Grosvenor Prints

[Two women reading a letter]
Gerars pinx. van Somer f.
F. de Wit Excudit
Mezzotint. 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Staining at bottom.
Two women reading a letter, while a man, woman, and dog observe. After a painting by G.P. van Zijl, which had previously been engraved by Wallerant Vaillant.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Holl: 48
[Ref: 34657] £350.00

Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870.
B.E. Maidment.
Manchester University Press, 1996.
8vo., cloth and d/w; pp. xv + 190, 32 b/w illus. Owner's blindstamp on endpaper. Rare.
Five essays, including 'Prints as history and the history of Prints' and 'Conglagration! The burning of Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791'.
[Ref: 59741] £65.00

Reading School [in pencil to the right.]
Etched by A.E. Wardle [in pencil to the left.]
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with watermark in paper; stamped remarque proof. Plate 203 x 254mm. 8 x 10".
Reading School, the state-funded, selective academy for boys in Reading. Its history can be traced back to the school of Reading Abbey, making it one of the oldest schools in England.
[Ref: 22567] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

View of Reading School & Playground. Dedicated by Permission To the Rev.d R. Valpy, D.D. F.A.S. and the Gentlemen of Reading School, by their very humble and respectful Servant Edmund Havell. Virginibus Sedes Fuit Haec Monialibus Aedes Hospitium Henricus Musis Donavit Amicus.
Drawn by E. Havell. Engraved by R. Havell & Son. 3, Chapel Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Published Oct.r 1816, by E. Havell, Frier Street, Reading.
Very scarce & fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Framed. Sight size 445 x 600mm (17½ x 23½"). Repaired tear in right edge.
A view of Reading Grammar School, in what had been Reading Abbey's guest house or Hospitium, with the scholars at play ouside. The pastimes include cricket, rounders, hoops, reading and driving other boys like horses, with whips. Bottom right an old woman sells pastries. Edmund Havell (1785-1864) succeeded has father Luke (b.1752) as drawing-master at the school and as owner of the family print shop in Reading. His older brother was the landscape artist William (1782-1857); the engravers of this plate were his uncle Robert (1769-1832) and his son, also Robert (1793-1878), engraver of most of the Audubon bird plates.
[Ref: 67231] £550.00

Sycamore near Reading, Berks.
Drawn by Will.m Havell. Etched by W.m Dela Motte.
Pub.d as the Act directs by W.m Dela Motte. Gt. Marlow Jan.ry 1. 1806.
A rare soft-ground etching. 513 x 387mm. 20¼ x 15¼". Soiling and paper toning.
View of a churchyard with a large tree in the centre; two children on a path in the foreground, reading a memorial at left; arch over gate beyond.
[Ref: 18898] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Reading Telegraph Coaches, Meeting near Salt Hill. Windsor & Eton in the Distance.
London, Pub.d June 1. 1835 by Rob.t Havell, Zoological Gallery, 77, Oxford Street.
Coloured aquatint. 405 x 580mm (16 x 22¾"), on paper watermarked 'Ruse & Turners 1846'. Paper toned.
Two coaches drawn by four horses, passing on the road, with Windsor Castle and Eton College in the background.
[Ref: 49979] £680.00

