Grosvenor Prints

[Fireworks at Strasbourg] Représentation des Edifices et Decorations Elevés, et du Feu d'Artifice exécuté le 5 Octobre 1744 sous le bon plaisir et en presence de Sa Majesté Louis XV, par les Ordres du Magestrat de Strasbourg, sur la Riviere d'Ill, et en façe du Palais Episcopal où Sa Majesté.
Inventé dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis Graveur de la Ville de Strasbourg. Gravé par J.B. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy.
[n.d., c.1745]
Etching. 450 x 770mm (17¾ x 30¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark and centrefold margin repaired, faint damp stain affecting margin and title area on left.
A massive fireworks display outside the Episcopal Palace, Strasbourg, with spectators lining the river. In 1744 Louis XIV travelled to Germany to join his army fighting the War of the Austrian Succession. He fell ill, so gravely that his chaplain could blackmail Louis into giving up his mistress before receiving absolution. When he recovered a five-day party was held, with the events recorded in 'Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi, à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville', with this being plate 5 of 11.
[Ref: 54038] £650.00

Straelzondt, een wytberoemde en machtige stadt in Pomeren. Stralsunda, urbs potentissima et celeberrima in Pomerania.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼").
Stralsund, in northern Germany, showing a large windmill & gardens. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 28703] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Stratford upon Avon. The grave of Shakespeare is situated between the windows seen in the chuch. ''His good remembrance lies richer in your thoughts, than on his tomb.''
G.F. Robson del.t. W.J. Bennett sculp.t.
London Published Jan.y 20, 1822, by S. & I. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, rare. Sheet: 500 x 400mm (19¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate. Marking in margins.
A moonlit scene in looking up the Avon to the church at Stratford-on-Avon where William Shakespeare is buried.
[Ref: 44880] £350.00

Stratford on Avon. The Home of Shakspeare [sic].
Published by Rock & Co. London. [c.1865.]
Attractive souvenir booklet of six steel engraved views, oblong 12mo, stitched into original printed card wrappers; embossed upper cover. Binding scuffed and rubbed, upper cover with large chip.
No text save captions; all plates numbered, five dated.
[Ref: 18574] £90.00 view all images for this item

