Grosvenor Prints

The Right Hon.ble George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron.
Painted and Drawn by J.s Holmes. Engraved by H. Meyer.
London, Published Nov.r 8th 1821, for the Proprietor by H. Meyer, 3 Red Lion Square, Bloomsb.y.
Stipple, rare. 380 x 275mm (15 x 11¾"). Trimmed to plate. Bit messy. Some image loss.
Portrait of Lord Byron (1780-1824), by miniaturist James Holmes (1777-1860), 'the last he sat for in England' as stated on the print, and published soon after Byron's death. In the year of publication Holmes became a founder member of the Society of British Artists, of which he was later made president.
NPG D19968.
[Ref: 44105] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
From a Sketch by Count D'Orsay talen in May 1823.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Soft ground etching; Sheet 215 x 130mm (8½ x 5¼").
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), poet, from a sketch from life by the Comte Alfred D'Orsay while Byron was in Genoa, a year before his death.
[Ref: 34211] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Byron. From a Bust by Bartolini of Florence, made from the life a Pisa in 1822.
Ingrey & Madeley lithog 310 Strand
London, Pub.d by J. Hunt, Examiner Office Tavistock St.t Strand. 1824.
Lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of the poet Lord Byron (1788-1824).
[Ref: 45732] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Lord Byron.]
Painted by T. Holmes. Engraved by H.T. Ryall.
London, Published Septr. 1, 1835, (for Mr. Holmes) by F.G. Moon, Printseller to the King, 20 Threadneedle Street.
Stipple portrait, facsimile autograph letter from Byron to the artist Holmes below. India laid paper, 305 x 230mm. 12 x 9". Trimmed within plate, lacking title etc; the image a strong impression.
Interesting portrait of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet. In the facsimile mss., from the original letter dated May 18th 1823 in the possession of Byron's sister Mrs. Leigh, the great poet expresses his admiration for the likeness by miniature painter James Holmes (1777 - 1860), and requests an impression of the print.
NPG D8821.
[Ref: 19688] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Byron sometimes Biron [facsimile signatures.]
C. Sanders. W. Holl.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving with stipple. 268 x 204mm. 10½ x 8".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23996] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lays of Byron. No 1. 'I Would I Were a Careless Child'. The Poetry selected from His Lordship's Works. The Nusic Composed by S. Nelson.
M. Gauci Lit. From a Miniature painted from life in 1813 by M. Gauci. Printed by Engelman & Co.
London, Cramer Addison & Bale [Beale], 201, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Tear in right edge.
The cover of a music sheet, with a portrait of Byron
[Ref: 41774] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Byron.] Bryon [facsimile signature.]
Fk. Holpin Sc. Genoa Mai 1823. A. D'Orsay fecit [facsimile signature in plate].
London, Published by John Mitchell, 32, Old Bond St. Printed by Graf & Soret.]
Lithograph on india, printed area approx 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"). Uncut sheet.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron [1788 - 1824], poet. Taken from a sketch from life by the Comte D'Orsay of Byron while he was in Genoa in 1822-3. During this period Byron wrote cantos 10-16 of Don Juan along with other works, before setting sail for Greece where he died while involved in the Greek war of Independence. By Alfred Guillaume D'Orsay, styled Count D'Orsay (1801-52), artist and dandy. D'Orsay and his lover Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington were at the centre of fashionable London life and gathered around them many of the social and literary celebrities of their time. This portrait comes from a series of 125 of his profile sketches which include most of the celebrities of the day. Many of the related pencil sketches are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[Ref: 37539] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[George Byron]. Clime of the unforgotten brave! [...]
Drawn from a Sketch in the Possession of the Comte Demitris Deladesina, in Cephalonia:
corrected & Published in London, Feb.y 1825 by A Friedel, Publisher of Portraits of all the principal Greek Chiefs.
Lithograph. Sheet 390 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½"). Slight foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait of Lord George Byron, wearing one of three cavalry helmets he had made, based upon descriptions of armour in Homer's Iliad, with his crest on the brow. One of the three is held in the National Historical Museum of Greece.
[Ref: 56203] £490.00

[George, Lord Byron]
T. Phillips R.A. pinxit. C. Warren sculpsit.
[c.1824]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, proof before title; 270 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic' collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter."
