Grosvenor Prints

The Hon.ble Sr. George Byng Bar.t &c Commander in Chief of His Maj:ties Fleet that Took and Destroyed 22. Sail of the Spanish Fleet, of Cape Passaro. Ao. 1718.
G. Kneller S.R.I. et Mag: Brit: Bart: pinxit.
Done & Sold by Faber Iun.r in Catherine Street in ye Strand. [n.d. c.1727.]
Mezzotint. 197 x 146mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image.
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733); 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.
[Ref: 52495] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

On Monday, May 9, 1814, will be published, Calcographiana: The Printesellers Chronicle and Collectors Guide to the Knowledge and Value of Engraved British Portraits: by James Caulfield.
London: Printed by and for G. Smeeton, St. Martin's Kane, Charing Cross; and sold by J. Caulfield, Printseller, Wells Street, Oxford Street; By whom Subscriptions are received: as also by Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place; Priestley, Broad Street, Bloomsbury; and Setchell, King Street, Covent Garden. Smeeton, Printer, 17, St. Martin's Lane. [1814.]
Rare letterpress. 266 x 158mm (10½ x 6¼"). Folds. Laid on album sheet at sides.
An advert for the publication of "Calcographiana : the Printsellers chronicle and collectors guide to the knowledge and value of engraved British portraits," by James Caulfield. 1814.
Calcographiana in the Royal Colleciton Trust: RCIN 1150596.
[Ref: 52425] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Volcano Diggings.
Bayard Taylor. Lith. of Sarony & Major, N.Y.
[New York: George P. Putnam & London: Richard Bentley, 1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½").
A view of a gold-miners' camp on Sutter Creek in Amador County, California. From ''Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel. By Bayard Taylor'', regarded as an important description of the Gold Rush.
[Ref: 52020] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Corso di Calligrafia.
Giacomo Bonanni inc.
[Italian, 1834.]
Rare engraving. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), with wide margins.
A plate illustrating the finer points of calligraphy, with a central portrait of Antonio Sella Romano sitting at a writing desk, surrounded by diagrams of nibs, how to hold a pen and an eagle made up of cursive lines. A decorative title page emgraved by Bonanni for Romano's 'Corso di calligrafia : calligrafia di Antonio Sella Romano che comprende le norme principali per eseguire con facilità'.
[Ref: 52707] £320.00

Memorial of Clare College Cambridge.
[H. Hale] M. Hanhart [pencil signature].
Beynon & Comp.y Fine Art Publishers & Engravers Cheltenham [n.d., c.1880].
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 815 x 595mm (32 x 23½"), with very large margins
A composition of views and portraits of important figures, including Elizabeth de Clare (1295-1360), masters and graduates.
See Ref: 58580
[Ref: 51396] £320.00

