Grosvenor Prints

[Skeleton holding hourglass pulling a child away from his family; verses from the Bible below] Homo natus de muliere brevi vivens tempore repletus multis miseriis; qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur et fugit velut umbra / Job
FB [c.1650] Bit later.
Etching, platemark 75 x 55mm (3 x 2¼"). Very large margins. Slight surface loss at bottom.
Delicate etching with vanitas subject with verses from Job 14.i-ii (Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow).
[Ref: 38346] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Vanity.] Aspice qui quaeris misera compendia vitae...
Abloemert Inven: 1608. Wswaenbureb sculp.
Razet divulg. Clemendt de Jonge Excudit [c. 1660.]
Engraving. Sheet: 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾''). Trimmed. Light staining in edges.
A classical scene showing a young woman surrounded by treasures with a peacock behind her, the scene is an allegory of vanity. First published in 1608, this is a later edition published by Clement de Jonghe c.1660. See also stock reference 16390.
[Ref: 49680] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vanitas Allegory] Mundi Deliciarum Vanitas / Nam quid amabilius! quid Mundo ornatius isto! [...]
[Anon. Dutch, c.1650]
Engraving, platemark 100 x 140mm (4 x 5½") very large margins. Slight creasing.
Woman in elaborate dress, seated, holding orb and looking at herself in a mirror; groups of boys playing left and right. Landscape behind.
[Ref: 45994] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Vanity.] Bullatas nugas, sumosaque guadia mundi...
Abloemaert Inventor. W. Swanenb. sculp et. exe. An.o 1611.
[c.1730.]
Engraving. Sheet: 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾''). Trimmed. Light staining in edges.
An allegorical scene showing a young woman blowing bubbles, surrounded by gold and treasure. First published in 1611 by Willem van Swanenburg, this is a later edition published by Pieter Schenk II (1700-1750) c. 1730.
[Ref: 49682] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegory of Vanity.] Stulta, quid ad speculum fastis assumis ianes...
Iac. Iordans pinxit. [Alexander Voet.]
Engraving, fine. Plate: 280 x 345mm (11 x 13½").
Small margins.
An allegory of vanity showing a young woman combing her hair while looking in a mirror held by a jester while on the left an old man points to a skull.
[Ref: 47567] £380.00

Vanity mis-led a by a woman's Under-standing
J.J. [after Jean Baptiste Isabey.]
London, Published by J.J. March 1819, 48 Strand.
Coloured stipple. 210 x 240mm (8¼ x 9½"). Large margins.
A tall, thin man towering over a short, fat woman. The BM sugggests that 'J.J' was Isabey himself.
BM: 1985,0119.220.
[Ref: 39338] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

In 'Vanity Fair'.
Roy T. Matthews and Peter Mellini.
London: Scolar Press, 1982.
4to, cloth gilt & illus. d/w. pp. 275, profusely illustrated, some in colour. Ownership blind stamp on endpaper, some pencil mss.
With a complete chronological list of subjects.
[Ref: 59734] £70.00

"A General Group."
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov.r 29.th, 1900.
Chromolithograph, sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Middle fold as issued. Faint mount burn. Some light foxing outside of image.
Lightly caricatured portraits of military men in South Africa. They are from left: Colonel Plummer (Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857-1932)), General Hunter (Sir Archibald Hunter (1856-1936)), General MacDonald (Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald (1853-1903)), Sir Redvers Buller (1839-1908), General Baden-Powell (Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides), Lord Roberts (Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914)), Lord Dundonald (Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl Dundonald (1852-1935)), Lord Kitchener (Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916)), Sir George White (1835-1912), General Pole-Carew (1849-1924), Sir Frederick Carrington (1844-1913) and General French (John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925)). Lord Roberts rests one of his boots on the Vanity Fair caricature of Stephanus Johannes Paulus ('Paul') Kruger (1825-1904), President of the Transvaal Republic.
[Ref: 63821] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

