Grosvenor Prints

[Frederick III of Denmark and Norway] Fridericus III, Haereditarius Rex Daniae et Norwegiae, Dux Slesvici, Holsatiae, Stormariae [...]
J Sandrart Sculpsit
Engraving, sheet 240 x 135mm (9½ x 5¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Frederick III (1609-70), king of Denmark and Norway. Ruler of both countries from 1648, Frederick instituted absolute monarchy in 1660 and fought two wars against Sweden (losing the first, winning the second). His son Christian succeeded him as king. Portrait with putti holding a crown above Frederick's head and military scene visible beyond curtain.
[Ref: 42987] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Derbent, een Stadt gelegen aen de Kaspische zee, nevens het gebergte Kaukasus.
Pet: Schenk ex: Amstelod: C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Coloured engraving, plate 225 x 270mm (8¾ x 10½"). Large margins.
Derbent, now a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea. At the time this print was made it was still under Persian rule, although it changed hands frequently throughout the 18th century until it permanently became part of Russia in 1813. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 39216] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Philippus Despont Presbyter Parisiensis, Et in sacra Theologia Romana Doctor. ætatis Suæ 73.
Jacobus Van Schuppen ad viuum pinxit. Pet. Van Schuppen Sculspit 1694.
Engraving, with large margins. 385 x 280mm, 15 x 11".
Philippe Despont, a Parisian doctor of theology, shown seated in front of a huge theological text, Despont completed.Marguerin La Bigne's 'Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, et antiquorum scriptorum ecclesiasticorum...', a 27-volume compiliation of ancient and early medieval ecclesiastical authors.
[Ref: 27190] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Devil's Bridge, in the Canton of Uri, in Switzerland. Le Pont du Diable, dans le Canton d'Uri, en Suisse.
Drawn by Wm. Pars. Engraved by Wm. Woollett.
Publish'd Feb.y 5.th 1783 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Engraving. 388 x 520mm (15¼ x 20½").
Landscape with a bridge over a broad river, which falls under the central arch and tumbles into the right foreground, along which a family and donkey are passing, while another family drive livestock along the road from it to right, which is built into the rock, partially supported by arches, with a cliff-face in the background. Devil's Bridge of St. Gotthard Pass over the Reuss River, Uri, in central Switzerland. From a series of "Views in Switzerland and Savoy"; this a re-published state.
See Ref: 20309 for earlier state. Fagan: VI of VI; LXXVII
[Ref: 20307] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[La Lecture chez Diderot.]
J. Meissoner 1859. L.Ruet [pencil signature.]
Published 1907 by C. Klackner, 1 Haymarket, London, Imprimerie A. Salmon Paris. Copyrighted 1907 by C. Klackner, 7 West 38th Street, New York.
Etching, remarqued proof signed by the etcher. 320 x 360mm, 12½ x 14¼" Original frame. Unexamined out of frame.
'The Lecture at Diderot's' after Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.
Printsellers' Association, but dated 1905.
[Ref: 23222] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Chateau- Dieppe.]
George Huardel-Bly. [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 175 x 245mm (7 x 9½'') very large margins.
A view of the medieval castle in Dieppe in France.
[Ref: 49371] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Dieppe. Faub.g du Pollet. Pêcheur. Ancien Costume. [&] Femme de Pêcheur. Ancien Costume. [&]Pêcheur. Costume Modern. [&] Femme de Pêcheur. Costume Moderne. (Four seperate costumes ) & No. 70. Jeune fille de Varangeville, Servante à Dieppe.
A. Feret. [facsimile in image.] Litho de C: Motte on four lithographs and on one engraving, Lanté del.t Gatine sculp.t.
à Dieppe chez Marais fils, Libraire Editeur. [n.d. c.1860.]
[Five plates: four hand-coloured lithographs. 280 x 196mm. 11 x 7¾". [&[ one hand-coloured engraving. 285 x 196mm. 11¼ x 7¾".
Five plates - four made by the same printer of fishers from Pollet, Dieppe, France; plus one odd engraved image of a servant girl of Dieppe. Dieppe, is a port town in Normandy, France. The area is famous for its scallops and other fine seafood.
