Grosvenor Prints

[Germany] Charlemagne.
J. Chapman sculp.
London, publish'd as the Act directs Jany 18: 1805 by J. Wilkes.
Stipple, with large margins. Plate 163 x 114mm. 6½ x 4½".
Charlemagne (c.742-814), King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans. He was responsible for expanding the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III; this made him a temporary rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. One of a number of stipple heads of Kings and Queens of similar format printed on quarto sheets, by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810. They probably appeared as illustrations to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes'.
[Ref: 24539] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Carolus Magnus F.e Rex XXIIII.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. 121 x 85mm. 4¾ x 3¼". Trimmed close to the plate.
Charlemagne (c.742-814) was King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans. He was responsible for expanding the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III; this made him a temporary rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople.
[Ref: 19131] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] His most Serene Highness Charles Hereditary Prince of Brunswick & Lunenberg
I.G. Qisenis [Ziesenis] pinx.t. R. Houston fecit
[Printed for John Bowles, in Cornhill, & Carington Bowles, in St Pauls Church Yard, London]
Mezzotint, rare; sheet 145 x 115mm (5¾ x 4½"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line; glued to backing sheet.
Charles II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneberg (1735-1806), nephew of Friedrich II of Prussia. In 1764 he married Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and in 1780 succeeded his father as Duke of Brunswick. His 'Brunswick manifesto' threatening France and ordering the restoring of monarchy (25 July 1792), led to the fall of the Tuileries and the imprisonment of the royal family. Later that year Charles led the Austro-Prussian army against the French revolutionaries but lost at Valmy. He died in battle at Auerstedt in 1806. Engraved after the portrait by Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716-1776), Danish painter who became court artist to George II in Hannover in 1760.
CS 14
[Ref: 35276] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles V] Progenies Diuûm Quintus sic Carolus ille Imperii Caesar Lumina et ora Tulit. Aetat suae XXXI, Ann M.D. XXXI. Impenum oceano: famam qui lerminat astris.
PLombart Sculp A londre.
[n.d. c.1660.]
Fine engraving, sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly foxed.
Bust portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500-1558), also known as Charles I of Spain. Looking towards the left, wearing a flat cap, embroidered robes and a chain with a hanging sheep. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to Northern Italy, the Kingdom of Spain with its southern Italian possessions of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia, and the Spanish and German colonies in America: the personal union of the European and American territories of Charles V was the first realm to be labelled as 'the empire on which the sun never sets'.
[Ref: 59379] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel] Carolus D.G. Landgravius Hassiae Princeps Hersfeldiae &c.
J. Gole fecit.
Nicolaus Visscher Ex cum Privil. Ordin. General Belaii Federati Ao 1696
Mezzotint, sheet 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14¼"). Trimmed to image; crease through centre not visible from front.
A large impressive portrait of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654-1730), who governed Hesse-Kassel during the Thirty Years' War and War of the Spanish Succession.
[Ref: 42394] £320.00

Christian Reichs Freyherr v. Münch. Herr zu Aÿstenen Vils...
Ant. Graff pinx. 1787. I.F. Bause sculps. 1789.
Engraving. Sheet: 310 x 230mm (12 x 9''). Trimmed.
A half-length portrait of German banker Christian von Münch (1752-1821), set with in an oval.
[Ref: 48561] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Christina Ewartina Nata de Bareith, Duc & Elec: Saxoniae, & c.
I. Danckerts exc. cum Privilegio.
[n.d. before 1701, Antwerp?]
Mezzotint. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼") very large margins. Slight vertical crease through the plate. Some foxing in the lower margin.
A portrait of Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671-1727), dressed lavishly. She married the Duke of Saxony, who would go on to become king of Poland, aged 21. Their marriage was unhappy, as the Duke was a serial adulterer, and her dislike of him only increased after he converted to Catholicism in order to become king. In response Christiane did not attend his coronation nor did she ever set foot in Poland and thus was never crowned queen in Poland. They had one child together.
[Ref: 53866] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

