Grosvenor Prints

[Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini.] G. Spontini.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1810.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774 - 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and composed over twenty works.
[Ref: 63307] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Arts d'Agrement. l'Equitation. - The art of Riding. l'Escrime. - Fencing. La Natation. -Swimming. Le Pistolet. - The Pistol. La Raquette. - The Battlerdore. La Gymnastique. - The Gymnastics. The Violon. - The Violin.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 210 x 285mm (8¼ x 11¼").
Vignette scenes of various scenes and violin playing.
[Ref: 63298] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Very Ancient Vessels Found March 1813. Near S.t Albans. The above described Ancient Vessels, composed of very thin white Glass, were found...
Published & Sold October 1.st 1813, by Edw.d Orme, Bond St. (Corner of Brook St.) London.
Hand coloured aquatint, pt J. Whatman watermark; sheet 370 x 400mm (14½ x 15¾"). Cockling in corners where previously glued down.
A depiction of three pieces of glassware, including the Kingsbury jug, in the centre, were found in a stone coffin at Kingsbury, St Albans, in 1813.
[Ref: 62857] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

S.t James's Square. 12.
Published according to Act of Parliament 1754 for Stowes Survey.
Engraving. 345 x 465mm (13½ x 18¼"). Laid on card at borders
An elevated view of St James's Square looking north towards St James's Church. In the centre is an ornamental basin and fountain, constructed 1727: although unused after 1730 the basin remained until 1854.
[Ref: 62824] £320.00

Workhouse, St. James's Parish. Plate 96.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. Sunderland aqua.t.
London Pub. Dec.r 1st 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1808 watermark; plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins. Some offset.
An interior scene showing a large room in the St James's workhouse near Carnaby Market in Soho. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62781] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Quadrangle of St John's College.
A. Pugin del.t. J. Hill sculp.t.
London Pub.d Oct.r 1st 1813 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
A view of the Quadrangle of St John's College, Oxford.
[Ref: 62961] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

St Martins, In the Fields. Plate 79.
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. Stadler Aquat.
London. Pub 1.st March 1809 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
Interior view of St Martin's in the Fields during a service, looking east; Corinthian columns supporting the roof and galleries, the roof decorated with fret-work; the altar at far end with stained glass window above. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.79.
[Ref: 62753] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Jig. ''St Patrick's Day.''
Painted by Erskine Nicol. Engraved by R.C. Bell.
Edinburgh, Published July 20, 1855, by Alex.r Hill 67 Princes St. Publisher to the Queen. New York; William Stevens Williams & C.º.
Etching with engraving. 410 x 330mm (16 x 13"), with very large margins.
An Irishman, dressed in simple clothes, seated in a rough interior, playing a flute. A pair with ''The Melody - The Angel's Whisper".
[Ref: 62648] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

St Stephen's, Walbrook. Plate 90.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculpt. J. Bluck aquat.
London. Pub Nov.r 1.st 1809. at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101. Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 235 x 275mm (9¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
View of the interior of the church with large Corinthian columns supporting upper gallery and the pews filled for the service A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.90.
[Ref: 62747] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