Not in O'D; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34944] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Lord Byron]
Armstrong sc. [ms]
[Pub. by J. Murray, 1819]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Tipped into album sheet. Manuscript in lower margin: in pencil "Unpublished print by Armstrong only 20 impressions from this plate which was then destroyed".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic' collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
O'D 27; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34945] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron [ms]
[possibly by J.S. Agar, 1814]
Line engraving on india, proof before letters, with very large margins; platemark 220 x 180mm (8¾ x 7"). Tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic' collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
O'D 27?; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34946] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron after Phillips, 1831 [ms in lower margin]
[possibly by R. Woodman]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, platemark 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Proof before letters; tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic' collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
O'D 28?; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34947] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron
Painted by T. Phillips, R.A. Engraved by Edw.d Finden
London, Published by John Murray, 1827
Line engraving on india with very large margins, platemark 190 x 115mm (7½ x 6"). Tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic' collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
Not in O'D; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34949] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Byron. Engraved by R. Cooper from a Bust by Bertolini of Florence. Made from life at Pisa in 1822.
Published by Henry Colburn, London, November 25, 1824.
Engraving. Sheet: 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Engraving of a bust made of Lord Byron (1788-1824) in Pisa by Bertolini. Byron was an English poet and leading figure in the Romantic movement, he travelled throughout Europe and participated in the Greek War of Independence.
[Ref: 35355] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. From the Original Picture in the Possession of John Murray, Esq.
Painted by Tho.s Phillips, R.A. Engraved by Rob.t Graves. Printed by R. Lloyd.
[London: Published March 1st 1836 by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6 Pall Mall.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line. Small repaired tear lower right border. Slight marks in title.
The famous portrait of Lord George Byron owned by his publisher.
[Ref: 57545] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Rare stipple, proof before artist and engraver name, and publication line, with large margins. Plate 229 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"). Slight rubbing on left.
George George Byron (1788-1824), the famous poet; seen here in a rare portrait as a young man with a pillar and curtains behind.
[Ref: 31216] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. No.4 Lady's Magazine.____April 1815.
J. Heath A.R.A. sculp.t
Published May 1.1815 by G. & S. Robinson, Paternoster Row.
Stipple, with large margins. Plate 165 x 108mm (6½ x 4¼").
George George Byron (1788-1824), the famous poet; looking young and handsome. From the Lady's Magazine, 1815.
[Ref: 31308] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Byron].
M. Gauci Lit. From the minature painted from life in 1813 by M. Gauci.
Printed by Engelmann & co.
Rare lithograph.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him aa a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 31666] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
Painted by T. Phillips Esq.e R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Pub.d by T. Phillips Feb.y 1822
Mezzotint, platemark 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"). Fine with very large margins.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
Whitman 45
[Ref: 31882] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. Par Le Comte D'Orsay.
Comte D'Orsay Pinxit. F.C.Lewis, Engraver of Drawings to the Queen, & G.C. Lewis, Sculpt.
London, Published May 10th 1845, for the Proprietor, by Henry Graves & Co., Pall Mall ~ also by John Mitchell, Old Bond Street. Goupil et Vibert, Paris Deposé.
Mixed-method with facsimile signature of Byron and printseller's blindstamp, very scarce, with large margins. Platemark: 535 x 410mm. (21 x 16¼").
Large and uncommon portrait of the young Byron at sea. George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
[Ref: 29936] £320.00

Lord Byron. Proof.
Painted by T. Phillips, engraved by S. W. Reynolds.
Pub.d by T. Phillips, Feb.y 1822.
Fine mezzotint. 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"), with large margins.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic' collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
Whitman: 45
[Ref: 53855] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Byron.]
W.E. West pinxit. J.T. Wedgewood Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 250 x 210mm, 9¾ z 8¼". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet. From the painting by William Edward West (1788 - 1857) in the National Galleries of Scotland collection. West made a name for himself as a painter of miniature portraits in his native Kentucky whilst still in his teens. A benefactor financed his studies in Thomas Sully's studio in Philadelphia. He visited Italy in 1819 and stayed in Europe for the next twenty years. In 1825 he moved to London but financial difficulties forced him to go back to America. Washington Irving, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron were among his most celebrated sitters.
NGS Accession no: PG 1561.
[Ref: 17444] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
Emidio Cateni dis. Bartolini Scolpi. Raff. Morghen inc. 1822.
Firence presso Luigi Bardi e Co. Borgo degli Albizzi No.460.