D. Justus Claproth. ordentlicher offentlicher Leher der Rechte, und Beysizer der juristen - Facultcet zu Göttingen. Gebohren am 30 ten Dec. 1728.
J. H. Fischbein sen del. 1772. J. E. Haid sculp A.V. 1779.
1779.
Mezzotint, very scarce. Sheet size: 215 x 135mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed to image. Slight repaired hole on top left.
Justus Claproth (1728 - 1805) was a German jurist, or teacher of law, and inventor of the deinking process of recycled paper. Before the invention of the paper machine in 1799 the most common fibre source was recycled fibres from used textiles. The rags were from hemp, linen and cotton. It was not until the introduction of wood pulp in 1843 that paper production were independent of recycled materials. The process for removing printing inks from recycled paper was invented by Justus Claproth in 1774. He practiced together with German paper producer Johann Engelhard Schmid. Today this method is called deinking.
[Ref: 34325] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Kolen, een onde, vermaerde, en webarende stadt voor Zien met Schoone huizen, en Kerken. Colonia Agrippina, Urbs ampla, florens, atque magnifica, inferioris Germaniae caput.
Pet Schenk. Amsteld C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 215 x 268mm. 8½ x 10½".
Villagers, one with a donkey, stand in the foreground walking away from Cologne, Germany, a settlement founed by Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero. The city lies on the River Rhine, and the great Cathedral can be seen in the background, mid-construction; work began in 1248 and was completed in 1880. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 24906] £350.00

Senateur, de Cologne. de Jean Weigel.
Touze d.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 273 x 164mm.
[Ref: 2130] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Theod. Craanen Ph. et Med. Dr. [...]
J. Toornvliet delineavit. A. Blooteling Sculp.
P. Van der Aa Excudit, Cum Privileg. D.D. Ordin. Holl. et West-frisiae [n.d., c.1685]
Line engraving, rare; sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Creases from earlier folding; repaired damage on right; trimmed to plate on three sides.
Theodor Craanen (1620-1690), mathematician and physician.
Wellcome: 704.
[Ref: 31112] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] [Count D'Armensberg.] [Pencil inscription:] Count D'Armensberg Member of the Regency...Prime Minister..Otho of Greece.
Hanfstaengl ft. 1830. [facsimile under image.] I.M. Epmann.
[n.d. c.1832.]
Lithograph, very scarce. 379 x 330mm. 15 x 13".
Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1878-1853), the Interior and Finance Minister from 1826-1828, and the Foreign and Finance Minister from 1828-1831 under King Ludwig I. When Otto, King Ludwig's son, took the throne in 1832, von Armansperg was made the President of the Privy Council and Prime Minister of the new government. From a collection relating to the Greek War of Independence, Otto I and Bavaria.
[Ref: 27799] £340.00

Le Comte De Daun. Feld-Marechal des Armees de l'Empire.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St.Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 274 x 167mm.
[Ref: 1994] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Brücke beÿ Dingolfing.
Wagenbauer del.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Early German lithograph, very large margins. 349 x 495mm (13¾ x 19½").
The high vaulted arch bridge across the Isar River, at Dingolfing, Southern Bavaria, Germany.
[Ref: 31106] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Vue de Dresde du côté occidental, prise près le village de Lieschen.
Dessiné d'après nature et gravé par C.G. Hammer à Dresde.
bei Heinrich Rittner in Dresden [n.d., c.1816].
Rare coloured etching with aquatint. 510 x 660mm (20 x 26"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'. Trimmed into plate at bottom, two tears entering sky, one repaired, one taped.
A view of Brühl's Terrace, Dresden, with the Hofkirche but before the building of the Semperoper (1841), engraved (and probably drawn by) Christian Gottlob Hammer.
[Ref: 54769] £580.00

