Grosvenor Prints

Une Femme de la Terre de Van-Diemen.
Benard direxit.
[n.d., c.1773.]
Engraving. Plate: 245 x 180mm Small margins
A portrait of a woman from Tasmania carrying a baby on her back after a drawing by John Webber. An illustration from the French edition of Cook's Third Voyage 'Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional' 1773.
[Ref: 50918] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Alaska] A Man of Oonalashka.
J.Webber del. W.Sharp sc.
[London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.]
Engraving. 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to the plate.
An Unangan man, a native of Unalaska, one of the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska. Russian fur traders called his tribe the Aleut. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives. Most of the illustrations in the Official Account, 'A Voyage to the Pacific', were his.
[Ref: 51201] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Alaska] Vue de L'Anse Fermée de L'Entrée du Prince Guillaume.
Benard direxit [after John Webber].
[Paris, 1785.]
Engraving. 240 x 375mm (9½ x 14¾"). Trimmed close to plate at top. Folds as issued.
Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery at anchor under high cliffs in Prince William's Sound, with men in two long boats and many local canoes. Cloud lifts from snow-covered mountains on the far side, gathering into a large cloud in upper right. Engraved by William Ellis after John Webber for 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (1784), the official account of Captain Cook's Third and final voyage. The English title was 'A View of Snug Corner Cove, in Prince William's Sound'.
[Ref: 51227] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Alaska] A Woman of Prince William's Sound.
J. Webber del. J. Basire sc.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving., fine impression 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to the plate. Slight crease in centre.
A woman, head and shoulders facing front and looking towards the viewer, wearing a fur cape tied under her chin. She has pendants hanging from her ears, with a nose ornament and piercings beneath her bottom lip. James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The editors of Cook's maps changed the name to Prince William Sound, in honor of Prince William, who would later become King William IV. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 51199] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Alexandria.
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe lith.
London, Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, Dec.r 1st, 1848.
Tinted lithograph with touches of later hand colour. Printed area 390 x 520mm (15¼ x 20½") large margins.
European and Turkish warships at anchor in the harbour of Alexandria. Published in the monumental folio edition of 'Egypt & Nubia: from drawings made on the spot' by David Roberts (1796 - 1864), lithographed by Louis Haghe.
Abbey Travel 272.
[Ref: 51205] £650.00

View of the Town of Alton Hampshire.
C.J. Greenwood, Del.t & lith. Printed by Standidge & Co, 36 Old Jewry, London.
Published by D. Walden, Bookseller, Alton. [n.d., c.1850.]
Scarce tinted lithograph, locally published. Printed area 280 x 350mm. Repaired tear in edge. Sky messy.
[Ref: 51235] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Artificial Sphere. Sacred to the Memory of Cap.t Cook.
Robertson f.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, creased.
An illustration of an armillary sphere, with a plinth dedicated to Cook and a sailor holding a chart of Hawaii.
[Ref: 51299] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Astronomy] To the worshipfull Andrew Lant of Thorp=underwood in the county of Northampton Esq.r this plate is humbly dedicated by Richard Blome.
G. Freman Inv. J. Kip S.
[London: Richard Blome, c.1680.]
Engraving. 275 x 155mm (10¾ x 6"). Narrow margins.
Four men in classical dress stand on a terrace watching a comet, one looking through a telescope (the wrong way!). Around them are a globe, an astrolabe, diagrams and various measuring devices. Possibly from Blome's 'The Gentleman’s Recreation'
Wellcome Library no. 46392i.
[Ref: 51244] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Johann Christian Bach] [Ionnes Christianus Bach, Saxoniae Natus, Insugnis Musicae Magistser XLVo. Aetatis Anno Obit Londini. Kal Ianuarii A.D. MDCCLXXXII.]
Aug. Carlini inv. et delin.t. etched by F. Bartolozzi.
London Pub.d 10th March 1782 by Augustin Carlini Soho Square.
Scarce & fine etching, proof before title. 225 x 345mm (9 x 13½"). Trimmed to the plate
A medallion portrait of Johann Christian Bach (1735-82, son of Johann Sebastian) within an architectural caprice with a pipe organ decorated with the head of Apollo, with a female figure of Fame and a cherub playing a lyre.
De Vesme 754. iii.
[Ref: 51269] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Ball [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire.
M. & N. Hanhard Imp. [n.d., 1851.]
Lithograph on india. Printed area 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11). Surface soiling.
Robert Ball (1802-57), Irish naturalist who served as the Director of the Dublin University Museum and inventor of 'Ball's Dredge', for the collection of marine organisms.
Wellcome 159.
[Ref: 51182] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Seascape with a ship floundering on a rocky coastline] Tres Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet. Virgil
TBaston delin. J. Sartor sculp.
[Thomas Baston, n.d., 1721.]
Fine etching. 195 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
Plate seventeen from a series 'Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy with variety of other sea pieces'. Engraved by Johann Jakob Sartor after Thomas Baston, marine artist (1699-1730, fl.), who made a series of marine paintings for William III in 1699 and published the series of prints from which this plate comes himself. The epigram from Virgil translates as 'The South wind whirled around three ships carrying them off onto hidden rocks
[Ref: 51231] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bazaar, 167, Fleet Street. As respectability, moral character, and good temper are indispensible to the prosperity of all who may sit in this Bazzar, you must produce testimonials before you can be admitted....
W. Arding, Printer, 21, Old Boswell Court, Carey Street. [n.d., c.1810.]
Rare letterpress broadside. Sheet 305 x 160mm (12 x 6¼").
A guide to selling at a bazaar, with rules about what can be sold. Permission was needed for articles of 'foreign produce and manufacture'; 'the sale of French gloves, Bandanna handkerchiefs, or any other prohibited articles' would lead to prosecution, suggesting the Bazaar was held during the Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 51305] £360.00