John Douglas Edward Henry [Campbell] Seventh Duke of Argyll.
Painted by Sir W.m Ross RA 1843. Engraved by Ja.s Posselwhite,
London, Published by Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, April 20th 1847.
Stipple. Sheet 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
John Campbell (1777-1847), with kilt, sporran and claymore.
[Ref: 52845] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Carisbrooke Castle. I. of W. Alum Bay Sand. 1846.
[Edward Dore]
Rare sand painting on card, ink title. Card: 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½''). Great condition.
A charming post card sized sand picture made out of coloured Isle of Wight sand. It depicts the historic motte-and-bailey Carisbrooke Castle which is located in the village of Carisbrooke, Newport. During the 1600s Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial! The castle has a rich and fascinating history.
See Ref: 50234, 50236 & 50237
[Ref: 52789] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Cartwright Consul at Constantinople and his Albanian.
D Wilkie ft. Constantinople Novr 1st 1840. [Lithographed by Joseph Nash.]
[London: Graves & Warmsley, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 535 x 360mm (21 x 14¼") very large margins.
John Cartwright, consul-general at Constantinople from 1817-44, during which time the Levant Company was wound up, with Cartwright taking on the role formerly played by the Company's representative. Despite being described in the plate as an Albanian, Mustapha, Cartwright's janissary, was Swiss by birth. David Wilkie (1785-1841) set out for the East in 1840 to gather material for a series of biblical illustrations, visiting Constantinople, Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Alexandria. He died at sea on his return journey, before he could turn his sketches into the intended oils: This plate appeared in his 'Sketches in Turkey, Syria and Egypt' published in 1843.
Abbey Travel: 379.
[Ref: 52157] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The M.P. Marching at the Head of his 300 Jontlemen!!!
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Polticial and other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d. c.May 1829]
Fine hand-coloured etching. 240 x 355mm (9½ x 14). Trimmed past platemark.. Very small tear in right edge.
Satire published in the wake of Catholic Emancipation. An unrecognizable O'Connell marches jauntily to a door on the extreme right, over which is a board inscribed 'St Ste[phens] To Trespassers Men-Traps—Constantly Set—Beware'. He is followed by a jubilant Irish mob, yelling and flourishing shillelaghs- one holds a placard reading 'Unconditional Emancipation For Ever'. The crowd are evidently from St. Giles and similar Irish slums in London; two carry hods, emblem of the Irish builder's labourer or hodman.
BM Satires: 15763.
[Ref: 52758] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Dont you remember the 5th of November.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub. by T McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatures pub. Daily.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 280 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾") very large margins.
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 (copy).
[Ref: 52770] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A cavalry charge - second version.]
[n.d., c.1803.]
Scarce pen lithograph, separately issued. Sheet 235 x 320mm (9 x 12½"). Trimmed close to printed border. Very slight worming on left.
A pen lithograph by Conrad Gessler.
MAN: 78; See ref: 52808.
[Ref: 52810] £420.00

[A cavalry charge - first version.]
[Conrad Gessner.]
Pen lithograph. Sheet 230 x 315mm (9 x 12½"). Cut to image.
A pen lithograph by Conrad Gessner.
MAN: 66; See 52810 for second version.
[Ref: 52808] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Chartist Petition of May 1842.] T. Dunscombe, Esq: Presenting the Petition. Procession Attending the Great National Petition of 3,317,702, to the House of Commons, 1842. Members of the National Convention.
[n.d., c.1842.]
Rare & scarce steel engraving. Sheet 345 x 615mm (13½ x 24¼"). Several repairs, surface wear. Damaged.
Three central scenes depict the events of the Chartist Petition, lined top and bottom with sixteen elevations of public buildings in London. The sheet was probably published as a souvenir for the marchers.
[Ref: 52669] £360.00

