Grosvenor Prints

Un Pensionnat de demoiselles, pris d'assaut par des Cosaques in 1814. (Historique).
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 175 x 195mm (7 x 7¾"), with large margins.
Young girls at a boarding school being raped by Cossacks.
[Ref: 63444] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rape of Europa] ...Pavet haec: littusque ablata relictum/ Respicit [...] Ovid. L.2 Metam. Ex Tabula Albani asservata in aedibus Ill.mi D. Comitis Ferdinandi Bolognetti
Fran: Albani pinxit. Iacob: Freij sculp. Romae 1732
Fine copper engraving, 350 x 410mm (13¾ x 16") to platemark. Crease through centre, large margins at sides and bottom.
Europa carried by Zeus in the guise of a bull. Engraved by Jakob Frey from the painting by Albani then in the possession of the Bolognetti family and last seen in the Leuchtenberg sale in the late 1920s.
for the painting see C. Puglesi, 'Francesco Albani' cat. 83.v.e
[Ref: 19718] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Jupiter Europam Rapit. Per Gerardum de Lairesse inv. et sculp. et per Nicolaum Visscher edit. cum Privil. Ord. Gen. Belgii Foederati.
[n.d., c.1770s.]
Etching, sheet 240 x 295mm. 9½ x 11¾". Trimmed to plate.
The rape of Europa, with Jupiter as a bull bearing her off across the water; Europa who sits on his back, her hand in the air, accompanied by two erotes. In a circular frame. Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. A myth tells of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull. Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC. After Gérard de Lairesse (1641 - 1711)
[Ref: 22281] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rape of Europa.]
Cor. Schut Inv. Antver.
[Antwerp: Corenlis Schut, c.1630.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 275 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"). Top edge with repairs, including an area of loss in sky top left. Damaged.
Jupiter as a bull at centre with Europa on his back, surrounded by her companions, Neptune on his chariot at left, putti holding a garland in top right.
Hollstein 110
[Ref: 44982] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with The Rape of Europa.] No. 6. [From the Original Drawing in the collection of R.P. Knight Esq.r.]
Claude fecit Rome 1670. Claude delin.t. R. Earlom sculp.t.
Pub Jan 20, 1802, by J and J Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall.
Etching, rare proof before mezzotint. 365 x 360mm (10½ x 14") large margins. Slight creasing.
A scene near a harbour with contemporary ships. In the foreground Europe sits astride Zeus in the guise of a bull. From the 'Liber Veritatis', Book III.
[Ref: 44236] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Raper [facsimile signature].
[London: Thomas & William Boone, 480 Strand. 1823.]
Coloured engraving. Printed area 100 x 80mm, 4 x 3¼".
A head-and-shoulders portrait of a barrister in wig and gown, published in "Portraits of the Worthies of Westminster-Hall, with their Autographs; being Fac-Similies of Original Sketches, Found in the Note-Book of a Briefless Barrister". Only Part I of this work was published: an attempt to fund Part II by subscription failed. Little can be found about Henry Raper Esq, except that from 1828 until 1849 he lived in London in Tavistoke Place, as neighbour to other important figures such as Parkinson Oates, William Warren Hastings, Dr. Elliot and Thomas Morton.
[Ref: 16657] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Graces crowning the Bust of Raphael. Immortal Chaplets...all divine.
G. B. Cipriani del. Fra. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.
London: Publish'd as the Act directs 28 July 1778, by S. Watts, No. 28, Walcot place Lambeth.
Stipple and etching in brown ink, 150 x 190mm. 6 x 7½". A fine impression with full margins.
The three Graces decorating the bust of the painter Raphael (1483 - 1520) with festoons and a crown of laurel leaves; Painting is seated on the pedestal and crying, and a winged putto leans over the pedestal, also grieving. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785), engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815).
