Grosvenor Prints

Royal Circus.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculp.t. Bluck aqua.t.
London Pub. 1.st. May 1809, at R. Akermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 270 x 230mm (10¼ x 9"). Some slight foxing.
View of the stage of the Royal Circus which opened in 1782 and staged pantomimes and other local entertainments. On the stage several figures in elaborate costumes perform infront of a giant teapot and tea cup before a large audience. From Rudolf Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London'.
Abbey Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34614] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sadlers Wells Theatre.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t. et sculp.t./ Bluck aqua.t.
London Pub June 1.st. 809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9"). Large margins.
Interior view of the stage of Sadler's Wells Theatre as seen from the back of the theatre. A large audience watches what could be an aqua drama, a specialty of Sadlers Wells Theatre. The theatre's proximity to the New River provided the necessary water to fill a special tank which provided the setting for several nautical performances such as 'The Seige of Gibraltar' staged in 1804. From Rudolf Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London.'
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 34322] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Sadler's Wells Theatre 1720
[Anon., c.1780]
Rare etching, laid on album sheet; platemark 105 x 160mm (4 x 6¼"), with large margins.
The original Sadler's Wells Theatre in Islington, north London. It was built by Richard Sadler in 1683 as a music house close to a newly-discovered mineral spring with the intention of rivalling similar establishments at Epsom and Tunbridge Wells. The various entertainments in the theatre's early days included jugglers, dancing dogs, and even a singing duck!
[Ref: 42086] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Appartamento d'una Regina Questa scena fu eseguita pel Ballo eroico, Il Conte d'Essex, inventato, e posto sulle scene dell'I.R. Teatro alla Scala dal Sig:Gaetano Gioja
A. Sanquirico inv e dip. C. Zucchi inc.
Nell'Autuno dell'Anno 1818
Aquatint with very fine hand-colouring, platemark 335 x 395mm (13¼ x 15½"), with large margins. Repaired tear through title area in title.
Stage design from the 'Raccolta di varie decorazione sceniche inventate ed eseguite per il r. Teatro alla Scala di Milano da Alessandro Sanquirico'. Sanquirico (1777-1849) was a scenery designer who worked primarily for the theatre of La Scala in Milan.
[Ref: 39677] £320.00

Interno d'une Piramide Sepolcrale. Questa scena fu eseguita pel Ballo tragico Psammi, inventato dal Sig. Salvatore Vigano, posto sulle scene dell' I.R. Teatro alla Scala. Nell'Autuno dell' Anno 1817.
A. Sanquirico inv e dip. G. Gastelli inc. A. Biasioli f. acq.tin.
Milano [n.d., 1829.]
Aquatint. 335 x 395mm (13¼ x 15½") Repaired tear through title area. Publication line rubbed.
The interior of an Egyptian pyramid at Memphis, with statues and figures, a set design for the tragic ballet 'Psammi, King of Egypt', 1817, by Salvatore Viganò. From the 'Raccolta di varie decorazione sceniche inventate ed eseguite per il r. Teatro alla Scala di Milano da Alessandro Sanquirico'. Sanquirico (1777-1849) was a scenery designer who worked primarily for the theatre of La Scala in Milan. Viganò (1769-1821), was a successful dancer and choreographer; he worked with Beethoven on the ballet 'The Creatures of Prometheus'.
[Ref: 63347] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Set design] Scena D'Invenzione e Disegno del Cavalier Bibiena rappresentante Sala Reale.
J.G. Bibiena inven: et delin: A.O. [Ambroglio Orio] sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 355 x 500 (14 x 19¾"), very large margins. Central fold as normal. Foxing in margin.
A set design for an immense Baroque 'Royal Hall', with colonades and archways. Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1757) of Palma was 'First Theatrical Engineer' at the Viennese court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and his daughter Maria Theresa from 1723-47, organising festivities including the Maria's wedding, and designing sets for theatrics. In 1753 he moved to the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62140] £420.00

[Set design] Scena D'Invenzione e Disegno del Cavalier Bibiena rappresentante Cortili Diversi Reali.
J.G. Bibiena inven: et delin: A.O. [Ambroglio Orio] sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 355 x 500 (14 x 19¾"), with large margins. Spotting in margins.
A set design for a 'Royal Court', with colonades and archways. Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1757) of Palma was 'First Theatrical Engineer' at the Viennese court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and his daughter Maria Theresa from 1723-47, organising festivities including the Maria's wedding, and designing sets for theatrics. In 1753 he moved to the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin.
[Ref: 57362] £320.00

