Grosvenor Prints

[The Aeolinan]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to printed border.
Portraits of a man and women playing the aeolian (an early harmonica, known as a 'Mundharmonika' in German), with examples of the instrument underneath. At the bottom is an example of an improved version, designed by Charles Wheatstone (1802-75) in 1827. Sir Charles Wheatstone also invented the English concertina, but his main fame comes from creating the stereoscope and involvement in early telegraphy.
[Ref: 62245] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A music teacher and lady in an interior.]
[G. Bickham.]
[London, 1768.]
Engraving on watermarked laid paper, 140 x 100mm. 5½ x 4". Some offsetting. Full margins.
The woman carries a chair towards a well-dressed musician, who seems to be holding a conductor's baton. A violin or double-bass is mounted on the room's panelled wall behind. A plate to 'Æsop at Court; or, The labyrinth of Versailles Delineated in French and English...'. The book includes 42 plates plus a plan and pictorial titlepage. The plates are chiefly of the fountains in the Labyrinth at the Palace of Versailles, which represent some of Æsop's fables. The English translation of the verse and of C. Perrault's prose descriptions is by Daniel Bellamy (b. 1687); the editor is Bellamy the younger (d. 1788).
For the titlepage see item Ref: 26900.
[Ref: 27042] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Apres La Victoire. [After the Victory.]
Beaume del. Lith. de Frey.
[Paris, c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 285 x 205mm. 11¼ x 8".
An old soldier in uniform sitting in an interior singing old battle songs and playing the violin; his faithful poodle rests his chin on his master's knee, wine bottle and glass to right. For the Paris periodical 'L'Artiste'.
[Ref: 17982] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

