Grosvenor Prints

Trafalgar.
F. Mackenzie del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
[Published Feb.y 1, 1820 by Whitmore & Fenn, Charing Cross London.]
Aquatint, printed in blue and brown. Image 200 x 140mm, 8 x 5½". Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
A design for a memorial to dead of the Battle of Trafalgar. A statue of Nelson is on a plinth below an architrave with the word 'Trafalgar' held up by Corinthian columns, behind which are a number of statues of other naval officers. Published in James Ralfe's 'The Naval Chronology of Great Britain'
[Ref: 26848] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Nelson Testimonial.
[n.d. c.1843.]
Rare wood engraving on card with small margins. 190 x 152mm. 7½ x 6". Publication line scratched out.
A card of Remembrance for Lord Nelson, with his four major naval battles, St Vincent, Nile, Trafalgar and Copenhagen, in circles around Nelson's Column; HMS Victory at the top and the Death of Nelson on the bottom.
[Ref: 26151] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Parte opposta del Sepolcro di Nelson.
Antonio Canova inventò. Franc.o Hayes Veneto dis. e incise.
[n.d. c.1813.]
Very rare engraving, sheet 465 x 400mm (18¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate. Dusty stain on top right corner, scuffing, some foxing, tear on left edge.
Outline design for a tomb to Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) by Antonio Canova, with a square top on a circular base and seated allegorical figures.
[Ref: 59065] £360.00

Sailors at Prayers on Board Lord Nelson's Ship, After the Battle of the Nile.
J. A. Atkinson Del. Clark & Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold April 1.st. 1816 by EDW.D. ORME. Bond Street, corner of Brook Str. London.
Very fine coloured aquatint with large margins. Watermarked paper 'J. Whatman 1814.' Plate: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Some very slight staining in plate.
Scene aboard H.M.S Vanguard after the Battle of the Nile (1798). A priest kneels at a make-shift pulpit reading from a prayer book. Nelson, head bandaged and surrounded by naval officers and sailors, looks on.
[Ref: 33596] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Long Room and Baths with the Country adjacent, near Plymouth.
James Northcote delin.t. J.Mason sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 320 x 470mm.
From the Northcote Archive.
[Ref: 4443] £360.00

The taking the Nuestra Senora de los Remedias, (alias La Ninfa) a Spanish Ship of 900 Tons, 32 Guns, & 300 Men, very Richly Laden, by the Royal Family Privateers, 5 February, 1746, off Cape St Marys.
Brooking Pinx.t. Boydell sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1753, & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside.
Engraving. 340 x 470mm (13½ x 18½"). Paper toned, laid down.
A Spanish ship about to be attacked by three British privateers, 'Prince Frederick'. 'Duke' and 'Prince George'. The ship was being taken back to England when it was wrecked in a storm off Beachy Head. In 1753 Boydell published a series of prints about the 'Royal Family', a fleet of privateers with ships named after the family of George II.
[Ref: 53220] £580.00

Plaisanteries Maritimes.
Dessiné par Béeger. Lith. Becquet frères. R. des Noyers, 37, Paris.
Wild, édit. 15 rue de la Banque. [n.d., c.1854.]
Two sheets, printed area 390 x 210mm, each with two tinted lithographs.
Four views from the Crimean War, with humorous titles.
[Ref: 589] £340.00 view all images for this item

Five Ships of the Line & a Frigate engaging off Portipea under their Double-Reef Topsails.
London Mag: for June, 1748.
Etching, 120 x 200mm. 4¾ x 8". Holes for stitches to bound edge, as normal.
A naval engagement, probably off the South American coast. Ships and other features are lettered in the image, with a key enclosed within the same cartouche as the title. The British ships are the Cornwall, Plymouth, Strafford, Lenox, Worcester and Wager. Illustration for the London Magazine.
[Ref: 9606] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Press Gang.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 225 x 285mm (9 x 11¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A scene showing a group of men, armed with clubs forcing a young man off a boat while a man and woman look on concered. Press gangs would take young men and force them to join the navy.
[Ref: 49593] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Press Gang.
[after George Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"). Trimmed to image.
A copy of George Morland's 'Jack in the Bilboes', originally engraved by William Ward, illustrating Charles Dibdin's 'the Waterman', showing the Waterman pressed on his wedding day.
See 28093 for the original mezzotint.
[Ref: 42443] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Revolt of the Fleet. The Parliament having invested the Earl of Warwick with the command of ye Fleet contrary to his Majesty's Pleasure... NB. Considering ye vast Improvement in Naval Building it was thought it would be most agreeable to represent ye Fleet as compos'd of Modern Ships, at top are several Hierogtyphick Figures.
S.N. [Sutton Nichols?] fc 1728.
Rare etching, fine early state. Sheet 390 x 445mm (15¼ x 17½"), 18th century watermark. Trimmed inside platemark. Repairs to left corner.
A fleet of British Navy warships is framed by columns and a tableau of allegorical and mythological figures above. The inscription below relates the events leading up to the revolt of British sea captains against Royal authority during the Civil War. The plate seems to be engraved by Sutton Nicholls (1680 - 1740; fl), the London topographical engraver, printseller and publisher. After Louis Chéron (1660 - 1725) and Thomas Baston (1699 - 1730; fl.).
[Ref: 51752] £480.00

