Grosvenor Prints

[The Pavilion and Steyne at Brighton with the Promenade]
[Etched by Frank Holford after a view by Charles T. Cracklow and figures by William Marshall Craig.]
[n.d., 1889.]
Etching. 215 x 360mm (8½ x 14¼").
A view of the Royal Pavilion and Steyne, with the Promenade filled with the people that made Brighton the most fashionable resort of the period, with George, Prince of Wales, and Martha Gunn, the famous Brighton 'Dipper', named under the image. According to a pencil note on the reverse this was 'Etched by Frank Holford 1889 from Pictures in the Pavilion Brighton', although a second hand clarifies that it is copied from the aquatint after Cracklow and Craig. A painter called Frank Holford is said to have been churchwarden of St Michael, Brighton.
See Ford: Images of Brighton n.396 for the original.
[Ref: 58809] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Deaf & Dumb Alphabet]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 460 x 440mm (18 x 17¼"). Trimmed into image at top, losing title, trimmed close bottom left for binding, splits to folds, creases.
An early version of the British Sign Language, with llustrations of the signs for the 26 letters of the alphabet, 'good' & 'bad', with two illustrations of the technique in use. A few of the signs are different to the modern usage.
See Ref 58799
[Ref: 58797] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Henry Lord Brougham & Vaux. Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain &c.&c.&c. To The Kings Most Excellent Majesty. The Plate is with permission respectfully Dedicated by His Majesty's most dutiful Subject and Servant Tho.s Lupton.
Painted by James Lonsdale Esq.r 1831. 8. Berners Street Oxford Street. Engraved by Thomas Lupton. 4, Leigh Street, Burton Crescent.
Published January 1. 1832, by Will.m Walker, Portrait Engraver, N.o 64 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London; & No. 22 Street, Edinburgh.
Rare and fine mezzotint, plate 570 x 410mm (22½ x 16¼"), with large margins.
Portrait of Henry Peter, Lord Brougham (1778-1868) ; full-length seated directed to left, looking ahead, his legs crossed, right hand on his knee, elbows on the arms of his chair, wearing chancerial robes with heavy brocade, lace bands and long wig, with burse and mace on a table to the left, books on the floor to the right.
[Ref: 59039] £360.00

[South Sea Bubble] The Bubblers Mirrour; or Englands Folly.
Printed for Carington Bowles next ye Chapter House in St Pauls Ch. Yard, London [n.d., c.1766].
Mezzotint image with etched surround. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into printed border, laid on modern card.
A weeping man holds up an empty money bag. A satire on financial bubbles, primarily the South Sea Bubble (the text under the portrait describes the man as a South Sea investor), but also listing other schemes and giving some of the inflated prices they reached from the subscription price. For example: stockings, rising to £30 from £2 10s; 'Manuring of Land' ('They'll never make corn cheap, or horse dung dear'); 'Bleaching of Hair'; Royal Assurance & London Assurance; 'Insurances against ye Venereal Desease'; and the Pennsylvania Company, rising from £5 5s to £40! This satire was first published by Thomas Bowles in 1720; this example was published by his nephew soon after Carington took over the business in 1766. Apparently the satire was extremely popular: the firm of Bowles & Carver were still issuing it at the end of the century.
BM: 1621.
[Ref: 58856] £380.00

The Queen's Palace.
Published Dec.r 15. 1800 by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Crease top margin that just goes into the image.
View of Buckingham Palace from St James's Park; elegantly dressed figures in foreground, a large tree on the left, a carriage on the right; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59006] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Illustrissimus Princeps Jacobus Dux Ormondiae, Equitum Legatus Praefectus Praetorianus; nec non Legionum Gentium Confaederatarum apud Vigonem Imperator; cujus sub Auspicijs, in Sinu illo Vigoniensi, Penitus, aut Periere, aut captae sunt Galliae atque Hispaniae Classes, XII.o die Octobris 1702.
G. Kneller S.R.Emp. et Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. I. Smith fec.
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel street Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1710]
Mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾") Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. Nicks at edge top right.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond (1665-1745), wearing long wig, lace cravat, chain and St George, and robes with a ribbon on the shoulder. Butler was an army officer and politician, born Dublin Castle; succeeded his grandfather James Butler as Duke of Ormond. Jacobite, though reconciled to William III and fought at the battle of the Boyne. He was involved in the 1715 rebellion against the Hanoverians and thereafter lived in exile.
CS 194.
[Ref: 58824] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Prospect of the Chee-Torr on the River Wie &c., Two Miles below Buxton. No. 7.
J. Smith Pinx. et fecit in Aqueforti. Terminat: P.r Scotin.
Publish'd July 13th 1743.
Rare etching with engraving. 400 x 550mm (15¾ x 21¾"). Narrow margins, creasing and stains, repairs to margins.
Chee Dale, a 400-foot gorge above the River Wye. From the series 'Eight of the most extraordinary prospects in the mountainous parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire commonly call'd the Peak and the Moorlands'.
[Ref: 58743] £380.00

