Grosvenor Prints

Paraguay, Chilo, Terre Magellan?
Par Robert de Vaugondy.
revue et corrigés Par C.F. Delamarche son success.r. [n.d., c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 270 x 220mm,, 10½ x 8¾". Few worm holes.
Southern South America, covering Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina. The question mark in the title suggests that the engraver was unsure of a spelling but forgot to change it.
[Ref: 16446] £140.00

A Map of South America With all the European Settlements & whatever else is remarkable from the latest & best Observations.
R.W. Seale delin et sculp.
[London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, J. and P. Knapton, John Clarke, T. Longman and T. Shewell, Thomas Osborne, Henry Whitridge, 1749.]
Engraved map. 480 x 485mm (18¾ x 19"). Some creasing and folds.
A map of South America, published in Emanuel Bowen's 'A Complete System of Geography'. Despite the late date Walter Raleigh's 'El Dorado' is marked; the Galapagos are shown with English names to the islands; and the Falklands are shown only as a strait between two indistinct islands.
[Ref: 34189] £220.00

Map of South America. For the Rev. Dr. Robertson's History of America. Vol.I.
By Tho.s Kitchin Sen.r Hydrographer to his Majesty.
Published according to Act of Parliam.t Sept.r 29th. 1777 by W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand.
Engraving. 457 x 318mm. 18 x 12½". Folds as normal; creasing and some repaired tears.
A Map of South America marking the Kingdom of Terra Firma, New Kingdom of Granada, Brasil, Peru, Chile and Paraguay. From Dr William Robertson, D.D. (1721-1793) "The History of America", 1777. He was a Scottish historian, minister of religion and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
[Ref: 23840] £130.00

[Indigenous South Americans] VI:Ster Stamm. 149.
[Karl Joseph] Brodtmann delint.
Lithograph. Sheet 450 x 340mm (17¾ x 13½").
Two figures dressed in fur skirts, the man holding a club and bolas, the woman holding a child. From "Naturgeschichte Bilkder-Gallerie ause dem Thierriche''.
[Ref: 67455] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Commerical Docks. Specification for Lock Gates, Bridges, &c.
December, 1853. Westminster: Vacher & Sons, 29, Parliament Street.
Unique contract and plates, all signed by John Butler and J Pitts. Marble board folio (652 x 430mm), with title slip: "South Dock Contract Drawings. P.L.A. Drawing Officer (1925) DRG. No. 5700428". Plates: 11 extractable large-sized folio sheets (634 x 987mm). Stamped onto the first page of the contract are numerous "Two Shillings Six Pence" stamps with the Royal Emblem of Queen Victoria. Contract 4to (333 x 212mm) in wrapper attached to the inside cover of the folio. Various sections signed by J. Pitts and John Butler, including an illegible signature of a Witness (possibly Italian). Boards scuffed and binding slightly torn. Pages of contract - some holes in places. Some plates missing. Foxing, slightly cockled and tears.
CONTRACT: An agreement made the Twenty Seventh day of March One Thousand eight hundred and fifty four between John Butler and Joseph Pitts of Stanningley near Leeds in the County of York hereinafter called The Contractors of the one part and The Commercial Dock Company of the other part. [The amount to be paid by the Company will be] Twelve thousand three hundred pounds. [The Contract entails that the Contractors] construct and erect and fix four pairs of lock gates. Two pairs - Thames into East Country Dock at Rotherhithe and two pairs in and for the Communication Lock between the said Dock and the Company's Dock No.1. [Similarly] to construct and erect and fix one barrier bridge across Communication Lock and one foot bridge across the Entrance Lock and eight capstans on the pier heads. [An extra charge or similar] of one thousand and fifteen pounds will be added to make and construct Sluices. The Contractors are responsible for formation and full completion by the deadline, to completely furnish and to make and to execute all additional works required. Gate: to be framed on Company premises at the South side of the New Plough Road. Contractors can unload Messrs. Langton & Sons timber and their barges at the head of dock No.1 - and have use of the Company's rail with no extra charge but must provide their own labour and machinery. Any extra work must be presented to the Resident Engineer and on Tuesdays a bill must be delivered - or work shall be considered as abandonment, exonerating the Company from liability; all-in-all the Engineers make the final decision. The Contractors have engaged with the Company to have the Works of two lock entrances ready for fixing the gates and bridges within twenty four calendar months from the sixteenth August one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, admitting shipping into the Dock within thirty calendar months - and the Contractors and Contract are to be bound under the terms of this Contract to the same dates of completion. Heights and Depths are of eighteen feet six inches on the Index fixed at the Entrance Lock of No.1 Dock. Contractors are liable for all damage to the works during their execution and for twelve months after their completion. Schedule of Prices. SPECIFICATION. The situation of the Gates of to the Entrance and Communication Locks is shown upon Drawings Nos. 1 & 2; the details of the Gates upon Drawings Nos. 3, 4, 5 & 6. The Machinery for the Gates and Capstans is shown upon Drawing No.7 Gates. Subsections with details: Ironworks, Segment, Rollers and Carriages, Anchors, Caps to Meeting-posts and Heelposts, Pivot-plate, Socket-plates, The-Plates, Screw-eyes, Footpath, Crabs for Opening and Closing the Gates, Capstans, Rollers, Chains, Pointing-sill. Sluices. The numbers and places of the Sluices to the Locks are shown on Drawings Nos. 1 and 2, and the details of the one Sluice on Drawing No.8. Bridge over Communication Lock. The Site of the Lifting Bridge over the Communication Lock is shown upon Drawing No. 2, and the Details upon Nos. 10 and 11. Subsections with details: Machinery, Roadway, Footpaths, Covering-plates, Railing. Foot Bridge across Entrance Lock. The Site of the Foot Bridge over the Entrance Lock is shown upon Drawing No.1, and the Details upon Drawing No.9. Subsection with details: Machinery. Work Generally. Subsections with details: Cast Iron, Wrought Iron, Brass Work, Painting and Tarring.
[Ref: 11312] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

