Grosvenor Prints

Mr.Bankes. [Sir Joseph Banks.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 100 x 100mm (4 x 4").
Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820), botanist and explorer. Banks was a patron of the natural sciences and made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768 - 1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. Banks actively promoted British settlement in New South Wales and supported the broader colonisation of Australia. He also endorsed the establishment of Botany Bay as a penal settlement for the transportation of convicts and served as a principal adviser to the British government on matters relating to Australia. He is credited with introducing eucalyptus, acacia, and the genus later named in his honour, Banksia, to the Western world. Approximately eighty plant species bear his name in recognition of his contributions to botany. In addition, he was a principal founder of the African Association and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which played a significant role in the establishment of the Royal Academy. Author of 'Modern, authentic and com[plete] system of universal geography. Including all the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated. Navigators of various nations, in the different hemispheres; and containing a genuine history and des', 1790.
W164-6. Kivell & Spence page 20.
[Ref: 68300] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joseph Banks Bar.t President of the Royal Society.
Painted by J. Russell R.A. Crayon Painter to His Majesty, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales_ Engraved by J. Collyer A._
Published as the Act directs May 16th 1789. Sold by W. Dickenson, Bond Stre. J. Cary, Strand, W. DArling, Newport Str. T. Simpson St Pauls Church Yard, and J. Collyer White Lion Row, Islington. Price 3s.
Stipple, sheet 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate mark.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences holding a 'Carte de la Lune par J. Russell' (map of the moon by J. Russell). Banks was leading founder of the African Association, a British organisation dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy. He joined James Cook on his first voyage around the Pacific, and they came across New Zealand and Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River. Banks took a great interest in the British colonisation of the continent and was to be the greatest proponent of settlement of New South Wales. He was in fact the general advisor to the government on all Australian interests.
[Ref: 55263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon: Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, K.B. President of the Royal Society. From an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A. in the Possession of Samuel Lysons, Esq.
From an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq, R.A. in the Possession of Samuel Lysons Esq. Drawn by W. Evans, Engraved by A. Cardon.
Published Jan. 1. 1810 by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand London.
Stipple. 380 x 300mm (15 x 12"). Some foxing.
Half-length portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the famed naturalist and botanist, who found fame after an expedition to Labrador and Newfoundland and after accompanying James Cook on his first voyage around the Pacific. Banks held the position of President of The Royal Society for 41 and advised on the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Banks is depicted wearing his star of the Order of the Bath, his hand resting on a book titled 'The Royal Society'.
[Ref: 35718] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon: Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. President of the Royal Society. From an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A. in the Possession of Samuel Lysons, Esq.
Drawn by W. Evans. Engraved by A. Cardon.
Published Jan. 1 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
A portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), seated with left arm resting on a volume labelled 'Royal Society', to which he was elected in 1766. Banks, a botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences, took part in Captain James Cook's first Circumnavigation (1768-71). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
NLA 2183997.
[Ref: 53620] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Joseph Banks Bar.t K.B. P.R.S. From the original of Sir Thomas Lawrence in The British Museum. Drawn by W.m Derby (with the Permission of the Trustees) and engraved by H. Robinson.
London, Published Jan. 1 1831 by Harding & Lepard, Pall Mall East
Stipple. 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10½"). Large margins on 3 sides.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the English botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences, who took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771).
[Ref: 62083] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks.K.B. President of the Royal Society.
Geo. Dance del. June 27,1803. W.m Daniell Fecit.
[Published by Will.m Daniell No.9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London June 1, 1811.]
Soft ground etching. 270 x 200mm (10½" x 8") large margins. Margins bit messy.
Sir Joseph Banks, Bt, KCB, FRS. (1743-1820), naturalist who sailed with Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, and subsequently esteemed patron of science and President of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 53834] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Sir J.ph Banks (Voyageur-Naturaliste,) Président de la société royale de Londres. Né à Revesby dans le Comté de Lincoln (Angleterre), en 1743. Mort à Londres, le 9 Mai 1820.
Dessiné d’après le Tableau de Th. Phillips, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Trimmed to plate top & bottom.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the naturalist, botanist and explorer who was patron of science and President of the Royal Society, 1778-1820. He sailed with Captain Cook to the Pacific on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour, 1768-71, and compiled a unique natural history collection. He held a position of great influence in the scientific world and he advised on ventures such as the Kew Botanic Gardens and the first British colonies in Australia.
W: 164 - not in. Kivell & Spence: pg.20.
[Ref: 54236] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Rt. Hon.ble Sr. Joseph Banks K.B. European Magazine.
Engraved by Ridley.
Pub by J Sewell Cornhill Oct 1 1802 [but later].
Stipple. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½").
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the English botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 58704] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