[A Woman Reading] Soit d'un epoux soit d'un amant / Cest une lettre assurement / Quicy la belle on vous voit lire [...]
Detroy p. C.A. Bouchet f. [c.1730]
Engraving, platemark 300 x 220mm (11¾ x 8½"), with very large margins.
A woman viewed through a window, her back to the viewer, reading a letter whose contents and author are not disclosed by the text below. Engraving after 'A Woman Reading' (1723) by Jean-François de Troy, a painting which the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin recently acquired, thereby reuniting it with its pennant 'Young Woman Drinking Coffee'. Both works were acquired soon after they were painted by the collector and patron of Watteau Jean de Jullienne (1686 - 1766). De Troy (1679-1752) was a leading painter of the Parisian élite, and while primarily a history painter he worked in most genres. De Troy made decorative paintings for the châteaux of Versailles and Fontainebleau, and designed a series of tapestries for the Gobelins factory.
[Ref: 40282] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Real Inhabitants of this Earth.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t G. Shepheard sculp.t
London Published: Jany. 10th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin & Republished 1805 by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street.
Hand-coloured stipple and etching. Watermarked: 1802. 310 x 235mm. 12¼ x 9¼". Fly spots at top.
An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy, both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a high-waisted travelling dress and small hat, takes the officer's arm; her left hand is in a large muff. Behind are the masts of a vessel backed by chalk cliffs, showing that the rail edges a small creek or harbour; on the right are a beam and pulley; lower right a dog. From a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury.
BM Satires: 11456.
[Ref: 20100] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Now S.r You'r a Compleat Macaroni. Le Petit Maitre Partant Pour La Promenade.
[After Brandoin.]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 260 x 180mm (10½ x 7''), with very large margins.
A satirical scene showing a barber finishing a macaroni's queue.
[Ref: 48530] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Reaper.
Painted by T. Faed R.A. Engraved by F. Stacpoole. [In image area:] TFaed 1863.
London: Published Jan.y 17th. 1865, by B. Brooks & Sons, 48, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate 711 x 539mm. 28 x 21¼".
A young woman in rustic dress with a shawl around her shoulders, standing full-length in a field directed to left, holding a sickle, looking to right at a bundle of hay; a man is cutting hay behind her.
[Ref: 25295] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rear Guard.]
J.P. Beadle.
[c.1910.]
Photogravure. 345 x 515mm (13½ x 20¼"). Laid on board.
Major-General Robert Crauford (1764-1812) commanding the 1st Flank Brigade (composed of the 1/43rd, 1/52nd and 2/95th), the rearguard protecting the British Army's retreat from Mayorga to Corruna, 1808-9, during the Peninsula War. Marching through mountain passes in the snow, without food, it is the disciplinarian Crauford's leadership that is credited for the success of the retreat. James Princip Beadle (1863-1946), who specialised in military scenes, experienced both the Boer War and the First World War.
[Ref: 53115] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Reasonable Charges or Ducks Metamorphosed!
Woodward del.
Published by T. Tegg No 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1805.] Bit later.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed into plate, laid on paper.
A waiter offers the menu to two men at table, one of whom exclaims that the ducks, priced at £1 1s, are guinea fowls.
BM: 1991,0720.39, suggesting the etcher was Isaac Cruikshank.
[Ref: 50714] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Rebecca.
C.Marato del. Pitou Sculp.
A Paris, chez Bonnet, rue St. Jacques, au coin de celle de la Parcheminerie. [n.d., c. 1790]
Stipple, printed in colours. 230 x 190mm. Triimed into platemark.
[Ref: 4052] £320.00

[Joseph Récamier.]
Peint par Paulin Guérin. Gravé par F. Girard.
Imprimé par Alfred Chardon, J.ne rue Racine, 3, Paris. [n.d., c.1830.]
Mezzotint, scarce. Sheet 535 x 380mm (21 x 15"). Tear in top edge. Margins rubbed.
Joseph-Claude-Anthelme Récamier (1774-1852), French gynecologist who coined the term ''metastasis''. His two most important papers are: 'Recherches sur le traitement du cancer' (Research on Treatment of Cancer, 1829) & 'Recherches sur le traitement du cholera-morbus' (Research on Treatment of Cholera, 1832), which is shown propped up on the table next to him in this portrait.
[Ref: 46396] £450.00