Bramber on the South Downs. [in pencil]
R. Cresswell Boak. [in pencil]
[n.d.c.1920]
Etching with beautiful hand colour, plate 100 x 145 (4 x 5¾") with very large margins. Pinholes and leftover tape in margins.
Sheep graze on the rolling hill landscape of Bramber, near Shoreham, West Sussex Robert Cresswell Boak (1875-1949) was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He then turned to teaching art for a short time in Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire before making the decision to devote all of his time to his own work
[Ref: 58640] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Ploughing on the South Downs]
N.H [in image] Norman Hirst pinx. et sculp [in pencil].
Copyright. Published August 1.st 1924 by Vicars Brothers.12. Old Bond St. London
Mezzotint, 200 x 275mm (8 x10¾"). Taped into original mount at one corner.
A rural landscape; a farmer ploughs a field with a team of oxen. Norman Hirst (1862-1956), mezzotinter and etcher. Born at Liverpool, Hirst was a student at Leeds, Lucerne and in Germany, where he began to engrave in 1875. He subsequently worked at Bushey, Christchurch and Langport, Somerset, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1890 to 1929. Along with distinguished contemporaries such as Frank Short and Seymour Haden, Hirst was a member of the Society of Mezzotint Engravers, founded in 1898.
Ex Collection Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 62592] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Map of South-Eastern Asia and Northern Australia. Showing The Districts in Annam and Tonquin which France proposes to annex and to place under a Protectorate, The portion of New Guinea proposed to be acquired by Queensland, And the Districts affected by the Volcanic Eruptions in Java.
Supplement to the Graphic, September 22.nd 1883.
Letts Son & Co. Limited London.
Map. Sheet: 420 x 620mm (16½ x 24½"). Cental crease as issued. Foxing.
A map of South East Asia, showing France's proposed annexation of Vietnam, completed the following year. It marks the colonies of the other European powers and shows the routes of the telegraph cables.
[Ref: 47050] £230.00

Lauw Maands Herdenking, wegens de nieuwbakk Goude Eeuw, vertoverd in Paarde Vygen. Nieuw-Jaars Geschenk [New Year's Gift!]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving 18th century watermark Plate: 295 x 190mm (11½ x 7½'') very large margins.
A Dutch print satirising the mania following the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and other investment schemes. In the central image the a nymph and a satyr, the symbol of chaos and panic, are shown embracing. The central panel is surrounded by text and a decorative border, this is made up of Callot figures and dwarfs.
BM Satire 1679.
[Ref: 48331] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Het uitgeteerde en stervende Actie boomje. Schoon de eid le Hoop nog hoopt, het actie boomtre sterst, Zo dra zyn voedzel van den win en dwaasheid derst.
[Pieter van den Berge?]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13'') very large margins. Creasing as issued. Tear in text.
A Dutch print satirising the collapse of financial markets following the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The central image shows a putto standing in near a tree which represents trade. The text below the image translates as 'Though the vain Hope still shopes, the little tree dies when it derives its nutrition from the wind and foolishness'. Five columns of text flank the image.
[Ref: 48327] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