A Prospect of the Chee-Torr on the River Wie &c., Two Miles below Buxton. No. 7.
J. Smith Pinx. et fecit in Aqueforti. Terminat: P.r Scotin.
Publish'd July 13th 1743.
Rare etching with engraving. 400 x 550mm (15¾ x 21¾"), large margins. Nicks in margins repaired.
Chee Dale, a 400-foot gorge above the River Wye. From the series 'Eight of the most extraordinary prospects in the mountainous parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire commonly call'd the Peak and the Moorlands'.
[Ref: 58742] £520.00

George Byng Lord Torrinton. In the Collection of the Right Hon: the Lord Visc.t Torrington
G. Kneller pinxit. J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1747
Impensis J & P Knapton Londini 1747.
Fine engraving, plate 350 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"), with margins. Glued to album sheet. One small crease.
Bust portrait of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733), in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond; a seascape with a seabattle in a cartouche below; a mythical sea creature in lower left. He wears a long wig and neckerchief. From the series Birch's heads. In the mid-eighteenth century, the British historian Thomas Birch (1705 - 1766) published a series of short biographies of famous figures from his nation’s past. Accompanying each of the 108 biographies was an engraved portrait of the subject, whose likeness was presented within an elaborate decorative setting. These ornamental frames were designed by Hubert-François Bourguignon (1699 - 1773)—commonly known as Gravelot—a Parisian artist then working in London. After finishing the drawing, Gravelot sent sheets to Amsterdam. There, the Dutch printmaker Jacob Houbraken (1698 - 1780) created the final image by combining Gravelot’s design with portraits. Byng was one of the young army officers who supported William III's accession; 1691, transferred to the navy; 1704, played an important part in the capture of Gibraltar,which resulted in a knighthood; August 1718, decisive victory against the Spanish off Cape Passaro, Sicily; 1721, he was raised to the peerage with the title Baron Byng of Southill; 1725, created Viscount Torrington; 1727, first lord of the Admiralty.
O' Donoghue 4.
[Ref: 58871] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Cab Strike July 1853. The Members In A Fix. The members you see are in a shocking bad plight for on rising they find a dreadful wet night go John Bill and Harry be smart my fine lads…
George Innes 6 Randor .t Kings R.o Chelsea.
London Published by Samuel Rowe 124 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1853]
Coloured aquatint, plate 295 x 440mm (11½ x 17¼"), with small margins. Creased. Foxed. Surface dirt.
A satire on the cab strike in retaliation to the Hackney Carriage duties bill. The members of parliament leave the house of commons are unsure how to get home with the cabmen on strike. The cabbies make fun of them, pulling faces. 'Lord John' offers one of them eight pence to take him to Whitehall. The cabmen refuse as 'punishment for their bad acts.' The law which, among other things, set fares at sixpence a mile, down from 8p. The law was prompted by the countless complaints of fare-gouging from the public during the Great Exhibition of 1851. A very rare and interesting image. There seems to be no record of this image.
[Ref: 58934] £480.00

[Gate of Virtue, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.]
E. Joyde Shillington Scales. 1922 [pencil]
Etching, signed by the artist. 175 x 135mm (7 x 5¼").
The Gate of Virtue at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, one of three gates designed by college founder John Caius. Students pass through the Gate of Humility upon matriculation, the Gate of Virtue while they are students and the Gate of Honour on their way to the neighbouring Senate House to receive their degrees.
[Ref: 58763] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

