Grosvenor Prints

The Story of British Sporting Prints.
Captain Frank Siltzer.
London: Hutchinson & Co. Paternoster Row [n.d. c.1925.]
8vo, orginal cloth gilt; pp. xii + 409, with 4 coloured and 16 b/w illustration.
An account of the history of British sporting prints.
[Ref: 59921] £65.00

[View of British Steam Vessels under Weigh.]
[Published by R Ackermann, 101 Strand, [London, 1820]
Coloured aquatint, unlettered. Sheet 369 x 540mm. 14½ x 21¼". Images cut and laid on separate sheet.
A view of British Steam Vessels under Weigh as Designed and Constructed by Barrodall Robert Dodd of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. The paddle steamer on a pleasure trip in the centre of the image is surrounded by sailing barges, sailing boats and, in the foreground, a rowing boat. An inset shows the interior of the principal cabin of the main vessel; an American vessel to left for comparison purposes.
In the Sciencist & Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 25910] £360.00

[British Vessels at Sea.]
[Pencil signature:] Frank H. Mason.
[n.d. c.1939.]
Etching. 190 x 388mm. 7½ x 15½".
British Naval vessels at sea. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17984] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Diagram of a British warship.]
[n.d., 18th century.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 310 x 360mm (12¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, original binding folds.
A British warship with three decks of cannon, the rigging numbered for a key (not present).
[Ref: 58030] £320.00

A Briton bordering upon the Picts.
[A. van Buysen.]
[n.d. c.1753.]
Engraving. 319 x 221mm (12½ x 8¾"). Cut. Laid on album sheet.
A Briton warrior bordering upon the Picts, a group of Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland.
[Ref: 28979] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Arms & Habits of the Antient Britons.
Saunders del. Storer sculp.
Published Feb. 1. 1799, by G. Nicol, Pall Mall.
Engraving. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"), large margins.
An imaginative illustration of Ancient British soldiers, with curved wooden shields, and druids, with sickles, mistletoe and harps. In the background is a stone circle, a dolmen and an oak tree covered in mistletoe.
[Ref: 67683] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Britons United: The World Cannot Conquer. Though Russia yields the well contested day...
Publish'd Sept.r 1. 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street.
Hnad-coloured etching. Plate: 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾'').
A satirical print showing the figure of Brittannia in the background the sea is full of ships and the beach filled with soldiers. A patriotic scene during the Napoleonic War.
[Ref: 51079] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Brittanias Pocket Pickd by Mercenaries. The choice Spirits, or Puffers for Sig Mingotas Opera. Prussia Mounting the German Eagle.
[Oxford Magazine] [n.d. c.1750]
Engraving, plate 195 x 95mm (7¾ x 3¾"), with large tatty margins.
A strip of three satirical prints. In the top: the figure of Britannia is being accosted by two men as she exclaims, "I'm beat at sea." A third man covers his face with a handkerchief and says, "My ships are lost & I'm ruined." Middle: "Dam ye War," "Dam Property," is being proclaimed by four men who are all playing musical instruments. Bottom: A distressed woman, possibly Empress Elizabeth of Russia (1709-1762), is depicted to the right of King Frederick of Prussia (1712-1786), who is seen holding a bird's wings and uttering the words "I'll pluck your wings." A man is shown running away to the left of the monarch, abandoning his fallen crown.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 62326] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Brittany.]
George Huardel-Bly. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 230 x 175mm (9 x 7'') very large margins. Mint.
A view of the medieval streets in Brittany in northern France.
[Ref: 49381] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Brixham Landing Stage [pencil]. Just Published. Original Etching by Henry G. Walker (Limited Edition).
H G W [in plate]. Henry G. Walker [pencil signature.]
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5") very large margins. In original mount with printed label with publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Slight mount stains.
Henry G. Walker (1876-1932).
[Ref: 49218] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

