Grosvenor Prints

The Right Hon.ble George Canning.
Drawn on Stone by F.R. Say from a Print after Sir Tho.s Lawrence P.R.A. Printed by Hullmandel
London Published by J. Dickinson, 114, New Bond Street, June 1st 1827.
Lithograph on india, india dimensions 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), with large margins. Uncut.
George Canning (1770-1827), prime minister and parodist. This portrait, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, was published during Canning's term as prime minister which, at 119 days, was the shortest ever.
[Ref: 46512] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[George Canning & John Scott] The Struggle, or a long Pull, a strong Pull, and a Pull_All'together. When two row in the same Boat, they may pull different ways; but when two ride on one Horse, one must ride behind. A House divided itself cannot stand!!!
H.H. fec.[Henry Heath]
Pub.d March 16 1827 by SW Fores Piccadilly London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
George Canning and John Scott, Earl of Eldon, row against each other in the 'Cabinet Cock Boat', Canning using an oar of 'Deplomatic Sagacity', Eldon the mace, which is inscribed Pelf Patronage Parsimony. Behind Canning is the Unicorn; his flag Catholic Supremacy. The Lion is behind Eldon, with the flag of Protestant Ascendancy. A satire on the division in the Cabinet between Catholics and Protestants and between Canning and Eldon. After the debate on Burdett's motion for Catholic Relief, there was a great expectation that Canning would resign.
BM Satires: 15366.
[Ref: 63406] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

George Canning [facsimile signature].
[n.d., c.1827.
Blind-embossed card. Sheet 280 x 220mm (11 x 8½"). Some spotting.
An blind-embossed (i.e. no ink) portrait of George Canning (1770-1827), prime minister for only 119 days in 1827, dying in office. The decorative border (also embossed, as is the signature), suggests this is a posthumous memorial.
See ref: 11932
[Ref: 16703] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[John Canning?] Dr. Loll Tongue, the Filching Conosieur. V.6. 14.
Pubd accor to Act by MDarly (39) Strand Aug. 1st. 1773.
Etching. Plate 173 x 126mm (6¾ x 5").
Portrait of a man standing in profile to left. He wears a bag wife, a long coat with large cuffs, and a frilled shirt. His tongue protrudes. His hat is under his left arm. He holds a walking-stick in his left hand, and in his right a print which appears to represent a fight between boxers in a room. Possible representation of John Canning (1703-1775), the apothecary and Arabist in London. He translated two medieval Arabic texts which were some of the earliest Arabic texts printed in England.
BM Satires: 5159.
[Ref: 38248] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Stratford Canning] Canning de Radcliffe [facsimile signature].
[after George Richmond.]
[1853.]
Stipple on chine collé, with Printsellers' Association blindstamp. 560 x 430mm (22 x 17") very large margins. Some spotting.
Stratford Canning (1786-1880), 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1842-58, during which he was involved with the dispute between the Ottomans and Russia that led to the Crimean War.
[Ref: 48507] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Destructive Cannon. Refus'd by Foreigners. Foreigners think this too Dangerous.
[n.d., 1756.]
Etching. 195 x 100mm (7¾ x 4"). Printer's crease.
Three sections each showing a cannon made from a crouching figure and a scroll, with wheels made of gold coins . The first is 'Liberty' supporting 'Ways and Means' firing at a map of the British Isles; the second 'Property' and 'Money Bill'; and the last a 'Heterodox' clergyman and the 'Marriage Bill'. A copy of BM 3490, issued in 'England's Rememberancer'.
BM Satires 3491.
[Ref: 57909] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The East Front of Cannons in Middlesex, the Seat of his Grace, James Duke of Chandos, &c. To whom the Plate is most Humbly Inscrib'd by his Graces most Obed.t Servant John Price. Architect. Built, Anno 1720.
J. Price Delin. H. Hulsbergh Sculp.t.
[London: Thomas Badeslade & John Rocque, 1739.]
Engraving. 390 x 645mm (15¼ x 25½") very large margins. Splits in centre fold taped.
An elevation of 'Cannons', a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, named for the Augustinian canons of St Bartholomew's Hospital who owned the estate before the Reformation. Built by James Brydges (1673-1744) and completed in 1720, the building lastest less than 30 years. His expenditure and losses from the South Sea Bubble meant that his heir was left with such debts that he held demolition auction in 1747, in which the contents and architectural features were sold. The Palladian columns now form the portico of the National Gallery in Tragalgar Square.
[Ref: 56259] £480.00 (£576.00 incl.VAT)

