Grosvenor Prints

[Scene from 'le jardinier et son seigneur'] He pourquoi donc faire ce Fauteil. Dedié à Monsieur De Laferté Intendant des Menus plaisirs du Roy. Par son serviteur Martinet.
[c.1770]
Scarce engraving, platemark 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"); very large margins.
Scene from 'le jardinier et son seigner', a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-97), the most important and influential librettist of opéra comique in the late 18th century. Originally put to music by Philibert, in the 19th century Delibes produced a new opera from Sedaine's text. Dedicated to Denis Pierre Jean Papillon de la Ferté (1727-94), connoisseur and administrator of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, the organization in the French royal household responsible for designing and presenting weddings, ceremonies, fêtes and funerals.
[Ref: 40654] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Chairman [pencil inscription].
3rd T.P. Frank Gillett [pencil inscription].
[n.d., c.1925.]
Drypoint, 3rd trial proof, signed in pencil. 175 x 250mm.
Edward Frank Gillett (1874-1927), illustrator for the 'Daily Graphic' 1898-1908. He also worked as a book illustrator, for example for Henty's 'Lion of the North', 1900. Gillett created fewer than fifty drypoints during his career, the majority untitled. Both the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum have comprehensive collections.
Guichard p.39, this print illustrated on plate 25, but named as "Extra Turn".
[Ref: 6895] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Chaise Match, Run on New-market Heath on Wednesday the 29 of August, 1750, from an Original Drawing by Mr Seymour.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street. [originally c.1770., but watermarked 'W. King Alton Mills 1854'.]
Engraving. 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18½"), very large margins. Top margins tatty.
A record of a 1000-guinea wager: William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensbury, claimed he could get a carriage 'with four running wheels, and a person in, or upon it, drawn by four horses' to travel nineteen miles in one hour. Backed by Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, the wager was accepted by Theobald Taaffe (described by Horace Walpole as 'a gamester, usurer, adventurer') and Andrew Sprowle. The carriage, specially made by a Mr. Wright of Long Acre, managed to complete the 19 miles around Newmarket Heath in 53 minutes, 27 seconds.
Siltzer 248.
[Ref: 43775] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Chalfont St Giles]
Monk. [in image] W. Monk [signed in pencil]
The Art Journal London Virtue & Co. [n.d. c.1911]
Etching, 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11") very large margins. Mint.
A view the village of Chalfont St Giles, in Chiltern Hills Buckinghamshire. British etcher William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 65178] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Vale of Chalford, Gloucestershire.
Kershaw & Son, London [n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Some staining.
A view of a valley in the Cotswolds, near Stroud, with a train running at bottom of valley.
[Ref: 56962] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Chalier] Philipe Sidney.
peint par H.F. Tassaert. gravé par J.J. Tassaert.
A Paris et a Londres chez Tessari et Comp.ie [n.d., c.1835.]
Sripple, printed in colours. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), large margins.
A portrait taken from a bust of Joseph Chalier (1747-93) who was a French lawyer and revolutionary politician. It is apparently a reissue of a portrait of Chalier that Jean Joseph François Tassaert engraved, originally attributed to painter Jacques Philippe Caresme. This version has the title changed, Henriette-Félicité Tassaert as painter, and the revolutionary symbols in the borders removed.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60318] £380.00