Dresde, een Keurvorstelyke Stad in Saxen, gelegen aen de Elve, voorzien met een Schoon wapenhuis en Kunstkamer: Dresda, Electoralis Saxoniae urbs, ad fluvium Albim sita, armamentario egregio et mirabili Gazophylacio instructa.
Pet Schenk. Amsteld C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 215 x 268mm. 8½ x 10½".
Czech and Geraman settlers in boats and on the shore by the River Elbe, with the city of Dresden, Germany behind. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 24910] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Erinnerung an Dresden.
Nature Zeuchnung v. O. Wagner. Stahl Stich v. E. Schmidt.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. Publisher's stamp on left. Plate: 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½''). Bit dusty.
A collection of souvenir views of Dresden arranged around a central view which shows the Palace Gardens. Other views include the Caffe Reale, the Kings Theatre, a Synagoge, the Orangerie, the Marketplace, Hotel de Saxe and the Kreuz Kirche.
[Ref: 48295] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Das v. Vitzthum Blochmann'iche Gymnasial. Erziehungshaus.
Nach de Natur gez. v. E. Oehme. In Stahl gestochen v. J. Fleischmann.
[n.d. c.1829.]
Etching. Plate 190 x 533mm. 7½ x 21". Folds.
Vitzthum Gymnasium, Dresden. In 1639, Rudolph Vitzthum left a large quantity of money in his will for the creation of a secondary school. It was not established until 1829, called the Blochmannschen Erziehungsanstalt, run by Karl Justus Blochmann. In 1861 he school was designated the name Vitzhumsches Gymnasium.
[Ref: 20863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect der vom König Augusto erneuerten und herrlich gezierten Elb - Brücke zu Dresden.
Zu finden in Dresden bey Moriz Bodenehr R.M.S. 1733.
Alle Monath was neues von Dresden, der anfang 1733. Januarius das Erste Stück.
Etching. Two sheets conjoined, 265 x 610mm (10½ x 24"). Trimmed to plate on right, small tears.
A panorama of the 'beautifully-restored' bridge over the Elbe, rebuilt by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and (as Augustus II the Strong) King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania.
[Ref: 52045] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Prospectus pontis fluvio Albi Dresdae impositi Ecclesia versus B. V. Mariae dicata. Vüe du Pont de Dresde sur l'Elbe verse l'Egise de Notre Dame.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Augustus Bridge over the Elbe, with the Hofkirche, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38310] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The City of Dresden. Le Ville de Dresden.
Patton Sculp.
London Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, S.t Paul's Church Yard, Robert Wilkinson, 58, Cornhill and Laurie and Whittle, 53, Fleet Street.
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 295 x 435mm (11½ x 17¼"), with large margins. Laid on album paper. Thread margin at top. Marks in the sky.
A view of the river Elbe in Dresden.
[Ref: 55169] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Dresden von der Morgenseite.
[Etched by Christian Friedrich Sprinck.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 110 x 155mm (4 x 6½").
A view of Dresden from the frozen Elbe, with figures skating and sleighing on the ice, with drinks being served from a boat. A Frost Fair item.
[Ref: 57299] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Prospectus exterius Portæ Wilsche, cum Bibliotheci Regia, Dresdæ. Vüe exterieur de la Porte Wilsche, avec la Bibliotheque Royale a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's fortifications at the Wilsche Gate, with a bridge over the moat. Behind is the Royal Library. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38385] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Ecclesia Regia Catholicorum, cum Ontem super Fluviam Albis, Dresdæ. L'Eglise Royale Catholique, avec le Pont sur la Riviere de l'Elbe, a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Hofkirche, with the Augusts bridge over the Elbe, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the 'Staatliche Kunstsammlungen', shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38386] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Western view of Dresden] Vue de Dresde à l'ouest
chez Meser à Dresde Schlossgasse No.315 [c.1820]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Paper tone. Small margins
[Ref: 46111] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Dresden.
A.N. del. J. Clark sc.
[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. n.d., c.1818].
Coloured aquatint. Printed area: 160 x 100mm. (6¼ x 4"). Paper glued to corners on verso where previously mounted.
Prospect of Dresden on the River Elbe, eastern Germany, near the Czech border. To the left is the Catholic Church of Dresden. This is the largest church in Saxony; built between 1739 and 1754 by the Italian architect, Gaetano Chiaveri in late baroque Rome. In the background stands the Semperoper. After Adam Neal, from the publication 'Travels through some Parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey', 1818.
[Ref: 31596] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