[Canoes in the Ice.]
Ferugio?
[n.d., 1860.]
Lithograph. Rare. Sheet: 510 x 330mm (20 x 13"), large margins. Light foxing around edges.
An atmospheric scene showing figures in native American costume canoeing through the ice in a fog in North America.
[Ref: 42725] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A South View of Canonbury House, near Islington.
London: Published by Robert Wilkinson, No. 125, Fenchurch Street [n.d., c.1816.]
Scarce engraving with very fine hand colour. 260 x 420mm (10¼ x 16½").
A fine & decorative view looking across fields to Canonbury House.
[Ref: 51447] £320.00

[Canongate Tolbooth.] 68. [Canongate Tolbooth, which stands amongst a number of other fine old buildings, built in 1591, when this was a separate burgh with it own magistrate. It is a good example of the French style of architecture, with its tower and corbelled turrets, forestair, and high dormer heads. Over the archway of the door are the words "Pro patria et posteris, 1591." The building contained a jail on the ground floor, and the Countil Chambers, or Court Room, on the first floor, where the Bailies of the Canongate gave their decisions, and where the councillors of the burgh met. The building ceased to have a separate municipal existence in 1856. The projecting clock was added in the last century.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 284 x 255mm (11¼ x 10").
[Ref: 14640] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

372 Canongate Tolbooth Edinburgh [pencil on mount.]
[Monogram in plate] H Wardel Bly [pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint, signed by the artist. 250 x 105mm (9¾ x 4¼") very large margins. In original mount. Mint.
Canongate Tolbooth, built in 1591 when Canongate was outside Edinburgh's walls. The building is now occupied by The People's Story Museum.
[Ref: 49239] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Canonical Beau, or Mars in the Dumps. Engraved after an Original Picture of Mr John Collett, in the Possession of Mr. Bradford.
J. Collett pinx.t. J. Goldar sculps.t.
Published by T.Bradford, No.132 Fleet Street, & H.Parker, No 82 Cornhill, as the Act directs, 25th Oct.r 1768.
Engraving with etching, fine impression. 335 x 375mm (13½ x 14¾"). Folds around image within platemark.
Three young ladies, two elderly women and a pug dog are clustered fawning around a clergyman, to the dismay of a young ex-soldier with a wooden leg who sits disgruntled at the other end of the sofa with the head of a hound in his lap. An open book is titled 'The Church triumphant'.
BM 1954,1103.397.
[Ref: 56162] £360.00

