Grosvenor Prints

The Barber's Nuptials. A True Tale.
W. Day, Printer, 17, Goswell Street. [n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress. Sheet 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼").
A broadsheet songsheet, with a poem by Rev. George Huddesford (1749-1809), a painter and a satirical poet of Oxford. This verse was first published in 'Salmagundi: a Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry', 1791
[Ref: 42358] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Barbers-Shop in Assize Time. _ from a Picture painted by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r.
The Last Work of the Late James Gillray _ 582
Now first Published May 15th 1818 By G. Humphrey nephew and successor ro the late M.rs Humphrey _ 27 S.t James's Street [but H.G. Bohn, 1852].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 425 x 585mm (16¾ x 23¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene of the interior of a country barber's shop, with men being shaved and wigs on stands. Gillray seems to have worked on this plate during lucid moments in his madness, but it might have been completed by Cruikshank.
BM Satires 11779.
[Ref: 68221] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm, 14 x 9¾". Tight margins on three sides.
Originally a printer, Barber made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state)
[Ref: 10484] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Iohn Barber Esqr. Lord Mayor of London in ye: year 1733.
[London: T. Cooper, 1741?]
Copper engraving, scarce frontispiece to 'The Life & Character of John Barber, Esq; late Lord-Mayor of London, deceased'. Sheet 210 x 150mm, 8¼ x 6". Trimmed to image.
The Prime Minister Robert Walpole was concerned to reduce the burden of the land tax and shift government revenues to other sources. "The excise scheme of 1733 promised revenues which would permit a permanent reduction of the land tax. The measure involved converting the customs duties on tobacco and wine into inland duties. It followed on other fiscal measures that moved in this direction, tea, chocolate, and coffee and then the year before salt. The opposition was intense and effective against the measure. Opponents revived longstanding criticisms of such measures: "Excise duties involved giving extensive powers of search to revenue officers, and a wide jurisdiction to magistrates and excise commissioners. Moreover, merchants and traders--both those engaged in circumventing the existing customs duties and those who paid them--disliked the prospect of dealing with "officious excisemen". When the City of London [John Barber] formally presented its petition against the excise on 10 April, 1733, Walpole's majority fell to seventeen. A Revolt in the Lords looked likely and on the following day Walpole announced the withdrawal of the excise scheme. John Barber (1676 - 1741), Lord Mayor of London, wearing a shoulder-length curly wig, white cravat, chain of office and a coat trimmed with fur. With his April 9th 1733 speech to the Common Council of Alderman inscribed below portrait. Reduced copy in reverse of the portrait engraved by Gerard Vandergucht (see 16630). After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754).
[Ref: 16652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins on three sides. Paper lightly toned. Creases in margins.
Originally a printer, Barber (1676-1741) made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state). Sharpe 303.Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64700] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Cardinal Barberini]
R. Nanteuil ad vivum pin. et Sculpebat 1663.
Cum privilegio Regis.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 350 x 275mm (13¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed.
A half portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1608-1671) in an oval garland of oak leaves atop a plinth decorated with a coat of arms. He wears typical clerical dress with skull cap and the isignia of the Order of the Saint-Eprit. Antonio was an influential figure of the House of Barberini, which helped shape the politics, religion art and music of 17th century Italy. His uncle was appointed Pope Urban VIII in 1623 and elevated Antonio and his brothers to Cardinal.
PW 10.
[Ref: 57423] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pop In & Popt Out. A noted Wag on frolic bent / Once on a time did stop / Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd / Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop [...]
[Alfred Mills]
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Creasing, repaired tear.
Comic song set at a barber's shop.
BM Satires 10652. See [Ref: 41574] for one with slighlty different colouring.
[Ref: 67891] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A barbers shop a medley shews, of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news, while one is shav’d another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Journal reads. The master full of Whig and Tory, talks politics and tells a story, and swears he is not such a sot, but that he knows full well, what’s what.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a barber's shop, with the characters with animal heads. One cat is being shaved, another, a female, is being bled. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19725] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pop In & Popt Out. A noted Wag on frolic bent / Once on a time did stop / Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd / Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop [...]
[Alfred Mills]
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8½"). Small margins.
Comic song set at a barber's shop.
BM Satires 10652. See [Ref: 67891] for one with slighlty different colouring.
[Ref: 41574] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona.]
Axel H. Haig [signed in pencil].
London Published 1919 by W.R. Howell & Co, The Gallery, Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright Registered. Printed by Chas. Welch.
Etching 470 x 315mm (18½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Axel Herman Haig (1835-1921), Swedish printmaker, painter and architect. While studying architecture with William Burgess in London Haig became interested in Gothic architecture and became known as the 'Piranesi of the Gothic Revival' for his evocations of the medieval world.
[Ref: 41254] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Barcelona, 1714] Aggressio duorum propugnaculorum, a fossore cuniculario labe facta. Attaque de deux Bastions les breches faits par le Mineur. Median fol.º No. 75.
Georg Matthaüs Probst del. et sculp.
Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Mounted.
A vue d'optique of the siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession, based one of the set of six views of the siege by Jacques Rigaud for Belidor's 'La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile'. This plate shows soldiers entering the city through the three breaches made in the walls my miners. The image has been reversed for viewing through a zograscope, a device of lenses and mirrors designed to give a sense of depth, which transposed the image, resulting in the need for a title in reverse above the print.
[Ref: 62548] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Representation of the most Considerable Actions in the Seige of a Place. The Opening of the Trenches...
Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1750.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 215 x 430mm (8½ x 17''). Trimmed, title excised and glued on back, stained. Edge in black for Vue d'Optique machine.
A scene showing the town of Barcelona during the Siege of Barcelona (1713-14). Ranks of soldiers march across the fields towards the city.
[Ref: 49206] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Place given up to Plunder. Tis very seldom that a Place will expose and abandon it self to the fury of the Soldiers...
Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1750.]
Fine hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 215 x 430mm (8½ x 17''). Trimmed, title excised and glued on back. Edge in black for Vue d'Optique machine.
A scene showing the town of Barcelona during the Siege of Barcelona (1713-14). Soldiers run across the ruins while the city burns behind.
[Ref: 49205] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Città e del Porto di Barcellona, Capitale della Catalogna in Spagna.
[Engraved by Francesco Sesone.]
[Naples, c.1740.]
Engraving. 165 x 330mm (6½ x 13"). Binding folds and creases as normal.
A prospect of Barcelona, engraved by Sesone, showing the Lighthouse, Santa Maria del Mar and the castle of Montjuic.
[Ref: 49986] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Barcelona.] Nachdem in dem Franzosische Kreigs...
Georg. Phil. Rugenda del. Paul Decker Archit: inv: et del. Ioh: August: Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Priv: Sac: Caes: Maj. Ieremias Wolff excudit Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 440 x 415mm (17¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to image. Vertical crease.
A scene showing the city of Barcelona during the siege which took place from 1713-1714. The scene shows figures setting up camp while ranks of men head toward the city. The scene is framed in a decorative border with a plan of the city in an oval above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42952] £320.00

