Grosvenor Prints

Sr. Thomas Allin of Somerliton in the County of Suffolk Kn.t and Barronett. [Text on Verso] Who after an entire dedication of his Life and Fortune to the Service of the Crowne under his blessed Maister King Chalres ye Ist, & during the Exite of his late Ma.ty King Charles ye 2,d has (since ye happy Restoration of the Latter) had ye honour of serving him both in Peace & Warr, under ye auspicious Comand of his Roy.ll Brother our now Soveraigne Lord James ye 2nd....
G. Kneller pinx. P. Vandrebanc sculp.
Anno Dom: 1685.
Scarce engraving, scarce. Sheet: 355 x 450mm (14 x 17¾"). Trimmed within plate, second part of title excised but present, vertical crease.
A half-length portrait of English naval officer Sir Thomas Allin (1612-1685) who fought during the Civil War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Text on verso describes his service during the reign of Charles I, II and James II, becoming Admiral of the Fleet, Captain of Sandgate Castle, Major of the Fraternity of Trinity House at Deptford and Comptroller of the Royal Navy.
[Ref: 42410] £320.00

Sr. Thomas Allin of Somerliton in the County of Suffolk Kn.t an Barronett. Who after an entire dedication of this Life and Fortune to the Service of the Crowne under his blessed Maister King Charles ye jst, &during the Exile of his late Maty King Charles ye 2d, has (since ye happy Restauration of the Latter) had ye honour of serving him, both in Peace & war, under ye auspicious Comand of his Roy.ll Brother our now Soveraigne Lord King James ye 2.d; thrice as Admirall of his Fleets in the British & Mediterranean Seas, Cap.tn of Sandgate Castle, Ma:r of the hono:ble Fraternity of ye Trinity House at Deptford Strond, & Comptrol:r of the Royall Navy of England.
G: Kneller pinx. p: Vandrebanc sculp:
Anno Dom: 1685. Aetatis suae 73. [n.d. c.1685, but later.]
Engraving,, scarce & large portrait. 513 x 368mm. 20¼ x 14½". Trimmed. Collector's stamp verso of Reverend James Burleigh (L.1425).
Bust portrait, body to left, head turned and looking towards the viewer, with long dark curly hair, shirt with frills at front, in an armour; in an oval frame with palm leaves, on a console with dolphins, cannons, spears and anchors; coat-of-arms with four star and three sword charges, a helmet and sword crest, motto: "Fortune deguere", in a frame with lion's head. Sir Thomas Allin (1612-1685), Royal Navy officer who saw service in the English Civil War, and the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. A Royalist during the Civil War, he returned to service after the Restoration and eventually rose to the rank of Admiral after serving under some of the most distinguished military figures of the era, including Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
[Ref: 27644] £360.00

Sr. Thomas Allin of Somerliton in the County of Suffolk Knt. and Baronet. Who after an entire dedication of his Life and Fortune to the Service of the Crowne under his blessed Maister King Charles ye 1st, & during the Exite of his late Maty King Charles ye 2d, has since ye happy Restauration of Latter had ye honour of serving him, both in Peace & Warr, under ye auspicious Comand of his Royll. Brother our now Soveraigne Lord King James ye 2d; thrice as Admirall of his Fleets in the British & Mediterranean Seas, Captn: of Sandgate Castle, Mar: of the honoble: Fraternity of ye Trinity House at Deptford Strond, & Comptrolr: of the Royall Navy of England.
G: Kneller pinx. P. Vandrebanc sculp.
Anno Dom: 1685. Aetatis sua 73.
A very rare line engraving. 492 x 359mm. Trimmed close to the image and into the title area. Spotting. Some small holes, etc.
Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet (1612-85), Royal Navy officer during the English Civil War and the Second & Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. A Royalist during the Civil War, he returned to service after the Restoration and eventually rose to the rank of Admiral after serving under some of the most distinguished military figures of the era, including Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
Not in Parker. In the NMM. From the Collection of Viscount Hood.
[Ref: 12481] £320.00

De Muyier Poordt te Amsterdam. Vue de la Port de Muyier à Amsterdam.
G.A. Meysenheym del. J.A. Le Campion sculp.
Se vend à Amsterdam, chez Jos. Buffa et C.ie dans le Kalwerstraat; Paris. chez Ambresonne, Porte S. Antoine, M.on des Boucheries [n.d., c.1788].
Aquatint and etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 190 x 160mm (7½ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper.
A circular view, plate 14 from a series of at least 20 views of Amsterdam.
[Ref: 41729] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