Engraving, with very large margins, open letter state with publication line. Plate 260 x 210mm. 10¼ x 8¼".
Marble bust of Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement, celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
NPG: D17067.
[Ref: 23992] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Byron.
Publie par Pourrat F. a Paris. [n.d., c.1835.]
Stipple and engraving, sheet 240 x 160mm. 9½ x 6¼". Trimmed within plate on two sides.
Portrait of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet, after Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845).
[Ref: 13794] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Byron.
[Lithographed by Ingrey and Madeley of London, after Bartolini's bust.]
[Published by John Hunt, 1824.]
Lithograph, framed. Frame 243 xx 179mm. 9½ x 7". Scarce.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet.
[Ref: 17754] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Byron.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed into plated and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Vice-Admiral John Byron (1723 - 1786), British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the press because of his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. He fought in battles in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. He rose to Vice Admiral of the White before his death in 1786. His grandsons include the poet Lord Byron and George Anson Byron, admiral and explorer, who were the 6th and 7th Baron Byron, respectively.
[Ref: 64145] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Ant. Friedr. Büsching. Geb. zu. Stadthagen d:27. Sept. 1724. Gest. zu Berlin d.28 May. 1793.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Stipple. Plate 140 x 94mm. 5½ x 3¾".
Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724-1793) was a German geographer, historian, educator and theologian. His 'Erdbeschreibung' was the first geographical work of any scientific merit. He also did further significant work on behalf of education. In 1761 when in St Petersburg he organised a German language secondary school which, under him, soon became one of the most flourishing in the north of Europe. In 1766 he was called to superintend the famous Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, which had been formed at Berlin by Frederick the Great. Map interest.
[Ref: 25982] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Splendid Display of Fireworks. For One Night Only. Mr. G. Bywater, Jun. Most respectfully announces to the Ladies of Wakefield and its Vicinity, that he will Diplay a Grand Collection of Fireworks, in the Yard belonging to the Woodman Inn, in Wood Street, near the Sessions House, on the Evening of Friday the 28th Instant [...] Fireworks with the latest Improvements, by G. Bywater, No 6. Long Row, Philadelphia, near Sheffield.
Thomas Waller, Printer, Post Office Yark, Wakefield.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Wear to edges, some staining.
A hand bill for a fireworks display in Wakefield, Yorkshire, with a 32-point 'Order of Firing'. George Frederick Bywater is listed in the 'Sheffield Directory of Trades and Professions for 1834'; this is likely to be his son.
[Ref: 57172] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Tyne at Bywell.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c. 1920s.]
Etching with drypoint. 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"), with very large margins
Etched landscape of the River Tyne with Bywell Castle on the far bank, complete with a salmon fish leaping out of the water. The Bywell bend of the River Tyne is widely recognised as one of the best spots for salmon fishing in England. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56136] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Cab]
[n.d., c. 1811.]
Pen and ink, 125 x 180mm. 5 x 7". Some foxing and ink smudges; bottom right corner missing. Ansell paper watermark.
Drawing of a cab. From the Capper album.
[Ref: 11150] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Cab Strike July 1853. The Members In A Fix. The members you see are in a shocking bad plight for on rising they find a dreadful wet night go John Bill and Harry be smart my fine lads…
George Innes 6 Randor .t Kings R.o Chelsea.
London Published by Samuel Rowe 124 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1853]
Coloured aquatint, plate 295 x 440mm (11½ x 17¼"), with small margins. Creased. Foxed. Surface dirt.
A satire on the cab strike in retaliation to the Hackney Carriage duties bill. The members of parliament leave the house of commons are unsure how to get home with the cabmen on strike. The cabbies make fun of them, pulling faces. 'Lord John' offers one of them eight pence to take him to Whitehall. The cabmen refuse as 'punishment for their bad acts.' The law which, among other things, set fares at sixpence a mile, down from 8p. The law was prompted by the countless complaints of fare-gouging from the public during the Great Exhibition of 1851. A very rare and interesting image. There seems to be no record of this image.
[Ref: 58934] £480.00

[The Cabal. See Gazetter.] [The Picturesque Appearance of a very, very Grave Statesman.]
[Anon., c.1745.]
Rare engraving, sheet 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Trimmed to image, losing text top and bottom; tear upper left. Remains of scrap sheet verso at corners.