The House at Stratford on Avon, in which Shakespeare was born.
Drawn on Stone by N. Whittock Oxford. Printed by Redman, London.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾"), with good margins.
The 16th-century half-timbered house on Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, believed to be William Shakespeare's birth place. An early British lithograph. David J. Redman was a former employee of Georg Johann Vollweiler, who sold the secret of lithography to Colonel John Brown in 1807. Redman's plan of Bantry Bay of 1808 is the earliest known lithographic map.
[Ref: 31023] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon.] 18. [This building is a double two-storey gabled house. The room in which Shakespeare was born overlooks the street. The house once contained sixteen rooms, although now the attic floors have been removed to make room for a museum containing relics and documents relating to Shakespeare. The house is typical of those occupied by well-to-do tradesmen in the sixteenth century. The eastern portion was purchased by John Shakespear, the father, in 1556; the western half, which contains the room in which Shakespeare was born, was not purchased until 1575, although occupied by the family some years earlier. On his death, Shakespeare left the house to his sister, Joan Hart, and it remained in the possession of the Hart family until 1808, when it was purchased by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust In 1857-8 the Trustees carefully restored the building as nearly as possible to its original condition. The house has been a place of pilgrimage for thousands of visitors, and in the room in which the poet was born may be seen many signatures on the walls and windows, including those of Kean, Thackeray, Dickins and Sir Walter Scott. Nearly 150,000 persons visit this buidling annually, including many Americans.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Ethcing. 254 x 282mm. 10 x 11¼".
[Ref: 14606] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Grammar School, Stratford-on-Avon.] 23. [The Grammar School at Stratford-on-Avon is situated in the upper floor of the Guildhall. It was here that Shakespeare was educated, and it has been suggested that it was in the hall below that he had his first introduction to the drama, when it was visited by companies of strolling players. John Shakespeare, his father, was the High Bailiff (1569). The School was originally the School of the Guild of the Holy Cross, and as early as the reign of Edward I, this was a flourishing society associated for mutual benefit-religion, social and educational work. It was founded by Thomas Jolyffe centuries before the inhabitants obtained a Charter for the transference of the estates of the Guild to themselves. It is sometimes miscalled King Edward VI. School. The building was constructed in 1473, and was used for meetings of the Corporation down to 1842. Behind the Guildhall is the former "Pedagogue's House," now school-rooms, which was built about 1428.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 281 x 259mm. 11 x 10¼".
[Ref: 14611] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Harvard House.] 22. [Harvard House in the High Street of Stratford-on-Avon was the home of Katherine Rogers, afterwards Harvard, the founder of the American University of that name. It was carefully restored in 1909. Beneath the front window are inscribed the initials of Thomas and Alice Roger, parents of Katherine Rogers. Apart from its associations for Americans, the house is remarkable as a very fine and ornate example of late Elizabethan timber-work, anticipating the style known as Jacobean. The entire front is covered with a profusion of carved ornament, to such an extent that little of the timber frame has been left plain. Above the bracket heads on the ground floor is the carving of a female head, somewhat mutilated, and possibly intended to be Queen Elizabeth. Other parts of the house are of later date, a fire in 1595 having destroyed parts of it. The upstairs parlous is notable for beautiful oak panelling and for its period furniture.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 285 x 252mm. 11¼ x 10".
[Ref: 14610] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Shakespeare's Birthplace.]
W H Sweet [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, 170 x 270mm. 6¾ x 10½".
Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house in Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years. It is now a small museum open to the public and a popular visitor attraction, owned and managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Walter Henry Sweet (1889-1943), prolific Devon artist who painted street scenes, moorland views and seascapes. With Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp to lower margin.
[Ref: 27383] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Hathaway's Cottage.] The Cottage at Shottery, near Stratford-Upon-Avon, Where Shakespeare wooed and won his wife, Anne Hathaway; Whose Name Has Suggested the Following Exquisite Jeu de Mots.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Broadside, woodcut and letterpress on blue paper. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Small stain at top edge, corners chipped.
A flyer for visitors to Anne Hathaway's cottage, Stratford-on-Avon. The 'Jeu de Mots' is a pun on Anne's name, ''Anne hath a way'.
[Ref: 61089] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Strath-naver, Sutherlandshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. May, 1, 1820.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman. 1819'. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A view of the mouth of the River Naver, and Loch Naver in Torrisdale Bay, Scotland. Small boats can be seen laying out netting to the left, with a number of fisherman inspecting their catch on the shore. The River Naver is the largest river in Sutherland, famous for Salmon fishing. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36072] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[General Tom Thumb, in his carriage.]
[Dean & C.o Threadneedle S.t][n.d. c.1845]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 175 x 260mm (6¾ x 10¼") Trimmed and glued to scrapbook paper. Some surface dirt.
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 -1883), better known by his stage name ''General Tom Thumb'' in one of his custom built carriages, drawn by ponies, the coachmen children. Onlookers watch amused. Stratton often rode around in his carriage in the cities he was performing in as advertising.
See rference 61738 fro framed version.
[Ref: 58569] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his Character as Napoleon is 12 Years Old. 25 Inches High and Weighs 15 Pounds. Gen. Tom. Thumb.
London J.T. Wood, 33, Holywell Str. Strand. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Bit messy, 'E.B.J.' in ms lower left.
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), known on the stage as General Tom Thumb, was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
[Ref: 37654] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