De Schonburg en Leyse poord te Amsterdam. Vue de la Comédie et Port de Leyse à Amsterdam.
G.A. Meysenheym del. J.A. Le Campion sculp.
Se vend à Amsterdam, chez Jos. Buffa et C.ie dans le Kalwerstraat; Paris. chez Ambresonne, Porte S. Antoine, M.on des Boucheries [n.d., c.1788].
Aquatint and etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 190 x 160mm (7½ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper.
A circular view, plate 14 from a series of at least 20 views of Amsterdam.
[Ref: 41728] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

De Saal van het sadt Huys t'Amsterdam. Vue de la grande salle dans la maison de villle à Amsterdam.
Sevend à { Amsterdam, chez Jof: Buff a et Compe dans le Kalwerstraát, Paris, Chez Ambrefonne, Porte St. Antoine, Mon des Boucheries.
Rare etching lines with aquatint colour, printed in colour. Sheet 29.5 x 22cm (11¾ x 8¾"). Cut and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Plate 11 from a series of at least 20 views of Amsterdam. An interior view of a town hall. The print was published by both Buffa & Co in the Netherlands and Ambresonne in France.
[Ref: 54054] £260.00

De Muyier Poordt te Amsterdam. Vue de la porte de Muyier à Amsterdam.
G.A Meysenheym del. J.A. Le Campion sculp.
Sevend à { Amsterdam, chez Jof: Buff a et Compe dans le Kalwerstraát, Paris, Chez Ambrefonne, Porte St. Antoine, Mon des Boucheries.
Rare etching lines with aquatint colour, printed in colour. Sheet 29.5 x 22cm (11¾ x 8¾"). Cut and glued to backing sheet at edges
Plate 12 from a series of at least 20 views of Amsterdam. A view of a port; a wooden bridge leads to a domed white building. There is a windmill, two small buildings and a couple of trees on the left within circle. The print was published by both Buffa & Co in the Netherlands and Ambresonne in France.
BM 1917,1208.1587
[Ref: 54053] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[François] Arago.
Henri Sheffey pinx.t. Sixdeniers sculp.t.
A Paris chez l'Auteur, Rue Racine No 3, et chez Schroth, edit.r Rue Traversiere St Honoré 25.
Mezzotint, very scarce. 440 x 340mm (17¼ x 13¼). Slight scratch bottom right.
François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853), French mathematician, astronomer, whose recalculation of the Paris Meridian are commemorated by the 135 Arago medallions set into the ground through Paris. In the 1848 Revolution he joined the Provisional Government, in which he was responsible for abolishing flogging in the French Navy and then succeeded in procuring the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. In May he briefly served as Prime Minister of France, until the collective resignation of the Executive Power Commission in June. When Napoleon III took power in 1851 an oath of allegiance from all its functionaries, was required: Arago sent in his resignation as astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes rather than take the oath, but Louis-Napoleon refused it and made "an exception in favour of a savant whose works had thrown lustre on France, and whose existence the government would regret to embitter."
Wellcome: 90 Not in.
[Ref: 30840] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

