Grosvenor Prints

[Bedouins from the vicinity of Suez.]
Drawn by E. Prisse Esq.re. On stone by Bour.
Print.d by Lemercier, Paris. [1848.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, laid on card as issued. Card: 575 x 460mm (22¾ x 18''). Foxing, damage in corners.
A scene showing two men in bedouin dress in a desert landscape. A plate from 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, And Modes of Life In the Valley of the Nile' by James Augustus St. John, illustrated after drawings by Emile Prisse d'Avennes. Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French Egyptologist and archeologist who moved to Egypt in 1827 and adopted the Egyptian way of life, converting to Islam and being known as Idriss-effendi. Very fine 1st state with wonderful fresh colour.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 50924] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bedruthan Steps, near S.t Colomb, (from Diggory Island). Proof.
Published by W. Polkinhorn [n.d., c.1840].
Colour tinted lithograph, a proof on chine collé, on printed backing card as normal. Sheet 335 x 440mm (13¼ x 17¼"). A little scuffing.
A rare, separate-issue view of Bedruthan beach, with the sea stacks known as the 'Bedruthan Steps', said to be a giant's shortcut across the bay. There is no record of Polkinhorn as a publisher, but a 'W. Polkinhorn' owned the Red Lion Commercial Inn at St Columb in 1859.
[Ref: 58717] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bedtime Story.]
Arthur J. Elsley 1916 [in image area.] Arthur J. Elsley [signed in pencil.]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1916 by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd in the office of the librarian of Congress at Washington. Copyright 1915 by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd. London E.C. Printed in England. Published by Bovril Limited. Produced by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd. London E.C.
Photogravure on india, publisher's stamp, artist's proof with pencil signature. India 610 x 430mm (24 x 17").
A mother sat on a chair by the fireplace reading a book to her two children, with a rough-coated collie dog lying in front of her feet. Shuttlecock on chair behind. Arthur John Elsley (1860-1952), the English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, known for his genre scenes of playful children and their pets.
[Ref: 28689] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

East Front of Bedwell Park.
Litho. Newlands 1829. M.A.T.W. [Mary Anne Theresa Whitby]
Lithograph, very rare; printed area approx. 200 x 315mm (8 x 12½"). Foxing around edges.
Bedwell Park in Hertfordshire, which had been owned by the brewer Samuel Whitbread in the 18th century. The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For a London view by Whitby, see ref. 19290.
[Ref: 35687] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

To the Right Hon.ble the Hon.ble and The Rev.d The Governors of the Hospital of Mr Nicholas Chamberlain; deceased This View of the New Hospital now erecting at Bedworth, Warwickshire, is dedicated by their most obedient and most humble Servant, Thomas Larkins Walker, Architect.
G. Hawkins, Jun.r lith. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[Published by Walker] 2, Kepple St, Russell Square, London, Sep.r 1839. N.B. Sold in aid of the funds for building an Infact School-House, on Bedworth Heath.
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 285 x 340mm (11¼ x 13½"). Large margins.
A rare print of Bedworth Hospital, one of at least two published as fund-raisers for the Infant School. Bedford's current secondary school is named after the same Nicholas Chamberlaine (1632-1715).
See Wellcome ICV No 12477 for the other lithograph.
[Ref: 38839] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Bees.]
E. Dayes delin. F. Hollyer [?] sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Coloured stipple, rare. Sheet 450 x 550mm (17¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed, losing title and publication line, other inscriptions worn; margins stained, laid on archival tissue, wormhole in image.
A family wave a swarm of bees from a tree in the farmyard back to their hives.
[Ref: 48517] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Frau Harriet Beecher-Stowe. Ms. C.L. No.1823.
Inst. Bibi. Excudit. [n.d. c.1830.]
Engraving. 240 x 152mm. 9½ x 6".
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery. As a novel and a play it became very influential in the United States and the United Kingdom. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
[Ref: 23622] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Lithographed & Pubd. by J.M. Menzies 27 Hanover St. Edinr. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 280 x 220mm. 11 x 8¾". A little soiled, with handling creases. Upper right corner chipped.
Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American writer, social reformer, and philanthropist who wrote one of the classic works of American literature, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852).
[Ref: 27080] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Beechlands, Newick. The seat of William Thomson Esqre.
Drawn & Engraved by J.H. Hurdis for Baxter's History of Sussex.
Gad & Co. Printers. London [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving, with large margins, 160 x 225mm. 6¼ x 9".
A village fair attended by a crowd at the Beechland estate, Newick, East Sussex. Baskets lying on grass in foreground at centre, a man selling flowers and vegetables at left, and agricultural products laid out on a table outside a tent within a fenced area behind; building flanked by trees in background. There is an archery competition between two lady archers taking place in the background to right. John Henry Hurdis (1800 - 1857).
[Ref: 24267] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[3. Yeoman of the King's Body-Guard.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A 'beefeater' with his pike, Windsor Castle in the distance. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 51349] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Bills from Beer House Farm, near Cawston, Norfolk.]
[1840s]
Over 100 hand-written bills, various sizes.
A fascinating insight into the running of the 300-acre Beer House Farm, when run by Catherine Ireland and her son Horace Soame Ireland.
[Ref: 49014] £500.00 view all images for this item

