Grosvenor Prints

To the Worsp.ll Edward Sayer of Barkhamsted Place Esq.e this Plate of the Mannor House is Pa. 577
Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. Repaired left corner.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. Berkhamsted Place was erected c.1580 by Sir Edward Carey, the keeper of the Jewels to Queen Elizabeth I, using stones removed from Berkhamsted Castle. It was bought by Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594 – 1612) in 1612 and when he died later that year was passed to his brother Charles later crowned Charles I (1600 –1649). The house then changed hands a few times in the turbulent times of the English Civil War and its aftermath inluding the Murray family. In 1660 the lease of Berkhamsted was taken on by the Lord Treasurer, Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland (1605–1663) however a fire broke out and parts of the house were completely destroyed. Reconstruction was hastily commenced, probably financed by John Sayer who took ownership of the house shortly after it was rebuilt. The Sayer family remained in residence at Berkhamsted Place until 1716, when they sold the lease to William Atwell. The House was demolished in 1967
[Ref: 56223] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Town of Birmingham.
John Kempson, Surveyor & Land Agent, Birmingham.
[Birmingham, c.1827.]
Engraved map. 420 x 300mm (16½ x 11¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1827'. Ink stain causing paper loss lower right, splits in folds.
A town plan of Birmingham with a table of Hackney-Coach Fares.
[Ref: 56097] £230.00

Mathews's New & Correct Plan of the City and Suburbs of Bristol. including the Hotwells and Clifton and the new Buildings down to the year 1815 taken from actual Survey.
[c.1815.]
Engraved map, on verso in ink "Rich Champney". 330 x 460mm (13 x 18"). Tears taped, creasing.
A map of Bristol with a 54-point key, originally published in 'The New History, Survey and Description of the City and Suburbs of Bristol' in 1794. This example has the date changed and the arms of the city and merchants of Bristol added.
[Ref: 56095] £260.00

To the Worshipfull Putler Forester of Broadfield in the county of Hertford Esq& this Plate is dedicated
and presented by J. Savage. fo. 74.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾"), large margins. Centre fold. Repaired tear near centre.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. Not much is known about the Hall until Chauncy's series, though it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, however most likely just as an large acreage of land. Arthur Pulter inherited the Broadfield estate in April 1626 on the death of his grandfather, Edward Pulter. He began to build up the manor however died in 1689 and left the completion to his grandson and heir James Forester.
[Ref: 56191] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The South Prospect of Bushey Hall. P540 To y.e Right Worp.ll S.v Robert Marsham K.t & Baron.t
This Draught is humbly Presen.d by J. Drapentier.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold. Damaged, loss in the middle of the print.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. Bushey Hall was a historic house built in 1428 for Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury. It was also the home of Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet. From 1883 Bushey Hall hosted a hydrotheraputic institue in in its 250 acres of parkland. The manor was demolished in the nineteenth century.
[Ref: 56165] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Cadogan Pier Cheyne Walk Chelsea.
N. Handford Esq. Archt. C. Warren, delt.
Published April 17th 1841, by T. Faulkner, Chelsea.
Very scarce lithograph, two perspectives (viewed from the bank and the river) printed on a single sheet. Tipped into album page, sheet 330 x 485mm (13 x 19").
There was insufficient accommodation on the riverbank for passenger steamboats in the 1840s and piers were built into the Thames to accommodate them. Cremorne Gardens had its own landing place, with a regular service from London. In 1840 Old Swan pier and Chelsea Mall pier served the steamboats, but by 1841 Earl Cadogan had erected Cadogan pier in Cheyne Walk, designed by N. Handford, catering for a large number of summer passengers. The pier was rebuilt c. 1875 to accommodate Albert Bridge. Perhaps from the architect's prospectus.
Longford Images of Chelsea: 131.
[Ref: 56073] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Christ's College New Buildings. Cambridge University Almanack 1832.
Drawn by H.S. Storer. Engraved by E. Challis.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 330 x 485mm (13 x 19"). Trimmed within plate, slightly creased.
[Ref: 56083] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