Gulielmus Shakespear Anno Post Mortem CXXIV Amor Publicus Ponuit. Mr. Fleetwood, & Mr. Rich, masters of ye two Theatres, having Generously given a Benefit Play each, towards erecting a Monument to the Memory of that Inimitable Poet, Shakespear, which is now set up in Wesminster Abby, by the Direction of The Rt: Honble: the Earl of Burlington, Dr: Mead, Mr: Pope, and Mr: Martin. This Plate is most Humbly Dedicated to them, by their most Obedient Humble Serv:t. Andrew Miller.
Gul: KLent Inv. P. Scheemakers Fecit 1740. Ch: Delaffontaine del. Andrew Miller fec.t 1741.
Mezzoint, very scarce & rare Plate 406 x 265mm (16 x 10½"). Small tears to upper edge; slight toning.
Portrait after Scheemakers' memorial statue of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey; full length standing, leaning with right elbow on a pile of books, pointing with left hand to an excerpt of Propero's lines from the Tempest.
See CS: 46. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34623] £550.00

Fire Works. Chevalier Southby, Principal Artist to the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London, King's Patent and Minor Theatres respectfully announces to the Public of Sheffield and its Vicinity, that he proposed exhibiting Two Discharges of Fiew Works, upon the Cricket Ground at Hyde Park, on Wednesday, July 25, 1827 [...]
H.A. Bacon, Printer, Sheffield.
[1827].
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 510 x 195mm (20 x 7¾"). Tears, staining, laid on card.
A hand bill for a fireworks display in Sheffield, with an Order of Firing. Pyrotechnist J. Southby (d.1865), a self-created ‘Chevalier’, created the firework display for the coronation of Queen Victoria in Hyde Park in 1838.
[Ref: 57187] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cloudesleio Shovel Equiti Aurato &c Copiarum Navalium Magnae Britanniae Praefecto.
F. Boucher invenit et delin. N. Tardieu Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. Plate: 650 x 410mm (25¾ x 16''). Central horizontal crease as normal. Small margins. Creasing in bottom right corner.
An allegorical monument to British naval commander Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707) who saw action in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the War of Spanish Succession. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 50888] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Souvenir in Commeration of the Coronation of their Majesties King George V, and Queen Mary. on Thursday June 22nd, 1911. also Route of Procession on June 23rd, and 29th.
Published by the East London Printing Co. 7 Houndsditch, London, E.C.
Wood engraving on crepe paper, printed in colours. Sheet 370 x 370mm (14½ x 14½). Creased, small hole in edge.
A very rare souvenir handkerchief commemorating the coronation of George V. Within a border of flags and leaves are portraits of George and Queen Mary and an itinerary. The East London Printing Company was founded by Alexander Bloom c.1896 in Whitechapel Road, moving to Houndsditch in 1908. Postcards were a large part of their output, both comic and topical. In 1911, the same year as the coronation, Bloom photographed the progress of the Sidney Street Siege, making postcards for boys to sell to queues outside West End Theatres, the most popular one being a portrait of Winston Churchill. The firm folded in the 1930s.
[Ref: 32315] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

St. George and the Dragon.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Wood-engraving with fine hand-colouring. 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed around image and glued to backing sheet.
Toy theatre print, which was sold for use in miniature theatres which could be assembled through purchasing various backdrops and personages for home performance.
[Ref: 32471] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

