Grosvenor Prints

Sweet William.
Stubbs pinx. J.G.B.
Hullmandel No. 10. [n.d., c.1840.]
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet size: 360 x 450mm (14¼ x 17½"). Very light mount burn.
A portrait of the racehorse 'Sweet William', standing in profile to the left. Sweet William was bred by William Cornforth of Barforth, near Richmond, Yorkshire, and was bought by Lord Bolingbroke, for whom he won his first race in 1772, at the New Market Spring Meeting. His success brought him to the attention of one of George Stubbs's most important patrons, Richard, 1st Earl Grosvenor, a celebrated breeder and racehorse owner, who promptly purchased Sweet William. The horse remained in Lord Grosvenor's ownership thereafter. The original portrait was one of sixteen paintings which Stubbs executed for the Turf Gallery project.
Ex Collection: the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35375] £490.00

Sweet William's Farewell, to Black Eyed Susan.
P. Monemie Pinx.t. Foudrinier sculp from the Original Painting in Vaux-hall Garden.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Published by F. West, 83, Fleet S.t, London [n.d., c.1830].
Coloured engraving. 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"), with large margins. Mount burn, spot on left edge.
An illustration to John Gay's poem of the same name which tells the tale of Susan, whose eyes are black from crying. The scene shows Susan standing in a boat heading away from the ship. Gay's poem was set to music by Richard Leveridge and became a popular song amongst sailors. Originally published 1743, this example was issued by Francis West, along with many other Bowles plates. Australian & American interest.
See Ref: 47341 for an earlier cut version.
[Ref: 58537] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Sweet William's Farewell, to [Black Eyed Susan.]
P. Monemie Pinx.t. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Foudrinier sculp from the Original Painting in Vaux-hall Garden.
[London Printed for Bowles and Carver No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard & Robert Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill.][c.1800.]
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet: 290 x 470mm (11½ x 18½"). Trimmed within plate on bottom edge losing some title, text and publication line.
An illustration to John Gay's poem of the same name which tells the tale of Susan, whose eyes are black from crying. The scene shows Susan standing in a boat heading away from the ship. Gay's poem was set to music by Richard Leveridge and became a popular song amongst sailors. Originally published 1743.
See Ref: 58537 uncut version
[Ref: 47341] £460.00

[Unrecorded plate of Stubbs' Sweetbrier] Sweetbryer.
G.Stubbs pinx.t. Geo.e Townley Stubbs sculp. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
London publish'd [***] by Mess.rs Stubbs, Turf Gallery Conduit Street.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours and hand finished, title in open letters. Publication line excludes date. 400 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"), with large margins. Framed. Repairs in sky, publication date unprinted. Unexamined out of frame.
Sweetbriar, a black colt foaled in 1769, raced for Lord Grosvenor 1773-5, retiring to stud unbeaten. In the background is Grosvenor's stud farm at Oxcroft, Cambridgeshire. This image of this plate is identical to 'Sweetbrier' (Lennox-Boyd 112), other than detail in the clouds; however the plate is 1cm smaller, height and width, with an alternative spelling of the horse's name, as used in the smaller-format version.
[Ref: 54815] £2,000.00

Sweetwilliam.
G. Stubbs pinx.t. Geo. Townley Stubbs Sculp. Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
London, Republished June 4., 1817, by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, Corner of Brook Street.
Stipple, printed in colour and hand finished. 405 x 505mm (16 x 20"). Small area of damage under horse's body. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of the racer Sweetwilliam, standing in a paddock facing left, with Sweet William flowering at his feet. Foaled about 1770, Sweetwilliam raced for Lord Bolingbroke until 1778, when he went to stud at Lord Grosvenor's Oxcroft estate.
Lennox-Boyd: 118, state III of III.
[Ref: 54814] £1,850.00

The Rev:d Doctor Jonathan Swift Dean of St: Patricks.
C. Jarvis [Charles Jervas] Principal Painter to his Ma.tie Pinxit. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.
[n.d., c.1730
Etching with engraving. 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"), large margins Slight damage in title area "Doctor Swift".
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), seated in an armchair, holding a quill. After the second portrait of Swift painted in oils by Charles Jervas c.1718, now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 278).
[Ref: 60519] £360.00

Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem, Plin. Espist.
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, fine impression. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼''). Trimmed.
A portrait of writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), frontispiece to Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life & Writings of Swift' 1752.
[Ref: 50014] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

