Grosvenor Prints

Views of Bournemouth, Hants. From Sketches by H.D. [Harriet Daniel.] The Profits will be in aid of the Funds for Schools and School-houses at Bournmouth.
Lithographed, Printed, and Published by Dickinson & Co., 114, New Bond Street, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Oblong folio; title and four hand-coloured lithographs with very large margins, in modern blue leather box. Scarce complete.
A view looking towards Bournemouth, Dorsetshire, with St Peter's Church to the left and the sea to the right. [&] A view of Bath Road, Bournemouth; the original town baths on the right and Belle Vue Boarding House to the left. [&] A view looking south towards Bournemouth with St Peter's Church to the left and sailing boats seen out on the sea. [&] A view looking west towards Bournemouth from the other side of the bay with sailing ships and larger merchant vessels in the bay, a tall-ship's mast seen over the hill to the right. After sketches by Harriet Daniel. Bournemouth was part of Hampshire until 1974.
Abbey: Scenery 51.
[Ref: 61626] £900.00 view all images for this item

[Election fight for south Northumberland.]
[Anon. 1832.]
Etching, sheet 285 x 365mm (11¼ x 14¼"). Tears to edges just going into the plate. Top plate mark lost. Small margins.
A satire on the South Northumberland election. The candidates with their arms up ready to box face each other. Matthew Bell (1793-1871) is on the left looking small and dapper, wearing top-boots, he is supported by five other men. On the right facing Bell are Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (1792-1841) and William Ord (1781–1855) taller, heavier, older, and wearing trousers and long frock-coats.
BM Satires 17311.
[Ref: 61467] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Proof][Dr Boyce]
[Drawn from the life & Engrav'd by J. K. Sherwin engraver to His Majesty & His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.]
[Publish'd as the Act directs Decr. 1ft 1788.]
Scratched letter proof etching, sheet 300 x 245mm (11½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
William Boyce (1711-1779), organist, composer, and music editor, seated beside a classically-ornamented table on which also lies a volume lettered 'Dr Boyce..'. His left arm rests on sheet music, quill in his right hand. Curtain drape behind to left, column at right, church organ in background beyond. Master of the king's musick from 1757, Boyce composed music for state occasions following the death of Handel. This included music for the funeral of George II and the wedding of George III and Queen Charlotte. Boyce also had an interest in the history and science of music, and published an important three-volume work of church music, 'Cathedral Music', which was influential in the repertoire of church music over the next century.
See reference 37958.
[Ref: 61688] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Chart of the Sea Coast of Great Britain and Ireland.
By H. Moll Geographer.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraved map. 320 x 285mm (12½ x 11¼"). Narrow margin on left. Original binding folds.
A sea chart of the British Isles, from Josiah Burchett's 'A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Account... to the Conclusion of the Last War with France''.
[Ref: 61703] £380.00

M.rs Brooke. (Ranee of Sarawak.)
AS. [? within image]. Judd & C.o Lith Doctors' Common, London E.C.
The Whitehall Review. April 19.th 1879.
Rare lithograph, sheet 370 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾"). Bottom left and right corners missing.
Head and shoulders portrait of Margaret, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak (born Margaret Alice Lili de Windt; 1849–1936). She was the consort of the Sarawak the second White Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Anthony Johnson Brooke (1829–1917). She was also an author and composer publishing her memoir, My Life in Sarawak, in 1913. The memoir offers a rare glimpse of life in The Astana in Kuching and colonial Borneo. Additionally she composed the national anthem of Sarawak, Gone Forth Beyond the Sea, in 1872. "The Whitehall Review: A Weekly Journal of Politics and Society." Was a periodical published weekly.
[Ref: 61490] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Buckingham Palace & Victoria Memorial.]
Fred. A. Farrell [signed in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching, 175 x 430mm (7 x 17"), with very large margins. Blindstamps lower left. Very faint mountburn. Some foxing marks on right.
Buckingham Palace on the left, with the Queen's Gardens and Victora Memorial on the right. Etched by Fred Farrell (b.1882) Scottish printmaker and Official Artist with the 51st Highlanders 1914-1918.
[Ref: 61468] £320.00