Table with a 'Grave Statesman' surrounded by women, whose cuckolded husbands hide glumly under the table. One is writing a 'Speech for 15 New Regiments'. While unconfirmed, it has been claimed that the central figure is John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich (1718-92), and that the print relates to a brief episode in 1745 when Sandwich went on campaign as an officer of the regiment Bedford raised for service against Charles Edward Stuart. The text 'see Gazetteer' refers the reader to an essay Tobias Smollett wrote in the Daily Gazetteer; Smollett subsequently responded to this print in another essay.
BM Satires 2672.
[Ref: 41549] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Cabinet of Curiosity.]
A. van Buysen schulp.
[1706]
Engraving. Plate: 310 x 220mm (12 x 8¾"). Creasing in bottom & top right corner.
A view of the collection of naturalia and artificialia of Dutch textile merchant Levinus Vincent (1658-1727). Levinus presented his collection in a highly decorative manner for his visitors and provided a catalogue 'Wonder toneel der Nature' 1706 from which this plate comes. A rare & interesting item.
[Ref: 44873] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabinet de beaux Arts ou Recueil d'Estampes gravées d'apres les Tableaux d'un plafond ou les beaux Arts sont representés Avec l'explication de ces memes Tableaux MDCXC.
Se vend AParis Chez G. Edelinck Ruë St Jacques au Seraphin avec Privilege du Roy { Et chez André Charles Boulle aux Galleries du Louvre [1790].
Rare Oblong 4to, marbled boards; engraved title, 3 engraved text plates (first with engraved vignettes) & 42 numbered engraved text plates (last with engraved tailpiece); frontispiece and 11 plates (one folding). Binding distressed, front endpaper detached, engraved title creased with old ink mss., tear in folding plate.
Twelve plates depicting a ceiling painting with images of the classical gods and allegories of the liberal arts. The frontispiece is of an ornate doorway into a library. This later edition has the additional publisher, André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), the famed French cabinetmaker and marquetry-maker.
BM: 1849,1031.463-478, with list of plates and artists.
[Ref: 66536] £850.00 view all images for this item

Cabinet Council Question- Shall We Resign?
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
Sold by Strange, and Steill, Paternoster Row; Berger, Holywell-street; Purkis, Compton-street; and Clements, Pulteney-street, London.-Printed by J. Pickburn, 14, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, London. [n.d., c.1832.]
Etching. Sheet: 195 x 285mm (7¾ x 11¼''). Trimmed, stained.
Part of a satirical print from 'The Caricaturist' series showing three politicians sitting at a round table, part of No.3. By Charles Jameson Grant (fl. 1830-1852).
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50265] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Cabinet In's and Out's. N.º 4. Tears of Repentance.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d May 2.d 1827, by J.Fairburn, Broadway Ludgate Hill.
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Cut top left taped.
A satire of the Tories who refused to serve in the cabinet under new Prime Minister George Canning, shown crying into a bucket marked 'Tory Lachrymatory, including Wellington (on a seat 'Army'), Dundas ('Law'), Peel ('Home'), Bathhurst (Colonies') and Melville (Admiralty). John Bull threatens to thrash them.
Not in BM Satires, but see BM 1985,0119.400.
[Ref: 68512] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cabinet Maker.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 102 x 63mm. 4 x 2½". Cut and laid on album scrap.
A cabinet maker in his workshop working with wood, various instruments on the wall and table; wooden constructions around him. The business of a Cabinet-maker, and that of an Upholsterer, is now so generally united together, that any observations on either of these branches may, with propriety, be comprehended under one general head. From "The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts".
[Ref: 25544] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Cabinet=Maker. Enjoying his Tippling time.
E,, Martin pinx..t. J. Fried.k Martin Sculp.t.
Pub,,d as the Act der,ts Decem,,br 1779. Price 4s plain.
Etching, printed in brown, 18th century watermark. 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight surface soiling, stain in left margin.
A scarce & interesting image showing a cabinet-maker. He stops working on the inlay of an occasional table to chat to a woman at the window, who has brought him a tankard of beer.
[Ref: 64474] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Norman Cabinet-maker, Finkle-Street, Richmond.
[c.1800]
Letterpress with border, sheet 50 x 70mm (2 x 2¾"). Glued to backing sheet. Rare.
Rare label for a cabinet-maker in Richmond, Yorkshire, as would have been attached to cabinets sold by the business.