St Georges Gate, at Canterbury.
Paul Sandby Fecit 1782.
Published by T. Palser, Surrey side, Westminster Bridge 1812.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 340 x 515mm (13¼ x 20¼"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration, laid on album sheet. Damaged. Album sheet slightly cockled. Repairs.
A view of the Norman gatway of Canterbury on market day, with people milling around outside the city. First published by Paul Sandby c.1789.
[Ref: 56059] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Charles le Second Roy de la Grande Bretagne.
Abr: van Diepenbeeck inv: C. Caukercken fecit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾"), with original red ruling. Tears taped.
An equestrian portrait of Charles II before a pre-Fire prospect of London, surrounded by allegorical figures including Mercury and Cupid. Originally published in 1658 it represents the exiled Charles's ambition of regaining his throne. After the Royalist defeat in the Civil War, Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where his treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', was published by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example is from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'.
[Ref: 55969] £360.00

Military College, Chelsea.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. Sunderland aquat.
London Pub. Jany. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, 245 x 280mm (9½ x 11"), large margins.
Interior view showing students attending a lecture at the Military College, Chelsea. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', 3 vols., 1808-10. Numbered 'Plate 99.' upper right.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 99.
[Ref: 56120] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Inside of Chepstow Castle.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Published by T. Palser Surry fide Westminster Bridge 1812.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 210 x 285mm (8¼ x 11¼). Trimmed within plate.
A views of the ruins of Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire Wales. It is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain with its construction beginning in 1067 under the instruction of the Norman Lord William FitzOsbern (1020 – 1071). Sandby toured North Wales with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn around 1771.
[Ref: 56168] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Citys Intended Improvements at Snow Hill.
R. Metcalf sculp. 127 Bunhill Row.
Surveyors Office Guildhall [n.d., c.1802.]
Engraved map. 280 x 665mm (11 x 26¼"). Trimmed to plate, small hole and tear.
A plan showing the widening and continuation of the road at Snow Hill in the City of London, orientated with north at the bottom of the map. Houses to be purchased for demolition are numbered; and a proposal that 'a grand avenue [to] be made from Blackfryars Bridge to Islington' is mentioned.
[Ref: 56101] £230.00

Dixon and Son, Britannia Metal Manufacturers. Cornish Place, Sheffield.
Tompkin.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Engraving, sheet 127 x 196mm (5 x 7¾").
James Dixon & Sons founded 1806 in Sheffield, was one of the major British manufacturers in the Industrial Revolution on the 19th Century. They were the best-known manufacturer of Britannia Metal, and also the world leader in manufacturing shooting accessories through the late Victorian era, and other items from tools to aircraft propellors.
[Ref: 56066] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Corwen Bridge.] To Edw.d Williams Vaughan Salesbury Esq.r This view of Corwen Bridge is with the greatest respect inscribed by his obedient & obliged servants, T. Walmsley & F. Jukes.
From a Drawing by T. Walmsley. Engrav'd by F. Jukes.
London Pub.d by F. Jukes, N.o 10 Howland Street.
Aquatint. 350 x 445mm (13¾ x 17¼"), very large margins. Slight toning in margin edges.
An idyllic view of Corwen Bridge, with two anglers wading in the shallows of the river. Corwen bridge has been recognised as an excellent example of 18th century masonry and was built as part of a important series of early bridges across the rivers Alwen and Dee.
Collection: Watt
[Ref: 56188] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Crystal Palace and Park. Designed and Executed by Sir Joseph Paxton.
J. Needham, Lith.
Copyright. London, Printed and Published May 25th 1854, under Authority of the Company, by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, in the Crystal Palace, & at 17, Gate St. Lin. Inn Fields.
Lithograph. Sheet 337 x 495mm (13¼" x 19½") very large margins. Some tears in the margin.
A perspective view of the Crystal Palace and the exotic fountains and gardens.
[Ref: 56074] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Gairloch [in pencil].
Colin Hunter [signed in pencil]. F. Goulding sculp [in pencil].
[n.d. c. 1920s.]
Rare etching with drypoint. 330 x 600mm (13 x 23½"). Large margins. Faint mount burn.
Etched landscape of fishing boats on Gairloch, in the Scottish Highlands.
[Ref: 56194] £350.00

