Grosvenor Prints

Paris & Helen, directing Cupid to Inflame each others Heart w.th Love
[after Angelica Kauffman]
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). 'CL-B' collector's stamp verso.
Interesting example of fine art repurposed as a popular humorous print. Valentine Green's mezzotint of Angelica Kauffman's painting of Paris and Helen was an example of one of the finest printmakers in the country treating reproducing mythological subject matter by one of the most esteemed painters in the country. Here the composition becomes light-hearted and domestic. Originally a pair with 'Renaldo arresting the Arm of Armida', apparently also after Kauffman.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for Green's mezzotint from which this derives, see ref. 14873.
[Ref: 36228] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867. Repoussé Shield. The subjects from Milton's Paradise Lost. Elkington & Comp.y London, Liverpool, and Birmingham.
T. McLean & Co. Photos. 7 Haymarket, London.
Photographic print with printed text, 310 x 230mm. 12¼ x 9". Foxing.
Shield depicting scenes from John Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost' (1667), which narrates the Fall of Man and Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise.
[Ref: 14682] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Plan-Guide. Souvenir de L'Exposition Industrielle et Agricole, 1849. 2.me Édition.
Chez Bouquillard, Editeur, Papelier Imp.r Lithographie, 226, rue St Martin, 226, près des Arts et Métiers.
Lithographed plan, rare survivor. Sheet 440 x 535mm (17¼ x 21"). Tear in left edge. Creases some staining.
A floorplan of the 'Exposition of the Second Republic or Exposition Nationale des produits de l’industrie agricole et manufacturière', with an elevation of the temporary building in the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The French Industrial Exposition of 1844 was the first such exposition, imitated by Britain's Great Exhibition of 1851. The exposition of 1849 is regarded as a contination of the first.
[Ref: 30326] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Prospectus Collegii quatuor Noationum Parisiis. Veüe et Perspective du College des quatres Nations, de Paris.
[Raimondini. n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, 320 x 430mm (12¾ x 17"). Faint crease in centre of image.
A view d'optique of the Collège des Quatres Nations (now the Institut de France) in Paris. Vues d’optique are hand-colored etchings and engravings intended to be viewed through a convex lens. The devices, known variously as zograscopes, optiques, optical machines and peepshows, were an optical entertainment of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Vues d’optiques were rendered in high-key color and dramatic linear perspective, which enhanced the illusion of three-dimensionality when viewed through the lens.
[Ref: 9123] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Paris Le Soir.
Par Gavarni. Imp d'Aubert & Co.
Chez Bauger R du Croissant 16. [Paris, n.d., c.1840s.]
Lithograph, sheet 355 x 275mm. 14 x 10¾".
Two Parisian gentlemen in conversation over wine after dinner; one smokes a cigar. Numbered '24' upper right, from a series of social satires by Paul Gavarni, the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (c.1801 - 1866), a popular French caricaturist.
[Ref: 22547] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Lutece ou premier plan de la ville de Paris tiré de Cesar, de Strabon, de l'Empereur Julien et d'Ammiam Marcellin. Par M.L.C.D.L.M. 1705.
A. Coquart delineavit et sculp.
[Paris: le Rouge, 1750?]
Engraved map. 450 x 550mm, 17½ x 21¾" Tear in large margin, some surface soiling.
Map of the environs of the ancient Gallic town of Lutece, which developed into the French capital Paris. The map shows the settlement as being entirely on the Île de la Cité, a long-held theory that is now being called into question, as archeological finds show as large pre-Roman settlement in the suburb of Nanterre. On the mainland, south of Lutece, are two temples, dedicated to Isis and Mercury: it is said that 'Paris' is derived from 'Per Isis' (i.e. near the temple of Isis). The church of Saint-Sulpice was built on the site in 1646.
[Ref: 25763] £420.00