At Cowes. The R.Y.S.
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Dec.r 6, 1894.
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 525mm (15¼ x 20¾"). Vertical fold as issued. Some very light foxing.
A lightly caricatured group portrait of Members of the Royal Yacht Squadron during Cowes Week. They are from left to right: H.I.M The German Emperor (Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1859-1941)), The Earl of Dunraven (Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1841-1926)), Rear-Admiral The Hon. Victor Montagu (1842-1915), H.R.H The Prince of Wales King Edward VII (1841-1910), The Marquis of Ormonde (James Edward William Theobald Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde (1844-1919)) and The Earl of Lonsdale (Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944)).
[Ref: 63826] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Cycling in Hyde Park.
Hal Hurst. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair June, 11, 1896.
Chromolithograph, proof, no creases never bound; sheet 410 x 550mm (16¼ x 21¾"). Slight mount burn.
Lightly caricatured portraits of men and women with bicycles in London's Hyde Park. Including: M.r W.H Grenfell (William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (1855-1945), The Marchioness of Londonderry (Theresa Susey Helen (née Talbot) (1856-1919), M.rs Sanford (Constance Georgina Sandford (née Craven) (d.1946)), Lord William Nevill (1860–1939), The Countess of Minto (Mary Caroline Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1858–1940), M.rs Adrian Hope (Laura E. R. Hope), Lady William Nevill (Luisa Maria Carmen del Campo Mello (Mabel Murietta) (c. 1864-1951)), M.rs W.H. Grenfell (Ethel Anne Priscilla Grenfell, Baroness Desborough (née Fane) (1867–1952)), Lady Griffin (Leonora) Mary Griffin (née Sackville) (1872-1939)), Lady Alexander Kennedy (Elizabeth Verralls Smith), Lady Norreys (Rose Riversdale Towneley-Bertie (née Glyn)(1860-1933)) & The Countess Cairns (Olive Cobbold).
[Ref: 63817] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Au Bois De Boulogne,
Guth [Jean Baptiste Guth]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair June 3, 1897.
Chromolithograph, proof never bound, sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). A few small tears in margins repaired with tape.
Lightly caricatured portraits of men and women with bicycles in a suburban Parisian park. They are: Princess Ghika (Aurélie de Soubiran (1820– 1904)), Comtesse Liane de Pougy (Anne-Marie Chassaigne (1869-1950)), Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poiré (1858-1909)), La Belle Otero (Carolina Otéro (1868-1965)), Comtesse de Kersaint, Colonel Gibert, Baronne de Fleury, Duchesse (Herminie de La Brousse de Verteillac (1853-1926)) & Duc de Rohan (Alain Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot (1844–1914)), Cleo de Merode (1875-1966), Comtesse Martel (Gyp) (Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau (1849–1932)), Princesse (Pauline de La Forest d'Armaillé (1851–1928)) & Prince de Broglie (Louis-Alphonse-Victor, 5th duc de Broglie(1846-1906)), Princesse de Sagan (?Jeanne Seillière (1839-1905)), Coquelin Cadet (Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (1848-1909)), Duchesse Doudeauville, Princesse Brancovan (Ralouka ('Rachel') Bibesco-Bassaraba (née Musurus) and Duc de Lesparre (?Armand de Gramont (1854-1931)).
[Ref: 63819] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A Fox Hunting Constellation.]
Bede. [Bemrose Dalziel Ltd. Watford & London]
[Vanity Fair. - Winter Number Supplement] [7 December 1905]
Very scarce unfolded proof chromolithograph, sheet 405 x 560mm (16 x 22"). Faint and small line of dirt across the image near the top. Small patch of colour loss in sky.
A hunting scene with lightly caricatured group portrait of hunstmen with horses and dogs. They are from left: The Duke of Beaufort (Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort (1847-1924)), Mr. G.W. Fitzwilliam (George Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam (c.1866-1935)), Sir Gilbert Greenall (1st Baron Daresbury (1867-1938)), The Duke of Rutland (John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (1818-1906)), Earl of Yraborough (Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (1859-1936)), Earl of Lonsdale (Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944)), Mr. Henry Chaplin (Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840-1923)) and Earl of Harrington (Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington (1844-1917)).
[Ref: 63824] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