[Winchester College]
J. P. Barnard [in pencil]. William. J. Allingham [in pencil]. Printseller's Association blindstamp.
[n.d.]
Engraving, proof on vellum with artist and engraver's signatures. 440 x 560mm (17¼ x 22") very large margins. Some creasing in the title area and in upper right corner.
A group of men fishing on the banks of the river Itchen. A punter glides on the river in a gondola and Winchester cathedral can be seen prominently in the background.
[Ref: 56195] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Denmark Hill Grammar School.
[n.d., c.1855]
Rare hand coloured lithograph, sheet 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½). Margins messy. Time stained and tears to edges.
A view of what is now Denmark Road High School, Gloucester, from the east showing the extensive grounds. Boys play cricket in the foreground.
[Ref: 56011] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

College School, Gloucester.
J. H. Brown del on stone by G. Hawkins Jun.r
Day & Haghe lith.rs to the Queen
Rare lithograph, sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9").
View of the outside of a school in Gloucester. The pupils amuse themselves with games of cricket and hoop trundling.
[Ref: 56009] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A Gloucestershire team of Oxen.
From an original drawing by R Hills in the possession of the proproeters of this work.
London, Pub. March 1. 1813, by Hassell & C.o 11. Clements inn.
Aquatint, plate 330 x 425mm (13 x 16½"). On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Thread margins on top and bottom. Taped tear in right side that goes into the plate mark but not the image. Some creasing.
A farming scene in Gloucestershire. Men pile hay onto a cart pulled by a team of four oxen. Robert Hills (1769–1844) was an English painter and etcher who primarily focused on rural scenes, particularly farm animals.
See Abbey Life 140
[Ref: 56030] £165.00 (£198.00 incl.VAT)

The Great Fire of London in the Year 1666. From the original picture in the possession of Robert Golden Esq.r Painted by Old Griffier at the time of the Fire. The scene is the original Ludgate taken at the instant of time when the Walls of the Goal [sic] adjoining it fell and exhibited to the view Old St. Paul's Church, just taking fire, and Old Bow Church in the background.
J. Griffier [in image]. [Engraved by W. Birch.]
Published by E. Jeffery, No 11. Pall Mall, 1807.
Coloured stipple. 300 x 390mm (11¾ x 15¼") Trimmed within plate top and bottom, to plate at sides, binding folds.
A view of collapsed buildings around Ludgate, with St Paul's Cathedral and Bow Church wreathed in smoke behind. Unusually the inscription area is also stippled. Originally published in Thomas Pennant’s 'Some Account of London', this example has 'Vide Pennant's London' erased from the plate bottom right and Jeffery's name replacing William Birch's as publisher. Although the view is ascribed to Jan Griffier the elder (1645/52-1718) , the BM records that it ''first appears in London soon after the Great Fire of 1666''. As a painter he specialised in landscapes, but he also engraved mezzotints and etched, including the animals and birds of Francis Barlow.
BM 1880,1113.1159. Crace 1878-11-51.
[Ref: 55914] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Great Fire of London in the Year 1666. From the original picture in the possession of Robert Golden Esq.r Painted by Old Griffier at the time of the Fire. The scene is the original Ludgate taken at the instant of time when the Walls of the Goal [sic] adjoining it fell and exhibited to the view Old St. Paul's Church, just taking fire, and Old Bow Church in the background. Vide Pennant's London.
J. Griffier [in image].
Engrav'd and Publish'd by W. Birch, Enamel Painter, No,, 2, Macclesfield Street, Soho. Dec.r 1st. 1792.
Coloured stipple. 300 x 390mm (11¾ x 15¼") large margins. Crack in platemark at bottom, binding folds as normal.
A view of collapsed buildings around Ludgate, with St Paul's Cathedral and Bow Church wreathed in smoke behind. Unusually the inscription area is also stippled. Published in Thomas Pennant’s Some Account of London. Although the view is ascribed to Jan Griffier the elder (1645/52-1718) , the BM records that it ''first appears in London soon after the Great Fire of 1666''. As a painter he specialised in landscapes, but he also engraved mezzotints and etched, including the animals and birds of Francis Barlow.
BM 1880,1113.1159. Crace 1878-11-51.
[Ref: 55913] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Great Fire of London in the Year 1666. From the original picture in the possession of Robert Golden Esq.r Painted by Old Griffier at the time of the Fire. The scene is the original Ludgate taken at the instant of time when the Walls of the Goal [sic] adjoining it fell and exhibited to the view Old St. Paul's Church, just taking fire, and Old Bow Church in the background. Vide Pennant's London. Proof.
J. Griffier [in image].
Engrav'd and Publish'd by W. Birch, Enamel Painter, No,, 2, Macclesfield Street, Soho. Dec.r 1st. 1792.
Fine coloured stipple, proof. Sheet 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼") Trimmed within plate top and bottom, to plate at sides, binding folds as normal.
A view of collapsed buildings around Ludgate, with St Paul's Cathedral and Bow Church wreathed in smoke behind. Unusually the inscription area is also stippled. Published in Thomas Pennant’s Some Account of London. Although the view is ascribed to Jan Griffier the elder (1645/52-1718) , the BM records that it ''first appears in London soon after the Great Fire of 1666''. As a painter he specialised in landscapes, but he also engraved mezzotints and etched, including the animals and birds of Francis Barlow.
BM 1880,1113.1159. Crace 1878-11-51.
[Ref: 55912] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Magnificent Structure, erected in the Green Park for the Royal Fire Works exhibited the 27 of April 1749, on account of the General Peace. Veue Perspective du Batiment Magnifique...
London Printed for Robert Wilkinson No.58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St.Pauls Church Yard.
Beautifully coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark; plate 255 x 405mm (10 x 16"), with large margins. Some surface dirt mainly focused in the margins but also within the plate mark.
A view in Green Park of the structure made for the firework display celebrating the end of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). The structure was designed by the Franco-Italian architect, decorator and artist Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695–1766). The illuminations were accompanied by music composed for the occasion and conducted by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759). The display was not as successful as the music itself: rainy weather caused many misfires, the right pavilion caught fire in the middle of the show, as well as several injuries.
[Ref: 56090] £360.00