H.R.H. The Duke of Sussex.
On stone by A. Picken.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½").
A portrait of Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), sixth son of George III, in middle age.
[Ref: 49523] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate IX.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate IX of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56850] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate I.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate IV of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 57011] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24.th 1847. Plate. VI.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Some time staining.
One a set of twelve coloured engravings from "An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847: together with those of September 21, 1846, and March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory" by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street.
[Ref: 56943] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24.th 1847. Plate. V.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Some time staining.
One a set of twelve coloured engravings from "An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847: together with those of September 21, 1846, and March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory" by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street.
[Ref: 56942] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen at the Cambridge Observatory. September 21.st 1846. Plate. XI
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins. Some time staining.
One a set of twelve coloured engravings from "An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847: together with those of September 21, 1846, and March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory" by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street.
[Ref: 56941] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate VIII.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate VIII of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56847] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate III.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate III of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56849] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate II.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge. Plate II of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56855] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate X.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis with the silhouettes of two churches. Plate X of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56848] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate IV.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis seen from Cambridge, with a church spire. Plate IV of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56856] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Aurora Borealis, seen Oct.r 24th 1847. Plate VII.
J. Andrews Zincog. Printed by Chabet, Skinner Street, Snow Hill.
[Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan, London: G. Bell, Fleet Street, n.d., c.1848.]
Coloured zincograph. Printed area 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of the Aurora Borealis with the silhouettes of a windmill and a church steeple. Plate VII of ''An account of the Aurora Borealis, seen near Cambridge, October the 24th, 1847'' by John H. Morgan and John T. Barber, a record of a sighting unusually far south.
[Ref: 56846] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Belgium: Nicolas Rockox]
[Andrew Geddes after Rubens]
Etching, platemark 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
Nicolas Rockox (1560-1640), Burgomaster of Antwerp and patron of Rubens. He is remembered by the Museum Rockoxhuis in his former residence in the city. Copy after Rubens by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching’'. This plate is one of ten he published in 1826.
CD 45.vii
[Ref: 36807] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolas Boileau S.r Despreaux.
A. Bouys pinx. et scul.
Se vend a Paris rue Coquillere au Tems [n.d., c.1700].
Mezzotint. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Small margins.
Head and shoulders portrait of French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), author of 'L'Art poétique' in 1674.
[Ref: 61635] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Picken's Sketches of Napoleon, No.5. Price 1s. Un Bivouac [&] The Spirit of Napoleon Visiting his Tomb.
On Stone by A. Picken Jun.
London, Pub. by T. Fisher 1, Hanway St. Oxford St [n.d., c.1845].
Two lithographic vignettes printed on a single sheet, including one puzzle print, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10¾"). Slight creasing
The upper illustration is a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte standing in a landscape. The natural forms in the landscape below conceal the outline profiles of military commanders from both opposing sides of the Napoleonic Wars. The figures represented are listed in the text below. From a scarce set of popular prints issued by subscription; with note to subscribers to lower margin.
for a larger version of 'Un Bivouac' (top image), see ref. 29444
[Ref: 23468] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Le point d'honneur anglais. Moi boxer toi !..
Lith du Cheyère [after P.J. Feuchere].
Genty Editeur [Paris: n.d., 1827].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Creases and stains.
A simian-faced Englishman squares up to a guard dog with a spiked collar and chain, watched by his wife and a dog standing on its hind legs. Boxing item.
[Ref: 62294] £360.00

Brésil et Pays des Amazones. 1.re Feuille. Par M.Bonne, Ing.r Hydrographe de la Marine.
André sculp.
[Paris, c.1770.]
Coloured engraved map. 245 x 380mm (9¾ x 15"). Glue stains on the centrefold.
Map of Brazil with the course of the Amazon.
[Ref: 13225] £130.00

Isles de Cuba et de la Jamaïque. Par M.Bonne, Ing.r Hydrographe de la Marine.
André sculp.
[Paris, c.1780.]
Engraved map. 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"), with very large margins. Foxing holes in title.
A map of Cuba and Jamaica, with Grand Caymen and some of the islands of the Bahamas. From Bonne's 'Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dresse Pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes'.
[Ref: 45246] £240.00

Antonius Bulifonius [...]
A. Maglier sc.
[Naples, c.1696.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet 125 x 70mm (5 x 2¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Antonio Bulifon (1649-1707), an French printer, editor and bookseller who set up his shop in Naples. This portrait was a frontispiece to Bishop Pompeo Sarnelli's 'Guida de' Forestieri per Pozzoli' which included a French translation by Bulifon.
[Ref: 29662] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