Canova.
Maurin. Imp. lithog. de Chambert, rue Cassette Nº 2.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"), with large margins. Slight foxing in margins.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Italian sculptor who was the most innovative and widely-acclaimed practitioner of the neo-classical style. He was made famous by his marble sculptures rendering the delicate touch of the nude flesh. Being neo-classical, his work marked a return to the classical perfection and fine art after the excessive extravagance of the Baroque era.
[Ref: 63182] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Antonio Canova. [Facsimile signature.]
F.X. Fabre pinxit. W.H. Worthington sculp.
Published by Septimus Prowett, 269 Strand. [n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving on india laid paper, 340 x 230mm. 13½ x 9". Slightly foxed.
Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822) admiring one of his creations in his studio. Canova was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical sculptor, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque art. After François Xavier Fabre (1766 - 1837).
[Ref: 13593] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Antonio Canova.
Engraved by Thomson
Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London, Oct.r 1 1823.
Stipple, platemark 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¾"). Small margins.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Italian sculptor who was the most innovative and widely-acclaimed practitioner of the neo-classical style. He was made famous by his marble sculptures rendering the delicate touch of the nude flesh. Being neo-classical, his work marked a return to the classical perfection and fine art after the excessive extravagance of the Baroque era.
[Ref: 41416] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Demetrius Cantemir. S. Rossiaci Imperiii, et Moldaviae Princeps Petri. M. Russoru Imperatoris Senator, et Ab Intimis Consiliis.
[n.d. c.1734]
Rare mezzotint, 215 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"), with margins. Stained. Laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Moldavian encyclopaedist, poet and author, Demetrius Cantemir (1673-1723), standing to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing armour, ermine-lined cloak, frilled cravat and long pale wig, holding a baton on a table in front of him, with books piled beside it. Information from the Lennox-Boyd database: this print is found bound into the sitter's 'History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire', part I, translated from the original Latin by N. Tindal (London, James, John & Paul Knapton, 1734)
CS: undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69359] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The North Prospect of Canterbury.
Tho: Johnson delineavit. W: Hollar fecit.
[n.d. c.1670] But later.
Etching, watermark J. Whatman c. 1795; sheet 180 x 550mm (7 x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate and glued to backing sheet at edges. Right third folded. Time staining. Ink transfer from cartouche dedication to the middle.
A long view of the city in the middle distance, with the cathedral in the left to the centre, seen across a field in the foreground. A coat-of-arms with mitre crest and two fields at top left and an ornamental cartouche at top right containing dedication to Gilbert by Ogilby.
Pennington 961 iii.
[Ref: 62706] £320.00

Mercery Lane, Canterbury [pencil].
W.m P. Robins [pencil].
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, titled and signed by the artist. 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"), very large margins. Faint mount burn.
A view of the medieval lane, looking towards Canterbury Cathedral. William Palmer Robins (1882-1959), member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, and the Chicago Society of Etchers.
[Ref: 62558] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

St Georges Gate, at Canterbury.
Paul Sandby Fecit 1782.
Published by T. Palser, Surrey side, Westminster Bridge 1812.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 340 x 515mm (13¼ x 20¼"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration, laid on album sheet. Damaged. Album sheet slightly cockled. Repairs.
A view of the Norman gatway of Canterbury on market day, with people milling around outside the city. First published by Paul Sandby c.1789.
[Ref: 56059] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The South-West Prospect of the City of Canterbury.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Mar. 25th 1738. Garden Court, No 1. Middle Temple, London.
Engraving. Sheet 310 x 780mm (12¼ x 30¾"). Central vertical fold as normal, small margins.
A detailed view of Canterbury, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42779] £380.00

A Plan of the City of Canterbury, & the Adjoining Suburbs: A.D. MDCCCXXV.
Fenner sc. London.
Rare engraved map. Sheet 350 x 420mm. Trimmed top and bottom.
Decorated with costs of arms of the City, the Archbishopric and the Dean & Chapter; and four vignette views of the churches and the Augustine monastery.
[Ref: 17724] £180.00