Part of Forcing Establishment, Hooley Hall, Coulsden, Surrey, Heated by one of Weeks & Co's Patent Duplex Upright Tubular Boilers.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper; glue stains.
A huge series of greenhouses, built during the vogue created by the Crystal Palace. Probably published by a builder of greenhouses. See 56063.
[Ref: 56070] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Perspective View of Winter Garden Designed for Sir John Brown, Sheffield.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Rare chromolithograph. Sheet 180 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A huge greenhouse, built during the vogue created by the Crystal Palace. Probably published by a builder of greenhouses. See 56070.
[Ref: 56063] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Docks and Wharfs, Now Constructing at the Town and Port of Great Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln.
Engineer in Chief, James Meadows Rendel Esq.r. Resident Engineer, Adam Smith Esq.r.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithographic map. Sheet 380 x 450mm (15 x 17¾"). Tears, creasing and surface soiling.
Plan of the construction of Royal Dock (1849-52), under the supervision of James Meadows Rendel FRS (1799-1856).
[Ref: 56102] £60.00

Hide Hall. Pa 81 To the Right Worp.ll S.r Robart Josling of Hide Hall Baronet.
This Draught is humbly Presented by John Drapentier.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving. 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. Two tiny stains in margin one entering the plate mark. Tear in right margin repaired.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. William the Conqueror granted the estate to Geoffrey de Mandeville. It is named after the Hides who succeeded the Mandeville's. After the death of Sir Thomas Hide it passed onto Thomas Joceline by marriage (Jocelyn) and then stayed within the Joceyln family. Sir Robert Jocelyn, 1st Baronet (1623-1712) owned the estate when this print was made and published.
[Ref: 56221] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

High Harrogate.
Rock & C.o London N.o 2086 March 21st 1853.
Engraving, sheet 100 x 135mm (4 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in High Harrogate North Yorkshire. People travel to and fro on horseback or in a carriage. A cariole drawn by a goat can be seen in the foreground. Further behind cricketers are playing a match.
[Ref: 56002] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