Bees Worth Hiving. Registered.
Designed, Lithographed, & Printed, by C.J. Culliford, Fulwood House, Gray's Inn, London, W.C.
London. Published August 16th. 1870, for the Proprietor, by C.J. Culliford, Fulwood House, Gray's Inn.
Rare coloured lithograph. 265 x 342mm (10½ x 13½"). Repaired tear on left
Inscribed on hive: 'Patient, prayerful, modest, mild; / Wise as a Solon, meek as a child; / Studious, thoughtful, loving, kind; Sure to make matter subservient to mind...'.
[Ref: 52384] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Beesfield Kent. Proof.
[Robert Brandard]
[n.d. c.1842]
Etching on chine collé, plate 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"), with margins. Lightly foxed. Small margins.
A country landscape in Farningham, Dartford, Kent. Robert Brandard (1805-62) was a landscape engraver, etcher, lithographer, miniature painter and watercolourist son of engraver and copperplate printer, Thomas Brandard (d. 1830).
[Ref: 61153] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Beeston Castle in Cheshire. 60.
J. Boydell Sculp.
Engrav'd 1747 from an Old Drawing in the Possession of Wm. Cooper Esq.r one of the Antiquarian Society. Sold by J, Boydell Engraver, Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with large margins. Plate 342 x 482mm (13½ x 19").
A view of Beeston Castle, Cheshire, which is perched on a rocky sandstone crag above the Cheshire Plain. It was built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester (1170-1232). on his return from the Crusades. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
[Ref: 29387] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Beethoven.
Henry Chapront.
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed in pencil by the artist "epreuve d'artiste". 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"), large margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of a series of 12 portraits of composers by Henry Chapront (1876-1965).
[Ref: 66196] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Beethoven.]
[after Joseph Karl Stieler.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Etching. Sheet 411 x 300mm (16¼ x 11¾").
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).
[Ref: 28661] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Ludewig van Beethoven.
[Anonymous printmaker, after Joseph Stieler]
London: D'Almaine & Co. 20, Soho Square. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 367 x 262mm (14½ x 10¼"). Damage to right-hand edge of paper.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of the world's most famous and influential German composers, whose work reflects the shift from Classical to Romantic sensibilities in Western art music. This print is described by the Beethoven-Haus Bonn as based on Joseph Stieler's famous portrait of Beethoven, although with several changes.
See Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Sammlung H. C. Bodmer, HCB BBi 10/27.
[Ref: 28659] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

