Grosvenor Prints

[John Collier] Tim Bobbin.
T. Sanders sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs, May 1773.
Engraving. Plate: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4''), with very large margins,
A portrait of John Collier, whose pseudonym was Tim Bobbin. The frontispiece to ''Human Passions Delineated'' 1773.
[Ref: 49316] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Waiting and Watching - border collies.]
Wright Barker 1896.
Etching, signed by the artist. 330 x 560mm. Some surface abrasions.
Border collies at rest.
[Ref: 516] £420.00

[Collin and Lucy] Ella. I come, dear companion, in grief! Gay scenes and fond pleasures adieu._
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 1; 1789, by C. Taylor No.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Plate: 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½''), with large margins.
A scene showing a young woman jumping into a lake. A scene from the poem 'Colin and Lucy'.
[Ref: 50301] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Richart Collin, Kupfferstecher v. Luxemburg. Geb. Ao. 16.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. 158 x 103mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on card.
Richard Collin (1626-1698) the engraver from Luxembourg. He was a pupil of Joachim von Sandrart and became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. He worked in Rome and Antwerp, and is known for his portraits he engraved for Cornelis de Bie's book for artists called 'Het Gulden Cabinet'.
[Ref: 29760] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Rciahdr Cloiln. Il est neé la presente anné 1627. Il s’ast adoneé au practique de la Geog.e Cosmog.e et Math. et aprese ees taille douce lequel à compris en peux de temps ast parue. Exel len au Cariffe Geo! come lon voÿ cees Oeuvres lesquelles à graucé en Errain.
P.C.F. [Pieter Clouwet.]
[n.d. c.1644-70.]
Engraving. Plate 140 x 89mm (5½ x 3½"). Chip to lower left corner.
Richard Collin (1626-1698), Flemish engraver who worked in Rome, Antwerp and Brussels. He became master in the St Luke Guild in Antwerp from 1650-1651. Engraved by Pieter Clouwet, Antwerp based engraver who became a member of the St Luke Guild shortly before Collin. Unusual portrait with the letters of the sitter's name re-arranged to read 'Rciahdr Cloiln'!
[Ref: 29897] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Colling, Esq: Born 1751, Died Jany. 16th 1836, Aged 85 Years.
I.M. Wright. G. Cook.
London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street Strand Feby. 1 1844.
Steel engraving. Sheet 110 x 155mm. Crease through left side of image. Light foxing in margins.
Stock breeder [1751 - 1836]. Plate to the 'Farmer's Magazine'.
[Ref: 6734] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble Lord Collingwood, Vice Admiral of the Red, Major General of Marines and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in the Mediterranean. Engraved by Charles Turner from an original painting in the possession of Lady Collingwood, To whom this Print is most respectfully dedicated by Her Ladyships obed.t & very h.ble Serv.t J.Colnagi.
London. Published July 1st 1811 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co, Printseller Cockspur Street, Hoy Market.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm, 20 x 13¾". Tears in margins.
Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood (1748-1810), Admiral. As second-in-command at Trafalgar he engaged the enemy first and took the command on Nelson's death, but lost many of the prize ships by neglecting Nelson's last order. Besides that action he blockaded Cadiz 1797-8, Brest 1799-1805 and Toulon 1808-10, eventually dying at sea.
Whitman 134, ii of ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10470] £490.00

