncheon given by The Corporation of the City of London at Guildhall Friday 12 June 1953 in Celebration of Her Majesty's Coronation.
Designed & Printed at the Baynard Press, London. [1953.]
Printed letterpress, facsimile and photo-lithograph; embossed front cover; 4 sheet, double-side 4to. 280 x 205mm. 11 x 8".
The programme for the Royal Luncheon held at the Guildhall on Friday 12th June 1953, following her coronation 10 days previously; including the speeches, the musical programme, menu, list of toasts to tbe made, a picture of the Guildhall before damage by enemy action in December 1940, and a list of the Sub-Committee members.
[Ref: 19156] £60.00 view all images for this item

[Elizabeth of Austria] Elisabeth Königin von Polen Ertzhe von Osterreich.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, printed from two plates. Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7"), very large margins.
Elizabeth of Austria (1526-45) became Queen of Poland following her marriage to Sigismund II Augustus, but died only two years later, aged 18. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57761] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabhet D'angleterre Femme du Roy de Boheme Comte Palatin du Rhin.
[after Michiel Jansz. Mierevelt.]
B. Moncornet excudit. [n.d., c.1620.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-62), daughter of James I & VI. She married Frederick V (1596-1632), who was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from 1610-23, and King of Bohemia from 1619-20, both roles he was forced to abdicate from. Their children included Prince Rupert, the Royalist general during the Civil War, and Sophia, mother of George I.
[Ref: 52582] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth of France] D Elisabethæ Borboniæ Principi serenissimæ Philippi in Hispaniarum Indiarumq. Coniugi Ineomparabili.
[Balthasar Moncornet, n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Elisabeth of France (or Isabella of Bourbon, 1602-1644), eldest daughter of Henry IV of France, wife of Philip IV of Spain.
[Ref: 56401] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Great and Glorious days of Queen Bess.
Agnes T_n. [Townshend?]
Pub.d 30th June 1781 by H.Humphrey, No 18 New Bond Street.
Engraving. 185 x 270mm (7¼ x 6¾") Creased, some soiling.
A satire on Elizabethan dress, probably a companion print to one satirising the fashion of 1781. It has been suggested that the artist was Agnes Townshend, a noted courtesan.
BM: 5937 (and see 5936).
[Ref: 6849] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Great and Glorious days of Queen Bess.
Agnes T_n. [Townshend?]
Pub.d 30th June 1781 by H.Humphrey, No 18 New Bond Street.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satire on Elizabethan dress, probably a companion print to one satirising the fashion of 1781. It has been suggested that the artist was Agnes Townshend, a noted courtesan.
BM: 5937 (and see 5936).
[Ref: 54354] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Elk. Plate IV. (Elces machlis).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
An Elk as named in Eurasia (Alces alces) or moose as called in North America. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30178] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ella-Polka für das Pianoforte von Johann Strauss. 160.les Werk.
Wien; bei Carl Haslinger, q.m Tobias, k.k. Hof. u. priv. Kunst u. Musikalienhändler [n.d., c.1855].
Music score, pp. 6 with with etched illustrated cover. 310 x 250mm (12¼ x 9¾").
A lady trick-rider billed as ‘Miss Ella', made her début at Vienna's Carl-Theater on 7 February 1855. Her act was a sensation and ran for 51 performances. Johann Strauss capitalised on this novelty act and, just four days later, presented his 'Miss Ella Polka' at his benefit concert in the Sofienbad-Saal. However Carl Haslinger, Strauss's publisher knew something Strauss didn't: 'Miss Ella' was the stage-name of Olmar Stokes, a man, so he amended the title to simply 'Ella-Polka'.
[Ref: 53235] £230.00