Canterbury [pencil].
W.P. Robins 1921 [pencil].
Etching, titled and signed by the artist. 230 x 380mm (9 x 15") very large margins.
A view looking down on Canterbury Cathedral from woodland. William Palmer Robins (1882-1959), member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, and the Chicago Society of Etchers.
[Ref: 62561] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Cathedral] Dean Fotherby.
[n.d., 1726.]
Mezzotint with line engraving, rare & fine. 210 x 350mm (8¼ x 13¾).
The tomb of Charles Fotherby (c. 1549-1619), Dean of Canterbury (1615-1619), in the Lady Chapel in the cathedral, published in John Dart's 'The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury'. A more recent history described it as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest [which] is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collinson, Ramsay & Sparks 'A History of Canterbury Cathedral'.
[Ref: 44155] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Cathedral] Dean Fotherby. Plate 15.
[n.d., 1726.]
Rare & fine mezzotint with added line engraving, 210 x 350mm (8¼ x 13¾), with large margins. Nicks to edges.
The tomb of Charles Fotherby (c. 1549-1619), Dean of Canterbury (1615-1619), in the Lady Chapel in the cathedral, published in John Dart's 'The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury'. A more recent history described it as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest [which] is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collinson, Ramsay & Sparks 'A History of Canterbury Cathedral'.
[Ref: 69344] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Cathedral] Cantuariensis Ecclesiæ Cath: facies aquilonalis.
Tho. Johnson delin: Dan: King sculp.
[n.d., 1655.]
Etching on 17th century watermarked paper. 270 x 290mm (10½ x 11½"), with margins. Some creasing and spotting.
A view of Canterbury Cathedral from the north, with a dedication to Edward Darrel. An illustration from William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum'. According to Pennington, Wenceslaus Hollar etched the cartouche with the St George's Cross in the bottom centre.
[Ref: 61223] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Back Part Of The Tower Between The Postern Gates, Canterbury.
T. Hasting [etched in image lower left.]
Published by the Author London [n.d., 1813].
Etching, 265 x 330mm. Light spotting, mostly to margins. Laid to album page.
Thomas Hastings (fl.1813 - 1831), amateur etcher, was collector of customs at Liverpool, and is known as Captain Hastings. He did some good work as an etcher, and was an associate of the Liverpool Academy. This a scarce plate from his ‘Vestiges of Antiquity, or a Series of Etchings of Canterbury'. He also published the following works, illustrated by himself: ‘Etchings (39) from the Works of Richard Wilson,' 1825, ‘The British Archer, or Tracts on Archery,' Newport, 1831. He also engraved the plates to Woolnoth's ‘Canterbury Cathedral,' 1816.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7982] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Canterbury Tales] Griselda. There, lowly seated on the dewey ground, she feeds her little charge that bleats around.
Angelica Kauffman del.t. Fran. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
London Publish'd March 35, 1784 by Sus,a Vivares, No 13 Great Newport Street.
Fine stipple with etching, printed in colours. 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Thread margins, repair to bottom left corner of plate.
Griselda sitting in a landscape with sheep, holding a spindle under her left arm and a shuttle in her right hand. From Chaucer's 'Clerk of Oxford's Tale'.
De Vesme 1369. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60306] £480.00

[Canterbury Tales] Departure of the Canterbury Pilgrimes. Prologue, Canterbury Tale Chaucer.
Drawn by Mortimer. Engraved by J Hogg.
London Publish'd Feb.y 12.th 1787 by J. R. Smith No. 31 King Street Covent Garden.
Etching with engraving. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"), with large margins. Single spot in unprinted area of plate.
The pilgrims and their horses gather in a square outside the Tabard Inn, Southwark. One of nine plates after John Hamilton Mortimer, probably prepared for an edition of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' that was abandoned before publication.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Canterbury Pilgrims.
Painted by Thomas Stothard Esq.r R.A. Etched by Lewis Schiavonetti, V.A. and Finished by James Heath A.R.A. Historical Engraver to His Majesty, and to H.R.H. the Prince Regent, &c.
London: Published for the Proprietors by R. Cribb, N.º 288 Holborn, October 1, 1817.
Etching, state before key. 360 x 995mm (14¼ x 39¼"). Some restoration.
A procession of the pilgrims immortalised by Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', on horseback, led by a piper, based on the painting on oak by Thomas Stothard (1806-7, now in the Tate Gallery, N01163). Robert Cromek commissioned the painting, putting it on show at a shilling per visitor. He also asked Italian stipple engraver Luigi Schiavonetti (1765-1810) to make a plate, but Schiavonetti only completed the outline etching. As a tribute to the engraver, Cromek published the incomplete print in 1810. The incomplete plate was then given to Francis Engleheart to complete, but Cromek’s death in 1812 stalled the project. Cromek’s widow, Elizabeth, gave the plate to Niccolo Schiavonetti, Louis's younger brother, but he too died. The plate was finally completed by James Heath and was published for Elizabeth, on 1st October 1817. A later state, with a full key identifying each pilgrim, was printed by W.H. Worthington, also for Elizabeth. The print also caused a rift between Stothard and his friend William Blake: Blake claimed that Cromek had commissioned a painting of the Canterbury Pilgrims from him first, but Cromek had not liked the design and so took the commission to Stothard. Blake accused Cromek and, through him, Stothard, of copying his long, frieze-like composition
[Ref: 61951] £750.00