[Receipt.] Es wird hiemit bescheiniget, dass H. Gottfer, den An 1743. Osternfalligen Schoss mit card Schilling, nebst Bacht-Geld bezahlet hat. Lubed, an 1743 den 26 Oct. [It is hereby certified that H. Gottfer, who paid An 1743th Easter shot lap with card shilling, and Bacht money. Lubed, at 1743 the 26 Oct]
[1743.]
Letterpress receipt. Sheet: 85 x 115mm (3½ x 4½").
A receipt written in German confirming that payment was made on 26th October 1743.
[Ref: 47886] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Ink mss receipt.] On the 25th of [Leshrim Lwel?] 1261 or Seventh of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-five I have received in full from Mess.rs John Ross & Co., English merchants of Malta, the sum of two thousand one hundred and seventy four effective Spanish dollars, amount of a letter of credit given me by Mess.rs Hanson & Co. of Constantinople on the aforesaid Mess.rs John Ross & Co. In consequence I have delivered to them the letter of credit and sealed receipts in duplicate for the said some of 2,174 Spanish dollars. Malta. November 7th 1845. [With an Arabic text, probably a Maltese translation, and an ink stamp.]
Single sheet, folded in four. Sheet 300 x 200mm, 11¾ x 8". Some foxing.
John Ross & Co were appointed agents to the East India Company in Malta in 1805. Charles S. Hanson & Co was an English bank in Istanbul, until the firm failed in December 1881.
[Ref: 17510] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Receiving Absolution for Past Heresies. Pl.2_
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath.] Esq.
Pub by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830].
Etching with hand colour. 265 x 365mm (10½ x 14½"), with large margins. Colour slightly faded.
Satire on Catholic emancipation: a caricatured papal legation watch as a cardinal gives absolution to Lyndhurst, Peel, and Wellington, who kneel before them.
BM Satires: 15740.
[Ref: 55409] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Receiving Absolution for Past Heresies. Pl.2_
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath.] Esq.
Pub by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830].
Etching with hand colour. Framed, sight size 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼") Framed over printed border, unexamined out of frame.
Satire on Catholic emancipation: a caricatured papal legation watch as a cardinal gives absolution to Lyndhurst, Peel, and Wellington, who kneel before them.
BM Satires: 15740.
[Ref: 61229] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Decorative monogram - initials A and R, entwined.]
[C. de Saint-Aubin.]
A.P.D.R. [Paris: Veuve de Chereau, c.1760.]
Etching, laid paper, 325 x 230mm, 12¾ x 9". Slightly soiled; marginal staining.
From the first series of decorative floral monograms attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '2' lower right. See ref:19871, ref:19877 and ref:19878.
See BM 1991,0615.53. See item 19871 for titlepage.
[Ref: 19874] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Decorative monogram - initials F and C, entwined.]
[C. de Saint-Aubin.]
A.P.D.R. [Paris: Veuve de Chereau, c.1760.]
Etching, laid paper, 325 x 235mm, 12¾ x 9¼". Stitch holes to left margin.
From the first series of decorative floral monograms attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '6' lower right. See ref:19871, ref:19877 and ref:19874.
See BM 1991,0615.53. See item 19871 for titlepage.
[Ref: 19878] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Premier Receuil De Chiffres Invente par De Saint Aubin Dessinateur du Roi.
Drouet Scrip [inscription].
A.P.D.R. A Paris chez la V[euv]e de F. Chereau rüe St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'Or [n.d., c.1760].
Attractive etched titlepage, laid paper; lettering to scroll surrounded by fronds and flowers, the whole surmounted by a floral crown. 335 x 240mm, 13¼ x 9½".
For a series of decorative floral monograms, attributed to Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721 - 1786). Two sets seem to have been produced, the Premier and Deuxième Recueil de Chiffres, formed by, respectively, seven and six plates. Numbered '1' lower right.
See BM 1991,0615.53.
[Ref: 19871] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Reclining Nude] Tire du Cabinet de Monsieur Cayeux
F. Boucher delineavit. L. Bonnet Sculpsit
A Paris chez la V.e de F. Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2. Piliers d'Or.
Crayon manner with very large margins, platemark 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Creasing; damage to margins.
Nude engraved from a drawing by leading French eighteenth century painter François Boucher (1703-70). The printmaker, Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93), was the inventor of the distinctive crayon manner employed here which skilfully replicates pastel drawings. Bonnet, in common with several leading printmakers of his day, spent time working in Russia (1764-6).
[Ref: 33186] £420.00

[Reclining Nude]
R Nunkeles ad viv del. J.C. fecit 1767
Crayon manner, sheet 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"). Trimmed to image; glued to backing sheet at corners with watercolour border around edges. Borders dusty.
Nude reminiscent of the drawings of François Boucher (1703-70), engraved using the crayon manner invented by Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93) to skilfully replicates pastel drawings.
[Ref: 33187] £420.00

[Turkish Woman Reclining on the Sofa after a Bath.] Femme Turque qui repose usr le Sopha sortant du bain.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
A Turkish woman in a suggestive mode. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47015] £330.00