[Lord Ellenborough in India] Alarming Situation! In India. From an Old Tame Elephant Running Wild!!! HB Sketches No 760.
HB [monogram of John Doyle]. Printed at 70 St Martins Lane.
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Feb.y 1843.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 295 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with 'HB Subscriber's Copy' blind stamp lower left. Some foxing.
Edward Law (1790-1871), Lord Ellenborough, as an out-of-control elephant with mahout Wellington reassuring Robert Peel and Lord Stanley in a howdah, and Lord Auckland carried in his trunk. Ellenborough was appointed Governor General of India in 1842 (replacing Aukland), with instructions from the British government to restore peace. However India was immediately plunged into war, firstly in Afghanistan, then Sind and Gwalior. Ellenborough was recalled serving only half of the usual 5-year term.
BM 1868,0808.12091.
[Ref: 57999] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Ellice [facsimile signature]. Private Plate.
Painted by George Richmond R.A., D.C.L. Engraved by Thomas L. Atkinson.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Mezzotint on chine collé. 445 x 350mm (18 x 13¾").
Seated portrait of Edward Ellice the younger (1810-80), Scottish politician, son of a deputy-governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and nephew of Earl Grey. He served as Private Secretary to Lord Durham during his diplomatic mission to Russia (1832) and his governor generalship in Canda (1838), and was MP for St Andrews Burghs from 1837 until his death. His wife Katherine is remembered for watercolours she painted of the Patriote rebels who captured her in the rebellion of 1837-8. Ellis attended Trinity College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 48497] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Général Elliot. Quo nihil majus meliusve. Dédié a son Excellence, Milord Vicomte de Torrington. Pair d’Angleterre Ministre Plenipotent.re de Sa Majesté Britannique pres le Gouvernement Général des Pais-Bas Austrichiens &c.&c.&.
De Glim invenit & delineavit. Martin Sculpsit.
Par son tres humble Serviteur, P. De Glim. [n.d. c.1790.]
Stipple, very scarce; 520 x 357mm (20½ x 14"). Thread margins, some spotting.
A portrait of George Augustus Eliott (1717-1790), 1st Baron Heathfield, K.B., celebrating the failure of the 'Grand Assault' of the French and Spanish forces on 13th September, 1782, part of the Great Siege of Gibraltar 1779-83. He stands with one hand on a cannon, with smoking shot to the side. In the background besiegers jump from their ships into the sea. The British used red-hot shot on the ten new floating batteries that the enemy were depending on: three blew up and the others were so badly damaged they were scuttled.
[Ref: 47320] £520.00

[Ann Elliot] Miss Elliot in the Character of Minerva.
R. Cosway Pinx.t. J. Saunders Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act Directs Feb.ry 24, 1774 by H. Bryer at N.º 12 Stephen Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Collector's blindstamp in image.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of actress Ann Elliot (16 November 1743-69) wearing helmet, medusa collar and carrying a shield. She had relationships with playwright Arthur Murphy, Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland, younger brother of George III.
CS 108, iv of iv. G. 88; Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860), MP.
[Ref: 66077] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honble. Sir George Augustus Elliott, Knight of the most honorable Order of the Bath: General of his Majesty's Forces, and Governor of Gibraltar. Who defeated the Spaniards in their Attack upon that Fortress, the 13th September 1782.
Printed for & Sold by Caringtron Bowles, No.69 in St.Pauls Chruch Yard, London.
Published as the Act directs, 9 Nov. 1783.
Mezzotint. 250 x 353mm. Small tear in left edge.
General George Augustus Elliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, [1717 - 1790]. Appointed (1775) governor of Gibraltar, he was forced to defend it against a combined Spanish and French siege that lasted three and a half years (1779-83).
[Ref: 769] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Daniel Ellis Esq.r F.R.S.E.
Painted by Colbin Smith, S.A. Engraved by Thomas Lupton, 4 Kepple Street, Russel Square.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint. 430 x 325mm (17 x 12¾"), large margins. Stains & worm holes in margins.
Dr Daniel Ellis (1772-1841), an English physician, aerologist, botanist and author, who spent most of his career in Scotland, being an important contributor to Edinburgh’s Encyclopædia Britannica (6th edition). He was president of the Royal Medical Society in 1806 and was elected F.R.S.E. (Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) in 1812.
[Ref: 49833] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Ellis.]
[Engraved by Samuel Bellin after John Lucas.]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. Platemark: 815 x 510mm (32 x 20"). Small tears to lower edge of sheet in margin.
John Ellis (1789-1862), Quaker, businessman and liberal reformer. He was Chairman of the Midland Railway 1849-58 and MP for Leicester between 1848-52. He attended the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London and was included in Benjamin Robert Haydon's painting of the event, now in the NPG.
Ex collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The original painting is in the National Railway Museum
[Ref: 39247] £480.00