St. Luke's Hospital. Plate 77.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J.C. Stadler aquat.
London Pub, Augt. 1st. 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1808 watermark; plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics was founded in London in 1751 for the treatment of incurable lunatics. It was the second public institution in London created to look after mentally ill people, after the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlem (Bedlam, founded in 1246). The hospital was originally housed in a converted foundry in Windmill Street, Upper Moorfields, close to Bedlam. It moved to purpose-built premises on Old Street, on the north-west corner of Providence Row, in 1786. Behind the main building were two gardens for the exercise of the less disturbed inmates, one for men and another for women. The patients were transferred to other institutions in 1916, and the buildings were acquired by the Bank of England to become the St Luke's Printing Works, used for printing bank notes until the early 1950s. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', 3 vols., 1808-10.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 77.
[Ref: 62774] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Specimens of Painting from St. Stephen's Chapel.
Drawn & Engraved by J. T. Smith.
London. Published as the Act directs 1st January 1804, by John Thomas Smith No.36, Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint with gilt highlights. 240 x 285 (9½ x 11¾").
Section of wall painting showing the adoration of the shepherds, recorded before the enlargement of the House of Commons in 1800; illustration to the 'Antiquities of Westminster'.
[Ref: 63193] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Statue Gallery.
W. Westall del.t. Lewis sculp.t.
London Pub. Sept.r 1st 1814 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with large margins.
View of the interior of the Statue Gallery at Oxford University.
[Ref: 62959] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cath.e Stepney [facsimile signature].
A.E. Chalon R.A. S. Freeman.
London, Published by Henry Colburn, Dec.r 1837.
Rare stipple on chine collé. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins. Spotting on backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of novelist Catherine Pollok (1778-1845), who wrote novels under her married names of Catherine Manners and Catherine Stepney.
[Ref: 63294] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Stillingfleet.]
Painted by J. Zoffani R.A. Engrav'd by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Eleector Palatine, 1782.
[London: Valantine Green, c.1782.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 360 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-71), botanist, translator and author. He was tutor to William Windham and accompanied him and Rochard Pococke on a trip to Chamonix in 1771, the first recorded travellers for pleasure in the region. Exploring the glaciers, they named the 'Mer de Glace'. As a botanist he was instrumental in popularising the Linnean System in England.
CS: 124. Whitman: I of II; Wellcome: 2831.
[Ref: 62739] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Storm. Representing that Voilent one, which drove his Majesty King George I. into Rye.
P. Monamy pinx. Canat [Pierre-Charles Canot] sculp.
Printed for Rob.t Wilkinson, N.º 58, in Cornhil, & Bowles & Carver, 69, S.t Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1800].
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Verso on left bottom margin in ink "S.H. Jun" Dec 1852; 305 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"), on wove paper, very large margins.
George I stayed at the Lamb House in Rye after a storm drove his ship ashore at Camber in 1726.
[Ref: 62646] £320.00

Thomas Stothard Esq.r R.A. Proof.
G.H. Harlow Pinx.t. W.H. Worthington Sculp.t.
Published May 1. 1818, by W.H. Worthington, 15, Compton Street, Brunswick Square.
Chine collé engraving. 345 x 300mm (13½ x 11¾''), with large margins. Foxing in margins, creasing in edges..
A fine half-length portrait of painter and engraver Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), posing before his painting 'The Pilgrimage to Canterbury', 1806-7.
[Ref: 63172] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

James Stuart, F.R.S. & F.S.A. From a Picture in the possession of Richard Brettingham, Esq.rr. Shotford Hall, Norfolk.
Proben Poinx.t. Rome. W. C. Edwards Sc'p.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Proof engraving on india. Sheet 255 x 325mm (10 x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-88), a compelling figure in the history of British design. Widely recognised for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism, Stuart developed his influential career across the various fields of interior decoration, sculpture, furnishing, metalwork and architecture. The creation of the 'Greek Style' and its impact on British design in the late 18th century is largely due to Stuart's landmark publication Antiquities of Athens (1762). This influential book was the first accurate record of Classical Greek architecture and served as a principal source book for architects and designers well into the 19th century.
[Ref: 63196] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

G. Stubbs, Animalium Pictor.
From an Original Drawing by P. Falconet. B. Reading Sc,,t.
Pub.d. by E. Jeffery, Pall Mall, 1792.
Stipple. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed into plate, laid on album paper at edges.
George Stubbs (1724-1806), the British painter of portraits, animal pictures, heroic animal histories and poetical scenes of rural life. He is known primarily for his images of horses and in 1758 he began his dissections of horses, which lead to the engraved work 'The Anatomy of the Horse' in 1766.
Ref: Christopher Lennox-Boyd pg. 379 ii of ii.
[Ref: 63198] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.]
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
published according to Act of Parliament by R. Sayer June 12, 1771.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with large margins. Ink collector's stamp on reverse. Time stained. Tear from left edge to plate mark and around plate mark repaired.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer published the plate on the 20th June with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137,i of ii; Goodwin 79, i of iii. Lugt L.2178, Fritz Reiss of London, whose collection of mezzotints is described by Lugt as 'l'une des plus belles de ce genre'; It was dispersed in 1914.
[Ref: 62701] £420.00