Crab.
Alken del.t. I.Clark sculp.t.
[London: Thomas McLean, c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. 195 x 250mm (11½ x 13¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1822', with wide margins.
Portrait of a bull terrier.
[Ref: 61523] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Bullock's Museum. 22, Piccadilly.
No.18, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. June 1 1810 at 101 Strand; London.
Hand coloured engraving. 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Offset from text.
The interior of Bullock's Museum, also known as the London Museum and the Egyptian Hall (or Museum), centred on a display of stuffed animals including an elephant, zebra and polar bear. William Bullock (c.1773-1849), a traveller, naturalist, and antiquarian, established the museum in 1812. Built at a cost of £16,000, it contained 15,000 items, collected according to the guidebook 'during seventeen years of arduous research at a cost of £30,000'. Admission was l shilling or 1 guinea for an annual ticket. Over the years special exhibits included Napoleon's carriage, 'the superb Feather, Cloak, and and Helmet, presented by the king of Owyhee to, and worn [by] our Unfortunate Circumnavigator [Captain James Cook] a few days before he fell', Giovanni Battista Belzoni's finds in Egypt, and and James Ward's gigantic painting 'Allegory of Waterloo'. Thomas Shotter Boys' view of Piccadilly for 'London As It Is' shows the exterior of the Egyptian Hall during the exhibition of George Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio'.
[Ref: 61419] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Burke Obit. Aug. 2. 1794. AT. 36. As precious Gums are not for Common fire, / They but perfume the Temple and expire; / So was he soon exhaled and vanish'd hence / A short sweet Odour at a Vast expence.
Joshua Reynolds Eq.s Pinx.t. James Ward Sculp.t Painter & engraver in Mezzotinto to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Pub. July 5, 1800 by Mess.rs Wards & C.o N.º 6, Newman Street, London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Small margins. Horizontal central crease.
Half-length portrait of Richard Burke (1758-1794), son of Edmund Burke. When Edmund resigned as MP for Malton (after failing to impeach Warren Hastings), Richard took his place but died of tuberculosis soon afterwards.
CS 7. Frankau 12.
[Ref: 61372] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Album sheet with three watercolours of Death's Head Moths by Albin Roberts Burt.]
[1826-7.]
Abum sheet with three watercolours and two coloured etchings. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼").
Illustrations of the chrysalis, caterpillar and adult Death's Head Moth, with an ink mss. description signed by Albin Roberts Burt, dated 1826. On the same sheet is a table of sign-language etched by Burt and an illustration of a mosaic of the Roman villa at Bignor. Albin Roberts Burt (1783-1842), portrait-painter and engraver.
[Ref: 61402] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Jedidiah Buxton.
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Published pursuant to an Act of Parliament May the 1.st 1773, by B. Killingbeck at Mrs. Totton's Mount Street Berkley Square, London,
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"), 18th century watermark. Title area smudged. Small margins; horizontal central crease.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. A 1781 state of this print gave this biography: ''Jedediah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards''.
CS 7, state i of ii.
[Ref: 61368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Dress of the Inhabitants of California with their manners of Rafts for Fishing, &c.
Published by Alex.r Hogg No. 16 Paternoster Row London [n.d., 1778].
Engraving. 295 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾"), very large margins. Crease top margin.
From 'A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels: Containing All that Have Been Remarkable from the Earliest Period to the Present Time', by John Hamilton Moore.
[Ref: 61403] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Robertus Camell, LL D [Noble 17 125] [in ink]
[John Theodore Heins Senior (Dietrich Heins)]
[n.d. c.1750]
Very scarce mezzotint, 18th century watermark, sheet 380 x 255mm (15 x 10). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet at sides.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of Rector of Bradwell, Suffolk, Robert Camell (d. 1732). He is seated at a table, turning away from a book in which he writes with right hand with his left arm resting on the edge of his chair. He wears a loose coat over dark robe with a broad waist-band, bands and a soft hat. He is lit by the candle on the table. This state is after plate reduced and artist's name removed.
CS 1 II of II. NPG D1186.
[Ref: 61586] £420.00