[Magistrate and Recognition of the Child's Father.] Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parish Laws are grac'd...And Swears She'l be reveng'd upon his Brows' The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And from him to provide Security.
W. Hogarth pinx. J. Sympson Jun.r Sculp.
Sold by J. Sympson Engraver and Print-Seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane.
Etching and engraving. Plate 306 x 356mm. 12 x 14".
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist. This man meanwhile, raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him. The true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs. After William Hogarth's (1697-1794) painting entitled "The Denunciation" c.1729 (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin). Paulson in "Hogarth's Graphic Works" comments on Sympson's use of 'modern moral subjects', of which this is one. According to Paulson there is no sufficient proof to shoe that Hogarth employed Sympson, and thus is therefore more likely that Sympson undertook the job himself
BM Satires: 2261. See Paulson: pp.29-30.
[Ref: 19160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Clemens VIII. Pont. Opt. Max. Pace inter potentissimos Henricum IV. Gallie ac Navarre Philippumque II. Hispaniarum Reges conciliata felicissimus extat A. MDXCVIII. All Eminentissimo, e Reverendissimo Principe il Sig. Cardinarle Francesco Bertazzoli Prefetto della S.C. sugli studj.
Giovanni di Matio Bertazzoni dif e inc. [in image.] Giovanni de Mateo Bertazzoni e Guiseppe Meloni D: O: C:
A very scarce engraving printed in brown ink. 330 x 361mm. 13 x 14¼". Vertical crease. Scuffing and spotting. Water stain across the top.
Giovanni de Matteo Bertazzoni (1805-1884). Pope Clement VIII (1536-1605); Henry IV (1553-1610) of France and Navarre; & Philip II of Spain (1527-1598). Probably around the 1593 with the Reconciliation of France bringing years of religious war to an end and forming alliances.
[Ref: 14423] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Recounter with a Rattle Snake, on the banks of the Ohio. Voy.s No.XXX.
Neele & Son 352 Strand.
Published by Sir R. Phillips & Co. Bridge Court, Bridge Street. [1821.]
Engraving. Plate 222 x 253mm. 8¾ x 10". Creasing as normal.
A hunter carrying his rifle walks with his dog, when they encounter a rattlesnake. From "A Voyage to North America, and The West Indies, in 1817. By E. Montule. Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour. Author of Travels in Egypt, &c." 1821.
[Ref: 23844] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Récréations. Interieur d'un Atelier.
Henry Monnier. Lith de Bernard.
Publié par Giraldon-Bouvinet, Passage Vivienne 26 [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 130 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Crease through top of image.
'The interior of a workshop', with an artist working on a painting on an easle while his models take a break, smoking and sewing.
[Ref: 67668] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Recrimination.
Giles Grinagain inv.t et fec.t.
Published Dec.r 1. 1801. by S. Howitt, Panton Street.
Coloured etching. 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"). Thread margins.
An angry French hairdresser complains about the patch of soot left on his sleeve by a chimney sweep, saying, ''Morbieu! You black Devils! see have You make black all my Jacket! How I can go to dress my Lord? for what you not wear white Clothes''. The sweep holds out his left arm, whitened by impact, saying, ''Look ye here, d--n You! what You've done you at Frog - I shan't be able to get the White out for Six Months to come''. 'Giles Grinagain' was probably a pseudonym for Samuel Howitt.
BM Satires 9815.
[Ref: 42183] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 275 x 330mm (10¾ x 13"). Crease top left, narrow margins, mounted on album paper on left.
A woman stands holding a basket of poultry. Behind, a man slips an arm into the basket while pushing another man away. A scene from George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer', which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers. A pair to 'A Scene in the Careless Husband'.
CS: 415. See Ref: 67266
[Ref: 67263] £350.00

A Scene in the Recruiting Officer.
Ph. Mercier invt. et pinxt. I. Faber fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1739.
Mezzotint, 276 x 323mm. Foxing, small marginal tear upper left.
Illustrates George Farquhar's 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer'. Farquhar (1677 or 1678 - 1707) was an Irish dramatist noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy. The play follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury as they recruit soldiers.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7855] £320.00