April Fools. Country Musicians Celebrating a Reginal Coronation, Dedicated to all Lovers of Social and Domestic Harmony.
Drawn and Engraved by I. Sawthem.
Published for the Author by W. F. White, 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn. Performed in Anticipation at C____ April 1, 1821
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate 114 x 268mm (4½ x 10½"). Spotting in the margins, slight creasing in image.
The group sing from a sheet titled 'On Sunday April 1821 to be sung by a select Band had down from London a Fine Coronation Anthem improved from Handel by J. Crammer.' In October 1727 Handel composed four anthems for the coronation of George II & Queen Caroline. Zadok the Priest has been used at all coronations since. John Crammer arranged the works of composers like Handel for small choirs.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 28205] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Arcadian Musicians.]
Titianus, In. P.
V. leFebre del. et. sculp. J. Van Campen Formis Venetys. [n.d. c.1682.]
Etching. 230 x 251mm (9 x 10"). Fold down centre; reapaired left corner. Cut to image.
Two Arcadian Musicians in a landscape, sheep lying beneath foliage at right; after Titian. From 'Opera Selectiora', a series of 53 etchings by Valentin Lefevre after Titian and Veronese. The series was first published in Venice by Jacob van Campen in 1682.
[Ref: 34624] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Samuel James Arnold] S. Arnold [facsimile signature]
S.J. Arnold Esq.re pinx.t. W.P. Sherlock fecit.
Printed by Lefevre & Co, 52, Newman St. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 155 x 220mm (6 x 8¾"), with large backing sheet and margins. Some rubbing of backing sheet.
Self-portrait of Samuel James Arnold (1740-1802) an English composer and organist, born in London. He began writing music for the theatre in about the year 1764. A few years later, he became the director of music at Marylebone Gardens, for which he wrote much of his popular music.
[Ref: 62169] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Astley's Amphitheatre.
Pugin & Rowlandson del. et Sculpt. Hill, Aquat.
London. Pub Jany 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
An interior view of Astley's Amphitheatre at Westminster Bridge Road, as rebuilt in 1803 after one of several fires in its history. The scene shows a performance in progress. A man is balancing on the backs of three horses and the ring master is dressed as a clown. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34071] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Quadrilles. From Aubers Celebrated Opera, ''Le Dieu et la Bayadère''. Respectfully Dedicated to Mad.lle Augusta, by S.M. New York.
N. Curriers Lithograph New York
Published by Hewitt & Jaques 239 Broadway. c. 1836
Lithograph and 6pp sheet music, each sheet 325 x 260mm (12¾ x 10¼").
New York-published piano arrangement of music from Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's opera 'Le dieu et la bayadère', one of several works he composed for the Paris Opéra during the 1830s. Attractive cover sheet with lithograph of a ballerina.
[Ref: 43319] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Auriol Polka. Composed by Charles Matthews, and Respectfully Dedicated by express Permission to Mademoiselle Francesca Auriol.
[Anon., c.1850]
London, Published by Duncombe & Moon, 17 Holborn opposite Furnival's Inn.
Aquatint with 5pp. sheet music, each sheet 340 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼). Made up corner bottom right.
Music for a polka named in honour of the dancer Francisca (or Francesca) Auriol (1829-62). Auriol, daughter of the famed French clown Jean Baptiste Auriol, made her London debut in 1847 as a second dancer at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. She married British dancing clown Richard Flexmore and made a career dancing with him around Europe, and were particularly successful with their 'Dancing Scotsman' of 1854.
[Ref: 43323] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Auriol Polka. Composed by Charles Matthews, and Respectfully Dedicated by express Permission to Mademoiselle Francesca Auriol.
[Anon., c.1850]
London, Published by Duncombe & Moon, 17 Holborn opposite Furnival's Inn.
Rare aquatint. 340 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼). Slightly trimmed on left.
Music cover for a polka named in honour of the dancer Francisca (or Francesca) Auriol (1829-62). Auriol, daughter of the famed French clown Jean Baptiste Auriol, made her London debut in 1847 as a second dancer at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. She married British dancing clown Richard Flexmore and made a career dancing with him around Europe, with particular success with their 'Dancing Scotsman' of 1854.
[Ref: 53234] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Ballerina. Madame Le Cery]
[n.d., c.1870.]
Photograph, 170 x 105mm. 6¾ x 4¼", signed by sitter.
A ballerina dancing.
[Ref: 8898] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Bartholomew Fair.
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. J. Bluck Aquat.
London. Pub Feb. 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint with large margins. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼").
The Bartholomew Fair was one of London's pre-eminent summer Charter fairs or street markets. The fair was established to fund the Priory of St Bartholomew and from 1133 to 1855 it took place on 24th August within the precincts of the Priory at West Smithfield, outside Aldersgate of the City of London. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34093] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontis to Caldecott's Musical Miscellany MS Vol. III.]
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co. Music Publishers 20 Soho Sq. [c.1810].
Etching. 115 x 210mm (4½ x 8¼") very large margins. Old ink mss. name added, crack in platemark, some spotting and creasing.
In middle Mrs. Wadham Wyndham "Caldecott's Musical Miscellany MS Vol. III” was a musical score book printed by Goulding D'Almaine, Potter & Co music publishers and musical instrument sellers, with a cartouche design by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), filled with songs and pieces, most with titles and some composers, with an index of titles and composers at the back, and various verses at the front and comments on John Barratt at the back. Music publishers 'Goulding & D’Almaine' was founded in 1785; it became 'Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter & Co.' c.1810.
[Ref: 60980] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Music publisher's invitiation.]
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co. Music Publishers 20 Soho Sq. [c.1810].
Etching. 115 x 210mm (4½ x 8¼"). Narrow margins.
Decorative design by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815). Music publishers 'Goulding & D’Almaine' was founded in 1785; it became 'Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter & Co.' c.1810.
[Ref: 35839] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Monzani & Hill’s Selection of Beethoven’s Piano Forte Music.
London. Published by Monzani & Hill, Music Sellers, to H.R.H. the Prince Regent, 24, Dover St. Piccadilly. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraved titlepage to a selection of chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven issued in parts, numbered '59' and priced '4/.' in ink. 125 x 200mm, 5 x 8".
Illustrated with vignettes including floral garlands, a dove, lion, eagle, lyre and guitar. Tebaldo Monzani (1762 - 1839) was a music-seller, publisher and instrument-maker.
[Ref: 17350] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Groupe of Beggars a sketch from nature in the year 1838
Cassneyd fec.
Pen and ink with wash, sheet 205 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Very rare.
Beggars by park gates, one with a hurdy-gurdy, another with pickaxe, all with torn and ragged clothes.
[Ref: 35489] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Hommage a Berlioz.
Peint par H.Fantin-Latour. Photogravure Goupil & Co.
Imprimé & Publié le 1.er Octobre 1900 par Goupil et C.ie Editeurs, Imprimeurs, Manzi, Joyant & C.ie Editeurs, Imprimeurs, Successeurs _ Paris, Londres. New-York Published by Manzi, Joyant & Co.
Photogravure on india. 680 x 540mm, 26¾ x 21¼". Creased in margin.
A memorial to Louis Hector Berlioz (1803-69), the French Romantic composer.
[Ref: 10055] £330.00