From my Room Window at the White House Ehrenbreitstein Sept.r 1842.
F:W: Trench.
Lithograph, scarce & rare. Sheet: 195 x 550mm (7¾ x 21¾"). Creasing.
A view across the Rhine in Koblenz from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress. A lithograph by British army officer Sir Frederick William Trench (1775-1859).
[Ref: 47492] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Georg Endte der ällte, Seines Alters 66. Jah. A.º 1628. denatus 1630.
HAE. Cornelis Nicolas Schurtz sc.
[n.d., c.1650-80]
Engraving. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate; painted border around edge.
Portrait of George Endter the Elder, a Nuremburg bookseller, with his grandson, Johann Andreas Endter who is holding a bird in his left hand. Twelve lines of verses by Simon Bornmeister below. Engraved by Cornelius Nicolas Schurtz, also of Nuremburg.
Hollstein 29
[Ref: 31806] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha] Ernestus, der Dritte/herzog zu Sachsen/Jülich/Clve und Berg/etc.
[Nuremberg, n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 320 x 190mm, with letterpress surtitle. Small margins. Mounted on album paper at corners.
A full-length portrait of Ernest 'the Pious' (1601-75) From an edition of 'Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze H. Schrift, Altes vnd Newes Testaments Teutsch', first published 1641. Text verso.
[Ref: 59804] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ernest. Regierender Herzog von Sachsen=Coburg Saafeld &c.&c.
H. Mansfeld.
Wien bey Artria & Comp. [n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple. Plate: 265 x 200mm (10¼ x 8'') very large margins. Mint. Uncut.
A portrait of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784-1844), who was the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld and the first of Saxe-Coburg Gotha following the reshuffle of Ernestine territories in 1826. He was the father of Prince Albert, consort of Victoria I.
[Ref: 49466] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Louis Prince d'Oettingen-Wallerstein.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple. 112 x 76mm (4½ x 3").
Ludwig Kraft Ernst, Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein (1791-1870), succeeded his father as ruling Furst in 1802 and lost his sovereingty in 1806 due to Mediatisation. He served as minister of the interior in the Kingdom of Bavaria between 1832 and 1837, and as foreign minister in 1848-49.
[Ref: 34651] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Francofurtum Ad Moenum Floridum, Urbis huius Imperialis et Emporii celeberrimi, in quo Imperatores eliguntur, vera et accurata Delineatio…. a Salomone Kleiner, Electoris Moguntini Architecto, Nunc vero excusum et in lucem editum per Ioannem Andream Pfeffel, S.C.M. Aulae Chalcographum. Pretio vero prostat in iconopoleo Ioannis Simonis Negges, Chalcographi Augustani [German translation follows].
Sal. Kleiner I.E.M. del.
Cum Priv. Sac. Caes. Maj. [n.d. c.1720].
Titlepage, engraved map and 7 engraved views, complete as isssued, 343 x 271mm. Includes plate of the Cathedral 520 x 345mm. Light foxing and staining, largely to margins.
A set of skillfully engraved views in Frankfurt, Germany, at the time the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the Empire's administrative centre. They seem to be a special commission for the chief architect of the city. Includes 1 large plate of the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (numbered '3') 'Ecclesia Metropolitana Sancti Bartholomaei et turris eius Francofurti ad Moenum'. After the Holy Roman Emperors ceased to be crowned by the popes, their coronation ceremonies took place here (1562–1792). Each plate has title and description in both German and Latin.
[Ref: 3588] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Frankfort.
Publish'd by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1814.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 305 x 394mm. 12 x 15½". Trimmed to the platemark along the bottom.
From "An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, During the Years 1812, 1813, 1814 & 1815, Comprising a series of Views of Paris, Moscow, The Kremlin, Dresden, Berlin..... together with a History of those Momentous Transactions."
[Ref: 15190] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Frankfort, een beroemde koopstad, te zien van Saxenhausen. Francofurtum urbs mercatura nobilis qua prospectus ad eam est ex Saxenhusio.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 215 x 266mm (8½ x 10½").
Frankfurt seen from across the Main River, with the great St. Bartholomaus Cathedral in the background. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 28700] £420.00

Friedrich August Koenig von Sachsen.
C. Vogel gem. M. Steinla gest.
Gedruckt bei Durand & Sauvé in Paris. Verlegt bei Ernst Arnold in Dresden [n.d., c.1820].
Rare engraving with etching. 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"), large margins.
Half-length portrait in uniform of Frederick Augustus (1750-1827, last Elector of Saxony (1763-1806), then King of Saxony, and Duke of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815. He inherited the Polish throne in 1798, but he refused because of the repercussions of the Partitions of Poland by Austria, Russia and Prussia. However in 1807 he became the Duke of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Engraved by Moritz Steinla (1791-1858) after Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759-1816).
[Ref: 57742] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