[Cuthbert Collingwood.]
Painted by C. Lonsdell, Esq. Engraved by F. Bacon.
Printed by Mc. Queens. [n.d. c.1800.]
Line engraving. 527 x 390mm. 2¾ x 15¼".
Cuthert Collingwood, (1750-1810) First Baron Vice Admiral. He served at Bunker Hill in America 1775, in West Indies 1776-81, 1783-6, 1790-1; took part in Glorious First of June 1794, Cape St. Vincent 1797, blockade of Cadiz 1797-8 and of Brest 1799-1805; off Cadiz in 1805; took command on Nelson's death at Trafalgar 1805; died at sea; buried in St. Paul's.
Parker: 166. From the Collection of Viscount Hood. Printsellers Association Stamp.
[Ref: 12389] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble Lord Collingwood, Vice Admiral of the Red Major General of Marines and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in the Mediterranean.
Engraved by Charles Turner. From an original Paining in the possession of Lady Collingwood to whom this Print is most respectfully dedicated by her Ladyships obed.t & very h.ble Serv.t J. Colnaghi.
London, Published July 1.st 1811 by Mess.rsColnaghi & Co. Printsellers, Cockspur Street, Hay Market.
Fine mezzotint. 500 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
A portrait of Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood (1748 - 1810) standing on board a ship, wearing a naval uniform with epaulettes and medals, one suspended from a ribbon around his neck. He is holding the hilt of a sword with his left hand, lettered with '[Eng]land expects evry man to do his duty'. A naval battle is seen in the background. Collingwood was notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands. He died in Menorca and was buried next to Nelson in St. Pauls.
[Ref: 38139] £480.00

The Doctor. of the National Sporting Club taken from Life.
Drawn & Etchd by George Belcher March, 1918.
Hand coloured etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
The sitter is identified as 'Dr Collins' in ink on plate lower right. Doctor Collins was medical officer of National Sporting Club, a private boxing club founded in London in 1891, at 43 King Street, Covent Garden. The founders were John Fleming and A.F. “Peggy” Bettinson, and Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale was its first president. The club was run under very strict rules regarding both the boxers and the members. Bouts would take place after dinner, before about 1,300 members and guests. The bouts would be fought in silence as no talking was permitted during the rounds. The club built up a great tradition of sportsmanship and fair play. In 1909, the president introduced the Lonsdale Belt as a prize to be awarded to the British champion at each weight. The belts were made from porcelain and twenty-two carat gold. By George Frederick Arthur Belcher ARA (1875 - 1947).
[Ref: 11721] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Revd: Mr. Emanl: Collins A.M. On me when Coxcombs are Satyrie, / I take it for a Panegyric. / Hated by Fools, and Fools to hate; / Be this my Motto, and my Fate. Swift.
N. Hone pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Mounted on album paper at top. Small margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of clergyman and poet Emanuel Collins (1711- after 1762), after Nathaniel Hone (1718-84). Collins was famed for keeping the Duke of Marlborough Inn in Bedminster, from where he would perform marriage ceremonies for the modest fee of ''a crown a couple'', before the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 ruined his business. He published the satirical 'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse' in 1762.
Chaloner Smith 44, i of ii. Goodwin: 166 i of ii. Ex The Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 68359] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Revd: Mr. Emanl: Collins A.M. On me when Coxcombs are Satyrie, / I take it for a Panegyric. / Hated by Fools, and Fools to hate; / Be this my Motto, and my Fate. Swift.
N. Hone pinxt. Js. McArdell fecit.
[British, n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint, 325 x 225mm. 11¾ x 9". A little scuffed and soiled.
A half-length portrait in oval of clergyman and poet Emanuel Collins (1711- after 1762), after Nathaniel Hone (1718-84). Collins was famed for keeping the Duke of Marlborough Inn in Bedminster, from where he would perform marriage ceremonies for the modest fee of ''a crown a couple'', before the Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 ruined his business. He published the satirical 'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse' in 1762.
Chaloner Smith 44, i of ii. Goodwin: 166 i of ii. Ex The Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 23700] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Collins [facsimile signature].
[n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple and line engraving. 405 x 295mm (16 x 11½"), with very large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A full-length portrait of John Collins (1802-52) a Birmingham Chartist and toolmaker, co-author of 'Chartism: a New Organization of the People' with William Lovett, the movement's leader. It was written in 1840, when both men were in prison for seditious libel, having made placards that described the police who broke up an assembly as a 'bloodthirsty and unconstitutional force'.
[Ref: 40546] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