To the King's most excellent Majesty, This Print of Sir Joseph Banks, Bar.t [...]
Painted by Tho.s Phillips, R.A. Engraved by N. Schiavonetti.
London, Published 1812, by N. Schiavonetti. N.o 12, Michael's Place, Brompton.
Etching on chine collé, 515 x 390mm (20¼ x 15¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
Three-quarter length portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and patron of science, sitting at a desk and holding a paper on a cushion in front of him with his right hand. The chair is decorated with a coat of arms bearing the Royal Society motto 'Nullius in Verba'. Banks took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
Provenance: G. Usslub Lugt 1221.
[Ref: 59636] £1,250.00

Ioseph Banks Bar.t. Praesident der Königl. Societaet der Wissenschaften zu London.
Conrad Westermayr fecit.
[German, n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple. Sheet 180 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into plate on left.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences holding a map of Africa. As the leading founder of the African Association, Banks was a patron of Mungo Park's expeditions to find the path of the Niger River. From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden".
Kivell & Spence: pg.17.
[Ref: 55918] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Banks.]
H. Gievedon. 1826.
Lith de C. Motte. [Stampted:] Contemporains Estrangers. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 500 x 325mm (19¾ x 12¾"). Crease to upper right corner. Small stain in lower left.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the English botanist, naturalist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771). He was the leading founder of the African Association, the British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 36826] £300.00

M,,rs Banks.
H.D. Hamilton Pinx.t. R. Lowrie [Robert Laurie] fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 20 August 1772.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), 18th century watermark. Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A profile portrait in oval of a woman with jewellery in her hair. Chaloner Smith suggests this is probably Mary Banks (1747-1817), ''the daughter of William Southouse, Esq., of Wimbledon, Surrey; married, 1768, the Rev. Mr. Banks, nephew to Sir Henry Banks, Knt., and alderman of London".
CS 6, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 62765] £460.00

[M,,rs Banks.]
H.D. Hamilton Pinx.t. R. Lowrie [Robert Laurie] fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, as the Act directs, 8 July 1772.
Fine mezzotint, scarce scratched letter proof before title. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"), with large margins and 18th century watermark.
A profile portrait in oval of a woman with jewellery in her hair. Chaloner Smith suggests this is probably Mary Banks (1747-1817), ''the daughter of William Southouse, Esq., of Wimbledon, Surrey; married, 1768, the Rev. Mr. Banks, nephew to Sir Henry Banks, Knt., and alderman of London".
CS 6, state i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66994] £360.00

[Sarah Sophia Banks?] An Old Maid on a Journey.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 385mm (10¼ x 15¼"), with very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour slightly faded.
This is said to be an unkind caricature of Miss Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818), sister of Sir Joseph Banks the naturalist. If so she wears one of her three riding habits, which she called 'hitem, titem, and scrub', as she enters an inn with her entourage. Sir Joseph donated her collection of prints and coins to the British Museum.
BM Satires 10300.
[Ref: 56156] £360.00