[Paris Observatory] L'Observatoire est un Edifice que le Roy a fait commencer environ l'année 1667...
Perelle fecit.
A Paris Chez N. Langlois rue st Jacque a la Victoire, avec privilege du Roy [n.d., c.1690.]
Etching 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"), with large margins.
A view of the Paris Obervatory, authorised by Louis XIV and finished 1671, site of the Paris Meridian. Various astronomy instruments are being examined in the grounds. From a series of views of Royal buildings, started by Gabriel Perelle (1604-1677) and continued by his son Adam (c.1640-1695).
[Ref: 57032] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Paris Observatory] Cette Face de L'Observatoire regarde le Faubourg de St Jacques.
Perelle fecit.
A Paris Chez N. Langlois rue st Jacque a la Victoire, avec privilege du Roy [n.d., c.1690.]
Etching 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"), with large margins.
A view of the Paris Obervatory, authorised by Louis XIV and finished 1671, site of the Paris Meridian. Various astronomy instruments can be seen on the roof. From a series of views of Royal buildings, started by Gabriel Perelle (1604-1677) and continued by his son Adam (c.1640-1695).
[Ref: 57033] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Explanation of a View of the City of Paris, exhibiting in the Panorama, Strand.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Etched keyplate. Sheet 305 x 425mm (12 x 16¾"). Original folds, old repairs, slight soiling and creasing.
The keyplate to a panorama of Paris from the Place de la Concord (here named 'Place Louis 16', used 1826-30), exhibited at the Panorama in the Strand, London. Thomas Edward Barker, son of the Robert Barker who coined the word 'panorama', opened a rival exhibition site with artist Ramsay Richard Reinagle in 1801, at 168-9 The Strand.
See: Ref: 56281, 53539 & 59116
[Ref: 58762] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Veue des Parterres de Seaux et du grand Canal dans l'Eloignement. A View of the Flower Gardens of Seaux & of ye. great Canal at a Distance.
J. Tinney sculp.
Printed for Jno. Ryall at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street London [n.d., c.1755].
Etching, 220 x 450mm. 8¾ x 17¾". Age toned.
A prospect of the flower gardens at the Parc De Seaux, Paris.
An English copy of the view by French engraver Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754) published in 1728 in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 9602] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Sepulchral Chapel & Sarcophagus. / Of Abelard & Eloise.
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"). Trimmed on left. Paper watermarked J. Whatman 1824.
The tomb of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) and Héloïse d'Argenteuil (1092?-1164) in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Amongst the most celebrated lovers in history, Abelard and Héloïse were separated by circumstance but continued a passionate correspondence, and the survival of their letters provided the basis for their posthumous celebrity. In the 18th century works by Alexander Pope and Jean-Jacques Rousseau celebrated their love. The remains of the couple were moved in 1817 to the Gothic tomb shown here, which drew many visitors to the cemetery. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.8
[Ref: 36764] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Monument to Abelard and Héloïse]
J.T. Serres fec.t [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; Paper watermarked J. Whatman 1824; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½").
The tomb of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) and Héloïse d'Argenteuil (1092?-1164) in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Amongst the most celebrated lovers in history, Abelard and Héloïse were separated by circumstance but continued a passionate correspondence, and the survival of their letters provided the basis for their posthumous celebrity. In the 18th century works by Alexander Pope and Jean-Jacques Rousseau celebrated their love. The remains of the couple were moved in 1817 to the Gothic tomb shown here, which drew many visitors to the cemetery. Three such visitors can be seen here contemplating the monument. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.9
[Ref: 36770] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Chapel
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"). Slight staining lower right off image.
The chapel of Père Lachaise Cemetery in the suburbs of Paris, with funerary procession. Completed in 1823, the chapel was designed by the neo-classical architect Étienne-Hippolyte Godde (1781-1869), who was also responsible for the entrance to the cemetery. The immense mausoleum of politician and historian Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was later built next to it. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.1