Barcelona.
H. Swinburne Delin.t. Ellis sculp.t.
[London: Printed for P. Elmsly, 1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 200mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, text sheet (in English & French) pasted as overlay.
A view of Barcelona, published in 'Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776 in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot' by Henry Swinburne (1743-1803), an account of his travels with Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Spain was relatively unknown land. It was the first antiquarian book on Spain to be published in England, describing early Roman and Moorish architecture with historical background.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33309] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Six plates of the Siege of Barcelona.] Twelve of the most remarkable Sieges and Battles in Europe. 1. Views, representing the most considerable Transactions in the Siege of a Place. Opening the Trenches. [&] 2. Of making Sallies and the method of repulsing them. [&] 3. [&] 4. An Attack of two Bastions, at Breaches made by springing Mines. [&] 5. A General Assault. [&] 6. The Place taken by Storm and Plunder'd.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1775.]
Album of six numbered engravings, each c. 170 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"), trimmed to plate and laid on album paper, stitched with silk. Ink ownership inscription 'John Wolley' on album paper of first plate.
The complete run of six plates illustrating the Siege of Barcelona (14 September - 19 October 1705, during the War of the Spanish Succession, in which an Allied army, led by Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (1658 - 1735), captured the city of Barcelona from its Franco-Spanish defenders. The plates were published as the first six in the 'Twelve of the most remarkable sieges' series; the other six were of named actions elsewhere in Europe (except for one plate of Louisbourg in Canada). Often booklets like this were done for the entertainment of officers serving abroad.
[Ref: 49779] £600.00 view all images for this item