Cheltenham College.
J.T. Wood. London
Pub.d by J. Shenton, 90 Winchcombe Str. Cheltenham [n.d., c.1845.]
Porcelain card. Sheet 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6").
A prominent public school.
[Ref: 52653] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Thal von Concon und Campana da Quillota.
E. Pöppig nach d. Natur 1827. I.A. Sedlmayr München Lithogr. 1834.
[Munich, 1834.]
Rare lithograph, watermark Thurneisen. Sheet 435 x 585mm (17 x 23") very large margins. Centre fold.
The Quillota valley, Valparaiso, Chile. One of sixteen lithographs after Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798-1868), published in his ' Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome während der Jahre 1827-1832'. The work describes his zoological expedition to Chile, Peru and Brazil, in which he travelled the length of the Amazon, describing over 4,000 plant species and explored Incan ruins.
[Ref: 52542] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Fort von Tvun Leuvu in Chile.
E. Pöppig nach d. Natur 1829. J.N. Ott München Lithogr. 1834.
[Munich, 1834.]
Rare lithograph, watermark Thurneisen. Sheet 435 x 585mm (17 x 23") with very wide margins Centre fold.
A fort in the Bío Bío Region of Chile. One of sixteen lithographs after Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798-1868), published in his ' Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome während der Jahre 1827-1832'. The work describes his zoological expedition to Chile, Peru and Brazil, in which he travelled the length of the Amazon, describing over 4,000 plant species and explored Incan ruins.
[Ref: 52545] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Basaltgebirge von Tvun-Leuvu.
E. Pöppig nach d. Natur 1828. I.A. Sedlmayr München Lithogr. 1834.
[Munich, 1834.]
Rare lithograph, watermark Thurneisen. Sheet 435 x 585mm (17 x 23") with very wide margins. Centre fold.
Basalt rock in the Andes of Chile. One of sixteen lithographs after Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798-1868), published in his ' Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome während der Jahre 1827-1832'. The work describes his zoological expedition to Chile, Peru and Brazil, in which he travelled the length of the Amazon, describing over 4,000 plant species and explored Incan ruins.
[Ref: 52539] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Drie-Jarige Reize naar China; te Lande gedaan, door den Moskovischen Afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides. Nevens eene nieuwe Beschryvinge van dat magtig keizerryk.
T. Amsterdam gedrukt by François Halma, boekverkoper 1704.
Engraving. 215 x 162mm (8½ x 6½"). Cut.
Title-page with title written on a platform at centre, the platform occupied by Russian people and animals at left, and by Chinese people and animals at right, a medallion with Neptune in lower centre, flanked by indigenous people and animals; title to Evert Ysbrant Ides' "Drie-Jarige Reize naar China" (Amsterdam: 1704).
[Ref: 52447] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Costume. Chinese. Malabar Coast Hindoos. Persian's Travelling.
M.W. Sharp del. Tomlinson Sculp.t
Published by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1810.
Engraving. 268 x 203mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed
Three images that depict Asian scenes: Chinese costume with Chinese junk behind; Hindu ladies and gentelmen recline, a temple in the background; and Persian's travelling by elephant.
[Ref: 52378] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Chinese Set To._ Sketches by Travellers.
[Monogram of Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub March 2nd 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket political & other Caricatures daily Pub.
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 360mm (10½ x 14½"), with wide margins. Abrasion in the title line. Some surface dirt.
A street brawl in China, with two Chinese pulling each other's hair and biting each other. Spectators observe with mixed reactions. Etched by William Heath and part of a series which also included scenes in the Scottish Highlands, Germany, Netherlands and Arctic.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 52711] £360.00

The Church in Danger, or a very uncommon Parish Dinner The Churchwarden's got a wide mouth And his Grinders are like a Sledge Hammer. Vide old Song.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean 26 Haymarket. [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 360 x 260mm (14½ x 10½") Trimmed within plate mark.
Satire showing an announcement from a pulpit in a church requesting the wardens to meet to consider 'the best method of eating the church'.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 52716] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. No 188.]
[Claude le Lorrain delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.]
[Published Mar 1st 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.]
Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. Very rare proof before all letters. 210 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"), with large margins. Slight foxing in the margins.
An Italianate scene of a shepherd taking to passers-by, underneath a hilltop town, a bay behind. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'Liber Veritatis' owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Claude (c.1600-82) was a prolific and successful landscape painter, and, even during his lifetime, forgeries of his work appeared for sale. To combat this Claude made up six albums of tinted sketches of his completed works, each sketch with the name of the purchaser of the painting on the back. The 'Liber Veritatis' (Book of Truth) was then distributed around Europe so that his genuine paintings could be authenticated. The Chatsworth copy of the 'Liber Veritatis' contained 200 drawings, including a frontispiece portrait of Claude and five unrelated drawings. Commissioned by John Boydell, Richard Earlom engraved the full set between 1774 and 1777, when they were published by Boydell in two volumes, each containing 100 prints, numbered 1-200. A third volume of 100 prints was published by Boydell in 1819, which was numbered separately, containing mezzotints by Earlom after other drawings by Claude in various collections.
[Ref: 52516] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

View from Clifton Down.
[London, Published May 1 1810.]
Fine & rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 375 x 475mm (14¾ x 18¾").
Two figures riding horses on grassland; a ships on a body of water to the left; a house with a smoking chimney and a horse and carriage to the right.
In the British Library online catalogue: BLL01004821562.
[Ref: 52393] £320.00

