Grosvenor Prints

[Pychely Hunt set of six.] A distinguish'd Character in the Pychely Hunt [&] Push Him up Tomboy. [&] "now Contract, says Dick, By Jove! Those D_d Quornites shall now see the trick." [&] Proof of Bottom. [&] The fore Horse of the Team. [&] Whoop "was never so carried."
C.Loraine Smith pinxt. Jukes Sculp.
London, Pub.d March 1790 by F. Jukes Engraver Howland Street, No 10.
Ser of six sepia aquatints. Ea. c.250 x 265mm. Some restoration to each plate.
A set of six fox hunting caricatures.
Siltzer: p.250-255.
[Ref: 21091] £590.00 view all images for this item

A Pytchley "Wednesday". Gone Away from Crick.
[Cecil Aldin within print].
Copyright- Published by Richard Wyman & Co., Ltd. 16, Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.
Chromolithograph. Plate: 330 x 190mm, (13 x 7½").
A pack of hounds run across a track while the hunt jump the hedge.
[Ref: 34500] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Raby Pack. The Earl of Darlington's Fox-Hounds in their Kennel, Representing correct Portraits of the most celebrated Hounds, Also His Lordship's Huntsman, and Dog-Feeder, Sayer & Leonard.
Painted by H.B. Chalon, animal Painter to their R.H.ss the Prince Regent & Duke & Duchess of York and to H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.Hs. the Prince Regent & Duke of York.
London, Published & Sold April 20 1814 by Edwd. Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, Publisher to His Majesty, & H.R.H. the Prince Regent.
Mezzotint. 535 x 645mm (21 x 25½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, with a few repairs to edges.
The hounds belonging to William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland and Earl of Darlington (1766 - 1842) coming to eat at troughs in their kennels. The dog-feeder Leonard in centre wears top hat and waistcoat, the huntsman Sayer stands in the doorway at right. Hounds named below image, with arms bearing the motto 'Nec Temere Nec Timide'. A great British sporting print, first published 1809, after Henry Bernard Chalon (1771-1849).
Frankau: 235, II. Siltzer: pg.92.
[Ref: 52876] £690.00

Raby Pack. The Earl of Darlington's Fox-Hounds in their Kennel, Representing correct Portraits of the most celebrated Hounds, Also His Lordship's Huntsman, and Dog-Feeder, Sayer & Leonard.
Painted by H.B. Chalon, animal Painter to their R.H.ss the Prince Regent & Duke & Duchess of York and to H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales. Engraved by W. Ward A.R.A. Engraver to their R.Hs. the Prince Regent & Duke of York.
London, Published & Sold April 20 1814 by Edwd. Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, Publisher to His Majesty, & H.R.H. the Prince Regent.
Framed mezzotint. 545 x 640mm (21½ x 25¼"). A superb impression with good margins; unexamined out of attractive 19th century veneered wooden frame, behind old rippled glass.
The hounds belonging to William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland and Earl of Darlington (1766 - 1842) coming to eat at troughs in their kennels. The dog-feeder Leonard in centre wears top hat and waistcoat, the huntsman Sayer stands in the doorway at right. Hounds named below image, with arms bearing the motto 'Nec Temere Nec Timide'. A great British sporting print, first published 1809, after Henry Bernard Chalon (1771-1849).
Frankau: 235, II. Siltzer: pg.92.
[Ref: 13792] £2,200.00

[Le Renard Anglais.] Livre D'Animaux par Jean Baptiste Oudri Peintre du Roy.
J.B. Oudri inv. Huquier Sculp.
A Paris chés Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne.
Rare Etching. 299 x 235mm. 11¾ x 9". Some creasing.
Dogs barking at fox hanging from a tree; a vulture hovers nearby.
[Ref: 19387] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Return.]
Rowlandson. 1788.
[Pub. Jan.y 1st. 1788 by J Harris No 38 Dean St. Soho.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 450 x 515mm (17¾ x 20¼"). Trimmed to printed border, losing title, nick in top edge, several small repaired tears at edges.
One of a series of six hunting scenes, showing the party dismounting outside a Palladian mansion, dog pack bottom right.
[Ref: 45236] £420.00

Reynard's Last Shift.
After Collett by H.B. Engraved by J.Harris.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured mezzotint. 600 x 480mm. Paper toned.
A fox hides under a woman's skirts.
[Ref: 1330] £450.00

[Spaniel with game birds.]
F.Barlow delin.
J. Smith excud. [n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint, fine. 145 x 200mm (5¾ x 8"). Thread margins.
A hunting dog, seated on a bank watching a bouquet of pheasants feeding in front of it; in the background a man on a horse being led by a groom and a distant landscape beyond a gate.
CLB: state ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 44164] £420.00