[Mary Capell] The Most Noble Mary Dutchess of Beaufort, Daughter to Arther Lord Capell. Murder'd by ye Rebells, in 1648.
R. Walker pinx. J. Nutting Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 380 x 260mm (15 x 14¼"). Some foxing in margins, folded in title.
Half-length portrait in oval of Mary Capell (1630-1715), daughter of Arthur Capell, who was executed by Parliament in 1649. Her second husband was Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, by whom she had six children. Mary is best known as one of Britain's earliest distinguished lady gardeners, both at Badminton House and Beaufort House, Chelsea. She bequeathed a twelve-volume herbarium to Sir Hans Sloane, now in the Natural History Museum.
[Ref: 61575] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Carestini.
George Knapton Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1735
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
Rare & fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Slight printer's crease mainly in inscription area, crease top left corner.
Half-lengh portrait in oval of Giovanni Carestini (c.1704-c.1760), the leading castrato in Handel's company in 1734. Described by music historian Charles Burney as 'a powerful and clear soprano', Handel's 'Alcina' and 'Ariodante' were written to take full advantage of Carestini's talents, giving the castrato arias in Italian in otherwise English performances. The painting by artist and connoisseur George Knapton (1698-1778) is only known through this engraving.
CS 55.
[Ref: 61537] £450.00

Captain Christopher Carleill Esquire.
Robert Boissard Sc.
[n.d., c.1600.]
Very scarce engraving, sheet 375 x 295mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet at edges.
Half-length portrait of Christopher Carleill (c. 1551-93), English military and naval commander, step-son of Elizabeth I's spymaster Francis Walsingham. This print celebrates his command of English troops helping defend Steenwijk against the Spanish (1580-1). In 1582 he commanded a convoy of English merchants to Russia when that country was at war with Denmark. In 1584 he was given command of the garrison of Coleraine, County Antrim, but was recalled the following year. In 1585 he was lieutenant-general of the land forces that accompanied Francis Drake on his expedition against Santo Domingo: the expedition plundered Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands, seized Santo Domingo, Cartagena de Indias and St. Augustine. On the return voyage they visited Sir Walter Raleigh's colony at Roanoke, Virginia. In 1588 he was appointed constable of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, then governor of Ulster. The portrait is from a set of English admirals all engraved by Boissard.
NPG D21248. See Ref: 46995 (cut)
[Ref: 61639] £480.00

Ritratto de Bindo Altovitii. M.D XX III
Titianus pinxit, Tho: Neale fecit,
Sold by John Overton at the white horse neere the fountaine tavern without Newgate. [n.d. c.1690]
Very rare etching, sheet 380 x 290mm (15 x 11½"), on 17th century watermarked paper. In ink at bottom "By Thos. Neale, a disciple of Hollar". Trimmed within plate and tipped into album paper. Creased and slightly damaged at corners.
Half-length portrait of a man with moustache and long beard wearing a loose gown, and ring on the ring finger of his left hand, which holds a book closed with two clasps, lying on a parapet. The title suggests this is italian bank Bindo Altoviti (1491–1557) however looks more like a painting formerly attributed to Titian that is now believed to be by Paris Bordone; it appears to be Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) an Italian poet, diplomat, clergyman and inquisitor, and writer on etiquette and society.
[Ref: 61651] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Catholic Relief Bill] Dont you remember the 5th of November.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub. by T McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatures pub. Daily [n.d., c.1829].
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 295 x 390mm (11¾ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate. Glued onto backing sheet at edges.
One of many satires on the authors of the Catholic Relief Bill, which was announced on February 5 1829, playing on the Catholicism of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators. Here Wellington and Peel are "guys", tied back to back, bestride a broken chair on which they are being carried to bonfire or gibbet. A bloated bishop in a surplice, probably Howley, walks behind, holding the back chair-legs and saying 'No Popery'. Eldon (who led opposition to the Bill) carries the front of the chair, facing an angry Irishman in tattered clothes protesting against the ceremony, whose barrister's wig identifies him as O'Connell. . In the foreground, on the extreme left, is John Bull, behind him the head of Cumberland.
BM Satires:15664.
[Ref: 61524] £320.00