To the Right Honourable The Earl of Sandwich, This View of Huntingdon...
Geo. Tytler, pinxt. F.C. Lewis sculpt.
Huntingdon, Published Octr. 1817, by G. Wooll & Messrs. Cribb & Sons, 288, Holborn, London.
Scarce hand-coloured aquatint with etching, plate reworked. Image 325 x 470m, 12¾ x 18". Trimmed to plate; several filled worm holes. Damaged.
A fine prospect of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; in the foreground figures walking along a path through a field containing sheep, and some agricultural workers with scythes resting. The town was chartered by King John in 1205. It is the traditional county town of Huntingdonshire (formerly a separate county), and is known as the birthplace in 1599 of Oliver Cromwell.
[Ref: 56182] £380.00

Hyde Hall. To y.e Right Worp.ll S.v Nicholas Miller of Hyde Hall.
This Draught is humbly Presen.d by J. Drapentier.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving. 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾"), with wide margins. Damaged. Centre fold some damage around the middle of the fold. Right horse and carriage faded.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. The house is recorded as the Manor of "Sabrixteworde" in the Domesday Book. After the Battle of Hastings it was granted to Geoffrey de Mandeville I by William the Conqueror. Local notables have included John Leventhorpe (1370 - 1435), an executor of both King Henry IV and King Henry Vs' wills and Anne Boleyn, who was given the Pishiobury/Pishobury estate, located to the south of the town. Sir Walter Lawrence (1872- 1939) acquired Hyde Hall in the 1920's and built a cricket ground and pavilion in the grounds. Hyde Hall was sold in 1945 and became a school, however now it is a Grade II listed building and has been divided into housing.
[Ref: 56189] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Town of Leeds. with the Recent Improvements. Surveyed in 1821 by Cha.s Fowler, Leeds. Engraved for the Yorkshire Directory.
Nelle & Son, 352 Strand.
Published by Edw.d Baines Leeds 1821.
Engraved map, 1820 watermark. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Splits in binding folds taped.
Plan of Leeds with a 54-point key and an inset ''S.E. View of the Philosophical & Literary Society's Hall''.
[Ref: 56094] £80.00

High School (Leith)
Drawn. Eng.d & Pub.d by J, & H, S, Storer, Chapel Street Pentonville Oct 1 1820.
Engraving, plate 100 x 155mm (4 x 6"), with large margins. Creases in margins, abrasions that go into the plate mark but not the image.
A view of a school in Leith Scotland. Children amuse themselves outside; a group play cricket, some buy treats and others play marbles. Produced for the series ‘Views in Edinburgh and its Vicinity’ by father, James Sargant (1771–1853), and son, Henry Sargant Storer (1795–1837).
[Ref: 56008] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Lifton Park. South Front.
Drawn by Gendall. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by Cole & Gendall, Artist's Repository, Exeter. [n.d. c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph. 311 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Tear into upper image area. Tears to edges Cut and laid on paper.
Lifton Park, built c.1815 for William Arundell of Kenegie in Cornwall, in 1857 it was partly remodelled in a more archaeological but still Gothic style.
[Ref: 56069] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan of the Town of Liverpool.
O'Connor Sculp.t 20 Rainsfords Gard.n.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved map, 18th century watermark. On verso in ink Rich. Champney; 225 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
A detailed plan showing the docks.
[Ref: 56078] £160.00

Llangollin in the County of Denbigh, from the Turnpike Road above the River Dee.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row, Sepr. 1st. 1776' and numbered in upper left corner 'No. 4'.
Coloured aquatint, plate 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½). Margins worn.
Views in Wales: Second set: Sandby toured North Wales with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn around 1771.
[Ref: 56167] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. This View of Llangollen Bridge is humbly inscribed by his devoted serv.ts J. Walmsley & F. Jukes. View 11.th.
From a Picture by T. Walmsley. Engraved by F. Jukes.
London pub.d Jan.ry 30 1794 by F. Jukes N.o 10 Howland Street.
Aquatint. 350 x 440mm (13¾ x 17¼"). Faint stain in bottom left of title area. Crease in top right corner. Trimmed.
Llangollen bridge, crossing the River Dee in Wales. The bridge was first built in 1345, with major rebuilding work in 1656. Following the industrialisation of the area, the width of the bridge was doubled in 1873 to cope with increased traffic.
[Ref: 56187] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Londra Capitale dell'Inghilterra. Tom XII. A. Il fiume Tamigi. B. Il Ponte. C. La Torre. D. Il Palazzo di Whitehall. E. Il Borgo di Southwark.
Fran. Sesone sculp Nap.]
[Naples, n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving. Plate 177 x 342mm (7 x 13½"). Trimmed along upper plate edge, folds as normal.
A pre-fire prospect of London, engraved by Sesone and probably copied from Schenck's view of London (for which see ref. 28514). However the engraver, Francesco Sesone, has reversed the image, so London Bridge is to the west of St Paul's! This image was published before the error was spotted and corrected.
See Ref: 28516 for added hand colour and different publication.
[Ref: 56179] £360.00