Children Delighted with the Bird Organ.
Publish'd June 12th 1792 by Robert Sayer & Co Fleet Street, London
Stipple, platemark 190 x 160mm (7½ x 6¼"). Thread margins.
Two children watch a man operating a bird organ or 'orgue de Barberie', a small mechanical organ operated by turning a handle. They were a common sight on English streets in Georgian England.
[Ref: 40672] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

"When A Man's A Little Bit Poorly," The Celebrated Comic Song as Sung by Mr. C. Taylor, The Words by T. Hudson, The Music Arranged by J. Blewitt.
Jos. Lisle Delc.
London. Published by T.E. Purday, 50, St Pauls Church Yard, Successor (in this branch of the business) to Collard & Collard (late Clementi & Co)
Etching with music verso, platemark 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"). Small margins. Repaired tear on right.
A man in various stages of an illness. Cover to a popular ballad by composer Jonathan Blewitt (1782-1853), the son of a prominent organist, who is said to have been taught by Haydn! In his later career Blewitt wrote pantomimes, musical plays and light operas for most of the London theatres, and hundreds comic songs and ballads in the Irish style. Etched by Joseph Lisle (1828 - 1830; fl), satirical designer and lithographic draughtsman. He worked for Tregear, and occasionally published his own work.
[Ref: 40075] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

L'Aveugle Joueur de Violon.
Dav. Wilkie Peint. Jazet Sculp.t
A Paris, chez Jazet. Faub.g St. Martin, No.71, et Ch.les Bance, Rue J.J. Rousseau, No.10. Déposé à la Direction. [n.d. c.1820.]
Aquatint with etching. 300 x 394mm (11¾ x 15½"). Soiling to right corner,
The blind violinist: rustic interior with at left a blind man sitting on a chair and playing violin for a family of country folk; one of the boys mocks the musician by pretending to play on bellows.
[Ref: 31313] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

'Bread give me Bread' _ Pa. 20 Pratt's Poem of the 'Poor' or Cottage Pictures.
P.J. De Loutherbourg inv. et del. Anth.y Cardon sculp.t.
Published by the Author, Feb.y 1. 1803.
Stipple with etching, rare with very large margins; 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
Two beggar children with the allegorical figure of Charity giving comfort, playing a lyre.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34178] £130.00 (£156.00 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)

Prepresentation of a Royal Concert, at Buckingham House.
Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. [c.1790]
Engraving, platemark 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6"), with accompanying letterpress. Trimmed to platemark top edge;
Published in the Carlton House Magazine or a similar periodical.
[Ref: 45718] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Burlesque Burletta Duett Sung at Comus's Court by the Choice Spirits; Inscribed to Ned Shuter by S.r Harry Humbug. My Song S.rs excuse, / And Pardon my Muse, / If for once she appears as a Joker [...]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Price 6.d Feb. 1757
Engraving, sheet 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Damaged but very rare; creasing.
Comical song with headpiece of a female singer accompanied by male keyboardist.
[Ref: 46950] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Discord in Melody.
J.R. Herbert. W.H. Mote.
Peter Jackson, London & Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 260 x 206mm. 10¼ x 8¼".
A woman lies asleep on the bed whilst a man serenades her with harp music; other instruments and musical notation lie on the floor to his left.
[Ref: 22645] £50.00