[Warrant for the Beheading of Charles I]
Suptibus Societat. Antiquariæ Lond. 1750.
Engraving. 660 x 445mm. (26 x 17 ½") Cut within platemark on bottom edge. Multiple repaired tears, mostly confined to margins. Repaired fold down centre in both directions. Laid on archival paper.
Facsimile of death warrant for Charles I, in memorial frame surmounted by royal monogram. King Charles I (1600 - 1649) was declared guilty on charges of high treason and "other high crimes" at a public session of the High Court of Justice on Saturday 27 January 1649 and sentenced to death. Fifty-nine of the Commissioners signed the warrant (their seals adjacent to signatures). Charles Stuart was beheaded on Tuesday, 30 January 1649. The warrant records the year 1648, because from the 12th century to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March. The execution took place at Whitehall on a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House. Published by Society of Antiquaries of London. The Parliamentary Archives holds the original of Charles I's death warrant.
[Ref: 61516] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Charlotte. Dedicated by Permission To his Royal Highness Prince George of Wales Regent, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, by His Royal Highnesses devoted Servant, S.W. Reynolds. Proof.
Painted by H. Edridge 1814. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published by the Engraver Bayswater 1819.
Proof mezzotint with etching. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). A strong, well inked impression, with surface texture. Some staining in borders.
Queen Charlotte (1744 - 1818), queen consort of George III, mother of George IV and grandmother of Queen Victoria. She sits in an ornate chair looking at the viewer, hands held together in lap, wearing a dark dress, shawl, frilled collar, cap and earring. After Henry Edridge (1768-1821).
Whitman 53. See Ref: 12140
[Ref: 61633] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Chelsum] Inscribed to the best of Parents by her affectionate Son, J.C.D.D. AEt: 87 A.o 1789. Me, let the tender office long engage...
S. Elmer pinxit. W.m Pether sculpsit.
Rare mezzotint; sheet 375 x 285mm (14¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet at sides.
Half-length seated portrait of Mrs Chelsum with six lines of verse from Pope underneath the dedication line. She wears gloves, a dark shawl, dark sash around her waist and dark bonnet tied under her chin with a frilled white cap underneath. Mary Chelsum (née Ward, born 1702), boarding-house keeper and mother of James Chelsum (c. 1740-1801), clergyman and author.
CS4 II of II.
[Ref: 61574] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

T. Yarnold, Chemist, Druggist, & Dentist. Medical Hall, High Street, Chepstow.
Jay sc. Bristol
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etched trade card. Sheet 60 x 90mm (2½ x 3½").
The card advertises Thoms Yarnold' 'Genuine Patent Medicines & Havannah Cigars', 'Fine Arated Lemonade', 'Horse and Cattle Medicines' and 'French Leeches Fresh Every Week'.
[Ref: 61353] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

China.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co, in the Clerk's office in the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Wood-engraved map with printed colour. Printed area 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼"). Tear in margin taped.
A mid-19th century map of China, marking Hong Kong, in fine colour.
[Ref: 61455] £230.00