St. Martin's Hall, The Great Room. To the Members of Mr. Hullah's Singing Schools, This Plate is respectfully inscribed by the Publisher.
Ashbee & Dangerfield, litho. 22 Bedford Street, Strand.
London, Fred Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row. [c.1855.]
Sepia tinted lithograph, 'Proof' inscribed lower left, sheet 330 x 395mm. 13 x 15½".
A fascinating and very rare view of the packed interior of one of London's lost theatres, during a concert. At the far end of the hall, a conductor stands in front of a huge choir and musicians, an organ towering above. St. Martin's Hall stood on Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, and opened in 1850 with a capacity of 4000. Part of the building was given over to John Hullah's singing school and named St. Martin's Music Hall. The whole building was converted in 1867 by C.J. Phipps and renamed the Queen's Theatre. The Theatre was never really a success and was closed and demolished in 1879.
[Ref: 14855] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Scene 3. I am Lucentio disguised thus to get your love.
J.K. Sherwin Inv.t et sculp.
Publishe'd according to Act of Parliament Nov.r 8.d 1774 by J. Bell in the Strand.
Etching, very fine impression, 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). With old ink mss. ''No 13. 1774. Prize of 20 Gs. from y Society of Arts'. Large margins on 3 sides.
Romantic scene in library and musical instrument. Published for 'Bell's edition of Shakespeare's plays, as they are now performed at the Theatres Royal in London'.
[Ref: 57852] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Taste. Feast of the Gods] Geschmack. Das Gustunal der Götter. Gustus. Convivium Deorum. Le Gout. Le Repas des Dieux. Il Gusto. Il Convivio dé Dei.
Lodovico Burnacim inv. del. Balthasar Sigmund Setlezky Sculpsit.
Negotium Academiæ Cæs. Francisceæ excudit Aug. Vind. Cum Gratoa et Privilegio Sac. Cæs. Majestatis [Augsburg, n.d., c.1760].
Engraving with hand colour. 295 x 430mm (11½ x 17") very large margins. Some creasing, worm hole in image.
A stage set, with the Olympian gods attending a banquet in a room with walls of smoke and decorated with dishes, served by satyrs. It was engraved by Balthasar Sigmund Setlezky (1695-1771) from one of the 25 stage sets designed by Lodovico Burnacini (1636-1707) for the opera 'Il Pomo d'Oro', by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra, staged 1668.
[Ref: 57612] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Kueche in dem Lustspiel: der Braeutigam aus Mexiko.
[Karl Friedrich Schinkel, n.d. c.1825.]
Very fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 285 x 400mm. 11¼ x 15¾". Very rare.
A theatrical set to a scene from Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun's comedy "Der Bräutigam aus Mexiko". He was a German writer who used the pseudonym Heinrich Clauren (1771-1854). From Karl Friedrich Schinkel's " Decorationen auf den beiden ko¨niglichen Theatern in Berlin".
[Ref: 27273] £390.00

The Carlton. The Criterion.
Fred Thompson.
[n.d., c.1930.]
Ink & watercolour on card. Card 180 x 285 mm (8 x 11¼").
Two sketches satirising the patrons of two theatres, both shown with drinks in their hands: the Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, catered for the upper classes while the Criterion in Piccadilly Circus was more populist.
[Ref: 39327] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Theatre Royal Bath, as it appeared at the Royal Dramatic Fete. In Honour of His Majesty's Birthday.
L.Quicke. del.t. et Lith. Printed by P.Simonau.
[Apr.l. 23, 1824.]
Very rare lithograph. Sheet 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Trimmed into plate.
View of the Theatre Royal in Bath, England, built in 1805.
[Ref: 64244] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Theatre set] Interno della Cittá di Babilonia.
A.Basoli inv e dip. L. Martinelli dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 315 x 3905mm (12½ x 15½").
A theatre set for a play set in Babylon, looking from the interior of a temple to ziggurats Published in Antonio Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62138] £320.00

[Theatre set] Palazzo Cinese.
A.Basoli inv. I Basoli dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾").
A theatre set for a play set in a Chinese palace, published in Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
[Ref: 61456] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Theatre set] Fabbriche Sotteranee dell' India.
A.Basoli inv e dip. L. Landri dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 315 x 3905mm (12½ x 15½"), with very large margins.
A theatre set for a play set in India, with a vaulted chamber with a vast staircase leading up to a massive doorway and the sky. Published in Antonio Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62137] £320.00

[Theatre set] Cittá di Tebe in Beozia.
A.Basoli inv e dip. L. Basoli dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 315 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"), with very large margins. Creasing on right, hole in margin near bottom plate mark filled.
A theatre set for a play set in the city of Thebes in Boeotia, published in Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62135] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Guillelmo Comiti Cadogan &c.
Carolus Vanloo inv. et delin. Eques Nicolaus Dorigny Sculp. anno 1737.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 650 x 410mm, 25½ x 16". Tears to margins, creased, some staining.
An allegorical monument to William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (1675–1726), one of Churchill's senior officers during the War of the Spanish Succession and commander of the army during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715.
From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10622] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Joanni Churchill Duci dse Marlborough, Forti Felici, Invicto.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. Lau: Cars Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, stained.
An allegorical monument to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), famed for his military triumphs in the Nine Years' War (1688-97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10619] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Guillelmo Comiti Cowper &c. Magnæ Britanniæ Cancellario.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. Beauvais Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, (c.1665-1723), Lord Chancellor of England, who conducted the negotiations that led to the Act of Union in 1707. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10617] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sydneio Comiti Godolphin & c. Magno Angliæ Thesaurario.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. C.N.Cochin Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (c. 1645-1712). From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10613] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Carolo Sackville Comiti de Dorset et Middlesex & c. sui termporis Mœcenati.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. M.Aubert Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638-1706), with a winged horse, putti and a pair of leopards. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10616] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