Thomas Banks R.A.
Geo. Dance del. Feby. 1793. Wm. Daniell Fecit.
Published by Willm. Daniell No. 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square London, Septr. 15, 1809.
Soft-ground etching. 268 x 197mm. 10½" x 7¾".
Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805), English sculptor. He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a woodcarver. In his spare time he worked at sculpture, spending his evenings in the studio of the Flemish émigré sculptor Peter Scheemakers. Before 1772, when he obtained a travelling studentship given by the Royal Academy and proceeded to Rome, he had already exhibited several fine works. Banks was paid 500 guineas for the group which depicts Shakespeare, reclining against a rock, between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting.
[Ref: 8426] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harper
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 1st 1780 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Rare mezzotint, with very large margins; platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Good impression; glued to backing sheet along left edge at corners; uncut.
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harper) (1757-1849), actress and singer. She also accompanied herself on the guitar, as shown in John Russell's 1799 portrait. At the time this print was made Harper was only three years into her career but was already earning high salaries. In 1778 she was contracted to perform at the Pantheon (on London's Oxford Street) for two years, earning one thousand pounds in the process. In 1783 she married the actor and comedian John Bannister, and she retired in 1792. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actresses and singers, published by the printseller William Richardson in 1780, apparently to follow up a similar set of actor portraits published the previous year. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallenstein collection, and collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 iii/iii.
[Ref: 36669] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Harper [in pencil]
R. Dighton Pinx.t. R. Laurie Sculp.
Pub.d as the Act Directs March 1st 1780 by W. Richardson No. 68 High Holborn
Rare mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), a good impression, uncut. Glued to backing sheet along left edge.
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harper) (1757-1849), actress and singer. She also accompanied herself on the guitar, as shown in John Russell's 1799 portrait. At the time this print was made Harper was only three years into her career but was already earning high salaries. In 1778 she was contracted to perform at the Pantheon (on London's Oxford Street) for two years, earning one thousand pounds in the process. In 1783 she married the actor and comedian John Bannister, and she retired in 1792. From a set of small mezzotint portraits of actresses and singers, published by the printseller William Richardson in 1780, apparently to follow up a similar set of actor portraits published the previous year. Engraved after a painting by draughtsman and singer Robert Dighton (1751-1814) by the mezzotint engraver and printseller Robert Laurie (1755?-1836). Music, instruments and mask (representing theatre) in title area.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 1 ii/iii. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 36671] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Bannister Jun.r and Mr Parsons as Scout and Sheepface in the Village Lawyer.
Painted by S. De Wilde. Engraved by J.R. Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published as the Act directs July 1. 1796, by I.R. Smith King Str.t Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, open-letter state. 635 x 480mm (25 x 19"). Narrow margins, a few marks and small knocks in edges.
John Bannister (1760-1836, son of actor Charles Bannister) as the lawyer Scout on the left, trying to persuade William Parsons (1735-95) as Sheepface beside him. A scene from George Colman's comedy 'The Village Lawyer', premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 28 August 1787.
CS 11, ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64588] £320.00

M.r Bannister Jun.r and M.r Parsons. as Scout and Sheepface in the Village Lawyer.
Painted by S. De Wilde. Engraved by J.R. Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London Published as the Act directs July 1. 1796, by I.R. Smith King Str.t Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 635 x 480mm (25 x 19"), with large margins. Repaired margins. Repaired tear top right.
John Bannister (1760-1836, son of actor Charles Bannister) as the lawyer Scout on the left, trying to persuade William Parsons (1735-95) as Sheepface beside him. A scene from George Colman's comedy 'The Village Lawyer', premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 28 August 1787.
CS 11, iii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64589] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Banqueting House.]
[T. Malton Delin & Fecit.]
[Publish'd May 21st 1781 & sold by T Malton No 8 Carlisle Street Soho]
Aquatint with etching, hand coloured. 325 x 470mm (12¾ x 18½"). Trimmed to image, laid on sheet with watercolour border. Repaired tears to mount edges.
A view of the Banquesting House by Thomas Malton (1748-1804), from his first series of London views, a dozen plates published 1781-87, larger than his better known 'Pictureque Tour' series. Malton etched a smaller version of this scene, duplicating even the staffage, for the Tour.
See Adams 72.
[Ref: 37784] £460.00

Banquet offert à l'honorable Représentant Monsieur l'Abbé de Foere, le 14 Février 1841, A l'occasion de la remise d'une Médaille, au nom des Flandres Réunies, en reconnassance de son zéle à soutenir les intérets de l'Industrie et du Commerce, et pour perpétuer la mémorie de ses differentes propositions en faveur du Pavillon National [...]
[1841].
Engraving, 1 sheet folded to make 4pp. menu, each page 255 x 205mm. 10 x 8". Creases and paper wrinkling; blue album paper on left side front and back; slight tears.
Menu for a banquet to be held at the Hôtel de Commerce in Bruges in honour of Abbé de Foere and his support for Belgian industry and commerce. The name of the appointee, 'Monsieur Chantrell Destappens', is handwritten in pen on the reverse.
[Ref: 11131] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life banquet piece]
[?Robert Robinson, c.1680]
Fine mezzotint, sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed to image (possibly losing text beneath image); false margins added on album sheet.
Food and drink (including game, grapes and other fruit) on a covered table. Probably engraved by painter and engraver Robert Robinson (fl.1674-d.1706). Robinson is chiefly remembered for early mezzotints such as this, while the most notable of his surviving paintings are the panels he painted for a house on St Botolph Street in the City of London, now housed at the Sir John Cass School in Aldgate.
See Ref: 40220
[Ref: 45998] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Still-life banquet piece]
I Beckett ex [illegible traces of effaced inscription, lower right]
Mezzotint, platemark 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. 19th century impression on wove paper.
Crabs and prawns on a platter on a covered table; grapes, peaches, an open melon, plums and a lemon behind; silver tobacco jar upper left. Mezzotint by painter and engraver Robert Robinson (fl.1674-d.1706). Robinson is chiefly remembered for early mezzotints such as this, while the most notable of his surviving paintings are the panels he painted for a house on St Botolph Street in the City of London, now housed at the Sir John Cass School in Aldgate.
State ii/ii (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database).
[Ref: 40220] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Public Banquet To The Suite Of His Majesty Louis Philippe, King Of The French, and the Officers of the French Squadron, by the Mayor & Inhabitants of the Port of Portsmouth & Vicinities Saturday 12th. Octr. 1844.
Charpentier, Sct. Portsmouth [c.1844].
Ticket, lithograph on laminated paper, 115 x 150mm. 4½ x 6". Some staining.
An unallocated ticket to an 1844 banquet in honour of the visiting Louis Philippe (1773 – 1850), King of the French from 1830 to 1848. With vignette of the French and British crowns and flags, a representation of the 1830 French constitution adjacent to the British royal coat of arms.
[Ref: 9263] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