See reference 60325 for earlier state.
[Ref: 14697] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Raphaelo Santio di Urbino. Das Original Gemaelde befindet sich in der Koeningl Gallerie in Muenchen.
Raphael pinx. Rausch del.
Im geographischen Dépot in Muenchen [c.1830]
Lithograph, printed area 200 x 95mm (8 x 3¾").
Portrait by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1483-1520), described here as a self-portrait. In fact, the painting (now in the NGA, Washington), is now believed to depict Bindo Altoviti, a banker and friend of the artist. The work was in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich in the 19th century, leaving Germany in 1936.
For another German lithograph of the same portrait see ref. 31794.
[Ref: 46366] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Graces crowning the Bust of Raphael. Immortal Chaplets...all divine.
G. B. Cipriani del. Fra. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.
London: Publish'd as the Act directs 28 July 1778, by S. Watts, No. 28, Walcot place Lambeth.
Fine stipple and etching in brown ink, 150 x 190mm. 6 x 7½". A fine impression with full margins.
The three Graces decorating the bust of the painter Raphael (1483 - 1520) with festoons and a crown of laurel leaves; Painting is seated on the pedestal and crying, and a winged putto leans over the pedestal, also grieving. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
De Vesme: 2225, iv/iv. See 60325 for earlier state.
[Ref: 21164] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Raphaël.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Etching, scarce proof. Plate 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Foxed.
Bust portrait by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1483-1520), described here as a self-portrait.
[Ref: 59535] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Graces crowning the bust of Raphael Immortal Chaplets round his head.]
[G. B. Cipriani del. Fra. Bartolozzi R. A. sculpt.]
London 1787 Published 3 March by S Watts as the Act directs.
A fine & scarce stipple and etching. Proof before title and artist. Plate 152 x 209mm. 6 x 8¼", very large margins. Some light foxing. Scoring marks in margins. Uncut.
Bust on a pedestal in the centre; Three Graces decorating the bust with festoons and a crown of laurel leaves; a figure reprresenting Painting seated on the pedestal and crying; on the left, a putto also leaning over the pedestal, grieving.
De Vesme: 2225; i/iv. See 21164 & 14697 for later states.
[Ref: 60325] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven plates depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul.]
Raphael Urbin pinx.t. [Various engravers.]
1721.
Seven engravings. Platemark: 350 x 515mm (13¾ x 20¼") each approx. Some damage in margins. Publication details scratched on 4/7 items. Very large margins.
Raphael was commissioned by Pope Leo X to design a set of large designs for tapestries to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel. In 1623 the seven cartoons, depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, were brought to England by Charles I. They were long displayed at Hampton Court and various engravings such as these in the 18th century reinforced the reputation of the cartoons as some of the most significant artworks in the country. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, where they are permanently displayed together. The seven engravings are: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes; Christ's Charge to Peter; The Lame Man Healed by Peter & John; The Death of Ananias; Elymas the Sorcerer, Struck with Blindness; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; and Paul Preaching at Athens.
For the cartoons as displayed at Hampton Court, see ref. 16693. For a later set in mezzotint, see item ref: 34028.
[Ref: 38432] £750.00 view all images for this item