[Scene from 'le jardinier et son seigneur'] He pourquoi donc faire ce Fauteil. Dedié à Monsieur De Laferté Intendant des Menus plaisirs du Roy. Par son serviteur Martinet.
[c.1770]
Scarce engraving, platemark 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"); very large margins.
Scene from 'le jardinier et son seigner', a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-97), the most important and influential librettist of opéra comique in the late 18th century. Originally put to music by Philibert, in the 19th century Delibes produced a new opera from Sedaine's text. Dedicated to Denis Pierre Jean Papillon de la Ferté (1727-94), connoisseur and administrator of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, the organization in the French royal household responsible for designing and presenting weddings, ceremonies, fêtes and funerals.
[Ref: 40654] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Chapelle role de Venture dans Jean Jacques Rousseau dans son Hermitage. Quand on sait chanter et boire...[etc.]
A Paris, chez Martinet, Libraire rue du Coq No.13 et 15. [n.d., c.1815.]
Hand coloured etching, 200 x 115mm. 8 x 4½". Slight foxing in margins.
A French actor, Chapelle, singing a drinking song from comic opera ' Jean Jacques Rousseau dans son Hermitage'. From a series of theatrical portraits 'Theatre du Vaudeville' published in Paris by Aaron Martinet (1762 - 1841).
[Ref: 15544] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Musicien jouant du Che.
A. Reynier, del.
Imp. Lith. de Melle. Formentin, rue des Sts. Peres, No.10. [Paris, c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 270 x 360mm. 10½ x 14¼".
A female Chinese musician plucking a stringed instrument; a man in the background blowing into some pipes. From a series of oriental costume and character.
[Ref: 13961] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Christmas Carol, with Music. I saw the Ship come sailing in / On Christmas day, on Christmas day. / I saw the Ship come sailing in / On Christmas day in the morning [...]
Designed & Etched by William B. Scott
Vizetelly & Co Published by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street, London
Lithograph with tintstone, printed area 405 x 255mm (16 x 10"). Creasing and some ingrained dirt. Rare.
Decorative presentation of a Christmas carol, written by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), which remains popular to this day
[Ref: 41273] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Cincinnati. 36. Voy. en Amerique. T.II.73.
L. Massard del. Choubard sc.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured engraving. 247 x 152mm. 9¾ x 6".
A mandolin player "Cincinnati." Costume appears central American or spanish.
[Ref: 23229] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical guitarist] R. de los Rios [pencil signature.]
R. de los Rios. Sculpt. Charles Sprague Pearce. Paris
[n.d. c.1890.]
Engraving, plate 357 x 279mm (14" x 11"), with very large margins.
Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929), born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France.
[Ref: 58164] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical guitarist] R. de los Rios [pencil signature.]
R. de los Rios. Sculpt. Charles Sprague Pearce. Paris
[n.d. c.1890.]
Engraving. 357 x 279mm. 14" x 11".
Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929), born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France.
[Ref: 8693] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical guitarist] R. de los Rios [pencil signature.]
R. de los Rios. Sculpt. Charles Sprague Pearce. Paris
[n.d. c.1890.]
Engraving on vellum, plate 357 x 279mm (14" x 11"), with very large margins.
Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929), born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France.
[Ref: 58165] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Clavichord and Lute Players.]
[After Hendrik Goltzius.]
[n.d., c.1600.]
Engraving. Framed. Visible area: 120 x 175mm, (5 x 7"). Frame: 220 x 275mm, (10¾ x 8½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A concert scene in which a lavishly dressed woman plays the clavichord while behind her a young man plays a lute.
[Ref: 39559] £320.00