His Majesty's Royal Banqueting House of Whitehal. London. 1713.
H.Terasson delin et sculp 1713.
[London: D.Mortier., 1713.]
Engraving. 420 x 570mm A few small worm holes.
A view of the exterior of the Banquetting House, with the entrance to the Palace of Whitehall on the left. Cannons are set in the wall on the right. From 'Britannia Illustrata'.
[Ref: 7301] £450.00

His Majesty's Royal Banqueting House of Whitehal. London. 1713.
H.Terasson delin et sculp 1713.
[London: D.Mortier., 1713.]
Engraving. 420 x 570mm, large margins. A few small worm holes. Old ink numeral.
A view of the exterior of the Banquetting House, with the entrance to the Palace of Whitehall on the left. Cannons are set in the wall on the right. From 'Britannia Illustrata'.
[Ref: 63932] £360.00

[Ye Old Woolpack,] 2 proof slight burnishing on shade side.
[R.H. Eason.]
[n.d., c.1950.]
Etching. 130 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"), with very large margins. 'Banstead' added in different hand.
The Woolpack pub, 186 High Street, Banstead. A proof before extra etching on the pub sign and on the bracket holding the lantern.
[Ref: 61053] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Banti.
Painted by J.Hopkins. Engraved by J.Singleton.
Published Feb.y. 15th, 1797, by J.Hopkins, No.27 King Street, Holborn, near Bloomsbury Square.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Cut to plate.
Portrait of Brigida Giorgi Banti (1759-1806) best known by her husband's surname and her stage-name, as Brigida Banti, was an Italian soprano.
[Ref: 64249] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bapteme Russe.
h.te Be.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Fine lithograph, paper watermarked. Image area 203 x 272mm. 8 x 10¾". Trimmed to image and around title area.
Russian baptism where the baby is held aloft over the font, with family members to the right. From an uncoloured copy of "Moeurs et costumes des Russes représentés en 50 planches coloriées exécutées en lithographie -- par A. C. Houbigant".
[Ref: 26566] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Baptism.
R. Westall R.A. Delt. R.M. Meadows Sculpt.
Pub.d by R. Boywer Historic Gallery Pall Mall, Sept.r 1. 1806.
Stipple. 630 x 480mm, 24¾ x 19". Edges chipped, creased.
A priest conducting a baptism, with the participants in Elizabethen dress. One of a series, with 'Marriage', 'Sacrament' & 'Confirmation'.
[Ref: 11226] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Baptism. [&] Marriage.
R. Westall R.A. Delt. R.M. Meadows Sculpt.
Pubd. by R. Boywer Historic Gallery Pall Mall, Sept.r 1.1806.
Pair of stipple engravings with etching and aquatint, sheets c.630 x 470mm. Trimmed to plate. Foxing to upper edge of images.
Two scenes in church interiors showing a priest conducting the respective ceremonies, with the participants in Elizabethen dress. Titles in open letters. 'Sacrament' and 'Confirmation' (in the BM) also engraved in the same style and issued as companion prints by Meadows after Westall, published earlier the same year, in January 1806.
[Ref: 8027] £380.00 view all images for this item