M,,rs Sturt and Master Humphrey Sturt.
C. Read Pinx.t. Ja.s Watson fecit.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 20 June 1771.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Small margins.
A half length portrait of Mary Stuart (d. 1807), wife of M.P. Humphrey Sturt, with her son Humphrey Ashley Sturt (1760-1825). Sayer originally published the plate with the title 'Miss Sturt...' before hurriedly correcting it to 'Mrs'. Chaloner Smith, apparently unaware of the third state, questions whether the pair are siblings.
CS 137; Goodwin 79, iiii of iii.
[Ref: 62772] £380.00

Just as the Sun went down. A Pathetic Incident of War Time. Words and Music by Lyn Udall. Sung with Great Success by Miss Nellie Gannon.
H.G. Banks Lith.
Charles Sheard & C.o, Anglo-American Music Publishers, 196, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. New York: M. Witmark & Son, 8 West 29.th S.t [n.d., c.1900].
Lithograph. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 10¼") Small tears in edges.
The music sheet cover showing two British soldiers lying by a field gun under a shredded Union flag, looking at lockets with their sweethearts' hair as they die. The pith helmet suggests the scene is during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Lyn Udall (1870-1963) was an American composer. 'Just as the Sun Went Down' was first published in 1898, with a cover relating to the Spanish-American War. The song was successful: other cover illustrations show the tanks and biplanes of the First World War.
[Ref: 62917] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sapeur des gardes suisses.]
J.G. Wille fecit.
[Paris: Johann Georg Wille, 1779.]
Etching with engraving, proof before title. Unidentified collector's stamp in inscription area.
Head and shoulders portrait of a soldier with a crossed-axes emblem on his busby and shoulder belt.
Nayler 197
[Ref: 63327] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A major Grand Tour Album with 35 views of Switzerland lakes in superb hand colour.]
[various painters and engravers.]
[Switzerland, no dates but published 1819-1829.]
Large folio (475 x 360mm, 18¾ x 14¼"), half morocco with marbled boards, rebacked with calf; 35 colour-printed aquatints, finely finished by hand, tipped onto guards with tissue; 25 leaves of descriptive text, 18 in contemporary ink mss. Binding rubbed, one plate loose at rear, staining in margins of text leaves, ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 1842.
A fantastic Grand Tour Survivor, a collection of the finest aquatints in mint condition, including plates from Johann Jakob Wetzel's 'Voyage pittoresque aux Lacs de Zurich, Zug, Lowers, Egeri et Wallenstadt' (1819) and 'Voyage pittoresque au Lac Geneve' (1820); Gabriel Lory's 'Voyage pittoresque de l'Oberland bernois' (1822) and 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' (1829), and Samuel Birmann's Souvenirs de la vallée de Chamonix (1826). The plates are: 'Les Isles Borromées' (engraved by Rordorf after Wetzel); 'San Martino vers Porlezzo' (Rordorf after Wetzel); 'Lugano' (Rordorf after Wetzel); 'Villa Pliniana' (Hurlimann after Wetzel); 'Vue de Lausanne et de l'Extrémité Occidentale' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de Clarens et de l'Extrémité Orientale' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Château de Chillon' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'La Chûte du Rhin prise de la rive droite' (Hurlimann after Wetzel); 'La Chûte du Rhin prise de la rive gauche' (Hurlimann after Wetzel); 'Vue d'Arth' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'Vue de la Caverne de St. Beat Audessus du Lac de Thoune' (Lory);' Maison de Paysan Près d'Unterseen'; 'La Cascade du Giessbach' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Chute Supérieure du Staubbach'; 'Vue de la Cascade du Schmadribach au Fond de la Vallée de Lauterbrunnen' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de Grindelwald' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue des Montagnes du Wetter-Horn, Well-Horn, et du Glacier de Rosenlaui' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Les Cascades de Dorfbach et Alpbach à Meyringen' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Pont sur l'Aar au Passage du Grimsel' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Les Pierres sur le Glacier de l'Aar' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de l'Hospice du Grimsel' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Le Repas Champetre' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Ringgenberg' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'Le Chateau de Thoun' (Hegi after Wetzel); 'Vue de la Ville de Neuchatel' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de la Ville de Berne prise sur la Route de Thoune' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue de Pont du Diable' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Gorge de Cluse' (Birmann); 'À la Flégère' (Birmann); 'Glacier des Bossons' (Birmann); 'Environs de Sallenche' (Birmann); 'Lac de Chède' (Birmann); 'Les Lutteurs de l'Oberland Bernois' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell sur le Lac des Quatre Cantons' (Hurlimann after Lory); 'Vue d'Interlaken' (Weber after Meyer).
[Ref: 63224] £6,500.00 view all images for this item