[Seven plates depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul.]
Raphael d'Urbin pinx.t
London. Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard.
Seven mezzotints with very large margins, each platemark approx 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Minor damage to margins but generally good.
Raphael was commissioned by Pope Leo X to design a set of large designs for tapestries to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel. In 1623 the seven cartoons, depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, were brought to England by Charles I. They were long displayed at Hampton Court and various engravings such as these in the 18th century reinforced the reputation of the cartoons as some of the most significant artworks in the country. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, where they are permanently displayed together. The seven engravings are: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes; Christ's Charge to Peter; The Lame Man Healed by Peter & John; The Death of Ananias; Elymas the Sorcerer, Struck with Blindness; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; and Paul Preaching at Athens.
For the cartoons as displayed at Hampton Court, see ref. 16693; for engravings from the first set made in England, see refs 14715 and 14720. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34028] £680.00 view all images for this item

[God appearing to Moses.]
[R.V.I. N.C.F.]
[n.d. c.1649.]
Etching. 223 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Cut.
God appearing to Moses in the burning bush. From "Sacrae Historiae Acta a Raphael Urbin in Vaticanis xystis ad picturae miraculum expressa".
[Ref: 29416] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven plates of the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, after Raphael]
Sold by R. Sayer in Fleet Street [c.1750]
Seven mezzotints, rare in original wrappers, 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"); very large margins.
Reproductions of seven of the set of ten cartoons depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul commissioned from Raphael by Pope Leo X. The cartoons were used a designs from which tapestries were made to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel. In 1623 seven of the cartoons, having spent the early 16th century being passed around weavers' workshops in Brussels, were brought to England by Charles I for £300. They were long displayed at Hampton Court (Charles had his own set of tapestries made) and by the end of the 17th century had become appreciated as important artworks in their own right. In the 18th century various sets of engravings such as these in the 18th reinforced the reputation of the cartoons as some of the most significant artworks in Britain. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, where they are permanently displayed together. The seven scenes are: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes; Christ's Charge to Peter; The Lame Man Healed by Peter & John; The Death of Ananias; Elymas the Sorcerer, Struck with Blindness; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; and Paul Preaching at Athens.
For a different set of engravings from the cartoons see ref. 38432
[Ref: 40655] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Four heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court.] M.r Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting &c. Vol. IV. p.22. speaking of the Cartoons at Hampton Court, observes that Sir John Thornhill ''having made copious studies of the heads, hands and feet, intended to publish an exact account of the whole, for the use of students: but this work has never appeared''. As the present plate was found among others belonging to the late M.r Hogarth, it is not impossible but that it might have been engraved by him for his father-in-law S.r James's intended publication.
Published as the Act directs May 14, 1781 by M.rs Hogarth, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields.
Etching. 360 x 215mm (14¼ x 8½"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
A detail of one of Raphael's cartoons at Hampton Court, 'The Conversion of the Proconsul (Acts 13: 6-12)', now in the V&A. To the right is the Jewish sorcerer Elymas who Paul struck blind when Elymas attempted to stop Paul converting the proconsul Sergius Paulus; to the left are the head of three of the onlookers. John Thornhill (father of William Hogarth's wife, Jane, the publiher of the print) studied the cartoons in 1729. Paulson suggests that it is possible that he also etched the plate (as the work does not resemble Hogarth's), and Jane used the more profitable name of Hogarth.
Paulson: 264, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 67931] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, left sheet only]
Raphael Urbin Pinxit in Vaticano Romae [in image lower left]
Phls Thomassinus excudit Romae 1617 cu privil S.mi Pont et supior licentia
Engraving, sheet 490 x 405mm (19¼ x 16"). Trimmed inside plate lower edge; glued to backing sheet
Left sheet of a large engraving printed on two sheets from two separate plates, reproducing Raphael's fresco 'La disputa del sacramento', painted in 1509-10 in the Vatican palace, as part of Raphael's work in what was originally the Stanza della Segnatura, the private papal library. The fresco shows theologians gathered around an altar, debating transubstantiation, with, above them, Christ and other biblical figures, and God the Father. The portraits on this sheet include: the artist Fra Angelico, a self-portrait of Raphael, the architect Bramante, Popes Gregory I and Jerome; and (upper level left-right) the Biblical figures of Peter, Adam, John the Evangelist, David, Stephen, Joshua and Mary. Engraving published in 1617 by the engraver and publisher Philippe Thomassin (1562-1622), who specialized in reproductive engravings by Italian and French artists, and whose apprentices included the great printmaker Jacques Callot. After Thomassin's death the plate was acquired by the Rossi firm, who published a new edition (with their publication line added) in 1648.
[Ref: 40460] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Six lithographs from frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Palace]
N. Consoni delin. Raph. Sanctio Pinxit Lud. Gruner Direx
Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row; and W. Grigg 188, Regent Street: and J. Parker , Oxford.
Six lithographs and tintstone, with original wrapper. Each sheet 465 x 585mm (18¼ x 23"). Cover sheet very damaged.
Lithographs of six frescoes by Raphael: The Deluge, Abraham and the Angels, Jacob and Rachel, Joseph's Dreams, Pharaoh's Dreams, and The Finding of Moses.
[Ref: 43608] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. Acts Chap. XIV [parallel text in Latin]
Raphael d'Urbin pinx.t
London. Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark approx 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾").
The sacrifice at Lystra (now part of Turkey). Paul and Barnabas (right) have just healed a lame man, and the Lystrians, mistaking men for gods, attempt to offer a sacrifice to them. One from a set of seven mezzotints reproducing Raphael's cartoons, commissioned by Pope Leo X as designs for a set of large designs for tapestries to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel. In 1623 the seven cartoons, depicting the Acts of St Peter and St Paul, were brought to England by Charles I. They were long displayed at Hampton Court and various engravings such as these in the 18th century reinforced the reputation of the cartoons as some of the most significant artworks in the country. Since 1865 they have been on loan from the Royal Collection to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, where they are permanently displayed together.
For the full set of seven, see ref. 34028. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34030] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Virgin Child and St. John From a most Capital and Perfect Picture by Raphael, in the Collection of J. Purling
Raphael pinxt. PW Tomkins Sculpt. late pupil of Bartolozzi.
[Publd as the Act directs Aug. 20 1789 by P.W.Tomkins Fulham]
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 285 x 180mm (11¼ x 7"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line. Bit messy in title
The Virgin, infant Christ and John the Baptist. The composition bears some similarities to Raphael's 'Madonna della Seggiola' (Florence, Pitti Palace) but the attribution to Raphael here is far from certain. The engraver P.W. Tomkins was one of many students of Francesco Bartolozzi who noted on his own prints that he had been taught by that most celebrated of stipple engravers.
[Ref: 32219] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Raphael's Mistress. From the Original Picture, painted by Raphael, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, To Whom this Plate is with the greatest Submission, most humbly Dedicated; By his Grace's most Obliged, and most Obedient humble Servant, J. Boydell. Size of the Picture 2F.1I by 2F.6¾I high. No.23.
Raphael pinxt. R. Earlom delint. Thos. Chambars sculpsit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London; Nov. 2d. 1765.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 406 x 305mm (16 x 12"). Very large margins; water stain to lower right and crease to upper right margin.
A young woman shown in profile to right, holding a basket of fruit in her hand in front of her, left hand lifting the edge of her fur-trimmed cloak which has slipped from her shoulder, with a scarf in her hair, part braided; a view of a town in landscape through a window beyond to right.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38289] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Raphael's Prophetic Messenger Almanack 1839. Hieroglyphic for the eventful year 1839. Herin the Aspect of the Heavens learn / And of the times the mystic Signs discern.
London Published by William Charlton Wright 4 Paternoster Row.
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 230 x 265mm (9 x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, binding folds flattened. Creasing as normal.
Nine vignette scenes of 'events' forefold for 1839. In the centre is Queen Victoria receiving a deputation of the poor, as arms houses are being built behind. Other scenes include a man entering a bank with money bags; lawyers being stoned by a mob; rural victims of a plague; highwaymen killing travellers; a blacksmith's forge with a locomotive in the background; and a skeleton raising a bottle in toast at a dinner party.
See BM 1902,1011.9731 for one from the series dated 1863.
[Ref: 54150] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Raphael's Prophetic Messenger Almanack 1862. Hieroglyphic for the eventful year 1862. Herin the Aspect of the Heavens learn / And of the times the mystic Signs discern.
Symbols by Raphael. Drawn by T.H. Jones.
Chromolithograph. Sheet 250 x 315mm (9¾ x 12½"). Splits inbinding folds.
The allegorical frontispiece to 'Raphael's Prophetic Messenger Almanack', with an astrologer reading symbols in an arcane book. Britannia broods over a scroll marked 'Dissolution'. Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of Italy, stands on another marked 'The Press'. In the background the American Civil War rages, with a ragged Stars and Stripes (stars arranged as a circle of nine, with a tenth at the centre).
See BM 1902,1011.9731 for one from the series dated 1863.
[Ref: 56725] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Raphael's Witch!!! or the Oracle of the Future, by the Author of the Prophetic Messenger. With Coloured Designs on Copper, by R. Cruikshank & The Author, a a Piece of Music by Blewitt.
London: William Charlton Wright. Paternoster Row [n.d., c.1831].
8vo, original half calf gilt, marbled boards, first edition; pp. 23+180; with coloured title and two coloured folding plates, both very defective. Binding distressed.
A book containing various methods of fortune telling. According to the Preface ''This book is adapted to lay about in drawing-rooms - to be read in gardens and groves - to ornament the boudoir - for amusement in evening parties, as an innocent substitute for cards - to be consulted in every mood of mind and temper. For singular as it may seem, not a thought can arise, nor a wish originate, but the LADY-WITCH OF RAPHAEL will easily solve and satisfy. It removes ennui and low spirits, but cheering the heart--brightening the ideas, and alluring to virtue, happiness and bliss.''.
[Ref: 56718] £260.00 view all images for this item