[Ref: 36772] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Dragon Tomb, Père Lachaise Cemetery]
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"). Staining to edges.
The 'Dragon tomb' (named after the 'bosquet du Dragon' or 'Dragon grove' where it is situated) in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. A designated historical monument, it contains some of the first monuments in the cemetery. On the left is the cenotaph dedicated to Antoine de Guillaume-Lagrange (1781-1807), a military officer killed in Poland during the Napoleonic Wars. Designed by the neo-classical architect Étienne-Hippolyte Godde (1781-1869), it shows a portrait of the dedicatee, with an allegory of sorrow. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.3/4
[Ref: 36771] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Tombs of La Fontaine, Molière and Jacques DeLille.]
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"). Slight marks lower right off subject.
The tombs of the fabulist Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95), playwright Molière (1622-73) and poet Jacques Delille (1738-1813) at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the suburbs of Paris. When the cemetery opened in 1804 it was located far from the centre of the city and attracted few funerals. The transfer of the remains of La Fontaine and Molière were part of a strategy to raise the profile of the cemetery. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.5/6/7
[Ref: 36765] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Miscellaneous Tombs.
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½").
Tombs in Père Lachaise Cemetery in the suburbs of Paris. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.3/4
[Ref: 36768] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Miscellaneous Tombs
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"). Slight staining lower right off image.
Tombs in Père Lachaise Cemetery in the suburbs of Paris. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.3/4
[Ref: 36773] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Paraclete.
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 260mm (16½ x 10½"). Slight marks lower right off subject.
The Oratory of the Paraclete, a Benedictine monastery founded by Peter Abelard (1079-1142) in Ferreux-Quincey, France. After Abelard became abbot of the Abbey at Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys he left the Paraclete to his wife Héloïse d'Argenteuil (1092?-1164), who became its abbess and spent the rest of her life there. Their remains were buried there but later moved twice, first to the church of Nogent-sur-Seine and then to Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825), including one of the joint tomb of Abelard and Héloïse in the cemetery. Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.10. For the tomb of Abelard and Héloïse see ref. 36764
[Ref: 36766] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Porter's Lodge.
J.T. Serres [in image]
Lithograph with fine hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 420 x 265mm (16½ x 10½"). Slight staining lower left.
Porter's lodge at the entrance to Père Lachaise Cemetery in the suburbs of Paris, with mourning visitors and view towards the city in the distance. Plate from 'Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Père La Chaise, near Paris', which comprised of ten coloured lithographs by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Serres, who like his father Dominic specialized in marine painting, was also a skilled printmaker although his later years were dogged by financial difficulties. Serres died in the same year that this volume was published.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Abbey 115.2
[Ref: 36769] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View of the City with the Louvre &c taken from Pont Marie. Vue de la Cité et du Louvre &c prise du Pont Marie.
Drawn & Etch'd by Tho.s Girtin. Aquatinted by F.C. Lewis.
London: Pub.d Dec.r 16th. 1802, by T. & J. Girtin, N.1 Little Newport Street, Gerrard Street, Soho.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. Sheet: 535 x 250mm (21 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate. Central fold.
A view along the Seine in Paris with Île de la Cité and Notre Dame on the left and the Louvre in the distance. From Thomas Girtin's (1775-1802) 'A Selection of Twenty of the most picturesque views in Paris and its Environs' published in 1803.
[Ref: 44253] £350.00