[The Baptist] In lance Vatis abstulit caesum caput. Buchanan Bayt.
Pet: Schenck fec et exc.
Amstelod: cum Privil. [n.d. c.1700]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark, sheet 250 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene from George Buchanan's (1506 –82) tragedy 'The Baptist' (Baptistes). Title translates from latin as 'He removed the severed head on a tray.' A person in oriental dress, including turban, holds the the head of John the Baptist on a tray.
[Ref: 60427] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Barabbas with the Condemned Thieves. St. Luke chap. XXIII.v.XVIII.
Painted by Benj.n West, Esq.r P.R.A. Drawn by Henry Corbould. Engraved by Edward Scriven, Hist.l Engraver to The Prince Regent & the Princess of Wales. London: Published by T. Clay, N.o 18 Ludgate Hill, June 4; 1814.
London, 1814.
Rare stipple and etching. 375 x 475mm (14¾ x 18¾"). Trimmed to plate top, left and right edges. Some toning.
Barabbas and two other thieves are restrained and in cuffs, and appear to be surrounded by a number of soldiers in the background. According to the Synoptic Gospels, Barabbas, imprisoned for murder and insurrection against the Roman state according to Mark and Luke, was released by Pontius Pilate according to a Passover tradition whereby a prisoner could have their death sentence communted by popular demand. The story goes that the crowd of Jewish people ask for Barabbas's release, thereby condemning Jesus to death, though the plausibility of Barabbas's release is contested by some historians.
[Ref: 53952] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

St. Ann's Garrison and the Savannah, Barbados, looking towards the Line Barracks. This Print is respectfully dedicated by Permission to his Excellency Lieut. General Wood, C.B. & K.H. By his obedient Servant W.H. Freeman, M.D. Barbados.
E. Walker, Lith. from a Daguerrotype by W.H. Freeman, M.D. Nov.r 1853. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 17, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields... And by Israel Bowen, Barbados. [n.d., c.1853.]
A large and rare lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 500 x 660mm (19¾ x 26"). The image laid on card as issued.
The garrison of St Ann's Fort on parade, with crowds of onlookers and a military band. The scene was taken from a daguerrotype (the first commercially successful photographic process) by Dr W.H. Freeman, the Physician in Attendance at Government House, a pair to 'Looking towards the Barracks'.
[Ref: 46553] £2,200.00

St. Barbara.
Sold by Tho: Bakewell next the Horn Tavern Fleet Street [n.d., c.1700].
Mezzotint, sheet 125 x 90mm. 5 x 3½". Trimmed to plate.
Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara (3rd century - December 4, 306), was a Christian saint and martyr. Although there is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings, nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology, veneration of her was common from the seventh century. Supposedly shut in a tower by her father Dioscurus in order to discourage suitors, she was eventually executed by his sword. Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was removed from the official Catholic calendar in 1969. However, she continues to be a popular saint in modern times, perhaps best known as the patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers, miners and others who work with explosives because of her legend's association with lightning. Published by Thomas Bakewell (1670 - 1764; fl.). Very rare.
[Ref: 10493] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sancta Barbara Der Hochgebornen Reichsgraefin Luise von Wallmoden Gimborn unterthaenigst gewidmet von J Gerh Huck. as Orginal befindet sich in der Gallerie des H Feldmarshall Reichsgrafen von Wallmoden Gimborn.
Parmegianino pinx.t J: Gerh Huck Sculp
Hannover 1803.
Rare mezzotint, 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"), with large margins. Paper aged. Tipped into album sheet at sides.
Depiction of Saint Barbara holding her tower and a quill.
[Ref: 61604] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Barbara.]
HHolbein inv. Whollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, 1647.
Etching. Scarce; Sheet: 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Time stained.
A portrait of a woman, wearing long robes, holding a chalice and wafer and standing by a lake. Pennington identifies her as Saint Barbara on account of her resemblance to a portrait of the saint in the stained glass at Bale. The Strawberry Hill Catalogue 1842 lists this as Ann Boleyn.
Pennington 176.
[Ref: 43708] £380.00