[Ref: 20687] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Vue Prise dans la Port de Dieppe.
J. Ph. Hackert pinx. Canali sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, a fine impression. Plate 351 x 450mm. 13¾ x 17¾". Some toning an inch into lower edge, all way along; crease to lower and upper right corners.
A view in Dieppe, the famous French port on the English Channel for its scallops.
[Ref: 26108] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Dieppe Seafront.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint, rare, proof before all letters. Printed area: 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾").
A very early swimming image showing a view of the beach at Dieppe in Normandy, in which figures swim in the beach and use striped beach huts.
[Ref: 45936] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Diessenhoven.
[Frankfurt, Matthias Merian, 1642.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 180 x 280mm, 7 x 11". Trimmed inside to plate mark, some damage on bottom.
Plan of Diessenhofen, in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland, published in the 'Topographia Helvetia'.
[Ref: 16474] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled folio of eleven lithographic sketches of French architecture, each signed K.H. Digby.]
[n.d., one plate watermarked W.Spear 1815.]
Oblong folio, 11 lithographs stitched in blue wrappers. Wear to wrappers and edges.
A record of a tour around France, with sketches of Amiens, Rouen, Montpelier & Nimes, particularly noting the Roman antiquities, hear illustrated with early lithographs. The windows of opportunity for an English artist were few during this period, probably either during the Peace of Amiens, 1802, or immediately after the fall of Napoleon in 1814. A scarce work, not in Abbey: the only reference we can find is 'Lumley's Bibliographical Advertiser' of 1845, recording for sale at Lumley's Bookshop 'XI Rough Lithographic Sketches, by K.H. Digby, of French Architectural Antiquities, 5s'.
Ex: Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33203] £420.00 view all images for this item

Vue de Dijon a coté du Creux d'Enfer.
Dessiné par l'Allemand [...] Dirigé par Masquelier
A.P.D.R. [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 245 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"), with very large margins Paper watermarked. Slight foxing.
Distant view of Dijon, capital of the Burgundy region of eastern France. Key below image using different formations of birds to identify notable buildings.
[Ref: 47300] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dinan (Cotes-du-Nord).
Félix Benoist del. Eug. Ciceri lith. Fig. par Bayot.
Nantes, lith. Charpentier Edit. Paris, quai des Augustins, 55. [n..d., c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 490mm (13 x 19¼''), with large margins Foxing at bottom
A view of the town of Dinan in Brittany in the north of France.
[Ref: 50908] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Brücke beÿ Dingolfing.
Wagenbauer del.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Early German lithograph, very large margins. 349 x 495mm (13¾ x 19½").
The high vaulted arch bridge across the Isar River, at Dingolfing, Southern Bavaria, Germany.
[Ref: 31106] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Portraicture of the Reverend Mr. John Diodati. Minister of God's Word. Aetatis 70. Anno 1647. 'Reader looke well on Diodati, more/ Uppon the Golden worke he stands before./ Lest in the Scripture's Labyrinth the minde/ Should snare and lose it selfe, heer thou mayst finde/ A Clue that through each mysterious storie/ Lead thee from earth up the throne of Glorie. Wher thy well-guided soule shall once meet his/ Whoe heer directs thee to eternall bliss.'
[on left in plate] W. Hollar fecit 1643.
Etching. Sheet 195 x 110mm (7¾ x 4"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper. Minor toning
Giovanni Diodati (1576 - 1649) was an Italian theologian and translator. He translated the first version of the Italian Bible from Hebrew and Greek sources.
[Ref: 53726] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Dirk II] Theodoricus II, Theodorici I. Filiusm Secundus Hollaniæ, etc. Comes [...]
[C. Visscher sculp.]
[Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, c.1650.]
Etching with engraving, slight 17th century watermark. 410 x 300mm (16 x 11¾"), very large margins Margins chipped and staining in right bottom margin.
Head and shoulders portrait of Dirk II (c.920-988), from Cornelis Visscher's series, 'Counts of Holland, Zeeland and West-Frisia', first published by Pieter Soutman in 1650. This second state has Visscher's name removed.
BM 1839,0413.337.
[Ref: 62537] £320.00

Distribution of Wine on the Morning of S.t Louis.