J. Van Beethoven. (1814.)
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Faint offsetting, trimmed.
Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.
[Ref: 63256] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Ludwig van Beethoven.]
Werner E.A. Hoffmann [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 300 x 260mm (11¾ x 10¼"). Small tear near platemark at top.
The head of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).
[Ref: 59821] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Beethoven showing Goethe around a garden.]
[Illegible pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"), very large margins. Serval wormholes filled, laid on archival tissue.
In 1809 Ludwig van Beethoven was commissioned to write incidental music for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play 'Egmont'; he set his 'Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt' for choir and orchestra in 1815.
[Ref: 60804] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Monzani & Hill’s Selection of Beethoven’s Piano Forte Music.
London. Published by Monzani & Hill, Music Sellers, to H.R.H. the Prince Regent, 24, Dover St. Piccadilly. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraved titlepage to a selection of chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven issued in parts, numbered '59' and priced '4/.' in ink. 125 x 200mm, 5 x 8".
Illustrated with vignettes including floral garlands, a dove, lion, eagle, lyre and guitar. Tebaldo Monzani (1762 - 1839) was a music-seller, publisher and instrument-maker.
[Ref: 17350] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Thomas Beevor, 1st baronet.]
Engraving, proof before letters, platemark 430 x 330mm (17 x 13"). Stain lower left.
Sir Thomas Beevor, 1st baronet (1726-1814), seated in his study.
[Ref: 42104] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Before.] [&] [After.]
Invented, Engraved and Published Decem.br y:e 15th 1736 by W.m Hogarth Persuivant to an Act of Parliament.
[Later impressions, 19th century.]
Pair of engravings, 410 x 335mm (16¼ x 13¼") Trimmed within plate and on card. Staining.
Hogarth's famous satire of the aggressively amorous advances of a nobleman on a chambermaid, followed by her begging him for more. As is typical of Hogarth, the scenes are crammed with visual references to the action, such as the 'before and after' pictures hanging on the walls, a book of poems by the scandalous Earl of Rochester and furniture in disarray in the latter.
Paulson: 141 & 142.
[Ref: 66750] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

''Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!''
Painted and Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Feb.y 1,,st 1788 by J. Dean, Bentick Street, Soho.
Rare mezzotint. 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed to plate, surface rubbed. Bit messy.
An old, thin man with wispy hair from his temples to his shoulders, wearing a tattered coat buttoned up to the neck
CS 24. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66962] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Mark Peterman von Vesten Ville. Diesen Mann sand man beÿ Paris am Wege unter einen stein=bruchestehen. Er hatte aber schonetliche jahre versteinnert gestanden welches man schliffen konte auf dem Mosse welches auf ihm ge=wachsen war. Jeder man hatte ihn bischer...der Abgesande aber vom Tripoli möchte ihn an sich bringen, den Pallast damit zu ziehren welchen der Dey sein Herr und meister bewohnet.
Fait la charitté a un pauvre homme.
W: del R: sculpsit aqua forti. Paris 1752 [on the staff].
Very rare etching. 235 x 196mm. 9¼ x 7¾". Cut.
A beggar holding a staff and a hat held out.
[Ref: 20023] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A Beggar Man]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1754.
Etching, platemark 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Small margins; on cream laid paper; good impression.
Study of a man on crutches by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '80' added upper right to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced (in which this print was listed as 'a beggar man').
State i/ii; W46; D17; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33036] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A Beggar Man]
Thos. Worlidge Fecit 1754.
Etching, platemark 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"). Large margins; on cream laid paper; good impression.
Study of a man on crutches by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression after number '80' in top right removed (this was first put there when Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '80' corresponding with its number in the catalogue of his prints she produced, and in which this print was listed as 'a beggar man').
State ii/ii; W46; D17; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33037] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Beggar Reading.]
London Published as the Act directs December 31st 1815 by John Thomas Smith No.4 Chandos Street Covent Garden.
Etching. Plate: 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Foxing.
A portrait of a man walking whilst reading a book. From a series called 'Etchings of Remarkable Beggars' by J. T. Smith.
[Ref: 44653] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Beggar Children.]
[n.d. c.1780.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters, very scarce. Plate 222 x 176mm (8¾ x 7"). Some creasing.
Two beggar children, a boy and girl; the boy seen without any shoes; both seen in very ragged clothes.
[Ref: 30451] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Beggar's Opera. Jenny. I must and will have a kiss to give my wine a zest. Act 2 Scene 1.
Burney pinx. Bartolozzi Sc.
London Printed for J. Bell, British Library, Strand, July 9, 1791.
Etching with engraving, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"), with large margins. Some foxing, mainly in margins.
Macheath sits with arms around two women. One of six frontispieces to 'British Theatre'.
De Vesme 167, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 55517] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

While some poor creatures scarce can tell / Where they may lay their head / I have a home, wherein to dwell, And rest upon my bed.
Drawn by Bouvier. Printed by Dean & Munday.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 160 x 160mm (6¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed close to image.
A pair of elderly vagrants with a well-dressed young girl. From 'Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal', one of Dr. Isaac Watt's 'Divine Songs for Children'.
[Ref: 31284] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