[Ref: 41214] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cabinet-makers] Mess.rs Morgan & Sanders, Catherine St. Strand.
No.8, of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. Augt. 1st 1809, at 101 Strand London.
Fine hand coloured engraving. Sheet 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼").
Specialists in the manufacture of “metamorphic” furniture, upholsterers and cabinet-makers Thomas Morgan and Joseph Sanders operated the highly successful firm of Morgan & Sanders. The firm flourished between 1801 and 1820. Sanders was a highly innovative designer, patenting designs and improvements to “The Metamorphic Library Chair,” “The Imperial Dining Table” and “Merlin’s Mechanical Chair.” They marketed aggressively, advertising in both London and provincial newspapers, and supplied furniture to not only the hero of the time, Lord Horatio Nelson, but enjoyed Royal patronage, as well. Much of what the company designed can be called campaign furniture, and they crafted furniture of “transportable comfort” aimed at the Army and Navy markets. In fact, both the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and the Royal Naval Museum shows examples of their work. After the death of Joseph Sanders in 1818, the company was renamed Morgan & Co. and sold to their foreman, John Durham, in 1820. Numbered 'Plate 10. Vol. 2.' upper right, from Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. A series of the firm’s designs were published in the magazine between 1809 until 1815. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 55924] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

'These New Glasses Magnify Wonderfully' [pencil mss.]
Lindsay Cable [signed in ink lower right.]
[n.d., c.1940.]
Ink, crayon and watercolour with white bodycolour, on card. Image 456 x 323mm.
A short-sighted golfer is about to put off the green and into a bomb crater, as his playing partner looks on with concern. W Lindsay Cable was a famous children's illustrator, predominantly working in the 1940's for famous publishers such as Blackie and Son, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, and working for Punch magazine for several years. He was an accomplished artist. Cable illustrated all of Enid Blyton's St Clares series as well as The Naughtiest Girl in the School and The Secret of Cliff Castle. He also illustrated several books by Rita Coatts including Ghosts at Stark Hall, The Ghost at Beeches, Jane Sets Out, The Silent House and The House With Dark Corners. He illustrated a later version of Robinson Crusoe and Little Pilgrim's Progress by Helen L Taylor. A famous (and controversial) work by Cable was his portrayal of Ahmad and Johnny in the booklets of the same name, which were British propaganda pamphlets distributed in Egypt.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7805] £450.00

Sebastian Cabot. From the Original in the Possession of Charles Jos.h Horford Esq.r.
Engraved by S. Rawle.
Bristol. Published August 1st 1824 by J.M. Gutch.
Engraving on india. 305 x 250mm (12 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A portrait of the Italian explorer Sabastian Cabot (c.1474-1557) in old age, measuring a globe with a pair of compasses. He searched North America looking for the North West Passage for the English and explored South America for the Spanish. From "Memoirs of Bristol".
[Ref: 44753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ramon Cabrera [facsimile signature.]
Louis Lopez ft. Lith. de Fourquenin.
[Spanish/French, n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on india paper with very large margins, india 480 x 350mm. 19 x 13¾". A little soiled, with closed tear to left margin. Generally good.
Portrait of Ramon Cabrera y Griñó (1806 - 1877), Spanish Carlist general in the First Carlist War (1833-1839). The Carlists supported the pretender to the Spanish throne, the Infante Carlos ('Don Carlos', 1788 - 1855), second surviving son of King Charles IV and his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. As Carlos V he was the first of the Carlist claimants. Cabrera died in London on the 24 May 1877. With vignette prospect of Morella, an ancient walled city in Valencia, eastern Spain (where Cabrera joined the forces of Don Carlos) below portrait.
[Ref: 27988] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabriolet. Barbares Anglois! que du même Couteau / Coupoient le tête aux Roi et les queues aux cheveaux / mais les Francois polis laifsent aux Rois leurs têtes / Et Encore comme vous voyez les Queues a leurs bêtes.
[after H.W. Bunbury.]
Pub.d according to Act March 17. 1771.
Etching. 175 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"), with narrow margins.
A postillion on horseback drives a cabriolet in which is a macaroni clutching his hat; a footman rides behind and in the background a pedestrian holding a parasol or umbrella doffs his hat. A dog runs alongside in foreground.
BM Satires: 1048.