The Comic Society.
G.Douw Pinxit. W.Pether Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. 300 x 250mm.
Travelling players.
[Ref: 7008] £490.00

A Con-Cert. From the Original Picture, painted by Michel Angel da Caravaggio in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire;_To Whom this Plate is most humble inscribed, by his Grace's most Obliged,_and most Obedient humble Servant, _ J. Boydell. Size of the Picture, 3F. 1In. by 4F. 3In in Length. No.7.
Michel Angel da Caravaggio Pinxt. E. Edwards delint. Thomas Chambars Sculpsit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 1st. 1764, by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside: London.
Engraving. Plate 431 x 532mm (17 x 21"). Very large margins.
Very fine image three musicians, seen half-length, to the left a man playing guitars and looking towards the viewer; nearby his companion, who has put his hand around his shoulders, is singing whilst raising his glass; to the right is a flute player; on the far right, a pitcher. After a painting attributed on plate to Caravaggion, and to Valentin. Dedication to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38266] £420.00

A Public Concert by Well-Known Performers
[anon., c.1830]
Lithograph, sheet 190 x 205mm (7½ x 8").
Group of Scottish musicians.
[Ref: 40815] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Concert Agreable.
Peint par Lavreince, Peintre du Roi de Suede et de l'Acad. Rle. de Stokolm. Grave par C.N. Varin.
A Paris chez Vidal, Graveur, rue des Noyers No.29. [n.d., 1785.]
Copper engraving on laid paper, 385 x 460mm. 15¼ x 18". Fine impression with full margins.
An attractive outdoor scene demonstrating the leisurely pursuits of fashionable French society. A group of men and women partake in a musical recital; featuring flute, guitars and a lute, one woman preparing to sing from the open song-book she holds. Engraved by Charles Nicolas Varin (c.1741 - 1812). The artist Nicolas Lavreince was a Swedish miniature painter who trained and worked in Paris until the onset of the Revolution. The print was advertised in Mercure de France, 26th March 1785, and in the Journal de Paris, 30th March 1785.
BNF: FRBNF40279153.
[Ref: 21361] £420.00

Le Concert de Famille. Dedié à Sa Majesté Christian VII. Roi de dannemark, Norwege des Vandales et des Goths, Duc de Sleswic, Holstein, Storman et des Ditmarses, Comte d’Oldenbourg et de Delinenborst &c.&c. Par son très humble très obeissant et très soumis Serviteur, Jean George Wille.
Peint par G. Schalken. Gravé par I.G. Wille Graveur du Roi et de S.M. Imp et Royale d’apres le Tableau Original que est dans son Cabinet.
a Pars chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins. [n.d. c.1768.]
Engraving, collector's stamp on verso. Plate 484 x 369mm (19 x 14½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A family of six sitting around a table, playing music and singing. Engraved by Johann Georg Wille (1715-1808).
Lugt: 2764 [unidentified].
[Ref: 28783] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Concerto Spirituale.
Bretherton f
Publis'd 23d March 1773
Scarce etching, 18th century watermark; sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Partially trimmed to plate on left. Tear repaired with tape.
Three men playing a viol da gamba, flute and horn. Etching after Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist who enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. Tim Clayton writes: 'Prints by Bunbury and 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.' He designed many prints of rural life such as this, which always remained attactive and picturesque.
BM Satires 5217.
[Ref: 61925] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Theatre.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t et Sculp.t. J. Bluck, Aquat.
London: Publish'd July 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint. 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼") very large margins.
An interior view of the original Royal Opera House, built by Edward Shepherd for John Rich in 1732. A choir and orchestra surround an organ in the centre of the stage. Only three months after the publication of this print, on the morning of 20 September 1808, the theatre was completely destroyed by fire. The performance of 'Pizarro' on the previous evening had required the firing of a gun, and it was supposed that the wadding from the gun had lodged in the scenery. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 58203] £320.00