John Duke Of Argyle And Greenwich. In the collection of Sr. Anthony Wescomb Bart.
Aikman Pinxit. J. Houbraken Sculp. Amst. 1735.
[Thomas Birch]
Fine engraving, print 360 x 220mm (14 x 9"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Tear in left edge.
Bust portrait of army officer and politician John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1678-1743), in an architectural oval; below armour and a cartouche with coat of arms, with objects surrounding; swords, fabric, cannon balls, pikes/spears and a helmet. He wears armour with as sash going across and a long wig. From the series Birch's heads. In the mid-eighteenth century, the British historian Thomas Birch (1705 - 1766) published a series of short biographies of famous figures from his nation’s past. Accompanying each of the 108 biographies was an engraved portrait of the subject, whose likeness was presented within an elaborate decorative setting. These ornamental frames were designed by Hubert-François Bourguignon (1699 - 1773)—commonly known as Gravelot—a Parisian artist then working in London. After finishing the drawing, Gravelot sent sheets to Amsterdam. There, the Dutch printmaker Jacob Houbraken (1698 - 1780) created the final image by combining Gravelot’s design with portraits. Campbell was instrumental in the union of Scotland with England; 1708-10, general under Marlborough in War of Spanish Succession; led the army supporting the Hanoverian cause in Scotland against the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion; supported Walpole until the aftermath of the Porteousriots when he voted against the reprisals on Edinburgh; 1741, led the successful opposition to Walpole in Scottish elections, but resigned all offices himself in 1742. Succeeded by his brother as 3rd Duke of Argyll
O' Donoghue 2.
[Ref: 58868] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Emanuel King of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy, Prince of Piemont, &c. &c. Taken from an Original Painting in the Posession of his Exellency the Chevalier Ossorio to whom this Plate is mots Humbly
Clementina Turin pinx. Burford Londini fecit.
Rare mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. Slight damage top left.
Half-length portrait of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia (1701-1773), wearing ermine-lined cloak and breastplate with cravat and long white wig.
CS 15.
[Ref: 58796] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Emanuel Victor; King of Sardinia &c Done from the Originall Picture in the Possession of His Excellency The Sardinian Ambasscidor.
I. Brooks Fecit.
[n.d. c.1740-1756] [Sold by T. Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross, & W. Herbert at ye Golden Globe on London Bridge.]
Very rare mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet.
Three-quarter length portrait of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia (1701-1773) wearing armour with an ermine trimmed cloak decorated with crosses over his left shoulder and holding a baton in his right hand. To the right of him are military tents and a cavalry battle rages on in the background.
CS 30b.
[Ref: 58798] £320.00