[The assault on Barcelona, 1714.) An Attack & Lodgement on the Covert Way: i.e. the part which lies between the Ditch and the Glacis.
[Engraved by Jean Baptiste Rigaud after Jacques Rigaud.]
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraving with strong original colour; Whatman 1794 watermark. 245 x 425mm (9¾ x 16¾"). Tears in large margins.
A view of the assault on Barcelona by the Bourbons on the 11th September 1714, led by the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II, during the War of the Spanish Succession. As plate 3 of 'Twelve of the most remarkable sieges and battles in Europe', originally published by Carington Bowles c.1760, it illustrates the art of siege warfare, with the use of sappers to get troops and guns closer to the walls. Other plates in the series depict Culloden (1746) and Minden (1759).
[Ref: 45037] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Barcelona: Santa Maria del Mar.]
Axel H. Haig [pencil].
London. Published 1913, by W.R. Howell & Co, The Gallery, Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright. Printed by Chas. Welch.
Etching, signed by the artist. 420 x 280mm (16½ x 11"), with wide margins. Mint.
A street scene outside a church. Originally published in 1889 as a limited edition of 150, priced at 3 guineas.
Nordaught Crook & Lennox-Boyd: Axel Haig 87.
[Ref: 51731] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Barclay's Dictionary word Top-Heavy.
Craig del. Wallis sculp.
Published by T. Kinnersley Nov, 1. 1813.
Engraving and etching. 255 x 204mm. 10 x 8".
Reverend James Barclay was the compiler of an over-heavy, on the word front, dictionary of complete and universal English.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18517] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Barclay's Dictonary, word Conjurer.
W. M. Craig delin. J. Brown sculp. Published as the Act directs by T. Kinnersley May 1.st 1813.
London, 1813.
Engraving. 260 x 210mm (10Â¼ x 8Â¼").
A scene depicting a man in wizards robes waving a wand over a book, on a table next to a smoking cauldron. Two devil figures, one crouched, one with arms extended upward, stand behind the table. A man crouches next to the wizard clutching his face. The image pressumably illustrates the definition for the word 'conjurer'.
[Ref: 54120] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr John Barclay] The Craft in Danger. An uproar among the Craftsmen at Ephesus. opposing a new Species of Knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver.23 &c.
[John Kay.]
[n.d., Edinburgh 1817.]
Etching. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with large margins. Slight creasing. Repaired tears in borders.
Caricature of Dr. Barclay riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion. By John Kay (1742 - 1826), Edinburgh etcher of portrait caricatures. Image lettered with speech bubbles.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 56989] £320.00

[Dr John Barclay] The Craft in Danger. An uproar among the Craftsmen at Ephesus. opposing a new Species of Knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver.23 &c.
[John Kay.]
[n.d., Edinburgh 1817.]
Etching, sheet 197 x 280mm. Trimmed to plate and glued to scrap sheet.
Caricature of a man (Dr Barclay) riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion. By John Kay (1742 - 1826), Edinburgh etcher of portrait caricatures. Image lettered with speech bubbles.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 7514] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Bard.
S. Shelley pin.t. C. Taylor sculp.y.
London, Publish'd May 1. 1788], by C. Taylor. No 10 near Castle Street, Holborn
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
An oval portrait of a bard holding a harp. An illustration to Thomas Gray's poem, 'The Bard. A Pindaric Ode', 1757. From the first volume of 'The Cabinet of Genius containing frontispieces and characters adapted to the most popular poems', which contained thirty stipples by Charles Taylor after Samuel Shelley of characters from famours poems by various authors
[Ref: 54200] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Bardic Museum, of primitive British Literature; and other admirable rarities; forming the Second Volume of the Musical, Poetical and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids ... containing the Bardic Triads; Historic Odes; Eulogies; Songs; Elegies ... with English translations and historic illustrations: likewise the ancient War-tunes of the Bards ... To these national melodies are added new Basses; with Variations, for the Harp, or Harpsichord; Violin, or Flute;
By Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall.
Book; small folio (340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾"), text and sheet music with lyrics complete as issued. With hand coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Ibbetson and J. Smith, of figures gathered around a harpist playing on a hillside. Unmarked blue paper-covered binding with calf spine. Binding chipped, scuffed and rubbed; paper covers tearing. Spine largely worn away, front cover disbound. Sheets slightly foxed, some offsetting to music sheets.
Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,’ London, folio, in 2 parts; republished with additions in 1794. This companion volume was issued in 1802. These works, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe. A scarce Rowlandson image.
British Library: 004439254.
[Ref: 10521] £500.00