A Recuiting Party.
Drawn by H. Bunbury Esq.r.
London Publish'd 1 June 1790 by Bull & Jeffryes Ludgate Hill.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate,
Three members of a recruiting party march stiffly inline. The leader is a tall obese man carrying a pike and wearing a sword; next is a diminutive drummer; and last is a thin officer holding a cane.
[Ref: 41684] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Recruiting Party. Now's Your Time My Lads- Whigs & Tories - Christians, Jews & Turks- no distinction made.
[Monogram of Paul Pry - John Phillips?] Esq.r.
Pub. by S. Gans 15 Southampton St. Strand.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Wellington, dressed in his military uniform salutes, to George IV. Beside Wellington stands James Scarlett, into whose hand Wellington places a coin marked 'Attorn[ey]'. George IV's mistress Lady Conyngham drums as Robert Peel plays the flute. Wellington found it difficult to gather ministers once elected, so this satire suggests that he was bribing Scarlett, who had resigned from the post of Attorney-General when Wellington came to power in 1828, to return. This a pirated copy of William Heath's satire, even copying his Paul Pry monogram, probably by John Phillips.
See BM Satire: 15812 for Heath's original.
[Ref: 55404] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Recruiting Party. Now's Your Time My Lads- Whigs & Tories - Christians, Jews & Turks- no distinction made.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub June 20 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P-Pry Caricatures - none are oritinal with T McLeans Name.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Wellington, dressed in his military uniform, salutes George IV. Beside Wellington stands James Scarlett, into whose hand Wellington places a coin marked 'Attorn[ey]'. George IV's mistress Lady Conyngham drums as Robert Peel plays the flute. Wellington found it difficult to gather ministers once elected, so this satire suggests that he was bribing Scarlett, who had resigned from the post of Attorney-General when Wellington came to power in 1828, to return. This a pirated copy of William Heath's satire, even copying his Paul Pry monogram, probably by John Phillips.
BM Satire 15812.
[Ref: 55955] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Recruiting Serjeant. Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[1770]
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Three worm holes in the left edge, some ink offset.
A recruiting serjeant stands in a village tempting the villagers to enlist with promises, while two old soldiers walk by complaining about the reality of service.
BM Satire 4411.
[Ref: 55190] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Recruitment campaign 1914-6] Buckingham Palace. To My People. At this grave moment in the struggle between my people and a highly organised enemy who has transgressed the Laws of Nations and changed the ordinance that binds civilized Europe together, I appeal to you. I rejoice in my Empire's effort, and I feel pride in the voluntary response from my Subjects all over the world who have sacrificed home, fortune, and life itself, in order that another may not inherit the free Empire which their ancestors and mine have built. I ask you to make good these sacrifices. The end is not in sight. More men and yet more are wanted to keep my Armies in the Field, and through them to secure Victory and enduring Peace. In ancient days the darkest moment has ever produced in our race the sternest resolve. I ask you, men of all classes, to come forward voluntarily and take your share in the fight. In freely responding to my appeal, you will be giving your support to our brothers, who, for long months, have nobly upheld Britain's past traditions, and the glory of her Arms. George R.I.
[London 1914-6.]
Letterpress with facsimile signature. Sheet 250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6¼").
A call-to-arms from the first half of the First World War.
See Imperial War Museum IWM PST 12111 for variant.
[Ref: 63747] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Village Recruits.
Painted by Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Engraved by Charles Fox.
London, Published Sept.r 1, 1838, by Thomas Boys, XI Golden Square, Regent Street.
Rare engraving. Laid, on India paper. First Proof Impression. Platemark: 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"). Very large margins.
An interior scene within a village tavern, with men gathered around a wooden table, some in military uniform. One, to the left, is sitting on the table, hand on his hip, watching a man seated to his left, grimacing with the exertion of pulling the cork from a stout bottle which he holds between his knees.
Provenance: Hooton Pagnell Hall, Yorkshire.
[Ref: 39984] £380.00