Richard Cobden Esq.re M.P. To All Free Traders, This Plate is respecyfully dedicatee by their Obliged and Obedient Servants, Stephenson & Agar.
Painted by C.A. Duval. Engraved by Ja.s Stephenson.
London, Published Sep.r 29th 1847 by Mess.rs Stephenson & Agar, at the Gallery of Arts, 104, King S.t Manchester, Paris, E. Gambart Hunin & Co.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 740 x 460mm (29 x 18") large margins.
Richard Cobden (1804-65), manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Ex Norman Blackburn collection. See 52552, 52551
[Ref: 52856] £320.00

Der Condor. Vultur Gryphus.
[Lithographed by J. Richter after Carl Wilhelm Medau.]
[Prague: Leitmeritz und Teplitz, 1836.]
Rare lithograph, watermark L. Ziegler Zurich. Sheet 400 x 315mm (15¾ x 12½"). Paper sligtly cockled.
A condor of the Andes, published in Medau's 'Das Erntefeld. eine Bildungschrift für die reifende Jugend' ('The Harvest Field: an educational journal for the maturing youth').
[Ref: 52786] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Conway Castle.
[Elizabeth, Lady Palgrave.]
E. 1816.
Rare etching. 178 x 254 mm (7 x 10"). Thread margins.
View of the ruined Conway Castle, with plants growing over towers and battlement, trees in the foreground, the earth covering the base of the castle and making slope descending towards the right foreground.
[Ref: 52423] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Eliza Cook]
[From the Drawing by J Watkins. Print.d by W Cornish 63 Bartholomew Close.]
[n.d. c.1860.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 260 x 220mm (10¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to printed border, tipped on album paper.
Portrait of Eliza Cook (1818-89), poet and journalist, seated in a seaside cave, bonnet and dog at her feet. It was the cover illustration to sheet music for her 'Song of the Dog'. She began to write verses before she was fifteen; indeed, some of her most popular poems, such as ‘I'm afloat’ and the ‘Star of Glengarry,’ were composed in her girlhood. Her first volume, ‘Lays of a Wild Harp,’ appeared as early as 1835, when she was but seventeen. In May 1849 Eliza Cook brought out a publication upon somewhat similar lines to ‘Chambers's Journal,’ which she called ‘Eliza Cook's Journal.’ Great part of its contents reappeared in ‘Jottings from my Journal,’ 1860. They consisted of essays and sketches written in a simple, clear, and unpretending style, and generally conveyed some moral lesson. Some of them are mild satires on the social failings of her contemporaries, and exhibit good sense and some humour. Prominent chartist and a proponent of political freedom for women.
[Ref: 52655] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eliza Cook. Proof.
Drawn on Stone by H. Brittan Watkins, from a painting by J Watkins.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 500 x 325mm (19¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed to edge of chine collé; repaired tear in top.
Portrait of Eliza Cook (1818-89), poet and journalist, seated in a seaside cave, bonnet and dog at her feet. A reversed version was used as the cover illustration to sheet music for her 'Song of the Dog'. She began to write verses before she was fifteen; indeed, some of her most popular poems, such as ‘I'm afloat’ and the ‘Star of Glengarry,’ were composed in her girlhood. Her first volume, ‘Lays of a Wild Harp,’ appeared as early as 1835, when she was but seventeen. In May 1849 Eliza Cook brought out a publication upon somewhat similar lines to ‘Chambers's Journal,’ which she called ‘Eliza Cook's Journal.’ Great part of its contents reappeared in ‘Jottings from my Journal,’ 1860. They consisted of essays and sketches written in a simple, clear, and unpretending style, and generally conveyed some moral lesson. Some of them are mild satires on the social failings of her contemporaries, and exhibit good sense and some humour. Prominent chartist and a proponent of political freedom for women.
[Ref: 52739] £360.00