'Sunset' Brixham [pencil.]
Francis Wells [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching with aquatint, printed in colours. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). A fine impression, mint with large margins.
Fishing boats at Brixham, a picturesque fishing town at the southern end of Torbay on the south Devon coast. Francis Wells (exh. 1897-1938), portrait and landscape painter who studied at the Slade and Royal Academy Schools; lived Milton Abbas, Dorset.
[Ref: 27482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Brixham Harbour Devon [pencil, lower right.]
JHWiley [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 200 x 150mm. 8 x 6".
The quayside with fishing boats at Brixham, a picturesque fishing town at the southern end of Torbay on the south Devon coast. By J.H. Wiley.
Guichard: pg.75, Appendix 1 'Minor Etchers'.
[Ref: 13855] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A View on Brixton Causeway.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map and Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 7.Decr.1782.
Coloured aquatint in sepia. 355 x 250mm.
Brixton Causeway, now Half Moon Lane in South East London, was a major route south from the capital.
[Ref: 5383] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Tread Mill for the Employment of Prisoners, Erected at the House of Correction at Brixton, by M.r W.m Cubitt of Ipswich. Recommended by the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline &c.
Gent. Mag. 1822, Pl 1 P. 9.
Engraving. 220 x 265mm, 8¾ x 10½. With binding folds, as normal.
An outside treadmill, sheltered by a roof, driven by 10 prisoners. Brixton Prison was opened in 1820 and quickly earned a reputation as one of the worst prisons in London, with its small cells overcrowded. This corn mill was installed the following year. During the 1860s the social reformer Edward Smith (1819-1874), who participated in the first govennment-sponsored survey of food consumption in low-income families, complained that the prisoners were maltreated because they received no additional food while toiling on the exhausting 'punitive treadmill'.
[Ref: 23651] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Brixton Prison] Tread Mill. 41.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Engraving. Sheet 90 x 125mm (3½ x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, old ink mss. 'Brixton. 1823'.
An outside treadmill, sheltered by a roof, driven by 10 prisoners. Brixton Prison was opened in 1820 and quickly earned a reputation as one of the worst prisons in London, with its small cells overcrowded. This mill for corn was installed the following year. During the 1860s the social reformer Edward Smith (1819-1874), who participated in the first govennment-sponsored survey of food consumption in low-income families, complained that the prisoners were maltreated because they received no additional food while toiling on the exhausting 'punitive treadmill'.
For larger sizes see 25105 & 23651 for uncut state.
[Ref: 61087] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

City of Brinn & Fortress of Spielberg, Moravia.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
[Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.]
Coloured aquatint, rare. Image area 96 x 170mm (3¾ x 6¾"). Cut.
A view of Brno, and Spilberk Castle, Southern Moravia. The castle dates back to the first half of the 13th century and was built by the Premyslid kings and completed by King Ottokar II of Bohemia. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
[Ref: 31168] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Etherow Viaduct, near Manchester. Drawn & Engraved for the British Gazetteer.
J.F. Burrell del.t. A. Ashley exc.t.
Published (for the Proprietors) by H.G. Collins, 22, Paternoster Row [1851]
Steel engraving, sheet 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Broadbottom Viaduct, spanning the River Etherow between Derbyshire and Cheshire. It was built by Joseph Locke and A.S. Jee for the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, and was completed in 1842.
[Ref: 41598] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

To the Worshipfull Putler Forester of Broadfield in the county of Hertford Esq& this Plate is dedicated
and presented by J. Savage. fo. 74.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾"), large margins. Centre fold. Repaired tear near centre.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. Not much is known about the Hall until Chauncy's series, though it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, however most likely just as an large acreage of land. Arthur Pulter inherited the Broadfield estate in April 1626 on the death of his grandfather, Edward Pulter. He began to build up the manor however died in 1689 and left the completion to his grandson and heir James Forester.
[Ref: 56191] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Broadfoot (Madras) Testimonial.
Designed, Executed in Marble & Etched by Edw.d Richardson, Sculptor, 7 Melbury Terrace, London.
London, 1850.
Etching. 305 x 250mm (12 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, slight soiling on right edge.
The memorial to Major George Broadfoot (1807-45) in Madras Cathedral. A Scottish army officer in the 34th Madras Light Infantry of the East India Company, he was killed at the battle of Ferozeshah during the First Anglo-Sikh War. Etched by Edward Richardson 1812-1869), a sculptor of church monuments and archaeologist who specialised in the restoration of medieval tombs. In 1842 Richardson was commissioned to restore the effigies of the Knights Templar in the Temple church.
[Ref: 65754] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Black Decree: A Carol on the Nativity, Life, and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Printed and sold by D. Batchelar, at the Children's Book, Print, and Toy Warehouse, opposite the Refuge for the Destitute, Hackney Road, Tower Hamlets. [n.d., c.1840.]
Broadsheet, wood engraving & letterpress, scarce. Sheet 380 x 250mm, 15 x 9¾". Some wear.
A broadsheet song about the life of Christ in 22 verses, with eleven wood-engraved scenes. The 'Black Decree' was Herod's order to kill all new-borns because of the prophecy about the birth of Christ. Daniel Batchelar worked from Hackney Road Crescent between 1836 and 1842.
[Ref: 22229] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Cheap Repository. The Carpenter; Or, the Danger of Evil Company.
Sold by S.Hazard, Printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) at Bath; By J. Marshall, Printer to the Cheap Repositories No 17 Queen-Street, Cheap-Side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all Booksellers, Newwsmen, and Hawkers, in Town and Country. [n.d., c.1800.]
Broadsheet with wood engraving. Printed area 390 x 230mm, 15¼ x 9".
One of Hannah More's 'Cheap Repository' tracts, designed to teach the poor her moral beliefs, including sobriety, humility, industry, reverence for the British Constitution, hatred of the French, trust in God and in the kindness of the gentry. Usually three were published every month, and it is estimated that in the late 1790s two million were sold every year, encouraged by the low price. This tract states "Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers. Price an Half-penny, or 2s.3d. per 100. 1s.3d. for 50, 9d for 25".
[Ref: 16708] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