George Cadoual, General of the Royalist Armies of Bretagne, Born at Bresch near Varnes, in the Year 1769, Died in Paris, June 25, 1804. I shall not mention, or name any Person [/] there are too many Victims already. Je ne nommerai personne [/] il y a deja eu asse de Victime.
Dumonlier del.t at Paris. Engraved by A. Freschi.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Stipple. Rare. Sheet: 200 x 295mm (8 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into an album sheet. Some marking.
A three-quarter length portrait of Georges Cadoudal (1771-1804) who was a leader of the Chouannerie, a Royalist movement which fought against the revolutionaries and Napoleon. Cadoudal was arrested and sentenced to death in 1804 and was executed by guillotine.
[Ref: 42155] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I & Henrietta] Carolus D. G. Angliæ, Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ Rex. etc. Henrietta Maria Borbonia, D.G. Angliæ, Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ Regina, etc.
A. Khol f.
[Nuremberg, n.d., c.1649.]
Scarce engraving. 150 x 225mm (6 x 9"). Creasing, small split in fold, small margins
Engraved by Andreas Khol (1624-57) of Nuremberg, originally on a broadsheet describing the execution of Charles. This is a rare early issue, before the plate was cut to separate the portraits.
Hollstein 11 & 74, not listing the portraits together. See BM Bb,5.212 for broadsheet.
[Ref: 53507] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Carolo II. Cæsari Britañico, Patriæ Patri, Regnum Optimo Clementissimo Augustissimo... MDCLXXXIV [1684]. Ex Marmorea Statua a G.Gibbons Sculpta.
P. Vandrebane sculp.
London Prinetd [sic] and Sold by David Mortier at ye Sign of Erasmus's head in ye Strand. [n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Two sheets conjined, total 670 x 490mm (26½ x 19¼"). Trimmed to plate on right, tears in left, original folds as issued. Large margins on 3 sides
A large engraving of the statue of Charles II as a Roman Emperor, carved by Arnold Quellin in partnership with Grinling Gibbons in 1681. It was erected in the Royal Exchange by the Society of Merchant Adventurers of England in 1684, and was destroyed by the fire that razed the Exchange in 1838. The statue met with the king's approval so he took steps to ensure that Gibbons profited: the 'London Gazette' for 15 May 1684 carried an announcement: 'His Majesty, being well satisfied with the performance of Mr Grinling Gibbons in the making his Majesties statue lately set up in the Royal Exchange, hath been pleased to forbid all persons to copy the same in graving, etching or in mezzotinto, without the approbation of the said Mr Gibbons'. This print was advertised for sale in 12 January 1685, published by Dorman Newman; the plate passed to Mortier after Newman's bankruptcy in 1694 and then to John King after Mortier's death c.1728.
BM: 1880,1113.3737; Griffiths: The Print in Stuart Britain no. 150.
[Ref: 44054] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Carolo II Caesari Britanico Patriae Patri Regum Optimo Clementissimo Augustissimo. Generis humani Delicijs Utriusq, Fortunae Victori Pacis Europae Arbitro, Maris Domino et Vindici. Societas Mercatorum Adventurum Angliae Quae per ccc jam prope Annos Regia Benignitate Floret Fidei intemeratae Gratitudinis Aeternae Hoc Testimonium Venerabunda Posuit Anno Sas: Humanae MDCLXXXIV. LI.
Ex Marmorea Statua a G. Gibbons Sculpta. P. Vandrebanc Sculp:
London Printed and Sold by David Mortier at ye Sign of Erasmus's head in ye Strand. [n.d. c.1684.]
Engraving. Plate 672 x 481mm (26½ x 19"). Creasing and folded, water staining down right hand edge.
The statue of Charles II in the Royal Exchange, after Grinling Gibbons. As the dedication on the pedestal records, this statue of Charles II in the habit of a Roman Emperor with laurel about his head was erected in the Royal Exchange by the Society of Merchant Adventurers of England in 1684. It was destroyed by the fire that razed the Exchange in 1838, though a similar one in bronze is at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea. Vertue (IV 35) records that the stone statue was actually carved by Arnold Quellin, with whom Gibbons had entered into partnership in 1681. This was dissolved in 1683, presumably after the statue had been finished (see Katharine Gibson, in The Royal Exchange, ed.A.Saunders, 1997, pp.151-7). Gibbons obtained a most unusual type of patent to protect his statue. The 'London Gazette' for 15 May 1684 carries an announcement: 'His Majesty, being well satisfied with the performance of Mr Grinling Gibbons in the making his Majesties statue lately set up in the Royal Exchange, hath been pleased to forbid all persons to copy the same in graving, etching or in mezzotinto, without the approbation of the said Mr Gibbons.' Gibbons must have been very much in Charles's favour, for the London Gazette of 10 May 1686 announces an exceptional Royal permission for Gibbons and Parry Walton to hold a sale of pictures in the Banqueting House in Whitehall. This print was advertised in the Observator of 12 January 1685: 'The exact draught of the marble statue of his Majesty in the Royall Exchange so long expected is now (by permission of authority) finished. Curiously engraven by Mr Vandrebanc, and printed on a large sheet of imperiall paper. To be sold by Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry. Price 2s 6d.' Newman was a large-scale book publisher who issued a few prints between 1665 and his bankruptcy in 1694. He also put a notice of this plate in the Term Catalogues for February 1685 and November 1687: in the latter the price was reduced to 1s 6d. From Newman, the plate passed into the hands of David Mortier, a bookseller who sold at the sign of Erasmus Head in the Strand. Mortier died c.1728, and the plate passed to John King in the Poultry, the great reprinter of old plates (an impression published by King is in Crowle XII 49).
[Ref: 28955] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Child with Apple]
A Geddes ft [lower left]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 160 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½").
Portrait of the artist's niece, Agnes Paul. Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching’'.
CD 18.v; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36803] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Duke of Marlborough.
G. Kneller S.R. Imp, et Angl. Eques Aur. Pinxit. Andrew Miller Dublin Fecit.
Sold by P. Smith in Grane Lane & And.w Miller on Hog Hill. 1744.
Mezzotint, very scarce. Platemark: 342 x 240mm. (13½ x 9½"). Damage to surface of the print.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650 - 1722), was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs. Honoured for his services at William's coronation with the earldom of Marlborough, he went on to have a brilliant military career which culminated during the reign of Queen Anne when he won the Battle of Blenheim during the War of Spanish Succession. Portrait in an oval ,decorated with leafy branches, on a square frame with plaque below.
Ex Collection of The Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd; CS 33i/i.
[Ref: 30706] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