Joe Pullen's Elm. Hedington Hill, Oxford. ''I have the honor to be well known to Mr Josiah Pullen, of our hall above mentioned, (Magdalen Hall in Oxford) and attribute the florid old age I now enjoy to my constant morning-walks up Hedington hill in his cheerful company.'' Steele, Guardian No.2.
W.m Dela Motte del.t. 1821. Lithog.
Printed & Published by Rowney & Forster.
Lithograph. Sheet 350 x 275mm (13¾ x 10¾"). Slight soiling.
Reverend Josiah Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall from 1656 until his death in 1714, planted this elm c.1680 on a hill with an uninterrupted view of Oxford. He would walk there and back twice daily in half an hour from Magdalen Hall, sometimes accompanied by Richard Steele, the essayist, on a raised footpath that is now Pullen's Lane. The stump of the elm was destroyed by fire in 1909.
Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 52061] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Elm, in Hyde Park.
[first word illegible] & on Zinc by Edward Hassell. Printed by C. Chabot, Zincographer, 7, Thavies Inn, Holborn.
Published by Pigot & Co Fleet St. London [n.d., c.1845].
Rare zincograph. Sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Mounted in album paper.
An illustration of an ancient elm with a hollow trunk. Zincography is the same technique as lithography but using zinc rather than limestone.
[Ref: 63622] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Waterfall, Hyde Park. [&] Elm, in Hyde Park.
[Second image:] from Nature & on Zinc by Edward Hassell.
[n.d. c.1820.] [&] Printed by C. Chabot, Zincographer, 7, Thavies Inn, Holborn. Published by Pigot & Co. Fleet St. London. [n.d. c.1850.]
Sheet with two images, two lithographs, both scarce. Sheet 482 x 330mm. 19 x 13".
View of a waterfall and two swans in Hyde Park, London; [&] View of Hyde Park, with old elm tree in foreground and a cow grazing behind at left; more trees in middle ground, buildings in the distance.
[Ref: 25944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Miraculous Preservation from Shipwreck, or Captain Donald Campbell, on the Coast of Malabar.
W. E. [William Elmes.]
London Pub. by T. Tegg, Sep 25 1808.
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published. Small tear in lower edge.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg. In 1782, after surviving a cyclone off Goa he was captured and kept prisoner for many years by Hyder Ali, but was finally released and returned to England.
[Ref: 37436] £320.00

Capt. Woodward, defending himself from the Treachery of the Malays.
[William Elmes.]
London Pub. by T. Tegg, Nov. 12 1808.
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg.
[Ref: 37440] £320.00

Wreck of the Antelope Packet, Capt. Henry Wilson, on a Reef of Rocks, near the Pelew Islands.
[William Elmes.]
London Pub. by T. Tegg, Dec. 3. 1808.
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published. Small tear in lower edge.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg. This was the first sustained contact with the Pelew Islands whilst the Antelope was being repaired. Lee Boo, a Pelew islander was brought to London but he died of smallpox. Wilson wrote a popular book about his experiences.
[Ref: 37441] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Shipwreck & dreadfull sufferings of the Captain & crew of an English Sloop in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
[William Elmes.]
[London Pub. by T. Tegg. 1808.]
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published. Small tear in lower edge.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg. Probably the Rover built at the Tynes Yard Bermuda. She got lost in a fog and struck rocks at Cape Breton Island. All the crew were saved.
[Ref: 37443] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Heloise. In Trance ecstatic may thy pangs be drown'd...
Painted by J. Gardner. Engrav'd by T. Williamson.
London, Published by R. Lambe, Gracechurch Street, Dec.r. 1 1814.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. 245 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with margins. Tear entering plate, crease top left.
A portrait of Eloisa, face lit by a sunbeam, illustrating Alexander Pope's epic poem 'Eloisa to Abelard'.
[Ref: 55605] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eloisa meditating on St. Preux's Letter. Rousseau's Eloisa Vol.1 Page 16.
F. Wheatly R.A. pinxt.
London Pub.d June 27. 1791 by S. Vivares No.13 G.t Newport Street.
Stipple with etching, printed in sanguine. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"). Faint crease.
A woman seated in a wooded landscape, reading a letter, turning her head away with an expression of despair. Representation of Héloïse, illustrating 'Julie, or the New Heloise', an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) inspired by the 12th century story of Héloïse's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris. After Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
See reference 11566 for one printed in black ink.
[Ref: 63020] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Eloisa meditating on St. Preux's Letter. Rousseau's Eloisa Vol.1 Page 16.
F. Wheatly R.A. pinxt.
London Pub.d June 27. 1791 by S. Vivares No.13 G.t Newport Street.
Stipple with etching. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½").
A woman seated in a wooded landscape, reading a letter, turning her head away with an expression of despair. Representation of Héloïse, illustrating 'Julie, or the New Heloise', an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) inspired by the 12th century story of Héloïse's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris. After Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
See reference 63020 for one printed in sanguine.
[Ref: 11566] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Eloisa. Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, [/] That well known name awakens all my woes. Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. W.Wynne Ryland Sculp.t.
Published Nov. 28, 1779 by W.W. Ryland No.159 Strand, London.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. 310 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"), with large margins. Slight staining. 1 spot above publication line.
A scene from Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard' in which the character of Eloisa, now a nun confesses to the reawakening of her feelings for her husband Abelard who is now a monk. The scene shows Eloisa, sat on a chair in her nun's habit, having just read the letter.
[Ref: 42509] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