General Tom Thumb, in his carriage.
[Dean & C.o Threadneedle S.t][n.d. c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 220 x 270mm (8¾ x 10½") Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line. Unexamined out of frame.
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 -1883), better known by his stage name ''General Tom Thumb'' in one of his custom built carriages, drawn by ponies, the coachmen children. Onlookers watch amused. Stratton often rode around in his carriage in the cities he was performing in as advertising.
See reference 58569 for unframed version.
[Ref: 61738] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his Character as Napoleon, is 12 Years Old. 25 Inches High and Weighs 15 Pounds.
London J.T. Wood, 33, Holywell Str. Strand. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), known on the stage as General Tom Thumb, was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
[Ref: 48993] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton known as General Tom Thumb, the American in Miniature. [Facimile signature.] Born Jan.y 11th 1832. He is smaller than any infant that ever walked alone, is 25 inches in height and weeights only 15 Pounds!
Baugniet 1844. Baugniet lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Creasing in text at bottom. Trimmed
A portrait of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-83), aged 14. Known as General Tom Thumb, he was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
[Ref: 60364] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles S. Stratton, General Tom Thumb.] [Le General Tom Pouce.] d'après nature.
F. Grenier. [Imp Lemercier R. de Seine, 57 à Paris.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph with some hand colour. Sheet 255 x 340mm (10 13½"). Trimmed, losing title, repaired tear, some soiling.
The American dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 - 1883) in front of a coach presented to him by Queen Victoria during his visit to England during the 1840s, complete with ponies and boy coachman and footman. Standing by Stratton's side is the archetypal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Stratton's patron. By François Grenier (1793 - 1867), painter, lithographer, pupil of David and Guérin.
[Ref: 58043] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Eduard Strauss.
Vanity Fair, August 29 1895, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Chromolithograph, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10").
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), conductor and composer. The third son of Johann Strauss the Elder, Eduard wrote over 320 orchestral dances and marches.
[Ref: 41392] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Fig 1 Pasmore's Patent Machine for cutting Straw. Fig 2 Pasmore's Patent Mill for splitting Beans, crushing Barley, Oats, Malt &c
[c.1810]
Engraving, sheet 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½").
Agricultural machinery designed by Thomas Pasmore of Doncaster to cut straw for cattle and crush grain. Probably published in an agricultural magazine.
[Ref: 43689] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Strawberries. Covent Garden.
[London: Richard Phillips, 1808.]
Coloured engraving with very large margins. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"), watermarked 1808. With text sheet.
A woman with a basket of strawberries on her head, handing out a portion in a 'pottle', a conical wicker basket, at sixpence a pottle plus a penny deposit for the bottle. Published in 'Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis'.
[Ref: 34001] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Strawberry Girl.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Tho.s Watson.
Publish'd Nov 1st 1774 for W.Shropshire, No. 158 & T.Watson, No 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), very large margins.
Portrait of Theophilia Gwatkin (1782-1844). Her mother, also Theophilia (neé Palmer 1757-1848), was the niece of Reynolds and also modelled for him.
Goodwin, 52, iii of iv. CS 43, ii of iii. See [Ref: 66380]. See also [Ref: 68019], [Ref: 68022] & [Ref: 68020] for Theophilia Palmer.
[Ref: 61380] £370.00

The Cottage at Strawberry Hill [Reversed.].
J.B. del. John Watts Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Sepia aquatint. 125 x 165mm. Narrow margins, laid on card.
All the lettering is reversed.
[Ref: 3406] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Farm Yard and Printing House at Strawberry Hill. the Seat of the Hon. H. Walpole.
Drawn and Etch'd by E. Edwards.A. Engrav'd in Aquatinta by F. Jukes.
London Published as the Act directs [n.d., c.1790.]
Etching and aquatint with original hand colour, image 180 x 232mm. Trimmed to image top and sides.
View in the grounds of the fancifully 'Gothic' villa of Horace Walpole, a folly which he purchased in 1748 and rebuilt in stages to his own specifications, expanding the little property from five acres to forty-six over the years. Walpole built the Printing House in 1757. In September 1759 he wrote to the Earl of Strafford “…I have begun to build a new printing-house, that the old one may make room for the Gallery and Round Tower.” It was finished at the end of October when he wrote again to Strafford “My new printing-house is finished, in order to pull down the old one, and lay the foundations next summer of my round tower.” It was in use by the end of the following May. Although it possessed no Gothic features, it was probably the most important building as it was the headquarters of Walpole’s private press, “the Offinia Arbuteana or the Strawberry Hill Press.” The first book issued from the press was an edition of the Odes of Thomas Gray (1757), Walpole’s old schoolfriend. Amongst Walpole’s own works printed here were the Mysterious Mother (1768), a blank-verse drama, and the Essay on Modern Gardening (1785). A work particularly important for its documentary value was issued from the press in 1774. This was Walpole’s 'Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham, with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities etc'. The 'Description' was subsequently revised and reprinted in 1784, accompanied by engravings.
[Ref: 8004] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Stray'd Child Restored. L'Enfant Retrouvé.
Painted by J. Ward. Engraved by S. Young.
London, Published May 20. 1798. by S. Morgan, 216 Holborn.
Mezzotint. 600 x 485mm (23½ x 19"), with very large margins.
The second of a pair of images depicting the loss and then rediscovery of a child, after 'The Stray'd Child'. The child is handed back into her mother's arms while her father looks to the heavens, relieved, and two older girls rush around overjoyed. In the street behind them figures continue about their business.
[Ref: 56762] £320.00