[John Singleton Copley] Dressing for the House on the __ March 1829.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub March 2d. 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket -
Etching with fine hand colour. 260 x 362mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Some surface dirt particularily in the right corner, thread margins.
Satire on Baron Lyndhurst's wavering stance over Catholic Emancipation, and his wife's notorious affair with the Earl of Dudley. Lyndhurst, Chancellor under three successive Prime Ministers, had spoken against Emancipation in 1827 but was speaking in favour of it in 1829. Here it suggested he buy a new coat- 'you know you turnd it only last year & it has been turned before that. so I much doubt if it will bear turning any more [..]' Lyndhurst receives his advice from 'Doodle' (Dudley), who suggests Lyndhurst could afford to buy a new coat as 'her Ladyship earns her own expenses. Doodle pays all her bills and gives her every thing she can wish for'. Lady Lyndhurst was involved in several affairs with the wealthy and powerful.
BM Satires: 15705.
[Ref: 52759] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Rev. Rowland Crookes] [pencil.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare engraving, proof before letters. Collector's mark verso; 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼").
Portrait of a preaching minister, framed in a window, books on the sill, named in pencil in the unfinished inscription panel. We are unable to confirm the identity of the sitter.
[Ref: 52517] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Cephisa drawing an Arrow from Cupid's quiver to wound her Lover. Vide Montesquieu V.4 P.186.
Designed by W. Hamilton, R.A. Engrav'd by J. Barney,
Pub.d Sept.r 1789 by J. Walker No 7 Cornhill & No 106 Bond Street
Stipple. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A scene from Montesquieu's 'Céphise et l'Amour'. Finding Cupid asleep Cephisa steals an arrow and wounds her lover. Later she clips Cupid's wings.
[Ref: 52673] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Cust] [The Right Honorable John Earl Brownlow.] Private Plate.
Painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
[n.d., 1843.]
Mezzotint, proof before title on chine collé. 540 x 500mm (21¼ x 19¾"). With small margins, some spotting, chine collé lifting top right corner.
John Cust (1779-1853), 1st Earl Brownlow, Tory politician who was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire from 1809 to 1852, in ceremonial military uniform. Belton interest.
O'Donoghue 25 i; Whitman 29 i.
[Ref: 52773] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ferouze Shah's Laht, Delhi.
Lieut. Bacon del. A. Picken Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Browned edges.
The Feroz Shah Kotla, built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq in the 14th century. At that time he moved the third century BC Ashokan Pillar, seen in the foreground.
[Ref: 52332] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Fallen but Charming Creatures.]
[after Aleksandr Lebedev.]
[St Petersburg: Pol-Peti, 1862.]
Folio, disbound, 30 numbered lithographic plates, each 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"), as called for. Hinges strained, wear to plates, especially first and last, some staining, a few plates misbound.
An extremely rare set of the first issue of 'Fallen but Charming Creatures', 30 satirical plates after Aleksandr Lebedev (1830-98) with titles written by Vsevolod Krestovsky. The scenes depict 'kamelii' (camellias), urban women who used their sex to gain advancement, in various locations including the opera. All but two have Russian titles in Cyrillic: Plate 1 has a French quote from Victor Hugo's 'Les Chants du Crèpuscule' (Hugo's 'Lady of the Camellias' was the origin of the nickname); Plate 5 has a shopkeeper talking about her assistant like one of her wares. The series with another 30 lithographs, issued separately, then 'An additional album, Another Ten Fallen but Charming Creatures' in 1863.
Colleen Lucey: ''Fallen but Charming Creatures'': The Demimondaine in Russian Literature and Visual Culture of the 1860s. (PDF available for download)
[Ref: 52504] £950.00 view all images for this item

Prospect af Kjobenhavn seet fra Batteriet Trekroner.
Efter Naturen af I.C. Brunn 1854. H. Jessen lith.
I.W. Tegner & Kittendorff.s lith. Inst.
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 530 x 750mm (21 x 29½") very large margins. Repairs in sky, tears in left edge.
A large prospect of Copenhagen harbour from the Trekoner Fort, an artificial island built to defend the city, with warships at anchor.
[Ref: 52828] £520.00