On The Heath.
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov. 26, 1896.
Chromolithograph, sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Unfolded proof.
Lightly caricatured portraits of horsemen, racehorse trainers and jockeys on a racecourse. They are: James Jewitt (1856-99), Richard Marsh (1851-1933), Thomas ('Tom') Jennings Sr (1823-1900), John Dawson (1827-1903), Matthew Dawson (1820-1898), John Porter (1838-1922) founder of Newbury Racecourse & James Ryan (fl.1896).
[Ref: 63818] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Kirby Gate.
CB [Cuthbert Bradley]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Novr. 28th, 1901.
Chromolithograph, sheet 405 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Tears in left margin repaired with tape. Light surface dirt to edes of paper.
A hunting scene with lightly caricatured portraits of men and women on horseback in preperation for the Quorn Hunt. Individuals include: The Duke of Marlborough; Mr Hugh Owen; Mr H.T.Barclay; Mr & Mrs Molyneux; Mr Arthur Coventry; Mrs Burns Hartopp; Lord Belper; Mr E.H.Baldock; Elizabeth, Countess of Wilton; Captain Burns Hartopp; Mr Launcelot Lowther; Walter Kyte; Mr J.D. Craddock; Mrs W. Lawson; Lady Angela Forbes; Mr Henry Chaplin; The Countess of Warwick; The Earl of Lonsdale; Lady Hartopp; General Brocklehurst; Mr A Pryor; Mr Foxhall Keene; Mrs Asquith; Princess Henry of Pless; Lord Henry Bentinck; Mrs Launcelot Lowther; Mr Cecil Chaplin; Tom Firr; Captain T. Boyce; Mr Tempest Wade.
[Ref: 63822] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

On The Terrace A Political Spectacle.- "The Ayes have it - the Noes have it".
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov.r, 30 1893.
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 545mm (15¼ x 21½). Vertical creases as issued.
Lightly caricature portraits of a group of MP's on a terrace outside parliament, with a small black dog. They are: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), Joseph ('Joe') Chamberlain (1836-1914), Sir John Eldon Gorst (1835-1916), Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), Anthony John Mundella (1825-1897) & Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902).
[Ref: 63815] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

"Empire Makers And Breakers" A Scene At The South Africa Committee 1897.
Stuff [Harold Wright]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith.
Supplement To Vanity Fair Nov. 25, 1897.
Chromolithograph, sheet 375 x 530mm (14¾ x 20¾"). A few small tears in margins repaired with tape. Top and bottom margin chipped. Folds as issued, splits in folds repaired with tape.
Lightly caricatured portraits of politicians in a board room around a green table They are from left: Lord Chief Justice Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone (1842-1915); Liberal politician and MP for Windsor, Middlesex and Northampton, Henry du Pré Labouchère (1831-1912); statesman in South Africa, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902); MP for Oxford and Derby, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the British Liberal Party, Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) and MP for Birmingham, Joe Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63820] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor & Under Treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer. _ 1815.
Painted by W. Owen Esq.r R.A. Portrait Painter to His R.H. the Prince Regent. Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Nicholas Vansittart in his ceremonial robes. Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, was one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer. He is best remembered for not abolishing Income Tax at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
CS 86, only state listed; Frankau 301, published state, iii of iii.
[Ref: 40690] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Vansittart] Old Nic the Covey wot Drives the Bexley Van. My name is Nicholas your honor - they calls me Hocus Pocus for short, but lork I'm no Conjuror - I got Exchequered - but that's nothink to Nobody.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed and mounted in album sheet. Some of the text missing (as in BM copy).
Apparently Heath intends the victim of this caricature to be Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer; however the face does not resemble him.
BM Satires: 15747.
[Ref: 46655] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Vansittart] Old Nic the Covey wot Drives the Bexley Van. My name is Nicholas your honor - they calls me Hocus Pocus for short, but lork I'm no Conjuror - I got Exchequered - but that's nothink to Nobody.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Coloured etching Charles Smith bookseller's ink stamp in bottom margin. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"). Tear taped, glue stain in edge of plate. Faded.
Apparently Heath intends the victim of this caricature to be Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer; however the face does not resemble him.
BM Satires: 15747.
[Ref: 58355] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Nicholas Vansittart] The Minister of Vice, or the Great Go, Parent of all the little Goes.
Marks fec.t
London Pubd. May 15th 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 325mm (8¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper at margins.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Nicolas Vansittart (1766-1851), Baron Bexley, stands between a quaker and a lottery contractor. The quaker questions him about the dichotomy of Vansittart’s religious views and his support for the lottery.
BM Satires 13236 with extensive description.
[Ref: 64191] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The fortunate escape of Capt.n Cook from the furious Natives of Erramangea.
Granger delin. Warren sculp.
[n.d. c.1778.]
Engraving. Sheet 155 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom. Slight stain top right.
The landing of Captain Cook's men on the island of Eromanga, Vanuatu, on the 4th August 1774, resisted by a crowd of hostile locals.
[Ref: 64006] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ein Offizier unter der Varasdiner Infanterie. 47.
C.P. Maj. Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A. V.
[n.d. c.1746]
Fine hand coloured engraving, plate 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½") Small margins. Printer's crease on left. Some time staining.
The uniform of a Varasdin Officer, he stands holding a stick and smoking a pipe. From Englebrecht's, "Theatre de la milice etrangere: Schau-Bühne verschiedener bisher in Teutschland unbekant gewester Soldaten von ausländischer Nationen."
[Ref: 62855] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John II Casimir Vasa] Johannes Casimirus Dei Gratia Rex = Poloniæ, Mag: Dux Lithuaniæ, Russiæ, Prussiæ, Masoviæ...
Avec privilegio [n.d. c.1660.]
Engraving. 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), set in a wood-engraved border and German letterpress, very large margins.
John II Casimir Vasa (1609-1672), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, last ruler from the House of Vasa, abdicated 1668. From a German edition of Lundorp's 'Laurea Austriaca'.
[Ref: 57738] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John II Casimir Vasa] Johannes Rex Poloniæ Sueciæ, Magnus Dux Lithuania'. etc. Ao 1668.
W.P. Kilian sc.
[n.d. c.1692.]
Engraving. 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), set in a wood-engraved border and German letterpress, very large margins.
John II Casimir Vasa (1609-1672), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, last ruler from the House of Vasa, abdicated 1668. Engraved by Johannes Wolfgang Philipp Kilian (1654-1732)
[Ref: 57739] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