Yours sincerely Tho.s Streatfeild of Chart's Edge.
Painted & Drawn on Stone by Herbert L. Smith. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on chine collé. 460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Backing paper torn and soiled.
Rev Thomas Streatfeild (1777-1848), an antiquarian whose 50 volumes of writings on the history of Kent (now in the BM) resulted in only one published volume, The History of Blackheath, for which he executed several wood engravings. Chart's Edge was the house he designed and built in Westerham.
[Ref: 48446] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord William Russell, Streatham Surry.
Drawn & Engraved by J. Hassell.
London Pub.d by J. Hassell 1st. May 1804
Engraving, platemark 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾") very large margins.
The seat of William Russell on Streatham High Road, with St Leonard's church on the left. The house was later demolished and the site is now occupied by the English Martyrs Catholic Church. Streatham is now part of the south London borough of Lambeth but formerly in the county of Surrey. Plate from a set of 'Notable English Places' by John Hassell (1767-1825) showing notable residences in and around London. The text which accompanies the plate in the full volume notes: 'the house appears to have undergone a total change in its external form, about the beiginning of the last century, and is now receiving considerable additions and improvements, from its present proprietor, Lord William Russelll, to whom it was presented by his brother, the late Francis Duke of Bedford, during his life-time.'
For a complete volume of 'Notable English Places' see ref. 7430.
[Ref: 44480] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Street Scene by Night.]
Pauline Baumann [pencil signature.]
[British, c.1930s.]
Scarce lithograph on laid paper, image 315 x 250mm.
A night view of a busy building where the viewer sees all the activity in the lighted rooms above the commercial premises below. Two women walking along the poorly illuminated pavement seem exagerated in size compared to the hairdresser's window the pass. The artist appears not to have made many prints but was known as a painter, printmaker and teacher. Baumann was particularly noted for her etchings, engravings and lithographs and lived in London where she studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Arts. Her work is represented in the collection of the Museum of London.
See Guichard: Appendix 1, p.70: "Baumann, Miss C.A.P."
[Ref: 18841] £480.00

[Strength] La Force. R 10.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), centred around an elephant.
[Ref: 59584] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Strephon & Chloe.
J.Bretherton f. New Bond Street No.134. Mr.Bunbury del.
Publish'd 28th Nov. 1772
Etching in outline. 280 x 220mm. Very small margins.
BM Satire 4755.
[Ref: 1086] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Strephon & Myra. O Myra, Why_ Are you so shy!_Thou nature's best invention! [/] Your Stephron sues, _Can you refuse_To yild to his pretention.
Published 26 Nov.r. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Stipple. Sheet: 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Scene set within an oval in which a young man leans over a reclining woman while holding her face in his hands. Strephon is the name often given to the lover in pastoral verse, a genre which flourished during th 18th Century, while the name Myra is also a name of poetic invention. The manner in which Strephon holds Myra and leans over her is slightly unsettling, which along with the verse beneath which lacks much of the idealism of pastoral poetry, serves perhaps, to satirise the pastoral genre.
[Ref: 35103] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Market House Church Stretton. 1832.
Lithograph on india with very large margins. Sheet 279 x 380mm (11 x 15").
The half-timbered market hall which was erected in The Square of Church Stretton, Shropshire, in 1617 by Bonham Norton. This was taken down in 1839 and replaced in 1840 by a second building funded by public subscription, itself demolished as unsafe in 1839.
[Ref: 34740] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Original Sketches, Drawn and Engraved on Stone.
By Henry Stretton, Esq.
Subscribers' Copies to be had of Mr. Paul Gauci, 9, North Crescent, Alfred Place; and of Mr. Worsfold, 161, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Original blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt on front board, hinges strained; title, dedication, list of 180 subscribers, 10 tinted lithographic plates, printed by Paul Gauci. With extra plate loosely inserted. Some spotting.
A collection of views drawn at Ramsgate, Ireland, Wales, Italy and Belgium. The extra plate is Stretton's 'A View of the Chateau of Weldene, at Seeverghem near Ghent as it was in the year 1300'. One of only 180 subscribers' copies of the book.
[Ref: 60832] £490.00 view all images for this item