S.W. View of Clumber. [&] N.E. View of Clumber House. Dedicated by Permission ro His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G. Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham.
Drawn by M. Webster. On Stone by A. Picken. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, London.
Published by John Hicklin & Co, Journal Office, Nottingham, Oct.r 1835.
Pair of fine lithographs on india. India 255 x 345mm (10 x 13½"). Top edge of india trimmed.
Clumber House near Worksop in Nottinghamshire. The house shown here burned down in 1879; its replacement was abandoned during the Great Depression and demolished in 1938. The estate, Clumber Park, now belongs to the National Trust.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 41894] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Toy Man Schuttlecock Playing.]
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1813.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper, old ink mss. plate number at top.
A Chinese toy seller, with two boys kicking a shuttlecock. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 49782] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Pedlar. Tobacconist.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1813.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 100 x 175mm (4 x 7"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A Chinese pedlar and tobacconist, Qing Dynasty. The pedlar wears a bamboo lattice shop with handkerchiefs, ribbons, purses, etc. The tobacconist has set up a street stall selling tobacco and snuff.. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 49784] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Pasteboard Horse. Toyman.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1813.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper, old ink mss. plate number at top.
A Chinese toy seller with a basket of toys, and a man astride a hobbyhorse. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 49783] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[County Hall and Westminster Bridge.]
A Watson Turnbull [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1920s.]
Etching on watermarked laid paper, 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾".
Tugboats and other shipping on the River Thames in foreground. Andrew Watson Turnbull (British, b.1874) was a painter, etcher and stained glass artist who exhibited at the R.A. and elsewhere.
[Ref: 22144] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Statue of 'Capitoline Gaul'] Statua del Gladiatir moribondo, che si conserva nel Museo Capitolino [...]
Pietro Angeletti disegno. Andrea Rossi sculps.
[n.d., c.1780]
Engraving, platemark 370 x 500mm (14½ x 19¾").
Engraving of a wounded Gaul, after the famous sculpture in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. The statue was acquired for the museum in 1734 from the Ludovisi Sculpture Collection.
[Ref: 35217] £320.00