2. [A vase with a scene of pagan devotion.]
Polydorus de Caravagio I. Romae CAB [monogram of Cherubino Alberti].
[Rome, c.1592.]
Engraving. 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"). Small margins. Mounted in album paper at edges.
One of ten numbered plates after Polidoro da Caravaggio, derived from a series that had been painted by Polidoro above the first floor windows of the Palazzo Milesi in the via della Maschera d'Oro in Rome.
BM: 1874,0808.562. B.162
[Ref: 62307] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Inscription on the reverse Side of the Vase. Presented By the Officers Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of the Earl of Chester's Legion to their Colonel Sir Iohn Fleming Leicester Bart. In Testimony of their Great Regard and As a just Tribute to his Active and unceasing Zeal and Attention towards them on all Occasions October 22.d 1813.
Drawn and Etched by G. Cuitt 1814.
Fine etching, printed on india. Plate: 470 x 315mm (18½ x 12½''). Slight foxing.
A print of a vase presented to Sir John Fleming Leicester (1762-1827).
[Ref: 49723] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vases a la mode nouvelle.
chez Jean Martin Will à Augsbourg [c.1770].
Etching, platemark 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"), large margins.
Vases etched by Johann Martin Will (1727-1806), Augsburg-based engraver who designed mezzotints for the English market and also copied British prints.
[Ref: 41396] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Al Fondator di Roma io leggo in volto. Quanto di grande in quella entro è raccolto.
Caval Sebastian Conca inven. Guiseppe Vasi incise.
[n.d., c.1747.]
Etching. Plate: 290 x 200mm, (11½ x 8"); very large margins. Foxing in margins.
The frontispiece to 'Della magnificenze di Roma antica e modern, Roma', 1747 by Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782). A scene in which a figure in armour points to a fortified building, while the figure of the river Tiber holds a spade, his arm resting on a vase.
[Ref: 40784] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Captain Spencer Vassall, Royal Navy. [Ex-libris bookplate/label.]
Bunnell sc.
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Engraved armorial bookplate, on paper, with humorous motto 'Every Bullet has its Billet'. Sheet 115 x 75mm. 4½ x 3". A little creased; chipped at lower right edge.
The interesting design incorporates a goblet, three-masted warship, and the fortress at Montevideo, Uruguay; also the half-sun national symbol of that country. Britain was involved in various naval operations during the struggle for independence of European possessions in South America in the first half of the 19th century. The 1828 Treaty of Montevideo, fostered by the United Kingdom, gave birth to Uruguay as an independent state. Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall was born on 17 May 1799 and died at 29, Hyde Park Gardens on 29 May 1846. He served in the Royal Navy, attaining the rank of Lieutenant in 1819 and Commander in 1827.
[Ref: 25959] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Holland and Lord John Russell in consultation on the Bill for the abolition of The Sacramental Test, This Plate is dedicated to the friends of Religious Liberty.
Painted and Engraved by H. Hughes.
[n.d., c.1828.]
Rare hand-coloured mezzotint. Sheet: 455 x 340mm (18 x 13¼''). Trimmed and damage in margins, stains and paper tones.
A double portrait showing Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840) sitting in a chair and Lord John Russell (1792-1878) standing beside him. The portrait commemorates the Scramental Test Bill which repealed the requirement for MPs to take communion in the Church of England.
[Ref: 50551] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Vassall-Fox] The Right Hon.ble Henry Lord Holland.
Painted by J.R. Smith. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London, Published Oct.r 13. 1806, by S.W. Reynolds, N.º 47, Poland Street.
Mezzotint. 655 x 460mm (25¾ x 18"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, tear entering image on left taped, very small worm hole in image. Small margins.
A full-length portrait of Henry Vassall-Fox (1773-1840), 3rd baron, seated by a bust of his uncle, Charles James Fox, spaniel by his chair. A Whig polititican, he served as Lord Privy Seal 1806-7 in the Ministry of All the Talents, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1830-4 and 1835-40.
Whitman 146, ii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67743] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Holland.]
E. B. Morris Pinx.t. R. Woodman Sculp.t. 1838.
Stipple, very large margins, rare. On india. Plate: 150 x 230mm (6 x 9"). Some paper tone. Foxing. Damage to lower right corner.
A half portrait of Henry Vassell-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), a British politician, seated in a large armchair. In his hand Lord Holland holds a scroll titled 'A Circular The American Settlement for Jewish Proselytes.' Vassell-Fox was an advocate for Jewish emancipation in Britain and supported figures such as Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid who became the first Jew to be given a baronetcy.
[Ref: 35477] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