D.r Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habemimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist.
Ravenet sculp. [after Rupert Barber.]
[n.d., 1752.]
Fine etching with engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Oval bust portrait of Jonathan Swift, the frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift'.
[Ref: 58544] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Swift.
Walker sculp. [after Charles Jervas.]
[n.d. c.1779.]
Engraving. 127 x 76mm (5 x 3"). Cut.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the satirist and divine; author of Gulliver's Travels. He was Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, from 1713, but his support for the Tories cost him further preferment and after 1715 he lived mostly in Ireland, after a short visit to London where he met Addison, Steele and Congreve.
[Ref: 24490] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Dean Swift and the Post Boy.
A.M. del et sc.
London Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 3 Feb. 1806.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate
A satirical print involving Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and a post boy. The boy having been charged with delivering a turbot to the Dean charms into giving him half a guinea for his trouble.
BM Satire 10657.
[Ref: 41369] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Swift.
For the Lond: Mag:
Printed for R. Baldwin in Pater Noster Row 1754.
Engraving. 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate on left.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) after Richard Barber, shown in an oval, without a wig. An Irish-born writer and dean of St. Patrick's, he is best known for his satirical works, including 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'A Modest Proposal'.
[Ref: 53258] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habebimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist..
B. Wilson Fecit 1751.
Etching, sheet 165 x 95mm (6½ x 3¾"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Chiefly remembered as author of 'Gulliver's Travels' (first published 1726 and now perhaps the most-read of all eighteenth-century literary works) and as a satirist has few rivals in the English language. Epigram from Pliny's 'Epistles' below. Original etching by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 42099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[La natation.] [Swimming.]
Chaurand [signed in plate lower right.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Limited edition proof lithograph, numbered 4/24 in pencil lower left. Sheet 445 x 560mm, 17½ x 22".
Two female swimmers. From a series of lithographs depicting Olympic sports, 'Les jeux Olympiques', possibly designs for posters, by Jean Raoul Chaurand-Naurac (1878 - 1948).
[Ref: 11357] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Fair Start. ''Take de water togedder when yous hear de shot'' [&]. The Result in Doubt. ''De one you's gets de water outen fust, am de winner''.
King & Murphy Dels.
Published by Currier & Ives. Copyright 1884, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. 115 Nassau St. New York.
A pair of hand-coloured lithograph. Sheets: 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17''). Repaired tear top right.
A pair of scenes showing two African Americans engaging in a swimming race. In the first scene the two swimmers prepare to race while four spectators, one with a starting gun watch from a boat. The second scene shows the two swimmers laid out on the jetty having water pumped out of them after the race.
[Ref: 48591] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Morning Dip [in pencil].
J. H. Dowd [in pencil and in image].
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching signed by the artist, 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"), with very large margins.
Children swim in a large bathing pond amongst a wooded area. James Henry Dowd (1883 - 1956) specialised in images of children, and portrayed his subjects in a less sentimental way than some of his contemporaries, such as Eileen Soper.
[Ref: 62606] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Swimming for ladies. Punch's Pocket book for 1860.
[John Leech]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1860]
Coloured etching, sheet 125 x 225mm (5 x 8¾"). Folded as issued, lacking frontis.
A scene at a Victorian swimming pool. Fully clothed ladies swim, some holding onto ropes, one tethered with another woman holding the rope. Others stand around the pool. Illustration for Follies of the Year by John Leech, a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844–1864, published by Bradbury Evans & Co. John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63852] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Swimming in the Stream.] 32.
TB [monogram lower left: Thomas Barker of Bath.]
[Bath, D. Redman, 1814.]
Pen lithograph. 310 x 240mm. 12¼ x 9½".
Two people, a man and a woman, dragging themselves out of the water after a swim, with their dog; a third person wades in the stream in the distance. From "Thirty Two Lithographic Impression from Pen Drawings of Landscape Scenery", 1814. Views around Bath, Wales, the Lake District and elsewhere.
[Ref: 23862] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Edw.d Swinburn Bar.t. Proof.
Painted by J. Ramsay. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Pub. 3rd April 1821 for the Proprietor, by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Sons, Cockspur Str.t & M.r Molteno Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, open letter proof. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Some foxing in borders, slight surface cracking in inscription area.
Half-length seated portrait of Sir John Edward Swinburne (1762-1860), wearing dark coat and eyepatch. A Whig politician and patron of the arts, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Whitman 551. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66454] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Edw.d Swinburn Bar.t. Proof.
Painted by J. Ramsay. Engraved by C. Turner.
London, Pub. 3rd April 1821 for the Proprietor, by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Sons, Cockspur Str.t & M.r Molteno Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, open letter proof. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with very large margins. Some foxing. Uncut.
Half-length seated portrait of Sir John Edward Swinburne (1762-1860), wearing dark coat and eyepatch. A Whig politician and patron of the arts, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Whitman 551. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66455] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Canofiena in Roma.
Pinelli Fece 1815 Roma.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾''). Small margins.
An Italian scene showing men and woman on a large swing in Rome.
[Ref: 49192] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Swing. On two near Elms the slacken'd Cord I hung, ... 211.
London; Publish'd as the Act directs, 20.th July, 1786, by Rob.t Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. Framed. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Tear in sky with taped stains. Unexamined out of frame.
A young man swings a pretty shepherdess on a rope strung between two trees. He stares at her pettycoat and ankles. A rustic scene inspired by Jean-Honoré Fragonard's iconic painting.
[Ref: 66088] £490.00