London Published by W. Sams, St. James's Street, 1822.
Hand-coloured aquatint. J. Whatman 1828 watermark. Sheet: 215 x 355mm (8½ x 14''). Trimmed within plate on top edge.
A scene in France showing the distribution of free wine during the celebrations of the Fete of St Louis, patron saint of France. Men scramble to grab urns and barrels of wine which they then pour down their throats.
[Ref: 49309] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Dolomites] General View of the Rosengarten Gebirge from the Sasso di Damm, Fassa Thal.
J. Gilbert, del.t. Hanhart, lith.
[London: Longman, Green & Co., 1864.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 135 x 210mm (5¼ x 8½"). Stain in sky.
The Rosengarten group, a massif in the Dolomites between South Tyrol and Trentino. One of six lithographs in 'The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions through Tyrol, Cartinthia, Carniola, and Fruili in 1861, 1862, and 1863' by Josiah Gilbert & George Cheetham Churchill. The work also contained 26 wood engravings by Edward Whymper, who made the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn the following year.
[Ref: 58051] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Russo-Turkish War.] Übergang der Russen über die Donau, im Junÿ 1828.
Nürnberg im Verlag von G.N. Renners Kunsthandlung. [n.d., c.1830.]
Etching. Sheet 165 x 265mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed, lateral edges toned, small tear. Damaged.
A scene of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, showing the Russians crossing the Danube in boats. The war started after the Russians helped the Greek independence movement fight the Battle of Navarino in 1827: the Turks closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships and revoked the Akkerman Convention. The war ended with the Treaty of Adrianople, which increased Russian dominance around the Black Sea area and Georgia, and, most importantly, forced the Sultan to promise autonomy for Greece.
[Ref: 29839] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Dordrecht.]
James Webb. L.Valmon. [pencil signatures]
London Published February 1st 1886 by Arthur Tooth & Sons, 5 & 6 Haymarket S.W. Copyright Registered.
Rare etching, from edition of 125 signed proofs. 340 x 500mm (13½ x 19¾"), Printsellers' Association blind-stamp. Creasing in margins.
A view of the Grote Kerk of Dordrecht from the river.
[Ref: 53114] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Italy] Andre Doria, Doge de Gene. Tire en partie des revolutions de Gene.
Touze d. Peine duflos.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue S. Victor. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 277 x 168mm.
Andrea Doria (1466-1560), Genoese condottiero and admiral.
[Ref: 2002] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Ionnes Dorieu Sac. Consistorii Comtes et Præses in Curia Subsidior.m.
Nanteuil ad vivam faciebat 1660.
Engraving. In ink under crest "Fouque"; Sheet: 325 x 245mm (12¾ x 9¾''). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of French magistrate Jean Dorieu (1596-1679) who was Councillor at the Grand Conseil in 1623 and President of the Cour des Aides in 1636.
Petitjean & Wickert 62.
[Ref: 49269] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dorothea Wilhelmina, Queen of Sweden.
C. P. Esq.r del.t. John Agar sc.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Stipple part printed in colours. Rare. Sheet: 170 x 250 (6¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into an album sheet.
A portrait of Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina (1781-1826) queen consort to Gustav IV of Sweden until the Coup of 1809 after which Gustav abdicated and they lived in exile.
[Ref: 42159] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Janus Dousa e Academiæ Bibliothecarius.
[n.d., 1614.]
Engraving. 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Janus Dousa (Jan van der Does, 1545-1604), Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist, the first Librarian of Leiden University Library and the defender of Leiden when the Spanish beseiged the city in 1574. From 'Illustrium Hollandiae Westfrisiae ordinum alma academia Leidensis'.
[Ref: 53035] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Erinnerung an Dresden.
Nature Zeuchnung v. O. Wagner. Stahl Stich v. E. Schmidt.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. Publisher's stamp on left. Plate: 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½''). Bit dusty.
A collection of souvenir views of Dresden arranged around a central view which shows the Palace Gardens. Other views include the Caffe Reale, the Kings Theatre, a Synagoge, the Orangerie, the Marketplace, Hotel de Saxe and the Kreuz Kirche.