William Collins, at the age of 14.
[Engraved for the European Magazine from an original drawing in the possession of the late William Seward Esqr.]
[London, Published for J. Asperne, 32, Cornhill 1st Octr. 1811.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 150 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Laid on album sheet.
An illustration from the 'European Magazine'. A half length portrait in an oval of English poet William Colllins (1721 - 1759). Directed to the left, looking at the viewer and wearing a short wig, jacket, and whtie shirt with frill. Collins was an important and influential poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the Romantic era which would soon follow. This illustration is after the only portrait of William Collins ever to be produced.
[Ref: 34444] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Collinson. F R S. S A S. ACAD. Reg. Berol: et Suec. Soc: Æta: LXXV.
J. Miller [Johann Sebastian Müller] Sculp.t.
[n.d., 1770.]
Engraving. 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait in oval of Peter Collinson (1694-1768), a Quaker cloth merchant with a pasion for gardening, importing seeds from North America. A fellow of the Royal Society, he was the patron of the artist and natural historian Mark Catesby and corresponded with Hans Sloane, Carl Linnaeus and Benjamin Franklin; it was through Collinson that the Royal Society learned about Franklin's experiments with electricity. This was the frontispiece to Fothergill's 'Some Account of the late Peter Collinson' 1770.
Wellcome 649-1.
[Ref: 57307] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Collinson, F.R.S. S.A. Acad.Rec.Berol: et SVEC. Soc: Eta. LXXV.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 120mm (8½ x 4¾"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Peter Collinson (1694 - 1768), English gardener, botanist, and horticulturist. A Fellow of the Royal Society and a passionate gardener, Collinson played a key role in facilitating the international exchange of scientific knowledge in Georgian London.
[Ref: 68214] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Paul Colnaghi. July 30, 1833. Ob. Aug 26, 1833. Aet. 82.
Drawn & Engraved by R. Easton. after a bust by Danlan.
1833.
Stipple. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with small margins. Some faint foxing.
A bust portrait of Paul Colnaghi, born Paolo Colnago (1751-1833), inclined to the left. Colnaghi arrived in London from Northern Italy in 1785 where he had a successful career as a print seller . The art dealership in his name is still open in St. James' and is the oldest commercial art gallery in the world, having been established in 1760.
[Ref: 53881] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Arnold's Farm, White Colne. The Property of H.H. Carwardine Esq.re.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, scarce. Sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½").
White Colne, Essex.
[Ref: 31276] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Colne Place. - The Rev.d R. Watkinson's.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, scarce. Sheet 155 x 335mm (6 x 13¼"). Trimmed through inscription?
Part of the village of Earls Colne, Essex.
[Ref: 31274] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Earl's Colne Priory. The Residence of H.H. Carwidine Esq.re.
From a Sketch by Mrs Phillips made in August 1833.
[c.1835.]
Lithograph, scarce. Sheet 200 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Small tear in edge.
Colne Priory at Earls Colne, Essex, a Benedictine priory from c.1111AD to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1541.
[Ref: 31275] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Senateur, de Cologne. de Jean Weigel.
Touze d.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 273 x 164mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2130] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Kolen, een onde, vermaerde, en webarende stadt voor Zien met Schoone huizen, en Kerken. Colonia Agrippina, Urbs ampla, florens, atque magnifica, inferioris Germaniae caput.
Pet Schenk. Amsteld C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 215 x 268mm. 8½ x 10½".
Villagers, one with a donkey, stand in the foreground walking away from Cologne, Germany, a settlement founed by Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero. The city lies on the River Rhine, and the great Cathedral can be seen in the background, mid-construction; work began in 1248 and was completed in 1880. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 24906] £350.00

Mlle. Colombe L'Ainee. Pensionnaire du Roy. Née a Venise eu 1754 ei recue a la Comedie Italienne en 1773. Ciel! ou Fuis-je......Belinde act 1er Scen 3e de la colonie.
Dessiné et Frave par Patas.
Se vend a Paris chez atas Graveur Rue du Platre ai cpom de ce;;e St.Jacques Maison de la Mde.de Modea. [n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving 290 x 410mm (11½ x 16¼").
Marie-Theodore Thérèse Ruggieri, was known as Mlle. Colombe being employed by the Comedie Italienne at an earlier time than her older sister. Marie-Catherine (1751-1830), Marie-Thérèse (1754-1837) and Marie-Madeleine Riggieri (1760-1841), known as Adeline, were among the most celebrated demi-mondaines of their era. Under the stage name 'Colombe', the beautiful (and notorious) Venetian-born actresses made a sensation in late eighteenth-century Paris. Jean Baptiste Patas french printmaker 1748 - 1817 may also be Charles Emmanuel Patas. This prints may be based on a composition by Fragonard who painted the famous actresses.
[Ref: 10548] £320.00