De stervende Bubbel-Heer in den schoot van Madame Compagnie.
[Filibert Bouttats the Younger.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 325 x 410mm (12¾ x 16''), with large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch print satirising the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and other speculations schemes. In the central image a speculator collapses on the floor and he is surrounded by angry men and women. Two panels of text flank the central image.
BM Satire 1615.
[Ref: 48321] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[South Sea Bubble.] De Stropende Actie-Valk Om Hals, En't Bubbel-Rotje onder de klaauwen van den Uil.
Anon.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 410 x 330mm (16 x 13''). Tears in edge.
A Dutch print satirising the speculation that caused the stock market crash following the South Sea Bubble. In the engraving a young couple walk in the countryside while above them a stork pierces an eagle and an owl and bird of prey devour a mouse.
[Ref: 48317] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Het hobbelend Actiescheepje van Madame Compagnie en Monsieur Bubbels
[Pieter van den Berge.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 410 x 325mm (16 x 12¾'') large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch satirical print satirising the stock market crash following the South Sea Bubble, the broadside claims that when the economy and trade are out of control then disaster will occur. The text below the image translates as ''The little trading ship knocked over on the billows, will bubble along, until it will sail into the abyss"
[Ref: 48318] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Harlekin en Bombario in den Rouw.
[Anon.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13'') very large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch broadside satirising the financial crisis caused by the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. The central image is set upon a stage on which the characters of Harlequin and Bombario watch the figure of Mercury, representing trade, being directed by the Devil. Three panels of text in Dutch flank the image.
[Ref: 48323] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Schyn Bedriegt.
[Anon.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13'') very large margins. Creasing as issued and staining.
A Dutch print satirising the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and the financial crisis created by speculation. In the image figures try to catch bubbles floating above their heads while in the distance a ship can be seen sinking at sea. The Dutch text below is signed Philadelphus which is a pseudonym Gijsbert Tijseus.
[Ref: 48322] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

De Bubbel Jonge op de Jagt. De bubbel Jongen die zyn schat ten heeft verspild, Tragt nu naar voordeel, met het Jagen van groswild.
[Pieter van den Berge.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 415 x 330mm (16¼ x 13'') very large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch broadside satirising the financial crisis following the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. In the central image a young man hunts a unicorn and lion, the text below the image translates as 'The boy who's wasted his fortunes now tries to profit by hunting big game'. The image is flanked by five panels of text.
[Ref: 48324] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bronwater of geneesmiddel voor de zieke Actionisten. Al wie zyn maag te veel met d'Acties heeft belaan. Proest deez vergetelbeek; zo zal zyn kwaal vergaan.
[Pieter van den Berge?]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside 18th century watermark. Sheet: 415 x 320mm (16¼ x 12½'') very large margins. Creasing.
A Dutch broadside satirising the aftermath of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. The print states that forgetfullness is the best cure for those suffering after the financial crisis. The image shows a putti standing in a magical fountain, the text below the image translates as 'Everyone who has loaded their stomach with transactions too much, taste this well of forgetfullmess so his ailment shall perish'.
[Ref: 48325] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A True Picture of the Famous Skreen describ'd in the Lond.n Journ.l n.o 85. & multis alys.
Picart Amst.dam fe
[n.d. c.1721]
Engraving, 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7), with large margins on three sides. Small bottom margin. Foxing.
A close copy of BM Satires 1710. Picart's name may have been added intentionally to mislead because of the contentious political subject matter. A satirical depiction exposing how those in power concealed their involvement in the South Sea Bubble and other financial scandals. The scene is set in a grand room with tall windows and a mirror, much of it hidden by a large screen. Behind the screen, several shadowy figures appear three men on the left, one holding a staff of office, and a woman on the right clenching her fist, with the shadows of other women visible near a map of Antwerp. The screen itself is decorated with eight symbolic scenes: a criminal being flogged at the Moenian column, Roger Bacon’s brazen head, a Roman accepting a bribe, the dying figure of Britannia, a criminal hurled from the Tarpeian rock, the murder of Jan and Cornelis de Wit, a gallows on Tower Hill, and the fallen personification of London stabbed in the breast.
BM Satires 1711.
[Ref: 67418] £380.00