[Ref: 48295] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Dresden.
Publish'd by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1814.
Very fine coloured aquatint, with small margins. 305 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"). Watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Very slight offset.
A view of Dresden, with the Frauenkirche in the centre, shortly after Napoleon's troops had been driven from Germany. It was published in Robert Bowyer's 'Triumphs in Europe, in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814 commemorated by a Series of Twelve Views...', which celebrated (prematurely) the end of the Napoleonic Wars. This work was republished the following year as 'An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe', and again with an sister publication 'The Campaign of Waterloo' from 1816. The 1811 watermark suggests this example is from the 'Triumphs'.
[Ref: 35514] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Western view of Dresden] Vue de Dresde à l'ouest
chez Meser à Dresde Schlossgasse No.315 [c.1820]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Paper tone. Small margins
[Ref: 46111] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Prospectus exterius Portæ Wilsche, cum Bibliotheci Regia, Dresdæ. Vüe exterieur de la Porte Wilsche, avec la Bibliotheque Royale a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's fortifications at the Wilsche Gate, with a bridge over the moat. Behind is the Royal Library. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38385] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Ecclesia Regia Catholicorum, cum Ontem super Fluviam Albis, Dresdæ. L'Eglise Royale Catholique, avec le Pont sur la Riviere de l'Elbe, a Dresde.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Hofkirche, with the Augusts bridge over the Elbe, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the 'Staatliche Kunstsammlungen', shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38386] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Prospectus pontis fluvio Albi Dresdae impositi Ecclesia versus B. V. Mariae dicata. Vüe du Pont de Dresde sur l'Elbe verse l'Egise de Notre Dame.
Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae: Cæs; Majestis. Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1750.]
Etching. Sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Trimmed just within plate.
A view of Dresden's Augustus Bridge over the Elbe, with the Hofkirche, after Bernardo Bellotto (c1721-80). His original painting, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, shows the Hofkirche under construction, covered in scaffolding. Bellotto was a nephew and pupil of Caneletto. He worked in Dresden from 1747 to 1758, during which time he often signed his paintings 'Bernardo Canaletto'.
[Ref: 38310] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect der vom König Augusto erneuerten und herrlich gezierten Elb - Brücke zu Dresden.
Zu finden in Dresden bey Moriz Bodenehr R.M.S. 1733.
Alle Monath was neues von Dresden, der anfang 1733. Januarius das Erste Stück.
Etching. Two sheets conjoined, 265 x 610mm (10½ x 24"). Trimmed to plate on right, small tears.
A panorama of the 'beautifully-restored' bridge over the Elbe, rebuilt by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and (as Augustus II the Strong) King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania.
[Ref: 52045] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Das v. Vitzthum Blochmann'iche Gymnasial. Erziehungshaus.
Nach de Natur gez. v. E. Oehme. In Stahl gestochen v. J. Fleischmann.
[n.d. c.1829.]
Etching. Plate 190 x 533mm. 7½ x 21". Folds.
Vitzthum Gymnasium, Dresden. In 1639, Rudolph Vitzthum left a large quantity of money in his will for the creation of a secondary school. It was not established until 1829, called the Blochmannschen Erziehungsanstalt, run by Karl Justus Blochmann. In 1861 he school was designated the name Vitzhumsches Gymnasium.
[Ref: 20863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dresde, een Keurvorstelyke Stad in Saxen, gelegen aen de Elve, voorzien met een Schoon wapenhuis en Kunstkamer: Dresda, Electoralis Saxoniae urbs, ad fluvium Albim sita, armamentario egregio et mirabili Gazophylacio instructa.
Pet Schenk. Amsteld C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 215 x 268mm. 8½ x 10½".
Czech and Geraman settlers in boats and on the shore by the River Elbe, with the city of Dresden, Germany behind. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 24910] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Dresden] Vue de Dresde du côté occidental, prise près le village de Lieschen.
Dessiné d'après nature et gravé par C.G. Hammer à Dresde.
bei Heinrich Rittner in Dresden [n.d., c.1816].
Rare coloured etching with aquatint. 510 x 660mm (20 x 26"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'. Trimmed into plate at bottom, two tears entering sky, one repaired, one taped.