[3. Yeoman of the King's Body-Guard.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A 'beefeater' with his pike, Windsor Castle in the distance. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 51349] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[William Beloe.]
[Painted by Sully]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Mezzotint, proof, not recorded. 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
Reverend William Beloe (1756-1817), translator and writer, co-founder of 'The British Critic'. In 1803 he became the British Museum’s first curator of prints and drawings, a post from which he was dismissed in 1806, blamed for the thefts of caricaturist Robert Dighton. Dighton had gained the trust of Beloe by drawing portraits of him and his daughter during his visits, then for 18 months stole prints by hiding them in his portfolio. Thomas Sully spent nine months studying under Benjamin West in London when this was painted.
[Ref: 51247] £350.00

James Benwell Aged 82. of the Physic Gardens, Oxford.
A. Burt del. J. Skelton sculp.
Published Nov.r 1st 1817 by J. Skelton, St Aldates, Oxford.
Rare etching, on chine collé. 315 x 245mm (12½ x 9¾"). Cut into chine collé at bottom right.
John Benwell (c.1735-1819), Head Gardener of the Oxford Physic Gardens, standing with a bag of leaves suspended from a hoe over his shoulder. The garden's Black Pine tree, the garden's largest tree and J.R.R. Tolkien's favourite, was planted as a sapling by Benwell in 1800.
[Ref: 51314] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Hospitum Mente-Captorum Londinense. A Prospect Of the Hospitall called Bedlam for the releife of Persons distracted, w.ch by ye great care & incouragement of S.r William Turner Knight (Alderman sometime Lord Mayor of London) the most worthy President, Benjamin Ducane: Esq.r Treasurer, and ye other Governo.rs of the Hospitall was begun in Aprill, 1675 amd finished in July 1676.
R. White Sculpsit.
Sold by W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge. [n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce engraving on three sheets conjoined, total 1190 x 580mm. Some restoration with mss. fill. Small margins.
An elevation of famous mental hospital Moorfields, designed by Sir Robert Hooke. The governors of the hospital funded the first publication (1677) of this exceptionally large view, paying Robert White £40 to engrave the three plates and having final approval of his work. After presentation copies of the print were run off (for the govenors, Charles II and James, Duke of York, and others), the printing plates were given as a reward for service to the Clerk of the Governors 'to make the best advantage hee can thereof'. By 1694 the plates were owned by John Garrett (whose partially erase imprint can be seen at the bottom centre), before becoming the property of William Herbert. Herbert's address was the Golden Globe on London Bridge, one of ten new buildings erected on the bridge in 1749. He was forced to move when the bridge was cleared of buildings in 1759.
BM 1977,U.824. Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart Britain', BM 1998, cat.186.
[Ref: 51455] £1,500.00