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Small margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Narrow margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv.
[Ref: 67516] £320.00

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
[Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line, folded in centre.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67540] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, repaired tears, creased.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67541] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Ketly. Costume Suisse.
Numa pinxt. Imp. Lemercier. Regnier et Bettannier lith.
[Paris: H. Gache & London: J. Bouvier, n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph in fine contemporary colour by hand, image 250 x 195mm. 9¾ x 7¾". Margins trimmed [through publisher's imprint].
A woman in traditional Swiss alpine dress holding a wicker fan in her left hand; a wooden chalet in the landscape behind. From a series of national costume plates.
[Ref: 23942] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Berne Houper.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet 279 x 215mm. 11 x 8½". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A man dressed in Swiss costume, pouring wine into a glass.
[Ref: 24118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Encien Magistrat Suisse.
de Jean Weigel
A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. A.D.P.R [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour, with gold leaf border. 274 x 166mm.
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: 8567] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Swiss Chalet.]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured aquatint with painted borders. Sheet 260 x 336mm (10¼ x 13¼").
A fine view of a Swiss Chalet, in the Alps, with a cow herder coming down the lane to the left.
[Ref: 30398] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Swiss Costumes. [set of 4] No. 1; Vaud, Unterwalden, Tyrol, Tessin, Uri, Zurich. No. 2; Valais, Neuchatel, Soleure, Appenzell, Lucerne, St. Gall. No.3; Schaffhouse, Schwyz, Genève, Frybourg, Forèt noire, Bâle. No. 4; Thurgovie, Grisons, Argovie, Glarus, Berne, Zoug.
London. Pub. by R. Ackermann. 101. Strand.
Mixed method, with large margins, hand coloured. 290mm x 240mm, (11½" x 9½") each. Scarce.
Set of four prints, numbered 1 to 4, each with six depicitions of Swiss costumes according to geographic area.
[Ref: 32006] £330.00 view all images for this item

[Maison Suisse du Canton de Berne pres du lac de Thoune.]
Al.b Beaumont sculp.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching. Sheet: 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼''). Trimmed.
A scene in Switzerland showing a man looking after cows, a woman with a basket and a group of children playing with animals before a chalet style building. By Auguste Bouthillier de Beaumont (1842-1899).
[Ref: 49657] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