The Royal Navy. Dedicated to Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Bar.t, Capt.n H.S. Hillyar C.B., and the Officers of H.M.S. The Royal Oak.
Drawn By Orlando Norie & T.G. Dutton. Engraved By W. Summers.
Published, October 1st. 1869, by R. & A. Ackermann, 191, Regent Street, London.
Aquatint printed in colour and finished by hand, 515 x 820mm (20¼ x 32¼"). Repaired tears into plate from margin; image unaffected.
An impressive view on board H.M.S The Royal Oak showing the uniforms of the different ranks of seamen. Each is captioned below the image. After Orlando Norie (1832 - 1901).
[Ref: 8498] £750.00

[Sailors on shore.] From a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H.Bunbury Esq.r.
London, Published March 20, 1802 by John Harris No 3. Sweetings Alley Cornhill & 8. Old Broad Street.
Stipple. 430 x 375mm. Trimmed to plate on three sides, split in platemark at top.
Sailors enjoying shore leave. Published five days after the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, a brief respite in the wars with France.
[Ref: 8300] £320.00

[Sailors relaxing on board ship.]
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic, rare, image/sheet 165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼". Lacking margins.
A group of sailors below deck drinking, smoking and socialising; some have evidently had too much to drink, one lying on a chest while his companion pours wine from a cup into his mouth.
[Ref: 26334] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sending on board the Admiral for Letters at Sea.
O.W. Brierly Del. _J. Needham Lith. Shipping by Dutton. Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen.
London Published Feby. 1st 1855 by Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen, 17, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Large hand-coloured lithograph, image 400 x 610mm. 15¾ x 24". Filled worm holes and some tears from slightly tatty extremities. Corners chipped.
Mail is delivered to ships of the Royal Navy in the Baltic Sea in 1854 by steamship; during the Crimean War campaign (1853 - 1856). Titles in French and English; naval ships and the comparatively tiny mail steamer captioned below image. After Oswald Brierly (1817 - 1894). From a set of fifteen lithographs depicting "The Baltic Fleet under Sir Charles Napier on its way to the seat of war".
Parker: 1618. NMM: PAH8326.
[Ref: 21634] £580.00

The Bombardment of Sebastopol.
From a drawing by Mr E.W. Brooker HMS Spitfire. _ E. Walker lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published March 1st 1855 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co, 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, _ Publishers to Her Majesty.
Fine coloured tinted lithograph, chine collé, with highlights added by hand. Sheet 370 x 625mm (14½ x 24½"). Laid on backing sheet. Slight crease in sky.
A view of the naval bombardment of Sevastopol, 17th October, 1854, with the ships and their commanders listed under the scene. Edward Wolfe Brooker (1828-1870) was Master on HMS Spitfire under Captain Thomas Spratt, surveying in the Mediterranean when the Crimean War broke out. He earned a commission by placing buoys to mark channels at the entrance to the Dnieper River while under enemy fire. At the end of the war he returned to surveying, both in the Mediterrean and around Tasmania. He was given the command of HMS Sylvia and joined Keppel during the opening of the trade ports of Osaka and Kobe in 1869. Taking ill in Japan he died there in 1870.
[Ref: 54064] £390.00

Vaisseau Anglais sw 100. Canons portant pavillion de Vice-Admiral.
Enric [Emeric?] in. et del 1794. Verico sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Fine & rare engraving, 18th century watermark. 330 x 470mm (14½ x 18½"), with large margins. Stain on right. Uncut.
A Royal Navy warship with a Vice-Admiral's pennant.
[Ref: 60513] £690.00