Synagogue, Dukes Place, Houndsditch. Plate 82.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t. et sculp.t. Sunderland aqua.t.
London Pub. Sep.t. 1.st. 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1808.'
Interior view of the Great Synagogue in London. A synagogue was situated on the site from shortly after the return of the Jews to England in the 17th Century until the Blitz. The building depicted in the image with the third synagogue to be built on the site and was constructed between 1788 and 1790.
Abbey, Scenery: 212
[Ref: 62693] £320.00

Szlegel.
Gigoux. Lith de Villain.
[Paris: Joseph Straszewicz, n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph on chine collé. 270 x 235mm (10½ x 9¼"), very large margins.
Lieut-Col Karol Szlegel (1802-32), with moustache, wearing cloak with furred collar. Having fought in the November Uprising (1830-1) he went into exile in France, where he died in a duel with a fellow officer while preparing for an armed return to Poland. Looked upon as a rebel or hero. From Straszewicz's suite of portraits of Polish figures.
[Ref: 63238] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Tartarian Lady. Dame Tartare. 37.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a Tartarian woman, in central Asia. She is walking to the left and touching her veil with both hands. Plate 37 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62887] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Tartini's Dream. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[Louis Boilly.]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Photogravure. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼"). Mounted on album paper, glue smears.
A photographic copy of Louis Boilly's caricature of a devil playing a violin at the end of Giuseppe Tartini's bed.
[Ref: 62816] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Tasmania Illustrated, by J.S. Prout. Vol. 1. Hobart Town. Part IIII.
[Hobart, 1844.]
Lithograph. Sheet 470 x 370mm (18½ x 14½"). Binding tape on left edge, narrow margin on right, tears taped, some loss lower right corner.
The titlepage to Part IV of the first volume of a rare series of lithographs published in Tasmania by John Skinner Prout (1805-76), who had brought a lithographic press with him when he arrived in Australia in 1840.
[Ref: 62820] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Tasmania Illustrated, by J.S. Prout. Vol. 1. Hobart Town. Part III.
[Hobart, 1844.]
Lithograph. Sheet 470 x 345mm (18½ x 13½"). Trimmed on right, losing printed border, three tears, two taped.
The titlepage to Part III of the first volume of a rare series of lithographs published in Tasmania by John Skinner Prout (1805-76), who had brought a lithographic press with him when he arrived in Australia in 1840.
[Ref: 62821] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sigismond Thalberg.
[Charles Kreutzberger.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Sigismond Thalberg (1812 - 71), Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
[Ref: 63242] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Theatre set] Osteria.
A.Basoli inv. P. Candeglieri dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 305 x 380mm (12 x 15"), with very large margins.
A theatre set for a play set in Italy outside an osteria, or bar, where people are playing boules. Published in Antonio Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 63056] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The State of the Nation]
AParis chez Jean Rue S.t Jean de Beauvais N.10 [n.d., c.1800.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 355mm (9½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, some staining in corners.
Ten panels in two rows, with five men above five women, all fully dressed but sitting on wooden toilets, distracting themselves with different thoughts, each with a two-line verse with toilet humour. For example, top left a man in French military uniform reads about their defeats in an English newspaper. According to Vinck, this caricature is directed against English people who are indisposed in the reason of the lost war of America.
BM Satires 5479.
[Ref: 63127] £520.00