"A Thing of Shreds and Patches." Hamlet.
Printed by C. Hullamndel. [Etched in plate:] E. Hull March 1825.
[Rowe & Waller, March 1825.]
Coloured lithograph, printed on J. Whatman watermarked paper 1825. Design for a Scrap Book frontis; 183 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed.
A beggar dressed in ragged clothes walks on crutches begging for scraps; wearing a bag that reads "Scraps thankfully received".
In the Wellcome Library.
[Ref: 31247] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Groupe of Beggars a sketch from nature in the year 1838
Cassneyd fec.
Pen and ink with wash, sheet 205 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Very rare.
Beggars by park gates, one with a hurdy-gurdy, another with pickaxe, all with torn and ragged clothes.
[Ref: 35489] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Le Fidèle Caissier. 12. Musee de Moeurs en Actions.
Peint par Mes. Regnier Bettannier et Morlon lith.
Imp. Lemercier r.de Seine 57 Paris. Paris Eugene Jouy boulev.t de Sebastopol 46. New York Emile Seitz 413 Broadway. [n.d. c.1850.]
Rare lithograph. 629 x 460mm (24¾ x 18¼").
The Faithful Cashier: a dog seated holding a bowl in his mouth to collect the pennies of passers-by. Blind beggar and his dog.
[Ref: 22763] £360.00

Mrs. Aphara Behn. Aphara Behn, a celebrated wit and Dramatic writer of the reign of Charles II, was the daughter of Mr. Johnson, a Gentleman of a good family at Canterbury. Her acquaintance with the celebrated American Prince Oroonoko, whose adventures she was related, gave Southerne the first hint for his much admired play. Besides the above, she wrote several Histories and Novels, seventeen different Dramas, and published three Volumes of miscellaneous poetry, together with various translations. Her writings as well as her manner, were tinctured with the licentiousness of the reign in which she lived. She died April 16.th 1689, and was buried in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey.
London. Published by Rob.t Wilkinson, 58, Cornhill. [n.d. c.1790.]
A very rare mezzotint with etching. Plate 178 x 121mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed to the plate; crease.
Aphra [Aphara] Behn (1640-1689) was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Details of her life are scant, mainly because she was the main source: although there is evidence of her being the daughter of a barber, she suggested that she was daughter of the lieutenant general of Surinam, that country being the setting for one of her most famous works, 'Oroonoko'. Around 1664 she may have married Johan Behn, but he disappeared from her life almost immediately. Having been introduced to court about that time, she was employed as a spy by Charles II in Antwerp during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, seeking out English republican exiles. As a playwright she was mocked for her bawdy themes, including same-sex love between women. However she still earned a grave in Westminster Abbey (described as 'most scandalously but rather appropriately' by Virginia Wolff), although not in Poets' Corner.
[Ref: 20928] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Aphara Behn. Aphara Behn, a celebrated wit and Dramatic writer of the reign of Charles II, was the daughter of Mr. Johnson, a Gentleman of a good family at Canterbury. Her acquaintance with the celebrated American Prince Oroonoko, whose adventures she was related, gave Southerne the first hint for his much admired play. Besides the above, she wrote several Histories and Novels, seventeen different Dramas, and published three Volumes of miscellaneous poetry, together with various translations. Her writings as well as her manner, were tinctured with the licentiousness of the reign in which she lived. She died April 16.th 1689, and was buried in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey.
London. Published by Rob.t Wilkinson, 58, Cornhill. [n.d. c.1790.]
A very rare mezzotint with etching. Plate 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed to plate on right.
Aphra [Aphara] Behn (1640-1689) was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Details of her life are scant, mainly because she was the main source: although there is evidence of her being the daughter of a barber, she suggested that she was daughter of the lieutenant general of Surinam, that country being the setting for one of her most famous works, 'Oroonoko'. Around 1664 she may have married Johan Behn, but he disappeared from her life almost immediately. Having been introduced to court about that time, she was employed as a spy by Charles II in Antwerp during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, seeking out English republican exiles. As a playwright she was mocked for her bawdy themes, including same-sex love between women. However she still earned a grave in Westminster Abbey (described as 'most scandalously but rather appropriately' by Virginia Wolff), although not in Poets' Corner.
[Ref: 42176] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Beijing] Supreme Imperial Hall of Audience from Nieuhof.
G. Child Sculp.t.
[London, n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 300mm (7½ x 11¾"), with large margins. Rust spot in inscription.
A scene showing the arrival of the VOC ambassasdors to Fulin, the Shunzhi Emperor (1638-61) in 1658. The ambassadors stand in the foreground with an ambassador from the Mogol Emperor, the emperor's guards lining the wall and a display of twelve snow-white horses on their route to the emperor's presence. The original view appeared in the account of the VOC's embassy to China (1655-7) by Johan Nieuhoff. From an edition of Astley's 'A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 49636] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of the Pey-Ho or White River, and of the Road from Pekin to Geho taken in 1793.
By H.W. Parish Royal Artillery. Engraved by B. Baker Islington.
Published April the 12th, 1796 by George Nicol.
Engraved map. Sheet 560 x 420mm (22 x 16½").
A detailed map of the Hai River from the coast to Beijing and down the Imperial Road to Chengde (Jehol) to see the Emperor. The route was mapped by members of the George Macartney mission to China, the first British embassy to that country, 1792-94. The chart was published in Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38162] £240.00