Algierische Seerauber.
Adam Z [signed in plate lower left.] Lith. v. Honegger.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, sheet 245 x 340mm. 9¾ x 13½".
Barbary Pirates or Corsairs in the Mediterranean, abducting a European woman, probably to be sold as a slave in North Africa. Their ship out to sea in the background to left. Illustration to a German book, numbered '59' upper right.
[Ref: 14207] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[The Barbary Sheep] The Aoudad. Ovis Tragelaphus.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 355 x 245mm (14 x 9½"), with very large margins.
The Barbary Sheep of North Africa. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 50357] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de l'isle Barbe à une lieue de Lyon.
Grobon del et sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The Roman church of Notre-Dame on Île Barbe, on the Saone near Lyon. Drawn and etched by Jean Michel Grobon (1770-1853). According to the BM 'all his prints bar one precede 1800'.
[Ref: 59405] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Barbedor.] Lodoicus Barbedor e Stato Regii [...]
J. Boulanger delin. et sculpsit
1650
Engraving, very scarce; 17th century watermark of a crown; 315 x 220mm (12¼ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark; crease through centre.
Louis Barbedor (1589-1670), writing master. Anagrams of his name in Latin below. Published in 'Les Escritures financière et italienne bastarde dans leur naiveté'. Engraved by Jean Boulanger (1608-c.1680).
[Ref: 31128] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Barber]
G.B. O'Neill 30 [c.1880]
Etching on india, platemark 80 x 85 (3¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
Etching by George Bernard O'Neill (1828-1917),
[Ref: 47660] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Barber.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 225mm, 5½ x 9". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a barber shaving a client with a straight-edge razor.
[Ref: 16437] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Barber. London.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 45 x 65mm (1¾ x 2½"). Trimmed.
A trade label, probably for a draper.
[Ref: 61350] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Goody-Two-Shoes Turned Barber or Colonial Concilation. HB Sketches 208.
HB [John Doyle]. A. Ducote's Lithography. 70 St. Martins Lane.
Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, June 28th 1832.
Lithograph. Size: 370 x 280mm. (14½ x 11").
This appears to be an attack on the pending measure of emancipation, demanded by public opinion and the Abolitionists, which was to be a leading issue at the general election, when the country was placarded with the Abolitionists' bill. Goderich, Colonial Secretary, was under the influence of Howick his Under-Secretary: both were in favour of immediate emancipation. When Goderich was removed from the Colonial Office on account of opposition (said to be Brougham's) to the Bill which he had in preparation, Howick resigned.
BM satires: 17158
[Ref: 31416] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

J.T. Barber Beaumont.
Drawn on Stone (from the bust by E.H. Bailey, R.A.) by J..H. Lynch No 50 Upper Seymour St. Euston Sq.r. J. Graf Printer to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph on india, with large margins. Printed area 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½").
John Thomas Barber Beaumont (1774-1841), army officer, painter, author, and philanthropist, member of the Society of Antiquaries & Geological Society. He was miniature painter to the Duke of Clarence, the future king William IV of Great Britain. In 1803 he raised a rifle corps named The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters, which later became Queen Victoria's Rifles. As a businessman Beaumont founded the Provident Institution and Savings Bank in 1806 and the County Fire and the Provident Life insurance offices in 1807.
[Ref: 31270] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Market in the Year 1815.
Drawn on Stone by David Barber, from an original Picture in the possession of Mr. Butler of Covent Garden. Printd by Engelmann & Co.
Published by John Kendrick No. 54 Leicester Square. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 250 x 310mm.
[Ref: 7444] £380.00

The Barber of Seville.
Publish'd Mar 15. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8½ "). Trimmed, losing letterpress song, with foxing.
An illustration to a ten-verse poem (not present) satirising Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville. A woman with cross-eyes and a hairy chin sits under a grape-trellis and an orange-tree; a barber kneels at her feet. In the song the amour promises to shave her every morning if she will marry him.
BM Satire 11195.
[Ref: 46482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Barber of Seville. Extracted from the Monthly Mirror - New Series No. XIV.
Publish'd Mar 15. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. 190 x 225mm (7½ x 8¾"), with letterpress underneath, sheet 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
An illustration and ten-verse poem satirising Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville. A woman with cross-eyes and a hairy chin sits under a grape-trellis and an orange-tree; a barber kneels at her feet. In the song the amour promises to shave her every morning if she will marry him.
BM Satire 11195.
[Ref: 54351] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Is this 'Barber Ross A'? (New Reading) vide Tragedy of Barbarossa.
Etch'd & Publish'd by Peeping Tom. Coventry St.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Etching with hand colour, 349 x 247mm. Occasional spotting.
Alexander Ross the barber and perfumer who published a 'Treatise on Bear's Grease, with observations...to preserve the head of hair..' in 1795. He was also an O.P. ('old prices') rioter, with 'OP' inscribed on his hat. When the new Covent Garden theatre was opened in 1809, the charges of admission were increased; but night after night for three months a throng crowded the pit, shouting “O P!” Much damage was done, and the manager was obliged at last to give way.
BM Satires: 11435. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes. From the Minto Wilson Collection.
[Ref: 7799] £420.00

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