[Ref: 36059] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabriolet. Barbares Anglois! que du meme Couteau / Coupoient le tete aux Roi et les queues aux cheveaux / mais les Francois polis laifsent aux Rois leurs tetes / Et Encore comme vous voyez les Queues a leurs betes.
H.W. Bunbury invt.
Pub.d according to Act by MDarly (39) Strand April 17th. 1772.
Etching, 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾").
A postillion on horseback drives a cabriolet in which is a macaroni clutching his hat; a footman rides behind and in the background a pedestrian holding a parasol or umbrella doffs his hat. A dog runs alongside in foreground. A copy of an engraving by Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811). Numbered '8' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 4633. A copy in reverse of item 1048 dated 1771.
[Ref: 14101] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le Cabriolet - Barbares Anglois! que du meme Couteau / Coupoient le tete aux Roi et les queues aux cheveaux / mais les Francois polis laifsent aux Rois leurs tetes / Et Encore comme vous voyez les Queues a leurs betes.
Pubd. According to Act March 17 1771 [additional text scratched out].
Etching, 180 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet; slight staining.
French coaching print with verses below translating as: 'Barbaric English! who with the same blade/ cut off the head of their king and the tails from their horses/ but the genteel French let their king's heads remain/ and also, as you see, the tails of their beasts' (!) Attributed to Henry Bunbury, possibly one of his earliest works. Bunbury was an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
BM Satire 4633; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 1048] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Summit of Cader-Idris Mountain, in North Wales. Le Sommet de Cader-Idirs, Montagne dans la Principauté de Galles.
Rich.d Wilson pinx.t E. & M. Rooker Sculpser.t
Published July 17th 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 405 x 550mm (16 x 21¾"). Printer's crease through publisher's inscription.
Cadair Idris mountain, in Snowdonia National Park, with a pool in a basin. One figure sketches while another uses a telescope. Richard Wilson (1714-82), a founder member of the Royal Academy, was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the ''most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country''. His painting of this scene, now in the Tate, was possibly exhibited at the RA in 1774. This plate was first published without a publisher's inscription.
[Ref: 44525] £320.00

Les Cadeaux de Nöel.
Peint par T. Lobrichon. Gravé par L. Massard. Entered according to act of congress in the year 1876 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington.
Berlin Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé & Publié par Goupil & Cie. Editeurs le. 1er. 8bre_1876_Paris_Londres_La Have. New York_Published by M.Knoedler.
Rare engraving. 489 x 362mm. 19¼ x 14¼".
A group of children around the fireplace with their Christmas presents, the youngest looking up the chimney for Santa Claus.
[Ref: 15448] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cadiliskier.
R. Dalton delt. et sculpt.
[London, n.d., c.1780s.]
Copper engraving on laid paper, 265 x 185mm. 10½ x 7¼". Untrimmed folio sheet.
Portrait of an Ottoman Turkish legal official. From a series of prints depicting the customs, manners, costume etc. of Turkey and Egypt, drawn and engraved by Richard Dalton (1715? - 1791). Dalton, who was trained as an artist, went to Rome to pursue his studies, and in 1749 travelled with Roger Kynaston and John Frederick to Naples and Sicily, where they joined a party consisting of James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont, Francis Pierpoint Burton, and others. From thence Dalton accompanied Lord Charlemont on his tour to Constantinople/Istanbul, Greece, and Egypt. Dalton managed to obtain the position of librarian to George III. He was subsequently appointed keeper of the pictures and antiquary to his majesty. He was one of the original members of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1765, and became their treasurer. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1767. 'Antiquities and Views in Greece and Egypt, with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, from Drawings made on the Spot.' was published in London in 1791 and is all three of Dalton's Tours in one volume.
DNB.
[Ref: 21951] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Fort St Mary, The Officers beating a Retreat in Order to Suppress the Outrages Committed by the Soldiers and Sailors.
Hulett Sculp.
Engraving, sheet 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Laid in album sheet.
Representation of the allied occupation of Port St Mary, which preceded the battle of Cadiz in 1702 during the War of the Spanish Succession. After the allies landed, they marched on Rota and then entered the town of Port St Mary, and looted the town's unguarded warehouses, convents and churches (as shown here). This conduct both caused Prince George to send home a report despairing of the behaviour, and ended any chance of the local population supporting the allies. The advance lost momentum thereafter, and the allies' attempt to capture Cadiz ended in abject failure. Plate to a volume on events during the reign of Queen Anne.
[Ref: 43432] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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