Le Dentiste Embulant.
Wille filius Del.
[n.d., c.1788.]
Scarce colour-printed etching. 265 x 215mm (10½ x 8½") very large margins.
An itinerant dentist in a carnival costume extracts a man's tooth as his family looks on. A necklace of human teeth rests on the table. After Pierre Alexandre Wille (1748-1821), originally published by Jean in 1788.
[Ref: 52144] £320.00

[Design for Monument.]
M. Wyatt Inv.t et Sculp.t
London. Pub.d by M. Wyatt Feby. 1. 1821, Henrietta St. Cavendish Squ.e
Engraving. Plate 222 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Scuffing and soiling; creasing and folds. Scruffy.
A proof engraving, of Georgian sculptor Matthew Cotes Wyatt's design for a memorial sculpture to George III. It represents the king in Roman dress, with sceptre and orb, in a carriage with horses trampling a many headed dragon. Although the design was much praised, its subscription failed in part because of the intended positioning of the statue at Waterloo Place where a statue of the Duke of York would have had its back to George III. Wyatt, son of the architect, James Wyatt, studied at the Royal Academy, and, through the influence of his father, worked on interiors for the king and queen at Windsor Castle. He designed a monument to Nelson in Liverpool and a much admired marble cenotaph for Princess Charlotte. In place of this unrealised design, Wyatt created a more modest bronze equestrian statue of the king now at Pall Mall East.
[Ref: 52395] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dewar Challenge Trophy. This is to Certify that M.r Beaumont Critchley Holds the Challenge Trophy for the Year 1903. Presented by Sir Thomas Dewar.
W. W. Burgess R.E. Del et Sculp.
Etching, signed in pencil. 420 x 600mm (16½ x 23¾") with wide margins. Some surface dirt in margins that does go into the top sky part of the image.
A view of London from south of the river, with St Paul's Cathedral and Watt's Shot Tower, Belvedere Road, Lambeth. Sir Thomas Robert Dewar (1864 - 1930) turned his family whisky business into an international success by sponsoring sporting events around the world. In the U.S. there were 'Dewar Challenge Trophys' for Soccer and motor racing. What competition this view celebrates is unknown. Besides his whisky Dewar is known for 'Dewarism', a philosophy stating that success can be attained without compromising joy in life. One of his aphorisms is the famous 'Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else'.
See 52181 for unsigned image.
[Ref: 7591] £650.00

Dewar Challenge Trophy. This is to Certify that [blank] M.r Beaumont Critchley Holds the Challenge Trophy for the Year 1[blank]. Presented by Sir Thomas Dewar.
W. W. Burgess R.E. Del et Sculp.
Etching, 420 x 600mm (16½ x 23½) with large margins.
A blank certificate with a view of London from south of the river, with St Paul's Cathedral and Watt's Shot Tower, Belvedere Road, Lambeth. Sir Thomas Robert Dewar (1864 - 1930) turned his family whisky business into an international success by sponsoring sporting events around the world. In the U.S. there were 'Dewar Challenge Trophys' for Soccer and motor racing. What competition this view celebrates is unknown. Besides his whisky Dewar is known for 'Dewarism', a philosophy stating that success can be attained without compromising joy in life. One of his aphorisms is the famous 'Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else'.
See 7591 for signed impression.
[Ref: 52181] £450.00

[James Douglas, Duke of Morton] No 2 [scratched letters].
[Engraved by George Vertue? after Jacob Houbraken.]
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, proof before title. 100 x 105mm (4 x 4¼"). Sitter identified in pencil.
James Douglas (c. 1516-81), 4th Earl of Morton, last of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of James VI.
[Ref: 52556] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

P. Mathews Wholesale & Retail Woollen Draper, Tailor & Habit Maker, on the London Principle, Stourbridge. Funerals completly Furnished, Family Mourning of all kinds. Sporting Suits, Boys Dresses, Liveries &c. made in a superior Style & on the shortest notice.
W. & T. Radclyffe Sc. Birm.m.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 175mm (5 x 7"). A little soiling, old ink mss. top left.
A trade card engraved by William and Thomas Radclyffe, importers of Irish linens. William is best known for Engraving J.M.W. Turner's 'Picturesque Views in England and Wales'.
[Ref: 52354] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Provost's House, Dublin.
James Malton delin. et fecit.
London, Pub'd by Ja.s Malton & G. Cowen, Dublin, Feb 1794.
Coloured aquatint. 320 x 430mm (12½ x 17"), with very wide margins.
The house of the provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
Abbey Scenery: 473; Bonar-Law 2, p39, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 52695] £350.00