From a Drawing of Haeslen in 1701.
Engraved by Basan.
Gent. Mag. July, 1767.
Engraving. Plate 191 x 115mm. 7½ x 4½". Trimmed to the plate along the top and right-hand edge.
A Swiss couple from Haslen, standing in an archway with a stable door and vines growing over the top. He stands holding a small glass of wine looking towards the viewer, whilst his wife leans in looking at him tenderly, holding the bottle of wine (empty!).
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18818] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Sapeur des gardes suisses.]
J.G. Wille fecit.
[Paris: Johann Georg Wille, 1779.]
Etching with engraving, proof before title. Unidentified collector's stamp in inscription area.
Head and shoulders portrait of a soldier with a crossed-axes emblem on his busby and shoulder belt.
Nayler 197
[Ref: 63327] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Silk sample.] Exposition Industrielle Suisse. Metiers à Rubans de Fréderic Wahl mécanicien à Bâle.
1867. F. Weber.
Machine-made illustrated silk sample. 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾").
A souvenir of the Swiss Industrian Exposition, with the Swiss flag, a scene of an alpine lake and roses.
[Ref: 36486] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Swiss Landscape.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving on india, small margins, proof before all letters. Plate 229 x 291mm (9 x 11½").
A pastoral scene with shepherds, sheep and goats in the foreground with a walled town and castle behind; Switzerland.
[Ref: 31092] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Swiss landscape with a small village and church set at the base of the mountains, where further houses are seen up the steep mountainside.]
[Wolf pinxit. Descourtis sculp.]
[Yntema Amdsterdam, 1785.]
Coloured aquatint. Proof before all letters. 292 x 375mm. 11½" x 14¾". Stain in the top right-hand corner, and crease in the bottom left-hand corner.
HENTZI, Rudolph, [editor]. Vues Remarkables des Montagnes de la Suisse, Dessinees et Peintes d''Apres Nature, Avec Leur Description. J. Yntema 1785 One of the Earliest and Rarest Alpine Colour Plate Books.
[Ref: 9383] £360.00

Vue de Château d'Unspunnen et de ses environs.
[After Gabriel Lory le père][Engraver Johann Hurlimann].
[n.d. c.1822.]
Hand coloured aquatint, pt J. Whatman watermark, sheet 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Trimmed within platemark. Some creases and spots on image.
A landscape view of the ruins of Unspunnen Castle and its surroundings, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The scene depicts a valley with snowy peaks in the distance, the Unspunnen Castle on the right and some houses and cows in the middle ground. A group of three figures resting in the left foreground.
[Ref: 58903] £320.00

[Text illustration from Stumpf's 'Schwytzer Chronica'.]
[Cut by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder?]
[Zurich 1548.]
Woodcut, 80 x 170mm, 3¼ x 6¾", set in letterpress with three woodcut armorials. Minor worming in margin.
An army on a barge being hauled across a lake to a city's walls. The page is headed 'Von dem Zürychgow' (the Canton of Zürich). Johannes Stumpf (1500-1574) was a German theologian and historian who was given civic rights in Zurich in 1548. His 'Schwytzer Chronica' is a richly-illustrated history of the Swiss 'Old Confederacy' (1293-1523), with most of the 400 woodcut illustrations engraved by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder.
[Ref: 23486] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[A major Grand Tour Album with 35 views of Switzerland lakes in superb hand colour.]
[various painters and engravers.]
[Switzerland, no dates but published 1819-1829.]
Large folio (475 x 360mm, 18¾ x 14¼"), half morocco with marbled boards, rebacked with calf; 35 colour-printed aquatints, finely finished by hand, tipped onto guards with tissue; 25 leaves of descriptive text, 18 in contemporary ink mss. Binding rubbed, one plate loose at rear, staining in margins of text leaves, ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 1842.
A fantastic Grand Tour Survivor, a collection of the finest aquatints in mint condition, including plates from Johann Jakob Wetzel's 'Voyage pittoresque aux Lacs de Zurich, Zug, Lowers, Egeri et Wallenstadt' (1819) and 'Voyage pittoresque au Lac Geneve' (1820); Gabriel Lory's 'Voyage pittoresque de l'Oberland bernois' (1822) and 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' (1829), and Samuel Birmann's Souvenirs de la vallée de Chamonix (1826). The plates are: 'Les Isles Borromées' (engraved by Rordorf after Wetzel); 'San Martino vers Porlezzo' (Rordorf after Wetzel); 'Lugano' (Rordorf after Wetzel); 'Villa Pliniana' (Hurlimann after Wetzel); 'Vue de Lausanne et de l'Extrémité Occidentale' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de Clarens et de l'Extrémité Orientale' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Château de Chillon' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'La Chûte du Rhin prise de la rive droite' (Hurlimann after Wetzel); 'La Chûte du Rhin prise de la rive gauche' (Hurlimann after Wetzel); 'Vue d'Arth' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'Vue de la Caverne de St. Beat Audessus du Lac de Thoune' (Lory);' Maison de Paysan Près d'Unterseen'; 'La Cascade du Giessbach' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Chute Supérieure du Staubbach'; 'Vue de la Cascade du Schmadribach au Fond de la Vallée de Lauterbrunnen' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de Grindelwald' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue des Montagnes du Wetter-Horn, Well-Horn, et du Glacier de Rosenlaui' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Les Cascades de Dorfbach et Alpbach à Meyringen' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Pont sur l'Aar au Passage du Grimsel' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Les Pierres sur le Glacier de l'Aar' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de l'Hospice du Grimsel' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Le Repas Champetre' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Ringgenberg' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'Le Chateau de Thoun' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'Vue de la Ville de Neuchatel' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de la Ville de Berne prise sur la Route de Thoune' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de Pont du Diable' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Gorge de Cluse' (Birmann); 'À la Flégère' (Birmann); 'Glacier des Bossons' (Birmann); 'Environs de Sallenche' (Birmann); 'Lac de Chède' (Birmann); 'Les Lutteurs de l'Oberland Bernois' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell sur le Lac des Quatre Cantons' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue d'Interlaken' (Weber after Meyer).
[Ref: 63224] £6,500.00 view all images for this item