A view of Brühl's Terrace, Dresden, with the Hofkirche but before the building of the Semperoper (1841), engraved (and probably drawn by) Christian Gottlob Hammer.
[Ref: 54769] £580.00

The City of Dresden. Le Ville de Dresden.
Patton Sculp.
London Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, S.t Paul's Church Yard, Robert Wilkinson, 58, Cornhill and Laurie and Whittle, 53, Fleet Street.
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 295 x 435mm (11½ x 17¼"), with large margins. Laid on album paper. Thread margin at top. Marks in the sky.
A view of the river Elbe in Dresden.
[Ref: 55169] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Dresden von der Morgenseite.
[Etched by Christian Friedrich Sprinck.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 110 x 155mm (4 x 6½").
A view of Dresden from the frozen Elbe, with figures skating and sleighing on the ice, with drinks being served from a boat. A Frost Fair item.
[Ref: 57299] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dresden.
A.N. del. J. Clark sc.
[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. n.d., c.1818].
Coloured aquatint. Printed area: 160 x 100mm. (6¼ x 4"). Paper glued to corners on verso where previously mounted.
Prospect of Dresden on the River Elbe, eastern Germany, near the Czech border. To the left is the Catholic Church of Dresden. This is the largest church in Saxony; built between 1739 and 1754 by the Italian architect, Gaetano Chiaveri in late baroque Rome. In the background stands the Semperoper. After Adam Neal, from the publication 'Travels through some Parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey', 1818.
[Ref: 31596] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A Droschki.
No.56, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c.Pubd. Augt, 1.1820.
Hand-coloured engraving. 146 x 240mm. 5¾ x 9½".
A coach cab, or a horse-drawn carriage, as created and sold in Northern Europe. Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it did cover all of these fields. At the time, it was considered to be of great influence to the English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.
[Ref: 15008] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Stephanie Félicité Ducrest Marquise de Sillery ci-devant C.sse de Genli Gouvernante des Enfans de S.A.S. Monsg.r Le Duc d'Orleans. Vertus, races, talens, esprit juste-enchanteur, Elle a tout ce qu'il faut pour embelir-la vie. C'est la charme des yeux, de-l'oreille, du coeur, Et le desespoir de l'envie. Par Mr. de Sauvigny.
Miris pinx. Copia sculp.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving. 223 x 153mm. 8¾ x 6". Large margins, slight creasing.
Madame de Genlis, full name Stephanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin (1746-1830) was a French writer, harpist and educator.
[Ref: 23234] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Il General Dugoumier.
in Napoli presso Talani e Gervasi al Gigante. No.37. [Italian, c.1795.]
Engraving, 200 x 135mm. 8 x 5¼".
Portrait of Jacques François Coquille, named Dugommier (1738 - 1794), French general, in a circular frame, vignette of a fortress below. Dugommier entered service in 1759 in the defence of Guadeloupe against the English and fought in Martinique in the Seven Years' War. He joined the Revolutionary cause, and while a Deputy in the French Convention, succeeded General Jean François Carteaux as commander of the army besieging Royalist and British forces in Toulon. Recognizing that the attack plan of a artillery major named Napoleon Bonaparte was the correct one, in December 1793 he brought the Siege of Toulon to a successful conclusion. In January 1794, Dugommier was named head of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees.
[Ref: 15441] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Bertrand Duguesclin, Connetable de France. Tire des Antiquites du Pere Monfaucon.
Touze d. Fme. Duflos S.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1787] Avec Privilege du Roi.
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 272 x 161mm.
[Ref: 2004] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Dunkirk. A New Prospect of ye towne and port of Dunkirk Shewing ye Citadel Castles & Rissbank belonging to ye Harbour which are Demolished according to ye Articles of Peace...
D. Lockley sculp.
Sold by J.o Smith at ye Pictuer Shop in Exeter Chang in ye Strand And by R. Hulton at ye Pictuer Shop ye corner of Pellmell facing ye Haymarket St Jams. [n.d., c.1724-9.]
Engraving. Sheet 445 x 565mm (17½ x 22¼"). Trimmed into image at top, to plate at bottom, narrow lateral margins.