[William H.W. Betty Engraved by S.W.Reynolds from a drawing in the possession of Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire to whom this plate is with permission respectfully inscribed by Her Grace's most humble servants S.W.Reynolds & J.s Ramsay.]
[Drawn by J.s Ramsay Sheffield Sept 1804 and published in London Feb.y 1805 by S.W.Reynolds 47 Poland Street, R.Ramsay Duke Street, Strand and sold by Ramsay Sheffield.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before all letters. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins reinforced on verso, creasing.
William Henry West Betty (1791-1874), a child actor billed as the 'Young Roscius' for his performances in adult roles like Hamlet and Romeo, 1804-6, at Covent Garden. After leaving the stage in 1808 to study at Christ's College, Cambridge, his attempts to return to the stage as an adult all failed. This plate is unusual in that the entire surface is mezzotinted. The published state also had 'The Young Roscius' written in the lower image.
Whitman: 26, state i of ii.
[Ref: 51180] £360.00

[Pair of red Birds of Paradise.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured lithograph. Border 400 x 280mm (15¾ x 11"), on backing sheet.
A pair of birds of paradise with long tails in a landscape.
[Ref: 51308] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bolton Priory, Twilight. No. 2.
T.C. Hofland A.L.A. Pinx.t. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Published Nov.r 1st 1811, by T.C. Hofland, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Fine aquatint. 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), with very large margins. Tears in left margin.
Bolton Priory and the River Wharfe. The second plate of ''Six views of and Near Bolton Priory'' by Robert and Daniell Havell after Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777-1843).
Ex: the Kedleston Hall collection
[Ref: 51256] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The South East View of Bolton Priory. No. 5.
T.C. Hofland A.L.A. Pinx.t. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Published Nov.r 1st 1811, by T.C. Hofland, Hampstead.
Fine aquatint, J. Whatman 1808 watermark. 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), with very large margins.
The fifth plate of ''Six views of and Near Bolton Priory'' by Robert and Daniell Havell after Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777-1843).
Ex: the Kedleston Hall collection
[Ref: 51259] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The South East View of Bolton Priory. No.6.
T.C. Hofland A.L.A. Pinx.t. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Published Nov.r 1st 1811, by T.C. Hofland, Hampstead.
Fine aquatint. 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), with very large margins.
A distant view of the priory, the final plate of ''Six views of and Near Bolton Priory'' by Robert and Daniell Havell after Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777-1843).
Ex: the Kedleston Hall collection
[Ref: 51260] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Bolton Priory, Morning. No. 4.
T.C. Hofland A.L.A. Pinx.t. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Published Nov.r 1st 1811, by T.C. Hofland, Harrowgate, Yorkshire.
Fine aquatint. 380 x 485mm (15 x 19"), with very large margins.
Bolton Priory and the River Wharfe. The fourth plate of ''Six views of and Near Bolton Priory'' by Robert and Daniell Havell after Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777-1843).
Ex: the Kedleston Hall collection
[Ref: 51258] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Copied from Capt. Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, by permission of the Proprietor.
H. Webber inv.t. T. Holloway sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet: 80 x 70mm (3 x 2¾''). Trimmed.
An allegorical scene showing Hope addressing Peace, Industry and Art by the coast. A copy of a roundel which appeared in the frontispiece of 'The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay' published by John Stockdale in 1789.
[Ref: 51142] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

J..S. Bowerbank [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire.
M. & N. Hanhard Imp. [n.d., 1851.]
Lithograph on india. Printed area 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½").
James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877) British naturalist and palaeontologist. The Palaeontographical Society was founded on his suggestion.
Wellcome 396.
[Ref: 51185] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dinner at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 11th March 1840 to George Byng Esq.re M.P. in Celebration and grateful Acknowledgment of Fifty Years uninterrupted Services as Representative in Parliament for the County of Middlesex.
[1840]
Invitation, lithograph on porcelain card, printed on both sides, with blindstamp. Sheet 125 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"). Some creasing, back has glues stains and abrasions.
Ticket numbered 624 in ink, issued to 'Mr. B. Byng Esq.'. George Byng (1764-1847) eventually spent 57 years in parliament, the last fifteen as Father of the House of Commons, only giving his seat up at his death.
[Ref: 51441] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Interior of the Mosque of the Metwalys.
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith.
London, Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, July 2nd, 1849.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 530 x 350mm (20¾ x 13¾") large margins.
The Mosque of Sultan Al-Muayyad, a musician and poet, built 1412-21. The 'Madrasa-Khanka' [monastery] of this religious complex was dedicated to Sufis only. The 'Dikka' of decorated wood and ivory, the slender marble columns and the gilded ceilings give a hypostyle plan to the congregational Mosque. The name Roberts gives, 'Metwalyes', refers to the nearby gate 'Bawabbat al-Mitwali', better known as Bab Zuwailah. Published in the monumental folio edition of 'Egypt & Nubia: from drawings made on the spot' by David Roberts (1796 - 1864), lithographed by Louis Haghe.
Abbey Travel 272.
[Ref: 51209] £800.00