Chalk Farm Tea Garden.
[Printed & so]ld by J. Dash 27, Fetter Lane Fleet S.t.
Etching. Sheet 145 x 180mm (5¾ x 7"). Trimmed, losing part of publication line, some restoration.
A view of the exterior of the Chalk Farm Tavern and Tea Room, Primrose Hill, with drinkers outside on benches and covered tables.
[Ref: 67176] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[H.M.S. Challenger in Betsy Cove, Kerguelen-Land.]
[n.d., c.1875.]
Chromolithograph, titled in pencil on verso. Sheet 135 x 225mm, 5½ x 9". Trimmed to image.
The Challenger Expedition of 1872-76, the first global marine research expedition. After nearly 70,000 nautical miles of surveying and exploring, the resulting 'Report Of The Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76' catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species.
[Ref: 10903] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Chalmers M.A. and F.S.A. Died Dec.r. 10.th. 1834, Aged 75.
Drawn on Stone by G.P.Harding from a drawing by W.Behnes in the possession of E.N.Thornton Esq.re.
Pub.d. June 15.th 1837, by G.P.Harding, Hercules Buildins, Lambeth. Day & Haghe Lith.rs. to the King.
Lithograph. On India. Sheet: 220 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Some slight foxing and surface dirt. Large margins.
Half portrait of Scottish writer and journalist Alexander Chalmers (1759-1934). Chalmers originally trained as a doctor but gave up medicine to pursue writing. As well as publishing various editions of works by writers such as Pope, Shakespeare and Johnson, Chalmers published a 'General Biographical Dictionary' (1812-17) and a 'Glossary to Shakespeare' (1807).
[Ref: 35348] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Alex Chalmers [facsimile signature].
Drawn on stone by R.J.Lane A.R.A
[n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 240mm (7 x 9½").
Half portrait of Scottish writer and journalist Alexander Chalmers (1759-1934). Chalmers originally trained as a doctor but gave up medicine to pursue writing. As well as publishing various editions of works by writers such as Pope, Shakespeare and Johnson, Chalmers published a 'General Biographical Dictionary' (1812-17) and a 'Glossary to Shakespeare' (1807).
[Ref: 35349] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Medicinal Waters. No 6. Chalybeate.
Rock & Co. London. May 1st 1860.
Writing sheet with wood-engraved vignette. 4pp., rare, image 110 x 90mm. (4¼ x 3½").
A scene of the interior of a spa, with an invalid woman in a bath chair, printed as a writing sheet probably designed for the visitors to the most famous source of Chalybeate waters (also known as ferruginous waters, containing iron salts), Tunbridge Wells. When discovered by Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, in 1606 the chalybeate waters of Tunbridge Wells could cure 'the colic, the melancholy, and the vapours; it made the lean fat, the fat lean; it killed flat worms in the belly, loosened the clammy humours of the body, and dried the over-moist brain'. Famous partakers include Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, Queen Anne when Princess Anne of Denmark and Queen Victoria when princess.
[Ref: 34257] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain.]
L. Johnson [signed inside the image in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1905.]
Original pencil drawing. 535 x 370mm.21 x 14½".
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (1863-1937) was a British statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Posts he held throughout his career: Postmaster-General (1902-1903); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903-1905 & 1919-1921); Secretary of State for India (1915-1917); Lord Privy Seal & Leader of the House of Commons (1921-1922); Foreign Secretary (1924-1929); First Lord of the Admiralty (1931).
[Ref: 12729] £420.00

J. Chamberlain [autograph facsimile.]
Richard L. Speaight [pencil signature.]
London, Published by Speaight Limited, 157 New Bond Street. Copyright Registered. [n.d., c.1900.]
Photogravure on india laid paper, 500 x 380mm. 19¾ x 15". A fine impression.
Joseph ('Joe') Chamberlain (1836 - 1914), Industrialist and politician, social reformer, and mayor of Birmingham 1873-5, reading a book in his library or study. Chamberlain was president of the Board of Trade in Gladstone's second cabinet, 1880-5; resigned from cabinet in 1886 over Home Rule; secretary of state for colonies under Lord Salisbury and A.J. Balfour, 1895-1903, notably during Boer War; resigned and campaigned for tariff reform, 1903-6. 'Speaight Ltd' blindstamp upper left, numbered '49' in pencil.
[Ref: 13942] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Chamberlain] The 19th Cent.y Jack Cade. Jack Cade. ''Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation: "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall "have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: All the realm shall be in "common; and in Cheapside shall my palfry go to grass _ &c &c &c''. 2nd Part Henry VI Act IV Scene II.
Published by Reynolds & Co 32 St James' St S.W. [n.d., c.1884.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 445 x 570mm (17½ x 22½"). A little wear to edge bottom right.
A man seated on a barrel (Joseph Chamberlain) declaims to an audience of yokels, attended by a man with helmet and sword (William Gladstone). A satire on Chamberlain's speeches during the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which would have given the vote to country labourers. After saying that the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury was ''himself the spokesman of a class – a class to which he himself belongs, who toil not neither do they spin'', Stafford Northcote called Chamberlain ''Jack Cade'', after the leader of a popular revolt in 1450.
[Ref: 54542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Chamberlain] Will it carry him over the next fence?
Published by Reynolds & Co 32 St James' St S.W. [c.1885.]
Fine coloured lithograph, verso in ink "H.J. Robinson-Pease 1886". Sheet 445 x 570mm (17½ x 22½").
Joseph Chamberlain as a jockey, jumping a cow across a water jump towards the finish line, marked 'General Election'. A satire on the land reform proposals of Liberal MP Joseph Chamberlain, who fought the general election of November 1885 with the slogan ''Three Acres and a Cow''. The phrase was invented by Eli Hamshire, who suggested the ideal landholding for a citizen should be three acres.
[Ref: 54543] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