D.O.M.. & Piæ Memoriæ Johannes Tillotson Proventia Divina Archiepiscopi Cantuar. & c.a.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. N. de Larmessin Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, stained.
An allegorical monument to John Tillotson (1630-94), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10621] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cut-outs for a toy theatre] No. 53.
Albrecht Schmidt excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1720.]
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"), with an 18th century watermark. Creasing.
Figures for an outdoor scene, with men, women and children, dogs, cats and fowl.
[Ref: 57596] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sprite. No 38.
London Published by J. Redington, 73, Hoxton Street, Formerly called 208 Hoxton Old Town. [n.d., c.1849.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 215 x 175mm (8½ x 7").
A fantastical character with pointed ears. John Redington published toy theatres; this seems to be a figure to be cut out and mounted on board for use with the theatre.
[Ref: 44230] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Tunbridge Wells.
[after James Winston.]
London, Published 1st April 1804, Villiers St., Strand.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Trimmed into plate, glue stains from album on reverse.
A view of Tunbridge Wells Theatre, the first plate from Winston's 'The Theatrical Tourist: being a genuine collection of correct views...".
[Ref: 38838] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

m. The Theater of Water. It is a pleasant circular Grove of 156 feet Diameter. Half ye entrance of it has seats of Turf, green Portico’s & resembles an Amphiteahter. It contains many Basins of Rock Work w.th Groups of Figures in ye midst of y:in of little Children at play, Bathing, &x. out of ye Basins arise Streams of Water w.ch falling down again, flow in Sheets over ye Basins. The 3 ally’s of Water have a surprising Effet, for out of ym there projects spouts of Water, w.ch vary four times w.th a great deal of Art.
[London. Printed & Sold by John Bowles Print & Map Seller at Mercers Hall in Cheapside, 1726.]
Engraving with small margins. Plate 222 x 272mm (8¾ x10¾"). Fold.
The Green Round Grove. The Water Theatre was laid out between 1671 and 1674 by Le Nôtre, backed up by the hydraulics engineers Francine and Denis, while the fountains were designed by Le Brun. It consisted of a large almost round area with two semicircular amphitheatres with tiers of seats and separated by an oblong pool divided into two levels of water. The semicircular stage was framed by three triangular cascades falling in tiers, adorned with varied seashells and numerous water spouts. At the top and the bottom of the cascades were fountains decorated with lead sculptures. In 1677, the amphitheatres seating the spectators were surrounded by 18 round rocaille pools, each with a spout of water reaching up to arcades of greenery planted between 1680 and 1688. During the replanting ordered by Louis XVI in 1775, the very damaged Water Theatre was destroyed and the grove was replaced by the Round green (“Rond-vert”). "Versailles Illustrated, or Divers Views of the Several Parts of the Royal Palace of Versailles; as likewise of all the Fountains, Groves, Parterras, ye Labyrinth & other ye most Beautiful Parts of the Gardens, Wherein are represented whatever is remarkable whether Statues, Groups of Figures, Water Fall, Pleasure Houses, &c. Drawn on the Spot by the Order & with the Approbation of the French King".
[Ref: 28536] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Grand Théâtre National à Warsovie. Terminé en 1832.
Antoine Corazzi del. Adam Pilinski sc.
[Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 185 x 270mm, 7¼ x 10½".
The new National Theatre at Warsaw, home of the National Opera, finished 1832 and opened with a performance of Rossini's 'Barber of Seville in 1833. Bombed flat in WWII, it was rebuilt in replica and opened again in 1965. From a painting in the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 21333] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Guillrlmi III Libertatis Angliæ Vindicis Memoriæ Immortali.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. L.Surugue Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 650 x 420mm, 25½ x 16½". Tears to margins, creased, some staining.
An allegorical monument to William III, with putti, a lion and unicorn. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10612] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Phebe.
P. Van Bleeck Pinx.t 1747. PVB [mongram] 1747.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm. Creased.
Margaret Woffington (c. 1720-60), an Irish actress known as Peg. She danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in 'The Constant Couple' led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden. She lived openly with David Garrick, the foremost actor of the day, and her other love affairs were notorious.
CS: 11, unclear whether first or second state. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Chrisopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7561] £330.00

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