[South Sea Bubble.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate: 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11''). Central crease as normal, slight staining.
A Dutch satirical print commenting on the South Sea Bubble through a series of 17th century characters.
[Ref: 48553] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

De stropende actie-valk, om hals, en 't bubbel-rotje onder de klaauwen van den uil.
[Amsterdam, 1720.]
Engraving. 135 x 135mm (5¼ x 5¼"), set in letterpress Paper slit in letterpress.
'The strapping share-hawk pierced and the bubble rat between the claws of the owl', a satire on the South Sea Bubble. A man and a woman out hawking, but their hawk has been speared by the beak of the stork it is trying to kill. Underneath, a rat is being torn apart by an owl and a falcon. The extensive verse satirises the speculation that led to the stock market crash. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 35867] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Register van alle de Printen die op de Actiehandel zyn uyt gekomen in Jaar 1720.
[1720.]
Letterpress. Plate: 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8'') very large margins. Staining and repaired tears.
Satire on the financial crisis in Paris in 1720; showing an engraved register in two columns with the title above in a scroll hold by a monkey and a owl. The border is decorated with items concerning the 'Wind Trade', such as bellows, fish and cabbage, the register describes 65 prints. From 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid'.
BM Satire 1636.
[Ref: 48330] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

By veele zit de kei in 't hooft om dat men in de wind gelooft.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Copper engraving. 310 x 390mm, 12¼ x 15¼". Split in centre fold repaired.
A broadside on the South Sea Bubble, the excessive speculation compared to various cures for bizarre illnesses which include boulders in or at people's bodies, in particular at the forehead; with an etching showing various scenes of ill people and their treatment, at the top centre is Bombario (a hunchbacked usurer) extracting worthless stones from the anus of a dead man with a stock certificate in his hand; with engraved title and various sets of inscribed verses. 'Derived from a Dutch saying 'de Kei in het hoofd hebben' (to have a cobble stone in your head) which means 'being crazy'. The remedy, applied in the middle ages, was to cut out the cobble stone from the head.' See British Museum:1907,0117.1
From the Norman Blackburn collection.
[Ref: 22115] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

De Kornet van Vuil gewin of Wortel en Besse Postiljon...
[1720.]
Engraving. Plate: 345 x 275mm (13½ x 11'') very large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A Dutch satirical print commenting on the disaterous effects of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. One figure is shown digging up carrots, one drunkard rides a pig which, like the cow in the foreground, vomits stock certificates. A large house in the background has a large flag which states 'De Kompany is vol' or 'The Company is closed'. This refers to the East India Company which had been hit hard by the market collapse.
[Ref: 48333] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

De Wintgot, Uytgebuldert Hebben de Laat Niet dan Rampen Na.
[1720.]
Engraving. Plate: 170 x 285mm (6¾ x 11¼'') very large margins. Creasing and repaired tear on right.
A Dutch print satirising the South Sea Bubble or 'trading in the wind' as it was known in the Netherlands. In the centre a figure sits on a grindstone to the left a figure deficates bills, to the right a rabbit walks to the centre covered in paperwork and to the right of him one man blows hot air into the mouth of another. Above all the figures the God of the Winds sits in a cloud with Mercury, representing trade, at his feet.
[Ref: 48335] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Law, als een tweede Don Quichot, op Sanches Graauwtje zit ten spot...
[Anon.]
[1720.]
Enrgaving 18th century watermark. Plate: 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼'') very large margins. Creasing and staining.
A Dutch print satirising the financial effect of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Bubble. The scene shows Controller General of the Finances of France, John Law, riding on a donkey which is being fired at by a deamon. Scores of men pull the donkey into a building labelled 'Quinquenpoix' which was the street on which the Compagnie des Indes was located. Behind the donkey a crowd of men chase after.
[Ref: 48334] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