De Intredinge van den Cheur Prins van saxen met zyn Vrouw [...] [parallel text in Latin]
A.V. Laan Inv.
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, one spot.
A scene showing the entry of the Prince of Saxony Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763) and his wife into Dresden on 2 September 1719, after their marriage in Vienna.
[Ref: 59261] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Hertzog Fridrich von Wirtenbergk [...] Die uns beschirmen fur gewalt
[attributed to Abraham Hogenberg.]
Anno Domini 1603. den 16 Nouembr.
Etching with captions labelling protagonists and key letters, paper watermarked, very rare with large margins. Plate 210 x 291mm (8¼ x 11½"). Repaired tears in margins.
Duke Frederick of Wurtemburg invested with the Order of the Garter, the investiture ceremony in Stuttgart cathedral. Frederick I's ruling passion was to establish an alliance with Elizabeth I and to obtain the Order of the Garter. The Queen called him 'cousin Mumpellgart', and in 1597 allowed his election to the Order of the Garter, but the actual ceremony of his investiture did not take place until November, 1603, when the Garter was conferred on him in his own capital city of Stuttgart by a special embassy from James I.
[Ref: 29001] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Prussia] Fréderic II Roi de Prusse Electeur de Brandebourg.
Pesne P. Wille S.
[n.d., c.1757].
Engraving. 285 x 390mm. (11¼ x 15¼"), large margins.
Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, half-length, turned to left; with tricorn, and sash worn over jacket bearing the insignia of the Order of the Black Eagle; in trompe l'oeil oval frame, on pedestal. Frédéric II was a successful military campaigner who, in a series of diplomatic stratagems and wars against Austria and other powers, greatly enlarged Prussia's territories and made Prussia the foremost military power in Europe at the time.
[Ref: 57544] £320.00

Frederico III D.G. Marck et Elector Brandenburgi, &c.
J. Gole Fecit et Exc. Amstelod. Cum Privil. Ord. Holl. et West Frisiæ.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Fine mezzotint. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Narrow right margin.
Frederick Hohenzollern (1657-1713) who, in exchange for an alliance against King Louis XIV in the War of the Spanish Succession, persuaded the Holy Roman Emperor to allow the elevatation of Brandenburg and Prussia to a kingdom, crowning himself the king of Prussia in 1701.
[Ref: 52963] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fridericus IIII. D.G. Com. Pal. Reni. Utr. Bavar. Dux, Sac. Rom. Imp. Archidapifer Elector Sept.
Crispiano Passære cælatore.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. Verso in ink "Claude Augustin Mariette 1694" From a famous collection. Sheet cut in oval, 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on J Whatman album paper top left.
Portrait of Frederick IV (1574-1610), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, engraved by Crispijn de Passe, curiously clean-shaven.
[Ref: 59860] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Frederick V. of Simmerin, Elector Palatine 1610, Titular King of Bohemia 1619. K.G. Obit 1632, Aet. 36.
Engraved by Charles Turner, from an authentic original.
London:Published by S.Woodburn, 112, St. Martin's Lane. 1813.
Mezzotint on india laid paper, 390 x 265mm. 15¼ x 10½". Fine.
Frederick V (1596 – 1632) was Elector Palatine (1610 – 1623), and, as Frederick I, King of Bohemia (1619–20). On horseback with a battle scene behind. Engraved by Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) for a series of 15 copies of early engravings, 'Portraits of Royal Personages', by Turner, Earlom and Dunkarton, issued by Samuel Woodburn in book form in 1816.
Whitman: 471.
[Ref: 13289] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Fredericus Wilhelmus Marchio Brandenburgicus, S. Rom. Imp. Elector.
Ger. van Hondt-horst. Corn. Vischer Sculpsit. P. Soutman dirigente.
Cum Privilegio An 1649.
Copper engraving. Plate 412 x 292mm. 16¼ x 11½". Trimmed to the plate. Glue stains in the corners. Laid.
Frederick William (1620-1688) was the Elector of Brandenburg and the Duke of Prussia from 1640 until his death. He was of the House of Hohenzollern and was known as the Great Elector because of his military and political skill. He was instrumental in the strong position that Prussia held in the post-Westphalia political order or north-central Europe, due to his understanding of the importance of trade and its vigorous promotion.
Hollstein 122.
[Ref: 17169] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