Franciscus Raphe-Lengius.
De Larmessin, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1682.]
Engraving, with very large margins. Plate 184 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½".
Frans van Ravelingen (1539-1597), the Flemish-born Dutch scholar, printer and bookseller. In 1587 he held the chair in Hebrew at Leiden University. In 1613 a copy of his Arabic-Latin lexicon was published, and this was said to be the first proper dictionary of the Arabic language. From Isaac Bullart's "Académie des Sciences et des Arts".
In the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
[Ref: 26051] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Raport et Comparaison des Differents Poids et Mesures. Tant de Continence que d'Etendue des Pays Etrangers aves les Poids Mesures et Aunages de Paris. Suivis d'une Table des Pays et Villes par ordre alphabetique: tres utile à tous Marchands et Negociants.
A Paris. Chez Desnos Geographe et Ingenieur pour les Globes et Spheres; Rue St. Jacques a l'Enseigne du Globe. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 635 x 913mm. 25 x 363".
A chart of different weights and measurements for Traders and Negotiators shipping into Paris.
[Ref: 20840] £320.00

Ohé! Moricaud...
J. Platier.
Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat. Imp d'Aubert & Cie.
Lithograph. Sheet: 335 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½"). Tears in bottom edge and light foxing.
A French satirical print showing a group of aprentices shouting racist things at a smartly dressed black man.
[Ref: 42493] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Monumentum pietatis Beato G.N. Raspio consecratum a moestissima Vidua.
Gemahl: von George Christ: Gottl: v. Bemel. Gestochen von Joh: Georg Klinger Nurnb: 1787.
Stipple, rare with large margins. Plate 210 x 159mm (8¼ x 6¼").
Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe (1769-1829), cartographer and publisher. Among his publications was 'Schau Platz des gegenwaertigen Kriegs' (Plates illustrating the Current Wars), with maps illustratrating the events of the Seven Year's War (1756-63).
[Ref: 29907] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Svend Rassmoussan. A Field Fin or Mountain Laplander, in his ordinary Winter Cloathing of Rein Deer Skin.
Drawn from Nature by Capn. de C. Brooke: Drawn on Stone by D: Dighton.
London Pubd. by Rodwell and Martin New Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. 255 x 184mm. 10 x 7¼".
From a collection of drawings made by Captain A. deC. Brooke during two journeys to Scandinavia, 1820 and 1820-21.
Scott Polar Research Institute: Y: 56/18/11. Abbey: 248.
[Ref: 15136] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Rat-Catcher. To James Sherriff, Esqr...[dedication.]
Painted by C. Hancock. Engraved by W. Raddon.
London, Published March 12, 1838, For The Proprietor, By Ackermann & Co. Strand.
Engraving on india laid paper, 245 x 305mm. 9¾ x 12".
The quarry has evidently gone to ground. Four terriers and their master surround a hole in the ground. After Charles Hancock (1802 - 1877).
[Ref: 12361] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Strohlchneider. Coupeur de paille. [Straw cutter/bailer.]
Gezeichnet v. C. Brand Prof. Gestochen v. [?] Mark?
[n.d., 1810.]
Etching, sheet 335 x 245mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed within plate.
Plate to a set of 'Cries of Vienna', after Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694 - 1756), who seems to have been a drawing master at the Vienna Academy.
[Ref: 11577] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

La Mort aux Rats.
C. Vischer inv. F. Basan Exc.
[n.d., c.17y0.]
Engraving. Sheet 370 x 320mm (14½ x 12½"). Trimmed within plate on all sides, into inscription area at bottom.
A reversed engraving of Cornelis Visscher's 'Rat Catcher of Paris'.
[Ref: 44978] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Gipsy & Rat-Catcher.
J.G.S. [J. Spurgeon]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Plate: 130 x 95mm (5 x 3 ¾''), with very large margins.
A scene showing the meeting between a rat-catcher carrying his staff and an old woman on a road.
[Ref: 48219] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Rat Catcher.
C. Visches [Cornelis Visscher] Invt. On Stone by F. Sexton.
London, Printed & Published 1837 by A. Friedel, 252, Tottenham Court Road.
Lithograph. Printed area 310 x 210mm (12¼ x 8¼") with very large margins.
After Cornelis Visscher (1629-58). Adam Friedel (1780- death date unknown) was a Danish artist, printmaker and publisher who, after serving in the Napoleonic wars, voluntarily joined the Greek army at the start of the Greek War of Independence, fashioning himself as Danish nobility. He was exposed by a real noble who proved his backstory to be a lie. After spending a year in Egypt he took refuge in London in 1824 where he opened a lithographer's shop. Between 1825 and 1826 Friedel printed and published, both in Paris and London, twenty-four lithographs with portraits of politicians and prominent military figures of the Greek War of Independence. He had drawn the portraits himself, in most cases from nature, while J. Bouvier coloured and lithographed these images. The series was a success and he was awarded for his contributions to the Greek Struggle for Independence with two decorations. For health reasons he travelled around a lot. He travelled to Smyrna and taught at a Greek school. He stayed at the Ottoman Capital during the Crimean War and painted several portraits of various politicians. In 1865 he asked for a pension for his services to Greece however little is known about what happened to him after that and his place and date of death is unknown.
[Ref: 52139] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