["our Joe"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 27 1877]
Chromolithograph proof, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼").
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

"War-worn". (The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain M.P,.)
WHO. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
Vanity Fair Supplement. [29th January 1908]
Chromolithograph, with text, sheet 385 x 260mm (15¼ x 10¼"), large margins. Slight mark in coat.
Full length caricature portrait of British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).
[Ref: 63675] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Austen. Supplement to the New Statesman, May 20, 1926 (10).
Low.
Photo-lithograph. Sheet size: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13").
A portrait of Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain KG (1863 - 1937), a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain. By New Zealand born artist, Sir David Low (1891 - 1963). Unhappy with the political leadership of the British establishment David Low created his cartoon character, Colonel Blimp in 1934.
[Ref: 37145] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chamberlain's Wharf, Southwark. Eight Constant Traders, Lie SIX Working Days each at the above Wharf, to take in goods for the undermentioned places, To be delivered at Topsham & Exeter [...] The SWIFT, Charles Edwards Master, Is now loading for Exeter & Topsham [...]
J. & W. Robins, Printers, Tooley Street [1840]
Letterpress, 235 x 180mm. 9¼ x 7". Glued to backing board. Small area of paper missing in centre.
Handbill detailing vessels loading from Chamberlain's Wharf, Southwark, with information about their destinations and conditions for the use of said vessels to transport goods. The site of Chamberlain's Wharf is now occupied by the London Bridge Hospital.
For a map showing the wharves of Bermondsey see ref. 10985
[Ref: 18634] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sir William Chambers.
March 17. 1793. Engraved by J. Ogborne. Geo. Dance.
Stipple with soft ground etching, image 255 x 195mm 10 x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Sir William Chambers (1722 - 1796), architect. Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, Chambers worked initially for the Swedish East India Company, travelling to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration. Returning to Europe, he studied architecture in Paris and Italy before moving to London in 1755. Chambers is best remembered for designing and building Somerset House, a project he worked on from 1775 to 1795. This Neoclassical development housed many government offices and provided accommodation for various learned societies, including the Royal Academy, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries. He was a founder member of the Royal Academy and was its first Professor of Architecture. After George Dance (1741 - 1825).
Not in BM or NPG. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
[Ref: 9639] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir William Chambers Engraved from the Original Picture in the Council Chamber of the Royal Academy]
[Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx]
[published c.1796-1810]
Stipple, platemark 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Thread margins; unfinished proof. Touched proof with pencil marks to upper part of image.
Sir William Chambers (1722 - 1796), architect. Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, Chambers worked initially for the Swedish East India Company, travelling to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration. Returning to Europe, he studied architecture in Paris and Italy before moving to London in 1755. Chambers is best remembered for designing and building Somerset House, a project he worked on from 1775 to 1795. He was a founder member of the Royal Academy and was its first Professor of Architecture. Engraved after the portrait c.1780 by Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, Royal Academy of Arts), and cropping the composition so that the Strand facade of Somerset House, clearly visible in the painting, is unidentifiable here.
[Ref: 36924] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir William Chambers, Architect to the King.
Falconet del. Pariset sculp.
Pub'd by E. Jeffery, opposite Carlton House. [n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. 130 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"). Trimmed into plate on both sides.
Sir William Chambers (1722 - 1796), architect.
[Ref: 53173] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Dedication Leaf.] GEORGUS III D.G.MAGN. BRIT.FR.ET.HIB.REX.
G.B. Cipriani del: F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
[From A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, London 1772, by Sir William Chambers.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed to plate.
Dedication leaf from A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, London 1772, by Sir William Chambers, (1723 - 1796), Swedish-Scottish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy.
DeV 2415
[Ref: 64269] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Marivaux.
Eng.d by Page.
London, Pub.d as the Act directs June 1.st 1815, by G. Jones.
Stipple, with very large margins. Plate 166 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½".
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) was a French novelist and playwright. He was considered one of the most important playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comedie-Francaise and the Comedie-Italienne of Paris.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25520] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Fresco with a Woman holding a Peacock and Chameleon.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet: 200 x 320mm (8 x 12½").
An etching of a fresco set above an arch in which a semi-nude figure holds a peacock to her with one hand and holds a chameleon in her other outstretched hand.
[Ref: 42042] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Anthony Chamier Esq.e M.P. F.R.S. Under Secretary of State from an Original Picture painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the possession of John Chamier Esq.e.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. Engraved by W.m Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & the Duke of York [c.1800]
Mezzotint, platemark 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Collector's stamp of Mrs E.M. Hamilton and Martin Erdmann (d. circa 1937) verso.
Anthony Chamier (1725-80), financier and government official. Chamier had no political ambitions, however, and preferred London's literary society: Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds were frequent visitors to his house in Epsom. This mezzotint is taken from one of the three portraits which Reynolds painted of him (painted 1767, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). This impression formerly in the collection of Martin Erdmann, New York-based banker and collector, particularly of British eighteenth century mezzotints, in which area he acquired 'one of the most remarkable collections known, both for quantity and quality of impressions' (Lugt).
L.885b (Erdmann) and undescribed (Hamilton). Frankau: 54.
[Ref: 46861] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Cascade des Pélerins. Chamonix.
Dessiné d'après nature par Mottu. Lith. par Tirpenne
S. Morel, Ed. à Genève. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
A waterfall with a rock formation that forces the flow to arch out from the rock face. Ruskin records a visit in his diary. Probably published in 'Chamonix et Ses Environs', one of Morel's 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' series, which contained 23 tinted lithographic views by Morel, Mottu, Linck and others.
[Ref: 46113] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Chamouni.
A. Cuvilier lith. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
Briquet & Fils à Genève.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 105 x 125mm (4 x 5").
[Ref: 46114] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chamounix et Mont Blanc.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 120 x 185mm (4¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper with ink mss title.
A view of Chamonix with the peaks of the Mont Blanc Massif behind.
[Ref: 61244] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