[Carnations] 3.eme Feuille de 4.eme Cahier.
Carle delin. Bonnet direx.
A Paris, Chez Bonnet, rue St Jacques, au coin de celle de la Parcheminerie [n.d., c.1780].
Fine crayon-manner etching, printed in colours. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"), large margins.
A fine example of colour printing, with the colour printed from separate plates, with no hand retouching. The publisher, Louis Marin Bonnet, was the inventor of crayon manner. He operated from the above address between 1776 and 1789.
See Dunthorne 211 for a print probably from the same series. See Ref: 58812, 58814
[Ref: 58813] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Caroline] Serenissima et Potentissima Carolina D:G: Mag: Brit: Fran: et Hib: Regina. Inaugurata II die Octobris 1727.
G. Kneller Baronetus Pinxit. Fac.
Sold by J. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1727]
Very rare mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet. Some cockling. Slight central crease.
Half-length portrait of Caroline, Queen of George II (1683-1737), touching a lock of hair at her shoulder with right hand. She wears a gown with loops of pearls at the shoulders decorated with rows of small rectangular jewels down the centre of her bodice, a crown plus pearl necklace and earrings.
CS 62.
[Ref: 58883] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Caroline] Serenissima Carolina D.G Mag: Brit: Fran: et Hib: Regina.
S.r Godfrey Kneller Pinxit. J. Faber jun.r. Fecit
Printed for & Sold by Tho. Bowles next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard. And John Bowles at Mercers Hall in Cheapside. [n.d. c.1727]
A fine impression of a rare mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet. Slight central crease.
Three quarter length portrait of Caroline, Queen of George II (1683-1737). She wears ermine-trimmed robes with strings of pearls tied in bows at the shoulders, right hand holding up a fold of her cloak, left hand resting on a crown on a table beside her. An earlier state of this print names her as 'Her Royal Highness Wilhelmina Charlotte Princess of Wales'.
CS 60.
[Ref: 58884] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Castle Howard in Yorkshire the Seat of the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle &c:
Ca: Campbell Delin: [Engraved by H: Hulsbergh?]
[n.d. c.1725.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 245 x 485mm (9¾ x 19"), very large margins. Tear entering image on right repaired. Crease in centre as normal.
An elevation of the front of Castle Howard, designed Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle and built between 1699 and 1712, published in Colen Campbell's 'Vitruvius Britannicus'. From 1845 until the 1950s the estate was served by its own railway station. The building's grandure was put to good use representing Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead' in both the 1981 TV and the 2008 film adaptations of 'Brideshead Revisited'.
[Ref: 58768] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands] Rana Terrestris. Sarraccena flava. T.69.
MC [monogram of Mark Catesby].
[Printed at the expence of the author, and sold by W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West End of St. Paul's, by Mr. Hauksbee, at the Royal Society House, and by the author, at Mr. Bacon's in Hoxton, MDCCXXXI-MDCCXLIII [1729-47].
Etching. 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½"), with large margins. Edges chipped and stained, old ink mss. by the titles.
Illustrations of a Southern Toad (Anaxyrus terrestris), a Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava) and a Hooded Pitcher Plant, all native to the south-east USA. The plate was drawn and engraved by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) for his 'Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands', the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. Catesby learned to etch so that he had control over the creation of the plates, signing them with a monogram 'MC' with an inverted C for the left sweep of the M. Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World.
[Ref: 58764] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cavendish Square. Pl 89.
Published July 28, 1800 by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 285 x 385mm (11¼ x 15").
View of the north side of Cavendish Square, looking towards Wigmore Street; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59009] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus Primus Dei Gratia Angliæ Scotiæ & Hiberniæ Rex Fidei Defensor &ct.
Ant: Van Dyck Eques Pinxit. [Engraved by Alexander Browne.]
Sold by Th: Taylor at the Golden Lion in Fleet Stree[t]. Printed & Sold by Taylor & Jordan at ye Golden Lion In Fleetstreet [n.d., c.1729].
Scarce mezzotint. 480 x 295mm (19 x 11½"). Repair in bottom right corner with slight loss of inscription.
A full-length seated portrait of Charles I with Prince Charles, wearing infant cap and gown, standing at his knee. Behind is a table with crown, orb and sceptre on it, with buildings in the background. The plate was engraved and published by Alexander Browne c.1680, with later states published by Edward Cooper, Thomas Taylor, this state published by Thomas Bakewell and Timothy Jordan on the death of Taylor in 1729, and W. Scott.
CS: Browne 2, state v of vii. (See also CS: Browne 3 for the same image in reverse.) Turner B4, V of IX.
[Ref: 59081] £480.00

Carolus XII. D.G. Suecorum, Gothorum, et Vandalorum Rex Augustissimus, &c. Qui, stratis ad Narvam Moschis, die XX.o Novembris, Anno 1700; Aetatis suae paulo plus XVIII.o, Justas et Graves a Faedifrago Hoste sumpsit Paenas: et et Que Progressus Admirabiles, contra Ipsos et Polonos, violento Marte ad huc Prosequitur.
Ad Vivum Pinxit D. Craft suae Svecicae Ma.tis Pictor praecipuus Anno 1701. Iohannes Smith Anglus Fecit. Anno 1701-2.
Sold by I. Smith at the Lyon and Crown in Russel Street Covant Garden.
Rare mezzotint, fine impression, print 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Small tear to left edge, nick to right edge.
Half-length portrait of Charles XII, King of Sweden (1682-1718), in an oval. Looking towards the viewer over right shoulder, wearing a wig with a ribbon, a lace cravat, and armour.
CS 249.
[Ref: 58870] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Charlotte Queen of Great Britain
London Published Jan.y 18 1783 by J. Birchall No. 473 Strand.
Stipple. 125 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Oval portrait of the young Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818), wife of George III.
[Ref: 58664] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Chelsea Hospital
Published Nov.r 15 1800 by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 280 x 400mm (11 x 15¾").
View looking across the front of Chelsea Hospital, in London; a few figures in foreground; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59019] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Saddling Paddock. Cheltenham March Meeting.
from the Painting by Sir Alfred Munnings, K.C.V.O., P.P.P.A.
Published in 1952 by Frost & Reed Ltd. Fine Art Publishers, Bristol and London England.
Photolithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Framed, sight size 440 x 650mm (17¼ x 25½"). Unexamined out of frame.
Jockeys, grooms and owners preparing for a race, the course behind.
[Ref: 59077] £520.00