The Menagerie in the Tower.
[London: Tabart and Co., n.d., c.1808.]
Etching. Sheet 120 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed and stuck onto album paper.
A view of the Menagerie in the Tower of London. Two men and two children gaze up at a tiger inside the menagerie. The Menagerie closed for good in 1835, with many remaining animals sold to other zoos or travelling circuses. The Lion Tower was later demolished.
[Ref: 63138] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Trafalgar] Situation of His Majesty's Ship, Bellisle, W.m Hargood Esq.r Captain, with the Naid Frigate, Captain Tho.s Dundas, taking her in Tow at the close of the Action off Trafalgar 21st Oxtober 1805.
Published Aug. 12. 1806 by G. Andrews, No 7, Charing Cross.
Rare and scarce coloured aquatint. 270 x 385mm (10¼ x 15¼"). Some creasing on right bottom.
Formerly the French ship 'Formidable', she was renamed Belleisle after being captured by the Royal Navy in 1795. At Trafalgar she was the second ship in the British Lee column and so was one of the first ships to engage the enemy, taking fire from seven French and Spanish ships. After being incapacitated by losing her mast she held out for another 45 minutes before other ships arrived to save her. Later she was towed to Gibraltar by Naiad.
Parker: Not in.
[Ref: 62825] £360.00

[A man sitting under an ancient gnarled tree.]
[R.L. West 1802.]
[n.d., c.1803.]
Polyautograph, very dark rich impression. Sheet 315 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed close to image, losing signature at bottom. Slight loss bottom right corner.
By Raphael Lamar West (1769-1850), son of Benjamin West. Published in 'Specimens of Polyautography' in 1803, and included in the second issue of the series published by Vollweiler in 1806-7.
[Ref: 62915] £420.00

[Warriors] Etnografia. Costumi Guerrieri de' Populi dell' America Nord.
[Florence: Vincenzo Batelli & Co, 1845.]
Scarce coloured etching. 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"). Nicks in edges.
Three scenes of Native American warriors, taken from 16th century originals. Published in Francesco C. Marmocchi's 'Atlante di Geografia-Storica Universale'.
[Ref: 62916] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity House. Plate 87.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. Sutherland aquat.
London Pub. Octr. 1st. 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1808 watermark; plate 235 x 275mm (9¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
Interior view of a meeting at Trinity House. The Corporation of Trinity House came into being in 1514 by Royal Charter granted by Henry VIII. Trinity House has three main functions; The care of all lighthouses in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar. Providing aids to navigation, e.g. lightvessels, lighthouses, buoys, radio navigation services etc. Serving as a charitable organisation for mariners; looking after their safety, welfare, training etc. The Masters of the Corporation of Trinity House have included the diarist Samuel Pepys and the Duke of Wellington, and Admiral William Penn (father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania). Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.88
[Ref: 62748] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of the City of Turin.
W. M. Craig del. E. Goodall sculp.
[Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool, April, c.1816.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 200 x 255mm (7¾ x 10") Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, corners snipped.
A view of Turin from outside the city walls.
[Ref: 63015] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Turkish Standardbearer in 1749. Porte-Enseigne Ture. 23.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins. Small tear in lower center in margin.
Portrait of a man, whole-length standing, directed to the left, looking to the right. He is wearing a feathered turban, he holds a pole with flag in his right hand, and his left hand is resting on the hilt of his sword. Plate 23 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62877] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ultrique Eleonore Reine de Suede. Soeur de Chestien V.e Roy de Dannemark.
R.B. Del.
Tou les Portraits de la Cour et autres se Vendent Chez N. Bonnart, ruë S.t Jacques à l'aigle avec privil [n.d., c.1715].
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet 280 x 185mm (11 x 7¼"). Parts of image excised and replaced with fabric. On verso in Dutch are two hand written letters detailing an order for wine from Bordeaux, dated 12/19 November 1649.
Ulrika Eleonora the younger (1688-1741), reigned as Queen of Sweden from 1718 until her abdication in 1720 in favour of her husband Frederick. Parts of her jacket, dress and train have been cut out and replaced with decorated silk and velvet. Extremely rare 18th century fabric print.
[Ref: 63232] £550.00