In the Valley of Chamouni.
On Stone by T.S. Cooper. A Ducotés Lithog.y 10 St Martins Lane.
London, Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.
Lithograph. Printed area 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"), with very wide margins.
A view from the valley looking up at the Mont Blanc massif. Thomas Sydney Cooper (1803-1902) is better known for his cattle subjects.
[Ref: 54244] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Société des Cochers & Guides de Vernayaz Valais. pour les courses de Chamonix & du G.d S.t Bernard.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 115 x 82mm. 4½ x 3¼".
Trade card for the society of mountain guides. On verso is a detailed map of the Chamonix Valley region.
[Ref: 15269] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

"Champion Breda Mixer"
[Anon]
Published by F.Mansell at 1 Orleston Road, Holloway, London N. the 15th June 1896. Copyright registered.
Photogravure on india laid paper, 365 x 420mm. 14¼ x 16½".
Fine portrait of an Irish terrier in the style of Arthur Wardle.
[Ref: 23450] £360.00

Josephus Champion S.M. & c.
[Engraver not ascertained. n.d. c.1760]
Mezzotint, bust in an oval frame,an open book and a plaque labelled 'Vive la Plume' with calligraphic swirls. 237 x 157mm. 9¼ x x 6¼". Tipped on four corners to album page, very narrow margins.
Joseph Champion (1709-1765), writing master, St. Paul's School, wrote “The Parallel or Comparative Penmanship” 1750, “The Living Hands” 1762 and was a large contributor of full rounded script calligraphy to George Bickham's work
CS:40
[Ref: 11155] £300.00

Josephus Champion Artis Scriptoriae et Arithmetics nec non-Ration um Mercatoriarum Professor. Not sweeter Force the Orator bestous, Than Words receive when, by they happy Art, When, from his Lips the graceful period flows, Charming the Eye, they slide into the Heart. Lockman.
J. Hulett Sculp.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Copper engraving, rare. 240 x 165mm. 9½ x 6½". Trimmed to plate and mounted with paper edge.
Joseph Champion (1709-1765), writing master, St. Paul's School, wrote “The Parallel or Comparative Penmanship” 1750, “The Living Hands” 1762 and was a large contributor of full rounded script calligraphy to George Bickham's work. See ref: 11155.
O'D:vol6:pg.85
[Ref: 24721] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Josephus Champion S.M. & c.
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine mezzotint, 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"), with large margins.
Bust portrait of Joseph Champion (1709-65), in an oval frame, an open book and a plaque labelled 'Vive la Plume' with calligraphic swirls. Champion was a writing master, famous works include “The Parallel or Comparative Penmanship” 1750, “The Living Hands” 1762 and was a large contributor of full rounded script calligraphy to George Bickham's work
CS:40
[Ref: 66882] £320.00