Hugh E. Strickland [facsimile signature].
T. H. Maguire. M & N Hanhart Imp.t.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Printed area 320 x 240mm (12½ x 9½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-53), geologist and naturalist. He wrote 'The Dodo and Its Kindred' in 1848, and edited Agassiz's 'Bibliographia Zoologie', which he holds in his left hand. The dodo is an extinct bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius. He died by accidently stepping into the path of a train while examining geological strata visible in cuttings on the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway.
[Ref: 57963] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

August Strindberg [facsimile signature].
Johann Lindner München 5c. [engraved in reverse]
Schlesische Verlagsanstalt vorm. S. Schottlænder in Breslau. [n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. Sheet 250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6").
Johan August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, known as 'the Zola of the Occult'.
[Ref: 53309] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Der Saitenmacher.
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼").
A scene of string-making for musical instruments. An illustration from 'Etwas für Alle...' by Abraham à Santa Clara (1644-1709).
[Ref: 39082] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth.
[London: Robert Sayer, 1768.]
Engraving with large margins; 175 x 280mm (7 x 11").
A company of touring players dressing and rehearsing their parts in 'Devil to Pay in Heaven' in a ramshackle barn. Hogarth's original print recorded the 'strolling actresses' soon to be put out of work by new bans on unlicenced theatrical companies. Soon after the death of William Hogarth in 1764, his widow Jane gave the London publisher Robert Sayer permission to publish a collection of her husband's work. Although engraved in a smaller format, Sayer's versions retain all the detail of the original plates.
[Ref: 31472] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn.]
Invented, Painted, Engraved & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March the 25. 1738 [but later]. According to Act of Parliament.
Engraving, Plate: 560 x 450mm (22 x 17¾"), on 19th century paper. Trimmed to plate, wear and damage in margins and paper loss in the left edge.
A busy scene in a barn being used as a dressing room for a troop of actors. In the centre an expressive woman stands facing the viewer, her hand raised while around her the other figures get ready for the performance, one woman seated to the left of the central figure does her hair, a woman on the right practices her lines and in the corner a figure in a eagle headress feeds a baby.
Paulson: 150.
[Ref: 44827] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Strolling Actresses dressing in a Barn.
Invented & Painted by W.m Hogarth. [Engraved by J. June?]
[n.d, c.1770.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 275mm, 6¾ x 10¾". Trimmed within plate, tear in left edge.
Hogarth's famous scene responding to the laws brought in to outlaw unlicenced theatrical performances. From a reduced edition of Hogarth's collected works, with other plates signed by J. June.
[Ref: 27150] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Les Chanteurs Ambulans. [The Strolling Musicians.]
Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.
Chez Bauger R. du Croissant. 16. [Paris, c.1841.]
Lithograph, sheet 360 x 250mm. 14¼ x 9¾".
A man with fiddle or violin and woman with guitar serenade a spruce Parisian dinner table. Numbered 'No.2' upper right, from the 'Physionomie de Paris' series of social caricatures.
[Ref: 17983] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Strolling Musicians With odd Grimace and Comic Strain, / The Antic Band in hopes of Gain,/ To please the Rustick Hearers join,/ Who think their Musick vastly fine. [200 on left]
[After C.W.E. Dietrich]
Printed for Bowles & Carver, Map & Printsellers, No 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 355 x 255mm (15 x 10"). Creasing; tears in margins; retouching to plate.
Itinerant musicians. An 1830 lithograph of the same image is inscribed 'Deitricy pinxt', attributing the original painting to German artist C.W.E. Dietrich (1712-74), who used the name 'Dietricy' to sign his paintings, and mastered the styles of various models including the Dutch Little Masters (as in this scene reminiscent of Dutch genre painting).
For a coloured version of the image see ref. 10537; ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34009] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Strolling Musicians. Les Musiciens Ambulants.
Deitricy, Pinxt. Bouvier, Litho.
London, Published Jany. 1830, by A. Friedel, 34 Surry Street, Strand, & sold by all the principal Book & Printsellers in Town & Country.
Lithograph with original hand colour, sheet 485 x 345mm. 19 x 13½". Tears from extremities, including into image at right.
A crowd assembles to hear some wandering Flemish musicians, a fiddler and a bagpiper. After Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich,
[Ref: 10537] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Strolling Players.
Designed by W. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook.
[London Published by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row February 1st 1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 555mm (17 x 21¾") Trimmed within plate, losing publication line. 1cm of image on left cut and replaced. Laid on archival tissue.
A company of touring players dressing and rehearsing their parts in 'Devil to Pay in Heaven' in a ramshackle barn. It records the 'strolling actresses' soon to be put out of work by the Licensing Act of 1737, which required all plays to be reviewed by the Examiner of Plays, under the supervision of the Lord Chamberlain. From Thomas Cook's ''The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth, as Originally Published'', issued in parts between 1791 and 1802.
[Ref: 56750] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Polacca with a View of Stromboli.
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 265 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, losing publication line. Very small repaired hole top left.
A Polacca, a two-masted ship with a lateen hoisted on the foremast), before the smoking volcano Stomboli. Polacca is Italian for 'Polish woman'. From 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 54215] £320.00