A South View of Canonbury House, near Islington.
London: Published by Robert Wilkinson, No. 125, Fenchurch Street [n.d., c.1816.]
Scarce engraving with very fine hand colour. 260 x 420mm (10¼ x 16½").
A fine & decorative view looking across fields to Canonbury House.
[Ref: 51447] £320.00

Jacques Marquis de Castelnau Marsechal de France...
J. Frosne Sculpsit.
A paris chez F. Jollain [n.d., c.1680.]

Jacques de Castelnau-Bochetel (1620-58), lieutenant general of the king's armies during the Thirty Years War. In 1658, he took the fort of Leon near Dunkirk from the Spaniards and began strenghening work on the fortifications. During an inspection he was shot by a musket which lodged in his body. The king rewarding the capture of Leon by making Castelnau marshal of France, but he died of his wound a month later, aged only 38 years old.
[Ref: 51443] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

La Fin du Banquet.
Peint par Eugenè Lambert. Gravé par Pierre Cottin. Imp. R. Taneur.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Mixed method engraving. 515 x 610mm (20¼ x 24"). Trimmed within plate at sides. Slight foxing in margins.
A cat escapes from her nursing kittens. After Louis Eugène Lambert (1825-1900).
[Ref: 51369] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Cedar tree] Cedrus Deodara. Loudon. Lawson's Pinetum Britannicum.
W.m Richardson del et lith. Printed by Day & Son.
London & Edinburgh Published by Peter Lawson & Son. [n.d., 1863-84.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. 440 x 305mm (17¼ x 12") large margins.
A portrait of a cedar with an English church spire in the background. A plate from Edward James Ravenscroft's 'The Pinetum Britannicum. A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees Cultivated in Great Britain', privately published in parts between 1863-84 by Lawson, then continued by Ravenscroft and W. Blackwood & Sons.
[Ref: 51293] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Charter House.
[London: A. Churchill, J. Knapton & others, 1720.]
Engraving. 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾") large margins.
A view of the London Charterhouse in Smithfield, from John Stow’s ''A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster''.
[Ref: 51451] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Charter House, London.
Drawn and Engraved by J. Storer.
Published by J. & J. Cundee, Albion Press, London, 1814,
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet 200 x 225mm (8 x 9"). Trimmed.
Charterhouse in its original location in Smithfield, with boys playing cricket in the foreground.
[Ref: 51454] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[South East View of Chelsea Hospital.]
[Drawn & Publish'd by George Lynn, Chelsea, June 10, 1818, and Sold by Thos. Faulkner, Paradise Row, Chelsea.]
Etching, unfinished proof before aquatinting. Sheet 345 x 470mm (14 x 18½"). Tear in right edge, pencil notes underneath.
An early proof of Lynn's view of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, with figures promenading in the grounds, with only the etched outlines of the buildings and figures.
See Longford Images of Chelsea: 82 for the completed print.
[Ref: 51301] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable Sir A.E. Cockburn, Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England.
London, Published 7th July 1871, by the Engraver (T.L. Atkinson) 2 Alma Square, St John's Wood. _ Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 560 x 430mm (22 x 17") with very large margins.
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1802-1880), Lord Chief Justice for 21 years, from 1859 until his death. A notorious womaniser, he was nominated for a peerage in 1864, but Queen Victoria refused, noting that ''this peerage has been more than once previously refused upon the ground of the notoriously bad moral character of the Chief Justice''.
[Ref: 51419] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Cocken near Durham. The Seat of Ralph Carr Esq.r.
[The name of the artist-engraver burnished out]
[London: John Smith, 1724.]
Engraving. 425 x 600mm (16¾ x 23½") large margins.
A prospect of Cocken Hall, on the River Wear 3 miles from Durham (see here on the left), published in the 'Britannia Illustrata'. For a time in the 19th century it was the home of John Gully (1783-1863), prize fighter, gambler and MP for Pontefract.
[Ref: 51345] £350.00