[Adam's Peak & the Lake of Colombo, from the Galle-Barrier.]
Deschamps del.
[published by Ackermann, 1845.]
Rare lithograph with tintstone, sheet 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed.
Plate from 'Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon' (1845) by John Deschamps, who spent nine years as an officer of the Royal Artillery on the island (now Sri Lanka).
Abbey 414.4.
[Ref: 41644] £380.00

[The Fort of Colombo, from the Galle-Face Esplanade]
Deschamps del
[published by Ackermann, 1845]
Rare lithograph with tintstone, sheet 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed.
Plate from 'Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon' (1845) by John Deschamps, who spent nine years as an officer of the Royal Artillery on the island (now Sri Lanka).
Abbey 414.2
[Ref: 41643] £380.00

Le Comte Walewski.
[n.d. after 1856]
Engraving. 290 x 225mm (11½ x 9"), with 1pp French letterpress biography. Sheet laid on album paper. Horizontal crease through the centre. Minor toning.
Half portrait of Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810-1868), right incline, right-gazing, seated and oval framed. Walewski was a politician and active diplomat for the Polish and French governing bodies. His poltical service sent him to places such as Buenos Aires and Florence. In 1855 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and later become France's Minister of State in 1860. It was rumoured, with recent convincing evidence, that Walewski was the illegitimate son of Napoleon by his mistress Countess Marie Walewska.
[Ref: 53938] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Shore on Lower Colorado. Colorado Exploring Expedition. Geology - Plate I.
J.J. Young from a sketch by H.B. Mollhausen. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
[Washington: Government Printing Office. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾") large margins.
A view from the Colorado River, looking up to towering rock formations. From the 'Report Upon The Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps Of Topographical Engineers, Under The Direction Of The Office Of Explorations And Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, In Charge.'
[Ref: 39909] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Cane Brake Cañon, From near Camp 16. Colorado Exploring Expedition. General Report - Plate II.
J.J. Young from a sketch by F.W. Eglofstein. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
[Washington: Government Printing Office. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾").
A view looking along the Colorado River, surrounded by towering rock formations, a steamer on the river, from a sketch by Baron Frederick W. von Eglofstein (1824-85), famed for being the first person to employ ruled glass screens, together with photography, to produce engravings, and his superbly accurate relief map of the Grand Canyon. From the 'Report Upon The Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps Of Topographical Engineers, Under The Direction Of The Office Of Explorations And Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, In Charge.'
[Ref: 39913] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Mojave Cañon. Colorado Exploring Expedition. General Report - Plate III.
J.J. Young from a sketch by H.B. Mollhausen. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
[Washington: Government Printing Office. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Tear in right margin.
A view looking along the Colorado River, with precipitous cliffs, a steamer on the river. From the 'Report Upon The Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps Of Topographical Engineers, Under The Direction Of The Office Of Explorations And Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, In Charge.'
[Ref: 39917] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Dead Mountain, Mojave Valley. Colorado Exploring Expedition. General Report - Plate IV.
J.J. Young from a sketch by H.B. Mollhausen. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
[Washington: Government Printing Office. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾").
A snow-covered peak, apparently an invention of the artist, Balduin Möllhausen, as it resembles the view of Chimborazo by his hero Humboldt. Lieutenant Amiel W. Whipple, on whose 1853-4 expedition to plan an intercontinental railroad Möllhausen served, said that the only thing he painted accurately was a Navajo blanket. From the 'Report Upon The Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps Of Topographical Engineers, Under The Direction Of The Office Of Explorations And Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, In Charge.'