A Strong Gale or Squall. Vent Fort ou Raflais.
P. Monamy Pinx.t Swaine Delin.t Parr Sc.
[British, n.d., c.1790s.]
Engraving, image 260 x 385mm. 10¼ x 15¼". Trimmed within plate and a small tear just into image upper right.
Different types of (Dutch?) sailing vessels in high seas; sailors in foreground ship (to left) busily taking in sails. After Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749). From a series illustrating seamanship; numbered '7' upper right. London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
Not found in NMM.
[Ref: 26295] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Strong Stream and a Lively Fish.
From an Original Drawing by R.M.Alexander.
Published March 1st 1886 by Messrs Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London.
Chromolithograph. Printed area 340 x 400mm.
Plate 3 from 'Fores's Fishing Scenes'.
[Ref: 49] £850.00

To the younger branches of his Family this Portrait of their late Father W.m Strong Esq.r is dedicated by their affectionate Brother F.G.S. Wm. Strong [facsimile signature]
From memory by F. Strong [c.1837]
Stipple, rare, sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5").
William Strong (1767-1837), tulip amateur. Varnish maker in Long Acre, Covent Garden.
O'D 1.
[Ref: 43612] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Clarice Strozzi] Filia Roberti Strozzi nobilis Florentini. Vid. Epist. P. Aretini. 21.
Titianus pinxit. Dom. Cunego Sculp. Romae 1770.
E Tabula in Aedibus Ducis Strozzi Romae asservata.
Engraving. 312 x 254mm (12¼ x 10"), with wide margins Water stain lower left of margin.
Portrait of Clarice Strozzi (1540-1581), a child on the old Florentine family, standing next to a table upon which sits a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, to whom she is giving a biscuit. Titian's oil is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
[Ref: 30993] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Clarissa Strozzi] Filia Roberti Strozzi nobilis Florentini. Vid. Epist. P. Aretini. 21.
Titianus pinxit. Dom. Cunego Sculp. Romae 1770.
E Tabula in Aedibus Ducis Strozzi Romae asservata.
Engraving with small margins, platemark 312 x 254mm (12¼ x 10"). Glued to backing sheet.
Portrait of Clarice Strozzi (1540-1581), part of the great Florentine Strozzi family, standing next to a table upon which sits a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, to whom she is giving a biscuit. After the painting by Titian (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie) which is acknowledged as a landmark in the portrayal of children in art. During the Renaissance, child portraiture was uncommon, although it was later popularised by Rubens and van Dyck. From "Schola Italica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates.
see Von Luba Freedman, 'Titian's Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi: the State Portrait of a Child', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 1989, pp.165-80.
[Ref: 35212] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Struensee's Ghost, or Lord B-te and M-n-d in the Horrors.
[Oxford Magazine Ap. 1772.]
Etching. 155 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"), with margins.
A satire of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, showing him recoiling from a figure floating towards him, holding its own head in its hands. Behind Bute stands William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield. Bute had been accused of being the lover of the Dowager Princess of Wales. Johann Friedrich, Count of Struensee, had fallen from power and executed, having been the lover of the Queen of Denmark.
BM Satires 16731.
[Ref: 54344] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Emily Anne Strutt.
Painted by John Russell R.A. Crayon Painter to His Majesty & to their Rl. Hss's. the Prince of Wales & Duke of York. Engraved by Joseph Strutt.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June 1 1794 by Joseph Strutt.
Etching and stipple in sepia, 270 x 220mm. 10½ x 8¾". Light marginal spotting.
A young girl, possibly a relation of the engraver, with a mastiff dog. Engraved and published by Joseph Strutt (1749 - 1802). Strutt was author of the Dictionary of Engravers, and of 'A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England, from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time'.
[Ref: 9462] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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