Factoreries à Canton.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with large margins. Foxing. Staining in left margin.
A view of some of the factories in Canton, foreign mechants were restricted by various Chinese laws confining them to the area known as the Thirteen Factories in the port of Guangzou. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. A plate from the series 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite'.
[Ref: 46786] £450.00

Canton.
R.E. del et lith. Hullmandel & Watson, Imp
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Colour lithograph, printed area 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
A view the Chinese town of Guangzhou on the Pearl River. From: Robert Elwes Sketches Tour Around The World.
Abbey: 9
[Ref: 46899] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Canton in China
[n.d., c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½"). Creasing.
Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Guangdong province of China.
[Ref: 47420] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Die Haupt Strasse nebst einen chinesischen Triumpff=bogen in Canton (oder besser Quantung.) La Ruë capital avec un Arc triumphale chinoise a Canton, (ou meilleur Quantun.)
Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.
Se vend a Augsbourg au Negoce comun de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majesté Imperiale at avec Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies. [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving with original hand colour. 305 x 410mm (12 x 16"). Narrow margins, laid on card. Slight creasing.
A vue d'optique of the main street of Canton, after Jan Nieuhoff, who travelled to China in 1656 as part of the Dutch embassy to Beijing.
[Ref: 55441] £460.00

Une Rue de Canton.
Pâris del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with large margins. Foxing. Stain in left margin.
A view of a street in Canton, now known as Guangzou, showing shops, broadsides posted on the walls and figures going about their daily business. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. A plate from the series 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite'.
[Ref: 46787] £320.00

The Foreigners Quarter at Canton. From an Original Picture Painted in China belonging to John Duncan Esq.
Barlow fc.
Published by Dr. J. Trusler Sept 1st. 1789.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of European-style houses, flying European flags including the Union Jack, lining the bank of a river filled with Chinese boats.
[Ref: 32046] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Canton. Homme de la haute classe. Femme de la haute classe.
de Sainson del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with large margins. Foxing; stain in left margin.
A pair of portraits, one showing the dress of an upper class man and the second of an upper class woman. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. A plate from the series 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite'.
[Ref: 46792] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Groundplat of Kanton.
[Wenceslaus Hollar.]
[London: John Ogilby, 1669.]
Etching, watermark 'Bunch of Grapes'. 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14½"). Two tears, one with an old repair.
A bird's-eye view map of Canton, showing the grid system of streets, with a sixteen-point key. An unsigned etching by Wenceslaus Hollar for John Ogilby's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces', the first English edition of Johan Nieuhof's account of the embassy. However this state was included in Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
Pennington 1151, state ii of iii.
[Ref: 47523] £550.00

Une Rue de Canton.
Paris sc. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit / Finot Imp. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper, platemark 285 x 380mm. 11¼ x 15". Tear (to backing sheet but not india) upper right
Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Guangdong province of China. A rare western example of a precise Chinese street scene showing a range of activities and trades. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
[Ref: 36962] £320.00