[Music cover] The Cracovienne. Danced by Madlle Fanny Elssler, in the Grand Ballet of the Gypsey, Composed by N. C. Bocsha. Pr.75 cts.
N. Currier's Lith. N.Y.
New York Published by Hewitt & Jacques 239 Broadway [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, illustrated sheet music cover, rare. Sheet 330 x 220mm, 13 x 8¾". Sheet slightly trimmed.
Dancer Fanny Elssler (1810 - 1884) full length to front, wearing a military jacket, arms crossed in front of waist, hat with feathers, and hair in long braids. Houses and figures behind. She performs the Krakowiak, a fast, syncopated Polish dance in duple time from the region of Krakow. La Gypsy was a ballet in three acts with choreography by Joseph Mazilier; it premiered on 28th January 1839 at the Paris Opera with Elssler and Mazilier.
See Library of Congress LOT 10615-17. Not in Beaumont.
[Ref: 22978] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Scene from 'Le déserteur'] Alexis. Adieu, chère Louise, adieu, Ma vie étoit à toi....je la perds, vis heureuse [...]
à Augsbourg chès J.J. Haid et fils [c.1780]
Rare mezzotint, platemark 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 11¾"), with very large margins.
Scene from 'le déserteur', an opéra comique by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Michel-Jean Sedaine first performed in 1769. Copied from an engraving by A.-B. Duhamel after François Marie Isidore Queverdo, this print was published by the Augsburg-based Haid family, who mainly produced mezzotints copied from earlier prints.
[Ref: 43763] £320.00

Dr. Watts's Divine & Moral Songs, Composed & Dedicated to Master Horatio Goodbehere by Thos. Forbes Walmisley. Book 1. Entd. at Stats. Hall Price 6s./
Published by Monzani & Co. Music Sellers to H.R.R. the Prince of Wales No.3 Old Bond Street & 100 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1866.]
Stipple. Plate 254 x 195mm. 10 x 7¾". Foxed.
Frontispiece to Dr. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) compilation of divine and moral songs.
[Ref: 16306] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Gerhard Douw.
Ipse pinx.t Corner Inc.t
Published for the Engraver, according to Act of Parliament July 1. 1825, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown;-& Laddington, Allen & Co. London
Engraving on india, platemark 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8") very large margins.
A violinist, after the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Dou.
[Ref: 41298] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Remarkable French Drummer. This Man gets his Livelihood by attending the different Coffee Houses, &c. and playing a Concerto on Seven Drums, accompanied by a full Band; he was sometime Coachman to Robespiere & Executioner of that Unfortunate Monarch Louis the Sixteenth.
From a Sketch by M.W.S. 1802
Publish'd Oct.r 3 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Engraving, 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½"); large margins. Slight paper tone.
A London eccentric of the sort so often celebrated in late Georgian prints.
[Ref: 40673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Drury Lane Theatre.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t et sculp.t. J. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub 1st Aug.t 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint. 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼") very large margins.
An interior view of the Drury Lane theatre filled with an audience watching a performance in progress. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dates back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 58202] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Oh, Dry those Tears.
Rock & Co. London [c.1860]
Engraving with embossed border, sheet 55 x 85mm (2¼ x 3¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
Small sheet with romantic music and lyrics.
[Ref: 46415] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Duett. From the Picture in the Vernon Gallery.
W. Etty, R.A. Painter. R. Bell, Engraver.
H. Wilkinson, Printer. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving and etching. 230 x 318mm. 9 x 12½". Publication line cut.
A couple in oriental dress sitting at a table spread with fruit on a balcony, she sitting in front, playing a lute, both looking to left and singing from a score held up by a page wearing a doublet with slashed sleeves. After the painting 'The duet', exhibited in 1838, previously in the Vernon collection, now at Tate. Illustration from 'The Art Journal' of 1850.
[Ref: 22652] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

La Claveciniste.
Palamèdes pinx. Francois Flameng sc.
[n.d. c.1875.] Ch. Delâtre Imp. Paris.
Etching, very large margins. Plate 197 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾").
An interior with a Dutch woman seen from behind playing the harpsichord.
[Ref: 30429] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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