M.r Thomas Chubb. Aetat: 68; A: D: 1747.
G: Beare Pinxit. G: Bockman fecit.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, sheet 375 x 295mm (14¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet. Some foxing.
Half length portrait of English lay Deist writer Thomas Chubb (1679–1747). He wears a white, chin-length wig, coat and neckerchief. He is seated in front of a book, open on a stand to right, holding a quill between hands folded on his chest, an ink-pot beside the stand and two books, one labelled 'Chubbs Tracts' on the other side.
CS 2 only state.
[Ref: 61560] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Churchill] Johann Hertog en Grave van Marlboroug, Prins van't H.Roomse Ryk...
Jan de Leeuw Schulp: [after Adriaen van der Werff]
't Amsterdam by Nicolaus Visscher met Privilege van der Hoog. Mog: Herren State General [n.d., c.1700].
Fine engraving. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"). Trimmed close to plate lower left, folded through ornamental border at bottom.
Rare portrait in oval of John Churchill (1650-1722) in wig and armour, after a portrait by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722).
[Ref: 61565] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Circe]
Painted by D Gardner. Engrav'd by T Watson.
Publish'd Nov.r 1st. 1778, for T Watson.
Scratched letter proof mezzotint before title, plate 250 x 195mm (9¼ x 7¾"), with large margins.
Imaginary portrait of the Greek mythological entrantress Circe. A half length front facing portrait of a young woman within an oval frame. She holds a cup in her left hand and a wand in the other, wearing a pale gown and dark cloak, her hair dressed half up with a circlet.
CS 39 page 1565.
[Ref: 61585] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Samuel Clarke D.D. Done after the Marble Bust in Her Majesty'd Hermitage in the Royal Garden at Richmond.
I. Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles at the black Horse in Cornhill.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾''), with large margins.
A portrait of Rev. Dr. Samuel Clarke who was rector of St. James Westminster and metaphysician. From the series 'Philosophers of England'.
CS. 125.I.
[Ref: 50383] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Cocker Spaniel.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching, limited edition (35/150), signed by the artist in pencil. Framed. 225 x 330mm (8¾ x 13"). Spotting, unexamined out of frame.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 61422] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Christiana Collier] Passer mortuus est meae puellae...
J. Reynolds pinxt. J. Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1780]
Mezzotint, sheet 375 x 285mm (14¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet at sides.
Half-length seated portrait of Lady Christiana Collier (née Gwyn) (fl.1786–1813) looking over at dead bird on table. She wears loose robe over light dress with sash and flower at breast. The portrait is also known by the title 'Celia Lamenting her Dead Sparrow' or 'Chloe Lamenting her Dead Sparrow.'
CS 32 II of II. See also reference 61600.
[Ref: 61583] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Caelia, Lamenting her Dead Sparrow. Ah! stretch'd in Death my Coelias' Sparrow lies...
J. Reynolds pinxt. Graham Sculp.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [n.d. c.1800]
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Two brown spots in publication area.
Half-length seated portrait of Lady Christiana Collier (née Gwyn) (fl.1786–1813) looking over at dead bird on table. She wears loose robe over light dress with sash and flower at breast. Lettered with title and three lines from Catullus in English and Latin.
See also reference 61583.
[Ref: 61600] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Jane Collier] [in ink below print]
J. Highmore Pinx.t J. Faber Fecit.
[Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury][n.d. c.1750]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark; sheet 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed losing publication line. Tipped into album paper at sides. Repairs at bottom.
Three-quarter length of a woman leaning on the rim of a fountain. She wears a dress and her cloak is hung across her with a string of pearls. John Faber the Younger (c.1684-1756) also produced a larger, more detailed engraving after the painting, in reverse: see CS 87. Chaloner Smith suggests Jane Collier could be the sitter, adding that Bromley's identification of the lady as a courtesan, also known as Miss Stewart, has not been corroborated. Jane Collier (1714 – March 1755) was an English novelist best known for her book An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753). She also collaborated with Sarah Fielding on her only other surviving work The Cry (1754). Or as identified by the British Museum the first wife of the Honble James Murray, son of the 4th Lord Elibank (q.v.) who died at Beauport (1779).
CS 88 I of II.
[Ref: 61589] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Gioacchino Conti Gizziello.
Ch. Lucy Pinxit. Alex. VanHaeken Fe. 1736.
Scarce mezzotint, sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Gioacchino Conti (1714-61), Italian soprano castrato opera singer, nicknamed Gizziello in honour of his teacher, Domenico Gizzi. This portrait was published when he was in London (1736-7), while he was engaged by George Frideric Handel.
CS 5, only state. See reference 61535 for one with margins.
[Ref: 61684] £450.00

Paysan de la Samogitie. Femme de la Samogitie. Paysanne de la Podolie. Paysan de Cravovie qui travaille aux mines, Juif et femme Juive de Cracovie.
n.d., c.1780.
Coloured etching. Sheet 125 x 210mm (5 x 8½").
A costume plate with two groupings of three people. On the left are a Samogitian peasant and his wife (of Lithuania) and a Podolian woman (Ukraine). On the right are a Polish miner, and a Jewish man and wife of Cracow, Poland.
[Ref: 61471] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Cottage Children. The Original Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Gainsborough to whom this plate is most respectfully inscribed by His Lordships much obliged and obedient Servant Gainsborough Dupont.
T. Gainsborough R.A. Pinx.t. Gainsborough Dupont Delin.t. Hen.y Birche Sculp.t.
Publish'd June 4. 1791, by B.B. Evans Poultry London.
Fine Daniell framed mezzotint, sheet 580 x 390mm (22¾ x 15½"). Frame size 725 x 540mm (28½ x 21¼"). Unexamined out of frame. Trimmed to plate.
A country scene. Two girls in slightly ragged clothing go down a path away from a cottage; one holding one hand to her forehead as she is lifted by her older companion from a donkey.
Horne 78 ii of iii.
[Ref: 61488] £420.00