[The rigging of a three-masted warship identified.]
[British, c.1820.]
Diagram, ship in profile; scarce, hand coloured lithograph, sheet 250 x 265mm. 9¾ x 10½". Sheet trimmed; small stain upper left of image.
The key below the image provides the technical terminology for the masts, yardarms, and sails.
[Ref: 15780] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Skelt's Views. No 12. Paying a Sloops bottom, with a View of the Dock Yard in Southampton River, by Moon light.
Printed for & Sold by M. Skelt. No 11. Swan Street, Minories, London. Published as the Act Directs. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 175 x 280mm, 7 x 11".
An insurance document dated 1835, held in the National Archives, lists 'Matthew and Martin Skelt, 11 Swan Street Minories, copper plate printers, publishers and dealers in prints, stationery and fancy ornaments'.
[Ref: 12109] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Skelt's Views. No 23. A First Rate in a light Breeze, with a View of Dover.
Printed for & Sold by M. Skelt. No 11. Swan Street, Minories, London. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 175 x 280mm, 7 x 11".
An insurance document dated 1835, held in the National Archives, lists 'Matthew and Martin Skelt, 11 Swan Street Minories, copper plate printers, publishers and dealers in prints, stationery and fancy ornaments'.
[Ref: 12110] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Skelt's Views. No 5. A Man of War in distress lying too under a ballance mizen Stay-sail, in a Stom at Sun set.
Printed for & Sold by M. Skelt. No 11. Swan Street, Minories, London. Published as the Act Directs. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 175 x 280mm, 7 x 11".
An insurance document dated 1835, held in the National Archives, lists 'Matthew and Martin Skelt, 11 Swan Street Minories, copper plate printers, publishers and dealers in prints, stationery and fancy ornaments'.
[Ref: 12105] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Skelt's Views. No 9. The Active Frigate in Stays, in a Light Breeze, off the back of the Isle of Wight.
Printed for & Sold by M. Skelt. No 11. Swan Street, Minories, London. Published as the Act Directs. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving. 175 x 280mm, 7 x 11".
H.M.S.Active entered service in 1800, operating in the English Channel as part of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. An insurance document dated 1835, held in the National Archives, lists 'Matthew and Martin Skelt, 11 Swan Street Minories, copper plate printers, publishers and dealers in prints, stationery and fancy ornaments'.
[Ref: 12107] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A Spanish Frigate & Algerine Galley.
London Pub.d Sept.r 1. 1788, by R. Pollard, No.15, Braynes Row, Spa Fields.
Aquatint and etching. 336 x 450mm. 13¼ x 17¾".
Coastal view with a three-mast Spanish frigate in the left middle distance, its bow to the viewer; two men and one woman at a shore in the right foreground where a boat is mooring; another frigate in the right background, its stern to the viewer; an Algerian galley in the left; more ships at a harbour with a round tower in the distance.
See BM: 1878,0713.1889.
[Ref: 21686] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

St. Iohn of Acré. Defended by the English under Sir Sidney Smith, against the French under General Buonaparte, from 19 March (28, Ventose) to 21 May (1. Praireal) 1799. To J. Spencer Smith, Esq.r L.L.D. F.R.S. & F.S.A. &c. The Print from the Original Drawing in his Collection, is respectfully inscribed by J. Jeakes. [Lettered key underneath as references to the small plan in title area.]
Drawn by Préaux at Constantinople from a Sketch by F.B. Spilsbury of H.B.M. Ship le Tigre 1800. Engraved by J. Jeakes.
Publishd as the Act directs...180...
Aquatint. 425 x 588mm. 16¾ x 23¼". Cut. Vertical crease through centre. Some surface rubbing and scratching.
Here in 1799, the French launched an unsuccessful attack against the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre; the defense led by the British Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840). The artist, Jean Francois Préaulx, was a draughtsman in the service of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in the Levant and near east. He also engraved several pictures in the collection of John Sydney Smith (1796-1845, younger brother of William), who served in the British Embassy at Constantinople 1793-1801, first as private secretary to the ambassador and Secretary of Legation from 1798.
[Ref: 19651] £390.00

The Standards, Flags and Colours of all Nations.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 4½").
A collection of illustrations of flags, with a large 'Standard of Great Britain' and fifteen smaller flags, including Naval ranks, the East India Company, Guinea Company & New England ensign. Unusual flags include: the Budge (Budgee) flag, on which the Cross of St George was replaced by the Union flag; and the 'Scotch Union Flag', on which the Cross of St Andrew is at the forefront of the Union Flag. The flags are engraved using a colour code (ie. blue denoted by horisontal lines, red by vertical lines).
[Ref: 37606] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sailors' Encampment Before Sebastopol. The Trafalgar Lambs. No.2. ''Soon the native jollity of the tars broke out, and uproarious singing was kept up in their different tents...
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Staining.
A scene showing sailors from the HMS Trafalgar sitting singing and telling stories in front of a tent during the Crimean War.
[Ref: 51040] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