[The Duke of Bridgwater's intended canals.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraved map, 18th century watermark. 315 x 570mm (12¼ x 22½"). Tear taped. Crease. Small margins.
A sketch map of the canals proposed by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, including the Bridgewater Canal (said to be the first modern canal built in Britain) and a canal linking Manchester and Liverpool, for which he obtained parliamentary approval in 1762.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52283] £250.00

[Dutch topers.]
DT [monogram of David Tenniers] J. v. B. [Jan van der Bruggen]
[Brussels, Jan van der Bruggen, n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 235 x 175mm (9¼ x 7"). Thread margins, laid on album paper.
An untitled scene of the interior of a Dutch tavern, centred on a man with tankard and pipe. In the background another man urinates into a bowl. Engraved and published by Jan van der Bruggen (c.1648-90) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90).
[Ref: 52794] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Elephants.]
A. Radclyffe Dugmore [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1945.]
Rare etching on india paper, limited edition signed by the artist. 180 x 255mm (8 x 10"), with wide margins.
Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-1955), Welsh-born American naturalist and wildlife photographer, painter, print-maker and author.
[Ref: 52802] £320.00

[Elephants.]
A. Radclyffe Dugmore [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1945.]
Rare etching on india paper, limited edition signed by the artist. 265 x 320mm (10½ x 12½") very wide margins. Margins creased.
Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-1955), Welsh-born American naturalist and wildlife photographer, painter, print-maker and author.
[Ref: 52800] £320.00

His Grace of __ a Specimen of English Nobility. see the last Number, p.22. Designed & Engraved for the London Museum
[London Magazine, August 1771.]
Etching. 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate at sides, mounted in album paper.
A caricature of a young man of fashion at the races. According to the text (not present here), ''See them all the morning nobly emulating to look like the miserable French friseurs, who are continually trotting the streets with their scanty coats...''.
[Ref: 52640] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

An Epistle to William Hogarth. By C. Churchill. The Third Edition.
[London: Printed for the Author, And sold by J. Coote, at the King's Arms in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Gardiner, in Charles Street Westminster. M.DCC.LXIII [1763].
4to, extract, disbound. Half-title, title, pp. 31. 285 by 220mm (11¼ by 8¾") Some creases and light staining.
Charles Churchill's famous attack on William Hogarth's caricature of John Wilkes, to which Hogarth responded with 'The Bruiser', a caricature of Churchill as a drunken bear, with a pug urinating on this work. This third edition was issued in the same year as the first.
[Ref: 52817] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Two watercolour elevations of a mansion and stable block.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Fine pair of watercolours, sheets 450 x 660mm (17¾ x 26"), on laid paper watermarked 'J Whatman". Mint. A few small tears in edges.
A fine pair of architectural views of the front and back of a neo-classical country house, with a stable block (identified by a weather vane).
[Ref: 52826] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Toubau, Fils du Roi des Îles des Amis. Vouacécé, Habitant de Fidgi. Atlas du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse. No 29.
Piron delin. Copia sculp. Dien Scripsit.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving. 305 x 445mm (12 x 17½").
Two portraits: Toubau, son of the King of the Friendly Isles, and Vouacécé, a man of Fiji who the French met in Tongatapu, 150 leagues away. In 1788 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse set sail from Botany Bay and was never seen again. Despite the upheaval of the French Revolution the National Assembly was moved to send an expedition in search of their lost hero, 1791-3, under Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Despite finding no trace of La Perouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists, especially in Australia. This account, compiled by the expedition's botanist, Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière, was published as 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', with natural history plates by Redouté and Audebert. The work even has its own abbreviation in botantical literature, 'Voy.Rech.Perouse'.
[Ref: 52622] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

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