A Perspective View of Canton in China. Engraved for the New Geographical Dictionary.
[London: printed for J. Coote, 1759-60]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½") very large margins.
Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Guangdong province of China.
[Ref: 53065] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Factoreries a Canton.
de Sainson del d'apres Paris. Himely sc.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india paper with very large margins, 285 x 375mm. 11¼ x 14¾".
View at trading port of Guangzhou (Canton) on the Pearl River, Guangdong province, China, to the northwest of Hong Kong. From 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace...' (5 vols).
See BNF FRBNF33995730. See BM Anthropology Library KU4 [LAP-] V.1-5.
[Ref: 27827] £550.00

[Cap-Vendor's Shop, Canton.]
[Drawn by Thomas Allom.]
[Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. n.d., c.1843.]
Proof engraving on india. 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"), on uncut backing sheet. Some foxing.
From Thomas Allon's 'China Illustrated'.
[Ref: 26725] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Fort de L'Entrée de la Typa.
Lauvergne del. Himely sc.
de Sainson Edit. Finct imp. [n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint, printed on india paper. Plate: 290 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with large margins. Foxing. Stain in left margin.
A view of a fort at the entrance of the Typa River near Canton. After a drawing by Barthelmey Lauvergne who travelled on the corvette La Favorite commanded by Captain Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace (1793-1875) who circumnavigated the world between 1829-1832. A plate from the series 'Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite'.
[Ref: 46788] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Fish Market Canton.
From nature by Heine. Lith. of Sarony & Cº New York.
[New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 210 x 290mm (8¼ x 11½").
A street scene with a litter. From Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan', the account of Commodore Matthew Perry's mission to Japan. Wilhelm Heine (1827 - 1885), a German-American, was the official artist to the expedition.
[Ref: 64741] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Canton
R.E. del et lith. / Hullmandel & Watson, Imp
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Tinted lithograph, printed area 135 x 190mm (5 x 7½"). Large margins.
Busy view showing the commercial significance of the port city of Guangzhou (formerly Canton) in the Guangdong province of China. In the early 19th century it was the centre of overseas trade with China.
[Ref: 37033] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Etchings from Original Pictures in the Cleveland-House Gallery, Drawn, Etched, and Dedicated to the Marshioness of Stafford:
By her Ladyship's Porter [William Cantrill].
London: Published by Subscription. Price 12s. Printed by Law and Gilbert, St John's Square, Clerkenwell; and sold by Messrs. White and Co., Fleet Street; Clarke, New Bond Street; Ackermann, 101, Strand; Colnaghi, Cockspur-Street; and Molteno, Pall-Mall. 1812.
Large folio, 550 x 380mm (21½ x 15"), printed wrappers, letterpress dedication and six etched plates, with large margins, as called for, loose. With watermarks J. Whatman, Balston 1807, 1808, 1811. Minor staining to wrappers.
Six etchings (''first attempts from an untutored hand'' according to the dedication) after Old Master genre scenes in the collection of George and Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (infamous for their Highland clearances) in Cleveland House, Mayfair: three by David Teniers the younger, and one each by Antoine Le Nain, Jean Fyt and Quirijn van Brekelenkam.
See https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/cleveland-house for an extensive account of the series.
[Ref: 62514] £360.00 view all images for this item

[Chapman & André's map of Essex] Plate XXIII.
Published as the Act directs Oc.t 1.st 1777, by John Chapman and Peter André [but Chalk Meggy and Chalk, 1833].
Rare engraved map. 470 x 595mm (18½ x 23½"), with large margins. On paper watermarked 1832.
One sheet of the important large-scale map of Essex, originally published 1777 but this example from the third edition. It is centred on Canvey Island, extending to Fobbing in the west, clockwise to Pitsey, Thundersley and the tiny village of 'South End'.
[Ref: 69791] £220.00