S.J. Pyne: How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History.
[Ref: 39919] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Camp - Colorado Plateau. Colorado Exploring Expedition. General Report - Plate VII.
J.J. Young from a sketch by H.B. Mollhausen. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
[Washington: Government Printing Office. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾").
A camp in a snow-covered clearing. From the 'Report Upon The Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps Of Topographical Engineers, Under The Direction Of The Office Of Explorations And Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, In Charge.'
[Ref: 39921] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Needles (Mojave Range). Colorado Exploring Expedition. Geology - Plate II.
J.J. Young from a sketch by H.B. Mollhausen. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
[Washington: Government Printing Office. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Tears in inscription area.
A distinctive group of rock pinnacles above the Topock Gorge on the Colorado River, on the northwestern extreme of the Mohave Mountains. A band of native Americans are about to swin across the river. From the 'Report Upon The Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 By Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps Of Topographical Engineers, Under The Direction Of The Office Of Explorations And Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, In Charge.'
[Ref: 39922] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Colossus. Why man he doth bestride this narrow World...
[n.d., c.1767.]
Engraving. Sheet: 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾''). Trimmed.
A satirical portrait of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. This increasing unpopularity of the ministry and of Pitt himself for accepting a peerage (Earl of Chatham). Pitt was perceived as allying himself with Bute, whose power is represented as based upon lust and fraud. Images include: Duke of Bedford; John Stuart, Earl of Bute, as Colossus; Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley; Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford; Henry Fox, Lord Holland; Liberty with liberty cap and staff of maintenance; Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle; St. James Palace; John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, as "Jemmy Twitcher;" Dr. W. Scott (Anti-Sejanus); Earl Temple.
BM Satire 4178.
[Ref: 49116] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Christophe Colomb.
Maréchal, pinx. C. Nanteuil, lith.
Imp. Bertauts, r. Cadet. Marchant, Edit. Alliance des Arts, R. de Rivoli, 140. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 227 x 280mm. 9 x 11".
During Columbus's stint as governor and viceroy, he had been accused of governing tyrannically. Columbus was physically and mentally exhausted; his body was wracked by arthritis and his eyes by ophthalmia. In October 1499, he sent two ships to Spain, asking the Court of Spain to appoint a royal commissioner to help him govern. The Court appointed Francisco de Bobadilla, a member of the Order of Calatrava; however, his authority stretched far beyond what Columbus had requested. Bobadilla was given total control as governor from 1500 until his death in 1502. Arriving in Santo Domingo while Columbus was away, Bobadilla was immediately peppered with complaints about all three Columbus brothers: Christopher, Bartolomé, and Diego. On 1 October 1500, Columbus and his two brothers, likewise in chains, were sent back to Spain.
[Ref: 12950] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Colour Printing and Colour Printers with a Chapter on Modern Processes
by R.M. Burch. [Separate chapter] by W. Gamble.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd. No. 1 Amen Corner, E.C. 1910.
Book: 4to (238 x 170mm). pp. v-vxiii + 281 with 8 half-tone and 23 colour illustrations. Cloth binding. Front cover: one-strip gilt border, with gilt title and author name stamped. Gilt title stamped onto spine. Binding worn. Some sporadic spotting.
A chronological narrative on the development and techniques of colour printing, with illustrations.
[Ref: 10445] £60.00