De Zuid Zé Compagnie Door Wind In Top Gerezen...
[Anon.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside 18th century watermark. Plate: 335 x 300mm (13¼ x 12''), with large margins. Creasing as normal.
A Dutch print satirising the South Sea Bubble and the South Sea Company. A reclining woman, representing the Company lies surrounded by ledgers and papers, around the central image are vignettes, one shows a man on a platform eating money, the others show figures engaging in trade.
BM Satire 1630.
[Ref: 48338] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten.
[Anon.]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 410 x 320mm (16 x 12½'') large margins. Creasing as issued.
A Dutch satirical broadside commenting on the share trade mania of the South Sea Bubble. A central image shows a man in rags on the edge of committing suicide while the figure of Reason stands to the left of him.
BM Satire 1674.
[Ref: 48319] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Natural Stock Doctor, or bubbling Bubble Master.] Natuur Actie-Doctor of klap-achtig Bobbel Meester. [&] [Directress of the decayed Stock-Regiments, and particularly of natural Law's Shares.] Directrice der Vervalle Actie-Regimenten; en byzonderlyk van Natuurlyke Lawe Actien.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13''). Creasing and large repaired tears. Very damaged.
A portrait of an old dwarf with a beard and spectacles holding a parrot and a portrait of an old woman holding a small dog. Plate 3 and 4 from 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', a series of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea Companies, their promoters and victims.
BM Satire 1665 & 1666.
[Ref: 48328] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Eere-Titel, of Gordyn voor het Schouburg aller Actie-Tafereelen...
[Anon.]
[1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 510 x 440mm (20 x 17¼'') very large margins. Creasing as normal.
A Dutch print satirising the South Sea Bubble, in the central image shows an old man holding a mirror up to a young man who points at a globe. The image is decorated with an ornate border with Callot figures. Beneath the image are four columns of text in Dutch.
BM Satire 1638.
[Ref: 48340] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

De Verslagen Actionist in de Stoel met Rinkels, overreeden geweest van't gelauwerd Paard van Troje.
[Anon.]
[1720.]
Broadside. 18th century watermark. Plate: 330 x 390mm (13 x 15½'') very large margins Creasing as normal.
A Dutch print satirising the aftermath of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. The scene shows figures dealing with the financial loss, one figure lies dead on the ground, one is shown pulling at his hair which is made of snakes, in the front a cat deficates and a headless chicken runs about.
BM Satire 1660.
[Ref: 48341] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Des kladpapieren waerelds vuur in as verkeerd.
[Amsterdam, 1720.]
Engraving with very large margins, 18th century watermark. 315 x 390mm (12½ x 15¼"). Folded as issued.
'The world of waste paper is burned to ashes', a satire on the South Sea Bubble. The oval central image shows a group containing kings, churchmen, rich & poor surrounding a globe. The four corner images are: (TL) the death of Adonis; (TR) the death of Bacchus; (BL) King Midas sitting at a table with his food turning into gold; and (BR) a rich man sitting with his valuables on a table as a skeletal Death takes his hand. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 35864] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

De Kornet van Vuil gewin of Wortel en Besse Postiljon op zyn mager doch niewlijks gemest Varken uitschreeuwende De Kompany is Vol.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Etching with small margins. Platemark: 340 x 275mm (13¼ x 10¾"). Slight loss in corners outside platemark.
A satire on the South Sea Bubble financial crisis in Paris in 1720 showing 'Bombario' riding on a pig. 'Bombario' is from the Dutch saying 'Bombarie maken' or 'Bombarie slaan', meaning to make a commotion or a lot of noise, and is often depicted in Dutch satirical prints dealing with the financial crisis of 1720/21. 'Bombario' has thrown a rope around the horns of a cow, standing in a pool, and tries to pull the cow out.. In the left background a crowd is standing underneath the windows of a house. From the window a person is throwing paper into the crowd. The banner hanging from the window reads 'De Kompany is Vol'. Dutch verse in two columns is inscribed below. From the series entitled, 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', meaning 'The Great Scene of Folly', published 1720.
[Ref: 35743] £520.00

De Verslagen Actionist in de Stoel met Rinkels, overreeden geweest van't gelauwerd Paard van Troje.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Etching, rare. Sheet size: 320 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate. Slight creasing.
A satire on the South Sea Bubble financial crisis in 1720. A scene in the clouds with groups of people and animals accompanied by numbers and texts. In the centre for example, is a windmill, lettered '1720', in front of which an investor wearing a fool's cap is seated in a child's wheeled chair blowing bubbles. On his head is a raven about to peck out his eyes and beside him stands his distraught wife and three ragged children quarrelling. The illustrations are numbered 1-12, with inscriptions in four columns below in Dutch. From the series entitled, 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', meaning 'The Great Scene of Folly', published 1720.
[Ref: 35746] £620.00