I.re Vue du Parc et Chateau de Freising a 2 lieues de Munich Capitale de la Baviere. [&] II.re Vue du Parc et Chateau de Freising a 2 lieues de Munich Capitale de la Baviere.
Le Poussin Pinx.t Paris Sculp.
A Paris chez Bonvalet, rue de Faub.g St. Jacques vis-a-vis l'Institution des Sourds Muets, No.235.
A pair of engravings. Plate 355 x 286mm. 14 x 11¼". [&] 368 x 285mm. 14½ x 11¼". Repairs.
A beautiful pair of engravings in the gardens of the Chateau Freising, Munich. The first: the gardener with his wheelbarrow in the foreground with ladies and a gentleman standing by the vase ornament at the bottom of an ornate stone staircase, in the background a fountain and more figures. The second: a man sits painting a young lady and her child with the backdrop of a towered house and a boat on the water, two boys sit reading.
[Ref: 20396] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Vue de Fribourg.
G.A. Muller del. Hurlimann sc.
à Basle, chez Birmann & Fils [n.d. c.1830].
Aquatint with etching. 280 x 340mm (11 x 13½"). Wide margins.
Fine view of Fribourg (German: Freiburg) on the river Saane/Sarine, Switzerland. From a topographical series.
[Ref: 25946] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Ziethen sitzend vor seinem König 1785][in pencil] [&][Key plate]
[Chodowiecki][in pencil]
Engraving, sheet 380 x 480mm (15 x 19"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet, with very scarce keyplate.
One of a pair of scenes from the life of Fredrick the Great. During an audience with his generals Frederick ordered a chair to be brought for the 85-year-old Hans Joachim von Zieten, telling him to sit; when von Zieten refuses to sit in the presence of his monarch, Frederick forces him by threatening to leave. With key plate explaining key figures in the scene.
See 33687 for rare proof.
[Ref: 61706] £750.00 view all images for this item

[Ziethen sitzend vor seinem König.]
[Daniel Chodowiecki.]
[n.d., c.1786].
Rare engraving, proof before letters. Platemark: 460 x 560mm (18 x 22"). Small taped tears. Stain top right corner.
One of a pair of scenes from the life of Fredrick the Great. During an audience with his generals Frederick ordered a chair to be brought for the 85-year-old Hans Joachim von Zieten, telling him to sit; when von Zieten refuses to sit in the presence of his monarch, Frederick forces him by threatening to leave. The companion scene has Frederick asleep at a table, surrounded by his generals: von Zieten tells his companions to let the King sleep and watch over him, as the king has watched over them for long enough.
[Ref: 33687] £1,250.00

Friedrich Wilhelm, II König von Preussen.
Graff pinx. Tart sculp.t
Pub as the Act directs by the proprietor Aug.t 25 1789 London.
Colour printed stipple. Plate: 225 x 160mm (9 x 6¼''), with large margins.
A profile portrait of Frederick Wilhelm II of Prussia (1744-1797).
[Ref: 48797] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] [Johannes Froben.]
H. HolBeen. Pinxit. L. Visscher. fecit.
[n.d. c.1664.]
Engraving. Collector's stamp on front lower right and verso lower left. Plate 165 x 133mm. 6½ x 5¼".
Portrait of Johannes Froben, bust to left, wearing fur-trimmed coat; in a circle on a pedestal. Johann Froben (c.1460-1527) was a famous printer and publisher in Basel. He printed the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam and some woodcuts by Holbein.
Ex Collection: Friedrich August II (1797-1854) King of Saxony. Lugt: 971; and G. Ritter von Franck (1807-1860), Vienna. Lugt: 1152.
[Ref: 24661] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

De Kuyp aen Duygen [Door 't vervoeren van den Prins Willem van Furstenberg...]
[Romeyn de Hooghe.]
[n.d. c.1674.]
Etching. 245 x 330mm. 9¾ x 13". Cut and laid on album sheet.
Image to a Dutch broadside on the abduction of Prince Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg in Cologne on 16 February 1674, showing the attack on his coach by night; at the top of the print a banner with an allegorical depiction of Louis XIV's ambitions for political domination shown as a barrel being constructed around a globe. William Egon von Fürstenberg (1629-1704), the German clergyman who was bishop of Strasbourg. He served as political adviser and intriguer on behalf of Louis XIV and his ally Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern, Archbishop-elector of Cologne. Furstenberg began his career as Colonel in the French army during the Thirty Years' War, subsequently serving Maximilian Heinrich. In 1664 he was made Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, however ten years later in February of 1674 he was abducted while at the peace congress in Cologne and imprisoned by the Emperor in Austria for five years.
BM Satires: 1046.
[Ref: 27964] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz] Sereniss: Sax: Elect: Consiliarius Intimus et ad Comitia VII Viralia Ratisbonham Legatus Amplissimus etc. Nicolaus Gebhartus a Militis Sibeneichæ, Burkerstorfii, et Bertelstorfii Toparcha. etc. A.o 1630.
Lucas Kilian sculpsit.
[c.1630.]
Fine rich engraving but damaged impression, 17th century watermark. Sheet 245 x 140mm (9¾ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, tear in inscription area and middle right.
Nikolaus Gebhard von Miltitz (1597-1635), Privy Councillor in Regensburg.
[Ref: 59802] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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