Goodman's Compound Dandelion Pills [...] D.H. Goodman, Dispencing and Family Chemist, 6 Abingdon Buildings, Julian Road, Bath.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Letterpress advert. Sheet 180 x 95mm (7 x 3¾"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
[Ref: 58759] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Chemistry] La Chimie. F.9.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"), large margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing chemistry, with a furnace and tools.
[Ref: 59095] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Chimpanzee.] To S.r Hans Sloane Bar.t President of the Royal Society [This Plate is humbly Inscribed.]
[H.] Gravelot ad Vivum delt. [Scotin sculp. A. D. 1738.]
Publish'd Nov. 27 1738 according to the late Act.
Scarce etching with engraving, sheet 320 x 195mm (12½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within image losing part of the dedication. Cut and glued back together losing title and engraver's name. One horizontal crease.
A chimpanzee stands in landscape, holding a bowl. In the background a man shoots arrows at two chimpanzees climbing a palm tree on the left, with three more chimpanzees on the right. Bought by Capt. Flower of the "Speaker" from Angola to London.
[Ref: 59038] £380.00

His Grace John, Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Blanford, Earl of Marlborough, Baron Churchill, of Sandridge and Baron Churchill of Aumouth; Captain General of all Her Majesty's Forces; Master General of the Ordnance; One of ye Lords of her Majestys most Honourable Privy-Council, and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Her Majestys Ambassador Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary to the States General of the United Provinces and General of the Confederate Armies.
G. Kneller S.R Imp. & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. 1705. I. Smith fec.
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel-street Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1705.]
Mezzotint, print 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Slightly scuffed on right.
Half-length portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), in an oval. Looking towards the viewer, wearing a long wig, a lace cravat, a chain of the Order of the Garter and his armour. The Duke of Marlborough was one of England’s greatest generals, who led British and allied armies to important victories over Louis XIV of France.
CS 163.II. Reworked state.
[Ref: 58878] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

John Churchill Duke of Marlborough & C. Between 5 & 6
G. Kneller Bart. Pinxt. J. Faber Fecit 1733
Mezzotint, good impression, print 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet. Slight creasing.
Half-length portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), with a crest below the image with the title, with the motto 'Feal Pero Disdechado'. Churchill has his left hand on hip beside sword-hilt and his right holding up a baton. He wears a long light wig, velvet coat and sash hanging diagonally from his left shoulder. He stands with curtain behind and cavalry battle raging in the background. From the Kitcat Club series. Churchill was great general of the wars against Louis XIV, rewarded with Blenheim.
CS (208 (between 5 & 6)). O' Donoghue 27.
[Ref: 58887] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Capt.n Hugh Clapperton. R.N.
Painted by Gildon Manton. Engraved by Tho.s Lupton.
London, Published Dec.r 1, 1828, by John Murray, Albermarle Street,
Mezzotint on chine collé. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"), very large margins. Tear entering image repaired, creases, small scuff in title. Bit messy.
Half-length portrait of Bain Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827), in naval uniform. Born in Annan in Scotland, he went to sea at thirteen and was impressed into the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810 he was first in the breach at the storming of St Louis on Mauritius, and hauled down the French flag. In 1822 Clapperton joined Walter Oudney and Major Dixon Denham on an expedition to central Africa to trace the river Niger. Oudney died during the journey but Clapperton returned to England in 1825. Convinced that the way to the Niger was via West Africa, he went back that year as commander of a new expedition, but he died in 1827, suffering from malaria, depression, and dysentery. This portrait, after an oil now in the National Gallery of Scotland, was used as the frontispiece of Clapperton's 'Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822–1823 and 1824'.
[Ref: 58707] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tho.s Clarkson, Esq.r Born at Wisbech, 1760. Died near Ipswich, 1846.
Drawn on Stone by Ja.s P. Hunter, (by Permission) from the Portrait by Sam.t Lane, in the Council Chamber, at the Town Hall, Wisbech.
Published by J.P. Hunter, Wisbeach Nov.r 1846.
Scarce lithograph, sheet 435 x 310mm (17¼ x 12¼"), large margins. Slightly foxed.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of English religious cleric and abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846). He wears a waistcoat cravat and double breasted jacket. Holds a quill in his right hand with elbow resting on a table with paper, pot of ink and candle. Two rolled wall maps of Africa & West Indies in background.
[Ref: 58992] £420.00