[Insurance certificate] County Fire Office. Insituted at Midsummer, 1807. Policy No. [33365]
[Policy 2nd September 1815.]
Insurance certificate, wood-engraving and letterpress, filled in with ink mss. Watermark J. Whatman 1814, Sheet 475 x 330mm (18¾ x 13"), with tax blind stamp Folds.
An insurance policy for a farmhouse, barns, stables and hay stacks of a farm in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire.
[Ref: 61359] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Nathaniel Crew Episcopus Dunelmensis.
F.P. fecit. P Tempest ex:
[n.d.c. 1700]
Rare mezzotint by Francis Place, sheet 380 x 290mm (15 x 11¾"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet at sides. Some discolouration.
Half-length portrait of Bishop of Durham Nathaniel Crew (1633-1721), 3rd Baron Crew of Stene in an oval. He has shoulder length hair and wears a cap, bands and robes.
CS 4 II of II.
[Ref: 61567] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Wedding Present Of Crinoline Service.
Lithographed by C.J. Culliford.
London, W. H. J. Carter, printseller, Bookseller, &c. 12, Regent Street, Pall Mall. [n.d. c.1850]
Very scarce lithograph, sheet 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"). Repaired tears.
A highly decorative satire on crinoline fashion, featuring 8 women in absolutely enormous skirts surrounded by an oval leaf border. W.H.J. Carter made a number of satires on crinoline publishing them annually.
See also references 15161, 15159, 15153, 15154, 13109, 15160, 15165, 36835, 36836, 15352, 15353, 15354, 16831 & 42021.
[Ref: 61509] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble Elizabeth Lady Cutts Baroness of Gowran &c.
G. Kneller Eques pinxit. J. Smith fecit: 1698.
Mezzotint. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 6¾""). Thread margins, laid on album paper at edges.
Elizabeth Pickering (1679-97), short-lived second wife of General John Cutts, Baron Cutts, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland. The plate was republished, unaltered, by John Boydell.
Kneller's oil is in the collection of Chequers, the Prime Minister's country retreat.
[Ref: 61622] £360.00

The Exposition of Cyrus. In the Gallery at Houghton.
Castiglione Pinxit. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sep.r 1.st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine mezzotint. 285 x 370mm (11¼ x 14½"). Trimmed close to plate at top.
A shepherd and his wife are surprised to find a naked young boy lying on a cloth sucking on a dog. Cyrus's grandfather, alarmed by a prophecy that his grandson would dethrone him, gave orders to cast the baby into the wilderness. Rescued by a shepherd and his wife, Cyrus returns to fulfil the prophecy in 559 BC, becoming king of Persia and creating the first Persian Empire.
See Ref: 15318 in frame.
[Ref: 61629] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