Stag Hounds.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 248 x 336mm. 9¾ x 13¼". Frame 411 x 502mm. 16¼ x 19¾".
Described as Stag Hounds, but look closer to the English Fox Hound or The English Coonhound. Plate 7 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25709] £320.00

[Stag hunting.]
J: Wyke Pinxit. J. Smith Fecit.
Cum Privilegio Regis [Published by John Boydell? c.1780].
Mezzotint. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"). Repair lower left & right, affecting tip of image. Small margins made up.
Riders hunting a stag with dogs, after Jan Wyck, first published by Edward Cooper c.1687. According to the Lennox-Boyd database this is the 4th state, with no publisher's address, published by John Boydell.
See BM 2010,7081.300.
[Ref: 55419] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Stag Hunting.
H. Alken del.t. J. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1819, with large margins. Faint text offset.
Hunting a stag with hounds. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46269] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Start for the Meet - 1882. The Quorn Pack Huntsman & Whips leaving the old Kennels at Quorn,
[Frank Paton & W.E. Cooke]
Printed in Paris. 1882 [ Boussod Valadon & Co. Publishers, Successors to Goupil & Co. Paris_London]
Photogravure. 560 x 760mm.
[Ref: 4574] £420.00

F. Champion on "Tally Ho". Huntsman to the Cheshire Hounds.
A.G. Haigh 1909 [in image.] Painted by Alfred G. Haigh. Engraved by E.M. Hester. [Pencil signature:] Alfred G. Haigh.
Published Sep 1.st 1909 by Mess.rs Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London W.
Coloured lithograph. Plate 540 x 430mm. 21¼ x 17". Very fine colour, with large margins.
A rider in hunting gear sits on his horse; four hour dogs sniff around in the grass.
[Ref: 24013] £330.00

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Freeman Thomas Esquire, on his Favorite Horse 'The Rover'. This Engraving is respectfully dedicated tot he Members of the South Down Hunt, by their obedient Servants, Mess.rs Fores.
Painted by Stephen Pearce. engraved by James Scott.
London; Published July 1st, 1858, by Mess.rs Foresl 41 Piccadilly.
Mixed-method engraving, printed in colours and hand-finished. 540 x 650mm, 21¼ x 25½". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A full-length portrait, astride his hunter with a hound looking up, pictured on top of the Downs, with the sea far right. The South Down Hunt frequented the area just north of Brighton and Lewes in Sussex.
[Ref: 24867] £360.00

Unkenneling the Fox-Hounds. Lacher la Meute. 210.
[engraved by Thomas Burford after either himself or James Seymour.]
London Published 22nd May 1787 by Rob.t Sayer, 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Narrow margins, a little wear to edges, laid on archival paper.
A fox hunting scene originally published by Thomas Burford c.1753, one of six that Laurie & Whittle issued as a set in 1794.
BM 2010,7081.2883, listing it as state v of vi according the the Lennox Boyd database of mezzotints.
[Ref: 55305] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hertfordshire. Village Scenery - Hounds Meeting. (Whitewell near Welyn.)
Painted by D. Wolstenholme. Engraved by D. Wolstenholme Jun.r.
London. Published by Ackermann & C.o 96, Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Rare aquatint, printed in colours and finished with fine hand colour. 320 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"). Framed in a fine Girtin frame. Unexamined out of frame.
A view of a hunt gathering outside 'The Bullhead', now the Bull Inn, Whitwell, still in the same building. One of a set of four of the 'Hertfordshire Hunt', first published by Wolstenhome c.1833.
Siltzer p.313. Provenance Brussels Gentleman's Club.
[Ref: 59609] £450.00

Dogs and wild-boar. 12.
Fred.k Tayler.
[n.d. c.1872. Etching Club?]
Etching on chine collé, plate 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
Two dogs sink their teeth into a wild boar attempting to flee in a grassy landscape. (John) Frederick Tayler (1802– 89) was a 19th-century English landscape watercolour painter, president of the Royal Watercolour Society and member of the Etching Club. Tayler executed some two dozen ‘lithotints,’ which were published by T. McLean in 1844, under the title of ‘Frederick Tayler's Portfolio.’ A member of the ‘Etching Club,’ he etched a number of small plates for the various publications of that body (Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village,’ ‘Songs of Shakespeare,’ ‘Etched Thoughts,’ &c.), and also made drawings on wood for several popular classics, such as Thomson's ‘Seasons,’ ‘Sir Roger de Coverley,’ and Goldsmith's ‘Works.’
[Ref: 61182] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The York and Ainsty. Hunt from Askham Bog.
[Cecil Aldin within print].
Copyright- Published by Richard Wyman & Co., Ltd. 16, Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.
Chromolithograph. Plate: 330 x 190mm, (13 x 7½").
View of the York and Ainsty Hunt in which the hounds charge across a field, members of the hunt appear in the background.
[Ref: 34497] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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