The Great Race, Between Robert Coombes and Charles Campbell, for the Championship of the Thames. Taken below Hammersmith Bridge_on the 19th August 1846.
W. Pascoe Pinx.t. Richmond.
McLean & Co. Litho. 70 S.t Martins Lane.
Hand-coloured lithograph, scarce. Framed. Printed area: 460 x 535mm (18 x 21"). Frame: 600 x 740mm (23½ x 29"). Unexamined out of frame. Staining in sky.
A view of the rowing race between Robert Coombes (1808-1860) and Charles Campbell on the Thames on the Championship Course between Putney and Mortlake. The race was watched by a considerable crowd and there was a large amount of speculation on the match.
[Ref: 47110] £950.00

The Elysian Fields: Distant Gardens of the Tuileries: The New Bridge: Quai d'Arsai: Palace of the Corps Legislatie. Champs Elysées: Jardin de Tuileries, vu de loin. Pont de la Concorde: Quai d'Arsai: Palais du Corps Legislatie.
[P.A. Demachy.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving with text page. Plate: 340 x 530mm (13¼ x 21''), very large margins.
A view of the Louvre, the Tuilerie Gardens and Pont Neuf.
[Ref: 50609] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Fètes et Illuminations aux Champs-Elysées le 1 Juillet 1790. No. 41.
Prieur inv. & del. Berthault Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. Plate 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"). Some foxing to margins and mount burn.
The Fête de la Fédération (14 July 1790) was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the establishment of the short-lived constitutional monarchy. A popular aspect of the event were the lights in the Champs-Elysées. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28298] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sous les traits de Chanville admires ce sorcier, Mille talens heureux sont toute sa magie, L’estime du public fait son apologie, Que ce Colas dit on entend bien son metier. La nature qu’en tout il suit, il etudie, Se plut à le doüer du’ne aimable gaité, Avec grace, finesse, esprit vivacité, Il n’est rien qu’il n’imite oû qu’Il ne parodie.
Peint par de Lorme, Pintre de S.A.S. Mgr. le Duc d'Orleans. de Lorraine Sculp.
[n.d. c.1800] Se Vend chés de Lorraine rue de Fouard chés un Papetier, et chés Buldet rue de Gêvres, au grand Coeur.
Engraving. 521 x 349mm. 20½ x 13¾". Some spotting outside the image.
Full-length portrait of Champville, actor of the Théâtre des Comédiens Italiens.
[Ref: 13949] £380.00

M.r. Chancellor's first Audience of the Czar of Muscovy.
Drawn by Corbould. Engrav'd by George Cooke.
Engraving. Sheet: 180 x 225mm, (7 x 9"). Trimmed within plate. Stains in corners.
An interior scene showing the first meeting between English explorer Richard Chancellor (d. 1556) and Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584) Tzar of Russia in 1554. Chancellor had set out to find a north-east passage to China, on hearing of Chancellor's arrival Ivan summoned him to Moscow. It was through this and subsequent meetings that a trade was opened between England and Russia.
[Ref: 38612] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Chancery Lane Characters! I'm an Hofficer!!! Don't you know me?
H. Heath.
I.B Brookes 9 New Bond St. [London, n.d., c. 1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 210 x 170mm. 8¼ x 6¾". A little trimmed; good early colour.
An overdressed cockney couple; a social satire on the pretensions of London 'types'. Presumably from a series of popular caricatures. I.(or J.)B. Brookes (1830 - 1837; fl.) published his own lithographic satires.
BM Satires undescribed.
[Ref: 27933] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