The City Light Horse Volunteers reviewed by Lord Harrington on Wimbledon Common.
Printed & Sold by Edw.d Langley No 173 High Street, Borough and Champante & Whitrow Jewry Street, Aldgate.
Rare copper engraving. 450 x 370mm, 17¾ x 14½". 'Williams' watermark. Small hole, messy at edges.
A broadsheet writing sheet, filled in with a prayer by John Ellyall in 1811. Under the main image are vignettes demostrating six sabre strokes and a bombardier firing a mortar at a castle.
The Light Horse Volunteers, first formed by well-to-do London merchants in 1779 and disbanded in 1783, were re-established in May 1794 as the Light Horse Volunteers of the Cities of London and Westminster. Their chief role was to suppress civil disobedience. However, as rich men with expensive gear, their reputation as soldiers was not good: the Cato Street Conspiritors planned to raid their stables as part of their plot in 1820.
[Ref: 16818] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Receipt to make a County Member. Collect all the Lords in the Countym and especially those who wish most to recommend themselves at court, by undermining and ruining the Government as by Law established. - As a Member cannot be elected from among them, let them chuse some person as like themselves as possible, the nearest and dearest that can be found; suppose for example, an IRISH PEER... Huzza! A Lord for the Freeholder of Hertfordshire.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress broadsheet, rare. Sheet 340 x 200mm, 13¼ x 8". Some creasing.
A broadsheet explaining that an Irish peer could take a seat in the House of Commons. Following the Reform Act the Tory party won the newly formed Hertfordshire third seat in the 1832 General Election – although the result was void with accusations of bribery and corruption!
[Ref: 22233] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[German instructive game.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Copper engraved broadsheet, very scarce. 380 x 310mm, 15 x 12¼". Tears in margins.
A game with ninety numbered squares, similar to an old tombola or type of raffle, each with small illustrations with words in Gothic script underneath.
[Ref: 16834] £620.00

History of England.
Publish'd Oc.bre 29 1771 by J. Farrell Printer , at No 7 PaterNosterRow Cheapside London.
Engraving with old ink mms. Sheet 440 x 355mm (17¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, folds split with loss, repaired tears, bottom left corner ripped off but present, mounted on card. Damaged.
A writing sheet with six scenes from Collier's 'History of England' and a maritime scene.
[Ref: 55060] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Five broadsheet proclaimations sent to the minister at Marden.]
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan [& Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode], Printers to the King's [& Queen's] moste Excellent Majesty, 1820 [-41.]
Five letterpress proclaimations, scarce largest sheet 550 x 440mm, 21¾ x 17¼", glued together on left margin. Some wear and creasing. Damage along bottom.
They are: "A Proclaimation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue", a statement of intent from George IV on his accession in 1820, reissued almost word for word by Queen Victoria in 1837; a proclaimation from the Court of St James's to remind ministers and publishers to replace the words 'King William' with 'Queen Victoria', etc, in the Common Prayerbook, also 1837; an order for the dissemination of a Prayer of Thanksgiving for the birth of Princess Victoria in 1840; and an order to add 'Prince Albert' to the Common Prayerbook in 1841.
[Ref: 16843] £650.00 view all images for this item