[Architectural Plan.] Design Adopted by the Council for the University of London.
William Wilkins MA. R.A. Arch.t. 1826.
[1826.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. 335 x 215mm (13¼ x 8½"). Crease across bottom right corner. Some foxing.
Architectural design adopted by the council for the University of London. Detailing the Plan of the Ground Floor and the Plan of the Principle Floor, with references.
[Ref: 63125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Up Parke in Sussex, the Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble Ford Ld. Grey Baron of Werke, Viscount Glendale Earle of Tankerville, and one of His Maj.ts Most Hon.ble Privy Councill.
L. Knyff Delin. J. Kip Sculp.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Fine engraving. 350 x 490mm (13¾ x 19¼"). Centre fold as usual.
An elevated view of Uppark, a 17th-century house and gardens in South Harting in West Sussex. The house, set high on the South Downs, was built for Ford Grey (1605-1701), the first Earl of Tankerville, c.1690, and was sold in 1747 to Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh. It came to the National Trust in 1954. With some imagination, Knyff's view includes shipping in the English Channel.
[Ref: 62669] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] This creature is willing to marry, / Can you resist the temptation? / Why ladies to you so tarry? / His match is not in the nation. / Take him & mould him as you please. / What all refuse! ain't he the cheese?
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured woodcut. 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¼").
A writing sheet shows a satire of a man wearing a monocle and checked trousers. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 63286] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Valley of Rocks, Linton, Devon.
Drawn, Printed & Published by G. Rowe, Cheltenham.
[n.d. c.1840]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 117 x 225mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Tears to backing sheet restored.
View of rocky cliffs by the sea with seagulls flying over the water.
[Ref: 62956] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Ein Offizier unter der Varasdiner Infanterie. 47.
C.P. Maj. Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A. V.
[n.d. c.1746]
Fine hand coloured engraving, plate 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½") Small margins. Printer's crease on left. Some time staining.
The uniform of a Varasdin Officer, he stands holding a stick and smoking a pipe. From Englebrecht's, "Theatre de la milice etrangere: Schau-Bühne verschiedener bisher in Teutschland unbekant gewester Soldaten von ausländischer Nationen."
[Ref: 62855] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vauxhall Garden. Plate 88.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J. Bluck, aquat.
London Pub. Octr. 1st. 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1808 watermark; plate 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"), with large margins.
An illuminated band stand at Vauxhall Gardens, a pleasure garden and one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London from the mid 17th century to the mid 19th century. Revellers dance in the foreground. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', 3 vols., 1808-10.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 89.
[Ref: 62776] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vaux Hall Gardens. Le dedans du Concert Elegant aux Jardins du Vaux Hall. 5.
S. Wale delin. H. Roberts Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil, & Bowles & Card, 69, S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1800].
Etching. 295 x 445mm (11¾ x 17½"). Repaired tear left centre, mounted on card at corners.
An ornate roccoco interior with figures including a young man courting a woman to the right, watched by her chaperone behind; busts around the walls. First published by John Bowles c.1751.
[Ref: 62805] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Chinese Pavillions and Boxes in Vaux Hall Gardens.
S. Wale delin. T. Bowles Sculp.
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil, & Bowles & Card, 69, S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1800].
Coloured etching. 285 x 410mm (11¼ x 16"). Some creasing through inscription area and through top of plate.
A view of promenaders in a semi-circular colonnade interjected with three elaborately decorated domed structures. First published by John Bowles c.1751.
[Ref: 62806] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens. Showing at one View the disposition of the whole Gardens. Vue Detaille des Jardins de Vaux Hall.
Wale delin.t I.S. Muller sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 290 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, cracks in folds, mounted in album paper. Publication line removed.
An elevated view of Vauxhall Gardens from Kennington Lane. On the left is the Chinese pavillion and the conical roof of the 'Elegant music room'; on the right is Roubiliac's statue of Handel.
[Ref: 62807] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the Garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick Playing. La Grande allée a l'entrée des Jardins de Vauxhall. L'Orchestra, et les Musiciens.
Wale delin. Muller sc.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, Nov.r 25 1751. Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. et à Paris chez Mésard rue Grenelat a la Renomée de la Cornemuse.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; 280 x 405mm (11 x 16"). Tear entering plate taped.
A vue-d'optique (with the image reversed) of promenaders in Vauxhall Gardens, under the bandstand.
[Ref: 62808] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

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