Cocken near Durham. The Seat of Ralph Carr Esq.r.
[The name of the artist-engraver burnished out]
[London: John Smith, 1724.]
Engraving with later colour. 425 x 600mm (16¾ x 23½"), with wide margins.
A prospect of Cocken Hall, on the River Wear 3 miles from Durham (see here on the left), published in the 'Britannia Illustrata'. For a time in the 19th century it was the home of John Gully (1783-1863), prize fighter, gambler and MP for Pontefract.
[Ref: 51344] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Conservative Festival] To Sir John Tyssen Tyrell Bart. Charles Gray Round Esq.re Thomas William Bramston Esq.re George Palmer Esq.re Sir George Henry Smyth Bart. Richard Sanderson Sq.re Quintin Dick Esq.re John Round Esq.re, John Attwood Esq.re & William Beresford Esq.re This Representation of the Conservative Festival, held at Chelmsford, on the 22nd September 1841, To Commemorate their Return to Parliament fro the County Boroughs of Essex, is (with their permission) respectfully dedicated by their obedient Serv.t, Henry Guy.
Drawn & Lith.d by Tho.s Picken. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1841.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 425 x 510mm (16¾ x 20"). Several small tears, most have been repaired.
A banquet, held in a specially-contructed pavillion, to celebrate the Return to Parliament of ten Conservative M.P.s for Essex.
[Ref: 51438] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Cook Islands] A Man of Mangea.
J. Webber del. W. Sharp sculp.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"). Trimmed to the plate.
A man from Mangaia, Cook Islands, wearing a bone ornamental dagger through his ear and his hair tied up in a bun. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 51200] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land.
J. Webber del. Newton sculp.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. 265 x 405mm (10 x 16"). Trimmed close to plate right and bottom
HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery at anchor in Christmas Harbour in the Kerguelen Islands (also known as Desolation Islands) in the Southern Indian Ocean. In the foreground an unafraid penguin watches a crewman approaching to club it. A sea lion is hidden among the rocks. Engraved by James Newton after John Webber for 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (1784), the official account of Captain Cook's Third and final voyage.
[Ref: 51210] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Courage Displayed!!!
Marks fecit.
London. pubd by Marks, 17 Artillery St, Bishopsgate.
Etching with original colour. Sheet 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed within printed border.
A man attacks a mouse with a poker, inadvertently breaking a mirror. Two women stand on a chaise longue, one hitching up her skirts.
[Ref: 51352] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Alderney Breed. Cow and Calf, the property of M. Brehaut, of Jersey. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published October, 1841 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51320] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Ayrshire Breed. Cow, 5 Years old, the property of Mr Finlay, Lyonstone, Maybole, bred in the upper district of Ayrshire. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published April, 1842 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins. Edges foxed.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51326] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Devon Breed. Bull, aged 2 years and 9 Months, bred by Mr Denny, Egnore, County of Norfolk. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published April 1841 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13") large margins. Slight mount burn around image.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51334] £350.00

The Fifeshire Breed. Cow, 6 Years old, the property of Mr Mr B. Ferney of Kilmux. _ bred by Mr Anderson, Kinglassie. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published October, 1841 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins. Mount burn.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51327] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Galloway Breed. Heifer 3 Years Old, the property of the Right Honourable the Countess of Selkirk. _ Bull. 4 Years old, bred by Mr Marshall, St Mary's Isle, Kircudbrightshire. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published August, 1840 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13") large margins.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51328] £360.00

The Glamorgan Breed. Cow, 5 Years old, bed by Mr Bradley, of Treguff Place, in the County of Glamorgan. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published April, 1841 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51323] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Long Horn Breed. Bull, 4 Years old, bred by Mr Wyatt of Hanwell Castle, Oxfordshire; by a Bull bred [by] Mr Smith of Snidderfield, in the the County of Warwick. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published February, 1842 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins. Mount burn aroound image.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51330] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Pembroke Breed. Bull, 3 Years old, bred by Mr Innes Achland of Boulston: _ Cow, 5 Years old, bred by the same Gentleman. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published February, 1840 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51329] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Sussex Breed. Oxen, 6 years old, bred by Mr Putland, Firle, County of Sussex. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
[Published by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London, n.d., 1842.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51333] £350.00

West Highland Breed. Cow, bred by Mr Maxwell of Aross Mull...
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published February, 1840 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"). Paper toned.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 51322] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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