[To Sam.l Oldknow Esqr. _The Proprietor, This West View of Mellor Mill in Derbyshire is with the greatest respect, inscribed by his obedient H.ble Servants, F.Jukes & V.Zanetti.]
[From an original Picture by J.Parry. Engraved by F.Jukes.]
[Published July 12th 1803 by Francis Jukes, No. 10 Howland Street _ And Vittore Zanetti, Repository of Arts, Manchester.]
Aquatint with very fine original hand colour, very large margins, proof before all letters 370 x 480mm (14½ x 18¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Ruse'. Several tears in margin, one just entering plate at bottom. Slight time staining.
Mellor Mill, a six-story cotton mill in Marple (now Greater Manchester), built by Samuel Oldknow 1793-5. Extremely rare & fine image. Oldknow (1756-1828) was a cotton manufacturer at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. Early in his career he used the 'putting-out' system of production, distributing raw cotton to spinners and yarn to weavers who worked in their own homes and workshops. This could not compete against the Indian muslin trade, so he secured money to built this factory. A financial crisis caused by the French Revolutionary Wars put him on the brink of bankrupcy, but he was saved by a partnership with Richard Arkwright. By the time this print was published the mill had over 500 employees, including a number of parish apprentices who were brought up from London. He was known as a good employer: his farming interests allowed him to supply his workers with food and he built them housing. He also introduced his own system of paper money to pay his workforce which could be exchanged for goods at the village shop or for cash via third parties. However by the time of his death he was £206,000 in debt. Oldknow also invested in the Peak Forest Canal, on which was the Marple Aqueduct, which was also the subject of an aquatint by Joseph Parry and Francis Jukes.
See Ref: 35461
[Ref: 56183] £620.00

S.W. View of Nettlecombe Court, Somerset, the Seat of Sir John Trevelyan Bar.t (as it appeared in 1816.)
Drawn by the [Rev.d W.H. Turner?] En...
Rare engraving, plate 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Abrasions in publication line obscuring artist and engraver.
A south western view of Nettlecombe Court, Exmoor National Park. An assortment of figures in the foreground; one man holds a cricket bat.
[Ref: 56012] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Newcastle, upon Tyne, in Northumberland.
London: Published as the Act directs, by Alexr. Hogg, at the Kings Arms, No.16, Paternoster Row. [n.d., c.1795.]
Engraving, sheet 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"). Trimmed to lower platemark.
A view of the river Tyne and the city of Newcastle. From 'The New and Complete English Traveller' published by Alexander Hogg (1784 - 1794; fl).
[Ref: 56067] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The North East Prospect of the City of Norwich.
[after Thomas Kirkpatrick.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Coloured engraving. 205 x 330mm (8 x 13"), with an 18th century watermark. Narrow margins, small tear.
A reduced version of Kirkpatrick's two-sheet prospect of Norwich of 1723, with a 36-point key.
[Ref: 56026] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The College; - Windermere.
L. Aspland Del.t W. Banks. sc. Edin.r
Rare engraving, sheet 105 x 130mm (4¼ x 5¼"). Cut within plate mark and glued to backing sheet.
A school yard scene depicting boys playing cricket. The school appears to be what is known as the Old College, Windermere built for the Rev Addison by Abraham Pattinson who opened it as St. Mary’s College in September 1853. In 1855 the college was bought by Benjamin Irving and George Hale Puckle of Nine Oaks. They became joint headmasters and renamed the establishment.
[Ref: 56003] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