An oddity in Change Alley. V.6. 23.
Pub by Darly 39 Strand Ocr. 1. 1773.
Etching, paper watermarked. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
Caricature portrait of a man standing or walking in profile to the left. He wears a long cape-like coat with a wide collar which reachers to his ankles, a low looped hat and a small curled wig. He holds a stick in a hand which is concealed under his coat.
BM Satires: 5167.
[Ref: 38243] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Change in the Head of Affairs.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
London, Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket. [n.d. c. January 1828.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 260 x 373mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Slight crease. Cut to platemark.
Satire on the change of Ministry which followed Goderich's resignation, after which the Duke of Wellington was summoned to Windsor by George IV and commissioned to form an administration. Here the King, depicted with a huge gouty foot, hands a wig to Wellington, who declares 'Happy I am to see the Whig discarded- I'll try and Administer something that shall fit your M_ better'. Goderich had been unable to hold together the fragile coalition of Tories and Whigs assembled by his predecessor, Canning, and resigned after only 144 days in office (which was still longer than Canning had managed!)
BM Satires: 15498.
[Ref: 30519] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Change of Address.] R. Havell, Jun. Begs to Announce that he has removed from 179, Newman Street, to No.77, Oxford Street, Opposite the Pantheon.
[c.1831.]
Letterpress. Sheet: 80 x 125mm (3 x 5'').
A handbill informing the recipient of Robert Havell Junior's relocation. Havell moved to his new premises in 1831.
[Ref: 51048] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Changeable Parrot. This Print on being held the fire will assume a variety of colours & agreeable effect which will disappear as it become cool, & may be repeated at pleasure.
Pub.d by Ackermann & Co. Strand, C. Tilt Fleet Street, Reeves & Sons, Cheapside, Riddle & Co. P.N. Row, T McLean Haymarket & T. Bird 134 Oxford Street.
Coloured lithograph, 250 x 230mm. 9¾ x 9". Foxing; paper discoloration; large tear and loss of paper to printed area.
A parrot which changed colour when held near a fire.
[Ref: 11202] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Coast of France from Ile Pelee to Iles de Brehat, including Guernsey, Jersey &c.
Published Feb.y 16, 1782, by J. Fielding. No.23 Paternoster Row.
Engraved map. 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Original folds.
A map showing the south-western coast of France with Normandy and Brittany; and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney.
[Ref: 30894] £80.00

Les Chanteurs Ambulants.
Bacler Dalbe invenit & delt. Gravé par Lameau, les Figures par Misbach.
Déposé à la Bibliothéque Impériale. A Paris chez Testard Md. Estampes Quai Malaquais No.15. [n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. Plate 330 x 396mm (13 x 15½"). Mount burn. Slight loss at top.
Street musicians playing to an audience sat outside eating.
[Ref: 30050] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Plan General des Chateaux, Parc et Jardins de Chantilly. Situé dans le Isle de France, à neuf lieues de Paris et à une lieue de Senlis. Appartenant à S.A.S. Monseigneur le Prince de Condé.
a Paris chez Jean Mariette rue S. Jacques aux Colonnes d'Hercules [n.d., c.1700].
Engraved plan, 18th century watermark. Two sheets conjoined, total 440 x 705mm (17¼ x 27¾"), very large margins. Sheets not joined quite straight, some creasing. Uncut.
A finely-engraved plan of Chantilly, showing the positions of the house, ornamental gardens and parkland, with an extensive key.
[Ref: 63858] £480.00

A View of the Palace of Chantilli taken from the Orangery. ~ Vue de Chateau de Chantilli prise du Parterre de L'Orangerie
J. Rigaud delt.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whttle, 53 Fleet Street, London [This impression c.1805].
Engraving with fine contemporary hand colour. 245 x 415mm (9¾ x 16¼"), on wove paper. Evidence of some scuffing to colour in sky.
Figures in the grounds of the Château de Chantilly in the town of Chantilly, France, to the north of Paris. Partially destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s, the chateau is now owned by the Institut de France, and houses the Musée Condé, which is one of the finest art galleries in the country. Numbered '14' upper right. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 20735] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Chapel and Church Architecture With Designs for Parsonages.
By Rev. George Bowler, Roxbury, Mass.
Boston John P.Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio. Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. New York Sheldon, Blakeman & Company. 1856.
Folio, original half morocco gilt, spine very distressed; pp. 15, chromolithographic frontis., 32 tinted lithograph plates, 15 lithographic plans & diagrams, total 47 plates, with 18pp. explanatory text.
Elevations and floorplans for non-conformist churches in the Gothic revival style.
[Ref: 751] £850.00

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