S.A. Bardsley, M.D. Late Senior Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and formerly Vice President of the Manchester Library and Philosophical Society.
C.A. Duval pinx.t J. Thomson sculp.t
Published by Thos. Agnew Repository of Arts, Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. Strand, London 1848.
Rare mezzotint and etching; Thomas Agnew publisher stamp on edge of lower plate.. Plate 451 x 355mm (17¾ x 14") with very large margins.
Portrait of Samuel Argent Bardsley; nearly whole length, seated in chair, to the right, holding closed book in lap, with legs crossed; books and ink pots on table to his left; in octagon. Dr Samuel Argent Bardsley (1764-1851), the English physician. He was elected physician to the Manchester Infirmary, a position he retained until August 1823, gaining during the thirty-three years great esteem as ‘the very model of an hospital physician.’ Dr. Bardsley published in 1800 ‘Critical Remarks on the Tragedy of Pizarro, with Observations on the subject of the Drama;’ and in 1807 a volume of ‘Medical Reports of Cases and Experiments, with Observations chiefly derived from Hospital practice; also an Enquiry into the Origin of Canine Madness, which detailed research and study on rabies.’ To the ‘Memoirs’ of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, of which he was a vice-president, he contributed in 1798 a paper on ‘Party Prejudice,’ and in 1803 one on ‘The Use and Abuse of Popular Sports and Exercises.’ An expert on rabies.
Wellcome 170
[Ref: 52501] £360.00

[Willem Barentsz in the Arctic] The Ice Bear attack'd & Killed w.th Lances. 7.
S. V. de Melen delin. E. Kirkhall fecit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Fine mezzotint. 175 x 200mm (7 x 8") with very large margins. Repaired tear leaving crease in title.
A scene from the second voyage of Willem Barentsz (c. 1550-97) into the Arctic in search of a Northeast Passage in 1595. A polar bear attacked a shore party, killing two crewmen before being killed itself. On their third expedition (1596) Barentsz and his crew were stranded on Nova Zembla Island for the winter. Needing to hunt polar bears for food, they were the first to record that the bears' livers were toxic (due to the high concentratin of vitamin A).
[Ref: 55648] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy.
Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Hardy sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple, scratched letters, printed in brown. Sheet 270 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides
A half-length seated portait of Turinese writer Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719-89), reading a book held close to his face. After leaving Italy after facing censorship, he moved to London where he was welcomed by the literati: when he was tried for murder in 1769, character witnesses included Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. He was acquitted and soon after became Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, as referenced here.
Hamilton p.5.
[Ref: 67965] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy.
Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Hardy sculp.t.
Pub.d March 6th 1794 by W. Richardson Castle S.t Leicester Square.
Stipple. 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Narrow margins, top left corner lost.
A half-length seated portait of Turinese writer Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719-89), reading a book held close to his face. After leaving Italy after facing censorship, he moved to London where he was welcomed by the literati: when he was tried for murder in 1769, character witnesses included Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. He was acquitted and soon after became Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, as referenced here.
Hamilton p.5. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67964] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Thames Barges.]
D.I. Smart [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1935.]
Etching, 200 x 300mm.
Barges moored on the Thames with warehouses in the background. By Douglas Ian Smart RE (1879 - 1970), watercolourist and etcher and pupil of Short noted for his Thames scenes featuring shipping.
Guichard British Etchers: pg. 59.
[Ref: 7383] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