View of Pont Neuf, part of the Louvre, Notre Dame, & the College of four Nations. Vue du Pont Neuf, d'une partie du Louvre, de Notre Dame, et du College de quatre Nations.
Drawn & Etch'd by Tho.s Girtin. Aquatinted by F.C. Lewis.
London: Pub.d Jan.y. 15. 1803, by Jno. Girtin, N.1 Little Newport Street, Gerrard Street, Soho.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. Sheet: 640 x 265mm (25 x 10½"). Trimmed to plate. Central fold.
A view of the Île de la Cité from the north side of the Seine. From Thomas Girtin's (1775-1802) 'A Selection of Twenty of the most picturesque views in Paris and its Environs' published in 1803.
[Ref: 44257] £390.00

Vue de Paris, No.6. Vue du Pont Neuf, prise du Pont des Arts.
Garbizza del. Coqueret Sculp.
Chez Potrelle, Rue St. Honoré, No.142. Et présentement chez Basset, rue St. Jacques, No.64. Déposé à la Bibliothèque Impériale.
Aquatint, very rare. Sheet 390 x 535mm, 15½ x 21". Trimmed inside plate mark, image cut at top
Angelo Garbizza (1777-1813).
[Ref: 27900] £320.00

Vue De Saint Gervais Et Des Quais.
E. Kayser [in crayon].
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching, 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Thread margin at top. Some staining middle top & bottom.
A view of the Saint Gervais Church from the Seine, in Paris. Edmond Charles Kayser (1882-1965) was a French etcher, founder member of the Peintres-Graveurs Indépendants in 1923. A large collection of his work is now in the Musée du Mont-de-Piété in Bergues.
[Ref: 62612] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Paris Shoe Cleaner.
[by Matthew Darly.]
Pub.d accord.g to Act of Parl.t July 1st. 1771 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼") very large margins. Very slight tear in lower right margin.
A rather miserable-looking French character sitting holding shoe and brush, with a sign 'De Croteur Monsieur on pratique pour un livre' suspended above him. From '24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists, etc.'.
BM Satires: 4679.
[Ref: 55584] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Palais des Tuileries. Pris du bas de la Terrasse du Bord de l'Eau.
Dessiné et lith. par Jules Arnout. Imp. Lemercier.
à Paris - publié par Jeanin Place du Louvre, 20. London pub 15 April 1844 by the Anaglyphic Anaglyphic Compagny, 25 Berners St. Oxford St.
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Blind stamp. Printed area 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Very large margins.
The Paris residence of the French monarchs, shown here 25 years before its destruction by the Communards in 1871.
[Ref: 39230] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Val-de-Grâce] Veüe en perspective de l'Eglise Cour Grisle et des aisles avec les accompagnemens du Monastère de l'Abbaye Royalle du Val de Grace bastie par Reyne Anne d'Austriche.
Daniel Marot fecit.
[Paris: Jean Mariette, 1727.]
Engraving. 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"), with large margins. Creasing.
A view of the Church of the Val-de-Grâce in the fifth arrondissement of Paris. It was originally designed to be part of a royal abbey founded by Anne of Austria to celebrate the birth of her son, Louis XIV in 1638. It was engraved by Daniel Marot (1661-1752) for 'L'Architecture françoise'.
[Ref: 60931] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Unidentified man.]
Pariset fec.t [after Pierre Etienne Falconet?].
[n.d., c.1770.]
Rare engraving, proof before title. 230 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"). Mounted in album paper.
Although the pencil mss. on the album paper, in two different hands, suggest the sitter is either Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, or Georges-Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, we have discounted these attributions. Neither the BM, NPG or Royal Academy have this portrait in their collections of Pariset engravings.
[Ref: 53301] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Study For A Principal Figure In The Picture Of 'The Parish Beadle'. by D. Wilkie R.A. [signature facsimile] (in the Possession of Col. Berkeley.)
Plate 2 of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists' by Richd. J. Lane.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. London. Published by J. Dickinson. 1827.
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 380 x 275mm. 15 x 10¾".
A study for 'The Parish Beadle' by David Wilkie R.A. (1785 - 1841), Scottish genre painter and etcher. The painting of 1822 is now in the Tate Gallery. It was engraved by Greatbach. From the series 'Lithographic imitations of sketches by modern artists' by Richard James Lane (1800 - 1872), reproductive lithographer.
[Ref: 8878] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Study for A Principal Figure in the Picture of "The Parish Beadle".
By David Wilkie R.A. [facsimile.] (in the Possession of Col: Berkeley) Proof. Plate 2, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane A.R.A.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. London 1827. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé with large margins. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Foxing and crease in margins
Plate 2: characters from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist", a whole-length monkey in the centre, sitting on shoulder of Oliver Twist with hat on the left. The painting 'The Parish Beadle' (1822) by David Wilkie is now in the Tate Gallery.
[Ref: 24895] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Study for A Principal Figure in the Picture of "The Parish Beadle".
By David Wilkie R.A. [facsimile.] (in the Possession of Col: Berkeley) Proof. Plate 2, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane A.R.A.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. London 1827. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph, printed on india. Printed area: 230 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"), with very large margins.
Plate 2: characters from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist", a whole-length monkey in the centre, sitting on shoulder of Oliver Twist with hat on the left. The painting 'The Parish Beadle' (1822) by David Wilkie is now in the Tate Gallery.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46798] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Parish Orphans.]
[A. Le Nain. W. Baillie.]
[British, n.d., c.1771.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters from an uncleaned plate. 350 x 250mm, 13¾ x 9¾". Scarce proof in fine condition, with full margins.
Two orphans, a boy sitting on a wall eating a piece of bread, a girl standing in front of it looking towards the viewer, holding a roll; her right hand is tucked under her apron. After Antoine Le Nain (French, c.1600 - 1648). Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Chaloner Smith undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 23506] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Parish Orphans.]
[A. Le Nain. W. Baillie.]
[British, n.d., c.1771.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Crease on right.
Two orphans, a boy sitting on a wall eating a piece of bread, a girl standing in front of it looking towards the viewer, holding a roll; her right hand is tucked under her apron. After Antoine Le Nain (French, c.1600 - 1648). Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Chaloner Smith undescribed.
[Ref: 60701] £320.00