To the Honourable S.r Richard Anderson Bar;t this Plate of the Mannor House of Penley is Pa. 594
Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. A few tears to marins. Slight ink offset.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. he manor of Pendley pre-dates the Norman Conquest of 1066, after which it was confiscated by William the Conqueror and passed to his brother-in-law, Robert, Count of Mortain (c. 1031-c.1095), and a later owner was John de Angle, an early Member of Parliament. In 1440 Sir Robert Whittingham (or Whytingham) and his wife Agnes received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI at Pendley manor; he enclosed 200 acres and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture. He built a manor house at the western end of the now-demolished town as a double cloistered courtyard as well as building a Chapel. On the accession of Edward IV (1442 –1483) he granted Pendley manor to George Neville, Bishop of Exeter in 1461 which then passed on to the Verney family through marriage. The Verney family lived at the medieval manor for the next 150 years, until it was passed on to the Anderson family. Sir Richard Anderson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1635–1699) owned the Penley estate when the print was made.
[Ref: 56224] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Port Patrick.
E. Walsh Esqr_delt. J.Sculp.
No.39 of R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub.March 1-1812, at 101 Strand London.
Aquatint, printed in colour and hand-finished. Sheet 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼").
A view of the fishing village Portpatrick on the Rhins of Galloway, the peninsula on the end of south-west of Scotland. Port Patrick is a village on the extreme south-western tip of mainland Scotland, cut into a cleft in steep cliffs. It was a village founded on fishing origins with the crescent shaped harbour being constructed for that purpose. 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: 55915] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Risden House Pa.79 To y.e Right Worp.ll Pienelopie Stone the Relict Tho : Stone of Risden House Esqr
This Draught is humbly Presen.d by J. Drapentier.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving. 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold with some loss near it. Some creasing. Ink offset.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. The Stone family purchased the land in 1603 from Edward Newport and finished the Jacobean house in c.1615. Thomas Stone died in 1696 and left no sons, so his eldest daughter Penelope inherited. Risden House is now known as Julians.
[Ref: 56192] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[River Teese.] The High Force. This Cataract is on the River Teese, which divides the Counties of York and Durham; it falls down a rock of Granate, about 23 yards into a Large Circular Bason; The South Side belongs to L.d Carlisle, and Geo. Bowes Esq.r the North to L.d Barnard to whom this view is inscribed by their most obed.t serv.t. Tho. Smith.
Tho: Smith Pinx. J. Mason Sculp.
Publish'd Dec.r 1751.
Engraving. 390 x 550mm (15¼ x 22¾") very large margins. Faint central crease & markings in the margins.
A view of the High Force waterfall on the river Tees, with one man fishing with a rod and net in the shallows of the pool and another fishing on the far bank. Two others, a man and woman, sit high up on the bank in the bottom right corner.
[Ref: 56190] £380.00

[Red deer in a Highland valley.]
H. Macbeth-Raeburn [pencil].
[n.d., c.1910.]
Rare aquatint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the artist in pencil. 420 x 650mm (16½ x 25½") large margins. Tear in backing sheet taped.
Sir Henry Macbeth-Raeburn RA, RE (1860 - 1947).
[Ref: 56082] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of Sheffield, Engraved for the History & Directory of Yorkshire.
Alfred Smith Land Surveyor, Little Preston, near Leeds.
Published by Edward Baines, Leeds, 1822.
Engraved map. Printed area 310 x 260mm (12¼ x 10¼"), watermarked 1822. Trimmed close to printed border lower left by binder, creases and spotting.
Detailed plan of Sheffield, with a vignette view of the General Infirmary.
[Ref: 56098] £160.00

[Part of the Old Bridge at Shrewsbury with two Arches of the New one 1770.]
[P. Sandby fecit.]
[Published according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby, St. Georges Row Nov.r 1st 1778.]
Fine aquatint, printed in brown and hand finished. Sheet 325 x 505mm (12¾ x 20"). Framed. Trimmed to image, losing inscriptions, laid on card. Unexamined out of frame.
A large separately-issued print, centred on a water mill, showing the new 'English Bridge' over the Severn, designed by John Gwynn and completed 1774. Among the staffage is an angler.
Ex Collection of Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 56093] £450.00

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