61. The Church of St. Peter at Rome. L'Eglise de St. Pierre a Rome. Built in the Pontificates of Pope Juilius II. Paul III. and Paul V. _Was more than 140 Years in compleating._Bramante, Michael Angelo, &c. Architects.
London. Printed for Bowles & Carver. No.69. St.Paul's Church Yard.
Very fine hand coloured engraving plate 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½), with large margins.
A bird's-eye view of Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican with the Colonades of the St. Peter Plaza planned by Gianlorenzo Bernini. The Architect Bernini died in Rome in November 1680; best known for his paintings & sculpture.
[Ref: 56292] £380.00

Iohannes Vaughan Miles Capitalis Just. de Com: Banco. Ano: 1674.
R. White sculp.
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Toning and foxing.
John Vaughan (1639-1731), 3rd Earl of Carbery and Governor of Jamaica (1675-78). He was known for being corrupt throughout his governance and had a general reputation for lewd decadence.
[Ref: 53746] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, Bart. M.P.]
[Charles Turner.]
[1833.]
A rare mezzotint on india laid paper, proof before letters, 560 x 410mm. 22 x 16". Tear from above to edge of image; a strong, well-inked impression.
Sir Robert Williames Vaughan (1768-1843), sitting on an attractive armchair in an interior. Of Nannan, Merionethshire, which county he representes in Parliament. After Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850).
Whitman: 582 (unnumbered state).
[Ref: 14129] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[William Vaughan]
P.L. [Peter Lely] Pinxit. I.F. [John Faber jnr] Fecit. 1745.
Scarce Mezzotint. 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"), large margins. Margins spotted.
A bust portrait in a masonry oval of William Vaughan, wearing an embroidered jacket with a fur collar and fur hat. Challoner Smith describes him as being of 'Horsegeddol' (Corsygedol, Merioneth), probably William Vaughan (c. 1707-75), MP for Merionethshire 1734-68 and Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire 1762-75; the BM suggests he may be the Portsmouth-based merchant and colonial official William Vaughan (1640-1719).
CS 362, 'two known'. BM 1902,1011.1922.
[Ref: 67333] £350.00