[Parish Orphans.]
[A. Le Nain. W. Baillie.]
[n.d., c.1771.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins.
Two orphans, a boy sitting on a wall eating a piece of bread, a girl standing in front of it looking towards the viewer, holding a roll; her right hand is tucked under her apron. The plate was engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after Antoine Le Nain (c.1600-48). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 and devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68864] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Parish Overseer.
[S. Gans, 1828?]
Coloured etching. Sheet 390 x 265mm (15¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, two corners snipped, old ink attribution 'S. Gent 1828'.
A filthy sweep peeps from the top of a chimney through an attic window at an embracing couple. Two cats fight on roof top!
[Ref: 51867] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Vicar of the Parish Receiving His Tithes. [&] The Curate of the Parish Return'd From Duty.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engrav'd by T. Burke.
London Pub.d Oct.r 31, 1793, by I. Brydon at his Looking Glass & Print Warehouse, Charing Cross.
Pair. Stipple printed in colour with large margins. Platemark: 435 x 330mm (17 x 13") each.
An interior scene with a young lady standing by a window, gesturing towards a little boy in a smock who holds a piglet in a basket of straw, and looking at a stout clergyman who sits to right at his desk, holding a quill with a sheaf of papers in front of him. [&] Interior with a young lady sitting holding a pair of bellows in her lap, looking up to left towards her husband the curate, who enters to left, his daughter walking beside him and holding his hand, a book under her arm, and a little dog jumping up at him.
[Ref: 36351] £450.00 view all images for this item

John Parish Esquire.
LG delin.
Published by L. Gahagan & Co. Exhibition Rooms, Bath. Octr, 12, 1829.
Lithograph 295 x 410mm. [sheet]
Possibly John Parish the Banker. Pictured as a very elderly man in Sydney Gardens strolling with his pipe, toy spaniel and pug.
[Ref: 2606] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Woodbine Parish Esq.r
Tho.s Phillips Esq.r R.A. pinx.t. Isaad W. Slater lith.
Printed by C. Hullmandel
Lithograph on india with very large margins, very scarce, printed area approx 250 x 220mm (9¾ x 8¾"). Slight staining to margins.
Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), diplomatist. Parish's diplomatic work took him to Sicily, the Ionian Islands, Naples, and Buenos Aires. As commissioner and consul-general (and subsequently chargé d'affaires) to Buenos Aires from 1823, staying there for nearly nine years. Parish also published a book resulting from his time in Argentina ('Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata', 1839), which demonstrates his interest in historical, geographical and geological research (he surveyed parts of the Bolivian Andes with Joseph Barclay Pentland). He was also a fellow of the Royal Society, Geological Society and Geographical Society, and corresponded with Charles Darwin. After the portrait by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845), whose over 700 portraits record the leading personalities of his time.
[Ref: 34929] £360.00

Parisian Elegance.
Publish'd July 6th. 1803. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 200 x 245mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed.
A scene showing two women, the figure on the right wears a white dress which is very low-cut while the figure on the right wears a shawl wrapped around her.
[Ref: 43968] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Parisian Portable Alarum [Alarm], Sonnerie Tres-Bruyante, Indispensible for Travellers, the Clergy...and all whose professional pursuits require occasionally very early rising. Sold Wholesale and Retail, by William S. Adams, Furnishing Ironmonger, 57, Haymarket, London.
[London, c.1850s.]
Letterpress broadside advertisement label/handbill, for a wind-up mechanical alarm. Sheet 115 x 195mm, 4½ x 7¾".
The application for the "wind up alarm clock" including specific 'Directions for Use' are printed in a way that means this leaflet might have been inserted into the box or packaging with the product.
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: 16457] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mademoiselle Parisot.
Painted by A.W.Devis. Engraved by I.R.Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published as the Act directs March 11 1797 by A.W.Devis.
Mezzotint. 610 x 380mm. Laid on thick paper.
Rose Parisot, celebrated dancer of the Romantic Ballet at the London Opera House.
CS: Smith, J.R., 131.
[Ref: 5618] £2,500.00