No. 35. [Barges.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805. [but c.1820.]
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 260 x 365mm, 10½ x 14¼".
A view of workers on barges, published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430, 35.
[Ref: 27026] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Barham Rectory - Suffolk. The Residence of the Rev.d W. Kirby.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by E.A.B.
[n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph. Sheet size: 225 x 157mm. (8¾ x 6¼"). Slight tear off image on right.
The Suffolk home of William Kirby (1759 - 1850), botanist and entomologist; President of the Ipswich Museum. For Kirby's portrait see Ref: 4014.
[Ref: 31400] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Barham Parsonage. The Residence of the Revd. Wm. Kirby MA, FRS, LS, &c. &c.
Mrs. Lathbury delin. 1828. W. Day lithog, 17 Gate Street.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph on india paper, very rare, image 175 x 320mm. 7 x 12½". Wide margins slightly soiled.
The Suffolk home of William Kirby (1759 - 1850), botanist and entomologist; President of the Ipswich Museum. For Kirby's portrait see Ref: 4014.
For Kirby's portrait see item Ref: 4014.
[Ref: 22306] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Countryman in London.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1816.]
Etching. 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9¼").
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis: a barker offers him a bill, 'Milse's Wild Beasts', pointing to a sign inscribed 'Royal Tiger'. The Yale Center for British Art suggests this is an exhbition of George Stubbs' painting. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
YCBA PN6173 .C68.
[Ref: 55381] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Man and horse crossing bridge.]
TB [Thomas Barker, monogram lower left.]
Pen lithograph, rare; sheet 310 x 235mm (12½ x 9"). Tear and hole bottom; foxing; creases.
Early pen lithograph by Thomas Barker of Bath (1767-1827), painter and lithographer who in 1803 contributed to the first set of lithographs ever published. Probably taken from "Thirty Two Lithographic Impression from Pen Drawings of Landscape Scenery", 1814. Views around Bath, Wales, the Lake District and elsewhere.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36702] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Man carrying a chicken on his back]
Th. Barker Bath del. 1802 [signed in reverse on stone lower left]
Very scarce pen lithograph, sheet 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½). Glued to backing sheet at corners; good impression.
One of the first lithographs made in England, by Thomas Barker (1767-1847), painter and lithographer born in Bath. Barker contributed to the first collection of lithographs ever printed in England in 1803, publishing his own series of over forty 'Rustic Figures' in 183 for which many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
For the complete set of 'Rustic Figures', 1813, see ref. 13436
[Ref: 41720] £480.00

[Young Boy Seated]
[Thomas] Barker del.
[Published in 1803 by Philipp Andre.]
Very rare pen lithograph, sheet 285 x 205mm (11¼ x 8"). Laid on backing sheet with aquatint borders, tear in backing sheet taped.
A separately issued early lithograph from 'Specimens of Polyautography'. by Thomas Barker (1769-1847) Barker was born in Wales but was known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841. He also published 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436; See Ref: 36810 without aquatint backing sheet.
[Ref: 58403] £380.00