Ferouze Shah's Laht, Delhi.
Lieut. Bacon del. A. Picken Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Browned edges.
The Feroz Shah Kotla, built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq in the 14th century. At that time he moved the third century BC Ashokan Pillar, seen in the foreground.
[Ref: 52332] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Den Svenske Kong Carl Gustavus Flugt fra Amager, da de Danske i Overaerelse af deres Konge Frederick III, og under Anförsel af Generalerne Gyldenlöve og Ahlefeldt, aldeles Sejrede over de Svenske og fordrev dem 10 October 1658.
Malet af C.A. Lorentzen. Skukket af A. Flint.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 360 x 500mm (14¼ x 19¾"). Trimmed within plate. Slight mark in sky.
''The Swedish King Carl Gustavus' flight from Amager, when the Danes in the presence of their King Frederik III, and under the command of Generals Gyldenlöve and Ahlefeldt, completely defeated the Swedes and drove them out 10 October 1658.'' A battle on Amager in 1659 (not 1658), during the Dano-Swedish War (1658-1660), when the Swedes besieged Copenhagen. The original oil, painted by Christian August Lorentzen (1749-1828) in 1791, is in the National Gallery of Denmark.
See SMK KMS923 for the painting.
[Ref: 58152] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Lough Belshade (Donegal) [pencil]. Just Published. Original Etching by A. Watson Turnbull. (Linited Editon).
A. Watson Turnbull [pencil].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint, signed by the artist, Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamps. 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾") very large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label. Mint.
A lake in the Blue Stack Mountains of County Donegal in Ulster.
[Ref: 49234] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort.] [Lundin.] Anno D; 1683 Ætatis 34.
G. Kneller Pinxit. P. Vandrebanc Sculp.
[n.d., c.1683.]
Engraving. Sheet 325 x 170mm (12¾ x 6¾"). Slight loss on left, madeup. Trimmed, losing title 'Lundin' under image, laid on album paper.
Portrait of John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort, half-length in an oval, clad in a cloak. John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort (1649-1714) was a Scottish nobleman who acted as governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1679, followed by Lieutenant-General and Master of the Ordnance in 1680. He served as Secretary of State in Scotland under James II and VII from 1684 to 1688. He followed James II into exile and died in St Germains.
Provenance: David Hume 1776. Sharpe 533, i of iii, changing the year and his age.
[Ref: 52944] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

School of English Education Bishopwearmouth Conducted by Rev.d George Iliff.
A. Reid, Lith. Newcastle.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph printed in blue ink. Plate 204 x 191mm. 8 x 7½". Three vertical folds. Tatty edges. Some foxing.
George Iliff (b.1831) spent most of his life as a school master and a clerk in Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, England.
[Ref: 17404] £25.00 (£30.00 incl.VAT)

Edward the Martyr, stabbed by the Order of Elfrida at Corfe Castle.
Chevalier Cazali Pinxit & Sculpsit.
Published 1773 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Etching. Sheet 450 x 325mm (17¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears, creasing.
Edward (c. 962- 97), King of the English, on horseback, accepting the hospitality of his stepmother Elfrida (Ælfthryth) as one of her men reaches up to stab him in the back. Her son became King Æthelred, the Unready.
[Ref: 60518] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elba] Napoleon Musing.
on Stone by A. Picken. W. Day lith to the King.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed, losing surtitle at top
An invented view of Napoleon standing on a rock looking down onto a harbour of Elba.
[Ref: 36752] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Elba. Napoleon Musing.
on Stone by A. Picken. W. Day lith to the King.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 205mm (6 x 8").
An invented view of Napoleon standing on a rock looking down onto a harbour of Elba.
[Ref: 62331] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Queen Elizabeth.
E. Lutterell delin. P. Vanderbanck sculp.
[n.d., c.1680.
Engraving, Sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed, losing decorative border, laid on album paper.
Engraved by Peter Vandrebanc (1649-97) after Edward Lutteral. The BM biography of Vandrebanc describes him as 'the best engraver working in London in his time'.
[Ref: 52537] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, This Engraving commemorated of Her Majesty's visit to the Port of Falmouth on the 1st September 1843, is, by Her Majesty's gracious permission, humbly dedicated, by Her most obedient and devoted Servant, James G. Philip.
A. Picken lith. [after James George Philip]. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by Philip & Evans, Bristol, _ Ackermann & Co London. [n.d., c.1843.]
Rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Framed, window 360 x 510mm (14¼ x 20"). Some slight abrasions in sky. Unexamined out of frame.
A record of Victoria's first visit to Falmouth, with sail and steamers, with the queen in a white ship's longboat, being rowed ashore. James George Philip (1816-85).
[Ref: 52035] £480.00

Female Musican.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1812.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper, old ink mss. plate number at top.
A woman with gongs on a framework. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 53252] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

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