P. Colquhoun Esq.r. L.L.D. &c. &c. &c.
Painted by S. Medley. Engraved by R. Dunkarton.
Published Feb.y 13. 1802 by R. Wilkinson No. 58, Cornhill.
Fine colour-printed mezzotint. Plate: 460 x 330mm (18 x 13''). Creasing. Small margins. Repair bottom right near margin.
A portrait of Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1820) who was a merchant in Glasgow and the founder of the Thames police.
[Ref: 48903] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edw. Colston, Esq. "Go thou & do likewise."
J. Richardson pinxit. DM fecit [c.1800?]
Scarce etching, sheet 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. Loss top right.
Edward Colston (1636-1721), a wealthy merchant whose philanthropy earned him great respect in Bristol, where he was commemorated with statues, a concert hall and street names. However he kept secret his role as a highly placed officer in the Royal African Company (which held the monopoly on trade with Africa for gold, ivory, spices and slaves from 1672 to 1698) so successfully that early biographies do not mention it. In 2020 his links to the slave trade were the focus of the 'Black Lives Matter' protests in Bristol, during which his statue was pulled down and dumped in Bristol Harbour.
This portrait is cropped from the ¾ length portrait by Jonathan Richardson, painted 1722, which used to hang in the City Hall in Bristol.
Not in O'D. For a large mezzotint of Colston see ref. 4883.
[Ref: 41065] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Edw. Colston Esq. The Philanthropist! Born in Bristol. Died Oct.r 11th 1721. Æ.t 85.
Jon.n Richardson.Pinx.t. W.m Pether Sculp.t 1817.
Sold by Norton & Sons, Corn Street, Bristol. Price 12 Sh.gs.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm (20 x 13¾).
Edward Colston (1636-1721), a wealthy merchant whose philanthropy earned him great respect in Bristol, where he was commemorated with statues, a concert hall and street names. However he kept secret his role as a highly placed officer in the Royal African Company (which held the monopoly on trade with Africa for gold, ivory, spices and slaves from 1672 to 1698) so successfully that early biographies do not mention it. In 2020 his links to the slave trade were the focus of the 'Black Lives Matter' protests in Bristol, during which his statue was pulled down and dumped in Bristol Harbour.
CS 5. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4883] £520.00

Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates. H 1. Price 2.sh.
Columbani delin ac. sculp.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate, very small stain.
A large ornamental vase topped by two Graecian spinxes. The title page to a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:3. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 60788] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 10.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A: 28263:5. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68175] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 12.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68176] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 2.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:2. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68172] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 3.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼") Trimmed into plate, affecting publication line.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60790] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 4.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed to plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:9. Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60789] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and Tripods on Twelve Plates.] H 5.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane [n.d., c.1770].
Etching. Sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed to plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimneypieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A 28263:6. Alexander pg. 226
[Ref: 60791] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 7.
P. Columbani f.
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental vase, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68173] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Vases and tripods on twelve plates] H 8.
P. Columbani
Printed for I, Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane. [n.d. c.1770]
Rare etching, sheet 175 x 90mm (7 x 3½") Trimmed within plate.
A large ornamental tripod, from a book of vase designs by Placido Columbani (1744-c.1801), a Milanese architect working in England, whose chimney pieces are often mistaken for the work of the Adam brothers.
V&A: 28263:1. Alexander pg. 226.
[Ref: 68174] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Columbia's Accommodations, [***] Commander. For [***] direct. Burthen per register 510 tons, has elegant and spacious accommodations, fitted up in a superior style for passengers, and carries an experienced Surgeon. To sail [***]. For tems of Freight or Passage apply to the Commander on board or to Mess.rs [***].
R. Perera. Lithog Bombay.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Extremely rare lithograph. Sheet 330 x 210mm (13 x 8¼"). Stains, chips to edges.
A diagram of the layout of the passenger accomodation of a ship on the India line, with gaps for added manuscript details.
[Ref: 54175] £480.00

[Columbia] Plan of the Harbour of Carthagena.
T. Jefferys sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraved map. 210 x 315mm (8¼ x 12½"), large margins. Slight mount burn.
A plan of Cartagena, the important Spanish port colony in Colombia, a frequent target of British attacks, particularly that of Admiral Vernon in 1741. This uncommon map was published in 'General Topography of North America and the West Indies' by Thomas Jefferys (c.1719-71).
[Ref: 59319] £350.00

[Columbia University Campus, Morningside Heights.]
Harry Fenn. [signed in pencil.]
1903. Copyright by M.R. Harder.
Rare etching, printed on chine collé and laid on board. Board: 440 x 620mm (17¼ x 24½''). Toning.
A view of the campus of Columbia University in New York shortly after its move to Upper Manhattan. The bird's-eye view shows the Low Memorial Library in the centre and in the foreground on the South Lawn figures play a game of baseball in front of a crowd. The original watercolour is housed in Columbia
[Ref: 50892] £550.00

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