The Sugar Mills at Belaspore.
[Drawn by Major Parlby.]
[London, c1860.]
Tinted lithograph, printed area 145 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½").
Grinding the sugar cane in mills powered by oxen, drawn by Major Parlby, husband of Fanny Parkes. Fanny Parks (1794–1875) lived in India 1822-1846. Her 'Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Pictureseque During four and twenty years in the East with revelations of Life in the Zenana' was first published in 1850. This is a copy of the lithograph in that publication.
From the Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 4537] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg, Born 1577, Died 1652.
E. Mascal Pinx.t.
[n.d. c.1775.]
Etching. Sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, small stain.
Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg (died 18th April 1653), Royalist during the Civil War. However his grandson, also Thomas (c.1627-1700), married Oliver Cromwell's daughter Mary.
[Ref: 52567] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Whale Fishery. Harpooning the Whale in the Arctic Seas as described to Capt. Scoresby just before its death, when it discharges from its nostrils great quantities of blood & water.
W. Belch
6, Bridge St. Union [St., Boro.]
Fine coloured wood engraving, scarce; sheet 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed, losing edges of image; glued to album sheet.
The death of a whale. Engraved by the popular printmaker William Belch (1790s-1840s, fl.) and probably copied from an earlier image. William Scoresby, senior (1760-1829) was an Arctic whaler and navigator, who between 1785 and 1823 sailed many times to the Greenland whale fishery.
[Ref: 32277] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Belcher. Fought 12 Prize Battles in England & One in Ireland. Proof.
Painted by G. Sharples. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published Dec.r 24. 1814, by T. Belcher, N.º 25 High Holborn.
Mezzotint. 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8"). Trimmed to plate, repaired damage in inscription area on right.
A self-published half-length portrait of boxer Thomas Belcher (1783-1854), arms crossed; wearing a dark double-breasted coat over a light waistcoat with high collar, neckerchief tied in a bow and frill. The younger brother of Jem Belcher (1781-1811, Champion of All England 1800-5), Thomas was an accomplished boxer and sparrer at the Tennis Court during Tom Cribb's proprietorship: he bested Shaw the lifeguardsman, John Gully and the African-American Tom Molineaux.
Whitman 34.
[Ref: 65606] £650.00