La mort aux rats.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving, very rare. Plate 326 x 210mm. 12¾ x 8¼". Some light mount staining.
A tradesman selling rat traps and bellows to blow poison.
[Ref: 26660] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vende pasta per i Sorci.
[Annibale Carracci.]
[n.d. c.1646.]
Etching. Plate 274 x 171mm. 10¾ x 6¾".
A seller of rat poison, walking holding a bowl of poison and a flag with four rats.
Original drawing held in the Louvre, Paris.
[Ref: 26659] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rat Catchers.
Published by Thos. Robertson 33 South Frederick Street, Edinr.
Coloured etching. 270 x 230mm.
[Ref: 341] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The rat hunt; or John Bull and his master turning out the vermin. Tune-"A hunting we will go."' The straw is being mov'd, my boys, The Rats begin to run...
J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill London. [n.d. 1831]
Hand-coloured etching, fine colour, 250 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate and laid on backing sheet.
Satire on the 1831 dissolution of parliament to call a general election for the purpose of passing its Reform Bill. John Bull uses a pitchfork marked “Reform” to drive human-faced rats out of his barn. His dog, bearing Brougham’s (1778-1868) bewigged head, lunges at them, encouraged by William IV (1765-1837), who leans forward and commands, “Get out, you vermin.” The rats have been gnawing malt sacks; one reads “This is the Malt that lay in the house that Jack built.” Newcastle (1785-1851) still chews at it, with (London) Derry (1778- 1854) just below. Brougham moves toward a mitred rat-bishop (Robert Gray, Bishop of Bristol (1762-1834)) and Eldon (1751-1838) (“Old Bags”). John Bull’s fork has just knocked Wellington (1769-1852) and Peel (1788-1850), tagged “Water Rat” and “Orange Peel”, from the top of a sack. Other rats scatter toward their holes.
BM Satires 16689.
[Ref: 67693] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[A rat-catcher.]
I.G Wagner del: CH* sculps:
C.A. Grossmann exc: A.V. NoVI. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1790.]
A rare attractive soft ground etching printed in red ink, on watermarked laid paper. 235 x 180mm, 9¼ x 7".
The man holds his trap and some food bait (cheese?) in the other hand, with rats crawling about his person; his faithful dog lower left. After Johann Georg Wagner (German, 1744 - 1766); from a series.
[Ref: 19421] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Rat-Catcher.
Pubd. Jany. 1796 by G. Thompson No.50, Old Bailey, & I. Evans No.41 Long Lane Wt. Smithf.d
Stipple, printed in red. 142 x 114mm. 5½ x 4½". Trimmed.
A rat-catcher and his dog; to the right a woman looks on.
In the Wellcome Library Collection: 38229i
[Ref: 26667] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Rat-Catching. Brutus; Boxer; Vixen.
Edwin Landseer pinxit. Tho.s Landseer, Aqf.f. John Landseer, Sculpt. Engraver to the King & F.S.A.
London. Published by Hurst, Robinson & Co. 90 Cheapside, March 10, 1823.
Engraving, 345 x 490mm. 13½ x 19¼".
Three dogs approaching two dead rats, whilst another rat timorously surveys the situation.
[Ref: 9302] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Ratcatcher] Achetez de ma mort aux Rats / Et défaites vous de vos Chats, / Qui partout font tant de ravage / Et vous cause trop dommage [...]
Gravé par Meheux
A Paris Chez Audran, rue St Jacques aux 2 Pilliers d'Or. [c.1700]
Rare mezzotint & fine, sheet 390 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate; creased.
A ratcatcher advertises his services with a rhyme explaining his efficiency and his superiority to reliance on cats. Scarce early mezzotint by Jacques Meheux.
[Ref: 43743] £320.00