How to Vault in the Saddle. Or a New Invented Patent Crane for the Accomodation or Rheumatic Rump'd Rectors. 270.
Rowlandson del 1813 [but later].
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins. Staining in left edge.
A clergyman is hoisted onto his horse by a pulley-system attached to the wall of the rectory, with two girls pulling on a rope tied around his waist.
[Ref: 58297] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

N.as L.is Vauquelin (Chimiste), Membre de l'Académie des Science, de la société royale de Londres et Professeur au Jardin du Roi. Ne à Hebertot (D.t du Calvados) le 16 Mai 1763.
Dessiné d'apres Nature en 1824 et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 211 x 146mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Cut to platemark.
Nicolas Louis Vauquelin (1763-1829) the French pharmacist and chemist. In 1798 he discovered beryllium by extracting it from an emerald and reducing the beryllium chloride with potassium in a platinum crucible. A year prior to this he had discovered chromium in a red lead ore from Siberia. In 1806 he isolated the amino acid asparagine from asparagus, and also discovered pectin and malic acid in apples, and isolated camphoric acid and quinic acid. In 1809 he was made professor at the University of Paris.
W: 3036-5.
[Ref: 29636] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Bridge Now Building over the Thames at Vauxhall. The metropolis having extended upwards along the banks of the Thames, & inclosed within its bounds the villages of Lambeth & Vauxhall on one side, & Chelsea on the other, a magnificient Bridge, for the Purpose of connecting these western limits of the town is now constructing, of which this plate gives a correct view, & also of the intended range of buildings on Mill-bank. This important work promises to be not only a great public convenience, but an ornament to the Capital, equally honourable to the taste & public spirit of the Individuals at whose expence it has been undertaken. It will consist of seven arches of which the middle one will be 110 feet span, the two adjoining arches 106, the next two 100, & the two land arches 90 feet each; producing a water way of 702 feet & giving to the whole an extent of 920 feet from side to side. It will be composed of the Dundee stone which is of great hardness & durability. This Bridge is designed by John Rennie Esq.r Civil Engineer & is executing under his direction. To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, this print is dedicated by his Royal Highnesses most obedient and devoted servant. William Daniell.
Drawn & Engraved by W.m Daniell & Published by him at No.9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, and by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown,Paternoster Row, London. Nov.r 15, 1810.
Coloured aquatint. 500 x 860mm (19¾ x 34"). Tears in edges repaired.
A view of London with John Rennie's proposed Vauxhall Bridge in the foreground, with Westminster Abbey behind on the left and Lambeth Palace and St. Paul's Cathedral on the right. The Thames is filled with small river craft depicted in fine detail. The scene was created in pure aquatint, with no engraved line, even for the rigging of the boats. The Vauxhall Bridge Company commissioned John Rennie to design and built this stone bridge, and the foundation stone was laid in May 1811. However the company got into financial difficulties and decided to build an iron bridge instead. A new plan by Rennie was rejected and a nine-arch iron bridge designed by Samuel Bentham was completed in 1816, demolished 1898.
Not in Adams.
[Ref: 23091] £1,950.00

[Vauxhall Bridge] This Plate exhibiting a Picturesque Elevation of the Iron Bridge Erected over the Thames at Vauxhall, under the Direction of James Walker, Engineer, & compleated A.D. 1816, Is respectfully Dedicated to the Vauxhall Bridge Company, by their very Obedient & humble Servant, Sam.l Cossart.
Sam.l Cossart del. J.s Basire, sculp.
Publishedas the Act directs, Nov.r 1, 1816.
Coloured engraving. 310 x 630mm (12¼ x 24¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, tears taped, some soiling.
The first Vauxhall Bridge, opened as a toll bridge in 1816, replaced 1906. A scale bar is drawn on a raft of timber lower right.
See [Ref: 68446] for one in black and white.
[Ref: 56685] £350.00