I view my Crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old Pleasures, and solicit new.
Millar pinx.t 1773. R.Laurie fecit.
London, Printed for R.Sayer & J.Bennett, No 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 12th June 1776.
Mezzotint. 590 x 410mm (23¼ x 16").
A mint example of a rare mezzotint depicting Pope's Eloise & Abelard.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4248] £1,250.00

Heloise. [&] Abelard.
Buck, del. Freeman & Stadler, sculp.t.
Published Nov.r 20, 1807, by William Holland No.11, Cockspur Street, London.
Pair of aquatints, printed in colours and hand finished. 255 x 200mm (10 x 7¾"). Right margin of 'Abelard' rebuilt. Small margins.
A pair of portraits of the nun Heloise and the monk Abelard, with lines from 'Eloisa to Abelard', a poem by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744). After Adam Buck (1759 - 1833), draughtsman and specialist in watercolours.
[Ref: 55535] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Arrival Of Eloisa And Meeting Abelard In The Elysian Fields.
From an Original Painting by J.G. Cipriani R A and Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R A & Engraver to his Majesty.
Published as the Act directs June 12th. 1784, by E.M. Diemar, No. 377, Strand, London.
Stipple and etching in sepia, 390 x 355mm. 15¼ x 14". Some light spotting; paper age toned.
Published in 1717, 'Eloisa to Abelard' is a poem by Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744). It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th century story of Héloïse's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris.
[Ref: 9600] £330.00

The Right Hon.ble Lord Keith, K.B. Vice Admiral of the Red.
Painted by H.P. Danloux. Engraved by P. Audinet.
London Published by H.P. Danloux, No.11. Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, March 1. 1801.
Fine etching and engraving with small margins. Plate 359 x 248mm. 14 x 9¾".
Portrait; bust directed to left with left arm thrown out, across his chest, head turned and looking away to right, wearing naval uniform with epaulettes, dark stock and frilled cravat; in an oval frame against a ground of horizontal lines. George Keith Elphinstone (1746-1823) the British admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars. In 1790 he was elected a Member of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 27280] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Hon.ble Lord Keith, K.B. Vice Admiral of the Red.]
[Painted by H.P. Danloux. Engraved by P. Audinet.]
[London Published by H.P. Danloux, No.11. Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, March 1. 1801.]
Fine etching and engraving, proof before all letters. Plate 355 x 246mm. 14 x 9¾". Crease on right; false margins added.
Portrait; bust directed to left with left arm thrown out, across his chest, head turned and looking away to right, wearing naval uniform with epaulettes, dark stock and frilled cravat; in an oval frame against a ground of horizontal lines; proof before all letters. George Keith Elphinstone (1746-1823) the British admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars. In 1790 he was elected a Member of the Royal Society. After a portrait by the French emigré Henri Danloux.
[Ref: 27281] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Music cover] The Cracovienne. Danced by Madlle Fanny Elssler, in the Grand Ballet of the Gypsey, Composed by N. C. Bocsha. Pr.75 cts.
N. Currier's Lith. N.Y.
New York Published by Hewitt & Jacques 239 Broadway [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, illustrated sheet music cover, rare. Sheet 330 x 220mm, 13 x 8¾". Sheet slightly trimmed.
Dancer Fanny Elssler (1810 - 1884) full length to front, wearing a military jacket, arms crossed in front of waist, hat with feathers, and hair in long braids. Houses and figures behind. She performs the Krakowiak, a fast, syncopated Polish dance in duple time from the region of Krakow. La Gypsy was a ballet in three acts with choreography by Joseph Mazilier; it premiered on 28th January 1839 at the Paris Opera with Elssler and Mazilier.
See Library of Congress LOT 10615-17. Not in Beaumont.
[Ref: 22978] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Fanny Elssler. Florinde.
Edwin D. Smith. W.H. Mote.
Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street Nov. 1 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet: 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Francesca "Fanny" Cerrito as a water sprite, the title role of 'Ondine, ou La naïade', a ballet with choreography by Jules Perrot and music by Cesare Pugni. Cerrito (11 May 1817 - 6 May 1909) was one of the few 19th century ballerinas who also gained acceptance as a choreographer. From 'The Beauties of Opera and Ballet'.
[Ref: 49518] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A View near Eltham in Kent. 1. Twelve Views in Kent, Surry, Hartford-shire &c. Drawn from Nature. No.8.
London, Printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 12 Dec.r 1778.
Engraving, laid on album sheet. 179 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Trimmed.
A countryside scene: a shepherd sitting in a paddock outside his house with three sheep; a windmill in the background. A cart and horse move towards right away from a gate and hut where a man sits guarding the road. From a series of 'Twelve Views in Kent, Surry, Hartford-shire &c. Drawn from Nature'.
See Ref: 31567 for complete set.
[Ref: 34748] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