By the King, A Proclaimation, requiring Passes, formally granted to Ships and Vessels trading in the Wat of the Cruizers belonging to the Governments on the Coast of Barbary to b returned into the Office of the Admiralty of Great Britain, and other passes to be issued.
Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1765.
Letterpress proclaimation. 475 x 410mm, 18¾ x 16". Laid on board, some loss.
A proclaimation by George III, apparently an attempt to stop "any Abuses that may be attempted by Foreigners".
[Ref: 16846] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Broadstairs.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 1, 1823.
Aquatint with original hand colour, sheet 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Thread margin at top. Trimmed to plate left and right. Paper slightly faded. Some foxing.
From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
[Ref: 66853] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

John Broadwood Esq.r Aged 80.
Painted by John Harrison. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Glocester.
London, Published Aug.st 1, 1812, by the Engraver N.º92 Norton Street, Fitzroy Square.
Fine & rare mezzotint. 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A half-length seated portrait of Scottish painoforte-maker John Broadwood (1732-1812), founder of the London manufacturer Broadwood and Sons. He patented the piano pedal in 1783. The portrait was published three months after he died, in his 80th year.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66074] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Original ink caricature, published in Punch, 1902.]
C.E.Brock, 1902. [signature in ink.]
Pen & ink on card, 210 x 320mm, laid on paper with pencil caption.
Boy (to Young Lady who has been unfortunate as to upset Colonel Bunkes) 'You'd better ride on before 'e gets his breath, Miss. Young Lady: 'Why?' Boy: 'I've 'eard 'im play golf!'
[Ref: 962] £890.00

William Brockedon Esq.r F.R.S. Member of the Florentine and Roman Academies of the Fine Arts. Author of the Passes of the Alps &c. Proof.
Drawn and Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.
London, Published Jan.y 23, 1835. by C. Turner 50 Warren Street Fitzroy Square, Mess.rs Colnaghi Son & Co. Pall Mall East, and S. Rodwell Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins on 2 sides. Trimmed to plate top and left.
A three quarter portrait of painter William Brockedon (1787-1854), holding a porte-crayon and sketchbook. The son of a watch-maker, Brockedon continued the business for five years after his father's death, before turning to painting. He travelled extensively, publishing books with prints of his landscapes. He also wrote the descriptive portion of the text of David Roberts's Egypt and Holy Land, published in 1855, the year after his death. Brockedon also patented several inventions, including one to coat felt with vulcanised india-rubber, creating a substitute for corks, and another for refining graphite for better lead pencils.
Whitman 69, state iii of three. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65242] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Isaac Brodeau] M.r Brodeau of Oxford.
G. Roth Jnr Pinxit et fecit.
[n.d., c.1765.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 150 x 110mm (16 x 4¼"). Trimmed into image at right, into inscription at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
A half-length seated portrait of Isaac Brodeau (d.1768), reading a book, wearing spectacles and a short white bell-bottomed wig. ''The sitter in this portrait is thought to have been either the keeper of a coffee house in Oxford, or a silversmith'' (Christies sale of the painting, 1997). Christies and Alexander identify the painter as George Roth (c.1742-1821), the BM as William (Guillaume) Roth, died c. 1770.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67827] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Ireland] Hon.ble Charles Brodrick, D.D. Archbishop of Cashel.
Painted by H. Hamilton Esq.r. Engraved by C. Turner. Member of the American Academy of Fine Arts.
London, Published Feb.y 20, 1823, by Mr. Turner, 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. Platemark: Small margins. Light creasing. Light spotting to right edge.
A portrait of Charles Brodrick (1761 - 1822), a reforming Irish clergyman and Archbishop of Cashel in the Church of Ireland. In 1795, Brodrick was consecrated as Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, and in 1801, following the preferment of Charles Agar to Dublin, Brodrick was appointed Archbishop of Cashel and Emly and remained in that post until his death in 1822.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Whitman - C. Turner 71.
[Ref: 37703] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

De Winter.
J.Broedelet fecit.
I.Specht excudit. [Utrecht, n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½").
An allegory of winter. A lady seats on a sledge while a cherub ties on her skates. Engraved by Jan Broedelet, possibly after Gerard Hoet, published by Caspar Specht.
[Ref: 970] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of Broham House, Near Bedford. For Sale by Hampton & Sons, 20, St James' Square, S.W.1.
Estates Gazette, Lith, 33-35, Kirby St, E.C.
[n.d., c.1925.]
Lithographic map, printed border 235 x 355mm (9¼ x 14"). Original binding fold.
An estate agent's plan of the land around Broham House, near Bedford.
[Ref: 57640] £160.00