S.r William Davidsone Knight and Baronett, One of the Gentelmen of his Majesties most honorabel Privy Chamber Conservator and Resident for his Majesties most Ancient...
Chr. Hagens delineavit et sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1680]
Rare engraving, 17th century watermark, plate 305 x 235mm (12 x 9¼"), with large margins. On laid paper with watermark.
Portrait of William Davidson, half length, long hair, wearing bands and gown; pillar to left with coat of arms. Sir William Davidson, 1st Baronet of Curriehill (1615-c.1685) was a Scottish tradesman in Amsterdam, an agent and a spy for the King and a member of his Privy Council.
NPG D29821.
[Ref: 61640] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Disraeli] The Prime Minister.
Matthews & Sons, Litho. 54, Berwick St. London, W.
The Whitehall Review. 19th. January 1878.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾").
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), top hat in the crook of his arm. Twice prime minister (1868, 1874-80), Earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden, he provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism.
[Ref: 61394] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Funeral of Chrystom & Marcella vindicating herself. Book 2.nd Ch: 5.th. Vol. I. p.71.
W. Hogarth In.v et Sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1756]
Engraving, early impression; 245 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼"). Small margins.
One of six proposed illustrations to Miguel de Cervantes' 'Don Quijote de la Mancha' under the patronage of Lord Carteret. The young goatherd Chrysostom lying on a bier at centre, papers under his left hand, his unrequited love the shepherdess Marcela standing at left, defending herself against the charge of being hard-hearted; at right a group of men listening, including Quixote, pleased with her account, and Sancho, drying his eyes; two gravediggers by the grave at left, mountainous landscape beyond.
Paulson 1989-94.
[Ref: 61502] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves. Book 3.rd Ch: 8.th. Vol. I. p.129.
W. Hogarth In.v et Sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1756]
Engraving, early impression; 245 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼"). Small margins.
One of six proposed illustrations to Miguel de Cervantes' 'Don Quijote de la Mancha' under the patronage of Lord Carteret. The freeing of the galley slaves; Quixote on horseback and wearing the barber's basin as a helmet, attacking two guards, striking one with his lance, the other already fallen to the ground; Sancho standing at right in front of the prisoners, undoing Ginés de Pasamonte's handcuffs.
Paulson 1989-97.
[Ref: 61501] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Established, 1740. Joseph Hide, Family Draper. Market Place, Kingston-on-Thames. Decorators. Plate Glass Factors and Gilders. Cabinet Makers.
Waterlow & Sons, London Wall, London.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Engraved trade card, printed on both sides. Sheet 110 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"). Glue stains on reverse.
The same company ran an undertakers from the same premises.
[Ref: 61346] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

East London Water Works. Share. N.º 43. Transfer. N.º 24. A Memorial of the above Transfer was registered pursuant to Act of Parliament on the 30th Day of November 1807.
Scarce engraving on vellum with old ink mss. Sheet 270 x 335mm (10¾ x 13¼"). With pasted label with tax blind stamp and two wax seals. Some wear and staining, taped stain, collector's label pasted on reverse.
A certificate of share transfer, recording the sale of a £100 share in the East London Water Works from James Boote to John Buck of Batson's Coffee House, for £77 10/-. The East London Waterworks Company was founded in 1806 (the year before this transfer) and was absorbed by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904. Their prime source was the River Lea.
[Ref: 61541] £480.00

[Thomas Edison] M.r Edison.
Judd & C.o Lith. Doctors' Commons, London E.C.
The Whitehall Review. 7th February 1880.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾").
Head and shoulders portrait of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).
[Ref: 61396] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward VII] The heir Apparent.
The Whitehall Review. January 5.th 1878.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾").
Albert Edward (1841-1910), Prince of Wales, then Edward VII after the death of Victoria in 1901, leaning, top hat in hand.
[Ref: 61395] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Edystone Lighthouse.
Drawn by J.M.W Turner R.A. Engraved by T. Lupton.
London Published July 1, 1829 by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square.
Mezzotint, sheet 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Trimmed within plate. Some marks outside image.
A view of the Eddystone Light House on a stormy night. With wreckage in the foreground, lighthouse behind in the centre, shadow of ship in the left background, crescent moon in the left sky.
R 773 II of II.
[Ref: 61670] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Eliza.]
Painted by J. Hoppner. Engraved by J. Young.
London Publish'd March 1st, 1786, by J. Young, No 28 Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof, in a fine Daniell frame. 380 x 280mm (18 x 11"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at bottom. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of a pensive woman at a window, with a songbird in a cage hanging on the wall. Chaloner Smith believed the woman to be Hoppner's wife, Phoebe Wright, the daughter of American-born sculptor Patience Wright.
CS:74: I of II.
[Ref: 61423] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Natus A.º 1467. Obÿt A.º 1536.
R. Houston Fecit [after Holbein].
Printed for E. Bakewell & H. Parker, in Cornhill, London [n.d., 1759].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8") large margins. Mounted in album paper at edges.
Half-length portrait in oval of Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian, engraved by Richard Houston for Rolt's 'The Lives of the Principal Reformers'.
CS 58.
[Ref: 61647] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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