Vue de la Source de l'Arveron.
[Anon., c.1820]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 275 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½"). Trimmed.
A view of the Arveyron river emerging from the Mer de Glace, before merging with the Arve in Chamonix. It shows the grotto-like vault from which the river once emerged, painted by J.M.W. Turner in his 'Source of the Arveron in the Valley of Chamouni Savoy', 1816.
For similar view see ref. 33789.
[Ref: 39643] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne bernoise des environs de la ville
[Anon, c.1805]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Peasant girl from the outskirts of Bern in Switzerland, holding a pitchfork with workers gathering hay bales in background.
[Ref: 39637] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Fluelen.
Dessiné d'après nature par J. Wetzel. Gravé par F. Hegi
[n.d., c.1820]
Fine aquatint printed in colour, sheet 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11").
Distant view of the municipality of Flüelen in the canton of Uri, Switzerland, with Lake Lucerne in the foreground. From a series of landscapes after Swiss artist Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834).
See also refs. 31933-4.
[Ref: 39639] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne Freibourgeoise, de la partie romande du Canton
[Anon, c.1805]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed; nicked upper right.
Peasant girl from the French-speaking part of the Canton of Fribourg, in the west of Switzerland.
[Ref: 39636] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Paysanne de Gouggisberg
[Anon, c.1805]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Peasant girl from the municipality of Guggisberg in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. In the early 19th century Guggisberg was a popular tourist destination because of its mountain views.
[Ref: 39635] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Interlaken
[Anon., c.1805]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 95 x 135mm (3¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and title; glued to backing sheet.
The district of Interlaken in the canton of Bern in Switzerland; cattle in foreground.
[Ref: 39634] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Lac de Geneve.
[probably published 1791 by Thomas Gowland.]
Etching with hand-colouring, 18th century watermark; sheet 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Trimmed.
View on lake Geneva, on the north side of the Alps between Switzerland and France.
[Ref: 39648] £360.00

La dot d'une paysanne lucernoise
[Anon, c.1830]
Rare lithograph with very fine hand colouring, sheet 215 x 340mm (8½ x 13½").
Newly-married couple from the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, in a cart carrying the bride's dowry.
[Ref: 39651] £460.00

La noce Lucernoise.
[Anon, c.1830]
Rare lithograph with very fine hand colouring, sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Some staining.
Wedding celebrations in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
[Ref: 39650] £360.00

Bergér d'Oberhasli, tenant la trompe des Alpes.
G.L. 1805 [in image lower left]
Etching with fine hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed.
Shepherd from the Hasli region of Switzerland in the Canton of Bern, holding an Alpine horn.
[Ref: 39638] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Alpine shepherd scene]
[Gabriel Lory, c.1814]
Etching and aquatint with very fine hand-colouring, sheet 275 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"). Trimmed.
Shepherd milking a cow while a shepherdess holds a bucket with city in background. Alpine scene by Gabriel Lory, the younger (1784-1846), Swiss painter, watercolourist and engraver. Lory's wife Louise de Meuron supervised the production and colouring of Lory's prints while the artist travelled abroad in search of commissions. In 1814, around the time this print was made, Lory arrived in England via Guernsey (Ackermann published an English translation of Lory's popular 'Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon' in 1820.
[Ref: 39642] £450.00

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