De Malle Actionisten naar Vianen of 't Peperland.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Etching with small margins, very rare. Platemark: 310 x 395mm (12¼ x 15½"). Two small tears in lower margin. Some creasing verso.
A satire on the South Sea Bubble financial crisis in 1720 showing a coach drawn by four horses. The coach is driven by a Harlequin and five men are sitting in the coach. On the back there sits Bombario (a hunchbacked usuror) blowing bubbles. 'Bombario' is from the Dutch saying 'Bombarie maken' or 'Bombarie slaan', meaning to make a commotion or a lot of noise, and is often depicted in Dutch satirical prints dealing with the financial crisis of 1720/21. On the top of the coach sits a monkey who is holding a banner with inscription 'Zie zo Zie zo Bombario in Apery en folio' (See here, see here Bombario in monkeybusiness and folio). In the background there are two cities with the inscriptions 'Vianen' and 'Kuilenburg'. Below the design is an engraved Dutch verse in three columns. From the series entitled, 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', meaning 'The Great Scene of Folly', published 1720.
[Ref: 35749] £620.00

De vervallen actionisten, hersteld, door den triompheerden Arlequin.
[Amsterdam, 1720.]
Engraving with very large margins. 285 x 360mm (11¼ x 14¼"). Folded as issued.
'The ruined share-holders restored by the triumphant Harlequin', a satire on the South Sea Bubble. Harlequin dispenses papers from a carriage. Mercury gestures towards trade goods but the man next to him seems more interested in Harlequin's papers. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 35871] £320.00

Het uitgeteerde en stervende actie boomtje.
[Amsterdam, 1720.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), set in letterpress Folded as issued.
'The tree of shares withering and dying', a satire on the South Sea Bubble. Three putti holding anchors stand before a bare tree, representing dying trade. The engraved text translates as 'Though the vain Hope still hopes, the little trade tree dies, when it deprives its nutrition from the wind and foolishness'. The British Museum gives a tentative attribution to Pieter van den Berge, based on broadsides in similar style. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 35869] £320.00

Vonnis van Apol over de bubbels.
[Amsterdam, 1720.]
Engraving with very large margins. 285 x 360mm (11¼ x 14¼"). Folded as issued.
'Apollo's verdict on the stock-jobbers', a satire on the South Sea Bubble. Apollo passes judgement on the financially ruined investors and dealers by the Bubble, showing them being punished by Hercules and sent to Hades. Harlequin on right sitting on throne. Published in 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid' (The Picture of Stupidity), a collection of satires on financial bubbles.
[Ref: 35870] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

South Sea House. Dividend Hall.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculp.t. Sutherland aqua.t.
London. Pub. Feb 1, 1810 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Coloured aquatint. 225 x 270mm. 9¾ x 10½".
The Foundling Hospital in Guildford Street. It was founded in 1742 by Captain Thomas Coram, whose friends included William Hogarth (later a governor of the institution) and Handel (who donated an organ to the chapel and gave performances of the 'Messiah' on it, raising £7,000). Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 11445] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

South Sea House. Dividend Hall.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculp.t. Sutherland aqua.t.
London. Pub. Feb 1, 1810 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Coloured aquatint. 225 x 270mm (9¾ x 10½"), with large margins
"The hall, in which dividends are paid, is a spaciou room," Ackermann wrote, "and finished in a style of no common elegance, as seen in the plate which represents it." The British South Sea Company was an investment company that specialized in international trade. Well-dressed men and women check their accounts in Dividend Hall at the British South Sea Company in London. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 61946] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Off the Cape in 40° South. Sighting an Iceberg.
[Lithographed by John Corbett Anderson after Charles Richard Francis?]
[Croydon: J.C.Anderson, 1859.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 10") very large margins
From 'To India and Back by the Cape by a Traveller' by C.R. Francis.
Abbey 524.
[Ref: 58020] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Off the Cape in 40° South. Sighting an Iceberg.
[Lithographed by John Corbett Anderson after Charles Richard Francis?]
[Croydon: J.C.Anderson, 1859.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 10"). Damp stain in top right corner of margin.
From 'To India and Back by the Cape by a Traveller' by C.R. Francis.
Abbey 524.
[Ref: 11798] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Sketches of Scenery in South Wales. By G: O: Delamotte.
Printed at Moser's Lithographic Press No 4 Greenland Place, Cromer Str.t, Brunswick Square, London [n.d., c.1820].
Oblong folio, printed wrappers; 6 lithographs, each sheet 285 x 445mm (11¼ x 17½"), very large margins Wrappers distressed.
One part of Delamotte's 'Sketches', with views of Margham (2), Swansea Ferry, Britonferry (2) and Dunraven Castle. George Orleans Delamotte ( 1809 - 1821; fl.), artist and teacher, son of a French refugee. His brother was William Alfred Delamotte (1775-1863), drawing-master at the Sandhurst Military Academy. His son Philip was a photography pioneer.
Not in Abbey. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51166] £480.00 view all images for this item