The Sessions House For the County of Middlesex
Published Nov.r 30 1799 by T. Malton.
Coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 280 x 400mm (11 x 15¾").
View of the Sessions House, on Clerkenwell Green; four Ionic columns across front with pediment above; coat of arms in relief in pediment; a street trader in right foreground, other figures in green including a boy playing with a hoop; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59021] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Q 11. Le Théatre. [&] Q 12. La Comedy.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760].
A pair of rare etchings, pt 18th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½") very large margins. Mint
A pair of rococo designs, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58939] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[William Pitt the Younger] Johnny MacCree at Confession.
[Charles Williams]
Pubd March 29th 1805 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, plate 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Small margins. Crack in plate at top. Some creasing and staining. Tear in right. Holes in margins and top left corner of the plate mark
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) as a monk with a large tonsure, sits in a high Gothic chair. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) in Highland dress and holding his feathered bonnet, kneels before him asking for advice.
BM Satires 10378
[Ref: 58786] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

La Belle Confession.
J. Gole fe.et ex. cum Privil. Ord. Holl. et W. Frisiae.
[n.d. c.1675.]
Very scarce & fine mezzotint, plate 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate and mounted on album sheet on right. Very small stain to bottom edge, very small tear to left margin.
A monk sits on a high chair on the right, looking in a lecherous manner over his shoulder towards a well-dressed prostitute, kneeling to his left in the act of confessing her sins.
[Ref: 58935] £420.00

[The Four Continents.] A. 1. L'Europe. [&] A 2. L'Asie. [&] A 3. L'Affrique. [&] A 4. L'Amerique.
Huquier ex.
AParis chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne [n.d., c.1760].
Rare set of four etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), with wide margins. Slight staining in margins.
Four rococo designs, each representing a continent, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58930] £600.00 view all images for this item

[Allegory of the Four Continents.] Minerva instructing Britannia in the Science of Geography: In the Foreground are allegorically represented the four Quarters of the World [...]
Designed by W.H. Brown. Engraved by R. Woodman.
Printed for C. Cook 1801.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate.
Allegorical figures of the Four Continents, with Minerva and Britannia behind in a roundel within a border featuring Neptune and the names of maritime explorers including Anson, Drake and Cook.
[Ref: 58732] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Contrariete. Q.5
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. Plate 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing contrariety with a fountain, a fire, bellows, wheels and a lobster.
[Ref: 59102] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Captain James Cook .F.R.S
[n.d. c.1784]
Engraving, plate 200 x 130mm (8 x 5¼"). Proof before artist & engraver. With small margins. Nicks to margins.
What looks like a proof engraving of the 'Frontispiece to the third & final voyage as serially published in the London magazine July 1785 issue. Bust portrait of Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779) in an oval adorned with palm leaves, a crest below oval with an anchor draped with fabric and oars either side. The son of a Yorkshire labourer, Cook learned his seamanship on small East-coast traders. Although only a warrant officer, he was chosen to command the Endeavour in 1768. He made three important voyages of discovery to the South and North Pacific - charting land, sea and stars - and was the first British captain to land in Australia. He was killed in Hawaii during a skirmish.
[Ref: 58991] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Correct Likeness of William Corder, Taken in Bury Gaol, previous to his Trial for the Murder of Maria Marten, in the Red Barn.
Published Aug.t 4, 1828, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Scarce etching with hand colour, plate 230 x 150mm (9 x 6"), large margins. Some very light foxing and surface dirt.
William Corder (1803-28), the Red Barn murderer. Corder, a fraudster and ladies' man, made a rendezvous with his girlfriend Maria Marten at the barn (which is shown here below the portrait) on the pretext of eloping. Instead he killed her, stuffed her body in a sack and buried her. Corder disappeared and wrote home pretending the two were together, but Marten's body was discovered and a hunt for Corder started. He was, arrested, tried, and sentenced to be hung and dissected. The hanging attracted a huge crowd; the dissection was performed before an audience of Cambridge students. A battery was connected to his limbs to demonstrate muscle contraction; Corder's skin was tanned by the surgeon George Creed and used to bind an account of the murder; and his skeleton was put on display in the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons.
[Ref: 58993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