Mademoiselle Parisot.
Painted by A.W.Devis. Engraved by I.R.Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published as the Act directs March 11 1797 by A.W.Devis.
Mezzotint, open letters. 610 x 380mm. Trimmed to platemark at bottom.
Rose Parisot (c.1775-1837), French opera singer and ballerina, 'celebrated for the scantiness of her draperies' (Frankau). Parisot made her debut in Paris in 1789, and moved to London in 1796 (this print was published the following year). Her sheer costumes, which often exposed one breast, caused scandal, as recorded in many satirical prints of the 1790s. The Bishop of Durham denounced Parisot's costumes as 'indecent', and after an address to the House of Lords in 1798 certain adjustments were made. Her celebrated career ended in 1807, after which she married a Soho florist. Engraved by the celebrated mezzotint engraver John Raphael Smith and published by the portrait painter Arthur William Devis (1762-1822), from whose portrait the engraving is made. After a decade working in India, Devis struggled to establish himself in London in the late 1790s, but by 1800 he was in dire financial straits, and was finally imprisoned in 1804.
Ex: collection of the late Hon C. Lennox-Boyd; D'Oench 335 (only state); Frankau ii/iii; CS 131 ii
[Ref: 36612] £1,250.00

'The Park! that magnet of the town, That idol to which all bow down."
E. Hull 1823 [signed and dated in plate lower right.] E. Hull del. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by E. Hull, North Brixton.
Original Coloured lithograph, 235 x 370mm.
Men and women promenading in a park, with carriages and horse riders behind them. A poodle to left. By Edward Hull (1815 - 1829; fl.), lithographer and drawing master who worked in London. On Whatman paper watermarked 1823.
[Ref: 8525] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Park Place] 34. Vuë d'Optique Nouvelle, Representant le Parc du Chaleau de Milord Haimillon, traversé par la Thamise aux environs de Londres.
a Paris chez Huquier fils [n.d., c.1760].
Rare coloured engraving., 18th century watermark; 290 x 410mm (11½ x 16"), with large margins on 3 sides. Tears in subtitle taped.
Sir Alexander Hamilton's garden at Park Place, with high topiary and a bridge from which a man fishes. In the title two 't's have not been crossed.
[Ref: 66689] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Park Politicians.
HWBunbury inv.
Pubd. according to Act Decr 8. 1766 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 170 x 245mm. 6¾ x 9¾".
A copy of an engraving by Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). Numbered '6' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14102] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

St. Andrew and the Winged Serpent
[published by A. Park, Leonard St, c.1830]
Wood-engraving with fine hand-colouring, verso "A French Stable" published J. Fairburn Minories; 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed around image; glued to album sheet.
St. Andrew of Scotland slaying the serpent, Patron Saint of Scotland. Such sheets of mythological and allegorical characters would have been sold plain for colouring and tinselling at home.
[Ref: 32285] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

St. Patrick of Ireland
[published by A. Park, 47 Leonard St.]
Wood-engraving with hand-colouring, verso "The Tiger & Antelope" 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed around image; glued to album sheet.
St. Patrick on horseback, Patron Saint of Ireland. In the middle-distance are three figures waving clubs. Such sheets of mythological and allegorical characters would have been sold plain for colouring and tinselling at home.
[Ref: 32287] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Park's Scraps.
Pub by A. Park, Leonard St. [n.d. c.1835.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 222 x 260mm. 8¾ x 10¼". Laid on album scrap.
Arthur Park's depictions of Chinese life with a fruit carrier and souvenir vendor. In the other two opposite corners is a woman and child; in one the child plays a pipe and the other he presents a bird.
[Ref: 21410] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble. Mr. Justice Park.
Painted by W.J. Newton, Miniature Painter in Ordinary to their Majesties. Engraved by W. Ward, Engraver to His Majesty.
Published as the Act Directs 1833.
Rare mezzotint. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Horizontal crease; paper age toned.
Sir James Alan Park KC (1763 - 1838), judge. After Sir William John Newton (1785 - 1869). .
[Ref: 13160] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr M. Park.
H. Edridge del. Engraved by Ridley.
Published by Permission of Mr. Geo. Nicol by J. Sewell, 32 Cornhill July 1st. 1799.
Stipple, 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Crease through upper right edge of plate.
Portrait of Mungo Park (1771 - 1806), plate to the European Magazine. Park was a Scottish explorer in Africa, credited as the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River. He was supposedly drowned in the Niger on an expedition to find its source. He also wrote 'Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797 [...]'.
[Ref: 12970] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Mungo Park.]
[Drawn & Engraved by H. Dawe.]
[n.d., 1831.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 145 x 125mm (5¾ x 5"). Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions.
A fanciful scene of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park (1771-1806) lying barefoot, under an awning, being tended by a native woman, during his expedition in search of the source of the Niger in 1795-7. Georgian Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, composed a song around this act of charity, for which this is an illustration.
[Ref: 66678] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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