Mr. G.W. Beldam.
A. Chevallier Tayler 1905 [facsimile signature.]
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. Lith London.
Chromolithograph with accompanying text sheet. 381 x 254mm. 15 x 10". Some creasing.
George William Beldam (1868-1937) the English cricketer and pioneer of action photography in sport. In cricket he represented Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club and London Country in 102 first-class matches between 1900 and 1907. Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925), the English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting. From 'The Empire's Cricketers'.
[Ref: 26514] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Les Belges Sinceres et trop credules, portent leur Or et leur Argent en offrande au perfide VanderNoot...
[Anon., French?., c.1790.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, sheet 200 x 170mm. 8 x 6¾". Trimmed within plate, possibly a fragment of a larger print?
Political satire; tribute in the form of bags and bowls of coins is brought before Hendrik Karel Nicolaas van der Noot (1731 - 1827) at centre, standing on a lettered pedestal. Van der Noot was one of the main players of the Brabant Revolution (1789-1790) against the Austrian rule of Emperor Joseph II. This revolution led to the short-lived existence of the United States of Belgium (January 11, 1790 - December 1790). This print attacks him as a traitor to his country (as described on plinth), and is probably printed by a supporter of Van der Noot's co-revolutionary and more radical rival Jan Frans Vonck (1743 – 1792), who advocated a state constructed on the French Revolutionary model.
[Ref: 16677] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A New & Accurate Map of the Netherlands or Low Countries. Laid down from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved Modern Maps and Regulated by Astron.l Observations.
by Eman. Bowen.
[London, c.1747.]
Engraved map. 360 x 440mm, 14¼ x 17¼".
Map of Belgium and Luxembourg, published in 'A Complete System of Geography'. A text refers to the Barrier Treaty of 1715, during the War of the Spanish Succession.
[Ref: 13579] £85.00

[Belgium] Nicholaus Clenardus.
Esme de Boulonois fecit.
[n.d., 1682.]
Engraving, 190 x 140mm, 7½ x 5½". Trimmed.
Nicolas Cleynaerts (1495-1542), Flemish grammarian and traveller. He prepared grammar manuals for Greek and Hebrew before turning his attention to Arabic, prompted by a desire to read the Koran. He learnt some Arabic from a Moslem slave before setting out for North Africa in 1540. Fifteen months in Fez ruined his health, so he returned to Granada, where he died in 1542. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
Wellcome 2310-1.
[Ref: 16999] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Belgium] Henry I. van Craenhals.
W. Hollar fect 1644. Londini.
Etching. 133 x 102mm. 5¼ x 4". Cut and laid on album page.
Johannes Henricus à Craenhals (fl.1649) was a 17th century Belgian composer. Bust portrait in a heavy oval cartouche. The oval frame has a stork stood at the top, and a blank shield with fantastic heads below.
Pennington: 1381; possible state 1 of 4. In the In the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
[Ref: 24944] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

His Serene Highness Leopold George Christian Frederick. Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld.
Engraved by J.T. Wedgwood from a sketch by George Hayter in the possession of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.
London. Published 17th June, 1816, by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street.
Engraving with roulette on india with large margins. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Very fine impression. Some spotting in margins.
Portrait of Leopold (1790 - 1865), soon after his marriage to Princess Charlotte Augusta, the only legitimate child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and therefore heiress to the English throne, May 2nd, 1816 However, on November 5, 1817 she gave birth to a stillborn son and died the following day. Having lost the chance to be prince consort to the British queen (a role later played by Prince Albert) he rejected the throne of Greece in 1830, before accepting the role of first 'King of the Belgians' in 1831. His son was Leopold II, founder of the notorious Congo Free State.
[Ref: 34473] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Belgium] Leopold. Souveräner Fürst v. Griechenland.
Vogel junior sc.
Druck u. Verlag vom Bibliographischen Institut in Hildburghausen.
Stipple. Plate: 110 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"). Very large margins.
A half portrait of Leopold I of Belgium (1790-1865) who took the throne of the newly independent Belgium in 1831 and established the new House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
[Ref: 37169] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Belgium] LL.AA.RR. Le Duc de Brabant, Le Comte de Flandre et la Princresse Charlotte. Lithographié d'après nature par C. Baugniet, dessinateur du Roi. Déposé.
Imp. de Simonau, Bruxelles.
[n.d. c.1845]
Lithograph. 483 x 381mm. 19" x 15". Tears and rips in the sheet margin.
The children of the first Belgian king Leopold the First (1790 - 1865) and of Marie-Louise d'Orleans (1812-1850), daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of France. Shown are the duke of the Brabant, (future Leopold II, 1835 - 1909, best known for the scandalous nature of his colony in the Congo); his brother Prince Philippe, Count de Flandre (1837 - 1905); and his sister the Princess Charlotte (1840 - 1927), the future Empress of Mexico.
[Ref: 8319] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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