[Two seated women]
TB [Thomas Barker]
Pen lithograph, with period wash by T. Barker; sheet 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Laid on thick paper; tear on left.
Lithograph from Thomas Barker's (1769-1847) 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Barker was born in Wales but known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36703] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Standing figure with staff]
TB [Thomas Barker]
Pen lithograph, early unfinished proof; sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 5¾"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners; water staining.
Lithograph from Thomas Barker's (1769-1847) 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Barker was born in Wales but known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36704] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Child holding out cap for charity]
TB [Thomas Barker]
Pen lithograph on india with watercolour wash by T. Barker, very rare; 230 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Paper tone and staining lower right.
Lithograph from Thomas Barker's (1769-1847) 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Barker was born in Wales but known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436
[Ref: 36705] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Three children in ragged clothes]
TB [Thomas Barker]
Pen lithograph on india backed onto thicker paper, india 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Crease and tearing to india top left.
Separately published lithograph from Thomas Barker's 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Barker (1769-1847) was born in Wales but known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436.
[Ref: 36709] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Two figures]
TB [Thomas Barker]
Pen lithograph on india backed onto thicker paper with watercolour wash by Thomas Barker, 230 x 165mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed into india border; staining top centre.
Lithograph from Thomas Barker's (1769-1847) 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Barker was born in Wales but known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841.
For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436
[Ref: 36710] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Young Boy Seated]
[Thomas] Barker del.
[Published in 1803 by Philipp Andre.]
Very rare pen lithograph, sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Glued to backing sheet at corners. Crease across centre. Overall staining.
A separately issued early lithograph from 'Specimens of Polyautography'. by Thomas Barker (1769-1847) Barker was born in Wales but was known as "Barker of Bath", after the city he moved to as a young man. As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841. He also published 'Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature' (1813), the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Many of the stones, still bearing Barker's original drawings, are in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For the complete set of 'Forty Lithographic Impressions' see ref. 13436
[Ref: 36810] £380.00

Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature.
Published by Subscription at Bath. December 1813.
Privately printed by the artist, limited edition of 200. Folio, original boards with printed title label, lacking spine, boards detached; title + pp. (iv) + 40 lithographs. Some damp staining to first dozen plates.
Thomas Barker (1769-1847), born in Wales but known as "Barker of Bath". As an expert on fresco technique, Barker advised on the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament in 1841. This work was the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England, printed by Redman of Bath.
[Ref: 13436] £1,150.00 view all images for this item

John Barker Esqr.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Octr. 10th. 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone.
Mezzotint, published state, image 580 x 380mm. 22¾ x 15". Trimmed to printed area; repaired tear on right; occasional pinholes.
Portrait of merchant John Barker (1707 - 1787), governor of the London Assurance Corporation. Seated at a tapestry-covered table, with his hand resting on a chart. Ramsgate harbour in the background. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton p.5, II of II.; CS: 5 (only state listed).
[Ref: 22389] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Robert Barker, Inventor and Proprietor of the Panorama.
G. Ralph pinx.t. J. Singleton Sculp.t.
Published Oct.r 1,,st 1802, by W.m Richardson, York House, Strand.
Rare Stipple. Sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed at sides.
Half-length portrait of Robert Barker (1739-1806), who coined the word 'panorama' in 1792 for his method of painting 360º views on a cylindrical surface. The following year he opened the world's first purpose-built panorama building, in Leicester Square. One of his most successful panoramas, showing London from the roof of Albion Mills, drawn by his son Henry Aston Barker, was published on six sheets in 1792.
[Ref: 57194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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

[J.G.Barlace.]
[after W. Behnes] Rob.t Cooper Scul.t
[n.d., c.1820.]
Proof. Stipple on india. Sheet 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾").
Portrait of James George Barlace (1803-24), a child prodigy who was both an author and artist. He wrote 'An historical sketch of the progress of knowledge in England, from the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, to the end of the reign of Elisabeth' published in 1819, London, sold by J. and A. Arch.
[Ref: 65272] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Diversæ Avium Species Studiosissime ad Vitam delineatæ Per Fra: Barlow Insignissim: Anglum Pictorem.
H. Terasson Fecit London [in cartouche.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1755.]
Etching; 18th century watermark. 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Creasing; small margins.
A cartouche with three birds, one in flight, with trees and church in background, and a dovecote on the left. Pencil drawing of a man verso. Plate 9 of an edition of Francis Barlow's 'Various Birds' published c.1755.
[Ref: 48157] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Barlow Esqr. F.R.S. Acad. Imp. Sc. Petro. Amer. Art. et Sc. Socius. Inst. Nat. Sc. Paris. Acad. Reg. Sc. Brux. Corrsp. &c.
Painted by William Boxall, A.R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.E. Subscribers Proof.
[n.d., c.1853.]
Mezzotint. Plate 454 x 354mm.
Peter Barlow, Mathematician and Physicist.[1776 -1862] wrote on pure and applied mathematics
W: 174-3; BM 1889,1218.170.
[Ref: 1405] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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