United States Squadron under Com. Bainbridge returning triumphant from the Mediterranean in 1815. Engraved for the Naval Monument. [Ships names underneath:] Macedonian. Firefly. Torch. Boxer. Independence. Spark. Saranac. Enterprise. Lynx. Congress. Chippewa. Spitfire. Flambeau.
[Abel Bowen.] M. Corne p. W. Hoogland sc.
[Published by George Clark. 1840.]
Engraving. 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½".
The squadron led by Commodore William Bainbridge which had spent the summer of 1815 in operation against pirates of Algiers in the Mediterranean. From Bowen's "Naval Monument".
[Ref: 23816] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Vaisseau qui a pris Vent devant lorsque le Vent a Sauté Ouest.
[The Hague: Adrien Moetjens, 1686.]
Copper engraving, rare. 185 x 300mm, 7¼ x 11¾". Some wear, laid on card, stains.
A diagram of a warship, with a 66-point key naming the parts. Published in 'Les Arts de l'Homme d'Epee, ou le dictionaire du Gentilhomme', by le Sieur de Guillet. The three parts related to horsemanship, soldiering and navigation. Top left shows an ornate compass.
[Ref: 16738] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

To Morgan Morgan of Lanrumney in Monmouth-Shire Esq.r This View of the Fleet which brought home his Majesty King Charles II.d in May 1660, is humbly Dedicated by E.Kirkall.
W.Vanderveld pinx.t. E.Kirkhall Fecit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint, printed in green. 390 x 570mm. Wax stain in sky, edges reinforced.
Morgan Morgan of Llanrhymni was Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1726. Scarce.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6285] £480.00

The Spot Where Nelson Fell. Quarter Deck of H.M.S. Victory, Portsmouth.
Rooke & Co, No 4093, 13 Aug 1859.
Steel engraving, 90 x 115mm (3½ x 4½"). Trimmed close to image.
Sight-seers on the deck of the Victory. Above the wheel is Nelson's famous phrase, 'England Expects Every Man to do his Duty'.
[Ref: 44754] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[The Wager Mutiny: Captain Cheap shooting Midshipman Cozens] Kaptein Cheap, schietende den schieman Cozens...
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare etching, 170 x 250mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Folds and stains.
David Cheap was captain of HMS Wager, one of Admiral Anson's fleet on his voyage around the world. However the ship lost contact during storms rounding Cape Horn and ran aground off the Pacific coast of Patagonia. Stranded, Cheap lost control of the crew and during an altercation shot Cozens in the face without warning, after which he took ten days to die. Eighty crewmen took a cutter and headed south to the Strait of Magellan, leaving Cheap and twenty men behind, expecting them to die, which all but four did. Survivors of both groups managed to return to England, and their stories caused a sensation. A Dutch copy of 'A Representation of Cap.t Cheap, Commander of the ship Wager, Shooting Mr. Cozens his Midshipman; with the Crew building their Huts after the Ship was Cast away on a desolate island on the coast of Patagonia', originally published in 'A voyage to the South-seas, and to many other parts of the world, from 1740 to 1744, by an officer of the fleet', 1745.
[Ref: 58229] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vaisseau École No. 2. Vaisseau de 1.er Rang a la Voile ay Plus Près, Les Amures a Babord. [&] Vaisseau École No. 3. Coupe et Arrimage d'un Vaisseau de 1.er Rang de 120 Canons.
L. Morel-Fatio [plate 2]. Lith de Boucher.
Paris, Maison Basset, 33, rue de Seine. [n.d., c.1850.]
Pair of tinted lithographs. Sheets 550 x 715mm (20¾ x 28"), with wide margins. Edges chipped, ink mss. pagimation top left.
Two portraits of a French first rate frigate: under sail and a cross section, in dry dock, both with extensive keys. From ''l'Encyclopédie Bouasse-Lebel''. Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (1810-71) was made 'peintre officiel de la Marine' (Painter of the Fleet) in 1853.
[Ref: 54034] £850.00 view all images for this item

H.M.S. Warspite, 50 Guns, in a Gale of Wind. To the Right Hon.ble Lord John Hay, this print is respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's very obedient humble servant N.M. Condy.
N.M. Condy del. T.G. Dutton lith. Day & Haghe Lithr.s to the Queen.
London: Ackermann & Co Strand, George Foster, 114 Fenchurch St. _ Plymouth, Edmund Fry.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 560mm (15 x 22"). Repaired tears in edges of wide margins.
'Warspite' was built launched in 1807 as a 74-gun two-decker. In 1840 her second remodelling reduced her to a one-deck, 50-gun frigate, as shown here, for service on the home station. Lord John Hay commanded her between 1841 and 1845, visiting New York in 1842 to take Lord Ashburton to negotiate the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. She was then used for anti-piracy patrols in the Mediterranean until finally decommissioned in 1846.
[Ref: 52871] £420.00

What is it?
Norman Wilkinson
[n.d., c.1930.]
Coloured photolitho with remarque, signed in pencil by the artist, very large margins. 320 x 480mm (12½ x 19").
A motor launch, designated 'ML '193', attempting to identify another vessel "a submarine". Lieut. Norman Wilkinson, CBE (1878-1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques. He was also a prolific illustrator of salmon and trout fishing.
[Ref: 30794] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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