W.m Corder [facsimile signature]. Red Barn.
[n.d., c.1828.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼").
William Corder (1803-28), convicted for the 'Red Barn Murder' of 1827. Corder, a fraudster and ladies' man, made a rendezvous with his girlfriend Maria Marten at the barn on the pretext of eloping. Instead he killed her, stuffed her body in a sack and buried her. Corder disappeared but wrote home pretending the two were together, but her body was discovered and a hunt for Corder started. He was discovered, arrested, tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hung and dissected. The hanging attracted a huge crowd; the dissection was performed before an audience of Cambridge students. A battery was connected to his limbs to demostrate muscle contraction; Corder's skin was tanned by the surgeon George Creed and used to bind an account of the murder; and his skeleton was put on display in the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons
[Ref: 58776] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Cribbage. When Greek meets Greek then comes the Tug of War.
G. Dawe Eng.r & Printer, 9 Southampton Pl. New Rd.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 235 x 240mm (9¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate, into title at bottom, scratched.
Two filthy boy chimney sweeps play cribbage on a bench.
[Ref: 58830] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cricket]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 60 x 185mm (2½ x 7¾"). Trimmed as scrap, laid on album paper.
Young boys playing cricket, one bowling underarm.
[Ref: 58850] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Dance Lesson] Chest Forward, Toes Out.
Standidge & C.o Litho, 77 Cornhill.
Sold by J Knight, Sweetlings Alley, Cornhill. [n.d c.1863]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15). Stained outside the image in margin. Some foxing and surface dirt.
A dancing instructor holding a violin gives instructions which his pupils follow, creating very exaggerated poses.
[Ref: 58975] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dawson's Diorama N.o 8. Windsor Gateway, with a view of the Castle, changing to her Majesty Queen Victoria & her Royal Consort Albert, of Saxe Sobourg & Gotha, on Horseback.
London Published by T. Dawson, 39, Bedford S.t Covent Garden [n.d., c.1840].
Scarce lithograph with hand colour, prepared as a transformation print, mounted on card with title underneath. Card 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Tissue over rear torn, album paper pasted on one edge.
A view of Windsor Castle changes when the card is held up to the light, with Victoria and Albert appearing on horseback.
[Ref: 58959] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Two death's heads with an hour glass.]
Mortimer del.t. Sam.l Ireland fec.
[London, 1785.] But later.
Etching, 1811 watermark. 205 x 230mm (8 x 9"), with large margins.
A pair of skeletons looking at an hour glass one holds it up. The plate was etched by Samuel Ireland after John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-79), a painter of fantastical subjects. Ireland (1744-1800) is best known for his topographical books, including ''A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France'' (1790), '' Picturesque Views on the River Thames'' (1792) & ''Picturesque Views on the River Medway'' (1793).
[Ref: 58834] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Hungarian Horseman.]
S.D. Bella.
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching, plate 190 x 180mm (7½ x 7") with small margins. Some horizontal creases.
A round composition of a Hungarian horseman, with a horseman behind on each side and two men on foot behind at centre. From a series of eleven etchings of cavaliers by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), none of which carry a publication line.
De Vesme/Massar: 279.
[Ref: 59003] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The First Day of Term - or, The Devil among the Lawyers. The Lawyers are met, a terrible shew. 625.
[After Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1780.]
Hand coloured mezzotint, 350 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with margins. Some surface dirt, laid on card, tear on bottom edge.
The Devil stands scattering lucrative briefs among a crowd of lawyers, while in the foreground an elderly man hands over gold coins to another lawyer who accepts the case of 'Gaffer Flatscull agt. Ralph Clodpole'. A packet of papers wrapped in red tape and lettered 'Began in 1699 not yet finished In Chancery' lies on the ground.
BM Satires: 3764.
[Ref: 59068] £450.00

Going Into Dock. Her Majesty's Dock Yard, Devonport.
Painted by N.M. Condy. T.G. Dutton lith. Day & Son. Lith.ts to the Queen.
Publishes by W. Wood 52 Fore Street, Devonport. A. Hinton, Portsmouth, & Ackermann & C.o London. [n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"). Tears and creases on edges, abrasion on inscription area. Slight staining.
A view of Her Majesty's Dock Yard in Devonport, with fishermen in the foreground and sail vessels in the background.
[Ref: 59029] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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