Ske[tches of ]Scenery in South Wales. By G: O: Delamotte.
Printed at Moser and Harris's Lithographic Press No 71 Cromer Str.t, Brunswick Square, London [n.d., c.1820].
Oblong folio; 6 lithographs with partial wrapper, each sheet 285 x 445mm (11¼ x 17½"), with large margins.
One part of Delamotte's 'Sketches', with views of Aberdylis, Melincourt, Ysgwd yr Rhyd, Ysgwd Inon Cam, Entrance to Porth yr Ogof Caveer and Kil Hepsti. George Orleans Delamotte ( 1809 - 1821; fl.), artist and teacher, son of a French refugee. His brother was William Alfred Delamotte (1775-1863), drawing-master at the Sandhurst Military Academy. His son Philip was a photography pioneer.
Not in Abbey. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51167] £350.00 view all images for this item

Richmond Lodge, Southampton.
1841.
Watercolour in sepia tones. Sheet size: 255 x 360mm (10 x 14"). Removed from backing sheet. Missing lower right corner detached.
A fine watercolour view of Richmond Lodge, Southampton, with surrounding gardens. The high level of skill and accuracy of the painting would suggest that it was made by an architect.
[Ref: 37745] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[View near Southampton.] [pencil lower right.]
Oct. 5 1808 [pencil lower right.]
Pencil. 165 x 250mm (6½ x 9¾").
Three ships at a small dock in Hampshire, near Southampton. Inscribed on mount in pencil "Attributed by previous owner to Samuel Prout".
[Ref: 30988] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Victoria Spa & Assembly Rooms, Southampton.
Brannon del et sculp.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving. 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Stitch holes at top, stains.
The exterior of the Royal Victoria Spa, with a fountain and a train in the background. The Assembly Rooms were built in 1830 and demolished in 1959. The Southampton and New Forest Archery Club used the grounds.
[Ref: 58562] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Southampton & Salisbury Canal Company's Security.
J. Puke fe. N.º 38 Southampton Buildings London.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 55 x 60mm (2¼ x 2½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
The logo of the Southampton & Salisbury Canal Company, founded c.1794 to build part of a canal linking Bristol and Southampton. Like many schemes of the period, it was never completed and investors lost a huge amount of money.
[Ref: 62425] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Radley's Hotel [Opposite the Railway Station and Docks] Southampton. Edwd Radley Proprietor, Wine And Spirit Merchant. Homeward Bound Passengers can have rooms retained by a Letter from Malta.
Day & Son, Lithrs. To the Queen, London.
Very fine tinted lithograph 450 x 285mm
[Ref: 370] £380.00

Southern Hemisphere.
Kirkwood Sculp.t.
[Drawn and Engaved for John Thomson & Co's New General Atlas 12 August 1814.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. Early example before the publication line, on paper watermarked 'J. Whatman 1811'. 570 x 520mm, 22½ x 20½". Creased.
A circular map of the Southern Hemisphere.
[Ref: 25645] £260.00

Southern Hemisphere. Pinkerton's Modern Atlas.
Drawn under the direction of Mr Pinkerton by L. Herbert.
London Published August 31st 1812 by Cadell & Davies, [...]
Engraved map with original hand colour, printed on J. Whatman 1810 watermarked paper. Sheet 550 x 790mm, 21¾ x 31". Trimmed into publication line, split in centrefold, tear in margin.
A circular map of the Southern Hemisphere.
[Ref: 25647] £260.00

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