A Broil.
London Published by G.Humphrey 27 St James's Street June 1822.
Fine hand coloured etching. 295 x 225mm (11½ x 9"), with very large margins. Old ink mss. key in French added, letters in plate, explanation in
An affray between three fashionably dressed men and two watchmen with bludgeons in a street at night, under a full moon. The glass of a street-lamp above their heads has been cracked. One watchman has large letters on the back of his greatcoat: St J. W, showing that the parish is that of St. James's or St. John's, Westminster. One of a set of four prints with punning culinary titles by Theodore Lane (1800-28).
BM Satires: 14451.
[Ref: 50679] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Broil.
London Published by G.Humphrey 27 St James's Street June 1822.
Hand coloured etching, 295 x 225mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed close to plate. Stain to image upper left.
An affray between three fashionably dressed men and two watchmen with bludgeons in a street at night, under a full moon. The glass of a street-lamp above their heads has been cracked. One watchman has large letters on the back of his greatcoat: St J. W, showing that the parish is that of St. James's or St. John's, Westminster. One of a set of four prints with punning culinary titles by Theodore Lane (1800 - 1828).
BM Satires: 14451.
[Ref: 11530] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Broil.
London Published by G.Humphrey 27 St James's Street June 1822.
Hand coloured etching, in title area on right in ink T.A. from A.W. 1822; 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9") with large margins. Some creasing.
An affray between three fashionably dressed men and two watchmen with bludgeons in a street at night, under a full moon. The glass of a street-lamp above their heads has been cracked. One watchman has large letters on the back of his greatcoat: St J. W, showing that the parish is that of St. James's or St. John's, Westminster. One of a set of four prints with punning culinary titles by Theodore Lane (1800 - 1828). See also 56450.
BM Satires: 14451.
[Ref: 56449] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Broken Plate.]
peint par M. Kraus. gravé a Paris par J. Schmuzer 1763.
se vend a Vienne par F.K. Stoekl.
Engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾") very large margins. Rust hole half-way up on right.
Domestic interior with a mother seeing that her son has broken a plate while playing with a top. Engraved by Jakob Schmutzer (1733-1811), Vienna-born engraver trained in Paris by the famous printmaker J.G. Wille in 1762-6.
[Ref: 41711] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Broken String.
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1830s.]
Hand-coloured engraving, 200 x 250mm. 8 x 9¾". Margins a little soiled, some filled chips.
A travelling musician sitting rather dejectedly beside a path through a landscape, holding his violin, the bow beside his hat on the ground in front of him. His trusty spaniel is curled up on the ground lower left.
[Ref: 26331] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

William Bromfield, Esqr.
Cosway, R:A: Pinxt. D. Orme, Sculpt.
Sold & Published by D. Orme & Co. No.14, Old Bond Street, London, July 21, 1792.
Stipple with etching, 280 x 210mm. 11 x 8¼". Left margin trimmed. Light marginal foxing.
William Bromfield (1712 - 1792), surgeon to Queen Charlotte, with a human heart on top of an anatomical atlas in front of him. In 1741 he began a course of lectures on anatomy and surgery which attracted a large attendance of pupils. After Richard Cosway (1742 - 1821).
NPG: D14308. Wellcome: 428-1.
[Ref: 12444] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bromley and Sheppard's Colleges] Bromley College in Kent Founded and Endowed by John Warner late B.p of Rochester for Twenty Clergymens Widdows and a Chaplaine AD 1672. This Plate is Humbly inscribed to Lee Warner Esq. of Walsingham in the County of Norfolk 1720.
Thomas Badeslade delin: John Harris sculp.
[c.1720.]
Engraving. 355 x 440mm (14 x 17¼"). Wear in top corners of margin, paper toned. Small margins. Repair top right corner.
A view of the original Bromley College, before the building of Shappard's College in 1840. Designed by Captain Richard Rider, Master Carpenter to the Crown, the almshouse is the oldest building in Bromley and is a Grade 1 listed building.
[Ref: 55244] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon:ble William Bromley Esq Speaker of ye Hon:ble House of Commons & one of Her Majestys most Hon.ble Privy Council.
M. Dahll pinx. 1712.
J. Smith fec. et excudit.
Mezzotint, paper watermarked, small margins. Unidentified collector's stamp on verso. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Portrait of William Bromley, half-length in an oval, wearing long wig, lace cravat, and robe of office; coat of arms in lower margin. Bromley (1664-1732), was Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1710 to 1713 and Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1713 to 1714.
CS: 24.
[Ref: 28961] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