King John's Barn, Eltham [Interior] [&] [Exterior] (2).
Hge L delt. & fect. [&] Drawn & Etched by the late Honble. Heneage Legge.
London, Published by James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1845.
Pair of etchings, sheets 175 x 210mm (7 x 8¼") [&] 175 x 240mm (7 x 9½"). Both lacking margins.
Two views of Eltham Palace, then in rural Kent (now southeast London), childhood home of Henry VIII. In 1995 its management was handed over to English Heritage which restored the building in 1999 and opened it to the public. After Heneage Legge (1788 - 1844), amateur etcher; son of George, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth. He died the year before these prints were published.
[Ref: 21703] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of Eltruda in the Masque of Alfred. Eltrude, dans le Masque d'Alfred.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Sheet size: 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Fine original colour. Trimmed inside platemark. Slight staining bottom left.
The character of 'Eltrude' from The Maque of Alfred, an operatic stage work about Alfred the Great. Plate 234 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 34889] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Views of Ely.
Published by Rock & Co. London. [c.1870.]
Attractive souvenir booklet of six steel engraved views, oblong 12mo, stitched into original printed card wrappers; embossed upper cover. Binding scuffed, rubbed and creased; slight foxing to plate margins.
No text save captions; all plates numbered and dated.
[Ref: 18569] £75.00 view all images for this item

West view of Ely Cathedral. Ebenezer William Creak, Choristers' School, Ely.
Rock & Co. London. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, 155 x 110mm. 6 x 4¼". Horizontal creases; trimmed.
A calling-card, with a view of Ely cathedral.
[Ref: 9065] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Ely.]
[By T. H. Page]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Manuscript map. Sheet: 95 x 165mm (3¾ x 6½''). Laid on album sheet.
A pen and ink map of the land and roads around Ely. As well as marking the towns the annotations mark good land, swamp areas, bridges and banks.
[Ref: 48953] £230.00

Elysium or Cupid Punish'd. ... Vide Parnell's Poems.
Stothard Pinx.t. Ogborne sculp.t.
London, publish'd Aug.t 1 1787, by T Macklin No. 19 Fleet Street.
Fine stipple, printed in colours. 270 x 305mm (10¾ x 12"). Narrow margins, repair in unprinted area top right.
Cupid tied to a tree by a group of nymphs.
[Ref: 54743] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Slave Chasing a Fly.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 300 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼''). Trimmed, damage, staining and repaired tears.
A satirical scene showing a starved, black man, dressed in leaves chasing a fly with a dagger.
[Ref: 51083] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

A View of London taken off the Thames near York Buildings Veue de Londres dessine de dessud la Tamise, pres de York Buildings. No.22
John Boydell delin et sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliam.t by Jn.o Boydell Engraver, at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street, in Cheapside London. Price 1.s [c.1750]
Very fine hand coloured engraving on 18th century watermarked paper. Plate 260 x 430mm (10¼ x 17"), with large margins.
A view of the river showing a boat being unloaded at Embankment, near Hungerford Bridge.
[Ref: 56288] £350.00

Thames Embankment.
T.G. Dutton, chromo-lith. Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published June 11th. 1864 by Day & Son, Lithographers to The Queen & H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, Gate Street, Lincolns Inn Fields.
Chromolithograph, image 190 x 360mm. 7½ x 14¼". Laid on card. Slightly foxed margins a little cropped, so lacking some lettering.
View of Victoria Embankment showing a proposed steamboat landing pier on the River Thames at Temple; designed for the Metropolitan Board of Works by J.W. Bazalgette. By Thomas Goldsworth Dutton (1819/20 - 1891; fl.).
[Ref: 26234] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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