[Recruits.]
[W. H. Bunbury delin.t. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.]
[London, Publish'd Jan.y 1.st 1780 by Watson & Dickinson No 158 New Bond Street.]
Scarce etching, unfinished proof before stippling and lettering. Sheet 325 x 270mm (12¾ x 10½"). Trimmed within platemark on three sides.
A motley group of recruits being drilled by two soldiers outside an inn called 'The Old Fortune'. The inn sign depicts a old soldier with one eye, arm and leg, begging. The second of a series by Bunbury, with 'A Visit to thje Camp' and 'Nancy', published during the American War of Independence.
[Ref: 56436] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Rector of Valehead. _''I must now soon expect my summons...
Drawn by W. Purser. Engraved by R.G. Reeve.
Published by Smith Elder & Co. 65 Cornhill. [n.d., c.1835.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½''). Trimmed.
An illustration to 'The Rectory of Valehead' by Robert Wilson Evans (1789-1866), an English cleric and Archdeacon of Westmoreland from 1856 until his death.
[Ref: 48229] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull Reading the Extraordinary Red Book.
[William Elmes.]
By Th.s Tegge - 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1819.]
Colouired etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), watermarked 1819 large margins.
John Bull reads 'Extraordinary Red Book: A List of All Places, Pensions, Sinecures, &c. with the Various Salaries and Emoluments Arising Therefrom', written by 'A Commoner', an early version of the Civil List. He expresses outrage at the payments to governmental figures including Castlereagh, Bathurst and Eldon, totalling just under half-a-million pounds. The third edition of the book was published in 1819.
BM Satires 12781, dating c.1816.
[Ref: 50699] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Red Cedar. In the Grounds at Wimbledon House. Plate 21. [top right-hand corner]
H.W. Burgess delt. 1829. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[J.Dickinson, 114 New Bond Street, London.]
Lithograph. 432 x 348mm. 17" x 13¾". Cut and laid on paper.
From 'Eidodendron : views of the general character and appearance of trees foreign and indigenous connected with picturesque scenery'. (published 1827)
[Ref: 8773] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Charms of a Red Coat. 211
London Publish'd 1st. Nov.r 1787 by Rob.t Sayer, 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Thread margins.
A scene in a military camp, in the foreground a soldier talks to a fashionably dressed woman on a horse. In the background three woman sit in a tent, around a round table, one woman is sitting on a soldier's lap.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 46695] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Work of the Red Crescent.
[n.d., c.1877.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed close to image on left.
A scene of the aftermath of a battle in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, with the Red Crescent tending to the the wounded. To the left an arm is being amputated without anaesthetic.
[Ref: 66461] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[French Red Cross] Comité Britannique de la Croix Rouge Française. Ce diplôme a été offert è [Monsieur George J. Hittle] en témoignage des services qui [il] a rendues à la France. LOndres Le 10 May 1920.
Jos. Girard inv. et del. Manesse, Henri s.
[1920.]
Photo engraving, with ink stamp, facsimile signature and mss. signature. Printed area 320 x 430mm (12½ x 17") very large margins. Uncut. Some stain soiling.
A certificate of gratitude to Britons who helped care for French soldiers in the Great War.
[Ref: 57951] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Red Grouse. 8th. Plate of the British Feather Game.
Sillett, pinxt. Turner, sculpt.
London Published July 1. 1810. at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, 375 x 444mm. Collector's stamp on verso.
A pair of red grouse in a landscape. From a series of 14 plates 'British Feather Game' published 1810 - 1812. After the painter James Sillett (1764 - 1840) born at Norwich in 1764, and, after working there for a time as an heraldic painter, came to London, where he was employed as a copyist by the Polygraphic Society. From 1787 to 1790 he studied in the schools of the Royal Academy. He became a good miniaturist, and also painted game, fruit, and flowers with considerable skill; he was an exhibitor of works of this class at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1837. About 1804 Sillett went to reside at Lynn, where he taught drawing and made the illustrations for Richards's ‘History of Lynn,’ published in 1812. In 1810 he removed to Norwich, where he passed the remainder of his life in the constant practice of his art. He was president of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1815, but was one of the seceders from the original body.
Whitman: 836. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8097] £650.00

Red Headed Guinea Parrakeet.
[After William Hayes.]
[London: William Bulmer & Co, 1799.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, faint mount burn.
A fine etching from Hayes's 'Rare and Curious Birds Accurately Drawn and Coloured from Their Specimens in the Menagerie at Osterly Park', first edition. Hayes (1735-1802), a self-taught artist who had illustrated 'A Natural History of British Birds' in 1775, was commissioned to record the collection of live birds belonging to Robert and Sarah Child, the owners of Osterley. It was a family affair: he employed at least seven of his children as etchers, colourists and binders. The volumes were assembled when they were ordered, with the contents varying because of what has been called 'a production line of unrivalled chaos'. A second, posthumous edition was issued in 1817, 'published for the benefit of his family'.
See Ref: 32636
[Ref: 32638] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Red Kite.]
[after William Hayes.]
[n.d., c.1775.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 315 x 445mm. On laid paper watermarked 'J. Whatman', very large margins.
A fine etching from Hayes's 'A Natural History of British Birds'.
[Ref: 50360] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Red Lyon Square. A. Orange Street. B. Lambs Conduit Passage. C. Princes Street.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of Red Lion Square with a key, from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45315] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Red Rover in Chase of a Free Trader.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured woodcut. Sheet 155 x 185mm (6 x 7¼"). Trimmed close to printed area.
A naval officer with a red, bulbous nose and a protrunding belly runs up to a young woman.
[Ref: 61096] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Red Setter head.]
Alice Banwell [Pencil signature.]
[n.d, c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with blindstamp 'Rembrandt Guild Artist's Proof', very large margins.
[Ref: 60115] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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