King's Head. Brompton Rd. [ms.]
[by William Pickett.]
[Pub.d June 4th by T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill.]
Aquatint with hand colouring. Sheet approx 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to image;
An inn on Brompton Road, the ancient track to the village of Brompton which extends from Knightsbridge to Fulham Road. From Pickett's 1812 book of 'Ninety-Six Speciments of Cottages-Bridges-Castles-Churches [...] Intended to facilitate the Improvement of the Student, and to aid the Practitioner, in Landscape Composition'. Aside from its function as an educational volume, the scenes in the book also provide many unusual views of London in the early 19th century.
Abbey (Life in England) 168.
[Ref: 32301] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Chapel, Brompton Hospital.] To The Rev.d Sir Henry Foulis Bart. The Donor of the Chapel for the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, and to the Committee of that Institution under whose management the building has been erected this View is respectfully inscribed by their most obedient Serv.t Edw.d Buckton Lamb, Arch.t.
F. Bedford, lith. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾''). Dusty.
A view of the chapel at Brompton Hospital for consumption built and developed during the 1840s.
[Ref: 50531] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte Brontë.]
[After G.Richmond.] Signed in pencil, G.Sidney Hunt.
Published 1922 by The Museum Galleries, 26 Museum Street, London. W.C. Copyright.
Stipple. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
Portrait of Charlotte Nicholls (1816 - 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the male pseudonym Currer Bell.
[Ref: 65293] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Rev. Patrick Brontë.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Half-tone, with large margins. Printed area 150 x 190mm.
A half-tone plate from a photograph of the Reverend Patrick Brontë (1777-1861), father of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, all famed authors, all of whom he outlived. He wears a high collar called a 'wellington'. Born in Ireland as Patrick Prunty or Brunty, he changed his name while studying at Cambridge, in honour of Horatio Nelson, who held the Italian honour of Duke of Brontë.
[Ref: 35318] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

From an antique Bronze in the possession of Thomas Hollis Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A.
J.B. Cipriani del. J. Basire sculp.
Sumptibus Societatis Antiquariorum Londini MDCCLXV
Engraving, platemark 535 x 350mm (21 x 13¾"). Small margins.
Engraving of an extraordinary bronze sculpture owned by the political propagandist Thomas Hollis (1720-74). An ardent supporter of the arts, Hollis commissioned six paintings from Canaletto and gave numerous commissions to G.B. Cipriani (from whose drawing this print was made). Hollis also had a strong relationship with James Basire, the engraver of this plate, as recounted by Richard Goddard in a recent publication, '"Drawing on Copper": The Basire family of copper-plate engravers and their works', pp.113-7).
Provenance: Thomas Pitt 1st Baron Camelford
[Ref: 45275] £620.00

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From an antique Bronze in the possession of Thomas Hollis Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A.
J.B. Cipriani del. J. Basire sculp.
Sumptibus Societatis Antiquariorum Londini MDCCLXV
Engraving, platemark 535 x 350mm (21 x 13¾"). Small margins. Cut to plate at bottom.
Engraving of an extraordinary bronze sculpture owned by the political propagandist Thomas Hollis (1720-74). An ardent supporter of the arts, Hollis commissioned six paintings from Canaletto and gave numerous commissions to G.B. Cipriani (from whose drawing this print was made). Hollis also had a strong relationship with James Basire, the engraver of this plate, as recounted by Richard Goddard in a recent publication, '"Drawing on Copper": The Basire family of copper-plate engravers and their works', pp.113-7).
Provenance: Thomas Pitt 1st Baron Camelford
[Ref: 45276] £550.00

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Elevation of Eight Houses to be Erected in Brook Street, Hanover Square.
On Stone by G. Hawkins Junr. Elger, Builder, South St, Park Lane. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
[London, c.1845.]
Scarce and fine lithograph on india paper, india 270 x 435mm. 10½ x 17". Repaired tears in margins; some staining.
Magnificent architectural prospective view of eight houses in Brook Street, Mayfair. One of the principal streets on the Grosvenor Estate, Brook Street was developed in the first half of the 18th century and runs from Hanover Square to Grosvenor Square. Figures, horses and carriages to street in foreground.
Guildhall Library Record: 20555.
[Ref: 18768] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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