[Battle of Cap-Français] The Glorious Action off Cape Francois 21 Octo.br 1757, between Three English, & Seven French Ships of Warr wherein the latter were entirely defeated.
Francis Swaine Pinx.
Printed for Jn.o Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, [blank] & Hen. Parker opposite Brickin Lane in Cornhill, Rob. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, & Carington Bowles No 69, in St Pauls Church Yard [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 335 x 470mm (13¼ x 18½"), with large margins.
The Battle of Cap-Français (present day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti), during the Seven Years' War, in which Commodore Forrest was commanded to intercept a French convoy in the Caribbean, bound for France. By the time of the British attack, the French convoy had been reinforced. The outcome was tactically indecisive (contrary to the legend beneath this print), but the bravery of the British in fighting against heavy odds saw the battle remembered as a 'glorious action'. Plate 1 of a series of naval battles by marine painter Francis Swain (c.1719-82).
Parker 59a.
[Ref: 54808] £380.00

[Cap-Français] The Glorious Action off Cape Francois 21 Octo.br 1757, between Three English, & Seven French Ships of War wherein the latter were entirely defeated. Action Mémorable à la hauteur du Cap Francois Le 21 Octo.br 1757 entre Trois Vaisseaux Anglois & Sept Francois, dans La quelle ees Derniers furent entierement defaits.
Swain Pinx.t.
Sold by C. Sheppard. No.15. St. Peters Hill, Doctors Commons. [c.1760.]
Very scarce engraving. 342 x 470mm (13½ x 18½"). Slight crease down middle.
Engagement off Cape François between three British and seven French warships. The Battle of Cap-Francais, the naval engagement during the Seven Years' War fought outside the harbour of Cap-Francais, Saint Dominique. The battle had been indecisive, but the British fleet under Commodore Arthur Forrest was praised for its courage and tenacity in engaging a superior force.
[Ref: 27561] £320.00

[Battle of Cap-Français] The Glorious Action off Cape Francois Oct.r 21.st 1757 between three English, & seven French Ships of War wherein the latter were entirely defeated.
Swaine pinx. J. Smith sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Mapseller, No.53 in Fleet Street.
Engraving with fine hand-colouring, 4 in right top corner; platemark 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Laid on card as issued.
The Battle of Cap-Français (present day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti), during the Seven Years' War, in which Commodore Forrest was commanded to intercept a French convoy in the Caribbean, bound for France. By the time of the British attack, the French convoy had been reinforced. The outcome was tactically indecisive (contrary to the legend beneath this print), but the bravery of the British in fighting against heavy odds saw the battle remembered as a 'glorious action'. From of a series of prints made from paintings recording celebrated naval battles by marine painter Francis Swain (c.1719-82) which were probably reduced copies of other engravings issued by the same publisher
Parker 59 (not in, although a larger engraving, probably from the same picture by Swain, is listed and dated to c.1770)
[Ref: 32270] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Departure.
Painted by Rob.t Smirke. Aquatinta by F. Jukes. Engraved by Rob.t Pollard.
London, Pub.d March 8 1784 by R. Pollard No 15 Braynes Row, Spa Fields, & R. Wilkinson No 58 Cornhill.
Scarce aquatint with etching. Sheet 440 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears, surface cracking, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A scene on a snowy shoreline, with a longboat about to leave to find help, leaving other survivors of a shipwreck behind. It illustrates the aftermath of a shipwreck on Cape Breton in 1780, as recorded by Samuel Weller Prenties, an ensign of the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants). He had been sent on a voyage between Quebec and New York, taking dispatches from Sir Frederick Haldimand, Governor of Quebec, and Sir Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief in North America during the American Revolution. Castaway on a remote coast of Cape Breton, the decision was made for Prenties and five sailors to go for help. After exhausting their supplies and being on the point of death, they were saved by tribesmen who they sent to look for their colleagues. Three of the nine left behind had survived, having resorted to cannibalism. Eventually the survivors reached Halifax and headed for home.
[Ref: 59115] £390.00

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