A view of Dunkirk from the sea, showing the buildings that were to be demolished according to the terms of the 'Treaty of Utrecht', which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. It was published in volume four of the 'Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne'.
[Ref: 42299] £390.00

[Duijnkerken.]
[1612.]
Engraving. 17th century watermark; Sheet: 300 x 220mm (12 x 8¾"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet. Slight crease in centre as normal.
A prospect of the town of Dunkirk. During the Dutch Revolt, Dunkirkers (raiders in the pay of the Spanish monarchy) operated out of Dunkirk, Ostend and Nieuwpoort. Throughout the Eighty Years War the Dunkirkers were constantly under fire from the fleet of the Dutch Republic. From 'Beschryvinghe van alle de Nederlanden...' Willem Jannsz Blaeu's 1612 edition of Lodovico Guicciardini's (1521-1589) description of the Netherlands.
[Ref: 42370] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Dutch lady holding staff.] [&] [Dutch shepherd with staff.]
[n.d. c.1760.]
A pair of watercolours. 197 x 134mm. 7¾ x 5¼". Cut and laid on scrap sheet.
An exquisite pair of coloured scenes. The barefooted lady leaning against a rock whilst holding a staff. [&] A rural man, probably a shepherd, lean upon his staff in rustic dress and black clogs.
[Ref: 14506] £450.00

Eastjaiks.
I. Ibbetson delin.t. L. How sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs, by Dr. J. Trusler, March 1789.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5). Trimmed to platemark.
The Eastjaiks were a people of Northern Russia. Six figures are depicted in this scene, one of whom is eating a fish.
[Ref: 32118] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

From my Room Window at the White House Ehrenbreitstein Sept.r 1842.
F:W: Trench.
Lithograph, scarce & rare. Sheet: 195 x 550mm (7¾ x 21¾"). Creasing.
A view across the Rhine in Koblenz from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress. A lithograph by British army officer Sir Frederick William Trench (1775-1859).
[Ref: 47492] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Grand Eiger vu de la Wengernalp.
Maxi de Meuron, pinx. J. Hurlimann, sc.
à Neuchatel chez Jeanneret & Baumann.
Scarce & fine aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 405 x 325mm (16 x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate but well outside printed area, small stains in inscription area, laid on album paper. Very slight marks in title on right.
A view of the north faces of the Eiger, from an alpine meadow called Wengernalp, with cows drinking from a tarn in the foreground.
[Ref: 57801] £750.00

Habito del Sereniss.mo Ser.mo Preneine in Armada Ill.mo et Ccc.mo Collegio.
Giacomo Pecini.
Stefabo Scolari Forma.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet: 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½''). Trimmed.
A portrait of 98th Doge of Venice Francesco Erizzo (1631-1646) shown in armour.
[Ref: 49456] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

From my Window at the Ranken-Krantz at Eisenach Warsburg Castle Martin Luther Above the Town.
F:W:T Oct.r 6 1839
Lithograph on grey paper, printed area 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼).
Unusual view of Eisenach in Germany, with the Wartburg in the distance. Wartburg is the place where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Amateur lithograph by the army officer and politician Frederick William Trench (c.1777-1859), whose father owned Heywood, Ballynakill in Queen's County. Trench was also keenly interested in architecture: in 1815 he proposed a vast monument to British naval and military victories over France on the site which became Trafalgar Square, and in 1824 he launched a project for an embankment on the north side of the Thames (in conjunction with which a long print of the project was produced).
Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For Trench's embankment scheme see refs. 23749, 27468 &c.
[Ref: 35494] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabeth I. Russorum Imperatrix nata 1709 d. 20 Dec.
Fait par J.E. Nilson, se vend à Augsbourg chez l'Auteur. et à Paris chez Rosselin Rue St. Jaques a l'Autel Saumur
[n.d., c.1760]
Etching, platemark 220 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"). Small margins. Very slight staining at top off image.
Elizaveta Petrovna (1709-62), Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death. She led Russia into the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) and the Seven Years' War (1756-63), and spent vast amounts of money on archectural projects in and around St Petersburg. Part of a series of portraits of European monarchs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 37099] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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