[Vauxhall Bridge] This Plate exhibiting a Picturesque Elevation of the Iron Bridge Erected over the Thames at Vauxhall, under the Direction of James Walker, Engineer, & compleated A.D. 1816, Is respectfully Dedicated to the Vauxhall Bridge Company, by their very Obedient & humble Servant, Sam.l Cossart.
Sam.l Cossart del. J.s Basire, sculp.
Published as the Act directs, Nov.r 1, 1816.
Engraving. 295 x 620mm (11¾ x 24½"). Trimmed and edges backed onto album paper at edges. Fold down right side.
The first Vauxhall Bridge, opened as a toll bridge in 1816, replaced 1906. A scale bar is drawn on a raft of timber lower right.
See [Ref: 56685] for one with colour.
[Ref: 68446] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Vauxhall Bridge.
No.17, R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. May. 1. 1817.
Coloured aquatint. 152 x 235mm. 6 x 9¼".
Vauxhall Bridge, London with vessels on the Thames; the sun breaking through the clouds. Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it did cover all of these fields. At the time, it was considered to be of great influence to the English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.
[Ref: 26088] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Taking Water for Vauxhall. Be cautious my Love_don't expose your Leg.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1790
Engraving. 200 x 150 (8 x 6"). Trimmed to plate at top, laid on album paper.
A woman, assisted by two men, gets into a small boat on the north side of the Thames to cross the river to the Vauxhall pleasure gardens. The topography is invented.
BM Satires 7801.
[Ref: 64208] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Taking Water for Vauxhall Be cautious my Love_don't expose your Leg.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1790.
Engraving. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"), partial 18th century watermark.. Mint.
A woman, assisted by two men, gets into a small boat on the north side of the Thames to cross the river to the Vauxhall pleasure gardens. The topography is invented.
[Ref: 57791] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Vauxhall Gardens] The Adieu to the Spring-Gardens. To the R.t Hon. ye Earl of Anglesea, These four Plates are humbly Inscrib'd.
Bickham sc.
[n.d., 1737.
Etching with engraving, 18th century watermark. 325 x 195mm (12¾ x 7¾"). Narrow margins.
A music sheet with a scene in Vauxhall Gardens, illustrating a song with words by John Lockman and music by William Boyce. No XIII of 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 57799] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vaux Hall Gardens. Le dedans du Concert Elegant aux Jardins du Vaux Hall. 5.
S. Wale delin. H. Roberts Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil, & Bowles & Card, 69, S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1800].
Etching. 295 x 445mm (11¾ x 17½"). Repaired tear left centre, mounted on card at corners.
An ornate roccoco interior with figures including a young man courting a woman to the right, watched by her chaperone behind; busts around the walls. First published by John Bowles c.1751.
[Ref: 62805] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Chinese Pavillions and Boxes in Vaux Hall Gardens.
S. Wale delin. T. Bowles Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil, & Bowles & Card, 69, S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1800].
Coloured etching. 285 x 410mm (11¼ x 16"). Some creasing through inscription area and through top of plate.
A view of promenaders in a semi-circular colonnade interjected with three elaborately decorated domed structures. First published by John Bowles c.1751.
[Ref: 62806] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens. Showing at one View the disposition of the whole Gardens. Vue Detaille des Jardins de Vaux Hall.
Wale delin.t I.S. Muller sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 290 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, cracks in folds, mounted in album paper. Publication line removed.
An elevated view of Vauxhall Gardens from Kennington Lane. On the left is the Chinese pavillion and the conical roof of the 'Elegant music room'; on the right is Roubiliac's statue of Handel.
[Ref: 62807] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the Garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick Playing. La Grande allée a l'entrée des Jardins de Vauxhall. L'Orchestra, et les Musiciens.
Wale delin. Muller sc.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, Nov.r 25 1751. Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. et à Paris chez Mésard rue Grenelat a la Renomée de la Cornemuse.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; 280 x 405mm (11 x 16"). Tear entering plate taped.
A vue-d'optique (with the image reversed) of promenaders in Vauxhall Gardens, under the bandstand.
[Ref: 62808] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Triumphal Arches, Mr Handels Statue &c, in the South Walk of Vauxhall Gardens. Les Arcs de Triomphe avec la Statue du celebre musicien Handel dans les Jardins de Vauxhall.
S. Wale delin.t. J.S. Muller sculp.t.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d. c.1780].
Engraving with fine hand colour, 1809 watermark. 285 x 420mm (11¼ x 16½") large margins. Creasing, damps stains.
A view of the south walk of Vauxhall Gardens, close to the succession of triumphal arches; Roubiliac's statue of Handel to the right with the colonnade behind; elegantly dressed figures in foreground.
[Ref: 64326] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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