Adam Sireh-goona Munhi Rathanal, (Formerly a High Priest of Boodhu,) Educated in England by the Revd. Adam Clarke, L.L.D.
A. Mosses del. R. Hicks sculp.
[Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, Liverpool.1821.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Cut before publication line and inside platemark.
[Ref: 55256] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille de Ratisbonne. Salon 1810.
Gantherat Pinxit. Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 300 x 405mm (11¾ x 16"), with very large margins.
Early in the Battle of Ratisbon (also Battle of Regensburg, 23th April 1809) Napoleon was shot in the ankle. However, because of the distance of the shot, it only caused a bruise. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55867] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

les Rats de C... en désarroi.
[Louis Charles Ruotte the Younger?]
[n.d., c.1816.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾''). Creasing. Small margins.
A French satiricial print commenting on customs and excise, three rats the size of humans attempt to steal barrels from a cellar while two men and cats fight them off.
BM: 1866,0407.974.
[Ref: 49313] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

H.M.S. "Rattlesnake". Commanded by Captain Owen R.N. entering the Louisiade Archipelago, June 14th, 1849.
O.W.Brierly del. T.G.Dutton, Lith. Day & Son, Lit.rs to the Queen.
London, Published July 8th, 1852 by Ackermann & Co.96 Strand.
Coloured lithograph. 420 x 350mm (16½ x 13¾").
View of H.M.S Rattlesnake sailing into the Louisiade Archipelago in 1849. Some of the earliest depictions of Papua New Guinea are from the journey of the HMS Rattlesnake surveying Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and New Guinea. Captain Owen Stanley was commisioned to create the first detailed charts of the coast of Papua New Guinea.
[Ref: 67447] £420.00

H.M.S. "Rattlesnake". Commanded by Captain Owen R.N. finding an entrance through the Reefs into the Louisiade Archipelago, S.E. extream, New Guinea, June 14th 1849.
[O.W.Brierly del. T.G.Dutton, Lith. Day & Son, Lit.rs to the Queen.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare coloured lithograph. 420 x 350mm (16½ x 13¾"). Backed onto album paper.
View of H.M.S Rattlesnake sailing into the Louisiade Archipelago in 1849. Captain Owen Stanley was commisioned to create the first detailed charts of the coast of Papua New Guinea.
[Ref: 67449] £420.00

The Augean Stables. Rattlesnake or Adelaide Punch No. 1.
JH [monogram].
[Adelaide: Haddrick and East] Thursday, January 24, 1878.
Lithograph. 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"). Trimmed, losing explanatory title, split in centre fold repaired, laid on archival tissue.
An allegorical figure of Adelaide thanks Hercules (holding a theatrical mask over his face), for cleaning out the ghostly figures of 'Fever', 'Contagion' and 'Malaria', referring to 'Mr Clark' and asks if he can help to get rid of another nuisance. A bearded man, possibly journalist John Howward Clark (1830-78), sits to one side. Unfortunately a second, explanatory title has been lost. An extremely rare satire from the first issue of the 'Rattlesnake or Adelaide Punch', a fortnightly Australian humorous magazine. It survived for only a few issues, before failing and being taken over by the printers, Scrymgour and Sons. Renamed 'The Adelaide Punch', it lasted until 1884.
[Ref: 54813] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[WITH SIGNATURE OF THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND] A Daily Report of the Progress made in the Equipment of His Majesty's [Ship Rattlesnake, Rio de Janeiro] Captain [William Hobson] the [15th] of [May] 18[35]. [W.Hobson Captain].
[1835.]
Letterpress form with ink mss, scarce. Sheet 170 x 410mm (6¾ x 16"). Creases.
A daily ship's report form signed by the captain of HMS Rattlesnake (1822), William Hobson (1792-1842), during its voyage to join the Far East squadron in Australia. Arriving in Australia in August 1836, Hobson and his officers thoroughly surveyed Port Phillip as part of the founding of the colony that is now Melbourne. In May 1837 the Rattlesnake sailed to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, to help the British Resident deal with a Maori tribal war. Back in England in 1838 Hobson proposed establishing British sovereignty in New Zealand; returning in 1840 he drafted the Treaty of Waitangi and became first governor of the British colony 1841. He died of a stroke the following year.
[Ref: 54176] £650.00 view all images for this item

F.se A.M. Raucour, Nee a Paris le 3. Mars 1756, Debutee a la Comedie Francoise le 23 Decembre 1772, Recue le 23 Mars 1773.
Toquet Pinx. Chatelin Sculp.
AParis chez Bligny Lancier du Roi Cour du Manege aux Thuilleries [n.d., c.1775].
Engraving. 265 x 180mm (10½ x 7").
Francoise Marie Antoinette Raucourt (1756 - 1815), French actress.
Not in Harvard. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7856] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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